skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News "articles" that speak to the future of the war and spend most of their words describing new, expensive technology that will replace the existing military approach sound an awful lot like pieces planted by public relations firms working for military contractors.

The purpose is to generate the public's appetite for military spending and to prepare the way for aggressive lobbying. pg wrote at length about the value of public relations in "The Submarine:"

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

The above does not mean that TFA does not have value. As pg said: "Good PR firms... give reporters stories that are true, but whose truth favors their clients."
I tried looking at how is it done in Apple’s Quartz compositor but couldn’t find it.

But more asking than telling, why wouldn’t defaulting to sRGB for unlabeled buffers work? The compositor knows that this monitor is in C color space, and it knows how to convert between the two, than a simple shader can trivially convert the sRGB hello world app to the monitor’s color space - even in the multiple monitor with different spaces case.

Of course that might not be the intention of the client, but if they didn’t bother with it than they likely are okay with whatever is the default.
It's not about countries with 5% Muslim population and I am not talking about minor ghettos in European urban areas. Look at non-Islamic countries with 20%-25% or more Muslim population. Look at how India got partitioned based on religion and how Hindu population in Pakistan (+ Bangladesh) shrunk while Muslim population flourished in India. Look at how Muslim majority area in India like Kashmir wants to separate (and they don't want Hindus there).
people you are working with nice, and you can enjoy working with.
Also not much strees of work, then staying would be better option.

As far as learning is concerned, you have various opportunities to learn outside of work as well, taking course or building project.
Yeah, the problem is just that later it makes it harder to go back and find code that's no longer working properly, dead code, and unused CSS. The fact that vanilla JS will throw an error when you try to perform an element operation on null is actually quite useful.
Hum... All the other answers on that thread are variations of "yes, we could, here's an example of how" with the examples varying from one widely impractical idea to "here is how we do something similar by accident today, we just have to control it".

If we had to overpower the Sun to communicate, we wouldn't use radio on Earth either.
How to build influence at work, no matter your job title
I was also thinking about inflation!
How will the company/person receiving the 68.7 billions dollars protect them from inflation?
Will they get swapped immediately for ETFs?
I'm still not quite seeing the problem. To my mind, comptime parameters have a direct translation to parametric type parameters in something like system F or a similar parametrically polymorphic type system, and reasonable type errors are possible in those. Do Zig's comptime parameters universally violate parametricity in some way, and this is why the errors are more difficult?
Would you make the same point about religious persecution? After all, unlike skin colour, you can easily change your belief.
I don't think it'll be amazing for users. The mobile market is just awful. It's almost impossible to find any good games that don't use these exploitative methods.
Very impressive indeed. He was backed by a multibillion dollar behemoth and, against all odds, and despite the commercial failure of the Xbox One (something that would’ve bankrupted any other company), he managed to keep the company afloat long enough to launch another product.

Spending ~$70bn to acquire another company is also impressive. Sure, Microsoft has limitless resources, and using acquisitions to hurt the competition is something they love to do, but still.. He did it. This is his win.
It's not hard, it's just that politicians and businessmes don't want to say "we don't know", "we are not sure", "we take the chance of a probability x". If you say "I'm going to solve all of your problems tommorow", you'll get better ratings today, so they choose that instead of managing expectations, explaning to adults the process that is undergoing, and giving the data and sources etc.

Now we have trust at an all time low, in a period of social media outrage and a conspirationnist gold era.

Which means more death and a prolonging crisis.

I do understand that the public have a limited attention span and a lack of critical thinking, but those in charge are nurturing it, for the worse.

The covid, IMO, is as much a social crisis than it is a health one.
"In this case, the conflicting result is left in the working directory for the user to fix and commit, or to abort the merge with git merge –abort."

I've used git for many years, and I still zip the repo folder, before doing a large merge, since 'fix the commit' can be a large effort with conflicts. Quickly renaming the repo root folder, then unzipping the old version can be quicker/safer, if you are not a git ninja and don't want to loose any work. There is probably proper command for it, but I sometimes get into a git mess that I cannot get out of. (reading stack overflow, trying get reset, git checkout, git reset --hard and so on)
Read the title. What does it say? What it says is false. Note that many people won't read beyond the title.

Read the second sentence of the first paragraph. It says two things, the first of which is false.

You're arguing that the press release is fine, because although it contains false statements, it also contains some true statements.
Azure?
Screw deathbeds. I'm just a guy looking for his ice floe..
True. Perhaps it should be able to back itself up to something like AWS Glacier or Backblaze B2 such that the data can be retrieved by the owners if they have the encryption key somewhere.
The economics of game passes are like this with nearly all of them. The XBox game pass has several games (on both PC and XBox) where their price is multiples of the monthly price.
Not a fan of doing this via twitter, but otherwise a beautiful exposition. Deserno is a gifted teacher.
It's not either-or, it's both. Both Microsoft and Valve play pivotal roles in PC gaming.
Even outside of the recent scandal, I've long had mixed feelings about Blizzard: harassing independent servers, always-connected DRM (I got booted out of single-player CoD: MW so many times), and milking franchises with remasters. I will say, though, that after a several year hiatus, a friend and I have discovered StarCraft 2 co-op with weekly mutations, and it's a lot of fun.

SC 2 recently went free-to-play. If the rest of their catalog is added to Game Pass, that will be something. Blizzard games have been stubbornly expensive years after release. I wonder what this means for Battle.net?
How will the company/person receiving the 68.7billions dollars protect them from INFLATION? Will they use the capital immediately to buy assets like ETFs?
Behold my jQuery replacement:

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The Digital Tremors of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
You can use the indie tag on steam, or search games under $20, or you can directly ask Google, or Reddit

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Indie/#p=0&tab=TopRat...
Okay then, why won’t it ever work the other way around?
With 5G I can pull 500 down on my phone sitting inside a building. If LTE hadn't become so saturated with users it would have been fine. I remember back in the day T-Mobile had faster 3G than 4G due to congestion.
Maybe first is the wrong world but they are the ideological ancestors of the Third Reich.
In Sparta your genes determined if you where either a proper person who whose only purpose was to out breed (and for a man fight) or a helot subhuman who did all the work.
Take-Two buys gaming group Zynga in $12.7bn deal
Will the DoJ jump in? Only two gaming consoles in the world and one of it is buying one of the biggest game developer for both platforms. Very good reason for DoJ to jump in
The whole issue is that with "hi", the intent is entirely unknown to the recipient. The sender should signal their intent such that anyone responding knows roughly what they're getting into. It can be as simple as "hi, free to chat for ~N mins about X?" but anything more that just a greeting is better than none. That's the "educational" value of the post as far as I see it, and I totally agree with it.
I suppose it depends on what the purpose of the refunds are. For example, many online clothing retailers will encourage you to buy more clothing than you need so you can try it on at home, and return whatever you don't like.

A lot of people definitely treat Steam's refund system this way, and Steam's automated refund process seems built to encourage it. You could also make a strong case that this is better for everyone, since consumers are more likely to take a chance on a game they're not sure about. On the other hand, it's a problem for games that are designed to be less than two hours—and it does basically require a DRM implementation.
Agreed.

2U and especially 1U servers are much, much louder than normal computers. Shrinking parts means that the fans need to spin much faster to get sufficient airflow.
I think it's misleading to call it an industry.

It's more like an extension of the energy industry. It allows energy producers to sell energy on a blockchain instead of a local grid.

In that sense, it distorts the energy market by inviting speculation on the value of that digitized energy. Why would anyone want digital energy that can't actual power anything? To sell to a bigger sucker.

The unfortunate and widely-bemoaned consequence is that energy prices are artificially inflated and life-destroying energy sources (like coal) become profitable again.
> Retiring soon anyway

Yeah, I took a low level job to spend my last 10 working years to get to do what normal people do. I mean, get a hobby and so on. Been at it for a couple of years now and found nothing that really triggers me. Miss my 60+ hour job and dread the enormous amount of days off.

But I am afraid I can not deliver any more so I stay where I am, attempting finding a hobby that grabs me.
Well guess I won't be supporting Barnardos again. Disappointed to see them supporting this cause.
What, exactly, is dbt?
They shouldn't. Capitalism works.
Game Pass has major issues still. No integrated backup mechanism; only 3 changes to your home PC per year... Imagine reinstalling more than 3 times to find out that you can no longer play offline; absolutely horrible download speeds... Compared to Steam which maxes out bandwidth; and the interface for Xbox Game Pass on PC is terrible.
This smells of Nudge all over it.
Government is using psyops against public interest for quite some time now.
You're pointing to a dynamic of urban decay and "broken windows effect", which is the exact opposite of gentrification. Minorities with a history of migration also tend to do mostly lower-skilled work, and the lower-skilled end of the labor market is the one that bears the greatest burden by far from the kind of onerous labor regulation and taxation that is especially common in France.

It's the very opposite of what a serious policy aimed at mitigating social and economic inequality should look like, but Big Government ideology is widespread enough in France that any reform is quite unthinkable there. (Germany used to be in the same boat, but they enacted reforms in the early 2000s that provided for some degree of much-needed flexibility for these marginalized workers. It's not a full UBI or even an EITC equivalent, but it's a tiny start.)
Do you think the government should fund campaigns against it?
>extrasolar atmospheric spectroscopy while in transiting the host star

That is currently the only viable approach [1] for exoplanet spectroscopy. But the JWST is unable to do that on planets that are not Gas giant sized.

[1]: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/297/a-planets-transmis...
> Anyway, just wanted you to know that even though you'll likely get censored by some high school kid, you are not alone. One day the tables will turn

That's what this all is—the tables turning.
ISTM that ending E2E encryption can only be the starting point. As long as kids are getting internet connected cameras - which is pretty much all kids these days - and using them to talk to people online, there will be people trying to convince them to broadcast activities which should stay private. How does ending E2E encryption fix that, without additionally implementing total surveillance? How does it work across borders?
Is there a public link for your verifier? What style of semantics are you using for it and what sort of programs and features can you reason about?
Everyone talking about Blizzard, meanwhile, Activision is one of the original game publishers (1979). (Supposedly picked their name so that it would come alphabetically before "Atari".) That's older than EA.

When's Microsoft going to bring back Pitfall?
We don’t crank out planes like we used to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works

Removing humans from the cockpit could increase innovation. Make them a fraction of the size and cost without humans
I disagree. In the past I've used regex to do that and now that I have access to a multicursor, I won't be going back. I think with regex you don't get the same kind of visual feedback that you get from a multicursor which is why I (and many other Kakoune users as well) like it so much. If you're happier with regex and feel like you don't need multicursor, that's great.
> The one key rule that you should always follow is to have your water-impermeable layer on the warm side of the insulation.

This very much holds true in 99% of modern homes.. except if you build your entire wall breathable. That is how we did our walls. From inside to out:

- breathable paint. Lots of conventional options available. We made a really nice casein paint with low fat cottage cheese and lime paint as the main ingredients :-)

- lime plaster. 1/3 slaked lime powder, 2/3 sand.

- 1.2m of straw

- lime plaster
Hash tables for parallel programming, including lock-free, wait-free tables
HN is generally well served by the current financial system. Very included in banks/stock grants/VC money/a lot of accredited investors/easy access to world reserve currency, so there really isn't much need for any crypto solutions.
> "We want social media companies to confirm they will not implement end-to-end encryption until they have the technology in place to ensure children will not be put at greater risk as a result."

Most of these companies already know the users birthday, if this is only about child abuse then instead of adding backdoors for everyone, why not just disable end to end encryption conversations for users under 16?
Yeah, I should really add "At least in the beginning" part - those systems are very great at the start as they try to siphon as much use as possible and trap them into the walled garden.
> That house is in the south-interior of Spain, so heat is no joke here.

I looked up a few areas (Ciudad Real) to see what you meant by heat, but it seems quite similar to a good portion of the northern USA. This makes sense, I suppose, given the similar latitude.
> If stopping piracy is the goal then we can categorically call it an utterly failed experiment.

Are you sure about that? From what I’ve read, the studios are less concerned about stopping piracy forever than for the first few weeks when they get most of their full price sales. I’m sure shutting down secondary sales is a big benefit, too, but that’s balanced against the the fairly sharp discounts they usually start offering.
ahah very appropriate comment given your nickname mention of Atlas Shrugged!
> Steam Deck is Valve opening up an alternative to Microsoft land.

This seems to put the writing on the wall for the Steam Deck though, right? How many people are really going to care about a Valve system that can't run any of the popular games from the MS catalog?

I preordered the Steam Deck and plan to follow through with the purchase, but things look pretty dismal for Valve at this juncture. It seems like they're five years too late to the party with the Deck, and they now have no leverage to push MS to interoperate.
If I care, I print.
> IME, Docker takes an enormous amount of focus away from the customer problem and moves it to the how to get this mess working problem.

This is the opposite in my experience: Docker lets me focus on the business problem by making deployment easier.
Native American restaurants that serve anything close to local traditional foods are incredibly difficult to find.

Few years back I spent many days driving through Arizona and New Mexico, including long stretches through Apache, Hopi, Kaibab Paiute, Navajo, and Zuni lands. Sure, there are places to eat in Second Mesa, Window Rock, and the other points along the way. But even completely ignoring Denny's and Subways kind of options and going out of my way to find more traditional options, none of the restaurants I found seemed at all local cuisine. A few food items were labeled "Indian X" or "<tribe> Y" but they lied. Even those were more likely to contain ground beef, sour cream, melted cheese, and other obviously non-traditional ingredients you could just as easily find at a Denny's in Nashua, NH. No matter how aggressively you label them "Navajo Pancakes," if they're just buttermilk pancakes, that's missing the point. Mutton stew, cornbreads, squash, or anything else that might have been out of the American mainstream? Nada. None to be found.
I think Natella's execution for Microsoft has been scary smart. This one feels shocking and obvious at the same time, similar to Github.
OneDrive + 2 offline copies in two separate disks. Organization is in folders. Intend to keep one disk at a different location. But right now everything is at one place.
The indie scene is great for people who like roguelikes and platformers. If you are looking for much outside of that space, you won't find much.
JSON maps well to javascript types, but not anything else. And float isn't an obvious mapping: the standard does have a concept of an integer number, and most numbers are indeed integers. Arrays do everything objects do, but have better performance and better defined behavior.

>Nobody has to agree beforehand how to load JSON data.

Such agreement is never necessary, it's up to the programmer what to write, and the standard doesn't specify behavior of JSON parsers anyway, it only defines JSON documents. For example there's no need to use hashtables, it's a random javascript artifact due to parsing JSON with the eval function.

>when different software does it differently

I assume you mean schemaless documents here. Those are always abstract databases, both XML and JSON. I suppose there's jq that can query abstract JSON databases.
Vertical integration can be a win for consumers. Also, a law like that (and any law infringing a free market) disincentivizes growth and innovation.
Yes I did, and you are still misinterpreting its results. Omicron is more prevalent because it’s the one with the most vaccine breakthrough potential. In a vaccinated individual, omicron is the variant with the highest probability to be present. In the unvaccinated population, you all variants are competing for same infection, and you have a higher overall risk of infection regardless of variant.
> Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash

Dayum. Such cash.
"(there's probably libraries to implement that already im ignorant of)"

Look for the word BigFloat in your choice of language. For an alternate spin, look for a "rational number" library in your choice of language.
They put a lot of effort into their new game mode (which might as well be an entirely separate game from Hearthstone), but by all indications it flopped pretty hard.

There has been more activity than normal on the core game mode and Battlegrounds, although mostly focused on content (whether actual cards or cosmetics) than actual technology changes or new features.
Sure, but given that vaccines are readily available and reduce risk, seems like a relative no-brainer to deploy them.

And also, the absolute risk is very dependent on age.
You can just visit Pittsburgh to see how preposterous this is. The city is practically unimaginable culturally without Andrew Carnegie's wealth.
> dangers to everyday people of personal information being stolen, accessed, leaked, etc

This campaign is ripe for hijacking and inverting like the "you wouldn't steal a car" campaign.

"NO WHERE TO HIDE: (from criminals)... thought you were safe when writing innocuous private messages on Facebook? think again, criminals intercept the plaintext to commit identity fraud in your name. Thought you only had to worry about corporate surveillance of your location data? think again, now criminals can easily track you to break into your house while you are out. Thought your job was secure? think again, now criminals can build a comprehensive profile of your social and work activities to easily and effectively social engineer their way into your organisation, risking your livelihood."

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The other approach is to apply the same thinking to something non technical to more tangibly demonstrate how this is a bad idea. e.g:

"NO WAY TO RUN: we are banning wheels, because they help paedophiles make for a quick getaway after abducting their target. In future we plan on banning legs too."
Most people should not use nomodule. If you have code, but you never test it, it is almost certainly broken. If you actually do test your code in IE11, okay great, use nomodule, but what I mostly see are pages that don't actually work in IE11 because the polyfils don't quite add up, but the devs have no idea because it isn't QA tested. It's just a waste of time for everyone.
What core products are you talking about here? I don't see office going anywhere. Azure only seems to be gaining market share, not losing it.
I've used Spring DI. I understand the argument for it, when building bigger applications, though it invariably brings its own complexity too.

What you say about compile-time DI to allow native images makes me feel like we've almost come full circle. I'm still not convinced you need automatic DI at all for smaller services.
For those who had not watched the AlphaDogfight competition, the most remarkable thing was not that the AI beat the Human fighter pilot. The most remarkable thing was the extreme gap in performance between the best AI and second and third place AI's. It wasn't even close. An AI that is marginally worse could still be able to beat a human but will lose consistently over and over against a better AI.

This bodes very poorly for any nation that falls behind in the AI race. As well as any nation who's best and brightest minds refuse to contribute while their adversaries have no such qualms.
Insulation is so, so important. I work out of my garage currently and Texas winters get reasonably chilly and of course summers are hot. I'm lucky enough that my garage is actually under a room in my house such that it's insulated (as you imply, roof insulation is one of the most important places to insulate). Even simply adding padded insulation and trim to the exterior door and garage door made it viable enough to stay cool in the summer with zero extra cooling and warm in the winter with a small infrared heater.