skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, games are a more complicated medium to review because they require more time. That's why opinions of those who actually play them make more sense. They can evaluate game approach and highlight strong and weak aspects of it, in game design, story branching, writing and etc. I suppose technical aspects are easier to review for those who don't invest that much time in it.

It's for sure difficult for RPGs, but even for FPS, take something like Shadow Warrior (remake). Without finishing the game, one can't know the story twist and full evolution of the main character which kind of puts the whole game in a different light. It's just a work of art IMHO. For any critic to adequately review it, they need to finish the game.
> ATT have an alternate asset

National fiber network and land.
Further thoughts on why the end of Net Neutrality will be fine
What do you think about bitcoin debit card providers, xapo, coinsbank etc? Do you consider them as "paying with bitcoin"? As I understand they are quite popular nowadays.
A lot of times, the process looks more like:

- AT&T declares the rate it will charge in its [Red State] PSC tariff filing;

- [Red State] PSC stamps it.

But yes, it is certainly true that they cannot just charge capricious and whimsical rates that change daily at their pleasure, or anything like that.
In many other languages `unsafe` taints the block of code it is in, which propagates upwards. Rust is the other way around, where `unsafe` means "I'm doing something unsafe here, but let's not tell anyone who doesn't look". It can be a lot harder in Rust (than other languages I've used) to know whose code you have to trust: language implementors (probably ok) or random crates (urk).
Yes I'm with you that much of the world still believes in good and evil.

But... as I am healing trauma and have prior experience in the "spiritual seeking", it has become clear to me that the mechanism of dissociation is key to understanding human suffering.

For traumatized individuals and anyone with a long history of depression or anxiety, the teachings on "no self" and/or "no freewill" will almost certainly be grasped on by the conceptual mind, in order to further protect one self from pain. Where there is significant pain that needs to heal, there will be the compulsion to disengage from life that is threatening, especially from social engagement. Worse, a traumatized individual believing they have no free will, and can't do anyhing, may even abandon healing... which is pretty tragic.

I was a in a pretty confusing place myself for a couple years after some glimpses here and there. Whether that can be avoided I don't know. But I think if this were to be taught in larger circles, then it would be better to always pair this understanding with the notion of inter-dependence.
You can put tens of thousands of copper lines communications in just a single optical cable.

An optical cable is extremely small, in fact, most of the cable is just mechanical reinforcement.

Tens of thousands of copper fibers does not only means lots of cables with lots of devices that could fail, with lots of interference. It means that if something goes wrong, it it very hard to identify the problem or even to have the space to access the problematic cable.

It also means that what used to take a dedicated culvert now could be done with a single cable. So infrastructure prices go extremely low as you only need to bury a small pipe and you gain a lot of space in old infrastructure.

Copper actually rust if exposed to elements. For it not rusting you need to use things that actually degrade or pollute the environment a lot.

An optical line is as inert as it could be, does not degrade over time, does not have EM interference.

You already have all the necessary optical line infrastructure under roads or in powerlines. The only thing you have to update are the optoelectronics terminals and repeaters.
It's not obvious.

The fact that sugar and refined carbs (pasta/rice/bread) is bad for you is not even obvious to most people.
Plenty of websites won't be included in a whitelist.

Perhaps it makes sense to include the date of the latest breach to the shown data breach data.
VMware offering “State of Art” VR like CA did in 1997
Can you elaborate? Does google reward you if you pay up? It cannot possibly be about the ad that is generated somewhere?
I think it agrees pretty well with the mathematical definition, it's just a slight generalization.

A Rust (C++, etc) Vec<T> of length n where T implements addition and multiplication in a way that satisfies field laws is the "reasonable" representation of a n length "mathematical" vector over the field T. It just generalizes that storage type to situations where T is not a field.

It doesn't support addition of two vectors and multiplication by a element of T using the normal mathematical syntax, but that's a fairly reasonable choice given how we regularly use vectors as a sequence of independent numbers and the different priorities for math syntax and programming language syntax.
Think the site is down
I'm highly skeptical, for three reasons:

1) He3 fusion requres much higher temperatures than other kinds of fusion, so it's even farther away from our grasp than ordinary fusion. This makes the "low-radiation" aspects of He3 irrelevant.

2) There isn't that short supply of He3 on earth, in particular there is quite a bit in natural gas, something like 30 kg produced annually just in the US at current rates.

3) You need a huge installation on the moon processing millions of tons of regolith. Basically large scale strip mining on the moon. Big, energy demanding mechanical equipment that requires frequent maintenance and spare parts and human intervention (just ask any regular miner) while being subjected to extreme temperature swings doesn't sound like something I'd want to put in space. And we haven't even mentioned the environmentalists and the relevant space treaties yet.
You should really only need one process per core, plus a few thread per process. Obviously, this is a problem on Heroku where they give you 8 "cores" but only 512mb of RAM per 1x dyno but on a DigitalOcean or AWS server you shouldn't be running out of RAM before maxing all cores.
That must have been a typo. I can’t seem to find any market where a flash spike appeared.
So they end up locking you into a call forwarding service, which entails you end up paying for them to do very little, with any maintenance liability already covered by existing liabilities.

Starting to see why they wanted the change now.
There is all sorts of money to be made on the moon. You can be a moon welder, you can lead EVAs for groups of tourists, you can even be a smuggler and sneak in Cuban cigars to the moons upper class.
Seems to me the market has found a value, and while it changes from day to day and even hour to hour, it’s still pretty determined.
Have you read more into the Iran deals and how they threatened to ditch USD? And South American countries?

Look up Chiquita bananas on Wikipedia
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nautil....
Required reading: www.thespacereview.com/article/2834/1

tl:dr There's absolutely no indication this is practical. We don't know how to fuse He3, it's probably impractical to mine it, and "He3 mining on the moon" is more of scifi wishful thinking mentioned offhand in exactly the manner you just did, than a serious engineering proposal.
Man we're getting to be so cheap.

In Canada we stopped minting pennies because copper was too expensive.

Also those pex pipes they install in houses are probably popular because copper is expensive.

What's next, the return of aluminum wiring?

We had a week long blackout here a few years ago, my wall phone running off copper twisted pair was the only electrical thing working in the house.

I was glad, because I had better things to do than line up at starbucks to charge my cellphone like everyone else was doing.

Remember that ancient looking phone Adama was always shouting into on Batllestar Galactica? Maybe they were onto something.

That ship survived because it was the oldest ship in the fleet.
Hard to tell. The phone line may have been wired incorrectly or poorly which required the tech to do that
Would you have any thoughts on how they compare in maintainability?
It seems like a lot of commenters don't understand the problem. The issue is not about whether that copper wire can be useful. It's not about whether there exist alternatives to provide in places where the copper is too expensive to maintain.

The point is that regulations previously required the telco provide an alternative service that works just as well as the existing copper before they are allowed to stop maintaining the copper. But that is no longer the case as of this vote.

Now when the telco doesn't want to pay to maintain the copper they can simply do nothing at all, which absolutely will leave people without any form of telecommunication in some areas.
How does one go about finding a reputable (and legitimate) online seller?
Zibabwe was destroyed by arming the militias during the Rhodesia conflict. Mugabe inherited the debt and the mess and it worsened after that
There is a project TrueBit is working on for ocaml and wasm integration.
Great analysis! According to Netcraft, there are > 600million websites, so assuming Alexa ignores the 550 million with near zero traffic, you can get to the .01% pretty easily. Another area I'd tweak is the skew towards SPAs. Most sites aren't SPAs, especially as you slide down the traffic rankings.
If you’re happy with the Safari rendering engine, there’s nothing to stop you building a competing browser with a different UI. That’s what Firefox and Chrome on iOS are.
They segment their reporting, page 18 of this document shows their consumer segment:

https://investors.att.com/~/media/Files/A/ATT-IR/financial-r...

They had as many people on Uverse video (which I guess is fiber) in 2014 as they had on copper phone lines in 2016.
hmm .. I am not sure I understand your requirement then.

Flutter implements its own widgets and has very little in common with the Android SDK.

I believe it is only used for its debug tools like adb.

What would be the point of getting rid of Android's sdk ?
> Maybe we could have afforded a national deployment of fiber.

Verizon and other telcos already learned they can get billions in subsidies for building fiber networks, and never follow through with it with no consequences.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...

At this point I think municipal run ISP utilities are the future we should be shooting for.
Yes. Rainbow six siege is one of them.
Opiates are highly addictive. Want a warm fuzzy experience? Mesc. Want a theraputic experience? Mdma. Opiates are playing with fire though.
No idea why people downvoted. This is exactly how people think, and in fact exactly how I was taught in university. We had an exercise in economics where we would be doing exactly that: Buying a machine to build car seats to sell which would make us -$2 profit. Total brain fart.

And here's the thing that is really odd: some companies really survive that way exactly because they make lots of units. E.g. customers may shoot them a few months of costs, just because the customer doesn't want them to die, because they are so cheap and produce so many units.
No, the point of getters and setters is that the interface to get and set fields should be the same whether or not logic is being performed behind the scenes, and the caller should not need to know.

Making fields public makes it impossible to add logic in the future without changing other code. That breaks encapsulation and is generally non-idiomatic in languages with getters and setters.
For going on 20 years, yes. I even add hashes for each package (i.e. the tarball & platform installers) to the end of the message and sign it. I find it odd and inconvenient when projects don't announce releases via email.
Ya I feel like the value of BTC right now is only investing for a quick turn around. I hope there is a market correction coming soon.
That's the same reason the world won't suddenly decide that BTCs are worthless.
If the variable is constrained to be an integer, the problem becomes NP-hard-as-hell (in both a complexity sense and an approximation sense), sadly. It also stops being convex, so splitting-cone methods can't be directly applied and the solution here goes out the window.

In general, you assume the variables here to be real-valued vectors.
I've worked with Django, Flask, Rails, Express, and Go. It gets to the point where it's not "which framework is the best" but "which framework is the best for our company". Having interviewed at a ton of start-ups recently it's been overwelmingly Node because its super easy to hire for and onboard, with the benefits of dynamic programming and node's ecosystem. If your company has a great hiring pipeline or is super attractive to candidates, you could do something more niche like erlang, scala, elixir, go, etc., to more closely match technical needs.

Everytime I see "x is better then y" I just chuckle and slowly step away.
To be clear, I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m saying that one less runtime is an advantage.
A few counterpoints:

- While infrastructure does vary, "tens of thousands" of pairs hasn't been a common scenario in a long time thanks to multiplexing. Drag the pairs from each household back to a box with a few SLC96s, send it out the back on a few T1s running over a few pairs, or just one — framed over HDSL. Or multiplexed onto a DS1 signal that is in turn a channel on some much larger TDM aggregate over fibre, like an OC-3 or 12.

- EM interference is still occasionally an issue with copper, but only on the lastest of the last mile. Otherwise, overall local loop transmission has been digital for a long time.

Nothing goes back to the central office as an analog signal, at least not in environments that the telecom industry considers "metro" (90% of the country).

There is some truth to what you say, but there's a lot of 80s-type telephone folklore mixed in as well. :-)
What area of the country is this?

Google Trends put Hawaii at the top for the US, Guam for global.
They would peg it to something that everyone did believe was worth something.
These anti Facebook and anti social media articles are so ubiquitous on hn now, that is starting to feel like a campaign. All too sudden, there is too many of them.
You're either in Australia or Canada, Gizmodo is posting for local pricing
> I just hope that MS doesn't add in too many platform-specific pieces that would encourage vendor lock-in.

I watched one of their videos demonstrating the product, and they understood people wanted 100% compatibility with the open-source k8s system and no special Azure/MS features, and so this was one of their selling points, which is good.
No, wasn't aware of it.

My guess is it is unlikely to really work until the right use case comes along. A city-wide election might be a good place to start.
I wonder if it would be very useful in a moon base to actually launch further into the universe considering the lower gravity well. With a single fusion power point and just using moon materials to make a single launch point outside of earth. You wouldn't need to 'colonize' the moon in that a single base could make more practical sense.

That being said, how much He-3 do we really need for fusion? I was under the impression fusion reactions lasted a very long time considering the energy output to mass used, so would mining the substance once or twice suffice for as many fusion reactors as we would need on Earth?
Total energy usage across the globe was about 18.0 terawatts in 2013, and apparently the ITER fusion reactor would produce 500 Megawatts of power using a 1/2 gram of hydrogen per year [1], so if Helium 3 was more efficient, we would need hardly any to cover global power generation, and even plan for future power usage.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123837-500mw-from-half-a...
Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else.

Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
> Helium-3 (He3) is gas that has the potential to be used as a fuel in future nuclear fusion power plants.

There is potential, but this is for very far in the future.

Getting an energy-positive fusion reaction going in ITER is still at minimum 20 years away - and it uses the simpler to fuse Deuterium+Tritium fuel. Getting commercial fusion power plants, and ones that fuse Helium-3 instead, might easily be 50-100 years away.

With the price of wind and solar energy dropping fast, people and politicians are getting less and less interested in funding fusion research at all.

My prediction is that nobody will be willing to pay for Helium-3 mining on the Moon in this century.
I think it's about as likely as somebody dropping something and it falling up. Keep testing the existence of gravity, it could change on you.
Why would environmentalists care? There are no known native living organisms.

I can see someone caring about scarring the landscape, but that's a bit orthogonal to environmentalism.
That's basically what hospice care is. Give patients opiates until their heart stops.
Ontological expansion has become something of interest to me recently. Would you like to share what else you've been practicing, apart from meditation?

Fascinating viewpoint by the way!
Ajit Pai's plan to totally destroy net neutrality may doom him in court
TechShop has not filed for chapter 7 – despite announcement saying they had
It is in AUD$
This is basically my job at ChartMogul and we've pretty much solved this problem. The two biggest issues for us were: Ruby prefers to grow the heap really quickly rather than spend much time in garbage collection. You can turn this growth factor down at runtime using an enviroment variable.

The second problem is importing a huge chunk of rows at once means they have to exist in RAM at the same time. Use batched iterators to reduce peak memory usage. All GCed languages have this problem, Go included.

You'd think Go's GC was somehow revolutionary from the way they talk about it, but it's basically the same as the Ruby GC, plus a little more parallelism. What helps Go is that the compiler can optimise and use stack allocation and re-use temprory variables. If it fails, it causes a nightmare, and the Go standard library is full of tricks to convince the compiler to do stack allocation.

Java, OTOH, has compacting garbace collection, so after high peak memory usage, it can release the memory back to the OS. Aaron Patterson has been working on doing the same for Ruby. If you use JRuby, you'll get this right now, plus it's about 3x faster for shuffling data around.
Not only do people do it, but not too long ago it was the ONLY way people did it.
because now it would now take 31.5 dominos.

Really minor nit: You could drop one of your nows.

Tangentially, my sons told me that when they start card tricks with an unopened pack of cards and strongly highlight that fact like it proves the cards have not been tampered with, the trick there is that card decks all start in the same order. So an unopened deck will come with a particular card order and they can know the order of the cards and can use that fact to help them with their card trick. It is part of how they fool the audience.
Yay! That's awesome, I'm glad (this was a bit of a problem with last year's EE364A exam, actually, since the solver for a problem was too slow, so we decided to not include it). The benchmarks are quite impressive as well!

Anyways, one of the TAs for 364 was working on it---I believe under Boyd, but unsure; I can ask if it was specifically SOCPs, which is what I recall---and I'm also applying it to certain other large-scale (but non-convex) cases. I'll ask him and get back to you on that. My profile has my email, if you'd like to not dox yourself as well, and I can put you two in touch.
You can still use AirPods with non-Apple Bluetooth devices. The pairing process isn't as braindead easy of course, but they do work. That implies they adhere to the standard at least to some degree.

I personally only use my AirPods with Apple products so I can't speak to whether they perform less well on regular devices, but, I somehow doubt it. Beyond pairing, it seems the only remaining secret sauce is in the relay between the two earbuds and coordination between the to for which one actually connects to the source device. None of that matters for the BT spec.
Could you give some examples of these other languages? My only exposure to a similar feature is D's @safe/@trusted, where if you're writing @safe code, you'll always wrap unsafe code with @trusted stopping any propagation.
The article is fair. Wilful indifference has been the status quo for how social networks have been run for most of their existence, under a kind of techno-libertarian idealist vision of free speech. Child pornography was the first hard check against that, but it's still taken a long time for these companies to realise that they are in control of the narrative through their recommendation engines and filters and content policies and that they need to actively engage with the social responsibility that entails.
OSQP solves only continuous QPs. For integer variables you need an MIQP solver.

We wrote a Python branch-and-bound wrapper around OSQP to solve MIQPs: https://github.com/oxfordcontrol/miosqp

However, there are more advanced MIQP algorithms out there such as GUROBI or CPLEX.
Key part of article:

>Initially, TechShop stated that it was filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and published an email address for a trustee for concerned parties to contact. However, the company has yet to actually file, Choi said at the meeting.
Did you not notice that I said exactly that in the second half of my comment?
If you mean the people of the US still value the dollar, i don't think it would be a huge hit.

People will scoop up all the free dollars, and bring them back to the us where they have value.

Contracts still have to be paid in dollars. Some people around the world would be upset that their dollars are worthless, but it turns out they could sell those dollars to people who need to pay debts in dollars. So suddenly this valueless piece of paper has value again, because you can trade it for things you want.

if you can in an instant impose some irrational condition for an instant, i think the global economy will, certainly shift, but people would notice all of the arbitrage opportunities and things would _generally_ go back to the way they were, like a flash crash.

if you could wave a magic wand, and make people think the dollar is worthless for 10 years? That would be weird. i imagine we'd make a new currency, dollar2 and just pay everyone in that. you could bring in old dollars to the us and exchange them for dollar2's. But because people are under a spell, they can't think of the arbitrage idea. so it only happens accidentally.
Back in the MtGox days I had 100 BTC... I spent it on an ounce of hash, then my brother smoked it all. My fuck you money, up in smoke. :)
> This seems like a thing that platform owners are doing more and more (iOS has a similar clause, and ChromeOS, well, uses Chrome).

Shame on all of them. If it continues, the next generation will not know what it's like to have technology freedom like we currently do (in the US, for the most part).
Nim comes to mind. https://nim-lang.org/
> In the U.S. rural telecoms access has always existed because of government mandates supported in part by government subsidies and taxes.

Indeed, and the same is true of other places where wireline telephone service is universal or substantially universal.

Wireline telephone service is something that should be thought of as akin to electrification or public transportation. It is unlikely to have happened guided solely by private sector profit imperatives.