skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really bitter way of saying that Steam's been chugging along doing fine for some time now. Epic's store was never really a competitor until Sweeney starting getting itinerant over his royalties red herring, paying developers for exclusive launches, and giving away at least a game a week for something like a year now. It's still missing a ton of features compared to Steam (though one could argue how many of those features should stay missing), and it is slow as molasses.

Steam's only other potential competitor was GOG, and it seems those two have had a fairly friendly relationship over the years. Remember that Valve gives away Steam keys to developers and resellers at very little cost, and that there are thriving third-party markets because of that.

You could argue that they have been stagnant in terms of game development, but everyone knows that isn't exactly true since Alyx was released. I don't really know what state VR was in before its release but from this outsider's perspective it seems to have raised the bar considerably.

Save for GOG, the DRM war is effectively lost, and so I'd rather be living under Gaben's benevolent dictatorship than some of the other more corporate-minded masters.
How do you deal with the difference in common keyboard shortcuts / text selection with keyboard (i.e. option vs ctrl, command vs ctrl)? I also go back and forth between macOS and Linux and it always takes me 30 min to get the correct muscle memory back.
But a lot of the causes of car accidents ARE systemic!

"driving while 80 years old"

"driving while on 4 hours of sleep in the past 72"

"driving with the brake warning light on"

I'd count all of the above as "systemic", and bet that they cause a multitude of deaths. We just don't want to accept the societal and monetary cost to eliminate them. Others, like "driving while intoxicated", we penalize but still do not take more than superficial steps to combat. (Superficial from the perspective of aviation, at least)
I think you're talking about the second sentence in my post, when really that was just a joke. The main point was that it was probably done by someone looking to show an impact for promotion, which I don't think is a HN meme regarding google, like (n+1 chat apps, google eats your privacy, what will google deprecate next) are.
This seems like a fair summary of how Ted Wheeler and Portland/Oregon's government is handling demands: https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/01/portland-protest-end-...

The main criticism is that it is not enough or not fast enough. The bigger frustration is the fear that current policy changes are only to appease and not to fix the root issues.

For example, Wheeler only recently banned the use of tear gas: https://www.portland.gov/wheeler/news/2020/9/10/mayor-wheele... (note the date--6 days ago).

Another example, funding cuts were not seen as enough: https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-budget-15-m...

The most comprehensive list of demands, including updates to their status, can be seen here: https://www.reimagineoregon.org/policydemands
This reminds me of an article [1] I read a few years back which utilised OpenALPR.

[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-replicated-an-86-mil...
> This makes you question whey there are a million separate agencies instead of one large one.

Of the agencies the article mentioned, each of them did seem to have their own mission and set of security issues to address. Why would it be necessary to shift management of that to a seperate organisation? Standization is obviously very virtuous, but it’s usually at odds with specialization which seems like it would be required in some of these situations.

Anybody who’s worked in a large organisation knows the pain of one size fits all solutions handed down from executive management. It’s the same in the government, only orders of magnitude worse. For instance the army is obsessed with standization in its procurement pipelines. Any time it buys anything it wants to buy one thing that works for absolutely everybody (this is honestly their most important concern when it comes to procurement), and all of the people that end up using that equipment hate it. You always end up with a one size fits nobody solution.
Right, I should clarify. PG&E absolutely should have known about, and prevented, the specific situation that caused this fire, and the fact they didn't do so is a huge problem. However, the surrounding area is such a high fire risk that a fire almost certainly would have occurred even without this failure (which the thread mentions: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1306377626487894017), and so the specific cause of the fire seems almost irrelevant to me. Even if PG&E did spend billions more on maintenance, and fix their inspection procedures, I don't see how this area would ever be safe, and so focusing on the power company as the source of the issue seems misguided to me.
I got interested in this and related research back in 2016 when I heard that Radiolab episode, and then went on to seek out 40 Hz tones on youtube, of which there are a great variety (other useful search terms are "Gamma", "Rife" and "Delta" tones), some "pure" and others with music underlying them or mixed with some other tones. I just sought out the "pure" ones, and sampled them for a while...

None of them seemed to do anything perceptable to me, except one...[1] (ignore the cheesy visuals and just listen to the sound). It made me feel indescribably weird, and I couldn't stand listening to it for long out of concern about what it might be doing to me.

This kind of experimentation has a lot of potential, but kind of like experimenting with newly designed drugs with which humans have had virtually no experience, it might be dangerous as the effects on the human brain are unknown.

Caveat emptor.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eTVW8VMRQ
Beautifully written and horrifying. Took me a few tries because it was so close to home.

I am one of those lucky dudes who was raped and beaten at a very young age and gaslit in many of the same ways as she describes. Ended up with what they now call body dysmorphia.

If you aren’t raised that way then how she reacts to bad situations probably feels nonsensical at best and alien at worst. But when you’re assured from a very young age that your grasp of reality is fundamentally wrong then it’s easy to derive whole chains of logic where each successive choice compounds earlier bad decisions.
"rsync.net isn't a viable solution. For example you can't host images, videos, software updates, machine learning datasets or other large binaries and serve them over HTTP on the public internet."

Correct. We don't do these things and we never will.

When you 'nmap' an rsync.net storage array, you get:

22 TCP

... and that's it. There are no other services running, or offered. There are no interpreters in the environment. The filesystems are mounted noexec,nosuid.

We do one very simple thing and that's it.
According to one of the TFB comments they're for the IRS Criminal Investigation division.
The anti cheat R6 using is Battleye instead of EAC.

And the reason anticheat did not works with wine is mostly because they use kernel modules, which you obviously can't run a windows kernel module on linux kernel.

If you run it in a VM, most of them will just fine with it.

(But the Battleye will give you a big "fxxk you")
My brother-in-law is a plumber. Guess what? All of his buddies are in the trades. My mom was a school teacher. Guess what? All her friends were school teachers. When I was a software developer, I ran in circles with a lot of other tech people. Now that I'm in real estate, we hang out with a lot of other real estate agents (especially given that my partner was formerly in real estate and all her closest friends were in the business too).

Point being - for a good many people, given well-documented challenges of making adult friends, our work / industry creates a natural social circle.

Our best friends from outside those work circles came from when she ran an AirBnB back in the day and met people from all over the world.
> multiplication by a non-constant value is hard with an analog computer

Researching this topic also qualifies you to write technobabble for sci-fi movies. Like "operational trans impedance amplifier."
If you have to whip up R to confirm your social immaturity, what hope is there to break out of the shell and experience life's diversity? But you can be glad for the friends you have anyways.
Good article. It probably also helped that the Taiwanese Vice President at the time at former Minister of Health is a epidemiologist who worked at Taiwan's national research academy "Academia Sinica" before.
Good advice, but this rant is about the tool not the domain ownership though.

You can own your own domain and use Wordpress self-hosted, then find they updated the UI constantly as you upgrade it keep it up to date for - you know - security.

The only way to get the level of control long term is probably sadly a static site generation kind of a thing.

There was a HN post about "software that is no longer changed but still used" as I am paraphrasing and this is an interesting idea.

A GUI blogging platform that ends it's life and stays as-is forever would be cool, even if it lack funky features, maybe you enter the HTML yourself.
The indie scene makes games at lower prices, but at much lower budgets. I love Celeste, but I also really enjoy games like Tomb Raider and Quantum Break which just need higher production values in order to be fully realized.
I really don’t see how you expect to stop this realistically. This is the modus operandi of stakeholders at every organization.
Exactly my thoughts. Note-taking should be a solved problem, but for some reason it isn't, yet. I'm loving this note-taking app renaissance, because in a few years we'll converge to something stable.

It's quite similar to the proliferation of code editors from 2005-2015ish. For a while, practically every language had its own IDE (for me, I remember using HaXe and FlashDevelop). Then, editors like Atom and Sublime came along, raising the bar. For the past five years or so, seems to be the default. The excellent extension system allows people to worry about features, rather than re-creating the IDE.

When it comes to note-taking, I expect the same thing to happen--we just need a good, open-source foundation. I fully expect that the winner will be a wrapper around ProseMirror [1]. See also ReMirror [2]

[1] https://prosemirror.net/
[2] https://remirror.io/
Due to the insane reach of the US and the political pressure they put on other countries, I suspect there are few countries where this specific pesky law doesn't exist.
If California doesn't like PG&E making $550M profit, and would like PG&E spend more on maintenance, it should set lower profit target, and allow PG&E spend more money on maintenance. PG&E operates based on decisions of California Public Utilities Commission, which decides, among other things, how much money PG&E is allowed to make, and how much it is allowed to spend on maintenance. Here's what it looks like: https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M102/K...

PG&E would love to spend more money on maintenance. It doesn't cut into their profits, because their expenses and profits are set by state government commission anyway. Of course, the government commission has some incentive to keep the rate low, to make citizens happy, which makes it limit how much money PG&E can make and spend.

The above is not meant to imply that if PG&E worked like any normal company, they'd maintain their shit better -- I have no idea if they would. However, in the current regime, where CPUC exercises so much control over what PG&E does and how much money it makes and spends, the blame cannot be solely placed on PG&E side.
I think of it more as people needing to work more hours overall just to afford the same lifestyle.
Study Reveals 11% of US Millennials, Gen Z Believe the Jews Caused the Holocaust
Tangent: All of these agencies also have firefighting crews.

I learned this 19 years ago at ground zero.

I saw a guy with FBI bunker gear on. I saw another guy with NTSB bunker gear on. There was a guy with US Secret Service bunker gear on.

Who knew ?
Agreed. A keyboard is fine for hammering out thought that's already relatively structured, rote notes on a subject, or for thoughts I've worked out to some extent already. For me, pen and paper are leagues superior for any kind of thinking that requires creativity or delving into the unknown.
Thanks for the detailed post. Really helps newcomers like myself.

One of the benefits as a new user of k8s is the ability to grab a helm chart to get me most of the way with something like ELK. I want to go the way of Kustomize but can't seem to find the same with it?
It's great that pen+paper works so well for you! I hope you can understand that other people have different workflows, and would prefer something like a personal wiki to organize their thoughts. The recent surge in note-taking apps is all centered around this idea.

For me, I like to save URLs and write a short note about everything I read. Typing is much quicker than hand-writing, and I can easily embed images / math / etc..
So for east coast you would say go Ohio?
This is just a Chrome specific thing, right?
We had a DEI workshop at a previous workplace. The presenter suggested that {minority group members} typically don't feel comfortable speaking up in meetings, so I kept track of how many times each person spoke and got interrupted.

Then halfway through, I proposed an experiment -- for the rest of the meeting, we leave a full second, by the clock, between when one person finishes talking and the next person starts. The presenter thought that would be interesting so we tried it. I tracked which people spoke after that (and how many times the rule was violated).

If you ever try this experiment, be aware that maintaining a 1 second silence is very uncomfortable.

The results were pretty unexpected, but perhaps the most surprising thing (although it shouldn't have been surprising in retrospect) was that the group that benefitted the most in this experiment -- most underrepresented in the meeting before, and proportionately represented after -- was a minority group whose existence wasn't even mentioned once in the entire DEI presentation. Can you guess who it was?

That's right: English-as-a-second-language immigrant employees, who were fluent but needed an extra ~0.25s more than the native English speakers to compose their thoughts. Coincidentally this group was mostly composed of {members of groups classified as majority by more common axes of classification}, who unlike other {members of their group}, almost never had their voices heard in meetings because they were ESL.
I'd hardly consider the Index and Half-Life Alyx to be "nothing innovative"
Why is that? Isn't the taptic engine just a miniaturized vibrating unit?
I have Corona
Have you ever encountered any DRM using M/o/Vfuscator (compiler that only produces mov instructions) or REpsych (psychological warfare against reverse engineers)? The DEF CON talk about REpsych is pretty hilarious and worth watching.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych
It's instructive to consider the alternative. Many US towns expand in a dendritic pattern by branching cul-de-sacs off of interconnecting roads. By contrast pre-Westphalian cities were always built within convex hulls for defensive purposes. These shapes were imitated by early grid-planned US towns built by capitalist pioneers, but after the introduction of the automobile those towns were soon surrounded by irregular additions.

The convex hull is clearly superior in a fire-prone forest, because it permits the introduction of a fire-break. However, it requires us to, from a top-down perspective, decide that we will build a new entire town. We are reluctant to commit to building towns in forests, even though we are equally reluctant to ban people from living in forests.

In this situation we have the worst of both worlds: ad-hoc development is subsidized by the "surplus value lying around" when the government pays to build a road/powerlines/etc between two places, but it ultimately depletes that resource and creates new demands which must be fulfilled by the government.
Right, and it also outlines how records were not kept up-to-date. I would be interested to know what has happened since then. What type of records are being kept now? it seems likely that with today's technology we can use something to keep an eye on these things without sending people in as often too. Perhaps we can use cameras or drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics - "Biological technique that involves the use of light to control neurons that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels. "

Pic -
https://www2.technologyreview.com/player/07/03/Mice/images/1...
It likes to point the eyes in different directions
That’s exactly right. I had a similar (but different) experience when I first stayed in Europe: I lived in a building that was built in the 1300’s and had changed very little since. I was astonished that anything that old could (a) still be around, (b) still be an ordinary use building. Surely the building should be a historical monument! But in fact most of the city was similarly old and there wasn’t really anything special about the building I lived in.

At the time it was hard for me to imagine anything being that old, as (growing up in the US Midwest), things built in the 1920s were the oldest I’d ever seen and were considered ancient. I look back now and realize they were only one lifetime old (at the time).

Culturally, Americans have this idea that their stuff is shiny, new, and “the best.” But this is actually out of date, and in fact as a country we are entering a new phase where for the first time the majority of infrastructure is old and wearing out, and the critical mass of old stuff that needs to be fixed is much larger than the amount of new stuff that needs to be built.
Also the display moved from OLED to LCD, which is going make darker scenes a bit harder. Wonder if they will move the UI to a lighter scheme to compensate?
I modified some of our IAM policies earlier this afternoon, followed by the pages that some of our teams were having IAM issues, caused me great discomfort
Netflix stopped allowing subscriptions via IAP in December 2018.
That the night-shift mode right? I've been using it for almost 2 years I think. I have the same settings on my iPhone and macbook pro
or draft imessages dissappearing or not saving when flicking between various other apps.
The High Cost of Any Mistake in Hardware Project
Just to note, it is possible for an academic who is not part of a group to interview many members of the group, and combine other sources of information, and end up knowing more about "the experience" of that group than most individual members of that group. Because it's not a single experience.

It is even possible that, say, the black son of a black doctor, raised in a rich neighborhood, knows less about the plight of blacks in ghettos than the white son of a white janitor, raised in a ghetto with lots of blacks—even if the latter made no deliberate study. One could also consider Africans who immigrated to the United States as adults. They do have the experience of being a certain race, but that may not imply nearly as much as people seem to think. (In fact, I would hazard a guess that the members of "marginalized groups" that do get hired for the highly professional jobs that diversity advocates talk about, are very disproportionately likely to have come from well-off backgrounds, and to have no direct ghetto experience.)
The fact that the courts cannot accommodate an organization like amnesty international should be be concerning.

It's appropriate for the court to take steps necessary to ensure not just a fair trial, but the apparence of a fair trial.

If you fail to ensure the apparence of a fair trial, you undermine the court.

It saddens me that the court can't ensure a trial that is beyond criticism, especially in a case this controversial.
It gives serious credibility to people claiming this is a sham trial. Because a fair trial should go out of it's way to also appear fair.
The problem with the mandatory diversity training is that it does very little to win hearts and minds. Refuse to go, dare to say anything that isn't 100% in support of it etc. and you will be targeted to be purged from the organization and possibly publicly tarred and feathered.

Sure, some people, who tend to respond better to negative re-enforcement will be convinced to change their ways using that technique. That said, an arguably larger number of people will respond better to the carrot. Thus, they won't be convinced via the negative re-enforcement, but do not want to lose their job, be put on a secret whisper network "do not hire" list etc.. So, they pretend to play along and then find groups of people where they can let their hair down. It is not un-like the secret clubs that would break off from super conservative church groups to do some drinking (which usually ended up as binge drinking), speak easy's during prohibition, underground sex clubs etc..

Many of those groups experienced a litany of un-intended consequences from rigid views about alcohol, sex etc.. Un-surprisingly, the same appears to be happening with diversity efforts as well.
Or, you could be responsible and say 'hey, we have no documentation for this power line and it's 90 years old. Our knowledge of materials science say this should have worn out. Let's be proactive and replace things'.

You don't need to physically inspect every item to be safe, here. You rely on precaution, standard shelf life, and operational procedures.

If that's difficult, so be it. That's the price people pay for choosing to live in the sticks. This should all be accounted for.

You think that hospitals inspect every item every 3 months? Hell no. A lot of things have lifecycles and it's just replaced because that's the tolerance, and it's safer in the long run. PG&E should be the same.
If the author added “male” to the criteria, the percentage would be something like 18%.
I already have a decent amount of experience with Linux internals, but my next project is far less ambitious in scope: simply reverse-engineering the Android-based firmware on a Huawei router and creating a drop-in replacement.

There is a lot of foundational hacking to be done around the Oculus standalone headsets. I don't believe the headsets have yet been cracked to unlock the bootloader to launch unsigned firmware.

It's probably worth moving discussion over to a forum and Wiki dedicated to such reverse engineering efforts (such as XDA developers) [1]

I do think that now is the time for such a project, and that crowdfunding has changed the economics to make this possible in a way that it never has been before.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/mobile-vr/oculus-quest
Man, I haven't thought about Myst in a long time. I remember playing the remastered edition on my dad's computer and being transfixed by how beautiful it was, despite being a bit too young to grok all of the puzzles. It seems fitting that it will be remastered again for VR.
I own this. Great book. Someone should write the Python equivalent.
theory: silkroad dpr, as sloppy as his opsec was, was parallel construction
There is a project from my former professor (?) and electrical company: use drones + cameras with specific filters to capture variation of temperature, wear and debris in towers.
Yes, PGE did cause a fire through negligence. That's a problem. However, what is the appropriate penalty for this?

In my opinion, it is the average cost of a fire, most of which are small and don't cause much damage.

That this particular fire blew up into a big disaster was the result of many factors, only a few of which were actually in PGE's control.