skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Imagine if Microsoft had taken that approach when they built Xbox, they knew some products are a marathon not a race.

Xbox nearly died in development, as Bill Gates was none too pleased with the decision. Fries recalls Microsoft's "Valentine's Day Massacre" in which Bill Gates furiously ripped apart the development team for circumventing his original idea.

https://gamerant.com/bill-gates-xbox-story/
> Move everything new into Ventures and whatever products survive on their own should be taken public in the markets and vertically dis-integrated from advertising and search

This would severely dilute their brand though. All of these tech companies are implicitly promising unknown future magic through the power of technology, eventually. If Google admits that the peak of their business has come and they are now a boring mature company ("nothing but rabbits come out of the hat"), I can't see their stonk price nor their mindshare with early adopters doing well.
Malala is an example of an activist who offers (and, often, implements) actual solutions rather than engaging in essentially useless “how dare you?” grandstanding. My intent is not to pick on other activists gratuitously, but to point out what works and what doesn’t.
chrome giving me a "NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" error ... anyone else?
Came here for this. When the author made me realize that a lot of our global state is just a client side cache of our server side state and we can apply a longstanding http caching standard (SWR) to manage it, it was as big of an aha moment for me as when I was originally introduced to redux.

Speaking of redux, I'm a huge fan but React ships with a useReducer hook now - thanks in no small part, I'm sure, to the author of redux working on the react core team.
These days, I'm all about reactQuery + react's native useReducer via the hooks and context api. described beautifully by Kent Dodds here: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-to-use-react-context-effecti...

I feel like these state management libraries have largely served their purpose in establishing some agreed upon conventions that are now just baked in to React and other libs.
If gesturing is a more effective way of speaking, then it make sense for the power structure to take it away from the subordinates. If a private could convince his superior to believe something or do something then it upsets the hierarchy. Maybe there's unscientific words like hypnosis or mesmerization you could attach to this idea of gesturing with speaking.

In D&D, there's somatic, verbal, and material components to spell casting. Somatic components are the precise hand movements to aid in spell casting. That fictional idea/meme had to have been generated by some real-world phenomena, no?

Edit to expand: I also think this may be why even beyond the military there seems to be a widespread stigma against gesturing while speaking. Not that a majority of people look down on it, but that some significant percentage tend to do so at least.

It might seem unfair to some parties to have these extra gestures "used" on them to convince them of things that go beyond what the words they use actually mean. I know personally, I much much prefer to read what politicians said, via a transcript, rather than watch them speak. Their body language + gestures + tones can really change perceptions so significantly that I don't want to let myself be preventably persuaded by otherwise disagreeable positions.
Israel does respect human rights. It also has the right to protect its citizens and borders.
Note that the implementation of EdDSA that the authors investigated (libgcrypt) is not a constant-time implementation. Better implementations are more likely to be safe.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352821
PBR algorithms tend to at least start from the rendering equation and simplify/approximate from that. They attempt to maintain some semblance of accuracy by eg. employing the conservation of energy of emitted vs. received light of every point of the scene; or expressing matte texture by the statistical behaviour microfacets of a rough surface; or using actual radiometry/photometry units to express lighting elements of the scene; making the scene also be expressed in concrete real-world units, ... There's still a lot of cheating and smoke and mirrors, but at least all these operate from the idea that the math should check out.

This is in contrast to more oldschool approaches that were fully dependent on tweaking things until they looked right - ie., taking blinn-phong in a scene with some 'ambient lighting' and operating in fully imaginary units, modified by an artist on scene-by-scene basis.
I have a geopolitical question I haven't been able to answer: Greece claims its EEZ includes Kastelorizo and extends near Turkish shores (which is unreasonable, IMO). Turkey claims islands have no EEZ, and Turkish EEZ extends below Cyprus and past all the Greek islands to about the middle of the Aegean (extremely unreasonable and counter to basically all of UNCLOS, which everyone else recognizes).

Greece, Cyprus and Israel agreed to construct the EastMed Pipeline[0], which crosses into the Turkish EEZ and even territorial waters. Does that run counter to the UNCLOS or not?

Also, please correct me if I got anything in my understanding wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastMed_pipeline
You can watch on your phone. I also think there’s a web-based player. :)
Sorry for the crummy link. See the LexisNexis comment above. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX.
The costs of ignoring the pandemic are very country-dependent. In countries whose economies are based on extraction of natural resources, only a fairly small amount of people are needed to run the extraction and export sector. All the other tens of millions of people living in that country have bluntly been called things like "superfluous population" by thinktanks. That small workforce maintaining the economy is little affected by a disease like COVID with its median death age of ~80.

Also, it was believed that COVID presented a threat to the broader economy because it could overwhelm the healthcare system, preventing the broader workforce from accessing treatment. However, one approach is to triage COVID victims, denying them hospital beds so that those beds remain available for the broader population. Liability or elected officials’ sensitivity to accusations of "letting grandma die" prevented some countries from implementing this triaging, but other countries could.
Take the Petro curse analogy to its logical conclusion. You get interesting conclusions about Google's internal political economy and the incentives of its employees when faced with the Adsense machine and the profit it spews.

Adsense/Adwords spews tens of billions of dollars in profits every year. No new product launch can come to close moving the needle on revenue or profits for Google. Google's political economy incentivizes groups to build new products not for their revenue streams but to claim larger bonuses of the ad-revenue pie. The users who buy into these "new" products are just cannon fodder in that game. Remember Google+? Vic Gundotra made off with probably tens of millions or more to launch a failed product because it was seen as strategic for Google. Anything and everything in Google happens as an internal battle between groups jockeying for bigger share of the adsense/adwords pie. We are just pawns in the game.

I can't believe I am saying it but almost anything MSFT releases in response to Google or competitors is inferior but MSFT's products are preferable due to implied longevity. MSFT has inoculated themselves against this parasitic political economy while Google's users are held hostage by it.

Most Google project launches are akin to MBS's dreams to turn Saudi into a tourism/research/commerce powerhouse. Brand new Cities in the desert etc. They would have more success dumping cash into the ocean and catching the fish that come to feed on the paper.

Ditto for google.
Singapore Warms to Electric Cars Two Years After Tesla’s Rebuke
Ask HN: Want to learn more about Italian Renaissance – what book?
I'm interested in what conditions led to this period and how a small country like Italy gave birth to such marvels of art and beauty.

The more casual the read the better. I'm not into super academic books, I'm just curious.
We had a load of news stories on TV about dairies and brewers pouring their milk/beer down the drain, and people spluttering about how they couldn't find any beer or milk on the supermarket shelves. That isn't a supply/demand problem, that's a logistics problem.

(Also - seriously, you have 1 pound bags of flour over there? Most bags here are 1.5kg (3.3 pounds), with some specialist flours in 1kg (2.2 pounds) bags. 1 pound seems a little small.)
To be fair we're in one of the worst chip shortages in a long time, GPUs are supposed to be like 3-600 for low to early high range. Still one of the most expensive parts for sure but right now is especially atypical.
> If you send a SEPA payment in Europe (most modern standard) it still takes one business day.

The most modern standard is SEPA Instant Credit Transfer [1] which does transfers in under 10 seconds. As of right now 57% of European payment service providers have joined with this scheme.

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[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...
I don't really care if there's sex in films, but I just find it so extremely boring.

I've seen it all before 100 times and it does nothing to advance the story (compared to implying that sex just happened), it's not creative, it's not original, it's not interesting, it's not dramatic, it's not funny, and I fast-forward it to avoid wasting 2 minutes of my life.
Shklovsky's “Hollow Phobos” Hypothesis
Is there a chart that shows how many volcano eruptions this will compensate for in a year? Asking because there has been a lot of volcano activity. The under-sea eruptions are also releasing a lot of stored carbon in the ocean. Can we keep up with that activity? Iceland is right in the middle of that explosive mess currently. They are literally being torn apart.
Until EIP 1559 goes into effect in July, then it might vary between deflationary and inflationary at times.
As a non-native but naturalised Western European, I'd like to know more what you are talking about sinking and decline here. On another post [0] you state:

> "10 years ago I'd have said Eastern European spirit may turn the ship around. But today I'm not so sure. It feels like too many people got comfy enough and sign off on Western's idea."

And this is a pretty strange statement, calling on something like "Eastern European spirit" to turn something around, and getting "comfy" as a "sign off on Western's idea", both of which you don't describe what you mean with.

Do you care to expand on those points?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384325
SpaceX's New FCC Filing Requests to Operate Starlink 'In Moving Vehicl
I would say that using switching from Redux to XState is a bit like switching from js to typescript. You get additional rigor but that can of course slow you down and force you to deal with potential issues you might not have otherwise encountered. One of the nice benefits of XState is you can read the machine definition to easily understand how the state flows over time.
Ah, great, thanks. Some of the wording made it sound like perhaps it was hooked transparently. This appears very clear.
They insist on the "Nobel laureate" but don't specify which nobel prize she received. In case you're wondering (from wikipedia):

> In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, she was the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
>Housing prices reflect the cost of shelter for literally everyone who doesn't already own a house.

Right, but using the raw purchase price of the house isn't a good measure. Mortgage rates dropping would cause housing prices to go up even if monthly payments stay the same. What actually matters is how much you spend per month on rent, or if you owned your house, the imputed rent.

>Shelter is much closer to "food" than to "a piece of paper representing a stake in part of a corporation".

From a finance perspective there's no difference between a house and a share in a corporation. They're both productive assets that provide returns. In the case of a house, it provides shelter as a service, which can either be consumed by the owner (by living it it), or by selling it (renting it out). The only difference is that with a house, the relation to you is more direct, as opposed to a tiny fraction of a multinational entity.
I don't know anything about supplements, but why do people recommend specific things instead of a multivitamin that covers everything? (Eg all multivitamins have some vitamin d and magnesium as suggested elsewhere in this thread)

Is it just because the dosage is too low?
Navy’s aren’t interchangeable.

Is real has many costal patrol ships and a few subs. The Greeks have a navy suitable for their archipelago waters
A Blight on Soviet Science
What the Internet Did to Undertale [video]
There is a point to be made, but you've made it all wrong.

You could argue that the $2000 transaction is actually validating all previous transactions... which sure. I will grant you that.

But by that reasoning, you need to amortize all future purchases as paying for part of the Game of Life transaction! If you do that then the cost of the transaction approaches INFINITY DOLLARS as time goes to infinity!

Obviously, this way of looking at the cost of the transaction is useless to the point of being meaningless. So let's stick with $2000, which has a clear meaning in reality.
Not everyone behaves identically as they do in work with how they behave in social media.
As a Greek, this is accurate, and Greece has the same brain drain problems as well. All my university-educated friends now live and work abroad.
You don't _need_ Immer. But:

- Writing immutable update logic by hand is really hard to do correctly and hard to read

- Accidental mutations have historically been the number one cause of bugs in Redux apps

Immer eliminates accidental mutations, and makes it _way_ easier to write and read code that does correct immutable updates.

So, we now recommend Immer as the right way to do immutable updates in Redux [0], and Redux Toolkit uses it by default [1].

Agreed that there is absolutely a learning curve aspect here - you need to know why and how to write immutable updates by hand to really appreciate what Immer is doing for you, which is why I've repeatedly highlighted that information in our docs [2].

[0] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-immer-for-w...

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-8-modern-re...

[2] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/usage/immer-reducers
Who's making it about the USA? The article is clearly about the world. Food scarcity hits people in developed countries too, especially the US where there's no safety net against homelessness if you're unfit to work. That "small price increase in the friggin US of A" is a big deal to people below the poverty line. There's always someone poorer in the world, it's just weird to draw a line in the sand and say "you must be this malnourished to speak up".
As for automating work, how far back should we go? Should people be forced to abandon their cars because having horse-drawn chariots employed more people?
I honestly can’t tell which model you’re arguing in favor of.
For All Mankind is actually pretty good but it is the only thing I'm interested in on the platform.
Absolutely. You just need to be strategic about what kind of work you want to do and with whom you want to work, and then build your skill set accordingly. I would strongly suggest you look for older mentors. I work as a technical due diligence assessor, and I see so many unglamorous and unknown tech companies in weird niches that you'd never think of, but making buckets of money. Many of whom have mature staff. Software is far, far more diverse than tech media and general media would lead you to believe, and there are lots of fields where people with other life experience and the stability of someone in their 40s is highly desirable. Lots of companies really don't want to be constantly worrying about losing their devs, which is far more of a problem if they are young and easily lured to other cities.
>Assets are items that generate cash flow. If you live in it, it's a liability and not an asset

imputed rent is the cashflow if you live in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent
>GCP

GCP is still flailing around trying to find solid ground. After multiple fits and starts, with Kurian at the helm they're at least making an attempt to attract enterprises, but their inability to commit to a product in the consumer division has ABSOLUTELY tarnished their reputation with the enterprise.

>Waymo, Android

Waymo and Android have only survived because they feed the advertising beast. Don't kid yourself into believing either one would still exist if they didn't.

The reason google can't make a decent messaging app is because by definition, people want their messages to be private. Google can't data mine and let you have privacy - it's why allo literally died DURING the product announcement because someone caught wind that they were going to do encrypted chats that couldn't be data mined. And instead they're trying to push RCS - without encryption - that nobody wants besides them and the mobile companies who also want to data mine.

Everything about a petro state seems to apply here. As for google not having weak institutions and corruption, I'd say they just do a better job of covering it up than most petro states. See: Andy Rubin.
Something for Turkey to think about.
I just checkmated in seven moves.
e4 h5
Bc4 e5
Qf3 Qe7
Nh3 g5
Nxg5 QxG5
Qxf7+ Kd8
Qxf8+mate
On a hunch I put the title of the paper into the Wikipedia search. Among other things, I got the "Scholarly peer review" article, clicked on it and checked where it was referenced.
My default intuition is that on a nation-state level, everyone is constantly hacking everyone else. Wonder what the reality is.
“What was your favorite course?”

“Tell me about a course project where you did well.”

Are reasonable questions for someone directly out of undergrad, with no internships, etc.
Not without first writing a spec for adding NFTs to bitcoin, I'm afraid.
Not to mention that Turkey is preventing Cyprus from accessing their own offshore oil reserves: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-warns-turkey-over-oil-dri...
For the sake of completeness:

I don't work at NASA, and I know a few arrogant people who also don't work at NASA.
If “we all” was the part where you disagreed, why did you quote every part of my reply but that?

HN is not perfect, but it’s far from the norm online regarding good faith rational discussion, and I’ve certainly witnessed people here accepting and learning facts and from rational arguments.
The European bond market has little connection to the American CPI. European rates are determined by a complex market of futures and interest rate swaps between various banks and markets. Knowing that, negative interest rates make plenty of sense, because interest rates in Europe are relative to other currencies -- unlike in the US, where interest rates are based in a single currency.
I can view the tweets fine and I don’t have a Twitter account at this time.
SpaceX reveals the grand extent of its starport plans in South Texas
Yes, our Slack integration will be in a beta for a few more weeks. Email me if you'd like access. My email is in my profile.
Disclaimer: I am Turkish and I live in Europe.

I mean, the dispute between Turkey and Greece mostly is about the islands that are literally 5 to 10kms away from Turkish mainland and Greece trying to claim the whole Aegan See for themselves, citing the islands are her waters and there a LOT of islands, enough to cover Aegean See and isolating Turkey’s west shores. It causes a dispute, since if Greece would have their way, Turkey would not even be able to use her west shores.

Greece invading west Turkey in WW1 does not help either.

The conflicts are really feels like children arguing with each other. Both parties needs to stop, but I think both governments/ruling parties enjoy nationalist votes from fueling this dispute. Other countries, who have interest in this dispute, does not help either.
It was a combination of multiple things. The first customer came from the newsletter I run called SRE Teams (https://sreteams.substack.com). Others came from intros from my network and from reaching out to people I thought we could help. When I was running the DevOps team at Pismo we used to organize meetups and knowledge sharing sessions with other companies having similar problems, this also helped.
Can you expand on this? It's the first time I've heard the Netherlands described this way (corruption and inequality)

Most lists I've seen rank the Dutch as having low levels of inequality and high standards of living.
What’s Startpage’s revenue model? (How does a private search engine make money?)
> protecting existing ownership is orthogonal to enabling new transactions.

But for blockchain, those are the same thing. You cannot add new transactions to the blockchain without doing the work to secure it.
It's important to remember Joel Spolsky, one of the founders of stackoverflow is an old school Microsoft guy that managed the Excel team before starting his own company. He has always been a bit of a Microsoft fanboy, and used to advocate a lot for VB as a serious language back before it got swallowed by .Net and turned into a less powerful syntax for C#. The fact they chose C# isn't surprising at all given that. It actually would have been far more surprising to see them pick anything but C#.

I think the previous poster was a bit off the mark though. The language performance wasn't really the issue there, rather it's the fact that they picked a language that at the time really only ran on Windows, and as a consequence they were forced into running their web servers on Windows. That choice then forces them to scale up rather than out since each instance has license costs attached to it. For most companies running on Linux, it's trivial to scale out since your only costs are the compute cost (or the hardware cost in a non-cloud model), where as it tends to be far more expensive to scale up as more powerful hardware tends more towards geometric increases rather than linear. These days the choice of C# wouldn't be such a big issue as .Net core can easily run on Linux servers, but back in the 2000s using C# was putting a pretty big albatross around your neck by way of Windows licenses.
Because it's rude, like a poke in the eye with a stick.
What is OBS ?
You're right, the automatic downloads have made things much easier. But it's still not anywhere near instant play. I have very fast internet at home but games can get tens of gigabytes big. If I have half an hour to play a quick game, that's a non-starter.

And let's not even talk about selecting hardware for a pre-built PC or building a gaming PC from scratch. That's just too much to ask for, for most people.

Don't get me wrong, I love all that stuff. But I think most people don't. That's the only way I can explain why anyone would pay the premium for the awful and expensive experience that are modern game consoles.
My father switched to a programming career at 55, and did it until he retired at 68. There is no shortage of programming work to be done. He started in the mid 1990s, and there's lots more work to go around today than there was then.
Last year I was thinking about this (I am 26). I came up with the term meta-communication for this (I did feel like a genius for moment), and then I googled it, and found out it actually has been studied by others for a long time.