skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and nowhere else for it to go

Sure there is, it can be destroyed in asset price resets or debased in terms of purchasing power by the Fed (which is what plenty of the stock market gains since 1970 are).

You could make the same claim about Japan - an extremely wealthy nation relatively speaking, with one of the world's largest stock markets. Tokyo also has very high priced real-estate. And yet the Bank of Japan is fully capable of decimating their national wealth through Yen debasement, chopping about 1/4 to 1/3 off all their wealth in the past decade.

The Japan scenario, which the US is following, is gradually eroded growth prospects as debt consumes all capital available & necessary for investment to grow the economy. Eventually you reach a heat death, perpetual stagnation and conflict with the debt load and its interest costs; which requires constant debasement of the national currency - once you can't afford the interest costs, as the US can't any longer - until you destroy enough of the debt to climb back above water and free up capital for new investment again. That process becomes an accelerating downward spiral until you violently change something in the equation (one time massive currency adjustment, spending cuts with massive tax hikes causing a severe and prolonged recession, etc).

There is a reason gold is now normal up at $1400-$1600, instead of $300 20-25 years ago. That's all dollar destruction (also represented by the skyrocketing GDPs of most nations in USD terms from 2002-2008 as the dollar imploded and by numerous other prominent commodities such as oil).

That much destruction happened due to a comparatively modest lack of fiscal discipline during the Bush years. Just wait until you see what the present course causes. The rich will not be able to keep up, and corporate earnings sure as hell can't (they're not growing much as it is). To make matters worse, the China miracle is over, the S&P group can't lean on that any longer, there's little to no growth anywhere in the largest economic zones.

The Fed will have to get more drastic by the year with its debasement efforts (aka QE aka debt monetization). There will be a tipping point (sooner than later given the rate of debt increase) where the wealth can't outrun it via traditional assets like housing or equities. Might have ten good years left of potential asset floating, where you can semi hide from the Fed in the stock market (give or take a recession or downturn that will claim some of that potential). There is nobody to buy a trillion dollars per year of new US Government debt; and nobody that is eager for $20 trillion of new debt at 0-2% yields. So from here on out, it's a Fed debasement party; asset price increases can outrun it for a while, assisted by perma low rates. That Federal debt load will hit $40 trillion in ~11-12 years however, and the heat death will climb ever closer as GDP growth sinks toward zero Japan style.
> The largest share of global carbon is emitted by countries like India and China

India emits about 7% of global emissions. The United States emits about 16% [1].

Per capita India emits about 1/9th what the US does.

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
Waiting list, $100M in pre-sales pipeline Where high valuation makes sense
But besides Google there is more than just crashlytics (and Firebase Analytics). It contains 11 trackers in total, and requires 30 permissions:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ringapp...
The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfly Running Shoe, Explained [Video]
You can outsmart a traffic accident.

Tough for most to outrun/outsmart an epidemic.

Read/watch some of the Twitter whistleblowers.

Govs have no reason to tell everyone the true risks - and every reason to hide them.
Or maybe it's not the same people with the extreme jobs. I didn't even consider that. Because if it were me, I'm sure the first news to reach everybody wouldn't be these ones.
Anything for a buck. Its one thing if the product is free and you are being sold out as a user, its something else when you are a paying customer and not a mere user.
Does anyone know why DirectX 11 is so much better than DirectX 9?

Looks like they were using some kind of translation layer that was translating DX9 calls to OpenGL.
Rocket League's creator, Psyonix, was bought by Epic last year. The is concern/belief that this move is a precursor to making Rocket League an Epic Store exclusive, as the Epic store is Windows only.

Psyonix stated that they would offer refunds for Linux/ macOS users. In the first few days post announcement, everyones' refund was being denied. It appears that this has since been resolved. I received my refund yesterday.
Do you have a good reference to going about it?

I found some consistent sources but I would still doubly make sure if there are any established forums or papers to look into.
Do you have any examples where a serious competitor emerged because a game developer didn't support Linux or Mac?
Thanks! Most of the videos are embedded -- for example: https://yahnd.com/theater/r/vimeo/36579366/

Simple Made Easy is not embedded because it looked to me like embeds were against InfoQ's TOS.

Or do you mean embedded on the rankings pages where there are lists of videos? The individual pages are there to showcase the HN comments, but I could see doing both.
Magic truffles need different doses to magic mushrooms.
As other said it, there is unlocker for VMWare which allows you to have Mac OS as option when creating a new virtual machine.

As for hacking VMWare I got my hands on a official Mountain Lion image years ago, directly from Apple, which I used to copy/upgrade into new VM each time a new Mac OS was released. I have lying around cca 15 VM's with different flavors of Mac OS each, all tests for various projects for my clients.
In other news, a $1 blindfold can fool a human!
> Threads should be used only when true CPU concurrency is needed

> Scalable performance on multiple CPUs

the exceptions to 'when to use threads' in 1995 sound like SOP these days
If they had not managed to get the UX right, they would never have been able to appeal to that sector.

It targets an audience where any obstacle, which includes as much as a button press, might lead to them checking some other app instead.
Tree planting is important, but tree harvesting is also important. A tree's mass comes from C02 absorbed from the air, and hardly anything out of the soil. Lumber products are an incredibly important carbon sink when done correctly and the entire process needs to be measured for net negative effect.
Every single app on your phone will use such service (Android or iOS,).

You're not wrong about ownership of data. But highlighting Ring and Google in this manner is some seriously biased and dishonest reporting.
These 7-year-old allegations relied solely on anonymous chats NEVER proven to have been authored by Ulbricht.

It's well known now there were multiple people behind the DPR accounts AND 2 corrupt agents (now in prison) had admin access too.

Never proven, never prosecuted and dismissed "with prejudice" by the govt, meaning they can never be used against him again.

Ross was NOT accused of selling drugs or laundering money, or hacking computers. Charges based on what others listed on SR (i.e, laundering money conspiracy charge = because some users were cashing out their btc for other currencies. Hacking conspiracy = because some users listed hacking tutorials or software.)

Wikiepedia shouldn't be used as a reliable source when it comes to legal cases.
In addition, the Hong Kong fuel tax on unleaded gasoline is roughly 2.95 USD per gallon.
Bingo. Also this argument in particular is wrong because even if you want to describe the current repo operations as QE, it isn't inflationary or doing much to "prop up the economy" given that none of the other QE rounds were inflationary.

At the end of the day, fiscal policy is extremely important, and almost no amount of monetary policy can do much on its own.

Unless we decide to start actually minting money, like the trillion dollar platinum coin idea.
It had industries, but India did not need these industries. This was not trade, this was loot. Read up on the East India Company. It did not destroy competing industries, they shut down Muslin cloth production in Bengal lol.
How to Setup and Use the Python Virtual Environment
don't forget Pingus! https://pingus.seul.org
Proton is pretty great, but there are hardware limitations. Im running a pretty old video card. I can run games like Deep Rock Galactic on Windows, but it wont work on Linux as Proton needs newer linux drivers, which don't support my card, in order to run that game.
What do you mean the Debian repo disappeared?
I think you are incorrect to confuse CSAIL with the Media Lab.
I don't really have much to say here, if your definition of "successful" means giant console release with a multi-million dollar budget, then obviously I can't say anything because the console manufacturers all ban open source on their platforms. And making a giant list of every small open source game I've ever played is not something I have time to do right now. There are a lot of them. Many of them I've found just because they are side projects that people post on HN.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/plague-inc-maker-dont...
Like so many other articles on this subject, the authors first identify the problem (a global scale prisoners' dilemma) and then pretend it can be solved at a local level by individual actors.

I actually find it terrifying that people think this way. It's the same intentional blindness that climate change deniers show, only with more steps and information.

The author even goes as far as parroting George W Bush's (now decade old and stupid even when it was fresh) vague hope that technology will just magically fix the problem. Of course, he is allowed to be bat shit insane because he is on "our side".

This problem is (geo-)political. It's not about technology or ideas or campaigning. It cannot be fixed by any local action (except maybe building flood defenses and watching everyone else drown?). Until people accept that they won't be able to fix this by composting more and hoping others take the bus, we will be doomed. Given that, a great article about how much Madrid could cut it's emissions is pointless and distracting.
The Epic Store is not Windows only. I run it, and games from the Epic Store on my Macbook Pro.
They really don't. The whole article is basically a long winded elaboration of the title.
There's a nice Kevlin Henney talk where he lays out this diagram:

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non-shared mutable state | shared mutable state
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non-shared immutable state | shared immutable state
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Each quadrant is safe, except the one in the top right: shared mutable state.

Functional languages are great at the bottom two, since they strongly encourage immutable state. Message-passing based concurrency strongly encourages non-shared state, the safe two on the left.

Rust is the only language I've seen which encourages all three safe quadrants, while making the fourth a compile-time error.
The trial can, and should, be double-blinded. With psychedelics, both the patient and observer know if they've received psychedelics vs. placebo.

That's often used an excuse to perform studies without control groups, which is not a valid argument. There must always be a control group. That's one of the main flaws in this study.

As for considering the studies specious: Not true. If the active group has considerably improved scores relative to the control group, then it doesn't really matter if they know they received true psychedelic drugs. In fact, some of the downstream effects might be due to psychedelics acting as a sort of super placebo.

If someone tells you they're giving you psychedelics to study antidepressant effects and then you spend the next 12 hours tripping, you're going to feel that something profound has happened. Being primed to expect improvements in depression and anxiety combined with the extreme disorientation of a psychedelic might be enough to elicit the antidepressant response.
Squad (YC W18) Is Hiring an Android Engineer
Hypothetically, if this happened, I wonder how much the source of ReactOS could help fill in the blanks. Or at least give the new developers somewhere to start.
My single biggest problem on the iPad is the way Safari just randomly kills your background tabs. Filling out a web form? You'd better hope that their half-baked tab state saving worked! (Spoiler alert: it probably didn't)

It's particularly annoying because of the headline features of iPadOS was that you could finally use Google Docs in Safari! It's actually amazing how well it works...until you switch tabs or apps and have to wait for your entire spreadsheet to reload.
In some states you basically have a legal obligation to drive defensively and there's shared fault, even for what could sensibly be considered entirely the fault of one party.
Are they refunding the microtransactions/in-game store purchases? I read that they weren't but don't know if that's been updated.
"No, you see? It is the remote control that explodes when you push the button. Not the TV! That's entirely different!"
Multiplayer requires latest version, so no getting updates results in losing multiplayer. I agree refunds would be a decent move given that multiplayer is the main selling point of the game though.
> I know many have written that they have issues with multiple windows on the iPad, but for me it's never been better or easier.

I use the iPad for the vast majority of my non-development computing. For me—and clearly for a lot of people—multi-tasking on the iPad has never been as good as it is on the Mac or even Windows. At the same time, it is absolutely as good/ easy as it's ever been. It's just still awkward and sometimes frustrating.

> This is all way out there right now, but it makes me think that the iPad is still just getting started.

I think so too, I love the iPad and wish I could use it as my primary computer. Every year when WWDC (the show formerly known as WWDC?) rolls around I hope we'll see some improvements that would allow me to run some of my web development workflow on the iPad and I'm generally disappointed.
It isn't. Read the quoted section from Russel Clark, the BIS has been talking about this (they specifically mention levered hedge fund positions), and they specifically mention an arb between cash bond and derivatives (do you know the history of this trade? It blew up twice in the 90s)/point out that some funds are running with a lot of leverage (is this repo? I don't know, but it is likely given that this has always been a financing source and the BIS are saying that it is).

So not nonexistent. The quotes look completely fine (I have looked at clearinghouses quite a bit, Russel Clark understands them...obv, the guy is not an idiot).
This ties nicely into the two questions I have about the article.

First, have you seen clear, lasting changes in anxiety and depression? If the single-dose effect for cancer patients really is this strong, it seems like everyone who messed with mushrooms once in college should be 'treated' also.

Second, how well do those feelings of contentment stick around? The stories I hear of enlightenment on mushrooms, DMT, any other "entheogen" all have the element you describe of being unable to grasp the discovery after the trip, and once it's in hindsight I can imagine that memory being anywhere from comforting to aggravatingly out-of-reach.
Maybe I am missing some context here, but why would a game studio make a backwards-compatibility-breaking change to the engine a five year old game? I know that it's a popular game, but this sounds like an excuse to me.
> After all, are [...] Amazon liable for all the counterfeit things on their page? Should Bezos go to jail?

Yes. Amazon is fucking up the functioning of the overall market, by undercutting legal products with fraudulent fake products, while shielding the criminals from retribution. It's been extremely harmful and Bezos should be punished for it.
they acquired the "Agile" managers
Just a peek into how entire ecosystems might irreversibly collapse. Just imagine if krill shrimp are similarly affected as they are critical link in the food chain.
I don't think it actually works as you describe. But if it did, such that necessary commodities tend to be anchored, while high-end stuff climbs, don't we then have an automatic, built-in way to extract more money from the well-to-do, proportional to how stratospheric their wealth is?
There is a slow trickle of open source games coming out, but you have to actually look to find them. Github does contests for it every year: https://gameoff.github.com
I don't use any, not a programmer, but I have come across the following, languages unknown to me.

https://www.saasforge.dev/

https://github.com/async-labs/saas

https://nodex.wensia.com/

Cheers, Ace.
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The article makes it sound like they were running DX9 in Linux and MacOS. If true, how is this so? Is there some type of X11 extension that implements DX9 or something?
Alt link https://www.1843magazine.com/features/trapped-in-iran
In case anyone wants a link to a source for the above comment, here you go:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-confirms-human-transmission-of...
Yeah, there are some pretty solid crates coming up. Obviously Tokio as a runtime, Rayon for parallel iterators,and the whole Async Std crate. Rayon is a good example of a crate that helps add concurrency without much headache for embarrassingly parallel operations.

Even still, even in languages with built-in runtimes and GC like GO, it is very easy to create deadlocks/livelocks. Programmers intuitions of concurrency are generally wrong, and the correct intuitions are complex. I don't know how we make concurrency easy. I do like Futures however, they provide a nice abstraction over threads.
So I have no experience in 3D graphics and very little experience in game design (I wrote a 2D game in high school but that's it), but if they are already going from DX9 to DX11 why don't they go to another library that supports all the platforms they already develop for such as Vulkan? I'd imagine that would better future-proof their game to make adapting to other platforms that are released in the future easier. So how hard would it be to go from DX to something else? As stated before, I have no experience in this area so I'm being completely sincere with my question.
Rust Ownership by Example
> Instead of trying to rebuild the editors we had we build something else designed for testing, iterating, and managing the AST.

Considering that they barely managed to design working "regular user interfaces", the next-generation editors and development tools won't come from the teams currently working on iPad OS.
Absolutely, but in the context of this conversation we’re talking about moving away from annuals and all of the labor and inputs associated — towards perennials.

Therefore, I’m not saying we should copy the Victory Garden from WWII verbatim, but use it as a model for how every person can use their backyard to combat climate change.

The point is not to replace all of agriculture, but find ways that, collectively, individuals can make a dent in the problem. Even if it’s as simple as planting more oak trees and fruit trees.

But, some of the comments here lack imagination (to speak kindly of the some of the negativity and snark in some of the other replies) in how we could take a 20th century idea and update it for today. We have more technology available, and more knowledge.
The FDA tells Purell to stop claiming it can prevent Ebola
But Steam as a platform pushes linux, because the Steam box is linux-based.
> Tried to display a web demo, some custom diagramming, and a PowerPoint on conference room screen from the laptop. Unable to use the enterprise guest WiFi due to their security proxies, and the hotspot was too slow. Popped the same USB-C HDMI adapter in the iPad, and showed all the content over LTE.

This sounds like more a symptom of wifi's universal awfulness than a failure of the MPB though. I generally use my phone as a wifi hotspot when I'm on my laptop for the same reason.
Which store on Amazon is ran by Bezos?
The Benefits of Monolith Refactoring
They did release Windows 2003 SP1 kernel source (named as "Windows Research Kernel") long time ago, along with re-licensing it for research use only. Not the whole OS and still not an open source, though.
so trying to keep things afloat so that it can bust later, say when a new president is elected.
Yes that's the gross weight, i.e. carrying its maximum rated load. Personal vehicles are very rarely loaded up to their maximum weight, and mostly are driven relatively empty.

Even driven at gross weight, it's doing 5% of the damage per axle of loaded semi. The semi also has 4-5 axles, so it's more like 2% of the damage of the semi.

Mind you, we're talking here about the most damaging personal vehicle loaded to its maximum weight, and the semi is still doing 50x the damage of the personal vehicle. It's reasonable to say that essentially all road damage is done by semis.
SuperTuxKart (https://supertuxkart.net) is a free racing game similar to Mario Kart and it also has a "Soccer" mode where you play in an arena with a ball and two goals like in Rocket League.
> Threads should be used only when true CPU concurrency is needed.

Which is basically any program running on any modern processor.
Rooms without windows do exist. So do rooms with their windows blocked off for various reasons.

Windows also can’t inform you that while it’s lovely right now, there’s a storm front that will be pouring rain in a few hours.
> Not sure what the problem is - people with high compensation can also discuss how much they're making and talk about their career moves. None of it comes across as entitlement.

Agreed. Plus the only way for folks on the low levels to know what they're missing out on is if the folks on the upper levels make it clear.
You have two choices when it comes to utilizing multiple cores: threads and processes. Threads are hard, but sharing data between processes is hardly any easier.

Maybe they're a bad idea, but these days you have no choice but to learn how to use threads. AMD's run-of-the-mill processors have 16 cores, Intel's 8. Servers have lots more. Heck even your iPhone has 6.

The clock rate on CPUs isn't getting any better. It's just more cores from here on.
> The media lab is made up of a large number of research teams doing very different stuff. It is unfair to just say "the media lab does X or operates like X". Look at the research from the DCI group at the media on zero knowledge proofs systems [0], hash-based accumulators [1], or work on Ring Signatures [2].

I have no dog in the fight, but I feel like if any entity is branding itself as a discrete entity, then you take the lumps of the branding just as you take the brand recognition. If you're "part of the MIT Media lab", then this affects your reputation in the eyes of the public.
10TB drives frequently go on sale for ~$160. It may not even cost $10k.
> The country is already destroying itself with fracking and coal mining. Nuclear power is orders of magnitude more devastating.

All of this is completely wrong. Fracking has enabled us to simultaneously reduce CO2 emissions (by reducing coal mining) while reducing our reliance on foreign oil. Nuclear would be a huge leap forward, again maintaining energy independence (no reliance on Chinese solar panels) while cutting CO2 output.

You’ve got it backwards. America, and the rest of the world, has a problem with environmentalists who can’t do cost-benefit analysis. Thanks to nuclear, France hit CO2 emissions per capita of 6.5 tons back in 1990. Now it’s at 4.6. Germany is still around 9. By the time Germany gets to similar levels using wind and solar, France will have been sitting at those lower levels for 50 years. Everyone in Germany becoming vegans tomorrow won’t make up for half a century of unnecessary CO2 emissions because environmentalists were afraid of nuclear.