skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Stadia actually run on Linux? If so, I think that has tons of mp games, yes?

Maybe it actually is worthwhile to support it as a vehicle to get anticheat on Linux?
Rural places in the US are doing a dandy job of spreading it right now.

In this rural county, daily new infections are at something like 400/million. That rate is arrived at with a big enough multiplier, but it is a reasonable basis for comparison. Our cumulative case / million is ~23000.
> Nothing I have is made in Europe

Sure, but don't forget about B2B markets. Consumer tech does not make up the entire tech industry. There have been some successful B2B tech companies from Europe like SAP and, more recently, Celonis:

https://www.celonis.com/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/celonis-a-leader-in-big-da...
This is just completely untrue.

There have never been third party ads in any default application on MacOS or iOS and I feel completely confident saying that.

You could make an argument of upselling, the music app prods your for a subscription to Apple Music or to buy songs on itunes- you could argue Apple TV shows content from providers you’re not subscribed to (next to ones which you are)- but those are first and second party ads.
It’s just exceptionally difficult to quantify what “privacy” is. The trade off is between something very tangible vs the intangible
I know its funny. But coming from a language where words are pronounced as written, English could've been simpler.
Good point! I remember this period also as someone working in the industry.
They have spent on _marketing_ privacy. Their court cases were a great exercise in PR. They still have the highest compliance rate with US government for turning over user data, which they hold the keys to, and the Chinese government. User data monetisation is not the only danger to be wary of, it just happens to be the one that gets trotted out most often.

The time to re-evaluate is already here, it's just hard to do so when you're already locked into their ecosystem.
When you lump all of government together in your judgment you lose the ability to hold individuals accountable in public discourse. It's akin to justification in my opinion.
It was a joke: "java bad".
I can't remark on the first two (I don't start my browser that often, it just status open, and most of my private browsing use cases are covered by the temporary containers extension), but the search engine issue (which is super annoying) can be solved with an extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/add-custom-se...

No, an extension shouldn't be necessary, but it works (I use it to search with searx).
> Every single time I was told that I was throwing my vote away or voting for one of the major party villains.

The refrain essentially is that you must vote for the candidate we say is most likely to win and if you don't, then you're helping the next runner up.

I believe that if we no longer reported polling results and had election results reported at the same time, then the problem I describe above would be significantly reduced.

The fact that primaries are not held at the same time leads the results of earlier primaries influencing the results of later ones. The fact that election results from the eastern part of the country are reported while the western part is still voting influences the results.
I strongly disagree.

Although there have been some less-than-optimal implementations in some protocols, in general the internet protocols were designed by people with their eyes open.

The protocols were designed to resist centralized control, and have been very successful.

You should read specifically about how tcp/ip was developed, not technically, but the people behind it and their motivations.
I use Refined Hacker News [1] to collapse comments for quicker navigation. Moreover, I navigate the parent comments first, as they are a good indicator of what the child comments will be about and look at each top level parent, closing the ones I find uninteresting. At some point, you get to uninteresting top level parents, and then I stop my search. This is usually about 25% to 50% through, though in rare cases, I reach the bottom of a HN submission. Then I go back to the most interesting parents and do a similar process on their child comments.

Reading like that is something I've developed over time as I'm active on this site for more than 5 years now. I wouldn't recommend doing it, unless you think you might want to try it for fun. That's always a good excuse :)

For commenting myself on heavy contested topics, I comment on a parent if it's popular and my comment to it is related. When the parent isn't popular, I sometimes comment on it, depending on how relevant my comment is and how low it is.

[1] https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
Spotify and Shopify figured out the same thing: use the large, homogenous US market to springboard and hyper scale globally, before some US company does it first. Spotify got so big thanks to Facebook providing it an artifical shot in the arm, courtesy of Sean Parker's inside position in both companies (the spam method Spotify used to promote itself via Facebook was then promptly limited not long afterward).
If you define fairness so that literally everything is fairly priced, sure. My definition is different.
Common Lisp CUDA
The cause of this is:

* Android needs to know if a wifi network is working, since many wifi networks are broken and connecting to them degrades the user experience.

* Normally it does that by connecting to google.com, and if the connection succeeds, assume wifi is good to go.

* Google.com is blocked in china, meaning wifi would be broken in China.

* To fix this, Samsung has replaced google.com with qq.com in china.

* Samsung also needs to add a new DNS server to resolve qq.com, in case the network doesn't provide a DNS server and androids default of Google DNS is used (which is also blocked in China). Adding it last means it won't be used unless other DNS servers are broken.

Overall, this behaviour seems like the simplest and most logical fix Samsung could put in place to enable their users to use phones in China.

They could have run their own servers (but that would also have privacy issues), or they could have removed captive portal/bad network detection, but that probably would have broken some apps and led to unhappy users.

I can't see any other real fix in this case, and I certainly don't see any malicious intent in any of their actions.
I think a camera is far more intrusive than a breathalyzer.
Not to generate a compiler (very hard IMO) but to generate something that compiles and runs.

My next thought is to use a language agnostic spec and train an AI to create programs that adheres to that spec. OpenAPI for RESTful interfaces would be good.

IMO, using A.I. to generate programs (or languages) is the ultimate nerd snipe. I, sovietmudkip, have to admit defeat else my own productivity and happiness will suffer.

There is someone else out there whose personal incentives align with engaging in this difficult endeavor. But for me, I measure myself in projects realized, and that holds me back sometimes.
You have to actually agree to the terms (either through website or SDK usage) in order to be bound by them. IANAL
I love using glow as a markdown previewer for my file manager lf. But what the hell is up with everything else they are trying to do. Just be a good markdown viewer!
Not being able to set a "home" in maps unless I consent to be spied is another shitty behavior from Google.
Nothing would stop them and they would retaliate. This is nothing new though - there are import taxes on airplanes, cars, steel and many other products from Europe.
I think that this is question is in the direction of Stephen Wolfram's approach to AI. Namely: build a programming language that is capable of solving all kinds of problems (Wolfram Language), and then you will have condensed all the knowledge of the world into a programable structure with which you can more easily build AGI. They have the added benefit of collecting billions of user queries with Wolfram Alpha, which might serve as training data.
The comment implies that this is somehow hardcoded just for Google sites, which is not true. Autoplay is allowed for sites with a high enough media engagement index. You can check chrome://media-engagement.
Original Soviet Tetris on Big Iron How To (2017)
Ops... Brain just shortcut
This company has given me so much, you simply cannot criticise. I still remember spending all night on battlenet playing sc1 back in the day. Big bottle of coke, some candy, headphones on and I was just transported. Loved that game. Never got into sc2 as much, maybe I will get it out and try over.
On what apps? I've never gotten any advertisements like that.
I agree. The whole "encyrpted stash" and "cloud" thing is totally unnecessary. It is an amazing tool without all that noise.
I agree with you completely. I get regularly downvoted here for promoting free speech and denouncing all forms of web censorship.

Websites and their obscure “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” are eroding those rights and should be fully compliant with the first amendment if operating in the United States, similar to how websites operating in the EU must comply with the GDPR.

I forgot how the United States is just about the only country with virtually unlimited free speech, so the downvotes must come from a place of envy.

Edit: Downvotes have proven my point :-)
I don't think I would ever point to Russian markets as an example of how well things can work.
I interesting worked on a project as a data scientist with a client who worked in high precision manufacturing. Their signals (sensors) and actuators were stored in a historian which couldn't handle data 100ms samples even though the data was collected at a 10ms rate. One of the problems required us to look at the process that took just 85ms. The problem was the historian was showing signals up to 20ms it took a while to realise that it was extrapolating when you tried getting finer resolution. The company was using this historian for more than 20 years they had to commission another project to change the historian. So you're right, you don't know what you need until you need it.
Written as someone who knows a reasonable amount about crypto system design, I would like this page to be written with a fixed audience in mind. It’s frustrating to read because it is at once ‘high level’ with cute diagrams, and then technical (“private key plus data into VRF gives a lottery”).

At any rate, it would be nice to see something written for a more technical user that’s not just a formal spec (although that would be okay, too.)

One salient question I have is: during the account choosing phase in which the VRF is applied to each account held in a given wallet, what is the precise mechanism by which some accounts are chosen? Is it a difficulty mechanism, where the VRF(account, some blockheader data) must be less than a given number? If so, how and why does the number change?
Airbnb pushes IPO despite coronavirus uncertainty
==People gleefully discuss Sweden and almost openly hope that their lockdown-free plan fails.==

What I see is the opposite, lots of people who want to copy Sweden’s plan regardless of the toll it took on human life. Others want to put mask orders in place to protect more people.

Meanwhile, we have unmarked federal agents roaming cities, a President who fires Inspector Generals and ignores subpoenas without punishment, and a sitting Senator calling for “no quarter” for protestors. Those are all pretty authoritarian moves and they come straight from the top. If you think “everyday citizens” are the authoritarian threat, your risk analysis might be off.
Tiraflechas, are you serious?
At a country-level, I'm not sure any conclusion can be drawn for density versus (per capita) infection rates:

* https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po...

See also:

> We also find that after controlling for metropolitan population, county density is not significantly related to the infection rate, possibly due to more adherence to social distancing guidelines. However, counties with higher densities have significantly lower virus-related mortality rates than do counties with lower densities, possibly due to superior health care systems.

* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1...

* https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2020.1777891
As a follow-up, if you're wondering why, 500mb is roughly 5700m/18kft above ground level in the US - not quite jet stream level (200-300mb) - but high enough to give insight into large scale patterns that drive surface patterns.

Where surface features are more localized and near-term, 500mb analysis gives you insight into whether there is broad zonal flow, a deepening upper trough, and all sorts of important information about how things on a larger scale can play out in the longer term. They're sometimes called "steering winds", because they're the primary component that dictates direction and speed of storms.
Elm vs. Svelte from 8 Perspectives
very very insightful comment lol. does it qualify as "opinion" already or is just a grunt?
Plus when I'm playing games I also have my browser open (Music, Calls, ...) so now I need two browser configs (or to carefully share them between OSes). Of course if I use non-web things for any of the listed activities now I need two installs of those.

Honestly when I wanted to game on Windows I usually just used a VM (with GPU passthough) as it was nice to have my preferred environment still up and running.

I haven't tried to play a Windows only game in a while but dual booting was definitely a pain that I would try to avoid.
there's case studies from box, checkr and coinbase on the website
This is already how a lot of IT companies in the EU function, someone makes the iOS app, someone the backend, someone the project management, someone the security audit, and someone does the logging of the different services that are analysed by yet another company. It leeds to a lot of backstabbing and over-billing, I don't think we should subsidise this.
> What would stop the US from taking revenge with targeted sanctions?

The US would of course immediately respond in kind. The EU's actions would essentially eliminate the WTO and any pretense that there is a system of functional global trade or globalism; it would amplify the notion that we've entered a new era of hyper nationalism.

The EU bet would be: the US benefits a lot more from its tech dominance in Europe, than the EU benefits from having the US tech companies in the EU. That's a correct bet.

The more serious problem is, the only proper and fair response is to ban all EU products across the board from the US market so as to match the scale of the economic limitation (given the US dominance in tech is so outsized). Just banning EU tech from the US wouldn't be nearly enough.

Since it would be declaring a new era of overt nationalism, the US should also then pull all troops and military gear from EU member nations, revoke all military alliances with EU members, void NATO, and tell Russia to have as much fun as it wants to with Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Scandinavia, Moldova, Romania and the Baltics. Declare that the US no longer has any interest in Europe's security, the US will not interfere; declare annexation season open. Russia will almost immediately begin taking territory from its neighbors (in all sorts of contrived ways). In net this will massively increase the cost of defense for all EU members, will weaken the EU as a value proposition (Russia will offer a security blanket if you join their side, which some will go for), and will severely burden their economies. This will de facto destroy the EU dream, gradually splitting Europe backward into West and East.

Unfortunately what would also happen next, is the US would perceive the EU as a hostile competing power. To the hawks in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US system, that would put toppling weaker governments in Europe back on the table as a reasonable exercise (as in the immediate post WW2 decades), to attempt to install governments more favorable to the US. This would cause severe chaos and instability all over Europe and also new European wars inevitably.
Agreed. Check out AssemblyScript, you might like that. It's early, though.
You are right, thank you! I have updated my comment.
Because they already increased the price for iphone 12 base model compared to 11.
I loaded the page and went through a few actions, but I cannot see anything in chrome://media-engagement about it
This is not how discussions work on HN. 4chan might be a better place for you to hang out.
Great article, but surprising that it does not mention or use the concept of DataOps. Even Gartner has recently written at length about the role of DataOps [1], and of course, we at Composable [2] are biased as they just name us as a Cool Vendor in DataOps [3].

[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3970916/introducing-dat...

[2] https://composable.ai

[3] https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3991447/cool-vendors-in...
In terms of adding types to deeply dynamic languages I think Julia had the best approach: sub-typing and union types.

It has the advantage that it is possible to give a reasonable type to most functions without a rewrite (even if the types would be terribly long to accommodate the weak underlying type system)
The lack of the seriousness/professionalism of the postmortem seemed odd to me too. So, okay, what is this site?

> KeepTheScore is an online software for scorekeeping. Create your own scoreboard for up to 150 players and start tracking points. It's mostly free and requires no user account.

And also:

> Sat Sep 5, 2020, Running Keepthescore.co costs around 171 USD each month, whilst the revenue is close to zero (we do make a little money by building custom scoreboards now and then). This is an unsustainable situation which needs to be fixed – we hope this is understandable! To put it another way: Keepthescore.co needs to start making money to continue to exist.

https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/monetizing-keepthescore/

So okay, it's basically a hobby site, for a service that most users probably won't really mind losing 7 hours of data, and that has few if any paying customers.

That context makes it make a little bit more sense.
Certainly; while regulations will no doubt play a role, the fact that the EU is so much less homogenous (not just in terms of regulations) also plays a major role in making it harder for companies to scale.

Then again, I could also see that being an advantage. For example, TakeAway.com was one of a number of European companies able to quickly capture their local market. They could independently gain a foothold, and only then did consolidation start. In a more homogenous market, a big player might be able to quickly drown out stronger players with more unfortunate timing.
I think it is great that you've found a cool use for rclone, but at the same time don't see how this hits front page when it is basically a cron for running `rclone copy` every 30 minutes which is highly prone to issues. You'd be much better off just mounting your remote storage and running another tool to keep things synced, or utilize Restic or something else for backups.
I've been using Firefox as my daily driver for perhaps a year or more now.

As well as the translate page button, the other great feature chrome has that I miss dearly is the highlights chrome has in the scrollbar when doing a ctrl-f find-in-page. That is super-useful and a real pain in the arse that Firefox does not support it.

I played around with prototyping an extension to replicate it (or as close as I could get) but it was hard to nicely override the ctrl-f hooks.
I doubt that there can be much of a legal angle: the defense would be to think of Chrome as a client software for Google services. That client software can additionally interact with many third party services if they follow open web standards, but why should that have legal implications on how it interacts with their own services? It's a very dissatisfying situation.
And media engagement is based on an opaque set of factors that just so happen to give top authority to Google sites.
I'm using some other orchestration than k8s/k3s (and regardless different deployments should have different entrypoints).

But yeah, maybe the real answer is "iptables" and I just have to step up my game a bit to grok it.
> Where did I say say his optimism was universally admired?

My mistake. I wished to say that he isn’t so universally admirable. That is, what you see as constructive in his ideals and aspirations, other people today might find destructive.

> That may well be true, but this feels like an ad-hominem argument

Well, human beings are social animals, so ad hominem arguments are perfectly valid here. If something feels cringe to a large group of people (even to most of those who one would have expected to be sympathetic), then it can fairly be called cringe.

Also, these idealistic, Zamenhof-lauding green-star-flag-waving world-peace types were infamous for often having the least ability to actually converse in Esperanto. They would be visible at congresses, but in a way they were least involved in the actual Esperanto community. You'll also find plenty of arguments that those people actually hold Esperanto back from appealing to outsiders and getting more people involved.
A question to the DBA experts from a developer: is there a way in MySQL and Postgres to configure a log specifically for destructive SQL queries so that it's easier to investigate a situation like this? I.e. to log most queries except for usual SELECT/INSERTs.

Also, @oppositelock pointed out that WAL would contain the destructive query too. How does one remove a single query from a WAL for replay or how does one correctly use WAL to recover after a 23-hour old backup was restored?

Finally, how does one work on the WAL level with managed DBs on AWS or DO if they block SSH access?
> but the people behind it and their motivations.

Surviving nuclear war isn't quite the same thing.
Happy user of Hetzner's dedicated servers. Very nice platform and lots of bang for the buck, paying ~$40/month for Intel Core i7-980, 2x HDD SATA 2,0 TB, 1x SSD SATA 250 GB, 3x RAM 8192 MB DDR3 and unlimited traffic. Hard to beat really.

Only gripe is that they only have servers in Europe, wish they had at least North/South American + Asian centers too.
How come you never see stuff this useful at Target?
Git commands you might not know
There's a sense in which I agree with you, but it's for a different reason.

I want a future where the "foundational" internet services (like chat, broadcast social, payments, etc) are decentralised/federated. And it seems like that's the end result of increased internet-service protectionism.

This won't be possible with all internet services, but it seems plausible for several of the large, stabilised ones. Though I'm not sure whether we're quite ready for it yet.
I do something similar with chrome (have to use sometimes it for testing compatibility), but just create a fresh profile every time with:

chrome_dir=$(mktemp -d)

echo "Using temp dir: $chrome_dir"

/usr/bin/google-chrome \
--incognito \
--user-data-dir="$chrome_dir" \
--window-size=1280,1280 \
--no-referrers \
--no-pings \
--no-experiments \
--disable-translate \
--dns-prefetch-disable \
--disable-background-mode \
--no-first-run \
--no-default-browser-check

wait $!

rm -rf "$chrome_dir"
What do you know about them?
Hopefully there is a better regulatory apparatus in Canada without the solid fuel reprocessor/military concerns getting in the way.

So perhaps the investment will go somewhere.

I am a bit disappointed it is not scaled down to shipping container size, but at least it is modular/shippable (allegedly).

No mention of thorium breeding in the description, but it has other key LFTR hallmarks: brayton cycle, drainage to avoid overheat/meltdown risk, liquid fuel, and they must have online processing of the liquid to remove the products.

I wonder how they are avoiding the reactivity/degradation of the vessel by the salts. I think that was a major block to liquid fuel reactors