skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a decent rundown that isn't behind a paywall: https://academyoffencingmasters.com/blog/new-unwillingness-t...

Epee fencers refused to fight

Because yea, for decades an epee bout was like watching paint dry. Just bouncing around in place for 9 minutes, and then finishing with nobody getting above 10 touches.

> For a fencer’s fourth P-card sanction, the fencer receives a P-black card.

This is quite severe. It means that if you do nothing for half the match (or have other infractions), you are disqualified.

I have mixed feelings about the implementation of the rule, because as I understand it, it penalizes the person who's behind, which in epee can be tactically not great. Less of a problem in foil with the right of way rules.

It's worth noting that saber bouts used to finish in under one minute. Consistently. This is like pre 2000 I forget when. They had to change the rules in the opposite direction - by allowing a viable strategy other than "RUN STRAIGHT AT THEM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE RAAAAAAAAAAAA" (I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not a whole lot).

Foil had the non-combatant issue, but not nearly as bad.

Foil was not without its own brand of silliness too. A couple decades ago, top level foil was all about flicking people on the back. They changed the rules on that too.
Probably a good thing, because it was truly ridiculous
If you want to see people trying to spread conspiracy theories on HN, turn on showdead in your profile and, soon enough, you will. It's not all that common, but it does happen, and has proven a fairly fertile source of search terms for my own occasional research interest in the subject.

Would that that interest could remain as academic as it was when the Internet and I were both young, and the stuff was all UFO abductions, or similarly innocuous and rather silly. On the other hand, it tickles my historiographical curiosity to watch a new iteration of American revivalism, rehashing the "Satanic ritual panic" of a few decades ago, evolve in near real time. So I suppose at least there is some consolation for the regret.
I'm curious, can you share more about the nature of the projects you used Sorbet with?
Yep, for the 0.0001% of developers who target arcane architectures C is still pretty much it.
It was pretty painless to implement in my case, though I was already familiar with communicating with Apple backend services.
Occam's Razor. The Democrats weren't stealing the election, social media put up with Trump for years until his posts crossed a line, and Trump was throwing money at the military industrial complex. There's no need to invoke a massive conspiracy to explain the end of Trump's first term. He sabotaged his chance to unite the country under his leadership with COVID by making it a partisan wedge issue, because he wanted to run on the economy, and his ego couldn't handle mail-in ballots (which, thanks to his efforts to undermine his own base's faith in them, were almost entirely Democratic) turning his apparent victory around on him, so he cracked. His personality and ineptness at politics are sufficient to explain things.
> counter attack point

The rule was primarily aimed at epee though, where there is no such thing as "counter attack point", since there's no right-of-way rules.

Unless I'm gravely misunderstanding your idea.
Right, but Sign In with Apple is tied to your Apple account. I have no way to make an IAP autorenewable subscription and tie it to “bob” in my system. It’s tied to the iOS Apple account.
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Well, it's also because McDonalds offered him free food for life if they could spread the story about him. Did they offer him more than just a free hamburger, I dunno.
A Quarter of Americans Say Covid-19 Has Strengthened Religious Faith
Well, back when Harris and Biden both said they were hesitant to get a vaccine produced under Trump, they kinda set the stage for the dumpster fire we have today.
In my experience, the Sorbet team is too humble. If I was running Ruby these days and cared about its speed I would definitely give this a try.
I do list my personal info. I used to get contacted by interesting folks. Back then HN was a very different community - circa 2010 and earlier. These days it’s a lot more popular and more like Reddit with populist up or downvotes. So honestly I’d say it’s not worth it. Sorry. And… see you at the bottom of this comment thread (too).
That’s what the “keep it cool” part is for.
It can also be extremely dangerous to stay in a closed space i.e. underground parking if you don't have a way to turn off the fire. Most people don't die of fire in fires, they die of less than a minute of breathing in toxic fumes. To tell a volunteer to risk his life to watch a fire burn he can't turn off is a very privileged position to be in.
I'm of the same mind on this. It would be ridiculously easy to identify who I am with some tangential info on me.

I'm here to talk about tech and related stuff. It's ok that people don't know who I am. I don't need random stuff coming at my employer.
Can you rent an apartment for like $100/mo or less there?
Elections don't work to stop things like this. As mentioned, the agencies are far too entrenched. They literally bypass our most sacred laws and structures as if they don't even exist.
In most contexts aborting on malloc failure is OK, and preferable to trying to handle it gracefully, which has caused lots of problems, including security problems. On Linux you need to be running in a non-default configuration for malloc to be fallible in the first place (other than in trivial circumstances like attempting to request exabytes of memory in a single call).
That's just how our fearless leader intended it.
I could say the same thing about the magic rock I keep on my front porch to ward off tigers. But the absence of tigers on my porch isn't evidence that my magic rock works.
It still only syncs every 1 second, IIRC.

What you really want is 2 replicas in a shared-nothing environment, and use min-replicas-to-write.
Common, but illegal.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> something that can't be unseen to many Americans

If the short/midterm/longterm response from "many Americans" is to be at all coherent/effective, then what they believe they saw had better jibe with reality.

Universe One: a cabal of chess hustlers cheat by surreptitiously moving a piece to their advantage. An anon films it and sends it anonymously to all the other chess players in the park.

Universe Two: a cabal of chess hustlers cheat by surreptitiously moving a piece to their advantage. An anon films it, then the film becomes part of a conspiracy theory that the players wearing red hats only ever lose because the non-red-hat-wearers have rigged the game against them. Anon creates an anon podcast that fuels the conspiracy theory for the half of the players who wear red hats.

In which universe would you guess the players have the best chance of banding together to throw the cabal of cheaters out of the park and return peace to the chess community?

Or an even simpler question-- if you were a chess hustler who cheated by subtly moving a piece, which universe would you choose to maximize your chances of escaping unscathed?
https://isis-online.org/books/detail/taiwans-former-nuclear-...
If a fedex employee runs someone over while drunk, that employee is responsible. The company might also be responsible if they know the employee was drinking on the job.

It’s the same deal here, the company is 100% at fault, the government might also share some responsibility or not depending on the specifics. As to drone operators, “I was only following orders” isn’t a free pass though I was given bad information might be, the government can also be responsible at the same time.

Which isn’t to say these drone operators are going to end up at The Hague, but they and their superiors should at least be invested.
i am on search myself. seeking orleans like solution. bastion has cluster support. so may be it should be checked. cluster is needed for multi node and move. so for now i am coding raw redis, k8s pods, in mem cache and websockets...
> 300km is beyond the curvature of the earth by a significant margin -- I wonder how it works...

70cm is similar(ish) to 2 meter (which can propagate even over oceans):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-meter_band#Communications_be...
> Though if I were going to greenfield GStreamer C would still be a pretty reasonable option in 2021 IMO.

GStreamer is routinely exposed to hostile content in non-sandboxed contexts, such as your traditional Linux desktop; it even works as a browser plugin! Among projects you might want to write in C, GStreamer strikes me as one of the least reasonable. If GStreamer were more widely deployed on phones, it'd be prime attack surface for e.g. regimes attempting to surveil journalists.
I mean I m glad Snowden did what he did for my own curiosity but stealing the credentials of NSA colleagues to leak secret military (or is the NSA civilian) programs is not something I d expect any country to reward. Solving these problems is very hard and Snowden took a shortcut.
Natural gas leaks in a house have been known to destroy the house and all the surrounding houses when they blow up.
The point was if he rushed it. The companies delayed their announcement and strengthened the trials so the current Trumpista favorite argument would in theory lose steam.
I remember seeing an interview or a report about the founder of Blackwater being upset about the backlash, because he specifically said that the US government sends them in to do jobs they don't want to do themselves.

To not put any blame on the US government for giving these companies the reach that they have is to turn a blind eye to the source of the problem. Not to mention that these mercenary companies are made up to a huge degree by ex military.

When you hire a Hitman to do your dirty work, sure, the Hitman is responsible, but the guy who hired him at least shares some blame.
It would just be so darn useful to be able to use confluence for customer facing docs. Every year or so I come looking for this ticket, and get sad.
Maybe it scared someone
This is a dumb bug in the implementation. It should set dest to null on failure.
The problem with algorithms is that they rarely show you something new. I like walking past rows of things to see what catches my eye.
I wouldn't get too spun up about this
Deleted Scenes [of Deleted Scenes] of Life of Brian
Yeah right. This is just media fear mongering at its best. We as individuals get to decide when this is over. Not some anointed “expert class” of myopic technocrats.
God help me: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vw0rn
Your comment reminded me of a Will Smith quote from many years ago where he talks about Running and Reading. He shares that running teaches you to overcome self doubt. He then talks about how reading helps you because anything you’re feeling, someone has gone through before, and you can learn how they handled it.

Not strictly relevant to the topic, but it remains good advice.

[1] https://youtu.be/-08M7JpLpl4
Also, when they do mention vaccination, they don't specify whether the person was fully vaccinated, or only partly (one shot, versus two).
the private sector provides alternatives. government is exactly the opposite. one size fits all and you cant get rid of it.
Isn't a lot of that older than Amazon? Walmart was already hard to compete against for family-owned retail businesses. Three Walton heirs are in the top 15 richest Americans, if you want to talk about distribution of wealth. To me Amazon seems like just the natural next generation of the Walmart model.
Aard2 Android: https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android

Aard2 web: https://github.com/itkach/aard2-web

Dictionaries: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
He's saying the quiet part out loud. You're supposed to collaborate with tech companies to de-rank and filter people with undesirable opinions.
But no suggestion for an alternative?
Deleted scenes (of deleted scenes) of Life of Brian
This seems like a common problem in all martial arts. We saw the same thing in the early UFC too.
The best way to not lose is to stall forever, essentially. It makes for terrible television, but it seems to be built into the nature of fighting.
People didn't stop paying for news, they stopped paying for "news".
Employment rates aren't the issue IMO, wealth concentration is. And that's increasing.

It's important because wealth is essentially power, so concentration of wealth inevitably changes the balance of power in society. And that in turn creates a feedback loop where the wealth and powerful can undermine thelaws and regulations intended to keep the distribution of wealth and power from becoming too lopsided.

This is why I view the current everything-as-a-service model that takes things people used to own and turns them into things people rent pretty skeptically.
IMHO, yes, provided that your business degrades gracefully when data is lost, and the revenue per byte supports storage in RAM.

In that case, it is better than other databases, being extremely performant, and more importantly, being very easy to develop for.

If you need more space, you can use Redis cluster to extend horizontally.
Maybe, let’s see what Jan 2022 looks like.
I came here to write something else. But after typing I felt it would be sort of bikeshedding. So did not add it. And now I am going to see if any other comments sound like bikeshedding. (including this one probably.) :)
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The Recycling Myth: Big Oil's Solution for Plastic Waste Littered with Failure
"Yeah, but it's not that bad, because like, you can always choose not install the gstreamer-plugins-ugly package."
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
Either way, whether one think their existence is problematic or not, to me, it does seem like the federal reserve system and CB's in general, are in the process of "jumping the shark" wrt to CBDC's… they are already behind.

Like you acknowledged in another comment, most money created now is through private banks lending and exchanging future cash flows with one another (some subset of which are also the private share holders of the different FRB's in the US), and arguably this is the system being threatened now with new crypto entrants (uncollateralized lending in defi is just getting started, stable coin fixed income is just getting started, uncollateralized and decentralized stablecoins are also on the horizon, etc) and increasingly looking to attract fixed income cashflows from tradfi (i.e TBTF banks who have been publicly outspoken against crypto for years, being forced by some of their HNW/institutional clients to get exposure), who are solving the lack of trust and market structure issues between counterparties without the regulatory overhead (which in practice is used to serve the primary dealer banks interests, so self-serving just like any other random defi protocol at its worse).
I have two accounts.

1) Creative account - Allows me to express ideas that are wild, uncharaceristic of myself and learn from people's responses and many times downvotes. I try to be nice. Many times I am wrong.

2) Real name account where I share things that align with my career goals, public image and 'on the record' perception.

I prefer using my creative account (this) more often than not. I hope this isn't against HN rules.
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What does democrats stealing the election have to do with the FBI investigations? Those are two separate topics.
So SAS, Tableau, & Matlab all jumped too?
Drawing people's attention to where jigsaw identification can be done can itself be construed as jigsaw identification.
It's not worse - he's stating a fact, and your qualms with his descriptor (i.e. "the media") are secondary to the fact that his statement is an accurate description of 1) the problem and 2) the opponent in question, even if you feel like the secondary component is up for debate.

I'll restate my own adjacent thoughts: If you're a journalist and you are working at a company that performs these sorts of linguistic tricks to optimize for clicks... (and constantly for that matter) then you are equally responsible. Everyone has bills to pay, but everyone who participates has to eventually take responsibility for enabling a broken system.

Truthful descriptions of novel current events, even if they derive less clicks than clickbait, cannot become ancillary goals in the field of journalism. With no exceptions!
Oh please. The communist party in China makes the nazis look like toddlers in the scope of death and suffering inflicted on people. The long defunct historical events you cite are a dilute drop of tears in the ocean of blood staining the hands of communist government over the last 70 years.

The simple fact of the matter is that Hong Kong had been living under the hope of a free and liberal democratic future. Mainland China, like all failing and flailing communist dictatorships before, cannot tolerate even the appearance of dissent, and they crushed that hope for a bright future. Mainland China has made ugly and petty a once beautiful and proud city.

The Chinese communist party is evil. If the moral arc of the universe swings toward justice, the CPC will end. The only question is if they'll take the rest of us with them when it's time to fall.

China is the country most intent on driving the world to nuclear confrontation. They could have chosen mercy and justice and civilization, holding their citizens high as examples of human achievement. At every opportunity, they choose otherwise, crushing everything human and wise with their cruel folly.

You have no high horse, you can stop with the coconut sound effects.
FUCK ALL COMMIE FUCK!
> I sometimes wish would include "In our current model", "We now think that", or some other qualifier.

There is actually good reason to think quarks aren't fundemental. Even ignoring the empirical shortcomings of the standard model (specifically the incompatibility with General Relativity), it just doesn't "look" like a fundemental model.

Specifically, it is essentially a periodic table of elementary particles, with 3 "generations" of matter particles. Like the periodic table of the elements, this structure is highly suggestive that there is some deeper underlying structure.
I don’t think it’s changed that much. The internet and social context have, but the content posted and the discussions are still really good here despite complaints to the contrary.
Or it's more like the people in DC see the value that the IC brings to policy and war.
I'm pretty sure Facebook never had a non-mystery feed algorithm. Before ML appeared, I'd guess the algorithm was hand-tuned.

I haven't heard anyone express a liking for the FB feed algorithm but I remember a commentator mentioning that FB beat all the other social networks of the time because it turned the noise down tremendously. You weren't bombarded by that those people who posted once an hour and that was big for the average user.
He did this stuff as a private contractor.

"Government power", "private power" -- it's power that's the problem, not what we call it.

Why are we still so wrapped up in this Reaganite semantics about "government" decades later?
One strong argument for more government power and control is of course the present "covid crisis". Which is amazingly convenient for the government. And that should definitely make you think.
Maybe cause, they are gay fucking pieces of shit.

San Francisco should sink into the ocean - bunch of commie liberal socialist cock-sucking ass-fucking pieces of dick.
The average monthly salary in Thailand is USD250.

It's unlikely that Starlink will be anything else than niche in countries where it would cost people half of their salary. Assuming that they can get the equipment at all.

StarLink may be successful in sparsely populated areas of North America and Australia and may have some success in rural areas of Europe.

Anywhere else, it won't be affordable or it won't have the local infrastructure (regional base stations), or distribution of the equipment will be banned or heavily controlled by local governments or the link access will have to follow the same rules as other internet connections, or it will just not be needed at all.

I'm curious to see how it's going to pan out given the high maintenance costs of the infrastructure, but it's clearly not going to have any effect on the average Thai's access to information.
Regular talk of crisis can degrade liberty
Only if you allow login with other 3rd party login services. Honestly this seems pretty reasonable so apps are guaranteed usable even if you don’t have a Facebook or Google account. There are apps that only have social logins what with the “outsource your auth” marketing a few years back.
The build system for the product that I work on produces a giant log with all the commands that are run and a separate filtered version that only shows the errors (if any). So for a build breaking change the issue is quickly found in the filtered log. But to answer questions about why the build is taking so long we have the full log.
There is a difference in philosophy there.

Apple does a lot of design pre-launch and if they can’t make it look like an Apple product, they kill it.

Google throws money and effort and if it’s not a raving success post-launch or something else comes along, they kill it.
> communication without exchange of value is pointless

Agreed. If only HN collected a fee to read comments... /s
You can’t tie it to bob. You have to look at the receipt and reward from that. So bob logs in you look at the receipt and bobs your uncle you have the subscriptions.
Or HN could build private messaging
Yeah, that's one of the things I don't like about Linux.
Fsync ≠ bytes safe, unfortunately.

It usually means that the bytes are in the drive's cache, not that it's on disk. In theory, the disk can write the cache if the power is cut.

Even then, the disk can fail.

The safe thing is a shared-nothing replica, but you need 2 of them to have availability. 3 if you are worried about bit-flips causing your 2 replicas to disagree.
You’re right, I had this reversed in my head. Both cartoons sparked controversy as I remember it.

The aeon flux stuff seemed to portray a dystopia. It seemed like the hero would falter. I don’t remember anything like it in animation.
But somebody's paying them to do it. They weren't hired by McDonald's in this case, they were hired by the US government.
> Why are we still so wrapped up in this Reaganite semantics about "government" decades later?

because no one is calling for more private power but a ton of people are constantly calling for more government power
100% wrong. From Wikipedia:

"On 27 March 2015, Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of murder, thereby definitively ending the case. Rather than merely declaring that there were errors in the earlier court cases or that there was insufficient evidence to convict, the court ruled that Knox and Sollecito had not committed the murder and were innocent of those charges..."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_Kercher)
One nice thing about the rivalry between g++ and clang is that it has caused both sides to improve their error messages ... Template issues can still produce ugliness but it is a lot better than it used to be.
Did you want Apple to have the power of the Dutch East India Company? How else would Apple resist national governments?
Ok, but intelligence has a history of doing things like this, and have undeniable unimaginable power. Quite a bit more capable than your rock.