skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the options to

1. Use the Community edition for free, which does lack enterprise features but includes everything intellij makes so nice, or

2. Buy a version and just use it indefinitely without upgrading and ever paying again?
You can watch frontlines on the Syria conflict if you don't believe the government.
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Don't forget that a lot of people compare XP not to Windows 2000 but Windows ME which was probably the worst Windows version ever :)
Does that match the list of reported stuff that was down? It appeared to hit a wide range of services. Gmail, Analytics, GKE, Google Keep, Meet, YouTube, GCE buckets, Sheets, Docs, Calendar, Stadia, Firebase, Voice, Music, Nest. From the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24585478
Not specific to Covid - but the baseline poor health and poor setup in the US for health should be acknowledged.

Speaking personally.

Stress - moderate factor, can lead to
Insufficient sleep - major factor for me (stress related).
Sedentary life

These link together. When stressed less time to exercise, less sleep -> train wreck for me in my case. I could imagine how Chronic Fatigue sets in, if I pull a very late night my body feels trauma.

The need to have more makes life a lot harder.
Jam and Kangeroo were during Labour
Sounds like a possible progenitor to Diplomacy[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
And seeding it is highly illegal and unethical.
Agreed - what I don't get is: (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...)

<quote>

However, our source told us Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement, citing internal discussions held earlier this year.

(... snip ...)

According to the organization's latest financial figures [PDF], $430m of its 2018 total revenue of $451m came from those internet giants – primarily Google, we understand. These deals were due to be renewed or renegotiated by November this year.

As a non-profit open-source operation, Mozilla spends as much as it receives; its 2018 staffing bill was $286m with a headcount of about 1,000, or about $286,000 per person, on average.

Despite the renewal with Google, which essentially guaranteed a continuation of its revenue for the next three years, Mozilla axed 250 of its techies on Tuesday, and shut down its office in Taiwan, blaming the “economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic.”

</quote>

Their cost is probably much more than just staffing - but still - doesn't look that bleak? I get the non-ideal situation of being dependent on you competitor like that, but it _has_ proven to be a robust source of income so far..: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliatio...

Btw.. is there any way to format a pretty quotation on HN?
I think you are being too generous with what a self driving car should be able to do.

If you were moving a house and was caring a big box across a street. Its not unreasonable to expect that you will be able safely make it across the street, even though you don't look exactly like a normal pedestrian.

And it is not unreasonable to expect a self driving car to break if there is any type of a obstacle in their path, especially if not classified. We are not talking about some wacky scenario. A bird might be flying across a street at windshield level. A ball might be kicked onto the street. A hey-bale might falloff onto the street from a tractor driving ahead. A huge box with legs is crossing a street.

I am not expecting a child to be hiding behind a parked car jumping out in front of incoming car to be a scenario that anyone could catch.

My question is why those car dont break when there is object infront of the?
>but if up to 15% isn't significant, where do we draw that line?.

It's not like we don't have a yardstick for actually noticeable speed updates. Pre-JIT JS to JIT JS for example was a big several times speedup. PHP 6 vs PHP7 was several times as well (no JIT involved here, just other optimizations).

15% is only 'significant' in the context of an already heavily optimized program (which FF's JIT is). Not significant as in "the users will notice it".
Developers get paid every couple of weeks, so an agile business tries to track the value gained from that expense on a similar cadence. The process has become more about corporate governance than delivering customer value.
> the world is a complicated place and there are justifiable uses of drone strikes

Herein lies the problem, different people and groups see different actions as justifiable or not. Drone striking the hell out of a country half way around the world has very debatable justifications. And what throws a lot of shade on the justification is when the country doing the bombing goes on to ally itself with with countries that are, from the point of view of the justification, no better or worse than the one being bombed.
The immune system is insanely complex, and a great deal of autoimmune illness is not easily diagnosable with simple blood tests. Many types only get diagnosed after they've wreaked sufficient havoc to show up on radiographic images. Many of these illnesses are triggered in part by infections. There's at least a subset of Covid patients that seem to have an unfortunate autoimmune aspect to blame for their severe symptoms[1]. It's only recently that many neurological autoimmune illnesses affecting behavior are being widely recognized[2]. There are likely many such subtle but profoundly debilitating malfunctions happening all the time in people with various genetic vulnerabilities, and so rather than immediately reaching for a psychosomatic explanation we should recognize how much we still have to learn.

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakne...

2. https://www.med.upenn.edu/autoimmuneneurology/nmdar-encephal....
>Al Qaeda did 9/11, along with many other terror attacks against the US.

This statement is funny because the US support of "moderates" has resulted in military support of the Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda wing in Syria (they have tried to rebrand themselves, but only blind will not recognize in them a radical islamist organization).
absolutely this.
Back in the early 2000s quality assurance was insane. A release is was working on (aaa title from a major studio) was blocked because players' eyes were rendered incorrectly and you had to really zoom in to even see the glitch. And of course you had to find and fix all bugs before october, or else you won't be able to hit Christmas sales.

Once internet updates became the norm, it all became pretty much like the rest of software industry. (At least game companies still have QA departments, a lot of mainstream web companies have dispensed with those as well.)
It's not like that same regime didn't make their own deals without folks from the outside...

I don't buy into the idea that the Syrian government can claim some level of legitimacy by default and everyone else is subject to criticism for gathering support from other places....

The local's weren't sitting around happy as a clam and just up and decided to start a civil war because someone told them to, it's not that simple.
Haha while he clearly enjoys the impunity that comes with being in the uppermost stratum of society, Prince Andrew has never struck me as the type to be calling the important shots there.

Robert Maxwell is an interesting case. He had been stealing from his companies' pension funds and was on the brink of bankruptcy when he died. I could see that he just wanted to end it, although leaping into the ocean to drown doesn't strike me as a likely first choice of method. On the other hand there have been reports that Ghislaine insisted her father was killed by intelligence agencies when she moved to New York soon after his death. Some theories have it that he was attempting to blackmail Israeli or British intelligence and had to be taken care of.
"Hours over a year" doesn't sound huge.

We've had export / fx processing improvements in NLE programs or 3D rendering for example that saved weeks over a year. PHP 6 to 7 got several times faster in common use-case workloads. And so on...
I'm a little confused how re-cloning a local clone helps you compared to cloning the original remote repo. You can certainly have multiple clones of the remote repo in multiple locations on disk. To avoid name collisions, you can just not clone to the same parent directory, or choose an alias: `git clone <URL> <ALIAS>`.

However, if cloning your monorepo and switching branches takes a long time, consider `git worktree`. This set of commands allows you to clone a repo once, then keep multiple branches checked out at the same time, in different directories. See this, for example.[1]

[1] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/06/26/parallelize-develop...
Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone
Your anecdotal evidence is contradicted by wider evidence.

In particular the famous Benbow study [1] that established that even among the top percentile of the population there are massive differences: the top quarter percentile (99.75-99.99) was 2-3 times more likely to have authored academic research later in life, and about 1.5x more likely to have attended postgrad education, to have gone for a STEM degree, to have gone for a PhD than the bottom quarter of the top percent (99.00-99.24).

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/smpy/1992-benbow.pdf
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Hi! I'm a Software Testing/QA/SDET Manager. What is something about testing you, as a software engineer, want your manager to know, or wish you could say to your boss?

I was a full stack engineer for most of my career. I wished I could impart to my manager how I (and really my whole team) didn't have time to prioritize writing tests. The result was that the tests we did write were rushed and sloppy.
Once again, one manages not to mention what was in the emails. Genuine emails not disinformation. I see the same attitude over and over to blame Russia in order not to address the content of the emails. So much bad faith from Clinton's supporters. I am tired of people making it look like it's comparable with the Cambridge Analytical scandal.
Same for insulin for type 1 diabetes. Drives me crazy that there is no long-term prescription (US). I once dropped my 2nd last vial of insulin while waiting for supplies to be delivered. There was a delay due to weather or wild fires or something and I had to call so that my insurance company would allow a one time emergency supply to be sent. It was a scary experience.
I've never used Facebook and never saw the point of it, but it is increasingly having an effect me in the physical world.

As far as I can tell, it's a bifurcating, hate-fermenting, disinformation platform that impacts elections and their sex-bot CEO seems completely inept at even recognizing the impact they are having on a democracy.

Instead of a well-informed citizenry, we've got an ill-informed one.
The old TRS-80 used audio tape to save/load programs.

As a 6th grader, I was amused that there was a "TRS-80 network" setup whereby you could cable a classroom of computers together, set all but one of them to "load from tape", then set the teacher's computer to "save to tape" and it all worked. I thought that was a clever bit of engineering/hackery, actually using sound for file-sharing.

http://www.trs-80.org/network-1-controller/
This is more in depth than I thought. It would have been super helpful when I was first starting on KeyDB - but his code is very readable even without external documentation.

Salvatore is definitely someone to be looked up to in this industry.
When rocket invests heavily, it becomes a rocket venture. That's how VC pretty much works.
I think Kanye has the sheer talent and connections to build the Y Combinator for the music industry.

The more fundamental problem is portfolio construction. It is hard to invest in early-career artists on friendly deal terms because the top-performing catalogs are maybe only 1/1000 as financially successful as the top-performing YC companies.

I've written about this in more depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528099
Yeah, if it were a violation of an _open source_ license, then the parent comment would make more sense.

Microsoft's love for open source is surface level; they love how easy it is to embrace, extend, and extinguish.
YouTube is a commercial website, whether or not they give you a cut of their profits for your content is irrelevant. To upload videos to YouTube, you must assign them a license for their commercial use. You have no right to make that assignment of license if you do not hold the right yourself.
Why does it matter though? Its an obstacle. When would you want to hit and obstacle anyhow? (Ok I can think of few but, no need for dark humour)
Marx is closer to Darwin (evolutionary system) than Newton (mechanistic) in this context.

Marx is also responding to social Darwinism, notably Malthus and Spencer. For the latter, the insistance that all behaviour and selection occurs at the level of the individual rather than larger aggregates (family, community, tribe, population). Which is widely seen now as a very incomplete model. Though it's similarly possible to go wrong in invalid group-assimilation theory as with tribalism and nationalism's more sinister variants.

What specifically do you draw from Marx?
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I'm pretty sure the following clip was used during the break-up of the Kaled Dome by artillery fire in 'Genesis of the Daleks' (1975):

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?q=large+guns+barrage
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What strategy/tools are you using?
The K-shaped recovery
What browser features do you think are missing? Other than perhaps some love for containers, I can't think of anything else I want for. In honesty, it feels like they've been making UI tweaks for the sake of it for a while now; if anything, I'd like some to be rolled back!

I'm quite happy to see performance improvements - I'd love to see more on the memory reduction side of things too.
You and me yes. Users though not so much, because they already know the optimized previous performance, so they just see a meagre 10% over it -- that it's hard to optimize something already optimized and thus 10% is a feet is not relevant to their perception.
> In my experience if I talk confidently and get the first word in it's pretty easy to cast aside suspicion.

Do you usually play with friends? This is definitely not a stable strategy in the repeated Among Us game with the same players :) (although it is quite effective to start! Assuming nobody else is also using it.)

> Another strategy is to follow someone for a bit in the beginning, such that if you were the imposter you could've killed them, leading them to trust you. Then in voting sessions that person will likely vouch for you.

This is called being a “third impostor” (whenever there are two impostors in the round [0]) and it appears to be a little bit more stable, but then casts suspicion on you once you start leaving between kills, among other things. So it’s not fully stable, but some amount of randomness in your playing can also make this strategy viable. (I.e., doing the same when you’re both an impostor and a crew mate with nonzero probability.)

I almost always play the variant where we cannot know whether the person voted out was an impostor or not, so read the above with that in mind. The other variation (where voted players have their type revealed) one also has interesting meta-game strategies like “vouching,” where a player will say “if you vote red and they aren’t the Impostor, then immediately vote me.” This strategy is only exploitable as an impostor when they are close to a win, which makes it a very strong signal of truthfulness in the early game [1].

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[0] And is usually just called (n+1)th impostor whenever there are n impostors in a round.

[1] Impostors can exploit this in the late game, if the cooldown for emergency meetings is long-ish. For example: whenever an impostor pair is three kills away from a win, an impostor can kill (leaving two people for a win), self-report, and then vouch. Then the pair can just do a double kill and win immediately after the end of voting + cooldown.
doesn't that wikipedia quote kinda make my point in a different way though? if the concept "liberty" is central rather than the NAP, isn't it just as subjective? the pursuit of freedom from coercion at the point of a gun vs freedom from coercion by economic necessity lead one toward very different conclusions.

to be clear, I certainly don't intend to shit on libertarianism. I'm far from an expert on the philosophy, and I do feel libertarians make a lot of valuable contributions to political discussions. I wouldn't want to live in a world where a libertarian got every single thing on their wishlist, though.
Not from Manchester (actually I think there was a flight on Singapore, but you still had to fly via Frankfurt), that's the point.

Sure you can fly on Singapore and (used to Qantas) from Heathrow, that's a hub to hub flight, and both are/were on A380s.

Fly from Dublin to Singapore you're going via a hub -- Healthrow, Frankfurt, Dubai, doesn't matter.

Fly from Delhi to Manchester you're going via a hub

Fly from Edinburgh to Muscat you're going via a hub

The 787 and A350 perform well for gulf carriers in flying to places like Edinburgh, where Emirates I think were doing 2 flights a day. The A380 doesn't work for these region-hub airports, but we still have Spoke-Hub-Spoke on long haul, and will for the forseeable. What we don't have (much) is Spoke-Hub-Hub-Spoke, as the 787 and A350 have made it more economic to serve long haul spokes from a single hub.
NOT BEING GREEDY That is the key.
This isn't data so I'm not refuting you, but I have several EMT acquaintances and basically all their stories are about repeat opiate addicts getting revived again and again until they are dead a few months later.

Ignoring the deaths, the economic drain of having so many people addicted to drugs and being unemployed/working at low function likely has had massive effects that are very difficult to measure.
I second this, and specifically France started it.
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This is really not true, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have a long & storied history of infiltrating and sometimes fomenting white supremacist organizations since long before the Trump admin.
Imagine, as a nation, being so deranged that you think your largest websites and corporations should be engaged in censoring speech that, in ordinary life, is protected by the first amendment, in order to support a specific political candidate.

Orwell and Huxley could not have dreamt up something as dystopian.
Can I ask what did you try? I've stuttered all my life and have recently come across the potential of psychedelics.
Well, reading that thread, he fixed every vulnerability in the helper utility that had a demonstrable exploit. Some of the others he didn't fix because they were not easily exploitable: keep in mind, the utility was only used if the core os functionality was not present. That whole thread came across as "I am a security researcher who gets paid lots of money to find CVEs so you should listen to me" and Kovid taking issue with that attitude.
That’s a nice Speedometer speedup! Really happy for the FF JS team, seems like they are on to something.
> One day JS engines will add cryptographic signatures to replace the complex origin rules

Signed HTTP exchanges might give you that already, AFAICT.
Agreed. I think MS has decided (for better or for worse) that the average user is not a good system admin, and/or a consumer OS shouldn't require one. Our IT maintains W10 pretty well. I have a test box in my office and I regularly get months of uptime without any nags of updates and other nonsense. I work in biotech and you don't want your cleanroom computers rebooting in the middle of an expensive batch. =)
Rat singled out for bravery, for doing thing he was trained to do, which admittedly isn’t dangerous to him at all.

Weird definition of brave.
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There is some mixed data, but the consensus is that MS is strongly correlated with other autoimmune diseases. This article has a good summary of several papers on the subject. You can scan down to the section on "Studies of Autoimmune Comorbidities in Multiple Sclerosis"

https://touchneurology.com/multiple-sclerosis/journal-articl...
Good old flu is not a joke either.
Her pay is currently IIRC 2.4 million dollars a year
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Check out TWiV (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ it's a podcast but the hosts are infections disease experts), they've been talking about long hauler research (at this point, mostly just reports from clinical physicians) for months.
Neither but yes you're right for both.
> (When you wrote “sub pixel hinting”, I’m presuming you actually meant subpixel antialiasing, though feel free to correct me; but hinting and antialiasing are entirely different things, and “subpixel hinting”, which I imagine would mean hinting to subpixel boundaries (which would also seem a weird thing to do), isn’t a standard term.)

Yep, I think you're right about this. I can no longer edit my comment, but pretend I did a quick s/hinting/rendering/g.

> Using greyscale antialiasing doesn’t inherently make things appear thinner or thicker. The only thing that will make things appear thinner or thicker is if the antialiasing is done in the wrong colour space, typically meaning linear versus gamma-corrected.

Huh, thanks for the correction. Do you have any idea what the "Use font smoothing when available" setting actually does, given that it makes fonts thinner and more similar-looking to Windows rendering when turned off?
We always had an ill-informed citizenry, but now they each have a megaphone.
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Sam’s point is YC could have taken more money, and by not doing that it creates better chances for startups to succeed. And you are right, it is the optimal strategy in the long run and win-win for both YC and startups.
I think a lot of people confuse the appearance of a lack of strong beliefs with simple social filtering. There is no social filtering on the web because you don't have to worry about your reputation.

The thing that people try the hardest to stop from happening to themselves is social isolation and being an outcast. People will lie all the time just to get along with the crowd. You wouldn't know people with strongly held beliefs, unless you found out what they had in their library. It's just the filters are removed and laid bare for the whole society to see, and it's ugly and it always has been.

"In 1981, former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater, when giving an anonymous interview discussing Nixon's Southern Strategy, said:[28][29][30]

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968, you can't say "nigger" – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now, you're talking about cutting taxes. And all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me – because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[31]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
I'm reminded of the joke between the cardiologist and immunologist...but the story of MS therapies goes hand in hand with the revolution in molecular biology - and by extension, immunology.

https://twitter.com/nachristakis/status/1291414168713797638?...