skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, is this point of raising awareness of this sort of thing just to say "these things are bad"?

Often it's helpful just to say "Let's discuss the potential downsides so we can get mechanisms in place to protect society before they get cemented into place."
Go is a great game but you have to admit that certain personality types gravitate to strategy and logic based games and large swaths of the population are not interested at all in Go. If Go were inherently more interesting to most of the population, we would spectate on matches with larger audiences than UFC fights or football games.

Chess is another great game but it uses medieval battlefield as an analogy to explain the pieces and their different capabilities.

When you look at ancient myths and legends, violence is often part of the story. This is not a modern creation. This is cross-cultural and deeply woven in our psyche.

What you described with Jacob's Ladder sounds like internal conflict. It's not violent conflict, but the conflict is always there in any interesting story. Even romance novels are often about conflicted feelings or the decision between one romantic partner or another.

If you think of your top 10 favorite movies I think its likely violent conflict is a key plot device in most of them.

It's gripping. There's more on the line. When survival is at stake, you're more invested in the characters.
huh? Not sure you follow.

Nothing would change in the fundamental nature of bitcoin or any other currency. The only difference is the algorithm that you run on the back-end to mine the coin would be one of scientific importance rather than one with 0 societal value. The algorithm run right now is based on an NP problem. So why not just use another NP problem worth actually solving?
Cats are a lot cleaner, if you want a clean indoor pet. Dogs are better for spending time outdoors. Don’t feed them commercial pet food (especially dry).
The gain is in the security of the currency. You can argue about how valuable that is, but it is not "literally zero".
I don’t remember ever paying for it but that’s quite a lot of money, comparable to some dating sites. I suppose some people did use it for that.
Right. It's like the slow march towards the future from the fifteen million merits episode of black mirror.
Another difference to consider is the superior transit infrastructure which allows for a much larger viable region to live in if you work in Manhattan, versus San Francisco within the Bay Area.
Really cool. Tokio is the core of Linkerd (https://linkerd.io) and I am really excited to see exactly what kind of impact this will have on Linkerd performance. A super fast, super light userspace proxy is key to service mesh performance.
> It has been a fantastic journey

Ah yes ... yes the journey. It was such a good shutdown notice until that point. Just leave it off. No one cares about your journey.
Surely for most CD-ROM games of that era some sort of cached streaming would help greatly.

For those that actually had large chunks of data not CDDA audio, i.e. those with FMVs on the CD, the speed of many Internet connections these days is greater than I got out of a local CD-ROM in the mid 90s especially when the latency of spin up time is considered. Streaming the data on request might feel faster than the local physical drive did back then, and avoids transferring the whole disk just to play the first part of the game. It might even make multi-CD games that started appeating in the mid 90, like Wing Commander III, practical to run this way. Of course you still need to implement some simulation of a disk swap.

For many the game was relatively small with CD music tracks making up most of the CD - these could be compressed (MP3/similar) and transmitted that way to be unpacked in the emulator at the other side. Thsi would make the payload much smaller than a full CD so make the games more practical even without trying to stream them.
The best way forward as a business that must operate in China to stay competitive is to hire lots of Chinese employees and send them to the company's "Western" country of origin in hopes that they'll learn our preference for freedom of expression and privacy and take it back home with them.

That's naive, totally not going to happen. I find many mainland Chinese people are proud of their country's political stance and return to the mainland proud of their allegiance to their country. From their perspective, I don't blame them. Foreigners and foreign nation states have not been good to China for what is literally called the Century of Humiliation in Chinese history. Hundred years of foreign states just trampling on China, dividing it up for themselves. They have a national PTSD regarding all of it.

So ANYTHING that resembles foreigners trying to influence China's future and meddle in China's affairs is met with a united anger. I know a lot of Chinese people who did masters degrees in the US. They are completely on the mainland government's side on every significant issue.

I've seen smart and successful mainlanders also be derisive of Chinese students who go overseas to study and then get "brainwashed" by foreign education systems.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/05/01/students-column-us-col...

I think the above link shows some really good examples that many mainlanders do not want to consider alternative views. They are firm in what their truth is, just as westerners are firm in what their truth is. It takes a very open and dispassionate mind to be able to understand both sides and figure out why the issues are so complicated. Unfortunately, I do not see many examples of such open minds on any particular side in this debate.
Signing and Notarizing for Catalina
And I say the answer is no, because (b . c) is an arbitrary pair, not a list. It would appear that we’re at an impasse.
I hope their analytics show how many user engagements their losing by trying to force Sign Up before anyone can evaluate it.
browsers need to have an API to access the underlying libraries. No reason I shouldn't be able to use turbojpeg or libpng clientside. Can't even do it in WebAssembly, because simd was an afterthought.
I'm assuming this is a typo, but I'll just mention it: Sullenberger has 20,000+ hours of flight experience, not 2,000 :)
The headline made me think it was about creating some kind of competition to create video games, rather than playing them. Alas, not.

I still think that could have been an exciting idea.
Bitcoin seems to be just quietly sticking around for now.
Calling something countless is hyperbolic exaggeration. I wasn't expecting an exact number. I also was not expecting hyperbole.

NHTSA is no different than the DOE stating their (thusfar inaccurate) expectations for fusion. Government agencies can also express hope.

>The continuing evolution of automotive technology aims to deliver even greater safety benefits

They have a very well thought out timeline with goals and expectations. But there's no real evidence of why we should expect to hit level 5 driving in a given time frame.

It's still just a goal they hope (aim) to hit.

Unless there's a Moore's law of AI driving ability that I'm unaware of.
It's really not possible to run your own email server and guarantee to get MS to accept your mail. Even on a well established ISP (yes with SPF, dmarc and such) you can get your mail dropped. Google have been tricky in the past for me too.

IMO it's really not a workable option, the administration is time-costly too.
Oh man, reading up on that, smart betas could exercise enormous power over the market if they became popular enough.

Imagine if someone was able to immediately exclude you from 20% of investment capital on the market.
This would only lead to a constant shift in total CO2 emissions because there is only so much space you can utilize. When a plant dies it releases the CO2 back to the atmosphere. For the money, you can likely get higher CO2 abatement (i.e. close a coal fired power plant and replace it with renewables subsidy).

In the first case, you save the CO2 roughly equivalent to the total weight of the plants. In the pther case, you save x tonnes of CO2 every year.
The taskbar. Explorer. Keyboard acceleration. Window management. Speed. Apps. Freedom.

I like the taskbar configured the classic way, not the new way that tries to copy the macOS Dock. Unfortunately, to get all the features that I want out of the taskbar, I have to install a utility called 7+ taskbar tweaker. With that, you can arrange items however you want and middle clicking a taskbar item becomes useful, to close a window. If you like middle-clicking to close tabs in Chrome, it's the same thing... I wish there was a similar utility for macOS because I like to use the taskbar to track what I'm working on. In macOS the easy path is basically to put everything in full screen and use the touchpad to swipe between them which I find very inefficient. Or, you can use Mission Control/Spaces but I would rather have something on the screen at all times rather than something I have to bring up with a gesture or key combo.

I love the Windows Explorer because it's very extendable. For instance, you won't find anything like Tortoise Git on any other platform that can match its quality. I also like using the keyboard to do things and the keyboard commands for Explorer make sense compared to Finder. Like pressing ENTER to open a file or Delete to delete a file.

Keyboard acceleration on Windows and other platforms that emulate Windows (like XFCE) are generally much better than on macOS in my opinion as well because its a simpler system. Instead of memorizing 1,000 unique Mac keyboard shortcuts, I basically have to memorize 1 or 2: Alt + any underlined letter in a menu. Alt + Space to do window commands (move, minimize, etc). From there, I can do anything. Furthermore, I find the notation for Mac keyboard shortcuts to be inscrutable. They display symbols on the menus that are not printed on the keyboard keys and it always takes me a second to figure out which key to press.

For Window Management - I won't list every function that Windows lets you perform on application windows, but suffice it to say that snapping built-in is great because it's on every workstation/server and I find Apple's insistence that you shouldn't maximize windows to be very weird and annoying.

Finally, I find many things to just work faster and more efficiently on Windows. In my experience, on the same exact hardware, common apps like web browsers, code editors and so forth are just snappier under Windows. I also like having a choice and there is a plethora of apps and hardware for Windows in any category.

However, in today's world - I have to run all three to get by. For Linux, I love Manjaro XFCE or Xubuntu very much and Manjaro is on my main workstations at work and home. I mainly use Windows now only for Windows-specific stuff. Same for Mac - I keep one 2015 Macbook Pro around to compile React-Native stuff for iOS and I actually have one old Mac Pro from 2012 in my basement because it's such a nice looking piece of hardware that I hate to get rid of it! I might re-purpose it as a Linux box one day.
How is this any different than public schools buying baseballs from Rawlings (co-owned by the MLB). Or football pads, basketball goals etc... I guarantee that the district in question spends far more than $450k purchasing sports equipment from corporations.

And since public schools are mostly locally funded, some districts aren't cash strapped.

>my point stands: no school should be spending a half million in tax money on corporate video games.

This decision is made at the district level, if the people don't like it, they can very easily vote in a different school board. The local voters are the ones who get to decide what they "should" spend their tax money on.

> if indeed there is any educational merit whatsoever to this initiative (which I highly doubt).

Participation in after school activities has been shown to positively impact educational performance.
No enhanced security, I travel a lot abroad with different phones and can't handle SMS or some type of authenticator reliably.

I completely get it being flagged, I even wrote ML/DL-based anomaly detector for mobile stuff myself, but it really gets in the way, so I switched my primary account over to ProtonMail.
Wow, that's really pretty!
Not a fan of scratch-like UIs but I figured I'd play around a bit. "Solved" the first problem and went to continue, but was met with a signup wall.

Immediately left with no intention to come back. Things like this absolutely destroy your funnel. Prompt me to sign up after I've made some progress, not before I've even gotten a feel for what you're offering.
Good point. I’m also convinced that macOS are more willing than Linux users to pay for software, which makes it possible for the developers to get some monetary return on the time they invest in creating good and usable software.

FOSS development can of course be funded via Patreon, donations, etc. But IMHO those models doesn’t seem to work so well for sophisticated GUI applications. (With some exceptions here and there.)
> China is a third world country by definition.

China is a second world country by the original definition of that phrase, which was: 1st world — Western bloc; 2nd world — red and non-aligned; and 3rd — everybody else "not worth talking about"
Is this really supposed to be on HN?
Saved me a click!
I looked up the CRI, and it's 80. That's fairly low, it has a different spectrum from daylight.

It probably works fine for this purpose mind you. I like the idea of mounting it overhead and illuminating the whole room.

https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/ee/ee8...
Seems disingenuous considering how wide spread coal use is.
Lidar Technology Reveals Secrets of Ancient Maya Civilization
I think in terms of longevity and comfortable living, humans are a clear win for pets. But in terms of life satisfaction, it's not clear. Maybe my dog would prefer living in the wild, hunting and scavenging his own food, never to be scolded for chasing a squirrel or digging in the trash - that's a tougher life (and almost certainly a shorter life), but maybe more satisfying for a dog than living in a house with seemingly arbitrary rules of what he can and can't do. Though he never would have survived in the wild with the broken leg he suffered as a puppy (before I adopted him).
It's obvious that something about this is personal for you.

You're making specific claims here that directly contradict what I've stated. I'd list them out, but really I don't want to waste my time on someone who is obviously angry about something unrelated.
Factoring 2048-Bit Numbers Using 20M Qubits
Implementing Optimized Cryptography for Embedded Systems
It'd help if the author didn't list items that simply aren't true. The MBP 15" has had 4 usb ports since 2016.

It shows a disregard for the facts that some may rightfully call "flamebait".
I thought this was super interesting; it's great to see a solid writeup.

The consumer-side mutex works pretty well, until you take an interrupt while holding it; then, you need to make sure you're using an unfair mutex, or you'll get a lock convoy.

The non-blocking version isn't hard to write, though. IIRC, for the Windows threadpool, I used https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/papers/1996_PODC_queues.... for the implementation.

I'm really impressed by the concurrency analysis tool; again for the threadpool, we used model-based-testing to write tests for every permutation of API calls, but we never got down to the level of testing thread execution permutations; that's amazingly good to see, and really builds confidence in their implementation.
> the only way it may have become not that is if we have allowed our complacencies to kick in

Just wanted to observe that this belief presupposes the US ever lived up to the principles you outline. US history shows that the country has never quite lived up to its touted values.
I’m saying that transaction need not be denoted by crypto. There’s no point to create something that already exist (buying computing power at AWS/ voluntary compute power sharing) just so it could be a crypto
> undermining

Subsuming is more likely.
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There is one precedent for this that spans all people: taxation. People with lower incomes will get better access to products. Meanwhile, people with higher incomes will contribute more, because they're able to.
“The grant of broad discretion to prosecutors is so deeply ingrained in American law that U.S. lawyers often assume that prosecutorial discretion is inevitable. In fact, some countries in Europe and Latin America adhere to the opposite principle of "mandatory prosecution," maintaining, at least in principle, that prosecutors have a duty to bring any charge that is supported by evidence developed by the police or presented by citizens.”

https://law.jrank.org/pages/1870/Prosecution-Prosecutorial-D...

“The legality principle commands that every case in which there is enough evidence and in which no legal hindrances prohibit prosecution has to be brought to court. Adherence to the legality principle in the procedural sense means that the prosecution service cannot exercise any discretion over the prosecutorial decision. Its role is limited to the legal assessment of the sufficiency of the evidence against the suspect. Other considerations – what are known as public interest factors in opportunity systems – are not considered as factors that prosecutors are allowed to deploy in their decisions. Rather, the public interest is regarded as a consideration for the court which might be reflected in the verdict or the penalty imposed.”

http://www.law.gov.cy/law/lawoffice.nsf/0/A5FCDD28D5A9112CC2...
That is exactly what happens. It's direct human nature to defer that responsibility to "computers did it", and to believe they will not in the future is naive.

The second part of that is that the human at the top can only make decisions on what is visible to them. With fairly opaque ML systems the only thing easily visible is the results. Seeing how it came to that result is much more challenging. So we will have humans at the top that can only makes decisions about the results and not the means. Which is the part many, including myself, find troubling.
In Overwatch, role queue is such a departure from the original vision of the game that it's hard to argue with a straight face that it's anything other than a ham-fisted attempt at short term solutions to long term problems.

The message a role queue sends is, "Ignore the problems around you and focus on only providing one part of the team's solution" instead of, "Do whatever you can to help the team win." You can't pick up someone else's slack, you can't play unique/innovative styles, you can't adapt to new strategies; it cuts off a huge creative aspect the game used to have.

It's a terrible lesson to teach children.
How many companies out there are serious about long-lasting quality though? I find most companies are more into planned obsolescence these days.
How to Design Co-Programs
The answer that never changes regarding the use of desktop Linux.
You have no sympathy for people fighting for the right to keep freedoms? Not sure what you mean by “for free”
Please don't break the site guidelines. They ask you to post thoughtfully and substantively on divisive topics ("No offence, but what did you expect" is not). They also ask you not to downvote-bait. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also note how well all the other USian Wars On A Concept turned out...
> Gnome (3) is just a bit crap. It's the Windows DE of the GNU/Linux world.

Windows is way WAY more customizable than Gnome 3. As an example all the issues the GP mentions are things Windows support out of the box (among many other stuff).

Gnome 3 is the result of arrogant programmers pretending to be "UX designers" and act as if they were Steve Jobs without having an ounce of his skills/taste while ignoring that even Steve Jobs took advice from others.
Howdy, I'm not familiar with Tokio (or Rust much). Is Tokio sort of like Node for Rust (packaged as a library rather than executable)?

Or maybe more like Scala Akka Futures?
Ah, I see what you're saying, thanks!
Plants-as-a-Service has been a thing for offices for at least as long as I've been in the workforce.
pico seconds might be a better measurement of modern high end clock speeds
It's not "The US government". It's not the scientists in the regulatory agencies. It's the Trump Administration. It's right there in the URL, the title, and the article body.

Shifting the blame - even unintentionally - from the politicians to the regulatory agencies helps further the narrative that government doesn't work, and (the ultimate, freely-acknowledged goal) that it should therefore be made small enough that it can be choked in the bathtub.
This is meant to be a way to keep kids out of trouble, not teach them physics. The goal is to keep them in a controlled and safe setting until their parents are home and able to pick them up, rather than unsupervised for hours at a time.

Kids don't want to play Tux Racer, they want to play Fortnite. There isn't any free software games out there that are going to attract the attention of these kids the way the AAA titles like Fortnite, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends do, and that means that without having access to those titles, the kids aren't going to join the club, and aren't going to be in that controlled and safe setting.
Joking aside: You can schedule automated backups every other month using Google Takeout.
I was addressing the willing rather than the able.
> Calling something countless is hyperbolic exaggeration. I wasn't expecting an exact number. I also was not expecting hyperbole.

It's not a hyperbolic to use "countless" when it's one of the top 10 causes of deaths.

> NHTSA is no different than the DOE stating...

You're really into your inaccurate strawmans
> The thing is, all that is _boring_. If there is no scarcity, there is no progression.

That's just false. One of the most popular games in human history, Minecraft, completely destroys this notion. Every resource is infinitely renewable and available in great supply.

> This can be OK if there is other sources of conflict like in Kerbal Space Program sandbox mode where you have an unlimited amount of parts and Kerbals to build with but you have to overcome environmental challenges inherent in flying a ship to another planet and back.

This sentence seems contradictory. The challenge is in the doing of a thing. That's not conflict OR scarcity, it's simply your experience. And it's a fun and famous game with a huge following.

> If there is no conflict of any kind there is nothing preventing you from achieving your goal immediately without having to do much of anything, which isn't exactly very fun.

This is that "cultural lens" thing I've referred to in other posts. You're defining this as conflict, but it's not really conflict. It's overcoming hardship. The way you define this matters for how you think about it.

> Very few people want to play "games" that are solely experiencing the environment with no real goals.

So I submit the majority of gaming time on the most popular gaming platforms (mobile) are in fact exactly like this. There is no forced conflict in Neko Atsume or Candy Crush Saga. Roguelike games do model violence conflict, but largely do away with specific goals and simply let you revel in an environment that is new and surprising each time.

> Because (most) people need to have goals to work towards both in real life and in games.

Why does this require repeated and somewhat authentic modeling of fatal violence?

> If you don't give a player goals

I'm trying to work out how you're immediately equating "slaughter each other in PUBG while rolling around in a jeep for now reason" is "goals" but "build a pyramid with your friends in minecraft" is not. In terms of hours and copies sold, the later absolutely annihilates the former, and yet here you are arguing that the former is the only fun option.