skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's little that is worse than queing to play your favorite tank and the other 5 players yelling at you to switch to $meta.

*Healing teammates*

Team mate: I need healing

Me: Im already healing teammate

Team mate: I need healing

Team mate: I need healing

Team mate: I need healing

*hasn’t stopped healing*

*Team mate dies*

LITERALLY NO HEALS. FFS HEAL!

End of Match

FFS HEALS UNINSTALL THE GAME.

Cards land.

Top healer of the match, 40% of damage recovered.

Me: What more do you fucking want???

For me, that’s I enjoy the least as being healer. I would rather have 0 comms than that. And the thing is, there is fuck all bliss can do to fix it. Dicks are gonna be dicks, idiots are always gonna be idiots.

EDIT: The other “fun” one is this.

Healers: “We have tracer and or doom fist fucking up out back line”

*tumbleweeds*

Healers: “hey, we are seriously getting are arses handed to us in the back line, can we get a bit of help just so they lay off our back line for a bit?”

*tumbleweeds*

Rest of the team: WHERE THE FUCK ARE RHE HEALERS?

Healers: “Dead, we are both dead. We can’t heal if we are dead or having to attack in order to keep ourselves alive because we have not backup. They have a Rein camping the spawn so I had to switch JUST to get out of the spawn room alive”

Rest of the team: FFS LITERALLY 0 HEALS.

ALSO GROUP THE FUCK UP. And don't spam "I need healing" and then go the opposite way to your healers (If we can't get to you or have LOS on you, we can not heal you), or spam it when you don't need healing (it takes our attenstion off those who do).

Oh and my personal fav(s).. Ask for heals, get a small heal then run away 2 sec's later and than complain you are not at full health, Or be a widowmaker way back away from the team snipping, spamming heals when you are standing 5 meters away from a large medipack. Or be a high mobility char getting healed, take 25% of damage thing "Fuck this PEACE", Leave by a means your healer can't only for your healer to then been stomped on (bonus points if you then complain about healing 0.5 seconds after leaving your healer).

And you wonder why we flip the fuck out, say fuck it and turn into a DPS Moria or a well booping Lucio?
We have a planet that is quite suitable for carbon based life forms. Those might be worth something to interstellar intelligences.
Uncomfortable truths about being a developer
Moderna already waved their rights last year [0]. But the production of such vaccines is not easy and I believe that an organization grows and learns as a whole as a solution so complex is developed. Consequently it is not easy to replicate what they do. I think at best this puts a cap on the vaccine's price since "in theory" given enough financial incentive the vaccine can be reproduced. That's my theory, feel free to prove me wrong.

Imho: If this becomes real, don't expect big benefits. I appreciate what Moderna did but forcing other companies to do the same may be overkill for little benefit and I wonder what the long term effect is on companies' willingness to focus on a vaccine for the next pandemic. Perhaps companies realize that waiving IP rights is good PR, or they can do it for parts of the process that is easier to scale or outsource to 3rd parties.

What happens to startups that do find an easy to copy vaccine production process and they know their IP will be taken from them? I honestly don't know but I feel that they should be fairly compensated... But what's fair. IP is just so difficult. I wonder what a world without it would look like. More company secrets, that's for sure.

[0] https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
Interest rates are near 0%. If inflation appears it can be combated incredibly easily.
I think you are touching on some interesting points, but don't go deep enough.

(Just as a point of reference I played up until the hamster release)

I would say that the core design of characters with cooldown skills and very powerful ultimates that need to be chain to team wipe opposition ARE the crux of why everything is impossible to do right in the Overwatch.

I have played ladder for first few seasons and its essentially, get a 'pick kill' and save ultimates, combo ultimates to push through a chokepoint.

That is very cookie cutter experience that gets old really quickly.

They pushed themselves into making characters that have to have a spike impact in the game (their ultimate) or they are garbage tier character.

Adding new heros that need to follow the same design principles further locks them down into that principle, or they would have to rework +20 characters in one go.

Also the cancel and force movement abilities are extremely frustrating. I remember reading Team Fortress 2 dev blogs and they made a design point of never doing those, and limit the one shot kill experiences (since then I believe there are couple mechanics like that in TF2 and they are unfun).

There is nothing more frustrating that getting hooked and spending next 2 seconds knowing you will die. Taking away player agency is frustrating experience.

As you mentioned the characters are locked into set meta, railroading players into who you pick and how you played given hero. No flexibility, no verity.

I haven't played CS or TF2 in a long time but on odd occasion I would watch a twitch stream of some tournaments. CS is one of the best competitive esport to watch - hands down. Its very easy to understand, rounds are quick and economy makes sure that there is some verity to available weapons and tactics from round to round.

Despite playing overwatch their esport is not fun to watch. Its messy, hard to follow. Again due to ultimates you have game of hide and seek into all ults are out screen is flashing and after dust settles back to hide and seek.

... man I care way too much about this
A Tech Dream Deferred: Charlton McIlwain on Black Software (2019)
Liveleak opened my eyes to about two things:

- The horror of the Mexican Drug War. The unbelievable violence and cruelty, which is almost the exclusive responsibility of the United States' catastrophic War on Drugs.

- Car accidents. I'm always much more alert, as a driver and as a pedestrian.

Actually, add fires into that list. Terrifying stuff.
It came off as pretty insulting. You've also been presenting subjective opinion as objective truth when there are many Apple users and developers that disagree with what you're saying.

A more cynical take is that Apple want their cut of any revenue that goes through iOS and intentionally hamstrings PWAs at the expense of their users to achieve this. Either or neither could be true.
The only fair thing is to ask the participating athletes. If 80% want to go, proceed with the games. If necessary, without spectators.

We live in an abominable society where people who do the work are always asked last, and politicians, businessmen, and IOC functionaries decide.
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> that isn't an alt-right cesspool.

But actually liveleak did become an alt-right cesspool.

Back before they made comments hidden to non-members, it was WALL-TO_WALL <insert-your-favorite-right-wing-kook-faction> a-holes mixed in with classic misogynists, anti-semites, racists, conspiracy theorists, and unclassifiable awful nihilistic basement-dwellers.

While I would have liked to think that the operators simply listened to their conscious, I am sure making the comments non-public was done strictly because they feared having a nut perform a mass-killing as a "liveleak exclusive".
If as you state, countries like India are going to ignore the patent anyway, doesn’t it make sense to give it to them and help ensure they produce it successfully to save the world from the pandemic?
Knowing the history of W3W I'm not particularly keen on them, but I don't think this is actually an incredibly strong criticism of the system. Yes, it's possible to make mistakes with this system, and there are probabilities of the mistaken words putting you in the wrong place - but the odds are fairly low, and it misses one key point: W3W helps you communicate a direction, it doesn't need to be the only method of communicating the location. Taking the River Clyde example - what's the likelihood of you being in either of those locations, and telling people the W3W phrase alone? There's no way you're going to do that. The first thing you're going to say is "I'm on the north bank of the Clyde" or "I'm standing right next to the M8 motorway".

The basic way of safely communicating information is very simple - communicate more information so that the receiver can use the consistency of the extra information to check what they're receiving is right. If you're phoning the police and give them W3W, they might mishear - but what's the likelihood they mishear in a way that is consistent with their knowledge about which cell tower your mobile phone is pinging off.
There’s always https://shen-language.github.io/
I heard an interview once with a guy I don't remember, but he was a profuse traveller, and he said, no, the world is less dangerous than people think, and it all comes down to common sense. Whether New York City or Bogota - stay out of poorly lit places.
Google tries to resurrect Android tablets with “Entertainment Space”
I would love it if somebody would post a more detailed explanation of the mRNA vaccine manufacturing process here on HN. The news media keeps mumbling vague terms like "ingredients", and it's frustrating.

Conventional vaccine production is a highly biological process... chicken eggs being used to make the flu vaccines and so forth. I was under the impression that the mRNA vaccines are chemically much simpler -- just strands of a particular RNA sequence (swapping Pseudouridine for Uracil), encapsulated in a very clever lipid coat.

Presumably the biotech industry is really really good at manufacturing strands of RNA by now, right? I mean that seems like it's something they would've been doing every day for the last 20 years.

So are the only novel manfuacturing steps the Pseudouridine substitution and the lipid coat?
All tests have false positives and false negatives. Whether we explicitly say it or not, most clinical decision making algorithms are based on a Bayesian approach.

If you have next to no risk of a disease, don’t get tested for it. You might get treated for it!
Should children be vaccinated against Covid-19?
Thanks! Still learning Aussie!
Thanks, much better experience
Show HN: Acquigo – An Algorithmic Marketing Cloud
Acquigo is an Algorithmic Marketing Cloud which enables its customers to run marketing campaigns. It is a tool that has in-built end to end campaign management functionalities from planning campaigns to executing and tracking responses to it, on channels such as email, SMS, push notification and the like.

Acquigo is aimed at companies that have huge customer base and who wish to automate their marketing end to end with micro – segmentation approach.
Everything so far ago is at least hard to prove/falsify, however this is true either way. I think every possible scenario (prehistorics being of more, less or equal potential) is at least plausible. At least it's easy to come up with arguments for each of these cases (and a hidden one being of different brain specialization).
> Perhaps North Americans will start building more brick homes.

Why build anything out of brick when you have concrete? Aerated concrete blocks are almost perfect for low and even some medium density housing. Additional insulation is a bit annoying, but for many states it won't even be needed if the wall is one full block thick.
Indeed. Australia and New Zealand have the highest incidence rate for melanoma in the world.

Ozone depletion plays a role, but interestingly, the Earth is also closer to the Sun during the southern hemisphere summer, resulting is ~7-10% greater solar UV intensity:

Australia’s unusually harsh sunshine results mainly from its location in the Southern Hemisphere. The elliptical orbit of the Earth places the Southern Hemisphere closer to the sun during its summer months than the Northern Hemisphere during its summer. This means that the summer sun in Australia is 7 to 10 percent stronger than similar latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Air currents high in the atmosphere sometimes bring ozone-depleted air from Antarctica’s ozone hole to Australia, letting even more UV through. And Australia’s sunny weather and relatively pollution-free air provide little additional protection from harmful UV rays

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/aerosols...
I think you're saying "how do we know that aliens aren't already here? Because we are still here".

If so, good point.
Device Mapper Gets Some Nice Improvements with Linux 5.13
I strongly agree with your main intent, i.e. that law should be interpreted by humans. However,

Your fact " I read that many criminals in the US get away with crimes because of failures of procedure by the prosecution for example;"

which you interpret as

"this is a clear sign that there is too much focus on the wording of the law. "

could also be interpreted as:

police often use illegal means to target people and fabricate evidence, and the US's well-functioning legal system stops this.
Lots of people like terrible games. Even if it makes the publishers a ton of money, I don't need to care about that and in fact I don't.
presumably increased metabolic activity which equates to increased (epi)dermal turnover (among many other factors, e.g. immune surveillance). Increased turnover leads to more chance for errors during replication
My house is closing in on 70 years, is upgraded with good insulation and it is nothing indicating it will not last for another 70 years. My family's vacation house has a core that is more than 200 years old. Both houses are made of wood. I thought it was concrete houses that had problems with transmitting sound and had poor insulation.

Edit. Maybe the 40 years come from that the sidings might have to be changed after around 40 years depending on the climate. But changing the siding is not a large job, easier that changing a roof that also often have about the same lifespan
GraalPython describes itself as “an early-stage experimental implementation of Python”.

https://github.com/oracle/graalpython
Medieval people did not think the Earth was flat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
If you are knowledgeable on this, please could you write a short list of the total amount of patents the vaccine currently consists of, or link to a good source?
Does that target Python v2 or v3?

Edit: It's Python v3.8.8, thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27059804
Author here, in case anyone has questions
But what if there is a factory that can spit out lots of effective vaccines if given the recipe? Shouldn’t we use every resource available?
Jamais Vu
What happened to Jython?
Unless their is some mixing of terms here, a patent is already public data. India isn’t actually being given anything at all other than a suggestion that we might not support a lawsuit against them for making the vaccine.
Conspiracy or not, can we all at least agree that the open web is still a wonderful thing for all involved?

As developers and technical leaders, it is incumbent upon us to ensure this ecosystem remains sound. The mobile business wants html5 dead yesterday because they can't be the middle man on access.

When someone comes to your desk with a new app idea, maybe steer them towards a website instead of native walled garden apps. Many businesses do not require the capabilities offered by native applications.
YMMV: As an European I have my house almost completely built from wood: structure frame, roof beams, floors, exterior siding, interior floor, doors, window frames, furniture etc. I would not call it a forest cabin, it is very real house, with 2 floors.
> The default function itself should throw KeyError on values that are logically not in the dict (including, due to Python’s dynamically typed nature, those which are outside of the key domain because of type.)

That's not how `defaultdict` works - the key isn't passed to the default factory, so there's no opportunity for it to raise a `KeyError` if the key doesn't "logically belong" in the dict. It's possible to get that sort of behaviour by overriding `__missing__`, but I very rarely see this sort of thing in the wild.

A more typical use case is something like `defaultdict(list)` as a convenient way to build a dict of lists. This is fine within a limited scope where it's obvious to the reader that they are dealing with a defaultdict that has special `__getitem__` semantics, however it's a bad idea to return a defaultdict to a caller who might be expecting a normal dict, and would be surprised that missing keys don't result in KeyErrors.

With `.setdefault(key, default_value)` it's unambiguous what we're trying to achieve - the reader doesn't need to know whether they are dealing with a defaultdict.
I don't understand, can't those changes be merged upstream?

Edit: Also yesterday's HN discussion on Cinder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043217
"I want app developers to jump through more hoops than people making websites"

It might be news to you, but webtechnologies have evolved a bit, from displaying static documents. Have you heard of wasm for example? Quite interesting, what you can do with that. And a bit more sophisticated, than scratching together some html markup.

But I very much agree, though, that I also don't want any website to have deeper access to my hardware, without explicit consent from myself.

"Until there’s a proper open standard for “web technology” apps that are opt-in and user initiated, and clearly separated (visually and technically) from web pages (which are documents) I feel like Apple are on my side here."

So yes, there is more work needed in that area to make that distinction more clear to the users.

But I don't see Apple is pushing in that direction. Rather the opposite. Pushing into their walled garden, they control. Otherwise they would be very free and able to polish their PWA permission dialogs, to protect their users, no?

What is hindering them?
How do ZFS snapshots compare to LVM snapshots? Question not specifically for, but anyone who might know something about this.
Instagram used to have a wide open API that allowed you to do every single thing except post. There were many apps and websites that made use of it in interesting ways. But then it was acquired by Facebook.

Twitter API is now also very much closed, deliberately incomplete, and requires staff approval before you can do anything at all.

Closing down the public API, or at least nerfing it enough to make third-party clients frustrating to use, is the common theme among all social media services that have the business model of eyeball-raping their users. If such a service would have a public API that's enough to build a third-party client, everyone will be using third-party clients, that would of course be much better than the official ones since they're not optimized for those stupid metrics, and thus not seeing ads, not participating in A/B tests for button colors and not sending the Very Important™ analytics.
IBM creates 2nm chip
Show HN: I created simple Pomodoro Timer to help you focus
And Russia. We still prefer solid wood to framing, but framing is getting more popular.
It really depends if the two civilizations are competing for resources. In that case, the less advanced civilization is obviously going to have a bad time. There were cases in human history where human civilizations connected for exploration, trade and research and weren't competing for resources. Not all of those ended badly. Many of those that did end badly, ended badly because of disease. In the case of alien life, the risk of communicable disease would likely be low since any alien life would probably be a significantly different species that microbes would have a hard time jumping between.
Isaac Arthur made a video titled “Stupid Aliens”:

https://youtu.be/yXWe8g0zziw
it is a typical corporate doublespeak and approach for stratification of perks - the higher strata would easily be granted the approval, no questions asked, while the lower - what you described.
Just a nitpick; there is no alt-left: leftism has deep historical roots in the French Revolution that predate liberalism (which is by definition a centrist ideology). The left is the left, the right wing just calls centrist liberals leftist.
The athletes aren't the only people who are betting big ($15B+) to make the Olympics work. You think the 80% vote of foreign athletes should govern how the nation of Japan proceeds with its loss?
I believe this is exactly the reason why the US promotes it and Germany opposes it. It's mainly a discussion about whether Pfizer (US) has to pay licensing fees to Biontech (DE).
Restrictions apply to plebians only. Patricians are always exceptions :)
Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike. Both really old both almost unchanged for years and both have big active communities.
The incentives for saving the world just went down.

There sane way to do this is to buy the patents for a few hundred billions. A small price compared to the benefit these companies have provided the world.
Isn't everything a job program?
np, it's good on all points. So we need gender defined. And yes, it's tedious. Which is why IANAL :)

[but p.s.] reviewing the laws in wiki, the only instance of a 'female voice' is when a slave girl puts down her mistress (and gets the Sumerian equivalent of soap in mouth). So, putting my Sumerian lawyer hat on, 'context' here implicitly affords 'legal voice' only to men. Women were mute as far as the law was concerned. So a Sumerian AI judge using Catala would have no problem with my code :)
> This isn't going to help India or anyone in the short term

Why not? I’m not hearing a clear argument or evidence to support that withholding the patent recipe wouldn’t save millions of lives?

India now has a very high number of cases. As it stands now, your argument just sounds to me like:

“yes human lives, but... profit“.

Please could you elaborate on your argument and/or provide examples of what you’re describing happening in other cases?
Researchers propose repurposing tabletop sensors to search for dark matter
Valve reported in 2013 that 93% of its users were born on January first.

I’m not sure it’s related but I find it amusing

> January 1, 2021 Minus 9 Months Would Be: April 1, 2020

News just in 93% of PC gamers born because of April Fools Joke gone wrong.

Yeah I’m sure that’s it ;-)
Good point, we do use it for read only use cases indeed.

And yes, jumping to terraform would indeed be a useful feature to have :)
You put this very nicely, thanks. There are different ways of doing things for the different purposes.

This reminds me the time I was working at the office. We had an open floor plan, and so no doors (except the CEO).

It was sometimes nice to talk to people, but there were times when I was deeply in code, and someone asked a small random question from me. It was clearly because he/she wanted just to talk. This would have been better to ask through Slack as I could then continue my work and answer later.

So what I usually did was a) stayed home for deep work hours or b) put on my headset and listened to music to indicate that my "door" was closed.

And yes, with the CTO the physical door was an indication: if it was open, we went in and discussed something, and he was always happy to do so. When it was closed, we didn't interrupt him, and when we did, you could feel that he was feeling indeed interrupted.