jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a totally different domain, where abstractions are most likely for the better. The bad part is the abstractions at places where they're not wanted e.g. graphics and other high performance systems programming. Abstractions are fine if you can opt out, but don't take away the control from those who need it.
You can read other issues too:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date
You can't. Otherwise all of us would be billionaires.

There is a ton of risk not matter. We hear from a lot of people who "always knew they had it." But there are a ton of failures who also believed "they always had it" before failing.
Of course they do. How else would they detect cloaking and other violations of Google's policies?
Maya isn't free, but https://Clara.io (which includes V-Ray cloud) is free. :)
10. How does Pixar define "Non-Commercial" use?
Simply, any usage of RenderMan that does not generate direct profits. Examples of non-commercial usage include evaluations, personal projects, learning, student and academic use, experimentation and research.

There is a narrow line between "personal project" and "commercial". What if you come up with something that has ads on YouTube, are you commercial now? What if you come up with something, and then subsequently make a kickstarter with the characters you created in the original "non-commercial" project?

edit: as people pointed out in the replies, there is an exception for video ads, which really just reinforces how complicated free-as-in-beer can get

13. Are there any profit earning exceptions to the "Non-Commercial" use rule?
Yes. Indirect revenue generating activities such as personal images or clips posted on YouTube or Vimeo that may result in advertising revenue are permitted. Please include a credit that your work was rendered with Pixar's RenderMan. If you are uncertain as to whether your requirement qualifies as non-commercial, please contact rendermansales@pixar.com for clarification.
If they had a legitimate business office address filed with the California Secretary of State, it wouldn't take so much digging to find the responsible party.
So I'm thinking if I want to boost my rankings, all I have to do is file a DMCA notice on my competitor's sites?

Certainly someone has to be doing this, somewhere. At worst, sneak your target URLs into a long list of torrents. How much is bumping off a few competing search results worth?
With Firefox 85.0.1 on Ubuntu, it is working for me.
I wish I could read the news without an opinion or agenda behind it, because it’s not clear when I am reading or watching something that is fact, or driven by a journalist or corporate opinion.
This article is a summary of the 60 minutes interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solarwinds-hack-russia-cyberatt...
> But I want to ask all of you: what replaces it as arbiter of truth?

The decentralized model. Aka everybody has to think for themselves, like responsible grown ups are supposed to do.

The fact that some people think a central authority of truth is necessary is terribly sad.
> as inheritance is a transfer initiated by the owner of the property

Incorrect, dead people cannot own things. Inheritance is a government program that redistributes property to rich children based on what their parents wrote on a piece of paper.

> expropriated from its owners and redistributed to your favored recipients

You are very confused. People do not own what they are taxed. When a person is taxed and the money given to eg a social security recipient, that's not violating ownership, that's enforcing ownership. That money is literally the property of the SS recipient. The law is very clear on this.

> You’re advocating that some men with guns confiscate the income of the working class and give it to people whom you have deemed more deserving.

No, that's what you're advocating, by supporting enforcement of status quo capital income laws.

> Property is temporally and logically antecedent to property law.

It isn't. You can say the statue of liberty is your property - but until that's enforced by somebody (via initiation of force or threats thereof), it is meaningless. Property is the biggest government program there is.

> According to egalitarian principles, you have no such right.

Yes I do - I'm simply enforcing my view of property rights.
Shutting down complete access instead of holding back a few cookies is a bit of a stretch as well.

If you must fail, please fail-open then.

And if you decide to fail-close, don’t lie: We’re unimportant to you so you decided to fail-close, and you’re not “working” on anything. You think it’s ok and it can be left like this.
I mean, it's 100% going to happen again, and it was plainly obvious it was going to happen to begin with. We did a Black Hat talk about this (checks notes) 14 years ago, after being paid by a client to audit something like 12 different agent-based management systems:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061215050427/http://www.matasa...

Agent-based endpoint management is super convenient and is mainstream in modern IT management. But nobody grows up wanting to write the communications software for enterprise server inventory software, so the code quality on these products, which are ubiquitous, is awful. But 99% of enterprise buyers aren't even slightly motivated by software security when making purchasing decisions, and everyone knows it, so vendors buy fig-leaf audits from vendors who will sell public-facing documents for 2p1w engagements, and IT purchasers, whose performance reviews are based on completing projects and not protecting their companies from $500,000 purchase orders for what is effectively malware, accept those bogus reviews and get on with their lives.

Nothing is going to change about this, because nothing is going to alter the incentives. Reporters like Nicole Perlroth will try to blame it on ex-NSA hired guns (as if you needed the exploit chains NSA buys to break any of these systems), but I can't think of any realistic policy that could be applied to stop these kinds of attacks, not without massively disrupting the technology industry at the same time.

Best get used to it, is I guess my point. I mean that sincerely, not as a sort of appeal to right the ship; the ship is already upside down.
The exciting thing with mRNA vaccines is that while developing the delivery platform took decades, developing the COVID vaccine itself was just 48 hours according to the CEO of both Moderna and BioNTech. Right now they have a lot of work with manufacturing (and they had lots and lots of paper work to do), but even there I think they are doing great, as they were not prepared for a pandemic.

As the drug delivery platform is working great, it seems like it can be reused (unlike with older platforms), and the hardest part of developing new mRNA vaccines is to research the genetic code to put in it.
> but with a few negative references to “Corporate America” or some Republican (usually, Donald Trump) to mark it as a Genuine Left-Wing Critique

Didn't Taibbi first break out with his coverage of the Great Financial Crisis, and specifically his vigorous criticism of the big banks' role? IIRC, he even coined the term "vampire squid" to refer to Goldman. His leftism is a lot more than superficial references to corporate America.
I find them amazing to look at as desktop backgrounds, but it seems hard to find actual high quality images that are suitable for 4k monitors. I save all the ones I do find but usually they're low quality images optimized for mobile.
In software, code is a means to an end. Solving problems, and knowing how to solve the problems, carries the value.
Agreed with your point of disposable items. Regardless of whataboutisms, the point about Bitcoin using more power than Argentina still stands.

(If person A says that traffic accidents are horrible, and person B says "Is that any worse than war?"; while B is correct, that doesn't make traffic accidents any less horrible.)
> It reminds me of Ted Nelson, who has worked on a nebulous vision of hypermedia for 60 (!) years. While he’s been incapable of shipping his vision, a nearly indistinguishable version of hypermedia changed the world through the world wide web.

Despite his failure to ship, Nelson's vision hasn't been particularly nebulous. Overambitious, somewhat srlf-referential and brittle, perhaps, but fairly clear.

And I definitely don't think the WWW is 'nearly indistinguishable'. A few features that are missing are (off the top of my head): bidirectional links, link referential integrity, versioning, annotations, transclusions with attribution and provenance, etc.

Now, none of that ever shipped. Little of it ever got as far as a PoC as part of Xanadu/Udanax. And it is pretty clear in hindsight that, if implemented, the spam problems created by many of those features could have dwarfed what we (or rather, search engines) have to deal with today (remember blog referer linkspam? That's what bidirectional links with server-enforced referential integrity leads to). Arguably, the WWW wasn't just the simplest thing that could work, but also flourished because TBL didn't attempt to implement many of Nelson's cherished features.

But that the web today falls far short of Nelson's vision, and that as visions go, his was fairly clear (If overly reliant on neologisms like enfilade etc. usually defined in terms of implementation details such as novel datastructures rather than formats or protocols), shouldn't be particularly controversial.
> In general, they’re fantastic.
The question was "Are they good for deep learning" and the answer was no. No one asked about them in general.
Indeed it does, I see it now:

"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

My old greybeard eyes completely missed the red text, centered right under the top banner.
Was this when he told us not to wear masks? Or when he misrepresented the scientific consensus about herd immunity?
Among those who pay for Gigabit internet when there are cheaper packages? Probably yes.
>Nothing but time and money prevents scaling. If we really really wanted to we could add a lot more doctors and nurses several years from now if they start training today.

Time and money are not the only factors. Political will power and incentives are also important factors.

Take World War 2 for example. Time was in short supply, but will power was not. As a result, manufacturing and training were scaled up quicker than ever before in history.

As indicated by the artificial doctor shortage, it would seem health care is politically and financially disincentivized to scale up.
My feeling is that the answer to this is because these companies (arguably) produce something of value to the world. Letting them become bankrupt would mean they do not produce that something of value so that would be bad economics. And a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. The role of economy is to sustain a certain confort to the population, an people should forget that at their own peril.
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My current position is a bit unstable due to lockdowns and quarantines, so I'm looking for a more stable job right now. Have almost 10 years of industry experience, worked remotely and within distributed team previously.
Until Mozilla gets Two Factor Auth they should NOT be doing anything with passwords or authentication.
and in the process suck down a bunch of wasted bandwidth. I hate it when a site auto-plays any video (or long audio), since i want to choose to not expend the bandwidth, but the choice is taken away from me.
OMG .... those tabs and leading 0's were holding me back ... now ... i can write great code.

And @while is a complete waste ... i mean ... it is the only thing that seperates it from less but what evez ... i glad i dont use it in my "read Sass" projects ... wtf you mean when designing a web site right? The fanboyism is intense in the sass community, ggs.
OMG .... those tabs and leading 0's were holding me back ... now ... i can write great code.

And @while is a complete waste ... i mean ... it is the only thing that seperates it from less but what evez ... i glad i dont use it in my "read Sass" projects ... wtf you mean when designing a web site right?
>> requires that they be able to sell at the low price offered to anyone else .. or did I dream that.

> That's very false, at least for regular products on Amazon, ebooks and books have special rules and maybe that's what you recall...

As per Amazon's guidelines: "General Pricing Rule: By our General Pricing rule, you must always ensure that the item price and total price of an item you list on Amazon.com are at or below the item price and total price at which you offer and/or sell the item via any other online sales channel."

Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1...

You are required to offer the item at the lowest price available on Amazon.com or they can cancel your listing and/or account.
Young men are over represented in road traffic accidents and deaths, so they pay much more for insurance. If you're a young man and a careful driver your current choice is either pay a lot or get one of these devices and pay less.
Supporting hundreds of different browsers?

This is a noble and audacious goal, but I suspect that it would either take enormous resources, or the least common denominator approach.

OTOH supporting, say, the 3 major browser engines that serve > 99% of the audience is sort of achievable, and also practical.
I'd love to be able to shift into this mode temporarily, assuming I could keep my health insurance. Maybe for a few months, just to give myself some breathing room, maybe make progress on some side projects, or do some volunteer work.
I wasn't talking about OSX though.
Despite what Apple say, they can read their messages. The NSA could get a secret court order that says "Please silently disable encryption for user Dave Jones in your next software update and forward his messages to us. Tell no-one."

I don't see how Apple could avoid that - the government already uses secret legal means to make them do things they don't want to and prevent them from telling anyone. This is no different.
I wonder how a variant of XXTEA (perhaps with more rounds) would fare as a replacement. It's only a little more complicated to implement than RC4, but solves some of the issues. It acts as a wide block cipher which reduces the impact of not having authentication or IVs.
From the third slide:

> To be less white is to:

>

> - be less oppressive

> - be less arrogant

> - be less certain

> - be less defensive

> - be less ignorant

> - be more humble

> - listen

> - believe

> - break with apathy

> - break with white solidarity

Basically associating everything negative with being white. If this is not racism, I don't know what is.
Whose eyebrows ? Can't a company invest however they wish ?
I have created this app as I always hesitate using online tools for simple tasks like JSON formatting, encoding/decoding Base64 and URLS and especially secret JWT tokens! Please let me know how you like this and any new features you think I should add.
I didn't say the C64 and Spectrum were directly influenced by the BBC (though I can see why you read my comment that way) but that the wider industry was. eg Parents bought kids BASIC systems because schools had BBCs so the C64, whilst often just used as a games system, was bought because it was also "educational".

If it weren't for the BBC, I'd wager far fewer homes would have had BASIC-based micro computers and thus that industry would have been much smaller.
A caller and caller that you want to change at the same time for the same reason belong in the same service.
Thanks, I did find an example here:

> The Coppermine Dev Team requires as additional term of the license Coppermine comes with that modified versions of Coppermine conveyed to others should be marked in a reasonable way. Modified versions mustn't be conveyed to others under the same name as the original Coppermine release. Package name, source code and the output generated by the modified version should make it obvious for potential users that the modified version and the original Coppermine version that the modified version is based upon differ.

https://coppermine-gallery.net/docs/curr/en/copyrights.htm#c...

and a PDF talking a bit more about section 7 here: http://www.mmmtechlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PLI-Ope...

So I think i understand this a bit better now. Maybe this helps someone else too.

(raw GPL legalese is difficult for me to fully parse not being a native speaker)
So, M1 skyrocketed when regulations changed to categorize savings accounts as part of M1 (and remove the 6 transaction limit).

M2 has risen 33% since Sept 2019.
Not always. Sometimes they get elected into positions of power and do far greater damage than could have been imagined.

As it becomes normalized to make any claim with no proof, and to gather followers who believe you, we regress as a civilization.
The amount used in these drives is minuscule, akin to a single party balloon. Given these drives are to be used for many years at a time, I'll go after them after I manage to stop all the birthday balloons.
> and they shave their heads.

I think this a harmful trend too. Ironically, Pepetuates the same concept that something natural like balding is something to hide.

Being bald without completely shaven look is a ok, normal and attractive too.
Which I don't know how effective that is. There are a lot of people who don't mind "topping them off" at 5, only to become the 30th person to down-vote them.
I started learning when I was 12, and the reason was to create Mortal Kombat 4[12yr olds don't have any concept of copyright]. I think just trying to implement it led me to learn the language[pascal at the time]. If I was to start over now at 26 or even 36 for the first time, it would be much much easier and faster in terms of understanding. Although my mind might not be as agile as when I was 12, I have experienced much more of the world now. What this means is I can make more associations than a 12 year old. I have more resources. I used to have to steal a glance at my sister's Dietel and Dietel Pascal programming book. My first c++ compiler was a bootleg and had to use web resources to learn. Kids don't have any money as an adult you do, and you can afford to go to classes and buy books. You know more people as an adult[only had my sister]. You can ask any number of questions to your network of hackers until you grasp the concept.
I saw it being called "Star Trek Effect". I think it's a very nice name.
I understand that it must be frustrating to be forced out of your own company, but seriously -- you made a shitload of money. Be happy it worked out to your advantage, and go find something new to do.
Since the state of California has decided that such "we own you" contract provisions are against public policy, the only risks you are running if you don't tell your new employer are that they might fire you if/when they discover your side project and that you might have to hire a lawyer if they sue you purely on these grounds.

If they aren't asking for pretty much all your available effort (hours per week and so on) and there's no real overlap between what they do and your project (so there's no legitimate possibility of trade secret law coming into play) I don't see any need to borrow trouble and bring this up. Better to ask forgiveness and all that.
Doesn't pg recommends all technical co-founders?
Not if you love the act of programming. You will know when you've programmed for a couple of months. You can teach yourself but in the end you really have to enjoy the process of programming. Helps to find out which concentration in programming you are good at: databases, games, engineering, etc...
We can’t keep up with demand. There’s constant construction everywhere. It’s been a running joke for years that if you try to walk/ride/bus/drive anywhere you’ll encounter a new development each time.

Sure, some of the problem is that the new developments are almost all too expensive for current residents but I’m not sure how you deal with that. The common wisdom is more vacancies lead to a renter’s market but it hasn’t panned out. To the extent there are vacancies they’re all investment properties.

It’s overly simplistic to say build more housing.
The strange thing about Ponzi schemes is that they can be very popular, even if participants know they're join a Ponzi scheme.

The MMM Global ponzi scheme has been operating in the open for about a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_Global

Ponzi schemes benefit greatly from a public perception that "all markets are rigged". Ponzi schemes can feel like a rigged game where they have a chance to get in on the ground floor of a rigged game. They also benefit from false equivalencies such as "after all, nothing good lasts forever" to make ponzi schemes feel like just another bull market opportunity that won't last forever.

It's akin to gambling. Many entrants tell themselves they'll only allocate as much money as they have to lose, or that they'll withdraw their initial investment after the first 100% gain. Sadly, they usually get overconfident when the scheme doesn't immediately collapse and end up investing far more than they would normally be willing to risk.
Your position appears to be one of tactical and not of strategic thinking.

Per the article, Xbox itself wasn't itself intended to be a large revenue stream.

It was (again, per the article) intended to protect other existing revenue streams of Microsoft from a competitor (Sony) that had been enjoying increasing success with gaming products, and a competitor that was then likely to use that success and that revenue to start competing against Microsoft in other arenas and other products.

And yes, Xbox does look to have been a wise move.

There have been more than a few comments over the years of companies having used press releases and roadmaps and deliberate leaks to freeze a market; to effectively remove the wind from a potential competitor's sails. Steps taken to change the business environment that the competitor is operating in.

BTW: the difference between tactics and strategy is analogous to the differences between sales and marketing. Confuse the two at your corporate peril.
Putting my investor hat on here:

Cash cow businesses have a cash flow that they either return to investors or reinvest themselves. The only metric for success reinvesting the cash flow is whether the company's stock grows at a higher rate than investors could obtain for themselves if they invested the dividends in the market.

Microsoft has consistently failed this test. It doesn't matter whether their investments are purported to be defensive to protect their main businesses or offensive to develop new sources of cash flow.

Defending Windows from competition, for example, is only useful to the extent that it helps the company's stock grow. If the stock does not grow, it would be better to preside over a gradual decline while throwing off as much cash as possible so that investors could invest the remaining dwindling cash flow in better companies.

Google is an entirely different animal because their stock is much more attractive to investors. As long as their stock continues to grow, management are able to get away with much more "wasteful" attempts to get lightning to strike again. But the moment its stock plateaus, they will be subject to the same merciless metric from me, namely can they establish that they can manage the company's stock price such that reinvesting cash is superior to giving it to shareholders to invest for themselves.