skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time when Xbox Live was started, by far most console multiplayer games had p2p architecture and only required central infrastructure for matchmaking though (and this was about the only service provided by Xbox Live). I don't know how common client/server games are nowadays where the servers are part of the Xbox Live infrastructure.
> We need a clear separation between system programs and application programs ... The default way to install third-party application software shouldn't depend on repositories or servers. It should be based on installing files, just like on Windows.

So the end goal is for a system where users download random binaries off the net, which never get any security patches and leave dozens of copies of vulnerable dependencies lying around?

> Additionally, a permission system like Android's could be a good idea.

Even with a permission system like Android's, how are you going to stop malicious applications from exfiltrating all the files in your home directory, or recording all your keystrokes, or spying on your clipboard, or putting up a fake password prompt, or mining bitcoin with your GPU, or just escaping whatever sandbox you think you're running them in?

If those are the risks I have to put up with in order to run a bleeding-edge Python interpreter on my system, then I think I'll pass. I guess that makes me an old_unixer.
If that was the Spotify model the people would be a lot happier with Spotify.

The Spotify model is that people who listen to Beyonce on repeat are subsidized by the person who listens to 1h of indie bands a month.
That sounds incredibly fragile, but I'm guessing most of the technology and infrastructure I depend on on a daily basis is also incredibly fragile.
I am a software engineer at failing fortune 500 tech giant. Managers like to create artificial deadlines but other than that there is no real stress. If service goes down and I am not near computer, no big deal, we don't have a lot of customers. But in my case I am also kind of checked out at work, so dgaf.
I grew up mostly before the internet and we did lots of stupid things as kids, including this exact black out stunt.

What I think social media has done though is push people beyond their normal internal brakes. You and your friends might push each other to do risky things, but friends tend to care about one another internally. Anonymous people on the internet don't know you or really care about you, so it's easier for them to push people into riskier situations.
Yes, and it's not only about performance, but also safety because O_DIRECT is the only safe way to recover from the journal after fsync failure (when the page cache can no longer be trusted by the database to be coherent with the disk): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc20-rebello.pdf

From a safety perspective, O_DIRECT is now table stakes. There's simply no control over the granularity of read/write EIO errors when your syscalls only touch memory and where you have no visibility into background flush errors.
FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
Honestly I would be worried of it because of all the crazy distopia sci fi stuff one that always resonated to me as "I could see it happen" is those where bodies are donated / preserved by a private entity which ends up changing hands god knows how many time until you wake up in a nightmare later on.

Playing SOMA might have ruined it for me...
Al Franken and his One Man Mobile Uplink!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKiVkeup2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCwYfNo3BGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxyMnhqhEII
It's equivalent of Fox news, they really went insane from all the attention trump gave them. It sure feels like a pure propaganda channel now.
That quickly became C# though which is very good and very popular.

Edit you're right, C# and J# coexisted. I think its still the theme of MS using their own JVM then moving it to dotnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp
Clearly this is a game kids have always played. I'd think most adults know of it. We have records 100 years ago of this game, I assumes there would be records further if someone looks.

This also sounds like typical moral panic, it's a pretty shitty "high".

> to their brain in order to get high.

It'd be nice to put a bit more structure to all this. Are deaths going up for this particular game, is it more dangerous because participants do it alone, are children doing it younger. Are suicides and other things that kill the youth down because of social media.
> Therefore the database should handle its own I/O caching using O_DIRECT on Linux or the equivalent on Windows or other Unixes.

That's not wrong, but at the same time it adds complexity and requires effort which can't be spent elsewhere unless you've got someone who really only wants to DIO and wouldn't work on anything else anyway.

Postgres has never used DIO, and while there have been rumbling about moving to DIO (especially following the fsync mess) as Andres Freund noted:

> efficient DIO usage is a metric ton of work, and you need a
large amount of differing logic for different platforms. It's just not realistic to do so for every platform. Postgres is developed by a small number of people, isn't VC backed etc. The amount of resources we can throw at something is fairly limited. I'm hoping to work on adding linux DIO support to pg, but I'm sure as hell not going to do be able to do the same on windows (solaris, hpux, aix, ...) etc.
The turbocharged variant of the Rotax, the 914, is also certified to run on unleaded / automotive gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotax_914

Fun fact: This engine also powers the USAF's Predator drones!
I recommend just changing team or company.
Stress is usually fault of the boss, not the industry.
There exist an important finding in social science when it comes to conflicts between groups. The Out-group homogeneity effect.

When people of an in-group (and those who feel a slight relation to them) describe themselves, it one of complexity. In-groups are always a group of individuals with individual graces and faults. Out-groups however is not complex, but perceived as being more alike with their out-group stereotypes being the defining nature of them.

The result of this is that people tend to marginalize extremist views of the in-group, while at the same time defining the out-group by their extremists. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to have discussions that relies on the distinction between a group having a small number individual impressionable young people that occasionally happen to do an obvious bad thing, and a other group where every member is evil and its obvious an evil group that need to be stopped at the core.

On a more local note regarding the far left here in Sweden during the 90's and early 00, a major distinction between them and the social left were that they believed in a violent/forceful revolution against capitalism (take from the rich, give to the people). As a party they have since tried to put some distance to that view in order to be more respectable, but 20 years is not that long ago. The far right and far left is often debated as both being parties with extremists in them and with troubling pasts for which they try to distance themselves.
Intuitively the present value of punishment is amount of punishment x probability of getting it, and if the second term is nil then so is the punishment; but according to many studies I believe the amount of punishment is much less important and being caught is what matters.
I don't disagree with your last paragraph. I don't like the Google business model either. But it works, and in capitalism that's all that matters. And they've climbed to the top so why should it be easy to unseat them?

Google and Facebook did what any capitalist organization should do. Grow unapologetically, pivot into new areas, absorb competition, and take over the world.

In one sense I wish it weren't Google or Facebook that this happened to but on the other hand I'm glad it was progressive companies who treat their employees right instead of the status quo McDonald's and Wal Mart and holding firms.

You know they are the ones complaining that tech is taking over. Isn't it ironic that last years world leaders are upset about being booted from the table by executives who don't even believe in capitalism. If that's not an enormous "we're better at this than you" then I don't know what is.

I don't like FB or Google's revenue streams... but that doesn't matter in capitalism. They have a stable business model and they deserve to see where it goes.
Ehm...no that's not how these things work. This was used in a mouse model and there has been no randomized controlled trial in humans. We literally don't know if it works at all, let alone being better than current treatments. It will be many years before this would be available, if at all.
Rollerball Pens of 2021
> Java doesn't have value types and generates a ton of garbage

Yes good point, this is likely a big difference. Maybe Java records will help a lot.
And greatly removes the way these creators can actually pay for their lifestyle of creating. Good job!
I think the term uncomfortable people is a flippant and trivial term when it comes to the details listed in that link.
Because I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
Agreed. However, going from zero external parts to one is a big step in terms of easy experience and sharing of code/projects.

Arduino “took off” because it was easy and standardized. You and I could probably lay hands on a 120R today, but fewer than 0.01% of the population could without ordering something (at which point you could just as well order an MCP2515 module).

It’s a “what’s in my hand right now?” hurdle not an “it’s technically advanced” hurdle that makes 0 external parts such a selling point.
What is being relocated?
MX Linux Fluxbox for Raspberry Pi 3 and up (beta)
> Based on 15,000 survey responses from working age Americans, carried out between May and October 2020, we estimate that one half of paid hours were provided from home during this period. After the pandemic, employers are planning for about 23 percent of paid days to be spent working from home, a four-fold increase relative to before the pandemic. This works out as roughly 2 days a week for the roughly 50% of employees than can work from home.
There was that study about how after the invention of the vacuum cleaner, the amount of time domestic housewives spent cleaning actually went UP!
I don't like the idea of getting people to sponsor your open source work, only to 'close source' the incentives to get them to sponsor.

In effect, this is just a paywall/license for good documentation for popular software/libraries.

To be clear, making money as a pure open source developer is impossibly hard, and creativity is required. Very few enterprises making millions off OSS send monetary support, so you have to cast a wide net for $2-5 sponsors who are willing to throw the equivalent of a coffee a month to you.
I was curious so I checked what temparature the sun exposed parts reached and what the shadow side reaches;
121c to -157c a temparature difference of over 278 degrees. Your remark was almost spot on.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...
I think the "red army" is referring to RAF (Red Army Faction, "Baader-Meinhof complex" in Germany), Red Brigades (Italy) and so on, in 70s, 80s European history. Actual leftist terrorist organisations, unlike the "antifa" (lol, America...).

Edit: I think OP meant, it's not unlikely, if there was a real left terrorist organization, they would align with SWP, but the SWP is not the terrorist organisation. Same as with Antifa, for that matter. That's what people mean when they say Antifa is an idea... seriously, it hurts it's necessary to even say this.
Where a rodent lives may determine how clever it is
I dislike everything about socialism but this is bullshit and needs to stop!
I work in healthcare, infection prevention specifically. I get pitched products all the time, UV light was all the rage for a bit. Two products come to mind. One was a light that shines on wounds which kills the bacteria which decolonizes the skin. The lamp itself was different, but it was just mounted on an articulating arm like a desk lamp at home.

The other product was a nasal decolonization tool. It looked like two foam earplugs connected to wires. The person would stick them in their nose and the light would decolonize the nose (and nares) prior to surgery. There's research to show that nasal decolonization reduces surgical site infections.

However, I would say that Trump was not referring to technologies like this. I think it was just a coincidence that he happened upon UV light in the body.
This sounds like a lovely service, but my library requires the cardholder to be present when checking out books.

My father tells stories of living in Las Vegas in the late 70s when the local public library already provided this service for free to all patrons.
libsigsegv (slow) or userfaultfd (less slow) can be used for this purpose.
Are we an invasive species?

wiki: "An invasive species is a non-native species that has become naturalized and negatively alters its new environment."

Seems about right.

No predator. Also yes.

Multiplying exponentially. In the past century, yes. It seems to be slowing down, and so one might argue that it is a logistic growth.

If we exceed the limits of the environment we either suffer massive problems and eventually a die-off, or we manage to invent some new tech that expands the carrying capacity of Earth.

This is all pretty much factually correct. So, can someone explain the down votes?
No one knows how much the government can borrow
> Are we somehow getting dumber as a species or are some other factors at play.

Perhaps one problem is that we now have a front row seat in Darwin's theater. When stuff like this happened in the past, it resulted in a small article in a local newspaper, at most. The internet makes us think that this stuff is happening all the time, when in fact it isn't really.
This reminds me of my friend's workaround for the 5mb disk quotas they put on our shells in the 90s.

He discovered filenames could be up to 2MB in length and did not count towards the quota, so he built a pseudo filesystem using a directory full of 0 byte files with huge filenames.
The art and science of boarding an airplane in a pandemic
It's hard for me to see the value in monetizing posts from OSS projects. If I wanted to pay for someone's thoughts I'd be using substack or paying for pictures from OF - in both cases the value I receive is directly tied to the subscription.

Possibly a more interesting approach could be gated support similar to an exclusive discord for patreon subs to ask questions.
Some industries abandoned testing at every step, decades ago. It was expensive, slow and yielded very little benefit when the process is well controlled. An 'out of box audit' on the shipping dock could catch rare problems in process. Then the issue could be traced back to the step that introduced the failure, and the process corrected. E.g. a change in a part vendor that sometimes didn't meet spec could be caught very quickly before it got to (many) customer(s). And it's cheap to do it this way.

Perhaps this computational model is useful if step-by-step testing is automated, cheap and quick.
There were always boxes, but I think the real game changer was standardizing the size and other properties of the box, across the planet.
The PS 4 yes does run a subset of it, however I am yet to know about the PS 5, given that I no longer have access to the SCEE technology site.

Where did you got the information regarding PS 5 from?
ah, this strawman banging again. OOP is not mistake, there are too many weak developers.
Side note: there also exist more temperature-tolerant duct tapes.

I used some of this [0] in a last ditch effort to patch a small tear in a Miata canopy (rubber-coated canvas?). Everything else fell off. It's still happily holding, past 3x summers and winters.

[0] https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Scotch-1-88-in-x-35-yds-Tough...
Which is tiny; it has 115 horsepower for 5 minutes and 100 continuous. That’s still trainer and entry level or 2-seat Cessna 152 sized engine and about 1/3 the power of a modern single-engine Bonanza.
for one thing, there just aren't that many of them. there are under 200k hobbyist pilots in the US, and they mostly fly small single-engine planes. it's a problem, but it's pretty far down the list of emissions concerns. see also: two stroke engines in lawnmowers, boats, etc.
This sounds different than Pascal's wager because it's binary: you have nothing to lose, so preserve or don't preserve.

Whereas in Pascal's wager you have to choose one religion, which by definition excludes other religions.
I say this as a somewhat reluctantly self-identified "gamer".

Big agree on the impulse control. It's worsened by the fact that, for lots of gamers, gaming is their strongest form of escapism. But I think it also compounds with this tendenct for gaming to suffer from a lot of the same polarization that's happening in politics. It's like it gets at the same core part of your lizard brain.

Instead of Red vs Blue, it's Green vs Blue (and Nintendo stands off to the side, having fun with its family in Wii Fit, and PC is in a basement garbed in dark blue worshiping GabeN and trying to summon HL3). And people will look the other way to an excessive degree while "their" team does bad stuff.

I will say that one thing gaming has that politics doesn't is "the only thing we hate as much as the other side is our side". Obviously even microsoft fanboys will be quick to turn on Microsoft if they do something obviously anti-gamer, since gamers also love to be victims.
Oh yeah, C# is superb and even offers some features Java doesn’t such as limited operating overloading. My dabble in J# was brief but interesting and served as a smooth transition to C#.
That was J++.

J# was Java for .NET, a C# sibling.
I'm pretty sure some people make a living doing exactly that.
I do, even have some books and other related stuff around.
While I agree, it must be understood that OOP was about getting the design right by pre-analysis. Not about making code easy to understand for 'weak developers'. It definitely doesn't do that.
Techno utopianism can't really work under capitalism, because the machines will always be owned by a fraction of people who use them to enrich themselves.
Show HN: Repository.surf – see metrics for all repositories in a GitHub org
Are memory-mapped files (mmap) faster than system call-based I/O?
House of Graphs
What has historically happened is just that the company goes bankrupt, the bodies defrost in random warehouses and is finally disposed of in less-than-respectable fashion.

There is pretty much zero chance that a cryopreserved individual would be revived. They're frozen when dying or dead, the process itself causes significant damage (with every mitigation just trading in a different severe form of damage), and even if future technology could undo all that and somehow make this severely damaged body somewhat operational, why in the world would anyone bother?

The person is forgotten, replaced, and has nothing in their name any more. There is no gain for those reviving them.
should have a public island with various rooms to go
Swift uses the Objective-C runtime.
>It provides immunity to publishers who (1) publish user-generated content, and (2) perform moderation on some of that content. They are free to do their moderation without being required to moderate everything posted to their site.

It doesn't. It outlines that internet companies ARE NOT PUBLISHERS. As a result, they aren't liable for the things that people or other companies publish on their platforms.

>It does not provide immunity or any other benefit to a publisher that doesn't perform moderation. Such a publisher was already immune under preexisting law.

They weren't immune under preexisting law, they were actually liable as they could be treated as the publisher of any content on their platform. The reason the exception was carved out was because it was considered detrimental to the development of the internet and the free spread of ideas on the internet if websites were forced to moderate content completely.

It's actually a very interesting exception, too, because in effect this means companies like facebook are not held liable for publishing things on their platform, just so long as they didn't create the things they publish. It also provides them immunity to perform any kind of moderation they like.

The problem is that this exception was built for the prior internet. It depended on and was intended to build up the idea of personal control over content, where a person could decide what content they did and did not want to see online. That's why they were required to have a message telling users they can get parental controls and blockers.

>It's still quite obviously true that Facebook is not able to moderate everything posted to its website. What are you trying to say?

That's not obvious. I run ads on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other platforms; there is moderation before publishing for every ad I post. It's not perfect and often has problems, but it exists and it's expanding.
Hey HN, this is https://repository.surf, an open source[1] site for viewing insights across all repo's in a GitHub org.

The total star count will work for any github organization (it may take a while to fetch the data for big orgs).

If you log in and provide a GitHub key, repository.surf can track the total number of issues every hour, to give a burndown chart.

At this stage it's just stars and total issue count, but we will probably add more graphs/metrics some stage.

This came out of a need to see the total number of open issues across our entire org.
We wanted to track our burndown progress (or lack of progress in our case), which you can't do from the github API.

You can see an example with issue tracking here: https://repository.surf/supabase

The site uses the GitHub API to fetch all the repos for an org, then fetch the star count for every repo.
The data is cached in a Postgres server in Supabase[2] so that it doesn't hit the GitHub api for old data.
On new visit, the site will only pull current data.

[1] https://github.com/supabase/repository.surf

[2] https://supabase.io
Before, the indie dev got that entire $5, $10, $20 (minus the stores percentage), while now they get whatever percentage you played out of whatever percentage of the game pass fees are paid to the gAsk me what working on Manhunt 2 was like some time.ame developers. Maybe that ends up more than before, especially if you play a game a lot and more than just during one month, but its not clear to me that this is the case, especially if you split your time between many games.

It seems like this model is better for the consumer (pay one fee, play whatever and however much you like), but whether or not its better for the game developers, I don't know.
I'm not so sure it's chilling. Many indie folks actually feel like they get more reliable income from gamepass or epic exclusivity than they do on steam for example.
Still using it alongside .NET, my two favourite platforms.

Happy birthday Duke!
C940: The Guide to a Better Battery
JavaScript ES2021 – You Need to See These ES12 Features
On PC that infrastructure exists as well, for free. For
communication you can choose between things like Discord,
Teamspeak or maybe just the ingame voice chat. And you don't
need to pay for those Battlefield online servers. All while PC
games are cheaper than the console versions.
it's also statistically unlikely for females to be serial killers as well.