skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a paid game, but EA/DICE are certainly sacrificing some existing gameplay elements (and story) in order to push Battlefield 2042's "Specialists" as a vehicle for in-game purchases.

Earlier Battlefields had generic soldiers per side that were identifiable by weapon class and customizable by camouflage but retained a clear distinction between the two large teams. This helped players to distinguish friend v foe and to optimize their attack/defend strategy based on the class of their opponent.

Things started going downhill with Battlefield V (WW2). It has "Elites" that can be played on both sides, so it's possible to have a Japanese soldier fighting in an early battle on the Western Front. This is not great for immersion in a game realistically themed around a serious subject.

From what I know about BF2042, because it's in the future, DICE's story is that there is a mercenary war (instead of country vs country). So now DICE can allow players to use their favorite Specialist and cosmetic on either team, which completely ruins friend v foe. And the Specialists can use any weapon which eliminates some of the strategy used when attacking/defending.

Premium cosmetics are certainly harder to pull off in some game types than others. I guess EA/DICE figured the in-game purchases will more than offset any popularity losses from these gameplay sacrifices. But hopefully DICE will be able to find a sweet spot if they are willing refine their current approach.
I find this type of argument devolves into "I want to be a crappy person and not be judged for it or face consequences"

Whereas I find your counter-argument devolves into "Crappy people are those who disagree with my point of view and they should face consequences"...

The truth is there are extremes on both sides; but the censorship seems to be overwhelmingly driven by one.
It’s also very wide and has a big reorder buffer so ‘just slapping 16 gigs’ of cache probably isn’t the answer.
>To any future HN reader scared by those intraocular injections: don't fear them.
Is the i7 dead at this point? Ars' review focused mostly on the i5 and i9, and both of them showed good progress. Is there a reason to go for an i7 now? If I want power, I just go straight for an i9 or AMD, and if I want something more budget, the I go for i5. Does the slight performance increase between the i5 and i7 make it much more of an option?
Yep, he's an inspiring guy and I've read his book. The fact that he's lived well into his 80s with T1D gives me hope that folks people can have a pretty good prognosis.

I also follow a low carb diet, which is how I've been able to have good glucose control myself.
You can use Clojure on Nodejs too.

I personally can’t use it for production code. But whenever I automate something or write some prototype I use Clojure. Iterations are faster, more direct, less of a hassle.

There has also been someone commenting around here that they use it as an network repl to poke around running production systems, which I find an interesting use case.
Maybe things will get so bad Microsoft once again comes to save the day from Apple winning all the bananas? Jumpstarts chip making, so their software can maintain relevance.
You are assuming a great deal of ignorance among the people you are talking to or about (hardly anyone would be surprised that mirrors are segmented, this has been the case since forever). And you are at the same time sprinting past your own ignorance (look at how these mirrors are made or their reflective properties - a quick google would should you plenty of information about their extremely restrictive spectral properties). Or their stability or again, their size, and compare it to the requirements of large size space or terrestrial telescopes (and, as you might know, no, you can not use 10 small telescopes instead of one large one).
This will likely have to be tested in court if not fixed legislatively.

What is more concerning is that legislators can come up with this clearly unworkable law without doing a modicum of research.
Is this sarcasm or sincere? I agree to a certain extent; informed people with good taste tend to be strongly opinionated.
Enjoy? Not particularly, but isn't that just reality? There's always a bigger fish.

In-game I had no illusions about personally competing or winning given that those games are purely pay-to-win, as I said I just enjoyed watching the server dynamics and the drama. I felt I got enough value out of, say, the $100 spread out over a few months until I got bored with the game.
Is Crowdsourcing a Necessity for Cybersecurity?
The silliest part of the story is that Stockholm decided to build their own system, mostly because of dick-swinging reasons, because the actual needs of schoolchildren and parents across the country aren't that different!

It should be perfectly possible to have the same underlying system across the entire country.

And in a perfect world, there would be some kind of common API for all schools, and a competing app ecosystem where parents and teachers and children can pick the one they like the best.
Blah, seems a long way from usefulness.

I guess it comes down to areal density vs hard drives. If we want a miracle data storage technology for backup, it would fundamentally need to either be much better in bits/in^2 or a lot of layers.

My google math says 50nm x 50nm x 4 bits is right at a terabit/sq inch.

HDDs are around 1.34 terabit per sq inch. They have more tricks, but it does seem that it'll be harder to move forward.

I guess a bluray was 12.6 gigabits/sq in, and could at least be stacked to four layers with dual-sided dual-layer, about 50 gigabits/sq inch. I think theoretically optical media is very durable, but I still remember the organic dyes in consumer DVD-Rs fading pretty quickly.

Hm, SSDs are passing hard drives in areal density. A 2016 article says they hit 1.6 terabits/sq in. I think SSD makers have closed in on over 64 layers/stacks, and they are at 4bits/cell now. Oh jeez, are they doing 6 ad 8 per cell too? Yeesh that seems very unreliable.

SSDs can't shrink their cells because it reduces durability of the cell, so their path forward is more stacking or just stacking chips on chips as fabs making them drop the costs. SSDs also fail at long-term storage.

So maybe the mythical 500TB cube of data will still have to be optical/holographic.
"w2" refers to tax form W-2 [0], which is a form given to direct hire employees during tax filing season.

It contrasts to form 1099 [1] which are given to independent contractors.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-2

[1] https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1099-misc
Does anyone have a good idea what Verily or Calico actually do, or have done?
Nvim has some plugins and features that do some of the things you might be interested in. Telescope[0][1] which is a fuzzy finder for anything you can think of (files, symbols, color themes, etc.[2]). The LSP and Treesitter stuff in nvim 0.5+ is also pretty cool. If you want to just try it without much work the Lunarvim[3] project comes with sane defaults and included plugins (including Telescope).

Lua as the default configuration language makes things simple to configure as well.

Having said all that...if someone told me [insert-text-editor] had everything I would want I would probably check it out and go home to vim (but I do enjoy learning about new stuff and features).

[0] https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AVwHZflsU -- demo video

[2] https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim#vim-pickers

[3] https://www.lunarvim.org/
I would argue that there is a thesis—one that is fairly explicit, shared among various Curtis works, and not even particularly controversial, although it can sometimes feel slippery when presented via Curtis' cinematic techniques.

He suggests that the 20th century was a period of intensely competing utopian ideologies, all of which ended in chaos, disaster, and disillusion as they intersected with problems of individual freedom and weakness. What proved most "stable" for Western societies were cynical policies in which the health of financial markets, and the suppression of contra-modern movements through overwhelming military force, were prioritized over sweeping social reforms that reeked of the old failed ideologies. This led to a period of brief peace and prosperity in the West during the 1990s which is sometimes called "The End of History," and which led some people to believe that financialization was not merely a cynical tool, but in fact the best means to also ensure individual happiness and prosperity.

However, he argues that Western political leaders have proven unable or unwilling to change these policies in the face of the increasingly serious crises of the 21st Century, as they believe their personal fortunes and the stability of the societies they manage are tethered to the goodwill of markets. In the face of this stasis, various elements of Western societies most affected by repressed upheaval have turned to nostalgic or otherwise magical thinking, recalling the old failed ideologies of the previous century. Both those who govern and the governed seem trapped, unable to conceive of anything genuinely new.

Curtis' documentaries, in particular "Can't Get You Out of My Head," attempt a kind of psycho-history of 20th Century ideologies, their ultimate failure, and the consolidation of forces that led to the End of History. They further attempt to restore a sense of absurdity to present-day political and social thrashing-about, and ultimately suggest that none of our present conditions are inevitable, and can be changed through will, imagination, and consciousness of our past.

(Happy to be corrected by any Curtis obsessives if I've missed anything.)
VSCode allows you to export settings and keybinds via JSON files.

Also, saying EMacs Lisp is more intuitive than JSON is quite absurd. You could give a 15 minute presentation on how to read JSON to someone who knows how to use Word and they’d at least be able to read it. The same wouldn’t be possible with any subset of lisp.
>Kids who play the massively popular free game Fortnite say that paid skins are a major status symbol, and that they get "scorned" and feel "poor" if they stick with the default free skin.

Maybe they are poor, they can't afford the skin, and feel poor because they are poor and reality reflects it.

>according to a damning report on gaming habits

Reads like another moral panic from fake news they blow out of proportion and citing "some kids" to sample bias only from anyone who already agrees, like saying "Kids love Linux" with only interviews of Linux loving preteens.

>Another is quoted as saying: "Sometimes if you are wearing the default skin you can get bullied."

You get bullied for losing or making mistakes, but you don't hear articles about:

"Kids who play Fortnite say they get bullied and shamed if they are killed in the game, according to a damning report on gaming habits"
This is cool!

Curious about the heater placement. Won’t that put it very close to curtains? Seems like the window and door will have the worst insulation too. Could it be relocated to the wall by the stairs?
This, but not "only" privacy.

It will be interesting to see how the larger issue of "ownership" is going to play out in an iCar (TM) world .
Considering that you may still legally own the car but you're only licensing out your car manufacturer's software, it doesn't take much imagination of getting physically restrained by your cars' over the air capabilities:

- Missed an installment on your lease/financing plan? -> Grounded
- Took your car in for service at an non-authorized shop? (think Apple disabling third party charging equipment) -> Grounded
- (Some malicious actor injecting ransomware -> Grounded)
If your kid is a critical thinker and has problems with the school system, but is still learning, that's fine. If your kid is two years behind his age group in mathematics- that's less fine.

Part of being a good parent in this scenario is being able to tell the difference. Data can probably help- is my kid getting a D because he doesn't turn things in, or because he can't do long division?
My bad, I shouldn't have taken the bait. What could I possibly add to a conversation about security that you couldn't do on your own as a simple thought experiment.
I avoided web react like the plague (always veered towards React Native projects) until I found TailwindCSS. Now I enjoy web again.

The wonderful thing that it gives you is some natural feeling constraints.
I wonder why they would want to be Javascript-free :)
Doesn't the Battle Pass give you some kind of competitive advantage?
yes, the game that uses fomo and artificially creates scarcity of collectibles to exploit people into spending cash via gambling is the gold standard and every one else is copying it
I was thinking the co was like coworkers.
Note that .us and several other ccTLDs have the unfortunate disadvantage of not allowing "private registration", forcing you to either expose your real name, address, phone number, and email, or violate their terms by providing fake information and risking suspension for that reason.
seems like just yesterday: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/267047991674810368
The time is almost upon us where I can finally convert my '81 Jeep Scrambler!
Apple laptops are twice as expensive as x86 hardware but not twice as powerful.

What other kind ofARM hardware can we buy beside Apple laptops?
Didn't find any benchmarks in the Accord paper. Do you have pointers?
Actually I think it's mostly regulatory pressure. Chinese market gacha/lootbox games are required by law to have pity mechanics, must disclose all drop rates, and even provide you with your pull history as well as purchase history. It really shows in the games that come out of there...

When it comes to regulating what is effectively gambling, this is actually a pretty healthy set of rules more countries should follow.

(AFAIK there are no such regulations in the US, which is why lootboxes here usually do not come with drop rates, don't give you any way to view your pull history, and almost never have pity mechanisms)
I wonder why did they choose to investigate plain text connection to XMPP server instead of SSL or TLS ? As far as I recall there's "starttls" command on standard 5222 port, after that things get encrypted and all their tcpdump tricks fail. Almost none of the XMPP clients use plain text connection nowadays.
Usually within 3-6 months, depending on how many rounds of comments the SEC has.
At least in the US, the worst parts of gambling still exists. People still shit themselves playing poker or slots for 20 hours a day in Vegas. Those are the people every casino is trying to hook.

The issue is gambling VERY easily moves underground.
Let's stop making privacy a techie-only thing, though. This should be a question a user chooses the first time they boot the browser, and Firefox should do its hardest to honor it.
I find this at least a little frustrating. I haven't used Emacs, but when using other apps that use non-standard defaults (or just defaults that I am not used to), changing one shortcut leads to a cascade where I have to change many shortcuts. I now have to spend a somewhat significant amount of time configuring a new piece of software before I even know if I actually like it.

Shipping with some easily configurable presets to mimic other popular tools would probably help new users a lot.
> without doing a modicum of research

I think they know exactly what they are doing.
Prove me wrong. Show me a large mainstream publication that is crital of Apple that still gets their products to review, or one that isn't full of nothing but praise for Apple, unless you're deluded to deny it. I bet you can't.
No one uses Rails anymore--it doesn't scale, said one developer to the other while pushing their code to github.
What I've speculated is that perception of time is relative to how much you've experienced, i.e. how long you've been alive.

When you're a child, a week seems like a long time, because you haven't lived very many weeks. A year seems like an eternity, because relatively few have passed.

As more of these increasingly large time units get behind you, years, then decades... you have a firsthand understanding of what living their respective durations feels like.

It's like by living you're calibrating your ability to measure time properly, and then you die.
That’s an interesting idea. I think I’d be able to touch it, I know I’d dislike it immensely though.

But this question helped me clarify my thoughts around this more. It’s the distinction between rational fear vs irrational fear. Assuming clean water the fear of opening your eyes underwater is irrational, it’s not going to hurt you or do any long term damage. The example from the story about getting an injection on your eye is maybe someplace in between, needle in the eye is much more invasive, but also deemed medically necessary where the risk of not doing it is greater than the risk of doing it.

Not having the ability to override your own emotions in cases where they are irrational is interesting to me. It’s like giving agency to an “external other” that you have no control over.
If there is money out, there must be money in. Where does that original money come from?
None of what you've said to support that argument sounded persuasive to me. I think it's a pretty transparent rhetorical sleight of hand to say "the only way things can actually be secure in the long run is for them to be federated the way I want them to be". I get it, you want to run federated systems that you can build your own clients for. The evidence for those kinds of systems being the most private runs strongly in the opposite direction.

Would you like an example that's especially relevant to this thread? Because I can provide you with one.
Emacs doesn't lend itself well to running on machines you've never logged into before, or ephemeral machines/containers/etc.

It's not a tiny sleek thing that you can start anywhere and have the same experience (that's nano or vi), but if you let your local Emacs eldritch horror reach out with its noodly appendage to whatever you're trying to edit, you'll have a much better experience.
I've been a Clojure hobbyist for many years, and these are a few of the things I've done repeatedly:

- Scrape webpages with http-kit and Specter

- Visualizations with Quil

- Serve static pages with Ring, Compojure, and Hiccup

(un)Fortunately, I don't write Clojure professionally, so I can get away with liking it for aesthetic reasons as much as anything. It definitely does feel like swimming against the current sometimes, though - one runs into bus factor issues a lot in the Clojure ecosystem. But hell, I love it all the same :)

Personally, I am really excited for Clerk - this looks like a really useful tool and I'm looking forward to trying it out!
why he stepped down as CEO, then CTO and now IC?
A Closer Look at China’s Missile Silo Construction
I am not a lawyer, but... a public interest clause might not be the right tool, since public interest can be interpreted as restricted to information that would affect a person's voting preferences and nothing broader.

In the UK TV broadcasters get their licences and general charter terms from the government, based on standards previously contested in law and, I believe, broadly enshrined in statute and/or regulations. One of those terms is a crucial clause to the effect that broadcasters are not allowed to broadcast anything that would make ordinary people throw up over their TV dinner or grannies die of apoplexy, etc.

Various entities, people or single issue political parties for instance, have attempted to get broadcasters to show films containing grisly stuff, and when they meet refusal have attempted to sue broadcasters on free speech grounds. However, the right to free speech does not allow a legal entity or person to compel some other party to shout out noxious views on their behalf. So broadcasters in the UK can exercise their rights against such compulsion and filter out extremal horrors if they wish. The tests they use are designed to maintain the same two or three standard deviations of a normal distribution curve that maximises their customer base and matches the same standards civil law requires to maintain order on the civil scale anyway.

In that context, what are social media companies if they are not media intermediaries between legal entities? Thus they can not be compelled to relay anyone's content to anywhere else if they don't want to. Their T&Cs typically say so anyway.

Folks worried about censorship of their partisan or minority views on such platforms don't seem to get what rights those intermediary companies have. They play nice relaying messages because they like mass market incomes.

So really the issue might be purely about how many messages could MetaFB/Twitter afford to kill off and still be popular enough to survive?
Ah, ok - I didn't see the transform compared to Functions. Very cool and I like the multiplexing.
The model of the game seems to be to have steep prices, but then give something like $100 of premium currency monthly in exchange for playing the game. This will generate engagement even if the content is mediocre. How many players would do dailies for fun if they did not come with what's effectively a $1 coupon?
Yep, if they're doing an LS swap with a T56, then the modern transmission will be a huge advantage. I was thinking in the sense of something like the more common 4L60E/TH350 (3/4 speed autos) that most people resort to when doing swaps in old cars (at least GM).
This is amazingly field dependent.
I am from a field where you only cite the most significant tools you use (Machine Learning).
E.g. "We implemented this with a neural network build with TensorFlow (cite). We augmented the data using skew tranforms from Augumentor.jl"

But the convention of other fields is to recursively cite all software that is loaded by your experimental code.
And is strictly required by their journals.

and I am not one to tell other fields what their conventions should be.
Especially not when they give more credit.
Also don't have kids. I'm in my 30s. Totally agree with the other commenter. As a kid in school, I had to learn to be responsible for things, it was my responsibility to decide what I could handle on my own and what I told my parents about, and I paid the price when I dropped the ball. Yeah, there are always a few kids who need more help learning these skills than others, and I could see the app in the hands of good parents being useful. But I don't want to live in a world full of people whose parents never trusted them.

I feel like one of those old people complaining that "kids these days aren't allowed to go play on their own, climb a tree, scrape their knees, etc". But this seems really troubling on a whole new psychological level. IMO kids need autonomy to mature, which can't happen if their parent can "magically" know anything.
It would be interesting to know what contractor delivered the original $120m mess, and actively sabotaged open source efforts. The combination of large budget and terrible result suggest some of the very large contractors used to doing work for fortune 500 companies.

Shame on those who work there.
It’s easy to experience. Delete/disable all apps except phone and sms, and try it. Maybe you’ll like it.
Hi! My name is Sergey, I’m a Jitsu product engineer. I’ll gladly answer your question! AsyncLogger works asynchronously by design. There is a go channel which writes JSON’s to the log file.
Answering your question: the service doesn’t wait until data is written to the log prior to returning success to the client. WAL log is designed for keeping events JSON’s between Jitsu instance restarts to prevent data loss. When you deploy your Jitsu application, it will handle service restart signals (e.g. sigterm) and closes database connections as well as other resources. All incoming events are stored in WAL log in this time. So, after the Jitsu starts, all events from WAL log will be passed to the main events JSON pipeline and stored to the destinations.