skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, not to be confused with the Church of England) just got rebranded. Looks like a VC-backed startup ready to IPO. https://cia.gov
I guess parent comment is comparing facebook's quarterly revenue (~20 Billion) from ad sales, 50 million would be a fraction of a percent of 1 quarter of ad revenue I would imagine for a company like Facebook.
"and which are only accessible within that game" - this isn't correct. The concept of public blockchain allows these NFTs to be used anywhere that also uses that blockchain. They have mentioned this in another article on their ecosystem. https://gogalagames.medium.com/the-gala-games-node-ecosystem...
> Output dependent feedback

Wow, didn't know about that. It sounds quite similar to the more recent "electrostatic halftoning" algorithm by Weickert et al, that apparently does not cite your work:

https://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Research/IP_Halftoning.shtml
That was my first thought as well. I have such a hard time consuming content with the Twitter UI in the way.
> I as a non-American care less about US operatives

What if you lived in an oppressive regime and believed, rightly or wrongly, that the US was trying to help improve the situation in your country, and you gave the US information? Would you still be OK with your name being published and your life being put at risk?
There are tons of crypto forks that have essentially no market value. How do you explain that, if anyone can simply create more value out of nothing? It seems clear that this is not what is happening.
Strange article. The references to 5G were speculation from the news media and not from the bomber. AFAIK he left no notes. Someone did find that his father worked for AT&T and may have worked in that building, but that may not be related. I think it is way too early to try to understand the motives.
First, it does seem like it's a form of money. You can trade it for all sorts of things. Some of them directly. Some you make a trade. But it's super liquid; accepted more widely than a lot of country-specific currencies (e.g. I could pay my friends in BTC because they can use BTC, but they're not going to take rubles).

To your questions:
1. You can't know how many shares there are going to be for companies. Even if you choose to use some company's stock as a long term store of value, that company will eventually fail at making profit and will issue new shares.

2. If the US banned BTC, it's easy to move overseas with it; memorize the key (not easy, but possible) and just spend the money when you get overseas. Or if you're going to stay in the US, you could just use it the way the dark web already does (not totally clear on how all that works, but clearly it does).
Is there a game in there somewhere? Or just another way to speculate/gamble on cryptononsense?

(Wasn't Star Citizen bad enough for monetizing not-yet-created in-game items?)
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Most work-from-bed setups are ergonomic disasters. The typical person who works from bed is not getting a $5,995 Zero Gravity setup or anything like that.

Ergonomic issues aside, many commenters in this thread have discussed the other drawbacks of re-purposing your bed for work.
Carrier's ability to influence has everything to do with their duopoloy on the last mile to the eyeballs.

If you're in the position to lease a connection to an internet exchange, you've got tons of options for transit from there. And leasing fiber is generally a matter of location and cost, not content; I don't know if it's strictly common carrier, but it might be.
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Corruption can happen for any number of reasons. ECC doesn't correct for human error, protocol error, coding error, logic error, type error so on and so forth.

Again, I don't advocate NOT using ECC, but i'd say in complex systems, never assume ECC alone is enough... and if ECC becomes your champion cause, how could you enforce it through every device that touches data, provides data, consumes data or injects data?
Might be nice to have the fan color change with the cpu temp, but otherwise it always seems gaudy. I like things having function in addition to form.

Then again, I also gave up on desktops roughly 8 years ago. If it isn't my laptop it is a NUC or similar small form factor thing that can be mounted on the back of the monitor or otherwise hidden away.
This. If you roll many changes into a single deployment, you don’t know which change broke what. But if you have two or three weeks of commits waiting, it’s hard to do otherwise.
It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title:

"But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
please tell me how many times you did exactly that and what amounts.
Perhaps because it prominently says that it isn't even a license at all?

It is just a made-up term/category to identify licenses that restrict direct commercialization of software. Like how "open-source" isn't a license by itself, but a reasonably-shared understanding about software licenses with some properties.
Do you think Epstein killed himself?
I interviewed there a couple of years ago. I was really excited going into the interview because I'm a big fan of Atul Gawande and I thought there was huge potential for a transformative impact. But when I talked to them it was clear that they didn't have a clear vision of how specifically they were going to transform healthcare. I got the sense that the engineers were just messing around waiting for the healthcare and product people to tell them what to build. They clearly had a lot of talent and resources and I'm sad they weren't able to make it work.
Agree to disagree. I switch between VSCode and Sublime regularly, and I see significant differences in input latency as well as memory consumption.

VSCode also doesn't handle large files well, etc.
Since the full article is behind a paywall, I cannot see the details that the author goes into. However, I will say that psychiatry has a long way to go. One major issue is that there's no commonly agreed upon methods of diagnoses. There's a wide range of inventories, surveys, structured clinical interviews, etc., and every psychiatrist has their preferred sets of those. It doesn't help that the questions asked are often easily interpreted different from patient to patient and that some questions are quite literal, while others are somewhat vague probes into emotion. With that said, the issue is ultimately the reliance solely on the word of the patients, whom are often lacking a degree of insight due to their mental illness (e.g. brain fog, deficient expression, cognitive dissonance, emotional suppression, etc.).

It doesn't help that mental illness has some inherent difficulties compared to other areas of medicine:

* Prevalently comorbid with some illnesses being symptoms of something else (e.g. anxiety and depression being symptoms of bipolar disorder)

* Distinctions between illnesses being blurry and those illnesses overlapping in symptoms (e.g. General Anxiety Disorder and Major Depression Disorder, Psychosis and Mania, Panic Disorders and PTSD, etc.)

* Symptoms being inherently unstable because of the number of uncontrollable internal and external variables that influence them

* Medications affect every person differently to the point where medications in the same classification (e.g. SSRI) will have vastly different effects to the same patient (e.g. one SSRI alleviates symptoms, while another doesn't or even exacerbates symptoms)

* Those medications having difficult onboarding effects or side effects (e.g. SSRIs typically making depressive symptoms worse for the first 3-6 weeks before symptoms improve)

* Lack of physical testing methods like blood tests, biopsies, etc.

* The many complexities and unknowns of the brain that we have still yet to understand compared to other organs

* Diagnoses and treatments need to be personalized, but no easy, economic, objective way to do so. For example, brain activity and functional networks vary from person to person, effective stimulation treatments require personalized neurophysiological targeting derived from functional connectivity analysis, illness can derive from a wide range of causes or combination of causes like brain networks, neurotransmitter imbalance, hormone imbalance, etc. You even need to consider those with more detail, like are the involved brain networks too strong or too weak, is the neurotransmitter imbalance from deficient production or deficient uptake, etc.?

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TL;DR: It's no wonder that diagnosis of mental illness is so inconsistent across psychiatry because our current methods are almost entirely qualitative, mental illness is relatively poorly understood compared to other areas of medicine, mental illness is inherently comorbid and overlapping, and diagnosis/treatment requires a deeply personalized approach with no good way to do so (yet).
This is not a good HN submission. I'm not defending the CIA—rather, it's that HN suffers when topics get too generic, and the combination of generic plus inflammatory—say, ideological or sensational, which this post has both of—is fatal to the curiosity we're trying to optimize here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Wikipedia submissions are only good when the topic is specific, not well known, and there doesn't exist a good third-party article on the topic.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, please don't use an HN account to primarily post indignation-generating articles. It's ok to do that occasionally if (but only if) there is also an intellectually curious angle to the story; but it should never be the bulk of one's submissions.
If people are generally upset about state of things for possibly various different reasons, and you only give them one lever to pull to "fix it", they're going to pull that lever.

And that's how you get Brexit.
Does anyone else get errors on their HDMI monitors when viewing these images? Mine red shifts the entire screen and I'm not sure why.
The fact that co-founder of Zynga and creative director of FarmVille 2 are behind this enterprise is extremely telling.

A few thoughts:

1. There is a small-but-non-trivial segment of gamers that are willing to spend huge amounts of money for in-game privileges.

2. There is a similar, somewhat-overlapping segment of gamers willing to spend huge amounts of time on a game, if that huge amount of time is rewarded with things that can't be accessed any other way (think grinding for top-tier rewards in a game like Path of Exile, some things just aren't accessible if you don't spend 1000+ hours)

3. Asia is driving the leading edge of game monetization now, and that leading edge is gacha games (lootbox mechanics/disguised digital slot machines).

Looks like a couple of experts on extracting money from casual gamers have turned their attention to the whale/core gamers, and this attempt is blockchain-flavored. As a sibling comment (duskwuff) pointed out, blockchain is irrelevant to the actual value in-game of the item. The devs can change the game world to make your $1k sword irrelevant, and based on how these kinds of games usually go, they probably will - and the whale gamers will gladly open up their wallets to gamble on the latest and greatest.

There is nothing innovative or exciting about Mirandus at all, unless you are looking for the fastest and most efficient way to fleece gamers - in fact, the Minecraft aesthetic feels like a little bit of a giveaway to the devs' real goals - lower the technical requirements to cast as wide a net as possible to pull in as many whales as possible.

Maybe I'm wrong and this is the start of an Ethereum-powered future where digital goods are freed from platforms, but I doubt it. Most likely this is a digital cash grab that will launch to massive early-backer-funded fanfare, but will sink into the abyss of forgotten gacha games, once the devs have made their millions and start looking for a new target. Just like all the others.
Don't you notice that you contradict yourself? You claim they don't decide who gets fired, and in the next paragraph you explain that they will get younger people fired, because they are presumed to have an easier time finding new jobs.

"They" help formulate - I don't think the young people who get fired belong to the "they" very much. Otherwise, again, there would be no need for unions. The young people would just volunteer to quit for the sake of the old people.
The biggest distinction I see is the ability to continue from exceptions.

I find the other differences to be minor in comparison - to be able to recover and continue execution following post-mortem debugging is amazing.
Indeed, the value of actual bitcoins relies not just on the theoretical capabilities of the software, but also the fact that lots of computers are actually running that software. I don’t see that as surprising or paradoxical at all.
Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies!

* Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned

__ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat.

* Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue

__ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not have to follow the same rules as the plebs.

* Outdoor sports venues - such as golf courses, tennis courts and outside gyms - must close

__ Yeah - let's take a game (golf) that's done outdoors, in groups of 4 or less, and ban it. Don't worry - you're allowed to walk around the exact same golf course for excercise (as that's one of the only reasons you can leave your home), but if you have to swing a club you'll catch COVID.
The CCP did nothing he was depressive and made suicide by jumping out of a windows.

Watch the documentary:

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083456-000-A/china-the-disappe...
Don't know how cool it is, but there's Everything2, which I've landed on from time to time.

https://everything2.com/

https://everything2.com/title/Everything2+Help
The worst problem I find with mental illness isn't the psychiatrists themselves, who for the most part realize the short comings of their field. It's what I'd call the psychology enthusiastic who think that drugs, talk or whatever else is the hot cure of the moment will turn you into the type of person they think is normal.

They also react very violently when being shown how the sausage is made. I had someone start calling me a homophobe for pointing out that homosexuality was removed from the list of mental illnesses by a close vote based on a study that was deeply flawed. This was a question of science, not one of passion. If you disagree look up the event and the paper then have a discussion about it.

Not much has changed since then, this is one area where politics reigns supreme and you can have your life ruined and be charged with a hate crime for going against the grain of the left. Equally you can have your house fire bombed if you seem like you're going against the grain of the right.

There is a very thin sliver of acceptable research that is basically 'what Joe Average thinks isn't too icky' and it has nothing to do with the well being of the patient, or god help you, changing diagnosis so that different isn't considered pathological.
This might help:

https://tamebay.com/2020/07/amazon-fba-brexit-bombshell-efn-...
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So companies are holding some amount of bitcoin, as the article above says. Reserve currencies are used by central banks. From a quick search, the two main reserve currencies worldwide are the US dollar and the Euro. Not sure how Bitcoin plays a role.

Meanwhile, what I see when Bitcoin comes up is about speculation. That is what I am most surprised by, and I still cannot find information explaining why it happened.
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This is a good suggestion. If I've already gone to the trouble to make a machine-readable resume, it would be nice to at least seed my CV with the data from that file.
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NFT-releated: The Nine Most Innovative Crypto Artists of 2020

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nothing, accounts are free. We use caddy server that generates the SSL certs automatically, but we want a WAF on top of that
I've been working from home on and off for going on 15 years now and he lockdown has been terrible for WFH. No popping out to a cafe for a couple hours. Or my local coworking space etc. The monotony of it is draining.
Yeah, Poe’s law applies here. That’s definitely something someone less informed might say in earnest.
>There is a series of memes and greentexts on sites like 4chan [2]

>[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1837689-4chan

This reads more revolution/apocalypse porn (for lack of a better word) than anything else. 75% desertion rate because of a liberal president? That seems suspiciously high.
"Used anywhere" implies that an in-game item has a use outside that game. While it's technically possible that another game might decide to "honor" these items, in practice that's almost certainly not going to happen.
Matrix with Element (Riot) as the front-end is pretty close. It does what slack does, it's just not very good. XMPP is arguable. It can be a Slack alternative, if you stitch enough other servers on top of it. Personally, I don't think XMPP will ever be more than chat, but some of its adherents believe differently.

Mattermost is certainly not what I meant. That's just trading one Slack for another.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/haven-the-amazon-berkshire-j... seems to have more background (and claims to be the original scoop)
The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
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One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such a variant becomes more likely when there are many infections (more of the virus to mutate), and the strategy has consistently been to run things "hot" and tolerate high case counts.
If it was Facebook's policy to remove what hackernews determines to be "crap content" then this should be communicated to the users so that they can adjust their behavior. They did not change their policies nor was the account flagged as being outside the TOS.
Or, or... and bear with me here... or, packaged click-button solutions with paid (contractually obligated) dedicated product support is a better use of our short time, more often than not.
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I wasn’t aware of definition 1. I did mean the informal North American definition.