skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that these vehicles are significantly faster than going on foot. When you create an asset pipeline for an open world game, you depend on two things: the camera and character movement speed. Character angle and distance determines how well will assets look to the player, and how detailed they should be. Character speed determines how fast you need to load different assets in the background. As far as I know, all games that have both first-person camera and vehicle movement, like Far Cry, have much simpler art style and a less dense world.

(Disclaimer: although I have worked in game development for almost 14 years, I have never worked on a AAA project, so I really don't know how qualified am I to talk about).
Nice! What apps have you created so far that use it?
In the US that is what is happening - no one is paying for the vaccine.

It is intellectually vapid to get worked about the fact companies are making a $15 marginal unit profit on a vaccine that has 10x the utility of the average annual physical but costs 1/10th as much.
But how will we incentivize Dr. Seuss or Gene Roddenberry to create new works if we don't "protect" their current works? /s

(Don't even get me started about companies whose entire business is built on "monetizing" the public domain and locking it in a "vault"... >sigh<)

Edit: I'm not anti-copyright. Egregious length of copyright term is my main beef. I think limited time monopolies (patents and copyrights) can produce a lot of good for society. The contract has to be favorable to both parties, though. Letting those who "own" items of "intellectual property" starve the public domain for too long, particularly when so many works end up being orphaned (and effectively unusable for anyone), is what I have a problem with. Right now the contract for copyright is too stilted in favor of the "owners", to my mind.
> If you know that X will make you overeat

I've never met a food with this kind of psychic power. Even if pigs did have this dramatic power at some point, surely it is lost after they are cooked.

I can get on board with being honest with yourself and trusting your stomach, but I wouldn't call that a psychology or a trick/hack. I would simply call that listening to the signals your body has been sending all along. But if you are interested in psychological manipulation in other contexts maybe it can be helpful to frame it that way.

"Willpower" methods are usually set up to fail because they approach the problem from a bad angle. It takes sustained effort to look at a delicious food while abstaining. It takes less effort if the food is far away, out of sight. It takes no effort if you decide it's not that delicious after all. But if you have something that works for you by all means stick to it.
> I've always found the fact that such information is exposed by default and can thus make a VM obviously not look more like real hardware is puzzling.

Eh, it seems to me that software ought to be cooperative by default. Plenty of programs will detect whether you have AMD or nVidia graphics and optimize itself for your hardware—why not VMWare graphics?

Where I agree is that there ought to be an easy checkbox to hide it.
I can relate. I just read this at 3am while trying to stop wondering what to do with my life. I had the childhood dream of being a professor, and after a short stint in industry, when someone gave me the chance to do a PhD I took it. Life got in the way and got my PhD at 36 years old. Nobody guided me, and did not optimize my publication schedule, so it is impossible to land a job in academia. Now I am postdoc 39, non hirable bc I'm old and my cv compares badly to anyone elses. No clue how to provide for my family.

Last month we helped clean the room of a colleague after he "passed away" after 10 years of post doc.

Another colleague got a job at 36 as a bare programmer after a very successful PhD where he wrote books and was invited to conferences. At 40 he rage quit this job after a bout of frustration and we haven't heard from him since.

Luckily they didn't have kids.
Wouldn't I have kids I would definitely follow their path.
> If people want to steal content the content creators will suffer and we as a society will lose high quality content

This sounds like a PR copypaste. I don't want to "steal" content, I want to restrict the number of ways I can be influenced to view it. And "high quality content" is often not the case here; I have to get through a lot of crap to get to real news in a lot of cases. There is also the problem of who gets to judge quality - often those that tell people what they want to here are judged so - Reality has a subjective bias.
Whatever definition of "executive" floats your boat, I guess.
They didn't remove it did they? I thought Apple released a patch update that removed it?
Thankfully, the GPU hasn't been afflicted with terrible inefficient slowness for 2D programs. The interesting questions lie in what the CPU is doing and wasting time on.

And, I mean, the C64 offloaded rasterization to a different chip too.
This isn’t some “rogue employee” incident; This is like the 5th time Zoom has been caught doing the CCPs bidding... on American soil.
Yeah. Some of these people need to be made an example of. China's been using their consumer market allure as an aegis behind which to advance their interests and project censorship abroad.
Seems fine to me! If you want you can probably just run it all on one Droplet to save costs for now.

If you're able, I'd recommend using a DigitalOcean droplet with dedicated vCPUs -- they're a bit more expensive but you'll have normalized CPU performance and won't be choked out by noisy neighbor issues on the general purpose Droplets.

Good luck with your SaaS side project!
Speaking as a russian, I have exactly the same prejudice. Our government has done a lot of completely awful stuff in the last 10-15 years and still has wide popular support, so it's only natural that we are held accountable for it.

Also, any company that has significant presence in Russia is subject to Russian influence. These people have ways to make you do what they want if you or your close ones are inside the borders, so you'd be wise to mistrust any software that comes from here.
The occurrence rate on this is so small, you have a better chance of inhaling fumes from the editors car on the way to LAX then you do of this actually happening IRL.

If an engine bleed is sucking in fumes, there are much bigger issues, like the law of gravity and being 30k feet above a hard surface.

When I see articles like this written so poorly and based on crap science, I usually look for alternative motive. In this case, I can only speculate... Like what on earth?
He's probably not going to court or jail personally, but there having an executive with an arrest warrant for espionage-ish charges is meaningful.

Beyond zoom, this is another incident/escalation in an emerging field. Chinese norms for doing business are coming into conflict. Especially for things like comms, media and such... doing business the chinese way is becoming a standoff position vis a vis western norms.
It's more than 200,000 lines of code. Lua and its libraries are about 45,000 lines of code.

So, yes.
At higher temperatures, you mean.
Well, the "congressional capture" problem makes that hard.

But even more, Boeing actually "should" want decent regulation because it gives them long term credibility. The problem others here have point out is that Boeing also wound-up "captured" by a finance/management regime that for twenty years has been gutting the company's long term prospects for short term profits - the ridiculous amalgam that is the 737 Max demonstrates this (it has paper manuals still, guess why?).
This is exactly what I thought 3 years ago when a dentist told me that it was very important for me to get rid of my wisdom teeth, because loss of enamel meant that they were very likely to decay quickly even with proper hygiene. Other dentists told me that it was not necessary, and could be done later if the teeth ended up decaying too much.

Now the teeth are completely decayed, I've started to feel severe pain, and since I've developed severe thrombopenia (<20 G/L), I can't get them extracted easily (couldn't find any dentist willing to take that risk), so since six months, I have to take anti inflammatory drugs for the pain and antiobiotics to limit the infections, as well as the folic acid and corticosteroids needed for ITP, and I have no idea when will this end.

It's very difficult to differentiate important advice from "easy money" advices, especially when this advice stems for a principle of precaution. Most peoples don't develop severe ITP, but if they do, getting wisdom teeth removed before they can cause problems can be very important.
Strangely the Chinese you esteem so highly found no transmission to close contacts of asymptomatic people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w.pdf
The 'var' keyword has to be one of my favourite C# features.
This is amazing. I don't own a Mac, and I don't get those kinds of messages, yet I still want to buy it.
Hide it how? By forgetting it, calling the police (twice), and having your otherwise boring art purchase make the international news?

Besides, wouldn't it be the seller that's liable for taxes? And if they're trying to hide from Israeli customs then (a) good luck with that, and (b) as far as I can tell, their plan was to... just travel to Israel with the painting? What's the plot here, exactly? I'd at least get someone to paint a few replicas and import them as a set.

Also tax evasion isn't moral.
"Do I need pages of stuff telling me that the absence of a sentence like "Dany couldn't understand that one guy very well because he spoke a confusing dialect of Dothraki" is a glaring oversight"

As a reader, you certainly don't need that to enjoy the books.

But since GRRM claims that the Dothraki are based on reality "seasoned with a dash of pure fantasy" it's worth pointing out that based on what's actually in the books themselves it's the other way around: the Dothraki are fantasy seasoned with a dash of reality.
Now we just need an app that generates these notifications while screensharing!
> its sort of ironic for them to be trying to apply US law in China to punish Chinese law being applied to people in the US.

If you think that's bad, you have to hear about this guy named Julian Assange..
Some of those messages looked like they were from co-workers :P
Not a fan of this blog series. I quite like the examination of the Dothraki from a historical perspective, but the heavy tone of disapprobation is insufferable and unnecessary.
What you're saying is too logical. It'd never fly, sadly.

Those who want "intellectual property" to be treated like physical goods should be alright with it being taxed that way too. The social contract should be mutually beneficial, but right now copyright holders get to hold culture hostage and starve the public domain with egregiously long terms.
And it turns out the cohort who received the half dose was on average younger than the total study population, this explaining the apparent improvement in efficacy
Man, I wish my life was that exciting. I might get a message from my girlfriend, “what is for dinner?”
Auto-completion of history is something I find annoying to start with. Firefox actually has the great option of removing history from auto-complete, leaving things like open tabs and bookmarks.

Auto-completing bookmarks and not history creates a nice little incentive to bookmark stuff you care about, too.
Seems like an early Christmas gift to Microsoft Teams
I clicked through to CodeKit and then looked at what was included and saw, "Neat". My heart skipped a beat that they included my simple unknown framework. Then I dug deeper and found "the other Neat". Uhg, it's impossible not to name collide these days. I tried searching for others at the time and didn't find any...

Anyways, NeatCSS is my minimalist CSS framework.

https://neat.joeldare.com
That will be Muzzle’s second product :D
this post feels kinda shill, i can't downvote so i'll express myself this way.
I always saw Daenerys Targaryen's plot to be a "cartoon", so to speak. Everything about her: from the dragons, to the royal bloodline, to the "slaves are bad Imma save everyone" plots was cartoonishly shallow. She's practically the "Dungeons and Dragons Murder Hobo Adventuring Party".

In effect, Daenerys was the "typical" fantasy plotline, happening elsewhere. Eventually, when Daenerys arrived on Westeros, where actual politics / actual history is going on (aka: more real), her fantasy methodologies just don't work out very well.

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But that's my reading (of the HBO series. I never actually read the books). I recognize that there are people out there who might think that the Dothraki were somehow realistic.
How about learning a trade?

I have never worked in IT, but I transitioned to forestry after a similar burnout. Currently it is more of a side gig for mental balance, but I vividly remember the period I worked as a full time brush cutter and tree planter. It pays poorly in my country (though this somewhat depends on the season). But having spent an entire year almost exclusively outdoors in any weather, I really hesitate going back to a full time white collar / indoors job.

Forestry jobs can be really demanding physically, but it sure is an eye-opening (and lung-opening) experience. I would probably still do this full time, but I found out that I have a low tolerance for brush cutter noise and vibrations and, well, now I suffer from tinnitus.

But, again, it was still worth it.

I estimate that in our epidemic of white collar burnouts, people will start looking into trades more seriously again. No "teach yourself framework X in 24 hours" in these fields, but slowly, gradually, over the years, you may evolve into a true master of a chosen skill. It just takes time and patience.

And, as a tradesman, your work involves using and coordinating your entire body all day long. As compared to the world of desk jobs - what luxury!
I think there's a minor mistake:

"The program does not continue until the remote end receives the corresponding HTTP response. In the initial browser.go call, for example, the remote end will only send its response once the browser has finished loading the requested page."

I think this should read "until the remote end SENDS the corresponding HTTP response", or "until the LOCAL end receives the corresponding HTTP response."
Even fellow colleagues can send embarrassing notifications on work related accounts. "I can't believe they don't understand such a simple concept" is not something you want appearing in a message addressed to you from a co-worker.

I've seen my fair share of embarrassing messages show up from Microsoft Teams when someone else in my corporation is screen sharing.
>judging is supposed to be an apolitical duty

Supposed to be, but in many cases is not, which is why those details are important.
Do both vaccines require 2 doses? Also, is the second dose different or just a duplicate of the first?
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS Certificate
I’m shocked that Zoom is still operating in the United States... it’s obvious after the countless incidents that Zoom is a tool of the CCP. Americans should boycott Zoom.
> [...] at this point this airframe is probably the most heavily scrutinized to ever exist

can we drop this take now?
The thing that the article hints at most correctly is regulation. There is very little regulation on software practice and as that sets in, as the industry matures, talent and funding will be more widely available by redefining common practice.

For example, speaking to increased regulation, today I noticed a senate bill that chips away at section 230 so that victims of sexual exploitation can sue porn content hubs.
There’s no evidence to suggest COVID causes serious damage to those with minor to medium level symptoms. When the media talks about lung damage they seem to be talking about those who nearly died from the disease.

Not trying to minimise the seriousness of COVID, but simply suggesting there is no evidence of serious long term impact to the majority of cases.
It was more than just that:

"Jin’s co-conspirators created fake email accounts and Company-1 accounts in the names of others, including PRC political dissidents, to fabricate evidence that the hosts of and participants in the meetings to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre were supporting terrorist organizations, inciting violence or distributing child pornography."
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose is the precedent at the Supreme Court level for parody, even commercial parody, potentially qualifying as fair use. Other lower courts had held as much in earlier cases, as well as in other cases holding that works were not parody in the sense relevant for copyright (crucially, that they were not commenting on the work they copied from).

Campbell not only held that "Pretty Woman" by 2 Live Crew was fair use as parody, but also discussed the distinction of parody and satire: "Parody needs to mimic an original to make its point, and so has some claim to use the creation of its victim's (or collective victims') imagination, whereas satire can stand on its own two feet and so requires justification for the very act of borrowing." To some extent it simply codified a distinction already present in lower court decisions, but as the Supreme Court precedent it set the standard nationwide.

The case doesn't explicitly hold that satire is not fair use, or even that parody is fair use. Fair use is a case-by-case, multi-factor test that characteristically lacks bright lines. A "merely" satirical work that copied less of the original, or was extremely transformative, could be fair use. Parody and satire often co-exist and even "parody-ness" is a sliding scale that can affect the analysis. In practice though, Campbell is a pretty "bright-ish" line: if a commercial work obviously copies from an original, a court calling it "satire" as opposed to "parody" is almost certainly not going to find fair use.
Also, in addition to this being an emission not a transmission:

> “There remains some uncertainty that the detected radio signal is from the planet. The need for follow-up observations is critical,” he said.

So, in the terms used in everyday life, we do not (_c.f._ we do) have an indication that the signal is from the exoplanet.
Web.archive retroactively deletes archives if a site changes hands and updates their robots.txt to disallow their scraper.
Low or high can be very subjective, at least I consider it very very low.

I wouldn't ask my parent/grand parent to isolate, if they don't want it.

>And 1 in 20 people over 70 obviously isn't low

People in over 70 has already high chance of death regardless of covid or not. So given that they are infected with covid, 1 in 20 chance is not high.
OMG I LOVE IT. I love how they re-create the absolutely annoying nature of getting notifications one after another. Absolutely brilliant.

I wish I was important enough for this to be a problem for me /s
If there were great alternatives by the big players, then Zoom would not 'be a thing' and would not have taken off during the pandemic.

Why would teachers etc. be turning to Zoom if Hangouts etc. was at their fingertips and worked well.

We moved to Zoom before the pandemic because Skype (Microsoft) was unreliable to the point of useless whereas Zoom was solid.

People use Zoom because it's better, and there's really no excuse for Hangouts, Skype etc. to be of inferior quality. Those companies have the best Engineers and all the money in the world. It's a lack of product focus.
The US is turning into on object lesson on what happens when you make wealth a religion.
Did you mean hundreds of billions? Hundreds of millions is a tiny amount relative to the billions of doses under production.

Hundreds of billions is not accurate either though.
Bullshit, the headline is the CCP can and do make calls about the content of your legal Zoom calls.
>How does this not apply to other vaccines, which have clearly saved an astonishing number of lives, and have, almost without exception, not produced the kind of long-term existential threats to humanity you seem to be hinting at.

It does apply to all vaccines. Vaccines bias the immune system, which has evolved to be general enough to deal with problems that generally come our way. This bias caused by vaccines results in better performance against those specific viruses but comparatively worse performance against most of anything else. This can also result in auto immune disorders down the line:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607155/

Generally, this bias also happens naturally when viruses infects populations. But the tradeoff is mostly worth it when the virus is still at large... and the natural population is optimized for wide variety of attacks because the immune systems are biased in many different ways in the first place, so even after a pandemic, the resulting population will still have a varied enough immune systems.

Large scale vaccinations bias the population in a very few particular ways. When vaccines for multiple viruses are given to everyone, the immune systems become more and more similar than it would ever happen naturally. So, mass vaccinations make us more fragile as a species against future pandemics, not to mention the autoimmune disorders that also happen as a result.

Given that vaccines have unintended consequences, you probably agree that targetted vaccinations are effective i.e. what if we could vaccinate exactly those who will get infected right before they get infected? That way, we could help them fight the infections better while not affecting anyone else. Right? That is how the immune system already works. It starts the fight right after it detects the infection.

Sometimes, the immune response is not appropriate and can cause more problems than it solves. The same can happen with vaccines.

Sometimes, the immune response may be appropriate but is not sufficent to save the host. The same can happen to vaccinated individuals. It can be argued that the headstart that one gets because of early vaccination might make it worth it... but you also have to consider how many will be vaccinated even though they never really get infected and how many will be missed anyway... and there is also a cost to determining these things. So, overall, it is highly unlikely to be worth it.