skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly rather reductionist, but I'd love it if there was some single number representing how close to Windows performance each title gets. The main issue I have is that I'm not about to bother with any titles when I consistently find that titles "work" but don't really work well enough.
>> "Your proposal would actually make this effect worse, because the victim wouldn't even notice anymore they are harassed."

There's a perspective where this is a good thing, but I think I know where you're coming from. I've seen people on the receiving end of these attacks who say they still want to know about it so they know about any tangible threats.
I can see why you would think that, but there is a reason that many think the opposite. Wine is obviously less compatible than WSL, but it is also a much more ambitious project. For WSL to work, it "only" has to implement the kernel translation layer and then run the various userspace tools that Linux does (GNU tools, Gnome, etc).

For Wine to implement even enough to run Notepad, Wine needs a reimplementation of huge portions of userspace. Of course, this also means it is a little bit of an Apples to Oranges comparison.
I would encourage you to go to reddit.com/r/the_donald and try to "address" their "super confused" ideas. Or find Alex Jones and see if your words can change his opinion. Or taking it to the farthest extremes imaginable, maybe even fly to Syria and see if you can talk some sense into ISIS. I'm sure their "super confused ideas" can be "addressed" if they're allowed to continue.

It's not censorship to shut down hate speech any more than it's censorship when `dang tells me I'm not allowed to call someone an idiot on Hacker News. It sets the tone for the conversation we're all having, and you know, after I got warned a few times I stopped calling people idiots because I know that kind of behavior doesn't fly here.

If people have to leave Twitter and go to Gab in order to spread their message of hate, that's fantastic. Because everyone knows Twitter, everyone uses Twitter, but no one's ever heard of Gab. And then when they visit Gab, they find it's full of hate speech and extreme opinions and never visit again. Bad business model for Gab, but a huge win for everyone else.
>In the grander scheme of things, it can be seen as an anti-solution. It gives some people the idea that they've got an escape hatch. If you think you can run away, you'll be less inclined to fight for a solution that avoids collapse.

It comes off like you're saying "well if shit really goes south I'm screwed so these people should be too". A few thousand preppers who are too busy prepping to "fight for a solution" isn't gonna make the difference between shit going south or not.

Not to be an ass but the kind of people I picture saying something like that are stuffy politicians who likes to use phrases like "antisocial behavior", "community norms" and "if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem" and who is completely out of touch with what shapes the decisions of everyday people.

If someone wants to prep for something that's highly unlikely to happen then I see no problem with that. If anything their prepping stands to be useful in a hurricane Katrina type situation. What's the problem with that?
Airplane crashes almost never have single fault. It's always something like "modest maintenance issue combined with incorrect pilot action combined with unusual weather pattern". Ultimately the pilot takes the blame in the situation, but the actual problem is systemic.
A blog post I ran into a while ago and found very sensible: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

You don't have to be a nutcase to prepare for disasters.
Just logging out on all devices has been enough to break the reflex for me. Typing in my email and password, especially on mobile, is enough to prevent me from proceeding.
I kind of hope it means it will get maintainership from people other than Ian.
2D plots, not graphs...
DOM inspector! Also useful for saving videos.
The way I see it:

e^1 is what you get if you repeteadly multiply 1 by (1 + 0.001)

e^i is also what you get if you repeatedly multiply 1 by (1 + 0.001i)
My wife and I use AirBNB a lot (for holidays, not drug-fueled orgies unfortunately) and have lots of positive reviews against our names. I know if I ran an AirBNB I'd only accept bookings from guests with a history of positive reviews.
How does virtual memory work?
Smarten up everyday things
It helps that this also pushed the other browser vendors to step up their games. Firefox switched to a Rapid Release cycle. Even Microsoft is now on board with Edge updating fairly regularly (at least compared to IE).

A few years ago, web sites and infrastructure had to be built to serve decade-old versions. Now it's reasonable to support only a few years-old versions, and this time frame is continuously shrinking as the current generation of evergreen auto-updating browsers takes more market share.

Though I don't like the bit about forcing adoption onto others, I do think that advancing the market to allow standards changes like this to happen in years instead of decades is a good thing.
Eh. I can get similar performance as an Xbox One X out of my not-built-for-4K gaming computer if I too lower all my other graphics settings. Soul Calibur VI, for example, runs around PC's "low" settings on an Xbox One S and around "medium" on an Xbox One X.

Instead I play at 1440p and 144FPS with most of the knobs in most games turned up near max (and my graphics card is a couple revs out of date).
Why not just dual boot to Windows? It's going to be a better experience.
I enabled it on my Fedora laptop and tried a handful of games. About half a dozen of them bombed out immediately. So, very glad to see improvement, but we're still a ways off from being able to chuck my last Windows 7 machine.

I find myself more often just biting the bullet and re-buying some old classics when they get "Enhanced" editions (ala Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, etc)--even though I still have the original CD's kicking around--just so I get native Linux support.
Programmers that have front-end web development has their main area of expertise are still programmers. The difference is in the tasks. As this person said, they do CSS/JavaScript and even step in the UI/UX expert shoes. Then even do design work.

I have a similar task description and my title is "full-stack web developer".

I simply call myself "web developer" as I consider that being able to deliver a website from A to Z is a requirement of my job. From design to back-end to hosting to SEO.
Does a platform originally developed to post every random witty thought you come up with on the loo really need to improve the quality of debate? I feel like it would be better to acknowledge the fundamental design is incompatible with serious debate and try to steer it back towards the place for frivolous shitposting
> MVC, functional programming, high-order functions, hoisting... hard concepts to grasp if your background is in HTML, CSS and basic interactive JavaScript.

And, conversely, HTML, CSS & basic interactive Javascript (or at least the UX/artistic aspects thereof) can be hard to get a handle on if your background is functional programming, high-order functions and hoisting.
“Schrödinger's Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone
How do you rank among your dev peers – based on GitHub commit history
MP4Box now supports AV1 and VP9
I disagree that Likes had that "clear, simple use" case. I for one didn't use it as a bookmark, simply because I used it so often for the other case you cite: "telling the poster that you liked it" -- including for tweets that were relatively trivial: e.g. "I appreciate that you replied to my tweet".

I follow several thousand users so I guess the timeline algorithm doesn't bother showing me Liked activity. However, I do see "[some user] and 5 others liked this tweet" when I do a search for tweets, and I find that note to be more helpful than not, to be honest.
My 2018 Mercedes E class can do lane changes - I just have to put the signal on and it does the rest. They call it "Drive Pilot". It seems to be just as advanced as Tesla but much less "marketed".
> HTTP 1.1 has drawbacks which we've been living with for far too long.

No it doesn't. Don't fix what's not broke, and doubly so if the only motivation for the change is "well, Megacorp (c) says it's the bee's knees".
Especially if you're not the landlord and the actual landlord doesn't know you're subletting the apartment in violation of your lease contract.
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I have an elderly mother. She uses a cargo tricycle. She can't drive.
Our cat absolutely ignores everything on a screen.

And is boredom in cats even a thing?

He absolutely no trouble sleeping the whole day.

Does not even matter if he is outside or inside he will sleep through the apocalypse.

As long he has a few ours of activity every now and then he is absolutely fine.

Which usually means strolling around in the garden and playing with the neighbors cat or his humans.

If you have a cat and you have to leave it alone for days you should not have a cat. Half a day is usually totally fine
I offer a simple solution - tax on UK sales - UK costs. (For the case of the UK, but substitute your own country here). If the business is generally importing cheaply, marking up heavily and selling on then it will pay a large tax. If they employ loads of people and export then they'll probably pay not tax.

Taking on extra employees or switching to a local producer will reduce your tax bill. The government is then collecting payroll taxes from the new employee so it doesn't miss out too much.

If you're a global coffee chain that didn't make any 'profit' because you licence your logo from a subsidiary based in Switzerland. Well, that can't be deducted so you will be paying tax.
We were a Softlayer customer for dedicated servers before the acquisition. Afterwards, we needed to add additional servers, and IBM wanted 50% more for the same config, already quite high (twice as much as we pay elsewhere). When we needed to increase the RAM from 16GB to 32GB, they wanted $50/month for a stick of RAM that costs about $100.

It's like they are using cloud pricing as a reference for dedicated servers. We run dozens of dedicated servers, and using the cloud would be 10x the cost. Amazon at least has a culture of passing on cost savings to customers.

There was a problem with a server, and I needed to connect to the console. That involved using a VPN, then downloading a Java applet with a very specific (obsolete) version of Java. The applet didn't support copy and paste, and frequently repeated keys. Try typing in a 16 digit randomly generated root password by hand with your keyboard duplicating keypresses. Linode can offer a console over SSH, why not IBM?

Screw IBM.
How do you use gnuplot to plot a CSV file non-interactively? The only way I could find was

gnuplot -e "set datafile separator \",\"; set term png; set output 'foo.png'; plot 'foo.csv'"

and if that is the best way then that's one particularly obvious advantage of graph over gnuplot.
From the old days when it ran on slow hardware:
Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
I know it's usually frowned upon in such froo-froo articles to examine an artist's most popular works in the current day, but I really do wish the author had examined what Debussy is most known for nowadays, Clair de Lune.

It's painfully beautiful, and the piece that made me fall in love with his work as a whole.

Still, I enjoyed the article. I feel they portrayed him in the correct light. The only thing I think they may have left out, and the main reason I think Debussy's music is so good, is just the amount of room for expression of the individual pianist there is in his music. The space between his notes and chords can be wielded with cold rigidity, or suggested with a warm, soft touch, something I think is lost in more classically structured piano music.
The first two are way too complicated for retail banking customers. Do you really think you can explain to your parents how dead handed multi pantsed wallets work? I stopped reading half a line in and I’m well within the target customer group here.

The third, an exchange, violates all the core principals of cryptocurrency and is basically no different than what we have today but way harder and less efficient. Exchanges don’t require crypto they just run a MySQL store and attribute fractional ownership as centralized, opaque records not protected by the blockchain. If everyone just did that because it’s the simplest and easiest and most secure way to hold on to your coins, cryptocurrency would just replace bank to bank transfers which by definition don’t require a trustless backing and all the worlds electricity.

Plus to quote your fellow converts “not your keys, not your coins.”
VueJS cheat sheet
Could you please stop posting generic political flamebait? It doesn't belong on the site because it makes things dumber and more aggressive and we really just want to learn something instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Libssh ssh protocol vulnerability - CVE-2018-10933
Opening Our Eyes Through the Power of Digital
Because I don't want to lose my state, and I don't want to have to take ten minutes to switch to doing something useful.
Hasn't the 2 decades old goal been to be able to run Linux without the need for owning Windows? Windows is still 89% of the desktop market. A free alternative is still a worthy goal.
[0] the ruling, page 60 outlines the terms

> [copyright owner] has issued an affirmative statement
indicating that external server support for the video game has ended and
such support is in fact no longer available or, alternatively, server
support has been discontinued for a period of at least six months

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...
Hmm... Why would that be an interesting question? It seems most likely that the issue occurred either during the climb out, or after V1 on the runway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds
I really want a tick box and auto sends a caller to voice mail if you're not in my contacts. That would really help me.
The stall alert shutting off when he pulled up didn't help the confusion.
This Mic Will Alert Your Airbnb Host If It Senses You’re Having a Party
I'm getting conflicting messages from your post

"while it's great to be able to do lots of things and own the whole product, it is detrimental to your knowledge and your CV."

i.e. learning larger set of skills is bad for job prospects

"my skillset is so specialised that it is hard to get a job."

i.e. focusing on a smaller set of skills is bad for job prospects
Most cyclists can't maintain a speed of 18mph or a power output of 200w for very long. People who are in good shape and train for cycling can do it, but the average rider out on the street is probably putting out 150w or less. Check the estimated power numbers on some popular urban Strava segments.
Kiwi TCMS v6.1.1 – open source test case management
it's at the bottom

Current Game Rating Distribution
Tier	Rated	Highest Report	Highest Report (But Pending)
Platinum	286	2356	1467
Gold	372	399	232
Silver	319	472	367
Bronze	178	195	158
Borked	245	1162	960

each game has this rating in winedb
One of my all time favourites was Xinu (Xinu is not Unix), much more so than the doubly-weird Hurd.
>It's funny how [...]

It's an entirely mundane and predictable consequence when the free-speech branded platform is not already the market leader.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
Richard Graham: Why gaming addiction is on the rise
Most PC gamers don’t play in 4K and 30 frames per second, much less 60 fps. That’s graphically taxing for many contemporary games, especially if other graphical quality is turned up.

The consoles also typically don’t run at full resolution. In the 1080p era, I recall many games topping out at 900p. It was a great source of pc gamer smugness due to the fact most of them could easily run 1080p and 45+ fps. I suspect modern console 4K is the same.

Since the generally accepted fps for consoles is 30, and that’s pretty low, it means developers can either compromise on resolution or other things like how many entities can be on screen at once, or how large open areas can be. I suspect catering to console audiences is why a lot of the last ten years some games feel either empty or constrained in scope.
Is Proton tightly integrated into the steam platform or can it also be used to play DRM free games like GOG? I imagine Steam wouldn’t be too appreciative if GOG galaxy also integrated this
The one thing that hasn't changed is that not all food is as good delivered as in the restaurant. For example anything fried or that should be crispy.

In my experience that food tends to absorb the moisture from the heat/steam it emits which gets trapped by the packaging and therefore makes it soggy.
Sure, but his music seems to invoke fewer images of stuffy orchestral halls stuffed with powdered wigs and Victorian sensibilities. At least for me. It's pretty timeless.
I don't get your point. you say it is not true and then you agree that some outliers exist. this is exactly the point, that there are outliers like this in US Congress, just like there are in the EU parliament. Probably the value is higher in the EU, but I think that's fair to protect the smaller states.
Atlassian sells Jitsi
many recent discussions https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gab&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&...
In my quick test it seems it depends enormously on the quality of Linux support for your graphics card. If you have a graphics card that DXVK works for then you are in business. Otherwise, not so much.
How old are we talking here?
Usually "unit tests" should be for verifying error code paths. These are valuable at the library/package level and maybe at some level of internal integration. 100% code coverage is likely useless most of the time. At the application level, testing user inputs to user expectations is highly valuable (perhaps more so than unit tests in a lot of contexts). It is this integration/acceptance testing that any application with users should have under automation. Any codebase lacking that risks breaking or regression at the cost of user experience (which, depending on your app might be a fair trade off).
On the safety issue, if putting scooters on the road increases the number of injuries and putting scooters on the sidewalk increases the number of injuries (although somewhat less), the UK already made the obvious choice in terms of safety by practically banning scooters altogether.
Even the most powerful Xbox is only comparable to a RX 480. You can find a RX 580 on Amazon right now for $250.
AND you can script them with Python!

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python_scrip...
Just Defender. Some bozo at work stumbled onto some questionable sites and got whacked with a cryptolocker a few years back, and in response to that, we had to run WebRoot for a while, and that was just awful - it may not be intrinsically terrible, but as configured here, it was centrally administered through as SAAS web app, and configured so that it wouldn't show any UI on users' machines - which ended up meaning that when it would false-flag something benign, it would pop an invisible modal window that locked out the machine for two or three minutes until it timed out. Every time you build a project... And especially excruciating with anything that used NPM and downloaded half the internet, because the real-time scanning would get swamped. Thankfully, after a few months of struggling, we got some exemptions.
Pretty sure it's not the same (legally) as wiretapping. Wiretapping is specifically described as recording the audio itself without the consent of a party as required by law. If no recording is taking place, I don't think there is any way for it to be considered wiretapping. This is more or less just having a sound meter send an alert when the volume (sound pressure) remains above a threshold for a specified amount of time. As for deducing your behavior - I don't think a court would have an issue with this because I'm pretty sure the AirBnb terms would indicate that such activity is not allowed so taking reasonable measures to ensure that behavior is not taking place would likely be acceptable. Renters/guests do enjoy certain legal privileges that make that space more or less privately owned during their occupancy, but this doesn't necessarily override contractual agreements.

Overall, this seems like a reasonable way of ensuring guests don't violate the agreement, provided that there is no recording of audio taking place whatsoever.
So are you telling me Facebook has a serious marketing budget for React? If so, that means tech has gotten way way crazier than I could ever have imagined.

There's a complexity angle that needs to be appreciated. I love Rails, I think it's the best solution to the problem it tries to solve for the people it wants to solve that problem for. But it's been called overly-complex and magical. But less-complex, less-magical frameworks just don't solve the problem as well. Just try building something big with Sinatra and you'll see what I mean.

I'm not terribly familiar with Angular, but React, when you remove it from its ecosystem and treat it as just a library-framework, does a great job at facilitating the building of user interfaces. The abstractions and underlying paradigm are somewhat hard to grasp, but once grasped, a competent architect can lay down patterns that juniors can implement.

A lot can get done in a small amount of time with React. The people that managed to do this in the beginning are the ones who christened React the Son of UI Development. People listened, and now we have the Church of React, with the Redux Reformation now upon us. Facebook had nothing to do with it, that was all us.
DevOps Salaries Hit New High
I imagine Windows Defender has been and will continue to be (even after this) nation state intelligence agencies' #1 way to get into users' Windows PCs.

I for one haven't trusted Windows Defender in a while, both because I don't trust Microsoft not to be malicious with it (at the very least they've steadily increased the amount and types of telemetry they collect through it) and also because it's such an easy target for all sorts of attackers.
> this place doesn’t have real mods

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14913956
A stockbroker calls 10,000 people. He tells 5,000 that the stock is going to go up, and the other 5,000 that it is going down. The next day the stock goes up. He then calls the 5,000 people who he told the stock would go up, he tells 2,500 that the stock goes up and the other half it will go down. Stock goes down next day.. . rinse, repeat. Until it gets down to 100 people and now those 100 people believe that stockbroker has 100% success rate.

Problem with these "motivator speakers" is that alot of people are doing thse strategies but alot of it goes with luck and oppurtunity. SO they are not spouting wisdom, just preaching strategies that worked for them in their time.
what exactly do you need seed money for? what’s its purpose? Is it to keep you eating so that you can finish building the app?

IMO you need proof that people actually want this thing.

I wouldn’t write another line of app code.

put up marketing material and get your market to sign up to be notified for when it comes out.

Treat those sign ups as validation of demand. It won’t be as good validation as actual payment, which would validate the business prospect... but those RSVP numbers will indicate that this is something probably worth investing your time in (and other people’s money in). and you can get your beta users from that list.
IBM’s Old Playbook
The response to this should be "Sure, for 3x the salary"
Considering the lengths these anti-cheat vendors go to to detect bad behavior (including but not limited to kernel-mode drivers and kernel-hooks), I doubt they have any incentive to go along with this until a massive amount of momentum for gaming on Linux exists.