skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China has shown no interest that I know of in spying on non-Chinese citizens

Assuming that this assertion is true what motivates China to be so authoritarian towards their citizens but not so to the rest of the world? Is it altruism or inability?

Does China only spy on their own citizens but not the rest of the world because they like the rest of the world more than their own citizens and they want the rest of the world to have rights and freedoms that they believe their own citizens don't deserve?

If it comes down to an inability to spy on the rest of the world what do you think will happen when China does develop the ability to spy on the rest of the world?
For context, the price of a non-airbag motorcycle jacket is typically $150 for a basic one, $250-400 for a good value, and up to $1000 or more for a high end jacket.

Also, the cost of a major motorcycle injury is easily six figures before insurance.
Adding left and right parenthesis started messing up with the square brackets, but then I added a couple more of each square and round brackets and it worked perfectly.

Differentiating from lowercase y and g was next to impossible, though...
Capitalism broke down and now to exchange goods and services there is an awkward balance of giving everything away for free and implementing a subscription or other model of a perpetual payment scam.
However far away storage is from commercial viability, it's far closer than with nuclear.

Costs are dropping so rapidly that typical 5-year timelines for utility planning and procurement is running into some problems. People who make bids have to anticipate their costs in the future, so there's considerable betting going on.

Agreed on the heat pumps versus fossil heat. I moved in the past few years, and replacing all the natural gas is my first task before installing solar. By replacing natural gas with a heat pump, my total energy consumption has plummeted drastically. However, my utility charges only about 15% as much for a unit of natural gas energy as it does electrical energy, which eliminated the cost savings! So now that I better know my total energy consumption the switch to solar will happen very soon, and save me a ton of money.
Didn't know about <ol start="<number>">

Now I can have proper zero indexed lists and annoy friends. Chrome even supports negative integers.
It’s too bad the system isn’t collectively owned by the users.
So...a fundraiser that requires being rich to be involved in, rather than soliciting donations from anyone no matter their financial status.

What a world we live in now.
you're presenting this a little bit disingenuously. expectations were high that diablo 4 would be announced in 2018, and instead there was the announcement of a partnership to develop a mobile version of diablo. folks were upset and the presenter reacted poorly.

the following year diablo 4 was announced and much was forgiven. the mobile game is still not out (in closed beta rn) and early reports are good.

you can fault blizzard for thinking its core fans at blizzcon would be excited about a mobile game, but if you are a game developer with a popular IP you're making a huge mistake not developing for mobile, as it will be the majority of the global gaming market for the foreseeable future.
Looking back at old Twitter rather reminds me how simplicity was its main selling point. No threads, no images, no long tweets, and so on.

They've since doubled their length and add bunch of meta information on every post, rendering it basically indistinguishable from any other social network.

Twitter today is running on network effects and brand recognition, not core value. That core value is gone.
Uber Says Costs to Recruit Drivers Will Weigh on Results
It's about power spiking. Blizzard committed to designing without power spikes and gamers prefers power spikes.

Maintenance requires switchups to these dynamics, but when you have created a system that's devoid of these events, your game is going to be stale no matter what you do. New maps, new characters, etc.
I think the person you're responding to said "for people who don't believe in sex-based personality differences"

Asserting that there are sex-based personality differences is not incompatible with gendered behavior being mostly social or learned.
> Gold is "issued" at a slow and predictable rate just like Bitcoin and was very stable when it was used as currency. The volatility in Bitcoin is because most transactions are speculation instead of real commerce, just like gold is today.

Oh really? Why does it go parabolic? Bitcoin issuance is nothing like gold. Gold supply responds to demand. The more people mine the more gold goes into circulation. With Bitcoin the more people mine, the same amount of bitcoin is issued.
This is a much lager scope problem than motorcycle safety.
So true about WoW.

Dungeon Finder and Raid Finder made it so you didn't need to find people or be in a guild to do these things. They also took the sense of enormity out of the world because you don't have to physically go places anymore. The deeprun tram, boats, zepplins were all such elegant solutions to create a breathtakingly open and connected world, and flying mounts & dungeon finder killed the feeling so quickly.

I do think the best thing they've done in WoW recently though, for bringing some of that discovery back, is adding secret events and global puzzles. Going into Gnomeregan, seeing a small hidden button, pressing it and having a lvl ?? boss show up and obliterate my max level character was just awesome. And I had a ton of fun doing the Uuna quest-but-not-really.

But so much of the game has just stopped being fun.
When it works, it’s a fantastic tool. I like pairing it with codespell, interrogate, bandit, and a few other tools to get a broad idea of how my codebase is doing on different fronts.

With that said, lately I’ve had issues using vulture on larger projects with various errors, so hopefully they’ll continue to develop it and address those.
Motorcycle airbags are worn and are not part of the bike.
That was excellent. Especially the dialog, totally on point. The horrible thing is that it is barely an exaggeration. US companies are in bed with a government that is conducting an actual genocide, as you point out. And then there is the middle east....

But as far as Google and Pakistan goes, most people who have an inkling of this think that the censorship only affects results served within Pakistan. But, in fact, the censorship affects search results served within the US. Google has allowed the Pakistani government, as well as various pressure groups and other governments, to influence what US people see within the US.
Is this something we need evidence for?

A question I would understand is something like "is there a good study on how much an airbag vest helps?".

But especially the kind with cervical stabilization, it's pretty much guaranteed to provide some protection. There will be some situations where the rider is injured instead of dead, or bruised instead of injured.

RCTs aren't science, we're allowed to reason on the basis of readily-apparent empirical facts.
+1 for adding RTL support. Should be added by default for all libraries especially that it's not hard to implement with CSS.
> Professional e-sport tournament payouts for Counter-Strike now total nearly $100M; players have everything from huge salaries to sport psychologists, but still no good way of visualising game data.

Cue "SG was overpowered for five years and nobody noticed" (because real CS players use the AK, not the "cod noob gun").
To build upon this question, more broadly: I'm also someone who's done quite a bit of HTML but it definitely isn't my day job. Finding good info is quite hard whenever I do want to make some site: most of the time I end up on reference pages but they don't give a good overview, whereas beginner's tutorials might have the piece of info I'm missing somewhere on the middle of part 7 (I don't have the patience for that). Searching for "modern HTML mobile scaling for someone who's about 12 years out of date please" doesn't quite seem to do it.

Does anyone have a good way to approach this? Or for HTML in particular, is there some way to keep up with it (on a decade time scale, not this year's framework hype)?
> They run programs in hospitals in South Asia to teach new mothers how to take care of their babies once they get home.

I'm hoping there is some kind of specific medical knowledge that is being passed on here, otherwise this sounds extremely dubious as a significant life saver...
Every socket pin is a hit to reliability. That’s a Mother Nature problem there is no getting around. A soldered joint will always have better reliability than a pin-and-socket joint. The MTBF math is easy.

So the right way to look at this is you are spending MTBF to get MTTR wins and also upgradability. This may or may not be the right choice for every user, and for most manufacturers its a losing proposition.

Personally, I like the upgradability and understand that real-world shock-and-vibe issues may show up and need me to dig out a screwdriver. Not everyone may share those expectations.
> Blizzard kinda killed the RTS genre with Starcraft 1. It's basically the perfect RTS so everything that came after it seems inferior. Even Starcraft 2.

The overall market killed the RTS genre because everybody has a pretty clear idea of exactly how much money you're going to make selling an RTS and it's not that high. RTS games don't port well to consoles or mobile, and that's the majority of people and revenue.

Blizzard killed the RTS genre by completely optimizing for e-sports click-fests at the expense of everything else. A pox on their house.
"I think we can now officially declare this trend a net negative on living quality."

+1
A lot less injuries in MotoGP for starters.
All of this started with the Activision buyout. They wanted to milk the cow as much as possible, outsourcing ALL. It is not working.
I think its because their model changed their hitbox as they moved. So while their pathing was calculated at one point of the animation they could no longer fit and would re-path or something to that extent.
The need for valgrind etc. is indeed a black eye for C. But, as I said, I have not found occasion to use it on C++ code.

Certainly there is plenty of C code, and also plenty of bad and un-modern C++ code, that could benefit from these tools. There is not much Rust code in existence. Imagine running the Rust compiler just once over an amount of Rust code commensurate with those bodies. How many core-millennia would that take? The mind boggles.

Familiarity with essential tools is certainly a prerequisite for competence. One who has not used a profiler might never have been asked to make a program faster. One who has not used valgrind uses some other means to discover the causes of problems; if they spend notably more time than using valgrind or other tools would have needed, that would mark incompetence.

It seems like rr could save many people a great deal of time. It would not have saved me much, this past decade, because it could save no more time than I did spend tracking down proximate causes of trouble.

In general, it is always much better to achieve correctness by construction, using tools that only produce correct or, at worst, easily diagnosed results. Such a toolset might include a compiler alone, but I have found a powerful language that enables good libraries, and such good libraries, yield the same benefit. You need good libraries anyway.

> Which value or values of C++ do you think he got wrong?

Srsly?
I don't think they 'made a mistake'. They just realized that they wouldn't sell many at $800, and that they'd probably make more by appearing the cut the price and flogging a subscription model. Unfortunately for them they hired a comms director who comes off as a sociopath and thinks hostage taking is a reasonable business model.
It's possible, but some past cycles didn't emerge because of habitat destruction. We'll see.
Fascinating beasts (and where to find them)
ostensibly... through us...?
Yeah, this sounds very mobile-gamey. Systems like this tend to start feeling like a job you have to do when you're not in the mood to play them. My preferred casual style of binge-rest-binge would not not be well-served.
I think the underperformers and overperformers are very much the same pool of people. The difference between a king and a hanged man is whether the guy got away with it: there's no special category of the virtuous succeeders.

The categories would be 'normal', and 'those that pushed their luck'. The harder you push, the farther you get, unless you blow it. Sometimes it shocks people when their paragons turn out to be reprobates, but it doesn't shock me because to me it's the same category.
That reasoning "Everyone loves presents!", is so enraging to me. It's been done to me on many levels with many things, from dancing, to drinking alcohol, to eating some food that is supposed to be so amazingly delicious. Every single time, it's this twisted thinking that you're being done a favor... that this person in all their benevolence knows what is good for you, and how dare you reject their goodwill! What is really going on, in my opinion, is the desire to transform others into your own image... the desire to give and to obtain the credit of being the giver.

Time and time again people would say, "well you're missing out then", almost out of spite because I was so adamant to reject their offering. I don't get it, and because of that it's hard to partake in standard social practices, where conformity is not only expected but sometimes the lack of it gets punished.
still having issues. got a second email in gmail that appears to be a copy of the first email. the pain never ends.
Floating, Self-Solving Rubik's Cube
If the point is to save lives, then how about doing the exact same thing, but just not burning all that coal to make the NFT itself?

How is anyone's life actually saved or even improved by creating the actual NFT and wasting energy and creating carcinogenic air pollution and contributing to climate change, over just pretending, and burning virtual coal and wasting virtual electricity instead?
The case of Wikipedia shows that efforts like that can be scaled but it's hard to find more examples.

A counter example is the old DMOZ directory which was a continuation of the tree-style Yahoo web directory.

That was subdivided into sections that were managed by "experts" (admins appointed to the sections) but the admins were lazy, corrupt or both. Even if they had been doing their jobs they would have been overwhelmed by hardly relevant "content marketing" submissions for web pages that are "200 OK", hot keywords, and a scam.

You have to draw from a spam-free pool.

For instance there is a data dump for stackoverflow

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-th...

personally i think stackoverflow is a junk web site full of more wrong answers than right answers and wouldn't it be nice to pick just the best answer to the question and not see the code sample at the top that didn't work that the original poster was asking about?

If you are a real programmer, I mean you are shipping, you write a unit test, if it doesn't work they are gonna send it back to you, you may learn the hard way that answer #1 is not right (the compiler said so!) and scroll through a lot of half-baked discussion before you find that answer #7 passed the unit test, the acid test, all the other tests -- you are an expert and your opinion is worth much more than the "crowd".

If "Road Scholars" like us were getting our experience fed back into Stack Overflow how different would it look?
In Firefox you can set "dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled" to false in about:config.

In Chromium based browsers set "Enable lazy image loading" to disabled in about:config

In Safari it's still an experimental feature you have to enable manually.

.

Of course since Safari doesn't support it yet plenty of sites lazy load via classic JS style solutions and trying to fix those is like playing whack-a-mole.
I would more expect that you couldn't even unlock the car to get in or even start the car would be more of where we are heading.
My take is that it takes social and learned behavior to overcome gender differences. They tamp down, not amplify.
An overview of typed SQL libraries for TypeScript
"Don't you guys have phones?"
The time is just an example. But I see that you get my point. We need concrete climate goals. We can't wait forever for a breakthrough in storage tech to happen "someday". To meet these climate goals, there has to be a deadline, maybe even tomorrow, where we have to place a bet on nuclear.
Imagine said drone hovering in front of your windshield and igniting a dozen flashbulbs in short succession STASI-style.
Apparently they are still available for about a dozen bucks per dozen. I remember having much fun with them in my youth. Single use, blinding white light, small 9-volt battery sufficient to light them up.

ZAP!!!

(Now playing: "I wear my sunglasses at night.")
The analogy falls apart here:

> the senior entity can expect the junior person to contribute less productivity to the company than a full employee

College students don't "contribute productivity" at all, because they don't have an employer/employee relationship with the school. The work they do is entirely orthogonal to the school's revenue. This comparison fundamentally does not make sense.
> Blizzard has released only the WoW expansion

I think the last thing WoW needs is more expansions.
If you played the game it’s a given that they were planning to do that release a long time before it was announced. The gameplay was heavily dumbdowned in D3 exactly for that purpose.
Ah, it must be malaria!
It's cool that you market it as material design and sharable and having a fancy stack... but all I care is whether I get useful info about CS:GO. The ugliest maps programmed for training are more useful imho.

The charts don't help me learn anything about the data more than the table, and the stats like RPM or deploy milliseconds mean nothing to me. If you ask CS players how they learn timing, it's usually mouse tapping a rhythm from some song.

The key takeaway is that you need creative ways to actually help me understand which weapon to pick in which situation.
That is the good fight!

I love it too. Simple, fun, pretty robust hardware.
What are power spikes?
The Quest to Build a Portable Steam Machine
This made me shed a tear. Wonderful.
True, but it's an incident he only informed the board (including new board members) about in late 2020, and is one aspect of his communication with Bloomberg Business that the board told him to stop for 10 months before being terminated.
> it reduces the drive to seduce

Are you suggesting that the solution to dead bedrooms is increasing "drive to seduce" of the ones who complain?

I thought that many of them already have high drive that their partners don't reciprocate.
Anywhere that’s a candidate to become high density is low or medium density first. Crossroads becomes village becomes town becomes city becomes megapolis. Incumbents were not consulted about these changes; they were economically inevitable. Then progressivism took hold, institutions got more democratic and accountable, we stopped letting economics run roughshod over the hapless little people. Plus the high modernists did some incredibly tone-deaf fuckups which prompted every community to develop a hair-trigger immune system against sweeping changes from above. Heavy consultations and veto points mean a handful of motivated people can kill any project.

The first time a place is developed it’s almost always going to be low density. And once a place is developed the first time, the only way it can be substantially changed is with near-unanimous consent. There are enough people with an innate distrust of change that this consent is not forthcoming. So the initial conditions are permanent. Cities can’t evolve anymore.
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You haven't offered any evidence on why a random man in, say, the U.S. has more in common with a random man in, say, Sierra Leone than, say, a man or a woman who may be siblings or even twins. You think it is one way and I think it is the other. I guess we have to agree to disagree.
> They also took the sense of enormity out of the world because you don't have to physically go places anymore. The deeprun tram, boats, zepplins were all such elegant solutions to create a breathtakingly open and connected world, and flying mounts & dungeon finder killed the feeling so quickly.

I don't know... i think they originally wanted to sell WoW by the hour (I think it actually was sold like that in Asia somewhere) so time wasting travel was more linked to that. Don't forget how long it takes to craft multiple items too.

A lot of other WoW clones allowed some teleportation. Or non WoW clones. Being able to teleport basically anywhere (that you've walked to at least once) in Guild Wars never hindered socializing for me.
I played the game since release in 2016 and when OWL was announced it all felt a bit... forced.

There were huge org buy-in fees (in double-digit millions) for even fielding a team, completely unheard of for an esports league, and it was coming out of the gate with almost zero community competitive scene to back it up. Esports scenes thrive on an amateur/semi-pro/pro feeder system and for the parent company to dump a hundred million dollars at the top end without waiting for organic growth at the bottom smacked to me of a cash-grab by Blizzard. Also, Blizzard established itself as a monopoly with exclusive rights to create tournaments, which really rankled with the semi-pro players.

Aside from the tedious balance issues that resulted in us watching an entire season of OWL where top-tier hitscan dps players were forced to play tank, the whole top-to-bottom emphasis on "support team [geographical location] [adjective]" did nothing to foster support for particular squads. Esports leagues are rootless - there are no Wolverhampton Wanderers or Gunners on the Internet - instead people follow specific players for their individual playstyles and skills.

The most hilarious example of the most tone-deaf enforcement of this was when Seagull (one of the OG beta testers that somehow exploded and got thousands of viewers on Twitch) got signed to Dallas [whatever adjective] and proceeded to spend the next 6 months benched (and offline on Twitch) because his skillset wasn't meta. He then spent a single season in competition, quit, returned to Twitch and made orders of magnitude more money from doing whatever he wanted than he would have got in the League.

The thing that sealed the League as a scam for me was the introduction of linkage between a Twitch account and your OW account - you could gain in-game tokens to buy cosmetics from time spent watching OWL on Twitch, but this was trivially defeated by setting the stream to 160p resolution, muting the tab and continuing to do whatever you wanted. At that point it was obvious it was all about gaming metrics and not making a game, and I got bored and left.
There's nothing to subscribe to, no actual service being provided at the operational level. It's a financing scheme similar to a leasing arrangement; the only internet check here is whether your payments are up to date.

Imagine a helmet that you paid for in installments, but that lost its structural integrity if you fell behind.
I first read “B&W Macs” as meaning “Blue & White Power Mac G3s” and couldn’t figure out why full-motion video would be impressive.

Anyway, this is awesome!
> "He wore cargo shorts and a T-shirt to a meeting with Geodesic,

people who run the core routers of the largest ISPs on the planet regularly show up to meetings in cargo shorts and t-shirts, believe it or not. They're responsible for things much more critical than some overly-valued advertising/consumer promotions marketing firm.
Ah, full justification for me to now upgrade my Mac Plus with an accelerator board: https://www.micromac.com/products/multispeed.html

Surprised these are still ~$100-200 ... that's a bargain.