skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One reason I’ve heard is the stats and Achievements consolidation.

I have not seen that referenced much so I am curious how many people that is the reason vs just some weird loyalty to Steam.

But, as someone who is mostly a couch gamer so my console of choice is Xbox. I can see that, I have a PS5 but all of my cross platform games is Xbox.

I have my PC for a lot of games that I would prefer that setup (for me its a game by game decision), but with game pass and cross buy it already didn't make sense for me to go all in on steam, but some games are only on steam.

So what was the harm in adding other stores when it made sense.

> I wouldn’t buy a PS5 for an exclusive. TBH exclusivity is annoying and I don’t want to reward it.

I don't want to reward it. But I also view myself as a gamer first before any platform loyalties. If I want to play something, that takes priority. So annoyingly I have both under my TV.

rant I am so annoyed at the people complaining about Xbox going Multiplatform as if it isn't a good thing for consumers to not have to buy nearly identical hardware. I don't care that it is how the industry has ran for so long, it's still anti-consumer. end rant
Of course, such communication cannot ever be faked by interested third parties.
How do you deal with the filesystem? Eg do you make the local file system visible to the remote kernel somehow?
The payment processors are, at the core, specialist insurance businesses. They know how to underwrite transaction risk and counterparty risk and FX risk very well, better than generalist insurers, in part thanks to their scale. So these "billions" are actually a tiny fraction of the volume they process; counterparties are happily sharing a cut in exchange for peace of mind.
Cool idea and implementation. Great job.

I personally hand draw diagrams and then recreate them in Balsamiq (old school).

I, myself, won't use it because there's a lot of creation and innovation that happens in the transition phase when going from hand-drawn sketches to creating the diagrams.
If you take the article at face value--if its claims are true that $9-an-hour programmers cost Boeing billions of dollars--it is indeed a shame that, in this particular instance, Boeing was not willing to pay more for better programmers.

Are those claims true? Who knows. I'm sure that whoever hired those $9-an-hour programmers thought that if they could manage those programmers soooo well that they could get them to program as well as $100 an hour programmers.

YMMV, but in my experience, you can't manage programmers to be better programmers. No matter how much check-in approval bureaucracy, or how much QA, you will not get better programs. If you want better programs, you need to hire better programmers.
Does it also say there will ever ever be an end to Gordan Freeman’s story, never a HL3 ever so stop asking? Seriously one of the most tragic things of my very privileged life was getting so into the game and the story and then waiting patiently for HL3 after the cliff hanger ending of HL2 EP 2. Now I have trust issues.
Any special LaTeX packages you are using?
I wouldn't normally comment on something like this because it's not the sort of application that I would use. As I am frequently reminded by others here on HN, I am not representative of the majority. But since you seem to want more input, here's mine:

The problem is a fascinating one, and one that I (like most) have struggled with for many years. That said, I won't use an external filtering service (AI-based or not) because then all I'm doing is allowing someone else to shape my informational world.

Instead, what I've done is to be more aggressive and conscious about doing that filtering myself. I severely limit the amount of attention that I pay to things that I can't affect and that I have little inherent interest in. I read my news through RSS, using an RSS aggregator that allows me to choose sources and set filters that determine what specific items what do or do not make it into my aggregated news feed. I've become extremely pleased with using Kagi for searches, in large part because I can tell Kagi what sites I want to hear less from and what sites I want to hear more from, and in part because I can actually find what I'm looking for with it.

That sort of thing. In short, to deal with information overload it's necessary to reduce the amount of information you take in, and the only person I trust to decide what is important for me to see is myself.
I know this is supposed to be a hot take or something, but GitHub existed before their acquisition by MS and what are they supposed to do, use AWS Snowmobile to haul all their existing S3 blobs to some Azure AZ?
>They are stringing words together using copied data

Ah yes and image generators are just rearranging stolen pixels.
The solution to Information Overload is not AI doing digestion for you.

Absorbing higher quality, curated sources will be better for anyone than suckling off the fire hose and wondering why you feel like you've had too much. Take the breathing scratching exercise break and get back to the value add work.

All the classical solutions apply (improve your reading level, take more selective interests and know what to do when enough is enough.)

LLM is a toy. You should use it to spot check your development, your "down stream" usage sounds like you're on to something, are you? I still like to run things by my "go to" from time to time, however I cannot say it has been more than novel.

And I think this crowd sees these AI business models as a few workflow scripts and a well crafted prompt. Few may want to play with someone else's (marketed) attempt unless it really shines value.
Privatisations, like most IPOs, are deliberately under-priced, and I'd very much doubt that the valuation of Royal Mail would have been affected by adding "The universal service provider must maintain the postcode address file and make it available under the Open Government Licence" to the Act
You're complaining about a 3rd party library license that the project cannot change...
That only explains a couple of the stores but not all of them.

Xbox and Epic don't fall in that category. I don't believe EA does either, but not 100% sure.

To be clear here. I am referring to the being forced after buying a game. None of these, to my knowledge, you were forced to use after buying the game on Steam. Unlike Ubisoft.
They could get away with it because there was no competitor like Steam.
RSA allows encrypting with the private key, see https://github.com/beac0n/ruroco/blob/ce766751b51c8ff6246a2b...

and decrypt with the public key, see https://github.com/beac0n/ruroco/blob/ce766751b51c8ff6246a2b...

using RSA, one can easily derive the public key from its private key (see https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/172274/can-i-ge...), that's why the private key is kept safely on the client

Also for SSH the public key is also stored on the server, while the private key is kept safely on the client, see https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/public-key-authentication#ke...

SSH can also be used with RSA: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/keygen#creating-an-ssh-key-p...
https://silverbullet.md/ it's a nice alternative. It's web based and with a lot of interesting features.
I totally agree with this point of view on freedom, and that's my main issue with Ayn Rand followers, who do not understand basic power application effect (beside the fact that she read Kant's 'critic of pure reason' title, said to herself : 'he must be criticizing reasoning, science and the Enlightment, I must write and publish my basic thoughts on this' and now we have armies of idiots who never read Kant and try to criticize stuff he didn't say. Some are even famous.)
Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche (Gift Link)
Always love to shock US-Americans with the fact that we eat raw pork in Germany (google mettigel)
Isn't deadlock just Valve's take on Valorant?

It will need to do something very fresh if it wants to compete.

Valorant felt extremely fresh and slick compared to both CSGO and Overwatch while fitting nicely inbetween. They brought innovation and UX improvements to the format that even CSGO ended up copying after it had been resting on it's laurels for too long.
When you say "people do this" and "people also do that contradictory thing" you're making the mistake assuming that the word refers to the same people.
Is it correct to assume that if your existing application has lots of data stored in standard PostgreSQL tables, you can't have InstantDB sync with it?

In other words it primarily targets brand new projects or projects that can completely migrate away from their current database?
We actually need less scientific publication. Bonding would encourage a smaller number of higher quality publications.
Yeah, these days I check GOG first, and sometimes wait until the game is available there.
what is the currency now?
The truly staggering thing about this "deal", IMHO, is that people were crazy enough to vote for it. Sure, you can argue a CEO deserves to be compensated for his work, but there has to be a limit on publicly owned companies. Various people have talked about the magnitude of the proposed payout, what's usually overlooked is that the figure was about 10% of Tesla's market cap. Effectively, Musk was trying to instigate a 10% tax on everybody's ownership of the company. Not 10% of profits, not even 10% of revenue, but 10% of everything including illiquid assets. That's just for one year's compensation, presumably he also expected similar going forward too.

I cannot understand why any shareholder would vote for this devaluation of an asset. Not only did I vote against it, as soon as the vote passed and it'd somehow got a majority, I sold off all my directly owned shares. Sadly, I also own a lot indirectly through ETFs by virtue of TSLA being in S&P 500.
> You could say Gmail is a leak waiting to happen because you're not hosting your own email server.

I mean, Azure has had several tenancy breaches where attackers could move from one tenant to another

> The risk isn't any greater than Azure getting hacked or something.

example: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/27/22644161/microsoft-azure-...

they also had their master authentication keys leaked and didn't realise for 2 years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-st...

this one allowed the attackers to get into Microsoft executive's email accounts
I'm not good at describing things easily. I will put the hn description on top of the git repo :)

Thanks for the feedback!
It's really unfortunate the discursion the article took into ripping into Musk at a personal level- it changed the tenor from professional and thoughtful into a partisan attack.

Its unfortunate at a larger level that the commentariat can't help but injecting their bias directly into things like this, when the facts of the story can tell you everything you need to know about the motivations of the people involved. Those facts are /weakened/ sitting alongside vituperative editorializing.
Oh man this is a great idea. I can't count the number of times I've spent an hour in a meeting diagraming stuff on a whiteboard and then taken a picture of the whiteboard on the way out. This would be super useful for documenting the results of meetings like this.
heh: https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/pacman/ and https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/platformer/
Where did the "long naan" come from?
You make valid points about the common understanding of "data-driven" decisions. I want to intentionally broaden the definition of data to include a wider range of inputs influencing our choices.

Let’s take the hiring process example. While it feels like a "gut feeling," I'd argue it's still rooted in data - just not the clearly quantifiable kind. This "data" includes past experiences, cultural conditioning, and even evolutionary predispositions.

I think in the current age of LLMs and multi-modal models, you can consider a podcast as data. For example, you can use the podcast to train a model. We would consider it as ‘data’ that the model is trained on, in terms of LLMs. So why not consider it as data, when we humans listen to it?

The brain is like a neural network, so the networks have some weights and biases. Every time we add new data to the brain, through various forms like sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, etc., we modify the weights and biases of our brain. Regardless of what the data is or its relevance, it changes. So, arguably, anything we consume could be data.

I don’t think you can make the argument that Earth is data-driven. The Earth follows the laws of physics. It’s just an object without the ability to process information, so just because it is following a mathematical path, it doesn’t mean it is data-driven.

The core argument isn't that all decisions are based on spreadsheet-style data, but that what we perceive as intuition is complex processing of various inputs accumulated over time.

By expanding our concept of "data," we can gain deeper insights into human decision-making, including seemingly instinctual or emotional choices. I want to complement the current colloquial understanding of data by recognizing the full spectrum of information influencing our decisions.
FWIW, I have relied on the accuracy of log timestamps well into the low microseconds.

If you have an event loop, it might be acceptable to sample the counter once per iteration, but less than that it becomes too lossy.
Pick a Tool, and Stick with It
You're confusing corporate enterprise plans with home users. Completely different ballgames.
That's because OP shared the text-only version of the article.

Here is the normal version with an image https://npr.org/g-s1-19243
> That is some of the worst advice I've ever heard. Cheap tools are always cheap for a reason.

As a DIY person with a garage filled with every type of tool imaginable, that is some of the best advice that can be given: buy cheap tools, but expensiver tools if it breaks.

IME, most people don't use the cheap tool enough to break it.
Though at least in Berlin it's pretty common for multi-family houses to have a separate wing (Seitenflügel) or rear house (Hinterhaus) that are reached by entering the street door of the front house (Vorderhaus) and then exiting through a door behind the staircase into a courtyard before entering the second building, and at least in some cases each building has its own set of mailboxes, all with the same address.

I regularly have the problem that deliverers don't read my delivery note and don't listen to what I say on the intercom, and go all the way to the top of the front house before realising I'm in a different building altogether.
The scam is relevant because that was what motivated him to do the illegal things. If the payoff was only treasury level interest, he (hopefully) wouldn't have been motivated to risk being caught for embezzlement.
We don't right now, but it's something a lot of people have asked for, so we're rolling out a file sync feature next week. (It will basically be a nice wrapper over rsync.)
There's a "type" field in the spec, defined as: "The UTI of the text.* file. E.g. set to net.daringfireball.markdown for Markdown. This field should default to net.daringfireball.markdown to be backwards-compatible with version 1."

So it's whatever you care to specify. Doesn't have to be Markdown at all. It looks like it'd be completely valid to use this as a way to bundle up a webpage with all associated images and scripts, for instance.
Why stop at digital data? All memories roll into nothingness at 7 years, to be replaced by whatever the brain is forced to put in their place to resolve any apparent dissonance. A select few have discovered the secret and used it to build unimaginable power (e.g., building armies by promising riches and wealth after an 8yr term, using the Greate Oubliette to convince recruits they only have 1 yr left for the entirety of their lifetime of service).
or scientist who just don't understand statistics.

a biologist can understand how zillions of proteins interact with each other without understanding how to work with raw data.
I actually got a cheap Chinese chainsaw for some light work around the countryside, it cost me about 80 EUR and performs adequately for the task at hand.

So then I bought another one of the same variety, with the expectation that once this (or the other one) dies, it can be cannibalized for spare parts if need be AND I won’t have to stop in the middle of doing something, cause of the backup.

It’s much the same for me when buying mechanical keyboards, computer mice, HDDs/SSDs or other technology too. My current CPU is on AM4 because I have the old one as a backup and a spare motherboard too.

What can I say, I like having backups and being reasonably frugal: e.g. getting a mid range phone since I don’t need fancy features and if anything happens to it it won’t be a big financial hit to replace (or use any old one for a bit, until the new one arrives, since none receive software updates for that many years).
Presuming that there are actually jurisdictions in which those typical clauses about disclaiming any implied warranty and so on are important (and I wouldn't want to do otherwise), that minimal license seems like a terrible idea. Not restricting use is all well and good, but you don't want to somehow end up legally on the hook for someone using your code to shoot themselves in the foot, however much it seems like the fundamental problem there would be with the jurisprudence.
Adventures Building a Spreadsheet in Python
Did not know fwknop, but since it came up multiple times in this thread, I'll look into it.

I have no protection against DoS attacks, but I'm working on it (there is also a WIP in the README about that :) )
Do they block DNS-over-HTTPS? I bet not.
Thank you! I just updated the tutorial:

1) Added in the 'how'

2) Changed the sentence on mobile to say: 'Check out the walkthrough below, and the full code example right after.'
> 1 - https://www.smh.com.au/national/human-brain-tissue-made-up-o...

holy shit 1/200 molecules in your fucking brain is straight up plastic jesus christ
> Ah, this brings back memories. Reddit was one of the very first users of EBS back in 2008. I thought I was so clever when I figured out that I could get more IOPS if I build a software raid out of five EBS volumes.

Hey! We also did that! It turned out, that eventually you hit the network bandwidth limit. I think, the performance topped out at around 160 megabytes per second for most of the instance types back then.
DUMB is essentially BSD, clause 8 says that clauses 4, 5, and 6 are null and void.
I see what you're getting at, and I agree.

But at the same time, reading this again also made me a bit nostalgic for at least some parts of 1990s hacker culture. (I'm a bit too young to have experienced the 80s.) There's an irreverence that seems to have been lost. The culture was full of cringey gatekeeping behavior and that wasn't even the worst of it. And the purity test did revel in that a little bit. But it also represents nerd culture taking the piss out of itself in the same breath. The BOFH files also come to mind as an example of this.

It seems like a lot of modern nerd culture isn't quite so able to do that. Gamer culture, for example, is also rife with gatekeeping behavior. And there's also a lot of humor, but what I don't see quite so much is gamer nerds taking a good hard look at themselves, and laughing at what they see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Cartier_(mathematician)
If you are that entrenched in your refusal, you can have a DNR order or similar that you carry around with you or is referenced on a bracelet, etc.
Off, for now... Until a future windows update post-install nag screen uses dark UX patterns to turn it on, probably as part of some other "yes, shut up, let me use my computer" button.
> There’s an extremely toxic (and ironically very anti-scientific) culture of “study says it so it’s true” that permeates medical and scientific fields and the reporting thereof.

Source? Where’s the proof of this? Some online blogpost is not peer-reviewed evidence. We need to back up our claims with science.
This is an excellent question, and your corollary is sound.
There's still much too much over regulation in my opinion though, and too much monopolization. Cheap money being dumped into a broken system won't do much. But you raise an important point.
I agree with everything else, but..

> Sadly, I also own a lot indirectly through ETFs by virtue of TSLA being in S&P 500.

this bit strikes me as a mistake. I did the calculations recently for this, actually, and even if you assumed that TSLA went to zero (which it won't; it's overvalued but its value isn't zero) the loss on S&P would be extremely small (don't remember actual numbers, but the calculation is easy to reproduce).
> the competitors do what is necessary just fine

But that's the issue. The competitors are fine. They aren't significantly better though. The only one with a compelling USP is GOG with their "no drm, download the installer, own the game even after we go under" pitch. Everyone else is just a steam clone with some exclusives and freebies. Without a compelling advantage network effect makes Steam the clear winner. It's where your other games are and it's where your friends are.

But that only holds true while Valve doesn't screw up. Their competitors can't be much better than Steam, but Steam could absolutely make horrible decisions that cause people to leave. But they don't. Their organizational inability to make decisive action without wider support has lead to an incredibly stable, predictable platform.
Sure, but people are suggesting OpenAI and Anthropic should use OAuth instead of API keys. It hardly makes sense to provide both for the same functionality.

Also CORS is a PITA. Even for personal use, a browser is the most convenient environment to develop some helper tools and scripts, and it's also the only environment that - until now - could not be used with those APIs. The solution here definitely isn't moving from API keys to OAuth.
I know posting a top-level comment seems indistinguishable from wagging my finger at the project, but it was just a license rant. I hoped that by including the third-party link it would make it more obvious what was being commented upon but I guess not
Upvotes.
Steam could “easily” be dethroned by a competitor that cares about the customers.

- Duplicate all the Steam shop features

- Integrate your social framework with Discord

- Add a proper overlay browser

- Make game ownership ephemeral until first play (meaning you can give away games in your library, or duplicate games in a bundle)

- Shim with Steam Input

- Better looking “Big Picture”-style mode

- Built-in game streaming, paid either with subscription or per-minute via wallet

There’s probably tonnes other that I’m forgetting. The above would take a ridiculous amount of dev hours though.

The big mistake Epic made (is making) is that their store is more beneficial for developers, mostly by taking a lower percentage. But those savings are barely passed on to the consumer, and even then, consumers don’t care about that. They’ll happily pay 10-20% more to have their game on the superior platform.
New Zealand, developing country ?
The Epic store might not've been slow, but it was missing so much. It was launched with almost no features, not even reviews. They also didn't have any communities/forums/groups.
No one should use packages with licensing of this sort. The way the project changes the license is by changing which library they use.
You can actually do this now - I've taken a great deal of my hand written workflow diagrams, snapped a picture of them, and asked chatGPT to convert them to mermaid UML.

It was one of the more impressive demonstrations of multimodal AI.

You can also import mermaid into Google's Draw.io app if you want to reflow or change the theme.
'owever, "an historic" is more historic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion

The silent h is because words like this were originally French. Victorians started pronouncing the h again.