skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably 11, When the first third of Starcraft II released without LAN support, borked custom games, and with that mess of a story. But that was just an aberration surely. Then 2012 was the real money auction house in Diablo 3 with an even worse excuse for a story and I gave up on the company.

They got a few brownie points back for coming up with the successor to TF2 in Overwatch, but by that point that was the aberration. Everything else has been nostalgia or momentum.
Tomato, tomato
I would have sincerely thought it was obvious I was referring to the reposting of "In the Beginning was the Command Line" long, long after its original publication, including this most recent one.

> "MacOS and Andriod adopted Unix or Linux because the were clearly superior options"

If by "superior" you mean "free as in beer", yes, they were the superior option.
No one has great plans for swarms but everyone is looking into ways of dealing with them. One reason they're not giving up on it entirely is that using tons of quadcopters like make up those aerial displays is they have pretty low capacity which limits the damage they can do. Control software is also still an issue because it's unlikely gps will be still usable around ships so you need way better software guidance than the display swarms have.

They're definitely going to be one of the major challenges in the next major war but we're still in the early stages of both offense and defense for drones and drone swarms.
> Because he was a very small boy, state prison officials decided to place Ian in solitary confinement, where he remained for the next 18 years.

What on earth? Solitary confinement starting as a child, potentially for life? What a weird way for this to hash out.

Strictly speaking, not being around others may be good, but solitary is an overadjustment.
FWIW I've had no trouble connecting to the built-in install of netatalk 3.1.8 on my Synology NAS from MacOS 8.1. I can't remember if I had to tweak the config or not.
And microplastics are still hydrocarbons that can be broken down into relatively harmless constituents, even if it takes some effort and energy.

Asbestos pretty much stays asbestos forever.
https://reuprefills.org/ in Oakland.

https://www.azurestandard.com/ has drop off points across the country. They are amazing.

https://dispatchgoods.com/ for Bay Area delivery food in reusable metal containers.

Most health food grocery stores do something similar with their bulk foods and soaps.
>My idea is to have a huge fuel tax, but to return it to each citizen in equal amounts, not use it for general purposes, so that people who really need to burn a lot of fuel can, but those who don't are incentivized not to.

Interesting. Have you described it in detail somewhere?
> It doesn't need to solve all of humanity's problems to be a great tool.

As a side note, I'd like to say humanity's own intelligence is actually able to come up with solutions to its problems, we don't need AGI for that. Humanity is unable to implement those solutions for reasons beyond technical. How an AGI would get over those hurdles I have no idea
Statistics isn't "just statistics." There is no "dismissal" of it. It's a hugely powerful tool. It can be used incredibly badly, and result in evil.

People have an idea what a statistical analysis is and basing decisions on it. Eg Gambling. That is what ML /is/. It's not some incredible computer brain thinking learning magic pixie dust. You know that. I know that. Everybody who knows what ML is knows that. It's a minute proportion of the world. This is the data we need to learn from.

See ML as distinct from stats all you like, go nuts. Take it up with Hinton, Wasserman, Murphy, Tibrishani & Hastie and so on. Your understanding is different from theirs which could well make your textbook a ground breaking best seller.
You’re not the only one who feels this way. What also bothers me is the fact that even slightly misremembering something you had previously said to law enforcement can be used as evidence of lying and perjury.

And we know that human memory and recollection is fallible. Prosecutors know this too. But government officials can freely abuse this in the name of getting a conviction.

I’ve never been able to look at the justice system the same way since watching “Don’t talk to the police”.
>I’m not scared of corrupt dumb people regardless if they have a federal badge.

i envy you
Yes, tragic. Imagine celebrating the pinnacle of human athleticism and physical achievement at the cost of obsolete tech toys!
Key step is to legalize drugs and stop illegal crap happening at the border with Mexico.

Veep Harris is on top of it, but she may need one more term to solve the problem.
The crazy shit people believe from corporate media isn't called crazy since so many believe them. And the reason so many believe them is because all corporate media spreads it.

Also I am significantly more afraid of crazy shit that people don't call crazy than crazy shit everyone calls crazy.
BootOS: A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
I think the gist of it is that TODO-lists don't get done, but that just fine. They are still useful.

The purpose of TODO is not to commit to doing something, it is to create a possible plan for accomplishing something.

Whether you ever get to actually doing it, it is good to have a plan, in case you
a) need to do it
b) realize at the time of doing it that there is a better way of doing it, or that in fact you need to do less, or do some different things.
Another commercial website that heavily uses ASCII animation: https://oxide.computer/
Yes, that's my guess, and is the explanation in the research paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias
>Why will 5G be widely adopted?

I think we should reject 5G as a community.

Not because any danger of radiation. But I think people should be able to say "This is enough", and stop ourselves to be forced to think "We need moar!", thus put some block to this progress for the sake of progress..
Agree this piece was garbage and was exactly the kind of content that the actual tech companies who dominate media would want to promote, to deflect from their ability to silence anyone.
I use the term "contrarian theory" to describe what is usually meant by "conspiracy theory".
I wasn't as clear as I should have been so I think you are missing what I am saying.

I meant to say they were hesitant over the vaccine not that they were anti vaccine.

I never said you couldn't find an example. I said you could not find many. Many of the same people who were hesitant of the vaccine are now the biggest supporters.

Biden and Harris both said if doctors said it was safe they would take it, but they were still pushing doubt about the safety in their statements.

Here are some other examples:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/eua-coronavirus-vaccin...

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/521672-cuomo-public-sh...
There was some kind of command prompt you could bring up with some really obscure combination of keypresses. I remember encountering it on System 7 and MacOS 8. I never did figure out what could be done with it
I think one of the big flaws with our legal system is a paradigm of “this is that” kind of thinking.

How do you get around the spirit of a law? Well you claim what you did was something else because the law doesn’t mention that other thing. It wasn’t a search, it was just conjecture. Sure the end effect was the same but this is a totally different thing.
If you believe everyone who thinks the lab leak is viable also believes in lizard men, I'm not sure what to say.
The cover up, the incompetence and the substantially higher death count is fine because cases are now low? Interesting argument, have you considered telling the families who had loved ones slain because of government incompetence that they later lied about?
> Bounded rationality however does recommends a way out of the trap - work on simple problems

Climate change is a simple problem, reducible to just one number - the percentage of C02 in Earth's atmosphere.

What is difficult is not the technical challenge of how to reduce C02 emissions. We have known that for thousands of years, and all societies practised it until recently. They went about their business without burning fossil fuels.

What is difficult is to get people to walk back from convenience. Once you've driven on the freeway to the beach in 30 minutes, stopping by the supermarket on the way to pick up a bbq chicken and a can of asparagus imported from Argentina for $1.50, nothing will convince you to go back to the old way of living.

Most people would say the pursuit of convenience is at the core of their definition of rationality. If that's the case, we aren't limited by an upper bound on rationality so much as condemned by our perpetual desire to exceed it.
Fair enough, but...I see plenty of deer making peaceful living in the wild. And giant herds and flocks of the same type sticking together. Plenty of animals live at peace without conflict, except for males in mating season. Especially without tribal conflict against their own species. The big ape brain seemed to be used disproportionately against peace...
From my perspective, some of what middle managers do is helpful, much of what they do could just was well not be done. My point being that these tools create work from top to bottom. There's information to fill out, statuses to be updated, progress to be tracked, reports to be generated, etc. etc. etc. which all fall on to a spectrum of "things which have utility" and "things which are busywork" often heavily favoring the latter. They make management jobs "easier" in that they create a clear set of "something to do" which is different than making their jobs easier in the mode of "providing value to leaders, makers, investors, etc." All being done in a cargo cult of "this is how you should work" and satisfying a certain kind of person's desire for things to be "organized".
We can put homo erectus in the ambiguous category, if you know of some argument to do so, but the early homo erectus (what splitters would simply call actual homo erectus) had a brain size of 900 cc, so you'd need to explain how modern intelligence works in that dramatically smaller brain.

Lumpers include later humans in the category of "homo erectus" when brain size is 1200cc. If you yourself are a lumper, you should say so, as that would resolve some confusion. I'm personally with the splitters, having been won over by the arguments that Ian Tattersall advanced, so when I say that homo erectus is stupid, I'm referring to people whose brains were 900cc.

Here is an article written from the lumper point of view, so perhaps this is what you were thinking of:

https://www.shorthistory.org/prehistory/brain-size-of-the-pr...

"Homo habilis, who lived approximately 2 million years ago, was 750 cc. Homo erectus shows this transition most dramatically, indicating that most of the evolutionary increase in brain size took place during the life of this species. Early Homo erectus in Africa (from about 1.7 to 1 million years ago) averaged 900 cc in brain size, but later Homo erectus specimens from .5 million years ago average 1100-1200 cc, which falls within the range of the brain size of modern humans. The earliest or archaic forms of Homo sapiens, the species to which we belong, dates to 300,000-400,000 years ago and averages over 1200 cc. The Neanderthal skull has a brain size of 1500 cc, which is actually larger than the brains of most modern humans. The average for ourselves, Homo sapiens, is around 1400 cc."

That is not the story I was working with when I wrote the above comment. Here is an article that suggests the splitter story:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/homo-heidelber...

"Between H. erectus and H. sapiens, intermediate species existed, variably named Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis or Homo antecessor, depending on a researcher’s views. Many anthropologists just call the whole bunch Middle Pleistocene hominins, after the geologic time period 130,000 to 780,000 years ago. One spectacular site, Sima de los Huesos in Spain, has yielded the most Mid-Pleistocene hominin remains. Excavations there since the 1980s have unearthed more than 7,000 fossils representing at least 28 individuals dated to 430,000 years ago."

In that story, homo heidelbergensis is in between homo erectus and homo sapien.
FWIW, this has existed for a while now. My brother tipped me off to it & I used in 2013 to create a chart of my annual Amazon spend.

It's pretty obvious when I joined Amazon Prime.
I am making the same mistake that the other poster did, in assuming too much background familiarity. Those are 90s chips. This software runs on machines from the late 1980s. The trend scales further back as it does forward. Five years is always a long time in computer performance.

The 486, the slowest chip on my list blasts the early Macs (which this software runs on) out of the water by 100x. I went and researched it and the the 68882 FPU at 25 MHz is about 0.25 MFLOPS: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motorola/68k-chips-faq/

Stunning, but that is the difference between 1985 and 1989 technology.
There's a tool to obfuscate your printer's unique code, found here: https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
>Its like telling second graders they can solve tenth grade problems. They cant no matter what they are entertained by, how well they built od consensus or how hard they work.

Child prodigies exist.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This is an accurate, if colorful, assessment. It has all the same safety problems as a Tesla with even worse sensors, less compute, and practically zero real safety V&V work.

They cutely dodged NHTSA's regulatory ire by shipping a "dash cam" that happens to run software you can install which makes it semi-autonomous... even though said software is made by the same company that ships the "dash cam". NHTSA isn't stupid, so I'm curious what it will take for this loophole to eventually be properly closed.

Sadly, safety is a lot like security. When it's done well, it's invisible, but when it's done poorly...
Really? I view her as a coward. A hero doesn't run away from the battle because they feel bad. These athletes are meant to be the best of us, representing our countries to the world. Do you want your country to be associated with quitting, mental illness, etc?

I'm sure she made the best decision for herself, but that's quite the opposite of heroic. She let down a lot of people. Heroic is fighting through the problems and doing what you need to do despite that adversity, not giving into it and going home.
The 6 corporations "owning the media" concept came out just shortly before, and during, the rise of social media (e.g. I recall it circulating as far back as 2010-'12). In fact, reddit and social media are how a large number of people became aware of it.

Without picking a side or making an argument, it's basically a repeatable factoid that gets people wondering how much collaboration, and potential illicit collusion, is really being applied to the stream of messages they are exposed to on a daily basis.
This is not a surprise is it? My gut tells me the large majority of us here at HN already knew this either empirically or intuitively. I’m not mad about this fact being publicized though. It definitely not obvious to everyone.

The super sad and disheartening part of this is even in a ‘free market’, capitalistic environment, in the long run this state of propaganda is still what we are reduced to.
Also missing is Nexstar Media which owns 197 US TV stations, and Sinclair Broadcast Group which owns 193 US TV stations.

And let's not forget iHeartMedia which owns around 850 US radio stations. Their stations reach nearly 100 million listeners a week, and nearly 250 million every month.
>And would they count YouTube as "one" outlet?

YouTube has editorial control over which videos are allowed to stay up, which videos are eligible to get monetized, and which videos are actively promoted. It's not just a web server with an index and a movie player.
And as big as ViacomCBS is, it's still a subsidiary of National Amusements.
The state of New South Wales, Australia, has an independent "Law Enforcement Conduct Commission" whose explicit job is to investigate law enforcement misconduct (across all major state law enforcement agencies), and to refer cases to prosecutors. Some other Australian states have similar agencies. There is also a federal equivalent, the "Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity", although it does not appear to have been as effective as its state-based equivalents in uncovering law enforcement misconduct.

Maybe the US could copy the idea?
Can you have continuous change when you have isolated populations who are facing different environmental pressures, which are pushing them in different directions?

"Continuous change" suggests a story with a narrative, an outcome that grew naturally from the initial trends, rather than being frequently convulsed by contrary trends in a world that saw multiple reverses of global climate trends during various periods of glaciation interrupted by inter glacial periods.
yes: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand

if you believe in all the economic bs we are being fed, something scarce is going to increase in value until it's no longer scarce. that's literally the definition: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
See https://twitter.com/bob_wachter/status/1420974072414957570?s...

Which references a cdc documebt
"A man cannot want what he wants".

You cannot really pay a man to "focus" (I mean, work passionately) on something, which is what exactly is required in these kind of things.

And I think this might be blocking our progress right now. Because people cannot work on things they are passionate about, because they are told to focus on this other thing, some other idiot thought they better work on..
They were actually allowed to seize the boxes just not to search the contents. They had an indictment against the business itself but not against the actual customers. The entire business is setup to hide assets so they probably figured they could bootstrap cases against the customers who were probably up to something. In reality they probably just collected a ton of incriminating evidence that's going to be inadmissible.
how is less and more accurate (read: not done wrong) studies pruning opportunities for future research?

from my view, it becomes easier to make research.

less, more condensed literature is easier to cite and read, as it's "unified".

from there, many other researches can easily base the work off the paper for novel research.

less doesn't necessarily mean worse.
This article looks to be 15+ years old. The cam pictured in Fig. 1 looks look one of the earliest models of SLCDs, from sometime in the 80s when cams were all rigid, if I remember my climbing history correctly.

If you follow the link to the home page, you can end up on a page that refers to more recent work having been done in 2005.

http://web.mit.edu/custer/www/rocking/rocking.html
Sounds like you heard the sensationalized version. They knew about but we're contacted by someone who did not found it but became an informant and ultimately a leader because that person was ex-military and skilled. That was my understanding of how it was ultimately not successful.
This isn't true. Consolidation of (old-) media has been a concern discussed as such since well before AOL was acquired by Time Warner.
nope. you will certainly not most likely recover your investment. it's a casino in which the informed make money and the suckers lose money. buying a stock does not bring any sort of guarantees you're going to make the money back.
> I am making the same mistake that the other poster did, in assuming too much background familiarity. Those are 90s chips. This software runs on machines from the late 1980s. The trend scales further back as it does forward.

my point was on interactive use (i.e. using AES or ChaCha)

you are the one that diverted the topic towards RSA-4096 (which no-one uses), moving the goalposts (twice)

(and yes, I saw the deleted post)
For a practical example, take this code I wrote recently:[1]

const backends = {}

async function setupBackend(host) { /* boot server */ }

function getBackend(host) {
if (!backends[host]) {
backends[host] = setupBackend(host)
}
return backends[host]
}

That if block is effectively a critical section: it relies on explicitly not awaiting the result of setupBackend(), so that the promise will be stored into backends[host] (to be reused by subsequent calls to getBackend()) before anything else can happen. Injecting `async` will break this behavior, causing the backend to be booted multiple times.

[1] https://github.com/wolfgang42/webd/blob/8cf28447468dd4745262...
i will bet you real bitcoin that given enough time you'll be able to make all those transactions. there is absolutely no reason for someone to not accept bitcoin when they can literally turn around and convert it in fiat if they don't like holding it immediately.
I'm not sure what you mean about Python. In Python, if you run an async function without an await, you will simply get a coroutine object that is ready to be executed by... someone (it's essentially a generator under the hood).

In fact, unlike JavaScript, you can't even call await from a synchronous module context. You have to either schedule that couroutine object onto an existing async event loop, or create a new event loop and run it your self.
As if printer companies weren’t already some of the worst offenders of consumer trust
Yeah, this method is not original to me, for sure.

Neither the "slow perfect practice" nor the "break down the skill" nor the "spaced repetition" is my invention.
it depends a lot on the kind of food. I once asked the owner about this when I worked at a pizza place. the "house salad" was almost straight profit; lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc. cost basically nothing when purchased in bulk. the salads that included cheese were more like a 300% markup over the material inputs. interestingly, wings were sold at a slight loss. I guess you don't want a whole group to pick a different pizza place just because one person wanted wings.
As an outside observer, replication crisis appear to more a result of other things like "publish or perish" and other politics in academics
I think ysleepy might be referring to HTML charsets, which can be set in the HTTP header. They are a nightmare, I have come across HTML documents with so many “if lt IE 9” comments that they move the charset declaration out of the first 1000 bytes, causing browsers to ignore it and interpret as Latin 1. But yes, not actually anything to do with parsing HTTP.
A Battle over Durian, the Smelliest Fruit, Unfolds in Malaysia
There are people in this thread with actual experience and actual bench times using these protocols on machines of that period

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28022299

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28023337
> Only because of resources limitation in the ‘60s.

Doesn't matter what the excuses were. It was supposed to work, it failed, and Armstrong took over and saved the mission.

> Nothing to do with the catastrophic bugs

Most every software bug today, once rooted out, looks like a mistake only an incompetent programmer would make. Except the best programmers make these mistakes, because humans are fallible.

If I recall correctly, SpaceX had some unintended disassemblies from software problems, too.
> Imagine a small company trying to write their own web browser from scratch nowadays. It's just not possible!

Tencent do has one pretty much spec compliance browser engine (X5) for their own use. (Obviously not a small company either)

It is also a mobile only browser used mostly in China (so you are unlikely to test it during dev)

And I only got a few incompatibility reports from it (like 2 or 3?).

Compares to the nightmare on safari (dozens of bugs), it actually works surprisingly good.