skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up for the free Stadia trial they offered awhile back. I wanted to get back into gaming, don't have any hardware to run modern games and have a fast fiber connection at home. I seemed like the ideal target user.

I spun up a classic, Serious Sam and immediately was disappointed. It looked okay 95% of the time but would randomly get tearing and input lag at critical moments when enemies appeared. I tried on different hardware and different connections and it was all unusable. I think the issue is even a minor lag in FPS games ruins the experience. Forget about playing competitive multiplayer games like PUBG or Counter-Strike.

I ended up finding an unexpected alternative. Microsoft offers Xbox All Access plan as low as $23 dollars per month for physical console + game pass ultimate. To me that has been a much more compelling offer considering I own the console after and gave me immediate access to over hundred games to play locally (including great AAA titles), a fantastic way to get back into gaming. Also, I found out you can plug in a keyboard and mouse for FPS games. Seeing smooth low-latency 4K games is so refreshing and stark contrast to Stadia.

At this point I don't really understand Stadia's target market. It caters to such a tiny intersection of groups that it's almost nobody. Stadia might stick around as a niche for awhile, but it's never going to be the majority of gamers first choice since running games locally is such a superior experience.
> Find a low impact project or a project that can absorb a potential setback and try it out.

That's how I introduce every new thing to the companies I've worked for. Use it in a non critical project first. The problem with using a new thing is a critical project is if anything goes wrong the company hive mind will scapegoat the new thing and you.
How the union acquires their stake is a fair question which could be answered a lot of different ways. It can simply be considered a part of employee compensation. This is normal for software engineers (RSUs). The union might get a loan to purchase a stake. I worked for a company that transitioned from private to employee owned, it's not an insurmountable problem by any means.

Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding you, what you're calling a "conflict of interest" is literally my entire point.

It is a good thing that the union has an incentive to balance the interests of workers with the interests of the overall company.

If the company needs to cut jobs to be competitive, it is a good thing that the union has a stake in both sides of the issue. That way they will be incentivized to work towards a solution that is fair to the workers, and profitable for investors.

It's the exact situation we all face every day. I like the taste of donuts. I know that if I eat them all the time, I'll get fat. Because my stomach and brain have a "conflict of interest", I make choices that balance short term and long term pleasure. If every donut I made got somebody else fat, then they would be in trouble, because I might like the taste of donuts more than I care about their health.
Incentives, law and outside attestation.

Google gives you a lot of things for "free". I trust someone who I pay $9/mo to if they promise to not share my photos. If they share my photos, they'll stop getting my $9/mo.

Legally, the host can include protections for your data including not reselling or sharing your data even in cases of acquisition. If it's in the contract with the host, it's binding both ways.

Third, by allowing audits. There's a cost here and auditors are still human, but they provide outside assurance - especially when their findings are published independently.
We can't fight it unless it happens right in front of us? We can donate to organizations that do have the stated purpose. We can vote for politicians who propose laws and policies that make it extremely difficult for it to happen. How are you powerless to do anything about it unless it happens "right in front of you"?

And I'm pointing out how in my capacity I am doing everything I can to fight it. Part of that is convincing your (or more likely others reading this), that your position is wrong.
Don't give them any ideas.

If they did, you'd have a lot more free time for them to exploit in the future.
Show HN: White-Label TikTok
What are the signs of an SSD that's about to die?
Gilgamesh Lament for Enkidu (By Peter Pringle)
{citation needed}

Seriously, I haven't seen any news of these attacks being used against end-user systems, either broadly or targeted. Have some links?
It's a supported API, with free and paid plans. The Yahoo API has been officially dead for years, they just didn't pull the plug yet.
One of the reasons I went from placing a full article in my RSS feed to truncating it into a descriptor and leaving the link as the "source of truth" was I found that there a bunch of intentionally crippled readers, like Thunderbird, that strip all the markup and turn my article into an unreadable mess.

Traffic to both the feed and to the main site increased noticeably when I reduced it to a descriptor.
This reminds of my favorite article by sportswriter Bill Simmons, titled The Consequences of Caring, in which he describes seeing his daughter embrace a sports team and experience crushing disappointment for the first time, and reflects on his own lifetime of fandom.

https://grantland.com/features/the-consequences-caring/
HTTP echo service (and package) with JSON output in Go language
I'm not talking about hindsight or who was right or wrong. Honestly I have no idea how this will continue play out. Anyone who claims they do is misinformed or selling you something. The price went up and down by a huge amount so the lucky will already have big wins. Maybe there will still be more big winners to come or maybe not. Many people seem to have not been aware of what game they were playing and were caught up in hype and frenzy, even here on dear old HN.
Right on. This kind of thing keeps happening. Fortunately, HN and other communities have a surprisingly sharp eye for these lies and can generally be relied upon to call them out, but people still try it on.

Here's another example: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
I don't think we've intentionally made false statements nor committed any fraud. But we appreciate the feedback, we'll review as a team and see what sort of decision we can make that will maintain source availability without upsetting folks who allow OSI to define "open source". We made some mistakes, we're very early, and we were hoping to have a (constructive) conversation around licensing and sustainable open source.
Cutco ... Interslice ...
probably goatse dot cx, but I'm not checking
I’ll concede on B5’s story arc and also DS9’s, even if it stole from B5. But I do still think Expanse S3 rivals any season from any other sci-fi show, while allowing that it benefits from the modern tv format and special effects. B5 done today would have been amazing.
It's been at least a decade since I deleted my linkedin account.
Not that they had any way of knowing what would happen. $20 could have been the peak for all anyone knew, and by the end of next week selling at $20 might look like a smart move.
> … we should be looking for ways to raise the average level of developer and manager competence.

Ha, I wish! The vast majority of companies I worked for never wasted a thought on this. It seems clear to me that there is much room for improvements on that axis, irrespective of organizational style.
You must be an Arsenal fan. Bloody depressing.
Still running the Spinner/Roxen web server, I see: http://www.armory.com/internal-roxen-roxen :)

That tiny Swedish company was my first employer 1997-2004. Fun times.
Now available:
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/01/25/3.0.0-release/
my original post answers the question posed by its title (but in an unrelated way)
How exactly were the Apple 8 bit computers closed? Mine came with full schematics, and nice slots for me to build circuits onto cards and plug in.

And when I look at an Apple 2 mainboard, and one from an early IBM, the singularities are compelling.

I am open on this, but need info :D
At the time this happened, that was the last straw after losing about 2 calendar days times 21 employees. You know what? We never had it happen again after moving. Not once in the next four years (I sold the company and didn't pay attention after the sale).
Ask HN: Does Slack work better in the browser?
While impressive product wise, Slack is still slow as a dedicated Mac app, especially when Teams also run and someone shares her screen.

Would it be better (both CPU and ram usage) if Slack was opened in the browser instead (preferably Firefox)?
You have to start somewhere, with your argument we already have some x.y.z provider so why change?
If there's one thing you can count on 'disruptors' to not understand, it's grandfather clauses. You raise your rate for all new 'customers' and your overhead rate stops looking like a line going toward infinity.

Your reward for being at Google for 5 years should be that you get the rate plan from 2 years ago when your first kid was old enough for daycare.

My reward for being a Netflix customer for 6 years should have been that I still got the old rate.
Isn't AlphaVantage free limited to 5 requests a minute and 500 a day? And it requires an API key?
I was dismayed to learn that pixels are not square at all. It got worse with the switch to LCD.
That’s a very good explanation.

Also, this:

https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-22-babylon-5-digital-video-...

There used to be a website which had examples of the CGI before and after the DVD remaster, but I can’t find it at the moment.
So why doesn't one exist? The whole idea of free market capitalism seems to fall apart when one examines any of the necessary assumptions in any real detail.
"Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools" is such a no-brainer, but coverage.py's author had a real hard time getting that acknowledged as a valid use case.
You can interpret anything as gaslighting. This sort of discussion rarely productive without concrete evidence. Maybe the wealthy are trying to burn Yellen's political capital because she's in favor of additional taxes. Maybe it's really corporations who are stirring up populist narratives because it gets less qualified candidates elected, who then need to turn to corporations for expertise.
Wall Street Has Always Manipulated the Markets
Google couldn't sign me in, so I signed out, indefinitely
Short term investing is for sure a bet. Long term investing is a bet with the house edge in your favor, because of corporate buy-back and dividends.
Protectionism surely plays a somewhat unspoken role.
Also, XEROX. Invented the laser printer, the mouse, and the GUI. Those are a bit more significant than one-click checkout...
Interesting!

Scriptable may find a lot of use.
I really enjoy bitcoin speculation because it is so purely about human psychology with no inconvenient external realities or objective value to get in the way.
the dialogue sometimes feels like it's disproportionately characters barking or hissing at each other, even if they're in a very formal or very familiar environment where that level of rudeness and overt hostility seems out of place.
This makes sense. They don't want any gang wars with the Trails Park Boys
It has been remastered and is now available on HBO Max and for purchase online. This dropped last week with almost no warning.
I didn't mean for you to take my comment as a guarantee, but if you're more than curious I'd have your counsel read the license, as we are under the impression the use you describe is well within the rights granted by the current license. Put another way, do you consider Sentry "open source"?
For Ruby/Rails, there's https://jumpstartrails.com and https://bullettrain.co that handles these for you so you can focus on coding the core functionality.
Except if you're a developer and you're coming into the workforce today, I am going to be far more likely to hire you if you run Linux than Windows. My startup lives and breathes Unix/Linux tooling because it's the best toolset to work with.

But it didn't start that way. It started as an idea and took the next twenty years to become the leviathan of corporate tech today. Somebody had to breathe fire into that idea and spark a life.

When our tooling is open, everyone benefits. We need to learn to look beyond our self-serving natures and nurture unbound software, even if that means a little discomfort now for a greater good tomorrow.
No, it's way more than that. 10 years ago, I worked at a fairly well known tech company with 500+ employees.

1. We had an in house production engineering team, manage our own BGP and PoP points.

2. As we started to scale, we required active-active replication across multiple datacenters with high SLA requirements, which spawned a year-long project with multiple engineers to build in-house.

3. As the team grew, we required some sort of pub/sub system to enable cross-service communication — which spawned a year long project with a handful of engineers to build in-house.

4. We had to deploy our own load balancers in our datacenters and ensure that they scaled as we grew.

Today, my tiny little team has access to tooling that enables pretty much everything I described above for a low monthly price. Elastic load balancer gave us (4) right out of the box, RDS (or Dynamo) gave us (2) right out of the box, SQS + SNS gives us (3) right out of the box. Within the AWS VPC in us-east-1, we hardly ever think about (1). Today, we just had a need to do OCR (optical character recognition) of receipts because it was becoming untenable to have humans read every single on of them. Once upon a time, that would have been its own big engineering workstream. Instead, we had an intern integrate with AWS Textract (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/) and called it a day.

These anecdotes just scratch the surface; if you go on https://aws.amazon.com/, every single one of those products were once months-to-years-long multi-engineer projects that had to happen in-house at every tech company as recently as 2012. The sheer breadth of what AWS allows startups with limited resources to do just can't be understated, and as a startup employee myself, I appreciate that first-hand.
How does it compare to default linux caching algorithm?
I think you mean: "People do seem to think it's like books or something, you can walk up, rock the Walmart and no one can object or stop you..."
Except those are also private conpanies that can and will kick you out if what you say is inconvinient in any form.

And so my question.
Right. That's the next stage up, pumps, plumbing, and instrumentation. The "cartridge" mentioned is the hard part.

Here's a company which makes the "chips" which go in such cartridges.[1] And here are some chips.[2] Making those involves etching tiny patterns in glass, lining the channels with various coatings, and assembling the layers of glass into devices. All this has to be done in a very clean environment. Note the similarity to the processes in a wafer fab.

The point here is that the semiconductor industry has many processes and tools which might be helpful if there's a need to manufacture microfluidic components in quantity.

[1] https://www.dolomite-microfluidics.com/

[2] https://www.dolomite-microfluidics.com/product-category/micr...
In the great controversies, only the simplest of minds can believe one side is wrong. If you think the word 'conservative' or 'liberal' is synonymous with bad arguments, then you've spent too much time in echo chambers. There are very good and interesting arguments to be made for and against each side and plenty of terrible people on both sides who can be held up as bad examples. Neither side has a monopoly on the truth.
> sounds in space

This criticism doesn't really make sense to me. We're watching through the lens of an invisible space camera with some sort of amazing lighting rig to make things look better. Why can't that space camera also have a laser microphone and sound synthesizer which makes things make noise to provide audio cues that the audience can latch on to? Alternately: the gun and engine noise comes from the same place that the background music comes from, and nobody questions that.
Really fooled or not, the radical progressives have won the cultural war, no? TV anchors and politicians use racism and sexism to attack pretty much any opposing views. Case in point, WaPo(?) article said WSB folks were white supremacists/Trump supporters, never mind majority of them are actually supporters of Sanders.

Where is the voice of the people who are not really fooled?
I actually make my own RSS feeds using RSS-Bridge. It is a trivial process if you a bit of PHP. Then, I'd hook them up to my FreshRSS aggregator fork.
For anyone else who misparsed "bullshit asymmetry principle," this refers to the asymmetrical effort required to debunk vs. spread bullshit, and not an "asymmetry principle" which is bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
I'm going off the assumption that the capacity has been expanding as much as possible, so scrap factories wouldn't be a problem.

The Pfizer vaccine seems to have a shelf life of 6 months, so realistically the earliest they could have begun mass manufacture and have an effect today would have been June. That's right around the time they narrowed down to a single vaccine candidate.

I'm surprised that mass manufacturing didn't begin back then with the only possible candidate, especially since the US government also put their order in around that time. I can't find a whole lot of info on when they did ramp up (something I saw said October), and what reasons they had for not starting earlier.
Are lights in a helmet dumb? Being able to see companion's facial expressions while not critical would be absolutely useful in day-to-day life in space - TV production reasons aside.

On the transparent glass phones: "looks cool" is reason enough for most any consumer product. I haven't read the series, so I don't know if there is some lore explanation somewhere -- but --- if the technology is lying around as some component of a space habitat AND it looks cool, yeah, that tech is definitely going in a phone.
I hate the dismissiveness of this "hacker" community.

Sometimes it's cool to just see what can be done with a technology and it's great that this person documented so others could learn from it or give useful feedback on improving implementation.
At AG Shapiro’s Urging, Comcast Delays New Data Thresholds
I didn't say I don't consider them to be taxes. I said I don't consider them in this discussion because they're not part of how much of your salary you take home.

To look at it from another point of view... If _all_ the money you made came from long term capital gains, the taxes you pay on it would be based on totally different tax rules. Capital gains taxes are certainly impacting how much you "spend" on taxes, but they don't impact how much of your "salary" goes to taxes.... because you don't have a salary.
That's the thing. In China, EVs and solar are not the domain of the middle class. They're used by everyone.
I was sceptical at first too because of the fact that they only restricted buy orders, but it makes perfect sense from the perspective of a broker in this situation. Thomas Peterffy explains it pretty well in [1], basically if you have a short squeeze and the supply is limited because of people holding their shares, the stock would basically go to infinity. Those that sold call options are out of business and the brokers have to take the counterparty risk and are themselves insolvent as a result.
[1] https://youtu.be/kV_P8wnY854
You cannot cite the average cost of a house while dismissing the idea of buying a house using a mortgage. Mortgages are a part of the housing market and are part of the reason prices are what they are. If there were no mortgages prices would be lower, and the market would be structured completely differently.
I think it's a typo but "unworthy to glaze upon" is hilarious
California's teachers' union is quite powerful and a big force the state has to contend with. Even if teachers are vaccinated, there seems to be no clear plan forward.

Seems Newsom has a tentative date to reopen as soon as mid-February statewide. I personally don't think the big districts will do much before the end of the school year (May for primarily semester-based K-12).
That is one form of attack, but that's "the nuclear option" of infrastructure. It's a concern, but many of the concerns around 5G are persistent nation state spying activities. China is far more concerned with data aggregating and mining than it is with nuking the West. China, in general, tends to avoid cataclysmic actions that upend the current order. Especially given that most of the Western world is China's largest trading partners and a fundamental part of their economy.

China's strategic plan is spy and collect, not destroy. Traditional espionage stuff that every country does.
There are quite a few vim users, to the extent that the manual addresses their needs directly: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Vim.html

A common pattern for Vim users is to happily code in Vim and occasionally switch DrRacket for specific tasks. And use the command line tools - https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/index.html
> we see the utter lack of the ability to think big in the drug community

I don't know what you are talking about. Speculatively building out capacity for as yet unproven vaccines was suggested and planned back from the beginning already.

(Here for example the Gates foundation in April 2020:
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-factories-7-diffe... )

> There basically no amount of money that it would not have been worth it to spend.

The Economist calculated, based on a Goldman Sachs study, that "an American wearing a mask for a day is helping prevent a fall in gdp of $56.14. Not bad for something that you can buy for about 50 cents apiece." - so, basically a 10000% ROI in a day!

Yes, then, money could have been sensibly employed, but on what? Maybe it would have been better employed on PR to persuade people to wear masks, or maybe a DDOS shutting down social media. How to allocate money optimally in real time remains a difficult question.

I don't think things could have been substantially faster, though things could have been much less painful if not for the intransigence and recklessness of many covidiots.

EDIT to add the source: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/08/22/w...

and outline if paywalled: https://outline.com/yCeVzn
I remember going to the Expo in Spokane in 1974. AT&T had a booth there, where you could dial the same number on a rotary phone and a touch-tone phone, and it would time you so you could see how much faster touch tone was. As a 12-year-old kid, that was my "meet the future of the phone" moment.
I think Medium's "highlight" feature is one of the things that they did really well, allowing readers to bring attention to those sections which were most impactful.
Start Tracking your Forms (and how you can do it)
Jupyter Book is more flexible, simpler and tested to death since it is build upon Sphinx and docstrings. Since jupyter uses pandoc for converting notebooks, pandoc is the power tool for publication creations nowadays.
Short: Comcast will delay enforcing the 1.2TB data caps until August (originally scheduled for March) for customers in the north east.
I understand the pessimism -- and I think you're right that lobbying and economic inertia are the reasons that change has taken so long.

However I think there is cause for reserved optimism; the ACA moved the Overton Window on this subject. Sanders and Warren made Medicare For All a core part of their platform, and did not get killed for it. Biden supports a public option (Medicare buy-in, not single payer), but that is now the moderate / bipartisan position in terms of voter support.

We will probably not get a single payer solution in this administration, but the public option could capture some of the market, and make further changes more tractable.