skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're really missing the point here. The core Matrix protocol doesn't handle contact discovery at all.

An entirely separate system exists to facilitate contact discovery. You have to explicitly choose to publish an identifier to it. You choose the server you want to publish to. You choose if, which, and when to query such servers. You choose what to query them with.

A server implementation can (in theory) support whatever arbitrary thing it wants to for an identifier. The fact that email addresses are commonly supported is already _significantly_ better than being forced to use a phone number.
Do go for it. Definitely worth it. Also once you've tried it far enough, try out the different "options"/"mods" to play.
That's a great point. I was mostly speaking about a common line of rhethoric specific to the US situation. There are certainly many interesting models outside of north america that ought to come to light more.

The employment security thing is something I sometimes see being argued as a weakness in the sense that it reinforces incumbents as opposed to promoting entrepreneurship (and indeed, the US being the polar opposite does show anedoctal evidence of strong entrepreneurship).

Even in the US, there are relatively common ways that companies provide stakeholdership (equity programs, for example). But I'm not convinced that this type of stakeholdership is necessarily aligned with the interests of the population at large. Unions, for example, are notorious for disruptive strikes.

IMHO, the gig economy falls into a weird area: drivers are technically independent and ought to be free to set their own prices, much like say freelance programmers can be sole proprietorships who are on the hook for their own healthcare expenses, but the ridesharing industry is extremely price sensitive, to the point drivers could easily put themselves out of work by increasing prices.

There are many lines of thought about how that dynamic ought to play out, ranging from "side gigs are just hustling between real jobs", to sacrificing some drivers in favor of allowing a subset to earn a higher minimum income, to the socialist "it's only fair if everyone gets the same treatment, even if it's not ideal for everyone", to the "this industry is important enough that government should subsidize no matter what" sort of thing you see in agriculture and many public transit systems. I'm not sure there's a right answer there.

> one guy in charge of the entire thing throws a tantrum

I think the model that makes the most sense here is the one in the name of the social safety net in Canada: employment insurance. Insurance in the traditional sense of the word: a collective pool of money from a diversified population which can be deployed systematically to bail out some subset of said population in rare emergencies. Naturally, in real life, that's not exactly how it works, especially in such large scale prolonged emergencies, but still, it's a model I like.
I think it depends on the type of game. It’s hard for me to imagine something like Celeste, Cave Story, or Journey coming about through the open source process. These games had very specific artistic visions, and I’m not sure how you’d execute that.

(A small team could perhaps release a game under an OSS license, but it wouldn’t be what we generally think of as open source development.)

...here’s the thing though: I don’t really games to be software. I mean, of course they are software in a literal sense, but then an Encyclopedia and Harry Potter are both books.
Would it be constitutional to have a law that a pastor can say whatever they want from the pulpit, but the church can spend no more than $500/year on the sound system?
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> You can't really choose freely how to interpret them

Of course, you can.

That first moment of gut feeling is outside the control of your consciousness, but after that, it's a choice.

You can tell yourself, and persuade yourself, that you don't know the why the other person ended a sentence with a period. Because, the fact is, you don't.

Not to mention that an ending period is quite commonly added by dictation software, so it's not even certain that the other person added it by choice.

Furthermore, the myriad of social cues usually emerge in a whole package. You get to see a whole face, or a whole body, with the words, said with human voice. That's significantly more data than the presence of a period.
Kind of an odd move to put yourself in the middle of this. It's obvious Apple doesn't want these apps on iOS's app store, so Microsoft and Google not fighting back is a sign that they're waiting to see how the Apple vs. Epic Games case plays out before deciding what to do next (or, for Google, it means they've already given up on Stadia - which I don't think anyone would be surprised about). Putting the effort in to make a viewer app is just asking to be taken down as soon as senior Apple personnel get wind of it.
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Charlotte's Web is also a literary masterpiece - definitely reread as an adult if you only remember it from your childhood. The Audible is narrated by EBW himself.
Never thought of doing that in a text file - I'm gonna give that a try
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The manufacturing process requires a lot of clean water. Racine built them a pipe directly to Lake Michigan to take all the fresh water they want for free. Dump the wastewater back in the farmland and you've got yourself a nearly free dystopia.
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I will say that some of the best gaming communities have an active modding scene, and ideally that scene is intentionally fostered by the gaming company. Elder Scrolls is the obvious example. It was made far better by the community, and that symbiosis created something better than either could've individually.

But the companies can produce something quite impressive without a community, whereas the reverse isn't true.

And the modding scene follows the same kind of trend where Total Conversions require an auteur, but the community as a whole can cooperate on unofficial patches, graphics overhauls, and the like.
Brilliant! I've always wondered the relationship between these two.
Rather than downvote me for pointing out how companies abuse this, explain how this is an improvement.
I've got Macs, ipads, Windows and Android at home and they all work without issue or additional setup with the Brother Wifi printer I have. None is better than any of the others, it's seamless with all of them. (Actually, thinking about it, I'm not sure I've ever printed from the ipads, since they're my kids' and I don't use them much, but the other three work fine).
These articles are always nonsense:

- The Chinese population is over 3x more than the US.

- Per-capita, the US makes far more income

- Real estate speculation is behind a lot of Chinese growth, where some of it real and a lot is bogus. China has had several bank failures reently because of this.

- The CCP tarnished China's mfg. reputation, and exports are down by 80 % in some cities in 2020. A lot of those factories are relocating home or to Vietnam/India/etc.

- half of their population makes $2/day, if they make anything (farmers are being short-changed, which is bizarre when considering China imports 30% of food even in good times, and that's between 50%-60% in the next year.) The CCP's average wealth targets have fallen apart, and those peasants subject to flood and locusts are ruined.
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If a state passed a law that corporations may not put a kosher or halal marking on foods they sell, would you find that law constitutional?

(Certainly it's not interfering with the corporation's freedom of religion interests, is it? Corporations don't practice religion!)

The problem here is that there's no simple or intuitive description of the solution we want besides "The right to free speech does not extend to the right to spend unlimited amounts of money on electioneering." (And that should apply to individuals just the same as corporations.) I'd wholeheartedly agree with that, but it needs a constitutional amendment - there isn't another way out.
Which sanctions specifically? Is there evidence that additional sanctions would have any effect?
To be clear, the law does limit contributions to campaigns. What they don't limit is third party organizations spending money on their own ads. Which is as it should be.
Briar has good traction, it's p2p
https://briarproject.org/
Yes, it's called "the press", and freedom of the press is explicitly protected by the government.
> I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.

I would hazard a guess that it's because the vast majority of people want a single login for a single app.

I know I certainly prefer the discord one account many servers approach over the slack one server one logon.

Obviously the 1:1 relationship makes sense for slack as it's targeted at businesses, a lot of whom use a centralised user directory of some kind (SSO/LDAP etc...) but having to create a new user/pass to join every discord server would get old very fast.
I don't understand why they even ask it as a popup. I mean, you already get "touch to login" kind of text next to Touch ID on Touch Bar, if you don't want to login that way, simply don't touch it. Am I missing something extra about the purpose of this popup?
you can do a mooc on molecular biology pretty easily if your goal is to get a superficial understanding of it. you don’t need to wait until you retire :)
The majority of discord users would have 16-64gb of ram and don't care if 250mb goes to one of their most useful programs.
As someone that studied Game Theory (and philosophy, for that matter) at graduate levels, there's quite a lot wrong with this post, and I just want to reiterate what @georgeglue1 said: Matt Jackson is quite literally a leading expert and the paper is actually very good for how terse it is. The kinds of exercises you'd do in a Game Theory class are pretty on par with what you see in the paper itself. You would end up answering questions like: What are the dominant strategies? Do any equillibria exist? What's the Nash Equilibrium? What outcome is Pareto optimal (if any)? What's the expected utility of a particular pure strategy? Mixed strategy? Etc.

Anyway, to address your comment, just on a very basic level, Phillipa Foot's "Trolley Problem" is unequivocally not a game theoretic problem. It's in the family of ethical "no-win" puzzles a la "Sophie's Choice" and has little to do with the actual study of game theoretic strategies, outcomes, and equillibria. The "Tragedy of the Commons" is also not game theoretic. There have been some attempts at turning it into an iterated game (in the formal sense), but -- again -- it's not technically a game theoretic problem, and rather a question on social policy. Elinor Ostrom famously provided a non-game theoretic solution to the Tragedy, so bringing her up is just confusing.

> At the core of game theory, and human civilization is communication and trust. The abuse of mass media to manipulate populations knows the power of communication and cultural narratives, and we're witnessing what's often described in terms such as "hypernormalization" or "accelerationism"

And I have no idea what the hell this means. It looks like gibberish and has nothing to do with the (relatively narrow) scope of Game Theory as a field.
> I think the main problem with the decision was the assertion that entities like corporations, rather than simply individuals, have free speech.

The decision did not assert or assume this. It rested on the idea that individual have rights, and they do not lose those rights by acting collectively.

If I'm allowed to speak, then I'm allowed to buy and use a printing press so that my speech can be more easily distributed. If I can't afford a printing press, I can go in halves with you, so that we can both print off our pamphlets. If neither one of us can afford a printing press, we can take up a subscription among our friends to buy one.

Or to put it another way: The New York Times does not have a free speech right, but the humans who work at and own the New York Times do, and gagging the New York Times would infringe on the rights of those humans. Any law that implies the New York Times can be gagged (eg, because it's a corporation, and thus has no rights) is clearly wrong.
That seems like an after-the-fact justification, I don't think they knew for sure that courts would force apple to allow downstream development. I think that may be courts saving people's bacon from an upstream that was willing to let them burn if that's what made the upstream profit, until the court case is decided.
Just curiosity: does it start recognizing with the mask after some time?
Some of the most intelligent and exciting people I have worked with have been homeschooled. I would counter the idea that homeschooling/unschooling is like a religion by turning it around. The orthodoxy of public education in the US is a borderline cult. The institution is unassailable. Where I live levies are passed that raise taxes and the community has nothing to show for it. The union Is like the mob and once you are a “made man” it is nearly impossible to be fired. Administrators are paid more than senior engineers. People that work in this system absolutely abhor the idea of citizens having a choice over their own education. Returning tax money to the tax payer to fund their own education, even if it is a fraction of what the public school receives, is a source of vehement objection by the teachers union.
Do you think posting like this is an effective tactic? I'm surprised it hasn't been flagged, and considering how poorly if reflects upon you I think it would be better for you if it were.
> New Oculus Quest 2 owners can log in with Facebook, or existing Oculus users can merge their Facebook account with their Oculus one.

New oculus accounts and all oculus 2 users must have a linked facebook account[0], not 'can'.

[0] https://www.oculus.com/blog/facebook-accounts-on-oculus/
I think it was just forgotten about, it's been in the options page for a while (first archive snapshot is from december 18, 2018[0]).

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20181229093058/https://support.d...
I know an older German fellow who ran away from home as a child and ended up in France for quite some time. The way he tells it, the French would show no mercy as he would struggle to communicate. My personal experiences haven't been quite so terrible, thankfully.

At least the old man got some stories out of it!
See it in the context of a job application

What are the race/age/gender expectations of the hiring manager?

Would an applicant ever have to apologize for applying to the wrong job or having the wrong qualifications?
Just to complete the trifecta, the URL date is presumably that of the print issue in which this article will appear. This "cover date" is usually a week or so ahead of the actual printing date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date
Why does it exactly show a popup saying "website wants to use Touch ID"?

It could just say "Touch ID to login" on the Touch Bar and wouldn't it be enough? If the user prefers otherwise, they simply won't touch. Doesn't the popup create extra friction (unless I'm missing something)?
The 1.0 SDK also (finally!) includes a static .lib version of the WebView2Loader.dll, so you may be able to convert that to a _syso and link it in directly instead of using go-winloader.
The governor responsible isn't in office anymore.
Depends on what you want. Just want to map the maths to code? Python is a good choice. Easy to understand and visualize too.

But Game Theory models can easily blow up in huge n-dimensional matrices very quick, so performance can be an issue. You might be tempted to go to something like C. But then again, Python has numpy.
Corporations also get a lot of benefits that individuals or unstructured associations don't - mainly things like liability protection - so it's not like it would be unreasonable to have corresponding limitations on what they are allowed to do.

And that's before we get to the point that corporations, as a practical matter, are formed under state laws, so why is the federal government giving them rights?

(and that's before the other issues with Citizen's United as a case, regardless of the decision as people usually remember it, but I'm starting to go off a bit..)
Ha ha, nice. Yes, I remember one of them talking about the fact that Coleman created many light farm tools that helped with work or productivity.
Compare the education system in 3rd world countries. Try telling their parents to do homeschooling and you will see how privileged we are.
My undergraduate real analysis course didn't, probably because here, I don't think complex numbers are necessarily part of the high school curriculum.

Instead, we defined sin and cos via power series, and then IIRC, pi as the first positive zero of the sin function or something similar.
> 1. School is probably the best public invention to systematically distribute knowledge to the masses. Some like to point out "dropouts", "self-taught" geniuses or the "lucky few" as models instead of exceptions to the rule.

NO ITS NOT! This is a lie. There were reports in 1960's when the congress asked for an experiment to different ways of teaching. The children taught in a 1 to 1 way performed enormously better compared to the rest. And one of the worst ways was to teach is in mass. When the results came, they buried the report after it wasn't in their favor.

Schools are only good for above average intelligence people. If you want no one to be left behind then you should teach those who're slightly disadvantaged in a dedicated manner in 1 to 1 classes.
Interesting insights. Guilded looks super cool. Good luck with the product :).
Foundamently it came down to the reality that it is not profitable to build a factory and manufacture lcd in Wisconsin. Probably in none of the US states.
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If unschooling is almost like religion, what is forced schooling almost like? A prison labor camp?
I remember learning about it as a kid and I remember the ice storm in '98. I enjoyed the talk--well done!
In fairness to GP, this only became true a few years ago and Signal has not advertised this (nor the fact that you can now download the Signal APK from their website and it auto-updates outside of the play store[1]). Folks who opted to not use Signal some time ago likely had no way of finding this out, and Moxie's comments on this in ~2014 gave the impression that it would never happen.

[1]: https://signal.org/android/apk/
Yes this is correct but you're only halfway through the complete definition of money laundering. Reading this thread was starting to fry my brain due to the amount of people that think money laundering is only about concealing the origin of illegally sourced funds. It's not just about hiding proceeds. You can also use money laundering to hide clean funds from uncle Sam. Take a look at Politicians,Billionaires,The orange president himself and ask yourself why do they all pay such low taxes? The panama papers were about rich people hiding their legally(keyword)sourced funds from say...assets,properties,other investments in offshore bank accounts located in places like Seychelles and panama while setting up shell companies to avoid the tax bracket. Doing all of this is by definition money laundering. Hope this provides clarity.
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Former publishing industry professional here. If he's broken the 1 million books mark, I wouldn't hesitate to call him famous. He's more successful than 99.99% of authors.

Makes me very happy you celebrate his success so openly. In my time in the industry, I saw a lot of fiction authors dismissed by their family/friends who worked in non-creative industries. Thanks for being one of the awesome relatives. :)
> Apple is entirely in its rights to terminate Epic Games’ developer account and all related functionality, but SIWA will continue to function for two weeks.

Ok, let’s translate it:

1) Apple believes it’s entirely in its rights to terminate Epic’s dev account and is doing so

2) Apple also believes it’s in their right to kill all related account functionally, but they aren’t, specifically with SIWA, for at least two weeks.

3) they don’t specify what will happen after two weeks, as that likely depends on several factors. We later learn that they extended it indefinitely.

So there’s multiple possible scenarios:

A) Apple really is just threatening as you indicated, but not being blatantly direct about it. Possible, but not the only possibility, and not usually their style from what I’ve seen for something like this, but who knows. I feel if Apple really wanted to threaten, they’d make the threat explicit and say “after two weeks of non-compliance, we will terminate everything”.

B) Apple is stalling making a decision over if SIWA will continue to be available to Epic’s users to ensure the SIWA team can support it when the dev account is deactivated. From other rumors where we hear folks saying SIWA team did have to make changes, I’m thinking this was the likely scenario. Don’t make a commitment to keep something going if you can’t deliver on it for sure yet, so “give them a two week extension” so you learn if you can actually keep SIWA up. If they can’t and Epic is still fighting with Fire, maybe you do terminate SIWA, but maybe not. Either way, Apple wins.

C) Apple is stalling a decision to scare Epic into compliance after Epic’s users backlash over word it might end. Possible, but I think Epic had well shown they were ready to play the Russian roulette game with Apple down to the last chamber, so I’m thinking less likely than A/B.

So if I was a betting man, I’d say it’s a mixed bag at best, but would likely go:

B > A > C

Apple doesn’t play checkers, they play chess. When they send a letter like that, they ensure there’s multiple positive outcomes for them for any potential scenario, from technical complications, to user perception, to legal proceedings, etc.
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Beware:

> Crowdsec is in BETA version. It shouldn't, and didn't crash any production so far we know, but some features might be missing or undergo evolutions. IP Blocklists are limited to very-safe-to-ban IPs only (~5% of the global database so far, will grow soon)
Also note that with Matrix, you have the option of running your own home server (or use one provided by someone you personally trust) and communicate seamlessly with people on other home servers. The dynamic is completely different.

Oh, and any/every device/client is a first-class citizen which means you can run it on more then one phone at the same time, or use it without a phone at all.
Do you happen to have that report somewhere? If it was buried, can you try to find it online? Where did you see it? Would love to examine it.

Education is of great importance to me, if this shift is a great alternative, I would not ignore the paradigm.

Note: I won't deny the effectiveness of 1-1 teaching (ex: private tutoring).
Bill Kennedy (Go presenter and trainer at Arden Lans) talks about meeting in the middle as a team and I really like it.

I’m paraphrasing a bit but essentially juniors have to be expected to rise and seniors have to be expected to lower themselves and the bar.

Writing docs for juniors is a great mindset for senior folks. I’ve worked with a lot of senior / staff / principal developers that act like they can’t be bothered to explain something or even worse comment their code.
NY Times covered it well 8 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ba...