skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, has Windows improved in any way from a low maintenance perspective?

The reason I switched to Mac in 2006 was that I ended up using a friend's Mac for a month while abroad so I could get some work done. When I got back to a place where I could get a new Viao at a reasonable price it occurred to me that I hadn't been fighting with the Mac a single time. Wifi always worked, everything I plugged into it just worked as well, the software I ended up installing just worked too, Apache and SVN ran fine, there was a good Terminal app out of the box, etc. This was in stark contrast with the decades long experience I had had with PCs until then. On any given week I had been invariably spending between a half-hour and a day fighting with Windows in some way or another. Which could mean trying to figure out why Wifi or some random printer didn't work, looking for drivers, reinstalling or reconfiguring some piece of software, and so forth. Has this improved materially since the past decade?
I use Choosy for that. See https://www.choosyosx.com/

One of my favorite apps on macOS.
All you need to do to make this work with Python 3 is change your print statements (add parentheses) and change raw_input to input, as far as I can tell running it in python 3 locally. It seems to work perfectly with these ~20 seconds of changes.
Protecting against run-time attacks with Pointer Authentication
Blocking tracking scripts (which is not being turned on by default (yet), but can be turned on by users) is an enormous performance boost because they really hurt page loads.

That aside, as commenters everywhere will tell you, Mozilla has made huge performance improvements in Firefox over the last few years and continues to do so. It's not like Mozilla has decided to stop doing everything except privacy.
Wishes make profit. What is the use of an iPhone beyond satisfying people's wishes? Yet Apple is a $1bn company.
Why move back to WordPress – after using Netlify
Apple, Facebook and Google Have Lost the Monopoly Argument
I've helped run a forum in the past, and holy shit is it scarily easy to make stupidly-determined enemies. Even people who joined just to spam offensive content would act like they were the one victimized when banned and would do all sorts of things to "even the score". I think these people would emotionally forget that they joined looking for a fight and earned their ban in the first place, and would then ride the high of righteous indignation.
I've almost finished with my cooperative work/university CS degree, and I always disliked programming "games" there.

Creating the 10000th Conways Game of Life? Developing some crappy game on my own? No, thanks.

Developing something for an existing game? That would have been great! I'm all with you.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, I think it is a fair point. The cost per hour of wind do not, I think, reflect all the infrastructure required for the other power plants that are required when the wind is not blowing. Yet, this is a very real cost of using wind power.
I think certain things feel pre-ordained for some, and like an unfolding of human destiny for others, because they are a tangible expression of common, shared human desires.

You’re right that economic and other concerns influence the specific timing, but I think the core human drives of growth and exploration are enough to drive us to the stars again in time, even without direct economic incentives.
Show HN: Transform Google Sheet's into an embeddable image gallery
Yes, we are GDPR compliant. Current version is intended to be used during development. Also this month we are launching End-to-End encryption!

Let me know if you have any questions.
> the scrapbook add-on is essential to me

I found the ScrapbookQ plugin, which also is able (with some work, admittedly) to import data from the old Scrapbook plugin:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/
Hamburg: Life sciences and medical devices gateway to Europe
Yeah sure. But since Gitlab is possible to run self-hosted, you can back up the entire instance from the public cloud to the self-hosted version. That's pretty great.
The whole point of an externality is that the people doing the damage aren't the ones paying most of the cost. There's no rational limit to the cost an economic actor will impose on others for the sake of some small personal profit.

So we can't just say that the cost of damage must not be so high, or we would already be cleaning it up. There is no "we," there's individual actors and messy politics, full of entities making personal profits who are good at influencing politicians.

On top of that, the costs aren't even paid by us today, they're paid partly by our future selves decades hence, even more by future generations, and impossible to exactly predict. That makes it even easier to focus on today's personal profits and ignore the externalities.

Put another way, this is a public goods problem, where individual efforts make little impact unless everyone does them. Everyone is better off if the problem is fixed, but individually profits more by freeloading. The game theory says individual contributions go to zero. Once again, the only solution we have is political.

And finally, the technology to clean up the mess for $100/ton is just now beginning to emerge. We're not doing it already because we can't do it yet.

Most climate economists estimate the cost of carbon at several hundred dollars per ton. So yes, the cost is higher, and yes, we should scrub the air, once we're able.
I've nothing to add to the conversation, but I would like the opportunity to thank you for Tridactyl. It makes the web usable.
I think the reminder is just that backups are necessary, and cloud isn't a required condition. I had a bare-metal host turn off my server because they were concerned I was violating the trademark of a big company with what I was serving. That big company was my client and I had permission, but the host shot first and asked questions later (actually, I had to call them when I saw the site went down).
Do you have any specific YouTube videos to recommend?
The average user is not the average HN user; the latter can solve the minor issues they stumble upon, but not the former.

Would you buy a car where "most things work", if you had no mechanical skills?

I'm a hardcore Linux user, but even with that, I don't advocate it unless I know exactly the platform a given user is going to work on.

There are surely issues on any system, but in Windows/Mac there is the expectation of everything working out of the box, since there is more of a "package" ("box") culture.

In this sense, projects like the Dell XPS are certainly big steps forward (and even the XPS has at least one significant issue out of the box).
From time to time you see abstractions "flattened".

For example Google with ChromeOS attempted to flatten the abstraction of having an OS containing an application (browser) containing a web-app.

The LTE standard attempted to flatten the abstraction of legacy circuit switched phone networks and just emulate the behaviours needed for existing functionality.
Open Sourcing Bert: State-of-the-Art Pre-Training for NLP
The vast majority of people "lost in the gaming world" is not going into programming or learning anything useful. Socially, it's a lot of "GG" and insults to each others mothers. Connections in "clans" or "squads" are mostly incredibly shallow and abstract, compared to hiking or playing sports in a team or otherwise engaging in groups irl. Kids are physically underdeveloped [1], programming MMORPGs is mostly treated as cheating and not encouraged. Sure, in a billion life-years spent in games good things can happen, but compared to the time invested? Not much imo.

It's absolutely understandable why kids gravitate to these online worlds but I regret the time lost in games and if I could go back I'd really limit my gaming to brief, enjoyable sessions, and invest my energy to more challenging and ultimately rewarding things. Building skills, building real relationships.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46019429
That sounds odd to me. Especially given that digitalocean is the default dynamic provider for Gitlab CI builds which _will_ run droplets at 100% CPU.
As a "junior partner" it's good to see that the US allow us a few toys.
Or, you know, you could send them some of your own money before you volunteer other people's.
You use spamassasin (and maybe spamd as well). In a very practical sense it is miles better than what office365 has. It's not better than google (because what is?), but it comes close.
> First Crack does not rely on any third-party tools, code, or frameworks.

That's music to my ears!
Intel Unleashes Cascade Lake 3000-Series Xeon W CPUs
I am glad they do.
Your practical problem number two sounds like a very localised issue, because this is not something that would happen in my neck of the woods (in fact, I doubt it is even legal).
What's next? Having your disks use too much I/O causes the same response? Or actually using the RAM you pay for?

I run my own iron, with cloud only for elastic loads. Every time I launch a cloud instance, it will be using 100% CPU, otherwise I wouldn't launch it. It's unacceptable to label that profile as "suspicious". It never happened to me on AWS or Azure.
> if you admit that having a well-kept garden makes one a good neighbor, then you are admitting that your unkempt garden makes you a bad neighbor.

No, you aren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
Confusing Imaginary Property with real property is an insidious disease.
Japanology’s https://youtu.be/pgPxgJMW5A8 and more in search.
Do you always go this far out of your way to tell people that you hate something they love or do you only do this for scissors or is it only on HN?
Indian students in family have been choosing Germany and Australia since Trump took over. USCIS has devolved into a garbage agency that pushes Trumps agenda that he can not achieve legally.
I have faith that the developers at Epic can improve their store. It's a purely technical problem, and an easy one compared to creating the Unreal Engine.

In a few years, if the store is good, nobody will care about the growing pains. The bad old days will be forgotten like Diretide.
While I liked it feature wise, I don't think I want to pay a monthly fee just to take notes.
Good. The world was okay before there was an oil industry and it will be better off when it no longer has one.
This is a really, really ignorant comment. I learned to code in the classroom with no other motivation besides paid employment and wasn't "bored silly." I've made a very successful career for myself in the many years since.

Programmers are not different from other professions no matter how special you may feel.
> You set the DNS TTL to 30 or 60 seconds, then there's no problem with caching the old IP.

This will not work. Most of your visitors will depend on some upstream resolver (for example google's resolver), which will cache you for 24h (you can explicitly request a flush - but the whole point of this system is that it's automated). AFAIK (which is a year or two out of date), every big DNS resolver that you might expect someone to use does this, to prevent the enormous performance issues from people setting their TTL to anything less than that.

Edit: Of course if you use a good relay server that isn't owned by you you can mitigate this, because they'll keep the emails in a queue for you until you can be found again.
The remaining 20% are usually incompetence or malice on the part of the big company...
It doesn't make sense for the DB vendors to pay someone else to run a white-labeled managed service for them. It's a source of revenue so they would actually want to be paid for the license and get revenue share from the operator running the managed service.

There are several companies that do managed services like Aiven, IBM's Compose, ObjectRocket, etc so it's possible for them to get involved like this... and it looks like ObjectRocket just did that for CockroachDB: https://www.objectrocket.com/managed-cockroachdb/
HN on lawns and neighbours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19667046

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453383
I think this just goes to show how ridiculously expensive Nuclear is to build in the first place, even before the ongoing costs, waste disposal, decommissioning, etc.

The deal took over a decade and not only includes upfront costs but also British bill payers giving a "generous" subsidy to French energy for 35 years.

Providing 7% of the UK's energy needs is far from nothing but it comes at a very high cost. Bringing all the costs in-house might lessen the bill in the long run (if the UK were to be building a lot) but would require a lot of investment in relearning how to build the plants.
Depending on the cryptocurrency's proof-of-work algorithm and new-ness, it can be profitable to mine in the cloud. I've done it briefly in the past. But generally it's not profitable.

In every cryptocurrency (the popular and functional ones anyway), there's a set global rate of mining rewards. All miners compete for a slice of that reward, so as more people mine, each individual miner gets less reward. (This causes an equilibrium to be reached where more people mine until it's no longer profitable for more people to start mining. If mining becomes unprofitable, some miners will drop out, and the remaining miners will each make a little more.) If masses of people realize that cloud mining for a particular cryptocurrency is profitable, then what generally happens is that lots of people pounce on cloud providers to mine, it becomes barely profitable, and then people operating their own hardware that's cheaper than cloud providers come in and push the mining rewards down to where it's no longer profitable for people to cloud mine.

Because cloud mining is never profitable in the long run, most cloud mining that happens is fraudulent activity using stolen cloud accounts or payment info. (If you're not paying for it, then making any amount of money from it is profitable.)
Even without awakening by medical staff or sounds (ear plugs do wonders), with some illnesses patients can only sleep on their back which can be a unpleasant experience if you're used to sleeping on your side. It takes time to get accustomed to and in the mean time patients get little sleep with all mentioned effects. Pillows designed for sleeping on your back [0][1] with special curvatures for your head and neck to relax on ease falling and staying asleep. If a 10% of the patients sleep better and are released earlier from hospital or get to work faster, these pillows are a very small costs compared to costs savings, both personal & society.

Anyone seen hospitals with Orthopedic pillows? Or doctors recommending pillows for sleeping on your back?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopedic_pillow#Back_sleepin...

[1] eg "Emolli Contour Memory Foam Pillow" on https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-finds/2019/02/21/pillows... (advertising article)
ClearFog ARM Workstation Speed Even More Compelling, Now Called HoneyComb LX2K
I found the hats to be annoying. It ruined the aesthetics of the game for me.
Maybe they did, but the mail's stuck in a spam filter or sent to an old email address...

Maybe they tried to call him but he rejected the call?

Only the stories that sound unreasonable get viral attention.
And "accredited investors" only are the antithesis of crypto, the fact that people of any age are able to participate in this was the reason it was so successful as an ICO.
They marketed the product offering specifically at teens (Kik's demographic).
> What I find surprising is that nobody ever comments on the fact that the UK literally operates US nuclear missiles with warhead designs heavily influenced by US designs.

The fact that they’re US designs was one of the major discussion points of the recent renewal debate - people from across the political spectrum commented on it extensively for months.

There are no PALs in order to support a credible threat of retaliation. The UK is small enough that it’s possible that the whole country would have been destroyed by a first strike. This is how nuclear weapons ‘work’ - by credible threat.
And they were all Americans, which underlines what a rarity moonwalking has been in the history of humanity.
In case of GitLab, the incident was caused by a human error, and they worked hard to fix it afterwards. GitHub and DigitalOcean (to name the ones recently mentioned on HN) have delibrately set up automated kill switches with no possibility of appeal, sans crying on Twitter. Sure, when data is lost then it may not matter in the end, but I'm still more sympathetic to the former.
He's saying that nothing he's read makes him want to work there, not that he hasn't read anything about it :)
'Doctors and nurses don't have the time to keep the sleeping schedule of all their patients into account.'

Speaking from the UK, where this problem has been well publicised, the biggest complaint being disturbance during the night when it ought to be obvious that most people will be asleep?

Accepted there will be exceptions where patients are sleeping during the day and this does present obvious problems. However, where medical staff are carrying on their normal work routines or idly gossiping at night time without regard for their patients is inexcusable.
their worry translates directly into increased bottom line for politicians
Very interesting, thanks!

Just to be clear, it looks like Jason Rohrer is still very much committed to putting his work in the public domain and, as far as I can tell, has been consistent in his commitment to keeping the work he's dedicated to the public domain in the public domain.

What looks to be happening is more of a trademark issue. I think Jason Rohrer might be backpeddling on that. It looks like he clearly indicated to people making a port that the "One Hour One Life" name was also in the public domain and could be used but that they shouldn't, essentially making an ethical argument. When the iOS port that was similarly named ("One Hour One Life for iOS") and became more popular than his released game, that's when he started to push back. [1]

It looks like a big point of contention for Jason Rohrer is brand confusion as many people don't realize the iOS port of "One Hour One Life" has nothing to do with Jason Rohrer. I sympathize with him but I wish he had taken a bigger stance on his trademark.

Free/libre/open source organizations have understood this and use trademark to brand themselves and make sure others don't dilute that brand without permission. This is how the Open Source Hardware Association essentially does their certification and why you can't use "Free Software Foundation" in your open source project's name without permission.

[1] https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5479
He managed a total of 4 of those weekly blog posts, it looks like they drifted apart fairly quickly.
To substitute a single 4GWe nuclear plant, one would need ~96 GWh storage, which there is no technology for, plus ~48GW wind farm, while UK has ~22GW installed total now..

And you talk of overprovisioning. Crazy.

If anything, we must invest into making nuclear cheaper.
Begin Japanology - Scissors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd_ySi7mjeE
Hey metildaa - Zach here from DO support. It is accurate that that do not currently support PayPal subscriptions, this certainly isn't the overall experience that you should be having. Can you shoot me an email (first name at) and I'll look into this for you?

Thank you!
Zach
>but it is now really too late.

Then the only alternative is natural gas supplemented by solar. No battery technology is forthcoming.
For 3., For use in defer the error return does have to be declared as you'd expect, in the examples it's done in the function signature

func CopyFile(src, dst string) (err error) {
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Have you had a conversation to address concerns about your spouse’s care? There is always some flexibility around the care that she’d be receiving, and one core component to that is your rational/measured input, either in person or by phone. Framing your concern as rational helps immensely in establishing a dialogue with care staff. It sounds like your core problem is that you want to be bothered less.

Nurses are not there to make every patient's stay miserable. At least in my practice setting, we are extraordinarily receptive to suggestions around care and stepping in as informal advocates when families are not available.
For certain values of 'okay'. There is no doubt that oil and plastics have been hugely beneficial in many respects. The problem is that the cost is now apparent and we must stop gorging on them. Reduction in plastic and oil can only be a good thing but let's not pretend it doesn't require substantial changes in the way that we all live - its not just disposable straws here.

Reading the article, the projection is that this could "cut petrochemical demand growth to one-third of its historical pace, to about 1.5% a year".

That's good enough. I don't want to see reduced growth rate. I want to see shrinkage.
There's nothing wrong with being resource efficient, but relatively SQL queries used to take two minutes, and the result printed on paper, and the whole machine cost two million.
AFAIK it's entirely unique. I can't think of any cooperation anywhere that runs on such anarchistic principles.
After trying several tools, I just got to feel a plain text is all I need for my todo list as I don't want to start decorating the list when I have that list to consume first.

For Mac, Unclutter is really useful (which also acts as a clipboard manager) as it gives you instant access to the note with a scroll down from the top of the screen. And I just have the list written in the order of priority under several categories, which are just bracketed text headers and it serves me well.

https://unclutterapp.com

For Notes, I ended up using Apple's note as it did things fairly and you can attach files and also encrypt individual entries which I find useful to keep sensitive information.
What you explaining is exactly definition of "content driven game". They basically have working game mechanics with very few changes and a lot of content.
Do owners, or employees, benefit more from:

- rent seeking
- making great art

Is it possible to do both, e.g. pipeline of new creative titles that attract top-tier talent, a subset of which will mature into rent-seeking properties?
> had only made $200 million in profit and that kind of chump change just wasn't worth it

So it's harder to expand the team than keeping an extra 200m revenue? Can't find words to describe if that's the real reason. Every player I know got excited when I told them we need Portal 3 btw.
Libre RISC-V Snags $50k EUR Grant to Work on Its RISC-V 3D GPU Chip
That's not true. A proper cloud provider (AWS or Azure) would not bat an eye because the CPU is frequently pegged at 100%.
I'd say, Don't do.

Don't ask, Don't tell; only works if they don't monitor your environment. Even then, they might ask you and then you have to lie.
Automatically save offers for AmEx cards (self-hosted only)
The have recently done a coin swap too - I have to assume that many people haven't swapped yet