skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not semantics, it's an incorrect worldview. Miners follow revenue. If miners had chosen to mine Bitcoin Cash, all that would have happened is they would have lost a ton of money competing with eachother while the miners who stayed on the original chain raked in hundreds of millions in additional profit.

Segwit2x had 80% hashrate support at the time it was proposed. It also had the support of most of the exchanges and major centralized players in the space. And yet, Segwit2x did not succeed.

Miners don't control Bitcoin.
> Intel tried to setup a different more efficient architecture with IA64, but they failed there.

A big part of the IA64 strategy was to thoroughly mine the area with patents. They were held in a company jointly owned with HP. In theory it would be impossible for anyone else to reimplement IA64 and "impossible" for IA64 to be licensed to another manufacturer.
You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
Immortality would probably make the situation worse, not better.
Here are some fun Exercise + Game Console DIY projects for the holidays:

* Turning a Treadmill Into a PS4 Controller So I Exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmABK2Chwe0&amp;t=4m40s

* I played Breath of the Wild with a Ring Fit Adventure Mod - Controller Bending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wGalssNls

https://www.controllerbend.com
I think more to the point is there anything particularly novel about other than the fact it's written in Rust?
I was in Ukraine in the mid-00s. Saw a five person motorcycle. No helmets, but they had an open side-car so a bit more space. Youngest kid was in a bucket held by big sister.
Not the OP, but I think it’s not the slap on your bottom that should scare you as a kid, but the fear when thinking about the slap, and even more so, the thought that you made your parents so upset that they now have to slap you, even though they don’t want to.

Of course, that only works with parents who don’t resort to slapping their kids’ bottoms like it’s nothing (after a while you become accustomed to it as a kid, it doesn’t scare you anymore), and also parents who genuinely love their kids and who have a close and warm relationship with said kids, that way when the kid sees that he has upset his parents he knows he did something bad even before the slap (and in that way avoiding it altogether).

Trying to only use reason with kids who are 4 or 5 years old won’t work.
Von Braun Station is a technical type/design, not the project's own name. Using designers' names normal with space designs.
> I'm not sure what you mean waste of time. If they weighed the cost of doing a port versus the cost of staying on GTK1 or GTK2 and backporting things, and they chose the port, it seems like according to them that would be the least time-wasting option.

If GTK3's API was backwards compatible (both in binary and source form) with GTK2's API then the developers of all the applications that relied on GTK2 wouldn't have to spend any time changing their applications to work with GTK3 nor make any "weighting" between doing these changes or staying on a library that wont receive any further updates and features after a while. And in practice this isn't really much of a choice unless the GTK developers also committed to updating, fixing and improving (ie. adding new features) to the previous library - at which point why bother with the new version at all?

This is a waste of time because the developers of those applications could have spend their (often limited, since they're not paid to make those applications and instead make them in their free time) development time on fixing bugs and adding features to these applications that directly benefit the end users instead of trying to catch up with whatever stuff GTK3 broke (and now will be broken again in GTK4).

> I get what you're saying, but asking "why doesn't my old API get new features" is a different thing than asking for backwards compatibility because that entails actually modifying the old applications to support new API features, not just maintaining compatibility with them.

No, this is exactly backwards compatibility in the best way: the old applications get new features without even having to recompile them. This is how it works, e.g. in Win32 where as i wrote above you get new features in applications that were compiled 20+ years ago.

You only need to modify existing applications so that they can use new features when it makes sense for those new features to be requested by the application. But, for example, you do not need to modify existing GTK2 applications to add Wayland support in GTK2, or to improve the a common dialog like the file picker, or to add an emoji picker in text editing areas (which, btw, is also a feature that Windows applications got in Windows 10 which works even in applications compiled many years ago before emoji was a thing outside Japan), or a bunch of other stuff.

What you describe would only be an issue if someone statically linked against GTK but the overwhelmingly vast majority of applications link against GTK dynamically and on Linux they all pretty much use the distribution's libraries instead of bundling their own.

> If someone really wants to step up and backport features to GTK2, that's always possible, you don't need to wait for the GTK4 developers to figure it out.

Yes, of course anyone could improve GTK1, GTK2, etc but what is being discussed here isn't if it is technically possible to improve these libraries without breaking backwards compatibility (it obviously is) but about what the (official) developers of these libraries are actually doing with regards to backwards compatibility.
> Also, it enables Beat Games to keep using unlicensed music

Huh? All BeatSaber music are originals or licensed.
The primary upsell I always heard on here, and I think google's pages on it, was that it could be prefetched without exposing the user's info to the publisher if the user didn't click on it (because it's hosted on google's servers), and the prefetch was what made it faster, as well as being hosted on a cached cdn network.
I have good memories of growing up in the 90s with a fullsize van as the family vehicle.

The most 90s thing of all was probably my dad plugging an inverter into the cigarette lighter so that he could power a SNES and 10" TV on our 24-hour drive to Pennsylvania to pacify us kids. That was peak existence for young me.
> I suspect Linux will always be the best host system for Docker images.

It seems that for more than 1-2 containers, running Docker inside a Linux VM on macOS is better resource-wise.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-su...

> Texas leads 10 Republican states in Google antitrust suit

I am not an expert in US politics, does the political alignment of the states that are pushing this case have any kind of wider political significance? Is there a political interpretation of this case?
I think the complaint is saying your targeted ads are higher than they naturally should be because google is using monopoly power to raise prices.

So google raises prices, companies pay higher prices and then charge more for goods. This the harm can be calculated by comparing the price of ads under monopoly vs ads without monopoly and then multiplying by some average margin over cost.
Someone’s gotta be the scapegoat...
>That depends entirely on your living situation. If you live on your own, a VR headset becomes just the opposite - you go from being isolated to being in a room full of people.

That is a really depressing and dystopian future that I am not sure if I want to live in. Yes, MMOs and games like GTA-O, Roblox, or Fortnite are in the same area already now available. But in my opinion this only increases the actual isolation and I would believe that the post VR experience emotional drop down could be severe. It also brings up the backdrop of Ready Player One, where everybody is occupied by the VR while living in decrepit containers seemingly without a desire to fix it.
They've finally removed the keyboard shortcut for this in Big Sur. :)

It was Cmd + Delete/Backspace before.
Also saw this on HN awhile back:

https://tribecap.co/a-quantitative-approach-to-product-marke...
We use XBRL data for lots of our underlying data on https://docoh.com e.g. financial statements at https://docoh.com/company/1326801/FB/financials and data charting at https://docoh.com/company/data-explorer/1326801

It's not perfect – XBRL is complicated and companies file with lots of proprietary metrics that aren't included in GAAP/FASB standards – but we hope to do more with it in the coming months.
Falling off because of gravel on the road, grooved surface or other road hazards sounds too much like inattentive riding or speed unsuited to road conditions. A helmet would help in those cases, but better attention to the road would also be a good idea.
What constitutes anticompetitive practices and why are they illegal? Why are patents and not considered anticompetitive practices?
A stark difference to Sydney, Australia.

I regularly see commuters getting fined cycling without helmets.

The police favorite one is fining all the tourists on rental bikes. Most of the rental bikes don't have helmets as they go missing and as a tourist they are oblivious it's law to need a helmet while cycling in Australia. A big fine to!

Most get tricked in to the relaxed tourism marketing image portrayed without realising Australia is one of the most litigious places in the world and bit of a nanny country.
If a child is old enough to understand (usually younger than you think, judging from my friends' children), they're old enough to deserve a conversation about why what they did was not a good thing. Will they act out again? Probably, but that only requires more energy and intelligence from the parent to educate their child.

Corporal punishment is lazy, short-sighted parenting that is a "chronic, developmental stressor associated with depression, aggression and addictive behaviors" [1]. Honestly, I'm shocked this is being supported on Hackernews, of all places.

Maybe you're right that Western parents are caught between an era of corporal punishment and not knowing how to parent alternatively. Does that mean reverting to violence against children? Absolutely not. Surely it means understanding how to communicate with your children better.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896871/?_escap...
"nobody is thinking about you (except you) so it’s not worth concerning yourself with status or outside validation."

This is often repeated, but it is so untrue that I don't get why well-intentioned people repeat it. Nobody thinks about me as much as I think about me, but some make decisions, be romantic, professional, based on what they think about me, that is my appearance, my status, my money, my family.

As usual, the truth is between the straw-man extremes, which are in this case "nobody is ever concerned about me" and "everyone is thinking about me all the time." Now, it is not that older people realize that nobody is thinking about them and they were previously mistaken when thinking otherwise, they simply become aware that people are not thinking as much about them anymore, since they starting to be (or are) out of the game.
Their own party is an ardent supporter of inviolable states' rights. Apparently only when it is convenient for them.
> You think there'd be ...some? people talking about how they decided not to have a child because she/he wouldn't fit in the car if it's going to have a measurable effect on birth rates but at least personally I have never, ever heard this one.

We have 3 kids. When talking to friends with only 2 kids, this comes up all the time and is a non-trivial concern in having a third child.

You need a bigger car, a bigger house and bigger everything, and many things are not geared towards families of 5 - family passes at museums/zoos are often 2 adults + 2 children etc.

When we had our third we upgraded our car (from 5 seats to 8 seats) and our house. If we had a fourth we'd need to upgrade the house in a few years again. It's definitely a concern and is definitely talked about by people who are affected by it.
> government doesn't want to actually debilitate you in an antitrust lawsuit because it could ironically make the nearest competitor a monopoly when your business implodes

The government isn't a monolith. There are promising political careers in store for those who crack these eggs. That's a powerful incentive.
Cave Sorry is a wonderful pearl of a game.
> authority to organize and pay for clinical trials and toxicity studies.

But further to that, if said executive does follow regulatory guidance and accepted practice but the product has a problem, should they really be held individually responsible?

For the clinical trials example, if a trial fails to turn up a significant problem, is it the exec's fault or the regulators? The regulators or the legislative body?
I agree! I always liked the phrase "be the change you want to see" or whatever, every little helps in my opinion. If bringing awareness to a few strangers on the internet about the air pollution in my poor city helps, then I'll take it.

FYI, there are quite a few sensors throughout the world, maybe consider hosting your own: https://www.purpleair.com/map
Alt-text:

> There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont.
> In midlife we’re concerned with status and our outward appearance

That seems completely backwards to me. I've never been more comfortable with being myself, whatever I am, than now, in mid-forties. My midlife crisis is raging out of control, because I'm looking at things that are outside of my reach. Activities I'm too frail to do, girls I'm too old to date... It's more of a temporary Peter Pan syndrome than anything else.

Life runs past you really quickly, one day you wake up realizing it's still the 20-something you, just in a 40-something body. Midlife crisis is the process of coming to terms with the physical, temporal reality.
You merely point out a very small subset of where he was from and his employer of the time, yet zero attention to his ideals and life legacy.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/bio.h...
Being cheap is the greatest merit of any consumer tech.
My experience playing one opening (d4/Queens gambit) as a beginner is that I failed to develop my tactical skills, which are used much more in gambits (but not the Queens gambit) and e4 openings generally. And I'd further argue that playing 'one opening' when you only know 2 or 3 moves is not really playing any opening, so it doesn't matter (much). I'd also say, learning the main opening principles: develop your pieces, don't move a developed piece a second time (with a few exceptions), castle as soon as possible, is probably more important than any particular opening repertoire.
This is why they need to staff up their ranks with foreign workers, for which Facebook has been sued by DOJ. No whistleblowers likely if everyone is under visa review.
I think they were worried about a run on the masks that would jeopardize civil workers and medical personnel. But instead of phrasing it remotely like that, or a different tactic, they chose to lie. That's my explanation. Maybe a recording will leak or a document and we'll find out in a few decades.
Yes, but usually you start to get the legal theory developed before decisions start changing. They have to come up with new arguments for why to interpret anti-trust law differently before the courts will agree with them. Also, public sentiment obviously has a big impact on the courts, as the Obergefell ruling demonstrates.
The HN title is hugely misleading, because it drops "Texas says".

I would change it to "Google, Facebook allegedly had illegal deal to rig ad market"

Sometimes this would be a technicality, for example where it's beyond much doubt, but in this case it seems that it's far from proven, so far.
Yes, when enough people do / say something wrong over and over again, it sometimes becomes normalised.
> Google and Facebook crossed that line in a pretty blatant way which is quite shocking considering they are fully aware of the consequences

If they're stupid enough to do this there's a lot more candy in the sofa.
The issue here is that:

1. It's very clear that his office has no qualms with filing cases that include untrue statements.

2. It's also the case that this group of claimants is strongly associated with a government official who is very angry at companies and has been trying to attack a communications law from every angle he has. One cannot help but wonder at the timing of all this.

It may very well be true. Sadly, we have to be skeptical now.
> The problem isn't the cost. It's that moving around while wearing VR headgear is only safe in either customized environments, like the Star Wars location based entertainment system, or when movement is in a small area, like Beat Saber. Which is why Beat Saber is the #1 VR game.

You are on point with most VR systems. However, you should try the Oculus Quest 2. All you need to do is clean a room regularly. That said, Oculus Quest 2 has excellent and obstacle detection compared to other VR systems, as long as you're more conservative making your boundary (leave extra space between the boundary and an actual obstacle like your couch) you should be fine.
The suburban hell is a dealbreaker for me, ngl.

And every time I'm around a college kid talking about how awesome downtown San Jose is on the weekends, there are always people behind them doing the "no" head shake with their hand making the cut it out motion under the chin, validating my existing perception.

exhibit a: https://tenor.com/view/no-good-cut-it-out-stop-it-stop-jonah...
Break up into multiple companies that have to bid for placement with buyers.

Treble damages of undue profit paid out as taxes to states over 20 years.

Forced commoditization of marketing data for sale to any other advertiser.

Separation of Chrome, AdWords, Search into different companies.

There’s lots of potential remedies that are really bad for Google as it stands today.

Best case is probably like Microsoft’s where they spend tons of money and time, there founders leave, and they stop doing the things in the complaint.
I just emailed the seller (Ron Patrick) saying he is a legend and he replied with, "Then I went to Stanford for the PhD but the real reason to come here was to start a company and make lots of money so I could play around and build stupid things. / It worked out pretty well. I never had to work for anyone. Started my company (www.ecm-co.com) while at Stanford. / So I want you to go out there and do better that me! I bet you can do it." He is a real legend—really hoping someone will take his car off the market!
You can have the bar at the bottom on chrome (I don't remember the flag)
This is complete garbage, they were forced to do this years before the Trump election to keep people from abusing ad networks. They were all being abused to screw with the electoral process in the United States and abroad. President Obama even asked Russia repeatedly to stop meddling in the electoral process. Hint, the russians were abusing online advertising primarily. The entire Clinton email fiasco was just a way to draw attention someplace other than ad networks.
I was pretty anti-VR until a friend wouldn’t shut up about how good the rift-S was and I finally picked one up this year during lockdown.

Now I have an index a quest 2, and spend far, far too much time in VR. Nothing comes close to PCVR gaming in VR, and quest 2 titles are starting to become really good. Population 1 is probably one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played in my entire life, and I don’t even like battle royals.

Yes there are some things we need to get better at, but I just can’t imagine something this transformative, that is consistently sold out, doesn’t take off at one point, even if it is 5 years away.
HN is a really sad place, where no one even watches a article..let alone reading it.
It's happened before! Patman did a great job of anti-trust until he was no longer capable of doing it.

With all the money going around these days, it would take a real all star to fight back monopolies, but I have hope!
You can add your own binding for e or perhaps some other key:

[tig "bind"]
generic = e !script %(file)

With script containing something like:

cd `dirname $1`
vim `basename $1`

Although, if you're already a vim user using `set autochdir` is probably easier.
I honestly think we’re talking about doing the same thing.
Even uglier
Read the actual complaint, the level of knowledge you’d need to fabricate that would be unimaginable.
Someone buys a bottle coke

They shake it up a lot

They hand me said bottle of coke

I open it, and get sprayed by fizz

THAT IS CLEARLY THE COCA-COLA COMPANIES FAULT!
I wonder if there is going to be any class action suit. I had a nicely growing blog and tried to help it grow with ads. I found that the ads were not adding much benefit and I got much more people coming in just through the word of mouth. However, once I stopped paying for ads, suddenly my site was not getting search traffic as good as before and organic traffic from Facebook died as well. When people posted a link to my content on their feed, their friends would rarely see that. Then also suddenly my Ad Sense revenue would never go past a certain threshold. Then I had to close the site as I couldn't handle it financially.
Of course it could be a coincidence...
This is part of the plan to force people to buy new. They make it illegal to sell any kids stuff older than a year or two.
I often wonder, when there are technologies/commodities for which the entire world is targeting a certain 'magical' dollar threshold - how do companies establish a profit margin? For example, the cost of produced Hydrogen, or a laptop computer, or the cost of an important drug. I mean, there's obviously a point below which the profict margin is so low it becomes unsustainable, but how to you determine that cut-off exactly?

(I'm tech - not a business student; I'm just curious as a human being living on earth)
The Department of Justice is the only federal enforcement agency with teeth. It is effectively a monolith.

The FTC and SEC only refer and can sometimes come in with fines and administrative remedies but they are easier to defeat. DOJ can get fines as part of a criminal suit.

The states are whatever.

The new EU can be interesting though. Best of luck to them.

But in the US it is clear what is going to happen and why.
Compared to CentOS, it is really easy to use common desktop environments. I can’t say about very niche ones, but I use XFCE, which works well out of the box. YaST is the convenient GUI where settings and some common tools are located. It is more than adequate: not perfect but much better than a myriad of small setup programs or the abomination that is whatever Windows does. The package manager (zypper in the command-line, or a YaST module for the GUI) is a bit different but not revolutionary and still RPM-based.

Compared to Ubuntu, it tends to be more conservative and better tested on server or workstation hardware. What finally drove me away from Ubuntu was a very painful episode when the SAS driver would freeze randomly about 4 times out of 10 when loading. It is also far less opinionated than Canonical regarding which desktop you should use. The main drawback is that OpenSUSE Leap is supported for 2 years, so no equivalent to Ubuntu’s LTS releases.

OpenSUSE also uses systemd, but this should not be a shock for someone coming from Red Hat. It works decently with nVidia’s proprietary driver. Well, as decently as this garbage can run, anyway. I haven’t tested Wayland, as AFAIK XFCE still requires X.
what book?
My wife and I rented one while on a vacation trip with our two girls to North Carolina. Holy moly was it convenient!!! Very eye-opening experience.