skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where does the money come from

The magical credit card fairy. Parents who aren't into gaming or technology may not be aware of the risks that these games pose, and therefore are unprepared to properly supervise their children when playing such games. Historical methods used to signal parents like ESRB / PEGI ratings are deliberately unhelpful in the regard as they draw no distinction between gambling mechanics and more straightforward purchases. And even then those are fine-print addendums that don't impact the actual age rating. So you wind up with a situation where games with gambling mechanics are rated by PEGI as being suitable for children 3+, leading many to be unaware of the risks a particular game poses. In comparison, a game that introduces "real" gambling with cashout possibilities gets an "Adults Only" ESRB rating as a matter of course. And even those flimsy addendums are actively circumvented by game companies who will wait a month or so after launch to add in the gambling features, after the game has already been rated and warning labels have already been printed.

In contrast, things like card packs or stickers are far easier to control. You give your child $20 and they can waste it as they please. Or they ask you for something and you buy it. Almost everybody intuitively understands that if you give your credit card to the child then you're playing with fire. Setting up a payment method in a game system is more risky in that credit cards are typically the only option (plus store gift cards that parents may not be aware of). Even so, it is not at all obvious to many just how much you can spend in a game. A child might ask for a $5 pack of loot boxes, and it seems reasonable. Then your numbers are in. If your child can then social engineer your password from you or get you to check the "don't ask for password" box then they have free reign. You might even knowingly do it because, again, it is not obvious that you can even spend that kind of money in a game.
Hong Kong's unique role as a separate economic entity, governed by the rule of law, is perhaps its best chance to avoid becoming another Chinese city among many others.
Which is called orthodromic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle

as opposed to loxodromic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodromic_navigation
What if a deepfake got in your blockchain?
- start the container with docker run and run sleep 999

- then start your application with docker exec

you will have instant execution.

Only restart your container if the environment changes (new build etc.)

For development, mount your source code in readonly.
> If you saw garage tinkering turn into a new industry, it was probably fantastic.

Probably, probably not. Maybe you know people who went on to became multibillionaires, whereas you're still tinkering and broke. I feel like I missed so, so many boats, and am in no position to catch the next one even if I could recognise it.
I feel the exact same with DoTA 2. Makes me relaxed and helps me sleep. Especially the part with "replaying some of the moments from the video game in my daydreaming imagination". Resonates a lot.
I don't see this as a musical instrument anymore then one could consider a metronome an instrument. This is a tool that you can use to experiment with and practice and you don't necessarily need a whole big band to back you while your practicing. This would be extremely useful for things like learning improvisation where its very helpful to have a beat as well as some sort of chordal support.
No, the logic is: I want styled content on the Web and plain text in my emails.
oh yeah, that. Didn't see any info about it, so i figured it had already passed.
Pretty sure that's not true for normal LCD where the screen is backlit. OLED is a bit different so it certainly helps there.
I don’t know about “none”. Updating the age of the compiled representation of a function on every function entrance doesn’t strike me as cost-free. At a minimum that’s a store.
It's not just the desire to travel by air, it's the economics. When I first moved to Germany I looked into doing a few trips by train, but the flights were much cheaper.
HTTPS is not configured correctly, nor does it have a valid TLS cert, which is from 2010. And they are running Apache 2.2.3. Yikes!
While I often implement strings along the lines you suggest I disagree that this feature belongs in the standard library. For one thing how big (sizeof) should the length prefix be? 16-bits? 32-bits? 64-bits?

The beauty of the C string is that it is minimal and straightforward: if you have a pointer to it, you know where it ends. And it works with pretty much any OS out there.

(My personal variant of dynamic strings are refcounted, length prefixed and nul-terminated with the pointer pointing to the traditional C string.)
Yea but investing in a startup is far from a sure thing. They could easily lose their money
The caniuse site itself doesn’t properly work on my modern updated iPhone. The modals won’t go away. If a modal appears and it’s hidden behind the footer, I can’t read the rest of it. Yet it seems to be a site widely used and referenced.

Along with the 90%+ prevalence of it working on browsers, isn’t the joke mostly moot? Besides Chinese browsers and old IE/Edge, support seems to be fine. I don’t know exactly what Microsoft is doing with Edge Chromium on Windows 7/8, but if that’s pushed through more, the support is essentially universal if you’re not targeting the two Chinese focused browsers.
You're right. Tight nationalistic control of all markets is the only rational way to ensure sanity.
> It boils down to the fact that borders are artificially constructed.

Is that what it "boils down to"? Nothing more and nothing less than "borders are artificially constructed"? It happens to be a technically true statement, but are you saying something along the lines of because borders are artificially constructed then therefore it logically follows that they should be removed? If not, what are you saying, exactly?
Yes, the submitted title ("V8 lite (22% memory savings)") broke the site guideline which asks: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Doing this tends to skew discussions enormously, so please follow the guidelines!
I added a caveat.
I don’t want to write a random free function for one line of code. I want nice syntax:

list[-1] += 1
array.last += 1
*(vector.end() - 1)++;

Having reasonable syntax and a strong type system are not mutually exclusive.
McDonald's is investing in AI voice technology, aiming to modernize drive-thrus
This doesn't answer your question with regards to devices, but for screenshots involving browsers, I believe that Screely is the best/fastest/easiest thing out there to use.

https://www.screely.com/
Me too, but in the same way that I hope someone invents a drug that lets me eat whatever I want and not gain weight. The probability of actually seeing such a thing in our lifetime is infinitesimal.
To be fair though the bar wasn't set vary high.

> power the world for three centuries

Our sun for example is emitting enough energy in all directions to power the world for 300 years (over the course of 300 years), and most of it misses us.

Our sun isn't particularly impressive in terms of energy and such compared to other astro-objects, so I feel like these kinda of events releasing so much energy are to be expected.
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I've been mitigating this vector best I can by associating any of my accounts that only offer 2FA via SMS to a Google Voice number / Google account that can only be accessed via Token/Backup codes.
Definitely an oxford comma situation, and need to fix those commas around the girlfriend's name. Whitson is the subject, not the son:

> Whitson, his 13-year-old son, and girlfriend Krystal Ramirez had decided to spend Father's Day weekend backpacking...
Please edit personal swipes out of your HN comments.

Your comment broke the site guidelines and provoked an off-topic spat. Would you please review them and stick to them? They're all there for good reason, otherwise we'd have taken them out. Note that they include Assume good faith. That's the opposite of "I can't tell if you're trolling hard".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Edit: thanks for the edit above! I'll mark this comment off topic and collapse it.)
> I think the medical consensus on recommended salt levels is still subject to debate.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/09/salt-not-as-...

Yeah. We're pretty horrific at figuring out what's actually a health issue and what isn't. Twenty years ago the research said carbs were good, salt and fat were bad. Now most of the research coming out seems to go the other way.
That's an insightful comment and a good (IMO) way of slowing down the outrage train, if only by a tiny bit. Thanks.
I don't consider investments over cash to be clearly better. There is the idea of a "cash is king" economy, when investments are exceedingly cheap due to liquidity in the market. But to capitalize on these events, you need to have the cash on hand for it.

Berkshire Hathaway is well known for sitting on mountains of cash if they don't have access to what they feel are good investments.
Gopher was arguably more consistent in both regards. But pretty vs functional wasn't even a tradeoff you could really consider.
> You can’t convert an existing app to dark mode.

How can this possibly be true? Are you trying to say something else, like "just changing colors is not sufficient to create a high quality dark mode"? That is probably why it's a "mode" and not a "theme".

This tool looks nice though. This type of threading is much more appropriate for work conversations, in my experience.
> C is not supposed to have changed from K&R -- that it is backwards compatible was one of its main selling points and main reason to put up with such meager functionality that had programmers digging with a teaspoon.

C has gained new functionality and features. It just hasn't deprecated the old ones. K&R C will still compile with a modern C compiler, but it won't be as good as modern (C99/C17) C.
I'm going to have to disagree with you.heres a track where an AI wrote the lyrics and music (trained on Beatle compositions.)

Humans played and composed it (adding the emotional impetus.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o
My girlfriend (now wife) went with me... she was the one that pushed me to do it, otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it myself. It took a lot of convincing. She was WFH so it didn't disrupt either of our work lives really. The stars aligned, most people don't have the opportunity.
This is great! I wasn‘t sure if I should try it again after getting hooked in my teens. But now I think I will just sell it as a mental health exercise to myself :D

But jokes aside, good to hear you‘re feeling better. I can definitely see how going about the kind of low-effort but very satisfying and immersive activity that is WoW could be helpful for people having problems handling their stress levels.

All the best to you and your family!
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I don't have a perfect solution, either, but I see unintended consequence from this:

* Fewer rentals on the market

* More instances of landlords "re-occupying" a place (eg, ACTUALLY kicking out the residents) in order to fix it up (or not) and then re-rent to someone else at a much higher base rent, later.

When rents go up, tenants push themselves out (or, the market pushes them out). When we devise tenant protection laws, we invent 'better' landlords who find clever ways to PUSH out people who are paying below market.

If there was a way to artificially hold ALL rents down, it might be less obvious -- but under a rent control scheme, everyone knows when you're paying below market; you look at the classified ads (okay, craigslist) and see that you could never afford to find a 'new' place like yours at the same price. The tenants know it, the landlords know it. The tenants have protection. For awhile. Until they don't.
> I sometimes wonder if we humans will ever get over this artificial border fetish we have.

Sounds like you believe that humans are the only animals that get territorial.
What is your point? That other people are doing it too? This is whataboutism 101.
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This is an interesting framework and it seems apparent to sadly hold truth. The other framework is that it is nothing more than simply of course as anyone can easily see Jewish and pro-Israeli politicians, technocrats, billionaires, industry-leaders and lobbying groups frankly exist in such extreme disproportion to any other ethnic group in elite America that it would be surprising if they didn't have a special, privileged relationship. It is so easy to become a pariah just for simply stating this blatantly obvious state of affairs, or worse instantaneously lose your career for saying something like get out of Palestine such as how Helen Thomas did. One of my parents is Jewish, but I frankly despise racism, nepotism and nationalism and do care about living in a free and honest society and this topic clearly is one example where extreme cognitive dissonance, political correctness have made it into frankly Wrongthink. AFAIK there are only two countries to have openly attacked the US Navy and both received nuclear weapons though not delivered in the same way. AIPAC openly interferes with US elections. I'm not sure what good comes out of all of this, but if there is some I would like to at least know.
For a targeted question like this, I'd consider posting to https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/ or https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts.

Go packages have tried to be backwards compatible in general since the beginning; it is part of the culture following the Go compatibility promise. Developers have been free to ignore this.

The idea is fairly straight forward: as you update your packages, they should be backwards compatible. If it is not, you should make a new major version, and this is typically done with a new subdirectory/package (like a /v2). Nothing more to it than that.
Ok, but please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the guidelines yourself, as in the first sentence above. I realize it's hard to do when someone has replied to you with a provocative swipe, but it's even more necessary in such cases.
> With rare exceptions, management wants to hear 'no problem' and that 'everything is fine'.

This makes me so sad. As a manager (formerly an engineer), I want to hear about problems as soon as possible! I can help! It's my job to clear roadblocks, to help find interesting projects, to keep the team working well together for the long term.

It doesn't do me, the engineer, the project, or the team any good to hide problems. Such a bummer when managers push for short term results over the long term health of the team.
I'm not saying it was - but what if Oumuamua was some kind of "derelict" - an intergalactic equivalent of the "Mary Celeste" - a ghost ship from deep space?

Imagine a civilization that is maybe 500 years more advanced than ours in space travel - perhaps they have nearly conquered their solar system. Instead of building ships the regular way, they instead carve up asteroids or other similar "space rocks" and attach engines to them in some way. But something went wrong - maybe the engines got stuck "on" or something, and the entire thing was launched out beyond their system, never to be seen by them again...

...and it floated for however many of our millenia before briefly tumbling through our system. To us, it looks like a rock - we can't even optically resolve it properly, it's too fast and too far away. In (fantasy) reality, though, on board is a bunch of technology that we could probably understand, that would allow us to "leap" to hands-on human exploration (and exploitation) of our own solar system.

It might be both a blessing and a curse.

Again - sheer fantasy - and most likely it was just a shard of rock and nothing more. But is it far fetched to think that there isn't "large scale" ships or probes of some nature just drifting through space, probably completely broken down and relatively inert, moving at sub-light speeds due to various reasons, but made out of rock because it's easy to get, provides relatively good protection from space, easy to modify, etc?

We humans have already flung tiny objects out of our solar system - I can believe that larger artifacts might be something that could "drift away" as well (then again, one would think that if a civilization got to that level - they'd be able to go out and retrieve it before it got too far away).

Maybe it'd make a good science fiction story - from both ends (the creation of the "ship", the "loss" after trying to retrieve it, then the journey and the eventual discovery of it by another civilization "far away" - and how it changes the discoverers socially, politically, and technologically).
Interactive C environments were popular for a while. I have collected information on several at the Computer History Museum. I actually have even more stuff that I never got around to uploading.

You unfortunately need to make an account to see the pages. It was heavily attacked at one time and that was the admin's solution.

Interactive C Environments
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/interactive_c
Nice example of something I wrote about yesterday: perfect ux is impossible: https://erik.itland.no/perfect-ux-is-impossible

(It started as a rant but I have tried to clean it up a bit.)

And yes, agree with the majority here: leave my scrollbars alone, if I want a Mac I can ask my boss to get one for me.
One cool trick for C REPLs is to grep the man page directory to automate those pesky #include lines, e.g. https://gist.github.com/jart/5d0934d26b52f38cad36 Another trick is to build with STABS and use objdump -g.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy in his toil.
Use the developer tool to inspect CSS.

1. Uncheck

article .entry-content {
color: #646464;
}

And a new CSS color rules appears.

2. Uncheck

body {
color: #333;
}

Done!

I used to think it's ridiculous to manipulate a webpage like this manually, but now I believe: if it's helpful for your for an one-time browsing on a broken webpage, why not?
The libraries they depend on probably are, though.
> Dependency-free so that the runtime library (which is written in pure C) can be embedded in any application

What does dependency-free mean? I mean, it does depend on 128 crates. Do we typically not count those?

By the way, I did `cargo build` and it failed at `#include "utf8proc.c"`. I have `libutf8proc` installed. Changing `.c` to `.h` solved it. It went past that part, only to get:

- error: couldn't read cli/src/../../lib/binding_web/tree-sitter.js: No such file or directory (os error 2)

- error: couldn't read cli/src/../../lib/binding_web/tree-sitter.wasm: No such file or directory (os error 2)
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I think stated odds are actually where I get uncomfortable. There were always accidentally rare cards, purely from the luck of how packs were filled, and what was rare in one region was probably the common one in another from random chance in distribution. A lot of the card sets had a way to send off 5p or so for the last couple you missed, to fill the album at the end of the year.

Somewhere that morphed into artificial scarcity, and kids everywhere being set up to buy five sets worth of cards, to maybe get a full set.
Sure, it can, theoretically, work. But this isn't a reasonable thing for folks to do, at least not with a stable currency. Might as well get paid in gift cards. Theoretically, you can sell them for something more useful too.
outrage in brazil, silence in bolivia.

what is the difference between the two?
This is a problem specific to your iPhone — perhaps an over-zealous content blocker? If you can figure out what's different from a clean install, report it at https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues.
"From tarot readings to Gemini memes, astrology has officially infiltrated work culture
Peak Astrology means your millennial coworkers probably have a Slack channel for horoscopes"

Did this even need an explanation for why this article is complete nonsense?
Hey no worries. Sorry, I do take this very close to heart as I grew up extremely poor and I owe a lot to the fact that I had rent control growing up. This is a pretty inflammatory topic on HN in general and I have a long history of being flamed into oblivion every time it comes up.

Lotta contempt for the poor on here, but this thread has actually been a rare exception. Might be the only set of posts that don't have 30 downvotes attached to them.
Summary of AWS EC2, EBS, and RDS Service Event in EU West Region
Thanks! My wife hypothesizes that it's the act of getting my attention fixed to something dumb enough that my brain can "wind down" before bed. (not that WoW is dumb. But I spend my time fishing and taking photos)
Am I ok? Kind of. Not really. As a non-throwaway I'll refrain from elaborating. I think a key for me is sleeping well and relieving stress in healthy ways. These healthy stress relievers include exercise and mediation, but I do not engage in them nearly often enough. Writing here is a good reminder to do both.

More of a challenge as I grow older is finding those I feel I can speak with openly about anything. These days that's limited to professionals only, and if a therapy session or two get cancelled then I can become quite derailed.

For anyone out there struggling with what others think of you, something that gets me though the day is Derek Sivers's quote: "Be your unapologetically weird self." Don't get inappropriate in the workplace but remember that you bring something unique to the table (and that's probably why you were hired in the first place).

Quote in full:

“I gave a commencement speech in Minnesota few years ago [at the Carlson School of Management]. The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.” An excerpt from that speech: “Weirdness is why we adore our friends. . . . Weirdness is what bonds us to our colleagues. Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired. Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness.” - Derek Sivers via Tools of Titans
The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier
I am wanting to try twist.com, but alot of the non-technical folks are still in love with Slack.

I think threading by default and forcing a topic would be better for channels.
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That just depends on the implementation. I can think of plenty use cases for online applications which need multiple scrollbars. Sometimes you can't fit every element in one view.
> It all depends if tenants can afford it

In extreme markets, perhaps.

Normally one landlord's ability to raise rents is constrained by the prices other landlords charge.
I'll bite because I'm ambivalent about immigration laws. Why should people that just happen to be born in a third world country live a shitty life with no way out? You can't just say they have to do a revolution in their own country, not everyone is interested in activism, why should this be the fight of their life instead of stuff they actually want to do? You were born in a nice place by sheer luck. It's unfair.

I like the idea of a fundamental human right to "mobility". In the grand scheme of things a human being should be able to move anywhere as long as they obey local laws, pay local taxes, etc.