skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We must be looking at this from different perspectives. From my perspective that sentence is ideological boilerplate, the sort that would appear in a political pamphlet. (That doesn't mean I disagree with it!) Because the audience here is extremely varied along many axes: ideological, geographical, you name it, that sort of rhetoric about a divisive topic is guaranteed to land as a provocation with certain sectors of the audience, and this is extremely likely to produce a flamewar. HN commenters are asked not to post comments that are extremely likely to produce flamewars. We all have that responsibility on a large, public, optionally anonymous internet forum dedicated to topics of intellectual curiosity (which is what HN is), because otherwise such a forum literally can't exist.
> CS:GO is far from a "recent" game.

It is however one of todays most well known games.
I stared at the landing page for a good 15 seconds wondering "why is that picture... breathing?"
Thanks, thought I had slipped into an alternative dimension. Appreciate you helping me take the edge off.
This is a unique definition of “telemetry” as it usually requires collection of data. Some ads use telemetry for better targeting, but that isn’t all ads and definitely wasn’t true when things like banner ads were first introduced.
> since pensions work only if the Company or Union is growing

There’s a name for a scheme like this—-pyramid.
Most regular people's lives go towards making those same people wealthier and more powerful.

I'm not clear that putting those lives on hold acts in one direction or another.
The son (Erik Demaine) of this father and son team is a good teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNeL18KsWPc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
Ok thanks. Btw, I think my comment is actually correct with that definition, given how having the disease (COVID-19) implies having symptoms. IIRC that's precisely when they say you have SARS-CoV-2 (the virus, which you'd be an asymptomatic carrier of), but not COVID-19 (the disease).
How do you think every other state in history was formed?

You only dislike the sausage here because you can see it being made.
Coinbase, a nasdaq listed company, handles customer support through its subreddit. What's more, a few weeks back a customer got scammed through coinbase's subreddit when his support request was answered by another user impersonating coinbase customer support, instructing the customer to move their coins to a wallet number they gave them in order to solve the issue. The customer lost $75k and there was nothing coinbase could do other than "sorry for your loss".

Here's the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/nhug9u/75000_just...
This is a little more idiosyncratic than the other recommendations, but the “Bite Size Networking” zine by Julia Evans is a really nice overview of networking tools on Linux.

https://wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-networking/
Looks like I will be a parent in this mess!

My own kids are done, but I have my granddaughter to raise. (Rough, but she is great and will probably make me live longer, so no worries.)

This is going to be a fight! That level of surveillance is unacceptable. I have no plan yet, but will in a year or so. Guess it is wake up call time.

Seriously, I look back at my upbringing and what I was able to do for my kids, and shudder. I cannot imagine this ends well.

Can you? Seriously. Anyone want to talk me down, or just talk?
You presumed right, that's how it works ;)
You need the money to be there in forty years. What happens if, say, US stocks did in that time what Japanese stocks did in the past decades, and you bet wrong? Asking average people to be good at finance is potentially a big ask.
I first ran into it when our database was holding negative values that we wanted to show as positive on the front end. To flip the sign we would multiply the stored value by -1. Since 0 was a valid value in our DB, the displayed value after multiplication was -0, which looked like a glitch in the UI.
Glass is not a crystal. Not sure what I was thinking. No idea why its surface is reflective.
You really can’t go wrong between those options. Anyone who is questioning you must be nuts.
Lunar Escape Systems
"Lunar escape systems (LESS) were a series of emergency vehicles designed for never-flown long-duration Apollo missions. Because these missions were even more hypothetical than the planned cancelled Apollo missions, the designs were never constructed. This concept was an outgrowth of the Lunar Flying Vehicle designed by Bell Aerospace (a lunar surface mobility design that was cancelled in favor of the less risky Lunar Rover)."
I don't think many people in the US look forward to spending their last years with 'a limited amount of electricity/water'.
I'd expect the same deficiencies to show up downstream in grain and soy fed cows, pigs and chickens. For meat eaters, that's an argument to spend more for grass fed beef, lamb, buffalo, and pastured chicken eggs.

I don't know if such regenerative agriculture can scale up enough to feed everyone, but it can become a lot more affordable and accessible than it is now.
I’m so tired of hearing about the “middle class” because it excludes a huge amount of people that actually make this world work while pretending to be inclusive. It’s super gross.
And Mumble has published a release, and is preparing a new one.
To be completely fair, it really isn't that bad, at least not compared to other software. In my experience the only notably annoying part is getting all of the dependencies that you want. After that, it's basically an affair of ./configure && make.

If you are using Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora, you can probably use WineHQ's repo with the winehq-devel package. You can also find the dev dependencies listed on the Fedora page. On Arch, AUR has the wine-git package that should work. On NixOS or other distros/OSes where you have the Nix package manager installed, you can get an environment with all of the dependencies setup for you, although in that case, I will at least note that you don't get a multiarch build.

The situation could be better, but given the heroic amount of ridiculous stuff going on in Wine, it's not too bad either. (Not sure how many pure C programs I've seen exposing MSVC C++ ABI interfaces, but Wine is one.)
Not your computer. Not your data.

Unfortunately, Microsoft thinks otherwise. See the huge discussion here for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629350

(tl;dr: thanks to Secure Boot, Microsoft had to give permission for Linux to boot.)

Also, don't forget the whole "Windows as a service" crap.
Okay that seems reasonable.
Eric Schmidt: Adulterer in the Room
The point is that EU regulations may prevent the creation of monopolies in the first place, so EU countries are unlikely to be a source of alternative monopolies to the existing US ones. So there's cause to think it unlikely that we'd be trading a "devil we know" that is at least partly accountable to US institutions, for a "devil we don't" that is less/not accountable.
The key is the administrator. This might be Vanguard or Fidelity or it could be a much smaller company, probably local.

Some companies have experienced people looking at many companies and picking one based on the lowest costs and wide selections.

Other companies might pick Joe Blow Company because the salespeople are attractive and the lunches and dinners are expensive. Vanguard might have salespeople if you're big enough but most companies aren't.

Locally, there was a company that got its hands on a lot of union pension money. They took the trustees on safaris in Africa, etc. https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-23437-sept-21-2000-th... In a lot of cases, the people making the recommendations aren't evil but just overwhelmed by the personalized attention that a high-cost alternative can give them.
Could Stripe have been started in Ireland?
Ok, symbol, not a letter. But it is still commonly used in everyday work, much like $ or £. People who do accounting etc. would be very unhappy if they could not produce it on a computer keyboard.

So, in practice, you need to support it and it is a relatively new addition. Most other symbols are 200+ years old.
Can't you replace "retiree" with citizen/employee and use the same argument to advocate for a planned economy and/or company towns? ie.

"Providing citizens with cash, which they then use to independently procure good and services across millions of individuals, is fundamentally inefficient.

Instead, we should treat each citizen as a ward of the state, and provide them with Government housing, cell phone and plan, food (cooked or ingredients), and a limited amount of electricity/water - plus a small stipend for private purchases."
What the U.S. Loses When Americans Save Too Much
Well isn't that's precisely my point!

"unsafe" turns off your compiler's guard rails.

You CAN accomplish mutable vtable dispatch and in doing so you will undermine Rust's type-safety!

Yeeting a function call into the void is what async network clients usually do. You will soon get a result. Maybe.
Mumble is great. I've personally used it with friends for about ten years now. The main client, while not as intuitive as Discord, is pretty easy to use and get used to. Many of my friends are non-technical and never had problems using Mumble aside from the occasional microphone issue (which happens to me regardless of VoIP software.)
Reverse-engineering the Final Fantasy: Theatrhythm track format
Waiting for the last 8 years, and?
A lawyer for two brothers who founded a South African Bitcoin denies 'heist'
Wouldn't work well at all for any construction that isn't using mortise and tenon or some other type of friction fit construction. Can be disastrous for traditional construction where pieces are butted up together and nailed.
The US workforce (at the time) was sold on 401ks as a replacement for pensions, when they’re really for only the highest compensation earners as a tax dodge [1]. Predictably, very few made enough to contribute to a 401k in a manner that would replace the safety of pensions, and now large cohorts nearing retirement are left with little while shareholders captured profits that previously contributed towards funding pensions. Tada!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21827154
Is there a meaningful difference between speculation and hedging - besides the intent to take delivery? People hedging with the intent to take delivery are simply speculating that the price would go up. Maybe it makes more sense to separate out along those lines instead.
Your comment adds unwarranted mystery.

Here is a report[0] from the ship during the time of events. As the leaked documentation shows, the encounter had been anticipated, so I guess it was a tough call to put a journalist on board.

The reason MoD denies the “warning shots were fired” phrasing (and BBC puts it in quotes) is most likely to defuse the sizzling situation. Either UK frames the events as “warning shots were fired by Russian navy in Ukranian waters at a British ship” and has a conflict that requires following up, or it denies Russian framing of events (leaving it open to interpretation—say Russian navy suffered equipment malfunction that resulted in ammunition ending up in Ukranian waters some distance away from the British ship, stuff happens) leaving it for them to follow up—which Russia can’t really do, as no major country accepts its jurisdiction over Crimea (even China abstained on the relevant UN vote).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLPYAKL-f2M
Isn’t this VS Code with the Vim extension?
No, none of the points addresses the question.

How is

> it works 24/7 and never takes a bank holiday

a problem? That's not a problem. That's a feature of some system.

And what "distributed consensus" has to do with it is even more mysterious.
How Technology Architects Make Decisions
> I hear you.

Do you? Agreeing with parent implies that you consider your own comment to be highly inflammatory (and implicitly against HN code of conduct etc.). If that is the case, you can take it down or edit it with an apology.

NOTE: I'm not saying I agree with parent, just pointing what seems to me to be a logical necessity stemming from your agreement with parent.
No, just garden variety 2x4x8 kiln-dried studs. Normally a few bucks apiece but going for closer to ten right now.

YMMV, but for people who need actual kiln-dried wood it's usually a better option to go to a real lumber yard.
I guess your memory would describe it approximately as "not great", unless it had either been cause for panic, or an unreasonable desire for more of that polkadotted hotbod.
Building NPM Package in 2021
Agreed. Slightly different topic in my opinion but here is how I see it.

You can be a brutal savage and you conquer land and just claim it yours. All good.

At some point you evolve into a modern civilization and start following the rules of law, basic human rights and those sort of things.

That is the moment when you cannot just conquer land by force because it goes against your own values.

Israeli was formed by countries whose values would not allow its creation.
It was just extremely convenient for them and everyone looked somewhere else.
I agree. Skip the "build a real foundation" and go directly to "minimal development environment".

I used a lot of Classic Visual Basic 6, and it's very easy to make a nice form with a few buttons and text fields, and perform simple calculations. It looks ideal for this, but it's proprietary, quite outdated, each year more difficult to install, and people make fun of you if you say "Basic".

Is there a nice library to build forms in Python? Something simple where he can build the logic behind a nice bunch of buttons.

(Another option is JavaScript, browsers are everywhere, but I don't like that "3"+7 is not an error.)
You still need some unit of atomicity to be able to maintain invariants. You can't combine HashMap_LinearProbe::insert with HashMap_Chains::remove, because they both depend on implementation details in order to maintain HashMap's invariants.
Wow. Super cool. I really liked the temperature slider.
From the source:
"The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14]."

The easiest of those references to link to is https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1... :

"Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. "
I thought at one time the idea that Nokia or Blackberry would die was absurd. But the world underpinning their technology changed and it happened. Doubtful with Apple but a pretty good thought exercise.
This is really, really cool! Wish I had had this back in chemistry class.
Ironically your being biased when you think that just because you can see a coin it bent that it must then be based. It’s perfectly possible that a coin even with an extremely visible bend is still unbiased, and the only way to prove it’s biased is to conduct the experiment.
Melting Iron: How to Lose $2b in One Day
A client side bug was crashing the server? I always thought the client depended on the server, not vice versa.
But it does cover more than that and the current title is pretty close.
On the same vein -- look at how many Big Three UAW senior people have been indicted on corruption charges just in the last 5 years... I haven't kept up with all of it but the number is at least in the tens from Chrysler UAW alone.
Yes, I have seen the deletion fetish on Wikipedia first-hand many times. It made me stop contributing to it.
Maybe the blockade has been an accidental blessing. Cuba has done a damn good job with these vaccines. They have good healthcare and education. The "standard of living" is lower, but I'm sure you get used to it in a month. People seem to get along. And it's a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Looks kinda like paradise to me.
You will still need to re-learn infra frameworks in every 3-5 yrs.

Also, after 10-15 years, you will be increasingly frustrated to be managed by 32 yr olds.
Surveillance in schools is a symptom, not a cause.

To keep it focused on technology though, schools are super interesting - physical security is routinely violated. The iPhone really needs a dual-password mode, or some similar strategy, to protect its users.
The article calls out the difference between Dollar Tree (everything is a dollar) and Dollar General (low prices but not necessarily a dollar) in one of the images.
Chinese vaccines have infinitely more peer-reviewed data than the amount of peer-reviewed data we have to support the Cuban vaccines: zero.

Either way, there's 11 other vaccines in use that aren't Chinese, still more than 5.
While this answer points out there can be various factors involved in the success of a sale, it completely underestimates the skills of selling and persuasion which many books have been written about and certain character types have a natural affinity for.
Once, I was going to make a quick backup copy of /usr on a busy multi-user system. I did:

$ (cd /usr; tar cf - *) | (cd /mnt; tar xvpf -)

Only I typoed ’cd /mnt’ which made the changedir fail and my current working dir was /usr so I had one tar-process archiving /usr then streaming the data to another tar process that used it to overwrite everything under /usr. After a few seconds of nothing appearing under /mnt I got really nervous I’d done something stupid. Then I realised what was happening and had a couple more seconds of hoping it’d be fine (given that I was overwriting /usr with its own data). Then the system log lit up like a christmas tree with error messages and a few seconds later the machine froze. Can’t recommend doing backups this way.
Field is the best representation, but what thing it represents?

We are not talking about an analogy. We are talking about representation.

A physical thing X is represented in physics as a field (3D array, [x,y,z]) of values of Y, so, if we have a field of Y, what is the X?

For example, height field represents the height of piles of rock and dirt about ocean average level, so, Y is height, and X is the rock.

What is represented by EM field, by gravitational field, etc.?

(Beware: non-native speaker).
heard of gloves?
What the cookie-cutter management doesn't understand is 100% of the company's value goes home after 5PM.
Some of them probably just disappeared altogether. All of the big IRC networks have a lot of users who just stay connected continuously without participating. The big services shakeup on Freenode was probably the impetus a lot of those users needed to shut their client off permanently.
“Near took their own life”
Hand holding is still a thing here I guess. https://onivim.github.io/docs/for-developers/building
The following is the entirety of the GP, quoted here for ease of access:

> Cuba actually has 5 vaccine candidates, and 2 of them have greater than 90% effectiveness. A great showing for a small, socialist island nation under decades of embargo by hostile anti-communist forces.

Which part is ideological boilerplate? Is it false that Cuba is a small, socialist island nation? Is it false that it has been under decades of embargo? Is it false that the forces that are imposing the embargo (mainly the US) are hostile to Cuba and anti-communist?

NOTE: You should not infer any agreement or disagreement to GP from my comment. I simply find it to be literally, factually correct. If it isn't please point me to sources that invalidate any of the factual points I mentioned.
I was also interested in this, instead of all the TCP/IP resources mentioned here. You may find the Interconnect section of this book helpful: https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/

It covers:

- DNS

- Load Balancing

- Demand Control

- Network Routing

- Discovering Services

- Migratory Virtual IP Addresses
The EU does produce oil, though production has been in decline since 2004. And much more is imported than produced.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I have years of experience in high-end retail sales and a subsequent decade of experience in high-dollar niche sales. In all of my jobs my entire life I've worked 100% commission.

Here's the thing both your and the parent's comment are missing: sales isn't about persuasion or communication, it's about listening.
> I think most people expect sessions to be tightly tied to identity

There are plenty of people who'd prefer sessions to be as loosely tied to identity as possible / as necessary.
First they're already strongly protected by trademark law, second they make their Cola pretty much everywhere (except maybe the base syrup), third there's already a bunch of Cola (ever heard of Pepsi Cola?).
That Cuba is ruled by a communist party is, unfortunately, relevant to this conversation: there is a significant chance the claimed results are pure fabrication. First line of the article: "Cuba's health authorities said this week the domestically produced Abdala vaccine has proven to be 92% effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials.".

Personally, I hope this is one of the rare times when communist authorities tell the truth. Or hopefully Cuba 2020 has a different relation to the truth than Eastern Europe 1980. But count me skeptical until independent trials confirm the results.

People that lived under a communist party regime learned the hard way that communist regimes engage routinely in fake data. From 99% elections to the incessant claims that the quality of life is superior to the "decadent capitalist West", when reality on the field looks like this: https://dustyoldthing.com/inside-soviet-grocery-store.
It seems you are working from a theory built around price "anchoring". It's a proven bad model.
I don't understand why people like x86 bare metal programming so much!!! XD Just kidding. Related:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428700

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531393

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773219
Samsung S21 Ultra Screen suddenly went black
I know the author quite well. It all started with him following "Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 1." from Ruslan's blog (https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/) where you are creating an interpreter for a pascal like language.

He then decided to spit out some c64 assembler, and it has been a pretty cool journey after that :D
This is a non sequitur and a straw man. I don’t agree with the Balfour Declaration because it was strongly opposed by the Palestinians, 90% of the population at the time.

I have no idea why you are quoting John Lennon. It has nothing to do with the topic.
Ideological boilerplate doesn't mean "not true".
But are there things that produce “loud” acoustic waves at these ultrasonic frequencies out in the natural or manmade world, that we mostly just ignore because we can’t sense them? (in about the same way that we ignore e.g. the massive amount of radio interference that switching power supplies create, because we don’t use those bands for anything)