skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference comes down to a few things:

* the existence of behaviour score together with a functional report system, which I don't think was a thing in HoN. I'm at 10k behaviour score (max) and there are generally no game ruining griefers. Some people do trash talk sometimes, but nothing too obscene.

* HoN cosmetics actively encouraged players to BM one anther. e.g. the Dumpster Taunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4j4U7K6mc If you die while taunted you have a dumpster thrown on you and the global announcer tells you to get "dumpstered". Taunting a player right when they die (which is a strongly negative emotional moment) is a great way to tilt them and, in turn, make them grief, com abuse or generally bm. That negatively affects the rest of the players and the cycle goes on.

* A bunch of players in the HoN pro scene had really bad manners, e.g. Moonmeander was notorious for his trash talking, taunting and general BM. He actually significantly toned it down when he moved over to DotA - unclear if that was because he grew up or because the DotA pro scene is a different environment. Regardless, the behaviour of pro players sets the tone for how the community at large behaves, and the DotA pro scene is much nicer. (incidentally, this is why I believe pro players should be held at much higher standards of manners than the rest of the player base. Stuff like saying glhf, gg and generally not acting dickish should be mandatory)
we're not out of names for things

In addition to people repurposing existing words, I've noticed a lot of older words becoming common again.

- "Gaslighting" is from the 1920's.

- "Baller" is from at least the late 1940's.

- "Fly" is from the 1880's.

At least recycling words is better than someone inventing new words to make up for having a poor vocabulary.

Ex: Tastemaker → Trendsetter → Influencer
Zoom has huge distribution through their existing install base.

But so did Amazon when they launched their business suite, Workmail [0].

Email is one of the things you realllly don't want to move once you choose a solution. I can't imagine established organizations voluntarily migrating away from Gsuite or O365 to Zoommail (or Workmail)

And for new businesses owners, signing up for a business email generally comes before signing up for a video call service. Microsoft and Google both know this, which is why they both resell their suite through GoDaddy, NameCheap, and hundreds of other domain registrars and hosting companies.

Any speculation on how Zoom can succeed where Amazon hasn't?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/
Is PTSD really something only veterans suffer from? I've never seen anyone referencing it in any other context.
Didn’t listen to enough Wu-Tang

Though, I guess Wu is for the children, so SBF was unfortunately too old for their sage advice
> That's harsh.

It’s meant to be harsh. They’re mass-prescribing poorly understood psychoactive drugs based on unscientific assessments. They’re giving young children amphetamines for normal behavior (disliking school). They are kooks, and I have as much regards for them as I do for those that performed lobotomies.
The original understanding was wrong, and federal governments are wrong and should be abolished. A unitary government is better for democracy. People shouldn't lose representation just because they live in a place with more people than another place.
See? Even clients benefit from early delivery! The consulting firm can't just bluff about their ability to deliver! I guess the reason I brought it up at all is that this seems like a very preventable tragedy if people grokked some pretty easy principles. Ah, maybe in a generation or two...
> The problems that affect LA County are vastly different than RI - we should never cater the Federal to local aims

Except now it's reversed: RI - with a fraction of citizens of LA county - is catering Federal to local aims.

Not sure how identity politics ruined the electoral college but go off.
No, according to the Gervais principle engineers are losers who don't know how to run a company. An organization run by engineers would waste their time on unprofitable but technically interesting distractions. The closest economically viable structure is a sociopath plus a small amount of losers, i.e. a startup. But startups don't get $60M contracts until they've grown enough to acquire some middle management.
> That benchmark in particular has different rules for GC languages vs non-GC languages. Absurd, but true.

Fair to point out, but since that benchmark is "A simplistic adaptation of Hans Boehm's GCBench", those rules are perhaps not quite so absurd. It also doesn't explain why Julia should be so much slower than Java or SBCL. I rather expect Julia to do better here in the future.
The way Russians teach it, obstacles and mine fields just buys you some time.
Crucial time to put your pull your reserves to the critical areas, sight in your artillery or call in air support.
Even worse, it buys you very little combat time for a lot of preparation time.

However, on top of the shame for what Russians are doing in Ukraine, the shame for how they are doing it is almost as disgracing.
> That's where I'm calling BS. One, I've not seen anything that indicates that they have telegraphed any such thing

Maybe telegraphed is a strong word. That being said, the "independent state legislature" theory is one strongly evangelized by the Federalist Society. Six of the nine Justices are or were members, and several have only ever voted consistently with the Federalist Society's stated positions. I think there's a real risk there.
Even if it were legal (some think it isn't), it's still a good idea?
not to mention ORMs that query a lot of data through non ideal joins.
In 2019, FTX tried to attack Binance's futures platform. CZ tweeted about it then: https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1173418810918916096

Instead of retaliating, he generously invested in their company. Then waited for years. And when the moment was right, he crushed their business overnight with a single tweet, then swooped in to buy what remained. Check and mate.

Do not pick a fight with a billionaire.
https://archive.org/details/1960-the-golden-book-of-chemistr...
So average Joe can keep using whatever they're using, fine ! There is no obligation for them to migrate, and there is no reason underpaid overworked volunteers should make it easy for Joe to switch, especially if Joe is not open to change.
I loved CRT back when I had the privilege of using macOS as my daily driver. Now, I'm stuck with Windows, and since CRT relies on a huge mess of Qt bullshit, it doesn't build for Windows.
I'm not smarter by any means, but I do know a little bit about this.

As a response to the pandemic, the US Treasury spent ~$6T more than it collected in taxes: ~$3.2T during the Trump administration and ~$2.8T during the Biden administration,[a] and the US Federal Reserve reduced short-term rates and purchased $5T of treasury and agency bonds, flooding the market with liquidity and lowering long-term interest rates to their lowest level since WWII.[b]

As always and as ever, investors flooded with treasury checks and ultra-cheap money engaged in an orgy of speculation that would make even the most shameless drunken sailor blush. Crypto is perhaps the most prominent example of it. Trading in meme stonks would be another example. Pokemon Pikachu cards trading for $5M may be the silliest example. Or maybe the silliest example was all those smart people who came up with clever narratives to justify stock market valuations that otherwise look... unjustifiable.[c]

As the speculators threw money around while we all muddled through the pandemic, the world's supply chain system was hit with two massive shocks: (1) the pandemic, which is still limiting the availability of many items (e.g., iPhones made in China), and (2) Russia's war in Ukraine, which triggered a global food and energy crisis (e.g., there isn't enough grain being exported to feed the entire planet).

Both shocks are fueling inflation, prompting the US Treasury to cut spending and the Fed to increase rates and withdraw liquidity from financial markets. Increasing rates and withdrawing liquidity are very painful methods for reducing inflation, but they are the only methods that have been shown to work. As money started becoming less cheap to borrow and less easy to find, businesses and consumers started spending less -- first gradually, then "suddenly."

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[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=WdPZ

[b] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=WdQ3

[c] https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Same reason medical care is so expensive in the US: Insurance and the art of the upsell. The provider gets to charge high prices because the bulk of the cost is covered by insurance and thus "hidden" from consumers. The insurance company gets a non-trivial cut of the pie, which pads the bill further. And in my experience, when you go in with something wrong with you, most doctors will recommend (or perform without asking) tests that aren't covered by insurance and you don't find that out until the bill arrives in the mail.

I have a pretty standard vision insurance plan and need glasses roughly every two years. (Two pairs: one for indoors, and sunglasses for outdoors and driving.) I go into an optometrist office and get my vision checked. $10 copay or whatever for the exam. Then the pain starts. The frame selection is terrible and it turns out that the only decent-looking frames and lenses cost 3-4x what insurance will cover. And insurance doesn't cover more-or-less "required" add-ons to lenses like anti-glare coatings. And the person selling you the glasses is _very_ good at convincing you that you need all the extras.

I did the math one time and I paid $200 per year for vision insurance to save $190 (including the cost of the exam) on one pair of glasses.

The last time I bought glasses, I took my (recent) prescription to an online eyelasses e-tailer website and purchased a pair that included all the fancy extras for $60 out the door. I don't _love_ them, but I can certainly live with them for the price.
When I found out about the name collision, i did: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy/pull/234

It apparently never got merged. ;-)
(Minus) 94% of $16 billion leaves him a bit short of three commas.
It doesn't have to be literal.
the separatists are not likely getting handed “standard kit”. They’re likely getting what reserve units don’t want.
Thank you, hoarding now.

Also always loved this one from UNESCO (not what I usually associate UNESCO with): https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780385052757
"judges can't require the legislature to follow the state constitution" and "the legislature doesn't have to follow the state constitution" are functionally equivalent.

Ubi jus ibi remedium. If you have no remedy in the event your right is violated you have no right.
crypto "exchanges" are almost all structurally identical to brokerages
There's a whole space on Quora about that. Some people with actual combat experience, too. It almost makes it worth wading through all the auto-generated idiotic questions.

Fun interview with a Vietnam-era vet here:

https://operationcode.org/podcast#dick-sonderegger-link

He said he wanted to fly close air support in 'Nam. The Marines said, "No, you're going to be a computer programmer."
Can we perhaps take this opportunity to pour one out for Matt Levine? I can't think of any writer/journalist who can bring an often esoteric topic like present day financial shenanigans to life with such clear, intuitive and bitingly funny writing. His coverage of the whole Elon/Twitter saga alone is second to none.
Absolutely, but it's worth the trade-off for me personally. I get weird looks from my partner because of it though haha
I was kinda surprised when I dumped Prime. Most stuff still has free 2-3 day shipping on it. I think Amazon has shot themselves in the foot, and their own vendors are making Prime not worth paying for.
The idea is that for every 20 tanks the enemy has there's probably one RC bulldozer. Without the obstacles they would quickly advance over few hundred meters, now they are forced into a bottleneck, perhaps giving you just enough time to bring in the ATGM team.
> "just make it landscape"

Sometimes it's just worth the effort to make a mockup of that so they can see their idea doesn't work.
Wed is FB's usual WFH day so is this anything new?
> how we might go about fixing a massively complicated system like the NHS

You wont find a book to help with that because the real answers are not politically correct. Also because no one is willing to confront reality. It is inherently, politically unsolvable. You could sidestep reality and look for a solution that doesn't hurt peoples feelings, but the NHS is a cult as much as it is a healthcare provider.

What you are asking is, "How could we go to this Catholic Church and solve their Jesus problem". You can't do it without a paradigm altering schism.

I'd love to have a real discussion about this but no one is willing to emote even what the problems they perceive are and the bias they apply to define the root of said problems.
So is the other extreme more palatable to you? That the legislature can gerrymander however it so wishes, and state that there is -zero- avenue of appeal in any setting?
No. There are ACLs to protect them, see https://ntfy.sh/docs/config/#access-control

But for all other topics, yes. Knowing the topic means you can publish to it.
Well? Did he? :D
I suspect one whose own banking system is on par with BTC risk-wise. (Apologies to gp if that was clueless, it just comes to mind first.)
they actually had to turn down that system for being too loud. but at that level, none of the stuff is really COTS because it requires a ton of tuning due to each particular venue's layout and acoustics
Isn't that just indirectly sending funds to Criminals
The only silver lining of all these crazy insurance policies is that hopefully the concentrated capital could help get more security figured out....
Huh. I had this long call with our AWS Account Reps (+ Support Engineers) the other day and no one mentioned App Runner! This is the first I've heard of it. Looking at it now.

Ah I see, launched originally in May 2021. That's probably why they weren't aware of it. Yes, this looks cool. Very much what I was looking for.

The differences that I can see are...

* AWS App Runner lacks an advertised free tier. Not a big deal for all but the smallest projects though.

* AWS App Runner bills rounded up to the next second, whereas GCP Cloud Run rounds up to the next 100 millisecond.

* AWS App Runner doesn't charge per request (?!), whereas GCP Cloud Run charges $0.40/1M requests.

* AWS App Runner has fewer CPU/RAM configuration options. The lack of low end options may be a blocker for us.

* It's cheaper than GCP Cloud Run - $51.83 @ vCPU/1GiB, but 2GiB minimum, in Runner vs $69.642 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v1) $97.50 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v2) in Cloud Run.

* I'm confused by the networking model. In App Runner, you have to make an ENI for your App Runner service to access your VPC? Weird. There's some extra cost there I think.

Things that I can't determine based on the documentation...

* Does App Runner support committed use discounts?

* Does App Runner throw a SIGTERM before shutting the container down? I hope yes but I can't find docs on it.

* Is there a file system accessible on App Runner and is it just in memory or is there actually a disk to write to?

* The quotas & limits page on App Runner feels incomplete and I'm left with a lot of questions about it.

* Is there an SLA?

* In fact the documentation for App Runner just feels a little incomplete.

It looks like AWS definitely wants App Runner to be the answer to Cloud Run, but to me, it feels like it's not quite there yet.

It's also weird, that ECS Fargate lets you run a container without thinking about the server that it runs on, and App Runner does too, just with a few extra things. Why is it a whole separate service? Why didn't they just add it onto Fargate?

Re: Other services. I've only heard of API Gateway, DynamoDB and Lambda@Edge; I'll have to spend time investigating the other ones. Thank you for mentioning them!
Lynne Kelly in her book "Memory Craft" shares that the medieval bestiaries were used as a mnemonic to aid in memorizing the religious texts.
Boycott Luxottica.

Anyway, reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpKWHSsBpnE; glasses with user adjustable lenses.

Removes the need to customise the product to the individual, and the need to see an optometrist - it reduces the cost of the product and makes 'prescription' glasses a viable option even in nations without adequate medical services.
I guess I'm not understanding why this would be better than just changing your Linked-In status to 'available looking for work'?
Watch Dogs: Legion UNITED development ceased
Where are you getting that? Sundar has more than $1B.
In fairness to the article, it’s not actually about leaderless teams. Leaderless teams were just experiments allowing them to identify better leaders, who then went on to take positions of command.
If you're in Seattle, you're probably getting packages from like Kent or Everett. I don't see how they could afford a warehouse anywhere near the city.
Since there's a lot of good comments here, can someone suggest if what I'm suggesting to do in the company I work for is a good idea?

We run a lot of services in Kubernetes, some of those services also run background jobs (same container serving both HTTP and doing bg processing). I want us to migrate background jobs from our containers to a dedicated platform (e.g. Lambdas), because we can scale to 0 when not needed, we'll offload our Kubernetes cluster (our cluster will serve only HTTP traffic that is easy to scale for us) and if done right, we should have better debuggability/observability. Also right now we orchestrate our jobs with redis which means we need a redis instance for each service with bg jobs, but I want to move orchestration to a separate service that will store the data in postgres so instead of running x redis clusters we'll just have 1 postgres.

The tricky thing is the rewrite, but frankly, we still need to do it and we don't need to rewrite whole services, just the code responsible for bg jobs.
Their point is that if you have the money to buy $1.1B of something off market, you should also have the money to buy $1.1B of something on market. Any time someone posts an ask at or below $22, you simply fill the order.
Not the parent commenter, but I was on disability as a SWE following abdominal surgery since I couldn't drive to work and working remotely wasn't allowed by my employer at the time (2006).

So despite my job having me in a chair all day, my inability to get _to_ my job required a couple of weeks on short-term disability until I got cleared to drive.
Clearly not (and you're replying to a sarcastic comment).
BeamNG will blow your mind
I’m familiar with the story, and actually came across your comment a few days ago.

He didn’t feel right about it, but that’s not the same as hard data. They didn’t actually have data on the performance of the material at those temperatures, which is part of the big discussion with his managers. He essentially said, “we don’t know how it will act in those conditions.”

Granted, on a safety critical system, having no data should be a scenario very, very carefully considered as a harbinger of doubt, but having no data isn’t the same as having a concrete understanding of the risk. The problem with large, complex systems is you will always find someone who thinks management isn’t taking a certain risk seriously. I know aerospace engineers who squawk about the risk being too great, yet that’s a 5 sigma industry.

NASA reliability risk is usually quite rigorously defined. If he had hard data that said the risk was outside the acceptable envelope, it would have been relatively easy for the managers to stand behind him (especially when weather is driving that risk).

Columbia was similar. They had lots of data points that the foam shedding wasn’t a problem is different scenarios, but they didn’t have the same evidence about that specific scenario (the deltaV, flight profile, and where it struck).
Based on https://mrale.ph/dartvm/, it looks like there are two way Dart gets optimized now - either through a JIT like V8, or AOT compilation with a fallback for the methods that can't be devirtualized. The JIT still performs better, but the AOT code starts up faster. The next challenge is to combine them and eliminate cold starts with dynamic optimization.
the US is, to put it mildly, weird

my guess is that carriers/telcos offer unlimited SMS because they can data mine and monetize the shit out of it

also most people are still somewhere at the level of "the Internet is Google Chrome"
I couldn't disagree more. OP is about a good way to improve your communication skills, which makes more people on the team feel included and productive. This isn't some "kids these days" culture war BS, Dale Carnaige was saying similar things back in 1936.
> Please don't misrepresent me as agreeing with you as well.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that your comments are in agreement with @nonrandomstring's comments.

You did happen to admit to the efficacy of experiencing nightmares as a means of reflection[0] and are now only trying to argue that 1) it's not necessary for nightmares to be experienced past a certain point[1] and 2) it's possible for this reflection to be done via other means[0]. @nonrandomstring's point[2] has been that experiencing the nightmares is therapeutic as a means of reflection.

To speak to possibly why this miscommunication happened, I can look at their comments and see places where they could use "a" instead of "the" or "can be" instead of "is" but it's worth noting that I can also look at your comments and see similar things.

[0] > First, it's one stream of reporting among many.

[1] > And second, you don't need 1,000 nightmares to gather that reporting. Ten or twenty will be sufficient.

[2] > Suppressing them may not be helpful and actually just kick the can down the road.
The same reason that getting dumped by someone who you were about to break up with can hurt.
Agree. Chemicals at the local hobby shop (not Radio Shack, ha ha) were outrageously priced - for like a few grams of the chemical. With online sites (even Amazon) we do indeed live in interesting times.
Is there a Python library to create MIDI easily?
>Minority Republican (or Democrat) Governor in a state that votes (even overwhelmingly) Democrat (or Republican)?

This is impossible, unless the majority voters haven't been bothering to vote. The gubernatorial race is open to everyone in the state, and everyone's vote is equal (it's not like the legislature), so the governor reflects the popular will of the state.
It's safe to call a language for which there's no production compiler an interpreted language.
> Losing your job is awful in the best of circumstances

It can sure seem that way initially, but I know two people for whom it was the kick in the pants they needed - they started their own businesses and were much happier a year later.

Sometimes it's easier to just keep going to work every day than do what you really want to.
I've known people (programmers) who were on extended periods of disability due to lower body injuries because sitting for long periods of time caused them a lot of pain / exacerbated their disability / hindered their recovery.
Can you name off the top of your head 5 great inventions that weren't immediately realized?
Perhaps - but one engineer with a niggle is a problem, and a room full of them is absolutely a justificantion for re-evaluation.
I can't see how it's more democratic to remove any oversight or avenue of appeal in any setting to arbitrary decisions.
Actually, I'll take that back, since you're giving me the hugely better deal.

Also, our charities, since if she gets 5 years, we both donate. You sure about this?

There's still a question about suspended sentences and community service - do those count? I say No.