skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's comparable. Major apps will get prominent first-page listing on the App Store and will show up frequently at the top of searches, and Apple does not charge for that. Random indie app won't get this level of promotion.

I'm not sure how to account for that fairly, it seems wrong to charge for prominent listing, but on the other hand it seems wrong to charge small indie devs the same as the majors while shuffling them in deep in the catalogue. Maybe the discount for small publishers Apple announced recently will help with this, though that system does seem to have it's own flaws.
Facebook said to be launching Libra cryptocurrency in early 2021
The value of money is always changing. Therefore 1% and 100% annual inflation are nothing to worry about, just natural variability.
I wonder if we would need an argument, all we would need is a graph of global temperature going back a thousand years or so, it's pretty irrefutable.
It's not necessary that people are stupid but the logic is so flawed that you just can't help it. Also, people hate to be wrong,so even if the entire world tells different, they'd just defend their line even more stronger. I think this year, I lost all hope for humans seeing masses spouting utter nonsense like it's bloody dark ages..
You don't need to use the complex stateful overlay networks. At Stripe we have a network overlay using IPv6 and the Linux kernel's built-in stateless tunnel device, so there's effectively unlimited addresses with no coordination between worker machines and no iptables port remapping.
Very rarely do I see people in good faith believing in the content of the conspiracy theory. It's usually a tool to mount some war against a thorn jabbed in the speaker's side that they cannot articulate in polite company, so a conspiracy group is the next best place to hob nob and chin wag about this malefic thorn in their side, poisoning their thoughts and feelings and yet difficult to discuss without putting everybody to sleep with yet another impossible to solve fear.

The changes in view I've seen is when the underlying need to quell a fear has been met, the story they discuss openly tends to change a bit.
Yeah that sets my bollocks detector off instantly
Wow! This is super cool... nice job !
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Work has never "worked" for me like that. I don't want to be part of a whole that exists purely to make money. I also don't like someone being my boss, who the fuck do they think they are to tell me what to do? Unless I respect them and their opinions - but in 20 years of work that's happened 0 times.
I like this quote :)
Everyone gets to pay for their tools, in some form even if it means getting them n-hand out of some flea market, just in some software development circles for some strange reason we get a bunch of people that feel entitled to earning money without paying others for their work.
Let's just say this consent isn't exactly enthusiastic and ongoing.
> The rest IMHO is pretty simple in comparison...

I think you're way off base here. No arguments that rendering is _hard_, but the rest isn't simple at all. It depends on where you draw the line between rendering and <other system> but animation for example, can be just as difficult and really has nothing to do with the rendering part of a game engine.

Physics simulations (fluids, soft bodies/deformables, breakables) are also unsolved in a real time environment.

Networking is tough; games have strict latency requirements, and perform all sorts of tricks to minimize bandwidth usage.

Input (as you mentioned) is tough too, albeit solved for the most part by now.

It's also worth mentioning that this is all work needed for a game _engine_ you still need a game on top of it.
The thing is, its not wrong.

You can't fight a misinformation campaign by attacking the simple truths that keep it functional as a conspiracy theory.

The climate is always changing. Even if we survive the local warming period, we're just as likely to fall into a brutal ice age right afterwards, of which humanity will not survive unless we very quickly learn how to do planetary-scale geoengineering and terraforming.

My problem with the whole "climate change is fake" conspiracy nuts is... why aren't they just going for the obvious one that the governments just don't care and aren't fixing the larger issue? The amount the US government spent on the endless war in Iraq and Afghanistan could have ensured the survival of the human race.

A nice big juicy conspiracy right there, and none of them are going for it. Government fucked up? Check. People profited from war? Check. Media is refusing to cover it? Check. Come on, take the fucking bait and run with it.
Yours is still an AMP link :)

Here's the one without:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4076244/Distressing...
Conspiracy theory/fake news site? The "article" the quote supposedly comes from is from the domain lockdownskeptics.org ... Convincing! I didn't look further to see if the quotes were published in a trustworthy place.

And just because he's a former VP of Pfizer, doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about now. Anyway, other conspiracy theorists are busy demonizing the company in efforts to.. I don't know, fool people so they can be sold more lies?
That exercise is possible to some extent with C and C++, so the whole point is to prove that epochs aren't the gold solution over language selection switches, as they are currently sold.
"The CIA is a Terrorist Organisation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI&feature=emb_logo
Kinda related.
Right, but the weird thing was that grand parent got a full trace up to the target and I didn't as usual.

By experimenting a bit I found that when sending UDP packets the traceroute is incomplete, but when sending ICMP also my traceroute is complete. Explains how the grandparent could present a full traceroute.

I had just taken it as a fact that full traceroutes are rarely possible these days. For reasons like you say, it's overhead for them and they don't want you to do it.
Annoying title for the article. The point is that tesla cars are easy to break into, not that you need a raspberry pi to do so. But having a "raspberry pi" in the title gives you probably more views :|
This seems like the complete opposite of this post, which was on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25232989
Which is great, want to earn money? Pay for the work of others.

Library authors keep finding out the actual meaning of going with MIT like licenses instead of dual licensing, specially when their libraries get picked up by the likes of Amazon.
>It obviously is a result of a monopoly

That contention simply isn't reasonable. Apple was charging exactly the same right form the start of the store, when a lot of pundits and industry analysts were still saying the iPhone was a dead end. You can't accuse them of abusing their power as an industry whale to charge more, when they are charging exactly the same as they were when they were a minnow, and are still charging pretty much the same as every other comparable business. That just makes no sense at all.
Sadly I believe you are right. There are people on the fringes of a "conspiracy" that are still open to reason. They want an explanation for their world gone un-understandable (as I like to calll it) for them. Their worldviews just broke and their sense of security and normalcy received a huge blow.

When the first soft lockdown was in place in Germany I stumbled into a small anti-mask/anti-corona discussion. There was a leader type (a medical doctor who should know better) that was unreachable. And there were some clear disciples of his. But there was also one guy who presented numbers and stats printed on paper about how much more deaths the flu season 17/18 caused.

Gladly I knew my numbers and could point him to some facts about the numbers. First he only had data about said year. That some few years before there were only two-digit flu death numbers in Germany he didn't know (and I could point him to the same source of original data he was quoting showing this).

The more and more I took his arguments seriously and only was arguing in a fact based manner based on his sources, the more I saw that he started to think about what he said. I also was clearly not putting him down and even stating, that some of the government's measures seem illogical to me (as they were at the time and still are), but that I - from the values I was raised with - valued the knowledge, that I do everything not to endanger people who cannot protect themselves as good as I can (they were mostly arguing against masks).

I argued that I am guided above all by the value of humanity and that I therefore follow the principle of caution and prefer to wear the masks in a store where I might accidentally get too close to other people, even if I find it unpleasant, rather than taking the risk of possibly endangering someone in the risk group.

While we talked, more and more people of this group as well as bystanders started to listen and I saw that at least in some parts the seemingly homogeneous group split into disciples and people starting to think.

Do I think I was able to argue somebody out of believing? Clearly not - but I am hopeful, that I was able to plant a seed. One would need more time and more real talks to really pull someone away from the fringes of a conspiracy. Someone captured deep within is imho sadly lost.

[Edit:]
Forgot - I really like your irrationality approach. Will copy it and try it.
The first falacy described in the article highlights how much conspiracies are faith based. Where someone deep enough in the rabbit hole believe it to such an extent that it's part of their identity.

If you have a religious person, think how almost impossible it would be to convince them that their faith is a human created fiction.
I'm curious about your practises regarding CPU Limits at Stripe. Do you noticed severe CPU throttling? What's your guidelines on this?
I think you may be the one that missed the point, as I don't see how mmaunder's comment (objecting to the "I wish we had it this easy today" with "you have it easier that you think") is unrelated.

As someone who found themselves in a similar situation as mmaunder, but who emigrated to Europe instead of the US, I thought I would take a stab at your questions:

1 - In theory, my education was free. In practice, I have to thank my parents for supporting me until I was in my 30s. Otherwise, I would have had to get a job - I still got part-time jobs, but I'm not sure I would have gotten my degree if I had had to work full time.

2 - See 1.

3 - I saved from my part-time jobs enough for the one-way flight plus 3 months, which I spent almost entirely in my first month (I didn't account for the 3 months rent deposit). My parents helped me until my PhD student paperwork was done, at which point I made enough to sustain myself.

4. I think you are reading mmaunder's comment as "the US is the best country in the world", which is not the case (that would be, I don't know, Sweden maybe?). What they are arguing, instead, is that being "okay" in the US is miles ahead of being "okay" in half the world. Could the US do better? Sure, for all the reasons that you mention (plus medical debt). But you may be so used to what people consider normal in the US (drinking water, money that doesn't lose its value week to week, not being shot by someone trying to steal your cell phone) that you don't see the good parts anymore.
really don't you really understand?

this is not about how "you" do things, It is more about how it should be done! js is almost never provides want I want when I browse, I expect to get some information! I am not on the circus looking for adventures!

people who love to use javascript to prove that they have some kind of taste about how ux etc. I think these people should use some other platform for people who are insterested in show bussniss. think of this as public transportation is designed based on who the driver is that day! is this sound ok to you? do you understand this one?

web is just connection to other people, not a tool for others to bully you just bein' smart about "the code" they wrote is brilliant!
Wow. Might be enterprise opportunities for all those Flex based apps buried the the hell of past broken promises from Adobe :-) I developed an ERP with a flex client back when Adobe and Apple went to war... I’ve been warning the client for years that flash will sunset...
Between tolls, fuel taxes, annual car registration fees, and other government taxes that go towards paying for roads, I wouldn’t be surprised if it approached 30% for many people already.

It can happen even if roads are taxpayer owned.
They clearly do, otherwise the site wouldn't be blocked.

And traffic is traffic. It's not that unusual for Rest of World to want to look at an obscure US site.
Another short introduction to floating point number with pictures giving a better intuition of their distribution among real numbers:

https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2014/07/07/floating-point-...
And even if you fabricate your own hardware, you're still trusting the open source designs you download from the internet. Being able to audit them is much better than not being able to see them, but it's still very possible to have some incredibly subtle backdoor or vulnerability hiding in plain sight. This happens all the the time in complex systems.
There is zero chance that you can design a functioning and useful chip and OS, from scratch without trusting something else along the way. That goes all the way to compilers, toolchains etc... And even if you could, chances are you've created hundreds of accidental security vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Zero trust is a fantasy.
If you need a Flash file to try this with, here you go. At least on Windows, you can paste the URL directly into the file name field of the "Open local file" on the demo page.

https://github.com/claus/as3swf/blob/master/examples/dumps/A...
I think this "taarof" exists in varying degrees in all cultures. In the USA it is obviously less extreme but still exists in some scenarios.

For example, people routinely ask "how are you?" as a polite greeting without actually caring (or wanting) to hear about the deeply personal thoughts of another person's feelings.
Teams, teams, teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...
If you are a high value target, then "hackers" will get access to your data anyways, and will extort you. Those "hackers" will just speak different accents :).
Bert for task oriented dialogue systems
> Having visited Iran by myself and having had the pleasure of being invited to join strangers in several cities to meet their friends and join them for meals at their homes, I found this a bit depressing to read.

Oh man, I found your comment depressing to read (though I'm glad you wrote it). It's so frustrating to see one comment like that do so much damage. Ignore the comment you replied to.

For anyone traveling in Iran: with one semi-exception (the case where you have a local translator; see below [1]), if they're are inviting you over, they're really, truly, genuinely happy to have you as a guest. Not only is hospitality just ingrained in the culture (even after taking this stuff into account), but as a foreigner, nobody will think negatively of you in any way for accepting their offer (and this applies even in the case of that caveat [1]). They'll be very delighted for you to say yes. It's really that simple.

The people who need to worry about this already know who they are. (e.g., local relatives/acquaintances who already live in the same community and know they're playing in the same game.) If you have to ask if it applies to you, it doesn't apply to you. End of story.

For more mundane offers about things other than being a guest, you may have to rely more on your common sense and not take initial things at face value, but it's not that complicated, and it'll still be hard to offend people if you miss here unless you're completely clueless. Say, if you go by something and try to pay and they tell you "oh don't worry about it, you're welcome", either they really mean it, or they don't and you should pay anyway (like you would anywhere else on the planet). Though even if you take it literally and walk without paying, they'll figure it was their mistake and not yours. Unless you were buying something ridiculously expensive like a car/jewelry/etc...

[1] The one semi-caveat to this I can think of is if you have a local translator with you. In that case, yes, chances are the offer might not be intended to be taken literally, and they might play the game expecting the translator to play along or convey (or have conveyed) things to you in an intelligible manner. And if the translator fails, they might get a bit turned off by the translator. But in that case, it'd be concerning the translator, not you. And honestly even in that case if the translator has any common sense they will pick up any relevant cues later and relay them to you at some point. (Say, if they invite you over for lunch and then ask you to stay for dinner, the translator will very quickly realize if the dinner offer is sincere or not, and let you know.)
Raytracing in One Weekend (2016)
I think this is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/DustinBrett/x
It probably could've, and PhotoRec is iirc designed to ignore not-deleted files. (This also means that PhotoRec is useless if you formatted your drive, but scalpel still works.)
Closer to about 24 thousand years or so. The regular cycles in the climate are hard to understand except that scale. Last thing we need is to give those nuts more ammo by withholding any information at all; give them the whole truth.
> You only have to pay the 'annoying' cost once to add /some/util/script/dir/ to both the user's and root's $PATH

Put it in /.../sbin. It’ll be accessible to both root and non-root users.
Recall that the WHO were misinformation spreaders early after the COVID-19 outbreak.

"Conspiracy theorist" is basically a label for anybody who does not rely on argument from authority. Half of the time they get it wrong, the other half of the time, the authority gets it wrong.

There are some people who believe anything they are told. They might be on either end of this spectrum: Believe anything that an "authority" tells them, or believe anything that the "anti-authority" tells them. The rest are somewhere between: You have incomplete information and must draw your own conclusions.
> I wish we had it this easy today.

It is, you already have mobile phone, start recording, work hard and put your videos on youtube, you will be a millionaire soon.
For such a system it is only reasonable to have such an escape hatch but maybe a global config forbiding its use would solve your problem ?
Could you elaborate on that a little bit? This sounds interesting and I'm not sure where to start researching about this.
I can understand. Quite a lot.

But in my experience, going lone wolf has been twice harder and had very nasty health consequences.

I should have been more precise, a job that is 'good enough' (good spirit, good goals, good management). Otherwise yeah it's another form of hell.
Data science. Python dominates. You would embraced and extends python to fit into your strategic platform if you wanted to grow in that space.
>The non-technical clients had a hard time communicating their concern's / wants and I had to be physically present at their office to get them to explain the problem to me effectively. This is a problem which I felt that most startups would face(Or maybe not..).

Have you tried video calls and screen sharing?

Writing good issues/tickets is not uniformly distributed. Some people are better at it than others. This is valid even in internal technical teams.

What we did to reduce this variance is to use issue templates for features/bugs/incidents. This lowered the barrier to write good issues, as the issue author is not met with a blank text zone, but a template that tells them what to write, and where to write it. Quoting myself from another reply[0].

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You're welcome. We also are careful to include problem and rationale in our own product internally. When one of us wants a feature or one of our data scientists asks for a feature "I want a button to click and do X", we ask "what are you trying to accomplish?" and focus on the job to be done. People naturally go for solutions/implementations and we can be completely oblivious that the solutions we propose are a result of our knowledge or lack of knowledge.
Here's our issue template for features to lower the barrier to write good issues:

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Is it a seed for an idea that can be cool?
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<!--What is the plan to solve this problem? Can we guess a solution or have a hunch?
Do we have a list of steps? It's okay if they are a bit vague for now. We'll clarify
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essential to understand that this document serves to capture thoughts and externalize
thought processes so we can all tackle the problem more effectively.
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- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208897
One thing that has annoyed me this year is the inability of (some) scientists to pour scorn where it is deserved. Instead they cower behind technically accurate phrases like "there's no evidence 5G can cause Covid".

We would have to throw out vast amounts of science to make that true. It's basically magic, but scientists and the media tend to be so cautious that to some people it may seem that there is genuine doubt.

I understand that we don't want scientists and the media being overconfident - saying "there's no evidence the covid vaccines have any significant side-effects" is fine, you couldn't say "there is no conceivable way this vaccine could cause a problem". But I do think the distinction between science and fantasy should be made clearer.
This really nice work. Even the audios and videos are using the browser built-in standard features. Look at the /artifacts page.
Having used all Borland compilers since Turbo Pascal 3 all the way up to around the first set of Delphi versions, and a couple of UNIX Pascal compilers as well, I wonder what is so hard for real world stuff.
>will get access to your data anyways

No they don't, if you know in the first place that your a "high value target"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
This is true. Some conspiracies are for selling vitamins. But most are for selling weapons.
Really weird how the example was $1. Micropayments is a common problem that is yet to be solved as far as I'm aware, so choosing the worst possible example to paint CC/payment processing companies in a bad light is extremely disingenuous.
>"There are "significantly higher mortality rate among people who regularly sit for prolonged periods" and "long term complications of prolonged standing" [3]. What's left for us? Floating? :-)"

Walking. We are made for walking.
That is why you should never be doing that kind of things. Nefarious acts almost always produce nefarious results. I agree with the parent comment completely.