skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, has any game been implemented more times than Tetris? It was always one of those things I wanted to do and finally got around to hacking together a javascript version of it a few years ago:

http://cortexture.net/tetris/

I would love to add multiplayer to in someday...

Also, if you haven't read the Kotaku review of "Tetris" (the game in general, not any specific release/platform), it is not only profound but hilarious: https://kotaku.com/tetris-the-kotaku-review-1718328217

> The best-known and best-loved video game ... is not a Skinner box of rewards for players but a bleak encounter with futility ... Tetris ends with certain death. It is a jigsaw puzzle that must be assembled on deadline, yet never can be ... The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain ... but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive, meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility, somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks. Tetris, like all the stupid games it spawned, forces us to choose to punish ourselves.
Seems like a lot of people don't know who to believe. Me too. Hasn't anyone pulled a few Supermicro boards and confirmed that this chip exists? It was reported that the chip might be inside the wafers, but still, that would make finding this a clear smoking gun.
I guess that Trudeau's dislike of Chinese outweighs his dislike of Trump. This is sad to watch how one man does so much damage to Canada. I live in Canada and will have to suffer the consequences.

Apologies to those, who are offended by this, but check the facts, please.
AFAIK it's enabled by default in Nightly for some desktop Windows users. There's an about:config pref that others can use to enable it. Follow the WebRender blog for more information: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/
As someone who grew up in the 70's I completely agree with Dr. Sagan. I believe I have read everyone of these stories mentioned. I found it astounding he continually mentions Heinlein as he is my favorite author to this day. He taught a young moldable mind (mine) to think outside of societal norms and to believe that things can be done. His stories no longer seem to fit what the PC world we live in. The one book I was surprised to not see mentioned was Stranger in a Strange Land. Maybe Dr Sagan never groked it. I have read it more than 10 times and still wonder if I grok.
> The broadening of the millennial range is a noticeable trend

Broadening from what base? It was open-ended when coined, and the people who coined I later proposed a 2004 cutoff; most definitions in use are narrower, not broader (though some start earlier.)
David Levine's Some of the People, All of the Time in the most recent issue of N+1 Magazine is a fantastic short story that revolves around claqueurs.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-32/fiction-drama/some-of-the-p...
>very few will gain exposure to these technologies to develop that passion.

This, exactly.

SSD firmware is opaque, hard to learn from outside. On the other hand, trending web-based framework has all the source code opened, with great documents, and ready to use tools. No wonder young people of today find passion on other things rather than SSD.
Nothing's "wrong" with it, but I have yet to find one that allows me to read more headlines in a shorter time than Live Bookmarks.
The title reminded me of the "explain deleuze to me" meme:

https://twitter.com/helm_ll/status/991045671133351936
This said, every tragedy of the commons scenario that was previously avoided by regulation happened,

What are the downsides that regulation avoided, which are now happening?

the streets of major cities are almost entirely cars for hire, where it's nearly impossible to make a living wage working as a driver on only 40 hours a week.

Making a living wage wasn't so great for beginning cab drivers either. They had to rent their cabs from medallion holders, which often meant they had to take a lot of rides before they saw dollar 1.
Everyone working on R&D either got laid off, or moved to sustaining engineering on existing nodes. AMD is doing 7nm on TSMC. That's about as shut down as foundries get since the capital investment is all up front.
Nobody pays Equifax to protect data. They pay Equifax for access to data, which Equifax has been able to keep doing.
The Linux Direct Rendering Manger Subsystem Poised to Have a Second Maintainer
You can work around this (not ideal I know) by enabling "Low Resolution" mode for Firefox only: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202471

(I have the same issue and I'd like to switch to Firefox)
BitBank Cryptocurrency prediction platform now has Free 1 month trial
The Best Holiday Giveaway Series
Larger discussion from 17 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18652899
Sure, pick any one of these.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=linode%20security&sort=byPopul...
>many who learn one first

Everyone learns imperative first. "Wake up!" or "Eat your vegetables!" are imperative. No-one says to their kids, "map(vegetables, eat)"
if anyone wants to track your life without divulging it all to google, check out the memex that andrew louis built in ruby: http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2018-building-a-memex-wit...
Why is Congress so dumb about technology?
FreeBSD 11.2 continues to be a supported release. There's no need to upgrade at this point. Also, from experience, unsupported FreeBSD releases generally continue to work as well as they did while they were supported (which is to say, pretty well); they don't turn into a pumpkin when support stops.
I have been trying out FreeBSD 12 as a desktop using the "TrueOS" distribution[1], as a UNIX user it has been very refreshing. I did this because the Ubuntu 18.04 experience felt to me strongly that the Linux community was focused on turning the desktop into a Windows clone.

[1] https://www.trueos.org/
Doesn't work on pixel 2 xl. Says Egeria requires at least 1280x400 pixels to display correctly.
Testing WireGuard with an early-adopter VPN service
I've had moderate success with sticking failing HDs in the freezer overnight in hopes of getting it to spin one last time.

Never tried baking a drive (ssd or hd), but I have with a red ring'd xbox360 mobo.

Sometimes the "low tech" solutions still work.
If they are putting your sat in an enclosed area, you don’t even need to do that, just vent your hypergolic fuel, 1 part out each side of the sat.

You then claim that they must have damaged a fuel line when they touched the satellite.
This is an amazing add-on. Thanks!
I think in this case the alignment between unlabeled domain data and the language task supports a convergence in language task performance. One argument to continue to prefer the ULM+domain model is that it is likely more generally capable if you remain in same domain but switch to a task that is less directly related to your unlabeled data. I haven’t seen any research that directly speaks to that intuition so it’s a good area for further study.
We certainly do want to discourage willful negligence.
> Users and administrators almost certainly prefer a 20 minute IO latency over data corruption.

If the drive part of a RAID setup I would actually prefer it just reports itself failed and doesn't slow down access to the array by scanning itself for 20 minutes.

As far as I know, that is one of the main differences when buying enterprise or nas drives compared to consumer drives. With nas drives, the firmware gives up very quickly since the drive is assumed to be part of an array with redundancy. Consumer drives will retry reads for a very long time before reporting i/o error.
And they’re somewhat of an underperformer in that regard. “...its overall natural-resources investments have done poorly.” University funds generally don’t pay well enough to compete for top talent. They shouldn’t be making exotic bets like this.
I honestly think I wouldn't have a problem with this if they zeroed out tuition for students. That is the glaring absurdity of the Ivy Leagues.

I was in a program that more or less guaranteed some portion of its graduates to be perpetually in debt because the skills imparted, while taught by some of the most brilliant practitioners in the world, did not translate into real world earnings. I hate the idea of college being purely an exchange of money for future earning potential, but programs like mine I think are unethical at cost even as they are virtuous in learning.

Our culture needs non-STEM genius, that keeps the republic alive. Forcing people into a cauldron of debt for it is reprehensible.
No, it's fundamentally a wayland issue.

Window managers can implement their own extra protocols of course, but instead of X11 where everything was standardized and window managers didn't even have to think about it, there is no standard and window managers have to rewrite all the code for it themselves.
This is really valuable, thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

- I'm considering making all panels resizeable, I think it would be really helpful. Also planning to build out the dictionary capabilities more.

- A friend of mine suggested the exact same thing re: lyric alternatives. I really like this idea.

- Are you on Safari? There's a bug with dragging selected chords on Safari. You also won't be able to play chords live. Chrome and Firefox should be good (I hope!)

- Really curious to explore some of the chord manipulation ideas as well as bringing a project from creative phase to production.
Amusingly enough, The Gulag Archipelago was already the next book on my list of books to read. Interesting coincidence that it's his 100th birthday. Or maybe not. Maybe I've been running across his name this year for that exact reason.
> screening pregnant women for downs syndrome

That’s not related to eugenics.
I at least gain some marginal benefit from that tank in the sense that it provides me protection.

Subsidizing wealthy peoples parking nets me no marginal benefit.
You have received anecdotes, but not the underlying reason.

With a taxi, if you complain about poor service, the driver will remain a taxi driver. Therefore drivers have little cause to care about customers that they will never see again.

With an Uber driver, drivers that fail to get good reviews quickly stop being Uber drivers. The result is that Uber drivers are much better on average than taxi drivers.
> I just upgraded my home server from 11.1 to 11.2, now I have to do it again?

You don't have to do anything. As with other software, FreeBSD supports multiple releases. 11.2 is still a supported version, and 11.x will be supported until the year 2021.

See this page for more info: https://www.freebsd.org/security/

> Fortunately, upgrading FreeBSD is a lot more convenient these days than it used to be.

Agreed. freebsd-update has made life so much easier.
Reminds me of perhaps the world's sleeziest use of claqueurs: Tony Robbins conferences. At some cheap local weekend event, when Tony presents his coming attraction, the more expensive week long conference, the crowd goes wild. People jumping up and down and cheering. Your fellow attendees shouting to you, "Wow! I HAVE to go to that!"

Then you sign up and find out 2 weeks later that your fellow attendees at the loss-leader conference are your trainers at the big gig.
Microspeak – The Old New Thing
ls is also defined by POSIX, including the format of output so you can reliably parse out metadata. IIRC there's no other well-defined way to query, e.g., the size of a file. The stat(1) command is non-portable, not always available, and the GNU and BSD versions don't even pretend to behave similarly in terms of the option flags or format specifiers.

I'd have more interest in these new utilities if they actually paid some attention to these sorts of details. It would be trivial to both implement POSIX semantics as well as provide all the fancy behaviors you'd want as an extension, especially because POSIX behavior is often only defined for specific situations (i.e. if a particular flag is specified and printing to a pipe or from a non-interactive session).

But when utilities don't bother implementing basic POSIX behavior it tells me that they don't actually understand all the reasons for particular behaviors. You can't fix something if you don't understand what the problems are. Simply declaring something as legacy and non-sensical doesn't cut it.
Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.
Thanks for the thorough detailed reply, I really appreciate it. I failed to grasp one thing you mentioned which is:

>"is actually an issue and that's part of why you don't see BIG.little approaches in x86 land and why atom did so poorly in the phone market."

Is BIG an acronym here? I had trouble understanding that sentence. Cheers.
AIUI, it's the inverse: government assenting to industry requests. Perhaps a distinction without a difference, but to me regulatory capture necessarily involves the revolving door.
"82% of startup failure is due to cash flow problems."

That seems unlikely. That may just mean that 82% of the time, the founders don't pull the plug until they totally run out of money.

"Cash flow problem", as a real term rather than an euphemism, has a very specific meaning. It's when the business is profitable but there's a lag between paying out cash to buy needed labor and materials and receiving payment for goods and services. Manufacturers and farmers have that kind of problem.
Kindness, confidence, thoughtfulness, emotional stability, etc... They’re absorbing everything you do, so set a good example!
Sony did all sorts of marketing stunts to keep the idea of the PS2 in the limelight. They spread stories about how Iraq was trying to buy them for their weapons program because they were so powerful, etc.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/19/iraq_buys_4000_play...
I totally agree. I always dreaded the time when I had to renew my SSL cert with GoDaddy. Then, each year, while navigating on their website, I always ended up asking myself if they hired a group of psychos to design their UI.

After a couple of years I finally found Namecheap and never looked back.
In cases like this I used to open a new window and use this plugin [0] to move them fast, because dragging tabs between windows seems very finicky to me in Firefox.
Hopefully with this update things will improve.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movetab/
No sarcasm, and that question wasn't rhetorical either: How is a scrollbar that different from other input elements within webpages that can already be styled?

And what do you mean by using non-default colors? User stylesheets would also include scrollbar colors anyway; do you mean just setting a background but no text color (assuming a default of black, which might not be black for the user)? Don't see how this could apply to this CSS property, since it takes two colors, you either set both or none.

It seems logical to me that if you can read the text on the web page, that is, if the web dev hasn't made the common mistake that renders the text unreadable, they will set the scrollbar colors to something of similar "quality". If you can't read the text because they use CSS badly, then the scrollbar color is the least of your worries. QED?

Generally speaking, there are a lot of "common webdev mistakes", like using the giant images and scaling them down, having text and background color very close together... but we don't take that away just because some abuse it, so resisting more flexibility on those grounds doesn't strike me as so "obvious" as people seem to agree it is. If you can allow websites to hide the mouse cursor, I don't think the web will break because of this CSS property. If you don't want to see it on any page, override it in your user stylesheet, done.
I'm guessing those two companies probably use Plaid to instantly link external accounts without having to do trial deposits. Trial deposits can take several days. That's the use case that I used it for at Citibank anyways.

I never claimed my list was inclusive, only those are the ones I know use Plaid off the top of my head.
Ask HN: Recommended financial modeling tools for founders?
Hey there, this is such a common problem I have to assume there are some good "new school" startup style SaaS companies that are good at financial modeling and projection, for managerial accounting.

I'm a startup founder and I want to model projected/actual P&L statement, statement of cashflows, and so on. I use Quickbooks Online, and I have a bookkeeper and accountant, but am wondering what other software type tools people are using these days to get more sophisticated understanding of their numbers.
So if I'm hearing correctly, if a User Agent is white-listed it Rendora will render the page on the server and return less assets (no CSS, fonts etc)

If it's not white-listed it will just let the request pass through normally to the server (eg static file server) is this correct?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Testimony to Congress Today
This is a great resource. Thanks. Cheers.
It's difficult to sue a news organization, but you can sue them for false reporting if you prove two things A) actual malice occurred and B) you suffered economic damages.

If companies didn't lose money over this report, this is pretty moot. It's just embarrassing for Bloomberg.

If companies did lose money, the next step is proving that they knowingly went with a poorly-sourced story. That would require discovery, which may be fruitful.
Millennial here (81) and all that sounds perfect to me.
Has Coinbase lost its integrity?
CSPAN video of the proceedings on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfbTbPEEJxI .
Keydown event doesn't fire on iOS when arrow keys pressed on external keyboard
I'm listening to the Gulag Archipelago vol. 2. It's read by Frederick Davidson, who is perfect for the role. Definitely check it out the audiobook from your local library if they carry it.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511726

Assuming you're on non-Windows, the message is expected and not indicative of a problem. I've pushed a patch to disable it going forward. Sorry for the noise.
On Going Pro
I can pay extra for HBO

Exactly! You pay for HBO, like you already pay for Netflix. You don't pay a surcharge to be allowed to pay for HBO.
ONAP Fundamentals
.. now based on Chromium... what!@!!

just joking! :-P
Book: Growing up with a secretly mentally ill father
Well if you read a number of case studies on google/Facebook advertising I think it’s also easy to conclude those methods are not very effective either.

And don’t think for a minute part of the car set up is not placing a significantly more attractive female with a less attractive male. And if people are really looking at that set up and thinking oh if I buy that car I’ll be young too (which I never mentioned anything about young), they may need more than critical thinking skills. Anyway it’s the same concept as social media influencers...people actually do buy the things other people buy that they envy.

As to the bar thing...it’s pretty effective, 1. Go to where people are drinking already, 2. Chat them up in a social environment, 3. Buy them the drink/beer they wouldn’t have ever otherwise tried...it leaves an overall good experience in the mind of the consumers they relate to the drink...and trust me it works.
Your link is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
He probably captured best the malaise and hypocrisy of the USSR.

My hypothesis is that the conditions imposed in the name of communism, and not communism itself, destroyed the USSR.

In particular, success - especially political or military success, became more dangerous to achieve than failure.

Not even Georgy Zhukov was spared a certain level of wrath, which was probably more of a warning to potential coup plotters than anything to do with Zhukov himself.
Other than my daughter being a writer, this was my exact experience, with identical reactions on their respective parts after taking wife and daughter to 2049. Knowing that the original Blade Runner is my favorite film, my wife gave me the 5-disc collector's edition in the briefcase for Christmas 10 years ago. Picked up the BluRay of 2049 on Black Friday. Was going to opt for the 4K version but haven't seen a review I like of a 4K player yet (and I'm not sure my eyes could tell the difference after staring at screens for the last 35 years).
To be sure, I believe there is a global business coup against the people going on these days, and they have enjoyed much success.

A bunch of different parties failed at a really hard thing, lots of times over many years

There's a concept in US law called the "attractive nuisance," and the fact that data leaks have happened "lots of times over many years" raises that charge to negligence if not recklessness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
For me, ECS having less to learn was its main appeal. You get integration with AWS load balancers giving zero down time deployment and its API to automate is very straight forward. I set it up 2 years ago and have barely touched it. I evaluated K8s at the same time and after a full day was left completely confused how to do the same thing even if I spent a full werk.

ECS has definitely got some oddities mainly in the task definition spec which is most a 1:1 with docket commands but with their own AWS stuff mixed in. Part from that the simplicity vs K8s was its biggest draw card. Lot has happened with K8s in two years I’d imagine, so same choice today might be a different story.
Sublime HQ is experimenting with a new “Preferences” dialog
Its a student film. Its a classic frat-house set in space with minor gems. One guy has a home-made jamjar and scraps piano he plays to keep himself sane. the "rimmer" annoying character keeps a very sad video diary. There is a talking bomb. the Captain is semi-alive in cryo-storage.
As someone who is going to be childfree I think it is a preference thing. While I don't understand why someone would want kids I still accept it as a value in society. People often look at me like I am crazy when I express my intent not to have any children so it goes both ways.
It's the little things (: To be honest as soon as I figure out how to change all the little workflow details I currently use in Chrome, I'll be happy to switch to use Firefox more often / primarily. I love how snappy Quantum feels.
Ruby is a language distinct from the Rails framework.

PHP is a language distinct from the other frameworks listed.

Small nitpick, but I always hate to see conflation of languages and frameworks when making comparisons.
It literally says, in the very picture you linked to, that the chips were built to disguise as coupling capacitors.
ooh interesting links -thanks!

I'll read them later.

Famous-ish :)

We probably have similar views on brexit.
Good thing about the next financial crisis and next recession that follows it is that everybody saw it coming.

You have Bernanke, Roubini, Minerd, Tudor, Rogers, Pinto,... just about everybody saying that there will be recession around 2020 with high probability. WSJ survey among economists says the same. IMF predicts "slowdown" around 2020 too (more careful language).

It's not difficult prediction to make. So many indicators point that way. Yield curve, market cap to GDP ratio, Real Potential GDP versus Real GDP, ...

When the economy reaches full capacity utilization, it either gradually slows and settles to the equilibrium or it overshoots and then corrects. Usually it overshoots and corrects.
> Do other universities do this too?

What, own land as an investment? Yeah, when you have multibillion dollar investment fund (endowment and other funds), as most major private universities will, you probably have some of it in real estate.
No BBR yet.
No. Kubernetes & friends implement most of the features of Erlang in a language-independent manner.
Seattle’s public library is stepping up to deal with the homelessness crisis