skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This blog focuses more on computer gaming than console gaming,

That's true, but on the other hand the article quotes a Sierra executive as saying:

> “What we think of today as a computer or a videogame system,” wrote Ken Williams of Sierra that year, “will someday assume a much broader role in our homes. I foresee a day when there is one home-entertainment device which combines the functions of a CD-audio player, VCR, videogame system, and computer.”

... which exactly describes a console. Not quite the consoles of the late 90s, but 2000's Playstation 2 was price-competitive with stand-alone DVD players. It feels selective to lament the path of the game-industry as a whole while defining that industry to exclude the systems that look like the supposedly-unfulfilled prediction above.

Perhaps this is just a problem of context, since I'm coming to this series of articles in medias res through with this 'part 5' link.

> There is a bit of a tendency to overlook sports games in most "gaming" discussion, I'd say, despite their significant popularity, but they've also never been as much of a force on the PC as on consoles or arcade.

Honestly, I think if we're going to name overlooked genres, the elephant in the room is the hidden-object genre. These games aren't often included on _lists of games_, but as I understand it they're quite popular and profitable, especially on mobile platforms.
SpaceX is valued at $36B, times 7.5% would be $2.7B for google's stake. Divide by google's market cap of $973B and you get 0.29%.

Investing $100 into Google to put 29 cents on SpaceX doesn't seem efficient. SpaceX could double in value, and the effect on the Google stock price would still be indistinguishable from noise.
They don't believe the police can be reformed. They believe the system is irreparably and irredeemably rotten to the core and that the only solution is to burn it all down.

This shouldn't be a controversial concept, as it's what many Americans already seem to believe about their own government.
I spoke with Eric a few months ago to help give a few pointers when he was considering the idea for this movie. He saw some of the media surrounding "Monero Means Money," our film that we put together from idea to theaters in a week. I explained how I cold called theaters who were very willing to show unusual movies at this time while they have essentially no revenue.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgewky/how-a-random-guy-m...

For us, getting a movie on the charts was more of a logistics challenge than anything, and I assume it was the same for him. Congrats to Eric and everyone else involved for topping the charts!
A fixed wireless ISP can be as fast and stable as a fiber connection or as slow as a 90s-era DSL ISP. The main problem is scaling - as you add customers, you have more users competing for a limited spectrum. To accommodate this, you have to use TDMA and other multiplexing strategies which reduce throughput and increase latency.

It's been a long time since I had to use satellite, but I'd happily take even the most oversubscribed WISP out there over satellite internet.
I guess my question is, if you're raising money not-for-a-campaign but on issues, how are you then going to use that money for explicit advocacy for a candidate's election, where limits actually kick in. Isn't that the whole point of 'superpac' style 527s - that they don't do that and are thus not subject to those regulations? Can you talk a bit about this? 'Vote for this person' is precisely the type of ad these orgs don't make because their financing is regulated.
I run an instance of Selfoss. I found this thread because selfoss polls hackernews via https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=1
If you wanted arbitrary HTML content in the hexagons, would you be able to use SVG? I know you could hack together similar output since SVG supports images, links, text formatting, etc., but I can see people liking the idea of the hexagonal containers being plain divs that you can put whatever content you want into.
That makes no sense. Apple didn't create the market segment, but because those people choose to use iPhone, you can't sell them an email service that doesn't work on iPhone.

If 80% of people making more than $100k a year use iPhones and Apple disappeared, the market segment of people making more than $100k a year wouldn't disappear.
That it would likely not be entirely useless. Not saying it's the best use of the money.
Agree. But another thing I must point out is that pure mathematics is an example of ‘doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff’ and it has had an incredibly long lasting influence, with physicists turning to pure mathematics research to aid with their own problems.

The solution just has to be a perfect fit with the problem to become practical in industry. We often do not see the practicality of such abstract ideas until they are abundant in use.
Did he? All I can find is that it was a SEP-IRA : https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/08/03...

"At the time, Mr. Romney was not able to use a Roth IRA to make these investments because his income tax bracket exceeded the allowable threshold."
Postgres, as an App (with one-click deploys to AWS and Heroku)
I'm not advocating for or against, but one big difference is that with a mnemonic you don't need access to your password manager to be able to log in somewhere.
Has Musk ever talked about what the plans will provide in terms of bandwidth?
Zoe: A new CLI tool for Apache Kafka
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Within Adevinta, we are heavy users of Apache Kafka. We built our own tooling around it. Recently, we open sourced one of these tools called Zoe. It's a high level command line tool to easily interact with Kafka. We use it heavily and it significantly optimized our workflow.

* Checkout the repository at: https://github.com/adevinta/zoe where you will find a screen cast that demo the tool.
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We will soon write an article about it.

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If it works as well as he is promising, he won't have to spend a dime, word will spread.
Yeah even their 20ms number, the first I saw of it was when they applied for some government money, it's possible that number didn't exist until someone saw the requirement on the paperwork ;)
I have heard quite different info from one man working at Apple supplier.

Apple for long tried to license display tech from Beijing university, a solid state microled chip with microlenses, but they never agreed on lump sump payment Apple wanted, despite it being "n-times the price" of their whole IP trading business.

So, it became a blocker, with relationship souring, and them resorting to "patenting around," poaching their engineers, and other nasties.

They tried to recreate the chip by themselves, but Beijing uni got a tip of it, and claimed that Apple is now "IP tainted" by what they saw under NDA, and them hiring their engineers.

And so, Apple went on developing "ordinary" transparent VR glasses instead.

A company called Kura is said now to reuse the same chip from Beijing university IC company in their own take on what Apple tried originally.
Great stuff, thanks!
I can only do as well as the debate and my debate partners allow. No offense intended; I am trying to ascertain the truth claims and justifications of my partner’s statements of fact and their position on the topic. I didn’t choose this topic, I just have standards of sourcing that may be unfamiliar to others. That’s why I asked for sources before continuing. I seek to figure out why we disagree, and what we disagree about and why. I can’t comment on why none were provided beyond the initial Wikipedia page, which is inconclusive on the topic of this discussion, making it a uniquely unhelpful source to use in a discussion of this ambiguity.
A couple of German film
Students recently made an Instagram web series [0] based on video calls in Corona times (subtitled).

[0] https://www.instagram.com/curfew_calls/
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Elements of Statistical Learning is a common entry point. I'd argue they are much closer than appears.

As a subfield in computer science, of course the concern has often been on algorithmic complexity and similar. But that is nascency exposed, in my view, and likely not representative of a fully mature field.

Armchair thought (not a historian of economics): I think Econometrics followed (and continues to follow) a similar evolution -- start with the goals (identification of model parameters, identifiability, KPIs), improve statistical validity and relevance, annotate dead ends or less common routes, continue on trucking.
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This is madness. I heard all the "Loads of tech spinoffs" argument while the LHC was being built and have yet to see or hear of anything. This cash would be far better spent getting a manned EU space program up and running. The EU is badly in need of something that everybody can get behind and see as a united vision for the future, not some machine that only an elite few can enjoy. Some other nation(s) should build the next colider.
> As a researcher, I have also thought about the similarities between starting a lab / research agenda and a startup, but this is a superficial analysis.

Yeah, academic research labs are strikingly similar to seed-stage start-ups (mid six/low seven annual burn for 3-20 employees laser focused on a particular vision). It's not at all surprising that the two career tracks attract similar types of people.
Sam Altman's mind will never be beyond doubt. It's in his skull, so we can never know it. I'm just focusing on the concrete, observable details. I'll let the psychologists argue about Altman's mind.
> The outcome of "breaking up advertising monopolies" can be achieved with existing anti-trust law, without cannibalizing an existing protection that benefits every UGC website large and small.

I don't think it requires cannibalizing existing protections in order prevent section 230 from being invoked in anti-trust cases. And for the record, I don't think I agree with all of the DOJ recommendations, but I think there may be room for improvement.

> A physical business can trespass you for any non-protected-class reason they want. Online, one should expect no different treatment.

I'm not entering into a legal agreement simply by entering a physical business. However, terms of service are a legal agreement. A lot of tech businesses seem to be under the impression that a TOS doesn't actual impose any obligations on them, but in fact it does.
One of the short sellers called BaFin's whistleblower hotline to report them the proof they had of the fraud.

- "[short seller] Do you speak english?"

* "[BaFin] Sure of course.

- "[short seller] I have proof of Wirecard's fraud..."

* "[BaFin - interrupting] Wirecard? Oh sorry no we don't speak english. [hang up]"

And that right there is indeed BaFin's fault. They are at best negligent and at worst a malicious entity, that has scammed many investors out of a lot of money.
i mean, you can always mine bitcoin...
Your bank probably can probably set up monthly-automatic transfers.
Changing the rules hurts all developers who already abide by them.

There's no problem with the rules. people are just entitled and think the only reason their adtech shovelware is failing is because of Apple, who is an easy target. A big baddie.
People are usually pretty willing to help when they are in a secure position. But when you start assuming a lot of risk to help someone, outright foolishness is harder to stomach.

You might say when offering help saddles you with risk, it accelerates compassion fatigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue)
? At this writing, the full comment is:

> Awesome! People can now use standard tools for adding malware into stolen archives! /s

But the most charitable reading I can think of is that you could use BTFS to pirate something, and very slightly reduce the number of steps when modifying it? I guess? But that's no different than just using a normal torrent client and then modifying the files once downloaded. It's just a different interface.

So... what context am I missing?
This is the intuition I have: In algebra, a function or operator f(x) is generally thought of as linear if f(a * x + b * y) = a * f(x) + b * f(y). A linear function f(x) can only "use" x once in a multiplication. For example, the function f(x) = 1 is not linear (f(1+1) != f(1)+f(1)) as it only uses x zero times[0]. Similarly, the function f(x) = x * x is not linear. On the other hand, if x is only used once (after factoring), the function can be linear. Indeed, f(x) = k * x satisfies the linearity condition so long as k does not "use" x. Note that this is obviously not a sufficient condition, it's just an intuition.

[0]: this requires you to discard the intuition that a linear function looks like a line when plotted.
Chinese AI system turns drawings into realistic human faces
VW to develop its own operating system but dodges question about ID.3 software
It also blocks JS.
Feb this year. Not old.
What I mean is, most people don't think. They get their philosophy second-hand. So the philosophical ideas of today take decades to affect the thinking of enough people to move the needle of politics.

> When a group starts arguing for something you don't like from philosophical principles, you'll regret not addressing their arguments earlier.

Absolutely. And yet it is also true that, if you want to move the bulk of people today, you have to start from a point that fits within their existing philosophical framework.
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There's another study in Nature that shows that there are barely-detectable antibodies which have a very potent neutralizing activity (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2456-9). Key passage from the abstract:

> Thus, most convalescent plasmas obtained from individuals who recover from COVID-19 do not contain high levels of neutralizing activity. Nevertheless, rare but recurring RBD-specific antibodies with potent antiviral activity were found in all individuals tested, suggesting that a vaccine designed to elicit such antibodies could be broadly effective.
Yep. Don’t use it for smaller projects. You can. But why. It’s designed for scale issues. Just cause you can doesn’t mean you should haha. I’m not using it on any personal projects because there’s no actual need for it. I’ve got it in production. Replaced tag management, personalization, configs, no page reloads between apps.

I’d argue that MF simplified tooling and gives us back simple import capabilities. At least compared to everything else I’ve tried in the past 10 years
13gb for $67? What the hell. I thought I had a great plan at 6 gbs for $55. I remember everyone getting the 10gb for $60 deal a while back but I missed out on that one.
I'm not sure clients actually download rarest-first. It's supposed to be random.

From The BitTorrent Protocol Specification, http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html:

> Downloaders generally download pieces in random order, which does a reasonably good job of keeping them from having a strict subset or superset of the pieces of any of their peers.

However clients can certainly choose to download in whatever order they wish. Like Popcorn Time.
Tailscale now allows blocking incoming connections
Vim as Python IDE
A single great circle isn't a great way to model an orbit because it won't take into account the precession of the earth. It's a bit more accurate (but still not quite right) to say that that the constellation covers every single great circle with the same value of theta. In other words, it covers any part of the earth with equal or lower latitude.

However that's a bit of a simplification that ignores things like the need for ground stations, local laws (I will be astounded if they're allowed to broadcast over China), gaps in their orbital shells (such gaps probably don't actually exist, I haven't looked carefully at their orbits), local obstructions like mountains/valleys, etc
Wow, that site really misses a demo (which does not require giving them my email address). Ironically the same way as Makespace misses a way to try out the advertised features.
Yeah that makes sense. As far as I was aware only the low-tier dmp/cross-device/measurement vendors did, but all the top tier dsps vetted their vendors and don't allow that.
Every torrent client I've used recently has an "enable sequential download" option. The only torrents this would realistically affect are maybe ones where the seeder may go offline when a bunch of clients have been doing sequential downloads and no one has the final parts of the content.
Tesla Is Now the World’s Most Valuable Automaker
>If we took this argument and extended it, no business would survive.

You can "extend" any argument to an absurd extreme.

>This is like saying Toyota has a monopoly on it's car transmissions. of course it does - it decides what transmission goes in. Your idea would force it to accept all manufacturers of transmissions.

It's more like if Toyota installed a radio that blocked transmission of all radio shows that didn't pay a percent of advertising revenue to Toyota.

If they did that did that, people would complain and regulation would be an entirely possible, even likely outcome.
The primary reason why I haven't started using Tailscale yet is there was no easy way to enable one-way connectivity on some machines without paying for ACLs ($20/mo minimum).

For example, I want my primary PC to be able to access all remote Tailscale servers, but I don't want any of them to be able to access my PC. It's now possible. From their newsletter I just got:

Tailscale v0.99 & Shields Up
About a week ago we released Tailscale v0.99 (full release notes). v0.99 includes more bug fixes and a new feature we’ve been calling “shields up.”

Tailscale can be used many ways, but it’s commonly used to connect to web servers, Raspberry Pis, build servers, or other headless “utility” devices.

You want to connect to these devices, but just because they're on your network doesn't mean you don't want to let these devices connect to you.

This new feature lets any device put its “shields up” and reject all incoming connections over Tailscale. Outgoing connections will still work fine, so your personal computer can continue to SSH to your servers who don't have their shields up, but all incoming connections will be blocked.

You can enable this feature from Tailscale's menu bar icon, or by using --shields-up flag on Linux.

Read more about “shields up” here

(Network admins can enforce network-wide connection restriction, including blocking specific ports or allowing particular user groups with our ACL features)

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/releases/tag/v0.99.0

https://tailscale.com/kb/1072/incoming-connections

https://tailscale.com/kb/1018/acls
> You’re changing the subject.

Um, no? I agree the subject of this conversation is whether Twitter is liable for libel.

> So no, this was not libel. Nowhere close.

OK, so that's a an answer to my question as to whether it exposes Twitter to libel. Thanks!
This could be very useful for police sketch artists.
I would ask you to read my partner’s comments again. They are self-replying and mixing up comment replies between different comment chains. Their comments are not germane to the discussion. It feels like the entire thread is being trolled. I don’t feel bad for trying to debate in good faith.
Yes. Typo :(
There is none yet, but there is enough material for a Netflix mini-series.
In 1992 the bus was inhabited by 24-year-old adventurer Chris McCandless, who eventually died of starvation.
...
The 1940s bus was brought to the remote trail about 60 years ago by a road crew, Mr Walker said.

Interesting so the fella didn't bring it, just serendipitously found and inhabited it for the shelter it provided? Did he die in the bus itself?
Yeah, I really liked the concept, but when we tried it 2 years ago or so it had several bugs regarding never getting a notification although it should and showing me that I have a new message although everything was read. We reported them but nothing changed. And all team members had these problems. Probably they have fixed them now but we unfortunately we switched to slack and now it is very unlikely we switch back due to these serious problems.
Fascinating research! I wonder where it was conducted and whether or not the result would vary between countries. I think in the United States there's a pervasive belief that the wealthy deserve their wealth because they earned it through hard work and/or personal merit. The counterpoint to this must be that poor people are undeserving because they don't work hard or because they lack merit.
Interesting, it sounds like I should read the book.

For what it's worth, the "death wish" thing wasn't meant to be pejorative -- maybe I should have used a different term. I like your "life-wish" phrasing better, thank you for that perspective.
The downside is not touched upon, however: losing access to an mfa account because the mfa is lost. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Losing a phone, wiping a phone, changing phone number, losing a hardware access key, losing recovery keys (if they're even provided, many times they are not), etc. It's inconvenient too, especially for sites that require it on every log in and whose sessions were short lived (aws). Or refreshing everything when the mfa changes including codes. I have almost 500 logins in my password manager. That's 500 potential mfa code generators and 500 sets of restoration keys. All I'd have to manage manually (pw manager can help with the keys but it's all manual).
Coronavirus: A false rumour led to hate online
In my part of Marin County, they use a bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis, to control the mosquitoes. There are enough mosquitoes so that you'll get bit if sit in one spot long enough, but I don't recall ever getting bit while walking.
How to spot a good online course
Anyone knows how much production of these solar panels pollutes environment and how many years they need to work to compensate for the pollution resulted in their production?
Substance Alchemist: using AI to synthesize textures from photographs
The reasoning is sort of a technical analogy. Linear Logic was discovered by an analysis of the structure of Coherent Spaces, which are a model of Intuitionistic logic distilled from Scott domains. Jean-Yves Girard realized that function spaces A => B can be decomposed into two finer constructions as !A -o B where `A -o B` is a space of functions whose properties resemble linear functions between vector spaces and `!A` resembles the Fock space construction on a vector space.

There are two ways this resemblance manifests.

First off, the basic elements of a coherent space are called cliques which are analogous to vectors in a vector space. The functions constituting the coherent space A => B preserve directed unions of cliques but the linear functions of A -o B preserve arbitrary unions of cliques which is strongly analogous to preserving arbitrary linear combinations of vectors.

Second off is that you can build a symmetric monoidal category out of coherent spaces and vector spaces are the archetypal symmetric monoidal category. There are models of fragments of Linear Logic where the linear functions are literally polynomials of degree 1, but in its full generality it doesn't quite match exactly with linear algebra.

Nonetheless the metaphor goes deep and you can even capture notions of differentiability in extensions to the logic.

For a technical exposition you can read this paper by a guy who's applying this sort of stuff to machine learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2650 I apologize if this is all too obscure to justify the name. Linear Logic's applications to programming were sort of secondary to its proof theoretic novelty at its inception.