skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even outside the securities law context, there are laws against false advertising and against fraud. Such laws are permissible under the First Amendment because false statements of fact are mostly excluded from First Amendment protection [1]; in addition, marketing is considered “commercial speech”, which is given slightly less protection overall than “political, ideological, or artistic speech” [2].

In practice, what that means is that the FTC goes around suing companies for false or misleading advertising. Who knows if they’ll care about this issue: they only have so many resources, and/or they may not see this as crossing the line. Of note, though, the FTC does have an active lawsuit against AT&T regarding an unrelated issue: namely, “unlimited” plans being throttled after reaching a certain level of bandwidth usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech
> Discord "won" in my view because it simply had to be modern to be vastly superior.

Discord "won" because it's literally burning cash and offering a service for free (for example, I don't have to pay for a t2.micro instance to host a Mumble server). But this is obviously not sustainable.

If you're selling a dollar for fifty cents, it's not hard to find a market.
In addition, most carriers have settings inside AOSP itself. I remember when I had an International Galaxy S7, I'd see 4G if I connected to a carrier that used that branding for LTE (like AT&T) and LTE for others (like T-Mobile).
>> My hope is that when I retire I can become re acquainted with crpgs

Eh, I don't know. I see where you're coming from and I don't mean to offend you, but whenever I find the time to indulge into my gaming obsessions (for me it's CCGs) I feel terribly guilty afterwards, for not spending that time on something productive, like reading up on my PhD bibliography, or just coding up my research. I don't even have a family. I'm just kind of fed up playing games all day long.

Sign I'm growing old I guess. I'll go get my hot water bottle and a cat.
That's one of the reasons why the makers of the Librem 5 phone decided to use an internal USB bus which isolates the baseband from the SoC:

> To isolate the cellular modem from the SoC, we will be placing the modem on the (remarkably fast) USB bus and have the phone interact with the cellular modem through USB instead of on the main RAM bus. This will separate the cellular modem on its own bus without seeing any other data.

(https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/)
I never understood these ~13.3x valuations. If I invest $5 in a lemonade stand, what makes it valued at $66.50?
A simple Python tool for SSHing to EC2 instances by name
If I'm hiring super creative or deep planning or design roles i want "bursty" people who can do super intense periods, more common lower intensity cycles and then recharge for a planned period of time.

If the workload dictates requirements I'd love to find anyone who wanted a constant queue of variable days but I've never met them aside from contractors who want a minimum and will bill extra, but they still seem term-based and want vacation.

At a managerial level i can plan around predictable days off, but not variable days when i need to coordinate more than a few people.
Can you explain what the alive stage does? I have a similar concept and I wonder if it should be formalized.
Ah, and it happens that no one makes any "standard" rolls.

And what about Pam Spray On pure olive oil labeled fat-free? Serving size small enough for the fat to round to zero but not the olive oil content?
At last, I know what Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is trying to capture.
It's Time to Fall in Love with Stuffy, Crowded Subways
Let's say you have a project with 9 parts. Each part will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take 9 people and give them each one part it will take ~9 months to complete.

If you take one person it will take ~81 months as they need to finish each part before they can go onto the next one.
> In practice, the way you write the query matters quite a bit.

Which is hidden in the query interpreter for said db implementation. Each implementation can break down that abstract query into whatever implementation specific query works best in that database.

There's always some abstract way to represent it that doesn't require vendor specific knowledge nor does it remove the ability to apply vendor specific abilities.

Look, I just don't agree with you, I agree with OP. Db specific stuff should be hidden from the domain layer by an abstract query representation and an abstract transaction representation to be plugged in at a later time.
I would agree with you, but my gf is a unionized respiratory therapist.

Not only are her colleagues and managers extremely mean and unprofessional to her, the hospital executives are actively training the non-union nurses to replace the union respiratory therapists, because "cost".
At the end of MoP and during WoD, everyone was all of a sudden using Skype for everything in WoW (raiding, PvP, dungeons, etc.). I remember it vividly because it was so annoying.
And none of them were demonstrated to work in practice.
As a gamer, I'd have to agree with him - we used Skype up until the Xbox Live (360) era.

Different portions of gamers exist, and all that.
You're in luck, Divinity 2 runs perfectly for me on linux with Proton (with a little bit of work). Check protondb.com.
Regarding the NASA affiliation, he doesn't work for NASA anymore. I'm shocked his current employer permits this activity.
This is what I meant, thanks.
Have you tried to use pass-tomb?
I did, tried it for a week, honestly the scrolling still feels horrible when compared to Chrome.
You would be amazed about how little comments does an article about FB doing "this tech thing" attracts, vs a generic FB is bad. There are terribly few people that can comment on a tech subject, but everyone and their dog has an opinion about how FB destroys humanity
It's mildly surprising to see countries of the "free world" ask Apple for user data much more often than some authoritarian governments or dictatorships - compare UK, US, AU, DE, FR, ES with HU, RU, CN, TR.
> identical to someone committing identity theft

I don't fully understand what you mean here. Are they attempting to take out loans or credit cards for their own use with this person's information, resulting in potentially ruinous consequences for this person's credit? Rhetorical question in that case, but really, I'd like to understand what you mean.

Is it in reference to your first sentence? My assumption is that people using the Brave browser or extension (I don't know how it works) would see these donation solicitations on every blog and understand that they're (Brave) collecting donations on behalf of just about anyone, not some specific person they are pretending to be, and not in any sense where these people are opting in to their platform one-at-a-time.
Microsoft would rebrand it Skype for Gamers
Cryptonite now costs $8 per month
Potential future revenues and value...
DbUp, SQL files, and git.

We have the documentation in txt/md files inside the git repo.
With a checklist for developers.

Then documentation for DBA to review.

Special attention on UPDATEs/DELETEs on user generated data.

Folders procedures, schema, and data.

Procedures are full, idempotent, execute everytime.

Schema is transactional, files starting with datetime.

Data is idempotent, execute everytime. Using sql server MERGE.
Well it may seem obvious, but work to eliminate "stupid" meetings. Hold people to scheduled start times and time limits. Push hard for agendas and stick to them. Question the need for meetings you think are redundant or unnecessary.

Or do you mean meetings in general?
PUBG is still massively popular with the demographic it is made for. Fortnite is popular because it pulled in a new demographic of young kids, new gamers, and was easy to get into. Just because Fortnight is more popular overall doesn't make PUBG a failure or that it "lost".
Excellent. As somebody who does not write C this is the answer I needed.
Doesn't this just mean that Discord received 150 million in return for 7.5% stake at the company?
My first reaction is - that's crazy, no-one's gonna want to be a part of that.

Some thoughts: How do you ID people? (Name isn't enough) Does everyone have to be on the system? People sleep with people overseas sometimes, so..would have to be international. At times people sleep with people and don't know their (full) name. And maybe the risk is higher in precisely those cases.
what I meant is that people from different culture and background seems to hang out together a lot as opposed to among them.
I have Brave installed on my work machine, it's opt-in... I don't have it activated and never even clicked the Ads button. It even shows as disabled in the settings.
Go’s lax attitude about shadowing jumped right out at me, too. Coming to Go recently from TypeScript, where the combination of the compiler and tslint will aggressively bark at me, was jarring.

Coukd you point me towards any crash courses on using the Go linters you mentioned to increase safety of my code? I’ll look them up, too, but if you have any resources handy or think there’s work for me beyond RTFM, I’d appreciate it.
Interesting, did you not vote in 2014, or do you just not understand how the EU works?
It is a title inflation. I look around recently and see that most of my team-mates are now senior SDEs. Everyone of them has been working professionally 3 - 4 years max. When I joined the company 10 years ago, it would take a tremendous effort to get promoted to Sr. SDE. Now it seems that I have to aim to get to Staff SDE pretty soon because of the inflation.

My theory in the title inflation is because of the following causes (my speculation, may not be true):
1. Immigration laws have gotten tougher for H1-B. Companies now inflate the title to be able to justify the hire and extend visa for SDEs coming from other countries. I think it is pretty tough now to extend visa for Chinese/Indian nationals. Some of the SDE in my team went back to China to get visa and a couple of them got stuck there over a month for the visa to be approved.
2. Competition among bigger companies: if one big company inflats the title to Sr. SDE, it would get pretty tough for that SDE with only 3 - 4 years of professional experience to get the same title in another competitor. Effectively, the company satisfies the SDE with a slight raise and a newer title and also makes it harder for she/he to jump ship.
Don't think there's anything like Signal Spy for iPhone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.novvia.fis...
5G is practically useless in a way, due to its frequency and how your hand could block the signals too.
Implementing queries on a GraphQL server
Lotteries work like a social safety valve.
They give hope to the poor that there is a chance, however small, that they will make it big and sort out their financial problems just by winning the lottery.

And so they keep working and trying and living their lives despite the fact that there is basically zero chance of ever earning enough money, because: "Someone wins the lottery every week! Next week it could be me!!".
Relaying some text is cheap. If I had to pay 3x the actual server cost to run one (so the rest can go toward development and staff), it would still be minuscule.

My friend circles on discord have enough people with nitro that it's almost certainly cash-positive by a lot.
Then they'll rebrand Lync^H^H^H^H Skype for Business to "Discord for Business"
Anarchistic unrestricted capitalism will just pool the resources to one person/group until they can do whatever they want anyway. And there won't be anything to stop them. We just need enough laws to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power.
Because mobile carriers and other large businesses have always been their customers, not consumers. Google’s only incentive for helping consumers is that it might give them more data for their large business partners.
Twitter suspended my account permanently (9+ years, not a single warning)
Like me having 20 days worth of vacation but being looked at sideways when I actually try to use them. Giving me more days won't solve the issue.
Actually, I remember something very similar to this happening when one of the iPhones came out. Around the iPhone 5, IIRC.

The review sites went nuts showing the new iPhone displaying four bars while sitting next to an Android phone displaying five bars on the same carrier. The perception was that the Android had better reception, but after a short while it was revealed that the iPhone was just measuring the signal more accurately.

It was about this time that the iPhone went from displaying the traditional stepped signal bar graph to a series of dots. At the time I wondered if it was related.
I don't understand. Why would anybody want that?
Meritocracies are better, but even there they generally still manage to some degree by the ass-in-seats proxy.

You can also work to eliminate politics to force a market-based outcome, but it's probably less work to get better at the political game.
Except there's no such thing as a "standard" roll. Each company has a different "standard" and even within the same company can have differing values of "standard" rolls for what amounts to the same TP.

It's not about comparing packages across or within brands at all. It's to make the customer believe they're getting more value even if they're not.
When I started learning GraphQL, I used to put all my resolvers into one file

Part 2 of my @GraphQL series shows you how to properly implement queries on your server.

If you missed part 1 (GraphQL basics), here it is: https://medium.com/naresh-bhatia/graphql-concepts-i-wish-som...

I'll be releasing one part a day for the next week (in case you'd like some holiday travel reading). Here's what you can look forward to.

Part 3: Queries (client implementation)

Part 4: Mutations (server implementation)

Part 5: Mutations (client implementation)

Part 6: Subscriptions (server implementation)

Part 7: Subscriptions (client implementation)

What have you struggled with in GraphQL? I'd love to hear your stories and make it easier to get started.
Why? If the moon were a perfect black body, but with a few small perfect mirrors on the surface to bounce a bit of sunlight towards Earth, couldn't we (in theory) focus that tiny bit of sunlight to heat something up to the temperature of the Sun?

To get past the diffraction limits, those "few small perfect mirrors" on the Moon would have to be gargantuan. (If I'm remembering correctly, they'd be the size of the alien space ships in Star Trek that make the Enterprise-D look teeny.) Otherwise, viewed from the surface of the Earth, those mirrors would just constitute a minuscule brightening of the sky in the direction of the Moon.
It's based on the equity the investor is purchasing in the investment. Here's an easy math example:

I invest $10 in a lemonade stand and get 10% equity in the company. That means that I can theoretically buy the company at $100 to get 100% of the equity.

So when investors put $150M into a company, they are purchasing equity/stock/shares/whatever and the company can then be valued based on the percentage of equity they get for their investment.
> Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing

Are you saying that voice UI is not its own "application context"?

It's an undiscoverable mess.
> Put another way: if Europe was right now, in a fully EEC-like Union, much like NAFTA, with visa-free travel, easy work visas, relatively frictionless borders, and some level of political cooperation - would Europeans vote to enact a political union? (Especially one in which the laws were made by an unelected group?) the answer would be a resounding 'No'.

They voted to create the EU in the first place, which is why the EU exists. They can vote to leave the EU, and one country has. But most countries haven't, and won't.
True, every time I pick up the game for a replay, it's an instant "sell all landers until the (un)signed integer handling breaks and rake in unlimited Resource Units". Then I otherwise play normally and have a blast without the tedium of fuel.
When I played CS:Source in a clan, we had Teamspeak that we rented a server for. When I played WoW and Guild Wars with a small group of friends, we used Skype because it was free. Early-to-mid 2000s.
> Ah, and it happens that no one makes any "standard" rolls.

Yes they do, e.g Charmin Regular rolls (which is important, because some dispensers won't handle bigger rolls), but in any case the utility for comparisons doesn't depend on regular rolls being an option, just as volume in liters of a drink product is useful even if 1.0l isn't one of the package sizes.
That's how good managers should be measured though, by the success of their charges
>required install

I'd rather install something compared to using the "webapp" version if it used 30 MB of RAM rather than 3000MB.
So it's approximately a black body. Even asphalt has tiny bits of specular reflection coming off of it.
What would be an example of in-depth content that is missing from the web?
I'll just go back to Mumble when it goes to hell.
Really?

According to the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, the energy put out in blackbody radiation is proportional to temperature to the 4th power. Therefore something that is 5000 degrees reflected off of an object with albedo 0.12 is putting out 0.12 times the energy it originally did, while something that is 2500 degrees only puts out (1/2)^4 = .0625 times as much. So the "temperature of the Moon's light" should be more than hot enough to light something on fire if it is focused right.

As a sanity check, compare how much light the moon puts out as a black body in shadow with what it reflects from the Sun. As another sanity check, compare how bright the Moon is versus a fire.

What am I missing here?
Alcohol Isn’t Good for You
Would be funny to change their motto to "Microsoft Discord: Ditch Microsoft Skype"
That’s pretty disappointing to see. Commit appears to be a Sony employee, what percent of Android phones are Sony anyway?
Lumberyard is virtually identical to CryEngine, there was little work needed to make the conversion
Nope. A manufacturer not a mobile network, apologies if it wasn't clear.
It was not overblown. I had that phone. It was unusable if you were touching it. That's a pretty major design flaw.
Meeting deadlines is not function of work productivity and speed. It is purely function of planning and estimation and other management out of control of worker.

Yes, there are slow or lazy workers. Point still stands.
> I think a lot of people (including me) want China to join the club of first world countries, not just economically, but also in terms of respect of human rights. How do you get there?

Nobody knows because it hasn't been done. China, like Russia, is powerful enough that it will only become a free country if its rulers want to.
If I'm understanding you, it sounds like you don't necessarily consider "natural rights" to be the best facilitator for "liberty", and that you're dissatisfied with people who praise that kind of idea. Am I close?

If so: what's your point? I'm trying to defend the rights we have, and it seems like you're just arguing about the method at which we assign rights and liberty? You seem really smart, can you give us some tips on saving/changing the system for the better?

By the way, those long-dead presidents who created the world's most liberating government framework, were alive less than 300 years ago. That's not long at all.
I admit I was inspired by the Baden-Württemberg "best near-winner" method, but my understanding is that most (all other?) implementations of MMP require a separate source from which to appoint the "top-up" winners.

As the name "mixed-member" suggests, the winners from this other source (such as a party list) can be seen as "less valid" and lacking a constituency.

Also I think most MMP systems require a change in the ballot papers and counting process, whereas the system I am proposing would look like a normal First Past The Post election in all cases where district boundaries are drawn "fairly".
Should be pretty easy to trace the users if it’s an open group. The encryption only keeps things hidden from people not in it and anyone can join.
Of course, it was procedurally generated.

Later, Arcanum would try to do something similar, at least with a global map. It had premade towns and cities (and nowhere near as many of them, of course); but the landscape between them was done to proper scale, and it was all generated.

So, when you reached the outskirts of a town, you could fast travel, or you could just keep walking - and the distance (and time!) you'd have to spend to walk to the next town like that would accurately reflect the size of the game map. And even during fast travel, if you had an encounter (e.g. wild animals, robbers) that dropped you into the detailed map, you'd end up in the correct spot on the generated part of it.

Coincidentally, that made it possible to skip large parts of the game simply by heading to locations in advance that you're not supposed to find out about until some NPC tells you. And the game was actually designed to gracefully handle that, despite having a fairly convoluted main storyline.
Yeah, exactly that.
Don't all the biggest telescopes on earth use multiple reflectors these days?
> it targets a price-averse demographic and is attempting to enter spaces that are very saturated

This is accurately the current state of affairs, but these are presented like conclusions you make on an industry that's a half century old at least. Gaming was a tiny niche not 15 years ago. It's entered the mainstream less than 10 years ago. It surpassed the film industry not 2 years ago in revenue. Pirated games almost had more volume than official sales in the 90s. All these things have changed, and are still changing.

The games and games-adjacent industry is changing at a blinding speed. Maybe it'll turn into a steaming junkpile like the mobile app market. But maybe it won't. Kids are growing up with games normalized. Everyone is digital, and games are on anything digital. Incumbents that don't keep up will definitely dwindle in their influence. Big players trying to break into the industry have failed to understand the changes. Everyone said similar things when Twitch had a $2B acquisition by Amazon. I think it was underpriced, they are doing incredibly well. Price-averse? There are people literally throwing (digital) money at streamers just for fun, or to troll them, or to get their message announced on stream, or any number of random antics a streamer sets up. But really only in the last year.

A rapidly changing industry is all about timing, and Xfire was sadly too soon, internet multiplayer gaming was not the mainstream and internet/tech infrastructure for it was not as mature either. No-one can tell these things in the present, but I think now is as good a time as any for Discord to do well.

I think the industry and market, if not Discord itself (which has good execution for a fertile market), is still being seriously underestimated.
Bad example. The purpose of the BAT token is for ads and tipping, not for donations. Hence the name, Basic Attention Token.
Testing Cro HTTP APIs
Do you think that because most have $2k+ of gaming gear + regularly drop $120 each game? I'd say that they spend money on the aforementioned things because there's no cheap alternative. They dumped all their money into hardware + games (unavoidable costs) so they can't afford to spend money elsewhere.
Signal bars are meaningless anyway. Even a raw dB measurement wouldn't tell much about the service quality, so they might as well switch to a "coverage / no coverage" indicator.
I would argue that console JRPGs constituted a separate genre from PC CRPGs at the time. I remember that there was little intersection between the fan bases, and even some hostility.