skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem, I think, is that making good porn games is difficult. Sex is all about contact, and just look how messed up physics can be, even simple physics in AAA games. If something like throwing a punch is difficult to do right, even thought there is a single point of contact, imagine how hard a sex position where the entire body is in contact can be to simulate. To make things worse, sex (usually) deals with human bodies, complex objects we are very familiar with, and therefore, small errors can get us right into the uncanny valley.

A solution, of course, is to use prerecorded scenes. But if you lose interactivity, you might as well watch a movie, something there is no lack of and can be cheaply produced.

So while the idea is not rocket science, the execution may very well be.

Of course, there is always the solution of taking an existing game genre (visual novels are a common one) and add porn to it. But as good as the game might be and as hot as the porn can be, it isn't very interesting as a concept.
What is fund degrossing?
Well in poker there is an implicit contract that everyone there knows what they are in for (or should, anyways), so there should be nothing hanging on their conscience (for some categories of philosophical systems around conscientiousness)
> It seems like a savings account could do the trick. You can save a healthy retirement by putting a portion of your salaries in a savings account in your local credit union.

With interest rates as low as they are, savings accounts have a negative real return. The $1000 you save today would have substantially less purchasing power by the time you'd retire.

> As a bonus—while you are not using that money—other members of your credit union can use this savings in a form of a loan, to buy a home, start a business, etc.

Well, yes and no. Banks don't really directly lend out the money deposited in savings accounts, due to fractional reserve requirements.

> The idea of my retirement being at the will of some hedgefund manager is not appealing next to the idea of my retirement being used temporary to help my neighbors buying a house or start a business.

I don't get this. With an IRA or a personal taxed brokerage account, you aren't at the mercy of anyone: you can choose which companies & funds to invest in. Hedge funds are not the be-all-and-end-all of the stock market, most funds are mutual funds who invest conservatively. If you just mean that hedge funds can cause black swan events like what we're seeing with GME, then sure, that's a concern, but only for the short term. Long-term, the stock market tends to appreciate and substantially beat inflation. We can add regulations to prevent hedge funds from fucking things up, without tearing the entire system down.
Regarding Japanese porn games, I've played a few which were based around RPG gameplay (classic, dungeon crawling or SRPG). I remember also some puzzle and match-3 games. But it seems like the majority of them are visual novels.
Would it help if you could choose your pay schedule on your payroll system?

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to leave your money to accumulate and eventually sent out automatically in lump-sump at the end of the month to pay bills at your convenience.
That should be clear from looking at the assembly, shouldn't it? Don't think the floating point environment can change that but I could be wrong.

Floating-point rounding modes seem more likely to me. The author should be able to dump the floating point configuration to confirm, I'm sure.
Congratulations on building apple.com
The idea behind buying those companies wasn't that they had a lot of a future, it was that they had more of a future than their price estimated.
Long short funds having to sell longs to cover losses on their shorts
To be honest, this is kind of the problem I have to stock investing as a whole.

It sounds great to "invest on the fundamentals", but there doesn't appear to be a way for the average person to even comprehend what "the fundamentals" even are.

But there has to be at least one fundamental: If the company goes bankrupt, the stock is worth nothing. Gamestop is most certainly going to go bankrupt eventually. Their business model doesn't work for today's market.

No one is going to convince me that GameStop has a way to avoid that eventuality.
France’s Macron Calls for Regulation of Social Media to Stem Threat to Democracy
IV crush
The zx81 game 3D monster maze was my first experience of actually being frightened of the outcome of a computer game - despite the graphics being almost non-existent, the way the text came up about it just terrified my 10 year old self!

How times have changed - I wouldn't mention to my kids that this used to scare me,they'd laugh themselves to death!
My counterpoint (purely from devil's advocate point of view) would be:

GME are a retail store in a digital industry. Their PC game market was annihilated by Steam. Now Xbox and PS5 are going the same way, both limiting resales and cutting out physical retail.

GME are a retailer that was deep in debt before covid. Now they've had months of covid. All those rents still have to be paid or the stores closed. Ditto staff.

What makes you think the company will even exist in 6months?

Right now, they're WSBs pet project. But I don't see that lasting till the end of Feb. If it weren't for RobinHood shenanigans and all the media coverage, they'd likely already be selling. As soon as the reddit hive mind withdraws, there isn't much support even for a 1usd price level.

This is basically the analysis of the hedge funds who shorted it in the first place.

Of course, all this is my personal prejudice against physical retail. I'm just explaining the other side..
Still waiting for TSLA to fall.
The collateral required to sell these low priced puts will probably adjust in the coming days/weeks/whenever.
Yeah...those are all not the use cases that Enums were intended/designed for.

Juse use Python's `dataclass` or similar (`pydantic` is great) and just build the custom data types that you need.
The prices on puts go up even when the price skyrockets - it’s crazy!
I think they just nitpick rather than genuinely misunderstand your point, but yes the 'Place, Bigger-place' is a common form of toponyms in American English.
> he's updated his advice a bit

Interesting...do you have a reference to that handy? Thanks!
I noticed something about Adam. Suppose you want to do gradient accumulation. Easy: compute the gradients of the loss with respect to each model parameter, and accumulate it over N training examples. Then pass the result into Adam, performing a single step. This is standard gradient accumulation; it's equivalent to running a mega-GPU that can process 64 training examples at once, rather than a small-GPU that can only process 8. It just takes longer to train, since you're performing an adam update every 8 steps in that case.

But, I was staring at the Adam formula and thought of something. I'm not sure if it makes sense, but there seems to be an "alternate" way to accumulate gradients:

For each training example, compute the gradients and apply the gradients. However, we apply them in a special way. The final step of adam normally looks like this:

param = param - (lr * m_t / (v_sqrt + epsilon_t))

I propose accumulating the gradients like this:

accum = accum + (lr * m_t / (v_sqrt + epsilon_t))

Then after N training samples, when you want to do the actual variable update:

param = param - accum
accum = 0

The advantage of this approach (if it works at all) is that Adam updates continuously. Every training example would cause Adam's mean and variance estimators to update. (Recall that the whole point of Adam is that it tracks mean and variance for every parameter in the entire model.)

So, in traditional gradient accumulation, those mean and variance slots would only update every N training examples. With this approach, they would update every training example, and then the model params update every N training examples.

It might seem like a small tweak, but adam's variance stats are crucial; it's what makes adam effective. Updating the variance 8x more frequently might be an advantage.
> BayBal, since you're an expert in Semi, I wonder if you can fill in the blanks?

An expert? Ahahh, I never even had formal education in the field, just been trying to enter it, and start studies in it for a few years.

My only real experience with ICs was with a company developing a fancy synchronous rectifier chip what was capable of doing few more tricks with the output waveform besides rectification, and that was mostly just hanging around, and doing complete trivialities like routing, or minimal layout wiggling. I was more useful there as a coffee porter.

> How much do you estimate the full chip manufacturing cost for this would be ?

I don't know how many wafers they buy. I don't know whether they ordered masks from TSMC, or somebody else. I don't know how short they want lead times to be. I don't know if they want to have any device inspection provided. I don't know if they have any agreements on repeated runs, or a flexible capacity purchase. I don't know if they order test, and packaging from TSMC.

From a man who was on Allwinner's original A10 chip team, I heard that the most bare bones 65nm run without mask cost, inspection, or packaging was possible at 1k wafers at $2400-$2500 in 2013-2014 by paying cash 1y in advance.

Today, I'm not even sure if clients are even allowed to, or can order masks on the side these days for latest processes.

The universal advice I heard is that you don't get into 300mm game without at least $10m, or better $20m if you have a brand new, untested design.
Thank you, but I prefer a savings account at my local credit union. I’m sure the interests will amount to something similar as what some random hedgefund manager can conjure by gaming the market.

If not, then I can live with it, knowing that what little interest I earned, at least it wasn’t earned by taking profits out of other workers. And in the best case scenario my savings got lent out to other members of my credit union that used it to buy homes or start businesses in my community.
Rick may not have been a scumbag, but he walked from the deal that could have saved the bank.
Yep, holding on to 120 shares, bought at 61.20. A bit late into the game.
Yeah, using an actual programming language would probably solve all this complexity. I'm using Google Sheets though and I absolutely need everything to be fully functional in the mobile app so I'm not sure how far I can take it with the javascripting. The app doesn't even support editing pivot tables.
> It's not perfect though because a lot of the links still point to live assets

SingleFile is good for this:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...

- https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
"Experience"; "respond": Is it not the involuntary nature of anger that gives it value and nobility? "Choice": but our autonomy gives us dignity. Can this conflict be resolved, or is it in the interplay of these things that lies meaning?
>I've been wondering about why the Mac seems to have a fairly healthy market for small software. It surprises me that Windows, being a much larger market, seems to have fewer opportunities for indie devs.

I think it comes down to the target audience. Of course both Mac and Windows have their fair share of users across all categories. However, it seems that, in the US, most devs and enthusiasts prefer to use Mac/Linux, while Windows is used a lot by gamers/office workers/etc. (not alleging that enthusiasts and devs don't use Windows, far from it, just talking comparatively). Given the price of an average Mac being higher than a Windows machine, it would also be fair to suggest that Mac users, on average, tend to have more disposable income as well.

With this in mind, it makes sense that the platform with more devs with more disposable income would be a better target to sell niche indie software as well.

For a similar phenomenon, look up the breakdown of earnings from apps on iOS vs. Android. There are plenty of analysis on this over the years, so here is a recent article I just found as an example[0]. Not even diving into the actual revenue per user or per app, iOS apps generated overall almost twice the revenue of Android apps in Q3 of 2019 (using numbers from the article I found), despite there being more of both Android users in the world and Android apps on the store. My reasoning as to "why" boils down to a simple guess that whichever device has more users with higher disposable income is the one that is gonna bring the developer more revenue.

0.https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/#:~:text=A....
I created this simple site over a couple of days to host live HTML snippets. It's extremely lightweight (~7.6kB) and there's no registration.
Robinhood was founded on that idea, but it turns out it's kinda hard to deliver. When people where trying to invest into this rising stock they ran out of credit at their clearinghouse and had to stop their customers from trading.
That's a great part of their sentiment - "I may not profit that much, but these fat cats will suffer". Also, bankruptcy still means a fair share in the assets of the bankrupted.
I've seen this argument before and agree that some people do this. But often and sadly I think it's a case of both sides not understanding each other. Often one group has a moral code that excludes the others choices. Taken to an extreme this can be a problem. And if that person is a close relative it can be a problem but at some point you just have to be okay that some strangers in the internet think your political leanings, lifestyle choices, religious beliefs, natural tendencies, etc are wrong. There are probably things they believe that you think are wrong. But if we stop trying to be right all the time we can just find a way to live peacefully and cooperatively.
I guess this is not a reference to the TDP of some video cards.
I cannot think of any reason why blue would ever have a lower emissivity than actual white.

Rare earths are not going to come down in price, in my opinion. They're used in too many places and have too few sources. The US has a rare earth strategy document that makes clear just how insecure supplies of these elements is.
> I'd also point out that "not replying in 1 hour" is a very high bar.

Where did you get that from?
GameStop, AMC stocks log best performing week ever
You can check option pricing for the market-expected price in the future. The July options are pointing to an expected $40-$50 price point.
Ok but Facebook is also deeply monopolistic & anti-competitive. Just like Apple has anti-competitive & hardline control over the phone & what people do on it, Facebook too keeps absolute & total control over what users are allowed to do & controls the experience of networking with each other start to finish.

Both Facebook and Apple are monopolies & anti-competitive.

Both Facebook and Apple should have to open their systems & allow Competitive Interoperability. Most big players should face similar pro-human constraints.
Lovely article, zero fluff, tons of good content and modest to boot. Thank you for this write-up, I'll pass it around to some people who feel that the need for competent system administration skills has passed.
No, it’s zero sum.
Maybe Java? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.htm...

Look how they encode planetary data into the enum of the Solar system planets.
What about any hit to performance? I like to know the terminal is not bogged down for some reason. Also, I'm curious the types of things already done with such shaders in the terminal?
For those out of the loop like I was, Michael Burry is the guy from the Big Short, who also owned 3 million shares of GME before the squeeze began. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-michael-burry-big-s...
One metaphor for The Sims I had while developing it was that it was like a pinball machine with lots of balls in play at once -- all the characters, bouncing around off of each other and the objects in the house, which can run autonomously without any user input, but then you can change the simulation's fate with the flippers (pie menus selecting actions overriding the default behavior).

But Factorio is like a pinball machine with MILLIONS of balls in play at the same time, and it perfectly and efficiently tracks each and every one of them.

There is one sad aspect to Factorio: There is only one character: you. Alone. On a planet. All by yourself. Destroying the environment. But once you get over that depressing aspect, it's great fun! ;)
My point was a huge number of businesses failed to benefit from Groupon etc. Profitable small business are on a tightrope with failure on one side and growth on the other. The kinds of businesses that can really leverage targeted advertising are exactly the kinds of companies that stop being small businesses.
> Just because they engaged in debt cancellation doesn't mean they didn't practice usury - quite the opposite, indicates they practiced it quite a bit.

Well that is the whole point! Mesopotamia invented usury, among other long standing contributions, including the Zodiac, and various mod 60 constructs. And that amazing civilization totally collapsed.

Btw, Debt cancellation ("jubiliee") is the cause celebre of the economist I cited in my OP. If you are interested in the topic, Michael Hudson is your man.

https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/and-forgive-them-their-de...

> Practically, the anthropological origins of usury prohibitions have very little to do with non-usury markets. Even those groups which you listed practice usury - they simply put those who practice it into secondary (or lower) social groups.

This is a fair point and one never underestimates the hypocrisy of mankind. That said, the point remains that it is interesting that something in the collective memory of the region zeroed in on usury as a "sin".

> The reference to communism attempts isn't a non-sequitor since depending on the particulars of their brand of communism they either want to limit usury to only a national/popular entity or get rid of it entirely.

As CCP has demonstrated, Communism is apparently an extremely plastic concept. /g My objection to your OP was and remains this: removing usury from the political-economy regime does not mean "communism".

> it's worth noting the only surviving self-labeled communist country with a functioning economy is China, who allows usury!

I don't know about you my fellow human, but I place very little value in the pronouncement of highly placed individuals, protected by their police states, regarding their ideals and aspirations.
I think rust encourages encoding data like that.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/custom_types/enum....
Is it possible to buy stocks via a debit card transaction instead of waiting for ACH?
I've been a remote employee at my company for more than 7 years now, and I'm at a tech lead (principal) level and still effective there. Since I'm not interested in the management track, I'm not concerned about limitations there. It's true, though, that COVID has made upper management rethink the need to be constantly in the office.

I'm not seaside, but bayside, and my experience is similar to others in that regard in this thread. Great for family and all that, not so much if you don't like feeling a bit isolated. In the before times, I'd travel to one of the company motherships three or four times a year to get in-person time with the team. That works well to keep the team gelled.
What can GME do with the situation?

Can they cash out at $500 or $1000?

Can they offer additional shares in the market, after clearing it with the SEC?

Then, can they take that windfall money, and actually reinvest it into R&D, and build their own GameStation 1 video game system? In order to justify their new lofty valuation.
I wonder if creative people can thrive at Amazon. Might be a completely different domain.
The EU was ready to invoke Article 16 of the NI protocol just to get AstraZeneca to send vaccine over. Someone in Brussels really doesn’t like AZ
What is an artificial price and how does it differ from a real price?
Thanks for mentioning Send and ffsend!

Yeah, the instance is available at: https://send.vis.ee/
Why would this be relevant if tracking without consent is just an implementation choice?

Why even bother with a lawsuit over it if it’s not an important part of their business?

Wouldn’t they just let users opt-out if the wanted to?

In any case, I think we have established that my characterization of facebook’s business was accurate. They wouldn’t be seeking remedies for something that wasn’t important to them.
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I think it was sufficiently disambiguated by the word 'dedicated', it wouldn't be possible to have Australia both dedicated to agriculture and to have a city the size of New Zealand inside it. But thank you for explaining.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25886601

Two articles about the discovery:

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-do...
Is this still about GME (which does pay dividends) or just a random comment on the market in general?
Why often there is no screenshot for purely visual things?
I am heavily on Apple’s side on this. People like my wife and me want a safe, privacy environment and Apple delivers. (I have two Linux laptops for out-of-the-garden use).

Apple does deserve a little criticism for the App Store, but their softening fees for most developers helps. Compared to Facebook (a blight on civilization, IMHO) Apple is couth indeed.
it's in his daily screenshot. But he still has $30M in stock and calls.
Equating it to macOS Finder tabs is the same as equating it to tabs in Google Chrome.

Your example is of tabs within a single application. While software in the OP is for tabs for your entire workspace that can contain any application (or multiple application). Basically, it is one meta level above.
> Perhaps you've heard of the problem of "vote splitting"

What vote do you think is being split? Some kind of generic not-Conservative vote? People vote for other parties - they aren't split among a vote not for the Conservatives.

If it really were simple vote splitting then coalitions would form, and they don't - because the other parties aren't a simple platform of not-Conservative and they disagree with each other as much as they disagree with the Conservatives. In fact one of the only two parties to successfully coalesce was the Conservatives!

As a concrete example - the second choice in most parts of Scotland isn't Labour, it's Conservative. Are the Conservatives and Labour splitting the not-SNP vote? If you think that then is any party that stands except the ruling party a vote splitter? Seems a silly definition to me.

> Well, try 51% for a start.

An absolute popular majority? I don't think that's realistic and it would be extremely unhealthy if that was the case.
> It’s not going to help consumers and independent developers.

Developer here, top mod of /r/iOSProgramming. Making iOS an open platform will _absolutely_ help developers AND consumers for a myriad of reasons. Facebook being able to open their own app store means ANYONE can distribute their own apps, which is GOOD because that's how the web works and how every other general purpose computing platform works (Windows, macOS, even Android). See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375711&p=2

I encourage you to read the full lawsuit, as it outlines the harm Apple is actively doing to its users and developers:

https://cache.saurik.com/lawsuit/complaint.pdf