skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global world product is, say, $75T per year.

Global carbon emissions are, say, 10B tonnes per year.

At $100 to extract a tonne of carbon, that's $1T per year to get to zero emissions.

i.e. at a tax of just 1.3% of global GDP, we could extract ourselves from the shit.

This seems cheap at the price. It would cost a lot more to fight any decent war.

Yet like the proverbial frog in the boiling water, we'll most likely sit here as things heat up, not taking action because it all seems too hard or not yet an urgent problem.
It doesnt matter, game is a generic 2D keep running right ~1986 Amiga with bits of Chip's Challenge thrown in piece.
Wait... did you just compare lines of source code to the size of a compiled binary code of something that was written over 25 years ago and clearly optimized for the size of the deliverable? In that case you might just as well have compared an apple to the Apollo program LAM module. It is just not a valid comparison.

I am sure that if Super Metroid were to be developed today in a high level language with the exact same gameplay logic, the resulting code would be in at least the same ballpark.
Yeah we've seen that too.

They definitely need more alerts pertaining to slow API responses on the git interfaces. I still give them props for usually fessing up to outages. Some places (cough aws) will be out for hours before they admit to it -- not gaming any numbers, nope never.
If you get a border collie get a few sheep too.
Both of the independent claims in that are quite specific about the conversions between locations and lists of numbers and between lists of numbers and lists of words being unique.

If not done more than a cursory reading of those claims, but I wonder if you could work around it by simply making some of the mappings non-unique?

I did not look at the dependent claims because generally if you infringe a dependent claim you necessarily also infringe the dependent claim upon which it depends. As the Federal Circuit noted [1]:

"It is axiomatic that dependent claims cannot be found infringed unless the claims from which they depend have been found to have been infringed."

However, a year later [2], that same court quoted that in another case, and then said:

"While this proposition is no doubt generally correct, it does not apply in the circumstances of this case"

The circumstances of that had something to do with the doctrine of equivalents being used to find infringement of the dependent claims, but the scope of the equivalents was wide enough to bring in prior art that would encompass the independent claim (but not the dependent claim), and so that prior art stopped infringement of the independent claim but not of the dependent claim--or something like that. I've not looked serious at patent law in a long time so this is getting into territory I'm now very fuzzy on.

My initial impression is that this would probably not apply if the alleged infringement of the what3words patent was a product that was pretty much the same as what3words except for not satisfying the uniqueness properties from that patent.

[1] Wahpeton Canvas Co., Inc. v. Frontier, Inc., 870 F.2d 1546, 1553 & n. 9, 10 USPQ2d 1201, 1208 & n. 9 (Fed. Cir. 1989)

[2] Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Plaintiff-appellee, v. David Geoffrey & Associates D/b/a Slazenger, and Dunlopslazenger Corporation Aka Dunlop Sportscorporation, Defendants-appellants, 904 F.2d 677 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
It doesn't take a large team. Look at latest indie hotness Hollow Knight (https://youtu.be/UAO2urG23S4), which was made by 3 dudes, who were artists and animators (http://hollowknight.com/our-team/). I agree that with game engines, making a successful indie game is primarily about artistic prowess, but you probably don't need that many artists. Just 1 or 2 really good ones.
Did I just waste 6 years?
I wonder why more discussions about population control aren't seen.
It seems that fewer people will result in fewer pollutants.
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"Specific genres?"

This probably depends on your ratio of story/art to engine/game mechanics[0] your game would have.

It seems games that do not require continuous player progress (ruling out RPGs entirely) can be a good fit.

e.g. Episodic story-telling games and then something like Hitman, so action games can be done that way too.

But you could easily release TBS games this way too, many "mission"-based games would lend themselves to this format.

[0] In a broad sense.
6 years is a heroic effort. Great work Josh. If your life obligations permit, grab your backpack and head to a warm, strange country, lie on the beach, clear your head for new battles ahead on a different field.
Because asset polish doesn't matter nearly as much as gameplay: the high-res remake will never make as much as the original.

The most successful game of the year, Far Cry 5, has sold 1/20th as many copies as Minecraft has, a game that is ugly as sin and always has been, but it's fun enough that it doesn't matter.

There's no point in adapting a property if the adaptation won't grow the audience. The Walking Dead was a comic book superstar, selling upwards of 500,000 units per issue when it was picked up by AMC for the TV adaptation. The TV adaptation is now reaching 8 million viewers per episode, and that's considered low.
Hospitals have billions of dollars of net income...they could very easily invest in residency slots.
Is Civilization a story-building game? I certainly don't play it as such.
I think you would have to cultivate that market very carefully. Video gaming can be very sentiment driven at times, and there's a fine line between homage and rip-off.

Perhaps the way to do it is to acquire the license for a 'masterpiece edition' ... release it five years after the original.
OP here...

TL;DR: I need participants in a long term study I'm launching to understand how security professionals make decisions.

A few years (at a prior job) ago a non-security colleague asked me "what's good enough" when it comes to security in a product. I knew what I wanted for the product we both worked on and I knew what the standards said but I couldn't answer that question on behalf of other security practitioners.

Proof by construction: security practitioners at our customers were willing to accept less than perfect standard's compliance but what was acceptable and what wasn't varied considerably across hundreds of organizations. That question has stuck in my head for years. What's good enough really means to me what makes a security practitioner tick?

Is it risk tolerance? business pragmatism? deeper security knowledge? type of business? The list goes on as to what might drive the decisions a security professional might make in a given context. I'm hoping to answer those questions and so I'm launching a community based (no vendors or sponsors) long term study to figure out what makes security practitioners tick. Data and analysis will all be open (but anonymous).

If you're interested in participating (or the idea itself) please read the linked article. Sharing with folks you think might be interested in participating would be appreciated as well.
I know what you mean (nginx & co), but I wouldn't bet whether the majority of websites and APIs use a thread per connection or event-driven IO. E.g. there is are a lot of PHP sites out there, which are thread-per-connection. Or which are powered by Java servlets, which had been synchronous until quite recently.
I just checked here in NYC and both Uber and Lyft have carseat options. And every car I’ve ever rented had the option too.
Bear in mind that the 128 bit space is not double the size of the 64 bit space - it's 2^64 times the size.

Cryptography actually relies on there being a space that is too large to count though, even in parallel.
Shouldn't they also be required to have at least one black person, one Asian, one gay, one handicapable person and one non-cisgender member?

Imagine the job prospects of your average handicapped, transgender blasian lesbian? You could have your pick of any company board.

I kid, but I can't help but imagine there will be some unintended consequences of legislation like this.
Reasonably large indeed. Nice link.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think this comes down to low ceremony (move fast but easy to make a mess) vs high ceremony (upfront cost when adding features but high safety).

I'll check out Warp and Yesod, although tbh the next stack I'd like to try is Clojurescript/Spec/Figwheel. Spec driven design seems to offer some of the benefits of static typing with the flexibility of dynamism.
It shouldn't be a debate. It should be a "knob" we're tuning in. In general, the Left has had an ideological stake in "nurture." Various progressive utopian visions had such an ideological stake, communism being the most obvious one. Intersectionality and Feminism have taken up the nurture baton, as they have an ideological stake in forwarding nurture and denying any significant role for nature.

Again, in a field like biology, many of the answers are going to be complex and nuanced. Black and white binaries mandated by ideology are not going to be the likeliest answers.
Marketing isn't magic, not every game makes it. In fact most do not.
Why would you intentionally lower your income rate, particularly after racking up $500k in tuition? Doctors have no incentive to lower bill rates as long as they're pocketing a percentage.
Far, but almost everyone does not commute outside their local city so I don't get your point.
I assume it wouldnt be “no staff” considering it’s a rare occurrence when a physician is out of network.

And i’m not talking about situations where the entire hospital is out of network. It’s when the patient does their homework and the doctor and facility are in network and then some random doc shows up who is out of network and the patient gets screwed.
This is true, but also the game in question was coded entirely from scratch, which is part of the problem: the majority of those 3 years were probably spent duplicating the work done already by Unity and Unreal. If you want to make a living as a carpenter, you don't start by planting walnuts.
Designing game narrative (2013)
I’m still hoping for nuclear fusion within my lifetime.
I agree. I support the principle behind this legislation, but it seems to set a dangerous precedent for giving the state government the authority to mandate demographics.
I suppose that's true. But one can imagine a game just like nethack except it's not as easy to die so after, say 20 run, you learn the ropes and can enjoy the game every time you play it. Obviously, eventually you'll get bored (unlike playing 100 times and losing every time) but that few times you beat the game would be enjoyable.
To clarify, since I can't edit anymore: I don't agree with him, I'm just adding the viewpoint.
If a doctor accepts the Medicare price, then they'd be obligated to charge everyone else the same price. Or they're free to charge more, and not accept Medicare patients (or the patient would be responsible for the amount over the coverage). This would be easy to look up ahead of time, since their prices would be public and easily accessible via a variety of price comparison tools, and it would be easy for tools to let you filter by whether your insurance covered the amount charged by that provider for that service.
> That's a strange interpretation and companies are free to do what they want.

You are absolutely correct! Companies are free to do as they see fit. And consumers are free to do things like block ads or not engage with publishers as they see fit.

I've run content sites that ran on advertising. I've negotiated with advertisers. I deeply, genuinely understand the value ad networks provide to publishers.

As a consumer, and as an responsible professional software engineer, I am also concerned with the privacy practices and abuse enabled by many third-party inclusions. More than one website has been compromised by such things.

If buyers choose not to do direct buys, then publishers wish to consider the possibilities that could be realized with a different model that doesn't hinge on being cavalier with user privacy and security.

No commercial internet publisher has a right to exist. No commercial internet publisher has a right to derive revenue from abusing their users. Users, on the other hand, have in the eyes of some basic rights to security and privacy. As opposed to the desire of marketing to use a fifth shitty third-party tracker.

You're right. Publishers and advertisers are free to do as they wish. They just might want to consider showing some respect for users is all.
check out prometheus and grafana. it's all that a bag of chips.
That's a fair point. Such schemes are for people whose profiles clearly implicate the kernel scheduler.
I lost a domain a while ago. It was quickly snapped up by a squatter, who promptly repopulated it with the exact content it previously contained (harvested from the waybackmachine). They made a single change to the content, adding a link on the home page to some supplement blog.

So it's my content, on a domain I no longer own or control.

How could I prove to Google that the content is mine?
Care in the US is quite good, but the billing is the most opaque thing imaginable. I went in for a skin biopsy and got a bill from 3 different people. Why? I don't take my car to the shop and get a bill from 3 other shops in town. Ridiculous. I really think the onus should be on the provider to issue a single bill and provide up front pricing.
The countries with rapidly expanding populations are not the ones with significant per-capita carbon emissions.
I can tell you right here and right now that I know that some of the companies you name do not make a bank off of their products. And it's probably not the companies you would expect and not for the reasons you would expect. I have sources for this, but unfortunately I cannot name them.
Gave up masturbation and porn. Thought I was always going to relapse. But now I'm almost 3 months in, and it's just not part of my psyche anymore to go for the easy way out. And I've gotten rid of the idea of watching other people do it as exciting.
Science divides into disciplines because human compute power and lifespans are limited.

Anderson is right to point out that reduction is easier than construction. I deny him the implication that construction is fundamentally impossible, only that it is out of reach of current human knowledge.

Nothing prevents a Demon from starting with first principles of natural laws and matter, sitting and pondering for infinity, and writing a treatise on any number of emergent phenomena, say: realpolitik between countries made up of parties made up of people made up of organic matter made up of atoms made up of...

We know this must be possible because it must have happened at least once, in the mind of the demon we call reality.

I get the distinction you're making between in-principle and in-practice, but this is an accident of our capabilities. Any gaps between the sciences is due to our ignorance. Sadly it seems human scientists desire to claim their corner of science is strong, independent and just as "fundamental" as any other's, and like playing up these gaps in our knowledge. I don't understand this desire to draw permanent boundaries based on arbitrary human limitations, and so quickly declare non-overlapping magesteria.
I'm not so sure that's true. You can rent a Skylake chip on Google Cloud that'll perform 1.6 trillion 64 bit operations per second for $0.96/hr preemptively. That's enough to run one instruction over a 64 bit address space exhaustively over 120 days, or for ~$2800.

Obviously that needs to be multiplied by the number of instructions a test needs to execute (and it has to be well written with AVX 512), but we're not talking nation state levels of resources here for simple cases, and that figure is only going to drop further with time.

Not to mention the potential for FPGA or ASIC implementations if the tests are important enough.
They're demanding in that they are highly social animals, so they can't really be left alone for long periods. They need affection/interaction.

They bond with humans just as humans bond with each other. So they really do become almost like a family member. Because of their intelligence, it's not just like having a dog who you can throw a ball and walk down the block.

I suggest reading and watching videos of Alex the African Grey. Really eye-opening into the learning abilities and reach of intelligence which birds possess.
If we don't act now, Article 13 could break the internet by mistake UK
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I wonder if people who get a sex change would qualify.
Just a friendly reminder not to get medical advice from anonymous strangers on the internet. There are some pretty serious interventions described in the comments below as things you could try at home.
> unintended consequences of Congress, businesses, and well-meaning insurance companies

They invest a large amount in very smart people predicting the consequences and then in lobbying (and bribing) politicians, and in supporting public information campaigns, to pass the laws that provide their desired consequences. For them to portray themselves as innocent and naive, if they do, would be cynical and absurd. It always seems to work out they make a lot of money, but probably unintentionally.
Would the AMA have some influence on that?
Sapiens was a great read, very thought-provoking, but the weakest part of it by far were the final chapters on technology and the near future. He kind of just dropped a few buzzwords, asked a lot of big questions and put a bow on it. Very disappointing after the eye-opening insights and wide-ranging arguments of the rest of the book.

While there are many things I want to hear about from Mr Harari, the future is not one of them.
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> Is there anywhere in the world where it's used for postal delivery, or anything practical at all?

Found an example: "The postal services of Cape Verde were the first to support plus codes for mail delivery".
Does this mean that all-female boards are also forbidden?
I just spent 9 months playing poker while my net worth dropped over 40%. Did I waste my time? Hell no.
>It may work for some people, but unfortunately I’m not willing to give up an extra two hours of my day when I can drive in.

Right, and that's a convenience and you pay extra for that. People renting downtown pay more for a smaller unit compared to units not in downtown.
To be super-pedantic, the correct character is a non-breakable half-space (unicode 0x202F). It actually makes sense: it shouldn't be breakable, or the text layout would be ugly (the colon starting on a new line?). And it should be reduced in size, because indeed you don't want a full space before a colon...
> gave up trying to use other hash libraries

fwiw a Rust k-nucleotide program using indexmap:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
There's no way this doesn't backfire in the long term. We're gonna see "yes women" added to boards which will discredit the women who are there for reasons other than to just check a box.
It's pretty sad that FB still has 50 million users to compromise.
Why isn't the excuse of "representing the public" used to require certain members have a particular religion or race as well? What about income?

Board members are about as far from representing society as you can get (and that's not the purpose of a board anyway) so I don't understand why this is being mandated. Seems like a strategy for cheap political points rather than any kind of well-reasoned reform.
When you write "modern" how long ago would that have been installed?

/me trying to get a handle on optical development.
> so why would we not mitigate it?

For two reasons. One simple and one complex.

The first and simple reason is that you're applying rules categorically. If I live in a multi-generational household I don't need to stay home and care for the children to the same degree as a more "typical" family. Compelling me to stay home reduces my earnings with no added benefit to my wife or family. In fact you've hindered my family's ability to progress economically. You've hurt a specific woman to help the average woman. As I've illustrated above, the average woman does not exist. Mandatory leave helps a statistical category but not women.

The second more complex reason has more to do with economics.

We already know that women who have never married earn more than men of the same category (the gap is not large or worth considering).

> As far back as 1971, single women in their thirties who had worked continuously since high school earned slightly more than men of the same description. As far back as 1969, academic women who had never married earned more than academic men who had never married.[1]

From this we can gleam two things. 1: Women are not being "treated differently based on the circumstances of their birth" (at least in a way that disadvantages them in terms of salary). 2: Mothers are being treated differently based on their behaviors.

I hope the first statement is self-explanatory but the second might need additional context.

How does an employer know if a women will give birth in the next five years? The obvious answer is "they don't". So if that's the case how do businesses know to pay mothers less than never-married women? Because they're not paying mothers less. They're paying never-married women more. People with more continuous years of service are more able to capitalize on opportunities in the workplace and are never in a position to be rendered redundant by a replacement.

If you compel men to take paternal leave, you open them up to all the detriments that mothers face. You take a family who's member has already taken an earnings hit and doubled down.

The gender wage gap (as it exists in the United States in 2018) is not a concern. Efforts to fix the gap will result in lower wages for fathers not higher wages for women (the terms "fathers" and "women" were chosen with significant care).

tl;dr: Fixing the pay gap between never-married women and mothers will solve the gender pay gap as a corollary.

1. https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/08/pay-gap-studies-dispr...
> Which in turn makes many employees prefer employers located in industrial parks outside of cities.

So basically silicon valley which is one of the highest cost of living places these days and has terrible traffic?

I don't live there, but the hub (city) and spoke (suburb) model seems to scale much better than the point to point where jobs and homes are distributed everywhere like silicon valley and thus everyone has to drive.