skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got a chuckle out of this.

"Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away."

How many of us had to hardcode those one off "if" blocks to handle an annoying special case and get the damned thing shipped. Maybe the section has a nice TODO comment that stays in the repo for posterity. No one wants to take the effort to clean it up lest there be a hidden dependency somewhere that would break.
Tony Bennett's musical memory triumphs over Alzheimer's
Recover abandoned Checkout pages and boost revenue
However, you'd have to know that "Inches" is a possibility to deduce that "GOAL" is more than mere inches to go.

I'll summon my FOSS-based knowledge of UX to suggest a change:

Change "3rd & GOAL" to "3rd -g --ONLY_INCHES_TO_GO=NULL" and "3rd & INCHES" to "3rd -g --ONLY_INCHES_TO_GO=4"
Paris is in anarchy but it's not the bikers.
I have worked with wasm in the browser in production. Yes, there are many issues, yes I have some critiques of the multithreading proposal, but in the long run portable workers solve lock-in.
Maybe if you’re logged in? The past dozen times in the past dozen years I’ve peeked in at Slashdot, not logged in, it’s a pile of “frist psot!” and abuse. That is solid contrast against HN, where I prefer to be logged-out because it hides so much trash; logged-in, I see more down-moderated low-value crap.

Encouraging people to be logged-out must reduce the response rate to bait, and also reduce baiting, especially if tight moderation reduces bait’s impact on sincere and productive discussion.
That "famous" quote is out of context nonsense. It refers to the technical changes in how the dev team creates the next version of windows by working directly on the current version. Compare the the past where a copy was uses as the base for a new windows which was developed separately from the current released version. It had/has nothing to do with the name which is a pure marketing decision.

>"Uhh, turns out we can't make that much money off of it"

Make no sense since its still an update and although it has a new name it does not need a new license. Beside that windows consumer license are not a significant revenue source since a long time.
You should read A Deepness in the Sky then :)
OP went through a lot of trouble.
> such threat of violence also acts as the only effective deterrent

People still steal in places where the punishment is losing a hand or being stoned to death. What do you propose that would be a greater deterrent than those?
> It feels strange how the blog is called overcoming bias and yet the conclusion is heavily biased against governments.

I appreciate this point and maybe that also contributed to my confusion at the conclusion which seemed pretty anti-government and inherently neutral or pro-business.

> People blame symptoms instead of causes.

The more I've thought about things over the last 1.5 years of covid and the Trump presidency, etc., I'm starting to think that we just blame people who we think are against us and make up stories and rationale to align with our "they're bad people" narrative. I think this often comes from a deeper, "I felt bad therefore this person made me feel bad therefore they are bad therefore they are the reason everything bad is happening in my life." And, as you mention, can cause us to focus on whichever symptom or belief of causality that aligns with that story, instead of overcoming our bias and trying to see how "good people" may have done "bad things" and "bad people" may have done "good things."

Also, I appreciate your points about the Zimbabwean economy and hyper-inflation, I have a 10 trillion Zim note somewhere in my house and remember taking a class on the agricultural policies of Zim at that time.
It's not that hard, legally, to resolve this problem. What is the obstacle?

It's a serious question, and intended to bypass the distraction and debate about despair. What is the obstacle?
To me it's respectful. People on a bus or train can't really leave, so they'd have to listen to your conversation (until headphones, that is).
I think it breaks down when you start trying to look at emergent behavior that only becomes apparent at large scale.

An analogy would be to start looking at a water molecule, H2O, and then trying to explain glaciers and oceans without any sort of similar system to use as a model.
The Arab Spring was an enormous failure though. It brought about the first ever democratically elected leader in Egypt and he died in prison earlier this year under the military govt that overthrew democracy. This is pretty much the case everywhere the Arab Spring was a thing.
A lot of people also have, arguably, less control over their circumstances than ever before.

Many Americans are effectively wage-slaves - unable to quit their jobs, because they rely on the income and have nearly no savings.

Rent has to be paid. Food has to be bought. Car insurance, taxes, dentist appointments - you can't stop making money, because you can't stop paying money.

Moving costs an up-front investment that you don't have. Land is expensive, and even if you had the skills to build your own lodging, it has to be up to code.

Pivoting to self-employment might seem easy in the age of Uber, but the reality is that it is incredibly difficult to earn yourself a living without playing by somebody else's rules. In the past, you could decide to earn a living as a fisherman simply by fishing and selling your catch. Handy with a hammer? Supplement your income on an ad-hoc basis by helping out your neighbors.

The stress of dealing with everyday life can be so overwhelming that the only thing a person has juice left for at the end of the day is turning on the television, scrolling twitter, and eating those Doritos. And that television (and even twitter) isn't telling you any ways out of the invisible, ubiquitous cycle you're stuck in.
FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
Explicit error handling can improve reliability in some circumstances, because it highlights corner cases which are easy to ignore otherwise.
Then I Had to Move into My Car
> The missile you're hitting them with is going to be heating up the air around the camera probably at the same temps as the missile it's intercepting

That would only apply if it were to hit it at comparable speeds. That's not necessary in many cases, especially in point defense when the target is heading towards you. Furthermore the limited time of flight of the interceptor might also allow for active cooling of the IR window in that brief period.

Also, even detection from a fixed ground base (or from space - see SpaceX's newest missile detection project) is still detection in the first place, which is what I was commenting on. Wasn't even going to veer into interceptor guidance, but I'm sure there's multiple ways to do it.
The syntax is also a point of "easy for parse", for sure it can be improved but IDK if just copying the syntax of these languages is the better solution.
It's not a bug in the PSP itself, it's a bug in the Windows driver for it. According to the security bulletin [0], it's due to a misconfiguration of DACLs (which is Windows specific), so I don't think it affects Linux users.

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/a...
I can't say that I agree there. It sounds like they can't metabolize it well. As someone who's been abstinent for large portions of my life (never been drunk either), it's still not difficult to drink a single serving, and I normally won't suffer for it.
From oxford dictionary:

manage or conduct (something) fraudulently so as to produce a result or situation that is advantageous to a particular person.

"charges of vote-rigging"

Similar:
manipulate
arrange fraudulently
interfere with
influence
gerrymander
juggle
massage
distort
misrepresent
pervert
maneuver
tamper with
tinker with
doctor
falsify
forge
fake
engineer
trump up
fix
cook
fiddle

cause an artificial rise or fall in prices in (a market, especially the stock market) with a view to personal profit.

"he accused games manufacturers of rigging the market"
They often have line indicators to show field goal range. I'm not sure if that's specific one broadcaster. I agree field position would be handy.
> (ii) can impose this "tax" because it's a "regulatory scheme" via a catch-all authority provision outside its enumerated powers.

The SCC ruled that it was under the federal government's enumerated powers, or rather the "peace, order, and good government" (POGG) provision:

> Notably, the POGG power is a little different from the other subject matters listed under sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution, because it is a residual power, meaning that it allows the federal government to legislate over any subject that is not otherwise assigned to the federal or provincial governments under sections 91 and 92. To sort out exactly what this means, the courts have identified three possible uses of the POGG power, which are referred to as the three branches of POGG. They are: the emergency branch, the gap branch, and the national concern branch.[8]

* https://elc.ab.ca/i-read-the-carbon-tax-decision-so-you-dont...

Different legal and constitutional traditions/fraem works may work differently. (Tautology is tautological…)
This is exactly how we would want to structure it. The point is not to punish anyone. The point is to simply increase the cost of the unwanted carbon emissions, and then let microeconomics take over.

If you pass a new tax that causes a wave of corporate bankruptcies, job losses, unemployment, and other disruptions, that's a great way to ensure the policy is unpopular.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that, and you've unfortunately been doing it a ton. That's seriously not cool here—it's destructive of what the site is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Viral ‘Jump Humping’ TikTok Teaches the World About Mormon Sex
The United States is a tax haven.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddganos/2019/09/19/worlds-bes...
This is false, if you're long one security and short another, your total cost basis is the sum of the absolute value.
It is not pandemic alone, otherwise we would have supply already. This problem has developed for years already[1].

And what about pandemic, because of it, supply chains were surprised with the demand of elecronics. So, they could not respond for the demand. And Apple would have had a limit anyway for chip manufacturing based on this.

[1] : https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58230388
The most, um, interesting thing I learned from this was about "soaking"...[0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgb88/viral-jump-humping-ti...
I remember reading about these in old books on electricity at archive.org. There were many different attempts at electric lighting back then; it must've been an exciting time to live in the late 1890s-1900s.
This will reconsider nothing and just find a way to rob state coffers to pay for cleanup. Basically every calamity that befalls rich coastal residents is handled like I described. Why will this one be different?
Who is it then?
You'll have the opposite problem though, that you have to trust every single developer to properly manage their dependencies and publish timely patches if there is a vulnerability.

> As opposed to me, as an individual user with no familiarity with the code base, just switching out the pieces and preying nothing goes wrong.

Wouldn't this be the task of your distro's mainteners, not you? (Who will have familiarity with all codebases as well as options to contact the original developers if there is an unsolvable issue)
Using your own analogy car repair costs arm and leg with the dealer vs diy (if you know how and have access to tools). So not that different from cloud providers really
Why the book “Business Adventures” is so popular with tycoons
How Americans View Inequality and Opportunity
For more on this topic, a good read is “what hoes around comes around”, by Michael Stonebraker (creator of Postgres, among other achievements): https://people.cs.umass.edu/~yanlei/courses/CS691LL-f06/pape...
Would European men need it?

How would these signs, ... in favor of European men change society, in the best case?
You're right, but equally you have to go out of your way to achieve that state. An everyday user with a fresh install will almost certainly end up with unrequested updates, telemetry and an online account for local login.

One thing missing in this discussion is DirectX. Windows 10 launched with a new version and tried to market itself as a gaming platform. People playing AAA games on PC is a sizeable market and this would've been a significant everyday upgrade for them.
> It really sucks that there's a 'D' for 'Defense' at the front of the acronym.

Time for a new euphemism? The U.S. Department of Defense was called the U.S. Department of War until the end of the 1940s. Maybe this time we can call it the Department of Peace since defense apparently doesn't sound so good to people anymore.
That's effectively what Council Tax was originally meant to be, but after a while nobody could be bothered with the survey activity. They even closed the door to piecemeal re-classification, after enough people started challenging the band their property sat in, by passing legislation that basically states the band is fixed as it is until Parliament says otherwise (i.e. likely forever).
Odd, Stallman disavowing the radical concept of "cultural appropriation" is supposed to be proof of him being "very radical"? The opposite is true, Stallman's thoughts on this subject are rational, not radical.
These are almost all blue-collar work. I don't know if you're familiar, but search for "medical coder" jobs online -- they are all $15-25/hr.
This is my thought as well. We've reached a plateau where the average individual's circumstances are so comfortable that violent political action just doesn't make sense psychologically. The pie is so large that, even though we are getting a smaller and smaller slice compared to the elites, it doesn't trigger the type of primal response it did in the past.

Should we hope this continues? Probably. If the situation deteriorates to the point that revolution becomes palatable the result would be mass human suffering.
Tarai Function Music
Tell me, how many 13 year olds end up filling these expensive hospital beds due to COVID?
I often feel like democracy has failed us. We have elected trash leaders.

My perspective of democracy was that it was to protect us against both unjust rulers and ineffective rulers. The end result was instead of potential kings/rulers fighting each other directly as they did in ancient times, they fight each other indirectly by trying to get votes. They are not much different then previous era's....

Is it really this hard to get a wise ruler who both cares about the well being of humans and can take the long term view? Someone who can tell fact from fiction.
Another way to protect your money from being stolen, yes.

Having money is not violent, so I don't know why you bring up executions. The violent ones here are the governments.
So who is the modern day robinhood out there that is sponsoring these hacks and leaks?
> Another source is W. Rudin

Isn't that the source with the proof described in the article as ungrokable?
It is not dying art. Protests are now part of establishment, and are protected by police!
radical is not the opposite of rational, and the comment you replied to in no way suggested it's not rational.
Usually it negotiates up (thats what USB PD is)

Like the device it’s plugged into actually has to communicate and negotiate that it wants something higher.

Until then it’ll just be I think 5V and up to maybe 1amp? (5W)
Ask HN: Marketing Bootcamp for Developers?
I saw a skit where a salesperson asks for a raise, but the boss asks them, "Did you design, code, and implement the features that you're selling?" Later an engineer asked for a raise, and likewise, the boss asked them, "Did you sell the product? Did you do the marketing?"

Technical skills are essential to building an MVP, but you still need to get the product out in the market to be successful.

If you're an already established company, it makes sense to have some dedicated in-house marketing team, but what about when you're starting? Ideally, you get a friend who's good at sales, most likely a marketing major to help out, maybe become a cofounder. But there's no harm in learning how to do more things yourself.

How can you learn about marketing to support the work you do as a developer? Where do you learn what you need to best prepare your projects for success?

Is there a way to learn how to do marketing basics yourself besides going to business school for X years?

(I'm going to try and look through my University's course listings for their marketing major and try and skim the syllabuses for books to read, tho I know this isn't very time effective).
You should probably seek professional help.
The argument was that discontinuities exist in things like, starting with the specific example, whether a movie turns out to be particularly interesting enough to drive people back into theatres.
Everything you described requires the production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Being Amish would not :)
He worked in quant finance, which is pretty cushy from what I hear (though not as cushy as tech).
The character in Blindsight didn't push anything, they lost half their brain to a bioweapon.
The point is presumably to phase out existing taxes on energy usage, or generic corporation taxes, in favour of new taxes on carbon emissions. What this means is that if there are two businesses which both consume lots of energy, but business A emits less carbon than business B, then A pays less tax than B. Under the current system they would both pay the same amount of tax. This means that shifting to a lower-carbon strategy can be a competitive advantage as it reduces the tax burden of the business. Starting up a new operation which will emit high levels of carbon is now _less_ profitable too.
Ah I think I was tripped up by the same thing as the top commenter. This sounds like it violates the law of conservation of energy.

The key here is that when towing (as opposed to going downhill) you can put much more energy into the motor generators per mile than is required to drive a mile. Due to charge/discharge losses, for your example this would have to be > 4x the amount. This obviously assumes the EV can regen at high sustained rates and you have a powerful tow vehicle.

So yes, you're right. The energy/distance argument should be one and the same.
> Even before reporting really started circling the drain I always noted how wrong the news got technology stories, and I wondered if all the other topics were just as off.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Within that context, The title "Programmer-at-Arms" is the absolutely positively coolest three-word string I've encountered in English Language so far :)
"You get what you measure".

I remember this happening last year too.
So if "surveillance capitalism" is apparently the new scare, would "surveillance socialism" be better?

Or are we supposed to imagine that under socialism, there would be no need for Big Tech surveillance? This I most certainly disagree with.

I'm just noticing a trend lately where the word "capitalism" is being attacked on many fronts, and I personally find that troublesome.

Like Churchill said..."Capitalism is absolutely the worse system there is, besides everything else of course"
There's an excellent lecture by Malcolm Gladwell: "Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce" that touches both on mustard (and spaghetti sauce), and of course the topic of choice:

https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_...
Tbh that’s not entirely false. There are plenty of benefits to kids working early. It’s preventing true exploitative labor that’s the real problem. I think the guardian is pretty great, what’s the issue with them?
Any of these fantasy consoles support C/C++ code? Perhaps via a LLVM backend.
Liquidity preference is the oft-overlooked feature here. People commonly think that because they have 1% of the shares, they will get 1% of the sales price, and that's rarely the case. Even if the company shares with you the liquidity preference of all of their current investors, future investors may negotiate for a favorable one, sometimes making your shares basically useless.
> How many visits does your blog have daily?

~200k sessions in the past year, so ~550/d. Breakdown:

* ~30% search

* ~30% no referer

* ~25% HN

* ~7% Twitter/FB/etc

* ~8% other

> what would it take you to remove your site from Google index?

I don't see why I would want to exclude my site from any index? Being in indexes helps people find my writing, which I like!
Lecture Notes for UCSD's CSE 126: Multimedia Systems
How do people even find the spare fucks to give about this kind of thing?

If you can fit in the lanes and, traffic speeds and mostly meet the other traffic's expectations for how traffic is supposed to behave I don't care what you drive/ride.
If social sciences are not sciences, what are they? Please, explain. Also I'd like to know how falsifiability applies to the big bang theory. Thank you!
This is so wonderful and sweet. Such a creative computer era. Thank you for bringing it to light!
Not him, but he sure does have an impressive resume!
Interesting, thanks, we weren't aware of Metaflow.

I've read through the docs, the one difference that comes to my mind is the automatic fallback to on-Demand and resume back to spot when available. I can't readily see a way to do this yet in Metaflow, but it's possible I've missed something.
Of course it won’t be different. But I’d rather it happened in Huntington Beach than Venice or San Pedro, because the people there actually deserve it.
Very cool.

If you're into this kind of stuff... here's a YT channel that discusses "bad audio gear" including the MT-32:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUOR9I2Fwc
There's quite a difference between not being able to piss of the sponsor too much and "the Bill Gates' foundation had The Guardian publish a piece", which was the claim.
Citations and references are better than nothing, but they are limited:

* You need to spend time: First you must find the source; what is provided in Wikipedia often is a dead link, or a book, or something else inaccessible. Then you have to read it; it can take time to find the spot in the entire source that supports the statement. It might require analysis and interpretation (I've often seen claims that relied on shoddy interpretation of evidence), including of the context and the quality of the source. And finally, if the source doesn't support the claim (which I've seen many times) it takes even longer - proving a negative, that the evidence doesn't exist, requires reading the entire source with some care.

* Citations and references don't tell you when important information is omitted. For example, I could write that President X promised reform, in detail, and provide citations; I could easily omit that X had promised reform every year for five years and never delivered. I could write that Adam punched Bob and cite it, and omit that Bob punched Adam first. Another way of saying it: Accuracy is defined in some domains as Correct, Complete, and Consistent. Wikipedia is often (not always) Correct in what it says, but not Complete or Consistent.
How do you know what the will of the people is?
I'm very happy about it (as someone who lives here), the cars need to go.