skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually all of the jobs in gaming will be for bigger budget games at large companies. The amount of revenue that COD or CDPR makes is vastly greater than any indie games.
You left something out:

> watched others and read a good number of reviews

What's the point of reviews, if not to give people this kind of general sense of a game before they decide whether or not to buy it? Why else would AAA studios be so anxious to impose and enforce pre-release embargos, except to reduce the risk of the preorder hype and FOMO being in any way ameliorated by reality?
HFT does enhance liquidity and price discovery. The advantage to being "first" to trade is only there when multiple bidders are issuing orders at the exact same price point, and this is easily addressed by reducing minimum tick size so that price choices will just naturally disperse (as opposed to all being quantized at the same value).
The Lincoln Project is a distinctively bad example; their entire rationale is coded appeals to Democrats. The idea of a political equilibrium consisting of Democrats and Lincoln Project Republicans is wishcasting.

But it's easy to provide real examples of conservative speakers who are experiencing no meaningful interference. So, replace The Lincoln Project with The Federalist.
Is this satire?

> .. phosphate .. coatings, including Parkerizing .. have all been criticized .. for introducing phosphates into surface water systems, encouraging the rapid growth of algae.. As a result, in recent years, .. alternatives .. have started to see limited use .. The majority of these newer conversion coatings are fluorozirconium-based. The most popular .. incorporates .. vanadium. This new, more environmentally friendly coating is .. vanadate conversion coating. .. arsenate coatings may theoretically provide similar protection, at the risk of being a health hazard to humans and animals.

Phosphates make algae go boom, so use fluoride, vanadium and arsenic?
What does that even mean, refusing a ticket?

If I refuse a ticket in NL, I will still get the fine-notice in the mail.
Democrats are too diverse to agree internally, and Republicans seem to be co-opted by disruptive movements. More parties could change the discussions toward policy and projects.
I actually don't think people have a consistent position here. For most, whether or not an open system is good or bad is largely dependent on how it affects their political group...
"Purely theoretical" is too weak. "Physically impossible" is better.

AI Safety guys really like using the physically impossible to advance their arguments. It's bizarre! Pure fantasy isn't something worth reacting to.
That's very curious given that on Stadia it's a Linux port.
Facts should be independently verifiable.
If the complaint in the lawsuit is that the policy on websites with unmoderated violent content isn't applied equally, is it really "whataboutism" to point out that the policy isn't applied equally?

Hypothetically, how would you be able to prove that point without providing examples?
Wow, maybe all that "defund the police" stuff was right?
Improperly secured S3 bucket? That's hit more companies than I can count.
Heh, that's how I took it too, glad I wasn't alone. :-)
I don’t think you have much knowledge of film if you say “professional produced movies are not experimental.”
Reminds me of the quote by Reid Hoffman: “If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”

Pretty sure they’re embarrassed by the first version.
...I was just answering the question around what the content was like on Parler.
>TOS

That's a private rule and with Amazon as big as it is, we need to have a discussion if a TOS is even legal, if you take a blind eye on that, nothing stands in the way that big company's take over everything, if you want such a world...well then welcome to cyberpunk.
This is the true point of it. Anything they don't like is banned, anything they like is compelled.
Agreed. A twist on Conway's Law wherein communication mediums will come to mirror political fractures.
I don't get this:

"These backups are not e2e-encrypted and get decrypted whenever(...)"

Are they or are they not encrypted?
Well I hope you wouldn't be making a long trip for the sole purpose of buying an sd-card either.

Some sort of emergency? Sure, but that is hardly the norm.
That's basically my thinking as well, for what it's worth.
You don't get to enter into debate and get away with 'disliking' other's argumentation!
> You could be terminated at any point.

You could be "terminated at any point" regardless of what the contract says if something as bizarre as what happened last week occurs and your platform was an integral part of it. Contracts only go so far. Not everything in human affairs runs like clockwork, contracts are broken all the time.
> 3. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> 4. Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

I'll help you. These two are the overt censorship.

When (often hyper-partisan like Snopes) fact checkers are the ones determining what you can see based on THEIR OWN interpretation of "hate speech" or "inciting violence" then that's censorship.

Alternatively, if you don't want to see something on Twitter / Parler / Gab / etc, just don't follow that person instead of calling for them to be censored.
Ordering 2 items from Amazon will almost certainly result in two separate packages being shipped to you. (At least that’s my experience here in Germany - YMMV.)
Did you happen to write up the results of your router tests? I'd be really interested in reading up on them! I recently picked up an old Apple Airport Extreme so I could easily set up Time Machine backups on my network, but obviously Airports have their own host of issues so I'd be really interested in upgrading soon.
I still haven't gotten an email, does that mean I'm not affected or just a delay in the queue?

edit: I have since received the email
Sorry for the snark, but Douglas Adams also demonstrated this: the earth as a super-intelligent computing device ended up getting a piece of itself onto a passing space ship, avoiding complete destruction.

I just like the idea of thinking about all of earth, including what we'd consider having or not having life, as a single super intelligence. Of course you could scale up to include the solar system, galaxy or even universe.

But this doesn't require us to be a simulation. This could be both a computing device and physical, so long as the engineer behind it existed in greater dimensions.
Ask HN: Favorite Music to Program To?
I've been struggling to find a decent band/playlist of music that has no discernible lyrics in it for years now.

Just about to program and wanting to listen to a little something right now, at a loss, so I figured I'd ask y'all!

What was the last song/artist/playlist you listened to while you got into the groove of programming?
The point of science is, ideas are tested by experiment. If you don't start your experiment with a hypothesis about the way the world works, then you're just p-hacking.
Ask HN: Would you want to run SQL queries on application data inside SaaS apps?
I am looking to validate an idea with the thesis that every human knowledge worker in the future is an analyst. Specifically looking at functions like Sales, Marketing, Talent etc. and their interactions with tools that do the trick for their functions eg. Hubspot, Intercom, Salesforce, Lever.

Core Idea: Trying to imagine if these functions would want to use an IDE/SQL workbench like option available inside these apps. Essentially exposing the underlying data stored for my organization. Theory is two fold:

1. Admin dashboards are never adequate
2. Customized dashboards are cumbersome to set up (Eg. Hubspot)
3. Data crunching from SaaS apps is essential for reporting and measuring impact

Something like what Stripe Sigma (https://stripe.com/en-in/sigma) did but for all major SaaS apps. Would you want to use something like that?
Iconify – a quick-and-free web app for generating various app icons
My misread, apologies. I think the "we care" is a dodge around the reality that most are uncomfortable with, which is, "we make your data safe as possible but we will likely be hacked and you should compartmentalize your personal data accordingly with that expectation". But I am no good with marketing.
What’s wrong with Sonos? I’m about to drop a bunch on a full home setup, should I consider an alternative?
I don't have the answer to those questions. My other comment is purely mechanistic, you'd have to ask Apple why they have not booted Facebook.
In China the government silences the enterprises if they run out of step, in the US the enterprises silence the governments if they run out of step.
This looks good at the surface, but given the current Polish government I would not be so sure that it is created with good intentions in mind. Let's wait for how it is applied before deciding if this is a good or a bad thing.
Even without the VC money, what would they want with a defective table?

It's not so much an eaten cost as a sunk cost. The table is defective. You didn't describe the cost or the defect, but unless we're talking about a $5,000 dining table with a buffable scratch, there's likely little profit in hauling it back and refurbishing it.

That leaves them open to a certain amount of fraud, and that's a cost they'll have to eat. But as with self-checkout lanes becoming popular, I think a lot of places are discovering that most people aren't out to commit widespread fraud, at least not at a scale that costs more than they save from more onerous means.

They just have to root out the serial offenders -- and I suspect that if you have a second return with Wayfair, it will be more scrutinized.
Indeed. I've had the good fortune to pass long periods of time (from days to months) hiking and it's amazing what entertainment just meeting a new person after weeks can provide. And no matter what book you bring along, you will finish it in a couple days without constant distraction.
if you throw enough shit at the wall, some will stick

doesn't change the fact it's shit
> Except that without SSL, some JavaScript could be injected to grab the password completely outside of the RSA encryption. So assuming there is already a MITM who wants the password, all you'd be doing is making his attack slightly more complicated.

how does ssl prevent you from that? it doesn't.
I turned off cloud login a while back. There’s a toggle in the settings for this.
MAGA people are at best fascists, at worst terrorists. If it's not illegal it should be.
There is not even a draft of this law available, so you can't be sure.
I run a Netgate SG-5100 (PF-Sense) as the main router, the Unifi controller and Access points are al behind the Firewall. The AP and switches are really good, not the DPI/IPS/IDS solution (those suck)
Yeah, the other situation is that PC players have oftentimes gotten buggy and unplayable ports from consoles for years, and now that a PC first development studio wound up screwing console players first it’s much more visible and the outcry worse. They never launched simultaneously on 9 platforms at a time. Heck, not a lot of titles do that at all that are well established veteran studios across many prior console generations.

CDPR is no saint but compared to the rest of the industry they are relatively. I’m thoroughly enjoying it despite some small bugs here and there but given the massive size of the game and the really ambitious stuff they’ve done in animation it’s amazing what they got done in the time window they had between Witcher 3 and the original launch timeframe.

I hope CDPR learns the right lessons though and focuses upon engineering management and how to rein in their marketing better.
Trump's Deadly Rhetoric and Shakespeare’s Caesar
And if my hypothetical platform is decentralized to the extent that I can’t top-down censor content, what then?
I hope Baked Alaska is arrested.
Is HN a social media service?
Somehow sysv init never ran into this issue. Maybe it's okay to let the kernel seed its entropy pool before initializing your hash table.
If you are wondering where all of this is headed, read “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson.
I'm unsure how your statement is meant as a response to mine. I obviously agree that it is a good indicator that they notified customers of a breach.
Like they sing in Poland, Jebać PiS.

Note that PiS is actually pronounced piss, which must be some kind of divine providence.
The difference between pandemics and this is that pandemics have happened before. This is more like global warming in that respect.
I presume that depends on who removes these posts. If the posts are removed by group owners or moderators who are not affiliated with the social media service itself, I think that should be totally fine according to that law. It's the social media service itself that's not allowed to do that.
She was receiving death threats on Twitter and Twitter was not taking action against those users? Do you have any sources for that?
The Future of Intel – Intel's CES 2021 Press Event
apt: Package Gnome3-Shell depends on systemd-rdrand which is not installed. Package systemd-rdrand conflicts gnome3-shell. Uninstall 1230982 packages to resolve? [y/n]
I tend to agree with this, but given we're discussing Myanmar here I think it's worth adding that knowing where to draw the line can get a lot more complex than deciding 'Hang Mike Pence' crosses it.

Myanmar's language and culture are completely alien to people drafting Facebook policies, driving forces behind intercommunity violence include things like [likely at least partially true] news reports of other intercommunity violence and official government statements, and then there's nuances like Burmese people seemingly accepting the false claim the ethnically-cleansed Rohingya actually were Bangladeshi regardless of where they stand on other things, and the outpouring of support for Aung Sung Suu Kyi after Western criticism that might have been signals that they believed the conflict was the generals' doing rather than hers or might have been mass endorsement of the government's violence. I suspect my Myanmar-based Facebook friends' one or two allusions to burning villages and politicians are probably calls for peace and meditation, but honestly, I don't know.
> What mechanism is creating the current situation?

Lack of general consumer protection regulation (or their enforcement), and specifically with regards to telecommunications the regulator who's supposed to oversee the field (the FCC in the US, or OFCOM in the UK for example) is often in bed with the companies it's supposed to regulate.
Then don't order from amazon.
You could discriminate by just listing names of the platforms that this law is intended for or go by number of (polish?) users.
Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked certain Twitter users
When I read this article yesterday, it occurred to me that this was a specific symptom of what Jamie Zawinski cynically refers to as Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

> I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version.

(No clickable link because he doesn’t like Hacker News as a referrer.)
Or you wait till Signal works without phone numbers. See https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...
This is a valuable and reasonable opinion, and does not deserve the downvotes.
I am fairly technical and I prefer Brave because of the anti-fingerprinting.
Twitter has a program. At that point, it's about the upstream provider having some CYA on process and Twitter's ability to follow through.

Parler's response was a casual finger back to Amazon, and the response was a swift boot.
BS. Do a Google search on Firefox. The querystring has an identifier for Firefox.

It's no different than what happened with Brave, except that Brave acknowledged it was bug behavior and that the identifier is only for the browser, not user data.

As for ways to donate to content creators, please do tell: is there any solution out there that let us be rewarded by getting privacy-preserving ads and to contribute the proceeds further to other people?
Is It Too Late to Learn New Skills?
I know, as I said in my comment. DDG is okay I guess, but why is it not possible to use a truly custom engine? I personally want to use an instance of Searx.
It's just a freaking game, for heaven's sake...

By the same standard, Peter Jackson deceived me and stole 9h of my life with the turd which is "The Hobbit".
Could quantum mechanics be an approximation to another theory? (2006) [pdf]
"Taliban have a twitter account"

President Trump came to an agreement with the Taliban, so somebody seems to think they're legitimate. (https://www.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-usa-int/...)

"Ex PM of Malasia have openly justified Paris beheading"

Which comment Twitter removed. (https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/a-bigot-without-principl...)
Currently humans are super intelligent compared to machine intelligence, so if the super intelligence can give rise to something more intelligent than it, could the super intelligence give rise to something more intelligent than it? The answer must be yes, then the question is if containment is the problem and the conclusion is that it cannot be contained, then what we should be making right now is a super intelligence whose sole job in life is to contain superintelligences. Which sounds problematic because containment could result in physical destruction to create the containment. Hmm... superintelligence feels an awful lot like the worst case definition of pandora's box..
I answered that in the comment you replied to.

He implies there was no encryption during those five years, when in fact WhatApp had exactly the same level of encryption during that time as Telegram has by default.
He is just lying low. He is not missing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/alibaba-founder-jack...
sql on snowflake
Regardless of how well the Capitol is guarded, inciting violence is still a crime.

If I orchestrate a criminal conspiracy to rob Fort Knox, it is still a criminal conspiracy when it eventually fails.
ooooh, turn off "Remote Management" if you use Unifi products and are concerned

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012240067-UniFi-How...
I figure it is a wash. The shipping package can and does get reused, so I’m really complaining about waste items 2-5. Totally useless.
you can take the issue to court instead. if you're win, you pay nothing, if you're wrong, you pay the fine and court expenses - or whatever the court finds wrong at the same time. accepting the ticket means basically confessing that you're guilty. the idea is that policemen are wrong sometimes and refusing the ticket gives you an out; it keeps the police honest. with the new law you could in theory get a speeding ticket for walking and it'd be up to you to prove that you haven't done it.
How? Your data will only be on server(s) which you choose. I did not suggest that everyone can download everyone's data.
I'm all for end-to-end encryption, but if you have 250 people in the chat I'm not sure it'll be very effective. It only takes one of those people to leak the messages.

When you get into groups with hundreds of members I think Slack and Discord are probably the dominant chat apps there.
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Sounds like a good way to get your service absolutely soaked by spam and off topic posts. Without proper moderation public social channels will just degrade into noise.
Seems you always hated this place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25044791
It's really not, and has never been. A group of people literally organized on Facebook and brought guns to overtake the capitol. It's pretty cut and dry. Again, nobody would've expected Microsoft to support ISIS' tech. Businesses have always pulled away from extremist groups like this, as is their right to do.

The "whataboutism" on DoD contracts isn't relevant. If your stance is "Our own government is a terror cell", well obviously then our entire society is gone anyway, so why even bother discussing the ethics of tech in america at all? But obviously this stance is just hyperbole in an attempt to dismiss the validity of claiming the rioters as legitimate terrorists.

And even by your own example, when has the DoD ever stormed the capitol? Or attempted to overthrow the US government? Spoiler: they haven't. And these insanely silly attempts at implying that legitimate businesses are under the same category as fascist extremists is a joke. This tech precedent pearl clutching is such an insanely bad look it's difficult to even fathom. My assertion is simple: when you try to overthrow a country's government, companies in that country don't want to work with you. The waters are muddier with respect to overthrowing other people's governments, but the DoD has never once attempted to overthrow the US government. There has never been an AWS-supported US coup (before last week). SO the "whatabouts" aren't even relevant.
I think I see your point - from the point of the viewer it's impossible to tell why someone has agreed to be interviewed.

I guess my hypothesis is that you get better information from people whose reason for agreeing to interviews is not self promotion. If true, that's actionable.
The worst kind of authoritarianism, where the tyrant protects the rights of the people, at the cost of rights of the (mostly foreign) corporations.
Are you really arguing that due to limited resources people in less developed countries in Asia or Africa should continue to suffer so that the developed countries can keep their middle class lifestyle?
please don't over complicate this:

>you're right, after I've generated many randoms, I was able to get collisions.

RDRAND() = 0x0081da17
RDRAND() = 0x0081da17
RDRAND() = 0x0178d2ea
RDRAND() = 0x0178d2ea
RDRAND() = 0x02a91db5
RDRAND() = 0x02a91db5
RDRAND() = 0x06c4385b
RDRAND() = 0x06c4385b
RDRAND() = 0x095d1bf8
RDRAND() = 0x095d1bf8
RDRAND() = 0x0990b335
RDRAND() = 0x0990b335
RDRAND() = 0x0ab033e4
RDRAND() = 0x0ab033e4
RDRAND() = 0x0ac21fae
RDRAND() = 0x0ac21fae
RDRAND() = 0x0d39390b
RDRAND() = 0x0d39390b
RDRAND() = 0x0df2f5ce
RDRAND() = 0x0df2f5ce
RDRAND() = 0x109e5c8a
RDRAND() = 0x109e5c8a

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18184#issuecomment...
This will continue happening around the world. Who knew - sovereign states don’t want American megacorporations deciding what ideas are appropriate?

Prepare for massive Balkanization of the Internet.
> You can mitigate anything

My point is what this guy seems to want to enable is fundamentally conspiring to commit crimes.

He seems to talk around that, but that's where we are.
A second-hand Mac mini is an alternative that I've used for network Time Machine backup targets. Can also turn on caching iCloud/App Store/system updates for your home, if bandwidth is metered and/or slower than your local speeds.
If you want to avoid fingerprinting you should use tor-browser. And using a chromium-based browser over tor makes you more fingerprintable, not less.
Indeed. But ever since Whatsapp started advertising e2e, people want it.
> This is utter nonsense.

Nah, OP has a point - even if it's easy to misinterpret. Just as you mentioned government coercion about free association, speech means that "those people" are free to start their parallel society, their own journals, newspapers, forums and whatnot.

It means that speech as a right has to include the right for the capability of building, having, and operating a platform, not a right for a guaranteed audience.
Can you point to any instance where Ron Paul lied about our elections? Genuine question. I don't follow Ron Paul, but that seems out of character from what I've seen of him many years ago.
I don't think anybody thinks this has good intentions
This simply isn't true. These are two different organizations.