skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it somewhat amusing that you use playing games as an example of something useful compared to performing ethereum transactions.

I mean, imho most people are using cryto as an extremely complicated casino, and it's not even that fun. At least games are honest about their purpose as a form of entertainment and singularly focused on that.
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The logic of "drawing fire" is kind of self-defeating.

What enemy would spend munitions on an empty silo, while knowing that the you already shot all your arsenal?

With radar, and infrared satellites everywhere, attacking a second strike weapon makes no sense.

Any attacker in sane mind will fully focus on offensive.
What they really need is a facilitator to run a blameless postmortem for this incident.
I totally believe most of facebook advertising is fake... but man you're damned if you do and damned if you don't when it comes to consumers.

Stop spending money on facebook and you will lose marketshare to those that do - even if much of it is fake.

Make a better website with no ads, no trackers, no popups and no distractions and people visit and leave quickly...

But.. if you do everything people hate, you seem to get enough conversions to still be viable.

I guess tl;dr - most consumers don't care and especially the ones who have money to spend. The ones that do care, don't spend money and certainly don't do so with any altruism to those places that respect their privacy/browser/sessions.
You can find a bad take on almost any issue from the Guardian. That article only exists because The Guardian doesn't like Rupert Murdoch.
Sometimes when I try to force the AI in AIDungeon to do something specific, the reaction is often weirdly reminiscent of the behavior of dreams.

For example, I once kept trying to force an elf to teach me how to say certain phrases in their language (in an attempt to see if the AI could invent an imaginary language to some degree of consistency), and the character kept "laughing it off" and abruptly changing the subject.
I remember really enjoying playing marbles in Ultima VIII. Also being able to climb meant the world felt much more explorable than other games. Somehow I remember the game fondly overall, despite never bothering to finish.
It's many things. One is obviously deterrence, but mostly it's a show. We're reminding the world that we hold the key to our mutual destruction, which interestingly leads to longer periods of peace (in a big picture kind of way). How many wars would the US have seen in the last 70 years if they didn't have nukes? They'd probably have been invaded by now and some US cities may not even exist or would be rebuilt very differently (maybe we'd have better infrastructure by now :) ). Things would be very different without nukes. We take them for granted, but shows like this are necessary to keep things in check, because an alternative reminder would be a detonation of one of these things, and with the exception of some lunatics, most don't want to see them go off.

The other part is that these projects are pretty much jobs programs for the masses of engineers and phds that we keep cranking out without a very good idea of what to do with all this intellectual capital. It's a very expensive jobs program granted, and they serve the purpose of maintaining the military industrial complex.

Could this money be better spent? Absolutely. Do we have a sufficient majority to vote for structural reforms? Nope. So bombs it is then until enough people vote against it.
I think throwing the "$100 billion over 50 years" number around is somewhat misleading without comparing to the cost of keeping Minuteman III alive for another 50 years.

Most of that cost is gonna be maintenance/sustainment/operations, which we're paying already for with the current squadrons. And it's possible (although I wouldn't count on it) that a new system would be more maintainable than the existing one. For example if keeping Minuteman III alive would've required the US to spend a billion dollars to build a new 5.5" floppy drive factory, that would give GBSD an opportunity to recoup some of the R&D costs
If Epic wins, you can still use the walled garden. I don't see your loss of choice.
Even 100MB is crazy. I know RAM is cheap but the absurdity of that amount is beyond me.
Facebook taking steps to stop collecting sensitive data from apps after NY probe
You are right, but I was legitimately curious. At the very least, they have the choice of not working in that particular role/company. Further down the article they mention their colleagues had studied journalism and raised some eyebrows, and that he/she wanted to change things from the inside, if only by a little, then realized they were just a powerless cog. I'm going to guess they must be in their late 20s / early 30s now.
> If it goes from "everyone I know is on WhatsApp" to "1 in 20 people I know are on WhatsApp" maybe I'm less inclined to continue to fork over $20.

Let’s be real, I don’t think this is a realistic ratio of users lost. They made a cost benefits analysis and are going on with the plan.
I'm hearing that the immunity from actually contracting and recovering from COVID only lasts about 90 days. Have any of the vaccines been shown to do any better?
UO was my #1 gaming experience and sadly like others have mentioned: probably won't have that exceeded by an MMO again. However, there was a brief moment when Sierra had more control over the LOTR MMO (known as Middle Earth Online) and it looked very similar to early UO.
Starting a very good starter project in Java/Kotlin is literally next->next->next while selecting what you want (frameworks, maven/gradle, jvm version, etc) in IntelliJ. And if you do not use IntelliJ you can use https://start.spring.io/ or other starter projects.
> I had always had in my mind that with CNC machines you just stick the metal in the vise, load the program, hit start, and you're good to go, but there's manual calibration, facing off and the like that needs to be done before every run.

Much of it depends on the volume.

If you're building a million of something, the up-front cost to automate every step of the way makes sense.

If you're only building 10 of something once every few months, paying someone to do the manual operations 10 times makes more sense than investing in all of the fixturing, programming, and other tasks.

Really though, a lot of smaller machine shops have older CNC machines that are paid for and otherwise sitting idle. Hiring someone for $60/hr to do all the manual steps can keep that machine profitable.
Apart from the install size which is still not optimal, it is very much possible to write an efficient Electron app, as evidenced by Discord and Element.

That Slack, the poster child of bad Electron apps performs so badly must therefore have different reasons. Exactly the same way you can write websites in a way that is more or less efficient you can write Electron apps of varying degrees of efficiency.
When a hurricane, flood, tornado, or other earthquake hits - do we 'assign blame' in the same way? Why isn't this whole event just considered a natural disaster?
If you ban the account of one employee of a contractor, that employee can just make a new account, or the contractor company can give that employee another account to edit from.
The machines also monitor spindle vibration so they can tell if a tool looses an insert, and the tool-setter is used to check if solid tooling is still intact.

That's a key feature. For unattended operation, you must have good fault detection. This tends to be an overpriced extra cost option on machine tools.

There are a lot of things in industrial automation that cost more than they should. Motors with encoders, for example.
> Steam has been around for forever

Realistically since the release of Half-Life 2, which was November 16, 2004. (Although it technically launched September 12, 2003).

The App Store launched with iOS 2 on July 10, 2008.

So Steam was a thing for almost 4 years by the time the App Store launched.

What I'm curious about is what games did Epic sell on Steam? I assume Apple will want to highlight those.
It has a lot to do with density, so both policies can make sense at the same time.
Bitcoin hits $1T in market value
Except more ergonomic and less verbose, usually.
This is exactly the way the car market works, except you can't (yet) lease a new laptop for three years.
Experimental Brain Research makes it seem Less Likely we're Living in the Matrix
Douyin even banned speakers of Cantonese [0][1], a language spoken by 80M+ speakers and a top-20 language in the world [2].

Cantonese was widely spoken in Guangdong until the CCP actively wiped it out [3]. Among the 204 members of the CCP Central Committee, only 2 are from Guangdong [4]. Guangdong generated the highest GDP among all 31 administrative divisions [5], and doesn’t get its fair share of high ranking officials.

It’s not Han supremacy. It’s Mandarin-Han supremacy.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200402/03110144220/tikto...

[1] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3078365/chinas-v... (paywalled)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest...

[4] https://www.sohu.com/a/429814378_469134 (in Chinese)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...
Or we could have spent that "stimulus" on individuals or COVID treatment efforts, rather than e.g. $15billion to airlines that didn't need to be saved and that ended up firing workers anyways! If Delta failed its assets would be sold and a new airline would take its place... that's an area where the market does a great job so why fight it
This is discussed in the article - they suggest to start your INT ids at a really large number to avoid this kind of thing.
A Controversial New Path for the ‘Wikipedia of Maps’
There’s a big difference between zero covid globally and zero covid in a specific jurisdiction with good public health and border controls.

The UK is an island and absolutely could have gone zero covid. I don’t think any island that aimed at it failed.

But the UK had other goals and explicitly decided not to seek zero covid. Since Scotland had
no interal border with England, zero covid wasn’t possible.
My experience was that IE finally got bad enough (around version 8), and Chrome got good enough, that even "grandmothers" started having everyone telling them to use Chrome, and it was so incredibly superior that you didn't have to be technical to appreciate it.

Now the reason everyone uses it is because it's psychologically the new "default", whether it is on the actual system or not. Everybody knows that's just what you do when you get a new computer: you go install Chrome. And the irony is that even now, with Edge being basically the same thing, most people don't bother to re-evaluate that default assumption that "the windows browser is bad". They just use Chrome.
The land based ICBM force has had little utility since submarine launched ballistic missiles reached maturity. SLBMs guarantee devastating retaliation if another nation initiates nuclear war. Bomber-delivered nuclear weapons offer flexibility including last minute re-targeting or mission abort.

What does the land based ICBM force offer that bombers and submarines don't? Pork for rural areas and missile contractors, according to this article. I should have figured that out on my own sooner.
I thought that was the point, everyone improves the part they care most about and in the end we have something very comprehensive. You even get people who care a lot about filling gaps just for the sake of completeness. So long as nobody corrupts the big picture it should be fine.
Trust. The same reason you'd trust someone with a driver's license to operate a car over a toddler. Tor is privacy and anonymity protecting software. Firefox is a web browser.
This is an interesting concept. I think it would need one or two major game studios to really drive this for it to take root.
To upvote, not only have the accused him of a crime;

That other colleagues have the perception that it was him, they have defamed him, entitling him to damages.
GP mentionned "maybes". In Haskell (and others) you have for example both maybe and either. When you've got an either you can have either (ah!) the left to indicate an error (and which error) or the right to hold the correct value. And the type system forces you to at deal with both cases (like a maybe forces you to deal with the case where it's "maybe not").
So basically, this is a tiny, motion-powered air compressor built into the hub?

That's pretty clever. And not just limited to bikes. I'd love to have a set of car wheels with this built in. It'd be like the inflation/deflation ability of the Humvee but without the nasty challenge of connecting an air hose to a spinning wheel.

Edit to add: Come to think of it, this could potentially be done as an add-on that bolts on using the lug nuts. I bet off-roaders would go crazy over it.
But why would the system webview be less resource hungry? If it runs in an own process instance, the only memory you safe is (maybe) the executable code (i.e. maybe 100MB max).

Or you would need some common runtime which is shared across the OS, and somehow use IPC to it. Then you can potentially save some more memory. But I don't think this exists. And I'm also not sure how much you really would save.

The advantage of using the system webview is that you can update this component, in case there are any vulnerabilities or so.
That is....not true. There are scattered reinfections but it is far from the norm. SARS 1 and MERS generated immunity for years.
> So... exactly the same problem that Java's checked exceptions have?

Well yes, but also no because Java's checked exceptions have issues which go way beyond that. Hell I'd say this is not an issue because of the other issues.

In Rust the thrower decides whether the error must be handled, but the default is "yes", and it's the overwhelmingly common decision. Panic is the exception (or multiple APIs are provided). Rust also provides easy way to convert errors to panics, and syntactic sugar to convert between error types.

In Java, the classifications were much less stark, and thus more arbitrary, some exceptions were checked, others were not, but there was little rhythm or reason about it.

Furthermore, there was little to no ability to abstract over checked exception, and the statement-oriented nature of the language made both converting checked to unchecked or converting between different checked exception types a chore.

The verbosity and horrible ergonomics of java's checked exceptions is where the problem always lied, really, with the seemingly arbitrary nature of the classification coming in at third.
But we know from web statistics that these are very few people and shrinking every year.
Yeah, I get it. But the illustrations I found terrible. Those images did not speak a 1000 words. In fact they are just confusing.

Your comment explains it better than the illustration.
I remember a few vivid dreams from around kindergarten. One even had music that, I kid you not, I remember to this day. My working theory is that I actually heard that music somewhere and the dream just cemented it in my memory.
'Written in Rust' is a new 'I use Arch, btw'.
No not in ordinary machine shops.
Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals
I had visions of doing fancy CSS too, to render an accurate menu to your website viewers, but that would be deceptive to Uber's scrapers to mess with their menu.
How would brain research be able to answer that question? Surely that would require examining quantum physics, or some other even deeper construct of reality, and not the brain - something that firmly resides within the potentially simulated reality? Why not computer research, if brain research works too?
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What happened with git? Could somebody elaborate?
Because the lack of winterization of elements of the energy supply chain in Texas was and is a known issue.

When the levees failed during hurricane Katrina, we blamed the levees and not the water, because we can plan for and prepare for adverse weather that we know is absolutely going to happen.
I'm reminded of https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... when these discussions come up.
A microservice architecture should mainly be used to solve runtime issues, such as to improve scalability or fault tolerance. Also, it can be useful in order to adopt new languages or frameworks.

It is not something that should be used simply to clean up your code. You can refactor your code in any way you see fit within a monolith. Adding a network later in between your modules does not make this task simpler.
Using Zero Trust Principles to Protect Against Sophisticated Attacks
Support for graph databases would be cool.
I started to build some internal tools (that utilize Rust libraries to interface with hardware) using Tauri last year. That effort ended after trying to cross-compile to aarch64 and hitting a ton of roadblocks. It looks like it is still an open issue. So, Raspberry Pi, for example, is not supported.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/941
So does the assembly version I just started work on.
Huh, interesting observation, will keep that in mind, thank you.

Basically people build their own bubbles everywhere. If you are the one to poke it, you better prepare for the backlash, I learn once more.

I had a hunch initially though, that I would get downvoted for the attempt to distinguish between free and open source though, just like the previous times. However, if I start to self-censor, just because of downvotes, ... imagine if everyone did that. Opinions would go unheard. It is a bad trend. People need to speak up and voice their opinions.

I have also noticed, that if one makes a comment, that is purely positive about something, you are much more likely to get upvoted, but as soon as you criticize anything, you run the risk of being massively downvoted ("Please stay positive!"), especially when it is about open source vs free software or when it is about javascript. Perhaps these populations are just bigger and more people will take offense or they are especially touchy about having something criticized.

Anyway, I should not care too much about random downvotes on HN. There are more productive ways to spend my day.
I worked on a highly complex web app for ~3 years, and we made a point to support Firefox, so whenever somebody had a Firefox-specific bug we wouldn't tell them to just use Chrome, we'd fix it. We only had 2-3 Firefox-specific issues in that entire time.

I have heard that mobile safari can be a bit more unruly than the rest, though it isn't really relevant to the question at hand
PredictIt didn't have this anomaly where Trump had a 15% chance of winning. After Georgia called the election the percentage went above 95%.
My take on dreams is that they're not literal. The mind is structured on a network of symbols and relationships between them, so the language of dreams are metaphors, double entendres, similar-sounds, etc.

Why it is important is because it tells a story about what's going on in your emotional state that you're otherwise unaware of or repressing in conscious experience. It can also provide solutions. It can be a powerful tool for maintaining mental health and wellbeing.

This isn't to say you should be reading "dream interpretation" guides or speaking to interpreters. The point is we already speak the languages of our own dreams because it's our own mind. What seems like nonsense on the surface quickly reveals itself to have a surprisingly clear meaning on introspection from a slightly different angle. Follow your intuition, listen to your psyche, you wont regret it.
Model Search: An Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models
> No one wants to be the secretary

I find it hard to believe all the underemployed baristas (of any gender) with art or literature degrees wouldn't jump at an office job with benefits.

Companies don't want to pay for secretaries anymore.
Yes fuckin xenomorph dog monster I'll get you one day.
> Others who left after me informed that they are still blaming me for this and some totally unrelated incidents.

Contact a lawyer, asap; if your colleagues are being led to believe this was you, this is defamation and may be affecting your ability to find new employment.
Ultima 6 and 5 have been remade by modders for the Dungeon Siege engine (full remakes with functionality and systems not just a re-skin/tribute)

Ultima 6 - http://u6project.com/wp/ (sorry for non-https link)

Ultima 5 - https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Ultima_V:_Lazarus

Worth a shot if somebody finds the originals too difficult to get into now. (Though gameplay is brutal regardless, I keep running out of food when adventuring - the map doesn't show your position, you need to use landmarks (eg; follow the edge of this lake) and the compass to orient yourself)

(disclaimer: I did some map/dungeon building some 15 years ago for the U6 one)
I have fond memories of playing Ultima I through Ultima V on green screen Apple //e and //c computers.
Great answer. Much more helpful than "x is bad, don't do it".
That was before “good” machine shops had probes in every machine.
Nah, me staying inside for years on end with no or very limited social contact is less safe for me.

It guarantees a horrible outcome (psychosis), versus a slight risk of a bad outcome.

I'm not going to put myself into a coma for multiple years on the off chance that someone else gets ill. Best of luck.
Hm. My work requires COVID testing every other week. If you've actually had COVID, you get a 90 day exemption because "that's how long immunity lasts"
Looks like the first effort to eradicate smallpox was in 1950, and then by 1975 it existed only in Africa. Victory was declared in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication

Obviously every disease is different, but since it's only been done twice EVER, I would learn toward the burden of proof being on those to explain why it's realistic, not for those to explain why it's UNrealistic.

I would summarize it as "The world is very big and there are a lot of people and places that got infected" ...
Thanks for some really good insights. My country isn’t quite good for law enforcements if this helps. As almost all of you pointed, I’ll surely be in contact with a lawyer for advice. I hope this is their frustration and nothing big. This is a lesson to me and I’ll try alternatives like some freelance, building my own stuff and getting back to open source etc.
Thanks again, you guys are awesome.
That's tough. Seems like if they're going to a tiny and consistent group of friends' homes in the evening to have a drink, then they're effectively an extension of your family and any spread would be limited to that relatively small group (unlike in a bar).

And if they're actually going to a bar instead, then just close the bar at 6pm. A general curfew seems like a chainsaw approach, instead of a scalpel.
Yeah, the irony of clickbait headlines, which would initially entice the person to go buy the newspaper/magazine is that they ended up making people think the headline was the news
It's not a new warhead, the article is covering the new delivery system. Warhead projects are all about updating the manufacturing processes in line with the stockpile stewardship mission of DOE.
> The exhaustive number of articles, blog posts, twitter rants, instagram memes and comments which take <arbitrary military expenditure item> and then suggests that it is instead spent on <socially progressive item of choice> misses the fundamental issue here.

Not to mention, it's a false dilemma. The US is rich enough to spend $100 billion on a missile and $100 billion on whatever else it should be spent on.

The CARES act was $2,200 billion. The PPP was $484 billion. The last appropriations bill added another $900 billion for COVID relief. The house is getting ready to vote on another $1,900 billion bill here by the end of the month. This missile is less than 2% of what I've just listed. We clearly have the money for dealing with problems when we choose to.