skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lisa: I'll stop buying Malibu Stacey clothing.

Bart: And I'll take up smoking and give that up.

Homer: Good for you, son. Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. Have a dollar.
[gives a dollar bill to Bart]

Lisa: But he didn't do anything!

Homer: Didn't he, Lisa? Didn't he?
I don't think that Google has the same requirements as apple, vis a vis, all payments need to go through apple app store, which includes subscriptions or coin purchases.
Some educators argue 2+2 can sometimes equal 5
The government doing it means that a previous generation of entrepreneurs or citizens had a problem with recycling that wasn't being solved adequately by private markets, so they petitioned the government to organize it.

The alternative is privatizing the profits and socializing the costs, which is way worse.
Disaster Program Allocates Unprecedented Funds for Climate Resilience
It’s being called the Abraham Accords, so if you can suspend your cynicism, I think you’ll realize the answer
Valve changed their policies to provide a volume discount for big titles:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/30/18120577/valve-steam-gam...
The reason they keep going back to Google is they are willing to cut the biggest check. A few years back they tried kicking the Google habit... it didn't work. So barring new developments, Mozilla's prospects are significantly diminished should Google lose interest. Right now, it's apparently still worth half a billion a year to Google for the appearance of competition.
Fixed URL: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/announcing-epi...

The ; at the end of yours breaks it
That would be really weird. When I think more charitable with Mozilla, I think of "one hand does not know what the other one is doing".
Covid 19 Projections
I am a product of our time and morals of late 20th century. Of course for me, a person born in this age, the idea of genocide looks bad. But if I was born in Russia in 14th century, I'd probably be very fine with the idea a complete and full extermination of every single mongol: men, women, children, all of them. And for a person born in 25th century the idea of genocide might look fine again. Moral is too relative and comes from education and surrounding society, not from some universal rule of what's good and what's bad.

On being 'confronted' with the question about legalizing genocide. Well, if there ARE people with such ideas, it's not like making the ideas illegal will stop such people from having them. So open discussion about it and democratic voting will have just 2 outcomes: nazis will be either reduced to nothing and their political base will dissolve, or they'll get to power and a genocide will happen. However, I believe that a society that will openly vote for genocide is beyond saving, whether you criminalize some ideas or not.
I'm very glad that after I bought a VPN subscription from them they only needed to have sold another 49,999 or so to pay for that.
Toddlers are so far more spherical than adults
How would they know it’s their own government? If the NSA were in the habit of leaving calling cards, then sure some info-sec people might keep quiet out of patriotism, but others would be screaming from the rooftops about proof of conspiracy.

More likely, as the author mentions, the NSA disguises its attacks as less sophisticated than they really are.
Using the GitHub Docker Registry requires auth, even just for downloads.

https://docs.github.com/en/packages/using-github-packages-wi...

GitHub Packages is different from GitHub Releases (and their artifacts) or cloning repos.
They can always require that you offer Apple Pay alongside direct payments. They're already doing this for their apple login system, if you offer facebook login etc you're expected to also offer their login system.
I would reverse that analysis: more likely the result of a calculation from the two aforementioned middle-eastern countries that giving the current president of the US a bump for re-election would be advantageous.
From my understanding the new packaging is designed to move the control from the distribution maintainer to the developer. So depending on software and distribution you get a range of advantages and disadvantages. You can continue using apt, snap, flatpack,Stram and binaries from tar.gz so we only gained in choices.
> Currently it is under military occupation.

Israel is settling civilian population there in large amounts, this is forbidden by international law and goes against the claim of "military occupation" (which must be temporary in nature).
Ask HN: Companies Transitioned from Enterprise to SaaS?
Hey,

Companies which typically grow to offer enterprise solution often find it hard to move towards SaaS due to a variety of reasons?
- Complex offering
- On premise and high touch
- Cost and scale etc.

Do you know of any companies which made this successful transition?
> Well, every app would easily be able to offer you a 25% discount (30% - 5% to account for transaction fees), since they would not be paying the Apple fee.

Since when have companies passed on fee decreases to their customers instead of accepting the effectively free higher margins?
https://youtu.be/5sPlNsESRs0?t=202
I have a Intel i5 2500 that I paid $209 for in April 2011. I'm looking at new i9 desktop chips and they're like 50% faster. 10 years? WTF? The laptop chips are barely faster.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9900-vs-...
Which would mean people will regularly pull it and thus prevent it from being deleted. I call that a self-sustainable business model.
Checking in. My main desktop - which is the machine I use 95% of the time for personal use (other than my phone) - is a Q9300 w/ 4GB of RAM. It's about 13 years old. I use it mostly for browsing and coding w/ VS Code; both of which it's still perfectly good at doing. I game on the PS4, so I haven't needed to upgrade my desktop in a long time. That said, I've been eyeing VR-ready desktops for the last couple of years, but those graphics card prices are hard to justify.

I have several laptops that are newer (within the last 2-5 years), but they're used primarily by my kids or for work.
First, you shouldn't take this so personal. Should I be calling Epic game store or Steam bad platforms if they don't support Windows 95? Unfortunately, you are not the target audience, and expecting developers/publishers to pony up the dev time and money to placate an incredibly small portion of the market is a fantasy. Maybe this will change in the future, who knows.

I also take issue with you calling exclusive games 'bribes'. They are looking out for their own self interest, and that includes not paying Steam a 30% cut on all of their sales. It's called competition, not a bribe. If another employer contacted you and said they would offer a 30% pay raise on your current salary, are you really going to say that 1. that's a bribe, and 2. you wouldn't take it?

Also, denying that Fortnite has not made its mark on society is missing the forest for the trees. I don't play it, I have no desire to play it, but I can see how important it's been to the industry and how much it's effected society.
At which point the frumer-than-thou will need four dishwashers...

After the eggs, don't forget space for wind-up travelling salt servers.

(We actually have one of the latter. Not as fancy as the ones in the Hermitage by a long shot, but then again, we're intending to come to a better end than the Romanovs, so we're certainly not going to just cargo cult their flexes.)

As far as I can tell, this HRE example is so posh a salt cellar that it's even useless for actually holding salt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Galleon
Disclaimer: I've recently at my company built and released a product that has a displayed DAG on screen and allows people to build ML pipelines in addition to the existing data prep and blend capability. My company is profitable and the ML product is doing well. We also have the ability to have jupyter notebooks execute in-line with the DAG.

The comments on here are reflective of the fact that selling products like yours to typical coders is a dead-end. They don't like it or want it, not because it wouldn't be useful to them, but because they are attached to their current tooling and don't see a need for making their workflows more maintainable for non-coders. Some coders get it, after working in an office and realizing they are spending inordinate amounts of time tweaking their software for various data sources instead of focusing on the actual interesting stuff, but most don't.

Your product has the challenge of falling in a valley between the domain experts who can't code and therefore won't have notebooks available to pull into each node, and the people who can code and have notebooks not wanting to spend money or use a dirty, filthy, evil GUI instead of their precious glue code.

Your sweet spot of customers won't be on HN. They are the massive army of people with the job title "data scientist" who really aren't close to being actual data scientists. The enterprises are filled to the brim with them. Many of them can barely write Python or R, and are outright frauds. But plenty of them have a cursory knowledge of Python coding in Jupyter, and can actually do some Kaggle problems. However, basic ETL skills, web scraping, etc are foreign to them, and they have no ability to embed their shitty Jupyter notebook code into an ETL pipeline. These people aren't on HN. If they were, they wouldn't be so shitty at their job. Those people are your customers. The underqualified, borderline fraud data scientists who are EVERYWHERE. I sound like a cynical asshole.

But there's a silver lining here:

The best customers you can ever get aren't in that camp at all, and also would add a lot of value to their orgs using your tool. These folks are the domain expert analysts who really, really know their company's data and have the deep domain expertise. They are the people who data scientists have to talk to to be able to create value. You want to go after these people, and upskill them to basic python. People who know their business and it's data, and have just a little bit of data science skills create far more value than the opposite.
Downright evil seems like a stretch, especially given that Google doesn’t seem to have gotten the lyrics from scraping Genius and rather bought them from a third party who themselves scraped them from Genius. Whether or not Genius blocks googlebot in their robots.txt doesn’t actually seem to be relevant. But this does seem like a good case for the US to introduce “database rights” into copyright law to reward entities that assemble collections of otherwise-disparate information that they don’t own the copyright for, either because someone else does it because it’s something that cannot be copyrighted. Then Genius would have legitimate grounds to sue the third-party that scraped their lyrics. On the other hand, this would also had it existed have allowed Google to sue Bing back when it was first starting for piggybacking on Google’s search results. It’s not obvious to me that database rights are a good idea.
by this logic the ISP should also get a cut, which is ridic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mNty-HMBPk
I don't think it's realistic to assume that 30% of all Fortnite revenues on xbox/playstation is still going to the platform holders. Valve already offers a 20% cut to large-volume titles on Steam, so it's plausible that Epic would have a custom deal with the console vendors.
My guess is that in Eastern Europe because private business was rare and was an exception and somewhat counterrevolutionary it was seen as part of them of their estate. In the West people who see business as part of the problem of wealth disparity see business as anathema to their promiseland where the community is everything and private enterprise is a vestige of capitalism so it has to go down for participating.

Except that’s only the view of radicals and the normal people protesting and not protesting see a problem in that since they do not believe the whole system is bad, but rather needs some reform.

In more concise terms in the East they were fighting to get capitalism, in the West some fight to defeat capitalism.
Ok well where I live every two weeks they come pick up "big trash" which can be old sofas, tvs, but also recyclable plastic etc. Lots of people drive by the night before things are picked up and pick up the things they want, maybe because they will fix them up and sell them or maybe because they will fix them up and use them.

I think from the viewpoint of the Danish Government and the city where I live it isn't a victimless crime, it isn't a crime at all. And I'm quite happy when I throw something out and someone else finds a use for it.
Yes. There are two different products: VAC, which is for DDoS protection, and general SDN firewall/security groups which is only OVHcloud (not dedicated servers).

In the most general case, it seems other customers can actually send DDoS/volumetric traffic toward you from within OVH and it doesn't get picked up.
Iota: Using Scylla for distributed storage of the Tangle
> I didn't 'come to the comments to split semantics', nor did I say anything at all about the rest of the article. I simply replied to an already existing discussion about the meaning of a phrase.

Yeah, only one person needs to start the semantics-splitting topic and the rest of the lazy uninformative pseudo-discussion just flows from there, with every other guy adding one short harmless post. That’s how we get completely-derailed garbage threads like this. (Did I participate in the thread? Yes. Though in my defense I was trying to impress on people that this kind of thing should not happen.)

“Nor did I say anything at all about the rest of the article” — that should probably have tipped you off in a small way about the value of your addition.
There's also a false dichotomy between peaceful and violent.

There are non-violent, non-peaceful protests where protesters are noisy, block traffic, etc. Many of the speakers I've heard have expanded on the phrase "No Justice, No Peace" to describe how they'd like their protests to be remembered not as peaceful, but as non-violent. One speaker I recall saying, "This is a peaceful protest! Wait, no no, it's not that. It's a non-violent protest! We're here because if there is no justice, then there is no peace."
This is something I don't think is fully understood by most people.

Most people think "clean energy is just about building solar panels" - it's viewed as this linear process. I think the media often present it this way.

But in fact, between us and a society run by clean energy is all sorts of huge technical hurdles we haven't solved yet. Adding 10,20% renewables is simple enough - but 100% renewables without daily blackouts is incredibly hard. We need many orders of magnitude more battery storage to get there (or some other storage technology).

It's the same for electric cars. The cost of electricity to run an electric car is small, so people assume that if everyone has an electric car, running costs will be low.

But currently electric cars are subsidised by fuel taxes, and low emissions vehicles are encouraged by low vehicle taxes. When every vehicle is low emission, we still need to get the cost of maintaining the roads from somewhere. And electric car charging at home works because only a handful of people do it. When every car on the road is plugged in every night the distribution networks to every street will need to be massively upgraded.

It's a problem because it means most people don't appreciate how far we have to go before a clean energy society is possible. We need to increase investment into this technology by an order of magnitude to have a hope of implementing before climate change has significant effects.
Covid-19 as deadly as 1918 Pandemic
Which begs the question: how does W3schools do it, while Mozilla can't?
Sorry to pick exclusively on your comment, but why the snark? Many of the comments here are just that. Not only does that not add to the conversation, it sends the message some people (Israelis) can't say some things (a positive message towards another people in this case) without getting flak. I think we should celebrate such manifestations, and not react with irony.
I'm quite optimistic about the news. I think it has the potential to be a great first step of many.
I just let out a wistful sigh at the thought of a smartphone with a big juicy d-pad below the screen. Imagine being able to scroll without your finger on the screen. I think we hit peak usability with the TH-55's rear-mounted scroll wheel and it's been downhill from there.
for one thing snaps use a closed source back end
Drogon is similar to "drogón" in Spanish, which means "junkie" or someone who takes a lot of drugs.
They're doing this because they can afford to take the loss. Fortnite brings in a tremendous amount of money and their margins are good.
This.

I now work in a company where they do things themselves, bare metal, and use ansible, ssh, etc pretty much basic stuffs.

I like this way more than my AWS/kubernetes insanity that my previous company had. It was so hard to debug, and everything needs a ticket.
>It wouldn't surprise me if people move to Github's registry for open source projects. https://github.com/features/packages

The egress pricing is going to be a dealbreaker. The free plan only includes 1GB out.
You get downvoted because HN is full of idiots who hate Bitcoin because they don't understand it.

You are wrong because Bitcoin (BTC) is as you say, a decentralized ponzi scheme but the open source project that DOES follow the project outlined in the Bitcoin White Paper, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) solves the problem created by government issued "fiat" currency. Bitcoin Cash is a global, instant and nearly free payment network that replaces cash and credit cards for most use cases.
> The 4GB of RAM in that old laptop just does not work for the modern web

Completely false, I'm on 4GB RAM and Q9300. I haven't had any issues. 99% of websites run smooth. I even code on this machine. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24145436

EDIT: I have 10 tabs open right now in Firefox. From bbc.com, HackerNews, and Zillow. I also have AnyDesk, Slack, Signal, VSCode, and a couple of other programs open right now. No performance issues.

EDIT2: I opened up Chrome with Youtube in addition to the above, here's proof everything is still doing well: https://imgur.com/a/SlxT4yE

EDIT3: Ok now i'm just having fun. I added a Netflix tab to Chrome. Opened up a big project in VSCode. Added Vivaldi browser, Notepad++. It stuttered a little (5-10s) loading up the programs but once they were up, it's fine again: https://imgur.com/a/BNqPKU9
> I can browse my library, buy new games, and launch them just fine. Everything else is better handled by other programs anyway

That's part of my point – EGS (and Steam, arguably) does nothing that you actually need for gaming itself. It may have some extra features, but that's not the core idea. We've been buying and launching games forever without them.

Now they're forced upon us however, and it's worth looking into what kind of value they give us. When I buy a game on Steam I can refund it if I don't like it, I can share it with my family when I'm not playing (not as good as a DRM-free copy, but closer than others still), play it on Linux even if it's unsupported, play it remotely from a weaker computer or a phone.

EGS in comparison provides me with a negative value. Not only it doesn't provide anything worth paying for (it's 2020 and "it's a downloader" is not really a selling point anymore), it's actually a negative value imo – were I to pirate the game I'd at least not have to install any additional crapware on my computer and open yet another account which will probably hoard my personal data forever.

I'm not saying Steam has the best client as a software – yes, it absolutely sucks. Galaxy or itch.io (and possibly EGS) have built far better working software – but it's still the software I don't need. With Steam the extras are at least compelling enough to justify using it over the alternatives. You do actually get more from it than you do from piratebay – something I can't say about EGS.

> Valve is a middleman, Epic creates values

I'd put it differently – Valve innovates, while Epic iterates. Epic built another engine. Another successful BR game. They're forcing yet another launcher. Their only positive impact on gaming is their engine – making them the "middleman" you mentioned. I'm excited for VR, and what HL:Alyx will inspire people to create. I'm not excited for yet another game on Texture Popping Engine 4.
It would seem even the Chrome Web Store is being met with frustration too

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-chrome-web-st...
A good contrast is "1-click" shopping. That's what a feature looks like when these companies actually want users to use it. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/amazons-1-click-...
It wasn't a change of mind. This was the layoff blog post. They just didn't mention it.

Tuesday blog post: "Wasmtime is our future!" "We're going to be smaller across the board".

Thursday it becomes apparent that the Wasmtime was laid off on that Tuesday.

"... specifically, a much smaller future ..."
> B.T.’s strange case reveals a lot about the mind’s extraordinary power — how it can control what we see and who we are.

The mind _is_ who we are and what we see. A classic case of dualistic thinking in a materialist context.
Just to pile on this, Gary Vee bettered his life in an ethical way. And then he shifted what he was talking about to things like picking up free furniture and selling it for a small profit because that's what people needed to hear to get themselves on their feet. Guiding other people to be successful in a way you know is not dangerous...
This lines up well with their model for the Epic Games Store on PC - Epic keeps 12% and for games based on Unreal Engine they waive royalties when the copy is sold through their store.
Implementing type erasure for Rust compiler is a research problem. In principle it ought to be possible, but I am not aware of any prior work.
aha, I think we are coming at the term "walled garden" from opposite ends.

For a developer I agree with you, it is not a walled garden, they can sell games however they want, epic is one option who happen to be the only one that pays, out of all the stores, 3rd parties for exclusivity.

For a customer it is a walled garden for those exclusive games in that I cannot play those games without having to install and sign-up for the Epic Games Store because they paid to make them exclusive (again, permanently or temporarily).
For example, https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2016/tips/protecting_wor...
> kernel module

If you're running a module-enabled kernel then you were already pwned to begin with; nothing to see here. There is absolutely no need for modules except on live cds and the like. Of course, kernel configuration is another huge headache; don't get me wrong.
“ The EGS stands among the lowest app store cuts of any marketplace, at 12%, and Tim has become visibly angry during public appearances concerning Apple, Google, etc and their 30% cut.”

Lmfao at claiming that much moral superiority over a 2xish difference. I’m sure hes become visibly angry, John Legere was a character too, it’s a show.
It's good that pollution's immense consequences on public health get more attention, so I like the piece for that. Though a little puzzled about why the author approached, for his main source, an earth scientist and physicist, not someone with an epidemiology background. No disrespect to that source, whose work sounds important and very interesting.
Life is complicated and lines are grey. For example, while I am in general opposed to rioting, I am deeply sympathetic to the miners in the coalfield war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War

I would argue that the French Revolution was functionally fundamentally, albeit cryptically, illiberal (classical sense) with De Sade as the crux. And to Napoleon as the illiberal tyrant that came out of the chaos of that time.