skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate you and others detailing some of this stuff in this thread. I mostly have to stay aware from content like this; don't really have the psychology for it. But I'm glad it's documented.
> Not everything in life should be reduced to a monthly subscription.

Hell, I am in complete agreement with that. I'm just as tired of rent-seeking subscriptions as everyone else.

They do just sell the thing, that is an option. They messed up their terminology and marketing message by calling it 'subscription' and 'service'. They should have stuck strictly to "lease plan", which some of their marketing does say. If everyone here had the exact same information but had never thought of this as a subscription, I'd bet all the pitchforks would still be tucked away in their sheds.
Sad to see both LiveLeak and Best Gore gone. Not that I visited either much, but they really opened my eyes to the horrors of reality.

What are alternatives to LiveLeak or Best Gore?
>> Around 2008 there was about 4 times more money than things you can buy, now we approach 20 times and over. So this is not a new problem.

This IS a new problem that is 5 times bigger that 2008 crash. Probably much worse due the catastrophic chain effects it will cause.
I think there's a libertarian group in Vermont working towards something like that.
The predecessor of LiveLeak was pretty violent and full of gore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogrish.com
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I doubt there are many of us, but I played a lot of Hearthstone for 3 years but ditched it after they banned a player for making a pro-democracy statement[0].

As I said, I don't think many players left hearthstone on account of this, but I do think it's one example of the many ways large publishers like Activision aren't capable to serve the communities they've acquired due to the many perverse incentives that comes with huge companies.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2019/10/8/20904433/blizzard-hong-kong-he...
That sounds like why they should enforce it! The mechanism usually involves a transfer of wealth to the offendee.
Calculus is overvalued. I learned it well, 4 out of 5 on the AP math test, but there are other subjects like statistics, discrete math and logic I wish I’d had instead.

Lots of things are highly useful. I’m not saying drop calculus entirely, but if you have only one year of high school to go beyond trigonometry, calculus shouldn’t be the sole choice.
>could we give him another chance to explain before we “cancel” him?

If I worked there, I would've quit, or made plans to quit, immediately regardless of which side I was on or the nuances.

People read about this stuff because a civil war is interesting. It's not interesting when you're in it. If I worked for them, I might wait to quit and forgo the severance, because of the politically charged interpretations of people quitting without a job lined up. But I would make the decision to quit immediately, once it was clear 1/3 of the company was leaving.

A similar sort of situation is when you have a struggle over unionizing. I'm in favor of unions in the abstract, I guess. I currently have a union job. But a company that is in a battle over unionizing clearly has a toxic relationship between management and employees that has reached a breaking point. The rational response to to bail out.
We did get an absurd amount of Tik Tok videos with seemingly empty hospitals and nurses with apparently enough time to choreograph dances though
And apollo app on mobile.
The only thing Reddit is killing right now is Reddit itself, with their odd UX redesign decisions.

Also, Reddit went from being a place with a lot of room for freedom of speech to a place that disallow a lot of discussions on different opinions and wedge issues. Even Twitter is now more open to diversity of opinions.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about the design philosophy behind this tool we use every day, and this was interesting to read.

Does anyone recommend any other papers or writings, classic or new, that shed light on how shells have evolved and where they might be going in the future?
"Oh, and some small print confirms you can use a compatible USB mouse with the software, which could be very useful for docked play."

Full KNM support for the Switch would be real nice BTW
> your employer can claim 100% of your intellectual output

I've dealt with this:

1. When accepting a new job, I make a list of all the side projects I had and got a signature from the company that they were my projects.

2. When starting a new side project while employed, the first thing I'd did was write up a description and get a signed buyoff from the company that it was my project.

Never had a problem. The trick is to do this stuff up front and in advance, not after-the-fact.
I do hope you also understand our reasons

I mean, I'd like to try, except he didn't actually give us any of those reasons.

Rest in peace, LiveLeak. You were a beacon of reality that shone through the propaganda, the bullshit, and the sugar-coating. Your demise means that people who want to see something like a shooting that's been removed from mainstream platforms will be forced to visit darker corners of the internet. Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool.
I have a love of battletech and mechwarrior.

I want to see mechwarrior add a Natural Selection/Battlefield mechanics IE one person is a commander with top down overview. Even if that top down commander is only for enemy AI to give them a bit better intelligence it would be nice.

Or add infantry units, tanks, hovertanks, airsupport roles.

I would love to see space battles and the larger galaxy strategic map come into play and have it play out on multiple levels.

So much they could do. But likely won't.
Thanks to Liveleak we could have a more accurate gasp of what was going on in the latest wars.

Yes, many were one-sided but even then you could have an idea of who's doing what and where.

Most TV coverage was some guy/girl 200 miles away telling 10% of the story.
The art team alone for a game would be 2-3x the size of the development team. I wouldn't compare a sass team to a game team at all
> just don't expect giant public corporations to broadcast and amplify conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately that is exactly what the giant public corporations are doing. They are running disinfo ops against the public, and it's bizarre how they justify this to themselves (in the name of the antiracism, or the greater good, or achieveing some utopia). What is odd is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of variety in the types of disinfo ops it is OK to run. The "peaceful protests" chyrons emblazoned behind a burning hellscapes is OK. The "we have always been at war with East Asia" kind is OK - and you have to go to rough and tumble corners of the internet to see other conspiracy theories that don't fit the narrative of our nihilistic PMC elite.
(Not speaking on behalf of my employer)

IBM has offered “reentry” (my term, probably not the official or correct ones, my apologies) positions in the past for women who want to reenter the tech workforce. I don’t know the details or whether the program is currently active, but I recall seeing it and thinking “that’s a really smart and thoughtful thing to do”
Master .NET Interactive with F#
Is it available for candidate outside US ?
God, yah, D3 really is an imbecile's game. It's _hard to fail_ at it, to the point that it's completely forgettable.

I beat it once, and I tried playing it through again with a friend, and it was just so utterly dull that we shut it off out of frustration.
flex hours may be challenging, however if she still remembers the basics there are still not so sexy jobs maintaining legacy software in languages that did not change that much in the past two decades.
But also, in practice, the fame of announcing such a discovery (with or without an explanation of the method for creating it) could be worth more than $26k.

And if you wanted to profit from it, via submitting the transaction or not, you could likely make far more by speculating on the effects of that announced collision on the Bitcoin price – likely sharply negative.
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Have you read the product page yet? It does advertise off-grid functionality. I don't know what it does when the servers go down, but the evidence I have appears to suggest they've thought about this, it is an adventure vest ffs, meaning it's expected to be offline at times, so the pure speculation and searching for a reason to continue believing they're wrong seems misplaced to me, fueled by an article that clearly misrepresented the situation.
Not exactly what you’re looking for but I remember reading this when it was published and it was disturbing to say the least : https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
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Yes, and it’s happening in VA too.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/virginia-drop-advanc...
I don't; I meant to talk about Varna. But how do you localize "Varna" to English for someone who not-very-familiar with Hinduism? Most English-speaking people don't even know what caste is.
Cool, yeah Floyd Sternberg is definitely period appropriate!

This article on dithering made the rounds a few months ago, and was a fascinating read; the hilbert curve method at the end (Riemersma) might be a good fit and get rid of some of the line effects (if that's of interest). And the Atkinson error diffusion sounds like it even has some history in old macs.

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

There's a really nice blog post on video stable dithering in Return to the Obra Dinn, but in that case it's a 3d game, and they've got direct access to the scene geometry. I'm curious if there's a nice way to use video encoding pixel tracking vectors to reduce swimminess...
This makes me want to dig my old Mac Plus out of the garage. Very cool!
As a Haskeller, I feel obliged to say that that is a parody. A self-parody, perhaps, but a parody nonetheless. In reality, the vast majority of Haskellers (including me!) wouldn’t have a clue what that sentence means — but we’re content to use monads nonetheless, because having a knowledge of the category theory underlying monads is unnecessary if you just want to use them in Haskell.
Most of the papers were a joy to read. The C++ one just seemed like a massive changelog, though.
There are lots of packed in little towns and big cities if you want to walk everywhere. I like it much better as it is more spread out where I am with trees and privacy.
It has nothing to do with communication. People either desire you or they don't. You can't negotiate desire. I don't understand why anyone would want to be with someone who needs to be convinced and pressured to have sex.

Spreadsheet guy eventually realized this. He saw the pattern for what it was and decided to end it. Yes, he could've handled it a lot better but I still respect him for exiting. He understood what he wanted, realized he was not getting it and decided to get out.
There's a lot of first hand accounts of people explaining the logic behind seeking and watching such content. The WatchPeopleDie subreddit had a lot of that and you had many people detailing their experience, but iirc it turned into a neo-nazi hangout before it got banned.
I’d be very surprised if an Indie creator would create a 1-2 minute read about bikes that 500k people would find worthwhile to read.

Video is offen a compelling medium— especially if you can’t write for a major publication
Yeah, I think they are pretty much identical. I should have said choosing any more restrictive license would cause problems.
Use old.reddit.com instead of regular reddit.com, RES works just as well with that and you can get various addons to automatically redirect you to old.reddit.com if you happen to click on a reddit.com link in the wild.

On mobile, avoid the "official" app entirely - it's very pretty but is very very clearly focused on showing you as many ads as possible. Apollo is my pick for iOS and Relay is fairly comparable on Android.
Ogrish was replaced by LiveLeak.

It's interesting how people talk about LiveLeak like it was original and not just a spin off and replacement for Ogrish which was much darker.
I mean sure, that might all be true (I'm pretty hesitant to buy it but it's not like my opinion matters, they're doing it regardless), but you said you were surprised at it and this is why it looks that way.

Either way, though, the US is either considerably or extremely ahead of us still.
P.S. I recall Woz got buyoff from HP that the little computer he was starting work on on the side was his own project :-)
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I'm one of those who left in protest (played compulsively for around 2-3 years, bought every expansion for at least 1.5), and frankly it heartens me to see so many here in the replies who left for the same reason.
If they ever kill old.reddit.com, I'm outta there. The redesign was awful.
I fail to see how this connects to the question at hand.
I see you also worked in SF...
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This money printing party will end one dark monday.

When thousands of hard working americans will wake up 100 times more poor.

Middle class will end up holding a bag
LiveLeak definitely had the ability to change you. There was a video from a dashcam where a couple is driving down a road, and a brick or rock falls off a truck driving the opposite way. It bounces on the road before slamming through the windshield and instantly killing the wife sitting in the passenger seat. Whenever I feel like a member of my family has gotten on my last nerve, pushed me to my limit, I think of the sounds that man made as he looked at his wife and my anger just melts away. LiveLeak may have scarred me but it taught me not to ever take the people I love for granted.
Documenting reality is the lead site afaik
Unfortunately it doesn't filter out the mindless consumption. A curated front page can help, but even that has become less and less effective in my experience.
>Counter-point; the world is mostly a neutral, even OK, place

It isn't, you are lucky to be in a privileged environment.

And I don't even mean warzones. People who live paycheck-to-paycheck with family or medical issues wouldn't agree with you.
What I have done to accomplish this in the past is some filename shenaniganry with the file's last-modified timestamp:

<img src="/path/to/file.[last modified timestamp].png">

PHP code for this kind of thing might look like this:

function auto_version($urlpath) {

// get a filesystem path
$fspath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $urlpath;

// if file doesn't exist, don't mess with the url
if (!file_exists($fspath)) {
return $urlpath;
}

// insert last modified timestamp
$mtime = filemtime($fspath);
return preg_replace('{\\.([^./]+)$}', ".$mtime.\$1", $urlpath);
}

Then in .htaccess or equivalent to strip the timestamp back off before serving the file:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.[\d]{10}\.(css|js|png)$ $1.$2 [L]

Whenever the file is updated you automatically start serving a new link which points to the same file, and otherwise you can rely on the browser caching. You don't need to mess around with ?params, which also helps semantically because those incorrectly suggest that the resource is dynamic.
2/3's of the player base disagrees that healers and support are fun. Well more than the majority prefers dps.

If I were going to single out one thing that I've never seen anyone mention it is that shields are 1 way only. It makes tanks too powerful and stable, thus support is needed, thus dps is third tier.
I remember in early 2001, reading an article in the NYTimes or Seattle Times about the quake risk in Seattle, showing an easterly view of downtown from Puget Sound. In it, a line was drawn, showing a fault line, just about 4 blocks south of the Kingdome/Safeco Field area, along with the usual panic about how bad an earthquake could be in the region.

This article and that image flashed through my mind when not more than a few weeks later, I found myself sitting on the 4th and uppermost floor of a 100+ year old brick building, precisely where that fault line was drawn, as the floor started bouncing, then swaying, then the ceiling lamps were swinging back and forth so violently that they were hitting the ceiling on either side, and interior brick walls started to give way.

I worked in that building for another year and a half after that February 2001 6.8 magnitude Nisqually Quake[1], and every time a truck bounced down the potholes of 1st Avenue South, and the office floor bounced, my palms would sweat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake
The strongest earthquakes in recent history (1906-2005):

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_a...

Those 3 amount for over 50% of all the energy released by earthquakes in that period.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Graph_of...

There's this one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
Hi HN - I built this agent to make it easier to get feature distribution metrics into a Prometheus-Grafana observability stack when deploying with Tensorflow Serving.

The pain point this addresses is that TF Serving's default /metrics endpoint only exposes performance metrics (request size, request counts) but not metrics on the features or predictions, which is often interesting and valuable to monitor.
Or a smaller company that ether supplies defense contractors or takes subcontracts. A lot of these very small companies are robustly staffed with ex military already and may not exhibit the ageism you’ll find in the average tech company.
IIRC, Google had a program that originally targeted this demographic and has since broadened their scope. If the acquaintance talks to a recruiter there, ask about "engineering residency".
Returnships are another common term, as a spin on internships. Many big name tech companies have an active program, including Apple, Amazon, etc.
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Ask HN: Why the indifference to Covid-19 patent waiver?
The proposed patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines is one of the most unusual patent moves in living memory. HN normally abounds with strong opinions on patent issues, but although there were 7 stories posted about this today not a single one attracted comment; I expected that it would be a top story.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=patent&sort=byDate&type=story
> Starcraft 2 is basically dead

I just started playing. Awesome game.
I’m still surprised that Tor hidden services never filled that gap.

As more and more stuff disappears from the clear web, I assumed more people would realize that .onion sites don’t have to be a wasteland of largely spooky scams.

But if anything the quality of hidden services seems to have declined in recent years. I’m guessing it’s a mix of darknet FUD combined with less and less people knowing how to host a website without using an easy to deploy service
California gets hit with earthquakes quite often, and so has been made more resilient.

When a big one hits Seattle or the Midwest is when you’ll see untold damage. Just compare bridge pillars in various parts of the country.
For me, the real trick is to boil it down to small milestones. Looking too big and too wide at the start of a product makes it feels overwhelming. Your mind (or at least mine) needs practical goals. Create a list of small goals that, when completed in aggregate, achieves your bigger vision. In many ways, vision is about thinking big, but the key to execution is to think in smaller chunks.
As a canadian, i feel like there is whiplash here. Half the world is criticizing the canadian gov for not procuring enough vaccines fast enough, the other half is saying we're hogging all the vacines preventing equitable distribution with poor countries.
Ask HN: Personal Oxygen Concentrator Shared Pool in Indian Cities
Hello folks, Seeing first-hand the struggles of families trying to get a hospital bed or an oxygen cylinder has been heart-breaking. The system has been completely broken.

The personal oxygen concentrator extends the period of time care can be provided at home, but is affordable only to a small subset of the people.

I am putting together this concept, hoping for further refining, poking holes, expert advice, etc.

I will keep adding to the FAQ as I go along.

Also, the interest form if you are interested in buying one for your family is at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_PNEo2EfYt1yJsqaV...

thanks for reading!
Especially in avionics...
This is a great point. The IoT subscription model can be avoided by using a more traditional rental model. I don't think anyone would have qualms over financing plans about this, but the IoT angle makes it more controversial.
No connection. Dailymotion is French YouTube/Vimeo owned by a respectable large media company (Vivendi.)
1) First start with trying to sketch out (write out) the solution on paper. Writing out your solution forces you to think the problem through. Psychologically, you don't see it as being stressful or as tasking as writing code which means you're more likely to stick with it for some days.

2) Try to work on your idea at least 4 or 5 days of the week, no matter how small the time. You don't have to write code. Sometimes it could be something as small as choosing a color scheme, picking your twitter handle, registering a domain name. You just need to make progress.

3) Acknowledge upfront that this idea might not lead anywhere and might not be commercially viable but the knowledge gained is not lost and you can use that idea in something else. For example, I once worked on a pet project that involved turning SVGs into PNG or GIFs via Javascript. I also worked on another project where I tried to build a blogging platform on Google App Engine (I was trying to learn more about Flask and Google App Engine). Both did not go anywhere. However my latest project - https://nocommandline.com - uses the code/knowledge from those 2 projects. My blog is based on the blogging code and some of the images I use were generated from the other project. In fact I have used that in some other stuff I did for people
How do you eat an elephant? ... one small bite at a time.

I'm a visual person, so first I map it out -- sections, pages, functions, classes -- whatever is appropriate.

Then after figuring out what needs to happen -- the process of visually laying out everything I can think of (mindmapping tools, paper & crayons, etc)

Try to come up with some type of estimate of how long it will take for each step, smaller the pieces are the better!
(essentially, storypointing like in standard project management situations)

Then, I schedule it into my life: 15mins here, an hour there, a weekend sprint, etc

This really helps to see how long stuff might take, or will take.
Update the estimations and map frequently. I schedule this too - like a weekly check-in with myself for the project(s).