skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's true, but the headline implies that there's something special about the Game of Life, when really that's just a handy, widely-known example of a problem to learn. I don't think there's anything particularly unique about the GoL in this regard.
I don’t think we need anything besides a hash and del.icio.us decentralized.
I think you are quite misunderstanding the point.

My point isn't that a chronological timeline fixes the problem of social media. My point is that if you are going to decide what is shown, you are making a choice, and should be responsible for that choice. It is no longer just the user's post - because you control its avenue, you are responsible for it and how it spreads, and becomes "your" speech, in this case, the algorithm's, and its company's.
> As of June 2017, the Google Play store hit 3 million apps by 968,000 developers, trumping the Apple App Store. In comparison, the Amazon App Store only has around 600,000 apps by 75,000 publishers, as of Spring 2016.

https://www.businessofapps.com/news/amazon-app-store-vs-goog...

Interestingly, there appears to be more revenue made per user on the Amazon store than on Google Play:

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re...
So this software would automatically flag cross eyed students and students with other disabilities.

> But a 2019 study involving 631 students found that test takers who felt higher levels of anxiety during exams performed worse, and that the cohort of students monitored by proctoring software felt more anxiety than those who weren’t.

What's next, will they give anti anxiety medication subscription to students along with the software subscription. Nothing surprises me anymore
This.

The other issue to contend with in his grandparents demographic is the perception of being deaf and being seen wearing such a big bulky item. Image consciousness is a large hurdle to overcome these

Great ingenuity but commercially it's hard to see it take traction
The Venn diagram for target audience and situational use cases of these services has always seemed very small to me.

At least the subscription model and game selection seems better than Stadia.

edit: Also, it seems to me like the target audience is for the same sort (and I’m not trying to denigrate) that watch movies on their TV with internal speakers or can’t fathom why you’d pay more than 30 bucks for headphones or earbuds. Some people just don’t care about the latency, hiccups, or compression artifacts. And that’s fine, but I’m not part of that group.
I saw that earlier when I was looking in my drive and I was surprised that the trash hung around forever before this change! 30 days seems like a reasonable amount of time for something to stay there. I guess I just assumed things don't last forever after I trash them. I think ios does the same thing in the photos app?
> There's the indie games, where great ideas are implemented on low budget.

+1 for this. The best game I recently played was Return of the Obra Dinn, which incredibly seems to have been an essentially one-man effort: Lucas Pope wrote the story, did all the programming, designed all the art, and composed all the music.

Big companies can push all the crap they want, but unless they find a way to stand between indie developers and their audiences, I think we can look forward to great innovative games for decades to come.
Rocket Internet may be a dubious company.

But as a rule of thumb: A public listed VC does rarely well.
I think this comment could have been more substantive. It appears that you’re trying to say that the opinions and knowledge of a 5-year employee can be dismissed without any consideration, due to these signs. Is it the rational position to dismiss people out of hand?

By the way, it may interest you to know that Hootsuite is a Vancouver-based company.
Data Observability: The Next Frontier of Data Engineering
What does this look like? Does the bank ask for receipts if a Chinese restaurant wants to be their customer? Do they stake out the restaurant to see whether the foot traffic levels correspond to the claimed revenues?
CNET asked him if he would donate to a Proposition 8 cause again. He said he hadn't thought about it and didn't want to answer hypotheticals.[1]

Eich claiming he wouldn't discriminate against anyone doesn't mean much. He also claimed stripping marriage rights from same sex couples wasn't discriminatory.

I think Eich should have thought about it in the intervening 6 years like many of his fellow Californians. He should have expected his promotion would be divisive since he got a preview of the backlash in 2012. He should have felt remorse for contributing to a campaign that demonized LGBT people even if he still believed they didn't deserve equality. He should have apologized. And he should have explained how he would be held accountable like he claimed he wanted.

I wouldn't want him to pretend to apologize if he didn't mean it. He should have expected the backlash though. He could have withdrawn from consideration and just been CTO.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-ceo-gay-marriage-firestorm...
There is just one tiny little thing missing - the license is not generic. I believe a big driver for success of FOSS licenses is that you don't need a lawyer to use them (either as a user or as developer). We are seeing quite a few businesses using these "Cloud Protection Licenses", but they would all benefit if they agreed on a single, well understood legal document (or at least only a few of them, all generic).

I wonder if Commons Clause was just too early?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I couldn't possibly disagree more with most of your sentiments, but I appreciate you taking the time to write them out. To discount the validity of "echochambers" and "group think" is a pretty dangerous strategy, I think. If you were to poll HN users on what programming languages are successful/worth using, as a topical example, you would (and do/have) get very different responses from, say, /r/java (which is an extreme example and also an echochamber, but kinda proves the point).

To then go on to suggest a "no true scotsman" example of nobility wrt pointing out echochambers is also a pretty dangerous sentiment. Pointing out an echochamber is an echochamber is almost so obvious it's barely worth noting - to suggest there is anything "noble" about being a part of and/or not being aware of an echochamber is silly. Messageboards are echochambers. We are here because we have largely similar interests, and the posts on this board are pretty generally related to those interests. Obviously it is an echochamber, and obviously as I am posting here I am a part of it. I'm not sure how that means it is also not worthwhile to sometimes point out/poke fun at the obvious echochamber we're both a part of.

Anyway, best of luck moving forward.
Having to deal with multiple stores would be strictly worse for developers than the current situation.
Whole reading this I kept thinking "what about dB migrations" and when I reached the end I was a bit disappointed. How do you really handle those?

As for docker, as someone who picked it up fairly recently (~3 yes ago), I think it will be useful for you during development and testing, but given your current deployment setup I think looking at ansible first might be a better time investment at this point.
Ask HN: List of features that a social network now-a-days should have?
Does I am the only feel that Twitter is a noisy place? I am thinking of the few features which would make social networking more fun, privacy focused and interesting to get in.
It seems to me that basically no cryptocurrency outside of Bitcoin has its shit together.
I don't get why this is so hard to understand. You keep putting forward a strawman of it being less entities, but that's missing the point entirely that it's still centralised, it being to a lesser extent does not negate that simple fact.
Not stadia but geforce now and I like it a lot.
Let's not also forget that there are a substantial number of conspiracy (or crackpot) theories are true, like MKULTRA's existence, Tuskeegee Siphilis experiments, Government experimentation on populations (radioactive tracers over wichita, and red yeast over san francisco), politically orchestrated break-in and theft of DNC information (twice!), using a polio vaccination program as a front for CIA surveillance, black sites and extrajudicial renditions, etc etc etc...
This comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581592 are obviously not cool. If you keep posting flamewar comments we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so can you please fix this?

Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154?
Less exciting, more accurate title for the article: "Some topics, like the Game of Life, can be modeled with a small neural network if you get lucky, but normally require a large one".

An example of why I am not the one writing article headlines.
> Rights still disallowed under Timescale License

[...]

> No right to distribute modified Source

> No right to distribute modified Binaries, unless as part of a Value Added Product

Yeah given these restrictions the license doesn't even come close to the spirit of Open Source and it's laughable that they suggest otherwise.

Of course, they're well within their rights to do this and I wish them the best of luck doing business with people who are willing to entertain the use of a proprietary database (a term I wish they would embrace for the sake of honesty), but personally I could never use or recommend TimescaleDB in good conscience.
Does anyone know the basic tech stack behind Luna? This landing page doesn't mention anything, and I'm dying to know if they're also going the Linux and Vulkan route of Stadia.
That is a much more interesting question than I originally thought!

You can plug into a happy room surrounded by your family and friends and it will be as though you are all together instead of thousands of miles apart. You can spend time with the children you miss, the grandchildren you hardly know, and it all comes for free.

You know that there will be commercials, of course, but that doesn't worry you too much. So what if every so often a handsome man comes in and tells you how delicious Coca Cola is? You've been around commercials before, you don't expect this time it will be much different.

But there are darker agencies at work. They suss out facts about your life, your joys, your fears, and they prey on them.

If you are a left-leaning person in a blue state they fill you with horror stories of religious fanatics who are determined to create a theocracy.

If you are a right-leaning person in a red state, they tell you of radicals who want to take away everything you've worked for and destroy everything you believe in.

It fits so neatly into what you already suspect that you never question it. Each new story becomes more and more outrageous, but you are a boiling frog at this point, you'll believe anything about 'the other side' no matter how outlandish.

So now you are a tool, a soldier, a person who can be manipulated in any way to support any cause as long as you believe that you are standing up to 'them'.

If it's not a PKD story, it should have been.

Should it be 'allowed'? I'll have to think on it.
Not a fan of Apple here, but my parents clearly prefer the Apple experience with IOS, even though they started with Android. I prefer Android, because I'm a developer and I don't need to buy a Mac, get a dev license and use specific IDE and compiler X or Z to develop and deploy an app on my Android device. But common people don't care about that.
Except the market will lack perfect information, likely not price in long-term environmental damage, and encourage wealth hoarding via the literal pooling of wealth. Then you'll get crazy speculation, with the markets experiencing adverse liquidity events resulting in spectacular splash crashes afterward.

Markets quite often do not help usher in eras of rationale and logic. A lot of that goes out the window when "there's money to be made".
I wonder if this wasn't done previously so that when a file is shared, if it is trashed, the person it was shared with still has access to it?
No, Social Media Isn’t Destroying Civilization
It's way safer and less complex than you would expect. Most staking contracts are a copy-paste of two basic staking contracts (from synthetix and sushiswap), so it's enough to do a text diff and see what was changed, which is trivial. For more complex contracts that do something more, funds at risk are the best bug bounty there is - in the current environment if something had >$10M for a month and wasn't hacked, it most likely can't be trivially hacked. Bzrx, the single most incompetent defi platform, was hacked just two weeks after a relaunch for $8M - most likely someone was waiting from the start for it to get enough funds to make the hack worthwhile.
Almost no hacks happened during the entire yield farming craze.

Key word trivially - some contracts are custodial, so if someone hacked the owners (or they turned out to be scammers) funds could be stolen, which arguably has a reverse Lindy effect in the beginning. Fortunately people are starting to demand at least timelocks and/or multisigs. Another risk is how well liquidations function during a price crash, for protocols that need them.

The current risk premium was and still is absurdly overestimated, but that was a good thing (for me) as without it three or even four digit APYs wouldn't last a day, but thanks to the unwarranted risk premium they lasted about 2 months. During the short peak three weeks ago it was possible to make even ~8% per day (on millions of dollars - good liquidity), completely risk free (trivial staking contracts). The great crypto bullrun of 2020 already happened and few outside of ethereum even noticed.

You will see billions flow into defi on ethereum as others realize the real level of risk too (which guarantees those astronomical returns are never going to return - but even 10% apy on dollars is good in the current environment).
As hardware engineer that does a hybrid software/hardware role on a team that uses sprint/scrum planning, I find it a terrible idea for a lot of applications. It is great for certain situations but I find the discussions more about what task we should do rather than what problems we should solve and the value added. If things are breaking on a product/project because you didn't know about some upstream or downstream interface, the company itself has an underpinning issue on transparency and ownership. I have rushed hardware projects (expensive mistakes) involving capital equipment (expensive) and everything interfaced correctly given the fact that the ownership and responsibilities were transparent with decent planning in the beginning.
In Neal Stephenson's most recent novel, Fall, a plot element is what could be described as a fake disaster which transforms into an ongoing dispute over who caused the (fake) disaster, and why the government is trying to cover up the (fake) disaster, and so on. Basically, the Moab event becomes a culture war touchstone, much like the child trafficking ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant. "Remember Moab" is the bumper stick version of this.
Will these new technologies impact consumer electronics?
As an aside, this article links to Wikipedia to insinuate that there's some ongoing problem with the OSI and it's likely to fade in importance. Wikipedia, in turn, mentions two recent problems. The first is that Bruce Perens left the OSI because they were considering approving a license that he thought wasn't open source - so this doesn't back up the idea that the OSI is too cautious with licenses and that the sentiment is shifting in the direction of accepting more licenses as "open source" than the OSI would want to.

The second is that ESR got banned from the mailing lists. If you believe his version of the story, it was because he spoke up in favor of keeping the OSD intact. If you believe the OSI's version of the story, it was because of his behavior. Yes, this was technically controversial (ESR seems to be extraordinarily good at having controversy follow wherever he goes), but again, neither interpretation backs up the idea that people want the OSI to be more liberal about licensing.

I think this Wikipedia section is all undue weight which could be justifiably removed, and I think it's weird that this post points to the (mutable) Wikipedia article to make its point.
> You cannot touch the sacred cow $60 game price. You can go lower, you cannot go higher.

Several AAAs for the upcoming gens are going higher.

https://www.businessinsider.com/video-game-price-increase-60...
Yeah lmao bring up crime statistics, gender differences etc. and Reddit goes wild
Open source saved htop [audio]
How much do we need to be in someone’s face? Dismantling technical interviews
You are talking to two different people, and the streams are kind of crossing.

I agree adding a flavor can be superior and novel, but if you read what I originally wrote it was specifically worded to make the addictive quality the overriding concern. Menthol wasn't more addictive because of the flavor, it was addictive because it allowed the user to get more nicotine per hit.
My Rust 2021 Wishlist for the 2021 Roadmap
Potable water and desalination is a very expensive problem.
It's interesting--I completely and utterly agree with out intellectually. But when I look back on many teams I've been on in many companies, daily standups achieve this sort of psychological weight of monotony. Even when they're below 15 minutes they take on a dread.

I don't think this is exclusive to standups: any type of process done repetitively over time can get this upward curve of increasing monotony, even if it doesn't lose its inherent usefulness.

The very act of changing or intervening in a monotonous process might be a boost for people, and to your point is not an argument against the usefulness of the process. I've equally had teams not doing standups get a boost from starting to do standups.

Coming from doing a lot of recommendation systems work, it's similar to how just changing algorithms around often leads to a temporary boost in engagement which then regresses back to the mean (same in general A/B testing).

When I'm managing a process and someone comes to me with a process change suggestion, and I feel like I am well-stocked with evidence as to why the existing process makes sense and is efficient, I now have a meta-assessment where I consider the change because it will at the very least mix things up and introduce changes to thinking. Obviously that is not to be done willy nilly, but my younger self would have pushed back on process changes that were not inherently superior to the existing ones.
Yes. Stay away from Ethereum altogether if for investment and simply put amounts you are willing to invest into Bitcoin.

Ethereum DeFi currently ongoing is extremely risky and insecure in the longterm for various reasons. The open smart contracting is super dangerous, the Ethereum blockchain is way too bloated, the fees are shooting up, and it was designed to be a shared computer, an EVM for running things. Bitcoin is an investment and sound money. They do not compare and don't have the same end goals.
Companies like TimeScale should call themselves "source available companies" in order to signal that they are offering some degree of access to the source (which is good!) while avoiding some of the by-now well-understood pitfalls of trying to commercialize FOSS offerings.
Yes, iOS is a product in a larger market, but I'm talking about the Apple App Store itself, not iOS.

The EU has already ruled "Android App Stores" is a market which Google is dominate in for example: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...

>The Commission decision concludes that Google is dominant in the markets for [...] app stores for the Android mobile operating system.

It's not a stretch to say iOS apps are another market
I think the parent was saying it’s a reasonable thing to ask. What’s sad is that there is so much misinformation out there, and most of us are only familiar with the speculations of politicians and pundits with no scientific basis.

And “official” seems to have lost a lot of its meaning in recent times.
I appreciate the dialog. I'm still struggling with it though and I'm wondering if we have different premises. This seems like it assumes that users are complete buffoons, and aren't capable of understanding a simple message like, "if you enable this feature, you open yourself up to possible security holes. Apple also makes no guarantees that software installed in this way will work, either now or in the future."

At a minimum it seems like the system is designed around the lowest common denominator of user at the expense of more power users.
This as well. Immutable bugs.
problem i have with this is that while it is true that Facebook is optimizing for something harmful with their business model, these testimonies and congressional hearings are not aimed at solving the problem. they are aimed at scoring political points and huffing and puffing.

so it is a situation where an organization with shitty incentives that doesn't have good faith alignment with society at large is regulated by an organization with shitty incentives that doesn't have good faith alignment with society at large.

the whole process is completely illegitimate and basically a TV show. i don't have a solution for this, i just know that this is not it.
Why don't they mention the company which started this 30% business? Why do they lie about Apple being the only company to charge 30% in any industry. What a load of rubbish.
Through HN the link seems to be posted each day with the updates, but if you haven't had the chance to catch it, there are at least two sources for the daily:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/kgosztola

No major news outlet however, and not even Amnesty international which was not authorized to join.
If you are new into lisp I highly recommmend you htdp2. It also uses subsets of racket to teach. I love how it teaches the fundamentals of programming. Simple and clean.

https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/