skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, but even if Commodore had rolled out new updates to the chipset sooner, experience is that people wouldn't really have used it because everything in that era was so tightly coupled to hardware -- with minimal abstraction and API [part of the joy them, tho] -- that people had to write to the lowest common denominator, or whatever was most popular.

Example: Atari's STe line got a nice blitter and more advanced sound hardware than the original ST about 2 years after the original ST launch, but almost no games used it. It just wasn't practical for game authors to target it when so many people had the original generation. (And hence the next generation didn't sell well because no compelling reason and so on). And in fact the marketplace was small enough that even just targeting either Amiga or ST and programming specifically for one and getting the most out of them wasn't done that much. People just wrote what amounted to a generic 68k planar bitmap graphics game that could be ported easily to either the ST or the Amiga, not taking advantage of the better features of either.

PCs were ugly and not nearly as sexy and fun as those machines from that era, but what they brought to the table was standards and upgradable commodity hardware.
I'm actually very curious about this too.

I've been tempted to start streaming the development of my game on Twitch, but it's somewhat unnatural for me to do so (tried it a couple of times so far, been putting off doing it again for like four months now) ...but it also seems like one of the only ways to build an audience for your games ahead of time nowadays.
> one of Xi Jinping’s top priorities: boosting a declining birth rate.”

Maybe they should just ban condoms then. That’ll take care of it.
Is this in CA? This is one of the major problems that prop 13 causes, property taxes don’t rise commensurate with the value, so many are content to leave buildings vacant, given that holding costs are so low if the owner bought long ago.
Lying flat is not related to tutoring directly.

Of cuz, one can say that tutoring crams the students so that they are dilussioned of the value of education and further the societal doctrine.

But it simply is not a good reasoning...
Many high-risk warrants are issue over BS, like "this guy is selling marijuana".
Is China doing anything so that it's worthwhile for students to learn practical skills rather than focus on getting into a college?

It's harder to get society to value college degrees less, but I don't see much changing unless there are many stable, low/medium-risk business opportunities available to those with degrees from lower-ranked schools.

It feels like they are just addressing a symptom, and not trying to tackle the larger issue...so I'm curious why they would do that
Perhaps it's because, to the user and the government, the "chrome" around the browser (bookmarks, experience, branding) is more important than the engineering details underneath, which most users don't care about. And governments, seeing other browsers are allowed but they have to use some similar plumbing, don't really care as the branding and sync and all that is different.

To them, it's the same reason why Apple might say you have to use the system Button instead of making your own Button, or use the system way of handling Graphics instead of making your own way of handling Graphics, use the system WebKit instead of rolling your own WebKit. That's a harder nut to define.

I honestly don't think more than 5% of users give a rip on what their browser internals are, if not less.
Most tech/journalist types use twitter and are much less likely to criticize it.
Well, yes, but i'm trying to make a case for why Apple would want to prevent other browser at all - that being how it would look like Apple is intentionally handicapping other browsers by not letting them use JIT, raising less-explainable antitrust concerns.
I've tried. I deleted my FB account. All it really got me was cut off from a lot of old friends and extended family. I ended up re-creating the account after a year, and then slowly building my friends list back up (but I'm far more restrictive now about who can be FB friends). A couple old friends won't talk to me because they think I de-friended them specifically and took it personally. Oops!

Maybe it's evil. But it fulfills a useful role.
In other news...demand for private tutoring goes up.
BART said escalators break down after prolonged uneven weight: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-escalators-walki...
This is great! Nice to see technology tackle a big problem. I don't see how you should have any expectation of privacy from the government in order to get government benefits. Totally reasonable.
The word phenomenon implies repeated occurence, not some one-off or rare situation.
Wait, you’re saying they can write off rent that they should’ve gotten but didn’t because of vacancy? Not an accountant, but I don’t think that’s the case?
Honestly, I'm so thrilled to find another person that realizes that we have a future of super abundant, cheap energy from renewables. That really makes my day!!

I totally agree that our peak energy outputs are going to be be absolutely massive, and for the past five years have been trying to think of the implications.

One of these is that it becomes impossible for solar or for wind to survive on its own with our current market clearing mechanisms. Which for those that don't know, works something like an auction where generators each say "I can provide X megawatts at Y $/MW" and then the operators sort the bids and choose all the operators needed to meet demand, and pay everyone at the highest bid that cleared. What happens in these markets when there's oversupply is that prices go to zero. (Or even negative. When generators have external income sources from producing generation, they will pay to put power on the grid if they can get more from those other sources).

When price on the grid is free, the solar and wind farms aren't making any money. Which means that they need to recoup all their capital costs in those hours where energy is not overproduced, but every other solar and wind generator is going to be in the same boat during those low supply times, and I don't know yet if there's a market equilibrium that will both allow pure generators to survive and for customers to not revolt and override this market mechanism.

This means that either 1) every single solar and wind farm will need to incorporate storage in order to be able to ever recoup their investment, is 2) market design has to change.

If it's 1), then in that case, the inputs to storage can't be free, because a combined generator/storage arbitrage agent, you have to value your generation at some cost, because you paid free capital costs and airs depreciating.

If it's 2), then I think any market design is going to require payments for energy even when there's oversupply. I don't see how a market design with long periods of zero-cost energy can survive (though I would love to see one, it's quite likely I'm not imaginative enough for that!)!
Lead acid are not particularly great as far as DOD (depth of discharge) or longevity.

Comparing for example a 100ah lifepo4 to 100ah lead acid, the useable capacity of the lithium will be close to 4x more. Using the full capacity of the lead acid will make them wear out quickly.
Twitter is totally unsuitable for intelligent discussion. To make a point with nuance requires paragraphs of text. Even a typical forum (looks around) can't really handle the amount of text required to make a satisfying, representative and well rounded argument.

Twitter gets some hate because it can push the vibe of a situation in a weird political direction, but Facebook's overzealous moderation actually stifles something closer to real debate. Also, Facebook is where communities are organising so the bans hurt more.
in other news, millions of people have a diploma to show for their debt. 41% vs. 59% in 4 years isn't a significant enough statistic to warrant outrage
As a Chinese I can elaborate a bit more about the logic:

1. Middle income parents don't want children to fall down from the social ladder.

2. Education is still their best bet. Well you definitely have better tools but they don't have access to them (easily).

3. When everyone is competing for better education, it becomes an arms race, with people throwing in literally millions of bucks for

1) (学区房) Apartments that are in good school districts. The usual trick is to purchase a very small apartment (may still cost some 2-3 million USD in Beijing for example for a something like a 20 m^2 one). One recent policy (before this one) is to completely remove those districts and randomly pick schools for the kids (I think it's still based on geography but a larger one)

2) For-profit school (what this news is about). Parents are willing to pay good teachers some 150-200 USD per hour for these schools. Since most For-profit schools just hire the best teachers of the public schools this poses a couple of major issues: A) Teachers are inclined to make as little effort in public education as possible, and B) It poses a tremendous pressure on the parents and the kids, monetary and psychological. Some kids literally burn candle every day, 7/24.

Now you combine all these and no wonder those kids will NEVER want to give birth to their own kids and go over the hell again.

But I don't think these policies will work. The policy-makers are just cutting off the shaft and ignoring the arrow. You see, the competition is still there, and even more because parents have to figure out new ways to join the arms race, which guarantee that they will waste a lot of money trying new things. I figured the whole bureacratics probably received some order from high-up, maybe Xi himself, but chose to do lip service instead of spending real money.

One golden rule about government policy (to tell if it's real or not) is to see whether they are going to spend money on it.
Extra time spent in education isn't. Extra time spent to study for a particular test is.

The subjects are highschool level - it's half rote memorization and half trick math and physic questions that using calculus are going to make 1000% more easy but are not allowed because calculus are not a highschool subject.

It's a huge waste of resource and time.
Oh stop it.

Smallpox has exactly one host (us), had an amazingly effective vaccine, the virus doesn’t mutate quickly or spread as readily, and it still took almost 200 years to eradicate it.

Polio is NOT eradicated, it spreads only through contact with fecal matter, and the remaining areas where it is endemic make a great illustration of exactly why this virus isn’t going anywhere either: Afghanistan and Pakistan.

That you would suggest that either of these make an argument for eradication of a flu-like illness with multiple non-human hosts shows how detached from reality you have become.
> I'm not saying that facial recognition is a reasonable way to try to fix this, but we're talking about $400,000,000,000 being stolen

No, we’re talking about a firm whose business depends on the perception of the magnitude of the problem claiming that. The source of that number in the article you cite is...the CEO of ID.me.

And when pressed by CNN to support that staggering figure ID.me responded with...promotional material for their product, instead. [0] It couldn't be any more clear that its a BS number the CEO pulled out of his colon for promotional reasons.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/politics/what-matters-unemplo...
Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing
> In a move that feels long overdue, we at Damn Interesting are abandoning all interactions and connections with Facebook.

> We really should have done this back when it was revealed that Facebook used the ubiquitous embedded “Like on Facebook” buttons to follow people’s movements around the web without their knowledge or consent. We should have done this when Facebook literally toyed with people’s emotions by showing some people more positive stories in their newsfeeds, and others more negative stories, to see how it would affect their emotional states. We should have done this when it was revealed that Facebook allowed advertisers to target ads to people who expressed interest in topics such as “Jew hater.” We should have done this so many times before.

Couldn’t agree more. I deleted Facebook years ago and haven’t missed it.
And they continue to make it harder and harder to make your feed a simple reverse chronological list of all the things you follow. You have to submit to 'the algorithm'
Rock Fragment Found in Field Turns Out to Be Ancient 4.6B-Year-Old Meteorite
Patu is a ClojureScript game library built on Kaboom.js
China is gearing up to activate the first 'clean' commercial nuclear reactor
I actually spent time wrestling with exactly this earlier today, and I think I finally have a 2 line solution for it:

https://pastebin.com/5WCXb2Gg

Assuming `foo.bar` is a script inside the package `foo` that you want to both import and run directly (without `python -m ...`), this lets you do so without too much hassle.
I always have dreamed of a world in which the global Facebook that won was more like Wikipedia.

I bet if we didn’t have Wikipedia, people would say such a project would never work. Fortunately we do.

Now, imagine a basic, open “friend book” with barebones Wikipedia-esque design for the purpose of maintaining social connections. Wouldn’t that be grand?
So, people who didn't get sucked into facebook, twitter and other social media problems, are they just like stopped clock right twice a day, or should we consult their prescience on other things that may also be not in our best interests?

There are people who want to turn the real world into a live action version of facebook/reddit/twitter. They've got this one weird trick, and historians hate them. You'll never guess where they work now.
Lying flat is a symptom, as is for profit tutoring and the Chinese government banning it. The root cause is the culture [1] [2] and socioeconomic conditions [3] [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

[2] https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/RAMJ-03-...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-17/china-s-h...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cost-having-child-china-...
Image: Hubble views a faraway galaxy through a cosmic lens
Unemployment benefits in the US are distributed by the tax authorities, i.e. state governments.
honestly the biggest failure of swarm secrets is the inability to change them while things are using them.

automating secret usage across containers that are deployed via ansible scripts gets annoying in that situation.
They discuss it around 30 mins into the video
Zircon is the kernel, Fuchsia is the OS.
The oldest known written joke: Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman sat in her husband's lap and did not fart. Sumer, 2300-1900 BCE.

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 10:

The tavern-keeper was gazing off into the distance,
puzzling to herself, she said,
wondering to herself:
"That fellow is surely a murderer(!)!
Where is he heading! ..."
As soon as the tavern-keeper saw him, she bolted her door,
bolted her gate, bolted the lock.

But at her noise Gilgamesh pricked up his ears,
lifted his chin (to look about) and then laid his eyes on her.
Gilgamesh spoke to the tavern-keeper, saying:
"Tavern-keeper, what have you seen that made you bolt
your door,
bolt your gate, bolt the lock!
if you do not let me in I will break your door, and smash
the lock!"

Gilgamesh said to the tavern-keeper:
"I am Gilgamesh, I killed the Guardian!
I destroyed Humbaba who lived in the Cedar Forest,
I slew lions in the mountain passes!
I grappled with the Bull that came down from heaven, and
killed him."

The tavern-keeper spoke to Gilgamesh, saying: why are your cheeks emaciated, your expression desolate!
Why is your heart so wretched, your features so haggard!
Why is there such sadness deep within you!
Why do you look like one who has been traveling a long
distance
so that ice and heat have seared your face!
... you roam the wilderness!"

Gilgamesh spoke to her, to the tavern-keeper he said:
"Tavern-keeper, should not my cheeks be emaciated?
Should my heart not be wretched, my features not haggard?
Should there not be sadness deep within me! ... Enkidu, the wild ass who chased the wild donkey, panther of
the wilderness,
we joined together, and went up into the mountain.
We grappled with and killed the Bull of Heaven,
we destroyed Humbaba who lived in the Cedar Forest,
we slew lions in the mountain passes!
My friend, whom I love deeply, who went through every hard-
ship with me,
Enkidu, whom I love deeply, who went through every hardship
with me,
the fate of mankind has overtaken him.
Six days and seven nights I mourned over him
and would not allow him to be buried
until a maggot fell out of his nose.
I was terrified by his appearance(!),
I began to fear death, and so roam the wilderness.
The issue of my friend oppresses me,
so I have been roaming long trails through the wilderness.
The issue of Enkidu, my friend, oppresses me,
so I have been roaming long roads through the wilderness.
How can I stay silent, how can 1 be still!
My friend whom I love has turned to clay.
Am I not like him? Will I lie down, never to get up again?"'
While this may be true in the US it's not universal - some countries walk (and drive) on the left and escalator etiquette tends to follow
Nit: Brakes (you both made this mistake)
End of the day, these big companies are full of smart people who do dumb things.

Facebook has the whole tone deafness and awful governance, Twitter sucks at execution, and of course Google did many things (killing RSS, bungling messaging, etc) that were from any point of view dumb.
Nobody in this thread can spell brakes it seems.

The regenerative braking is done in the electric motor, not the calliper/disc. Nothing has changed there.
"Evidence" doesn't just mean "a study exists that supports this claim", though. It'd be nice if that was the case, but the quality of studies does actually matter. Do we have "evidence" that the MMR vaccine causes autism based on Wakefield's study? No, because we don't accept the validity of the study.
Cmdlets can have provider-specific parameters, so in this case I would add a registry-provider-specific data type parameter with sensible default behavior to New-Item and Set-Content.

For example...

Set-Content hklm:\software\xyz\abc -value 1

...could create a DWORD value by default based on the type of the value argument, while adding '-DataType String' would enable creating a string value.
You've invented wardialing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardialing
Apple doesn't allow competition on their device because they know they can't win if forced to compete. Apple, even with all its resources, can only be spread so thin. By hobbling the ability to run your own engine, they don't have to try very hard.

This is the same reason they don't allow open installs. If they like an idea, they can compete at 30% more margin and with their army of engineers. Look how easy it is for them to enter the banking and movie businesses.

Keeping developers weak means they yield all the leverage. It's the modern anticompetitive playbook.

The DOJ can restore the balance by forcing Apple to open up compete fairly. It'll make for better software and products all around.
A Beginner’s Guide to ‘Rough’ or Aggressive Sex
Caution is warranted on the you can have it if you can pay for it route.

An enterprising teenager may earn money in undesirable ways.

I’m a parent and I’m thinking I’ll handle this as a clear you can have it or you can’t to avoid the grey and black market incentives.
> US Presidents involved in Vietnam

It’s kind of surprising for someone who doesn't go with the “Vietnam started with Johnson” line not to go back to Eisenhower.
The question is whether it's livelier now than it was last year, or more dead. If it's livelier now, property there is increasing in value. If it's deader now, property there is falling in value.
This is an inane comment. The author Alex Russell speaks for himself not his employer. He's always been outspoken on Twitter and he spends much of the article criticizing Google, the place he worked at for over 12 years.
Yep, my Tesla is in the shop far more often than my Euro/Japan/US cars have ever been. Last month the entire passenger seat had to be replaced due to an SRS warning.

Perhaps Tesla's poor build quality can keep these folks employed?
Yes, thanks, I missed the “flight” in that sentence.
> Female editors are presumably highly represented at these magazines and they don't seem to have a problem with the destruction they wreak.

Regardless of gender, the people that rise to the top tend to be sociopathic…
How is it better than the alternatives?
> Maybe not immediately, but Hacker News is absolutely an echo chamber. People who don't toe the line on certain popular opinions (e.g. social media bad) quickly learn not to comment because they know they'll get massively downvoted.

That’s not special to social media. There have been unpopular opinions among communities since before the internet. This all part of being in a large community based on interests. Learning how to deal with that is critical to learn how to function in society.

The other components of your reply complaining about the community having emergent plurality opinions completely misses the point. HN is better because these biases and things you disagree with are right in your face.

> I actually had to change screen names on HN once already because I pointed out some flaws in a certain author's books, and one of that author's fans tracked me down and tried to argue with me on my personal e-mail address. Nothing like that has ever happened to me on any other social media site.

People get stalked and harassed due to their Twitter posts all of the time by using their real name. Swatting is a thing. An argument over email is tepid in comparison to the real violence that happens from people using real identities on public social media every day.
I think you're still misunderstanding how the private tuition works.

The students at these "academies" are not being given a robust education in mathematics, science, philosophy or the languages - let alone Western values.

They are rote-learning an extremely narrow type of problem that appears on the gaokao (university entrance exam) - literally hundreds of the same type of exam questions over and over in order to gain an advantage over their peers (hence the "zero-sum" comment).

This comes at the expense of their mental health as well as other, more enriching (and idealogically dangerous!) activities such as socialising with their friends, helping their family with household duties or engaging in rich discussions online.

You could draw a long bow and argue that this stabilises the CCP's power by reducing the drive to protest of angry students who have not been accepted into the universities of their choice, but it has nothing to do with suppressing education or intellectual value.
Maybe it’s necessary to spread things out like that to get the planes in and out quickly. But that still doesn’t explain why they can’t do some kind of people mover.
There is a new market to trade water, which was created late 2020. Remember 2021, it's the year the food and water wars began. There will not just be shortages, there will be no way to purchase at any price. If you are not prepared, now is the time.