skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat opposite experience for me. I can’t listen to anything with words while coding. TV, podcasts, songs with lyrics all torpedo my ability to parse code. Instrumental music especially with a strong beat seems to help though.
I think it may really depend on what settings you have going. The developer really needs to optimize this game for older hardware, but I'd think there's a set of settings that'll get it to look good on your actually very recent machine. Could be wrong of course, but have you seen how good it can look at the top end? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZp8fXLXgqg (Digital foundry's visual tech tour of the game)
I do get a sense of mismanagement as well, however the platform situation is a bit complicated.

Stadia release was probably contractually obligated to happen with the first volley. It was a big bet for Google, they never shut up about how Cyberpunk will come out for Stadia. Based on a few reviews I've read, the Stadia version seems to have turned out OK.

The PS5/SeriesXS versions are coming out in 2021. They don't exist right now. The reason the game runs on PS5/SeriesXS is backwards compatibility. That backwards compatibility didn't exist at the time when GTA5 was released for PS3/Xbox360.

The PS4/XBoxOne versions of Cyberpunk should have definitely been delayed. However I think it's not just the holiday season that is a factor here. It's also that the new generation of consoles already came out. Rockstar managed to get GTA5 out for PS3/Xbox360 a few months before PS4/XBoxOne.

It's clear that the PC version was the focus for CDPR - as it has always been for its games. It would have helped to schedule the PC version for later (like Rockstar scheduled GTA5 for PC - 2 years after PS3/XBox360) so that initially the focus could be on PS4/XBoxOne - it would probably have resulted in better reviews and a way more polished game. However ignoring PC for so long can be a hard pill to swallow for a PC centric developer - and indeed, they chose not to do it. According to the Q&A PC pre-orders made up 59% of their sales, so from a sales perspective delaying PC probably not the best choice either.

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I do wonder how the PS4/XboxOne version of Cyberpunk looked 6 months ago and how much progress has there been. Hard to imagine it being way worse, but if it has been consistently so bad then it's puzzling why there wasn't significant steps taken as the quality of the game on those platforms wasn't changing.
Is "exciting" a synonym for "harrowing" where you're from? :P
TBH, calling Bash 'write-only' makes me a bit sad. Bash should be very easy to read for people familiar with the command line.

Except for boilerplate (e.g. set switches, documented in 'help set', but just ignore them if you're just reading) or if switches (documented in 'man test', but you really just need to memorize three or so) and a handful of commands that don't tend to be used outside of scripts -- all have a help or man page.

You could argue that DOS batch files are hard to read too.

Of course, bash's tacked on features -- regex, array/hash syntax, etc. can get a bit hairy, but it's all highly documented.

To me, bash is more the polar opposite: hard* to write, easy to read.

* not that hard
For business purposes the EU is one jurisdiction, so if a company can find a set of practices that complies both with the EU rules and the US rules, and doesn't violate anything Canada, Japan, the UK, or South Korea requires, they can serve about a billion people. They can probably live with that.
The big difference between Pine64 and the other (phone) projects that have come and gone over the years is that Pine64 really seems to have the manufacturing (including sourcing and logistics) side down. The other projects came across as seeming to think of all the 'physical stuff' as a distraction that they'd just outsource, when in fact it's the most important part. They also don't seem to have any 'year of the Linux on X' delusions: they are in the 10's of thousands of units on PinePhone and they're fine with that.

I've been happy enough with my Pinephone (just don't call it a daily driver!) that I'm seriously considering picking up their next gen Pinebook Pro whenever that gets announced/released.
which is the best linux distro?
Yeah that one example can be broadly applied to all employees at all startups. Are you retarded or something
If Visa and MC waited until PornHub was actually found guilty, they'd be right there next to them in the docket. Facilitating payment for illegal activities is itself a crime, and our laws require that payment processors exercise judgement in who they will work with.
FEAR for FPS AI, and IMHO, Ultima VII for open-world NPC AI.
There isn't yet any name mangling in the C/assembly function names that would prevent collisions between two incompatible versions. I use `links = "ring-asm"` in Cargo.toml to prevent people from accidentally including two versions of ring for that reason. I am going to switch that to use a different mechanism.
Youtube and Facebook get away with it because they're not primarily porn sites; they're social networking and the vast majority of users use it for normal non-porn purposes. Moreover, while they had vast quantities of porn, they're also huge sites and most of their users don't use the site for porn.

PornHub is just porn. And they've been on notice for years that CP and non-consensual videos are being uploaded to their system yet don't very little to stop it. They claim that they have filters and other systems in place to stop illegal uploads, but those systems are so useless that PH claimed they had 0 illegal porn on their website, when that was demonstrably false prior to them removing all unverified user-uploaded content.
Sky is blue.

Water is wet (or is it!!?!?).

100x0.1=10>1

Enlightenment!!!
To people that post this type of comment, do you not have qualms about announcing to the Internet that you repeatedly decline critical security updates for enough weeks that Windows forcibly installs them?
> what if you're in a situation where rolling back could make the problem worse?

Here comes the poison pills!
Are there any movements to get bitcoin accepted by established platforms used for sponsoring development? (GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Open Collective, Ko-Fi etc..)
Trump Is Considering Clemency for Silk Road “Kingpin”
Firefox says they have 200m monthly active users. In 2018, techcrunch wrote about that same report and said "this data shows a downward trend for monthly active Firefox users, which now measure about 250 million, down from well over 300 million last April."

So I would be concerned.. they're actively bleeding users... not just being outpaced in a growing market.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/mozilla-publishes-its-fire...

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Well duh. I stated as much in my last two lines. I swear people read like three words of other people's statements instead of the whole thing and then reply.
I didn't experience faster Firefox on: high end desktop, laptop, mobile. UI changed, promotion of features like Pocket that I don't use. But not performance. Chromium is still faster in everything sadly.
Permanent failures, as these are being flagged, don't stay in the queue.
Genuinely curious, but why do you think those arrests would have peaked this year of all years otherwise?
I threw Pop_OS! on a Thinkpad for work and it's the best out of the box OS I've ever used.
Unfortunately, although the intentions are good, the additional restrictions imposed by GFDL creates a lot of compatibility problems in practice. Nowadays, the use of GFDL is no longer recommended by default. Unless you specifically need the unique features in GFDL, the best practice is to use Creative Commons 4.0, either CC BY or CC BY-SA (if you want stronger copyleft than CC BY-SA, even the use of GPL is better in terms of compatibility).

The most prominent problem is the invariant sections and cover texts. It allows certain sections in a work to be unchangeable, such as the front-cover and back-cover texts, so that the information in the original publication won't be distorted. While it's very reasonable for a standalone book, but it would be a violation of basic expetation of free software if the documentation is to be treated as a subsection of the software itself. Thus, Debian packages software documentation separately, and classifies all docs with invariant sections as "non-free software". Also, the most common practice to publish documents under GFDL is to say "it's published under GFDL [version], with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts" to avoid the issue. But if you already do this, you don't really need GFDL.

The second related problem is that the GFDL is an independent license, so it's incompatible with GPL in both directions. A GPDL manual cannot use GPL code, and a GPL program cannot use code from the GFDL manual. GPL code to a GFDL documentation is effectively proprietary, the only way to use them is invoke the rights of fair use, which only allows a very limited portion of code to be used. Another possible workaround is to dual-license all code in a GFDL manual.

Even Eben Moglen, lead lawyer of the FSF, believes it's problematic. He says GFDL to him is like gravity to quantum mechanics.

> [In GPLv3] By expressing LGPL as just an additional permission on top of GPL we simplify our licensing landscape drastically. It's like for physics getting rid of a force, right? We just unified electro-weak, ok? The grand unified field theory still escapes us until the document licences too are just additional permissions on top of GPL. I don't know how we'll ever get there, that's gravity, it's really hard.

And the third problem is a practical one, the requirement of all works, even for those without Invariant Sections and Cover Texts, to include a full copy of the GFDL license. Again, while it's very reasonable for a standalone book, but it would be unsuitable for other types of creative works, such as short reference materials, maps, tour guide, or photos. The classic example is Wikipedia, if a reader ever wants to copy a section of the article or a single photograph, the inclusion of the full text of GFDL is legality required. It's why Wikipedia soon migrated to Creative Commons + GFDL to avoid this problem.
> Got a popular page on Facebook? pay for it to be seen.

And if you stop paying Facebook will severely limit any organic traffic to your page. That should be illegal, unfortunately it is not being viewed as something serious, meanwhile Facebook gets showered with billions extracted out of small businesses.
That's why you get Windows 10 Pro instead of Windows 10 Home.
> Prop 13 allows the tax rate to be inherited.

No, it allows transfer of property to certain relatives without full-value reassessment. Rates aren't any different than anyone else in the same jurisdiction pays, it's the assessment that is the issue.
Incumbent consoles hardware refresh cycle is so horribly long due to lack of competition, that it holds the whole industry back and damages progress.

I tried the game on Linux (Wine + vkd3d-proton). Thanks to CDPR for at least giving the game to Wine and Mesa developers in advance, even though they could make a native Linux release already due to all the Stadia work.
the assumption is that there is some point where people need to be protected, the scenario I envisage is a point where it is extremely obvious because if there was an advertisement that could cause you to automatically buy it people would need to be protected or the company with the advertised product would soon have all the money and all their customers would end up enslaved to it. The question of course is if there are any less extreme scenarios where people need to be protected.

But I think the real question that needs asking here Winston, is when are you going to just give up and love Big Brother?
It's a Windows 10 Pro installation.
It wasn't feasible to build an effective decentralized social network until a few years ago. It's still not really feasible today but thousands of people are working on it and progress is being made.

I think email is a great example as it's a highly successful protocol that unifies most applications together. When you go to a website you sign up with your email. It's universal. You can guarantee that someone can interface with you via email in a way you can't with centralized services like Facebook. There have been some businesses that primarily work on Facebook but it's uncommon and they always have email as a backup. If you want to notify someone of something or provide an official service it will be over email. Email wins because it's decentralized, warts and all.
Whatever one _you_ aren't using yet.
Neverware's original business/idea was in enabling massive reuse of older, slower computers in the education space by making them thin client devices if I remember correctly (back when it was 5 guys working out of General Assembly). Anyway congrats Jonathan and crew. It's been a long journey
How many professionals need 144Hz to get work done?
Funny thing about Snowden's leaks is that the only meaningful outcome I can see of it is his exile. PRISM itself is still alive and well.
In one of the replies (or related tweets?), it seems QAnonites are close to orgasm with their speculations on what this means.

Also in the "related" tweets, users with the American flag emoji asserting things like Trump about to pardon Assange; that a state's voting machine and software will be audited; and that Trump won 274 EVs...

Long live Twitter! /s
> because he has been violently attacked in the past by them

Oh of course, how could I forget the milkshake that gave him brain damage? He's a liar and a partisan even moreso than the citizen-journalists being criticized in the thread.
> Tariffs and trade barriers are unpopular, and people who implement them are supposedly very bad.

Have you been watching the last four years?
The argument that since they're a private platform they should be able to do what they want. I don't think it's ever been a blanket argument globally because the concept of a private entity is very different from nation to nation.
Or the George Floyd video? Or the Eric Garner video? Or read about Breonna Taylor?
To be less subtle: it's to eliminate competition.

If my neighbor has a nice big cow, it's not crucial for me to obtain that cow for myself; it suffices that it die, while my cows live.
AT&T fiber also has a requirement to use their own router. You can treat it like a WAN and use your own equipment, but if you want to have your equipment directly connected to the Internet, you need to basically turn it into a zombie box. You use it to extract the authentication tokens for the EAP authentication AT&T requires, meaning it still requires power and you have to pay the monthly rental fee :(
Only because of multiple lawsuits and investigations. In 2013 the Obama DOJ kicked ofF Operation Choke Point to deny banking services to businesses that sold guns and ammo as well as a fair number of other types of business.
Never understood why they tried so hard to be the destination for offshoring instead of fostering home grown studios.

That and pitching Vancouver as an ideal HQ2 location since tech workers are worth ~50K less than in America[0]. Is this something that Canadians approve?

[0] https://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...
I see raggi has patched, is this what they’re using in Fuchsia?
What if I want my computer to not tell Google every single thing I am doing?
Even before Big Sur, the output to external monitors on MPBs was buggy as hell. My 2019 one wakes up from sleep, and its a 50/50 chance on the external monitor output working, causing me to have to unplug and replug the cable to get it to output.
I thought this was about zen coding and stuff like pug.
You missed the point if you thought Trump was about a personality cult. Lots of Americans tolerated his personality because they like the policy and the results:

He built over 500 miles of crime-stopping wall, raised tariffs on China, didn't attack a new country, appointed decent judges, appointed a wonderful person for the Department of Education, put an end to racist anti-American hate sessions at federal employers, improved the H1B visa situation, ditched the Paris Accord, cut our taxes, got that pipeline approved, stopped China from using NAFTA via Mexico, got several peace treaties signed, and cut lots of economy-choking regulations. Just before that virus hit, he got us to the lowest unemployment numbers in recorded history (half a century) for black people and he got income inequality to go down a bit for the first time in ages. He even signed the First Step Act, fixing the overly harsh sentences imposed on crack users by another Biden-sponsored law.

That's all policy that people wanted, not personality. I don't know if that is more reassuring or more terrifying for you.
I think fear of the dark isn’t so much childish but rather an antagonistic imagination that triggers your own flight response kind of like a panic attack’s negative feedback loop divorced from any idea that you were in danger.

I have a fear of the dark, for lack of a better term. I can put myself in the shoes of characters in horror movies and feel their fear. Meanwhile my girlfriend is incapable of it. Not because I somehow believe in things that go bump in the night (I don’t) and she doesn’t, but rather it’s some sort of mental quirk that she doesn’t experience.

I’ve embraced it, though. Whenever I’m doing something like solo camping or running through the woods at night, I like to enumerate terrifying scenarios and then when I get home, jot them into my notes app and sometimes stub them out into short stories that I submit to those scary story youtube channels or r/nosleep.

Anyways, I’ve thought a lot about why I would have this fear reflex while others don’t. Doesn’t seem to be much explanation. I’m in my thirties. Embrace the thrill.
Its nearly weekly we bump up against the limits of timeseries aggregation. Id take anything else foss at this point.
What, in your opinion, is the correct way to parse an email address?
>"that the regulation actually achieved beneficial privacy outcomes"

Russian regulation against corruption has not achieved the intended outcomes, therefore they should have no regulation against corruption at all?
Well, I would argue with "true" REST, all of your REST routes are specific, and generally therefore easy to optimize.
Yes ring is not perfect, the issue you mentioned, or things older releases being yanked just for being old don't make it easy to deal with. But it's robust in the supported cases and written by someone who has lots of experience building cryptography software. Just recently the rustls/webpki/ring stack passed a security review.
I do like macOS on a lot of levels (though I find myself "maximizing" windows a whole lot), but the external/multi monitor support has always been abysmal.

Why should many users have to buy SwitchResX to bludgeon the OS into "supporting" otherwise standard resolutions, too?
Can you not schedule updates on Pro? Or change the option to not automatically reboot?
Well, I'm a Brit, so the only response I can offer to much of your comment is that apparently enough of my fellow voters did feel strongly enough about these issues that Brexit was the result. Obviously not everyone agrees that leaving the entire organisation was a desirable or proportionate response to its perceived flaws, but that's what happened.

I'll address a couple of your other specific points directly.

You have a strange concept of what personal accountability means, why does the electorate need a direct method of removing an individual? How would that even work? Not to mention the issue that it turns the entire political system into little more than a popularity contest.

The argument is that representatives who have no credible accountability for their actions are free to misrepresent the people they supposedly act for. It creates a principal-agent problem.

As for how it would work, elections where individual candidates are personally supported by votes is one major factor. Powers of recall for representatives who fall far short of the expectations of their electorate are also not unusual, though obviously not universal.

And democracy is inevitably a popularity contest at first anyway. Only after someone has held office for a while can you judge them on their actions rather than their words. For example, when Johnson was elected in December 2019, I doubt many people voting for his party realised that the next year was going to be dominated by something very different to Brexit. At this point, if enough people felt that the Johnson government's response to the coronavirus situation was inadequate, a situation that was barely conceivable at the time the people last voted, is it not reasonable in a democracy that the people should be able to choose new leadership instead of enduring policies the current government had given no substantial indication about before the last election and any consequences they may have for public health?

I notice that in your previous comment, you talk about how terrible FPTP is, now your saying the PR is also bad. What exactly do you want?

I didn't say PR was bad in general. I said party list systems fail my criteria for individual accountability of representatives, which they do. I consider this a significant democratic deficit, and one which could have been avoided by using a better voting system at the relevant elections. Nevertheless, it still results in a more-or-less proportional representation, and in that respect it is clearly superior to FPTP.
Pretty easy to fully disable updates.
You can write whatever you want. Face velvet church daisy red. Person man woman camera television. Look mom, no hands!

Your comment was just pointless, unfair criticism. You start by pointing out that there exists a cheaper product that is broadly similar to Apple's new competitor. Then you claim that the latter probably won't exceed the quality of the cheaper product, and that even if it does, nobody could possibly want or need to pay the premium attached to that exceedance. So in the end you've put Apple in a box where their new product sucks no matter what, because it's not exactly the same as a product that already exists.

That's just obviously not valid, as previously noted—people pay a lot more than $550 for headphones that offer a lot less in the feature department than modern BT over-ear noise-cancellers. If you want to speculate on whether Apple will succeed in pushing the market higher in a way that makes sense for their business, that might actually be interesting, but you haven't offered anything nearly that substantive. It's just vague negativity of the kind that seeps out of the internet's pores whenever Apple releases something new, and it's usually wrong.
This is what I had in mind but admittedly I'm not an accountant, lawyer, or landlord so I don't know for sure :)
I don't like how locked down OS X is, but Windows is turning in to an absolute train wreck.

I would probably use a frozen in time Windows 7 indefinitely, but for the first time in my life, I'm seriously considering moving to desktop Linux.
> Tax codes, Health and Safety, Child Labour, Employee exploitation

These also apply to individuals.
Plenty of companies recognise contributions by handing out tokens that can't be cashed in immediately, that have a value that depends on the fortunes of the company, and that might fall in value precipitously. Just usually they name the tokens "stock options" or "pre-IPO shares"

I agree there are plenty of shitty practices in the games industry, of course.
I have that skill and have yet to see it highlight anyone. I have a feeling its just another bug where the ai can see you through walls.