skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be wrong, but with easy digital resales allowed it seems like the price would either have to:

- Remain stable, so that someone can buy the game for $40, play it for 30 hours of entertainment and finish the game, then resell it for $40, earning the game developer no money.

- Continuously decline. Of course this means the price rapidly reaches 0, at which point the game developer can't make any money.

These problems would be the same regardless of if the game costs $10 or $60 initially. I think under either of these scenarios most indie and AAA developers would have to switch away from single player pay-once games, since they wouldn't be able to make nearly enough money to pay back the development costs, forget about profits.

So if it pans out that way I don't think that is helping consumers. It would take a product that consumers want to buy and developers want to make (single player pay-once games), make it impractical to produce, and shift the market to products that those consumers like less. I'm not a libertarian but that sort of regulatory outcome seems bad, since as far as I can tell it just hurts developers and consumers while earning the government no money.

I think instead, if we are worried about game companies making too much profits, we should raise the tax on corporate profits for game companies (although this might lead to less investment, since there will be less return). Or if we are worried the companies having too much revenue, regardless of profits, we should have a special sales tax on video games (like on cigarettes), although that will hurt even unprofitable games. Unlike the mandatory resale plan, these sort of taxes can be adjusted to focus more on big companies instead of small ones that are barely surviving, apply equally to all types of games, and even make the government money. So it's win-lose instead of lose-lose.

I don't think mandatory resales would be such a big problem for other types of software like office software that need to be continuously used (although that's moving to subscriptions anyway). The main problem is a lot of video games people just play for 30 hours or so and finish. So if you can buy and sell for the same price people can just do that and pay nothing. I think it's less of a problem in the physical game era since used games aren't identical to new ones (people won't pay as much since the disk could be scratched etc) and it's more trouble to buy and sell them since you have to mail it, pay for postage, wait for it to come in etc.
*after you're paid enough to make financial decisions of any sort.
A close family friend is a recently retired federal judge, about that age, maybe a little older. He and his family are some of the unpretentious, intelligent people that I've met. He said the exact same thing.
I think something like SAG-AFTRA would be the perfect model. We already function as actors... We audition for coding roles... The recruiters are like managers... Most roles are for 1.5 years...

If the major FAANG companies had an association called the Software Development Industry... Programmers would join a Software Developers Guild... Annually the guild would negotiate with the Software Development Industry and create daily minimum rates, safe working conditions, and worker protections for software developers.
(what kind of protections... I think assuring workers can operate and compete freely... No anti competitive behaviors such as refraining from soliciting one another’s employees in order to avert a salary war)

If FAANG doesn't do it, I would not be surprised other firms push for it as a way to compete for talent.

Imagine, instead of figuring out cap tables and trying to prevent getting screwed by dilution... imagine if that task was delegated to the Guild and they could hire people to negotiate for that and monitor that on an ongoing basis.

Imagine if those options could be captured in a defined benefit plan or packaged in some other way where professionals could be hired to manage the risks inherent with taking options from a startup.

I think too many people think about dockworkers and construction workers when unions are discussed.
Please review the SAG agreements here:

https://www.sagaftra.org/files/20172020wagesTV.pdf

https://www.wrapbook.com/essential-guide-sag-rates/#SAG%20Te...

If you are a great programmer you might charge 8x the daily minimum. No one is forcing you to accept the minimum, but you should not have to accept anything below the minimum.

If you could delegate tasks to the guild to monitor the financial health of your employer, manage your stock option negotiation, and negotiate a daily minimum each year... you could offload a lot complicated issues and at least focus on your work...
At a certain point a manager could assist with these tasks as well, especially if you are 8x the daily minimum.

The daily minimum is to make sure no one takes advantage of people (ie, young employees at startups)...
A coincidence? I think it might be an identity.

But that would mean that disputes about the value of the Hubble Constant are also disputes about the age of the universe, and vice versa.
Pray for our troops and an end to this madness.
And finally, the AirPods are a far superior experience than the alternatives. In addition though, the AirPods are extremely competitively priced.

The former is subjective, as for the latter - what's the competition to which they are favourably priced?
Newscorp should definitely not be your source for anything climate related.

It's well documented that the Murdoch's (of Newscorp ownership) are part of IPA thinktank [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs] push to portray climate change as imaginary. IPA drives Murdoch properties, right wing and conservative talking heads and seemingly 99% of the 'oh the greenies did (that thing that was enacted by the government in power)' conversations.
6 F35s flying off from uae https://mobile.twitter.com/raveenaujmaya/status/121470164921...
Impeachment -> War
>I work mostly with commercial software, so IP and patents are business as usual.

I work with commercial software, and what Oracle is trying to do is unprecedented and has nothing to do with IP, or patents, or commercial software.
I never said it would be Useful. I said it would be Interesting.
Yeah plenty has changed since then, there are limits that are checked twice to ensure the driver is always able to take control. If violated, the car or openpilot throws an error
openpilot.comma.ai
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

From the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm sick of seeing this discussed everywhere, and I think others might be, too.
I don't disagree with that; I'm just saying that when you read Hemingway, you're experiencing all that stuff second-hand and I suspect Hemingway himself had a much broader understanding of the human condition than anyone can ever achieve by reading Hemingway.
>> any existing blocking libraries can be called from said green threads and they will become asynchronous

Yes, but any frameworks that currently create and manage a threadpool will not automatically be changed. As well as any libraries/frameworks that rely on async code. And any existing code you own will also not.

For brand new projects, using only libraries that assumed blocking code, and had no threadpool expectations within them, sure, it's transparent.

For any old projects it's not. For any libraries that were written to be async already, you don't benefit. For libraries written to manage a threadpool, you have to wait for them to be updated. And still, as now, God help you if you want to mix and match, to use a library written to be async, and a library written to use a threadpool...but of course, now compounded because you want to write sane, performant, readable blocking code using green threads. You have to deal with all those incongruities and make them all work together.

Languages that have an M:N threading mechanism from the get go (hah!) get the benefit of everything building atop that from the beginning.
Seriously. The website does a pretty crappy job at explaining what the product actually is.
If you don't care about dealing with the headaches of enterprise/corporate and know what you are getting into
then sure. Not for me. I've tried multiple times after 15 years in various startups (and .edu). The kultur of a large company is a deal breaker. I'd suggest looking into consulting or , if you can do it, find a large company that needs 'SME' and 'Fixer' skills (if you have those). You can then approach work offsite or telework varying your vista on the basis of what project needs your skills. Defense contracting has a lot of this type of work.
Yes. The heck is an "integrated panda"?
Remove plant-based foods from the list. There is a "120%" guarantee of previous contact with animal poo and animal urine in your vegetables.
2nd wave of missiles from Iran now been launched on US bases in Iraq.
It really feels like something new, like Portal taken to a new level of abstraction.
My thoughts exactly. Goedel is just basically "set of all sets that don't contain themselves ... does it contain itself or not?" applied to 'provability'.

It gives you no more profound insight than "you can eff yourself with recursion if you aren't super careful" which is obvious for any beginner programmer who encounters recursion and tries to write whatever he likes in recursive function.

I guess this might have been surprise for mathematicians who always thought they have all infinites at their disposal and thus are completely unrestricted and brushed self-referential paradoxes under the rug as curiosities until Godel showed they can be constructed about things mathematicians care about like provability.

I believe you can make a consistent fully provable axiomatic system by excluding statements that are not provable from your system, as meaningless.

You don't consider whether "number 5 contains itself" is true because it's nonsensical. "This statement is unprovable" can be considered similarily nonsensical not because it wrongly combines math concepts but because it's a self-referential paradox and we choose to not allow that.
Reminds me a bit of the game Portal. And perhaps someone with the right imagination could make this work in mixed reality?
And the Zune was crippled by PlaysForSure DRM, even coming later.

Apple added on their own crippling DRM after that.
I never suggested that a manufactured meat replacement was a solution :).

Personally I think the fake meats are a needless crutch. Yes, creating an interesting vegetarian dish requires more effort than just throwing a fatty steak on a grill (the magic of heat, fat, and animal protein), but with just a bit of effort a vegetarian dish can be very satisfying and healthy at the same time.
Applications which don't accept the specific Shattered PDF prefix given there. In general Shattered could work for e.g. ELF executables with the same prefix, but the attack here lets you collide the hashes even if the prefixes are different.
You are also right.

Now that I saw tingletech comment I got your point :)
Storing the language they want to use or other configuration.
The way I see it this is part of their threat to directly attack the US or US interests rather than their earlier attacks under the cover of “militias” given their official organs are saying this is “retaliatory”.
Adding a vehicle is the equivalent to writing drivers (heh) for your particular car. It entails reverse engineering your car's builtin driver assist features to determine which CAN messages do things like actuate the brakes and gas, turn the wheel with a given amount of torque, or communicate radar values from the cars builtin radar sensor.

For many cars the CAN messages will be the same as similar models so porting a new vehicle just means adding tuning values that can be captured by driving with OpenPilot connected but not controlling the vehicle e.g.: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/pull/866
CES 2020: Open Connectivity Foundation reveals first open IoT standard devices
Show HN: Free HTML/JS web page widget to show the number of *current* viewers
it's a dashcam with a passive driver assist system, the openpilot stuff is a separate product meant to be installed onto the "comma two" by the user
> Not sure I understand the problem. If I lock fileX and go to lunch, then I own the lock on that file while I’m out to lunch.

And if you go on vacation for two weeks instead?
I had the same thought. This would be the sort of weird game mechanic the could introduce in a Portal 3.
Maybe the target customer is the King of All Cosmos.
> Won't that give you the letters in alphabetical order, which may not be correct?

But that's what "lexicographical" means?

> In mathematics, the lexicographical order is a generalization of the way words are alphabetically ordered based on the alphabetical order of their component letters.

> This generalization consists primarily in defining a total order on the sequences (often called strings in computer science) of elements of a finite totally ordered set, often called an alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographical_order
It's neither here nor there, but Oldman dodged a bullet by not participating in The Revenge of the Sith.
I literally just had this conversation with a friend. He was interested in the WF-1000RX3 and I thought it was the over-the-ear phones, but it turns out that's their buds; the over-the ears are WH-1000RX3. (I may have those names wrong, they're just so stupid I don't care, but the point is, the only difference between earbuds and massive over-the-ear cans is the 2nd character in an alphanumeric soup)
Celebrities actually do have influence, horrifying as that is.
I only knew from your comment what is this after I came back from the site spent minutes trying to find out. For a couple of seconds I only saw the "Buy now" button and I though "Buy what the fuck?" Really annoying design.
Well, that is awesome. Thanks for the link!
>The proposed solution isn’t optimal but it works. Not sure what you think is wrong with it?

Consider the input “ba”

This solution will return “ab”, which is not a strong that can be generated by deleting characters from the input.
Can anyone here comment on actually using a Comma product?

I don’t even drive a car, but I don’t see why anyone would buy something like this yet. My point being that it’s not full self driving, and frankly its safety is entirely questionable.

Self driving is supposed to make driving less stressful, but does having a system like this actually do that? Or does it make you more stressed because you have to be conscious of the computer?

Don’t get me wrong, I like what George Hotz is trying here, but what incentive is there to be an early adopter?
> Well, now that it's all blown up, the pilots should know not to trust the system, and challenge it.

That they should in no way proves that they do. Computer programmers build all sorts of foot-guns with the idea that they'll be clever enough to avoid them in the future. I expect pilots are a little more humble and self-aware than that, but they're still human.
All valid points but this is very personal, no one can answer this. This question alone requires you to meditate on your personal preferences. "I can still keep up coding, but should I do that, or try for management?"
Comma and Tesla do driver assist, neither are self-driving.
I have an ex-coworker who did a consulting contract for Apple Air Pods Pro design.

You will not believe how low key was that project. It could've easily been a design from an average if not a lower tier OEM.
This website is so self-obsessed it can't just tell you what the hell the product is.
I agree. Perhaps this is best flagged?
Apps crash a lot.
I don't think we are at any risk of living in too sterile an environment. If anything, the knowledge that at least 1/3 of people don't wash their hands after they poop... is just one of the lovely ways we get exposed to a lot of interesting "biological matter".

Practically everything we touch in public has someone else's complex human fecal matter on it, plus stuff from other sources.
The trope of self-referential paradoxes as the foundation for grander proofs has always bugged me. My gut always says "sure, but what if we just banned self-referential paradoxes?"
Password fields are broken in Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome Flashback Metacity), when using Firefox's Sync feature, (and without add-ons).

This was a problem in recent versions, and is still a problem in version 72.
Searching brings up the error:

This page isn’t working
www.edutube.org is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
That's not surprising. Absolute truth doesn't exist in the real world. Why do you expect humans to be born with innate knowledge of something that is impossible?
For example everything breaking and electrical arcs from outlets. In the early days of the telegraph we did not understand ground currents or the difference in ground potential over geographic distances, and it would occasionally cause large, lethal discharges from the wires. This would occur with zero warning.

Ground current means that there is a potential difference between two points. Over large distances a small current will lead to extremely large voltage differences. Wires over the same distance will have very low voltage differences (since they are low resistance), so the wire will be the same voltage as the place it was last referenced to ground. That may be very different from the ground or people at a different location.

This can be particularly important in improperly wired homes, which can have small voltages on a floating ground. Ground currents will cause that voltage to become much larger.

> The James Bay network went offline in less than 90 seconds, giving Quebec its second massive power outage in 11 months.[10] The power failure lasted nine hours and forced the company to implement various mitigation strategies, including raising the trip level, installing series compensation on ultra high voltage lines and upgrading various monitoring and operational procedures. Other utilities in North America and Northern Europe and elsewhere implemented programs to reduce the risks associated with geomagnetically induced currents (GICs).[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service

It is true, and it is indeed a pretty decent deal. $49 over the course of a few years is imo a reasonable price I am willing to pay for this. They also have a similar reasonably-priced battery replacement program for iPhones as well.
He was born in 55, so I imagine we're talking more about the 70s. And yeah, not being arrested for doing illegal drugs is a privilege. And according to his wiki article, he ended up with the parents he did because they promised to send him to college; education was at the heart of the decision-making there.

>He had a wonder years middle class life.

In the middle of the tech revolution's ground zero. In fact, being on a lower rung of the upper-middle class ladder might have been protective, in that he had access, but not too much access. In other words, enough resources (that most Americans of the time did not have) to get off the ground, without being tracked into less risky, more conventional, still lucrative work.
Cause and effect?

Would you say it was foolish for the House Democrats to vote to impeach knowing full well the Senate would never convict?
Arson has been stable for 24 months to September 2019, it's a shame the data capture stops there. It's made up to deflect.

https://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Documents/RCS-Quarterly/NSW_Re...

crime / 2018 / 2019 / Trend

Arson / 5,692 / 4,934 / Stable
Also note, parliament just declared all US military to be terrorist organizations, which might include contractors like SV tech giants

That’ll wake some people up
You’re not addressing the list of problems resulting from the use of this tacked-on feature.

Also, Git continues to be taught with the switch-in-place method by default.

I’m not saying it is impossible to get a Fossil-like workflow with Git, just that there are consequences from that not being the default.
Have you tried LastPass yet? Their basic offering is free and offers cloud sync and backups.
Or, perhaps, because you enjoy playing with “hot new tech”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1214695235906... minor snowy day(-1C in DC from weather.com), pentagon not fully staffed. Iraq first war put CNN on spotlight. Amazing today how much information playing out/available near real time
I think rather than focus on your problem of not knowing, I would suggest you take stock of what you do know and find value in that. You mentioned that you started out at the bottom and have worked your way up, maybe it's time to pay forward the opportunity that was given to you. Find someone that is just starting out and give them a boost, maybe help them understand something they are struggling with.

IMHO Nothing will make you feel better, and also reinforce your understanding than helping someone else learn something you know. I would also look to someone higher up than yourself and reach out for help in learning something your having trouble with, most people will go the extra mile to share their knowledge for the reason I gave above.
> Yes, by removing the headphone jack on high-end phones, just like Apple did.

No, this is clearly incorrect. As I said in my original comment, there were water-resistant phones with headphones jacks years before Apple released one without a headphone jack, and there are ones being released now as well. While Samsung removed a headphone jack for a generation of their flagship phones, the generations before and after were both water-resistant as well. Samsung's newest releases (S10 Lite and Note10 Lite) both have headphone jacks and are water-resistant.

From years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-if-samsung-and-sony-...
that /dev/random must be better than /dev/urandom because it blocks until there's "enough" entropy (where "enough" is a huge misnomer and not really something you need as long as you're using a modern OS)
"comma two is designed for permanent installation in your car."

Okay, what's it do?

"We’ve added an infrared camera to provide 24/7 driver monitoring, an integrated panda, a custom cooling solution, and an OBD-C port with power supplied directly from the car."

Great, so it monitors cars... For what? Quick movements? What's a panda? I'd be interested if I knew what it was.

"comes with three free months of comma prime"

So the 1000$ onboard computer that does something comes with a free* subscription.

They need a total marketing rework, can't imagine the sales they've already lost.
Mass market cool not nerd cool.
Using misleading images gives climate change deniers justification for their skepticism. One might think that doesn't matter because those people would never believe anyway but there are plenty of people on the fence who are going to see this false information about the scope of the fires as proof that those speaking about climate change are dishonest and have a hidden agenda. Credibility matters.
Association Between Antibiotic Use in Infancy and Childhood Allergies
Results are cached, but the main reason the example “works” is because the playground has GOMAXPROCS set to 1, meaning only a single goroutine will be running at any given point.
What is "OBD-C"? Did the appropriate the USB-C connector for an OBD connection for some reason?
OBD-II Interface Dongle

https://github.com/commaai/panda

https://comma.ai/shop/products/panda-obd-ii-dongle
You know what doesn’t have that problem ever? Wired headphones. God I hate that they’ve removed the headphone jack.
When somebody installs Linux on their computer without knowing what they are doing they might make break their computer. When somebody tries to install after-market self-driving equipment in their car without knowing what they are doing they could easily kill people.