skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary victims and perpetrators of the Khalistani movement in Punjab were fellow Sikhs. The vast majority of Sikhs were killed by Khalistanis during the years of terror.

> the murder of muslims in India in general?

Your accusations do not pan out in any statistics. India is a safer place for Shia Muslims than any non-Iran country in the middle east. India is the only country where Ahmediyyas are not prosecuted.

There is no 'murder of muslims in India in general'. India has communal tensions just as every heterogenous country has communal tensions. But other than uncontrollable riots where both sides are usually injured, Muslims are treated fairly in the Indian system. If anything, India practices affirmative action towards Muslims, allows islamic schools (madaras) and gives them fully independent management rights of all islamic institutions. None of these allowances are extended to the majority population.
Apple has a far stronger and more recognizable brand than Nintendo so I’m not sure why you believe it would be sullied by an acquisition.

Apple generally leaves its companies alone. Look at beats for example.

If Nintendo would be acquired I suspect the only changes you’d see are ads for Apple services when visiting Nintendo.com or playing their games.
What’s Next for Windows and Surface Without Panos Panay?
> Yeah, including immoral actions that others may disagree with.

The morality in this instance does not follow this principle. If people find these allegations credible—and most should—the morally correct action is to deplatform him and delete his content.
> The Prime Minister of Canada just did a state visit to India, where he was not warmly received, and made to look foolish on the world stage.

Have you considered the possibility that the reason he got a cold reception was he brought the accusation he just made publicly? Would put the issue with the plane in a whole new light too...
The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?
It’s also amusing to see someone talk about JavaScript and PLT in the same sentence, given the practical origins of JS.
Airbnb party preventer Naba Banerjee reduced parties 55% in two years
> Surely they now need to steal more phones to make up the difference?

Not necessarily. If they can't make enough money from stealing iPhones, they may quit and go into management.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28434
So, in a presentation from 2015, SpaceX predicted 20M users by 2022, and they missed the mark. This was a presentation to investors, to drum up support for their plans. Subscriber numbers are still increasing. This seems like a case of being a bit late on a optimistic prediction about a massive 7 year undertaking.
That is my understanding. Papers can be wrong for different reasons, some nefarious, some honest mistakes. The problem I wouldn't say is with the paper itself. It more of people citing it with a lack of peer review or lack of replication. And also peer review being like a stereotypical "LGTM" approval on a pull request.
Enriching uranium is hard. "Synthesize this gene sequence" is easy and potentially more destructive.
Strange to define something as better with ~0% market share and not meaningfully growing, but sure.
I agree but it's notable that Schlieffen, like many German officers who worked on war plans leading up to the Great War, wasn't even drawing lessons from his parent's experience - he partook in the Franco-Prussian War himself.
UniFree: Migrate Unity projects to other engines
I'm sure it will get to 20M paying customers, eventually. But most of the inhabited planet is well served by terrestrial 4G/LTE. And the places that don't have terrestrial mobile service are also largely unpopulated. It's great for ships, but that's still in the 100k range. The Russia/Ukraine war has proved its effectiveness. But that is still just 1000s of terminals.

In every instance where Starlink could be more usable than terrestrial we're talking a few million at most.
I never said you weren't free to say what you want. Clearly you don't intend to argue in good faith though.
GPT-4 says: The behavior you're observing is due to the late binding nature of closures in Python. When you use a lambda inside a list comprehension (or any loop), it captures a reference to the variable x, not its current value. By the time you call funcs[0](), x has already been set to the last value in the range, which is 2.

To get the desired behavior, you can pass x as a default argument to the lambda:

funcs = [(lambda x=x: x) for x in range(3)]
funcs[0]() # outputs 0
That is very well-written, as someone else pointed out, though this common explanation for laypeople needs work (I'm not blaming Signal's blogger, who wrote it more carefully than most):

"Instead of bits as in a classical computer, quantum computers operate on qubits. Rather than 0 or 1, qubits can exist in a superposition of states, in some sense allowing them to be both values at once."

'Instead of beads as in a classical abacus, our Quabacus operates on Quabeads! Rather than positions 0 or 1, quabeads can be in both positions at once!'

Beads that are simultaneously in both positions sounds like a f$@!#g annoying glitch and not a feature - how does that help anyone record or calculate numbers? ('Would someone take a look a this broken Quabacus-abacus and resolve these g#$%!m glitching quabeads?!!!') It mocks the non-technical reader, who assumes they must have been given enough information to understand why it's faster and possibly how it works, but can't figure it out.

They have not been given enough. Does anyone who perhaps understands it better than I do want to take a stab at a new commonplace explanation, one that connects the dots between quantum superposition and performance (for certain calculations)?
If someone is asking if they should decide between RabbitMQ vs Kafka, they should 100% use RabbitMQ. It means they have no idea what they're dealing with, the architectural differences, and the investment that the company needs in order to use Kafka.

So use RabbitMQ.
> You can get all the same advantages of message acknowledgments.

Maybe 95% of cases, but not all.

Long message processing time really kills kafka in a way it doesn't kill Rabbit Mq. Combine it with inherent read paralelism being limited to the number of partitions. Add in high variability of message rates and bingo, that's like 90% of the issues I've had with kafka over the years.
I live close to a small city in the Northeast of Germany and driving here is a dream. Nothing like LA. (Which is the city a deleted reply mentioned as an example of cars destroying nice cities. LA's problem is more one of overpopulation, if the population levels were as they were a few decades ago it would be wonderful to live and drive in LA.)

I would like to also mention the blatant disregard of traffic laws by the many cyclists here as an unnecessary burden on motorists. You should be required to take theoretical and practical driving exams no matter the vehicle if you intend to put wheels on the road, otherwise you are a danger to all parties. Helmets on the road should also be required just as it is for bikers.
It’s Not About the Technology – Game Engines Are Art Tools [video]
And the sad/funny thing is that said tool would probably do diddly squat if one employee falls for a social engineering/phishing attack.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37505168
> Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place.

Just the one? If only.

Every time there is a story on HN that is even tangentially related to either HIV or LGBTQ+ sexual health, it inevitably devolves into a morass of misinformation and thinly-veiled homophobia. There are different degrees of it - some is presented in a more "civil" veneer, which helps it stay upvoted, but at its core, it's all coming from the same place.

Public health professionals who specialize in HIV and LGBTQ+ sexual health are actually pretty unanimous in their position on this topic, but somehow that never sways these folks (which should be a pretty good sign that they're not arguing in good faith).
Secretions (1992)
> then you obviously have every single resource name, required values, and relationships between them memorized

I don't.

> crawling over broken glass as compared to click-ops-ing something in place

I do not experience reading the terraform provider docs like crawling over broken glass but okay.

I program with Python also and it's not like I have memorized every class and function either, but still, I and millions of other people somehow manage get by.
Agreed. They don’t know what to do with xbox yet think they can steer Nintendo or valve(let alone manage to purchase them.)
I poked around trying to find a high level understanding.

Here's the best place to start from what I could tell:
https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/concepts

Based on that, it's a MPP columnar database focused on low-latency streaming-ingested/realtimeish use cases open sourced by LinkedIn's infra teams:

"Pinot is designed to deliver low latency queries on large datasets. To achieve this performance, Pinot stores data in a columnar format and adds additional indices to perform fast filtering, aggregation and group by.

Raw data is broken into small data shards. Each shard is converted into a unit called a segment. One or more segments together form a table, which is the logical container for querying Pinot using SQL/PQL.

...
Logically, a cluster is simply a group of tenants. As with the classical definition of a cluster, it is also a grouping of a set of compute nodes. Typically, there is only one cluster per environment/data center. There is no needed to create multiple clusters since Pinot supports the concept of tenants. At LinkedIn, the largest Pinot cluster consists of 1000+ nodes distributed across a data center. The number of nodes in a cluster can be added in a way that will linearly increase performance and availability of queries."

Also per https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/getting-started/frequen...

Q: When are new events queryable when getting ingested into a real-time table?

A: Events are available to queries as soon as they are ingested. This is because events are instantly indexed in memory upon ingestion.

The ingestion of events into the real-time table is not transactional, so replicas of the open segment are not immediately consistent. Pinot trades consistency for availability upon network partitioning (CAP theorem) to provide ultra-low ingestion latencies at high throughput.
However, when the open segment is closed and its in-memory indexes are flushed to persistent storage, all its replicas are guaranteed to be consistent, with the commit protocol.

...
Q: Why are segments not strictly time-partitioned?

A: It might seem odd that segments are not strictly time-partitioned, unlike similar systems such as Apache Druid. This allows real-time ingestion to consume out-of-order events. Even though segments are not strictly time-partitioned, Pinot will still index, prune, and query segments intelligently by time intervals for the performance of hybrid tables and time-filtered data.
When generating offline segments, the segments generated such that segments only contain one time interval and are well partitioned by the time column.
Or ‘oh, that feature hasn’t been rolled out yet, expect it in 6 quarters.’.
They changed names recently, but yeah.
Please don't post like this to HN. We're trying for more substantive, and above all curious, conversation.

You may not owe "elite pricks" better but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They certainly dont add $100 million of value. Probably add at least as much as they're paid but that's not saying much
It sounds to me like you aren't really even sure what you built. I have operated both rabbit and kafka at scale I definitely do not have it backwards :)
And also - you can somewhat take care of bugs by evenly distributing them to your test & control group.
Hydra design- new looks, old gods
We've gotten positive comments about our brand design. Some are wondering "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?"

Sharing our design inspiration for Hydra. Hope you enjoy!
Yes ... because we've seen how well regulators have managed everything else in the UK ...

Water?
Energy?
Everything else?

Man, this is going to be fantastic ...

The UK has an problem with regulation ... amongst everything else in this sh!thole.
Thanks, useful reply. I just realized that myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576558

The peer comments along the lines of "the expecation is it does what it does" are not so helpful from a perspective of learning to write code that is in harmony with the language philosophy.
Yes but the courts are legally empowered to lock someone in a cage for years. So they should be working by a different standard than a company firing someone.
Should have? Yes, it would have been better.

Is it reasonable to expect them to do so? Maybe. Probably not pre Me-Too, and especially if they didn't know about each other.

Does it change my interpretation either way? Not really. Contemporaneous records from an independent third party undercut most of my concerns.

Notably, many US states don't have statutes of limitation for rape. Practical reasons can be overcome.
Modem Grrrl – Future Hacker St. Jude (1995)
Welcome to the goolag, comrades. As sad as it sounds. This stuff is emerging in 
WEF
different countries almost simultaneously. Do you see the pattern here? I do. Freakin prison under disguise of safety.
Why do you believe this would happen? Seems like fud. More realistically you’d simply be able to play on Apple TV and on an iPhone via controller with seamless switching via some hypothetical “GameDrop”
True, but I define end of time as a 32-bit integer number of seconds from 1970.
Populism is a response to corrupt and incompetent establishments. There's nothing competent to drive out by the time populism rears its head. It was already long gone.
One of the (younger) queer creators I follow posted about how they'll occasionally stumble upon pictures of the famous "NO OBITS" newspaper headline[1], and feel a surge of hope for our species.

https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=280418
That isn't it. Advertisers have repeatedly shown a huge willingness to court severe controversy. They use obese people to advertise swimwear, they run ads that tell men that they're toxic and terrible.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gillette-woke-now-when-...

“These are smart people, they do so much research. They know they’re taking on a topic that could be controversial," said Rob Baiocco, co-founder and chief creative officer of BAM Connection, a New York-based marketing firm.

The actual thing motivating these people is simply hatred towards anyone who doesn't bend the knee to their new religion. That's it, that's all there is to it. Beyond that, there is no motivation.
Luckily, all but tiny portion of security products have a door you can open if you ask support nicely enough you didn’t know about before. So you can still get your stuff after you weld the door shut.
To my knowledge, no proof has actually been publicly presented for this claim. There have been a few stories that didn't pan out (like the one that boiled down to, "Huawei devices have telnet installed"), but no actual evidence of backdoors has come to light yet.

This is despite the fact that Huawei has been under an extraordinary level of scrutiny for years. British intelligence was given extensive access to Huawei's hardware and code, as a condition of Huawei equipment being installed in the UK. We know from Snowden that the NSA hacked into Huawei HQ, but there's no indication that they found any evidence of backdoors. And despite running a global campaign to convince/pressure other countries not to use Huawei, the US hasn't publicly unveiled any evidence of Huawei backdoors. British officials have even admitted that the UK's decision to ban Huawei was based on pressure from the US, not evidence of wrongdoing.[0,1] This all makes me think that the US, UK et al. don't actually have proof of backdoors.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/18/pressure-...

1. https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/uk-bann...
I suspect as much

went to a game yesterday and after pointing me to the tip buttons, the guy said “we accept cash tips too”

Pulled out two dollar bills on the spot
but until then, figuring out micron level tolerances over meters can be done with perfect circles using Non Uniform Rational B(Basis)-Splines.
> afka is a code smell in a lot of organizations from my experience - most do not need it.

Kafka is really nice if you don't care that much about latency during peak load and you don't have absurd processing times for messages.
Not for sqlserver, but for postgres working w/ python, the psycopg library has a API for getting the bound parameter expression

https://www.psycopg.org/docs/cursor.html#cursor.mogrify

Most of this I would expect to be more on the client side than server (though w/ sqlite you are working w/ both)
I think no FAANG company has a singular stack, but Apple definitely has quite a bit of Java on the server side.
This meme is commonly repeated on HN, but I think it's inaccurate or at least greatly exaggerated.

There's nothing casual about Go's approach to language design, and I haven't seen any evidence that they're unaware of what other languages do.

I also haven't seen much criticism of languages other than C++ or Java.
Ah we do! Either old school exception logs, or exceptions caught in a trace (which is the most similar to Sentry in this case).
I think you mean September 2021 because that's what it has been on for a long time (and that's what mine is currently saying).
> the algorithm steered the videos to become more clickbaity, divisive, and frankly crazy. He probably saw that outrage-bait videos were getting double the views. YouTube's algorithm plays a massive part in what goes into people's heads and they should be held more accountable.

I'm a YouTuber, and I want to be very clear on the above.

I know I would get way more views (and subscribers, and money) if I did more stupid clickbait stuff. But I don't want to, that doesn't make me happy. Also, professionals should not do that out of being professional.

A house painter would make more money if he did a rush job, and a TV reporter would get in the news more if he told blatant lies on live national TV. Just because a person can make more money short term doing something, it doesn't mean they should not take 100% of the blame for doing it.

I could very easily make videos of doing highly illegal stuff, which would likely get a zillion views. Am I then less responsible for doing it?
The parent comment is poorly veiled moralizing and faux humility.
Years of institutional decline and a political class that genuinely loathes the people it rules and anything good about the country they inhabit. You can put the date at 1997, 2010 or perhaps earlier depending on your political leanings.

Maybe those in power have always felt that way, but it certainly seems more pronounced in the post-9/11 surveillance and security state.
SORRY!
Typo in link to High Performance Browser Networking site -- aka HPBN -- correct link is https://hpbn.co
The argument is that it's impossible to build your company without government benefits. First (and foremost), they hold a monopoly on violence that they use to protect you. In many countries, they guarantee a degree of healthcare for your employees. And so on.
What you think Elon did with regards to Ukraine is almost certainly incorrect.
What "meddling" are you talking about?
I don't think this view comes from a poor understanding of Nintendo's success. Remember when the Wii came out and people thought the motion controls sucked and games which heavily used them didn't sell well? What about Switch games which make heavy use of motion controls (e.g. Super Mario Odyssey)? Turns out those sell well today because Nintendo invested yesterday in their motion-reading capabilities: hardware.

Certainly they see a lot of success due to choices around branding and going the Disney route of protecting their rights to Mickey Mouse^W^W Mario at all costs but they also see a lot of success from hardware innovations they've made in gaming.
I'm currently reading Jennifer Egan's excellent article in last week's New Yorker magazine about a supportive-housing facility in New York City [1], and its depiction of their Housing First approach is one of the most encouraging things I've ever read about addressing homelessness. Meet people where they are, address their most basic needs, and their lives become much, much better. If it can work in NYC with all its challenges, I think it can work anywhere.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/a-journey-from... (archived: https://archive.ph/2023.09.12-175108/https://www.newyorker.c... )
Valve may be the single greatest asset to desktop Linux at this point (after Redhat, possibly), and it would be such a shame to have all that destroyed.
Chemistry still has a ton of issues with people exaggerating numbers that can't be contested like yield and purity of reactions even among the top journals. Straight up fraud is rarer yes.
I've always thought that the Xbox should double as a regular Windows desktop, but I guess I'm missing something about how that would not be the best strategy.
Putting all of Nintendo's titles on iPhones, as you suggested, would not be leaving Nintendo alone. Nintendo has its own hardware and ecosystem.
>Apple has a far stronger and more recognizable brand than Nintendo so I’m not sure why you believe it would be sullied by an acquisition

This just isn’t true.
Almost all DC power supplies are switching power supplies these days, which convert AC to DC first, then use DC-DC converters to get to the final voltage. I would think AC transformers are quite rare in homes these days. Maybeeee some microwaves? But the majority of power consumption is happening after rectifiers.

Edit: another thought, most chargers and other low power DC power supplies will actually work just fine if you feed them sufficiently high voltage DC rather than AC. The recifier just doesn't do anything! I used to power my laptop charger directly from a lithium battery at about 100 volts DC with no trouble.
While sexual assault is serious if true, it's also the only crime that can ruin someone's life and livelihood with no evidence or actual crime taking place.

Additionally there is often large financial incentive for accusers (and their lawyers) via lawsuits and it serves as a fantastic method of hurting people politically even if they are exonerated.
It doesn't have to be a full acquisition.

They could just get Nintendo games on Xbox and PC, or gamepass.

That would benefit consumers greatly, if Nintendo games were on other platforms.
"For the children" is how they sell removal of freedoms and justification for putting the general population under surveillance. The managers know what's best for all of us!
Using a PDF where 0.03% matters is insane no?
Brand image is a complicated concept but it consists of a lot of different pieces over a long period of time that build a public perception. Often, good or bad brand images are not due to any one single thing, but the totality of things that the public knows about a brand.

While a single bad apple might not sink a brand, if it starts to become a pattern, it can ruin brand image over time.
No! My beloved Nintendo no, please.
Can self hosting deliver content at the scale we're used to now?
yes, thank you, whoops!
(too late to edit)
Yes, their plan is to serve the hundreds and hundreds of millions of people around the globe who don't have access to terrestrial gigabit fiber.