skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure that doesn't just reflect a familiarity with Steam more than anything? Because imo Steam has a dog of a UI. Everything is tiny and doesn't scale well on high DPI, common options are buried in menus, or several hyperlinks deep (eg; installing a mod, joining your friend's active game), the video controls are fiddly, management of your friends list is painful.

Most long term Steam users know its quirks by now, but if both Steam and Epic games store were launched today, in their current state, Steam would struggle to get traction.
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Is it really a spoiler? Or is it just "news"?
Bots and other un-persons.
I think there's a difference between a company licensing IP it has developed itself vs. acquiring another company's IP that is already being used by competitors. Not saying the latter is never allowable, but it weighs against allowing the acquisition.

Still, you raise a good point. Maybe along with blocking more mergers, we should be looking at breaking some companies up.
This would be useless from facebook's perspective since the brigaders would just make a browser extension to monitor up/down votes anyway.
> Government employees are only human after all

This weekend I was traveling and I put the stray $20 from my pocket in the bin at the TSA checkpoint. An agent quickly pulled it out and handed it back to me. He then said "a lot of good people work here, but they're still human". It's kind of wild that we endure that level of complacency here in the States.
Don't believe representatives are elected because of their integrity and their willingness to serve.

They represent groups of interest. And being blackmailable is, in my opinion, a handy leash to keep them in check, for those groups which propose the candidates

The public is not concerned with corruption until they feel affected by it.
So you are mad at the imaginary goal that you made up. Got it.
Jami is great. You can create users in seconds, have multiple users active simultaneously in the same client, make them call each other and have a big video conference with all your alter egos. 10/10 if you don't have friends.
> With poetry and docker, packaging Python apps for easy consumption is a non-issue.

Yeah, apps it's worth doing this for, cli tools it's not.
You have a good point, however HN etiquette is to be as close to the original headline as possible. Perhaps there should have an exception for sports.
how would you cut the budget of the CIA for example, an organization that doesn't really answer to anyone but itself ? an organization that can self fund when it wants.
Eisenhower, a general called out the so called military industrial complex in a way that befits a prophet
Fair, but media headlines and intelligence agencies provide similar services.
As is the case 99% of the time someone makes stupid claims like this. You would think of all people, the users on HN would know this, but apparently not.
Well, I suppose anything could be a genuine replacement depending on how many of the features of elasticsearch the user actually needs/uses.
Render Dev Advocate here.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Raja. It's great to read a more personal experience about someone using Render rather than just seeing a number go up on one of our internal dashboards.

Had you ever used a platform like Render (or Heroku, Fly, Railway, etc) or only VPSs?
Sad to see. His definition of OOP[1] helped to shape my style of programming.

[1]https://wcook.blogspot.com/2012/07/proposal-for-simplified-m...
What do people want? On the one hand you have misinformation and psychological harm that social media causes people and all the people complaining about that, and on the other hand you have heavily curated/censored content to try and craft a specific experience on a platform, and all the people complaining about that. So what actually do people want social media companies to do? Hands off or hands on? You can't have both.
I posted this in another thread on the same subject:

Not exactly related but: a couple of weeks ago I suddenly had my account 'restricted' on eBay and told I could no longer sell or receive payment for anything I'd sold until I uploaded a load of personal ID documents [passport / driving licence, etc] to confirm my identity. This, after I'd been buying and selling on eBay for 19+ years.
Browsing their 'community' forum, it became clear that eBay have done this to loads of people recently, including many who had been members even longer than me. What disgusted me even more than this obnoxious privacy invasion was the number of people on the forum who'd actually sent eBay all the required documentation instead of telling them to go fuck themselves.

Luckily I had no uncleared payments in my account. So I've just stopped using eBay. It's just a pity there's no viable alternative. Nothing like a bit of healthy competition to help rein in the jaw-dropping arrogance of these mega-corporations.

EDIT:

> The summary execution with no explanation and no escalation path and no appeal is not endearing

Agreed. I've had this happen to me before with Twitter as well. Got 3 accounts suddenly suspended for no reason. Boring long story but, after about 6 months they re-instated them with nothing more than a "Whoops! We made a mistake".

What makes these 'summary executions' [I like that description!] infinitely more annoying is that there's no way to enter into any kind of a dialogue about it. If you receive an email from eBay, telling you you've been suspended, it'll come from a no-reply address and good luck actually finding any way to contact them through their website. It just sends you round and round in circles before eventually dumping you onto their 'Community' forum, which is basically just a load of other pissed off users, shouting into the void.

I know the old argument goes "Their playground. Their rules" and, in general, I agree with that. But, with these huge corporations which have a virtual monopoly on certain arenas of internet activity, there ought to be some safeguards in place to protect users against arbitrary [and often unfounded] account suspensions. This kind of thing could literally bankrupt someone's business, if they relied heavily on eBay sales.
Show HN: Deploy and Manage K3s Clusters with ClusterAPI
But it's okay, because they have a shared love of watermelon, and then got a job with the prime minister? I think?
Handy JavaScript Tips
Weird, I must have added my Privacy card to DO before they made a backend payment processing change. Been using it since July 2016, with a new card in August 2020.
> You spring back to the present day, almost bolting out of your chair to object, "Don't do X!". Your colleagues are startled by your intense reaction, but they haven't seen the horrors you have.

They may be startled, but they almost certainly won't listen. The purgatory nature of IT work culture ensures this repetitive pattern.
I like Backblaze because it works well on my Mac and I don't have to think about it. That's about all I want!
You didn't ask a question in the post I responded to.
If the API really is compatible, then Kibana should work. Just sounds like they don't guarantee it will always work.
I'm not aware of any microkernels for phones (I'm not sure that would help either), but Android has been sandboxing more and more processing [1] and started using some Rust at the system level [2] ever since the stagefright bug [3].

1: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-hard...

2: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)
It's not fair to talk about Alan Kay this way. Alan Kay actually did a ton of pioneering work in children's education, and in an applied (real-world) empirical way, not just in a theoretical sense.

He and some of his collaborators were among the earliest in applying Piaget and Bruner's learning models to programming education, mainly for learners under age 15.
The whole point is to remove biases -- did you even read any of the source material?

Right now there is tremendous societal pressure and varying outcomes depending on _who_ you are (race/gender/other socioeconomic factors) and the entire point is to remove that from the equation to lead to better outcomes overall.

To do that, you need to be aware of those factors and control for them. That is very basic science.

You seem to be advocating putting ones head in the sand and saying that those factors don't matter and should be removed.
Make sure to follow up "Metaphors We Live By" with a read of Lakoff's "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things", which explains how meaning is constructed by ultimately relating sounds to body experiences, a must-read for the interested student of linguistics (amateur or professional).

Lakoff himself talking about cognitive semantics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFgFjdCo2Js

In software architecture, metaphors may help us to better identify objects and their interaction patterns.
The Ghost with the Jingling Keys
There are some other games, like escape rooms in a box, where some of the puzzles encourage you to cut up the rulebook or things like that. On the one hand it hurts replayablity, but those sorts of games have next to no replayability to begin with. Once you solve the puzzle, there's not much left.

On one level it bothers me because you should be able to replay stuff, but at the same time it's the experience rather than the game board and there's a lot of ways to spend more than 10 bucks on an hour's entertainment.
The epic game store is vastly inferior to steam. But it frequently has high quality games available for free. And epic is pretty good to the indie game dev community. I see no reason not to go for it.

Appeals to quality don't seem particularly meaningful when the price of both is 0.
Genuinely asking (haven’t really been keeping up with Apple): is it possible to write software on the iPad for the iPad? If not, I’m not sure how you could consider it a “full computer”.
I really hope he does too.
Sounds like you had a bad experience when you tried to set application state (a VM) using a declarative tool (Terraform). That's not very surprising and also not even remotely related to what I wrote.

At the same time, CloudFormation does nothing for Azure, so I don't understand where your comparison is coming from.

CloudFormation can only do AWS. Period. And unless you somehow manage to pin yourself to AWS in a greenfield scenario that means it will not be sufficient.

At the same time, CloudFormation is (in my opinion) a nasty way to describe desired state, and sharing anything (i.e. results) with anything else (i.e. non-AWS systems) is not possible, meaning you have to write something for that yourself.

If you are creating a single AWS account with a VPC, some subnets and a few EC2 instances, you're essentially just doing fake-cloud and you might as well do that in the console with no IaC whatsoever. That is not meant as some weird derogatory statement, but I'm not talking about managing a handful of resources in a single account here. I'm also not talking about a magic multicloud translator, but about IaC orchestration across multiple providers (terraform terminology applied).

If we take AWS out of the equation and look at something else, i.e. Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Palo Alto, F5, those all have Terraform providers as well. No CloudFormation tho. So what if you're setting up a BGP peering over your DirectConnect, you gonna do the CloudFormation thing on the AWS side and manual configuration on the Palo Alto side? That would require at least 3 different CloudFormation stacks that you manually have to run in the right order.
The Liberty was also very far from where the Americans had told the Israelis where it would be. Finding the ship there was unexpected and calls to confirm its identity were not being answered.
Why is python bad for cli applications
http://nano.to/sdesalas thanks!
This current match has the Levitov chess channel with Peter Svidler and Vladimir Kramnik analysing live. What a team! No engine in sight, instead a glass of whisky, decades of world top experience and love of the game.
Ideally you don't expose the schema directly, you make views in another schema and expose that instead of exposing your real tables.
Dutch say 14 air passengers from S. Africa with Omicron were vaccinated
Remember, many of these things that get released are usually just vaporware. They may become better 6 months or a year later, or, they may never see the light of day.
These tools were not built for multi-tb workloads, and pointing out that as a deficiency when it was clearly not a design goal is a misleading argument.
Probably not working a more different types/sizes of companies sooner, and on a related note working at one company too long.

I think the best thing was probably going into a co-op program. I worked at so many places and got to do a lot of interesting things. Interns often get handed great misc things that full-timers are too busy doing big projects to do.

My greatest mistake was going into consulting, it really did not suit me at all. I was also really bad about doing paperwork which is required to get paid, keep up on giving the government their due, etc. It paid a lot, but not learning as much in that time isn't worth it to me in retrospect.

Discovering working at growing startups was very refreshing. Get to/have to do many things fast but still well if you have any sense of craftsmanship or empathy. At first wrote off, and eventually found that a larger company can still do decent engineering and offer a great work-life balance and challenge. Unless a startup keeps growing at a good pace, usually top-out/get bored and move on in about 2-3 years. When bored, side projects to try out new stuff either at work if you can, or at home helped.

Even working at multiple companies being too focused on my favourite language/framework/stack at any given time wasn't that useful. Accidentally getting into other langs/frameworks was worthwhile and so should have been more open to them sooner. I'd still like to know how using OCaml/F# on a real project goes.
Seems pretty unreasonable to forbid acknowledging the ethical motivations of an action in a debate.
As someone who loved eggnog as a child (my favourite was eggnog with Honeycomb cereal), and who has since become glucose intolerant (surprise, surprise), I've made a low-carb version of Alton's recipe in recent years, and it's not bad, but nowhere near the original as I remember it.

The only drawback is that without sugar, it's missing a 'thickness' element. I've tried erythritol, but (despite a glycemic index of 1), it seems to affect my blood sugar and I have to stick with stevia powder. I've also tried thickeners such as xanthan gum and inulin, but they end up making the eggnog 'slimy'. Egg yolk, cream, and almond milk all supply some net carbs, and in liquid form, they raise blood glucose levels rather quickly, which isn't great for someone who can't easily counteract a sudden rise in glucose, but a small glass doesn't seem to affect me. Ironically, the rum has zero carbs, as does the bourbon, but cognac is definitely out - can't say I notice.

I've even tried to steam the mixture with my espresso maker wand to add thickness - making sure I stay under 140 degrees. Unfortunately, I think even though the overall temperature of the liquid is less than 140, the steam seems to 'cook' the egg as it exits the wand, making the eggnog a but 'chunky' - it was worth a shot!
Where would you say Solr falls short? In terms of search - it's definitely the case that ES has expanded beyond that (metrics, apm...)
Backblaze B2 has free ingress and egress (w/ Cloudflare) and the cheapest pricing that I know of per GB, but it looks like CloudFlare's block storage might be a competitor soon.
The sum is greater than parts
It is a recurring topic on Hacker News though recently.

Here's a story from Mailbox.org which is another German email provider focused on Privacy, just like Tutanota: https://mailbox.org/en/post/chat-control-the-latest-eu-plans...

And here a more detailed site: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...

Not sure if this is indeed exaggerated or unfounded and I hope it is. I heard it was taken off the agenda but that was more of a "for now", with plans to revisit it next year.
Oh my god! This works so much better than every Internet search engine I have tried.
“DevOps” as a job title. A decade of confusion
You can store Terabytes of data in Redis. Just google it.
A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes (2015)
Not quite. Different educational dynamic. Polarizing figure for sure, but whomped an old school political machine candidate.
Doomsday Algorithm
Surprise, surprise, increasing concentration of market power in tech and other industries seems to explain much of the productivity slowdown:

Computer and electronic products incurred a massive slowdown, with a contribution to MFP growth of 0.45 ppt. from 1997 to 2005 dwindling to 0.10 ppt. from 2005 to 2018....The MFP slowdown in computer and electronic products represents 66 percent of the slowdown in durable manufacturing and 31 percent of the slowdown in the private nonfarm business sector.

...

Mordecai Kurz [...] finds growing market power in the IT sector, which may be stifling the entry and growth of young firms. Kurz reports that “declining or slow growing firms with broadly distributed ownership have been replaced by IT based firms with highly concentrated ownership,” and that “IT innovations enable and accelerate the erection of barriers to entry and once erected, IT facilitates maintenance of restraints on competition.”

Foster, Grim, Haltiwanger, and Wolf also reference the concentration within high-tech industries, noting that, in contrast to the late 1990s, when “the productivity surge in the high-tech sectors [had] a high contribution of increased within-industry covariance between market share and productivity . . . the productivity slowdown in the post-2000 period in high tech is due to both a decrease in within-firm productivity growth but also a decrease in this covariance.”

Titan Alon, David Berger, Robert Dent, and Benjamin Pugsley offer further evidence to support this finding, noting that “over the last three decades, the U.S. business sector has experienced a collapse in the rate of new startups alongside an enormous reallocation of economic activity from entrants and young firms to older incumbents.” Alon et al. clarify that this finding is not just particular to high-tech industries but is “widespread across industries and geographic markets,” so that while this could be relevant in high-tech industries, it could also help explain the productivity slowdowns in other industries. And, more generally, Grullon et al. observe that “more than 75% of U.S. industries have experienced an increase in concentration levels over the last two decades.”
My impression is that most restrictions to the freedom of speech in Germany are rather in civil law than in criminal law. It is very easy to get (successfully) sued for saying things that is.

It is nearly impossible to speak about sexual harassment - because the perpetrator can sue you for intruding his private life.

More generally it is basically impossible to say anything negative about someone if you can't prove it true - it is considered slander. By contrast in the U.S. as far as I know it's up to whoever accuses you of slander to prove that what you say is untrue.

That creates a whole large area where you can speak freely about someone while not being able to accuse them legally before the court - in Germany that would either fall into "slander" bucket (if what you say has public significance but you can't prove it) or "private life" bucket (if what you say has allegedly no public significance even if you can prove it true).
I would really like to find a good alternative

Endless captchas, randomly asking to login again, holding payments, asking for more and more user data, now demands ID card picture and social security number for selling, dropping PayPal... After 10 years without problems, getting really tired the past 6 months
Evolution of iPhone Design, Specs, colors, camera and box content [2007 – 2021]
Watch the history of iPhone design, changes of specifications, development in color, evolution of camera and iPhone box content in one video through fourteen years of development
>Disabled comments is a very strong signal in its own right.

It might be but often it's not. A common reason comments are disabled is that a female is in it which invites rude sexist remarks. For example, there was some advanced math university lectures taught by female professors and every one of them was spammed with "men of culture, we meet here again". Understandably, the channel later disabled the comments out of respect for those women but at least the dislike numbers were still visible.

>, it is still very easy to discern whether the video you are about to watch is controversial.

No, it's actually cumbersome and wastes extra time to determine if many how-to videos are bad quality without a dislike count. That's why so many are irritated that Youtube removed it.
They also have to blur entire buildings on request, even if they don't have personally identifying details.

...even if those same buildings can be seen by anyone standing in the street.

It's privacy theater. (Or maybe theatre, because Europe.)
I don't think so, my cpu is fine, doesn't use any more than youtube uses. I think the poster must have something wrong with their browser. I've seen more than a couple of people who got kicked off youtube move to odysee as they are much less aggressive on removing content. They also have downvoting.
The Great Resignation Will Be Good for Corporations, Not Workers
> The linked article is a bunch of yelling about a perceived drop in what amounts to the second derivative of per capita GDP.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is not in the habit of doing a bunch of yelling. This is a scholarly report, and is commenting on a widely reported phenomena, namely the productivity slowdown. If you don't like this analysis, there are many others that draw similar conclusions. The reason why this analysis is interesting is that it breaks down the productivity decline into component factors and identifies which factors have slowed down (MFP).
Should robots appear tomorrow and replace 99.95% of the workforce do you really believe the robot owners will be altruistic enough to provide charity to the displaced workforce?

The attractive people who are out of work will end up in the sex industry. The rest will go to protection zones, ghettos, and will be sterilized to prevent reproduction, and possibly starved depending on how things go.

Society is not shock resistant and needs time to grow into things. Look at oligarchies and tell me socialism, capitalism, and communism are really any different beyond the rhetoric.

How many dev shops said they are agile when they were clearly waterfall?

No matter what you call it the ruling class will always call the tune and the poor and middle class will dance.
Tired? Sounds like you need more rest.
I'm familiar

So you go from that, to all human interaction is evil?
One important aspect of Blender as a project is that the technology is developed alongside a specific creative project with a specific goal (e.g. "Big Buck Bunny", "Sprite Fright").

The technology & the creative development are part of an intertwined process.
Not exactly true. There are things like "Redis on Flash" that redis.com offers for large sets of data. If you enable it, most of your data gets stored in a Flash memory and hence super cheap, in fact even cheaper than things like DynamoDB and stuff.
Hear hear.

Been personally using for 1.5 years with Backblaze thanks to HN with 0 problems. Have even done some restores succesfully!
True. But the worst people are the family dynasty types in a private company.

End of the day everything has a lifecycle. If Alcoa acted like a startup, they wouldn’t be around for long.