skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly. Also she actually had an interview in which she admitted that she exaggerated to sway Italy's five star party because they were against sending arms. I can try to find the interview, but it doesn't seem like anyone on HN actually thinks questioning things that come out the people that lied about the Iraq war is worthwile. but below is an actual investigation that isn't quite as rosy.

Original: https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/06/27/7354838/

Translated: https://www-pravda-com-ua.translate.goog/articles/2022/06/27...
Football fields unit is fine compared to worse unit here. "Tokyo Dome" is quite common unit in Japan TV. I believe majority of people don't know how is it big.
I guess I'm just getting old. I don't need a voice recorder to find and list previous recordings. I need it to record voices. Quickly. Inside one process.
The problem is, it wasn't good, or perhaps that it didn't match traditional pc or console gaming.

It lacked the titles, game play wasn't smooth, and just wasn't what people wanted.

So I would say that it failed to meet market demands, and failed to deliver on what it said it would.
There is no valid historical or political justification for this

Why so ? Don't be so lazy.
Stadia was a bad idea, it had very little adoption, and Google was right to kill it.
I mean people buy google phones, it can't get a lot worse than them. And they aren't bad phones either.

Imo at the end of the day people don't give two shits about privacy, convenience is king
Images of topless women and men.
> Game industry is notoriously known for exploiting programmers.

I'd be wary with these kinds of words.

The thing is that people seem really, really eager to work in the video games industry. (Just like people are really eager to be artists or musicians or pet vets or teachers etc.)

Approximately everyone who programs for the game industry could also land a cushy job writing boring CRUD software.

I do admit that it's tempting to show compassion for people who put up with crappy working conditions and low pay in order to work in their beloved field.

(Especially if that field sounds socially desirable like teaching.)

But unless you severely restrict entry to the beloved industry, conditions and pay will always be lousy compared to what similar skills could get you in an unglamorous field. That's just supply and demand.

> Imagine being a SWE working 12+ hours a day 6 days a week getting no rest. I might have accidentally coded something like this so that I could go home a couple of hours earlier.

In the case of the game industry, more likely so that you could work on the next ticket during the eternal death march.
I think you are assuming the derivatives in question are wild, complex, speculative derivatives. This is almost certainly not the case. They are most likely long dated interest swaps.

Pension funds have a duration problem, they are managing long term liabilities (what they owe to pensioners) and need to ensure they have enough assets to cover the present value of those liabilities. If interest rates move, then the present value of those liabilities may change a lot because of the new discounting. So they try to reduce that risk, either by buying assets that behave in a similar way with respect to interest rates, or by entering into long dated interest rate swaps. I think the leveraged repo positions they are refering to is doing the same thing as an interest rate swap by going long a long term gilt and short a short term gilt (or the other way round), but basically they try to create an interest rate mismatch to take some duration exposure.

So this is pension funds reducing the risks, not speculating.

The systemic risk here seems to be mostly a concentration problem and feedback loop. I.e. the more interest rates move up the more pension funds need to sell gilts to hedge their duration or post collateral, the more gilt prices collapse, the more interest rates move up.
The problem has two sides. On the one hand there's finance where some people are taking risks, creating instability that will mostly hit every day folks when things blow up.

But on the other side are those every day folks. They want their pension money to gain a profit each year so they'll have a decent pension when they retire. At the very least it should match inflation but preferably a bit extra.

Investing money (almost) without taking risk is possible but you'd have to stall all the money at the ECB or some other central bank, and until recently you'd have to pay a negative interest rate. This wouldn't make pension holders very happy.
So pension fund managers take risks. They surely take as little risk as possible and they are excellent in picking opportunities that give a comparatively high yield for their risk: but they are taking a risk, otherwise they would never come close to beating inflation.

And sometimes the risk blows up, and everybody is all upset. It's easy to blame those filthy rich fund managers but people should also look into the mirror sometimes.
Everesting – Climb the Equivalent of Mt. Everest
But it's so bad... It's so strictly in the "toy" category it's not even funny..

Somehow this fits well with teenageengineerings line of very overpriced products with a tremendously high focus on novelty and high markup and not much else.
That's actually what happened at Slashdot. I scraped a slice of all postings a few years ago and there was a notable trend where early UIDs below 200K were posting the bulk of comments.
It's pretty obvious that the individual posting illegal content is the person responsible for it and not the platform it's posted to, unless the platform is soliciting or refusing to remove said content.

Websites with content moderation should be allowed to exist.
Stacks in idiomatic Java aren't usually that deep (pointers instead of in place values) so this isn't that big of a deal, unlike say in C++.
There's a big difference between latency vs throughput.

We had lots of 'free' improvements in throughput. But latency still requires careful attention.
begs the question is just so much more elegant and expressive than raise or prompts that it is really sort of funny to assert otherwise.

Having said this, on the internet, I must now defend it.

to beg in conversation is of course more energetic than raising or prompting. When you beg it is urgent, a question that has been raised can be tabled for later, a prompt can be ignored as we point at a different reporter we know is more likely to ask about how this affects the First Lady, but if the question is being begged it demands an answer from us.

To beg calls forth the image naturally, for those who think in images, of a beggar. A beggar has moral urgency, they need what we have to give, and that moral urgency of the image is transferred to the question implied by the subject of discussion.

To prompt or raise a question have absolutely no visual analogue, they are lifeless, bloodless, and should be buried before rotting.

Why do you think that this more common usage of beg the question has come into play? It's not (necessarily) ignorance, I believe the cause is that the phrasing in English far better supports what is wanted and this allowed the phrase itself to spread among the population as a tool for expressing thought.
Just check how much GPU memory games are using, it take a while to load a process the assets before they are ready to use, so the bottleneck is mostly IO I believe, AMD and Nvidia were working on improving that by loading assets directly into the GPU instead of first go to the CPU+RAM and then the GPU.
How did you instruct Copilot to do the conversion? I've always used it just as a smart auto-complete.
12 x 2.54 cm. Exactly.

More interesting, maybe, is the length of the Dynastic Egyptian cubit: pi/6 meters, 52.36cm.

So, measure the Great Pyramid's King's Chamber: 10x10x20 cubits, exactly. Or, as exactly as the Egyptians could manage, somewhere between 3 and 4 significant digits. Very precise, for masonry.

That is thus 5.236x etc. meters. But 5.236 is also, by divine coincidence, 2phi² = 2(phi+1), and also, by even more blessed coincidence, 5pi/3, to five significant places, closer than the Egyptians could measure.

(Recall, phi = (sqrt(5)+1)/2 ~ 1.61803... pi ~ 3.14149265...)

So the King's Chamber, measured in meters, but only in meters, is both 2phi² meters and 5pi/3 meters wide. (Or 5tau/6, if you prefer.) And, of course, twice that long.

Some people are bold enough to suggest that when the meter's length was chosen, the guff about Earth's circumference was a shuck. By another divine coincidence, the Royal cubit of France was also 0.5236 m, equal to the Dynastic cubit, and the corresponding "span" (equal to 1/phi² cubits) was exactly 20 cm.

At the time the meter was defined, the French had not yet invaded Egypt. Could a masonic tradition preserve ancient measure through two millennia after the last dynasty?

Some people insist the diagonal, from one corner of the chamber to its opposite is special. But it is just 10sqrt(6) cubits, or 10.00+2sqrt(2) meters... to three places. Another coincidence.

Numerology is all fun and games today, but to the ancients it was all deadly serious business.
This is what I would like too. I want my repos to be public, but my contribution activity to be hidden.
This isn't what new grads actually do. They're in the same boat you're in, algo classes have a lot of theory but LC is a different beast entirely
YMMV.
I have wifi pretty much disabled, only enabling for updates, I disabled when they told me that there was no encryption at rest. I am not sure how much you write, but for the last year I have changed my nib twice, so that does not really bother me.
The thing is hackable and you can do whatever you need with it.
https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
TLDR only if you start with blue color
Except MAUI is the next version of Xamarin.Forms, that they decided to rewrite.
Having a list of all audio recordings always shown on the right pane is kinda an optimization (VoiceRecorder.exe). The usefulness is limited, because VoiceRecorder can't edit them, only play back and set markings.
Stadia seems a massively expensive service to run - both in operation costs and captial to get game developers to port games to it. It would require massive user base to even break even (I think).

What's wierd is that Stadia ever existed - it was clear to anyone with half a brain that making it successful would require years of massive money sink (see Microsoft Xbox, GamePass and Xcloud) which Google was never prepared to do.
That is why you put a stop on the muzzle - the red thing with a hole in it you might have seen or even used if you were in the military - so that enough pressure is built up to cycle the action. Another function of the stop is to catch any small bits of plastic from the blank rounds which might otherwise be ejected at eye-piercing speed.
Can't wait to see the housing market crash to through the floor.

If this happens then private equity funded businesses will sweep in and buy as many houses as possible, for cash with no upward chain and no mortgage issues. You can't compete with that; a serious price crash will probably lock you out of home ownership forever.

There are already companies doing this. A crash will accelerate it. Eg https://slate.com/business/2021/06/blackrock-invitation-hous...
How do you teach to avoid being killed?
Thank you so much. I love the end:

"In corporate religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right."
That's a good question. Many companies want to get to as close to fully funded as possible so that they can offload the pension from their balance sheet and transfer the risk to an insurance company.
In Danish, the key is sometimes jokingly referred to as »seværdighedstasten«. »Seværdighed« being a location of interest (and »tasten« key).
> Also, what is the story with preemption - if a virtual thread spins in an infinite loop, will it effectively hog the carrier thread or can it be descheduled?

As I understood it, there's no preemption. You're supposed to not do busy waiting on virtual threads (and better not do it at all, use wait-notify or a barrier or whatever). Virtual threads are for I/O-bound tasks. For CPU-bound tasks you'd want an OS thread per CPU core anyway.
It's not even a good vs bad dev issue most of the time, I can imagine lots of devs at Rockstar who hate working there and are under strict deadlines from managers so they just make it work while they leetcode and apply to faang for better salaries where they'll "finally" optimize things, etc.
My understanding is that there are healthy startup scenes in Bucharest and other cities, producing companies like https://uipath.com, so even though that old generation got scrapped, the future seems hopeful. And hopefully corruption is rooted out over time.
There are still a lot of companies owned by individuals or families. You just don't hear about them because they seldom take the big risks necessary to produce disruptive innovations.
I still don't get the use of Catalyst to get the iOS code running on macOS instead of proper macOS bindings, like the Visual Studio for Mac team had to use for their rewrite (they aren't using MAUI).

Then the whole Blazor hybrid stuff, there is a Web browser for that, no need to make the stack even more complicated.
definitely not just tech companies either.
Vulkan is needed because the performance trade offs made by OpenGL / direct3D aren’t appropriate for some graphics engines. Vulkan allows knowledgeable & well funded developer teams (like Unreal) to make their own abstraction layer on top of the graphics card’s capabilities. And in doing so, get more performance out of their engines.

Having only OpenGL/D3D was like if the only way you could do network programming was via python. Python is easy enough to use but it’s not well optimized in every use case. Vulkan is like the C of graphics programming. It’s useful when you want to get in there at a lower level, because the higher level abstractions leave too much performance on the table.
I think Google showed with Windows Phone that they were very much willing to sacrifice a few users of their huge platforms in order to sabotage any competitor platforms entirely (e.g. refusing them access to the YouTube API, and refusing to develop a YT app for WP). I think that once Amazon and MS stopped developping their phone OSs, the message was well and truly sent: you either make a Google phone, or you try to make a popular phone without easy access to YouTube and GMail and Google Maps (obviously, Apple was already too big by the time Android really got going for Google to have any chance of hurting Apple more than themselves with this same strategy).
I disagree. This is terrible analysis: it's wrong about Sun and it's wrong about Stadia.

Sunray failed not because people didn't want utility computing. They clearly do - utility computing kiosks are absolutely everywhere. Sunray failed because the Sunos/solaris userspace wasn't adequate to provide a utility computing experience people wanted. In fact it was total garbage. You can see it there in the screenshots. CDE, a desktop only a mother could love. No applications worth a damn except Lotus. I worked as a contractor at a large bank and when Novell refused to say that Lotus 123 was y2k compliant they ripped out 2 sun workstations from every trader's desktop and replaced them with windows boxes. They literally had a skip/dumpster outside the building where you could go pick up sun hardware they had chucked out. The only good userspace tooling on Solaris around 1998 was for developers and even there the sun workshop debugger was pretty sketchy[1]. I speak as someone who owned a Spark 5 at home and had solaris workstations on my desk at multiple jobs. I really wanted to love Sun and kind of did love Sun hardware, but their userspace was always severely lacking.

Likewise Stadia didn't fail because people don't want cloud gaming. The success of Nvidia GForce Now and Nintendo's new stream-things-to-switch architecture for several new games proves that[2]. Logitech is also about to come out with a cloud-based mobile gaming device (although that may struggle to compete with Steam Deck which is a device you own for about the same price point). Stadia failed because Google completely failed to look at competitive offerings like GamePass and offer something compelling as an alternative. Instead they did a full-price cash grab on the games and just said "trust us" to keep the service running (which everyone knew they would not honour and they did not honour).

[1] This debugger has the unique distinction of being the only debugger to ever core dump on me when I was trying to load the core dump of the program I was trying to debug.

[2] https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/
Also from the EU.

Guns can be a fun sportive/recreational tool. They are of course dangerous and deadly when misused, but so can be a lot of other recreational tools.

The main problem is the US’ gun culture and that a lot of people buy them either because of fear-mongering or to make a political statement, with safe use & enjoyment being a secondary concern. Having so many guns out there in the hands of people who are poorly trained at using them safely & harmlessly is the problem.

In a location with a healthy gun culture, or no specific culture associated with them, a gun would be considered as boring as any other dangerous sports equipment, there would be less problems - there would be a lot less guns around but the ones that will remain will be in the hands of passionate users who actually have the skill, training and mental state to enjoy them safely and responsibly.
Why would it be indexing if no files are changed?
Ah, Human Music
Hey Chris! Do you happen to own the sst package?
> Discriminating people is illegal

No it isn't. Discriminating against certain classes of people is illegal. It's perfectly legal to discriminate against individuals based on their behavior.
> Metaverse is an interesting idea

It just seems like a mix of xbox kinect and roblox

maybe zuck is just having a midlife crisis, who knows
> A bullet coming down

You know that every bullet follows a ballistic arc right? Cos you know, gravity being a thing. And there are specific tradeoffs that are made in gun and ammunition design to maximise stability and prevent tumbling (with the exception of rounds specifically intended to tumble, usually in close range anti-human weapons)

So, the Federal 150gr .308 ammo I use, when zeroed for 200 yards, has two zero points, one at ~28 yards (I'm vaguely remembering this, so numbers may not be perfectly accurate), the other at 200 yards, if I've sighted it in right.

At 100 yards, the pill will be about 1.5 inches above my imaginary horizontal firing line, at 300 yards, about 4" below. 400 yards, 11 inches, etc.

It's not tumbling at those ranges, but it's very much descending, and very much lethal.

I mean, that's why we use _rifles_, the rifling imparts aerodynamic stability, and that's also why I'm using 150gr, it's far more stable in windy conditions than a lighter pill. If you go higher in grain, you get more stability, but the arc is necessarily higher, which makes long range shot placement trickier.

(Likewise, why people seeking flatter trajectories choose smaller pills with more powder behind them, my friend's
.220 felt like a laser at 300 yards due to the flatness of it's trajectory)

Hence why firing angle is very significant here.
That and forgetting that even if their assets and liabilities balance in the long run, they can still get blown out on margin calls in the meantime.
Who would they be stealing from?
The Essence of Software by Daniel Jackson
Ah, human music
Watch Firefly's Second Orbital Launch Attempt of Their Alpha Rocket
Not worthy of being called WWIII
Iollo (YC S22) is hiring a founding full-stack engineer
Look at Max Martin - his songs are massive hits because they are highly engineered and use a proved Swedish recipe / formula / composition techniques (ex: balanced lines) that on paper are actually quite simple. On paper.

If it were as simple as it looks, everybody would be a Max Martin or somebody would train an AI on his canon and maybe actually have something decent. Music is based in emotion, and the bits and bytes aren’t close to simulating anything close other than probably raw schizophrenia.

The current state of AI music? There’s no amount of money you could pay me to listen to it for an hour a day for a week. No way. It’s that bad.

Counterpoint: a moderately musically inclined person with Propellerhead’s Figure can come up with more pleasing and coherent music on their third or fourth try that would put any of these to shame. It’s just reality at present.
https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_and_elections/

"When you vote in favour of a person, you are making that person a moderator for yourself, regardless of whether they win the vote or not.

There is no such thing as becoming a candidate. You just flip the mod switch on from Preferences. This will enable the mod UI in your client, and you can start modding. This will generate moderation graph entities originating from you. These will only be valid for you, and the people who chose you as a mod (i.e. voted for you) in that community. This will also make your name appear on the elections list. From there, people can check your past actions without applying it onto their own client first, and your reasonings for them (Mod actions provide an optional ‘reason’ field to be filled in). If they like what they see, they will vote for you, and for the person voting, you will become a mod. That means your mod actions from that point on will start to affect what that user sees.

Election makes it so that the people who come into a community, who have not chosen or disabled that particular mod by themselves, will use the mod list shaped by the elections. If a user has explicitly chosen a particular person to be a mod in that community, that takes precedence. Likewise, if a user has disabled a mod, that person will never be a mod for that user, regardless of the results.

That is all being a mod is: some people liking your curation enough that they decide to apply your curation to their own view as well."
I've been calling in the bun('bulle' in Swedish)
Or a customer trying to figure out what the payment app of the week is.

Almost everyone I knew used Google Wallet, which was pretty nice, until they shut down the cards at which time it became utterly useless since you could only use it in the Play store. That's one reason I've never used Android Pay or Google Pay or whatever it is now. Too unreliable.

A lot of us switched to Simple for awhile, but then that went defunct too.

So now we're all back to "Are you on Venmo or Paypal or Square Cash now?" whenever we want to transfer money. And sometimes just paper checks, because ancient as that is, it's still the most reliable (as long as both people have bank accounts). Most of us now have regular credit cards for payment, which are also more reliable than any app.
I'm using an ad blocker, and with a cold cache, clicking a Twitter link shows a blue bird for a second, then two blue spinners (center and top) and then after 3 or 4 more seconds I can finally see a message that's a maximum of 280 characters long. News sites don't load much faster. Pages like HN are the exception, and mostly come from the tech corner. I've been on some brand's online store a few days ago and it felt like they want to drive customers away.

But fair enough, it might not actually be most websites, but enough to not be a rare experience either.
Why is it more complicated?

They presumably wanted to recursively enumerate all the files under the Sound recordings directory?

(In any case, for the application programmer the difference between recursive enumeration of files vs only what directly in a specific directly is likely only one flag or so.)
Abother one drinking too much. Like any technology it might have some use cases but most people need to touch and interact with the real world.
just spun 2 cx21 servers with hetzner (20TB bandwidth + 1€ per extra TB)

thanks!