skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty big difference between a model that sells 2,500 total units and one that sells millions over 2 decades. A better comparison would be to look at what parts availability is on a limited run sports car.
Apple Just Released an Emergency Patch for the iPhone
You can uninstall most stuff by just right-clicking it and choosing "uninstall".
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Right. There is a very informative critical analysis of Esperanto’s problems at http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
That is oxymoronic - the purpose of the draft is to have military warm bodies without having to pay or get volunteers.

Infastructure work's limitations are based on funding and skilled labor - not a mass of gruntwork.
>It is rare for any indie developer to be making any kind of "a living" from making games. The fact that Jeff does already makes him exceptional.

It's not that rare. https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025672/2014-vs-2018-The-Shape This talk goes over how many games are doing extremely well at any point in time on Steam alone and it's actually hundreds of games. It's mostly a function of time and persistence for any individual developer and given that Steam has only been around for indies in a big way for about 8 years we'll start seeing more and more indie devs making a living over time.

>As a gamer, I could care less about whatever rubbish being claimed about his "technique" and "craftsmanship"

That's great, but your post complained about the actions of other developers towards him. I explained, from the perspective of a developer, why I received his message negatively. It's a message of mediocrity in an important aspect of the craft and it shows his lack of care for it. I couldn't care less about what gamers think, gamers aren't around me when I'm spending 10 hours a day every day in front of the computer coding. To make games you have to love the craft, and I won't think highly of peers who show no interest in the craft itself.
Golf ball that finds the hole automatically
I am totally with you on this one. I feel similar about GMOs. The business behind GMOs isn't always the greatest, but we need all the help we can get.
Because me calling out how your site is a marketing platform for SMMs is definitely the risky behavior compared to enabling 24/7 propaganda from the wannabe priesthood. That's definitely the false positive you should be concerned about.
Jeff is a legend and a hero for staying in business as long as he has.
Right, these are just Visa/MC/etc. card classes, which don't determine the cash back on them. And so if that doesn't make up the difference, then the card companies paying the rest, right? My point is that for high-cash-back cards there are easily customers who consistently make more in cash back than whatever fees these folks get and who don't rack up interest, meaning they're costing money, so why should they still be kept as customers?
How about giving us back the features we lost with Windows 10?

Like if I want a desktop shortcut to Notepad in W7 I open the Start menu, begin typing Notepad, and when it shows up in the search results I drag the icon onto the desktop or right click on it and hit "send to desktop". Neither of those work in Windows 10. Clicking and dragging does nothing, and right clicking doesn't let you make a desktop shortcut either. You have to add it to the Start menu, then drag it to to the desktop, then delete it off the Start menu.
"15 Jan, 2018"

This is only relevant now as the communist party wants to crack down on the Kong Hong people as it can afford to lose the city
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I saw a news spot on Eddie Huang last week. Guy described himself as a 'short, fat Chinese guy'. Turns out he is actually a lawyer, best-selling author, clothing designer and successful restaurant owner.

They interviewed his parents, too. They seemed like the super-strict type, understandably very proud of their son.

I told my kids: "See? That guy is unstoppable. He believes he can work hard and do anything. And he can." It made me proud to be an American.
Hierarchically-Refined Label Attention Network for Sequence Labeling
You might think it's silly. Microsoft thinks it has massively cut down on malware installation. One of these is an aesthetic judgment. The other is a security judgment.
Yes, for some stationary storage applications 150 cycles would be completely adequate, and would last for many years. Eg: replacement of emergency generators, or some peaking power stations which only operate for a few days per year (we have lots of these in Australia).
I had to look it up, but FCR is "Feed Conversion Rate", or "food in over product out", so lower is better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
I know nothing, but from reading Wikipedia, I ran across something that really appealed to me - the idea that "black holes" are really fuzzy balls of strings (or whatever lies within the particles we know) where you would otherwise expect an event horizon. Anything falling into them comes apart into that stuff when it gets there.

To me, that feels right, even though I can't say anything about the math.
It’s free on the Epic Game Store either right now or very soon.
Terrapin published my LOGO Adventure on the C64 LOGO Utilities disk as an example of a simple non-graphical game that showed off Logo’s list processing and functional programming capabilities.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrap...

Paleotronic has ported it to their Apple Logo, which runs in their amazing 3D Apple ][ emulator!

https://paleotronic.com/2018/11/10/logo-adventure-for-apple-...

https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/
Yes. Some mods like kerbal engineer and machine everywhere makes thing less annoying, not easier. It’s the engines, fuel tanks, and science payloads that can break the balance.

As for mechjeb in particular, I never found it all that useful except when calculating rendezvous. I could do it myself, but I don’t want to bother with a protractor and calculator.
there is a light treatment of instruction decoding here, [about 2/3 way through] targeted to similar level of pre exposure :

https://hackernoon.com/how-does-a-cpu-work-af3488d182a2

the primary post is cut short but i like it for the level of detail presented to someone with toe in the door digital hardware skills.
I won't argue with flavor, but again, its cheap fast food, you aren't going to find brisket or short rib blend in a McDonalds burger. The new McDonalds quarter pounder is decent too for what it is.
Here is a good explanation...

https://squareup.com/guides/credit-card-processing-fees-and-...

"The card that’s used

Debit cards with PINs are lower risk than credit cards, so they typically have a lower interchange rate. And rewards cards (travel, triple points, etc.) and business cards typically have have higher interchange rates."
2/21/20 $95 Put is what I got. I already tripled my money earlier in the month on the last fall from its post-IPO peak.
It's a lot of work, and I don't know that there's any support for the effort to port V8 and ART to RISC-V. When I was starting on V8 port, I didn't see much in terms of interest in providing material support for it.

I got one interview out of it, but I feel like maybe the Foundation is the right place for that. They'd have to delegate the hiring and management to a member, but I think it could work.

Huawei has their own VM for Android, so they would likely port that for their effort.
Like any art, the vast majority of indie games fail to sell. It doesn't need any further explanation.

Also, who are you to be the judge of one's technique and craftsmanship?

Apparently enough people enjoy Jeff's technique and craftsmanship to continue buying his games. And that's all that matters.
I’m not aware of any card that gives flat out unconditional 5% cash back. You sometimes have these elevated award rates but for very specific merchant partners, limited periods of time, with some cap on the total amount received, or limits on how the reward can be redeemed. The base cash back on reward cards hovers between 1 and 2 percent, even ones with high yearly fees (another area where the margin for the issuer is further elevated). The high yearly fee incentivizes card holders to “get their money’s worth” by using the card more.
I'd add some jail time for the corporate leadership, including board members.
It looks like most 5% cash back cards have a hard limit ($1500/quarter seems to be common limit) to the amount you can get back and offer an "unlimited" cash back at a rate at or lower than 2%.

https://www.magnifymoney.com/blog/best-of/10-best-5-cash-bac...

This way they'll make money after the limit takes effect. My assumption is that they are hoping the consumer will forget there's a hard limit to the amount they can save and always go with their "5% cash back card" when making purchases.
IANAL and don't know the case, but I suspect the correct strategy is to sue for as much as you can reasonably justify. If you can spin a story that outlines how you could have suffered 17 billion in damages, it wouldn't make sense to sue for anything less if you have the resources to file the suit. Or would it?
I thought federal law required mass market vehicle manufacturers to make parts available for 10 years?

Am I mistaken or did Tesla manufacture these under some low-volume exception?
Pelican is also cool: https://blog.getpelican.com/
A closer mathematical operation would be unitary matrix multiplication
Nah. Bolt cutters on an arm, or even just spray paint. You don’t need to be close to do an electronic attack. If you’re close, you might as well hit it with a hammer or snip the antenna and solar arrays off.
Outrageous, yes. Deranged, no.

I'll make a prediction. Next Tuesday, Trump will dominate the news cycle. And next Thursday. And the one after that. And every day in between.

What does this do?

- Keeps everybody talking about Trump. All the time.
- Every outrageous statement has some grain of truth in it. It makes people talk, and give him a slice of benefit of doubt.
- Absolutely takes every ounce of air out of the room for his political opponents. Nobody is going to hear much about their ideas.

It's the new-style of politics. And it worked through the Republican primary, then the general election. Against long odds and a monetary deficit in each. Better get used to it. The media falls for it, Every. Single. Time.
The one for $1.49 probably didn't have much more meat than the other one. Sorry! Sorry.... Had to do it....
Or the idea presented by Welch isn’t as common as the op thinks?
The roadster is a uniquely weird product in that it was hacked together from Lotus parts. Lotuses are already hard to get parts for, and Lotus and Tesla split on bad terms. Plus the electric parts were basically one-offs; they made less than 2500 units in total.
As you can read above, I wasn't implying you were. Merely pointing out another, perhaps better, analogy.
I mean, they could surely work around that right? Use something like an empty data:text/html page instead of about:blank if there really is some sort of iOS restriction.
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I second this, with emphasis. His videos cover the vast majority of topics at the intersection of math and hn. He has written custom software for the creation of the animations.

It’s on another level imo.
Suppose I learn person X is missing CYFIP1. Could on use crisper to put it back? Where would I get a CYFIP1 for X? Are the dna bases really the same person to person?
They don't make up the full 5% though, and there are people who do consistently use these cards only for their 5% categories.
Who's paying?
Enough of them wind up over-extending and paying interest to make it lucrative.

I'm also not aware of any across-the-board 5% rewards cards, and most have an "up to $x,000 annual spend" on the categories that are that high.
Fair point honestly, it seemed worth posting for continuity though.
Nobody said unconditional. You just rotate the cards in your wallet and use whatever 5% category fits your purchase. You might not do this, but there are people who do, and never pay interest. They clearly operate at a loss for the company year after year. I'm asking why their accounts aren't closed.
That, and the in-app "make Chrome/FF the default browser" popup redirecting to a Windows settings page where when you choose anything else than Edge, you get yet another popup asking you to confirm that you really don't want to use the awesome browser that Edge is.
Which could be economics: at industrial scale, the relative cost of the ingredients is much higher than the cost of labor. at smaller scale, the labor cost starts to outweigh. so an industrial manufacturer is more tempted to cut costs on ingredient quality. Even if that quality reduction is primarily in service of variance reduction (i.e., going with a wheat supplier who can guarantee availability in large quantities year round, instead of continuously needing to tweak recipes to work with different wheats).

In many cases, the extra delay between production and consumption of a large industrial manufacturer also leads them to pursue solutions that improve shelf-stability.
I don’t know. My guess is that the average gamer is less willing to forgive crappy art than the average game dev, because game devs have more experience dealing with works-in-progress that have unpolished graphics, and “seeing through” the graphics to the underlying merits. I could be wrong, though.

Certainly Jeff’s customers don’t value art too highly – or else they wouldn’t be Jeff’s customers! It’s a self-selected group. The real question is how many potential customers pass over his games because of the graphics.

Yes, the only way to answer that question would be for Jeff to make a big gamble. It makes perfect sense for him to not want to take such a risk. That doesn’t mean we can’t speculate about whether he would win that gamble if he made it. :)
Are you saying that every single SaaS startup is selling anything because they don’t lose ownership when they provide a service in return for money? I think typically the exchange of money for a good or service is what we refer to as “selling” even if the seller doesn’t lose said service after selling it.
My bad. I was looking in the wrong spot, they are indeed all the way out to the side and pretty light. Probably in my blind spot on this particular screen size!
The person I would ask is Brian Harvey, but that's just a guess. It sounds pretty funny regardless.
To deal with the inherent fluctuations in renewable energy sources, you have 2 options: 1) Storage, and right now while there is a lot of R&D into large-scale energy storage, there aren't really any great solutions yet, and 2) Non-renewable backup, e.g. natural gas plants. Since it's easy to have cloudy or windless conditions for days or weeks on end, your backup plants basically need to be able to run at full capacity if you want to prevent blackouts.

Thus, with renewable sources, you need to have the capital investments of both the renewable plant and the backup plant(s).
Opioids are a very small proportion of J&J’s sales. I wouldn’t calculate it based on their entire portfolio of cancer drugs.
Also, they are the largest consumer of apples.
I'm still a little upset about that. Privates should have been held back until we could figure out how to build them in a more generic, consistent way.

Their implementation is very out-of-character with the ideals of the extensible web. They feel like a hack designed to solve a very specific high-level problem, rather than a low-level tool that can be adapted in flexible ways.

The whole thing honestly felt bad. There was a lot of debate around the standard, some of it pretty toxic. Things that were problematic got pushed through because nobody could think of a better solution and they didn't want to delay. The debate kind of degraded from there and people started accusing the champions of not caring. It's... I dunno. The whole thing felt like a bad picture of the JS community, and I wish the standard had been temporarily binned so we could get rid of the worst actors and then think of something else in an environment with fewer emotions.

There was a never a chance for something good to come out of an environment that toxic. And there was no reason that privates needed to be standardized right now. It's OK to take things slowly.
Good advice for office bound people too!
I remember code as places I've been (like a memory palace), that are connected to each other by the control and data flow. So my memories of old code are quite concrete, tangible, and first-person, and I can reconstruct the details and context by remembering the other places it was connected to, and my (the program counter's) journey from place to place that I took when I first encountered those locations (loci).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Meh.

The most cogent criticism of the original post, I think, was that he was conflating cheap art with bad art. You can (and some indies do) have very cheap lo-fi art that still looks good in context. He does not, which is fine, because it is hard.

His response to the critics was basically to double down on conflating cheap and bad. Which is a bit odd! How many times can you include a screenshot of a game with cheap, minimal (or even zero!) art that people still think looks good, and complain that people like how those games but not yours, and not realise that maybe there's something that sets them apart?

Again, it's not the quality of the art, it's the overall aesthetic, and that does not require buying more art, buying better art, or learning to do better art personally. Angband and ADOM are lovely games that do not have a pixel of art (or didn't originally, at any rate; I guess there's tilesets now or something?), and I'd a dozen times rather stare at ADOM than at one of Vogel's games.

That being said, he's still ultimately right. He is a one man shop, he has an established fan base, he's turning a profit, he's doing fine. He's quite right that hiring an artist (or maybe more relevantly, an art director) to try and fix the art problem is an unreasonable gamble. So...just stand up and own it. They're ugly games, the end. He's been very successful; he doesn't need to defend himself.

Some devs make very pretty games with terrible story and gameplay, and that's fine. They don't need to post rambling defences about how their game is really just like Dwarf Fortress if you just squint hard enough. Not every game has to be good at everything!
While true, and I see your point, it's also worth pointing out: the ISS doesn't need to make any trips back down again.

This is a re-usable spaceship, albeit one humans don't get to ride in.
> And that's bad?

Yes, we have an over abundance of carbs and anyone that has to go out of their way to eat more is living an extreme exercise heavy lifestyle. This is especially true in the case of places like KFC, your getting a load of carbs in the bun and the fries on the side, the actual chicken is the only healthy part.
Don’t let the media scare you with big numbers. 76B doses is about a 6 month script for every patient with chronic pain in the US.
>Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy

I disagree, and let me elaborate. The CA scandal started two different conversations, which people get mixed up a lot.

The primary one was about how shit Facebook's privacy settings are, and how all your data has been easily available for a few bucks. This stirred up a LOT of privacy concerns in the US, causing a whole bunch of people to quit Facebook. Zuckerberg was on the cover of magazines, for all the wrong reason. That conversation is still going on.

The secondary conversation was ok now that we know the data was out there, how effective was it? Did it help swing the election? This documentary wants you to convince that it is true, that CA was the reason why Trump got elected. And as the article and Michael Lewis' podcast lays out, that's just not the case.

tldr: We're talking about two different things. Talking about secondary concerns does not negate the primary ones.
it is a good response, and it does give logical, rational arguments as to why the criticisms given to him are invalid.
No, I was merely referring to "selling" as it pertains to products, not services. Your data would be a product, not a service. They may build services around your data that use it in some way, but it'd be the service they'd be selling, not your data. Just like how Uber would be selling a ridesharing service, not your car.
Here's a KMS server emulator, all open source: https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd

If you want to skip straight to the piracy, here's an open source package for you, complete with keys, hosted ironically on Microsoft servers, that uses vlmcsd: https://github.com/ekistece/vlmcsd-autokms

It's a pretty clever hack. It runs the KMS emulator locally and fakes the network connection with a TAP device from OpenVPN. Works perfectly.
How Much Screen Time Is Bad for Kids?
I'd pay those prices for something I knew was made with quality ingredients and when I knew the money was going directly to the producer of a good. Heck, I've paid $10-12 for a loaf of bread from some of the places around here and not regretted a single penny.

I'd rather have small business farmers, bakers, and jam makers around, and although it costs me more I know that less of the money is headed to big food conglomerates.
> What makes privacy.com different is that they have access to your bank account.

In my understanding, they have the account numbers and can do ACH withdrawals - just like someone who has your debit card number (but against a checking account, not a card). So I believe it's like every other transaction (or check) - there's an intentional (as I get it) processing period for a day or two, and you can always call your bank and request to not honor it. I could be wrong though.

And actually, they can be associated with a debit card instead of a bank account - they've failed to associate with my bank, so I have had to go this route (and there's no way to switch it afterwards).

Oh, and I totally agree that arbitration clauses without a way to opt out are disrespectful to say the least.
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In case people are really ambitious or adventurous and want to avoid all of this stuff completely, what Linux distro (or other open source OS) is currently trendiest/most useful/relevant? Is it still Ubuntu?
You had me until the end. There is nothing about the synthetic opioids that make them more addictive.
They both mean the same thing in JS and Python. One is easier to type, easier to read, and used by the Python REPL. Single quotes FTW.
I'm so tired of this "best interest of shareholders" thing. When you invest in a company you should be investing in its mission. Tesla's mission is clearly not to make the most money, it is to improve applications of renewable energy. Every time I hear a company is going public, this is all I can think about.
it's a bit tongue in cheek - celeste being free is only due to Epic's drive to get more customers signed on. I don't think the Celeste devs are losing money.

but his point stands - there are lots of great games that are free. Games whose graphical style and production value vastly out-weight his games.
To have a wistful longing for clean code in a world full of deadlines and compromises?

That’s got to be fairly close to universal among programmers who live the craft.

No?