skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well that shows how un-serious your arguments are. We were discussing facts and evidence, not fairy tales and woo-woo and talking magic ghosts. If you're not a fact based person living in reality, you will believe whatever you want no matter the evidence, so your arguments are pointless.

Very applicable to your own posts.
Growing up in the intense, unfettered gaming world of competitive vidya was incredible, especially with FPS's. It temporarily gave us back something that the rest of modernity had taken away - a kind of Fight Club.

It was like a Fight Club where we could project our primal selves, like a primal urge to just fight and shittalk and rage, and that probably sounds nasty to a domesticated modern, but it really was A Good Thing. It's really just good fun at the end of the day, but even further, it's almost therapeutic, whereas we all have to wear our masks throughout our day, but then we got to be the competitive, shittalking, carousing, brawling cavemen that live in all of us.

Fight Clubs are for practicing taking hits as much as dishing them out. You practice giving your utmost brutality, your meanest, your dirtiest, and you also practice taking others' nastiest, because the world can be mean and nasty, and playing at that is one way to explore just how nasty it can be. When we play-fight in peacetime, it hardens us, prepares us for wartime.

If you're only ever exposed to people at their best, how will you know how to deal with them at their worst?

It's unfortunate to see these Fight Clubs disappearing at an increasing rate, with the advent of so many safe spaces. We need the opposite of safe spaces.
well per https://www.xbox.com/en-US/legal/community-standards#iv you shouldn't "Post game clips that will offend many others". Also I should "Know the difference between trash talk and harassment". Ah very clear.
> MacOS is fairly visually consistent. Windows regularly has me in Windows XP era screens, reached through 3 inconsistent UX steps developed along the way.

I take that as a feature and is the whole crux of this discussion. I don't need ODBC or many such archaic features but if someday I need to use it, I trust it will be working.
If you had shown me this article in the 90s, it wouldn’t have made a lick of sense.

The FBI is collecting, aggregating, and indexing massive amounts of U.S. citizen’s communication data without a warrant? And the question at hand is whether they followed proper procedures in accessing that data?

Yes, they searched the database. But I’d ask how you got the data into the database originally without conducting a search?

It’s like if you told me you’d record everything I say just in case it’s a crime, but promise not to listen to it unless you think I committed a crime. Or, if once a day, you came into my home and inventoried everything promising only to make use of that dataset if you have reason to believe it’s relevant to a crime. And then the topic at hand was whether you incorrectly accessed that dataset?

It feels like we’ve slid right to the bottom of a slippery slope argument about privacy in the 90s. And one of the senators we were worried about back then [1] is now president, and is probably going to keep the program running. How did we get here?

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/decrypting-puzzle-palace
Sounds like we have a healthcare CEO shortage then because the market is paying an exorbitant amount for something that doesn’t need to be as scarce.

With that aside, I suspect (and many other commenters here as well) that there’s price fixing involved in executive pay, creating an artificial floor that insulates from the effects of the labor market
Book 1 felt different than the other two, yeah. Some things in 1 I found more of a stretch than in the others. Book 3 went kinda Inerstellar?
My takeaways from the series:
Bacteria and mosses and lichens live interesting lives; NASA's "shout" to Voyager 2 risked exposing us to other life in this dark forest; and the night sky is even more wonderful to behold. I like to imagine I'm stuck with my back against the earth, looking out instead of up.
R5RS was unanimously decided.

R6RS was decided by the majority.

What if we just did something where R7RS was decided by 2/3 vote?
At the heart of it, Falun Gong is an anarchist organization of the 1990s as described by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lamborn_Wilson

in the sense that they create a "Temporary Autonomous Zone", their practice is basically wholesome and based on Buddhism (cultivate your karma by right livelihood) and Daoism (cultivate your life energy or Gong by physical and spiritual exercises.)

I almost got a subscription to The Epoch Times in 2016 but they rapidly pivoted in a pro-Trump direction that I just couldn't accept.
It is their platform. Xbox has no legal or even moral obligation to provide services for people who cannot maintain the basic standards of civilized behaviour.
There is a technical report for C (from the C standards committee) called 'Embedded C' which extends C with 'named address space' storage qualifiers. So you can do 'float _Gpu myarray[1<<14];' As far as I know, nobody uses it.
https://archive.is/uMVdo
> I say run an experiment: Set up some moderated servers and unmoderated servers, and let people vote with their controller.

That's what we had with community servers. And you could generally find one which meshed with your skill level, gameplay style, and tolerance for abuse. I would quite like that back, TBH, so yes, let's have that experiment! (but like, have the moderation in that community as well, not imposed by a corporation. Apart from you can have different standards in different places it's also generally more effective. A bad actor (cheating or abuse) in most of these lobbies will still ruin the whole game, because they don't get banned for a while. I'd say that's ineffective moderation, regardless of the accuracy of the decisions).
Xsel: A XPath 1.0 Go library/CLI that can query XML, HTML, and JSON documents
xsel was made for two reasons:

* My dayjob where I sometimes need to query thousands of XML documents.

* For fun.

Support for HTML and JSON was recently added as well, and you can also use it in your Go projects.

I figured if it's useful for me, surely someone else will find it useful as well.
There are literally millions of millionaires in America. Millionaires who always have fresh water, food, electricity, a home they own, etc.

So what?
Southern California is great (I live there) but its not exactly Western. My family is from Northern California, by way of the gold rush and very waspy, hence very guess culture. "I wonder if someone should open a window?"

So cal is in the west but most of the people didn't come over during western expansion or work on a farm or ranch. A lot came from the mid-west. So its sort of more like Arizona or even parts of Texas.
Surely the most wealthy are not paying 50% income tax on their annual increase in net wealth (see what I did there)? When there are so many ways to avoid it.
Surely you can revoke a session before it expires?
I loved my old single sheet 6502 reference card that helped me through many things on the Apple ][+/][e -- see http://www.atarimania.com/documents/6502%20(65xx)%20Micropro...
ScapeNet: Real-time object detection in RuneScape (2021)
A good option is to start by precisely copying simple drawings: while (precise) copy is of little to no artistic value, it's immensely useful to learn the craft.

For a beginner, I would recommend a two-fold plan:

1) spend 80% of your time copying well-chosen works (things you like, and that are at your current level);

2) spend 20% of the remaining time, first getting a firm grip on perspective, and then experimenting, sketching around from life/memory/imagination, etc.

Perspective is foundational[0].

Balancing copy with experimentation is essential: when sketching around, you'll make mistakes and confront yourself to various problems: you'll then be able to look for solutions in the works you're copying.

For 1), perhaps consider Bargue plates[1]: they were precisely designed for beginners, by experienced artists/teachers. There are numerous tutorials (e.g. [2]) on the Internet covering the details, as the plates are used by essentially all modern "ateliers".

A final note on preciseness: it has two main advantages:

1) you can "easily" self-evaluate (as it gives you a clear goal);

2) you're more likely to notice subtle, fine details you would have otherwise missed with a hastier approach.

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/46915/pg46915-images.ht...

[1]: https://barguedrawing.wordpress.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZm7qih71-w&list=PLOxIqHbLWH...
https://archive.is/ixYL3
> these two items are mutually exclusive

How? Why?

> about 95% of manure right now is produced by animals that are fed "non-organic" corn

That's not the only way how to get manure, right? Three field system, for example. And manure is not the only thing we could use, we have also compost and mulch and nitrogen fixing plants and companion plants and agroforestry etc.
Yeah exactly. The way I explain it to people is that the orange light lulls you into wind down mode the same way that stepping outside on a sunny morning peps you up.
Peter Thiel: The Diversity Myth, a Retrospective
Oh, I usually watch the ones where there's someone in the show doing chest compressions on a person's neck at 30bpm. Or where Dr. House makes some ridiculous prediction based on evidence that would be inaccurate in the real world.

Wired and Vanity have some good videos in the vein of "Forensic scientist reacts to CSI" and etc. GameSpot has a good one reacting to firearms in various video games. There's too many medical ones to mention. I don't think I've found any entertaining coding related ones yet.
The Motorola 6809 was (and still is) considered by many to be the most powerful and technically capable of the 8-bit CPUs. Its powerful PDP-inspired addressing modes, flexible registers, deep instruction set, layered interrupts and multiple stack pointers fully supported writing position independent, re-entrant code. This enabled native multi-tasking, multi-user operating systems to be written such as the Unix-like OS/9. Unfortunately, Motorola misread the potential market size and wildly overpriced the CPU for the first few years of its life, which is why it wasn't selected for any of the lower cost, high-volume home computers of the era despite its clear advantages.

Little known fact: Apple's initial Macintosh prototypes were based on the 6809 but the Mac was later upgraded to the the 6809's big brother the 68000 after Steve Jobs negotiated a very low price for the 68000. As a technical aside, the honor of best 8-bit CPU should correctly go to an even lesser-known 6809 variant, the second-source, Motorola-licensed Hitachi 6309. The 6309 was 6809 compatible and fabbed in CMOS allowing it to run almost twice the clock speed of the 6809, plus Hitachi added additional registers, instructions and optimizations even beyond the 6809.
I see comments like yours more than I see anyone suggesting actually using shared_ptr widely. In my experience, most people (that use smart pointers - many do not) prefer to use unique_ptr where they can.
> I have to carefully check that it's non-null even if error is null.

Yes, that is true; at very least you need to read to documentation to understand if there is a relationship or not. Whereas Either defines an explicit dependence between two values, freeing you from that. With that, clearly they cannot be equivalent representations. I am surprised this is not obvious to you.

Honestly, I don't know what the rest of that gobbledygook is all about. It reads like one of those weird posts by Rust users we keep seeing where one is wallowing in the sorrow of not being able to grasp Haskell.
This seems like a non issue... Can't you just invalidate existing sessions/tokens immediately when an account is suspended?
One small additional point. I completely agree that Jagex has done a great job maintaining OSRS. Polls for changes to OSRS typically require 70% of votes to pass[1] instead of a simple majority. This is part of the reason why it is difficult to get major changes like new skills added to the game.

As a long-time player, I really enjoy the conservatism this leads to in the evolution of the game. It is great to be able to pick up my character after a year or two off and have a very similar experience (+/- a few quality of life updates I'm likely to appreciate).

[1] https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Polls
I'm making a UO inspired MMO and have been wanting to play more MMOs lately. Anyone similar up for experimenting with RS, WoW HC, Zenith, LiF, MO, UO player servers, or anything? Hit me up!
What you have is a healthy and emotionally normal relationship with your past negative experiences. That’s good! It doesn’t mean that you’re perfect or that your interpersonal issues aren’t real; it just means that a monocausal theory of psychology that blames everything on “trauma” or, worse yet, “childhood trauma” doesn’t apply to you.

People by and large don’t understand how their brains work, but if they’re suffering or struggling psychologically, they seem to want some sort of explanatory model to make sense of it. So it’s easy for people to buy into these models. The trauma model is one of the more fashionable ones these days. The problems with this model, especially the more pop-psychology version, are (a) it doesn’t fit what we know about actual, serious trauma anyway and (b) it seems to encourage people to catastrophize their past experiences in order to try and make their life story fit the model. This is also counterproductive because catastophization is itself a cognitive distortion that should be corrected rather than indulged. Focusing on childhood trauma in particular also sounds suspiciously Freudian to me.

Another thing to point out is that even serious traumatic experiences don’t necessarily lead to psychological issues in the future. Most people have a natural resiliency to them. But if people believe that any unpleasant or negative experience is going to give them full blown PTSD, it’s more likely to happen. There are cases of this happening cross-culturally when well meaning western aid workers offer to counsel people in third world countries who experienced natural disasters.
Lots of Microsoft app compat success stories out there, but plenty of breakage too. One example: I had to create IndirectInput [1][2] to fix Myst on Windows. Microsoft refused (via private email thread with leadership) to take responsibility for what is clearly an appcompat bug and were borderline jerks to me about it too. Oh well.

[1] https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput

[2] https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019256854-Myst-...
I told the university CS department that I wanted to endow a chair there.

Not a professorship -- an actual chair, that you can sit in.

They'd heard that joke before, unfortunately. I think they're missing a financial opportunity here :)
> why didn't the local people just live in the houses the roman left?

There are many things suspicious with this question. Why do you think people en-mass left? Why do you think nobody lived in their houses after they left?
How exactly is economic power divorced from political power and vice versa? Power is power.
> The idea of C as a portable assembler is not without its problems

The main problem is that C is not a "portable assembler". You mainly argue that it should be, but it simply isn't (and hasn't been for a long time if it ever was).

> The people that work on compilers have significant overlap with the people that work on the standard. They certainly seem to share the same culture.

Isn't that beside the point? If you want C to be a "portable assembler" you have to write a standard that specifies its behavior. The compilers will then follow.
What do you mean by this claim that what is io bound today may be cpu bound tomorrow?
On reflection they might have just googled "steam safety valve" and copied the first image they saw, they probably didn't need an expert involved.

They hadn't insulated their piping, which would have led to condensate forming in deadlegs and causing steamhammer issues, but to be fair I don't believe the Mario Bros had designed or installed this system, and it was exploding at the time.
This is due to a long time of the standard library being seriously lacking. Even today, group / groupToMap still aren't standardized, nor are iterator methods. It used to be even worse though.
I've been thinking for many years that the port o pottie world is ready for disruption. Endless customers, clear value prop, not a lot of technical risk.

Just make them not gross, people will buy that.
Something about this smells like a bad attorney. Especially the part where he didn’t know that he was free until his card stopped working. But who knows, and it doesn’t matter anyway since the legitimacy of the court system is supposed to rely on common ideas of justice rather than process. If all we have from courts is process, it’s no longer justice, only bureaucratic oppression.
If you want to have some value, precisely copy from photographs.
https://archive.is/25eSJ
https://archive.is/0sqkq
Seems pretty clear to me. There is a pretty big cliff between trash talk and harassment.
France has a workable system - you do all interactions with the machine - it doesn't weigh your items - but a clerk oversees you (along with another 3 ppl) and checks your receipt against your bags at the end.

Like the Costco receipt checker, it's very unlikely this person will flag anything unless you're suspicious as hell. It's like those "eyes stickers" in Asia - to keep honest people honest.
It's quite clear to me that C is appropriate for applications work. Most applications I use on a daily basis are written in C (and were written after the 90s), and most of the rest are written in C++. What makes you think you can't write applications in C?
“Thanks to integration with Terraform providers, Pulumi is also able to support a superset of the providers that Terraform currently offers.” From Pulumi’s site
"The 2.2 million incorrect claims represent less than 1 percent of the more than 729 million total copyright claims issued in the first half of this year, 99 percent of which originated from Content ID, YouTube’s automated enforcement tool. When users disputed these claims, the case was resolved in favor of the uploader of the video 60 percent of the time, according to the report."

You're using numbers from a completely different issue. This isn't the automated Content ID system this is a manual claim.
Lolita the orca dies in captivity before return to the PNW
So now we’ve moved to comparing CEOs in different industries? Your own post compares executives to workers and workers to African workers. The post here talks about CEOs making vast additional sums while workers are getting pinched. Why are we suddenly comparing CEOs in healthcare to CEOs in other markets?
Hashtag completely ignores that my example was of google fiber and att fiber both in Irvine CA. Got to score those sweet red team points, facts won’t stop the points!
I like the good ol games that you played with lan parties, with friends sitting next or across you. We could shit talk and give compliments for all sorts of stuff. And we'd have snackage and was an awesome party.

When's the last game that had a self-hosted server, instead of some company-run (until they don't) server, with some shitty bolted on gambling or hats system?

I want my old Internet and gaming back. Where we ended up is isolating and terrible.
> You’re comparing workers in two vastly different markets to workers in the same market.

You're mistaking region for (labor) market.

The market for different kinds of jobs is different. Otherwise everyone would be paid the same.
https://archive.is/miV9n
That's an interesting attempt to deflect from the income disparity between those in executive positions to those that work for them. Even in tech, while the salaries of tech workers is high it's nothing compared to the execs.

But let's follow the deflection. Instead of monetary disparity, lets look at energy waste disparity. It was recently shown that the top 10% wealthiest Americans contribute to 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country. As you said, we are all on the same planet. just because they have managed to grab a bigger piece of the pie shouldn't mean that they get to pollute the planet more than anyone else. In both cases the mindset needs to change and those at the top maybe need to be a little less greedy overall.

source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230817163849.h...
It’s created by unregulated investment in family housing.
YouTube regularly recommends me into Legal Eagle, which, among other things, reviews lawyer dramas. And it's curious how, within the span of an episode these can get very niche details very correct, while failing at other things (that may be less specialized and should have been hard to miss). It is clear that these dramas, or at least some of them, have consultants that know their stuff. So, to me, rather than a lack of expertise, it seems more like an internal clash of two camps, where the wins get divided up between the storytellers (scenarists) and the expert consultants.
You dont really need a blackout. How many people can actually tell you the size and location of the contamination? Even the official limits of the exclusion zone are nonsense dating back to Soviet Bureaucracy. Wind meant there are contaminated areas outside and harmless areas inside. Also like the article stated, they are unlikely to have experienced any negative impact themselves.

Also, the Greenpeace statement mentions fires, which are a far far better explanation for a spike in measurements.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/54762...

They also have pictures and mention the Russian camp was at "Stantzaya Yanov" which i cant find a reference to outside of the Greenpeace report. But i would suspect that wouldnt be directly in front of the very visible sarcophagus.

edit: Maps in the report
https://www.greenpeace.de/publikationen/20220718-greenpeace-...
Page 6 says the camp was 26km from the plant.

edit1: Estimates from https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/339/2018/

https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/10/339/2018/essd-10-339... with longitude and latitude and Greenpeace puts the camp at 51.1663, 29.9645 SSW of the reactor. Which would put it in a safe area. Meaning they were right to be not worried if the trenches were at the camp.

edit2: It being the byproduct of Russian navigation efforts is quite a compelling explanation. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unprotected-russian-sol...
But most askers can still implement some level of guessing, and fall back to asking to clear up any misunderstandings. Guesser CANNOT. Asking is superior.

And it is guessing, because at some point it requires mind reading to accommodate. Again, most askers still understand, they are just sane enough to understand that mind reading is impossible.
As a person that regularly plays competitive games, I can tolerate some cheaters from time to time, but my tolerance on stupid people is absolute cero. Everything is muted.

Both a cheater and someone yelling hate speech should be banned on the spot, no strikes, but whatever.
Stevie wonder was one of the pioneers of the Fairlight Synthesizer, which was possible for him to use because it used a text interface navigated by arrow keys, rather than a fiddly GUI with unpredictable placement of drop-down menus. Arguably, a touch-screen GUI would have the same predictability (because of consistent placement of active elements) as the Fairlight text screen. In short, rather than being a tasteless joke or a stunt, it was an instrument that he could profitably use, which was demonstrated by the fact that he actually could use it.
Every language makes it easy to do things that you probably shouldn't be doing. I don't know how many times I've seen naive accidentally-quadratic string handling code in high level languages, for example.

Your answer is just buzzword after buzzword. What makes C bad for writing applications?