skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man... I really disliked my experience with MobX. Idk, just too much proxy "magic" for me and I actually like how "hard" it is to update state in Redux. Changing state isn't something that should be taken lightly! I think a problem people run into (in general) is having too much "non-essential" state I their application; especially in the global state. If state can possibly be derived from other state, then it's not essential
No, it doesn't help. Brown dwarfs as dark matter was a somewhat mainstream theory in the late 90s under the name MACHOs ("MAssive Compact Halo Objects"), but a seminal 2006 study of colliding galaxy dynamics in the "Bullet Cluster" definitively ruled out that possibility:

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407

The distribution of mass in this cluster shows that dark matter does not obey the same physical laws as baryonic matter. Baryonic matter (including interstellar dust, planets, brown dwarfs and stars) self-interacts through electrostatic friction, transforming kinetic energy into heat. Dark matter doesn't interact with baryonic matter in this way, and passes right through without being slowed down by friction. So whatever it's made out of, it can't be protons and electrons.
Of course it was - Epic doesn't care about other developers, or about the consumer. It just wants to rip off more kids without Apple taking a cut.
I’m less familiar with android, but on the ios side there are very real limits to what an app can do, even if it has malicious intent. And app review greatly limits apps with malicious intent. ‘

You still need to exercise caution with permissions, but an individual app itself has pretty strict limits. Most of the security flaws are tied to the OS itself.
Ah, yes. A parsec is about 3.3 light years. I misremembered as 3.7 or 3.8 light years.
Please don't finish with "Ok/good" neither¹.

I have these VVs in my chatbox below each message, one V for delivered and one V for read. Please only reply if you have objections and/or questions and/or more time to think. Otherwise,

silence implies consent (until reply)

Another open-ended question is "when will you show up at <location> / be free?". I don't know. Maybe not today. Maybe not even this week. Because "as a cooperating peer I will either show up and help you ASAP, or negotiate the term, or maybe will delegate and not show up at all, but I can only do that knowing what the deal is". Don't be afraid of being imperative, just shoot your problem at me, and we'll decide. Even if you just miss my company and want to share a bottle or two. When in doubt, remember the second V rule.

¹ You cannot expect third parties to follow these seemingly non-polite shortcuts of course, but it makes messaging much easier for those who are your most reliable peers. Repeating the same polite handshake/TIME_WAIT routines again and again and again quickly converges to the point where it is not even remotely polite².

² That may sound harsh at the face value, but I seen how good relationships suffered because of exactly these sorts of conversation. A busy person will answer "yes" to "busy?" when all their contact wanted was to meet at the evening. Or "in the city, can't talk" to "where are you?" when they meant "if you're near X, do Y". But all windows close during the day and at the evening it is too late to ask again, because kids, plans, etc. Repeat that few times and both be repulsed.
Suppose they were republican organizations. Would you feel the same? Picture this:

You take a job writing software for camera boxes on power poles. It happens to be direct employment with a police department, and it isn't management, so somehow you wind up forced to join the police union. Every election, they give millions of dollars to the republican candidates. They supported Bush. This year, they give Trump $42,000,000 to thank him for his support for the police. It's about $5000 per year of your paycheck that is going to this. Do you mind?
What? Literally nobody says that.

You might be thinking of "if humans go away, even if the land is horribly toxic, life finds a way to re-colonise it."
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines

3.1.3b

>your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase

It's vague (probably intentionally) but having a higher price in the app is certainly discouraging compared to the "normal" way.
What does that matter?
I agree that's an interesting and under-explored question. Perhaps you could gamify it, build a website where people compete to generate the maximum bits of entropy in ten seconds, as measured after compression by an algorithm that you continuously retrain and enhance based on that user data?
Firefox's UI is kind of all over the place, but I love that I can paste or type a search term, and then arrow-key my way down to a set of search options at the bottom.
Depend what game you like to play, I think. (I play some games that are DOS or NES/Famicom and they work just fine on Linux; they do still make games for old systems, including Gruniozerca and others.)
Mikrotik users were requesting support of Wireguard since 2018 but Mikrotik didn't do it because Wireguard wasn't v1.0. At that time, wireguard.com listed dozen of OS/distributions you can use with wg.

Mikrotik thread: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134093
Mobile apps were a mistake. Steve Jobs had it right the first time with his “very sweet solution.”

It was a good 12 year run, but 2020 is the year mobile apps stopped being cool.
Is this kind of like what Long Island Iced Tea company did with their bitcoin pivot? Theoretically they could acquire a private company doing blockchain and become a publicly traded bitcoin company overnight right?
Father of 3 elementary school students (and 1 cute toddler) weighing in with actual experience so far:

* Kids have 3 Zoom meetings a day - ~90 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes right before lunch, 30 minutes right after lunch.

* My kids may be outliers, but they are great at self-managing their time, pay attention well, seem engaged, seem to enjoy the format well enough.

* Classmates seem equally engaged and pliant during meeting times.

* Main complaints: technology is still weak overall, curriculum is a little bit too day by day ..

But nothing as drastic as the original article.
Has MikroTik ever made any source code available?
Why? At the speeds it goes it's mostly self-stabilized by its own weight. Only slight swings, no real rocking, and if curve is too sharp it slows down. I remember it going more like 40kph and thinking: "Hey, I could be faster on my bicycle!"
How much you suck as an engineer = 1/(sum(len(n) for n in Nv)/len(Nv))
This is conjecture that programmers should aspire to write self-documenting and expressive code. Terse code is just poor form, in the modern programming world.

Xc = ds.imgtf(tsf, sz, rm, sc)

vs

// normalize the input images
processedInput = inputData.processImages(customTransform, finalSize, resizeMethod, maximumScaleFactor)

Sample1 is preferred by most people I work with, and the standard for almost anything you'll find published in Python or Java. The web world is a little more forward on this, although still behind if you ask me.

I have always followed a practice of writing goals as comments first, then comments as pseudocode, and then simply adding in the syntax below that, with variable names that would be obvious at a glance. However, colleagues have found this practice "Nazi-like" and some have even made hard stances against putting comments in production code, at all. It's almost a side job for my colleagues to show me that my concerns are unwarranted.

Is it acceptable to demand rigor in expressive naming conventions and heavy commenting within my team? I'm seeking opinions on a team guideline for erring far on the side of readability over conciseness. I argue it has tangible benefits, and would've mitigated problems we've already stumbled on.

(edit: I removed a bunch of ranty prose like "What year is it")
> I get the magnitude of 9/11

Equivalent to the last three days of COVID-19 deaths?
I wish publishing pre-sound era films in their original framerate was a common practice. However, for some reason it seems to be beyond the scope of people handling these restorations.
That was my first thought as well. This is going to lead to people typo'ing, opening a blank file, being confused that their credentials are gone, and then adding in the updated credentials in the wrong place.
Fedora 32 has wireguard. So does any rolling release distro. And for distros with older kernels there are loadable modules that retrofit it. Openwrt has had it for quite some time now.
regarding 1:

>You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.

Which essentially can counteract the uniformity, depending on how insane the reviewer is. Paying more for IAP is obviously discouraging.
The concept of a game as a transformative/developmental journey is as relevant and necessary as ever. If interactive games are the future of education, this approach could make philosophy/religion/ethos accessible to a wider audience. It would be impressive if someone could figure out how to apply these concepts to a modern, multiplayer game. It would be fascinating if machine learning and technology could be harnessed to track progress with the virtues in a dynamic multiplayer world.
I'm not a gamer and honestly couldn't even tell you the last time I played a game, but I do build my own PCs and build them basically as maxed out overclocked gamer rigs because I just like having the raw power.

For what it's worth I've always preferred using stuff from Corsair. Their quality is top notch. Right now my PC's case, RAM, most fans, power supply, and water cooling are from them. I give my computers, servers, etc., pseudo code names for the LAN and my current PC is actually 'CORSAIR'.
When I read the mail initially on The Verge[1] a few hours ago, I definitely got the idea that Epic was open to negotiate in the first mail. The mail was the first contact Epic and Apple had about this, before anything happened, and was sent around the time of the Apple antitrust investigations. The mail mentions the benefits to consumers, and that Epic would commit to providing a high-quality, secure, user experience. He requested that Apple would allow Epic to provide a competing app store, and hoped that they would also make those options available to other iOS developers.

I don't think it's too far-fetched to think that Tim Sweeney wanted to negotiate bringing the Epic Store to iOS. The Epic Store is one of the bigger stores on PC after all, so he might think that Epic would be able to get an exception.

I do however agree that it can be read both ways.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21396313/apple-fortnite-l...
What is a script, but a miserable pile of code.

I mean, really, wherever criteria you use to draw the line, there will be something that appears obviously miscategorized to a human.
Uber is dependent on fulltime drivers but can't afford to pay them like employee
TL&DR: devs already knew redux so went with redux
> Just because one person doesn't have total power means nothing

Straw man. Power is always several amongst elites. The question is one of degree and checks. Xi’s China has no rule of law. In America, no person nor public servant is reliably above the law.

Moreover, rulers can be challenged in fair courts. The U.S. government loses in court. Xi never loses in a CCP court.

> When you add a duopoly of power every single check and balance of the US political system breaks down

Judges are not loyal to their parties. Almost every nominee has prominent cases where they rule against their party (e.g. Gorsuch on gay rights).
Dear Apple, your project of making people hate you JUST WORKS
Also https://itch.io/games/platform-linux
I just finished playing through Horizon Zero Dawn which had been untouched, collecting dust on the shelf for a couple years. Found more time in the pandemic and I'm wondering what else I've missed out on! The only other titles I've played with great acclaim are God of War and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

From a brief wiki search, it seems outside of Nintendo, studios only tend to have one-hit wonders. I never played the Infamous games, but will take you on your word on Ghosts of Tsushima.
I'm with you on everything but the docs. More than once I've had to dive into the source when the docs tell me one thing but the behaviour in some edge case is different. PHP's docs are extensive, but not nearly as reliable as they should be. And don't get me started on the comments.
Yeah, but it comes with all the gate keeping, prestige laundering and grant hamster wheel dynamics. Works for some, but not all.
There is an absolutely massive difference between corporations and unions, in that corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to seek profit.

Unions don't.

This is why Unions should be allowed to campaign independently, but not corporations.

If all of the shareholders decide to contribute with their dividends, they are already allowed to, which gives them an advantage. That ought to be more than enough.
If a union is a cartel because its members bargain collectively, so is a corporation. If you want to keep corporations because of the organizational efficiencies that maximize productivity and welfare, then why not unions?

And let's not get into a semantic debate--the rules for forming corporations are designed to make it efficient for investors to organize; likewise the rules for forming unions are designed to make it efficient for laborers to organize. So if you argue that laborers should instead form a corporation if they want to organize, I'd rhetorically ask why not make investors use unions as their vehicle.
> The French state was less efficient, but more resilient and difficult to conquer, while the Ottoman state had more efficiency but was highly fragile.

Machiavelli is saying the opposite of what you think he's saying.

He's saying that France's governmental structure makes it (relatively) easy to conquer. Because there are many quasi-independent, competing fiefs, an invader is not necessarily facing a unified front, and may in fact be able to recruit dissatisfied lords to their cause. But that doesn't make it the kind of place you'd want to rule, because once you've conquered it, it's (relatively) easy for another invader to conquer you for the same reasons.

In contrast, there were no fiefdoms in Persia. Unlike the lords in France, the regional rulers in Persia were chosen by the state, and picked for their loyalty. When invading Persia, you are far more likely to face a united front, making it (relatively) difficult to conquer. That said, once you've conquered it, it would be (relatively) easy to hold for the same reasons.
Today's garbage dumps will be tomorrow's resource deposits. I suspect the concentration of many raw materials is greater in the dump than it is in many active mines.
I like the idea of developed countries banning gold mining.
The Legal Profession Is Seriously Lacking in Civility
I grew up in Sunnyvale in the 80s and this made me nostalgic for the old days of Silicon Valley. I had always heard that sometimes the gas from the dump would ignite from smokers at concerts. I guess it's true!

"In its opening year, a fan attending a Steve Winwood concert flicked a cigarette lighter and ignited methane that had been leaking from a landfill beneath the theatre. Several small fires were reported that season. After those incidents, the city of Mountain View commissioned methane testing studies to define the location of methane vapors emanating from the soil within the amphitheater. These tests were used in developing a design for improved methane monitoring and more efficient methane extraction to ensure the amphitheater became safe as an outdoor venue. Ultimately, the lawn was removed, a gas barrier and methane removal equipment were installed, and then the lawn was re-installed."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreline_Amphitheatre
A better way would be to charge the university with funding a criminal enterprise.
It’s not above board as a donation qualifies for a tax deduction whereas payment for services rendered does not. It is also corruption.
There is an interesting angle on modern great power conflict. Even in a non-nuclear war, all modern combat systems, munitions, and manufacturing bases, would be destroyed or expended within the first weeks by precision munitions. Pro-longed non-nuclear conflict would likely require tradeoffs towards lower-tech components that could be manufactured in more locations at lower risk of bombardment.

They're ultimately just aren't that many aircraft or cruise missiles in modern militaries relative to WW2, and they each cost 2-3 orders of magnitude more than their WW2 counterparts (although the cost increase matches the capability increase).
> AMD works fine under passthrough but requires specific models for SR-IOV

Did they ever ship a fix in mainline for their cards becoming stuck in unusable states without powering off the host? (I believe the fix involved a sequence of commands for a PSP reset)

At least I believe AMD engineers were being helpful in giving details on it though.
I've been playing terraria. they just came out with the final update but I had never played it before
That grep is not doing the same thing as the code, nor necessarily what the exercise requires. By default, grep tests patterns, so it's turning all those entries into individual regular expressions. You want to use fgrep, or the -F flag to make it treat all the source matches as fixes strings.

In my simple test, that resulting in grep running in 44% of the prior amount of time it required (still more than python though).
I have never seen an add or a video on Google Play except a line of "Suggested for you" apps which I guess are paid for? The only videos are after clicking an app and then they have never ever started playing automatically. Must be either a regional thing, a custom per phone brand or something like it. Neither my OnePlus or Google phones have it.
Jeremy Howard and Andrew Ng are the two teachers who got me into ML and eventually as a career. Amazing to see so much progress! Because of FastAi I can see ML being used around the world just like Excel or python
Ok, so how do you backup your mouse movements?
> The problem is much more deep-rooted than addiction.

Yes, that's my point. There are more severe problems in india than addiction to alcohol and tobacco ruining kid's life. Handing out free things during election to people who are below poverty line has nothing to do with addiction. I was born in a state where handing out rice was very effective.
I guess but I’m not really familiar with that specific situation.
A chance at an overpowred character in the game. But just a chance.

Not all of them are for waifu reasons, the game I played was Summoner's War that was PvP oriented but it's all pay2win so there's no point.

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/asia/news/68945/summoners-war-dr...

I played for over a year, the money part wasn't the worst -- the actual time commitment to some of these games is insane.

Even if they have autoplay function, they are psychological attention traps.
Startup Codex: Startup Resource Directory for Founders with Deadlines
Hello HN, I am a 15 year old programmer from the United States. I built StartupCodex mainly so I don't have to waste time on the internet looking for startup resources. Figured that it would be valuable and helpful for the community. Thanks, and I hope this helps! All that really matters out of this project is if you can share it with others. I don't care about monetization, just exposure. Thanks. -F
This is because it was extremely common/popular, which is how it ended up in windows 3.1 in the first place.
> What about your name? Do you have to give that up too to culturally integrate?

In the past you had that too yes, your name was transformed into a French equivalent.
Losing the ability to do this very specific mitigation seems a tiny price to pay for not having everybody's DNS requests have zilch for transit privacy and integrity all the time.
Loops are 100% the worst offenders of software complexity. Loops and tail recursion are the most powerful constructs we have, and are too powerful for the vast majority of problems. When using the principle of least power you find that a loop or tail recursive function is exceptionally rare.
You are the perfect rare customer. You will pay crazy amounts higher than market rates in order to get a safe feeling.

You would probably pay a $500.00 a month privacy fee.
The Master Chief Collection is out on PC now. It's an excellent way to experience the Halo series.
Ask HN: Looking for Alternative to Google or Apple News
Looking for something that aggregates news and allows me to follow topics. Something like the old Yahoo News or what Google News was years ago. Would prefer that it not be a big corporation that is using my news browsing data to sell me things or manipulate me.
It also uses up RAM.
Even assuming this is true (I'd be inclined to doubt it) why on earth would anyone bother?
So I have moved on to another game that is less money intensive and less time-intensive (can be seen as a good or a bad thing).

What strikes me most is how compelling this material is to command my attention. It's like being under a spell.

They are great at taking money, but even for f2p they are just psychologically optimized to command our attention (which is a bigger concern in depth and breadth of impact).

Can't wait for the future strategies of addiction we can see in the next gen games :D
SPACs are 30 years old. See the history section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co...

They also have a poor reputation, and for what seems like a good reason. It's a risky proposal that generally attracts a get-rich-quick kind of community. Examine the Nikola company and tell me how comfortable you'd be investing a sizeable chunk of your net worth in that.

I can't predict the future, but I can bet $10k I will die before SPACs get to even half of VC funding. Side pot of $1k that 50% of them fail their investors, and another side pot that one in the next decade will be a historically spectacular failure.
> companies forming and dissolving is fine for the investors but murder for the employees, who's livelihoods and health insurance become precarious

That's a problem with the social safety net, not a problem with companies failing.

A lot of companies are going to fail even without someone actively trying to drive them out of business.

Some industries just have collapses in demand and no longer do something that anyone wants. Some companies are just mismanaged.

We need to provide support for the employees who are victims of companies collapsing, not try to prevent any company from ever collapsing.
The Uncanny Escapism of Flight Simulator 2020
Oh, but they also require you to sell thinks for the same price!

It at least they do for some goods.
Harmful, dangerous industrial activity is always best relegated to undeveloped countries. That way it can kill the largest number of exploited workers and produce maximal environmental damage.
Flexport Is Still Hiring