skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, to point out it doesn't appear that the MCC itself uses 360 emulation. It predates the 360 emulation, for one thing, and you can easily contrast how the MCC runs to Rare Replay which does clearly boot up the 360 VM for some of its games (and which show up outside of the combined Replay launcher in the Games Library as back compat 360 games).

Supposedly a true x64 port of the multiple generations of the Halo engines was an important goal of the 343 team to feel that they knew the engines inside and out, and had a good handle on using that engine for Halo 5 to give a longer lead time on their next engine. (Halo Infinite [6] supposedly will use a brand new engine codenamed "Slipspace".)

Other signs that MCC was most likely a very "proper" port of the engines to x64 include some of the ways bugs riddled the early post-launch phases, especially in multiplayer code.
Related: If you haven’t seen TOML (”Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language”), have a look. It seems pretty nice IMHO.

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
I'm not sure what law that's included in, but it's not part of GDPR.

Might be the copyright reform, but comments should still be fine with that.
My (now) wife and I took the Empire Builder from Seattle to Chicago about 10 years ago

I've done the Empire Builder back-and-forth between Seattle and Chicago, or Saint Paul about six times in the last six years, and never had anything like that happen. I can only assume that things have improved since your trip.

The worst thing I experienced was a four-hour delay in Milwaukee because of a broken down freight train blocking the line. But we were free to get out and walk around and stretch our legs.
Still, opiate deaths now outnumber vehicular deaths, although vehicular death has been dropping. Opiate deaths probably skew young and one might ask: just what percent of, on average, poor impulse control young people are now killed by opiate death?
I just bought a ton of outdoor gear and consistently found other websites such as Backcountry, Moosejaw and REI to be significantly cheaper. Was usually 2-3 day shipping which isn't much worse than Prime's 2 day.
Pure speculation but increased marihuana usage and acceptance could have been a contributing factor as well. A lot of young adults switching from binge drinking to chilling out while smoking with friends.
Yeah I can appreciate register starvation, something I've come across in previous coding.
Because of how recursing works[1], ICANN only serves the IP for the dns server responsible for the tld. I doubt that would run afoul of any laws because ICANN doesn't even know what the actual domain you're looking up is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_an_iterative_D...
That's still interpolating, by the definitions I know.

The main difference here is that the interpolation algorithm on your TV is online. It's handling 30 frames per second, over 9 million pixels per second. Doing the interpolation offline (ahead of time), you can take as long as you want, look at multiple frames to try to make better guesses, try multiple things and use some fitness measure to pick a winner, even a frame or a pixel at a time.

It's still interpolation.
”The idea that a certain programming language could be proven to be more productive than another is laughable.”

I disagree. In the extreme, take python on the one hand and a variant of brainfuck that requires the hash (could be as simple as CRC-32 or as hard as SHA-256) of every source file to be zero on the other.

I don’t think you have to go that far to get provable differences, though. Some features that, I think, can fairly easily be proven to make programmers more productive in large parts of the space of programming tasks:

- assembler macros

- variable names that can have more than two characters

- direct support for floating point

- support for complex numbers

- local variables

- structures

- support for serialization and deserialization. Compare the way one can make simple structures serializable using Swift’s Codable protocol to whatever is ‘best’ for C (probably something macro-based)

- generics

- support for Unicode strings

- iterators

Of course, “python vs Java” or “python vs Perl” are much closer races where I expect measuring differences is way harder and results will depend on problem domain, experience of the subjects of the study, number of good and bad answers on StackOverflow, etc, but even for ‘normal’ languages, I expect some conclusions to be possible, given enough effort is spent. Python 1.0 didn’t have complex numbers, for example, so if your program needed them, python 1.4 was a huge improvement.

I doubt evaluating productivity of languages is worthwhile, though.
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS server has recurring trouble with the (non-Cloudflare) CDN used by Macy's for their website and mobile apps. I last observed this failure in February 2019. Changing DNS absolutely can break things.
He also did “On the optimization landscape of tensor decompositions” with Tengyu Ma which I thought was really cool.
Your criticism (outside of complexity) of the suggestion may be unfounded, consider:

Client: asks server for nonce
Server: sends nonce
---- OR ----
Nonce arrives with login page

Client: sends HMAC(nonce + HMAC(username + password + appname) + Unix Epoch rounded to last 5 min block))

Server:
1. gets response
2. using username as key pulls HMAC(username + password + appname) from DB
3. Computes HMAC(last nonce sent to username + DB HMAC + Unix Epoch rounded to last 5 min block)) and compares to user token
4. last nonce is cleared

This algorithm would have prevented the attack (only the client computed HMAC would be in the logs) and is not subject to replay.
What I'll never understand about complaints about 'affordable' housing -- if the housing supply is so unaffordable, how come vacancy rates are so low?
I've been a customer of hover for a couple of years now. I've transferred as many of my GoDaddy domains to it as I could without affecting any running services (email mostly). And now I have 35 domains on hover. I'm happy to pay the increased price just because the UI doesn't change.
I'm not demeaning anyone. Sometimes, we can all look at the things we deify, including obscurity and complexity, and laugh a bit at ourselves. Tell me with a straight face that this article isn't quintessential fodder for the show "Silicon Valley".

I fully agree with your parent comment that this article is a demonstration of multiple positive traits of the author, I respect him/her a lot. But also, I cannot help but laugh a bit at myself and the others who up-voted the article. That in no way diminishes my respect for anybody, including the author.

FYI - I've relied on LaTex for submitting to multiple peer reviewed journals, my thesis and my thesis defense presentation (LaTex Beamer), so I fully understand and appreciate the skill level of the author here

Cheers!
AFAIK these stores employ security/loss-prevention (and stockers as well, just not cashiers). There’s people at the door in the videos I saw. How do they stop people from stealing?
Doesn't the government run Amtrak?
What if we stop thinking about fining or promoting sanctions against everything and start helping people do the right thing?

* Promote Multi-Factor Authentication
* Promote public/private key usage
* Speak out against password reuse
...
They already have one official mirror.

http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/
Other governments do it just fine.
Godwin's law doesn't say what you think it does.

It's not a "low effort meme", it's appropriate sometimes.
“Some registries do not allow domains to be registered with WHOIS Redaction or WHOIS Privacy. Many of these are country TLDs (ccTLDs) like .uk. Cloudflare does not yet support TLDs that prohibit WHOIS redaction, but we will in the near future.”

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/domain-registrat...
The Feeling of Loneliness Is the Result of Human Evolution
This is one of the most important articles I have read in a long time.
I've done some longer distance trips with Amtrak and generally had a pretty good experience outside of Union Station in Chicago which was awful.
And Hillary Clinton getting a call from "the grandkids" during an event meant to appeal to moms. Totally not staged.

https://www.indy100.com/article/hilary-clinton-facetime-call...
Could be used for stereogram steganography!
I like the characterization of pure vs. applied math being primarily about motivation. I've often said the difference is more on the "why" that the "what".
This was a big part of what motivated me to create OTPCL [1]; using full-blown Erlang or Elixir for configuration files feels dangerous and heavy-handed, and I want to be able to readily define DSLs for configuration files instead to offer better control/safety/ergonomics. Plus, I happen to like Tcl ;)

Imagine being able to go from a foo.app like this:

{application,otpcl,
[{description,"Open Telecom Platform Command Language"},
{vsn,"0.1.0"},
{modules,[otpcl,otpcl_env,otpcl_eval,otpcl_init,otpcl_parse,
otpcl_shell,otpcl_stdlib,otpcl_stdmeta]},
{registered,[]},
{applications,[kernel,stdlib]},
{licenses,["ISC"]},
{links,[{"Bitbucket","https://bitbucket.org/YellowApple/otpcl"},
{"GitHub","https://github.com/YellowApple/otpcl"}]}]}.

to something more like a foo.app.otpcl:

application otpcl {
description "Open Telecom Platform Command Language"
vsn 0.1.0
modules otpcl otpcl_env otpcl_eval otpcl_init otpcl_parse \
otpcl_shell otpcl_stdlib otpcl_stdmeta
registered
applications kernel stdlib
licenses ISC
links {
Bitbucket "https://bitbucket.org/YellowApple/otpcl"
GitHub "https://github.com/YellowApple/otpcl"
}
}

I dunno about you, but I like the latter a lot better :) It ain't a 1:1 representation, but it'd be straightforward to define each of those parameters as commands that emit the corresponding Erlang forms that make up an actual app spec.

While OTPCL's by no means ready for primetime yet, I'm hoping it'll eventually be good enough to fill that niche in the Erlang/OTP ecosystem the same way Tcl was meant to fill that niche for software in general.

[1]: https://otpcl.github.io / https://github.com/otpcl/otpcl
That's a wild generalization, based on a lack of experience or knowledge. A number of passenger railroads in the United States also have quiet cars. Metra comes to mind, but I know I've seen others.

For americans its something quaint and wild whereas for europeans its just a basic form of transportation

You're either repeating outdated cliches from the internet, or you must not live in a large metropolitan area with passenger train service.
> If someone wants a loan in BTC, they don't want your fake BTC.

Which is purely down to branding.

>Infinite blockchains argument is not valid.

Because you say so?

> Blockchains need to be secure and you can't get billions worth of mining power or POS investments from thin air.

These follow value, they don't create it.
I can't either. My eyes have dramatically different failings (one is nearsighted, one far) and have since I was a child, and it seems like even with glasses on it's just not gonna happen. I'm guessing it's the "since a child" part making my brain bad at stereopsis in general, though I really don't know.
That has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about providing decent wages, vacation, normal working hours, steady jobs, etc. Of course, these laws need to be implemented by the government but it has nothing to do with taking government funding.
Seems a little paranoid, but I've learned to rule nothing out since one interviewer later testified against me (about the <1hr remote interview, which had nothing to do with the charges).

If you've got a bully or "griefer" out there, there's little you can do to get them to stop maligning you, unless there's a record of what they said, they're making a statement of fact (saying you're a jerk and a liar doesn't count since they're opinions), and you call them on it quickly (defamation has a very short statute of limitations most places).
Is there anywhere we can read more about who says Google Swisstable is the fastest and why?
>EBMs actually associate an "energy" to each point of the input distribution which then defines a probability distribution through the Boltzmann Distribution.

Yes, this is precisely what MCMC methods do as well. Every posterior distribution is a Boltzmann distribution for some energy function.

>However, since we initialize chains with a random prior distribution, each individual chain is individually likely to hit any mode so all modes are likely to be explored.

This is also a pretty standard technique in MCMC. But most high-dimension Bayesian models have a huge amount of modes that that cannot be explored in a reasonable number of samples/chains.
Doesn't work that way in a lot of the real world.
Same from Ukraine
This is the best instruction I've read so far on seeing them. I'm fine with cross-eye stereograms, so lining up to 3 dots was easy. What you described as "stabilizing" your vision once you've focused is what I normally do with cross-eye images to look around.

In this case, I can stabilize, but I feel like I'm still seeing the inverse of what I should be seeing. The hemisphere looks like it's carved into the image (with various bands that I assume are shading). The very center looks like a hole was cut out and I can see "behind" the hemisphere. I assume this is supposed to be a highlight and the nearest point to me, but I see it as the furthest.
Exactly. And most consumers do not have a choice what ISP to use. So their options are either a) Use comcast's DNS [comcast has had a history of doing questionable things] or b) use another DNS like cloudflare that claims to be safe / secure / morale.

Short of running your own DNS server, there's not exactly a lot of options.
A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory
The problem with airplanes is that the carbon is released in exactly the wrong place[0] so your intuitions are correct. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place as far as air travel is concerned: don't fly and we lose a major component of global dimming[1], fly and and it puts CO2 in the upper atmosphere speeding us toward global warming on an apocalyptic scale. If you can read a graph you know we are in big trouble.

[0] - https://globalwarmingisreal.com/2013/03/20/earthtalk-airplan...
[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11218772_Climatolog...
Back a decade ago, unfortunately, this was still commonplace.

We should be applauding them for their initiatives for protecting user accounts, like MFA, notification alerts, etc. instead of condemning them for making this awful mistake.
Their own lawyers, but also the ones that are itching for a big juicy target to sue.
So sure, their logistics are a mess in general, but if they had a great idea for, I dunno, shipping-based rolling warehouse allocation or something, and Zoox got caught doing the same thing, it's game over.

But that's not the world we live in. Tesla posted their lawsuit online, and the details are available all over.

From the Verge, on the Zoox lawsuit:

The employees allegedly made off with information related to what Tesla calls its “WARP” system, a proprietary software platform the company built to collectively manage things like manufacturing, warehousing, inventory, distribution, and transportation. “These materials and knowhow were developed by Tesla over many years, and at great expense,” the company’s lawyers write. (WARP was described by multiple former employees to CNBC last year as “seemingly never complete,” which made it hard to keep track of budgets.)

The company claims that Turner, who was a manager at a Tesla distribution center, sent confidential documents containing information about the company’s receiving and inventory procedures, along with “internal schematics and line drawings of the physical layouts of certain Tesla warehouses” to his personal email address with the words “you sly dog you...” Turner allegedly sent another document to his personal email later that same day with a note that said: “Ooooh man... so much time and effort. Loved every second of it though,” according to Tesla.

Zoox hasn't started building anything yet. It's still in the prototype stage. It's possible that Zoox would have used this information if it got to the point of actually building a car (but see Faraday Future for an example of optimistic thinking). But Tesla would need to show that Zoox used a proprietary system for managing inventory, warehousing, etc., instead of the many platforms available on the market, most of which appear to function better than Tesla's in-house system. Tesla would alternatively need to show that Zoox used the layouts of Tesla's warehouses in designing its own.

It's the same issue that Waymo ran into with Uber: whatever the former employee may have done, the new employer isn't liable for anything if they don't actually use that misappropriated information.
Your username checks out, at least.
Not equating them, they are two separate things and the two most important parts of success IMO.
Silent hill concepts could be fun with this. Otherwise eh. I would like to see Jojo palette swaps occur to highlight tension but I don’t see that being implemented with something like this.
I get that it’s fun to beat up on Tesla. We love nothing more than the little guy winning and the winning guy brought low. Tis the great cycle of life.

However, Tesla is the largest battery manufacturer in the world, and manufactures their batteries at significantly lower cost, higher performance, tighter tolerances, and with greater automation than anyone else in the world.

It’s underestimating the difficulty of the problem by far to point to specific (relatively minor, if not insignificant) failures of Tesla and generalize that their logistics IP isn’t worth stealing or couldn’t possibly be beneficial to a competitor.

The gross margins that Tesla has achieved on the Model 3 I believe speaks for itself as the worlds best at that price point, and that does not come without a well run supply chain.

There is no question that Tesla runs hot. I’d like to see anyone else try and come close to what they’ve shipped without a fair share of fuckups along the way.
I barely think of Google as a search engine for the web anymore. Modern Google is more like an "ask a commonly asked question and get an answer" engine.

My problem with this is that the usefulness of web searching seems to have been sacrificed in order to be good at answering the common questions. It's great if I have a question a bunch of other people have asked too, not so good if I'm looking for anything more than that.
The argument for switching to Firefox seems weak. I don't doubt there are very solid reasons to do so, however the author's argument comes down to "I, personally, just trust this one more, and I'm lazy and don't want to worry about it." Okay.... that's nice.
I didn't try to disprove anything. In fact, that may very well be true. The OP was hinting at the idea, and I wanted to explicate it, while acknowledging the controversy of it.

I just don't think much is gained by knowing factually that X people have greater intelligence than Y people.

In my opinion, that knowledge can only be used to be divisive and destructive. Lets operate off the principle that all people can have great potential, and work from there. Some things are worth being wrong about.
> Walmart offers free 2-day shipping on most goods I would typically order from Amazon,

Yeah because WalMart is just a bastion of ethics. Why not support local businesses? I guess you have to ask what you goal is in quitting Amazon - if it's "sticking it to the man", buying stuff from WalMart is probably even worse, ethically.
> If the cost for the next wind turbine or solar farm was just $1 it would be wrong to assume that your incremental energy cost is now just $1. You still have to build the coal/gas/nuclear plant to generate power when that turbine or farm is generating 0 energy.

Only if you are starting from scratch. When adding a wind turbine or solar farm to an existing system, the incremental energy cost can even be negative, if adding the new generator means you can run your thermal power plants for less time or with less power (using less fuel and reducing wear on the mechanical parts).

> And because power from solar and wind can start and stop at any time you have to keep your other base load plants fired up and ready to go at any time.

"Start and stop at any time" is an exaggeration. Both solar irradiation and wind speed are predictable in the short term, so these backup power plants only have to be ready when a power shortage is predicted.
Hackers Abusing Recently Patched Vulnerability in Easy WP SMTP Plugin
Yeah, I definitely order less without Prime than when I have Prime. Part of this is that $25 free shipping minimum: I'll hesitate to order cheap things if I have to pay for shipping, so I wait until I have an order that's at least $25, and sometimes then end up never ordering them at all.

And I also use a fair bit of Walmart and Best Buy ordering now. Both do ship to store as well, though Walmart's is annoyingly lackluster because in-store pickup closes early in the day.
> Bezos famously says Amazon's "secret sauce" is "obsessive compulsive focus on the customer." Isn't this move at odds with that focus?

So is not dealing with commingling. Amazon's focus is on driving down costs, and finding every way to leverage existing position for additional revenue. The claim of customer focus is true only to the extent of finding and greasing every possible route between the customer’s wallet and Amazon's bottom line. Anything else is (as one should expect of any executive’s public statements) simply PR.
Not a scientist. I'm a developer who has been working in the neuroscience field for 15 years, specifically with brain stimulation devices.

I'm not saying this qualifies as any sort of degree nor was I saying you should count my anecdotes as facts.

It is simply my belief that the vergence-accommodation conflict needs to be solved before VR will be adopted by the masses. I think vergence-accommodation neurological process should stay coupled as it does in nature to provide a completely natural feeling and non strained experience for the user. The research here is scant. Perhaps someone is aware of some ongoing research on this topic.
My entire issue with this is that CloudFlare hides behind some “first amendment” type nonsense, which is literally is irrelevant outside US borders.

Also, being a CF customer means sharing the same serving nodes as all those “interesting” websites. Some people are fine with that, others may not be.

I upvoted you since Hacker News is protective of CF for obvious reasons. I don’t see why this isn’t open for debate.
"how do we curb the emergence of giant tech corporations with finances the size of nation states that literally threatens democracies [...]"

I don't know, but this problem easily generalizes _all_ giant corporations.
Some people enjoy the taste of coffee. My parents love their espresso/cappuccino machine and they pretty much exclusively drink decaf. My younger brother also loves it, he's only allowed to drink decaf due to his age.

I can't stand the coffee taste but there are those who don't.
Today I searched for a phrase including the word “Swedish”. First result was an article that contained the word “German”, which Google had helpfully bolded in the excerpt, as Swedish and German are basically the same thing I guess?
Couple of responses to that question here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-01/?p=10...

Basically the old accounts couldn't be carried over and so users wouldn't be able to log in anymore to delete their comments.
Alright, now I want to do this with Babylon 5 since it seems like the HD remaster from WB/Amazon petition has flopped. Heck, even just upscaling the SFX shots from 360p to full DVD quality would be a worthwhile project.
I can only be grateful for them doing such great support on Linux, and being open
If consumers like the fake wasabi and most consumers have only had fake wasabi then it's not really protecting the consumer.