skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lenin himself said the USSR wasn't socialist or communist, it was state capitalist. Here's the idea behind Leninism: a vanguard party (the communist party) takes over the state through revolutionary means, and directs the evolution of the economy, through state capitalism, to socialism. Russia was a feudal state when the October revolution happened, and Marx's postulation is that just as advanced feudalism gave way to capitalism, so too would advanced capitalism give way to socialism. Thus, Lenin's plan was to advance industrial capitalism as rapidly as possible in order to bring about the material conditions for socialism. That's why for example, Mao was obsessed with getting farmers to build backyard furnaces instead of actually farming crops, causing millions of deaths - because he was focused on industrialising the country. Like an idiot.

Now, that was never going to happen, because of the iron law of bureaucracy - states only ever consolidate their own power so Lenin's plan was doomed from the start. But the USSR was never socialist.

I'm not sure what you think is impossible about socialism, because if we were to legally replace corporations with cooperatives, which is not a huge jump in terms of economic law, that would be market socialism. Its happened before (briefly in the USSR before the consolidation of the bolsheviks in power for example, for example in the meaning of the word "soviet" itself) and cooperatives work perfectly well as an industrial unit.
Russia facing internet outages due to equipment shortage
I think a lot of the time is spent dealing with local regulatory issues, at least in the US. Non-standard models for nuclear power plants lead to long approval times, which have to be more or less restarted each time there is a design change. This is a huge contribution to the time it takes getting a nuclear power plant online.

As another commenter pointed out, it's not the same in China, where regulation is far more lax than in the US.
Papers please is really a great game. With the rise of indie games, there's quite a few games that tackle difficult problems

- Papo y yo - alcoholism and child abuse

- Little Kite - also alcoholism and abuse

- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - mourning and loss

- Orwell - Privacy (although I would not recommend it as much as the first two)

- Valiant Hearts: The Great War - emotional toll of World War 1

- This war of mine - living in a war zone

- To the moon - not going to spoil it

- Rakuen

By the way, Little Kite is free right now https://freebies.indiegala.com/little-kite
Or, less charitably, they have provided a trove of documents to the buyer so the buyer can outgrow their business using a competitor.
The TF2 player base is too big to recognize by name outside of smaller community servers (it's still about 100k peak and this is a fraction of what it was 10 years ago at its historical peak). Sometimes you may see one or two repeat players but mostly it's ships passing in the night and that's OK! There is something to be said for games that everyone is competitive for an hour and then everyone goes home.

There is a similar player level mechanism in TF2 but not tied to classes at all, just a blue level type thing. That works in the starter room, but it's not a solution for the "I have two seconds to choose which of these players to uber before that soldier finishes bombing me"/"I need to pick one of these players to pocket to try and stay alive to keep the uber up for the team".

Plumage works, you can instantly make a call that this is a default player and that one has cosmetics, or recognize the cosmetics of a person who has played well previously/who you gave a chance and they did something antisocial/stupid. Trying to identify a player name, finding them on the scoreboard, and then re-syncing with what has happened in the game in the last 5 seconds just isn't practical.

Like, TF2 has been f2p for 10+ years now, random HNers aren't going to come up with the magic solution here, this is how the game plays regardless of whether you think it should be. It's not a problem, and it's actually one of the least-exploitative MTX mechanisms on the market, but you can't eliminate the effects of cosmetics on gameplay in many situations because plumage is such an important social cue.

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:901463/FULLTEXT0...

Visual design is such a core aspect of (good) games to begin with, it's basically impossible to divorce that from the gameplay effects it has.

https://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3499&context=...

If you want an example of cosmetics that don't affect anything - Battlefield 1 has a fixed selection of guns and then each gun has some skins. Nobody else can really see the particular skin at range anyway so no real gameplay effect. This was done deliberately to allow the character design to be visually distinctive - a british medic runs around with crutches on their back for example, and the british scout wears a cape. Can't have that with cosmetics unless they're so trivial that nobody can tell they're there (BF1), or you go to great efforts to preserve character silhouettes (TF2). In BFV it's much much more difficult to tell the classes apart - any class can run around with a medic hat on for example! An elite skin can be any class - you have to visually identify what guns and items they're carrying, which is more challenging even if it's "just cosmetic" - a mere cosmetic gives you a tactical advantage, you know what your enemy is carrying and they have to guess about you.

And that's obviously because BFV was much more oriented around MTX sales, while BF1 focused on an "expansion pack" model.

So MTX clearly affects that aspect of game design even if it's "only cosmetic".
Perhaps advertise to the browser per se as plaintext, then have an extension look for a magic number or readable flag to indicate specific-markup-type, and translate from there more opportunistically.

Plaintext infrastructure; readable markup; optional (semi-automated?) styling from there.

(Perhaps your higher-up comment already suggests as much.)
Amazon GameSparks
Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
have you noticed how the mythical future where the bulk of energy is supplied by wind and solar is always at an indeterminate point in the future? There is currently no gigawatt scale power grid anywhere in the world that supplies more than 20-30% of annual energy from variable energy sources like wind and solar.

Meanwhile, France enjoys a low carbon grid together with low energy prices as do many parts of Canada, parts of eastern europe and so on.

It is wrong to frame the argument as wind/solar versus everything else. The argument should be carbon versus no carbon. Period.
If you're looking for ideas on what to write about I'd love to learn more about networking on the ISP side of things. I know about routers, TCP/IP, sockets, and so on, but my knowledge of the complete topology of the Internet is quite limited. I feel like if you were to fit that all together it would be an incredibly valuable resource.

Also: you need a table of contents!
Tell HN: There should be an Open Source Appreciation Day
There is the System Administrator Appreciation Day on the last Friday on July and the Day of the Programmer on the 256th day of the year.
But I miss a dedicated day where we celebrate the immense impact Open Source software has on the world and where we honor the numerous people who spend their time and energy for this laudable yet often taken for granted cause.

A good day would e.g. be May the 5th (05-05) as it reads like OS-OS =D.

What do you think?
Your children (they're human beings btw) are not extensions of your "inner company" is the point I was making. It's not rational to reduce children to that sort of algebra problem thinking. That's a huge red flag for someone's mental state. If you're not able to recognize that you can only solve human problems with human solutions that incorporate human needs and wants, then you start down the path of psychosis and anti-social behaviors. It's small animal torture, fire-setting, bed-wetting, and then it's full-blown serial killer.

I'm obviously exaggerating, but not THAT much.

You can't just paint over that with an analogy. Maybe I just treat my kids different, but there's literally nothing about work that I care about even remote as much as my childrens' well-being. I'd burn my inner company to the ground if it meant they get a chance at a decent life. I believe it's a biological imperative to remain willing to self-sacrifice to any necessary extent for the betterment of the offspring.
Sum types are one of those things missing from most mainstream languages that people don't even realise that they are deprived of something fundamental. They naturally complement product types that are ubiquitous in most/all languages.
Our World in Data included the entire lifecycle and the most pessimistic models for nuclear as part of that analysis, if you use the same methods for every single source, wind and solar are an entire order of magnitude higher. Alternatively, if you use the UN's official estimates of the same thing, nuclear is an entire order of magnitude lower than where it is in Our World in Data's chart. Gotta love when they put bias into how they present the numbers.
Unless there have been changes in the game, different cars have different hitboxes so technically in this circumstance you might be wrong. Not that there any absolutely amazing car for hitboxes, but there are differences and they affect gameplay.
Not right now but in the early future (6 months):

> the country's largest entrepreneurship union, has warned about the rising threat of extensive service outages due to a lack of telecom equipment.
After K&R 2nd Ed. (ANSI C) and Modern C (C99) you can do a lot.
You think the lab leak is the least likely theory of COVID origin?
I agree, but it happens all the time. What was famous in one generation or time may be unknown by another. Janis Joplin singing "Me and Bobby McGee" for example. Huge number of people thought it was her song. Kris Kristofferson wrote it and performed it. Several artists performed it, charting it even. Joplin made it a #1 hit, recording it right before she died.
"As we reflect on the past two years of altered life amid the pandemic, the importance of the web and all it enables has been on high display. "

Including all the censorship enabled.
I don't know if erase is undefined... it takes work to erase something, and every time you do the entropy surely is higher. This is why the word itself is also a metaphor for destruction, to erase someone or something would be to destroy it. It's akin to blowing something up, one second there is a complex structure of some kind i.e. a military facility (low entropy), and the next second it's a pile of rubble i.e. high entropy.

From your example of storage medium, I think you're missing that someone or something has to do the erasing in said storage medium (by definition, there is an interpreter interpreting the information in that example). So "erase" would be defined by the interpreter, however by any definition it would involve destroying information, and that would require work.
I don't play too many games anymore, but as a player I've been able to have more than enough content in the last 15 years of gaming without literally ever encountering a lootbox. This is mainly due to my preference for Nintendo and indie games. But there's enough games out there that you can basically choose your own adventure.
Troy oz is 31 grams. But still, they are not going to trade the ruble at that rate. The arbitrage would be too great.
This is correct. Gyp came first, then Evan Martin built ninja as a faster make, then Brett Wilson built gn ("generate ninja") because Gyp wasn't intuitive or convenient for a lot of use cases. I don't know if Googlers had an internal Blaze back then - I'm an outsider :)
Give us all the refugees, dammit
Why would they need to do that? Neither of those things are helping them at this time
AWS for Games: https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/
Oh yes, I agree. I have decided to create one tailor-made also for me.

During few weeks without the information overload I discovered that:

• Having the overview and discussing the current affairs personally as an unbiased listener is more liberating than analysing the text alone behind the screens.

• The categorization of received news reveals those which simply interpret the source and those which really generate the original information.

• Working on a computer presents a risk of being distracted by reading various articles and clicking on random links. Their reduction increases my productivity and I am able to be more focused on my tasks, without temptation of countless distractions.

• Ignorance is bliss. It eliminates the prejudices, teaches us not to be opinionated nor to ask the right question.

• Any form of “decentralization” of receiving information eliminates the manipulation of thinking.

We are being indoctrinated by a fear agenda to excessively consume media, television and radio. Let’s not forget that a frightened mind can be easily manipulated, which is used by both political power and corporates. Few of the wealthiest IT companies with a monopoly set the global opinions. They decide which information we receive; thus, they have boundless power. Because we don’t care. We consider the freedom of speech as a right without any duties and responsibilities and meanwhile it slips through our fingers.

- https://tobiaskucera.art/the-silent-march
I'm all for clean nuclear power. I was very disappointed when Merkel decided to go all in on banishing it for more gas but one thing that puzzles me is that Japan is seismologically active so I am curious to exactly the nature of this survey. What was the sample size and who was behind it?

The article makes it seem like most of Japan is over Fukushima disaster but in reality speaking with colleagues who are there and have better sense of the local's consensus do not reflect what is being highlighted in this survey.

Most certainly the reactors would be located near the coast line and from this historical earthquake chart you can see why there would be widespread concern about building even more nuclear power plants.

https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/Activities/image/earth-fig01.pn... [1]

So again I'm quite skeptical of this article and it's survey that its citing. Even more weird are the comments that seem to be completely oblivious to what the actual perception is amongst Japanese citizens, and some even seem primarily motivated financially somewhat using languages like "bulls" and "FUD". Just very bizarre to see wallstreetbet linguo discounting the very real opposition to nuclear power in Japan (due to the seismological risks).

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1. Japan Meteorological Agency
These laws were repealed just a few months ago, actually.
I Was the King of Counterfeit Concert Tickets
10% of American workers are in agriculture. I’ll admit that’s higher than I anticipated.

50% of Americans live in metro areas smaller than Birmingham, AL or Rochester, NY [0]. Although some of these places do have picturesque old main streets, they are also highly decentralized, and we’re talking about the metro area. So most Americans are even more dispersed than that.

Farmers are not infantry soldiers; it would be very surprising if they needed 5:1 non-agricultural support staff. Many of these places are not about farming anyway, but about some industrial plant, old-economy corporate headquarters, prison, military installation, etc. which may or may not still be around.

[0]: https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-median-voter-is-a-50-someth...
Um, because life is more important than work?
Because your kids will only be young once and they don't give a sh*t about your CV?
Because you could be dead tomorrow?
Because there is lots apart from work that gives you love, satisfaction and pleasure?
Because you don't need to be insanely wealthy?
...and a gazillion other reasons.
I was really interested in this sort of stuff for a year or two, but ended up coming to the conclusion the best thing is to use tried-and-tested tools with rigorous standards/practices such as C/C++ than theoretically interesting tools like formally verified Haskell/Rust. It's just far more practical and there's something to be said about those boring tools used in the wild > academic creations.
I've noticed this a lot - I think people are far too quick to take face-to-face positive feedback at, no pun intended, face value.

To me, it seems like a pretty elementary mistake, but I think that oftentimes people are more subconsciously desiring external validation than accurate assessments.
> and a moderate cost of now-uninhabitable land

Most of the land is actually inhabitable but they just keep people away because it's safer to err on the side of caution. When it comes to Fukushima Daichii, more people died in the evacuation than will ever die or have ever died from the radiation exposure that occurred.
Psychosis Is Not the Absence of Consciousness
> so long as that remains an option.

This will remain an option. Probably forever. The reason is simple; comfort is a selling point. And everything requires more energy to set up than chosing a plain old password. Sure, security is a selling point as well, but its really hard to argue that to consumers, when security comes at a comfort-cost.

So in my opinion, if, passwords are here to stay anyway, we should explore avenues to, on average, make them stronger and get people to use unique ones for their services with as litte impact to comfort as possible. Password managers are a very good step in that direction.
Mismatch of incentives I think. Insurance companies and drug companies may not be interested in evidence-based selection. I suspect they would prefer biased results i.e. insurance would want the cheapest and deug companies would want the most revenue generating. Neither may be the optimal choice for the patient.
I saw a headline somewhere that Tesla was going to build robots. I just started playing "Detroit: Become Human", setting in 2038, Russia is attacking neighbor countries, US unemployment is at 35% because robots/androids are employed in many jobs and are cheap. You play various androids and your choices impact game outcomes (there's a flowchart of decisions).

I like games with moral/ethical questions and player choices, it really presents the questions in a way where you are making decisions that have impact - at least as how the game developer gives you options. This is very different than reading about it in a book. Don't get me wrong though, I also like silly action/adventure/puzzle/whatever games too. There is a place for all kinds of artwork.
Ideas are nothing.
Execution is everything.
Scale is unlikely.
We can learn a lot from digging into our stress responses. Changing it is much harder, but learning is a start.
I think you're severely misreading the original comment, and to be frank, your interpretation is pretty juvenile. Nowhere does the person say that we are robots.
Many Graduate-Degree Programs Have Negative ROI
On the other hand, there truly are people who can sustainably work 60+ hours weeks for decades. Some of the Internet celebrity developers, like John Carmack or Jon Blow, are like that. However, they mostly work on their own thing, which must help a lot with sustaining motivation.
As far as I know it comes down to enrichment levels of the nuclear material used (Uranium?). Nuclear power requires much lower enrichment levels.

> Most nuclear reactors that produce electricity only require fuel that is enriched to between 3-5% U-235.

> This fuel does not represent a proliferation threat primarily because of the critical mass issue — the amount of material necessary to maintain a self-sustaining neutron chain reaction. If the level of enrichment is low, then it holds that the amount of the material must go up in order for a chain reaction to be sustained. The size can quickly become impractical for weapons delivery, so low enriched uranium (LEU) is not a threat.

> Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is anything enriched above 20% and weapon-grade uranium is commonly considered to have been enriched above 90% U-235. However, some research reactors use 90% enriched U-235 to produce medical isotopes, so there are civilian applications for this fuel too.

From: https://armscontrolcenter.org/uranium-enrichment-for-peace-o...
Specifically, closed sum types. You can usually get open sum types by way of inheritance.
Can't see it at work. But sounds like a "Cool product Bro!" rather than a "Take my money" product.
The number zero will now be spelled the spanish way, cero. Please comply citizens.
I think the case is a little bit more subtle than described.

Linux doesn't actually need ICMP-based path MTU discovery to figure out the safe MSS to use. It implements RFC 4821-style MTU probing, where after repeated retransmissions the sender will try to retransmit smaller prefixes of the segment and see if that makes it through. If it does, it can be deduced that the safe MSS is lower than advertised, and the MSS for the connection is (permanently) dropped to the newly discovered limit. So even if the ICMP return path isn't working, the connection should just have a hickup for a few seconds but then resume working.

Why isn't MTU probing triggering here? I haven't checked the code, but would guess that it's refusing to split a segment with the PSH flag set.
AlphaFold. It's very near to cracking the 90% accuracy. And solving protein folding has huge long term benefits for himaniry
New experiment could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe
As an aside, my own ip space is flagged as no less than 4 countries depending on which IP in a single block is used, networks are global, so IP based geolocation is really quite useless.
Calling someone "sweaty" is not great either. Or did you mean "Sweetie"?
Ent, Entity Framework for Go, Announces Preview Support for TiDB
Our soil is dying! - We and our governments need to act!
There are areas of the UK where local property taxes and other financial incentives (some form of zoning I think) to reduce the number of holiday homes. The problem is that local people are being priced out of the areas by holiday homes. And in rural areas that impacts the viability of schools (lower pupil numbers so higher costs per pupil), public transport, even local grocery store viability (less trade out of season, no workers).
One of the key features of the mark of the beast is the inability to buy or sell goods without taking it. By way of vaccine passports, that already happened, so yeah that fear does have a foundation.
Pretty sure you missed the joke.

And I agree with OP that the linked article is pretty impenetrable - he does seem to have something to say, but he doesn't do a good job of saying it. He starts off with what seems to be a very pedantic criticism of the term "RPC" which may be perfectly valid, but he doesn't back it up at all other than to say that procedures exist in programming languages.
Hi there,

You might check out some smaller providers, look more for dedicated servers vs bare metal and that'll get what you need.

I'm not aware of anyone who sells SolarFlare nics directly but maybe check with knownhost.com as they might be able to do something custom for you.
If you think selling is bad you should try giving stuff away. I got so tired of trying to sell on there that I started giving things away (nice things like newer battery powered weed eater, stainless gas grill, etc) and found it to be a real clusterfuck. I was just trying to give people a break and got bludgeoned for it.
It's not a complete avoidance. Rather, i'm just advocating that we don't build the idea of less work on the shoulders of people who work more. That seems to me to almost codify the need for some people working more, and that seems a slippery slope for _some_ people getting good work-life balances and others not.

My argument is that we _all_ should qualify for a work-life balance. Not depend on some people not getting a good work-life balance.