skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For this we need some accountability. To see that papers get written and not only that, but they are also having an impact on other research (citations).

But papers and citations are the wrong metric for accountability. What we want from government funded science is models that make good predictions. That's what we need if the knowledge gained from government funded science is going to be useful to the government and the taxpayers. So that's the metric we should use to judge it. Number of papers written and number of citations are, at best, irrelevant to that metric, and at worst, actively opposed to it; it's much easier to generate papers and citations if they don't have to be based on models that actually make good predictions.
> I have listened to plenty of pro-globalist/pro-free-traders talk about how America and other first world countries are just going to have to get used to the idea that their wealth is going to decrease as it equalizes out globally

Anyone who says this doesn’t understand free trade, even if they advocate it.

And US/Western anti-communist policies of supporting friendly dictators has nothing to do with allowing citizens freedom to trade. Again the same politicians often can support two different policies, one invaluable and one abhorrent, with no physical requirement that they are linked.

And US manufacturing post NAFTA has been stronger than ever, so stop repeating that old saw. If you thought NAFTA would create gumdrops rain showers and candy coated roads in Mexico, you are mistaken. NAFTA brought many better jobs to Mexico, but it can’t solve the war on drugs, bring back circular migration, eliminate governmental corruption, or reduce the stifling influence of the Catholic Church.

And while Smedleys book is a classic, free trade isn’t responsible for mercantilism, they are literally polar opposite philosophies. Mercantilism is the use of government resources and restrictions to support a small set of favored businesses, while free trade dictates a level playing field for all participants.

And wake me up when you can think of a coherent criticism of the law of comparative advantage. It’s been a bedrock of economics for over two hundred years because it’s critics have never been able to disprove it and it’s massive benefits.
Bushido blade 1 used that cable. It would allow two players their own screen in POV mode.

I used to work at a video rental store so I had access to two TVs, two PS1s, this cable, and the space to set it up. It's a lot of setup when you could just play the game normally on one screen. Still neat.

That aside, Bushido Blade to me is still the best fighting game. If they revamped the location damage detection, and redid the graphics, I would rebuy it in a heartbeat. Most people favour the sequel, but to me it lost a lot of the charm and simplicity the first one had.

One hit kills really spice up fighting games for me. Positioning and timing are even more crucial then in other games.

The "juggling" and ten button combos really take the fun out of the genre for me. (nothing against the other games, just not my cup of tea)

I haven't found another like it. HMU with recommendations if I missed a game!
I'd say many to many is possible for more than 2 participants, but it does get complicated, being a mesh and all, so you might opt for using an SFU to untangle that mess, but it has it's own disadvantages too.
I have a 2015 MacBook for work and use jet brains. It’s quite snappy and responsive. Id expect it to be better on newer hardware but am left wondering why performance degraded so much for people?
No, I think the internet as the great equalizer, and need organizations both-sides-ism makes it seem like this, and they love that, but the self proclaimed racists are still a very small group of cowards.
I think there's a certain chicken egg aspect to this problem as well. Devs don't target Linux because people don't game on Linux and people don't game on Linux because there's no games. (Obviously this isn't the whole story there are other reasons people don't use Linux and i admit this loop is probably relatively minor)
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With outsourcing comments someone else handles (some of) the back-end, facilitating appearance of comments on your site but limiting your own back-end exposure.

One solution under active discussion is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570268
Is this different in principle from non-targeted advertising? Isn't all advertising trying to manipulate you?
When the words 'problematic' or 'enlightened' are used in a sentence without a trace of irony, the end result is rarely promising. It's like a litmus test for a certain kind of censorious attitude to life mixed with condescension.
After start up costs (starting from scratch with the original Xbox was certainly more expensive than iterating to the current version), in general, consoles are loss leaders and you make up for them in rights fees from games (console makers traditionally do much better than breaking even here). Online services, like Xbox live gold, is another revenue stream.

MS probably gets some value from more people getting Microsoft accounts, too.
https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2020/1/311/5942685
Thanks, those really help. I'm starting to get it now :-)
Yeah, usually they "think they smelled Marijuana" or something.
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There's more info here if you find the identity of S. Nakamoto to be a pertinent thing:

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/quotes/
Two spaces should be a good rule for plain text formats, like Markdown or reStructuredText -- this way the parser can identify sentences and recognize the punctuation that ends an abbreviation vs the one that ends a sentence. (It's not that any parser is doing this currently, as far as I know.)
Consent is not, and has never been, the only legal means by which personal data can be processed. When the article says:

>This would mean that the company does not have to give users a free choice and obtain a separate and unambiguous consent.

it neglects to mention that using Facebook and entering into a contract with Facebook is optional.
As someone who has only tried reading The End of the Affair and given up half-way, please excuse my ignorance but what is the source of your fascination with Graham Greene?

Knowing so many people who love his books gives me a bit of FOMO, especially after giving up on that book. Would you recommend a different one to start with?
How can mere mortals like ourselves prevent this kind of thing from happening in our companies? I'm thinking specifically about builds being compromised.
One of the problems with String theory is that the researchers failed to produce any predictions at all from it.

Research today is orders of magnitude both bigger and faster, and String theory has been around for at least half a century already.
>chess was supposed to be a demonstration of human intelligence.

why would brute forcing tons of chess moves would be intelligence and not search. Aren't ANN just some kind of brute forcing, just that this time brute forcing happens at training time.

True intelligence could reason and adapt, the AI should be able to play any chess variant I invent without new training or if it is that smart should be able to defeat a human at any new task for both of them.

But yeah, many things that are not intelligent were called AI, like expert systems where the human had to define all the rules, or genetic algorithms where the hard part was made by humans by defining the encoding and the fitting functions, same for the ANN , the humans need to dot he hard part, collect good data , define the ANN parameters, then train and evaluate the results.

AI is so pathetic that the big software developers could not integrate it with coding, so you could do something like "Hey AI I need you to implement an integration with this API, find an SDK/library or implement it from the documentation and when my user uploads a photo use the xxx function of this API".
Archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20201217142228/https://www.spect...
The BIOS is loaded from the internet archive
If you need to implement an efficient vector math library on modern hardware you'll end up using intrinsics, padding structures for cache alignments, identifying which CPU, GPU, NPU, and vector extensions you are running on to better use specific features, and so on, and it won't look like idiomatic sequential C/C++/Fortran for almost every value of "idiomatic".
Just wanted to add that VICE is a Commodore 64 emulator. VICE can emulate other Commodore systems but probably not as completely as the C64...
It makes sense if your definition of "Intelligence" is "things only humans can do."

In which case the set of all things only humans do shrinks but never goes to zero and thus you can always maintain some kind of superiority.

IMO that's how people use the term - whether they are experts or not.
That is begging the question: WHY is it a "horror-show"? What bad things will happen to you when the 'estimated persona becomes more detailed'?
While I agree with the sentiment, that's a complex problem to solve, what streets are "dangerous" and what aren't. Especially at scale.
I understand the feeling. However you can play some puzzle games that are much more difficult than the assembly of MARS. Furthermore any simple machine language traslates pretty well into a basic version of C: add, sub, pointer operations, bitwise operations, compare a value with zero and possibly move the program counter to a memory location, copy memory from RAM to a register (think of it as a predefined veritable). Everything is an int, maybe a float. All very low level.
And here I was hoping that M1 would be the beginning of the end for intellij(unk).

Java needs to die a fiery death.
Nintendo are so anti-user that I find it a little surprising that they're doing as well as they are. Actually, I'm not totally surprised, since it was really the Switch that reversed their trajectory of long term decline. Unless they keep coming up with more nifty little gadgets, I can see them digging their own grave over the next few decades in the sense that they'll exist through owning valuable properties but they may not be relevant as a game hardware company.
> Ultimately the only way to guarantee quality would be to vote for politicians who support strong regulations and a strong regulatory apparatus.

Speaking as a socialist-leaning libertarian, I'mma have to take a hard disagree on this. Let the companies have a mix of terrible quality and great quality as they wish, and let the market itself decide which products and companies succeed or fail

Let a private company, say, Consumer Reports or Vegan International, give their imprimatures to quality.

A government, in this specific case of toy drones, is a bit heavy-handed, in my opinion. Would "quality specs" work? Would they be subject to political whims? Would a connected company be able to overwhelm the governmental department dedicated to the quality control of toy drones?

Edit: I promise, despite the proximity of "socialist" to "libertarian" in my preamble, this is not an ideological stance. If you have a better idea, I will change my mind! I'm fine with a downvote, but don't just smash it because you disagree. Tell us why :)
Most "bad guys" that are arrested are non-violent drug users. If those are "real bad guys" is up to your personal morals.
Tax-Loss Harvesting: Sometimes an Investment That Lost Value Can Still Be a Win
Read 25 years computer news, summarized OLED touchscreens since 2018. Amazon "Google Phone News September 2020 micro LED TV, 5 nano meter chips" published after edited (by price, some alphabetical) chapters like cheap, solid state battery.

I paid for a little advertising but those already in industry more interested than business people. LibreOffice needs Android update.
I don't think they have interest in fake reviews.

But they might have an interest in not having a lot of products which don't sell at all because of mostly bad reviews (they are the Nr1 platforms for cheap "Chinese" products, they would lose a lot of sellers if they are no longer suited for selling low quality products) .

They also might have some interest into a erosion of trust into non "sold by Amazon", "shipped by Amazone" and "Amazone Choice" products. But that supper speculative.
I find it allows my eyes to easily find the beginning of the next sentence which allows me to read faster, since I can scan information in sentence-long chunks, then pause briefly to process the meaning before scanning the next sentence.
> if Amazon won't police (and they have problems with commingling counterfeit brands, too) then Walmart and Target will jump ahead.

I think they are solving this differently. Amazon introduced their own brands for almost all daily necessities. Amazon basic, amazon pharmacy, amazon fashion, amazon elements, amazon pantry, amazon echo and few more. They generally have average or above average products at an affordable price and good support.

You can buy AC, fridge, vacuum cleaner, clothes, baby food, dog food, dog bed, multi-vitamin, ramen, TWS, carpet, blanket, swiss army knife, solder machine, and a lot more from amazon itself now.
It is indeed a French word
This is how the seller can do it, atleast on Amazon India.

Swapping the details completely triggers AI based flags and often causes the change to be manually reviewed.

But the seller can add a variant of the product (like size or color). But the seller instead adds a completely different product he intends to swap the original product with. Now the listing will show two completely different products as variants on a single product listing. Then the seller removes the old variant. Nothing gets flagged. No manual review.

This has been around for long and a very popular trick with shady sellers on Amazon in India. I don't think Amazon never figured it out. For whatever reason, Amazon turns a blind eye to this practice.
Right. Also the regular "optimization" (i.e. of costs, not value). For example, Miele was a decent brand of white-label goods, but I've read numerous commenters here claiming that they're succumbing to plasticpartisis and their products aren't as reliable as before. I also vaguely recall hearing that Anker isn't what it used to be.

(Then there are brands spanning great many product categories - like Phillips. I'm having trouble keeping track which product categories they do well, and which they don't.)
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Thought I saw an update yesterday on PyCharm and DataGrip for this specific thing.
So far of all the answers this seems to be the only relevant one:

> And one little privacy issue: what targeted ads display can give out information about you that you don't want made public to people who may see your screen. The example of the pregnant girl who began getting coupons for stuff for new mothers while hiding from her family that she's pregnant has been mentioned on this page.
Global App Spending Reached $407M on Christmas, Growing 35% over 2019
Following up, I think it's hilarious that people apparently concerned about threats to free expression due to social pressure have flagged and downvoted my post. I richly appreciate them proving my point: they're not opposed to it at all as long as they're the ones doing it.
Excellent. That's the first time I've seen that feature.

There's still some odd behavior around bicycle routes. For instance, Google does not seem to show bike routes down CA-1 in middle California. I'm not sure what's going on there--hundreds of people do that route every year.
Sadly, kept reading as "Jetsons". I suspect this mis-read is correlated with age of the reader. On the positive side, learned something new about something old from parent.
Grafana sucks in terms of UX, but it's free (it's main selling point) and supports many backends.

Creating dashboards is so freaking painful.
Donald Knuth on Writing and More (An Interview) [pdf]
Jazz guitarist here, and yes. One of the nice things about the instrument is that a relatively small number of forms for chords and scales are transposable up and down the fretboard, so once you burn the usual patterns into your head (iim7-V7-IM7, etc.) reading a new sheet usually doesn't take too much work.

Most pop music is even simpler, as illustrated by Axis of Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
I ran thousands of FreeBSD servers, with ECC, and the memory management layer features would have been nice, but unrecoverable failures were rare enough that it wasn't a big deal; anyway our application ran as a single OS process using almost all the ram, so 95% chance the faulty address was OS or our application. Offlining would have been nice though; had a couple faulty addresses that were busy, so all the MCE interrupts made the system really slow, and caused a ton of application congestion.

For USB serial console, I think part of the issue there is that the serial console can interface with the kernel debugger, which might be tricky if it's USB (but I guess USB keyboards probably work in the kernel debugger, so maybe there's a chance?).

Thanks for working on Ryzen ECC. I don't work with a server farm anymore, and I'm too cheap to buy ECC for home use, but someday I might use that support.
Publisher's link for The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene (unrelated):

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393084320
The midway is the line of games at the fair. I've always assumed it had something to do with that.
Make sure you're using the latest JB SDK.
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206...
Satoshi was found, but zohar002, the famous youtube pianist, is still missing!
The most crazy thing:
It is just one guy behind Kosmi!!! Crazy dude.. Keep on rocking!
Reminded me of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) tokens [1].

Used to be the way to pay fare on trains. Nicely designed, though too easy to confuse for a dime (10cents) in a pile of coins.

[1]: https://www.wbez.org/stories/what-the-l-happened-to-cta-toke...
> But if more people would follow the rules with a bit of discipline, things would be much better. As shown in Asian countries, which mostly don't have a Covid-19 problem

How do you know they have less case because people follow the rules ? I have been in Cambodia and Thailand and people don't really follow the rules there and there is barely any case
A lot of people confuse "GPS" with "moving map software". I had a neighbor once say "My work's address is wrong on the GPS". There is likely nothing wrong with the GPS signal. It's just that the map data in the area may be known to be incorrect.
> IO bound. E.g. indexing dependencies

That's enough HN for me today and I just started...
Well, two Java features of modern toolchains (previously only available in 3rd party commercial JDKs) would be to take advantage of native images and JIT caches between runs.

Then there are the possible uses of G1 and Shenandoah.

This just in the context of OpenJDK, other implementations have their own JIT, AOT and GC variations to choose from.

So running on latest versions of a JDK already helps.

Me personally, I am happier using Eclipse and Netbeans anyway.
The only way this changes is when more people stop buying from Amazon. The incentives otherwise are too great for Amazon to do anything about it.
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Love is a phenomenon which bears comparison with electricity.
E.g. A home cooked meal has more love in each portion than does a restaurant meal, and does more good than a restaurant meal.
E.g. A loving act generates Happiness in the actor, which generates Beauty, which generates Love for the actor.
I think that there is an identifiable phenomenon involving love, beauty and happiness and that study of this phenomenon can only benefit the student.
William Boyd: how David Bowie and I hoaxed the art world
Why would you take the vaccine at the first chance you get ? what's the risk-benefit calculation you see in front of your eyes ?
I understand that we are looking at this from a position of strong bias, having the technology in front of us already. But surely smart engineers in that sector would be well aware of how easily science-fiction can turn into reality, having witnessed half a century of astounding developments? Did no one really take Bill's predictions that seriously at the time?
I just discovered HN within the past couple of months and it is my go to for well rounded news. I enjoy the "hacker" topics but I also like that a large number of the posts have to do with technology and social issues, an evenly divided number of well stated political views, and a host of IT and science and math related subjects that are way over my head but gives me an opportunity to learn something everyday. Most of all it gives me hope by sharing constructive things that are happening in society and a different perspective than the doom and gloom that gets reported by mainstream news outlets. Thanks all for brightening up my day on a regular basis.
Lining up this interview was a process that spanned the latter half of 2020. Professor Knuth has not maintained a public email inbox since 1990, so I typeset a letter in LaTeX, printed it out, figured out where to put a stamp on an envelope, and sent it to Professor Knuth's office. Some months later, I received an email from his assistant, saying that he would be interested in doing an interview, but wouldn't be available until December. Well, a couple of weeks ago I found myself on the phone clutching a list of questions that I prepared in consultation with a friend of mine pursing a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Chicago, and thus could understand not just the pictures in The Art of Computer Programming, but also most of the words (where my abilities begin to falter).
Error correction only makes sense if the latency of the read/write is long(i.e. spinning physical medium, co-sharrd radio channels).

FEC isn't free(~2x overhead per bit recovery if I remember right) so if your error rates are infrequent then it's worse to use FEC over just resend/reread.
Oh, it's a NT-shaped unikernel. That's actually pretty neat:)
This never happens (almost) anywhere. We are not living in feudal times.
> Why bother, who cares what other people say?

Your boss might not understand

“Who should we give the promotion to?”

“How about Joe, he’s been killing it this quarter”

“That guy talks to himself. I’m worrying about him killing ME next quarter. Let’s promote Bob instead”
> "Why do I see these, and the QA group does not?"

Businesses don't want to pay for QA, businesses definitely don't want to pay what it takes to do good QA, and developers routinely do things that slip the schedule that eats into QA time.
I think the point is that $100 at 25 is potentially not as nice as ~$400 at 65 (includes doubling every twenty years due to compound interest at historical market rates). Even with the inevitable inflation adjusted cost to a nice meal over forty years, historically speaking someone who invests $100 at 25 instead of eating it will be able to afford more nice meals forty years from now - of course only provided you live that long.
How can you tell the difference? It seems like you're making a judgement based on just the product pictures, what specific things make it looks like ABS to you? What would a polycarbonate or nylon plastic look like?
Not sure about Micro, but a few years back a Google employee posted a bunch of info about bad USB C cables. Sadly I think it was on Google+ and gone now, but his reviews are still on Amazon [1]. There were certainly some really bad ones, missing resistors and things, so its quite possible on C at least.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFLICGQRF6...