skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Linux is extremely fragmented

Linux support in games usually means support for Ubuntu/Steam runtime. No Linux user is asking for 100% QA coverage for Alpine and Kali.

> and has less than 1% of market.

If you mean Steam stats, it is comparable to macos market share.

> Mac has 10% - 20% Market

Nope, not even in US.

> judging from the M1 sales it should finally cross the 110M by late 2021.

Did you know that in 2020 ChromeOS machines sold better? I was also surprised.

> Asking for Mac support isn't ridiculous question like it was in the 90s.

Actually, it is.

MacOS is the platform that breaks ABI the fastest, even faster than Linux distributions. Apple expects the developers to keep up with maintenance of their software for each annual MacOS release -- which is exactly what game developers won't do. They expect to release their game, and after the wave of their sales ends, the game will end up basically unmaintained.

Hence, all the 32-bit games I have for MacOS won't ever run on M1. Or even any other Intel Mac that was upgraded to Catalina or newer. But their Linux counterparts will run on Linux for years to come.
Covid-19 Was Spreading in China Before First Confirmed Cases
Or delete chrome and install Firefox.
Depression is maladaptive. My environment was shitty and that’s part of how I developed depression, but depression didn’t make surviving that easier. It made it far, far worse. There were also good things in my life; but I couldn’t experience pleasure from those good things because of the depression. Even after I got out of that environment I couldn’t enjoy life.

Meds were a godsend. They allowed me to escape from depression long enough to deal with depression. Could I have done so even while still in a shitty environment? Probably, because the key ingredients for me were: meds, learning to identify good things, and not burying my feelings.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t be solving all these problems, but in the meantime let’s not tear down things that work for people because they don’t directly address a more intractable root cause.
"progress in science is happening one funeral at a time"
I have a niece Alexa, their family just set their Echo device's wake word to Echo.
First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.
I just hope it's the first planet with intelligent life.
Well, I'm excited!

The screenshots and small snippets of gameplay presented look familiar and fun. There's going to be controller support on PC as well (was one of my favorite things about D3). And cross-platform progression sounds interesting.

I'm not entirely happy about what happened with WC3:R, but I'm assuming some kind of lessons were learned with that, and with D2:R being made with a different team with closer interactions, I believe it will end up in a better state at launch.

(of course I'll also back-up my old copies of D2 and its installers as well just in-case)
Wishful thinking.

Maybe some time or other, yes. But 2023? If you believe that, I have several bridges for sale.
GlslViewer: Console-based GLSL Sandbox for 2D/3D shaders shaders
And yet here we are with 73 million doses distributed (in the US alone) of the most rapidly-developed vaccine in history, thanks to the fact that the scientific process was able to overcome the ugliness inherent in human society —- because humans have figured out a way to let our need to answer fundamental questions become more powerful than any of the silly things you mention.
It’s not pejorative. Naxals are supporters of the militant political organisation that claims the legacy of the Communist Party of India.

In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong.

They fund themselves through the Drug Trade, and 40% of funding for the Naxals comes through cultivation and distribution of drugs.
I meant drop xN by less baseline but increase xN by more difficult blocks, thus still 10min per block. But your sibling commenter now noted that the block size doesn’t affect difficulty. That’s confusing.
sciter is a really wonderful piece of software. it's performance has been really impressive when I was benching it against qt
Yeah, correct.

Even if you do control 51%, it would be a big long term capital and operational expense to do so, so you'd probably want to play nice rather than destroy what you've built.

Besides, even if you attack it, a new network will just spring up again, possibly with a different mining algorithm, making your old mining gear obsolete.

Also, in PoS, another last resort "nuclear option" defence strategy would be to slash the nodes that attack the network through a hard fork. It's a "nuclear option" because in theory it's unlikely to happen, only used a deterrent.

"Slash" here means to confiscate and burn their staking deposit on the new network. (The old one will continue to operate where the arrackers reside, thus a "fork")
From what I remember, D2 was released for Classic, and had update for Carbon/OSX.

Which turned out to be a problem, once the Classic environment was no longer shipped with OSX and you wanted to reinstall the game.
The sentence you cited is also (mutandi) a good description of mania.
I'm searching for remote server file manager right now. I want to copy (and compare) large directories on same Linux server from my Macbook. Cannot find one so far.

Cockpit: "here is no graphical file manager, and we don't plan to add one." https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/11011

CuberDuck: "FTP and SFTP do not support a copy operation."

Is there a way with GUI?
>Therefore, the implication is that anybody Jeff Dean cannot bear is an unbearable asshole.

And yet Internet / News Media seems to take it another way. I will have to wait for Google's PR machine to do their work.
Note there's even the cursed chat gem on the bottom of the page.
This is a plot point in Ted Chiang's science fiction story "Understand". (I feel like I've also seen it elsewhere in science fiction somehow.)
I get the impression anthropology is particularly bad.
Marketing and branding. "Medicare" is what most are familiar with, even if there are some tweaks to make.
I knew of a trucker once, who when he was starting his transport business, marked his first truck with "Number 8".

It never hurts to make people believe you are bigger and better than you really are.
But ... but that's not what the email says, at least from a casual reading.

> We would like to build it such that in theory any Wayland compositor could add support for this mode of operation if they want to remote application to a Windows host (over the network, or on the same box).

I'm not really in the state of mind to fully parse the full email chain, but it sounds like they want the ability to extend Wayland to forward a wayland window/application over RDP to an RDP client. This isn't really WSL2 specific, and could be used to forward applications from a dedicated Linux machine to a Windows client, or maybe even to another Linux host running FreeRDP!

I know the idea of using RDP at all isn't very sexy on Linux, but FreeRDP is nice, and you don't need to use windows at all to benefit from it. IMO it's pretty nice for when you need a detached session, especially per user sessions or multi sessions per user. Definitely better than VNC, again IMO.
Some people have existential anxiety and call it depression. Hell, some people have narrow Generalized Anxiety Disorder and still call it depression.
Although I haven't found any interest in Koo, but we SHOULD have more apps competing with twitter. The fact that one company decides the worldwide right and wrong of opinions and can manipulate it - is a big single point of failure for human society.
Isn’t that “actually” exfiltrating company documents? Not Google, but I don’t remember any of my NDAs mentioning that I couldn’t share confidential/privileged/company information unless I really wanted to with my lawyer...
The good news is that the retail direct investor revolution is changing this: people who are working in any technology field realized that they have a huge edge over general business analysts/hedge funds, and can often pick stocks better than just putting all money to IBM / Chevron / Goldman.

Combined with SPACS, ARK Invest, tech angel investors, sci-hub, Wikipedia, researchers with great ideas don't need to go to boring old conservative investors anymore.

Of course this may not help basic research, but the biotech infrastructure is getting much better.
Who's the they here? I thought they were hacked, not deplatformed by any of their service providers.
> Surely if it is possible for conspirators to get away with it in other countries

I'm not convinced that it is. Sure, election rigging happens, but that's not the “getting away with it” that would be at issue. Either people who get away with it undetected in the very short term are so good that they manage to suppress all evidence completely and it never comes out (which seems an implausible binodality in outcomes), or it usually is quite evident in even the very short-term, and either fails to do enough to change results, does enough to change results but is corrected by institutional processes, or it does enough to change results and is allowed to stand by corrupt institutions despite being widely decried.

There's not a whole lot of modern cases where election fraud is discovered only long-after the event rather than virtually in real-time.

Is vote rigging and conspiracy to rig votes possible in the modern world? Yes. Is it ever both significant and not immediately evident? It's not impossible, but it doesn't seem to be the case. If it were, you'd expect there to be examples of cases undetectable in the short-run but later discovered.
> because the system selects for people who can sleazily promote their own research to win grants

It's quite common in most fields for success to go to those who are able to sell themselves well.
> brain underweighs evidence from new experiences in favor of pre-existing [...] prior assumptions.

Isn't this what brains do typically, outside of depression?

I omitted the word "negative" from the quote as that part I don't think is universal. It still seems a somewhat limited modifier in modelling depression.

The linked article's paragraph on "lumping together depression and trauma" also seems to accidentally expand on this conflation. I understand the causes of depression are likely numerous, so natural tendencies of those not prone to depression can't be ruled out as contributory factors, but I'm not sure I see an argument there for their being significant.
confirmed: https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1362944639624388610
This is a fascinating thread.

Someone starts a "Brainstorming" and everyone else poo-poos on it. This is how:

1. ideas are killed

2. Entrepreneurs are forged

Related reading: https://www.macleans.ca/society/science/scientists-mrna-covi...
If anyone else can answer:

What is the best smartwatch that maintains privacy?

I have a Pebble Steel, but it will not sync with Gadget Bridge no matter what settings I try.
Not an old-timer, but really hope more and more ppl choose to support the service financially since I get massive value out of it.

Maciej's writing is great too!

He's just generally a person worth sponsoring/supporting IMO.
Org mode on remarkable2 would have me there in seconds, especially if pen input to org mode worked right.

Or maybe onyx boox?
Few things:

- Middle click the Plus button to open a new tab in the same container directly adjacent (instead of at the end) to the current one.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr... allows you to have different groups open within a browser window and switch between them. You can enforce a particular container per group. It may allow different "groups of groups" per window, so you can just use one group per window but use it to enforce the container.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-and-sw... allows you to type e.g. "co work" in the omnibox to switch containers from the keyboard.
I've had some pretty strange dreams over the years. Including some that were 2D animations, others that were like video games with cutscenes and text overlays. And that's without considering the precognitive dreams and those with side effects in the real world.
Don't forget the paladin's charge! Hit it just right and you barely move.
Google Fires “Ethical AI” Research Lead Meg Mitchell, Escalating Turmoil
I see a lot of people in the tech industry deeply concerned with human impact on the environment and our diminishing prospects of repairing it without drastically altering our lifestyles.
At the same time the general consensus in the tech industry towards the steady increase in power requirements for everyday computing seems to be indifference.

These two viewpoints cannot be reconciled.

Every month when this Electron discussion comes up there are so many who dismiss the egregious resource usage outright on the basis that it's trivial for modern computers. I'm one of those people who use Thinkpads in 2021 for my personal computing and have no problems with it. I will never buy a Mac, and I don't want to unnecessarily spend hundreds of dollars on a modern system when refurbished ones from a decade ago work so well. I avoid Electron apps on the basis that they flatten my battery quickly. I switched from using vscode to vim on my x200 and my battery life tripled, I'm not even exaggerating here either.
The route itself not the most complex calculation, but true complexity resides in that how do you make the result is OK with both driver, rider and uber.

All kinds of things happen as you don't know the preferences of everyone in the system (does the rider want to get to the place as fast as possible, or as cheaply as possible?) and because choosing the most optimal route has random variance (stop lights, traffic etc.)

Also, there are multiple different pricing models at work constantly, at the same time, in different areas.

Some country might use a "taxi-meter-simulator" type methodology where the actual route of the driver is mapped via constant GPS and other positioning technology. This introduces the randomness of a certain % of GPS errors, which need to be corrected manually.

Other option might be a fixed price that is estimated upfront and agreed upon by both rider and driver.

Or sometimes the the fixed price is only agreed upon by the rider, and the driver gets paid via the "taximeter-style" method.

And after all this, if you want to take into account things like how to translate a pin position or restaurant name into the best possible GPS position? How to optimize what driver is the best to pickup the passenger? The lower rated driver that is close or the 5 star that is far? Can we change optimal drivers on the fly?

And it goes on and on, deeper and deeper.
So cool, this idea makes a lot of sense to me. I sold a data viz article to a newspaper and was surprised to learn that the biggest value we provided was compiling the (publicly available) data.
Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies
I wonder, is this not a prime use case for Ada or even SPARK (the provable sub set of Ada) ?

You definitely can use C++ as well, but in a project like this, what would be the reasons not to use Ada?
Firefox, with account containers.
I think it only went to people of an older vintage
The first paragraph was about diphenhydramine (DPH) as a sleep aid. And I agree with the point. Any time I’ve tried to use it to help me sleep it sets me off on a downward spiral of bad sleep habits.
I am on “old timer” and signed up partly to support Maciej and partly for the site’s quirkiness. As others have said, I am surprised he is still tending to the website because it is in shambles and completely unreliable. I have had warnings from ifttt.com several times now that pinboard is offline. I will not be joining the subscription plan and am instead searching for an alternative that is reliable.
We have better wrapper software available nowadays, but I was really surprised at how Starcraft II launched. The Windows version of it only included a D3D9 renderer.

Notably, every major game before this point that had a native macOS version, also supported an OpenGL renderer on the Windows version. Specifically in my case, my experience with Wine back then wasn't ideal, and I believed that if SC2 had just had the OpenGL renderer, I could have gotten along fine with it.

I don't expect D2:R to be using Vulkan on any OS, or else that would have made x86 macOS support relatively easy. With my limited macOS usage in Mojave and Catalina, two MMORPGs (Guild Wars 2 and FFXIV) used Wine wrappers. Can't quite remember what GW2 did, but if I recall FFXIV, it used D3D11 -> Vulkan -> MoltenVK. Surprisingly worked well, but I don't know if that was something any random user could have done with any other game easily (not sure if there were pre-compiled solutions around).

Bootcamp should be fine, at least on x86 Macs. I've heard some initial work being done with M1 Macs, but I doubt anything ideal will exist by the time D2:R releases.
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Thanks for reply. I can see where you're coming from I think, but reporting or not reporting the law being broken is political exactly because, as you say, laws stem from the political process, but also because law enforcement is a socio-political activity.

I do see what though, as it's supposed to be accepted as a basic premise of society that we set laws and follow them, and all accept the responsibility of ensuring that those laws are followed.
Broadly there were two complaints:

1. Concerns about censorship of research critical of Google.

2. Concerns about diversity efforts within the Research organization.

Replacing someone with a proven track record of being above-average on diversity work, even to his own detriment, and who was willing to fight for his reports when they were censored by higher ups (Samy) with someone who is at best an unknown quantity (Marian) does not instill confidence.

Further, the claimed changes don't really do much. Supposedly, failures of DEI will be more impactful on perf for executives. Does that mean that the executives involved in this sequence of events will be dinged for mishandling this? My impression is no, or if anyone is, it'll be Samy.

As a sidebar, there's also the more nefarious thought that if you're being judged on the diversity of your org, firing a black woman and then bringing in a black woman executive means you won't get dinged for DE&I failures. Hence: tokenism without addressing the underlying issues, which might be summed up as many of the employees have no confidence in management.
LOL. It's extraordinarily easy to criticize when you aren't holding anything up as a suggestion or point of comparison -- but it's also extraordinarily pointless. Sometimes our best alternative is still pretty far from perfect. That's just how life works, and if you let this type of situation cloud your decision making you're in for a rough time in more aspects of life than this one.
There are people out there that only have one Google account and don't care too much about data collection, but for the rest of us, there is no reason that bookmarks should be tied to Gmail, Google Analytics, and YouTube.

This, and the lack of temporary container browsing makes Chrome a pretty tough sell for power users.

> Is it time to say goodbye to Chrome in favor of Brave, Vivaldi, etc. ?

Yes.
I never worked at Uber. I just followed them very closely.

The plugin AIMS to do what you said. What it actually does is something else.
I don't know, but I think it is much more likely that she is being fired for sharing internal info with journalists, outside activists, or former employees, than for sharing it with her own counsel.

Your employer might not like you sharing their internal info with your own attorney (under attorney-client privilege), but if they fire you for it, they potentially expose themselves to significant legal risk. Maybe you are planning to file a complaint or lawsuit about discrimination or harassment, or considering reporting your employer to some regulatory agency, and firing you for sharing evidence with your own attorney could legally be retaliation and viewed poorly by the legal system.

Now, if you share internal info with someone else's lawyer, or if you ask your own lawyer to share that info with third parties (other than regulatory agencies), different story – I think your employer is on much firmer legal grounds in those cases.
I suppose that depends on whether you think an "Ethical AI" group's job is as window dressing or to actually make an ethical impact.

If the former, then they probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place; PR people are cheaper and more tractable. If the latter, then there's only so long you can ask good people to stay quiet. Enabling ethical failure is also an ethical failure.

Your analogies don't really work, I'm afraid. The job of corporate lawyers isn't to force some sort of ethical or legal standard. It's to give confidential advice so a company can do what it wants without anybody going to jail. Accountants do maintain a standard that is quasi-ethical, but they do it by controlling their own work. Auditors are closer to the Ethical AI relationship, but they're specifically external, so as to avoid the conflicts of interest in Google trying to police itself. And both accountants and auditors drop a dime on people all the time, and even have protection under law for doing so: https://www.accountingtoday.com/whistleblower
We have to learn to separate people's personalities from their achievements.

Many a famous person has been an absolute arsehole. That doesn't mean he wasn't productive to the world as a whole.

If we remove Millikan, do we also remove Napoleon? Do we also remove George Washington? Do we also remove Edison?

Knee-jerk reactions require more thought before doing what is the first thought.
I’ve got one as well but I haven’t quite managed to make the switch. The normal keys are no problem, but what keeps me from using it full time is all the special keys, i.e navigation (arrows/home/end/etc) and shortcuts (command/option/ctrl).

I’m used to flying through editors by muscle memory so it feels quite painful to stumble on the new keyboard. Half the time I have to look at the old keyboard just to figure out what the actual keys I wanted are.

Any suggestions to get over the hump? I’ve tried some typing games like Epistory but they normally focus on normal keys. I haven’t see one for these special keys.
Did you ever end up playing the expansion set? Strangely I don’t see it talked a lot about in the context of Diablo 2 at all but it added new levels and 2 more playable characters (barbarian, assassin) to the game and really expanded the playability. I have some inside into the thinking behind the franchise because I started my career at Blizzard working on D2 expansion set. Anecdotally we had an X-men vs Street fighter game that I found appreciated play style at a very top level. Whatever character you chose that’s how you played. It was street fighter after all and I’m convinced that some of the specializing in character attention in d2 and wow was inspired by the way the coin-op played and QA as well as the game designers played nonstop. Now this sort of attentive character specializing outside of role playing games is all over the place and it’s not novel anymore but back then this was very innovative and immersive in an action game. The Lost Vikings and Rock and Roll racing another blizzard classic had the same mechanic.
No one is forcing you to not jailbreak your iPhone, though Apple has no obligation to make it easy to do so with ongoing updates to iOS.
Wandering wallaby pays visit to Australian hospital's emergency room
Yes, this is true, but I suggest it's because despite the privacy invasion, we don't know that much about individuals. We don't need to though.

Literally just basic demographics, plus a few interest points ... that's all I think we need to do well of those could be reliable.