skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It strikes me that it's less specialized to processing sensory input from light and more specialized to constructing a model of where things can be expected to be in relation to where the body is. So it's like a proprioceptory map.

It's interesting because I can look around my bathroom in the light, turn the light off, then reach for and grasp EG a toothbrush from memory on the first try without feeling around. It's like the images are a map of where things are and that map doesn't require the sensory images once it's constructed, nor does it require visual stimulation to construct.
Why wouldn't the developer be on the hook? If Steam doesn't want to be, they're in a powerful position where they can say, "You are liable for chargebacks. If you don't like it, don't sell here."
“Given Facebook’s ability to track the amount of time a user spends on any given item in their newsfeed, do you also track how long users spend reading terms and conditions, privacy policies, and so forth? If not, why not?”
For some data, this might be true. But, for example, where is my browsing history stored, which is undoubtedly collected by FB through their social sharing buttons even if I don't have an account? Or any other drive-by data that is collected through third-party apps, websites or whatever and send back to FB. It wouldn't make any sense to store my browsing history somewhere else than in a shadow profile.
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> It's not even Steam's job to chase this up, but the developers.

That's only for keys purchased on the developer's own website though, right? Surely if the key was bought directly from Steam, then Steam would handle voiding the key?

Worth noting that G2A claims to compensate developers "10 times the sum lost" if the key was bought on the dev's own website, and the dev in the article is claiming that isn't really the issue.
that rfc says upper/lower doesn't matter? Am I wrong?
If the problem is as pervasive as the devs portray it, these sites will quickly cease to exist--G2A would quickly gain a reputation for selling keys that will be useless after 2-4 weeks, and the benefit of getting the game for cheaper would be outweighed by the risk of the key going bad.

That doesn't seem to be happening though. I don't buy the argument that a huge number of G2A customers simply never notice that they've lost access to the game (not to mention what that implies about the quality of your game).

I'd never heard of G2A before this, but I'll be checking them out the next time I'm considering buying a game.
that is always the line of thought avoided at all costs by those seeking to vilify the United States using the bombs. The simple fact is, all three nations you mentioned had demonstrated a complete lack for respect of life and rights of others. Considering just how Germany and Japan treated captured civilians and military members should be more than enough to know what they would have done.
That I feel is just hyperbole, too many people tend to think this deal is some kid of death warrant to Red Hat, but in reality it is only going to strengthen it by adding more and providing support, both financial and managerial to any dearth of resources that may come around ope source companies, that is if IBM can keep their hands out of the technology and management of Red Hat. I think and hope they will be wise about handling things and learn from companies like Oracle who are now infamous for obliterating good technology.
Failed in what sense and judged by whom?

Speaking from central-European perspective I find that translations to other languages are generally valued at home, but I have not noticed any supremacy of English and English speaking countries.
I thought multiplication was going to be easy
IBM was a true pioneer in the bullshit AI industrial complex with all that Watson nonsense.

Many companies seem to have copied that strategy of just pretending they are sprinkling some AI fairy dust on whatever and that it's better somehow, while actually doing zero work.

Outside of that accomplishment I have no idea what IBM has been doing since the 90s.
I mean _with_ their local webserver, can they implement their own, simple confirmation of some kind?
But that's just like, your opinion man.

You speak in absolutes "Unions will..." "...better than any Union" as if these things are known quantities. There are many ways a union could function. It could set salary ranges based on all sorts of things (seniority, certifications, etc) or it could just act as a collective voice in negotiating the availability of remote work or hourly limits or other perks. A tech union doesn't have to operate the ways you're describing at all. Think about the sports leagues. They're unionized, and it's the best players who get the biggest contracts, not the one's who've been in the league the longest. There's no reason you couldn't do something similar in a tech union.

Right now things are great because this is a relatively new space with more demand than supply. That's great NOW. Long term nobody knows what could happen. Kodak thought film would always be important. Cooper isn't a profession. The idea of having a collective labor voice established during the period where labor is at its strongest could be seen as hedging your bets.

>> I think under performing tech workers deserve to not reap the same benefits as the performing engineers.

Who determines what "under performing" is? It makes more sense to me that labor's peers determine that definition, but currently it's management. This is again a place where a union can help.

You admit your system isn't perfect. I admit Unionization has flaws. I'm just of the opinion that it could help improve working conditions across the board.
Thanks, came to say the same thing - wondered what William "Father of IEEE 754" Kahan had to say about this.

I haven't had time to digest it all, but he is certainly critical of Gustafson's proposals. Not sure though the articles linked above cover the latest and greatest Unum III. At any rate, I'd pay close attention to Kahan's critique.
Even at the time of the Microsoft deal in 2011, Nokia hadn't been US-focused for at least 5 years. US carriers weren't carrying any Nokias beyond the $50 dumbphones you could get anywhere. Unlike the rest of the world where people bought phones at more or less full price, the US market had mostly carrier subsidized pricing, and carriers ran the ad campaigns, not manufacturers (except Apple).

Back when the iPhone, HTC G1 and Motorola Droid ads were saturating TV around 2008/9, I couldn't recall seeing a single ad for Nokia. Nokia's only real sales outlet were 3(!) retail stores in the entire US. And even those shuttered well before 2011.

The idea that focusing away from the US might have saved them as an independent entity doesn't hold up because their average selling price (ASP) was falling due to low-end models selling better than their more expensive smartphone line. Eventually it reached a turning point where the brand was more closely associated with super-durable and super cheap "burner" phones than upscale smartphones.

Finally, their smartphone line was a mess because like Windows Mobile 6.x, the OS appeared on a variety of screens, both touch and non-touch. The Ovi app store was deeply fragmented as a result, because old apps scaled badly on larger touch devices, and newer apps didn't work at all on the non-touch phones.
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In light of the Zoom Zero Day does anyone have any good recommendations for open source alternatives?
> Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them.

Do you have numbers for these claims? What risk taking behaviour is the entire US doing that other countries are not?

>The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ.

And does that group represent the socio-economic gamut? While you're correlating race, I wonder if it ends up being reducible to something like "upper-middle class individuals who don't smoke or drink".
The schools and parents absolutely should take action, but there's a lot that social media sites can do to give people (not just kids) the tools they need to prevent bullying, harassment, threats and other forms of abuse.
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That sounds like overestimating just to be safe. I run an MM instance for triple that number of people on an ARM SOC with 2GB RAM and it works beautifully. Not only that but I compile it from source on the same box with no problems.
Video meetings are so much more effective than audio meetings. I went from a company that always uses video to a company that rarely uses video and the difference is huge.

Often the most important parts of meetings are nonverbal.
The old BSD cat already has line numbers, which led to Rob Pike's 1983 presentation titled ‘UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful’: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/

If I was the author of bat, I'd consider inserting that link into the README, just as tongue-in-cheek :D
I always wonder why it sometimes seems that any kind of animal behavior that resembles human behavior needs to be rationalized away as anthropomorphism. Is it really that far-fetched to assume animals share at least some emotions and behaviors with humans?

In the end, many forms of human behavior and emotions evolved over a long long time, and way before language and culture. Why could a Beluga whale not have also evolved behavior and emotions resembling altruism, for example?
So, monoculture or not these trees are going to sequester carbon. Preserving natural forests is ideal, but these are areas that weren’t forested before this project. Obviously if they’re cleared and / or burned, a lot of that carbon will go back into the atmosphere. Therefore, creating systems people will be happy maintaining and living with for centuries isn’t a superficial concern. For an idea of what that might look like, think of the olive tree agroforestry hillsides of Italy that have existed for centuries.

The tropical “homegarden” — similar to the permaculture idea of a “food forest” — shows enormous promise for high annual and lifetime carbon sequestration potential. They can be beautiful, productive systems that have the added benefit of producing food and sustenance.
Sounds like a DST issue, tbh.
Why I’m against squash mode or rebase mode in merging pull requests?
In other words: you don’t solve big problems. You only replace them with smaller problems.

No matter what you do, you will make some group worse off. If you can ignore that, you can succeed. If you can’t, your change will fail.
I agree. I think there's enough evidence at this point in time to show that corporate consolidation after a point is no longer beneficial to our society.

After a certain point, it's pretty clear to me that consolidation only benefits a few significantly invested shareholders and no one else. I suspect this is somewhere greater than the "big 4-5" we've become accustomed to accepting in every sector, when economies of scale stop showing significant sizable benefits to consumers and the market at large. Instead, it turns into pure financial strategy to maximize the few most significant investors' ROI which becomes significantly disproportionate to their contribution to society.

Antitrust cases are quite slow to react to these circumstances, be it intentional (financial influence in government) and or structural (government intentionally moves slowly).
This is an interesting point. Do you have a source for the life expectancy numbers? I'm genuinely curious.
How does Canada get it's insulin so cheap?
Gallagher used to do this as part of his routine. Second half of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk
> The major problem I think is NAT

NAT is not a problem. All you have to do is configure port forwarding on your router correctly. Dynamic IP assignment is a bit more of a problem, but it can be overcome by using dynamic DNS services. All of this is fairly trivial.

> I don't mind serving them from my home

I do. And I think it goes for a lot of people. My connection is residential, so somewhere in the ToS it says that I cannot run public servers off of it. Besides, there is no guaranteed uptime, I would need to deal with things like backups, hardware replacements and whatever other maintenance myself. Whereas with a service like Instagram, I just take pictures on my phone and upload. There is no overhead, my stuff is always available and I don't have to worry about backups.
Hospitals have different requirements, they have patients with a weakened immune system.

The bacteria that are in a normal household pose no threat to healthy people. Which is why you shouldn't use antibacterial stuff in your everyday life.

With regards to soap in hospitals: They also have special liquid soap dispensers you can use with your elbows. Again something you don't need in your house.
I think the devs claiming that users simply never notice that the license was revoked are the ones who are lying.

Every time that's happened to me (for example, a time-limited version of a game or a beta), Steam presents a notification that the game has been removed from my library.
The developer wouldn't be on the hook because Steam is the one handling payment processing. If they don't handle CC fraud and just pass the buck to the developer who happens to be the one whose game was purchased fraudulently, that sounds like a pretty serious problem with Steam IMO.
Same for Safari on OSX and iOS.
Journalists are all charlatans since for the most part they know very little of what they’re talking about. “Journalist” is practically an insult at this point.
Any program can do anything in modern Windows too, only special places like C:\Windows\System[32] are protected. I'm not against such protections since they can be easily overridden if needed and in day-to-day use they do not harm anyone nor affect negatively the usability of the system.

I'm not saying that we should go back to 90s entirely, we have a lot of good improvements over the years. I'm just hoping we'll tone down the "connect all the things" a bit since that is the main source of a lot of security issues.
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Well, the "official rules" depend on which side of the Great Schism you fall on.
> So instead of cash we would need anonymous physical (and digital) tokens whose value is not fixed, but is adjusted according to the interest rates.

So what you want is... cash. But cash from a separate currency. This is identical to what we had here in Brazil in the 90s during the Plano Real transition: the cash everyone had was in the Cruzeiro Real currency, but all the prices were denominate in URV (a "virtual" currency, which months later became a real currency called Real). The Cruzeiro Real was suffering from inflation at the time, but the URV was stable, so to buy something with a price of 1 URV you might pay CR$ 864,14 one week and CR$ 1004,68 the next week (source for these values: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor).
My personal mileage with ME was that it would hum along fine, but at some point would become unstable. Once it became unstable, the best solution was to reimage it. Whatever would break did not seem to ever get better, regardless of any attempts to find or fix the issue. So the first crash, just start reimaging.

Of course, I was used to reimaging my Windows machines at the time anyway. That's something that's mostly gone away, and I think one of the better (but mostly invisible) advances in Windows.
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Corporate altruism experiment
Libra is a tool to control the global poor, not an "altruism experiment".
Right back at you.
Sad that the touch bar keeps on keeping on. I was hoping they would drop it, since it's useless and annoying.
Open source absolutely does make Red Hat money, billions of dollars a year.
Yes, my comment was about RingCentral Meetings
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Who says it's done for 1 person? 4chan, 8chan and the like have a long history of radicalising people and fostering all sorts of hate and abuse. That mass murderer was not the first one.
I remember a very similar email from my company's CEO during a merger. Within months he had retired with millions and everything had changed. I sincerely wish Red Hat and your work doesn't fall victim to a similar fate, but IBM literally owns you as of today.
>Tesla now fires people over bad tweets!

Many companies, especially publicly traded ones, have social media policies now. Some go as far as to require you to provide all of your usernames.

If I wear my work badge outside of work, and someone makes a complaint about my actions or behavior while I'm off the clock, corporate security similarly investigates it.

This is nothing new. This is also why you'll see, with higher profile persons, "These views reflect my own and not that of my employer" or similar verbiage on their social media and blog bios.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications...

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> There’s only really evolutionary pressure up to the end of your child rearing years, no?

No, at least according to some anthropologists and evolutionary biologists. For example see the Grandmother Hypothesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
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>>>THE TOUCH BAR IS NOW STANDARD FOR THE MACBOOK PRO LINE

Yeah, like the current keyboards, may be one day this will see its imminent death..
Since people are constantly putting "Bad Stuff" on Instagram, Ello, etc., how does one deal with it on a federated platform? Is it up to each node operator to manage the liability?
I want one! D: No but... Not sure I could stay in the boat if this happened, there's something with these animals that makes you want to be in there with them. Head says "it's snowing and freezing cold..." body just dives in.
On top of this, there’s fairly well established historical record showing that the dropping the bombs was unnecessary, even for attaining Japan’s Surrender. You can find this in sources as mainstream as Oliver Stone’s _Untold History of the United States_
> G2A lies about quite a lot, though

Are you basing this off the recent stunt they tried to pull getting people to publish favorable articles for them?

That was unacceptable of course but also I see why they are desperate to improve their reputation given the recent smear campaign against them.

Do you have examples of other instances where they were shown to be dishonest?
Shit to shower sans soap? No-go in my book.
Steam doesn’t pass chargeback on to developers. The developers are getting hit with chargebacks when they generate Steam keys to sell on their own store, which are then targeted for fraud.
Unusually, it's the kind of "law" that you are supposed to follow, not an observed law of nature.
> Your user experience will be the same regardless of which node you choose

How do I know or find out who owns/runs the node I choose? Surely some nodes are more stable than others, and the user experience wouldn't be the same if the node I chose decides to shut down tomorrow.
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Great point, I've seen remote fail so many times because it is 10x harder if some people are in an office and some people are remote. That doesn't work IMO. Maybe if you have a division that is 100% remote that could work, but the mixed model just doesn't work from what I've seen.
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Example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=docker+hub&t=lm&ia=web

Third link.
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From what i understand the 'g' pronunciation is entirely dependent on the vowel following in, in a completely regular manner. So still a lot better than English.
My bad. I edited it to make it hypothetical.
Webex and Zoom are absolutely not the same product, they are competitive offerings from different companies.
It isn't even so extreme. As soon as you start to sell something you get people trying to get free keys from you for all sorts of reasons. They say they are students, from a poor country, going to review it, trade you for other keys, and on and on. Then people will also buy it and complain immediately about anything to get the money back. Basically people start trying to scam you from day 1.
England has rules - albeit not simple ones - such that about 85% (IIRC) of never before seen words can be pronounced correctly.

Obviously I'm paraphrasing someone else's study here and may be getting it slightly wrong but the gist is that English is more decipherable than it first appears.
I would hope you can also use the mouse wheel by hovering over the knob
"The FBI has no jurisdiction outside the US"

tell this to Vinnik, a Russian national who was arrested in Greece on behalf of FBI and extradited to US:)

if FB starts enforcing KYC, then the adoption will be very narrow - US and few other developed countries. even in US i doubt that many people will be happy to share their driver's licences and bank accounts with FB for obvious reasons. and without wide adoption there will be no libra "closed system" as you described. this is catch 22. i don't see how FB can pull this off. i don't even see any clear strategy behind libra.
this is why i visit hacker news

edit: i'll also add that i too use soap minimally when showering (nether regions). i'm asian so BO has never really been an issue but i did notice that my athlete's foot has not reappeared since i stopped washing my feet with soap for a few years.
Market segregation is somewhat mitigated by selling per-language keys.

For example, you can buy a Russian key for 50% off, but it is a Russian version of the game with the audio/text to match.
It sounds like you got burned pretty bad on remote...

From my experiences, remote can be as good as an office for early innovation but just like office it has a unique set of challenges and sets a unique tempo. I think either way you pick one that works for your needs and you will be happy with the results as long as you keep an open mind.
I have no comment on the original comment's correlation of cessation of soap usage with lack of body odor, but as someone who rides a crowded subway every day in the summer, I'm not sure I want people to experiment with this.
Nonsense. Big advertisers have sub-brands that they love to target. It's not like Coca-Cola corporation is selling a single product. Personal data is a gold mine when it comes time to market individual SKUs.
Most interesting is that interference began before the earthquakes hit. Is that already a datapoint that is being used in earthquake predictions?