skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think burden to the platform is relevant. Part of the security model on the console platforms is that no user code can be run. To support side loading, many assumptions would change overnight. This is a significant burden to Sony and the game devs.

Apple and iOS, on the other hand, support side loaded code. It's just a matter of who pays for what.
I will disagree, you can see the entitlement of users that demand the game,movie or payment system must be exactly his preferred one. Though for Valve you can compete with them (but people hate it but I think they don't hate the actual competition but the shitty implementation of the stores and the fact this game launcher most of the time must be run in background ) BUT with Apple you can't compete, they have up to 50% market share in some countries and if you are a business half of your existing customers(that you earned fairly and were not gifted by Apple to you) will ask for an iOS app and now you either give a bad experience to your customer or you pay the tax.

About the argument that Apple,Valve gives you access to many users, sure that should be price correctly, developers could pay for getting promoted on the first page of the store, but Apple,Google should not get a cut for promoting my app if the user installed it starting from my own website.
Apple revamps syringe emoji for Covid vaccines
I’m with you. We should all strive to stop waste and do our part.

I don’t shop at IKEA for similar reasons and I have also cut down Amazon purchases for random things that I can do without.

I think I was being too harsh, but I am sad that the catalogs are going away. They’re such a big part of IKEA’s contribution to culture that it’s carbon footprint can be forgiven.
For me, they get lost amidst the mountains of other email I get. I also don't like reading longer form content in my mail app. Having them sent to an RSS reader where I'm already reading news is a nice way to avoid those clashes of context.
And the format is in a some kind of revival. Some of the best content I get is from newsletters these days.
Amazing how fast this is moving, congrats! Looking forward to seeing it being used more broadly.

Just saw that they have links to "Made with blitz" on their wiki in case anyone is interested:
https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/wiki#-made-with-blitz-incl...
What matters in practice is mostly by whether people memorize it. People choose to memorize Pi and the list of dictionary headwords (to play Scrabble, you don't need to speak or even read the language, just know all the valid words)

Once upon a time people would memorize telephone numbers of friends and people they call often, not so much now.

During the pandemic my gaming group uses Google Meet, some things use Zoom, we began having Friday evenings in Jitsi and we moved them to Gather Town.

Zoom is the only one that is resolutely impractical to memorize, every Zoom meeting gets a random huge ID and password, so you need to pass around lengthy nonsense URLs for each meeting and even then you might also need to share the password. This is done in the name of "security" although it isn't actually more secure than...

Jitsi takes arbitrary long strings to distinguish one conference from another, defaulting to generating word salad. So you tell everybody you're in "CloudsEffortlesslyChaseMushrooms" and joining creates it. If you want to name one "SecretHackerNewsRoom" you can, but I think somebody might guess that name.

Google Meet uses shorter, random IDs. You can't mint your own, and by contrast to word salad they're tricky to remember, but you can re-use them, and after a while your mind remembers ZWC-KLWL-CBMB or whatever because it's the same every week. Also your browser will auto-complete it, if you have that turned on.

Gather Town allows you to build and name custom places. Since you're customising them anyway, you get to name them. If you call it "RedLionPub" I'm guessing you might get uninvited guests. If you instead reference an inside joke ("TerramicDragonHouseOFish" or "InstantMonkeyDispatch") not so much. However there is an ID number baked into the URLs, and I don't know if there's search, so you'll likely end up memorizing or bookmarking URLs for a place you go often.
Nice idea.

Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed?

Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thought for years there should be something like that. Presumably it's a grey area with APIs or scraping.
Not at Argos, the original catalogue shop.

They used to have large paper catalogues to browse (or take home), but now I think it's computers.

You can order and pay using a terminal in the shop, from a phone app, or by asking the assistant. You get a paper receipt with a big number (presumably something similar on the app, which I haven't used) and wait at the back.

After 2-3 minutes, your order number appears on a screen at the back of the shop. You show the receipt to collect it.

The image in the article shows most of it. Behind the photographer is usually a display of a few things: toys, bicycles, watches etc.

https://internetretailing.net/mobile-theme/mobile-theme/argo...
Theorem LP (YC W14) Is Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
>Every major player will make their own marketplace and force you to use it to access their software

A lot of comments keep saying this. So why haven't they done it on android? If they wanted to have huge amounts of users use their stores, wouldn't android give them even more of that than iOS?

Why are there all these doomsday scenarios being touted in this thread when what epic is asking already exists on another (larger) platforms, and none of the things that you and others mention happened?
Summit (https://usesummit.com/) is another app in this product category. Worth checking out if you're planning on investing time in setting something like this up.
Okay, ‘according to the documentation’ it probably is. In reality it isn’t.

Like they say,

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

Here’s a list of things that can go wrong (here in the context of domain controllers):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server...

Some of them are just the unavoidable hardware failures, for others they suggest ‘Deploy the OS on server-class hardware’. Or the always helpful ‘restore from backup’. Not quite reasonable for a database containing a search index on a consumer device.
Hope this content has been archived due to historical reasons rather then just removed for freing space.
This exists actually. There's quite a few of them.

ie: Razer Cortex
> all that mattered was finding a solution as quickly as possible

What's to stop someone spending a bunch of money on a dead-end project that benefits them and no-one else, and then saying "hey, it's risky, bummer we couldn't make a vaccine"?

We can be generous to make sure it gets done by someone, but we should also make sure that people actually try.

The current UK government has a lot of stories about procurement, and it gives the impression that they mainly benefitted their friends, with the procurement of PPE and vaccines being a nice side-effect.
Kind of an odd response, given that the preceding post was at the same level of generality.
Torturing Geniuses (2020)
Some SVG is very readable and easy to modify. I'm no designer but I've opened up SVG files and made modifications to get what I want (remove elements, change colors, etc).

Not all SVG authoring tools make SVG's easy to read/modify. Tools in the 90's used to the same thing with HTML. Are you going to argue HTML isn't text?
I double checked, and the confirmation links are sent to the sender as you would expect. Please check again and make sure you use the correct fields. If it happens more often, I'll consider swapping the fields, even though this order seems to make most sense looking at several email clients.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: BSD is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for BSD because BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for BSD. As many of us are already aware, BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that BSD has steadily declined in market share. BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save BSD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, BSD is dead.

Fact: BSD is dying
I think that's part of the premise for the show. Landing on the Moon did slow down the Space Race, there are a ton of documented plans for the advancement of the Space program but the will to push them through disappeared as soon as the US "beat" the Soviets. I think the real reason was that many, maybe even most people only really cared about Space from a standpoint of beating the other team. The show really leans into that in the early episodes. It does cast the USA as the "good" guys, in that even if we are losing we never give up until we win.
> This doesn't necessarily mean you're invalid, but if BTC increased 100x, they'd exceed the world's GDP.

Ahh, but the asteroid 16 Psyche is worth $10 quintillion and one day we'll mine it. That lets the BTC cap go 100,000x further than the world GDP.

[On a more serious note, note that GDPs have a time component and market caps -- or the amount of a currency in circulation -- don't. If each unit of money gets spent every month, you only need GDP/12 units of money in circulation; if each unit of money gets spent every 10 years, you need GDPx10 units of money.]
How D3 Moved Us
>BUT with Apple you can't compete, they have up to 50% market share in some countries

That statement isn't true no matter how you slice it. Apple's largest competitor is Google so the idea that you can't compete with Apple is nonsense. And what countries does Apple have a 50% market share in?
Hi, maintainer for Unikraft here. (:

Thanks for posting thhe links! We've done a few more talks, including FOSDEM this year[0] which we still need to add to the website. Thanks for the suggestion about the website, we're continiously looking for ways to improve. We're hoping to revamp the tutorial with new updates to kraft[1].

[0]: https://video.fosdem.org/2021/stands/unikraft/
[1]: https://github.com/unikraft/kraft
Many computing tasks are very parallel as well as depending on memory bandwidth. I think it'd be useful for almost any of them.
An Elegant Angular Architecture
Yes, for smaller stuff, numpy really does add a lot of overhead. It would make life much simpler if you could copy things into a numpy array more quickly, but oh well. In any case, you can find pretty tight pure Python code for most things. For instance, I needed to drop a relatively small Linear Regression calculation from like 500 microseconds using numpy or scipy (I don't remember) to double-digit microseconds somehow. I googled it for a little bit and after adapting some pure python code using regular lists, I got it into double digits. And then after converting the function rather easily into Cython (and just the function, not the entire program), its single-digit microseconds now.
True, good modern paper of the types those monk used lasts about 500 years or so in the typical case. (meaning no fire-flood, both of which were common; and not in a carefully climate controlled area which can add thousands of years). We haven't really improved on paper since then. There is a lot of cheap paper that will fall apart in less than 100 years, but those monks didn't use that.

What digital storage do you have that will last that long? A few CDs would in the ideal case (but most are not that grade). I'm not clear how long SSDs will last. Magnetic tape becomes brittle and single read in about 30 years as we know from history.

The only advantage of digital is IF you care at all it is easy/cheap to copy to something new.
> My gaming computer is already filled with like 8 different app stores each completely different then the other and a variety of privacy/security issues on each

One could expect that someone on a forum called "hacker news" knows how to close apps after running + also disable their autorun at startup.

Multiple app-stores are not that great, but still better than a monopoly of one company that takes a 30% cut for every product sold and in return provides an app that barely works (lags, constant updates, constant questions about password if you dont use it much).

It's basically the same as having multiple icons provided by multiple games. They also had different installers and privacy policies.

Competition among app stores means lower prices and cheaper service.
Thank you for this, looks good, books added to reading list
A lot of this post is (good!) tactical advice. I strongly agree with the comment on emotional self-control. IMO this is one of the top ways that managers fail or struggle, especially as their teams grow or if times are hard.

I've thought about this a lot and wrote some more strategic thoughts on this topic of management soft skills here. It's written more from the perspective of hiring managers, but hopefully some of the content transfers: https://staysaasy.com/product/2020/09/06/soft-skills-for-man...
(also work at aws)

i think that spoiler alert is a little overgeneralized.

first, there’s plenty of advances in those categories in the past 5 or so years (lambda, fargate, qldb, a bunch more) that move the needle significantly on the versions of things that existed 10-15 years ago. we didn’t collectively get everything right by 2012, and i heartily endorse customers using things that take away operational complexity but are less “complete” compared to the lower level counterparts.

second, you missed mentioning that circular dependencies is a very real reason for why cloud vendor service teams can’t (not won’t) use services that would otherwise benefit them. this is a problem that is much less apparent to customers of clouds because, to them, the suite of services is provided as a single flat layer of options.

i do agree that you want to make sure any service you use is “complete” for you, but that completeness can exist on a spectrum and sometimes getting onboard early and driving their roadmap can benefit you greatly. i also agree that you want to be conservative with how many services you do use, because each one without exception will become a learning experience.
Sinch acquires Inteliquent for $1.14B to take on Twilio in the US
In the U.S. everything is technically exempt from FOIA to a degree. Having gone through that process while I was in the military, I found many of the loopholes. The obvious ones are that the answer can be "Classified" or "Decline to answer" or in my case, the answer can be boxes and boxes of paperwork that is worded so vague that it may as well not have existed. No idea if this is the same in the U.K. Is there anyone from the U.K. here that has gone through the process?
Hedge Fund Genius Who Started GameStop’s 4k% Rise, Sold Before Its Reddit Surge
>I'm not sure why people would be wary of clicking the unsubscribe link on something they explicitly subscribed to in the first place. I mean, they trusted you enough to give you their email address to subscribe in the first place, right?

You're assuming that they willingly signed up for it and weren't added to the list because of someone selling their data to another marketer, a dark UX pattern tricking them into signing up for the newsletter when they made a purchase, etc.
Then you end up at step 1, lol, same thing with TV.

Channels are bad and too restrictive -> added cable TV "stores" to buy movies/stuff -> Netflix -> Prime/Hulu/Disney Plus/etc -> App to allow you to search through "channels" -> welcome to TV from the 1990's with the added benefit of millions or channels vs 1000's.
Power Outages in the US
I would like to have an option to install steam on PS5. But if sony were forced to do that, I don't think they can sell it for $499.

Also, like samsung, apple will only be providing like 18 months of updates
Amazing!! The idea to generate an API when compiling is very good.

The only thing that is holding me back is that as far as I understand Prisma doesn't support cascading deletes.

Meaning that if I have to delete a user, then I have to manually delete all his projects, comments, posts, etc... which is not nice.
Exempt from foi = is a vehicle for putting taxpayer cash in our mates pockets.
The article you link lists numerous advantages to using Atom over RSS (and no advantages to RSS). Why would you consider RSS over Atom?
As usual, context matters. If you're trying to convey complex thoughts about abstract matters, then language is the way to do it. If you are trying to convey deep emotional states, then a photo or video is probably better. You cannot convert the 1st amendment into photos, and you cannot convert the Mona Lisa smile into words.

Just try to use words to describe either of these photos and see how they fall short:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-10/19/1...

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-10/19/1...

Between recorded voice and written text, I personally prefer written language. I like the ability to consume at my own pace, go back and re-read tricky bits, and easily search or quote. Plus it's much easier to use TTS to convert text to speech than the other way around (at the moment). Maybe someday technology will remove this boundary but currently that's my stance.
The article referred inside was helpful in showing its further repercussions: https://gritdaily.com/on-clubhouse-women-and-people-of-color...
Same for the various versions of Apple Mail. No idea whether there is a keyboard shortcut though.
Is BMI accurate for athletic body types?

I would suspect the risk would be lessened for healthy sportsmen who are adequately rested.
App store monopolies have not meaningfully hindered this.

To your first example: Most malware infections on PCs today are distributed by the Chrome Web Store. (Preventing malicious extensions was Google's excuse for blocking third party install... but since they don't even attempt to control malware they distribute first party, it's hilarious.) If they tell you they have a virus, open their Chrome extensions tab, remove everything, and you're good.

If anything, centralized app stores magnify the problem: By making every single app submitted look like it's coming from a reputable source. If app stores did any realistic good job at policing malware, instead of focusing on policing their revenue tax, they might be a benefit.

But again, malicious apps can have millions of installs and nobody does anything about it. Epic decides to charge 18% less and circumvent Google and Apple's taxation, and they act in less than 12 hours.
Let Over Lambda has a section about leveraging Common Lisp's macro system to make a Forth in a really clever way, IIRC.
and? the developer whats to put his apps on the app store, why shouldn't they demand a fee. But that has nothing to do with the customer.
The problem with this line of argument is that it applies to anything and everything done under the current conservative banner.

IE, Torrie/Boris corruption is the only topic. Whether it's a British DARPA, new sewage plant, or change to the tax code, the only thing to say is "They're corrupt. This is just another pilfering."

I'm sympathetic to the focus on corruption. Corruption is bad. That said, I don't think the UK is at the point where everything is just corruption and nothing more. There is room to talk about things other than corruption too. Besides, this particular flavour of corruption is almost always present. Whether it's the VC's boyfriend, bank manager's mistress or political boys clubs. Insiders get insider access. I don't like it either, but where/when is this not the case? It's not a coincidence that so many of your (or american) parliamentarians went to school together?

I am sure knowing people at DARPA, being married to a general or whatever is a big help too.

Americans are worse than you guys on these fronts, and they're not the worst either.
I.e. the correct and expected method for installing the latest version of Node.js as a package on Debian. (Except you're supposed to run it as root.)
EPO considers SQL to be patentable
One I saw recently with kids is japanese anime "Okko's Inn" (see above).
Per-Country IPv6 Adoption
I respectfully disagree.

There's a sweet spot where companies can use the lowest foundational building blocks, build their own stacks on top, and save resources (comparatively to running your own datacenter).

Things like EC2, EKS, S3, and RDS Aurora can be considered foundational but you don't really have to use Athena, CloudWatch, or RedShift (they are super expensive anyway).
Valve is not parasitic because its pimint out it's customers? That a stange argument if I ever heard one.

I could accept this if valve store didn't take 20 seconds to load on an 8-core machine.
The data visualisation exercise My Little Crony [1] was featured in some UK media in November. It is described on the site as: A visualization of the connections between Tory politicians and companies being awarded government contracts during the pandemic based on a wide range of investigative reporting.

Perhaps it hit a raw nerve or two.

[1] https://www.sophie-e-hill.com/post/my-little-crony/