skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent. But can depend on usage a bit.

- browser plugin is okay and I have no problems with it, but when it comes to password manager hostile login setups it isn't quite as good as some commercial solutions

- in some HiDPI setups with fractal scaling there had been buggy behaviour, probably fixed by now, probably had not been problem with most HiDPI setups either

- I haven't tried some of the integrations (e.g. SSH Agent).

Anyway I'm quite happy with it.
It's risky because if they do it, they have to consistently be as good or better than TSMC, year after year. Makes more sense than trying to build a car though.
"take an airborne intercourse course against rolling pastries"

Ill have to steal that one
I code on my GPD pocket.

You could, in theory, use a smartphone for this but the software situation is so terrible that you really can't.
I find that there is something inherently suspicious in having a parallel online identity. I respect anonymity, but for some reason people constructing a parallel world and personality online always irritates me.
If memory serves, Doom is sorta bimodal.

If you know how to strafe, and get to the point that you are habitually doing it almost every second of play, Doom is an action game where you are grossly overpowered compared to your opponents, more or less. To even slow Doom guy down you need tight corridors to cut his maneuverability down and enough enemies to clog him up even so. In open space the only real threat is being plinked away by the undodgeable hit scan weapons; high level play with speedruns involves a lot of managing that and hoping for decent luck. The non-hitscan weapons for them are, to quote a popular Youtuber, super easy, barely an inconvenience, which ironically makes the "weakest" enemies actually the most dangerous in the game in most places.

If you don't know how to strafe, which was very common at the time since we were all new to 3D spaces and even the ones we had used before may not have had a "strafe" option, Doom becomes much more a horror game. As others are saying about how Doom 3 gives you the choice of "seeing" or "shooting", but not both, Doom without strafing gives you the choice of either dodging or shooting, but not both. Shooting becomes a contest of nerves because you're committed for a second or two... to dodge an incoming missile involves turning, then moving. And that move is either "forward", vectoring into the oncoming missile, or backwards, vectoring away but heading away from your field of vision.

I remember both modes now, both playing it back when Doom I was the only release and I played the shareware, and I saw the "strafe" option and had no idea what it was or why I would use it, and playing in later years when strafing was simply part of my 3D "vocabulary" and I did it instinctively. It's almost two different games.

I suspect even at the time, the developers of Doom weren't used to strafing either, and in a weird way it has contributed to its classic status. If they were it would have been balanced much differently.

The same things that make it a gaming classic that people are still playing to this day are also gross violations of the current state of the art of game design and balance... the reader is invited to conclude from that statement whatever they like.
OK, so I don't know about the hitmen thing, but there's been plenty of news stories about "independent masseuses" and "incense", "bath salts", etc.

People do stuff like this. I too wonder how they get away with it for as long as they do.
out of interest i tried the states main site https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx

works just fine from Canada?
CD Projekt says Cyberpunk 2077 copy sales reach 20M
Perhaps this lack of observational ability is a factor in your drought of new theoretical discoveries? It’s indisputable that the public believes that its completely uneducated opinion on any number of things is relevant to funding in particular and policy in general. That’s rather the point of democracy.

It’s not even a terrible system. I don’t have to be an expert on automobiles to rationally believe that we should spend less money on automobile infrastructure and more money on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.

Similarly nobody has to be an expert on particle physics to believe that money could better be spent elsewhere. When I clicked this story I was generally in favor of funding this research, but to a quite small extent the submission and to a considerably greater extent your clarification of the attitude of practitioners has gone a long way toward convincing me that it is in fact a complete waste of money.

Granted, we both agree that government spending is almost entirely undemocratic. And as I said, I appreciate your dispensing with that pretense.
And it suffers from the same limitations as any other attempts at filesystem sandboxing – it only caters for the simple "open/save one file" respectively "open/save within one folder (plus subfolders)" use cases and ignores (and breaks) the existence of any other workflows.
Oh, I can think of about four reasons SCOTUS would: Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Which leaves it up to Alito, and that's too close (for me, at least) to call.
> Even American feminists think that there's no element of a woman's condition in the world that can't be equally applied to anyone who identifies as a woman. Very American, if the conditions of women are a state of mind that can be corrected or experienced based on how you identify, it's basically a "law of attraction." Women can think themselves out of (or into, if they have penises) the female condition. I'm pretty sure Kanye said something about the reason for slavery being that black people identified as slaves. It's that same sort of inversion of control and blaming the victim.

Wait, what? I follow that 'average angry political American' is all about 'equal means equal' regardless of gender, but the next statements aren't clear: the endorsement of trans sexual identity in American feminism is, in principle, related to Kanye's statement that black people identified as slaves because both cases are basically "mind over matter" takes? Am I understanding that correctly? And these are both forms of victim blaming?
Yeah, the dual shares is a sore point with me. The plebs get the non-voting instruments and the company insiders get the "controlling" shares. It doesn't sit right with me.
It's true that some people want to dominate others regardless what course of action would give the best outcome. I don't think the modern knowledge economy—especially Tech—is particularly rewarding for these folks though. Modern civilization is so complex that real expertise is required to drive meaningful impact. Of course there are still domains like politics where charisma and force-of-will are the primary factors, but I think there's more opportunity for those without those qualities than ever before.

On the other hand, being thoughtful and competent, but conflict-avoidant, is also potentially career limiting. I say potentially because you can still go quite far if the right people recognize your talent and you develop a reputation for being someone to listen to.

The sweet spot though, is recognizing the power and need for influence, but in pursuit of outcomes, not personal glory. In such a framework your idea is no more valuable to you than any other idea. You also don't need to directly convince everyone of what you know, you can simply make timely observations and ask questions to nudge folks towards the right conclusion independently. Finally, you want to cultivate the humility and self-awareness to realize your own biases and limitations. All paths are tradeoffs, all narratives are reductive and all outcomes are probabilistic.
All those "up tos" can sometimes add up to "actually not much".

And if Apple is currently a "generation ahead" they can spend that lead-time in other ways. They've done it before out of necessity, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple has phone features they're holding back to "gloss over" a release that doesn't really have much more CPU.
To use them well I think you would. People who haven't been exposed to a history of a method or technology often say "I think this is silly; I can think of a better way to do this". Sometimes, extremely rarely, they are right. But more often, what they are thinking of is something that was tried and was found not to work well. Knowing the history of what you are doing, and what things worked and failed prevents you from making the same mistakes your forerunners did.
"Both the Right and the Left have a common interest in forcing private companies to not exclude certain people."

But they won't come together because it's good if I do it to you, but bad if you do it to me.
Plan 9 seems to be disproportionately influential for an OS nobody who's not into systems engineering has ever heard about.
What did you learn about E-pimps? What does history tell us?
Walmart will also do this intentionally to their vendors, or engage in what I call temporal arbitrage.

It hurts Walmart as a business very little to stop selling Vendor X goods on their shelves when there are substitutes available. However, for Vendor X it's often the case that Vendor X cannot adjust their output as quickly as Walmart can take the product off shelves. That action, taking them off the shelves for even a short period of time while Walmart presses for renegotiating terms can result in layoffs, loss of revenue could result in lines of credit drying up. It's an existential threat to a company because they can't scale up and down at the speed Walmart demands.

If I recall correctly there's a record of this happening with Rubbermaid, and they responded to Walmart's demands for prices by cutting costs, cutting corners with quality, and ultimately sullied their brand name.
> On making light of people born post-1990s how no one can fix anything now. "We care less about repair as most would rather just scrap that broken TV and get a new one. The electronic and small appliance repair store are all but gone"

Very few people have ever been capable of fixing things, especially electronics. As electronics got smaller, more integrated and more complicated the bar got higher, reducing the pool of capable people even more.

The other problem is that TVs have gotten cheaper at the same time labor prices have gone up. This drove all the TV repair shops out of business because the bench time alone to even do a quick diagnosis is already starting to approach the cost of a new TV. Spending hundreds of dollars to (maybe) repair your 5+ year old TV just doesn't really make a ton of sense to most people. And that's assuming there's not a major fault: replacing a few capacitors is one thing; replacing the mainboard or LCD panel can cost more than buying a new TV.

This same pattern repeats for most consumer electronics, sadly.
I sincerely wish that I agreed with you. Not trying to be funny when I say that.
While many people on here are glorifying the workers in certain 1st world countries, I doubt it's representative of most sex workers worldwide. There's a ton of coercion and exploitation, and most countries don't have the sort of social safety net that ensures it's actually a real choice. I would imagine that's why banks at large have generally steered away from the industry - if 90% of the business is super shady and exposes them to excess risk, it's not worth it to sort out the 10% that's not. If there were a processor targeting the industry, the fees would probably be through the roof to account for this. That's just the markets at work.
I've said this a hundred times and it seems not loud enough.

AWS is not cheap because of your server costs.

AWS is cheap because of elasticity, velocity (opportunity cost of next feature), and reduced maintenance hours.

"The cloud" was never (afaik) was about getting a cheaper VPS. It was about being able to get them on demand, give them back on demand, and generally not have to maintain anything besides your code (and maybe apply updates to datastores / AMIs)

Now, if those premises are not true for your startup/business, then AWS is not the tool for you. I didnt see any analysis of ongoing maintenance costs in the 800k saved, but will it take 1-2 FTE engineers to now be more oncall, more server upgrades, more security patches etc? That's easily 1/2 that savings gone already.

Edit: for the most part these attributes apply to GCP, Azure, Heroku etc as well, its not just about AWS
Ostracizing sex work has always been the case for thousands of years in every successful culture and religion.

In fact, cultures that allowed widespread open sex work have always failed. (No, Amsterdam’s red light district is not “widespread”).

Just because it’s 2022 does not mean things should automatically change. Even Onlyfans performers, strippers and pr0n stars are openly shunned or relegated to non “wifely” roles.

This is because there are super deep lizard brain biological reasons why cultures have always done this.

And it will still take a few more generations before no one bats an eye (25+ years).

Yes, it would be better if it were safe and legal. Would probably be better for it’s consumers and providers.

But in the end the biological imperative to “be fruitful and multiply”, which is deeper than many of us would like to admit - is going to always fight back.

Railing against this ostracism is like railing against the sky being blue.
This is about financial institutions protecting themselves from regulators. Higher risk clients get higher rates or excluded- some just aren’t worth the risk. Different banks have different risk tolerance, and certainly that varies per locale as well. Rules that are locale-specific are hard to accommodate.

Crypto is a solution if you believe that crypto is regulator-proof. I’m inclined to not think it is. Sure, Monero, etc. As soon as “Terrorists” are using it, regulators will find a way to monitor, control, outlaw, or even break it. By any means necessary.

I see 3 approaches:
- find a way to make locale-specific compliance easier for enterprises. Locale is hard with anon web traffic, and maybe other systems as well.

- make a national law for sex worker payment rights. Banks are good at complying with national laws. Our current political climate may not permit this.

- weaken the power and scope of US financial regulators. Certainly those affected by SWIFT sanctions would love to see it, I’m sure. Our current administration is very committed to keeping and enhancing its resources and reach.
The classic Alien vs Predator (I think?) had me literally falling out of the chair when a facehugger jumped at me :)
What’s Wrong with NFTs
Sorry if this is off-topic but does anyone know if "tineye" is a reference to Brandon Sanderson novels? Specifically the Mistborn series?

I couldn't find any reference on tineye.com but it seems like it has to be.
Howdy! I just so happened to be working on the logpush system earlier this week: if you wouldn't mind hopping on the discord [0], our PM tanushree#3489 may be able to arrange something for y'all.

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Thanks! I did. I used builtincolorado.com as well.
I'm curious why you think that's something to be embarrassed about. I feel like it's a cultural thing but for example here in Japan it's very common to see this style everywhere (on TV, on billboards, on the train, on random websites, etc) and several of my coworkers also have these kinds of backgrounds or posters at work (in an open office).
Some people still think Cloudflare is just a CDN.
The island analogy's misleading crap. A couple tweaks to make it closer to reality (say, if the islanders had been working for millennia and we only cared about a handful of their very best works from that entire time span—instantly less crazy with just that one tweak, no?) and it falls apart. There's almost a hint of an interesting line of argument, buried somewhere in there, but the way it's presented isn't good and is the precise opposite of convincing, on close inspection.

Relying heavily on really bad analogies seems to be a theme in the paper, reading on. There's some hilariously-bad question-begging-laundered-through-analogy in the bit about body-building advice / reasons-to-study-historical-philosophy.

Leading with emphasizing the importance of correctness is also pretty silly when we spend much of a student's training for most other fields teaching them one useful lie or another. That philosophy's lies happen to often come from very old books hardly seems material. Clearly, scaffolding with outright known lies is the norm, so "much of the material is probably wrong" isn't, per se, much of an attack.

I don't think the paper's conclusion's even necessarily wrong (and by calling for some vague "less" focus on the history of philosophy, it defies firm refutation anyway) and some of it does make interesting points, but damn, it's got some seriously off-putting flaws. I especially think it fails to make a strong case against such study as training for philosophers. But maybe there are far more doctors of philosophy out there who spend their careers analyzing historical philosophy, than would be optimal. That seems plausible, but also doesn't seem to be the focus of the paper.
JWZ did it better.

Proof: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
You'll be happy to know that the current trend is to combine AR/VR with a physical keyboard. The Quest has an option to bring your physical Bluetooth keyboard into VR -- it only supports a small subset of models right now, though.
Fascinating - Idris and Haskell are represented but no Clojure.
I can see why you might think this. It is a quantum mechanical effect, but it has nothing to do with the main quantum mechanical effect everyone knows about (superposition).

Superposition of two states is not preserved by measurement: it's more akin to a (complex, not real) probability you'll find the system of one of the states.

By contrast, resonant bonds are a real mixing of the two states: you don't observe the carbon-carbon bonds in a benzene molecule as either being a single bond or a double bond, you observe them as a uniform bond that's somewhere between a single bond and a double bond (e.g., bond length). Treating such things as a weighted average of various resonance structures is a usable approximation that allows you to predict the structure of more molecules without having to dive deep into molecular orbital theory.
I spent about 20 months porting darklang to F#. It took much longer than I expected. Here's how it went: https://blog.darklang.com/backend-rewrite-complete/.

It probably took longer than it had to: 30% of that time was devops, I wanted it to be bug-for-bug compatible so I spent a lot of time writing tests, and we were using some stuff which wasn't mature yet (new JSON serialization lib, compile to webassembly, binary serializers)

F#/.NET certainly has everything needed, and I find it a much simpler language than OCaml (eg no module games) - really it's what I hoped OCaml would be.
Yandex is better for image search.... specially reverse image search.
Leaked documents expose Ukrainian attempts to destabilize Russia and draw NATO into a full-scale war with Moscow
Four NFTs valued at at least $150k stolen from Jason Falovitch
I have seen it, but I think that "won't you read this?" or "will you learn this language for me?" is just a front for "explain this to me", especially when considering the body language.
Check out http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html . The top BWT performer is #22. What it comes down to is the way the BWT output is transformed and entropy-coded afterwards, and various other tricks.

bzip2 only does very basic MTF transformation and Huffman coding, which are not very bit efficient.
Hi I'm the author of this blog post and the CTO of Hathora. Happy to answer any questions about how we built our Stateful Router for WebSockets and other persistent connections!
Guessing "ur" in sur means Usage Rights, and M means Modification, C means Commercial, F means Free (to reuse)?
> Because no one's throwing around "your father is a prostitute" as an insult.

There's all kinds of things that people insult men/fathers for that they wouldn't use for women/mothers (e.g. strength, financial success, etc). It's just gender roles, not generalized contempt for women (and going that far is probably just politically motivated exaggeration).
Only advantage I know of is availability... The Pinecil is not available everywhere...
I don't take "unicorn scale" to mean "stable, reliable, and dependable" in the context of the original post. You seem to be a reasonable person that values building "stable, reliable, and dependable" systems. There is another segment of the tech world that have used the wrong tools and techniques for their domain based on experiences shared by the largest companies. This is often resume-driven development. It results in a lot of toil and rework for those maintaining those systems.

The challenge is that assessing outcomes is very contextual. There are teams that will be successful with a completely overengineered system built with what seemed like an unrealistic toolkit, and there will be teams that fail with an overengineered system and seemingly better toolset and team. For example, I'm aware of pharma teams using K8s and Svelte for small apps when a Django or .NET app would be sufficient.
Probably best to get teachers, etc out of the loop.

In an imperfect world, and where everyone fires off a lawsuit, I don’t see the upside. Sooner or later mistakes are made. Humans are imperfect.
It's likely the reason they don't feel embarrassment is because they couldn't care less about your unwarranted judgement, and delight knowing that some people actually take the time to be upset about it.
How is this approach working out for China? Not snark, I genuinely want to know what resident experts think of the progress made by throwing vast sums at SoTA node fabs.
If you'd like to start using rclone, and you should, this is a high quality and general howto:

https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

The example is S3 <--> rsync.net (naturally) but the step by step instructions are applicable to setting up any combination of "remotes".

rclone is like youtube-dl - a powerful tool that seems almost magical.
Karger and Schell in 1974 conceptualised the idea of trap doors built into compilers in their Multics Security Review.

Although Ken Thompson is responsible for popularising the idea through his Turing award speech in 1984.

Edit: Ken Thompson mentions the paper in the acknowledgements of his Turing award speech.

"""
Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such
a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique [4] of the security of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find
a more specific reference to this document. I would
appreciate it if anyone who can supply this reference
would let me know.
"""