skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTC Vive is focusing on Viveport for the same reason Epic, Ubisoft, and Oculus have: They want to take the sales away from Steam. We are watching the same thing happening with Netflix verses every television company (CBS, HBO, etc) making their own streaming service fiefdom. Netflix and Steam beat the other companies for distribution by years and they don't like that. Re-fragmentation.
Other viable revenue sources must include, and I mean this seriously, having a full-time job and doing podcasting on the side.

Something that does not generate revenue (easily) is often referred to as a hobby, r&d, or fun.

I'm much more interested in the podcast that is made for fun, than one made for profit.

If you end up producing value to others with your hobby, and you decide to ask for value in return, by all means, do so, and provide a non-de-platformable method of compensation.
I don’t know, this sounds like kind of a given to me.

If you can’t build it you have no business.

If you can’t sell it you have no business either.
Some years ago, I had to write program that extract a foot pressure platform for an orthopedist, and I had to do it with a closed-source Delphi API.
Delphi was already old at that time and difficult to find.
I though about Lazarus and it works perfectly with the Delphi blob file.
It's a very great tool.
Until they don't. There have been proof-of-stake failures before, and there will be more. Every proof-of-stake system is either (a) known to be broken, or (b) too complicated to analyze to show how it is broken. As the exploitable order depth in category (b) increases, it becomes worthwhile to invest the hours, days, weeks, months it takes to develop attacks against these Rube Goldberg contraptions and they get moved to category (a).
All usual models of computation (such as Turing machines, register machines, the lambda calculus, ...) agree on which functions from the naturals to the naturals they deem computable, and the Church–Turing thesis states that these are exactly those functions which can actually be computed by machines in the real world.

That said, the models of computation bifurcate when studying the question which higher-order functions (functions which input functions as arguments) are computable. Such a function can be easily computable according to one model and not computable at all according to another. I'm writing this because far too often the unqualified statement "all the usual models of computation are equivalent" is made. This is emphatically only true for first-order computation, not for higher-order computation.
Isn't this basically atoi? Which has a lot of edge cases.
That's the enthusiast perspective. I think closer to the truth of the article (which is talking about broad market share among non-geeks) is the fact that 5e made D&D accessible to kids again.

I've been suckered into running a weekly game for a gaggle of 10 year olds. They seem to love the game, but have absolutely zero interest in rules crunch. They're very happy having to be reminded about which die to roll and which bonus to apply (and which special abilities might be appropriate) every single round. Fourth edition has nothing to offer these kids beyond needless complexity and edge cases.

But my son will spend hours reading through the rulebooks and stat blocks. The game hooked him even if the rules haven't. And when I think back to my own experience learning the game at 9 at the dawn of AD&D... that's just about right.
Notably, Verizon was found not to give out locations unlike AT&T, Sprint and T-mobile.

Disclosure: I"m a long-time Verizon customer.

These firms have no business selling customer location data. There is absolutely no respect for customer privacy which is a cultural issue within these firms.

"Microbilt’s product documentation suggests the phone location service works on all mobile networks, however the middleman was unable or unwilling to conduct a search for a Verizon device. Verizon did not respond to a request for comment."
We started playing a year ago, it was my first time playing since the mid-80's, and we're doing it all from my old AD&D (first edition) books and modules that I had collected from then.

We really like it because as a group of newbies - four of the five players had never played before - it gives us permission to do things that are really fun but we never really would have found time to do before. We've incorporated poetry reading, table-reading of scripts, songs, and silly tasks (I made my wife pick a real estate lockbox we didn't have the combination for, before her thief could advance to level 2).

So for us anyway, it wasn't anything about Wizards of the Coast or 5e... this is strictly Gygax-level stuff we're playing. But I think some of it is a blowback from many of us just feeling exhausted and discouraged about online life, there is greater appetite for making these sorts of memories and being creative together.
The trouble with five (2007)
Dual use only contains items which can be directly used in nuclear weapon research and not any other thing. Some computer equipment specific to nuclear research is dual use.

It doesn't outlaw for example concrete just because concrete can be used to make nuclear reactors.

US sanctions, china never agreed on them. India another example didn't agree on them and traded oil with Iran for other non nuclear related items even during US sanctions. They didn't use US and EU banks to do this but they did indeed trade. The only problem here is Huawei used international banks to do the trade. The items are fine to be traded.
I had a 25+ year gap in my D&D gaming. It started again when I moved to the PNW and met a couple in their 40's who took gaming very seriously, and started playing with them again. They introduced me to something I had overlooked: comic book stores that had Walmart-sized gaming arenas! Now I'm hooked again, but with people who care more about story than treasure. The amount of work my DM puts into backstory is insane, and he asks the same of us (well, not insane levels, but a commitment to character).

TL;DR - Playing D&D as an adult, with adults, is vastly different than playing as a teen.
You’re talking about sort keys, no? That allows you to deal with collation in a higher layer (which generates the sort keys per desired collation), but delegate the actual sorting to a dumb lower layer (i.e., memcmp).

(Just because I can’t resist, I’ll mention that sort keys are a perfect application for Hu-Tucker codes: https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/49586).
Why would anyone ever want this? I have never, ever wanted to receive spam just from bookmarking something.
In TFA, "slow morning" doesn't mean waking up late. It means waking up early but taking your time before starting work. If you're a night owl you're probably not doing slow mornings.
Simple, block the EU, problem solved.
I had my arm 90% severed in an industrial accident, judging by the amount of morphine they had me on, I must have been in a lot of pain. But I can't remember the feeling of the pain at all, but I can remember all the things I was doing to try and reduce the pain.

Every injury since (broken leg, broken collar bone, dislocated finger) has seemed like the worst pain I've ever experienced, but I know logically it can't be. And once I recover I forget the pain again.
this a big point about 4e i recall more than a few pre 4th edition game circles that degenrated into pouring over books and arguing about the rules.
wHEN I dm there are modifications to the rules that make more fun. for example sometimes characters dont "die" they meet thier maker and discover something about themselves or the deep lore of the campain world you have made, and then you can recycle them as if ressurected, by a deity.
I think this is a very rewarding style if you have players that love to discover the story.
Just figured I mention tabletop simulator which is a sandbox and editor that allows you to recreate and play nearly any boardgame ever created. I'm using it to play a tabletop RPG with some other people I met online, and it works very well.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
> The professors were underpaid and many of them didn't care -- some did care and were excellent teachers, but a lot of them were bitter about their career outcomes and just went through the motions.

Given how little it pays to teach in a community college, I'm surprised there is any teacher who didn't care.
Arbitrary precision is irrelevant. By it we mean arbitrary finite precision, which leaves us not only with computable numbers, but rationals. Representing rationals isn't affected by the paper's findings, because they have the same cardinality as the naturals. Arbitrary precision models reals, it doesn't actually use them.
4e wasn't “discard[ing] a big chunk of its worst, thorniest rules”, it was a re-write to sell splat books and accessories, to try and turn it into pen and paper World of Warcraft, and make it a miniature focused expensive game. It failed. It was D&D in name only and an abomination to those who really cared about it.

5e was the streamlining and modularization that was needed so you could play it like it was 2e, or 3e/3.5e, or even 4e if you wanted to. 5e was a return to D&Ds roots bringing along only the good stuff it had learned in 35 years.
Settlers of Catan is of course super popular/famous for a reason -- it's fairly easy to learn, the games are short, and it's well-balanced and fun (until you get sick of it).

Ticket to Ride is one of the simplest to learn fun "fancy" board games I know.

My current favorite is Power Grid, which I don't think is much more complicated than Puerto Rico, if any. If you can do Puerto Rico, you can do a game that isn't the _simplest_ out there.

The more of em you play, the easier other ones are to learn.
I've timed it in actual play: it's quicker to google for a monster stat block (one from the SRD, obviously) than it is to look it up in the Monster Manual sitting right next to the laptop.
For anyone interested in checking out what their old collection may be worth, head over here : https://www.acaeum.com/
I wouldn't want to work with them either.

There is a middle ground between the extremes :-)

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to work with people who insist on doing the same work manually that takes an hour, that could be scripted to take 2-3 minutes. And then they oppose your writing a script to do it. And I'm sure you wouldn't want to work there if your manager tells you that it would be awesome if you can automate it, but please understand our compensation policy will not allow us to reward you for increasing the team's productivity.
In Huawei's case even domestic law doesn't apply to them. Its like a canadian citizen being arrested in South Korea for smoking weed in Canada
I would think a major factor would be the surge of modern board games. Last year alone 5,000 new board games were published. This is called the golden age of board games, and D&D would seem to be just one aspect of this trend.
People are inventig such tools over and over and over again, for many years. None of these tools succeeded so far.
Technology companies turn to apprenticeships in tight labor market
Which is fair; I shouldn't have to ask for consent from the user to have analytics on my site. Having analytics is a necessary part of running a web app successfully.
> When student tuition fees make up the bulk of a department's income, is this reasonable and fair to students? Are they getting value for money?

It's difficult to say, isn't it? How does one determine how much a university education "should" cost?

I don't see any easy solution. If we convert research-focused universities into teaching-focused institutions, what happens to the research? If we create new and separate teaching-focused institutions, who pays?
Man tries to sleep with women. Man writes memoir about life story including attempts to sleep with women. Man posthumously gets disassembled as a misogynist subhuman creep from a thoughtless feminist.

Guy yells at his wife while working on the bongos? Man, I guess everyone who's ever gotten in a yelling match with their partners deserves character assassination... probably everyone ever, then?

This is the biggest non-story I've probably ever read. Men try to sleep with women. I don't know if you've heard of this but it's literally part of a man's biological drives. That it needs to be tempered with restraint and good sense in most situations goes without saying. But just because a man tries to sleep with a woman doesn't mean he's a subhuman creep. Feynman's great crime seems to be that he used the word "bitch". We should burn all his papers and erase every memory of him then, I suppose.

What's most disturbing is the author's demand that science be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Or that Feynman's stature as a great scientist should be questioned because he was a bachelor once upon a time. That the baby should be thrown out with the bathwater.

Surely, You're Joking is a down-to-earth conversational memoir by a great scientist who had a knack for relating advanced physics to an unsophisticated audience. It's well worth reading, unlike this garbage think piece.

Subnote: Feynman did draw tasteful nudes of women, which were collected and kept by his own daughter:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-ofe...
I don’t think everyone can do this. I’m generally an early riser (~ 7). I tried shifting to 5 am but was unsuccessful. I went to bed earlier. But the mornings were miserable. I did it for a month without change.
This brilliantly advanced dispatching still makes cars drive around New York City blocks at rush hour instead of letting me walk 20 metres to the car that is not far ahead of me on the avenue.
IKEA is the big one that springs to mind for me.
No any authority over sites not hosted/run in the EU. I'm a US citizen running a business in the US; the EU has no legal authority whatsoever over me. If an EU citizens buys something from my site, as far as I'm concerned they came to the US virtually to do it, and US laws apply here, not EU laws. They can shove their GDPR where the sun doesn't shine.
These burgers are not a suitable nutritional replacement for beef. Beef contains cholesterol, zero carbs, and has a different vitamin/mineral profile.

This stuff has no cholesterol and (a small amount of) carbs while also containing way more salt, thiamine (vitamin B1), and folate (vitamin B9):
https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/beef-products/6205/2

http://livablefutureblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/impo...

FYI, both folate and thiamine over-consumption may be linked to cancer:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29529163

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178204/

So while it is fine for people to eat it for "pleasure", it may be dangerous to trick the mind into thinking it is consuming a real burger.
What's really strange to me is that WeWork has the ability to offer wildly different work environments to different types of people, but they don't do it. Instead, they try to offer the same space to everyone, pureeing everything together.

How about a location that's dark and brooding and enforces "library" noise rules? How about a location that fosters the hot-house environment of sales teams? How about a location that's free of alcohol? It doesn't matter what each one is, but make them different, and give people the option of choosing one that fits their mood that day.

That being said, maybe I just don't like the centralization of WeWork. Let a hundred different people make their own spaces with their own characters and the market will work it out.
From what I've heard, it's not an Android-exclusive effort, and eventually Gecko will become embeddable again on desktop too. Camino Resurrection anyone? :)
Yes, I've seen that use.
This sounds like you went to a bad and busy city college in a big city. I for example went to a community college in Tallahassee, FL and it was fantastic and better than the university there, which was run amok with scandal and politics with the local community, something typical of these major college towns.

Everyone has an anecdote.
Haven't seen the classic video on it yet, so here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSvLKY7HEk
The point is that you can't expect academics to necessarily love or enjoy teaching, as they're not selected for that trait. Of course people should do their jobs to an acceptable standard. But expecting academics to routinely do more than that is expecting something you wouldn't expect of people in other professions. Do you expect your accountant to do your accounts with enthusiasm?
We did star configure CCTV systems using RG59 and RG6. The cables are heavy and the connectors big. You can't get the same density as with UTP. A 48 port coax switch took 4U versus a 1U UTP switch
Very cool, I wonder if this applies to interactions that "can't" happen in our current universe? I have read in the early big bang, forces "combined" together, like the electric and nuclear weak force. Could a electron interact with a neutrino for example?
They're not the "serious" console. But you can't cash serious at the bank. Being everybody's second or third choice has made Nintendo hand over fist the past couple years.
This is how I played the game as a kid. You don't really need any rules at all, we had no idea which "edition" of D&D we were playing, the DM just decided what a roll would mean.

We did it this way cause some very experienced older DM's introduced it. It does depend on the DM being good at telling an interactive story to be fun. but i suspect it does anyway?
yes you are one of what i was mentioning before

in here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860516
I've tried Impossible burger a couple of times in the last few months. Both were in New York - one in Soho House and one in Lucky's in Chelsea. The former cost about $25, and the latter about $13 (a burger in Lucky's runs about $8 so this is hugely expensive).

The Soho House on was just about the most disappointing thing I'v ever eaten. It tasted like a bad veggie burger. The Lucky's one was fantastic, but whilst meatier, again didn't taste like meat. I think if you served me the patty by itself I'd be able to identify it as not being meat.

My extremely limited sample has led me to conclude that the cooking skill is critical, and that you can go a long way towards persuading someone of a patty's 'meatiness' by dressing it in burger sauce, cheese, etc.

I'm not quite sure that the mission here is something indistinguishable from a real burger, but if it is then it's not there yet. But a great mission and I'll continue to fork out absurd money for them whenever the urge for a beef burger strikes me.
> there has been a shortage of lucrative opportunities for investment and growth

History has proven this to be false. There is only a shortage of creativity. There was a Micorsoft talk Ballmer gave where he rightly pointed out that it is rare for even successful companies to have more than one cash cow idea. Using their existing cash to create two or more is the main challenge facing companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple.
Agricola
Dominion
Pandemic are classics for a good reason.
You perfectly described all the non academic jobs I've ever had.
Considering I push "block" every time a site asks for push notifications, this is obviously a hard pass...
I think "the War on Cancer" is a great teaching moment for technologists: be careful with huge promises that millions latch on to: they won't forget, and when you fail, it will be (very, very) hard to win their trust back (thus, in the case of cancer, the continued fallacious narrative which the author so nicely deconstructs that we aren't making progress on cancer)
The developer in me is like : "wow the potential is huge!" And the concerned citizen in me is like :"great another sensor in my pocket!"
Ahh, I came to this thread far too late, but hopefully this won't be missed. In 1980 The Yankee Group (a tech consultancy) reached out to my dad to help them understand how Sears could respond to the growing tech phenomenon. For reasons too long to get into, Gates and my pops (a Canadian) knew each other and were even both covered in The Intelligent Machines Journal out of Palo Alto in the same issue during the waning days of the '70s.

So my father and these Yankees told Gates that Microsoft should meet with these clueless Sears guys, since they'd probably move a number of computers over the next couple years and it would be helpful for them to think "Computers? Microsoft." So he begrudgingly did.

In the meeting someone brought up investment and Gates said they could have 20% for $8m. You never know how all these things go. Sometimes someone you never heard of tells you something true and your relative position stops you from seeing it.
I agree, the streamlining of the rules from 4E -> 5E is a big deal, perhaps the single most important difference is the fact that 5E is simpler to play.

Ask ten people and you'll get ten different explanations for what's wrong with 4E. For me, the problem was that combat is time-consuming. The time it takes to resolve a single combat encounter might be one or two hours! I really enjoy the combat in 4E, but I feel like this kind of crunch has narrow appeal.

For other editions, earlier and newer, it seems more natural to just ignore rules you don't want to play with and end up with a simplified game very naturally. With 4E, it felt like you couldn't do that with the combat system.
Highly directional EMP or something similar seems like it could work, if it existed and didn’t represent an insane proliferation and terrorism threat... which it would. Nor does it solve the problem of the drone falling out of the sky. Truth be told, nothing is going to reliably mitigate the drone or its wreckage crashing, so any interception should ignore the contribution of the drone itself to the safety environment. If a countermeasure is deployed, it’s going to present a risk to the public.

That being the case, a SAM with a net warhead, some kind of rapidly setting foam, or a load of tangling wires seems like it would be most reliable without having to worry about UXO. You could even try to mitigate falling risk by ensuring the interceptor remains attached to the target, and then deploys a series of parachutes.
Looks like you have to "bookmark" it on unforget's web service.

Thankfully, that means this webshit will be easy to dodge because the last thing I want is some website spamming me when I'm not even browsing it.

Makes me angry just thinking about it.
Board games were already growing fast. Even CCGs were growing fast, not only through video games but still as physical games too. People want to sit down and get offline and spend time with each other, _and_ people who used to do that want to get online and hang out with each other.

A friend of mine used to say, "Sometimes you just have to get offline, get real, and face each other over a tabletop with some dice." Shortly after we met, we went to a haunted house together, and she won us the special T-Shirt prize by using her "spot the secret passage from the blank spot in the map" skills in real life.
>> What if there were a way to eliminate student debt?

The obvious answer would be "free higher education", like in most EU countries and I believe many non-EU countries, have, and like many US institutions offered in the past.

Unfortunately what is being proposed is insted baptising debt by another name, so that it doesn't sound like debt.