skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you 'dd' the sd card over to a usb key, and add 'program_usb_boot_mode=1' to the config.txt, you'll get a more robust filesystem and a speed-up bonus as well.
Honestly, I'm hoping this isn't the case.

Gaming becoming more and more popular recently has only just been detrimental to the industry as a whole as we've come to learn that shareholders are willing to sacrifice game quality for profits.

Every new release is just eye-candy and a thinly-veiled money grab while delivering shallow gameplay. It's very disheartening. Especially when you consider the fact that for the younger gamers this is all they know.

They never got a chance to see video games unaffected by lootboxes, B2P games with cash shops or "free to play" games that aren't blatantly pay to win.

Let's not even touch on the shady & dehumanizing labor practices the entire gaming industry seems normalizes.

The future of gaming is anything but positive for me. I feel like most people are mistaking the success of new technologies (AR & VR) as the success of video games. Most videos games release in the last 5 years are absolute shite and the ones that aren't are marginal at best.
Sometimes it would be very good to have an option to tell why the site was posted. In this particular case, adding a completely new the title made a lot of sense. Merely posting a site on waterfalls doesn't really fall into the Hacker News world, but the reason - namely the old web simplicity of it - does.
I'm going to tackle this from the perspective of an apprenticeship (which is what I'm doing). In general it seems similar to hiring tech interns - they're expensive but can pay off if you really invest into it. Few things to note:

1) Usually they pay apprentices less but apprentices can still provide huge value to the team they're working on (after a while).

2) I have no solid data on this, but I assume apprentices have a lower churn rate/stay at their company longer.

3) The biggie: Some countries basically force companies to have an apprenticeship programme. In the UK, there's a levy which effectively makes a company put aside 0.4% of their payroll for funding apprenticeships - which nicely incentivises companies to do something that would otherwise be unprofitable.
> I can't remember the %, but it seems unlikely, in the fact of all that competition that it was as high as 30%.

Many of the J2ME etc app stores prior to Apple were run by network carriers, and their cuts were considerably higher than 30% - upwards of 50%, even more for things like direct carrier billing (the app would be charged to your phone bill).
Ask HN: Why there isn't CSS on the cloud?
Use your own domain for email and watch the 'hacker' spam roll in.
I do worry about the possible downside of any new mechanism like that.
I don't get it, is "classic" bad? My page is online since 1995 and is still the best way I share my work. There surely are many "classic" style sites, with unique information. I'd encourage everybody who has something rare to share, to do this in a "classic" way.

http://imar.ro/~mbuliga/
By classic I meant to imply largely html+css and no glut of ads, pop ups, tracking, and script based features that bring load times to 10 seconds plus. I propose that this type of site is what we should be aiming more for in our web experience.
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> There is undeniably a positive energy around HN.

Is it really?

> The world is truly filled with good people.

Tell that to Ian Murdock and his friends-in-need who shut down all his attempts to vent and all his desperate cries for help while trying to delay his suicide.

The world is truly filled with terrible people.
I think the biggest dragon to slay would be the legendary GTK issue #233 which has been open for 15 years and has become sort of a meme by now. So many people try to solve it but fail since it requires intricate knowledge of the framework.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/233
Code size. A "hello world" application has a little bit over one megabyte because it includes a big part of the Swift standard library.

Waaaaaaat?
The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module
The resolution or general fidelity of the video is likely higher than the government wants to show publicly. It's about hiding capability Intel.
Nit:

I wish people wouldn’t mention programming and computer science in the same essay, unless it’s something very technical such as discussing synchronization algorithms.

Most programming isn’t science. Most programming isn’t even engineering. Most programming is contracting or DIY tinkering.

We use ridiculous metaphors like constructing an airport, when most programmers are tradespeople working on renovations.

Have you ever inspected the work of a tract house builder? It’s awful and usually plays fast and loose with building codes.

When an indie teaches themselves to code, we get the same result as a homeowner teaching themselves to renovate. That’s not a bad thing, but nobody swapping ordinary outlets for outlets with USB-C ports is thinking about Maxwell’s equations.
Working out great with F-Droid :)
> How do we build a site to help explore these parts of the web?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring s used to be quite useful, maybe along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

Other than that, it's a good question. It's been explored by many that Google tends to forget old content. Alternative search engines, such as DuckDuckGo, in my experience, tend to lean towards indie sites more.

EDIT and, of course, there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati
Kudos to Shopify! You are leading the way!

I offhand mentioned a previous program they ran (letting people out of the field get an internship) to someone I knew, and it made a huge difference. Creating/sustaining jobs/incomes in this way is actually very cool in my books.
Not of This World – when good people do bad things
Racist Housing Practices from the 1930s Linked to Hotter Neighborhoods Today
I recently played 'Everyone's Gone To The Rapture' - for a lot of people it's not enough of a 'game' for them, but from a story point of view it's really engaging. Once the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had. Totally recommended.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/devly
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That sanity layer ended up being yet another way to foster adoption of middleware engines.
Indeed that sounds like a terrible start
And I know a lot of women who have been successful graduates of the program, what's your point?
The action is however caused by a human who mined the area, its just delayed, similar to how a grenade has a delay after the human activation, before it explodes. You can make the same distinction with an automatic gun or turret. You position it in an area in which you decide to kill anyone in it.

Autonomy gets truly dangerous because you dont need to create death zones and no mans land. They are not a less violent version of just bombing the area. They can run considerations and decide by themselves who to kill and with this, their usage outside of active front lines will be considered. And with that, the people deploying them give up the decision and delegate it to an algorithm or worse yet, a trained black box. Reality will be to have completely unaccountable killers bots flying over countries who cant defend themselves against foreign aggression.

This stuff has absolutely horrible potential and i find it prudent to shame and cut out anyone with a sufficient lack of a spine to work in this area. As unpopular as it is to consider the impact of the technology you are developing, it is taught for a reason in a CS degree. This work has the potential to screw over humanity for a while to come.
The trick is to use bigotry for anything you don’t like. Just like terrorism. It’s a fantastic power tool.
US law makes ilegal the killing of foreign dignitaries but you just have to designate them as terrorists and there you go, you can kill whoever you want.
Hate speech works the same way. You just designate whatever is rocking the boat as hate speech and you can shut their filthy mouths. See? Fantastic power tool.
And of course the middle tier wage slaves will not only not dare to raise their voice but will enforce your tactics for breadcrumbs. Such a cool tool.
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Finally used Compiler Design knowledge in Android and made a SpannableString Parser to easily add spans to your text.

https://github.com/hitanshu-dhawan/SpannableStringParser
In the normal course of check processing, a device reads the MICR line of characters at the bottom of the check and the amount. The name, address, signature and other features are usually not processed unless the amount is high, the account has specific services, or some other indicator is tripped.
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How can you have fans in a zero-sum game?

Teams A and B play each other, and everything gained by A is lost by B and vice versa. A zero-sum game. But somehow we have a fan X. But why are they interested? It seems like some extra value is created by the interaction of A and B (entertainment). This means it’s not a zero-sum game.

It’s not some games that increase the popularity of a sport. It’s all games. A lot more people show up to a stadium on game day than an off day.
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That was the plan. But I went to a no-name school in the eyes of the finance world but also my heart wasn’t into it so my performance wasn’t great. And it occurred to me almost by the end of my studies that I didn’t want to work in finance. Economics is really interesting though.
As with everything else, you have to prioritize - there will never be time for everything. Meal prep and home exercise alone can cut that schedule down to 60-90 minutes, so you can begin on the side project at 7.30 pm.
Not my field, but it seems alike to what's happening in IT, prominent people in field, brave enough to speak what they believe is going on are being shouted at and fought by emotions rather than merits.

Where is an end to this farce?
Sounds like I need to move some of my devtesting back to FF. The ability to open a new session with a fresh disconnected session (so no shared session cookies) is one of the few things I miss from bad-old-IE (as simple as "File|NewSession"). Very useful, as you say, for testing workflows between different users.

Of course you've always been able to setup multiple profiles for FF, but that is setup that I was usually too lazy for given it could be done ad-hoc in IE.
Nobody here seems to ask for how long has the NSA known about this.

It's obvious they're only now making it public and taking credit for it because the Chinese likely learned about it, too.
> I know it would get gamed really, but what if there were an injected "related-sites" link list as an extension, that drew from a curated directory?

A federated curated directory, perhaps with an emergent shared vocabulary for tags/categories/etc. (similar to the Wikipedia-centered naming guidelines for wiki pages) might work. The DMOZ model wouldn't scale in the modern web, with its rampant contentiousness around politics etc., and even the original DMOZ broke down because of corruption, with websites having to pay category "editors" for listings.
Why is this guy still not using an online-only bank in 2020 ?!?
> IQ has been rigorously statistically proven as a very reliable predictor.

You're right, it rigorously shows how well you will do on IQ tests. That's a real useful metric, now isn't it?

> This is often disputed by impulsively triggered non-experts browsing chat forums, but not by serious academics.

This is often upheld by people with latent fascist sentimentalities that there is some genetical component that makes one group superior to the other.
The three certainties of modern life: death, taxes, and unsolicited marketing emails.
There was Dust 514, which was directly connected to EVE Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_514
> They need to stop only thinking in the ways OGL/D3D taught them to think, and need to also think like a driver developer, or possibly even a compiler developer.

Which is exactly the opposite than anyone that wants to draw something wants to think about.

Also Vulkan is on its merry path to have endless list of extensions, so it will eventually match OpenGL's complexity about what code paths to take, with the required cleverness of having to be a graphics programmer, driver developer and compiler developer at the same time.

No wonder anyone that wants to stay sane rather picks up a middleware engine instead.
But dressing up obvious statistical anomalies in fancy wording does seem to convince the careless reader that that it is indeed some very deep and meaningful thought.

Too many wisdoms come down to this simple formula, but without ever drawing any real conclusion, or adding any real phylosophical value to what is, to the scientific mind a no-brainer.
Correct. The vast majority of bitcoin miners are specialised ASICs for calculating BTC related hashes explicitly, and nothing else. Optimised for efficiency of the task at hand.
Size of spend by pharmaceutical firms does not necessarily indicate more or better R&D is going on.

Factors that could reduce such spending without impacting research output include:

* Lower costs (e.g. salaries for early career researchers don't have to be as large to cover their university debt).

* More research done in publicly funded universities or other research institutions (including where a pharma firm funds a project).

* Better cooperation between companies (e.g. Research Council joint programmes).

* Better controls against overspending on dead-ends (cultural or legal).

* Different reporting on what, exactly, counts as "R&D" spending (e.g. does everything a researcher does at work count as Research? Does maintenance of research facilities count?)

I'm not saying that all of these represent the actual difference. I'm just saying that using spend in a given sector as a proxy for output seems a bit odd.
Do you have evidence for this? It doesn't change the publicly displayed number, but I was under the impression that it does change the ordering. That did seem to be the case last time I experimented with this. On a video with only a dozen or so comments I downvoted a comment with no upvotes, and then opened the video page in an incognito tab, and the comment I downvoted was right at the bottom. Could have been a coincidence, but the probability of that seemed low at the time.
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What do you mean? CDN’s can deliver CSS too.
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It’s said to be a bit of a cash cow for the department
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Well to be fair, the same is true of films and tv. Story arc# 1234, character development #2, twist #3.
I am not sure though if it is true of books though. Possibly because the information is much more in books than can be fitted into a 2 hour film / 40 hour game.
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That’s exactly what keeps me buying Apple for my family and I. I credit their locked down App Store with saving me from spending hundreds of hours of my time dealing with malware over the last 10 years.
Agree on most if not all points but the article didn't argue against any of that. It did point out two things.

Companies don't have to literally be the only buyer in a marketplace to wield "monopsony power." If competition isn't perfect — like when there are only a few companies in a market and they aren't undercutting each other's prices — companies gain some ability to lower the price on the stuff they buy. Sellers don't have a lot of other options.

Apple might be profiting from its monopsony power in the app market. In this argument, the company is effectively the sole buyer of Apple-compatible apps and services, which allows them to set their fee as high as they want.

Both of this are new argument from "monopsony" perspective, which is different to all your listed point above are "monopoly" perspective.

Not saying I agree or disagree with his monopsony thing, since it is completely new word to me.
Transferring small amounts of money within the country/ies, where it's maximum-couple-of-days fast and free?
You mean just like the carriers passing the data through their cables to specially made "NSA forts" is absurd?

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...

I actually didn't say that Microsoft is directly passing all the data to NSA, just that the NSA (and FBI, and DEA, and IRS, etc) can request that data on anyone at anytime, and it's half of the time a secret request with a gag order.

But now that you mention it, there is a non-zero chance that Microsoft could pass some of the data directly to the US government, too, but maybe just for some services, like Skype.

Also "all that telemetry data" is probably counted in tens or hundreds of TBs a year, which is nothing for a company like MS or an agency like the NSA. Telemetry doesn't take that much space, just a few strings for each event.

Are you completely unaware of the fact that Microsoft does collect telemetry on every app you open, every file you have on your PC, every search you do (locally), and other stuff like that? Because that's exactly what they're doing -- Bing it, if you will. Do you think they're tracking all that data without actually storing it and analyzing it?
Commons Clause is added ontop of an exisiting FOSS license. So it will be whatever requirements the base license plus an anti-commercial restriction preventing others from offering SaaS services.
I'm in the US and I've never written an actual check in my life (did write some fake ones in consumer economics class in high school though). For transferring money between friends, just use venmo or zelle.

What awesome features am I missing out on?
Not very clear what the appeal or the advantage for me to create a profile is.
Steam multiplayer? You mean the friends list? Steam doesn't provide hosted mp servers for games. Mods are made by community members that can be released anywhere. Workshop is just a distribution channel.

Battle.net and origin are lock in services. Nothing about them is open to the public or accessible. Steam is pretty open and reasonably successful at it.
Apple has icons for SSDs. They are shown in the article right after this:

> So what should Apple do? Customized icons for different types of drives would be a good start. Time Machine drives get custom icons automatically, as do many other types of storage devices that were more common in the past, so surely Apple could design different icons for SSDs and Fusion Drives, and then display them appropriately based on the type of drive.

Apple could repurpose one of the existing SSD icons pretty easily.
I still do not understand, I did not see where the exception caused the issue in this case, you can have bugs with error codes that are not checked and that blow up much later so I am confused by your vague response (maybe you prefer checked excpetion so you don't ignore problems, I prefer those because they force correctness over developer comfort).
Apparently, Think was once an IBM motto, leading to someone turning it into "Think... or thwim" according to an urban legend.

https://everything2.com/title/think

https://pbar.fnal.gov/organizationalchart/peterson/peterson2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_%28IBM%29
I think he wants you off his mailing list.
> They bolted on a separate set of functions that took UCS-2 and now take UTF-16.

NT actually bolted on 8-bit versions of the native Unicode functions. FooBarA is a wrapper around FooBarW.

> They put together a code page for UTF-8 but it's behind a 'beta' warning.

Codepage 65001 has been a thing for quite a while. It's just that it's variable-width per character and few applications are ready to handle that when they assume a 1:1 or 2:1 relationship between bytes and characters. It does work sort of for applications that don't do too weird stuff to text, though, and can be a useful workaround in such cases to get UTF-8 support into legacy applications.

But in general, Windows is UTF-16LE and the code pages are indeed legacy cruft that no application should touch or even use. Sadly much software ported from Unix-likes notices »Hey, there's a default encoding in Windows too, so let's just use that«.
See this recent submission/discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253289

”Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests”

That rings true with observations I've made of high-IQ types, myself possibly included - I've generally done well on intelligence tests and with some types of intellectual endeavours, but that hasn't translated to life success, and I've suffered a lot of physiological (including neurological) illness. I've observed this pattern in plenty of others.
Of course I get your point, my all time best design website is Craigslist, so I'm on the same boat. Would love to see internet as plain html with minimum styles. :)

Other great example is: https://patrickcollison.com

--

Yet, world is full of designers and developers who want to achieve something more than plain website. For ordinary Joe it doesn't matter at all if Craigslist is ugly or Facebook, they just use it. But creators want to think users admire good design and user experience. :)
No, Gitlab is not seen as inferior. I must admit though that I have been guilty of checking whether a candidate had a Github page and forgetting that they might have one elsewhere.
The financial benefit is getting flight bookings.

This is an API where the airline effectively charged a negative cost for use. If they decided it was too negative, why not try adjusting the price?
I did not see that in the snippets I will try to find the section, was the bug in the code that was catching the exception or it was thrown by mistake. I agree that is a resource management issue and you often make this kind of bugs when you try to reuse objects (for performance reasons most of the time)
Monopsony is a slippery concept.

If I tilt my head just right, we could be discussing the way WalMart purchases products. They sell a product in their store, they decide they want a certain margin, and then they tell suppliers to meet a certain price target if they want their products in WalMart.
What is the justification for a doctor making $500k? For a programmer making $500k? For a hotel maid making $30k? Supply and demand. Same with the App Store.
Really? I'd love to read more. Could you point to source?
Edit: ATP is about 0.5kg/mol. So 80kg person would be 160 moles of ATP. Hmm.
The other view is that QI is literally true, and it literally proves the existence of an immortal soul which transcends whatever happens to the body.

So consciousness can never be killed. But it can be temporarily inconvenienced.

The problem with this argument is that the universe continues to operate when we're asleep, in a coma, etc.

It's almost as if it has an independent existence that doesn't rely on our personal experience of it.
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geospatial is also available in Nebula Graph.:)

As to the storage system, Nebula Graph is based on multi-group raft and RocksDB.
Hello Masonic.
Thank you very much for your comment. First time I think.

I am not familiar with the concept of "shrouded". Do you have any advice on how you un-shroud" (de-shroud)links ?

Apologies, english is not my mother tongue.

Thank you for reaching out.

Mickael