skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point about non-apple platforms. I cannot enumerate all of them, but it would be silly of me to expect all of them to handle that scenario gracefully, and I believe they should be required to.

However, Starcraft 2 is complete and been this way since the inception. They added microtransactions years after the full release, and they all boil down to cosmetics and other completely optional and non-necessary things, like skins and banners, i.e. cosmetics. Something for hardcore fans to buy in order to support their game, but absolutely non-essential for the actual full experience. And I am saying that as someone who hasn't spent a single dime on Starcraft 2, aside from buying the full game on release (+the expansions that came out years later) and putting hundreds of hours into it.
I think the tokens are simply one hot encoded. Though some sort of word2vec embedding is also situationally plausible
They'll be in for a rude awakening when they find out other fulfillment center jobs are just as hard and pay equal or less.
Name a single time that Donald trump has said that he wants to prevent highly intelligent, highly educated people from other countries coming here. Name a single instance of it. I defy you to.
As a bent rider myself, I too am baffled.

In my mind from the very first instant I saw one (late 1970's or early 80's Dick Ryan was interviewed on broadcast TV [likely as a novelty] and I was captivated. My child mind saw this as 'proper evolution' and I had to have one.

Here's a great summary of the history of the recumbent bike:

https://www.lightningbikes.com/riders/martin-krieg/recumbent...

Some people are intimidated by change, others are energized by challenging the status quo. Those will always be my heroes.
Relevant from one day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432600
So we agree that regulation/legislation is the best path forward.
I volunteer at my local food bank. It is my best day of the week.

Monthly donated food pickups are important as are cash donations and especially grocery stores donating unsold fruit and produce. We have two paid workers and many of us volunteers. Everything seems lean and efficient.

My wife and I have donated to charities for ever, but it is so much better to show up and do some work. I am grateful for this opportunity.
Compare this to the real world. You are in a store and your child heads to the counter with $3,000 worth of goods. He puts your credit card on the counter. At this point, the clerk would ask if mommy or daddy were around and probably would deny the purchase.

But the digital world? Come right up little johnny!
I understand this isn't addressing the issue at hand, but having notifications sent to your phone whenever a purchase/swipe is made on a credit card is incredibly useful. It might be moot if the device receiving the notifications is being used by the person making the transaction, but I would recommend everyone to set up such a thing if their bank supports it. And, all banks should do this eventually!

I get instant purchase notifications on my bank cards; it's really good to know exactly when they get used.
Every game should have to display a "Maximum cost of online play" on the cover with ESRB rating and on the app store listing. If not limited just show ($10,000+).

Would give parents a rough idea of how exploitive a game's online currency system is.
Are those useful in real life for anyone? Why would you teach a skill that is meaningless the next day?
> someone who cares deeply enough to take a pay cut to work there.

What makes you think this isn't the case? In my limited experience, it is very much the case.
What killed the Chinese iron industry wasn't the lack of a Bessemer converter. What killed them was the mandarin bureaucracy. The mandarins saw that some commoners were getting rich in the iron industry, declared it to be contrary to the proper order, and shut it down. (Source: "The Victory of Reason" by Rodney Stark.)
They do take a pay cut. There are no stock options at a non-profit. Salaries are lower than in the private sector. If you think non-profit CEOs are raking in millions, no wonder you think they are over paid! Don't worry, they are not making anywhere close to what a similar role in the private sector can earn them.
>(I provide a RSS feed as well)

That's all I'm asking, really.
Because they're making a lot of money with the way it is? Most people who catch their kid spending $100 on a game aren't going to try to contact customer service to get their money back, they're gonna scold the kid.
Even "whole" games (like the latest $60 FIFA release) have unlimited microtransactions. And it's not limited to iOS, or Android. It's on most internet connected platforms.
You can do the same thing on Android. It's not on by default though
I would not claim that any of Android, UWP, _or_ Win32 are open.
I'm guessing this is largely due to seatbelt culture.
I've been a part of the startups(3), (1) was funded and is doing well, (2) failed, worked for wall street, ran and hired successful dev teams (2), trained (5) programmers, taught programming to three programmers (all of them got hired and are doing exceptionally well (1 with 0 tech background))

You can improve communication skills by being polite and not accusing others of arrogance while being a hypocritical prick yourself.
The first sentence of the linked New York Times story:

> Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people’s privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords, e-mail and other personal information from unsuspecting computer users.

That answers your first three paragraphs. There’s no “if” to their lying and privacy invasions. They’ve been caught and admitted their actions time and again.

> No one is forced to use these things they are free to use any other service or create their own.

It is here I will respectfully give up on continuing the conversation with you. You’re either ignoring my main point or truly don’t care for the majority of users. Most people don’t understand the ramifications of these choices and for good reason; they are hard to understand. By suggesting non-technical users create their own services and devices, I’m now wondering it you’re trolling me.

> And my attitude is out of pragmatism (…) I don't have any problem with the way Google uses my data

Which is valid, but irrelevant. I’ve already mentioned in the top post different people make different choices. I presented another side and used facts to justify it. If you’re going to answer with mere opinion, you’re not adding to the points made by the original poster.
>The impression I got visiting the US in general (NY, Seattle, San Fram, LA), is that it all seems quite ran down, full of inequality and social problems, and lacking soul, mainly from being so consumerist.

As an American citizen, I completely agree. We can't get local infrastructure built, we can't house or feed the homeless, our roads are mostly all awful, we still have major clean water issues in a lot of places around the country, and culture is definitely being pushed out as larger cities are gentrified and sort of "segregated" by inequality.

I'd move to another country if I was wealthy enough. Taking a real look at American society by moving around, ripping off the mask of indoctrination, USA doesn't look so well and neither does its future economy. Just because we have technological gadgets coming out of every direction doesn't mean we're the ultimate place to be anymore. That consumerist fetishism has put blinders on American society.
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One possibly overlooked factor: the nature of travel has changed dramatically in the last 200 years. Right up until World War 1, my ancestors literally had no reason to ever go more than ten miles from home, and even that was rare. The entire extended family lived within a two mile radius. This was because they were all farmers, and farmers didn't need to travel often. Furthermore, if you did travel, well, you already had a horse. Which, to make a point not made in the article, didn't have to do with the cost of the horse; it had to do with the fact that you already needed to have a horse to farm. So the horse was a sunk cost.
If you did travel frequently, it was likely because you were in the business of shipping goods, ie tobacco or cotton or some other agricultural staple from where it was grown to a port, and hence speed wasn't your primary concern; inexpensive transport for bulk goods was. For all that is awesome about bicycles, bulk transports they aren't.

So: at least one factor was economic, but of an indirect sort. We had to have a critical mass of population that needed to travel regularly farther than they could conveniently walk, and for which horses were not sunk costs.
I concur with your experience. Spouse is a great shopper. We probably spend a little more than this daily, but we frequently get 2-3 meals each out of it. Dinner for 2, 2 days lunches. We eat out 2 nights per week, one being take-out pizza and a salad. The salad always gives us enough for part of a 2nd meal. We shop carefully, cook at home. Buy soft drinks, bottled water in bulk, make iced tea, buy big bags of ground coffee, etc. We do this by choice and eat better foods than most people we know. We can afford to spend quite a bit more, but this suits our lifestyle.
This makes a terrible assertion about what's in people's hearts, something you cannot know and ought not to make accusations about.
SpaceX and NASA detail cause of Dragon test failure
What hostile rhetoric? When has Donald trump said that he doesn’t want the best and brightest to immigrate here?
No child wakes up one morning and decides to do this, it's often a steady progression enabled by parents who have relegated their responsibilities to TV screens, video games and mobile phones. Casting blame on tech that they've let loose on their kids absolves the parents of any responsibility.
Linkedin has years of experience filtering.
That's not Open Source as defined by the OSI. You can't redistribute source code and commercial use requires paying license fees to Epic (5% of revenue). So just don't get the wrong idea about that license, please.

With UE4 they have created an engine that was extensible only via C++ and via their graphical scripting language. With the notorious instability and incompatibilities of ABIs of different C++ compilers, Epic didn't have a lot of options other than releasing the engine source so that their customers could recompile the whole engine with a single compiler version. And with Unity eating away at the indie market at that time, Epic needed a successor to the free, closed source UE3 UDK to keep a foot in that market. I don't think that Epic had a lot of other options at that point.
>he managed to download Clash of Clans through a Google Play account, enter his own children's bank card details and buy lots of in-game items.

Wait, why the fuck does a 12 year old child have a bank card?
One thing that I haven't used on my Switch (no kids), but I understand as a great feature, is that you can add funds available for games as a one-time purchase that can be used across the system.

The actual purchase of system currency can be controlled while allowing the dependent to make their own choices on how to spend it.
are all the scripts/tools Brendan is talking about going to be open source? (I'm sure some of them are, including the ones on his Github)
And YouTube was built on exploiting flagrant copyright infringement, making it easier than ever for the masses.
> If you don't want your kid to spend £3000 then don't give it to them?

The article said it was a 22 year old with cerebral palsy using his own account (presumably his own credit card).
"Giving your kid the credit card" is as simple as using the credit card once on the device, perhaps for a completely different game (or to buy the game in the first place). There is not necessarily any kind of physical action associated with these transactions.
It doesn't apply until the 1980s, but for luggage as for many, many other things it's worth remembering that many technological (and thus expensive) effort-saving and conveniences make no sense if the work and incovenience can 'simply' be handled by servants, poor/cheap laborers or slaves. Much of technology only makes sense if manpower is expensive.

In Victorian era, if you can afford to travel where you need luggage, then you definitely can afford people to carry that luggage for you, and those people would have been cheaper than high quality bearings that wheeled luggage needs.

It's attributed to Agatha Christie (1890-1976) autobiography that in her younger years she never thought she would ever be wealthy enough to own a car – nor that she'd ever be so poor that she wouldn't have servants; and yet eventually she was in both these conditions at the same time.
It's not magical thinking, landfill mining has been in-use since the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_mining

If certain resources do get more sparse, it will easily become economically viable to expand landfill mining and we already have the technology required to do so. At the end of the day, it's an energy question more than anything. With cheap solar plus the fact that landfills produce their own free energy (methane) there is no need to be alarmist and consider them a threat to our species.
"I have to pick an item every eight seconds, or 332 per hour, for a 10-hour day"

No, no you dont
> Cue Amazon putting in more robots!
> And yet, we accept the risk. So this seems like a good baseline for what should be considered an acceptable risk.

They are completely different playing fields. In a plane your life is in the hands of a pilot or two and a computer. On the road, the risk is amplified by every other driver.

Also, skies aren't nearly as full of traffic as roads.

There is no 'acceptable baseline' that reaches across fields that isn't zero. I think this is the main point here. I doubt anyone today would consider the number of deaths we experience on the road to be an acceptable risk, either.
Sure, it costs $50 to grep it, but how much does it cost to host an in-memory index with all the data?

This is not a proposal to just share the crawl data, but the actual searchable index, presumably at arms length cost both internally & externally.

The same ideas could be extended to the Knowledge Graph, etc.

IMO the goal here should not be to kill Google, but to keep Google on their toes by removing barriers to competition.
Some of this is "bad parenting", but games that say they're OK for 3 year olds (like the mini-golf game described in the article) shouldn't make it easy for a 3 year old to spend money.

I have less sympathy for the high-school and college kids who did this.
Can someone explain what this article was about? I've read it several times and I still have no idea what the main point was, or how it connects to leaving Medium. It feels like it was machine-generated - all of the sentences don't relate to each other or say anything on their own, from my reading.
2FA is one of those basic things that should be standard for all credit card charges. I want to have the change to approve or deny every charge. Is that so much to ask?
I would definitely go for the Brendan Gregg book. He's a long term BPF contributor and his book seems much more in-depth compared to the Oreilly one which only has 200 pages compared to >700, and if you look at the Oreilly book's TOC it appears it's trying to cover everything BPF (not just tracing) in just 200 pages. Definitely Brendan Gregg book's seems a better choice as far as I can tell.
I remember getting my ass kicked for running up a huge 900-number hint-line phone bill on some Lucasarts adventure game
I've been boycotting amazon for a long time. Waiting for "democracy" to solve the problems of unabated exploitative capitalism is a cop out. I put my money where my mouth is. I pay more, wait longer, but shop at places where I know people are treated at least decently.
Yep my mother was saying she can’t find a better investment opportunity than education for this 300k RMB (an awkward amount of money)
I really enjoyed the markup/css styling on this piece. While the content is certainly up for debate, it was presented in a very visually clear and informative manner.
I've definitely noticed a decline in quality from Google results over the past few years in particular. I don't know if that's because SEO has gotten control of the results of if Google's algo is shoving lower quality up higher for revenue but it's become difficult.

Using a bit of Google-fu I'm usually able to find what I need quickly but it's still more of a hassle than it used to be.
Somewhere before we cross >£3000 I guess most developers can understand this is not authorized by an adult mind.
I'm not saying everything is fine. I am saying that xenophobia hasn't had any political power in the US for the last half century - both legal and illegal immigration numbers can attest to that.

There may be a lot of xenophobic rhetoric, but actions speak louder than words, and what precious little action there was (bans for Muslim countries that account for a negligible number of immigrants, and detention of children at the border) was both very ineffective and very politically damaging - the exact opposite of what one would do if one wanted to limit immigration.
Honestly it's been underwhelming anyway.

The vast majority of the deals are re-runs of ones in past 6 months...just all at same time.

I buy a lot of amazon stuff, but this barely shifted my day to day pattern.

I did find out that you get wifi power plugs that are controllable and measure electricity usage. That's pretty cool...just not sale related.
If 80% are returning to China, then they are working for Chinese interests.
Yes - it's bloated for a reason ... all of the things they've spent long episodes on are so you know what's going on when they do the realtime recordings of cap com.
There is literally zero precedent for what you’re talking about. Immigrants jailed in the US because of import taxes? Because of a trade rework? Never. We interred Japanese after Japan commuted one of the largest terror attacks in US history, that’s it.
I find it incredibly surprising how poorly written and edited this article is.

Here are two example sentences that have basic grammatical errors:

Crew Dragon designed to be the first crew-carrying SpaceX spacecraft, and is underling a number of test to prove its flight-readiness to NASA.

and

Koenigsmann explained that thanks to identifying burn marks around a check valve in the system that’s meant to separate the oxidizer and fuel components under pressure.
Taxi driver – one of the most prestigious jobs in the Soviet Union
> . It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for

Why does it bother you when people empathize with the poor and castigate billion dollar corporations that don't even allow employees enough time to urinate without it harming the employees metrics making them slip towards the back of the rank and closer to being fired? That bothers you...think about that.
While there is most definitely a gun issue in the USA, that Wikipedia article said less than 200 have actually died in all of those mass shootings this year. As the third most populated country with over 320 million people, the chances of being involved in a mass shooting scrape is still astronomically small compared to keeling over from a heart attack due to too much McDonalds and CNN.
It's interesting to me, and it's interesting to the first person in this thread. I'm sorry that you feel that were wasting our time.
They did ish. (from the article https://rootsofprogress.org/img/early-bicycle-models.png)

I think the big problem is weight, you probably had to be fit to ride, so why pootle around on something safer and even heavier. Its like trying to get a mamil to ride a sit up and beg.
this will be great for choosing postgres version for pet projects.
What, over and above the H.264 licensing that covers them for 1080p content?

It’s google doing what google always does: pushing a google controlled thing to become a “standard”.
Time management is a waste of energy. Focus on your energy
So you're willing to donate your time and labour for an organization sight unseen, but pulling up a PDF with a Google search is a bridge too far?
Then I guess we agree.
> of which they are so inordinately proud

If you got a multi-Grammy winning composer to make your podcast theme you'd be extremely proud too.
Is there a tutorial to run it on-prem? For example for development or testing purposes?

What data warehouses are currently and which are on the roadmap? Is ClickHouse somewhere in your plans?
The "no" was responding to the suggestion that there is a moral equivalency to the two scenarios, and I was disagreeing that there is one.
> Would you care to explain why?

For one thing, the ur-comment never even allows for the possibility of non-"armchair expert" criticism of this approach. "Experts who make this their livelihood recommend this course of action." So? Experts have never been wrong, or made egregiously compromised choices, based on the facts and resources they had available?

More to the point, other "experts" were dissatisfied enough with the implications of this course of action that they asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service not to do the thing. [0]

There appears to have been on the order of zero planning for how to prevent the birds from ingesting the rat poison, or what to do if any birds who do eat the stuff then fly to the mainland, to name just a couple of the staggeringly obvious problems with this plan that, as far as I can tell, weren't even considered.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/style/pets/la-me-farallon-islands-ra...
CSGO VAC is garbage though, and can't not be garbage without being granted extreme levels of access to the system. On Linux you can just run your cheats as root, and they will never get detected.

The slippery slope of giving companies higher access is also seen in CSGO where (Faceit/ESEA, dont remember who exactly) put a bitcoin miner in their anti-cheat. Capcom put a rootkit into Street Fighter V to check for cheaters. Is that acceptable?
What would it effect bezos's net worth to halve the required number of items picked per hour but keep the pay the same? Pay should be determined by the market, decent working conditions are what we should be fighting for. Amazon workers aren't poorly compensated, they're just working shitty jobs regardless of the compensation. Paying people more doesn't make abusing them okay.
Definitely!

We see that PDT doesn't scale well with the the amount of data complexity you usually have to deal with in the warehouse.

On top of that, the results of PDTs are only accessible to Looker. As your data team matures, there will be many other users and applications that need to take advantage of your transformed data in the warehouse. (e.g. modelling in Python)

Dataform also brings other features not available in PDTs. For example:

- Data validations tests (assertions) to ensure data quality in all your data applications (including Looker)

- Incremental tables: You can define tables that update incrementally instead of being rebuilt from scratch, hence delivering better performance and saving costs

- Reusable code. You can define reusable code snippets across your entire project
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How to tell the difference between an adult and a kid online assuming the adult gave their credit card to the kid?
Why should it reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market? What's the axiom upon which you stand to say that is the correct way of things?
For development workflows, command line applications and such, I think you're supposed to go the container route via Toolbox. So you will have dnf etc.
Because GIMP falls short as a Photoshop replacement, but there are plenty of people using Krita instead of Photoshop.
Cryptocurrency-driven demand for GPUs comes to mind as well...