skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital games are expensive because of ohisical media version price parity.
And guess what? Those games already have the "can resell tax", so you digital games are already more expensive due to the ability to resell, even though you can't actually resell them.
I felt opposed to your argument that staying would have been better for him. His and our visibility what the outcome would have been is near zero. He would have been in prison, but how long - no one can say. A smart person wouldnt bet on such unsure thing.

But what you said about the human rights activists, i completely agree.
Had he stayed i'm sure he would have had a much greater legacy. But to willingly decide to go to prison and leave the normal life, your girlfriend, your hobbies behind for indeterminate amount of time. A tough decision to make. Speaks volumes about how a story like Jesus would spin an entire religion around it. Cant blame him for the decision he made. He already gave up a lot when he blew the whistle and to give up even more for idealism's sake? We see it in movies, but when it actually happens to you..
The point here is that it does't matter if they believe or not. Capitalism does not let them stay true to their beliefs.

Businesses that act in a sustainable way will not be as competitive as businesses that don't. So, it's very hard to be sustainable in a capitalism system that doesn't "price in" the externalities of the natural world that we've been taking for granted.

You can use the same example for globalization and offshoring of jobs. If I'm a business owner who manufactures cheap things, it doesn't matter how much I care about keeping my factory in the US or Europe because other factories will go to where the labor is cheapest and out compete me. So, I'm forced to do it too just to compete.
Very good article, facts looked correct and it had useful advice.

I'd add, keep things local. Don't access memory (or cache) outside core (L1 & L2), NUMA region or processor socket boundary unnecessarily.

Keep networking, GPU, etc. code in same NUMA region where the physical adapters are.

Use memory like tape, stream through. CPU branch predictors love that kind of access pattern.

Oh, and perhaps most importantly: use a profiler that can access CPU internal performance counters. Do this on different system types, from low power laptops to servers with 2 or more CPU sockets.

One annoying thing, though. Remember that the fastest thing in a microbenchmark might not be the fastest thing on a real system when different code modules fight for shared limited resources, like memory bandwidth, caches and inter-core communication links.
They can do that for apps because apps are compiled and submitted. The expressly do not allow for dynamic code execution within apps to keep functionality from changing after their review.

That cannot be "just replicate"d for javascript extensions.
Nice sarcasm. Too bad hardly anybody seems to get it.
He explicitly states in the interview that he wants a jury trial because his charges under FISA jurisdiction and can only be adjudicated via a judge, no jury.
What truths are being labeled as misinformation here?
The technical term for 5.56 and similar rounds is intermediate cartridge and includes 7.62×39mm, 5.56×45mm NATO, 5.45×39mm & 7.62x35mm among other cartridges. The definite from wiki is 'An intermediate cartridge is a rifle/carbine cartridge that is shorter than typical full-power battle rifle cartridges, but still has greater length than pistol/personal defense weapon cartridges.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_cartridge
Tesla confirms Model S Plaid ~7:20 time at Nürburgring
Yes, was 8% around normal?

But I went with what was for sale on the Tesco website. I think I read some time ago that they voluntarily stopped selling "White Lightning" etc.

I bought it once when I was 15, so I'm a bit out of touch.
100%, focusing too much on the past can leave you stuck there. Developing coping skills and new perspectives can free you from the past.

It's why our sessions all focus on brief therapy and practical psychology principles.
I think it's tongue in cheek.
Have you noticed how frankly fucked up people "used" to those kinds of stress were and are? Many of the ancient barbaric practices are themselves institutionalized trauma modeled as norms. What is the difference between "can't stop your son from being molested by their socially superior tutor and pedestray" but normalization in institutions?

To look to it as "strength" itself is a sheltered and deeply irrational delusions and frankly utterly messed up.

To make matters worse the whole notion is deeply unoriginal and always wrong and yet it reoccurs.

"We know how larger populations of agrarians with their stable but lesser nutrition were beaten by smaller populations of nomadic hunter gatherers and civilization never developed." Oh wait....
I've spent many hours playing Zelda Classic (zeldaclassic.com) quests. I wish Nintendo would release an official version of something like this like they did with Super Mario Maker.
Criticizing the production quality of this video is just a cheap shot. Imagine if DHS or ICE got together to produce a music video. It would be absolutely terrible.
What a terrible, unethical law. Punishing the masses for the sins of the few. I'd much rather have alcoholics drinking themselves to death by their own free will than have to pay more for alcohol myself.
I don't see anything in the snippet you reference that makes it clear that these are bots being banned.
Not problem; opportunity.
I like the idea of a standup desk with a slow treadmill underneath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE0JtUeyVJA (Linus Torvalds Guides Tour of His Home Office)
> embracing of simple GUI tools over terminal wankery, eschewing of the legacy UNIX file hierarchy.

So you're telling me I have no tools and no existing tools are going to work.

Good to get that out in the open, I suppose.
Ok, let's say it didn't do good :)
Poor, Poor Amazon. Amazon is run by the richest person in the entire world who will come to the oligarch's aid?

Amazon paid NO income taxes last year. I am against Amazon for that reason alone.
OT but is it just me or algolia down today? I tried a search earlier and just now clicked your link. I'm getting...

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Take a look at Project Vesta (they claim that they can absorb all societal CO2 to date feasibly):
https://projectvesta.org/
It was previously discussed on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
I'd say yes. The steam key comes with a set of perks that made the buyer pick steam as a reseller over one of their competitors. Removing those features would degrade the value of the product and, in my opinion, be a measure to prevent proper resale of the product.

When I buy a key, I don't somehow get the download to my computer before adding it to my Steam account. Steam designed their system in such a way that the installer has to come from them, and that you can't burn an installer that only works with your key.

Imagine buying a chair with massage functionality and a GPS tracker that stops working when you move it outside your house. In my opinion, even though the chair itself remains functional, the added DRM would prevent someone from selling the chair second hand, because the main reason you buy the chair has suddenly been disabled by a third party.
I'm sure the PLA keeps and makes available to all & sundry its detailed internal records of who got liquidated and why; and is always open to the scrutiny and criticism of concerned third-parties.

I mean, if you can't expect that kind of service from the military wing of an unaccountable authoritarian maoist kleptocracy...why even have one??
Any model is going to have some things that are exogenous and some that are endogenous. Climate models usually don't try to predict how much carbon people are going to emit but simply say what the response of the climate is to our emissions under various scenarios. So if this methane is man-made they shouldn't be expected to predict it.

But also climate modeling is very hard. Nate Silver had a whole chapter on what climate scientists are up against in his book, The Signal and the Noise. They have to make due with very long feedback cycles and noisy data. We've known since Svante Arrhenius's work in 1895 that more carbon in the atmosphere will tend to lead to warmer temperatures. Since then we've developed complicated models trying to relate air temperature to sea temperature to water vapor in the atmosphere to plant growth and so on. But this is a very hard task. We know that complicated interactions are going on beyond the simple CO2->temperature model because of things like the weird warming pause in the 2000s before temperature roared back up to trend-lines. But so far we haven't been particularly successful at predicting deviations from the simple model.

This is scary because while we lucked into some climate buffering in the 2000s there's also the possibility of positive feedback loops that might get set off. Scientists have several in mind that might exist, they're trying to predict how much warming might set them off, but they really can't be sure when and/or if they might trigger.

One known possible positive feedback loop is methane release from the arctic. This is something of a known unknown, in that we know its possible but know that we don't have very good estimates of when it'll release and how much. Hence the people in the arctic. Hence people like the scientists in the article going up there trying to lessen the scope of the unknown. Given that methane levels are increasing we know something bad is happening. It might just be a burp before things settle again with most arctic methane staying locked away until global temperatures hit 4C over baseline or something. Or it might be about to get Very Bad right now. More research is required.

Thankfully methane only has a half life in the atmosphere before turning into CO2 and water of something like a dozen years so there might be hope of riding out a methane release, and slow releases can be managed. It's not CO2 which also has an a half-life in the air and oceans dues to rock weathering, but that half life is so long it's beyond any planning horizon we might have unless we start geoengineering to speed it up.
> harder in suburbia

True, takes some adjustments... When I drive somewhere, I try to park at the back of the parking lot for a bit of a walk (bonus: keeps your car dent free too).

When I go check my mail, I walk to the end of the block first and get it on my way back (bonus: get to keep an eye on my neighborhood and say hi to some neighbors).

When I drop my daughter at school we park a block away and walk in (bonus: get to spend more time with my daughter and meet some other parents).

These changes all sound trivial, but from my fitness tracker I can attest that they make a quantifiable difference, especially when you look at it over a month. Additionally, those other little bonuses contribute to overall happiness.
Almost 5 years after uBlock's fork and now that Google is ready to kill ad blockers as we know and like them. Well, good job
Do these 'state-sponsored' accounts have a footer '- sponsored by X' in their posts? How are you determining what is state-sponsored?
True, and I don't know what the rationale behind their specific motivation is, but if I were to make a website, I'd do the same. That's not to say that they shouldn't be more transparent about their methodology. The truth of the matter is that there's very little known about the people that actually die in these strikes.

There is a fair amount of confusion on whether the deaths reported to be terrorists are actually terrorists. Some say they are not especially since the dead are never charged. There are also reports that the Pakistani military straight-up calls civilians terrorists[0] but these are heavily contested by the military[1] itself.

If you had a dataset which was heavily reported to be mislabelled, what would you do?

Personally, I'd do the same but perhaps add a better explanation.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48139648

[1]: https://www.dawn.com/news/1486313
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is actual pretty decent speculation(minus the conspiracy tinge).

Global warming is absolutely going to kick off a period of high geopolitical instability. Geopolitical in the classic sense of the geography. The borders of our countries, populations, alliances, and economic base are all tightly coupled to the natural resources of each country. Those natural resources are about to change rapidly. Instability in a single country (Syria) created a European refugee crisis. Every low latitude country is about to experience a simultaneous refugee crisis.

Our political and business leaders are not idiots, no matter how often we portray them that way. They have the best data. They need to in order to make decisions about how to remain in power or stay profitable. They do know what's coming. For them, this was never about the coral and the birds. Some have clearly concluded that there's nothing to be done but make hay while the sun shines.
One of my favorite system programming tricks is to never believe that a "zero cost abstraction" lives up to the name.
Solar may not have inertia, but wind turbines certainly do. It's hard to imagine one of those stopping on a dime.

Smaller batter installations can also help with frequency stabilization. The Tesla installation in South Aus primarily serves the purpose of grid stabilization rather than bulk storage, for example. I think solar needs that stabilization and storage more than wind, it's probably important to have a diversity of sources and locations with renewables to keep any one source from having too large an immediate impact on the grid.

You're absolutely right about baseload being a fallacy. I would argue that balancing the grid is probably an easier problem in the absence of big constant baseload generators like nuclear, than with them.

With renewables providing baseload generation, there is more capacity for variable renewable sources; if these can be sufficiently decorrelated (by geography, type of source, even design of e.g. turbines) then they would have a high likelihood of averaging out to support baseload needs while having greater backbench dispatchable capacity at play. You might only need to overprovision by (making up numbers here) 1.5x rather than 4x to have sufficient dispatchable capacity than if you combined say, nuclear baseload with renewable peaking. The aggregate effect of this would be making the renewable sources cheaper per nameplate Wattage.
Enemy of my enemy...
It does. There's also the somewhat complicated issue of reactive power, but there are ways to solve that, such as DC transmission, or capacitor banks.
I wonder if your time would be better spent progressive-overload deadlifting 2x a week?

I don't think you can undo sitting 50-100 hours a week with a few hours of walking any more than fasting a few hours would make up overeating for a month. I'm thinking we need a BIG acute stimulus to counteract a sustained chronic stimulus of inactivity. The dead lift is a VERY BIG stimulus.
I really don’t understand this preoccupation with policing “humility” in others... Some seem to think that if you don’t have impostor syndrome you’re a scumbag or something... Can anyone explain?
Sure, here is one:

http://www.bpmlegal.com/tmdodont.html

Search the page for "disclaimer", or just read the whole article - it has a lot of good trademark advice. It also somewhat disagrees with what I said about only using the trademark symbol once - it says to use it the first time and "occasionally thereafter".

So here is an interview with an IP attorney who suggests just using it once:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2014/03/12/whe...

(Disclaimer: I'm not a trademark expert! Just passing along what I've read from those who claim to be...)
> that doesn't make any sense on a personal computer where the more pressing need is to protect the user from malicious applications.

Of course it makes sense. Running applications as restricted users has been standard practice for decades, precisely because it makes sense.
There's a Documentary About Jeff Minter and Llamasoft on Kickstarter
> there isn’t generally speaking a right to play football

Just curious, are you American? Because this comes across as a totally alien way of thinking - why would there be or why would you need a "right" to play football? Do I, generally speaking, have a right to stand on one leg? If I'm reading you correctly there's no right to perform any novel activity, because the right couldn't have been granted yet!
300BLK aka 7.62x35mm or 300 whisper are a much better caliber all around for hunting than 5.56 or .308. The penetration of a .30 caliber and at 210gr+ it's very nice to shoot suppressed so you don't have to wear ear protection. It's also nice to not annoy/scare any people out on hikes a mile away.
Please don't ask whether users are trolling. If there is a violation of the guidelines please flag the comment. HN has two full time moderators that interact with the community regularly. But nobody likes being called a troll.
I Started a $40k/M Agency Because I Love PPC but Hate Traditional Agencies
Fun to watch, frustrating to play. That's why I'd recommend the youtube versions of these. There are parts in Thunder in Paradise that look nearly impossible with the Phillips CD-i controller, and I think you'd need the rarer Phillips CD-i keyboard and mouse, or a PS/2 compatible set (but not sure on that)

Despite that, yes the FMV stuff is hilarious, though I think there are better options for DOS/PC rather than trying to bother with the CD-i which seems to be difficult to find in working order.
I don't think people know that simply getting up and walking for 10 minutes every 2 hours would reduce their body fat levels. In fact, I've seen a study [1] which concludes you simply can't undo a days worth of sitting with a vigorous exercise session. I think science is starting to show that frequency of movement is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, not just intensity of movement. Going to the gym after 8 hours infront of the computer is just not sufficient to combat weight gain.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404815/
That's still requiring someone to host you (assuming your not self serving), your ISP to connect to you, and your DNS to continue directing people to you. You're always reliant on someone else's platform to keep you afloat on the internet.
Recall that time when the U.S. blew up a Chinese embassy. The excuse was "sorry, our bad, we were using an outdated map."
Others might chime in, but I say yes, a good therapis is worth it. What country are you in and do you know why mental health is not covered?
Pretty sure you can at least get skin and hair color from DNA now.

I'm sure people are throwing CPU peta-cycles on machine learning this as we speak!
You think MDs only bill ~$65 an hour?
You could rely on investigative reporting done by others. You won't catch everything, but you'll catch some stuff—which is better than none.
So if a foreign concern were to buy Twitter and they changed their ToS and banned talk of dissident oppression in Russia and banned talk of persecutions in China and banned talk about climate change, people would just chuck it up to, “it's their platform” love it leave it?
The State of Open Source (Vulnerability Management Report)
They are not cash constrained and don't need your deposits. They missed out on a great marketing trick though: Make it exclusive.
they are using amazon's own tactics: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/8/20726863/amazon-pays-war...
For privacy concerns, I would imagine that preventing the methods of tracking is much safer and more effective in the long-run than blocking the trackers themselves. Apple seems to be pushing pretty heavily on that front.
I'm no fan of Stallman, but this was a very odd reason to give the guy the boot. They're mad at Epstein, and he's dead, so they need other people to direct their anger at.

Who knows what Minsky may or may not have done? Nobody. He's dead too.

So when Stallman did some awkward speculating, these women constructed false stories about what Stallman said, and then used these false statements as lies to get Stallman fired.

Any man with any sense would be wise not to involve women in any way, shape, or form in a project or company.
I was directed to that ICO cookie banner as an example of what I need to do, by an EU law firm who we're paying to guide our compliance activities.

I'm not a lawyer and I can't give you legal advice. I can just report that the legal advice that was given to me was that any cookie setting activity needs to be notified, even if consent is not required.

One potential discrepancy is that we are being prepared for the e-Privacy Regulation (which is not yet in effect), while it looks like the page you linked to covers the e-Privacy Directive.
> Funny how you can make the same comment about physical goods.

No, you can't. That's why this is such a complicated issue.

The inherent value in a physical good is consumed with use. If somebody buys a couch and takes it home it becomes a used couch. Used couches are not great substitutes for new couches; they devalue with time and use and you eventually have to pay somebody just to take it off your hands. Its value actually goes negative.

A used digital good is a perfect substitute for the original. A digital copy is also a perfect substitute for the original. That changes everything. If we want people to be able to make games professionally, and to be compensated for their work, we have to use laws to make the digital marketplace resemble the physical goods marketplace. Or find a whole new model which I don't believe anybody has done.
I don't think your comment is related to this article.
People could be understanding the sarcasm, but instead down-voting as that's not what this site is meant for.
Great comment and kudos to you, but a couple thoughts on the following:

“Eliminate things from your life that don’t bring you joy and happiness.”

I see this sentiment a lot in the techie self-help sphere, along with corrolaries like “ruthlessly eliminate negative people”. While I understand the motivation and agree it is true up to a point, it can also lead to a shallow and avoidant approach to life if you get carried away with it. Many of the most potentially rich and satisfying aspects of life are also the most dark, difficult, and complex when they go wrong. You shouldn’t always run away.

The trick is to find a balance—sink some roots into the inherently chaotic and often ‘negative’ emotional substrate of life without letting yourself get pulled under. Offset the weight with lightness, but don’t try to avoid carrying any weight whatsoever.
I’d guess “Labor” is the key operative word here, i.e. working not directly for what is produced but selling labor for a low, unskilled wage. I wonder whether subsistence farming one’s own land is necessarily as bad, I’d think you can just stop working when you have enough to eat, but people paid by the hour or whatever always seem to push too far.
Yeah, it wasn't the crazy part that bothered me. It was the dismissive, condescending, passive aggressive tone while acting as if it's purely out of compassion. Plenty of people would choose not to engage this Byrne character based on statements he's made. Some might openly call him nuts and maybe someone else might think they're jerks for saying so instead of just leaving it alone. But at least own it instead of being insulting while pretending to care, as if that part excuses the insult. Personally, I think hearing what someone else has to say and then responding with, "you're clearly mentally ill, I hope you get the help you need" is such a shitty way to treat someone.
> I've start implementing "nothing" days

omg so self-important. so humorless.

edit: please downvote me into oblivion, it just confirms what i already knew
Is there any update on the raid today?