skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no case against Adam. You bicker on the ethics of his operations, but he did not violate any law. In fact, he took advantage of poor corporate laws, which is not a crime either.

Be bitter with him, fair enough, but be intelligent still

It's in the same bracket with the whole "Amazon pays $0 in taxes". Taking advantage of poor laws is not a crime. You can accuse them all you want, but we all do it albeit at a microscopic scale.

Punishing circumventers is not the answer, reviewing the law is.

Neumann did what was best for him. It was legal. That's all.

Your expectation of a person doing what is good for the greater good is your own weakness. I'm not telling you to stop, just don't cry foul when folks from other schools of thought do what they do best. Maximize returns.
My local library not only has a huge game selection, they will ship games from within the library network to a library closest to me. It's basically Blockbuster for games, but free. New games too, it's how I've played any PS or Switch exclusives for the past few years.
Emergences: A Talk by Danny Hillis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879366
I have never been asked to be saved by jesus in all my years in Florida. Cali, Oregon, washington, and obviously in Virginia and Utah. But never Florida. What's the religion where they say Jesus came to America? Whoever they are, they're really active in Seattle. Especially the bus stops.
Well, we're safe for a while in that game streaming is orders of magnitude more difficult/costly than video streaming, which is still very hard at scale.

But even so, with the fragmentation in video streaming, its far better than it was to be locked into a single cable provider. Likewise, game streaming will be better than our present situation, where to get that one exclusive you really want to play, you have to buy the whole console. In the streaming world, you subscribe for a month or two, then suspend the subscription.

The battle in the streaming era is going to be over reducing churn, rather than finding the right combo of exclusives to entice enough people to buy the console, even though they might only buy a couple of games for it.

I think we'll start seeing episodic style exclusive content.
> It allows you to express the content in such a way that the way you express it matches the content.

Which makes Latin poetry both intricately beautiful, but sometimes nearly impossible for students to read and make sense of ;)
Maybe that’s when the slide started...
I think this is truly the crux of the product's potential. Triple A FPS games are never going to hit it big on a streaming service, especially in any sort of competitive circle.

The real opportunity is for games where latency isn't really important. Beautiful turn based games, cinematic choose-your-own adventures.

The second path is for games to be developed with appropriate tolerances & latency-forgiving mechanics. Take a modern platformer like Super Meat Boy or Celeste, where you are given a window of frames in which you can jump/react before failure. Even modern games like Mario Odyssey accommodate input latency of wireless controllers/HDMI displays. Similar accomodations can and will be made for games targeting streaming services.
My understanding is that I’m not allowed to discriminate based upon the country of origin of my employees. As long as they have the right to work, they must be considered equally. Should that be altered for Chinese citizens?
Clearly you understood the intent behind my wording.

How would you have worded an analogy that you would consider more appropriate?
Wow, I didn't know B9 had released an episode on this matter. Thanks for pointing it out!
I don't have a console or a gaming pc but I have been using the nvidia shield and its Geforce streaming service for playing a few of my steam library of games. It is not the exact same experience as you would get from a console or a gaming pc but for me it is good enough. Specially considering me being in asia and all the nvidia servers I am usually connected to are in NA or Europe as no nvidia asian server available. With the google internet infrastructure worldwide I think they can improve on what nvidia is doing which for me is already usable if not perfect.
Even if the board and shareholders bought his grift for years and were ok with his self-dealing at the time?
> There are some that truly don't believe that sampling copyrights should be a thing

That's why I said "if".

> One could also argue that Dreams is so completely derivative that is bears little to no resemblance to the original recording

That's not what "derivative" means.

> You opinions on a piece have no legal bearing on what does or does not constitute copyright infringement.

Maybe not, but in light of your general point about "stifling creativity", it might be worth pointing out that this is hardly a good piece to highlight said creativity.
Microsoft please make MultiDoc because Google won't listen
Today, in an Outlook email attachment, I saw am .ipynb file icon which gives me even more hope for MSFT. Maybe there is a Google Colab competitor coming... Azure does has a notebook service. Too bad Zeppelin isn't adopted.

MSFT Office native apps now work just like Google Docs. Dunno about the progressive web app offline stuff, but it's made my life suck much less after failing back into corpo america.

It's just one of many moves MSFT has made ever since they started offering Ubuntu on Azure.

Please make the multi-doc so I don't have to share multiple files with busy executives. Do some containery stuff to make it happen.
I started up a piece of industrial equipment that some one was working on just out of site. He didn't lock it out or even disconnect the power at the switch right next to him. He screamed at me when his arm almost got ripped off. It's an amazing mix of terror for having almost hurt someone and rage at that same person for putting you in that position.
The reduction of information aspect you suggest contradicts one of the key elements outlined in the article (the QM view that information might be transformed (combined/processed) but never removed).

I offer my own, within this realm of discussion, layman's perspective that a black hole might be metaphorically similar to an above ground swimming pool with a (small) hole in the side, within a still larger pool. If there is an orderly structure within the small pool the flow will remove structured information from within and spray it back out.

Following the above metaphore and the impression the article gave me: a black hole does something similar but in a more fourth-dimensional hysteresis format. Over time the energy and "information" contained within (or released out as other forms of energy) is observation-ally constant. This would be a lot more like the way a moon can create tides that pull water in and out of a bay.

While I would also love for science fiction toys like the Portal Gun (or other wormholes/gateways) to be a reality, I really doubt they're actually possible and even if they are this would probably be as close to realizing them as discovering the principles of electricity were to creating the microprocessor.
How upset you are by the thought of my brother teasing people by pretending to genuinely believe the earth is flat is making me smile!
Prents can teach kids to be kind to their siblings or atleast to their parents if no siblings. Also they can set a better example and be kind to the kids and not make their lives unnaturally painful with arbitrary limits such as screen time.
Yeah, that bugged me, too. No reason why the author couldn't have been consistent about whether to use the first or last name there. Or at the very least used "Mr. David" instead of just "David" to make it clear that no, this ain't some other guy named "David". It's okay if it's clearly a first name, but when it's ambiguous like that it's confusing.
People Are Having Sex with 3D Avatars of Their Exes and Celebrities
It cites what sounds like pretty credible research. Although they could have probably got the same research by asking any group of 40yr+ cynics. :)
I think what we’re all saying is that while what he did wasn’t illegal, it should have been, and probably once was but we’ve allowed corporations to pay off our politicians to make laws legalizing actions like his.
Brad Mcquaid: Creator of Everquest Has Died
Arresting. Thank you for that.
WeWork has a lot of debt, and there are a lot of fraud scenarios if risks were misrepresented to bond holders.

Given the scale of recklessness and insanity here, I’m sure there are all sorts of problems with the firm.
Comparing Jupyter, Zeppelin, and RStudio
Of course clang format is at fault; reordering includes, even standard or system includes, will almost certainly effect how a complex C/C++ program compiles. That's just how it is, with the preprocessor and such.

This is a _bad_ clang-format bug.
I'd assume nowadays it could be Cloud, AI? But thinking through, they do have some history.
It would be a social network that excludes the poor and the frugal.

It reminds me of a network that was created for the extreme rich, a few years ago. On searching for it, I find that there have been several such created: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/09/social-networks-for-...
That was written in 2014, so perhaps there are more since then.
> but almost everyone that's sat down to play it so far has talked about how it feels nearly indistinguishable from a console latency-wise.

Nearly every review I've seen mentions that there's just enough latency for it to not feel good, with some visual stuttering occasionally.
Should You Believe Wikipedia? [pdf]
Is there a name for the phenomenon where supposedly temporary measures (like tolls) have a disturbing tendency to become permanent because they benefit those in power in some way?
Beria was a serial killer and rapist of young girls as well... strange that this wouldn't be mentioned in passing.
If you’re going to go small you might as well go all the way and get a 30% keyboard like the Gherkin. Very portable and not too bad as long as you’re willing to work with layers.
> Instead of helping patients know their out-of-pocket costs, this rule will introduce widespread confusion, accelerate anticompetitive behavior among health insurers, and stymie innovations in value-based care.

So people are too dumb to understand prices, and unlike any other economic system to ever succeed, knowing the value of a thing will DECREASE pricing competition.

I was waiting for the good argument on why this is a bad idea. Instead we got _that_.
> "Getting off GMail is one of the best ways to take back your data in the face of dragnet surveillance."

Is running your own mail server one of the best ways to get off GMail?
Soundsystem parties are designed to have so much base it vibrates your body.

If you go there without earplugs someone will offer you napkins as otherwise you’ll get tinnitus.
talk.bizarre?
When I graduated from College I applied heavily to jobs in the MD/VA area because of their strength in competitive Super Smash Bros.

I found a job here and love being closer to so many people I can share my favorite hobby with.
WeWork Scales Back on Honesty-Based Snack and Drink Kiosks
clang-format reordering includes is a terrible behaviour. It would break many C/C++ projects.
A Guide to Meal Prep for Effective Bodybuilding
After working in mining for a long while, where this kind of isolation procedure is standard and is taken very seriously (pretty much any breach of procedure is an instantly firable offense) it's terrifying coming back home and seeing people working on house wiring etc. with nothing more than a turned-off circuit breaker protecting them from electrocution or other injury. I've seen some trades start to pick up isolation procedures but they're generally still far behind industry best practices.
If you are really trying to understand the psyche, you would be more open, ask more questions, and be less judgy. Telling people to go hug a tree is not how you understand people, and it does make you look bad.

I'm in the same boat as you, tho. I'm in the video game streaming industry... I don't understand at all how people actually watch other people play video games, and I do think there's benefit to disconnect.
> Mastodon is successful for sure, but it isn't successful enough to overcome the incumbent in the space, which is what we're talking about. That isn't a bad thing, but it's important to add that context when looking at anything else that is being heralded as "the next X."

Are we talking about that? I don't think so... why must everyone "overcome" the incumbent?

Sure, Facebook is the goto for "general purpose" social networking between friends and family. On the other hand, Facebook is terrible for following and discussing the news, unless you like a huge heap of bias and low-quality clickbait. WT Social is planning to address that niche. Facebook is also terrible if you want to keep up with a huge volume of tech news and follow interesting discussions on those topics with lots of expert contributors. HN fills that niche, but sometimes there is too much politics here, so Lobste.rs exists for people who prefer smaller, more focused conversation.

The "long tail" in the social space is huge. Not every venture needs or wants to be the next Amazon in its space.

> if not by the founders, than by the press/people excited by the idea.

And that's the problem. The press doesn't know what they are talking about.
> Suppose the US claimed that the entire Gulf of Mexico was US territory

Since China is a long way from the Gulf of Mexico, and has no need to sail there, I'm confident that China couldn't care less about this.

On the other hand, The South China Sea is very important to China, and very far away from USA -- why does USA care so much about it?

Perhaps you could also comment of USA claims over the Northern Sea Route (which lies within Russia’s Exclusive Economic Zone) ? [0], [1]

[0] https://www.rt.com/business/423913-northern-sea-route-us/?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/geopolitical-conse...?
Good for you champ. Glad it was so easy to please you.
In this particular case it is not really a virus: “ Mitogen interacts with many aspects of the operating system, threading, SSH, sudo, sockets, TTYs, shell, Python runtime, and timing and ordering uncertainty introduced through interaction with the network, GIL and OS scheduling.”

It is more like a networked python program calling shell ;-).

Problem is usually virus is assembler level or C bare metal or minimum dependence on certain aspect of host Env. All virus is small. A subset.
I'm not sure either honestly. I've used Lisp a lot but never looked at the internals. I can see why it would be hard to implement. It has an object model unlike any other language (CLOS). It's memory model is equally baroque. A lot of the complexity comes from needing to be both interpreted and compiled at the same time, at all times, which is still unique today. A lot of completely arbitrary things like the infamous LOOP macro are in the standard library.
NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free
Author here. I appreciate your criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of Google's claims around diabetic retinopathy. I received feedback very similar to yours, i.e. that those claims are based on an extremely narrow problem formulation: https://twitter.com/MaxALittle/status/1196957870853627904

I will correct this in future versions of the talk and paper.
Lots of companies would block their developers from using a plugin if it was determined to contain any sort of non-trivial telemetry.
If board members were complicit then I'm convinced we have plenty of room in prison for them as well.
The first 40ish years of computing are dominated by machines with a paucity of online storage. It would be more than just a 10 year delay.
Which is going to be an anti-selling point for a lot of people.
If you want even better ergonomics, add tenting, concavity, and move the modifier keys + return/backspace to the thumb cluster (which should be shaped and angled so you're not moving your thumb laterally to hit it). The Dactyl-Manuform[1] is a good example of these things.

[1] https://github.com/tshort/dactyl-keyboard
I have a .help domain for handing out to services and it works without issue.
The meta of this article screams smoke and mirrors - The amount of space it devotes to pointing out how all of these former skeptics and people with all these qualifications were now believers just sets off so many alarms. It's pitched in a way that appears crafted to disarm the readers bullshit-o-meter rather than presenting some information in good faith.

Also stuff like this:
>biotechnology expert Oded Shoseyov, a Hebrew University professor who has consulted for UBQ, says melting plastics and waste creates a homogeneous substance strengthened by fibers in the organic ingredients.

Put simply: no. We know that if you just 'melt' all that stuff that is not the outcome. If done in an oxygenated environment you decompose the organic matter and break the long-chain hydrocarbons into oxygen-bonded carbons i.e. co/co2. If you do it in the absence of oxygen you turn the plastic back into short-chain/oil and the organic matter into char.

Sometimes, a need to keep industrial processes confidential is understandable. When you're proclaiming to have a 'solution' such as this, it's suspicious.
But who is precisely harmed as a result that wasn't already well informed of the risk that was posed to them?

I don't think that many people think that the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund losing money (SoftBank's largest LP) is harming any American citizens. The only thing I can think of is that some of WeWork's investor LP's might be public pension funds, but even then, the individuals who are responsible for deploying that capital (LP representatives) should be held accountable then.
Getting a (read: multiple) 60% keyboard really changed my life. It makes a lot more sense for not offsetting the mouse way to the right or the keyboard to the left (as you would with a full size). As well, not having to strain my wrist to hit arrow keys got rid of any pain I had. It's awesome having everything under my hands. I'll definitely follow this 40% project.
Yeah! This was a big reason why we've invested in funding the work on https://github.com/n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents/ - hopefully this makes the barrier to entry to building font shaping engines a little lower for newcomers, and gives us a place to document findings, separate from any single implementation.
> I would be furious if I was an employee that dedicated time and energy to this company.

And those employees probably have justification for a civil case, which doesn't require the SEC to be involved.
Lucence raises $20m Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology
You write like you're his lawyer.. or even worse, him.
It's worse than that. Assume you're at 60fps like the average non-serious gamer. Assume you're lucky enough that video encoding / decoding adds only 1 frame of latency. Assume Google's proprietary technologies can minimize rendering latency so much that that's lost in the noise (I don't believe it). You've still got network latency. How bad is that?

Well, I'm in one of the 10 largest cities in the United States. Pinging 8.8.8.8 shows an average of 20 ms RTT, which is just over one frame. So is the total a 2 frame delay? No. Think about how Youtube works: they choose to introduce more latency than exists in the raw connection for reliability. My ping time shows a std deviation of over 10ms to 8.8.8.8. So if Youtube ran at a 20 ms latency (the true network latency), just about every other frame would have to briefly pause to wait for the next frame to arrive over the network. So you introduce latency. Youtube introduces about 3 seconds of latency on my network (a very rough estimate).

With a video game, the situation can't be fixed like that. You can't just run your video game behind your inputs by 3 seconds to iron out network latency spikes. So you've got to pick a percentage of packets that are going to arrive late (briefly pausing the stream), and just hope that you never get huge latency spikes of a second or so. (This actually happens all the time on busy networks due to buffer bloat.)

If you pick 95%, 1 out of every 20 video segments are going to have to pause for the network to catch up. Given we're expecting 60fps video, I'm assuming that's considered unplayable. So lets make it 99%. Assuming latency follows a bell curve, that means you have to introduce 45 ms of latency to allow smooth playback. That rounds to 3 frames of latency.

So all together, the "ideal" experience in my major city is to play a video game with 4-5 frames of latency, and realistically my developers are probably asking for a 100ms input-to-paint window. That's TERRIBLE to the point that it's probably only really usable for "clicker" time-waste games and turn based stuff. And the thing is, latency doesn't follow a bell curve. In my test lasting less than 30 seconds, I saw ping times well over 60 ms, and hardware associated with gaming will have its own latency issues too. So I expect even a stream running at 100 ms latency will still have brief pauses and jumps every few seconds, and probably noticeable ones every few minutes.
In my experience this is not true. Some LO/TO locks even have plastic shackles and bodies (for the obvious electrical work). They’re not supposed to be pick proof and super secure—they’re a visual and physical reminder that the system is secured for worker safety. If a lock needs to be removed by someone other than the lock owner there is an OSHA process to remove out that involves cutting and discarding that particular lock.
> parasitic and exploitative practices.

Like taxes.
I use Migadu.com for my email and they allow you to create regex based catchalls [0]. I have one that accepts every email address that begins with "cat". it makes it dead simple to create a fresh email for new services.

[0] https://www.migadu.com/en/benefits.html#anchor_catchalls
You've also gotta get servers to put in there, and in a 42u rack with, say 9 4u servers, a 2u managed switch, and now you have 4 units left to handle power distribution, power backups, any kind of external remote management (say an out-of-band KVM, or a second network for IPMI traffic, or anything else).

ALSO, all those servers? Say the fancy, high-speed switch you need to route all that traffic is $2000.

You wind up needing spend $5000 on auxiliary equipment and installation. This includes IE power cables, network cables, Velcro, and that darn cable you forgot you needed.

Now we're up to $10,000 including the colo costs, and we haven't even gotten to servers yet.

We need 9 4u-tall servers. The reason for the 4u height is because that's the size you want to be the most space-efficient with your full-height GPU's.

You'll want good base servers to slap your graphics cards into. I'm a little out of the loop on the latest and greatest in the server world, but we'll assume it's around $7,500 for a fairly moderate AMD EPYC system (EPYC because A] they wind up being cheaper than their Intel counterparts and B] have many more PCIE lanes).

9 $7,500 servers is $67,500 without any GPU's.

You don't want nVidia's consumer GPU's, because they're hostile to virtualization, so it's either AMD's consumer or enterprise stuff Or nVidia's enterprise stuff.

For GPU's you want to use, you'll be paying at least ~$600 per, and there's around 8-10 slots per server. $600 * 8 * 9 = $43,200.

I'm sure I've missed stuff- haven't included data storage, for one- but we're already at $120,700 and you'll probably want some new GPU's in a couple of years, and the total cost of servers over their lifespan winds up being around double what the initial cost was.

-Summer Glau
great advice; i agree completely. that response was so passive and defeatist i'm almost upset on his/her behalf. it is almost beyond belief what high quality engineers can earn by simply changing jobs.