skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just realized I didn't know this: how are you supposed to comply with GDPR if your clients are partially anonymous?
>>Some days I literally don’t have work to do, so I browse he internet.

Go home, that's the nature of the job. You earn your money on a few big projects for the entire year, but you are needed for the next round.

Alternate and keep track so the team gets a break and are somewhat indebted to the company. Maybe a few stay on call just in case...depending on the job.
Good analogy for human to be computing organisms developed unnoticer self awareness to a higher level beings. Maybe they are now debating if the things they created really are self-conscious
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> The other companies who create better products because they care more, will have a hard time competing with the cheap sketchy software that cost less to build, and the worse products will likely win.

They’re not cheap sketchy products, you keep mischaracterising electron apps so that you have a point.

Let the market decide. If the native apps are superior, then customers will choose them more often and companies will feel the pressure to use them. Unless of course customers don’t care, as I believe, then any argument about their superiority is meaningless.
Working Remotely: One Year as a Fully Remote Team
That’s a what-aboutism. The organisations that participate in five-eyes are just as opaque as their Chinese counterparts from a citizens perspective and they have been monitoring their own populations. This aspect of five eyes government behaviour is uncomfortably close to Chinese government behaviour in my view.

Obviously China’s human rights record is abysmal, and the five eyes countries are vastly closer to civilised.
If we didn't do business with any company that was run inefficiently we would not do business with a lot of places. I'm not sure how the efficiency of the business is entirely coupled to whether or not the product is usable and meets user needs in ways that other competing products cannot.
take a look at ungoogle chrome if you are on mac or linux. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Not sure why you don't like Brave? You can turn off all of the crypto currency and advertising stuff. I think its a good idea personally. What is the problem in usurping googles ad business, exactly?
Depends how big you need your bank to be to do business with them.

There are plenty of viable alternatives if you don’t demand your bank to be one of the 5 largest.
The Containers add-on[0] for Firefox that Mozilla makes has satisfied my need for partitioning. It's on a per-tab basis and also lets you define certain domains to automatically open in a specific container (e.g. Jira always opens in my Work container).

I can't really speak to Firefox's performance issues though. I feel like they're just as good on rendering and JS speed, but the overall UI doesn't have the same "fast" feel that Chrome does. Chrome has also seemingly gotten slower for me too.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
People could do something similar for open source projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736006
Just some corrections(I did not downvote you), Mass Effect is an old game, Mass Effect Andromeda for example had the ship appear on the actual planet so you can see outside the windows.

Btw I was not criticizing RD2 , a good game can use old boring techniques, I was wondering if I missed some revolutionary thing they did since previous games.

The new X game also looks interesting, Space Engineers is also a game that I follow it's progress
Free text is the traditional definition of unstructured data (along with audio & video equivalents). But I agree with GP, that people usually mean inconsistently-structured data when they use the term, whether it's accurate or not.
I never thought anything else of any data that leaves my network.
I can do the same on emacs too, says nothing about electron, just that you are familiar with css/js.
Which, having reasonable suspicion, may enter any home with a warrant etc.
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I do vote with my wallet, if by moving job overseas, wf can provide better service for me, I will use them.
cool anecdotal evidence. that doesn't necessarily mean we should completely dismiss the concept entirely.
Importance is how we decide which things to address. My question concerned how to prioritize the billions of ways which might done to address those problems.

The goal of putting someone on the Moon was primarily an engineering challenge. An expensive engineering challenge, but the outlines were already worked out through in-house and three external feasibility studies which ended a week before Kennedy made the announcement.

We don't have comparable successful feasibility studies for how to remove plastic from the seas. Or, if we do - where are they?

Do I take it that you disagree (as I do) with TeMPOraL's suggestion that we start from 'random nonsense'? Because if TeMPOraL's statement is correct, then suggesting global mediation as a solution is an appropriate comment for HN. Which was my point.
That was Nixon-era politics, and done in a cynical way to send a message to Russia. US-Sino relations were always somewhat tense due to the Taiwan question. It would have been politically costly for any sitting President to say "let's give the CCP American business".

The reason economic liberalization happened was because Deng Xiaoping saw the writing on the wall. Additionally, corporate interests in the US (represented by the Chamber of Commerce) had been beating down the doors of politicians to relax restrictions on doing business there. If the appetite to offshore jobs was not there, there is no reason why the US would have made it easy to do business there.
That would implying you giving access to a 3rd party. I think everyone else is talking about something like Google selling access to said data directly, not via the normal api.
No integration with iOS.
tip4commit tried it in 2014, and it didn't go down so well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
German coal has been heavily subsidized for more than half a century. No one really knows how much money exactly went in there, but it's assumed something like 200-350 billion euros (http://www.foes.de/pdf/Kohlesubventionen_1950_2008.pdf).
Yeah, there's lots of little things in the Electron API that would be good to see adopted into PWA standards. Probably also some Node native modules out there that would be good candidates for PWA standards.

With so many Electron apps in the wild these days, it seems like a great opportunity for the standards bodies to comb them for good ideas for greater platform-wide adoption. (What are people doing in Node processes in Electron that would be tough to do in {Service, Web} Workers? What APIs for deeper native integration would be of benefit?)
You can add AWS Fargate to the list as well:

"Each Fargate task has it's own isolation boundary and does not share the underlying kernel, CPU resources, memory resources, or elastic network interface with another task."

Official docs on Fargate isolation here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
It's interesting, I feel like it's the opposite and Go excels at large projects. Compared to other languages, Go doesn't let you use as many abstractions, so writing code takes longer, but it is much more straightforward to read.

I work at a >1000 person company that codes mostly in Scala, and some in Go, and would prefer to read unknown Go code any day. With
the Scala I run into things like implicit parameters and 7 layer of inheritance, but the Go code is straightforward.

Go is somewhat of a lowest common denominator language. You could out perform it with a small team of strong developers, but when once your project gets to a certain size, it's unlikely all of the developers will be strong.
Stardock rebooted simply because they didn't have rights to the original Star Control universe, not out of benevolence.

It's very much the opposite in fact. Stardock has sued the original creators on frivolous grounds, is trying to prevent them from using the characters they created, and is actively spreading false information about who created the Star Control universe. More information here: https://www.dogarandkazon.com
Abundant supply of oil is different from increased demand for oil. Someday we will hit "peak oil", and it will be much better for everyone if that mean "peak oil demand" than "peak oil supply".
What about strategic defaults on a home you've bought? Breaking a contract with a vendor because you'll save more with another one to more than make up the penalties? Not cleaning your apartment when you move out because you're willing to lose some/all of your security deposit?
It appears that you're posting an opinion rather than informed fact. You should attempt following the development if you have a keen interest.

They've switched to a quarterly release system and have, in fact, just released their Q4 drop last evening. I would grant you that they have had a history of missing deadlines, but stating that they have "never made a single deadline" is disingenuous at best.
I think gp is referring to the current lawsuit between stardock and toys for bob, in which stardock is trying to claim total ownership over the star control trademark/universe

See: https://www.dogarandkazon.com

Also of note — they’re requesting $2m in gofundme donations to fight it, but have only gotten 40k in 6 months. My hopes of ever seeing a proper sc3 is vanishing.

https://www.gofundme.com/help-fred-amp-paul-save-the-univers...
Uncommon Threads: Rare Nvidia T-Shirts Gain Cult Following
I function by trying to work 7 days a week, without taking time off for vacation. What I've found is that I'm in general much happier having to wake up at a specific time every day with specific work goals.

I feel like I'm in a sweet equilibrium with fewer disruptions from going on and off vacation. I make more money, I'm happier at home and work, and I feel better all around.
Reload never seems to work for me. I give up after 1 or 2 reload tries, though.

> it's clear that they just don't want people to use their web browser on mobile devices.

Which is clearly user hostile.

Reddit does a similar thing whwre they artificially delay showing thebpage and then block a quarter of it with a banner asking you to use the mobile app.
Speeding?
Careful. People with only 32 bits of working memory might read that as "Exibit 0".
Show HN: Bedug, a programming game for 3 year olds
> The game is seamless - and I think God of War does this well also - basically there's really no "loading" once you're in the game; you go from gameplay to cutscene to gameplay without any interruption.

Lots of games have had "no loading" (after a large load in the beginning and hidden loads throughout the game), dating back at least to the PS3.

What God Of War did differently is that there's no camera cuts; the whole game is one continuous camera shot.
> ps. if you're in a job that involves using your brain, you're not working more than 3-4 hours/day max

This (not necessarily the quoted part, more so the article concept in general) is non-sense. People don't work enough. The problem is not the long hours, it's that people no longer have the stamina (mental, physical and emotional) to sustain a long work cycle so they think they "burn out".
A comparison matrix would help.
I just dug up info on how Brave’s contributions thing works and it feels like such a mess.

According to https://brave.com/publishers/

- once you have accumulated $100 in contributions they email “the webmaster at your site” and the owner of your domain according to the WHOIS. I assume this is “webmaster@domain.name”, which I sure don’t have set up on my personal site.

- you have to “check your balance frequently and transfer funds wherever you choose”, which suggests that there’s no way to just say “send my my balance every month” and forget about it.

This whole model totally breaks down when you remember that there’s a ton of independent creators who don’t have their own sites, but instead post stuff on another site. Is Brave going to realize that I’m following this particular person on YouTube, that person on Tumblr, this other person on Deviantart, etc, etc? And are they going to ping them or are they just gonna tell the people who own the site?

The page where you sign up to receive payments (https://publishers.basicattentiontoken.org) makes it sound like they understand YouTube accounts and nothing else, and as a creator whos interest in pivoting to video is nonexistent, screw that, I’ll stick with Patreon and it’s opt-in model that just transfers money into my bank account every month as long as I have patrons.
So if I understood well the concept, this type of amoeba is like an ASIC for traveling salesman problem.
Interesting concept, to find bio-organisms that can be used very efficentlly to "solve" a certain type of problem.
It's not cross-platform. Works great if everyone in your org only uses Chrome and Android, but fails for iOS users, or non-Chrome browsers.
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> What if a new browser comes out that's actually better than Chrome? (I don't want to admit to myself how unlikely this actually is.)

Firefox has a nifty feature where it doesn't send ALL your data to Google, you could try that.
Brendan Eich's defense of this scheme [0] seems a bit weak to me. Do you really think the solution is to make creators opt out? What in the world makes you think it's okay to represent people who have not asked for your assistance and take donations on their behalf? Why is it their responsibility to ask you nicely not to use their name to solicit donations?

[0] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1076187316748615680
That page says, "Requires Google Chrome or Firefox," and the download link takes you to the Chrome web store. I'm not sure the poster considers that full support.
His tweet says, in part

> "... Tom has a point, we should let creators say "no thanks" and be auto-excluded. Users may already auto-exclude unverified sites/channels. We will work on this."

This makes your interpretation disingenuous, or uncharitable at best.
The majority of that funding seems to come from royalties ($504M of $520M) [0]. What would be the leaner way of collecting those royalties?

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/
What we should be doing is pushing towards green power by 2025. Put more money into battery, generation and related research. It seems a good deal of our problems are due to our dependence on oil (major world pollution, wars), and we need to become independent and shift energy usage. That would be a win-win for everybody, except the massive oil companies who are running the show, which is why it won't happen, especially under current leadership who is actually rolling back regulations and standards for efficiency. We're going backwards here, and the result won't be good except for a relatively few people.
Using API Gateway Websockets with the Serverless Framework
Well, you can use Google Chrome on iOS, although you'll get worse performance since Apple doesn't allow third party browsers to take advantage of Javascript optimizations.

So, I'd say the point stands! You'd potentially be using a worse web browser in exchange for access to your passwords!
Oh, how could I possibly have forgotten? While it's more of an engineering game than a programming game, Factorio (https://www.gog.com/game/factorio) would also be an excellent choice. Getting inputs and outputs of construction materiel to flow to the right place at the right time in the right order has strong analogies to how data flows through backend services today.
He was going to die as soon as you leave the village anyway, might as well steal Sarevok's kill and get the XP ;)
I agree, not much "barbaric" about it... :

https://youtu.be/57Fh9Zo_nfM?t=159
Juul’s Instant Millionaires: How $2B from Altria Is Being Divvied Up
I also hate it and use the term "managed service". It conveys more exactly 2hats happening. It's not serverless, the server and a plethora of services are being managed for us.
Make a SLA for the world beyond your individual tasks.

We had a global one: 1000 thru 1530hrs, real time customer service. Outside those hours, we'd respond according to impermeable limits of triage.
>Monday morning off sounds like an awful idea.
> First off, even when I lack sleep, I'll function better in the morning if I force myself out of bed, and I'll have a big slump in the afternoon.

On the other hand, i work better in afternoon no matter what. 2-5 are my most productive hours. Maybe how you feel isn't how everyone feels. A better solution would be to allow employees to choose their half a day/ a day off.
Isn't profile sync opt-in?
Thanks for all the downvotes for a normal question, kind people.
Here's a plug for DPG (zero storage password manager). I wrote it years ago and it meets my needs well.

https://github.com/w8rbt/dpg
> Most new US production is higher cost (fracking), so the drop in market share is at least met with a stronger price floor for all.

Not to be rude, but this is really off the mark. The only reason that we're not still in a cartel market regime of $100 barrels is fracking being invented/discovered and efficiently improved. It cut the price floor well in half.

Fracking is not the cheapest, but it's also not the most expensive (see Canada's oil sands). When you compare fracked WTI (basically the USA-sourced index) to offshore Brent (North Sea, off the coast of UK), the costs are apples to oranges because fracking can be readily tapped at a relative drop of the hat (if prices spike in a short term period), but offshore is a huge multi-million/billion endeavor where you have to depreciate costs over a really long time horizon (same with oil sands, but different tech).
Its government job to take care their citizen. Tax these corporation and use the money for basic income, universal health care, or cheap/free housing.
Ask HN: Serverless: What have you built so far?
> Uber/Lyft are great for getting between two points in an overcrowded city where you would neither be able to park your own car nor hail a taxi

I've literally never "hailed" a taxi in my life - I've either gotten in one at a rank (i.e. at an airport) or called for one in advance (i.e. at a hotel). Even as someone who uses taxis very rarely, I'm well aware of taxi booking apps both here in Thailand and in Australia.

Your argument is essentially "American taxis are crap, therefore uber is good for breaking the law". Why exactly couldn't Uber have just operated as a better taxi company? Oh right. Because then they'd have to follow the laws, and pay the drivers an actual income.
"Face value"? Try "source value".

What exactly is your problem with an opt-in service?
This will be my attitude until we are all replaced by pirated brain emulations of Linus Torvalds.
What's happened in the last 5 years is the rollout of multiple streaming services (Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music) and the partial collapse of a few players like Pandora, SoundCloud, LastFM. The real challenges to creating music platforms are music licensing and being able to create enough revenue to offset licensing costs. Enough people have left Youtube or the labels that licensing systems are now common at the large players. Expect that the advertising players without them to build/acquire them in the near future (Facebook purchased source3 to do that about a year ago). The big push over the next year is to update these systems for the Music Modernization Act, which was passed in 2018. The other big change is expanding internationally and getting music licensing to work with each country's laws and regulations. I'd expect a new streaming service to appear in the next 5 years and at least one to collapse. I personally suspect that there's going to be a continued increase in services that help artists monetize, especially self-published companies.
I loved this game, and Ur-Quan Masters is a 100% faithful remake for anyone wanting to give it a try.

My favorite moment: when the Ilwrath tell you exactly from where, and on what radio frequency, their evil gods communicate to them. You immediately think: Wait, surely you can't ....? Ah, but of course you can.
> All the way between 1776 and 2015 it was illegal - yet somehow, magically, in 2015, banning it became unconstitutional.

That's historically incorrect. Same sex marriage wasn't illegal in nearly any of the US until the 1970s. States including California and Florida enacted bans on same-sex marriage in the 1970s. And if you're talking about 1830 or such, the US was a liberal paradise (if you were white) compared to 1985 or 2005. There was no national ban or comprehensive state-based ban on same-sex marriage or eg drug consumption. The states heavily regulating marriage is a relatively recent phenomenon. The US used to have relatively few laws governing society in general, if you go back before the 1930s. The marijuana tax act was in 1937. Until the late 1970s we also didn't aggressively put so many people into prison. ~1970-2010 was an era of incredible regressiveness for the US on many social legal issues.
For an interesting book on this premise (that there is no data without a model), see https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vast-machine.
This critique is never underdetermined.
Ignoring Turkish folks and Erdogan, the notion that living in a democracy has clear advantages is really propaganda.

I've lived in an absolute monarchy with human rights violations. I can also list a number of democracies with human rights violations, as well as very poor infrastructure, poor economy, violence, etc.

For many in the latter countries, they'll easily trade their democracy to get food, education for kids, and security.

Some democracies do well. Others don't. It's not an indicator of quality of life, and Maslow's hierarchy of needs is largely applicable.
I have to restart Discord on a daily basis on macOS to avoid having it use multiple GB of RAM. Currently it has 3 processes running which are using 100 MB, 120 MB, and 1.2 GB of ram respectively.
Seems like there was already a relationship between the two profs and Google, so might just be extra funding.

Google (and microft and...) do support (fund) labs at most of the schools you listed.
After they got funding they promised, repeatedly, that it would be out in 2016.

https://www.pcgamer.com/roberts-space-industries-denies-squa...

"Squadron 42, the single-player portion of Star Citizen, doesn't have a hard release date, but it was expected to be ready sometime this year. There's even a little “2016” over the “Answer the Call” logo on the Squadron 42 web page. However, that came into question when German site Gamestar reported that, in an interview at PAX West, Cloud Imperium Games boss Chris Roberts said the game probably wouldn't be out until mid-to-late 2017."

A fun reddit thread from Jan 2016:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/40fsop/do_you_...
>People don't work enough.

Based on what metrics?
I am curious what you've built so far.

I saw yesterday a Google analytics replacement built in a few lines of Serverless code.

Can you please share something in the same spirit?

I find Serverless app fancinating in that they take very few lines of code and you've got such a scalable platform to build on top of.
The Supreme Court has already stated that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, we just don't have a mechanism to systematically detect it after the fact. That's why it's so hard to fight in the courts. If possible, I think it's a good idea to prevent unconstitutional gerrymandering, even if it doesn't solve all of our problems.
Last I checked, reality doesn't operate based on merit at all. If it did, wages would rise with productivity, but they don't, at least not in the US.
Oh, not the button it offers to try again. That button is junk. Hit reload on your browser. That works every time, at least in my experience.
That sounds so clumsy that I suspect they really don't care / want folks to fail to collect.