skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't a physical dial, but it can still be controlled via a menu on the touchscreen. I don't think it's anymore intelligent than the light sensitive automatic headlights on any other car.
> I saw PUBG added new maps. Huge mistake. HUGE.

Well, maybe a huge mistake from a business, milk-the-cow-dry standpoint. But from a gameplay perspective, there's a fair number of players who enjoy playing on multiple maps and wouldn't keep playing a game with a single map.

A case in point being myself and my close group of friends, who still play many hours of PUBG every week and also buy the season passes. We don't play Fortnite or Apex Legends, which only have one map (among many other differences).

There's plenty of room for more than one way of managing a large multiplayer game, thankfully. I'd dread a future where game-makers only try to optimize for financial success and are afraid of ailenating _any_ part of their customer base. Thankfully, there seems to be a point where things shift back out of equilibrium when too many game companies try to do this. Fortnite actually being a very good example.
I also had a period of time where it all seemed like gibberish.

What changed was a chat with Alexander Simovic (mapping expert). He laid out the following learning path (which worked excellent):

1. Read the book

2. Map your own systems (from work, startup, or open source).

3. Share your maps with others and get feedback (I can certainly introduce you to others if you email me).
There is no "we" in this. I would express it:
>Why should "I" accept that privacy intrusions are okay?

As long as it's a voluntary business relationship, there's nothing to say. If your scale of preferences tells you that privacy is a more important factor than the service itself, then use the services that suit your demand, but don't prevent others from acting differently.

>If we as a society decide to limit how companies can collect and use our data...

Why? I don't have the right to decide for you. If you decide to get married, do I have the right to tell you how to proceed in your contractual relationship with your partner? As long as it is a voluntary contract and the individual rights of others are respected..., does the rest of society or the government have the right to decide or impose rules for you or your partner on how your association proceeds?

"Take it, leave it or shut up." If the concept of "privacy" is as important to society as it is to you, it will lead to an increase in demand and supply linked to services that incorporate greater privacy into their products. You don't need to do anything about it, but whatever you try to do in an arbitrary, subjective and coercive way, it will be objectively immoral and violent towards the rest of the people.

>Companies don't have a right to their business model.
They have that right because we all have it, just as you have the right to plan your life but you don't have the right to plan someone else's life.
An open-source chatbot built with a NN
Agreed. The future is more within Juøyter Notebooks being shared.
Polluted is perfectly fine.

adjective

contaminated with harmful or poisonous substances.

The quantity of the substance is harmful.
If your data is not good enough, get better data. Don't abandon objectivity. I think this is why a lot of people don't take the social sciences seriously, there's an extreme resistance to just doing objective, data driven research (and the lack of reproducibility that comes with that).
You can't be sued for participating in a protest, the lawsuit against the dean was for libel and targeted harassment, particularly from a position of power.
Yea, China definitely has problems no question about that. Xinjiang is one of the points I am most concerned with. However, the US doesn't take actions based on anything resembling goodwill towards others (we have a network of torture stations and kidnapping black sites don't forget). In many important ways, the US can be described as highly authoritarian, particularly when it comes to foreign policy (witness combinations of illegal invasions, brutal sanctions, and sometimes decisive support for death squads in Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, Guatemala, etc).

I do think the world should bring more attention to Xinjing, but I don't think escalating tensions is going to do anything worthwhile (especially when I haven't heard a whit about the trade war being sanctions for humanitarian violations). The trade war is also not going to help American workers, capital controls would do that though.
I’d argue that the very first Unreal was a game first, a tech demo later. So was Unreal Tournament (based on Unreal Engine 1, IIRC), Unreal Tournament 2003, and – this one for sure – Gears of War.

Maybe I wouldn’t call them Quake rips though; However, all the Unreals certainly weren’t innovative in any meaningful way, gameplay wise.

The engine business exploded for Epic around Unreal Engine 3, I believe. Before that: they really wanted to sell those games. See the career of aforementioned CliffyB – he wasn’t Epic’s John Carmack, he was their John Romero.

As for Id Software, they did licensed their technology since early days (Half-Life, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, few others), but indeed Unreal surpassed them with tooling and support.

Id tried to recover their position, around Doom 3 they renamed their „Quake engine” to Id Tech, and was working on the user-friendliness of it’s offering. I think they abandoned that idea by themselves, nonetheless, soon after they were bought by ZeniMax and that was it: no more licenses for companies not related to Bethesda. They don’t even bother to allow their current games to be modded.

Meanwhile Epic’s engine business was flourishing, yet the games were flopping. Notice that only after Fortnite’s success they decided to open their Steam rival.
if I ever get to Las Vegas the Pinball museum will be on my list of places to visit

Hurry.

https://vitalvegas.com/pinball-hall-fame-close-seeks-funds-s...
Where/how do I check the owner of a .page TLD domain name?
> there will doubtless need to be some alternative channel for events that need to preventDefault, most notably clicking on links that should route instead, and form submit; I’m not sure how that will work.

Naively I would expect that to be part of the rendered DOM("<a prevent-default='click'>"), or otherwise in a declarative datastructure available to the UI thread. Are there many events that need conditional preventDefault, such that the JS handling code would grow nontrivial?
We is humanity, as far as I know and as far as brief Googling is able to determine. I am not a physicist, so I have good knowledge of physics up to the high school level, and a dabbler's knowledge of what lies beyond. I am open to correction, so feel free to offer some contradictory evidence if you have any.
All viewpoints are reductive. That's exactly the point of them.
Let's consolidate this discussion into the other thread, since it seems like you're offering the same objections here and there. :)
<IANAL>
The wording of the second clause of the 14th Amendment implies that states are permitted to disenfranchise their citizens in cases of rebellion or crime, as it requires those states to adjust their allotment of representatives when they do.

Also, the Constitution doesn't explicitly state that citizens shall maintain or regain voting rights after having served their time, nor does it forbid disenfranchisement of voting rights, so the power to do so devolves to the states.
</IANAL>
Take note, UI designers: In same crucial areas, you are far behind people writing HTML by hand.
In Soviet Russia, the arcade play you.
The Web is where I want to read stuff. I find the publishing industry simply curious nowadays.
Python is kind of the gold standard in many areas of research, no? Why would you use Rust, or even anything but Python?

I'd only touch Rust (or C/C++) when I need to implement some fast numerical computation that does not already exist in Numpy or Tensorflow, but still call it from Python.
>The social scientists do everything for Grant money.

That's a very absolute statement. The social scientists do everything for Grant money. Do you have some sort of data to back that up? I mean in a way it is true that research can only be conducted if there is Grant money but that should be true for all of the sciences.

>Foundations don't give grant money to figure out the truth. They get grant money to get someone to make some scientific sounding propaganda that supports whatever narrative they're pushing.

This might be true sometimes but do you think it is true for the majority of research? Not all foundations even have a "narrative" as far as I can tell.

>Who comes up with the narrative to push though, and why?

Isn't that a weirdly open question to ask at the end of a very assertive statement?
Put yourself in survival conditions and use science to overcome it
If this is widely adopted, it would be quite straightforward to crawl and graph a network of all the blogs in the ring. This would be really cool! Search sucks for finding good blogs in my experience.

Is there anything in the output html that would make this crawling easier to do?

RSS seems to persist because it’s on by default on almost all blogging platforms. How can we make this into an on by default option in the main static site generators and CMS’s?
LuaTeX seems to be the best for overall typesetting quality. You can get proper rendering of modern fonts.

IMO the underlying issue is that TeX can’t really be parsed by anything other than Tex because it’s too full of macros that change the language. I think a better language would generate a well-defined AST, and different tools could compete to render it well.
So, I was looking at domain names using namecheap.com and I found 1 interesting one, it was 4characters and then .page.

I wasn't too thrilled about the .page so I continued looking at other extensions, nothing. So I went back with the intention to buy the .page and.... "taken/make an offer".

Same if I go to https://get.page/ "NNNN.page is already taken. How about a different name?"

And when I go to whois at GoDaddy it shows that the record was just updated https://i.imgur.com/Tohwr1b.png

How I can see who is the owner?
Any time you communicate with someone you surrender to them the right to control what happens to that communication. This is a property of human communication that predates Facebook by millenia. If you tell secrets to someone you can’t stop them from spreading the secrets to other people. The onus is on you to vet the people you share confidential information with.
Slapping a tablet in place of the infotainment system is possible, but you make serious compromises on reliability. A tablet was never designed to sit in a 120 degree Fahrenheit car for days on end, Tesla has felt this issue acutely.
I can't imagine an interview situation where the interviewee asks 'What are your strengths?' without being immediately dismissed.
That’s useful feedback. Did you implement the free (Community) or a paid version? If free, do you think it would be worth upgrading?
I wasn't thinking about the cameras I guess.

Still seems like it would be better to just include what's required and then let a phone handle the software.
He is calling privacy the things that are hidden by obscurity. Meaning that if you have a sign on your door advertising sneakers for example, that is private to only those people who visit your door. Sure it may be out in the open, but you didnt open it to all people.
Libel is not protected by the First Amendment. It never has been. It ought not to be.
not sure what the root cause was, but i'm sure it wasn't dns! xD
The cpio trailer problem (2018)
Repeatability.

Complex formatting, such as figure captions and figure placement, in Word documents suddenly break for no apparent reason. Troubleshooting a “broken” Word doc is akin to fixing a typewriter while one is blindfolded.
Yes, but how do you make businesses accountable? Legislation perhaps? Who's going to vote for those? Perhaps if we could educate people to care, but as I said we're already trying that.

On a individual basis, I guess bringing up the issue more often is the best we can do really, I would definitely appreciate more environmentalism in politics discussions, but it feels very low-impact.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20191731
Tailflix: Drop in replacement for tail -F that asks you if you're still watching
No. Evergreen is the extreme case.

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/the-evergree...
Definitely. I’m asking more about tools that are meant to augment that process... SonarQube, Code Climate, et al.
Ah, sorry, I completely failed to realize that was the question being asked. :)
...why should death be solved ASAP?

We haven't got the space or resources for exponential growth of population
Copyright law is not rooted in the right to privacy.
I have personal experience working on both the software and marketing site for the software product like this.

In particular, we had a very high-touch sales process that started with cold-calling or references. The marketing website was more likely to act as an aid to a cold call than as Google traffic.

Second, it was a more abstract product with a custom implementation that had to pull data from whatever pre-existing software they were using.

Also, it was a very young product that was constantly evolving with ad-hoc deals and pricing. Some would buy the software package outright with full integration, demanding high-touch support and training. Others were willing to go with our “development partner” package, with a 50% discount off any custom implementation - but we also retained the ability to decline those customizations if they didn’t fit with our vision.

Also, the product was so abstract, it was very rare that its potential would be understood without a conversation.

Finally, often the person “tasked” with buying the software was not actually the holder of the purse strings. They usually needed a boss or other stakeholder to sign off and write the check. So it wasn’t really advantageous to discuss the price and sticker-shock that the lower level employee might experience, vs the business owner who was more used to making those types of purchases. Really, we needed to turn the person who was doing the inquiry into an advocate for our product within their organization. If they could advocate the value of our product to the check writer in an effective manner, it reduced the friction for us to come in and tell the check writer the price of the solution. Then we let them make the judgement call.

Another part of this is that since the sales process was very high touch, and since we were so small. There was a serious opportunity cost to incur if our sales guy was wasting his time creating materials for a particular customer who wasn’t going to buy. So we would quickly qualify the customer by getting them to pay a non-trivial amount of money to RESEARCH the implementation. If they paid that qualifying cost, we would ask for information on all of the software systems they had in place, along with database schema information. Then we would pour over it to determine what we could do with that data, if it would be a successful implementation, and if there was any data missing that we’d need to collect. Either from a UI or through a bulk dump from some obscure archive. That was definitely not worth the opportunity cost of a barely interested customer.

Overall, I think we were trying to be honest and fair. Not trying to price gouge or anything, but it was a very complicated product, and it was a complicated sale.

Now being a technically minded business owner, I have been on the other end of this and found it to be extremely annoying. But it is not too often that whatever product I am looking at is being researched directly by a business owner with check-writing ability, and one who is also coming from a technical background. So while it annoys me, I get why the company/product is choosing to do that.
> The change was recognizing that the same data wasn't objective and that researchers couldn't make it so. Instead, theory shifted to analyzing those inherent biases and studying how they affected research.

And yet, the best tools for this are underfunded or ignored: replication and publishing negative results.
Maybe it's because I did way more plain TeX than LaTeX, but just what is it that everyone finds so difficult about LaTeX?

Is LaTeX itself that much more difficult than plain TeX?

If so then why not just use TeX, the TeXBook is really easy to follow and gives clear examples.

The equations are formatted exactly the same way in both.¹

1: Unless you choose to use some package like amsmath, but why ?)
Feature upgrades aren't sufficient to count as Show HNs. Your submissions have been breaking the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Would you please review and follow them when posting here?
HN mods will collapse comment threads if they devolve into a flame war or low-quality discussion. That's what happened here.
It's not that "the data is not good enough". It's that it's easy to obfuscate results by hiding bias in the data, even if unintentionally. Even in the "hard" sciences. Or have we forgotten about some of the awful research being done in machine learning? Remember the one about identifying future criminals from photos?
There are limits to libel laws as a result of the First Amendment. I understand your confusion/question, but that's why I bring it up -- there's a lot of disagreement over how to interpret these speech protections and lots of people weigh the issues involved differently. From OP's description at least, it's a bad ruling for people who care deeply about freedom of expression.

Sadly, most people only care about scoring points against those they disagree with politically. Even at the cost of these freedoms.
Yes, red is much better at night (IIRC it doesn't dilate your pupils as much). But blue is the trendier color for lighting, and I don't suspect many people take test-drives at night.
You, can but most of the time you'll have neo-nazi threads next to other neo-nazi threads. Let's look at a sample of the top 50 threads on /pol/ right now (sticky and untitled threads excluded; contains offensive content):

Dylann Roof's letter to Tucker Carlson
Who's this Katie Hopkins?
South Africa
accept the jews or you will lose
You're buying cryptocurrency, right anon?
White men who cant get a white woman should bleach a good looking brown girl.
Why should we bother?
DOXX REPORT:ANTIFA MEMBER IN NATIONAL GUARD
8ch got a search warrant 6 weeks ago (two months)
Join the marines
Hungary is BASED
99 turkroach overflight violations on Greek airspace in a single day.
/leftypol/ explains why they’re marxists
Music Video shows White Kids in Cages, Tortured
/SIG/ Self Improvement General
Would things be different if America became natsoc instead of Germany?
Lesbian NASA Astronaut attack on bus in Camden Town London with her date
Ontario Anon Goes Shitposting IRL
homeless anon tip thread
AJ got framed, again.
Rockefellers and the Anglo Industrialist Dynasties
Saint Tarrant pleads NOT guilty!
RIP Léon Degrelle
China Cucks to Hong Kong
Brenton Tarrant Memetic Warfare Thread № XII
requesting knowledge of the Weimar Republic
White Victims of Black Crime - Thread #010: Remember lads, subscribe to Pewdiepie
"Durr Trump is a Jewish sellout!"
Should the Flyover states just secede From the Union
Single Mother Documentary
New leaked doc shows the USA and trump gets raped by mexican rapists
The implication of Feminism just being a shittest for society.
Average jews.
If We Don't Globally Collapse Within The Next Two Decades, Humanity Is Doomed to Extinction
Holocaust Is Fake History - 8968
Paid Shilling Hours
Druid/pol/ #0032 "Esoteric Operations" edition
Nick Fuentes sells out to the Jews and tells a Jewish lawyer he denounces anti-semitism
We lost 4chan
White males Highest Suicide rates in the Country
Sol Pais 2nd thread
Asian hate/redpill thread 2: kill all Asians edition
Yellow Vests protest for 31st straight week in Paris
Doctor E.Michael Jones is apparently being blamed for the latest Synagogue Shooting.
Was Spanish Caste system the best system
/ECO GENERAL/ III - Summer Edition
Trans "rights" are child abuse
/pol/ WEBM Thread / MP4 Thread
/RPG/ Redpill general
Antifa wants you to deplatform "fashy farmers"
On the topic of race and gene editing.

¯\(°_o)/¯
See stuxnet
I know people who work in management at several national and international retailers. For the most part, the POS systems are held together with gum and rubber bands.

If you ever go into a department store and see someone ringing people up with an old green-screen terminal, those are the lucky ones. Shopgirls love using those because they always work, and they always work the same way.

I'm told that anything with a color screen or on a phone or tablet is a nightmare of crashes, unpredictability, and worse.

One small international chain (maybe 80 stores in the U.S. and Europe) had an incident in the last couple of weeks where the POS system was charging people who bought things, and then also silently charging the previous customer for what the next customer bought.
"That is, again, why I hired them."

That's easy to say when there's only five. The problem is, that doesn't scale. At some point you need to proactively implement a culture (and M&Ps) that does scale. If you wait til you need then you run the risk of having waited too long. Veteran team members will be put off, new hires will be updating their CV.
I don't know how you're quoting me at saying "well what if this really was racist?" My question was why did the students and faculty think it was racist to the point of going forward with a disastrous trial?

About your last paragraph, I feel like you're just illustrating my larger point. Is it really en vogue to "hate on whites" or is the media and internet pushing that narrative because divisiveness brings page views? Btw, Jim Crow wasn't just about hating on black people, it was about a legal and societal framework where blacks were kept in subservience, poverty, disenfranchisement and constant fear for their lives. People didn't need to hate blacks so much, as long as they stayed in their place. Things were orders of magnitude worse than people on Twitter jawboning about reparations and white privilege.
I find LaTeX's math syntax quite bad, e.g. the fact that you have to use \frac instead of just the / operator, \left( instead of just (, and so on.

AsciiMath is much better and actually works as you would expect it to.
The Man Behind ‘Fortnite’
That's the thing: x and y are not "completely different"; they are within the tolerance one would use to compare them correctly.
If they did, I can't find any information on it. Where did you hear about this?
I kinda read slowly but once i've read something i'll remember the important parts for a long time. When i read, my mind converts the words into a sort of movie, maybe this process isn't conducive to speed reading.
Milton Friedman – Lesson of the Pencil (2009)
Love reading your posts Tristan, a question about the choice of Rust. Was it specifically based on the previous experience you and your groupmates drew on or were these languages assigned to students? Was there any point in time where you and your team were trying to optimize your compiler?
I wonder how Racket would compare. I’ve written some DSLs at an old job for Racket and found the libraries for language design almost unreasonably powerful (and maybe unreasonably complicated as well). The dynamic typing would also help in reducing the amount of code.
No, "Cloud" is just some service provider. The
responsibility is at Target. They designed this "single point of failure".
I believe this is possible. Discussed in detail with a proof-of-concept exploit at the latest CCC:

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9597-modchips_of_the_state#t=901

Edit: this is a slightly different attack, it replaces a resistor with a custom chip that alters the transmission on that line (carefully disconnects the line, turning some 1s into 0s). But it should be possible to fit something like that inside a PCB, when the layers are put together.