skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An "Asset Flip" is a commercial game puzzled together from ready-made bits as cheap as possible (e.g. get some shooter template code, drop in some free/cheap character and weapon models, copy or make some really basic levels), without consideration for the quality of the resulting game.
Diaspora?
Why is it a lie?
Do you disagree that hard work leads to success, within limits?
Here is another write-up that builds the same thing (and reads a bit nicer):

https://medium.com/@Stephanbv/elixir-phoenix-build-a-simple-...
> Earning a living should not be a problem in the modern world with basically any kind of job.

It would be interesting to see the thought process and methodology that brought you to this conclusion.
How can you delete Facebook if you've become so reliant on its Oauth for login?

I'm just dreading migrating all of those logins
Not that I know. My pfSense firewall doesn't have it (IIRC), so my guess would be that poorly maintained router boxes in a hotel basement definitely don't have it.

I'm not sure if the various DHCP clients communicate this properly to the OS or browser even (I wouldn't know how to query for it on Linux)
His conculsion also rests on the premise that talent is something you can measure and put a number on. In professional sports, for the most part, you can do that: your "talent" is (indirectly) measured by the number of goals you score. The more goals you score, the more talented you are. I suspect that's one of the reasons that professional athletes are a) so rare and b) so highly compensated: it's near-trivial to compare one to another; you just assign each one a number and sort the numbers. In most fields, it's a lot harder to measure talent (actually it's probably harder in professional sports, too, but the "workers" agree to it, so it stands). While it would be unreasonable, and a logical fallacy, to lay claim to the principal and state the talent drives success and therefore if you're not successful you're not talented, the author here is doing pretty much the opposite by saying that luck drives success and if you're not successful you're not lucky (therefore we need wealth redistribution). He backs it up with a lot of equations, but unless we can all agree that talent is something you can measure objectively (which we can't even do with intelligence), the equations are fairly meaningless.
Depends just how pure, I guess. But it does sound rather weird.
Haven't read the paper, but I will.

But I want to comment that it's worked for us. Sequence to sequence learning can reproduce every kind of iid and non-iid things we've ever looked at.

The real question is how safe/anonymous is it really?
Well, for one thing, inserting into pg_catalog tables without DDLs should require privilege and be audited.

Secondly, things like lo_export() should be disabled by default.
I think people that blindly complain about google take for granted the amount of work they have done, and the amount of free services they provide (yes yes, nothing is free, I get it). Perhaps these same people were not alive in the 90s to see how bad things were then. But yet, this war of google vs amazon only leaves customers, who don't give a crap about who wins, with less options. Do we need to pick sides? No company can provide every service you need. What happened about doing one thing, but doing it well?

Amazon loses because now I don't trust them to show me the best product. Only what they want me to find.

Google loses because now I don't trust them to show me the best search result. Only what they want me to find.

You lose. Nobody wins. Corporations continues to profit.
What does that even mean? It's like saying Apple blocked the Pixel 2 from working on the iPhone.
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Can someone with more knowledge comment on how strictly tied to the unreal ecosystem these assets are?
Inspiring people to start businesses that are highly likely to become clients of Stripe, its parent co.
I did the same with my facebook account last fall. I haven't missed it either. I admit I still use instagram and messenger though. I think most people on my facebook list had pretty much stopped using it regularly anyway, it was basically all ads by the time I left. Twitter I never really used to start with, its primary use-case for me is I'm walking around somewhere and something's going on and i search Twitter to see if someone who knows more about it than me has mentioned anything. Although even that use-case has gotten pretty hit-or-miss recently.
It's not...he's being quite hyperbolic. I live in SF and my rent+utilities is under $2k/mo with the rest of my expenses coming in at well under $1k/mo. Commuting doesn't cost $300/mo if you take public transportation...it's only that much if you're taking Lyft/Uber. Similarly, he's pricing everything based on living alone which is completely unnecessary if you don't have a family. Living with roommates lowers the cost of everything by a lot, especially if you do communal meals/food.

I can sympathize with people who have families when they talk about how expensive SF is, but when single people do it, it's almost always possible to cut their spending in half and still live comfortably, they just don't want to give up the little luxuries they've accustomed themselves to.
I prefix those queries with !wa. It's fairly slow, but it does much better unit conversions than Google and the scale comparisons are usually fun and often useful.
I haven’t had a Facebook account for years, sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side
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I made DuckDuckGo my browser's default search engine a few years ago out of principle, but I would switch to Google very quickly because it was still so much better.

In the last few months I noticed it had become incredibly good as well, so I've mostly stopped using Google search. (Now looking for a privacy-focused competitor to Gmail and Google Maps, and a phone that can run the Android OS without any spyware, bloatware, or planned obsolescence).
They're here: https://hg.nginx.org/nginx-tests/
We network at meetups, conferences and other events, so through word of mouth mainly. The active engineering community in London is fantastic at helping to spread opportunities.
I don't see why benevolent needs to be in quotes in your comment.

Regardless of whatever financial or tax upside they get from doing this, the upside the game development community gets is the same.

They are doing something they really didn't need to do, and as GP pointed out, most companies don't do.
That isn't as much of an issue. Once a secret is out, it is out. Something like child porn would be permanently illegal and permanently stored in the chain. Imagine hiding it there, letting a year or two of transactions build upon it before letting people know it was there. You can't remove it. The blockchain is now technically illegal.

I was just thinking about this a lot this week, actually. The really crazy thing is that, due to the PROTECT Act, a person in Japan could legally upload certain manga that the US would consider CP. So one wouldn't even have to risk jail to poison the blockchain.
"Earning a living should not be a problem in the modern world"

But it is.

15% of the population have an IQ of less than 85, that's about 48 million people in the US alone.

Not even the military thinks they can do anything reasonable with them (if you under 83 they don't want you so it's probably 1 in 10 people, I guess) and they try to get as many people as they can.
I also see it like a credit report, but for a different reason: some companies make money by recording your activity and selling your data. They use their profits to corner the market and create an oligopoly so powerful that people just accept it as a fact of life. Finally, when people realize the power they've given these companies and the danger they're in (see: Equifax), they are outraged, but the companies are basically an institution at this point.
Snowden: Facebook a ‘surveillance company’ that collects and sells user data
I've definitely seen some weirdness happen with FB.. like I was following a favorite band of mine for a number of years, but suddenly they were gone from my list of follows and some photographer that had taken pictures for them somehow replaced them. Very weird.
You can't do a build-X-in-low-Y-minutes trope when X involves implementing 30+ line classes.

EDIT: This comment was not appropriate, I apologize.
Epic's assets on the marketplace are UE-only, yes.
You might want to wait until you have some customers and some traction, but when you are ready, check out Stripe Atlas.
I'd say there are at least two kinds of privacy:

1) Social privacy from your peers and the public.

2) Technological privacy from customer profiling, data brokers, etc.

The OP who was channeling Mark Zuckerberg circa 2010 was talking about the first kind of privacy, "surveillance monetizers" are the second. I think people are much more comfortable with violations of their "technological privacy" by "surveillance monetizers" because they're so secretive and behind the scenes. It's harder to understand the violations, let alone be bothered by them.
No. I think you're overestimating how much bad press Facebook is actually getting outside the tech bubble.

Facebook is going to get done in by the fact that the younger generation doesn't like it, but that process has been underway for a few years now, and it will take many more years to complete (obviously offering Zuckerberg many chances to turn the ship around).
I would love to do that! It's finding those initial users that I'm not sure of how to approach.
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No way, lots of companies get negative press and thrive. Facebook has lots of capital to throw at buying up smaller social networks (see: Instagram, which is still on the up and up for monthly users)

Many people honestly don't care about this data scandal or the other things Facebook does.
Any links to your business?
Got fired from this large international company. By the time I was saying farewell to my project team some folks from India told me they wanted to partner with me in case I decided to open my own (web development) company. And that's what I did a couple of weeks later. The partnership lasted 5 years. Lesson learned: networking is everything, not only with levels above but also below. You will need it when you decide it is the right time to build the team you need.
> Earning a living should not be a problem in the modern world with basically any kind of job. One of the big problems is people want the latest iphone, the best car, the most luxurious home, holidays, etc.

Hmm.. I don't believe that the countless Walmart and Amazon warehouse employees on food stamps are at the edge of poverty because they bought the latest iphone, best car and most luxurious home.
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Depends what you define as success. Hard work generally does lead to gainful employment and the ability to afford a home/car which used to be the canonical symbol of success in America.

If you think success is "be as rich and respected as I desire to be" then that absolutely will not hold.
And further to that point, the way it works for partisans, is that if someone from their side did/said something terrible in the past, then presumably they have learned from it and should be forgiven; if someone on the other side did/said something terrible in the past, then it should still be used against them today. The political landscape in the US today is overflowing with that style of aggressive hypocrisy.
I keep thinking about this article[1] whenever I see bad press about FB lately.

Relevant portion: "Murdoch hosted Zuckerberg at his Sun Valley, Idaho, villa and expressed discontent with Facebook's News Feed algorithm and its handling of news.

He requested Facebook consult publishing partners and be more generous sharing digital ad revenue, or he vowed, News Corp executives would take their dislike of Facebook public. He also hinted that News Corp lobbyists would take a more aggressive stand against Facebook with U.S. regulators, as the company had done against Google in Europe.

News Corp denied it would mobilize its journalists against Facebook, although unnamed Facebook executives said they believed at the time that would happen."

It definitely seems that someone(s) is grinding their axes against FB, much like the flurry of negative news that came out against Uber a year or so again.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/facebook-rupert-murdoch-thre...
Certainly, but when you go commercial, should you go up to the point to sabotage the open-source edition and actually intentionally break features that are working and delete all history so nobody can retrieve it ?
Yeah I can see that, it also might explain why my conversation rate was higher at $50 / month.. lol although we are talking 1.5% vs 2%
Well, just knowing a few distributions wouldn't be great for building machine learning models.
The bit about second chance drawings... Are there rules about you having to be the person who bought the ticket? I see discarded losing (I'm assuming) tickets outside convenience stores all the time (maybe just in states without those drawings.) It seems like it would be relatively easy to get $5 worth of losing lottery tickets without spending $5. Especially while working at a convenience store.
One of the biggest issues that discussions of inequality ignore is generational issues. People view wealth as an individual thing. However, if you look at American society, probably the majority has been generational. Each generation worked and saved to better their children's lives.

An example of this is probably in immigrants. Many people came with practically nothing but he clothes on their back. They took whatever job they could find and worked like crazy and saved like crazy and pushed their children like crazy. Their children in turn started out better than their parents and worked and saved and pushed their children and their children did even better. After a few generations, the descendants of immigrants have entered the highest ranks of society.

What drives the "myth" of the American dream is not necessarily that I who started out with nothing will be well off. It's that through my hard work and their hard work my children will be better than me and my grandchildren and their children will be well off even though I started with nothing.

That version of the American dream has worked far more reliably than the individualistic model. Even once persecuted and discriminated against immigrant communities in the US have succeeded in this version of the American dream.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-...

Q: How much do I have pay for the Paragon assets?

A: Nothing! They’re completely free. You can use them in both commercial and non-commercial Unreal Engine 4 projects.

Q: Are there any restrictions on the use of the Paragon assets?

A: As with all of Epic’s internally developed assets, the Paragon assets are only licensed for use in Unreal Engine 4.
What if the problem is that the results of merit accumulate geometrically, so that beyond a certain threshold, some people just start rapidly pulling ahead of the pack?
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You've just described commercial game development as a whole. The chance if working on something widely successful is pretty small.
It depends on who you are. If there are structural factors arrayed against you, less success and more failure will come your way for the same amount of work.
As an absolute, binary statement, yes, because it is not always true, not even close.

Hard work is only one component of success. Physical attractiveness and charisma are often at least as important, even though logically they seem irrelevant. Dealing successfully with humans is often not terribly intuitive.
OP was talking about the nerdness (think "PGP keys") rather than the name itself.

BTW Mastadon sounds like it's related to BDSM or ED meds IMHO.

"Sweetcheeks, have you heard of Mastadon?"

"I'm not into that dear!"

or

"When the moment is right... Ask your doctor about... Mastadon"
Some people do... but this is about showing the potential.
I think it's too useful a tool for managing my social network to delete. Event planning, group chats etc are actually pretty HARD to organize without something like it. The impressive bit is the reach. Even my non technical friends and relatives know it.

I try to suggest people just stop giving facebook their information. Don't share anything, don't like anything, absolutely never install "apps" or click ads. Avoid facebook as a sign on provider to other sites. Use good privacy tools in your browser and never hit fb "like" buttons on another site. Avoid linking your accounts to facebook from other applications (instagram, spotify, ...).

I'd love to see a browser plugin that did all this that I could recommend to friends and relatives. A plugin that simply made a visit to facebook completely useless to facebook.
Legacy TV during non-prime time is full of commercials about credit cleaning services and similar; perhaps that's the future of social media.

I would be willing to pay a modest sum of money to a startup willing to provide bland and inoffensive social media "filler" content. This is already the norm for celebrities, but at some point it can be automated for the masses. Give me a giant list of checkboxes to select the message I'd like to provide to corporate data miners, then I never have to be bothered with facebook again...
This new fear around propaganda bots seems unwarranted. I've gotten mail advertising specific political newsletters or products for as long as I've been an adult. Someone was aggregating information and targeting me long before social media was around.

I feel as if the political class is just upset that they are not protected by the usual gatekeepers and that this is a non-issue.
When PGP was released in the early 90s, one of the arguments used against it was "child porn". When P2P networks using DHT became viable earlier in this century, one of the arguments used against the networks was "child porn".

The tech still remains and still functions, arguments or not.
Publish everything you write (pretty much)
TIL I need to get a new job.
The negative press sure talks about evils of Facebook and some people might be tempted to delete their accounts etc. But the question is - Does Average Jane/Joe own the problem (or care) enough to delete Facebook? My opinion is they don't. Facebook is still a way for them to connect with each other.

There are lot of bots in all the social media apps. So, Facebook might report deletion of large number of fake accounts to show they are doing something.
Your reply almost implies that Google is a charity and is providing "the amount of free services" as a public good. It is not.
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It is a good analogy, a character report if you will.
See also, the "Just-World Hypothesis", which investigates why people feel this need to blame victims:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Edit: in the last sentence of the first paragraph, the statistically smaller one would be parent's income and your income; sorry for the mixup
> This content is now available free of charge in the Unreal Engine Marketplace, where developers may download Paragon packs to use in their own UE4 projects.

So it's only for use in your UE4 project.
As per their license, you cannot use them outside of UE4. This means that while you may be able to pull out the assets from your UE project and import them in Unity, it's not legal to do so.
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I don't think everyone needs their own facebook server (or diaspora in this case).

I'm more in favor of the federated approach where a couple people run servers for their community (I run a server for a fandom community I participate in regularly).

People that use my server play by my house rules, if they don't like that they can pick another server or run their own.
What is the competitor threat or new rising star that will usurp Facebook's position as a people-connector? LinkedIn? WeChat? Facebook was in super growth mode by the time MySpace stagnated.

Or does "end" mean something else, if not measured in users? Is it the year people realize that the idealized image of themselves and their thousands of friends not worth maintaining or checking?
Besides negative press are there any tangible indications of a large decline?

Think about how many times you see a post like this on HN: "I barely use facebook. I just keep it for <some random purpose>".
> Even people that still have 2-way radios to use as phones were out of luck

How would a telecom outage impact two-way radios?
you could just do "Search terms" site:amazon.com if you want to just search amazon.
Add to that the low population density that makes potential crashes far less dangerous to people on the ground.
Some parties here in Germany actively pushing this.

They talk about equality of opportunity and not equality of outcomes.

But what can you do?

You're phenotype is mostly determined by stuff you can't control.

If you have low conscientiousness and a low IQ, you're basically f*cked and you can't control this either.

Even if you're high on openness and have a average to high IQ, you're still playing a high risk game.
Per the linked post, they're only licensed for use in UE4.

You might be able to shoehorn them into something else, but copyright wise you're not authorized to.
The build-X-in-low-Y-minutes trope implies that something is trivial to implement (usually by importing middleware that does the heavy lifting). A 30 line class is not trivial.
This isn't about raw physics and biology but rather the use of business applications by users, specifically with regards to analytics and exploratory queries.

Anything less than a second to run a query and return results is considered "instant" (also sometimes "interactive") for analysis.
I can't remember if I've just done this on all my browsers a long time ago or what, but if you go to the main web page for duckduckgo.com, and click on the icon that shows up on the bottom of the page, you should be taken to a sort of slideshow about how wonderful DDG is, which should have a big "Add DuckDuckGo to Firefox" on it. That will make it appear as a search provider you can get to via the normal search configuration.
Want to add to side comments that I've read a few of your posts in Ask HN and generally enjoy them so hope you do feel valued here.
I imagine it depends on how closely you model the conditional probabilities.

If it gets down to correctly modeling the probability of colon cancer diagnosis by age, sex and ZIP code, and also the correct distribution of ages by ZIP code, then that'll be a potential problem in counties that only have one male 87-year-old.
Turns out that deleting your account doesn't stop them from tracking you on every website you visit that uses their code.
>30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope.

You're assuming the United States exists in 30 years, and that it still elects its leader by popular vote :)
Search for things like "Acorn Tattoo", and similar terms and you find pinterest spam is all there is in the google image search results.

Their behavior is eerily reminiscent of expertsexchange, back in the day. They had a similar high ranking for lots of things, but the result-pages were all horrid and non-useful to actual visitors.

Happily stackexchange surpassed expertsexchange, and I hope that something comes to kick pinterest from its niche too - one of only two sites I wish to fail (the other being linkedin, for similar evil reasons).