skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a manager and onboarding a lot of graduates this was something I noticed. We would have explicit training on how git worked or how the build system worked or how the messaging system worked.

But there was never any explicit training on things like "you need to accept or reject meeting invites" or "this is how to correctly use Slack/wiki/email ... And all three are different."

I think a lot of it goes back to the current trend of companies not investing in employees and expecting someone else to have done that for them.
Wow peaked at ~20 million players. Overwatch has 40 million and Hearthstone 100 million. I think by most metrics more people are passionate about the newer games.
China is doing to the US what the US did to the soviet Union, bankruption through military expenditure.
>is actually a defined term that Iran qualifies for because of its efforts to proliferate nuclear weapons.

So something it stopped doing over a decade ago makes it a "rogue state?"

>Also, Iran has participated regularly in proxy wars including the one in Yemen with Saudi Arabia [1] so your thesis about aggression wars is a little misleading when they've participated in a proxy civil

Your source actually doesn't outline any concrete Iranian involvement in Yemen, just some Saudi accusations prior to their invasion. Even then, the US participation alone dwarfs the alleged Iranian involvement.

>I think Iran is too often scapegoated in the Western world but I also want to be realistic about where Iran is really at fault.

These are the two main issues they're scapegoated for, so this statement is a bit confusing.
Oh, sure, and Enterprise SKUs are going to be pinned into those holes forever, but Microsoft could've been more aggressively pushing their platform on the consumer side if they wanted to make any of the changes they've tried in the last ten years stick.

The view from the outside on every Windows platform initiative in the past year is dismal failure, even if the platform has incrementally benefitted a bit from each.

Most software is effectively still written on the same platform it would've been for Windows 7. That's a bad look for everyone building everything there since.

Even internally: Microsoft's own platforms largely failed to embrace UWP. If your own internal developers aren't buying in, why would anyone else?
Basically Apple is selling a cozy computing environment that some people really like, whereas the operating system division of Microsoft is selling a compatibility layer between a bazillion of long tail niche applications and every single piece of hardware in existence that isn't either significantly smaller or larger than a PC (phones, supercomputers) or made by Apple. If Microsoft had an LTS version of Windows 2000 that was 64 bit, a lot of people would be willing to pay a premium. Microsoft thinks they are selling another cozy computing environment, but generally people don't really want more OS level bells and whistles.

Off topic ramble: unfortunately, Microsoft to have a bit of an acquired blindness regarding what users actually want (LTS Windows, innovate in Office or other installable software if you like) because paid software updates has so long been their culmination of visible success. Had they somehow switched to subscriptions by the time they moved to 32 bit Windows would be an entirely different beast today.
Where's the mention of more STEM? (I was hoping it might have some details, but can't see it)
So that's Blizzard. ACTIVISION on the other hand? (the other half of the same parent company): straight up killing it.
Curious why you think it's the death of pc gaming, unless you just mean Mac gaming
Apple's own benchmarks of the M1 are not compared against the 16" MacBook Pro. They aren't yet offering Apple Silicon on the 16" because it isn't clearly better than the current Intel version, and would have elicited comparisons that aren't as glowing.

I'm thinking specifically games, CAD, and video editing. Even Final Cut Pro workloads (running natively) seem to be faster on a 16" MacBook Pro than on an M1 13" MacBook Pro based on the initial reviews on YouTube today. Sure, an M1 machine could do it consuming less power, but who cares? People buy a 16" because they want speed.

I think they will need redesigned high-performance cores for the 16" and the higher-end 13" [or 14"]. Simply using more of them probably won't cut it.

And MacBooks are not just used in dev environments. They're used in education, finance, media, government, and many other sectors - and some of them do want to be the last to switch. If the performance gains aren't dazzling, they can't be convinced to switch sooner. And if they stay on Intel, they can even be convinced to move back to Windows.
The relevant trend that covid has accelerated is giving workers more autonomy. I don't think humans are good at figuring out how to resist the perils that come with it. Absent willpower, or a job that's inherently aligned with one's natural interests, human nature inevitably drifts toward distraction.

I think that's partly because so many people yearn for more human connection, which in covid times is often expressed as unnecessary Slack conversations. Also, because humans are naturally wired to be drawn toward whatever is most recent; until a few hundred years ago, if an event happened nearby you, that was always the most important thing to which attention should be directed. Finally, I don't think that "avoiding distraction" is even a goal for many people, especially if they're meh about their job or they feel watching current social trends are more important/interesting than their job.

I doubt there is a generalizable solution for these "perils of autonomy." But if eventually we move away from the synchronous messaging that pervades modern office culture, that would be a step in the right direction. Slack needs a mode that debounces messages so they're delivered en masse once per hour unless a box is checked that the message is urgent.

In the future, when more people work as independent contractors, that ought to help too. This isn't a problem that a manager will step in and fix by imposing a new policy, as the story seems to imply.
Microsoft can't even let go of x86 and make x86_64 mandatory. It could them years to recognize ARM as a valid target.
Humanity should strive for that world instead of accepting this world.
We could just send North Korea the money each year and I'd bet have a much lower chance of getting any US city hit by a nuclear bomb.
Which Wacom tablet are you currently using?
Insulin that costs $500 a month after expensive insurance discounts only costs about $5 to manufacture and sells for $30 a month in Canada
Wait, what? Are you arguing the prediction markets worked? And what about this then? https://i.imgur.com/247IJhe.jpg This was hours after NE-2 was called -- and at that moment Biden won, make no mistake -- and people were still betting against Biden very strongly so I thought I could make a statement here. I wanted to avoid people telling me later "hindsight is always 20/20" so I put my money where my mouth is.
To expand the error that almost doomed Hubble was an error of 1/50th the width of a human hair on the main mirror.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-mirror-flaw
I have to say, this is one of the most patronizing comments I've come across. It's rude even by HN standards.
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The web is now a multi billion trillion dollar industry.

Maybe your web service is, but mine isn't. Mine is a specialized embedded device server that now has an expiration date for no reason on God's green earth.
Yes I received very specific warning that I'm in uncharted waters.

But I still wanted ARM binaries, the ones I did (htop, imagemagick, tmux etc) all worked.
And McDonald’s is the top fast food chain but that doesn’t make it good. Rather it caters to the lowest common denominator, something Activision-Blizzard has excelled at. I’m talking about quality.
Get addicted to the feeling of clients using your stuff/loving it. It will then feel natural to want to satisfy them.

Can be handy to have a salesperson slap you back into favoring paying customers/profitable niches though.
I guess the real question if you want to be scientific-ish about it is, how many more died in the 1959-61 famine than in previous, similar ones? The Chinese region has a rich history of famine going back for thousands of years, so it shouldn't be too hard to do a bit of math. What's interesting is that after this period, there are no more famines (though food scarcity I think is still an issue).

So China did something right in its industrialization.

Edit to quote from a slate article that was on top of a search:

> Over the past 2,000 years, China has suffered almost one famine per year. Severe drought killed as many as 13 million Chinese in the two-year famine beginning in 1876. The 1927 famine killed as many as 6 million. There were significant famines in 1929, 1939, and 1942.

from https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/why-does-china-not-have...
Seeing a few queries others did. Now, if it seems like an obvious question, I may try it.

My default remains word searches. Frankly, better operators would benefit me more than questions would.

I really do not always want to formulate a question. Doing that makes sense sometimes.

Often, I want to see relevant info, then formulate other queries.
>We can do better than DuckDuckGo

Proceeds to give many reasons why it would be very difficult to do better.
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Doing content signature verification securely would require all the same "crazy crap" that HTTPS does (certificates, CAs, OCSP, ACME, etc). The PKI is the hard part; once you have that there's very little reason not to encrypt as well as sign.
It does certainly feel like they forgot about Mac when they got the console base with Overwatch.
Thank you.

So for the purposes of adblocking you do not want to use NXDOMAIN and prefer returning 0.0.0.0.
The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (6-20-2020)
> This is true, however these plants are being used quite rarely

Hence the need for more of them at record pace? Ridiculous
Yeah those are golf carts.
I think they are referring to the other more central, heavily populated yet underrepresented areas of China that were held by the Kuomintang before their flight to Taiwan.
Here's a novel idea: how about popping up scary warnings when an insecure site asks for information, as opposed to if the insecure site merely exists?

Static content does not need https unless there are reasons for privacy or MiTM concerns related to the nature of the content itself.
This would work if you had a blacklist of domains you didn't want to see. But the idea in the post is closer to a whitelist: the highest priority sites (tier 1) should be set manually, and anything after that should be weighted by how often it's referenced by the tier 1 sites. For a lot of searches you're going to have to pull many results to fill a page with stuff from a small handful of domains, and in fact you might not be able to get them at all. And that's before you start dealing with the weighting issue, which would require quite a bit of metadata to be sent with each request.
Geekbench link:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4731213
> Also makes me want to start reading Terms and conditions, probably should have in this instance.

One really cant expect the T&C's to help protect against the threat level overall when SOCOM is lurking…
Is there any plausible scenario in which American carriers aren't all at the bottom of the ocean after the first five minutes of a conflict with China?
The most recent of Blizzard’s mainline games was released about 5 years ago. The second-to-most recent a decade. Diablo III, HOTS, and Starcraft are all now in maintenance mode, with no new development. Warcraft III was recently “remastered” into oblivion, replacing the original game for all its fans.

Only WoW and Overwatch are currently active, and both are fueled mostly by their microtransactions. Yes, WoW has a subscription, but despite having a fraction of the player count they used to, they’re making more money than ever thanks to those microtransactions.

Reportedly, DI, D4 and Overwatch 1.5 are in development, but how long will that last now that the last of the old guard leadership (saying nothing about the talent) from Blizzard of old is gone?

Blizzard, the company of old that we loved for its innovative and polished games which were released when they were ready, is dead. There’s nothing left but the name and thoroughly flogged IP.
I good case where this would be necessary is if anything has in process plugins - I saw at least one review where the person had to restart their app (final cut maybe?) because the codec was an x86 binary - which it seemed to do more or less automatically.
A third issue: the House and Senate polling was way off, much worse than the presidential contest.
I don't even support Trump and it's obvious to me that the narrative swung 180 from "2016 was illegitimate, the Russians hijacked it" to complete skepticism of any claim of election fraud/interference.

If we're to believe that nothing changed since 2016 (and according to many Trump is absolutely useless, so our elections must be as vulnerable as they were in 2016) - we should be just as skeptical this time around.
Please head here: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance
Yes, dead company when it comes to creativity, taking risks and building innovative products. Dead company when it comes to making money? No, not at all.
Yes, PM me for an invite (its not Safari but is native, Webkit based browser that runs uBlock and other webextensions)
This came out 9 months ago.

The other interesting thing is the different covid strains detected. I think we are upto 4 now.

The variant in China wasn't as lethal as the variant in Italy. You saw the pattern when it came to the state. The east coast had a very high lethal rate while California / Oregan didn't. Things evened out over time. I always thought that pattern was interesting but never talked about.
This doesn't happen when DoH is disabled in Firefox right?
> GitHub seems to have made up a 1201 notice-and-takedown mechanism out of thin air

This crystallizes my discomfort with github's approach.

They should have said something like "Thank you for your letter. If we receive any 1201-related injunctions or directives from US courts or law enforcement directing us to remove this repository, we will quickly do so."
Everything Apple’s responsible for is a Universal (or fat) binary.

You can boot either architecture from a Big Sur drive.
Hint: not all web servers run inside Facebook or Google or Amazon data centers. Some of them run inside individual devices, which will now end up in the landfill once their certificates expire. Many such devices were, and are, just fine running plain old HTTP, but now they're all going to be subject to service life limits imposed by a third-party authority.

This is not how this was supposed to work. This is not how any of this was supposed to work. But it's hard to voice any objections over the proverbial thunderous applause.
> GitHub, PyPi, NPM, etc are all great options for hosting dynamic content from a fixed location which looks benign to scanning.

They're not going to leave malware payloads sitting there. Pastebins etc. get abused as malware command-and-control systems all the time, and of course some gets through, but countermeasures happen. Whereas for a DoH server it would be operating as designed.
China's carbon emissions are still growing and even by their own forecasts won't stop for at least another ten years. I think it's premature to take them at their word when they've been so publicly dishonest in other arenas.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...
TBH, I think Israel is within spitting distance of being able to do as well as the US. Iron Dome is so good that the US has bought a few and will probably wind up buying more. And that’s the low end of their missile defense options.
The US has over 10 active carriers and did learn some lessons from Pearl Harbor in terms of concentrating ships in one place or region.
I never found Bootcamp nor Parallels/emulation to sufficiently play a modern video game. A $3k mac always underperformed a $500 desktop windows PC in my experience
I tried this out real quick just to see for myself. First it was slow for me, if I wasn’t wanting to try it out I may have closed the tab, but I did a search for a question I recently googled (that was an example of an annoying google search.) I searched “Python arcade sprite opacity“ and while the first three results were the same as google the fourth was a github link to the project itself and brought me to the answer (which wasn’t on page 1 of google for me, although it was on page two.)

So you need to speed it up, but it does look good for searching documentation at least.
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Technically, I think their problem is assuming that it's acceptable for there to be such a entity, not that one necessarily exists. And then misinterpreting/misrepresenting git's semi-intentional exclusion of such a entity as a bug when in fact it's a feature.
Running x86 code via Rosetta on the MacBook Air is significantly faster than it is running on the previous generation. With the Surface X, that isn't remotely the case. It's a pretty major gap.

This is from the Verge's review of the Surface Pro X:

> The worst part is that even if an app installs, it doesn’t mean you’re going to have a great experience. Photoshop installs and opens just fine on the Surface Pro X, but the usability of it is terrible. https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20950487/microsoft-surfac...

Maybe it's improved since then? Everything I've heard suggests there is a pretty big performance penalty running x86 code on Windows ARM. If there is a significant performance hit on the M1, the performance gains of the M1 are so good, it erases the difference.

The only way an emulation layer works is if the new platform is fast enough to erase that difference. When Apple moved from PowerPC to x86, it nearly did. With this transition, Apple knocked it out of the park. Microsoft? Not so much.
And, big fish stock owners help to reduce risk for small quantity stock owners. The big guys get to crowdsource capital for a big project and the small guys get to invest in a variety of big projects without needing to know much about the details of running any of the companies or risking their entire knot on one venture. The modern notion of stock also helps to reduce liability as it legally prevents the stockholders from being held liable for the actions of the company.

This whole discussion is about whether small fish in a mixed market economy have access to the means of production. They do, to a greater extent than ever before in history. Yes, if you only have $3k, you can't control a company that is worth a billion dollars. But you can invest in it, which option was not available before the joint stock company was invented (in the 7th century in Asia and the 13th century in Europe).

401k is also a boon to workers because it allows them to save for retirement by investing in the means of production at a tax advantage.

"who benefits more" is an interesting question but some of us shy away because it invites intersubjective utility comparison and we're not comfortable with the use of cardinal utility to make judgments of that nature.
> Characters encoded beyond the BMP in plane 1 and 2 included things like esoteric CJKV additions (East Asian ideographs) not usually in daily use, but part of historic documents.

Unfortunately, this has been false for a long time. BMP turned out to be not even barely enough even by Unicode 3.0 [1] where the initial set of Unicode emoji (722 characters) would barely fit in the undesignated area of BMP. Many important characters, starting from a larger set like CJKV and eventually to almost everything by Unicode 6.0 [2], got allocated in SMP and SIP instead as a result. HKSCS additions in the CJK Unified Ideograph Extension B block (U+20000..2A6FF) are notable examples.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/bmp-3-0.html

[2] https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/bmp-6-0-0.html
Great! I really like its CLI/TUI output!

But what is used as source of a weather data?

FTR, I'm using OpenWeatherMap via `$ weather.sh`[0], but its output has issues & still needs to be polished.

[0] https://github.com/uriel1998/weather.sh
Absolutely - but some people do work in such places and why don't you want those people to be able to use your tool?
I really enjoyed Deep Work because it solidified the idea of something I did sometimes anyway without realizing it so I could be more conscious of it. If you have had a long enough STEM education or career I almost think there has to be some deep work at some point, but maybe its already so ingrained that its nothing new. I don’t think there is an “epidemic shallowness” though, just that most jobs are mostly shallow.
The original iPad was never really in the running in the "tablet vs ereader" wars that I saw at 1.5 lbs.

Usually it was Android tablets that would drain in a day of sleep because of random services draining them to death.

(To put it into perspective, the iPad mini weighs less than the Remarkable 2)
DF 21 and 26 are Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), not Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM).
Nuclear armaments were looked at initially as a way to save money.
You are not alone! This is how I used OmniFocus for a very long time (I use Things now but basically the same way I used OF). I also found the same dynamic: a lot of things went in, not a lot of things came out, and the things that did were incredibly helpful and usually focused around some very unambiguous context, like the grocery store or my boss or a doctor.

Everything else mostly became soup, and while I’d make lists to manage somethings, I handled most things intuitively and used Projects as reminders to think about something. The tasks in them always got stale fast, though.
Aside from this a big reason to build this is it seems a lot simpler than writing a giant web crawler ala google and thus is a good target for an open source solution. Which is the biggest problem with duck duck go.
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There are dozens or hundreds of competing ISPs. In the UK I certainly trust A&A a lot more than Cloudflare (who among other things are the #1 provider of fake HTTPS endpoints that send all your data in plaintext across the public internet).
For a junior candidate, which do you think is easier to train? The engineering skills, or the writing skills? At first glance, I think writing... But as I think more I personally think the writing / communication skills are more challenging to teach, especially to engineers because it is more of an "art" than a fixed talent.
> expecting someone else to have done that for them.

And then... when someone else did do that investment - as in, you come in to an org with actual real experience - you somehow are "doing it wrong" or "don't get our culture" or whatever the pushback may be.
> at least the Akagi was fatally struck on the deck

Along with the Soryu, Hiryu and Kaga!

Afaik the “carrier debate” is the argument among navy nerds. I certainly don’t know enough to comment one way or the other. But my take is that if we’re in a real war with someone who can credibly sink a carrier group, a much more important concern is going to be how to restore civilization from the ashes.
List Comprehensions in SuperCollider
If there were an anchor for it, I'd link directly to the section in which a list comprehension is used to solve a "constrained combinatorial problem," such as the zebra (logic) puzzle. Fascinating.
The return of pixalated porn