skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Obama established the precedent that it's totally kosher to use flying death robots to murder US citizens without any semblance of due process. You just have to claim (but not actually produce any evidence or convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt) that they posed an imminent threat to the US.
> There are tons of game stores, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM provide a refund policy. Why would you whine about your game ? Just. Get. A. Refund.

Uh, what?

Until this announcement, SIE flat out refused people getting refunds. On Steam, you have to have played for less than 2 hours to qualify for a refund. Returns become extremely limited or downright impossible for opened physical games.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/17/22179460/cyberpunk-2077-r...

The fanboy army defending CDPR is honestly more annoying than people justifiably being upset with an unfinished, overhyped game.
Huh. That's a good trick, but I wonder what the reason is. What's going on under the hood with the location service?
"In chess, if you play a bit, you need patience, you need to imagine next possible moves, you need to manage your time and perhaps also your emotions.

It is this minimum (or perceived minimum) that makes the difference."

UNLIKE the work of doctors and lawyers (at least in good standing here in the US), there is no clear "minimum" in chess (or other sports), you are free to not think and lose as much as you desire. Plenty of people do not take games seriously. I concede that in order to have a elo/fide/uscf rating above something I consider competitive, say 90% percentile, you likely need those qualities.

Also sad blitz chess noises
> how do we effectively convince people this new type of vaccine is safe long-term?

Same as always: do a long-term clinical trial and look for any side effects.
It's called TOR. Pressure your web browser maintainers to support it (not that that will help without antitrust action, but the problem isn't lack of a technical solution).
Vote different people into office.
Most of the time, you want to bias for action and not require interacting with the rules to move forward. But "full consensus" has a problem with scale — the more eligible voting members you have, the more likely it is that you get a holdout on some issue.

There needs to be a process by which the concerns of minority factions are heard, which gives the majority a chance to accommodate those concerns rather than steamroll, but then eventually to move on after establishing workable consensus (as opposed to full consensus) despite the holdout. How do you get there — a majority-rule vote, a super-majority rule vote of x% of those voting? How long does the vote run? What's the escalation process? What entity has final say on technical disputes? And so on.

Rust is big enough and has been around long enough that it's certain many bitter disputes have arisen and been dealt with — there's surely an abundance of institutional expertise on resolving contentious issues. Nevertheless, it's in everyone's interest to avoid Balkanized, idiosyncratic, possibly suboptimal formal governance rules for the subgroups, so the process of "writing down the rules" should have the goal of producing one central set of canonical rules, possibly customizable, rather than many sets of potentially incompatible and superficially distinct rules.
Besides the obvious, I have an additional problem with AMP that I never see getting mentioned:
It completely fucks up redirects on mobile Safari. It requires two or three swipe back gestures to actually return to Google.
Not sure which one you're referring to but grains are seeds of grass.
The particle can observed, but this collapses the entanglement. If the key derived from entangled particles is bad, and communication does not work with the observed key, you know with high probability the particle collapsed pre-entanglement, and and you resync to agree on a new key. There is no way to tell without comparing (classical) communication whether or not your observation collapsed the key.

Most of the engineering effort is preserving the entanglement for farther travel from the source of entanglement.

Note: I'm using "key" here because it's presumed the shared state would refer to an encryption key, but you could use it for other types of communication (eg agreeing on a novel primary key for some common database).
> So we are told by the FED

What's that? Do you mean the Fed (short for “Federal Reserve”)

> that there is no inflation

The Fed doesn't produce inflation measures, it consumes them. It's the Bureau of Labor Statistics that produces the data indicating (e.g.) a 1.2% (not “no”) annual inflation by the main headline price index from Nov. 2019 through Nov. 2020.

> If this is not inflation then what is?

It is inflation in narrow specific markets; narrow markets often have rates of inflation very different than the broad aggregate measures. Relative prices of different goods are not fixed. Fed policy response primarily to broad price indexes, not any of the specific narrow markets you point to.
Our free tier will allow for a few users on an account. It does not have a limit on time or number of apps you can create.
Our standard subscription tier will support larger user volumes. We haven't set up the subscription management, so it is all free for now :)
Twitter tests 'humanization prompts' in effort to reduce toxic replies
All correct. But also, disturbingly Utilitarian. Release vaccines before they are tested, and withdraw those that cause more deaths than they save? Trading lives for lives, coldly.

There are costs to calculated Utilitarianism. The damage to public confidence in vaccines springs to mind. If a vaccine is provably killing 1% of those receiving it, yet saving the lives of 2% (and more once herd immunity is reached) it may raise some alarmist criticism (to say the least) over the safety and advisability of getting vaccinated. Making it harder to convince the public to get vaccinated at all.

Other costs are, mis-estimating the ultimate death toll may lead to killing more up front than was strictly necessary. Or the vaccine may have side effects down the road, shortening lives or diminishing quality of life (sterilization? memory loss? immune system compromises?).

Unless all the costs are factored in, Utilitarianism become a guess, and can be used to serve profit or social agendas. The law of unintended consequences will loom large.

We have a vaccine protocol for a reason.
The parent was probably confusing RNA with adenovirus which IIUC does deliver DNA that integrates itself into the genome. There are dozens of COVID vaccines under development right. Many of them are in fact DNA vaccines. To date they've only been approved for vaccinating dogs of rabies. The mRNA vaccines that companies like Pfizer are making have the advantage of not permanently changing the DNA in the target cells. Even with DNA vaccine it's not the end of the world. For example, herpes simplex (cold sores) is an example of a natural virus that integrates itself in the DNA. But it's localized and it's not something that your children are going to inherit. Another interesting fact is that the Pfizer mRNA vaccine and others are delivered using lipid nanobots rather than adenovirus which I think is cool. But DNA vaccines have even potentially cooler applications since it means the medical field might for once be able to offer cures to illnesses, rather than charging you for a pill every day.
I get that - I don't see him sitting down making spoof accounts, complaining on forums, etc :D
Umami-san!
RNA itself is suspicious because it's a major component of many viruses. So some kinds of RNA will activate the innate immune system strongly.
> So what?

It all hinges on whether you're willing to bet that the ranter is wrong about American's lack of knowledge about their history, the history of other nations/movements, etc.

If ranter is correct, then any mental snapshot you have of a "freer" America is extremely fragile and probably transient. Unless of course you want to be the contrarian who argues that awareness of history is somehow not part of "eternal vigilance."

If you want to argue that Americans' lack of historical knowledge is largely a myth and have some references about that, let's have the links. Hell, I'd certainly enjoy a December pick-me-up! :)
Mentions of the term “simp” across Twitch chat doubled following its ban
Is there a distinction between "letting it go" and "bottling it up"?
I felt the same.
What would be the definition of sapience for a machine civilization?
Kazakhian chief scientist Dr. Yamak will not like this. Especially now that Jonny the monkey (greatest national movie star http://jonnythemonkey.com/) disappeared they must try to shut down access to international online movie theater to prevent rise of foreign influence!
Ubisoft execs laughing their asses off right now
I haven't used PyCharm or WebStorm (you mention Python & Typescript, so I guess you're using them), only Rider and peripheral products like dotMemory and dotTrace. I mainly use Rider on Windows, but occasionally use it on MacOS too.

I've encountered the odd issue with EAP versions of Rider (to be expected of course), but the release versions have been rock solid. Coming from Visual Studio, it's been a godsend!
Similar problems were in GTA V PC version, people hated it for it until they fixed them 6 months later.

But xbox/ps crowd were happy because they got that game over a year earlier and with not such big bugs.

Here it is different PC gamers got a better game and mostly console players are complaining.
Thanks. It was inspired by an Uncle Bob example.
Apple's ideal business model is very similar to the model employed for cloud based Internet services, save that they want it to apply to all computer hardware and software, not just those services that are a good fit for cloud hosting.

While it can be argued that such a service model can have benefits for both the provider and the consumer, Apple has historically engaged in anti-consumer behavior and continues to do so.

So no, this sort of thing is not to improve anything for anyone but Apple.
PPE too. We still don't have N95s for the public or in some areas even the medical professionals.

If we had a different administration in the USA we may have been able to conquer that quickly with sheer cash and coordination since the knowledge how to build melt blown N95 machines is there. For whatever reason we just didn't.
One common search I often compare is searching for a specific topic on Reddit. Google is really annoying there because of AMP but if you search something like “3d printing layer shift Reddit” you will get a full page of results from Reddit and they are relevant. DDG will return about 3 even though there are clearly more, and the rest aren’t Reddit results. So for this kind of search Google produces better results but shittier experience. Still, I will take DDG for this and switch to Google if I really can’t find what I need in the first three results.
The idea that AGPL will "rightfully worry" potential contributors is FUD spread by Google to decrease uptake of the AGPL. AGPL rightfully worries potential freeloaders such as Amazon and Google that want to profit off of proprietary forks of Free Software packages without contributing back to the community.
And when did you need to join to get .01%?

First 200 people? So 2011 or so?
As my career has progressed, I've moved to places with less and less BS and more grownups. Maybe it helps that I'm not in web apps. Or maybe I've been looking for places like that. Maybe some of both.
Next step, ever watched "15 million merits", an episode of Black Mirror? If you close your eyes, an excruciating sound requires you to open them again and continue watching.
You're right this is about avoiding bad press on Sony (or the need for Sony to revise their return policy), but it's also about Sony as a publisher enforcing their relationship with studios.

Sony's return policy for digital isn't consumer-friendly and something I want to defend, many call it a "no refunds" policy, as if you start the game even once you can't get a refund. But as publisher it's their right, and within their interest, to enforce it. It's not up to studios to unilaterally change it.

On Dec 13th, CPDR issued the tweet/statement, "For copies purchased digitally, please use the refund system of PSN or Xbox respectively."[0]

The next day at an investor call, investors asked them if they had a special refund agreement with Sony and Microsoft. They said they didn't. [1]

Then the next public statement from either was Sony saying it's removed. The next statement from CPDR was to investors but was leaked, essentially saying they met with Sony and Sony told them it was being removed.[2] Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that meeting.

Microsoft has also said full refunds for anyone who requests, matching Sony.[3]

[0] https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1338390123373801472...

[1] https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2020/12/c...

[2] https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/CD-PROJEKT-SA-Czasowe-wstrz...

[3]https://twitter.com/XboxSupport/status/1339983452255498240
That's a misleading description. To me it feels more like an Ubisoft open-world game (big, shallow and buggy) than Deus Ex.
One of the recurring complaints is with the open-worldiness of CP2077 not being very developed: Police that instantly appear behind you, pedestrians that walk through cars, etc. These are the types of things that mean the world is less a system to interact with than a glorified maze to navigate.

There are really two things that happened, but they have the same underlying cause: The premises of the game weren't spelled out coherently. That allowed the production to get out of hand, and the hype to grow to unmanagable expectations and buyers to feel betrayed when it wasn't what they imagined.

Even the broad title "Cyberpunk" is suggestive of impossible scope, in the way that Microsoft has "Word" and "Office" - it would, at first glance, be claiming to cover all possible aspects of the cyberpunk experience. But it's actually an old TTRPG license, and so right off the bat the game is hamstrung in catering to 21st century consumer expectations by also having to incorporate the nostalgic mechanics and lore of a 20th century design.
I like it. Just have one call out. The text feels too large and too bold on mobile. Any chance it could look like this? Probably the best example of mobile friendly, minimalist content —> hckrnews.com
I don't think moral considerations are going to have much influence on this particular decision. I suspect this will be more of a fiscal matter.
Same as for humans. Or a hive mind, or some other type.
I did some reading on this back when this was all announced, and wrote it down on Twitter. This tweet [1] links to a Nature paper that describes applying mRNA vaccines to cancer. If you scroll up, you'll also see pointers to other papers that I found along the way when I was learning about mRNA vaccines in general.

[1] https://twitter.com/john_lam/status/1333632894720380929
Xcode opens in seconds for me, and my projects are massive. Sure, it can be slow to do certain things, but its startup time is generally ahead of every Java-based IDE I have every used.
Sure, but how? That's been the question for 250 years.
Except when it is aliens.
You're not understanding the market though. You're talking about it like it's a tool. Instead, it's entertainment and hype - a combination people emotionally invest in.

They're not upset the tool can't do the job; they're upset that their emotions are left hanging. It's a movie without a climax. It's Game of Thrones. A refund doesn't touch on the core of why people are upset with Cyberpunk in the same way that a refund wouldn't matter for the people upset with the last season of Game of Thrones.

Marketing for Hype is a dangerous game. CDPR is experiencing the result of emotion based sales when combined with under delivering.
Then the constitution is truly alive! Or perhaps undead...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
Homomorphic Encryption for Security of Cloud Data
You are also missing the eco-system part, having just a bare bones GUI support isn't enough.

A sucessful Rust GUI also needs the likes Telerik, Component ONE and similar third party vendors with GUI component libraries.
No-one is so entitled as the person who just got something for free
That's not what I mean. I mean the burden of proof and due process is the same as if I sued you for, e.g., injuring or stealing from me.
I would argue that Mankind Divided is just a single open world level.

I would argue the same about Cyberpunk. It’s a bigger Poland from Mankind. That’s not bad at all.
Fine. Limit the number, make it an auction, use that money to buy vaccines for the poor.
The environmentally-conscious side of me hates this: Single use, tax stamped containers that, once opened, cannot be resealed or reused. Theoretically, ne wouldn't have any trouble because possession is legal/decriminalized. If any drugs are found in a search by police that aren't in the state-approved containers, they are confiscated and destroyed, but the possessor is obviously not charged with anything. Problem solved, mostly.

I also don't care about any difficulties the purveyors of state-backed violence (police) may encounter as a result of this. They can spend their budgets that way instead of purchasing weapons of war. Win win win.
They turned Apple down in 2005 to make the iPhone processor.

They've been shooting themselves in the foot toe by toe for a while.

I hope they come back for a while though, I mean at least to like $55/share for undisclosed personal reasons.
Americans aren’t given a free choice thanks to their two-party system.
"No one, VC or angel, has invested in more of the top startups than Ron Conway. He knows what happened in every deal in the Valley, half the time because he arranged it.

And yet he's a super nice guy. In fact, nice is not the word. Ronco is good. I know of zero instances in which he has behaved badly. It's hard even to imagine."

— Related PG article[0]

[O]: http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html
Interesting - and I stand corrected - thanks.
Go 1.16 Beta 1
Don't downplay the safety. Phase 1 can fail because of lack of immune response OR safety concerns. Phase 2 and 3 trials are also about safety, and both of them somewhat often fail because of safety issues.

A vaccine can make a disease worse by priming the immune system to overreact and attack the entire body when a single cell is infected.

The more we know about a vaccine the more confident we are. The flu vaccine is changed every year without long safety studies: we have learned enough about how people response to the flu vaccines in use to not need them anymore. When the same process is used to make a non-flu vaccine though we still have to start over because there isn't any way to be sure.

You are quickly getting beyond my area of knowledge though. I didn't answer all of your questions because I don't know.
Quoting historical figures is one way to maintain freedom. The other is, a culture of resistance to infringement on personal liberty. Which America has in spades.
Doesn't that seem reasonable though? Pay for the software you're using?

I don't see the problem, other than the hospital not keeping tabs on what they'd installed.
Criminal prosecutions are for the condemnation of moral wrongdoing. Law serves many functions aside from that.
I personally expect those plans to be dropped or cut back relatively soon as Trump leaves office. I don't think the 2024 date for this plan was at all a coincidence. Taiwan is extremely shifty about their semiconductor tech leaving the island. Of course, 5nm would be very outdated by then either way.
Yes, all of our physics only works if we assume that there is a maximum physical speed, which only massless particles like light can even reach. QM is perfectly consistent with this well-confirmed observation.
hey thank you for the comments!

1) I've been focused on building it and hadn't thought much about open source or what that would look like until recently. I'd like to understand how similar projects that went open source did it and what the challenges were etc.

2) Definitely agree, I created it but haven't posted, today is probably a good day for that! I will make a post shortly! https://twitter.com/sqwokapp

Thank you!
The PlayStation store will only issue a refund if you haven't started downloading the game or the game is "faulty", which they don't define and may be hard to prove. The Xbox store refund policy is less clear but it is certainly not an guaranteed refund.

PlayStation Store: "you have 14 days from purchase to request a refund. If you have started to download or stream the purchased content you will not be eligible for a refund unless the content is faulty." https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/store/ps-store-ref...

Xbox Store: "All sales of Digital Game Products are considered final, but we understand there may be extenuating circumstances. When you request a refund for these products, and depending on the purchase or content type in determining refund eligibility, we consider a variety of factors like time since date of purchase, time since release, and use of the product." https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/subscriptions-billing/bu...

Edit: Now that they are offering refunds, you are correct. People should stop complaining and just take their refund.
I strongly believe their single user license was responsible for a lot of their success.

One of the dynamics that has made open source such a juggernaut is a consequence of the 'give a man a little power': Those with the purse strings making strategic decisions for the company without considering the benefits of buying a piece of software.

"I won't pay for that." could be answered with "That's okay, it's free!"

Jetbrains isn't free, but the license explicitly binds the copy to your person, not your location or computer. I can have my private copy running at work and left open on my personal computer at home.

You won't pay for my IDE? That's okay, I already have a license.
Regardless, it does really all come down to what your compute need is, and specialized metrics for somewhat odd-ball cases can sometimes still heavily favor Intel for the money.

Thanks for your comments! I didn't previously fully comprehend how the AVX modes and pipeline widths mattered for AES.
Its a fork of Cpython interpreter right?
Yeah love Zach's Github repo, I hope that a longer exercise window becomes the norm as more companies offer it to stay competitive.
Thanks for poking around to find more info on Juicebox. I've put together a few videos showing how to build simple things in the platform: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTTtxSPAWvrjlDdCHz0ktcQ/vid...
We are explicitly not trying to replicate Tableau (or PowerBI) functionality. We've heard people asking for something that is simpler, lightweight, and more focused on the presentation and explanation of data. In contrast, those tools are focused on deep-dive analysis and exploration. It is kind of like the difference between PowerPoint and Excel.
Your cost calculation may be off but the point about competition is spot on
Note: the assertion that the experience of plague caused Shakespeare to change the ending of King Lear is really just speculation by one scholar. The evidence is circumstantial in the extreme.

We know rather little about Shakespeare’s biography or inner life, and after two centuries of people combing over every scrap of archival evidence they can find we are not likely to discover much more. Which is fine by me really - just read the plays! But it doesn’t prevent these kinds of rather clickbaity claims to have uncovered something.