skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying makes sense, though I'd only add that it's not "now", it's been going on for ages. EA's endless series of franchises tells you everything you need to know about both EA and their customers, for decades.

But how can you possibly expect a law that takes away copyright of something they developed? That's insane, it'll never happen.
>The single biggest cited threat to democracy is economic inequality (64%).

These are the results of people that have lived under a unipolar world and have forgotten the horrors of pre pax americana.
Don't go to the dentist. Some of them live lavishly pushing unneeded and overpriced care.
> But you at least get something of some value at the end.

That makes it worse honestly. You can go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt getting a BA in the humanities from a university whose tuition is increasing at 2x inflation, but society encourages that choice by giving the BA outsized value in unlocking professions like "salesman" and "firefighter." Meanwhile people are so under the weight of their debt that addressing it is a political issue at the national level, but so far the leading proposal is a one-time debt forgiveness package, which does nothing to address the structural issue.

Here we have a new college that is expressly trying to reduce costs substantially, while offering practical skills in in-demand trades. That sounds like a welcome correction to me. The idea that it is a "grift" only makes sense in an environment where society has made "accredited BA" the arbitrary entrance criteria into the professional class.
If we look at telecom, US seems comfortable with Ericsson but not Huawei.
So is the argument that the article is trying to make that there's nothing wrong with the current state of affairs?
Black Mesa Classic Is a Demake of the Original Half-Life 1 Remake
Black Mesa, the Half-Life 1 remake that brought the game to the updated Source engine and added new content, is now being remade again... in the original Half-Life 1 engine.
Just FYI for anyone for whom this didn't work by default: I needed to use the --all flag with smartctl (and install smartmontools if you don't have it).
The community didn't reverse engineer the server. id Software released it.
I hope they mention money, because sufficient amount of money will make me very happy.
Luckily there’s a SKIDROW release. 2.85GB ISO that’ll work until the end of time and nobody can turn it off.
Adobe premiere pro!
Unfortunately, more often than not, words begin having a life of their own. Speaking of “nothingness,” if we must, isn’t it obvious that the only instance of it is exactly the (absence of the) very person who is dead, and that it’s us still living who experience it?
Additionally, never attribute malice when poor maintenance that which is adequately explained by poor maintenance scheduling and safety protocols.
Whole eastern Europe, central Europe and Scandinavia disagrees with you.
Running an Open Source Home Area Network
Religious belief's primary goal has never been to explain things like 'why does it rain' or 'how old is the Earth' and most people who lost their faith didn't lose it because of these explanations.

Religion has many roles, a system of social organization, a cultural identity marker and so forth.

The anthropology of religion discusses this at length.
It self selects for people who have the propensity to pay. In that case I think keeping it behind a pay wall is useful, for them.
When the Colorado river starts to reach the ocean again, then maybe this attitude can be tolerated.

Right now, your comments are shockingly ignorant.

Voodoo accounting is all over the west. You can tell by the water levels, which is the "final accounting".
I hope you find further success and creativity learning to "give up"!
There are actually biologic treatments for Crohn's/UC, not everyone responds but they produce remission which can spare or prolong time to surgery for many.
Those cars are way worse. It’s not just flashing money around, it’s actively making your wealth other people’s problem. From the noise they make, the extra gas they burn, to having to drive careful around them because you’re going to get sued into oblivion if you fuck them up
Let's be clear - those who support Putin today are fascist sympathizers and no amount of demagoguery is going to change that.

What I'm surprised about are such pro-fascist comments here on HN. But good thing is that today it's becoming more and more clear to most, including in Europe. There will be no more sitting on two chairs for those who support Putin's fascism.
Not that I doubt an article on a predatory loan website but…

You make the assumption that they are driving ~3800 miles a week and I can tell you, as a truck driver who is mostly out on the highways, there’s no way in hell they are doing those kinds of miles city driving. That’s like 550 miles a day seven days a week.

When I drove a cab the lowest rate was $1.45/mile (for medical vouchers) and some days it cost me money to haul people around and my expenses were only like $140/day (gas + lease). Though, once in a while I’d have a really good day with some big cash calls and take home a few hundred bucks but mostly I averaged ~$100/day take home (before taxes which I didn’t actually pay). Mostly, depending on the season and what was happening in town.
The US is law abiding only when it is in their interest. The rest of the time they either flout law or bend it. How many other nations have effected: directly or covertly, the change in another countries leadership only for their own selfish interests? .. . as much as the US?
I have found decrying SF as a “tragedy” or constantly criticizing it to be an excellent litmus test for the technocratic right who insists they used to be liberals but now simply have no choice but to be conservative because the liberals have “moved left” or other back bending attempts to rationalize their conservatism as being anything other than 100% profit motivated and a weird sense of personal betrayal at the rise of homelessness and drug use in SF. cf Peter Thiel, “San Fransicko,” Balaji Srinivasan, Marc Andreessen
In my experience Notion is too slow, especially with more than a few pages. I used to use it (I actually still have an unlimited pro membership for free since I was a beta tester several years ago) but nowadays I stick with Markdown and git.
Jumping off things in VR is very unpleasant. You expect to feel things physically but do not. It's one of the more nauseating things to try and do. The worst part is the landing of course. You have an intuitive understanding of how landing works in real life. But video game characters tend to just stop on straight legs, especially in VR.

The landing animations you might see in some games don't work in VR. It's very awkward.
Uh...are we still talking about Germany? Because in Germany they clearly weren't, unlike in case of France. And Norway's absolutely prodigious consumption of electricity (quadruple amount per capita) even underlines it: electrical heating is absolutely not the way to go forward -- efficient building codes are.
Normally I’d agree, but there’s a market for everything and everyone, and timing is key. There exists a market for this, especially for people coming from abroad who have preconceptions around what kind of a person they want to be with. Engineers, in this case, are a category that is filtered - in good and bad ways.
Totally leaving FB for Tik Tok after seeing all these stupid articles.
One obvious answer is that any civilization that is advanced enough to be at the dyson sphere level probably has no problem hiding their existence from humanity if they want to.
I think this is a weird take. You could analyze every human interest piece this way. Is that what the NYT does with Page Six? I read that and then don't think about the fossil fuel or tech companies' influence on their stories?

Just read a story about chili peppers and don't get all Joseph McCarthy about it.
The narrative about the Democratic party not coming is particularly amusing in regards to Texas. They tried to come there in 2020 and they were run out of town to the great enjoyment of the local police.
Having talked with several hetero female friends, they have dating difficulties as well. They’re different, but not obviously lesser, than those of hetero males.
Code in Database vs. Code in Application
I also ended up making a DSL for making passwords compatible with arbitrary dumb password requirements.
Wearing sunscreen is excellent advice, I do it consistently myself. In my opinion, it's highly appropriate to offer advice like this to friends and family.

But it would grate on me to be told this, or to be given advice on any other non-work matter, by my employer. It suggests a sort of paternalism that is out of line, and I would immediately assume ulterior motives (e.g. saving on health insurance bills) rather than genuine concern.
There are third party Quake 3 servers because it _was_ trivial for the studio to offer server software for their title.
I stopped after the first Denuvo saga. I am so glad that I did. GoG remains my first stop for buying games, Steam a very cautious second.
Finally, a way to filter out all the Java and .Net programmers from my dating lineup!

Like most Lisp programmers, I'm only compatible with women who also program Lisp (unless they only know Emacs Lisp, of course).
I would love to see more comparisons between the sciences and programming, and the kinds of people each attracts.
No way to get the on screen keyboard on mobile, alas.
I gave up on electronic productivity tools for the same reason: too much time fiddling with tools and data entry, not the actual work I was trying to be productive at.

A brick of post it notes, a pile of blank paper, a binder clip, and a few nice pens and pencils solved the problem for me. The rest of the stuff that isn’t so much about productivity as it is capturing information for future reference, I just stick that in a git repo of text files with whatever editor I happen to open (or just cat’ing to a file if it’s a quick note).
Are you looking at the same post we are? Because your comment makes no sense whatosever.
Extreme fringe theory - interstellar dust could become electrets in cooling, by collision, or by charged particle interactions... it's possible that those electrets are shielding gravity sufficient to make up the difference.
It is funny that they use Stonehenge as the metric for being old. I know it's the BBC...but still... Stonehenge is much younger than what they say this site in Saudi Arabia is and there are FAR older sites than either of these in that region of the world (Middle East).

>This is important because it is evidence of a highly organised, cultic society, much earlier than was previously thought – predating Islam in the region by 6,000 years.

Another weird comparison to the date of the origin of Islam. As if that was previously the oldest thing from that region.
where has that been shown?
> But bouncers and bots have been around since the 1990s. There's nothing particularly ad hoc, informally specified, or bug-ridden about them.

The protocol for actually controlling the bouncer or bot is always ad-hoc. Whether client X will have support for bouncer Y or bot Z is a crapshoot, and whether such integration will keep working is even more so (of course you can generally fall back to doing it manually, but that's a serious downgrade in usability). As for bug-ridden, well, all I can say is that that's been my experience.
(Disclaimer: I work at Notion)

> Also, it's kinda absurd to me that notion feels the need to have both a certification program as well as a list of "certified consultants" who are "productivity experts and solutions architects". David Graeber would probably feel vindicated/depressed.

Surprisingly, this is largely due to market demand! A lot of customers ask us to help tailor workflow solutions to their needs, especially if their team is growing quickly. We don’t have bandwidth internally keep up with that for our small/medium business customers. So, those customers go looking for consultants, contractors, or eventually to hire for full-time Notion knowledge management positions. These programs help our customers find quality talent and build a trustworthy base we can refer people to.

Equally important is the demand for more education, certification, and collaboration from those very experts/consultants. These people are building their livelihoods on their Notion expertise. Certification helps differentiate and validate them.
Are you saying it's more like a sugar-daddy/mail-order bride arrangement?
> I think what's really wrong is that nowhere on their store pages do they use the word "Subscription" and instead they use the word "Purchase".

Perfect.

> This should not be allowed and is false advertising

The result of false advertising is theft.
You take the standard course of action, sending the PR team to state how Firefox is there as a beacon of hope and aspirations to privacy.
It varies widely from one college to the next, and perhaps also with the general social climate.

I attended a Christian liberal arts college in the early 80s. I didn't belong to the same sect as the college, and wasn't particularly religious. The college had strong science programs, which is why I was there.

It was kind of an interesting time, with "fundamentalism" coming into broader public visibility, the Moral Majority, and so forth. This seemed to matter more to the students than to the college. I remember listening to late night debates in the dorm about whether the college's sect was "fundamentalist," and what they should be teaching about evolution, rock music, and so forth.

Naturally there was a religion department, and the college also contained the seminary for the sect's ministers. Officially, I had to take two religion courses, one of which was pretty much an outline of the sect's doctrines (which I've forgotten), but it was a required course, so it had to be easy enough for everybody to pass. And my Econ 101 professor taught about "Christian economics," which turned out to be Reaganomics, including the Laffer Curve.

Almost all of the region's small colleges were sectarian in some form or fashion, but varied widely in terms of how visibly religious they were. My experience was decades ago, and the alumni magazine that I get from the college suggests that they haven't changed much with the times. I'm not sure I'd choose a religious college today, or recommend one to my kids.
Valve tends to be pretty decent. If I had to guess, it’s cheaper and easier for them to say “yes” and let public opinion turn that into a no than to say no being the scenes and have to dicker with Ubi lawyers.
I felt Nice was faux-high-class nasty yuck. I did like Marseille which felt more like a port-town to me. I think France is best travelled to small towns (< 5000 people), but perhaps that is just because I like travelling to small towns in most countries.
UK should definitely abandon anything that smacks of modernity. If peasants are busy figuring out how many "pence" are in a "shilling" they won't notice that their feudal lords are pillaging them.
WTF does Russia have to do with TikTok?
The -a flag from my example should be an alias for --all (man smartctl | grep -A1 ' -a' | head -2). Is that not the case in your version?
Why do you think TNC drivers don't do this, especially when the company is incentivized to ignore it? Pro tip: if the driver's phone isn't visible from the rear passenger seat, pull up the route on your phone and watch them like a hawk.

The uber/lyft driver subreddits and web forums used to be full of stories of drivers bragging about intentionally taking the 'long way'. Drivers bragged about how the often strange and dynamic routing used by Waze and Google Maps made it very easy to take a random turn that adds miles to the trip (or lots of traffic, preferable if the driver has a hybrid) and how they could just dismiss the customer's questions with "oh, I don't know, I'm just following the app" (except for the purposeful wrong/missed turn.)

I used to take Uber/Lyft occasionally and I'd always pull up the route on my own phone because I'd frequently catch my driver starting to make an unexplainable turn, or intentionally choose a very high-congestion route instead of a faster arterial road.

If you don't know the city well, it's easy to miss the driver purposefully making one accidental wrong turn that ends up adding significantly to the fare.

The difference in my city is that if your taxi driver did this, you could complain to the police unit overseeing taxis.

Now? You complain to Uber and they give you a discount or correction if you're lucky and haven't been too much of a squeaky wheel.
That’s cool, I’ve never played it. It’s one game from 20 years ago.
And that's how regulations are born.
I think it is a very underappreciated point. Those anti-consumer actions are only fueling future piracy ( and for a good reason too.. cracked games don't suffer from the DRMs and so on ). I accepted Steam and they won a lot of goodwill from me based on their work on Proton ( although I still try to throw some money GOG way ).

But instances like these heavily undermine my getting more comfortable in Steam walled garden.

Edit: And I think am pretty deep in already. I just ordered Steam Deck. Stuff like this makes me question that decision.
Yeah, because polling your closest friends is the best way to get an unbiased opinion.

By the way, those are countries near another warmonging superpower... What if you poll South America?
They weren't because of Germany's energy policy, not because nuclear is a bad fit for residential heating. We're talking about "[nuclear on] the timespan of several decades".
Influencing sure, but espionage ? From what I can tell, people mostly consume content there in a similar fashion to YouTube, i.e. you don't really add your real-life friends and you don't post your day-to-day stuff unless you are already a celebrity

Contrary to facebook where people would literally "Follow" their political parties, workplaces, friend groups from school/work/gym/life, etc.
Well said.

It is concerning how many throwaway comments are made like this by ignorant people unable or unwilling to back up what they say. If they're just going to repeat standard, right-wing (or left) talking points they should at least be willing to defend them.
What if US government makes a (secret) deal with China to get data from them? It might seem unlikely today, but politics can change any time. Data markets can be fairly efficient. Once someone has your data, they can always (re)sell it to the highest bidder.
By why would that “negative reality” of yours only extend into the future but not also into the past, i.e. the time before birth?
I agree about the contradictions and hypocrisy but the answer can be much more pragmatic:

> As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Facebook not? Or is it just "china scary"?

There's problems with US big tech and TikTok but the case against TikTok is easier to push through.

There's nothing wrong with patching the first of many holes in your roof and starting with the one easiest to get to.

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My primary emotional and ethical driver is to point out my own government (the US) not living up to its marketing material, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't support eliminating a vector for another (openly autocratic) government to meddle with my country as well.

Edit: distinguish my reply to prior comment from my ramblings about my reply.
It's far from the only game that works like that, and the fact that publishers have been able to do this for 20 years was my point.
Students may now begin teaching in AZ public schools before they finish degree
It might be worth doing this on a stable crate, that doesn’t have a lot of dependencies.

For me, when there are so many it’s a trade-off. Sure, hand coding it isn’t hard, maybe you can even build a macro_rules that can deal with most of the down the middle cases, but ultimately thiserror makes development faster and simpler.

It’s always something that can be optimized away pretty easily later.
In that vein, I remember SimLife, which had a whole textbook dedicated to it, showing how to model real world things like predator/prey cycles.

https://www.amazon.com/SimLife-Official-Strategy-Guide-Secre...
Thomas Lord Has Died
NIMBYs would all of a sudden want more housing to be built? 100% delusional.

Nothing would change except homeowners would get crushed by property taxes and especially given the horrific income inequality in California, all the middle and lower income families would get destroyed.

Thank God for Prop 13, it's the last vestige of income equality for Californians.
The CCP could be actively trying to get you hate your neighbor and spread disinformation. That could be a byproduct of either group, but it is more likely to be an explicit goal of CCP. Here's a gem from the WHO in January 2020. This was almost certainly known to be a lie to the CCP based on their actions at the time

> Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.

https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152
If anything it promotes centralization. Steam is a one stop shop for buying games that you can access globally, for the most part.

Before if you wanted to buy games you had to show up in person, so competition between corporations and mom and pops was limited to what a corporation was willing to spend on capex and staff for a new store. The internet destroyed that need and so now the costs of corporations to compete with more efficient services due to economies of scale is very low.
Why is the implication a religious activity when bones are found? Was the idea of an abattoir considered?

In a few thousand years, if there are even remains from today's slauterhouses, will rival cults be discussed? The cult that only killed chickens and the cult that only killed cows?
There was no internet to waste time on, and many of us didn't have cable TV.
> Microsoft has around 180,000 employees, that number could trivially go much much higher if I worked there.

> Reducing that by 17 is substantial, and I don't think I'd be as useful if I cut that size.

IMHO, you're missing the point.

They're allegedly controlling for the work environment by sampling and comparing peer groups at the same firm. Regardless of whether you think 17 is the right number for your situation, it's remarkable that there's a dividing line of 17 between the two peer groups in the study. Note that the 17 doesn't necessarily preclude someone having an even bigger network size delta from the non-thriving/non-balanced employees at MSFT.
Known to many people as the original author of GNU arch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch
Won't the impact simply be via ASIC miners instead?
I'm sure they do. What are some examples they mention?
As someone who does not enjoy single player games, I don't think this is bias. There is no functional reason for a server for a single player game. There is no reason for Ubisoft to have to make these cost-cutting moves in the first place.

It's bringing an inherent disadvantage of closed multi-player games to single player games.