skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utopias by themselves are typically rather boring, so you either end up with the drama coming from interpersonal friction (think soap opera) or from some external antagonist, making the story about that conflict instead. Contrast that with dystopian fiction, where the things that make it a dystopia are also often what makes the story interesting.
Maybe, not sure. I can’t immediately find anything that would specify as such, but I suppose adapters could opt to not support some modes (and I guess technically I may have been overreaching a bit on that bit anyway since autonegotiation is only mandatory at all in 1000BASE-T and later).
Thanks for noticing, our primary goal is making sure a minimal experience catalog works (best we can) for folks in lower bandwidth areas, older devices, etc.

I've been meeting w/ John Gilmore (EFF) & RMS to make sure we're also testing, to the best of our ability, w/ privacy badger, librejs, and other tools to ensuring beyond nojs support that we have some modicum of assurance for folks who are willing to use js but appreciate a bit more care.
I always find the Rails/scalable thing to be a funny argument - especially on the startup-minded HN.

You don't need scale at a startup. You need velocity. If you're hitting scale at a startup, you've done one of two things:

* Written absolutely terrible software

* Succeeded

Unless you've hit the second one, it will almost always be cheaper to simply spin up another server.
I've been in very few fights so far, and most of my "gameplay" has been hiding and slowly netrunning my way through buildings, taking out enemies via hacks.

Of course, I occasionally screw up and end up lobbing grenades until I stop getting shot at, but so it goes.
My gf loves spicy cheetos. What a fun story to share.
You don't directly. You add some extra lines of yaml to an k8s ingress resource, nginx detects this and updates itself. A single nginx container can service many ingresses for each of your apps. The idea is to distribute the config to the app manifests they are related to
Too late to edit or delete my comment here, but for the record I meant to say Facebook is WORSE than Google is WORSE than Twitter. I had '>' symbols and then decided to switch it to words without fully thinking thru the semantic meaning. Oops :(
That's interesting!

I'll still guess that few people who support digital piracy in general would also support illegalism.
And the pop in Airbnb's case was pretty enormous. They priced at $68 and closed on the first day at $144.71
US govt getting hungry for tax revenue. Expect more actions like this being taken in 2021.
Trying to drag games into some corporate wokeness is definitely a punk move.
Nobody is doing what they claim. It's all ego and posturing. I'm getting tired of humanity.
So is wealth inequality a financial asset issue and not a consumer product issue? Can you elaborate on the distinction?
He only made 20mil in earnings? I feel like he got robbed. Should have started his own company and eventually sold to Frito Lay for 10x the amount he made.
> The last 10 years of JavaScript on the client have been an utter shit show

A fair number of people would disagree. I'd say it's advanced a lot, considering the limited role of JavaScript on the client in the past.
Price hasn't zero'd out. Says a lot about the sophistication of the holders.
Building a Monorepo with Yarn 2
Ironically, this could increase the exchange rate for XRP. Ripple controls a large block of uncirculated token that it sells. With this legal action, I suspect that supply will no longer be entering the market.

Unlike Bitcoin, which issues new currency units through mining, XRP is issued by Ripple. The case against Ripple appears to revolve around this point: is the XRP token a security?
No Wrong Door
Alligators can regrow severed tails, surprising scientists
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The people who whine about games not being taken seriously as an art turn around and whine about how it’s just a game whenever actual, even faintly critical critiques of the art get published.
On what basis is it a moral harm?
Author of the language here.

Very excited about this release.

This is the first major release after 0.1.

The focus has been on stability and compile-time memory management. The demo of that was posted here recently [0].

7600 commits, 4110 handled pull requests, 340 contributors, 20k GitHub stars. What a journey!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmB8ea8uLsM
If there's a pattern it's one thing. But for a single event when it's hard for an outsider to figure out who was in the right and who was in the wrong, it's probably easier just to avoid both of them.
Wow! That is ludicrously fast.
I barely ever run and gun. I squat and hack. But no matter what method you use, it seems you will quickly overpower everything due to AI/balancing issues. still enjoying it immensely though.
Lockheed Martin acquires Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4b
Governments (in the west) don't hire their leaders, though. Same is true of schools - principals and the like might be hired, but the school boards that chose them are elected.
I don’t really think this is appropriate for HN.

That said - please don’t. I’m in a “red state” and I like it here very much. I moved back here because of the culture, and I find openly proposing a collective attempt to dilute and suppress that for political reasons to be odious at best.
> People can bemoan the lack of privacy (and should) but it's empty words until we're willing to take a stand and not participate in the systems that are mining every bit of data that can be had en-mass.

That's the problem that is so poignantly illustrated by this post - you can't not participate, or you lose. That's what makes it so insidious and why we shouldn't just dismiss good arguments out of hand for this reason.
> a better explanation might be, historically, passage of time leads to war.

My point exactly. Say that wars break out naturally with some Poisson-like distribution. When the war breaks out, the scale of it is gonna be in relation to the current arsenal of the warring parties.

So given your comment, I can revise my comment to say:

Historically—and mathematically—military build up leads more devastating wars.

Although that is not entirely true. As if nations didn’t hold militaries, there wouldn’t be wars between nations.
Speculation: They're often this active, but we didn't notice, because presidential politics was sucking up all the attention.
To my knowledge, every preview includes at minimum the basic front-matter (such as those you describe). There are other mechanisms in place which enable specific controlled use cases e.g. limited page previews for folks coming from Wikipedia citations. I don't know if Open Library is presently taking taking advantage of these enriched previews -- I'll check with our product team to see what improvements to the experience may be possible.
Two things I haven't seen anyone mention that seem important:

1. For the one person who has "made it" economically, there are countless others that haven't, that still live in one-room houses. What about them?

2. I think it's worthwhile pointing out that the product that he created, while popular and financially successful, is a junk food that has a significant impact on the health of adults and children worldwide. We should evaluate "success" holistically, not just financially or else we miss the downstream effects of our decisions. This blindness is the same mindset that has caused climate change.

That said, it's wonderful to see someone lifted out of poverty. I hope millions more have the same chance.
yeah, they should capitulate preemptively, to avoid conflict, you know. Way to deal with bullies.
Here's the press release[1] being echoed.

Cleland's CV[2] seemingly specs the paper as:

> “Historical Natural Kinds and Mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity (Cleland,C. E., Hazen, R. M.&S.M. Morrison), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS)(2021) (in press).

But it doesn't seem to be available yet. So why do the press release now... shrug?

These scholar hits[3] look related: "An evolutionary system of mineralogy."'s "Part I", "Part II", and (earlier) "Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering". The currently unlinked "Part II" seems available here[4] (and on sci-hub of course).

Here's a GPlates animation[5] (just for pretty) with mineral locations marked, from a recent related paper[6].

[1] https://carnegiescience.edu/news/scientists-and-philosopher-...
[2] https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/sites/default/files/atta...
[3] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2019&q=Hazen+Morri...
[4] http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Ammin/AM_Preprints/7447HazenPrep...
[5] https://4d.carnegiescience.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/M...
[6] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.0020...
It is amazing that after the massive negative repercussions for Saudi Arabia after their murder of Khashoggi, that the nations of the world somehow decided that such murder is more worthwhile than before.

Iran just murdered Roohollah Zam the other week.
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In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)
> [b]: As bad as burying terms in the contract is, it’s still legal

Technically not; a contract by definition (and I'm fairly sure applicable law at least pretends to support this) involves a "meeting of minds" between the parties; any document that is long or unreadable enough far any of its terms to qualify as "buried" in it, is not actually a contract.

Practically, though, the courts are useless and will refuse to enforce the illegality of denial-of-service attacks on customers' ability to evaluate contracts.
Yes, a report written by the vice president found they did nothing seriously wrong. Doesn't change my mind much because I already knew their stance on the whole thing.

Everybody loved Epstein right up until he got caught, and nobody had a clue what he was doing. This is the position of everybody involved with Epstein, not just Harvard. Call me dumb but I'm not buying it.
I think the mentioned Mikrotik switch should work with 2.5Gbps port (if you run the router in AP mode)? I've run successfully the mentioned Mikrotik switch against 2.5Gbps NIC and 5Gbps NIC to reach the advertised speed cross computers.
its probably more to do with dupe glitching than too much crafting.
There are a few that come to mind, but nothing I can think of as super recent.

- After Life, Simon Funk: https://sifter.org/~simon/AfterLife/

- Most of Ted Chiang, but particularly Liking What You See: A Documentary: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vSPLnv...

- Also Ted Chiang: The Lifecycle of Software Objects (not really pessimistic or optimistic, just thoughtful)

- Her (Movie), melancholy but ultimately hopeful

- HPMOR (Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality): http://www.hpmor.com

- True Names, Vernor Vinge: http://www.scotswolf.com/TRUENAMES.pdf

- Permutation City, Greg Egan (accurately predicts AWS 20yrs early along with a host of other super interesting ideas)

- Star Trek TNG is the classic example of optimistic Sci-Fi, but the more recent Enterprise is also good.

- The San Junipero Black Mirror episode

- I wouldn't call The Expanse optimistic, but it's probably the best sci-fi show on today.

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For some contrarian anti-recommendations which can be just as useful:

- I thought the culture series was bad, in plot/characters/writing - I found it tedious and kind of dumb.

- I disliked the three body problem for similar reasons.
The barcode standards themselves specify the amount of white space you need before and after the barcode proper. Even the cheapest scanners should work if you met that.
I agree and was very fortunate to meet such a guy right out of college where I was studying Recording INdustry. All our teachers said good luck getting a job and I was only three out 60 that I heard got a job out of college in the field.

Once I moved from Nashville to NYC for my label job I met a ton of other men and women whom this same guy gave them a chance too. That's how his career started .. he met a label head at a concert in the 80s who gave him a chance.

Great guy who helped found many popular artist careers in the 90s.
He’s referring to Goldman most likely deliberately underpricing the stock. During the IPO the investment bank gives access to certain folks: Their clients. They doubled their money almost risk free since they know demand.
> It’s amazing that corporate America thinks it can’t hire a at all levels (...)

I don't believe that's the case at all.

It's not like they believe they can't hire someone. That's a silly assumption. There is however the idea that there are operational advantages in outsourcing non-core areas of their business. If they hire a specialized contractor to do maintenance tasks then you no longer have to bother with gaining expertise in that area, and you can even scale up and down your service to meet demands.

The rationale is like figuring out how we have lunch. Sure, we can cook it ourselves and it will certainly be cheaper. However, if we pay a third party to provide us with our lunch then we get food cooked by pros and we even have the freedom to pick fancy dishes from some other restaurant if we deem it necessary.
I mean, when was the last time a major release performed so poorly that it got delisted from the PlayStation store?

The game’s vitriolic reaction only really came about as a direct followup to possibly one of the most hyped up games this year.
Looks like the title was changed to add it.

I was also going to point out the irony that the news article cares more about the man rather than the discovery of the origins of life.
How to get anything you want through Strategic Communication
XRP has the highest market cap? I think I've seen more places that take Dogecoin then take XRP.
He's being honest instead of withholding the truth to fit some agenda. Shouldn't be too surprising.
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https://archive.is/cpXaJ

https://web.archive.org/web/20201221193931/https://theparisr...
When did Linux/x86 overtake proprietary Unix/RISC?
For those of you working in the late 80s and early 90s, when was the moment and context when you realized that Linux on commodity x86 hardware was faster/better value than the proprietary Unix and RISC boxes you were using? And how did you use that knowledge? And I'm not knocking too hard on the excellent tank-like hardware and great build quality of the expensive stuff, but when you saw the speed of Linux/x86 and realized what you could get at that cost, it must have been a huge shift in your thinking, and I just want to know more about that particular time.
Are you sure it's precisely the same individuals arguing these contradictory positions, or might it be different people?
Two points on client-side JS have been a constant for me for many years:

- Noticed excessive JavaScript contributes to poor web performance
- Things cause JS to break, which breaks other interactivity, often I end up using incognito

During lockdown, I struggled ordering groceries because 20 seconds of JavaScript execution on the main thread made my "delivery slot" expire!

Similar to heydonworks.com stating "Please disable JavaScript to view this site", I'm glad Hotwire is encouraging folks to think about things a little differently.
No, that means that this one investor THINKS they are worth 10x dollars. Other investors might value the company differently, based on number of customers, cash in bank, their own subjective opinion on the product, etc.
You generate a vector image and it works like a scalable font.
Although slowly, 2.5gbps ethernet is starting to land. I have a few devices in my house now with 2.5gbps interfaces, my hangup has been that I currently have a commercial GbE switch that was moderately expensive and I'm not feeling the need to replace it with a 2.5gbps switch that will be quite expensive (and if I really wanted to I could get full speed on some ports with SFP).

But not feeling the need, I think, kind of makes the point... WiFi has to continuously push to higher and higher speeds in large part because for various fundamental reasons WiFi is not able to deliver speed with consistency. Packet loss, jitter, contention, and periodic serious disruptions in connectivity are the norm for WiFi, and very high speeds offer more overhead to tolerate these problems. Unlike Ethernet, WiFi is also fundamentally half-duplex and contentious between multiple devices, so very high speeds and MIMO techniques (as well as beam steering and other more cutting-edge technology) are used to mitigate this. All of these enhancements are aimed towards allowing WiFi to consistently and reliably achieve 100mbps and more in practice - something which even the latest WiFi standards still struggle with in much of the "real world."

By contrast, GbE can consistently deliver gigabit performance, full duplex, non-collision with only slight overhead, and a very high degree of consistency.

Gigabit ethernet already allows saturation of most storage devices in consumer use, so from a practical perspective, there aren't many reasons anyone would want more--going to 2.5, 5, or 10GbE in a home network is not likely to allow you to actually do anything faster because at that volume of data you're probably reading from or writing to storage, and consumer storage devices cannot reach even gigabit speeds. Likewise there are few or no consumer devices capable of generating instantaneous/real-time data volumes over GbE, the ones that are are moving uncompressed video, e.g. HDMI at 10-20gbps, which is both beyond what "faster" ethernet specs currently readily available can do, and it's just something that few people seem to want - there aren't many situations where you're moving video over a distance longer than an HDMI cable and you aren't willing to compress it.

I actually have an unusually demanding situation as I have a project that involves moving multiple high-rate IQ streams from large-bandwidth SDRs over the network. Even here, CPU and I/O issues on the sending devices are consistently a bigger problem for me than the actual network. There are SDRs with highly optimized network support that allow them to achieve real-time rates in the Gbps range, but they cost so much that owners of such devices aren't going to have a problem investing in commercial network equipment.

It feels a bit lame to say that "GbE is fast enough," but for consumer cases I think this is largely true. The only thing I can see changing it is moving full-rate video around, but video streaming has already been captured for consumers by vendor-specific systems that use compression, and "works fine" within an ecosystem even over WiFi.
product manager at big tech company.

the definition of luck i like to use is "when hard work and opportunity meet". there has been a lot of both but i can't stress how much opportunity has presented itself.

i don't believe i deserve 10x the income that many people earn. i do believe i can create 10x the value...but it doesn't seem right that the correlation of rewards should be so drastic. i couldn't be a ceo of a large company but i don't think they deserve 10x my income either.
Nocoiners will blame technology for this.
Did nobody out of the 70 realize the answer they were copying from was wrong. West Point should look at its math education in addition to the integrity of its cadets.
Or alternatively, they've "figured out" how not to hire people unrelated to their core business? What does Frito-Lay have to be gained from engaging in the janitorial business?
Of course, and I could enjoy a tiny game with good writing too. My argument is simply that poor writing/story alone isn’t grounds for calling any game terrible, and not only that, it can even be excellent without it. This review seems to imply that the poor writing means the game can’t be good.
It's even worse, because wireless is basically a hub. Or phrased differently: there is only one wire available for all devices on a wireless network, and your (as well as others on same frequencies) devices have to figure out which packet is for which device by themselves.
see below - product manager at big tech co. sharing since you and someone else were curious.
> There's an important difference between having all sides at the table and having two sides at the table.

> I don't think [more-than-two-sides]'s a problem journalism can easily solve.

Very true, but having only one side at the table is even worse.
Probably not, but then, this whole thread was started by someone asking if NPR is what passes as "Gaming Press" these days, which... well... no?? Probably obviously not? Likely to be coming at it from a different angle?
This is another in-depth writeup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23672564
Do you have a retired phone in a drawer somewhere?

I recently started taking Zoom calls in my office on my desktop, and didn’t have a webcam at all. I found EpocCam and used it on my iPhone X, but quickly pulled out my wife’s retired Galaxy S7 to use for this purpose.

At this point you can get a used S7 on eBay for ~$60. That’s cheaper than a webcam with similar image quality, and you can use the phone for other projects if that’s your thing.
If you by new $250 isn't close to getting you anything decent which also works for streaming as far as I know.

Plus for many cameras you need to capture their video output, i.e. USB is not enough (through that currently changes). So you need a capture chip with low latency or else things are bad for "life" usage. This is often another 60-130€ for something decent if brought anew.

Plus they don't have a monitor clip so you need buy an additional stand.

Sure you can buy used parts but then you also need to compare it with used part prices for webcams which normally (i.e. non Covid19) are also lower.

I mean a Sony a5100 with usable objective currently sells new for ~US$700 but you can probably get it new for that price with capture card and stand if you buy clever and we ignore Covid19 for fairness.

(And even used you are still far above 250€ for any recent decently usable mirror less camera with objective in my experience.)
It’s sad to see that in the last 10 years this type of comment (tries to) ruin every single inspirational story.

Just because there’s shit in the world doesn’t mean there isn’t beauty and greatness and awesomeness sometimes. In fact that’s what makes it wonderful.

If you’re bitter and all you see is the shit, and resent any inspirational story, well, good luck to you but I definitely don’t think you’ll have a productive, or inspirational life.
It's about time we had a male senator!
I'm not sure I follow.

The reason that large companies subcontract out these roles is that they're incentivized to do so, not that they "can't figure it out". I'm not sure I've really heard people pretending otherwise.