skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes from a lot of places. Voter records is actually a big source, but also I believe some of the various breaches have made it in. And all of those sites continuously crawl each other and trade databases as well.

I had my identity stolen and after a lot of research I determined they were able to gather the info from all of these public sources. I have been trying to scrub myself from them for 3 years now. It's like playing whack-a-mole. Some are quick to delete, only to pop right back up again months later. Some just don't respond. Some require physical mailed requests. A few are openly hostile. You need to submit forms with google to get search results cache updated for each page.

You also need to clear "associates" such as spouse, parents, children because your info appears on their profiles as well. Tedious process!

I believe the best defense is to have a common name or create a ton of spoof info to confuse them.
Alternate headline: Coding, it's just translating.
I doubt this. Microsoft has spent last years integrating PC gaming under XBOX brand too. E.g. XBOX Game Pass for PC, or adding controller support etc.

They even promote so called "Xbox Play Anywhere", and tried to make it normal for the new XBOX so that you can buy a single game and play it on PC and XBOX. However the gaming studios haven't yet to my knowledge approved it fully so they want to sell you the game twice.

After all the PC gaming benefits Microsoft too.
Short answer, yes. The concept of "foreign governments" is very US-centric. This tracking is not a US-only concept and the connection of these data points is already being used in non-US markets by companies which cross these boundaries. The only differences with each market is the number of signals available for capture. For example one party operating in the US is capturing DNS activity while in Brazil they are capturing telecom data.
If I’m a “criminal” who sells weed, and my sister is raped and killed, I don’t think prosecution is the “root of all evil”. I’m not sure your point makes sense unless breaking one law makes you oppose all laws somehow.

I mean it’s illegal in many places to blaspheme against the local religion, let’s not pretend that all laws are just and all criminals are depraved immoral beings.
The concern with his botched technical statement is not one of technology, it is a concern of managerial competence. It is perfectly reasonable for a CEO to not understand technical details. A sloppy statement like this brings into question whether it was made out of arrogance, overconfidence, or incompetence. A good leader will understand their own limits of technical understanding and will defer to subordinates when appropriate.
Haha, that exactly describes my experience also. At the time I thought it was due to a language barrier - that my english wasn't good enough (2nd language) but I guess it's the book. Definitely a unique piece of work, at the very least.
They will definitely also release on Windows PCs. But that meaningless corporate speak doesn't really confirm that they will stay true multi-platform and release games on PlayStation and Switch as well.
And here it lays the paradox. All the tools you have mentioned have little to do with programming (one individual solving problems by writing code). The tools you mentioned have to do with software engineering (a bunch of individuals solving problems by writing code, plus a bunch of constraints).

The joy is in programming, not in software engineering. At least that's how I interprete the GitHub comment (and all these stories about developers that cannot take it any more and burn out).
I'll raise you:

"It's called Rebo and it's the first bottle that cleans the planet as you drink. One Rebo drunk is one plastic bottle collected as simple as that. Rebo is a smart bottle equipped with a laser time-of-flight sensor and a Bluetooth transmitter that measures and senses the water you drink. The Rebo the app captures the information and records it into the blockchain transforming it into green credits that sponsor the collection of plastic bottles every minute."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KupJgVupEtk
waiting for announcement that facebook or netflix is buying valve for an undisclosed $30b
From the linked article: "According to the woman concerned, there was never any rape. And not only that: The statement of this woman was retrospectively rewritten by the Stockholm police without her involvement in order to somehow turn up a suspicion of rape. I have all the documents before me, the emails, the SMS."
I not sure why you mention 40 somethings being still able to walk in the mountains. That seems pretty normal for my peer group, but I agree that might not be the case for others. My dad was able to do fairly strenuous days in the mountains easily in his 70s and goes hillwalking and fishing in his early 80s still. I don't really have a handle on how normal this is as most of my friends are kind of similar (UK based, but I know quite a lot of people overseas too)
could they do something about the snake-oil peddlers everywhere online these days? ...and blockchain/crypto won't be transformative until they ditch the deflationary obsession: it's all a Ponzi scheme! if you want people to use the "Distributed Economy", don't build tools for hoarders. ...and don't keep changing the protocol all the time(it kills adoption -- because there's no way spend it, at least not legally: no services).
From now until acquisition, the language internally will be 'we have our own identity within Microsoft' and then 3 to 6 months later, there will be these offhand remarks from senior management about how nameless other employees are confused about their place in the company. Then within 1 year, there will be an email about how the CEO has decided to eleviate the confusion among the staff and unite the company under one name. And that name surely won't be Bethesda.
The Outer Worlds had already entered a publishing deal with Private Division before Microsoft acquired Obsidian, and Minecraft was already a released product.. I wouldn't hold your breath given that Obsidian's upcoming titles Grounded and Avowed are both Xbox/Windows 10 exclusive.

It's possible they'll think on Fallout, TES or other franchises that already have a long history on Playstation being available there.. but I doubt it.
That's...a little off. I started out writing programs on my school's Commodore PET around 40 years ago.

Some people might regard me as grizzled, I guess.
Coincidentally, they're all games that work very well on Linux.
Todd has zero power to make that promise. In my opinion it’s irresponsible to make the claim.
Xbox won't even mean the same thing then as it does now.

Would a platform agnostic game only available on the Xbox online store count as "exclusive to xbox?" What if it required an Xbox Live/GamePass subscription for significant features - but not everything? Or they introduced super-skewed pricing ($100 for ES6 w/ no sales vs. included with GamePass)?

My concern isn't that this won't be true (at the very least, they release everything for Xbox on PC anyway), it's that the platform will evolve so much that console lock-in won't matter, so the promise will elide the real concern.
Interesting. I just got openrave working on my machine this weekend. As someone completely new to the realm of robot simulation it's nice to see this on the front page.
Hmm. There's some more information here: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/portbanning.

I'm up-voting your original comment because it does seem like a potentially valid concern, at least worthy of discussion, and shouldn't be down-voted in my opinion.
I'm not entirely sure the world is getting worse, but I am certain that it's becoming more complex.

And when the finite cognitive capacity of every human being must manage that complexity just to survive (let along propser), it sure feels like it's getting worse.
Not even GPT-3 could be this nonsensical.
I have a (unverified) hypothesis that the root cause is government spending: government spending -> inflation -> need for high returns on investments -> investor pressure -> growth -> advertising -> need for attention -> sensationalization.
The worlds best chicken incubators!
The fixed IPv4 was a key matter when I signed up. Particularly that they offered /29s, though that is less important now that SNI is almost universally supported and due to physical line issues over the last year or few (and wanting >17Mbps upstream) I've moved most of the public bits I hosted (literally) in-house to external locations.

The question of IPv6 and fixed IPv4 is fun to raise when sales robots talk about matching other ISP's offerings. The irritating one is when they say "I'm sure we can..." and persist when I say "I know for a fact your consumer product range does not offer that".
This is a pretty decent overview of IPv6 on a home network. Here are some other things I learned when doing something similar recently on my home network (except the router is a FreeBSD box).

- You can run `dhclient` interactively to learn the size of the prefix your ISP delegates. The OP touches on this, but the solution is OpenWRT-specific. Most distributions include `dhclient` or have it packaged.

- It’s possible that the IP your ISP assigns your router is in a different prefix from the prefix it delegates to you. For example, my ISP for a while assigned an IP in 2607::/16 while delegating a /56 prefix in 2605::/16.

- Prefixes can also change. When I switched my router to FreeBSD, I started getting a /56 prefix in 2607::/16 instead of 2605::/16.

- Some systems (e.g., Windows 7) don’t support getting DNS via router advertisements. If you want to support them, you need to run a DHCPv6 server and advertise that other stateful configuration is available.

- Kea is the successor to the ISC DHCP server. I found it a bit nicer and more flexible to configure.

- On Linux, NetworkManager and systemd-networkd handles a lot of this stuff automatically, but your customization options are limited. I couldn’t find a way to do the above without having to do things manually myself.

- FreeBSD’s DHCP client in base does not yet support DHCPv6. To get an IP and a prefix, you need to install one from ports. I’m using dhcp6c, following this guide[1] to set it up.

- ICMPv6 is integral to IPv6, but if you want to filter it, follow the advice in RFC-4890. Filtering ICMPv6 incorrectly will mess up your network in weird ways (e.g., my MBP could get an IP but wouldn’t get a DNS server until I fixed the problem).

- IANA maintains a registry[2] of IPv6 multicast addresses. I found this helpful when writing firewall rules.

- When advertising LAN services over DNS, make sure you use the “secure” or “template” IP and not the temporary IP used for IPv6 privacy. Also, you can’t assign domain names to link-local addresses, but you can advertise a DNS server (via RA and DHCPv6) on one.

- mDNS is the exception to the above. Avahi and Bonjour advertise link-local address and are able to resolve them properly.

[1]: https://vladvasiliu.com/post/20180827-0922-ipv6_prefix_deleg...

[2]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ip...
This is an attack on Vulkan, since Bethesda were very strongly pushing it. Guess what MS will tell them to do now. No doubt more Xbox and DX-only stuff.

So it's a lock-in move and again something that should have been stopped by anti-trust, but of course, it's non existent these days.
Or if you don't care about the tools and just used what you already know or like.
When Airplanes and Zeppelins Competed to Conquer the Skies
unshankable.com - A web series about a prisoner who gets moved from prison to prison, never getting shanked.
Alternatives to natural aging in new oak barrels definitely exist but at this point they are still very much a novelty, at least in the bourbon market. To the best of my knowledge none have succeeded in creating the depth of flavor in the realm of 8+ year bourbons.
What are you referring to? Maybe it's different abroad, but this untouchability isn't present in the US, where journalists quite regularly express support for Assange. The New York Times is on record calling the effort to prosecute him a "strike at the very foundation of the free press".
900k active presumably includes the 50% of Deathmatch players that are zombies?

It's interesting to see there seems to be some evolutionary pressures at play as a couple of new routines are being used, not just 'rotate on the spot', one or two shoot now (yes, I got shot by an XP farming zombie) and one does epicycles which makes them surprisingly hard to shoot.
> Everything in the Hindenburg Report could have been exposed without the Company going public.

Yes, but it went public and that gave someone the incentive to expose it. The fact that this stuff wasn't exposed earlier is a failure of the private markets, not the public
Now that I have read all the responses in this thread (thank you!) and done some more digging of my own, here are a few more insights I have picked up as a Java-outsider / newbie:

- The current release of Java Standard Edition (SE) is 15; but many applications are still using version 8 or something in between.

- The enterprise version (EE) of Java is now called Jakarta and part of the Eclipse foundation [0] Focus on Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Docker ...)

- naming schemes: Java 1.8 is just Java 8, Java 1.11 is Java 11 etc.

- the versioning cadence of Java has changed with version 10 (in 2018) from "every few years" to "twice a year", that's how we got to version 15 in such a short period of time.

- The officially recommend way to build Android apps today is in Kotlin, but there is still support for Java.

- The JDK is used for developing apps in Java, the JRE just to run those apps. The two seem to be converging: everybody just downloads the JDK. The JDK contains a debugger, a shell, a document generator a compiler etc.

- OpenJDK: the project containing the Java source, is available in two builds OpenJDK and OracleJDK (the difference seems to be in commercial support from Oracle, not in code / functionality). Oracle is the primary contributor to OpenJDK [1][2]

[0] https://jakarta.ee/

[1] https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/a-guide-to-java-versions-...

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/faq/
As a current CS student on his last year, I've heard this a lot and it's taken some time to come to terms with. I've always seen people saying they can get work down by their work, which was really scary to me at first. How could I ever become tired of the think I've loved most since I was 8?

Yet, this happens to everyone, including me to a small extent during my last internship. I think everyone can grow tired of anything given enough of it, and I think coming to terms with that is easier for some than others.

I've mentally prepared myself to branch out into different pastimes, and for some reason, it seems we all land on wood working.
Almost everything in the section "Benefits of Tor over I2P" is about the size of the network. Technically I2P is more secure, it just lacks users.

I2P allows to increase the number of hops to any value.
Who takes the hit when the demand projections are off?
In a serious note, Woodworking is a great rewarding craft. It bears the same builder mentality, creating physical objects via reduction manufacturing and most importantly, you build for yourself and for the people that you care about.
Of course, all of that is subjective worldview. The article is entirely about subjective worldview and how it changes with the language the author is using.

There is nothing on the article claiming that it even generalizes to other people, but my experience is the same, and I guess most people upvoting it agrees.
He's taking the ball and running with it
I’ve been building software for around 20 years. It’s more enjoyable to me than it has ever been. One of the reasons is I have my own playground repo + site where I put all my experiments and write whatever I want.

I can now make more in a day than I could have made in a year 15 years ago.

In the past few months, I have:

- built a serverless website/ code playground that enables me to host all my experiments and costs me essentially nothing
- parsed the original zork code into typescript and then made a zork style game for my family
- made about 5 educational mini games for my kids
- learned how to do systematic math proofs with the lean language
- created a serverless and database-free user data storage service on aws
- created a serverless websocket service and a real time party game on aws.

This morning I started building a serverless mesh-like network on top of websockets and webrtc to further reduce infrastructure dependency.

Oh yeah, last year I was part of a corporate competition to build and program a self-driving RC car.

Now, of course, I do most of this on my own time by getting up at 4:30 so it doesn’t interfere with my family and my work - and at work I sometimes have to do boring tasks - but that’s life.

If you aren’t having fun, you simply are not playing with all the technology we have at our fingertips.
Every single day this is posted there is a raft of comments that either use ad hominems to attack the source without addressing what it had to say or red herrings (e.g. why does X think they should be given one of the only 5 spots made available to see the trial that affects everybody).
Ye. You get Fallout 760 but with more spyware.
This film was not made for you. Techies like us have been up to speed on these topics for years, but most people have not.

Many people might have a creeping feeling that something is wrong in the world of social media, but almost none understands the actual mechanics of an algorithm and what it can do when applied on a global scale. This film is made for them, and judging by the reactions to the movie from non-tech people around me, it has had a profound effect and made them reflect deeply about their use of social media.
From their message, it's not clear to me how COVID-19 is to blame for the layoffs. Especially in Taiwan, since Taiwan has been among the best in the world[1] at handling the pandemic and is doing relatively well.

Did Google reduce their payments in the new search deal because people search less when they work remotely due to COVID-19?

Did Mozilla reduce investment in tooling because developers' need for tools is reduced by COVID-19?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En
True. And another reason to worry. Microsoft at large may be less linux-hating than it once wase, but Microsoft games have never been linux-friendly and show no substantial moves in that direction of late.
ChargePoint, the EV charging infrastructure company, is going public
And this is why bag of words models do not work.
I guess you can’t mark something they didn’t report as fake or misleading.
at least that CSI scene still makes sense and is possible!
Nintendo isn't really helpful to understand the greater market.

Most developers don't work with them, and their customers represent a tiny less "gaming educated" population. It's like using cellphone games as a gauge on the greater market.
I don't need to worry about many many trivial things I had to worry about before these tools, and now I can actually work on the problem I'm trying to solve almost immediately.
Is the entire world to be run by a few companies? Amazon Alibaba Microsoft Huawei Apple Tencent?
Do large companies basically create an “eggs all in one basket” risk?

If the market supplied by Amazon was instead supplied by 10 smaller companies, the attack surface would be higher but the impact would be lower, right?

Feels like large corporations could be seen as a national security risk (and not just “guns and ammo” security but “economic stability” security)
Looks good, if I ever revisit this with a newer pi, I will use it.
You could make the argument that because of Steam having such reach / monopoly on the PC gaming market, Steam (and by extension Valve) is effectively the publisher of games like that, and a very large one at that. There's GoG that mostly focuses on vintage games, and Epic that spends tons of money to get (timed?) exclusives on indie games + free handouts, but I'm not sure how well it's working for them to get market share.

But granted, the indie game market (and mid-sized publishers like Paradox) are super important right now to fight against the AAA / massive budget game devs and publishers.

Mind you, ID has been a bit of an underdog for a long while; their games are / were good, but did not become crazy big like their EA / Activision counterparts; the 2009 Wolfenstein sold poorly ("only" 100K units in the first month); The New Order, its sequel, did a lot better (400K sold in about a month and a half), and Doom 2016 was a hit.
Why Your UX Plan Must Start with Information Architecture
Recent thinking is that Hot Venus is a relatively new phenomenon, possibly within the past billion years. Its previous incarnation would have been more hospitable to familiar forms of life.

https://zenodo.org/record/1253896
I've never owned a motorcycle but their content is incredible
In a conversation, the influence goes both ways: if you try to persuade me of a political point of view, I can do a number of things: (and whether these are valid or not, they will impact the flow of argument, and the success of the persuasion)

- I can suggest you're biased

- I can try to change the subject

- I can decide you're a bad person for holding the "wrong" views

- I can directly argue against your point

- I can attack the structure of your argument

- I can make an emotional appeal regarding why I must hold my point of view

- etc ....

In these and other ways, I can push back and modify how much I'm influenced by a one-to-one argument. I won't always be successful, for sure. But sometimes as well the persuasion go will go the other way, and I will influence you.

This is not true on social media because another power is dictating which one-to-one conversations may happen in the first place, and then loading the deck with idea before those one-to-one conversations even happen. Further, social media changes the scale of communications. If we worked together, and saw each other regularly, we could mediate each other's influence, place boundaries, etc. With social media, there is always a crowd of strangers: too many people converse with, know, and set boundaries with.

There are obviously other distinctions between one-to-one conversation and social media, but I particularly wanted to talk about the key differences here: lack of real back and forth, and scale.
This systems you just described are virtually infinitely scalable.

Lambdas expand infinitely, k8's can easily autoscale stateless docker containers out forever.

All for starting under a 500 dollars a month?

150$ for EKS, lambdas first X million are free, and are cheap as hell from there, cloud LB is 50 bucks a month, etc.

Not to mention all the other benefits that containers provide Infrastructure as Code, no dev environment incompatibility problems, etc..

That is UNHEARD OF historically.

I think you may have some rose colored glasses or I'm just idealistic and naieve, but it's insanely exciting what's possible for a small enterprise nowdays.

The problem nowdays imo is management. The business people have taken over tech instead of tech people running things. And people without knowledge of tech, running a tech shop always makes the job suck.
Rockstar is owned by Take Two Interactive. TTWO's entire market cap (including Rockstar and 2K) is about half of EA.
somebody with integrity would just admit they dont know the tech, but point out that he has trusted techies who _do_ know.
Sktime contains a handful of standard tools and models used for time series analysis and machine learning.

Prophet contains one specific model developed by Facebook, which you will not find in Sktime.

You won't ever find something like Prophet in Sktime because it's a "higher level" model than anything in Sktime. The cleverness of Prophet is based largely on its automatic feature engineering, with a linear regression model underneath. Whereas a library like Sktime focuses on implementing specific models like ARIMA, and letting you do your own feature engineering.