skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colombo always had a such hilarious proletariat vs bourgeois "Marxist" class struggle element hidden just below the surface of a major Hollywood series whose pilot was directed by a promising new young kid named Steven Spielberg.

The criminals were always rich, powerful, famous. Columbo was an unimpressive civil servant dressed in a shabby overcoat and driving an equally unimpressive old Peugeot. Every episode contained some bit of banter in which he or the villain called out explicitly the huge gulf in class between them, generally including some mention of Mrs. Columbo, who was never seen in the real series but was always held up by Columbo as cultured, intellectual, and wise in all the ways he professed to be ignorant (yes, they did eventually spin off a series about her, but it was terrible in as many ways as Columbo was great).

At the end of every episode, the honorable masses would triumph over the evil bourgeois as Columbo caught and humiliated yet another arrogant villain just before viewers were advised what brand of products to buy to look better than their neighbors.
Doesn’t shadowrun only use d6 for all rolls?
So basically this ... «Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKodtNFpzBA
You are not the intended audience.

I am not defending their model nor their implementation.

> Breaking a browsers default behaviour IMO needs a good justification. This isn't a good justification.

Good enough for them though. Their site, their choice. Also, it's not like there isn't many browser extensions to disable that behavior.
this comments are like bingo for climate science misunderstanding

evolution doesn't happen on time scales of 100 years

+1.1 avg temperature implies much larger localized changes
> The only mitigation is to limit the overall power of governments and corporations.

Why is this the only mitigation?

By the way, who is going to limit the overall power and who is going to limit the power of those limiting the power and why? :)

At the end of the day it's people making decisions. The best way to have them making better decisions, is having more of them having a view of the world that reflects reality.

More reality, less bullshit -> better outcomes. Pretty simple.
Age of Invention: Plague of the Sea
Substack is great if you already have followers. Medium is great when you are starting out and looking for readers.
Saudi Arabia broadly respects western wishes, they let the western companies make billions of dollars off their oil while the monarchy also makes billions of dollars. The West worries that if they rock the boat, a situation like Venezuela or Iran will happen, where the state tries to cut out the western companies from getting a cut.

Iran provides the perfect example of why we tolerate Saudi Arabia. From 1901 to 1951, Iran's oil was controlled primarily by the British. In 1951, a democratic movement lead to the nationalization of the oil industry, which quickly led to a CIA backed coup. For the next ~30 years, a Western backed dictatorship ruled and their violent rule lead to the 1979 revolution being overtly hostile to the West.

The West fears any other Saudi government would end up hostile to the West, given their decades of support for the monarchy.
Your comment was dead, so I vouched for it. I think your accusation is wildly off base, though.
If You are the Messiah You don't need to ask us how You are going to deliver all of us from evil. Seems to me You might be just a MESS!
A court affidavit filed on 3 February 2015 claims that Zacarias Moussaoui was a courier between Osama bin Laden and Turki bin Faisal Al Saud in the late 1990s, and that Turki introduced Moussaoui to Bandar.[76] Zacarias Moussaoui stated on oath and wrote to Judge George B. Daniels that Saudi royal family members, including Prince Bandar, donated to Al-Qaeda and helped finance the 11 September attacks.[77] The Saudi government continues to deny any involvement in the 9/11 plot, and claims there is no evidence to support Moussaoui's allegations in spite of numerous previous intense investigations, noting that Moussaoui's own lawyers presented evidence of his mental incompetence during his trial.[76] Leaked information from the redacted portion of the 9/11 Commission Report states that two of the 9/11 hijackers received $US130,000 in payment from Bandar's bank account.[78]

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

Bush's close friend, known arms dealer... you guys still haven't figured this one out yet? HN is always the last to know.
Context Coloring (2019)
It is more nuanced.

FB team can be overwhelmed with Covid related misinformation.

A lot of content moderation is outsourced to countries like India where productivity, availability may have degraded due to covid that ravaged through the country.

Many firms still have backlogs from Covid disruption.

If you have worked at / started any half-decent sized company you'd have known
Cool! Free electricity!
I would recommend to move it outside as there’s probably not enough ventilation for it to dry between uses. The sweat should vaporize without trace almost within minutes when the stove is hot. It doesn’t need cover outside and can handle rain and snow no problem. Just don’t let it get buried in snow for extended periods of time. The possible electric connections need to be protected from water though.
If this is a Brice de Nice reference I'm going to lose it.

https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille/commit/3d67732c593a78f0545...
Columbo!
the problem i have is the frame of reference is so crazy extreme, in such abundance. but yeah i'm sure there are real people who really believe that. after all even if there is a good amount of organized shills, it supports a government/leader who probably buys into their own stuff.
> Considering the only problem with remaining 8 titles not running is DRM/anti-cheat

This is going to be a huge problem. These corporations are going to be installing borderline malware into our computers. People will be forced to accept it if they want to play the games they paid money for. Invasive proprietary kernel modules designed to monitor your activities isn't something we should be supporting.
Quick search gives 1.720 million saunas in apartments (total 2.3). So your claim sounds about right.

https://www.tilastokeskus.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_asuminen_en.h...
> not to ratify the EU-Mercosul agreement

I.e., let's keep poor people poor.
K is proprietary and licensed by Kx Systems. Reading further on it I gather it isn't cheap.
Depends. Cheap meat (think: McDonalds) is made from dairy cows that are too old to keep producing milk.
Did this lead to a lower quality of articles, as it was less about having to say something and more about saying (obvious) things about popular topics in order to make money? Or did Medium find a good way of taking the best of both worlds?

(I always skip Medium articles, so I cannot judge for myself)
California governor's homeless program moves to repair old buildings for housing
In general, I'm confused by the counter-factual ethics required to work this out. For example, if we stop eating meat and dairy, then we would have no incentive to raise cattle. And without that incentive, cattle populations would drop dramatically; they would be limited to special preserves or zoos, or very marginal land. The species might not even survive. We don't have a stellar record of keeping large nuisance animals around if they have no economic value to us. It's not even clear (to me) that domestic cows are capable of surviving in the wild. So, in its most extreme form, the question posed is it more ethical to continue eating cattle and sustaining the species, or abstaining and letting the species go extinct? I don't know.
For me it specifically states that the key will not work if you reformat. That's fine.
You can still check firearms for air travel. It's actually a great way to ensure your bag doesn't get lost.

You have to go to the ticket agent, and say I need to check a firearm. There's a little red ticket form you fill out and place on your bag. Then you take it to a special drop off. It has to be in a locked hard case that only you can open.

See also: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
Filter bubble is not a real problem:

https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/1261164727486615559?lan...

https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/1067780924014772224

Whereas censorship is lindy among things that have bad effects on society.

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

So give the most caution against the proven bad thing and not the one you're in a trendy moral panic about.
I don't mean everyone should be Dickens lol. It's fine to be Hemingway, but not because that's the objectively positive way to write.
6 questions to ask before encrypting data in an application
I understand general public can fall prey to fancy UI and easy blogging but I do not expect medium to be used by people from IT who know better.

For example, recently both Dart and Flutter got version upgrade and they announced this via Medium. I mean you have largest Software company backing you. Why would you choose medium for your blog!?
In 2003 SATA did 150MB/s and PCIe x1 did 250MB/s. In 2004 SATA did 300MB/s. In 2007 PCIe x1 did 500MB/s. In 2008 SATA did 600MB/s. In 2010 PCIe did 1GB/s.

The only reason SATA fell behind on a per-lane basis is because they stopped updating it.

PCIe has no special sauce for running faster, just more lanes. It's taking over drives, but mostly for other reasons.

DVI was replaced by HDMI. HDMI 2.1, which came out in 2017, is about 2/3 as fast per lane as PCIe gen4, which also came out in 2017. For an external passive cable that's really good.

USB 3.1 jumped to 1.2GB/s in 2013, which means it was faster than PCIe for four years. And USB4 is twice that speed per lane, making it faster than PCIe gen4.

So the constraining factor is not the type of signalling, it's the number of wires and transceivers. You can make anything go faster with more wires, but that's expensive.
thanks for the insights!
Gee. Mediocre COVID response. Mediocre treatment of women. Mediocre treatment of non-white folks. Mediocre view of the democratic process. Hot as blazes. Mediocre electrical grid. Some risk of catastrophic weather events.

Some people might find these as undesirable aspects of living in Texas.
Any number mentioned is going to be wrong. It heavily depends on the area the business is operating in, the size of the company, the work you have to do and the location you are based (Vienna/city vs country side).

Vienna is very competitive so salery can exceed KV quite a bit. Even for entry positions.
On the country side it will depend but usually not much more. But costs of living (especially housing) are also lower.
There is a timeline that randomly mixes in posts from users from other instances whom users from your instance follow
I wish virtualization was a bit less awkward for GPU-intensive stuff.

A VM with a stripped-bare Windows 10 install is likely to be more compatible with weird anti-cheat and DRM than anything Wine-based. Unless they intentionally add sniffing for it.

But VM with a GPU is a nightmare: for nVidia cards at least, you need two cards (one for the Linux desktop and one to feed into the VM), and there's a lot of explicit feature-limitation gotchas beyond that to market-segment people into buying Quadro cards instead.

I'm not opposed to the concept of having a Windows install (especially if it's something like a VM that you can readily manage and keep in a known state) but dual-booting is annoying-- gaming isn't spontaneous anymore.

TBH, I wonder if eventually you'll see a Microsoft product specifically sold as "Windows Runtime for Virtual Machines" -- better to sell a cut-down version with just enough bits to support popular games for $50 than to lose the sale entirely.
Chinese Players Review Bombing Life Is Strange: True Colors over a Flag
> Discovery! Medium is about getting people to read your blog.

This. I feel like as a reader, medium is becoming pretty useless, with the gate screens and stuff. But back when I was using it a lot, I published my stuff on Medium because it gave me eyeballs, the same way I put videos on youtube now as opposed to hosting them myself (even if it was easy to do).

If I put a post on my own blog, I'll be lucky to get 20 people looking at it. Last time I posted something on Medium, it went viral and got several hundred thousand views, including from this very website (and I hadn't even submitted it to Hacker News).

That's hard to beat. If someone else wants to make something similar, to help blog authors get the same thing publishing to Youtube or Spotify get you, that isn't Medium, go right ahead. I'll certainly consider your product.
Also, the code snippets often don't work when you paste them because of the "smart quotes".
There is only one blob that can't be recreated from source that is needed for a working system, and that's OMI-DDR4 interface. There's talk of reversing it, but nobody has the time or resources. So long as said chip is the only source for making a motherboard that doesn't require OMI memory modules (which have the same chip anyway), there's a problem.

EDIT: Hah, I missed the PPE discussion recently. There's now some ppl looking towards reversing that too, but again, not RCS itself
AFAIK nobody has seen non-OMI POWER10 cpu on the road map.
commercial ks are not open source

ngn/k is foss and can be installed on linux https://codeberg.org/ngn/k
Probably because cows are mammals and are very similar to humans. For example they have families and feelings and think and play. How would you feel if a more advanced species decided to treat humans how many humans treat cows?
So how do these stack up against running that same workload (simulations) on a powerful GPU? Often a sim requires running the same operation over thousands of different cells: it seems really suited to the “warp” style of parallelism, where all cores in a set run the same instruction in lockstep. Or SIMD, but that’s usually a bit more effort to port. LLVM has a spirv backend these days, so does POWER actually make sense for these workloads outside of places where it’s difficult to port your codebase?
I went from a non-coffee drinker to an espresso "snob" over 6yrs from having daily access to an amazing barista. She eventually taught me (on some very nice cafe-grade hardware) everything soup to nuts from how to dial in a grind, to pulling proper shots, to latte art, and of course proper cleanup and maintenance (shockingly missing from so much literature).

While I struggle and often refuse to drink Starbucks or pre-ground store bought coffee (so stale, ugh), I'd encourage people to experiment with different drinks. Espresso and coffee in general are a hugely diverse spectrum of flavor profiles, mouth feels, gadgetry (check out siphons or some of the data gathering tools for measuring espresso quality). Learning about all of this I was able to simultaneously satisfy both my inner geek, as well as my inner foodie.

And for those looking to automate their delivery of fresh beans with amazing ability to set preferences and get consumption data, check out Bottomless. Not affiliated in any way, just joined when they announced their hardware beta on a ShowHN years ago and have been an extremely happy customer since.
Tree Style Tabs, uBlock Origin, and Tab Session Manager. Together these extensions make the browser feel like an actual useful tool. As long as Firefox supports plugins like this (and hopefully we have already seen the end of major breaking changes to the plugin APIs), I will use it. Not to mention container tabs.
For anyone interested in this space and wishes something like this existed for Android, I got you covered! I open sourced this project last year - https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase
The comparison with prose is pure nonsense.

Syntax highlighting is about understanding structure.

I could blur out my editor to the point where I could not make out individual letters and still understand the code structure.

When reading prose you don’t care about structure, especially not in English (in latin languages structure is way more important).

It’s important to have a good highlighter though. STM32cube IDE has a very bad highlighter that gets confused sometimes.

I’ve seen people chasing simple bugs for far too long just because the highlighter was broken.
I recently tried ubuntu again for my desktop. I’ve seen so many posts here about how things have improved. It couldn’t register my wireless card and all the directions I found said to run CLI commands that required internet access to fix the fact that I couldn’t access the internet…

It seems like Ubuntu is still having the same issues I remember over a decade ago. I booted back into windows and it #JustWorked. I get the chicken and egg problem involved, but god damn, how is this still the problem?
Does the 'cpu credits' stuff apply to spot instances too? I have been thinking of shortening my animation render time with spot instances, but it only makes sense if I can run every core at 100% for the entire life of the instance.
I created a 3D explosion animation with Pygame
I view AWS as a study in doing everything the "bare hands" way. Here are some examples of the old sysadmin ways of doing things vs the modern "web" way:

* regions -> self-balancing algorithms like RAFT

* roles/permissions -> tokens

* IP address filtering -> tokens

* CPU clusters -> multicore/containerization/Actor model

* S3 -> IPFS or similar content-addressable filesystems

It's not just AWS having to deal with this stuff either:

* CORS -> Subresource Integrity (SRI)

* server languages (CGI) -> Server-Side Includes (SSI)

* Javascript -> functional reactive, declarative and data-driven components within static HTML

* async -> sandbox processes, fork/join, auto-parallelization (seen mostly in vector languages but extendable to higher-level functions)

* CSS -> a formal inheritance spec (analogous to knowing set theory vs working around SQL errata)

I could go on forever but I'll stop there. We are living at a very interesting time in the evolution of the web. I think that web dev has reached the point where desktop dev was in the mid-1990s and is ripe for disruption. No disruption will come from the big companies though, so this is your chance to do it from your parents' basement!
I disagree with the notion that anyone anywhere can do the job. These moderators don't just moderate the rants your grandma posts about shopping malls. There's a documentary about what the content moderation people do, and they end up seeing horrific stuff like (sexual) child abuse, gore, and all the other worst thing humanity has to offer. Many of these people end up depressed or in therapy.

I don't know if Facebook has their stuff together, but I think it's unethical to have people review random user uploaded content without close access to a mental health specialist.

You can have several degrees of intensity a reviewer might be able to see (to not expose all reviewers to the very worst on a regular basis), but no algorithm can clearly identify the nastiest of the nasty content. The algorithm sees "government pedo club", flags it as fake news, and who knows what the shared content actually contains. It could be a conspiracy nut, it could just as well be actual child porn. The probability is low, but you need someone standing by just as well, in my opinion.
I like syntax highlighting, but prefer the colors to be more muted rather than garishly standing out.
Probably the same way you're prevented from selling CP, and fully automatic fire arms out of your home? It won't stop it 100%, but it certainly has an effect.
Er, wait a sec, that doesn’t make any sense. Chalk it up to tiredness.

With a ~30 Earth-year long year, Saturn of course goes about 1/30 of the way around its orbit each Earth year; this would just as closely relate it to a pentagon as a hexagon. It’s Jupiter with a ~12 Earth-year long year that would go about 1/12 of the way around its orbit each Earth year.

Saturn and Jupiter together have orbits that return to about the same state every ~60 years.
Yeah, I think most tubs are hard limited at 104 for safety reasons.
Yes, they're losing yours, but that's a small cost to pay vs NO ONE discovering their stuff.

Basically what this comes down to is that there's a market for something like Medium's earlier days, back when it was decent. Someone just needs to figure out a better way to monetize it, while still having the mind share Medium used to have.
Kernighan wrote that in 1981. As late as 1988, I was (unwillingly) using an original, non-extended Pascal. Those were still out there, still being used.

And, all Pascal dialects had some construct. They had different constructs. If you wanted to be portable, you couldn't use any of them (until the Extended standard came out). Kernighan notes those extensions, but does not accept them as a solution because of their non-portability. You may think that he is more dismissive than he should be here, but at that time, C was considerably better on code portability.

And when you say that Kernighan was acting as a propagandist, I wonder whether you are being one. You certainly seem to have a message to sell when it comes to Pascal vs C...
Honest question: As a non American, I don't know 100% about the law except that it makes abortion illegal if the foetus has a heart beat. And if someone carried out an abortion and you can positively prove it, you get a bounty of 10,000$.

So if a Texas resident flies to a nearby state, getting an abortion safely and legally and then they can come back home, right? Sure, the cost of flying would deter some people and it is a less than ideal solution but that cannot be illegal, right?
If these fluctuations aren't part of a roughly stable pattern of self-regulation, why hasn't Earth gone into such an extreme ice age or thermal runaway that it it's unrecoverable and can't support life? Would you say it's externally regulated as opposed to self-regulating, maybe? Sheer luck?
Hugo user here. I just wanted to reinforce your message - I sometimes think about posting on Medium instead, for "hits"... When I crave attention; but as you said, those readers likely aren't my target audience anyhow. For those thinking of using Hugo (or any static site generator), do it!
I've been blogging for a number of years; most of the time on my own domain (dsebastien.net), but without being overly serious about it.

After a long pause, I started writing again. I decided to give Medium a try, as it had gained a lot of popularity. It was refreshing compared to my old custom Wordpress theme. I was also curious about the possibility of monetizing my content

In 2019 I put more effort into blogging on Medium and my posts started gaining some traction on the platform. For about a year, I didn't get much ROI ($0-3 per month), but then, probably as I approached it better, it started to compound. Since 2020 I get $50-100 per month from Medium and sometimes much more ($300-700 with outliers).

Still, I concur with the points made in the post. Medium has many downsides, the first of which being the paywall, which is getting more and more aggressive. Also, I realized that I was just hurting my personal brand by not bringing visitors directly on my own domain.

That's why I've changed my approach this year. I've rebooted my own Website and publish there first. Still, I continue to post my articles on Medium as well, behind their paywall, but with the canonical URL pointing to my blog so as not to hurt SEO as much. I think that this is a safer long-term approach and it gives me the best of both worlds; I can still monetize (even if less than before) while keeping full ownershop and better SEO towards my domain.
It's been this way since they launched, hasn't it?

I tell you what would be really nice: a browser that lets me click & launch into reader mode directly.

None of these shenanigans with Turing complete JS. Just give me text to read.