skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to a magical world full of mystery and wonder. Dive in and explore the world of “Friendly Fire” and meet all its inhabitants in a quest to save the world from an unknown destiny. What dark secrets does this twisted world hold?

“Friendly Fire” is a 2d platform adventure game with handcrafted pixel art, an original soundtrack and lots of love put into the creation of the characters and dialogues.

The game is DRM free, contains no tracker cookies or other evil stuff and should even be fun to play. Even the sources of the game are available and can be found on Github (https://github.com/friendlyfiregame/friendlyfiregame/).
I think what a lot commenters are saying is that within their conception of the bigger idea of free speech they do consider themselves entitled to have their thoughts distributed by established platforms. Or put more mildly, platforms like Google ought not ban people for their content because it's the right thing to do. But I don't see many people advocating for government intervention, not with specifics anyway.
>> It's entirely possible to have a non-union shop and still have highly skilled and fairly compensated employees

It’s really hard to do though due to the wrong incentives being in place. You’d need something like worker co-op’s to get the incentives aligned reliably in all cases, such that you don’t need unions.
I got a friend that also snatched a 5-letter Gmail account back in the day. He was kind enough to facilitate that I get one to but I got my own domain since forever so didn't get to get one.
Why Is the Open Source Community Excited About K3s Project Joining CNCF?
> 1) Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste (and an ecological disaster as long as we depend on fossil fuels). They cannot, ever, be allowed to become significant in the economy, lest our future will be building a Dyson sphere around the Sun just to power everyone's ability to pay for a hot dog on their way to work.

> 3) The main users of cryptocurrencies are (AFAIK) criminals and amateur financial speculators.

The problem is that to fix this, we need governments to wrap their heads around this.

Cryptocurrencies exist as a thing that allows people to engage in pseudonymous financial transactions over the internet. It's going to be really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Particularly for black market transactions, because then you can't even ban the currency since they'll just ignore the ban on the currency at the same time as they're ignoring the ban on the product the currency is being used to pay for.

Which means that the best thing we could do is out-compete it using a more traditional financial system. When the existing KYC laws have already been voided by the use of cryptocurrency, just admit the loss, stop yielding a competitive advantage to the system which is destroying the environment, and let people have pseudonymous bank accounts and smart contracts and so on, in ordinary banks and based on the trust in ordinary banks and governments rather than the trust in proof of work.

That would destroy the utility of cryptocurrency, and it could be the only way to really do that.
> Note that in this thread we equate hardware video decoding with GPU, but on mobile or mobile-derived hardware this is not at all the case.

It is the same for desktop hardware. The encode/decode block is extra silicon on the graphics card or extra block on the iGPU, not GPU itself. There have been some experiments with hybrid codecs - i.e. using shaders to for decoding, for example VP9 on pre-Raven Ridge AMD hardware (windows only) - but it was only stop gap solution and the next generation had proper decoder and encoder.

> So if you start trying to do anything with video beyond displaying it in it's own plane, you can very easily force the hardware into a path that will be slow and energy consuming

Mobile chips have their own bunch of problems; if you have too many planes (where too many is defined by the specific chip), you are getting into not enough memory bandwidth territory.
I'm glad someone else feels like this. One of my friends is in the space, and I don't understand anything he says. I wonder if this community has created a whole language / framework to give a feeling of value to what they are doing. It's kind of like gamers talking about KDA, meta, etc.
The trick is to get a few Raspberry PIs and install the software. The NinoTNCs are really cheap so you can make a network on your desk without any radios. Then get the radios after you can con some couple of other hams within a few miles to play with it with you. It's a kick.
D.C. sues Instacart, alleging ‘deceptive’ service fees and unpaid sales taxes
very true and this scenario can play out like this, when Google is broken up and we are left with only Apple for mobile solution, what do you think Apple will do then if not checked right now ?
If we are looking at a future of Apple only mobile phones then it is good to check em.
>... As the home of Redis, the most popular open source database, we provide a competitive edge to global businesses with Redis Enterprise, which delivers...

> Redis Labs - home of Redis [logo and motto]

I like Redis Labs, but: this wording is misleading and inaccurate.

@antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo), the creator of Redis, joined them in 2015 [0]; however, he left recently. That's the only claim they can use to somehow be seen as the "home" of Redis, but it is still a very weird claim.

What's the home of an open source project?

My personal perception is that they shouldn't word things this way; I might be mistaken, or at least other people might see it differently. What's your take?

Again, to be clear: I have nothing against the company - I actually like and admire them and @antirez.
I just don't want them to get down the rabbit hole of corporate jargon and marketing BS (see what happened with New Relic, as an example).

[0]: https://redislabs.com/press/redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilip...
No, I'm not a developer, and no, the CDC is not the organization that I'm alluding to, nor am I poking at the need for any sort of model. The need is for our nation's resources - at every level - to be organized and deployed effectively against this problem using the information available at any given moment. We have failed at this at nearly every level, at nearly every moment.

A good example is my mother who is a teacher. School started this week, and they've been changing their local guidelines/procedures until, well, they continue to change every day still. It should be no surprise, because these are a bunch of county-level educational administrators trying to figure out how to respond to a once-in-a-century epidemiological/social/economic event with effectively zero guidance. It's improv but with people's lives at stake.

Why hasn't the federal government, with the immense resources and power that we entrust to it, stepped up and provided clear guidelines for opening schools and the funding necessary to implement those guidelines? If the answer is that it cannot be safe to open schools, then why have they not stepped up to provide clear guidelines for moving classes online and the funding necessary to implement those guidelines?

This is well beyond the point of being an enormous national security threat. Our government has both legal and moral authority to organize our society. This doesn't mean martial law or nationalization - simply publishing good, clear guidelines for every type of establishment and making available the funding necessary to implement those guidelines. Those guidelines ought to include clear risk assessments that these establishments and their patrons can evaluate for themselves to gauge their level of risk acceptance for re-opening, re-closing, patronizing, or choosing to stay away from.

Instead we have an entire executive branch hellbent on retaining its power, regardless of how sick, destitute, and morally broken its kingdom winds up becoming in the process. It's equal parts pathetic and despicable. Vote.
The truly enormous lines that constantly plague the Portland location would indicate otherwise.
I think that’s for North American and it’s in revenue not in actual sales, but yes that is currently the case but it’s also clear that the US health system cannot continue as it does for much longer.
So overall while they can clearly profitably operate in the current market I’m not so sure about their longevity.
This wouldn't address a lot of metadata-related privacy concerns.
AMD uses VA-API nowadays.
Sometimes I’m truly amazed with what fellow programmers are able to do.
I know your HN username is "noisy_boy", I can track your HN posts/comments but I have no idea who you are, where you live, etc.

That's how anonymized data _can_ work. Of course it's also easy to mess that up and leak data about the underlying person.
Yeah, because the American market is so inconsequential. They're barely pocketing tens of millions each year - it might be 1 or 2 years before they break a hundred million in annual profit! Fuck this company - let's put more billions into the cash fire that is Uber.
Refuse to play by the rules, get banned.
As promised, I have created a document sharing my setup. Please check the following link:

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This is spot 1 on the front page and has been for the past 8 hours... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275
They sell data. They might even assist insurance companies because I don’t think purchases made via GoodRx apply towards deductible/out of pocket maximum.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I'll preface with saying that I listed my points as a contributors to the source of feelings I have about the crypto space - they're observations subject to selection bias.

RE 1. I keep hearing this for years now; I'll believe in PoS when I see it actually working.

RE 2., I just tend to keep finding (or being approached with) really bad ones. Last time I got excited was with FileCoin, but that seems to be... not moving too fast at all. I'll look into the quadratic funding/voting thing; it looks interesting, but from the brief overview, it's not necessarily crypto-specific.

RE 3. That belief is what I consider naive - or just perhaps I strongly hope it's wrong, because of point 1.

RE 4. That's true. I just keep hitting the obviously scammy ones - but that's perhaps because I'm an outside observer. Honest people who are knee-deep in crypto are definitely able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

RE 5. I don't doubt your friends are thoughtful and have strong moral compasses. But in that last statement, I was talking about trading these currencies in general - which counts in scam coins, bullshit "crypto! AI!" startups, and various criminals using cryptocurrencies for illicit trade. I would think this point is self-evident - an unregulated space with features that give more utility to criminals than to law-abiding citizens will, by definition, attract disproportionately more of the former than the latter. Also, when I say "disproportionately more" I really mean it, it's not a code for "everyone is bad".
So, as I have a ham license, what do I need to get started using this?
Data Extractors usually need support from the extension. But you can configure how to construct the expression that is sent to the debugger to be evaluated. By default, it is `x => x`, but you could do `x => extract_json(x)`.
I work in old industry and the supply chain guys as well as finance is having a boner from the idea of moving their crufty systems to blockchain. The whole paper trail around a bill of lading isn't a joke if you are shipping from say China to South America.

But - like the internet - it's just a fad that will soon pass.
No, that’s paid by the consumer
What reasonable scenarios do you see that would lead to a world where only Apple made smartphones?
I can't find many good resources, but at least the joseki explorer on OGS has been listing some pretty heavy favoring for particular moves on a given joseki. Couldn't we see specific joseki lines get more entrenched and go further?
You aren't obligated to own the highest spec hardware in existence.
I once paid 350€/month when I made 200€/month

The minimal self-employment fee
> Because one does not reach the same conclusion as you does not make their conclusion automatically irrational.

I didn't, initially, fault their conclusion. However, I noted that their conclusions consistently and increasingly favoured their immediate self-interest, regardless of what else was happening.

Another thing I noticed, in the same people and the same situations, is a difficulty noticing any nuance regarding the issue. When I presented them with something, instead of addressing it, they would react to the threat they perceive.

To me, this also suggests that they are arguing from their thesis, rather than the situation.
The 6-foot rule is 'outdated': Researchers devise chart to gauge Covid risk
Saying that Forbes has no motive to sensationalize things is a different matter entirely, though.

Plus, what am I to make of a researcher that doesn’t correct for the most basic confounding factors in their data. Are you seriously suggesting they never thought of that?
I think "wildly" is an overstatement - decentralised systems have a place in the world, but it's IMO more niche than what current supporters are expecting.

OTOH, in the long tail case where we see a revolution in monetary policy theory, early crypto adopters can stand to make ridiculous amounts of money.
While very resonating and personal, I wish he had included data in comparison with the rest of the world. Data on where the US falls short, relatively, could give better insight into identifying the problems and getting to the solutions.
It comes across as petty, certainly rubs me the wrong way to the point I'm done with Apple. But could it just be a coincidence of some sort and that we read some agency in that?
You can change your default "from" and "reply-to" addresses:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370
Complexity Is the Enemy
I'm still a fan of, and use Bitcoin cash every day for small purchases like coffee (primarily using the bitpay debit card for this)
On the other hand, some other smart people work on such interesting things at the cutting-edge and make profit doing so.
Not sure where I read it, but a theory was that since there is some sort of extreme self-reliance doctrine at the base of many sociological and political concepts in the USA it's frowned upon to ask for help, or help each other, or create a system where everybody agrees that helping each other by default is a good thing.

Keeps most things as-is, keeps people fighting over who gets to proxy-kill sick people and what the best way to screw each other for perceived personal gain is.

Edit: here on HN there was a comment from someone along the lines of "from the outside looking in, the USA looks like people fighting over who gets to punch babies and you're not allowed to not want to be on either side because that's taking a side as well".
I'm not - I enjoy calls with family and the like but for anything business related it's a huge distraction and generally an assumption that the caller's time is more valuable than the callees. Send me an email or a IM/DM so that I can consume your point and respond on a schedule that suites me.
If you can find the Robin Buss translation (Penguin books in the UK) it's definitely superior to the public domain one.
True, but the article was about a situation in which they were retrieving money that was inadvertently available to anyone. That's not normal.

Any well-written smart contract has protections against front-running. For about a year I audited them for a living, and front-running opportunities are definitely something we looked for.
Boston Band of Roboticists Aims to Rock Sidewalks with Personal Bots
That's disappointing, I'd love it to be a great e-book reader, I want to love it...

If they could just side load the Kindle or kobo app I'd buy it in a second. For now, I'll keep reading ebooks on my phone.
When will the coronavirus vaccine arrive?
Off the grid text messaging attracts young people into the hobby and retains existing hams, especially the young ones. This is a worthy concept.
2 months later... when will Apple finish “assessing” Hong Kong's “security” law?
If anyone else is curious on GoodRX’s business model, here is a good write up I found from HBS https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/goodrx-or-...
> How much do you pay per month for health insurance where you live? (Or if you don't know, how much does your country spend per capita on healthcare?)

The cost per capita in the US is apparently 85% than in Sweden [0] while the gdp per capita in the US is only around 27% more than in Sweden [1]. I'm not sure how current/accurate those numbers are, but they do fit in with everything I've read over the years.

> Healthcare in the US is a real problem that needs to be resolved, but it's not a simple situation.

I don't really understand this sentiment. There are so many other systems to look to for comparison. If you mean that powerful entrenched interests that would stand to make less money and they are hard to fight, then sure that's hard, but it's not like we don't know better systems. They are everywhere if we choose to look. I think the main problem is that too many Americans seem incapable of recognizing that the system there really is worse than many high-tax socialist countries. They don't really have any reason to believe this, but they know this deeply in their heart. It only hurts the US and plays into the hands of the aforementioned entrenched interests (which to be fair certainly work hard to propagate the lies that Americans later believe).

By the way, I'm both an American and Swedish citizen. I was born in Sweden, lived most of my life in the US, and am now back in Sweden. I definitely identify more as American than a Swede. In my experiences of the US and Swedish systems I'd take the Swedish one (i.e. the cheapest setup without any of the possible extra insurance which can be purchased extra here) over the US system any day of the week. I think the Americans who have knee-jerk reactions against "socialized medicine" are either totally ignorant or deluded. It's sad. Such self-defeating attitudes weaken American as a nation.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/cost-of-hea...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...
Super glad I cut all ties with Apple a few years back. They make great products for my parents, but they are increasingly hostile toward developers and tech savvy users.

I made a free mobile game that's in both the iOS and Play store, and after I realized the $99 fee is not just a one time fee but a recurring fee to keep the app in the store, well of course I let my developer account lapse. I'm not a charity, and it's not worth it for me to pay $100/year just so friends and family can download it. So, for now only Android users can play my game. And same with all of my future free software - it will never intentionally target Apple users, ever, unless Apple changes their ways.
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this.
But this is only a replacement for libm (i.e. basic trig, exp function), not the matrix-orientated BLAS, LAPACK and SCALAPACK routines that scientific codes spend >90% of their time.
Blockchain culture is full of Ferengi-style near-religious greed. Exploiting is fine when there is this impersonal Blockchain to follow.

(excluding people like Vitalik, who are more analytic and less dogmatic, of course)
I think you were a bit unfair because this is Miguel de Icaza, Google him up. He has probably invested (both in money directly and/or programming hours) into EVERY ecosystem you can think of in the last 25 years, paid and unpaid ones.
Entertain some hobbies. You'll find when you are fishing everyday that you start to have ideas on how you can improve the fishing experience for yourself and possibly others.

If you have a hard time finishing side projects, then work on a smaller or simpler idea that you can finish in a weekend or two.
I gotta say I really thought Epic would blink and comply. I guess I underestimated their resolve.

It’s not like their lawsuit wouldn’t continue if they put Fortnite back in the App Store.
The issue I’m seeing is that many people would prefer a US where a company like that couldn’t exist, and yes the Dems killed Medicaid for All from their manifesto for this round but I’ll wager that the US will move towards universal and single payer system within the next 10 years.
The market size and business opportunity is not measured by units sold but by overall revenue. Am I missing something?
Because allowing new public legal tender to be created on security of fictitious capital such as speculative land values and deposits of credit created by other banks is accounting fraud, transfers wealth from the poor to the rich, creates speculative bubbles in financial asset markets, promotes disinvestment in the real economy, decreases demand for labor, inflates the price of land relative to wages for unsupervised labor, and worsens inequality.
Oral Health Topics
This article seems to simply use “iOS shouldn’t be Windows” as a strawman for “iOS must be iOS.” GNU/Linux doesn’t have the garden walls of iOS and yet I somehow don’t feel any need for an antivirus or any of the other Windows problems this blog seems to be erroneously alleging are inherent to freedom-respecting OSs.
That Intel 8700K definitely supports VA-API with H.264, HEVC and VP9, decoding and encoding. An extra driver is (intel-vaapi-driver) is needed, it is not distributed and installed together with Mesa as AMD driver is.
Competing theories say that the main value of monetary tokens comes from the government's monopoly on violence. What I mean is that governments ask taxes to be paid in tokens that they issue (pounds, dollars etc) and they threaten you with jail / physical violence if you don't pay. Governments then issue these tokens and pay people in order to employ them. Under this model, money is devoid from the value of the asset backing it (in the case of fiat money, no such asset actually exists).
BFF Dilemma – Part 2
I think this is one of the most interesting libertarian reflections out there - a lot of strong libertarians are happy to let the market decide everything but taxes - the US is a platform which you can leave for one of 200 other platforms, it comes with some benefits and some costs and yet if the base income tax rate was 30% there'd be rioting in the streets.
Looks like in the right location you could get it for around $1M: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Mile-156-State-Hwy-77-Win...
Thank you. I'll rethink my perspective in light of this. Energy use concerns were always my primary concern wrt. the entire crypto space (scams will diminish as the space gets regulated, but energy profile of PoW looked like an insurmountable problem in principle).
Yes you are missing the point that this company can only operate because of just how utterly broken the US healthcare system is, and sooner rather than later there will be sufficient political pressure to change that.
So a small company making some software is now transformed into another b2b huckster leech on the fat pigs that are the fortune 500 rent seekers?

Ugh, this economy.
Google being broken up
I see an obvious benefit to having unbundled console stores -- if I could buy the game from steam, I could run the same game on whatever console I have

Then. They'd have to compete on the quality of the console itself, rather than exclusives or moats based on sunk costs in owning copies of games
Let me start a flamewar by informing you both that Dota 2 exists, and has much more complicated spells. And hence more depth. At least that's what people who have played both LoL and Dota 2 say.
My last CRT Iiyama monitor had quite a refresh rate - 120Hz or more - and the picture looked absolutely gorgeous.

It weighed a tonne and took up quite a lot of desk.
Preventative care is covered in the US as well, at no cost
TIL that there's such a thing as a 'grandmaster overclocker.'

I also learned that literally pouring liquid nitrogen over a CPU from a cup is a grandmaster overclocker move.