skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Kibler's rotation idea, you have classics that come in and out of play. I think Baku and Genn were kind of broken and needed the changes.
"Platforms that use AIs often get biased by tiny groups of hyper-active users."

I think nearly everything in life gets biased by tiny groups of hyper-active users. For example, one story about a razor blade in an apple, published on the news for a week, leads many to think trick-or-treating is now a dangerous activity.

For me, a key thing is to limit exposure to ALL media. It's ALL biased in one way or another. Learn to trust your actual experience as much or more than what you read and hear from others.
Toilets are a problem at most tech companies it seems. They build the bathrooms under the assumption that the gender ratio in the building will be relatively equal, but then the actual employees end up being 70% male and lines to use the men's bathrooms abound.
I didn't previously reach out to anyone from Go specifically because they do not really use SemVer. As a group, we're open to including others than this initial roster, but didn't think it would be particularly relevant to their interest. If that's incorrect, someone please get in touch!
Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (crypto)
The Deep Inference link is a treasure throve of information

http://alessio.guglielmi.name/res/cos/
I'm pretty happy with what Blizzard has done for the StarCraft 2 esports community.

I'm actively trying to get better at it. I got more into following the professional scene over the last year, and I just purchased a War Chest in game this past weekend. It's a skin pack for my units, but 25% of the sale goes towards the winter WCS prize pool for professional StarCraft 2. I bought it to support the top tier competitors.

I also enjoy a game with a good single player mode, but StarCraft is deep mental challenge. There is no pay to win. I have a consistent pool of opponents near my skill level to play against, and the game is balanced enough* that I should be able to climb the ladder with any race.

* I think players will generally whine about balance in the matchups they struggle with. I do too, but this is actually part of the challenge of improving at the game.
I feel the same way about ASI as I do about forgiving HTML parsers. They're built to handle mistakes made by your average weekend warrior Grandpa building a website about his grandkids and pets. ASI is built to handle an "oops", not an entire codebase. That's why there are these odd edge cases. The same is true with the English language. If one were to send me a text with "do ya think" I'd probably figure out that it was a question... but why avoid the actual punctuation that assures that I communicate the intention 100%?

The explanations that have been given to me typically fall in line with, "well, to new comers, it won't make sense why you don't add a semicolon after a function declaration or if statement. I consider that a teaching moment.

But, I'll admit, this debate has little merit. Folks whom are dead set against using them are rarely convinced until they get bitten hard by a 2 hour hunt for an obscure bug. And folks that use them will probably end up with RSI or Emacs Pinky™
React's constraints aren't particularly bad... the context bases for controls in a single file, better with React-JSS imho make it much easier to write against. SSR with React is sometimes a PITA, but that's rarely required imho.

I'm okay with SSR, but often you get to a point where you want to mix in dynamic functionality on the client that just becomes more difficult with it. I think that Vue, React and others can be integrated into SSR, but doing SSR of React makes for a nice application development as a whole imho.

In the end, it's up to the developer. I will say with JS client and direct server there's less disconnect for most development, and the lack/reduction of context switching can be a huge productivity boost. I'm usually a proponent of a JS client talking to/through a JS API, that can talk to other things. SSR with that server platform just makes it a bit more coupled, which isn't in itself a bad thing.

YMMV.
I do think this is stupid on the surface, but better overall for the economy.

If people have the ability to make things themselves and build a business, then should pursue this under the banner of providing greater choice to consumers.

Particularly if the entire industry is bifurcating between a few enormous, ossifying tech conglomerates.
The above opinion get’s circulated quite a bit through Russian media. I speak Russian and check in on what’s going over there from time to time and let me tell you since 2014 shit has really hit the proverbial fan over there, television sensorship is utter and complete, preposterous lies are aired by the hour every hour, news segments are either heavily spun or straight up manufactured with actors and props, tv shows with audience participation train their audience to react only in a government sanctioned way, shows with participants from outside the studio are never live, 90% of Russian news and talk show discussion is about foreign policy, very rarely about the internal state of Russia, the major line being pushed is that NATO is evil and closing in around Russia and it’s only thanks to the efforts of Putin that Russia hasn’t been invaded or destroyed by immigrants, muslims, homosexuals, deviants and atheists like the “dying europe”, oh and the west is actually to blame for everything that goes wrong in Russia and in the entire world really. I can go on and on about the insanity that is present Russia but will only add a few more notes, there is massive militarization of every part of society to go with antiwest hysteria, Young army for the kids and a ton of millitant nationalistic organizations for adults. People are going to jail for likes and reposts of forbidden content on social media and ladt month a new law made it illegal to disrespect government officials with possible fine or jail time as punishment. That’s all I have time to report, but if you thought things were getting cooky in the west lately this quick overview of Russia might make you feel better by comparison.
"Other time its just not worth the cost to prove a cheaper alternative is as safe as the more expensive one"

Sounds like a fatal flaw in the system which benefits manufacturers and insurance companies at the expense of consumers.
The link to https://github.com/orgs/semver/teams/maintainers/members 404s for me -- I'm guessing due to permissions?
This is an announcement that we have created a mechanism for making changes. It's now up to us (and anyone else submitting RFCs) to decide what changes are coming. I can't tell the future, only lay down those principles.

As I said in my other comment, a lack of spec for ranges is a key addition that'll be coming.
For better isolation check out KataContainers: https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime

It's a drop-in replacement for runc. With KataContainers it runs docker containers in a lightweight VM so you get all the security benefits of a VM. The downside is slightly slower container start up times and might not work in nested virtualized environments.
Creative products like films, games, music, etc. involve significant risk. You can put tens of millions into a thing and find out that the public just didn't like your vision. Boom, money gone. Onto the next thing. Corporations that get to a certain size find it really difficult to stomach such risk internally. Perhaps it is less size and more a certain style of governance, or lack of a visionary leader with sufficient pull. I don't know, but the problem seems endemic to large corporations, and it's been observed and commented on over and over. For contrast look at the indie game scene on Steam. Many of these titles will never make money, but you can't fault the creativity.
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For every suction pump and super glue getting held up by regulation, there is also a witch doctor or snake oil. People love to talk about the clever hacks in some poor country, but not the high cost in QALY of superstitious or scam practices.

Since no one is clamoring to wholseale trade USA healthcare for India's, there are obviously done tradeoffs.
What PostgreSQL developers know about fsync() errors
Subcontracting is extremely normal for almost any kind of business and does not need any sort of regulation. Apex or whoever should be the ones bearing the brunt of treating their employees poorly. If the labor market works correctly, companies like Apex will only ever have lower quality workers and high rates of turnover. No different than if their clients treated employees poorly. Apex bid a low price and Apple signed the contract. Their responsibility end there.

I work at tech services company that generally pays much better than the clients we work for and we are treated much better as well. We charge a lot to produce premium work. As a result, we have high-quality employees and are known to produce better work than our clients could do in-house. We have a client that is, let's say, equivalent to Apple and our relationship is great.

Incidentally, my previous employer actually did a lot of work for Apple. It was similar to my current shop. Employees were paid well and treated well. Apple put a lot of secrecy requirements on us as well as security rules (all meeting rooms need opaque doors, we could never publicize our work). Work hours were tough, but overall we were paid very competitive salaries and if Apple or any other client ever pulled the plug, we had other clients to staff workers too. Obviously we sometimes bent over backwards to retain Apple since they have such deep pockets, but it wasn't crazy.
I left a comment below about the problems; the link apparently 404s because of GitHub, see the footnote I added next to the link. Sorry about that! Not under my control :/
You need to read things more critically. Ask yourself, "can it really be true that total ocean phytoplankton have declined by 50%"? If it were true, what else would be true? It's the base of the food chain. One would see huge effects everywhere in the oceans. It's inconceivable that this would be reported just in some minor CBC news report. It's got to be that (at most) there's just a local decline in some spot off Newfoundland.

You've also grossly mis-read the article on vitamin B1 deficiency.

And, you ask "if humanity survives the climate crisis"? There is no prospect that the "climate crisis" will lead to human extinction. (Humans might manage to go extinct for some other reason, like an out-of-control bioweapon, but not for a reason closely linked to climate change.) You have been paying too much attention to quasi-religious apocalyptic propaganda.
For systems where you already enforce security policies, updating policy is faster than upgrading software, due to fewer build processes, quality control issues, and potential side-effects.

If you are using SELinux, verify your containers are running as container_t. If not, verify you are using user namespaces that don't map host root into the container user's namespace. These should mitigate the issue.

(as far as trust goes, just don't trust any local users. there's too many ways to privesc on Linux, and SELinux is the only thing that stops most of them)
I wish people didn't phrase things this way. There's no single "meaning" to all of this. It's a bunch of different people with different priorities making different cost-benefit tradeoffs.

I mean, what would you do if a loved one died at least in part because someone was trying to save $1,000 on their treatment? How would you feel? What if you were permanently disabled or put in months of agonizing pain, and there were more expensive options that would have had a lower chance of doing that? Or just might have had a lower chance of doing that?

From the 10 miles up view, it's easy to say, "Holy shit, the US has such a high health care cost, we could get 97% of the same care at 50% of the cost," and that seems like a great idea. When you're personally looking at tragedy to save an amount of money that is not that significant for your specific medical case (the waste comes when it's applied to 50 more people who don't really benefit from it), the calculus looks very different.

It may still be the right decision. But can we be compassionate about the victims of that decision?

Then layer in that it is not in fact uncontroversially the case that this is what drives the costs of the US healthcare system. And layer in that there is unavoidable uncertainty about when a higher-cost procedure or device or medicine is really higher quality and when it's not, because we have well-founded limitations on how many experiments we can do on people.

I don't think it serves anyone to take such a moralizing tone. Liability exists for a reason. These cost-benefit decisions are tough ones. Information is not perfect.
I spent the weekend dissassembling a hematology analyzer capable of measuring 17 parameters of the immune system from a large drop of blood. Nabbed it on ebay for cheap.

Was able to unclog a few of the lines and get it running, learning how it works by shooting cells past a laserbeam and looking at scatter. Overall, the complexity of the machine is far simpler than that of a simple laser printer, but its retail value is $10k as a veterinary instrument. Machines for human patients are way more expensive.

My dissappointment however was discovering that it refuses to run unless its barcode scanner can see manufacturer-validated reagent bottles. The chemicals needed to make it run are simple salt-waters that can be easily made for $10 of various powders, but the manufacturer sells reagent sets for $1000k each. Now its clear that getting any useful data out of it will require hacking the ARM embedded system onboard.

Why am I doing this? Certainly not for any kind of regulated medical treatment, but I personally want to know how my immune system changes on a day to day basis. Datasets like this dont exist on such a high frequency sampling rate. What I find however, is that the decades-old tech that powers this relatively simple machine is being held back by an overly restrictive regulatory environment and price gouging of chemical reagents.

Why the artificial construction of a $100 lab test, when the actual value to perform such a test is much much lower? Why can't we live in a world where such self-experimentation is allowed outside of the strict guidelines of diagnostics?
Is there a local instance of it in Russia? What happens when that server can’t reach any upstreams?
> whats the expected value of a vulnerability "undetectable by voters and trusted auditors" in a 10-20 Mio/y market

You might be low balling it yourself. The influence market has a limited value because players who would want to influence towards outlandish outcomes (ex. a union with Russia, declaring war to Germany or simply self-destruction via civil war) know they are wasting their money since their desired outcome is essentially impossible to achieve.

A system where you can enforce a change of leadership in a OECD country with 700 billion GDP is worth at least billions, if not tens of billions. You could recover most of your costs simply by influencing government purchasing for 4 years, and get any politically desired outcomes for free.
I think there are too many competing factors for them to make a "sweet spot".

The original grind appealed to people because it was hard and there wasn't anything you could do about it.
It felt like an accomplishment.

The business side of the house wants a wide net so appealing to those people alone isn't enough, except that those are their core people who have paid their salaries. The faltering I believe is in part due to trying to continually grow and appease shareholders.

CoD seems to be doing fine so big business AAA games will still live on. Blizzard might pivot to doing something like this. I just believe big business is completely incompatible with the cult-like attraction of Blizzard's original IP.
I have done some hardware design work with the RPi Compute Module and two CSI cameras. There is indeed an authentication chip on the cameras you buy from the RPi foundation. From what I understand, the idea here is to limit the drivers, so that the auto-tuning software (adjusting color balance, brightness, etc) only works with the original camera, not with clones.

There is nothing that prevents you from connecting other CSI cameras (there are plenty available), or writing other drivers. It's just that the auto-tuning functions of the original drivers will only be enabled for original cameras. The driver authenticates the camera(s) at startup, and if they are not the original ones, disables the auto-tuning.

The Foundation says it is a way of securing a revenue stream and recovering some of the cost of R&D work that went into the drivers. I can see how that is a compromise that could be chosen.

Personally, while I am not a fan of locked-down solutions, I find it hard to get as outraged at this as some other people apparently are.
I’m going all in on independence, and I’m going to try to make a living with my own bare hands starting from nothing.

500k/year in your last year is "nothing", huh? It really undercuts the entire thrust of the post, because you're starting with a nice big war chest and a hell of a safety net, not "nothing".
Just as true of housing, transportation, education, etc.
When I worked in food service we had a brown medical looking bottle of "liquid bandage" that was basically just weak crazy glue. We had to use that if we cut ourselves to make sure not to contaminate the food. Once I found out what it was I started using normal crazy glue gel instead. Closed up the cut, kept it clean, totally waterproof. I keep a bottle of it in my medicine cabinet to this day.
Many crypto communities have been trying very hard to disconnect the two (price from success) in the public’s conscious. Which has some legitimate arguments in it’s favour. My view, and I don’t have much of a horse in this race, is that price may be one contributing metric but it’s a weak one to use as the only metric.

There’s tons of work involved in getting adoption for the tech happening in the background that is disconnected from the price. Especially considering how many people are speculating with it using vague public indicators (like media hype) without much direct connection to the value it’s producing.

Not to mention the unpredictablity of it’s long term value of an entire tech is far harder to predict than it is a companies value via stock price.
Vanilla was the pinnacle of questing and total game experience, absolutely no question about that. TBC had a noticeable drop in questing quality that began the descent into the "series of tubes" it is now. Thankfully TBC added arena and great raiding. WoTLK was solid with good raids but Cataclysm was truly atrocious.
I recently looked at a couple places and couldn't find it.
The language implements semver directly in the Go language source: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/47d5a4433513c3870a9994b50e...

This is used to resolve module loading, according to this logic:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/aab0b704d88b7dad10c767ad94...
Investing money disproportionately also have a self-fulfilling prophecy effect. It gives your player such a disproportionate advantage over the others, that others probably won't be able to compete, therefore improving your odds of success.
Correction: Actually the Swiss Post does HSTS-preload their e-voting system. Geneva doesn't.
I disagree, I think people who really care about semicolons in JS are people who just don't write a lot of JS. I can honestly say in the last 5 years of only writing front-end I have never been bit by ASI.
>I don't really know if it's rose colored glasses but as a lifelong gamer it really sucks to see gaming as an industry become more and more focused around ROI rather than shipping quality games.

This isn't limited to video games, it's the logical end result of the capitalist drive for profits at the expense of everything else. Look at recent criticisms of Apple for the same idea.
The tl;dr is that when someone is paying you $500k a year then the work itself might not be all that motivating. However, within time, the money isn't enough to motivate you either.

You gotta wonder, though, what the rest of the world would think if they stumbled across this kind of blog post.
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With a few exceptions when studios were much smaller, it was always about maximizing ROI. They just didn't have good delivery mechanisms at the time (yay cartridges!), and they didn't know what they know today (DLC and microtransactions work). The gaming industry is extremely cutthroat, has extreme competition, skyrocketing costs (for AAA-type games at least), and a model where "you make 9 games that lose money with the hope the 10th will make bank", causing companies to try and figuring out how to salvage the first 9.

And it's hard to blame them: imagine being a company that pours your entire soul and being into a PC/console game with 100 hours of gameplay, beautiful graphics, awesome voice acting, tons of replay value and depth...just to see a stupid mobile game rakes in 10x the money from people trying to get their "waifu" out of a loot box. You can only do this so many times before you cave in.
Yeah - if anything it's another indication of the huge bubble many of us in the tech community live in.
And a few that you don't but were/.
"Though FDA can trace its origins back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848, its origins as a federal consumer protection agency began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. This law was the culmination of about 100 bills over a quarter-century that aimed to rein in long-standing, serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace."

I have no personal doubt that the FDA has saved millions of lives in the US and internationally, and the balance of harm/good they have caused would would make the harm side look infinitesimally small.

Also... I be interested in what cases you know that the FDA caused the deaths of people by overaction. There are people out there with axes to grind who thought they were going to get rich with some drug or device, who couldn't subsequently prove the safety and/or efficacy of their product.
People are calling out the routing issues specific to next.js ... I am not using that, but am using react with redux and routing (connected-react-router) and haven't experienced the types of issue you mention. Though many on here point out that next.js routing is a major shortcoming.
How much do you think the ratio of free/premium should depend on the cost of providing services? Obviously if there are large hard costs associated with each user, the ratio can only be so high. But if there is a low cost of service to free users, what's the next step in figuring out the right ratio? Is 50:1 always too high?
Additionally, with only HTML and CSS you can make your site Accessible.

So many contrast issues (166 X Very Low Contrast via the WAVE tool) , I can't read this site.

please, give Accessibility a try. https://wave.webaim.org/extension/
I think it's mostly as simple as money having marginal utility. The first $30k a person make per year goes to absolute essential (ie. food, housing). The next $30k goes to really nice the have things like better transportation, medicine, etc. As a person makes more money, each additional dollar has less of an impact on their life.
I think the biggest issue is that it is a collectible card game that isn't collectible. Hearthstone is constantly changing their cards retroactively. This means the card you paid a bunch of money for can be retroactively changed into something that is worthless.

In contrast, with a game like MTG, even banned cards can still retain a decent amount their value to collectors and casual players. You get what you pay for and it's yours forever to do with as you'd like. Why pay tons of money for ever-changing pieces of digital paper you don't even actually own?