skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who just wrote a very long comment about a week ago explaining why you can't call a publisher deciding not to publish something "censorship" (and I stand by it), I feel a lot more uneasy about curtailing third-party resale than I do a publisher deciding not to publish things. Third-party resale is one of the few checks on the otherwise unlimited market powers that copyright holders have; and this could wind up being precedential if applied beyond weird exception cases like racist books.

I'm not going to rail against this particular action any further, because I do not believe in vice signalling and do not care for these books. I can already see people lining up to misinterpret Martin Niemöller and blow some dog-whistles, and I do not want to pitch my tent in their ideological camp. However, I could totally see Disney or Nintendo getting bright ideas to try and shut down legal resale markets for "vaulted" works in the name of profit.
I genuinely cannot tell you how relieved I am this isn’t a link to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the thought of FAANG cos “disarming” but snuffing out competitors with government approval is terrifying.

https://datatransferproject.dev/ from yesterday’s iCloud photos thread seems to be a step in this NPT direction though.
Very nice picture, but how does this advance the "flat earth theory"?

:)
Prof. Kiwasaki has posted an interesting but highly speculative hypothesis. A hypothesis is not evidence.
You do realise that most desktop computers run on closed source operating systems, don't you?
Awesome React Renderer
Assuming you mean something from that bestseller, could you sum up what's "Extreme Ownership" in this context?
It's actually not so much about free consulting where I help them, it's more the other way round: they help me figure out how to improve the software by showing me what they've built or talking about what they want to achieve.

It's more of a market research exercise than freemium consulting.

That's not to say it couldn't also turn into a profitable exercise through up-selling consultancy, but that's not the primary goal.
Not you, kilroy123.

Good for you. Seriously (no joke, no sarcasm.) Good for you, that's awesome. (And yeah, that was the obvious question: "Have you tried giving them money?" but I wasn't feeling quite that salty.)

Well met. Sorry for being a grouch.
No, because they are not culturally dominant right now.
The big platforms respond to society.

Society will run away from this and the pendulum will swing again toward Morton Downy Jr., The Man Show, Politically Incorrect, 101 Ways TO Kill A Cat, Jerry Springer, etc.

The big platforms will quietly acquiesce to the public's "new found" acceptance of the risqué.
China to focus on 7 ‘frontier’ technologies from chips to brain-computer fusion
The title is disingenious. Proton is meant to be an improvement over Wine. Did none of those 7000 games work on Wine already?

If I fork Proton as Neutron and add support for 1 game, no one will say "Neutron has enabled 7001 games". It enabled only 1.
Market share is king. With Linux at 1% Linux gamers are screwed, Proton or not.
>The TV license is a tax imposed by the government

The requirement to hold a licence is a statutory one. Likewise, payment of the fee must, by law, be made to the BBC, and enforcement of the licensing regime must be done by (or on behalf of) the BBC.

Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax.

(Yes, I know that all taxes must have a statutory basis, but this is one that is levied outside of the usual budgetary process using Finance Acts (the passage of which are traditionally considered confidence votes), and the TV Licence is not considered by government as part of its annual budget).
Good, recent podcast with the founder: https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/20135760/kokonas-know-.... I learned a lot about restaurants from listening to this.

(The link has a transcript, too, if you would prefer to read.)
Your objections seem to be predicated on the assumption that the attempt to separate storage providers from application providers wouldn't be properly enforced. Yes, obviously if Alphabet can just set up Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud Apps and continue with business as usual, then this won't work.

But what I'm suggesting would be a functioning regulatory regime: An independent authority who classifies cloud providers as utilities, writes regulations specifying standards of interoperability, hears complaints from people and businesses and acts to enforce them. Antitrust regulation that stops collusion between service and application providers, and prevents companies or individuals owning a controlling stake in both.

And the major difference I see in contrast to railways is digital infrastructure is not limited in they same way physical infrastructure is. So long as there's only one set of tracks, you can never have a functioning market running trains on them, and it's impossible to build a second set. But while the capital costs of setting up a new data centre are large, they are still within the realm of possibility for many large companies.
It must be noted that if self driving cars can't rely on library implementations of locking/lockless structures, they're even further from reality than it seems.

I feel like for all these questions the "correct" answer should be "I would never waste company time by faffing around reading papers about implementing lockless structures when I could be solving an actual business problem."
Ah, so there's a man on an island bobbing fake ships on his massive attenae. It's like the myth of the Sirens but instead of ladies saying, "come heeeeere" it's a dude saying, "look a shiiiip".
> Imagine spending 20, 30, or 60 dollars on a game that can break at any moment and know there will be zero support waiting for you.

So spending < than people make in an hour here for a potential inconvenience that comes from updating to a new release - I can hardly imagine it.

Multiplayer games that need to be up-to-date and competitive games would probably be annoying to hardcore gamers - but frankly if you're into that you'll be sensitive to performance as well and you should just get on a supported platform.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (Short Story) by Roald Dahl
Ebay is a company, they can choose to sell (or not) whatever they wish (within legal bounds).

That doesn't violate First Sale Principle, nobody is stopping you from selling the book, Ebay just doesn't want you to use its platform to do so - which is entirely in its rights. There's a large number of items which Ebay won't allow to be sold, including souls.[1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/soul-listing-policy-ebay-201...
yes. patents :)
Not culturally very much. They were probably managed by sub-kings (I forgot the english word). Not a lot changed in South under Mughal rule, compared to north.
Send it to Texas
That's exactly what's happening...
A camera is a light sensor, a camera is not an object sensor. Cameras as light sensors definitely exist.

A camera feeding into phenomenally sophisticated AI trained on all sorts of weather conditions with windshield wiper smear and glare and everything else, which can turn those horrible images into a picture of what actually lies ahead, is an object sensor. Those aren't good enough yet.
My problem with Proton is that they are not strict enough with their ratings. I see a game has "platinum" or "gold" support and think "great, this will work well!" but then I discover it crashes after alt-tab and multiplayer doesn't work at all, which I consider critical bugs.

To me, the levels should be:

* Paltinum - the game works as well as it does on officially supported platforms

* Gold - the game works almost as well as on supported platforms but with minor niggles that don't significantly affect the experience

* Bronze - the game works in some form, but major things might be broken. It would not ship in this state on official platforms.

However, the project is a great start and I look forward to what they do next!
Using Notion to Collaborate and Have Fewer Meetings
Not hiding. I expected this to be common enough knowledge that it did not require further elaboration.

I am bothered more by the pandal loudspeakers because they disrupt night sleep for multiple stretches of a week at a time. Ajaans are not aired during my sleeping hours so they don't bother me (except for the 5 am one at times). Neither do church bells. There are many mosques around where I stay, thankfully they seem to obey noise ordinances that pandals do not.

In contrast there is always some festival every month with a pandal and there goes my sleep for a week.

Totally agree that noise ordinances should be uniformly applied. Same applies to construction noise.
What does "cancel" mean to you?

Does it mean that people shouldn't face criticism and negative consequences for what they do in the public sphere?

The argument was that LGBT people and their fellow travelers working for and supporting Mozilla would likely not want to continue if the head of the organization supported anti-LGBT laws. As such, that would diminish his leadership effectiveness.

How is leadership effectiveness unrelated to his professional career in a leadership role?

When I've looked into it, opposition to "cancel" seems more like the belief that rich, powerful, or famous people shouldn't suffer negative consequences for saying or doing something that liberals don't like.
The point of this article was to address the fact that open source project rarely get good user feedback. Developers wouldn't necessarily be the person offering time to talk with users, it would be the project owner. I know open-source projects don't have traditional roles like a product owner or scrum master, but there's still somebody prioritizing a list of features that have been requested. Offering to meet with real users provides valuable insight into what they actually need. This can help with prioritizating features, and even help with making decisions about whether to approve a random PR you get for a feature you didn't put into the backlog based on whether it might make future real needs harder to achieve.
I had a moderate case where I sick for about 10 days, mostly fatigue, fever, loss of smell and taste, night sweats.
But I developed an itch in my armpits, groin and arms post-recovery. The dermatologist gave me an anti-itch cream, now a month later, the symptoms have gotten worse to the point where I wake up in the middle of the night scratching like crazy.
I don't have a history of skin allergies or allergies in general.
Posting it here, if someone has/had similar issues.
there are plausible explanations in the article
>And computing integers IS faster than computing floats, at least on a CPU.

In the abstract yes. In reality not so much. A lot of what floats are used for in games is vector math (you are often in a 2D/3D world), and vector math in fixed point requires a lot more work in integer math since you constantly need to shift down things in order to avoid overflow. Overflow bugs are a constant problem when doing dot products in fixed point integer math.

Another common operation in vector math is square root (to normalize vectors) Modern CPU's do that very fast, and you can also use clever approximations that use the way floating point's are represented in hardware.

Most of whats done in 32 bit floats in games, needs to be done with 64bit integers to manage these problems if you decide to use integers, and that means that your data grows, more cache misses, and things slow down.

On top of this everything you do in a game needs to be drawn on the GPU so you need to convert everything to floats anyway to show them on screen, and converting between integers and floats is also slow.
Proton is Wine + DXVK + d9VK + custom patches.

The 'secret sauce' is actually 'Steam Play' which is the automated wrapping, configuration and execution of Proton wrapped games without the user having to do anything (other than a confirmation box to confirm that a compatibility layer is being used).

The Steam Play component turns it from a 'nice meta-distribution for wine' into 'killer quality of life improvement'.
> The marketplaces are just following orders.

First of all, hat-tip for using that chilling phrase in this unintentionally appropriate context.

Furthermore, eBay is a secondary market bookseller. As such, they facilitate legal sales of privately-owned books between individuals. They have absolutely no duty to "follow orders" by a publisher. In fact, publishers would shut down all secondary markets if they could - it would help their sales of new books.

Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that a publisher "ordered" eBay to stop selling the books, and such "order" would be invalid and ridiculous.

This is a decision by eBay to flex their corporate muscles to ban books they find politically disagreeable.
@jruethe did this answer your question?
The article is incorrect.

If you check the paper, they are clear that physical warp drive do not allow faster than light travel. It moves only at subluminal speeds. In any case, warp drives (physical or non-physical) are just theoretically interesting.

Taking mass of few solar systems and building a tiny microscopic vehicle that fits inside the bubble is not practical way to travel.
They can request anything they want, but nobody has to agree :)

In this case, it appears that Ebay and Amazon agreed to the request.
At least it doesn't use milliamp hours per hour as a unit. I'm pretty sure one of the cars actually does that with KW (Kwh/hr).
How the fcuk is a rare out of print book on ebay targeting children? You mean like if I kid sees it he might pick it up because of the friendly art on the cover?
> Plus - Stack Overflow is about trying to generalize any given question to maximize it's wider usefulness.

Since when? You don't get extra points if you write stuff that doesn't concern OP's problem. Most SO problems don't get viral and get lots of upvotes from other people. From a game theory perspective, it doesn't make sense to add more to an answer than to make it the accepted one.

If you have slightly different constraints you are encouraged to open another question. Discussions are frowned upon and sometimes even interrupted by admins so you can't discuss if your situation is different from OP's situation and so could warrant a different answer.
There is still no functional VR media player for linux, none of the Windows ones work with Proton and the official SteamVR Media Player has no linux release.
Doesn't diminish your point in itself, but NBA Top Shot is a bad example since it runs on a centralized chain (Flow) and even recently had drama about a user being locked from withdrawing their funds [1].

There are tons of ways trust assumptions about smart contracts can be misunderstood. The current general education level about crypto seems similar to when snake oil sellers where sprinkling "artifical intelligence" in their products to make them "smarter". A drip of "blockchain" and suddenly your product is "trustless".

[1]: https://defited.medium.com/my-centralized-experience-dapper-...
I don't know about the physics of the article, but they get the lore of Star Trek wrong right off the bat. Warp drive is certainly not explained in Star Trek in terms of direct propulsion from matter-antimatter collision. That is how the impulse (sub-lightspeed) engines work. Warp is explained as a reaction involving exotic matter that creates a field surrounding the ship to warp spacetime.
Framing is just perspective. Our conversation is a debate on how to frame framing.

Trying to change someone's perspective isn't always propaganda, and of course you can change your own prospective through reframing and introspection.
I have occasionally sent BBC articles to my friends in the UK, only to find the article is blocked in the UK.

I guess it's shockingly difficult to identify advertorials.
also from several game devs I've talked to, not only is the market share negligible, the bug reports aren't. Common sentiment was that Linux was ~1% of their sales but a third of complaints.
I use PyTorch for small-ish models, not really the typical enormous deep learning workload where you let it train for days.

I still prefer to work on a GPU workstation because it's the difference between running an experiment in minutes vs hours, makes it easier to iterate.

Some of that speed on a low-power laptop would be great. Much less friction.
no, false, incorrect
strncpy() suffers from its naming. It never was a string function in reality. It is a function to write and clear a fixed size buffer. It was invented to write filenames in the 14 character buffer of a directory entry in early Unix. It should have been name mem-something and people would have never come to the idea to use it for general string routines.
His true intentions to...what? He's obviously not hiding his true intentions, he's writing a book review. And you are engaging in a childish ad hominem attack.

What relevance could some things that you have no proof he either said in the first place (yes, me and everyone else here can fabricate screenshots with ease) or still believes have to this particular book review?

Even if he does hold a belief that you label "horrifyingly racist", why would you assume that his "true intentions" pervade everything else he writes? That's not charitable at minimum, but more to the point it's conspiracy theory whack job level implausible. Do you seriously believe he's secretly trying to advance his pro-Jew anti-Black agenda with this...book review?

I promise you his words don't just sound smart, they are smart. He isn't a pseudo-intellectual, he's just a regular old intellectual. The fact that he might hold, or once held, some ideas that you or others place on the "wrongthink" list is irrelevant to the correctness of other arguments he makes.

I am quite sure that vast amounts of public scrutiny would uncover wrongthink in your past too, held09218.
I think what he's saying is that context matters. Nobody is saying that you need to hire an asian artist to draw the eyes and suddenly that makes it okay.

You have to take into consideration history and changing sentiments when looking at these things.

For example, a white man overly emphasizing asian-ness to an extent that it caricatures them and makes them a one-dimensional "other" is MUCH different than an asian culture portraying themselves this way in a better context.

Same with words like the b-word... a man using this word towards a woman is (usually) incredibly offensive. A woman using this word towards another woman CAN be endearing in the right context, or used to cut her down.

Words and depictions of people are HIGHLY context sensitive!
Often when I make a mistake on a whiteboard or on paper I have an instinctive urge to Cmd-Z.
Usually it works better if you are looking for someone to invest in. You have to find the projects that need your money because only scammers and sales people are good at reaching you otherwise.
Nearly every single bill in Congress is introduced by non-chairmen, so this is an odd misdirection. Bills in both the entire session and in each subcommittee are voted on by members.

And again, this demonstrates that mocking old people as somehow the problem is factually unsupportable by the facts.
A more socially acceptable nuclear weapon: Neutron bombs
Sure thing.

Supergiant has previously released all their games (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre) with Linux support. With Hades they explicitly said would not come to Linux, and in fact cite the presence of Proton as a reason [1]

Nicalis games has released games like Cave Story, VVVVVV and Binding of Isaac with Linux support. But the latest DLC of BoI will not have Linux support.

1. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1145360/discussions/0/1639794...
> I bet there is likely more people working on stealing from these defi projects than people creating them.

Not really considering it's usually the same people.

Who better knows the weird edge cases of the code than the devs themselves :) And after all, it's not theft because code is law :)

/s
What kind of HTML parser? A SGML one or a HTML5 one?

I'm really sad that they didn't go with a XML base for HTML5.
Maybe we need a coalition of second-tier EMRs to band together and commit to supporting an API and a group to keep it open and updated? I agree that the current approach isn't really working, and doing more of the same is probably not going to help.
Forcing someone to publish a book or to list a book for sale on their website is a violation of their free speech. This place is too authoritarian to discuss such nuances.
Perhaps I did not explain clearly, your PR does not automatically run the workflow.

Perhaps it would be more clear to imagine two files, a workflow file describing the CI steps and a permission file describing what can trigger the CI.

The CI will use the permission file from the last trusted commit (which would also be the last commit that the CI was run on) but uses the workflow file of the current commit.

In your case you create a PR that updates both the workflow and permissions file. The CI sees that the previous trusted commit requires that I, the repo owner has to manually submit unknown PRs to the CI. Seeing that your PR is malicious, I don't submit the PR to the CI.

Now that I've layed it out explicitly I realise that the non intuitiveness comes from using git to track CI configuration in the same repo.
My biggest irritations with Scrum center around point assignment and the 'emergent architecture' on green-field projects.

In those areas, I think that simply following the Scrum ritual is not necessarily harmful, however it is almost surely _not enough_. At least one person needs to have read through the scattered stories, built a mental model of the project's function, and have enough experience to start forming a notion of how things will work given the resources available. Better yet, if everyone has done that and can collaborate on a sketch of the architecture. Without this, all of the points poker is just Ouija board voodoo for the non-tech stake holders because nobody could possibly know how much effort it will be to build that 'Implement a button to do-complicated-reporting-process' down in the backlog.

However, I have witnessed several teams where conversation around architecture and data model simply doesn't happen. On sprint one, everyone gets some stories, and goes off to do their thing. What you get is a minimally-coherent-to-satisfy-the-story data model and massive duplication of effort and code.

That problem should be taken care of with story grooming and the regular, deliberate, refactoring and tech-debt pay down but I don't see that happen very often in practice. Everyone is in too much of a hurry to stop and say 'wait, this code is demonstrably garbage and we're doing it wrong'. They just build around the weird, wrong, or inefficient parts and get their stories finished.
>Did none of those 7000 games work on Wine already?

Not on Steam, and not without user time investment.

Steam Play (which uses Proton) allows the Steam client to only show games that are known to run well on Linux, automatically installs and configures a Wine prefix for them and then launches them _as if they were native Linux games_. No mess, no fuss. If I were to put Linux with Steam Play enabled in from of a Windows layman, they would likely not even realise they were playing games that weren't built for the platform. It 'just works'.
Py package to scrape any Google News page without being blocked
>Imagine spending 20, 30, or 60 dollars on a game that can break at any moment and know there will be zero support waiting for you.

I don't have to imagine: I play Steam games on Windows.
> market-dominating

I'm reminded of In-Q-Tel at times like these. I defy anyone to find more than 20% of wildly successful "tech giants" who have not received government funding and support. It's not a free market when some get tax breaks and government money. If you get those things, your utmost law should be the law that governs the government in your region. This will never happen, of course.