skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm being paranoid but he claims to want a civilian force independent of the federal government, or as he says "not encumbered by the federal government" because he wants full control over them for his own purposes. What makes me even more nervous is how many proud boys and oath keepers would apply - and what if that's who makes up the majority or all of the ranks? What happens if he want to use them during the next election at polling places?

Again, maybe I'm being paranoid, but this reeks of fascism...
> Does it feel Zachtronics-y?

Nope.
"It was the first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years."

I wonder if there’s some way other than time constraints to encourage higher variance moves.
Mark Cuban Buys a Small Town in Texas, Just Because
> potentially excluding people from driving

Apparently here we have different understanding. Everyone by default is excluded from driving. Driving a vehicle is not a right, it is a privilege, granted only to those who are willing to receive training, are able to pass test and are ready to operate vehicle that conforms to regulations.

If vehicle is not within regulations limit it may not leave private property.
what practices are those? paying publishers for temporary exclusivity? not sure how that would buy a soul, but ok.
Am I correct in saying that for read queries, you essentially translate the GraphQL query into nested jsonb_agg calls?
You mean Rf7 when he ignored the *pawn on e6 being attacked by the queen for a potential fork with the knight (Qxe6 Ng7+)?
That was the one thing I found distractingly wrong in Queen's Gambit. It completely glossed over the sheer number of draws. I'm a dilettante at chess, and even I know that.

(I gather that the number of draws may have been lower at the time, but they showed few or none.)
Neat, I skimmed through "metaphors we live by" a few weeks ago and can't stop applying it everywhere. I recently wrote a post that's kind of on "GOOD CODE IS CLEAN" [1].

I can't recall how dependent I was on physical metaphors when I was first learning to code. I do, however, remember some times that I tried to learn concepts and a spatial metaphor set me back significantly. Like "railway-oriented" for async error handling (which just over complicated things), or "monad is a burrito" (which, was fine for when you already understood the concept, but useless before). I guess my point is that it's quite difficult to know if a metaphor is a good learning tool if you already know the concept.

[1] https://ravik.substack.com/p/an-anthropology-of-clean-code
It's a catch-22. Telling other countries not to spy on us while we happily spy on others is a double standard.
Could you please explain what makes my comment above read that way? It was not my intent to be condescending.
A mix of both. It does do somethings much better (like the 2D drawing etc) and viewport quality, but lags in others (like pipelinability, renderer integrations, materials etc...). The free part is a big draw of course.
I dont have access to the laptop
I had created an account with them right away when they first started, had given them all my information as they required. After a month or so they closed my account due to abuse. All I was doing was to use their service as intended.
It's a crap client that isn't up to the standards of modern game clients. I still can't move my game downloads to a backup in instances where I reformat my machine (or move to a new machine) and expect them to work when moved back. Meanwhile that kind of thing has worked in steam for a decade, and games I install via GoG don't care anyway because they don't need a client to work. IIRC Epic still doesn't have a working cloud save feature either. I get really tired of having to download 400GB of games just because the free games from Epic don't like being moved around.

They offer no value to the end user other than the free games to bait people onto their store.
That's Germany providing its land, for free, to the US. Those forces are not protecting Germany from any existing military danger, they are just projecting US power and protecting its interests.
The NSO guys are in it purely for the money. IIRC there was a deal on the cards for some investors to buy the company that fell apart because of the sanctions, so the NSO founders can no longer cash out.

As for destabilizing governments, they are doing the opposite, they are helping authoritarian governments worldwide crack down on journalists and dissidents, or murder them in the case of Saudi Arabia and Jamal Khashoggi. Reportedly, after the Khashoggi murder, NSO yanked the Saudi account but was forced to reinstate it by Netanyahu who was pursuing diplomatic relations with them.
The part that was lacking was the build methodology -- it was damn near impossible to build successfully the way the instructions said.

How much does good documentation and designing models costs? You can’t just copy pieces of plastic.

I have a Creality 3D printer. The hardware itself was good. But the tinkering needed to get it working was a lot. All the useful help came from the community. The official support is useless and every time I contacted them they are incapable of telling me if something is in spec, out of spec, or even point me to documentation.

Imagine giving a child a physical toy that you need to consult the internet for instructions because the included ones are incomplete or wrong. Maybe you have a piece missing and the instructions are wrong.

Even if Lego is charging too much, they may have head room. When they feel they are being threatened, they can lower prices and still have the best kits and we’d all flock back.
I'll drink 120 proof whisky neat and enjoy it all day, but there's something about Eggnog and every other creamy/fatty cocktail that brings forward a harsh, rubbing alcohol-like sting that I can't stand. I'd love to know how exactly that works but haven't found any answers yet.

The one I'm really trying to figure out is an experiment with soaking apple pieces in bourbon for apple pies. The result is a lovely slightly tart apple whisky that has a boozy harshness that's tamed by a bit of honey.
I was in this same boat (probably not as fit as you), but got sick a lot (pneumonia twice, bronchitis a couple of times, hospitalized with "mystery virus" twice including once leading to ICU, etc etc) no obvious signs of immune compromise, decent Vitamin D nothing showing up on physicals etc until I went to see a Rheumatologist for chronic pain. He diagnosed me with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome[1], which turns out to explain all sorts of other things that I thought were seperate and unrelated problems. It's worth drilling into these things further because there could be some underlying cause that joins all the dots together and (although there's no real treatment for EDS) you could get help.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ehlers-danlos-syndromes/
> But there is a world of difference between being a great scientist and being a great K12 teacher.

Very good point. K12 teachers know a lot, but they may not know much about the path to becoming a world-renowned scientist. The signers of this letter know that path from their own experience and the experience of their colleagues. They may not be educators but they have intimate understanding of the education process of bright children.
remember when the cia interfered with the congressional investigation of their torture program, by getting the FBI to investigate senators for viewing the documents that the CIA provided them, and spying on the senate investigation activities, and then nothing happened

https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/politics/cia-senate-dispute-f...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-senate-idUSKBN0KN2Q82...
Note that this is 8h47m long video!
Rocket Lab's Neutron Rocket Will Be More Reusable Than Falcon 9 [video]
A queen for two rooks is not too crazy, whether it's worth it depends a lot on the position. The naive piece worth suggests that two rooks (5 each) is worth more than a single queen (9), but in practice it's more complicated. I would say though, as someone who's not amazing at chess that was definitely one of the most significant moments in the game for me - Not that Magnus was making a mistake, but that he was creating a very big imbalance in the pieces which was going to make the game get a lot more interesting.
you should learn more about Tim Sweeney. he is all about store openness. read his rants about the windows 8 and windows 10 store(s) for example.
> The first alternative architecture has been discussed a bit recently: a frontend which directly sends SQL queries to the backend, getting data back and rendering with a typical frontend framework.

The problem is that you can't trust the frontend - a malicious user can pretend to be the frontend but then send any SQL they want. This also makes it very difficult to do any server-side logic if all the server gets are data modification commands. The only scenario I can see this working is where you're dealing with read-only, public data, where the users are legitimately allowed to access all the data in the DB.

> The other alternative is to have the server do all the rendering, keep (most) working user state in a serverside structure, and hold open a websocket to stream effects from the client and updated components from the server.

I believe this is what Phoenix LiveView implements.
> I would personally say that this is sort of a manifestation of hierarchicalism which can be predominantly connected to white people in the United States

I find this an absurd and utterly indefensible statement.

You cannot find any examples of "hierarchicalism" outside of white people in the United States? Seriously?

You put the weasel word "predominantly" in there, but I think most human civilizations through out history have featured these kinds of dynamics.
Some colors, notably brown, are just more brittle.
Plutonium mod for Call of Duty – dedicated servers, anti-cheat and more
FM 3-05.70: Survival (2002) [pdf]
sure, paying for games that you get to keep is a money grab...

someone wanna explain this logic to me?
>No. I’m doing math. A 200dpi panel has 4 times more components per area than a 100dpi one. You can check it, if you are not sure.

Defect rates don't scale linearly to density IRL as you assume, and the type of defects changes as well. This is not the same as semiconductor manufacturing though plenty of parallels can be drawn.

>Do you have experience with e-ink panel manufacture?

I have deep insight in this industry due to my development experience with this tech. So the manufacturers tutor us on the nitty gritty details of the tech which stem from the manufacturing limitations, as my employers are making expensive purchases from them.

Of course, you are free to believe that I'm wrong and your kindergarten math is the answer to a profitable product to which the industry are completely oblivious too.
That all sounds great. I'm happy for you. Good luck!
Very relatable. Within the context of a single startup this definitely applies. However, in the span of your career, I like to ask — do you want to get fast at writing good code or writing bad code? You won't get perfect code of course, but at the very least you can learn to churn out code that's easy to change. It's not the same thing as expressive code, but it does the job at a startup. (I wrote another article[1] on the topic of writing code that's easy to change a disappointing number of years ago.)

[1]: https://max.engineer/cms-trap
It's harder to be correct than to be fast. So I'd keep doing you! However it's hard to say "how slow" you are referring to. If you literally take a day where someone else takes an hour, you might indeed want to work a little faster.

One trick I do is I don't get bogged down in details and get it to work fast, even wonky, leaving a trail of "TODO" and "FIXME" comments in the code, that I revisit pre-commit. I want to insist on the fact that I don't want you to commit incomplete or half broken solutions. These have to be attended prior to merging. Some can be so broken that I use "NOCOMMIT" and prevent a commit.

The point of this, is that half the time, I saved a lot of time because the solution just wasn't the right way, or the requirement have changed under my feet and I didn't waste any time on those items which would have slowed me down significantly. Also, they're usually tricky things to deal with, and by the end of the feature-complete, I have a much better understand/clarity over the problem, which means solving these TODO and FIXME typically are much easier to deal with, or have become irrelevant/non-issues. Gaining clarity over a problem space is solving half the problem and all of its descendants, and you're far more likely to have that clarity near the end of the feature-complete than 10% into the journey.

So my first advice is don't write a specific state postcode validator until much later, when the business is asking you to build the next facebook by tomorrow.

I was talking to a friend a few days ago, both of us are quite senior with over 20 years in the industry. He tends to be slower than me and more correct; let's call it pendantic ;)

It was quite staggering when we were talking about how things were built, in the metaphore of building a house... I go straight to the foundation and the ground floor, get the walls up as soon as possible, even get a room almost finished to get a good feel for the product. Him, on the other hand, does the drive-way first, polishes the driveway and sets up the mailbox and everything before even looking at the house.

Two very different approaches in the form of a metaphore; my argument is, don't waste time on the driveway until you know what the entrance will look like... His argument is, it will need to be done anyway and you can't access the house without a driveway.
RemindMe 24 hours.

;-)
Yes, I used to do that every single time, and I would Cmd+W out of it immediately if the like/dislike ratio looked suspicious. Plenty of other videos in the sea.
Thinking that making holocaust denial illegal decreases the odds of a Nazi party coming to power is almost as idiotic as holocaust denial.
The problem with 'productivity' measurement is output is based on 'sale price'

* Sell, 1,000,000 lottery tickets (or CDOs or Carcinogenic products) -- Boom, you are productive.

* Cure Cancer (or Linux or Wikipedia or an ad-free Educational YouTube Channel) and open source it for free -- Nah, not productive.

As we digitize, more things will be free and yet valuable and these things won't show up as productivity.

It's time to come up with better measurements of productivity
Right. I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or not. :)

Prior to Novalpina, it was Francisco Partners.

Point being, NSO has received huge amounts of money from the kind of people who, well, YCombinator founders seek out.
Depends at what level you're talking about. In the abstract? No, most 3D concepts are pretty much standard across all of them.

In the nitty gritty, they're all substantially different and have very different views of scenes, data representations and workflows.

It's easy enough to jump between all three, at least for me, but they each have their respective strengths and weaknesses, that lend themselves better to different kinds of work.
Did Stockfish have a mate at 131. Kh4 Qe6+?
I lived in Ontario and loved getting milk in bags.

For those unaware, instead of a 3L jug, you typically get three 1L bags in a pack. It lasts longer (especially if micro-filtered) since you only break the seal on one bag at a time. You buy (once) a plastic pitcher to put the open bag in.

I've never gotten used to pouring from jugs. I have cereal every morning, and if I pour too gently, a thin stream drizzles down the side of the jug. If I pour harder it solves that problem, but then some milk droplets splatter off the cereal into the surrounding area (especially if I'm moving the jug around to get even coverage over the bowl). If I'm careful I can kind of slip the stream in at the edge of the bowl to avoid the splatter but it's tricky and my top layer of cereal remains dry.

Am I just a nincompoop? Is there some west-coaster trick to this I've yet to master?

There was a thread about this over here a while back... https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/80562/milk-jugs-c...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Transform Our Place in the Universe
Public debates around policy changes are just another feedback mechanism to let companies know when they effed up. Its up to YouTube to consider how much they value it.
Nobody is asking the government to step in to stop Youtube from making the change. People are just complaining about the change, like they would for any other change a company may make.
This is one of the few books I re-read on a yearly basis. It is convicting.
There is no military danger Europe would need protecting from. The only thing US is subsidising is itself: all those trillions go directly back to US and benefit US, not Europe.
Countless People reporting their eBay accounts suspended
I was one of these individuals, when i went to dive into it a little more, it looks like ebay is randomly suspending tons of people as being reported on twitter, with their support chat being down.
Are you referring to lichess? I second that if yes.
Read Atul Gawande's Being Mortal
There's already a case where EU and German law clashed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/german-court-dismisses-legal...
Yes, it should be funding source agnostic. Anyone moving to the new card types will be prompted to provide their SSN.
it's like gamers WANT a monopoly. I do not understand capital-G Gamers, man. they're a very silly lot.
They're a private company who is free to do what they want, and the people complaining are private individuals who are free to do what they want. There's no assault on anyone's liberty in either direction. Companies can freely modify their products, and customers are free to be pissed off when they do. In this case, people feel that YT is removing dislikes to prevent PR damage to brands and individuals who post unpopular videos on their website. They think Google is prioritizing its profits at the expense of their product. Let them complain.
It is nice Hasura offers it as well via the /v1beta1/relay endpoint[1].

[1] https://hasura.io/docs/latest/graphql/core/databases/postgre...
Yeah, that's pretty much a "Karteileiche" though, nobody takes that law seriously. This has less to do with germany being overly restrictive in that domain and more with incompetence: The law says something like "possessing hardware/software suitable for hacking is illegal" those who have written this law probably barely knew what software even is. They wanted to make sure they can get those evil "hackers" convicted but misunderstood the nature of what they are dealing with.
> So you are born

You can vote or you can leave.
I once had a leader come in and commit to not making radical changes, that he was going to listen and learn and then make adjustments accordingly. That was so refreshing and I really respected him as a result.

It feels like more often than not execs who come in and immediately change things are just pattern matching approaches they've seen previously without actually understanding what they're trying to change. A classic example is Marissa Mayer's attempts to Googlify Yahoo. You can't change a business model or a culture by doing a reorg. It's literally cargo cult behaviour.
The NATO relationship effectively turns Europe into vassal states - we don't have German or French bases on US soil, only the US gets that out of NATO. So it's a 'subsidy' only in the sense that the US is protecting its property.

People get angry about the Israel aid not because of the volume of funding, but because of the human rights/colonialism problems that the US subsidizes. I personally feel that way, but at the same time I understand the realpolitik deal with Israel - I believe the purpose of keeping Israel there is to prevent some version of the Ottoman Empire from re-forming.
Why is making math a part of your "identity" preferable to seeing math as a tool you can apply to accomplish your goals, or something you can do for fun?

The vast majority of high school math students will not become mathematicians.
No, I just explained that nobody will move out of the platform because everybody's there. Where are you going to watch your favourite USB gadget reviewer that only uploads on YT?

Over time means nothing until there's actually competition, and there's nothing on the horizon that can compete to the scale of YouTube. Your content creator is not moving anywhere any time soon.
Random other idea: just put your entire payload inside a spherical fairing and launch the whole ball into space. Once past atmosphere, eject the fairing and stretch out. Like a dancer extending their arms, this itself will slow your rotation down. Then fire RCS thrusters anti-rotationally or use a reaction wheel (can we pre-load the reaction wheel with oppositional angular momentum before launch?) until you're steady.

Bonus: can you use the rotation of the ball to help guide you, curveball-style, into the direction of orbit?
You really don't need Youtube for that. You need infrastructure and you need monetization. The former you can achieve today using any service provider with autoscaling (i.e. AWS, Rackspace, Linode, and a hundred others too numerous to list here). The latter you can achieve through any number of ad exchanges that handle pre-roll ads and banners. Youtube is handy primarily in being a one stop shop for both of those things and more. It allows the technically illiterate a place to vent their spleen without having to know anything about the internet works... including, I might add, how to actually market their works so they get eyeballs on them. If, however, you have an IQ higher than your shoe size and can manage the above, including figuring out how to circulate your content to places where potential viewers are so you don't need to rely on Youtube's algorithm, then you can make a go of it yourself and win. Youtube is betting, quite correctly, that most of you will never do that.
I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.
What does it even mean to buy a whole town? Does he own all the land and buildings in the whole place now? I would have thought the homes at least would be individually owned.
Why do you assume this is a matter of motivation, or that motivation is not itself a component of obesity as a disease?

Our urges to eat and be lazy are also a consequence of our health and diet. They are not coming out of some pure rational willpower plane.
CNN seems to be a little confused. A State Guard like what we've had for many years in California is literally a military force. There's no such thing as a "civilian military" force. State Guard personnel are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
And the userland is the worst possible combination of technology imaginable for this purpose - a memory unsafe language with a ton of magic dynamic features. You get the horrible serialization issues from Java & Ruby with the same old heap, stack and integer overflows we've come to love in C and mix in some of the runtime control flow from C++.
dense city is efficient, but density doesn't have to mean high-rises. It can be modest-rises, floors that are enough for people to still use steps to get to the top, so under 10 stories and dense, and that's probably in aggregate more efficient than high-rises. High-rises have serious problems and issues that are not just additive, and they are far harder to adapt, to change to adjust to changing contexts.
Didi Delists from the NYSE
https://twitter.com/search?q=eBay%20suspended&src=typed_quer... search link got cut off
There is nothing supporting the theory or conclusion
How do you define dog breeds, biologically? How would you test, say, a Goldendoodle for its biological breed?