skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't find either of them super compelling. I never really bought into the characters so to me they were both mostly mediocre action games that tried way too hard. They weren't terrible, but I didn't agree with the hype.

And LoU2 being woke was also a turn-off for me.
> What would the loaded operating system do? It will most likely look for a CDROM, which it won’t find, and fail.

This answer doesn't seem right to me at all.

I'm not a OS expert, but I've spent some time booting weird hardware.

Generally, the boot process will load a kernel into memory, which has drivers for (hopefully!) the hardware needed to load the rest of the OS. The boot instructions (from GRUB or whatever) will specify the root partition (in linux) and enough information on how to load it.

That might be on a local drive, a CD/DVD or a network device, but provided the kernel has the driver available it doesn't really matter.
Fastest internet in the world can download everything on Netflix in one second
Or just make unlucky people buy neuropozyne

It's a reference to a fictional drug from futuristic science fiction where neuripozyne needs to be taken regularly to avoid rejection of implanted augmentations
>I've had to fiddle with EFI

Actually you most probably had to fiddle with so-called UEFI, i.e. Universal EFI which should really-really be called UUEFI (Unlike Universal Extended Firmaware Interface).
This tool is fantastic. It saves me from writing different images to a usb stick when need different boot media, especially when working on windows as windows disk manage seems to have problems cleaning usb sticks with some particular iso images.
In reality, I'm not sure I believe there's such a thing as a 95-98% probability of one major party winning in a country like the US. One can argue whether it's appropriate to fudge in additional uncertainty but there are a lot of things that could happen in the week before the election (including but not limited to candidates dying) that could throw existing poll results up in the air.

[ADDED: Or maybe something like that really is a few percent probability and you can end up with a 95% probability anyway. It just feels as if there's some upper limit to what you can measure using polls.]
>cat, but actually designed for reading files. Syntax highlighting, line numbers, automatic paging. //

`less` not good enough?
Take a look at Uno

https://platform.uno/

It basically lets you compile WinUI (Windows 10, C#, XAML) apps to run natively on all platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, iOS, Android).

Disclaimer: I was part of that project for 3 years.
> I thought they were api complainant drop-in replacements so it’s not like they fill in a missing role.

Could you please let me know how you came to that understanding? Because I'd really like to fix it. ripgrep was never intended to be POSIX compatible. It would have been a straight-jacket over its functionality. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...

> As for RG and AG. other than being faster, how are they better?

For ripgrep at least, a lot of it comes down to speed, better output formatting by default and suppressing results you probably don't want by default (but that can be turned off quite easily).

But there are other features, like better Unicode support, built-in support for searching compressed files, support for file types and a few other things. The README includes a bit more. ;-)
You continue to miss the point but ok.
Companies sponsoring free mirrors has a long history without anything going wrong though. The key is to keep using mirror lists, not a mirror. Anyone who tries to "differentiate" should be removed from those lists.
The difference with their DNS and CDN services is that all the information gets funneled through them instead of being one of many used in a round-robin manner.
Sounds good at first, but now your calls stop working if the regulator's system goes down for maintenance. You can certainly make it work, but I don't see what the major benefit of using a central database is here.

> It wouldn't need to handle a large number of transactions per second because people don't change phone providers very often.

That makes it fit blockchain quite well, actually.
I know you're sealioning, but I've worked in payments and here's some examples for you:

- the largest bank in Canada used one Tandem computer for all banking transactions until 2000

- ebay used one E10K for all auction transactions until 2000.

(I actually worked in the data centers for those, and could have touched them if I wasn't concerned about possible grounding issues.)

You're looking at a few kilowatts each for billions of transactions per day.

So any comparison of bitcoin mining vs. banking is simply stupid.
Definitely. The lands around Chernobyl are lovely now compared to inhabitable places in the region.. It could make the center piece in a parody of this kind of green-on-the-surface PR somewhat in line with parodies of clean coal.
Microservices vs. Web Services
Ask HN: Question of the day – Software Developer vs. Engineer – thoughts?
> They are hosting a website at a static IP, so a mapping of public IP -> secret IP must be stored somewhere.

Not necessarily. The stored mapping could also be public IP -> username, plus a separate mapping username -> password or username -> key; with a mapping public IP -> TCP connection or public IP -> UDP connection existing only in memory and only while the connection is active. And from what I understood from the article, and from an earlier article linked to by the first link in this article, the connection has last been active in June.
While there’s plenty of crap on Fox, this kind of attitude is also ignorant, narrow, and dismissive and fails to break out of the current American political dialectic. Social engineers often use various tactics like teen magazines to influence the young, often by appealing to sexual appetite (post-war Bravo in Germany comes to mind). Sexual liberation is an effective tactic for control. Communists, for example, have always sought to subvert societies from within and perhaps especially by targeting the young. Fox has its purpose, CNN has its purpose, and Teen Vogue has its purpose.
Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, because larger and more expensive than most systems in this context, but it comes with anything one needs, with the exception of CPU, RAM and storage.

https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/
My opinion is that it's like tcp/ip, new plumbing (ethereum). So expect protocols and apps to be built on top of it, similar to HTTP and browsers. You just need one killer app to make all the hype worth it.

That killer app might be elections or possibly decentralized trading of electronic assets like stock ownership.
A third of $2 billion is serious revenue for a company that made $260 billion and that is worth over two trillion. The $99 is not per developer, it’s per business.

It’s not about Apple being anyone’s friends. It’s about being logical.
Can I use pee into a sponge?
> You can pretty much do anything with Android, the same cannot be said about Apple's dictatorship.

The problem is that app developers can also do anything with Android, often against the users‘ will.

Before I switched to iPhone, my choices for location access on Android apps were basically “access location 24/7”, or “no location support at all”; and even that was an improvement upon the earlier “the app will get these permissions, don’t install it if you disagree” model. iPhone, in contrast, had a sensible “only access location when the app is open” option. Similarly, uploading a single photo to Facebook on Android required the app to get full access to your whole SD card; on iPhone, I can send a photo without the app getting access to my storage at all (that single photo is copied into the Facebook sandbox by the OS). Perhaps Android has improved since, but so has iOS (see e.g. the feature list for iOS 14).

For some of us, controlling our data without turning the phone into a full-time hobby is more important than having full system access.

> I am not even sure about stock installs given Apple's poor security record.

Do you have a link supporting that Apple’s security record is worse than other systems, relative to market share?

As far as I know, the macOS permission system provides better sandboxing than either Windows or Linux by default. (Though if you work for it, you can harden Linux more.)

And although there is a lot of malware for macOS, last I checked nearly all of it was in the form of Trojans and similar vectors, where a user has to download and execute untrusted code. That is an issue on any platform; a user running a malicious bash-script with sudo shouldn’t count the same as remote exploits in my opinion.
Do I understand it correctly, that torrents are sent directly from user to user and that the Pirate Bay is only needed so the users find each other?

Like someone wants to know "Which user that is online now has The Matrix?" and then queries PB to get IPs of such users?
This is the first I've heard of it and I'm definitely keen to try it out. I can keep one 128GB USB3 flash drive rather than a handful of smaller drives that need to be labeled or color coded so I don't forget which one boots a particular OS.

The Windows WIM support is especially nice for work where most of our machines are Windows based and again I can carry just one flash drive to cover several different builds of Windows plus HBCD.
Notably for this there's autojump[0], z[1] and fasd[2]. More work than an efficient script for sure, but more fancy options around it all. Autojump works pretty well with zsh (and before that with fish) for me.

[0] https://github.com/wting/autojump

[1] https://github.com/rupa/z

[2] https://github.com/clvv/fasd
Whimsical is not supported on Android?!

That was so close (to supporting all major platforms). XMind can do it all.
Correct, the Pirate Bay simply hosts magnet links, which contain cryptographic hashes for the torrent contents and where to bootstrap the transfer from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
That's true for Bitcoin because it's almost impossible to get most miners and nodes to agree to reversing such a mistake, it's completely against the spirit of the project.

But in the example above that could still be easily fixed, you'd just need the companies involved to agree to reverse the mistake, as they are the miners of the chain.
Unity Joins the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member
And those parts of the world aren’t buying $400 iPhones (which are more expensive in developing countries) plus Macs. They are developing for Android.
I think this video largely supports the point. As someone who's played very little GTA, I don't understand what the video's trying to communicate - the only big difference I'm seeing is the higher resolution in GTA V clips.
Writing better Code (extension to Joel's 12 steps to better Code)
An appeal to the text would be more useful than an appeal to "common sense", as the latter smacks of doxophily.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
The Greatest Motivator in Life: Death
UK to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from e-waste
Mindmeister.com does not support mobile platforms directly. Might be able to allow changes by website.
Do you also feel that every product sold in a physical store should display the margin between wholesale and retail?
FYI

ALT + D: focus URL bar, typed text will be navigated to or searched for

CTRL + E: focus URL bar, typed text will be searched for

(I find those better since they can be used with my left hand only)
You can download higher resolution versions of the notebook pages by using a dezoooming tool[1] on the image tiles.

This example[2] generates a 4898×7711 png compared to a 1270×2000 jpg from the download link[3].

[1]: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify

[2]: https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html#https:...

[3]: https://images.lib.cam.ac.uk/content/images/MS-ADD-03969-001...
Dendrite should be stable enough to experiment with as a daily driver in a few weeks when it enters beta. It won’t be bug free, but it should be largely feature complete and pass most of the sytest integration test suite.
Your caveman-with-a-torch analogy blew my mind.
This is not “skirting the rules”. There is nothing in the rules that says you aren’t allowed to charge a higher price on the App Store. Spotify did this for years and the NYT does this now.
> That's what it was, don't forget how impossible it seemed at the time, it was a giant upset and shock.

Only in your filter bubble.
It's not pointless, it's just yet another way "noSQL" database. It certainly doesn't give you the same benefits of a public blockchain.

But if the code is already written, meets the project requirements and is easy to deploy, why not?
If you pay with a credit card, then they at least need to keep track of which account to deactivate when the card stops paying.
from the home page:

> A "Ventoy Compatible" concept is introduced by ventoy, which can help to support any ISO file.

from the "Ventoy Compatible" page:

> From the document you can see that ventoy will create a virtual disk from the iso file and boot it. But the virtual disk is only on BIOS(Legacy or UEFI) level. In most case it works only in bootloader period. Most of the morden OS's kernels will use their driver to access hardware after boot, so the virtual disk will not be visible to them. In normal case, the OS will search all the hardware storage media(CDROM/USB/HD ...) to find the source medium. But with ventoy they will not find such medium because there is no such physical media and they don't know that they were booted from a virual disk. In order to support that ventoy must do some hook before boot. But the hook is really a hard work because there are so many different OS distros and so many special cases.
Calling Dunbar's Number
Let's say we have two candidates A and B for some kind of election. We analyse our polling and other data, and estimate there is a 90% chance of candidate A winning and a 10% chance of candidate B winning.

If candidate B then wins, it does not mean that our analysis was "proved to be [in]correct". By itself, it doesn't actually say anything about the quality of our analysis. After all, we explicitly pointed out that this was a possibility, and it would be strange to argue "your analysis said this might happen, and then it did, so your analysis was incorrect". There's just not enough information to draw any conclusions.
It sounds like you have one of the last of the early 64-bit Macs that had a 32-bit EFI. They were difficult beasts to get working with anything other than officially supported macOS versions. You can follow the guide linked below but basically you need to create a 32/64 hybrid EFI boot image. There were some Windows machines (mainly BayTrail and similar vintage tablets) that also had this issue and the solution is very similar.

https://ldx.ca/notes/intel-mac-efi32-linux.html
No, common sense, as in: we can’t argue about something of which you have no knowledge.

I’ll say it again: the governmental structure portrayed in 1984 has absolutely nothing to do with Plato’s Republic. This is extremely obvious to anyone with knowledge of either work. Period.
good line
find <directory path> -type f -d 1

Works for me on OSX.
What is it? Neither the readme or the linked page make clear what this even does.
The fact that it's not 100% dedicated to capital's desires does not mean that it doesn't essentially serve it.

Sure, if it were a purely capitalist state, we'd all be slaves, bought and sold by corporations, and we're not there of course.

But in monetary policy, employee benefits, tax breaks, environmental protection, social securityand virtually any other domain you care to name, government cares about the interests of capital first, and everyone else only a distant second.
Edit: I thought this was the same as last weeks article, but it's not, it's a fresh one!

Thread from last week...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197310
There is a difference between you can’t advertise a higher price than you can’t have a higher price. There are plenty of existence proofs that companies have been having different prices for years.

I’m sure Best Buy wouldn’t want you to advertise in Best Buy that you can find the product cheaper on Amazon.
Even so, society still stereotype video games and video gamers as juvenile and waste of time.

This is apparent especially in dating circles, where more often than not, listing video games as hobby for a males is a negative signal to the opposite sex.
That instability is not because of the 5mph but because you're driving 5mph in a 60mph zone.

You could drive 5mph on back roads with less risk of course.
I assume the entire Netflix library is more than 178Tb.
You can now run the current Java version, but it's still too slow to be enjoyable... I think if Mojang wanted they could fix the performance as it itermittently is completely playable for long periods:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=2791...
Spotify didn’t get “into trouble” for doing this. They did that for years.
Now every time cloudflare has a hickup, not only is half the internet unreachable, you can't even update your server... nice /s
No, CFIUS has NOT been investigating TikTok for 2 years. It was in November 2019 (10 months ago) that CFIUS started investigating TikTok (ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of Musical.ly) [1]

It amazes me that such incorrect assertions get so mindlessly upvoted on Hacker News.

You've written that elsewhere that "Bytedance is a Cayman Islands company, not Chinese. Despite having offices in Beijing, Bytedance and Tiktok are not beholden to the Chinese National Intelligence law", so it seems you might be unknowingly (or knowingly) spreading incorrect information.

The HN community deserves a lot of blame for being unable to filter out such falsehoods.

[1] https://securitytoday.com/articles/2019/11/04/tiktok-nationa...
Yes, but -i on sed is specific to GNU, I don't think it exists on BSD/OSX/busybox
LSE as in London School of Economics?

IMO LSE is a negative signal of someone's mathematical / statistical skill. I once interviewed someone that was doing a PhD in Math at LSE, and couldn't program or solve simple math / probability questions.

It's quite obvious why - if you want to study math in London, you go to Imperial. LSE isn't probably even a second choice.
It's based on Kademlia[1], a distributed hash table for P2P networks. It's pretty neat, and used by other software as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
da Vinci’s Enigma: New Clues to 500-Year-Old Mystery About the Human Heart
The key difference here is that the “communities” are not recognized with any particular ownership interest.

Does the owner of the company have a right to take risks with the business? It is a serious impairment of ownership if not, and will likely lead to more-stagnant societies. The entire engine of America’s superior prosperity (even at the individual level) has been based on risk taking, while stagnant systems have their own problems (Greece, Italy come to mind with pre-covid crises) and can be a vector of corruption as the principal-agent problem remains unsolved and those entrusted with the well being of the community often work to enrich and empower themselves instead.

This is not to say that we cannot say the community ought to have more of a say, this is merely to point out that there is a tradeoff that affects society in general. If we are to succeed in making this tradeoff it will be in part by better aligning the interests of business owners and the community, and we should be aware of how hard a problem that is when we go to attack it.
> I don't understand what the video's trying to communicate - the only big difference I'm seeing is the higher resolution in GTA V clips.

I'm afraid it's as clear as day, but anyhow, you have it on the video's description: "Physics, gunfight, AI, melee combat, controls, interiors, multiplayer freedom". In GTA IV, almost everything looks more elaborate and polished, and it came out five years before the franchise's next instance.

EDIT: Another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JalWT8oNxhk.
> Is your adversary a three letter agency (if so, you may want to consider using OpenBSD instead);

A 3 letter agency won't be stopped by OpenBSD or any other OS.

There is so much security holes in the hardware itself and ultimately they can always "convince" you to release your data.
Jtsummers' explanation is correct, but I wanted to weigh in with an easy rule of thumb, which you may find easier to remember:

1. A law gives you a relationship with no mechanism. It almost always appears as a mathematical formula. You know how the pieces change with respect to another, but not why.

2. A theory gives you a mechanism. It tells you why. On rare occasions, it will not provide quantifiable predictions, in which case it is a qualitative theory.
>Genetic and functional insights into the fractal structure of the heart

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2635-8
> Nearly every game released by those companies is an ad riddled garbage fire.

Say what you will about Fortnite, but it's definitely not an "ad riddled garbage fire". They do advertise their store offerings in the lobby, albeit in a pretty unobtrusive way. The game has essentially become a PvP Grand Theft Auto, and it's executed remarkably well. On top of that, it's free to play and has absolutely no play-to-win mechanics. All purchases are purely cosmetic.

It might not be your bag, but I find this characterization of at least one game developed by a studio mentioned above to be completely inaccurate.
Just because video games are popular doesn't mean they are not juvenile and a waste of time :)
The author of NoScript was part of way more meetings than me during the design of the WebExtensions API, so he would probably be able to tell you more about what happened to his add-on.

I see a TreeStyleTab on AMO, so I guess it got ported: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... . It may have been harmed by the progressive disappearance of XUL, of course.
Contact tracing apps unlikely to contain Covid-19 spread
Idle for the 4 is around 3W, peak 7W.
I am reminded of a story in Three men in a boat.

A couple go out on a picnic with a young man. The moment they set out, the young man begins predicting rain. The couple begin to hate him for his gloomy disposition. They meet an old man on the road. He scrounges up his face, looks up at the sky, and says there wont be any rain. He has seen many days like this in his long life and it usually clears up. The couple cheer up at once and praise him for his wisdom.

No sooner had they set up their picnic, then it begins raining heavily. On the drive back completely drenched, they look at the young man with anger. Like somehow he was responsible for the rain. They think of the old man fondly, "well atleast he tried".

Thats human psychology.
This seems a little more informative:

"AngelCAD is a powerful open source 3D solid modeller based on the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) modelling technique, expressed in the AngelScript language. The software creates 3D models in STL or other file formats."
(https://arnholm.github.io/angelcad-docs/)
Gaming IS a waste of time, as are a number of hobbies. The question is really if you care that you're wasting your time.