skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of numbers of users, I thought it was interesting that the first Humble Indie Bundle had about 16% of downloads being Linux downloads, whereas the newer releases are like < 5%. Did the novelty of Linux gaming wear off? I bought the first few but haven't bought any since, so I'm contributing to those stats - but also I got older and stopped playing as many games.

All these numbers are way higher than 0.1 % though. I admit I just don't believe the OP that Linux sales were 0.1 %. I would believe 1%.

Also my first interpretation of the headline was "Linux users provide valuable feedback!", which matches my experience. I report so many bugs against everything all the time as a Linux user, if a game had a bugtracker I would definitely use it if I encountered a bug. Whether the issues were Linux-specific or not, I don't know.

Finally, my experience with cross-platform development is just not nearly as bad as I keep hearing. I do it. Bundle, and use an already cross-platform library for your GUI or graphics. I admit I don't make 3D games, but I'm super perplexed as to what is supposedly so hard about the cross-platform aspect of it. For my (non 3D) graphics I don't even use electron, just Qt (also perplexed by those thinking electron is the only way to do cross-platform). I've never tried to freeze my code so it will work on future systems (it is open-source and maintained to stay up to date), but I know exactly what I would do if I had to - I would bundle literally everything except glibc and the kernel and call it a day. Would anything trip me up if I were to do that? Am I naive and waiting to be burned by something I don't understand? Maybe - but it seems like the devs complaining about cross-platform development being hard aren't even doing this step.
The Intuition Behind Matrix Algebra
I wonder if they reached out to GitHub to see if they felt it was alright to keep this up? Might be good if the author could clarify! Either way, really cool news.
Having grown up in digital scarcity or perhaps 'photo poverty', one of the things I've had to learn after getting a smartphone is to take more photos, at the drop of a hat, for anything I might want to recall later. Caption on artwork? Photo. Item at grocery store? Photo. Interesting cat posture? Photo. Where I parked in a parking garage or giant parking lot? Photos.

Gives one a hint of how useful good lifelogging could be.
That's cool. I have no problem paying a bit each month for more features on GitHub so hopefully they add more powerful features, but free private repos for individual projects is great since GitHub for many people is a portfolio.
We should have self driving car F1, ralley and nascar races... with betting on who's going to win - and the proceeds going to fund the research further for the winners.

but wait until the scandal comes out that one of the winners was actually being remotely piloted by a real person :-)

(AI Doping)
money won't make you happy but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes.
I imagine this will harm BitBucket somewhat.
Most recipients don't pay tax on that disability income, so the net income in comparison to working is higher.
I don't think I realized it until you mentioned it, but I think I'm in the same boat with my dual-boot box. Doubly so because it's a laptop and half of the time I only have phone-teathered internet.
Aren't destroyers, cruisers and carriers considered antiquated in a modern / all out war? A few times a year, I see articles about how these slow moving, once mighty behemoths would make easy targets for newer anti-ship missiles / tech.

Nuclear armed submarines are probably their most important defensive asset.

So is Israel smart for not wasting money on a huge naval fleet?
It's good that we have a system where government and employers pay people to be fat.
Confusingly it is also dated on the 5th making it look like it should have been announced yesterday...
With the unemployment rate so low and the number of jobs created increasing, why would disability application be a logical next step?
> This comment is the stereotypical Linux game post.

I have absolutely no affinity for linux. My times spent twiddling with settings, packages, and getting drivers to work are long behind me. I have been exclusively Mac for almost a decade now, so I am in no way shape or form a "linux gaming homer" I could care less, but I am an opportunist, and I do see an opportunity now (and not 15 years ago)

> I've been in games and game middleware (including in many cases with Linux support) for fifteen years and I have never once seen this happen.

Yes, 15 years ago, Windows 10, with all it's privacy intrusions basically being a spyware OS didn't exist. A Steve Job-less Apple, doubling down on it's disdain for OpenGL and gaming in general at Apple didn't exist (see relevant John Carmack posts). And forgive me, but I would be willing to bet we didn't hear about it your game because I was specific when saying "first class citizen" meaning the game worked just as well on Linux as it did Windows. If you achieved that and still got no publicity I would be shocked. All you would need is one popular twitch streamer streaming Fornite (which also didn't exist 15 years ago, and wasn't pervasive until recently) on Linux or some similar big title and you would have a spark.
> It's very easy for the overweight to qualify for heart/breathing problems.

Source?
Wow it's such a mystery why American 'tech' sites would run propaganda like this. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000041920&cy...
That's why we have fast_build, which does something more clever. I just published a Blog Post "How Tilt Updates Kubernetes in Seconds, not Minutes": https://medium.com/windmill-engineering/how-tilt-updates-kub...
This is everything that is wrong with health care in the US. From the article:

"Staff doctors take more time. The state employed a small number of staff doctors whose compensation is not tied to the number of cases they review. These doctors reviewed cases at a rate that is in line with federal recommendations. They typically earned less than $150,000 annually, according to the state’s salary database. Beginning this year, however, the state is terminating all doctors on salary and relying only on contract physicians."

So essentially, salaried state doctors took their time to review cases, perhaps realizing that these are real people on the other end of the paper work. The state doctors were paid less than the private doctors and the state is going to lay them off to go full private despite the fact that some of the private doctors are clearly just plowing through the reviews to boost their income.

A whistle blower then called this out and was let go.

Seems like corporate lobbying is alive and well in TN. Don't worry about the individuals, there's money to be made.
>with recent evidence suggesting that a good chunk, say half, of the population has no interest in progressing.

Has it crossed your mind that this half might not see what you want as progress but instead destructive?
Right-wing?

Odd, I thought it was just a simple fact of human nature that people naturally enjoying being with those of their same race, culture, and background.

That doesn't mean they can't accept others and learn to work with them.

Diversity and multiculturalism have been over-used as bludgeons by the left for decades.
Your suggestion to ship glibc caused coffee to end up over my keyboard :) This is the road to hell, but you'd only know that if you had the slightest clue of the ABI interactions involved in swapping out a core library like that - starting with the reality that parts of the (probably binary-only) graphics stack must be linked and loaded in-process, and they naturally depend on at a minimum glibc. Your suggestion is to effectively ship the game in the form of its own Linux distro, which is of course complete nonsense.

Snap and Flatpack will hopefully help with the dependency aging problem, but they're brand new, and they both still suck one way or another.

To give you an idea of what swapping out glibc would involve, here is the list of shared libraries loaded by 'glxgears' on my machine, arguably the simplest possible OpenGL program:

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0.9.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1.6.8
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.28.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_nouveau.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_radeon.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2.4.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglapi.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.7.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX_mesa.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpciaccess.so.0.11.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.25
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6.3.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri2.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-glx.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-present.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-sync.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6.4.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxshmfence.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
>You can have your case re-reviewed

Does this allow the doctors to get compensated again for the additional review or does it simply reopen the existing case? Already frustrating enough to have to re-apply... can't imagine the frustration of putting more money in the pockets of the people carelessly rushing your review.
I think there's an implicit assumption - perhaps not even consciously realized by the author himself - that people in his audience wouldn't be reading a self-help blog and commenting on their problems if they were the kind of people who are happy with the defaults. There's a huge self-selection happening here - as is with many "personal growth-based"[0] communities, including HN. Most people from tech industry I've met in the meatspace are entirely unlike the people I meet on HN.

--

[0] - There's something that I can't quite name that is shared by places like that blog, HN, some subreddits, SlateStarCodex and many other places. The common desire of wanting to get better at things, gain greater understanding of the world and the systems that run within it. Some people come with curiosity, other with strong will of Tsuyoku naritai - but out of the contributors I've seen around the non-shitposting web, it's hard to find people satisfied with status quo.
With that mentality, your best bet is to write in assembly language.
What about 127.0.1.0? Loopback is a subnet, not a specific address from it.
I don't consider anything automatically "tainted." I'm considering the reason behind the Signal's decision to insist on acquiring the phone numbers and I don't have any better explanation than that.

It is just their insisting on the phone numbers is their action that for me makes use of their product problematic.

And the "Open Technology Fund" is surely an interesting beast, worthy knowing about, as well as the stories about the "Radio Free X" for some X.

Some fascinating insights on that topic:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/review-...
As puzzle mentioned, yep. I know Jason pretty well. Happy to chat; want to get coffee? I'm dan at windmill dot engineering for scheduling.
As a wood worker, the answer on the post does agreat job. I will add only one more point.
Wood working in 99% of cases does not lead to deforestation. In most countries it is hard to buy illegal wood. In South Africa we buy mostly pine where 2 trees are planted for every one sold. These forestries are heavily regulated and protected. They are businesses. The deforestation you usually hear about is in third world countries and not for wood sales but rather for land gain or things like palm oil.

If you are buying wood from a hardware outlet you can pretty much be guaranteed that it is safe wood. Many trees are protected by law nowadays.

In most cases, buying wood products actually increases tree mass globally and decreases pollution.

Buy wood products when you can. You will be planting more trees and decreasing pollution.
team building exercises are to a dysfunctional team/organization as a new puppy is to a failing relationship.
Definitely cool news, even if it is a max of 3 contributors. I'd have liked to seen that a little higher, but they surely know what they're basing that number on.

It's not enough to pull me from GitLab just yet, but if I keep having 10MB+ issues there, I'll switch.
Do you have any studies that you can point to that support this view? It’s OK if you can’t or don’t. I’ve heard this point of view often but it doesn’t jive with my anecdotal experience.
In the 1950s they said fusion was around the corner, because they were just getting started and didn't understand the problems yet.

In the 1970s they said it was 30 years away, but conditioned that on a much higher level of funding than they actually got. For the level of funding they got, they said it would never happen.

Now we have a very good understanding of tokamak plasmas, and some new enabling technologies including much better superconductors.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/asylum-applicatio...

It looks like it's actually pretty proportional. And based upon that data, thousands of people are NOT trying to cross into America via asylum seeking every day.
On the other hand, it's also "Oops, GitHub will never give us an embargoed announcement again, and a lot of other companies will probably follow suit."
I think what is what zanny is saying. The fragmentation argument is fud.
The people who will be hurt the most would be those who are at the bottom of the proverbial food chain to begin with. Desirable areas will still be expensive because people on high income or positions of power will still hold those positions. It's the lower / under paid workers who will see pay freezes and lay offs while the cost of living will continue to rise.

Instead of levelling the playing field, I expect the brexit will just create an even bigger divide between the wealthy and the poor.
Thanks for posting this randcraw. I was about to do the same before I saw your link.

To add to your description: The author of this article suggests that The Road Less Traveled is not about the action of taking the riskier or more adventurous path. It is about how, in the future, we need to justify the decisions we made in the past.

"According to this reading, then, the speaker will be claiming “ages and ages hence” that his decision made “all the difference” only because this is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices (as opposed to what was chosen for us or allotted to us by chance). The poem isn’t a salute to can-do individualism; it’s a commentary on the self-deception we practice when constructing the story of our own lives."

There is a lot of advice on this thread, so I might have missed it, but perhaps what I can contribute to the OP is that they should reflect on what they have the ability to change, and what they can not.

Be realistic about what you can contribute now, and what in the future you will be able to contribute with a concerted effort. Focus on your short-term ability and try to dovetail that with your long-term goals.

I don't really like quoting Tech Barons, but here's a good one from Bill Gates.

"We often overestimate what we can do in a year and underestimate what we can do in ten."
I agree with absolutely everything he says, but I think a big factor not covered is that I don't think it's only about N versus NS version popularity. How different those major releases with new form factors are from past models really matters and particularly in China. The 7 was in theory a form factor update, but it wasn't different enough. The 5 was a major update, but as the article pointed out it was a particularly bad cycle.

I think the problem is there aren't that many different distinctive shapes you can make a phone. Apple has done extremely well in this regard. The jewel case design and the X design with notch are both outstanding examples. The 6 sold so well because it was, for an Apple phone, huge. But the jewel case lasted 4 years (more including the CS). Dramatically increasing the screen size works once. If they stick with the X form factor another few years they will lose the distinctiveness factor. However major form factor updates aren't something you can pull off every year indefinitely, for technical reasons sure, but especially when you have a huge accessories market.

It's really amazing how successfully Apple has maintained their design lead and distinctiveness, but there's no way they can pull the most unique, most amazing new rabbits out of the hat every single year.
Bootstrapping on the side is the best way to do it, so you can survive financially. I live off previous projects and consulting work while I try new side projects.

It sucks that you can afford less time on the side projects that way, but at least it's viable...
I don't have a documented source, it's based on conversations I had at one point with State Department officials when I considered permanently emigrating to a country I'd lived in (In the EU) for a number of years. I wanted to avoid being double-taxed, since the FEIE wasn't sufficient to make me whole. I ended up moving back to the US (for non-economic reasons).

The thing you need to understand is that the State Department/US Government has extremely broad leeway under the law in how they process citizenship applications. What the letter of the law says is almost meaningless, what matters is that you get 1) Lucky, and 2) Don't have black marks against you. Denouncing your US Citizenship is basically the ultimate black mark, and you are frankly never getting past it unless you are personal friends with the President or something.
Why is there a focus on one type of error? Is there some reason why doctors would be biased toward wrongly denying disability benefits, rather than wrongly allowing?

What are the economic incentives to bias the decision one way or another?
The average British citizen will probably have less influence after Brexit, since the EU electoral system is actually reasonable.

We'll be left with a first-past-the-post MP, and an unelected (sometimes hereditary!) House of Lords.
Okay, you're right – it's more complex than I implied.

Switzerland is a single market participant through bilateral treaties, like Norway and Iceland are through EEA. While they aren't "members" of the single market, I think we'd usually consider those four EFTA countries plus the 28 EU states to make up the "single market", though I accept there is no clear terminology in some ways!

Still though, such a relationship is equally not the plan of the current UK government, and customs union membership is not a prerequisite for single market 'membership' as such.
I went from 0 C++ work/projects to a quality production one right away w/ Qt Creator, their docs, and general bring-you-up-to-speed-on-modern-c++ docs on the web. I only had minimal experience from a decade ago in C++. Very approachable if you are familiar w/ other languages and are the reading type.
Music software's dependance on Windows is such a mess. Tons of cool plugins are stuck as windows-only VSTs! I was really hoping that Propellerheads would use the fact that it can ship on any platform to ship Reason and all associated REs on linux or in-browser, but instead they gave in and added VST support.
'Europe's Silicon Valley': Denmark plans nine new islands
I honestly think the comment was not intended to be rude.
Well i think it's more that bamboo grows significantly faster than even the cheapest woods.

FFS some species of bamboo can grow over an inch an hour!
Show HN: Twitch is a Canvas – Interactive pixel art livestream made with Angular
How Tilt Updates Kubernetes in Seconds, Not Minutes
Nature really hates things out of the ordinary. If you want to be out of the ordinary don't expect it to be easy and pain free.
How long are flatpak runtimes supported? What is their update policy?
Unfortunately that will likely happen right after you are allowed to sue individual police officers for assaulting innocent people and illegal arrests.
Who said anything about labeling anything??
That is true, but they are also immensely complex - I wouldn't say it was 'wasted' effort (as the above poster did), but modern ICE engines are ludicrously complex electro-mechanical devices. If this much effort is expended on improving battery technology (as I think it will be), then the future is very bright for EVs because they are already much better than ICE in many ways - simplicity and reliability as well as emissions.

I think it will be much like in F1 - remember when the limitation on gearbox and engine replacements in a season were introduced and many commentators said it would lead to there being no cars on the grid at the end of the season? What actually happened was the engineers created hitherto undreamt of levels of reliability. I'm sure the same will happen for EV batteries once they are the only game in town and ICE is no longer any kind of option.
I often take short videos with narration after removing parts, especially noting where they came from and where they were placed.
Speaking of just reading the headline, The Intercept piece you linked has the facts wrong, apparently relying on readers like you not having read the original Guardian story.

1. There is photo evidence, but the Guardian cannot publish it for one reason or another. They described the clothes he was wearing that day in detail.

2. There is an entry in the guestbook for him, it doesn't come up when you ctrl-f because they misspelled his name, it appears as "Paul Manaford".

This isn't "lack of transparency", it's protecting your sources.

But, then again, I wouldn't expect The Intercept to know how to tell the difference, seeing how they've burned Reality Winner and Terry Albury.
Out of 1000 adults, you'd expect 125 to be women 15-30. That gives a margin of error for that subgroup of 9% (at 95% confidence level). They quoted 40%, so it's 95% likely to be between 31% and 49%.

The size of the population doesn't affect the accuracy of a survey, only the size of the survey.
> In practice it doesn't really matter though

It does matter unless you just want linux to perfectly emulate windows APIs you will always have to do work to port to a different platform. Choosing the wrong tools for the job and then blaming the platform is just bad engineering.

I don't bitch about how hard it is to assembly my desk because it requires a socket wrench when my last piece of furniture only required a screwdriver and that's all I own.
Do you not have health insurance? Why would a single illness cost you a million dollars?
I _know_. That stone-walling is a reason why they have so many issues. I'd rethink that approach, and consider the cost of the ticket answers and marketing efforts to fight the flames vs that one day of a developer.

I don't understand why they wouldn't do it, though. I see no plausible explanation.

However, what if it doesn't work on Ubuntu either?
Are there usually ramifications for leaking stories early like this?

Would GitHub be peeved if another source published this before their official PR statement?