skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The game is won and lost on being able to react to your opponents moves and follow through on counters to it, the same way chess plays.

Ok fair enough, though to me personally, I’m not very excited by or immersed in chess games either. I’ve trended more towards grand strategy in recent years, which on the surface seem to be closer to what I’m looking for, but in practice often end up being me just trying to min/max modifiers for RNG rolls.
>There are likely articles written about every legit investment as fraud with some set of numbers to back them up.

Are you not able to read an article and discern that it could be plausible versus nonsense?

>If you look hard enough there is "proof" that the usd dollar is a scam, which I think we can all agree is not true.

Oh, you can. I don't understand the premise of your argument here, then. I expect the same ability from our regulators.

>but I think that the system works enough that we can be sure 95% of listed companies are not fraudulent.

What do you mean by "are not fraudulent"? You mean aren't complete scams? Sure, but I think that's a low bar. I believe far more companies are committing fraud than 5%, though they wouldn't be considered outright fraudulent companies.
The medium level is the same as carykh’s Loopover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rtiz-V2zM, https://loopover.xyz.
Yah, I guess i'm the only one that hard power cycles an xbox? Because its a miserable experience turning it back on when its not been on for a month or so.

It seems ever single one of the 20-30 games it has installed need 20+GB updates, and the download speeds are often a fraction of my home internet connection. Has no one heard of incremental/differential package upgrade? MS should charge companies a bandwidth recovery fee by the size of their updates.

Plus, I hate typing passwords on the controller, and it seems to always want people to sign in/etc.

The Nintendo emulator thing I have blows it away in usability. Turn it on, pick a game, play. Takes less than 20 seconds. The xbox takes that long just to show its logo sometimes. I want to play games not play system admin for a game machine, of schedule my game playing 4 hours in advance.
If you want a decent sized paid VPN service, you are basically choosing between Nord and Kape now.

Pepsi and Coca cola.
You claim "at least partly" and then proceed to prove it with anecdotal evidence. You'd need to prove it with a study similar to the ones that send identical CVs to companies, just changing one thing, which is what they want to discover if there's bias against.
It wouldn't even be a "relatively diverse" group if we didn't work at it continuously. This is just the latest difficult step.
X-22MA rocket fragments near Odesa. Ferrite RAM for 352 bytes and vacuum tubes
Full title: Fragments of the Soviet X-22MA rocket found near Odesa. Ferrite block of RAM for 352 bytes. And a navigation unit on Soviet 6Н30П-ДР vacuum lamps.
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Questions candidates can ask about equity compensation
Winklevoss Twins’ Gemini Slashes Staff 10% on Crypto Slump
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Have a good holiday.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/laurence-binyon-for-the-fallen.htm

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Would pumping up into a tank in the roof work? Any idea of the amount of energy vs weight can be stored?
Age discrimination is illegal by statute - the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. If you haven't seen that, it might give you pause about whether you have enough information about this subject to form an informed opinion.
I hit rock bottom in 2002. My first wife, who I very stupidly married when I was 21, was committed to a psych ward. My landlord terminated my lease because of damage she did to the property that I had no means of paying for. I was an entertainer at Disneyland, of all things, and cuts to the entertainment budget meant layoffs in my department. Perfect confluence of shitty events, and I was living in my car for a few weeks.

So I definitely did have a reason to cross the US by train. Several reason. At least then, it was cheaper than by plane if you didn't get a sleeper car, and you could bring more cargo, so it made for a decent relocate across the country method. I had a friend willing to let me live with her in New Jersey, so Los Angeles to Newark in roughly three days.

As others have said, there isn't much you can see from 35,000 ft, but you can see quite a bit from a train, including places that are nowhere near roads and otherwise not very easy to see.

Weirdest part of the trip for me was getting caught up in one of those post-9/11 dragnets and getting questioned by the FBI in Albuquerque. I guess they found someone buying a one-way cross-country ticket suspicious.
Google is the largest purveyor of information across the world. Having policies that deal with caste would seem to require making its American employees and managers aware and mindful of it, no?
Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen portable
> Both of these are good examples of control schemes that are so complicated

Agreed on RDR2, but I didn't have a problem with Cyberpunk. In comparison to RDR2 it may as well have been the original NES Mario Bros.
It depends entirely on the threat model. If three-letter agencies are the adversary, moving logging to RAM is unlikely to be a meaningful deterrent - they probably already have a root shell or direct access to the VM hypervisor. So if it doesn't protect against nation states, whom are we defending against? Another law enforcement agency raiding the server room and taking hard drives? But I thought ExpressVPN doesn't log anything, so why would that matter? Let's just be real and practical about what problem this is actually purported to solve, else we should call it theater because it's what it is.
> Violent attacks in New York City’s subway system remain relatively rare compared with crime above ground.

This should invalidate the whole idea. The New York subway system is extremely safe. There are incidents, but they pale in comparison to the millions of safe rides.

I realize that perception matters. But please, let's not triple the cost of a subway ride for this. I want the subway to be cheaper so that more people can ride it, and we can add even more trains and stations. For all that New Yorkers complain about the subway system, it's one of the best things about the city.
That is also true for Netflix and they do care. Indian monthty subscription is much lower priced and starts ~2$ than U.S. that costs like $20[1]

Geolocation is largely a feature in products and in licensing because there is big purchasing power difference between rich and poor countries.

Netflix has been more tolerant in the past of region bypass than others for the same reason they didn't crackdown on password sharing but won't be in the future.

[1] The actual prices we pay might vary in both countries depending on promotion and tie ups etc, but these are list prices of which those components would be applied.
A criminal attorney once said: If you can say it, don't write it. If you can communicate it without saying it, then don't speak it at all.
We are talking about employers and employees who we can both assume to be adults.

There is no reason for Musk to say: "come to the office for 40 weeks or I'll fire you" - this is not how employer-employee relations should be in the 21st century.
Fully agree, this is probably the most viable future option.
> They all go slightly faster if you localize the reference to `io.write`

No noticeable difference for LuaJIT, which makes sense, since JIT should figure it out without help.
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>Scorched 3D is a free and open source artillery game modeled after the MS-DOS game Scorched Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_3D

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scorched3d/
I’ll bite with anecdotal pov. I think most of the people who are the “best” are advantaged from the beginning. Whether it is attending prep schools (40k a year or more private school for 12 years), having a home (not moving multiple times, sometimes in a year over many years), or honestly having the familial backing to “take risks”.

The last point is so wild when I hear it from some VCs or successful CEO. It’s easy to take a risk when your parents and family are loaded, even if you have nothing to your name at the time. It’s easy to say such things when your parents are doctors or entrepreneurs who put you through private school and then you got into Stanford. I’m sure they’re smart, but they bought their way in when you reduce it. Sure they took it from 20-100, but many people can barely get from 1-10 due to socioeconomic circumstances. I respect the people who manage to go from 1-100 way more than someone who was bound to be reasonably successful at worst from birth.
Fucking hipsters.
It always starts with world class faculty, who want to be paid well, have all the equipment for their labs and want to be surrounded by other top class researchers. That will attract the brightest students, you know those that "want to work with professor X because they are doing excellent research on ....", this will attract tier 2 students those whose only goal is to "want to go to university XYZ" and this will have a cascade effect because those brightest students will go and create companies, do great research and will donate money back to their university and that causes exponential growth. If you had 10 billion, i do think you can create a world renowned institution in 10-20 years.
They're supposedly coming back in stock soon, fwiw
It's not just possible, it can be done without notice on a whim.
Wow. This is a great idea. Terrible wifi, but great inspiration for planning mine and my wife's 50th.
As someone who also heavily uses UK Biobank in my research, I would just encourage people to think about this effect size and ask whether it's plausible. If true, coffee has a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases. It's wildly implausible. The results are confounded. There is no causal anchor.

Having said that, coffee is great.
How fast could you go from coast to coast in one of those high-speed trains that exist in other countries? 10 hours maybe?
>It's the equivalent of Medium where amateurs can participate, too.

How do you define who is an "amateur" vs "professional" journalist? And what makes the latter more likely to tell the truth than the former?
A systemic problem in the study will not get better by running more data through it.
I disagree. It is permitted, but it’s important to tread carefully and have a nuanced discussion that is respectful of other points of view.
Agriculture is responsible for far more than 1% of the problem - USDA says about 10.5% [0]. And those of us who do advocate for making more sustainable decisions are not ignoring the other 89%, we're actively trying to reduce that too.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/natural-resources-environmen...
The truth is that there are no studies (that I'm aware of) that research into whether there's sexism in QA. So the answers to your question are going to be filled with speculation.
Faster reading with bionic reading clone
A simple and old-school bookmarklet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion may be of interest.
Being hereditary is necessary but not sufficient for a grouping to constitute a race. Blond hair and blue eyes are hereditary, but blue eyed people aren’t a different race.

“Race” is a fuzzy concept but generally distinguishes people of different ethnic origins. Indian castes aren’t different races—low caste and high caste Indians can come from the same ethnic group. It’s more like the European distinction between nobility and commoners. That’s also hereditary, but it doesn’t define different races.
Yes, but the article doesn't share any numbers that give a sense as to how much water that actually is. How much water does the Central Valley Project normally deliver? What fraction of total water use is that? What fraction of ag water use is it?

My hunch is that this is a small fraction of the amount of water farms use.

There are a lot of articles like this that make it sound like farms are really hit hard and having to endure sacrifices. There was one from a few months back talking about farmers that had to destroy a bunch of almond trees they couldn't afford to water anymore. About 400 acres worth. There was a dramatic photo of a farmer standing next to a bunch of uprooted trees. Reality: there are 1.6 million acres of almonds in California. Pulling up 400 acres is nothing.
Heh, I believe I played Achron (chess like) on a C64, don't recall the time travel aspect. I never played Dawn of War 1. In any case I enjoy being able to control time from 1.5x faster than normal, all the way down to literally zero (paused) if you want.

One annoying thing (even if it's an intentional part of the game), when a unit dies, it doesn't tell you which unit. Most importantly if you are trying to level up your units, it doesn't tell you if it was a unit that gains experience (like all fighting units), or doesn't like a truck or repair unit.

Took me 5 minutes to track down the line of code and add a print statement.
> I don't see why that's such an offensive business to so many HN users.

Because the assertion VPNs - apparently unlike every other ISP - do not log or monetize your data is simply laughable, especially as so many are based in third-world countries, set up by shell entities and have almost no accountability for any of their claims.
Wait I’m confused now, what is the relationship of this 0% water to the 80% figure that ag. gets?
Devo Technology announces $100M in funding to develop ‘autonomous SoC’
https://www.expansion.com/economia-digital/companias/2022/06...
oh wow thanks!

edit: oof, here's their directions for installing the toolchain:

wget https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-... -O conda_installer.sh

just, ouch
Racists tend to be ethno-supremecists, ie they think they belong to the "best" race.
Ask HN: Advice for a Generalist Going Solo?
I'm 50. I started my career as a developer but my role over the past 15 years has morphed into a professional generalist in small (<10 people) financial firms. I have responsibility for all non-revenue activities (legal, accounting, audit, operations, regulatory, etc) so most of the team can focus on revenue.

I've decided to move to another country and that means I'll have to leave this job. As much as I have enjoyed it, I would like to go solo / entrepreneurial. Being a generalist with no specific skills, seems to be both an asset and a liability in such a transition

Has anyone made similar career changes with advice to share?

EDIT - Great responses so far. I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone that went from generalist to a completely different direction/field. Not just contracting their generalism or specializing within one of their general fields. Thanks!
See my other comment below. Farms are not at zero.
Why Web Components Lost
Is QA lower tier work in most places? Isn't that bass-ackwards?
There is a car train, but it runs along the eastern seaboard. Useful if you live in New York and want to visit/move to Florida for the winter.
Are you talking about affine transformation vs perspective correct texture mapping? Because the n64 for sure had the later, and ps1 the former.
I’m curious: would you say the absence of a surname implied anything about caste? I’ve dealt with the children of people with leprosy (mostly SC, with a little ST and OBC) in the vicinity of Hyderabad, and it wasn’t dreadfully uncommon for their parents or grandparents to have no surname on their Aadhaar card, at least, and perhaps even a few of the children.

(In Telangana, surnames are almost exclusively used as just an initial preceding the given name, and sometimes that’s even all that ends up on official documentation.)
Pixel 6 bug: video recording buzzing
I thought the drought was exclusively in southern California?
Mine got stolen by baggage handlers from checked luggage when I first flew to France 5 years ago. I now use the Camping version I bough when I was in grade school.
My gripe is not that there is some convergent etymology, it's attributing it to genetics.

I think a phycist would feel similarly if it was attributed to "human energy" or something like that.

Sure almost all languages share consonants, but there are only so many sounds our mouths can make that has nothing surprising. Yet there are exceptions like Dahalo which is a language made of clicks.

Sure there are similar words from different roots. Say in the 3 languages I speak, mom/maman/mama, dad/papa/tata, no/non/ne. But there's no reason to involve genetics. Some sounds are easier to make for babies/toddlers, it makes sense they would converge toward for universal words like parent appellations.

Protein synthesis doesn't have to play a part in it no matter how magical genetics may seem.
> In April, Thenmozhi Soundararajan […] was scheduled to give a talk to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. But Google employees began spreading disinformation […]

That is not journalism. That's editorializing — and in the very first paragraph, no less. This is how media like the Washington Post encourages a kind of caste of its own, by signaling "right-think" to its readers.
I don't understand. If you're testing how fast pipes are, then I'd expect you to measure throughput or latency. Why would you measure how fast something unrelated to pipes is? If you want to measure this other thing on the other hand, why would you bother with pipes, which add noise to the measurement?

UPDATE: If you mean that you want to test how fast pipes are when there is other load in the system, then I'd suggest just running a lot of stuff in the background. But I wouldn't put the process dedicated for doing something else into the pipeline you're measuring. As a matter of fact, the numbers I gave were taken with plenty of heavy processes running in the background, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, a VM with another instance of Firefox, OpenVPN, etc. etc. :)
The USA was hardly a backwater compared to Europe before WW2. Princeton had a world-class mathematics department where people came from all over the world to study and research, among them Alan Turing (whose collaborations with Alonzo Church turned out to be very important to this website).

And even before the 20th century, American scientific acumen was fairly well-regarded. Benjamin Franklin's reputation in Europe was partially based on his scientific achievements.

Europe's disdain for the Americas was almost always rooted in a belief of cultural superiority, not a belief that American science or engineering was weak.
In pure analytics, most queries need to read most rows, but not all columns. Typical relational queries just touch a few rows of the dataset (think CRUD).

That's why if you force analytics into a relational DB you end up with a star schema, but the fact tables are not physically aligned, so you need to join them, this causes a query scan to jump around the data a lot.

Analytic engines, keep the data aligned across columns, but still on a per-column basis, so the full scans likely only need to look at nearby data, helping prefetchers (both CPU and from disk).

This avoids joins, but makes inserts a bit more annoying, multi valued data, is usually kept also close and compact so the scan doesn't jump around, but the explanation is a bit longer for a comment.
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> One of the human race’s biggest problems has been that people who occupy positions of power are often incapable of using power in a responsible way.

> psychologist Clive Boddy has suggested that companies should screen leadership candidates for psychopathy. In my view, we should do something similar in politics. Every government (indeed every organisation) should employ psychologists to assess potential leaders and determine their suitability for power.

Is this even an idea? Sure its a sequence of words, but it is really an idea? If only "the right people" were "in power" everything would "be great."

Seems like a basic category error to assume things like positions of power exist that control and access can exist over a "position of power."

Why is the correct solution the identification of "good people" instead of actually incentivizing everyone to play emergent positive sum games. This fake idea of a kumbayah utopia the just pushes all the bad people away is nonsensical.
Yes, science is really hard, and it’s a good point by Oster, but you’ve got to think about the idea that the folks who conducted this study know as well how hard science is, and for them to publish this anyway means they (and their reviewers) did a pretty good job dealing with this issue (and many others).

None of this is conclusive to the point where no further study is necessary, but I’m guessing this study will make some institutions think/rethink their guidance on coffee consumption.