skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where’s Greta when we need her?
A LibreM 5.
True that's biggest thing people complaining about, I'm cool with no Typeclass whatever, but to build large app it's going to have crazy boilerplate. I can't stand removing Weboscket module, that made me leave because I don't want Port to be a solution of all things.
Considering their current vetting is quite lacking, shouldn't they be looking to hire someone experienced? You don't hire a junior engineer to build you're new enterprise system.
I mean if you barred the doors to a theater and tossed a few gallons of bleach and vinegar in you could also just gas hundreds of people, but it doesn't happen.

We worry a lot about technology because the attacks sound novel, but not about the conventional ones which still (mostly) don't happen because the reality is that the actual logistical challenges of implementing them without security services noticing still hasn't fundamentally changed all that much.
That’s an argument as old as time. Playing in a band, sports, acting, etc. Thousands of years of “get a real job”.
Then again, nothing is more wasteful than producing everything locally.
The cartoon if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMFM-Jqji0
The underlying value of a company can diverge from its valuation. While obviously this happened when they pitched a $50bn valuation, it could also be happening here. IE Softbank thinks the value is way higher than 8Bn but forced a low valuation as to buy up as much stock as possible.
$32/mo (Seattle)

https://oneprovider.com/order/item/dediconf/2372

$40/mo (Seattle)

https://www.dedimax.com/bare-metal-server/16954

$40/mo (Seattle)

https://oneprovider.com/order/item/dediconf/1894
Testing C++ Compiler Optimizations for ++I and I++
> At one time it seemed [inevitable] that key American values like free speech would become universal

Unfortunately the world is increasingly becoming polarised in all aspects of society (eg Hong Kong). Such as: even the ideas of free speech is being 'counterbalanced' by other ideologies, such as political correctness, or 'family value' protectionism. I can easily see many 'great walls' being built for each country, especially those with a strong cultural identity. I know Turkey had lots of censorship when it comes to an 'open' internet (circumvented with a VPN of course). I feel the social media aspect will only be restricted as time progresses. Of course, I doubt the US will do this, but I suspect my country, Oz, is already entertaining such ideas (without proof)
I highly doubt going to Mars is the reason space x is still private. Given that astronauts have shown somewhat serious issues after being in space for six months, it’s unlikely the human body could survive three years in zero gravity without serious damage. Which means that a space flight to Mars would also require some form of artificial gravity and so for our lifetimes, is likely going to remain science fiction.

No, Musk is going to keep SpaceX private because he hates public oversight, like the kind he’s gotten with Tesla.
Abstract of a different work by the same author:

>the only plausible escape from this conundrum, at least from our present vantage point, is the creation of a “supersingleton” run by a friendly superintelligence, founded upon a “post-singularity social contract.”

I didnt read the paper, but that abstract sounds firmly rooted in sci-fi with a toe in nonfiction, instead of the other way around as im sure the author believes.

K/K has been very low for at least 50 years and probably longer. The idea that a terrorist would smuggle millions of drones to cause... Car crashes... Is the stuff of a high school writing class. i am 100% positive there are cheaper and more effective tools available to cause more serious damage that currently actually exist (and have for decades), and we dont have the society the author claims.
Is this really just another advertisement for Bostrom's ridiculous surveillance state saviour idea?
I’d add a pair of brown dress shoes to the list and increase the pants colors include a darkish blue. Regardless, the belt and shoes should match.
An opportunity for a different kind of search.

SEO is tuned for Google, making it the inevitable victim of its own success.

Let a thousand algorithms bloom! Maybe we'll get a variety of search engine styles, in the same way we have different blood types to frustrate blood parasites.
Every one of these "individual actor catastrophes" has just assloads of barriers to it. Take the "swarm of exploding drones" or "slaughterbots" if you're a douchebag. We do not have the technology for a swarm of a dozen one-inch drones to avoid crashing into each other, let alone carry out the intensely complicated task of tracking down human beings. Also, drones that size have a flight time of about five minutes. Also you would need to manufacture and attach millions of shaped charges, which, unless you're a state actor, is likely to kill the person doing it considering the poor life expectancy of people trying to make only handfuls of IEDs.

Let's take something that's entirely possible using current technology. A small group of motivated individuals could purchase thousands of toasters and turn them into bombs and mail them all to politicians or schools or _____ and set them to all explode at the same time. But that doesn't happen. A group could use agar and antibiotics to breed up a bunch of highly-resistant MRSA and use syringes to infect half the grocery section at dozens of stores on the same day and in doing so kill tens of thousands of people. But that won't happen either.

Just because you can imagine something and not think of a reason it's impossible doesn't mean it's a realistic threat.
I challenge anyone to write a sprite multiplexer capable of Robotron! Would be awesome to see. As for character mode, think through the cases. One arrives at a bitmap quickly, or the movement in the game isn't really up to snuff.

Neither of these are "easy" :D

The rule breaking are things like screen tearing, ignoring color clashes, using coarse motion where possible, etc...

>Color, differences...

At the software level, blit(x, y, etc...), the bitmap machines can handle one and two bits per pixel. Apple has color clash in it's high bit, C64 has it in the color cells, Spectrum has same.

That can largely be ignored.

>...Robotron type games to Apple users used to that quality graphics, but both Apple and PC games were laughed at by C64 users at the time as ugly and primitive.

No they weren't. We played the beautiful ones too. You are mapping your preferences on to all of this. Nothing wrong with any of that. It's nostalgia. We all are going to do it.

I am doing the same, and that's precisely why I said what I said. Bitmap games are a lot of fun, have a distinct charm, and do some things that just don't map to the higher order capabilities in these machines we love and remember fondly.

>I would rather see...

Well, there is coding something you want to see. Standard answer there. And neither of us even have to, as that's being done right now.

These things can / will get done too. The more the merrier man.

Re: Show off

Well, the C64 bitmap addressing is interesting. It's quick for vertical drawing in a way the others, which generally use a linear address, sequential byte per line scheme. I think it would have some advantages for these kinds of projects. "show off" is an interesting term, yes?
Patagonia actually advertises that it's fleece is made from recycled water bottles.
In the last 4-5 years, Softbank basically caused hyperinflation in the startup world.
Graphics programming is fundamentally a form of client/server programming.

Your (usually) c++ is the client, shaders are the server, OpenGL/Vulkan/Direct3D are basically your client libraries to talk to the server.

Your OpenGL driver has a compiler in it that JIT compiles GLSL into into shader programs your GPU can run. In this world, SPIR-V is sort of like JVM/WASM bytecode — a compilation target for shader languages, that’s a bit nicer for drivers to work with.
This article is misleading.

I think the Register had an important place on the internet 10 years ago, but now it's just a low quality narky rag. Which it always was, just this void is full now.

"Together, the Järlströms videotaped hours of footage intended to measure the length of the yellow light timings in Beaverton. They discovered that almost all of them were shorter than the amount of time required by law."

https://www.significancemagazine.com/2-uncategorised/597-the...
While I have no intention of ever doing so, imagine a “DC sniper” situation but with lethal drones. A nondescript vehicle driving around releasing a single killer drone that finds the first person in range and detonates a hand grenade sized charge right by their head. Even worse, imagine they deploy it while driving at speed. It climbs fast to get out of sight, loiters, and attacks only when the person deploying it is long gone.
was going to make a similar comment. In their hypothetical scenario they conveniently skip passed the need to obtain/manufacture 10 metric tones of high explosive.
I'd say it's not access to drones/AI that's the most frightening in this scenario, it's the access to massive amounts of high explosives. If 3 crazies can get their hands on that quantity of explosives, they don't need drones/AI. A few selectively placed trucks/cars loaded with explosives are a long standing tool of mass-murderers.
The WinOS2 development was an incredible marketing and technical marvel. Codenamed Ferengi and sold as "OS/2 for Windows" it allowed you to 'upgrade' your Windows-license installation to run OS/2 with Windows 3.1 running on top of OS/2. It would be like installing Linux on a Windows machine and getting Linux and Wine. Before it was done, most everyone was saying that it wasn't possible. It ran most of the native windows drivers the main thing that was tricky was sharing the screen to have seamless Windows rectangles overlapping with OS/2 rectangles.

I personally didn't care for running cooperatively scheduled Windows 16-bit apps on a 32-bit OS.
This is why I will never call myself a software engineer, despite having a master's degree with a specialization in "software engineering." It's kind of an insult to actual engineers. Software Developer works just fine.
What if they are just trying to stem a contagion effect spreading to their other investments. Their other investments are a lot better but the retail market can be very irrational when there is bad news.
1. Being a P.Eng carries with it weight. When you are one, you can make arguments from authority on the subject of engineering.

2. He claimed to be a P.Eng, without being one.

This undermines the profession, at loss to the public. I can go around, giving unsolicited medical advice all I want. I can't go around, giving unsolicited medical advice, while claiming to be a MD - and for good reason.
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
Shows the shortsightedness of how we got into this mess; bringing a slingshot to a gun-fight.
Drone + cluster bomblet, cheep.

That sort of thing scares me more than weapons of mass destruction. Because they are usable by non-nation state actors and rouge nation state actors.

It's not that I'm worried anyone's going to try to take me out (like why?). It's I'm worried what sort of society we end up with when people like Larry Ellison are terrified of the above.
> But you only got that constitution because the British had to retreat, literally centuries after Locke wrote. Entrenched power had no intentions of giving your people rights before that.

What difference does that make? The fact that the British denied us the “rights of Englishmen” isn’t a reason to deny them to ourselves! That is cutting our nose off to spite our face.

Also, what is the alternative? We go back to Mughal law? They were foreign conquerors too!
The implicit premise of such arguments is that every WalMart (etc.) worker receiving benefits; would be employed at a party disqualifying them from public benefits if not for their present employer.

This is quite implausible, of course, which is why it's never explicitly argued, but the entire criticism falls apart without that assumption.
I don't really get the ongoing obsession with We/Softbank. I kind of got the whole schadenfreude side of it when it all came tumbling down but now it's just turned into a story of a big company trying to dig itself out of a hole created by some dumb decisions it made.

Is there some larger relevance that I'm missing?
I completely agree with you and think introversion/extraversion introvert/extrovert is complete crap. But the author is actually arguing that its not as strong a divide as people make it out to be.
> There's a difference between having Asperger's and being an asshole.

Someone may be rude because they're aspie or because they're assholes, but the end result is the same: dealing with rudeness. I rather not.
The described scenario involves billions of dollars which in most cases represents the output of thousands or 10s of thousands. The attack described is somewhat novel but the fact that the work of thousands can oppose the work of millions isn't.

This makes the nation state more relevant not less. The state can best fund countermeasures and preemptive investigations. They can work with nations who will work to police themselves so they don't have to deal with the backlash involved in locals killing a million people far from home and if needed punish nation states who fail in such policing.
> The first part of your post (seniority-based rules, certifications, etc) shows a lack of imagination in terms of what a union can be.

Precisely because unions are set up to treat members equally they negotiate for the benefit of the median member. Individual unions can fight against the incentives for a while, sure, but first in last out, seniority based pat and restricting entry to keep benefits concentrated among current members crop up everywhere. Yugoslav employee owned companies, the kibbutzim and universities all show the same behaviors because they all face the same incentives. If you think some particular union will be different from the norm provide some argument as to why.
Met an RN a couple days ago, told her about my cheap healthcare plan (daily spinach and fruit smoothies, multi grain cheerios with their 9 embedded vitamins 100% daily recommended, variable protein sources with constant physical activity, lots of untreated water if possible, staying on the move and paying attention at all times so as not to get injured). We discussed socialized medicine of other nations, and she seemed to show an aversion to it. Her argument was that not as many people would want to get into medicine since they wouldn't be paid as much. She works in ER so the first thing I think of is trauma which is different than caring for a lethargic citizen decaying away because of their own habits.

But privatised healthcare generates the fear of the high medical bill, and this could incentivize people to exercise caution (pun? kinda). I personally would not prefer to give doctors all my money in the final few years of a sedentary life spent carelessly.
>Even a small timing increase would help – the automatically generated ticket in this case was issued 0.12 seconds after the light turned red.

The fact tickets were issued on the light turning red rather than the opposing light turning green should tell you all you need to know about whether this is intended to increase road safety or generate revenue.
Get a...

"very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter that can carry a one-or two-gram shaped charge,”

...and fire a bullet from it, and let me know what goes farther, the bullet or the quad.
It's more complicated than that. Bing sells results and charges a lot, Yahoo BOSS used to sell 2 different levels of results, one older (and cheaper) than the normal Bing feed and one much older (and even cheaper.)

So if it's a query with a lot of temporal churn in the results, it's easy to be confused.
If you have a long running branch, you're going to have conflicts. When you resolve those conflicts during a rebase, you lose your history of the conflict resolution.

What you're thinking of as a "simple linear history" is actually not. Notice that when you rebase there are new hashes for each of your commits.

If you're rebasing your branch with master and resolving merge conflicts along the way, you're going to get bit eventually. Even if you're somehow not dealing with merge conflicts, you're losing your ability to look at the git log and figure out when the last time you synced up with master was.
how on earth does a company go from getting ready to IPO to being cash-strapped and needing an infusion in such a short space of time?

Never saw the numbers in the prospectus, but surely there was some indication?
I was at ask.com during the crash. The first bad part for me was the options. I planned on selling them the instant they vested. A week before vesting they were trading in the low hundred dollar range. The day they vested they were in the dollar range, with a strike price of 10 dollars. Thank goodness I didn't exercise them or I'd be stuck in the tax boat. So it was demoralizing, but I still had my salary, and I was young enough for that to be enough.

I weathered three rounds of layoffs and that was pretty harsh too. Every morning we'd check fuckedcompany.com and look for Ask in there. One morning it popped up with a 60% layoff in two days. It was almost exactly right; 16% of staff were laid off. Someone mis-heard the number.

I was in a smaller off-shoot office, so when people were cut they were called into the managers office, and while there security would pack their desk. When they came out of the office the box was just sitting on the floor, right outside the door. By the second round the manager just wouldn't come in that day, and the main office would send some stranger to do it.

At first I rationalized the people who were cut as people who weren't valuable, weren't adding to the bottom line. They were the less technical people, and their jobs were more nebulous, so it was easy to ease any mental pangs. It was a way of coping with something similar to survivor's guilt. Then when I was laid off, well, it was a tough time for me personally. I couldn't help applying the same rationale to myself. I wasn't valuable. I wasn't adding to the bottom line. The company is better off without me.

They gave me a pretty nice severance check. I convinced them to keep me on for another week to document my project. It was actually one of the only cash-positive projects at the company, due to contracts with Visa and Nike. That extra week pushed me into 2 years of tenure, which bumped my severance from two months pay to three.

I did not do anything mature with the money.

Generally the attitude I saw was to hunker down and try to weather the storm. Nobody interviewed because nobody could get recruiters to answer the phone. And nobody wanted their manager to think they were interviewing; that was a great way to be called in first during the next round. And lots of late nights working; gotta show you're still committed, despite everything crumbling around you.
> One strategy could be a superintelligent machine—essentially, an extremely powerful algorithm—that’s specifically designed to govern fairly.

I volunteer to write that fair governing powerful algorithm. You can trust me to make it fair and not make it favor my biases and interests.
I self-host Shaarli[1] with the 2004licious theme[2], as an emulation of early del.icio.us. It works really well - no database (it saves a single .php file), minimal interface, and it has an Android app. It also has tag and note support. I only wish it supported plain notes; you have to have a URL for each entry.

[1] https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

[2] https://github.com/Ruin0x11/shaarli-2004licious-theme
Chatifies in what way?
For one thing, I'd argue it's important for startups to understand how Softbank behaves as an investor, since they are a fund many companies might consider taking money from. They have an outsize quantity of capital to invest, so this is more worth watching than other funds' behaviors might be.
What do you mean? Lou Reed left a large collection of great records?
I thought it was the self driving truck company.
Steam Remote Play Together takes local multiplayer games online
you're right, apparently multiplying is hard! I first decided to make my back of napkin calculation (forgot to include the PE ratio) then wrote the post. I've amended it now.
Since I am mentioned in the article I have a correction to make that I think is pretty important.

The article says that I like to find ideas by “playtesting” then goes on to describe playtesting as a form of user testing.

Whereas there is some definition of the word playtesting that might be applicable to the way I design puzzles, it is not remotely the one in the article. In fact I think too much “playtesting” as described here will make your game boring, and will degrade your skill as a designer, and over time make you a boring designer. It is important to avoid this.

If you playtest too much it means you don’t really know what you are making or don’t have confidence to determine what playing it can be like. Even if you don’t have these skills or this confidence yet, you should be working on building them. Certain high skill levels of design will not be accessible otherwise.

The amount of playtesting we did on The Witness was very small — about 5 or 6 days over the course of 6.5 years, on a game that takes 50-100 hours to play through.

Whereas I do sometimes get puzzle ideas from bottom-up exploration of a space by myself (which is the definition of “playtesting” that would make sense here), in fact the vast majority of my puzzle ideas just spring to mind after I have built a sufficient understanding of the possibility space. So these are more like two distinct phases of design, and you might switch between them when designing one game. But I think most of the actual puzzle ideas have to come at least semi-intentionally, or the game will not feel very strong.

You have to know where you are trying to drive the truck.
really like your knowledge base and your build process.

i've been experimenting with personal knowledge bases for much of the last decade and have settled on a homegrown solution that involves ten thousand markdown files. notes are organized as trees with a top level domain (eg. aws, programming, finance, etc) and finding a particular note is a tree traversal down the tree. the main goal is speed and structure - want to access anything within my knowledge base in seconds and have a coherent way of modeling knowledge even as it scales past ten thousand notes

recently quit my job to build this into a service. would love to get feedback from people with similar challenges: http://demo.alphacortex.io
Ah this is what I wanted to know. If you ignite a shaped projectile with nothing to push on but air, will it go

"An EFP 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter threw a 3 kg (7 lbs) copper slug at Mach 6, or 2,000 meters per second. (A .50-caliber bullet, among the most devastating projectiles on the battlefield, weighs less than two ounces and has a muzzle velocity of 900 meters per second.)

— Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post"
If we don't police everyone every second of the day, how will we stop them from joining fascist organizations?
"I could also say US mainstream media is indirectly state-controlled, and independent journalists are fired or discredited for speaking out against the current regime."

I guess you was downvoted for that phrase which can't be true /s