skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public hangings, an event where you could go and watch someone be drug out into the town square and hung from the neck until they were dead, used to be an event people would gather to see.

People used to fill bags with cats, dose the bag in oil, and then light the bag on fire for the joy of watching the cats die from the fire.

During combat sports you are watching two fully grown people destroy their brains and their bodies for your enjoyment. People regularly died from these sports.

Video games have no stakes. Even children understand this. Clicking on a pixelated simulation of a nondescript soldier who always comes back for the next round is Disney cartoons compared to what people used to get up to.
I think there are enough ways to make friends and meet people that a general friend-making app just isn't a big enough need on its own.
"How can we be sure that our radar sensor does not trigger an unintentional break due to a plastic bag blowing in the wind? We collect 10000h of real world driving evidence."

10,000 hours of real world driving data is probably several orders of magnitude too little? Would that really give you confidence that a system can handle a plastic bag blowing in the wind?

I would have thought that this specific scenario would also depend more on factors such as: likelihood of the object being a person or animal vs inanimate, estimated cost of impact to the object and car, and secondary consequences of a rapid deceleration of the car.
Biden's CTO should tackle current challenges, according to experts ($)
Germany: 'Colossal' cyberattack knocks out Funke news group
I just found an example: addressing conflicts in a group setting vs 1-1. When confronting 1-1 they can manipulate you with anger, however with a neutral third-party they must spend more energy to manipulate multiple parties and anger instantly minimizes their position.
You don't need to be signed-in to track someone with a cookie and provide targeted search results.
That's fine, but tell me where I can buy an ethically sourced phone? I develop for iOS, Android and Desktop systems. Each of these devices have thousands of components from different vendors that I have to support. The parent article is talking about some glass.
Wouldn’t have worked simply in our case. We put together a proxy server and were going to run it on a box with the /etc/hosts hack, then point our CDN at that. Got it all written up in Go, and then Wasabi came back online.
> I have a big red flag that goes against what this post claims... You do NOT want to START a course/topic by predisposing students negatively.

How is this going against what the post claims? It sounds like you are in violent agreement.

> As authors, we could try to head this off with "OK, this technology has a ton of problems... in fact, it's pretty bad, but here we go, let's learn it!" That sets the learner up for demotivation from the start... It's better to describe the good parts, then tell the learner that, unfortunately, ...
Southwest's service is pretty thin in some places. Highly likely you won't get a flight the same day if you cancel to avoid the 737-HCF. Then, you have to explain to Great Aunt Greta why you won't be at Thanksgiving.

Better just to avoid Southwest.
I think there's a risk here but I'm not sure it goes as far as you suggest. There are still plenty of entities, particularly larger ones, that buy their own metal because at some scales it becomes far cheaper to run in a COLO (at least acc to near monthly articles posted on HN). I'd therefore put the risk that only big vendors will be able to buy hardware as low. That said, as ARM or custom chips gain market share within cloud providers, there's a risk that x86 or standard suppliers will struggle, but AMD/Intel see this too and surely one or both will adapt.

On skills I think there's a small risk of people not knowing how to manage/set up their own racks, but doing a passable job there isn't that hard. On general sys-admin stuff, cloud infrastructure seems to have parallels to hardware infrastructure, so it shouldn't be completely unfamiliar to set up a hardware router/network/linux server. There are definitely skills and details missing (remote admin tools for hardware maybe), but this doesn't seem like a big gap to bridge if $$$ is on the line?
Ok, omega * R is what I referred to as tangential velocity, you’re right.

I don’t know if that’s a useful way to look at it, though. It’s like saying “if I just made my car tires a mile in diameter, geez, I could be so much faster!”
> What I don’t understand is why companies want to be associated with these suppliers. Honestly the cost difference can’t be that big.

because ultimately the great majority of their customers do not care, as simple as that. They might care about local issues, wedge issues, but ethical and moral concerns in another country? not so much. Big luxury brands such as Apple pour billions in PR and marketing because they live or die by the reputation. The day their customers start caring more about it, things might change.

I just want to add, that I'm no way trying to diminish Apple's achievements when it comes to technology, product integration and creating remarkable ecosystems. I cannot think of another manufacturer that nailed that much in so little time. I think that Apple Silicon is game changer. But yes, they are a luxury brand.
The Brady Bunch justified it though. Mike Brady wasn't working class, but a wealthy successful architect, so it wasn't that surprising that the family could afford those things.
What towns has this occurred in?
As an anti-capitalist, does it give you pause for thought that the Campaign for Accountability, which is behind this report, was co-founded by Louis Mayberg, the principal in a large investment management company.
Netscape 3 is a great browser, and I still test and support my websites with it. Fast layout engine, basic JS support, no support for annoying bs like notifications.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/The-McKenz...

- it's not exactly in Springfield

+ it's new construction

- it's just under 2000sf

+ at $165k it's probably a lower payment than a mortgage on $100k in the 90s
Did you mean to say "It's not that inequality isn't a problem"?
Worth checking out Clyde Mandelin who used google translate on the Japanese version of Final Fantasy IV and documented the silly results.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/funky-fantasy-iv/
Tesla reaches five-year lithium deal with a Chinese supplier
The CFM 56 on the 737 (NG or Classic) also has a flat bottom. E.g., [1] shows a 737-800 with an engine with a flat bottom, and [2] shows a 737-300 with an engine with a flat bottom.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CFM_56_Lauda_737.jpg
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Classic_Colors_South...
But increasing the radius would absolutely increase the drag.
So because developers managed to kneecap an effective policy by putting all kinds of expensive and difficult requirements on it, you think it's bad?
Forced Labor is considered a "Crime Against Humanity" and participants can be taken to a Court of International Law.

If Apple is a willing participant, I would imagine they could be dragged in front of the Hague.
I rarely play videogames, but when I do, I usually play FPSs. I think that a small dose of virtual violence could help in discharging your stress/anger.
From the first two paragraphs of the article:

"The federal government on Tuesday issued new dietary guidelines that keep current allowances for sugar and alcohol consumption unchanged, rejecting recommendations by its scientific advisory committee to make significant cuts.

The scientific committee, which was composed of 20 academics and doctors, had recommended cutting the limit for added sugars in the diet to 6% of daily calories from 10% in the current guidelines, citing rising rates of obesity and the link between obesity and health problems like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer."
I suspect this is the key. The RAD tools made application developers more productive, but they came with a downside. If the tool became popular, the vendor lock-in kicked in and it became expensive or the company maintaining it stopped doing a proper job of supporting of it.

Therefore, in the 90s, people became tired of this and looked for ways out of the vendor lock-in. That's why OSS started to get traction, and also Java. It turned out that it is cheaper to develop your business app in Java from scratch, rather than in a commercial RAD tool and then pay up your nose to a disinterested company for maintaining the base on which it stands.

So I think OSS is actually less productive and less polished than it could be (many of the RAD tools are actually really cool, but insanely expensive), but it is still case of worse is better.

I think it's possible that some business DSLs (which are at the core of the RAD tools) will win mindshare again, but it is going to be quite difficult.

(I work in mainframes and there is quite a bit of RAD tools that were pretty good in the 80s, when mainframe was a goto choice for large business apps.)
Drawing inspiration from stale-while-revalidate
Having lived in Houston in recent years, there is absolutely no way the median single family house price is $141k. Having personally done house shopping in Houston, the absolute cheapest houses available were about $140k and you had to drive 30-45 minutes out of downtown to get there. The source for the $141k figure is a linked PDF that is no longer available.

Additionally, Houston is huge in terms of landmass. Look at housing prices for the vast majority of the people who actually commute to the Houston city center and it'd be massively higher. A Simpsons style house and yard that's "in the loop" could easily be a million dollars in Houston. I know people with smaller houses and smaller yards whose homes are nearly a million.
Gibraltar's border not included in Brexit deal
Yeah. After a game of pew pew you simply don't feel like getting up and out to f__k s__t up. If you play to your satisfaction you just feel like doing something entirely different for a while.

With possible exception of multiplayer games that you loose too much. Those things can enrage you.
'I think all information should be free. Except anything that could be damaging to CIA, NSA, US government. And only approved actors can release this information. Because uhhh, democracy.' Okay bud.
I created Changeit climate change app
https://youtu.be/FVYoWsxqK8g?t=36

This is unix! I know this!
I speculate that this logo is mostly used for "cheap crap" where they stamp any random logo you want.

Also if you sell the "cheap crap" to some country outside of EU, you can still slap the nice CE logo there.

And since when shady Chinese companies care about copyrights anyway.
A Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) "blev-ee" is what I'd be worried about. Not for an explosion causing damage via shrapnel but from the radiant heat which can scorch things a kilometre away.

Here is a PDF with seems to have the longest url I've ever seen:
https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/278653/1-s2.0-S187770581...
I think upwork.com might help you there ;) Don't get me wrong, I'm all for positions to be advertised as dollars / minute tbh
> I think they exist, but they don't appeal to younger people.

For the tech and maker types, a hackerspace/makerspace might be more appropriate.
Use the phone's web browser, open eBay and buy a laptop
That's why we have the definition of "modern slavery".

It could be interesting would journalists on the Gruniad have to give up using macs then.

"We rely on our suppliers sharing our values and complying with all laws at all times. We expect our business partners to treat people with dignity and respect and not to engage in practices associated with forced labor, even if not illegal in their location"
Google’s New Detailed Street Maps vs. Apple’s New Map
Where I live in the US, being a teetotaler is weirder than be a black Jewish, Chinese person. The latter can be understood and interesting to many. The former means "you're not with it and you must be an asshole."
> Just a thought: maybe they are scanning cities for their self-driving cars and are also using this data for Maps?

This is extremely likely. We know that Street View cars have been carrying Lidar equipment for a few years now which aids in HD mapping. It makes total sense for them to re-use this data for their self driving cars.
Pizza == Vegetable

This has been a running joke / outrage in our house.
They miss the main problem: tooling.

DSLs are nice, but you need to integrate them into a development workflow which means strong IDE support and build systems. Auto complete, testing, backward compatibility, etc.

If I normally have code in my IDE, where I right click on a test and choose run, everything is done for me, no fuss.

If I integrate a DSL, things stop working as normal. Unless it's a widely supported DSL, such as regular expressions.
> But after taking into account all of my expenses, my adjusted gross income was only $19.

That's not what adjusted gross income means. How much would anyone like to bet that the author's Form 1040 line 8b or Form 1040-NR line 35 shows an adjusted gross income figure substantially higher than $19?
as well:

https://www.lume-pad.com/

https://lookingglassfactory.com/
Yeah, movement speed is also perceptively slower in a game for some reason and realistic speeds are boring so most FPSs have the player running at car speeds. These tweaks will always be there to "fix" our limitations in reality. Teleporting is another example where nobody is really interested in traveling distances like IRL.
That's a true but questionable statement, because of how beds availability is handled by hospitals (at least here in the UK).

A relative of mine is a doctor and beds occupancy is often high in this season: this is because hospitals try to work at capacity and extra beds can be converted into ICU beds when needed.

This is how the NHS managed to survive the peak back in March (and how it will probably survive this peak which seems to have similar numbers).

I'm sure saying it doesn't make for a very compelling headline though.

Meanwhile people with more serious diseases (eg cancer) are postponing going to the hospital and dying.

I also consider the lack of scaling capabilities of our public sector to be a shame and I think we should put the private (which was heavily affected by job loss caused by the lockdowns) sector to work on it (converting privately owned businesses into it, speed training people to deal with the illness - we had almost a year to prepare).

But I don't see our society being agile enough to handle it in time from a regulatory point of view.
That's burying the lede--which is the families lived the middle class lifestyle because they were hardworking, and responsible.

One point I want to emphasize "responsible" in his example really just means not making a single mistake, ever.
For people not institutionalized with a jailer or nurse in close proximity there is no "external help" that has a useful SLA if you unexpectedly find yourself in a situation where bodily harm is imminent. You either need to prevent the situation from happening yourself or deal with it yourself.
I'm biased because I play it, but AOE2 DE is probably the best the game has been since its original heyday. My friends and I do play ladder, but more often than not we do skirmishes amongst ourselves or AI games.

Worth a try for the nostalgia. I think the eye candy and new civ variety alone can justify it.
>More expensive than roof+solar?

Comparable, but that's not the right comparison. It's between a roof and buying your power from the power company and roof+solar. The first is way cheaper.

If we want to be green than still, a roof + 1,000 sq feet of solar out in the country connected to your house by wires is way cheaper.
> a well balanced stack

what is a well-balanced stack?
That is why education on the issue is important.

This is an old documentary and a bit different demographic, but it is still pertinent. If people didn't care back then, I doubt they will this time though...

https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/complicit
What a vapid essay. Full of stupid cliches, like "newsletters have existed since time immemorial". Long lists and descriptions not just of substacks, but even of other newsletters. Little to no discussion of why people prefer substacks to traditional media. But perhaps this is unfair. Perhaps the essay is an attempt to illustrate just that, by parodying the intellectual emptyness of traditional media.
It’s surprisingly hard to find good charts, but I stumbled across this thread today:

https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1343955297073770496?...

These charts very clearly show an uptick in the nationwide homicide rate starting in 2014. It then levels off. And then there’s a big jump again this year.

This is entirely consistent with my claim that rates are way up nationwide and that they started going up before 2020.
And nitric and sulphuric acid. And calcium carbide (gives off acetylene if it gets wet). And toxic waste. And literal military bombs.
Here's one: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
I work with a nonprofit group that does this. We produce prosocial video games intentionally designed to encourage prosocial outcomes.

The published studies (two so far) support their effectiveness. It's not easy to get the word out though without the funds for a publicist, advertising, etc.
Self-learning algorithms analyze medical imaging data
Forcing externalities improve cost efficiency
Small text messages, yes. It is slow, and the packet sizes are small, when you add on the headers required for mesh routing they become even smaller.
well to put it another way; in the time that I have lived violent video games have exploded in popularity and violent crime has apparently decreased substantially. That's not to say there's causality between the two but it would definitely support the premise that violent video games at least don't encourage violent crime.
There are plenty of towns and small cities where you can buy a 4 bedroom / 2 bath for around $125k (about $100k in 2009 dollars).
I don't think that is necessarily "UNIX style". Just getting what you pay for with FOSS.
I think the lines between "available library of existing code", language, and IDE are much murkier than they might appear. If one programmer is given raw assembly and the other Python, you're probably going to see at _least_ a 10x productivity bump to the python user _even if they use no additional libraries_. Language and IDE choices impact the vocabulary available to express solutions in the same way.
I've been pleased with how the EU has made progress with Iran. Maybe that plus brexit, Russia and refugees has been too much for them. We'll see I guess.
Have a heart for the Pharmaceutical Industry, how will it survive without sugar-laden foods forced down the pipeline?
Who will take all the drugs for so-called "lifestyle diseases"?
Why Your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks
Is this vaccine some kind of genocide on idiots?
It does seem that the updated regulation allowed new cars to be less safe in the Nordics. It’s an interesting precedent.
> And right now the momentum seems heaviest behind Rust.

Maybe for the low-level mechanism that directly targets WASM, but what the average developer actually wants to work with day-to-day has to be more forgiving and more expressive. Something closer to Ruby is probably more appropriate: so if Rust is to be in the mix, use it to implement a really good interpreted language, like how PHP is written in C but with twenty years of learned-lessons mixed in.
headshot === positive impact

they are just games and most (non crazy) people understand that

like hansel and gretel when they push the witch in the oven - its fiction and not intended to be a guide to life
Though I'm always suspicious of why those limits aren't simply zero.

I'm not sure who out there is done a favor by being told that some alcohol and added sugar is fine when a better mindset is to be aware that it's pure indulgence that has nothing to do with nutrition.

To me it's like lowering the daily fiber recommendation just to make people feel better about constantly undershooting it.
Because there are no successful businessman, politicians or investment bankers in their social circle.
This isn’t even concern trolling virtue signalling, this is you using human slavery to score internet tech superiority points by ... making up some fantasy strawman to sneer at.

And then try to claim you are different for using Google because you hate yourself at the same time.
Same reason we become much more animated when discussing abortion restriction, identification tattoos/implants, roadside blood draws, and other forms of abrogation of bodily autonomy.

There is an enormous difference in the personal sense of bodily violation between finding dildos in your checked luggage and being injected, against your will, with closed-source nucleotide chains that hack your own ribosomes.

Not to defend the TSA at all, but it's a much, much, more personal matter to have things done to our bodies than to our property.
Nobody has configured their firewalls, because those things don't exist. If they existed, your firewall would have come configured by default.

But if your computer had connectivity to the rest of the network, you could choose to disable protection on some port, and help bootstrap some software like those. Instead, with NAT, you can't.
+1 on the Sierra recommendation generally, but a couple things:

- Bears: You still need to be disciplined about food/smellables. Bear canisters are required for most of the Sierra—not bringing one is a recipe for a fine or getting escorted out by a ranger. Also, other critters are a problem. I had a raccoon steal my unguarded shorts (they had a bag of weed in the pocket) while I was sleeping, and I had to walk back to town with no pants.

- Logistics: Bishop/Kearsarge passes are quite remote and rugged, and then you’re on the PCT/JMT superhighway which is increasingly over-stressed by people. You can enter via Duck Pass or Red’s Meadow from Mammoth Lakes via public transit. The friendliest place for beginners would probably be further north in the Lake Tahoe region (e.g. Tahoe Rim Trail). Vermillion Valley Resort is a (rugged) ~1 hour drive from Fresno, and is one of the most classic congregation spots for PCT/JMT hikers and would make a great entry point. Angeles National Forest / the PCT would be a good choice for the LA area.

- Lightning/weather: The weather doesn’t care if it intimidates you or not, so you need to be prepared for anything. I didn’t bring rain pants to the desert section of the PCT and got slammed by freezing rain and had to run to avoid hypothermia. Also, please don’t do something batshit insane like go over a pass in inclement weather (I see it all the time). Here’s a document on lightning safety: https://www.nols.edu/media/filer_public/fa/96/fa96d71d-df6b-...

- Leave no trace: The Sierra is heavily impacted, so please tread lightly! In particular, don’t camp <100ft of the trail or a body of water, use Bluetooth speakers, or leave toilet paper blooms (packing it out is recommended but has low compliance, so at least mash up the TP and waste with a stick and some water to make a soupy mixture—critters like to dig up the lightly used paper). Being a wilderness ninja is cool, so read more LNT guidelines here: https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/leave-no-trace.html
Arianna Wright Rosenbluth, co-inventor of the Metropolis algorithm, has died
1) thanks for your service.

2) It's not a coincidence that military targets enlistments from low income areas.

It wasn't until my dad made E4 that he was able to quit his second job working at a gas station.

Sometimes, those soldiers weren't able to escape their upbringing. I'd hear stories of my dad's GIs who would spend their money on alcohol and drugs, and eventually got chaptered out.
Generalization of the Futurama Theorem