skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consoles offer lots of advantages, to the MASS MARKET, that you are overlooking. In fact I am a former PCMR gamer that moved to consoles for a few reasons:

* I can rent games from my local redbox to try out for a few days. Sometimes, that's all I need and I saved myself the price of the game.

* Couch co-op is typically superior on console.

* Ease of use: simple connection to TV, simple remote controllers. The story for HDR support is also steamlined (as in, my TV supports it so if the game does too, done)

* Consoles are much quieter, making them a much better TV-room appliance.

* Easy purchase and sharing games, especially with a physical copy. Loan out the physical game, no fuss.

* Some sort of resale value for physical games, albeit not that much. However if you are the type to locust the content of a game quickly, as in the first week of release, you can often resell for most the purchase price.

* A UI built for TV and remote use. No, I'm not excited about controlling Windows from across the room by keyboard/mouse.

* Great portability. One of my consoles is a Nintendo Switch, and it travels far better than a PC. Yes you can get a gaming notebook but that solution is no longer competitive on pricing.

* Better multi-user design. It's easier to have a family console with multiple accounts than it is have a Windows PC with multiple accounts. And have parental controls, etc.

Sure, with suitable amount of time/research and other stuff I'm just no longer interested in doing, I can get wireless controllers, quiet(er) fans, apps for launching that are usable at typical resolution from 6' or more away, fiddle with multiple accounts on Windows (who ACTUALLY does this outside a work setting? It's just... not smooth at all), but there is a cost in my time I don't want to invest anymore.

and other reasons such as

* I want to step away from Microsoft Windows and various issues from privacy to updates. Since the consoles are only for entertainment (gaming, playing videos) I am less concerned about telemetry possibly swooping up everything I'm doing.

Many might not care about that last case... but how many times do half the people in an HN thread about Windows gripe loudly about privacy or monthly updates? It seems like there is some problem with a Windows update 2 or 3 times a year. Yeah, I want off that merry-go-round for my ENTERTAINMENT system.

So, I'm actually doing something about a Window dependency, rather than just griping online. I migrated to Linux for my dekstop (on a NUC) and console gaming to fill the gaming gap. Yeah it isn't perfect and there are a handful of games I still need Windows for, but between linux and consoles, that's about 90% of my need for Windows removed.
> Police officers that refuse to call out the bad apples are themselves bad apples.

That's precisely how the bunch is spoilt. That's the entire reason for the adage in the first place.
Why isn't it standard for all body cam footage of an arrest to automatically be entered as evidence? It seems like even for a judge to accept a plea deal, they should be forced to see the footage. Someone should be catching things as clear as this.
I see. As you have phrased it just now; this seems sensible. Thank you for the clarification.
The PS3 originally planned to run the game on the PPE and shaders on the SPEs; you could think of it as a single-core CPU with a 7-core GPU on one chip. At some point they realized this wasn't powerful enough so they added the RSX but that left the SPEs with no particular job to do. It was too late to redesign Cell so they just shipped it and punted the problem to game developers.

In retrospect, a G5+RSX with unified memory probably would have been much better.
The two main App Store providers already have products that provide fast, ephemeral app installs: Safari and Chrome.
Newsom's CA estimate is roughly the same percentage as the nationwide estimates by the CDC: "Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic" (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est...)
DOCSIS is fine now, but being a cable network supporting legacy systems takes up most of the upload spectrum for any cable ISP.
so how many of those things were launched from the VAB?
It's not easy. You need a special machine that is about $4.5m USD and I'm guessing they are in high demand right now.

I got this info from this article the other day so not expert opinion if anyone can give better.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
My dad used to work for a big tech OEM and retired a few years back. He had years of supply chain flows, contacts, locations, and more for his old company in notes, his head, and Visio and was hired through layoffs for that knowledge. I think in like 2006 he was picked up by a manager who had heard him speak up in a meeting years before to explain a step in a chain and knew he knew what the company was able to do.

He could jump into the flow of parts and information for a specific printer model from 10 years ago. He knew the reasons for each steps like import tax avoidance, cost/benefit analysis of using one vendor/shipper/etc, or even that they used to have a specific engineer at that one factory who was amazing at QA and tolerance checking or something like that. When teams were behind due to supply chain issues, he would jump in to analyze their process. Sometimes that meant combining it with ongoing flows like "This factory here makes a part like that for product X, I'll get you a sample so you can adapt it into your product to rework."

He had immense company value and history committed to memory that he tried to pass before leaving as teams moved to India or China. But I doubt anyone at a decision making level was aware.
Most games are, but the exclusives tend to be very good.
Give me whatever terminology you prefer for: "I can ensure I maintain backwards compatibility (with a spec checker). Also with most of the generated client code you can ensure to a high degree of safety that the data I'm accessing exists and is of the correct type".

Happy to consider using that term instead. For most folks, the one I chose is good enough.
As someone who's written a Dropbox blog post - yes. A tech blog is often cited by candidates as something they were intrigued by.
The fact that the Linux ABI is stable is the whole reason why containers are possible.

If it were necessary to use the matching version of userland tools to your kernel version, then a container engine would only be able to run container images that match the kernel version -- you wouldn't be able to run containers based on two different versions of Debian, for example.
> Any website I visit from mobile wants the permission to notify me

Strange, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a permission prompt on mobile. Chrome, iOS
I think the unfortunate fallout from this is that China now has confirmation that they are in a dominant position world wide and likely will start to exploit that fact. This isn't a statement on the country, as any country in that position would do the ame and has done so in the past many times over.
Sendgrid/Twilio drops support for sendgrid Ruby gem
I think people should have right to their opinions but voicing some is sometimes just plainly dangerous.

Yes, we know it works. China has allowed the disease to spread, yet they have instantly turned it around by introducing extreme measures. Just watch this very informative piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk

If you are not convinced extreme measures are worth it, just take a look at Italy which still can't get a grip on its population the way Chinese authorities were able to (being authoritative state has some advantages sometimes).

The plague has barely started and they already ran out of space to keep bodies.

If you are of another opinion (that it has barely started) the current statistics show that only half of percent of population is diagnosed (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) and if you look at logarithmic graph it barely shows any signs of slowdown.

We know there are some asymptomatic cases but only at most 3-4 per one requiring hospitalization which means at most 2-3 percent of population is actually ill. So yes, it just barely started.

South Korea is good example where early, aggressive hunting of cases before they spread brings good results, there was an article on HN recently.

For this reason I think educating people that this is serious matter and we should all refrain from doing things that can spread the disease, if not for our own health then for public safety, is everybody's responsibility now.

This does not mean we have to panic. We just need to understand what is and what is not reasonable prevention. Think about this: if everybody stayed home for two weeks this would mostly be over.

I understand we can't all stay home. Not everybody has a job that allows it. But a lot of people can and the ones that have to move around can do a lot of sane things to make it much harder for disease to spread.
The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
Good and helpfull app
The PS4 had GDDR5 RAM for main memory, which no one else (including PCs) was doing at the time. According to Cerny (at the time), a single pool of fast memory was the #1 thing Sony's 3rd party devs were begging for.
"A centerpiece of the package is tax rebates to individuals of $1,200 and $2,400 for married couples."

Does rebate mean 1,200 off of your yearly taxes?
That’s bullshit.

It’s out of step with what the companies whose livelihoods depend on advertising want to establish as the desires of users.

Try to realistically justify any of those use cases listed and you’ll realize what a shill you sound like.
> Netflix might have data centers that gets closer, but nothing will ever get as far reaching and close as P2P would. A residential building who are all watching the same movie would only have to download the movie from building <> internet once.

This assumes that residential internet connections act like a larger version of your home LAN.

For all the ISPs that I know about in Australia, all of those connections are terminated within the ISPs network in a central location. This is done using PPPoE/IPoA which is handled generally at the state level.

Even for HFC networks where the local node is a shared medium, you can't get client-client communications.

Perhaps the situation is different for small WISPs, but I can't see it being too different for most people. Happy to learn more if you have examples.
Yeah - And I bet you also remember those warnings about configuring your monitor wrong could physically destroy it. Fun times! :-)
> Furthermore it is profoundly curious to claim that a cross platform filesystem that began life on Solaris and existed for years as a stable complete work before being ported to several OS including Linux becomes by virtue of a bridge a derivative work of Linux. It's magical thinking.

please don't confuse the source code and the resulting binaries. to the extent that the zsh source code does not derive from Linux, it is not a derivative work.

but the binaries built for Linux will necessarily be derivative of both.

and we regularly redistribute binaries; this indeed is what Linux distributions ordinarily do.

if you only write the bridging code and/or distribute the module source, you may be quite protected. but if you distribute a patch from the mainline to include zsh, or a mixed tarball of Linux+zsh, or even compiled Linux kernels complete with a loadable zsh module, you may be in breach. all of these clearly derive from multiple sources with incompatible licences.
It's worth considering maybe kind of BSing that demo a bit. No need to hit servers etc for just a demo - you just want to give an idea of how it'll work rather than have an actual running demo.
We may also do well to bear in mind that, in this political climate, many reasonable people advocating very reasonable policies are being slandered as "Nazis" with their subsequent deplatforming justified by that label alone.

As long as that exception that you tacked on at the end exists, it will be exploited by whoever holds power.
"I'm going to support businesses putting their employees in harm's way just so that I can get a game a few days sooner.

Fuck you, losers who actually want essential staples or the ability to safely prioritize your health!"

~ DigIt
I asked a Comcast tech when IPv6 would be available and he said “IP v what?”. Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Yeah true.

I guess I need to remember the ISP I work for here in Australia (front line tech support, and then network operations physical security and infrastructure) was widely recognised as the best ISP in Australia multiple years running, so I shouldn't use it as a baseline expectation.
or the privacy button could encrypt the video stream instead of shutting it off.
Yeah - I recall that the number of characters printed would tell you where it failed.
> Please don't arbitrarily change the theme of the website I'm using based on my battery level.

Yeah, just base your theme off of the dark mode setting. Then if the _system_ changes to dark mode when battery is low, your app can follow suite.
Wow! I had a feeling our spend was a little low compared to big players, but I didn't realize how far off I was!
And a few years later, there were several PS3 supercomputer clusters. The US Air Force built a supercomputer out of PS3 nodes, and it was the 33rd largest in the world!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
Been too long since I commented so I can't edit.

I think these are fine if you are trying to review concepts while on a train or something. Emphasis on REVIEW and revisiting only, not learning.
Virtual machines per app are a thing, but they have a lot of disadvantages (particularly resource consumption). Various sandboxes have existed for a long time, but I’m curious which ones you would point out that have survived anywhere near the scrutiny and attack surface that browsers have.
> It feels like it would be better if Sony and Microsoft created a "standard" for manufacturers to build to.

You're talking about two companies notorious for ignoring existing APIs and standards, coming up with their own proprietary systems, using marketing and FUD to knock down and strangle existing and emerging standards, and then spending the rest of their effort locking customers into their proprietary stuff. And they're not alone. It's the standard tech company mentality: Deliberately make your product different and incompatible with everyone else and compete instead of cooperate. Best case outcome is monopoly and customer lock-in. Most likely case is no one solution gains enough traction and you end up with 15 incompatible chat apps. Worst case is you emerge from the fight as HD-DVD.
Already tried by Steam with SteamOS and Steam machines [1]. They even developed a custom controller. I haven't heard much about it since its launch roughly 5 years ago, however I would assume it is all but dead now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(hardware_platfo...
I think that is more about how whomever wants to offer a site wants to offer their content, not the browser itself.
I was the same, but I found that repeated exposure to cilantro leaves in my food eventually gave me a taste for it in certain dishes.
That article doesn't seem to link to the GitLab issue where they had the discussion, so let me link to the corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437334
I'm fed up with this "it's just a cold" meme. If COVID-19 is "just a cold" or "just a flu", why are ICU's in places like Italy and elsewhere so overwhelmed with severe pneumonia cases?
Why expensive? seems like a Xbox One S is a few hundred bucks 299 I see on the site. The One X seems 100 more.

Could you buy or even build a comparable gaming PC for that much? Not really to up with all the hardware stuff... so curious. Guess you’d need to pick a case, motherboard and then find similar specs if comparing and compatible hardware combination.

Then I thought consoles were some what subsidized since they also get a cut of game sales. Plus targeting the same hardware sounds like a way to be consistent.
Indeed; true REST interactions tend to be quite coarse-grained; essentially requests to update a remote state machine to match the described state. Most of what gets called “REST” isn’t; it’s just ad-hoc RPC sent over HTTP with arguments encoded as XML/JSON, which is probably what parent really means. Take casual claims of RESTfulness with the requisite bucket of salt. (If the term “REST API” is used, you can toss the bucket entirely as the very phrase is itself an oxymoron.)
This looks about right, and I'm not claiming to be prescient, just basically saying what Chris Urmson and Bill Gurley already said years ago.

I'm curious what specific statements by Chris Urmson you are referring to. When he was in charge at Waymo in 2015, they announced that their solution is good enough to drive a blind man around town. And this was before they acknowledged they're using teleop.
Not that I'm aware of. The only high FPS movie I know of is Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ang Lee, it is shot at 120fps. The Hobbit is shot at 48fps.
I've been on teams spending half of that, and managed to get great discounts.

My question whenever I hear that people didn't is who did they ask? AWS doesn't just jump in to give people free service- but if you reach out to them and tell them you need it they tend to work with companies.
> I feel sure the vast majority of Police officers are doing upstanding work, so it's a matter of identifying and punishing the bad apples.

I really was expecting this comment to continue in that vein of heavy sarcasm.

Are you aware that "a few bad apples" is usually used ironically to mock apologists?
I can only speak from my own experience, taking it prophylactically while traveling overseas in a malaria prone area. I had to discontinue it after 5 days because it was keeping me from my work: profound, irrational depression, constant cold sweats, painful tinnitus, nausea and disabling fatigue. Perhaps these side effects would have gone away over the long term.

Autoimmune diseases, can be way, way worse, particularly arthropathies, since, if unchecked, they cause permanent damage. Also IME, as a rule disease modifying drugs have really nasty side effects. You take them anyway, because you have no better alternative :(
I can't find any article on google dated before december 30 about "pneumonia china".
Funny coincidence, I just got hold of this book today. I know corona is a thing now, but it was inside a big box of old books I picked up from a friend's house so it was kind of unrelated.

Nice to see it here :)
US jails begin releasing prisoners to stem Covid-19 infections
Questions and Answers about Covid-19 by Bill Gates
Corona Virus (Covid19) Latest Statistics
Surprisingly Good Video by a 15 Year Old Conservative on the Second Amendment
It's a little kid, lol. But I was honestly surprised how good the material is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNNsBfuHmY
Surprised article didn’t include this in its comparison. Seems an obvious contender.
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Thank you very much, I really appreciate your response! :) Reading about flow reactions, it occured to me that liquid propellant rocket engines sort of satisfy the definition - they often have liquid - sometimes gaseous - components entering the reactor (chamber), where they react, releasing heat, and the products of reaction are passing gasdynamic nozzle with the goal of increasing flow speed. One of the problems is to make sure propellants are reacting well - and the timing is critical, as propellants need to react during millisecond-level periods while they are still in the chamber. So I wondered what methods flow chemistry can offer to rocket injector designers regarding reaching good mixing. This question is important for different scale of engines - both mammoths like Saturn-V's F-1 and tiny reaction control system engines, which these days find their ways into cubesats.

Thank you again!
The article is about things you can do with a browser, not things you can do with a browser with JS disabled. I think it's accurate. Also, all these features require support from parts of the browser beyond the JS implementation. Also, Electron embeds a web browser. Also, the ability to do things with something other than a browser doesn't imply you can't do them with a browser.

This is like replying to "Places you can visit for a road trip" and saying "You can visit all these places by train, too, also let's see you go there in a car without the engine."

(I am a links user, btw.)
Netflix is full of BS anyway. I have yet to see a single instance of 4K despite paying for it & having suitable gear and fiber line.
And Disney+ hasn't even launched yet. March 24th will be interesting
Using the AWS cost calculator is pointless, naturally an entity the size of NASA would get heavily discounted rates.

I strongly doubt this.

Amazon seems to work heavily on the principle that they charge their cost + a small margin. Which means that they can't heavily discount without going below their actual costs.
I wonder then if iOS would’ve ever happened. Probably not, unless they still somehow got Steve Jobs.

Apple at least incidentally got some of the benefit of BeOS, or really, the talent behind it: Dominic Giampaolo, who contributed significantly to BeFS, has been with Apple for some time now working on their file systems. I think he is/was a principal on APFS. I’m sure there are others!

Also, muni! From robot frog!
these will help people fake it till they make it
Wikipedia also has a nice page with an overview of most of the common calling conventions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
You can configure cable to use more of its channels for upstream. They just don't because that would hurt downstream and force them to run more cables to make up the difference.

There's absolutely no reason you can't have symmetric cable if cable companies wanted to pay for the infrastructure.
Why America's Financial Plumbing Has Siezed Up
The lack of video from the police should instantly dismiss the case and put any fault on the officer.
This. Store the private key in a sealed envelope somewhere where only a judge can get it. If they push the privacy button and the timeframe is shown to be relevant to a case, it gets decrypted.
Most of the engineering team has spread throughout the AV industry, with most folks going to our neighbors and fellow YC company Cruise Automation.

Sounds like most of the engineering team does not share the founder's perspective on the AV industry.
Want to wish you well, and its quite nice after all this sorrow to see that there are still nice ideas out there that are capable to not only survive but prosper.
Technology can been something better. But we decided to make these thing rather than something else. Or we created a system that preferred these thing over something else.

So I can not blame technology for what is clearly a human/social priority problem.
But didn't you see? They did find the evidence while on camera ... It was the planting of the evidence that happened off camera.
>there appear to be many experts who disagree with you to the point of acting out their disagreement at scale. Chloroquine has become a standard part of treatment for this disease in several countries, and its continued use seems to imply its efficacy.

The fact that experts agree that this drug should be used doesn't mean they agree that it is miraculous. And this certainly doesn't suggest they disagree with the parent MD/statistician.
some one in this very thread said did in fact do exactly that, since they needed compatibility with FreeBSD.