skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gameservers are very different in nature from the the rest of the industry ( like web services ), first of all everything is custom so it's not lile there are tools proprietary or open source for that. Even inside the same company you can have different engine with different matchmaking solution etc ... then you have to hook all of that on some platform ( cloud or bare metal ).

The biggest hurdle is the cost, that the #1 issue people will have running gameservers. Imagine your game is using 1 core for 16 players, how many ec2 instance you need to accomodate 150K concurent users? ( and that's just the cost for gameservers it does not includes online services ).

Now what's hard for example? DDoS protection, matchmaking, scaling up/down ( scaling down is challenging depending of the game because of server fragmentation), performance optimization, most dev use Windows to dev games but gameservers are more and more running on Linux now so how do you test that locally. The biggest challenge is that every games are different and you need something "custom" very often. Also game devs have NIH syndrom which doesn't help.

Running gameservers for a serious game is not trivial, currently more challenging that puting some Java app behind a load balancer on an auto-scaling group.
Ideally we live in a society where not being anonymous is not such a big risk.

But governments change, the data is still around to be abused.

This is what disturbs me. Is how data can be abused in the future.
I haven't seen any benchmarks, but I doubt you'll get a big return going to the i7, certainly nowhere near the return on investment the dual core i3 to quad core i5 is. Macbook air is mostly going to thermally limited under sustained load anyway, so the i7 benefits are likely pretty limited.
This website does some crazy redirect loop between medium at the sub domain when opened without JS. How is that even possible?
Its most likely the combination of lots of people working from home and people in retail/etc sitting at home mid day streaming content so now the peak time is all day.
TIL generic names (in your geographic region) are good ways to promote privacy.

I always wondered how the Chinese authorities figured that out considering the massive name reuse in China. I can’t watch a Chinese movie or TV show without at least one character sharing the surname (the first part in China) of a Chinese person I know.

Smith would be our classic version in the west.
>However, LLVM is consistently 5% worse than the GCC toolchain at performance across multiple benchmarks

That is true, but it is ALSO true that LLVM is consistently 5% better than the GCC toolchain at performance across multiple benchmarks
Not OP but: You probably know the answer to your own question, since I'm guessing you made Toolkit to scratch your own itch! :) The "Redux Experience" is a bit overwhelming, boilerplatey, verbose and full of gotchas. Structures are all over the place. IMO that is solved by Toolkit.

The only problem with Toolkit is that it's not Redux. People don't know it yet, and I have to fight to convince people it's good enough. In an ideal world for me you'd be able to deprecate old Redux and just replace it with Toolkit.
haha - this matches exactly my experience from above and a few other times! Glad I'm not the only one they crapped on despite being a paying customer. I'm playing with GCP but haven't had anyone actually deploy to it that I work with - let's be safe goes a long way to keep folks making decisions off google I've found.

I like their search / email products though.
Yes. Or sites just CNAMEing entirely over to their ad network, which then proxies the page content and inserts ads. Which are then, as a side effect, are very difficult to block.

And since they can easily correlate logs server side, they can track people between sites.
Ask HN: What is the best daily Covid-19 report?
The non stop flood of information is taking its toll on me, but I don’t want to miss any new developments. What is the best resource that I can read once a day?
UV-C is basically entirely blocked by the ozone layer and doesn't reach the surface of the earth.

Its extremely dangerous, and can cause eye and skin damage with under 60 seconds of exposure, it is absolutely something you do not want to be anywhere around when active.
Automated speech recognition less accurate for black speakers
I used to use webex more, but zoom just had had some incredible mindshare growth. Its literally the first suggestion it seems when there is a problem with a conference setup. Latency is also good on zoom which makes the audio side nicer in my experience.
So, for starters, total personal monthly income is $1.4 trillion dollars.

Most people need their monthly salary to survive. We already need several hundred billion dollars just to shore up unemployment insurance funds, which just pay for a fraction of people’s salary.

This has nothing to do with “the poor bankers”. Mostly it had to do with small businesses which make up the backbone of the American economy and which are collapsing at an extremely alarming rate.

The government can’t just press a big magical pause button on the DVR. The government can try to pickup some of the bills, or it can loan money out at good rates, or it can fire cash bazookas directly into people’s checking accounts, but even the Fed can’t just print enough money to single handedly keep the entire economy afloat while legally restricting people from doing business.

As long as everyone has stopped buying anything and everything discretionary, businesses will be failing and unemployment will skyrocket. Unemployment is a massive drag on GDP because consumer spending is the majority of consumption.

GDP of -25% is not just a “tighten the belt and we’re gonna deal with this” type of event. It’s not merely a question of “we have to do this to save lives” because shooting the economy in the gut actually costs lives too.

You put people out of work and into financial insolvency, and their general health is very negatively affected, and some of them will die. Look at the opioid crisis, for example.
CSS is still a big mess of hacks if you try to have consistent styles across browsers, it's not ie 7 zoom level hacks but you still need various extra properties to make things work.
I'm not sure what your use case is so maybe this isn't helpful, but Wikipedia has weekly or so database dumps that you can download, as well as static HTML (although that might be more out of date)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
> An MVP is a temporary site, it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be perfect.

Ok, it got me hook on the just use the standard tags concept, but the above quote implies, this shouldn’t go into production.

Is that accurate?
For some reason OBS can't capture my screen properly. I didn't bother debugging but I probably could have. I doubt all school teachers could though.
That's also a good reason to avoid glibc and switch to a musl-based system.
LambdaMOO is a fully programmable text-based virtual reality.

Here's the LambdaMOO programmer's manual: https://hayseed.net/MOO/manuals/ProgrammersManual.html

Webpage: https://www.moo.mud.org/

Other resources: https://github.com/johndoe771/lambda-moo-programming

And for LambdaMOO itself telnet to lambda.moo.mud.org 8888.
Unicode agrees:

> Several letterlike symbols are used to indicate units. In most cases, however, such as for SI units (Système International), the use of regular letters or other symbols is preferred.

> In normal use, it is better to represent degrees Celsius “°C” with a sequence of U+00B0 degree sign + U+0043 latin capital letter c, rather than U+2103 degree celsius. For searching, treat these two sequences as identical. Similarly, the sequence U+00B0 degree sign + U+0046 latin capital letter f is preferred over U+2109 degree fahrenheit, and those two sequences should be treated as identical for searching.

(From https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf)
Using Azure Function Apps to Process Blob Storage Event Triggers
Economic output isn't just paperwork. It may seem to be just pushing papers for now, but thats because we're only 2 weeks in. All of what we have now is because of the fully functional economy we used to have. I'm all for what the FED is doing right now, but it's just a stop gap. You just can't print your way into actual economic output. there's a reason why we don't just always "push papers" instead of working. Human decency won't be enough to keep hospitals and supply chains running.Again, for a short while everything will keep working but that's an illusion.

All of that can look abstract for us since we can mostly work from home and don't get to see the gears that make everything work from our tech jobs. But those gears are still very real. And even remote tech workers will eventually get hit by the impacts of a prolonged shutdown.

Also, It's not that bill gates can't have an opinion on this, it's just that he is very obviously not going to be impacted by what he's preaching. Misery for them, because we need to save lives, but not for me.
Here's one more site for staying home. WebRTP, no install, no registration.
https://ba.net/screen-share-party
Party Equipment Rentals in Montreal
FYI: downvotes because (0) off-topic, (a) not constructive, (b) the world is bigger than California and there’s a lot of great infrastructure elsewhere, (c) PG&E is probably about average, (d) complaining about downvotes without thinking about why people had reason to downvote you.
It might buy a couple of rolls of toilet paper too. When rent is $1500, food costs $450 a month for a family now that staple items in particular are scarce and more expensive, car payments aren't going away, and rent will become due after the 90 day pause because there will be no forgiveness. I predict bread lines in 6 months and far more massive homelessness without a proper bailout of small businesses and the people, rather than trillions of corporate welfare. Trickledown Reaganomics corporate welfare will never work, only trickle-up works.

When people don't have money to meet their non-discretionary needs and unemployment reaches 20-30%, which is worse than the Great Depression, what follows is deflation and depression on an unprecedented macro scale. At the street scale, starvation and homelessness would be the impact; Venezuela, Cuba and the UN would be flying in doctors, refugee camp materials and food to the US.

Massive UBI directly to individuals and small businesses enough to meet basic needs is essential, and will be spent into the economy because MPC will be nearly 1.0. Otherwise, the US economy will contract more and for longer than at any point in recorded history.
If they're the penultimate, who's the ultimate?
Server side redirect after tracking cookies aren't set by JS. Advertising.com blogs (AOL?) do the same thing.
I'm worried about unintentional innuendo popping up. You never know which of the urban dictionary phrases this thing will generate...
Social Distancing Scoreboard
I just copied the DuckDuckGo Unicode Instant Answer (https://duck.co/ia/view/unicode) ;)
Does a racist caricature exist? Does racism itself exist? If it does, what does it look like?

If you don't think the pickaninny or the mammy are racist, I have no idea what you think racism looks like.

The pickaninny and the mammy were part of minstrel shows and lots of other pernicious hurtful portrayals. Nobody has ever complained about the other characters in Astérix because there is no history of black people systematically enslaving whites and then making ridiculous shows and cartoons about the enslaved whites. Of course white people aren't offended by how white people draw themselves.

Uderzo didn't even invent the style in which he drew black people. He's just copying the same racist caricatures that existed long before he did.
This is a plot device in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep". Something seems off in communications from an apparently friendly spaceship. Use of cached facial models means that whoever/whatever controls the ship now is just puppeting the models of the crew over a deliberately low bandwidth link.
If all I needed was detection I could just XOR all letters and append the result.
The whole zim file infrastructure is pretty broken. I've been trying to put together a system for generating a WARC file by rendering all the wikitext content in a database dump, which is a lot more reasonable of an approach.

Rendering wikitext is challenging though, since wikitext can include chunks of other wikitext, and wikitext can use some pretty complicated templating functionality.

Oddly enough where I've run into the biggest issues is in weird slowdowns of the python WARCIO library that making dealing with large archives just about impossible. I haven't had time to really track that down, but if anyone want to it's pretty easy to reproduce, just try adding a few million lorum-ipsum articles and look at how far from linear time it's running.

There are a lot of advantages to starting from a dump, you can provide much better tools for filtering articles, probably even provide rudimentary document classification. You can also do things like re-compress and minify images, a dump intended for a cellphone probably doesn't need 4k images.

WARC is also probably a better tool for distributing web-archive type content, like wikipedia dumps. You can distribute a package of text content and image content as separate files, for example. Generally I have not been very impressed with the quality of ZIM file tooling. One disadvantage is you need to provide separate search indexing, but that's doable.

I'd love to be able to get a wikimedia grant to work on this, and take on less contract work, but so far their grant process is pretty hard to follow.
> For me, the privacy-breaking aspects that are required to personalize ads are the primary negative aspect, and are what I focused on.

The two are more or less intertwined. "Personalization" leaks information about people. It has also allowed advertisers to promote material targeting (or eliminating) otherwise protected groups.

People have been outed for being pregnant and for being gay, by outside observers noticing what promotions they were getting.
Sourcerer: A 16 bit color scheme for hackers
Kiwix has a mobile app that runs a local copy of full Wikipedia (~80GB) from the device, with formatting and pictures and everything. I'm not aware of any other fully-baked solution that does this.

It looks like the pictures are not available as a dump from Wikimedia; the page you link to implies that they are, but the latest dump is from 2012.
How can Dyson ramp up ventilator production? Their factories are not set up to manufacture ventilators with completely different materials or tooling. Dyson not only has production capacity for hundreds of thousands of vacuum cleaners, but probably has tens of thousands already in stock in warehouses and at retailers. If they can find a way to use them to help patients, those patients can get that help TOMORROW. They absolutely cannot do that with ventilators.
It didn't for me. (It did, however, make the content of the page load roughly two orders of magnitude faster.)
Is there a reason pbs.org doesn't use TLS?
I used to think some of my peers were being overly cautious by purposely trying to obfuscate their online profile. Back in the day, I couldn’t care less about putting in effort to try to protect my online privacy. I have slowly but surely come to see the light. Now it’s at the forefront of my mind at all times.

Learning about this company (and I imagine other unknown entities are doing the same) has encouraged me to get more aggressive.

I think I will start to try some shenanigans I learned from a friend. I plan on replacing my online profile pics to a random grab from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/. Might not make much of a difference for the old stuff, maybe I can successfully request a data deletion as the article suggests. At least it will introduce a little bit of noise to the AI overloads :)
A ventilator based on 3D-printed parts and a snorkeling mask
The article is missing a link to the Clearview forms to request a copy of the data or request deletion: https://clearview.ai/privacy/requests
Living During the Coronavirus Pandemic
SEC Gets Win in Test of Authority to Regulate Cryptocurrency Sales
Also running into this issue.
So many clever ideas in that book.
When I first heard that 14% of Covid-19 ICU patients had viral pneumonia, some comment said vaccinations are available. Next day, I got vaccinated. I was in ICU for pneumonia before so I didn't want this high chance again.
“Free”
My 3M P95 masks (purchased for 2018 Camp Fire smoke) come in compressed bags. Also if you sous vide using vacuum sealer bags (e.g. Foodsaver) those are a little more stiff.
The US is the #2 manufacturer in the world [1] and will overtake China this year to become #1 [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_...

[2] https://www.industryweek.com/the-economy/competitiveness/med...
Where are you getting your numbers from? King County has 1277[1] confirmed cases. Whatever you were looking at 9 hours ago must be out of date.

1. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coronavirus...
Not if there's a proper opt-in permission prompt, just like for GPS or camera/microphone access.

It's not trivial, though, seeing how notification prompts were abused...
I don't think it's realistic to live in constant fear of browser sandbox escapes, or to consider visiting an arbitrary URL "silliness." If your threat model includes people willing to burn Chrome 0-days on you, you need an air gap.

The much more relevant battle is preventing credential theft, which you can solve completely at the technical level with U2F. And if you can't, user education on "check the URL before typing your password" is a little more realistic than "don't open links from email ever."
AI-Enabled Deepfake Takes Us ‘Back to the Future’
This isn't even remotely true, OpenBSD needs to be a usable system too.
Are you perhaps younger? It had a not great contemporary reception and when translated in West Germany included a lot of anti-East Germany propaganda.
How do people have this idea that the economy just goes back to normal? That somehow you tell people to go back to work and just take the millions of dead and everybody just salutes and dutifully goes about it like nothing is happening?

That’s complete fantasy land. I’m flabbergasted at how people are now somehow proposing this. They simply do not have any conception of what is going on and how human beings react.

The economy is going to be trashed much worse if we don’t manage this pandemic and keep the demands on the health system at manageable levels. We can do that intelligently or clumsily. At the moment we’ve ignored the problem and it has caused us to be in the situation to be reacting very late. That’s why it’s hurting so much. But making that worse by going back to pretending it isn’t happening is not the answer.
As I said previously, I think personalizing should be opt-in and under the users control. If I don't want my race/ political beliefs/ religion/ or sexual orientation tracked, that should be my choice, not under the control of a corporation.
Are the prebuilt toolchains (https://swift.org/download/) giving you trouble?
I spent many many hours playing/coding/wizard-ing with several Star Trek themed MOOs and an original space themed version. I thoroughly enjoyed the language and environment. MOO is really where I initially grasped and thrived with OOP.
--word-diff=color is your friend in this case.
Many people I've worked with in the past have unfortunately shared the sentiment of the author. I think the issue is sustainability of documentation practices. There's a desire path that engineers exhibit when writing docs. We just want to write something and have others be able to read it. Markdown is the lowest barrier of entry because, even without any special characters, my plain text will look "fine" in Markdown. Nothing is truely required.

To me the two most important things are:

1. Docs are tracked with software updates (track in VCS)

2. Enable me to spend less time writing docs and more time writing code

Google documented their experiments with markdown documentation here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
We use quite a bit of markdown at Stripe :)
> Some are good quick-and-dirty implementers, some are deep design thinkers, some are just good at reviewing and giving advice.

Fred Brooks has a chapter in Mythical Man Month where he mentions different programmers having different roles within "Surgical Software Team" but that never took off.

I wonder if updating that to 2020 would make more sense to have a group of people shipping features full-steam ahead, another reviewing the code for mistakes, and then having other folks refactoring the mess, behind both of them.

I would frankly enjoy being in just one the three positions, any of them, much more than the position I'm currently: having to be all three at the same time.
My martial arts dojo is running “virtual” sessions. Is there some theoretical pedagogical advantage to this over nothing? Yes. But the real advantage is having a community to connect to. The video is important for that.
Sure, there's a sizable denominator problem. That people misunderstand what CFR is is a problem, too.

If we want to know how lethal the virus is, we need sampling of who actually has contracted it, which is tough in the early stages of a pandemic.
I agree, panic can bring out irrational thinking. Maybe I am over-reacting because there seems to be so much of it going around.

I did the math on COVID-19 back in early February and quickly recognized this was not going to be "just the flu". I made it a point to warn lots of people to get ready, buy supplies, etc. The number of people who laughed at me with the now familiar "just the flu" was alarming.

A good deal of my family members and friends who understand I am not an alarmist and don't say that kind of stuff lightly took my advice. I can't tell you how many calls I got over the last couple of weeks from them thanking me for the advance notice. None of them had to join the desperation and frenzy at our supermarkets. Everyone got ready for it back in February.

In the meantime I am trying to put hardware on the moon. It seems like such a distant idea given what's going on. My guess is Artemis is likely to suffer delays due to this pandemic and the funds we'll need to burn to keep afloat.
I wonder what would happen if I were to issue them a $5000/mo/piece retroactive license invoice for any/all use of my name/likeness/etc for their profit.

I wonder what would happen if everyone did.
This has nothing to do with Stadia.

It's open-source software (Agones) designed to run any kind of game server (packaged as a Docker container) on top of Kubernetes with easier management around things like scaling, rolling updates, session management, metrics, lifecycle SDK, etc. Google Cloud is just offering a managed version of this on top of GKE.

AWS and Azure offer similar platforms and even more products (like AWS Lumberyard game engine).
You can definitely put it into production. It's just not a "pixel-perfect, cross-browser, fully tested on all devices back to iPhone 4" kind of stylesheet. It's a "looks decent with no effort" kind of stylesheet.

It's more to help you launch quickly so you can test an idea, like a hackathon, side project or MVP.
As others have pointed out, I was basing that not on the paper, but the summary linked here. It sounds like some new fundamental physics insight about time reversibility, when in fact it's just the old chaos stuff. Given that impression, it deserved a little snark and should not even be here.

But apparently that's actually a lot of what it's about, in which case the authors are well aware - but it's still not very interesting then. The Lorenz attractor is is simpler than a 3-body system and will exhibit similar divergence.
Sign in with Apple can't be a flop; it's required to pass app review.