skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Master/main? It's a single branch workflow.
Getting a $250 device and cover for a device first sold in 2007 is pretty great, honestly. Even getting $50 off a Kindle and $15 credit is a pretty good option, all things considered.
A company is only just a shell. It is the creative people that work for a company that make the actual products.

If you like a game, keep bookmarks on the people who made it and follow them around the industry.
It is an interesting problem to communicate that it is a public affordance, but I guess the ev driver in a certain town will have a lot invested in it.
A few things I am really excited about in this release are the new protbuf compiler ( https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-f... ) and the improvement on end to end speed ( https://benchmark.vitess.io/macrobench?ltag=10.0.0&rtag=11.0... )

Vitess was already one of the most performant distributed databases, this is really pushing the limits even further.
In dynamic languages, like Python, all variables have a static type of "Any", so "5" == 5 has matching static types. Then the runtime types (or tags as some prefer to call them) are checked in the implementation of == itself. This is perfectly equivalent to what must happen in your example with `a in b`. Python can't express something like Int[], though.
Reminds me of the shenanigans pulled at old Apple demos with all sorts of behind the curtain hijinks to make the product work as Jobs intended them to. Remember folks, our infrastructure is held together by duct tape and quik seal, albeit elegantly arranged duct tape and quik seal.
I would bet Scarlett Johansson's net worth that her contract included an "entire agreement" clause.

That said, I hope she gets what is fair. The only reason actors / directors get box office gross deals is that studios have absolutely mastered the art of defrauding everyone on net deals and now with streaming it's even worse:

- Now 100% of the release marketing (which reduces net profit) pushes the streaming service as an option next to theaters

- Streaming service is massive LTV & branding value that benefits only Disney
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/03/nhs-england-strikes-deal-...

That's available too.
> I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much

That is a very confusing argument to me.

Not only you’ve already given your money to them and received your end of the transaction, whether you make use of it or not, is this the most robust way to conceptualize the identity of a corporation? No temporal limitations, no account for the actual people that make up the corporation at a given time?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying keep buying their games or give support to what they do but if the people who made your beloved Diablo aren’t the same people responsible for today’s shitshow, what’s the point of your gesture?

The inverse concern applies too, VW, IBM, Hugo Boss among many other had affiliations with Nazi Germany. Should they be condemned today, if so for how long more? What determines the cutoff?

This is a classic Theseus’s ship problem, if you change every board of a ship one board at a time, is it still the same ship, how do you define the identity functions.

Sounds like this is less about the identity of the corporation you affiliated with and more about identity of you through what you choose to/not to affiliate with.
Can you explain why you chose «dystopian» here? Did you maybe mean to indicate a sick irony?

I want to lead off with saying I don't want __anyone__ exploited, but this more or less is what US consumers have and continue to do world wide, and I'm not sure that dystopian is the most accurate word for it.

I'm not fully convinced that the original comment that Blizzard wants to sell in China is entirely accurate (there is truth of course, but somehow I think they'd really feel if the American market lost confidence), but dystopian is a pretty specific word for me, and just curious what you are meaning to communicate.
>And regardless of the FSF attorney stuff, places like china, ....

So your argument is if China does not care about license neither should we, the thing is I am fine with that, I know Windows source code is leaked so let's train an AI on it too

I think is a clear sign that MS did not trained on proprietary code , it means that is not legal or not safe, so the question is why GPL or other licenses are safe, I think you need the authors or the licenses to give you the permission to use the code as training data in black box, locked, proprietary algorithms.
> I don't really mind how I spend my working hours.

Must be nice to not have hard deadlines while on salary.
Except "a kind of lightweight VM" is an incorrect answer. I'm trying to gauge if the person knows what they're talking about because running Docker and Kubernetes in production is hard. I don't want someone thinking they can go into some vsphere console to reboot their VMs when a pod is having problems.
You're right that code has to demonstrate creativity for copyright. But that also means that an algorithm, even a transformative algorithm, cannot change copyright because an algorithm is not creative, by definition.

This means that the output of any algorithm on copyrighted code is still under the original copyright. I mean, we still apply the copyright of the original to the output of compilers, even though compilers can be transformative with inlining and link-time optimization, to the point that it mixes disparate code in the same way Copilot does.

In fact, I wrote some software licenses [1] that codify the fact that algorithms cannot change copyright.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
I've slowly stopped playing video games after college... but I deleted my Blizzard account after Blizzard doubled down on Blitzchung. Banning the casters for six months... that still gets me riled up. It makes zero sense to ban the casters for the player's conduct.
You have too narrow a view which seems pigeonholed on technology. The majority of expense is rarely the technical line item or budget unless it’s a pure SaaS or PaaS in the cloud play. The expense is often from headcount, marketing, sales, creative, support, legal, esport, and operational costs. You can make an AAA clone but that won’t make it Overwatch or WoW. Their brand carried them and even back in the day their cinematic trailers carried the hype.
(A)GPLv3 actually has seen some real growth corporate side -> it's used commonly by proprietary tech companies as sort of a poison license (Microsoft had some of these like SSPL).

The way this works is all contributors are required to sign a CLA -> the corporate developer can then use their code under ANY license, and most importantly can integrate into propriatery products or sell to others.

The code is then released as an AGPLv3 to be "open source" - but literally the only company with the "super" rights to license / make money off it is the corp dev.

It's kind of genius -> so I think we may see more (A)GPLv3 stuff coming this way. The corp developer can then offer for example a hosted version of the software WITHOUT releasing all the related code! But anyone else would have to release their code.

You an see how this is done here:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/cla/
I need to find a way to become an architect...
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I need to take exception with many of the comments here. Does Duolingo make you fluent in any language? No. But if that's what you're looking for (from any language learning tool), you need to readjust your expectations. The only thing that teaches you a language is immersion in a society that speaks it, in my experience. All language-learning exercises are just prep work for that. And on that front, Duolingo is exemplary.

I've been doing Spanish with it for the whole pandemic. I'm far from fluent but my retention is high and the learning process is easy and fun. Couldn't ask for more.
I’m not familiar with their product line but from reading just this comment I would guess that old devices that lose connectivity get a full new device and devices with WiFi losing partial connectivity get coupons and credit for their inconvenience (caused out of Amazons hands through the carriers)

That sounds like a fair deal to me. Although it’s pure speculation. I haven’t checked if that is actually the case.
It's in an email. Why would that be problematic for court?
Yeah, all sold out after like 17 min, can't wait to crank that crank :P
I would bet the per hour compensation is much higher, and general quality of life is much higher across similar age groups. Not to mention avoiding expenses of law school.
You already don't have the money they are behind so that is essentially a sunk cost.

If they are paying now, I'd try to work out that they pay something extra towards the delinquency. If they can't, they can't. If you evict, that's probably another few months of process time minimum and they'll probably stop paying again once you serve notice.

Owning rental property is an investment, not a guaranteed income. There is investment risk. This is one of the times that the risk became reality.

Bottom line (I say this as a small-time landlord) if they are back to making payments I'd let them finish their lease. At renewal time both parties can decide if they want to continue. Write off any losses; it was a bad year and nobody is really at fault.
If you google "how do i search the web without e commerce results", you get "how to improve search in your ecommerce site".

If you search "examples of bougainvillea not pruned", you get pruning tips.

Often the first page of results will already have the tag "Without: --keyword that changes everything but is inconvenient for the algorithm--. Force include this word?"
Oof. A clear statement like that from a lawyer... and then not doing the thing they themselves said they would need to do?

Someone had an unfortunate day when that email surfaced in court filings.
Of the people who couldn't afford, how many do you think were YOLOing as opposed to just plain old screwed? Basically, why focus on fictional people that are living in a way you find morally dubious, instead of the very real people living below the poverty line and struggling to keep a roof over their head?
I never can tell when the media is exaggerating anymore.
I love having the document and the app being the same file. No app to find or version skew between app and data.
ISS went 45 degrees out of attitude
In my experience pipewire is better than pulse ever was.
The FSF did GPLv3. The folks doing Linux etc did not.
Maybe it was a bad idea to let Disney own almost every major studio and franchise.
In fairness their attempt at building a PC was at least entertaining.
The Black Widow movie actually addresses this.
Real white shoe big law wont really want to do union busting
"said" referring to something written in this case, in an email. It's not hearsay (if that's what you're implying) but a statement by someone with some degree of authority/responsibility.

This can actually become important in legal proceedings. It's one reason to be careful with what people say in meetings or write in communications with customers or others, as it can become legally binding if they're perceived to have sufficient authority/responsibility to back the statement.
Yeah, we were there during peak COVID too, so it was our room, her room, and nowhere in between. I worked almost every day from her ICU room. I can still find myself hearing the beeps/alarms without actually hearing them, sort of like symptoms of PTSD.
That's a fair assessment, my initial comment only focused on one half of the balance you're highlighting.

The problem is, you know what I don't want to have put in my body even more than the vaccine? The coronavirus. The fact that it's some anti-vax luddite coughing on my kid and putting the virus in their body that way instead of a nurse administering a shot is just a minor implementation detail.

We've banned leaded gasoline and smoking indoors because we recognize the harm caused to others, even if it's hard to directly pin-point a specific cigarette to a cancer case. We need to pull society into the 21st century and acknowledge that spreading viruses has the same dynamic.

Since we can't effectively hold people liable for the damage they cause (eg, suing or imprisoning the person who negligently spread the disease when someone gets hospitalized or dies) I don't see any practical option other than requiring the vaccine. Maybe the liability model could work- if you went out in public unvaccinated, you're held liable for the medical expenses, missed work or wrongful death of the people you exhaled the virus onto.
Copilot was trained on leaked internal Microsoft code that's on github at the moment. Anyway, everyone seems perfectly ok with training langauge models on copyright text.
Aside from the issue of box-office split I imagine like there are a lot of other material ways actors lose out when this happens.

A studio may look at a 50M ad buy and think that, because it would only net 60M in ticket sales tops, its not worth the risk. However, from the POV of the actor part of the reason they appeared in a big budget movie was to get lots of screentime on tv/ads beforehand to boost their profile.
I think they mean the wages at large [game studios] are below the average for large [software companies in general].
Doesn't "Kindle (1st and 2nd Generation)" include "Kindle (1st Generation)"? Getting a new device is a pretty nice gesture though I guess very few still have a working 1st generation Kindle.
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This reminds me of Robin Williams. Disney did roughly the same thing to him. He did Aladdin (highest-grossing of 1992) with the proviso that Disney couldn't sell merchandise. They did. He didn't sue but he refused to work with Disney again and created quite a storm in Hollywood. Disney eventually publicly apologized (but only after Katzenberg left).

https://insidethemagic.net/2021/05/robin-williams-refused-di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams
And there is nobody in Hollywood that wouldn't have anticipated that. Disney is the Microsoft of the movie world - an extremely aggressive company with a track record of dominating or being a major player in any market it chooses to compete in.
I thought it was developed by the two brothers? I've seen talks and interviews by both brothers on DF.

like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRsScwdPcE

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtKmLciKO30
Why don't you start with an idea and self-awareness of your strengths?

You might be good at puzzles. Or stories. Maybe visuals ain't your thing and you can write a text based game - there are great engines for that. Maybe you're a great dev and can start hack your own Dwarf Fortress and keep on doing it for the rest of your life.

Gaming and tech behind is so varied that whoever you are, you'll find something that plays to your skills.
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> Well you admit yourself in your 5th and 6th points that I'm right.

We might be talking past each other. I’m speaking specifically of non-native learners of Japanese.

I think you overrepresented for non-native learners of Japanese (who don’t get the benefit of 9 years of joyo kanji education), but you were closer to “right” than most.

Most learners of Japanese should focus on about 1000 kanji (roughly kyouiku kanji). This is easily learnable in a year for most people, and that amount will get them over 90% of text coverage that general learners will be reading.

Pretty much no learner should have an initial goal of learning 3000 kanji. Once they learn the 2000 joyo, pass N1, and probably do some tertiary education in Japan, then maybe they can choose to move that direction, especially if they plan on being a professional in Japan. Unless they find it to be a fun hobby, I would ask them why they are choosing to reach that level as a goal. The 2000th to 3000th most frequently used characters have very low utility, and this knowledge is far beyond “need this to survive/thrive” level. Some people who answer the “how many kanji” question in English-speaking forums (not you) seem to treat 3000 characters as almost semi-literate, and this couldn’t be further from the truth.

For a learner of Japanese, I would never recommend that anyone start with an initial goal of 5000 kanji. For anyone who ends up there, it would usually just come naturally over time to anyone being an academic (most likely in some sort of language or linguistics field)… and the masochists who try to take kanken 1.

Finally, to address your initial comment about 3000-5000 kanji being enough depending on what someone reads, I would put that number at more like 1200-1300 being enough with very mild use of a dictionary or lookup function on a computer/phone for learners. This will get folks though the vast majority of kanji in newspapers, magazines, and general audience books. At that point, just reading and looking stuff up will add to their kanji knowledge base organically.
Wasn't it Lucas or someone who was famous for negotiating ongoing rights / IP ownership, when the studio (in retrospect) drastically undervalued them?
If I am unhappy with how Google/big-N tech company works, there are other options. If I feel exploited, I can start my own consultancy and consult with just a couple of clients. I can start a startup and raise money quite easily in this VC market. I can built small POCs for a few customers within a few months and scale up from there. I can switch companies and go to a competitor. Hell, switching is almost always the more lucrative option.

I do not need a huge amount of money to enter or move around in the market, and even if I do, it is readily available. That's a 'free-ish' market.

Getting funding for an unmade indie game is substantially harder. The first demo takes years instead of months. The employee has zero leverage, because their access to the market is artificially limited through only a few hyper competitive AAA channels. There are many such broken markets, gaming is just an extreme case of it in our tech world. SpaceX worked in almost exactly the same manner. The free market doesn't work, because the market is not free.

In such a non-free market, the one who controls the supply (AA dev) can easily set up an almost ponzi scheme-esque revolving door of hyper exploitative setups. (modern academia with post-doctoral adjunct revolving doors is a similar example). The AAA studio is taking advantage of information asymmetry, and massively profiting from this use-n-throw setup.

Unions are a way for the demand side to combat the latent asymmetry of information and power in the non-free market. AAA studios make big promises to starry eyed new-grads who have served their purpose by the time they realize they were lied to and are disillusioned. (ie. Contract workers don't get made permanent. Crunch, hire-n-fire, lack of upwards mobility in the structure are endemic and permanent afflictions in the industry)

Unions can force companies to enforce the promises they make. No more than x% crunch. No un/under-paid interns. Path from contract-> fulltime. Some level of ethical standard for exploitation of school children using gambling techniques. Profit sharing ?

If the union's demands are too unreasonable or not reflective of their leverage in the industry, they will get left to die. (see the political unions at Google) If this was truly an information asymmetry situation, where game devs were paid lower than they were worth, then the union will flourish and sustain itself in the interest of the employees.

The realities of the unfree-market do not change, but the union makes sure that demand side (people who want jobs) can negotiate in a manner that actually reflects the cards they hold.

My opposition to unions in general comes from my general opposition to unnecessary bureaucracy. Bureaucracy should be avoided in don't fix what's not broken situations. Big Tech's free market looks healthy. Don't need unions. Gaming does not. Maybe Unions will help. Simple as that.
Does anyone have actual experience reversing myopia? During the pandemic my eye sight worsened pretty quickly and I have glasses for the first time ever (presumably the worsening was already there but accelerated by being on my computer more during lockdown, working longer hours, getting out of the house less).

My prescription is really slight (I think like -.5 or -.75) and I was really curious if this was reversible at all, but I'm skeptical of claims that it is.
That's amazing for pop culture.
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This was her last time in the role, but the movie kind of answers this question regardless.
Curious what your average borrow cost is, if you’re comfortable saying.

Given the absurdity of cult bagholders that formed around this thing, I’d imagine it was reasonably hard to borrow.
I can't disagree with that. We must all make wise decisions with endless competing "priorities" and limited time.

As someone who is on the other side and believes in the value of continuously growing one's skills, I want to convince people that Git has value in learning and using. More tools in our toolbelt makes us more effective craftsmen. Which the DF developer did get around to doing...
Not exactly modern, but the Captain Duck Dwarf Fortess Video Tutorial[1] is still a great tutorial.

[1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A3D7682BDD48FC2
I wish there was a description of how this works technically