skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to be a great point on his resume.

How many people get to say something like, "Reduced GTA 5 load times by 70%"?!
Can't comment for parent, but I agree. As a climber I only know a couple of knots, and don't usually need anything outside this set, in order of utility:

- figure 8
- clove hitch
- klemheist
- overhand bend
- girth hitch
- munter hitch
- prussik
- ring bend
- double fishermans
- bowline
Only they never posted anything during the outage there
I really was thinking that it was intended... I remember watching GTA V on Xbox 360 and being impressed by how good it looked, how it performed in such a "limited" device, so something like this would resonate in a team so good. But it was almost 6 years ago, so probably a good part of that team has moved on to other companies, and the ones left, maybe are in other projects, hopefully, GTA VI.

Glad to see Rockstar addressing this; I will try the update once it is released, and maybe I can play some online games without getting frustrated.
Say I majored in physics and went on to get a masters in fine arts and became a world-renowned screenwriter, would you call me a mathematician? That’s argument is equivalent with claims that Cook is a software engineer.
Check out Cockpit by the red hat guys.
I think this might be useful for you.
How do you know it’s not on purpose? Seems to have what might be a desired effect.
Big missing con for GraphQL here — optimization. Doing the right thing in simple cases is easy; in more complex cases you’re looking at having to do custom operations based on query introspection which is an even bigger pain in the ass than using REST in the first place UNLESS all of your data is in one database OR if you’re using it as a middleman between your clients and other backend services, you have a single read-through cache like Facebook which allows you to basically act as if everything were in a single database.
> Why bother using FF at this point?

All these people complaining about a free browser, and one that isn't selling your soul to pay for it.

Please check your behavior, and set a better example in the future.
What an awesome article. I wonder why this construction isn't more well-known.
...because?

I dunno, I kinda think you might be out of your depth on this one, based on that response.

Also: none of your few previous posts are tech-related. They're all about personal finance.
Ethernal: Multiplayer dungeon generated and owned by the players
Most countries are pausing rollout for 2 weeks. After over a year of covid 2 weeks won't make a big difference.
Do those other jobs have the prestige, benefits and pay of Google though?
Malta too?
Are there any clients that will run on older versions of Android.
Have the Danes rendered families less important?
Edge has one too at edge://surf
RTM, PG and I used BSDI (a commercial distribution of 4.4BSD) at Viaweb (starting 1995) and migrated to FreeBSD when that became stable. RTM and I had hacked on BSD networking code in grad school, and it was far ahead of Linux at the time for handling heavy network activity and RAID disks. PG kept using FreeBSD for some early web experiments, and then YC's website, and then for HN.

FreeBSD is still an excellent choice for servers. You may prefer Linux for servers if you're more familiar with it from using it on your laptop. But you use Mac laptops, FreeBSD sysadmin will seem at least as comfortable as Linux.
The Osmotic Pump (1974)
Except some commenters in the original thread ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If your only goal is to attract economic migration then this may be fine. I'm quite happy with keeping the diversity of European languages intact and for someone who wants to make a real commitment to a country learning a language shouldn't be a problem.

Also for what it's worth I moved around Europe as a kid coming from a lower middle-class background, didn't go to international schools, and learned two languages just fine. Kids pick languages up fast.

Also what has speaking English or intra-european migration to do with fertility rates? For the European fertility rate it doesn't matter how much you move around in Europe.
You two might only have different ideas of „needing help“. It could easily mean that a team member „couldn‘t figure it out after trying X/Y/Z for N minutes“.
As the author of the parent comment…

…yes, I am aware Telegram does not use the absolute best practices, and at the very least, I imagine it can be cracked wide open by a nation-state intelligence agency.

Which is why, for my occasional super-secret must-be-hush-hush chats, I use other clients. For my day-to-day chats? Telegram. Because, to be privileged, to be flippant: the NSA is welcome to read my texts about what I’m buying at Target this afternoon.
Netplan on paper is a nice abstraction layer for various network configuration tools.

In reality, it's a pain in the backside which may not yet support a config option you want to use for the chosen backend.

These days my preference is to bypass the unnecessary abstraction and just use raw systemd-networkd instead.
yahoo finance api was down today
On Adding Bandaids
> Having failed there, I contemplate the options... Is teaching the offspring to wash dishes actually child abuse?

If they're clever enough, perhaps they will become motivated by the labor to build you another mechanical servant.
I'm having issues on Heroku right now with git deploys not getting the right and updated code set. Took me far too long to notice the warning bar at the top of the page.
Consent requires a positive opt-in [0] but there are conditions that permit use of cookies without consent [1]. It seems clear to me that it was written with the intent of excluding advertising cookies while allowing shopping baskets to work even without consent, as you say. Facebook is contesting that its use of cookies falls under the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual category, and so doesn't require consent. Of course, if that's the case, the GDPR is truly toothless regarding tracking cookies.

> my point was more about the basic idea that people know Facebook is data mining them and use it anyways therefore the idea that you haven't opt'd into it is a bit silly

Another relevant point here is that we seem to keep focusing on cookies, but that's just a small part of the equation.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
I want to see more of this from giant companies.
This gives me hope that there are real people amongst the mindless drones in these hulking corporations.
I can create the urination effect without an app.
or just get a 4k monitor and realize things are too small and you need the extra space for readability.
+1 for Palemoon, they do a good job of maintaining what to me feels like Firefox, before Mozilla started making all these bizarre and unwanted changes.
All types of infractions. https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Police-...
No they won't, because the purpose of those sentries isn't to prevent an invasion.
I was thinking about a desalination method using gravity pressure to drive reverse osmosis. Turns out people had proposed it back in 1974. Still, it's quite interesting, and it would be really cool if someone could get it to work. You'd basically get fresh water for free (minus capital costs, which would be a bit more than a conventional reverse osmosis plant). It may have been impractical with 1974 technology, but what about today?

https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.183.4121.157
Sutter Health can't find my insurance in their system.

I called the insurance, and waited while the agent told me they were calling Sutter sort it out. After they told me it was all sorted, I called Sutter Health, and they still couldn't find me in their system and refused to serve me.

So I called again, with the agent on the line, and Sutter took my information. But, neither the insurance agent nor the Sutter Health representative had any idea how to fix the actual problem, so I'll have to have have this fight every time I work with Sutter Health.

I spent close to two hours on hold today, with the Anthem insurance's help line dropping me from the queue every few minutes.

The only parts of the system that aren't an outright scam are intentionally neglected and broken: still part of the scam.
You got it! Thanks :)
I refuse to get auto-debited. This thing is obscene : you let a company debit any sum at will from your bank account.
> looked to the GNOME project to see how people feel about removing low-use features

I like it and its the main reason I use gnome. Gnome does everything I need and is pretty close to my ideal use case. There are a few minor things I don't like but they are easy to deal with. The DE is very stable and nice looking and is typically first on new tech like Wayland. I assume a large chunk of this speed and stability comes from not being bogged down with 1000 options and alternative workflows.

At work we have to support so many obscure workflows and options and its a constant source of bugs when you forgot there is a toggle that changes the way things work and your new change doesn't support that. Or that a feature has 5 alternative workflows making your change 5x harder so its not worth starting at all.
"Infiltrated" implies there was a state other than "saturated"
There's a lot of assumptions in this comment:

- That people are only employed at FANG

- That outside of cryptocurrencies, people only work on enterprise software and widgets

- That blockchain has the only difficult distributed systems problems

- That cryptography is being advanced significantly by blockchain (I would like to see more on this if it's true. From a brief search only "zero-knowledge proofs" are brought up, and considering it's a deeply technical math area, just throwing more money at the problem won't necessitate any advancement)

But most of all, you just threw out buzzwords without giving any examples, which is a non-argument.
The absurdity of this debate is highlighted in the comments section of any newspaper article on Facebook. In them, you'll find real people using their real names, happily displaying to their local community what dreadful people they really are.

Real name policies do not stop abuse. But many voters will be swayed by their basest and most authoritarian instincts, and bring themselves to support yet another example of internet salami slicing by tech-illiterate governments who know all too well themselves that this has nothing to do with ending online abuse.

And why wouldn't they? The horror stories of online abuse are very real! But the consequences of trying to bubblewrap the internet have led to a place now where here in Australia a single un-elected bureaucrat is about to be given the power to scrub whatever she pleases from the internet with no recourse to users whatsoever.

I understand of course that this is just a petition that must be given lip service, but the tech community has got to realise that this sort of nonsense is not just going to go away. "Just use Matrix/Tor/I2P/IPFS/crypto-soup-du-jour" is really not a good enough response, unless we want an internet for crypto nerds (quickly banned in Australia, under penalty of secret trial and imprisonment, of course) and a separate normie-net for Netflix and state-approved cat pictures. What to do about it (above whinging about it on HN), I have no idea.
meta comment and completely feeling based : sometimes it really seems like companies, politicians, bureaucracies, don't have a process for acknowledging mistakes and/or lack of knowledge (and/or are seemingly not allowed to).
In short:
-Refrigerated vans/trucks deliver ingredients
-Leftovers get cycled out
-We've designed the machines to be easy and efficient to clean. Some of this is still secret until our patents are issued, sorry I can't say more!
-Roughly once a day, and the containers will stay where they are most of the time.
-The nice thing about shipping containers is that you can put them on a flatbed truck and move them around. That gives us some location flexibility without needing to build it into a truck.
GTA5, two console generations later and most games still don't come close.
My electricity provider has absolutely no trust from me after a number of experiences which I won’t describe here. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to find they’ve overcharged me. The process to deal with them in any regard is always byzantine. So, I suppose it depends on what you mean by “have to.”
Story of HN. Come for the content, stay for the comments.
I'm not sure, but for me it looks like someone overoptimistic that thinks that a piece of paper is enough to "own" some land on the opposite side of the globe.

It may be enough to own an apartment in Manhattan, because you pay the security guy in the entrance of the building, and the maintenance fee and other stuff. And you can call a lawyer in case of a problem.

But for a piece of land in the middle of nowhere, it's not enough. You probably need to keep the local police station "happy".

Anyway, the combination of pseudoanonymity of Bitcoins and the lack of KYC measures may transform this in a laundering scheme if they are not careful.
Depends on how the team defines "as soon as you need help".

Nothing in the grandparent post precludes writing good docs and allowing/encouraging experimentation.
I'm still trying to understand why they sell a soldering iron with a cpu and os.
Bug-parity. Not even odd parity.
Compare the recursive Fibbonaci function against Scheme with Guile's JIT.
Understanding Subsidy Benefit, Cost, and Market Effect
welcome and thanks for the nice words!
This is great. I have someone in my meetings to has the bad connection problem all the time. When trying that one out though, if I disabled it, it would only sometimes disable itself (and re-enable audio)?
Ah, my bad. I was wrongly interpreting OP’s comment.
Yes this
> But Elon is not that sort of person, which is the great tragedy in all this.

If he was, SpaceX and Starlink wouldn't exist. Have you ever tried to handle anything at UN level? That a 10-20 year discussion and even then must likely nothing will be agree on.

The Outer-Space treaty has been argued about for 50+ years and not a single revision has been made.

SpaceX is fully in line with the current interventional space regulation. Nothing SpaceX is doing is qualitatively different then what anybody else does. They just do it more.

In fact, in many way SpaceX fast adjustment and dialogue with astronomy community is forward thinking. The reality is, its not UN and treaties that are gone solve these problems, but the actual stack holders working together.

SpaceX is working with ESA on LEO consolation safety (as ESA has multiple sats in the same region) and work with astronomers to find good compromises and give them the data they need to plan operations.

> constant satellite launches, maintenance, and deorbiting will not be viable cost-wise over the 20-40 years

The cost of accessing to space will drop 10x at least in the next 10 years and likely go down more after that.

> Just like nuclear, this is a perfectly good stop-gap. But the right answer is renewables - everyone knows it - it's just a matter of timing.

Actually nuclear would have been the right answer and the only reason 'renwables' (nuclear is practically renewable as well) are considered is because terrible global handling of nuclear has made it unpractical.

In 100-200 years people will be using nuclear, not renewables, they are the stop-gap for now.
"Sorry, this browser isn't compatible with Zoom Escaper. Please try Chrome on desktop."

How many times will we have to learn the lessons of the late '90s/'00s?
>And you can get good enough to do things without getting genius level great, or even good at the level (or with the ease) of the person with the innate talent

Maybe. It depends on how much innate talent you do have. Talent isn't an on off switch. It's a spectrum. It's possible to have enough talent to be a genius, to be just below a genius, to be good enough, but also to not even be good enough to reach a minimal employable threshold. It depends on the person.

>The industry needs tens of millions of programmers, for all kinds of levels, not only innate-talent-software-gurus.

But who gets the best rewards?
I love this website. Having spent a bit of time on yachts I already had a reasonable grounding, but it’s easy to forget knots you’re not using. For a while I found the easiest way to get to sleep each night was to try to picture how to tie the tumble hitch and visualising where the forces were held.

https://www.animatedknots.com/tumble-hitch-knot
yes TR will have the new cache configuration, just like regular ryzen and epyc do.
double a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel.

Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord
It's almost totally true for homeowners who live in the "flooded" home, trapped and unable to move. For investors it depends if they can afford the loss from selling at below purchase, and how much profit they have to eat into. Large companies can afford to liquidate and leave the space temporarily, putting their real-estate funds into development or something other than retail rent. Small investors with only a few houses are the ones who most impact retail house rent (not apartments) and this is where the rent trap is, they aren't living in these homes (cancelling rent with ownership) but their reluctance to sell for a new reasonable price means their renters are denied a chance to get ahead.

As for new builds, much of that money is held by the large rental companies and needs them to transfer out of the rental space, which they won't do until the market looks sane. Maybe not as long as waiting for people to die, but still painful.

What a trap we built by trying to make our residences an investment.
The what now?

If I knew this was there I might have used it.
Take a look at almost every successful product and find the hacker news post where it was originally announced. Dropbox is useless because ftp exists, the iphone is useless because its too big and will get fingerprints, airpods are stupid because they look ugly and will fall in the drain, everyone will just use a strap to tie them to their phone.

If product managers listened to hacker news users our computers would be a faster version of Windows XP machines since that is the UI that most HN users prefer.
You could say I punted.
This being HN, does anyone have any knot suggestions for computer cables? For example, I have several cables that are too long and I tie them up with a twist-tie, but maybe there's a knot for that.

Some features that a good computer cable knot would have:

- No sharp bends (could damage cable internals)

- Stable but able to untie easily by pulling (like shoelaces)

- Can tie with one end still plugged in
Washington Post Concedes It Misquoted Trump's Call with Georgia Official
There's also an extracted version of it on Github for those of us who use Firefox.
Found mine on Dice.com
The soldiers on the ground can make better decisions about their own situation, yes. On the other hand, they will never know whether they could be even more useful 100 km further down south unless HQ tells them. Whether that kind of information actually matters changes from operation to operation.
I'm really looking forward to the PinePhone keyboard. Except for web-browsing, I use Emacs for almost everything else, so just give me a way to conveniently use Emacs on the PinePhone like I used to on the Nokia N900 and I can almost excuse all the PinePhone’s other flaws (e.g. a weak processor resembling a low-end Android phone from 2014, and a hard limit of 3GB of RAM on that processor).

However, though the hardware seems to be progressing well, I worry about the software side, both developing for the phone and using the phone enough to produce good bug reports. Is it just me, or is there much less community activity around the PinePhone than there was around the Nokia N900?
Knots are easy to forget unless you actually understand the knot.

For example, I can tie a bowline as well as most bowline-like knots (ex: sheet bend) without a recipe and even come up with variants on the fly, and I don't think I will ever forget that. This is, of course, after tying a lot of bowlines and forgetting recipes dozens of times.

I think that's for your "riding a bike" analogy. Really understanding a knot takes time and effort, but allows you to remember and even improvise. Memorizing a recipe is faster, more efficient, but easier to forget.
Kinda, but based on ye olden times experience, we were all much worse at running our own hardware.

I will agree that despite the relatively high reliability, I think we'll likely have a black swan event at some point in the future that we will regret not having tested off site disaster plans.
I wish it was cool again to not remove features and keep backwards compatibility.
Single threaded LISP application running on a single machine. Ta-da.
If only they used Kubernetes! /s
> For failures that don't take down the datacenter, we already have a hot standby. For datacenter failures, we can migrate to a different host (at least, we believe we can—it's been a while since we verified this).

It might be a good idea to verify it; see the recent events at OVH (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323).
Regarding component shortages:

'Quoting the words of a factory head we work with: “I haven’t seen anything like this in the 15 years that I’ve been in the business.”'

When will we get back to a status quo, or is "2+ years unless you're a multi-billion-dollar company" the new status quo for sourcing things now?
I'm curious, were you able to find specific numbers for any of the studies done for regulatory approval? The raw data showing how many people got the drug, how many had side effects, and how this compares to normal rates?

I haven't had any luck with that. I assume these numbers are what the FDA is looking at. Possible side effects are documented in the packaging for a drug, but that doesn't qualify the risk without numbers. I'd prefer to know this for any drug I'd consider using. I find it strange that this data is so hard to find.

I ask because it sounds like you went pretty deep in the vaccine you mentioned, maybe you bumped into this.
Yes for testing. But developers said it won't save development time because they still have to provide an even less dense layout for touch. And maybe the UI should change less anyway.
It's been some time since I've happened across Cockpit on Ubuntu, but previous experience showed it was several major updates behind and lacked a lot of the functionality you see in the screenshots.
A watchmaker has made a video series on youtube about reconstructing the mechanism using some traditional techniques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE
Can you explain to me why netplan is bad?

When it came out in an LTS, I was impressed by being able to declaratively describe networking. And there's even a way to test a configuration with auto rollback.

These are features that I find great in thing like juniper routers.

But when I went online to see what people thought there just was annoyance.

It made no sense to me.
Not a joke at all. This is my life story.