skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In which case we would have had a wave of evictions and a spike in homelessness during the most difficult phase of the pandemic -- when we had no vaccines, limited testing capacity, and hospitals that were way over capacity with COVID patients. That would have left many more people dead and greatly reduced compliance with social distancing rules as desperate people (facing eviction or already evicted) skirted the rules in an attempt to make enough money to cover their rent. It would also have given people an easy excuse for dismissing the CDC's guidance in general, since the CDC would have been making a completely unreasonable demand ("stay home" is unreasonable if you need to leave your home to show up at work so you have enough money to make rent).

The CDC does not have the ability to pay everyone's rent. If we could have relied on state governments or Congress to bail out rent for people who were unable to make rent otherwise, maybe the moratorium would not have been necessary. Unfortunately, that is not even remotely something we can rely on -- we have spent over a year arguing about whether the "relief" checks, which would not even cover rent in many cities, are too generous.

Emergency powers are not a problem -- in an emergency there is no time for political parties to work out some kind of deal or for judges to review facts / legal arguments, and we allow certain government agencies to take emergency actions in such situations. Look at how long it took for the courts to overrule the CDC; if that is how long it took to react to emergencies we would be at the mercy of every fire, disease outbreak, hurricane, etc. The only relevant question to protecting democracy is, "How long should an emergency order remain in effect before the legislature or judiciary gets involved?"
I brought my kindle with me on international trips because back then it wasn't so common to have a smartphone/wifi everywhere. I used its browser feature all the time when traveling. I even used it for texting people, gmail, etc.
We should have both, that's the point, to which you replied that "the site's intent is to show the general population's ability to organically reach those sites". I disagree with you, for many of those apps having only the website's status in the dashboard is insufficient.
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Have you ever tried engineering paper? :) Might save you the step of taping grid paper! The grid only exists on one side, but essentially disappears when scanned.

https://www.staples.com/TOPS-Engineering-Computation-Pad-Gum...
100% fully expected. If 1000 people could unionize independently for a walk-out. They can unionize for a union.

Well. Time for employees to make WilmerHale have another fail on its list.
True, and HTML5 video tends to "just work," however I've found that many people have practical issues with hosting their own video. For example, not understanding video conversion, hosting behind bandwidth or request rate limitations, or not having anycast/CDN set up to hold the site together when a page unexpectedly goes viral. There are reasons that hosting videos yourself might not be an effective use of the resources or time available to you, especially based on technical skills, in which case third party hosting with pinning remains a better option.
This is very rational of them. They position themselves as a pipe for "bytes", not "content".

By ignoring the content they serve, they rid themselves of the necessity to analyze and judge what they serve. Not only would this require a brain the size of a planet and the expense of running it, but also would inevitably conflict with someone else's judgments, and bring various PR woes.

They don't analyze the internals of their traffic the way internet backbone providers don't analyze the internals of the traffic they pass around.

I frankly find this position superior: imho it does more good by preventing censorship than harm by serving good-intentioned and bad-intentioned customers alike.
Why not both? Write two exact articles with the different headlines to capture two separate customer demographic.
It works for the requirements of the people who are running it, not necessarily those who use it.

The differentiator is that when an incompetent jurisdiction gives away your ID, it's your loss, not theirs. When hackers spoof a business with your credentials to perform industrial espionage or plant ransomware, it's the business that loses, not you. An incompetent jurisdiction can continue operation indefinitely, they just have unhappy, powerless citizens. An incompetent business will suffer financial losses and fail.
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I also haven't purchased any new Blizzard products since Blitzchung. I uninstalled the Activision Blizzard game launcher last night, hopefully others are doing the same and adding to the dent in their KPI scores and financial bottom line.
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I'd suggest you to give Libby a try once. All you need is to search your local library and add Card Number and PIN and that's it. No logins required and a very polished UI.
Sounds like someone just wrapped up their reading of The Three Body Problem series.
So is Funcom, Riot, Epic, Miniclip... They're harder to avoid than Nestle...
“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”
Seconding other comments - assuming you can use Python, use jinja templates, slap on a twenty-line Python wrapper script to read your data and then apply it to the templates, and then you've saved yourself of days of headache.
Was mortgage forbearance allowed on rental properties?

(sincerely curious)
Hate reading long articles? You'll love Wonderly
Yes, "attitude" is an aerospace industry term for "the way you are pointing/oriented".
I am surprised that they are serious when saying "even a single person being offended is one too many". Not want to start yet another flamewar on CoCs, but how is such a rule even practically enforced ?
Given it's impossible to respect for a project of this scale with this many users, it just feels like a fake statement for good PR
I feel like this makes the whole move even less respectful that if they'd have done nothing about the Santa hat complains
>"proportional to mv²" also means "proportional to 1/2 mv²" and "proportional to 123.45 mv²".

Yes. This is my point. The error has never been found experimentally because everything eventually gets resolved to Newton's E = Fd. Dividing every result by 2 makes no difference because the proportions do not change.

I still don't see why gravitational mass is a problem but I'll keep looking into it.
"[Recent 6th circuit decision against moratorium] deepens the circuit split with the badly flawed DC Circuit decision in favor of the moratorium, and thereby increases the likelihood that the issue will eventually reach the Supreme Court, if the moratorium is extended beyond its current July 31 expiration date. He is also right that the Supreme Court recently signaled that at least five of nine justices believe the moratorium is illegal, even as a narrow 5-4 majority also—for now—refused to block enforcement of the moratorium."

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/23/thoughts-on-the-sixth-c...
> If we reduce everything to that metric of observability then coders should be paid in lines of code written not thinking done.

If this happens I'll do well. Just don't ask how I "write" the code that gets submitted.
But how am I supposed to get mad at that headline?!
If I cannot work for a company without joining a union, it is a monopoly.

What if I'm a junior worker on a labour market that is saturated by more experienced and skilled workers, and lowering my rate is the only chance to make it in the industry that I have? Existing union and it's members are my natural competitors.
CDMX only :(
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I'm not sure how this works with functions that have side effects. Perhaps they're banned?
I guess part of it is just personal anecdotes. India was (democratically elected, but single party monopoly) socialist from 1945-1991. It is still pseudo-socialist in many senses.

Watching how deeply these inefficiencies from bureaucracies plague us, has been genuinely angering.

So yeah, I do come into it with personal priors which lead to be deeply suspicious of any unnecessary inefficiency. (emphasis on unnecessary. Your covid example clearly shows that the word necessary itself is subjectively evaluated)
> Were it a private company, like most startups at this stage tend to be, these lies would not have been securities fraud, I don't think.

Theranos has entered the chat

Private placements are still securities.
If you like "small time" devs / roguelike programming the Roguelike Celebration conference YTs is excellent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv_QzXft4mD6TXmQBZtzIA
I postulate there are two categories of people: those who assume that if the activity was minimum, the service would continue, and others that assume the service will end, so will pump as much as possible.

I'd found it to be invaluable solving the after-landing-before-you-have-a-local-SIM conundrum.
As the unit aged, more and more I would also leave the wireless on my DX disabled. I would turn it on when I needed it which, as you mention, has become more and more rare.

My real use-case for the DX was textbooks because the screen was large and it was easier to read code snippets. Back in the day I bought a lot of those from Manning or O'Reilly directly and then loaded them onto the DX via USB. Reading PDFs was nicer as well, but again, I loaded them over USB.
Facebook is a pseudo government with sovereinty over a type of resource that we have fully yet to understand as a species.
Your Y is not a different problem, it's just a poorly worded description of X.

In an XY-problem situation, X and Y are different problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control
Right, I’ve concentrated on actually making the game instead of the whole business cycle.
I would expect that a small developer would spend less on GR, PR and so on.
I don't really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.

Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.

But if you've already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn't gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you're only hurting yourself if you stop using it.

I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry/upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally/viscerally important to you, it feels like that's a bit of an odd trigger.

[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don't find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.
> We already know that Copilot as it stands is unacceptable and unjust, from our perspective.

So, why call for white papers? I don’t believe they will publish any papers that go against their views.
Seems like a good opportunity to ask: what are some news agencies that do not use deliberately misleading headlines? For the blizzard thread, Bloomberg was the only article I saw linked with an accurate title
There are latency benefits, which translate into higher user engagement metrics. If your site sells things or has advertising, that means you get more money.

See https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG76/1991/... / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76XbdedSrww for a talk about that.

It shouldn't be much extra work if you roll it into your other admin tasks. Any time you're turning v4 up, turn v6 up too and you'll get there easily enough.
I think it would be more accurate to say it's the implication of artificial barriers to supply, such as restrictive zoning.

The government won't build you a home, at least not the kind you'd want to live in.
We need to be crystal clear here that the unionization drive at Amazon, AL FAILED - and it wasn't close.

This was a BLOWOUT loss by the unions. I mean, the vote wasn't even close even though they protested something like 500 votes?

I didn't know WH was involved on company side - but if so it was a mighty effective campaign.
That's not usually complete. Minimally, it's a process in its own PID namespace.

But assuming it's an OCI container, which will be the case if you're using any common managed container runtime and not rolling your own, it's a process in its own user namespace, mount namespace, UTS namespace, cgroup namespace, IPC namespace, and time namespace. It's assigned its own hostname and IP in the new UTS namespace. It runs in a chroot in the new mount namespace to a root filesystem assembled via overlay with a single writeable layer on top of N read-only layers shared with any other container that is launched from the same image. It gets bind mounts, kernel VFS mounts, an environment, and an entrypoint command from a config file colocated with the root filesystem in a container bundle created from the image defaults, system defaults, and command line overrides.

The simplest way to compare it to a VM is a container is the Linux kernel using namespaces and cgroups to scope the services and resources it presents to a single userspace process. A VM is a hypervisor presenting virtualized hardware and BIOS services to guest kernels.
are people using DDG using it just because it's not Bing and/or G? I thought the whole premise of DDG was providing the ability to search anonymously by "proxying" your search to a different search engine altogther. I was aware of the switch away from G to Bing, and I was okay with that as now G no longer gets any search data from me even if it was made anon by DDG.
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Building a gameserver in Elixir is not great imo, performance is subpar. I work in online games and no one would want to use that language.

I guess they have low constrains since they only need to support 10000 players at a time and they want a single instance for that.

- Erlang runtime is slow

- Memory consumption is high

- GC is not very good ( vs Java / C# / Go )

- high cost in term of performance because of immutability

It's not the kind of things you want for a game.

To give you some perspective on popular FPS games, they run between 30hz and 120hz with up to 64 players and usually only use a single CPU core. And they're doing gameplay simulation / state replication / physics sometimes AI etc ...

Also it must be pretty painful to not re-use their C++ client code on the server side, they have to re-implement twice? ( this concern is actually higher than the performance one )

Overall I think it's an impressive achievement to be able to do that for a single person in 6 month!
Additionally, the site wouldn't load for me. Turns out NextDNS blocked it because it's less than 30 days old, and indeed, it is[0]:

Dates 30 days old
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Expires on 2022-06-29
Updated on 2021-07-04

[0]: https://whois.domaintools.com/promethean.news
A $5 burger would be super cheap in SF, difficult to find, and unlikely one worth eating.
It depends how much time he spends per day, no? I always thought of Duolingo as something you do in 15 minutes of downtime here or there. Nowhere near the level of time commitment that a class would be.
Their own website lists one of their areas of expertise as "advising on union awareness and avoidance"

https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/solutions/labor-and-employment
Under "Executive and Workforce Training" tab
Well... my eyes have gotten progressively worse (more myopic) since I started wearing glasses regularly to work about 5 years ago. This was in my early 30s. Before that I didn't wear glasses most of the time, but I still had some myopia that could be irritating at times. I could still, eg. drive comfortably without glasses. I can no longer do that.

It's something that has felt wrong to me, and worried me a lot (you know, since I use my eyes for a lot of things that are important to me). I will definitely look further into this and try the techniques discussed here.
A quote from the article: '"Wilmerhale’s own site advertises its expertise as "union awareness and avoidance."'

Therefore, yes, it is accurate to define them as a "union-busting firm". They fulfill other roles than just that, but they do act as union-busters, and they even describe themselves as such.
(Just in case what I'm about to say makes anyone squirm—I promise this code was for personal use and should never have been used in production!)

I first started dabbling in C programming because I was coming across (open source) software that did everything I wanted save for one or two small problems, and I wanted to make changes. I'd only worked with higher-level languages in the past, and so I quickly discovered that I had no idea what to do with pointers. I understood what they were, conceptually, but not when or why to use them within these large existing codebases.

So, um, I basically just started doing whatever the compiler said to. When I used the wrong symbol for a variable, the IDE displayed a warning, and I'd cycle through the possibilities (foo, *foo, &foo, **foo, etc) until the warning went away. Somewhat to my own surprise, this strategy absolutely worked—I can't recall a time when it led to a problem.

...and I'm not sure that's a good thing. It was certainly helpful, but I didn't learn anything.
> I copied and pasted exactly what you wrote.

And then misparaphrased it with a crystal clear bias.

> I criticized an obviously disgusting group (that you’re a part of) and you’re making a judgement of my character out of adversarialism.

Ah yes. Adversarialism, after you make a blanket statement like that is totally surprising, lol.

The fact is that the chance of sexual assault in the military is low, and reporting of it is improving, and the exact number of incidents cannot be known, only speculated on. But apparently, if 2% of Muslims become suicide bombers, all Muslims are bad, according to you; and if most rapists are men, then all men are assholes, according to your reasoning; unfortunately that is what I'll generously call "illogic"; you can speak to countless military members who had good experiences, but if a few women (and a handful of men) got fucked over, then I guess the whole system is fucked, eh?

Good luck applying that to society at large (which, by the way, is IMPROVING along with the military).

Making approval depend on perfection (instead of consistent improvement) is the enemy of good, once again
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Sure, but that doesn't mean they are on the side of the victims. As we've seen many times in the past 4+ years, "dealing with" can mean throwing money at the victim in exchange for signing an NDA and leaving quietly. That's sort of the default corporate response, and doesn't seem to really ever lead to a change in the behavior of the abusers. Sometimes the person at fault doesn't even lose their job.
DC has significant tent communities as well. It's not just the west coast.

https://wjla.com/news/local/shelter-dc-homelessness-pandemic

https://wamu.org/story/20/01/16/dozens-displaced-after-d-c-p...
The Steve Jobs quote on why Xerox failed [1] strikes again. The finance people have taken over Acti-Blizzard and they've been coasting for 10+ years on their original franchises. All we have is annual CoD releases and Blizzrad coasting on their old properties where Blizzrd hasn't had a significant original release in 10+ years.

This effort seems like it's part of the ruthless approach to controlling costs that slowly strangle a company from within.

I believe WoW is the #2 property (after CoD) at Acti-Blizzard and it's clearly changed from one of delivering a game to simply extracting as much money as possible from each customer much like how almost all mobile games do.

The state of California's complaint is bad. I mean really bad. The fact that 3-4 different people from AB all released different statements in the last week should tell you exactly how bad it is. That's classic panic mode. There should only be one.

This latest move tells you the company believes it will blow over and they're looking to do the minimal required to appease the detractors and get back to business as usual without having to pay people more or pay out a bunch of lawsuits.

Honestly, the heads of J Allen Brack and Bobby Kotick in particular should roll over this lawsuit.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM

EDIT: commenters have noted (correctly) that I overlooked Overwatch. This was a significant release but it seems to also have waned in popularity and Overwatch 2 is inextricably going in some weird PVE direction.

Other than that you have a poor received Diablo sequel, a series of lackluster to bad WoW expansions, a disastrous Warcraft 3 remaster and complete abandonment of the RTS genre that propelled them to success in the first place.

WC3 Reforged ("Refunded") was significant in that it was not only underwhelming and plagued with problems it made the original game worse with a forced download and loss of functionality.

The most significant change however was Blizzard not wanting a repeat of missing the MOBA boat with Dota 2 by adding a condition that all the IP for third-party maps belong to Blizzard, completely killing that ecosystem.
10 paragraphs? That's your standard? What a joke! The Exxon Valdez only gets three sentences on Exxon's wikipedia page. It costs peanuts to bribe a wikipedian editor to manage your corporation's reputation and suppress controversies on wikipedia. This is standard practice. How anybody thinks a corporation's wikipedia page is neutral territory is beyond me.
I've spent a lot of time with languages that use runtime enforced types, and then a lot of time with compiler enforced types. The latter is just better. We can argue about how strict the typing system should be, how much it should guess at types or coerce types, etc. But there is no world where `"5" == 5` shouldn't at very least throw up a warning to let the programmer know that STUFF is happening here that you might not expect.
The US does have some experience giving housing. There are various programs to help poor people get free / heavily subsidized housing. In some (all?) places in the US you need an address in order to qualify for such a program. Homeless shelters are supposed to be the short term solution to deal with that. It is not ideal, but they could stay in a homelss shelter for a a while and get an id, ssn card, address, etc. This allows them to qualify for low income housing.

There is also a shortage, in some areas, of low income housing. I am not sure what it is like in Germany but developers don't want to create low income housing since it tends to be treated poorly and increases crime in the area. How does Germany deal with that or are the German homeless better stewards of the place they live?
This is true, but the priority in this case was keeping people housed during an unprecedented national health crisis.
Yes. I'm extremely influential at setting technical direction where I work (not Blizzard) but I'm not a manager so I can't discipline people. I can only attempt to advocate for the culture I want to see, or vote with my feet.
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Cats in bars don’t die of alcohol poisoning regardless of the amount of beer spilled on the floor.