skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minecraft is only supported on the legacy version not the new version you need to play with Xbox/Android/iOS/Switch/PS/Bedrock users, same for Minecraft Dungeons. Rocket League used to be natively supported and now must be run through Proton (though at least Epic hasn't blocked it via DRM like Fortnite), Among Us barely makes the top 100 now and is regularly broken/subpar but it is one my friend was able to play with us when it was popular (with a bit of fighting), Counter Strike works great but is one of the 3 Valve titles I was talking about.

> Which list are you looking at?

ProtonDB https://www.protondb.com/ which uses Steam's live statistics https://store.steampowered.com/stats/Steam-Game-and-Player-S.... I think that site you linked is just republishing Steam's page in a static version (but without the information on which that ProtonDB adds).

If you want to go beyond Steam the numbers only get worse as Valve has been leading the push for Linux gaming, even making their own Linux gaming devices for many years. E.g. Fortnite from Epic typically peaks around 20-30 million active players each day (which is around the same as the peak number of Steam users concurrently logged in whether playing the game or not - albeit not all PC obviously) and you can't even join a match on Linux.

> Sales or how many people are actually playing these games?

The latter, a lot of the most popular games are F2P now so it wouldn't even be possible to do the comparison by sold copies.
I want to be optimistic about this, but I don't think the result would be that every company would sign up for this. Rather, every company would implement their own 10-liner library for adding ANSI color codes to terminal output. The whole system of smallish dependencies you add in on an as-needed basis only works when the cost of adding them (INCLUDING the transaction costs, the cost of dev hours spend on convincing the procurement dept, etc etc etc) is cheaper than the cost in dev hours of just writing it yourself.

In addition to this, if a company pays for software the devs they buy it from had better respond quickly to security vulnerabilities and feature requests. The standard FOSS "this software is provided as-is, without even some guarantee of fitness for purpose" is not really something that would fly in a commercial contract.
I really like playing "Immersive Sim" games (aka Prey, System Shock, Deus Ex, etc) because they generally have really tough combat but open ended gameplay. This means you must think very carefully about every encounter to come out on top.
It might be fast if implemented on a laser beam instead of tape.
(I wonder if it’s technically possible?
Corrected link: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/
That works well until you have kids running around... You going to put rechargeable cells in that Elena of Avalor wand your 4 year old chases the dog with? And her talking unicorn? How about all the light sabers?

In my experience, most of those types of toys don't go through batteries fast enough to justify a NiMH - they'd be in there for years. Invariably one of the kids will wind up mixing NiMH/LiIon/Alkaline in a toy, then the rechargeable winds up in the recycling bin a year later.

Fast forward 3 years, and your "infinite" AAs are all gone, lost, or in near-permanent use somewhere you can never identify, and you've wasted all that money.

In a few years when the kids move out and, and the number of battery powered gizmos is down to a manageable number, I'll try it again - until then, Amazon Basics AAA/AA are my friend.
Ask HN: My morning shade disrupted by clouds?
This is quite mundane. Recently, in the mornings, I enjoy shade from a large tree. Within this shade I go about my morning routine.

The sun beats hard this time of year. This morning was cloudy, and as such there was no shade. Of course the sun was still behind the tree top, just shrouded by cloud.

I felt the heat on my skin, and it was obvious I’d get burned before long.

I hadn’t considered this before; is it possible that the blanket of cloud is diffracting the sunlight, and makes the clouds themselves a source of UV, as opposed to a singular source (the sun).

Would this explain why I’m being burned despite the sun being hidden behind the tree canopy (and clouds)?

I never considered that clouds could be negative for seeking shelter from the sun.
Just 100 Companies (2022)
Unless you need to pay someone in Bitcoin, don't waste your time with blockchain. That's my advice.
Yes, it’s the only way to manage complexity. Been using Clojure and CL, basically everything is done with embedded macro DSL’s.
No doubt about that, and I make no judgment about other people's criteria or even lack thereof for having or not having children.
I enjoyed the article right up to the point where it concluded at the very end that the solution is to “switch to postgresql” without actually providing any rationale for that sudden and subjective ending.
There's a word for this: "antinatalism".

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The idea that it could be morally or ethically better to not have children feels like further in-depth thought out examining the specifics in attempt for a rational and non-emotional answer would yield a pretty strong "no". It is a vastly personal decision and I would encourage you to answer this for yourself personally and to try to look for the arguments of those who are saying the opposite of your close social friends (if they are saying "no", then look for people saying "yes", if they are saying "yes", look for people who are saying "no").

The arguments that come to my mind:

1. The world has always been filled with an amount of danger to offspring, this is not more existential than it has been in the past (though it's often hyperbolized to be).

2. There are vast amounts of anecdotal stories about children who were "almost not born" (failed abortion, doctors or parents said it would be too hard, etc.) because of a parents decision who ended up having a hugely beneficial and/or great life.

3. There is a stronger effort now than ever before on correcting climate change. There are more opportunities than there ever have to make a difference. Your child could be one of these people.

4. I have seen no science that an additional child or children is going to inherently negatively increase climate change, which means having a motivated parent to better the world has a huge potential upside for the climate and low downside.

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An additional side, I would use any of amount of logic of "should have a child" either. If you don't want a child, I do not think you should have a child. A child needs love and compassion from its parents.
https://jsfuck.com is another good one
I'd add data collection/privacy concerns that list too. "search suggestions" seem great until you see that often every letter you type is being sent over the wire for analytics and to mine for personal info to sell to 3rd parties. The site even mentions how useful it is for them to see what people are searching for. I don't know anyone who hasn't ever typed or pasted data somewhere they didn't mean to and it's painfully easy for sensitive data to get leaked this way.

That concern won't apply everywhere, but it's worth keeping in mind. Even when my interactions with a simple menu are recorded (for analytics/profit) and reported the amount of data they get is at least limited.
On a long enough timeline I agree with your point, but your argument is one of the many many common examples we see now of people simply not understanding the timeline. 2050 is 29 years away. Kids born in the next few years will barely be out of school by the time we have to have this mostly solved.
1. Implement automation to flag and block/reject bad commit messages.

2. Educate and train ppl to include commit messages when they do code reviews

or 3. give up and move on because your org doesn't care.

Because this is a culture (not code) smell and changing culture is hard and needs support from the top.
>It is their property, of course they can use it to promote their stuff.

Luckily for consumers and small and medium-sized businesses Microsoft vs Eu and Microsoft vs US tells a different story about the legality of using a monopoly in one area to push for monopoly in other areas.

I'd not invest significant shares of my money into either MS or Google before we see the end of this, then maybe there is a chance to pick up some at a more realistic price.

As the saying goes: the wheels of justice grinds slowly.
Those comics were genius. Thanks for putting them together for us.
I finally made the switch from GA to Open Web Analytics. I'm already fairly experienced with PHP, which I considered a point in its favor, but I honestly haven't had to do anything with it other than copying it to a server and configuring a few basic settings.

The tracking code seems very lightweight, and I haven't found it lacking any of the features I was using in GA. I've tried a few, and OWA was the first that met all my criteria (100% free software, open source, actually works).
Yes but how do you store such a large file?
You make a very good point about the nascent extremism - as primaries become the only elections that matter, and because you need extreme candidates to flip those locked districts, there is little reward in moderation. I find it funny how Republicans embraced extremism while Democrats seem to be more averse to it, even though they'd have much to gain in this scenario.

This is what I really like about Ireland's elections - they are so effective in weeding out extremists that the two dominant political forces are almost indistinguishable. It's, perhaps, too efficient in that, but it also seems to be extremely safe and long-term stable.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
So are laws like the Right to be Forgotten. [0]

Which, as soon as one of them is violated, the entire system will be torn down to stop it.

[0] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1562/right-to-be-fo...
Almost every one of my classes (in my UIKit app) is a ViewController. I don't really need to write anything more.

So they pretty much all are "er" classes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes.

I am a homeowner and don't want my home value to double when real income has barely moved in the same period. That's not sustainable.

Even if I could sell without repurchasing, to pocket the cash, there's another generation behind me that's going to need a place to live.

You can't just have entire generations of homeless people without it affecting society.
This is not what you said. You were talking about "a company that violates US law" (emphasis mine).
Where ought one move to optimize for climate change?
> When I did a full-on tourist experience of Rio, the guides were adamant that we not even go near any favela, as we'd immediately be robbed or worse.

Tourists stand out like a sore thumb as a target. Your guide was probably right.
me neither, because there's no point in trying to convince someone to change their mind about whether or not to act upon their own primary biological instinct that they've been taught to suppress—it's a self-correcting problem, and one that most certainly doesn't concern me.
Per the comments on that blog post, this was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170041
NRC Dismisses Application for Oklo (YC S14) Advanced Reactor
> So prosecutors really are powerless. I think. Am I wrong?

Yes, you're wrong.

> Sure you could shut down some nodes, but not all of them. And even then new nodes would pop up vastly more quickly than you can kill them.

Your error is here. If prosecutors actually decide to start shutting down nodes because of CP and make successful prosecutions, it will deter people from running new nodes in that jurisdiction. If hosting a copy of the Etherium blockchain had a high chance of landing you in jail for CP possession, would you start up a new node to replace one that was shut down? Instead of "new nodes ... pop[ping] up vastly more quickly than you can kill them," most operators would get scared and quickly shut down their nodes and wipe their HDs, and the rest would get prosecuted. Maybe you'd have a few stragglers hiding out on Tor, but at that point the network is unusable for any legitimate use.

Don't believe me? There's even been a recent example of something like that. China banned Bitcoin mining, and the miners there shut down or GTFO of China:

https://fortune.com/2021/11/17/china-bitcoin-mining-ban-cryp...

> Available data shows that crypto mining no longer exists in China and that China's crypto mining ban completely upended the global Bitcoin mining industry. China went from controlling up to two-thirds of all Bitcoin mining in the world in April to not contributing to the industry at all as of July 2021, according to data compiled by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Alternative Finance. And anecdotal evidence suggests that the vast majority of Chinese Bitcoin miners relocated their operations to places like Kazakhstan, the U.S., and Canada or simply sold off their equipment at discounted prices and left the industry.
It often is, but will be tested to a "yes, it is technically possible" level.
At this point "World ocean temperatures this year were not the hott st ever recorded would be front page news"
> google assistance told me that “you need to remove the Matomo javascript as it is a malware”

so Google wants Google Analytics to never be threatened for marketshare.

A great sign that the free analytics service offered by the advertising company should not be trusted.
Hi HN -- these are two projects I've been working on.

BeQue (https://beque.xyz/) is an API to work with blockchain data at scale and get real-time updates when new blocks are mined.

And ChainDisco (https://nft.chaindisco.xyz/) is a toy demo on top of it that shows a waterfall of recently transacted NFTs.

You can read more about our perspective on why BeQue might be interesting on the blog. (And, yup, you can get my unvarnished take on NFTs there too...)
If my calculations are correct, that's the equivalent of 52 billion Hiroshima bombs.
If you are using TCA only for dependency management, I’d suggest to reconsider and put all business logic in it. In my experience, most serious efforts of wrangling SwiftUI into a complex app wind up with a solution that’s similar to TCA.
Isn't the value of a home that you get to live in it though? It seems ass backwards that we buy a house as an investment. Someone could move into a brand new house, smash all the walls up and rip out the copper pipes while squatting in it for 5 years, that doubles its value!
It's extra weird when you know Zooko. One of his kids shared a kindergarten class with my oldest and I used to hang out with him.

Clicked on this to see if it was something he'd done.
North Dakota.
The real problem though is latency - RAM is extremely low latency and that is one of its primary benefits. I can't say for sure what this new tech has but reading about Intel Optane (which is already much lower latency than normal SSD) it seems to have a latency of approximately 1-10us. DDR4 is something like 50ns. Pretty large disparity (my numbers could be off - this was just after some quick searches)
A Man Who Saved the World
I don't know that all slaves would agree with you.
Don't forget about the fact that the amount of energy required to phase change 0°C ice into 0°C water is about the same amount of energy required to heat 0°C water to 79°C water...

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-physics/chapter/...
Okay, fair enough. It's true for most systems of governance.
More coverage: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-denies-Oklo-...

NRC application: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col/aurora-oklo.ht...

Oklo's response: https://okloinc.medium.com/whats-next-566bb49b74dc
product idea: Juicero for dumbells
Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
Disclaimer: Plausible Analytics founder here

I think Matomo is quite similar to Google Analytics which many people feel is bloated and confusing from the user's perspective. The idea with Plausible is to simplify web analytics and make it more understandable compared to what GA/Matomo offer.

Granted, Matomo does have more depth and features in some areas. It can be the better choice if you want to go very deep into analytics and need some power features that Plausible might not support.

We wrote a little (clearly biased) comparison with Matomo[1]. I hope we're not too harsh on it because Matomo is a great project and still a good fit for many people. But obviously we feel like a modern and simplified take on web analytics fits better for the majority of website owners.

1. https://plausible.io/vs-matomo
Genuine question but, what more do you need?
Show HN: Command-line front end to transactional consistency checkers
> you were wrong about the FDA advisory panel

The FDA panel approved the childhood vaxx after skipping the FDA Science Advisory panel.

Again, you are not spotting that the FDA circumvent the standard convening of the expert advisory board when the FDA advisory board approved it, see my original link [3] and the non-paywalled [4]. This is after the science advisory panel denied approval in September.

This is corrupt and unscientific.

> Just as you were wrong about the PCR test article,

You are incorrect judging by the source. Quote from the original CDC policy source I remembered [1] instead of the secondary link I clearly didn't read well enough:

"After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel ... CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses."

Basically after December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. If I read this correctly the CDC said the old tests are no longer authorized because the do not differentiate well between the flu and COVID virus.

It doesn't matter much to my argument since 400 pediatric deaths over 1.5 years is already very low, and as I said I am fine with just counting the all as covid deaths.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
[2] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/01/05/cdc-do...
[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dangerous-push-to-give-boosters...
[4] https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/01/05/cdc-do...
Stop moving the lamppost there was an option and YOU couldn't because you left your vaccine passport at home during a pandemic. If you got your first vaccine outside of your home country, you could have easily gotten a new one in every pharmacy or even on amazon [0]. Just because you didn't doesn't mean the country didn't offer a solution for exactly your problem. This is a dilemma of your own making not of laws and also for a lot of international travels you always needed your vaccine passport.

[0] https://www.amazon.de/Impfausweis-Impfpass-Impfbuch-internat...
> It codifies the social side of

There's the problem. The reason the thing you're replacing is so complicated is because it tries to codify some aspect of human behaviour. If your solution for handling (e.g. money) is radically different to the existing (financial) system (which this is), it will probably blow up in a big way.
There's data on the other parts of the website. Use the links.
Good Sudoku
Nothing stops a developer from putting their code elsewhere, should it be taken off github.

Choosing a different host than GitHub to begin with is basically self-censorship (as fewer will see it).
companies that profit well in high inflation environments are studied in some business schools. Part of the equation you describe is the (assumed) constant demand, and the ability to adjust frequently compared to life of the asset.
I've been getting paid $80k a year for the last 5 years doing no work
Yes, there is a WASM build used by the demo: https://parcel-css.vercel.app

Not sure if we could reuse these packages though, since we'd need to expose an API from Rust to JS anyway.
Scranton
The data is being "corrected" to "take away errors", this is clearly visible as well as explained by Heller in his many videos on the subject. Another issue is that the measuring network has notably shrunk in size in the last decades with the measurements from locations which have been taken out replaced by interpolated data. Heller claims that "uncorrected" historical data shows that the average temperature in the 30's was higher than it is today and that this is the reason for the "corrections" - simply to make the data fit the narrative. Looking at actual historical data seems to corroborate his claim of the records being "corrected", US state and territory temperature extremes [1] also show a tendency to have the highs somewhere in the 30's (23 states) with 1936 as the hottest year in 13 states. These are "uncorrected" temperature records.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_tempe...
It’s just changing. The knowledge is still useful but I think I wouldn’t invest heavily today. They are working hard on working well with Linux. Look at WSL and .net core. Azure, now hosts more Linux VMs than Windows. Their cloud will be a competitor for sure however I think long term GCP may overtake them.

Would I go hard learning C#, kernel32, IIS and MSVC today? No. I would bet against a windows desktop environment in 15 years time, however that’s just me. We also see a shift from Active Directory as well for managing your users.

It’s still in demand and useful however. One thing I will say from personal experience, overseas clients use Microsoft more than the US ones. In Israel, I swear every company was using Microsoft’s stack.

I would just go in with a I can learn anything attitude in interviews and not get stuck on being boxed into A Microsoft environment.
Bloat and feature creep are real (and I'd accuse Firefox of both) but in general yes, I'd rather have more functionality and a complex interface than have features stripped away or hidden behind some search box where I have to know exactly what I want and hope the app can guess at what I'm asking for.
Were there lots of other children doing the same? Living in eastern Canada I've never really seen what you're describing.
Nowhere.

Don't commit to any locale and design a life that's highly mobile.
Seems suspect. What hard drive has had RAM-like read speed for over 20 years?
Boardgames: Hanabi, The Voyages of Marco Polo, Innovation, Splendor ( I play all these at boardgamearena.com) Hanabi is especially good for logic, deduction.
True, yet it has been submitted in HN not so long ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28800673) but didn't reach anywhere near the front page.
When I say "governance" I mean in the broadest sense possible: the ways in which interactions between people are organized. If there's a better term for this I will happily use it!
Fear. There are many many people who believe that vaccinations are the only viable strategy to contain this pandemic, and information or opinion to the contrary is therefore a public and personal threat.
It won't go away, it will still be supported and used for many years, but majority of new projects today won't use it.
Brief history: Rollup dramatically improved bundler plugin and ES modules situation, then came new super fast bundlers like Esbuild and finally solutions combining both like Vite. Webpack is still playing catch up with that. There is literally zero reasons to choose clunky, slow Webpack configs, while alternatives exist, unless you have a legacy codebase and migrating is not an option.
You mean ... gasp ... they might be fakes.

The EU has a quality mark "CE" - Conformitè Europëenne. Sometime the font is a bit wonky and it is alleged that CE in that case stands for China Export instead. I imagine that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#%22China_Export%22 is policed quite carefully.