skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Erlang language level immutability is a means to an end, it makes the runtime (especially garbage collection) simpler than a system with mutable state where you can have references to newer and older data.

At the systems level, immutability makes operating the system much harder. Especially when you consider Ericcson's basic design requirement of a telephone switch with a redundant pair of control computers; it's safer to deploy changes by making a temporary change to the live system than a permanent change to the backup system and switching over. In case of a bad deploy, you can live reload the old version on the live system, or if that's not possible, promote the backup system and restart the primary back to the known good state. If all goes well though, there's no period of reduced redundancy. In a restart to deploy situation, every deploy has a period with loss of redundancy, as well as a primary/secondary switch, and you can't deploy to degraded systems where one of the redundant pair is not working pending repair (these switches would most likely be deployed to towards the end of the cycle to reduce risk)
True, but we can't expect the average person to keep track of all of this. This is why the elites in general need to act in the interest of the public frequently enough for trust in the system to remain.

It's easy to blame "stupid people" and "the internet" but it seems perfectly rational to me for the average person to view anything coming from elite institutions with scepticism, at best.
> minimal cost

Unless we're talking about poker and you develop a gambling addiction.
It is a country. The only reason it wouldn’t be recognized as such is related to the pressure China puts on other countries to not do so.

Much in the same way they pressure other countries to ignore the abuses of Uighurs and Tibetans.
I thought the issues with games on Win2k was that it didn't have an uptodate DirectX version. I recall various hacks to try to get around this after XP showed up but Win2k was always the odd one out for games if memory serves.
I suppose my statements above should be mostly limited to games on consoles, not PC. That's what I had in mind.
Nobody needs to discredit Craig Murray. He does that with his own reporting.
"In poker, you can play perfectly and still lose."

Only true over the short term: all you have to do is play GTO poker over an infinite number of hands in a rake free game and you should at least break even I think!

That said, this fact is the main reason that the game of poker really "works". If playing perfectly (or at least at a much higher level than your opponents) allowed you to always best your opponents, then you'd quickly find yourself out of opponents. There needs to be enough luck involved to keep losing players coming back to the table (the same reason most casino games have a thin house edge).

Poker can be an absolutely soul crushing game to play professionally. "Running bad" where you lose money over 10's or 100's of thousands of hands even while playing well can make you seriously question your sanity. It can also cause you to add subtle (or not so subtle) errors into your game (e.g. playing too cautiously or aggressively) which can turn your once winning game into a losing game, making it tough to decide whether you are currently a winning player running bad, or actually a losing player.
I'm more of a fira sans / fira code guy.

However, setting up the fonts that you want on linux can be a bit tricky and I've lost many hours trying to get a config that does it for me, so good job for the guidance that you provide.
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> When Russia coordinated and put bounties on American soldiers' heads, Trump tried getting Putin invited to the G7 summit.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-russi...
Can you name a few of those who really truly have time but don't take their time? Also it seems there's always an opportunity cost. So time is always "of the essence".
Many of these things are short-circuited by China leveraging it’s substantial economic power to force the perspective in their favor.
> SARS (Swine Flu)

SARS is a coronavirus and Swine Flu is an influenza.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syn...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza
Portland approves strictest ban on facial recognition technology in the U.S.
They did have coronavirus patients, though. I'm not aware of significant physical differences between Covid-19 and other coronaviruses.
Twilio are going to do due diligence on where those numbers are being used ? How can you expect them to do that ?
T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita
A high-risk, high-reward play I've seen is to kill someone, report the body, and claim you were on security camera and saw someone else do it. You can be caught out if it doesn't make sense for you to have been watching the cams, but while people keep a mental inventory of "who I saw doing what tasks," it often doesn't extend to the security room.
Yeah, that's a really fundamental and important insight.

The way I like to think about it is that whenever you face
uncertainty, your actions might seemingly be proven wrong in retrospect, but may still have been correct based on your past knowledge.

That's undoubtedly correct, but I find it sometimes difficult to apply, since there's always the possibility that you could have overlooked important information, or that you are using that logic as an excuse. In poker, different from real life, you always know exactly what you know and what you don't know.
Would you argue that if a hostile foreign power hired mercenaries that US soldiers shouldn't shoot to kill?

You arrest and capture spies. Here he has become a contractual spy.
You haven't seen anything like that before because it's awful and useless.
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If you’re not practicing with a project, nothing goes into long term memory
That's kinda been my experience, too. The amount of detail Apple has put into their drivers and software is truly underrated (and overshadows by their more recent scummy business practices).

The surprising thing to me is that most of the small details I rely were in OS X 10-15 years ago. If a Linux distro were created to mimic OS X 10.4 I would be perfectly happy using it as an everyday OS and recommending it to others. I keep hitting dead ends in my research, and it seems like the major desktop environments have a lot of architectural problems preventing them from implementing some basic UX improvements.

The barrier of entry to help develop these features also seems high to me, coming from web development.
> The Vitamin D thing or HCQ thing. Whether or not they prove useful, the media would not even consider whether they were useful or not. It was just “NO!”

That HCQ might be useful against COVID was widely reported in mainstream media. It was also reported that this was still speculative, but promising enough that tests were starting right away in several places.
The author makes a lot of assumptions and oversimplifications whilst falling for the mystique of poker as expressed in popular culture. We've all seen the movies where psychological tells ("deception") end up saving (or ruining) the day during a poker game.

Unfortunately, in terms of winning strategies, this couldn't be further from how the game actually plays out today. Back when online poker exploded onto the scene, the old cash game pros quickly discovered that their way of playing the game (described in books like super system and theory of poker) was obsolete.

Seeing veteran poker pros getting crushed in their home turf by teenagers whose playing style was forged in the crucible of online multitabling was the ultimate expose to that old mystique of poker as a psychological battle of deception. One could say that the internet players through their mechanistic play were approximating strategies that were at their core, algorithmic. It's not at all surprising then, to see poker bots today utterly crush certain variants of the game. It won't be long, before poker as a whole succumbs.
There are plenty of other viruses/infections that produce "long-hauler" effects. Just last year, I had a cough that lingered for nearly 4 months. It was annoying, but has happened to me before.

That's not to say we shouldn't worry about long-term effects of COVID. I'm just worried that the tone of this type of article is panic-inducing and does more harm than good.

At this point (and maybe rightfully so?) COVID is the bogeyman to which we attribute every bizarre symptom. One person in the article didn't even have a confirmed diagnosis. Since the doctors couldn't figure it out, they just said "Meh, probably COVID".
Plus I believe that a portion of long term symptoms are effects of high Stress/Anxiety, or even PTSD. These experiences are so unusual from the average person that a lot of people are experiencing it for the first time, and they see how it manifests into physical symptoms.

For example: people are reporting hairloss, months after having experienced covid, while it's not directly related to covid, it's due to the fact that your body experienced extreme stress and as a consequence you alt your hair growth cycle, and you shed.

Even those with mild symptoms, or no symptoms, the anxiety of knowing they could be at potential risk to die is enough for a lot of people to experience a lot stress and anxiety.
US military increasingly using drone missile with flying blades in Syria
> Either you love gorgeous typography or just don’t care. If you are the former read ahead on how to make the font rendering on your Linux look just as awesome as that on macOS, else read on to find out what beauty you have been missing.

Not an impressive way to start. I do not like the fonts on MacOS at all. IMO Mac fonts are the worst of all the major OSes. Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS are all better than the atrocity that is Mac fonts. Of course, that is because I use those other OSes more than MacOS, so they're the basis for me to decide what is "correct".
“Julian Assange supporters ordered to forfeit £93,500 bail money” - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/08/julian-assange...

“Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks for skipping UK bail” - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/01/julian-assange-sen...

Timeline according to Swedish authorities (archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20190502114026/https://www.aklag...
Then give them incentives to become US citizens! Why aren't we brain draining our competitors? We had the perfect setup to do so. Now we may be too unattractive and too long gone.
"the guidelines for using Autopilot, irrespective of what the name insinuates to you, requires the driver to be paying attention at all times and takeover if it's not doing what you expect"

This is similar to the FAA's "see and avoid" rule. It is mostly ineffective for obvious reasons, but is a good way to dump responsibility on one of the entities involved.
It's intentional. Intel has a tradition to cripple features on consumer and enthusiast-grade CPUs in order to sell more Xeon CPUs. The way Intel crippled virtualization/IOMMU in the past was also particularly annoying - on mainstream CPUs it was allowed, but on overclockable enthusiast CPUs, it was disabled.

On the other hand, AMD doesn't do that.
And artfully so.
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Dota taught me a lot.

Especially how to insult people in Russian.
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of dogs in this specific fight.
Not so in the US. Doctors commonly prescribe drugs for off-label use. They are legally allowed to and don't need the government's permission. Insurance companies might not cover it, the doctor's employer might not allow it, and if something goes wrong, they might be sued, and their malpractice insurance coverage might be canceled, but the practice is widespread, legal, and ethical. There are just limits and risks to consider.
If you're paying other people to turn, and hack to achieve access, that's not whistleblowing.
Not on RHEL either.

I live in VSCode and the Git Graph [1] extension works nicely.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie...
It's a highly social game, bordering on party game, which makes it different from most of my library of go-to games. Some of the most fun I've had is knowing I can't talk myself out of a situation, so go out as fun as I can.

"Purp did it. I was right there and saw 'em."

"Me too. We were both in the room and he just killed red."

"Listen. In my defense... I have this knife..."
> fears of hospital overrun scenarios that never materialized

You sure about that? I had friends who are doctors there tell me back during the peak (~April) they had run out of anesthesia and had to intubate patients without it.
The most popular language in Taiwan is Mandarin, and they use the Traditional characters, but it’s the same Mandarin, albeit with small, regional differences like pronouncing 和 as hàn instead of Northern Chinese hé. Additionally, there are other official Taiwanese languages like Taiwan Min Nan and various Formosan languages.

Pedantry out of the way, You could make a case that the Wikipedia is the same language and you can change the character set pretty much interchangeably by machine, but I wouldn’t want to see China have its claws on the only ZH-language Wikipedia either.
I think it should matter, as a point of discussion. I don't think it should be definitive. I certainly don't think the goal of US immigration policy (or student visa policy) should be to exceed a dismal policy somewhere else by a feather.

I may also disagree that the US universally holds itself up as better than other countries. In many widespread institutions (mainstream media, academia, Hollywood), I'd say the widespread, majority opinion is that the US is notably worse in many regards than many other European countries or Canada (I may in fact agree on some points, though maybe not as broadly). Within that context, I do think it's reasonable to note that according to a poster above, Finland (a country widely lauded in the US for its education system) subjects foreign graduate students to a stressful yearly renewal process for a student visa. Or that Canada, a country often used as a stand-in for a better, more progressive US, has a points system that rewards youth, fluency in one of two Western European languages, and high levels of education.

Should conditions in widely admired countries matter? Sure. This shouldn't be a conversation ender. But yes, it is absolutely relevant to the discussion.
It seems there's a lot of deception around how to play poker, so this is the real meta-game of poker: convincing others to play poker badly!

(cue the often useless, recursive aspects of pop-culture game theory)
I replied in place.
> HN rules state that you should not downvote a comment only because you disagree

I totally agree with this. Unfortunately HN has gone completely down under now. I get downvoted to oblivion and sometimes even being flagged, every time I say an unpopular opinion, even when I give a full technical explanation to the discussion. I once got downvoted, flagged, and censored out for pointing out un-inclusive language, for example, and another time got downvoted several times for pointing out what I think are very valid privacy issues with Apple's practices.

If I were to make a suggestion, HN should require a reason to hit the downvote button. Otherwise this just amounts to censorship of unpopular opinions.

And in this case it's going to unfortunately turn into a popularity contest fight of up/down arrows between both sides of the Taiwan issue and frankly speaking that's unproductive. I think westerners who haven't studied that aspect of history really should see the historic facts as well as reasons behind why each side has their view. You don't have to agree with both but it's worthwhile understanding the origins in both viewpoints.

UPDATE (9/25 15:14): The downvote army is here again! I personally think I'm contributing to this discussion above, but yet they're still downvoting me.
Long-haul symptoms in cases of serious disease are of course expected and unsurprising to doctors.

In the mild cases... look. People seem to consistently take for granted that "some health care professionals’ skepticism that their persistent symptoms have a physiological basis" are unjustified. But we know that people can suffer badly from conditions with no physiological basis, and this is the most stressful year in a lot of people's lives. How do the number of sufferers, symptoms, etc. differ between Covid-19 long haulers and, say, electromagnetic hypersensitivity?
When I was younger, I remember countries lamenting the brain drain to the US and saying that it was a major problem for research and education in a lot of countries.

I don't think anyone would have ever imagined that the US government would be nice enough to try to solve that problem and give up willingly their advantage like this. It's rare to see such altruistic leadership willing to sacrifice their own country for the good of others.
Currently there is a top post on /r/learnprogramming which (links to a Github which) contains a more dense list:

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/iz064h/li...
Cobbler’s children have no shoes.
Yeah, I think it's about not taking things seriously whenever possible.
Portability between clouds assumes that you exclusively use the cloud provider as a sort of VPS host. Any service beyond that becomes a form of lock-in. YMMV, and this is of course true for all clouds.
Why not use Roboto which is shockingly similar?
What do you want to accomplish, not hiring depressed people? That seems somewhat illegal.
Let me plug https://forum.mafiascum.net/ here, if you enjoy long games of mafia/werewolf with too much analysis going on
The Windows XP source code was leaked online today
that's why i use Free Software and Open Source. same bugs and same irritations, but at least i have the feeling that i could do something about it.

instead of feeling helpless i get to make a calculation: ok, so to fix this issue i have to get the source version, identify the problem, figure out how to fix it, submit the fix upstream.

hmm, 5 hours of work? do i have the time? can i pay someone to do it? is it worth it?

if the answer is 'no' then i made a conscious decision to tolerate this issue, because i considered the tradeoff.

because i have this choice, i feel empowered, even if i decide not to do anything about it.

with closed source software i don't have this choice and any issue i run into makes me feel helpless.
How is Modern Treasury different from something like Modulr?
How is Modern Treasury different from something like Modulr?
Consider the degree not as education, but as a signalling device.

If you admit #10, then they will beat out #7-#9 in the job market, increasing lifetime earnings at the expense of the others.

If you don't admit #10, then #6-#10 will compete on an equal footing.

The latter may be the outcome you want.
> accidentally backspace while not in a text field

Thankfully that can be disabled, but I find it to be one of the most infuriating 'features' of Firefox. If it weren't something that could be turned off, it would be a deal killer all by itself.
So a standard HN solution then
Let them tweak, yes, but they shouldn't have to tweak just to get things to work as expected.
> You’re learning a lot of recipes by rote and not understanding much.

I partially disagree because that is how many technical skills are formed - cooking, music, dance, martial arts, etc. Soloway describes programming as a set of "recurring basic plans", where problem solving is break things down into actionable items [1]. Those recipes help establish your foundation of recognizing problems that allow you to pull a particular "recipe" out of your rolodex (my word for it) and apply it. I wrote a paper on simple typing exercises as an additional practice and students performed better in the course and made less mistakes in coding [2].

> With months or years of pain, you’ll start to pick up patterns by induction.

This is where I agree and see the divide. After 6 months of training, I don't recognize someone as mastering the skill. You can be competent at it, but when I think about 6 months in martial art terms, those students are still very uncoordinated.

I would say the issue with CS is the Problem Solving skill. THIS is what people want, but we (the educators) are not appropriately teaching it. And that doesn't mean teach it earlier persay, but that we aren't teaching it the correct way. I don't assume my approach solves the issue, but rather focus on building up students' rolodexes with a large set of recipes they can pull from. This in turn helps build a more abstract mental model [3] for students to work from.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/32/5010265/05010283.pdf

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3373165.3373177

[3] https://telearn.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/73/76/PDF/Ge...
Doesn’t reality suck the same ?

My gas car stinks, destroys the planet, needs yearly maintenance, crashes in everything the second I stop paying attention.

My house decays days after day. Floors need constant cleaning, wall have holes from small impacts, paint contains inedible fragments and disperse nocive gas.

Bees are building nests on my balcony and it’s definitely not what it was built for, nor where they should be.

How can we tolerate such a life ?
If you like Among Us, you should try Project Winter. Same concept but the game is more sophisticated in a few ways. (1) Everything is done by voice chat, which makes it a lot harder to fib. (2) The tasks and ways to sabotage are also more intricate than Among Us, which in that game are basically "click this button" whereas in Project Winter it involves crafting, going to the corners of the map (which is also a lot bigger) to find pieces, or combat. One of the tasks involves finding four digits across the map, so in that case it's very easy and effective to simply lie about which number you found and cause a lot of wasted time. (3) You can remove/kill anyone from the game but in Project Winter you don't know who was the imposter until the end of the game, so you're never certain how many are left.
This is sort where jaywalking originates from i.e. people are getting run over so make it illegal to cross
The link in the description of your video leads to:

"The page you were looking for doesn't exist (404)."
There is another such game. Durak -- A russian game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durak

You should play 1v1 or 2v2.

The game involves random chance because of what cards you get.

The game involves strategy because of how you choose to attack and how you choose to defend, which can lead to major strategic advantages later on.

The game involves deception because your opponents can attack based on what you defend with, and when you lose the defense your opponent knows what weak cards you have. The goal is to give an impression of what strengths you have which are false.

Deception is definitely not the central focus of the game, but it helps. I noticed that someone skilled will typically win 7/10 games vs someone who is a novice.
I like to think about it like little minecraft characters beating on a piece of code until it works right. It's like smithing, you have to put it through it's paces and iterate as a developer, since thinking of all the complexity on large projects is infeasible. The only thing to do is to write it, test, redo it, test some more, test on a wider test bed, release, get complaints, add more tests, and finally you are at the start.
The self-reporting strategy is easily countered by first voting off the person you're accusing, and then immediately you if that person turns out to be a crew member.
There seemse like two ways this could go:

WIPO sides with Wikimedia foundation: China is told to chill out

WIPO sides with China: copyright is cheapened and people use and update Wikipedia anyway.