skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several servers with Hetzner, including a failover setup. In the last 7 years I needed to use it 2-3 times for a very short time, maybe 2-3 hours. The worst accident was when two hard drivers and the controller failed at once. Still no problem rebuilding the array and get the old system running. So practically speaking, when you look at outages Google or Microsoft has, for me the total uptime over the years is comparable.
Be academic all you like. However, I live in the real world, with real patients. I live in a world where I can tell a patient that a mole is completely benign and it still makes them anxious and they want me to cut it out.

Some people are anxious types. Few people can comprehend medical statistics. Even an intelligent person such as yourself doesn't seem to comprehend the danger that can come from a "check up".

After you've diagnosed thousands of patients and discovered hundreds of incidentalomas, perhaps then you can tell me how simple this is.
After that job at the IBM Scientific Center, [Richard] Stallman had held a laboratory-assistant position in the biology department at Rockefeller University. Although he was already moving toward a career in math or physics, Stallman's analytical mind impressed the lab director enough that a few years after Stallman departed for college, Lippman received an unexpected phone call. "It was the professor at Rockefeller," Lippman says. "He wanted to know how Richard was doing. He was surprised to learn that he was working in computers. He'd always thought Richard had a great future ahead of him as a biologist."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120716190637/http://www.faifzi...
I search questions on Google/Stackoverflow, I post questions on IRC because I do not want to put all of it out there and get berated by the SO community. Though I still know that most IRC channels have public logs.
> A couple of million users (at max) are just not enough.

Are you taking it as self-evident that Stadia will have more than a couple million users?

> Also Stadia has a subscription basis.

So did fiber.
At the top I did mention companies, but I could have been more clear in that regard.

The bias and lateral promotions are the hangup. All the creative talent is going to TV/self publishing because there is no way in.

Twenty years ago, it was fine, because graphics and processing power was limited, and the art/direction was limited by the technology as a result.

Since then the tech has come a pretty long ways, but we haven't had many big cultural phenomenons like Half-life, Doom, or Mario, why? Because other than visual, there is no pipeline for creative talent.

I'm sorry, but being around videogames and coding isn't the same thing as dedicating your life to the arts. The gulf, all the acquired knowledge, shaping, and pre-requisite skills makes all the difference in the world.

Ask an engineer and creative to give you five pitches, and the difference would be the same as asking a non-coder to design and implement your netcode.

It's a gulf, and like I said, it isn't just Valve, it's all big studios. It's an existential issue at this point, and companies like Epic, who are tapping into the talent that engineers love to condescend are completely dominating the new wave of gamers.

There are 100million PC gamers in the US. During peak western hours on steam, we see around 8-10 million players online.

So maybe about 1/4 Americans are on steam, which is probably about the amount of OG half-life fans who are still into gaming.

Nearly everyone else is, which is just a bunch of kids now, is on FN. And all the new adult gamers, women, lgbt, are playing hero shooters.

There is no reason why Valve should remain relevant as a platform, so I'd say valve has about seven years to really turn things around.

The rules have changed, Valve can't compete as a publisher. They might be able to sub sales to match epic, but WePlay is preparing to launch, and they have state funding to subsidize sales and acquire exclusives.

The only way to survive is to provide value through variety and high quality content. There is no other way.

Valve can't race to zero against WePlay, and VR is probably going to end up as a wii like product.

There is still a long way to go in terms of visual fidelity pushing immersion on flat screens. This is only an iphone 7, but it's enough to induce presence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEerPQHl_4k

We are far from that level of fidelty, but look at the presence . . . can you imagine CS like that?

Also: Did you guys even watch the silicon valley arc on VR?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsXK0w4CUtg
... well now I feel dumb, I guessed 5 ... except for false itself!
IPFS and it's sister projects use it.
Quasseldroid fixes that problem
I think it provides potential for them. At least I see it as the main point, where it can differentiate. How it's used in practice is of course up to developers.

What's listed is indeed not a good example of how it can provide unique features. Most games are too focused on pushing graphics, instead of pushing complex simulation.
Recoll search engine is a mature, robust, and battle tested solution. Set up is fairly straightforward and there a webui available as well.
KLM to fund the design of radical new “Flying-V” aircraft
> And yes, investing in a useless startup is not real investing; it's consumption; the real purpose of most startups is to bring pleasure to a rich person and their friends when the startup gets acquired, not to serve society.

And yet it is the very same startups that have improved your standard of living exponentially where luxuries reserved for the rich like private chauffeur (Uber/Lyft), matchmaking (Tinder/OkCupid), and private island vacations (Airbnb) are accessible to normal people.

Wealth is not a zero-sum game. In fact, I can prove this to you right now. Go look at the consumer price index during the end of WW2 era up until the gold standard was abolished. Compare it to today's CPI. It's not the "rich" who are evil, it is central banking by fiat which is the real evil.
Yeah if you have no concern over privacy.
Ask HN: Can we build our own High Frequency RFID Reader?
I am a software developer with no experience in electronics.

Access to electronics workshop won't be an issue since my uncle has business in electronics. Also, I don't mind reading and researching on RFID.

At the moment my reader should be able to read multiple tags with less than 1 meter of distance.

I would like to know what challenges one can face while building their own RFID reader.

Thanks in advance!
Maybe because Mercury is much smaller and thus absorbs far less solar radiation and has a far greater surface area to volume ratio allowing it to radiate heat more efficiently?

Venus's atmospheric composition is a consequence of its placement relative to the sun, mass, and volume.
>> It’s somewhat true in that, in a lot of the world, there’s a lot of theft going on all the time.

Also there are two kinds of stealing; the obvious one which everybody knows about and the non-obvious where even the person committing the offence doesn't realize it because society itself hasn't caught up to the fact that it is in fact stealing.

In my definition, any activity which takes value (or opportunity) from someone deserving and gives it to someone less deserving is stealing. This happens every day in every office, every industry and impacts everyone to different extents. We are a society of theives. If most money is derived from stealing, then it must be mostly evil.

It's no coincidence that Bitcoin is so valuable, even drug money is less dirty than fiat these days.
Google has a similar policy: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/

This is a great advantage of the AGPL IMO. You can release your free software/open source code, and big tech companies won't use your code and make lots of money.

Some companies tried to relicence their code to some 'source available'/'non commerical' licence because they didn't like the MIT's lack of conditions. AGPL could have helped.
My bad Slack experience:

- you should register for every channel

- switching the channels is slow & non-intuitive

- tons of sub-channels and collaborations between are painful
Nowadays it's very hard to own a game. Unless you buy on services like GOG, which offer DRM free installers. You don't really own your games on Steam or Origin and they can remove your access at any time without a warning.
Try using a text file and grep?
Ah yes. I remember a Google Play Music product. I still have music on there. Never trusting Google again for these stuff.
Not really an answer to your question but...

I think the main issue here is to find cryptographic chips in low quantities and diy-friendly packages. The f2c algorithms themselves are not exactly rocket science.
Given the high demand for software devs, why on earth would you accept an interview at a company and role you feel are generic?
> No one is arguing that you need to be a genius to use Haskell.

I’ve come across this sentiment so many times. Haskell definitely has a reputation for being an “ivory tower” language.

> How does my argument come across that way?

I’m not too familiar with Zelda, but it sounded like you were saying “some people are just able to do these things that most others can’t.”

If that isn’t what you were saying, then I am sorry for misinterpreting. I’m genuinely not trying to argue or take you out of context or anything like that.
/me nope ;)
I think it really depends what communit(ies) you land in there. Both of your stories I've heard several times about Seattle.
In fact, often times you don’t even need to lie to skew the “truth”. Cherry picking facts or even just highlighting certain facts over others, plus an optional bit of extrapolation or subtle misinterpretation, is often enough to fit whatever narrative you want to push.

> and verification in the age of Google isn't that hard.

It’s hard because publications often parrot each other. You walk away confident of your “verified” truth due to echo chamber effect, which might be worse than not verifying at all.

> You can trust that if the NY Times or CBS publishes a video...

I can’t. Again, you don’t need to make factual mistakes to push an agenda.
If Steam truly shuts down, I doubt it will even take a full day before there's a conveniently-packaged crack that disables the DRM, with links spammed everywhere.
That would be such a shame! I understand that the costs are just too high to be paid by a state institution, but usually a collector's interest isn't always to use the masterpiece to educate.
Been using IRC pretty much daily for over 25 years, and I'm not stopping. That's where my friends are, most of whom are old-ish farts like me.

Also I like the barrier to entry IRC has, it keeps the worst of the worst out because you need some technical skill to even get in. That's why most programming language / distro channels on IRC are of better quality than random slacks or discord servers.
maybe like $50, and $10 extra for each election in a row--like if you don't miss one else you start over at $50, including local elections. They could have a mobile app and have badges too, and 10'th election you get a free sub.
I appreciate you giving an insight into the reasons behind your decisions Barry - I've learned a bit here myself, and can relate to the quandary that you must have to tiptoe around, in between being open and communicative, versus keeping your cards close to your chest. Thanks, and best of luck.
Very nice! I remember also writing my own many years ago under similar restrictions (it was uploaded to BitBucket in 2016 but existed for much longer): https://bitbucket.org/danielbarry/saxoperatingsystem/src/mas...
Don’t use DigitalOcean for anything serious. My team and i frequently support DigitalOcean customers with issues like crashed applications failed builds and in many cases the challenge is how they (DigitalOcean) provide resource allocations for droplets. 1cpu != 1cpu which is vital for vm to perform at its best. AWS and GCP are better. i’d argue that most IaaS platforms are better than DIgitalOcean. You get what you pay for. i’m not a customer.
I've been using overleaf for years and never realized it supports synchronization with github! Seems very straightforward to use as well, thanks
Is there anything other than this oversimplified Youtube cartoon describing this? Is this a battery swap system, or what?

Battery swapping seems to be an obsolete technology. Battery capacities are now big enough, and charging is fast enough, that it's not worth the hassle.
> With a base tower configuration starting at $6k (about twice what I was expecting)

Should part of the blame for the high price should go towards Intel? The 8-core CPU in the base Mac Pro looks like it might be an Xeon Gold 6244 [1][2] which costs $2925. Obviously Apple will be paying less, but half the cost is the CPU alone.

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/192442/...

[2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold#5200.2F6200-Ser...
The first program I sold (aged 15) was a version of Space Invaders that ran in the 512 bytes available on the minimal Acorn Atom microcomputer back at the beginning of 1981.

Not as impressive as this though!
What Linux Foundation’s Inclusion of the Accord Project Means
> Go ahead and invent some totally unique tool nobody's ever seen before.

I think people invent totally unique tools[1] all the time but, crucially, they'll be commercially sensitive or rarely of interest or use to anyone else.

[1] Of course, it depends how you define this. Decades ago I wrote something to blank out (not strip) comments in C++ source for someone. Is that a 'totally unique tool'?

> And to a certain extent, I don't consider people incapable/unwilling to do this "programmers". Merely typists.

Yeah, this is elitist nonsense.
The article looks very generic except for : "In Google's case, they want managers having key technical skills (like coding, etc.) so they can share "been there done that" experience."

I believe lacking technical skills is what causes many to perceive managers as useless. Managers have a lot of power over the teams they manage and experienced workers may see a lack of technical skill as not being qualified to hold this power.
>why wasn't this on my radar?

You must be very new or very young.
Take a look at Perkeep.

https://perkeep.org/

You can also do a search here for the name to see other posts on the project.
True, although they do seem to actually have the world's oldest continuous democracy, from what I've read. Could give some credence to their other claim.

Ethnologue mentions this fact too, in the comments, although they got the religion wrong, so take it with a grain of salt (they are not Hindu, but worship a god named Jamul, who's will is interpreted by an Oracle. But they are very adamantly not Hindu).
https://www.ethnologue.com/17/language/xns/
I use it with a bunch of friends in a private channel since 20 years back.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fourier Transform (2017)
Apart from this entry I don't see any discussion on what Sun did wrong, but since you broached the subject:

- I'm furious about all the attention RISC V undeservedly gets while OpenSPARC is vastly superior in terms of mnemonics and virtual register windows and a free instruction every branch not taken and is GPL licensed;

- not devoting enough attention to i86pc Solaris was a major mistake;

- not selling cheap fully Solaris integrated desktops was the death knell: people knew Solaris from their student days, and universities had it because Sun made and sold workstations; once Sun decided to stop that, talent acquisition was stopped: desktop is needed for OS adoption;

- UltraSPARC T3 and T5 are blazingly fast, I know because I ran them, but now it seems too late;

- it wouldn't be too late if the RISC V nonsense pandering stopped and some OpenSPARC designed servers and workstations and even tinkertoys showed up by enthusiasts, like they did with Raspberry Pi;

- I'm glad Sun bought MySQL because Oracle subsequently destroyed it; MySQL is nowhere to be found now, and that is good so, because it was a shitty database which silently corrupts data; it deserved never to be made in the first place; that is one good deed in the world of damage which Oracle caused;

- killing OpenSolaris destroyed all that good will; had the project continued, it would have directly competed with GNU/Linux because we saw a constant monthly influx of GNU/Linux refugees on opensolaris.org forum, people who actually needed to get things done with their hardware;

- biggest mistake was that UltraSPARC based servers weren't cheaper than an average intel personal computer tin bucket server. That really killed them. And they would argue and refer me, a customer, to their internal "pricing committee" instead of listening.

What happens when a business doesn't listen to its customers?

"Bryan clearly learned those lessons early, so I think he'll be fine."

Indeed, and I wish him well and much success. He truly deserves by his deeds let alone his thoughts to continue being successful.
Yeah, but that will depend on the quality of games they offer with the subscription.
But then surely the answer there is that other bad actors (The Sun, Daily Express, etc.) should suffer the same penalties from Wikipedia, Google, etc.; not that one should slide because others are just as bad.
It'd be just perfect for Toyota, then, once they give up on Hydrogen, The Fuel Of The Future.
You Right they both are same. Thanks to give right place to read.
But are cryptographic chips actually needed for 2fa tokens to be useful.
A lot of security risks are already covered by having a physical second factor, no?
Everyday.

It's a fix point of internet chatting. It has just enough, people on it are either ~ok or great, it requires barely nothing.

I may have ran slack once but didn't stay. I used discord to talk to collapse minded groups, and although discord seems a great piece of work (audio chat is neatly done), both the resources required and the structure/format made chatting way less flowing compared to IRC.
It's also an argument that reduces any valid criticism into tribalism.

It's a dangerous statement to make.
Ask HN: Living with a Jail Breaked iPhone
I look easy enough to jail break an iPhone, which I consider, so I can install the cydia appstore.

I have not been able to find any articles regarding the daily life with a jail broken IPhone.

Except for obvious security implications, what is your experience doing this.
Have your phone become unstable? Does it stop working each time apple push an update. Anything you would like to share in this regard?
How many gained in automation?
I don't really see a compelling case for this for 1080p gaming. You can achieve that on very cheap hardware already. The Xbox One S is $200 right now.
Did James Make the Right Final Jeopardy Bet?
You're kind of missing the point. The examples you give aren't useless. The vast majority are useless and die without achieving anything or are pointless financial engineering like ICOs.
Man, that's a really good point. You can't get ahead at big companies by just keeping your head down and working hard. You don't need to become a weasel, but you do need to keep your eyes open and jump ship early when a project or org starts to go sour in the c-suite's opinion
Depends on the game but it's more than just the graphics, there's a lot of things like level design that can make or break a game and they're a lot harder to get right. The two games on the list I'm eager to check out are Tanks of Freedom and Hexoshi and the level design will be more important for them than the graphics.
Minefield on a chip: Organoid research might produce cancer cures, or embryos
why would you want to clone keys? the point is when one is stolen or goes missing then the 2nd key is useless anyway and you would need new keys.
I was going to say this - Toyota gave up on batteries after building the Prius.

Their hydrogen fuel cell is clearly not the way the industry is going. So are they going back to batteries, the tech they said would never be commercially viable?
What with the NSA and colleagues ramming their noses into everything, this protocol has a future.
Read the screenshot mockups in the article carefully, it reads, "https://mediem.com/". So the author is clearly also annoyed by Medium.
So similar to using git for your dotfiles etc.?
Or take a more gradual approach and aggressively save as much as possible, then retire 10-30 years early
This has been on my mind for a while and it really bothers me. Everyone I know lives 10-20km away and the only time we meet up is at the pub where we spend a huge amount of money. There are very few public spaces in the city and they are all loud and unpleasant to be in due to the car traffic.

I honestly think the invention of cars is to blame for the loneliness issues. All the other things like social media are just background noise compared to the invention that made it very incontinent to just casually meet other people.
Just to note this here as it seems this hasn't been mentioned yet, the Twitch chat is based on IRC. They run their own servers and you have to log in with your Twitch credentials but you can user your usual IRC client to connect to the Twitch IRC.

In addition, special Twitch IRC clients have spawned, like TC [1] or Chatty [2] that include support for Twitch-specifics like Emotes, notifications and direct linking to the associated video streams.

[1] https://gettc.xyz/

[2] http://chatty.github.io/
I don't think he intended taker to mean someone who lacks wealth, but rather someone who exploits others to gain wealth, rather than participating in positive sum activities (making). IE, you could put various rent-seekers in here, some traders, and yes, criminals.
Except that I don't care about Uber, Tinder, or AirBnb. I would happily pay more for regular Taxi and regular Hotels if only I could afford what I really want; to live in my own house in a place I actually want to live in. Now because of the job market, I am forced to live to a big city where all the rich people have their toy startups and houses are too expensive.

As a software engineer, I'm just an entertainer for rich people. I wish they would just give me the money for free so that I could create real value working on my open source projects.