skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another useful distinction might be between people who make predictions, prescriptions, imaginings, warnings, etc., about things they are already expert in (a scientist making narrow claims about their specific domain, a SF writer unpacking the social ramifications of some technology in their story), and a self-described futurist, who has made it their job to talk about the future in a broader way.

That is, people who you would describe as futurists post hoc, and people who have it on their business cards. I am highly skeptical of the latter!
What if I told you I had an amazing new technology for information transferal? It has infinite battery life, is readable in almost any lighting conditions, reading it won't wear out your eyes, it is water resistant and wont' break when dropping it or hitting it with a hammer. As an added bonus, the vendor can't stealthily revoke access to this information or change it without telling you. You're allowed to lend it to a single person at a time with the downside that you temporarily no longer have access to the information. This miracle technology is 100% recyclable and its manufacture is environmentally friendly and ethical requiring no rare earth metals.

Yeah there's a reason we still love books.
Would your company like to compete with SpaceX?
A few weeks ago some commenter here said they ascribe to WET - Write Everything Twice. Basically worry about abstraction when you get to number three.

And what an acronym given the context!
>how is this bliss?

Lol, someone has never dealt with a Mac user before.

I'm pretty sure Apple's slogan is and always has been "ignorance is bliss".
I feel like any debate over the term “virtual signaling“ is missing the meta game (along with people who virtue signal or accuse others of virtue signalling).

Like there’s an evil genius(es) with ulterior motives behind it all.

Could just be my cynicism though.
> Companies pay dividends, buy back shares, and allow shareholders to vote on who will lead the company and what the company should do.

Minor nitpick: some companies do this. There are plenty that never issue dividends, don't sell voting shares, and don't do buybacks.
Your username is apt. Want to be better than average? Buck up and learn the technology.
Wait, so they're supposed to be on all the time (that they are actively patrolling) so that the 2 min buffer exists, but as long as they turn on the cameras immediately before using lethal force it's just fine and really shouldn't count? I mean close to 2 minutes is kinda the minimum here. All they have to do is press the record button sometime before they pull their weapon or at least within a few seconds of discharging it to have 1:55 saved.

Otherwise, they can inform their victim/perp that they are going to execute them and then turn the camera on for the few seconds before as a warning to anyone who would challenge them. Is this not a corner case you considered?
>Blizzard created a modestly successful MOBA to compete with League of Legends and it just couldn’t make a dent in LoL’s Asia numbers, so they slowly put the game into maintenance mode (effectively given up on it).

Are you talking about DOTA2? It was hugely successful, both from a gamer's perspective, as well as in the eSports world.
There are actually supporting claims for this theory from investors on Reddit who transferred "meme stocks" out of Robinhood and noticed wildly incorrect cost basis reports on fractional shares, with some screenshots showing values into the thousands of dollars per share. These posts could be found on subreddits such as Wall Street Bets, Superstonk, etc., for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ngs81d/just_got...
I don't like Microsoft, but i enjoyed playing elders scrolls, had a char of 300+ lvl, but when Microsoft bought zenimax i just requested to delete my account and licenses/dlc, a friend told me it was not worth giving up entertainment for ideas, nothing can change etc

I refer as kids for those who in general aren't able to sacrifice anything in order to be empathetic to others or true to their ideas
I think the phrase is "cash is king," lol
So can CDC Directors. Maybe try reading what he has to say and evaluating it critically?
Either way they play arbiter with no transparency as to how they do it. They mostly outsource the "truth finding" but then pay them so its all a huge mess and simply not what people want them to do.
I dont use FB but I would not want HN to decide whats true and what not. If wrong stuff is postedon here we (the user) figure it out just fine.
This is a really awesome point, and one that I hadn't considered before.

This is how I normally find new books to read (by following authors) for some reason it just hadn't occurred to me to follow individuals in the gaming space. (Except for the Mode 7 Games, which put out Frozen Synapse, the awesome turn-based RTS [0] )

I'm curious how you follow people when so many games are made by teams of people - how do you find them, how do you decide which ones to follow, etc. I'd love to hear more

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Synapse
It will always be so. The power to control information is far too tempting to not be subverted for nefarious means.
As long as you feel good I think it's OK. Most passion projects don't really generate a lot of revenue.
Same - I was a heavy Hearthstone player since beta, and was ranked within the top 500 for about six months towards the end when I was pushing to compete. But the Blitzchung incident left such a bad taste in my mouth that I quit the game and haven't returned to it. They didn't just penalize him for what he did, they BURIED him and effectively ended his career.

If he'd held up a sign for ending apartheid in another country he probably would have gotten some small penalty, it was clearly motivated by Blizzard's relationship with China. And it was so over the top and unprecedented that a ton of casters and pro players spoke out against it.
Well, fix the fucking thing!

(I have been waiting decades to make that joke.)
Ah, that's a good idea! I haven't seen that stuff in ages.
I addressed this in my last sentence. specific performance means a litigant can ask the court to require a change in policy. Shaking them down for cash is not the only available option.
They don't just make more money from the ebooks, that is the only source of profit. In general, they lose money on the Kindle readers.
Is there any open source implementations of game servers/highly concurrent production servers like this for reference (or at least blog posts that contain a good amount of code)? I can find a lot of toy examples, but I'd love to see some insight onto an actual implementation of a product that is open-source as I'm learning Elixir.
> if you find a 'racing bike' forum (or whatever), take the time to join up, search, ask - someone with a passion for it will give you a great, well researched list because they love it and take pride from knowing.

Agree 100%. And in the "good old days" of the internet (that is, after Google had just replaced the pre-PageRank search engines (Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo)), what you'd find with a search would be precisely those community sites run by fans and nerds that were happy to disseminate their arcane knowledge.

Today, you have to wade through pages and pages of SEO and Amazon-affiliate crap that has no expertise and interest in the underlying subject matter at all.
Funny that WilmerHale has diversity and inclusion as a "principle" while they actively undermine others and are paid to do so.

>"Our commitment to diversity and inclusion starts at the top and cascades throughout the firm. WilmerHale is one of very few AmLaw 100 firms with a woman co-managing partner, and part of an even smaller number of such firms that have had both a woman and a person of color as a co-managing partner. Our diversity and inclusion journey is one of continuous assessment, progress, and partnership with others committed to advancing these principles in the legal profession."

https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/about/diversity-and-inclusion
According to the specification, 30 mW[0]

[0]https://assets.sennheiser.com/global-downloads/file/12003/Sp...
Is it? I don't think "people sometimes make wrong arguments" is a problem Facebook should attempt to solve, or could solve if they did attempt it. The problem of fake news is fabricated nonsense, not arguments which end up being flawed upon further thought.
Are you arguing there are perfect laws or solutions?

Let's say that anything someone uploads fly's and there is no means to deal with copyright violation. In that case, the person who created the work gets screwed. For example, a song writer or singer. The very people we appreciate for their artistic work.

Self driving and cars is a different case when you're talking about laws and the solutions being built around them. They are also a bit different when it comes to the financial side (and incentives) of it all.
Duolingo is such a joke. They don't have even a single textbooks worth of content for the languages that I've tried.
Training the models is fine. Applying the models, which reproduces copyrighted works without proper attribution, is where it gets sticky.
The spider plot at the bottom of the page shows the "long life" axis being the same as LFP, which tend to have much better durability than most other lithium ion chemistries. So if that's not marketing fluff then degradation shouldn't be much of an issue.

Energy density does seem to be the main weakness that they're acknowledging.
Probably just run into one too many incels on the internet with similar points of view that I am reading into this.
This is like the "weather == climate" claim that climate change deniers make a lot. It's cold out! Global warming is a hoax! It's shady under a tree! Global warming solved!
What’s wrong with Java for a compiler implementation language? One of the most powerful dynamic compilers in the world is in Java. And its object orientated design works well for compilers.
I have a feeling you did not read the FAQ of the licenses. I don't blame you, but they explain my position.

Here's the relevant quote:

> GitHub is arguing that using FOSS code in Copilot is fair use because using data for training a machine learning algorithm has been labelled as fair use. [1]

> However, even though the training is supposedly fair use, that doesn’t mean that the distribution of the output of such algorithms is fair use.

My licenses say, basically, "Sure, training is fair use, but distributing the output is not."

The licenses specifically say that the copyright applies to any output of any algorithm that uses the source code code as all or part of its input.

Now, I have not gotten a lawyer to look at my licenses yet (it's in the works), so don't use them yourself. But because everyone keeps saying that training is fair use, I'm fairly confident that only training is fair use.

Of course, it might not be, but that would take more court cases and more precedent. I wanted to poison the well now [2] to make companies nervous about using a model that was partially trained with code licensed under my licenses.

[1]: https://valohai.com/blog/copyright-laws-and-machine-learning...

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/07/poisoning-github-copilot-and...
Youtube is following the letter of law. They are acting on someone's claim of copyright infringement, and allowing the accused to dispute the claim.

Chances may be better going after the claimant. But this case, like many other, seems to be a false positive of a maybe slightly too sensitive system rather than some wild claim with absolutely no rational basis.

Does anyone believe it's possible to identify copyright violations with complete accuracy? If not, why is it such a terrible scandal if some erroneous claims are made, which can be disputed with a few clicks?

If you happened to be a musician, how many videos using your music unauthorised would you be willing to tolerate for avoiding a single erroneous claim against some video of yours?
Is there any study on how personality or mental health dicates myopia in someone? I've seen kids suddenly develop myopia when their parents suddenly start fighting (or get divorced), or in teenagers and young adults in schools and colleges when they can't fully deal with the prolonged stress of life. Our thought patterns do have an effect on our eyes, and I've always wondered if too much introspective thinking or depressive ruminative thinking of the kind (where we "look inwards" mentally too much, focusing on our faults or trying to figure out what's wrong with us or the world) over a period of time, contributes to some form of myopia.
Wait so I could go to Germany, find an apartment that costs €10000 a month and the government would pay for it? Surely there is some kind of limit?

Also, in the US it is my understanding you don't have to go to low income housing, but non low income housing can reject you. Since people receiving money for housing do not tend to treat the housing well most landlords reject them. Why rent to somebody who is at an increased likelihood of damaging your place and won't have enough money to cover the damage?
Yea same with going to a restaurant that may or may not serve peanut butter that you're allergic to, or getting stung by a bee.

At least if you have the allergic reaction you do it on the spot where the medical professionals are.

And yet again, compare that with the risk of getting COVID-19. (600k+ deaths in the U.S. alone). How many had an allergic reaction to the vaccine and died?
In the US, unions fight hard to take that choice away from people. "Right to work" laws in many states allow people to opt out of union membership and fees. Unions hate these laws and fight relentlessly to get them overturned.
> I want people who can deep dive into advanced trouble-shooting

In my experience, people who need to know every little thing rarely end up knowing every little thing, and are actually the absolute worst at fixing issues of high urgency - due to needing to know every little thing.

I'd much rather have people who are able to learn fast on the fly. Those are the people who actually end up knowing the little things that are actually useful, as opposed to useless trivia.
Passing in nonsense parameters usually just busts the cache.
I would definitely say pg-auto-failover[1]. It's the only one that doesn't have a ton of moving parts, and it helps you get a good base setup too at the same time.

[1]: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover
This article might have better discussion around it if you could read beyond the first sentence.
Haven't played Overwatch myself, but isn't it very similar to the other games that came before it?

From a layman's perspective, it seems like a copy of Paladins, TF2, etc.

Upon it's release, it didn't seem like something original (at least not to me), but rather something to compete with the unique games other studios had already created.
Modern companies rarely use [mercenaries] as you put it.

Instead it's reputation management firms for the alleged perpetrators and investigators that dredge up personal info about the victims who reported abuses.

It's a well known approach.
> He was freed on a $100 million bond secured against two of his properties in Utah.

It's nice to be rich in this part of the world.
I always wanted to love DF but I could never get into it. Perhaps it was the ASCII.

I found Rimworld to scratch the same itch and have sunk many hours into it. I feel like it is spiritually very similar, even if the depth of simulation is not as deep as DF.
Claim: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information“

My rating: True
Even when the government is spending tax dollars, they are still spending other people's money.
I’m pretty sure you can read people’s birthdays using NFC where the N for near is up to the attacker.
This starts to get to the issue here. FB is not a carrier (like a telephone company). Their business model isn't built around carrying information or broadcasting it.

FB is a content platform who is about making ad revenue. They are crafted around that and how to make that the most profitable possible.
Celine and Hamsun aren’t getting engagement activity from their in-app analytics. They also can’t respond to all of the legitimate criticisms against them. Activision can and they’ve decided to bring in the Pinkertons.

At the end of the day, another player booting up an Activision game is another (tiny) data point that says whatever activity Activision/Blizzard is engaging in is a-ok with that player. It’s not revenue driving right now, but in 6-12 months, this has blown over and enough of the tiny subset of temporarily outraged players will eventually start to generate revenue. That’s what they’re banking on.

Decide what you care about or don’t, but at least accept/own the impact of your decisions and don’t conflate the situation with century old authors.
This app has been around for a while https://www.buycott.com/campaign/browse I do not know how good it is.

We should totally not give our money to shitty companies. But global commerce is so intertwined that it would quickly become very difficult to buy anything if we start closely looking at every company we give money to.

I don't know what the solution is. Boycotting is a start.
Copyright for taking a piss is automatically awarded to whomever takes the longest one. So, Austin Powers is the current owner, after that epic pee he took when he woke up from cryo.
Does git have benefits, yes.

Are git commands obtuse and unfriendly, yes.

The problem is that git is not intuitive and isn't automatic. I've seen more people loose code to git than be saved by having their repo offsite.
The decision to only have three sentences about it. The decision to hide those three sentences under the "History" heading so there is no hint of it in the table of contents. The decision to not even have a "Controversies" section to the page. The decision to not have any photographs of the aftermath. Don't be so credulous. Wikipedians have been caught selling their PR services numerous times before, and doubtlessly get away with it even more often than that.

Contrast this with what BP's page looks like and it's obvious Exxon payed top dollar while BP's PR team cheaped out (gave up?). BP's page has a paragraph dedicated to the Deepwater spill in the introduction section, has a "Violations and accidents" section in the table of contents, and has "Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill" in the table of contents as well. And that section? It has a dozen or so paragraphs, not just three lame sentences. The page has several photographs of the aftermath. BP's page looks like an authentic wikipedia page, while Exxon's page was obviously bought and paid for by Exxon's PR. Exxon's page should look like BP's, but doesn't.

And since you mention the article dedicated to the spill, lets compare those too. The Deep Water Horizon page is 4 times as long. The Deep Water Horizon page gets prominent links from BP's main page, at the top of the section titled "Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill"

> Main article: Deepwater Horizon oil spill

> See also: Deepwater Horizon explosion, Deepwater Horizon litigation, and Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust

BP's page also has an infobox all about the spill: "This article is part of a series about the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill"

Exxon's page? The link for the spill's dedicated page is hidden as the 4th link in one of the three sentences that page has about the spill:

> On March 24, 1989, in what is regarded as one of the worst oil spills in American history,[9] a tanker owned by Exxon, the Exxon Valdez, crashed into Bligh Reef, [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|spilling]] its cargo of over ten million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska

What an absolute fucking joke. I can't believe you defend this.
Never heard of it. Gonna go check it out!
We need to differentiate the recommendation algorithm parts of these products from the communication parts. If Facebook is recommending something, that's on them, and if they want to not recommend my content to anyone, so be it; but I should be able to post something seen only by the people who opted in to following me without them getting in the way.
Sadly the whole industry is like that. They make a lot of noise about "doing better" but they still suppress any effort to gain worker power.
The core of the X-Plane server is our RakNet UDP protocol, which is open sourced under the MIT license here:

https://github.com/X-Plane/elixir-raknet

It's not a full game server, but the "Usage" section of the README provides a sketch of what the rest of the server (the part that implements the business logic) looks like.
As someone who worked as a feeelancer and on film sets, as well as in teams: communication is key. But that doesn't mean this communication has to happen in a meeting.

I am not a fan of meetings, but I like a weekly meeting for a project or our department. What I don't like is pointless meetings where things are repeated that are written more concisely in the gitlab issues or in an email everybody should have read.

The point of meetings is to bring all the relevant people onto the same information level and discuss potential issues, however a lot of the more detailed stuff should be consumed beforehand individually.
Can you please point out the differences compared to other books for the same topic? Thanks!
>This person is a troll.

That's a baseless accusation, where are the mods?

>They have been spotted driving all over the place and doing real world testing on actual highways and in cold weather.

Prototypes, with zero evidence they can achieve the claimed specifications. If you know otherwise, please, show us all. They are dependent on 4680 cells, which do not exist. They don't even have a factory, and they claimed the trucks would be ready for production 2 years ago. They will probably build something that works at some point in the future. Maybe Nikola could have as well? That is my point, where do you draw the line?

Now, what about FSD? And the solar shingles that "print money" that were faked on the set of Desperate Housewives and don't exist to this day? You know, they ones that Tesla shareholders are currently suing for? The ones that Tesla employees claim were fake in the deposition of said lawsuit? The ones you now buy are generic versions from China. What about the boring car tunnels; bit different from the old renderings, aren't they?
Twitter restricts traffic from certain referers [sic]. Turn off referer reporting in your browser and try again - should work fine. Alternatively, copy / paste the URL into your browser in a new tab and watch as magically the link works.
And there are other competitors who can copy whatever they are doing. I agree Mazda provides more value.
You can already kinda sorta do that if you consistently use == assuming value equality, and use ReferenceEquals() - which doesn't need to be qualified, since everything inherits from Object - for reference equality.

You still have == working on all references in this case, but this can be interpreted as reference types having the default value semantics of "every instance is logically different", so referenced values are only equal to themselves.

The annoying part of this approach is that ReferenceEquals() is the one that ends up being used way more often than == in practice for reference types, but it's also much longer to type, and more awkward to use being a function. Python and VB, with their "is" operator for reference equality, handled this one best. Unfortunately, C# wasted "is" as a keyword for something far less common - a type check (and now also pattern matching).
what the hell am i supposed to replace starcraft with?
are you the parent in the link? i'm sorry you went through this. nobody should judge you for your choice. it is exactly that - your choice - which pro-choice people advocate for. for you and other parents in these incredibly difficult circumstances to be fully educated, fully informed, and empowered to make whatever decision is right for you.
Fair enough, and really anyone who is buying shares should know what exactly they are buying.