skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Good procgen can be amazing, but bad procgen feels really half-assed. Derek Yu's Spelunky pretty much single-handedly started the current procgen revolution, and he wrote a book about it. :) https://bossfightbooks.com/products/spelunky-by-derek-yu

(He also wrote extensively about it in his blog, as I recall, though I don't have a link handy.)
If there was an infinitely large napkin, floating in space for example, far away from everything else, would its own gravity cause it to crumple toward any folds/creases/imperfections, with sufficient force to create a cascading implosion of sufficient mass/density to create a black hole?
I assume you mean actual engineering. Look up the req for a MIT comp eng degree, attempt to teach it to yourself through OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

If you look at the regular course page, sometimes they have a more recent YouTube lecture playlist. Engineering req 5(?)yrs of F/T school with TAs to help the students, so you'd prob want to specialize unless you have 10yrs+ to do it P/T and a home lab to hack on whatever risc-v chips
Nothing happens when I press enter in the search box. (Firefox 67.0.2)

Edit: It turns out I just type faster than your popout script can execute. Nothing comes up for most things I type in. Even podcasts I actually listen to and enjoy.
Your first sentence doesn't have to be true. It's possible to create a stablecoin that's decentralized.

And such a stablecoin exists: https://makerdao.com/en/dai/

It uses collateral, lending and a careful incentive setup to maintain close to 1:1 parity with USD. I haven't looked into the detail, but it seems to have a decent record (of stability).
Didn't anyone else wonder why they needed transparent aluminium? Wouldn't some water proof cameras have been sufficient to keep an eye on the whales?
> It's just that I'm sometimes promised a world and what I get is more of a theme park.

It reminds me of all those cheesy sci-fi/fantasy movies from the '70s that promised "AN ADVENTURE BEYOND YOUR WILDEST IMAGINATION".
A video game company taking part in gender-discrimination? I wish in 2019 this was shocking news.
Many small countries have issues having stable currencies, in case you have not noticed.
If they create a suitable plastic substitute, they'll make a mint off the technology alone.
I appreciate the sophistry, but it just doesn't accurately describe the empirical reality. Western atheists are observably interested in the nonexistence of the biblical God. As you correctly note, none of them define themselves by, say, disbelief in Trimurti. I doubt they even think about it.

Furthermore, every atheist I encounter actually asserts something like "I do not believe in God, because there is no God." After all "I do not believe in God, because there is a God" is irrational and, given the consequences of disbelief if God is as described in western tradition, exceedingly foolish. Atheism is only a rational belief if God is known to not exist. Otherwise it's no different than not believing in climate change or dinosaurs.

And in any event a transcendent creator God (first cause, etc) isn't anything at all like the easter bunny, comic book superheroes, or bad fictional characters.
>realtime programs like games are CPU-bound everywhere not just in one loop

Isn't this a simplification? Even for games, I'd expect most often to be GPU bound, then memory bandwidth bound, and only then CPU bound. Although I get that the hot loop thing/10% rule is not universally true for every CPU bound program (especially after code has already been heavily optimized).

But I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with. I didn't mean to totally deny the usefulness of UB in C++ (although I think the core rendering code of AAA games are more performance sensitive than "the majority of most programs"). I was just pointing out that C is certainly not as simple as it first appears, and many people new to it are not familiar with the rules around UB.

Go's able to design around some of the performance aspects without UB (using the native word size for ints by default can help some of the signed integer stuff, range loops can elide bounds checks, etc), but probably can't generate as optimal code as C can without dropping to assembly language.
Seems to be well targeted at producers / distributes rather just consumers. Stop this at this source

> The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking of children; and (4) travel across state lines or to foreign countries and sexually abuse children.
ICEs don't pose much of a risk. The damage they cause is predictable.
Because standards are not products. They should enable things, not to be used for profit. Profiteering from that hinders progress. It should be quite self explanatory.
You can crinkle the paper money in your fingers. Real money makes a unique sound. It is perfectly acceptable to test the money in front of the person you got it from.

I had to use cash instead of WeChat a few times and the vendor also did this as a test.
looks exactly like fecebook to me
Then good thing I didn't just notice this on "western media" and instead went and saw it for myself in Hong Kong. I've talked to HKers of all ages.

Sorry to have to break it to you, but it is unanimous. An overwhelming majority of the population is against the extradition bill, and any shows of pro-government support are manufactured as propaganda.
Thanks, @CondensedBrain. You can suggest some of your favorite podcasts and it will be added as soon as possible.
Everyday purchases because I get between 1-5% cash back and no fee or interest as I pay it off every month..
Oh I know, I'm not arguing it is coercion.I'm arguing that it indicates an attempt to distribute is tenuous
I think there's a difference between asking Slack to police it, versus just having the ability to mute a conversation or limited do not disturb.

There are conversations where you need to be more or less involved, and choosing your level of involvement on a per conversation basis, rather than on the entire account would be helpful.

Of course it looks like a minor "feature request" but I'm sure rolling that out would actually be a bit of an under taking. I know that I had to cull the channels I was in and other conversations so that the alerts I was receiving were actually pertinent to me, especially on the mobile app. Not as much of a problem on Desktop, but none the less.
Non-native widgets? Insanely laggy UI if you have more than one workspace signed in? 9GB of RAM just to keep the thing running?

Oh, it's a people thing.
No, you are not going to get arrested in America for making a joke about George Washington.

Enough with the irresponsible moral equivalence arguments.

There are glaringly material differences between 'Google software scanning your mails to target ads' and 'the police having $2/hour folks reading private chats to arrest you for totally arbitrary reasons'.
> Clearly, a bit of a different story than what's implied in this article.

Is it?

I would classify both of those as satirical comments (albeit offensive ones). I'm not sure how familiar you are with the US, but it would not be considered socially acceptable here for the police to question you about comments like this made in, say, a private Facebook message.

It definitely would not be acceptable for police in the US to arrest someone over this; that would be a very clear 1st Amendment violation.
How about an OPML import? Doing them one by one will get old fast.
Okay, I see where you are going with that.

If I read you correctly, you feel strictly that when someone contributes to open source their reward is that the product/feature works for them. There is no other consideration expected or needed. Is that correct?

Where we might differ is that I have observed that people contributing to open source feel a sense of pride or "ownership" over the work they have contributed.

Further, when someone who has not been part of the community, or contributed to it in any meaningful way, uses that work to make themselves and perhaps people that work for them wealthy, I have observed that the people who feel ownership feel a certain level of "unfairness" if you will.

In a strict libertarian point of view there was never any sort of economic contract to share any wealth created by a thing with the people who created and maintained that thing. As such the people who created it are without recourse and should be happy with the satisfaction they got from creating and maintaining it in the first place. And that was "their choice" that they made.

If that is what you're saying, I don't find the feelings these people have to be "perverse" (which by definition would make them abnormal). I am not arguing that the people start out with a motivation to "make money on their work", I was discussing the situation that the original author notes which is that sometimes a little gizmo you make is useful to a lot of people, and so it gets very widely utilized. The number of users creates a tremendous maintenance burden which is unfunded. That maintenance is, in my opinion, a value-add service which isn't being compensated (or is being compensated at a below poverty level according to our author).
I think it will take a long time for the west to really stand up against china, because of the economy interest, the lack of transparency and culture / language barrier.
Until china hits the pearl harbor, it will get worse and worse.

Disclaimer: I am from china, living in the US now.
Just remember: a license which limits the use (even commercial use) of software is not a free software/open source license.

People may use whatever license they wish, but it's important to be clear about what is (and is not) FOSS.
+1 for bensound.com (no affiliation either). Per my understanding of their terms [0] the free tracks can be used in YT videos as long as you credit them. Unfortunately, the tracks that can be retrieved without subscription are a precious few but I found them rather pleasing.

Been doing a bit of research on the topic lately and haven't come up with sites as permissive as bensound.com. Anyone else aware of similar ones?

[0] https://www.bensound.com/licensing
It is in the interests of our citizens to have talent flow into the US instead of flowing out. But that wasn't really my point.

My point was people who have benefitted from our country's historic immigration practices are decrying the continuation of those practices.
You would think that an article on Politico about the effect (or not) of Google/Facebook on ad revenue for newspapers would at least have a disclosure that Politico makes money from ad revenue.
ObjC Garbage Collection comes to mind.
I feel like the technical quality of the writing has degraded over time as well. With all the staff cuts, copy editors were apparently some of the first to go, and you can really tell.
Youtube started as an easy place to watch pirated movies.
True, but that's a symptom of other problems that cryptocurrencies can't solve.
I'm pretty sure HN is fine with direct linking reddit discussions as long as its constructive
Does local TV news experience any of the same troubles as written media? Video news doesn’t seem to be struggling.
A job you could only get by having the reputation in the first place.
Yeah, this is interesting. I still think my argument about having features as a differentiator still stands - Apple would never build (and Google would never allow) Apple to have a seamless backup and restore solution like iCloud on Android. Maybe they'll build a client, but it's always going to be a second class citizen when compared to the native clients.
Tires, oil, brakes, belts, wheel bearings, transmission... With a mechanical system like a car there are lots of things which wear down with use.

Instead of trying to figure out the actual difference yourself, you can simply look at what people are willing to pay for a car which is the same year but has different amounts of mileage. The literal resale value of your car changes drastically depending on mileage, that is the actual unrealized cost most of these ride sharing services exploit.
Redux-handlers: Compose your reducers with functions, not switch statements
An infinitely large napkin, if made of any sort of normal matter, would have infinite mass. It's gravitational pull would propigate, at c IIRC, out from the instant of its creation across all of space/time, sucking all objects (including itself) towards it's center of mass at the speed of light (OK, just under. Literally c-0.000...1m/s). It not only would create a black hole, it would signal the end of the entire universe. The destruction of any point in space would depend simply on the distance from the napkin. For every 299,792,458 meters away from napkin center, that object would have one second of existance left. When the gravitational pull hits anything, the acceleration would be so strong, again 0-c in 0 seconds, that some crazy subatomic fusion would occur.

Any physicists out there able to flesh this out? I find the thought experiment fascinating and am sure I'm missing/misrepresenting something.
$150 million is a pretty considerable amount to spend on virtue signaling.
It's possible to have high quality public news sources.

In the US the government mainly attacks them by defunding them (or attempting to).
HN and other online places are guilty for calling all sorts of investments ludicrous. But Instagram along with Priceline buying Booking.com, Naspers buyjg 1/3 of Tencent, and to a smaller degree Yahoo (though they stupidly sold a lot of the stake far too early) and SoftBank investments into Alibaba are the best tech investments possibly of all time. And some of the best investments overall too.
333!

None of which really compete, but yeah, literally hundreds. Just one big one though, GIMP Painter.
Flutter and Ionic Compared
I had to think about this. I came up with 'csargs'.
The point of the "napkin" isn't to be a generic Maths textbook; it's to trace up the prerequisite chain from category theory until it connects with high-school-level maths. Do you need statistics or differential equations to understand category theory?
I don't think an EULA will override a warrant or subpoena.
Print's Return as Curated Media
See also this wonderful monograph on Super Metroid:

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HugoBille/20120114/90903/The...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438811
I think you misunderstand. China is not a heavy-handed police state not because everyone is perfectly free, but because not everyone is unfree. The police simply isn't equipped to oppress everyone, so it only hits an unlucky minority. It's just that in China minorities can comprise millions of people. So while in the worst case you might be executed and have your organs harvested, in the average case you'll not even be paid attention to.

For example, when I lived in China my landlord violated several regulations on minimum unit size and fire safety, forged documents to hide this and probably also didn't pay any taxes on the rent I paid in cash. One day there was a notice by the police posted to the door, announcing that they'd come investigate. Some time later I got a message from my landlord warning me and the other tenants not to open the door. The police never came. I assume he either paid them off with a bribe or they were simply too lazy to follow up on their threat.

If China is a police state, then it's one where the police doesn't take their job very seriously.
That would be great too
If the vendor has had zero days notice then nobody has had any time to patch, so my statement stands.
Fat as a symbol of status is mostly a myth, popularized by the 'fat is healthy' tumblr cult.
There's a Doom playthrough with John Romero where he talks about waiting until the very end to design the first level; that is, it was the last one he made.

The idea is that by the time you've finished the rest of the game, you're really good at making levels. You have a solid understanding of what makes a passage fair, balanced, engaging, and so on.
Skip to the bottom few paragraphs if you want to get straight to the reason.
"If Congress won't write laws for this century's technology, courts must craft rules that ensure a fair and orderly review of new investigative methods. For example, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (which also confronts the tension between effective investigations and privacy) has a system for bringing in independent lawyers called "amici curiae" to argue novel or significant legal issues that occasionally arise when the government asks for technology-based surveillance orders. Those amici can argue in favor of the target's presumed privacy interests but don't represent him and can't give him information about the investigation. Magistrate judges occasionally do the same on an ad hoc basis, but in those cases the amici don't have the same access to information as is allowed in the FISA court, and, like the FISA amici, they can't appeal a lower-court ruling. Giving these independent lawyers the information they need to argue about the legality of novel law enforcement requests, as well as the right to appeal, would at least provide for a more balanced assessment of new surveillance technologies and a quicker way for questions about them to be decided on a national basis."

Not making an analogy, totally different situation, but this reminded me of OUII staff attorneys in ITC patent cases. ITC decisions can have a broad effect on the public, on consumers, and the government can try to address this by naming a third party to the proceedings who is supposed to represent the public interest.

"ITC's Office of Unfair Import investigation (OUII) may take part in an investigation. The OUII acts as a neutral party representing the public interest in the investigations. The OUII participates in the investigations through its staff attorneys, who file briefs, participate in discovery, offer opening statements, and examine witnesses, much like the private parties. The presence of the OUII in ITC investigations creates a unique dynamic when compared to federal district court litigation."

https://www.venable.com/services/practices/section-337-inves...

I guess the reason I thought of this is because according to this judge, privacy law is being made and AFAICT the public interest is not being represented in the process.
> That said, people are using IPFS with millions of users today.

This seems like the thing they should lead with: what are those users doing and why would be a great way to explain the value.
Sounds interesting! Which startup?
But you still failed to account for a VP role vs COO role.
Weirdly, this can also be true in FOSS software. Despite e.g. DBMSes like Postgres being open-source, SQL-the-standard costs ~USD$180 to read: https://www.iso.org/standard/63555.html
By that logic there's no guilt on society's part, either. In fact, there's no such thing as injustice. Only fate.
I contend it's not. There are two main features which proper (decentralized) cryptocurrencies are supposed to offer.

The first is censorship resistance. And I can assure you that however in the world you set up something backed by a fiat, its controlling government can step in and seize your collateral if and when it pleases and then you're screwed. But you can certainly come up with all sorts of fancy legal speak and marketing pitches to argue otherwise which makerdao is basically doing.

The second is protection from currency manipulation and stable coins solve nothing on that front, but let's assume for the sake of argumentation that people interested in stable coins are aware of that.
I think your first point about enterprise vs consumer is very true. I don't even think it's a recent change.

What I disagree with is your opinion about VC money. If they didn't take VC money Dropbox in its current state wouldn't exist. The costs to support free accounts is staggering - there is a very real dollar cost associated with running a giant farm of storage servers. But free accounts are also crucial to Dropbox's business. It's very natural to run out of space and then decide to upgrade to a paid account. So you can see there's a bootstrapping problem. How do you support these free users while they add enough stuff to convert? This seems like a pretty good usecase for VC to me.

I'd also push back a bit on sticking to 'their core vision.' I don't know how much more there is to do there: Dropbox is already best in class in sync and backup. I'm not saying there are no improvements, but they are decidedly more incremental than in the business collaboration space.
Because leadership doesn't realize you can build a great company selling toilet paper.

They think they increase their chances of profitability by adding breadth instead of depth.
Yeah, the IRB isn't even within spitting distance of a HIPAA issue. They're entirely different things, handled by different regulatory agencies, and administered in different parts of a hospital (if a hospital even has an IRB, as most don't, since most aren't research institutions), overseeing different activities.

If someone called my hospital's IRB to "school them" on a HIPAA violation, I can't even imagine what their response would be. I mean, I'm sure it would be polite, but it's not like they'd start hand-holding the lady on how to file complaints - they wouldn't know, themselves. It's only one step up from calling the cafeteria services people.
What is and isn't FOSS is not clear and never has been, when it comes to copyleft. We could rewrite any copyleft license as a limit on use. Don't use this MPL library to build a closed, competing fork. Don't use this GPL program to build a larger, closed program. Don't use this AGPL framework to build a closed web service.
> Essentially, this is the equivalent of the virtual Facebook nation-state establishing their own federal reserve.

That leaves me really at unease. The Federal Reserve has plenty of its own problems, but it has a history of providing US currency stability.

I doubt an individual foregoing usage of this coin will make much difference in its adoption. Maybe the stability of the US Dollar will still reign superior to this? Paper dollars have their own transaction costs, but come with a lot of nice "enterprise" features I'd like to see in a currency.
Hospitals take compliance issues very seriously; the incentives are skewed highly in one direction.

Consider it an extension of "HR is there to protect the company, not you." Compliance is there to protect the hospital, not the individual employee that may have erred.

As long as they make a good faith effort to act on the complaint, they themselves are protected from liability. Whereas if they don't act, they open themselves up to enormous liability, on behalf of a replaceable peon - I mean, on behalf of a highly respected staff member.
Security pros trade barbs over Microsoft bug disclosure
>I don't think anybody takes Fox seriously (or at least I hope nobody does).

Try hanging out with a different crowd.

My observation is that if you get information from only one source (or only sources of one ideology), and they repeat it over, and over, and over, you'll end up believing it - no matter how intelligent you are. Blind repetition is all that is needed. I've interacted with very smart people who mostly watch Fox News and will believe stuff that a simple Google search would debunk. Likewise for many liberals who have "interesting" beliefs regarding diet or health.

I think good journalism is one of the signs of a healthy society. Whether the government can foster good journalism or not is a different story. But if most journalism is of the Fox News or Huffington Post ilk, your society's "health" is at risk.

Finally, if you really believe government shouldn't be involved, then remove all laws that provide special protections to the press (if any exist). Examples are shield laws almost every state has. If you accept for special government privileges for journalists, you shouldn't claim no government intervention.