skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible in itself preventing you from leveraging the best features available in each cloud.

This is only true as long as the costs of maintaining a cloud provider abstraction layer are greater than the costs of being locked in to a single vendor. I believe that some businesses, once they are armed with an abstraction toolkit like this, will be able to employ arbitrage between the cloud vendors for themselves, and sell that toolkit to other companies who want the same kind of freedom.

And then somebody creates a free software alternative, and will maintain it and keep it up to date.
> What is "fair" taxation?

Here's my parody of 'fair taxation'

* Corporations should pay no tax, or even better get subsidies and grants.

* Middle class should bear 99% of the tax burden.

* Rich, job creators should pay preferably no tax, but definitely less tax than a middle class person.

* Poor people don't pay government tax, but should be shut out of health care and other government services (except prisons and the armed forces).
> Meanwhile, in the UK CS grads have the highest unemployment

That's because their CS programs graduate a lot of people that can't program.
I think it's pretty important to hammer in basic US civil concepts like the meaning of the First Amendment, what roles we're expected to vote for, the separation of church and state, stuff like that. My understanding is that we have an unusually stable constitutional order (relative to other countries) and I assume public education is a big part of that.

Basic numeracy also has value outside of making people more employable, and a reason that there's a nascent movement to replace Algebra 2 with something closer to a basic course on statistics and critical data thinking.

I attended 12 years of Catholic school and while some of my Jesuit high school religion classes were interesting, they were not an especially good use of my time (although they did give me a nuanced understanding of Islam that became valuable for understanding the world later on, which I appreciate). I'd probably have been better off in the public high school my kids went to. And I went to an atypically disciplined and college-focused religious school.
It's cool to imagine that you won't be able to go back and play old games anymore. That rocks.
True. I think the fact that he didn’t hurt anyone per se is a big difference.

Also, Lance Armstrong was actually good at something and he did comeback from cancer. While not the best excuse, every competitor was cheating too.
can you browse without signing up? I'd like to follow from my mastadon client
Understand ACID and the isolation levels available in your database server.

Understand transactions.

Read an explain plan and understand basic indexing.

Test recovery of your server and implement a standby/ failover.

Understand the pros and cons of where to put the logic of the application (db objects, stored proc, backend services, ui etc).

Understand the pros and cons of using an orm and how you might tune or scale an app using one.
If Kickstarter can do it, the game industry can do it! Come on, game industry, it's your time to unionize!
They're both great.
I doubt there's anything wrong with the metal; the problem with cans is that they have a coating on the inside to keep the liquid out of contact with bare aluminum. Obviously, it's pretty hard to separate the two without melting the can completely.

The outside of the can, of course, has paint on it.

The tabs are pure aluminum without any protective coating or paint.
I am baffled about how clueless these people are :(

Europe with its hyper regulation and culture against change has stifled its own economies to a level where now they need to outlaw foreign competition...just let that logic sync in!

Instead of making their laws more attractive to innovation (by rethinking things like GDPR which just strengthens large companies or improving bankruptcy/Insolvency laws) the best idea they have is to outlaw them in hope this will create a vidid startup ecosystem...good luck with that.

Here is what you need to do:
1. Invest more in education, specially: Teach people how to be independent learners, self management, self motivation, etc.
2. Remove all hurdles to incorporate a business (should be as easy as signing up for a Facebook account).
3. Make it safe to fail by rethinking bankruptcy/Insolvency laws
4. Provide a social safety net for failed entrepreneurs so that they can get back on their feed quickly and try the next thing (to be fair, many European countries do this well already at least when it comes to healthcare)
5. Simplify the tax code so that entrepreneurs don't have huge overhead (hint, this could all be done by software)
6. Make it easier for small to mid sized businesses to hire and layoff employee's...have the government pay the bills.
7. Create a strong VC community with attractive tax laws

I once owned a mid size business in germany, and when the economy tanked (2008) and I had to declare bankruptcy the government fucking destroyed me...to the point that I left the country and never looked back! Thats not how you encourage innovation and competition.

Instead I moved to Silicon Valley, where I was allowed to fail a couple time more before I got the chance to drive home multiple exits and build 100M dollar businesses
Why would it be financial ruin? California is a non-recourse state. The highly paid engineer who bought the multi-million dollar home can easily stop paying on the home and live there "rent free" for several months, recouping their down payment. By the time they are foreclosed on, they will have a sizable nest egg to do what they want with. In your scenario, the person would be "financially ruined" presumably due to a downturn in housing. In my scenario, they would be in a better position to buy again in several years at more sane levels, while ridding themselves of all the downside on their bad real estate. The only cost is a relatively minor (you can still get credit cards, etc) hit to credit for about 3 years, and in general your interest rates will be higher. But you're also cash rich, so who cares.

If somebody is older with little income and goes through the exact same scenario, they would be ruined, assuming all their net worth is in real estate. However in that case I'd argue that's more about their own poor/risky financial choices. There would be less people acting like their primary residence is an investment if the market wasn't so absurd to begin with.
That entire Development Story is such a massive gem. Everyone interested in programming, game programming, and video game creation in general should fully dig into it:

Making Crash Bandicoot

----------

As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy.

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
"so I can instantly change my game session from my phone to my TV?"

Clearly the latency advantage is the main benefit. Just as stated in the quote you used. Can you explain why that is a horrible design choice?
I switched back to Firefox about six months ago, and this issue was the only thing that ever made me consider switching back to Chrome; there's one forum I frequent where the "latest unread post" button was basically useless because of this.
You're confusing chronic abuse with overdose. A psychedelic overdose just means you're in a chemically induced psychosis. It's easy to die in this state, but by falling off a balcony, not because you stop breathing. Some of the newfangled psychedelics coming out of China can cause serotonin syndrome, however, which can be fatal. But it's not practically possible to overdose on the traditional psychedelics.
Not to mention the fact that the product is objectively terrible.

It’s unbelievable how slow Patreon is, given that “website that shows images” is a well-solved problem. Couple that with the all-dynamic-all-the-time, continuous-scroll-all-the-things UX, and it’s one of the worst websites I use. There must be serious network effects, if nobody has risen to eat their lunch.
More specifically, Microsoft was losing billions of dollars per year on the xbox early on.
Whenever I ask the proprietors if it part of Falun Gong, they all claim not to understand, or they just say no. I can't tell if they actually know what it is and don't want to admit it, or if they legitimately don't know.

Don't know, don't care, they got a restaurant to run! [1] They're probably just getting past your question and getting onto the next task. My wife grew up in mainland China. She thinks of them as wackos and/or somewhat like "carnies." If they can live and let live, and they don't do something like human trafficking, then they can believe what they want and make whatever art and dance they want, as far as I'm concerned.

([1] I used to work at a local midwest bookstore chain that Borders seemed to steal its ideas from. Customers got a totally relaxed vibe, even from the workers. However, being a worker there was a workout! I probably did enough walking for that one activity to qualify as a fitness program. So if you go to a restaurant that seems hectic, there's a good chance it's not just hectic, but that just getting through your shift is a heroic feat of endurance and optimizing on your feet. (I've also worked in restaurants.))
Vulkan is an open API. Sure it's not Ubuntu on commodity hardware, but it's closer than Windows.
I wish the US would adopt the German model where unions are for whole sectors. That way it's a level playing field for all companies.
I've seen no hard evidence that the minds there are actually brighter. More arrogant maybe?
It was only a matter of time before this tired and predictable comment appeared. I'm surprised he didn't mention his withdrawal symptoms from the shutdown of Google Reader which he probably never used.

As for your bet, I'll take it. Let's say $100 USD?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m 100% supportive of unionising for better conditions, but the thing I keep hearing from tech companies is that people want to unionise to have a voice in the ethical practices of their firms. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much about that as working conditions.
That doesn't make it a fundamental right.
You can still do that and it's fully usable. I used to do that in Firefox with a nice extension that gave some buttons on the extension bar to toggle things when I was tethering to my phone data. Unfortunately not available on the new extension system.
http://www.michaelburge.us/assets/articles/20190318-nes-emul...

Off-topic: Were the "bumping wheel" tiles ever used in the actual game? If so, in which level?
I don't follow your logic. Giving way to a fascist Republican agenda is only going to make climate change worse.
“Calling leaving room for young people to make their way, "altruism?" Arranging society to allow for the next generation is "Altruism!?" Sorry, but that's just good governance. When a society transforms, such that about the only people who can gracefully afford being 20-something newlyweds are 40-something professionals, that society has become truly ossified. In most times and places throughout history, there are places where young lower and working class people can be thrifty and make their way. It's disappearing from a lot of California.”

Altruism : altruism noun
al· tru· ism | \ ˈal-trü-ˌi-zəm \
Definition of altruism
1 : unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
charitable acts motivated purely by altruism
2 : behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species[..]

governance noun
gov· er· nance | \ ˈgə-vər-nən(t)s \
Definition of governance
: GOVERNMENT
the challenges of national governance
[..]

I am not saying no one should care about the next generation. I am saying that even ‘caring for the next generation’ has to be sensible and rational. How is overcrowded schools ‘caring for the next generation?” Or being away from your child due to long commutes? How is worsening air quality and high cost of living and increasing pollution..all attributes of high density cities...’better for the next generation’?

You are saying a child raised in Visalia is worse off than a child raised in Palo Alto. It’s not because of housing density. It’s because of governance that doesn’t provide for good schools in Visalia and not enough support to alleviate school pressure in Palo Alto.

High density housing does NOTHING except generate taxes for the government that spends most of it for the care and feeding of employees and to cover unfunded pension liabilities.

For what it’s worth, CA will not allow container mother in law units in the backyards. It won’t bring in as much property tax as building a three story 2400 sq ft matchbox home on a 3000 sq ft lot for a million dollars price tag to get $12k property tax per annum.

This..THIS..is the reality of California.
(Not) looking forward to CA millennials turning into NIMBYs when they inherit properties with super low Prop 13 tax assessments. Passive rental income with minimal property taxes is a hell of a drug..
Then people shouldn't be too surprised when stuff like this happens, and they should just pay the ransom: it's what they accepted by using Windows.

"That's the way it's always been" isn't a valid excuse for continuing to make something unsafe.
They do that for your office (343-564-21xx), but not globally (000-000-0000, 000-000-0001, etc). There's a substantial difference.
"There will be alternative solutions that exist after Patreon sunsets, simple solutions."

There are alternate solutions that exist now.

The only truly hard part of creating a Patreon clone is getting the approval to accept credit cards, charge them on a recurring basis, and dealing with the red tape around that. Probably the entire rest of the site is comparable to that in complexity. It's not the legendary "replicate in the weekend" project beloved by HN readers, because that whole credit card thing is nontrivial, but it's no "create a new distributed database backend from scratch and pass the Jepsen suite" either.
No; pretty much everybody I know in tech uses one and almost nobody I know in tech develops for iOS.

They're standard issue at most companies in the valley, at least, with "open" x86 laptops being a distant second (maybe 10% of the population) split between Windows and Linux.
I had been considering setting up a Partreon for a while now, and seeing this headline was what pushed me to convert my existing account to a creator one just now:

https://www.patreon.com/RobertElderSoftware

If you've ever seen my blog posts show up here on hn and you'd like to see more of them, then this is one way to make that happen more often :)
Becoming a backend developer – Part 1: Foundational concepts
> this doesn't offer anything compelling over using Steam

- drastically lower power requirements

- no worries about hardware refreshes

- no waiting to download a 50gb game

- can play anywhere (steam link is getting there, but it's not as easy as opening a new chrome tab)

> hardcore PC gamers are never going to accept the latency

cool, they don't have to.
Hmm, I guess I should have been more explicit: ...in the context of the rest of C...
I imagine like most of their end-user products they just won't handle that.
I guess there are other ways and tools, I use this:

1. to put Ctrl on CapsLock:

setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier

2. to have "dual" CL as described above:

xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'
Colorado’s Getting a Spaceport
They probably don't have the time to waste on such a conversation/explanation.
Not OP, but that’s even worse. Bringing in more engineers is likely to have a boost for local salaries, because engineers will start new companies that hire more engineers, or launch new products at existing companies and grow their market share.

Software is a growth and landgrab sector right now, not a “divide the pie” sector.
No problem, I'm glad you found it useful :)
Not open-source, but there are free as in beer federal tax products in the U.S.

I used to work at taxhawk.com (also owns freetaxusa.com). They make their money on premium support, amended filings, and state returns.
Any actual incidents of these things causing real outages for critical systems anywhere?

(I'm going to guess it's a big NO on the first one, because no one uses Macs for critical systems.)
>They are built with soldered components which means no upgradeability with the flip side being that the performance is 5 years ahead of the direct competition

Who are they five years ahead of exactly? And who told them to make the enclosure out of a garbage can?

Their base model comes in at 3k. They are well behind anything I would build for 3k, sans the garbage can case.
I'd be concerned if I was Patreon: they're a somewhat classic example of a "feature" rather than a standalone service.

We're already seeing services like YouTube implementing these low cost, support a creator type subscriptions natively.
I thought that when only web extension plugins were allowed shortcut extensions no longer worked. I was using keysnail. I was following https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061 but didn't know if it had been resolved. Thanks I'll check that out
I'm going to have to investigate Podia. It looks pretty slick, and "unlimited" for only $40/mo!? That seems like a no brainer if you are doing online courses or similar.
Yeah, my "main" personal machine is a 2011 Air that no longer can run the latest OS. My 2006 Mac Pro got replaced on its 10th birthday with a new iMac as it was an OS or two behind. I'd say 8 years is sorta the outer limit.
Starship Cam
Stripe's Apple Pay web integration is the closest I've seen. Click on a button, put my thumb on the device, and it's done. As a bonus, the vendor doesn't get my card number.
MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
For those who don't know, Falun Gong is perceived like the Chinese version of Scientology in China, although a lot of injustice was done to Falun Gong followers and most of their assets frozen, there isn't much sympathy for them and they're typically regarded as a bit weird, believing in Qi, faith healing and all that.
Google operates tiny little datacenters in every ISP POP in America. That is why the video I just watched on Youtube in Oakland came from some place 2ms away even though Google's nearest real datacenter is in Oregon.
Very relevant is this old post by Joel Spolsky on tech companies using free and open source software to commoditize their complements. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Basically, you can increase the demand for a product by decreasing the cost of it's complements.
You can increase the demand for managed Redis services by investing in making Redis better.
The caveat is that you can't control where that demand goes and you might end up helping out your competitors more than yourself.
There's the major difference that you can't "pirate" a single-player game that is only available remotely, and that you can access such games remotely from any hardware.

So it could result in a renaissance of the classic AAA 3D single-player games, perhaps.
Into the breach was a great game, but it is unlikely to have sold as well if it wasn't for FTL's success.
I'm wondering the same. I wanted to look at a Pixelfed instance to see if it was worth joining (or following from a different account in the fediverse)--and I can't even see whether or not I like the content without making an account?

I can see why a for-profit app like Instagram would force everyone to sign up to browse, since that helps their bottom line, but I can't see why that decision would be made here.
Yeah that was my read too. Taking the MealPal offering (cheaper lunches in exchange for pre-ordering and limiting your selection) and adding group delivery to it (adding a bit of cost in exchange for convenience).

If they essentially do "MealPal, but delivered," then I could see it working. Noticeable price point difference from other delivery options, but maintaining a range of restaurant meal options for people to choose from.

But yeah, they look like sink or swim based largely on what price they can offer consumers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost

Costs are not always marginal. Imagine growing a company to the point of needing to onboard an HR representative or an accountant: the actual cost of the service would increase. But a percentage gives margin to operate.

Also, generally bigger customers generally demand a lot more resources. A percentage seems pretty fair. It also lets small accounts which may not have anything to their name scale up without having to have capital.
I really hope the latency we've seen in the live demo was due to the venue's poor internet connection because otherwise this will make some games unplayable. They mentioned that Doom Eternal will be available and that it would be a good benchmark for the service's latency but I'm waiting to see some independent reviews to believe it.

Also I don't really understand who's the target audience for this, I doubt people who currently own a console or a gaming PC will care unless the prices (of games or subscription) are extremely competitive.

The only thing that got me excited is that the infrastructure runs on Linux and AMD, this could have a great impact on Linux gaming.
Most people in the world don’t live in houses, you can just as well raise a family in a flat (which are usually much cheaper).
Generalized it for you:

"The fact that everyone in 2019 communicates via propaganda makes it almost impossible to understand what’s really happening."

"Social media" is a bit of a whitewash. It should really be called, "Everyone Propaganda!"
Yup, I have a Retina 5k iMac and love it. I avoided going the all-in-one route for ages, but when I replaced my 10 year old Mac Pro and was still using the same 24" Dell display it came with, I decided that display and computer lifespans are relatively in sync these days.
Not just Linux. AAA games on Haiku!
Have they announced the closure date yet?
Well said. I can't find the blog post, but patio11 once talked about how all you have to do is ask for people to pay you and you'll be surprised how many will.

Also, most businesses have no budget for donations but they have plenty of budget for software purchases.
I often question if putting so much blame just on her while treating her investors with a lens of victoimhood is a good idea? For all I know, Theranos was a vicious death spiral which grew so big purely because there were a ton of investors writing big checks to Holmes either without doing basic due diligence or being knowingly complicit in the lackings of the company. Their checks were the reason Holmes got empowered so much in the first place and dared to think that she is perhaps on the right path and could continue pulling off a fraud.
You should look into open source software, it is a pretty cool field to discover!
Its special Olympics, average k&m players beat console FPS "champions" every single time.
> >There is a reason every game company is switching to it.

> Are they?

No they aren't. It's more like a new market that has some overlap with the traditional offering.

There are tons and tons of people who will never be interested in freemium games, just as there are tons of people who aren't interested in mmorpgs or multiplayer in general.

That market isn't going away.

Just like the market for workstations and laptops didn't go away, even though people boldly proclaimed that mobile is eating the world and you can do anything on a phone.
I would say if you want to learn stuff, university is by no means the only option. Nowadays there are so many resources on the internet. Also, a degree is only a credential and go as far as you make of it.
Well, sure. My point was that an OEM could do the "endless fiddling" for you, and then a Hackintosh would be just like an Apple-purchased computer (except with some OS update latency—a lot like the latency of Android-device OEM OS updates.)
What negative impacts have you seen from GDPR?