skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the most common interpretation of "getting flashed" is that someone exposed themselves nude in front of you.

That's likely why "their response was just confusion"...
> Epic grossed a $3 billion profit for this year

What does this even mean? Net income? Top line gross profit (meaning minus COGS), which is normally like 80% GM for heavily software enabled businesses? Ugh, tech reporters.
This comment is both unhelpful (dismisses the original claim using zero evidence) and completely incorrect.

Please look at the trendlines for "heroin deaths" and "synthetic opiod deaths" in the following graph of US CDC data, and note that from the turn of the millennium to 2017, opioid-related deaths in the US have increased more than 10x:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
Basically, we don't just need a post-office bank, we need a post-office networked payment processor, hosting service, and DNS registry, ensuring that there's always an option of last resort for enabling Bad Things to be done over the internet exactly as freely as we legally allow them to be done in meatspace.
I completely agree that complexity of edge cases, undefined behavior, and high combinatoric complexity between language features is a FAR more damaging kind of complexity (due to its nonlinear cost) than simple language feature count.

However, I disagree that simple language feature count has no cost: Assuming “linear cognitive complexity”, even such linear features do have a cost: Sure, you may not need to learn what a “const fn” is until you need it if you’re working only on your own project, but if you’re working on a team and/or with external libraries, the chances that you can get by without knowing the ENTIRE LANGUAGE diminish rather quickly with project size.

This is why even the least costly kinds of language complexity can still end up costing a lot in a large project containing a lot of code, dependencies, and developers.
Shame none of that is going towards UT development and Epic scrapped that project. Considering the state of the new Quake game I guess that's the end for Arena shooters.
SOMA has been hit really hard. I used to work there and now I work in the financial district. The difference is night and day. It’s really sad.
It is indeed a US problem. Just look at the depressed areas of the US on the east coast and south.

However, SF brands itself as the city of the future, innovation, and progress. Because it is the epicenter of the worlds technology startup scene.

But this darker aspect of the city contradicts that positive brand. You can’t be the city of progress and innovation if half of your people are subsisting in third world pits of despair. I mean you can try to be, but it doesn’t quite work. Something is wrong.
Steam has been doing this for awhile. CS:GO, DotA2, etc come to mind.
What about Mario clones? (platformers)

Doom clones? (first person shooters)

Warcraft clones? (real time strategy)

...
PUBG doesn't have the scope for skins in the same way that Fortnite does. Fortnite's art style lends itself way better to crazy skins. It's also played more by a younger generation who are more likely to buy digital accessories (that's just IMO tho)
Isn't pseudo though as he is also a lawyer. He may be far too used to writing like that.
It’s interesting becuase I saw PUBG as an adaptation of Sa-Matras excellent Arma 3 wasteland mod which included all of the elements seen in fortnite/pubg like: scavenging firearms, building and free-for-all/teamwork choice through the Blufor/Opfor/Independent team selection.

https://wasteland.arma.su
k8ts is not the only avenue to building scalable systems -- scaling is mostly about architecture, not how you run your software.
Anecdotally, I found the same thing. N-gram BOW is surprisingly difficult to beat.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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This can be debated. Although Rust/H1Z1/PUBG were certainly popular battle royale games before Fortnite, Fortnite was the only one that brought it mainstream, outside the hardcore gamer ecosystem.
It's too bad, but arena shooters have been dying as a category ever since around UT3. I'm hopeful they'll make a resurgence in the future.
I don't really see it any different than stealing the concept of FPS from companies that came before, or from stealing the concept of video games from the original creators. I see no issue with it, much like I see no issue with all sorts of games borrowing from LOTR (or from other sources that eventually trace their way back to LOTR). Even PUBG stole the concept from others. It reminds me a lot of Hunger Games actual battles (not the teenage romance angst portions), and Hunger Games effectively stole the idea from elsewhere. (And likely I'm missing links in the chain of who stole what from who, and I don't even like the idea of calling it stealing.)
PUBG did it to themselves. The game just doesn't run well, so people are moving on to better versions of the battle royale experience (Fortnite, Black Ops 4, etc).
Also see: https://forwardcom.info/ "ForwardCom -
Proposal for a forward compatible instruction set architecture"
The whole point of copyright protection was to prevent someone from freely duplicating a work and thereby depriving the original artist of profit, but in the case of a tattoo, I'd argue that every artistic tattoo is so slightly different from each other and labour-intensive to create that it should really be treated as "work for hire" and the human who owns the skin also owns the tattoo on it.
And Coldplay as well, now that you mention it
What was it that was stole from PUBG?
> There have always been drug addicts and drug users, and there always will be.

And surely we could do more work to understand why people fall into this hole, and make societal changes to help those who want to beat their addiction do so more reliably. It’s absolutely misinformed to suggest that addiction isn’t a real problem or that doing anything about it is somehow beyond our control.
I can confirm. We wrote couple of games together in 1995-98 (Fire Fight being the biggest). He is genuinely a good guy.
I'd argue it's a similar case as when businesses create competing product offerings with better execution and end up winning in the long term.

Staying on the gaming topic, you could say Call of Duty is a copy of Counter Strike? I'm not sure which came first but the idea still stands.
Rust Tokio end of year recap
Different behaviour? More homeless per capita (how large is the NY "Continuum of Care" and how large is SF's) ? Your last sentence, by eye, would make more sense if you were comparing it to Seattle.

ED: also, as your posted link says, "New York can at least claim that 65 percent of its rough sleepers are given sheltered accommodation" - what is that figure for SF?
I'm pretty sure there would be a lot less fishing if it was illegal. You would only be able to sell your fish on black markets at high markups. That would price out many customers.
Tearing down paywalls in scholarly communication
> Well, the argument agains killing animals seems to be "you wouldn't kill humans"

That's not my argument, so I'll try to explain my personal reasoning. To me, the main real reason we have for not killing or hurting other creatures is that we believe they have some level of emotional life, and are capable of things like happiness, love (at least in some form), sadness, fear, and suffering beyond just physical pain. We love our dogs, cats, etc. because we believe at some level they are capable of loving us back (perhaps a stretch for cats I know).

Thus, for me personally I draw the line at mammals because I believe they possess all of these qualities. I will eat poultry, fish and shellfish because I don't believe they have the same capacity of "emotional sentience" as humans, though I'm fully open to the idea that my ideas about poultry are wrong.

Thus, while I "wouldn't enslave humans" I also believe it's possible to keep hens and cows for eggs and dairy in a manner where the animal does not suffer, and I don't see this as any kind of "enslavement".
Steam is a product, Valve is the company.
A little context for those stats:

San Francisco · Population
884,363 (2017)

New York · Population
8.54 million (2016)

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-...
No, that’s not typically the case. Mostly copyright remains with the artist that made the painting.

https://www.thoughtco.com/who-owns-copyright-of-a-painting-2...

The reality of copyright law is that strictly applied pretty much everyone breaks it. Some infractions are worth enforcing, most are not.
Why Your Brain Is Wired for Pessimism
The return: Could Derrick Rose be an option for the Bulls next season?
Besides PUBG, who else has done this in a successful way? Fortnite wasn’t the original but it blows the success of PUBG out of the water at this point. I’m okay with “PUBG + Fortnite” ~= “almost single handedly”.

I think the key word in that quote is popularized — even if earlier games did it, these are the two to demonstrate widespread appeal.
Battle royal was already popular enough for Epic to drop everything they had and shift focus to the genere without any doubt that it was the correct thing to do. To give them credit for the popularity of the genre is to rewrite history.
Was PUBG the first? Didn't they arguably steal the idea from a movie? And isn't the concept of last man standing like as old as dirt? Not exactly the same but I played assassin in the early 80s and it wasn't a new concept then.

Arguably I feel like the idea is too simple to deserve any kind of protection. It would be like protecting "hide and seek" or "tag"
Anecdotally, it seems that SF is one of the few places where homelessness is very concentrated among the major employment and tourist centers, so the well-off really see the homelessness up close and personal there. By comparison when I visit New York I don’t encounter much.

That’s just my anecdotal experience, but if true it would explain why the problem in SF gets so much attention.
I disagree. PUBG was _insanely_ popular well before fortnite showed up.
Concepts can't be stolen. The gameplay is so significantly different, it's hard to say what we're arguing what's stolen that PUBG didn't "steal" themselves.
$3B profit doesn’t really seem consistent with $15B valuation. Tech companies these days seem valued at 20x revenue or more. Why would they bother raising $1.25B at that price?

I suppose Fortnite is a fad, so there is a pessimistic case to be made to cash in as much as possible.
I'm sorry? PUBG sold 50 million copies. It is the 5th highest selling game in history. You can't honestly claim that's not mainstream.
I'm just hoping DannyBee posts something to this thread! (He's a lawyer).

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DannyBee
The Most Persuasive Word in the Dictionary
Crypto Craze Drew Them In; Fraud, in Many Cases, Emptied Their Pockets
Time to train a model matters for applications where you want to have end users training models on their own computers without spending so much CPU/GPU time that they have to plan their day around it.

Consider for instance an RSS reader that classifies articles to determine whether or not to interrupt the user with a notification. This should be fast to train and update the model on the fly every time the user enters a correction (e.g. 'this article actually isn't interesting', or 'interrupt me with articles like this in the future'.)
Not just copyright law. Look at the difference in laws being recording a video of a person and recording sound of the same person. I would love for law to be consistent, but as of yet there is no such requirement.
PUBG makes a lot of money still so no harm done. And the game concept is kind of different. I don’t enjoy Fortnite but spent many hours on PUBG. I’d say let them steal, that’s how new genres are born.
This is exactly it! Fortnite was a team based fps/rts before it saw the cash cow that is the Battle Royale.
You don't want to address actual people so you talk about a Venn diagramm you made up, and you have several theories, so I guess not one of them is what you actually think. Prove me wrong. You can't have two opinions, so is either one of those "theories" your opinion, or is neither? You see, I'm not being snarky when I'm being short, I'm giving the reader the benefit of the doubt. I can expand and substantiate everything I hint at, or I wouldn't hint at it.

And also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word and then notice how HN is positively gushing with super-couched "arguments", in any thread. "I'm not entirely sure it would be impossible to theorize that"... it's like the only subjects many people are comfortable with talking about with any level of attention or intellectuality are those that are purely technical, i.e. where person doesn't need to have position.

With anything that can't be decided by reading specs or benchmarks, wishy-washy stuff comes out, and doesn't get defended either. It just keeps getting posted, and calling it out may get downvoted -- as if showing something to mean nothing is worse than writing something that means nothing [0] -- but no actual defense, at most one half-assed attempt and when that is refuted, no conceding of a point either.. rinse, repeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ2AH7u_9Xo&t=1m10s

> the ways in which we were turning politics into economics, and allowing our faculty of reason to be denigrated into a faculty of calculation

... which might lead a person to think that being in the majority makes them right, or that an imaginary Venn diagram describes all sorts of real people, or that truth is decided by votes, or that the wisdom with which someone votes makes a quantum leap when they reach 500 karma. Among other things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759743
NYC has a "right to shelter" due to the cold winter months. SF has no right to shelter, which means there are many more unsheltered people in SF than in NYC.

In LA I suspect that due to the large geographical size, high automobile usage (whereby there's less direct interaction with people) and perhaps more draconian law enforcement, the unsheltered population is slightly less visible.
Pure profit after taxes apparently.
You can even trace it back even earlier to Arma2 and DayZ (mod).
The lead designer on PUBG, Brendan Greene, had previously made a Battle Royale Arma 2 mod.
Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (2016) [pdf]
Thanks Davis. I received the suggestion today to actually try to get people to pay you up front for the product you are going to build. That was pretty interesting. Seems to scratch my itch for some real objective (in)validation and also prevents me from writing a bunch of unnecessary code.
Dividing by each yields a higher per capita for New York still
Unlike NYC, SF has a sizable problem with the sheer number of unsheltered homeless. NYC is required by a consent decree to provide shelter, and they do to a great extent. This does a lot of limit the visibility of the problems there.

I think the rest of it might be the contrast. SF is seen as - sees itself as - the shining city on a hill, the city of the future, a place made of innovation and progressiveness. Where kindness and compassion flow like water.
Erm, most of the world is still like this.
Especially since it escapes taxation. If you taxed IP like you do real property, we would see quite a different system form.
From the article, the artists claim that they were approached by a firm to buy the copyright to the tattoos for a clothing line and then once the deal was done, the firm went after 2K, they say they didn't actually intend for this to happen, and they don't own the copyright anymore.
Ask HN: Sample slide deck for selling an ecommerce company?
I consult for one of Amazon's larger sellers in the $25-$50 million range. They're ready to be acquired and have some strong core skills. Making slide decks isn't one of them. Can someone point me to a deck used for a successful sale?
IIRC, California has by far the highest percentage of rough sleepers in the nation, in part due to the mild year-round temps and relatively dry weather.
And once in a while they’ll replace the whole body of your car with the new version that you hate.

The more apt car analogy might be that you lease it, and the dealer sneaks in and replaces your 2016 with a 2017, then your 2017 with a 2018, and you don’t mind, that’s the terms of your lease agreement with them.

And then one day they replace the 2018 with a 2019 and you’re not happy anymore because the 2019 looks like ass.

But there’s no option corresponding to “buy a car instead of leasing it” so this is what we’re all stuck with.
Infographics as a content marketing tool – does it still work?
I think that only applies to a "work for hire", which means it was done under regular employment for a company so the company owns it.

If you commission a single work from an artist, then he retains the copyright (unless your contract says otherwise).

So before you spend that $5 million commissioning a painting, have your lawyer look over the contract... likewise, before you get that $50 tattooed bunny on your ankle, read the paperwork, if the artist hasn't signed over the copyright to you, then he owns it.
What are you protecting? Financial data? If so, have them go to a branch office and prove their identity to a person.

Which is more important, retaining the person, or protecting their data? If retaining the person, then give them some simple and less secure method like a recovery email address. If protecting the data, I would leave them locked out of their account. Unpopular opinion, but I do that a lot it seems.
It's all literally the name of a film and novel, Battle Royale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)
Doh. Thanks for the correction!
Here's some numbers from a peer-reviewed analysis from 2018[0]:

> The new analysis shows that while meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.

I know I was responding to a specific comment about land usage, but I probably wouldn't read that book as I also believe that we should prevent unnecessary pain and suffering, e.g. even if we hypothetically found out that the smoke from the ovens in concentration camps didn't contribute significantly to air pollution, they still wouldn't be a good idea, so of course I object to a book that describes ongoing mass killings as "benign".

But if you have the specific numbers from the book handy, I'd still like to give them a look.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
Yeah this is all stuff I'd like to know. It could point to potential frameworks for solutions. Maybe they have implemented something that mitigates problems associated with homeless in SF.

This is kinda where my mind is taking me with this kind of interesting deviation in exposure.
So is programming. Should clients be able to just take your code without paying for it?
There are a lot of good shell systems out there. I first used SDF. Then circumlunar.space (which is still a mainstay for me). I also now run a micro-pubnix off of a raspberry pi zero (featuring a custom built shell and software suite for gopher phlogging, chat, bbs, and gaming) at gopher://colorfield.space:70/

I do not know much about freeshell.de, but can say that I have found the type of internet community that I have missed since the early 90s ont hese shells.

The tilde crew is really awesome as well.
Show HN: Quartzite – Lightweight relative date/time formatter
Meanwhile, Google saw fit to break[1] countless games, basically erasing pieces of culture / shared history.

I don't necessarily have an issue with dropping legacy compatibility, but you can't both drop legacy compatibility and disallow downgrades. There needs to be a way to access old experiences.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=840866...
As reported in NSCA study, which court found containing “false statements”.

"It is taken as established that the NSCA had a commercial motivation for making the false statement in the Devor Study (…) that the NSCA made the false statement in the Devor Study with the intention of disparaging CrossFit and thereby driving consumers to the NSCA (…) (and) that a loss in CrossFit’s certification revenue was the natural and probable result of the false injury data in the Devor Study."
But purchasing the time for a person to create a work for you generally does give you the rights, as a work for hire. Thus temporary tattoos would be copyrightable, but permanent ones that are created only once should not.
Good artists borrow...
You did not say it explicitly but your comment hints that indian devs are below mediocre. I will share my perspective as a native guy. My experience is 15 years in dev(mostly c++) experience worked in 6 different companies and have taken up contract gigs in erlang and android(writing ejabberd extensions). Infosys, wipro, tcs and other service based companies have really below mediocre dev's. But other than that the enterprise org's such as emc square, oracle, hp etc have dev's from mediocre to good. The Big Four company dev's (especially amazon) are definitely above mediocre. One observation is while working at enterprise org's i have never seen any 10x people(like the admiration type) on the US or European companies. Only read peoples blog posts. So it seems the 10x people only exist at Big Four or they move there quickly before.
Many people forget that their Amazon prime subscription includes unlimited* free photo storage (terms of use apply) I love it and it keeps getting better with each new app release. Worth checking out as an option.
This is just a bug in their code. The paper they cite uses 1D convolutions. Though, I suppose having an unused dimension only really hurts efficiency.
Wow! Beautifully Done.
Yes, gross profit is usually understood as revenue minus cogs. But it doesn't seem like the reporter is using it correctly here.
Wasn't the iPhone the first smartphone? /s
How much grass can a human eat? There are huge swathes of land where nothing but grass grows. Animal can graze it and people can eat animals.
Another example is WA state DoL, which does not automatically reissue (nor require) a new license when you update your address.
I didn't even blink, there's tons of precedent everywhere for copying the concept and doing it better than the first person. Minecraft wasn't the first to do what it did (commonly Infiniminer gets that credit), neither was Unreal Tournament (Quake), neither was Starcraft (commonly Dune 2 gets the credit, but also Age of Empires came out, did well, but didn't become more or less an official South Korean sport), nor World of Warcraft (Ultima Online and lots of others).

Honestly, possibly because of my Silicon Valley biases, I tend to think that the idea isn't sacred, it's that the execution on the idea is what turns a good idea into a successful one, and Epic executed way better despite PUBG's initial momentum. They threw it away with performance problems, bugs, cheaters, etc. and Fortnite capitalized.
No idea, but it seems like the news is allowed an exemption from royalties because of "fair use" or whatever they call it in Europe now (maybe "protected use" or something).
I’m not sure I understand how legalization would help. There’s nothing stopping access or use of these drugs now. Honest question: is any place enforcing drug laws against heroin, and is it making things worse somehow?

Intuitively it seems to me like the opposite would be better, if you could not get heroin you couldn’t get addicted to it. But my minimal understanding is it’s too easy to make for enforcement to be practical.
If you're on Mac or Windows, Affinity Photo is a pretty good Photoshop alternative for 50 USD. Iirc there's wording about paying for major version upgrades (eg 1.x to 2.0), but for Affinity Designer (their Illustrator equivalent) they've been on v1.x for over 4 years now.