skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former somewhat notorious Eve player here who has met Mittani in meatspace. My bias is that I really, really dislike Mittani as a human being (and our in game groups were very close allies throughout our relationship).

It's impossible to say for sure if he is actually stepping down or not. He has apparently given the "keys to the kingdom" to other Goons and appointed an interim CEO. Whether that means he is actually permanently out of the leadership loop or not remains to be seen. I don't know how close the new interim CEO is to Mittani, but I saw that the person he transferred the corporation shares to is extremely close to him, and the shares is what truly matters. With the shares you can remove the CEO, just like a board in real life.

You can run a major Eve alliance and coalition without ever logging into the game. So while his character may not be listed as CEO anymore, it means very little in and of itself. At the end of the day with groups of thousands of people, it's almost entirely about the politics and group dynamics. If he still has access to the leadership Jabber/Discord/forums and the leadership still believes in him, he could still be the de facto CEO.

I do want to note - this article did a terrible job explaining why so many people are mad at him. There were chat logs and screenshots from various services that showed he:

- kicked a player out for reporting some serious sustained abuse sustained against her by one player

- elevated a well known pedophile to a position of power

- Multiple women unrelated to the game were complaining about him groping them at events in his hometown

Reading the announcement he posted about stepping down, he cast himself entirely as the victim here and took 0 ownership and never apologized. Unless he has finally gotten bored with the Eve metagame, I highly doubt this is the last of him.
That is why Red won the digital camera wars: they marketed to producers. Same idea.
Crit-bit trees [0]. Also known as TRIES, with an interesting use described in "TRASH - A dynamic LC-trie and hash data structure", which combines a trie with a hash function [1].

Also ROPE, a string allowing for prepends, substrings, middle insertions and appends [2]

[0] http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.96....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28data_structure%29
My friend has a German last name that sounds a bit Nazi-esque, she had to make a fake ID and use a fake name on FaceBook because they would not believe her real name.
I just noticed:

> For example, do you want to approximate some complicated integral? Just use the Stream x that we previously defined:

> ghci> erf = 0 :> exp (-x^2)
> ghci> take 10 (toList erf)
> [0.0,1.0,-0.0,-2.0,0.0,12.0,0.0,-120.0,0.0,1680.0]

This is not even close to the tailor series of the erf function. This to me looks more like x' = exp(-x^2) which is entirely unrelated to the integral.
I work in operations. Of course we have systems metrics, we know if our systems are playing up or not.

We don't do metrics for people though.
There's no painting happening, the russian government just has no interest but war.
So what can we do as individuals to help?
The most surprising aspect of this story to me is that the Air Force was allowed to exercise this level of resourcefulness. I just assumed that the procurement process would stipulate 10 year support contracts or something similar.
I mean what you experienced is the value add of facebook marketplace (in addition to convenience).
I'm against gun legislation because of the Second Amendment, and it's obvious meaning along with our historic tradition of the right to bear arms. I support common sense legislation like background searched and red flag laws as partial solutions along with education. We are not against all legislation just the ones that say "no more semis" "no more AR15s" because we know as soon as y'all get those that same reason leads down the road to taking all guns. You're not going to take our guns my friend. We aren't Australia or Europe.
Same! For better or worse the image of the characters from those games are etched in my mind when reading through the relevant books.
Is there any evidence of the resulting “supercomputer” being used? It’s one thing to buy two thousand PS3s. Another to deploy them into a data center. And yet another to build processes and software that uses it. The challenges involved seem discouraging.
I mainly have been buying and selling photography gear and outdoor power equipment of late but when I did list my 2019 15" MacBook Pro a couple years ago I got nothing but ridiculous low-ball offers and scam replies. The scams were the typical "I will pay over your asking price plus shipping via PayPal" to which I always responded with "I don't use PayPal but I will accept your offer if you can pay with Bitcoin, here's the payment address..." which always ended the conversation.
“Use the force, Harry” - Gandalf

Works great when overlaid over a picture of Patrick Stewart ;)
> What really would drive me to support them directly would be (para)virtualization support via SR-IOV/GVT-g.

Linus asked the Intel reps for that on the WAN show and the answer was that Intel was also going to have that he an enterprise only feature at least initially but they'd try to escalate.

But I wouldn't get your hopes up. I'd love to have it and it's really dumb it's so locked up, but nobody seems to want to risk devaluing the enterprise markup.
What is a promise in this context?
This is only tangentially related to:

> you avoid computing/fetching the same value twice

But this problem comes up in reverse proxies too. In Nginx, you can set the `proxy_cache_lock`[0] directive to achieve the same effect (avoiding double requests).

[0]: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pr...
Well....yeah? It's Facebook, not Twitter. Burner accounts are specifically not wanted. And FB likely also doesn't want anonymous users potentially trading illegal/stolen goods.
Could this output format be used by others, to deploy to other platforms?

I currently use [1] to be able to deploy a nextjs app to AWS with API Gateway. Would be nice to have standard patterns for cloud deployments for mulitple frameworks.

[1] https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js/blob...
I've been trying to sell a gaming laptop on FB Marketplace for local pickup (to avoid seller fees and shipping), and I've gotten about 20 scam attempts. Of the two legit interested buyers, one was a lowballer, and the other wanted me to trade it for a pair of headphones, an iPhone 8, and some shoes (wtf?).
You Can't Buy These Books
Killed?

Their 2021 revenue was $660 million, before pandemic - it was $1 Billion. Of course, it's not anywhere close to FAANG level, but better than many of the other struggling companies. I'd have that 'killed business' any day.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/craigslist-revenue-...
Oh definitely.. but a good leader could still fall into some traps of thinking they can offload some of their good leadership decisions into targets. and then employees feel judged rather than seen
I am a Software Engineer. I'm licensed by our provincial body and have my P.Eng. and yeah, I still agree with you.

I've been asked why I got my P.Eng as it does nothing for me career wise, but I always have the hope that we move towards a profession that does utilize engineers with proper accreditation and responsibilities where appropriate. I work in Industrial Controls and what my job has me doing does have safety concerns. We fired a student at one point working for us because his attitude towards the work was lackluster and lazy. I see it often enough in programs I'm asked to pick up and fix too.

If Software Engineering wants respect, the profession needs to accept that we're going to piss off a lot of Developers & Architects using the title incorrectly. We still need to develop the proper rigor to take Engineering as a discipline seriously, but we also don't need to apply "Engineers" to every job.
Any amendment or law would be subject to review by the current SC - an entity which is currently very goal orientated - and it's quite likely they would find an argument to nullify or void it entirely.

One really simple example of what the SCOTUS could do is they could rule that an unborn child - from the time of conception - is covered by the rights laid out in the 14th amendment.

Takes all choice back away from the state once more.
>And how will this debacle affect your vote?

Voting itself is a sham. I'm provided with the choice of a baboon and chimp for a leader, alternately I can stand for elections for a troop of monkeys, what can I say?
The people at the forefront making it happen weren't really like Joe or Gordon, gender and jobs aside. From the first episode both of them had a lot of dramatized character traits.
France's Uranium strategic reserves are 3 years. The main supplier is Canada. France has Uranium mines, but they were closed since it was cheaper to import. They still do exist, though.
Well yeah, it’s probably against the FB ToS to create a burner account, so it sounds like they correctly detected an account that wasn’t legitimate.
Clever, but still not an acceptable use of a font. There are very valid security reasons why browsers don't advertise installed software. Using a font install for reasons unrelated to having a font is still not a valid use case, even if the goal is a smooth UX.
Yes, and many do not like that track record. For instance, allowing women to have abortions, and they now have the ability to alter that track.
I will seconds Guards! Guards! it's what I always suggest to friends as a starting point and it leads more naturally into a coherent series as you follow Vimes and the city watch - as an alternative the witches are quite hilarious especially if you're familiar with Shakespeare (a particularly good one here might be Lords and Ladies). The Lipwig books are also quite excellent featuring a lot of most folks favorite characters but I think they work better if you're familiar with the setting.

Lastly, I think a really good shout out is Monstrous Regiment which is absolutely hilarious, especially if you don't know the characters and just incredibly wholesome.
There is a reason you have billable hours. It is so that you can sell the customer technical advisory services over an extended time period without making any promises. Typically, this is backed by a "use it lose it" clause. Outcomes are better for consultants and customers.
Instagram has 1.4b monthly active users globally. 40% of Americans use it.
Man killed as sink hole opens under swimming pool in Israel
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Seems like good points made in the video, I’ll watch a few more before I sub.
"'How did you go bankrupt?'

Two ways.

Gradually, then suddenly."

-- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Is the boss a programmer? If yes, then yeah you should say something. If not, then this is all just normal - this is what bosses do - get credit for their division and get more funding for it. If he is not a programmer, then of course the board knows he didn't build it and had it built. Even if the sketches were shitty - he was in charge of getting the right people to build it.
I'm a believer. I don't care if it's superstition, I'll take a gram of C at the drop of a hat. I love the Japanese hangover drinks, E-Mergen-C is not quite as tasty but 30 of them take up the volume of 3 bottled C drinks, for the small kind.

Works better before, but will improve disposition the morning of as well.
The vast majority of plants are toxic to humans, dogs, and cats.

The non-native daffodils that everyone and their dog plants are extremely toxic to dogs and cats and also humans. Same goes for many plant species, especially those that are commonly planted. The, again non-native, yew bushes that are planted everywhere are also extremely toxic.

It isn’t an excuse but people will hide behind it (not saying you do). If we wanted to eliminate all toxic plants, we’d literally have nothing and certainly no agriculture.
92% of Americans are vaccinated for polio by age 2. We are not talking about the same disease nor are we talking about the same vaccines.

Non-vaccination for polio is an extreme position in the U.S., often only held by fundamentalist religious communities.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm
This is something a lot of people miss with the nuclear back-and-forth. A hyper-dense heat source is great for environment and fuel usage, but the steam infrastructure to effectively exploit it is costly and requires a lot of upkeep. The only way to really solve it is throw material science at the problem
Great point!

That's exactly one of the reasons I love the books. They seem to be able to wrap up a ton of concepts/stories I like in a way that preserves the quality and to top it off, incredibly fun to read.
Unless you buy an AMD Ryzen ThinkPad. Their Linux support stinks and the bug list of 2020 machines still hasn’t been fixed.
The PS3 was an extraordinarily expensive console, between the cell processor and the bluray drive (iirc this alone was several hundred dollars) and in early models also including a whole embedded ps2 implementation. So PS3 was sold at a loss, and not just a small one, but a heavy loss, like several hundred dollars per console, and even still the PS3 was derided for being far too expensive. It was a financial disaster for sony really, moves like ripping out the embedded ps2 make complete sense in that context, and they absolutely changed their business model for subsequent consoles.

Since then, consoles moved away from the exotic POWER/cell/etc custom hardware towards commodity x86 hardware based on integrated x86 APUs and haven't really been sold at a loss outside of maybe a small window at launch. PS5 moved into hardware profitability about 9 months after launch, microsoft said that the xbox series is still sold at a loss but I don't believe them because the xbox shouldn't be monumentally more expensive to build than the PS5. This is in the context of them trying to argue during the apple app store lawsuit that their lock-in on xbox store was different from the lock-in on the app store, so they have a financial incentive to make sure they "run a loss". It's either not much of a loss, or it's hollywood accounting and the money is going into their other pocket somewhere, like making the xbox division pay a parent holding company big licensing fees for on every console sold.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...

(again, I don't agree with the "finally" spin here, this article was roughly a year after launch and they may have been turning a profit for a while before disclosing it... the consoles themselves become profitable pretty quickly.)

However, this mindset that "consoles are sold at an initial loss" still persists. They're not, Sony has said they're selling the PS5 at a profit. Previous generations also reached profitability pretty quickly after launch as well. It's not 2005 anymore and the ps3 is gone. Slapping some GDDR5/GDDR6 on a semi-custom APU is dirt cheap.

Even during the launch window when they do lose money it's much smaller, nobody is losing a couple hundred dollars on each console anymore like on the PS3, that model is gone.
You’re right, mass use of roads for everyday transportation is incredibly inefficient in almost every way: Outrageously high construction/maintenance costs, outrageously large space requirements for roads and parking at both ends, high resource and environmental costs for the cars and driving per se, high costs in human health from a sedentary lifestyle and plenty of local pollution, high costs in human time spent driving around in cars, etc.

We’d be much better off if we re-planned the whole society to switch as many trips as possible to other methods of transportation. This would require changes in land-use laws, a shift in investment toward mass transit and pedestrian/bicycle infrastructure, etc.

Making the roads we already have safer would be a good start though.
> Eventually they all grow to realize the same thing: the controls part is crucial enough to the business that it needs to be brought in house.

I think that creates a narrow operating area for almost all agencies - they need to operate in a narrow gap between "work that isn't valuable enough, so nobody pays for it" and "work that is so important for the business, that they bring it in house".

And you get to play outside this envelope only by finding clients so slow that it takes them years to realize they need an in house team. Now you have a different problem - working for a slow client doesn't push you to get much better.
Craigslist is likely in the best position it has been in years... They rolled out charging for service/job listing posts a few years ago and I am sure they make a ton of money.

Lots of people use craigslist regardless of Facebook marketplace or whatever else..
"USB stick".
I'm rather a dilettante on this, so perhaps a question will help me clarify it.

I'm a bit surprised that you call it "Anglo-French" rationalism. I'd always associated the French with the continental tradition; the main names I know associated with continental philosophy are French. I'd thought it was called "continental" in explicit contrast with the British (and Anglophones in general).

Is there a large French "analytic" tradition that's getting swept under the carpet here?

I gather that the entire argument about the distinction is rather moot here. But I think I may also be missing your point entirely, and I'm curious if you could elaborate.
I thought I was crazy, being the only one that had this experience (along with a corresponding distaste for it).

One of the parts of this that you didn't mention is politics, which irks me in particular. I can barely bring up any political topic without incurring a strong emotional reaction that causes the other to close off their mind - and that includes with people that I mostly agree with!

There's even this politics-like part of homogenized programming subculture - strong emotional reactions to things like webtech, Electron, C++, Rust, Windows, Apple - and you see the same "arguments" over and over (because I don't believe that there's really "critical thought with the intent to convince" happening - just talking points regurgitated over and over).

In the particular case of HN, many of these memes just straight-up break the guidelines, and many users don't care, because they'll upvote or vouch low-quality content that fits their worldview. (I'm guilty of this myself, even when I'm specifically watching myself to try to avoid it)
Is that what's going on on Quora? I see a ton of people complaining about upvotes from accounts with profiles of attractive (often naked) women. I assumed they were trying to get people to OnlyFans/etc sites, but I'd believe they were trying to lure people to a crypto scam instead.
Another example is distance oracles. A distance oracle is a two stage object, in one stage creates a cache of distances, and in the other it allows us to query the cache. The oracle gives an approximate solution to the distance between any two nodes while avoiding the quadratic memory requirement to something in order of nlogk with k query steps.
A flake? this is getting too much, i don't even know what a goat is supposed to mean yet.
Thankfully I haven’t had this bad of an experience but I agree with the sentiment. It’s good for “luxury” rentals like a whole craftsman house for 10 people in an interesting part of the country. For short notice/basic stays I have had a much better experience with Hotel Tonight and standard travel deal sites.

I think the biggest issue is that the three way dynamic between guests, hosts, and AirBnB leads to weird situations where the guest needs to thread the needle between everyone else’s rules and pass through rules on a rental that represents very little margin for anyone involved above you. It’s easy to run afoul of them and get a bad rating or fine. There are the extra fees that are not shown by search results that may make the stay cost more than a hotel. And often the “it has a kitchen” remark means a bunch of single serving oats, a kettle, and a toaster. A random hotel breakfast has as much variety.
Worth reading about the two kinds of polio vaccine: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/polioviruscontainment/diseaseandviru...
Airbnb has a lot of fraud listings. Very easy problem to solve but they don’t seem to care.
Ask HN: Account terminated on Tumblr, zero contact
More than a week ago my girl's blog was terminated. She was kicked out of the session then at login got greeted with the stern message "your account was terminated. You can contact support here". Or something along the lines. Well, support didn't come around answering all these days and she slipped into a reclusive episode, because in her major depression, she believed the blog was her only accomplishment in life. Yeah, the hellsite was known for supporting those in trouble, those lonely, those misunderstood. Until now, at least. On the other hand I've been (on my own tumblr) contacted in the last week by the regular amount of hookers (dozens) and they're all fine, spreading their porn and spam, against all the reports I ever did. But no, instead they had to terminate an active account with 9k followers, posting daily for the last three years original street photography and reblogging classical art, flowers and cats. Maybe also Tumblr is going the way of big social media, random automated moderation and zero humanity? The messages I got from other fellow tumblers tell me this was not a singular case, so looking from here and squinting a bit it seems like becoming a warmer home to hookers and crypto spam than to original creators - or to simple people trying to find a little bit of appreciation from strangers. Oh yes, I'm upset, upset for seeing her thrown out with the garbage, actually rather no, thrown out INSTEAD of the garbage. But is there something one can do to reach some human in Tumblr support? I'm level zero on Twitter so I tried to reach through engineering - which politely sent me back to support, and support doesn't bother replying (yes, I sent reminders). Ironically, when in the past I reported wrong button colors I had answers within two days...
I never thought about this, but yeah, I have on the first meeting of a first date, and it's kinda funny in retrospect.

It's probably 50% hug and 50% some other innocuous social physical contact on the very first date.

Granted, I dated a lot in the Tinder era, so it was fairly common to first meet someone on the first date, and initial chemistry can vary wildly.
What exactly do you mean by multivariate?
What you can do: Plant more eucalyptus trees in California

Monarch butterflies in California need eucalyptus trees for their winter roost
https://milliontrees.me/2013/11/01/monarch-butterflies-in-ca...
Keep telling yourself that right up until all the damage is permanent.

“If only the people in the Amazon chose not to burn down the forest for cattle”

“If only China and India didn’t burn so much coal”

“If only people didn’t eat so much fish”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Author's preferred method of using Craigslist was to browse. I've always used Craigslist for single purposes - there's something specific I want to sell or buy, and that's why I'm on the site. For that - it's effective, though I do get spam messages whenever I post for sale now. Fascinating that for some, the site is/was more.