skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, you get some benefits from installing black through docker rather than through the system package manager: is is completely isolated from the host and the only way to break black is to update it, changing anything in the host will not break your black install.

Why would a system package, packaged by experienced maintainers, randomly break?
Last time I was into SEO, the big "experts" seemed to agree that even nofollow links are useful for ranking. Now I'm not sure if it was just more bullshit (the industry is full of it), although it makes sense that with how widespread nofollow is these days, Google might have no choice but to take them into account. Otherwise they'd have to ignore like half the Web.
individual open source contributor = free work
Huge if true! Repl.it looks like a definite game changer, would like to see in 20 years where this startup would end up.

I would dare to go so far to say perhaps they are a new class of FAANG-like companies in this or the next decade.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...

"Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 %)"

So the effect was in this case 25x. HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006
Ask HN: Slackers in your company, what to do about them?
A slacker is someone who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic.

Is the only option searching for someone more fit to do the job to replace them?
DDC/CI monitor control on Linux (2019)
I was extremely happy when Keybase arrived, it seemed perfect for exchanging encrypted secrets with co-workers or clients.

But suddently they insisted I install a stupid chat client that wants to update every other day, and run on startup. I've stopped using it.
In a one-party system (e.g.: China), you can only vote for candidates from one party. CA is not a one-party system.

If you constantly criticize the state and their elected officials, or do something unpopular like pissing off 38% of the state population (Hispanics/Latinos), do not expect your party to achieve anything significant in this state.
David Silver is awesome! Loved him in the Alpha Go documentary as well
I don't get it, how does that answer the question about the economics of lifting fuel into orbit? Could you elaborate your point?
Probably not weeks, but a week for certain.
Was it new? Maybe it depreciates just real quick???
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken revolves around the fact that both pathways inevitably lead to the same end though:

>" Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"

>" I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Ironically, a close friend of Robert Frost joined the army and died in WW1, as a result of Frost's poem, believing he had to choose another path as well.

[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken]
> Here in Canada a good grade in academic-stream high school math was simply mandatory for admission to any BSc program

Perhaps that's why I've always found excellent engineers from Canada's flagship schools (U of British Columbia and U of Toronto) :p

More seriously though, I have an advanced degree in Math and seldom needed it for development work, even when I was working in more quantitative roles. And whenever I did need the knowledge I would just look up and learn again. Glad you're doing well without a traditional background.
> Streamers rely on their ability to self-commentate, but nobody can play an RTS while talking.

For Starcraft 2 there's replay commentary.

(I sometimes watch Lowko and WinterStarcraft. It's interesting how just watching pro players can unlock skills you wouldn't consider otherwise.)
^ this is a very good point. Someone else's mess, let me put it all together, in a nice pot plant.
I think there's a disconnection between tech people and other people. I know plenty of non tech people which are perfectly happy with pinterest, looking for cooking recipe or DIY ideas there and pinterest gives them perfectly what they're looking for. They don't care about it's impact on google search or other tech stuff.
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We have had this same issue. We are migrating from our old ably.io domain to our new domain ably.com. We've been contacting Facebook through public channels, and private channels (our network) for around 7 months, and we're hitting a brick wall. Facebook is touting how they are doing what they can to validate what people are publishing on their platform, yet they incorrectly classify our domain ably.com as "the content doesn't meet our Community Standards" yet won't reclassify, respond, or engage in any way to change that (see https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=ably.com). Like Alex from JitBit, Facebook truly is a tiny channel for us, but we have found it has a wider impact for us it stops people sharing links with the domain in it in other Facebook owned media too.

If anyone knows how on earth we can actually get Facebook to respond, I'd be hugely in your debt. This issue has blocked us for 6 months in migrating over our primary traffic from www.ably.io to ably.com.

Contact me at matt at ably.com
Same here, pity that many things I've learned through that jewel of a site have been rendered useless by the same very constant updates Fravia himself warned us against.
Cave Paintings and Sculptures
Going back to university in my thirties to pursue a CS degree. Although sometimes odd being the oldest, i kinda feel this is the best decision i’ve ever made.
At this rate we should make a fossil of deployments moto, where we claim there is nothing wrong with makefiles and bash scripts :)

like http://programming-motherfucker.com but against triple-buffered-virtualization.
No: it becomes just an added `WHERE id >= anchor` constraint, which with the usual indexes is cheap.
Only because every unit had to be fed individually :P
Multi Tenant Node-Red Using Kubernetes
What's the alternative to docker? And by that, I mean a solution that a team can reasonably use across Linux, Windows, and Mac. The simple reality is that, there is Docker and absolutely nothing else that comes close to working everywhere. Yes, it's not perfect but everything else is far less perfect. Static binaries are far too limited; most software requires lots of files spread all around the file system.

I did a project last year at a company that had dockerized their build, CI, and CD infrastructure. They had dozens of git projects with make files that triggered actions using docker. It was great. No need to install anything complicated; just works everywhere with just a minimum of scripts installed from a single internal repository. They did some nice hacks to work around some of the things mentioned in the article. Including using virtual box on macs to work around the filesystem limitations. This really becomes a show stopper for large complicated builds that are very io intensive.
I used to wonder about the different life paths I could have taken, or could take in the future, and it would make me very anxious. Anxious that I would "waste" my life, that I wouldn't seize the opportunity to make the absolute best of it, that I would fail the only thing that mattered in my existence.

I changed my perspective. In a way I now compare life to what it would have been to never have been born, and it's wonderful. I feel privileged and gifted to have been "given" (metaphorically for me, but it's up to one's beliefs) the chance to live, to experience the truly insane thing that it is to be a human being!
Sure, maybe I could've had more, but in a way it's like being upset because you sold your startup for 1 billion instead of 2 billion...
0 connects to localhost. It's shorter.
Melee units are effectively ranged units with a very short range. One of the most interesting aspects of games is how different ranges interact. Whether that's "melee range" or "slightly further than melee range" really shouldn't matter that much. Also, zerglings, zealots, ultralisks, dark templar and workers are melee in StarCraft 2.
Quotes like this have gotten a lot less comforting as I've aged. It all ends in darkness and black holes, and in the end not even those.

The best I've got these days is that I suspect none of it means anything. But I hope I'm wrong.
4) Nod and smile but disregard everything the CCP says.
This sounds interesting, as you mentioned it’s not that often that you need these skills but the times you do it’s incredibly difficult to know where to start without some theory. Also unsure why my original comment was downvoted, I did preface with saying it was my experience not a fact.
How to build tech products for a diverse user base
> There is one thing I've noticed about RTS: every player seems to think they are awful at the game.

Dota 2 is another game where I've noticed this trend.

> This actually keeps a lot of players from even trying online play.

True with Dota 2 as well, lots of people that only play locally with bots, or resort to just watching streamers and others play it, because they're tired of the feeling of "not being good enough" while playing.

The common factor, I think, is that in both cases there are a hundred things going on in parallel every second, a hundred ways you could be optimizing things, and crucially, you could list those things yourself if you were given time - but you never are, so every moment you're aware that you're doing something somewhere suboptimally. Mistakes don't feel like "Ah, interesting, I've learnt not to do that", instead it's "Of course I should have done this instead, it's obvious, I must be an idiot to not have done this" - even though in the moment you were getting a dozen other things right, and just didn't have the mental capacity to stretch to this additional thing.

So any skill growth in the game happens slowly by your mind learning to make many of the optimal decisions subconsciously, thus making things slowly more manageable. But that's not an easily visible, tangible change. And it still leaves you with twenty things you could be doing better, that are "obvious" in retrospect.
care to share details?
Democrats getting defeated in primaries from the left only results in Democrats being replaced by other Democrats. We would still have one party in charge of the state, with a veto-proof majority in the legislature.
I think that’s because there is no point where you can easily come back. Once you are behind defeat is often a foregone conclusion.

At least, in my games it generally comes down to a single battle.
History of PowerDNS: 2013-2020
That's alot of glue! I would say ~50%! What is the system cache? nm, see question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547796
> Even back in the heyday of RTS, everyone I knew played custom maps rather than the actual RTS. I'm pretty sure that crowd is all in Roblox or modded Minecraft these days.

Roblox does have a couple RTS games! They're not very good.

Feels like an RTS engine could lead to an explosion and, with cross-pollination with other common mechanics, create a couple new genres.
I still find it incredible to think about the thousands of years of civilization and written history that is behind us, living in the same spaces that we are now.

Not to even mention the hundreds of thousands of years of the first humans.
Pontifications on the idea that life is meaningless without death are a bit rich coming from members of a species which is still mortal.

Get back to me when it's choice not an inevitability and I bet we find much different answers.
why would any distro want a media blitz? whats their motivation?

rhel, ubuntu, I'd say they're pretty well known where they want or need to be.

but desktop distros???
For that flight the engines are even too powerful for the ascent (it wasn't fully fueled, I think) and as soon as they couldn't throttle any lower, an engine was turned off instead.
Similar situation here. If you don't mind me asking, what did you study and what's your current job?
What Is Google Lighthouse?
Now you can convert your favorite articles collection into clutter-free print-ready or a printed magazine using

https://pipecontent.com

Share your public collections, and receive a high-quality PDF or a printed-magazine.

No distractions, no ads - just a single-minded focus on reading. It’s how text was meant to be consumed.
The sad thing is that the misdeed is quickly forgotten. Some people may follow the "Hall of Shame" of dark patterns, but there's still no accountability or current status on which sites are still actively using the patterns.

If there was such an overview, people could actively check which companies to avoid, or who to contact and suggest them to change course.
The Spring Engine is still active: https://springrts.com/
Sorry but you're wrong. A vast majority of software ships after it has been built as a stand alone application as well as a Docker container so that it can be run in container environments.

A lot of CI systems natively support Docker because of the variety of tools and images you have available to run you CI steps in.

Docker is an excellent distribution tool because it only requires Docker.

You can send someone some python code and ask them to run it, only to find they're missing a bunch of C libs required to build and run the code which is a pain to help them figure out how to solve.

Docker solves many of these problems but has a drawback of being more 'bloated' than other distribution mechanisms. It doesn't make it a bad one though.
The problem is that you can only slim down linux so much. If the tiniest possible linux does not fit on your chip, then it simply does not fit, end of the story for linux in this case. However, there are tiny microkernels e.g. with less than 50.000 lines of C code that can fit on such a device + leave some room for a small application e.g. also smaller than 50.000 lines of C that also fits. This is all I want to say. And yes, I agree with all the other points/drawbacks including performance that people mention here.
The only reason I'd ever heard of Omegle is their ahem "bare bones" approach.
I would really like to know where the L1 caches are for proportions!
What amazes me more is when they got this huge discrepancy they didn't confirm it with qPCR, or contact the supplier who would likely point out the polysorbate.

You must really feel for AZ at this point, and wonder how much they want to partner with academic scientists at such a critical stage.
> In 1963 a LES killed someone

Which manned abort in 1963 is that specifically? Why are you trying to skew discussion into some direction?

Note: LES stands for Launch Escape System, usually a small solid rocket that activates in case of a failure during ascent to take the manned capsule away from exploding rocket under it, perhaps equivalent to airbags in a car.
I think author misses crucial point while using OFFSET. At least postgres doc has this to say (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/queries-limit.html)

When using LIMIT, it is important to use an ORDER BY clause that constrains the result rows into a unique order. Otherwise you will get an unpredictable subset of the query's rows. You might be asking for the tenth through twentieth rows, but tenth through twentieth in what ordering? The ordering is unknown, unless you specified ORDER BY.

And looks like pagination queries provided by author do not take sorting in to account, which means that items on page 100 will be with id greater than 10000, but in undefined order.

explain analyze select id from product where id > 10000 limit 100
I agree that more money probably means more backroom deals. This seems simple to me: One party wants to regulate, the other de-regulate. Which of those platforms attracts the most money?
From what I've seen in California elections, as a California voter for the last 7 years:

- Republicans running for Congress (Senate and House of Reps) tend to be aligned with the national party platform, and therefore sound super out of touch to me. For this reason, I doubt we'll see a Republican Senator from California anytime soon.
- Republicans running for state positions tend to be more moderate, and sound a lot more palatable as a result. Doubly so for the less political positions like state auditor and treasurer, which are not about making policy as much as just making sure we use the state's resources appropriately. At least, for the candidates I see on my ballot in San Francisco.
Ask HN: Best Chess Resources?
Apps, books, videos, communities etc.
Ah, I assumed from the topic, term and discussion that this would be implemented via sql cursors. Apparently elastic search has a similar concept - but like sql cursors it cannot be stateless (because you cannot ask for Nth to Mth result of searching the collection as of state Z -if you don't want to capture/supply state Z).

This means any stateless pagination api is fundamentally broken. Please don't make promises you cannot keep.

For elastic:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
You might find Cycle Plots [1, 2] useful.

[1]: https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/topics/cycle-plot-climate-dat...

[2]: https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/guests/intro_to_cycl...
You gave your A and B options poor sync ratings, but I would rate them 'best', because personal filesystem sync now has many reliable options (nextcloud, syncthing, resilio). I've been using those for close to a decade now and I am absolutely satisfied with its reliability compared to Dropbox which I used before. I do not like involving commercial parties in my sync or setting up/using 3rd party-specific sync, which means my workflow which I plan to be using for a significant part of my life my change at a moments notice due to api changes, cost changes and companies going belly up. The great thing with tools that store data in a filesystem is that I don't have to!
They shared enough details about their research to reproduce it. Have they ever promised anything more than that?
Is that an attempt at a counter argument?

Burden of proof is on you if you want to make a claim like that.
Roblox/Minecraft have the advantage of networking/infrastructure being dead simple/free.
Minor correction, the groups were "full full" and "half full" (for optimists).
Yeah, or just add gold or silver to the starting hand of the weak player.
Totally agree that Docker is made for deploying to servers. But the disk space critique doesn’t hit for me. Even very nice SSD’s are cheap enough that 500 MB is negligible. My internet connection also makes downloading a large docker image no bigger of a deal than downloading Chrome, YMMV.

I think the necessity of a VM when using Docker on Mac and Windows is the primary reason that running your “normal” apps in a container isn’t the right move.
> and every election Californians keep electing Democrats.

So some democrat can make it his core issue to stop corruption and the people can vote for him/her.
https://www.socialcooling.com/

https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

https://www.wired.com/story/why-dont-we-just-ban-targeted-ad...
Oh, no, just a coincidence.

The Laundry series is very good!
Why not give the mRNA vaccines to everyone?
Not so: almost every constituency was split [0], it’s just that Scotland as a region was more Remain than Leave.

I agree the UK is more fragile as a result, which is part of why I have moved to Berlin.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Un...
"offset" can be passed transparently to db to retrieve a range of records while "cursor" is customarily implemented in the API layer. I think that's what "opaque" meant in GP's context.

A starting read is needed to obtain the first cursor, hence the synchronous read.
I would have punched a kid at 16 and kissed Cassandra at 19.
That's about it -- many years later, I'm happy with a family today :)
Yep, the reality is that we all rely on hundreds of millions of lines of code of software (mostly OSS) that make up our OS, tool chains, libraries, etc. every day. Basically, it's not feasible to even review a meaningful fraction of a percent of that in a lifetime; assuming you even have the skill level to do such a review. In other words, mostly you are blindly trusting other people to have signed off on something and that those people who you don't know personally did a good job of that.
No, not yet. But we might go that way in the future for windows software on azure, much along the lines of:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/moderni...
Part of the problem is that there is so much to do that you tend to let the AI do almost all of it, and then get incredibly frustrated when it sends your key resource gathering units through known dangerous territory.

To really do this kind of gameplay well, you'd need to have the ability to task military units to guard supply train units, and for them to have the kind of intelligence / user interface that doesn't just have them defenselessly wandering around an opponents base.

It's been interesting to read the https://acoup.blog/ take on the importance of supply chains and logistics in warfare, and how to organise a properly defended supply chain. I agree that it's an area that could be addressed interestingly, but it'd be a game made out of the bits that other games deliberately abstracted away because they were hard to do well, so I think it'd be a real challenge. Even fiction tends to abstract away from the details of these things because it's so hard to make interesting.
On its surface, I don't mind basic ad targeting. You're right, I'm a 38-year old male with two small daughters. I'd rather see ads for things that market towards 38 year old men and 3 year old girls over random ads for products marketed towards other demographics.

Privacy concerns aside (only because other people here will articulate them better), one of my big issues with targeted advertising is that it sucks at its job. I don't see ads for things I want. I see ads for things I researched once and then decided against. I see ads for things I purchased a month ago.

Targeted ads as described above almost sounds like a service for me: here's some curated things you might be interested in. But that's not what targeted ads actually do, and consumers are not meant to benefit from them.
California does have some less-common voting systems in play - on my San Francisco ballots, the two interesting things I've seen:

- IRV is commonly used for local positions
- Other positions seem to use a system where all the political parties have the same primary, and then only the top two candidates are on the ballot for the general election. Wikipedia describes it well:

> Under California's non-partisan blanket primary law, all candidates appear on the same ballot, regardless of party. In the primary, voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. In the California system, the top two finishers—regardless of party—advance to the general election in November, even if a candidate receives a majority of the votes cast in the primary election. Washington and Louisiana have similar "jungle primary" style processes for U.S. Senate elections, as does Mississippi for U.S. Senate special elections.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_Senate_elec...

Every senate election I can recall in California has been Democrat v Democrat by the general election.
Show HN: Observable State Tree
This is a very good illustration on how that claim that "the FDA is taking to long, you could run the efficiency trial data in a couple of hours" is exaggerated

Approving a vaccine goes way beyond running numbers and in the end a process that's pretty much opaque to us is full of gotchas and thorny details