skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No reason to not give the bonuses when accomplishments are recognized then, instead of tying it to the team's success at a singular date (delivery). It forces everyone to work in overdrive. It's plainly not a personal contribution/performance bonus at all. If CDPR makes a bad hire that causes a delay (even outside of development, like marketing?), then everyone suffers for that from a lack of a bonus.

This is particularly shitty when combined with the stress and demands and low pay of the game industry as it is.

Also, super curious if the tokens can be forged. Can I just show up at the end of release with 50 tokens and cash in? Surely they were tracking it elsewhere, making the tokens useless.
The game has an overwhelming amount of very detailed content in the main job and side jobs, and also provides plenty of flexibility in combat if you explore the various upgrade systems. It's an evolution of the Witcher 3, not Grand Theft Auto. Better driver AI and haircuts would be cool, but they're not central to what the game is.
Hush, you'll scare the shiny eyed faang wannabies away, they aren't supposed to know this until employed for at least two decades.
I wonder if any companies will cut off new signups at 9.99% of population
This illustrates an issue that I’ve noticed for a while (separate from the discussion about porn websites)- we can either have truly free markets everywhere or we can have strong regulation everywhere, but trying to mix both causes conflicts. In a free market, Pornhub could just use a different payment processor. But because of the strict regulation in the financial market, there are very few payment options, and Visa and Mastercard can abuse their oligopoly. To fix this, we can either lower the bar to entry in the financial markets, which would mean that Visa and Mastercard couldn’t be gatekeepers to payments. Or we could force stronger regulations on the financial market and force them to do business with everyone unless given an offer by the government to stop, and probably cap their rates so they can’t abuse their oligopoly with pricing schemes either.

What’s funny is that most people would disagree with one of my proposed solutions and agree with the other, depending on who the affected parties are. Blocking payments to a porn website? A lot of people applaud this on a moral stance. Refusing to make a cake for a gay couple? A lot of those same people condemn this action. But they are very similar actions once you take away the emotional pleas.

I guess what I’m trying to get at is that we can’t have one solution on day one and then switch to another solution on day two. Trying a mix is how we created these problems. I could expand but I think I’ll leave it here before I get to political.

Edit: I guess I should acknowledge that a fully regulated market is inefficient and slow, and that’s part of the reason communism/socialism ended in the collapse of the USSR. A fully deregulated financial market would probably mean some shady payment processors would pop up and take advantage of people. But what we have right now allows a small group of unelected people to make decisions for us by taking advantage of the situation they’ve lobbied for. I guess you have to decide whether you like this status quo or if you want to try an alternative.
I said incumbent, but I meant the opposite. Stupid me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0 Raspberry pi in a NES cart. No reason you couldn’t add netplay to this.
Tspreed – terminal (Posix) speed reader with Spritz-like functionality
It was interesting to read. There aren't many google results for 'multiple demand network' that I could easily parse, but I did happen to find this paper on it in primates[0] (also happens to be from MIT) when I was trying to find an image that showed what parts of it are activated. I found this slide from a lecture very interesting[1].

[0]: http://web.mit.edu/9.s915/www/classes/duncan.pdf
[1]: https://i.imgur.com/xdYzbev.png
His and her no longer correlates to biological sex, so what does it matter anymore. Pronouns can mean whatever you want them to mean.
Just did some tests on Firefox 83 and DOM reflow time grows exponentially with the depth of DOM tree. With grid elements of depth 10 single reflow takes seconds on my Ryzen laptop while on chromium is not noticable at all.
If your basis for processing private data is consent, then under GDPR one of the conditions on consent is that consent has to be freely given, it can't be traded for something.

In essence, under EU law privacy is an unalienable right, it's not something that can be freely contractually sold away (alienated) by the users. If you have a contract where users agree to allow you to do whatever with their data because you give them $100 or show some content, then that does not fit the definition for consent according to GDPR, and this contract does not - can not - give you the right to process their data as you wish; that particular clause in the contract is effectively void, the users are "selling" something they can't legally sell.

If some data is required to fulfil your contractual obligations to the user (for example, processing their address to deliver pizza), then that is a legitimate use under GDPR 6.1.b which does not require consent, but if you'd want to use the same data for some other purpose (for example, using that same address for targeting advertising or giving it to a third party) then the contractual need clause 6.1.b wouldn't apply, you'd be stuck with 6.1.a (consent) and that is valid only if it's a genuine free choice without some benefit or service being conditional on providing "consent".

So you technically are allowed to block access to your site to people who don't click a checkbox "I agree to stuff", however, if you do so then clicking that checkbox does not constitute freely given consent, so it can't give you any rights to use the data for any of the people who checked that checkbox, for the purposes of GDPR that checkbox is simply meaningless if access to your site was conditional on it. So the users have the right to (and will) file complaints about illegitimate use of their data right after clicking the "I agree to stuff" checkbox.
I agree that most non-photographers probably couldn’t reliably predict if a 3x3” image came from a phone or larger-format camera, but my suspicion is that subconsciously people will think the image with features like true narrow DoF “look better” even if they can’t articulate why.
Was excited to see one of my friends featured on the homepage! What a small world. Ha!
This is a question that has two answers

1. Not good

2. I have fiber

Obviously generalization and I don’t care if someone has 2008 DSL and it “runs awesome”.
The parallels to Asia are very accurate. Which does seem to be where a lot of counties are heading. Perhaps soon, most of the world will be as good at controlling misinformation as China is.
While I agree with the theory of what your saying, I'm not so sure it matches the reality.

If it did, then why is Facebook moving the data? There would be no benefit. Also it's currently not clear that it's actually legal to move EU citizen data to the US, because the EU doesn't thing the US has strong enough privacy protections.

I know that EU citizen data is in the US, and people keep coming up with clever legal structures to make it legal. But those structures keep getting ruled illegal by EU courts.
Sure, if a compiler can do that with 100% certainty, it can use a register for it. However that '100%' comes after it treats &a as a pointer until the very moment it is '100%' sure.

Also FWIW i was referring to C, not C++. C pointer optimizations can easily chop off your leg, C++ basically adds poison just in case you survive the blood loss.
> Removing apex predators and using human hunters instead has no side effects that are harmful to humans.

Thats not true, apex predators perform a valuable service by keeping the prey populations in check. Without them, humans would have to go hunt which is additional labor. Also its clear that humans wouldn't be able to hunt the same populations in the same amounts in the same way, which would have effects on the prey population, which would affect the rest of the ecosystem.

> Yet, this idea would not fly in the west.

Any ecologist could explain the above, it has nothing to do with the west.

> Yet westerners would justify it with completely unsubstantiated "oh there are other imbalances that we can't forsee", at best.

This is also a useful heuristic that is borne out of experience when we intervened in the ecosystem and discovered second order unintended consequences that no one could have foreseen. However in the case you mentioned, there are easily identifiable negative consequences that make it unnecessary to rely on the "least affect possible" heuristic.

> That's just a start. A human-centric approach would see little value in other ecosystems which evolved with humans completely outside of the picture and have nothing to do with humans.

There are none, at least not on Earth.

> Humans are a part of very specific parts of very specific ecosystems. Most of others have nothing to do with humans and at best are a nuisance and potential disease risk, at worst are directly detrimental.

This is incorrect. They provide a check on disease by encouraging competitor organisms through biodiversity. They provide a future stock of biological goods and biological inputs for industrial goods that will be used when discovered to be useful. They also interact with our ecosystem because all the ecosystems are connected and make one planet-Earth-sized ecosystem.

> It can be argued that some of them may be of medicinal value but it can also be argued that they could be breeding ground for future pandemics.

They are however the other organisms are busy evolving responses to these potential pandemic-causing organisms and that both keeps them in check and allows us to use those organisms to respond to the pandemics when they (inevitably) arise. Pandemics and plagues are more prevalent with less biodiversity because there is less competition once an organism evolves a means to take advantage of a vulnerability.

> Yet, even talking about this to westerners who are otherwise "believers of evolution" and "anti-Christianity" will hit deep sentiments and they'll be seen grasping at straws to justify their position... which could be anything... any position is OK as long as it is pro saving all the species that Noah intended to save.

You're pursuing this pet idea of yours to the exclusion of the facts and values of the people who address these ideas regularly.
Could you elaborate please. I don't understand the issue surely you could model this on the backend and serve it via GraphQl?
Or simply trying to roll something out again, same that failed before.
Among the most federally independent states listed are New Jersey and Illinois, two pretty much bankrupt states who depend on the possibility of a federal bailout to keep borrowing money at reasonable interest rates. So, I think this stat is kinda bunk.
The AI is super dumb and buggy, it can't deal with sniper rifles and smart guns.

I'm playing on hard and other than the lucky shot when I'm doing content 10+ levels above mine (based on the level of the drops since you can't see NPC levels easily) I feel pretty invincible.

The cyberware launchers are also dumb as fuck no cooldown and infinite ammo you can just sit there and spam rockets all day and as long as you take the perk that makes you immune to your own grenade damage you can use them in CQC also.

The game looks great, the story is pretty good and CDPR really nails voice acting and direction but the actual game mechanics are retarded as fuck, everything seems unbalanced there is no real difficulty because you can heal as much as you like (you won't run out of meds) and hide behind cover without anyone rushing you and with smart guns that unlock way too early you can basically shoot at enemies without looking at them, aiming at them and when they are behind cover (that is if you get bored with 1 shoting enemies with the big bore sniper rilfes since they get 3-5 headshot damage multiplier which is enough to kill enemy of pretty much any level in this game with early level guns).

They really need to look at how Mass Effect solved combat...

A few hours in and I'm already invincible and I also found basically an infinite money trick, craft the blue incendiary grenades that cost 1 uncommon crafting item and 1 uncommon upgrade item and they disassemble into rare crafting items and money is no longer a problem either.

Oh and the driving which is supposed to be a big part of the game is so terrible I rather walk and use fast travel because the car handling makes driving painful it takes you like half a mile to stop and the cars start to drift if you as much as look sideways.

I don't know how much time it would take them to fix it but there is no way that these issues haven't been brought up in testing all previous CDPR games had balance issues but because all combat was essentially melee or within melee range you couldn't cheese that easily (well unless you went into a quen spec in the TW3 early patches, then you had an invincibility bubble that would damage enemies and heal you...).

This game is like 3-6 months away from release on all platforms, it's not just performance and technical issues the core game elements aren't anywhere near ready.
There are many ways I'd describe Amazon's UIs, but intuitive is certainly not one of them.
>Fewer regulations should be the goal.

That goal is lost while regulatory capture is the norm.

Others say "better regulations protecting people should be the goal"

That goal is lost while regulatory capture is the norm.

Whatever our cause, without reform of the norm of regulatory capture, our cause is lost.

I'd much rather reform that corruption and the "other side" win power than "my side" win with the corruption raging on.

I'd love it if most people felt the same way about it and were willing to switch voting from Sanders style democratic socialism to Amash style libertarianism to get it done. Or the other way. I'm not sure what's more important politically right now. The corruption disease rages on with a change in ruling party.
I don't think it's another kettle of fish, I think it's exactly what this article is about — the only reason for them to make this change is as a pre-cursor to a divergence in the UK/EU privacy laws (EU further strengthening their laws after Brexit, or UK weakening theirs).

They've given a vague statement to defend this being necessary — "Like other companies, Facebook has had to make changes to respond to Brexit" — even though Reuters point out Twitter as an example of a company _not_ making a change like this.

Also, Facebook haven't explicitly said that they won't treat data differently to EU citizens, but that "There will be no change to the privacy controls or the services Facebook offers to people in the UK", which is subtly different.
Logically you'd expect unsubscribe to only act after lots of bounces of this format when the address has been receiving mail fine before. It also seems reasonable not to trust such bounces for the entire domain for a while when this happens to lots of other addresses that have worked fine before. Not that I expect software currently works this way, but it does seem like a common sense thing to code in.
Looks like an unusable mess for C++, this seems to be common problem with all of these crypto libraries-- just too many files and too complex of a build system(shocker not everyone uses CMake).
I speculate that for many companies, work from home has been at most, less impacting than they thought.

However, I'd speculate that in this instance, when you get that .0001% problem, less hands on deck makes work from home aspects less easier. Akin to remotely fixing somebodies PC over standing behind them.

With that premise I'd speculate in this instance that whilst not the root cause, may of been a small ripple that led to that root cause and/or lead to a slower resolution than what would normally get.

Those speculations aside, it will only highlight what that some tooling needs to adjust for remote workers as does design and set-ups more. Water cooler talk is not just for gossip and a counter would be more regular on-line group socialising at a work level so that not only the companies but the workers can fully adapt and embrace the work medium; But so the kinks and areas that need polishing can be polished and made better for all.

Lastly, I'd speculate that I'm totally wrong and yet what I said may well anecdote with some out there and resonate with others.
The Google Pixel camera app does stacking to decrease noise and improve dynamic range. They only apply it to areas of the image that haven't moved between frames. If I had a PinePhone and some extra time it would be fun to implement the HDR+ algorithm.
Wikipedia is pretty up to date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
More than one: 𓂸 𓂹 𓂺
is there a product you could use, like a cache layer for gmail? An investor I know would love that product. I understand things go down, but it's actually quite a pain to lose access to your existing emails and calendar events. Could he just use a Mail app like Outlook? Yes. But that's too complicated to set up I think.
Out of all the companies Google might be relying on in their back-end, I think Oracle is probably pretty far down the list.
> So why did the management still decide to go ahead with the release this year?

The game should have been delayed until Xmas 2021 but CDPR probably had contracts they couldn't break with Sony, Xbox, or maybe even Nvidia.
Except the UK and US security agencies share data freely through the Five Eyes alliance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Mastodon, does not operate above the ability of a nation state to block Mastodon.

At the info tech department of a large flagship university recently, (and for reasons that are a bit salacious), there was a need to block mastodon servers on campus and some coming from off campus. It was almost as easy as the flip of a switch to turn it off. If a university can do it on their network, it's a virtual certainty that a nation state can do the same.
I love that quote and throw it around pretty often to great grievance of my colleagues.
I never really got on the regex train, I get the use-case but I think they are abused and most people should be writing some kind of parser instead. We even live in the age of parser combinators so why wouldn't use that? I find that the majority of the people attracted to regexes don't understand parsing.

But by all means use them for a quick hack or script.
Yeah. It's pretty obvious. It's quite interesting how more games end up like that. Final fantasy 15 was restarted twice as well. And it ended up having potential but alas it was unfinished.
I see that they stopped supporting 32-bits architecture though
> Just across the border, you dont pay city income tax, but you pay absurd property tax.

Well, how good a deal that is depends on your household AGI versus the value of the property you own/rent in each location.
Nine copies would be better, of course.
> It's glitchy, it's buggy, it doesn't run well unless you have an RTX card and DLSS enabled. And that's barely passable.

I haven't found this to be true. it took a bit of playing around with the settings, but with dynamic fidelityFX, I am getting great image quality on my 1080 ti at 4K, sitting right around 50 fps.
They don't. The browser just adapts.
Not sure if I mentioned this last time this topic came up, but I wondered about the idea of making a keyboard that had keys that deliberately sounded detectably different. Then you could make it wireless and battery free simply by using the computers mic and perhaps a simplified version of these methods, as the challenge would be reduced by the more distinct key sounds. It wouldn't really need much of the key signal electronics either. More a thought experiment than a practical device I suspect!

Presumably the trick would be finding a non-annoying way for the sounds to differ (perhaps if it was beyond human hearing). Of course it would be totally insecure, so not safe for Twitch videos without redacting the audio (but a tool could know what to remove that detail too)
Simple solution would be to ask the user what they want. I genuinely don't understand why this is not common instead of trying to guess it.
Uneducated speculation, some sort of security incident. Whenever there is a major security issue in the wild, one of the big providers tends to have a problem within a few days.
Not my main phone, no. There's definitely tinkering required, but it's become very usable compared to when I got it back in January.

If the cost was no concern for me, I'd buy a KDE convergence kit right now!
SolarWinds hides list of high-profile customers after devastating hack
Some providers provide great pricing and service, but please, unless your project is a hobby project, do not use DO's storage and CDN solution (called Spaces) in production. Made that mistake once and caused a lot of headache and regret. In fact, if you're considering DO at all for production, subscribe to their status page for a steady stream of incidents to your inbox. And if it's not an incident, it a 2-day long "maintenance" that gets announced literally one minute before it starts. I've stayed subscribed partially for the comedy of it at this point (migrated away from DO a while ago). DO engineering and devops must be a lively place.

As for the pricing reason, part of it is reliability, but part is that all of the other product offerings (which are available at the big players and not elsewhere) are subsidized by these costs that everyone needs. For example, Amazon Cognito is dirt cheap, why do you think that is? Come for the X, Y, Z and make us money back through storage/egress.
MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2B to 384 organizations
> Regulatory capture is utterly rampant right now and a huge threat to democracy.

Rampant in the US. The EU has managed to avoid the worst of it so far.
Or they could've used a formally verified crypto library such as HACL*.
> ...near zero supply chain expertise. I'd say you absolutely cannot do any manufacturing in serious commercial volumes without at least 10 engineers hired just to do supply chain management full time.

As a small manufacturer with less than 10 engineers total (though in industrial automation, not B2C electronics), how do "real" electronics manufacturers do supy chain management?

We did a "small" run of a little machine that went from our usual quantity 1-3 units to quantity 100, and the strain it put on engineering was intense. Usually we just sent purchasing a BOM, this was something else. You have to be an engineer to comprehend the specs and requirements that engineering sends to you, you have to be in finance/management to understand tradeoffs of quality, savings in volume, and time, and you have to do grunt-work just to keep track of it all and keep communication and relationships active. The result was that design engineers were spending a ton of time on supply chain management long after the design had ended; do bigger shops have engineers who spend all day on the phone asking "where's my stuff" or surfing Alibaba?
CDPR is paying their staff the full bonus for Cyberpunk 2077 due to the circumstances of the release.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/cd-projek...
The Embarrassing State of Enterprise Acme Support
rclone -P copy GDrive:folder S3:bucket

https://forum.rclone.org/t/copy-files-from-google-drive-to-s...
Because I want to. It’s my job, and I’d like to keep it. I take great pride in my position. I do graphics programming myself, and those jobs aren’t exactly numerous.

Quitting is for cowards.
Many years ago I had some fun with PostScript: https://chris.pacejo.net/stuff/postscript/index

Hunt the Wumpus I'm most proud of, but you need to run it on a PS-enabled printer, or in GhostScript. The BrainFuck interpreter, prime number calculator, and the larger quine all produce paper output on modern systems (just tested in Preview on macOS).