skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSA backdoor? <smirk>
AMD Vega 56ish GPUs and Intel CPUs, the game runs on medium settings on Stadia at 1080p.
> a complete waste of time to those more philosophically inclined

At a surface level it is very reminiscent of the Deus Ex games, but if you go in expecting something profound you will be disappointed
That is not true. Each state has different regulations, that's why the article says "moved to California" and not just "moved to the USA". It's possible that UK law is incompatible with other states.
The USA has as many or more different regulations than the EU, as lobbying is very strong in America.
Understanding Your Brain
Charlie Munger: CalTech interview 14. December 2020
Requirements that data must be handled in a certain way is akin to requirements that electronics have no lead in them and that cars emit only a certain amount of toxic fumes and that cattle aren't addled with too much HGH. If you see no value in the regulations then you might see it as you have. But in reality the regulations are valuable and that is why you see the different reactions.
What would you get from this ideal cart that you wouldn’t get from a flash cart? Online play?
Citizens United is a great case to read in this context.

Only approved organizations could publish on the election after a certain date.

We are soaking the propaganda and we don’t know it.
What a joke: https://www.messenger.com/privacy
> If you are an engineer and you start moving up into senior leadership roles, understand that this is your job

Product wants new features and new products, and they want them now. Sales wants new features and new products, and they want them yesterday. Finance people want everything to be cheap, but since most engineers have no idea how to prove to them with actual hard data that it's cheaper in the long run ship features more carefully and slowly, and build things with reliability and robustness in mind, finance people go in the opposite direction and think that hiring inexperienced developers from the cheapest places on the planet is the way to go, because "cost of R&D per head" is a very easy number to quantify.

Unfortunately very few companies have an engineering department that can overrule all of product, sales, and finance. In general even one of those three being stronger means engineering never has the buy-in to take the time to do things the right way. And if you're the engineer who consistently pushes back product and feature releases because you want things built correctly, you get fired, or at best marginalized.

Interesting that you mention Google, since it has a reputation for being more engineering-focused that most companies. From what I read on HN (perhaps not a representative sample, but...), it seems like Google has a culture of "build something cool to get promoted and then stop caring about what you built because maintenance doesn't get you promoted any further". If true, I think that very easily explains Google's "hot messes".
Just to be clear: Apple does not have your facial biometric data with FaceID. It does not leave your device and is protected by the Secure Enclave there.

There are reasons to prefer TouchID to FaceID, but that isn't actually one of them.
Pentagon imposed emergency shutdown of computer network handling classified mat
Yes, and as UK citizen I can hold my government to account through the democratic process if they start freely sharing data on UK citizens to others in the Five Eyes alliance. Notably the Five Eyes alliance used this exact setup to avoid local laws and democratic accountability, I don't want it to be easier for it to continue.

I sure as shit can't hold the US government to account.
i have.
I wear a P100 respirator everywhere I go in public. According to every government on the planet, I am 100% kosher, but if I am infected, the exit valves on my mask will spread my virus far and wide.

Governments also routinely permit balaclavas, shemaghs, and other completely ineffective face coverings as valid for their poorly-considered statutes.

You worship the State, but your God will not save you. It never has, and it never will.
The very term “raw format” is confusing. Having long since ceased to mean “unprocessed sensor data”, nowadays raw (or indeed the ever-shouting all-caps “RAW”) is primarily a marketing term used to denote lossily processed data left and right (ProRes RAW, BRAW, Sony’s “raw” .arw files that in fact come lossy from some cameras), causing much dismay to terminology purists or photography enthusiasts who want to work with the full range of values their camera is capable of capturing.

On the other hand, there is a definition for what constitutes scene-referred data.

ProRAW is scene-referred AFAIC. Un-demosaiced CMOS data is useless, and I am not holding my breath for any breakthroughs in demosaicing algorithms. As TFA stated, control over hardware gives Apple the opportunity to handle this stage better than what we are used to in the decoupled camera manufacturers vs. post-processing software developers world.

Unless there is more loss happening in addition to demosaicing, I am inclined to say this is on balance good stuff and good tidings for DNG format, although I wish Apple called it for what it is (i.e., DNG, not ProRAW).
> Combat is like someone took Mass Effect 1 and combined it with a bunch of Bethesda bugs from Fallout and Skyrim.

Totally agree with you.

In terms of gunplay, there are ancient PS3/Xbox 360 era games that are so much better. Deus Ex HR, Far Cry 3, MGS IV, Bioshock, etc.

Edit:

This gameplay from almost 10 years ago is way better than Cyberpunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eszAJWHKY
Interesting. It is possible that German-style proportional representation would yield more faith in US government institutions than FPTP.

You can rapidly substitute one corp for another in America which is probably preferable to being permanently ruled by 51% of the people.
The Witness was great as was The Talos Principle.

SOMA and Fallout: New Vegas were good.
We really need an AGPL3 for documentation. If you read that documentation and then provide (consulting) services based on that knowledge, you really need to feed the profits back to the documentation authors.
It's not geolocation - just a javascript function to ask the browser what the UTC offset of your local time is. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091372/getting-the-clie...
I'm definitely dumber than the average programmer, and the little that I've accomplished has been due to being highly analytical by nature, a strength I try to lean into. My lack of intelligence has really stifled my career growth, but I guess it's still a great career to be in.
I would say the same.
If you need a quick run-down:

* The UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Great Britain is the largest island in its archipelago (the British Isles); Northern Ireland is a region situated on the island of Ireland (another island in that archipelago).

* Another region of the island of Ireland is (the bulk of) the sovereign state the Republic of Ireland, a country which is part of the EU. The Republic of Ireland is the country where many companies headquarter in the EU for tax efficiency.

* Alongside Northern Ireland, the other three countries which make up the UK are England, Wales, and Scotland. Those three countries are all primarily located on Great Britain. Some other islands in the archipelago are not part of the UK at all (e.g. the Isle of Man); some other islands in the archipelago are part of one of England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.

To confuse the island of Ireland with the United Kingdom, or to identify the Republic of Ireland as part of the UK, is deeply offensive to some (many?) Irish people. It is also a sore point to certain people across the island of Ireland that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, and that the island of Ireland is not a unified state.

Confusingly enough, citizens of the UK are almost always referred to as "British citizens" whatever their relation to the island of Great Britain; this is a strange piece of terminology because if "British" here means "Great British" then it appears to exclude Northern Ireland, while if it means "of the British archipelago" then it appears to include (for example) the Republic of Ireland.
> The problem listed in the article is specifically “freedom to copy, modify and redistribute”, not “free to have”

If O'Reilly were to sell books on those terms, say in PDF+source form, what exactly would prevent "freedom to copy... and redistribute" from quickly turning into "free to have?"
Google Arts and Culture Experiment: Blob Opera
> I’m saying I’ve traveled the U.S. a /lot/ in several different capacities (from personal trips to touring with bands) and that rural areas by and large have given me more problems in terms of police than urban areas ever have.

How much time do you spend traveling in rural vs urban area do you think? If you traveled 75% of the time in rural areas it would follow suit that 75% of the time those arrests would be in rural areas.

Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean shit in a country with 330M people.
just curious, how did you check bounces stats for Gmail?
I don't have an issue giving my data to an American company. I just don't want them to store it in the US without my explicit consent.

Equally if you buy a product from a Chinese company in the US, you would expect that product to meet US standards, not Chinese standards.
How would you secure this? Also, consider techniques like following: https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vib..., which can leak audio information much farther than audio range.
Portrait of the Artist as Content Creator
Whether I disagree or not is immaterial nor was the intent to engage in a substantive discussion. As I have asserted, this piece has all the hallmarks of propaganda as I understand them. Part of the aims of propaganda is to stimulate particular discussions and by doing so cause the indulgence of ideas that would not organically develop so no, the threat China represents is much more pressing and far reaching than 'ideology'
I've heard that Microsoft doesn't have as solid a position at the standards table as they used to have pre-Chromium.
You could provide it for free. By charging for it, you made a choice to reduce your users' privacy. It doesn't make sense to say that you don't collect any information because you require information to be collected from the user. This is simply a statement of fact.
see op's username :)
> The options in config were greyed out in 83.

I'm running Firefox 83, and those options are still available. It's critically important that Firefox support disabling telemetry.

If you've edited those options via one of the lower-level preference systems, such as autoconfig.js, you may have locked them, which would cause them to show up as greyed out.
s#s/his/her#s/his/their# also works and avoids awkward escaping. The first symbol after s is used as the separator. Works in vim, at least.

In other words:

s%s/s\\/his\\/her/s\\/his\\/their/%s#s/his/her#s/his/their#%
I suspect a vast amount of policy is made by perma-bureaucrats.
I actually think the bugs/performance issues are helping CDPR right now. Everybody is talking about them rather than how bad the game actually is.

The combat is simplistic. The AI opponents are basically broken. The quickhack system does indeed feel like a quickly hacked together game mechanic. V is stuck in a weird state between existing background (a la witcher) and player action defined: I didn't get the feeling of any player agency in what my character is, but neither did I get the warm feeling of learning/experiencing Geralt's(Witcher series MC) life. Life paths, also, are basically devoid of any meaningful relevancy to the storyline.
Leading to a lawsuit that was settled with undisclosed terms, but he's reportedly worth $15B now [1], so he must have received quite a lot.

1: https://www.forbes.com/profile/eduardo-saverin/?sh=1b75ae527...
My point is that I do not find it remarkable for that number to be higher than 25% during this period, nor would it be remarkable if more of that churn of people were moving in and out of the city rather than within. (you misrepresent what I said about that).

So the article's reporting fits within my expectation - also noting that a net change of 70,000 people is very small.

The voter rolls will significantly lag outside of election day and - again - is much less likely to include transient residents who won't bother to register, so it's no more likely to be a complete reflection of what has happened than the cellphone data source used here. Something like 40% of the NYC population is not registered to vote.
Expropriate can mean taking by eminent domain, but it also can mean taking with no compensation whatsoever. And the context in which we (all right, I) most often hear the word is the latter - when a government takes property without paying for it, or paying only a pittance.

Mea culpa, though: Until I looked at dictionary.com, I didn't know it could be used for eminent domain.

> All I did was ask a question.

"How can someone be so callous?" That's a question, but it's not just a question. It's pushing a viewpoint.

> > Note that this is a completely separate discussion from whether eminent domain actually pays people market prices for their homes.

> By definition, it does not.

By definition? I call BS. In fact, the Constitution requires "just compensation". Now, have governments abused that, and actually offered less than just compensation? Of course. But "by definition"? No.

> elides the relevant factor: people are being <strike>expropriated</strike> deprived of their homes through threat of violence in order to lower the cost of infrastructure.

Nice whine. But in fact the government does have the right to do that, and for quite good reasons.

And, if they make the tunnel, they're going to have to take different peoples' houses.

> Perhaps the government needs to exercise fiscal discipline. Perhaps the government can't afford a new rail.

On that point, I agree with you at least some of the time.
Resolved as of 3:51 PST.
both google and amazon are insane with their observability services.

we ran away screaming from stackdriver when we saw how costs started piling up.

thank god for prometheus and grafana.
That’s a fair point. I presume though that there are some legal risks to Visa and MC if they were subsequently found to have been enabling illegal activity.
Playing it on PC and I'm really enjoying it.

There seem to be two factions:
Anyone who expected a GTA like open world game has to be severely disappointed.
But if you're there for the story and Cyberpunk look & feel, you'll have a good time.

Of course, this excludes the console issues. Console players got shafted. CD Project might be able to fix that to some degree, but the reputational damage is done.
> gpdr on the other hand is tough to enforce on companies who wholly are in the US.

If you do actual business in the EU they can block financial transactions, and if you don't do business in the EU, there isn't really any incentive to (ab)use the data GDPR covers?
The problem with that adage is that it assumes you want only one baby (which, to be fair, most people do, at least initially) :)
I'm confused by this. Which free software has its documentation in a proprietary book? A textbook is not documentation². ROS, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Julia, Python, Emacs, you name it, all have free online documentation as well as non-free textbooks to learn those tools. Not sure about non-programming tools like Gimp or Blender. If the only way to learn how your software works is a print book, that's the issue, not the fact that this textbook is non-free.

²To me, documentation is a boring but exhaustive description of all the features in your software. A textbook is a nice introduction to the software in a linear fashion which doesn't necessarily aim to tell the whole story. After going through the textbook the user should be comfortable enough to look at the doc for the complete story.

It's ok to want to profit from publishing a textbook for free software IMHO, just as you can build a consultancy on free software (see Red Hat, Savoir-faire Linux). It's merely charging for your expertise and time. Somehow saying that these book should be made available for free online takes away from that. Doesn't matter if you say that it's ok to pay for the print version.
Minitel demonstrated that online purchases were possible and that folks were willing to pay for things using a "computer".

I really wonder why it took PayPal and Ebay to demonstrate that the same thing could be done on the real internet.

> former Minitel erotic chat mogul

I had to read this sentence twice to make sure.
Good practices in management are still developing in Poland, unfortunately.

Many companies around here do experiments like this one hoping to see improvements. Most of such attempts fail miserably.

I've seen my share of weird, counterproductive ideas from grades like in school to work logged down to the second.

My last company, even though it was over 500 people strong, was basically winging it.
It feels like the most common workflow is pressing that button in the top right to open the label list, opening the dropdown, and selecting a label. I think this could be optimized.

One idea: Bind the label list menu to a key like spacebar. Replace the dropdown menu with a list of labels which are already clickable, no need to open the dropdown. This would change the workflow of selecting a label from 3 clicks to 1 click.
That makes little sense when you think about that. The constitution of your country does not stop at the door of a business. All your constitutional rights as a citizen enter the store with you.
You have also human rights granted by international treaties.
Nothing stops applying because you enter a shop.
Theres no guarantee that it was done by you.

It could be done by a company you did business with, or through some tracking pixel
Both are not coercion. One is paying poor (cash hungry) men for something irriversible they may later regret. The other is providing education to poor women, and empowering them so they will (statistically) decide to have less babies.

Coercion is waaaay less, to the point that I'd like to say educating is not coercing. Education can be undone, unused, forgotten. Vasectomies not so much. I dont think "totally" suppressing reproduction is what happens: those women still want/can/will have babies, just not so many.
They have telephone support, but the agents aren't empowered to do very much of anything.
> It’s you vs a team of 200 PhDs

So Facebook apparently laid off 800 or so PhD‘s?

I kid.
I understand the legality, but imo the legality itself should be challenged.

If you legit can't tell something is illegal why can you be prosecuted for it? There was no intent to harm.

Also why is it illegal? I understand child exploitation or if someone is taking advantage/not considered old enough to make that decision, but I've never really understood why it's illegal for 17 year olds to distribute nudes.

And even then, would you rather have a few false positives or more freedom and privacy?
You are right, that slide is very interesting indeed. I wonder what it is about the different languages that triggers the brain to use different regions?
A website my kids school use for maths advises it will stop worrying except for with Google Chrome, so I assume Google is keeping their flash implementation, and so flash will keep working.
That wasn’t really the analyst’s question though. He wondered given the size and complexity of the game, should more people have been on the project from the ground floor (not added in the last month once they weren’t going to clear the bug tracker), or was it a organizational/management issue that they couldn’t get something good from the talent they had?
That's like the complete opposite of what the comment you're replying to is talking about. They're arguing against globalization and you're against different rules for different countries.

If you don't want globalization and think multiculturalism is the devil, it's kinda hypocritical to decry isolationism keeping away the global culture you do want.
Anyone else having issues in general with "the internet" over the last few days?

The images on different websites I've visited don't load (e.g. twitter, bbc etc). When they do they load, they load verrry slowly
I see the parent comment is removed ([flagged]).

The author mentioned paying poor men for vasectomies as the quickest and pretty much only solution to environmental problems.
Yeah, Duke Nukem 3D was shocking for its time.

Duke Nukem Forever just feels like your creepy uncle telling the same sexist jokes from almost 25 years ago. The shtick didn't age well.
GraphQL specifies schema and documentation, and implementations usually come with introspection tools, which is not the case for REST. It would be more fair to compare GraphQL to something like Swagger.

That said, GraphQL libraries and tooling tend to be less fragmented and more ready to use than for equivalent REST stacks, which makes development much easier. A simple API built in Python with Graphene looks terse and declarative, while doing the same with Django REST Framework requires adding pages of plumbing code to build an equivalent REST API.

Re: GraphQL being a pain for a backend development - I don't quite understand that argument. If you want to keep a tighter control over the schema, you can have it - the API schema does not need to be a reflection of the underlying data schema with all its relationships - it should be the front-end developer's job to convince you that this or that complex relationship needs to be exposed via GraphQL and let you make sure that it's served efficiently.
Is this an issue specific to certain hardware?

We have five Windows 10 computers - 3 Intel laptops, 2 with nVidia graphics. 1 Ryzen laptop with nVidia graphics. 1 Ryzen desktop with Radeon graphics. None of them have the tearing issue when watching videos on YouTube using Firefox.

The Ryzen laptop and desktop have 144hz screens. The rest are 60hz.
Instead of big companies buying smaller ones, big ones would just clone them (either integrating them into their existing product or creating a new product) and beat them.
AWS finally catching up with Azure? Yes. That's exactly it. One day AWS will have the depth and breadth of...Azure! :)
>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32371934/

'Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals.'

Doesn't say anything about clothes mask that most people use.

>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.19.20071779v...

Its say it may block some droplet, and even then require 2 or 3 layers of cloth. Does not saying anything about whether it can reduce virus transmission.

>This about page looks... not so trustworthy.

The page looks has nothing to do with the content/argument.

>https://www.mediaite.com/news/sweden-once-heralded-for-avoid...

So ? They have no mask mandate and still no lockdown and live is pretty much still normal there.

>https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

So ? They are doing very well. I went there for visit myself recently and considering moving there.

>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-dakota-covid-kristi-noem-...

So ? She is doing the right thing and the state are doing well too.
Not really. You might have a big bonus tied up in a release, but unless you're a self-funded indie dev (typically with single digit employees), you have to pay your staff.

People aren't that desparate to work on games.
Take a sheet of paper and wrap it around a ball. Notice how it folds?

If you could take a flat surface and have it represent the surface of a sphere without warping (or vice-versa), we wouldn't have constant debates about what kind of map projections are best.