skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EGS, so windows only DRM. Steam has a Linux port available but it runs pretty terribly (I got maybe 20fps with a Titan XP SE on Ubuntu). ProtonDB lists this game as "bronze" so it probably doesn't run very well.

So in general this game does not work well outside of Windows.
Yeah, that's because you're using the wrong tool for the job. You are using pg_dump on a single database, or set of databases. Use pg_dumpall: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pg-dumpall.html

For an actual backup solution, not one off stuff, use a tool like pgbackrest. It's just way better.
I'd put it differently. This is going to take your job, just like an assembly programmer from the 70s might consider Python to have basically taken their job. In software, the job is constantly eating itself and transforming.

It's part of the job to continually incorporate new capabilities and lever yourself up.
It's a good lesson for those that naively think the world is (largely) uncoupled, where you can shut down / remove one part, and nothing around it is affected.

I remember talking with some ex-colleague of mine some 3 months ago, just before the pandemic hit us (where I live, that is) - we were talking about how this would impact business, and to my big surprise he was very cool about the situation. I had to remind him that he (working in marketing, living in a tourist city) was only approximately two edges away from the businesses most in danger of getting pummeled by the virus.

But, no, it was only "hysteria". Lo and behold, 6 weeks later he's temporarily laid off, because the businesses he's making ads for are closing down, because they again were supplying stuff to the travel industry, among others.

And we're going to see a lot more of that, in the upcoming months. The reach is wide, and the aftershock is long.
The Big Cycles over the Last 500 Years
It's just in style to hate on America these days. Been that way for awhile. If you're critical of any other country you get jumped on.

Meanwhile the parent takes an anti-American perspective on the US while finding a way to give China props. Which tells me they are not intellectually honest about what freedom really means or about the injustices that China partakes in.

It's like saying "I don't like that thing you did because I wasn't fully informed of the details or the reasoning. At least China ...."

It's just nonsense from a hater.

Now, we would have actually been fucked a long time ago if we didn't have the Constitution. But it's the best document and framework alive and we'll be fine, despite some challenges to liberty that I don't like either.

What's funny is some non-Western countries have been trying to import their ideals, and having some success with socialism interest, but their own younger people are taking up Western ideals and cultures.

Exporting agendas and propaganda is not feasible in an information age. Many countries are struggling to control their citizens like they used to in the past.

The freer countries will be fine and win out.
This isn't a ban on TI-BASIC, which is what most students use when programming formulae and other helper programs.
On the topic of Microsoft is not less evil than before: they recently released a GUI kit called MAUI, thereby stealing the name of the already existing KDE project. They know and they're not being nice about it.

https://mauikit.org/

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-...

https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-maui-kde-row/
An alternative, which I think I borrowed from how Heroku does/did dumps, is 'pg_dump --no-acl --no-owner'.
Amazon interns in other countries living in the US
We know that Amazon is paying much less stipend in other countries (EU, Asia) as compared to the US. Despite that, some of us decided to intern because of machine learning roles which are hard to get in the US.
To the people doing an intern in a country not where you are living in but can't visit because of COVID-19, is Amazon/other companies paying the same stipend?
Is yes, shouldn't it be according to the US ?
Some of us stuck in US still have to pay rent in USD and living expenses, which is really unfair in my belief.
I'm wondering how that helps them out, exactly? All they see is HTTPS requests to iMessage/Reddit/HN or WhatsApp. They can't look inside the actual payload.
Of course. As I said, I'm not asking what rights they have. I'm asking what you think. If you were youtube, would you ban this video?
I think most people take issue with the fact that reddit, one of the most trafficked websites in the world, has some of their biggest subs controlled by a few people. You can easily use this power to shape/influence public opinion of a large number of users.
What an annoying site. I feel like this should get tagged [popover autoplay video].

Or maybe, here's a link without that:

https://digg.com/2020/dolphins-leaving-gifts
I’ve never played any Civ game. Can you elaborate?
I spent most of the money I'd saved from my summer job during my first year at university on a 42MB hard drive for my Amiga just so I could play Civ I without continually swapping floppies.

... and now I feel old.
That's my reading of it, too. If there are no logs, though the FBI can't get access. [1][2]

Disclaimer: I work for Private Internet Access.

[1]https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
[2] https://www.technadu.com/private-internet-access-wins-agains...
It's my heartfelt opinion that Beyond The Sword is the peak of the series by a large margin. Cool though.
The National Post are not experts, and they aren't reporting what experts say accurately. And while there's a video in there where an actual expert speaks, you're not reporting what that expert said accurately.

Public health officials, while they usually are experts, have other concerns beyond simply saying the truth. The US and Canadian recommendations against medical masks for the general public were part of a strategy based on reserving medical masks. So yes, you should have followed the recommendations of health officials and not worn a medical mask, because healthcare workers needed them.

As far as I know, neither the US nor Canada has ever taken a stance against non-medical masks. They haven't taken a stance for medical masks either, but this was likely due to concerns that people would be confused about medical versus non-medical masks. Your own post is an example of this being a very legitimate concern: you have completely failed to differentiate between medical and non-medical masks.

If you look at what experts have been saying who aren't part of governments, the messaging has been fairly consistent: masks prevent illness at varying rates, and we need to prioritize healthcare workers when allocating the most effective masks.

So when you say, "Should I have deferred to expert opinions and waited until yesterday(!?) to start wearing a mask?" I have to say, no, it would have been impossible to do that, because deferring to expert opinions and waiting until yesterday to start wearing a mask are mutually exclusive actions.
Thanks for the insight! I definitely have some introspection to do on the topic, but I like the idea of the "Said I'd Do It" section for to-dos. Those tasks are inherently different than normal ones and I think the separation is a good training mechanism.
"We" in a global context have many different views.

Agreed, we aren't trying to come to agreement, on that we apparently agree.

Speech might be hateful, but isn't discrimination. Discrimination is discrimination.

Free spread of ideas is vital to the continued progress of humanity but sometimes it will offend people.
Linux (and almost all OSS ), was built from people WFH.

Follow the same processes: be as asynchronous as possible,reduce meetings to a few times a year, rely on tools and build new ones if you need them.

If you are permanently WFH, why are you in a small pad in the city? Look at what you can afford out in the country, or even another country entirely.

Yes, it should be a choice and not forced onto everybody, but after a couple of years of being remote, I get worried about needing to ever go into an open plan office ever again. There are positives to all this, but you may need to adapt to make it work for you.
Not all telemetry is alike:

1. Let's collect information on every URL, including every distinct pornhub URL, a user visits.

2. Let's collect information on how many times a user browses pornhub.

3. Let's collect information about how and when a pornhub site crashes our browser.

4. Let's collect information about how and when our browser crashes - without submitting the website that crashed it, just the internal info such as call stacks.

Only 3 and 4 are are about fixing bugs, and while 3 would maybe make it easier to reproduce issues by knowing the exact website that triggers faulty behavior, you end up with a lot of information about your individual users that could be abused.

1 and 2 are about potentially making your product better by being able to tell what websites (or features, etc) users are actually using and focusing on improving those features, or figuring out why they do not use the other great features (e.g. bad UX?). However, this comes at the great expense for user privacy.

What really makes me mad about microsoft is how little they are telling you what kind of telemetry they actually collect at what configurable level. I do not know if they do 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or any combination thereof by reading their privacy notice. The privacy notice says (or used to say?) that they can even transmit your files around for telemetry/bug fixing purposes if they feel like it. And they are very unclear about how the data is processed and retained and how long such a data retention is.

I'd be happy to contribute some telemetry depending on what it is. But they are refusing me configure let alone tell what they collect, why they collect data and if they got proper processes in place before they add certain types of data collection, so in this scenario I'd like to opt out completely. But I cannot because not an option. And I genuinely hope they get slapped with enormous GDPR fines for it.

As a counterpoint, Firefox - while not perfect

- There is an opt-out/opt-in for telemetry/crash reporting

- They have a privacy document describing what they collect and when: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

- They also openly describe their process, which makes me more confident in them talking this seriously:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

- They show me what telemetry exactly they collect: about:telemetry
(While it's certainly hard to figure what all that data means, it being there in the first place means that third party experts can easily access it and evaluate it)
It runs fine on linux.
I know a lot of people like working from home, and I like the option, but I'm personally more of a fan of being in the office. I feel more productive and I like having the ability to talk to my coworkers.

I've seen a lot of people saying that working from home is objectively better, and I think that that is a bit of a radical claim. I rent a room in a beaten up house, so I have about 130ft2 of personal space, a shared kitchen, and a shared bathroom. There are other people like me who also feel like they're stuck in a bubble, especially now that they can't see their friends and family, or even strangers at a coffee shop.
Meh. I want to downvote you for these news... (of course I won’t)
So why would my ISP be logging every or even any TCP packet coming out of my modem? I watch Netflix at full 4K and that consumes about 3GB an hour. Multiplied by the 50,000 in my neighborhood and it seems pricey.

Some things I would be expecting them to log are DNS requests, DHCP leases, and access to ISP sites.
I think you might see companies considering hiring people who live in Bakersfield, Sacramento, maybe even Nevada instead of San Francisco, but there's a vast difference between "usually working from home", and "Needs an international flight to get to the office" and "Literally works in a time zone that doesn't share any office hours with their boss".
> "weakling" is right there at the end
Again, this is not related to the assertion.

Name calling (as a proxy for illegitimacy) is all the same for the intent of the point. Claiming damage without evidence is not compelling, even if it makes for tasty fluff content.
Hong Kong is a colonial relic, it makes all the sense in the world for China to reintegrate this former imperial outpost now.
something about the graphics has continually rubbed me wrong about Civ 6. It sounds weird but I can't get into it. Civ 5? I will play that all day long.
> If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
I feel genuinely sorry for all the freshmen who enter a job market at this time. I can't imagine having my first full-time job remote only.
From what I can tell the CCP would never allow a democratic vote on this issue. Even for unification. From their POV eventual reunification is something the populace of Taiwan has no say on.
Civ 6 is deeper and better balanced than anything before it. What is your specific complaint?
Yes, it means you just have a time window to claim it.
Just offhand, that sounds like a good start to being a datacenter tech. Learn how to handle all the power equipment, HVAC, racking and stacking, cabling, etc.
Those are all perfectly valid points. However, I don't think WFH advocates are claiming that working from home is definitively better. Both options have different trade-offs.

You're right that collaboration is much easier in person, even with the latest remote work technology. But could we offset that with companies that have monthly/quarterly offsites instead? What if they invest their office budget into helping people build better home offices? Ship snacks directly to employees or let them expense meals/snacks?

The worst thing a lot of companies will do is jump into fully remote without rethinking how their culture works. This is not just a way to save money by getting rid of your office. That money has to be allocated differently to make up for the differences.

I 100% agree that mixed in-perform/WFH is the worst of both worlds.

Finally, I would note the last 2 months have been very abnormal for everyone, and it's been nothing like WFH under normal situations. I would wait to when things "return to normal" before making a decision on how you feel about WFH.
It looked very wonky. I cannot judge if the code does not actually produce something worthwhile, but it certainly doesn't pass any smell tests. In no profession would work looking as sloppy as that be trusted. And for the critical decision it was used for I would expect something more robust.
> To suggest they might not work hard to save someone right in front of them is insulting and horrible.

Counter-argument in the form of a question: does one life matter as much as (or more than) three or four that might be saved from that one life's organs? Especially if the one that's clinging to life might've ended up in that position as a consequence of their own actions, such as by way of an at-fault car crash?

I'd argue that the doctor's responsibility is to save any life presented to them regardless of how, but I won't put it past anyone to do the calculus above.

(this may appear to meet the textbook definition of a strawman argument, but I'd venture that this is--by virtue of how many organs can come from one person--a real enough possibility to warrant consideration)
No one cares about debt from.the old China, it's meaningless like debt from nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. You need to explain what you mean.
Not to say this is bad or incorrect, but this is very unidiomatic Clojure. I would question the amount of global state, and the broad use of loops inside threads. This can’t be fun to try and test!

Perhaps better would be to make pure functions to take current telemetry as an argument and return actions as outputs, perhaps all at once or more likely individually for each control. You could then capture all of this inside core.async go-loops to manage the control flow and timeouts, but you could also probably build something simple with one or more agents wrapping the current state and updating a set of commands to be executed later. Another argument for core.async would be to make it easier to funnel all commands into a single channel because I’m not entirely convinced a WebDriver is multithreaded, but perhaps the library manages that for you.

Anyway, cool stuff!
You can't make a price low enough if the product isn't good enough.

Civ is the only game I've played consistently since college, 1994. Civ VI breaks the balance a good strategy game has between aesthetics and efficient movement. It's become too inefficient to enable committed game play.

One possible progression of Civ would be to enable players to script movement or trade or war, to make it even more efficient, so that game play scales with the size of your empire, which indeed reflects the way leaders increasingly rule larger organizations through policy rather than direct action...
> I'm not trying to be facetious - you seriously can't provide your own meals and snacks working from home?

for me, at least, it's about the contact with other people and the talk during the lunch break. face to face human contact. i honestly can not comprehend how can people wish to be isolated... but maybe it's something different with me.
> When a police officer gets it wrong, you're dead.

Or, as often happens, they're dead. I don't envy members of a profession that have to get every life-and-death decision right in real time on a daily basis.
Would it be going too far to suggest that the founding fathers never intended for a full democracy in the first place? It makes for an interesting argument when viewed in the context of the electoral college.
It would be interesting though that if USA could make a deal in which they accept the loss of Taiwan for unification of Koreas. But that's kind of far-fetched.

It makes me sad thought that North Koreans still have to suffer their relic of past regime, which is just net-negative for the population at whole. Yet their lives and well-being is just a part of the geopolitical chess board, and the regime will continue to exist as long as Chinese leaders seem fit.
Has the AI gotten any better?

Civilization has never been a bastion of great computer opponent strategy, but it typically was good enough to suspend disbelief and enjoy. However, VI was just horrific. I played a lot of VI and stuck with it for a few years but the AI still would declare war... not attack, put little to no effort into defense.

It was a fun game and I got my value out of it but eventually it just became frustrating with the AI sort of rage quits and almost behaves like a human greifer just taking random actions that make no sense at all / kill the fun of the game.

I've played civ games constantly since civ but unlike the previous games I just had to quit VI because the AI made it seem so pointless when it ruins a perfectly good game by just going bonkers after you've put hours into it...

Unless it has gotten better, if you have a low tolerance for wonky AI, you might want to pass on this one.
It looks like the strategy here is to use free Civ Vi to try to get you to install the Epic Games store. If you have Windows, this may be compelling, but it also comes without a lot of the extra content that you'll need to play with friends if they use the extra content.
Oh huh, I'll install that, thank you. I like things that add new functionality, but I'm not very excited about mods that just split the existing tech tree into more/harder steps. Do these mods add new functionality, or just make things like circuit types more numerous and expensive?
We keep making a bunch of products where protocols and existing software would do just fine, while hitting fewer edge cases.

Know what would be better than the ten goddamn apps and the iPad and shit they're using for our kid's school? Mailed (or emailed) worksheet packets with guidance, recorded lessons on Youtube. Mail back the worksheets, have the food-delivering schoolbuses pick them up, drop them off at the school every week or so, or just do photos-to-PDF on a phone and email them. Or they could just give each kid workbooks and textbooks like they did when I was in school but that's out of fashion now for no reason. eyeroll

Several logins to manage. Apps that erase your work if you hit the wrong thing. Weird interfaces. Jank galore. Just use the fucking basics. You don't need a custom app for every single thing. Email exists. Use it.
> Why would you now open a office in a smaller tech hub when you can hire someone from anywhere ? The impact of this in Canada can be huge

Why not? The wage differential will still apply: why hire someone remotely from SF when you can hire someone remotely from Ottawa at 70% the wage?
Would you mind expanding on some of the operational complexity you ran into with pulsar?

I think pulsar is wonderful, but I haven't had the chance to use it for anything serious / in production yet, so I'm curious what pain points you had.
It's not just real-estate to consider. You need security guards, facility/maintenance personnel. Utility costs, including raised flooring for your in-house networking/data center. Phones for each desks, office furniture. You need Becky down in Accounting to be the person ordering the office furniture for new hires. Sally in IT keeps the VoIP phones working in-office. Bob in Networking runs cables between floors so Marketing can have better WiFi and uses top of the line Cisco WiFi repeaters. Sam in the Maintenance department assembles those sweet mesh chairs that Becky orders and also makes sure the vending machines and break room is stocked full of snacks. Karen, the contracts vendor just signed a new long-term agreement with a local ISP for full gigabit fiber connectivity to the office.

In reality, it's probably 3x savings on top of just real-estate.
One of many trends that needs to pass (Ooooo Apple did it, so it must be cool. I'll make mine even lighter gray, so I'm that much cooler). :-)

Reader Mode is the answer. The creator of that deserves a Nobel Prize.
The upvote/downvote thing was way, way worse when vote counts were shown per-post. That went away years ago and I think the current system seems to work pretty well when viewed through a macro lens. (In the sense of "is this a good community overall?" and "would it likely be worse if the up/down voting were entirely removed?")

I'm on another forum that opted for an up/down vote system and showed counts per-post much like news.yc used to. It created so much drama and anxiety that people were openly antagonistic towards each other over what amounted to fake-internet-points.

The solution the admins came up with over there was "keep the counts shown publicly" but also "make public the specific votes that were up/down on any given post" (with an anonymization of all historical downvotes before the policy change, but not afterwards). Within days, the community adapted and it was a huge net benefit, IMO.
So how do you feel about GP's final paragraph: making donation obligatory?
> Why we need USB on the browser? Think about updating the firmware of a device, you just go to the webpage, connect the device to the USB and update it, without having to download and install a tool to flash it, for an operation that you need to do just one time. This is only one example of many that we can make, another could be IDEs in the browser to program boards like Arduino, without installing software on the PC.

This is a great idea! Now I not only have to be careful what drivers I install, I also have to be careful which websites I visit or they'll drive-by brick my development tools. Thanks!

It really should not be easy to update firmware on a device. It should be hard enough that it establishes obvious user intent. And I don't want to use a browser to do this. They're unstable enough without adding in soft real-time requirements. Firefox crashes on me about once per day. Doing it while I'm updating a $3000 JTAG adapter would be an absolute disaster.