skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly would they do that? Beyond Paypal just doing whatever they want whenever they want.
That page is actually what draws my concern -- it's got a lot of cool UI/UX improvements over other roguelikes, and there's a lot other games could/should learn from this guy... but other than the "A living ecosystem" section, there's nothing at all about the gameplay itself

Even his articles don't mention much about how it all plays out; it seems like he's far more interested in building a roguelike than making a good one (he talks a lot about how it impacts development, but not how it impacts play). But tbf, thats pretty much the starting story of any roguelike's development. I'd definitely start with this guy's resources if I was interested in making one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18384680
only been a feature request for 18 years in their bug tracking tool
Don't functional fanatics write code that has no side effects?
I guess some clarification is needed. Signal uses Google's notification services. When installing Signal on a device without Google Services, it says that the notifications might be unreliable because of the missing library.

But Telegram notifications work great, without relying on Google's servers, so I can happily use it without being monitored by Google...

Why Signal, a privacy-focused messenger, insists on using google servers?
It doesn't need to be. The basic idea is that the fly height is self-regulating; if the head goes away from the platter, its "lift" is reduced, so the springiness of the arm forces it back to the platter. If it moves closer to the platter, lift is increased, so it moves away. Similarly the tracks don't have to be perfectly round or concentric, because the lowest-level head control system in the drive actively tracks the head's current disk track on the surface; head movements aren't a "rotate 11.57821° to track 28139123", but rather "track 28139123 is around here somewhere, lets find it".
Do you mean to say that a change to the social contract is necessary where it could be acceptable in some cases for someone to get killed by a car? I am just trying to understand what you mean by this comment.
Anyone well versed in game theory know an optimal solution to hedge against the problem of hoarding?
I've just added a clarification in the comment above
Oh no, really? Welcome back to the 2000s??
Docs at my company are living docs, a group effort, current, and a joy to read. This is made possible by using Markdown (we use Hugo) and letting everyone at the company submit PRs ad hoc, as well as the obvious updates that roll out with new releases. We also write blogs that discuss example code, linking back to the docs, and post that example code on GitHub. To top it all off, I've been building Docker images that allow readers of the docs and blog posts to run example code with a single command and no configuration or installation (provided they have Docker).
The MP3 syncing is a super cool idea - did you analyze the MP3 at all to smooth syncing between sync points? Also love the little video, thanks for sharing! I think collaboration has huge value for any tool like this - it'll be one of my earlier priorities for Songcraft.
Can I have more info on this?
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Yeah, fathers may get joint custody, but they aren't getting equal custody. Typically this is every other weekend and every other major holiday. Additionally, fathers are typically still required to pay child support with 50/50 custody. Maybe single fathers wouldn't need to work such long hours if they weren't forced to provide their ex-wives with a UBI.
How does the suggested chords feature work?
How does it compare to Mario 64 though? Not buying a game for an older gen console in this day and age. Madness.
I agree. Interestingly as a sales recruiter, I've noticed that while the sales bro culture is well and alive in NYC / SF etc, a lot of the major aspects of it are especially magnified when you talk to candidates outside of the major tech markets.
Modern SSDs have incredibly large caches. For example, HP EX920, which is a TLC (triple layer cell) SSD, in its 1TB model contains a whooping 200GB of SLC (single layer cell) cache. It's entirely possible that your changes are simply in cache only, and hasn't been committed to the actual storage.
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>I'm pretty certain any such mission would have leaked by now. At least the fact of it, if not the details.

How do you know it hasn't? For example, it would seem to be within the capbilities of the rumored Blackstar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstar_(spacecraft)
Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)
You both use possibly/possible and that's enough of a hedge that I don't think there's an actual disagreement here on facts, just on mood.

It's possible that there is a way to improve on textbooks, but this company won't find it. Or maybe they will?

It seems to me that writing just a single textbook (or equivalent content) well takes a lot of work, and improving on it would be harder than that.
The end of Inbox was announced in 2018 too.
Rails 5 Active Record Attributes API
> Let's say Super Micro is right and there were no malicious hardware at all for sure. What are the consequences for Bloomberg for this incompetence? I mean, there needs to be something..

What are the consequences for a public figure deliberately lying?

What about accidentally lying? What if they are a private figure?

If we're going to have consequences for this sort of stuff, we'd need to lock up most of the people in government, and the employees of every single PR department.
Is there a good way to sandbox terraform configurations? I'm not directly involved (just hear the screaming) but everything I'm hearing is that making modifications is a test of willpower.

For us it's been about as transparent as a brick wall and I'm not clear if that's down to our bureaucracy or built into the design. Both are anathema to the goal of making complex deployments straightforward and self-describing (you can't manage something this complicated unless big parts of it are as obvious as can be).
The China thing would add a lot of moving parts to an already complex story. I would have written it out from the movie, but I would make a malfunction or something natural get rid of the probe, without implying the Gardeners directly, but revealing that there is complex life in Europa. Maybe getting the probe destroyed by the Europan like the Tsien was.

If someone ever manages to get 2010 (and 2001) into a miniseries (I pray someone more respectful than the monsters who butchered Childhood's End), then the China story would be an important part. If I were doing it, I'd use only audio from the Chinese astronaut transmitting on the blind and the faces of the crew of the Leonov as they listen to the tragedy and cope with the fact they can do nothing to save that voice - a death every astronaut knows from their own nightmares. It'd act as a reminder that a lot of things can - and do - go wrong even when we do everything perfectly right.
Whether or not those are industry standard, they can be used in cult-like ways. E.g., I love stand-ups myself and have promoted them vigorously. But as with many Agile terms, a lot of the use I see and hear about is definitely cargo-culted: ritualistic, dogmatic, and not very effective compared with people who use them as tools to improve their work.

Here in particular he makes clear it's a veneer: "Six months in, I started to see through the acronyms and the carefully maintained optimism of my teammates. For all the talk of agility and disruption and 10X, there was a deep fear of fucking up."

Real cults regularly use reasonable-sounding religious jargon and performative optimism to paper over deep flaws. So I think he correctly describes this as cultish. And that's before we even get into the other cult-ish signs. You can do your own scoring here: http://www.neopagan.net/ABCDEF.html
multiple tab selection ... this has metabolic impact on my brain right now
Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2018 Jealousy List
I grew up with Doraemon comics. It's a robotic raccoon from 22nd century travel back in time to 1980s to help babysit a stupid boy - well, that's mean, but with future tech helped, he got off pretty well and married the prettiest girl, etc. The future tech that raccoon has really got me into engineering. I think that series is a precious. ;-)
Ask HN: How to ask in StackOverflow and get answers?
I always write questions based in the "How-To" displayed always that you are about to make a question but most of the questions doesn't pass the guidelines for asking a question.
What suggestions do you have for asking in Stack Overflow?
I wish you could resize the columns in the Network tab of the Dev tools.
The best tetris experience is in the old Dos Navigator after pressing alt+f9 with its clever scoring:
https://archive.org/details/DOSNavigator_1020

which is actualy open sourced at:
http://www.dnosp.com
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Welcome to reality. National intrrrdts trump freedoms.
FWIW I switched entirely to using Samsung’s SSDs and haven’t had any issues. They seem to be above average for firmware quality, but I don’t have statistics to back that feeling up.

Sometimes the dead SSDs will respond to a handful of commands anyway, meaning that you can attempt a firmware upgrade or reset. That’s the lucky case. But in the majority of cases I’ve seen, the firmware/controller goes into some hard lockup where it no longer processes SATA commands at all. I wish these things had JTAG ports...
Or maybe a start to the democratic process to encourage lawmakers to discover nuance and legislate.

Or maybe a good place for someone with knowledge to show why it's a bad idea and what the arguments are that have been struggled with.

One person getting irked because another happily destroys reputation without any consequence is natural. Reputation is too important.

A single person wanting to see consequence does not create a mob that firebombs their offices.
It seems as though most of the links in the examples of other sorts of tetris are broken
In Jackrabbit, the very cool retro-dystopian flick, scavenged (but potentially valuable) hardware is referred to as "tetris." Nice touch I thought...
The thought of giving any of my passwords to a 3rd party is problematic ... but my banking password ? This is an issue.

Also a risk, because any bank could simply shut this down pretty quickly and if one does it, the others could follow.

The first 3rd party that messes up, with the whiff of a scandal ... and this is going to dissapear, or rather, the banks may decided that they'll do some API, but not for free.

I'm waiting for 'Cambridge Analytica' but with your money this time.
They're not though. They only exist as the relation between the edge and the start of content.

How many levels of indentation are there on each line?

https://i.imgur.com/s1WBHxU.png

Spoiler: Line 3 has no indentation while Line 6 has one level. Line 4 has a mix of tabs and spaces that would confuse Python.

The fact of the matter is that indentation is white space, and white space is implicit by definition. It only exists as the gap between other things.
Why artificial intelligence is likely to take more lives
I agree that Empire Strikes Back is good, but I don't understand why I think that.
It's only fair to say that Chrome also offers this feature. You can set optional (mandatory for passwords) sync passphrase so your sync data is encrypted.

In fact I liked way Firefox Sync did this same way (when it was called Weave) -- actually allowing to use a passphrase. They got rid of passphrase and they are now using username/password pair to handle encryption.
Great, so in the US, we have judges beholden to different powerful groups, that don't have my best interests at heart.

It's marginally better then having them beholden to one powerful group, but still insane.

Judges need to be appointed, not elected.
My 1970s 3/2 (1400sqft) in Austin 15 miles from downtown is worth around $400k. It's a huge factor in my family/life decisions. Not even comparable to CA/Sea of course. The neighborhood I'm in is probably 80% boomers (because of pricing, it's a gorgeous place people would love to raise a family).

When I moved to Dallas (significantly more affordable housing) I found that a lot more of my coworkers have families/homes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/millennials-are-flocking-to-...
As remote guy too I notice that if you neglect human interaction and social aspect of every day work then it becomes boring quickly. You may miss work feedback loop, praise moments and new project deal outs. Although lucrative remote jobs put nice bread on my table, I try to fill my curiosity and social gap by doing some local in-office consulting gigs and side projects.

Go part-time remotly if possible and buy some time for more interesting things. Good luck.
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First you should ask how to ask HN to get good answers, as I am afraid this post will be ignored
A Racing-The-Beam Ray Tracer in an FPGA
That's really a nice, sympathetic idea.

The main issue with that is that it simply doesn't provide anywhere near enough money to pay a real team.

Our forums, for example, have about 17.7k users according to help.nextcloud.com/about

Let's say we get ALL those users to pay 10 bucks per year. Not going to happen, of course - but let's say we put in a lot of effort there. That can pay for 3-4 developers. We have 25. Should we really spend time on that? Or spend that energy on getting a few big customers who pay 100K each?

We have explicitly chosen not to even TRY to monetize any installation under 50-100 users.

That means we don't try to squeeze money out of small businesses and home users (for example by not fixing issues for those users to try and get them to sign a contract). Instead, our incentive is to make Nextcloud easy and good enough that anyone <100 users can just use it without needing us. Because then 1. they don't ask too many questions on our forums and github and twitter etc and 2. they advocate for how great Nextcloud is to our real potential customers: businesses with 500 to 50 million users.

Of course, if community members want to donate or if contributors want to earn a cup of coffee, there's always https://www.bountysource.com/teams/nextcloud
But our employees aren't allowed to take money out of that, they have to donate it back to issues they/we care about.
Ya'll have the best tutorials and guides around, I've gone from embedded C Dev to full stack, and DO's guides have helped immensely.

I'm working on migrating a large part of my stack over to DO, and I'll be much happier when I'm done! :)
Just because it passes legal muster doesn't mean it's ethical. And I think that's one of the things that people are calling for.
Your scope, yeah, but I think the previous poster was talking about product scope.

Though I do think it could be a good idea.
Every register besides r8-r15 has special functions, and different registers support different addressing operations. There are at most two pairs of equivalent registers: r8/r10 and r9/r11 (i.e. I don't know of any operation in which r8 couldn't be swapped with r10, and likewise for r9/r11). All other registers are unique (i.e., for any pair of them, there exist valid assembly programs that would become invalid if you swapped usage of the registers in that pair throughout the program).

So you can define a type system isomorphic to a lot of things, but this seems to me a degenerate case. What's the point of considering it a type system when no two values can be of the same type, almost all operations are polymorphic, almost all operations are on multiple types, and almost every instruction involves a conversion between types?
> The whole generations thing was made up by the Boomers in ad agencies trying to sell more products through demographic targeting.

It wasn't made up by Boomers, and the not-Boomers who made it up weren't in ad agencies. As agencies latched on to it, though.

> They venerated their parents and placed them on a pedestal "The Greatest Generation".

Actually, no. That's the Silent Generation that erected that pedestal for the GG, not the Boomers.

> They hated a lot of their earliest kids, "GenX".

Don't see any real evidence of this. (GenX is also largely the children of the Silent Generation.)

> They doted and spoiled their later kids and early grandkids, "Millennial", then decided it was fun to blame them for how much they were doted upon/spoiled.

Don't see any evidence for either half of this, either. It's not Boomers writing most of the Millennial generation-shaming (that's Gen Xers) or Millennials wrtit most of the Boomer generation-shaming (that's also Gen Xers).

> Boomers aren't even that special in that way that they've named themselves the "Baby Boomers", sure they were a massive population boom following a couple huge wars,

Just one specific war, and you just contradicted yourself.

> but demographically speaking they mostly just put the planet back into the usual Malthusian cycle.

There is no “usual Malthusian cycle”.

> There are more GenX and Millennials than Baby Boomers, because human birthrates trend towards the exponential.

I think you mean that human birth rates tend to be constant, producing exponential growth. But even that isn't true over the relevant period: the low US birthrate during the Boomer birth years is over 20 per 1000, which in turn is greater than the high of the next generation, over which birth rates declined to a low of under 15 per 1000; there was a slight jump up then for the Millennials, where birthrate hovered between about 15.5 and 16.5 per 1000, before dropping again for the post-Millenial generation (not clear which of the competing names is going to stick for that.)

There are more Millennials and Gen X, combined, than Boomers, but that's a larger span of birth years , and more recent so fewer of them, proportionately, have died. (And we're just about at the Millennial/Boomer population crossover, Gen X is still smaller than either.)

> The next generations that are supporting the Baby Boomers as they head into retirement and senescence aren't much "smaller",

Gen X absolutely is, but in part that's an artifact of a slightly narrower window of birth years.

More to the point, they certainly have a smaller worker to retiree ratio than was the case when the Boomers were in a similar position to either Gen X or Millenials now.

> Also, the Boomers have been aware of climate change since the 70s.

The Boomers in general were not; it may have been the scientific consensus since the 1970s, but the Boomers weren't the people concealing that consensus in the 1970s (that was largely the Silent and Greatest generations.) The eruption of climate change as an issue ofmhigh political salience tracks pretty well with Boomers gaining political power.
Rappler and its founder are paying the price for reporting on Duterte’s regime
so will there be a plan to support GUI applications? does it allow to access filesystem?
Analysis of the Nest app for iOS
> Sure, but that's at least an additional piece of security, requiring additional work to bypass.

I would not consider the ability to proxy traffic much of a new capability for attackers. You can do it trivially with a single SSH command. Even a script kiddy with automated tooling should be able to handle this.

Agree that detecting exfil when you have sensitive data is very important though. Just that it takes a lot of work to protect against, and a ton of work to detect.
> A reporter on an international affairs beat can't possibly dismiss sources as broad as the State Department or CIA

It's actually worse, the power dynamics are completely lopsided: He/she can't disgruntle his governmental sources or else there's the very real possibility of being cut out of the loop/any access at all in the future.

Which isn't a great prospect for any journalist because you can't get any "scoops" when your competitors have privileged access to information.
At the moment, I suggest common chords in the same key as the rest of the song. I'm working on a recommendation system that will take more into account the music theory of progressions as well as common existing patterns found in different styles of music. Super excited to have a decent system for that, as it's one of the main things that I personally want to use in my songwriting.
Did they fix the horrendously ugly tab-bar yet?
Funny I’ve had the opposite experience with the economist. Whenever they touch my area of expertise they demonstrate their substantial ignorance and inability to fact check even the simplest things.
The Release Notes say it does. I'm going to try it out later.
A home cooked meal, a kind word or smile won't change anything about a star across the galaxy, but what does anything at all about a star across the galaxy matter if it doesn't in some way help to make home cooked meals, dispense kind words, or cause smiles?

Matter doesn't matter, consciousness does.
Walmart gives Flippy the frying robot a shot
I just sold a domain on GoDaddy two weeks ago. Should I be afraid, that I won't get my money? I thought there was nothing to worry about, since it's such a big company....
Maybe they'll start getting around to 12-year-old security bugs soon?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/malicious-sites-abuse-11-year-...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377496

EDIT: Dang, guess the spittle brigade is really out in force today. Anyone downvoting want to maybe respond in substance as to why they think Firefox should continue ignoring security issues that have been open since the Bush administration?
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What percentage market share does a Google product need to dip below to be culled? I was wondering this today when the G+ shutdown was accelerated - it was at 0.14%. Could this be used as an early warning sign?
They're being built for predominately rich white renters, based on the people moving in to these neighborhoods for the past few years. It's a classic gentrification story. Before you would have had mostly black and latino residents, and now on many blocks it's mostly white residents [and businesses]. The marketing is basically "Can't afford Williamsburg? Move to Fishtown."
Don’t think HN is any different.
I wish they'd finally fix pinch-to-zoom on OS X. This is the main thing that keeps me using Chrome.
The origin of the letter "e" might be helpful in the interpretation of this event: http://www.templestudy.com/2008/02/17/the-origin-of-the-lett...
what makes ECS 'vanilla'? i thought it was just a bespoke competitor to K8s.
I think the most interesting part, that I don't fully understand as yet, is that it cannot be cloned, apparently, but people are making pull requests, so they must be using lower level mechanisms to achieve it.
I would love to see an animated version of the GoL version, perhaps in one of the browser-based simulators? I don't know how to work with .rle files though.
All this talk of Id games and I totally forgot about Duke! It definitely should be in the discussion. Now, if they'd only make a sequel... ;)
Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines.

I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but this addon promises to restore it: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/30/livemarks-restores-live-bo...

Edit: here's the official GitHub: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/
I am absolutely SHOCKED, I did not expect this in a million years. Why would I ever have any reason to believe the government isn't telling me the truth? And, as a law-abiding citizen, I can't imagine what they'd even want with it anyway. This must have been an honest mistake.