skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the author, who hasn’t tried conda, dismisses it. What is your point? How does this relate to the criticisms of pipenv?
Ok, so multiple, competing app stores for a platform are bad? I'm confused now.
I see ads on my neighborhood nextdoor literally every 4th story about how Ring stopped a robbery in <YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD HERE>
Not withstanding the vulnerability outlined by the article, the concept and utility has merit. For vast amount of users, sorting out chipset drivers is a hard problem.
I hate these things and all the things that go with them (NextDoor, etc). They promote a world where we're all locked in our boxes peeking through the blinds at each other and checking Twitter to see what's wrong.

When we don't trust each other, especially the people in our local community, we move towards a slightly worse world.

This is part of the same phenomenon frequently discussed on Hacker News where children are not allowed to play outside freely anymore. We're all convinced the world is full of Bad People who need stopping.
This is a simplistic and specious argument. I think owning a game in 2019 (where so much of what is owned is a service, an environment, and a virtual identity within the game's universe) amounts to much more.

So you're saying if you bought a car with smart electronics, then suddenly the manufacturer updates it so that the electronics no longer work properly, you wouldn't take issue? Or how about a credit card with rewards you work toward amassing, then another company buys the company that makes the card and wipes your rewards?
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It's a good thing. Bleach by itself is an inefficient disinfectant. You need a lot, which is wasteful. Adding a bit of vinegar to change the pH will make the chlorine much more available for disinfecting.

I used to keep a bottle pre-mixed. It won't last very long though, so mixing before use is better.
It's been a while... but prior to my current laptop, I'd generally remove the factory HD and replace with an SSD before even booting once. Installing a fresh OS from the start.
The point of independent branches is to avoid concentration of power through distributed checks and balances. In what way is the authority of the Supreme Court or the Executive being checked here? This is just decorum.
My local nextdoor recently had a 30 post flame-fest because someone was concerned that 3 11 year old girls walked up to their door and asked if they could have a glass of water. It's amazing how shitty neighbors will treat each other online but would never say similar things in person to each other.
I will always love systemd, if only for the major achievement of bluntly paving over a ton of distributions' stupid idiosyncrasies. Units look identical on all distributions. Network configuration looks identical on all distributions. /etc/os-release looks identical on all distributions. As a developer, and as an admin dealing with different distros all the time, this is a godsend.
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> However, if you want to break your game after I purchased it and change the rules of how that license works and dont expect me to possibly change my mind about my decision, think again.

It kinda reminds me how Sony crippled the PS3 otherOS feature after the console was sold. It was deemed a major feature which was stripped away artificially and I understand how someone could be pissed.
>OR literally someone trying to steal crap from their porch etc.

On one border you have CA (which basically laughs at the idea of prosecuting people for property crime), on another you have Mexico (a place to liquidate stolen goods). AZ is screwed from a property crime perspective.
There are rules about that. NetFlix funds their own shows so they're typically not forced to make them available. In practice, it's mostly a US only company and they relicense most of the productions to other networks around the world.

For example, NetFlix France is a joke, you couldn't watch any netflix shows because they're not available, they sublicensed to canal (the main paid TV service) with exclusively and are left unable to serve their own TV shows.

The Epic Store (and Steam) are global. That's more than 200 jurisdictions with different rules on anti competitive behavior. They are preventing competition globally and systematically, this has to be breaking some rules somewhere.
Do they also install this stuff on their linux offerings? :/
Give me a break. This is absolutely implied. Else what is the point of investing gaming time in the service developing your identity and game item inventory?
I think it's that DRM doesn't work if they don't have a place that the user doesn't own, combined with that core is also used for system init because it's in the right place and you already want similar crypto you'd need for DRM for secure boot.

There's not really any interesting IP in those cores from what we've seen.
It would be interesting to know if they observed how much sleep they take.
Wholesome.
And how about the ability to purchase in-game items now?
>Funny, apple did this to iPod touch

What feature did you pay to unlock on iPod touch? I'm struggling to remember...
I think they may need the coloring book version
I started using Mercurial in college and then switched to git at my first job. I haven't seen Mercurial since. I still don't understand how Git won in the long run, it's CLI is so much worse than `hg`. My guess would be that Bitbucket added `git` support before Github added `hg` support.
A geometric explanation of the Conjugate Gradient algorithm
Living in a state where everyone could be a backstabbing busybody you can't help but treat every interaction with suspicion. Like, I assume my neighbors are fine people. I still would be totally unsurprised if one of them called the police because my wife screamed loudly or something.
Interoperability is not the goal of all API’s.
Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
Real competition would be able to choose between Epic and Steam. This is not.
Great job, simple and easy, as a tool should be. I'm definitely gonna use it.
1. without more context about who the professor is targeting his tirade at and which company C levels he's actually talking, it's hard to evaluate this

2. will there be shrinking in the middle band of SAP/Infosys companies where work has already been proven to be fungible (by their h1b shenanigans) in the near future? probably. does this sort of pressure exist in the middle band of any profession? yes (even if the AMA is fighting tooth and nail to artificially limit supply in the case with MDs)

3. is AI mostly a hype-add to boost valuation? yes. but does a lot of it work and generate real revenue? yes. almost by definition the more valued something is, the more likely it is overvalued. I fear this professor hasn't seen most of the unsexy AI work. where 90% of the value may come from the actual AI work, but 90% of the work is on the infra around it.
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China has never had a real chip industry. AI chips could change that (2018)
Yeah, I use Costco's "Citi Visa" card for exactly that reason. I'd still be charged the %, and at least this way I get the most useful thing /for me/ back as a reward.

That's the why I want a system that completely bypasses the insanity that are current credit/debit cards and goes directly to a modern approach (but isn't some blockchain, kill the planet with mining power, fad).
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That would not be the case for biodegradable ones, presumably - and indeed the article mentions Vegware, which I see everywhere now.
Why would pulling game sales from Steam affect your ability to play with your friends or make you buy a second copy of the game? They're not blocking network connections from existing copies of Rocket League. This isn't a Sony-like move, where they're siloing off players by platform; they're just switching which game store you purchase new copies from.
Why are you quoting a sentence that's not in the article? Nice way to appropriate BBCs credibility to your conspiracy theory.
There are definitely better options though. At least warn people and give them a chance to make plans. Years ago I worked at a startup during the first dot-com crash. The president and the CEO had a falling out and decided to split up the company and spin the software development side into it's own biz under the former CEO. After a few months the upper management decided to lay-off 90% of the new company's employees without warning. All of whom previously worked at the parent company, some for several years. The few employees that weren't laid-off were told to stay home that day and none of the managers or the even the CEO showed up either. Everyone else came into work with a form letter waiting on their desks telling them they'd been fired. Nice to see nothing has changed in the industry over the past 20 years.
You're comparing a product (Rocket League) to a subscription (Spotify). A closer comparison would be how Sony removed the ability to use the OtherOS feature in a firmware update, which could be seen as dealbreaker between buying or not buying the product for some, even after many years owning the product.
Returns are the only thing they do well. Their support is absolute garbage in every other regard.
Take it away from the specific case of IE6, and consider the situation where you have a product team that says one thing and a team of engineers insist on their solution.

They got lucky, IE6 in that sense was ready to die, and they basically declared mutiny with good cause.

Can you imagine any other scenario where insisting your idea is correct above every alternative, to the extent you can bypass the organisation and enforce your idea, could be utterly catastrophic? These developers in particular set up a system to subvert their own company.

They even said it themselves: Legal shit their pants because they tried it and saw Chrome as the first suggestion. They were lucky that the media didn't capitalise on that if they got the same ordering.

This story with Youtube and IE6 is romantic. It's not realistic or aspirational. Besides which, we would not hear of it if the attempt failed.
I am often reminded that there are multiple personality types showing up in many things, such as software.

To my personality type, I would wonder why you wouldn't want a replaceable window manager, and I consider a reaction like yours to be the product of some kind of odd software design authoritarianism.

But we're not both right or both wrong, this is just a point where we differ.

PS: a bunch of those desktop environments you cite are not actually window managers.
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Yes, I can remember the update to iPhone OS 2.0 was a paid update for the iPod Touch 1Gen.
It is like torrent, so you need to have a seeder node all the time - it is called “pinning” in IPFS.

There is a number of services, the price seems to be around $0.3/(gb*month)
I don’t think this should be tongue in cheek. This is understood and considered to be acceptable when you’re in the US.

What the US takes issue with is foreign governments having that kind of power.
Yes, I would be interested in how I, an in-shape individual who exercises regularly compares to the Tsimane.
In Dublin, there was a shop that mostly just sold yeast until recently: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property...

It always looked closed; I walked past it for a decade or so every day without realising that it was still in business.

And then there’s the top floor of Stephens Green shopping center, which mostly just contains very strange specialised shops, with no visible customers.
Very nice article.

Question, if spending the night in the cave system, long hours, what are the rules for human waste? Do they have to bring it all out? I noticed they talked about putting down cable holds and such so that got me thinking, what rules do they operate under when in such environments?
I consider the cost acceptable given they don't just "slap Ubuntu on it". The hardware is curated towards 100% Linux compatibility, and their custom OS (admittedly an Ubuntu variant) is tweaked to suit the hardware. It's a good marriage and to some it's worth the extra cost.

Look at it like you would a Macbook; Apple charges a premium but the benefit the buyer receives from that extra cost is hardware and software that feels cohesive and works perfectly together. I'm not saying System76 has reached that same mark just yet, but it's what they are working towards and they have made great progress in that endeavor.

With all of that said, there's something to buying a used or marked-down Thinkpad and installing your distro of choice; you'll (usually) get a great device with excellent Linux community support, and in my opinion the industrial design of the Thinkpad series is more appealing than System76 machines. Personally I don't care for Lenovo because of their past malware shenanigans, but they do make solid hardware.
Afaik. in the pinning method this tool uses, it costs nothing. But you can't be sure that it will really be always live (it depends on the good heart of the pinning service you used).

If you want to really ensure it's live you should run at least one node that pins it yourself (or pay someone to do that)
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As a German I have very mixed feelings about von Braun. On the hand he was an impressive engineering leader but he was also a war criminal that used slave labor under terrible conditions without hesitation. I would have prefer him going to jail for a few years after the war.
Isn't he disqualified?
> people on ie7 because it came with Vista probably had a more capable/pushy update system

the people on vista had the pushiest update system of all: vista was terrible, and most users (especially organizational users) switched to windows 7 ASAP.
> One of the main intriguing things about this group of people is that they do not eat particularly well.

That is only if you take for a fact we know what a healthy diet is and there is a single clear definition.

For me, Healthy eating is a diverse diet that leads to good health. Particularly eating foods where caloric density is offset by nutritional value. Based on my own definition and the facts of the article, these people do eat healthy.

I think the surprise comes from people who think they know what a 'healthy diet' is.

As the article states, 'this is definitively not keto diet' - for me this means about zero to me. If that point is surprising to you or to a group of people, I think you are right, it is a surprising study from that point of view. Thanks for helping me understand the newsworthy part of this.
Having grown up in the 60's listening to the "Death of Floyd Collins", some of those tight fit cave pictures are sort of trigger-worthy.
hi rob, thanks for responding.

unfortunately i sat through that 20 minute podcast and the only thing i learned was $3/gal is your estimate and that the machine has not yet worked. nothing about nanotubes or any attempt at a claim at what the innovation is here.

looking forward to that launch summary
I understand you perfectly. I just don't agree with a single sentence of it. The semantics of carbon capture for you seem to mean to capture some (tiny) percentage of the absolutely epic levels of fossil carbon we put into it today.

The point of Prometeus is to take no fossil carbon whatsoever (0%) and create the fuel directly from the CO2 already in the air and indeed put it back there when it is burned. It's not capturing so much as reusing what is already there. It's by definition the most efficient way. It's 100% efficient.

None of the things you listed actually produce fuel. So they are 0% efficient. At best they offset some meaningless percentage of fossil fuels. Actually raising the cost of those fossil fuels to pay for more meaningful percentages (like more than 1 digit?), just strengthens the business case for Prometheus. The more costly fossil fuel gets, the more attractive Prometheus gets. As it is, they seem to be claiming to be cost effective as is.
Are you using it?
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Doesn't even mention sugar. Seems like that would be a very large and important difference.

Just says "72% of calories come from carbohydrates compared with 52% in the US", which might encourage a westerner to eat more carbs, but if they're eating whole rice and we're eating sugar that seems kinda important.

Comparison of gut bacteria would be interesting too, bet that's as important as the diet itself.
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Where and what do you work on that uses such a terrible system?
Frightening abuse of power :-(

Sorry to disagree with the current "you're my hero" trend, but in my mind, this story just show that a bunch of irresponsible hackers can do whatever they want to ease their work - for which they're paid btw - without any regard on the impacts to users that may rely on the service.

This time, it was only showing a warning message (that may have frightened some people)... and what's the next step? Decide to allow only Chrome-users to use youtube? When a company try to reach a monopoly status, it bear a social responsability.

(anyway: I'm happy for IE6 been a thing of the past)
Not unlike a motorcycle either where at least the older ones had separate controls for front and rear brakes. Some newer bikes have linked brakes where applying front and/or rear partially actuates the other end as well.
> a TV with an instant-on button

Please. I use a 4k TV as my computer monitor. It's works fairly well for that because I researched it and found a good fit, but I use a remote to start it every time, and it takes 15-20 seconds before it's ready to receive input. That's a long time to be sitting in front of your computer waiting, especially when it happens 3-10 times a day.
Except if you change the user agent it works.
They better gift copies to existing Steam copy owners on the EGS if they're going to split the userbase.
Thanks.. This is helpful info
In the case of Rocket League, which is crossplay already (steam, xbox, ps4) that shouldn't be an issue.
Could PC gaming soon become obsolete?