skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people that play Fortnite today have probably never even played the original game mode.

That might be strictly true, but I think a lot more people got interested in and played Fortnite: Save the World than you think. My 10 year old son came in about 6 months ago asking to buy it, because some of his friends that were playing FNBR had gotten it and were talking about it (playing together? I assume it's multiplayer).

Due to Fortnite's massive usage, "most people" not playing it still could result in an absolutely huge number of people that have, dwarfing all sort of other games that might be considered popular, so I wonder.
Edit: URL changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander.

This is probably too well-known a topic to justify a generic Wikipedia link. There are better articles available - for example, http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/Paradigm/Ch03/norton_command..., which can be found either by web search or HN search. Perhaps we'll swap that URL in.

This issue with Wikipedia submissions has been coming up a lot lately. Recent explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23249978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23117614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089041
Agree, the taut line hitch is amazing and an excellent knot to know. I also love the "trucker's hitch." I often use the truckers hitch in situations where having easy control over the tightness with minimal risk of slippage is my goal. If I need to adjust it much then taut line hitch is preferred, otherwise I truckers hitch is my favorite knot (and seems magical the first few times you use it).
IBM owns Redhat, Rackspace, Compose among others.

So no , they are not going off a cliff.
I agree. This kind of behavior certainly smells like teams doing their development work on high-capacity low-latency networks without much performance oversight.
this is correct. Ibm is all about services.

But it's fine, let the internet people have their incorrect idea about how the world works,
An update: flat out denying network access to syspolicyd using Little Snitch could cut down on the delay. (Yes, syspolicyd does send a network request to apple-cloudkit.com for every single new executable. Denying its access to apple-cloudkit.com only isn't sufficient either since it falls back to IP address directly.) Note that this might not be a great idea, and it still has nonzero cost — a network request has to be made and denied by Little Snitch.

Here's my benchmarking script:

#!/bin/zsh
tmpfile=$(mktemp)
cat >$tmpfile <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
echo $RANDOM # Use a different script each time in case it makes a difference.
EOF
chmod +x $tmpfile
setopt xtrace
time ( $tmpfile )
time ( $tmpfile )
unsetopt xtrace
rm -f $tmpfile

If your local terminal emulator is immune with "Developer Tools" access (interestingly, toggling it off doesn't bring back the delay for some reason), you should be able to reproduce the delay over ssh.
This would be a great title for an article about Rust lifetimes.
If there's no penalty for false-positives on content ID this is only going to get worse.
Transliterating this into the Latin alphabet is fun since it gives "p.m." for before noon.
I'm lumping them together as flow batteries... Mix two liquids get electricity. Add electricity and they separate again. No memory effect, last as long as the pumps. Always liked the idea of replacing my heating oil tank with one. Not sure its ever going to happen though.
Fed’s Balance Sheet Exceeds $7T for First Time in History
I used to use Mac pretty heavily for design and audio work, but around 10.14 because of Apple switching the way they do things, I've now entirely switched to Windows for that, and Linux for everything else. I just don't want to deal with the nonsense described in this post, among several other things.
It's a business decision. With the economy tanking they'll be able to hire better grads and a recent grads than they normally could, work them like dogs for twenty five years and then wait for a convenient recession for a big layoff. This has been going on since the '80's at least. Rinse and repeat.
This is life-changing. Thank you!
Welcome to on demand remote IT Labor. Pretty much anyone one IT can be replaced with a cheaper offshore resource thanks to the acceleration of remote work.
So most of Google? Google Calendar, Search, Maps and others all tend to be very stupid in that aspect.
Right. Same manufacturing node but different microarchitecture.
> You'd think with the privacy issues surrounding contact tracing apps, they would have taken a closer look. Seems negligent not to.

I don't think if this is a good argument, though. Apple is pushing governments that want a contact tracing app to use their Exposure Notification API, which has strong privacy maintaining limitations - for example, it's decentralized, on the phone. In fact, Apple specifically designates contact tracing apps as ones approved and using the Exposure Notification API[1]. The apps that don't use this API are limited - specifically, they can't keep Bluetooth on in the background (meaning, when the phone is locked).

> How does Apple get away with both the accolades when it keeps a 'curated walled garden' ... yet they get a pass when they end up allowing things users would be upset about?

In general, the "accolades" are with respect to how the phone treats apps, as well as in comparison to Google's Play Store. Apple is much more strict in their review process than Google, so blatantly malicious things like malware don't get through.

In this specific case, without more details I do believe that Apple treated the app as a "normal app", as it didn't use the Exposure Notification API, and what is meant by "vetted" here is that it was reviewed using the normal app review process. If that's not the case I would agree Apple has some culpability but without those details and thus assuming that this app was not treated specially, I don't think Apple is at fault here. If this had happened with an app using the API this would have been a much bigger news story as it would have shown that the review process for the contact tracing apps is very poor since contact tracing apps are specifically forbidden from both getting location data, which this article is talking about.

1: https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/Exposur...
>to guess accurately that when you ask about "London" you probably mean London, England.

It depends on your circles/bubble and the context.

Sure, for me and almost certainly the majority of people the majority of the time, assuming London = London, England is almost certainly the correct disambiguation. However, maybe not someone in Ontario or Ohio asking a question about "London." And I expect that the person who sees London, England as this far away place they certainly don't have regular questions about would find that always being the default annoying.
These things are highly hardware-dependent. Typically it takes a few years until support for new hardware devices, features or platforms stabilizes. But it can even take way more than that, and some less common and lower-quality hardware may fail to get support altogether.
I'm a hobbyist game dev. I picked up unity one day and just started making stuff, learning C# on the fly. I'm not great but I can do what I want. I was really interested in Quixel for Unreal so I spent the first half of today trying to learn it. I think I'll be going back to Unity. Unreal did not feel approachable at all. I'll probably keep trying for a couple days... but yeesh.
Hi Dimitri. We are in the process of deprecating the current GKE listing which Google will be replacing with a single click to deploy listing, currently targeted to go live before the end of June. Thanks for your interest and patience. For more details on other GCP plans see https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/-/epics/322.
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Keep in mind that most of those Wii U's and Wii's definitely did not have Mario 64 actually purchased on it, as well as the fact that you can no longer purchase the game for those systems. With the price an N64 and the cartridge go for these days, playing the original hardware is considered a premium.

I'd consider the DS version to be its own game. I love it, but with such large changes to the core gameplay it's certainly not a port, and it's not a remaster. Personally I think Nintendo should just release widescreen versions of both to the Switch, maybe with Mario 64 DS being an overhaul DLC.
This all depends on what you're hanging. If hanging art worth more than $100, use steel cable. Museums and galleries all use steel cable because it is easier and nicer to work with. dyneema is strong, but not chemically stable and will degrade over time with exposure to atmosphere and light (though obviously there isn't a lot of light behind a piece of art on the wall).
Years ago, a team I was on decided to get wacom tablets to try to do some remote brainstorming. We quickly found that nobody liked it enough to actually continue, because none of us found it natural at all to cope with writing motions on a blank desk surface with results appearing dislocated on a screen. Those devices all found their way into dusty drawers, never to see electrons in their USB cables again.

I suppose somebody must find this interface satisfactory, since the product category has existed so long. But for the most part, we found the human factors part to be too awkward. I realized then that I would not try this again unless I had a stylus+touchscreen device so I could have a more natural writing experience. Even then, I have experienced enough terrible stylus interfaces on point-of-sale equipment to realize that I need quite low latency before it feels natural rather than tortured to write on a screen.

But, for us to buy such a thing for many team members, knowing it will probably only see infrequent use, it would have to be at an entry-level Android phone price level, not at iPad price levels. However, I'd be concerned that something like a phone will not provide an appliance/peripheral-like experience. I want something that works consistently with any software over a matter of years/decades, not something tied heavily to a specific app and platform which may evaporate long before the hardware wears out.
Url changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander, which points to this.
What's Ambergris? Behind the $60k Whale-Waste Find (2012)
I think you're making basically the same mistake that Gruber is in the article, and that all "location based services" are making. The context isn't the current location, it's where people's attention is.

To take Gruber's example, if you had an office in London Ontario, were talking about setting up a video call, then asked your assistant "what time is it in London", and they picked London England because it's the most famous, you'd question how smart they were.

The context is not where you are, or which "London" is largest or most popular or least driving distance away or where you grew up or where you lived once, the context is why you are asking about the time in London, it's all of the present brain/attention/conversation/local state bundled together.
> I'm reluctant to drop Apple mainly because I'm so 'tied up' with the rest of the ecosystem, iphone, Apple Music, iCloud etc.. They are not irreplaceable (for sure) but it always feels like moving away will cost way too much effort and be a pain... Well played, Apple.

This is why I don't want anything by Apple.
Been putting off upgrading from 16.04 finally got it working a while back and was afraid to touch it.

Might give 20 a shot
Hydroxychloroquine is a zinc ionophore. It provides an ion channel that permits zinc to enter the cell and inhibit viral replication. In order to be effective, the zinc + ionophore antiviral should be administered early. Hospitalized ICU patients on ventilators are far from ideal candidates. Chinese (successful) studies used Zinc and Hydroxychloroquine; never Hydroxychloroquine without zinc.

Improving the efficacy of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine against SARS-CoV-2 may require Zinc additives - A better synergy for future COVID-19 clinical trials
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/1795/

Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in Cell Culture
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/

Does Zinc Supplementation Enhance the Clinical Efficacy of Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine to Win Todays Battle Against COVID-19?
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0124/v1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionophore
Zinc ionophores have been shown to inhibit replication of various viruses in vitro:

Coxsackievirus

Equine viral arteritis

Hepatitis C virus

Herpes simplex virus

Human coronavirus

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Mengovirus

MERS coronavirus

Rhinovirus

SARS coronavirus

Zika virus
The half-life of DNA is ~521 years at 13.1°C. This dino is more than 100 million years old.

Scientists have been working very diligently to try to recover DNA from millions of years ago, but the reality is any DNA found has a very good chance of being from bacteria & other organisms from the more recent past.

Still there are (disputed) claims to have found DNA that's millions of years old:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/possible-dinosaur...
> All my life I've been subtracting 2 and ignoring the fist digit for PM times (with the exception of post 20:00 times)

Which is the same as subtracting 12 (subtracting 2 and then subtracting 10, which is what ignoring the first digit does for times before 20:00).
This needs to be standardized & vegan in your local Whole Foods imo
Maybe. But states can also call out the National Guard. Florida's police departments have been heavily militarized, even more so since the Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016. And that means that people will expect to be met with real force, so they will wait until they're in some serious deprivation before large riots even start.
For a large jet, a single go-around can take about 12 minutes.

Longer if they're having problems turning the plane due to hydraulic issues.
> Ideals for the sake of ideals doesn't resonate with me, in software or outside of it. Give me a practical reason.

Fair enough.

I am mainly looking to prevent the timescale corp. from coasting off of their long past work. In such a scenario, the several years out of date code would not be that much different from the current version, because income for timescale would not have been spent on meaningful improvements.

Another benefit is as a check to the timescale corp. in case they start acting up. In such a case, a large contributor or user might pick up maintenance of an old version and start porting it to newer postgresql versions as leverage. Users of TimescaleDB could be reassured that timescale will not abuse them through the licensing situation because there is some backup plan.
Seconding Freehand.
Neat, thanks for introducing me to Dyneema rope. I just ordered some. I suspect it will come in really handy.
I read this article on vice gaming earlier about giving credit to creators for assets used in development that I thought was interesting...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4pzd/how-we-assign-cred...

For me it just comes down to the license, I’d probably credit an artist for their work if I used it in a game but if the license doesn’t say that then there’s no onus to right?

If I like the stuff enough to use it in my project then The creator deserves some recognition, is there a reason not to?
Most people are quite happy to have something like Unity instead of dealing with Ogre3D, SFML, Allegro and similar old frameworks.

In most game development schools it is one of the official game engines that one gets to choose.

Check Gamasutra articles or watch GDC postmortems and the vibe will be much more positive than around here.
Not friends with the manager?
Why has it failed? Because of technology?

Even building your own fault tolerant Linux cloud seems cheaper. Granted, an insurance company does not have the expertise to build massive computer operating systems.

Or because of money, and other vendor lock-in’s? Then, with all the proprietary stuff, I can see how a migration can easily fail.
The LTS is only supported for two years. That doesn't really solve this problem.
> I seem to recall this being a thing ever since sandboxing was a thing, even all the way back to when it was called Seatbelt.

Maybe you're right; I'm not sure when they actually put the Seatbelt/TrustedBSD interpreter inline in the BSD syscall code-path. What I do know is that, until 10.15, Apple tried to ensure that the BSD-userland libc-syscall codepath retained mostly the same behavioral guarantees as it did before they updated it, in terms of worst-case time-complexities of syscalls. Not sure whether that was using a short-circuit path that went around Seatbelt or used a "mini-Seatbelt" fast path; or whether it was by hard-coding a pre-compiled MAC ruleset for libc calls that only relied upon the filesystem flag-bits, and so never had to do anything blocking during evaluation.

Certainly, even as of 10.12, BSD-userland processes weren't immune to being exec(2)-blocked by the quarantine xattr. But that may have been a partial implementation (e.g. exec(2) going through the MAC system while other syscalls don't.) It's kind of opaque from the outside. It was at least "more than nothing", though I'm not sure if it was "everything."

One thing that is clear is that, until 10.15, BSD processes with no capabilities manifest, still had the pretty much exactly the same default set of privileges that they had before capabilities, which means "almost everything" (and therefore they almost never needed to actually hit up the security system for more grants.) I guess all Apple really needed to have done in 10.15 to "break BSD", was to introduce some more capabilities, and then not put them in the default/implicit manifest.

I suppose what actually happened in 10.15 can be determined easily-enough from the OSS code that's been released. :)

> Is this not implemented in the kernel as an extension? // I am fairly sure you can just embed a profile in a section of your app's binary and call the sandboxing Mach call with that…

Yeah, sorry, you're right; updated my assertions above. I'm not a kernel dev; I've just picked up my understanding of this stuff from running head-first into it while trying to do other things!
Staying healthy and working on some side projects
Do they own Rackspace? I know they bought SoftLayer, but I think Rackspace is owned by Apollo?
I like the Farrimond Friction Hitch[0] for this.

It's essentially a quick release Prussik tied with the working end.

You can use a toggle, or slip a second bight through the first to prevent accidental untying.

Big benefit is that it is faster to tie in longer lengths of cord and it's faster to undo, being quick release.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrimond_friction_hitch
Yours is just a regurgitation of the National Geographic feature, so I’m not sure what legs you have to stand on here. Ironic.
perhaps this is the consequence of a ubi like program.

not saying if its good or bad but it puts a floor on what salary people are willing to accept for different jobs
This one is great:

https://userstyles.org/styles/160459/hacker-news-readable-da...
I'm sure they will let the remaining 350,000 employees know that if they are the last one to leave to turn off the lights.
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Some companies think that it is only fair to pay for the work of others.

I don't see an issue requiring commercial access to the source code.
The only thing I would retort is that you are assuming their are only two outcomes, the incentives get realigned to allow businesses to operate under preexisting circumstances or we don't change incentives and these businesses fail. I would totally agree we need to look at behavioral outcomes, I would say that we need to look at it from the employer side and immigration side as well not just the domestic labor side.
> It depends on your circles/bubble and the context.

But not on the intimate personal details and communications of the individual person, which was what the post I was responding to was about. Sure, there are going to be circumstances where London, England is not the most likely guess, but you don't need to have access to someone's entire personal history to know what those circumstances are, since a human can spot those circumstances without having that knowledge.
Only half of it is there. The back half of the thing is gone.
Sounds like resource (design) issues to me.
I am glad to hear there are more and more people that accepts those new kind of open source, not the official definition of the OSI but more like the global idea behind it
> Banks, hospitals, aerospace industry, retail operations, states and governments mostly run on IBM main frames.

I think this is why its one of Buffet's fav stocks of all time.
Glider roots of the airframe.

Your correct on the Mts, always nice to have a turbo for the big rocks here in CA.
I never worked in AWS

Really just gossip is what you have to go off of initially.

After you've been at the company for a bit, when you're interested in a new team, you can usually get some meet-and-greet meeting with current members on the team.

That's the time to ask really tough questions, even potentially awkward questions: how many times do you get paged? What's the worst project you've worked on? What's the average tenure of team members? When people leave the team, do they leave Amazon? (If they leave Amazon, then the team is less to blame, otherwise, beware).
Ask HN: How good is your article online reading experience?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269780.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269796.
The way we handle it in Browserboard is to only undo your own edits. We version each individual shape, and filter events out of the undo stack for shapes that have been touched by other users.
Show HN: Moonshot – A video conference escape room for 10-100 players
>Advertisers will always have power

Not if laws lessen it. Which is my whole point.

>If an advertiser today wants to advertise with pornhub, that is a different editorial decision than choosing to advertise on YouTube. I shouldn't have to spell this out because it seems pretty obvious.

It's only obvious within a certain puritan culture. In Europe nobody would bat an eye if an advertiser for a, say, fast food store, advertised in pornhub. People wouldn't want to take them down.

>One can imagine a world where YouTube complies with your regulation by providing YouTube, YouTube for kids, and maybe a couple political niches that capture their most popular creators

Adults are not kids - they don't need or should require special segmentation from different content (aside from their chosing what they like to view/read).

So we'd just needs a kids and an adults YouTube.

Plus making advertising on the adults YouTube wholesale: you buy impressions/views/clicks/etc - and that's it. You don't get a say which video they appear on.
Not associated at all but due to loving it, I wanted to share PhotoPea as you mentioned Gimp.

https://www.photopea.com
This only thing unusual about this problem for classical music is the extremely large repertoire of public domain works.

The article vaguely implies that there is also an issue of miscalibration of the matching due to emphasising commercial pop-music but I've never seen any evidence of that and wouldn't expect it from how these systems work. In particular, I've found various contentid services to be effective at identifying classical music-- so clearly their database contain plenty of it. I expect that this claim is pure speculation on the part of the article's author.
As mentioned in the paper they only include people where the drug was given within 48 hours after diagnosis.