skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... which is why countries are putting fishing quotas and carbon markets in place to make sure that doesn't happen. In other words, countries put a market value on things that otherwise wouldn't have it. OSS maintainers needs to do the same. That's my point.
> But it is in no way worse to cheat in eg. Fortnite than in a board game like Monopoly.

If you cheat in Monopoly, I can simply not play with you anymore. This is not true of Fortnite. You also have the potential to impact a much higher number of people cheating in Fortnite.
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> 2021-10-31 Password Generator: updated to support arbitrary sets of characters or syllables defined by the user.

[0] http://www.icosaedro.it/en-index.html
You may enjoy this TED talk about the global population leveling off: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies/...

It's where I first heard the term "peak child" or "peak baby" to describe this.
Lord of the Flies is such a tired example to hold forth. It's purely fictional and not generally representative of human behaviour. There is even a recorded incident of school boys being stranded on an island and living perfectly peacefully for more than a year https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...

Yes, humans can be violent but we are obviously more predisposed to be cooperative otherwise we would have never made it this far as a species. You can't put 10,000 unrelated members of any other species in one place and not expect chaos, with humans it's no problem as long as everyone involved has food in their bellies and the promise of going home after a few hours. That's our real defining trait, getting along with each other, our intelligence wouldn't do a lick of good if we didn't have that.
What industry? When? Is it common in your industry?

What replaced it?
> If it is criminal to cheat it is not a game anymore.

So Poker, Blackjack, etc aren't games now? There are plenty of circumstances where it'd be illegal to cheat in games.
Per their support, there are known issues which can cause the client and their servers to become "out of sync". If this happens, your backups will stop occurring (even though the app will indicate that the all files are backed up successfully through the current date). The only notice you will receive that this has occurred is after 14 days when they send you an email to warn you that they'll delete your backups if you don't fix it.

They don't seem to recognize why backups silently failing is a very bad thing.

I stopped using Backblaze after that revelation.
Ask HN: Does hanging out with my family help me hit my KPIs?
my primary kpi is free users.
But these are bit-for-bit identical.
You get what you pay for. There are plenty of documented/supported libraries out there to buy in place of open source software.
I think the point still stands, right? The word was only loaned into the Mandarin lexicon and doesn't exist in the Wu lexicon: not even as a loanword from Mandarin.
What makes it groupthink rather than simply being in agreement about something?
Correct. Because cryptocurrencies are created out of thin air, they can also disappear into thin air.
jargon.
Not sure I understand the reason this kind of model keeps getting spawned every few years. Idealized models with no relevance to empirical observations are nowhere near predicting civilization collapse. They can't even explain the observed past trajectories.
>the galaxy it’s about the same size Milky Way but has less than 0.5% of its stars and much less than that when it comes to overall mass.

What's the mechanism behind the formation of such a sparsely populated galaxy? Was there just way less gas in that region of space for stars to form in the first place? How is there even enough gravity to bind those stars into a galaxy rather than just a forming a series of rogue stars that move independently of one another?
There's a tremendous irony here, which is that these package managers are little more than a hack to let people manage parts of their project tree (and the accompanying shame) outside the harsh and knowing gaze of their version control system.
It might be more productive if you were to outright disagree with the statement instead of simply noting a claim that isn't strongly substantiated. If you have experiences that demonstrate to you that this claim is weak I'm sure everyone else would be interested in them (I know I would be!).
"Overregulation is the problem" is one of those stopped-clock answers, just like anything you hear from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Not tenable since Fukushima and certainly not an explanation as to why the AP1000 is late everywhere. (the real answer is that factories in China took a while to figure out how to make AP1000 parts)

Speaking of stopped clocks, people still compare nuclear power economics to coal as a "gold standard" despite the fact that coal hasn't been economically competitive in North America since 1980. Not because of sulfur dioxide or that other acid gas carbon dioxide, but because gas turbines are an order of magnitude smaller than steam turbines.

If we had a liquid metal or liquid salt reactor that ran at high temperatures and a closed-cycle gas turbine powerset, the CCGT powerset would fit inside the employee break room of the turbine house of the LWR. The cost of the turbine is one thing, but the PWR also has huge heat exchangers that have to live inside the confinement structure. Even if the heat was free the power conversion system of an LWR would have a hard time being competitive if everything went right.

We need something like

https://www.moltexenergy.com/

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor

if nuclear energy is going to be economically viable in the future.
The source code for the core of Putty is an astonishing construction, a sort of extreme case of Duff's device spanning many, many pages. At each point where an operation might block, there is a macro that expands to a break and a switch/case clause that enables returning to that point.

A colleague said "I love it, and hate myself for loving it".

The new "async/await" features appearing in numerous languages encode this pattern -- i.e., result in substantially the same object code -- in a more robust way, but Putty works fine.
Is this article about people not understanding lockouts and conversions between classes of shares?

"As it turned out, for many former employees, it was all too good to be true. This past Monday, as BuzzFeed went public, many of them learned something alarming: they weren’t able to trade the stock that they had waited years to exercise. They watched in dismay as the share price dropped eleven per cent on the first day of trading; as of Friday’s close, most were still unable to trade, and BuzzFeed stock was valued at $6.07, having dropped nearly forty per cent in the first week of trading. Hopes of windfalls, large and small, were dashed. Some former employees are now asking whether they were cut out of trading owing to incompetence, or deliberately misled."

The only problem here is people that accepted equity compensation and without understanding how it works. This article describes how it's worked for decades.
Intel seems awfully scared of Graviton2. Why pay for this ad on Google?
Sometime back I did a Golang based memcache server implementation with BoltDB (experimented with Pebble as well). I dropped that implementation out of fear that nobody will be interested in using it, have same question here I guess. Why would I drop the existing battle tested solution for something that might still have non-memory bugs.
I think this is exactly what happened here. Or at least extremely similar.
The white room scenes are in fact a mix of video and real time rendering. It flips back and forth 4 times.
In case people are looking for more of these for Mac or Windows, well... I've been making a list, and checking it twice:

- https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers
My prediction is that by the time the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection rolls around people will have entirely forgotten about this issue.
There is like 15 years of official guidance and case law on ePrivacy, with relevant guidance from the Art 29 Working Party (precursor to the current EDPB) published around 2014. But I don't think regulators are in a hurry to get into arguments about the finer points when the ePrivacy Regulation could be passed any year now, which would allow a more nuanced approach to cookies (e.g. allowing legitimate interest instead of consent).
> I totally understand that the ownership of your course content is a concern for you and I'm working on a solution.

Ownership shouldn’t need to be “worked” out, the creator owns their content and either AlterClass supports that or they’re ripping off the creator. Especially since AlterClass is charging the content creator transaction fees and a subscription fee.
Amazon, or any other vendor for that matter, trying to figure out the smallest single box to ship all the items in your order using optimal packing material.
windows 10 has openssh client now, with WSL2 it has many other putty-alike tools, for me, I no longer need putty these days. Thanks for the great ride.
I have a couple of times and it works fine. I suppose I have yet to run into trouble with either of their offerings. Most restores have been individual files or lage archives (in the 5TB range).
echo "Hello world" > index.html

Can be deployed anywhere, runs on every device. No need for a 20GB+ IDE + dependencies.
How much money will tether print to buy Bitcoin tomorrow?
Significantly, shifting the image calculations from the server to the client means the work is duplicated for every client. While it saves energy for the server, it increases the overall energy consumption required to deliver the content.
>Maybe they are, but that bloat is just some static files that are sent to the user as far as the web server is concerned. They should have no practical impact on the battery life of the server."

...and if those static files make 100 API calls as soon as they land?
Edit: You're talking about the Backblaze binaries? Yeah that's why I said Clang's is almost bit-for-bit identical, so it's clear to everyone it's not 100% the same as the Backblaze situation. Not sure what your complaint is about my comment though? It's still practically the same problem, and you can solve it just as well with the argv[0] tricks or whatever.

Or are you saying your heuristic for determining the underlying engineering quality changes its output based on 1 bit flip? Identical executables is awful engineering, but a few bytes different (out of 90MB) is great engineering?
Where Apple could be wrong?
No doubt, Apple is known for their products. But am starting to think, whether they still put a lot of attention building them. Here is why, I thought so…

Apple hosts a community website (discussions.apple.com), which allows community participation in it. This acts a repository to finding solution to your problems in Apple products.

Recently saw a HN: Thread (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252433556) where some specific problem to display was mentioned.

Surprisingly I found same post tagged with “Me Too” by a number of people, who might face the issue.

Apple should realise that allowing “Me Too” tag is recipe for disaster according to Behavioural Design principles.

These sort of tags funnels the user into the issue, making a impact on the Apple’s reputation. People find easy to click “Me Too” and Apple might be driven towards issues that have higher “Me Too” counts.

Apple should take down the “Me Too” from public and instead, have some insights of the customer community with private questions like,

> I have exact the same problem
> I am facing similar problem
> I don’t have this problem

We could frame questions like this to the discussion users and get insights from them. The same insights can be shared publicly as well.

I feel, This approach will avoid unwanted attention to some posts, which is amplified by the Human Group Behaviour.

Please leave your suggestion below.
> What was the bug? It was a threading bug.

lol
Steve Keen is a name I haven't heard in a long time. From what I recall, he is pretty heavily critiqued, not in a "he might be right" sort of way, but more in a "totally misunderstands the basic philosophy underpinning what he critiques and sets up a strawman" kind of way.
What are your qualifications for being able to judge this as a "great theory"?

You seem to think that you're free to think very highly of this paper on zero experience because the headline is appealing, while someone critical of the paper needs to be an expert.
IMHO, it's the most valuable, important learning in life (and a great feeling). And the most important learning skill is to have the open-mindedness to believe there is something to it when we don't understand, and patience and persistence to discover it. Some things have taken decades, some are yet undiscovered.

Two techniques I use that help, though are not panaceas: 1) Many differences in perspectives come down to different agendas. If you see a trumpet and expect jazz, you are going to have a hard time understanding other uses of it. I try to look for their agendas. 2) More broadly, there's another presence in the room, the artist. They have a completely independent universe in their head than my own - theirs has nothing to with me, it's not a variation on mine, it's not an argument or debate with mine. Focus on them, forget about me.
I'm not advocating an increase in art history majors. I'm saying if art history was cheaper, that could send even more people down a path that is financially unrewarding. By pricing degrees according to value, a CS degree becomes relatively more expensive and less attractive to somebody making college decisions with a tight budget in mind.
Those are just people with virtual avatars. Sorry to burst your bubble.
It is not practical for me personally even if it is perfect for 2 reasons:

1) Unless it comes with completely ported VCL I do not see how it would be useful.

2) Doing it for the language's sake - I am not a language zealot and am fine to use whatever suits me better for particular situation. JS as front end for my servers works fine for me. For example even though Delphi / Lazarus is fine for developing servers I prefer doing it in C++. Backend libraries and performance are superior in my opinion.
Ugh, that was a slog to read.

TLDR: a big dragon (represents aging) kills tens of thousands of people every day, until the people invest in technology to defeat it, and then vaguely wish they'd started the research sooner.
> One thing particularly strange about climate change alarmists is that they are just so damn sure of all these horrible outcomes that are absolutely sure to happen.

It's a shame you didn't quote more of my first sentence there. Let me help: "This will mean more extreme weather..."

Guess what 2021 featured? A 1000 year heat wave in the oh-so-temperate Pacific Northwest, at temperatures previously considered physically impossible in that region. And a few months prior? Record-setting cold wiped out the grid in Houston and plunged a big chunk of Texas into survival mode.

If you're looking for an all-at-once calamity to herald the coming of Climate Doom, you're gonna have to watch the movies. Because what all the science clearly indicates is a gradual, inexorable increase in extreme phenomena.

> You're forecasting, dude. You don't have a crystal ball. Yet your statements, and those of all the alarmists, are those of the totally cocksure.

I mean, we're having an informal discussion on the internet, where scientific jargon and careful discussion of error bars gets in the way of clear communication. But I can still be pretty damn confident of those predictions because climate change isn't some far-off future possibility. It's unfolding all around us, as we speak. The increase in extreme weather? It's been going on for 50 years.

Rising temperatures? Droughts? Floods? Fires? They're all on the upswing and have been for long enough that it's impossible at this point to attribute them all to some statistical anomaly.

Let's put it another way. If you catch me playing with matches on the couch and exclaim, "You'll burn the house down!", I probably have some cause to accuse you of being overly dramatic. If, on the other hand, the house is already on fire, my protestations that "You can't be so cocksure it'll be uncomfortable to live in the house" sound pretty ridiculous.

> I live near Glacier National Park.

Cool. That's an anecdote. Not data. Do you have any actual data to support your stance that climate scientists -- climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, etc -- the world over are "alarmists"?

> Failed predictions and shrill screeching forecasting failures stack up over and over from all the alarmists and yet still they, as you do here, fail to have any humility, any sense that, hey, maybe you don't know it's the end of the world for sure.

Straw man. Nobody's claiming it'll be the end of the world. The planet will be just fine. Humans will simply find it a more inhospitable place in which to live. Which is what I said. And all those "shrill screeching forecasting failures" from the last 30 years have, on average, been too conservative, forecasting slower warming.

You just haven't noticed because you don't want to believe it might be true. I understand the emotional reaction. It's the same thing that compels people to refuse to believe that covid exists or vaccines work. Doesn't mean it's a logical or accurate stance, though.
How would the custom allocator report the failure to allocate to the container, though?
This is a fundamental gameplay issue to some extent though: you always wind up making a trade off between responding to the player and maintaining animation fidelity, and since controllers aren't a human body with a nervous system you're connected to, it's always going to be a problem.

It's significant too: nothing frustrates players quicker then controls feeling "unresponsive" by doing something that's different to what they instructed.
> say a decade, with the current approach.

what could happen a decade after taking a vaccine?
There doesn’t seem much reason to “love Backblaze” based on what you said. You might as well be transferring your files into a volcano and then have to trek into the volcano in the hopes you might get lucky and everything hasn’t burned up if you ever have to recover something.
There doesn't seem to be a lockup period, and the conversion seems incompetently delayed. There's no reason given why it should not have been possible for them to dump shares if they wanted.
Gatekeeping aside, I took the meaning of the comment to be that there is something in the galaxy that has the ability to construct/manipulate their surroundings in such a way that it appears to us as “intentional, from living beings”
This would be a good opportunity to get rechargeable batteries and/or an alarm that takes AAs.
It would be quite entertaining for one to watch the large solar manufacturers have to put their money where their mouth is for their entire public facing websites if they want a .solar domain
Interesting project! have you noticed any downsides to this? edge cases where it doesn't work correctly?
Because otherwise a trashed computer could backup corrupted data over the good backup.
Right. The team behind this is being a bit dicey with the truth. They never seem to be clear which parts are CG and which are video. Any time Keanu looks goofy, that's CG. It looks hand-animated to me because the movement is so terribly poor. Mo-cap to me is still shitty (see e.g. Thanos in Avengers), but hand-animated is always uncanny.
I understand celery is the other way to do this? Can I replace celery based schedule with this one? Seems much simpler..
That's just the energy used for the exercise itself, it doesn't count the extra calories needed for your cells to repair themselves. Powering the machinery of repair takes energy and raw materials. Those extra raw materials (protein, fats, and carbohydrates) are taken from normal diet leaving the body in more of a deficit, which feeding behavior usually corrects for by increasing intake
I don’t work in cosmology and can’t vouch for the site, but according to [0] the dark matter was essentially stolen by neighboring galaxies through a process called tidal disruption.

[0] http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/tidal-stripping-lack-dark-...
As sam-2727 says, this would be the dream scenario - the Unicorn that will lead us back to normal. My hope is that Covid would become cold/flu like and anything suggesting this is VERY good news. Particularly if it remains responsive to vaccines, letting them be a backup re: hospitalization.
The best way to respond would be to pretend there was a contract, and that the company was in arrears on its payment obligations. "I cannot act on any changes until you remit past-due payments."

That sends them on a wild goose chase for their copy of the contract, because they cannot admit they don't have it. Eventually they run into the person who tells them there is no contract, there are no delinquent payments, and there is no excuse for pestering the author.
When Apple argues why a phone is not a general purpose computer (and therefore should not allow sideloading), this is an example of why. A phone is a general purpose computer until you need it in an emergency, in which case it _must not be_ a general purpose computer.
Yup. I’m bipolar.
Duel isn't dangerous because the other guy is dead and I'm alive.
Graphs where no single object is a clear owner happen all the time in real world, so I would argue that any object model that can't accurately model that is just not good enough.

And what basic guarantees are not enforceable without ownership?
Is it possible than when civilization collapses we can only really realize it in hindsight? Kind of like how the only way to really know we went through a recession or depression is after the fact or at some point during it? Maybe we are already living in post-collapse.
Dark matter is a very weak hypothesis and this is a good reminder that MOND explain more data.
I do feel like it has been watered down. Looking at https://www.ycdb.co/ you can see the batch sizes has grown quite a lot. When I see something like "YC W20" or "YC S18" now in a title, it is basically just noise. I am happy that those companies were able to find funding and a support network, but it's kind of like seeing a product in the store with a label like "As featured on shark tank!"; it carries no weight for me, I just want to know if the product does what I need.
I really want to use rsync.net, but the price per GB scares me off.
There's a ton of complex research out there on nutrition data as well but we still have laws about how that information needs to be presented. The reason we have Nutrition Facts on food packaging is to summarize and present the information in a way that is standardized and quickly scannable. This helps everyone understand what they're buying and (most important) facilitates quick comparison to alternative foods.

A similar presentation of financial outcomes data would go a long way toward saving people from these inescapable student loan black holes.
Real time de-ageing + Zoom + remote job = less age discrimination. Have it randomize other characteristics during job interviews to remove other forms of discrimination too.
Hi, Australian here living in Sydney. I'm a very happy renter. Renting in Sydney annually is way under 5% of the cost of owning a house. Even if I could afford to buy a house in Sydney, I wouldn't dream of it. It's much more economically sensible to rent. The money I save in opportunity costs from renting is huge. I can invest the difference between rent and mortgage repayments and don't need to be concerned with maintenance and other costs of owning.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl3-jBNEd4 for more info.