skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 looks pretty plausible as the actual first post, though I can't remember whether postings always had ids (most pageviews used to have URLs with random names that pointed at expiring Arc closures).
Speaking as someone with several Steam guides and at least one on Gamefaqs, this is silly. Yes, sometimes I had to take notes manually, but for some other games, I made the guides I did by reading the game's data files.

It's far easier to make item tables when you can read the data file saying it's a 2% drop or what have you.
Puppet isn’t fit for purpose in 2020.

Testing Puppet manifests locally is (was) THE WORST. Hiera and r10k really shouldn’t exist in 2020. IIRC you essentially need long-lived Git branches for managing different envs for different playbooks.

Ansible is just SSH and a binary. pip install and I’m done. This is great for building VMs, base Docker images, app deployments, whatever you need. Puppet has their own wire protocol and is very dependent on a client-server relationship. You need to edit config files and fake a puppet master. That’s work.
Quite a few comments question the cost of digging -- which is understandable. But the context to remember is that these are huge infrastructure investments that will return revenue from that investment over 20-100 years with little maintenance costs. The excavated shaft is like a factory not a product. The product is each cycle of energy generation giving you a profit day after day. The shaft is a one time investment that will yield that product forever.

There's lots of research showing how the costs work out (see my other comments here)
Americans' Personalities Are Shaped by Their Natural Surroundings
I have never purchased a used server and aruck with the included CPU’s, they’re either power hungry beasts or bottom-rung SKU’s. All of my 12th gen PowerEdge servers at home run E5-2450L’s (they’re all -EN platforms), for example. The one exception is the R210 II I use as a firewall/router.
This type of comment belongs on reddit or some other medium that supports vacuous comments.
Everyone should be respectful to all women.

I don’t think many people understand the abuse and contempt childless women face for their choices. This thread and the comments demanding medals of honor for the breeders is very triggering to me.

Parents can also be nasty selfish and self absorbed. Many parents raise children so badly that they are a burden to society. Who is counting those?
I was a little annoyed by the formatting so here is the md to html version:

https://siasky.net/EAC6We3XQV511dL6QnW4i0v5P7nkXrZaqbturF9ft...

and the md:

https://siasky.net/CAC3i72n4nno0lrq_gx_m3TanpTOgPFbIVolDUMRT...
https://youtu.be/Nn_Zln_4pA8
John Oliver dives into why.
AutoScraper Tutorial – A Python Tool for Automating Web Scraping
Ask HN: Is there a declarative animation language?
I'm looking for a programming language for graphics. Something like processing.org but more declarative.

for example if I had a circle with center in 0,0 and then I exited to have center in 100,100 then the animation to transform from one to the other should happen automatically.

something that looks like:

(circle 0,0) `animate` (circle 100,100).

or even better animate automatically between scenes, where a scene is a set of other drawings.
so animate from scene to the next would be like:

scene1 `animate` scene2

does something like that exist?
https://archive.is/v93T1
I think foo::args should be a normal struct type, so sizeof(foo::args) would follow the usual rules, just as if someone had manually written

struct foo_args{char a; short b; long c; float d; etc...}

and then asked for sizeof(foo_args).
Innovation is the word that comes to my mind. In 20 years we may not even be using phones. Why? Because a wealthy company like Epic can find a niche, throw some money at R&D and create a new system. There is a reason we are not riding horse and buggy anymore.
We made sure that the activation of the API is gated by:

1) User Activation checks
2) When access to the file system is requested, a File Picker is necessary
3) When the API is in use, there are plenty of indication that it's being used

We put a lot of thought in Privacy and Security, as we do for all APIs.
To be honest, we've seen this in Rails and PHP in the form of grunt.
It is only fair for those who cannot have children to let them have parental leave when they get a pet (fur baby).

I don't buy that we need to keep on producing children- there aren't enough decent jobs for the present generation, let alone a bunch of new kids, unless you count OnlyFans.
WebPv2 isn't just vp9. It has many features that target image delivery on the web. I think it's worth waiting and seeing what it's like.
Is it possible to inspect those shadow APNs without rooting?
This is the funniest thing I have read here in 2020. Literally spit my drink out.

Thanks for the laugh man
Why don't they though?

Just fork Android and ask Asus or whatever to launch a phone with that OS preinstalled with the Epic App Store as the default app store. Like Amazon Fire OS.
Just the plain .ms macros. Plus "pic", I like that a lot.
Try it with your own images on Squoosh.app
Cory Doctorow: IP
Wait till someone wants to add JS polyfills for everything...
By that they mean if developers force Apple’s hand to pull the apps that consumers want, those consumers might choose another device next time?
^ wherein @jonathannat discovers that the US liberal establishment lives in an impenetrable bubble inside which no one can say that the Trump administration is doing something right.
Covid-19's Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race
I think Linkedin is quite useless as a social network - their business model selling your contacts to "digital strategists" who try to contact you. Most of the content is marketing spam, and nobody uses it.

Still, when we happen to recruit, we get like 10-20 decent applicants (of which 5 were pretty good) for $250 o so.
> much of Africa and the Middle East, including a huge fraction if not a majority of the world's Muslims, explicitly endorse China's actions in Xinjiang
Apply that same logic to Tesla ten years ago. Arguably they aren't competing with the big auto manufacturers on a production level, but market cap may change that.
Another vote for Fastmail.
Thailand Is Not Dead
I was the local game guru once upon a time. Got a free rental out of it one time after they had a customer who was stuck call me for hints on a game.

Also you could write letters to Nintendo Power. They told me what the spells in Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord did and explained why the "Octopus Eraser" in Earthbound that they showed in a screenshot got changed to "Pencil Eraser" in the actual US release.
Redesigning the U.S. Treasury Market after the COVID-19 Crisis [pdf]
Indeed, the article itself says

> We had considered scenarios of raids, with small groups of young men killing and stealing food, but to imagine such a big battle with thousands of people is very surprising

So it's not so much the violence itself that's the surprise, as it is the scale of said violence
You really haven't, despite all the people in this thread asking you repeatedly. "Watch any episode" is vague. Appearing on Infowars, a conspiracy show, doesn't make one a racist.

I think at this point we may as well just flag your accusation and move on.
https://qz.com/1879754/hong-kongs-protest-movement-stymied-b...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20907228/apple-quartz-app...
The rise of populism is probably because nobody trusts established politicians, not some abstract reasoning around the left being meritorious.
I'd suspect that might be related to when you grew up.

I'm a child of the late 80's, and nothing will ever beat the experiences of Zaxxon, Manic Miner, Paradroid, etc.

I do know gamers who were teens in the late 70s, and it's all about River Raid, Pole Position, Frogger.

My guess is that, just like music, what you experience as a teen shapes you.
Oscars academy sets out new diversity standards
Risk of death may be lower but we still don't understand the long-term impact.

Italy is just starting to look at this after their recovery and the initial signs are not great: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/08/bergamo-ital...
If I recall correctly, “Reader” apps and “TV” apps have different rules available to them, video games and in-game purchases are not eligible under those rules...
This thread is absolutely bananas. I actually read most of it at 759 comments.

The short version is that people with kids are insanely defensive about it. In many cases, they have literally rewritten their brains to see reproduction as exclusively good and necessary. If you suggest anything else, you will be swiftly brigaded and condemned.

Those without children are all over the place. Their opinions vary from complete disinterest to strong resentment of parents.
One thing a lot of modern games have changed is that they take the notes for you. I really like when the game has a bestiary and drop tables and museums/collections built into the game so you don't have to alt-tab to the wiki all the time.
"like Epic"

If Epic were going to do that, they would have already done it. Why would they though? They've seen other vendors come and go. They'll just sit back making money by utilizing other people's platforms, and then complain about it. They knew the terms of the contract they agreed to, and are being little babies about it now.

They clearly enjoy the money they make through iDevice users, enough that they don't just abandon the platform. Agree or not with Apple's control, but if you agree to their terms that's on you. You can complain all you want, but break their terms and it is again on you. (royal you, not specific you)
Sure but the thread is about whether this person is alt right, not whether they are conservative.
Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage
Are you talking about Apple or Epic here?
It would be perfectly fine with Apple for Epic to sell Vbucks on their own web site, or through other platforms (which they do), and Apple would not ask for, nor would it have a right to, a cut of the fees.

What you can not do in an iOS app is direct someone to another payment processing platform to purchase digital goods to be consumed within the app. Customers have to figure it out on their own.
Getting sick puts not just you at risk, but your family, friends, coworkers, and anyone you come in contact with after and during the fact.

It also could generate unnecessary strain on our health system that is already over capacity.

There's no need. Stay at home, stay protected, and don't take an unnecessary risk because you can't be mildly inconvenienced to save someone else's life.
To be fair Germany seems hellbent on making itself completely dependent on an evil, totalitarian regime (Mother Russia), while neglecting its NATO obligations. I wouldn't say they are setting a great example.
> Epic claims that Google forced phone manufacturer OnePlus to break off a deal that would have seen a special Fortnite launcher preinstalled on OnePlus phones — and demanded that another Android phonemaker, LG, abandon any plans to do the same.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...
Stuck in a Career Rut? Here Are 5 Ways to Get Out
You and I both agree that it's not a selfless act to have a child. That was my entire point.
Your comment is probably in jest but I'm curious - when the public employees' retirement funds are tied in to the equity market and a few companies like Apple/Google drive the price movement, does it introduce adverse incentives when ruling on an anti-competitive behavior lawsuit?
Working and Parenting in a Pandemic
Partly yes. But it’s also the realization that we tend to start with an ERD or domain model before even looking at boundaries. We’re product-oriented. And vendors don’t help. Look at how hard everyone is pushing containers. Containers have uses, but there’s no rational explanation for the effort behind their marketing push.

Simpler is better. Boundaries need to be respected. Tools should be selected based on need, not desire.
It was a store that I bought an Apple computer in.
I love my kids. Even with that, I assure you I was looking forward to the break and reduction in workload when my parental leave expired and I went back to the office...
Thanks for giving us K-9, I use it daily (hourly really) and absolutely love it!
How can they force such a thing though? On Android you can sideload apps and it's not apocalyptic.
Zorin OS 15.3 Released with Latest LibreOffice, New Software
My experience with FB ads stopped when they were estimating our target of interest as being 50% male and 50% female, with a large interested population living in Libya.
How to Learn Next.js in 2020
By percentage the number of 1U/2U servers sold with ultra power efficient CPUs is fairly low. When people buy those new they will absolutely be going for CPUs that are 85W to 130W TDP per socket, times two sockets.

As a person that's formerly worked for a server manufacturer for a number of years I would say that the mid to upper performance range of the CPU market is 80%+ of the servers by volume. The other 10% is either the very low power models, and the top 10% of the units sold by volume are the very most expensive CPUs available at the time.

If you buy a used 1U Dell R610 with two six-core CPUs and 64GB of RAM, nobody should be surprised that a 120VAC watt meter at the wall shows it idling at 150W power consumption, with cpu load at 0.00... [surprisedpikachu.gif]
Biology is too "complicated" for our intelligence at least.
I love these pendantic HN comments. Everyone else in the thread is referring to chattel slavery when they use the word "slavery", but you feel a need to point out how it isn't technically correct.

Great. We're all still talking about the same thing still.
I dont think this is a wild assumption.

It is well documented that financial support as well as the policies of the democratic party (Defund, UBI etc) is heavy in the FAANGs particularly FB and Google[1] Starting from that premise, one can assume that any sample drawn of a subpopulation that includes single employees will be heavily titled towards (D)[2]

Therefore, one notes that the same people that support most (D) platform policies today, are very much against parental benefits.

How to reconcile this?

Here is where we get to the uncomfortable zone:

Supporters of defund, UBI, BLM etc are happy... as long as the cost of said policies impose a burden that is at least as heavy on them, as everyone else.

However, when they are asked to sacrifice themselves only, they fail to report to duty.

In other words, their public position (everyone must show empathy to others) clashes with their private one (self empathy to their tribe)

Problem: when your private beliefs clash with your public persona, this invalidates your public persona, not your private beliefs.

[1] campaign contribution disclosures by company.
[2] see voter trends by age group.
Epic's claim is (I believe) that Apple is using its monopoly to unfairly compete. If you believe anti-trust is appropriate, asking a court to enforce it isn't crying about it, it's asking for the law to be followed. If Apple doesn't like the laws of the land, they should make their own.

That's not to say I think Epic's case is clear. I think it's a worthy legal question. I don't own any Apple devices from this century, so the result either way wouldn't directly affect me (but certainly ecosystem effects would).
The problem with that is two-fold: first, the median childcare worker is less concerned with the child’s long-term success than is the median parent (that’s not a slight against childcare workers!); second, that the presence of state childcare makes it less competitive for parents to spend time taking care of their children themselves rather than to work and earn money, which means more and more folks are likely to utilise state childcare, which is less ideal due to the first reason.
Taking care of a child isn't time off, it's work. And it's not even time away from work because you're still getting pinged on Slack, still expected to review Google docs or leave people blocked, still missing meetings or dialing in (poorly) because they can't be rescheduled, and generally feeling guilty that you can't get enough done.

All while trying to handle a baby, or monitor a first grader attending live school on a computer, or trying to re-create preschool at home... whatever. Oh, and prep meals, plan after-school isolated activities, etc. All while feeling guilty because your kids are suffering and miss their friends.

We're all isolated. As a parent, I'd love more time off [to myself, as you imply]. But that's not what I'm getting. I work more than ever yet do everything (work, parenting, life) worse than before.
> why not give people choice ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430
How many exploits/breaches in the wild due to open s3 bucket, default admin passwd to database, poorly written webshit code, plaintext password, etc. ? And how many prevented by secure boot, boot guard, memory encryption, ME, PSP etc. ? Other than obvious money reasons for Dell, people seem to be vastly overestimating their threat models. And even for the secure chain of trust, there are ways to do so where the owner has the key, not the vendor. See heads for example.
For applications, it is, as you wrote, inferior in speed, as well as many other attributes (memory usage, CPU usage, plenty of others). That is not the point. The point is that web apps are distributed instantly to users, on demand, anywhere, extremely cheaply, with no middlemen necessary. (The web is not the only technology with these traits, but in practice it is the only widespread one.)

Apart from the speed and convenience of clicking a link to visit a web app, those attributes all sound to me like tradeoffs that benefit the developer at the expense of the user.

The software I remember, from the 90’s and earlier, put the user in control. Licenses were one time costs and they were perpetual. Software was much more thoroughly tested before being released to manufacturing (through the golden master process) since it was a major gaffe to release a broken app that had to be updated with fresh physical media.

Unlike today, there was never any sense that the developer could pull the rug out from under your feet, at any moment. The title of the article is a testament to the (now archaic) notion that software might be considered “complete”. That it seems so quaint is such a terrible shame.

Now we have so much software offered for rental only, like Adobe stuff, or ad-driven free sites which are liable to changed drastically (with no option to skip the “upgrade”) or cancelled outright like so many Google products [1].

Somehow, in the past few years I’ve picked up a nostalgic fever for retro computing [2] which has only intensified since Covid began. I don’t know how to explain it, but here we are. Perhaps I’m just getting old and finding it increasingly difficult to relate to young people, who seem to jump from one social media fad to another, like locusts.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2] https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...
It’s not a full answer to your question, but given a long enough timeframe the problem is self-correcting.

Sub-cultures with anti-natalist norms will find themselves subsumed by those that produce a lot of children. Simple math tells us that the typical American circa 2100 is a lot more likely to be descended from Utah Mormons than Bay Area rationalists.
Looks like the trolls found this discussion too..
These have both been widely circulated.

The video has a few problems: there's no indication of where in china this is; there's no indication that these are uighurs; there's no indication that these are any particular kind of prisoner (i.e. political vs criminal); and last this doesn't provide any evidence of more than a few dozen or hundred prisoners.

The BuzzFeed article has problems as well. They extrapolate too much from scant or vague evidence. The satellite photos and maps don't provide any solid evidence for their claims. Just pictures of buildings.

The HN crowd is skeptical of heavily documented scientific studies from renowned scientists and picks them with a fine toothed comb, yet accepts political narratives with patchy evidence put forth by parties with conflicts of interest with little skepticism. It's kind of absurd.
I have a Jetson nano. Really disappointing device.

The cpu is terrible. I bought it to experiment with reinforcement learning, with a model with low, but non trivial, cpu needs. Unfortunately it's so non performant that I never was able to do anything useful with it.

The Ubuntu distribution that works with it is still being updated, but still based on 1804. Decrepit python makes for poor ai ml experience. Poor cpu means fresh install of some basic python packages takes overnight. Need to combine package updates with apt, with python install with pip --user, just to get packages working. Recent openai gym packages won't even install.

The default desktop is Ubuntu's absurd gpu/cpu toasty warmer. Even idle, the heat sink feels like a fire hazard.

Had high hopes, ended up being a poor use of $100
Luckily the US population can grow other ways too! And the global population is increasing. And “seeing peak world population in our lifetime” doesn’t sound too scary. Shortage of humans due to humans choosing not to reproduce because they don’t want their non-parent coworkers to be frustrated is one of the smallest existential threats I can imagine.
I see, so that may be why Amazon went and created their own hardware too.
yes i care about the quality of life for current and future humans but do not care about the perpetuation of humanity as a concept

if humanity came to a slow end, probably aided by robots in its twilight, that would be fine
Sounds like a repeat of the case that Paypal blocked an artist's account for having the word Iran inside her full name https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24359821
Even if true, Epic does not owe it to Apple to take care that they don't disturb their business. They are, after all, competing companies, and I haven't heard any compelling reason why a court should protect Apple's business.
Someone needs to create a github repo that collects primary source information documenting crimes against the Uighur population.

At this point there is enough disinformation coming from both sides that makes it hard for me to understand the true scope.
I'm astonished at the broad, sweeping statement. As if all employees do the same job and require the same conditions. I would have assumed that roles in Netflix where diverse enough that certainly some jobs would have benefits, if for no other reason than saving money on office space or being able to hire people from regions that pay lower. Seems rather odd to say the person writing the Khmer subtitles benefits from doing it in the office.
A lot of these are used in games for security. I've heard of Snap being used for security too, but I have no experience with that.

Discord roles are pretty messy for this though, to the point that secure conversations are often brought into a group chat or multiple separate servers.
This was especially true for games. Remember when games had to be absolutely 100% complete? Any bugs would then be known as easter eggs.
Hadn't thought of this game in a long time, and didn't know it was open source! Props to the team for their continuous updates over the years, looks like there's a lot of new stuff since I last played this.
Well, I quit Civilization on Civilization 3 because it was too much for me to handle. Same for Sim City at some point. It got more and more complex every version to the point it wasn’t much fun for me anymore.

So I “wasn’t there” 20 years ago already.
>"There needs to be a redistribution of esteem as well as money, and more of it needs to go to the millions doing work that does not require a college degree."

I could not agree more with this statement.<

Money has to come from someone's paycheck, hence the redistribution of money mentioned.