skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, also curiously enough the US is way more prone to completely embargo Cuba and Venezuela but neither Russia nor China. (Due to political-economic reasons and not moral/ethical ones)

Edit: profile I am replying to has the following in their about section: "about: I play music and I code videogames. I live in Brighton, UK." so assuming the "hi from venezuela" was sarcastic.
When something like this happens they should be required to hand over the server software. Even better would be to have to open source the code but atleast give out the server. Then the company would have a choice; either you pay for the server but can keep the game harder locked down for Intellectual property reason or whatever. Or you can cut the server cost but risk loosing a bit of your control over it.
There's cpanminus...it's pretty popular: https://metacpan.org/dist/App-cpanminus/view/bin/cpanm

It downloads dependencies automatically and does a reasonable job with --uninstall, which is probably your main complaints.
Plaintiff lives on budget money, and even he loses the case, he doesn't get any damage back. It is strong incentive to go to court.
There is only one country who’s trying to erase another from the map of Europe right now, and it’s Russia.

It’s important to understand that Russia is a much bigger threat to European safety than the Saudis.

When it comes to defending central european borders, your whataboutism isn’t helpful.

You may call this cynical. But I think that this whataboutism that leads to inaction is the most cynical of all.
I think that reasoning makes sense up to a point. But how do you know you weren't uncomfortable before you were born ? There were likely times you were uncomfortable when you were a baby but you don't remember them.
I could probably move into IT. Moving into management is common. But I won't pick up tickets for either.
I'd be in favor of banning TikTok just so I don't have to see those mind-annihilatingly stupid ads for it on YouTube anymore. And before people comment, I'm seeing ads because I like using the YouTube mobile app.
If nature made it, no patent. Where's the lockin with that?
/s
This is a lot of fun. Great concept!
Is patent expiration "taking away IP from capitalist swines"...? Obviously not. IP itself is not a natural right - it's a legal construct with clear limits.

The nonsense is thinking that requiring certain interests to follow rules that benefit society, is "taking away intellectual property". Any such law would obviously not be retroactive, so any publisher could decide whether they want to produce any such online element going forward. If they do, they will know their work will have to be disclosed on a free license at the end - effectively working in the same way as patents.
'both' doesn't include the third option, IT
> not even offer the working remastered version to existing owners

I can't believe they're not doing this. The remastered version is frequently on sale for just $20, and revoking access is clearly a PR nightmare.

If Ubisoft so dearly needs to shut down these servers, why not just gift existing owners the upgrade?
Perl has much less footguns than bash, it is also more powerful and faster.

No language I am aware of have more footguns than bash, with the exception of some other Unix shells.

But really, I really like Perl for throwaway scripts and one-liners. Because of its syntax, Python essentially can't do one-liners, and generally, Perl code is shorter and quicker to write assuming you are experienced in both languages.

But I agree that readability is terrible unless you are really careful. When my Perl scripts get a bit too big, slow, and less "throwaway", I tend to rewrite them in another language. Often C or C++ because I know these well but I guess that Go can work too.

Python has some great features, it is simple and code is naturally readable, but for me it sits on an uncomfortable spot: not permissive enough for quick, throwaway code, and too permissive and slow for larger, maintained projects.
Steam's TOS pretty clearly states that everything you "purchase" is basically just a licensed subscription to that content.

[0] ...the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are referred to in this Agreement as "Subscriptions."

... The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement
Were there any of these in California, too?

Otherwise, I'd attribute it to lax oversight. All of those states are pretty lax towards their petroleum industry oversight.

Texas, in particular, has a history of spectacular explosions (not just in petroleum) because of regulatory failures.
Personally I have almost always used AirBnB for business travel so I’ve never sought out ‘experiences’.
Right now, the law forces you, the consumer, to give away your property, the copy of Assassin's Creed Liberation that you bought. (Don't believe me? Go ask a lawyer if it's legal to crack your copy's DRM to keep it working after they do this.)
Interesting! It looks like bitter melon also has cucurbitacins though. I wonder how you'd determine a bitter melon is producing toxic cucurbitacins before eating it, since it's already bitter from the momordicine?
people would need their cars fixed

This may turn out to be false: electric cars require almost no maintenance.
The thing is that "government = bad" is typical American mindset. As another non-US, non-Chinese citizen, the fact that those megacorporations are independent from the government makes it worse, not better.

At least governments respond to their people (especially in the case of democracies, much less so for authoritarian governments, but they still have to worry a minimum to avoid revolution). Corporations respond to profit only, everything else be damned.
> Ask actual individuals, take taxis yourself, ask people that try to be their own driver.

You know, I was a taxi driver in Phoenix when Uber/Lyft came to town and watched the fallout of their actions — absolutely nobody cares about that and every time I post about my firsthand experience in some Uber article I get downvoted to nothing.

The disconnect (and astroturfing) is phenomenal. I don’t think people would cheer on the Robber Barons 2.0 if they didn’t personally benefit through direct subsidies. The funny thing is rates are basically what they were before they destroyed the taxi industry with the exception that drivers get paid a lot less than before, once the daily (or weekly) lease was paid up on the cab the rest of the money went to the driver. On a good day you could have the car paid for in the first few hours and then it’s easy money. When I lived downtown I’d get up early and do 2, 3, 4 back-to-back airport trips ($15 airport special which usually paid $25ish) in an hour or so and have half the car paid off before the medical appointments started to come out. I also used to make two or three hundred on Friday and Saturday nights just working out a cab stand at one bar.

Then Uber/Lyft came along and started charging less than cost and all that went away. You basically had to figure out who had what medical appointment when and be sitting on that call to even think about paying for the cab let alone gas and maybe, if you had a good day, could get all fancy with some Carl’s Jr.
GfWL tying your saves to a profile was extremely mean spirited. They justified it by “you need a profile to save games” as if you’re on a Xbox 360 designed with that requirement. Which amounted to a folder with your account ID + saves encrypted with your account key.

Offline profiles were added at some point to alleviate this but, they could’ve just started with null profiles and saved all that, clearly GfWL adoption was more important.
pffft, just download it from torrent, as you do for any abandonware and Nintendo games, it had been cracked for 10 years, what you are expecting, windows backward compatibility or respecting your rights by Steam, created by former Micro$oft employee?
I have to think that computational models will be infinitely cheaper than animal testing. If they worked as well as animal testing surely some for profit pharmaceutical company would leverage them to reap enormous profits. Because this is not happening I conclude the the models aren't as affective.
> "cult to me has negative connotations"

What about the Roman Catholic cult?
Ok, that makes sense.

Is there a meta analysis of such models?
> I think Kotlin's real selling point is things like lambdas. You get stuff like Jetpack Compose, which become much more readable with it. Stuff like combine() mixed together with coroutines, which helps a lot with anything async (UI, local and remote DBs)

that makes a lot of sense, and yes, i'd miss that if it wasn't available in java as well, thanks!
> While the US and the western governments have their issues, they are still a largely law abiding.

Perhaps on an internal level. But for those of us in third countries what matters is how they act outside their borders, and the US is doing considerably more dronestriking of their political enemies than China is.

(And even if you just look at domestic aspects, the relevant area is one of the exceptions. The NSA seems to be decoupled from any oversight - its leaders lie to congress with impunity, any attempts to hold them to account via the courts are dismissed...)
Yup, I’ve had exactly this issue, so I always end up going with a local minicab service for early morning airport flights.
And we've just watched this happen with many cryptocurrencies too.
COI is nothing to do with love and hate. We need to know your position. Conflict of interest is important.
It’s called “Compute!’s Gazette For Commodore Personal Computer Users”, so: yes.
> I have taken more taxis in more cities than you imagine. Thousands, I would guess.

Thousands? That’s daily commute level which puts you in one of the extremely rare locations that had a semi functional cab system.

You don’t understand how miserable the cab system was (and generally still is) in most of the US because you lived in an aberration.

> Uber/Lyft also use corruption to get free use of our public commons - the streets that they clog

Not even on the top 10 of concerns surrounding Uber for the 95% of the population who don’t live in a super dense city. Also, it’s not free use because the drivers pay the same road taxes we do. They just aren’t double taxed without the medallion system.
> they are still a largely law abiding

Where does one even begin...
I wish I could see the cursor.
A market that works properly depends on electricity market design[1], and the design of regulations for the network, the generators, and the consumers. Each country has solved this in their own way, some networks have successful regulations and some don’t. I live in New Zealand and the market[2] works okay (although it helps that NZ is reasonably functional compared to many other countries).

The network/grid infrastructure is mostly a natural monopoly: infrastructure which requires communal long-term goals via regulations and the infrastructure cannot be run as a normal pure-profit business.

Generators and consumers need an electricity market designed to meet capacity and other[3] goals (link mentions: Ancillary Services, Frequency Keeping, Over-frequency reserve, Instantaneous reserve, Black Start, Voltage support, Automatic Under Frequency Load Shedding (AUFLS), Dispatch-Capable Load Station Setup, Frequency Keeper Selection, Infeasibilities, Load Forecasting, Offer and Bid Setup, Scheduling and Dispatch, etcetera).

I like your point. It is hard to design regulations to avoid the monopoly capture your examples show, and how to have a functional regulator that isn’t captured, and a market that encourages participants to develop functioning systems. Tesla needs some incentive to build and maintain a system to optimise charging schedules and load shedding.

[1] https://www.nera.com/practice-areas/energy/energy-market-des...

[2] https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natu...

[3] https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/electricity-mar...
Hopefully this initiative will pass away with Boris Johnson's government.
Other than DEI administrators, trainers and people in positions with DEI in them, who is actually getting offended?
The fact that Perl is available on most popular OS natively is a huge plus. I was looking to write a cross-platform installation script recently and that alone almost swayed me to avoid a pure Bash implementation.
Thank you - unfortunately I don't have access to the nytimes article (and am not willing to subscribe to get it). However, your comment did help me find other articles that seem relevant to this discussion.

In case it is of value to others, one such article is https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/10/26/why-the-aclu-is-rig... - it definitely has a pro-ACLU slant, but I thought it did a reasonable job of explaining the dynamics of the recent discussion/shifts within the ACLU with respect to free speech
More granular targeting is potentially concerning in itself depending on your threat model - e.g. if it's only possible to attack an entire town, then you're safe as long as any actor is not willing to attack the entire town, and likely to have allies in your neighbors if they do. If it's possible to attack all of the people who I don't like in that town specifically, that changes things.

Also, the smart meters do more than just enable remote shut-off on a per unit basis, they also allow for more granular data capture around your usage patterns throughout the day, which someone might not appreciate for a number of reasons, e.g. viewing that data as private, or preferring flat-rate billing as opposed to the time of day based pricing schemes that it enables.

More generally, these sorts of systems are not without their advantages, but they are characterized by an increase in centralized control and surveillance.
Probably because the cost of the PR nightmare is either not easily quantifiable, or simply an acceptable loss; wheras the potential "forced profits" by people having to buy the remaster are fairly easy to predict.
I have deleted my redundant comment after noticing yours.
It's fascinating how the economics play out. Thanks to this deal, it no longer makes sense for us to go solar or to have a house battery. So the power company has us as a loyal customer (at least, while they keep offering this deal).
Version upgrades are not needed on BEAM anymore than they are in Lisp, you can just reload a module and code will start using the new version.
Congrats on launching! Social media consumption is a hot idea. Did you make that intro video yourself or pay someone to make it? If yourself, curious what you used to make it? Good luck!
I've heard this but it doesn't match my experience at all. I see far more addictive behaviour on facebook or twitter (or, hell, HN).
People that have to move their mouse a bit to hit the x button, apparently.
That’s the depressing part. You gotta be an ass to game it
I agree. I see this sort of misunderstanding commonly here. Hacker news is filled with individuals who think computers can solve all our problems, and at the same time they lack the most basic understanding of the complexities of biology.
>People already volunteer to participate in clinical trials,

For medications they need. But to one is going to want to test the next generation of antihistamines, for example, when there's a safe alternative with a few side effects. So the only medications that people would be willing to test would be those for deadly diseases.

>for example, in my country, you cannot be paid for participation in a clinical trial

Why would anyone volunteer to take experimental drugs for nothing in return? The only reason would be in life and death situations

>Why can’t that apply to science on earth?

I don't know, but asking people to test drugs isn't gonna convince anyone. We need a real alternative to make progress. Hence, monkeys.

>The US doesn’t even have universal healthcare, so we can’t pretend the US has some deep love for protecting its people.

The FDA and medical boards do in fact try to maintain a standard of medical ethics.
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A fact that I learned from some old DOS game many years ago, of which I do not remember the name: You can play "6 in a line wins" on a grid of triangles.
I’m sure that was your end goal, but when someone assigns a collaborative project, it’s usually to teach students how to collaborate, while forgetting that just forcing a group to do the same task together is not the same thing as collaborating.

It is from this base that problems emerge, IMO.

Kind of like “synergy”, which is a real thing, but hard to define and difficult to artificially achieve.
Again, what settlement would Russia accept and leave Ukraine safe from further Russian invasion?

Because the only one on the table simply has Ukraine remove its ability to defend itself, and create a Russian client state that Russia will continue to use to wage proxy war on Ukraine until they're entirely within Russia's control.
My reaction was "If you want to write some documentation with bias-free language, just write the documentation with bias-free language." Why the need for a long paragraph explaining "Look how great and sensitive we are!"

I understand, and agree with, the desire to use inclusive language, but so much of this has just devolved into performative nonsense.

Edit: Thought I'd leave my original statement above up, but after reading some of the other comments below I at least understand now the purpose of this notice. Basically, when it comes to Cisco's products, they previously used "master/slave" and "whitelist/blacklist" in their terminology, but no longer do. However, of course some older networking products still use that terminology in UI software, for example. So this notice is essentially saying "We got the memo about updated language, but if you see the terms master/slave or whitelist/blacklist in our docs, it's because it's essentially referencing something out of our control to fix, so don't yell at us."
Do you have a link to the video? I was able to find Dave Spiers talking about the CS-80 on SonicState, but it doesn't look like the DD was part of the discussion.

I do have this Loopop review of the DD that compares to the CS-80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNf0kpidGc4

That says they made various updates (e.g. MPE support, more presets) but seems to suggest it's pretty similar. The biggest deficit is lack of some effects and the ring mod, which are available in an expander.

The main control area looks very similar. The form factor is definitely different and maybe the CS-80 would be more ergonomic. It certainly oughta be, since prices on reverb.com go from $60K to $90K.
We are aware that multiple windows is an area of interest for potential users of the desktop platform. You can see the proposed API we have published for feedback: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/11_4wntz_9IJTQOo_Qhp7...
I'm confused and surprised that people in the UK still use "stone" for their bodyweight.
> "This is yet another reason why owning digital games is frowned upon by some consumer groups, as you technically never own the game themselves given this thing can happen."

I think things like GOG or Humble Bundle are better, because they don't "phone home" when you try to play games you bought there (unless, of course, they are actually Steam keys).

They could get delisted, but if you backed up the game you can still play it.

That said: what a crappy situation. Are they at least giving the money back to customers?
The reification of the nothingness after death is warranted insofar as we compare it to the alternative of not dying. The continued life is certainly a real thing, so there is (negative?) reality to its absence. Otherwise murder wouldn’t be a felony.
RMS had predicted all this, as usual.
They definitely ignore and dismiss anything made in the EU. I don't think there's been an overwhelmingly popular app that's forced them to confront the idea of most US citizens using EU software yet.
For sure - and I don't think we necessarily have the ANYONE part either :-) The reason for that is folks who build systems often leave, and the details of why or even how they did something leave with them. At some point, there's no one in the company who understands certain things.

And the analogy with biology actually goes even further - just like in software, we "know" the code (DNA), but how does that translate to the behavior of the complex system (and business requirements in software), is lost to time and the sheer complexity of these systems.
The docs may include "master/slave", and they don't want to get sued or bad PR, so this generic notice says "we don't like bad words but sometimes the industry uses bad words and that's unfortunate". If you click the Learn More link in the paragraph, you'll learn more.
The tech did its part, the costs are lower, just that the margins of profit are much bigger now.
You would be surprised if you polled non-US, non-China citizens about what country is the biggest geopolitical threat to the world.

Wait, I don't even need to talk in conditionals. I Googled it and apparently it has indeed been done several times, and the results are what I expected.

https://brilliantmaps.com/threat-to-peace/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/us-threat-demo...
Yes, it is just a band-aid for one portion of the problem. It's not any sort of a long-term solution. At some point we have to stop spewing carbon into the atmosphere, and the sooner we do that the better.

The situation is even more dire when you consider that increasing CO2 levels inhibit cognitive function.
> Read the whole thread. It started with concrete paths: functional operators like map/reduce/etc.

I did and did not find your characterization accurate.

> The suggestion was promptly dismissed by the people against changes in Golang by calling it “type system fidget spinners”.

There was some of that, but there was also a genuine and accurate response to the suggestion saying that with generics now being part of the language it is a case of getting them settled, (i.e. the exp/constraints package) and see what could they be utilized for in the standard library. What you're asking for already exists as 3rd party packages so as generics are adopted in the stdlib in 1.19 and later there's no reason not to have map/filter/reduce in the stdlib as well, there's certainly no opposition to it from the core contributors or the community on the whole.

The fact that the focus is on the 'fidget spinners' comment and not the one explaining the situation in detail is curious indeed.
Yeah, I'd pass. If parents want to spend more on their kids education they should be able to do so, and if they do they don't need to open their records to you.
> just read the source code

That's the problem though - code is not enough for understanding. Very well-written and documented code can be, but it's not a given. And the complexity grows exponentially the more of the code there's.

Unfortunately, many managers think the way you describe, while discounting the intangible knowledge that's only in the heads of engineers, and leaves with them. So they treat engineers as disposable units while thinking that possession of the code will guarantee transfer of knowledge.
Good Managers Write Good
That reminds me of the cell biology diagrams from grade school.
> these are largely still separate actors from the US government

Yes they're separate actors, but programs like PRISM suggest that they're still on a very short leash
The solution of giving away your money over buying something is some broken logic. Plenty of corrupt charity officials line their pockets and live it up on donations. The rich don’t owe society, exactly the opposite, hence the money. It represents an unpaid debt so you can’t turn around and ask for it back.