skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I much prefer how Epic Games have done this with Fortnite. And by all accounts their method is raking in a LOT of cash.

All cosmetic items only, but you purchase the exact item you want directly. The items are a little more expensive than you might expect (I think on average $4-10 each) and it includes skins, different "axes" to break objects, different dances and different "gliders" that you fly into the game on.

It's quite fun, but also totally unnecessary and you only spend money on exactly what you want - no random chance.

On top of the fact that it's a free to play game in the first place, and you can also get quite a wide range of skins, axes and dances (10s of them) by playing to complete the battle pass which is only about $10 or so per season. Plus there are a few freebies even if you pay nothing, and some you can get from linking to Twitch Prime, etc.

I think this is winning partly because it is fun (the skins are quite comedic) but also just because you know what you're getting. By comparison I spent about $10 on keys for PUBG and stopped because I just got useless crap that isn't really exciting - they're just basic clothing items. Even the rarer items aren't as exciting which doesn't help but the chance of getting one is quite low.

The thing Epic/Fortnite have done to make them sell more (compared to the random chance) is that there is <10 items for sale per day for 24 hours, after 24 hours the set changes and you may not be able to buy that item again (though in practice many returns a few days or weeks later, you can't be certain). So instead of random chance gambling they're capitalising on missing out / time limited offers. Plus there's a constant influx of new items so instead of wasting time gambling for that ultra rare item - instead you can keep up with whats newer and cooler.
> For all intents and purposes the martian atmosphere is no different to the moons

Not sure I agree with all intents and purposes. Maybe just some of them? Like say if the intent is to extract CO2 or N2 from the atmosphere, then you'd find more on Mars. Those two things are pretty important for growing things and breathing.

Another intent and purpose could be to airo-break the space craft as it flies in for a landing. Though it is probably more annoying than it helps, in the sense that Mars has enough atmosphere that you need to deal with it, but not enough to be helpful in the final descent phase.
RMS isn't the god of all free software. A GNOME desktop is composed of hundreds of bits of software, and it encompasses many unrelated individuals, at least three big orgs (GNOME, GNU, FreeDesktop/SytemD people), and carries a baggage of decades of history. You can't say, in such a situation, unlike what Apple and Microsoft do to their users many times, that the new way is this and everybody has to just eat it up.

WRT users switching, let them do. One thing I'd really fear would be Emacs becoming just another attention whore of a piece of software. Not only, but also, options and competition are very nice things to have. VSCode is not that interesting to me, but I really like Sublime Text; I can easily suggest it to anybody instead of Emacs if they are not into the idea of using a highly- and live-customisable and very composable environment and want sth. that just works.
I don't know India, but in many countries highways have truck stops every 100 miles or so.
It's meant to be a very crude protection against entering your PIN on a site pretending to be Tangerine. Yeah, it's pretty dumb.
Enterprise users or people in offices?
This is exactly what a status page should communicate.
I think they mean compressed natural-gas rather than petrol. Many fleet vehicles run off of CNG in the Americas and elsewhere.
Kubernetes has some bad organization and some terrible naming due to it's rapid pace of development, but it's getting better and is much nicer than any other existing system that can provide the same functionality.

I think you'd be surprised how quickly you can understand > 80% of it with just an hour spent reading the docs.
Andrew Ng, Lior Pachter and Gary Marcus Twitter Joust on AI Radiology
Just like in the software field, there might be a multitude of reasons women might not go into that industry including sexism and not being encouraged by family/society. Some of the industries that women work in can be just as bad in their own ways.
How Disruptions in Internet of Things to Impact Our Day to Day Life
Wow, interesting. FWIW, English is my L2 indeed, but I picked that "sth" up from the Internet, and thought that it was some sort of internet slang abbreviation. Thanks for the TIL!
Damn. What an infuriating story.

Not so much for the subject of the story ... who could afford it ... but there are people out there who worked and scrimped for 20 years, and get wiped out by this racket.

"There were charges for physical therapy sessions that never took place and drugs he never received."

This is complete bullshit. How in hell does it survive the scrutiny of the courts?
"Memento mori."

-- "Remember death." A traditional Roman saying, whispered in the ear of victorious generals when celebrating their victories to remind them not to let their heads get too big, nor to waste time in vain indulgence, but to direct their efforts toward ends that are worthwhile. It also appears in Plato's Phaedo, and in countless classical and medieval texts.

I think of it every day.
Project Valhalla had more community support than PackedObjects. PackedObjects was unfortunately removed from later versions of J9.
The net response EU media companies seem to agree on is that "do you accept cookies or refuse to read our site ?" has now become an EULA-sized agreement for reading their site.

Everything else stayed the same. Technically you can say no, if you don't mind clicking on the no button every single screenfull.
*ruining everything
Texas was doing this in the 1960’s.
The ML family (SML, Ocaml, F#) is also pretty good with the mixture of functional and imperative constructs.

Having a part of the program known to be pure at compile-time, but another part effectful is something you see in the language F* (http://fstar-lang.org) - here you get monads, dependent types, a proof system, and the ML module system neatly packed into a general-purpose programming language.

Not as widely popular as O'Caml, F# or Haskell, but both as practical as Ocaml and as researchy as Haskell.

Also there's a free tutorial/book on the website.
Yep, such examples are needed...

BTW: `mc\^2` gives mc²
With XFS and reflink, out-of-band deduplication is totally possible and is a userspace [1] issue. But XFS is not doing anything to assist in accelerating the identification of duplicate blocks, instead it simply implements ioctls for what is essentially extent sharing.

[1] https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove
Most notably Microsoft Basic was not compatible initially. The CP/M version is but that came much later.
It's very cool, especially combined with your sugarTeX idea. I believe your abbreviations are faster for an expert; but using widely-known latex makes it more accessible to new adopters. They can shift to your expert shortcuts later!
Indeed. But you can still write functional style data querying languages using LINQ extension methods. IMO, LINQ based DB querying is revolutionary in terms of the flexibility and capabilities it provides. For complex Relational DB querying it's pretty great.

I tend to write raw SQL using Dapper these days, because hey, scalability and such, but for business apps and non-cloud apps, EF and other LINQ-based DB tools are great.
Living in Fear to Find Success
My local needle sharing program and doctor run amazing group “therapy” sessions, that they advertise to everyone regardless of their drug usage or lack thereof. It’s a surprisingly diverse set of people, and builds amazing closeness between the people who are there. I’m currently attending one of the sessions every week that focuses on mindfulness, and then explores that within the context of personal relationships.

Anyone in Brisbane, checkout QuIHN. Highly recommended :)
These are interesting pros for lean. I just wanted to point out that Coq is also a programming language, and there are some packages of hackage of various data structures proven correct in Coq and then compiled from the original coq sources.
This is, of course, untested and a huge grab of authority. Just imagine what would happen if China did this. Or if Saudi Arabia did it.

"Any woman driving anywhere in the world can be stoned to death", I'm sure there's quite a few islamic clerics dreaming of the day it happens.

The thing to see is that this law, enforced internationally, has about the same level of realism that those clerics have.
I'd like to see something like this too, but the tax is based on bonafide offers to license the patent rather than actual licensing revenue. You don't want me to make my cool gadget that infringes on your patent? Ok, fine, but if I register an offer to you for a million dollars for a license, and you turn me down, you have to pay say, 10% as a tax. You're a small independent inventor/patent troll? Either pony up for the government keeping everyone else off your turf, or take the money and move on.
OK. There are often shortages of food allocation. Still shortages.
Not sure why the downvotes; merely pointing out that Betteridge’s Law is once again proven out.
Companies also had a much harder job following the numerous country specific data protection laws before GDPR. GDPR actually helps both companies and individuals as it unifies the regulation within the EU. Unification makes it easier for companies to comply and helps both companies and users in understanding the rules. And it can already be seen that GDPR drives the unification of data protection rules outside the EU as well, since there has been a growing need for such unification for a long time.
Something something, cold storage. If you can tolerate the latency.

But it would be “cheap” once established because cooling would be easy.
> Can someone explain what advantage colonizing Mars has compared to Moon

It raises more interest. Mars is farther, thus sounds bigger, it also is bigger. The idea is more ambitious. It's appealing to the audience.
Also things like, sarcasm, metaphor and weird twitter.

Which by their very nature subvert and stretch the simple true/false dichotomy.
You Gotta Own It
I could imagine using the jest plugin, could be useful as a presumably faster alternative to babel-jest.
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140934
Loot boxes work by having a list of items with weighted probabilities adding up to 1, and what you buy is getting one or more of those items at random.

The way the weighted probabilities list is constructed changes from implementation to implementation.

The prevalent one so far is "box gacha", the spiritual successor to "complete gacha". The latter is now banned in Japan and the rest are somehow regulated.

The motivations are many. First, it distributes large payments over smaller payments making people lose control over their spending. Then, it complicates people's perception of how expensive an item is.

In a sense, lottery games are the same in spirit. For example, what's the probability of getting an arbitrary unique combination of 6 numbers out of 49 (lottery)? Very, very low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics

In mobile, they're usually coupled with "events" that have a leaderboard. Events are actually auctions were people "play" (bid) for a better place in the leaderboard. The rewards are usually not worth it, because through successive updates they're made worthless (e.g.: stats inflation).
From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js? (2014)
THE DAY I ALMOST DIED
Any evidence of moonlighting? Never heard of this, at least in US practice with any prevalence. Would be curious to hear the basis, even if anecdotal.
Of my God, it would be nirvana. I would go down 20% salary to work in my own office instead of open office.
I’m not sure if this is really compliant to that spec either. It states that error code should be returned when attempting to brew coffee - which means the BREW or POST method is used - but this is using the GET method.
Very interesting stuff ,
I'm following ipfs for a while now , and using the browser sessions as full nodes is an exciting idea.

One thing I wonder about ,
Is the browser -> ipfs node communication can be done via webrtc (I think the post refer to websocket)?

So the data sync can happen between browsers .

I did play with webtorrent for a while , and achieved a similar behavior using webrtc .
I had one nodejs server , and multiple browser sessions .
It worked well for video streaming peer to peer (poc level )
Maybe nit-picky, but this is one place (the title here I'm talking about) a properly choosen dash would've saved me a couple seconds or so. When I was reading this, I thought first to myself, what is a crap-loot box, only to understand later that the endash there stood for a semicolon. But endash is for word pairs (i.e. black--white, on--of); here, an emdash would be more appropriate.
> funded by anarchist ideologues?

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the poster above yours were implying the aim was to take down all of society — I think they were implying the goal of some of these networks is to bring down particular targeted societies.

I tend to think you’re both correct. I think it’s a combination, some people are into driving traffic through clickbait and some networks are amplifying divisive subjects in an attempt to make The Others appear to be unreasonable.

There are certainly many other networks taking part as well. There are definitely other networks of unorganized regular citizens who are also intentionally pushing misinformation in order to make their ideological rivals appear to be completely irrational. Whether these citizen groups are a consequence of the former groups I’m not sure, but knowingly pushing misinformation is definitely not isolated to governments and clickbait sites. We seem to be overrun with unapologetic and ideology driven liars.

This is somewhat of a tangent but still related, we can see an active attack on science and higher education right now and it’s pretty clear why, many of these ideological driven people instinctively know they’ll never return to their former glory when science and an educated populace stands in their way. I think we’re going to discover many of the root causes of the misinformation campaigns stem from the same battleground - many groups and individuals who instinctively know science and the-closest-thing-to-truth-we-have stands in their way.
Kind if disgusting mob mentality happening here really. Not appropriate for anyone to be engaging in.

Also its funny seeing people who were clearly butthurt kids claim they have free speech while sprouting off racist, sexist views.
There is nothing more infuriating than watching educated left-leaning people twist themselves into a knot trying side step calling lies, lies, because they want to appear impartial.

There are lots of people who will "question" endlessly the meaning of "misinformation". Trying to make exceptions for that .01% of the time a "gray area" can exist, while ignoring the real harm to society caused by the 99.99% "deliberate misinformation".

I guarantee you, the responses to your comment will be exactly that.

I would compare it to science-denial. Like people who refuse vaccines because of the tiny risks involved, while ignoring the outsized benefits.

People who continuously debate the nuance of "what is" "misinformation", while ignoring the harm it does, is no better.

And while one singular bit of misinformation may seem harmless, goofy, and opinionated, ie. Obama is a muslim, crowd size, "Uranium One" etc... A constantly stream of them practically creates an alternate reality for people who believes them, and that is extremely dangerous.
I wouldn't characterize Elasticache as running slow, a single instance in this case is handling 1.3M request/sec. But we can be 9X faster by batching multiple requests per packet and then offloading the TCP network stack and memcached operations to the FPGA. The FPGA allows us to handle the requests at network line-rate, even with small 100-byte requests. On Elasticache, past a certain point these small requests start to overload the CPU.

The interesting part is the FPGA could still do much more computation (for example, compression or encryption) while maintaining the same throughput due to hardware pipelining. We described this concept further in the blog post I linked to.
And Germany is free to stop that merchandise at the border, and then burns it. They only very, very rarely do so, but when they do, they will go after the customer that bought it.

Same thing when it became clear 2 years ago that sending large amounts of opiates through the mail into Germany is not actually a problem.

So theoretically, you are allowed to sell that art, because those laws don't apply to you. In theory it should be stopped at the border, and your customer may get arrested for buying it.

In practice, you are allowed to sell that art, and nothing is stopping you.

Needless to say, Germany is crying foul ! We make rules, and don't enforce them, and others don't automatically enforce them for us ! Evil capitalist data-selling election-stealing swine !
Fwiw, PUBG loot boxes are not game play impacting; they are cosmetic only. If you don't want that "chance", you could just buy the specific item you'd like on the Steam store from other players. You may even sell unopened boxes (which require a key) there.

Sauce: https://www.finder.com.au/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-will-...
Reinventing Organizations
Android vs. iOS: let’s settle the debate
If they had locked it a little earlier wgran wouldn't have had the opportunity to report the cause.
Because corporate won't let you connect without one.
> On the other hand, the moon has a lot going for it for manufacturing

A side hat doesn't face terrestrial cameras for example. taps glasses, pushes tinfoil hat slightly back
>If you're rich, you're rich.
I'm not even middle class, i don't own a house or a car.
I just see that people easily overgeneralize the well-off 30 million upper-middle class with truly rich people who have entirely different lifestyle.
Believing the there is 32million strong aristocracy is delusional, all these SJW privilege Olympics make your kind seem insane and full of envy. You want to lump middle-class people with multi-millionaires with financial security and proclaim them the unified burgeios enemy that must be dealt with. "If they have some money, They're rich capitalist pigs"
Its like some soviet union guilt trip: If you own jeans your dangerous bourgie class traitor!
If you listen to foreign radio = capitalist lapdog.
If you own foreign currency = speculator and capitalist.
Soviet Union glamorized poverty and struggle, everyone was LARPing as some poor, honest worker despite a black market,blat and bribery being commonplace.
If you dislike Bourgeois(aka Middle class) so much, why don't take one-way ticket flight to socialist paradise of Venezuela? They're getting rid of their toxic privileged Bourgeois class.

Just for the record i'm NOT some "free-market will fix it" capitalist:
I'm in favor of sane, Scandinavian-like system of democracy(also promoted by Bernie Sanders as democratic socialism) which exist with support of high taxes. I'm against gulags, wealth redistribution and marking people as class traitors/privileged/"eat the Rich", to which any communist country eventually devolves.
> If we nuked the polar ice caps (or similar method to warm + evaporate them) it would generate enough of an atmosphere for the external pressure to be livable - maybe even breathable.

Source?

Even granted that would be possible, it would be an enormous waste. Let's say it's possible to use the polar ice caps to create a breathable atmosphere, why do it for the whole planet instead of using it strategically to pressurize domes where people actually live? Added bonus: The domes provide partial shielding for the radiation on Mars. If you believe the ice on Mars can sustain a breathable global atmosphere for ten thousand years, how long will it last when used in closed systems like domes?
I assumed that because I had never heard of them before... that they were just a new name for the old PC Financial banking brand but I could be wrong.
The theory seems compelling to me. The same guy they found by searching the newspaper for similar language, happens to be one of the guys police interviewed near the crime scene walking his dog. Among other coincidences. Pretty fun to speculate, don't think it'll ever get solved, but it's interesting.
Interesting note: a new version, Lean 4, is currently under development, which will presumably replace Lean 3 once complete: https://github.com/leanprover/lean/blob/master/doc/lean4.md.
>Protection from what exactly? Insurance for my groceries?

https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+card+price+match

Beyond that, making a purchase of an electronic device with a credit card can extend your warranty.

Don't know if that applies to Germany, it may apply to where ever the person you are replying lives.
How can you write one comment that says both "CEO is not talent, they are replaceable cogs" and "CEO is key to both preserving the current value and creating the future growth of the company"?
Yep, this initially started as Pandoc filter that iterates over math elements and applies regex replacing. Then I switched to Panflute to iterate over math easier. And eventually added {, } counter with left, right and center regex patterns for binary math operators.
By "dive for 15m" you mean "swim 15 horizontal metres while underwater", right? Diving 15m deep is a pretty elite skill.
How are loot boxes significantly different to CCGs of the kind children have been playing and buying/having their parents buy boosters for, for years? Or sports cards? The concept is identical as far as I can tell.

This sudden push for regulation throws up every single one of the “think of the children” red flags for bad legislation in my mind.
It's not like being white magically stops any of that. I'm sure it changes the odds, but that still means you're risking arrest, which most of us are not keen to do.

This article is, after all, about a white guy who was arrested for not cooperating. And they clearly wanted to do worse given that they tried to get him fired.
Personal attacks are absolutely uncalled for.
happened once? because the gravity changed? it'd be an ongoing process.

and only hydrogen and helium are currently prone to jeans escape on mars. the current dominant mechanism for atmospheric loss is the solar wind. which eats away ~1/3 megaton/century. mars has teratons of atmosphere remaining. and it can be added faster than that rate of loss.

(once warmed up, oxygen may begin to escape the atmosphere again. not necessarily faster than it can be replaced, though.)
I think it would still work in the case of celebrities. For most of us, I guess only a few scammers / enemies / relatives would be interested in the data.
It's weird that you counter anecdotal reasoning with more anecdotes. I never 'demanded' anything, though, I said it was usually useful and I'm hardly the only person with the same experience.

Yes, sometimes things go uncontrollably wrong. There are bad cops out there, but it's hardly the average case. Those incidents made the news for how bad they were, not how common they are.

There are hundreds of millions of people in the USA. There are millions of people interacting with the police in some capacity. How many incidents can you name?