skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember that some players specifically targeted others' scripts. The way it was explained to me was they'd create an illusion of their opponent getting poisoned, which for many would trigger their script for drinking an antidote. Then, the attacker would actually poison their opponent. The same script would trigger, but the antidote was still in effect, so it wouldn't do anything.
What a buzz kill. If I understand you correctly we shouldn't have expectations or constructive criticism on stuff we don't directly pay money for. I think that's nonsense. Does this only apply to certain opinions?

You are not paying money for Signal. But by using it, and getting others to use it, you are definitely improving their position on the market by helping them become a monopoly. Money isn't everything.
You would use a reference source, which may be paper documentation provided by the tool vendor (e.g. API documentation with usage samples), online documentation provided by the tool vendor, sample source code provided by the tool vendor (including illustrative sample applications for reference was quite common), or third party reference books. Since documentation was much more necessary than nowadays, it was more thorough and generally of a higher quality than now, though of course not always perfect.
> The only way this would result in an accident is with someone else speeding and tailgating.

Let's examine a Tesla traveling at 60 mph starts full on breaking to 40mph, and the person behind them is traveling at (1) the same 60mph and (2) is maintaining the recommended separation for 60 mph and (3) has instant breaking (bonus condition). The driver behind has 2.5 seconds to react to avoid a collision. The average human reaction time for a driver who is expecting breaking soon is 1.5 seconds, but this "phantom breaking"'s deceleration comes out of nowhere. And the average car doesn't have instantaneous speed changes.

In fact, an F-150 with similar automatically computer activated breaking would be a coin flip to avoid a collision, certainly a matter of a couple of feet.

I've never heard of a better case that even these "safety features" should be disallowed on public roads.
While this doodle is cute - I really have to wonder about the externalities of this that Google doesn't consider.

They have effectively put a game in front of every search result, and are actively encouraging people to play. This has a real cost to productivity and attention.

https://blog.rescuetime.com/the-tragic-cost-of-google-pac-ma...
Growing pains: how the climate crisis is changing British gardens (2019)
How often are you passing dozens or hundreds of parameters to a single sql statement? Maybe there is a better way to structure things.
Kinda like how many believers cry at funerals. Not to be dismissive, but why? (Yes I know not all cultures)
> As a conservative minded urbanist, it is disheartening to see people leave cities because many american cities are descending into chaos and many people are not as dedicated to urban living as I am.

Total crime rates as well as violent crime rates have been declining almost continuously for about 30 years. In the early 90s, crime rates were more than double what they are today.

Rates of homelessness are harder to measure, but the most comprehensive statistics (as measured annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development) show that the total number of unhoused individuals hasn't changed drastically since 2007 when reporting began.

While I do not deny that homelessness and crime are problems, American cities are not "descending into chaos" on the basis of rates of crime and homelessness.
> Maybe its just writers are more depressed.

That doesn't disagree with the hypothesis that it's a society-wide phenomenon.
Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics
Isn't the second paragraph not self explanatory?
I'm pretty sure that would qualify as the number being "made up".

If anyone disagrees, I'm happy to sell my database of 100B valid phone numbers.
Yeah, 1, and not many jobs opening here in AU lol
That’s the one I looked for on the list.

I knew a guy that went by “Win”, is it always that?
So by your definition, are "biang", "kiang" and "duang" valid pinyin, considering those are pronounceable and understandable to millions of people, though they don't appear in your table?
>But I wondered if aborigines beat low status members and women for economic reasons, or for mating reasons, or for something else?

I'm not sure if you're Aussie, but please understand that problems like domestic violence and incest/rape still exist in Aboriginal communities to a large extent.

There are also an army of "nice" middle class, urban white people performing the most mind-bending mental gymnastics possible to shift the blame away from the perpetrators and onto white society in general (who, to be fair, brutally mistreated the Aboriginal population for the better part of two centuries during a colonial campaign of conquest).

To me, within that context, the more interesting question is not whether or not there were economic/mating pressures on aboriginal populations that lead to the brutal behviour, but why a middle-class 21st century professional is looking to excuse it.
> the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one could find.

How about famine, war, epidemics wiping out a third of the population, totalitarian oppression, etc.?
I never understood the hype around it.
It's just talk-radio over the internet. With smaller audiences. What am I missing?
It always puzzles me how little knowledge of foreign languages the average English native speaker has.

Every time I hear an English speaker trying to pronounce Italian or Spanish words it generally ends up in a complete disaster (especially Italian). For instance, lots of folks haven't realized that the Great Vowel Shift happened, and so try to pronounce vowels as in English, without realizing that 99% of cases, that's wrong.

Also, English speakers have an incredibly hard time not only pronouncing but even understanding the whole concept of geminated consonants, which makes them funnily destroy Italian or Japanese names (gemination is especially important for Italian, where certain words are otherwise undistinguishable, se calo/callo, casa/cassa, pala/palla, ..).
Regulators frequently forbid the use or sale of things based on anecdotes while they gather data. And, what data exists?
I dont know of guilt or innocence. I do know that any jail time alone is a huge penalty in the US where their ability to get a job will now be greatly impacted. The US also has harsher terms than any other nation in the world for the vast majority crimes. When I complain about this I often hear the "If you cant do the time don't do the crime", but mostly from ignorant people who are not experienced in what doing the time actually entails.

For this crime 5 years feels harsh.
I've pretty much given up on these new OSes. I tried to run OS/2 and Plan 9 (whatever that relatively recent open sourced version of it was) and I just feel like... maybe I haven't developed the appropriate context to be able to even know what to do with it. Sure, Kali I know I can use my AWUS036ahw network card on, Ubuntu I know I at least have some sensible defaults, Alpine for containers (goddamnit why don't you have vim by default, so annoying to quickly debug stuff), but overall it's just not useful to know these little pieces of computing history. I suppose there are computing archaeologists that benefit from it, but I just get left with a sense of dread that everything I know and have mastered more or less is going to be left for dead and I just get a sense of exhaustion.

I'd say my initial experience of playing around with distros/burning to CDs, etc were instrumental to my learning about what different terminology meant, but overall right now, it's just such a time sink with no real benefit. Same reason why I don't just stop what I'm doing to learn Zig or Objective-S or whatever. There are so many tools to do the same damn thing and while it may be useful for self-learning or potentially a very specific problem set, it's just not worth the mental investment to accomplish any real goals.

It sucks to think about things in this context but it's a real constraint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU
> "never give PHP credit for getting better when it's still possible to do bad things with it" vibe to it

I was trying to go for the "PHP has tons and tons of terrible shoddy baggage" vibe.

https://preview.redd.it/v53przfht6n01.png?width=960&crop=sma...
It gets worse: check out the comment above about adding chron and NTP with a Wi-Fi dongle...

Doesn't anyone know how to program an MCU timer anymore? I mean, prescalers and clock trees really aren't that scary...
I've seen some cc TLDs with a USD price for foreign buyers and a local currency price for local buyers where the foreign price converts to 10x the local price.
Firefox Privacy Or: How I Learned to Stop Hardening and Love Strict ETP
Personally I can more or less do Nguyen but I still don't know how to pronounce Huynh.
You’d be surprised how difficult it is to estimate the frequency that someone sees a bug. The only way to have a “feel for it” is to base it on… other data.

Say there is a bug that happens in the photo taking flow – you’d need to know how often people take photos in Signal. You’d think you could spitball something for that, but it is actually really hard. But if you log how often photos are taken, then that is a great starting point.

But further, lower level logic errors like this, especially ones involving race conditions, are even harder to pin down. That is why on iOS you can log “faults” which are non-fatal but very not-expected events:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/logger/3551617-...

They generate reports with stack traces that you can use to a) judge the prevalence of an issue and b) see where it originated
Also Dec 1, 2018

> Your Tesla can function as a boat for brief periods of time

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/10685821263065825...
The question then comes, where would one go to learn the fundamentals-and what are they now?

Being someone who was ahead of the game in css 15 years ago, but not having touched it since - where would one go to understand the new fundamentals and options available?
Where are incandescent bulbs illegal?
I wonder if they have the equivalent the engineers who bemoan the fact that some React developers make functioning websites without “knowing anything about how CPUs or memory models work”.

Bourbaki was a thing so probably. And we know the joke about Bourbaki and Lang. Though the reference is diminished by the latter’s relationship with the former.
His suggestion seems to be to stop trying, but this is far from obvious.

One possible explanation of aging is that natural selection forces living organisms to die if they are no longer capable of reproduction or compete for resources with those who can reproduce. For modern human the right balance was determined by evolution hundreds of thousands years ago in a very different environment. We do not know yet which age is now sustainable for nature, but we are powerful enough to adjust the environment, thus natural constraints of human age shall no longer apply. But the selection criteria can give us a hint on what science must focus on to reach longevity: it is female well-being, female fertility age and aging processes that increase competition for resources (i.e. keeping people at work as much as possible). Of course, if we are going to reproduce and live longer, we also need to develop sustainable economy and use resources of our planet wisely.
Not all car usage is a problem.

I’m from the Netherlands which is incredibly bicycle friendly. Small country, highly urban, great cycling infra, great public transport, nearly everyone walks or cycles whenever it makes sense.

Still, cars are everywhere. There are just tons of trips where the alternative doesn’t really make sense.

Municipalities try everything to make the life of car owners miserable to force them into using alternatives. The only outcome is miserable drivers. They are in the car for a reason and won’t just switch.
A Chinese teacher once told me that pinyin is based off Russian
I am one of the people who is totally for the removal of cars (in cities). I don't even think this is a radical position, cars are not a neutral mode of transportation and people with cars get much more of the cake than any other person moving through a city.

Cars were somewhat utopian: everybody can move whereever they want, with a luxurious safe space around them, all while having the world shaped in auch a way it accomodates them and their car. Reality has shown, that this idea has not only serious downsides, but that it is also extremely inefficient and might even be part of the destruction of our planet. The idea that somehow we can build a sustainable world around cars, no matter how fuel efficient and what technology looks (to me) extremely naive, because it is inefficient and even if you made it better, you still won't beat bicycles in terms of efficiency and space usage.

Note: I don't argue there aren't legitimate use cases for cars. I grew up on the countryside in the alps, without a car you would be lost there (yet for some reason I managed to do everything with a bicycle/public transport till I got my driving license). Also: if your work requires you to move stuff around, cars (or trucks) can make a lot of sense. I am not arguing against that, I argue against one person sitting alone in their own 7m² and using that to commute into a city that is filled with cars.

In order to make cycling a real alternative we will have to take space, comfort and money away from cars. Take one lane away from a 4 lane road, paint it red, make it a bicycle lane. Add trains/subways/busses where people can transport their biciclyes, all that stuff.

I also have lived long enough in different european cities to know it works perfectly fine. I mean there are cities without any cars in their center (because of historical reasons) and they don't die.
> I can't even imagine the power draw of such a system or the heat generation.

I’m unfamiliar with the machine specified in your example, but I’ve seen in person HPC clusters with more RAM than that, so I’ll use that to give you some napkin math calculations.

Dell R730 with 24x64gb ECC DIMMs = 1536gb RAM. To get to 256TB, you’d need about 170 of them (aka about 5 racks). Power draw varies depending on a number of factors, but let’s be very conservative and take a worse case and say 750W per 1U server. That’s 127,500W, which is just over 600A at 208V, so say a long block of houses with their A/Cs cranking in the summer. Now as to the heat generation, each R730 puts out up to 2850 BTU/hr, so for all 170 of them, that’s just shy of 500,000 BTU/hr. Continuing the comparison to homes, that’s 5-6 home furnaces worth of heat generation per hour.

I don’t have any photos handy of the 64gb DIMMs referenced above, but here’s a photo of 130 16gb ECC DIMMs (aka just over 2TB):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ww1fwdn7o9se14z/2020-06-15%2020.39...

If instead of the above based on a real world HPC machine, you based it on current gen Dell R750s which can hold 32 256gb LRDIMMs totaling 8TB per machine, you could get to by with just over a single rack of machines for 256TB, albeit for a much higher price (256gb LRDIMMs cost as much each as roughly the price of a used R730 complete w/ 1.5TB of RAM). The cluster of R750s with that much RAM configured as indicated would be well into the 8 figure range.
If consciousness is a quantum phenomenon, a sufficiently strong electromagnetic EMP should be able to interrupt it.

It's obvious that humans can withstand MRI fields without difficulty, so the required field strength must me quite a bit higher.
For a few months back in 2003 my friends and I were completely engrossed in this game. It was a cool experience. I was really impressed by how the world truly had things going on and players could have an actual impact on the story because they ran everything in the game world.

It was also very interesting how role-playing was actually enforced and you could get punished by the gods (moderators employed by the developers) for breaking character.
Not to peddle conspiracies but here are some hypotheticals to match yours:

>Aren't scientists at the various drug companies "independent" from each other, given that vaccines are mostly zero-sum and so drug companies have strong financial incentives to invalidate their competitors' tech?

Vaccines are very much not zero game. They are largely interchangable in that governments are under severe pressure to get something / anything into peoples' arms if it means quelling the masses and shaking off COVID-19. We are seeing countries mixing and matching for the double dose vaccines, not to mention every country approving at least two vaccines for usage. If this were zero-game, then governments would seek to only buy the most effective vaccine and do everything possible to secure supply.

As a phramaceutical, choosing to pick holes in your competitors' products may increase your market share temporarily, but will bring scrutiny from your competitors and overall decrease confidence in vaccines. As an example of the prisoner's dilemna, the best way to maximize everyone's share is by just focusing on your own product.

>Aren't governments independent from drug companies, given that rolling out an unsafe vaccine would be political suicide?

At the absolute highest levels, sure. But at the level of the faceless beaurocrats actually making decisions, it is very much a revolving door between industry and government (oversight bodies in particular). Governing body (decision maker) one day, lobbying on behalf of drug makers the next.

>Aren't the scientists who actually work for the government regulators independent from the governments themselves, given that they aren't political appointees and have nothing to gain politically from getting a bunch of people to take an unsafe vaccine (and presumably are motivated by public health, given their career path)?

Same as previous, and it is also very easy for there to be conflicts of interest... even if we assume ample competence in scrutnizing the pretty pamphlets drug makers try to deceive with. There are many ways drug makers can subtly introduce bias or error into their trials. Well intentioned oversight bodies could still be deceived and later have to recall products they have approved (many drugs are recalled after data about effectiveness and side-effects appear from actual use in the population).

>Aren't the academic scientists doing COVID-related research and peer-reviewing COVID-related publications independent from all of the above?

Same as previous, wrt. source of money for studies and journals themselves. We have also seen people acting out of self-interest when their entire field was pulled into question (scientists working in the field of gain of function publishing letters and articles clearing their field of all doubt without substantiative arguments made, e.g. the origins of the virus).
> US is loosing more and more of its standing when it comes to "spreading" democracy.

The US was only ever seen as a spreader of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union/Fascist Europe/European Empires. And it was, but no one knowledgable of the US thought it was an unmitigated assessment! You can definitely compare the US favorably to China in regards to democracy and freedom but no one should be fooled that we don't have perpetual work to make a more perfect union.
I discovered this blockage when I tried to listen to a favorite program on BBC Radio London and found that the entire station, and other local BBC radio stations, are currently unavailable. I am in Japan.

I don’t know what the “rights reasons” are, but a total blackout seems extreme.
> I don't known how boosting works or what is it exactly

In that case, perhaps you should resist expressing strong opinions about it one way or the other. I anticipate that you, like most humans, find it annoying when other people have strong opinions in domains where they lack even superficial knowledge.
With all respect your comment is both arrogant and unrealistic. Exactly how do we not accept this state of things? No one claims it's desirable, it just is: bad code is out there, and it's not easy to fix.

What would you tell a small business that relies on clunky 10-year-old code to run their business? To rewrite it in a more modern language at huge expense and risk (given that a majority of rewrite projects fail)? Can you guarantee the new thing won't be just as obsolete and vulnerable and buggy in ten years?

These kinds of problems -- poorly-written and vulnerable code, amateur programmers, lack of professionalism, maintaining back-compatibility with an installed base -- are not specific to PHP. They afflict the entire software industry, and always have. Who could have seen into the future back in 2000 (when I first got exposed to PHP) that a new site would get probed by an army of bots within five minutes of going live? Or that it would be even harder today than back then to find and hire experienced programmers?

PHP has had many security fixes implemented since the early releases, but how can anyone force users of an open-source language to upgrade for their own good? Or pay someone to ferret out and fix vulnerabilities they have never got hit by?

Even brand new code has this problem. Look at all of the cryptocurrency code written in the last few years. We read about hacks and thefts and vulnerabilities every day, and that was written by supposedly smart people with access to modern languages and with knowledge of the contemporary security issues. And it still gets hacked. If we knew how to write perfect code that would still be perfect into the future I'm sure we would do that but until then we'll have to live with what we have. So far it has been sustainable, just less than optimal, if by optimal we mean what we can imagine rather than what we, as programmers, actually deliver.
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Oddly enough, pronouncing non-German names is much easier for me as a German-native speaker as many sounds (in the linked github above) are pronounced the same in German as in e.g. Japanese (thus we'd always pronounce "a" as "ah" anyway or "i" as "ee"). I change how I pronounce letters for English, not for many other languages.
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An ex-girlfriend of mine is a mathematician. Mostly conferences and symposia. It’s a very meatspace activity. I haven’t kept in touch but the pandemic might have upended that.

I’d speculate that it’s because it’s hard to understand much of mathematics without the back and forth of a lecture to help. But that could just be because I truly suffered through my Mathematics graduate degree and am glad a Masters is all I managed.
Past threads from way back:

Why Japan didn’t create the iPod - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197702 - March 2010 (88 comments)

Why Japan didn’t create the iPod - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181224 - May 2008 (4 comments)
Hold shift after BIOS/EFI handoff, and you’ll get lots of boot / diagnostic options. I natively boot on 3 systems without any issues.
I'm aware guaranteed income isn't the same thing as collecting unemployment, but the fact there's major employee shortages (at restaurants, etc) the moment the lower classes are given some money (via Covid bailout money adding to unemployment benefits) certainly doesn't bode well for the basic-income argument.