skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that

1. The audits can take considerable time and resources to complete (effectively, an extra cost)

2. The audits can be wrong, which sounds like a nightmare to deal with ([1])

As such, avoiding Redhat even if you are "paying for the software you're using" may still seem like a good idea.

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[1] Answer in the FAQ about incorrect audits

> First, it is vital to carefully review the audit findings in detail. IBM's customers often do not receive all the license credit they are entitlted to, and IBM typically will agree to modify its initial demands if there is a mistake in the calucations. Sometimes, IBM’s compliance teams often do not have a complete file of all license agreements that an audited company may have signed. In many cases, the negotiated terms of a license agreement can include alternative counting rules or other variables that change the way license requirements are determined for certain products. If the auditors are unaware of those terms, then the calculated audit discrepancies likely will be inflated and erroneous.
There’s an article I can’t find on The Onion titled “Scientist Identify Coolest Time Ever”. Turns out it was when you, the reader, were 13.
The IBM licenses are so obtuse that it can only be intentional. This may be outdated, but they used to use these stupid “processor units” that had some loose correlation to CPU performance. If a perfectly well-intentioned systems person moved licensed software to some new server that had half the cores, but was on a newer generation CPU, and didn’t think to ask the lawyers about it, you could get tagged for huge bucks. I will never buy IBM software ever again if I can go to any reasonable length to avoid it. RHATs licensing seems not to be moving to the IBM model yet, but I’m frightened.
This is awesome. There's a vast amount of data being made available, and it's great that people are making that data more accessible through visualizations and pattern detection.

There's a site that does a similar kind of analysis and offers regular updates to their reports: https://www.adspend2020.com/
If you know your powers of two

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512

conversion from miles to kilometers is just two steps lexicographically

1, 128, 16, 2, 256, 32, 4, 512, 64, 8

Ex.:

32 miles is 51.2 kilometers
80 miles is 128 kilometers (wrap around!)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546927
That last point brings to mind an idiom in Finnish. When you don't understand something, you can say "En tajua hölkäsen pöläystä". Now, the funny thing about this is that I don't think most Finns could tell you what "hölkäsen pöläys" actually means; it's just a part of the idiom, and kind of invokes the feeling of nonsensical speech. The words themselves are nonsense.

The literal translation is therefore "I don't understand hölkäsen pöläys" :P
>I wouldn't say that a language studied by a minority of students (those in liceo classico) is the reason we use "Arab" as the incomprehensible language shorthand.

A minority today, but one would assume (as in the case in e.g. German and France) more (of students) in the past 50-100-200 years when the phrase was established.
Exploiting choke points to optimise your tactical positioning is a recurring trope. Some games just expect you to do that anyway. As mrob mentioned [0], roguelikes are notorious for this; but I wouldn't call that bad. It's more a matter of taste. Particularly in roguelikes, you'll also encounter situations where the tactical advantage is subverted by enemies that can teleport or spawn minions behind you.

One common, but somewhat clunky countermeasure is to start the fight only once you're inside an arena and lock down the exits until the adversaries are defeated. It's present in many genres, from metroidvanias to ostensibly tactical action (e.g. the Metal Gear Solid series).

In a Quake-style FPS, having power-ups not just available, but regularly re-spawning in exposed locations is a tried and true mechanic that maintains an exhilarating ballet between risk and reward. But how could one translate the elegant flow of this gameplay loop to a more realistic (or less artificially 'gamey') setting? As Andrew says in the article, you could make more linear and scripted encounters. Which is fine for story-driven games, but limits player agency.

If you'd prefer more organic, emergent game-play, there are other options. Instead of initiating combat only upon the player approaching a set piece, opening a monster closet, or crossing a trigger, you can instruct enemy AI to patrol the potential avenues a stealthy player might take and guard the choke points a speed-runner might attempt to barrel through. From there, you can temper the utility of the player retreating. There could be speedy mobs you wouldn't want to turn your back on. Level design that enables flanking — implement a nav mesh that guides your agents to split between chasing the player down and heading her off at the pass.

But none of that is objectively superior to more predictable fights. Nor is it guaranteed to to be perceived as more enjoyable than comparatively random encounters. Ultimately, what you really should avoid is a ruleset that keeps players from having fun because the interesting game play loops you intended to happen end up being trumped by dominant strategies that are obviously better for approaching the victory condition, but more boring and tedious to execute.

The actual problem isn't with players figuring out how to exploit doorways. It's rather that moment when they resign to repeating the same move ad nauseam.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20663044
https://www.businessinsider.com/linus-torvalds-workspace-tou...

Happened in the past...
Pretty close to the 911 turbo, which makes sense.

Porsche is notorious for expensive options too though.
Only for Mac...
what's your email? I'll send to you

never mind, saw on your profile
I don't know how effective it is, but firejail can use xpra or xephyr to firewall X.
Connecting home cooks with their neighbors for $10 a meal
Say what you want about Telegram, they innovate much faster than WhatsApp with way fewer resources.
If you could put some kind of number on how much of a not-UK thing it was on a global scale, that would answer my original question.

Like, apoarently air con is currently 10% of all electricity and set to grow. 10 AC units will be sold every second for the next 30 years.

It seems solar plus batteries has that covered, but I'd be interested to know the ratios.
Also by watching the upload bandwidth. If it streams the live video feed off the device at anywhere near being useful for facial recognition it would be very noticeable.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20485978
Now would be the time to get out before IBM crushes RedHat's soul. IBM will squeeze RH for everything and more to get that cash pile back asap.
Interesting to see more and more forum features from way back being integrated into chat apps. Are chat apps the new forums now? Discord sure is already there I guess.
Not for me.

Grade School: Doom 2, Quake, Warcraft 2, Diablo, Starcraft, Red Alert, HOMM 1-3, Total Annihilation

Jr High - High School: Tribes (started playing it late), Warcraft 3 / DOTA, Diablo 2, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, World Of Warcraft (beta through WOTLK)

College: Team Fortress 2, Heroes Of Newerth, League of Legends

Post-college: Civilization 5, DOTA 2, Path of Exile

I consider all of these periods equally great/golden. The number of games in each period varies, but I don't consider that a factor.

I could go back and play any of these games and enjoy them today, assuming compatibility issues are dealt with and there are servers with players for the multiplayer-focused titles (sadly not the case for Tribes, and I think HON is dead too).

I played Diablo 1 for the first time in nearly nineteen years last night on diabloweb, and it's aged incredibly well. The atmosphere is just as immersive as it was back in my childhood. I was surprised to not feel nostalgic. Instead, I was reminded of how incredibly disappointing Diablo 3 was.

I'm pretty gamed out now. Lately I only really play MTG Arena. The current Battle Royale era is the first major gaming phase I've opted out of entirely. I haven't played DOTA2 in nearly a year after playing at least one MOBA game near-daily between 2004 and 2018.

I'm tempted to try WoW Classic, but I feel like I'll either be unable to play more than a few hours before losing all interest, or it will completely take over my life again
i haven't checked it thoroughly, but it looks like all the desired properties of boolean arithmetic are preserved when

false = 0
true = [1] (i.e. the equivalence class of all n > 0)
&& = +
|| = *

spelling it out:

|| / + (or):
0+0 = 0
0+[1] = [1]+0 = [1]
[1]+[1] = [1]

&& / * (and):
0*0 = 0
0*[1] = [1]*0 = 0
[1]*[1] = [1]

where [1] stands for "any nonzero number". (please let me know if i missed anything!)

so natural numbers (quotiented by an equivalence relation) seem to work as a model for boolean arithmetic. and idk if we need more mathematical justification than "it works fine"

EDIT: changed "integers" to "natural numbers", because

5 + -5 = 0

so the `[1]+[1] = [1]` property doesn't hold
On Lisp
This is one game that always impressed me as a child.

Things I loved about the game:

- Destructible terrain, buildings, and vehicles.

- Ambient lighting.

- Exciting story with known actors.

One thing that always frustrated me was on the back of the box it showed the ability to create light towers but I don’t think that was ever possible in the game without mods.
"financier" ?? Lmaof really. Are we too scared to call him and his associates what they really are ?

HN time to shadow ban me.
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it.

1. Yes every message has also local timestamp (100 ns precision).

2. Currently it's around 4-5TB of compressed data (so 25-35TB uncompressed - need to check to be sure).

Indeed pricing is supposed to be very affordable as it's targeted at independent algo traders so without spending huge amounts of $$$ they can have good data to backtest on professional level (arguably if you can call crypto trading professional as some argue). Happy to provide you with the discount, please get in touch with me via email if interested.

Edit: some obsolete info redacted
I've worked at places with free food before. While it's nice to have, it really is exactly what this Quora answerer suggests: it's a way to get people to stay at the office. It's not at all altruistic, and it shouldn't be considered a perk. Free food can be nice, but be aware that you're giving something up as well.

One effect that's even more valuable to the business than simply keeping employees at the office more is that it strongly encourages everyone to eat lunch at the same time. Even people who bring their own lunch or go out to lunch will do so at the same time that everyone else is partaking in the free food. This makes it a lot easier to schedule meetings adjacent to lunch, and means that all the noise and disruption of lunch is narrowly timeboxed.
This seems like a serious issue for the environment by forcing hardware into landfills.

I wonder what the landscape is like in Europe for things like this. I know some countries are more diligent about physical products having a longer useful life than others.
While the gaming industry has turned huge and inevitably is much more about money then when it wasn't really taken that seriously by the broad public, thanks to the indie scene there is still great games being released today in any genre and subgenre you can possibly think of. There has definitely been a game released during the last 12 months that you'd totally like if you only knew about it.

But the "getting old" part definitely plays a role too. When you're a kid or in your teens everything is just more exciting and impressive to you. A teen today might think the latest Wolfenstein installment is the most awesome thing they've ever seen while to you it's just another first person shooter or doom clone, with somewhat better graphics. Now you could say "but doom was new and groundbreaking", but even if there had been a dozen identical games before, if doom were the first one you played, it wouldn't have mattered. Graphics is another thing I stopped caring about. In the late 90s and early 2000s I was blown away by new graphics demos released every year showing off what the next gen of gfx cards were capable of. Nowadays I'm so out of the loop. Graphics from 5 years ago look no different than today. Although I must admit the latest unreal engine tech demos actually did manage to impress me.
> But this is also why Signal is what I use when the secrecy of what I'm talking about actually matters.

Which is fine but will never work with the average WhatsApp/Telegram user. First, they have to be educated, they have to care, they have to decide if what they are typing affords that extra level of protection, if the inteded destination is on Signal, etc. It's too much.

I've tried to convert friends and family to Signal but not a single one continued to use it after a few days.

But I think it's fine that Signal is making these compromises in favor of security and privacy. Maybe we don't really need mass adoption, as long as the people that really need it know where to look.
Sure thing! Updated from https://adsp.ai/blog/us-presidential-candidates-facebook-ads....
FedEx won’t deliver Amazon packages in the US anymore
It would cause some practical difficulties if the corporation owned all its shares. For example, in the case of a Delaware corporation, shares owned by the corporation itself can’t vote, so it would not be possible to elect board members. Some jurisdictions might have legal limits on how much stock can be bought back as a percentage of the outstanding shares.

It’s not that unusual to have entities that essentially own themselves, in the sense that nobody is entitled to the profits and the board or managers elect their own successors. This is the case for foundations and trusts in many countries, usually with some kind of charitable purpose. Some of them even operate businesses. It might be possible for a company to take on some debt, buy out all its shareholders, and reorganize into a charity.
1bx, the Amp Grid
I’m not defending the guards, I’m wondering what is the offense that those who would presumably paid them off would be charged with other than bringing a government official.
1. The only option for avoiding an unsafe implementation language is currently Java, which is limited to Android.

2. Avoiding high privilege often means going out of process, which is challenging on resource-constrained devices.
Typically, forums are public and can be read by a great number of people. The replacement for that seems to be Facebook and reddit. Chat apps are basically the new IRC. They’re not too different than apps available decades ago like ICQ and AIM.
Mensagens Espirita Sirlei: RessentimentOS X Doenças
They list tracking cookies, eg google analytics equivalent, which makes their site in breach of GDPR. Users need to be able to have a real choice. That choice can’t be accept or leave.

I hope they get a nice juicy fine.
The point is to ensure that style of game play isn't more effective. There are cover shooters that encourage potshots from behind cover that are built to make that style of play more fun.
For outside temperatures it's close enough though. As an American who travels to Central America quite a bit being about to do: (C*2) + 30 to get F is close enough.
The Greatest Ted Talk Ever Sold – Morgan Spurlock
You can run your own signal server and compile the app to point to your own server instead of theirs.

It doesn't get much more open source than that.
Is that true in the US? I thought that the bar was pretty high for public figures. I mean, consider what people say in political campaigns. Lies and malice (i.e., prevent their election) are common.
All this is going to do is increase the efforts for open source switching firmware. We already have working data plane and control plane for selected systems, but at this point it no longer is some far fetched dream.
Frustratingly, they don't explain how it works, or why it useful.

1) its a visual search. This means that using streetview data, google has crunched a sparse 3d pointcloud. Each of these points are represent a globally unique has of a point. (a global descriptor)

2) This is better than GPS, because its possible to resolve a position to ~20cms and crucially where true north is. Crucially it doesn't need an unobstructed view of the sky to resolve a position.

In urban canyons, where sky is limited, there are loads of unique visual points that are more than enough to calculate an accurate position. It also works inside, in places like malls.

The drawback is that it requires constant updating to remain accurate, buildings and hoardings change. Now, there is a patent for self updating, but google doesn't own it.

Also, they don't appear to be offering this service to third parties, which is a shame.
Kinesis Advantage was a game changer for me too. But when I type on my laptop for a day or two the pain is back. The pain also depends on the stress level, because it seems that I type with more tightened fingers (as is the whole body as well).
Kind of, but in every case I've seen they won't have any success. Their service dog can't be disturbing my other tenants, and that's always how they get caught. We get reports of dogs barking 24/7.
Right, which is why the locked door is the wrong analogy.

It's more like burying treasure. The location is a secret map (key) that only you know. The critical distinction here, I believe, is between "having" and "knowing".

And I like to believe we have even stronger rights to what we know than to what we have.

All that said, this is assuming use of working cryptography. With the exception of the technically savvy (those who know how to hid things properly) asking for backdoors into encryption is akin to registering your treasure with the feds, something I'd assume gold miners wouldn't have put up with, for example.
I worked for a vanadium flow battery startup which went out of business. Vanadium provides a higher degree of safety due to the chemistry not being flammable. The chemistry also cycles (charges and discharges) without degradation in energy storage capacity. However, vanadium flow batteries are far less energy dense, have moving parts (pumps), and a poor track record of reliability. There was a lot of interest in vanadium flow batteries when Li-Ion was way more expensive, but now that prices have plummeted (and will continue to do so) I don't see much of a future outside of certain applications.
That’s because glasses basically bypass the eyes/attention detection feature.

If you don’t have that feature enabled you don’t need the glasses.

That said it would be quite obvious that this attack vector would work, I don’t think that people just realized what happens when you put on glasses and train FaceID to unlock with them.

It took like 10+ pin unlocks until FaceID comfortably recognized both my sun and reading glasses since I don’t wear either that much.

If I never wore them it would likely mean that this would never work at all since there was no pin confirmed unlock which updates the model with glasses on.
Jokes from Reddit:

1. Committed suicide by shootings himself 15 times at the back of his head

2. If you are surprised by his suicide, imagine how surprised he himself was

Reddit has been predicting this for days or weeks now.
Wireless roaming is now what 'long distance' calling rates between area codes were--synthetic price markups.
The exact same technique is used by Oracle.
The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator (1997)
> impromptu drag race with a random motorist

Reckless driving like this consistently kills innocent people and most drivers who do this eventually end up losing their license or ending up in jail.

Not sure it's the sort of target demographic car companies should be looking at.
Yes, Their service dog can't be disturbing my other tenants, and that's always how they get caught. We get reports of dogs barking 24/7. It doesn't matter what legal status their pet has if it's causing a disturbance.

If the dog is perfectly well behaved, then I would absolutely be breaking the law if I evicted them for it.
It's an alternative strategy, meaning it tries to be decorrelated with anything else. It may be useful if you want a balanced portfolio, not just a 100% stocks bomb.

Historical yield is not everything. Things change, past performance is not necessarily a predictor of future success.
Signal has great voice calling. At least, I rarely have any trouble and the calls are usually crystal clear.
Are you an EU citizen?
So was this post written by speaking or typing?
I think it is a combination of factors, but notably it is 1) 426GB table on 7200rpm hdd, 2) SeqScan of 8 rows which is not computationally expensive. It basically goes through a very big file on hdd, probably for the purpose of presentation, not to show some impressive per-core efficiency.
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NetAPP has been the same way for decades: you can do what you want with the hardware but the licenses are nontransferable. Since I learned this in 2001 I have not bought any of their hardware.
> I really feel that peak gaming was in 90s/early 2000s.

IMO we're just old.

If there was any way this was true, then people born after 1999 would be itching to play games from the 90s and early 2000s, instead of the latest thing from EA and crowd. (They aren't. No teenager in 2019 groks Star Control.)

This goes doubly true for "games were easier to learn back then". No, teenagers today are picking up the latest games in 10 minutes just like we used to when we were teens. Games aren't harder now (plenty of 8 bit console games were punishingly hard) we're just OLD. I'm positive if I still had the pliable brain of a 16 year old I'd be hopping on whatever newest, shiniest DRM / DLC goodness was out right now.
I'm going to take another look at Haskell first.
Most consultancies just name you senior once you have between 3-5 years of experience. Companies that attract new talent will gladly dish out a “senior” title a little early to make you sign.

I’ve had contracts that literally state >= 5 years of experience = senior hourly rate.

This is literally how you become senior.
Google Cloud docs are far superior, as is the overall UX/DX.
A Connecticut Girl Stands in The Way of The Republic of Weimar
Is the original Tesla founder who was ousted by Elon somehow involved in this? I remember he went to VW afterwards...
I have some employees in India and apparently, Adobe does this there. They will just randomly show up and ask to look at all your systems and see if you are using pirated Adobe products.

I have no idea what the laws are there, but the companies they show up at don't even necessarily have any license with Adobe. I can't imagine that is legal in India, but apparently it happens unabetted.
Not sure why people don't bring up the Mercedes EQC400.

Reviews have been generally excellent so far.
I think there's a bit of mystique about how dangerous the Defcon network is, and it doesn't really reflect the current reality.

To quote the defcon27 FAQ https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-faq.html

"Why yes, DEF CON is FULLY network-enabled. Now that we've perfected the art of a stable hacker con network, we're ascending to a higher level - we're providing you a network that you feel SAFE in using! Since DEF CON 18 we're WPA2 encrypted over-the-air, with a direct trunk out to the Internet. No peer-to-peer, no sniffing, just straight to the net (and internal servers). We'll provide login credentials at Registration. We know the 3G airwaves will be saturated so we're putting our own cred on the line to give you a net that even we would put our own mobile phones on."

They do also provide a free-for-all network, but no-one has to use that...