skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arch.

I just checked and it turns out it's running natively not via proton.

Not sure if any of this will be news to you, but for generally debugging:

If you run `steam` from a command line, and then launch civ 6 (or any game) from steam, it will print any errors to the terminal. Chances are it's some sort of missing dependency.

I was told by someone else that I might need to set launch options to `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 %command%`, for whatever reason I didn't need to, but you might try that.
Does it apply to your children's children? What if they're not white?
That can be solved, by renting a desk or dedicated office in a co-working space. I work remotely FT, and if my company paid for it, I would get a spot in a coworking space. I have a dedicated office at home, but I work from coffee shops, breweries wherever I feel like.
Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro review
Lol, none of what you just said refutes the fact that they are engineering marvels.

Anyone that has been on a cruise ship can appreciate the magnitude and scale of engineering, logistics, etc. that went into it.
Ideally, as grandparent notes, yes. But no, there's an obvious way out: Instead of paying dividends, reinvest would-be outgoing cash back into the company. On the phone, claim to follow the Amazon playbook. In addition to not having to give up anything to the government, the company might find itself improving!
Why is it being left to some obscure wildlife organization to be raising this issue? Every nation that does trade with China should be insisting that the wet markets cease operation immediately!

But most likely, 3 or 4 years from now, when the next pandemic hits, and another few hundred thousand people have been killed, there will be scattered articles online meekly suggesting: Maybe those wet markets should be shut down...
> You have to ship something into live production every week – worst case, two weeks. If you just joined, ship something.

I've tried this. To be frank, it's the wrong incentive. All processes will start revolving around this. It gives a great rush to the head but a false sense of security.

Despite patting ourselves on the back on our great release cycle and velocity, we never had the time to listen and adapt to our users.

We changed. We now measure how quickly we respond to any kind of feedback.
Unfortunately, this means that their first experience with "all remote" will come from a rushed implementation instead of a well-planned one. I fear some managers will draw the wrong conclusion about remote work in general.
I don't think your choice is wrong. I'm saying we made the choice that's right for us. If we're lucky, she and I both have at most about 60 years left on this earth. Any kids we would have today could possibly be alive 100 years from now. With the trajectory we're on with climate change, inequality, global instability, etc., we just didn't think it was a responsible choice for us to procreate.

You and I may know we're borrowing the Earth from future generations, but most humans on the planet aren't that conscious of the fact.
You can totally use CSS variables in React and there’s no difference from native, but you can also add more superpowers by having small areas use the color palette dynamically.
There's a big prisoner's dilemma thing going on. If you're charitable, and the people you're discussing with are too, you can have better discussions.

If you're operating in an environment like the internet where you can more or less guarantee that there will be one comment based on the the worst possible interpretation of what you said, being charitable in advance just makes things worse for you. You're playing "cooperate" with an endless stream of "defectors". Trolling has always been "defect" in this environment.

Hence the value in having more closed environments for discussion. HN is open enough that people can make throwaway accounts and use them for valid points, and closed enough that the more obvious trolls get downvote-hammered quickly.
Uber adds retail and personal package delivery services
I would keep an eye on Valve.

I don't think they're anywhere near doing it yet but Gabe Newell heavily implied that he wants to steer Valve in this direction in his recent interview about Half Life: Alyx on IGN.
U.S. lawmakers make push to assist local newspapers, broadcasters
Steam Proton for Linux
Is this actually true?

It’s the opposite of my lived experience, but that might just be a Silicon Valley bubble.

Everyone here uses macOS or Linux. Windows is rare outside of specific domains that require it.
Why are you paying yourself in dividends rather than a salary? If you want the tax breaks associated with being a director, eat the risk too...
Let's look at stagnating wages [0]

When they stagnate to the point that I need to send Johnny to the coal mines (it's amazing the tight spots he can squeeze into) to make up the difference, get back to me. That is, if we don't all die from lung disease from this "London fog".

IOW, yeah, there's always something to make it look like this is the worst it has ever been. But it isn't a tough argument to say that it is no less "a great world to be raising kids right now" than it has been any other time.
> Why should tax payers bail out a tax avoiding company?

I think that depends on our answer to the prior question, "Why should tax payers bail out any company?" If the answer is "because we like them and we feel a patriotic/moral/righteous duty to help them", then the distinction between tax-paying and tax-avoiding companies does seem relevant. But if the answer is "to help workers keep their jobs", then the distinction might not be relevant.
The author had a specific desire for a toggle on a static site, which requires a bit of persistent state that CSS can't really capture. (FWIW, I don't care for a toggle and match the system theme on my website as well. But dismissing the author's work with your "few lines of CSS" fails to account for the fact that this dark mode does something different than yours.)
It's a tax dodge in the UK.
Excerpt:

What is Proton?

"Proton is a new tool released by Valve Software that has been integrated with Steam Play to make playing Windows games on Linux as simple as hitting the Play button within Steam. Underneath the hood, Proton comprises other popular tools like Wine and DXVK among others that a gamer would otherwise have to install and maintain themselves. This greatly eases the burden for users to switch to Linux without having to learn the underlying systems or losing access to a large part of their library of games. Proton is still in its infancy so support is inconsistent, but regularly improving."

Source Code:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
Desaturating to find low contrast areas to improve the overall contrast after resaturating is a user technique not a feature of photoshop
4/20 fizzle: Pot industry tested as virus slams economy
Facebook shuts down anti-quarantine protests at states' request
Sort of like what's about to happen to housing prices, maybe.
Uber Direct and Uber Connect
NotSoSmartConfig: Broadcasting WiFi Credentials Over-the-Air – Shielder
I think the theory is if the US govt hadn't pumped the deficit on tax cuts for the profitable and rich in the good times, it would feel more free to spend it on bailouts for the vulnerable in the bad times due to less existing national debt. Although the Republican party's interest in making even the most token attempt to balance the federal budget over the economic cycle ended with the Obama presidency, so the debt's not going to be high on their list of priorities right now anyway.
Supposedly Valve is working on this, but the lack of recent news is not promising: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/apparently-valve-are-...
seems like a good time to invest in electric cars
That’s true but not really relevant here. if traders are holding on to any open contracts for May past tomorrow, then I believe they will have to take physical delivery.

Thus, traders who still have contracts open but cannot take physical delivery will have to close their positions out today or tomorrow, thus causing the dip we are seeing.
YC S20 Remote Batch
This is the first scary question that everyone asks with these devices, because the answer is "you burn a hole in your retina".

It is an inherent danger in the system, but I would be interested in reading a full risk analysis on this type of system. Industrial processes always have risk analysis and avoidance, with failsafe for all possible failure modes being desired. I wonder what kind of hardware failsafes you could put into this. You never, under any circumstances, want to burn someone's eye. But you also don't want someone's expensive toy to brick itself because they jumped with it on.
This is noise. Ignore it, don't amplify it.
Western Canadian oil was -$0.15 today, i.e. you can be paid to take oil from the producers!

https://twitter.com/zeroshorts/status/1252108066843054097

n.b. you'll still have to also pay the cost of piping the oil to somewhere that might want it...
$1.07 in the Dayton area...
There is an additional security that kids can provide their parents even today. I have 3 kids that are all in various stages of finishing up school and starting their careers. We've stayed pretty close as a family and there is no doubt in my mind that my kids will always be there for my wife and I as well as each other, if we were to need it. As it stands right now, current events have forced all of my kids to come back home (which has actually been kind of awesome), but if something like this (pandemic/recession) happens in the future those roles could easily be reversed. It helps that my wife is Asian and has instilled a certain level of family obligation in our children. It's a heck of an investment, supporting another human being for 22 years or more, but no one will look out for you the way your own family will.
> It's the same answer as a lot of "economic mysteries" right now: At scale, everything is really hard.

Except this has already been scaled, and is already happening. The US strategic petroleum reserve (and similar programs in other nations) is exactly this: a giant buffer of storage capacity designed to make cartel exploitation of the oil industry infeasible.

And it works. The reason we're having this crash now, when the lockdowns started 6+ weeks ago, is precisely because there is a big pool of idle storage able to "store the crude and not process it for a bit".

But now all that buffer is exhausted, so we're seeing the crash everyone knew was coming.
They have business accounts too.
This also allows you to use different version of Proton for different games (e.g. it's fixed in a beta build or broken in the latest build) and to enable Proton for games which have a native version!
Probably 100 octane "low lead". Which has a lot of lead in it. Some people swear by it.
Perhaps this should be a cost of doing business in the future? We all pay for this anyway, so why should taxpayers face all the risk and none of the reward.
Mostly because it’s cool and looks nice.

It’s neat to efficiently pack a lot of power into a small package. I don’t think there’s a strong practical argument beyond that.
Pitch your idea by simply sharing a link
isn't this also random sampling?
How a startup with 20M users works remotely
Show HN: Pubbit, Managed Ghost hosting for everyone
It's not subjective. Having worked on a cruise ship 25 years ago: It was always somewhat exploitative, but it's gotten much worse over the years. Yes, you could use your one day off a week to go ashore. More importantly, you weren't yet asked to do two jobs at the same time.

By now, a lot of cruise workers work 12-16 hours a day. Staffing/passenger has decreased. That one day "to go ashore" often goes to just sleeping for once, doing laundry, and various mandatory all-hands drills. So, yes, down time is vanishing. And the pay hasn't improved significantly.

But it's still a field that allows especially people from low-income countries to make more money than in their home country, so that too will fall under collateral damage.
It also seems more practical to plug the signal "into the cables" than to try to pass information through the complexity of the eye. In which case I believe it is the thalamus[1] that we should aim to plug into. I can't imagine a whole lot of research can be carried out without running into issues with ethics though.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/GsRkEg3.jpg
Why not for several months. If you are a large corporate doing share buybacks why the f shouldn't you be able to weather several months of disruption?
If you don't have much styling, then even

:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
}

can get you quite far.
Tracking pay cuts and furloughs at US hospitals during Covid 19
I don't think anyone is implying that you as an individual flying causes your family to spread out. although if you spend most of the year traveling, your relatives might start to wonder what the point of living near your primary residence is. I can see how you might interpret the wording from the original post as saying that, but it doesn't really make sense that way.

the point is that, when it's affordable and normal to fly great distances on a yearly/monthly basis, it causes people to spread out a lot more. then you end up with a chicken-egg scenario where people "need" cheap flights to see their spread out families, but the cheap flights also enable them to spread out further while still seeing each other.
I hope it doesn't ruin your day to hear that chickens also don't typically cross roads.
For a high-traffic train, you need to have someone manually open and close the doors. You can't use automatic doors like on an elevator because someone will invariably keep them from shutting, either on purpose or by accident.
Commodities and precious metals don't pay dividends, yet people invest in them with the expectation that the value will rise so they can sell them later.
Shipowners try to avoid all sorts of stuff... labor law, environmental laws, taxes, etc. The only US flagged ships are ships that transit between two US ports.

There's beneficial owner who may or may not be easily known. They register the ship in Panama or Liberia. The officers are usually from a western country (depending on the owner or the purpose), crew from a place like Philippines or Indonesia. Some of the customer facing staff may be from a western country as well.
Is this website about internal combustion engine fuels? Or it's just an aggregator of all american newspapers? I thought HN is something about software and programming.
The result in the Stanford paper is very likely biased due to the false positive rate of the test they used:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Great report!

I've been working remotely for a few years now so a bit biased. But I would say that the COVID situation with regards to remote work has shown how many benefits there would be for the wider society if more people worked from home more often:

* Less traffic

* Less noise pollution

* Less air pollution

* Less stress

* More energy for things outside of work

All these would increase the quality of life for a large part of the population, decrease the number of avoidable lifestyle diseases and deaths, and would help cut the global carbon emissions too.

COVID is not an ideal situation to start your work from home experience but I do hope that some people will find it valuable enough to make more lasting changes after the crisis is behind us.
Do you mean don't bother using fuel stabilizer? I can't see anything about it being illegal in California.
I've gotten so much out of seeing my current therapist. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made. However, I started with psychiatrists, and had 3 in a row who insulted me and were worse than doing nothing. Look for a LPC practicing cognitive behavioral therapy. I can't really put into words how it's helped but my life is significantly better now and I wish I had started sooner.
Well said! Early into COVID I thought it'd bring a surge in remote work because we'd see how much work really can be done from anywhere.

But COVID-remote work has been way different. I've been a full remote worker for 3 years usually working out of coffee shops, and I'm much less productive now because a) I have to work from home, and b) it's generally harder to stay focused during a global pandemic. And I'm not even a parent.

I do hope those who are working remote for the first time don't associate remote work with a bad work life now.
Take those stagnating wages and compare them to what the cost of higher education would be in ~20 years if it increases at the same rate as it did the past 20 years. I'd be fitting Johnny for miner's helmet as soon as it was legal.
Ultra-Portable Data Center
Most workers who receive majority of their income in the form of stock are in a very high income bracket and should not receive any government bailouts directly or indirectly.
So, companies acting completely legally by seeking to minimize their tax burden, which serves to further maximize the money available for their owners, get penalized. Likewise, companies acting completely ethically, by returning much of their profit to their shareholders via dividends instead of hoarding it themselves get penalized. And this gets celebrated?
Not my area, but it oooks like there’s a surreal numbers package:

https://github.com/mroughan/SurrealNumbers.jl

And a nice paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.10373
Landing AI ‘Social Distancing Detector’ Monitors Workplaces
I don't think anyone has clarified the actual rules in play here. Why should the taxpayer bail out firms which go on to pay dividends within 5 years? Why shouldn't the state simply take stock as a guarantee for loans in these companies?
> Masks are uncomfortable and people need to adjust them during the day -- this is an increase in face touching, and masks are by definition contaminated.

Which is part of why the anti-mask narrative has been so harmful. Recommended mask wearing should have started back in early March so that everyone could gain experience before the virus was so widespread - knowing how to adjust their mask so it was comfortable, becoming used to it and not fidgeting, and learning how to incorporate mask donning/doffing into their overall hygiene procedures.

It also would have been nice to get data on the growth of cases with mask usage but without shutdown. Now we're left with the decision of whether we're ready for cases to start growing at some unknown faster rate.
Someone just need to write a blog on how to use RPi, React, Alexa and a few beakers to refine oil and we're set.
Agreed. S.O. recently added dark mode and for some reason my eyes couldn't focus on it. No idea why. I run my editors and my terminal in dark themes. Maybe they didn't have enough contrast. Maybe the fonts are too small or too thin. I have my browser set to "prefer dark mode" but I'm really happy S.O. let me opt out.
And the underlying economic reason for Apple's shares to go up when it wasn't paying a dividend is that as Apple accumulated cash and became more profitable, the chances that it would pay a fat dividend someday (even if not in the near future) kept going up.

If companies didn't ever pay a dividend or buyback shares, the whole thing would be a ponzi scheme. The company takes money in an IPO, and then investors shuffle money among themselves to make it look like they have a profit, but it would collapse if people want to cash out. When companies eventually distribute profit to investors however, it becomes possible for cash to leave the system without all the paper value disappearing into thin air.
If the pandemic lasts longer than 6 months, which is quite likely, many high-cost oil producers might not survive. Some would argue this could lead to shortage and a much higher price later on, but long-term oil demand could also be affected.

There might be some semi-permanent change in people's behaviors if the epidemic continues for many months. Many people will form a habit of doing more things at home/online: more takeouts, more online shopping, live/recorded video classes, virtual meetings, telehealth, etc. Better online services will also spring up to support the habits/practices.

Since online activities often save time, the new habits could become a new equilibrium: people/companies who adopt them will often have an economic advantage, influencing others to do the same. Thus, oil demand could be significantly diminished long-term as well.
Thank you for this perspective, very helpful!
Saudi Arabia still has the cheapest oil production costs in the world at $8.98/barrel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_oil#Comparative_cost_...)

They probably aren't making enough right now to pay for all of their commitments, but they definitely aren't losing money and they can likely borrow in the short term.
The kroger rewards in WA allow you to use phone numbers at the pump.

Automatic $0.10/gal discount.

Also, who's Jenny?
It is not clear if properly refuting really does anything anymore. The release of the info in the first is the ball game. It was popularized on Hackernews and is now part of the guardrails of debate. Marc wins. We have a huge manufacturing consent problem.
I think it's because pointing into space gives your actions physical coordinates that organize them similarly as in memory. In fact, a popular mnemonic technique is to envision the stuff you need to remember "positioned" along a street route or another physical space you know very well (it's called the Method of Loci).
I personally don't see why it's such a limited time frame.
> Many workers are paid a majority of their income in the form of stock from the company they work for.

A very small "many." I'd imagine that class consists mostly of highly-placed executives (who can be assumed to be rather wealthy) and some number of people playing the startup lottery.
If the company is itself not based in NY or SF, it makes little sense and often isn't possible to offer NY and SF salaries. If remote work became the new standard, it doesn't mean that everyone is suddenly paid SF wages, instead wages will probably start to average out over a long period of time.
Don't worry, it will begin again if and only if Biden wins.
Excerpt:

"Scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized planet in a star’s habitable zone—the region where liquid water could exist on its surface. The discovery was made using data from the now-retired Kepler Space Telescope. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler,

this new world—located 300 light-years from Earth—is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature."
The only time I would use the `[File](file.md)` syntax is if I'm specifically making documentation that will be published for other people.

Also, Github uses Gollum, which actually supports wiki style links anyway.

If you are maintaining a knowledge base, it gets really tedious to do that, if 99% of your links are just going to have the same caption as your filename. So being able to make links as quickly as possible facilitates efficiency. Besides, there are alternative syntaxes for being able to specific a custom caption for a wiki-style link.

Another thing to consider, is that in most mediums that I use my knowledge bases in, they are not styling my links anyway. I can still of course follow them automatically, but they are just presenting them as [[Links]]. Most people prefer that.

My different wikis have gone through many different iterations, and most of these engines are fairly compatible-ish with each other. They are similar enough that any migration required could be done with a few lines of Perl on my set of md files.
Yes I know what you mean. I also do need to work closely with my co-workers/team as much as possible. For me, that face to face appeal is just too important. yes not always but I would prefer it at least 70-30.
> Let it sit out until it smells like dead feet

I watched some cooking show on Netflix a few years ago where someone mentioned good cheese smelling like "the feet of God."

Odd thing is, when I trim my toenails these days, they do definitely have some sort of cheddar smell to them.

I guess it makes sense in a way...