skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One travesty to me is that high school AP courses are so much more rigorous than every single other alternative for college credit. 10 months straight reserved for the local overachievers, with a suspenseful lead up to a third party test that determines their future. A future which is ultimately no different from college-bound people that coasted and chilled through high school, and a professional future that isn't much different from everyone there.

The actual college course is 3-4 months and may just have only a midterm that you need to show up for, or less.

The AP exam and equivalents you can actually self-study for, so the overachievers congratulating themselves for 10 months straight would probably be equipped to use their time more wisely if they already have the discipline and support system.
NASA's Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Cautionary notes on PCB artwork from a PCB assembly expert:

http://zentroidpickandplace.com/Pcb/Artwork.html
I like how they made the article skimmable (summaries, topic sentences).

I might be helpful to consider goals as not coming first.

In my own thinking, I often/deeply use the acronum PVSGEER, for things like having Purpose, Vision, Strategy, Goals, Empowerment, Execution, Review/Report/Revise/Repeat. I've written more elsewhere, but having purpose in life can drive so many other things, and give one a direction that supports changes in goals. A late university president & former US solicitor general (Rex Lee) said he had given up on setting goals because...something like...life changed in unexpected ways, and he was grateful and accepted opportunities that arose. But having purpose first of all would give us a way to navigate that.

Vision is what the outcome looks like (and can also change as we learn & mature). Strategy is like a map of the terrain (per S.R. Covey, IIRC). I don't think of "SMART" Goals because too often there are things that (should? or must) change short-term plans, but there might be something to learn there, but I do have plans & careful priorities as goals, and try to enjoy working on them and making constant progress. And so on.

But it starts with purpose, which in my view/experience/beliefs solves many, many problems (for me and all I have observed, which I tend to do much of). If one's religion does not provide that purpose, one might consider helping to lift humanity, finding joy through both growth (learning, improvement) and unselfish service to others, employing always honesty and treating others as oneself would want to be treated.

(Edit: and it seems loosely relevant: Tolstoy said something like "All happy families are alike, and all miserable families are miserable in their own way". I think there is much to that: multigenerational unselfish service in a widening circle brings greater sustainability and peace. Seeing what families' and/or cultures' traits allow them to persist over time is interesting.)

Edit2: having an honest job that is not dream-related, to support a family or help others, is very honorable and can bring happiness with great fulfillments over time. Many very grateful people (such as in my extended family) are alive and educated and functioning because someone honest and diligent went to work every day, and/or diligently cared for, taught, and encouraged them every day! And if those parents ever need things like a place to stay or basic resources, multiple of those grateful people would certainly strive to provide it. (That's another big subject I've written about, more for another time...)
FWIW I came into the game expecting basically nothing. I'm not a gamer, don't read gaming news and don't get hyped. I just knew that this was an RPG made by CD Projekt Red.

And I think largely thanks to not expecting anything, I was quite pleasantly surprised. It was my first game with RTX which was cool to see and as you said, it's basically a new Deux Ex game, a series which I love.

The main storyline was a bit short and unfulfilling but the gameplay itself has been quite satisfying.
DMCA counter claims do not force a restore, it just permits the host to restore without personal liability for infringement (as the uploader takes on the full legal liability for the material, and often need to identify themselves in the process).
I liked the article, but best yet is to know that this website, failory.com, exists. I am a big fan of stories about failure, I find them much more informative than stories about success.
That's exactly what I was thinking! Running far too much into fandon, this holds also for the fictional 'pattern buffer'. It has to examine the original AND communicate that state back to the duplicate quick enough or the 'clone' will be inaccurate, maybe even enough to kill someone a la Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Thanks! See also https://xstate.js.org/docs/#why
Dev.to data to warehouse in less than 25 lines of code
From OP:

>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency in charge of worker safety, has recommended that death-care workers suspend autopsy procedures for victims of covid-19 until more is known about the infection dangers after death, citing “the potential for very high viral load.”

https://ncbfs.org/wp-content/uploads/covid19/OSHA-Guidelines...
Hmm, no. The supreme court is not the only arbiter of that.

The president and congress are just as sworn to upheld it, and with respect to several portions of it (e.g. impeachment) are the only arbiters of what it means. With the rare exception of cases where the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction [1] - congress is even allowed to replace the Supreme Court with a new final court of appeals. The Supreme Court has surprisingly little constitutional power if Congress decides to sideline them.

[1] > In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction

[2] (Emphasis added) > In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
> It Took Two Days

The virus started spreading in 2019 ...
> Every graph can be represented by a 2-dimensional tree.

do you have a good reference for this encoding? i vaguely recall seeing something like this in a paper, but can't remember any specifics
Yeah, honestly, I don't need a signup, I need to see how I can integrate this into my company's workflow.
Indeed there is a “no cloning theorem”.

Iirc it essentially comes from the fact that time evolution is linear, and a function that sends stateOfIntetest \otimes constantState to stateOfInterest \otimes stateOfInterest for all values of stateOfInterest would be quadratic?
I'm into rust 50% for language innovations and 50% for their work on open source governance models.

Super important stuff.
I often wonder if it is the government's role to protect the people or let them run amok so they can profit from their crimes - taxing, suing, jailing, etc.

All the while gov officials, politicians and employees enjoy good pay, benefits, stability, and collect pensions while having an inefficient work ethic and an easy life.

Suspicion: Pandemic, economic slowdown, stimulus? Easy, sue all tech companies (only flourishing industry) to make those losses back - timing is too coincidental
This was a worthwhile read, and examines the dark side of the oft-lionized wanderlust. It has echoes of "on the road" in its characterizations. Thought provoking to those of us that know people like this.
While they probably can't be forced to publish negative reviews, I think it could be viable to use false advertising laws against misrepresenting the product / service through manipulating reviews.
You're not going to get that data back out, though. When you measure 50 qbits, you get 50 bits, and you destroy the state irrecoverably.
I've tested this myself, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible. I tested with macOS 11.1.
The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company, with Elad Gil
It means quite a lot if you want to use the CS degree for certain purposes, such as the U.S. patent bar as mentioned below.

I was pointing it out not to criticize the school generally, but because it is meaningful for some use cases that sound like "I need a CS degree, quick."
Not a lawyer, not a judge, not a member of congress, but I would suggest, as a starting point, that an "unreasonable seizure" is one conducted against a citizen who has not been convicted of a crime, as is the case with civil forfeiture. Up to the courts to decide, of course, but that's where I'd start.
Indeed, the writing on the wall is that AMD is eating Intel's lunch is and positioned to dominate the server x86 market.
The real negative sentiment surrounds how the launch was handled. They blocked people from making console reviews before the launch, so no one had any real understanding of the state of the PS4 or XB1 versions of the game. That makes the whole thing feel like a lazy cash grab from a greedy developer
Covid: US Vice-President Mike Pence Receives Vaccin Live on TV
Because there are so many crap software developers
> The right of the people

> No person

This is what the courts have decided to focus on, after the police and district attorneys filed cases against property, and not people.

This is how a monopoly on power acts in absence of constitutional limitations.
America’s Nuclear Weapons Agency Has Been Hacked
Been watching someone play the game, recorded stuff on youtube, and i`m really enjoying it.
Better than movies.
Anyway i`m there for the art and lore, the full experience is not worth spending thousands on a dedicated gaming hardware.
Skilled player is using a high end gaming PC to run the game, there are some bugs but nothing too serious.

the stream i`m wathching here, this from original soundtrack for the game in Polish (yes in been created by Polish studio)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Corle1st/videos?disable_polymer...
Civil asset forfeiture is a very specific legal process that can only be initiated by the government against assets seized in the alleged commission of (or derived from) criminal activity.

Private citizens cannot use civil forfeiture against other private citizens.

However, you are correct that the underlying legal theory has been around in some form for hundreds of years dating back to medieval England.
Possible is a sneaky word to use here, implying unbelievability.

First Exoplanet Detected by Naturally Occurring Radio Emission
Doesn't surprise me. I switched from TextMate to WebStorm 10 years ago. It was like I suddenly had a superpower. I don't code as much nowadays but I still live in DataGrip to do product analytics. I talked to the JetBrains team recently about how I used their to build open source software, and how we use their tools to build America's newest stock exchange at LTSE.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2020/12/interview-with-r...
A few thoughts:

I've seen Tender Offers mentioned a few times in various articles, but I've always been curious about how such an event would affect the 409a valuation. Are Tender Offers usually closer to preferred or common pricing? Does it just depend on the company and that's why there's so few resources?

Also, I see liquidation preferences mentioned very very briefly, but in my opinion it's insanely important for prospective employees to get a sense of the cap table.

Also, if you're joining very early and a sought after talent, negotiating a longer post termination exercise window is doable, rather than the typical 90 days.
Yeah, I think whether extraction was possible was up in the air. I believe it mentioned that quantum RAM could let you store that data and operate upon it.
Awesome! Is it going to be possible to do Craigslist on Matrix? Does anyone see it? Is there going to be a way to index the blog posts and for some servers/participants to hold the index?
It already exists, it's called Server Base System Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur...). AFAIK, this Ampere Altra follows that standard, which is how unmodified Linux distributions can run on it (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a... tested both CentOS and Ubuntu).
Russia lifts UK telecom satellites into orbit
This has been my experience. I built a career for 10 years without a degree. I was fine during my entry level and mid-level positions. I was able to outperform people that had bachelors degrees and get jobs.

But as I started applying for High-level and VP positions, I found that not having a degree got harder. I was mostly competing against applicants that have Master's degrees, and I don't even have a bachelors. My dad went back to get his degree at 55 years old. He found the same thing, the high-level jobs are very competitive and not having a degree really hurts at that level.
Damn Orange man and his failed policies.
> Unfortunately quite a few respectable reviewers are calling the story/gameplay "hollow" or "unsatisfying"

Do you mind linking to the reviews? I'd like to read their criticisms. I've seen a lot of criticism of the story because it's a personal character driven story and not a high minded philosophical story. But that doesn't seem like as good criticism imo.
And classical bits are presumably much easier to transport intact, by several orders of magnitude in terms of cost. Seems the superdense coding would only help if sending qubits were less than 2x as expensive as sending classical bits.
Developer, your back end is broken
Steam has done something smart here by displaying both the total score and a recent trend score, so you can see if recent changes has made the game better or worse.
If it has Touch ID or a T2 chip inside, try DFUing it?
That’ll teach us to avoid “wrongthink”.
On PC the game looks better than what was advertised graphics wise.
AMD might already be working on an ARM design[1].

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/87851-amd-rumored-working-arm-....
You are correct in that CAF cases are against the property, and not the owner, and thus in that sense physical goods have no constitutional rights.

But that doesn't mean that a CAF isn't an illegal seizure of property from someone who does have constitutional rights not to be deprived of their property without due process.
yeah :) the idea is to be able to use Matrix for moderated forums etc too - and perhaps we'll have payments in there one day too.
I don't think I misunderstand the terminology at all.

My point was that "free as in freedom" implies free as in price. That's literally what I said.

I do acknowledge that I appear to be in disagreement with many people about what GNU's point is when they insist "it's not about price".

To me, "it's not about price" means you're trying to say that price has nothing to do with freedom.

For others, "it's not about price" simply means that's not the focus, or not the only point, or not the main point. Which is a fair and perhaps more accurate understanding of GNU's point.

I could very well be mistaken about GNU's intent. Judging by the amount of downvotes I'm getting, I'm clearly in a minority. But I remain unconvinced.
I'm always amazed by how long it takes some people to go through these. Just press next as fast as possible to get to the quiz at the end. The questions are always like:

A stranger offers you a free USB stick in the parking lot do you:

A) Put it in the nearest electrical outlet

B) Stick it up your butt

C) Start a fire in your trash can and cast it in

D) Report it to corporate security at extension xxx, notify your manager, and warn coworkers not to use them
All great points. The idea came about when I started considering building a cabin nearby either on my property or somewhere nearby. I like the idea of an office cabin but it seemed a little too solitary for me. Then I wondered about an office cabin community and what it would look like.

You make a great point about kitchens. Dutch oven is a nice aesthic and would be fun occasionally but day to day there needs to be at least a microwave.
Hikvision’s camera boxes phone home to China and are trivially exploitable - for what it’s worth.

More generally, it appears NASA doesn’t trust software from Chinese entities. As is only prudent, in my opinion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458770
Very late to the post, but this seems like "eventually consistent billing". distributed systems seem to rely on "eventual consistency" but... "eventual consistency" is not what most people want in billing threshold scenarios...
We're kostly hearing people having troubles of course as they're the most vocal so it's hard to paint a complete picture, but I think it's in part from how fragmented console performances have become.

So you hear complaint from people with PS4 Pro and people with standard PS4 that swear they only have few issues but playable performances, which makes no sense unless the game is dependent on some less visible spec, like the performances of the media it has been saved to, which circles back to the original point, consoles are no longer this stable, uniform hardware that's hard to master but easy to support, and the requirement to target every hardware combination is anachronistic
It'd be way cheaper to just seize and destroy any drugs that didn't have a tax stamp. It also creates a nice incentive for the legal distribution system to charge cost+a bit instead of way too much.

What limits on purchasing do stores impose in Canada? If you buy a handle on Monday do you have to wait 6 months until you can buy one again?
Research: Eco-friendly products boost customer satisfaction
I would argue you're buying the physical medium, not the software itself. But your point is well taken.
I'm not sure what you mean by posting just this link. But I'll repeat what I've been saying for a while. The Rust ecosystem is making significant advances toward building what I believe will be a world class GUI toolkit, but we do not yet have a mature, usable solution, and getting there will take time. There are no shortcuts either, though it is possible to get something working by lashing together existing pieces.

I obviously consider Druid to to be one of the most promising approaches, but even that aside there are other projects that could become a solid GUI toolkit, including Iced. I also encourage people to look at Makepad, as it does a lot of innovative things and emphasizes priorities such as small binary size and fast compile time.
How is it obvious?
Causal Impact on Top of TensorFlow Probability
The table doesn’t make much sense to me. If the strike price is $1 for options on 100,000 shares, then my understanding is that the “Cost at exercise” column will be $100,000 no matter when you exercise. Am I missing something?
> if you provide a useful service people want to exchange money for then you made society better off even if you don't pay any taxes ever

Society will be even better if you do that and pay taxes.

> If you think people are enriching themselves unjustly focus on fixing those mechanism instead of punishing those who make the world a better place for everyone around them.

The purpose of taxes is not punishment. Consider that maybe it is you who is fixated into the wrong thing.
I meant in a more general sense, both temperature and heat flux.
I can't imagine that OpenBSD's got has anything to do with FreeBSD's transition.

Replacing GPL'ed Git with a BSD alternative sounds interesting -- if not for anything else, then simply to combat the monoculture -- but assuming that developers are too stupid or stubborn to learn how to use a new VCS, and absolutely MUST have a `got checkout` in place of `git clone`, just because that's how CVS calls it, seems kind of silly.

Of course, you can't achieve world domination if you aren't any different, but having a brand-new `checkout` command -- is that really what's missing from Git?
Paywalled for me. Perhaps someone could fix that?
Link to full article

https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-12-18/44/10.1126@science.3...
This simple explanation clicked for me, thank you!
I'm confident now that degrees are just a shitty way of telling if somebody has read some books. You get the degree, and then you get a job, and begin the process of learning how to actually use what you read. Like first creating an entire software product, and then later making it actually work for a customer.

Rather than taking 2-4 years to learn how to write the software, and then 2-4 years to learn how to make it work for customers, why don't they do both from day 1? Why aren't universities just mock companies where you build fake products for fake customers, and teach you the theory as you need it? By the end you'd be an expert at working with teams as well as algorithm design.
NPC's were much better placed in the Witcher 3 because you had way less NPCs, they were on more distinctive locations and they gave good side quests more often. So, each one was more meaningful. Sure, they weren't much more interactive. But the Witcher is mostly about going around clearing up the dangers of each place. Monsters were the focus, and they were far more distinctive than Cyberpunk NPC's shooting at you. So, it's not like the Witcher 3 was far more interactive or anything, but NPCs had their place and gave the world life. Cyberpunk doesn't manage to strike that balance. And you can't strike that balance by writing more for each NPC in such a densely populated world, so you need to cover for it with better AI, responses to events, emerging events, randomness... cover with more diverse content... or innovate. GTA V, to mention an example (although I'm not particularly interested in GTA games), has better NPC AI, better responses to events and decent diversity. In Cyberpunk, as a watcher it might look really beautiful, but as a participant it doesn't have as much life. I still think the writing is great and many side quests are great and there's a lot of great content, but hopefully this helps you see a bit better what people feel is off in the game (besides the bugs, of course). Like, don't compare by looking at single factors one by one, look at the world as a whole.
One of the problems here is when Amazon has one shared item listing for multiple sellers.

A bad review for the product due to one seller's shipping hurts all the other sellers too.
There is no reason to pre-order a digital product, so I agree - never pre-order.

Still, since they are taking pre-orders, and since they had an announced date at the time they sold those pre-orders, delaying by more than half a year your part of a contract is not normally acceptable conduct. It's understandable and not at all abnormal that people who did pre-order were asking for their money's worth.
> I don't think a law can compel anyone to publish anything.

Laws in the US can, and often do, require disclosure of certain factual information when publishing other information; this is particularly common in the context of commercial (and political) advertising.
This has been my experience too.

There's something futuristic about playing the game at 1080p/4K on a 32" external display connected to a 13" MacBook Air with an M1 CPU. It feels like it shouldn't be possible nor work as well as it does, and yet apparently I'm having a much better experience than people with much more capable hardware.

I'm still keeping a PS2 and some old games for when I want to enjoy a local gaming experience that is completely my own, rather than a service. But for Cyberpunk 2077, treating it as a service works well for me.