skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm, perhaps HN is not for you? HN is about the community of hackers, not hacking in itself. Anything you chat about at lunchtime with colleagues is on-topic. Reddit is different, there's a lot more about memes and fun, usually. This is more intellectual.
> It's not the distro's job to ensure the application is secure and up to date

I would prefer a distro that ensures applications in its repository are up to date.

Consider a log4j-type issue. In one case, the distro quickly fixes the vulnerability in a library package, the user installs the update and that is that.

In the other case, the user has to track down which installed applications use the affected library, update them if there is an update available, and figure out what to do if there is no update available.
The two versions of the Office are fantastic for different reasons.

I find everyone loves the US Office, the humor is much more accessible by the wider public.

The UK Office tends to be lost with those that haven't worked in an office environement. The comedy is much more tuned.
I don't know. Steam reviewers seem to sometimes have a deeper view of the game, and describe the long term difficulty/power/interest curve etc. They can have many hours in and are not compelled to push the review out early. And you can roughly look at the number of datapoints reporting any given experience. Maybe depends on the game, but often looking at the graphics won't give you much information.
The Bible, directly and indirectly, is one of the major contributor to Western Civilization. While most of them has been secularized, large amount of ideas that we take for granted or consider common in the Western Civilization, such as equality of all man and inherent dignity of human, could be traced back to The Bible. A good understanding of The Bible would give you an understanding on the process of how Western Civilization is formed as it is today.

Stanford Western Culture class had Book of Genesis and New Testaments as part of required reading [0].

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9705/970...
Japanese output will produce lot of tiny mistakes. However the whole output is still good enough. Like 95% plus good enough.

Found lot mistakes in 3-4 characters kanji ... and I guess most native Japanese will do mistakes time to time too, and this is why they pop up lot of buzzwords on screen with all kind of highlighting to avoid double guessing.
> you'd realise they're one of greediest in the business.

it's not greedy if the users are buying it willingly. The game is not pay to win - you can skip all of it, and just enjoy the game on its own.

Not many free to play games can be said to have this.
You don't add the salt to the ice cream, you add it to the ice that surrounds the ice cream-making container.
FWIW itch.io also runs on Linux and have developed their own 'Proton-alike' which automatically sets up Wine prefixes for Windows games.

They're standing on the shoulders of Giants, but I also don't see (m)any of the other stores doing likewise.
> A true laptop-appliance with an immutable-ish OS, decent security and fast/easy updates is actually a quite compelling notion. I'd be pretty uncomfortable with it not being local-first for user data though.

Fedora Silverblue may suit your needs.
True but not an argument.
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Former customers are also included in the breach, just in case you thought you were safe not being a customer anymore.
Aaah, nice. I simply just have to figure out what makes me happy and make a living of it? Why didnt I think of that earlier. Brb.
The timing is terrible. And junior jobs have always been extremely hard to land, even in a strong market. A lot of very good people are being laid off and haven't found jobs yet, and you're competing with them.

I graduated from a really good college, into fairly weak market and had to take PHP jobs that didn't fully cover the bills. I'd suggest just sucking up your pride and taking a low quality job. Just work hard, build connections to others in the industry, and hop on to better work once it recovers.

Or try another field; I graduated with a degree in telecommunications engineering, but the telcos were becoming stagnant. So we rode on the mobile/web dev boom.

There's also the possibility that it may not recover, that FAANG in general peaked and are on a decline.
As a casual observer I get the sense that OpenAI and others are very rapidly creating building blocks of something much bigger…
> For me the killing feature of Steam is its longevity. I still have in my library the games that I bought in 2008. It means that I can reasonably expect my library to work for the rest of my life. I can't say the same of any other store, much less some newfangled startup.

You can say the same of GOG. Right now I am playing more GOG games than Steam games, even though my steam library is much larger.
Out of curiosity, what's your specialization?
I don't think distros are going to be fixing vulnerabilities in all their packages. Is that what you mean?
This could be a lot of people with a business or Apple laptop living far from home - business trips, expats, migrants. I had to migrate recently and currently have only a work laptop with me, so I have tried Stadia and it was rather good for some games. Best example - ESO, which for 10$ pulled all my progress and DLCs from the cloud. But yes, with the Google "reputation" and the requirement to re-buy all games the second time Stadia is dead in the water, I won't invest there anything above a few dollars.
You're not meant to read it like a regular book, front to back, like it's a romance or text book.

Is something you're meant to read through out your life, not in one sitting.

>then what
what what?
>a team may deem the initial performance impact of JS-dependence a worthy compromise for benefits they get in other areas, such as personalized content, server costs and simplicity, and even performance in long-lived sessions

notice how all these "benefits" only benefit the developer at the expense of the user or have nothing to do with the problem at hand. "personalized content"? really?

Pre client side Youtube,Twitter,FB,Reddit were all superior feats of engineering to their modern JS heavy counterparts.
Hephaestus over here
The article predates the Epic Games Store; the followup https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-... discusses it.
Agreed, as long as the items are only cosmetic, I don't care how much they cost. They're entirely optional, unlike the "optional" pay-to-win items that cost you thousands of hours of grinding if you don't pay.
The article was from Jan 2018, from a quick google it seems like the Epic Games store was released in Dec 2018. You're absolutely right though, Epic did all of these things and more and is still a distant second.
I'm hearing tales left and right like that; one part of the tales is that you get stocks or stock options, BUT you have to eat a shit sandwich for years before you can 'cash out'. This is the companies' golden handcuffs; they know the job is shit, but you'll get a big payout if you manage to keep it up for at least X time.

The other one is that compensation and competition is sobering up. I have one former colleague who claims that they earn 3x as much working for a US company than they did our previous job, but I don't see much exorbitant wages being thrown around. Second, that company he works for now has set a hiring stop; the explosive growth and demand from US based tech companies is slowing down or coming to a halt.
Natural river water is going to absorb the airtag's Bluetooth signal, it'll lose tracking very quickly unless it stays near a phone at all times.

You could chuck hundreds of iphones into the river along the airtag. I hear they're waterproof to some decent depth
You have to be careful with the lazy loading, sometimes it ends up being just more round trips. And then there are those annoying sites that refuse to load anything that is off screen, and you end up having to wait over and over again.
Is there any static check tool that can help us to find out the `nil` bug?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)
Did nobody check to see this is fake?
Therapy at the Retro Gaming Museum https://pixel-museum.brussels/ Play Alex Kidd in a loop for a day on a Sega Master System 1!
Stop using the bad game of dota as an argument. It doesn't say a whole lot about how valve uses steam.
Interesting. Sounds plausible. Also, and I mean this respectfully, it also could be a plausible-sounding just-so story.

How could this be fixed? If true, what would we expect to see, versus its not being true?
SpaGO: A ML library in pure Go
applications in the distro should be up to date by simply being in the distro in that case, i.e. we are more talking about applications that are outside the distro and installed on top of it. Because we have dependency issues, containerization is a good method. anything the distro ships itself should always be using the latest of everything the distro ships.
Writing isn’t there for Marvel sure. But to me the achievement is reliably producing B grade movies. Entertaining, worth a chuckle, easy on the eyes. None deserve an Oscar, but none (or few) are really very bad. Even if that were easy to do with one movie, and I’ve watched a lot of real garbage, doing it with a string of 20 interconnected films? Culminating in Endgame? That required the steady hand of a few really solid people. It was the first of its kind by an absolute mile, a totally new achievement in cinema. Spielberg and his ilk have been obsessing over all the CGI and sleeping on the real achievements.

For reference my favorite movies would be No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Fury Road. I like The Wire, Breaking Bad, True Detective season one. But I think Marvel is a different sort of thing altogether. The sheer reliability of it is unrivaled. Which is why I say that’s what Rings of Power lacks for me. The writing doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Just keep the thing competent despite all the cooks in the kitchen. Many pieces of media seem to fail at this.

Lately I will say the formula has worn thin. I consider their run to be from Iron Man to Endgame.
I think a big life lesson I learned as an adult is how disfunctional all adults are. Or at least, how less functional they are than I thought as a kid. I'm also not excluding myself :)
I think the article summarizes things up pretty well.

Steam is popular because it won a brutal evolutionary battle in the realm of PC distribution. PC games have never had any barriers to distribution, and old distribution methods (physical media, direct downloads etc.) still work just as well today as they did decades ago.

Developers use Steam not because they are forced or bribed to do so, they use it because it is better -- it's just easier to make money by distributing via Steam (it could be any combination of things like the wider audience reach, easy DRM integration, built-in CDN and auto-update, built-in cloud saves, etc. etc.). In a sense, Steam's victory is like that of Wikipedia, GMail, or Youtube etc. It provided something that was for a long time magnitudes better than the competition.

Looking at it this way, I think the article does miss one final way one might "beat" Steam -- a fundamental paradigm shift in how someone consumes games as entertainment. Steam's success depends on the idea that people want to do "PC gaming". That the idea of collecting, downloading, installing, and running games that they choose themselves on general purpose machines they own themselves is attractive to enough people.

I personally believe and hope this idea will stay with us, but I am also from an older era of tech. What beats Steam will not be a better Steam. It will be something else, something that maybe seems obvious in hindsight but impossible to imagine today. Just as a fish does not question the water it lives in, and we the atmosphere we breathe, to truly compete with Steam, one must be something so obvious that consumers would wonder why anyone would ever choose anything else.
12 years legal fighting with German companies, ecology groups and municipalities is something Germany can be not proud of. Who will be crazy enough to start a big project in Germany, when it's clear that you have no chance. Well, Elon was crazy enough.

Every big German project had such huge legal setbacks, if the Hamburg opera, the Berlin Airport, the Stuttgart train station, this tunnel and many more. And even if the project management might overcome the influence of local politics (Hamburg, Berlin) you'll still have to fight the companies in court who are against such a project for decades.
Germany became a joke.
Thanks for the report. It only confirms my judgment.

The word "Google" attached to anything is a strong indicator that you should look for an alternative.
Comedy is too fractured in the US for panel shows to really work IMO. I think a big part of why panel shows work so well in the UK is you have a lot of camaraderie and familiarity with the relatively smaller and more tightly knit group of UK comedians (it doesn't take long at all watching panel shows to start seeing familiar faces), which definitely helps keep banter running smoothly.
Although I am British, I moved away to another country when young, and got some of my English lessons privately, plus my family is quite posh, or at least, likes to talk that way. I moved back to the UK and on joining primary school there, my received accent was the first thing to go, much to my parents dismay, as it invites teasing and bullying.

I can still talk in a reasonably posh way, but almost never use it, and adopt all sorts of mannerisms from my travels, my accent is, at a guess, a little bit estuary english, with other things thrown in.

I've never really felt the need to up my accent, it doesn't make you the most popular person professionally to act better than everyone else, especially if you don't have vastly superior skills or superior standing to back it up, in fact it annoys me if someone tries it on me. I wouldn't say I act lower class than my standing, rather, I tend to fit in with my peers.
Seems `golangci-lint` could help.

golangci-lint run
main.go:38:27: SA4023: this comparison is always true (staticcheck)
if err = txn.doUpdate(); err != nil {
^
It's not, though.

I mean, I don't remember the last time something came exclusively through Steam by exclusivity agreements. That cannot be said for Epic Games though.

Sure Epic had to come up with ways to increase their competitive advantage while having an inferior product with smaller catalog and worse ux, all problems inherent to a newer product trying to penetrate a consolidated market.

Steam felt like it was just there, adding features and improvements in a slow but steady pace and really offering value to both players, by introducing sales and democratizing access to games (sure in the EU and US it might seem less important, but coming from Brazil I can't begin to tell how much of an impact digital outlets had to providing access to quality games on emergent markets), and to developers by single handely making piracy somewhat obsolete.

Sure it had problems like high fees for small devs, a case can be said that this monopoly over time started hurting the small dev, or the massive flow of low quality games, but to call it a walled garden is a far cry from reality. We gamers got it good and we sometimes don't appreciate it. Just look at the state of streaming services to see what could have been.
I watched it, and rewatched it, because my girlfriend is really into these movies. I just don't understand the point. It seems so aimless to me. Can someone explain the fascination with Spirited Away?
Yeah. Maybe this will turn out to be a genius strategic move, but it just seems weird.

It's the same sort of cognitive dissonance as if a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant just announced they're adding a Subway Footlong sandwich to their menu.
So you either jump the Strid or, failing that, you cross the Jordan (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crossing%20J...), in which case you won't need a T-Shirt anymore...
I simply am astonished that it is true: Humans are (ballpark) 2,000,000x more massive than ants.

I was thinking 100,000 range tops. They real are tiny.
I just combined a term for my favorite music at the time (THALL!) with a dinosaur (-saurus)
this brings up a very important question - how does one verify one's identity with a business? Esp. online, without having to meet in person at some sort of branch/store?
If you haven't already seen it, I think this video will speak to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XeLhFKw_yM
It only has to compete with Slack, and Slack is also garbage.
> Didn't Roadside Picnic become Tarkovsky's Stalker?

Indeed, it did -- it also spawned the "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." game series, which really nails down the derelict industrial soviet aesthetic.
There is, I think, a bit of a paradigm shift in action.

In the old world, disk space was limited and download speeds were slow. So it made sense for every app to use the system-provided version of Library X.

Additionally, stability and backwards compatibility was assumed. So if the distro updated to Library X v1.2, and your app relied on v1.1, everything would still work.

Today's world is very different (for many users). Disk space is cheap and plentiful and downloading a couple of GB takes an instant. So why not bundle everything together?

Additionally, developers can't be sure of stability in their dependencies. And the app developer is the person who receives the complaints from angry users, not the library developer.

So it makes perfect sense to use a self-contained set of libraries and dependencies.

The pendulum will swing the other way in time. We'll all get annoyed at having a dozen different Electron libraries taking up space, and we'll go back to one-library-to-rule-them all.

But - as someone who used to hate battling dependency hell - I love Flatpack.
Help me find my brain please you just blew it straight out my backside.
As a dota player who played dota 1 and dota 2, i dont have to spend a single penny to enjoy dota 2. And i get to play it for free on linux. Good lord, im grateful for that.
It was half life 2 on steam that created steam.
At my previous job, MS Teams worked perfectly. It was used for everything, and it was great on my work laptop. Yesterday I had a Teams meeting with a teacher from my son's school, and Teams outright refused to work on my private laptop, with no indication why. The app when opened just hung on a white screen (even after reinstalling), and in the browser everything worked, except the camera. (The camera works fine in Discord or Google Meet.)

I have no idea what the problem is here. It works perfectly fine in one situation, and not at all in the other. Both Windows machines.
For EU, Whatsapp actually solved a different problem, as SMS already existed to send messages to offline people: You could fit tenfold amount of messages to an mobile data subscription to a SMS package that you can get from your mobile data provider. It was so cheap and whatsapp also had more features.
That's almost completely a relic nowadays though. Most things worth watching are on streaming, which has pretty much completely abandoned the 22 episode format and 6-10 seems to be where things have settled.
Still waiting for this laptop to be available where I live, I'm at the point where I'm loosing the last bit of hope and am considering to just buy a different product. Which really annoys me, because I was never as hyped for a laptop as for this one.
The elgato is doing something completely straightforward — video output to video input, done. With only a few details, it’s almost like a regular webcam where the controller is in the usb plug rather than the webcam’s body.

The SD thing has all sorts of nastiness to it.

First, you won’t have a standard usb video input, so you’re going to need to do a bunch of awkward driver work to get applications to consume the video feed.

Second, you’ll have to deal with the lag and jittery video that you get because the camera will almost certainly buffer writes.

Then you have to figure out how to get the controller in the SD reader to understand the incoming writes, which it was most certainly not designed to do.
I mean mostly GDP (yes economists, I am looking at you), but, alas, all these dimensions are linked.

I guess that decoupling is possible to some extent. I don't want to lose the hope that we can live happy lives without destroying the planet (or ourselves), but we need a very bold strategy, and I haven't seen any yet.
There are plenty of people whose only computer is a non-gaming laptop. Or even an iPad.

Hell, I'm a developer in my 40s, and I only got a decent-ish gaming PC at the start of the pandemic.

Stadia could be amazing if Google had any interest in it. Even OnLive of 10 years ago was amazing. LiquidSky knocked everyone out of the park, but had licensing issues unfortunately (play unmodified Steam games in the cloud what?!).

There are plenty of people who don't want to invest hundreds of dollars in consoles and gaming PCs but who still play plenty of games. Apple understands that with their Apple Arcade, but Apple doesn't understand gaming. Google doesn't understand gaming either.
> distributions want to take control of everything.

I'm not sure where that's coming from. Distros/packagers (should) rightly feel a responsibility for a packaged application's quality, security, interoperability.

> If a distribution just provided the necessary infrastructure to empower developers to maintain their own dependencies

To stick with the Arch Linux example in the article, is the flatpak you get from `# pacman -S flatpak` not suitable for some reason?
I want to like GoG, and do buy games there, but the client sucks. It's hard to navigate and for some reason insists on showing me 500+ Steam games rather than my smaller GoG library.

Also, none of my friends use it, so if I buy a game on GoG, I'll eventually end up buying it on Steam too.

The big case for GoG is buying older games as in general they're much easier to get working on a modern PC than buying on Steam (no idea if that's true, but it feels easier to me).
It's not in the FAQ for the site and Rivers -> Grades is a 404! I suppose we'll have to take up kayaking to find out.
But that reading was invalid due to bubbles in the water
Sure that's nice, but plenty of games on Steam require third-party logins and Internet connected DRMs, even for single player games. The day the publisher decides to retire the infrastructure for the game is the day the game becomes unplayable, even if still technically available to download on Steam.
Did you also like the rest of the books? It got pretty deep into religious nutcase territory eventually. I didn't actually know all the religious controversy around the series before I read the books, so I got to experience that solid increase of "wtf??" moments as the trilogy progressed. The first book is pretty darn good though, won't argue that!
> Disk space is cheap and plentiful and downloading a couple of GB takes an instant.

True in a data center. Not true for many people.

> So why not bundle everything together?

Security updates, RAM usage.
That doesn't change the fact that noone else really offers this. I accidentally bought a wrong copy of a game on PS5 and they just told me to go away because I "already downloaded it". The download started automatically. I didn't even boot up the PS5 from the time I did the purchase and the time I contacted support (which also gave me a runaround of "oh, you're on UK store not EU store, go away and wait for another 45 minutes).

Seems like Australia should sue other stores as well.
Coincidentally the YouTube recommendation algorithm showed me an American guy absolutely destroying the pilot by way of comparison to the UK original [1]. Most of the points he made are also being made here.

[1] https://youtu.be/PBxy3rKoOOU