skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The perceived snobbery is less about whether these people are playing games and more about whether they can be accurately described as "gamers", a term which has meaning beyond simply "players of any game(s)" due to its many (largely negative) connotations.

Video games have been a large part of my life since I could hold a controller. The sooner I can mention the game I played last night in casual conversation without people assuming I'm a controller-throwing, gamerword-spewing child with no impulse control or social intuition, the better.

The last time I mentioned I played Dark Souls the conversation turned to how horrible the community is, with the implication that I spend my time telling people to "git gud" and invading new players to make them miserable. Never mind that I helped probably 10-12 people beat Capra Demon that night with no ingame reward past "humanity" which I already have more than I need.
What I always wonder about these articles is why they believe that Apple will change. If there's anything we've learned so far, it's that most apps deal with these charges from Apple with no complaints. Yes, currently there's a PR hit, but as of right now this isn't stopping consumers from purchasing and using Apple products.

As frustrating as it is, these aren't new fees that have come out of nowhere. Consumers, thus far, have continued to purchase and use Apple products because there has been little to no loss in content available to them on the App Store. If, at some point, Apple perceives their 30% cut as being detrimental to their business I have no doubt that they will remove it or begin making exceptions.

Bottom line, there has to be a significant departure of developers from the App Store before this stops users from purchasing devices in Apple's ecosystem.
The Rules for Rulers (2016)
I recall people were quite willing to "block speech or media" when Russian operatives were organizing anti-Trump protests on Facebook in 2016. What has changed since?
This is a really interesting topic. If you go to conventions for different trades, they usually make sure to emphasize that the convention is not a venue to discuss specific pricing, as that could be seen as collusion and anti-competitive. You wouldn't want a plumber's convention to be a place where they collude to fix prices!

With technology enabling more peer-to-peer connections, the game changes. If you're a productive plumber, why join a company and work for a salary when you can work directly for the consumer and enjoy higher margins (and higher risk)? However, as time goes on, more plumbers will make the same decision and enter the market. This results in a more efficient economy: more people can get plumbing at lower prices, and more people can work as plumbers.

But what if some business owners cost structures (due to mismanagement, poor productivity) do not result in good wages? (eg, XYZ Plumbing struggles to stay in business while ABC is doing just fine). Or what if the market forces end up in a clearing price that's too low? In today's economy, it's considered normal for some businesses to shut down if they cannot make money (know of a restaurant that has closed due to COVID?). But do we as a society want individuals taking on that much risk? If not, how can we insure against that risk?
So do you think cheating is ok and should not be punished?
Most people are driven by zero-sum power games, not philosophy and rationality.

To maintain a 'strong union', you gotta do do some dirty work every now and again. Cost of doing business, nothing personal, doing it for the mortgage, etc.

Not that different from most people here who study leet code to get a job and put up with open offices instead of lifting a finger to organize and end this insanity. Anytime there's discussion of how to make even more money by investing, these forums are ablaze with knowledgable advice. Anytime its time to lift a finger collectively, it's crickets, empty moralizing or strawman defense of the indefensible aka 'don't like it, go somewhere else'.
The Twitter with the pics of this claims this is related to Operation Legend, so presumably they're investigating something related to that -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Legend
> Money governs access to political power in this country.

Billionaires who failed to get anywhere in the Democratic primary: Bloomberg, Steyer.

Remember, all political campaign funding plus all think tank funding plus all media funding is less than the US spends on almonds each year. Money doesn’t buy political influence in the US, it flows to it.

> (in case you’re keeping track: all donations to all candidates, all lobbying, all think tanks, all advocacy organizations, the Washington Post, Vox, Mic, Mashable, Gawker, and Tumblr, combined, are still worth a little bit less than the almond industry. And Musk could buy them all.)

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Thank you for updating. For those curious this is what I found looking for the source https://github.com/tdlib/td/tree/80c35676a2eb1e9b71db355ee21...
It's not the same, though. Chat is asynchronous, so the recipient doesn't have to wait with their device as they would on hold.

A standalone hello is actually more efficient in time-sensitive situations. The sender needs to know if the recipient is actually available so that they don't waste effort typing a question that won't get answered in time.
To me the problem is that some free-to-play mobile games are the equivalent of twiddling your thumbs. If you're curious about trends in gaming and esports, this data just isn't very useful because it's combining segments that really don't have much in common.

Also mobile games have deservedly earned a reputation as blatant dopamine pumps and many don't deserve to be considered 'real video games' any more than Facebook or Instagram.

It's like measuring how many people know how to cook and then including people who do microwave dinners. It's technically not incorrect and there's nothing wrong with the people who microwave, it's just not a very useful piece of data.
In Dyalog APL, which isn't K:

A←⊃⎕nget 'C:\test\a.txt' 1
B←⊃⎕nget 'C:\test\b.txt' 1
A~B
┌─────────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────┐
│AAAsofxxxLqKbYOAwLMHG│AAAdjLalKFapoYAcGE│AAAthGazmnfK│
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────────┘

Read each file as a nested vector of lines. A without B, like set operations.
From last few days I have been watching cards videos from numberphile. It's so fun and interesting.
They also have the advantage of being a trusted brand,

Epic “Google put up scary warnings about downloading apps outside of the Play store may cause security issues”

Also Epic:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...
The Twitter that exposed pics of this linked elsewhere on HN claims it's related to Operation Legend, which has nothing to do with union organizing per se -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Legend
> If someone was to say (figures made up) "over two billion people worldwide now drink beer" then "if you count Budweiser then sure", would be a bizarre response.

I know several people that would say exactly that. There are a lot of beer snobs in this world. If it's not Belgian/German/homebrew/etc. it's not beer.
I actually agree that the probability of such an event is very low on the scale of a human lifetime or even the lifetime of our species, and I'd never worry about it.

I had interpreted your "why would it be scary" question as "what kind of bad things would happen if a brown dwarf did get close?", but I guess it was instead a rethorical question implying something about low probability. Hence the confusion.

That said, there is a problematic selection bias in your statement about our solar system. Only stable systems can produce observers, so of course we find ourselves in a stable system. For now ;-)
I remember coming back from school 20 years ago to see if Linux or glibc finished compilation.

I think is mandatory if you really want to understand how Linux base os works.
The crazy thing is that more jobs have come back than were created during the previous administration's two terms.
The Xeon Phis really shit the bed on developer experience, so hopefully that experience has been taken to heart. The Xeon Phi marketing promise was basically "take your existing parallel x86 code, run it in on more cores", with some massive caveats:

- For the KNC generation, you had to compile with the Intel C/C++ compiler, which at the time cost $$$ and completely ruled out anyone who wasn't already a HPC developer or a student with access to free ICC.

- The KNC PCIe card actually made a lot of sense hardware-wise, but ran really hot and needed water cooling for a bearable desktop experience. Of course, water cooling was only available late in the KNC cycle from third parties. The cheap KNC cards Intel made available for developers were passively cooled?! and clearly an afterthought.

- The system software was abjectly horrible. The kernel driver required ridiculous patching if you weren't using the officially supported RedHat/CentOS variants, and the MPSS system software itself needed hacks and workarounds to install and configure.

- The KNC environment was just bizarre. It was Linux, so you could SSH to the card and do things, but it didn't run normal x86 binaries. The interaction between offload modes and card configuration/security was basically guaranteed to break if you didn't follow every step of several dozen in the manual exactly, which of course could be a problem when the instructions were for RedHat/CentOS and you were using a different distro.

The KNL generation was poised to solve a lot of these problems - bootable, properly supported by GCC - and then Intel gave up on the PCIe card and the only developer platform was like $20k and it was absolutely out of reach for anyone not already invested in the platform. I'm convinced that there were a large number of users who were interested in the platform, and would have been well-served by the programming model and performance, but the barrier to entry was just too high.

Nvidia got this right from basically day 1 - CUDA was available at a range of price points with (roughly) the same capabilities, so a developer could have an idea, try it out and see the benefits. Throughout almost all of CUDA's existence, for the vast majority of applications you can conclusively answer if it will work for your problem by testing on a high-end consumer GPU that costs less than $1000. Intel never understood that then, hopefully they do now.
Slightly off topic, but how do they disrupt gyroscopes ?
The Experimental City
> Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common.

They're both high profile VR games.
Not related to this topic, but I recently watched Lex Fridman's podcast episode with him and it was really interesting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1b_S6Qp2Q.
There's nothing quite like the Schwebebahn, but there are a few other suspended monorails out there, also known as SAFEGE monorails after the French company that commercialized the technology. The largest is the Chiba Urban Monorail near Tokyo, which is actually a two-line network:

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

Pro tip: JR trains from Narita Airport to central Tokyo pass through Chiba station, so you can hop off and go for a suspended monorail ride!
>But perhaps it is discouraged somehow.

I think it's primarily "discouraged" by, just, you know the market and basic economics. Think such a statement through: if a business could simply increase pricing 43% without losing anything, they'd just do it. Like, everywhere. There'd be no reason to leave tons of money on the table on any platform at all. But of course in reality raising prices at some point tends to depress sales more than what is gained from the rise, so maximizing revenue means finding the sweet spot of $/unit * unit# = total revenue. And buyers only react to the price they are charged, not the developer's margin. So presumably in general developers have already optimized their pricing, which means there is only limited room to increase it before it's not worth it. Obviously it's somewhat more complex than pricing 101, in reality user populations are not fully randomized samples of the general population. iOS users overall may be somewhat less price sensitive for example, many apps are not completely elastic or substitutable goods, and users who've bought into a given platform face barriers to leaving it. So there is some room for some devs to raise prices a bit, and of course they can't sell at a loss.

But most can't simply raise prices by nearly half without losing customers to competitors, or for that matter losing customers to their own free offerings (which themselves they deem necessary).
>You would likely get more malware and more app hesitancy.

More malware, possibly, though android has plenty of that even with the play store. But, app hesitancy, maybe from a small subset of people, but i feel like those same people already show app hesitancy.

Only from my own experience, but i treat apps from the app stores about the same as i do random apps from the internet and do the same thing to verify in both situations, look at reviews and information about the app and make my judgement based on those. It's the same either way. All app stores do in my mind is aggregate reviews to one place, whether it's the play store, the apple store or the steam store, etc. I trust each of them about as much as something such as apk mirror, in all cases, i'm relying on the opinions and information provided by others that have used the app, if no such information is available, i consider it suspect and avoid.

The method acquire an app isn't what invokes trust, it's other user verification, no matter whether that app came from a store, a repo, a random website or any other method software can be delivered and it always has been, since the days of floppies.
How would you waste time? If that person doesn’t respond then don’t you just copy and paste the question to someone else?
Nvidia Shield, 2 Xbox controllers, Retrox. Everything you need to bring back the coop days!

That said, I also wish newer games embraced it more, but at least I found some outlet.
No, no, we can’t have that because then the US government and American companies couldn’t siphon all the data up for nefarious, I mean patriotic, purposes.
It can definitely be annoying because sometimes the latency is long. For example, I may be in another window and not see the "hey" right away. When I reply, I may wait half an hour for the person to explain why they messaged me, but I won't know how long I'll wait when sending my reply. I don't think it's a problem if someone says hi, then immediately types their question. But if they wait for an ack it can be kinda silly.
Is that... an electrical line running right above the blades??
It's sad that the CEO behind Unreal, Sweeney, bought Rocket League, which uses Unreal, and promptly removed Linux support.
Interesting. Could Plum Mail be suitable for communication in an open source community? There's a range of group communication platforms, including email newsletters, Slack channels, and Discord (and originally email lists and UseNet) that can be either distracting, hard to search, difficult to thread, or difficult to join. Is there a mechanism for people to invite themselves to a Plum Mail conversation from a sign-up form?
What a terrible rebuke. Nobody does of the flu by their definition. It’s not that bad of a disease. What the flu does is put massive stresses on the body and open your lungs up to other infections. People who die of the flu largely die of other things—whether an opportunistic infection or a preexisting condition. But the key point is they would not have died at the time they did if they didn’t get sick with the flu.

So it goes with COVID too. The COVID statistic, like the flu statistic, is deaths of patients who had contracted COVID-19 regardless of what actually killed them in the end.

TFA is comparing apples to apples. This skeptical rebuke is not. It’s infuriating.
We're assuming an AI here. It can aim. Bullets as small as 12.7 mm can even steer. Larger ones, such as those carried by modern fighter aircraft, can have independent seekers.

You said the missile had some amazing ability to turn, and now you're saying it has no fuel. You can't have it both ways. There is fuel, or there is no energy to spare. Being "cold" isn't generally possible; nothing cools instantly. Modern IR sensors do not rely on engine heat. Supersonic flight generates plenty of heat on the nose.

That last bit deserves more emphasis. Heat was a serious problem for the Concorde and SR-71, despite operating at much slower speeds. The missile is hypersonic. That is the speed at which air molecules come apart from the heat. IR detection will be trivial.

There is a circular circuit board that is very much needed for the proximity fuse. That is full width.

The speed of the missile contributes to its own destruction. Bullet impact will be devastating. The missile can not endure supersonic flight with a lopsided hole and a bunch of cracks, and it wouldn't fly straight even if it could. Tumbling means instant destruction, like Space Shuttle Columbia.

Shooting back is the action to maximize chance of survival. It takes priority; all other options are obsolete.
> I’m speaking from experience. I did it. I worked the 80-90 hours a week getting my startup off the ground. Raised millions in VC. And I regret it terribly.

Plenty of people don’t. I wouldn’t do what you did but no one gets to the top of any field working 40 hours a week. The number of people managing even 100 people who work 40 hour weeks is small.
Love it. It lets us interrupt each other so we don't waste time if one of us "gets it" before the other.

Plus it keeps attention from straying when the conversation is semi-critical but not critical enough for a call.

A coworker of mine does the opposite: 10 minutes of "X is typing...." The result is a finely crafted paragraph. But we could've done without 90% of it because I would've had an answer for him after the first sentence.
Thank you! What a great find. You don't often get this kind of historical document.

Agreed about scrapping the train. Glad they didn't.
Armeria supports metric collection via Micrometer. Micrometer supports wide range of metric collection systems, including Prometheus, Datadog, etc. See https://micrometer.io/ for more information.
> is that legal?

No.

> Does lying to the court only get you in trouble if you're on the witness stand and have been sworn in?

No, baseless filings, motions, etc., can be subject to sanctions, often for the attorneys involved.
Norm Macdonald: Professor of Logic Joke
Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the Tax Man
It's sort of a one line shell script lol
If that were the case is bundling any app with the OS illegal? Is Amazon Prime illegal? Are cable/internet bundles illegal?

Could it possibly be that random people on HN don’t know the law?
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Money will only get you so far in your public facing political ambitions if you are politically incompetent (Bloomberg) or devoid of charisma (Steyer). But money got both of them to the stage.
It will pair well with their clothes and accessories made with forced labor
Given the physical access, could the device be taken over to discover the specific identity of the surveillors? IP addresses, malware implants..
Yes, invest in a mega yacht or juicero or theranos, etc.
I remember being a college freshman in 2001 and playing PC games, namely Rogue Spear and Counter-Strike online with friends in my dorm room. I talked with them on a headset with a microphone using Roger Wilco and Battlecom. A lot of the guys I lived with in the dorm thought it was really weird that I talked to people online playing video games. Some would make fun of me.

Then Halo came out in November, and in the spring semester, when everyone returned to school after the holidays, and a lot of people had new XBoxes with Halo, nobody thought it was weird anymore. Almost overnight, online video games became normalized, at least to college age dudes.
>here in the UK Telegram is mostly associated with shady stuff like drug dealers.

That's a price you surely have to pay for freedom and privacy, a knife can kill a person or cut a potato.
The joke's content is a little dated, but I still enjoy how two of the most common fallacies are clearly on display: Getting deduction backwards, and assuming the law of excluded middle.
So when has the government ever told a private company they had to cap fees unless the company was a regulated natural monopoly like a utility company?
This whole thing strikes me as prosecuting drug users instead of the dealers. If someone is selling this, I promise there are going to be people looking to buy it. College admissions is just too emotionally fraught for people to make clear decisions consistently.

I assume it edged its way from plausible deniability to mutual culpability in a very subtle way. Amd I believe the fraudster was eventually colluding with the FBI. How is it not entrapment?
Recent SCOTUS actions disprove your point.
> Only because the US unilaterally decides what international law means.

That would be news to Mike Pompeo who just lost a big UNSC vote this week.
This is an argument over the definition of a word that is written to look like a carefully researched paper in sociology, psychology, and statistics.

The authors complain that the word "stereotypes" is used to refer to assumptions about groups that are incorrect (the assumptions are incorrect). They then show that by using an alternate and broader definition of the word stereotypes (to mean assumptions about groups period, rather than flawed assumptions about groups), they find that stereotypes as they define the term are frequently accurate.

This analysis is as close to a tautology as you can get while still filling that many pages with prose.

This isn't science or sociology or advanced statistics. It's a debate over the definition of a term that is used sloppily in casual language, and a debate that is buried deep in a long paper to make it look like they are doing something more important than arguing about the definition of the word stereotype.
If you cap corporation's contributions to the same as each individual member of the union, no problemo.
Seems laborious to manually pin details from an email. Could Plum or the sender automatically suggest pins? Eg, any bold text? When I email people, I often bold key things so they can skim and get the details immediately.
There's a serious rumor that this is what actually killed rocket league on Linux. Why maintain a fork if proton is better anyway?
It's not diversity of differences that matters but rather the magnitude of those differences. Being different in one substantive way is infinitely better than being different in a myriad of little ways.
FDA approves human trial for treatment to cure HIV
Every company makes deals with other companies. It’s called business. It amazes me how many lawyers are on HN.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027
There are a few exceptions. If you get a mid-range pre-built, especially with sale prices, you can actually save some money and round it out with your own parts to make a nicer, more complete unit. It requires some real comparison shopping for sure, and it's probably isn't worth doing unless you're staring at a hell of a deal but that does happen.

The weird thing is how pre-builts seem to tier the products at. You can get Pre-builts with good CPU/GPU combos but absurdly low RAM/Storage quantities.

They like to tier at 16GB RAM/500GB SSDs and then go up from there for hundreds of dollars without a change of the CPU/GPU and that really confuses me.

It's a shame there is little to no physical retail for this stuff anymore as it used to be easier to find a fire sale on a pre-built that needs to move because of how brick and mortar works.

That said, it truly is easy to do it yourself and that has its own satisfaction.
Can I go into any retailer and open my own store?