skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arrow keys move, Z is the A button, X is the B button. It probably supports game controller, although I didn't try one.

This is a multi-cart. Move over a game slot number and press A to load it. The buttons at the top allow you to edit the map, sprites, code, and play the game in the slot.

Slot 1 has a player movement example.
Slot 2 and 3 are empty.
Slot 4 is Snake.
Slot 5 is Boulder Dash.
etc.
Thanks.

> plug and chuck

Did you mean plug and chug?

https://www.google.com/search?q=plug+and+chuck+meaning
Yes, it's very close to cellular automata, with a few tweaks to make it easier to program. You are quite right about the debugging situation with growth of rules - I've some plans about this, but it will probably require more screen real estate than the 160x120 MakeCode Arcade screens offer.
Thank you for pointing that out to me. I had indeed forgotten the guideliness and needed a refresher.
I think it's less complacent than milking it: as long as they have such high market-share they can prioritize things which generate more profit for them until the point where users switch en masse. The risk, of course, is that someone like Bing or DDG will improve and they'll find less loyalty than they used to have but I'm sure they expect to be able to pivot back faster than people will bail.
It doesn't actually appear to contain itself though, unless i overlooked it. Maybe rightly so, since it would need to be a list of lists for inclusion, not a list of lists of lists.
i dont think its good for our mental.health to read all that shit.
I was provided with a Macbook Pro 15" by my work and I struggle to understand comments like this.

Upgrades often break things, I'm forced to use brew to install software which leaves files strewn around the file system and regularly seems to have cross package conflicts.

And don't get me started on the hardware - the laptop is excessively heavy and the keyboard is awful (and I don't just mean the touch bar gimmick).

My personal laptop is a Lenovo Carbon X1 and Fedora runs very nicely on it, requiring very little thought put into management if you're running the default desktop (Gnome). I can update the firmware and BIOS from inside Linux, and Lenovo have even started shipping newer versions of the laptop with Fedora pre-installed.

There's massive scope of tinkering with Linux if you want to, but as long as you're careful with the hardware you buy there's absolutely no need to tinker at all if you don't want to.
> Google works hard to maintain their dominance on a lot of fronts, some questionable and in need of regulation, but the biggest reason for their position is, as it always was, ranking algos.

I've seen this repeatedly brought into question in recent years and I've also observed it myself. Google's search quality is suffering horribly and it seems at least partly related to them moving away from the PageRank-like algorithms that made it famous (or, more reasonably, including many new additional components to it which are unrelated to PageRank and which are drowning out the signal).
Seeing that someone is trying to conceal their setting is 100x sketchier than being outside.
Why will leases be terminating in Q2 2021 in particular?
The lack of continued large-scale stimulus is tragic. We need a strong stimulus package with direct monetary relief (one $1200 check is not enough), and a program of structured financial relief / rent forgiveness. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening.
My main issue with template, aside from the slow compilation time, is that they are most of the time very difficult to read.

And in my opinion, legibility is an extremely important feature when you're writing code that you plan to understand and maintain for years.

Writting less code is a nice-to-have, but if the cost is that it's a complete mess, I'm out.
what about corrupt courts? or at least biased courts?
s/So blocking Iranian IPs/So blocking Iranian accounts/

in my previous message :-(
Currently a handful of billionaire oligarchs own a majority of the sites used for public discourse by ordinary people. I don't see how that can remain the case and democracy can survive when you need only a handful of sites to censor some topic.

It seems to me that the online monopolies, natural or otherwise, should have to give way to something akin to common carrier status given their outsized importance on public discourse.

This isn't exactly new. Back in the days of the telegraph, those were abused and tapped and eventually the phone company became a common carrier.
Yeah I just use a kvm switch. I keep my base work and life on a laptop that can go anywhere I go, and then hit a little switch and do all the heavy lifting work and gaming on the pc
Do they still make iMacs? My main computer is a 2015 5K iMac, maxed out for that class, and it is way faster than all the much-newer MacBook Pros (that I also use, at other desks/when traveling/etc)
Good idea but sadly impossible for San Francisco because San Francisco cannot even convert places that are zoned for housing into housing.
> These sort of models produced wrong result again and again

IIRC, 538s election models (house, Senate, and Presidential) have been quite accurate in aggregate.
64 core options are available.
yes, still doesn't work from Russia — https://ghidra-sre.org/

I once had a different story — some openstack Q&A website wasn't unavailable from Russia. Turned out it wasn't the website who was blocking russian ips — it was roskomnadzor carpet-blocking whole IP ranges of cloud providers.
1. the high seas

2. Failing that, just archive your existing discs and ditch the drive for good. It's the year 2020, and most (all?) software are distributed digitally, so you shouldn't need to get out your drive in the future.
> I mean, hardware wise they are not much faster, but cooling is a different story.

The highest spec macbook comes with a 9980HK and starts at 2800 $. A 3900X has approximately twice the performance in multi-threaded workloads and you can easily build an entire quiet workstation with it for less than 1000 $. Half the performance, thrice the price. Great deal.

Yes, there are also "laptops" with a 3900X in them. But even those still have lower performance than a desktop with a 3900X because of thermals.
I agree. Even if the attention of major manufacturers is not caught, at least you are supporting the small companies doing it right. Back in the "golden age" we wouldn't have dreamed it would be possible to run a profitable company building free software friendly laptops or phones. I feel the frustration of the OP but at least now there are ways to vote with your wallet.
I guess this number doesn't include vacant as in barely anyone actually using the office space but still leased. In that case 14% vacancy rate sounds low.
Im suddenly having a vision of a corporate housing commune. Starting a hydroponics lab in the middle of office space /s
Just get an i7 Mac mini? Or since you already have a mac as a backup you could build and configure a hackintosh.
You can still have mosquito free areas while being bee-friendly. BTI is a biological control that only targets mosquitoes.
I can still install and run whatever operating system and software I want on my laptop _and_ desktop, and I don't see any sign that that freedom will go away anytime soon.

The question is how much of that is thanks to this kind of article appearing for the past thirty years.

It's kind of like saying Y2K wasn't a problem: it would have been a problem if we hadn't prepared for it.
I never properly moved to laptops, I just put my desktops on a shelf and wired them to a network, and use a laptop, an obsolete N900, and an Intel NUC attached to my flatscreen (controlled with a bt mini keyboard) with no important local data on any of them - to interface with the desktops. All the drives on the desktops are encrypted, all long jobs and services are run on/from the desktops, the desktops are on Debian stable and the laptop and tv are on testing.

If the day comes that I can't get a laptop that I can unfuck, I guess I'll just have to work in a remote desktop on a VM in one of the servers. I can always keep the laptop and devices from chattering through the routers. I do have a real fear that it might become hard to find routers that I can install OpenWrt on, or that OpenWrt might go the way of Firefox.
No. He's fallen for some scaremongering.
This is mainly a concern for one year leases that were renewed this March/April/May, which won't be renewed in 2021. There are many companies which budgeted for a few weeks or months of work from home, now they're transitioning permanently and the office space they were using is no longer needed.
I have no knowledge of any of this but the report doesn't either. It states those are estimated numbers culled from the web. AFAIK there is no actual public info on what the dollar amount is (and I certainly don't know what it is).

I do see everyone running with those numbers as if they were fact though. That's the danger of using such made up numbers in the report: everyone else repeats them as if they were fact even when the report says they don't know.
I went with void* in order to avoid having separate algorithms for every container.
It has actually happened before in San Francisco. 100 Van Ness was reskinned and renovated into a 400+ unit apartment building from its previous use as an office tower: https://socketsite.com/archives/tag/100-van-ness
You can easily disable W10 telemetry and all the other nonsense they put in it.
We should be reciving our 3rd and onto our 4th right now.
ding So that is what Apple is up to with the Pros. Thank you.
> there goes one of the two USB slots on the laptop.

With Thunderbolt/USB-C hubs, this is easily fixed.
> if you want SB, use UEFI

Not sure I've ever seen anyone wanting secure boot. what is it actually good for aside from generating searches for Google when you have to figure out how to circumvent it?
> everybody that has a Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / TikTok account is a content creator.

All the fora you mention are characterized by lack of longform text. What people are creating today tends to be image-heavy and eschew any long argumentation or prose storytelling.

Having just a smartphone obviously represents a limitation. For example, I am a member of some niche travel communities. A decade ago, when it was common for people to lug a laptop, there was a healthier community of people writing detailed blog posts on certain destinations, editing Wikivoyage or Hitchwiki, etc. Now that those same travelers are leaving the laptop at home and traveling only with a phone where it is inconvenient to enter much text, the ecosystem of travel resources is actually poorer than it was in the past.
Is this the answer though? I don't think the current is the norm. Wfh for many is unsuitable.

It's a temporary shift and things will balance out in a few years.
How's the forced v-sync? I assume all games run XWayland, which makes it a non-issue. (Otherwise, it'd presumably be an FPS hit in a world where adaptive sync [like G-SYNC but not really FreeSync since the latter doesn't really work in Linux lol] makes tearing a thing of the past and obviates v-sync entirely.)

Also, can you use xdotool for key input redirection or screen capture programs and stuff yet?
I understand. I also have a laptop for traveling, and carry a separate keyboard and mouse with it in my luggage. But every time I use it, I long for my desktop.

I also bought a chromebook just for fun for $150 from the pawn shop. I have a "build farm" of various computers with different operating systems in the basement for use when there's a problem with one of the D targets, but using putty to remotely access them.
Keep in mind that the denominator is about 88 million square feet of total office capacity.
I have a >3 year old GPU that's still faster than any mobile GPU. I have been having 64 GB RAM in my desktop for ... 5 years now. Even in the summer my PC is completely quiet, even under heavy load. (Both the GPU and the CPU are water cooled with stock all-in-one coolers.)

Desktops are great.
I used to make fun of desktop computer owners but wow! They're cheaper, the manufactures aren't pathologically trying to screw you over, and the ability to expand them is real!

At this point I'm pretty happy with cheap small laptops and ssh into my larger ryzen desktop in my workshop.
NZ newssite used as source for belgian news. Mad-mad world.
Silicon Valley is funny though. Punching down, OTOH, isn't funny.
I really wish the technology was there for a thin client laptop that can hook up to a more powerful desktop machine, GUI and all, sharing hardware etc.

I've tried VNC and other remote desktop solutions but the but the performance has always been abysmal, it's a niche idea and obviously comes with the network requirement, but I think it would give the best of both worlds when you need the portability of a laptop around the house, with the power of a desktop.

I guess plan9 tried this approach....
Did you get work to pay for both of those? I like the prospect a lot but not sure I could bring home something newer than 2014 in that scenario.
Before covid rents in SF were among the highest in the world, which implies very high demand. I’m confident that many people still want to live in SF, e.g. single people like to cluster next to other single people. In other words working in tech is a draw but not the only draw for living in SF or any other urban area.
And can sustain the top clocks with proper cooling, contrary to laptops.
We are still missing basic primitives in video conferencing interfaces, and this failure of abstraction surfaces as "virtual meetings feel weird".

* We still don't have a button to signal that we intend to speak; we don't need a fancy "pressure sensitive chair" to accomplish this.

* Video conferencing apps still refuse to show everyone the same layout of faces. Because we don't share the same virtual space, of course our experiences feel disjointed.

* We can't silently "react" to someone else speaking, making it difficult to intuit the consensus opinion. These reactions need to appear on _their_ tile, not on your own (looking at you, Zoom).

These are not hard to implement, but conferencing solutions are so sticky that they just don't seem to have the incentive to improve their stagnant UI's.
But then you pay extra for hubs, along with the higher price of a laptop, just to get feature-parity with a desktop.
I keep thinking of banishing the desktop to the closet to keep the fan noise down.
Also I think absl has a constexpr map too.
> So.. really, who cares?
Consider yourself lucky if you don't need to care.

It's a mechanism to lock down a computer to only run "trusted" OSes. Who gets to decide which OSes are trusted? Does Arch have lobbyists?

It's just one falling domino in a series of falling dominos, where maybe one day you don't get to run Arch anymore.

This stuff really can go either way. People were allowed to record TV using VCRs in the 90s. Ripping CD Audio onto hard disks? Dunno. Copying DVDs & Blu-ray onto hard disks? Definitely not. What about running software on a phone? Better "jailbreak" it.

> my Arch Linux desktop that boots with UEFI is functionally identical to one that boots with BIOS

Stallman agrees with you that you don't get anything from UEFI: "This is not a security feature. This is abuse of the users. I think it ought to be illegal."

He also made the claim, "Microsoft demands that ARM computers sold for Windows 8 be set up so that the user cannot change the keys; in other words, turn it into restricted boot."

Crazy?

> For logo-certified Windows RT 8.1 and Windows RT PCs, Secure Boot is required to be configured so that it cannot be disabled.

> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...

edit:
Just thought of three more battles currently going on:

* Oculus headsets now require Facebook logins.

* youtube-dl just got blocked on GitHub

* Iranians and GitLab
what we've seen over the past decade or so is the creation of commons on the internet; however, these commons, like Youtube, Twitter, or Instagram, are centrally managed, owned, and controlled. the buy-in to these commons has grown and grown, and now that they are essential parts of the way the world communicates and consumes information, they're being "tightened down", with ever increasing ad loads, censorship, and "steering" (influence via search and recommendation visibility). as global inequality increases ever more starkly, these services represent a powerful means of control over a disaffected and disenfranchised populace - everyone has been herded into the walled garden.

the collective dream we had of the internet as a species-level advancement has, in fact, been a mirage. the idea was that the internet would allow free and uncensored communication across the world, perhaps allowing the citizens of the earth to organize against injustice, corruption, and repression, and to share information freely. in fact, what we see now is a global internet and computing backbone compromised to the core by nation-state actors, and a centralization of internet services controlled by an oligopoly.

not to put too fine a point on it, but the idea of a "global commons" or "collective good" cannot coexist with a world economy of globalized capitalism. the capitalization of the internet is a situation that is unprecedented in human society - we may have crossed an event horizon where societal control has grown to such a level where the very ability of people to fight repression and organize a more equitable society has died.

anyway, happy sunday
I own a pinephone, How exactly does this improve on fluxbox?
Ah, true! I wasn’t aware that std::array was compatible with constexpr.
Really, it's an infrastructure problem. We don't have direct payment rails set up for something like UBI, and the political will to build this infrastructure is next to zero.

Most of the companies receiving relief were badly managed before the pandemic, and they should be allowed to fail. But it's very hard to structure relief in a fair and effective way.
That's interesting, I had never considered an iMac because I always thought they were designed as lower-spec family workstations. These look like the middle ground I was hoping to find. I'm still not sure I like the form factor, but I'll certainly consider this when it's time to replace my current system. Thanks!
This is exactly my takeaway. The author is simply dishonest. He wants freedom but doesn't want to pay for it, or pay companies that support it.
I plug my full sized USB keyboard into my monitor, along with my yubikey and wireless mouse dongle -- one USB C cord connects it all to my laptop.

edit: two monitors is still a pain, though.
Are there even any decent BT keyboards at all off the shelf?
MakeCode Arcade has an extension to work with the micro:bit edge connector pins from the meowbit.
This line bugged me also - the definition of wanting your cake and eating it too. How would such products ever get to the volumes required for prices to come down if even people who "care" aren't prepared to buy them.
congrats on shipping and def a problem worth solving (reminders for creators on interaction points/commitments to fans)

at streamlabs we built and shut down many products for creators and we'd frequently hit that issue
Console #24: Stealth, Neon, and S4
Keynesian economy never worked. Redistributing money will just make it worthless.
You cannot install whatever operating system you want on your tablet, phone, or, soon, any mac desktop/laptop at all. The enthusiast/gamer market isn't enough to keep the intel/adm desktop market going. Soon the only place you'll be able to run a free operating system is on a rented vm in the cloud.
I would like a pc that would be silent, small and would actually look good. Most cases have "gamer" or "office" aesthetic, neither of which I like. I think the only decent looking is Streacom DB4: https://streacom.com/products/db4-fanless-chassis/
So x.org is abandoned, Wayland does not work/is not mature, Linux for desktop is dead? Adopting the upper-half of Android AOSP UI would be the escape hatch?
For me the most important factor against using a laptop is cooling. With a desktop you can go to the extremes and install water cooling. With a laptop you're always compromising on performance because if the load gets high the processor starts throttling and thus its performance is severely reduced. As a side effect there's also the issue with noise. A laptop fan is way more noisy than a desktop one because there's so much more space inside the box.
Yep, that's one of our demonstration center: https://www.cat.com/en_US/support/operations/operator-traini...
I too have fond memories, I wonder if it's the first or second game I ever played.

Some remastered it, the Windows version is still playable on x64 Windows 7, presumably also on Win10: https://www.digger.org/download.html
PICO-8 [1], a "fantasy video game console" might be good. It simulates something kinda like a C64, with Lua, tile and sound editors, etc. It's not as simple as Hypercard, but it comes with a number of examples and it's relatively easy to get something interesting moving around on the screen.

1. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

It's inspired a number of similar projects such as TIC-8 and Pixel Vision 8.
I meant help as in trying to make something good for the society. I can think of doing some free consultancy for a nonprofit, help an open source project for software that helps people or simply tutoring somebody who want to approach the profession from an under represented category.
Right away I will say that I do use desktops and in general would prefer because of the absolute power. However my laptops are gaming grade and most of the time I use one of those as a desktop. And this is how it goes again your list:

1) I have 2 "big big" 4K monitors hooked up to my laptop so no problems here. The laptop's monitor is not used as the lid is closed.

2/3) I use external keyboard and mouse. No problems here

4) I have 2TB worth of SSD in laptop and I also have huge external drives array.

5) Said laptop is sitting on my shelf, I do not even see it. On my desk are 2 huge monitors on arms with VESA mounts and wireless keyboard/mouse. Said laptop is also running NOMACHINE so I can also access my few worktations and servers without lifting my butt.

6) I have external optical drive but frankly I do not recall single time in a last 3 years when I had to actually activate it.

7) I have 2 external 10 port USB 3.0 hubs hooked up to 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 port of said laptop. Again no problem in this department.

8) Yep. Desktop is much better in this department.

9) Not my desktops ;) They're server/workstation type.

10) This is how I build my "desktops". No argument here.

11) I do not know what to say about it.
Still not moving back.

Seeing those empty Walgreens shelves was it for me.

Even the social programs and tolerance of the squalor is not that real, it is simply that the transient population is not affected: students and programmers. The same population that just left.

I appreciate all the optimism for San Francisco but it just seems to lack context from the mid-atlantic cities that are carcasses of an industrial era which never returned.

The brick and mortar boutiques were struggling there during the best market in the history of man kind.

This is more obvious to see when you leave. Its harder to see when your life is built around never acknowledging it and pouncing on everyone that says what they observe, on Nextdoor.
> We still don't have a button to signal that we intend to speak

MS Teams has a "raise hand" feature, is that the type of thing you're thinking about?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/raise-your-hand-i...
>This is mainly a concern for one year leases that were renewed this March/April/May, which won't be renewed in 2021

Do leases tend to get renewed in Q2?
The problem is that people think environmentalism is about preserving the environment. The planet's gonna be fine, it's humans who are gonna have a bad time.
But string literals are const, so you won’t be able to fill the lookup table based on the generator polynomial.