skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing not directly touched on in the article concerning Sega:

Tetris initially reached widespread popularity in Japan through the arcade version made by Sega, which was released at the end of 1988. It was awarded "best arcade game of the year" by several Japanese magazines. This arcade version featured a 2-player mode and followed what came to be known as the "Sega rotation" ruleset due to restrictions on piece rotations.

The Sega version was ported to the newly-released Mega Drive (Genesis) console and was scheduled to be released in early 1989. It was to be the Mega Drive's killer title, but when the release day came, stores did not get any shipments in. It was later discovered that Nintendo had sued Atari over the rights to the game right before the release of the Mega Drive port in Japan (Atari had given the rights to its subsidiary Tengen, who had licensed them to Sega in Japan). Nintendo won, and Sega was left with a huge stock of games that were eventually repurposed or destroyed.

The Game Boy version wasn't released until mid-1989 in Japan, and the NES version after that. They became massive hits, but it is less commonly known that they were preceded in popularity by the Sega arcade version.

Eventually, the Mega Drive port showed up on a bootleg 2-in-1 cart from China, also featuring Rambo III. Somehow the bootleggers had gotten hold of the ROM. It turns out the Mega Drive port wasn't a very good one. Last year, in honor of this legacy, Sega released an updated port with the Mega Drive Mini.
Let's pretend that government statistics are wildly manipulated, and that your thesis is sound. I ask the following:

1. Reliable rebuttal data sources to government inflation statistics.

2. Proof that it isn't sustainable besides conjecture (as I mentioned, Japan is economically stable and a first world country with an enormous amount of debt that will never get paid back, while parts of Europe have negative interest rates and still have a relatively high standard of living).

Yes, if you’re not first world (Venezuela, Zimbabwe) this doesn’t work. But the US dollar is a reserve currency and US treasuries are the safest asset in the world. When you need to spend good will in currency value form, you spend it.
The full playbook https://c1.sfdcstatic.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/document...
Robinhood raised $280M Series F at $8.3B valuation
Given the inflexibility of wages, I question the effectiveness of this potential strategy, but given the problems we face, any possible strategy deserves a thorough review. I certainly agree on the political viability of inflation, since it isn't as perceptible. If someone sells a house 20 years after they bought it for the same nominal value, it doesn't like as much of a loss?
Well, we know the founders were all like, this is final word, we have foreseen all contingencies, if you ever do anything we wouldn’t like we will haunt you from the grave.
I don't know the full story, but I know that for detecting the ground during landing they use radar (which was why they made sure the two falcon heavy cores didn't land at the same time).

Creating a gps (like) network on mars with a bunch of satellites might actually be an option before landing. SpaceX appears to be already developing that capability in the starlink satellites for the DOD [0].

[0] https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2020/04/06/t...
Is everyone eligible for deferment, regardless of their financial or employment situation? If so, that seems incredibly short-sighted policy-wise.
It feels like half an article, maybe add more on how you'd find the reversion?
Ben Taub has been putting out some fantastic work, especially for someone so young. His article on Iraq's post ISIS policies was incredibly sad but very informative.
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Technical details can be found here: https://github.com/UBIC-repo/Whitepaper/blob/master/README.m...
If it can install latest macOS, it's a good test machine to test the newest OS to see if it sucks or not.
Where was this? Sounds like the kind of things that are extremely variable depending on where you live. When I was working near minimum wage in California, companies would screw me like this. But when I moved to Utah, companies would give me nearly any hours I asked for since they really needed the work done.
I hear you, and I'm sorry. I'd like it if my post upthread could at least convince you that it is a structural consequence of how HN was designed—the very constraints that make it good at some things make it bad at others—but maybe that's too much to hope for.

There are past explanations of this phenomenon—not the project release issue, but the disheartening part—at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... if you or anyone cares to look.
>Ptolemaic epicycles are a perfectly good predictive theory of planetary motion to within the margin of error of observation for several thousand years of human history.

Except for Mercury. The math for Mercury's orbit didn't add up until general relativity came along and frame dragging could be taken into account[0].

This doesn't contradict your point, because Pluto's orbit was a sign of something that observable physics couldn't explain, pointing towards a more complete explanation. As far as I'm aware, there's no "hole" in physics that can only be explained by the existence of antigravity, and models in which it exists don't have the same or better explanatory power as current models.

The fallacy here lies in looking back at the advance of science and assuming that because models were inaccurate before, they must always be arbitrarily inaccurate. Rather, the more we learn, the less likely it becomes that everything we know is entirely wrong, because any new models have to explain every observable facet of reality that the current one does as well as fill in gaps.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2015/11/25/how-...

Edit: I meant Mercury, not Pluto, and the other relativity. Oops.
If you never turn it on, there can't be anything useful on it ;)
Make sure to run "docker pull caddy"!

Also, see the docs on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/_/caddy/

You'll need to build Caddy with the builder image to add the DNS plugin, see the section titled "Adding custom Caddy modules".
Very difficult to put emotion aside when thinking about these things. I expect to be crucified for even asking this question because the audience here has a bias towards supporting activism. But oh well here goes:

If Amazon condone and even enable employee activism, what bad things could that enable? I don’t mean unions. I mean a group of say 20 employees trying to bring about a change they truly believe in.

Amazon has over 500,000 employees. Think of the number of edge cases. You agree with these good folks that were fired. But what about carrying guns to work? Conservative or liberal issues if you’re the other side of the table?

That employee base is a small city. Is every warehouse a town square with freedom to assemble? Every office?

Fighting the good fight is often necessary. But it’s also a seductive idea until it’s not your fight and disrupting your day - or worse, something you vehemently disagree with and is causing you distress.

Is there another side to this argument?

(Edit for spelling)
Fair enough. Thanks for taking the time to reflect and explain!
Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
The plan of record is yes.
Everyone looks at it through their own lens. To an employee that goes to the bathroom twice per day at work, monitoring bathroom break time sounds ludicrous. But what should Amazon do with people who want to take 20 ten minute bathroom breaks per day? The answer is you set a policy that everyone is equal under and stock to it.

Other things seemed like unrealistic exaggerations. Like a 15 minute walk to the lunch room and barely having enough time to eat a sandwich, drink a soda and smoke a cigarette during the 30 minute break. Doesn’t add up.

And stating it felt like 150 degrees and no fans were allowed because “robots don’t like the cold”. What robot works better in 150 degrees than 70 degrees?

The stories don’t ring true to me and the pictures through the article from labor organizers tell me at least why the stories are being told.
You can stop doing it and still be vocal about it.
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I made no reference to anything per capita.
In some cases, depending on the library, writing a small Java class makes the interfacing easier.
> Ken McConnellogue, a spokesman for the University of Colorado, said it’s disappointing that people have been so quick to file lawsuits only weeks into the pandemic.

The country - and courts - might be surprised to learn that we've apparently only been dealing with this since mid April.
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That's generally an unpopular and unwelcome opinion here, but I agree with you 100%. edit: and i'll happily take those downvotes, they are delicious thank you.
Mary Meeker's Covid Report
That's just because 5+ years ago Amazon/Facebook/Google weren't "giant evil shit-lords" so-to-speak. They were cool even among industry folks. It wasn't long ago that having Google on your resume meant something was special about you.

Facebook/Google/Amazon aren't really cool in colleges anymore either.
Consider using the ISO 639-2 three-letter code or its extension ISO 639-3. They have codes for “miscellaneous”, “undetermined” and “no linguistic content” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2#Special_situations) and a range “reserved for local use” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2#Reserved_for_local_u...)
19.9% for the city.

You are still in the end of the flu season though so some of those excess death numbers might be that.
I disagree with everything stated here and, maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had any issues at all with the keyboard on any of my Macbook Pros (work, personal, or my SO's) and I can't go back to not having a Touch Bar.

I'm really curious about the numbers surrounding this. Especially with the latest sales figures, I'm curious if this is just a vocal minority or if most users agree with you that this is a step backward.
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I’d love to see fun stuff like this for all kinds of technical skills. Even pytorch for example.

Actually why couldn’t an entire online class be working towards solving some kind of mystery. You wouldn’t even notice you’re building skills.
the entire german country would like to have a word with you
consistent 150 F work conditions

If she told you there were sharks with lasers on their heads would you have believed that too? The article is literally unbelievable.
So, Backblaze is not-net-neutral.
Apple and Google release sample code UI and detailed policies for Covid-19
It actually has been studied and it looks like, in terms of absolute bulk numbers, that at least in developed countries like the US lockdown decreases deaths overall. Here's an Ars article from last week with a summary and some links for some further reading if you're interested [1]. Basically though while suicides go up, a lot of other causes of death plummet. Auto accidents for example a big source of yearly mortality that drop a ton if, well, people aren't getting in their vehicles so much. Air pollution has plummeted [2] as well, another significant source of deaths. People are bored at home and thus work out more, tend to eat better, etc.

Of course as that article and any other responsible ones should point out, the benefits and harms fall quite unevenly, and there is a lot of real misery too. And at some point the economic harm from ongoing lock down would certainly affect more and more people regardless of previous income. But even so as far as society overall goes it at worst looks like a wash right now, and seems more likely to lean towards fewer deaths. So excess vs previous years does look like a valid number to use as some level of gut check given the ongoing poor state of testing.

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1: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/recessions-dont-lead...

2: https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-offers-a-clear-view...
In that sense, the resell value may be quite high on this one as one of the last working x86 machines where some apps may not migrate or migrate very slowly to ARM architecture in the coming years.
It must take some skill in developing relationships -- Who has access to the information? Who is willing to take a bribe? What amount to bribe? Who can actually follow through? Who can do it tactfully enough to not get caught in the act? Etc. Maybe not "computer hacker", but "organizational hacker" sure
That's odd. I can't recall ever having a problem with browsers playing mp4s in a vanilla <video> tag, as long as I encode them in the main h264 profile, AAC audio, and MOOV atom at the front (see [0] for ffmpeg command). Obviously the server has to support Range: byte requests.

My impression is DASH/HLS are mostly useful for adjusting bitrate on the fly.

[0]: https://superuser.com/a/438471/402047
IIRC the recent Chinese landers used LIDAR and feature matching during the terminal phase.

As for spacecraft navigation in general you are using star/sun/earth trackers (depending of where your spacecraft operates) to detect your orientation. This is important to correctly point solar panels to the sun, radiators, cameras and sensitive instruments away from the sun and directional cameras to Earth.

As for detailed absolute position in space, AFAIK this is usually done by ultra sensitive radio signal ranging back on Earth.

But other means could be used, eq. taking picture of your target or other bodies you can resolve and then tracking their magnitude/size and position, possibly over time, to calculate where exactly you are in the Solar System so that you are seeing what you are seeing.
I don't disagree that there is some wage pressure - its the fact that wage increases only started to outdistance inflation only have 3 sustained years of basically no unemployment, which is likely a once in a century event, that there are more factors at play holding wages down.
> Have you considered the possibility that Amazon actually treats their workers okay and that it's the organizers are dishonest? Why does the presumption of evil only go in one direction?

Yes.

As an example:

> We’re already seeing devastating climate impacts: unprecedented flooding in India and Mozambique, dry water wells in Africa, coastal displacement in Asia, wildfires and floods in North America, and crop failure in Latin America

That is so far removed from a company that provides web hosting and handles shipping logistics.

What does transporting a cardboard box have anything to do with flooding in Mozambique?

While it's unfortunate catastrophes happen. Let's be generous and assume those events are due to lax environmental regulations (0.001% to 90%).

Amazon is just 1% of whatever that is. So, if these activists wish came true - and ultimately a drop in the bucket.

A competitor without the hindrance could likely make up for any pollution they don't create.

If you want to shape ecology, you do it through regulations (statutes). And all countries need to be on board with it.

I'm going to have to go with management on this one - the exaggeration of Amazon's impact on the issue really hurts their credibility. Nothing wrong with climate change - but really against disrupting organizations needlessly.
I mean that the purpose of the joint venture was for GM to learn Toyota's methods. That one plant was fine, but the broader purpose was for GM to learn how to do it everywhere. They never did. If you'd like to know more, I suggest you listen to the story linked above, or read the transcript which is linked from that.
The problem with this is that first somebody has to notice.

In banking the reports will flow in quickly if somebody lost money.

In Roblox, when somebody created in-game currency out of thin air or accesses private information of other people, then chances are nobody notices and the audit logs are never manually investigated.

Doing automated audits then again brings up the question: how do you determine if something was the result of a genuine support action or fraudulent. You can try to find/train algorithms to detect that, but given that you can only train it against common fraudulent patterns, and do not know about unreported cases by the very definition, you cannot be sure such a system is operating well and/or cannot be easily gamed.

Banks have it easier in that regard, because the books have to match end of the day.

The law being the deterrent didn't really help here either. According to the article the "hacker" either bribed somebody for access, phished somebody for access or used some vulnerability to gain access. All of which isn't exactly legal, so the deterrent already did not work, tho it might make your own employees think twice about accepting bribes. But the hacker probably will not care about your audit system beyond the point of defeating it long enough to gain whatever they were out to gain.
This is great, I always wondered if one could train an AI to play god level quake as they've done with DOTA and other games since it's such a quirky engine with so many niche and semi obscure moves and tactics.

For anybody wishing to try or revisit the game you can download the nquake pack [0] which a free and ready to go version of the game that includes the shareware portion of the original game and some gpl'd maps that are the most commonly used (if you own the original game you can just copy the \id1\pak1.pak file to the install folder and delete the gpl maps pak). Also included is the ezQuake [1] build which is a modern implementation of the engine that everybody uses these days and features lots of tweaks for improved graphics, fps, teamplay, better menus, better server browser and a lot more.

Then you can use a website like badplace [2] where you can look for servers and see who's playing. From there you can join or just watch some games by clicking the observe or QTV links (if you registered the qw:// handler during install/first launch).

It's still a brilliant game and there's still a relatively decent community playing everyday although the skill level is of some of these players is truly insane.

[0] https://www.nquake.com/

[1] https://ezquake.github.io/

[2] https://www.badplace.eu/
I came here to say this. User-reported data is unreliable at best.
That depends on whether or not their individual state is effectively processing both regular unemployment and the federal side effectively and whether or not the state side is being contested. Also, that ends in July currently whereas there have been complaints about Amazon warehouses (and other jobs) well before the pandemic.
Network neutrality is a difficult concept to apply because its core concept doesn't map well to reality.

The core concept, in my mind, is that all packets should be treated equally, and should cost the customer the same amount per byte.

The problem is that different packets take different network paths and have different costs to your provider. The bandwidth alliance partners are exchanging traffic via peering links, so there's only the fixed costs of equipment and any port charges/interconnection fees to the peering facility. Packets sent to other destinations may pass through a paid transit link and cost the provider. If your provider charges you the same amount for both types of packets, they're not being transparent about their network costs which is bad for you, and is also bad for them, because you may be able to adjust your traffic so more is settlement free and less is paid --- but you won't do that without an incentive.

Of course, if you don't like how Backblaze manages its network, there's a bunch of other network storage vendors who you could switch to (many of which are members of the Bandwidth Alliance). Or, it's not too hard to build a storage box or two and get them into a colocation somewhere.

For your residential ISP though, for most people, if you don't like the network policies, you might have another option, but they will likely have similar policies. You don't have meaningful choice in a single residence, and moving residences to get better choices isn't a meaningful option either. So, network neutrality is a policy to (attempt to) regulate residential ISP behavior, in order to provide a reasonable policy for users. It's still a problem that it doesn't match reality, and it doesn't provide user choice, but it has gotten a lot of support.

I would rather see mandatory line sharing for residential ISPs, it's a lot easier to define and with proper regulation offers a path towards consumer choice, and gives people a way to take action if their provider has poor network policies --- if your provider runs an acceptable last mile service, but provides poor interconnection to the rest of the world, you could become a line sharing partner and provide better interconnection to the world without having to build out an overlay last-mile network (which is incredibly capital intensive and difficult)
are you familiar with the program and specific episodes?
Home prices as a multiple of median income have increased in many cities outside of the US: London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, the financialization of housing is likely driving a house-as-investment ethos beyond US borders. Some nations, like Japan, are notable exceptions due to local preferences.
The article never clearly states it, but the goal of proof-of-work, and by extension this protocol, is to throttle access to write privileges on a ledger.

Bitcoin does this by forcing miners grind on a nonce to try to get a block hash below a certain value.

In this protocol, it appears that miners would do the same thing.

The difference is that the supply of passports is considered limited. A given person only gets one. That suggests that it might be possible to avoid the ever-increasing difficulty that Bitcoin has faced.

Bitcoin was intended as a one CPU, one vote system. This new one appears to be intended as a one passport, one vote system.

There are two main concerns with such a system:

1. security - how easy is it to forge passport identities?

2. privacy - how easy is it to link a signature to the original passport?

I suspect the actual utility of this protocol revolves around these two points.
Another piece of feedback: It’s scary to consider using such a crucial piece of software in production when documentation is referred to as “sort of deprecated” and “slightly outdated.”
There is no mention of the elevator. Until they solve this the open/closed floor isn’t going to matter.
Ah, my mistake, I thought you were suggesting that he didn't go through proper channels when he went public.
Exactly. Check out the dismal success rate of the Luna programme[0]. It would have been a lot harder if they couldn't accept such a level of risk. SpaceX's cheap rockets have this same advantage.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_programme#Failed_missions
...which is perfectly reasonable for a device with an operating system with no legacy of needing one for day to day operations.
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The percentage of homeowners who have a mortgage says nothing about how many rent vs own. That said, the relevant number seems to actually be higher.
Different idea: just hibernate the economy. Completely. No money transfers. Nobody pays rents or food or bills; nobody gets paid either salary or pensions (but still has to show up for work if required/ possibile). This could help preventing businesses or private individuals or families going broke during the lockdown; when it's time, everything can be restarted at once. It might work (or have worked) for a short period of time, though I imagine it's practically inconceivable.
Yes, it works like this, thanks @mholt and @francislavoie for the help. I thought it was baked into caddy already. :-)