skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speak to anyone involved on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. Strikes on valid targets were routinely frustrated by the chain of command worried about collateral damage. That's not to say there are examples that where it happened anyways(you'll link me the Kunduz hospital airstrike as an example).

Contrast with the USSR's occupation of Afghanistan, or their more recent contributions to the Syrian Civil War. Collateral damage is _not_ a consideration when they decide to go kinetic. Barrel bombing civilians _is the point_.
It may be that the generic masculine bears witness of an historical injustice, but so what? A trace of an injustice is not a continuation of it. A language should be capable of expressing things simply and elegantly; it oughtn't to be burdened with the need constantly to manifest some orthodoxy.
As a native English speaker who took German as a kid, I was always perplexed by gendered nouns. Why are fruit feminine and pencils and pens masculine? Is it because writing instruments were the tools of men or because they're phallic? Why is lawyer feminine? Is it a form or derision? Best I recall (and can find), it's arbitrary and I would assume, like many things in our world, they were chosen based on some gender association that often boils down to misogyny. German has neutral articles as well.

While I wouldn't spend my life chasing this debate, as an outside observer, I can't understand why normalizing on "das" would be a problem for 99% of the things and moving forward from there. Language evolves and if we can evolve it to be more inclusive, why not?
The target is groups of people that do, more or less, know each other.

This discussions aren't public and given the target the value proposition is discussions without personal bias(anonymity until the end of the discussion).

And social logins are next in the bucket list :)
Why is this so hard to understand?

Let's try a small example.

In a city there are ten houses. Five are vacant, let's call them new construction.

Five people are moving to the area.

Everything sounds good, right?

Blackrock buys 3 of the homes. Now 5 people have to fight over 2 houses. This drives housing price up as they bid with each other.

The remaining 3 losers are forced to rent. Blackrock can now charge more money because a) house prices went up, and b) there are no other places to live.

To be clear, this is talking about what's happening in -my- area. And based off your Nimbyism comments, I can assure you that it's not the same as your area.
This isn’t really how this business works, nor why Zillow failed operationally to price correctly. To everyone at Opendoor when Zillow started to scale, this was a long time coming
It’s arguable whether China actually benefited from an authoritarian, centralized economic model or from other factors. They did open up their society to market economic forces, both domestic and international, although they do seem to be ready to pull the rug out from people at a moment’s notice - for example with banning some foreign company or with blocking IPOs or disappearing business leaders. Another factor is the literal theft of intellectual property through corporate espionage or hacking, as well as the theft of IP through business relationships (for instance with European high speed rail manufacturers). I do think China’s leadership, particularly Xi Jinping, still have an eye on implementing an idealistic socialist/communist system as an end goal, but it does seem like all the steps to get there involve anything but that.
3 years ago on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19475858
Is it safe to say that SDL is a strict superset of GLFW?
The “Let's Go, Brandon ” Freakout Goes Next-Level
"Personally I feel that this only makes housing more unaffordable in the long run for most people"

In the long run, housing prices are determined by supply and demand. Supply (housing stock) is increased when prices are high (as developers can make money). And supply stays flat when prices are low (but developers don't destroy the existing homes).

If this short term trading by Zillow etc. is causing market prices to be high at the moment, you'd expect that to increase long term supply. So future prices would be lower than they would be without Zillow.
At a mere $15/tonne, coal becomes 100% more expensive (ie. dead):

https://www.resources.org/common-resources/calculating-vario...

The low-hanging fruit is to just stop burning coal for electricity, and to enact that restriction globally.

We can deal with gas, metallurgical coal, oil later. Just get rid of coal now.
That they're AI-based aliens kinda obviated things even more, from where I'm standing they should definitely have figured out automation and automation factories and only needed resources as input. Digital consciousness with no factory automation? Not a smart move. Skynet and the AIs of The Matrix and Horizon: Zero Dawn all got that right.
This is what left leaning politics brings. These people dont have enough to do with their lives.
Anyone can push a shutter button. Very few people can take pictures that really sell a unique property. If you're listing a cookie-cutter 2 bedroom urban condo then pictures don't matter much because buyers pretty much already know what they're getting. If you're listing a rural luxury property with acreage and a view then good pictures matter a lot.

Same thing with staging. It's counterproductive for some properties and almost essential for others. You have to know the local market and target buyers.
Development has been bloxxed
The article discusses some undefined behaviour resulting from shifting an unsigned char left by 24 places. Any idea why the compiler wasn't warning about that? It seems like it would be easy to implement that warning in the compiler. I feel that I'm missing something.
In what way is it not a competition?

We live in a world of finite resources. When considering the significant task of decarbonizing energy, there are lots of technologies potentially available. But some deliver more value than others.

Unfortunately nuclear is not _currently_ one of the options which delivers value in this regard.

Flamenville 3 - the newest French reactor will cost $22B to build 1.6GW of capacity and will have taken nearly 20 years from the start of construction to deliver a watt. The same amount of money could deliver over 20GW of wind capacity which could be deployed almost instantly as it's an easily parallelizable low-risk, relatively low-tech engineering task relying on mass-production for most of the installation. None of these benefits are available to nuclear reactor construction. Even with a capacity factor of 40% for on-shore wind vs 90%+ for nuclear, nuclear just isn't close.

I'm not against nuclear. If the nuclear industry can step up and deliver reactors on time and on budget which can provide power at competitive prices, then I'd be all in favour. It would be wonderful to have an alternative in the race to decarbonize energy. But all I see is a long trail of massively delayed or abandoned projects with incredible cost-overruns (Flamanville, Olkiluoto, V.C. Summer, Vogtle, etc). These failures are hard-engineering failures, nothing to do with politics.

With such a litany of recent failures, the incredible capital expense, the extra security required, the slowness of delivery, it's clear why resources have been directed away from nuclear toward other technologies which are quick and easy to roll-out and have already significantly contributed to reducing the the CO2 intensity of Europe's electricity (which is now less than half of what it was 30 years ago).

Btw, it isn't just nuclear that loses in this regard; bio-fuels, domestic-solar PV, green hydrogen, etc. all fail to compete in the new world of ultra-cheap solar PV and wind.
No Meaning for Mortals
A random web form can exfiltrate the data you paste into it (and whatever your browser lets it gather). A local program can exfiltrate ... approximately everything of value on the machine?
More reactionary garbage.
The author lists some proposed socialist solutions that he has heard of, and then dismisses them with a simple, unexplained "I just can’t see those processes going well".

If he won't tell us his problems with those explanations, how could someone address them?

Apart from that, the rest of the article is just a description of a TV show, the challenge itself, and praise for capitalism. Very shallow IMO.
Alright, I tried to push my fixed version of the VST3 SDK to Github but because it uses a ton of Git Submodules it didn't quite work.

What I did instead was do:

git diff > vst3sdk-no-vstgui-cmake-compatible.patch

Which has a patch with the changes (EXCEPT for the file "Config.cmake.in")

https://github.com/GavinRay97/vst3sdk/blob/master/vst3sdk-no...

I also just said fuck it and zipped up the whole project, you can download it here:

https://github.com/GavinRay97/vst3sdk/blob/master/vst3sdk.zi...

With this fixed version, using the VST3 SDK becomes much much easier. All you have to do is add it as a vendored subproject in CMake:

project(VST3Example CXX)
add_subdirectory(vendor/vst3sdk)
add_executable(VST3Example src/main.cpp)
target_compile_features(VST3Example PRIVATE cxx_std_20)
target_include_directories(VST3Example PRIVATE vendor/vst3sdk)
# This links SDK if you want to use the "SingleComponentEffect"
target_link_libraries(VST3Example PUBLIC sdk)

Where the project looks something like

$ tree -L 2
.
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── src
│ └── main.cpp
└── vendor
└── vst3sdk

And then here's your VST3 in "main.cpp":

#include "public.sdk/source/main/pluginfactory.h"
#include "public.sdk/source/vst/vstsinglecomponenteffect.h"

using namespace Steinberg;
using namespace Steinberg::Vst;

class MyVST : Steinberg::Vst::SingleComponentEffect {};

__declspec(dllexport) IPluginFactory* GetPluginFactory() {}

Hope this helps! I am relatively clueless about C++ though!
Could you believe that the culture might become that bad?

Also, isn't fire on a submarine far more critical than fire on a surface ship in port?
Yeah cool, so you would only be able to select text that's visible? How would you copy the contents of an article spanning multiple screens?

Sorry, but this idea is just dumb.
One of my [many!] bugbears is this use of 'Save the Planet' / 'Save the Earth' by the green movement, when what people actually mean is 'Save The Human Race'.

Barring The Sun going supernova, 'The Planet' will survive just fine and life, of some form or another, will thrive, as it has done for billions of years --whether or not we fuck the Earth up as regards making it uninhabitable for ourselves.
They ran out of humans to sign up to Facebook.
ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers
The person who doesn't own a home is hardly at fault for being frustrated that the prices of homes are increasing to an absurd degree.

In fact, that sounds like misplaced blame when in the exact same post you mention these things:

1. The median voter is a homeowner

2. The homeowner wants the price of their house to increase

3. Therefore it is in their interest to keep housing unaffordable

4. Therefore they continue voting for the people who facilitate it, and don't vote for the people who want to change it.

5. All because their house is not a home, but an investment

In your mind, a person who is fed up of being priced out of a place to live is part of the problem? It doesn't stack up.
Wealth Creators
> I am just unaware of a single real-life example of anyone I know doing the same

Expand/diversify your network (and maybe your portfolio!).
The gold standard is residential IP. It is not cheap but its effectiveness is indisputable.
You can gender whom ever you want as whatever you want without repercussions from your government. You can add words you can retract words in German and the government will not care, will not incarcerate you or will do you physical or financial harm. There is no argument except that you mistook math class with language study. There also is only one exception the
denying of the Holocaust I hope we are at least on the same page about this one.
> They buy run down, neglected, and under-market houses, fix them up to at-market condition, then sell them.

How is that better than fixing it up without the buying and selling in-between?

These people fix up houses to look good, while using the cheapest labor and materials possible to maximize profit - taking advantage of the fact that most people don't know that the shitty 'fix-up' will fall apart 3 years later.

That's not good for anyone except the people engaging in this dirty business.

It's like arguing that the good old buy failing business, cut expenses, do some short-term shenanigans to appear/be profitable at the expense of longterm sustainability and re-sell is good. It isn't good, it's short term profiteering at the cost of long term disaster someone else has to clean up.
I didn't assume that you did.

Rather, I thought you were interested comparing kinds of immunity. To to that fairly and well, you need to include the most common case: People's first infection.

Remember that most people's immune system is able to learn quickly enough that natural immunity takes care of the first infection without external help. The immune reaction doesn't start with the second infection, it starts as soon as the immune system starts learning. Excluding the first infection in an analysis seems very, very strange to me.
Just to specific answer the question of what did Oracle gain, I believe they made back all of their investment across their Exadata line of products which were sold to large commercial enterprises, running on custom SPARC silicon.
Yep, at the time we were jokingly speculating if the next generation would be called Hexium. =)
> Let's be grateful they haven't done so yet

Why? Wouldn't the community come together and implement any features Oracle tries to lock away in their proprietary version?
I still do. One rootkit per lifetime is enough. Probably has cost them $5000 by now from me.
How do you suggest multi-family housing or single family suburban infill housing gets built affordably?
Iirc the reconciliation bill getting worked out right now has a good chunk of money to develop more housing
Maybe something like this.

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/56/1/jamc-d-...

But it isn’t particularly helpful when trying to explain policy imho.
Well show us the data if you have it. Not doing so just makes you a snake oil salesman.
Allegedly the famous parrot Alex asked what color he is. But the whole line of research is doubted by a lot of people.
I recall upgrading my 286 to a 468. Correction, it was one of those Cyrix 486 clones on a 368 motherboard[1].

I bought the motherboard, CPU and RAM. Half the cost was the 8MB of RAM. CPU was the next most expensive item.

Worked fairly well, but it was speed limited in certain cases by the 386 motherboard/memory combo. Also not all applications/games would run since they didn't properly detect it as a proper 486.

[1]: https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/tag/486-in-386-moth...
>Capitalism vs socialism isn’t about the existence of that capital, just who owns and how decisions are made.

You can't just assume the existence of capital. It's not an exogenous variable.
Anyone can make time for VR.
He agrees with Thomist theology more than he realizes, since he isn't able to see it from the inside. For example, the idea that meaning is emergent and contingent is harmonious with Christianity.

Edited to add:

> Close your eyes.

> Picture only the flying wheat fields of summer, and below,

> The secret blue lake

> Whose precise coordinates in that very heaven,

> That undefiled past,

> Have been hidden from you,

> Salvaged for you, set aside in holy trust,

> Alive now and ever in the fullness of time.

https://jelliot.substack.com/p/ile-de-mont-royal
It also has a chat, and for many it has become the main channel to stay in touch with each other. I'm not sure why either, I guess it's because they spend more time in the app than other messengers, so they might as well chat on it too.
I guess this explains why their recruiters are looking for SREs lol
Valid questions for sure, tried to put more context in the question but it got too long for HN. Ive been making art for a long time but just switched careers to software. I guess Im just trying to make some work that embraces / engages with some part of the tech community. Wondering what HN people are into.
Things just got meta.
Why are we trying to “-fy” everything?
All of the southern half of Ontario has shot up dramatically.
You are not making a coherent argument. Once you have decided you're building your server app in Java, it is MORE difficult to evaluate and decide Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, etc. than it is to pick a runtime. Whether it has been like that "from day one" to use your term, is irrelevant. Secondly, having choice is GOOD. Yes it adds a bit of confusion but I'd rather have options than not. If you want some overriding authority to make all the decisions for you, go build on iOS.
How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
Imagine we have 2 weights we want to update. For each weight, choose a pseudo-random number known by both sender and receiver. If a "1" bit is received, update both weights with the random number. If a zero is received, don't.

After enough iterations, each weight can converge on any value.
Tbh, I have no idea who 'on the left' you could be talking about (except Sinema I guess)? The labor side of the Democratic party has been enemic for the last 50 years.
Blackrock isn't the only player in the market. If their rental prices are "too high" other rental properties will be listed for less.
Ok, the way I read it, CZI was a subsidiary. Still, they have to sell the name at fair market value if they are wholly separate companies, letting Google get a bid, etc. if they want to stay above board.
Politics is preference, logic is sometimes useful in determining your preference…
The Hungarian economist János Kornai wrote about this. Socialist firms face what he called a soft budget constraint (In this case the soft budget constraint isn’t provided by the central government but by sentimental families). The problems are well understood but they have some advantages. It’s easy to end unemployment. Japan used something like a soft budget constraint during its postwar boom so its domestic firms could massively invest more in innovation and scale up production. Socialists in Sweden were also similarly concerned with efficiency issues as early as the 1920s, which is why they chose to focus on the welfare state and labor rights instead.

The flip side is a hard budget constraint leaves resources idle — unemployment. So you get a different kind of inefficiency. Mixed economies direct which inefficiencies they can live with based on actual human needs.
Oculus will keep them in the running.
That seems like a mistake, but it's very problematic if true. Having to go through a grueling JVM version update every 3 years, or more often if you can't jump 3 years worth of JVM updates at once? Brutal.
To ask questions, you have to 1) understand that others have minds 2) understand that there are things you don't know 3) understand that others might know things you don't 4) understand that you may ask them and they will tell you.

That's actually a lot of advanced cognition, even if it doesn't look that way to us.
You're in luck, because (assuming the scans are in a compatible format), this is exactly what 3D Slicer was designed for.
> The Wacom data collection program is OPTIONAL. Mr. Heaton buries this in his rant in the second to last paragraph.

I don't see that in the second to last paragraph, and the word "optional" doesn't seem to appear anywhere.

The driver being aware of which software is active makes sense and is legitimate. The driver sending that information to others is unnecessary and illegitimate (since explicit consent was not given).
That's assuming a lot, including that the binaries aren't 64 bit already (a bit unlikely nowadays), and the database wouldn't just use a 32 bit datatype for this specific purpose in this specific configuration. (If this issue has anything to do with transaction IDs at all, as covered elsewhere.)
Eh, maybe. But we see that the AIs in more forward-thinking franchises like The Matrix, The Terminator, or the video game Horizon: Zero Dawn all figured out factory automation from the jump.

Not to mention, as we know in our very terrestrial societies, human labor is very inefficient in more ways than one, though more creative for that.
The latest version of Postgres addresses this issue in various ways, although it’s not entirely solved, it should be significantly mitigated.
One obvious fix might be require all revenue from traffic fines etc. to be paid into the state general fund rather than to the agencies that write the tickets.
The 1500 RCT's are actually only 31 studies from what I can see. Those studies are do not all overlap either, they are all over the spectrum (D3 and flu, D3 and mortality, D3 and having children with Asthma).

While good sources for specifics, there is a lot of wiggle room for follow up in some of these spaces where the results amount to a single study.

I think the summaries speak for themselves:

> "Vitamin D ... ... did reduce cancer death by 16%"

> "Vitamin D did not reduce the risk of cancer"

Seems like more research is needed here in these specific areas along with what exact version of D3 we are talking about (they are not all manufactured or extracted the same) and if supporting nutrients/lifestyles effect anything.

I think the article just makes the good point that D3 isn't the magic bullet to any and all sickness without really being able to specify with a high level of certainly what it does help with.
Some cpus have general purpose IO pins. You could connect wires to those and send whatever signal you want.
You should look up the Far Side comic where a professor invents a dog translator. Turns out the only thing dogs say is 'Hey! Hey! Hey!'.
Formally, the Communist Party of the USSR was a private organization with no ties to the government and Pravda had been its newspaper. I see a lot of parallels with the current situation in the USA where private businesses and persons control the government and govern the people by themselves. The government newspaper was this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izvestia if you are interested.
> 10mbps, which is plenty for video conferencing

I think it's more about latency and packet loss than raw bandwidth. I have 100 Mb/s fibre and it's way way better than my old 200 Mb/s cable was.

> Uneven bandwidth hasn’t stopped Netflix or YouTube from taking over our culture

Well yeah but Netflix and Youtube don't care about latency or packet loss.

> Zuckerberg is looking 20-30 years out.

Definitely agree there. This screams "we're scared this will be the next big thing in 30 years and we don't want to let anyone else own it".
You can never go below cost... that's a nonissue. But we have shitty houses, worth $100k in labour and materials going for millions+, due to sheer unavailability of housing.

Housing is something people need to live, not an investment option.

Also, USA has a problem with building large apartment buildings, where even overcrowded places like san francisco still build single family houses, instead of 5, 10+ story apartment buildings everywhere.
This is literally how “difficulty” in crypto mining works too, and it’s why PoW systems are so asinine/inefficient.
Seems to work at least partly now. I just jumped into one of the more popular games and a bunch of people playing.
Nah fam, like I said, go nuts. Even if something exists, reimplementing it is great for the challenge/intellectual curiosity/fun factor. I learned Ada by reimplementing Unix utilities in it.