skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very fact you’re suggesting every country locks down for 3-4 weeks” as a solution shows youre ignoring reality.

All it would take is for 1 person to travel for the epidemic to continue. Maybe developed nations could do it but developing nations are still dealing with illegal border crossers even 1 year into the epidemic.

So great theory but it falls flat in reality.
And the NSA. And vendor-locking-in accounts to participate in what should be decentralized git for source code management.
The most important reason: PAPER PROFITS ARE NOT REAL PROFITS.

More technical reasons follow.

The risk profile is very different. Rents, dividends, and interest payments all have some notion of a guaranteed payment. Your risk is primarily whether your counter party will be able to honor that agreement. This is why bond investing is often called "fixed income" because you know ahead of time how much money you'll make.

Asset appreciation has immense market risk. You need to find a buyer willing to pay more for what you paid for it. In the case of companies the economic risk are higher too: if the companies cashflows dwindle or debt increases the shares are fundamentally worth less.

This is why there are often tax distinctions between guaranteed income streams and capital investments: in theory, a government wants to encourage investment in risk and discourage printing guaranteed monthly checks. This does create a regulatory arbitrage, however, where companies can buy fixed amounts of their own stocks to guarantee some amount of appreciation in lieu of a dividend.
Shrug. Another way to frame this is a poker bot learned to fold when given a bad hand, and they only gave it the same bad hand.

Yes, yes, woe is the individual in modern capitalist society but the only reason people are reacting to this are that they don't understand it and they've been told it's something much more emotionally impactful than it actually is.
I do not support this idea. The differences between the things they all group together under one umbrella is wild - ads, usage reporting, automatic updates, and crash reporting are all very different things and it's actively harmful to control all of them with a single switch.

At the very least, there should be two different switches - "ads" and "everything else".

If you don't want telemetry or crash reporting, that's fine - you may not care about helping the developers of an open-source project improve their software and that's your personal choice. Similarly, you may want to manually install security patches, while I want them to be automatically installed so I have one less thing to worry about.

There may even be some crazy person that wants ads. I don't, but I'm not going to try to take away their freedom to choose them, which is what this proposal would do - an all-or-nothing switch for non-essential network access.

Give me granularity. There's no (user-facing) reason not to.
They never open-sourced any of their engines until after they had published a game with the next iteration of their engine.
So company makes a billion out of your work and you are happy with $300k. Okay.
> From T2, to Jurassic Park, to the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Pulp Fiction, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, Cruel Intentions, Mean Girls, 5th Element, Independence Day, etc.. etc..

Really? ID4 is fun in the manner of that a formulaic, paint-by-numbers, checklist action-adventure can be, but there's non shortage of equally well-done iterations of that model today. (And ID4 wasn’t a groundbreaking example others since arw copying, it was rote, predictable, and formulaic for its time.)

I think a lot of this is just the same kind of nostalgia you see in every generation.
Corporations are led by people and we expect people to be moral. Seeking profit doesn't excuse you from morality.

Legislation is a good idea as well
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Idiot soyboy cuckdowncel detected.
The regulations only apply to platforms with at least 5 million registered users.
I mentioned this in the last thread here, but due to COPPA, generally it is illegal for businesses operating in the US to collect data on children under 13, even if you ask (there are exceptions but usually you need to prove that you have the parents' permission). They are doing what is required by the law, and in fact it was probably already illegal for children under 13 to use the product in ways that could generate personal data. So nothing has really changed, it seems they are only explaining what the situation already was.
There's a big difference between ruling the world and having the largest economy, which is what the article actually discusses.
What happens if I use a squash instead of a true merge?
Also people are using glibc++ on avr micro controllers.
The DSi has four times the ram and the main processor is twice as fast as the DS.

The GB Color is also twice as fast and has more than double the RAM. (Although one can argue if it's an upgrade or a real "separate" console)

The New 3ds has been mentioned, which is more than 8 times faster and has double the ram.

The only handheld generation where Nintendo didn't do this was the GBA, so it's very common.
If you read their responses and messages then they tell you exactly why they are interested in certain data and how they decided to respond to the outrage -- the _Audacity developer's responses_, not random people who are misinformed.
Not sure about NL/China but being able to read Russian freely I'd say they make more than enough stink in the media when someone gets problems for political activity. Whether the person gets a relief is of course a different question.
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I dont like them per say, but they worked for me when I had to learn data structures and algos under a lot of pressure. What I noticed (and what I tell my students now) is that they can help you get to a point where you get enough muscle memory to start to watch yourself coding in real time and think critically about what you're doing when your doing it.
HN: No new hardware other than the screen? What a let down.

Everyone Else: Where do I preorder?
Personally, I’d aim for a new role at a medium or large sized company. Small startups are great if you want to wear a lot of hats and be close to the customer. Once a company starts getting around 50 people is when most of your job is abstracted through different fiefdoms of stakeholders, usually your project managers.

And at mega corps with 400+ people, most projects are being bolted onto a multi million dollar money printer. There’s so much more process to getting big changes out. But if you’re on the right team, you can build something novel and immediately have a market to test it out.
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This is the danger of not understanding what you're doing at a deep level.

Clearly in the (flawed) objective there is a phase transition near the very beginning, where the wolves have to chose whether to minimize the time penalty or maximize the score. With enough "temperature" and time perhaps they could transition to the other minimum, but the time penalty minimum is much closer to the initial conditions, so you know ab initio that it will be a problem. You can reduce that by making the time penalty much smaller than the sheep score and adding it only much later. I feel bad that the students wasted so much time on a badly formulated problem.

Edit: Also none of these problems are black boxes if you understand optimization. Knowing what is going on inside a very deep neural network (such as an AGI might have) is quite different than understanding the incentives created by a particular objective function.
Why would they muddy their messaging by announcing half the features, and then later announcing another set of features? Think about how much marketing confusion that would lead to; most people wouldn't have any idea what the thing actually does.
There's a kid in university somewhere about to send an email that says "I've written a version of Linux that runs on my rasberry pi, it's not going to be big and fancy like Linux, but I've written it in Rust and hope people like it."

30 years later, there'll be a kid in university somewhere about to send a thoughtmail that says "I've written a version of..."
I know?
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Ask HN: High ROI capital investment in new business?
If you had $500K - $1M to invest in capital equipment that would power a new startup (e.g., hard assets like a CNC or special tool), what would you buy?

Ideally the outcome would be to build an immediate business around deploying the capacity of this equipment.
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Ledger is the company that kept for no good reason, and did not secure database of names, phone numbers and home addresses of their customers putting them at risk of robbery.

I’m on that list and I’m scared.
Check out the Project Veritas page to see how ignoring all these rules can pass through directly to the Google search results. You don't even have to dirty up your history by going to the site.

From the talk page you can see the main editor who is orchestrating the effort (don't forget to look at the talk page history for the whole story) and from the editor's user page you can see an enemies list and other details establishing the proper bona fides.

A real case study on mindset as well as technique.
https://www.google.com/search?q=project+veritas
Why are you using past tense for Ada? Adacore is still doing business and Ada 202x will be standardized this year or next.

I’m also not sure why “nice JSON libraries” is a hard requirement for kernel code. Also, see JWX.
Nintendo doesn't need to make quality games.

They have been advertising to us since we were literal babies. Their corporate mascots have become familiar characters.

I personally find it extremely unethical Nintendo advertises to children. As an adult my brain still reacts to their corporate mascots.
Durex get by without knowing exactly how their products are used. Product improvement is not one to one with privacy abuse.
Quiet frankly, they solve different problems. Ada includes a GC as part of the runtime and can still run into memory safety issues if you don't use the GC.

Rust has opt-in memory safety issues but outside of those, does not require a GC.

Rust does not have Ada's constraint system. In that way, rust is easier (and arguably less safe) to program.

Ada didn't get the same love as Rust for the same reason D goes pretty unloved. The problem systems engineers needed solved was memory safety without a GC. Neither D nor Ada solve that problem.
My understanding is that encryption is "broken" any time it becomes feasible for someone to decrypt your data without the key. Brute force attacks are always hypothetically possible, but the encryption isn't broken unless such an attack is feasible.

As a counter-example, DES would count as "unbroken" under your definition. The EFF built a machine in 1998 for under $250,000 that could crack a DES key in under 24 hours. I don't know what that would cost today, but I wouldn't be surprised if a couple GPUs could get you the same thing today.

The difference is whether such an attack has even a vanishing chance of succeeding. For AES, the hardware just isn't anywhere close to that. Afaik, there isn't anything that could even hypothetically threaten to make brute force attacks on AES feasible on the table today.
I know more than a handful of people who complain about Hollywood originality, but only go to the theater for Marvel or Star Wars movies.

Or who only go to see a movie that has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes (unless its a franchise movie).

The real problem is that TV killed the middle-rung movie. All that is left is blockbuster spectacle (which costs too much to take risks with) or art house stuff.
No, it allocates explicitly when you do that. Vec and String are heap-allocated types, so whenever you use them, you know you're doing an allocation.

In C++ you can write code like this:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

void print(const std::string &s) {
std::cout << s << std::endl;
}

int main() {
print("Hello world!");
}

This compiles with no warnings, and at no point in the function "main" do you see that you're causing a memory allocation and a copy by implicitly converting your static message to a std::string, passing it to the function, and deallocating it. If you code-review "main", it doesn't look like you're doing an allocation because you're passing a const char *; if you code-review "print", it doesn't look like you're doing an allocation because you're accepting a std::string, which has already been allocated. So you get an extra, unneeded allocation in the chasm between the two, and it's very hard to track down the performance problem (or, in the worst case, a hang - memory allocation can block on flushing buffers or swapping things out, so you'd better not run into this situation in code that could itself be involved in writing to disk!).

Compare the equivalent Rust code:

fn print(s: &String) {
println!("{}", s);
}

fn main() {
print("Hello world!");
}

which produces a "mismatched types" error: "expected reference `&String`, found reference `&'static str`."

To get this to compile, you have to write something like print(&"Hello world!".to_owned()); , where you specifically instruct an allocation to happen.

The objection is to implicit allocations. Explicit allocations are fine.
Nobody is claiming hiring would go to zero. Do you know for a fact how many employees would be in your building if laws were different?
Interesting considering the world currently has a plastics poisoning problem
Really? what about memory protection? temp file cleanup? keylogging?

Encryption? what kind of KDF are you using? probably something old and quite brittle when it comes to hardware cracking.

sit this one down boy
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There are different levels of "careful". Look at the early days of nuclear research, chemicals or aviation industries compared to present-day regulations in those fields.
I don't personally do katas, but I would recommend them. As a disclaimer, I've written a research paper on the use of typing exercises to help learn CS [1]. For typing exercises, I consider it akin to building muscle memory at getting comfortable with code syntax with a variety of examples. I look at katas in a simple fashion, small scale problems designed to get you comfortable with building mental models in your head. There is also research out of Utah on giving super small coding drills with good results [2].

When it comes to teaching it, the biggest hurdle is that you need to build a lot of small, unique exercises. This is still drilling, just now focusing on making the techniques flexible to different problems. I use the analogy of drilling technique in martial arts, but you could consider that training with a different partner to understand how the technique works with a new body type. The trick I've found useful is to collect a number of textbooks to review when thinking up practice ideas. If the textbook is good, it typically has "real world" examples modeled with the topic - for example, one I built the other day looked at creating bigrams from a list of words.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373165.3373177

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372782.3406259
What about it is so very weird? They cautiously raise some legitimate questions.
Hi Wojciech and Sylwia, congrats on the launch!

I followed the previous launches as well. I'm curious, what triggered the rebrand? Is there a story to it?
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> What happened around 2006 is streaming.

I think you mean large-scale, mass acceptance of piracy. Streaming took a while longer to take off in big numbers.
> What will bring is into trouble are non vaccinated people which build a big resource pool for Covid-19 to become more aggressive.

I've heard a different story from an interview with Robert Malone, the creator of mRNA vaccines [1]

[1] https://www.bitchute.com/video/ukx8L3lh5CA7/
Love this quote from Roger Ebert. Thanks for posting it. He was a great reviewer because he loved what he did. His passion came through in everything he wrote.
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I finally just upgraded my desktop to play modern games again, after about two decades of just getting whatever new console is out.

It plays all current games on Xbox Game Pass at Ultra High settings, so I don't feel a big urge to get any new consoles.

And with the curved 3440x1440p 144hz monitor I'm starting to prefer gaming on the PC again (except Switch games, of course, currently playing Super Mario Golf and Game Maker Studio on there).

Granted it's more expensive, but it also gives me a beefy computer for development, if I ever come up with a game idea that's not some simple graphic puzzle game (I'm trying, my designer brain just really likes grids for some reason, and I have very limited art skills).
I wouldn't consider it a bug either, I didn't mention it because I thought it was a bug, I mentioned it following this line of thought: "You don't have bugs in math." -> if math were inconsistent it would be buggy -> if math is inconsistent it's buggy -> if it's not inconsistent you can't prove that it's not inconsistent -> you can't tell whether math has bugs in it (unless you can find some), which is a contradiction from your statement that there are just no bugs. It's basically impossible to prove that, and if you can't prove something you are left with nothing more than doubt.
As a kid this was one of my favourite programs ever, but I could never figure out when it was on and only ever seemed to catch bits of it here and there.

There is also a "Secret Life of the Home" interactive exhibit in the London Science Museum, also made by Tim Hunkin: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/learning/secret-life-home-s...
I know it's easy to slam Atlassian but Jira is still widely used.

I've found the ability to tie tickets to commits really nice. And it's CI is good enough.

Not saying it's better than other solutions use what makes sense for you.
Carmack is clearly still in favor of open source, he just wishes he had gone with BSD. And it doesn't sound like it's because he's anti-corporate. It sounds like it's because he works for a mega tech corp and his mega tech corp hates the GPL so he has to do a ton of paperwork to use any GPL code there. (which is the same as working for any tech corp.)
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Many people here saying the SoC has not been upgraded, but anyone has a definitive source for this ? Best information I could find was the estimated battery life is the same as the current Switch (higher than release-day model).
Sars-cov-2 is an easy virus.

We still can't create a vaccine against HIV (but we have some ideas).
Since you have written it as a symmetric, positive definite, sparse linear system, why don't use a standard solver like CHOLMOD which is available in Julia? (and behind octave's anti-slash operator). It should be faster than the ad-hoc single-scale Gauss-Seidel.
It might be a good reason to start a war with a neighbor they can reach by land, but they need a win, not a protracted and costly fight, which is exactly what they'll get attempting a naval invasion.

Taiwan is not a source of manpower and economic growth, the only thing of value is a high tech industry that will be immediately destroyed by any sort of military action. Whatever minor gains could be hasd would be completely overshadowed by the immense cost of fighting the pro-taiwan coalition. China's economy is reliant on ocean going foreign trade, both for the import of raw materials and the export of its manufactured goods, but that trade is totally at the mercy of powers that aren't big fans of China to begin with and would openly oppose it in the case of war. You can't maintain the world's second largest economy running freighters through a blockade in the hopes of selling a fraction of your wares in third world ports.

Saber rattling is often an effective strategy for galvanizing public support, but actually fighting a war typically proves disastrous. Even in the absolute best case scenario where the US and other western countries don't join the conflict, one need only too look at the Soviet Union in Afghanistan or the US in Vietnam to see how a superpower can be humiliated by a grossly inferior opponent and the severe internal strife caused by such boondoggles. Again, amphibious assaults are difficult under the best of circumstances, and Taiwan is an especially difficult target; China's huge advantage in population is useless as you're limited by the number of troops you can land on a beach, and China has zero experience in conducting such operations. The odds of such a war becoming a long and protracted conflict that destroys the Chinese economy and causing mass unrest is incredibly high. The idea that Taiwan is an easy practice target on the road to some second scramble for Africa is simply laughable.
I think this comes from the theory of general artificial intelligence where your AI would have the ability for self improving. Hence it could develop any capability given time and incentive for it.

There are interesting videos on the subject on Robert Miles channel on AI safety:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg
> Of course it is possible, that there would have been more adopters and more people sharing code back, but that is not guaranteed, which is kind of the point of GPL.

BSD/MIT/permissive and our use of them did make it a hell of a lot easier to approach my previous employer about contributing back on company time/pay (they now do). They even came back with "but no GPL." One of the biggest problems in OSS is paid time/contributions, and GPL discouraged it in at least this one case.