skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't seem to explain how this happened at all, just a rundown of what has happened so far.

One thing I'm curious about is how much possible shelter in place / remote working could have impacted this launch. I know on my job, a lot of decisions are made due to inertia and processes that were built when we all could collaborate in person. Feels like there's a degredation in performance but it is not perceptible fully and without in person collaboration we are unable to course correct when absolutely necessary.

Note I have no idea what it was like to work on this game post COVID and i'm merely speculating!
And islands. Australia may be a continent, but its low population density and lack of roads connecting it to more populous regions is certainly a contributing factor. All of the countries doing best are either authoritarian or effectively political islands (Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China).
The Year Without English
Handmade Hero: A full game live-coded over 600 hours
The ability to filter isn't the issue, it's what keeps the system in place. Not saying it's a good thing, just that it's the reality of the situation and a reason so many attempts to get rid of the existing university system fall flat.
Great. Just one more reason to get off the current financial system.
He retired from the NFL at 26, so sadly I think a lot of neural damage has already been done. High school football, 4 years of university and then another 3-4 professional seasons. He has still made a great choice in retiring early, he's the available information to minimise the damage.

I played 7 years of rugby growing up and I hope I haven't done long term damage. I've been concussed a few times, etc.
There’s no jury out on this. The research supports friendship as an important factor in our health and well-being. What’s interesting is how difficult friendship can be, and how this difficulty only seems to be increasing, judging by the decline in average people to which one could confide. To me, it’s a question underappreciated in a tech world dominated by young people who think more friends are the answer, when I think experience and evidence shows that depth is more important. But of course, harder to engineer.
Yes, I believe extra terrestrial life exists but there are significant known barriers that prevent our contact with interstellar species currently. I believe with enough time, we can get past these barriers through technological means.

However, given the age of the universe, there is strong reason to believe that other species somewhere else have likely crossed these barriers but run into another set of constraints which we simply can’t comprehend yet. These could be physical, philosophical, or even metaphysical barriers which prevent contact.

I hoped that in my lifetime we would have made more progress but it may take a few more human lifetimes before we get there, barring a breakthrough which helps leap frog our current understanding.
I'm of two minds about this particular decision - Johnson is a crook and a fraud, but in this case I can't really blame him for making the decision (Our late decision to go into lockdown killed people, though).
"Authoritative collectivist monocultures"...That sounds like you're insulting them three times over :)

You could call them sensible, mature, selfless societies.

Either way one cuts it, the UK is neither.
DAWs or digit audio workstations are for editing sound. In music, that can mean needing to load a 100G file into RAM to get a convincing orchestra or piano sample. So I have a MacPro I bought earlier this year with 384G RAM but...

Thanks to blog posts like yours I am also buying a 16G M1 MacBook Pro for general purpose uses such as web development!
Yes, massive over prosecution for people who upset the status quo, clemency for people endangering the public...
https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1340037836972699648

"How’s Sweden doing, you ask? More people have died of COVID-19 in the past 5 days than have died altogether in Norway throughout the entire pandemic.

Tegnell still hasn’t been fired."

(Sweden and Norway have similar populations, climate, and even language and culture, but very different COVID approaches)
Wait, I'm missing something here, because it seems that C# would be the extremist language. It even fits the pithy little saying in the article:

Classes are awesome. What if we made a PL where everything was a class?

I mean, you can use lambdas, but last time I used C# you could still only use them inside a class definition.*

*Note: I haven't used C# in a while, do you guys have free functions yet? If so, ignore this post, my knowledge is just outdated.
"Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code."

Previously discussed 3 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467854) and the author has released hundreds of hours of live-coding since then.

This episode guide is super useful: https://hero.handmade.network/episode/code

(I'm not affiliated with any of this.)
You can see it in Bellingcat's investigations - carelessly reusing burners, calling from GRU offices, reusing passports, calling from two burners one immediately following the other.
And what if it only crashes/breaks on certain operations?
> he we got to hear the account, suspicions, reasons to dismiss or believe the source (chaudhry). I don't think anyone reasonably concludes that his account is mostly honest or accurate, just that it may contain truth. He literally gets outed and confronted about being a liar.

They might "complicate the narrative" but they're putting it out there as being at least partially true when it was actually entirely false. It isn't "honest" journalism to keep putting out your sensationalized stories with just a little added "narrative tension."

> I see nothing wrong with this tweet

Read the entire thread - she is basically suggesting that the reason they didn't charge him is because they are incompetent.

Both of my parents are former editors at major national publications. My mom has had to fire people for stuff like this. They think that this was a breach of journalistic integrity and pretty much career-ending.
> But can you imagine not getting even a hug for 5, 10 years?

Yes? My friends did not hug each other growing up. Hugs were for family members, which the kids are with every day during the pandemic.
Off topic but you should watch more Ryan Gosling. The Big Short, First Man, Drive. He's solid.
Aeroflot is designating special seating for passengers who refuse to wear masks
https://archive.vn/Wug13
Depends how they do 3d rendering. If it's passed through to the host gpu, then it's fingerprintable. If it's using some sort of software renderer that might be fine, but the performance is going to be garbage.
Indeed. We could have chosen to be an island, but that would have meant quarantining business travel.
A faster quaternion-vector multiplication
Only a cop would get away with serving half of their sentence (and not a day more than the minimum) after shooting a child in the head on purpose.
Smells like a someone's promotion project. Solution looking for a problem.

Very atypical to see such projects like come out of AWS.
"We don't do God", as the saying goes, is a major difference between (say) the UK and the US.
> "Likely" is a probability statement, not an escape valve.

This is a good warning that we ought to be more mindful of.
Half of what the sentence was, and the minimum legal jail time for that crime.
Most people who claim that they don’t care about protecting their data or how it’s used don’t realize that a 0.1% increase in their interest rate on a big expense (say a home loan) probably works out far more expensive than all the nickels and dimes they might save otherwise, including by using “free” services on the web.
Funny that she deleted her tweet of prices as it is probably a popular cause to have this information public and the argument that secret prices somehow should give the public better prices is dubious.
>> The value is assessed on 1 Jan every year. Whatever happens during the year is ignored.

Oh, the games they will play!
Aggressive contact tracing works when the disease is at low levels.
Happens to everyone.

You have a nice day.
> I live in New York, which has a basic culture of "hyper aggressiveness"

A defining trait of American culture is hyperactivity. Commenting on trivial stuff, moving around restlessly while holding a drink, despise for idle time. The "kindness" thing is a form of hyper-expressivity which is rarely seen in calm cultures.
“Nobody Uses Datastructures These Days ” – A Candidate Told Me
I don't have a link now, but if there is a chance for miscommunication, the good strategy becomes more "forgiving". So you can keep being cooperative and kind for more than one iterations to be sure they really want to defect. Then you can defect too, until they cooperate.
Is it more unethical than performing a surgery that doesn't help?
I think it is similar to how certain people always feel they are being ripped off by their car mechanic. They were told one thing by marketing/sales and then reality turns out to be more nuanced.
I think you should talk to more people who aren't on the mathy side of nerdiness. And try to really relate with them.

You're not wrong, but it's hard not to feel bad for people who bucket others into such confining batches. You'll miss out on so many friendships if you think that way.

There's no special insight needed for being able to appreciate good company, or to play guitar together. And I think a good guitarist can explore as many interesting facets of the world as the best mathematician. Complex numbers to a guitarist may as well be frets on a fretboard to a quant who doesn't play.
This is a temporary limitation which mean you can't capture free vars from outer scope (except global scope). One of the main goal of AS is performance but closure elimination required some extra efforts like Middle IR, eta/beta-reductions, lambda lifting / dropping. Without all of this closures will produce significant overhead. So at first need to implement all this things
>I'm not saying that what warehouse workers are being paid now is "fair" or "reasonable"

its not a question of "fair" or "reasonable". such jobs shouldnt exist. i come from the side of ag jobs and there are a lot of repetitive manual jobs that should simply be automated.

in the place of low paying jobs, new higher wage jobs should be created. eventually, with more people being skilled and having good earning potential, the number of work hours will also come down leaving people to do other things than just work 40 hours/day and wasting 2 hours in commute.

this is how we should live. we should live our lives and work a little bit to support that life style. life shouldnt be drudgery where work is how we survive. creating high value items and high wages with robots and automation taking care of menial tasks will also bring out the creativity and potential of human beings. there will always be those who will fall through the cracks and thats when the social net should catch them.

current system is the expectation of the social net to catch everyone on a low wage. for example, you cant increase wages for ag. it would mean cost of food would go up. so we end up making cheap food, cutting corners, having a low wage worker class and then subsidising them through welfare paid through our taxes. its messy and complicated and inefficient.

my fav example is that of automobiles replacing horse carriages as the preferred urban transport system. it erased all the jobs like the guy who drove the carriage, the kid who picked up the horse poop on the streets, the stablemen, the horse groomers..the farriers...i mean..how many people want to take up equine hoof care as a profession these days. all those jobs. gone. in its place, came a new set of jobs..the factory worker, the mechanic, the gas station owner (and with it 711)...not to mention the sweet relief for the poor overworked horses. and our lives are better.

of course, the flip side is the pollution, dependence on fossil fuels, exponential population growth ..but we grow by leaps and bounds. and we fix our missteps as we move along. but some jobs..it is inevitable that they will disappear. they have to. or we will become stagnant.
14 days is the quarantine period to show symptoms. It is not how long the infection takes to run its course if you actually have it, which is generally 3-4 weeks presuming things go well, which they much more frequently do not.
The way that you can turn normal Rust functions into systems, grabbing the relevant components through their type signature is wonderful sugar, and feels magic to use.
That’s why the "effect" of placebos is highest in every study about pain (which is highly subjective).

A placebo never stops a virus infection, although you might feel like it helps a bit.
There is an additional complication too: North American archaeologists have to contend with modern descendants of indigenous cultures, who frequently insist that digs be halted and filled in, remains be reburied, and artifacts be repatriated to private owners.

The efforts by assorted tribes against archaeology culminated in NAGPRA, which has hamstrung researchers quite severely.

(Potential HN argument defuser: I'm not making a statement here on cultural values, merely observing that North American archaeology has an additional unique hurdle to understanding cultures of the past.)
Seemed fine with uBlock Origin
The issue is that in-person interactions provide a bunch of sensory information that doesn’t come from a screen (touch/smell/taste/3D/surround sound).

There is a reason people don’t say, “I was really in Hawaii when they just watched a video or did a video call with a friend there”.
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https://www.comentr.com/t/bestasa/cbpQ
https://www.maiyro.com/posts/kZtobd
https://c.mi.com/thread-3502373-1-1.html
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Except when you're writing qualitative article titles.
A story of how we built the best landing page ever
There's no way they used machine learning here. My guess it was some simple rules like older doctors go first. I wouldn't even call it an algorithm. I think algorithm is a weasly way for the administrator to make it sound more complicated then it was.
> We should be praising the Times for having the courage and integrity for calling out their own errors, which many publications wouldn't do, rather than punishing them for not figuring it out in the first place.

We can do both, praise and criticize. While I agree with your statements, they NYT also have another job: Report the news accurately. That's why they exist and it's critical to our society.

We shouldn't overreact to one error and I think the NY Times is generally more reliable than most. A metric for overall reliability would be very valuable, especially in the disinformation age. That would be an interesting project for a leading journalism school. But how to measure it? Omissions, including context, are just as significant inaccuracies as misstatements (imagine the story 'The U.S. declares war on Japan!' without context). How could the study objectively set a standard for what facts and context should be included?
> He wrote solutions for Shootout (predecessor to that Debian page) problems a few years ago; a lack of k in benchmarks is not due to a lack of k being volunteered

That's 6 of the programs, there were at-least 4 others ;-)

I lacked and still lack the knowledge to figure out if those snippets are doing what they should.

For example, do those scripts set arg n from the command line and read from stdin? Do those scripts write correctly formatted output to stdout?

What a pity that page does not show measurements for those scripts, and a comparison with some of the C programs written for the benchmarks game.
How can a post with 453 points posted only 5 hours ago not be on the front page? Currently # 37

another post's stats:

26. Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles (theguardian.com)
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You need to give less weight to flagging, maybe?
PCR positive doesn't mean infected.

You'll need an high amount in PCR, i.e. low cycle threshold for the probability to be high.

Antigen tests will show if there was/is an infection.

PCR does not show infection only presence. (WHO has now put out guidance about this. They don't have to it's well known.)

If you're European this may be strange to you but I'm the U.S. we don't receive the cycle count when the RNA for the virus is detected.

Here's Fauci talking about it a little: https://youtu.be/a_Vy6fgaBPE&t=4m30s
It’s not even remotely comparable though. 1,000 cases a day and less than 1,000 total reported deaths. It puts Western nations to absolute shame.
"Is the single most important thing" is plainly hyperbole. For instance, that statement cannot be unconditional. If a bus is barreling towards you, the single most important thing is to get out of the way of that bus. No time to measure it, measure its velocity, calculate the rate at which you need to move. The single most important thing is to get moving now.

As a mathematician, I read that headline and say "what are your axioms?" And that's a quantitative response to that qualitative headline, so no apologies.
Neither are farm workers, grocery store workers, utility workers, and many other people whose work and service are used by the vast majority of the country every single day. Medical workers do not make up large percentage of COVID-19 deaths, less than 1% in the US. I don't know what the numbers are for other types of essential workers, but I doubt it's a lot different, since the majority of deaths fall largely on people 55+ years old.

Another factor that should be accounted for, but I've not seen in any official policy, is the people who've contracted the virus and recovered. While there is research showing that the human immune response to SARS-COV-2 may persist for years[0], even if that's not true we do know that it lasts for 6+ months as shown by the small amount of confirmed reinfections[1]. So put those people at the end of the line.

We really should write down the objective and then work out the way to achieve that objective. If the objective is to preserve the maximum amount of life years, then the criteria should heavily bias toward people older 55+ and people with comorbidities. Being a front line health care worker is very honorable and should carry a lot of respect, but it may not be the truly relevant criteria for maximizing the preservation of life.

0. https://bgr.com/2020/11/18/coronavirus-immunity-years-antibo...
1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/11/16/though-r...
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Commodity is not quite the correct term as in "a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type".

What people want to say, I assume, is that building on Open Source is no competitive advantage because your competition can easily adopt it as well.
It's the NYT. If the Judith Miller nonsense didn't reveal to you what they're like, and you're still listening, you deserve the crap information you get.
>> I'm curious the relation to the corporate blockchain?

I think its the idea of companies seeing new tech and trying to leverage it somehow in their own businesses and failing - badly.

Here's my own anecdotal evidence with blockchain:

I work in a very large health care company. For about four months, there was a huge buzz around the company about how to leverage block chain in health care. The main idea was using block chain to manage patient accounts and PPE.

We had all the execs bring in to do huge presentations. They brought in people from IBM to talk about Hyperledger and other block chain companies. They posted videos and articles about how this going to transform healthcare, we were all told this was going to be huge. They told people they were going to form a new team, hire developers and this was a going to be a huge focus in 2020.

Six months later? You couldn't find a single resource on any of it on any of the internal company sites. All the presentations stopped, the execs stopped talking about block chain seemingly over night and it was like poof! the idea of block chain, or any mention of it or the "revolution" that supposed to follow? Completely disappeared into the abyss, never to be heard from again.

I have no idea how much they sank into the notion that block chain could be used for health care, or how many people they hired or the contracts they signed with IBM, but I can only assume they lost a lot of money before they finally realized it wasn't going to work out.
I'm using the following User Script to remove specific domains from Google search results. It does the job well enough for me.

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Try changing ‘www’ to ‘text’ in the URL to get the plainer version of the site. That might help. Here is the modified link:

https://text.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-ret...
I'm still on my iPhone 5s that I bought in 2014. Had to replace cracked screen (cost around $40) and the battery twice (around $20 each). Even though it's stuck on iOS 12, it still keeps getting security updates from Apple. I intend to use it until apps vendors stop supporting iOS 12, which will probably happen in a couple of years. All in all I'd say the phone was/is a good value and is worth the Apple premium tax.
The twist with software engineering though is that the overly confident people tend to be the non-experts, who then blame the engineers for having poor communication skills.
I would agree if it was a NYT column entirely about him, but this was a podcast talking about the ins and out of ISIS and exploring the process of investigation. I would argue that Chaudhry was just one part of the story, and his purpose was actually to show how hard it is to verify facts when it comes to ISIS.
That requires a lot of assumptions

Authoritative:

I don't consider less-inclusive political systems worse. They have best, average and worse cases, where the problem is that they get worst case many times over. A benevolent dictatorship is capable of getting the best case results, the predictable threat is that their replacement will not be capable of stewarding resources the same way.

Whereas more inclusive political systems get average case results more reliably and it is practically impossible to get a best case result with a lot of energy continually necessary to avoid worst case results.

Collectivist:

I don't consider collectivist to be a pejorative term and don't know of any context where it is. You picked a synonym, selfless.

Monoculture:

Just a fact of life. Where monocultures help them be able to predict what their neighbor does and trust that result, then large-scale immediate coordination without the state is easy. It isn't impossible for a multicultural society to achieve the same benefits, its also not happening. Unlike others that might use this word, I am not making any statement on a preferred living arrangement.
good notes
If he took a bullet between the eyes would it have been worth it?
The idea that someone should live a certain way is narcissistic though. Also it feels inherently about forcing one's personal belief of death upon another. True love may be the meaning of life for someone while the dream one couldn't pursue anymore for the person that committed suicide was the meaning of his/her life. Oh, I just think people are to quick to react nowadays without much thought.