skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it isn't, there is no reason for any piece of software to be split between your computer and another company.

If you buy the argument, you obviously never gamed during the 90's during the heyday of level editors, free maps and mods over IPX emulators like Kali and kahn.

It's not utter nonsense, DRM is literally taking files of the game hostage. Go load up overwatch and disable the network card, Go load up quake 3 or Unreal tournament 2004.

You can still play Quake 3 and UT2004, you'll notice a big fat error in overwatch because it is logging you into a server required for it to function.

Go get never winter nights released in 2002, compared against the "f2p" (aka stolen rpg rebadged an f2p mmo during develpment).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/704450/Neverwinter_Nights...

The original neverwinters had game tools and you could run your own server, vs neverwinter the "f2p mmo" version (aka moniker for the game moving to server locked game).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/109600/Neverwinter/

Any gamer in the 90's was expecting more dedicated servers, level editing tools with PC games.

Leauge of legends and DOTA 2 would have been fully single player RTS games with multiplayer.

So no you and anyone who believes like you is willfully ignorant that we now live in a PC game dystopia. Whereas before League of legends and DOTA 2 would have been coded like Quake 3, Unreal tournament 2004, and warcraft 3, you own the game and can play it multiplayer if necessary without a third party.

Diablo 2 we owned it --> Diablo 3 blizzard owns it and can now shut it down

Quake 3 we owned it --> Quake champions bethesda owns it and can shut it down.

So no, we've gone backwards in time to mainframe and dumb client model of computing because of the average gamer being computer illiterate and not seeing the writing on the wall.

So no they were not fundamentally a new "genre" that was what marketing and PR flackeys hoped people like you would buy. Note that private servers prove you incorrect, aka that there exist private servers for Ultima online and World of warcraft, demonstrate tehy would have just been Role playing games with shards players controlled, there was no need for companies to conrol them or the monthly fee.

Overwatch is a case in point that you are incorrect, since it's just a multiplayer fps, why is there no level editors, tools, open file specs and GTKRadiant? OH yeah thats right they wanted to lock down the code from a server in their office to resell skins that are sitting on encrypted files already on your machine setting a programming flag to display, when you've "earned" them via the stupid leveling system or gambled for them using their lootbox system.
If he were an angel investor putting money in, he might get between 5 to 15% of the company. That’s a reasonable amount of extra equity to take.
What sort of mistakes were easy to make?
These guys are poster children for outsourcing all their core IT functions far and wide. Seems to come back and bite them rather often now.
> ”That distinction belongs to the DNA and microbes contained in the almost 100 bags of feces and urine left behind by American astronauts during the Apollo lunar landings from 1969-1972.”

Gross! Talk about littering and polluting a pristine environment. This is at least as bad as the climbers who leave poop on Everest, where it doesn’t biodegrade.

Is it really so hard to bring poop back with you? Were payload restrictions that tight on the return Apollo journeys?
Unfortunately the problem here is not the selfie or instagram, its the smartphone.

An incredible tool with side effects people aren't yet capable of dealing with.

The problems with social media mainly exist because we have always on internet and a very good camera in the palm of our hands.

If it were a layer more difficult many of these issues go away.

That said I don't think its socially possible to put it back in the bag, so we'll probably have to simply invent a bigger distraction.
To consider 35% a lot, it's not considered merely "probable" by most financial folks. It's simply too easy to compare to and see that relatively few businesses are higher. It's really a business dream come true.

There's no way to support your reasoning on even roughly estimating their costs by bootstrap deduction, without more information.

Maybe a single person could have compensation valued at 100 million dollars. Yes, it happens not to founders but to employees.

Cost of sales at a large revenue company like this is usually very high. Top performing sales people are extremely well compensated.

It's possible you've guessed correctly, I'm just saying there no reason to assume it's even roughly accurate from your premise.

The bottom line is their very existence go against the concept of maximizing shared scientific knowledge.

They also apparently consider unethical smear campaigns a standard business tactic.
> In most other countries police has an active role in settling disputes using empathy and compassion, instead of just arresting people and locking them away.

This sounds false to me outside of some Western European areas but I don’t have data to support it
That doesn't sound GDPR compliant.
Bible, Thora and Koran are all good for that purpose because even if you don't know them in your own language, you can compare the foreign language version with your native version verse by numbered verse.

So are publications by international bodies like the UN (though those tend to deal less with sex, drugs and rock-and-roll than the religious books).
I’m not sure what you’re on about. What I’m saying is that people seek approval and or attaboys and attagirls. They want the likes and they want the comments, the recognition. This leads to this behavior.

If they were posting things to a virtual void the great majority would quickly decelerate the rate of this behavior.
Real-Time collaboration Markdown with version control on GitHub
Yes, they own the script.

Developers do this all the time by the way, it's part of the job to automate as much as possible. No developer will think about selling a script for $800 to their current employer, that doesn't make sense.

What you should do instead, is making sure you get credit for your script and not one of your colleague or your boss. And try and get a raise at some point.
i wonder if they accounted for the reduction in mass when calculating the return trajectory
Then read these comments https://www.reddit.com/r/vegancirclejerk/comments/cn4fya/aft...

I'm vegan btw.
> The author implicitly generalizes that all Indian and post-Soviet programmers are cheap and all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet.

Respectfully, the generalization that includes the word ALL happens in the mind of the reader. The authors CANNOT have meant that all cheap programmers are Indian/post-Soviet. Indeed, in the previous paragraph the author talks about "barely-out-of-high-school whiz kids", whom he also doesn't hold in high esteem; and those kids are likely imagined as American.

The claim that the original text makes is probabilistic. It may even turn out to be true (as in, it is not unimaginable that it's more likely than not to get bad programmers on the project when outsourcing to cheap companies in e.g. India or post-Soviet countries).
Das Keyboard Pro 4 with blue switches. Honestly not that loud and I love the feel. Seriously solid construction (aluminium body and all that).

Has a decent WAF (wife acceptance factor) as long as I don't bottom out the keys too hard causing excessive thumping sounds ;)
yes, these tardigrades were sent to the Moon in a rocket
Not all open-access journals have publication fees.
As an outsider, it seems that the way the police in the US react is the consequence of interaction with the public.

In places where the police have an active role in settling disputes, they also enjoy more respect from the community.
I've been keeping my eye out for good, solid proof that these assistants are doing ad-based targeting based on things being overheard, but I haven't found anything despite looking, and the arguments they aren't are reasonably compelling. (The people looking are quite motivated to find it. Big feather in their hat if they do and can even convincingly cast shade on Amazon, let alone prove it.)

My conclusion is that the targeted ads that people report are either A: coincidence (millions of users, only really tens of thousands of types of "things" to advertise with, sooner or later life coincidences would be expected to happen to large numbers of people) and/or priming (you notice the ad for camping gear since you were just talking about it, but don't notice the several hundred other impressions for camping gear that you just edited out entirely) or B: they didn't get it from your speech; you gave out other signals without realizing it, like a Google search that may not have been "wanna buy camping gear" but unknownst to you is known to be correlated to it, or as you say, your friend ran a search and now you're getting ads, or you're talking about camping gear in the first place because you are in a coffee shop near Camping World Outlet, and in general, the advertising machine knows that you're interested in camping gear right now because that's how well they have you under surveillance... they don't need your actual speech to know that's what you're talking about.

The first is mathematically inevitable, but poorly explains the cases where it recurs to one person. That seems to be the second. In a sort of way, I say that's even creepier than "they're listening to your literal speech and targeting you based on that". They've got you so pegged from everything else they're doing they don't even need that signal. That's creepy.
I know a lot of academics in the social sciences and humanities. Many of these pieces are handled by free labor in these disciplines as well. As paper copies have become increasingly disused, we are seeing that projects like sci-hub can handle the distribution - let's say that it gets a 500k grant for operating expenses and is in turn run on open source software contributed by academic professors who can count it as part of their community involvement for tenure considerations.

That means we're talking about the editors and copy editors themselves as the majority of the cost. Solve that by creating a university consortium. Instead of paying Elsevier, they pay a non-profit run at a set of universities who are responsible for a pool of editors.

Academia handles so much of this in-house already - there's nothing saying they couldn't do this as well.
just because it doesn't align with what you've observed doesn't mean it's "mental". that's rude. please be constructive.
> a deep understanding of your surrounding which you can only achieve with visible light spectrum video

Why can you only achieve that using visible light spectrum video?
> which you can only achieve with visible light spectrum video

Well, no.

RGB is really useful. But actually, you can get pretty good object recognition from a point cloud alone. I mean its better to have RGB as well. but infra-red works just as well.

The problem that appears to escape a lot of the commentary is latency. Sure, you can have a rudimentary stereo camera setup and get _some_ depth information reasonably fast. But it won't be good enough to tell you if that blob that's 100m out is stationary or moving towards you.

Lidar gives you high resolution long range 3d point cloud at 30hz (or faster). The best most reliable depth from monocular/stereo will have a latency of at least 150ms and will be a tiny resolution.

The chances are that we will have sub $100 CCD based lidar before we have low noise/low latency/full resolution depth from monocular/stereo cameras.

The other big issue is that to get decent high res depth from deep learning, you need to have decent segmentation. Segmentation comes for free with lidar (assuming you impose rgb over it.)

> spending all of their energy on creating neural nets around lidar then they'll reach a local maximum where they never begin to tackle the much more difficult problem truly needed for self-driving.

This does not make all that much sense. You don't just train on lidar, you feed in steering, acceleration, braking, gears, signs, radar, pretty much everything.

The other important thing to note is that tesla's stuff is still level 2. volvo, BMW, and a few truck companies are all at least level 4. We are celebrating a "genius" who has yet to actually release a system that does what he claims it should.
Yep. Solution is recursive fines. Spam calls from network provider? Issue a warning. Keep it up? The fines start and don't stop coming in until the calls stop. They ignore the fines and are outside your jurisdiction? Warn every company they transit through. They don't block them? The fines start. Rinse, repeat, until you find someone who you can effectively fine or who cares about the warnings (because you can effectively fine them) and they either bring down the banhammer (which those other entities will care about, even if they don't care about the fines) or they find a technical solution.

These calls are largely preying on the elderly. They're despicable and it's disgusting it's taken us so long to stop them—there's no excuse, it's not like human beings don't control every part of what's happening, this isn't some force of nature. Nuke them from orbit.
No, WSL 1 was an actual kernel layer. WSL 2 actually is a real Linux kernel on top of a VM but with some extra bits to integrate nicely with the Windows side of things.
I ride a bicycle. I don't go on motorways with it though.

We have all seen the crash test videos, we have all been driving at twice the speeds in those crash test videos. We have all stepped it on a little bit more to be travelling past the speed limit.

We have all 'rubber necked' at some ghastly accident on the other carriageway and wondered how so much carnage can happen on a perfectly straight road. A million people get killed on the roads globally every year.

On a motor racing event the medics and fire crew are minutes away, ready. There is no on-coming traffic. There are no people drunk or partially sighted on the road. The barriers and run-off areas have been tested. Helmets are mandatory. The road ahead is the same circuit it was two minutes ago, last time it was lapped. Features in the circuit are there to restrict top speed - chicanes etc.

Meanwhile, on the autobahn you can do the same speeds. Or, elsewhere you can find an overtaking car in your carriageway doing 70+ mph, combine that with your 'safe' 50 mph and imagine how that head on crash compares to the test videos that are at a fraction of the speed. Imagine how well your brain copes smashing into your skull in the impact. Just because everyone is driving along in all weather conditions tailgating the guy in front every day does not make it wonderfully safe. So yes I am serious about the need for a roll cage or a Tesla.
lets take a loot -> (ouch) lets take a looK.
Let's Find Out If Using Electric Eels to Charge Your Tesla Is a Good Idea
While I agree with you, I believe the Hippocratic oath is a way to individualise responsibility that becomes ineffective when the individuals taking it are participating in complex structures. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath and yet we see again and again how the medical system is failing us in its intended purpose (it was even just up on HN[0]) -- the profit motive inevitably takes precedence over the principles of the Oath and you have e.g. hospitals handing out C-sections to anyone they can to increase the throughput and price tag of treatment, while ignoring the negative impact of this policy on patient health.

I think it would be great if people working in software developed a set of principles to adhere to while practicing the trade, but I believe it should be done in a way that is decoupled from the market forces of the capitalist economy. Something like a union would be a good approach.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20626500
Apparently, this will break a lot of (cough) features (cough) that no one uses, like call forwarding. I also wonder if this will break VOIP systems that small businesses use?

The reality is that no one should care. The telephone system is broken when most of the calls we get are fraudulent. I want my phone to be useful; I don't care if fixing it breaks some phone system set up by a sketchy IT wannabe.
Here's an idea. Stop using twitter.
"Backed by", sure, but still free and open, which is UC's (and, I believe, the larger academic community's) ultimate goal.
I've mentioned before how disappointed I've been to watch hackerone move from a platform helping responsible disclosure to a platform helping companies hide vulnerabilities.

It used to be that even accepted bugs and paid bounties would be publically disclosed. It helped me learn a ton just from reading the (partially redacted) bug reports. Over time they became more and more redacted until they were left entirely pointless.

To mark a bug as N/A, declare it 'not fix' but then say also it can't be disclosed is precisely why responsible disclosure is a thing. Companies can't have their cake and eat it.
Replace the Bible with any simple book you know by heart

I would actually advise against religious texts as their language is usually more archaic and less common on the day to day
Batch Recurrent Q-Learning for Backchannel Generation Towards Engaging Agents
"mental"?

In rural areas of central Europe you'll quite often find the Bible in hotel rooms for your nightly bible lecture.
I already had bitcoin (and lightning) on a few different wallets on my phone and was able to pay at Paralelni Polis without any friction. It was easier than using my card because I didn't have to sign anything, scan the QR code in my hot wallet and it was done instantly. I think the step of getting Bitcoin is usually where the friction happens because you usually have to wait for a certain number of confirmed blocks (10 minute intervals) before you can send bitcoin from a new wallet.

I wished they had Lightning set up at Paralelni because to me this is even cooler for Point of Sale systems.
I agree, people have always been taking photos while traveling or visiting a specific location. Passing blame or shamming individuals for taking selfies does not seem like the proper route to take if there is a problem (which i am not saying there is or isn't). When I was younger I enjoyed taking selfies at spots but as I have aged and studied media in University my perception of the selfie has changed and I think that may be a solution to this - not shamming through articles.
EFF: ICANN Expands Role with Speech Regulation
Does anyone here have experience with Opera? How is it for daily use?
Your (1) is not even the jurisdiction of the publisher. It's done by the editors, who are generally volunteers or, at best, receive a paltry stipend.
I assume it's mostly a matter of fuel and how the added weight would've required far more of it.

> Were payload restrictions that tight on the return Apollo journeys?

Probably, yes. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/22/18236125/ap...
no it does not!

the issue is this file has W permission for all users
Steam also stores your credentials world readable on the file system, I reported it I think in 2016 and they just said it was a limitation. I know Epic Games takes security more seriously than Valve at least.
What is JavaScript except code being remotely executed?
Difficult to figure out how regular the astronauts would be.
We can sequence its DNA and see how similar it is to the ones on Earth. If there are living organisms on the moon that share a common ancestor with Earth tardigrades then they diverged a very long time ago and their DNA will reflect that. But if their DNA is identical to those on Earth then we know they came from Earth.
Marijuana legalization reduced opioid deaths by 20% to 35%
+1 for LINE as in Line Is Not (an) Emulator
Classic chicken or egg...
Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10
TIL if someday we travel to new worlds, outside Sol, and find remnants of sentient life having been there, it will most likely be the poop they left behind.
Accelerating Cloud Adoption with DevOps and Automation
i don't agree with your lion's share blaming (whatever "the problem" translates to - 80%? >50%?) Insta; the person being interviewed also doesn't think Insta is mostly to blame for this

i generally agree with person being interviewed and opine that travel is cheap as hell and the externalities aren't really captured at all - environmental ruin, local destinations ruined for those who actually live there, none of this is accounted for.

one example are bachelor parties in cheapish locales - you're not gonna see most of this on the 'gram, but you can bet the jokers renting the airbnb against local laws are going to be annoying as hell for the people living in the building

i think more and more locales are either going to ban or are going to tax the hell out of this and all it entails (Airbnb, lodging for non-residents, ....). and yeah, sure there are millions of other places in the world, have at it, as long as it's not here - or you're paying out the nose for it, and that $$ is being used to improve local stuff/offset environmental impact
Yes, though it’s a shame that ZFS native encryption doesn’t support multiple pass phrases/key files to unlock yet (the on disk structure does support this but the utilities don’t and won’t until a future release).

That’s the feature that keeps me tied to LUKS+zfs for now.
Yes: they necessarily do so.

Despite the article's statement, tardigrades are not extremophiles, they can't live in extreme environments. What they can do is exist/survive in hard vacuum and other extreme environment by entering a super-hybernation mode (cryptobiosis).

Furthermore while they can survive fairly long spans in extreme environments they're not actually immortal, the FOTON-M3 mission resulted in 32% mortality after 10 days in hard vacuum but protected from UV (the survival rates were much lower for those exposed to UVs).
Steganographic Text via Language Models
This is better than nothing. It won’t stop criminals who pretend to be from IRS or Microsoft support. But maybe it might help against some US based businesses which use phone spamming like expiring car warranties and such.
Using the bible is... contentious I'd say because there's a lot of differences between even English translations. I mean I guess the gist of it and the stories are roughly the same but it's definitely not a 1:1 translation between languages.
There are two main reasons to outsource: reduce cost & focus on core business. By outsourcing a developer position, a company may not have to be engaged in most of the process of hiring someone else in that geography (It has a cost), there is also the inherit admin cost associated with maintaining the pipeline of developers to cover for the high turn-over, the need of finance/HR/ops professionals, etc from that geography.

In essence, unless a company intends to have major offices in the region and that it may be interested in becoming an outsourcing agency in the future, it may not make sense business wise.
you're retroactively declaring east jerusalem what the wall includes rather than what was east jerusalem really is (or was).

here is east jerusalem according to any city planning/organization definition

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/EastJeru...

notice shufat refugee camp inside pre 67 municipality boundary

here is how the wall partitioned east jerusalem

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Je...

notice shufat and anata and etc being excluded.

>This conflict is rife with propaganda, I suggest you check your facts instead of unwittingly helping to spread disinformation.

you can keep repeating this as much as you want but so far you haven't presented any evidence to the contrary other that your own vociferous accusations.