skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Played hella Diplomacy when we were kids. I don't know if we were any good since this was pre-internet and the standard of play has probably improved considerably over the decades. But we did run into a problem consistently and read the rules over and over, and argued and still couldn't answer this simple question:

Can you cut a supported support?

You either can or you can't and the rules then just weren't clear. (The article doesn't mention this problem in its summation.) So we typed up a letter and sent it to I think it was Games Research and waited. For awhile. Finally, a couple of months later we got a reply. They hadn't considered it either! And so they issued a new rule.

Honestly, I cannot remember what the ruling was since it's been so long and I haven't played the game in decades. So I had to look up the rules as of now.

The support is cut.
Peach-pink people aren’t white, and brown people are not black in the first place. Why do self-styled anti-racists not seem to have any problem with that? Why not start there instead of changing the deep symbolism of the colors black and white?
> China’s lower costs may
mean that its defense spending has purchasing
parity with ours.

This was shocking to me.
I have heard what seemed like a rational justification for first strike.

For MAD to be effective you need to convince people you’re both able and willing to vindictively kill off large swaths of the worlds population. As such you do want to come off as just slightly unhinged which having first strike capability projects.
In China I have job opportunities, business opportunities and even academic opportunities.

During my 2 year post doc in the US, after my PhD (due to lack of a job) I may have written 1-3 job applications per day. You do the math. My PhD proved worthless because after my post-doc finally run out, I had no money for food and shelter. To make things worse, I became super sick and had no health insurance anymore. In the end the fix of my super rare disease was easy but hard to figure out. But I never forget the pain and desperation.

I came to China as a very broken person with no hope left. But it all worked out well.
I'm curious, which variant of Mahjong are you playing? Chinese, Japanese, American? I've learned how to play Japanese Mahjong which is fun, but the rules (especially scoring rules) are so complicated that I do not look forward to having to teach this game to any one.

In regards to the Monopoly comment, to this day I still bring up the time some one screwed me in a game of Star Wars Monopoly back in 2001. So yes, these kinds of things tend to stick around in people's memories.
Your local politician ain't gonna do shit all. This is a national movement more than anything.
Solid still requires data to be stored somewhere thought, someone needs to host the pod -- and the chances are, it'd still be one huge vendor-owned pod.

You could say: "but I want to configure my car to upload data to a different pod" -- but this is possible today. If there were an interest, the car could ask for WebDAV / sftp / webhook address + credentials, and put telemetry there. But manufactures don't do that because there is not enough interest for this feature to justify development + support costs.
Why do usernames have to be unique in the first place (other than due to some poorly built services using usernames as primary keys)? I think it's fine for multiple people to have the same usernames for anonymity and practicality
Good point, but part of the ‘reason’ for the price to go so high is to incentivise the generation of electricity as much as possible in such a time of need. If consumers are allowed to participate in the wholesale market to such a degree that that significantly raise the counterparty risk once the price goes above some level, that incentive is weakened. The last thing you want in the current situation is for the remaining generators to shut off because they don’t think anyone will be able to pay.
Transcript here I think-

https://downsub.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwat...

Very little talk of black or white or covid.

I'd most likely guess "Suicide" from the skydiving talk but perhaps "Shooting" from the film talk. I guess you can make stuff up really.

"oh man like you look like you're so high you're just going to jump to your death but uh then then once you actually cross that across that that line you just jumped it's uh just exhilarating i i really enjoy it i do plan on doing it again in the future"

> Not sure what a thinly resourced piece like this is doing so high up on HN.

Very strange comment.
Most vaccines are less than 100% effective at preventing infections. Vaccinate 10,000 people and intentionally expose them to the thing vaccinated against and you will get some infections.

When there are significant numbers of infected people in the population, adding other measures to the protection provided by vaccines decreases the spread of the infection.

I think the problem Fauci has is that he is confident that it is better to provide an answer than to hedge. It would be pretty reasonable for him to say something about getting vaccinations done as quickly as possible and evaluating what other measures are necessary once a larger percentage of the population is vaccinated.
This is why metra (Chicago commuter rail operator) literally lights switches on fire sometimes
A Genetic Variant Inherited from Neanderthals Reduces Risk of Severe Covid-19
> Will the company operate in the red instead of in the black as well?

Pretty sure that'd just 'offend' (wannabe representatives of) Native Americans instead.
The issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type:

>...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life history traits of raptors (i.e., long-lived and low reproductive rates) their populations are more at risk of decline from the number of different sources of impacts that affect these species on a daily basis.

https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/...

This isn't to say that means we should drop wind, but we shouldn't hand wave away the issue and pretend it is not an issue.

>...You know you can set up solar panels on roofs,

The levelized cost for residential rooftop solar is at least as high as nuclear, but that cost doesn't seem to matter to some advocates.

>...and in the desert, right?

Advocates also describe how we will rebuild the electrical grid to move vast amounts of solar or wind power across the USA. This will not be cheap or easy or particularly easy to protect from terrorism. Even the relatively small proposed Tres Amos SuperStation hasn’t been completed yet. This cost doesn't seem to matter to some advocates.
I am happy to deliver IP, if the price is right. In fact, I just submitted another patent that I plan to sell in China.

You don't need friends in high places, at least I did not require this. But do you think US SBIRs and government contracts are really open?
How was your experience teaching Sidereal to people? I've only played it once but it was really difficult to get people to pay attention and to understand all the little nuances.

I ran into the classic "if you had told me this I would have played differently!!!" complaint, even though I did mention the thing they were complaining about.

We also didn't finish the game because it got too late.
Yeah that percentage is really close to 0%. What are the odds of the 0.06% who do it see this blog post? Let it go.
Chess commentators might use various phrases that sound $COLOR-supremacist at different rates like "$COLOR is better" or "I prefer $COLOR".
It depends, but generally yes. YouTube DMCA strikes, for example, are known to only nuke your YT channel(s) and the rest of Google still works[0] (although this page does say your entire account is subject to termination[1]). Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course.

0: https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/respond-to-co...

1: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2814000?hl=en#stri...
I would point out that according to that link this is not a right under the US constitution, but a right under the California Constitution which contains a broader affirmative right of free speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that there is no implied right of free speech within a private shopping centers under the under US Constitution.

Also, at least 13 other US states with similarly worded rights to free speech in their constitutions have ruled that this does not include a right of free speech in private shopping centers, as has the European Court of Human Rights.
Thanks for listing out the points you disagree with! The project is still in early alpha, so is the Readme. Therefore anything that is ambiguous or not clear, is worth to address.

The main requirement is performance (a missing point in your list). If Git would be a good candidate as a versioning system for DCC software packages, it would have been picked up by now, but it didn't happen, among others because of the reasons listed above. Git addresses a completely different target audience and lifecycle than SnowFS. The commit hash integrity is a problem in CG/VFX productions, so is the 4GB limitation, as well as the I/O performance for large binary files. The fact that these issues are still there are fully understandable, given the responsibility and dependencies of this project. That's why SnowFS tries to address the niche requirements with its light implementation.

In terms of the license, this is intentionally the weakest argument of all. It doesn't prevent anyone under the GPL to ship Git as an external program with a commercial software, same counts for libgit2 with its linking exception. So there is not even a real benefit here. But the chosen MIT license is an open invitation for everyone.

P.S. Certain features and technical solutions will be feature-proposed to libgit2
Transaction throughput doesn't depend on network hashrate. It gets adjusted to keep fixed througput.
Have you applied? I, just last week, moved from a dev role to a manager role. I had previously talked with my manager at our one on ones about being interested in this path. They pointed out some new positions being hired and so I applied.
> "An AI erroneously banned the channel," shouldn't get any more leeway than "A support staff member banned the channel.

What would curtail the leeway then? Other than losing public trust in the product for this happening repeatedly anyway?
Dynamic libraries can even introduce new vulnerabilities to everything using them.
Well, the D and Coq communities might well be willing to give it a close look.
I’m either in a “I’ll just let it happen mood on flights” or in a mood where I might whisper “goddamnit”

The latter if I used points on someone else on the flight because that means fun sexy time won’t happen if we go down like this

I’m just never worried about the unexpected drama or turbulence or crashing, its out of my hands
Foucault and the Postmodern philosophers of the 70s started this, with a new epistemology that ties language use to our perceptions of reality, and also the idea of how marginalized people remain marginalized. You see, the power matrix operates daily and we are all involved. We perpetuate real world problems with problematic language, we are told.

Change the language, change the outcome, came the activists of the 90s and 2000's. This stuff somehow spilled out of literary theory in academia and started becoming a political force for understanding power dynamics. You can get a taste below, where the commenter is comparing black and white concepts, and how we view one as good and another as bad.

Do these folks (like the commenter below) have a point? Yes, sure. But submit your point to the marketplace of ideas instead of trying to force people's hands through censorship. Not everyone has to buy social constructivism. We're allowed to believe that racism has material and economic causes, and changing it has minimally to do with language. So no, don't make me change my git default branch or the way I talk.
The main reason for US/NATO not to renounce first strike was because it would be fairly easily overwhelmed by Warsaw Pact forces if WP attacked conventionally. Probably some kind of large WP exercise turned real very quickly combined with Spetsnaz causing havoc behind NATO lines.

First strike was needed in order to slow things down and do some damage, in theory to a) give the US time to rush conventional forces to Europe, b) bloody the nose of WP enough to make them think twice and c) destroy as much as possible of the WP rear areas and reinforcements. If the WP had gone through the Fulda Gap or the South option near Switzerland -tactical nuclear mines, Special Operations nuclear devices, tactical nuclear artillery, tactical aircraft attacks etc would have been used pretty quickly on them.

In reality it probably would have escalated to far worse than that pretty quickly I'm guessing.
While I agree, there are plenty of poor sources getting too much uncritical attention in the press, even by China's own accounts there are a large network of education facilities, trying to hammer in a strong sense of national identity. It is hard not to interpret this as a direct assault on the culture of Uighur people.

It shouls also be viewed in it's geopolitical context - China is desparate to have secure land routes into Europe and the middle east incase things kick off in the South China sea, and by their calculations that security requires (forcefully) integrating the Uighur people into Chinese culture and nationalism. On the other hand, the west will take what opportunity they can to attack China on human rights grounds, despite the hypocrisy of all the human rights abuses around the world they happily ignore (the treatment of Kurds in Turkey, for example).

TLDR; we can be critical of western imperialism, while still holding China to account.
It was mostly the NG plants the didn't get winterized and weren't available, in some cases due to lack of NG. The wind actually was after some initial glitches AFAIK working as expected. Pretty much everything failed (including a nuke).

My point wasn't that there were failures, its that the wind capacity was pretty poor leading up to the failures too. Why that is, isn't clear to me other than its apparently not unusual to have significantly less during the winter in TX. This isn't usually a problem because the demand is low as well.

(random link with graphs, these are a bit harder than the one I was looking for but are good enough https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/19/climate/texas...)

edit: maybe the first graph here https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/02/17/3-graphs-that-shed-li... shows just how poorly the wind was performing, even before the storm relative to its peak.
Against Packaging Rust Crates
Most consumers already pay the increased electricity prices. The issue under discussion is the wholesale consumer, who had (up until now) been saving a bit of money by buying electricity directly at wholesale spot prices. Consumers who had payed a premium for a middle man company to take this risk in exchange for a fixed electricity price are not facing exorbitant bills.
I love TransferWise, use it all the time. Honestly, pretty surprised by this rebrand, I don't get why they did it.
Well then let's see an AGI that can operate at even the level of a rodent or sparrow. As soon as someone can show me that then I'll believe human level AGI is feasible soon. Today we haven't even reached the insect level, except for some very limited special cases that don't really satisfy the "G" part of AGI.
Yep, and always have been. See payola scandals of the 1950’s radio era for an early example, though probably not the earliest.
I'm sure Winnie the pooh can defend himself, but why you feel the need to defend a dictator?
I'm an unrated "kid" and subscribe to Agadmator channel.

That happened a while ago and was practically a none event.
Chess24 has the highest level of commentary by far but chess.com can come close. Also, Peter Svidler is on the roof.
Meanwhile, I have now lived through two multi-months complete lockdowns, have been under a curfew since the beginning of October which prevents me from being out after 6pm and there now is rumors of a third lockdown with no end in sight. Initially I thought we were doing this so our government got time to organize a trace and isolate strategy and then that we were waiting for a vaccine but apparently a year wasn't enough for them to properly put something in place and the vaccination strategy is nothing but a sad joke so I'm starting to seriously wonder why we are accepting this.
Or split the difference and stain with a gray stain to create wood grain that matches the grays of the screen.
Agadmator’s channel is truly a gem. He provides excellent analysis of interesting games and includes some great dives into chess history as well. I hope google gives an adequate explanation for this and makes sure it doesn’t happen again (not holding my breath)
There was actually debate about this in the black activist community in the mid-late 60s. The more common term was 'negro' then, you can see it in earlier MLK writings, League of Negro Voters, etc. Stokely Carmichael was a leading voice in advocating for 'black'.

"According to a 1968 Newsweek poll, more than two-thirds of black Americans still preferred Negro, but black had become the majority preference by 1974."
https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2010/octo...
There is a mothership -- it is just built into an Apple device, and Apple spent a lot of effort getting this all to work, and they can only get it to work because they control all sides.

Try setting up a generic wlan-compatible printer and a macOS laptop on a local network. I have such setup, and it is just fails every once in a while for no reason.

I would not recommend this to anyone over well-run centralized server.
I'm going to be blunt - these types of anecdotes are just plain stupid. It's people picking and choosing examples to support their desired narrative, and just ignoring anything that contradicts it. There are just as many "bad" things in English that are also white - white elephant, white ant, whitewash, white whale. Why didn't he mention those?

The colour comparisons are also dumb, because "black" skin is actually more like dark brown and "white" skin isn't white at all, unless you're albino or incredibly sick (which again, points to how stupid it is to make comparisons like "white==good").
joebiden is still up for grabs if anyone wants. (das4119?)
Just because the user doesn't need to pay up-front doesn't mean the service operates at a loss (YouTube pulled in $15 billion in 2019, according to a quick search). Furthermore, YouTube Premium is a paid offering. IMO Alphabet just uses YouTube as a playground for its ML experiments because it can moreso than because it needs to for viability.
I think you're conflating two different things. You prevent situations like this from happening by ruggedizing the Texas Interconnection. That doesn't have anything to do with allowing people to pay wholesale rates for electricity and holding them to such when the prices fluctuate.
I have one of the simplest toy services you can envision and am already running into a problem. Basically, I'm logging a temperature from a sensor to a SQLite db every minute or so (whenever it sends the reading). Sometimes I run a query manually thru the SQLite CLI to look into the data -- the query tabulates about 1.5 years' worth of data, by month and with averages, and can take about 20-30s as it's all running on an RPi3. As far as I can tell SQLite locks the entire table instead of just the records involved in the read, if one of my readings, new data to be inserted, happens to come in during me running the query I get "database locked" and the write fails.

Yes this is a heavy query that would not make it to a production system, still I am surprised that load placed on a sqlite db by "hundreds of thousands of concurrent users" would not surface problems due to this simple detail.
If I may quote two sources (controversial, so please take it with a grain of salt but keep an open mind)

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/07/war-profiteers-and-dem...

https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Military-Supremacy-American-St...

I am not Russian by the way, the links could give you this impression.
The Tesla softlock was not a feature, though, it was an artificial limitation being placed upon the operational capacity of your car. It's like Dell selling somebody a laptop with two of its eight processor cores turned off, and then forcing them to pay a fee in order to turn the cores back on.

I agree with the OP that it is a disgusting business practice at best, and totally indefensible.
A blacklist-to-blocklist PR may be OK for you, but a master-to-main PR is not OK at all for many others. Slavery is definite evil, but these PRs for branch renaming just went too far.

As someone not a U.S. citizen, the impact of PC is ridiculously huge. I know slavery and how bad it is. It appeared in my culture, and it is still there in some form too. However, the ENGLISH word "master" means not much to me. It is just a multi-purpose symbol, like many other words. As the meaning being a main branch, why bothering the renaming?

You claim that you are just spending your energy on something else, but in reality you are giving up the right to use your own language and to maintain the definition the meaning of a well-understood and frequently-used word.
I get it, but this position makes HN definitively anti-free speech. You restrict speech and you restrict how people think. Calibrating speech is not free speech and neither is fading speech.

> the community signals that it has found something wrong with a comment.

A bully fat shaming would be "the community signaling that there is something wrong". The HN equivalent would be PC shaming.

What someone thinks of something has no bearing on right or wrong. Also "the community" isn't downvoting. It's always an individual.

A sincere course correcting response is the simple and natural fix, and what already happens. Downvoting helps with reducing responses, but comments are people. People do not enjoy being reduced.

> extremely important for calibrating users' perceptions of the community

I have enough experience now that I can write in HN mode. I cannot however, think in HN mode. I try, but whenever I think, comments like this one happens. This comment also violates the "ideology battle" clause from the HN guidelines because I am not allowed to fight for free speech. But stories about politics and ideologies make the top page all the time, and aren't most good disagreements ideological? Tabs versus spaces, React versus Vue, Open versus Closed source. Downvoting.

The technical part is never that deep. The deepest it can get is deeply technical.

With all that said, everything else about HN is the best on the internet hands down.
In China, the color white represents death. Policing language like this is insane. Maybe just stop using colors to refer to people. I don’t see Asians standing up for the color yellow or asking for yellow traffic lights to be changed because of negative connotations with driving (that’s probably going to end up in a comedian’s routine by EOY - I release it under GPL ;).

Point being, what’s easier to fix?? Color associations with people or overturning thousands of timeless metaphors across many cultures?
Over 500 hours of video are uploaded each minute so yeah... even 100,000 people might not be enough to just deal
With flags...
Marketing is always a necessary part of any endeavor that requires people to know about your product.

Sometimes you get free marketing without any effort.

But most times you need to put the work into to be noticed. This includes paying for services that help get the word out.