skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game consoles are not an important part of almost the entire population. Smartphones are. Hence, they get more visibility. Moreover, smartphones tend to be more critical in our lives. Hence, they get more priority.

Hence, people might not have thought it was worth it / important before, but they do now.
Just because you have a gun that shoots portals, in first person, doesn't make Portal an FPS. I intentionally worded this to make my argument weaker.
I predict that drivers would then be required to retrofit a monitoring device in order to be road legal. Oregon already experimented with GPS tracking as an alternative to paying the gas tax.
Airbus developed a font to be used in their avionics displays called B612. I don't find the results particularly pleasing, but the intended use (cockpit instrumentation) is not part of my day-to-day life.

https://b612-font.com/
They probably just put that on there for marketing. I highly doubt it will happen in practice. It's as ridiculous as stating that a nursing problem will be 50% male, it's just not going to happen. People are slowly starting to awake up (again) to the fact that men and women are biologically wired differently and will generally pursue different things in life, and that that is OK.
Denigrating aphorisms that have survived both millenia & civilizations 'obvious statistical anomalies in fancy wording' is to my eyes as baiting a comment as you could write...maybe I am out of tone with this community then.

HN would do far better to ban viral spreading behaviors than to ban the fever, as snark is reactively to smarm.

http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
I remember when CH was just a site where people uploaded funny pics, and once in a while they had a well-written article. How far they came - sad to see them shut down.
Which is a bit weird since .NET Core has standardized on the open source SignalR, which is really good. It would make more sense to build on top of that.
The usefulness of money is that it gives you more free time between now and death. And yes, tuition is a killer. So is lost earning potential as you go through school instead of working. As for creativity and mental exercise, I think law is way closer to engineering than medicine, which imho is one of the professions that's going to be automated away sooner rather than later. The job of a doctor is at least partly to memorize a bunch of rules that take symptoms as input and return a diagnosis. Why is that not a python script?
Has anyone prevented him from standing on a soapbox in the park? If not, then he still has a perfectly available avenue for his hate speech
The TLDR is that they implemented a policy requiring the use of made-up pronouns for imaginary sexes. One person was fired, seemingly for being woke but not woke enough. Many others quit.
TensorFlow 2.0 Frozen Graph
The fact you have it out there and shipped is what matters.
Ex-Game dev here: shipped many titles on console (AAA and some zzz titles).

When comes time to shipping a game, the crunches, pressure and overall stress is through the roof. Most everything goes at that point: duct tape, hot glue, bobby pins and toad spit. And if you disagree with management over these 'not so best practices' (in order to ship faster...) they will find someone to do it and you could be out of a job.

That being said I would not trade my time in that industry for anything else. It's basically the BUDs of programming (of course I'm biased)

Good times!
This is very true.
I created an open source framework to help developers build scalable real-time systems and I tried to focus on multiplayer games at one point; I thought it would be a good idea to ride the wave of web-based multiplayer .io games by targeting those developers but I ended up realizing that they're better off just using raw WebSockets. My framework could only help in terms of producing the initial prototype.

The profit margins on ad-sponsored web-based multiplayer games are paper thin. They don't care about code structure or cleanliness at all. If someone can make fugly code that performs 10% better, that can make the difference between a profit or a loss or it can mean doubling profits/earnings from the game.

This is very different from most software businesses where even a solution that performs 10x worse is still acceptable if it makes for cleaner code that is easier to maintain and can handle changing requirements better.

Micro-optimizations and clean code are mutually exclusive IMO. Like for example, people may be tempted to send JSON objects with nice descriptive properties like 'direction', 'keyCode', etc... But in the end it's faster to just send a raw string or binary packet without any property names; just pass raw integers directly in a certain order and the receiver decodes the message assuming a certain order. This is extremely inflexible at the protocol level but it performs really well (I.e. you can't easily add new properties later or make some of them optional without breaking the current protocol).
Step 1.

Move to a country where organising is legally protected.
With the share of the online spreadsheet market google has, I think they should not be allowed to buy any startup in this market.
Have you considered that some people might choose their career based on something other than money? The sentence "med students should probably do law instead" strikes me as very very odd; they are such wildly different occupations that unless your sole consideration is money I'd say most med students would never want to do law, and most law students would never want to do medicine.
I wonder if anyone here has experienced something similar: I have a Samsung Evo 860 SSD. Sometimes after powering on my desktop the BIOS either "forgets" the drive (sets some other drive as primary boot drive) or doesn't recognize it at all.

The non recognition issue goes away after I power off and power on.

It's been this way for about 8 months. Happens every 1/15 times I power on. I've heard it may have something to do with "sleep mode" or something like that. I always shutdown via software though.
See also companies/products such as Anonos BigPrivacy[0] which claim to provide a software solution which somehow still allows you to perform analytics on user data while magically ticking all privacy compliance laws for you.

Pretty hard to interrogate without actually seeing the technical details / implementation, but I strongly suspect this is not really following the intent of regulation (but instead playing a shell game to extract revenue and allow players to navigate through the field for a while until it all unravels).

[0] - https://www.anonos.com/company
Can't find anything either, not sure if there is. On the other hand, they seem to reference research done around "Recursive InterNetwork Architecture" (RINA). Publication page is at [0]. Maybe also of interest some other RINA implementations: [1], [2].

[0] http://www.pouzinsociety.org/research/publications

[1] https://irati.github.io/stack/

[2] https://github.com/rlite/rlite
Now everyone has a TV in their pockets with infinite ads. IG, FB, Tinder, etc.
I'm guessing maybe both. I don't see why my dealer would want someone else trying to sell me a warranty extension; that competes directly with the dealer.
As someone who really wants to use this stuff, I just want mommy and daddy to stop fighting. I personally lean towards a SPIR-V approach for a number of reasons, including faster shader compilation and a more unified ecosystem. I also see the advantages of a high level text format, but feel like that could get polyfilled in 100k or so of wasm in the most important cases.

But it's clear that either approach can work. From what I'm seeing so far, flipping a coin and doing "disagree and commit" would be a healthier process than what's going on right now.
Before they started posting native video on Facebook, their Facebook page consisted of links to stuff posted on the CollegeHumor website. Fans would share CollegeHumor posts to their own timeline, and their friends would click on the links and go to CollegeHumor's site and partake in the community, and if they liked it enough, they'd bookmark the website and just go there.

But with native video, you don't get that. What happens on Facebook stays on Facebook. People who watch a video on Facebook might like the video or even leave a comment, but they won't follow through and go to CollegeHumor's website. When they're done with the video, they'll just continue scrolling through their feed.
The CSS of this site manages to making reading this article equality inconvenient and painful on both Mobile and Desktop.
Perhaps consider opening it up in a limited fashion to start? See if you can find some vetted contributors first, and then work towards eventually open sourcing the whole thing once you feel it's in a better place and it's been (sort of) peer-reviewed for bugs etc..

There are plenty of people looking to get into the games industry, and working on a shipped/existing project can be much less daunting than building your own thing. It might take a bit of time but I'm sure you could find some collaborators, maybe through game jams or meetups?

Also, everyone writes messy code. I wouldn't stress too much about that part.

p.s. Congrats on shipping it! :-)
Toy Zone Australia: Playing for Time Case Analysis (2009)
How Can AI Systems Understand Human Values?
Looks like their site is having some issues
Since both platform forbid straight up buying likes and subscribers that would be a hard line to argue against any of them.
Is there a good replacement to SE yet? I also don't really support SE's changes, but it doesn't sound like there's a viable competitor to switch to.
This sounds like decentralized recruiting.
The routing algorithm can be chosen in every layer, as addressing is per layer. We didn't reinvent the algorithms. So it would still be link state, distance vector, geometric routing, ... Since the addressing is internal to the layer, you probably won't have the same issues with geometric routing as currently in TCP/IP.

Ouroboros can run over the current internet so you can reuse existing hardware, but the end goal is to get rid of TCP/IP. We have layers over L1 and L2. In lab setups we never run it over TCP/IP.
All it takes is an influx of aggressive users. "community feel" is a delicate thing.
Wow a 3440 line switch statement for processing game state!

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV/blob/master/desktop_...
I do, but the issue is also true for HCC, as the damage is often quite diffuse and less amenable to resection (DOI- not a liver doctor)
That’s actually a really hip design trend. I have seen this at places in the Bay Area. It looks very “authentic”
Anyone know how TRIM works with Linux?

I find myself copying entire partitions between SSDs from time to time, is there a utility to clear the destination SSD before copy?

Is it possible to do the same for an SD card, so that writing a new Raspi OS to it doesn't do unnecessary garbage collection?
There's also Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/

...which contains all texts up to 400 characters.
Another example, Apartheid South Africa got TV in 1976, six months later the riots started, coincidence? I think as soon as black people in South Africa could see how black people in America lived, they truly realized how bad they had it. Here it contributed to the undoing of an unjust government, so it's not always a force for evil.

I think the most dangerous thing to North Korea is western media. I know the South Koreans like to float DVDs over on balloons and things, but the US would be smart to get into that in a big way.
What I meant was the pure engine without any additional managment once running was able to sustain itself.

It's one of the last types of Mercedes which were meant to go through WWIII and back.
There is CoqHammer[1] and ProverBot[2] for going even further - proving the theorems.

[1] https://github.com/lukaszcz/coqhammer

[2] https://github.com/UCSD-PL/proverbot9001
You can copy a font (as in, design another font that looks exactly like the original) and then do whatever you want. I think people call that tracing a font, and is very common with Helvetica, of which a lot of alternate fonts have made "clones" of.

But If I take a font file someone else made, not one I created myself to look like it, then its a whole other story. The font industry is cutthroat and quite lawyer happy, too (which is why tracing them to make your own is so popular...and brutally expensive if you hire a contractor to do it for you). You still usually come up ahead if you're a big company though by making your own.
Firebase is a collection of services. This seems to be an alternative to the Firebase Realtime Database specifically
Advertising used to be about listing the benefits of the product. Edward Bernays turned that on its head and made it about molding the public's psyche to make them see material goods as a form of identity, i.e. independent women who exercise their right to vote demonstrate their independence by publicly smoking cigarettes.

> Bernays touted the idea that the "masses" are driven by factors outside their conscious understanding, and therefore that their minds can and should be manipulated by the capable few. "Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Public relations != advertising.

Ed Bernays != spokesperson for all PR professionals.

There are shady people in every industry.
A very basic nuclear reactor can be explained pretty simply I think. You enrich a bunch of let's say uranium. Pack it together in a rod, and put a bunch of those rods in a pond. Those rods have controlled (ideally) nuclear decay from their being in close proximity to other rods which generates a lot of heat, which is transferred to a separate cooling loop that boils water to make steam which drives an electric turbine.

Now I'm no nuclear scientist so please be forgiving with that description, but that's how I understand them to work :)

I can't even begin to explain how an SSD works, but I know there are no moving parts besides electrons.

edit: moved the "(ideally)"
The line is actually closer to "we're not a secret society, we're a society with secrets."

Basically, it means that we're not a shadow organization that cloaks all it does in secrecy. Rather, we are a public organization that guards some internal knowledge behind closed doors and cyphers.
> But aspiration is also why we invented the wheel, harnessed fire, founded fancy schools like Harvard, try to be good parents, etc.

Excluding fancy schools (which I believe aren't exactly a good thing), none of those things were inspired by "aspiration" in the sense being used here. They were inspired by genuine need.

> I consider that a good thing even if it comes at the cost of a decrease in personal happiness.

We could not possibly disagree more. I think it is straight-up immoral for anyone to intentionally make another's life worse in order to sell them stuff.

> Advertising isn't inherently bad, any more than aspirations are inherently bad. It boils down to what's being advertised and how honest the ads are about it.

We agree here. Advertising, in the form that advertisers tend cite to people who are critical of advertising (informing people about products) is not inherently bad.

However, the vast majority of advertising isn't of that form at all. It's of the form of manipulating people instead. That's the sort of advertising that is terrible.
Is raising taxes preferable though? In the present scenario, taxes are lower, because the government is making up for it by selling my info to marketeers, who then try to sell me crap I don't want. I don't buy any of it, but a percentage of my more-gullible neighbors do. So, in effect, the more gullible citizens are subsidizing the smarter or at least more frugal ones. Alternatively, if the government stopped selling info and jacked up taxes, I'd lose out on this subsidization. I don't see how this is really a benefit to me. Basically, it amounts to a "stupid tax".
I don't disagree with your opinions on Apple and their products but what in your list of bad things about them is actually illegal?

Apple's products are overpriced and underpowered, locked down devices sold as fashion statements or 'lifestyle' accessories that are more like toys for rich people than the miniature computers they're supposed to be.

There is nothing illegal about selling rich people toys or dumbing down a device to make it appeal to a certain type of customer.

I have never really cared for Apple products in general and also think they are over priced for what you get but for me that just means I don't buy them, I don't really begrudge them making money off a customer base I just don't fit into.
I believe all major OSes support trim in a reasonable way now. afaik it needs hardware support though, so idk how it would work for an SD card.
Even in a reference counted or RAII environment, you still have to think about this. Your C++ function might do something with a file (or other resource) and then a bunch of other stuff, or vice-versa. If you care about holding that resource open for as little time as possible, you need to consciously introduce a new anonymous scope where the resource object and operations are contained (or, of course, you could break it out into another function).
Over the past couple of years, I've found it useful to shell out the ~$10/month for a Squarespace site and host my content there.

Wordpress is great too, though isn't as plug-and-play as you might expect.

I would avoid the temptation to build & host your own site, as your goal is to _blog_, not code.

Also, consider capturing email addresses and sending all of your new posts to your subscribers.

It's very motivating to see a small, but growing list of people who want you send them everything you write.

Here's the simple design I use if you want to replicate it: https://stewfortier.com/subscribe (it gets about a 30% conversion rate)

Happy writing!
Working with Fanium.com
SPARQL?
All this invasion of privacy and still little evidence that user targeted advertising is substantially more effective than simple content based advertising.
I'll take that over a feature that just gets abused for all kinds of things and will create breakage which makes users just go elsewhere because it's broken.

It is ridiculous for every website to be babysitting their users software, when we already have operating systems that keep software up to date, package managers that keep software up to date, and software that keeps itself up to date.

If I need to make a really important website that can't lose users like that, I just need to make damn sure it works with any relevant browser without any UA sniffing hacks that will bite back down the line.

If I'm making some bleeding edge crap that really needs a bleeding edge browser, I'm sure I can find a place for that sentence where most users will find it, and if I lose a few users, it probably isn't that big of a deal. Chances are I'd lose more users anyway due to many not wanting or being able to update for any number of reasons.
CollegeHumor is blaming this on Facebook for faking viewership numbers.

This isn't the first time Facebook killed culture, and it won't be the last.

We really need to de-platform or find a way Facebook can't steal value.
TBH, vulnerability is sad, but probably not worth the attention it gets. It is not an RCE, was not actively exploited ASAWK, and even if it would be, you would still need to fish the victim, or actively intercept communication to a legitimate server.
CES Surveillance Hype Worries Privacy Advocates
During the Hotline: Miami run this year the runner mentioned that on certain GPUs the game would crash unavoidably after 25 minutes due to a memory leak, and that if you wanted to increase the FPS you could plug in more mice.

None of that precluded it from being a great game, though.

https://youtu.be/aPnobTZfnfU
And in what universe would one find such a thing?
Thank you for what you do man! btw I'm curious, how do you convince (if at all) to come to your podcast to have a chat? And what's the process like from guest selection to actually recording the podcast to finally releasing it? Thanks once again!
Same experience for me. Text seems readable and can be easily followed at 250% zoom (at least for me)
What are those specific ties other than the company behind the project being located in China?
The big problem with erasing SSDs is that when you think you're overwriting something you're actually writing new blocks (because of the translation layer). How many iterations do you have to do before you're certain to have actually hit every physical block? Nobody knows. Maybe infinite. Non-zero data blocks might not be readable through the flash drive's front-end interface, but they're still sitting there on the actual NAND chips. That's why secure erase was added (and even that seems to be less than fully trustworthy).
Get ready for ads to get more annoying. The hidden benefit of using personalized data to target and track prospects was an advertiser could use "soft sell" to build a brand over time.

As that market gets shut off, we're back to aggressively using interruption marketing "shock jock" ads and auto-play video. Click now or forever hold your peace...

The problem with contextually targeted ads is there is no real guarantee of repetition and brand building...
Yes. Complaints are part of the Quality System Regulation that all device manufacturers selling in the US must abide by.
Insect Has the Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
>Law is way closer to engineering than medicine, which imho is one of the professions that's going to be automated away sooner rather than late

>The job of a doctor is at least partly to memorize a bunch of rules that take symptoms as input and return a diagnosis. Why is that not a python script?

"X is just a system! Why is this not automated?" is a common engineer mindset :) Unfortunately, X is just a system is only a good approximation if you don't actually understand much about what's going on. When you actually zoom in on the problem, the rough edges and hidden complexity start to become apparent, and your abstraction is no longer useful.

Computers are incredibly simple machines when compared to most messy real world systems, and we still have a heap of trouble dealing with them.
Has there been a similar dive into what Tesla collects?
That sounds like the drive is failing to initialize in time. Have you tried enabling a POST test or Boot Delay? I suspect the problem might magically go away if you do.
might be an innocent config issue, but this usually means the drive detection timed out during boot, which can be an early sign of drive failure. one of my old ssds behaved this way for a while before never being detected again. make sure you have anything important backed up.
> "The DMV lets drivers know about that. It's in the DMV privacy act. How many people are actually looking at that, I don't know. But it's there,”

This is not informed consent. Being available if someone is already aware enough to know where and how to acquire the information is not sufficiently informative. There is a duty to ensure that your counter-party is aware of the all eventualities to the transaction that could materially harm their quality of life.

I believe that for all transactions where a party is acquiring data for use beyond the direct fulfillment of the immediate service to the counter-party, the party acquiring the data should require informed consent from the counter-party. Further, in the case of a person transacting with government, with potentially some carful circumscription for aspects of law enforcement, I believe the state should additionally carry the data equivalent to a fiduciary duty for that transaction.