skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that if you want to run MAME, specifically, RetroPie is a bad choice, as is using the Raspberry Pi in general.

MAME's architecture does not lend well to it being converted into a core. Several features get weakened, disabled, or broken, and they generally don't function the way they're supposed to, especially with respect to controller input.

The version of MAME available for RetroPie is considerably older and outdated. Many of the features have been altered or disabled in order to make MAME work on less powerful hardware.

Even a low end PC running the latest version of MAME (222, at the time of writing) is going to give you a much better experience.
True - but by that time BBSes were basically dead anyway.
There is a real homelessness situation in San Francisco, and it does have some of the effects you describe at least sometimes. The question is its scale. While my experience is now years out of date, I think part of the way this understanding comes about is visitors and tourists are more likely to encounter the homeless people in touristy areas (particularly if they start at Powell St for the cable cars and make the mistake of going southwest, but also in the Haight-Ashbury) while the well-off residents tend to enjoy the city in different ways, and end up in different places than the homeless.

Did you ever see the maps of tourist-vs-local photography for San Francisco? There is a huge disparity in the way they interact with the city.

The major complaints about homelessness and needles from residents seem to come when the residents are now parents, and there are needles on the playgrounds in any quantity.
The funny part is some of wish we could visit super shady new york in the 70's. But now I hear it's basically disneyland.
If the screenshot you're referring to is "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" (oddly this isn't placed next to the assertion of threat probably to avoid the comparison):

a) this is not directed at George Floyd protestors as the article suggests, but at looters

b) stating that violence with be responded to with force is a factual statement, and that response is entirely within the remit of law enforcement. The post does not encourage an extra legal or illegal response

c) it is unlikely the BuzzFeed would allege threat for any left leaning world leader suggesting that violence would be responded to by law enforcement.

We should be auto flagging BuzzFeed articles by now.

Regardless of whether you like Donald Trump or do not - and I do not - that doesn't change the facts of this matter.
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For distributor of the app (app stores) - they can take a percentage of sales if the app is monetized.

For users of the app - As you mentioned, speed is an important factor. But we can also trust that the distributor has reviewed the app and confirmed that it's safe to use (theoretically at least).

One more point I would add - app stores provide a singular place for me to search, compare, and discover new apps that might be valuable to me.
The Echo Show was conceived before the first Echo was ever released. I think I even saw a demo in 2014/2015. Source: I worked on the first Echo.
Thanks! and yes we totally agree. Sidekick isn't for everyone. For the people that do miss being around others, we want to bring back some of that joy.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
No new international students at Harvard due to restrictive immigration rules
Yes, that's the practical reason. But a browser could of course have implemented HTTP in the way described in the RFC, instead they all took the easy and obvious way out. That's also why the bug was present in all browsers that had marketshare, it was the obvious thing to do, it is not as if they independently made the same mistake, they independently decided that it wasn't important enough to implement the protocol to the letter.
> To deceive someone is to tell them an untruth for personal gain.

No, it's to cause someone to believe something that is not true.

Personal gain is a common goal served by deceit, not part of it's essential character.
I'm sad that spamming users via Firefox account email is now becoming a regular practice for Mozilla. Last time it was for the picture-in-picture feature. Now they're advertising their VPN.

I'm pretty sure I again unchecked all the boxes referring to unsolicited mail in the account preferences when the picture-in-picture mail landed [1]. Yet "Firefox account tips" was now back on for me again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23772909
The most likely outcome for ARM is that it goes public again rather than being bought out.
It was the brightness I was worried about, yes. Should've probably just looked it up myself!

I don't think astronavigation is used in any serious capacity anymore, so in that sense it's a moot point. Still, it's a cool practice and it would've been too bad to see that go away.
1. Did you work on a team at Amazon in the likes of what user throwaway_aws mentioned?

2. What measures that you know of is Amazon implementing to make sure no employees across all teams are having access to said resources?
This is really another example of a claim of "genetic exceptionalism", that genetic information has a special status among other sorts of personal information, that mostly is not true. Your personal information, broadly, is informative about your relatives, your friends, etc. This includes your personal health information, your personal financial information, your online habits, etc. Any time you share personal data, you are disclosing information about people associated with you, without their consent, that might be used against them. And often these other classes of personal data are more informative than genetic information.
Why can't it be both? I see people using it both ways, every day.
That only really holds water at a cursory glance though... Nvidia owns ALL of video and then some, AMD only owns a (growing) tiny fraction of CPU and happens to have a couple cards. It's not just about markets but market share.
I never got that connotation from the word 'deceive', I thought it just meant misleading someone, not necessarily for your own gain. Furthermore, I grew up christian and was never told all lying was for personal gain.
"Be kind. Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I used Que [0] in a number of projects in the last few years that had stronger consistency demands. It can plug into ActiveJob. Those projects are still humming along without trouble today.

[0]: https://github.com/que-rb/que
there's nothing stopping anyone from building that right now- a private twitter account (e.g. @_celebrity) that only allows certain subscribers to follow, and an API that republishes tweets to the real account (@celebrity) after a time period.
> this pandemic could trigger a spatial reordering where America moves back into countryside where people are more social, trusting, and would simply prefer to reside.

This is in the last paragraph.

The author tells a bunch of stats but seems unable to make actual sense of them, beyond the surface level.

People go where the jobs are, not where they prefer to be. With more people than ever being out of jobs, the only way they magically move to the countryside and stay there is if we place them on permanent welfare.

'The people' don't get to decide anything. They are sheep, for shepherds to play with. Grapes of wrath by Steinbeck expressed this in a way an average American can relate to.
The media always blames Mark for every bad action that his company does, but what about all the other employees, aren't they just as guilty as him?
The US is not a legal monoculture; there are some parts of the US where public nudity is permitted. Example (NSFW, article contains some nudity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_nudity_in_San_Francisco

Laws concerning toplesness also vary across the US. It's legal in many places for women to go topless, yet rarely does anybody actually do so. My point here is that laws are not actually the reason most people wear clothing; their personal preferences are the reason. Where clothing laws don't exist or aren't enforced, virtually everybody still wears clothes.

(Also, I think this all has very little to do with covid-19.)
Can speak for AWS. Only the later. Basically the usage information for cloud resources. This constitutes the foundation for billing. BTW, this is be true for any cloud, any SAAS.

There is no way an employee can look into customer data. There's enough trail inside AWS to prove that without any doubt.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Sidekiq works well for me but it’s good to have an option that doesn’t require Redis.
Very interesting! Ripgrep is my favorite new wave Unix utility by far. Modern syntax, incredible speeds, and a ridiculous amount of options that come in handy quite a bit. Great work!
There is nothing in this bill worth having. What exactly are you supporting here?
MAME has become more demanding over time as its accuracy has increased, rather than less so.
This. Modeling and photography are low skilled jobs, with minimal pay and long hours. Over years system became ruthlessly efficient to extract value from people.

Good luck replacing that with expensive AI developers to produce fake stuff.
What you say is true, but stating the fact this way is already framing the conversation. To see this just reflect how you feel when you hear the "deception", it's already a loaded term. Given most of us here grew up indoctrinated in western thought, we're now fighting up-hill to demonstrate a meaningful distinction which eastern cultures take for granted.
> If they're happy with his work output, fine. He fulfilled his end of the bargain. Totally deranged protestant work ethic run amok to think otherwise.

By this reasoning...

Manager: Our users are asking for this feature, how long will it take us to ship it?

Developer: I can do it in six weeks.

Manager: Ok, I'll let them know.

(Six weeks later)

Manager: I just found out that this was actually super simple for you and only took a few days. What were you actually doing the last month? Our users were waiting this whole time.

Developer: You said you were OK with six weeks! Your protestant work ethic is deranged!

;-)
Amazon announced a copycat of us pretty quickly after we went through YC. I suspect it’s not some sinister top-down thing (unless they are actually reading all YC company descriptions). Most likely, the copycats are ambitious, unoriginal PMs pitching some budget.

We facilitate subscriptions using a smart scale, and it works way better than a Dash button (Bottomless.com, YC W19). I’m actually surprised they haven’t launched yet and are taking so long.

It’s pretty wild, the hardware on their launch page is exactly like ours, only they're so slow that it’s a copy of two versions ago and hasn’t even hit the market.
Show HN: Optimal DFS
Hey hacker news sports fans! Happy Opening Day. I recently added an MLB lineup optimizer to my app Optimal DFS. Let me know what you think.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/optimal-dfs/id1080218936
Raspberry 3B is too slow for this?
The Inuit are around 4% of Canada's Indigenous population, so I'd be surprised if many of the people committing those murders were raised with this particular traditional Inuit anger-management strategy.
Cashiers are on their way out. You can walk into any Walmart and see two people in line for 10 minutes because of the 50 available registers only 2 are open. Walmart wants to drive people to use the self checkout. I hate it because invariably something goes wrong and you have to compete for the sole person manning that section.
I can commiserate with this attitude but still find myself disagreeing. I have worked in the type of role where I was expected to lead a transformational change when it seems like the incentives at every level are aligned against it.

I do personally feel an obligation to keep trying because if I didn't I'm not doing my job. Throwing up my hands in exasperation means I'm collecting a pay check just to keep the status quo. That makes me part of the problem as well as resigning myself to be miserable. I think we owe it to ourselves and the organization to move on if we get to that point.
> nearly as draconian

And you say this is a good thing? That it's only slightly draconian now? Why would we allow them to move the goalposts at all? Especially when they always seem to move in the direction of more mass surveillance and less privacy?
Why was this flagged? Many stories which I am interested in get flagged and I do not understand why.
Not really a Clojure user, but I made a small API with it once and it blew my mind, especially the design patterns involved. An interesting one is the ports-and-adapters (a.k.a. hexagonal architecture) [1][2] . Basically, all the business logic will be kept at a layer, and all of the functions there should be pure (i.e. they will always return the same information according to your input, and these functions won't cause side effects [3]). Then you would have layers where you can plug databases and REST handling.

And Nubank take testing really seriously. REPL and pure functions makes it very easy to use TDD.

[1] https://github.com/nubank/basic-microservice-example#ports-a...

[2] http://wiki.c2.com/?PortsAndAdaptersArchitecture

[3] https://practicalli.github.io/clojure/thinking-functionally/...
Sure, but the comment mentions that you would use the 'set of websites that are whitelisted' as an identifier... your method can only check the site you are currently on, it doesn't give you information on if other websites have been whitelisted or not.
Amazon is a massive company. How can you know this with confidence? Are you in the C-Suite?
A hitchhikers guide to GPT-3. For GPT-3, the API is cooler than the AI
If you're looking to buy the card in the article, I just got one of these https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000958505670.html which looks to be exactly the same card, and doesn't require scouring eBay. I haven't done much with it yet, but can confirm that it arrived to me in the UK with no issues, and seems to work from a quick test.
Why did Yahoo suspend user comments?
You and op might be more violently in agreement than you might have surmised.
Nubank is a company valued at over $10 billion, with investing from major Silicon Valley firms. It is not unknown to millions of people, and is expanding internationally so I don't think they'll be regional much longer. Clojure and datomic being such a good fit for their tech stack of hundreds of microservices and thousands of databases should really encourage people to use clojure like Erlang's history in telecommunications encouraged people to adopt Elixir.
Show HN: QR Code Based Traveler Identity for Seamless Immigration
TownChat is going to create seamless travel experience for tourists by generating Traveler Identity QR Codes for documentless identification, facilitating navigation through airports using Indoor Positioning through connectors and providing in-flight entertainment.

Our Patent Pending QR Code based Digital Identity will replace passports for entry and exit at borders and can also be used for Check-in and Check-out at airport lounges and hotels. It can be integrated with AML Database for KYC verification if needed.

QR Code based Passport ID will also allow users to scan Visa QR Code if Embassies provide one or scan Machine Readable Visa for automatically updating the visa details. On every QR scan our API will automatically check for any active PNR of user and will update QR Code with PNR so that users could scan the QR Code for getting boarding pass and later on for seamless immigration.

Through QR ID Landside to Airside and Airside to Landside process will take 2-3 Minutes.
Perhaps I'm being naive but $5USD ($7.50CDN after exchg and credit card padding) per month seems too much for the average Joe. I.e. compared to its competitors - esp. well known competitors like PIA and the free offering from Opera.
Common Sense Ethics Undervalues Truth
Audience.

Twitter has a more left leaning audience than many social media platforms, hence its creep away from tolerating anything right wing or centrist.

Facebook's audience is predominantly more balanced in that regard, with a larger percentage of conservatives using it in some way (especially those in older generations).

If they tried to go the same way as Twitter or Reddit, a large percentage of Facebook users would be absolutely pissed, and they'd likely lose a lot of traffic.
I can't see how this is a "0day".

This post talks about how you can identify a running Tor when you connect to the (operator-assigned, public) relay port. You can only "see" these TLS certificate details when you are connecting to the relay yourself. This means this does not allow network operators to detect traffic going to Tor nodes, or in-between nodes, let alone identify users or deanonymize anyone: To external observers, such traffic looks like typical browser TLS traffic.

So, what this does is allow you to identify Tor nodes, which is by definition not a problem for all Tor relays except bridges, which should not be as easily discoverable by a network scan. The problem has been known before, and work as been done so you can now run a Tor bridge without this problem. As this problem has been publicly discussed and outlined in the very first design documents, it cannot be called a "0day", even if it was more problematic than it actually is.

Tor came up with the concept of "pluggable transports" to address this very successfully, which allows clients and entry bridges to basically make Tor traffic look like anything you want.
Amazon met with an unnamed startup I worked for to do this, luckily our investors warned us before the meeting.
Nazis in our classes: 50-year-old lesson about fascism still terrifying us today
The author of this blog strongly comes across as a person who understands a good deal about finding vulnerabilities, but doesn't really understand the tradeoffs being made in maintaining usable anonymity software such as the Tor browser.

The reported scroll bar width vulnerability is his strongest case. He rightly got a bounty for it. But it's relatively hard to fix, and until recently, the Tor browser also just leaked your window size via Javascript. But they're getting there, slowly.

However, the story about public bridge certificates is pretty unjustified. The response he got from the Tor Project is completely clear, and his proposed solution in trying to impersonate traditional PKI simply won't work against even mediocre attackers. Furthermore, bridge enumeration as a systemic attack might be a problem against censorship systems, but can't rightly be called a '0day'. Private bridges (https://bridges.torproject.org) also solve a lot of the problem.

In the linked ticket, you clearly see that they are trying pretty hard to find a sponsor willing to fund the solution.
I guess I've lived at both ends of the spectrum, but it's not surprising to me that city dwellers are more isolated.

In rural areas, you have no choice but to know your neighbors. You'll see them regularly, whether you like it or not, because there's only a handful of local stores. It's that repetition that builds trust and opportunity to slowly build a friendship up, and eventually become part of a community.

In the city, you get relative anonymity through sheer numbers. On one hand you get to blend into the crowd, but on the other hand you don't get to interact with the crowd. You have to luck, or maneuver, your way into a social circle of trust to get any kind of serious bonding. Even then, you may just be an isolated pod of people, still not feeling directly part of the community, you just walk through.

This is why I've always found the idea of not making friends with your workmates to be really backwards. They're pretty much your only social circle when you first get to a city. You're going to see them 5 days a week, what better group of people to bond with. You won't get that anywhere else in a city.
It depends. The font rendering process is based around "masters" which can vary in count. One font could have one master for all the weights, or multiple masters - for the bold/normal/light. Depending on the master count, the size can differ.

The key thing also is the number of web requests. This is not a trivial detail. One variable font can be less web requests.
Wow, where exactly can I get those prices? I'm in downtown SF and it's $80 not including tax for 200x20 cable. I also don't have the rental fee because I argued with them through three hours and two of my own modems until they finally auth'd my MAC address.

This is the best/cheapest connection I have had; my last connection in NY was 20x5 for $96/mo, also with my own modem. The cable company often tries to sell me a contract TV plan, in exchange for a small temporary package discount, but I un-want TV, so this is not appealing. Also, I hear that in some countries you can't advertise prices that omit tax and surcharges, but here you can.

So I think the US prices in the table are basically fake, where the real prices are about ~2x in my experiance. Just curious whether the prices in other countries are real.

Like can you really get internet for the equivalent of 30-40USD/mo?
My apologies, all the more so because this is something I dislike in comments myself.

I was genuinely surprised by this though in a way I haven't been by previous downvotes. "Everyone" so to speak were getting down votes and the only common factor I could find was the link itself, which as far as I could tell was entirely unproblematic unless it was referencing some studies which were widely acknowledged to be bad scholarship.

Regardless I'll take the humbling reminder to read the guidelines and my own comments more closely.
Fair enough, performance critical parts are indeed not always the most ideal place for asserts; our asserts also trigger a core dump though.
> VHDL (and its software counterpart Ada) are very well thought and great to use once you get to know them (and understand why they are the way they are). Yeah, they are a bit verbose but I prefer a strong base to syntactic sugar.

As a professional FPGA developer: VHDL (and Verilog even moreso) are bad [1] at what they're used for today: implementing and verifying digital hardware designs. In fact, they're at most moderately tolerable at what they were originally intended for: describing hardware.

[1] They're not completely terrible – a completely terrible idea would be to start with C and try to bend it so that you can design FPGAs with it...
These kinds of jobs being replaced by software is an increase in efficiency. Those people well by and large end up doing something else that's useful for society.

A digger (machine) replaced a lot of workers with shovels, but in the long-term it has clearly been good for society.
so in may it was 0.4 and now its 0.65 is worse but still very low. the number is of course evolving but unlikely to widely different than that.

>Do you believe this gives you lee-way to diminish and share bad facts to bolster your claim?

What bad facts ?
Lots of anon accounts (reasonably) in this thread, so I want to back up as a non-anon former Googler that your experience matches mine. It wasn't "ignore patents", it was "don't look up patents so you aren't influenced by them".
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Highly counterinuitive.
The OP is of course the new guy/gal so your not going to being doing major things from day 1.