skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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NMS is only a failure in the sense of internet backlash. The game sold well (and afaik continues to do so) and has gotten better reception (recent steam ratings are mostly positive https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/) as new updates have been released over the years.

HN in general has weird standards around game quality considering many of the users work on software as service start-ups that launch as almost broken MVPs. I understand NMS asked players to pay $60 up front but they've put their money where there mouth is and continually supported and updated the game.
They passed low income metro cards last year for this reason. There is no great option here, there needs to be a new tax to raise money for new infrastructure and congestion pricing is the best of the worst options. It gives the city the flexibility to regulate future traffic flows and raises money for infrastructure. Raising taxes on the wealthy is a non-starter in NY state because they are not competitive as it is and the rich get up and leave.
Having written Rust code for 4 years, I'd say it's not the biggest feature of Rust. It's just one of many good points. Among my favorite are the explicit & rich APIs, high level concepts (ADTs, pattern-matching, trait-based generics), and Cargo. The safety does play a big role in shaping some of the features though, and enabling some powerful APIs and optimizations.
You are not “engineering harder” or being an engineer++, you are doing _different work_ with a _new set of skills_. This is what is meant by the phrase. It is unlike the transition from eng to sr eng or even sr eng to team lead — not in degree, but in _kind_.
Why are you appalled? As a physicist I'm not appalled by the lack of interest most engineers have in fundamental theory that I know inside out. The reason is precisely because I understand there's a difference between practical applications and theoretical inquiry.
Which is owned by MS. So while not FANG, it's only not because the acronym wouldn't be as good.
Why would you run stock chrome on android? Use a privacy respecting browser like firefox or Brave and install an ad-blocker like Ublock before browsing the web.

Chrome does not respect user privacy and is designed to not support add-ons as it will hurt Google's core advertising business.
We Would Never Be Able to Blow Up an Asteroid to Save the Planet
I am not sure what your agenda is, but your response is disingenuous. You have taken a specific and rare incident which was reported for its "shock value" (it is quite easy in India to publish a story with an agenda) and have presented it in a manner which implies it is some sort of a norm.

While there certainly is corruption, given the size and scale of elections in India, it is laudable that things are conducted in a proper manner for the large part.
I logged in with a fake throwaway account and was able to see the posts.
Yes, they've bought Pocket and the recommendation system is built in a way that your data isn't sent to Mozilla but processed on the device. Quite a cool idea IMO and what we should be doing.
Thanks for letting us know. The story goes live in 18 minutes: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/26/0356205
> If trash wasn't let into the Play Store in the first place

How exactly do you plan on enforcing this without automation? There are millions of apps on the Play Store. Many are updated dozens of times a year. How many thousands of reverse engineers do you plan on hiring to prevent bad behavior without error?
Ok thanks, and to follow up I forgot that liability for swipes shifted to merchants a couple years ago regardless of signatures. That is, if a customer has a chip card and the merchant runs it as a swipe then they’re liable regardless of whether the signature matches.

Having said that, that doesn’t mean every issuer is going to come after merchants for this fraud... it’s typically the little mom and pops that haven’t fully migrated to EMV chip terminals. So maybe the lower rewards gives Goldman Sachs more leeway to be nice.
I have the same thing as dirty Python script[1]. Handy to send notes or reports to clients as "nice" PDF.

One could customize it to support additional markdown features, like footnotes, tables. To run:

$ md2pdf some-markdown.md # gives some-markdown.pdf

You can also pass a CSS sheet with some custom fonts and colors. (sample included with GIST)

$ export MD2PDF_CSS=style.css md2pdf myfile.md

1: https://gist.github.com/m3nu/616c0d59246d0554ed599daeec44e64...
I suppose you could take the deposits and earn interest on them as a possible supplemental revenue stream.
IMO, it depends on what you want and what you need.

Azure is likely to be a good environment for you, if you use Windows exclusively or primarily. It’s the native cloud platform from Microsoft, after all. You can certainly do Windows on AWS, but Microsoft will always treat AWS the same way they did Lotus 1-2-3, back in the day.

AWS has lots and lots of services that they make available to you, and lots of certifications to help your people be able to make sense of them all. But there can be a lot of overlap with some of those services, and some of them may not be as well supported as others. AWS is the king of taking open source software and adding features to it and injecting a lot of cloud-scale capabilities that even the original authors could never have dreamed of.

Google has a long history of building internal technology for themselves, and then publishing papers on stuff they were doing ten years ago, and which has already been completely superseded internally. They’re also the king of launching new features or buying startup companies and then unceremoniously killing them shortly thereafter.

If you are a business, you can get differing levels of support contracts with all the major cloud providers, and some may be a better fit for you financially than others, depending on your particular circumstances.

For me, the de-facto standard cloud provider is AWS. They’re the 8000lb gorilla in the room. But AWS has been around the longest and they’re the most long-term stable cloud provider, whereas they might not be the fastest to adopt technologies like Kubernetes which they did not invent themselves.

The question you should ask yourself is whether or not you want to be building your business on top of that foundation, or if you want to work with someone else.
...or we could talk about the actual operating system, on the hacker forum for hackers where hackers talk about hacker stuff.
I worked for a company that required me to tell them about all personal software developed for a period after I left the company. I suspect the intent was to make sure I did not create competing software... but the terms were clear and had a small reimbursement for filling it out and sending copies.

They got a bunch of custom ADND software for Windows CE. At some point, I got a phone call asking why I was sending them this stuff. It apparently irritated someone enough they released me from those terms.
Marvel’s Spider – Man: A Technical Postmortem [pdf]
> It's hard to tell exactly how many apps are published on Google Play per year, but it seems to be in the ballpark of 200,000 [1]

You'd have to audit literally every version update.
While it does have network effects, I'd argue it's not recession proof (mildly cyclical, even), and there's low switching costs to using other forms of transport (for example, I haven't used Uber in lieu of Lyft / driving my own car and had no issues)
The mistake here is not the prior lack of COPPA compliance.

The mistake here is their rushed implementation of the compliance.

Why do I feel like many companies, in the exact same situation, would have also messed up?

Aggressively deleting accounts of even older users due to messing up birthdate collection, with no recourse is such a bone headed move. Falling back to defensively asking for government ID can't really be counted as recourse.
Yeah...in theory. They'll sell the data until it becomes a big news item

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/t-mobile-sprint-...
This is a problem we got sick and tired of at $work, so we made kr8: https://github.com/apptio/kr8

You can define a component which you install into many clusters and then slightly differentiate them based on cluster parameters, kind of like Puppet or Chef (without the application stage)

Alongside this, you can actually patch helm charts. An example component can be found here https://github.com/jaxxstorm/kr8-cfgmgmt-example/blob/master...

The patches.jsonnet allows you to add a commandline flag that wasn't in the helm chart at one time.
I think what you’d want to do in a case like this is make legal the not WMD strength stuff at affordable prices and constant purity.

The idea being that the heroin market could grow and reduce the demand for the fentanyls and carfentanyls.

Hopefully the addicted would want the safer stuff, especially if it was at similar prices or cheaper.

Then you tax it, and use the money raised for public awareness and education to drive down the rate over time and offer out reach programs, counseling, and rehab services to the people buying the stuff.

That seems like the sanest and most humane way to tackle both having these extremely potent and dangerous substances flying through our mail system while limiting damage over time, and helping as many as possible for whom they’ve already become addicted or are on that path.
For bash scripting: have you seen shellcheck? It's a very solid first-pass for any script, and the codes it emits have excellent documentation: https://www.shellcheck.net/
It's considered a use tax, like the existing gasoline taxes used to fund roads and highway tolls.
Curious, what does that mean "risky google"? If you're avoiding seeing some graphic images, that makes sense. If you're avoiding searching it because of implications for google's tracking profile about you and how it might then rebalance future searches, then that's a pretty upsetting reflection on google / tech status quo, and fairly on-topic here. We shouldn't be afraid to seek knowledge like from a library, because of analytics, y'know?
Video here https://youtu.be/m9joBLOZVEo
Which components on a typical (say Ubuntu 16.04 desktop) are the toolkit and the compositor? GTK and Gnome?
How tied to the internet will it be? How many callbacks to google will it have? Will it rely on google DNS?
This is a failure of the US, not a fundamental requirement of scale.
It did not have serious memory bugs. All of the unsafe code in Redox, of which only a small fraction is unsafe, is neatly compartmentalized so that it's easy to audit.
How many poor people do you think are driving around Manhattan today?
Oh no, jsonnet!

Seriously though, gonna look closer at this tomorrow at the office. Thanks for the heads up!
Have you seen the price of parking in Manhattan? How many poor people do you imagine there are currently driving around Manhattan?
I've been using the Markdown Reader Chrome extension and using the browser print function to do this kind of conversion.

What would be really useful (to me personally) is a tool that renders plantUML/mermaid embedded into markdown to a PDF. I haven't been able to find a simple solution that doesn't require writing code to integrate the libraries together, or rendering the images separately and bringing them into the markdown document (which is tedious).
But the promise was that the content would be there at launch, not eventually.
"its easier to ask forgiveness than permission" is an ancient tenant of business at this point
And right when you thought proprietary, non-standard OSes were finally going away...
Your schedule sounds like that of an indentured servant. Seriously, you regularly start work at 8am and end at 1am? What kind of life is that? As someone who's fallen into a rabbit hole where that sort of madness gets normalized, let me remind you: it's not normal. Find somewhere else unless you're making millions?
Rebelicious A visit to the Fête de l’Humanité in Paris, a Marxist jamboree
Poor people don't own cars, but subsidize the cars of those who do. Congestion pricing helps to fix that.

The book Deschooling Society has a good explanation about how the design of public roads is used as a means of social control. Ctrl-F for the section on mechanical donkeys.
https://monoskop.org/images/1/17/Illich_Ivan_Deschooling_Soc...
I don’t think it’s great to encourage overpromising, even if this one game happened to eventually deliver on its promises.
It’s been my experience that most “X rules of Y” are more guidelines than strict rules, at least when it comes to anything that is any kind of artistic endeavor.

The key is knowing which rules to follow when, and which rules to break — and when.

But, if you want to write as well as King, and in the same genre or a related genre, I think you could probably do much worse than to start off by following his rules.
Hey! That's super interesting - so far we went with Tensorflow's ubuntu based official Docker devel image, but a clearlinux base looks like it would definitely be worth looking into!

-masroor (author)
For those who would like to follow this project as it unfolds, we intend to work from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wbharding/libinput

I'll also setup an easy means subscribe to text updates about this project soon. Check https://bill.harding.blog for updates on that.
Building my first keyboard (and you can too)
Real-Time photorealistic landscape in UE4 [video]
I really wonder about this kernel IPC hype. I watched a video on React+Redux by Facebook engineers about a week ago, and the reasoning behind creating the things in the first place. Feelings about React+Redux and how they are overused aside:

Redux came first and it happened because the "interaction graph" between various components on the website became virtually impossible to resolve cognitively. The engineers (especially on-boarding engineers) faced troubles understanding how everything worked in concert and, especially, the side-effects of a single change. The nail in the coffin for the engineer was Facebook chat and she was forced to use numbers, instead of lines, to depict interactions because the graph was too dense. Redux forced interaction in one direction, with "back interaction" happening one frame/tick later. Web developers have praised and embraced this architecture.

If you look at the very first image in the article, it moves from a very straightforward application -> VFS -> ext2 -> driver -> disk graph to a [potential] rats nest. It runs counter to the hard lessons that Facebook have learned with complex distributed systems.

Is this why nothing has really come from Mach/Hurd? Up until putting 1 and 1 together a few minutes ago, micro-kernels sounded so clean and elegant. They now seem unwieldy. Perhaps there is exists another layer of architecture that can tame the dependency/interaction graph; isolation really does sound like a good idea, but we need a better way of doing it.
You mean “the SAT”, as in the Scholastic Aptitude Test?
I don't know. And this has nothing to do with the metric expansion of space, since we don't observe it between atoms or even between stars in a galaxy. It's only between galaxies that we observe expansion.
Here's where the code updates are slated to happen: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wbharding/libinput
Hmm its not letting me access the khan academy reading list
There's no reason for there to be "millions on apps on the Play Store". Literally no reason. It's likely 99% of users would entirely be served by the top 50,000 to 100,000 apps. For the other 1%, there is sideloading.

As far as how many app reviewers to hire? Well, Apple manages their store pretty well. Google has about eleventy billion dollars in cash, so I'm sure they could afford to hire a few people to do the job.
The grpc.beta code elements are deprecated and may go away anytime. (gRPC 1.0.0 is also super old and unsupported)
No, I am sorry, I won't (for doxxing reasons). They don't advertise themselves as aggressively as FANGs, yet can pick up some of the best developers easily due to word of mouth. I am sure the people that tried to acquire them and got denied as well as their employees can identify them easily. You might try to sort all companies on Glassdoor by overall rating and maybe you can spot something interesting there...
It didn't come across as a hit piece but rather as a comparison with overly colorful language, like that stuff about being in the boiler room.
The game sold super well. Team still owns all the IP.

Was overhyped, but it probably 50% is press fault.
> nice things

> driving in manhattan

I think you may be confused.
Why can't mobile follow the same model as desktop?
Security coprocessors are doing most of that enforcement and are not reliant on the host microcontroller to enforce anything.
Perhaps the best features about the web, though, are the share-centric nature of being able to pass around a link, the control we have over the client, and the distribution of apps and info that's least encumbered by gatekeepers.

For example, let's go all the way to the other end of the spectrum where the web as we know it didn't take off and everything was siloed into native apps that you had to download from the App Store before trying something new.

That seems pretty grim to me. I think we're in a sweet spot and lucky to have both.
But the reality is, particularly once these issues are addressed, the 737 MAX 8 is arguably the safer aircraft. While I recognize that people will base their actions on recent media rather than logic, we as the tech community shouldn't be helping them make bad decisions.
Python's official implementation is very slow and they don't care about performance. I wouldn't try to take any lessons from the way Python is implemented.
The url was the first thing that caught my eye as well.
I was pulling on the toilet paper and the holder came off from the wall. And it's not an isolated incident. All the single room bathrooms have the same poor workmanship.
(IANAL)

You CAN sue them, but for what is unclear. "Wielding too much power" isn't a crime.

And even if you could find a legitimate reason, you are unlikely to win. I would assume Google Play's Terms of Service has several clauses, including indemnity, arbitration, and agreement that Google can remove your app at anytime for any reason.

Any of those should be sufficient to have the suit summarily dimissed.
"they do the thing first then apologize"

This isn't Chinese culture, this is what any capitalist willing to accept some risk does. If anything, they learned it from us.
Well if it were done properly purity and dosage could be monitored along with people's condition leading to less fatalities and overall harm. Along with, as you say, removing the criminal element.

Obviously a free for all probably isn't a great idea. But that's kind of what we have now isn't it? With the added bonus of jailing a few randos from time to time and absolutely no control over any of it.

I realize these drugs are dangerous and addictive. Not sure there is an easy answer. If we really could ban them, sure, that would be great, but are we willing to do what it takes to do that? No, people would scream bloody murder, our society isn't set up for that kind of liberty infringement. But apparently it isn't set up for compassionate rational approaches either, so we will continue to pump money into swat teams and other half assed authoritative wack a mole measures which seem unlikely to ever really fix the problem.

Meanwhile society as a whole suffers a plague of junkie fallout and likely winds up paying much more than they would would with a compassionate rational approach.

I feel like I need to say, taking these kind of things in the first place is a bad idea imo, but people are doing it. So what do we do?
Agreed. The business models and risks between these companies are completely different.

The main commonality I was highlighting was that these business have high upfront costs and make the money back over a long period of time. Because of this, profits are a not very good way to measure the health of these businesses.
I apologise for that (it's too late for me to change my post). I never intended to imply that the world should work that way, or that disabled people, or OP in particular, are less human than others. I come from a different culture than you, so it is hard for me to understand exactly what I did that was wrong. Can you advise how you would phrase my idea in a less insulting way?
For me it works in Google Chrome on either Windows 10 or Ubuntu, but Firefox does not work on either platform.
It's definitely not 1978 in terms of violent crime but haven't you encountered aggressive panhandlers or obviously mentally ill people? If there is something violent going on, the vast majority of passengers won't intervene (see the recent attack on an elderly woman where everyone was just filming).
It's not a discount, it's free. And given the price of EV's, you're not just suggesting a regressive tax, your suggesting a regressive tax where near the top of the tax bracket pays no taxes.

EV's already have plenty of tax incentives. Taxes need to be both a stick and a carrot. EV's get a carrot, all drivers get a stick.
"Could apply", and "likely to win in court" are two VERY different arguments.
Nothing stops you. These licenses are philosophically very different from the GPL. They tend to be designed to provide literal freedom to do what you want with the code, basically as long as it doesn't interfere with the original use and provides acknowledgement. This includes relicensing it and including it in proprietary products.
Thanks for posting that. I understand what they’re getting at, but they didn’t quite convince me in the opening that this isn’t a build structure problem vs. a build tool issue. There’s a lot of work to do what they’re trying to achieve, and at best you’ll possibly get a faster build? Maybe it’s easier to configure? Though that also wasn’t obvious to me that there would be a large gain there.
I can only imagine how awkward it was for the Stripe employee to ask this.
Unlike some other popular sites, at least it's possible for a regular user to open a support ticket.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Combat Bullying
> Unfortunately, our observation is that the ratio of commercial to free users is about 1 to 25.

That's a ~4% conversion rate. Anyone have data for any similar OSS software libraries with a free tier?
There is a text format, but you can serialize YAML into protobufs. The benefit with protobufs is that by defining them you are specifying types and sub-messages etc. so when you assemble disparate pieces you get type checking at various levels.
I mean, at launch I thought the developer was pretty damn shitty, but they’ve pretty much redeemed themselves over the time after that.

I don’t respect them for the launch, but I do for what came after.
See also markdeep[1] (extension of markdown) and remarkable[2] (desktop app)

Personally, I use pandoc and customize using xelatex [3] to generate beautiful pdfs for self publishing

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

[2] https://remarkableapp.github.io/linux.html

[3] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...
They didn't just over promise they straight up went on the Colbert Show and lied about features that didn't even exist.
It works in literally every other large city I. The world so there's no reason to think NY is special in some way such that it won't.

This ridiculous cynism is counterproductive and defeatist. We know a fair bit about effective urban policy.