skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few things:

- The big one is that, at least what I see from my admittedly flawed perspective, there appears to be an active annoyance by a significant number of participants on the various issues on the importance of maintaining library ergonomics under constrained execution environments, with bare metal / free-standing environments being an obvious scenario. An example that comes to mind being stuff dealing with situations where 'global allocation' is actively harmful, which, in addition to happening in kernel development, also happens when building managed runtimes.

- What comes across as an almost begrudging foreign-function interface, no ABI commitments, and lack of clarity about what is undefined behaviour under the `unsafe` operation needed to engage in any of this

- Cargo VS rustc and integration into other build systems. Sanctioned VS unsanctioned paths more generally.

- Prominent people in the community making comments about actively suppressing individual stylistic preferences because it's better for the collective
I find myself both applauding that and shrinking away thinking “perverse incentives”.

What I want is to run an engineering organization as if you should never have to call us. And if you do you either get chewed out for making a frivolous call, or we’re falling all over ourselves because that thing that is happening should definitely not be happening and we’ll be looking at how to keep that from ever happening again, again.
A better law is that questions in news headlines have boring answers.
.gov.au websites overseas, sensitive details are routed through US and Singapore
> a city of 2 million aka .004% of the population.

Oh so it's the population now? I forgot that the whole city of Nashville was infected.

Not going to respond further.
None of which are javascript-triggered.
The standard American pronunciation of lieu is "loo". Some people who read the word before ever hearing it (it’s a rare word in ordinary speech, more common in writing), or maybe took a high school French class and want to sound fancy, say something like "lyoo" instead, but this is non-standard and uncommon. (Neither of the two is a correct pronunciation in French.)
"Save-scumming", such an ugly name for speculative execution...
If people have to spill their blood to make war there will be a lot less of them.

And even with robots, once you destroyed the enemy robots, what happens then if they don't surrender? Now your robots have to kill humans (or if you refuse you didn't achieve anything of consequence).
Not enough cash to keep up the stupid speculation game without some paying renters.
'The Men Who Stare at Goats' points out that the whole "haha they're making them listen to the Barney song, that drives me crazy when my kids make me put it on too!" was probably a cover for more sinister interrogation or even mind control techniques being explored with music blasted at prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Surely just a coincidence that the cult leader of ISIS was at that same prison ....
You only need to give that $1M as a loan to the government of Quebec, it will be repaid to you in full in five years.

So the real cost of Canadian citizenship is just the interest rate on that million that you will be missing out on (aka opportunity cost), which is what, $120K or so?

Full requirements here: http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settle...

Note that you absolutely don't need to settle in Quebec, you just say that you intend to, but they have no ability to enforce that after granting you permanent residence. They'll just be happy to take your money.

IANAL, of course, but all this is widely known. You'll be talking with a licensed immigration consultant anyway.

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That said, if you (OP) find a tech job in BC before coming here, immigration is straightforward via BC PNP program or the federal express entry program, don't bother with the Quebec route in that case. You might also get enough points with federal express entry even without a job offer, although that is unlikely.
4. Engineers have a bad habit of renegotiating scope in front of the customer without realizing they’ve done it.
I totally disagree. There must a high bar to entry, for useful discussions, instead of talks about tits and shits. Look at HN, for example.
Counterpoint:

Almost one third of Covid deaths in July and August 'primarily caused by other conditions'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/almost-one-third-covid-deaths-155...

Source: Oxford University
Saturn V was a huge feat, but Apollo program consumed about 2 per cent of American GDP in 1965.

This is not a trivial cost. In fact, the nation was so unwilling to carry it on, that Apollo ended and the last footprints on the Moon will soon be fifty years old.

Doing things affordably is a huge, huge leap for mankind (to paraphrase Armstrong). Look, for example, at healthcare. A cancer treatment that costs 1 million USD may be theoretically revolutionary, but out of reach of most people. Drive the cost down to 15 thousand, now that is a real revolution from the point of view of a regular Joe.
"loo" being a British word for "toilet" as well :) (See noun(2) here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loo)
But the GA102/GA104 doesn’t have seperate execution units for INT and FP32 because the INT also does FP32. So I don’t see how that shows that separating FP32 and INT hardware makes sense.
There is a lot of things that can indirectly harm others. Unless you can show that opening up is much more dangerous to others than those other things, it makes no sense to selectively ban opening up. Given bars and restaurants are already open in other states (and other countries) without any significant increase in deaths compared to California and New York, where's the data showing opening up bars and restaurants is dangerous?
No but she puts the organisation and processes in place so that the deals are reviewed with a chain of responsibility
Pretty sure they discussed this change on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ix751t/my_least_favor...):

Here is the discussion

> In 2021 edition the compiler team could change the
meaning of (3..5) to resolve to a new type. Then if you wanted
the old type you have to request it by a fully qualified name
or something.

And the responses was:

> That would be pretty awful. I think it would be
better to change IntoIterator and warn for differences
in copy and intoiterator in both editions so you can write portable code.
Probably total addressable market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_addressable_market
I’ve watched my current gig push microservices hard. Realistically after 5 years and a lot of investment only 10% of traffic lands on them.

Was a waste of money and time.
> Besides all that, auto-renewing to some (non-low-end, because why not) percentage of the current list price

Yeah, but we can't even auto-renew. We have to set up every customer new in Stripe and get their permission to charge them. There's literally no way for me to make this automatic. If Google is going to get rid of this functionality they should at least make it super easy for us to transition customers. Otherwise they're going to have a bunch of angry customers and devs on their hands.
yeah, definitely feels like people of different ages tuned/trained their pattern recognition engine biases at certain interest/point/threshold based on their experience/reward
Why would you have an issue with monkey labour when bulls et are routinely used for farming and transportation in India?
> Well most people use one of a few big email providers, not small individual mail servers run by tech-savvy friends or family.

Yes, but importantly, those few big providers federate. That means that the barrier to entry for the little guys is much lower. This situation, while not ideal, is vastly better than the non-federated alternative.
IMO, the current behavior is correct, it would be absolutely horrible when having lower bound higher bound suddenly reversed the order instead of producing an empty result. (think dynamic ranges, not hardcoded ones). Perhaps the operator should be .>>., not .. as an improvement.
I wasn’t talking about the XM25, the air burst programmable round from the OICW and ACSW was transferred to 40mm grenades now in use in the MK47 and the M320.
> It had no video demo playing in the front window of Babbages,

This specific reference baffles me. Anyone cares to elaborate/clarify?

(I guess when you grow up somewhere other than the US, there's a chance these things happen).
> Particularly, it had no way to remember or save gear assignments between missions.

OpenXcom has this, plus a lot of other improvements and bug-fixes. I'm no expert (played it and the original for a few hours each about a year ago) but my impression is that it manages to pull off nice QoL-improvements while staying faithful to the feel and gameplay of the original game.
Some people enjoy gambling, I guess? That doesn't necessarily mean that they're being exploited or that they're "ruining" games.

I too dislike gambling elements in computer games. I simply choose not to buy such games. If there was a shortage of good games without gambling mechanics, I could see your point. But clearly there's not.
They don't sell your personal data. They allow ad-tracking, but you do have some control over that. The benefit for apple is mainly in apps
Distraught British grandmother ‘duped’ £18k by Ghanaian lover
It seems like people did not get my reference to the Stranger.
It's more likely, given the CIA's provenance, that the initial idea came from the Nazi prison camp experiments.
Diaspora thought like you and went the length. Not sure how it played out, but iirc in the beginning they found it more work than they had expected. https://diasporafoundation.org/

I think there may be a lot more aspects to it that need attention than one anticipates at first.
TI helps expand connectivity beyond the front door with Amazon Sidewalk
I mentioned Nexo way earlier up the thread, comparing them to Ally, because they're both custodial retail shops that make their money behind the scenes without the user knowing anything.

But it is incredible how much crypto has changed since 2018. Back then I thought, well, maybe some day this will work. Now it's obvious that it will work, and I think adoption will be rapid once it starts happening.

I won't be surprised if there's a big wave of crypto stuff on HN/reddit/elsewhere again soon. Just like 2017, but this time it's actually useful for something.
> it's not rational to single out one form of business as being 'better or worse' than another.

But it is. If a business decreases social welfare (like cartels enabling coordination to jack up prices) the government should regulate it away. Most of what landlords do is cause friction in the real estate market (and hurting everyone else in the process) in hopes to gain some more mpney from it.
Lasers and other energy weapons:
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2020/tact...
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You mean the crazies like you? RV is real. Look into it and try it

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788...

Ed Dames, Pat Price, Dean Radin

Or maybe you weren't saying you think it's false, and people who believe something you think is false are crazies....

Maybe you were saying, true or not, the leak is crazy fodder and trolling. I'm sure that's part of it....

But it did seem flippant, and I don't think you should be so flippant about a topic like MKULTRA.... wasn't that seriously harmful to lots of people?
For future reference, I have found this excellent post about the same topic https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2011/02/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-...
This has a nice UI, well done on launching! I made something similar but never really thought of monitising it. The focus was on the tagging/annotating for power users with keyboard shortcuts: https://tagx.io
That is orthogonal to gaming.

They are accumulating data through many other devices and applications from a wider user group, I doubt gaming makes all that much of difference.

Barring MS none of the others actually have any presence in gaming

FB and Google efforts in engaging the gaming community has not scaled. Stadia or Oculus is not mainstream yet.
Amazon has even smaller presence with just some products on AWS.
Apple is just interested in taking their 30% cut and done nothing really in this space.
Yes. Microsoft wasn't automatically bad for the web because they were dominant. They were bad because they were a closed process, and soon after they won the browser wars they closed the Internet Explorer team, allowing no further progress to be made.

Without the Mozilla team creating a credible, Windows-based rival, and subsequently Google creating Chrome, the Web would look really different today.
I remember a bitch by someone that worked providing low income housing. What he said was one 'tech worker' whatever that tech is. Indirectly generates 2-3 support jobs. So for every tech worker you need to house 4 people.

In the case of India with a rising middle class for every family there are three other families providing services to them. No matter how shitty that work might be it's probably easier than harvesting coconuts.

I remember things my Mexican friend said about his family. In the 50's their grandfathers were seasonal farm workers in California. And then full time farm workers. The next two generations left farm work for things like working autobody shops, painting cars, making high end furniture. My friend and his brothers run and electronic assembly business. So moving up.
> There's no reason that those bar sales, can't be from the restaurant over postmates or uber eats.

Except for the prices, maybe? While it is true that most restaurants make most (or even all) of their profits with drinks, customers probably realize that they are paying 200% markup for a zero-effort service if they ordered beers from a restaurant instead of getting them themselves...
I loved the original X-Com, but I couldn't get into the new ones. My biggest issue with the original game is that as soon as one alien sees you, all aliens sees you starting to mindcontrol your entire team which easily spirals out of control. Luckily, modern reimplementations such as OpenXcom allow you to disable it and require line of sight checks before MC attempts.
Me too. At the risk of ruining you next several weekends, there's Caster of Magic out there, a magnificent mod for MoM. [0] [1]

[0]: http://seravy.x10.mx/CasterofMagic/CASTEROFMAGIC.HTML

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1250690/Master_of_Magic_C...
I also use Gandi.

Reasons: They're straightforward with pricing, throw in a good if basic email service for each domain (two addresses), customer service is responsive and technically competent, provide a useful newsletter but are not pushy with it.
Presumably because you can buy a Boeing today where you would have to wait 5+ years for an Airbus.

Of course if they keep sliding then you might as well buy a Chinese or Russian aircraft instead of Boeing if you want something now and don't care about quality.
None because if they try anything the business goes broke and they get nothing.
Yes. It would. I was joking. I don’t feel the need to implement it. This project (outside of data) hasn’t really been updated since it launched. Someone tried to force TypeScript upon it, but I’m a big fan of “don’t overkill it.” At the time, SSG was (and is) overkill for my stupid, single page weekender.
Don't do this if you use any other google services on the same account (gmail, drive), there is a good chance your account will get banned
Yeah - that's exactly like "master recording".

Countering slavery is hard. Let's go renaming!
> The 1% own ...

Ownership by and of itself is not socially useful. If an object transfers from Scrooge McDuck to Daddy Warbucks, and nothing else changes, nothing useful is done.

The 1% get excellent educations and have amazing social networks. We need a scheme to encourage them to become socially useful.

My preference is 99.5% estate taxes,[1] coupled with heavy taxation of unearned income (money you get without having to work for it).

1. Conserving estates made sense when wealthy male life expectancy was in the fities, and welathy males did not start to produce offspring until their forties; daily life was more dangerous (naked flames and heavy drapes, ill-treated and cantankerous farm animals everywhere, and on and on); and society was a lot more volatile than it is now.[2]

These days, a wealthy male will die in their nineties, with children in their sixties. The kids don't need the estate; they've already had all the help they can make use of.

This is what that hero of much economic theory, the rational social planner, would do to derive a return on investment from wealthy families.

2. The period since WWII is the longest period of peace in Europe for several hundred years, if not ever.
Yes, it is your duty to make them understand. Especially if they don't have a background in development themselves.

Also I would not frame it as playing them. That is the wrong mindset. You should be among for a high level of trust from their side and then playing them can backfire.
Bitcoin – First HN post (2009)
Wow, autocorrect mangled the 2nd sentence badly.

> It's essentially them hoping that when fines get handed out, they just get a warning because they tried.
F# as a Better Python – NDC Oslo 2020
How to make sure your contractor won’t steal your startup idea
I think you just described email.

My favorite video game is Halo 3. It never died, I just left.
Appreciate you saying this. Consider that your argument counterparts don’t see it this way. Are you saying you’ll sign up for my weird internet argument championships?
I am not mixing up different points in time.

You are considering the past and the present. The bailout is solving a problem in the present that, if not solved, guarantees they have no future.

You want guarantees and there aren’t any. If you three want cover for yourself or policy makers, that’s fine. We can tweak the rules a bit to avoid some bad press. We market it as a prorated, forgivable loan if they continue to operate for a year after this is over. That should cull the dozens of restaurants that were likely already about to close before this all happened, who see the handout as a way to avoid bankruptcy.

Enough of the rest have a future we get to look forward to.
That wasn't what I meant with "interesting" though. Useful and polished products often involve tedious work. What I mean when I say "interesting" is that the programming involves something new and different. Messing around with unconventional and weird data structures, trying out new niche languages and paradigms, etc.
I was being facetious. I know what SSG is.
This is a very important point. Similar to how most Americans think they are capitalists even if they don't have any capital.
> Before the video is even sent down to your phone by the FYP algorithm, some human on TikTok’s operations team has already watched the video and added lots of relevant tags or labels.

Is this confirmed? That's a neat tidbit. Nice article!
I totally get your point, but if an established tenant with a previously successful business cannot afford rent, then who could?

It seems more like “well nobody is going to be able to rent it anyways, so we might as well keep the businesses alive so that recovery can happen”. If those 90% of businesses all went under, then there would be nobody left to pay any rent even after a recovery starts to happen. Creating a law that advantages the renters prevents the landlords from screwing each other, and the entire market, by putting the companies out of business. Those companies need to survive so that the market can bounce back more quickly. And the landlords would get screwed either way.

I do also think that mortgages should be paused, but that’s secondary in importance, in my opinion. Sorry you got downvoted, I think your opinion is also valid, and this does really suck for landlords too.
> And don't forget one of the biggest benefits of all... actually making something useful rather than spending your most important years working on how to get people to click a button or stare longer at their screens to enrich your employer.

Yeah, the only way to make something useful is to work for the government agency that has a wikipedia article about their human rights violations [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the...
Very cool. I've been running openwrt on mikrotik rb2011* and rb750gl. Thing is the rb2011 has 5x1gbe and 5x10/100 + sfp. I think the rb3011 would be a worthy replacement.

Openwrt is really cool but it supports mostly wifi+4+1-port routers, and very few switches like the kind you'd run your lan with.
You're done because we both know the math is correct, my argument is sound, and you don't like that. I see it often in these types of debates. It's easier to walk away from a losing position than to defend it.

I'm not sure what you think I changed but the math is fairly straight forward.

Nashville metro is 2 million people. There were 80 cases confirmed traced to bars and restaurants. They were keeping bars and restaurants closed because they were "hotspots".

When you take 80 and divide by 2,000,000 you get .00004 or .004%. Therefore, the government was keeping bars and restaurants shut down because .004% of the infections came from bars and restaurants.

They restricted indoor recreation for 2 million because of 80 cases.
Personally email is a bad comparison in my opinion. The way it is federated makes easy to fossilize the protocol and the "social" nature is at odds with the federation due to the spam problem.

And in general I consider it a terrible method of communication.
Also, steam is not as controlled as the apple store.

I bet, if nvidia wanted to, they could publish geforce now there, for example.
This is the same idea as letting two sides play chess and see who wins.

It might work for trivial matters, but when the stakes are high and the chips are down human nature is always going to lead to force to get what is important.

"Ok so our robot beat your robot on some contrived fight. We're going to invade your country with a population of millions, take all of your money and possessions and force you all to work in the salt mines as slaves until you die an untimely and avoidable death. Please form an orderly line at the salt-death-mines tomorrow morning. This is totally fine since the robot your country sent to fight ours lost so you've just got to accept it without any resistance. Kthx Bai - signed your new overlords"
That doesn't even seem old fashioned. It's the same sense as, "I'm coming home, but I'll call at the store on the way."
I am not sure Nintendo would be up for sale to Disney. They have pretty unique culture in the industry.

Sony Entertainment would be the better fit, however after buying Fox properties it may be difficult to sell the merger of another major studio into Disney.
I loved this series all the way back to Rebelstar Raiders.

Must have spent endless hours playing all Laser Squad versions on the Speccy and it was only natural to jump into X-COM.

Although the ones that moved away from the Rebelstar Raiders/Laser Squad initial concept are not worthy to me.