skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best site to play on: https://lichess.org/, free and with really nice features to study and learn. It is not-for-profit, funded by donations and has the best UI and feature-set, without the annoying popups trying to sell you some premium features.

Specifically, lichess has a very good tactics puzzle section. It also lets you review your games with an engine afterwards. If you solve tactics puzzles, play games and review mistakes this will help a lot to improve at early stages, I would actually recommend against trying to learn specific opening theory too much at the beginning.

If you want to watch Youtube for fun, here are some nice channels:

Agamator does clear explanations of elite games. He has famous 'captures, captures, captures' statement when there is a long line of captures.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AGADMATOR

Hikaru Nakaumura is one of the top 10 players in the world at classical, and blitz chess. He streams games played against other elite players, fun games he plays against fans and lessons he gives to famous Youtubers. These are all fun to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweCc7bSMX5J4jEH7HFImng

Chess-explained is a German international master who is very keen on studying openings. If you watch his videos you will get some interesting insights into chess theory. His 'D4 repetiore' series was helpful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Chessexplained/videos
5G conspiracy-theorist suicide bombing is now the strong likelihood, due to the demographics of the primary suspect and the use of an RV. Boomer independent sole-proprietor businessmen such as this electrician / internet IT guy trend heavily right-wing. His social isolation is evidenced by the gift of houses to an unaware single mom.

When the MSM loses credibility, people such as the bomber are set adrift to seek truth in hostile seas swarming with clickbait. Success in small business does not translate to epistemological accuracy. His failure to obtain a family to sublimate his death drive is a sign of societal breakdown. When sufficient numbers of combat-capable men fail to reproduce, they initiate violence, regardless of the proximate trigger. He reminds me of a less-intelligent, less-alienated Unabomber.

Given those facts, I'm comfortable deprecating the much weaker Dominion-AT&T angle.
I’m sorry but the whole points of RTS is competition. It’s like complaining that we’re talking about tweaks to make chess more competitive.
The targetting doesn't seem to work. I get bombarded with car ads. I don't drive. I'm never going to drive. I don't own a car. I'm never going to own a car. I have no interest in cars (other than my general anti-car views). I think most (but not all) car use is dumb and the ads don't persuade me otherwise.

Or I'm bombarded with ads for something I've already bought. You bought a rug? Here are 300 ads for other different rugs.

Sometimes the ad placement is terrible. I work in patient safety in English NHS mental health settings. This means I'm frequently searching using the word "suicide". One time I was searching a newspaper website to try to find a report they'd done. Here's the ad that was placed: https://imgur.com/hhOYUJb

But then as well as that I'm also worried about the privacy implications. People share computers and people share accounts, and the ad network has no way of knowing who's looking at the screen at any time.
Yep, I've also seen several corporates deploying Windows containers to production. As more "traditional" windows focused companies move to containerization/cloud, there's an increasing use of Windows containers, either as part of a Lift & Shift effort to migrate workloads, or because their developers are more comfortable with Windows and so they target that platform.
From a 42 y.o. with 34 y.o. spouse who are undergoing IVF: the drop-off of fertility after 35 is still very real.

There may be future interventions that correct for that, but generally, quality of ova starts declining after 30 and much more so after 35.
Ask HN: What would you do with a year off?
I've been working in software development for 12 years now, I'm making good money and my work is valued in the company, but nevertheless I feel burned out and have the feeling that I'm not developing myself anymore, work eats up all my attention etc.

I'm considering just quitting, taking a year "for myself" and then get back to work. What would you do with the year? Travel? Learn new stuff from a bucket list?
Do you have any documentation (or blogs) on a higher level that you would recommend? I too have been using Docker for a while, and recently also for certain programs on my desktop (mainly firefox, github cli, azure cli, aws cli, terraform).

I like to think I am somewhat proficient in using Docker correctly by now, but I am still discovering new tidbits of practical knowledge, tips and good practices every few weeks. And I always want more. :)
The plan, at least as originally described is to have (at least) three variants of Starship: One for passengers, one for bulk cargo, and a tanker.

Each would be launched atop the common Super Heavy booster.

Depending on the trip, a passenger Starship would do an on-orbit refuelling from the tanker variant.
I always felt like it was like playing Go. Very stressful.
The Philippines for one, according to my brother whose wife is from the Philippines and who moved to the U.K. with a nursing qualification.
One way is to set realistic objectives that they have to achieve by a deadline. If they haven't met them you can have a performance review with them. If they constantly are meeting them then they are not slacking. If they are missing them then you have a strong case to fire them.

It is also helpful to get their feedback on why they seem to be not interested in work. Maybe it does not interest them.
Hi. Sorry, this is a total non sequitur, but I was trawling my comment history and saw your reply to my comment. HN doesn't let me respond to a 60 day old comment, so... here I am, I found you somewhere else! You mentioned "infinte pan zoom graph based window manager" as part of your response. Thanks, I think you totally got what I meant.

I agree that it's essentially an OS scale problem to solve and I'd be chipping away at it endlessly (and that's if I have my way!). But I do believe the AR revolution is coming and it will wash over us like a tsunami and make the recent smartphone revolution look like a fad. I think we don't already have this kind of software yet because endless 3D graph-connected space is potentially clunky to explore on tablet/display.

It's already a foregone conclusion to me that this barrier will be obliterated by XR and it will be deeply intuitive and liberating to move beyond 2D interfaces. We actually must move beyond 2D interfaces in order to even reasonably support visual cues of dynamic relations. Only when your structures are represented as nodes in a shared context can you allow users to manipulate relationships between arbitrary things.
It can actually land. The Saturn V cost absurd amounts of money and used gigantic amounts of army of people.The Starship program also wants to solve many problem that the Saturn V or even Apollo didn't.
Which is great, looking forward to have less Electron fat on my computer.
> Java is another dominant language that you might not use for a new project. Same with C

I would very much consider using Java for a new project, same with C(1) if the project is in "real time" (I think that C++ hides too much things under the rug which can create latency issue).

1: Zig isn't ready yet to be a replacement
Show HN: Readsql – convert SQL to most human readable format
Let's try to list a few here.

"Disguised Ads": Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram use this to make them look like the normal feed.
"Hidden Costs" & "Sneak into Basket": Services for booking flights use this by adding by default insurance, donations, CO2 neutral costs.
"Roach Motel": Most telecom companies are known to use this to keep you from being able to quit that contract, making the customer service hard to reach or asking you to go through a complex procedure to end your contract.
"Misdirection": E-commerce platforms offering you xx% discount by increasing the original value of the low-grade product.
"Price Comparison Prevention": I find it hard on amazon to search for a product sorted by "Lowest price first" because the search query just throws irrelevent and extremely cheap products. The only solution is to "sort by best" which keeps you from looking at cheaper and sometimes better options.

The futility of holding these platforms accountable is that users have no option if every major player in the market is using these strategies. Though this eventually allows novel platforms and services to emerge that focus on making users free from exactly these common fallacies of the major players. Eg. open source services that are ad-free.
It's by far the most popular method of malicious payload execution for these kinds of attacks.

It's easy to write, definitely executed (if not for the settings suggested by the blog posts), doesn't depend on the usage of the library by the victim, and you don't really need to know anything about the setup the victim has.

You are right in that it's not the patch that fixes the entire problem, but that is rarely the case in security.

Source: earlier this year i analysed every package dependency compromise between 2006-2017.

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2020-01-timeline-of-packag...

You can see that the most common method for npm, Rubygems and pypi is something like "Method: executed by install hook"
Looks like fun but perhaps more for the adults than the kids :-)
Could you share a little more of your story?
While true, the French customs authorities caused a similar but shorter one a month ago just by running a live test of the post-Brexit customs checks: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/24/trial-of-br...
I guess I'm using strict uBlock rules so streams don't load at all
That is a good problem to have. I admit this is a chasm where cash goes to die.

The interesting part is where content creators, personalities, etc own their own rails. They don't need a massive audience to run their own show. Even if I only push 10-20 TB / month that is enough to make a lifestyle "+" business.

That is my hypothesis, and 2021 looks like a good time to test it.

(Edit - I can't grammar, apparently)
In particular: thanks!
I think we're a similar age. Based on this comment I wish I had half the wisdom that you do.

> My twenties were filled with stress, frustration, confusion, and at times anger.

Similar for me, but like you, I'm a different (I think better) person as a result, so it's difficult to wish I'd had an easier time.

> ...climb a ladder without a degree thanks in much part to people who saw in me what I could only hoped to have seen in myself.

I will be forever grateful to the people I had in my life that did this for me too. I've been exceptionally lucky in this respect.

> Here I am considering selling all my belongings, buying a truck and an RV to go embrace the new open road that is remote work.

This sounds awesome. Good luck!!
> I mean, the current monster of the genre - SC2 - can trace many of its gameplay mechanics and units back to a game that came out in 1994, which was of course primarily designed for single-player gaming.

Couldn't the same be roughly said for FPS+wolf3d/doom/quake? or RPG/Zelda/Tomb Raider/whatever ?
In Mindustry[1] you need to create conveyors and other transport methods to take ammunition to turrets. During late game you also need to power structures by generating electricity and taking it with wires to the structures that require it.

[1] https://mindustrygame.github.io
Agreed, it does exist - but that model you speak of is £849 for me - that is not an accessible price.

An iPad pro that is the same size is only £100 more for me, but then thats not what I am after.

As ePaper and eInk has been around for a while now, I would expect that much like TVs the price per inch drops over time but it seems fixed at that 7" mark then the price rockets.

I get that a larger format eReader is a smaller market than the standard book, but I don't get how I can get 10 kindles (or similar) for the same price as that Sony one just because of size. If someone can enlighten me why I'd be grateful, if after a certain point the screens get harder to manufacture maybe?
Do you have a source? My googling only found references to a full-dose US trial, and speculation that an additional half-dose trial would have to be paid by AZ themselves with no govt funding.
Just posting a link to a documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y
It goes back to the way we were doing in the older days focusing on platforms, each with its own set of features that made them unique, while triggering discussions on the school's playground which one of them was the best, no big deal.
Power to the People: Reducing Datacenter Carbon Footprints
Volbx – Qt-based spreadsheet app for data manipulation
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I stoped paying attention when those fundamentalist started buying Apple hardware to develop GNU/Linux software.
I definitely want to reply you, I'm just a little occurred right now.
We all know that his doesn't work in practice. Somebody will "urgently" need another dependency and build a new base image with this dependency inside. Or a security patch comes out and half of the developers update while the rest doesn't. Do this 4 or 5 times and you'll have the exact same fragmentation.
Why are you sure of it? Regulation often gives more backroom deal type of corruption and monopolies, deregulation on the other hand can give more anarchy. I don't think simple view of having one, regulation or deregulation, and itsa good thing is very intelligent thought.
> I have a hard time believing that a computer scientist or engineer from a top school will not have an easier time gaining admittance into software engineering than someone not.

I think you both may be right. I would imagine that the formal education makes it a bit easier to "get your foot in the door" in the first place, when you're competing "on paper" with others. But once you are in the industry, performance and track record counts for a lot more.

In other words the degree probably does make it easier. But it might be only 20% easier and perhaps not 80-90% as some might assume.

Depends on your chosen specialisation too of course. I managed to pick a career in just the right area of software development where I could get away with having had a pitiful amount of education :-)
We've even used cursors to migrate implementations; in our case, we were migrating from solr5 to solr7. When you started a session, you were allocated to solr5 or solr7 according to the business rules in effect; the solr7 cursors were prefixed with solr7-, so that in subsequent requests we could send you to the same major version. It could work the same way with load balancing too I guess.
I have a similar life, though without the part of a broken home at childhood (parents fought but not out of ordinary I think). It's really hard not being able to visit family often, at most once a year (if you're lucky and if there's no pandemics stopping you!).

The hardest part for me is that my wife doesn't like my family, so she refuses to visit them... as half the family lives in one country and half in another, and we're in yet another country, it's almost impossible for us to unite the whole family. My parents never met hers... and I only met my brother's youngest child when she was already 5. Last time I went to visit my parents I went alone... and again last time I went to visit my brother (who lives on the other side of the planet from my parents - I live almost in the middle). Sometimes I wish I hadn't started the wave of moving to some other country (which my sister, then my brother followed years later)... as they moved to the country I'd been in, I had already moved again to another country because of my wife. Now I am finally planning to have kids (quite late but still time) I wonder how we're going to manage without any family nearby... and how my parents will feel when we never come to visit... that's if I convince the wife to get a kid, we're running out of time quickly and she doesn't seem at all bothered by it.

I'm in a position I must make a decision: perhaps go back to my country and get a new wife there (even though I would hate to go through a divorce) close to at least some of my family... or just let the time pass by and wait for the inevitable, letting old age arrive and die without a family on a strange country. How can I know what to do?! Leaving this great country where I am will probably be the biggest mistake I will ever make (I have a good job, great house and extreme social security here - none of which I would have in my own country), but staying here will likely lead to a meaningless, though comfortable life. What would you do?
> There's plenty of space rocks near Earth, that could be nudged into Earth orbit

As a lay person, this sounds kind of dangerous - wouldn't there be a risk of the rock hurtling towards earth and causing a huge impact?
You're not delusional
Personally, I'd like to see regulation being imposed on this.

I'm an engineer with an IT background, and I can confidently say that most (if not all) of my friends who do not come from the same background have no idea what dark patterns are. Some might have that natural skepticism that when they see a dark pattern, they recognize it without even knowing. But I would argue that most people still don't, especially the older generations.

False advertising is already a crime. We should also extend this to dark patterns. It would
(i) clean up UIs from the incredibly annoying popups and 'urgency-invoking' messages,
(ii) protect consumers from making irrational decisions and,
(iii) force companies to put resources into growing the business legitimately and organically, rather than putting resources into shady practices
How can creators monetize their shows without Google’s ad ecosystem?
ask any astronomer what they could do with extra $150M per launch and watch them salivate. also, this thing could lift JWST pretty much without that complex unfolding mechanism. genuinely exciting.
Podman and LXD have far more secure defaults. It's a terrifying to see that Docker is still around.
jail(8) from FreeBSD seems to be the best (from security standpoint), it's also the first container system.
The quote makes more sense if you take a look at the life of its author, Sylvia Plath. [1]

She struggled with mental health issues and depression most of her life. She excelled academically and she was driven to write, but at the same time, she struggled with her own self. Her life is marked by several suicide attempts.

She married the poet Ted Hughes and moved around frequently during their short marriage. While she was ambitious, a deep sense of anxiety kept her from exploring and expressing her own identity through her writing.

Most of her poetry was written during a short burst of creativity, over the course of a few months, in late 1962. She died of suicide in 1963. Her famous novel, The Bell Jar, was published a month before her death. Major themes in this novel include "socially acceptable identity" and mental health. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar

Your criticism is a certainly correct, but would have been removed to the author of the quote. As Plath received treatment and openly discussed her mental health issues, undoubtedly she was told this many times over.
You might try picking some of the figs that are at ground level and see how they taste, if good, generalize to the whole tree and decide if it’s worth the climb.

You might find someone climbing the tree and ask them if they could tell you how they taste up top.

Sitting in the crotch of the tree lamenting your situation is a fig too. We all bite into a sour one every now and again.
Well, we actually have a large amount of companies trying to do it. Like 40-60 different companies. Not to mention government projects.

Of all of those, only RocketLab has managed to do it, and their rocket is basically as tiny as you can build a orbital rocket.

SpaceX did an orbital rocket bigger then RocketLab in 2008. RocketLab doesn't yet have real competition, despite many billions invested.

SpaceX at the same time went from the tiny Falcon 1 to a gigantic Starship program more ambitious then Saturn V and Apollo.

I think we do our self a dissevers by just saying 'well, we have computers now so its easy'. Given how many people have tried and how many have failed or taken many, many years longer then they thought, it is clearly not easy at all.

And mass producing them reliably is even harder.

SpaceX and Elon Musk are clearly special and unique. Something we have never seen before.
There may be some new ideas here, but the basic idea behind this is anything but new... things like this have been around as long as personal computers and are often called PIM for "personal information management". I'm not saying this to detract from this particular software but to help categorize it... no need to invent a new acronym.

There is a lot of overlap in this category with the note-taking apps (Notion, Roam, zettelkasten) which have also seen a lot of activity recently... you can think of both of those categories as existing on a two-dimensional continuum of structured vs free-form and statically structured vs dynamically structured data; the OPs app is near the statically structured corner of this space, and "just a bunch of text files" in the dynamic free-form corner. The other two corners may be defined by more dynamically structured note-taking/outlining apps and on the static free-form side we might have things like "private data clouds" (Nextcloud for Open Source).
> a non-rocket based launch system

Do we have any feasible non-rocket options to do on Earth, though? Air-breathing first stage is all I can think of (but it's essentially still a rocket). Skyhooks and space elevators will have to wait for advances in materials science and will require orbital manufacturing capabilities. Launch loops seem to be too complicated either. Mini launch loops / big guns / other constructs that provide all kinetic energy at ground level won't work because of atmosphere density, and even if you had magic materials that'd survive hypersonic shocks and G forces, it'd still be a ridiculous waste of energy compared to rockets.

At this point I think we don't need anyone surpassing SpaceX, we just need more people copying them. In of itself, it'll drive launch costs further down.
Growing up I remember playing a lot of AoE and AoE2 with my school friends online, over dialup connections.

I was never into any competitive scene, we were all probably very bad at the game but it was fun. The enjoyment came from the building, designing your base, and then the wars to defend or attack your opponents.

This was back in the early 2000s, I've never played an RTS game since.
People who bring this up seem to miss that there is likely no practical way out of the Venus clouds. You'd be stuck until some next generation rocket tech comes along.

Remember Venus has about 91% of earth mass, so a significant rocket would be needed to get into orbit. Maybe Starship could be a capable single stage LVO transporter, but I have difficulty seeing it floating in the clouds, fully topped up, tethered to a balloon.
I am quite excited to hear someone having almost identical views as I do, also being a software engineer (almost) in my mid 30s.

As you also indicated I genuinely struggle to find people with similar frequencies and views.