skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the "entropy only goes up" or "all available space will be filled with complexity" rule of software orgs. Employees are paid to add new features, regardless of how useless they are. The only situation when they stop adding features is when hardware or something else doesn't allow it. Otherwise we'd see 1GB webapps. But when they reach this boundary, they start redoing existing stuff, because otherwise they'll get fired for inactivity. This kind of bs is difficult to stop even when you're paying their salaries and monitor the results. For example, a marketing person would keep adding useless bloat to justify his salary (he really needs his paycheck!) or a programmer would keep refactoring some bs to satisfy his purism (funded by your money, of course). Just think about it: if a competent programmer approaches you and explains how the product is mostly finished and the remaining microimprovements won't add any value to your business, would you continue paying him for doing nothing?
New Deus Ex games (Human Revolution and Mankind Divided) are pretty good.
I just read this:

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If Facebook, Google, and Twitter decide you can’t use their platforms to reach your audience, you’re S.O.L. If you can’t take cards, you can at least take cash or check. And pornhub could set up a site selling bitcoin then add a pointer to their premium payment page referring folks to Bob’s Bitcoin Emporium.
> my experience dealing with it as a transitive dependency leads me to avoid it.

This is my experience as well, it's one of the best crypto libs and the devs are topnotch, yet relying on it is often painful, many libraries out there are rendered unusable.
good news - could mean less corruption and fewer violations of human rights
It's absurd to blame Republicans for the Democrats' failures and corruption. The Democrats have a nearly insurmountable demographic advantage that has been steadily building for decades. If they could pass as even semi-competent, they would absolutely wipe the floor with the Republicans. Their failure is theirs alone.

To expand on what abernard1 said, Democrats have had uninterrupted control of some major cities for 60-80 years. The fact that those cities have turned out so poorly can only be blamed on the Democratic politicians in those cities. They are corrupt in every way. As long as people excuse their failures with "But Republicans!", they will continue to get away with their corruption.
What you just described is exactly what a Graph implementation like Apollo is.
The Western Tradition (history lectures from UCLA)
This is something that I miss about forums of yore and sort of hate about HN, Reddit, and their ilk: the deprioritization of a post author's identity. It took me way too long to figure out you were talking about the username of the person you were replying to. I miss being able to scan through a forum's post listing and readily pick out names of posters I recognized after being involved in the site for a while. It was an additional signal of post quality (or lack thereof, depending on the user). Here, the username is hidden in a sentence of status text, on the same visual level of the number of minutes ago the post was made, all of which is rendered in a light grey font. It's clearly intentional, and I can't for the life of me figure out why the forum owners don't want users to be able to build a consistent identity.
Any comparisons after indexing is done?
What is in your opinion a better open source alternative to prometheus?

Borgmon was inspiration for prometheus but was a totally different project so it is a complete rewrite
Yes, and? This agrees with the statement that small companies are fluid and can find ways to work with regulations. Coming up with ways to avoid is that.
The online game's ROM and cartridge hardware including the Wi-Fi radio would have to be made together.

As the Wi-Fi hardware inside the cartridge would be custom, the ROM would have to contain instructions that would not be emulatable by a flash cart (or any other means.)

Edit- Missed "online play?" in your comment. Yes, that's the idea, new homebrew games with actual working online, made for systems released 25-30 years ago.
Will msg you on twitter.
When you mean without electron, would you still consider using your own web browser as being native?

Syncthing has this. If you open the GUI, it opens up in your browser.

What do you think about it ?
These were part of my Western Civ series in school. Went looking for them today for the kids and was delighted to find them posted to youtube.
So, is a Unicode rendering engine unbelievably tedious to implement?
You misspelled Archlinux.
I'd welcome back that windows 2000 GUI any day. clear, concise and consistent
It's not "wrong." Language is fluid and singular they is widely accepted. A previous poster linked to an article showing centuries of such usage.
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U+FE0E may also make the previous character less wide. It's very surprising that appending a code point can make wcswidth decrease.

https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10894161143611023...
Where does ideology stop? In some sense all the ads blend into one meta-ad, an implicit one, that teaches us what to value in life. I mean something of the same nature which used to be the "picket fence suburb house, 2 kids and a dog", but is something else today.

Slavoj Zizek (controversial I know) has good observations about this, that ideology is precisely the whole framing, which is invisible from the inside. You don't notice it as something "sold to you", it's deeper than that, it's something that informs what you should strive for.

Ideas like "if only you could afford XYZ, things would become so much more $positive_adjective". But not explicitly. Through implication, stories, association. That you need to work more, build a career, buy better things, or become free, express your inner authentic self through self-expression using this and that brand, this and that political slogan etc.

I anticipate that this is already too much of a cliche for some people, while for others it's just a strange way to look at things...
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I would imagine since it's a known timeframe, domain, and error response, they can cleanly remove the suppression lists.

I logged into our sendgrid and mailgun accounts and manually purged all the failed gmail records.
With how badly this game turned out, I can only guess that lack of testers and bug reports was last on the priority list of problems.
I tried it in Firefox mobile, it looks good but sadly isn't responsive yet. I don't know if it's one of your goal. Keep it up.
I think people are just waking up to the fact that they deep down prefer being social in person. If it weren't for COVID-19, probably would have started to accelerate.
It does say "Every six months we have a meeting to revisit this policy. Email ... if you want to attend the next meeting."

It sounds like he's willing to listen to feedback about the policy, but would rather have focused time dedicated to discussing it rather than long drawn out inconclusive tickets.
You misspelled whatever is here https://xkcd.com/378/
Since this is a firefox thread, I have a very annoying bug that I haven't had much luck searching on... any luck here?

I really like the picture-in-picture feature of firefox. However, if I have a video in PiP mode and I click pause, randomly about 5-10 seconds later it unpauses and keeps playing. This happens on both Hulu and Netflix.. on multiple computers and has been going on for quite some time.

Seems like such a common thing I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed.
That would be a fantastic place to start, thank you!

...I hope NES programming is similar to GB/Z80, since as far as retro gaming tools go that's all I know right now, haha.
My Windows 10 installation forcibly rebooted to install updates right in the middle of a 10+ hour overnight render.
Your first statement is unreachable.
This is hardly surprising. The only reason "programming languages" are called that is because early computer scientists borrowed from linguistics research at the time which defined language as a set of strings. Programming is general purpose problem solving, the fact that it is expressed in mostly English words is arbitrary e.g. Brainf*ck.
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You misspelled PalmOS
That's just the template format version, not the version of the service. Actual features and resources are being continuously added to CloudFormation. See release history: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Unless I'm confusing your comment.
Prop 13 allows the tax rate to be inherited. Fixing this loophole will be a simple first step for fairness.
What’s the specific reason that you can’t link in two versions?
>Privatize police and suddenly you broke the chain. Government can outright put anti-brutality right in the contract. When a brutality event occurs, the government is happy to investigate and punish the brutality.

I've been saying this for more than a decade. Sure you can (and probably should0 have prosecutors or detectives and special cases to be be state run, whatever, that doesn't really matter because those guys weren't the problem. The officers who are just standing around securing street corners or on patrol (i.e the officers who are the bulk of the department's man-hours) need to be replaced with private security that is deputized by the municipality they are working for for the time they are clocked in. Sure you can still have policing for revenue or other BS but those will have to be done at the behest of the municipality but making the police replaceable at least puts pressure on them to satisfy the terms of their contract and give the municipalities an avenue for wholesale replacement if they really screw up. The big municipalities can even hedge their bets by contracting with multiple providers. Policing is no different that street sweeping or trash pickup. Having them be "just contractors" also moves things a step back toward civilian police forces. It's just another municipal service. We need to treat it like one.
> why the UK would allow their constituents most personal data to be transferred out of their jurisdiction

Are there limitations with using products/doing business outside the UK, from within the UK? As in, is there any authority that they could use to stop people from, willingly(?), using a foreign internet service? It seems that would require some pretty draconian internet policies.
Well, more like Visa and MasterCard are trying to avoid criminal liability for facilitating child porn.
As someone who have designed lenses (with Zemax et al), this means I can get by with fewer lens elements, making it less expensive. That's one aberration type I can stop worrying about.
Square Enix with FFXIV 1.0

They took full responsibility. Suspended the subscripton for months. People who subbed
for at least 3 months before the
shutdown got permanent discounted subscription in the new version. They changed the whole upper management of the division responsible of the game. And much more.

Honestly there are 2 games that had a remarkable turn around from a total disaster launch: FFXIV 1.0 and No Man's Sky. Not sure Cyberpunk can do it too.
You misspelled c++.
When corner-point rectangle selection is enabled, the cursor should be pointed to at all times by one horizontal and one vertical line (a big cross that extends to the ends of the window). Otherwise, how do I know whether I got the entire image in when clicking somewhere to create the first point?
That’s definitely one solution and I have resorted to it from time to time, but it’s far from perfect - now anything that detects macOS and uses different options is broken.
Visa and Mastercard are not the only payment processors.

Moreover, they're not even the primary payment processors for most adult websites, and haven't been for over a decade.
Has your team considered using a standardized VM to develop in?

Your team could then freely use whatever computer/OS they wanted, but also keep everyone's development systems consistent with each other, as well as avoid any strange Apple-induced issues that come with running Apple hardware as a developer in 2020.

You're really fighting an uphill battle with macOS these days... as sad as that might be for some.

You've spelled it out in a few different posts - macOS breaks everything for your team. So why fight it? Get a different OS to develop in... or dumb down everything because macOS uses crusty, old utilities.
Chrome web store has no rollback strategy, there is only roll forward :(
> IMO when the forming of militias became "extreme" (even though it's in the constitution) is when the writing was on the wall.

“Militias” are not in the Constitution.

The militia, collective and unitary, and belonging to the nation as a whole (with regard to which there are both federal and state powers and responsibilities specified), is in the main body of the Constitution, and reference to a, singular, militia as being necessary to (implicitly, each) State is made in the Second Amendment. There is nothing at all in the Constitution about the formation of, or anything else concerning, private militias.
Card networks have the same rights to choose who they associate with as YouTube and Twitter do. The fact that both companies have chosen to not do business with a company profiting from human trafficking and pedophilia seems a lot less objectionable than YouTube demonetizing and banning people because of their political views.
My m1 air does 5120x1440 @ 120hz, so they cannot cap out at 95hz.
Linking liberally to a wide range of domains is seen as a net positive in SEO.

SEO isn't as complicated as anyone makes it out to be. It's really simple.
You misspelled Arch with a Debian install on another partition in case an update breaks everything.
Of course, but that's where selection processes and psychometric considerations start to play havoc with naive correlations.
You could do definitely do that and it'd turn a lot of heads for sure, but the example I had in mind was more of a traditional client/server architecture. Like a (new, homebrew) RPG that allows up to 4 players tackling a dungeon together.
Do you mean "GraphQL makes the impossible stuff easy"?

If so, I do agree with that statement.
How else can we cook up a perfect powerpoint for the executives to marvel over!
Hoe can I hide all Amazon and Google news on HN ? Do you know an alternative of HN without big tech lobby? Thanks.
Yeah, I definitely believe that is "this is the reported specs so we don't acknowledge anything beyond that".
I feel like I did. Playing on a 3080, minor bugs I've experienced aside it has been a true taste of the next generation of games. Mostly in a visual sense though.
can happen if you're in a toxic workplace that will be more baffled that you have done awesome stuff in your free time.
> Expropriate can mean taking by eminent domain, but it also can mean taking with no compensation whatsoever.

Yeah, it just means 'taking property.' It doesn't reference compensation.

> "How can someone be so callous?" That's a question, but it's not just a question. It's pushing a viewpoint.

Well it does imply that the person referenced is being callous towards the concerns of the property owners, which is why I asked the question. I'm not sure what viewpoint you think I'm pushing. I'm wondering how someone can be so dismissive of the concerns of a homeowner regarding the government depriving them of their home in a place they chose to live. They picked that house and that place for a variety of reasons then invested their time, their life, their families, and their money in that community. Then some bureaucrat says "we need this for <aquaducts>, get out or die. Here's a check." Its one thing to exercise your best judgment and believe that when the public interest is balanced against the private interest, this is the greater good. But when someone callously disregards the interest of the homeowner in the home and community they have chosen to be part of, it raises serious questions about whether their interests are actually being balanced fairly. When someone is casually dismissive of a person's interest in continuing to own the home that they chose to buy and live in, one wonders if they are even considering the homeowner as a person and not an obstacle.

> By definition? I call BS.

Yes, by definition market value is the amount that must be paid to achieve a voluntary transaction on the market. Eminent domain forces a person out under threat of violence and pays an amount that the forcing party deems to be acceptable. If they were offering fair market value, by definition, they wouldn't have to threaten violence.

> In fact, the Constitution requires "just compensation".

I'm confident you understand that the constitution is a document and does not compel obedience to its words. Furthermore "just compensation" implies the question "just according to whom?" Its not a synonym for "market value."

> Nice whine.

So when I used a technical term correctly, you whined. Now I break it down into it technical components in a purely descriptive sense, so I'm not expecting you to know the meanings of technical terms, and you say I'm whining. What am I to make of this?

> But in fact the government does have the right to do that, and for quite good reasons.

Referring back to the question that started this discussion, when people are so callous about the manner in which government exercises its powers, it calls into questions whether those reasons are in fact very good.

Minor quibble: governments have powers, people have rights.

> And, if they make the tunnel, they're going to have to take different peoples' houses.

Asserts facts not in evidence. The point of the tunnel is to go underneath extant structures.

> On that point, I agree with you at least some of the time.

glad to see I'm making my point.
CDPR sounds like a relatively progressively run game company tbh. A lot of game dev companies deny you overtime during the run up to a major release and massively layoff staff after releases.

Up here in British Columbia all technical workers[1] are overtime exempt because EA ran roughshod over our labour laws a number of years ago and people are too afraid to change them for fear of driving off businesses.

1. Vaguely defined - in practice includes anyone who uses a keyboard or has anything to do with the film industry.
So can any equity holder in a company.
You could join a webring, or link to related people and ask them to link back. Given that there was no financial incentive to get traffic (if anything the opposite), there weren't so many pages with duplicate content (or no actual content at all) competing for attention.
And you think the stock price wouldn't have gone down if they'd announced a delay until March? The stock price went up 20% since beginning of November to early December, I somehow doubt that'd have happened if they'd postponed.
ChromeOS. And I'm not even kidding. Everything you loved about switching from XP to OS X, or Blackberry to iPhone, all over again. And arguably better *nix support than Mac.
As much as C does
"Free exchange among peoples is alive and well. It is easier today to make a website and share anything than it has ever been in the history of civilization."

This has always been my own reaction to pronouncements that the Internet as we knew it is dead, or over.

I'm usually quite optimistic about our ability to freely (and usually without monetary cost) create and share, globally.

However, the closure of Nekochan (an old fashioned web forum dedicated to SGI hardware and the IRIX OS) has changed my mind a little bit. The owner of that site became convinced that it was literally impossible to run a forum website and maintain GDPR compliance. He believed that it introduced infinite liability and would require constant purging of data based on requests that could come at any time into the infinite future.

I'm paraphrasing, of course, and I was not actively using the site when it shut down, but it was one of my favorite spots online and a source of priceless information and richness.

And now it's gone ...
Or you could do both. My camera is set to save two images per shot--one RAW and one JPEG. This is a great learning tool for a beginner like myself. The default settings yield somewhat over-saturated colors for JPEGs, so it's always nice to have a side-by-side comparison for every picture.
Statistical Analysis of Speedrunner's RNG proves game “was modified” [pdf]
GraphQL is trendy, but unless you need to maintain a lot of different versions of your API it doesn't really seem worth the investment.
Not sure where you're coming from wrt SEO. Get 100 SEOs in a room together and you get 100 different opinions.

But when it comes to linking, people generally link out less. I can't source anything right now, but the information is available, perhaps through Majestic that shows that over time, people are more shy about linking out to the wider web, anecdotally, from fear of being penalised for doing so.

The threat of having a bad outlink meaning your inbound organic search traffic disappears means people err on the side of caution.
"do you like this photo?" nooooo....
How do you know which party will do what, once in government? You wait for another Snowden and replace them again? What if your preferred nice politician enters power and is briefed on things that make him realize there are more upsides to the project to combat national security issues, and secretly continues things?

It's very hard to have popular control over secret operations where you may only sporadically learn about things via whistleblowers once in a while. It's quite different from visible policies like banning or legalizing gay marriage, abortion, raising or lowering taxes or the minimum wage etc.
It happens to a lot of other folks that aren't currently worth 15B. He made out well but the majority of folks are left with nothing.
Is it possible that the community stayed with their convictions and it's just you drifting left? It's easy to not notice.
Are there good cases of Facebook ignoring democratic laws? I've never really heard of Facebook doing anything that isn't in violation of laws (United States laws at least, I cant say other countries). For the U.S. the laws just aren't there yet to put the right restrictions on Facebook
Facebook don't "sell ads".
Well, literally, they do.

...but the product they're actually offering is "behaviour".

They sell access to the levers to influence behaviour.
reminds me of http://www.sheilaheti.com/whygoout2

I've read that one from HN it's been 4 years at least I think
Management may very well have had little or no choice in the matter. The game had already been pushed multiple times and there was half a $Billion in pre-orders alone waiting to be collected.

Estimates put the dev budget a little over $300 million [0]. After retailers & Steam take their cut and given that a lot of sales were full-cut direct through GOG, that puts the game around break-even status before it even hits normal retail sales.

Given this picture, it is highly likely that investors forced through this decision to go forward as much or more than management did. Push the game again and you'll really start losing pre-orders, and the next time a release date comes around people will be even more hesitant to drop $60 before release.

(As a side note, I'm playing the game on low-end gaming hardware and it works fine. Occasional graphical glitches, 1 crash. It's hard to live up to the hype, but it's still a great game. Feels like a mashup of GTA V with heavy RPG elements set in a future dystopia. Small hints of Assassin's Creed stealth, maybe more if you build your character in that direction.)

[0] https://www.altchar.com/game-news/cyberpunk-2077-set-to-beco...