skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple things I want to respond to:

> I wouldn't mind DLC and virtual slots model, if only it delivered better games in the end.

I think this is fundamentally a problem, because the psychological pressures a game applies to get people to pay for microtranactions are intrinsically opposed to fun and satisfying experiences. Games that successfully monetize on microtransactions do so by putting the "fun" just out of reach, and annoy and bore their users into putting money into the slot to get the result they want.

> There is no way to explain how 15 years ago developers were able to build incredible open worlds with hours of dialog and tons of possibilities worth 100s of hours of gameplay on a single pay model, except priorities change in the industry.

I think the single-pay model might very well have been an accident of history. Before we had home consoles and PC gaming, the business model for video games was based on recurring revenue: in that case in the form of coin-operated games. Before digital distribution, the only way to monetize a game for PC or home console was to sell a game in a box with enough value inside that customers would be willing to pay outright for it. That was the age of the gaming experience as a development priority: the game itself had to be good enough that players would be willing to pay $50 for the next title.

But now that digital distribution is the norm, it's again possible for game developers to extract revenue from users on a recurring basis, and since that is wildly more profitable and less risky than relying on one-time-purchases, that's what developers are going to focus on. That's only accelerated by the cost of content creation: in order to build a AAA game these days, it takes an army of artists many years to deliver a product. That's a far cry from something like the original Diablo which was made by a handful of people. With that level of financial investment, studios are much less likely to take risks on new ideas, and are more likely to seek alternative means to monetize that investment.
I guess that the people considering this controversial, must consider the book "Mama's Last Hug" by Frans de Waal highly controversial.
> Math can't deal with imperfect input

See stats, probability, information theory, and signal analysis
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"plan to throw one away, you will anyway" Fred Brooks, the mythical man month.
Sure it wasn't all data but data was a pivotal weapon in winning their respective battles.

You actually don't know that. In fact nobody, including those making the claims, can prove it made any difference. Both AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica could well have had no impact whatsoever: this stuff is pure faith based spending. It's like spending on campaign advertising. Some people take it as an article of faith that whoever spends more wins, but that has been repeatedly proven false in the real world. Apparently political ad spending isn't such a big deal after all.

And again, you must remember that in both those cases their opponents spent far more, on all kinds of things including data based voter targeting. If generic "data" were so valuable they'd surely have achieved massive victories, but they lost
The fishing industry is terribly maverick and I don't really know what the solution is other than fining the maverick elements out of existance. The socialist side of me would suggest nationalisation so that monitoring of adherence to the rules and laws could be achieved, but I suspect that it'd end up with the same mavericks that refuse to follow those laws today would simply fill the places such a government endeavour.
No, the equivalent is you walking into a store to buy DVDs, and the store manager keeping a record of what sells well, and what you show interest in, etc. to drive decisions about what to stock next.
You should consider donating this money to Firefox.
Its not on YouTube? I am a bug Joe Rogan Podcast fan and I love to actually watch the entire podcasts. Just listening is not the full experience for me.
If you take a descriptive (vs. prescriptive) view of the free market, you have to include all observations.

Yes, we've observed that under free market, "people with radically different preferences will make better choices more aligned with their preferences and local knowledge", at least on many occasions. We've also observed countless of occasions when they'll make a worse choice. Sometimes idiotically worse choice. We've observed the cases where those choices, aggregated, cause wide-spread suffering.

So many people were asking a question - why does free market work perfectly in some cases, but fails so badly in others? That's where the "rationality" and "full knowledge" things come from. Economists have figured out that these are necessary conditions for the free market model to work the best. When you make people behave irrationally, or refuse to give them full knowledge, the free market model results in suboptimal outcomes.

Free market isn't a silver bullet. It's a process that gives particular outputs for particular inputs, and we've been mapping the relationship between its domain and codomain for a while now. We know that the more rational participants and the more symmetrical information come in, the more ethically positive transactions come out. This can be seen in both theoretical models and in practice.

Now when the game industry is "researching increasingly sophisticated ways to undercut [players'] rationality", what that means is that they're weaponizing the free market to fuck fellow human beings over.
> I think the biggest issue with netflix is precisely the lack of things like Friends, Seinfeld, The Office

Technically, it seems unnecessary to stream the same content repeatedly, and financially it seems wasteful to pay a monthly fee for access to the same content. How about buying the particular shows once (e.g. iTunes) and have the data stored locally (e.g. appleTV)?
You are right, I missed that part. Seems it was a proactive ban for a not yet existing app?
There are very goods reasons for the Referrer header to be used. If you see a lot of traffic going to a URL with a typo, you will want to know where that typo is. If someone hotlinks to a large file in your domain, you will want to know who it is and block it. Any alternative would be much more intrusive.
Self hosted Opera Mini?
> In any case this is all just silly nonsense. The reason people don't prefer the train vs. almost every other mode of transportation is because its extremely expensive. Making it faster isn't going to solve the root problem.

Citation please. This strike me as being very NA centric.
I've heard French cuisine "experts" say that a good pick for a French restaurant (in France) is one with a Japanese chef.

Anecdotally, that was true for the two restaurants with a Japanese chef I went to in Paris.
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> hexagon is a better shape for map grids because they are the most complex shape that can tesselate

[Penrose tiling intensifies]
Hard to imagine that a programming language could ever be as flexible as mathematical writing, but the more extensible, abstractable, and I suppose functional it is the better.
They did finally implement the multiplayer among other things.
These batteries last months, at the standard 500 cycle's that's about a decade's worth of regular use.
I own the stock and can sell it for $2000. If the value of the stock drops to $0 and I can no longer get $2000 for the stock, it would be no different than me losing $2000 cash
Look here [0] if interested in the pioneers. Example [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)#/medi...
... and then cross-referencing your purchase with everything else you ever purchased. And also every article you ever read. And then selling that information to others.
Are you referring to Erdogan or Trump ?
Beautiful! If you are interested in making custom designs for a process like this (or even for the regular PCB processes) then you might want to check out SVG2Shenzhen which lets you export from Inkscape to KiCad on all PCB layers.

https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen/
NHK reports the head of the studio has said they had received death threats.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20190718/k10011997571000.ht... ( Japanese. )
It is actually not like you peering through his window to see and note down what you rib one out.

It's more like when I have a massive orgy with lots of drugs at my place and I invited a bouncer, who is really good at statistics, to keep track of who is coming in and who are leaving immediately. The bouncer is also keeping track of what each person is doing, and letting me know periodically. And you both are invited for a night of drug fueled insane sex.

From my perspective, I am doing this to make sure everyone is having fun at my party. From the bouncer's perspective, he is there just to collect stats and let me know. He is not there to invade my privacy. I want to do that. I hired the bouncer.

I think that is more is an accurate description.
Somewhere at Google, someone has a Google Map showing who is consuming porn at what moment.
Interestingly, when I see the wikipedia page, the Jewish interpretation is nothing to do with stealing property, but by stealing person(kidnapping).

So the correct translation from Jewish tradition is thou shall not kidnap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_steal
I don't think Amazon's stock going to $0 would necessarily entail wealth destruction. The money doesn't just disappear, people who have sold at the high have profited. Wealth destruction only happens when credit is involved.
$50 for a bug sweeping device that I can use anywhere? Sure, that's cheap enough for what would basically be a toy.

$50 a time for somebody to sweep my room? Nope. If somebody really wants to know what I get up to in a hotel room, more fool them.
They won't even notice that. Data collection at this scale is anyway not 100% accurate. Especially for marketing purposes.

On the flip side if their data collection is that good they can see who was on the fence to purchase high-end gear for photo shooting, but bought the deal. That can lead to opening new demographics or targeting them with features people want from top models. Only having full information, you could argue which option is better.

I definitely hope that they don't have data at this level.
For the most part, today's solutions let you write python modules in C/C++. So your core app is in python. I am thinking of the scenario where your core is in C++ and extendable in python for the business logic -- where the core can be a trading system engine, or a webserver for example. The rationale is python serves the algos/data scientists/quants use case really well, and C++ does the "engine" part of things really well.
With Indian ping times, I get a flash of unstyled content, 4 seconds till content settles down, 17.56 seconds till all 63 assets are downloaded. Even the unstyled content jumps around. Firefox on Ubuntu. Wish the designers go easy on the design.
Indeed. Many people are turned off by reading Knuth because his "Art of Programming" deals with tasks, such as sorting, that are viewed as menial and (almost) never implemented by hand these days. But there was a lot of math involved in figuring out how to make such tasks as efficient as possible, as Knuth shows. Theoretical computer science is math (but then so is much of theoretical anything).
That's only if you didn't tell the players your game has 10 hours of gameplay, and made them expect it to have much more. I.e. you engaged in dishonest marketing.

If you present the game honestly, then people can evaluate the price you're asking for vs. what's being offered, and they have no reason to complain that it was too short.
I rent for the exact same reason, and can agree. The second reason is that there is minimal opportunity for capital appreciation where I am, and I do not feel like locking up a significant deposit in such an illiquid asset. I get much better returns on my money elsewhere.
Planning for realistic levels of waste. Throwing away prototypes. Gradually making changes. Keeping backwards compatibility. Testing. Accommodating users with large collective investment in learning.
So he can see who's charging you
Arson, not an accidental explosion,

> A plastic container and a knife were found left at the scene. The 41-year-old suspect told prefectural police that he set fire to the building. Police are treating the case as arson.
The number of casualties is horrific and hard to understand.

I'm not a huge fan of anime but I understand that this is a major studio with a long history. So I'm sure that this will have a major impact on the entire industry.
There is no attempt to apply moral concepts to a company, it is the customer holding the believe that some errors should be corrected while others should not. The fact that Amazon is a company and the debate about whether moral concepts can be applied to such entities is therefore irrelevant in this case.
I throw in a fake name and address
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>Well, Lisp was made 60+ years ago, and C 50 years ago, so?

Well, they're still seeing widespread use, that's why they're on Tiobe, while others faded into obscurity. Those languages are historically significant, but nowadays they're basically useless apart from scientific use and maintaning old software.

Maybe you should understand that the majority of programmers are younger than Python and don't study the same material they did 30 years ago, because a whole lot of history happened in that time. Also I'm not sure how not knowing about Simula makes me unqualified for anything.

I've noticed, not just in this reply, but in all of your comments; your condescending tone and indirect addressing make you seem like an unpleasant person.

Using these qualities makes one seem like some stuck-up pseudointellectual boomer.
It's interesting to see all the techniques listed but there is no indication about when and how use any of them. Is it better to start by dropout or by regularization? Can I use both? (These are rhetorical questions...)

And as another commenter said, this is not unique from TF.
Perhaps mention the link is to a 35mb PDF?
... and claiming it's not a privacy violation because they don't let the others search for martingoodson, they just offer selection criteria including your age, gender, geographical location, inferred income, inferred religion, inferred skin color, and of course interests.
That analogy only works if its only the store manager keeping the records. Whats really happening is the store manager is outsouring his record keeping to a 3rd party who has full access to the data from his store and data from millions of other stores too.
The story is only outrage-inducing because you hired a well-known bouncer whose dayjob - of which everyone is aware - is being a security guard at a mall, observing everyone as they do their groceries and banking.
> It’s kind of interesting- the asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement.

Amazon made a relatively small mistake considering their scale. It's OK. They can mitigate this by stopping orders that haven't shipped.

For the items that did ship, they can contact the buyers and ask nicely for them to return the items, perhaps in exchange for an amazon gift card.

I don't think it's reasonable to put consumer "morality" in question here.
You are the site owner. The bouncer works for you.

Your users didn't hire the bouncer and don't want to be tracked. Secretly, the bouncer may use this data for nefarious purposes. You can't control how the bouncer will use the data.
My favourite Anime of All time, Full Metal Panic were produced by Kyoto Animation. If you are are into Robot / Tech Anime it is well worth a watch, I simply felt in love with Chidori Kaname, female protagonist of the series, partly because the male protagonist is a ( Real ) nerd, and it is what some of the nerds first girl friend would act in real world. Its Companion Series Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is also hilarious.

Kyoto is one of the best Animation Studio not only in Japan but in the world, I remember they have a "Making of" section in the DVDs and show how much details they put into each drawing, taking thousands of Photos in Hong Kong and redraw them in the Story. So those places aren't made up and for anyone living in Hong Kong it would have been instantly recognisable, even accurate to the sign of a poster and banner of shops. And it isn't just the quality of those drawing, there are Studio which could do decent Animation but completely lack the skill in Story telling, Character Build up and Tempo etc. Kyoto not only has it all, but they have also been doing it consistently for the past 20 years if not more.

Those 20+ must have been some of the best in the industry.

I pray and hope there will be no more casualties from this incident. And those that passed away, RIP.

I read the Japanese Animation are still very much labour intensive, and not a lot of computer graphics involved, I am not sure if that is still true. ( And if it is, why are there little to no innovation to improve its efficiency ) And Animation, Manga industry tends to have long working hours even by Japanese Standards.
You might find this interesting

https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1025260110967238656
"something designed to violate user privacy"

I fail to see why sending the referer is a privacy concern. Following that logic, every datapoint is a privacy concern. From screen resolution to mouse movement, everything can be abused to build profiles. Referer headers have a host of valid usecases but if you are opposed any data being shared you'll probably dismiss all of them.
Interestingly this example led to one of America's few, narrowly-focused privacy laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

> It makes any "video tape service provider" that discloses rental [or sale] information outside the ordinary course of business liable for up to $2500 in actual damages.
>if the purchase was made in bad faith (ie- knowing Amazon mis-priced it but purchasing it anyways.)

>The same behavior would happen with a company with better public trust and respect. And it’s not like anyone is selling those cameras to donate money to a warehouse worker in need.

>I just think it’s amazing how frail people’s morality is, how it goes out the window when certain conditions are met.

The parent wasn't talking about companies, they were talking about us people and how morality is shit these days. As to your focus in companies, they derive their morality from the people that run them. What's shit for the goose is shit for the gander.

People taking the high road makes a better world.
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What’s a valid use case?
That link is a great example of why I stopped using stack exchange. The OP asked a question about tiling spheres with pentagons and the third response is basically "you can tile a sphere if it's not a sphere."

I had analogous experiences every time I asked a question there. One would ask a very clear question like, say, "how do I print to stdout in C?" And the first or second answer you get is inevitably about taking input from stdin. Or polymorphism.
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Hi everyone!

I have an idea for a mobile app, but I haven't got any coding skills. What is the best option for me: hiring a dedicated team of developers, trying to learn to code on my own, or looking for a freelancer?
I just checked both Firefox and Chrome. When you open an incognito window both show a text snippet explaining what incognito mode is, and both go out of their way to explain that incognito mode does not make you anonymous to the website operator. It only claims to help against local users looking at your browsing history.
Ignoring the fact that the title of this post is misleading and also not used by the linked article, I was interested to read that MaxNorm was _so_ effective. In my experience it is rarely used in the state-of-the-art ConvNets, though maybe that is because they are trained on large ImageNet datasets where overfitting is less of an issue? Weight decay/L2 norm seems almost ubiquitous is comparison.

Have other HN readers found MaxNorm to be that useful? Am I missing out?
Everyone else can just look at this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_earth_at_night.j...
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Hey, I've just got email rejection from some internet forum, to which I had not subscribed, nor posted.

It was just regular spam with bitcoin blackmailing which you get a lot if you have public mail address.

What's not cool is that the mail was sent like it was from me (fake headers?), is there anything I can do about this? Even from the legal point of view - somebody could go after me because he wouldn't know I wasn't the real sender.
If my site is getting hammered by visitors I would like to be able to easily discern if it's because I'm featured on HN's frontpage or if I'm victim of a DDOS attack.
We have laws about truth in advertising so that people don't get shafted by these big companies. Sure, they could say it was a mistake, but then they might have to fight it... and it really is a drop in the bucket for them. Amazon still made billions in revenue each of those days.
Amnesty International got a couple hundred bucks from me this way over the past 6 years. At less than 5 dollars per month, I just couldn't get myself motivated to figure out how to cancel their weird pull-based recurring payment model[0]. The combination of a process with unclear way of cancelling, them not doing a bad job at being a charity, and me having no patience to deal with their "subscriber retentions" people means they still get the money, and I keep wondering whether shooting them with a GDPR "please delete all my data" request would be a simpler way to cancel.

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[0] - I'm bitter about this wrt. banks in Poland. I should be able to view all recurring payments that pull money from my account in a single place in a web interface, and cancel them from there. Alas, the banks are happy to send out my money, but offer no way for me to see a list of recurring payments.
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> The customer taking advantage of a mistake to receive an unfair deal and Amazon not paying taxes are more or less the same behavior.

This is the key insight. The customer takes advantage of Amazons' inability to deal with its highly complex and huge pricing system of millions of articles without occasionally making fatal errors, while Amazon is taking advantage of the world's population's inability to deal with the highly complex tax rule interplay between many different countries which still want to interface with each other (= do trade) and thus occasionally create loopholes that can be exploited. The latter is impossible for the consumer due to scale (there's millions of consumers paying tiny amounts of taxes each, exploiting loopholes doesn't scale down that much), and the former is impossible for Amazon due to its scale (there's just one Amazon with a giant cash flow, to exploit a pricing failure of another online store in a way that makes a difference to this cash flow is impossible for several reasons, most importantly that there is no other online store large enough).
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> And who is all this for anyways? Are the tech savvy software devs & power users who gravitate towards F-Droid incapable of avoiding a site they really don't want to visit?

This! I am horrified by this kind of babysitting because it sure as hell backfires.
Pornhub probably has such a map, and their data analysis on Pornhub Insight is always a great read [0].

Of course google connecting porn searches with your other behavior is another level of scary.

0: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/ (sfw)
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