skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a mistake — no one finds value in it, so it should be kept private.

Just anecdotal, but I disagree vehemently. In my experience, an easy way to follow Chesterton's fence ( to figure out why a piece of code is the way it is before modifying it's behaviour), is to understand the decision making process that was being followed and not just the blob of code that added it (Even more so on older repos where the original author may not be around).

Many a times, it becomes obvious that the code was written under a very different understanding of the what the system evolved to be, and as such can be changed accordingly, and inversely that the code makes certain strong assumptions when written which hold true even today.

This is why as a thumb rule, especially for junior developers just getting started with git, I spend time on getting them to understand good git commit messages instead of 'git add . ; git commit -m "some code"' because I've seen a tonne of value retrospectively in this.
> the right data structures

maybe a little pedantic, but i would just add that ensuring those all work together well is an important aspect that is often overlooked (one data structure in isolation may be "fast" but slower overall etc)
Do you mind giving me an eli5 of what the indeterminacy of translation states? I don’t have much of a philosophy background.
my money is on US and/or UK. they seized the moment of chaos and destroyed the pipeline permanently. they have a lot to gain from this. it simply weakens EU, makes it more dependent on US/UK, weakens economy, etc. UK is not EU's friend and US is only a friend as long as EU falls in line and you never know in the future.

Russia could have done it too but it makes no sense and most importantly they have a track record of failing and getting caught with even simpler schemes (e.g. novichok attack).

just the fact that US is not jumping to blame Russia this time and Sweden already said they treat it not as an attack on Sweden (so if it turns out US did it, Sweden is just gonna say it's in international waters, not a Swedish asset, etc.). I mean US intelligence knows what Putin has for dinner. Impossible they don't know who did this, in NATO waters. Only EU doesn't know. US/UK surely know and if it was Russia they'd publish video footage 1 min after explosion.
> Ads were a big part of Web 1.0 as well.

...and publishing, and TV, and radio...
Brenner claims "Animal gene sets have been subject to genetic selections for guile, strength and famine-resistance but have not been directly selected for longevity because". This is case 2 in my classification.

He writes, "Indeed, experiments done in flies that were selected for the ability to reproduce late in life suggest that hundreds or thousands of genes, not single dominantly acting genes, are modified to allow every organ system to function better over time in the resulting long-lived flies (Burke et al., 2010)." The case of sirtuin genes, however, is disctintly different from this. The hypothesis there is that increased expression of sirtuins increases longevity. This is a change to the epigenome, not to the genetic content itself, which is what is what Brenner comments on.

Also, what this says is not that "evolution never had any reason to favour another approach", but that evolution (at least in this controlled environment) was not able to stop aging. Perhaps you have other data to support that claim.
Also, what this says is not that "evolution never had any reason to favour another approach", but that evolution (at least in this controlled environment) was not able to stop aging. Perhaps you have other data to support that claim.

From the perspective of maximizing reproduction, maximizing fertile population is oviously ideal. Surely, if it's possible for a member of the species that is fertile to continue to reproduce and live longer, this would increase the species' overall reproductive capacity. Obviously, post-reproductive age individuals do not have this benefit. However, it doesn't seem improbable that loss of reproductive ability is caused by aging.

I think that the tradeoff you mention between reproductive age fitness would make sense in the context of other adversity though. If survival in general is very difficult, surviving long enough to reproduce, reproducing as fast as possible, and being able to survive long enough to finish the process while it's placing various stressors on your body is desirable.
Umm. If you file taxes with a computer, you’re using Intuit.

If you have a datacenter, it has a good shot of running some VMware.

If you run logistics at almost any medium sized or bigger company, you’re using SAP or Oracle.

If you have a group of employees that sell things, Salesforce is common.

This is the software that literally runs the world. If you’re not familiar with it, then you’re ignorant about how the world works. Nothing wrong with that of course, but I don’t understand the pride in it. Especially on HN, where Hackers tend to be curious.
But this comes back to the point about who the customer is. YT are not harming his customers. They’re harming (from their perspective) those annoying expenses.

I don’t think you can equate it to a business relationship because those same relationships in broadcasting looks totally different (disclaimer: I used to work in broadcasting).

Content creators need to wise up that they’re not part of the business relationship in YTs business model. The fact they get paid at all is a by product.
I made a PayPal account when I was 17 and used it happily for 12 years. In 2021 (being almost 30 years old) I got a payment from US (I'm in the EU) and had to provide ID to PayPal.

They figured out that I made my account a few months before my 18th birthday and permanently locked my account.

It seems all of this is arbitrary more or less random bullshit.
Depends. If it’s SMA, the stuff I’ve seen only sends metrics out to a server so you can see the output in a mobile app, and has little to no local management capabilities: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/08/04/0800#solar
Bingo. In my experience, young employees are hoping desperately for a lottery win, because owning their own home some day is starting to seem impossible. They want to believe that the magic beans (pre-IPO options) are real and are usually willing to hang on at a bad job, desperately trying to make it work, because they've spent a year of their life believing that their options would be worth megabucks in 5-8 years. It's extremely difficult to walk away from that. If it is successful, they find out too late that their options aren't worth nearly as much as they'd been led to believe. Older engineers, especially those who already have a home, or have been burned by the dream once or twice, are more likely to think of pre-IPO stock like an actual lottery ticket.
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I don’t see the value here.
First of all, it’s not Russia vs. the World, it’s Russia vs. NATO. India has literally said that Europe’s problems are not the world’s problems, China has been officially declared as an enemy of NATO. Africa has not forgotten the suffering at the hands of their former colonial masters. South America still remembers the coups they went through.

The only other countries in the world aligned with NATO are Australia, Japan and South Korea.

Secondly, conflicts are flaring around Russia because it’s weakened. This is a repeat of what happened after the fall of the USSR, with civil wars exploding in former satellites.

Thirdly, Ukraine is what’s at stake here. But NATO joined the war and now NATO’s reputation or whatever’s left of it is also at stake by own choice.
I know, just sharing my specific experience.

A sibling poster also comments that dictionaries are too slow. They might be in a game setting, but definitely not in a Java backend service.
I wonder if it should be "advice" considered harmful in general. There is SOOOOOO much business advice, and taking it all seriously can paint you in to a corner of paralysis.
I ordered 256 version a week ago, and got the "complete purchase" on Thursday. (in EU).
Every mission has to pass FCC approval, and we're just discussing a super high level gloss of the rules. Thee's no way that would pass, so that's really not an issue.
While "authoritarian governments" would be better than "dictators", this is SO not news.

A slightly less superficial article might note how such lies "naturally" arise in autocratic systems - where local officials are both under pressure to report good economic results, and have enough power to lie. That is how tens of millions of Chinese starved to death in the Three Years of Great Famine ~1960. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine ) Local officials reported excellent harvests of food crops, and Chairman Mao's central government generally tried to do the right things - but sustaining human life requires that the food "on the books" actually exists.
It sure is valuable, which is why it's retained in your reflog. You don't have to push it out anywhere though (or at least not somewhere where it pretends to be part of the project).
no. I wasn't enjoying the game and it was a chore to complete, and the only reason I even finished the first ending was because of the hype the game had.

I did go to youtube to explore all the endings and there's where I realized they got clever with them but I just threw the towel.

the game was definitely not for me.
> P2P isn't a good model for serving giant content like this because you just can't stream at reasonable speeds from random peoples' houses.

That's changing, at least I hope. Fiber is usually symmetrical and is putting pressure on other companies, and DOCSIS gets closer to symmetrical with each revision.

Once you have 50-100Mbps of upload, you won't even notice the bandwidth use from sending video data back out while you watch.
From the README:
> This is my fuzzy . There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Another new better package in the JavaScript world just for the sake of pride.
There have been plenty of video platforms with a great mobile experience that have gone under. And I’d argue that YTs mobile app isn’t even that good.

You can’t make technical argument for why something gains traction. Most people don’t choose a platform because it’s technically better.

> But "the algorithm" isn't a straw-man argument. I am saying viewers vs subscribers is a false dichotomy to care about.

I called it a straw man argument because you were arguing against a point I wasn’t making (though it was a little harsh calling it that on my part because I think this is really just a misunderstanding)

The point I was saying about viewers had nothing to do with algorithms nor anything else technical. It was just to remind people that the number of people on the platform is greater than the number of subscribers. So the network effect is larger than the figures suggest.

Discussions about algorithms et al are interesting but not related.
The record holder with 5.96s is Sarah the Cheetah [1] although her top speed of 98 km/h still falls short of claims of 120+ km/h for sprinting cheetahs in the wild.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_(cheetah)#:~:text=Sarah%....
Just write all your 'sensitive' texts in leetspeak, use very few words, and very short words and it should be fine. It's like the typing equivalent of cutting letters out of magazines.
I played until the robot village or whatever it's called, did most of the side quests which are all run-of-the-mill meaningless fetch/find stuff, and stopped.

Just looked up boss list: I passed three bosses. I never encountered this amazing dramatic storyline people keep gushing about. My guess is that these people never read enough books or watched enough movies, because Nier is just boring and predictable
Not trying to be an asshole but can you just provide a source and try to make a clear point? Otherwise this conversation is like pulling teeth.
> When you deal with the scale that YT are operating at, automating content moderation is the only cost effective way.

At some point the Silicon Valley excuse of "we can't afford to do it" is going to run into dumb but powerful regulators who simply do not care and who will impose strict law to force it to happen.

YouTube has managed to persuade some regulators that the advertisers and the channel owners are solely responsible for ad placement, and that YouTube (which controls which products can be advertised, which places the ads, which takes most of the money for the ads, which has contracts with the advertisers and the channels where ads are placed, which earns most of its revenue through ads) has nothing to do with ads. That's worked for them in the US, but it's a fact that regulators in other countries are losing patience.

For example, YouTube needs a way to stop alcohol being advertised to children.

At the moment YouTube are saying that it's the responsibility of the drinks company and the channel to stop this happening. That works in the US, but it doesn't work in Europe, and YouTube saying "we don't know how old people are because COPPA" is met with "so what? It's still a problem, and you need to fix it".
No energy plant need to include insurance that cover disaster. People living downstream of a hydro electric dam have to pay their own insurance, and in the end it will still be the government that pick up the bill when people and homes are lost to catastrophic flooding.

Mining raw material also produce a lot of waste, including radioactive waste, much which will never be safe for humans. Those are generally stored for an indefinite time in pools or just in piles near the mines, with a sign warning people of the toxic material. There will be no one to pay the bill for waste storage except governments when the mining company close down. This is why drinking water near old (or new) mines is a exceptional bad idea.
> aesthetic we used ironically 15-20 years ago

We didn't use it ironically 25 to 30 years ago. If you ever connected to a BBS, or used Windows 1.x, it was exactly like that.
Or the privacy focused Librewolf (fork of Firefox)
Nier Automata is formulaic, boring and entirely predictable from 30 seconds in.

There are games who actually uniquely tell stories, but Nier isn't one of them
It would be very interesting indeed to have an ebook reader paired with bluetooth earphones, and it simultaneously feeds the words into this to make an ambient soundtrack, perhaps also choosing music appropriate to the word-choice on the page.
> as long as you comply with US laws (unfortunately) and the Fedora Code of Conduct.

This is it, I'm not in the US, many aren't either, so why shall I suffer the consequence of such decisions.

Note sure if it's feasible to have a none-US build whilst based in the US.

But for the time being it's over for me, I've been using Fedora for years and recommending it to friends and family, despite the RPM fusion required after initial setup, but not anymore.

Let's see how welcoming Arch is.
It’s aimed at Japan in at least one way: the person you need to convince that it’s necessary to have a game console in the house is Mom. It’s why the Switch is designed for and marketed aggressively towards women and children, and why it’s a huge success.
> The problem here is that “harm” is subjective

Sure, but we have national laws, regulations, and cultural norms that specify harms and YouTube just shrugs their shoulders and says "we don't care".
besides being efficient text editor, I must say it's also a hobby for me. I just enjoy endlessly configuring it and writing little vim scripts.
I like how fast this thread went from a complaint about cheap memes to a call to cover the swearing with "some funny content".

Anyway, sure he could do that. Youtube said he didn't need to, then punished him harshly for being well within the rules.
Most games on Switch run sub 720p and don’t manage the seamless open world that the Witcher does. It certainly looks a lot worse than on other systems but it manages to deliver the experience pretty well. It’s hard to find a game other than BOTW that manages something similar and BOTW benefits from its sparse art style.
Before we even mention Boston Dynamics, can we talk about how it compares to the Honda Asimo?

Because it doesn’t.
It can also be a burden pushed away from the author to reviewers (or future contributors), hence why OSS repos usually require clean/squashed PRs.
Gboard Bar Version
> this port might be one of the best PS4 to Switch conversions I’ve played

Who says this was ported from the PS4 version? The author has no clue what they are talking about
If you think a Simula One VR is a substitute for a Magic Leap you probably should be reading more and commenting less about this market.
The problems here come from the fact that a "merge" commit is just a normal commit with multiple parents.

This means that anything can happen inside that merge commit, including add, remove, and modify all the code, even if not touched by a parent.

Merge commits are good place for a malicious actor to hide changes.
Witcher 3 on Switch looks awful compared to the PC version, too. I mean you can't expect "miracles" from such a limited device.
Requires an email to try it :(
Arming and training Ukraine and including them in NATO all but in name is being a doormat?

What about santioning Europe for its own protection to deter NordStream 2?

And what about the sanctions against Russia?

This appeasement meme is tiresome. One forced a country to give up territory, the others did everything except open warfare all in the name of a country which is neither in the EU nor NATO.
Have they driven from LA to NYC as Elon promises they would by 2019?

Are Model S owners making more money than they are paying in leases thanks to lending their cars as auto cabs like Elon promised they would by 2020?

Is hyper loop even a thing or just something Elon admitted was something he came up with to try and kill public transport alternatives?

The Boston Dynamics Robot is far more of a commercial reality than the CyberTruck if you really want to put things in context.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. What would you do the next time differently?
elevaet already beat you to the 'Well Acktually' by 2 hours
This is a good summary ... from 1992 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pY6Xxptp9A
Golang's packages are inspired by Oberon (and, in turn, Modula-2). One of the core developers of Go, Robert Griesemer, was a PhD student of Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth.

See also https://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/Langs/go.html
> "[Company I've never heard of] and [Another company I've never heard of],

I'm going to guess you're under 30?

Amongst the many things Tibco sold was Rendezvous, which was extremely popular in the banks for running trading systems back in... the 90s and early 00s. Then of course, multi-core chips came along and sending messages to other processes on single cores over the network, versus, other processes in the same bit of silicon via memory instead.

And Citrix - another extremely popular bit of software for connecting remotely to Windows boxes (amongst other things). Again in the 90s and early 00s.

There seems to be so many of these zombie companies now. Embarcadero is another one that always springs to mind. Produces nothing new, just shambles around on existing revenue streams.
> studios turn to old content when the economy is weak because it is lower risk.

Oh no. Given how many reboots and remakes there has been the last 10 years we are screwed in the coming recession.
Designing the satellites to self de-orbit would be massively more efficient, but this technology is being developed to de-orbit older sats and other debris without that capability. It could also be useful to remove satellites that fail or who's de-orbit system fails. There was a recent test of a grapple system that harpoons a target sat, but it's early days in the development of such systems for arbitrary sats, rather than recovery missions designed for a particular target sat.
> Some day we'll finally get that regulation that draws a line between utilities and publishers...

I don't see how that's relevant here. Can a minor have an electricity contract?
I agree it sucks but again, I feel compelled to remind people who YTs customers are.

Content creators benefit from YouTubes business model but they are neither YTs customers, employers nor even their intended users (ie the people watching the ads).

This is where the problem lies. Content creators are effectively just an expense. And it’s compounded by the fact that if one creator leaves there are plenty of others with big aspersions. So creators are an expense that’s easy to replace.
> So, has that ever worked?

Are you implying that democracy as a state model never worked, i.e. democratic process never brought improvements in areas like these?
Right, but non-monetary negative outcomes are swept under the rug.

It costs nothing for fossil plant operators to pump carbon and sulphur into the atmosphere; that's why it takes regulation to make them install scrubbers. Scrubbers help, but don't prevent the outcome.

The outcome can be measured in human deaths and loss of arable land. That cost is hidden.

The "free market" is a grim joke while these costs can be ignored.
Yes, it had its own set of APIs that needed people to port games to it like another console.
Elon is super smart. He’s also a snake oil salesman.

These are not contradictory statements.

Unfortunately he chose his intelligence to enrich himself by fooling others. He could have chosen other options. It looked like that was the direction he was going in. By trying to help people. But it’s clear at some point he realized he can make far more money claiming to do something than by actually doing something and decided to focus on that.
> Vagrant still allows people to have deviating personal environments,

So does docker the way many folk use it for their development. In fact, I saw in one place people set up env setups for their docker so each team member could have theirs the way they wanted it. Create a container and use forever. Very rarely in my experience are people completely rebuilding their env.
"Climax" is a dance-horror movie entirely consisting of french dancers rather than actors.

Nothing like either movie mentioned but it is real dancing by pros (and a good horror movie)
That’s horrible to do to people. Imagine being the Stadia employees who lied to developers while management knew for months that they were shutting it down. My respect for Google continues to plummet.
The article doesn't say the publishers are taking a loss. Maybe their larger print runs let them offer retailers higher margins?
In the name of national security, the agencies do whatever they like, and what's worse, people buy the narrative
> This is usually solved with more packages of more focused independent functionality rather than less packages of less functionality.

Also, dependency injection. It's possible to get rid of all dependencies if your code just refers to abstract interfaces and delegates the responsibility to provide concrete implementations to downstream dependencies.
Godot is a project that deeply excites me, and even more now that they have overcome the issues with publishing on consoles.

I hope that we see them take over a large percentage of the Unity market share. They are perfectly suited to it, by all accounts (for small games) the DX is way better than Unity and the community is awesome.

It kinda feels like they represent the two sides of modern gaming: Godot is the light side, open source, completely free, strong focus on compatibility and they want to enable people to have a good time both playing and building games. Unity is the dark side. Closed source, focused on advertising and micro-transactions, they barely care about DX and will break anything anytime. They don't care about gaming except for "caring as a marketing strategy", their goal is money.

Here's to the light side winning! Go Godot! You're the one we've been waiting for!