skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I mean, let me say, I'm happy to hear this, but again, I feel like it's irrelevant to myself personally that this even exists.

Without 100% compatibility, I'm not really interested in something that may run half, or even 75% of my games. I play games to relax. I make games for a living.

So all I want, personally, is to pop any disc in my console or hit a shortcut on my desktop and just have it work, every time, out of the box.

I know this isn't everyone, but it does hopefully explain a little better why WINE will always be 'irrelevant' to myself.

Personally, I think it's the graphics card cost that really prevents me from considering it at all, especially as if I was bothered with PC gaming again, I'd be getting a Vive, also for development's sake.
Same thing happened to SysAdmins with the conversion to SRE. Industries change. Sink or swim.
I set up a separate user account for Steam precisely because I don't want anti-cheats sniffing my main account's memory through /proc. Anti-cheat can go fuck itself, doubly hard if it tries to install a kernel module just to play a damn game.
And this is the problem with preppers in general. I don't know if it's too much Walking Dead or just a mindset they have to start with, but as someone else pointed out they seem to be far more obsessed with guns than with clean water, sanitation and heating.

Guns aren't very common in my country so I'm not worried about gun-toting locals rampaging around. Sure, a few might raid a military base or a farmer's shotgun cabinet, but statistically I think my family would be under far more threat from hypothermia, cholera or an infected scratch.
Is the tool, any tool, guilty for its misuse then? It’s always the people, never the tool. It’s you too, if you are unable to make your Twitter the useful environment you want.
In the case of the plane that was shot down, you can lobby your government to actually give a shit and do something about it. But hey, it happened to them and not us, so why should we care, right? Graphic imagery showing that they are humans too might help people understand that it's not a 'us vs. them' thing.
When they suggest someone might not support free speech because they are Jewish, that's not 'some criticism of Jews and Israel'. Describing it like that is either incredibly naive or a fair bit Nazi.
To the same degree? I disagree there. I would never expect a full-stack engineer to be more proficient at front-end when compared to a FE specialist. You are expected to know some, but not to the same degree. That’s the reason they are specialists, in comparison.
To be socially unacceptable, society has to agree that it's unacceptable. But the process works both ways, and something that was socially unacceptable can also become socially acceptable over time. Right now it seems society is rejecting the notion that marijuana is unacceptable, which is leading to it become more socially acceptable and more legally accessible. The realities of the drug seem to have failed to live up to the picture painted by anti-marijuana marketing and so the marketing failed.

For a long time being homosexual was illegal and socially unacceptable, but that has changed over the years after the expected social harm from homosexuality had not been realized. It's the same process, just in reverse. Society is attempting to minimize harm to itself, whether that's rejecting ideas that are socially harmful or demanding the decriminalization of activities that are not socially harmful.
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It scares the living shit out of me how many people in tech are actively fighting against free speech.

Censorship is evil. It is a power that will be abused for political gains (as we're already seeing). That is pretty much a constant throughout human history. The internet itself was a platform for free speech. That's what made the internet of the 90s so great. Now look at it. A handful of mega corporations spying on everyone all day every day, and controlling what they're allowed to see and talk about.

It's all very 1984, and everyone seems asleep at the wheel.
How about Confuse-A-Cat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DmE8-Xg0Kg
wait homepage is something you see on every new tab, isn't it?
Any television series with a plot arc is going to have multiple stories occurring simultaneously, starting and ending asynchronously. Each of those stories will likely follow a valence arc like the ones described in the article if analyzed independently.
So you get to live 3 months more to admire how effed you are and then die. Not sure if it's best way to spend 1000 bucks. Unless you count entertainment value of getting and feeling prepared.
I draw the line where it makes sense from a business value perspective. If the product you're working on is a mobile application then it makes sense to both know mobile and back-end development.

Personally, I work on business applications exclusively. Creating value in that realm nowadays usually involves a web front-end and a back-end. The front-end in these cases often is required to run on mobile devices, too, which however is perfectly achievable by using web-based techniques.

Occasionally, there's the need for having a dedicated mobile app. In those cases, I make use of web-based frameworks such as Ionic. Not only do those provide the additional benefit of staying platform-independent but they also abstract over the specifics of mobile platforms.

This might not be the perfect approach in each and every case but for business applications it's often more than good enough and the little additional value created by maintaining a dedicated Android or iOS codebase doesn't warrant the additional effort required to do so.
There's also the all important other item: Experience.

If you've never had to survive in the wild before, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
I still occasionally play Malkari, a 1999 4X space game written for DirectX 5. It doesn't work on anything but Win9x, so I have a VM for it. On Win2K/XP it will just draw a half purple screen, even in compatibility mode.

Even then... Windows 98 doesn't work under VirtualBox, unless you run the VM with the Legacy paravirtualisation interface, and with the ICH AC97 audio card, which Windows 98 doesn't have drivers for ... nor does it have drivers for VirtualBox' VGA adapter.

Those problems are easily worked around, of course, but one day, either VirtualBox will drop its Legacy emulation code, or SciTech Display Doctor will stop working with VirtualBox' VGA adapter, or the sound won't work anymore, ...

I'm one glitch away from being unable to play a game I really like, and bought as a teenager...
I'll think otherwise the day I can log into LinkedIn and see something besides RH employees sharing the same advertisements without any discussion.
QUIC uses TLS.
Not technically recursive because the "Q" does not stand for "QUIC".
I wrote a firefox plugin that removes likes/follows/upvotes/hearts style vanity counters from a bunch of websites. It absolutely makes them better to use. This is a good change.

I had a middle-of-the-road idea in this area too, which is to replace the number with the magnitude. So you still get the feedback from the vanity metric, but it happens with logarithmic decay.

A more detailed write-up (and repo for the plugin) for those interested: https://github.com/a13o/disengaged/wiki#replace-vanity-count...
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The people in heavily armed communities generally have not studied the history of the overall survival of isolated enclaves though.

At best, they get left alone till they run out of supplies, but most likely they get wiped out (if they try to not be absorbed) by the most successful group that adopts a mobile strategy.

I mean ISIS literally proved this model works for a very long time: advance and expand using the resources in the areas you take over, and pacify local populations with equal parts savagery and the spoils of war.

A sustainable version still looks the same - join the largest mobile group, and rapidly absorb territory and people until you become self-sustaining hopefully. And then defend if the same way - by staying mobile, but and having reinforcements to call upon.

The US adopted maneuver warfare as a tactical doctrine for a reason.
Windows keeps on moving. For me, this means that the software or game I have bought will stop working. Thanks to wine or virtualbox, I can still use what I own or old games bought on GOG. I do not play much, but recently, I wanted to show flight simulator to my children. I have booted on windows 10 and it was impossible to use my game that is less than 10 years old.
Ask HN: Single startup founder how do you stay motivated?
Obviously I don't think I'd be able to convert a member of ISIS. But I engage my trump-voter friends all the time. Most of the time, we both benefit from such discussions by gaining insight into each others' positions. At the very least you could gain perspective and understand how these distorted ideas originated, which helps prevent and address it in the future. Online censoring is the equivalent of ostracizing members of society for things they say. Sure you can do that, but at some point that becomes totalitarian.

Not calling someone an idiot, sets the tone of a conversation. You can have a civilized conversation that contains very twisted ideas. The same ideas can be expressed eloquently , i.e. eugenics, but that doesn't change what they are.
AFAIK the main value-add for Proton is DXVK, which gives DirectX games incredibly low-overhead access to the linux Vulkan driver. Dramatically improved performance is more than just "another WINE wrapper with some extra stuff piled on".

And Proton's not the end-game: it's a solution to the chicken-and-egg problem. Most people (like yourself) don't see Linux as a viable gaming platform largely because of the lack of games available, and therefore developers don't invest in Linux support, and thus there continue to be few games available for the platform. The promise of Proton is to make Linux good-enough for some gamers, thus increasing the Linux player-base, making Linux a viable target for 1st party titles.

> It's never going to get to an equivalent level, because Windows' gaming technology keeps moving forward.

That's not really accurate, and hasn't been for some time. For years OpenGL has been on-par with DX in terms of what it can do for some time and the story has only gotten better with Vulkan. Just look at Doom 2016: it was a high-profile AAA game built entirely on an open-source graphics stack (OpenGL and Vulkan) and it was one of the best-looking, best-optimized titles of the year. The main "edge" Microsoft has in terms of being able to bring the best games to its platform has nothing to do with a technical advantage: it has everything to do with industry momentum and incentivizing studios and industry professionals to use their proprietary technologies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328088
PHP was originally “Personal Home Page”. It wasn’t until version 3 that it became a recursive acronym in an attempt to legitimize it for more than personal projects.
People shouldn't need to look up lingo to find out what it means constantly. Plus if a person can't spend the effort to spell out thank you. It really decreases the thank you.
I have family that are 'preppers' but they aren't so much anti-government wacko's as they are government employees in the PNW that have seen the reports of what happens if 'the big one' comes (the Cascadia subduction zone)and how many bridges/airports will collapse. My little county did a study, and found they would become a dozen 'islands' because of how many bridges over rivers/large streams would collapse.

I keep about two weeks worth of supplies (food, water, wool blankets, etc) around, because its going to take a long time for federal assistance to arrive.
> What about Windows legendary backward compatibility?

The OS is backwards compatible; nVidia's / AMD's video drivers and hardware, well, not so much...
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In the light of the recent Red Hat acquisition by IBM, how does it affect CentOS?
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Tried that but when I tried to hold it up by my ear my arms sort of faded out and disappeared. Weird.
I wonder whether this will make blogs much more popular after search engines drop links to news sites.
What's more, how are they going to make it out of the city on clogged highways? Especially when the ICBMs are already airborne?

I live in the country already. We have chickens, and a well. We won't get murdered in the urban panic. We will probably last a few months... and then die of disease or starvation like the rest.
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>> Maybe because IBM would have provided a superior price, and RedHat is a public company answerable to shareholders.

I think a lot of readers probably don't understand what that line means. Even if the C-suite at RedHat did not want to do this, they have no choice. Shareholders can riot and oust you(executives) for not taking what they consider to be the "best deal"(and this is one heck of a deal). Long story short, even if you don't want to sell - once the price is high enough, the shareholders will force you.
This is so deceptive and disgusting but I enjoyed the story.
Your reasoning is not sound at all.

90% of the general public might know know how to read an income statement, but 90% of the general public is not interested in reading an S-1 no matter what the format is.
The vast majority are happy reading a Marketwatch synposis of it.

The percentage of the general public who are actually interested in reading an S-1 will be mostly interested in the financials.

Again, I believe this is because you don't understand who your end-user would be, and who is actually interested in reading an S-1.
What does this site do? Is it one of the ridiculous free speech sites?
I wonder if we can get Steve Carell to do a "Goodbye Windows" song.

Been dual booting for many years now only for steam.
Lets say that there are only 3 methods and method #2 is the one that works initially. On the first call it'll try #1 and when that doesn't work it'll try #2 which will be successful. For the next however many calls it'll jump straight to #2. If #2 starts returning ENOSYS at some point it'll try #3 and if that works then all future calls will jump straight to #3. However if #3 stops working then it will keep on failing until #3 starts working again even if #1 started working after the first call.

I think (I haven't actually tested it) you can do what the parent commenter wants by wrapping the whole thing in a do-loop but the original implementation is questionable enough, sticking an extra loop in there isn't doing anything to help make it less horrible.

int set_the_mtime(...) {
static int switch_step = 0;

int loop_again = 1;

do {
switch (switch_step) {

case 0:
if (method_0_works(...))
return 0;

switch_step++;
/* FALLTHROUGH */

case 1:
if (method_1_works(...))
return 0;

switch_step++;
/* FALLTHROUGH */

case 2:
if (method_2_works(...))
return 0;

}

switch_step = 0;
} while (loop_again--);

return -1; /* ultimate failure */
}
This story is not true.

https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1056913093471670273
Isn't this against freedom of speech and thus against constitution in most member states? Nobody can stop me from disseminating my ideas free of charge, right?
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or, the house is somewhat isolated or your neighbors are frequently away and you don't have any other way of knowing.
You can:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...

A8-0245
Stack your pantry deeper than average -- buy the same food you always buy, but keep 2-3x as much shelf-stable food on hand. Pasta, rice, flour, peanut butter, tuna, shortening, etc. all keep for long enough without any serious degradation in quality. Fill a water barrel[0] and put it in the back of a storage closet. Grab a Sawyer filter[1] in case that's not enough. Get a simple pump shotgun[2] and a 100 rounds; practice with 50 and save the other 50 in case you need to defend your home.

Congratulations, you've bought insurance for the medium-term societal collapse for about $600 or so.

[0] http://a.co/d/cT00rup
[1] http://a.co/d/eroGWNy
[2] https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/Mossberg-Maverick-88-Securit...
QUIC is effectively TCP 2.0. It is not a lossy protocol which is what games need.
Ask HN: Web applications or software that lets you remotely administer SQL data?
I have a spring boot service that uses some tables with business data that might change every month or so.

At the moment we are doing this change using scripts that remotely update this data from csv files etc.

The data itself, is mostly for the UI. Dropdown options, currency values and meta data.

Back in the day there was things like PhpMyAdmin etc. however those are for DBAs, not general users who have SQL experience.

The long term plan is for an operations team to administer this data.

We are planning to just hack together an admin page for management of this data.

However I was wondering if there are any tools or software that could host this admin page for us?

I am aware its risky to allow users access to the database directly.

However I was hoping to be able to restrict it to certain tables.

Any suggestions welcomed!
Great point let's shake peg-legs.
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So am I. Extremely tired of it all. But I don't think they should be banished.
Depends on your browser. Safari for example never shows you the 'homepage' unless you specifically navigate to it.
As a person who never uses twitter, I tried using it one time and found all of the functions very confusing. Do people really find twitter useful?
Yeah he interpreted it quite tastefully.
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SFTP is far more complicated than HTTP file upload, which doesn't require support for SSH to function.
I think parent's comment was about large real estate investments. Which can often sit idly for years before being sold/reinvested for a profit.
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

The public needs to see graphic imagery of humans causing other humans to suffer. We need to know the harm we inflict and we need to turn the raw emotion of pain and disgust into action.

I don't think it's appropriate to show blood and gore when there's nothing at stake, but these are not such instances.
It uses TLS 1.3. No need for DTLS as QUIC isan in-order protocol (eventhough it's built on top of UDP). It is supposed to be faster than tcp+tls
May be worth looking at:

https://artixlinux.org/

There is also Gentoo, Alpine, and Void.
QUIC is like TCP 2.0. So it won't help games
Congrats!

I had briefly worked and contributed to the SDC compiler. Wonder how that's doing.
I'm in the same boat. Would love to be able to use Fusion in linux, especially with Apple dropping OpenGL support. Last I read they were looking to move the app to web-based and be platform agnostic.
The answer to every question regarding "where would you go" is "nowhere, unless there's imminent localized danger".

There's a reason most state-level disaster relief advice starts with "stay in your homes" unless there's actual flood waters rising or something - because masses of people suddenly moving about is a pretty good way to create a whole bunch of disruption and disaster.
not compared to the 60's 70's or 80's
Having access to a ranged weapon is defenitely a plus. Even if complete absence of law and order is a somewhat unlikely scenario, a ranged weapon will also make things like hunting for food easier.

In many places, there are quite heavy restrictions on firearms, and obtaining one without breaking the law might simply not be legal for everyone. Most such countries don't outlaw the use of bows and arrows though...
Their homepage has some more details such as what it does, etc
Or just use 60 shells for practice and nob riggers (Rob nigeurs) with the remaining 40.
“My airline is the worst in the world, but there is no choice.”

Is this closer to what’s intended?
It pisses me off when a Twitter storm is reported as "news". Lazy journalism.
It's hard to reduce all of that data to a single number. In general average framerate matters, but not nearly as much as a discrepancy in 95% or 99% percentile low framerate or stuttering, etc.
Nope, for Chrome you have to use an extension, and Firefox needs an extension or some about:config changes.
Thanks for the info.

> It’s uncommon (or nonexistant) on longer flights because it’s not reasonable to make people go without food for that long.

Like I said, I'd be happy to pay less to go without food for that long.
Isn't QUIC mixing the tcp handshake with the tls handshake? That should make it faster
>>If Opium were for sale in every corner store (even if it was safely packaged, measured etc) we would have a healthcare epidemic that would shatter society.

Smoking has been decreasing for 60 years, despite being legal, and that's due to anti-smoking campaigns and growing social rejection of smoking. And nicotine doesn't kill a significant proportion of its users within five years the way heroin does.

Drug-use would be heavily discouraged if it were legal. Reducing use through social pressure seems to me to be far more effective than reducing it through legal punishment of those that buy, sell and possess it.

>>The #1 cause opiate problem is addiction to legal pain killers and it's not a 'street problem' it's a 'suburbs problem'.

So the problem could be that medical professionals are recommending people to use it, not that it's available on the street.

Legalizing it would eliminate the entire illicit drug market, and would significantly reduce the crime committed by drug addicts to support their habit.
Not all standard GCC frontends are written in C++, e.g. GNAT.
Yes, exactly. I once read an interview with Christopher "moot" Poole. He started 4chan when he was 15, and his intention was not to create one of the world's worst places. It was clear he eventually became unhappy devoting his life to hosting garbage, and that 4chan would never be anything else.
Pedantic and useless. Thanks for proving my point.
They're not "banished". Stormfront is still on the Internet. Gab will be too, at least for a while. They're just going to have to work with companies that don't mind helping white supremacists.
Idiots wrote code that says if osversion.startsWith('Windows 9') this is some crufty old Win9x system.

To revert to the actual topic, to defend against this type of thing the QUIC binding for HTTP assigns an arbitrary non-contiguous group of identifiers as reserved to be ignored in various places, with the intent that some real systems will prod these once in a while, to discourage idiots hard-coding checks that will become obsolete.
Different - they mean “follow”. Facebook will send you notifications from threads you’ve commented on.
There's a rather large gap between "Maybe we shouldn't let people plan genocide online" and 1984.

And we already accept limits on free speech. For example, can I publicly lie about someone as "free speech"? No, it's libel/slander.
Nice spearfishing from [0]Mozilla:

"Hey @RedHat employees - if working for @IBM isn't your idea of a good time, Mozilla has a bunch of interesting roles we're actively hiring for: https://careers.mozilla.org/listings/?team=Engineering"

[0] https://twitter.com/mike_conley/status/1056693061038825472?s...
Yikes, stay away from directives if it's possible unless you really need that functionality. I wouldn't add that as a `cheat sheet` as that should be a rare use case / component extension.
That article never actually explained why Red Hat was successful where others weren't. It got lost on showing how _not_ successful they were, even as it said how exceptional their results were.
Do renters sign something stating they won't produce over {n} decibels of sound?
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