skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read up on the psychological problems of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

People are very psychologically affected when they feel they are being constantly observed, especially when that observation is only for punishment.

There's a story from an Amazon warehouse recently where a guy had a heart attack and didn't get found for 20 minutes. A few days prior he had put something back in the wrong place and management came to him in 2 minutes. Do you think Facebook overseers would be any different?
>Local being Sydney Australia and overseas being London

Is sydney that rough for programming jobs?
This will be hard to answer, but how much of this comes down to CPU architecture, how much is SoC vs discrete components, how much is Intel lagging on 10nm, and what would this look like with a laptop Ryzen chip? Or the latest Snapdragon?
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I'll get an 5900X, as soon as they can actually be bought. RT and DLSS still make me lean towards Nvidia, but yeah the limited RAM is a bummer.
This right here is the reason Apple fans irritate me.

I love Apple devices but the quality regressed in recent years, to the point that I left most of the ecosystem.

But you can not have a healthy discussion about that because some people will come out and defend apple with their blood and tears. No matter ridiculous their stance is.
I knew one guy, way back when, who even got down on his knees and cleaned other people's feet. That guy rocked. Super-good leader.
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Protest is spreading to the provinces: Small-town revolutions
I don't share the pessimistic view mostly because there's a lot we do not know. The shape of all possible disruptions is hard to predict a priori. And desktop OS is nowhere near as dominant as it once was so significant market share there really doesn't matter as much as it once did.
Man, I was really hoping to be the first to pull the trigger on that. But if I'm being honest with myself: I ain't gonna be putting in the time to learn to tensorflow.
> The fact that any non-UI code uses any time standard except TAI is a very unfortunate historical mistake that will hopefully be cleaned up over the next few years.

Unfortunately, almost everything is UI code in some way, so this won't be cleaned up.

The problem with TAI is that you cannot convert a future time to UTC if it is farther than 6 months or so in the future (because leap seconds have not been decided), so unless it never needs any conversion to/from UTC, you can't use it. (are logs UI? is crontab UI? eventually everything is)

Furthermore, you can't build an embedded no-need-to-update-every-6-month system with available common protocol - you would need to continuously feed it the list of leap-seconds, for which AFAIK there is no widely deployed protocol.

But if you use UTC, there are many protocols (TIME, NTP, SNTP, PTP), at least one of which you'll use anyway because of clock drifts, that will let you keep working.
Do you know you can write actual functions in SQL?

Oracle, in particular, has several ways to return table-like objects from functions.
OSCAL is a fantastic conference indeed, and the OSM crowd in Albania is a lot of fun. I hope that it will soon be possible to travel there again.
I have been boycotting Disney since I was a kid many years ago when I first learned of the Disney way (or not just disney but they are most known for it). Sadly it didn't help much so far, industry is still the same scumbags and people believe that the original authors/creators are getting the lionshare of the money and they keep buying the stuff. While the publishing companies are crying everywhere that copying is stealing. No, I don't copy either but I still have to pay the movietax on new harddrives for my computers... Sigh
> Anyone who actually use the excuse of "foreign interference" for totalitarian censorship basically basically doesn't believe in the concept of democracy.

David Atkins, Regional Director, CA Dems / Elected DNC Member:

"No seriously...how do you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?

We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South." [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1328898661569363969
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My current game dev project is being done with relatively low poly models and non-realistic textures. I've tried adding higher levels of detail to the game, but gave up pretty early on. Unless it looks great and stylized, highly detailed art that's just okay ends up looking cheaper than intentionally simple and under-detailed art. I ended up settling on something a little bit above Sega Saturn style and I'm feeling immersed in my own test levels.

Whenever I see a game with super detailed forests and houses and human models, it's almost impossible to get interested in it. It's too real and bland. Maybe it's a mental association from seeing a bunch of cheap Russian and Chinese games on Steam that use premade assets.
Perfectly said.

If I had an acquaintance who's a recovering drug addict, then I would never ever recommend him to try out a new drug, because that is obviously against his best interests. But for an ethical void such as a company blindly pursuing profits, bombarding him with free samples for highly addictive drugs would be an effective strategy for increasing short-term profits.
Prepare for your move abroad post-pandemic of an online community
I think the fact that politics can't be discussed here is itself a form of censorship.

Because people are not able to freely exchange ideas about politics, you end up with silos.

The main reason why the subject of politics causes flame wars is because people are thinking about it emotionally because they have very little actual information to work with.

The less sharing of information there is on the subject, the more divided people are going to be.
Is this it? Very interesting, thank you.

https://aeon.co/essays/dad-s-company-made-burgers-mine-just-...
Lobbyism and unresolved issues with intellectual property laws in my case. It has become a self fulfilling prophecy for proponents. I am not fundamentally opposed, but it has to show to have very tangible benefits.

In Europe there could be application where we could reduce herbicide deployment, it is on ridiculous levels. But again, it must have advantages. Some arguments say it would increase yield, but these are unsubstantiated from the data I have seen.

The chlorine chicken is another pop-discussion. I think it is chemically safe and protects against salmonella. Still, allowing usage will probably severely worsen the treatment of chickens, so there are peripheral issues that doesn't criticize the tech itself.

The market situation of producers is dire. Retail sets prices and the current strategy is on automatism to cheap, cheap, cheap. We had that with meat and the end result is questionable. This isn't a problem intrinsic to the technology, but third parties may become benefactors without actually improving the situation.

Europe due to its density has higher crop yields than Canada or the US for example, even if they don't employ GMO. Sure, necessity made sure of that, but again, benefits must be transparent and I don't need another large corp in my food market. And GMO doesn't really perform enough to warrant being uncritical.
I'm giving myself additional time before I get into it for this exact reason.

Something seems fundamentally off about this library, but I can't pinpoint what.
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If that meant redistributing some of the massive profits that developers generate only to be amassed by companies and execs, I wouldn’t see it as a bad thing.

But to be honest I was thinking more about relatively simple works of art. Books, comics, and songs, are typically made by a handful of people, often a single one; these processes should be completely excluded from WFH, since the final product is evidently and inextricably linked to the authors’ own skills and names. (Movies are more complicated, but credits in that area are strictly defined by unions and vigorously enforced.)
Have you got links to the research papers?
Well Russia already anexed Crimea and is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine. You may not find Ukraine enough European for you to count. Next: other Eastern European countries. Next: the baltic countries.
They have to first solve the "I'm sorry but your account has been permanently banned and you have no recourse" issue before they'll get me using it for any serious payments.
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IBM also has not, to my knowledge, apologized for their very active role in organizing and supporting the Nazis' attempt at exterminating the entire Jewish population of the territories occupied by the Third Reich. They kept all the money, too.

Blighting the career of one brilliant engineer seems to pale, by comparison, but it is really all of a piece.
Simple nudging towards user-centric product development
not just ACA but general market pressure to lower admin/PMPM costs due to increased competition and providers beginning to taking risk on directly in insurance
They are neither bribed or blackmailed, every danish government for the past 20 years have been informed about this agreement and has complied. It's absolutely a crime against the population (since innocent Danes are also being spied on). The reason the politicians are complying is that we are reliant on US for military support through Nato (which I guess you can call a bribe, of sorts)
Russian “defence” spending is skyrocketing,

This is wrong, it barely keeps up with inflation: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2020/r...

This is a whopping 9% of the yearly defense spending of the US.
Aren't the people in charge of UTC discussing never having a leap second ever again?
Yes I think Facebook allowed the Fauci threats as PR to make themselves look neutral. Mark Zuckerberg and his employees have been playing good cop bad cop with us since the beginning to make the public perceive Facebook as a neutral bystander when in fact they're in a large part responsible for the whole mess and are not neutral at all.
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No, but the 30 thousandth time a meme resurfaces proporting to show guns being delivered to terrorist refugees it would be nice if Facebook automatically tagged it with the information that actually it's a scene from some movie or where ever it really came from.
Speaking specifically about FPS games, after the heyday of games like Quake and Unreal, a new generation of FPS games came up, iirc starting with Half-Life (focusing more on story, platforming than shooting), then moving on to Medal of Honor and Call of Duty (realistic shooters); the more 'arcade' shooters fell out of grace, and probably more when other game categories became big in e-sports.

But, then Id started to make a comeback; games like the Wolfenstein reboot which were more about over the top violence again, and Doom which made FPS games fast again (if it wasn't for the constant scramble for ammo it really would've captured the 'old' feel even better I think). That one's criticized for having too much platforming in it though, but other than that it's still a fun / fast paced FPS games.

Alongside there's been the Serious Sam franchise which never stopped feeling outdated, lol. It's a weird one because the gameplay of that one seems to be focused on kiting.
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:AWK
has comprehensive list of AWK programs
Linux had two different kernel bugs around this, IIRC. MySQL got confused too (although that one just ate cpu until you restarted the daemon, it didn't crash, and it didn't prevent service)
> And the difference in life quality between America and Zimbabwe is because the previous generations of Americans possessed these skills and applied them wisely.

The grossly misrepresents what's happened in Zimbabwe.

I believe your intention was to suggest that by corrupting certain skills or values around finance or thriftiness or learning to build, etc etc, that the USA is on course for a significant decline in quality of life?

However, Zimbabwe's problems are rooted in a different, and much more pernicious, sort od corruption.
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Of course. That's why no one should be surprised when it eventually goes downhill. I'm gladly hosting my images myself but I know this is not an option for everyone. But sadly many people are riding on the free wave who wouldn't have to, and those are then the ones who are usually the loudest when the quality drops.
I've been using the weekly for many years now amd that's not the case for me.
They won't invade Poland or Baltics because those countries are in NATO and EU and it's way too risky. Russia seems pretty involved in all the hotspots lately including starting a war in Ukraine. Very likely same fate would be for Poland and Baltics if they didn't protect themselves with stronger allies.
And even if current Russia is not interested/capable to cause trouble to east EU - that doesn't mean it won't change in the future. Country leader shouldn't just look in the last 2 years - he needs to prepare country for the next 50 years.
France alone probably has sufficient military power to balance Russia.

It depends on the theatre. At sea, probably, in a nuclear exchange France has sufficient deterrent capability. But in a land war, tank on tank the way God meant it to be, France’s 200 tanks are no match for Russia’s thousands.

Remember purchasing power parity. Russia may be poorer than France, but it’s stuff costs a lot less too.
From what I understand, the issue with the previous behaviour is that, although it enabled you to bypass the issue of that specific package, it could also install conflicting versions you didn't know about.

For your specific use case, wouldn't it be better to have a flag `--override-constraints=` where you provide explicitly overridden constraints only for the packages you're interested in?
It was sort of a "working vacation" for everyone involved. The people working on the product were taken off their normal duties, and the CS mentors didn't exactly get a full day's work done.

But it was worth it.
Community wiki with frequently asked questions about Librem 5: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
If you tell me that there is a way to make all the utility classes completely private and available only for composing styles that can then be @apply'd to your CSS code, I'd not only agree with you but I would preach it as the One True Framework and Adam would be my Pope.

But if you are saying that you have different "utility" classes to specify different margins, and if these classes end up in your HTML, you already have styling/presentation definitions that should never be the concern of the document writer.
Where does this notion that classifying phones as a 'general computing device' magically strengthens the anti-trust case against apple come from?
Upon looking at the image, I immediately hear him talking in my head.
This article has the timeline wrong about Steam.

Steam was established earlier than the App Store, and everything you buy there is very locked down to the Steam platform. Try uninstalling Steam and still play your bought games and they wont work.

Also Steam has an even higher rate than 30%. Yet Steam get a free pass in most rants like this, why is that?
https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps/index.html
I would recommend Amid Evil too.
Amid Evil also imitates Quake, but much more focused on the aesthetics of it.
I love RPC; it’s much better utilization of pins - same bandwidth over 22 as over ~ 45, IOW about twice the bandwidth per pin. Downside is a slightly higher latency because address and command have to travel over them too, but this is amortized over the burst transfer.

The real problem with RPC is that devices has tiny capacity; 256 Mb today and max spec’ed to 8 Gb (yes, I am aware that they consider it a feature, but I don’t). Also, it’s actually pretty expensive today compared to regular DRAM.
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Well he's trying.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54972269
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01847

"Soft hair", so not exactly enough to resolve the information loss problem.
The government does have control over this. They could easily introduce a law which forbids platforms from censoring any legal content. They choose not to do this.
Most people don't because biology is hard.
The experience I described was in Oct 2016, before the iOS update in Feb 2017 which introduced the throttling, and fixed the unexpected shutdowns for me.

At the time they just refused to even consider the possibility it was a genuine hardware issue. I got the lecture about batteries being consumable items, mine was somewhat degraded (82% health), etc. They suggested I do a software reset, etc.

I like to think maybe in hindsight someone at Apple HQ looked at the diagnostics from my Genius Bar visit as part of the decision to introduce throttling, and realised they were wrong.
Accountable care models are the next step now that HMOs are widespread. restoring financial burden to the patient seems backwards when considering systems like universal healthcare, but ends up reducing inefficiency (identifying genuine surplus, not things that end up costing in the end like reducing preventative care)
I agree, my attempt did not yield results anywhere near the examples: https://i.imgur.com/cZUBWzH.png
Thanks for the analysis, I'm sure you're right WikipediasBad.

EDIT: Looking at both websites, neither of them seem remotely in the same market as Wikipedia.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/received-my-librem-5-evergreen/1087...
I don't agree with this, and neither does the Greenland Home Rule: https://naalakkersuisut.gl/en
USA has a base to the very north east of Greenland (Thule Air Base), but most of the workforce there is people from Denmark and Greenland. They used to have other bases (e.g. Sonderstrom), but are currently primarily based on Thule.
However, after the POTUS offer on buying Greenland, USA is now (re)opening a consulate there.
Source: I'm Danish and have worked at Thule Air Base several years ago.
Right, but this also pretty effectively killed off other OS's on pre-Intel Macs.
Look at the BeOS story. They ported to x86 because Apple stopped sharing hardware details.
I understand that Butler Lampson, in the '80s, was firmly opposed to propagating Conway's VLSI design methods, but have not been able to discover why. Fortunately his opposition did not carry the day, and they turned that world upside down very quickly. But I still would like to know; he hasn't often been wrong.
Germany officially rolls out the Nutriscore food labelling system
But apparently not enough for most people, otherwise no one would want an ICE car anymore.
Does anyone have an educated guess how this compares to current consumer Nvidia GPUs? I was just about to order a maxed-out Nvidia system (ignoring memory for now).

Bonus question to anyone from Apple who might read this: Will Apple contribute to the PyTorch repo re M1 support?
The article seems to be missing a picture of the actual phone.
Why would I want phone with worse performance?
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I can't speak for Turok (I only played it once, and don't remember anything about it other than something something dinosaurs), but Goldeneye probably doesn't have much of a word here; its controls were clunky as shit. And sure, that was part of the fun, and it's still an iconic game, but I'm very much glad that modern FPS games have adopted more sane control schemes.
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huh! i'm in no way a CPA, yet my understanding from just occasional reading of the 1040 instructions is that in US you can deduct hobby expenses from that hobby income, it is just that the expenses can't be more than that income (for the expenses to be more than income it should be a "business", not a hobby. I personally find it pretty funny, something like a joke Q:"guess what is the difference between hobby and business?" A:"if you lose money than it is a business, if you make the money - it is a hobby!")
Because you can sell your games to the same customers, same machines, outside of Steam. You can't do that with iOS.
Impresive! I am also interested in the time management done to achieve this projects.
As someone wanting to have time for side projects I am having a hard time dealing with time.

I work 9 to 5, and want to have time for a lot of essential activities like: reading, jogging, be informed, visit family, hangout, play some games with friends online and sleep well (aka 8h).

I am starting to assume that it's impossible to cramp all these activities in 24 h so I should organize the activities in a week.

How do you guys do it?
Developments in this area will help (indy) game developers to prototype more quickly. I like it.
Seems to be a couple of iterations from being usable but it'll get there.

I'm also envisioning a Ready Player One type of online escape world where content is generated from social media images/films.
>Halo's trick was to sloooow the action down.

I agree that the action was slower, however, Halo's real trick was designing a set of weapons that were fun to use, but were mostly horribly inaccurate. The sniper was the clear exception.

I did a controller VS mouse/keyboard competition with Halo 1 on PC vs the best console Halo player in my Battalion when we were deployed to Kuwait. We would both use the same weapons at the same time for most of the games to make it fair and objective since we were doing it out of curiosity. We were mostly even with the majority of the weapons. With the shotgun the console player had a clear advantage although I don't know why because I would have assumed a mouse would still be faster (maybe it was just me). When we were using sniper rifles, however, with my mouse and keyboard vs a controller it was like playing against someone that had never played Halo before. The mouse was just too quick and accurate and at that point Halo hadn't developed a really egregious form of aim assist yet. The funny thing about this last observation was that I was the one that had barely ever played Halo.

Note: I don't look down on people that prefer gaming on a console and I have enjoyed my Switch/PS4 immensely. For some genres an analog controller is objectively superior without purposefully implementing a software advantage to balance things out like many games choose to do with aim assist. I do tend to agree with Shroud's opinion that when it comes to competitive play at a certain level of MM rank they should just have separate queues for each controller type. Ultimately its a tradeoff though because if queues for a game like COD:Warzone were forcibly separated the game's community on PC would have died completely after a month or two like previous games did.
According my research and others' comment, OpenCL is mess, so filled with boilerplate that it is just an interface to each companies own approach. Cuda actually encapsulates GPU computation.

AMD has HIP, which is closer the Cuda but HIP seems less developed.

But I believe the basic problem is AMD doesn't make sufficiently high end GPUs to compete with Nvidia in ML.

Personally, I don't care what happens in the cloud, just what I can buy. I would note Nvidia does have competition in the cloud from Google's TPUs and I assume any large cloud vendor is going to negotiate with Nvidia. While I'd love AMD to be cost-effective for ML somewhere, it seems they aren't 'cause that's not what they're targeting.
Even if the post office was not profitable and paid for by the tax payer, that is absolutely fine; it's an essential service, it made America great (I feel dirty saying that), it created the need and provided the funding to set up the core infrastructure of the US - post wagons, trains, airlines.

The US mail is part of the infrastructure and should be protected, funded, and kept alive at all costs.