skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to end up as a DRM war. Places where one class is not allowed to have effective tools for preserving life will need to outlaw unlicensed replicators. Like speech, these same places will attempt to ban bootleg 3d models, not just weapons.
> The company spent $135 million of venture capital in just 18 months,[4] and it was placed into receivership on 18 May 2000 and liquidated.

For 1998 that was a huge amount of money.
Tasklemon: A JavaScript Alternative to Bash Scripting
Cannibalism?

"You two fight to the death and I'll cook the loser."
You can also turn that statement around. Customers have paid Comcast to access the internet (Netflix) and Comcast didn't want to upgrade his peering with backbone providers forcing Netflix to pay them interconnection.

In this case Comcast is getting money from it's customers and then Netflix has to pay extra for the traffic Comcast's customers requested and paid for.
First, they cannot be renditioned. That's what this protest is about.

Yes. It is upset. It is also upsetting that the U.S. actually have limited due process as well (thus, can forfeit the asset without due process). There are practical reasons why, but it is still ideologically upsetting.
Interesting idea! How did you source these job descriptions?
This seems a very pragmatic solution.
A D/B/A provides you no asset protection, your personal assets could be attached to any legal matter. I have been advised over the years from many attorney's for different businesses, the best usage for d/b/a's is as a marketing method for individual products, product lines, or services but those are held within a LLC or standard corporation.

Do yourself a favor, if you are a US citizen and doing business in the US, get a little legal advice and decide on an LLC or S Corp. I use LLC's for most everything but I also don't generally raise money from institutional investors so that's fine. But at least with the LLC I have more protections and a separation between private and business assets and accounts. Lots of details I am just glossing over, but you get the picture. Setting up an LLC (or corp for that matter) is not expensive, do it in your home state don't mess with Delaware and then foreign registration within your state etc. Of course, if you are looking to raise institutional funds then my advice would be different.
There was a show hn startup within the last month that did this for web based saas applications with chrome. Don't remember the name, though.
Not familiar with UK employment practices, but: do the businesses pay any benefits to part-time employees?
Well KSP launched several successful careers and also there's the goodwill of the owner of Squad who had the foresight to invest in his employee and his employee's skillset. But yes you are correct KSP is not owned by the original creative/creator, it's owned by their employer.
In those cases, marketing needs to actually add value to a product, not just inform people of the intrinsic value of a product

In this specific case, and others like it where a truly common good is priced into a truly niche market, the marketing is the value.
Cast away const. One of the many reasons I gave up on C++.
What is const if it can be cast away?
> This is a PR exercise, ...

Quite possibly, but the fact that it is necessary, suggest that businesses are recognizing that there is a problem.

Words is a first step.
Wow, indeed. Lem is my favourite author and I read most of the books on him and his works and I am not sure I saw this. I will check if it is a well known fact but I doubt it is a coincidence.
I agree. Quite a few times was I surprised to find out a game uses Unity. But the better ones usually don't show a big Unity splash screen. Return of the Obra Dinn was on I totally expected to be its own engine.

But yeah, AAA games usually have specific requirements better satisfied by a custom engine.
Such bleeding is not atypical for startups, if you've done any reading.
Let's Help Him Get His Laptop Back
> I just can’t imagine anyone even thinking that holding expensive chocolate is going to signal their status

Really? You can't imagine some hipsters having an "all artisanal" food gathering? Or a restaurant serving "all artisanal" dessert?

Some people do things because they are genuine. Far more people do things because they are a fad. Far more do things because it's profitable.
I don't think this way of organizing work is about maximizing individual productivity. It's more about the (forgotten?) idea that there's more into humans than being productive in some narrow scope.
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
Isn't that how most games are? I can't imagine many devs get royalties for their code.
I watched about half that. Interesting bit that newer high bypass turbofans need gearing to match the turbine optimal shaft rpm to the fan's lower rpm and higher torque.

Brings up

High torque gears -> weight
High speed gears -> maintence hassle

If I get this talk right the hope is the difference in weight penalty for an advanced direct drive electric motor vs a gear train is nil. This guy is pushing a very high efficiency design that minimizes magnetic and resistive losses while being capable of high torque.

Neat.
This is how most large-ish chips are sold. AMD no longer sells 3 core CPUs but they sell 6 and 4 core models which are partially disabled 8 core dies. The 6 core even seems to be their best selling model because it has a very good price:performance ratio. The Radeon 5700 is a cut down 5700XT, RTX 2060 is a cut down 2070, etc.
I'll stick with the tried and true "curl attack_vector | sh".
Then forget this OSS license option even exists, which you're never going to use unless you build a custom distribution of ServiceStack without a commercial license. The AGPL/FLOSS license exists to allow free usage in OSS projects without needing to pay for a commercial license.

Regardless #Script is unrestricted and free under the commercial license, which is what all official ServiceStack NuGet packages are released under.
That has nothing to do with const. Your dynamic vectors are allocating memory over and over on the heap, which is expensive. When you use a constant size they can be allocated on the stack, which is cheap.
> a ship drops from orbit by accelerating towards the planet you’ll be screaming inside

Aww hell that'll work if you have sci-fi amounts of delta-v. (:
Amusing to me that "scooters" gets the number two slot here.
there's nothing legally preventing mainland-Chinese from choosing to live in HK

This is completely wrong.

Mainland-Chinese may only move to Hong Kong to reunite with family, and they have to apply for a One-Way Permit, which has a "quota of 150 people per day and the waiting time for spouses is currently 4 years": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China_P...

To even visit Hong Kong requires applying for an Entry-Exit Permit in person, and duration is typically limited to 7 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit-Entry_Permit_for_Travelli...
Ruby gem rest-client 1.6.13 hijacked
> The corollary of this is that you'd really better make sure you have little fixed overhead time for your workers if they are working fractional time.

That was one of the big things that me working part-time on a team helped with: they significantly cut down on the mandatory meeting overhead; early on a significant fraction of my time (40%?) was spent in meetings. We cut that down and everyone on the team benefited.
Mighty: Make Chrome Faster
At a guess, I'd say that it's just anything out of the ordinary scares people a bit!

Taking someone on part-time for a traditionally full-time role maybe does involve some additional trust. Maybe a more sustainable approach would be to start full-time, and look at moving to a part-time situation after settling in?
Istio breaks all Java 11 and most Java 9 applications
This is a borderline parody-of-a-product that streams an instance of Chrome to you from a server, so that it's faster
He did many offensive things, it's not really in dispute. It isn't a secret that he thrives on controversy. It's also not in dispute that foreign actors took advantage of the social media structure to stoke animosity and resentment ahead of the elections (at least, not in dispute among anyone serious). Execs in silicon valley would be correct to be horrified at what their infrastructure was used for and the results.

The FBI has posted many examples of the propaganda. It was not "much more negative" against Trump. That's a falsehood.
Can you try talking to the people who left their emails? Leaving an email is a nice sign from savvy users. But in some countries it might not mean much. Your other pipeline numbers look pretty great to me based on personal experience running AdWords campaigns. But I’m far from an expert.
I think in career mode automation should be something you unlock. Not sure why it doesn't exist. Seems like a natural thing to be in the tech tree. Even as varying levels.
As few restrictions on the right to vote as there are, the comparison is inapt. What you may be missing is that there are plenty of constraints on the act of voting, as well as the process.

You can't pay for votes, you can't have someone sign their vote-by-mail ballot and fill it in for them, you can't vote in-person in someone else's stead (even though it doesn't create an extra vote), and so on. There are also plenty of restrictions (at least in the text of the law) on how to handle the ballots themselves.

None of these are restrictions on the right to vote.
Or modders saying "we'll keep backporting your work on KSP2 to KSP1, only better, until you change your mind".
> Just slap some boosters together and have fun blowing stuff up.

This might sound like a flip comment to some, but it's 100% legit. After playing KSP way too many hours over the years, I'll still get an unreasonable amount of joy from creating a new sandbox game (which has unlimited resources), creating an absurd but monstrous rocket and spend two hours trying to get it into orbit.

Yes, that process will cause many explosions. Yes, you will destroy parts of the space center. Yes, it's all-together fun.
The Model 3 Performance comes with the excellent Michelin Pilot Sport 4S. No complaints here.
Not for the founder - heh.
How is that different from spreading false information through newspapers when that was the primary source of people's information?
I gathered each one individually myself. I’ve got a link on my site for people to submit their job descriptions and it brings them to a survey. I was able to evaluate submitters experience before I directed them to the link. It’s been a very tiresome process. But, some code really helped to integrate the job descriptions into the site so that they were searchable.
Panic, the mac app development group, is making a custom handheld console for original retro-ish games: https://play.date/
I'm a fast typer: a single backspace should not undo all keystrokes so far, only the last character should be deleted from my search. Better yet: show me what i'm typing using a pop-up textfield. Windows native ui also gets this wrong.
Artificial General Intelligence
I would say that's unlikely. SIMD instructions don't usually get used by normal compilers without very specific loops that make sure there are no obstacles to vectorization. Also the best way to use SIMD is to loop through a large array of two and do very simple operations with them. Modern CPUs actually have three (I think) floating point slots so their total floating point throughput isn't simply a fraction of the SIMD size.
Show HN: PostgreSQL Extension for Libsodium
ECS = Entity Component System. DOTS = Data Oriented Tech Stack, which is the new implementation of ECS in Unity.

Current KSP is plagued by performance issues during advanced gameplay, particularly threading granularity issues with physics simulation when running large craft such as space stations or complex rocketry. There are some amazing KSP videos on YouTube with orbital construction on a grand scale, gigantic interplanetary vehicles, complex planetary bases and so on; their dirty secret being that the original gameplay is actually occurring at a painfully frustrating <10 fps and has been massively sped up for consumption.

GP is suggesting that using DOTS those issues can be relieved, by making more efficient use of available system resources.

refs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

https://unity.com/dots
I can easily imagine them doing that, but I have trouble with the assertion that their reason for doing so is to signal their high status.

The business argument doesn’t apply, I’m talking about the consumer side. Of course a business would sell something if it’s profitable, regardless of why.
Coordinated ransomware attack in Texas seen as an escalation from prior hacks
I'm Canadian, I used "North America" because I wanted to include Canada. Not in reference to "arrests" but in reference to attitudes about giving children freedom, which are very similar in my experience.

> Country or region is just too broad a brush to stereotype, even in Japan Sapporo is very different from Tokyo.

I agree about stereotyping. But seriously: even Sapporo (which as a rare relatively new Japanese city has similarities to modern western cities) is much more similar to Tokyo than it is to, say, any North American city.

My point is not about whether laws are what where, but that attitudes are in line with those laws (and are what gave rise to them).

Read other comments in response to the post, and you see many other people referencing experiences similar to what I'm talking about.

I'm not trying to say Japan doesn't have problems (it does). Just that on this specific point, Western countries are heading in a very bad direction IMHO.
Do you have an example of when logic would help a configuration file? Their value and use are entirely dependent on the context.

Also I can't make a head or tail of your statement, no offense intended—I can make out parts, but the whole just has no meaning to me.
>I still have the Britannica in my garage. I've cleaned out a lot of things over the years but I can't bring myself to toss that.

A few years ago, during a move,I finally parted with the set my parents had gotten in the late 60s or early 70s. It was painful, but I had to really downsize at the time.

I still have my 1911 edition, which I can't get rid of, even if I haven't cracked a volume in a couple of years.
I'm in the SW Chicago suburbs, and things aren't quite so bad here - I see kids on bikes out and about, and even saw one with a fishing pole sticking out of his bike bag the other day. Maybe parents here are wising up about giving the kids some room to breathe.

But the mall/hangout issue still stands, and that's assuming the malls themselves are still standing. A lot of malls have shot themselves in the foot by banishing the kids; when they grow up, the last place they'll even think about shopping is at a mall.
Algorithms to detect algorithms. The latter have to become more and more genuine and authentic in order to fool the former which are forced to become better and better ... Soon the genuineness, authenticity and complexity of the latter will exceed Shakespeare writing his plays (some say even that was a fake - in this case i subscribe to Marlowe theory) and we, regular humans, will be left in the dust... Too stupid a post - yea, that is a real human, let it through :)
I was being facetious:

I was working right next to andy grove and other legendary CPU eng's at intels bldg SC12....

I was young and making comments abt "why cant we just do this, or that"

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it was my golden era.

Running the Developer Relations Group (DRG) game labe with my best friend Morgan.

We bought some of the first 42" plasma displays ever made.... and played quake tournaments on them...

We had a T3 directly to out lab.

We had the first ever AGP slots, the first test of the unreal engine...

We had SIX fucking UO accounts logged in side-by-side and ran an EMPIRE in UO.

We would stay/play/work until 4am. It was fantastic.

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We got the UO admins ghosting us wonersing how we were so good at the game (recall, everyone else had 56K modems at best... we were on a T3 at fucking intel...

We used to get yelled at for playing the music too loud....

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Our job was to determine if the Celeron was going to be a viable project via playing games and figuring out if the SIMD instructions were viable... To ensure theree wasa . capability to make a sub $1,000 PC. Lots of ppl at intel thought it was impossible...

GAMES MADE THAT HAPPEN.

Intel would then pay a gaming/other company a million dollars to say "our game/shit runs best on Intel Celeron Processors" etc... pushing SIMD (hence why they were afraid of Transmeta, and AMD -- since AMD already had won a lawsuit that required Intel to give AMD CPU designs from past....

This was when they were claiming that 14nm was going to be impossible...

What are they at now?
Cashless and bankless society.

I moved to London last year and have used cash roughly zero times since. Visiting my parents (outside London) is like jumping in to treacle. Finding coins for the bus? Paper tickets on the train? Give me a god damn break. Even using chip and pin is weird now since almost all my purchases, except for dining out, are either touchless, online, or via mobile app.

In 20 years i think cash (banknotes, coinage), and maybe even bank accounts as we know them today, will be an almost alien concept to kids. Brick and mortar banks will be gone entirely. I certainly haven't set foot in one over a decade.
99% of the technical articles posted on HN are very accessible if you have just the very basic understanding of CS without diving into any specific areas. I.e., lots of breadth, but little depth that is required for understanding (even if the articles themselves dive into depth).

I would count knowing the JPEG spec as a depth, rather than breadth.
Start with the happy case or people will shut down and stop listening.
Hard to say if they would want those remnants on their platform, but it would be really great if these things were funneled to the FBI who published reports of state-sponsored misinformation activities so we could cite them as examples later on.
Modding community thinks so too. Like with many other mods, MechJeb can be restricted to operate only when appropriate parts are included on your vessel, and those parts are unlockable in the tech tree.

There's a mod called Community Tech Tree, which exists solely as a way to incorporate other mods into a somewhat coherent, extended tech tree.
As a game eveloper I was hoping to see they might make the switch to UE4 but guess they have too many solutions in Unity for that to make sense.
Censorship evasion is no longer trivial. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) exists and makes it difficult to use even VPNs. Shadowsocks works but has limited UDP support out of the box iirc.
This title seems to bury the lede.

The money is being returned and funds will be raised to support trafficking victims:

"I vow to raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking. I will also return the money that Epstein has invested in my investment funds."
Yes for sure.
Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
>The losses for each WeWork member -- about $5,200 per customer -- are about 28 times what Uber loses per active rider.

What is the value of those customers though? $3500-$12,000/year.

And as I understand the business model, it is really a realestate business so how of the value is in asset appreciation. If you’re buying real estate at pennies on the dollar and using cash flow to pay off debt, then $1.3B in losses may not be a big deal since you really need to look at LTV. If I put down $200k for a house in SF and take on debt for the rest then I am loosing a hell of a lot more money per occupant.
Fair enough, I read it wrong. When I read "commons based" I assume the word commons to mean public property, or Commonwealth concepts. And while Wikipedia doesn't copyright its material, it's still very much a private enterprise, despite depending on volunteers to add content. There are still paid employees of Wikipedia that ultimately manage it. It's not entirely decentralized in that sense.

I think your definition of capitalism is overly simplistic. Capitalism is merely a byproduct of private property. If you hold that individuals can own property, and have certain rights to that property, then capitalism is an emergent property of an economy that respects private property as a concept.

Employee owned corporations are a thing in capitalism, as are publically owned corporations, as are state owned corporations, as are non-profit corps. I get that organizations which produce IP that is open source or non-copyrighted is novel, but I still don't follow how it's "non-capitalistic". Donations are simply an alternative revenue model.
A new way to deliver drugs with pinpoint targeting
Quite honestly thought that video was a joke until the final cut
Nothing beats experience. I completely agree. I found that very hard to find online. So in an attempt to help others looking for it, I created what I thought was the next best thing. From the horses mouth so to speak...
How many times do I have to tell you child, the plural of Lego is Lego!
As for the spyware accusation... from what I read, Take Two slapped their usual privacy policy on the game after they bought it. The community didn't take that nicely.

I don't remember ever seeing any evidence for spying beyond policy discussion and would be surprised if there is anything beyond common telemetry.
> Anecdote:

I'd love to hear more about any aspect of this if you have time. (:
Absent widespread unionization in the gaming industry and standardization of royalty tables, this was never in the cards anyway.
Yes but it's apparently exceptionally bad with Squad/KSP.

Aside from that I also think that this isn't good. Everyone involved should be compensated for the success of the product they created.
Benefits are a much smaller part of the package. Health coverage, for example, is nationally provided. For most of my employers, the main benefits would be vacation (which would be pro-rata), pension (ditto), and sick leave (effectively ditto, as it pays out based on actual salary). There are some much smaller fringe benefits (gym discounts, say) which would be given regardless of hours worked, but I'm not sure that would make a material difference.

For high-end jobs you might get private health coverage (or, under earlier tax regimes, a company car). I'm not sure how they are normally handled.
It's an inherent property of the world that bandwidth is expensive, so it's always going to be limited.

There are two types of protocols: those that adjust the quantity of data sent depending on conditions, and those that don't. Streaming video does -- if throughput drops, it changes video encoding to send fewer bytes. Most other protocols don't -- they just get slow but they still need to send all the bytes eventually. There's a solid argument for throttling the first kind when congestion hits.

There's a huge literature on this. Start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_measure if you want to learn more.
"Not actual gameplay" So this flashy expensive trailer is utterly pointless.

This is a game sequel that I am worried about. The original is a fantastic game. The sequel is being made by different people. Maybe they dont have as good an understanding of the medium of games. This trailer is a bit of a red flag in that regard already.
"Multiplayer/Modding"

I'm in.