skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not make it illegal to make randomness a component of games entirely? Ban the possession of dice. Make it illegal to be rewarded with in-game content just for doing well. Games should be like movies. The idea of manipulating people with feelings of achievement is clearly abusive and addictive. No more winning teddy bears for your girl at carnivals. Don't let people unlock things like high scores and new levels, new dialogue, your name on a high-score list. Ban pinball machines, too.

I mean, as long as we're ignoring the fact the loot boxes:

1. Don't require you risk anything of monetary value.

2. Don't reward you with anything that can be sold for cash.*

3. Are randomized, but based on skill.

4. Are entirely digital goods with no real-world value.

5. Are philosophically indistinguishable from other forms of procedural content.

6. The ability to purchase a substitute for in-game content requires access to a credit card.

Also, f * * * EA. I'm not defending EA. But I'm also not for out-of-touch Senators urging us all to think of children when the "children" in question need to have a bank account.

*typically. I know things like "trading cards" on steam can be sold for monetary value. So let's outlaw Pokemon and Baseball Cards, too, just to be safe.
I’m no fan of Facebook, but I don’t agree with the premise of the article. The power of Facebook lies in its network effect: something on the order of 2 billion have active Facebook accounts. Whether or not people are spending more or less time on the platform doesn’t matter as much as people seem to think it does. What matters is the fact that they can associate web browsing actions (pages visited etc) with your Facebook account. Just having a Facebook account that you “don’t use” allows a massive amount of value (from an advertisers perspective) to be unlocked.

In my opinion no other network is going to be able to compete with the number of users on facebooks platform, and any that do, Facebook will buy or copy (Instagram and Snapchat respectively). Even if you don’t actively look at anything on Facebook, or even log in, the fact that you have a Facebook account allows advertisers to track and target you with ads on all sorts of platforms and websites that are available to Facebook advertisers through the audience network (ad placements on millions of websites and mobile apps). The crucial moat that Facebook has is simply the massive nimber of registered users (that correspond to people’s real identity) on the platform combined with sophisticated tools to reach those users both on and off Facebook.

I’d love to hear an opposing argument, but the way I see it Facebook is here to stay and will only get bigger and more profitable in the foreseeable future.
To try out a procedure on one dataset amounts to a data point. You need to process a bunch of datasets to establish the performance of the procedure under study.

I though ML folks would have the statistical background to know you cannot infer a true statement from a single occurrence?
I disagree because they're not smart enough to enjoy their short and simple lives, so the enjoyment our lives get via eating them takes precedence.

This is a very fascist position, though! I could say the same for a human on life support who's gone through brain death (really, a lobster's smarter, at that point). Although perhaps that's not really that bad, albeit macabre. Perhaps, one day, we'll lab-grow meat, maybe our own, to eat, just to see what we taste like. That's equivalent to consuming non-lab-grown but also unconscious human tissue, I think. BUT SCARIER, this same line of thinking might lead to much-vaster-than-human intelligences deciding we don't have rights and that it's okay to eat us!

Am I okay with being eaten by a hyperintelligent being to whom I have the status of a lobster or a cow? Maybe. Because I really admire a being like that. Maybe it could effortlessly convince me to surrendering to being eaten with arguments more creative and compelling than a million Shakespeares could pen up, effortlessly, like some Saruman-godthing[0], because that just goes with the territory of being that smart! But, short of that, I'd try to run away, and many people don't share my ambivalence...

Ethics is difficult. But chicken is tasty.

[0]: https://youtu.be/VHrTTgmB_3w?t=385
Right now it is just an effort to develop a tool to diagnose and hopefully thereafter fix random performance problems we are experiencing with one of our applications in production. Despite having a small team dedicated to investigating the problems, monitoring every click and function call with Dynatrace, having had a Microsoft SQL server expert look into it, and getting the system audited by one of the big consulting companies, the problem persists since years and nobody has really any clue about what is going wrong.

The performance is never really great, it is [one of] the central applications of the company and depends on the interaction with a sizable junk of the system landscape developed over decades and therefore it is prone to be affected by incidents in a lot of systems but most of the time it is good enough. But once every couple of weeks or months something goes badly wrong an requests, it's a web application, start taking several seconds or even minutes to complete. Minutes later everything is back to normal.

But I digress. If I would manage to come up with a reusable and somewhat general tool to analyze data similar to what I am looking at, I would consider releasing it. It could either be a somewhat general data analysis and visualization tool, think R, or it could be more specifically tailored towards looking for anomalies in data sets like the one I am investigating. But as of now I am struggling to come up with a general framework to express the analyses I am performing and therefore all I have is a rather ad hoc collection of transformations that extract and visualize aspects of the data that could lead to new insights into what is going on.

But right now it is really driven by our specific issue, I notice something in one view of the data and then come up with a new transformation to look at it in more detail or from a different angle. It is nothing that could easily be reused by anyone else and so for the moment it seems most likely that this will never become public or maybe only in the form of a blog article explaining what kind of information might be useful to look at and how to derive it from logs that look rather uninteresting at first glance.
Switzerland law makers are pragmatic (most of the time). The main target of the law is not the individuals but the industrials.
Management decisions don't come with references to scientific papers, or any claim that they are backed by science. Damore's memo, on the other hand, did exactly that.
The simplest monads explanation
Yeah just give them an ESRB rating of ‘mature’ if they have gambling elements.
Not taking a stance for or against this policy. But based on personal experience, I always spend the most money on these damn random draw "loot boxes", especially if I get a crappy draw my first turn (specifically thinking about puzzle and dragons).
Is there a good article on fire safety in these buildings?
so why exactly does somebody backup into a image with variable size, when they could just dd together a fixed size image that makes these free space calculations unnecessary?
Yes but the point is that it is now losing people that it used to reach because it's too full of advertising, shitty memes and fwd:fwd:fwd: tag your friend in this if...

And they never really adequately solved the "my aunt sent me a friend request and will be offended if I don't accept it" problem.

Everything I used to share on Facebook I now share on WhatsApp because it has no advertising and my actual friends are likely to see it. Smart buy by Facebook.
Well it certainly is a business decision. Likely Facebook knows better when it needs to canibalize its own product and squeeze the most profit out of it then move on.

Instagram is now the social place to be.
EventSource Is Bad and It Should Feel Bad
I still maintain it is a lazy example, and indeed probably just wrong[1]. The last insurance expansion was as recent as 2014, yet there is no discussion of trends over time.

[1]https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-impact-patient-emer...
Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users
You needed to spend a week in a mental health facility observing patients with clinical / severe depression. Your model would fall apart pretty quickly. The most charitable thing I can say about your theory of depression is that in part it describes a small subset of depressed patients. Your modelling of mania is far from reality.
I think it is the massive size of the IMAX screen, and relative exaggeration of the left / right isolated images that forces the brain to perceive it.

In real life I struggle to tell the difference if I close my bad eye - which leads me to think I don't see in 3d. Brain perceives depth purely through focus; when looking at this phone as typing, the only change if closing the bad one is peripheral vision (Venn diagram/what good eye can't see) being dropped.
$9599 is $12117.97 in AUD. Impressive
> But I'm also not for out-of-touch Senators urging us all to think of children when the "children" in question need to have a bank account.

It's not just out of touch senators, it's experts in problem gambling who think loot boxes need to be looked at.
And what did you switch to?
Some C++ good practices from the OpenCV source code
> beneath us on the food chain

This sounds... tautological. We can morally eat whatever we can eat? Does that include gorilla meat? Weaker humans?
High Sierra seems like a real gem.
Wait, what? You mean most people would volunteer to be tortured horribly as long as any damage is 100% reversed the next day? Uh, I’m not sure whether your model of people is entirely accurate.
> Animal protein is an essential component of nourishing billions of people

It doesn't have to be; in fact, humans, animals, and the planet would be much better off in many ways were we to transition to plant-based diets:

Go vegan, save the planet https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/opinions/go-vegan-save-the-pl...

Five things would happen if everyone stopped eating meat http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/five-things-would-happen...

What would happen if everyone went vegan? https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-would-world-loo...

What the Health http://www.whatthehealthfilm.com

The Game Changers http://gamechangersmovie.com

Cowspiracy http://www.cowspiracy.com
Turkey is an Asian country. Just because they own a slice of land in Southeastern Europe does not make them European. Otherwise, Spain would be African, France would be Latin American, and Egypt would be Asian.
Thanks dang, I used the title from the article, but much prefer the updated one. Hoping it will generate some interesting discussion
The same behavior (the sparse bundle disk image not updating the free space amount in accordance with the underlying disk’s free space) is present if one selects ExFAT as format in Disk Utility.

I haven’t tested if file corruption is the consequence, too, of copying more data into the disk image than the underlying disk has free space.
Is the incident with the matching checksum that he mentions because APFS only checksum metadata (which are on preallocated space on the image), or is it his own checksum (say sha1sum), I wonder? It seems strange that the filesystem driver would cache 500 GB of sequentially written data in RAM.
Apple Music First Impressions
Almost nobody talks about lack of trust, yes there are words about fake news and formal reassurances from FB staff that they will investigate, fix and so on. But trust was already undermined, you just can't restore it to previous level.

People were reading news in FB feed and didn't even think it can be fake, now they read and go "outside" for fact checking. Not a good sign for social network which wants you to be engaged all the time.
I wonder if they had a high mortality rate like a lot of modern cities before the sanitary movement.
It's in Apple's interest to enforce proper support. Otherwise devs would just rely on compatibility and people would get used to the idea that iPhone X is the one where apps don't really work that well. Almost nobody would question whether that's dev's or apple's fault.
I recently needed a custom expression language and using a Pratt-Parser to write the interpreter was a joy.

https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e/blob/a0ab770157a5fdb5d...

I wrote up abstractions so you just declare token patterns, precedence ordering of tokens, and infix/prefix rules as mapping from token to function(token, ctx). Where ctx.attempt(...token)), ctx.require(...token) and ctx.parse(precedence) is all you need to implement almost anything.

I didn't get as far as to make it recursive and support multiple grammars. But I'm sure this concept can be made very elegant, without too many tricks.
Was it $180 per month or $180 per quarter?
As a counterpoint, APFS was deployed to almost a billion devices over the span of several months when it was release and, IIRC, this is the first major issue.
From what I've seen it's Instagram. Expected since everyone and their network are already linked with their Facebook accounts, switch is quite smooth. For now it's also cleaner, more image-oriented than video and less ad-polluted.
Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
I've spent a combined total of 20 weeks being an in-patient with severe depression, and interacting with others. What specifically do you believe the parent would observe, that would cause them to rethink their viewpoint?
> Medical grade ketamine isn't the hardest thing to find

How do you know the quality?
Project Lakhta: Russian Meddling Gets Russians Indicted
Ah, thanks.

tl;dr - Error-prone semi-automatic telegraph keyers were called bugs.
Good to hear you want to combat companies like CDPR who use techniques to like this to sell to children.
There was the password vs password hint thing.
1. MacOSX has not been stagnating. The focus has just been on behind the scenes improvements e.g. exclusive 64-bit, Metal 2, APFS and I am very glad this is the case. Apple needs a lot more of this.

2. MacBook Pro definitely has issues (keyboard) but in every other respect it is a pro machine. If you can provide an alternative I would be thrilled to know about it. And if "pro" = "lots of ports" well frankly I have standardised on WiFi, BT and USB-C for all my devices and so I haven't missed any of them.

3. iMac Pro is not designed for crowds. And it isn't a replacement for the Mac Pro which is coming this year.

4. I connect dual monitors to my MacBook Pro every single day and have never had issues with the color gamut or resolution changing.
He wasn't prohibited from saying anything.
1. is wrong. You loose significant amount of time and too many people came unbounded. Currently, industry (including social media) has no interest in mitigating the adverse effect of feedback loops on the personal lives of their victims. Regulation has to be made to avoid further harms.
Earnest post but the reality of these tokens is they’re rarely bought for the utility.
Sorry, it'll never happen. Not having to pay taxes and being the best of the tiny group of first movers in the online catalog shopping space space has allowed it to eliminate both brick and mortar and online retail competition. It's even confident enough in its institutionalization that it's been gradually lowering the quality of its service while making wildly successful investor fueled infrastructure plays for both the basic fabric of the internet and the logistics of all physical world home-deliveries.

A government whose elements nearly-unanimously insist that a company isn't a monopoly until it both controls 100% of all possible industries that can be substitute products for its own industry and owns all of its suppliers, could "ironically" never muster the power to break up a theoretical business that met that standard. At that point, that business has become an inseparable part of the government, itself.

Sorry for the scare quotes around "ironically," but I can't help believing that this mistake is intentional, not accidental. People who insist that a company has to be all-powerful before it's necessary to break that company up (in order to protect the improvements from competition that free markets use to justify themselves) can't possibly fail to see that all-powerful companies can't be broken up, because they are all-powerful. It's like having a law against dictators that only kicks in once someone has completely taken over the government.
Points 1, 2, 3 and 4 are incorrect. The value of the item you receive from lootboxes can vary, either from the value of selling your account (against the ToS yes, but it does happen) or from the ability to outright sell/trade the item (see: Dota 2, TF2). Saying that they don't have any real-world value just because they're digital goods is very much dependent on the game.

Points 5-6 just means that we should probably regulate lootboxes like we already regulate gambling. Just because a kid could get some money from their parents to go gambling in a casino doesn't mean it's a good idea. Lootboxes are a well-known concept and regulated in many other parts of the world, including Japan where Gacha is fairly common among their mobile games.
Node-APL: APL interpreter written in JavaScript
technically the queen is above the law as she is sovereign and the source of all law ('parliament' is really for 'queen in parliament')

additionally the queen is the head of the judiciary, so she would be being tried in her own court 'queen (R) vs. xyz'

http://www.royal.uk/queen-and-law

of course the last time the King behaved like this it didn't end too well for him
Part of the point of CBT is recognize when you're engaging in rationalization behaviors so you can prevent it. CBT is meant to increase your awareness of what you're doing in your life to cause you harm and misery and to help you build patterns and habits which relieve you of those things. Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but it doesn't sound like you've had actual, therapist-led CBT.
Whenever I need motivation I take a little trip to r/GetMotivated

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/
>humans are entitled to a certain degree of leeway in this regard. Sustainably eating the plants and animals beneath us on the food chain is one of those areas.

If we ever come into contact with extraterrestrial life, I hope that they don't share this view.
I use a sparse bundle disk image, i.e. a disk image with variable size and consisting of multiple files under the hood, because it is more efficient to back up over a network. Instead of uploading a 50 GB file to a cloud storage on every backup, only a fraction of data has to be uploaded (the sparse bundle’s changed files) which makes backing up the 50 GB file very fast if only a few megabytes were added.

If anyone is curious: I use restic[1] as backup client and Backblaze B2[2] as backup storage. Works well with sparse bundles.

[1] https://restic.net

[2] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Seems to me like a general trend not limited to HN.
Actually, WotC and the community are quite good at predicting price and market forces on their game. They have ~20,000 cards and 25 years of sales, and numerous quick factors for determining approx. card value.

Concepts like the "curve" (mana vs P/T), and the value of evergreen keywords greatly help. If there was ever a topic for big data.

Naturally, there are surprises (ex: Standard deck that becomes overly popular and drives demand), but sites like mtggoldfish generally predict prices for most cards to within a few percent and then follow all cards and box prices like stock tickers.

Frankly, I've often thought that investing in MtG cards is more stable than gold. Many cards, like "Liliana of the Veil" [cur $88] are worth more by weight - ~$75/ 1.8 gram card = $41.7 / gram, approx gold price. Plus, value cards generally only rise and are supported by a trading base of a few million yearly players.
You do realize there’s a modular Mac Pro in the pipeline, yes?
Yes, my son is currently writing a lot of functional code and complaining when I force him to do something in Java. It bothers me that we see the verbosity of Java as a detriment and then say we should add comments to functional languages.

Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe in the appropriate functional approach where it's beneficial, but I strongly believe that it needs to be as self explanatory as Java code, otherwise you get the same staleness problem with the comments that led to the elimination of them initially.

With regards to whether someone should be penalized for extraneous comments, if the comment is necessary then it indicates a code problem. If unnecessary it's subject to becoming out of date or erroneous. So, yes, I stand by my contention that if you add comments to code in the majority of cases you should be penalized.

It took me a long, long time to change my view on this so I understand where people are coming from. I also require my beginning students to comment just so I can try to understand what they are doing so my position is not absolute. But given the choice between a developer who communicates clearly in code and knows it and one who either needs or believes he needs comments I'll choose the first.
Yes, it was sloppy of me to say "PCs". I meant personal computers, more generally. Which arguably includes all the pre-PC ones.
I find this solution interesting. What virtualization software do you use? In what way to do you expose input devices to the VM?
All true and factual statements. It doesn't matter if you judge them dumb or not.

> and other stuff that means exactly one thing: "our language doesn't have any other/proper tools, so we pretend our parens matcher is the best thing since sliced cheese"

You're operating in the hive mind mentality of us vs them. I'm talking objectively about syntax families and types of editors. You'll probably keep being downvoted as long as you continue that kind of discourse on HN.

Given Lisp syntax, a structural editor adds tremendous value. Most users of Lisp syntax languages find it an invaluable tool, and would not trade it in for code refactoring tools or linters. Its okay if you disagree. Depending on the Lisp language you pick, you can also have code refactoring tools and linters if you wish. Or maybe you just don't like the features of Lisp, that's okay too, use PHP. The fact the tool is simple and easy to implement does not change its value add. Think of how awesome the invention of the wheel is, even though its quite primitive.

So at this point, its hard for me to understand your disagreement. Idea's PHP editor is not a structural editor. This is not a criticism of PHP, or Idea's editor. Emacs offers structural editing of Lisp code. I personally dislike Emacs. That doesn't change the fact it supports structural editing of Lisp code.

If you are curious, for example, given Clojure as the Lisp syntax language, Emacs does offer code refactoring and linting as well as structural editing. You can extract functions, auto-complete imports, rename variables, fold code blocks, have syntax errors highlighted, have certain code errors reported on the fly, jump to definition, see source and documentation, find all usage, auto-complete, snippets, auto-format, continuously run tests, debugging with breakpoints, etc.

I personally don't use Emacs though, because I like mouse support and modern GUIs. So for Clojure, I prefer IntelliJ Cursive which has all those features also, and Eclipse CounterClockWise which has most of them, minus refactoring. So I'm just pointing out that even given a Lisp which has all the linting and refactoring features you talk about, how structural editing is still highly valued and one of the best feature of all of those when wanting to code with the Lisp syntax.
I have an iPhone X. I barely ever notice the notch. And the screen looks amazing.
Dave Hitz on Speckled-Egg Thinking; or How Leaders Should Help Their People
Is the question posed only in relation to three dimensional space?