skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expungement is one of those things..like "the year of the linux desktop" that always get brought up but never can actually happen.

The problem is the way the law is actually written...it 's written for a very specific use case (at least the one in Florida is) for people who committed ONE and ONLY ONE felony in their entire life (I think the Florida statue say that you can't even have another misdemeanor on your record, but perhaps I'm disremembering that).

It was never made to throw a big blanket over a lifetime of impulsive decisions like I have done. Plus, there is the problem of actually purging the perhaps 100s of private BG check database out there that various companies use that do not even advertise to the public.

Man I wish more than anything that I could just be given one chance to "start over"...you would see perhaps the most law abiding, risk adverse person you have ever seen.

I've been thru true hell with all this stuff, and people actually do change when the pain of staying the same crushes the pain of making changes.

In fact, that's the only time they do change if you ask me.
Well you probably could get pretty far with 2 hardware synchronized IR cameras, a IR projector, and a FPGA. But the thing is, most hobbyists will just use two color cameras and AI instead.
> platforms APIs still alive.

The APIs that currently exist are not the cause of the potential issue I am raising.
Fair enough on the headline.

Lots of efficiencies to be gained in this arena. The network effect here is crazy strong already, but it's historically all based on working together in person. Now that COVID is keeping everyone at home, maybe that opens you some additional space for online networking.

You guys based out of the DMV?

Good luck!
Who is going to be able to get a reference from anyone at their current workplace? You generally don't tell your manager you're interviewing before you have an offer in hand.
I had an outstanding balance for about 2 weeks with them when I was using them and they didn't suspend my account, and I didn't even contact them. I don't know what the original person was asking for.
Yes, developmentally it's the part of the brain and that's why some of the eye diseases has been so difficult to treat.
I agree with a few suggestions here, suggest a sabbatical.

It can give him time to figure out things by himself and also the absence of work could be a big motivator, that is, we engineers often find intrinsic motivation in building, designing and solving problems. Maybe giving him some time to miss that joy could rekindle it.

It's good that you are looking for options and trying to understand.
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"Designing Games" by Tynan Sylvester (creator of Rimworld), and "Game Feel" by Steve Swink, are both more recent books about high-level game design concepts, though they don't specifically focus on world building.
So that means that any possible laser coming out of the shooter's position eventually passes through one of these 16 specific infinitesimally small points _before_ ever hitting the target? And that is always possible for any position of shooter and target? That's bonkers, wow.
That post is cringe inducing. Yegge had to put himself down " I don’t know why it’s not in there. It should be. I’m a dork." to keep Bezos happy?

Let's face it: Bezos isn't some alien from another planet. He's privileged and lucky. He's lucky he had engineers come and help him build his company.
Five eyes already does whatever the heck they want, and this isn’t going to change that.
In the UK, which has implemented open banking already, you can use services like https://syncforynab.com/ (no affiliation, just a happy customer) to link your accounts to YNAB. Some challenger banks like Monzo and Starling allow you to set up webhooks for transactions so they're immediately available in YNAB through Sync for YNAB rather than having to use x-hourly syncs via open banking companies that are officially blessed by the big banks.
The most egregious one for me was The Newburgh Sting.

It blows my mind that you can get an FBI informant to spend months convincing some of the poorest people in whole country to blow up a building they've never seen, promise them a quarter of a million dollars to do it, and then claim they are terrorists when they accept.

If that's not entrapment nothing is
As a fellow scientist, thank you for your dissemination of how science is actually conducted, and what any single paper or series of papers mean. Progress almost always occurs due to the assessment of converging methods and analytic approaches, almost like individual papers are weak classifiers in a big beautiful bag.
There will be someone along the line who will check that the image is, in fact, the actual listed image. Otherwise, there is no legal case to be made.
The Panjshir conflict has begun (2021)
Up to 15,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover
The police do not show up until a human has compared the matched image to the actual.

Just stop.
Is this medicine on the CDC approved list of expensive, experimental excrement with zero liability?
maybe we should wait and see how that nets out with the SEC fines + civil suit...
> I was going to mention HFT. How is it a level playing field when they are in the picture? Paying top dollar just to be closer and closer to the exchanges to get the fastest, "best price", when really, they have info before anyone else.

Apologies if my post implied insider knowledge on the part of HFTs. That's not the case.

The point I was making is their model is ONLY viable if they have the best mathematical brains, the best computing power, the best connectivity. If anything in that fragile chain is broken then their model is unviable.

In the end, they trade on what is best described as noise. They look for patterns in the noise. And so they need "the best" noise, as soon as instantly as they can get it, and the computing power to process it as close to instantly as possible.

I called it "another story" because its a truly nuts way of making money. ;-)

There is an old saying. "Time in a trade is better than timing a trade". HFTs are basically trying to do the latter all day, every day.

In my view, John Doe the buy & hold investor actually has the advantage that they can wait for weeks, months or years.

Tortoise & Hare and all that ....
>1) The DB must be updated on both the server and the client. Apple's solution requires the DBs to match, essentially. So you can't update the DB without everyone knowing it was changed.

Yes... Because it is impossible for different servers to be configured as backends depending on where handsets are destined to be sold. It's not like it's possible to quickly whip up a geolocation aware API that can swap things out on the fly. C'mon. This isn't even hard. These are all trivially surmountable problems. The one thing standing in the way of already having done this, was there was no way in hell anyone would have been daft enough to even try doing something like this with a straight face. For heaven sake, even Hollywood lampshaded it with that "using cell phones as broadband sensors" shtick in the Dark Knight or whatever it was.

>This is a political fight, and if we all act like ideologues we're going to lose it all in the end.

The fight was lost the moment someone caved to "think of the children". Every last warning sign that has been left all over the intellectual landscape ignored, history, risk, human nature, any semblance of good sense ignored.

Honestly, I'm sitting here scratching my head wondering if I took a wrong turn or something 20 years ago. This isn't even close to the place I lived anymore.
Richard Bartle is a luminary in the field of game design. He invented a system for classifying gamers' preferred game actions called the "Bartle taxonomy", which helps game designers understand player motivations better. Think of it like user personas in software development - Killers love competition, Explorers love discovery, Achievers love mastery, and Socializers play games for social reasons. When designing a game for mass appeal it's often important to make sure players of all stripes find reasons to enjoy it, and Bartle's taxonomy is a great framework for analyzing how different types of players will interact with a game.

You can take an online version of the Bartle taxonomy questionnaire to get your own results here:

http://matthewbarr.co.uk/bartle/
You’re using one right now.
Yeah on pretty much any modern configuration, it's possible to hard lock the GPU and the reason it doesn't happen to you on a regular basis is that various parties go out of their way to try and prevent it. Preventing this robustly is part of why WebGL implementations are complex and WebGL apps end up being much slower than equivalent native OpenGL apps.

Windows has had a built in 'timeout detection & recovery' system for years now specifically designed to detect when the GPU locks up and then basically just knock it over and restart it so your PC becomes usable again. [ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di... ]

Vulkan and Direct3D 12 have, by giving you more direct access to 3D hardware, brought back a lot of the fun 'this game caused a kernel mode crash or hung the entire machine' experience we used to get in the Windows 9x days. As a game dev whenever I do some Vulkan or D3D12 testing I make sure to reboot the machine afterward to avoid having my browser crash 4 hours later because the video driver stomped on some stray pages in the file cache.
Not quite. It's like instead of buying a car, you buy wheels and a frame and do a car mechanic training. With a bit of effort and skill, you'll end up with a car, but it won't look like a factory-produced car.
Apple has lost the nerds and I can’t think of a time that has ever gone well for a company. We are the people advising other people what to get, what is cool. I can’t think of anything less cool than an iPhone right now.

I dumped mine and I don’t think I’m alone.
The database will change every update. It’s not like the NCEMC db already has all possible CSAM. Every time they find more, they add it to the DB. Thus, it will probably change every time Apple pushes an OS update.
It is not just the problem is password stored in 3rd party system. Occasionally an engineer has to look at the raw intercepted html data if the bank changes their login or data pages.

Intuit (via Quicken) and Microsoft Money were in a position to influence this - they required banks to give access to quicken servers.
Disclaimer: not a designer. Personal opinion below.

While these AI derived "logos" may have a place in design flow, they are far from a suitable replacement for human design. The images lack the fundamental creative symbolism that a human designer puts into their designs- there is a very careful method that graphic designers follow to design icons and advertising. Small graphical details are typically symbolic of the company/product line and message. An AI is going to struggle hard to deliver this.

I do see AI design as a useful tool in brainstorming and roughing designs - having infinite variations on a theme to play with can be very useful, just not as a standalone process.
2023? Australia's might be finished by then
>I’d say we deal with it if and when it happens.

By the time we know that it is happening it will be far more difficult to do something about it (see Snowden and the Patriot Act).
Riding the Covid coaster – bit-player
There are quite a few foreign hedge funds that hire hackers to breach companies and steal data.

Trades are back-fitted into some model for plausible deniability, and they also purchase political and legal cover, often at the highest levels. I wouldn't surprised some are just a front for an APT that needs more cash for their black budgets.

They generate a lot of asymmetry, billions upon billions.

Here's some patsies that got caught: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/22/17716622/sec-business-wir...
Adding new "backends" to an abstraction always includes the risk of not being compatible with the current abstraction and requiring re-architectures. This would be true with our own abstractions as well. I agree that two separate projects often have different goals, but wgpu's goals are an (almost) complete subset of our goals: cross platform modern gpu layer that cleanly abstracts Vulkan/Metal/DX12 and best-effort abstracts older apis, rust-friendly api surface with RAII, limited "lowest common denominator" defaults that run everywhere with opt-in support for advanced features and lifting lowest-common-denominator limits. The biggest divergence is their increased need for safety features to make wgpu a suitable host for WebGPU apis in browsers, but this is something that still benefits us, because it might ultimately allow Bevy apps to "host" less trusted shader code.

We've been building out the new renderer and we have already used a huge percentage of wgpu's api surface. It will be close to 100% by the time we launch. This proves to me that we do need almost all of the features they provide. Bevy's renderer is modular and we need to expose a generic (and safe) gpu api to empower users to build new render features. Wgpu's entire purpose is to be that API. I know enough of the details here (because I built my own api, thoroughly reviewed the wgpu code, and did the same for alternatives in the ecosystem) to feel comfortable betting on it. I'm even more comfortable having reviewed bevy-user-provided wgpu prs that add major new features to wgpu (XR). If you have specific concerns about specific features, I'm happy to discuss this further.

You can link to as many "rules" as you want, but solving a problem in the real world requires a careful balance of many variables and concerns. Rules like "the rule of least power" should be a guiding principle, not something to be followed at all costs.
> Diluting sewage with a bunch of water increases the cost and decreases the efficacy of treatment.

Combined sewers are definitely problematic, but if diluting costs more depends on the inputs to the treatment plant. Some plants need to dilute with fresh water, and storm sewers are freshish, so it might reduce costs to use storm water rather than potable water.

If all else is equal, in my mind, I'd run the storm sewer to the treatment plant and treat it when there's capacity and let it flow when there isn't. Of course, most of the seasonal difference in sewage flow is from groundwater infiltration, so that probably doesn't make a lot of sense... Both systems will be at higher flows at the same time, for the most part.
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Are you being serious? #7 is literally "Apple reviewer confuses a featureless blob of gray with CSAM material, several times"

30 times.

30 times a human confused a blob with CSAM?
The more collisions, the more chances of a false positive by a (tired, underpaid) human. I don't envy the innocent person whose home gets raided by a SWAT team convinced they're busting a child sex trafficker.
Keep in mind that wgpu is intended to be something you can write a game engine in and achieve at least comparable performance to going through something like Vulkan directly. The WebGPU API is intended to be optimizable enough that even low-level applications don't need to reach for their own solutions, and the WebGPU team have worked very hard to find universal and efficient abstractions over the underlying drivers. It also provides unsafe opt-out functionality for cases where the goal of safety clashes too much with the performance needs of some applications (such as using precompiled shaders).

Given all this, what do you think is missing that makes it "too general" for use as the basis of a game engine? Many of the features you're probably thinking of are a nonstarter if you want to be cross-platform, and being efficient cross-platform is a key motivating reason to use wgpu in the first place.
This reads like satire, but on the off-chance you're serious, you need to reframe your perspective. Consider the lives of Amazon warehouse workers, to take the most obvious example. Maybe therapy can help with this.
This guy is well known inside netflix?
Then don't ask other peole to hold your non encrypted files for you.
That goes right up there with the advice of putting a jade egg in your vagina... CBD the cure all! ...except for several things:

1) CBD may not be legal/available where they are,

2) They may be in a job that tests regularly,

3) You're offering medical advice to someone when you don't even know what the diagnosis could be,

4) This person could easily be one of those who has adverse reactions to cannabinoids.

So yeah, shoving a jade egg up their cooch may actually have been the safer advice here.
I was addressing your first point about how the data is displayed in hex editors. But the rest IMHO is just fixating on one particular operation ("multiplying by 256" by prepending bytes without regard for the data format) which does not seem particularly useful or prudent. Sure, in LE you can prepend a 00 byte to multiply by 256. In BE you do the same by appending a 00 byte at the end, and a 00 at the beginning would just be extra padding, exactly like adding a 0 at the start or end of a decimal number (which are also typically written in big-endian notation). In either case you need to allow for the change in the overall length or risk losing data and probably corrupting the rest of the data file in the process. If your data is actually groups of 16-bit or 32-bit elements rather than bytes then you need to add a whole number of elements for this to make any sense at all, regardless of byte order. You can't have an arbitrary-precision integer consisting of 5½ elements. Removing a byte from the end to preserve the length corresponds to reducing module 256^N in LE notation or dividing by 256 in BE; which is "more natural" would depend on the context.

For most arbitrary-precision math operations LE is easier to work with. The only thing making BE more "natural" in some situations (in particular, reading numbers out of a byte-oriented hex listing) is the historical accident that we borrowed our number system from right-to-left languages, where they were written little-endian with the one's place on the right, without reversing the order to match the surrounding text. Which leads to the alignment issues highlighted in the article.
There will be additional criminal + civil penalties decided in court. As far as I can tell, the $72K fine is imposed directly by the SEC for breaking the rule.
What’s YOW data?
The "future of infinite content" is unlikely to emerge. Procedural generation has been around for a long time and it's almost useless without curation. Creativity isn't an objective function (in either sense of the word), because it's necessarily subjective (function depends on the observer) and dynamic (function changes over time).
>It came out in 2013 and never had a huge player-base, nor any big advertising to keep it alive

It sold almost 2 million copies and won numerous awards...
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Your comment is totally irrelevant. Buffet bought equity off the exchanges in structured deals. That isn’t possible for a retail investor.
I don’t get why they would do it in the first place. It’s merely $3M over three years for at least four people. Substantial amount, sure, but compared with the risk and their income from Netflix salary and generous options, I just don’t see where the incentive was.
I've been using the previous version for months. Underneath Rend3, which handles some of the queuing and threading issues for Wgpu. Not for a web client; for complex 3D content on Linux. It's working well. With the new version, I should be able to cross-compile Rust to Windows as well as Linux, and generate a Windows executable without having to use any Microsoft products.
I'm a pretty heavy mobile user and my Safari is reporting 1.9gb used last month (a travel month where I was on 5G most of the time). The biggest user wasn't web content, but apps like Spotify that used 5.5gb in the month. Even if web/Safari uses a lot of data, at the end of the day if you stream rich content like videos or audio, that will always outpace web content. So if a mobile plan with a data cap can't support web content then there's no hope of streaming Netflix...
Gone are the days of selling software to magically to make you computer faster. Half of them just ran defrag under the hood.
Well I think it's about authoritarianism too, but to be charitable to the parent you could argue it's much more a game about poverty, suffering, and the impersonality of evil.
Why "YIsrael" as the actual NYT title is "Israel"?
HFT is the best thing to ever happen to the average Joe retail investor. They have increased liquidity and price discovery dramatically at a fraction of the cost of the people they replaced.
You're mistaking the point of a (notionally) narrative medium. It doesn't HAVE to be linear storytelling.

Difficult texts are their own reward. Not everything has to spoon-feed you the plot. And enjoying things like a Lynch film doesn't mean you don't also enjoy highly conventional narratives like the aforementioned Marvel films.

>If a canvas painted a solid color or with a few straight lines sells for millions, then that's stupid.

Thank god we have you here to explain how the experts are all just plain wrong!
Yeah...the just/unjust aspect is kinda of hard for me to judge fairly. I did some extremely careless crap in my life, and obviously never considered the pain of the consequences of my actions.

I totally accept that many of not most people who read my BG think I'm getting exactly what I deserve...to never be given the chance to redeem myself or to pull myself out of my shit situation.

I think that's an extremely harsh way to judge someone, and that everyone should be given an opportunity to make a living if they show they have learned from the pain of the past.

Also, considering that hiring is such a crap shoot anyway, (I read somewhere that over half the people hired as programmers today won't be at that job in a year) what is the huge deal with giving someone like me who has been in recovery for 2.5 years a shot to contribute to the bottom line?

I really am a damn good programmer, and I still have an amazing passion for building new systems using modern stacks. I am fortunate as hell that I'm apparently a "natural learner" defined as someone who spends their entire life always chasing new knowledge.
Not OP and not speaking with any authority on this more just curious:

If alongside this Apple rolled out the ability for them to initiate a scan on any phone for any thing (not a tool for mass surveillance but targeted surveillance) how would we know given Apples closed ecosystem?

This doesn't necessarily speak to the issue here but more to the Apple ethos in general, but I am curious.
Generally, the only logos that last many decades are simpler ones that work well in black and white, and with an accent color. e.g. Nike, GE, Apple, Disney, McDonalds, YouTube, Volkswagen, etc.

Mildy stylized text of the company name is the other that lasts. e.g. Coca-Cola, Nintendo, Sony, Honda, Home Depot, Kellogs, etc.

I can't think of a company off the top of my head that is currently using a complex 3D logo right now.
Meh this says a whole lot about nothing. Then it goes on and tries to blame big, bad technology for maybe causing some unidentified auditory hallucination or something, without any proof whatsoever.