skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Middle-earth: Shadow of War" comes to mind. To beat the endgame you either had to grind really hard, or just buy loot boxes (to get best Orcs, Equipment and Buffs). They said that the lootboxes didn't have an influence on the game "difficulty", but after they removed the lootboxes the endgame was also patched to adjust for normal play.

They also had a PvP element where you could attack other peoples strongholds, but with the lootboxes it was also pay to win.
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
“until you open a bank account and get a local phone number.”

You won’t be able to get a SIM card either unless you are a Chinese citizen(or have a citizen get one for you)
Fireside Chat with Nikolay Storonsky (Revolut) – Disrupt SF 2018
A painting is not an equivalent experience. BTW. you could enjoy a picture or painting because it captured an interesting moment despite it's lack of other redeeming qualities. BTW analogies as arguments, would you enjoy a puzzle fully if you know an answer?
create anonymous depots and I would gladly use cashless transfers more. Currently, I just don't see the benefit. I use both forms of payment. Wouldn't like missing one of them.

But especially in China, where buying the wrong products might be bad for you social score, I would vastly prefer cash.

I wouldn't want to get any data in the hands of insurance companies either.

Cashless payment is easier? Depends on the scenario. I can just give anybody 20 bucks without any third party involved. You cannot beat that with any technical solution.
Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G (2017) [pdf]
Can you add arithmetic mean to your analysis? Arithmetic mean would more closely reflect total completion time of the entire benchmark.
#14982 Improve namespace system in Ruby to avoid top-level names chaos
You don't need to 'educate' parents as to the importance of education. It is a typical rich person bias to believe that poor and disadvanted people need to be told that.

Likewise, people know that getting pregnant at 16 is not a great life plan. But the fundamentalist right have been campaigning for decades to control women's reproduction, including to prevent sexual health education, prevent contraception, and to deny access to abortion.

Lack of a social safety net (including health care) means that if you get a few bad breaks you could be living in your car with your kids. Essential medicine (like insulin) which should only cost a few dollars actually costs someone on minimum wage all their disposable income.

Saying that its better than a developing economy misses the point, the US is one of the richest countries in the world, and ordinary people are systematically taken advantage of by their own system of government. It's just tragic.
In threads about github etc, many were claiming Microsoft are a completely different, and better company, with a fine open approach to business these days.

Seems nothing much has changed in their approach in 30 years.
Ironic, that in the video, he urges his colleagues to emulate the American startup work ethic. Nowadays, it's the other way around.
Morocco Criminalizes Violence Against Women and Sexual Harassment
Wait! What? That's what 'transducers' means?

Being new to Clojure I've been avoiding some concepts until later, but if they hadn't renamed old concepts, ie: higher order functions to transducers, maybe newbies wouldn't get scared.
Cashless payment systems by design require formal enrollment in banks

I think this is the dubious claim. According to comments in this very thread and on other sites, you don't.
Good to see the new trustworthy Microsoft in action.

Coming soon: github.com "best viewed in Edge".
* "B2B" is a catch-all term. There's indirect/MRO procurement and there's direct procurement. It's very hard to break into direct procurement without also owning the product/manufacturing. So yes, that does mean Amazon is going to go after the bigger MRO market. (This is a space they excel in already.)

* Amazon is operating in the marketplace model, not just in the conventional e-commerce model. This means their inventory can be MUCH BIGGER than anyone else's with FAR LOWER operating risks. This is what is worrying Grainger and others.

* Also worth noting that Amazon has more or less given up on product quality and instead, chosen to focus on Fulfillment and Supply Chain quality. With a marketplace model, that could lead to major headaches (while still giving the B2B buyer perfect delivery and a great price!).
Exactly. Maybe they’ll pull away a box of O-rings from Grainger but I’d never trust Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec. Last thing I’d want is all my bolts sheering because they corroded from a lack of zinc plating.
> because like all Microsoft products of the 90s it regarded interoperability as a threat. It produces ugly HTML that works best in IE

Just like nowadays with chrome!
So, once again a government tries to dictate what people can and cannot spend their money on.

I don't like games with lootboxes. I don't buy lootboxes. I don't buy games that have them. As a game developer, I don't work on games with lootboxes.

But this is my personal preference, and I am an adult who is capable of making such a decision. I respect other people who decide to buy lootboxes, even if I wouldn't do it myself. Why is it so hard to just live and let live?
As I said a cluster is powerful when it produces these effects. Otherwise it is just a bunch of companies with nice titles waiting to go work in banking. Countries like Sweden have consistantly shown that their clusters are powerful by producing these effects. Switzerland hasn't so why should we assume that this "drone cluster" is powerful and not just another empty claim?
If you try to send money on WeChat without having a bank card it won't let you. You can receive, but sending requires you to add a CC.
So we now got our own SOPA to deal with. Important note: the bill now goes to trilogue before it's ready to face a plenary vote. Though I'm not holding my breath.
I think the novelty of the medium is what drove websites to have terrible design. To paraphrase Jurassic Park:

> Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
Kernel attack surface reduction with network flow dissectors in BPF
Not much, except that a.) probabilities of cards with given rarity are well known b.) M:TG are niche product.
Born in 89, I made a webpage for my mother at that time. She still likes it :/

Check the generator tag on the frameset page http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm
Either make all games 18+ so adults can be making such decisions, or restrict gambling within games available without age restriction.

Promoting gambling to minors is something I find completely unethical.
Let's take a step back and ask ourselves this: when did banks end up with some of the least secure websites?

It's so common we've become oblivious to how frightening this is.
What are the differences on this matter between the European Union competition law and the United States antitrust law?
LPGPU2 Tools Aiming for Better Power Efficiency on Low-Power GPUs – Phoronix
Banks feel threatened because these payment platforms bypass them.

In my view, there is a real concern that these platforms are becoming major financial institutions without being subject to financial/banking regulations.

At some point the Chinese government will have to look into that.
I don't know if it's worth mentioning here, but i find one level of indirection enough. I have for the last n years paid for various email hosting providers (outsourcing the hassle of set-up, without going into the side discussion of how much hassle that is or not) but been able to switch effortlessly because i own my own domain. I've merely had to switch MX records when i wanted to switch, my emails are all still on my home computer (offlineimap, but i should really switch to whatever the kids these days are using) and my contacts were none the wiser.
I agree averages can be misleading. As the joke goes when Bill Gates walks into a bar suddenly everybody's a billionaire, on average! At the same time medians can also be misleading. We have 50 people earning $10, 1 earning $100, and 50 earning $200. We swap to a system where we have 50 people earning $90, 1 earning $100, and 50 earning $300. There would have been a major shift upward with nearly everybody seeing major increases in earning, yet the median would not have shifted at all.

This [1] is the real median personal income. The data there only starts at 1974 but you once again see a 32% increase in income. Now factor in the change in hours worked. The average American works more than 100 less hours then back then. [2]. These numbers combined along with arguing that most people only saw a real increase in wages of 12% is simply not possible, nor is it possible to simply attribute all growth to the rich.

Now there is this [3]. The numbers from that paper are really what made me start digging into all of this stuff. To give the long and short of it - the poor are becoming middle class, and the middle class are becoming rich. With the net effect being a major decline in the number of poor, a major increase in the number of rich, and a small decline in the number of middle class. Probably not coincidentally, not entirely dissimilar to the hypothetical I proposed where the median can end up being misleading. These 'nobody except the rich are seeing more money' articles seem to be simply untrue, but they are click magnets.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952930
Git 2.19.0 released
Not convinced this is as junk as you claim it to be. From the abstract:

> While our model was solely trained with natural images, our method successfully generalized the reconstruction to artificial shapes, indicating that our model indeed reconstructs or generates images from brain activity, not simply matches to exemplars.

If I am reading that correctly it is reconstructing images that the subjects had not seen before.
The guidelines ask this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

FWIW I've also seen the topic come up on the other side, when commenters have used non-traditional pronouns.

"Assume good faith" seems reasonable here, given that the root commenter was merely being very enthusiastic with their praise.
What's your experience with spam filters from Google, MS, etc etc and (if it happened) the server being down? Do most senders retry mail delivery according to the RFC?
To an extent, we can agree that poverty is a function of making bad decisions. Certainly, living frugally and using one's time well are necessary for financial success.

That said, making good decisions isn't sufficient, especially when you're trying to claw your way out of deep poverty.

You need more than just hard word. You need the opportunity to do the right kind of hard work, which many people lack.
Visual Interdev was also in the Office Suite (97 or 2000). VBScript debugging was revelatory. :)
Yes, for (1) I had a $10/hr job working as a cashier until I saved up enough for a laptop and got an unpaid internship in tech.

For (2) as I said: libraries are free, coffee shops are free. hotel lobbies are free, heck some whole areas have free Wi-Fi. Internet is very easy to find.

I'll be the first to admit I had a good education, caring and supportive family, and my story would be different and harder without them, but I can't imagine a world that I didn't try to learn something new each day.

Again though, people always try and compare the worst. The solution for someone without a living wage job is a society that doesn't allow that to happen and is a different argument IMO. Getting out of abject poverty is very different than getting out of poverty / being poor.

That said, for someone homeless and jobless, time IS their greatest resource, so learning can be a useful resort. Further no one said they had to do it on their own. The main premise here is that learning is better than hard work for increasing your station. I think that's true regardless of feasibility.
organizations with easy access to money corner the market on housing
Nitpick: the gardens are in a place called Kew - it's not an acronym:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kew
You've heard of Lina Khan and her paper on this topic? It was on the front-page of the Times last week.
I used this recently and am pleased with the result:

https://github.com/Mermade/widdershins
Maybe make abortion free and easy to access?
What Makes React SLOW, What Makes React FAST
The amount of lost time spent sysadminning and configuring and securing these things is not a potential risk, it is a real cost.

Getting NSLed or TOSed is a potential risk, not a guarantee. For most people who are doing nothing controversial or interesting and who are just using the cloud to receive service notifications and correspondence from friends (who are also doing nothing controversial or interesting), it isn’t a loss of control.

This is a real trade-off, and neither is right. But don’t pretend that keeping a half dozen complex services up, backed up, and secured isn’t a huge time investment. You can’t get that back.
Things are moving so fast that companies know they can run from any lawsuits faster than they can be constructed. And yes, lawsuits are huge deals that require a lot of preparation, especially if initiated by the FTC/similar. And there isn't much appetite for regulation coming from Washington. Get ready for madness to increase.
Consider the horrible MySpace pages, or the equivalent country-specific alternatives.

It's not that web designers were bad back them, it's that a lot of this stuff was not made by designers at all, and apparently lots of people have a really bad sense of design.

I don't mean that in an elitist way. I think it's great that back then my aunt or nephew could set up a website, however horrible the design was. I'm just saying there's a reason why designers get paid to design. It's not an innate ability, and people are much worse at it than those who are into design are inclined to think.

'Decent' design is kind of a default for many other things, mostly because we often defer to 'designers' when it comes to things like furniture, clothing, etc. But make a visit to your local print shop and look at the self-made wedding invites and the like to see how bad things can be. Or consider the many self-made powerpoint presentations! It'll make your eyes burn.
'Algorithms' can be proved, 'implementations' necessarily need tests.

Algorithms, are mathematically able to be proved, but any real implementation has to involve physical hardware at some level, these implementation details cannot (reasonably) be proven mathematically therefore need sufficient tests.

In the absence of a proof, tests can cover both algorithms & implementations.
How about the next kid she had at 19? The 3rd she had at 21?
To some degree most cultures do give assistance to new mothers, at least if they are poor. It seems you are arguing for more of that; the issue is it creates bad outcomes. The poorer you are, the more practical sense it makes to have a child. Then the next generation is more likely to have grown up in less than ideal circumstances.

The only kind of children society should encourage is those in stable financially-secure families.
The main issue with this approach for me is that Google et. al. clearly have much better physical security than my apartment. In exchange for in-principle privacy improvements and possibly forth amendment protection you take on a huge risk of burglaries, fires, floods, power outages, etc, plus of course the workload of being your own sysadmin.

Also, if you're paranoid, your data is more exposed. You can turn off all your devices with disk encryption when they're out of your control (usually) but if you turn off your NAS while your away from home it's useless. And if it's on, physical access, and therefore your data, is easy to obtain by the moderately motivated.

Google is like a feudal lord: they might own you, but they'll protect you from everyone else weaker than them.
Ask HN: How to use Linux as a quasi real time system
I've heard, that e.g. SpaceX use Linux on many of their flight computers. For instance, what hardware and what software tweeks are used to allow sampling of sensor data with a fixed frequency?
Your carrier still has your location logs, sells them to third parties, and provides them to the government upon request. You cannot meaningfully control this data.
To answer your last question, chemical or electrical engineering mainly, but chemistry, physics, and material engineering are all involved as well. There's no specific "battery tech" major, you can dive in with any partially related background.
Great article, have to wonder if somebody should great a version of alpha go zero as a "control". Then compare the level of effort in implementation and results.
Maybe we should stop evaluating companies like we evaluate people.
For a second I was confused why would someone want to jump into the slot 0 ROM of the Apple II... All that's there is memory-mapped IO...
UKIP and the Green Party joined forces to prevent Article 13 from getting rammed through without a public discussion. It was a good first step, but here we are, 2 months hence, and it was passed with virtually no amendments to the original text.

This is an abhorrent decision by people who have no idea how the internet works. Markus Meechum (aka Count Dankula) was at the hearings, and reported that MEPs voting on the issue could not, or refused to, explain why they supported the bill. You can see him discussing the result in the immediate aftermath here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISyiTcA6RIw

If you want a quick example of why this is bad take a look at fair use and YouTube. Article 13 would make YouTube liable for copyrighted content on its service.

Much of YouTube content is (perfectly legal) remixes, responses, or criticisms of other YouTube content that embeds part of the referenced video in their own video. There is more content uploaded to YouTube than can possibly all be manually reviewed. Aggressive automated content filtering to comply with Article 13 would mean that these videos would straight get filtered out.
Ever? Certainly. Within say 50 years? Possibly, perhaps even probably. It would seem unusual to me that a first attempt at a digital currency would survive as long as this.

Consider the fate of early search engines, eg Alta Vista. The number of searches on this once leading search engine is, today, exactly zero. It lasted less than 20 years.

What happens then: probably nothing significant, it will not be something that happens in a single day. Possibly the value will be transferred into some other medium. Or, the remaining hodlers will lose the last iota of value, which has been slowly declining for ages.

Oh... how much are tulip bulbs worth today?
There are people who genuinely enjoy being engaged while taking a drive for fun. The more disconnected you get and the more stuff is done for you, the more it feels like you're a passenger instead of the driver.

As someone who drives both automatic and manual cars, and rides (manual) motorcycles, I take umbrage with this sentiment. It regularly gets trotted out in these types of discussions and is used as a way to dismiss anyone with a different view.

If you don't feel engaged while driving an automatic, the problem is with you, not the transmission. You may find manual shifting gratifying or fun, but if you need that to feel engaged then you need to stop and think about what your mind is doing while driving.
Hearthstone is pretty reasonable imo. You get a fairly consistent amount of dust per pack and even like a ‘lucky’ pack isn’t that great. Just saves you from having to dust a few extra cards to get the one you want. I wish the prices were lower given how many cards they release a year now, but it’s not very much like gambling.
VW Group seems to charge about £1300 for a DSG - not sure I'd call that "slightly higher" on a £22K car.
Perhaps the opposite. Seems they've learned to push forward and never again fall behind.
The MVP of this approach would be buying a $60 external USB HD and backing everything up to that on a daily basis. Works great if you "only" have a few TB or less of data.

Here's a bash script + the set up I'm running to do that: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/automatic-offline-file-backup...
I assume, from the context, those show Boettger in Spain before his tragic demise?
Google facets/dive
The first year of BF4 after release was pretty much a very long open beta.
Performance Testing 101 – Simon Knight
Thank you - I will add this in.
Well your expectations are wrong. As a poster a little above shows, the USA is closer to developing countries than developed on many metrics.
In old days, computers that came from manufacturers like IBM, DCE was refrred to as system. The operating software for the system was referred to as “system software”. People who created that software were called “systems programmer”. Much of it invariably involved writing direct to metal/assembly code which is why systems programming has been associated with low level programming. People using this term to refer to task of doing some complex application architecture are doing it wrong.
Who specifically? You're just building a strawman to attack, while framing it as us-vs-them.

Comments like these lower the quality of discussion by removing nuance and pushing people into tribalism.
the whole fucking internet except hn and wikipedia XD
That’s what they do, yes, as well as with Cyrus.
In the USA, and most developed countries, you don't have a career at 16. You are either just starting your first job or still finishing your education. You do not start popping out children as soon as or shortly after sexual maturity begins.
Oh that's nice :)
The server browser was both nice and annoying. Nice to see it have a server browser which apperantly you can't take for granted anymore.
But the server browser was buggy..
Augmented Reality&Virtual Reality Retail Applications
Plex plucks media cloud
I love how they laid it on the line. “If you want to do web development, you need to actually learn web technology”

Now if someone would tell web developers that if you want to write desktop/mobile apps, you need to learn native frameworks.....

What are newer FrontPage alternatives?

The Internet and the web have changed drastically since the days when FrontPage was a very common website editor. Almost every modern website editor these days will require you to have some basic understanding of the concepts of HTML, and CSS coding, instead of the drag and drop design that FrontPage used.
Chrome Google-login integration is one.
Maybe it is a bot trigger by certain words since I can’t imagine anyone is that stupid.
You may notice I didn’t argue for any of that. I merely argued against the viewing of motherhood as a punishment to the woman, and that it is right for her career to be stunted therefore. “She made her bed” as it were.
What about using a static site generator and a theme oriented towards docs?

That's what a lot of big sites do, for example Docker's entire documentation[0] is driven by Jekyll[1].

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/install/overview/
[1]: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io