skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Side note, but fun fact! Fortnite, the uberpopular battle royale game, is actually itself a mod of the original Fortnite (now called "Fortnite: Save the World").

Originally a tower defense game (you build structures and traps to defend your base against invading alien zombies), some Epic & Unreal Tournament developers decided to fork it into a PvP (competitive player-vs-player) battle royale game instead, loosely based off Player Unknown's Battlegrounds.

It became a surprise hit, propelling Fortnite from "niche DIY tower defense game" to global pop-culture phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale#Develop...

(edit: this was reposted... old comment was in the wrong thread)
I think you are right. It is not a guarantee, but in real life there are no guarantees. However, there are ways to make things more likely. And given that one of the best predictors for what person will do is what they have done..investors would likely be more assured that FB is with Zuckerberg at the helm than not.
> I've been working in the BI industry for almost 20 years and I don't know why the author believes that the "Original BI" includes ETL/storage.

I've done some BI, but mostly DW/ETL, for over twenty years... And I can't remember ever seeing ETL viewed as a sub-category of BI in any project I've been part of. It hasn't even been mentioned as such -- except in weird articles like this -- this side of the turn of the century. Before that, yes, the categories were muddled. But not since then.

> 2) No-code/lo-code analytical app building. Reporting and dashboarding tools are just highly specialized app builders. Why not make a step further and generalize it a bit?

Sure. I've long thought the best tool, one that could do both ETL and BI -- is an IDE with a full-blown programming language and a good library: Something like D̵e̵l̵p̵h̵i̵ Free Pascal / Lazarus.
> They're probably on the verge of being able to relax some mitigation measures, but those mitigation measures are what keeps those numbers low, so that requires a big degree of caution.

This circular logic makes me tear my hair out. "Cases down? Lockdowns are working! Can't stop now" "Cases up? We need to keep these lockdowns!". There is zero exit criteria in this logic, which is why we are trapped in this vicious cycle of unending restrictions.

It's the exact same argument as "Is it raining? Yes? It means rain dances work! Better keep doing them!" and "It is raining? No? It means we haven't done enough rain dances!"

And all these restrictions might as well be rain dances at this point. It is just shit people threw against the wall in some panic'd attempt to "do something". Nobody seems to care if any of it works and asking questions is met with vicious attack.
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I feel that if we can could work on introducing more online cross-play, the gaming community would be a better place.

There should be no reason why I can't play online with Xbox and PlayStation players.
> I am looking forward to the next, rich landscape of interactivity on the web powered by WASM, WebGL, etc.

All of which will likely be a broken mess on iOS thanks to Apple
For context, ProtonDB is a database of Steam games and how well they work on Linux through Wine/Proton. A huge number of the "borked" games are using some kind of anti-cheat and that's the main reason the game doesn't work.

EAC is one of the most-used anti-cheat systems in gaming. Between EAC and BattleEye, you're hitting the Pareto Principle for anti-cheat support.

Four of the top 10 Steam games use anti-cheat and therefore cannot run currently. Two of those four use EAC.

https://www.protondb.com/
I wonder if Tesla FSD is properly considering a windowed sample of images at a high enough sample rate to see modern high intensity strobe lights used on emergency vehicles.

Clearly the dash cam used is sampling at a high enough rate to see them, but perhaps the Tesla isn't considering the a view of the road ahead across a wide enough period of time to see the hazard lights and understand the vehicle is potentially stationary and alerting drivers about a hazard.

A very naive FSD algorithm working only from the current frame (without looking at past frames) could certainly mess this up, but at what point do we accept this simply isn't fit for purpose - it can't avoid hitting a stationary vehicle, so what hope does it have with slowly moving and other edge cases?
Awesome! I have an old project that generates ABC music notation. I made a context-free grammar to transform plain melodies into bluegrass banjo style. The output can be played & edited in Composing Studio: https://rrherr.github.io/banjo-grammar/

For example:

T:Happy Birthday, bluegrass banjo style
%%MIDI program 105
K: G
L: 1/16
Q: 140
D2 D2 E4 D4 G4 F8 D2 D2 E4 D4 A4 G8 D2 D2 d4 B4 G4 F4 E4 c2 c2 B4 G4 A4 G8
Dd Dd Edgd Ddgd Gdgd FdgFdgFd Dd Dd Edgd Ddgd Adgd GdgGdgGd
Dd Dd ddgd Bdgd Gdgd Fdgd Edgd cd cd Bdgd Gdgd Adgd GdgGdgGd
Yes, they will enter a Defi contract for the few seconds it takes to send the lightning payment. They will scalp fractions of fractions of a cent, making them wealthier beyond their wildest dreams.

Try harder.
Or your age: https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/older-job-seekers-on-linkedin...
Agreed, I actually read that one first. I was bummed to find out that he recently divorced his second wife who he talks about so highly in both his books.
Halfway through that horror story I found myself thinking, "Egad! I like rust now."
I'm just starting to get serious with Civ V (have logged 100+ hours in the past couple of months). My favourite is smaller map (the AI turns take too long on larger maps), and large islands. The islands make war more fun, as you can sail to most enemy cities with your fleet and don't have to crawl through the landmass. Also, once Frigates are available, the land units become largely irrelevant, but the AI doesn't really comprehend that, which gives you a big advantage.

I play as Phoenicians, as they get nice bonuses for a water world.
Yes, but there are degrees of "dark" ...

According to timeanddate.com, the latest sunrise in Durness (NW Scotland, on the mainland) is at 09:09, at the end of December, but "civil twilight" is then at 08:16, so if school starts at 09:00 a lot of people can presumably travel to school with at least some natural light. On the other hand, if they were using UTC+1 it would be civil twilight from 09:16 and sunrise at 10:09, which would be sort of horrible, surely, because then you really would be travelling at night?

The shortest day in Durness lasts 6 hours 18 minutes. In England typical school hours are 09:00-15:00. If those are the school hours in Scotland, and you're dealing with not much more than 6 hours of sunlight in the winter, then I would have thought that a good time for local noon would be around 12:00 rather than around 13:00.

So I hope that a lot of Scots will join me in asking for UTC+0 all year rather than UTC+1 all year!
Developers will have to opt-in to allowing Wine/Proton users to play.

Pertinent info on this change is in the Unreal dev docs here: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/GameServices/A...
A discrete GPU comes with thermal and power requirements that change the form factor for the entire laptop. It doesn't make sense to have the same chassis for the with and without GPU use cases.
This was my favourite website waay before the 'internet' happened!
No, it's not pointless. Jitsi's terms allow them to get calldata and other metadata, Brave's do not. Equating all "free" legs or free-only services is a good way to get pwned. Good luck!
What Computer Architecture Can Teach Us About Anxiety
Dark Enlightenment thinking isn't far off that Holy Roman Empire. It's essentially an embracing of monarchy and caste, with rule belonging to the Peter Thiels of the world, based on various ways they can demonstrate their ability to claim that throne.
The current implementations of the lightning network don't easily allow transactions to an address (A method called keysend does exist but isn't widely used).

In order to receive a lightning payment, the receiver has to generate an invoice that anyone with a lightning wallet can pay (usually by scanning a QR code or copy/pasting the invoice). These invoices are meant to be single use.

There is a draft spec (BOLT12) that would make it easier to be able to just pin a link or QR code on a webpage or profile and receive bitcoin via the lightning network.

https://bolt12.org/
i found this recently and got really excited about the idea of computational law- but then i looked close and saw that all the examples were complicated tax and benefit accounting rules for the french government and thus rose the tombstone for my interest in computational law.
Arguably necessary when cheats people install themselves are actual rootkits.
> Does anyone outside of propaganda or extremism actually...

I'd say yes (since I know people in real life with the view). Well, not bank accounts, since I don't see how that applies to covid, but certainly travel, restaurants, crowded events, school, etc.

Aside, how do you define what is extremism here? The only way I see it is that extremism is defined by your views, so the only way that this view isn't extremist is if you do not define it as an extremist view.
>If Zuckerberg is accused of a crime as a private citizen, he is of course capable of paying for his own defense. These are the examples you gave but they do not reflect the situation here. The story here is that the FTC wanted Facebook to pay a $5B fine. Not that they made Zuckerberg pay a $5B fine and Facebook decided to reimburse him for the expense.

The story here is that Zuck was going to be accused of a crime as a private citizen, until FB decided to up its settlement offer from 100 million to 5 billion.
> Today, we extend support to Linux and Mac for developers who maintain full native builds of their games for these platforms.

That sounds like Proton is definitely not supported here. So if an EAC developer only supports Windows, Linux users are SoL.
I wasn’t aware that there was an upcoming book about Thiel, but I’ll certainly buy it.
Ask HN: What are some good free/cheap hosted contact form services
I frequently set up static websites for my projects, and I usually want to add a contact form rather than an email address. I currently use Mailchimp for this, but it is inconvenient because they aren't set up for managing multiple website contact forms (you need to create a separate account for each site, and re login to each one to manage it).

What are some good hosted contact form services that can easily be embedded or linked from a static website? Preferably I can have a single account and manage multiple contact forms.
Maybe that makes it the best place to criticize Thiel :)
Unless it's two columnns only, tables don't work well on mobile. You end up having to undo in CSS a lot of properties that TD, TH bring by default.
TrilioVault for Kubernetes' Ransomware Protection Features
Probably a heat pipe to spread the CPU and GPU heat around.
Exactly. I just added the pricing details in USD and will figure something out.
The catch is there is no fuel.
2022, year of linux on the desktop!
OP is committed to Mac keyboards, despite claiming to care about ergonomics.
That keyboard you have in your left hand is one of my favorite keyboards ever, as far as non-standard layouts go, anyway. I just love how it fits over any laptop keyboard for ergonomics on the go.
That's how we got the yellow vest protests. You cannot do that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
I had keebmaker build me an iris some time ago, I second this recommendation, excellent service.

(I regret not picking a keyboard with hotswap sockets, I'd like to experiment with different switches but this iris will have brown chocs soldered onto it forever :)
Out of pure curiosity, what's different (apart from dosage) between human and animal formulations of drugs?
If you're on mac, Karabiner will link the function and hot key combos http://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org to
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Apple had more failures than just that series, such as the GT 650M's in the 2012 models: https://www.anandtech.com/show/8994/apple-initiates-video-re...
It is on bl.ocks.org, which is managed by Mike Bostock, the founder of Observable. And there is an Observable banner on top.
Yeah, I'm genuinely puzzled as to where these commenters are coming from. FF is a fantastic product and I have it installed all my devices after moving away from Chrome and Google products. I also managed to convince our IT to ship it as default on all of our company PCs.
I'm a Bolt driver with the opposite experience- every charger around me is a ChargePoint, EVGo, or Electrify America. This isn't generally true across the country of course, but I generally drive in the Denver/Boulder, Colorado area which is somewhere I would expect considerable EV infrastructure. Some do have a single Tesla connector among a set of several J1772 connectors, although most commonly I see several J1772 connectors and one for Nissan Leafs.
Serious question for all atmospheric carbon capture companies:

What happens once you're super successful and atmospheric carbon densities are dramatically lower? Is there a point at which the density is too low for the economics to work?

Would be an awesome problem to have.
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20% of computers that you can CHOOSE to use. I think the main part of the lawsuit is that Apple is not the only choice that is available (readily, easily, affordably) to consumers.

Subway has the most franchise stores in the USA; that doesn't mean they HAVE to serve you. You can get a sandwich at a number of other places and more abstractly, you can get food at a number of other places. They don't need to give you a reason why they won't let you in, though politely they might (i.e. please wear shoes in the store)
> support for the Wine and Proton compatibility layers on Linux is included
Pretty much everyone I know gambles on sports and for most of these guys its like a $50 bet, not a lot of money. No more than a few beers these days at a bar. People get addicted to anything, lets work on having people receive treatment if things become a problem rather than ban everything that most users are using responsibly. Might as well ban video games of you really want to get some people out of some deep holes.
Sorry for the confusion. The app launched only yesterday. I just added the pricing details to the website. As another commenter pointed out, the tricky part is that the App Store adjusts prices for each country, but I will figure something out.
(Author) Probably is, but hopefully not far from the sweet spot in efficiency for the power supply. I didn't mention it, but my preferred GPU would be a 6800XT, which this should easily cover too. Also, it doesn't run the fan at low loads, so even quieter for light desktop usage.
Very interesting! Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27059899 (5 months ago, 129 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948342 (10 months ago, 37 comments)

As I see it, a language intended for use in legal contexts such as contract law and legislation must satisfy two key desiderata:

(1) it must be able to express the intended laws and contracts

(2) it can used to conveniently reason about these rules themselves too.

It is property (2) I miss most when seeing this proposal.

When I undertake the task of formalizing legislation or any type of rules, one of the key benefits I would like to obtain as a result is the ability to answer questions such as: "Are there redundant regulations or clauses?", "Can these conditions be simplified?", "Are these conflicting conditions?" etc. Such questions require reasoning about these rules themselves.
The only item I see is a food delivery I ordered through google maps "order now". Otherwise, nothing.
If I search for that train in the emoji keyboard on my phone and post that, it doesn't stick... weird.
This map is cool, but I'm still embarrassed to say I don't understand the concept of "indigenous" particularly well or why Europe, Africa, and Asia have so few indigenous people. What defines an "indigenous" people? Is it some sort of lack of genetic or cultural mixing with other peoples? Even then, did Europeans have more migrations and cultural exchange than the Native Americans, or do we merely understand European migrations better for various reasons? Or is it merely a concept of "exotic" (or perhaps "primitive"?) relative to the Eurasian mind? Or cultural and economic detachment from the Eurasian world?

Maybe it's relative geographic stability (e.g., not moving around very much)? But it seems like that's pretty arbitrary depending on how much you zoom out--i.e., if you zoom out wide to all of Europe, Europeans were very stable for a very long time, and if you zoom in tightly on a given Native American tribe, they probably migrated over a wide geographical area.
What, you don't want it to double as a deep fryer?
When data longevity is a goal, I would expect it to be open source, such that I have a chance to port it over to Linux or other OSs and also be able to port it to future OS in 50 years or so.

I'm also not sure whether HTML is such a great format. Maybe it's fine for reading the files and content in the future but for interop with other tools, I think sth like text or markdown would be better. Or Org-mode.
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> Actually (and this might sound crazy, but I encourage you to think through it and respond), why not apply this logic to COVID-19 vaccines, as well?

I've never heard of a vaccine that causes viruses to seek resistance to it, that's one major difference. The vaccines don't actually attack the virus, they simply train your body's own immune system to recognize the virus, so that if you get infected, your body's own defenses can more quickly isolate the virus and attack it.

What I've heard happen more often in viruses, is that the more people get the virus and the more their body is slow to stop the virus from reproducing, the more likely the virus is to mutate.

So from my understanding, with viruses, it is the opposite, you want to make sure the virus doesn't get a chance to reproduce itself, because more reproduction = more chance of mutation. And vaccines help lower the reproduction amount of a virus by having people's immune system be able to stop it from doing so much more quickly than otherwise.

> why not use non-pharmaceutical means to try to control the virus (which would be equivalent to dog racetrack owners trying to keep their racetrack clean

You mean like for example by social distancing, wearing masks, disinfecting surfaces, improving air flow, and restricting activities that are high contagion spots?

Most countries are doing that already, while also hoping to get people vaccinated so that we can lower the virus' chances of reproducing and thus spreading to others as well as mutating.

> Or is there a difference between SARS-CoV-2 and hookworms/common livestock bacterial infections that matters in this case?

It is my understanding that a virus does not reproduce when it is on a surface or in the air, the way that bacteria and parasite can, a virus can only reproduce when inside of a living cell. So the virus will mutate if people have the virus in their body, and their immune system is not able to stop it from reproducing. Vaccines help teach the immune system how to best get rid of the virus in one's body so it doesn't get a lot of chances to reproduce. And measures like social distancing, face covering, surface cleaning, prevent the virus from getting into people's body in the first place, where they could reproduce and thus mutate.
I doubt it.

Desktop computers haven’t been relevant since 2008ish, and were struggling to maintain relevance after the 4th gen Intel GPU/Power-consumption changes.

Headless servers and consumer electronics are, already, largely using Linux.
Why should anyone be excited about reusing captured C02 as fuel for gasoline?
The climate crisis is incredibly dire, do not forget. We are rapidly sleepwaliking into a catastrophic 2 degrees C of warming.
he wasn't insightful early though. all that stuff is part of the standard business school curriculum.
As someone who grew up in Michigan the "both ways" claim seemed odd and upon checking unless "nothern part of the US" includes Alaska/the arctic circle (which seems a bit unfair) that doesn't seem true.

The shortest day for the absolute northernmost point in the continental US has sunrise just before 8:00 am and sunset just after 4:30 pm. With most schools starting at 7:30 and ending at 2:30 it works out for one way adjustment or not. I remember trying to get kids in extracurriculars heading home by sunset was actually a goal of scheduling but obviously that's not always possible particularly during in season due to the extra travel time prior to the game.
"Fallout Guys" haha, I think you meant Fall Guys.
Not 'arguably necessary'. Cheats can just as easily be detected from the server side through statistical analysis.
The message doesn't really land with me because it's so specific. Not using collected data for "ad targeting" leaves a LOT of room for uses of the data that I object to, including marketing purposes that don't happen to be ad targeting.
any sort of networking sounds terrifying from a security perspective...

Unfortunately (or fortunately) it's also a corner-stone of computing in general
> Your framing bothers me because it implies there was no alternative

No, I went out of my way to emphasize that I wasn't saying this:

> I won't go as far as claiming there was no way to avoid them as a society, but as a baseline everyone expected to be grappling with these issues.

The _challenges_ were inevitable. Failing to surmount them (to whatever extent you think we did) was not. But those two don't add up to where-did-that-come-from bewilderment at what happened, as failure was always a possibility.

If we've utterly failed at handling climate change in twenty years, a reasonable reaction wouldn't be "20 years ago we thought we'd be living in a perfect solarpunk future, who could have predicted climate dystopia?". The presence of a difficult problem implies the possibility of failure, which is incongruous with the GP comment's Pollyanna-ish view of the future when he was a kid.

> for the most part, us technical people were very concerned with dystopias, both the cynical and the wide eyed dreamers.

Yes, these are the people I was referring to when contrasting the GP's framing that when he was a kid, he didn't worry about the privacy etc concerns of technology.
> Would also be interested to know if there's a way police could work with Tesla or other autopilot carmakers to broadcast special codes like don't-hit-us-here-is-our location, or just send a signal blocking autopilot, or whatever. They already send texts and radio alerts, and there are already local AM alert stations in the US anyway.

I don't think this will be a good solution, since inherently these incidents happen when there's an "exception". If every stationary emergency vehicle had to send a notification each time the lights were activated, this would maybe work, until you're in an area without coverage.

To me, we need to raise the bar for what's acceptable - this vehicle would presumably also have ploughed into an injured motorist's car before the police had arrived... The root problem isn't the lack of notice of the stopped emergency vehicle, rather it's the apparent inability to avoid a stationary vehicle on the roadway, which should be the very first (and simplest) thing to detect, since the self driving vehicle is closing in on it and can see its relative position isn't moving. If it can't do that, IMO it shouldn't be on a public road, as it isn't capable of basic speed management in traffic without being able to gauge closing speed against a vehicle ahead.
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