skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (not that many people are interested in 22 year-old strategy video games)

I recently started a game of Alpha Centauri again. Good times.
What if the page gets part of its content from JS, or it uses JS to facilitate users actions? This is fairly common.
It is more than likely not moving anywhere.
GPGPU with the graphics APIs isn’t a comparable developer experience at all, and comes with quite some major limitations.

About DirectCompute, C++ AMP is in practice dead on Windows, stuck at a DX11 feature level with no significant updates since 2012-13, staying present just for backwards compatibility.
While Black people were disproportionately victims of lynching, lynching was not in itself a racial phenomenon, even if racists frequently employed it. People of all races were commonly lynched by people of all races. It's a legacy from a time when mob justice was common, in part because of the limitations of the legal system.

So his usage seems quite correct.
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML
Some projects I wanted to do:

- key/value storage system like LevelDB but less complex

- Infrastructure monitoring tool. Collect basic data.
Something like datadog, but simplified of course

- terminal text editor, w/ ncurses for development ease

- A cross platform lightweight PDF reader, maybe using mupdf as a backend.
C++ to Rust – or how to render your mindset
As someone who has started out making games on Playstation 1 that didn't have floating point hardware, I can with authority say that developing games with only integers suck. Floating point number are far easier and robust to use.
Yes! I think Braid is a good effort in this area, will add to the prior art section.
This seems like right approach, although I'm not a purist anyways. I have a personal policy not to buy games unless they have Linux support, however I have decided that games that officially support Proton are good enough. At the end of the day I just expect that it works, if the performance or something is terrible I can always refund it.

I don't really care what tools/APIs the devs use as long as it works well. If they target Windows APIs but use Wine that is fine with me as long as they test it and make sure it works.

And as you said, if this allows more people to game on Linux it makes the Linux experience more important to the game developers. If they decide at some point that Wine is holding them back they will make that switch when the investment makes sense. I think that the most important thing to the long-term success of Linux gaming is ensuring that companies think they can make money there. If they think they can make money then they will continue to make games and put effort into making sure that the games work well.
"Is freedom really the freedom to shout 'black people are stupid' on the streets of Harlem?"

Yes, people have that freedom. I think this and the expected outcome falls under "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Your use of the word “banned” here is telling, especially with your reference to the Soviets. The actual bottom line here is that this was a decision by capitalists under a capitalist system. This is the free market at work. People who own the intellectual rights to these books decided for themselves using their own free will to stop selling them. That’s just capitalism.

You say that eBay is preventing one private owner from selling to another private buyer, but what’s the alternative? To force eBay to facilitate the transaction? How is that freedom? The owner and buyer are still free to sell and buy this book, just not thorough eBay. If there is enough demand for this kind of transaction then the market will find a way to facilitate it. That’s capitalism.
I think it’s time to take open source to the next level.

There are armies of retired, under employed, and even just people bored at work, ready to start making an impact.

What are your ideas?

More Open source projects For hardware and physical items

Involve people of all skills, marketing, PR, event planning, who knows!
Maybe the Valve Index works through SteamVR ?

For oculus it won't work because it requires the oculus windows app.

(Even when you use SteamVR with an Oculus, actually it's using Oculus app behind)

There are also some projects to reverse-engineer / implement open tracking for VR headsets :
https://monado.freedesktop.org/#supported-hardware
Binance website states :
What are the advantages of DeFi Staking?
1.Easy to use: You don't need to manage private keys, acquire resources, make trades, or perform other complicated tasks to participate in DeFi Staking. Binance's one-stop service allows users to obtain generous online rewards without having to keep an on-chain wallet. 2. Funds are safe: Binance selects only the best DeFi projects in the industry and monitors the DeFi system in real-time while it's running in order to reduce the risks associated with such projects.

Then go on to say :
Does Binance bear the losses if an on-chain contract is attacked during DeFi Staking?
No. Binance only acts as a platform to showcase projects and provide users with related services, such as accessing funds on behalf of the user and distributing earnings, etc. Binance does not bear any liability for losses incurred as a result of on-chain contract security.

--- So if you don't have the keys, and there aren't liable, that's a bit messed up.
Yes, they were outdated at that time. The Chinese had adopted western dress decades before. The queue was dated long, long before that.
Ergonomic Changes That Make My Desk Job Easier
> full self driving tech

Full self driving tech is presumably (and by definition) fully able to handle things by itself. We're talking about "partial self driving tech" (SAE L3) which relies on the driver taking over when it doesn't know what to do. The context switching for a regular human absolutely kills the reaction time in these situations making this a "I'll mostly drive myself but when I can't you're almost guaranteed to cause a crash" type issue.
It reserves all rights possible under copyright law. It then immediately grants some exceptions, in the form of a license. Failure to comply with the terms of the license brings the user into breach of contract, and it reverts to "all rights reserved". I don't think the "all rights reserved" part is necessary, since copyright in the US is automatic, but it doesn't change anything.
Not... really? I can't open it with a local application.

At least, not until someone (not me, no time) creates a local application which interacts with Google Docs via this API.'

In the mean time, I'll continue to use .docx, since Google docs can export and import form this format.
I don't think it was intended to be disrespectful, but stef25's response was clearly in irony, given his original post. The idea that s/he was genuinely unaware and appreciative of the response seems unlikely.
7 Years as a Self Taught Developer
For something to get traction, it has to have excellent UI and UX. So far open source hasn't been very successful at providing that since there is no economic model to finance the immense amount of work required for good UX.
Depends on the sub. Some have a lot of rules and censorship.
I can't parse if this is humour or a mistake. Putting your fingers on the live pin is not a great idea, trying this to get an euro 15 plug into an UK socket, also not great but in a different category.
Looks to me like the 0 breaks the functionality for setting a new admin. It dosn't directly break any permissions stuff, and in fact I don't think it leads to a backdoor itself.

Then elsewhere on line 50, anybody who creates a Proxy object will automatically be made the admin with zero auth.
Well, it looks like soon we'll have many more freedoms like that.

Freedom from saying forbidden words, freedom from thinking forbidden thoughts, freedom from all the people who write, research, or joke about controversial subjects, freedom from anything that could potentially offend or upset anyone ever, freedom from anything that doesn't comply with the dogma.

Boy, I can't wait to be liberated from all the wrongthink!
Bad scrum is like the product organization going on a diet but the product owners/managers are still addicted to eating junk food.

I like the analogy.
I know these things are happen and I understand the effect, but has anyone looked into whether this was photoshopped? Major news outlets have been fooled in the past. Maybe it is a compression artifact, but the lines of this image look so perfect that I have to at least ask.
> Erasing the past is not the main concern here.

Then why was that the entire content of your post?

> We all know history is written by the victors.

It isn't. All of the history professors I know cringe at this phrase.
(author here) sorry to hear that! Out of curiosity, what screen size are you reading on? Anyone else have similar problems?

Sounds like I should add a button to disable the gradient.
My junior year in college, I had a semester from hell where I took AI, Distributed Programming, Operating Systems, and a 400-level Math class all together. One morning as I washed my hair in the shower, still in a state of sleep-deprivation from a long night in the lab, I kept thinking to myself that if I didn't setq my hair (or was it setf?), then it wouldn't really stay washed.

When I finally woke up and came to, it was a mix of laughter at how out of it I was and worry that I was slowly going mad.
I was a similar age! I didn't have any form of internet, but a friend of mine was somehow able to source MODS, and they were the main music I listened to. Copying some MODS onto a floppy disc so that I could play them on OctaMED at home was one of my best memories of childhood.
exactly! we don't want just anyone reading OUR news for free;)
(I'm a bit horrible that i'm happy because someone else is having a worse internet experience then me. I'll try and work on myself.)
I think that was a large reason.

Additionally the OUYA had some mind share and Valve was pushing Steam Machines and their Steam link so a non windows OS to run on them made sense.

On reflection perhaps the Steam Machines and link were a response to the Windows Store as well but I cant remember the timelines that well.
The Law of Leaky Abstractions – Joel on Software
Play a silly game and get hacked, It's a perfect trojan scenario, it's the oldest trick in the book.
Now take 7000 chances, what are the odds? I can't believe this being downvoted so bad for raising this concern. screw you guys, i'm going home.
Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares for an IPO
Always interesting that the birth rate continues to decline even when generous benefits are provided to parents to have children (extended paid leave, cash payment per child, etc).
I've experienced similar in Windows, where the remote controller does show up but both players become Player 1. However, the stream itself always works and doesn't with proton, although it's been months since I've tried.

True though, this functionality could do with fixing on the Windows side before we can expect it to work via proton.
The Staten Island Ferry (from SI to Manhattan) uses these. I had always wondered how the ferry does some of the maneuvers it does, without having all sorts of maneuvering thrusters. The Voith Schneider was the answer.

The downside of these is that repair times are a bit longer. But I always thought they were cool because they work basically the same as helicopter rotors.
>To my mind the typical BBC point of view is mildly left-of-centre, well-to-do and urban.

sounds accurate.
Yup. Valve is putting serious effort into Proton and there are a number of reasons I can think of including Valve loves Linux, Valve thinks that the Linux market is/can be profitable, Valve wants to keep its non-Windows options available if only to threaten Microsoft. However a next generation of Steam machines definitely seems like it would be present on that list.
We need not only separation of storage and UI but also labeling providers between the ui and the data so you can find your data easily.
Delete Cargo Integration Tests
I was really hoping this was about wood frame house construction.
Really? I thought it was developed in-house. From what I understand much of their company was focused around Linux at the time (Steam, SteamOS, Hardware, Source engine port, L4D2, etc...).
MX Expands Leadership and Welcomes Brian Kinion as CFO
Cornish ranger.
> It promises that after fully eliminating its use of third-party cookies over the next year, it won’t adopt replacements that essentially do the same thing.

I don't think that this is some charity from Google. It won't stop them from inserting themselves in the middle of everything. But it might make a bit harder for competitors.

Not that those ad space is filled only with good intentions. But monopolize it isn't good either. I'm already pissed when I click some news result and it's AMPed + google asking if I want them to manage my login / subscription / anything like that.

Having just one middleman for everything is too much power.
What did you think of desert dream?
How is measuring distance between cities in metres impractical?
That's exactly how sane part of the world measures it.
Though kilo-, giga- and other prefixes for units may be used when needed (when rounding is acceptable for the purpose of reducing the number to reduce the overall length of words needed to describe the measure).
Really enjoyed this, thank you.
User’s sense of entitlement is probably driven by many companies astroturfing FOSS.

People are getting used to the freemium model popular in software, apps, games, and the "free" model of gmail/youtube/facebook (where you pay with your privacy).
And honestly, it's not about that. It's about how Americans present the Chinese to each other. We have a history of abusing minorities, and one of the ways we do that is through presenting demeaning images of them.

I'm sure that actual Chinese people have more to worry about -- though the black people living in America definitely have current fears from people living up to the racist stereotypes presented here. This is about us and dealing with our own difficult past that still afflicts us today.
I tried to read it. I got bored half the way, and decided to read another book,a biograph of Billie Holiday.
Launch HN: Procoto (YC W21) – Procurement SaaS for SMB
Hi HN! Ryan and Michael here. We’re the founders of Procoto (https://procoto.com). We help small and mid-sized companies organize their vendor rates, vendor contact info, and vendor contract terms.

Most growing companies find themselves juggling different systems/spreadsheets and overspending with their vendors. Procoto replaces the multiple systems to become their central hub while identifying savings opportunities based on historic rates.

Why us? We come from the procurement world and spent time in 30+ procurement platforms as both vendors and users. But when we went to switch from spreadsheets to a centralized solution, we couldn’t find what we were looking for. Our only options were to stay in spreadsheets or to jump to a six-figure platform. We’d be forced to pay for more features than we needed in an outdated UI/UX.

So we left to build Procoto for people like us – procurement pros at small and mid-sized companies (25-1000 FTEs) looking for a simpler, smarter way to manage their sourcing process.
We help our users get there in three ways:

Savings. By standardizing and leveraging historic pricing data, Procoto identifies savings opportunities to drive down third-party spend.

Automated Databasing. Every contract, vendor, and price point is systemically stored in Procoto.

Collaboration. Procoto fosters internal communication and collaboration across teams and remote workers. It’s not a tool built just for the procurement team. It delivers status updates and reporting to all stakeholders in the organization.

In short, we’re building the procurement solution we couldn’t find. What do you all think? We’d love your feedback. For any procurement pros out there, what would make your life easier?
Counter argument:
Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4231382/what-to-do-regul...

Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357237
I dont think this is true. Integer math is used in some game engines because they need to be deterministic, between networked computers (and different CPUs rounds floating point numbers differently). I have written an engine like that, and i know that Starcraft 2 is all integer for the same reason. No one does it because its faster or easier. Its a pain.
> provide services allowing for users to leverage their position while staking

yes, this totally sounds not made up
Estonia wants to be Finland but has a large (relatively right wing?) Russian minority.

Finland wants to be left alone.

Sweden wants to be the role model of the world, and has increasing divisions between right and left (because if you talk about immigration you're branded racist immediately).

Denmark is a lot less tolerant than it might be made out to be by being grouped with the nordics (which sounds like I'm saying it's a bad thing). They have at-will employment and put up barriers to people migrating to the country.

The morals/religions typically follow along similar lines (heavy promotion of work/life balance and raising a family) but economically they differ largely and politically there are minor but important differences between the countries.
For software delivery? Absolutely.

For engineering and software quality? Absolutely not.
Scientists announce a physical warp drive is possible
NLP Cloud now serves transformer-based models
We just released several important additions to the NLP Cloud API (nlpcloud.io).

Many users were asking us for transformer-based models in addition to our existing spaCy models. So here we go, NLP Cloud now serves some of the best transformers-based models with PyTorch from Hugging Face:

* Facebook's Bart Large MNLI model, for text classification
* Facebook's Bart Large CNN model, for text summarization
* Deepset's Roberta Base Squad 2 model, for question answering
* DistilBERT Base Uncased Finetuned SST-2 English model, for sentiment analysis

Of course our spaCy models are still available for Named Entity Recognition and POS tagging. And you can even upload your own spaCy models. Important change: from now on, all the large spaCy models will be available for free.

All our models are available for free for a limited amount of requests per minute, and pricing for paid plans is very fair.

Hope you will like it, and can't wait for your feedbacks and suggestions!

Website: https://nlpcloud.io
Documentation: https://docs.nlpcloud.io
I always thought Quebec was an odd name for a village located in County Durham. Pretty sure there's a California near Crook, too. Muggleswick near Consett is a good one.

And then over in Northumberland there's Once Brewed, Twice Brewed, Snodgrass.
This highlights one reason why you would want to have your own TLD on Handshake [1] instead of a leased subdomain. This way you aren’t subject to the uptime of another.

[1] https://handshake.org
Not for me personally, but I have seen a lot of kickback from some people on other forums. Although that could just be the audience. But I honestly think that if Proton gets 80-90% of the work done for devs most probably won't bother trying to make a native port, but I also go back and forth part of me likes to think that if there is a strong non-windows or macOS alternative companies will pay more attention to it.
Which probably means that the journalist doesn't which one is correct.
Why even bother writing an article of such quality?
MX Names James Dotter as First Chief Business Officer
heh, looks like abs(-0.0) is slightly less than abs(+0.0)!
Interestingly Go will give you a negative 0 if you use strconv.ParseFloat("-0.0", 64) but I can't see any way to get -0.0 from a number literal.
I spend a lot of time looking stuff up. It's just that most of it is not relevant to development.

As an expert in the system, I've done very little research - maybe 1 hour per day helping others troubleshoot. As a new guy in the system or as a security resource, I've done a lot - maybe 3 hours per day.
Yes, at least in C++: https://godbolt.org/z/afqYbE

Its bitwise representation is different, but when compared as floats they are equal.
Wow, I meant to write a semi-satirical guide to successful propaganda for a while now. Apparently, people professionally doing propaganda published one for real.

https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

"Celebrating 20 years of social science for social change."

You can't make this stuff up. And I bet 90% of people here don't even understand why this slogan is fucked up. The notion that the purpose of science is to produce social change is straight out of Neil Postman's Technopoly (chapter titled Scientism).
The C2S part of ActivityPub isn't for everyone, and it's okay. It basically moves too much logic to the client. It prevents any semblance of a good UX because you have everything — posts you would display in the feed, interactions with your content, etc — in the same inbox. You have to connect to many different domains to render something to the user, and you also have to have a sophisticated caching system on the client. Also good luck loading those full-size images over an EDGE connection.

There are 2 kinds of ActivityPub servers.

- The "dumb" one, that does minimal processing and simply stores JSON objects. Someone POSTs an activity to its inbox, the server does minimal required verification, stores it, and the client then queries it with GET. And does the reverse for the outbox. That's it. That's where c2s would work fine.

- The "smart" one, that treats s2s ActivityPub like an API, comes with a built-in web interface, and stores everything in a way which makes sense for its particular presentation. That's the kind I'm making (Smithereen, it's on the list you linked, btw), and that's what Mastodon is. Implementing c2s in this kind of server is a major pain in the ass, and I won't. You'd have to throw away all your careful optimizations, synthesize ActivityPub objects out of things that never were ActivityPub objects in the first place, do horribly inefficient things to merge notifications and feed and other conceptually unrelated stuff from several different database tables just for the client to split them back apart... Doesn't make much sense. A domain-specific API is the only way to make a client for this kind of server.
But you do end up with "task driven development".

Tasks should be used for communication of priorities and so forth, but they're often treated as stone tablets passed down from the mountain.
Mine is still working? (though it should just redirect to darkscience.net)

http://www.darkscience.ws
The SI system allows to use prefixes that take care of different orders of magnitude.

1 Wh = 3.6 kJ
How are they going to recover the bits that were lost? It was free because the images were smaller.
EAC is also spyware which installs a Kernel driver with privileged access. Valve's VAC works fine without this invasive tech.
I have mixed feelings on z-library. I don't condone book piracy but will admit that I've used it in the past in these situations:

1. I have the book in print but want the convenience of reading while traveling without a bunch of books in tow. This one is, IMO, a morally grey area.

2. I have put books on my daughter's Kindle which she checked out from the local library through overdrive. Far too many e-books from the library require Adobe Acrobat with some DRM garbage which realistically allows you to read it on a PC or an iPad.
The Honda is level 3 only during traffic jams -- it's limited to 50km/h and only on the expressway. If it's completely incompetent the worst that will happen is some minor body damage. It's not going to cause any deaths.
True, and it's worth noting that since WHATWG HTML 5 has usurped HTML and taken it ad absurdum, WHATWG's parsing spec isn't actually useful nor representative at all of what people usually think HTML is. Nor do people have to follow WHATWG's (= bunch of Chrome developers) idea of HTML anymore than WHATWG did follow other's.