skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employee feedback is an incredibly powerful tool. If you're getting performance feedback regularly, it's time to use feedback evaluation generator: https://simbline.com/generators/performance-review.

So as not to waste time writing a performance review the feedback generator was developed that allows you automate the process of writing a feedback.
I have realised this works really well when I am unable to focus, especially when feeling sleepy. Talking and thereby listening to myself helps me reconsolidate my thoughts and I think we are better at listening to an external voice than to an internal rumbling.
NYC reimagined its New Year's Eve celebration for the pandemic
Queue times for matches can be really rough as well. I used to love a good 4v4 but it can take 5-10 minutes to find one some nights. Nevermind errors like yours, yikes
From Wikipedia [1]:

> A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors, sometimes known as rotor sails. German engineer Anton Flettner was the first to build a ship that attempted to tap this force for propulsion, and ships using his type of rotor are sometimes known as Flettner ships.

Container ships reduce the superstructure to enable loading but these rotor sails could possibly be used on oil tankers and bulk carriers. We don’t hear about autonomous water vessels very often, perhaps a Flettner water drone is possible.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship
This is why I could never get into it nor Zachtronics games. Just feels like work.
I form a quick 'jingle' in my head, retains the numbers very well.
Willingness to take ambitious business risks is what sets Tesla and SpaceX apart. Innovation is gambling, it is risky.
The most spectacular (and frightening) us is for the climate change:

http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals/
Scientists ID potential biomarkers to peg time of death for submerged corpses
>Apparently we must apply these serfdom-like measures in order to win against the current pandemic, but that's a different discussion (one of effectiveness).

It's not just a discussion of effectiveness, it's a discussion of values. But proponents of the lockdowns try to avoid that by painting anyone who doesn't share their value system as evil or immoral. There's a good chunk of the population who think it would be immoral to violate people's rights to free movement and association even if a disease with a 5-10% death rate was going around, because human rights aren't conditional. E.g. people who follow some form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics rather than a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism -based value system.
Two more for you: predestination and primer. Predestination is a trip and primer folds in on itself in ways you won’t uncover until after multiple viewings (and even then, you may still be missing things!).
My Enough Number is 10% + (the highest enough number of everyone else). Just so I can keep enough for me and my generations.
There are some players that play while comentating. They don't usually talk a lot, and they are less competetive while comentating, but it's a thing.

For example in Polish sc2 scene there's Indy who usually talks while playing and is semi-proffesional (won some small tournaments but isn't considered tier 1 like Nerchio, MaNa, Elazer).
TLDR: 1. You already have that on Linux. 2. Make your builds portable.

If you are running mainstream Linux(Debian-based/Arch-based, probably other), most of the Docker profits can be achieved with already installed and configured systemd and your distro's package manager.

Sandboxed? systemd.

Simple, uniform interface? Your distro has packages, and most likely services that can and should be sandboxed already run in systemd after installation, you can tune unit-file if you want, and systemd has security checker, that shows you what application in the sandbox can and can not do, without proxying things the Docker way.

Versions pinning? Pin version with your package manager. Want multiple versions? Check out DebianAlternatives system.

Reproducible? Fix your build/install configs, not the environment. If it builds on your machine, but not on the other, or run flawlessly on one, but not the other, it means you have implicit dependency on the environment, or wrong dependency versions constraints, which you likely don't know about. If you don't know your dependencies, you are definitely shooting blind.

Minimizes global state. Repo-based distros minimize global state by providing software that has most dependencies compatible, so you can have your minimal state and update your software too. Meanwhile with docker you need all dependencies and hope that they will match between images, so you can save on layers reusage. And if someone decides to update base image, and others dont... well, too bad, you have to have both versions of the base image.
Yes, but how is that different to everywhere else?
1. is not settled yet. we are yet to see how all this spending is going to be paid for.
>> Doesn't the very idea of the 'Central' in Central Bank Digital Currencies violate existential reasons and fundamental functions of digital currencies / cryptocurrencies?

It does.
The M2CS may be a great driver’s car in its class but not the best in its price bracket (at UK prices).
Most municipalities already have laws against this. Hell, where I live there’s a law that can escalate to a 3rd degree felony if your dog looks like it can get out of its fence. What I suspect is an unsatisfying answer for you is that they aren’t enforced because they really aren’t a priority.

That’s unfortunately a part of living in a society. We can’t always agree on what priorities are worth our limited resources. We’ve generally agreed children are a priority and choose to enforce those laws more often. For every person annoyed by bad dog owners, there’s somebody who annoyed by laws not being enforced against noise pollution, poorly parked cars, yard maintenance etc etc. My only suggestion is to get engaged to try and get them enforced if you feel it’s a major problem
Thanks for answering! Currently I do use views but it's just something I had wondered about.

I mean, the information from the information_schema must be updated anyway when one deletes a column or table, so I thought maybe a function like that which looks it up could exist.

I will try with PL/pgSQL, have long wanted to familiarise myself with it anyway.
With the technology we have today, why couldn't self-drying, self-folding, self-stowing sails be used to make ships even more efficient?

Edit: there actually is a ship called the Oceanbird[1] with telescopic metal sails.

[1]- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVDs4n_a0M
You're absolutely right. There are, however, bubbles - I don't know about France, but there are few cities in Germany where you aren't made to feel 'foreign' unless you go to a government office or something. Of course you do occasionally bump into racists, and the concept of integration in Germany is, well, 'assimilation' (literally), but like most countries in Europe, it's very variable.
The article doesn't go into much details on the atomicity of the backups:

Are the backups performed while the mount points are still being written to?

If the block device is locked during the backup, does the writes fail or just block?
>hostility towards maths and empiricism

Austrian economics isn't hostile to maths; it follows a different value system based on ordinal, not cardial utility, which doesn't allow for interpersonal value comparisons. Mathematically speaking this system is actually more elegant, as it has one less assumption (no philosophical assumption that interpersonal value comparison is possible), but obviously in such a system fewer statements can be made.
Though the surprise is really just a result of my own ignorance, I’m surprised at the breadth of training material used here.

I can foresee a future GPT-x that doesn’t know my phone number, but can deduce it.
That was my favorite part of Looper: when asking how time travel works, Willis says something like, “we could sit around all morning drawing boxes and arrows on the backs of napkins and all it would do is give you a splitting headache – time travel just works, ok?” Just totally dismisses it, haha.
I have a friend who likes to fly his drone in a valley. I asked him about helicopters, which are in the area since there are a lot of ski resorts, and he just shrugged. There's really a crazy level of incompetency when it comes to these amateur drone pilots and I fear the gap will only be plugged with blood.
MS Viking Grace has rotor sail. Fuel savings are 300 tons per year from the sail. It also uses LNG fuel. In best conditions the sail can provide 20% fuel savings. In reality much less than that, but it's a small sail compared to the size of the ship. Viking Grace is a cruiseferry, so even in full capacity it's almost empty compared to a cargo ship.

Maersk Pelican (tanker): 8.2% fuel saving during the first year of operation.

M/V Estraden (ro-ro cargo): 6.1% fuel saving.

https://www.norsepower.com/
That link shows higher support (for popular vote) from Democrats than Republicans in every data point on the graph: 2000, 2011, 2016, 2019, and 2020. Partisan support has not flipped in at least 20 years.

What "flipped" is that it went from overall < 50% to > 50%.
“Meaning” is just a construct in your head. What we perceive as “meaningful” is shaped by our biological and cultural evolution, a byproduct if you will. “Meaningfulness” is not something that exists out there, outside of our minds. When we see meaning, that’s a perspective we project on things, or a relation we have with things. It’s not a property of the things by themselves. We do crave meaning, and thus we have to come up with meaning for ourselves. Maybe it helps to realize that meaning is just something we create in our minds.
I've taken half a step back on advocacy this past year... I've been deploying on Linux servers and using containers a lot more, that's got uptake from work. But Linux desktops have been a no-go and beyond this, WSL2 has been pretty decent.

I am concerned that Apple will close all paths for open software to keep adding life to unsupported older hardware though. I feel the same about Phones and mobile devices as well. Reduce and Reuse come before Recycle for a reason.
Yes the best thing is to create a list of blacklisted domains, and don’t allow users to add a blacklisted domain.

Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead,

Shoot me an email love to hear from you, arkruka@gmail.com
At what point is the format parsed? Is http://36475893 sent to the router or converted to 192.168.56.12 in the browser?
Clinton spent quite a bit more on ads than Trump...
One of the wisest things my dad has ever said to me:

"Don't worry so much about whether you made the right decision. Instead, focus your energy on making the decision you made, right."

It's fruitless to think about making a different choice in hindsight.

It's really empowering to assign yourself the agency to make the best choices you can from the options ahead of you.
I'm not saying reddit doesnt have any uses. But /r/popular is not what it once was. Like imagine if HN was covered in memes and low quality content.
Inital commit of snebu was from january 6th in 2013 while restic's alpha release was in 2015. So snebu is older. That probably also explains why sha1 was chosen in the first place.
I recently began to read out loud for my newborn. Currently, she doesn't understand what I'm saying. Therefore, I can read whatever I want. Sometimes, I read her technical or scientific articles, adult-level books, etc.

I read in a "parentese" style with pauses, higher pitch, and drawn out vowels. I found that I was understanding the material better when I did that. It's not efficient because my reading speed slows down. But just the act of read out loud helped in retaining information.

Doing things out loud could be some sort of "life-hack" to help learn or problem solve.
The hard part of RL for the problems I've encountered in my work is that you need a simulator. Building a reliable and accurate simulator is often an immense undertaking.
ssh to an Archlinux or *BSD box?
I don't know about gaming but for daily desktop applications and coding I would never ever use a low dpi display again.

On a 1080p I can easily see individual pixels from a mile away and everything looks simply bad. I can not stand text on a low dpi screen.

Also, when I use 1.5x scaling, I have 1.5x more real estate. Hence my requirement for the fractional scaling. Even on 2x scaling (effectively turning it into a 1080p display) everything looks much better than a native 1080p display.
Cambridge is nice (I lived there before the referendum), but it’s also tiny — the non-student population is slightly smaller than Apple’s total workforce.
> If I'm a Java developer, I'm "happy"

Oh yes, it would make me "happy", too.
RL is a good theoretical solution for personalization: given a user state, select an action that maximizes a long term reward (eg. revenue/engagement.) It’s tricky building the implementations because unlike Go/Chess/Atari it’s hard to simulate humans. So you have to train the agents with batches of data offline (ie. using historic data from the agent’s past actions.) This is challenging because you don’t get as many chances to try different hyper parameters. It’s starting to be used more in industry though.
Eh, I'd say the campaign of WC3 was a pretty big focus, or at least Blizzard clearly considered it one since it formed the basis for a lot of WoW's storyline.
Building Chatbots: How to Choose the Best Platform – By Valentin Podkamennyi
Our solution took full advantage of Django many built-in features to create
Because that's a fairly hard problem comparing to just tacking two rotating columns.
Haven't WC3 and SC2 been RTS engines themselves? People used them to make DotA and other mini-games, not other RTS games even though they could've.

It just seems to me RTS games are like chess, not easy to get into, not easy to watch / understand unless you pour a lot of time into it. People would rather just play Catan or other not-so-try-hard social games.

I think DotA is the best example of this, it's still try-hard yet somehow it strikes the perfect balance of try-hard but still easy enough that the average player can understand it and follow it.
Iberia airlines
I assume like it always has been, with a reduction in value of the currency relative to assets.
They're also largely in a space that doesn't need the single core performance that a lot of desktop software needs and mostly is used with higher level server languages that mostly just work.
Ships can easily be retrofitted, literally overnight, with rotors activated by an on/off switch.

Kite systems seem far less practical but this can't possibly be true unless they're talking about a Sunfish. And even then, I'm skeptical. Or maybe they're using literally, as is the fashion, to mean figuratively.
Do the VR glasses in any way affect your eyes other than a regular display? I want to get into VR but I already tear up from a long work day of staring at a screen and my eyes get dry.
Actually, I was just playing AoE2 (the original from 1999) last night with my family and discovered this feature.

When joining a multiplayer game, you can choose player number and team. If you choose the same player number and team as someone else, both players have control of the same units.
Yes, the diversity can be overwhelming. The cloak factory is said to be a solid choice for beginners. From there, you can venture in other flavors of "bot" factories, like shield bots and jump bots. Then you can experiment with the more specialized ones, like spiders, hovers, gunships. And finally there are the very specific ones like the airplanes factory and the ships factory (good skills in those can make a difference in multiplayer games).

Of course it is better to have some knowledge about each of them, so you have a general idea of what to do when facing e.g. spiders.

Zero-K explicitly follows a rock-paper-scissors scheme (mainly raider-riot-skirmisher). Each category has a logo, which helps with selecting a counter-unit [1].

This is precisely the purpose of the campaign, which has been designed as a giant tutorial (without the annoyances of click-there-do-that past the very first mission). It restricts you to a single factory and often only a subset of the units of this factory, as you unlock the units when you complete missions. It is also RPG-y as you can unlock more modules for your commander as well. It is quite well done.

[1] http://zero-k.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=Unit_classes
Regulation, probably. Also, because even the smallest amount of information about a certain user is enough. And since everyone and their mother in the market shares their info between themselves there's really no incentive to "fix" it.
I checked my youtube search history one day. It goes back to 2010 and most of the time I search for the same stuff. Particular songs I remember, specific topics. Really nothing new or interesting.

I want new info and to be connected to the world in my media. Personalised ads and media kills the sense that the media is confirming your worldview. We all know it's a tiny isolated bubble of information and rarely do recommended feeds or ads suggest something I want.

Personalised ads attune themselves to my past and I don't need to solve the same problem repeatedly.
This is Q we're talking about. He's not the kind of character who would sit down with Picard over a cup of tea and talk him through why changing his past would change who he is. Humbling Picard by showing him the folly of his wish to change the past, while he lay on his deathbed, by making him choose to get stabbed through the heart is definitely more his style.

Also, I don't believe they portrayed Picard's "unremarkable" career negatively, except in Picard's own view (and Q's I guess).
there's a difference between hiring people with a proven track record (especially in this industry, e.g. known projects through github) and hiring your nephew just because he's a great guy.
Although I do agree that knowing about people's projects doesn't say enough about the fit (e.g. teamwork). However, white board code reviews won't really help finding that out either, imo. Parent poster didn't want imply that the whole interview process should be circumvented, only the (or some of the) technical part - I agree.
Perhaps they could, assuming somebody is willing to make the necessary investment to develop what you describe.

However, it will probably be a complex system, and like most complex systems, it will be fairly fragile. Compare that to these Flettner rotors, which are essentially "a tube and a motor".
Lockdown: A deadly, failed experiment – spiked
My goodness, two downvotes for distinguishing between a failure to show something exists and proof that it doesn't exist.
The other part that Wargame series does well is unit intelligence and move a bit away from crazy clicking.

You can trust your AT squad to understand that other infrantry needs to be shot at with a gun and that tanks should be engaged with Javelins. This makes the game way more strategic and fun to play than something like Starcraft where you need to babysit moronic units and manually trigger their abilities. In Wargame you can focus more on positioning, information collection and movement instead of having to focus on clickathons to win. By the time shots are fired, the winner is probably already decided.
While I thought the same thing, some whales hid from hunters in Iceland[1].

[1]- https://www.idausa.org/campaign/cetacean-advocacy/latest-new...
Is it just me or is web-Dev API is just another vector for JavaScript-based malware to expand their territory with?

https://web.dev/file-system-access/
Pleasure Without Suffering
Only if the debt is going to be paid back. And I don't think it ever will.

Money is just a way of keeping track of how much of future output of civilization given entity deserves. If we decide that people who borrowed the money now don't deserve it then, puff, there's no debt, nothing to pay back, no burden on future taxpayers.

On the other hand the resources that we dig up now, burn, pollute... those are real theft robbing the future.
Negative interest rates?
> This is especially true of NextCloud

I have a huge (personal) wiki page for installing and maintaining NextCloud from before they had a decent Docker image. Now I’m content to let it be a black box I don’t have to think about, so I run it in Docker. It saves a ton of time and hassle.

Docker adds a lot of value when devs ignore the best practice advice of putting everything in a separate container. That’s just a package manager with extra steps IMO. It’s the mini distro style containers like GitLab’s that can save you a masssive amount of time.
Brexit was about UK nativism. As the USA steps out of its own nativist administration, the UK has fewer like-minded global partners with real shared interests.

I'm an American that lived in London for 2 years in the 90s - the high tide for an American abroad - so that's the POV I bring to your question. The following decades have seen mostly retrograde changes. I cannot imagine it becoming -easier- for a non-native in Britain in the 2020s... can you? Germany and even France now bring a genuine interest in cultivating technology economies by welcoming global investors AND workers. I would put Berlin or even Paris ahead of London for the next decade if you're looking for an exciting soup of technology culture, opportunity, reasonable costs, and relative freedom to operate. I'm not being arbitrary in saying this - the company I co-founded, Spoonflower, runs its European operations out of Berlin.

That said, I loved London and still do - such a civilized place to visit. I was there just before Covid times, and was absolutely amazed by the changes to LHR immigration and Crossrail that allowed me to go from deplaning my transatlantic flight to my hotel in central London in 55 minutes. I can't wait for the city to re-open and Crossrail to be complete. There are few pleasures to equal a walk by the Thames on a long sunny day - perhaps summer 2021?
Thousands of Twitter accounts hacked to promote discord trading scam
https://twitter.com/search?q=discord.gg%20grt&src=typed_query&f=live

This sort of stuff has been going on for months. I have tried contacting twitter to tell them that there is a vulnerability or weakness that is allowing hackers to hijack twitter accounts with ease. Reporting the accounts does not nothing and too many of them. I suggested to twitter that there is a problem with rate limiting on twitter's end, which could be fixed by better rate-limiting or improved hashing of the passwords. This is not a hard problem to fix yet twitter seem to be unable to do anything about it. Obviously, someone is finding an easy way to hack into twitter accounts. Twitter does not see this as a problem even after the 2020 Twitter Hack.
Blizzard at some point publicly said that more than 60% of Starcraft 2 players never clicked on the "Multiplayer" button. This is why is has so much resources put into SP campaign with special units, recorded audio and cutscenes.

IMO this is why RTS genre really died out - the studios focused too much on eSport aspect and abandoned most of their paying customer base which wasn't interested in crazy clickathrons. Multiplayer games are very very loud, but they're not the ones paying most of the money.

When smaller studios tried to copy Starcraft 2, they usually cut down on singleplayer content and sales tanked with that.