skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPU technology has come a long way over the last 5 years, but most AAA game studios want to cross-sell their titles to both the PC and console markets, so practically speaking they’re constrained to only providing as much graphical pizzazz as the current generation of consoles can support. So game graphics tend to take big leaps forward when a new generation of consoles comes out, and then stagnate for years while those consoles live out their life cycle.
True, but all these changes cost a lot of money and time.
I agree that a necessity such as housing being treated as an investment is insane. I usually bring this up to people whenever housing is discussed.

Most people I talk to are more concerned with eventually renting out their homes they bought decades ago and using that to buy another house, though. I'm really inclined to believe renting homes shouldn't be legal, perhaps, because eventually you wind up with a situation where no one even has the option of buying their own house.
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I was surprised and sad that there is no sound coming from this synth. It took me some time to realize that this synth is for generating images.
I don't see what dominance has to do with privileges and responsibilities. Besides, humans "dominate" only in a very narrow sense. Most of the biomass on the planet is not human. There are many species of insects and microorganisms that are much more "dominant" than we are.

Other animals don't necessarily kill out of necessity. For example, many animals perform surplus killing [1] - I personally know of two dogs who, together, entered a coop and killed about 40 chiken without eating any. In the same farm, dogs have often killed chickens and goats, which they just eviscerate without eating them.

Then of course there's the killing of young animals by older males- like male cats sometimes kill kittens, etc.

Besides, why is "need" to kill the only justification to kill? For example, if it's very difficult to survive without killing an animal, say because you're putting your health and that of your children at risk with a diet poor in animal protein- then why are you not justified to do it?

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing
just a heads up, your resume is a bit...confusing. Are you looking for a PM position or as an engineer? I think 4 pages is too long as well, I'd try to keep it between 1 and 2 pages.
Tencent owns less than 50% of Epic, FWIW.
The Myth of the Impartial Machine
Are you arguing that this is unconstitutional because MasterCard faces financial regulations and is therefore equivalent to the government under constitutional law?

That’s one hell of a stretch.
Both.

Some operations split and join data in non-deterministic ways (especially the order of operations, leading to different floating point rounding). If you shard across multiple machines, weight accumulation order will depend on network latency for example.

Also, GPU's aren't anywhere near as reliable as CPU's when it comes to being able to run for hours without any random bit flips/errors.
White House Hires McKinsey to Evaluate Student-Loan Portfolio
I disagree. Designing, testing, and building hardware is extremely expensive, and has a really long range return on investment; the fact that they coupled that with AI, also a long term ROI, means that they really needed a great deal of money at having a chance to succeed. I could see Cozmo as play to bring in a little more capital until they could finish creating industrial grade robots, but possibly too little too late. I'm not saying you need $200M to design/build hardware like this, but in this case it seems they may have expanded too quickly and didn't capture enough market share.
Yes it can. It would be a better investment for me to buy a cheap house then to rent an apartment at the same mortgage/rent even if the house never increased in value over time.
You sure do. Riding the rear brake into corners, aka trail braking, changes the attitude of the motorcycle making turn in quicker.
>I'm going to buy Borderlands 3 (and so are all my friends that grumbled about it being a time exclusive, and they'll buy it from Epic because we all want to play right out the gate together)

All my friends and I (30+ crowd) are like "fuck that, I got other shit to play" for Borderlands 3 but we all grudgingly used Steam back when CS:Source came out. I wonder if it's an age thing. I know my backlog is years long as this point so waiting 6 months to play it isn't making me lose sleep.
Claiming that Epic Games is to blame for the shutdown of Silicon Knights is a reach. Silicon Knights initiated the fight against Epic Games and lost two court cases against them. They were responsible for their own demise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Knights#Silicon_Knight...
The article claims that browsers drop referrer (well, "referer" :) header when you open a link in a new tab (look for those direct hits mention).

The last time I checked, that was not the case: can anyone confirm if this is true (I'll check myself later, but curious if someone knows off the top of their head).

If so, it'd be very weird.
IF Nasa were able to dedicate the olympic's budget towards hitting the olympic KPIs, it'd be a much different organization.

$20B would put an American on the moon and maybe even put an American on mars, surely that would get the world's attention.

Want peace? Let's detonate a nuclear bomb in space and get people to recognize the destructive potential of our current arms.

The olympics is designed to get people to tune in, NASA is set up to create knowledge. Judging both organizations by outcomes that only the olmpyics is concerned about is a great way to obfuscate NASA's contributions.
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We’re Seed -> Series A, seeing exponential growth, have a small but great team and super investors (Tim Draper, Naval Ravikant/Kevin Laws of Angelist thru one of their angelist funds, our customers and many more ) i.e. this would be a good time to join

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> If you care about this decision, you're not in their demographic, and probably didn't help them generate their F-You Money

I've bought their game in three different platforms.
Hadn’t considered this before, but it’s a good point.
The talk starting @ 3:30 was good, relevant for anyone using React / graphql right now.
And tesla have like maybe 100000+ car with self driving in the wild right now. This also provide tesla with tons of real live data.
You most definitely can. Steering is enabled by grip, and modulating the brakes at front or rear will change available grip. Every once in awhile I'll enter a corner too hot on the bike and a dab of rear brake will tighten things up.

Same thing applies to 4-wheel cars (see: Rally)
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* Sr. Product Manager, Search Infrastructure - This is an opportunity to scale the platform that powers our homegrown search engine as well as our fast-growing catalog of 10M+ products.

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Rank order these two by what would most benefit humanity:

* two people of different ethnicities holding hands

* cold fusion
The alpha version is available to play now, and free to play until May 8:

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Star Citizen trial week shows off spaceladies and new spacecity https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/01/star-citizen-tri...
That's not the same effect, really. And trail braking is mostly (not exclusively) a front brake technique (in which case it's more likely reducing your turn in speed, as you really, really don't want to be on much front break and lean at the same time). It's mostly used to allow speed adjustment past the entry point without upsetting the chassis by a new application of brakes.

But I'll give you that it's vaguely similar to OP in some ways, so fair enough - cornering dynamics of 4 and 2 wheels are a bit apples and oranges anyway.
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I tend to be a pessimist so I was trying to be a bit more optimistic, but I guess that was a bit misguided.
I like HG better too. But i ended up using got more because pretty much everyone in the industry at works uses git and I need to make sure I develop the most useful skill. Not that's git is hard, but there's always to learn.
Windows 95 Media Player (npm install win95-media-player)
L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
Generically known as a “food hall.” Basically an upscale food court.

Chicago version:

https://www.revivalfoodhall.com/

Raleigh version:

http://www.morganfoodhall.com/

And a bunch more:

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/50-best-food-halls-america-...
Here in Spain most brick and mortar banks will give you a merchant account with a Redsys payment gateway(national standard).

A standard merchant account will process cards for a ~0.90% fee. The account fixed costs are around 25€ per month. It has basic operations such as authorization, capture, refund and safe vault storage(for recurring payments)

With enough volume(>5000€) you can talk to the bank manager for a tighter fee structure and no monthly fee. For instance 0.6% fee + 0.10€ per transaction and no monthly fixed costs.
Treating familiarity as equivalent to friendliness is a disservice to languages that have other benefits, and to developers who may not have the exposure/experience to recognize the vast power that is outside their horizon.

"Elixir is more friendly than Erlang" is both subjective and misleading. It's more verbose than Erlang, which to me is not friendly. It has more complex syntax, which to me is not friendly. I don't believe that it has a significantly lower learning curve than Erlang despite its familiarity.
Pushes me to console releases. Can’t justify the PC ecosystem with all the nonsense going on.
First they came for the IE6ers but I didn’t speak out because I hated IE6...
> ... it's not acceptable for automation to fail danger, it must fail safe...

The scary thing is, by definition of what is being automated there can be no fail-safe. The only "safe" is to stop the car. If the car detected it was going to crash, then it wouldn't have had the failure in the first place. By the time the failure might be detected, it is already too late for "safe".
> How would this explode in your face, exactly? What was the risk here?

for one thing that actually happened because they did (and got away) with this: youtube engineers feel like they can leverage their site to dictate what they want in the browser space, by deliberately making it 5x slower on firefox and edge[0].

As a rule of thumb, if something looks fishy and shady, but just because it doesn't directly explodes in your face, treat it as a "but I don't have anything to hide" situation, and be against it. Because eventually, it will be your face.

[0] http://fortune.com/2018/07/25/youtube-slow-mozilla-firefox-c...
That paranoia dies down quickly once you realize how boring your neighborhood is. At least it did for me. In fact, I recently had an item stolen, and didn't even know it until my neighbor told me about a strange man in her backyard (I had missed the notification entirely).

I do agree with the article, however. It makes sense that a constant drip-feed of local crime news can have a detrimental effect on perceived security and danger.
My S7 can still do it. The reason newer phones can't is because they lack an aux jack: the wire is used as an antenna. Another great reason to keep the headphone jack.
as per other reply - you aren't steering you are settling chassis (which does affect compliance, hence grip in the sense that if you lose that you aren't able to steer). But as I said there, it's a similar enough thing I guess given all the different dynamics going on.
The devs could already get around the 30% cut by selling steam keys to the game on another site, bypassing Valve. Epic also doesn't care about the developers, most of their exclusivity deals boil down to "anyone but Steam", even 3rd party vendors that also take a 30% cut. Steam is also much more than just "payment processing and hosting". The Epic launcher is so devoid of features that players have to come to Steam game forums for support with their games.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/why-valve-actually-ge...
No catastrophe would have ensued. They didn't remove support for IE6. They put up a banner telling IE6 users that support would be removed some time in the future. Only taking the second step (actually removing support) would have any consequences. If a large, powerful contingent demanded that IE6 support be kept indefinitely and persuaded management of this, the banner would have been removed.
I had success porting our ancient TFS repository to git while preserving history with git-tfs https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs If you have many years of history, it will take a long time to import, so you may want to try getting the history of a subdirectory first.

The team, which was unfamiliar with git up until that point, was very happy with it. Unfortunately the Git integration in Visual Studio was/is pretty terrible -- it did not even support git stash until VS 2019 (which I'm not using yet). So try to have your teammates learn the command line workflow first. Those who used only the VS GUI had a lot of trouble. Also, doing git operations in the IDE sucks because it will constantly reload the project. This is true of TFVC as well, but you can avoid it with an external git client.
Learning and Development Manager in the Bay Area

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I’m an award-winning Learning & Development Manager with a decade of experience teaching and designing in-person and eLearning instruction in the military, public, and academic sectors. I’ve published and presented original research related to pedagogy and history in academia, and I currently design leadership development and medical skills curriculum for the Department of Veterans Affairs. I’ve worked in politics, foods services, foreign relations, construction, and the armed forces—invaluable experiences that have taught me appreciate how to relate with people and manage projects. I’m always on the lookout for new opportunities to change how people learn at work and engage with technology.
There's a pretty big difference between just releasing a new game on a new storefront, and pulling a game (or games) from an existing storefront so it can be exclusive to that new storefront. Weak approach to "competition" if you have to buy your way to relevancy with zero other value to the customer.

To be fair I have basically zero trust of digital storefronts - for example, Steam will no longer run on my still-very-recent MacBook (OS X 10.10), so I can't play any of the hundreds of games I "own" on there anymore.
We don’t expect all kinds of drivers and vehicles to fit the same safety bell curve. You’ve made an assertion, but what legal framework are you are using to treat this particular human-machine interaction differently without introducing a whole new class of liability for humans and traditional manufacturers?
Lots of things from Red Hat are nominally Open Source, but you'd have to fork a massive project to get away from Red Hat's control.

A great example is GNOME adding a systemd requirement. The key developers are employed by Red Hat, and Red Hat chose systemd, so no consideration needs to be given to the possibility that a Linux distribution might not want systemd. This is how Debian was forced into systemd.

The projects very clearly do not give consideration to criticism. Choices are made by the Red Hat teams, and that is that.
I’m a big fan of the ElementaryOS approach to user interface consistency. I hope they start being an option at build from System76.
Great. I doubt this is the beginning of WW3 but considering what's happening with Vietnam and Myanmar I'd bet that we'll have a new hegemony that Taiwan falls under if nothing changes in the next 5 years or so. Does anyone have any books on the economics of war/war of economics and such? I'm wondering where else this could go.
> or was somehow incompetent

If they survived, they would have lost their license and been charged with some form of reckless driving.

The underlying issue is that manufacturers are beta testing on the road and almost literally playing with peoples lives in the process.

Legislation, although would hurt innovation, in this case is appropriate to ensure that the race to the finish doesn’t have a blood-stained legacy.
The implicit unionization benefits of being too smart to readily fire. Interesting.
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you cant expect the human driver to be ready to take over autopilot in any meaningful way. if the driver is alert enough to the conditions and physically ready at the appropriate controls to do that, then they are already driving. still, despite it not being based on science, but legal reasons, companies pretend that humans can "take over" when alerted to. maybe a lawsuit will change that idiocy.
>Humans also have an unacceptable accident rate

How is it considered unacceptable? It has been acceptable for humans to drive in every country since 100+ years.

Anyway, the biggest problems with humans driving that cause accidents are distractions like smartphone usage, sleepiness, excessive speeding, tailgating, road rage, drunk driving, old age, being new to driving, being tired, medical problems like strokes, seizures, diabetic comas etc. which automated driving will solve.
You conveniently left out Soviet interference. The reason the CIA got involved was because the country was turning communist, which is the worst thing that can happen to a nation.

And yes, I would imagine that most don't like it; it's not a great place to live. This is why I said it was not really a good example of successful democracy.
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UserLeap is modernizing customer surveys with artificial intelligence. Leveraging years of industry experience, UserLeap helps its customers uncover the most critical issues across their user base, helping to improve conversion rates and increase retention. No longer will companies need to rely on teams of people calling and surveying their customers.

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