skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shadow Warrior used a further iteration of the same Build engine. It came with a huge map that had all the map effects demoed, and there were a lot of them, something like fifty (so if you were building a map, you could copy an effect).

For example, there was a room above a room, and a moving hole in the floor/ceiling between them.
Feature creep. Everyone wants to leave a footprint in the world. Same thing with legislation.
I want a service like this which can do anycast...

Ie. I want to have an IP address pointed to vm's hosted in 3 Google cloud regions, where the client is connected to the nearest by network distance.

Is it possible?
love this tool. It helped me experiment and reduce the size of a docker image.
That's what makes it so terrible for long form threads. I use Threadreaderapp but it's not ideal. Long heavily fragmented threads like this are literally headache inducing.
Additionally to the other user, I would like to add that

1) Notifications being down is a smaller problem than the service not working at all.

2) there are indeed alternative push systems that allow plugging different push systems (see Unified Push - though not yet supported by Element)
Why are people buying tokens they don't understand? Did the author tell people to buy these tokens like in some pump and dump scheme?
On our blog it has been pretty good to get newsletter signups. We tried just having a 'subscribe to our newsletter' section but no one filled that out. I moved it over to Intercom as an experiment and it actually worked. For our main site it's barely worth it... we get a few questions here and there.
It’s also very directly related the to “effectively standard” (but not included) async library in Haskell.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async

The package description at the top of the link touches on the motivations which basically mirror this article.

I’ve personally never reached for the built in forkIO. withAsync or it’s helpers like mapConcurrently are always equally capable, easier to use, and with none of the foot guns.
You can advance the science of chemistry, you can set up a democratic republic, you can establish the metric system, but you execute ONE KING, and all that people will remember--
Great point. With the Federal Govt that often breaks down to "agencies that use GSA as a service provider" and "agencies that roll their own."
To my knowledge, the US doesn't yet have a central widespread instant-payment infrastructure (compared to the UK's Faster Payments[0]). The US Federal Reserve is working on FedNow[1], but that's not going to be released until 2023.

In the meantime, there are all number of financial-industry groups including the US Faster Payments Council[7] and The Clearing House[8]. Some are just industry groups, while others have actual systems in place.

All of this has, in my opinion, led to a lot of fragmentation on the front-end. The only instant-payment platform I know of that is bank-endorsed is Zelle[4], owned by Early Warning Services[5], which is better known for their pseudo-credit reporting agency (that focuses on bank accounts instead of credit cards and loans[6]). You've also got a ton of third-party apps filling the space in the US, including Cash App[2] and Venmo[3].

Within all of this, VISA is in an interesting position, as I discovered when I—a credit union member—set up Zelle. When an institution is a member of Zelle, you tell you institution that you want to associate your phone number/email address with Zelle; the bank then does the rest of the work.

As my credit union isn't a member of Zelle, I had to use their app to set up an account. After confirming that I don't have an account at a member bank, Zelle asked for my debit card information. Using that, I have been able to both send _and receive_ money instantly. I confirmed this when I received money, and saw it appear in my bank account within an hour of getting the Zelle notification.

This is a power that I didn't know my debit card possesses. And it's why I think this investigation is important. I want to be able to move around smaller amounts of money without incurring fees, because that will hit hardest on those who can't afford it.

[0]: https://www.fasterpayments.org.uk

[1]: https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/index....

[2]: https://cash.app

[3]: https://venmo.com

[4]: https://www.zellepay.com

[5]: https://www.earlywarning.com

[6]: https://checkingexpert.com/what-is-early-warning-services/

[7]: https://fasterpaymentscouncil.org

[8]: https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
Uuh have you not heard of xiaomi or oneplus? They're already creating high value goods.
What you're talking about doesn't describe my problem. My only problem is that sites spend any time at all asking about cookies or tracking, which I can control on my end anyway.
How are those local stores holding up against online delivery? I can't see Amazon displacing the boulangerie, patisserie, charcuterie, boucherie, etc. in those small towns. But I could easily see people being willing to order their socks and hammers and such online.

I love those little towns and have dreamed of retiring to one. (One thing I need to figure out how to say in French is "How is the Internet there?"... though I suppose these days I could even get one of those nearly-dead little villages they sell so cheaply and bring a Starlink.)
Look at the charts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization

Their entire job is to inflate the price of existing assets. There is no other productive purpose, this money is not being re-lent for people to start businesses and it is not serving any other practical purpose, it's literally "number go up".

>The securities that were so instrumental in triggering the financial crisis of 2007-2008, asset-backed securities, including collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) were practically non-existent in 1978. By 2007, they comprised $4.5 trillion in assets, equivalent to 32% of U.S. GDP.

That's 4.5 trillion dollars in imaginary money that isn't serving any purpose. Even Warren Buffet agrees:

>Warren Buffett (who famously disparaged CDOs and other derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal"
It's a much better quote than the annoyingly common, "Don't write a game engine!"

If you work in games or want to work in games, writing a game engine is a very valuable experience. Probably the best thing you can work on for personal growth.

That said, I think you get substantially more value out of the experience if you've already gotten your feet wet making games with a commercial engine.
SQL Server Upsert Patterns and Antipatterns (2017)
Because there's a limited amount of hours per day, and even more limited joules of energy.

So I'll always disagree that such initiatives must be in one's free time.

Guess I am only looking at this as a job now. I do want to work on certain things but nobody is willing to pay for them, AFAIK at least.
In 2002-2005 I worked with all the supermarket and hypermarket chains in Romania, I still have a couple of friends in CxO positions in the top 5 companies; you are missing the full picture on what happened there, but the story is too long for a comment here; the 2007 change had zero impact of what already happened in the early 2000s.
But unlocking a carrier-locked phones did not carry the risk of interfering with loan shark business.
Yep, using Webpack in Docker on a Mac is essentially unusable. I see around a 5-10x slowdown in Webpack builds. Using docker-sync seems to help the CPU out a bit, so my MacBook Pro doesn't do the jet engine space heater routine quite as much, but the performance is still nearly unusable.

https://docker-sync.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
that, or just one app that uses multiple pathways and protocols to get the message across
Is that due to education? Lack of understanding of the trans experience? Given that the number of trans people out there is already fairly small (single digit percentages), I wouldn't expect trans awareness to be wide. Especially internationally.
She committed suicide in the end, it was not (assisted) euthanasia as far as I can tell, although she wanted that.
The sandwich traders didn’t decompile the contract before calling it and instead assumed it’s like all the others, based on pattern-matching I assume. This is sort of like signing a contract without reading it.

I suppose simulating what the call would do using a trial run would also work?
Onyx has a bunch of these: https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

It’s probably not exhaustive, but quite convenient.
besides some apps that do weird stuff, there is always a button to open settings, isn't there? Or is that just android?
Five lessons I learned from selling my 1st business
I find it ironic that further down foone runs into the limitations of twitter as a platform and app and complains about it.
You remove their license and impound cars they have permission to drive
By definition any government would be unpopular then, since there was always be some minority who does not like those in power.
Any day now they will find out which company is behind all three apps.
VBA hasn't been updated since 2010... yet it's still going strong.

Things like this create a niche and will live longer than cockroaches after a nuclear war.
And you need opportunity to do it, and other people need to find it appealing. You could do 1 of the 10 old / young people tropes and get clicks.

"Meaning something" personally and "being interesting" are not the same.

Also there isn't that much wrong with just exploiting popularity machine. So a bunch of people thought you were a young girl, and you're not... who cares! If anything you are teaching people to stop putting so much credence into the SM sphere... which can only be good.
Duke was particularly good in multiplayer because all the guns were useful and balanced. For example, the starting gun was deadly at distance. The shrinker would give you an instant frag if you could catch the little guy. The rocket launcher was quite slow. etc.

Alley anyone?
Let's not get overexcited ... they will probably come back up again.
Dozens of studies show that punishment is barely a motivation.
The only way of making a society more secure is to prevent people stepping into the criminal world in the first place. Education, integration etc. And if they still do, as much effort must be taken to let them integrate back into society as soon and smooth as possible.
Yeah for sure. Hopefully we can continue to evolve ways to share all the new gains, especially with people who got pushed out who weren't property owners.
Actually that's done for you, whether you control it or not. WSL2 is essentially a VM with better host integration.
Twitter has restricted Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account
> Previously, we have reported that men affected by androgenetic alopecia (AGA) are overrepresented in severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

That’s very interesting. Never read that anywhere else.
it's simply not true - according to Matthew it is around a third
For deep dive into quantitative analysis of leveraged portfolios, this analysis on Bogleheads Blog by forum member Siamond is very insightful:
https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/2020/01/31/leveraged-portfol...
Many do so openly but with animated avatars that duplicate their facial expressions by way of facial motion capture.

They effectively play an animated character live and voice it as they perform it's facial expressions.

On the subject of Japanese gender changes, a most interesting one is played by a Japanese female artist who plays a male character that looks like a female once again. — this artist has a particular habit of creating male characters that look as though they be female.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRkO-V29fFw&ab_channel=Spiri...
FWIW I’m not annoyed by the title. It just sounds tongue in cheek. Of course, it’s sensible to him because these are his settings.
In that case they still take 2% which is pretty absurd.
Then we need to decentralize notifications (or better, to do away with them).

We actually decentralized them decades ago, it's called email
Pretty much anything can be dismissed with an adlib of the form "It's [boring subject] as [thing I don't like] riffing on [some other thing]." It never captures the nuance, or why X as Y riffing on Z might still be interesting or enlightening.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Having so much on video in the first place is a pretty recent phenomenon. 30 years ago, politicians had a very low chance of being caught on camera at all.
It was capitalizing a supply chain that had a lot of criminal activity in it, but still the value had to come from exchange with dollars. I guess there is a question of how many people and how much of the economy you sweep up in the term 'criminal', because, as I understand, the vast majority of money that flows into criminal enterprise comes from illegal drug users with legal source income. At this point though, we made billionaires out of those criminals because ordinary 100% lawful citizens around the world fear the financial mismanagement, corruption, and/or authoritarianism of their own governments, depending on where they live. That's sad. Terrible outcome really.
> return to a true meritocracy and focus exclusively on the only thing that matters

When the fuck was the military a meritocracy?
I would love to see the cookie concent being part of the javascript api, so that the browser could show a standard dialog instead.
"We" can't decentralize notifications on iOS, only Apple can. It's not in their interest to do so (battery life, platform brand control via censorship), so it's probably a moot point.

It's better to choose a fight you can win.
I still email URLs to myself... I can't believe this hasn't been solved.
As a 3D engine programmer from the era, I feel like portals could have been pulled off with relative ease. It's more a matter of wanting to do it. Someone today could demake Portal to a nineties era engine I'm sure.
Oh, I totally agree in that regard. Hard drive technology has been mature for a good number of decades, so a lot of the kinks have been worked out.
"It's a doorless unisex public bathroom with urinals. Weird."

And with Carpets, apparently ~ Gross.
I highly recommend you watch this lecture on blackmail inflation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xlmhhh9HYqc
I was recently watching The Brainwashing of My Dad. Rush Limbaugh made millions of dollars selling lies to the American public. At one point there is a video clip of him admitting that the truth of what he is saying on radio is irrelevant. It doesn't matter to him. He lays out the recipe for generating fear and uncertainty. Basically, if you say something loud enough and with enough confidence no one will stand in your way. Because, as fact checkers know, it takes considerable time to research a bullshit claim. By the time the research is done and published, the bullshitter has moved on and told an additional 20 lies. He also makes a statistical argument for how his business works. He doesn't need to hook every listener. But he does know that enough people will fall for his shtick.

The troubling aspect is that all of this bullshit is blending together. My dad watched Fox News. Now he's hooked on Youtube conspiracy garbage. I'd be terrified if he ever became a QAnon type. We're dealing with literal internet cults becoming a mainstream phenomenon. We're nowhere near equipped for the mess we, the technologists, have made. You have Alex Jones out there claiming that an elementary school shooting didn't happen. You think these guys are going to trust encryption? Or anything that their Youtube priest tells them is a "hoax"?

Education would be the answer. But education is at war with engagement algorithms and attention spans.
CPU of the Day: National Elentari x86 and What Lies Beyond – Part 1
Yes, it is tiny tiny minority, and we can safely ignore them...
I'm starting the .true TLD. Everything else on the Internet should be considered fantasy.
Yes, his name is Ken Silverman.
>Some trans men and non binary people.

Those are biological females (women).

>And many women don't menstruate.

What is your point here?
You can always crush the pill and put it into the feeding tube.
Exposure to VR environment could help reduce pain in people with nerve injuries
Really cool, I also remember poking around in the internals of Duke Nukem 3D and making levels a lot.

One cool thing about die Build engine is portals, you can build two different rooms and identify a wall in one with another wall in the other and "glue" the rooms together, IIRC. I think that is what is behind most of the "teleportation". I always thought that the mirror was just a wall portaled to itself, I wonder why the "physical" mirror space is necessary?

Edit: or maybe I'm misremembering what portals did? Here is a really detailed article by Fabien Sanglard about the engine: https://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/build_engine_internals.php
>If Firefox & Chrome had support for something lightweight like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) then most sites could just use that.

But they wouldn't, because they couldn't track people.
Note that Foone’s rant didn’t specifically reference any comments on this submission, but rather as a general occurrence whenever their content gets posted to HN. Which is definitely a valid observation: from what I’ve seen, nearly every Twitter thread that hits the front page gets the tedious “I don’t like Twitter” and “this should be a blog post” comments (whether or not the thread is from Foone).

In fact, in the time since Foone posted that followup, several people did in fact post comments complaining about Twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26515506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26515604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26516435
I think you're right if you are actually able to get ms or μs but as far as I know the unit your getting most of the time in python is second.
I myself would really like to see these kinds of relaxations. It is all about quality of life not quantity of life.

Thinking that your life is “completed” is related to suffering: if life is pointless or meaningless to you, having to go on is suffering.
This is interesting, but a little weak.

It reminds me of this other,10-year-old post about Tom Bombadil from the Lord of the Rings: https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html
Not just them. There are companies that exist primarily to help content creators manage this stuff. It's insane.
> Agreed. All I am really advocating for is that we don't expect people to have sign into a website from a computer/phone at home. Some people don't have that luxury.

We could set it up so that everybody does. Public libraries have traditionally been great at this, although they could certainly do with more funding.
If you can't do what you want in it, please open a ticket on https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL - there is also a repo for the kernel, but AFAIK technical feedback is best sent through this one.

(disclaimer: not directly involved with WSL, just trying to help)
Five Qualifications for Future Objects
> A legitimate interest is a use of personal information that is needed to fulfill a service.

No, it's not. If you need it to fulfill a service, then you are covered by (b) of Article 6 GDPR I cited earlier:

processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

Legitimate interest under (f) would be something that is not strictly needed to provide the service but (1) beneficial to the processor and (2) does not unduly negatively affect the data subject.
The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) (2012)
Huh. I've seriously used... I dunno, maybe five Linux package managers, on workstations and servers alike, plus poked at a couple others, and the only one I'd almost rather use day-to-day than Brew is Portage, but even that, probably not.

I like having the system strictly separate from my crap, and I think the UI is fairly good. The variety of packages available out-of-the-box is outstanding. I miss it when I'm on Linux, now, in a workstation-not-server context (yes, I know, there's LinuxBrew, but the package set is much smaller and less well-maintained). I started on MacPorts but got sick of it borking itself every few months such that it was faster to nuke the directory and reinstall everything than to figure out what it'd screwed up this time (granted, that was about a decade ago, maybe it's great now).

Brew gives off all kinds of signals of being something I'd hate (cutesy; a system tool written in Ruby; breaks with norms) but I like it a ton.
Been using this for a month or so - game changer. Can skip in-video advertisements, interaction reminders, introductions, (configurably) via a user-submitted and curated database.
i doubt it, they anticipated that many years ago, they only import 1/3 from ghana, easy to replace

source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/E...
I taught a computer lab at a local university a few years before that and discovered through one unhappy encounter with an angry student a key attribute that I’d failed to apprehend previously.

This student wanted to know exactly what to do when he encountered an error. I showed him my thought process for how I’d work my way back to a good known state and he was enraged.

Computer literacy is in no small part a willingness to experiment and be unafraid of what can happen (or at least enough basic knowledge to know how to avoid the really sharp edges that can in fact cause harm).

It’s a very difficult thing to teach.
Oh I follow now.. thanks for clarifying!
Makes sense. It's a performance. I don't get upset that Sir Patrick Stewart can't actually telepathically communicate with all of Earth.
Is there some mute button I'm missing? I've tried with both Chrome and Edge to play the pre-recorded riffs for a few different pedals and am not getting any sound. I verified I have volume on my end with a youtube video.
An overly sweet American breakfast cereal not worth trying as an adult. I read this particular one at my grandfather's house in Karachi one summer when it was stacked in the corner and I had nothing to do.
Question to rsync: Which HDs does rsync use? Is there a preferred brand? Which brands have been found to be most reliable?
WallStreetBets donates more than $350k to gorilla charity
It comes to min that I know of few politica scandals that were revealed by anyone caught on camera.
:shrug:...would still hit
The company behind the drug tripled their market cap between November 2020 and March 2021. It's now at 11B HKD: Kintor Pharmaceutical (9939 HK).
Ideally you want to lower recidivism. Giving people who were stealing or dealing drugs a reasonable chance of making a good living in a legal way reduces recidivism. Getting people with unstable homes and unstable lives counseling and training reduces recidivism. Helping them get jobs reduces recidivism. The state really has little to gain from punishment. There's keeping people who are a risk off the streets on one hand. There's rehabilitation and changing the circumstances of the offenders.

The interest in punishment is from politicians who want to appear "tough on crime" to their electorate. Those policies aren't tough on crime, though. They're tough on criminals in all the ways that lead to more crime in the end.
https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix#unified...
There is a strong sentiment in the US against paying more taxes in general to level the playing field a bit and help people in need, it's usually labeled as socialism. And now it's not even ok to use the incentives put in place for people who want to give extra money? Registering as a charity is the only way to make donations tax deductible, taking that away would basically reduce the donation and their effectiveness by the average tax rate of people with money to give, and they are usually not in the 12% bracket.