skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Steam games require little to no modification, just a direct invocation of the game's launcher.

Others require a Steam API emulator: https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/docs/goldberg/

> Some games use Steam to prevent you from launching multiple instances, and some games use Steam for matchmaking, preventing you playing with one copy.

> The Goldberg emulator replaces the Steam API dll, tricking games into letting you launch multiple instances and join the same server.

There are also a few warnings on the site that the hooks used by universal split screen will likely trip anticheat software.
Obviously zero deaths is a great target, yes. Obviously zero deaths is impossible. No energy production method causes zero deaths; even wind and solar have a death toll (eg, from workers falling off things, construction accidents, manufacturing processes, etc), and yes, at the scale we're talking about that adds up.

Everything causes deaths when you're talking about thousands of TWhs. At most you can minimise the deaths.

> Deaths are not made acceptable because of energy production.

Nor are they acceptable because of food production, and yet food production causes deaths. Fishing boats are famously dangerous places; even farms have a lot of hazards (chemicals, large animals, heavy machinery). We could say the same about minerals, lumber (a friend of mine lost her father at a young age; he worked in forestry and a tree came down the wrong way), and more. And yet, we need all these things.

> Deaths per TWh was not a metric we measured. [...] nobody ever said deaths would be OK if only the numbers went up.

I don't doubt it. That is, after all, how we ended up in this mess.

Japan is currently building a large fleet of coal fired power plants (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukush...). Those plants will kill a horrifying number of people; many hundreds of times more than died from the Fukushima disaster.

That seems fairly clearly like the sort of decision you'd made if you weren't thinking about the obvious results.
I trust the courts, even if it’s taking a long time to come out seems pretty close to it coming out in New York.
Considering that the Trump Foundation was legally dissolved by force (For Fraud, Nepotistic payments etc.) I'm slightly amazed by some of this.
Barrett if confirmed...which is extremely likely...will become the only non ivy league justice.
There's a great episode on ReplyAll podcast[0] about the methods for bypassing 2FA to snag accounts. Was the 2FA endpoint a SMS cell number? In that case, it's probable the thief fraudulently impersonated the victim to the cell service provider and phished the 2FA code. Sadly, the cell providers are the weakest link in that particular chain (probably much weaker than Facebook's security).

I also wouldn't put it past someone to guess a password or have reused a password with another service that has been hacked. Humans are terrible at password hygene.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k
Let's try:

backslash star: \*

3 stars: *. - Works if it's not the last characters of the post.
I'm not sure if the official name for this is 50% but I included it because, as a lefty, I love the idea of it. no experience using them however.
Same in chrome on macbook, suddenly it starts to eat 200% cpu and only chrome restart helps. Battery is killed already. Did anyone notice that?
I'm a bit curious if this could be bent into being a pair-programming tool. One of the core functions is simply routing multiple connected keyboards/mice to multiple concurrent copies of a given piece of software.
Courts are not built to determine the truth, though, they're built to come to a verdict. In practice there are many countries that restrict the speech against the rich, including here in the US (ie the whole Peter Thiel/gawker debacle). I don't want to misstate the case, though, you are clearly much safer from these laws here in the US than in other ex british colonies.

Also, what does the cold war alignment have to do with this?
I've read quite a lot about these.

We are very bad at predicting the implications of an event that has not happened yet.

We can predict global warming because it is already occuring and what we're doing is not much more advanced than a glorified linear extrapolation.

What is important is the consequences, on ecosystems, on agriculture, on all the interconnected systems.

We can only predict reliably that global warming might be a perturbation.

But we can't predict the reliable consequences of far simpler events.
Exactly and that’s why I’m concerned about it because it robs the content of its full impact.
Do you work somewhere people put up with this approach? If so, please tell us so that others can avoid this sweatshop.
Ah ok, I think you meant to respond to the comment one level up. Regardless, thanks for clarifying
I'm not overly against the idea that all tax returns should be public to some extent, certainly for politicians.
It seems unethical to obtain private financial records and leak all this information. I’ve had journalists reach out to colleagues every now and then, looking for private and confidential information and this feels similar, where it isn’t whistleblowing but simply digging up information that no one has any right to. If this is OK, is everything okay? Would any disclosure of private information get a pass? Is doxxing okay if it aligns with a journalist’s personal politics?
I think one of the issues is that he has simultaneously told the opposite story to his lenders, making himself look wealthier than he is in order to score loans. This, is fraud.
I used to be religious, but I came to a point where I just didn't believe it anymore. Religion is no longer useful to me, not because it was ever real, but because I've convinced myself it's not real.

I've replaced it with philosophy and meditation-- it actually seems to do the job much better, and doesn't require any particular leaps in logic on my part.
oh man, cut a crap already. stop demonizing putin and friends. those chumps are absolutely incompetent to run such 'operations'. just see what they've done on the ukraine.
Only if you happen to have one someone really really wants. You can find 3 and 4 letter .coms publicly listed for six figures.
>I know this is going to sound pedantic, but this is wrong. Facebook is a publicly-owned company.

No the original statement was correct, your statement is wrong. If you want to really be pedantic then Facebook is a public company that is privately owned.

A publicly owned company [0] is one that is owned by a government. A public company [1] is one whose shares are traded on a public stock exchange.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_ownership

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company
Basically most Unix utils outputs free text data and then one expected to parse/filter that free text to pipe to another util. Power shell tries to operate in 'objects' and not free text.
To play devil's advocate, at what scale should I instruct my CPA not to take every deduction I'm entitled to?
It's one of the things I like about powershell, rather than piping "text" you pipe objects and it remains independent of the display formatting.
Hacking the Medium Partner Program – By Mohammad-Ali Bandzar
Where is the Alternative Minimum Tax? You know, that tax law that pops up frequently for high earners in the tech field when they have more deductions than seems fair? Why isn't Trump subject to the same minimum taxation that I would be?
find(1) is super useful for any hierarchical or filtering case, and I use it often, but it can also be arcane and unwieldy. In many circumstances your cwd shell iterator can be simpler:

for fname in *; do echo "$fname"; done

This skips dotfiles, of course, but that’s intentional. The point of dotfiles is to be skipped.

With bash or on GNU systems try

printf "%q\n" "$fname"

instead of echo, to obtain an escaped string.
Fission can spontaneously go wrong in the same way all the protons in your body could just decide to decay. A reactor is not magic, just physics.
FTA:

> Today in some versions of Linux `ls` puts single quotes around file names which contain white space likely in order to have those paths easier to copy and paste, but it does so only if !isatty().

I almost fainted. I believe this is a misprint: Linux puts the single quotes only if isatty().

The author's tweet, linked nearby, uses different wording and gets it right.
Bypassing Android MDM Using Electromagnetic Fault Injection by a Lighter for $1
Neat idea. That would be super easy to implement on GNU/Linux using nested Wayland compositors, which BTW is something Valve is already playing with (although for different reasons): https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope
The article says "What the tax records for Mr. Trump’s businesses show, however, is that he has lost chunks of his fortune even before depreciation is figured in. The three European golf courses, the Washington hotel, Doral and Trump Corporation reported losing a total of $150.3 million from 2010 through 2018, without including depreciation as an expense."

So this is negative cashflow, not counting depreciation.
Nitpick: It's -> Dict[...]. Colons begin a function body.
For the last 40 years, that has been the actual alternative.

Can you imagine where we'd be if we had continued pursuing the nuclear future? A largely decarbonized grid, advanced reactor designs deployed, knock-on effects from plentiful power, etc. What would the CO2 levels look like now? But no, instead we're now at a crisis point...
Maybe I exaggerated a bit but for me they rob the impact of the story when others can be concerned about how the information was gained. Also it sets a bad precedent for when the dems are in power. * depending on how the information. Was gained *. And at the end of the day the information really is t anything that is all that shocking - it’s what I have (and many have) expected all along
Predicting an event is not the same as observing it unfolds or putting a probability on it.

What do we know about the next mega volcanic eruption or large solar flare?
The quotes are only used outside of pipes. One file per line without quote has always been the comportment of ls when piped (but with shell globbing you rarely if ever have to pipe ls anyway).
> There are also a few warnings on the site that the hooks used by universal split screen will likely trip anticheat software.

Yikes, they should make that warning more prominent. Like a big yellow banner across the top of the landing page.

If you trip VAC for example, you're banned from online play for all of your VAC-enabled Steam games, IIRC. I imagine programs like this that do all sorts of weird Windows API plumbing/injection are pretty likely to look anomalous to even the most basic anti-cheat.
> What does it mean to "directly poison to death"? Licorice is harmful if ever by causing potassium deficiency which can lead to heart disease among a range of other easily noticeable symptoms. It doesn't "directly poison you to death" in any sense that consuming a lot of salt or water doesn't; you overconsume it and it causes a harmful chemical imbalance in the body.

Water does directly poison you, the way I meant it.

Let's put it this way: the harmful chemical imbalance is the cause of death. This happens with too much water, and happened from the licorice here.

Salt causing long-term damage is not the same thing. That's not overdosing on salt. So I'm considering that something different.

An actual salt overdose is something that won't taste good.

> somehow without noticing any of the rather obvious symptoms associated with hypokalemia

> These are not symptoms that would pass an otherwise healthy person by.

It's not just being able to notice symptoms, it's having licorice start tasting bad to you.

If you have a lot of salt in you, salt starts tasting bad. If you have a lot of water, you're not thirsty, under the vast majority of circumstances. You can tell that you should stop eating the thing.

It's very likely he noticed the symptoms and had no idea what was causing them.

> Reasonably, if I'm on a diet "consisting primarily of several packages of candy daily" and start experiencing any of the symptoms of potassium deficiency, I'm going to reconsider my diet.

> What does sugar have to do with anything?

What I'm saying is that you could get the same amount of licorice active ingredient without it being a huge portion of your diet. You could even have a healthy-seeming diet that happens to be low in potassium. And then what do you do, when you have mystery symptoms?

With that amount of sugar, someone with a healthy lifestyle could plausibly "feel when they're having too much candy for their own good". But if you get rid of that part, and focus on just the licorice, the claim that someone will "feel when they're having too much licorice for their own good" needs proof.
That mk sticker shock is no joke, part of the inspiration for this :)
Legacy admissions usually refers to admitting a student because they're related to alumni of the same institution. Which Trump went to Georgetown?
Filenames can have newlines. If you had it as a string data structure you wouldn't have bad parsing assumptions people make like files contain no spaces (most realize they can), files contain no newlines (many don't know they can), a file named '-rf' doesn't ever exist in the current working directory (many people may not realize `rm *` may recursively forcibly delete lots of things under a directory).
> because we're hard to replace.

Are we? the fact that a CEO has to remind their employees that they are working in a business and this isn't some college campus makes me think we aren't.
And they often skip over skin colour as a significant factor.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372923/#:~:tex....
I thought that it would iterate over space-separated tokens. But it works, some magic here, thanks, that's definitely the proper way to go.
There’s a better one called NucleusCoop
The AMT is for ... uh ... "wagecucks" is the 4chan terminology. If you are actually rich you never have income as such.
It’s fairly common to see F150s as regular commuter vehicles but anything larger tends to be bought with work in mind. Once you get above an F350 it’s pretty much purpose-built (construction, recreational vehicles etc.) and I don’t know anybody (including those from west Texas) who’d primarily use these as a commuter vehicle. By any measure an F650 is relatively rare and huge
I don’t care if my throw away CSV munger is formally safe/sound or maintainable. I care if it gives me correct results, once, as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Which is why very few people fire up GHCi/rustic/javac for that, but instead use awk/shell/Python or something similar.
Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?
> People throw around “citation needed” style lazy remarks on HN very often.

First, that isn't always used as a rhetorical device as you state. Sometimes (a lot of times) it's people asking so they can look for themselves, either to confirm the data or educate themselves as to how they are wrong.

Second, why does anything you say on the subject have weight? Do people know who you are, and have you previously shown yourself to be an authority on the subject in question? If not, why would you expect someone to take your word as fact when no evidence is supplied, and no reasoning is either? Would you accept the same from me?

If you look closely, the person that asked for a source noted why they thought it would be otherwise. Instead of reading it as "you're wrong and I'm going to use a rhetorical trick to eat up your time" I read it as "where can I read more, since this goes counter to my intuition, which I just laid out for you."

> It has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is to look up confirmatory material, rather it has to do with rejecting disingenuous attempts to goad people into citation spam debates.

If you can't back up your statements, don't make those statement as fact. That also avoids citation spam debates, as those that aren't actually contributing don't contribute to the spam. Citations aren't spam, they lend credibility and facts to a debate. Having a lot of them on both sides at least lets people see more details on the subject. Unsupported assertions of fact? Those are spam.

These aren't school essays, these are conversations with other people. Taking a definitive stance in a discussion without the facts to back them up isn't conducive to a useful discussion here, or likely anywhere, from what I've seen.
Quite a different thing though if you are head of government which is supposed to collect taxes from people like you, and you see no need to change that.
No, that's not what it means.
Tax avoidance has different colors. Some of it is totally fine, others is more concerning. I agree with you on the tone that is coming out that tax avoidance is wrong is totally bs. Tax evasion on the other hand is completely wrong and illegal.
I'm well aware. I think the Unix approch might have worked back in the day, but it's kind of broken these days.
This was mentioned quite a lot in 2015, in my memory at least - especially in light of his business dealings in Russia but ultimately it's just conjecture. If it turned out to be true there's probably enough information in public to piece together a chronology but not without hindsight.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helpe...

To quote the man himself:

Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
Yes. With the 1619 project not only did the times publish work by a writer with a history of racism (https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/25/in-racist-screed-nyts-1...), but they also ignored their own fact checkers (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...).
I'm going to focus on just one example from this report.

Seven Springs is a very large properly that he purchased, and claims and reports as an investment property. This allows deductions of all loan interest, upkeep/maintenance, and operating expenses.

Based on family statements in the past, the property is used primarily as a personal residence.

Reporting a personal property as an investment property in order to deduct expenses is not "tax avoidance", it is tax fraud.
I guess I just don’t think that there is a significant number of people who would be mastermind criminals and serial killers and whatever if not for believing in god. Maybe I’m wrong.
In my opinion: when you could be paying tens of thousands or more to support others, instead you are paying $0, and you know other people who barely make half the median household income are paying 20–30% of their total income.

Do these rules exist for other people? Yes! Is he possibly only taking advantage of what others allow him to do? Sure! Is it still selfish and trivially anti-social? Yes.

If they made it legal for billionaires to steal cars off the street, it would still be shitty for them to steal cars.
Don't they mean crammed up
So you can pad your input array with zeros, but the algorithm doesn't know that it's padded, and will just compute with those zeros like any other value. If you could tell it that they were zeros it could take advantage of x*0=0 and x+0=x to significantly reduce computation. That's what I think that is.
If you read the article, you'd see that there is a critical thing where he got a 70 million dollar refund, in a manner which probably violated IRS Guidelines. This has been debated since 2011, and has still not reached a decision. If the IRS (and Congress, since they need to sign off on all refunds for individuals > 2 million) declare that he was not entitled to that refund (which from the article seems like the way that it ought to go) he will owe back that 70 million with interest, putting it close to 100 million today.
Par for the course
Do you have evidence that he did this?
CDC tests show many KN95 respirators are as effective as N95 respirators
> As a Rubyist

Are you a Rubyist, or a developer?

> As I get older and more expensive, I need to be better than the 3 year experience 26 year old colleague. And if not better at least not noticeably worse.

Yeah, I had this line of thinking. I don't recommend it. I eventually realized I don't want to play the same game as people who are willing to throw away more than I am. Specifically, I don't want to be in positions that companies would be asking those types of questions. Younger devs will work longer, not have families, work for cheaper, and be more compliant.

So I decided I'd focus my career in the following way: no more web dev. I chose compilers and systems programming to self-study. It's been fantastic. Along the way, I learned Haskell and Rust, contributing a bit to both communities, and having a lot of fun. Eventually, I started finding my way towards seeing more jobs that were in my wheelhouse, and landing some.

> there are so many other worthy things a person can do with his time other than learning a new programming language (both within programming and outside programming), we shouldn't judge people by their passion or lack of passion for learning new languages.

Agree. But if you want to pivot your career, don't wait for your employer to sponsor you in doing so.
I think this guy will have no problem getting hired. Being conscious enough to push code online works so much better than the CV preparation courses. You know you're on the right path when you are asked to play up your CV abstract than to downplay it.

Personally, I would have a hard time hiring anyone without a Github account and less so working in a place where nobody has one.
no the tax system is set up to enable more avoidance the greater the sum.
Yes, it's a big deal, because one of Trump's favorite tactics is to "leak" something through "anonymous sources" that later falls apart in a spectacularly-public way, leaving egg on the journalists' faces and Trump looking like the legitimate victim of a smear campaign.

The time for "anonymous sources" is over. No more. Back up the information, or don't publish.
Ah yes a publicity stunt to promote Auschwitz... they really need to sell some mugs with the downturn they had in visitors due to the pandemic.
Need to be able to select the switch type then :P
The purpose of the comment seems fairly straightforward and highlights exactly what was originally claimed, that the section of the ToS that claims Instagram can close any account for any reason is only true for people who have no influence or notoriety. It is not true of public and/or influential figures who could have a strong claim against Instagram for arbitrarily deciding to close their account.

That one set of rules apply to people in power and another set of rules apply to the general population is certainly something to take into account.
> It's not conspiracy theories, it's any story about a big company doing something bad or evil. Or any story that confirms the worldview of the most active HN commenters.

> Any story about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Uber, or PayPal doing anything negative tends to bring out the most cynical commenters. HN is usually a skeptical crowd, right until a story arrives that fits their worldview.

It's these companies that are cynical, not my worldview!

Nearly every single allegation about these companies doing something sneaky, evil, greedy, and underhanded has turned out be completely true.

When Uber was doing grey-balling, it turned out to be true. When Uber had made a secret agreement with Apple to have their app take screenshots in the background, that was true. Just off of the top of my head I can think of so many preposterous sounding incidents that turned out to be 100% true.

I would assert that people were completely correct to just assume that Apple was doing something shady with the app store. I think it is kind of naive to give Apple the benefit of the doubt at this point.
yes, even if minute having this is evidence rather than speculation of the scope of its fraudulence
This world we live in...