skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's apparently a minority voice opinion here on HN, but I for one appreciate what Microsoft is trying to do. As a parent of a 6 and 9 year old who have really gotten into Minecraft during COVID, I appreciate them basically deciding "We want Minecraft to be a game for kids and an online community that is nice." I get why people are frustrated, but I also like the idea of a global decision that forces servers open to "the public" to have an enforced global standard of behavior. Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't see anything in their process that suggests that a group of adults playing with their friends are at risk of having their chat audited in the absence of a complaint?
Solar farm?
There’s no going back though, is there? Once Minecraft is playable over LAN without internet connection, there’s very little to nothing that MS can do to police speech, right?

I don’t mean to be dismissive but the censorship is virtually opt-in at this point, no?
iPhone app receives notification for another app
Looking at our industry as a whole, it appears that making yet another of some proven good, profitable, popular category is a pretty decent strategy.

(I too am inclined, when someone is making a new thing, to wonder… But a quick search finds 10 existing things that appear to do a pretty great job of everything you are thinking of, why would someone not use one of them? Why make the new, similar thing? I think being able to suppress this thought might be helpful to startup success.)
Sure, but there's a second order issue -- what's overblown is the extent to which "misinformed John Q. Public backed by scary Microsoft" is going strongly argue absurdities like "this is against Minecrafts intellectual property" or some nonsense and fight against it, or say it's bad or naughty or something.
Sounds like reddit
This is what I am worried about. If it's anywhere the same with M1 then I would just rather bail out of Macbooks and go straight to Windows.
Interesting fact: Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne the same year huffman encoding was invented.
Long Covid's link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis
Coltrane's influence reaches as far as the underground "bass music" sound of the 2010s as invented by her nephew Flying Lotus, and now the Top 40 is frequented by her ashram protege Doja Cat. Flying Lotus opened his Essential Mix with "Galaxy In Turiya".

https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2008-11-29_-_Flying_Lotus_-_Essent...
> Serious question: name someone who might realistically be President who would not make you sad.

Michael Kirby, Marie Bashir–both too old now, but either could have been a fine President if we had become a republic sooner. Or, similarly, Ted Egan, former Administrator of the Northern Territory.

Frank Brennan–the whole his being a Catholic priest thing is somewhat of an obstacle, admittedly (although possibly not a completely insurmountable one.)

What about Susan Kiefel? Or Angus Campbell?
most folks can do a leaning pushup, where you lean against a counter, table or wall and push yourself up. with practice you can progress to lower objects and eventually a full push up.
I'm still waiting for the class action lawsuit against Coinbase for the rampant insider trading that is plaguing that company

Them helping fight US treasury is laughable knowing that fact, mafia against mafia
I want to be a writer that the lover I never met wants to read
Awesome tale of your adventure, and well-told.

> Her eyes were bright blue like the Fremen in Dune.

Fremen eyes were entirely blue. Even their sclera, the "whites" of their eyes, were blue.

While it is still possible your Bedouin guide had blue sclera, it is vanishingly unlikely to impossible that this was due to melange addiction. But there are plenty of reasons why someone can have blue sclera.

Anything that causes a thinning of the sclera could cause it. Some medications, like steroids, can produce blue sclera. Aging and anemia will also give a blue tint to the whites of the eye.

While it is usually benign, there are a number of rare but serious disorders that can cause blue sclera, such as Marfan Syndrom, Russell Silver Syndrome, Hallermann-Schermann-Streiff Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and others. Thus, if the cause is unknown, anyone with blue sclera should see an ophthalmologist.
Agreed, and the cpan shell too.
A lot of us here are coders and we appreciate concise code. Why not, then, concise arguments? Bias wrapped in fake nuance is obvious and time-wasting. "Fucking stupid" is an apt description of monarchism in this day and age.
I like this, but I would love it even more if there was a theme with a background gradient - maybe navy blue at the top to dark grey.
The road to hell is always paved with good intentions and naive ideals.

I’m trying to imagine having to explain to a 6yr old why they can’t play Minecraft until Dad creates another account and hope they can afford another license. And hope it doesn’t happen again the next time a troll joins their server.

It also seems to be incentivizing people to not have any chat reports at all.
React JSX mostly uses JS DOM property naming (className, style, tabIndex) but converts a few HTML-style attributes (data-, aria-)
Vaguely reputable source pointing out it applies to private servers:

https://www.cbr.com/minecraft-players-outraged-mojang-monito...

I don't think it's a bad thing, either. People who buy proprietary software know what the deal is, and anyone who didn't know what the deal was knows now. It's not your game, you've just got a temporary license to it. Kind of the consumer's fault beyond anything.
This has been coming ever since they bought Minecraft.

On one end is control, and on the other end is freedom from responsibility.

Since MS wants to continuously increase control (for example: by providing a version of Minecraft with a marketplace that they take a cut of), they must also take on increasing amounts of responsibility. Continuing far enough down this path means that every safety and security concern becomes theirs to deal with.

In contrast, Notch originally did almost nothing to control what players did and only trivial amounts of responsibility were placed on him.

The same piling on of responsibilities happened to Apple when they started selling Music.
I keep thinking that one day I'll buy an Apple product. I haven't owned once since an Apple IIc as a kid. The Mac Mini is rather a good price, and works really well.

But then this shit happens, and Apple shows how divisive and exclusive they are.
And then I want to stick with the devil I know which today is Linux/Microsoft instead of the one I don't.
Fair. I've edited the comment. Let me know if you think its still an issue.

Thanks.
Obligatory:

> The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

> The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
If there were a way to block comments by recently-created/low-karma accounts in these situations, perhaps that would be better than burying the entire topic.
You just have to mention it's all secretly organized by Zionists, and you win the conspirology bingo!
No /trades route?

What's the point without that?
Can’t believe some of the terrible advice here.

Stick with Ubuntu LTS, unless you are willing to pay for RHEL. Do NOT use Fedora or any Arch based distro, those have way too aggressive releases to be considered for any type of server (they are fine desktop or lab distros but I would never consider them for legit servers).

Ideally have a firewall (or security group if in AWS, etc) that sits in front of your server. Make sure only the absolute necessary ports are open (white list by ip if you can). Extra credit have Wire Guard server that you connect to and only allow ssh through that.

If you are the only person accessing a shell on the machine then make sure shh allows keys only, and make sure you private key has a pass phrase on it. Extra credit, use jump cloud (free if you have under 5 users), and it’s super easy to enforce 2FA with ssh.

If you have several people that need to ssh then use a short lived certificate solution like Teleport.
Except I do live here, and it's patently ridiculous to say The Commonwealth of Australia is anything but an invention of European settlers. Of which Queen Elizabeth II was the Head of State for 57% of its existence. Which is the context of this comment thread.
and in general, you won't, since we're each quite able to do our own research ourselves, and also because sources aren't ace-in-the-hole smackdowns but rather extended information that typically doesn't fit into a discussion post. no source, especially not recent research out of an academic journal, is by itself invulnerable enough to criticism that it can wholesale end a discussion, and therefore has limited utility in these circumstances.

but it's easy enough to verify that there have been at least dozens of papers (and at least hundreds of news stories) on coal by itself having killed millions of people over the past century and a half, and having nothing to do with CO₂ or climate change.
Its usefulness in art displays, theater and cosplay will be considerable, though!
I don't think a leaderboard based on "time to solve" is a very good criteria. It simply rewards people who see the challenge earlier and have time to complete it. I think throughput and latency would be better criteria. What TPS do you support?

Granted, this might be somewhat "pay to win" but I still think it would be better.
In all honesty I have read more unreadable code in Python, than Perl. And I have written nearly equal of both over my career.

You can write bad code in any language. Bad variable names(sometimes single alphabet names), functions running pages long, duplicate code, algorithmically inefficient code, no error handling, master try/catch statements, OO abuse, functions with unpredictable side effects etc etc.

Early internet saw a flood of newbie programmers, and therefore a flood of badly written code too.

For that matter you also see badly written C/C++ code from those days. How do you think C++ got its reputation for being too bloated beyond practical use?
“ The message to other colleges is to have the intestinal fortitude to be the adult in the room”

That seems to be the most apt conclusion. Being an educational institution should involve more than just indulging the students. It should also challenge them and be measured in their responses to events, even if that means being unpopular with students.
What does it mean to be 4x?
That's not my reading.

It sounds to me like transparency does always increase accountability full stop. It just turns out that accountability to lobbyists is a greater driver of legislator behavior than accountability to voters.

The problem is therefore neither accountability nor transparency, but the disproportionate influence of lobbyists.
You can ignore most of the specs that are irrelevant to your project on parametric searches.

For example, here's how you'd find a generic through hole LED. Search for "through hole LED", pick a color, stocking option: in stock, sort by price, and pick whatever seems right for your project, making sure that you're not ordering something silly like 2500 LEDs (it'll be pretty obvious when you check out anyway). If there's something else that's relevant to your project (eg. the size or shape of the LED) then you can specify that.

The datasheet is just a click or two away to do a sanity check that you're ordering something that makes sense.

Obviously, for a generic component like a LED where the specs might not matter too much and it's fine if you get one of dubious quality, you can just get a random grab bag of LEDs off AliExpress. Or if the catalog overwhelms you, there's always Adafruit, SparkFun, Pololu, etc.
> There's a lot of value in things that can't be objectively measured

Or maybe there isn't much value, since apparently you wouldn't be able to tell. Except, you can tell, and so actually they can be measured. You don't want to measure them, but that's not the same thing.

> Can I put a number on how much I like those people? No, because I'm not a socially stunted robot.

You don't want to put a number on it. That's fine. But can it be done? Of course it can. In fact even if we insist on trying never to think about it that way, we make decisions based on how much we like people all the time. I've never measured how far it is from where I live to the supermarket. Why would I? But it would be silly to claim I can't put a number on it, I just chose not to.
I guess I don't understand - the troll will report your 6 year old for dropping f-bombs? And the chat logs (which MS will now have) will back then up? And why are you inviting trolls to play with your 6 year old?

(We're somewhat new to Minecraft, so I may be missing something here.)
How many people bought the game before these draconian policies were implemented? They should offer refunds.
To be fair, it used to cost more than $10k to get a basic 86 inch TV. Now they can be had for a little more than $1k.
The biggest problem with this is that with modern medicine and the world class treatment the head of state receives, you are destined to end up with geriatric heads of state. For example, it would be unlikely to have a 40 year old King or Queen. Maybe that's okay, but there's something nice about the idea of a monarch starting their rule at a relatively young adult age.
Such statements are never made in a vacuum. There's always context, even if unstated.
See how developers are building the open source world in real time
An interesting side-effect of universal mail-in ballots is the detection of fraudulent voter registrations. If ballots addressed to Tinker, Evers, and Chance arrive at 123 Elm Street, which is only occupied by the Smith family,
one should reasonably assume shenanigans, if not felonies.
the way you actually are supposed to implement that is x*x exp(-x). Otherwise you will have bad accuracy for larger numbers.
Doesn't every editor have a "comment" hotkey? I can't remember the last time I typed block comment characters in any language. cmd-/ in IntelliJ.
Game genre: “4X (abbreviation of Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate)”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
What the author fails to realize is that being popular (I.e. shared language and network effects) is extremely valuable.

With React you know it will work and scale (In terms of your organization) well. You cannot say the same for many other frameworks yet. For a company that has pretty generic frontend needs React is probably the best choice.
Wait, I'm complaining the tech money left?
Artists playing in piano bars... what kind of artists are you talking about?
Clearly, not the ones I am.

I agree there are some terrible policies and parts of town are struggling (and addicts too). But there were huge problems in the 90s as well (in SF an NY). Frankly, NYC is a MUCH bigger place with Manhattan alone being twice the population. But please, if you don't like it LEAVE!

Nobody likes poop or needles, nor drive-bys and side-shows those are symptoms of law enforcement and the city not giving a F#ck... but the tenderloin wasn't some beautiful panacea 25 years ago either, nor the mission, nor the dog patch. All of those places were hipster-gentrified and drove out people who did give a damn. Bringing money doesn't mean that a WETF attitude and boring consumerism won't make the place worse than you found it.

If you want to raise kids, go to the avenues or the marina or a suburb somewhere. Yes, it's horrible expensive, but why does the world owe you the lifestyle you want and the house you want in the place you want for cheap? Why does everyone else have to change the way they live for you? Because you got a FAANG job? I feel more for the people born in SF.

BTW we always called the Fidi "wine country" for the obvious reason (people drinking wine on the corner)... and that was 25 years ago when at least strip clubs could afford the rent.
> I realize that my announcement looks self-serving and at some level it kind of is (support on Patreon is part of how I keep my US account solvent because international wire transfers have yearly limits to their frequency, apparently).

Are other alternatives not viable? For example SubscribeStar [1]? It's probably better to have multiple sources of income, rather than a single payment processor?

> However, the facts of the situation are that we do not know what is going on and other creators I know are not in the same kind of financial situation that I am in. At least one of my good friends will probably miss a rent payment if there's a mass dropoff in support (and they just escaped an abusive living situation).

I'm sympathetic to your friend, but I also weigh up the possibility of however many supporters having their credentials exposed. Not for being taken for a few dollars, but potentially having their entire account wiped out.

(On a side note I would also suggest that given the incoming economic downturn we are about to experience, this disposable income from strangers may not be reliable in the near future.)

> My goal is to emphasize a "woah, slow the fuck down and let's wait to see what's going on before making rash decisions" rather than a "oh no my free money fountain is at risk let's stop them from going away". That post exists because I've gotten over 60 inquiries about this today from as many people. I was tired of explaining it over and over so I put it on the blog to avoid constant duplication.

I still think the best action for your supporters would be to temporarily remove their card details until Patreon explain themselves. These can be added back in a few days once Patreon come up with some PR. In the meantime, I would definitely suggest to look for alternative platforms.

Firing your entire security team without warning is not standard practice, it really does indicate something bad. If the security team were caught be surprise, it means there has been no hand-over process, meaning that potentially Patreon currently has no way to handle or detect new security issues. Clearly Patreon themselves were taken off-guard by this, hence the radio silence amid growing speculation.

> Telling people to enable two-factor auth is the moral equivalent of a free space in bingo. It's something people should already be doing and it's good to repeat that message in case people haven't heard it.

As I wrote in another child comment, it somewhat sounds like enabling 2FA is an alternative to starving creators. If there was a breach in the system itself behind the login system, 2FA won't make an ounce of difference.

Anyway, fingers crossed this is all blown out of proportion. My gut is still telling me there is something amiss here though.

[1] https://www.subscribestar.com/
A state cannot exist without citizens that identify as belonging to said state...
Surprised by this: "Standalone capacity and asset management tools, or ITSM tools that can’t suit non-IT services"

I thought the purpose if ITSM was in its name.
UK Military Radio Notification of Queen's Passing (Waterfall)
> served as an ambulance mechanic.

Ahh yes, that photo of Elizabeth changing an ambulance tire, one of the great public relations triumphs of the 20th century. So humble! She's just like one of us...
Yeah I suppose depends on your priorities. For me I'm trying to make another career change. Gotta learn more.
Vue doesn’t do two way data binding.

Are you more likely to use it knowing that?
4x games are empire building games, the four Xs are eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate.

They're more complicated than other strategy games and have multiple win conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
How are you banned forever? Can't you just buy another computer, get another connection to the internet, and get around the ban? Or do they ban by credit card? Or does that just mean the particular domain name is banned?

I've got around many a ban by just switching out my computer and getting a new internet connection.

Just curious.
Now that's what I come to HN for!
“ Just a nerdy blog post”

Welcome to HN, you will find a lot of that here.
Out of curiosity, how visible is the President of Germany in the media and everyday life? Are the doings of the President talked about and reported on? As an outsider from the United States, I'm aware that you have one, but they get almost no exposure here in the media. People here with a passing familiarity with international current events could probably tell you who the Chancellor of Germany is, but far fewer could name the President.
If you sink the kelp in the deep ocean apparently it likely takes quite a while for that carbon to make its way back through the ecosystem to the surface (decades, if not centuries). Don't have a source on that though.

Alternatively, convert kelp to biofuel and biodegradable plastic, reducing need for both CO2-intensive industries
That's not the deal with proprietary software. The deal is that you buy a license to software, the terms of which can be altered at any time.

It's fundamental to the model of proprietary software.

It's not theirs. It's the company's, and the company can do what they want with it.

There's no reason refunds should be offered, as the consumers got what they paid for: A license to software, with certain conditions for termination and conditions allowing the company to alter the terms of the arrangement.

It's like saying that a person should be able to get a refund on an ice cream cone that melts: The deterioration is part of the standard deal, and you know it's coming.
I totally understand this, but it's something like vinyl. Yeah, the vinyl doesn't have the same sound quality, but there's something about the little crackles and pops, that warm fuzzy sound in the background that gives me, well, a warm fuzzy feeling. Dropping the needle on Stairway to Heaven is just a different experience.

I choose that example in particular because LZ IV is one of the first albums I ever heard on vinyl. My dad had an old crate of records and a truly bitchin stereo setup that he let me dig out and set up in my room in my teens. He had told me the story of the first time he heard Stairway (in his friend's basement, on vinyl) and it just seemed like a fitting first run.

I also vividly remember the first time I heard The Yes Album, also on that stereo. The opening bars of Yours Is No Disgrace made an immediate impression on me and I had a burned CD of the album on repeat in my car for the next month.

This post is already way longer than I intended, but my dad's record collection was also how I realized that he had been a stoner as a young man. The various Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and Santana records should have been enough of a hint, but it was when I found his copy of Cheech and Chong's Big Bambu, and a conspicuously missing giant rolling paper, that I had the realization.
What Happened to Amazon Prime 2-Day Shipping?
Unfortunately, It's a human weakness to look for 'formulaic' answers to solve for life's most difficult problems. If successful people came from Ivy Leagues, it became de rigueur that getting into an Ivy League sets you up for success. Then it was Big 4 Consulting, then it was working for FANGs, now it is Founder at a YC company.

Not saying that YC is bad, but it would be nice if getting in was easier. Maybe they should make half their seats competitive and the other half as paid ($500K) just like private schools do. Then leave it up to people's imagination how someone got in. Or maybe they should just let everyone in.