skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Premature attribution of cause to a fire also seems potentially harmful to arson investigations.
This is going to be a big experiment in whether growing products need the early adopters that propel it to relevance and provide the early alpha/beta testing, development and QA in the early life of the product.

If we assume that the VR and the Quest in particular are past the early adopter part of the graph, then FB actually doesn't care that it's pissed you off, maybe it doesn't mind jettisoning the helpful but disposable fuel tank (AKA early adopters, no offense) before hitting the mainstream. I wonder if someone has done this (rather cynical) calculus internally, and if so, if it's repeatable.

There are echoes of this all over the product world -- API access on platforms are another prominent example, the rug pull from early adopters/builders on platforms seems orchestrated (in addition to inevitable) at this point.
I dont really understand what youre point is.

> The legal system has chosen to define work as something to be traded for.

So people shouldn't be paid for their work? As in, we should have communism?
Churchill Downs, the former owner of Big Fish, is a casino and racetrack company and Aristocrat, the current owner is a slot manufacturer.
Worked in this industry for quite a while (too long, in retrospect). The amount of micro-targeting towards "whales" was insane. People would essentially pay for the experience of feeling like they were in Vegas, and a certain small percentage of them would have latent gambling addictions that we'd unlock.

Economically you only needed a single-digit percentage of whales in your player base, simply because the LTV of those users was so incredibly high. Even at $10+ CPI's, you could still make tons of money, and sell in-game coin packages at a straight-faced price of $99 (or even $199!)

Additionally, there is no reason that these games had to be "fair" (unlike a regulated casino). You needed to know your payback percentages, but that was just to avoid destroying your economy. People start playing a new game, and get tons of wins and bonuses, and then it slowly settles down to ~85% RTP and sucks all their cash away.
Cool, but they could have just spent less money on a Windows laptop with a stylus and touch screen. I use my stylus extensively at work, but many employers still have their users on machines without them. Such a shame.

I don’t understand why Apple keeps holding back the Mac platform, but I finally had to give up. I love my iPad for what it is great at, but gave up on Mac eight years ago. This reminds me of the black and white Mac Classics with tiny screens in school, when everyone had colour PCs that cost less.
I’m clueless about mobile stores and reviews. How does such an app get so many positive (obviously fake) reviews?
It happened multiple times, and one of the times, the project needed to be renamed, causing a huge argument, lots of eyes on the project, and momentum to slow. There's a huge social cost to a fork.

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47
>recently quit my dev job because it was also making me very mentally unhealthy.

What do you do now?
My cynical take: there’s probably a nontrivial amount of money laundering going on through these apps. Especially prevalent in any game that accepts “gift cards” as payment. Typically you’d pay people cash in hand to go buy a $1000 worth of gift cards in cash.

My non-cynical take: gambling addiction seems pretty prevalent in at least American society and this is just the market responding to those conditions.
It is indeed a very wide definition. Is going to an arcade now gambling? Perhaps this hinges on how much chance vs skill is involved in the game, but it's difficult for me to see a principled difference between these apps and any situation in which you pay money to play a game.
> 100 million died due to Communism/Socialism in the past century

Leninism and it's descendants (I won't quibble over the number, because it's not important since the ascription of blame is wrong as is the dichotomy it's framed as part of), which Socialist (and even Communist) opponents have been calling “State Capitalism” since before the first of those deaths occurred.

> But yeah, the bad guy is Capitalism here.

Leninism, et al., and Capitalism can both be bad. It's not a binary choice between those two options (as proven by the fact that the the developed world has largely abandoned the system originally described as Capitalism for the modern mixed economy, which while retaining some features, including some problematic ones, of Capitalism significantly mitigates some of it's acute problems; we've already largely chosen a third way, though plenty advocate a return to naked capitalism, there's no reason we couldn't instead choose a fourth.)
Really looking forward to tinkering with this. Is it me, or does it seem that the BSDs are really losing more and more mind share as time marches on? I have very few issues with FreeBSD or OpenBSD beyond the occasional incompatibility, and it's always something minor like suspend or sound that can fixed with a few queries.
Ask HN: Good resources and best practices on logging?
I often feel that the systems I build lack sufficiently comprehensive logging and/or error handling systems. Are there any particular resources or practices that changed how you approach this issue?
I agree that the Valve Index seems to be an outlier. I misspoke when I said "every" in my earlier post.

I'm actually thinking to get one for my family this Christmas. (I'm in the queue for ordering.)
Even if there's a "good reason" that life forms in a specific way (e.g. water + carbon based, RNA & DNA encoding information, etc.) there's very little reason that DNA should encode proteins in exactly the way ours does (on Earth-based life, AFAIK the code is nearly universal, indicating common origin).
Probably not, I never put money into any of those apps cause I know I wont get anything back, but I do play them every few years for about a month or two just to try slot machines all over again.
Nothing that can be fixed later?
"I am composing the test piece for the 2021 Van Cliburn competition ... One issue [about Bach] may be that I celebrate a certain chaos or irresolution in art ..."

Can't help but wonder if modern composers use 'chaos and irresolution' as a way to rationalize their terrible compositions.

Hopefully Hough will give us a beautiful pastiche.

Previous Van Cliburn test pieces:

Bernstein's Touches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFjdVP_tQYA

Christopher Theofanidis BIRICHINO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXuKF20h480
> This is where all those good manufacturing jobs in Detroit/Pittsburgh went.

And then when we look at some demographic information the "why" becomes a lot more clear:

- https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymich...

- https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/philadelphiacountypennsylv...
The act of spinning the wheel is its own reward, dopamine wise. The anticipation of winning it big. The colorful displays. The hope as the wheel looks like it's going to land on the big payout. Even losing is its own rush.

And if you do win... can cashing out for boring dollars ever compare to the excitement of being allowed to spin the wheel again - for the chance of an even bigger prize?

It's a finely tuned dopamine loop that's been perfected over centuries, designed with one goal: to keep susceptible people pulling the lever. The house, after all, doesn't win if you leave.
One of the problems with the offset approach is it's not that repeatable. Only a certain number of companies can buy carbon offsets before there aren't really any more offsets to buy, and we have to start actually reducing the carbon to begin with.

Separately, one of the things that gets to me with companies like Google claiming a zero carbon footprint is that if you look at its corporate headquarters, it's mostly parking lot, and some building. The first time I visited Google's HQ, my first impression was just all the parked cars and no way to get to the HQ without Uber/Lyft. Same with Facebook. That picture alone seems wrong to me from an environmental standpoint. Why isn't there a train station there with electric trains instead of a parking lot?

(Google's Boston (Cambridge) office, on the other hand, is right across from a subway station which totally feels right.)
Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
Windows development stack is the closest to Xerox PARC workstation ideas across Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar, and the best desktop OS in security by default given all processes put in place after XP SP2, so yeah quite good.
Carbon "offsets" give a nice, reassuring feeling. But what actually counts for the planet is actual, raw emissions, how much of the dirty stuff you're throwing out. "Emitting than planting some trees that will hopefully fix back the carbon in 40 years" isn't the same at all as "not emitting".

Sorry, but this is greenwashing.
My attempt at an answer would be that emptiness/nothingness is just a made-up concept. Not a good answer, I know, but idk what else to think.
Beautiful writing: "... a critique of this aspect of the system will have to wait until the bugs are fixed and only the features remain."
At least a screenshot is there but maybe provide a bit more details.. I really don't get why people show off projects with zero description. Sure it's an rss reader but what features does it actually offer?

E.g. I see "make build_macos" and wonder if other platforms are supported? I don't want to have to find out myself that it does not support linux.
I’m not super familiar with the industry what are LTV, CPI, and RTP?
I've been in two different situations where I have had obviously fraudulent charges on my PayPal. In both cases, PayPal denied my claim.

In both cases, Discover approved charge-backs for the PayPal charges to my card.
I wasn't trying to excoriate you for your mistake, so I apologize if that's how it comes across.

I did try to modulate the harshness of "Come on, dude" with the rest of my comment. Like I said, sometimes we let our guard down. So it's understandable if you got fooled.

In hindsight there are more red flags in just that screenshot ("More by Develop App", obviously fake reviews to point out just two), but God knows I've clicked through installs for shit apps on iOS many times.
that is true although there is also a ton of acid up there
@blueterminal: There are many proposed solutions, some better than others. GDPR is a step in the right direction, it should not be easy or trivial to collect huge amounts of data on people. There is no good rational justification for this behavior. Consumer protections is important and should be extended to how algorithms are used. Fine-grained targeting of ads (political or not) should not be allowed, due to the obvious negative consequences for societies. An expert panel could be given the task to make some sensible compromises.

The irony is that such regulations would ultimately benefit the companies that are currently being criticized, making long term survival more likely. Regular people would be better of too, and I would not need to discuss movies like The Social Dilemma on HN.
If you want to be realistic about your actual effect on the environment that's literally what you have to do.

This is not some abstract game to be won. This making real changes in the real world.

And no: when the stakes are this high, it being extremely difficult is no reason to just assume it's impossible.
I checked it out and created a diagram, then I clicked the icon in the upper left corner thinking it was some sort of menu. But it just took me to the main home page -- but without saving anything at all or even prompting me. So I basically lost all the work I did without warning. Is that supposed to happen?

> Create as many diagrams as you want. Save your diagrams locally to pause and continue later.

I found the save button, but it seems to just take a single snapshot and reload that automatically if I leave and return. So it seems like you can only have one diagram going at a time? But even if I want to start a new diagram, I can't figure out how to do that without manually clicking each individual icon and deleting them, one-by-one.

Maybe I need to signup for this additional functionality to work?
See electrek article Nikola admits to faking video of driving prototype [1]

And also Nikola press release [2], which states:

"As Nikola pivoted to the next generation of trucks, it ultimately decided not to invest additional resources into completing the process to make the Nikola One drive on its own propulsion."

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/09/14/nikola-nkla-admits-faking-vid...

[2] https://nikolamotor.com/press_releases/nikola-sets-the-recor...
> it's an impossible problem that people shouldn't be attempting, yet somehow still do

You see exactly this kind of probabilistic algorithm being used every day in huge production apps. E.g. how do you think Gmail shows something like "me .. Vince, Tim" in the left column of your email inbox?
The `go` program uses -longopts and I think it would be hard to argue that Rob Pike lacks an appreciation of Unix traditions.
5G in rural areas bridges a gap that 4G doesn’t, especially low- and mid-band
It would mean primitive life must be everywhere in the universe of it happened twice on adjacent planets independently.

Very, very unlikely outcome.
Quit being a fear mongering alarmist. While it is measurable and real, there is zero evidence to show that climate change will necessarily kill millions. Humans have adapted and overcome, we will again.

The farce of climate alarmism is starting to show its cracks. For example, well known, long-time environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote an entire book on how unhelpful alarmism and panic is to really find solutions to climate change.
> “sliding” the definitions of all existing countries further away from the equator and toward the poles

There is absolutely no way I can think of in which this could be done diplomatically. In the recent refugee crisis [1]
a few million people moving in almost caused the EU to collapse.

It's mindbogglingly naive to imagine that hundreds of millions of people from the most affected areas will just be able to resettle in Northern countries.

Aside from this, I suspect that most people don't actually want to leave their homes unless they really have to. It would be a lot better to not have a need for mass migrations in the first place, rather than cross our fingers and hope for the best.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis
For everyone pining for a Jq with a different syntax: I have a bunch of links to alternatives collected, you might want to try some of them (some may be for different things than JSON):

https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq

https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath

https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq

https://github.com/simeji/jid

https://github.com/jmespath/jp

https://github.com/cube2222/jql

https://jsonnet.org

https://github.com/borkdude/jet

https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq

https://github.com/dflemstr/rq

Personally I think that next time I might just fire up Hy and use its functional capabilities.
Sure, but then [employee]'s payment methods should be removed along with them. If they were using the company / boss's card or PayPal, then surely the company / boss should be able to add it back again without too much undue trouble.
Most corporate campuses are located such that public transportation cannot serve it well. They tend to be isolated islands surrounded by parking lots and grass land, with no through street that transit could take that would get from on place to another. Thus the only transit ends at their building, this is okay for a zoo or shopping mall where people come and go all day, but offices tend to be everyone arriving at the same time and then no riders, so to make it worth while to serve you all day you have to be on the way to someplace worth serving. If you are not on the way then people with a choice will prefer to drive just for the one time that the kid gets sick and they have to leave early. (note places where traffic is a problem are also places that are on the way to elsewhere)
Not only can’t you cash out these apps but the apps are basically charging for zeros. They give players the option of buying and playing $10,000 chips for $3.99 or you can get “value” instead by buying $1,000,000,000 chips for $99. Gameplay is the same in both just with more zeros
Renamed already :D
Ford to Fully Immerse the Mustang Mach-E with an Online Buying Process
> I never liked Softbank owning it, but hey someone has to.

I understand what you're saying and this seems to be the prevailing pattern but I really don't understand it. ARM could easily be a standalone company. For some reason, mergers are in.
No love for OpenShift?

It's nice though.
Not that I advocate for this but: until it becomes a law they probably wont bother banning it. Unless people start protesting about it en-masse for Google to care.
Pre-1800, about 1.8 million ha burned each year in CA:

https://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/Fi...

> Approximately 1.8 million ha burned annually in California prehistorically (pre 1800). Our estimate of prehistoric annual area burned in California is 88% of the total annual wildfire area in the entire US during a decade (1994–2004) characterized as ‘‘extreme’’ regarding wildfires. The idea that US wildfire area of approximately two million ha annually is extreme is certainly a 20th or 21st century perspective. Skies were likely smoky much of the summer and fall in California during the prehistoric period.

See also: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.201...

> Many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem [...] however, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends.
I saw how much my mother spent on Candy Crush after she passed away. It breaks my heart with a whirlwind of emotions... like whether I should be angry these apps know how to exploit human emotion, or at peace because they provided her comfort in a rough time. They're not gambling, but clearly they know how to trigger some personal & psychological investment.

This wasn't $5-10 here or there or on weekends... this was a daily pattern and with some of the larger in-app purchases. I had to sift through email receipts to get the exact amount, the Google play store also does a fine job of obscuring the spend.
> [..] It's basically just a Desktop computer in the form-factor of a phone.

Which is what has me worried the most.

The (common) security model of GNU/Linux is for today/2020 in my opinion pretty bad for desktops and totally unacceptable for phones.

When I first heard about snap and flatpack I thought things are slowly heading in a better direction but it turns out that was a misconception.

I haven't looked into how the libre phone does sandboxing but I don't have to much hopes to be honest.
> > Solar needs to have standby fossil plants that keep at idle or else you get brownouts

> That's strictly cleaner than running the region on fossil plants only

True, but from a CO2 and climate standpoint that's strictly dirtier than nuclear. And reducing emissions by enforcing good insulation norms, taxing the hell out of kerosene, etc.
None are quite like the Quest, though. It's qualitatively different.
If this is your first introduction to Brian Eno, do yourself a favor and look into his discography. David Bowie’s “Low” is one of my favorite albums of all time (a collaboration with Eno and Tony Visconti. Side point: Visconti created one of the most interesting snare drum sounds of all time on that album.) His solo albums — “Another Green World”, etc — are also amazing.
Probably. You tell us :=)

The incompatibility is apparently due to the fact that jq is happy with a concatenation of JSON objects and q is not. For example {'foo':1}{'foo':2} as opposed to [{'foo':1},{'foo':2}]
> Snowden blew the whistle

By revealing incriminating evidence. Until then yes it was a conspiracy theory. Snowden did not just "say" that there was mega-surveillance. He actually revealed intricate details of how surveillance is carried out. Even though I disagree with how he revealed secret information, I still believe him because he produced evidence. He literally was in the know how of what happened and why it happened.

> So instead of a blanket statement that every case where no concrete legal evidence exists is equally false, each conspiracy case shall be treated separately.

I am not saying it is false. A conspiracy doesn't amount to falsity. The definition itself states: "Conspiracy theory, an attempt to explain harmful or tragic events as the result of the actions of a small, powerful group". That is it. It doesn't talk about the nature of the event/result of actions. I don't know why you think I am saying that it never happened. I am saying that these are allegations which haven't been proved yet.

> A person with personal ties with Trump getting a direct deal from a Trump driven decision has more basis of corruption and personal relations involvement than Tim saying the government policy eased their entrance to India.

You can say that about any US President then. Every single US President was well connected in some way or the other. How do you think Obama got his Nobel Peace Prize then? That too within 1 year into his office with literally nothing to back it. Was there some form of corruption between Obama and the Nobel Committee? There, I just created a conspiracy theory for you to ponder upon. Now what stops anyone from connecting anything and saying that there must be a reason for why something happened? Nothing! That is why you have Courts which can decide, with a high degree of certainty, that the allegations are true or false.
Work from home is useful, but there are real advantages to face to face conversation.
There is XPath 3.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-lookup

It is more verbose, like you get the size of something with array:size or map:size functions, so it is more readable

I am implementing it in Xidel 0.9.9+: http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
A shared work space thing... like an office? ;-P

But yes, I agree. Since my company will be saving tons of money once their lease comes up for renewal, and already hasn't had to expand despite hiring more than 60 people this year, it does seem like a stipend is in order.
Yeah those pesky southern Democrats keep trying to make things difficult.
Compile Elixir applications into single, easily distributed executable binaries
YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills
I was playing around a bit and it really looks promising! There's some key missing features (like, selecting multiple items) and bugs (ctrl + v not working for me at least), but as an MVP is remarkable.
Thanks for sharing.
These apps have been around for a decade now, since the original Slotomania and games of that ilk on Facebook. The goal is to create an experience where you feel like you're in Vegas. Recognizable sound, graphics, and slot machines that largely play like the real thing (and in some cases they are literally licensed versions of real games on the floor). Monetization is basically the same as Candy Crush, rate-limit free currency and try to get frustrated players to spend $$ to speed up the process.
how about a name for when the air quality on the entire westcoast becomes very dangerous for anyone with lung problems, asthma, COPD, post-covid, etc.

https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0#2.56/28.39/...