skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game wouldn't even run for like the first 5 days because they required BIOS updates from manufacturers for the game to even work.
Agenda do this, feels like a nice middle ground.
Scientists use big data to sway elections and predict riots in the 1960s
RDR2 is one of the biggest of triple-As. It probably has more cracking effort applied to it than most.

I don't think that's evidence that DRM is useless.
I don't think we would have survived as a species in an "egoless" state. It's very nice while you have it, but it lacks all strength and drive that are necessary for great achievements or for putting up a good fight when necessary.

For full perspective: I've practiced various meditation techniques my whole life - Orthodox Christian, various flavor of yoga (mostly Raja and Kundalini related stuff), even some Buddhist techniques (mostly Zen). I'm fairly familiar with the Buddhist doctrine, and Christian, and the Hindu Dharma. I've had my share of experiences, including some that looked quite ego-free - and yeah, it's awesome.

I'm just saying, we shouldn't draw absolute lines here, or anywhere. The danger of narrow dogmatism is always present. And there's room for, and value in, the inner fire, the energy that builds things up and pushes things forward. That, too, is what we are.

You live in a wonderful, immense house; don't confine yourself to a couple rooms only.
Bill to tear down federal courts’ paywall gains momentum in Congress
You can keep the normal layout on a 40%, you just wouldn't have number/function/nav keys without layers

40% is not just plank, and I personally find the ergonomics of a plank board to be rather bad compared to staggered, unless it's split.
Targeting web development first seems like the obvious business decision. If building an Xcode competitor is a good idea, then it's still a good idea after you have made an editor that's worth using for broader tasks and vetted by the market.

People who care already edit Swift in their favorite editor and use Xcode for the rest of the dev iOS process. You'd be better off trying to capture the hearts of people so that you're their favorite editor than specializing to implement the "rest of the iOS dev process" on day 0.

As an iOS developer, I think most people start off disliking Xcode but then settle into a reluctant but productive relationship with it. The only things I need to use it for (device simulation, interface builder) are hard to build and yet they're not the things that annoy me about Xcode. Or rather, I wouldn't rather be wrestling with them on someone else's ultimately buggy attempt at reimplementing them.
So can you just bind arbitrary keys to arbitrary characters? Aren't there a limited number of codes (scan codes?) that the keyboard will send out?
I think Rockstar is big enough to work on two things at the same time.
Evernote’s completely redesigned iOS app arrives today
Mercedes ready to roll out solid-state battery tech for production in city buses
Continue reading, especially the part titled 'How representative is this quiz of real software estimates?', and you'll get to the author's point.
The journal Science just published an article on gerrymandering with a similar argument. It's appealing to mathematically "solve" gerrymandering, but "The most important decisions in devising an electoral map are grounded in philosophical or political judgments about which the technology is irrelevant. It is nonsensical to completely transform a debate over philosophical values into a mathematical exercise." The article has a nice diagram showing how gerrymandering works as well as a discussion of the various conflicting goals.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1179
I thought the Trump administration was working overtime to limit HB1, immigration,etc.
Eager to try this out. Coda was far ahead of its time, but became dated as others caught up. Hopefully Nova is just as far ahead.

Moreover, I'm getting tired of VS Code's slowness and quirks, so switching back to something from Panic would be great. If it crashes less often than VS Code, it's half way there.

For those who don't know, Panic is well known for decades for making incredibly high-quality software. It's not a big, flashy SV startup, but a small team in Portland that emphasizes quality over quantity.

Also important: Panic takes purchase orders, which is the only way the company I work for will buy software. A multi-billion dollar company where only the C-levels have credit cards. Panic bent over backwards to sell us several products.
I suppose I was in the minority watching it. I could see even then that al jazeera (uk) was superior to al jazeera (us) in both content and slant.
Lukla airport is really fun, it’s at 11k and mountains all around.
Have you tried VS Code in Remote Development mode?
In terms of relationship. So that e.g. if you comment with too many emojis on a YouTube lifestream, you only lose access to your e-mails, but not your files.
I just checked and is true. I need to test for a while how good. Thanks!
Yesssss, I'm waiting for one of these to show up:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264811664552

Point-of-sale hardware is so much fun to play with, and there's so much of it out there!
My favorite is that calling someone with facetime disconnects you from the wifi unless you go into airplane mode.
I don’t think you can use that to infer that remembering when a user stops a video is an unsolvable problem.

See: multiple ways to skin a cat
> I'm just waiting for tech that uses eye-tracking to put a tiny hi-DPI display that "moves around" so it stays right in line with your foveal vision, while having a static, head-wrapping low-DPI display behind it, to cover your peripheral vision.

Isn't that what Varjo is doing? They do have headsets out, but they are strictly targeting enterprises at this point (cheapest headsets start at 5k + mandatory support for 800).

[edit] actually no, I remember them discussing that approach, but apparently they went with some kind of semi-transparent mirror to combine the images. https://varjo.com/blog/introducing-bionic-display-how-varjo-... & https://gfycat.com/perkywastefulhorsechestnutleafminer
> How do you develop your own relationships and life and way of doing things and way of raising your children, inside someone else's house? I can't understand that but I'm open to hearing about how.

In my experience what happens is that the "family" raises the children.

In intergenerational households - in Asian cultures at least - it is still generally the older generations calling the shots, in patriarchy/matriarchy sense. In practical terms it depends on how much financial power each generation holds that determines how much say they have. But in Asian cultures age do grant at least some implicit authority.

Given the above cultural context, tensions can arise if the way of living/child-raising are not aligned. I would say this resolves how normal conflicts get resolved. Those who have the most time and influence usually win out. Although culturally people understand they have to pick their battles for the benefit of daily harmony.

I think a way to think about how the living arrangement works that may be more relatable is to think about a multi-generational family business. If you watch shows like Chef's Table there are stories were children take over the family's business by more-or-less following in a prescribed footpath, while others conflict and find that they have to strike out on their own.

On a day to day basis though, it's just like living in a very close knit community - you could say a family.
That's helpful, I think the space and movement is definitely an issue w/ my RSI, but I have a feeling the chords might end up taking over if I swap out, but may give it a shot :)
No idea. Up until now I've been able to sideload apks without a FB account (although I did have to agree to an extra EULA). I'm doing some soul-searching to decide whether I capitulate to FB or get rid of my current quest (or try to use it with an Oculus account until it gets bricked)
> So that's why they vote for policies that exclusively benefit Boomers

And I would disagree with the "exclusively" part of that sentence. I've already shown you how millennials benefit from Obamacare. Your note about young people subsidizing over-60s is a red herring. Over-65s are already on Medicare and it's pretty good. Why wouldn't millennials want that for themselves?

Most people don't understand taxes and money - this isn't specific to any particular age group. And frankly, as I've opined elsewhere on this site, retirement savings laws particularly are overly complicated for nearly everyone.
Wow, you're really picky.
You mean if CO2 is not causing a global warming?

And you don’t think global warming will eventually cause an economic slowdown at Covid19 or worse levels, permanently? I’m not so optimistic.
If no other DRM has withstood for 300+ days before being cracked, then it seems pretty useless. Yay, it worked for one title. I think we can all agree CSS was pretty useless. This stat makes it sound like AAA game DRM is about as easy to crack. At least it's not as bad as the master key leaking for Blu-ray.
I was curious so I ran the Tim Allen on til it couldn't find a face anymore (4 times): https://imgur.com/d1FlNVh
New MrbMiner malware has infected thousands of MSSQL databases
The LeetCode Effect
There was a time you could write a hobby graphics engine over a few months.

This is incredible.
Often this video processing software wasn’t ready by the Superbowl, and this electronic voting software wasn’t completed by election day.

You don’t get sacked, you just get to work on the next death-march project. And for your two examples, it might be punted to the next Superbowl or election.

Hard deadlines are not often deadly.
Anyone interested in making an open source dating app?
In practice the number of simulated scenarii is quite large which is what I meant by "every". Not rigorous though, I concur.

Monte Carlo methods are used to solve partial differential equations, I found both approaches similar in the sense that they look at how the system actually/could behave, instead of looking at the equations solely.
"Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch". I would be pessimistic of the magnitude of this statement.

I do a significant amount of text engine work and I'm skeptical what they implied by this. The likely case is they glued together other solutions (Like HarfBuzz/FreeType/etc) and expose their own API on top of that. This is perfectly acceptable and even encouraged for accessibility reasons. It may be that CoreText isn't acceptable for their use case.

What I think this would be misinterpreted as them writing the whole stack from scratch. For example, shaping is part of layout and it would be monumental if they wrote their own shaper given even HarfBuzz, DirectWrite, and CoreText do not have complete coverage yet. Additionally, BiDi + line breaking + shaping has bugs even in Chrome on some edge cases.
I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings

Maybe this part will help:

"We have easily customizable key bindings"

I don't know if they can be customized to match Vim, but it might be too soon to write Nova off.
In my experience, indexing takes longer, but after that the autocomplete is actually instant, as opposed to VS code’s ‘lets wait 10 seconds to show you the hint you might want to automatically import this’.

I’m flipping between Jetbrains and VS code a bit, but Jetbrains is by far the superior experience.
There's certainly not just one type of mechanical keyboard. If noise is a problem, you likely had clicky switches or just a really noisy plate / keycaps. Yes, keycaps actually really determine a lot of the noise profile. XDA/DSA keycaps are pretty quiet.

Travel distance can also be adjusted, either with o-rings that are used as spacers (that also silence the switch), low profile switches (kailh has laptop-sized switches now) or simply finding a switch on which you wouldn't bottom out (either by making them heavier or by using tactiles with a light bump).

I have a 60% board with gateron yellows (mid-weight tier linear switches). Lubed and with double o-rings on the keycaps, it's one of the quietest keyboards I've ever owned, and the travel distance is very comfortable at about half of what these switches are intended to be (around 2mm).

If you're not much for building these things yourself and doing all the research, I can always recommend the HHKB.
That's pretty straightforward to DIY with the TMK firmware. Or even just with Autohotkey and your existing board; pick a key you don't use much (Caps Lock, right-Win, etc) and make it one of your meta keys.

Print your own keycap labels with Avery sheets for starters, and once you've got the layout nailed down, you can send off to have custom caps made by whatever process you like.
I know that at least Linux does support additional F keys beyond F12, since there used to be computers/keyboards that had them. I'm not sure how having more than 255 keys works out, though, I haven't looked into how USB HID handles it.
1 through 4 and 11 are table stakes, but I think most orgs are missing various bits from the other 7.
Single 4k screen @ 60Hz requires transfer rate of 3840x2160x3 bytes 60 times per second = ~1.5GB/s just to copy pixels without any logic applied.

Typical RAM module (DDR-266) in late 90s could only provide ~2.1GB/s, leaving almost no room to perform any compute on a single 4k screen, and simply insufficient to run two of them.

PC66 of early 90s could only do 0.5GB/s.

DDR3, commonly used now in integrated GPUs does 13GB/s.

What I am getting at, is that the task to just copy pixels to a screen became proportionally harder as RAM progressed forward (26x faster per module since 1990, 6.5x per module since 1999 vs 60x more work per screen since 1990 (256 colors), 10x per screen since 1999).

And that is just screen rendering. Same happened to source code, documents, images, everything.
Kubernetes Integration with Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline
I guess that depends on your definition of "hard". Will the world end if you don't meet that regulatory deadline? No. Will the company survive? Maybe. Will you lose your job? Maybe. Are there other jobs for you? Yes.
I'd be happy if you could try it, and give me any feedback!
A shame to see this comment greyed out for defending immigrants.
I interviewed with Arxan. I've been generally impressed with their stuff.
So you're suggesting that without Google specific proprietary apps and services that Android doesn't boot up and the phone can't be used with third-party apps?
I wish more people knew about Threema.
Definitely not just you. Instant migraine trigger over here.
Anyone else tired of this underlying form for IDEs? I get why the side toolbars make sense, from a space efficiency perspective, but the amount of information to take in is always overwhelming from a zoomed-out perspective, considering the whole app window. Why do app designers continue to force us to select what to focus on amongst a sea of visual stimulation? Make it hidden by default, and appear only when we want it!
I'm picturing piano-four-hands...
My mom moved in early feburary due to mental health issues, but it has been a huge help to have her around, and great for her mental health!
Commodore C65 Classroom Prototype
It's also completely against human nature, especially when it comes to raising kids. We have always lived in large groups and kids were nurtured by and brought up by many members of family, instead of just father and mother. It results in much healthier humans, who learned from all members of family, because who's to say that father and mother themselves only are best guardians? Not to mention the sheer amount of effort required to take care of a child, which was shared by much larger extended family or just tribe members. Today's nuclear family mostly brings mental issues and overburdens the parents in an unnatural way.
With a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of engineers involved in RDR2, they can afford it.
In which parallel universe is RDR2 not a universally acclaimed polished to the highest-standard gaming title?
A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings
They are referring to the quality tradeoffs that must be made when adding DRM to a game.

It adds overhead at the very least, and many games, Triple As included, have had game breaking faults due to shoddy DRM implementations.
Sketch too. I recently re-downloaded it and they said "You can download anything up to version [x]"
Detroit Techno Symposium – Woke Me Hard on Black Culture
Facebook's Infinite Office is a virtual office space for the WFH crowd
Just WOW!! just bought my copy..great idea to offer a discount for Coda 2 owners. Is just awesome!
VS Code is built with Electron, so making an iPad VSCode would require porting Electron to Safari (Apple doesn’t allow alternative browser engines on iOS) . That should be doable seeing as the VSCode ports to the web seem to work okayish on Safari, but it world be a pretty big undertaking.
Wouldn't g ctrl+] work for jumping to definition with a tags file?
As someone who's asked for that feature for 5+ years now from everyone I've met there, it doesn't seem like there's much interest internally at Dropbox to implement it. I know it can't be easy to do, but it's such a killer feature IMO that would totally revolutionize workflows.
There's some evidence that the DRM noticeably slows down the framerate of the game. Plus there's the bloat required to actually launch it (Rockstar Social Club)

The GTA V crack apparently trims away a lot of the fat and makes for a much less intrusive installation and a faster game (with better access to custom servers).
Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features, better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage...i could go on for awhile
The state of zero trust: A new normal for cybersecurity
What is “the 12 minute affiliate system” that everyone's talking about?
Full text:
The Justice Department ordered a digital news network based in the United States and owned by Al Jazeera, the media company backed by the royal family of Qatar, to register as a foreign agent, surprising a high-level delegation from Doha just as officials from the two nations met to strengthen diplomatic and economic alliances.

Al Jazeera suggested the move was part of a separate deal, signed on Tuesday and brokered by the Trump administration, in which the United Arab Emirates, a Qatari rival, normalized diplomatic relations with Israel. The Emirates ambassador to the United States said that was not true.

In a letter dated Monday that was obtained by The New York Times, the Justice Department said that AJ+, a network that primarily produces short videos for social media in English as well as Arabic, French and Spanish, engages in “political activities” on behalf of Qatar’s government and should therefore be subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Qatar, the letter said, provides the network’s funding and appoints its board of directors.

“Journalism designed to influence American perceptions of a domestic policy issue or a foreign nation’s activities or its leadership qualifies as ‘political activities’ under the statutory definition,” said the letter, which was signed by Jay I. Bratt, the chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division, “even,” the letter added, “if it views itself as ‘balanced.’”
This talk goes waaaay beyond the music. Incredible. Please listen to this all the way through.
AWS IAM is having issues again
This probably needs a better link, but the AWS status page shows everything up.

UPDATE: Status page now shows it
https://status.aws.amazon.com/#
There's also this wonderful book [1] covering similar ground for Ruby. An extract from a review gives a flavour:

"Ruby Under a Microscope" does something fairly ambitious. It attempts to write a system internals book in a language that non computer scientists can readily understand. While there are numerous code snippets and examples to try and examine, the ability to look at the various Ruby internals and systems and see how they fit together can be accomplished by someone with general skills and basic familiarity with programming at the script level (which for many of us is as far as we typically get). An old saying says you can’t tell where yo hare going if you don’t know where you’ve been. Similarly, we can’t expect to get the most out of languages like ruby without having a more clear idea what’s happening under the hood. It’s entirely possible to work with Ruby and never learn some of this stuff, but having a guide like "Ruby Under a Microscope” opens up a variety of avenues, and does so in a way that will make the journey interesting and, dare I say it, even a little fun.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-Int...
Are you saying you do not have an ego?
There isn't an official announcement but I wouldn't wait for one. The lack of updates coupled with the fact that Microsoft now owns GitHub indicates a very high likelihood that Atom development is practically dead.
The fact of using DRM is already an insult to their customers. Apparently they can afford insulting those who buy their games.
Oh, I mean I save the thing as an STL and then run a Python program on the commandline to do the conversion. I didn't even know that there was a provision for making that even easier.

It is unfortunate when I read the list of things they are doing to make the life of a hobbyist harder, because Fusion 360 has been pretty useful to me. They should just make it something you buy for $50. Would instantly pay.
Seems to have balanced out ok in RDR2.
Wow, ok, never thought of that as a possible hack. Relying on the fact you won't ever use the kj combination. I'll keep that in the back of my head thanks.
This is great. One of my side project ideas is to build an ANPR based app and 'social network' starting with basic tracking, I.e. you've passed this car 4 times before. I'm new to the ML world so still learning vut Do you think this is feasible to run in real time using CoreML on iOS?
I think HN is insulated from the stresses of growing up in the US today. I'm on the younger side and many of my friends felt tremendous relief when they moved away from their parents.

So I'm sure it's good for some, but don't discount the people who are feeling trapped right now.
> most of my fellow millennials seem to have completely forgotten the concept of "starter home" and assume that as soon as you turn 25 you should be entitled to a 4 bedroom house with a pool, huge yard, wonderful neighborhood, three-car garage, etc.

and elsewhere downthread

> But these days, millennials seem to think that they are automatically entitled to live downtown in a 4 bedroom, newly renovated/constructed house with full amenities next to the main park and hip shopping center and zero crime while on an entry level salary.

Sometimes one reads things and thinks it worthy of telling the other to fuck off. Do what you want.
Higher risk of dementia in English older individuals who are overweight or obese
Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features (polls, lists), better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage, higher-level walkie-talkie, ways to schedule messages, ways to send longer forms ("bursting the bubble"), sending rich text in messages,......
Nope. At least nothing trivial.