skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is on the Binance chain which is a fork of Ethereum that is partially centralized. A lot of crypto purists refuse to use it for this reason.
Sideloading apps is very easy (albeit you have to press “okay” on a very scary looking warming page). Plenty of people do, to play Fortnight or install the Amazon App Store, for instance.
That’s true, but you appear to be a test engineer at Google. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it’s also not the same as writing large scale services in Go so I don’t think the experiences are suuuuuper overlapping. I’m a designer and have worked at Google and seen lots of this first hand.
Small correction: Hayao Nakayama, the long-time president of Sega Enterprises who is made out to be incompetent in Console Wars, is still alive.

He, along with Sega co-founder David Rosen, were interviewed in the excellent 2014 book Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works, and their accounts don't really go along with Kalinske's. Rosen flat out rejects the (absurd) idea that the Japanese parent company was trying to sabotage Kalinske (a claim Kalinske has made many times in recent years). Rosen says Kalinske just had a hard time understanding why the Japanese side had to make the decisions they did.

As someone who is currently writing a book tangentially related to the Japanese history of Sega (plug: https://rasterscroll.com/product/legends/ ), I feel the need to say that Console Wars (however entertaining it might be) is not very accurate.

For one, it omits what I consider to be one of the biggest factors in Sega's decision-making from 1993 on--the massive drop in revenue that occurred in the U.S. and European markets. I've written about this recently with some interesting data on export revenues:

https://mdshock.com/2021/04/14/segas-financial-troubles-an-a...
I've heard there are some pretty intense debates inside Google about mapping issues related to Israel/Palestine (what to label, where to draw lines, etc).
Conveniently skipping over the occupied ICUs. How do you not know that our medical system was overwhelmed or that the rise in cases only reversed after we shut down schools both times in the last 4 months?
Trump said UV light, the fucker was right all the time.
Maybe look for the more general case: companies that focus on people finishing their tasks on time and adding value, rather than when or where they work.

In my experience in the biz (four decades) I’ve found almost every employer amenable to flexible hours and working from home for people who can get their work done without constant supervision.

I can’t tell if you’re asking about 4 8-hours days a week, which is less than full-time, or 4 10-hour days. Probably few companies offer this in their job postings, it’s the kind of thing you negotiate during the hiring process.
Real hard to take it seriously when the democrats are acting like a BLM protest is perfectly fine, or indeed any of their other pet causes, but you can't keep your gym open. Please don't pretend trump was the only one off message here. Democrats have PLENTY of blame
McCormick is a global corporation. While it’s brands in the Americas are certainly the most successful and profitable, it operates brands throughout Europe and Asia as well.
Deepfake Audio Platform Where Celebrities Can License AI-Generated Voice Clips
I see a lot of comments about other book series but not many about the specific bossfightbooks ones. Has anyone read any of them other than the Spelunky one?

I read the Spelunky one and enjoyed it, and grabbed the Baldur's Gate II one because I was under the mistaken impression that all these books were by developers or people otherwise involved in the game's creation, and they'd be war stories or other interesting insights. It wasn't, it's just some guy (he's written a D&D novel but not related to BG in any way) writing general stuff about the game - nothing really in any depth - and a whole lot of stuff about himself. Not at all what I was looking for (my fault, should've read the blurb).

Some of the other books seem to have interviews with creators or serious research done - are these good?
The strictness of the enforcement in China has been overstated in the media. Strict, but not that strict. Source: here during the Chinese lockdown, have compared notes with those in other cities.
Are you saying mince pies didn't traditionally contain meat? Recipes up to the late 19th century include meat, and even today I can find some that do, although very rare - usually beef suet is the only remaining animal ingredient.
This reads like a thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction but I think there is opportunity for you to expand on your comment and guide the discussion to an interesting place.

Who is “they” in this case?

What war crimes are hidden by low quality satellite images that would have been exposed by high quality images?

Are there any competing ideas as to why these regions might be hidden?
If they can continue to eliminate middlemen who do nothing but skim their rates off of the layer below them then sure, it will keep scaling.
Outline didn't work for me: https://i.imgur.com/ydYsy4q.jpg
"Efficient" could also be read as "I am willing to sacrifice x Wh to the gods of crypto wealth, where do I get the biggest return?"

That might even be a tolerable mindset if you happen to live in a cold place and the only tool available to keep you from freezing to death was electricity.
I don't believe mining Bitcoin quite falls into the category of "most productive things we can use energy for". Drug discovery, carbon capture, agriculture, construction, etc. etc. come to mind as slightly more useful. Financial transactions in traditional banking systems which Bitcoin mining is more comparable with consume far far far less energy. Also Bitcoin is designed to adjust PoW difficulty based on network's average mining performance. In other words, the more compute power you provide the less efficient it becomes.
How to Cockney speakers say words like "fifth" or "sixth" though? I've always wondered. Can't just be "fif", can it?
He's an eugenics asshole. Hates those blacks, kills them with planned Parenthood. Buying up all the Midwestern farmland to drive up food prices so we all have to eat bugs.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to imply that the example in question^1 is less extreme than Amazon allowing sellers to directly link to discounted options directly on their listings.

The app in question was built, packaged, distributed, installed and runs on Apple funded SDKs after all.

1. https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-direct-pay-apple-app-stor...
It's silly that when I want to watch something on Prime Video, I can see the title in the Prime app on AppleTV but can't rent it. I have to go to amazon.com on a different device, search the title, rent it, then it becomes available on the TV app.

As a person working in tech I understand it, but it's still silly.
Wow, well I mean if you want I can just link you to well-thought and detailed blog posts and news articles about Israel's war crimes against Palestine and how Israel is an apartheid state.
Why is this news? If Gates had lunch with her would anyone give a fuck? Sex is a basic human need just like eating.
The whole thing of Kubernetes is to take a goal state as data and abstract away the procedures that make it happen. You were always going to communicate with it in a data serialization format, not a programming language. It happened to choose YAML.
I hardly ever need generics directly. If I have to write an algorithm for 2 types, I can copy and tweak as easily as I can deal with the added complexity of programming with abstract types.

BUT, I need generics all the time indirectly. I've worked in lots of languages over the decades, and I highly value languages with mature/debugged/optimized standard libraries of algorithms and data types (esp. "containers").

Go has an impoverished subset "built-in", and that's all it offers.

One of the best things about Go is the high quality of its standard libraries--where it has standard libraries--so there is a gaping hole where the container and algo libraries ought to be. Experts in these algorithms could take advantage of Go's concurrency for example to write library algorithms that provide a combination of performance and safety that I couldn't create quickly if at all. They could, that is, if they had generics in the language, but they don't, so I'm on my own (for now).

When people (repeatedly) claim that Go doesn't really need generics because they (the claimants) hardly ever need generics, I have to wonder whether their knowledge of DS and algos is especially high or especially low: that they could whip up a debugged and optimized algo as easily as calling it from a library or whether they aren't even aware of the DS/algo that they really ought to be using.
One past thread:

Busy Being Born - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10188952 - Sept 2015 (8 comments)

2004 is the earliest year that this article exists at archive.org. Obviously that's just an upper bound for it. If anyone knows a more accurate year, we can change it again.
ding ding ding ding tell him what he's won!
If you add a link like the following to your page, feed readers should be able to discover your RSS feed

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/engineering/feed/" />
I don't get the irony.

If you think there's a germ of truth in this conspiracy theory let's see the evidence for it.

I do see a great irony in pointing at the others as enemies who are always scheming and conspiring to attack, and who stand against everything good and right, as evidence for conspiracy theories.
10.6L 3-Cylinder Diesel Truck Engine Beats Emission Targets, May Run on Hydrogen
I believe in those instances they welded backdoors while the front door was monitored by the community enforcement people to make sure each family only sent one member to the grocery store a week, etc. It was also at the outbreak, so you would hope we would have some strong measures at the very beginning when there is highest risk and greatest benefit to the rest of the country and world from strict quarantine.

I don't know that we would have done anything similar for this one if we were ground zero, but hopefully we would have for something like aerosolized Ebola with a contagious yet symptom-free incubation time.

We did come close to doing some similar things to welding to the Grand Princess cruise ship early on.
So at the upper end of the range that would be 0.17% of the world population.
Ok, changed from https://ktla.com/news/local-news/fullerton-to-pay-350k-to-se.... Thanks!
I could see saying "she'd had to have been watched" or "they had to have been watching her". Both sound very natural to my ear. Observed to me feels more like they're looking at every minute detail with some emotional distance and maybe a feeling of something novel. A scientist observes a rare bug walking on a leaf. A psychiatrist observes his patients' behaviors. It's maybe a more scientific and heavily detail-oriented form of watching. But a would-be abductor would be watching his victim. He may observe their habits, but that's while he's watching them. It's a very fine line and I'm sure that other native speakers would disagree. But for me, "observe" would feel out of place here.
basically unnamed sources
Because Bitcoin SV's potentially huge block size restricts who can actually run a node, making it very centralized
The chip is a lie.
Is this related to him getting divorced earlier this year?
Do those articles relate to low quality regions of Google Maps satellite imagery? That’s the connection that would be interesting in the context of the original article.
LinkedIn feels like the most performative of all social networks.
From experience in another state, they go first to the hospital, secondly back into nursing home but into isolated quarantined floors with specially trained fully covered ppe'd staff until several times testing negative, then into warm floor, then back to normal resident floor.

Not as I believe initially was case in NY from hospital directly into regular resident floor.
Pretty interesting how well the article explains such a complex concept.
The energy grid is actually huge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid

Not sure about economic effect though, I'm not a electrical economic engineer haha
As someone who believes the pandemic was real, that lockdowns early on were a good idea, that mask wearing is trivial and probably helpful, that social distancing was also easy to do and a reasonable idea, and that vaccinations are safe and effective. My gut reaction is still that the number of deaths was relatively small.

About a third of US deaths were in nursing homes, and that doesn't include people who probably could / should have been in nursing homes from a health and self-sufficiency perspective. 85% were 65 or older (65 isn't especially old that's just the lowest data threshold I could find). I am fortunate enough to not know anybody who died from COVID.

Concerns about long lasting effects might be true. We might see this having substantial long term effects and that could be bad. It could be worse than the impact of the deaths.

That aside however, I just don't think a one time 20% increase in annual mortality is that terrible, but that does not mean that the virus was trivial.

If I'm understanding this chart correctly, forecasted 2021 death rate per 1,000 people (not covid adjusted) plus 20% is less than the 1970s... and the next 50 years as well.

(EDIT: Sorry idiot math. The 2021 rate + 20% is above any historical rate since 1970, and is on par with expectations 2050 onward)

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...

This includes all sorts of demographic assumptions about age, but so does COVID, I would argue, in the least convincing demographic groupings possible.

Maybe COVID was a genuine threat but on a whole we did a pretty good job and it wasn't that bad in total effect as a result?
I suspect that being endlessly cited as a source of data in this conflict would make for frustrating public relations. It wouldn't surprise me if there are intense labelling debates that they would prefer to sidestep as well.
Mainland Chinese citizens are not allowed to travel to Taiwan as individual tourists since July 2019. This was interpreted as an attempt to hurt tourism and so the economy at the time. May have been a factor.
The source of the app is owned and maintained by Epic.

The source of an Amazon seller page is made through Amazon's portal.
Because it's not necessarily about the initial choice, but barrier of entry to change. See EU's anti-competitive ruling on Google's Android App Store monopoly: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...

"Android device users face switching costs when switching to Apple devices, such as losing their apps, data and contacts, and having to learn how to use a new operating system"

But the other way around.
Free TV streaming website with 6000 channels
Yeah, I knew about that. Tricky bit is figuring out the best way to plug that into our theme and have that particular feed only show up for engineering posts.

Regardless, it's totally worth doing because people reading our engineering posts are far more likely than the average person to want the feed!
He should have specified that, because we're talking global here.

A 24% spike in the US is absolutely insane.
This is OpenBSD's sshd init script:

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/etc/rc.d/sshd

On an archlinux system running systemd I see that the equivalent of the rc_reload function is "ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID" (which is actually less safe...)

I'm not sure if you think that's declarative but to me it's basically as declarative as you can make a shell script.

> By default every popular distro before systemd/upstart did. Many services still use them anyways (systemd just generates a shim to run the start/stop/status operations on them)

I mean is anyone CURRENTLY using them? Because as far as I'm aware the linux sysvinit situation was a gigantic mess which nobody wanted to bother fixing despite the fact that OpenBSD and other BSDs had already fixed it by that point.

I think most linux distros can be taken as an example of how not to do things if you want to make your life easier.

Nowadays BSDs don't use these awful scripts. OpenRC based systems don't use these awful scripts. Who is using them?
I think it used to be this way, but now I can rent/buy things from Prime within AppleTV.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203294/amazon-prime-vide...
You might be able to load the fonts quickly on their own but if they're requested by something else that's dynamically loaded the (serialized) round trips can add up fast, especially on high latency connections like satellite.
Yes, as I’ve said elsewhere in this thread the strictness of the Chinese lockdown has been exaggerated in the media/Western imagination.
Apple should let customers pay a $30 fee or so to lock out other stores from their phones. If the restriction is so valuable to customers and isn't really about being valuable to Apple they will gladly pay that much or more.
Yeah because it appears to have helped reverse cases both in January and this month.
Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power. — Oscar Wilde (maybe)
Mississippi Supreme Court Kills Medical Marijuana and All Ballot Initiatives
What Happens When You Ask Questions to the DMT Entities?
there is literally no useful information on how to use this bot. not user friendly at all.
I only dropped the space so as to not count it.

It's effectively the same as saying "improvement aggravation".

Communication can be defined as information that makes a difference, and the German verschlimmbesserung adds nothing.

It literally transliterates to the exact same thing in English.

I don't really agree much with your last point. Someome still has to come up with the word in German, and others have to use it.

Edit: fixed a tapographical error <- see, it works in English too, as my sibling comment pointed out with updowngrade.
Ask HN: How to get over insecurity about mediocre education?
I always wanted to go to a very prestigious school, but wasn’t able to make it into the ones I applied to. So I ended up going to a mediocre state school in the US and majoring in Computer Science, where I graduated several years ago.

I currently have a job which pays well by my standards and is generally ok, but my friends tell me I am underpaid for my responsibilities. Overall I don’t believe that my education is a barrier to advancement in the workplace.

However, I have felt since graduation that people in my social and dating life will think I am either unintelligent or lazy because my university had a reputation as a middling party school. Unsure if it matters, but I’m definitely on the Asperger’s spectrum, and educational attainment was something my parents pushed me to focus on as a child.

Have others had a similar experience? Should I try to get a master’s degree from a better school? Or is this not something regular people even worry about?
A similar example:

As a reply to the question, “what’s the most expensive car on the market?”

1) “I’m guessing it’s some German supercar.”

2) “I would guess it’s some German supercar.”

3) “I guess it’s some German supercar.”

As a native speaker, the first two both sound correct to me, and essentially equivalent. The third sounds a little weird, even though it’s grammatically the simplest. I can’t put my finger on exactly why.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that, as you know. We're trying to have a different quality of discussion than what this sort of thing leads to. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27178252.
Your examples are participles, not gerunds.
What is the worst code smell?
They do. [1]

> 2.3.12 Apps must clearly describe new features and product changes in their “What’s New” text. Simple bug fixes, security updates, and performance improvements may rely on a generic description, but more significant changes must be listed in the notes.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#acc...
I don't see a problem here.

Apple charges (and is able to charge) a lot for an iPhone in large part because the iPhone gives the purchaser access to the App Store. But they also bundle a payment service into the app store, force developers to use it whether they want to or not, then charge a very hefty premium for it as well.

Obviously Apple likes being able to charge a hefty premium to both sides - why wouldn't they? But there's no obvious moral reason why we, as a society, should let them, nor any obvious empirical reason why we wouldn't collectively be better off if we stopped them.

Nothing stops Apple from charging a competitive rate for payments, or for download bandwidth, or for app reviews, or for offering various plans or bundles of these services. Apple should be more than capable of making the best iOS app store! "$500 per submission and $1 per 10k app downloads, first 1m downloads free for new apps, download fees waived for apps from non-profits, charities, and students are registered educational institutions, ask us about our payment plans, starting at a 15% cut of all revenue, discounts for high volume apps available, all payment plans come with free submissions and downloads!" Sure, why not?

But the more they create a single bundle or services, and the more they use non-market power to force people into accepting the bundle, and prevent anyone from offering a competing bundle of services, the worse it looks for them.

> I don't agree with this but I think it would be a good argument by Apple.

The argument is basically "if you stop us from forcing developers to give us more money, then we'll have less money". And IF Apple is abusing their market dominance to extract money from developers, then that would be a terrible argument for them to make, because the entire point of all this is to stop them forcing developers to give them "unearned" money. Rather than a defence, this would just be admitting the court had stumbled across the correct target.

Now, personally, I'm not entirely sure I agree that Apple is abusing their market dominance and should be stopped. But if you do think that, then "this would cost them money" is an argument in favour of the policy. (Conversely if you don't think that, then it's all irrelevant, because Apple can do what they like.)
I still use it. Makes a mess of my computer monitor, however.
Apropos of nothing, these photos remind me of trying to join a "club" for the video game Pitfall (on Atari) which required sending proof of a 20,000 score by mailing them a Polaroid of your TV screen.

EDIT: Wow! I guess it's a known thing (glad I didn't imagine it): https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/10/26/a...
Keep in mind the correlations for this stuff are provable but small. Like 10% better performance in rowing for women with the more masculine finger ratio, etc. This matters a fuck ton for professional sports but very little in your day to day abilities.
The difference is that anyone can stake. It's going to be the default way to store ETH akin to a savings account for most people so pretty much everyone is going to share in that PoS issuance. This also doesn't affect new buyers as they are buying ETH to use it most likely so it's not being held long term. If they decide to buy long term then they also get the PoS issuance so everyone wins.
Apps are not Apple products.
Because it fits the narrative. Many people even on HN believe that a slightly misleading presentation is justified if it helps the greater cause. They forget that the price for that is erosion of trust, so when next time a really scary version of the virus shows up, people will dismiss "the scientists" because they fudged the numbers and misrepresented the data last time.
Because the $XXX billionaire married key founder in a multi-trillion dollar leading industry was hitting on the help while married
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked