skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to ProtonDB, 40% of the top 10 games are "borked". So if Proton is a serious attempt at making everything work, why do 40% of the top 10 games still not work at all? Clearly there are some Windows APIs which WINE/Proton can't emulate yet. So now your developers have to specifically avoid those syscalls and system libraries. What if a third-party library you want to use uses those syscalls? Now you need to work with the vendor to get them changed. Okay... as if that isn't bad enough... Only 20% of the top 10 games are "gold" meaning they work 100% correctly, with some tweaks. Okay, so now you have to tell users what those tweaks are, or they might refund. Never mess with an angry Linux user! And then, 20% of games work "okay" meaning there are glitches that don't affect gameplay. But... you now have to field support calls from users who see these glitches and think their game is borked.
And if you're wondering why I went with the "top 10" list and not the "top hundred", it's because most Linux gamers I've seen complaining about the lack of Linux ports are complaining about the AAA top 10 games, not the simplistic 2D tower defense games. Packaging a game that already works great in Proton is beside the point.
yes come check out IH. We're friendly!
I find it funny when people think that big business isn't far more wasteful.
There are other possible approaches that could be taken - e.g. a full bootloader wipe required, per-app permissions that must be allowed, federated third party app stores, parental controls, etc.

Although at the end of the day people will still sometimes self-XSS themselves with the browser developer console or get phished etc.

Human error/ignorance is always a possible issue, and I don't think we should restrict everyone else for it. Cars and knives are still allowed in the world.
What you talk about in your first paragraph is irrelevant. I am talking about the actual value the employees bring through their value, not what price they managed to negotiate for their labor on the market. If a restaurant is operated by 10 employees who manage to do all the work while the owner lives in Costa Rica, then all the value is created by the employees, even if they are only paid 10 USD an hour each.

Secondly, it’s just laughably wrong to suggest that a “company tries to pay employees based on the value they bring”. Employees are paid what they need to be paid in order to get them to work there. No more, no less. A sweatshop worker might bring much more value than the cents they are paid, and a programmer might bring much more value than their 100K salary would suggest (see e.g. no-poach agreements between Google and other big companies).

(Seriously. Cite on economist that claims that “company tries to pay employees based on the value they bring”.)

And risk is irrelevant to the question of value. If someone wins a billion dollars, should we thank them for their hard work if they donate it to charity? Maybe for the money, but it would be misleading to conflate speculation/gambling with work.

You are so fundamentally misguided that it’s just laughable.
I don't want to start a flamewar or anything. I think you are misunderstanding the issues around race and gender. And it's not really your fault--messaging on this issue is not very clear and there has been a massively toxic tendency to end discussion by declaring someone "a racist" and shutting them out.

When I was young, my progressive, well-meaning parents taught me that I should be color-blind and not see race or gender, thinking that a generation of such people would naturally make a world with more equality of opportunity.

The problem is that that didn't work. All it did was create a generation of people who were illiterate in regards to the impacts of race and gender discrimination. It created a blind spot where those who wanted to discriminate could hide.

Data shows that race and gender have wide reaching impacts on one's ability to access services including education and healthcare, interactions with the justice system, and employment. The sad truth is that categories of race and gender have an outsized impact on your prospects and people have always been defined by them in this country.

In some sense, the earlier campaigns were successful--most people agree that overt segregation and discrimination are a bad thing. That's huge progress. But since we have mostly ceased practicing overt forms of discrimination, how is it that these disparities persist? There are two options either there are unconscious and unintentional biases that have a significant impact or the lingering side effects of discrimination keep historically marginalized groups at a significant disadvantage. (I think both cases are true, but that doesn't impact my argument.)

If we want to understand why we have these disparate outcomes, we have to pay attention to race and gender and how we behave in relation these categories. Only by doing so can we hope to resolve the underlying issues that drive social imbalance.

If you want to learn more about this from someone far, far more expert on the topic than myself, I recommend listening to some interviews with or articles by Ibram X. Kendi. His work is insightful and accessible.

https://www.ibramxkendi.com/
Yes, and stuff like pyside2 are pretty cool too (for people who don't like C++)
Your goat eats the "donut" and GP's goat eats the "hole", each eating half of the area. Not a blade of grass was wasted; how satisfying!
Congrats, we are all old!

Snapchat and Vine started it, and now TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are all neck-deep in it.
Every single one is dominated by this content in 2020, with perhaps the only area where text is still a main thing being Discord (although voice-chat is the attractive bit for gamers) & the streaming world (Twitch comments, youtube comments, niche Twitter communities).

Whether we like it or not that's where the users are, and for Google that means it's where the ads and indexing should be.
I used to work for Zynga. My advice is to think about how you'll gain users. The mobile gaming world is basically user arbitrage. You buy users (via the ads market) for X, and if you make more than X, you print money. It's helpful to find a creative that gets clicks for cheaper than the rest of the market. Eg. if your ads have slots machines, then it costs $25 to acquire a user. If you find some niche, like cool cars in your ads, maybe you can spend a lot less to get users. I'd recommend testing your ads before even starting on coding a game, test out a few different branding concepts. Really successful mobile gaming companies have a tight loop between their ads and game development. It's important to get quick feedback and see how new game features affect user retention and spending habits. Note, all of this costs money! Do you have a marketing budget to acquire users.

What not to do: spend a year coding a game in your basement, then "release" it and hope it grows from word of mouth. Those days are long gone.
I dno, it definitely reads like investors didn’t think much of the idea, in general:

“I was one of the few investors who actively pursued this deal from August through October 2008, and the only among them to agree on a term sheet.”

“Over those extra weeks, however, the other investors who had been circling all dropped out of the deal…instead of a handful of us coming together as I expected, I was the one lone dude writing a check for the entire seed round. But ultimately that was fine by me — I was good to move ahead.”

It’s not like they had a particularly oversubscribed round or anything
Hang on, isn't it simply: "the AirBnB founders were great entrepreneurs" vs "yes but look at what the actual impact of AirBnB has been"?

It's fine to acknowledge they are remarkable people, but it's also ok to say that the success of AirBnB has had huge negative consequences for many people. And it's hard to see how the former can outweigh the latter.
Twyman's Law
The same could be said about 3rd party car mechanics that have MUCH HIGHER stakes (your life behind the wheel), yet it is illegal for car manufacturers to ban someone else from fixing your car. But Apple zealots act like a ending a monopoly on app installation will ruin everything.

If the warning box says THIS IS A BIG SECURITY RISK and you click anyway it's your own choice, but a choice given in every single product and market created by man. A stupid phone is not where you draw the line and give it up.
I make 100% of my income from Bettersheets.co
and I'm one-person running it.

The majority of sales comes from the AppSumo deal I'm running now.
just like with sesta, that's exactly the target. the uncomfortable reality about sex crimes is they are fundamentally pretty mundane and simple in nature. the abuse is not an international mossad/hollywood pedo cabal stuffing children into armoires or elite cyber diddlers infiltrating your nephew's roblox server. sexual abuse comes from people around you in positions of trust crossing an unforgivable line. in that sense it is utterly unremarkable, it just happens and you either deal with it or you kill yourself, at no point does mastercard have any presence in the interaction.
> Some customers request their fries “well done”, meaning cooked extra long.

I had no idea that was a thing!

http://hackthemenu.com/in-n-out/secret-menu/well-done-fries/
Hah, one of the fastest residential connections in Australia is 1000/50. Certainly faster than the 8/1 I used for years, but upload is the bottleneck.
Say you wanted to publish/livestream video and decent cd-quality audio, like live-streaming your band rehearsals. Does that even get you close to needing gigabit? I can't think of a setup that wouldn't mix it down to one stereo stream before hitting the net.

Although that'd be pretty cool to be able to publish/livestream your stems and multiple video angles.
The flesh is called the husk. What conclusion do you draw from that?

If a almond takes the same amount of water per calorie as a strawberry, does it matter that it has a husk?
We're not discussing serving the public, we're discussing serving for-profit companies who make money off of the NWS's data. Those are the only people this policy change would affect, not you or me going to the NWS website.
Is there an actual lawsuit pdf somewhere? Could not find a link in the wapo article :(
It's incredibly beneficial to not be limited, even if downloading from multiple fast servers simultaneously. At the moment it's not something most users 'need', sure, but increased speed can also help with things like load times, latency, and congestion as long as the rest of the path can keep up. Additionally, as a power user, it sure is nice to be able to go 'oh, hey, a local copy of the latest common crawl sure would be useful for that project...' and actually be able to accomplish such insanity in a reasonable period of time. With gigabit, you can even stream like normal while downloading at 80-90 megabytes a second! Biggest problem becomes where to put it all...
It's not Stockholm syndrome, it's familiarity with how things worked on other platform.

Windows/IE literally wasted hundreds of millions of person hours by being leaky, insecure, virus-prone crap. You could - if you chose to - make quite a nice income out of sending out phishing emails on our open email system. Likewise for randomsware, only more so. And so on.

iOS may have other flaws, but worrying that your iPhone is going to be locked by a Bitcoin hacker isn't one of them.

And realistically, users are idiots - at least technically. We've all heard of PC users who click on every random thing and end up with twenty-odd toolbars and almost every possible virus. The only reason phones aren't the same is because security is locked down.

These are consumer devices. They are not hacker devices. If you want an open hacker device, go build one and see if you can persuade people to buy it.

You won't - of course - because in userland locked down security is a feature, not a bug. And users care more about not having to pay a ransom to unlock their own phones than they do about running with root privileges. Not having to think about this is valuable.

Having said all that, there's definitely room to negotiate the costs of all of this, and also to open up selected services that can be proven to be secure. But those costs, the access to useful non-risky APIs for devs, and access for third party service providers, are all different issues to the core validity of the model itself.
the simple reality is that the real uses for gigabit, beyond speeding up downloads or servicing many tenants, won't be seen until there's higher adoption.

youtube couldn't have existed in a pre-broadband era, even if a few were rocking T3 connections.

the question is what doesn't exist now? we gotta build it.
I have Google Fiber at my house which when hardwired can get around 930Mbps up and down (server rack). Wifi on the other hand, while my setup is highly tuned and multiple Ubiquiti UniFi nanoHD access points, clients max out around 350-500Mbps on WiFi. My biggest use is downloading xBox games, steam games, and Microsoft Flight Simulator (a massive 127 GB).
Our house has two adults and three kids working/schooling from home. Lots of videoconferencing, plus streaming Netflix, Disney+ etc. to entertain the goobers when the adults are still trying to get some work done. Very thankful for gigabit FIOS!
Is it possible that someone stole it and uploaded it to a site like Flickr claiming it was public domain? I don’t know how this site’s images were collected.
>> we do know quite a bit about minoan religion

No

Dr Jeremy B Rutter:

“ Since Linear A is as yet undeciphered, there is effectively no contemporary textual evidence regarding Minoan religion. Even if Linear A were deciphered, it is unlikely that much information regarding Minoan cult practices, much less Minoan religious ideology, would be forthcoming above and beyond the names of the divinities which the Minoans worshipped.”

— we know basically nothing of their religious practices except that we think they existed based on artifacts found and some reasonable hypothesis.

>> you would be hard pressed to find anyone alive today who believes it

What does belief have to do with whether an idea can be communicated or not? It’s sufficient to be able to say the idea was XXX
How are you owning 15+ active devices per person?
This why I'm so excited about Cloud in the public sector. Its so easy to defer upgrades on a server fleet, even though it might cost someone more money later on.

The Public Cloud provides a monthly expense that just becomes part of the operation budget.

It's exciting to think about the innovation to government services as an end-result.
It is interesting that you equate the consumption of porn to a physically addictive substance. Also, that you equate the existence of the porn industry with a virus such as small pox, and claim that it is equally impossible to get rid of. I don't think either of these is true. Why do you think it is?

You also paint the picture of a new porn-DEA. I don't know what to say to that, except that I don't favour Sharia Law.

I posit that the ever expanding scope of liberalism with regards to intra-sex dynamics is the (or, at one of the) causes of much despair and grief, because they inhibit pair-bonding, family formation and are deeply non-lindy for various reasons. We see this in the number of older women taking anti-depressives, we see this in levels of male celibacy unprecedent since the middle ages, and collapsing populations all over the western world. None of these questions and dilemmas are new, they are as old as time. The idea that the rules have suddenly become invalid is naive at best, and destructive at worst. This will be non-obvious if you approach this from the viewpoint of enlightenment philosophy. It will become quite obvious if take the historical perspective on human behaviour and how societies function.
Ask HN: Things that are high quality yet cheap?
Was talking to a friend last week about the cost of storing data per MB over the past decade and was struck by the graph. What are some other things that are cheaper than they were yet much higher quality ?
You're not always allowed to do that. E.g. Apple requires all code to either be in the bundle or run in a webview (and even then you risk removal if you introduce "significant" features): https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#2.5...

For Android purposes: maybe it's allowed in the Play store? I'm not sure tbh. There are certainly other stores with other rules (and Uber is in many of them too), or they could distribute it themselves (but we can see how well that has worked for e.g. Fortnite), but you still need to handle any scenarios where it's required.
>Basically any non-new grad developer in a high cost of living area earns more than that, regardless of the language.

SO is used by developers all over the world, not just in the US.
Thanks! Most of the templates are existing ones people have made in the past, although I usually clean up the code quite a bit and make some design improvements. The site has been around since 2012 so I end up fixing bugs and making design improvements every few years. The great thing about LaTeX is it's relatively stable with few breaking changes with new releases.
If the painting itself is old enough to be out of copyright, then a photograph of it that is just a photograph of the work itself is not eligible for copyright protection. At least that's my understanding. It hasn't crossed the threshold of being a new creative work. But IANAL.
Hardly. The centos streams definition of rolling release bears no resemblance to arch’s definition. Centos streams will effectively be a point release ahead of RHEL and substantially behind on security releases.
You severely underestimate Asian warfarers.
Making fingerprinting illegal will solve nothing. GDPR and the cookie law rarely get applied in real life (and when they do the punishment is laughable). The only real solution is a technical one - a browser that respects your privacy.

The only way that I think a law could assist with this would be if the governments would force all websites of legal businesses to work without javascript as well as via tor, but even then it will go unenforced.

That being said, I do not think that fingerprinting is an exploit as browsers come build-in with technologies that are meant for fingerprinting (see the ping attribute for example).
Indeed, say what you will about Safari on iOS, it certainly forces some amount of diversity in the overall browser market.

(I realise this is a controversial opinion but I don’t lament the slower feature release cadence of Safari because IMHO the web is already far too complex and feature rich for its own good.)
Some weather forecasters are just "presentable faces." But some are actual meteorologists who try to put effort into interpreting that data.

I used to work at a tv station and the Actual Meteorologists were very particular about not being confused with the "weather people."
If you have significant infrastructure in multiple cloud providers, colocation facilities, etc then it's very possible you want to keep your OS and configuration management systems consistent between all of them.

Amazon linux also comes pre-installed with a number of agents that a significant infrastructure may not want to have running at all times. So between releases you must determine what you want to strip from Amazon linux.

Additionally, if you build your ec2 AMIs in your CI/CD pipeline that becomes more annoying with Amazon Linux than it is for centos/debian which have clear unattended install paths.

Additionally, you may be significantly invested in your distro such that changing at any time takes a lot if effort and Amazon linux's releases are less predictable than other distros so if they go down a problematic direction for you, it could cost you a lot of effort to migrate.

Thinks like the ubuntu ec2-optimized AMIs are also no less optimized for ec2, and honestly Amazon linux's kernel these days is hardly different from any others in terms of performance. They apply a moderate patch set, but it's typically for early support for new instance types or just drivers. For example, some patches for their ARM hardware, or their ENA driver or lustrefs for their fsx product. All of these patches get upstreamed too. On top of their kernel, they have ec2 autotune which is a tiny python project that tunes like 10 sysctl that your config management system can easily handle (and may fight with).

Anyway, I agree that for small projects running in only AWS I think amazon linux is a great choice and potentially the best choice, but at larger shops I'm much less convinced. Although, even at smaller shops I think a lot of people are just more comfortable with ubuntu, there's a guide for just about anything on ubuntu, and pretty much no software that doesn't target ubuntu.

We operate about 10,000 servers in EC2 so I keep up with the Amazon kernel patches and apply the relevant ones to our internal kernel build for CentOS, but don't otherwise really look to the rest of amazon linux much
Getting browser-fingerprinted is technically the user’s fault in the same way it’s technically my fault if I die in a car crash because of some mechanical defect that I could have detected if I’d just made a habit of regularly dismantling my car to inspect every part of it, applying expert engineering knowledge to identify and fix any dangerous problem(s) (including design defects).

Allowing predatory and/or negligent entities to entrap people with less-than-expert knowledge of the relevant industry/technology/whatever is something we should avoid if our goal is to build a society for the common good. The whole point is to watch each other’s backs, not to create a web of obscure threats where only the truly paranoid can remain safe and avoid being exploited.
So... what do YOU think can be cut to free up 0.02% of their budget?
The same applies to the alternatives.