skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the major releases were slowed down to once annually to keep up with TC-39, that seems frequent enough.
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I think the reason people are so willing to invest in SC is much different than the reason people are spending tons on in app purchases in mobile games.

SC is a game in a genre that has been mostly dead for years (free economy space sim) so when someone buys in they are buying in in hopes of an old genre getting revitalized.

SC is also pushing the boundaries in terms of technology. No loading screens, vast universe that takes days (real time) to cross. 1/4 scale planets. Animations for everything, you turn your head in your ship it turns. You touch a control in your ship your character touches it. Multiplayer throughout the universe, sometimes with thousand of objects all on the physics grid synced up with all players. Basically all items have physical space, rather than just a DB entry somewhere (all on the grid). You literally stack inventory in your ship and secure it.

So with SC you are paying a lot to buy into a super premium space sim. Your purchases go to funding the game. The emphasis is not on the game's quality or on the mechanics itself but instead on taking advantage of your brains wiring and using the game as an outlet to get you to spend money in an addictive fashion.

With mobile games you are buying into a feedback loop which is solely designed to make money off of you. Usually with loot boxes and gambling mechanics.

tl;dr SC is expensive but it's more like an expensive premium good as apposed to a gambling simulator. So they are quite different in what you are getting for the high price.
Since this is a transactional database, why not simply UPDATE … SET at = at + 1 WHERE at >= new_at & then INSERT? Things like this usually aren’t insanely write-heavy.
I know I would have been happy if this whole thread never existed, but alas, the root comment came to be.
Fortunately for linemen this risk isn't quite as high as it seems. If you are feeding power back power to the grid when it should be off your neighbors are likely to use enough power as to blow your local circuit breakers.

Do not use the above as an excuse to not have proper backfeed prevention on your system. It is a last resort that might save a life, but there is always the possibility that the isolated section is small enough that you can supply your neighbors without blowing any breakers.
Hey guys, founder of Spectrum here. If you have any questions about Spectrum, reach me on gaurav@spectrumapp.io :)
No, this is not at all like gapps, you're thinking of the 'microg' stuff?
No, because the password encrypted with the password recovery key is never sent to the server. It's encrypted and downloaded entirely on the client.
I would consider it an education use which puts it into a whole other area of copyright law.
The article says:
>For this video, The Wall Street Journal met 31-year-old Daigo, who dedicates most of his time—and financial resources—to “Fate/Grand Order.”

Thus, it explicitly says he spends "most of his financial resources" on the game. For anyone to spend > 50% of their financial resources on a video game is clearly indicative of an addiction.
Not sure about AWS but it looks like an answer to Microsoft's Azure AD hosted services.
I've seen some pretty stupid analogies in my time, but the idea that logging onto a web service other people use to broadcast stuff they want to broadcast to the world is "violating their personal space" in a manner akin to covering their lawn in trash is going to take some beating.
I so desperately want to use MicroG, but keep having to go back to the official framework. The handful of apps I use that rely on Play (Lyft, Transit App, One Bus Away) all insist the Play Framework needs to be updated.
I reluctantly agree with you. Employees are smart, especially the ones that harass others and they need to be exposed.
I am finishing my bachelors in CompSci at Harvard Extension and just got hired by Google. And I've got about 20 years on you. So yeah, absolutely, this can work!

It was fun and challenging competing with top computer science students. In the long run, my organizational skills, focus, determination and world experience outweighed their raw brainpower and better memory.

It's an ultramarathon, not a sprint.
What's stopping you? In theory nothing but in practice many things.

Atheists still have to live in the real world. The real world doesn't run on people fearing god it runs on, among other things, laws and reputation. Most people wont steal from you because they don't want to go to jail not because god is watching. Most people don't screw over every person they meet because then they'll get a reputation as a person to not work with. Say you decide to play the long game and "pretend" to be good until you get your chance to betray everyone for your payday. Some might say that's just good old fashioned capitalist business, a system atheists and the god fearing alike participate in.
That crosses into personal attack. Please don't do that here!

New accounts should get the benefit of the doubt; imagine what an unwelcoming place this would be if they didn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/02/12/facebook-losi...

Facebook is losing the young audience in a big way.
Do you have a source for this claim?

References like https://www1.nichd.nih.gov/sts/campaign/science/Pages/backsl... and articles like https://www.npr.org/2011/07/15/137859024/rethinking-sids-man... make it likely that the increase in sleeping children on their back is the bulk of the reduction. And that the fact that blacks are less likely to take that recommendation is the reason why the black community has twice the death rate of whites.

This is something that I have a personal interest in. My nephew died of SIDS months before the recommendation about sleeping positions was reversed back in the early 90s. My sister did not smoke. She did put him to sleep on his stomach.
We are not talking about some small made with love startup here that no one cares about. We are talking about military contractors, financial companies, law firms, consulting firms, public stock corporations, etc etc. places with hundred or thousands of employees and millions if not billions in revenue. You are woefully niave if you think you can run a major company in any of these areas without eventually having employees who are going to do illegal things. People do a lot of crazy things, some for personal reasons, some to get promoted, some because they think they were sanctioned by their boss, some perhaps thought it was best for the company, and so on.

I understand what you’re saying here, and sure, maybe in some small private companies or organizations this is a tragic loss of privacy, but everywhere else it is simply the cost of doing business.
Thanks for the information. FWIW my main issue with inline styles is, my use case would be taking the HTML into another system, and the more pervasive the inline styles are, the more likely they are to override our the desired styling contained in stylesheets produced by that system. They may help your product work better on purely its own terms but they are (IMO) highly suboptimal when HTML leaves your system and travels.
Jehu Garcia [1] does a bunch of youtube videos on old batteries and different DIY powerwall designs. I'd say to always double check his work, because I've seen some stuff that looked a little dangerous, but for the most part what I've seen is good.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMfCkN1juSa49DJFYltOTw
Very true. You probably still need to trust that the developers' Github accounts aren't compromised. I was looking at their repo[0] for this Service Worker verification, and their "So what's the problem this solves?" section confuses me, as it doesn't explain the how. :/

[0] https://github.com/airbornio/signed-web-apps
This is the part where I make some reply that subtly suggests that everyone BFE is a backwards hick, that there's no economic opportunity there and that kids who don't get out will all turn to drugs.

If I really wanna show how out of touch I am I should take pity on anyone who lives somewhere without over 9000 ethic restaurants and bars that serve hipster micro-brews within walking distance and mention startups somehow.

(yes, this is sarcasm)
If you're thinking about using Mastodon, the CounterSocial[1] instance is worth considering. It's run by "The Jester"[2][3], who has experience running secure/hardened systems, and who takes more of an active role in countering bad actors.

[1] https://counter.social/about
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)
[3] https://keybase.io/th3j35t3r
> or bootloader unlocking, one or more steps involve running some tool that isn't open source

fastboot is open source. That's literally all you need to unlock the bootloader on a great number of phones. The vast majority of users don't need to root their phones, and doing so is a pretty big security hole for the users that think they need to.

On the other hand, your alternative is to stick with OEM/carrier OSes, which are quite obviously compromised for benefiting the OEM/carrier and not the user.
I agree, and this is the first time I can ever recall disagreeing with one of HN's admin title corrections that I noticed.
Awesome. Congrats!

That said, it was kind of clear from your original post that you were headed in the right direction! Hell, just reading/asking Hacker news meant you already had two feet in the community :-)
Perhaps this is a clarifying question: are the activities associated with 'free range children' covered under child abuse laws?
Ah - cool. That makes sense!
Any other specific examples you care to share of things that you were surprised to find would not be covered?
Well I wasn't saying court them... there is a spectrum of ways to treat companies. Courting is at the far end, right now the US is at the opposite end of that spectrum with respect to its treatment of Kaspersky. Being more toward the middle of the spectrum would also be a possibility.

[Edit: ok, "make nice" (my words) does sound like courting, but I was thinking of it in a more neutral way.]

That being said, I really don't know whether Kaspersky deserves the treatment it's gotten... not having followed their behavior closely. It very well may, for all I know. But it's possible there is blowback from that.
Cambridge Analytica and Social Terrorism
Brian Goetz has talked about this as well - see FP is Dead - Long Live FP (https://youtu.be/ROL58LJGNfA).
How recent is your experience with "traditional" phase detect/contrast AF? There's been some ridiculously good improvements even in the past 12 months in cameras like the Nikon D850/Sony A7 XXX, to the point where fancy "lightfield" style setting focus in post like the Lytro is way lower on my personal wishlist than it once was. The eye detect AF in the Sonys is frankly superb when working with extremely shallow DoF. This stuff typically filters down range to cheaper models really quickly as well.
The US has a slow decline where the acceptable level of risk to expose your children to is nil. This is not good parenting; good parenting involves teaching your children to navigate the world with increasing independence and ability to judge and handle risk. It is, however, what people will pressure each other into doing when something bad happens (or looks like it might).

You cannot and should not prevent every possible bad thing from happening to your child. It doesn't produce the best outcome.
This is a tangent^: How many people dump a laptop with a usable battery. My experience has always been that the battery is first to fail/suck.

^to the main point, this is a cool project. go DIYers. try not to get killed
Sorry, but you completely misunderstand the situation. This is not about moving profit to the US and the US is not the tax haven I'm talking about. Get your USA out of your head and just accept that they don't pay the taxes they are obliged to pay in the EU by evading them.
The original Guildwars would warn you if you played the game too long and tell you to go outside and take a break.
>self-driving tech and more will be cynically attacked too.

Not cynical at all. We have to push back or we risk the hellworld scenario: the well-to-do safe and secure inside self-driving cars that don't brake for pedestrians. [1]

Pedestrians likely made homeless by NIMBY protectionism preventing the construction of shelters and restrictive zoning that limits housing supply to astronomically expensive single-family homes.

1. http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/
Nice idea, but the design of this leaves a lot to be desired.
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Once I went to Stanford to attend Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture. During the talk he wanted to show some search query on google. What he did next was interesting. He typed yahoo.com in a browser's address bar and then searched for google on yahoo's search to reach to google!!
Remember that most windows antivirus (except perhaps Microsoft's own) patches into the operating system somewhat similar to malware itself to do all the things it does.

Malware programs patching the same parts of the OS are likely to trip over each other.

Such a combination would be highly unstable, not to speak of incredible slow.
Yep. I work totally remotely and Slack felt fundamentally different to email: my extensive DM's with coworkers felt very analogous to physical contact.

Sometimes, if you're working in an office, you just want to lean back in your chair and whisper to your coworker "what a fuckin awful meeting, what was [boss] thinkin?". And as a full-time remote worker, Slack was the only place for that. I feel this will make 100% remote a lot tougher and more isolating because the life-line that was private contact has been severed.
Page is broken on iPhone SE. Overflow hidden larger than viewport.

Unfortunately, poor mobile usability on their dev sites is very common for Google, which is something I could never understand
UK Military granted 'List X' status to Cambridge Analytica parent company
I worked on something that never shipped – 'lost' work is part of a larger story
China to Target Trump’s Base in Tariff Response
I'm much more of an emacs than vim user, but the "wrong IDE" part is not quite true. Most IDEs support the common languages that you've listed, but once you go a bit further into domain specific, it is not as common any more. Speaking of what I'm familiar with (statistics), even SAS is supported in a very spotty manner, or at least was last time I've checked, and this is a popular language that has been around longer than C. At best you would get some limited R support, which really pales in comparison to what you can get in Emacs (and surely vim). Sure, sometimes they have their own IDEs (RStudio is quite good, and so is Matlab's IDE), but they have their own issues. I'm sure the same is true for lots of other DSLs.
They are not encrypted but signed with an elaborate algorithm (I worked on ActivityPub server implementation).

Twtxt is minimalist but functional: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
These are preserved by the participants of the conversation. A third party shouldn't have any hold on it.
> It makes sense that Google is extracting it into a separate product but most companies just stick with whatever their productivity software provider is, like G-Suite or Microsoft Office 365.

While available standalone, this is explicitly pitched also as an upgrade (Premium Edition) to what is included with GSuite (which is Cloud Identity Free Edition).
Indeed, it's a very strange line that hasn't been called-out sufficiently in rhetoric.

What does "put lives in danger" really mean? It seems to be a deliberate blurring of the lines of culpability.

Most things "put lives in danger," in some sense (a just war, the invention of the automobile, rock climbing). Obviously the benchmark for what is acceptable must be much stricter than "put lives in danger," particularly when it's the lives militants.
Why and why it's interesting?
A New Wearable Brain Scanner
Ask HN: Where can I learn VPS management for free?
MY website keeps growing and I need to move from shared hosting to my own VPS

I'd rather not have it managed by the provider. I want to manage it myself.

Where can I learn to do so?
For those down-voting this question, keep in mind the FAQs mention that stories can be posted from paywall sites that have work arounds:

Are paywalls ok?

"It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Younger programmers may not appreciate how big a revolution the quantitative approach to computer design was. It now seems like an obvious idea: since all machines are Turing-complete, instruction sets and architecture should be optimized for performance across some representative workloads. Since the instruction set is one of the variables, the tasks must be specified in a high-level language and the compiler becomes part of the system being optimized.

Before that, instruction sets were driven more by aesthetics and marketing than performance. That sold chips in a world where people wrote assembly code -- instructions were added like language features. Thus instructions like REPNZ SCAS (ie, strlen) which was sweet if you were writing string handling code in assembler.

H&P must have been in the queue for the Turing award since the mid-90s. There seems to be a long backlog.
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Computing’s highest award goes to guys who made smartphones possible
Your tablesaw example doesn't really disprove anything, that's why they now have riving knives[1], push sticks and lifting guards that make them a heck of a lot safer.

It's not that they can't be made perfectly safe, but that you take reasonable safety measures and mitigate risks appropriately. If he had this off in a shed ~40ft from the house that's a lot different than inside the garage.

The article didn't mention how he's connecting it to the grid so there's a very real possibility that he could have an inverter directly connected which is why we have building codes and inspections to catch things that have the possibility to kill people or do significant property damage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riving_knife
You are my favorite kind of atheist, the one that comes along and lectures us that the word atheist essentially means "correct", and no one else has any business at the table of ideas.

A fairly big irrational claim of atheists: The universe created itself from nothing.
I've gotten the impression it's really an issue in areas where nobody walks anywhere. There seem to be more of those than there were even a generation ago, probably as small town and suburban "main streets" have declined, people have longer commutes so less time to spend walking around town, etc.

People then have a sense of walking as weird and potentially dangerous. If they see a kid walking, they think the kid must be neglected, or else why wouldn't they have gotten a ride from a parent? If they see a grown woman walking, they think she's taking an unnecessary risk. If they see a grown man walking, they worry he's up to no good, and might even post on NextDoor or call the police to report "suspicious activity."

Also, I think as small towns and suburbs have moved more commerce and also some housing to the outskirts of town, more streets have become arterial roads, which means faster cars and more danger to pedestrians.
Typically what happens is only some proportion of the cells are bad, but that makes the whole battery unusable. Scavenging these batteries requires testing each cell individually to find which are suitable for reuse.
Missing from Facebook’s Crisis: Mark Zuckerberg
If it is your goal to prevent your enemies from learning about your activities, and then someone stumbles upon those activities in the course of their normal work, but doesn't realize who is responsible for said activities, then your huffing and puffing about your absolute dire need to operate in secrecy is revealed to all as pure theater when you fill in those very details yourself to reporters you summoned.
This was a really fancy way of stating that you think the Muslim hordes are invading Europe. You should write for Breitbart.
So the medicine became an additional anchor trying to sink you?
It is so much easier being a student now, mostly because of the amazing resources available online. In the bad old days, if you didn't understand a topic and had a bad professor, you were screwed. Today, a two second search will find lectures, articles, blog posts, free books, SO answers... It's amazingly better.

The tradeoff of ease is the huge variety and diversity of knowledge to learn. A CS degree in ML can have a completely different curriculum than a CS degree in algorithms or web design or OS/systems/databases. There is much more to learn.
2017 Turing Award Goes to Computer Chip Pioneers
If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your degree?
Paul Allen research ship finds sunken WWII cruiser
No, Hacker Rule Zero, "don't be on fire"[1].

[1] https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Rules
not a doc but a good writeup with pictures of failure testing the 'powerpack' product: https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...

I sure as shit would not want 1/10th of that in my garage ever.
The tool is interesting. EC2 rightsizing means cost saving.
It's pathetic that it takes a literal propaganda campaign to make people see the problem with facebook after 10 years, but whatever I'll take it.
Keep reading the Erie policy. Look for phrases like:

"...into or upon the land, the atmosphere or any course of or body of water, whether above or below ground."

and

"but this exclusion does not apply if such discharge, dispersal, release or escape is sudden and accidental."

I'm pretty confident you will find them, or something similar.
Buy a Pixel which supports running custom images with a locked bootloader and verified boot.
Everyone Needs a Personal Supercomputer
Yes, they are disjoint, and no, you don't need two browsers, Gmail can handle two different accounts in the same browser simultaneously nowadays.
A fungus walks into a singles bar
yahoo was before Altavista. When they started a table of contents of the web it was great - back when the web was small enough that you could make a table of contents (at the time gopher was bigger than the web and growing faster, and gopher was mostly accessed via the table of contents). When Altavista came yahoo's index was better because instead of having to figure out the right search terms you could navigate a logical table of contents quickly. Then the web exploded (gopher was already all but dead) and it wasn't possible for yahoo to keep up, at which point search became the only hope.

If Altavista hadn't quit updating their index for several months, they could have killed google just by keeping their index up to date and continuously refining their search algorithm. Of course this last is speculation but it is reasonable, google wasn't that much better.
I find it quite amusing that the OT is given so much relevance by some (christians and christian-bashers likewise), given that it actually has little theological importance.
Google's income stream from advertising is not as vulnerable as Yahoo's home page for the internet model as far as I know.
Twitter CEO says “Bitcoin will be the world’s ‘single currency’ in 10 years”
Critical mass is just one of those things that will be a flaw until it isn't.

Facebook has this "decisive competitive edge" in that the fact that it is seen as the only alternative is what reinforces it being the only alternative. It's good that these other solutions are free and open source because most commercial competition would dry up and fail.

But for these things that bump along and grow slowly in a sustainable way, they might actually approach an inflection point where things will snowball. At least I hope so!