skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pressing F for the golden years of Sierra :(

> decreasing their opportunity for first-sale revenue increases the opportunity cost of making such a game.

I don't understand the use of 'opportunity cost' here but I think it's a good point. It's generally not good to discourage viable business models. My fear is that if we're baking in resale value to the purchase price, now consumers may overvalue both the game AND the resale so they get hit twice in a blockbuster/flop type situation.

Short of offering resale/final-sale options, which I do like, the laws will encourage some sort of business model. I'm thinking encouraging long-term quality through final-sale only purchasing is looking a little better for consumers than what the French court is apparently doing.

Another option is reselling could be done through Steam who takes 30% which they split with the devs. So the consumer gets to resell, Steam gets paid, devs get paid, maybe any lost revenues are offset by consumer wellbeing?
Transferring the doctrine of first sale to the digital realm would have massive implications for pretty much every digital distribution service we have today. Streaming services wouldn't be affected, but Kindle, Steam, iTunes, and so many others are built on the assumption that their product has no secondary market.
Why not? It's perfectly legal in the EU to sell any digital goods second hand as long as you stop using the software you sold.
> Do we need to match the population in the first place?

The extent to which things don't match is worth looking into. Historically such mismatches have more often been due to unequal opportunity than to other causes.
Also as a starving artist who isn't starving because I have a non-artist job, I agree wholeheartedly. I've also done some research into this and capsule networks are the closest SOTA we have to solving this problem. There isn't any 2D projections of 3D space work with these networks AFAIK, but the purpose and intuition points in this direction.

Also, quality data is always the hard part here, so we might be able to bootstrap some of this structure learning with 3D models created for games, projected as 2D, and use that as transfer learning somehow.
Your family members were lying to you if they said that the president doesn't get to see whatever classified material they want. The president doesn't even have a security clearance like everyone else requires, they get to see whatever they want and can declassify anything they want.
What would you say about an individual whose behavior has been manipulated by bots that are paid by or under the control of a government?
Chrome was going to allow only a very small list - that's what people were complaining about. The idea of having a built-in way to specify blocks is fine, it's more efficient anyway.
Hah very cool! I was indeed way off on my assumptions :) I guess the 50 different cities is for picking up different regional broadcasts? And bare metal over cloud compute is because you have to connect special hardware?
Not a lawyer, but since it seems to be based on some EU harmonized market regulation, I suppose it could.
Arduino Lights [video]
At my job, the devops team had to write some kind of special program that maps whether a Marathon/Mesos instance is up when dealing with Envoy. Not sure if the same is required for just plain Docker?
I wish these articles tried to look for a solution.
Would standing and waking every 45 mins be good enough?
Would standing and then moderate intensity at 45 mins be good enough etc.

What about eating less and more fasting to combat sedentary.

What about a balance board while standing?
I don't see it that way.

I don't think relative obscurity makes the technology itself exciting. I certainly didn't choose these technologies to be different, or to be fashionable. If I wanted to play with shiny toys, there are so many others to choose from. The shiny toys don't really appeal to me. I have businesses to run, and the technologies I chose are from a position of total pragmatism.

I sincerely believe it's easier to use Haskell and NixOS for applications of beyond trivial scale than, say, Ruby and Ansible. And I say that from experience.
Oh that’s much more extensive. Like the link to Julie’s work.
Is it just me or does 1GB of ram seem a little low for a $100+ board? I can't seem to find what speed it is either.

I'm not expecting anything crazy like 8gb or anything like that, but given how many boards sell at ~50$ with 4GB of ram this just seems kinda limited.
Twitter discussion threads are so often extremely polarized and uncivil. They have to do something otherwise the majority of users who aren't interested in reading threads of propaganda accounts fighting with each other will lose interest in the site.

It's not about suppressing controversial opinions, it's about keeping what is fundamentally a site most people use for entertainment, entertaining, instead of a battleground for those with the most extreme opinions on the internet.

Twitter have been incredibly permissive with they allow compared to Facebook and Reddit up until now.
There's some research indicating that being around people who have shared similar experience matters a lot. Basically, it's not trauma if it happens to a big enough % of people. It's just a normal (if unlucky) life experience.

When the British went and whacked Argentina they found that the soldiers who hopped on a plane and 12hr later were surrounded by people who will never have to make a life and death decision and are complaining about how they "literally got ptsd" from firing a rifle had PTSD type problems at a much higher rate than soldiers who got a 2wk boat ride surrounded by people who had been through the same stuff.
If the Link’s Awakening remake does well, I could see it happening
I wanted to get quarters out of a change jar and remembered exactly this. Just shook it around (lightly) until there were quarters at the top.
To be fair to Snowden, he ran to China / Hong Kong first. (Although China is also quite authoritarian and probably doesn't care about free speech rights).

I'm fairly convinced (through a tin-foil hat sort of way) that Russia did something to steer Snowden into Russia. Hypothetically: Snowden's flight plan was rerouted into Russia after Snowden fled Hong Kong (when Hong Kong announced it was going to cooperate and extradite Snowden).

Snowden's ideal target to run to was Ecuador (who at the time, was hosting Julian Assange). The difficulty was routing a flight plan from Hong Kong to Ecuador without touching a US-controlled location. They routed the flight plan through Russia and... well... Russia probably wanted him. So Russia kept him.
State-sponsored agitprop bad, private, corporate-sponsored agitprop good.

Am I understanding the implications of your post correctly?
> Solar peaks around noon 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (I am being charitable here) do we have solid storage that would hold this generated power for delivery from (4:00 pm - 7:00 pm) peak ?

In limited deployment? Yes, absolutely. Sodium batteries make this proposition cheaper. You could make your house entirely off-grid and run-off-storage if your local production options are good.

> That 4 to 6 hour storage window is still a big issue - if you are talking about Sodium batteries we are a decade or more away from them to be grid scale!

No, we're not 10 years away from using sodium ions batteried at this scale. The bulk scale problem is MUCH easier than the micro-scale package problem. Ongoing work on sodium ion batteries will be to work on equivalent package competitors for lithium ion polymer batteries, which still have unparalleled density.

For less robust, large packages the work is done, the compound required is done. We already use old and inefficient batteries in these applications. It's one of Tesla's major business models and why they take your battery pack back from you at the end of life of the car.
Ask HN: So, how's the Area 51 raid going?
As an european, I am genuinely curious.

How is it going ?
A gag order can be reasonable: "give us what you have on user John Smith birthday 1/1/1950 but don't tell him anything" makes sense if you're, say, investigating a criminal ring John is part of.

What is unreasonable is that companies can't reveal they've been gagged, or what type of data they were compelled to reveal, even after the fact. Companies should be allowed to say "we have disclosed access logs, location history, searches, encrypted backups for 1-50 accounts in response to lawful request from law enforcement." And they should be able to disclose the letter after an investigation has closed (whether it resulted in legal action against the individual or not).
When did that start?
Ah I see, I must have glanced over that paragraph there (which is impressive given that it is the one of the first of them). Thanks for the clarification.
Then the question is: does (needlessly) asking for permission result in a lesser experience?
This always gets brought up when Steam and DRM are mentioned in the same sentence, and it is true technically speaking. However, I'm not convinced it matters in practice.

In reality, the vast majority of games on Steam will not start if Steam isn't running. And some which appear to work at first will have strange errors later on. There's also no way for me as a consumer to tell if a given game has DRM before I buy it. That pcgaming wiki has been wrong for me before (many times), and sometimes games that used to work will no longer do so after an update.
>It may give you some comfort to know what I am doing with the capital generated by the sale of my stock: after paying tens of millions in taxes (after all, “We didn’t build that,” right?) by Friday the rest will be in investments that are counter-cyclical to the economy: Gold, silver, and two flavors of crypto. The gold and silver are stored outside of the United States, in Switzerland, and within two weeks, will be scattered in other locations that are even more outside of the reach of the Deep State, but are places that are safe for me. The crypto is stored in the place where all crypto is stored: in mathematical mist, behind long keys held only in the memory of someone who is quite good at storing such things in memory (with paper backups in the hands of a priest I met 35 years ago who never sits foot in the West).

He's giving away way too much information here. Maybe it's all false, in which case that's sort of ok, but he really needs to learn how to just STFU.
That's not how copyright works on physical goods, like books, DVDs, etc... The Doctrine of First Sale is a crucial part of Copyright law. The author doesn't get to control your life because you bought one of their works. If you want to use it in some other way then they intended they don't get a say.
Attacking Technical Debt
See! I don't even know how many people are on Earth :]
I run a simple search service [1] with a Golang REST backend, and a frontend built with VueJS.

Other tech I use

- Serverless framework on AWS Lambda

- Postgres

- Sidekiq

- Dokku

- Sentry

- New Relic

- gRPC and Twirp [2]

- Netlify

- Firebase

[1] https://www.searchbx.com

[2] https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
That is a fair point, though I still think if your genuine motivation was the well-being of the Earth, then you'd, I dunno, _try?_
I'd be hesitant to take what your family member said as doctrine, or that it's any different than any other Cabinet or other part of the Executive Branch.

It's important to make the distinction that while the President doesn't know all of the things that the Intelligence Community is doing at any one time, there isn't anything that he can't know. It's no different in any other part of the cabinet - the Cabinet members and senior executive service all ultimately decide what hits the desk of the President, so in that sense there is an entire staff "controlling what the president knows." Same as any large organization.

The DNI, DIRNSA, DCI, JS/J2 and all service 2's all work for the President, and they collectively are the ones who "know all the things" - so you can bet if he needs to know something, one of those people will give it to him.
Maybe public conferences, the public side of them. But at the invite-only events on really does get to shake hands and chat with people about not-public stuff that isnt availible by other means.
For future reference, a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B+ with 4GB of RAM is being sold for around 60$.
Besides planting trees as others have mentioned, there's Project Vesta [1], iron fertilization [2], and a few smaller-scale projects aiming to convert greenhouse gases back into liquids that could be stored, although most of the pitches promote them for being reused as fuel, ex. [3].

[1] https://projectvesta.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

[3] https://carbonengineering.com/
"texts"? there is an EU ruling that you cant sell e books.

Each EU country implements EU law in its own way I suspect this would be challenged at the EU level.

Some European countries are known for not really implementing EU law as they are supposed to - Spain and TUPE for example
Prove that it's state sponsored. The point is, we can't. Not without Twitter sharing their data and methodologies. I've heard too many horror stories about being axed from the internet by a faceless corporation to accept their judgement blindly.
it’s not like this happens overnight. you can buy an AC sometimes in the next 100 years hopefully

and sure salmon thing is bad but doesn’t mean the world is ending in 12 years. which is what the activists pretend. i just want a real conversation about solutions but neither side is reasonable
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2100228/c...

>>A side effect of Beijing’s investment – an influx of Chinese migrants – is often perceived by locals as an expression of China’s de facto territorial expansion.

The article goes on to say that the scale of the migration is not actually that large, but it's an interesting tidbit.
Can someone tell me if there are easy to use libraries that can speed up existing ML code, say written in Python, on this?

Or do we have to write custom C/C++ code to make best use of available hardware?
to be honest, if someone is sold a 'lifelong pass', it should be lifelong, regardless of the status of the individual, it's a fraud to give him anything less.

if they found at the end it was a mistake to give out such tickets, that's their problem ,not the end user's problem.

in light of fraud of the user, for example giving the lifelong pass to use by other individuals (obviously not the intended purpose of the thing) i could expect it to be withdrawn. but that would only apply if these limitations were clearly stated or noted on the purchase.
Doesn't it, though? The point of human society is to make life nicer for its humans, not for the state of nature that comes into contact with it.
Will these data centers still be subject to mass data collection by the us government (under arrangements similar to the prism program described in the Snowden relevations)? Does it matter at all that these centers are placed outside the us?
I trust uBO and roughly zero others. In fact, uBO has to remind people at every opportunity to avoid certain others. It is all the others, now and in the future, that are prompting Apple to do this, and the one well-behaved extension is unfortunately suffering as a result.

I mourn the loss of uBO, but I'll take that tradeoff knowing that I can relax knowing that my family and friends aren't going to end up using some intrusive nightmare of an "ad-blocker" with Safari.
I think every one knows what needs to change as well. To effectively use our bodies in the way they've evolved, we need to be using them from sun-up to sun-down every day.

We evolved on savanas, upland steppes, mountains, and jungles; hunting, gathering, foraging, defending, building, with raw human power, for the vast majority of our time on this planet.

If we had to push plows with human labor; gather and reap the harvest by had, I guarantee you we'd be fit af.
I pay out of pocket too, and it hurts, but it hurts more when you are in a deep hole and feel like there is no way out. For a while I was paralyzed and was unable to even earn income ... which is a far greater problem than having to allocate funds for therapy.

Let go of control and hand it to someone else for a while. Give it a shot, even if for just one or two sessions to start.
The author expects people to fully understand stallmans world view and to thoroughly examine his position.

However, the author did not pay the same regard to Salam G., the author of the original post reporting on the most recent of Stallmans shitty proclamations. The author shows no sign of understanding why it's important that Stallman was fired, nor did he show he had done to work to try and get it.

You can safely ignore this. I came away worse for having read it.
Inflation and the use of things like performance capture has increased costs
How was GWB pushed out? He was re-elected and served the maximum two terms.
>> Wind has already become the "baseload" in the UK

Give me another place in Europe where Wind is more abundant than UK ?

https://globalwindatlas.info/

Putting wind mills in Greenland and Arctic may produce a whole lot but bringing it to population centers is an issue.

Base load is a bitch, UK is the best case scenario enjoy it.
It appears to be 70, rather than 30.
... which would then make many of the in-game gambling systems illegal because it can be cashed out, which would ban a lot of the lootbox gambling games.

I don't really see a problem here to be honest.
Well.. for both your points here there are no guarantees. Progress isn't linear and just because we can adapt doesn't mean we will.

What is known is that our entire eco-system is failing to adapt fast enough to keep up with the rate of change - what makes you think we can beat it?

Its disappointingly reductive to throw the towel in and, really, that point of view is no better than 'the world is ending in 12 years'

To deal with a problem you must first acknowledge that it exists - any action is clearly going to beat sticking ones head in the sand.
There's also "This Person Does Not Exist[1]", which has been discussed a few time before[2], here.

[1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
Activitywatch is nice
Not Valve's problem. Valve is not obligated to provide a framework that makes reselling games safe and easy, they just need to allow the transfer.
> The PLA has killed way more Chinese in the last 30 years than foreign combatants.

Do they publish statistics somewhere or is that based on their foreign deployments being relatively small?
A game only has value while I'm playing it. If two people play the same game at different hours or timezones, they can buy a single license and transfer it back and forth. (This is different from e.g. server software.)

A tariff on resales would cut back on that (if the ruling allows it). But the effective price of a game would still tend to approach the cost of reselling it. You would need to re-download the game every time you buy it, but with modern broadband this is feasible.

An efficient marketplace for 'renting' games (or game licenses) would let you buy a game just before you start playing, and resell it when you go to sleep. The marketplace would only need to buy enough licenses to satisfy peak demand and could amortize the cost across players and games.
A romhack typically implies an edit of the original. The original is just called a 'rom', while a 'romhack' might include a different map, story, mechanics, etc.

The link to the past randomizer is a fairly notable romhack for link to the past that randomizes the locations of all items in the game. Another mashes up Super Metroid and Link to the Past, causing certain doors to travel between the games, collecting items in one that are accessible in the other. (E.g. you might find the bow and arrow in Norfair, or the Varia Suit in a dungeon.)
> 0-60 is unannounced

Anybody looking for a mid-range Golf/ID.3 type car (excluding top models like GTI/R/etc.) cares very little about 0-100Km/h times. In the same vein they also didn't announce the Nürburgring lap times.

Edit. Also based on the numbers Tesla publishes for the same car the difference between WLTP and EPA is less that 7%. Is it expected that in some cases it varies up to 15%?
> that's not how they think

I think this is the answer. I don't think the situation is as out of control as everyone is led to believe. It's just not being handled as everyone would believe. Imagine if it was possible to geoengineer our way out of climate change? Think about the powerful implications that would create in terms of ability to affect others climate situation around the world and what that means to those currently in power.
I think Torvald’s stance is reasonable when considering a customer’s safety as guaranteed by an organization. E.g. this build is signed as safe.

Commit signatures are useful in large organizations designed to worry about insider threats. If code that is reckless or malicious is found in a build, you want repudiation of the author. Lack of commit signatures allows a malicious actor to cover their tracks.

And also, we should accept that we don’t treat all authors with the same scrutiny. Veterans’ code gets scrutinized less, so let’s actually trust that they’re the real author before signing a tag with their code.
Does it block the pre-roll and inline video YouTube ads?
It's simpler than that: a branch is just a pointer to one specific commit (with a specific SHA)
" Think marathon, not sprint."

I've seen this before as "Think long-term, not short-term". Sometimes it can be true.
My understanding is that Manifest v3 pushes ad blockers from chrome.webRequest to chrome.declarativeNetRequest, and they do not have the ability to see what requests are made with declarativeNetRequest. They can define rules to block or modify requests, and the browser executes them without letting the extension see any specific requests. Is that not correct?

The complaints from blocker developers have been that Google isn't allowing enough rules (Google has agreed to increase that), and that their existing blocking lists are defined in a way that needs more logic than declarativeNetRequest's matching system.

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1134127701583904770
Only school ones are allowed (it's a primary school so kids 11 and under). Which means any photos taken don't leave the device
But the Honda-e has less range, right? Over here it says the Honda-e has about 125 miles of range, putting it on par with a 2016 Leaf.

https://ev-database.uk/car/1171/Honda-e
The root causes vary, but include mental health issues and poverty in general. We should instead focus on those issues more.

The main alcohol related root cause is the culture of binge drinking. The way to tackle that is to create and encourage a culture of moderate drinking. Change licensing laws to make it easy for families to go to pubs for example.
What "other extension API" is Apple still allowing, making this a poor justification? You might be thinking of Google, which is allowing other gigantic gaping hole APIs while nerfing their content blocking, but Apple is being pretty consistent and doesn't also derive most of their income from advertising.
The jury can. It's called jury nullification. The problem is most juries aren't aware of this and feel compelled to follow the court's instructions on the matter. Which is why Snowden feels disadvantaged
Either animals are moral entities, or they're not.

If they are, we owe them moral treatment, but then they are subject to being held accountable for their own moral failings.

If they're not, then they can't be said to accrue any moral failings, and we don't owe them moral treatment.
I am this close to just printing out all the crap I've ever written, getting rid of all my digital tech, and buying a restored mechanical typewriter so I can keep writing crappy sf that nobody will ever read without having to resort to using a pen.

Fuck tech. Bring on the Butlerian Jihad!