skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a such a classic HN comment:

1. Law does x
2. HN commenter: what about x+y? what about x-1?

The answer to your decentralized chess is that no one would care if it broke the rules or not unless millions of people were hopelessly addicted to it and it warranted a second look.

Your average Zoomer is not interested in decentralized chess or any other gaming service that requires only an intermittent internet connection. I can see local network mobile MOBAs becoming a thing but I'm sure workarounds like that would be eventually squashed as well.
It's crazy to me because I would have thought the last year or so would produce the opposite effect. But a fearful populace is a malleable populace, I guess.
The best definition I've seen for the success of a piece of music is this: "What emotion is the artist trying to convey and how well does it convey it?"

Throughout the composing, arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering process, there are thousands of choices to be made, and the correctness of each choice is entirely linked back to that goal: Does the choice help to convey the emotion, or does it detract from it?

To that end, there is no correct choice, no correct or optimal harmony, no correct note, no correct rhythm, no correct timbre. It's all contextual in relation to conveying the desired emotion.

I'm really not sure how you could ever train a NN to make choices in that regard without first trying to teach them how to understand the impacts of their choices on the emotions conveyed.

At best, you may be able to train a NN to reproduce emotionally-void works in a particular style, and perhaps assign some emotion through the timbres selected (ambient music comes to mind here). Still, this isn't much of an achievement. You could easily codify the rules taught in Music 101 about harmonization and melody composition to a computer and have it spit out bland but pleasant excerpts, no deep learning required.
Central Asia: From Pax Americana to Pox Americana?
The lay down movement is the start of this, imo.
The page is very clear that it only considers the English document to constitute the real contract, and all translations as helpers, not as legal documents:

> The FSF does not approve license translations as officially valid. The reason is that checking them would be difficult and expensive (needing the help of bilingual lawyers in other countries). Even worse, if an error did slip through, the results could be disastrous for the whole free software community. As long as the translations are unofficial, they can't do any legal harm.

> ...

> We give permission to publish translations of GNU licenses into other languages, provided that:

> You label your translation as unofficial to inform people that they do not count legally as substitutes for the authentic version (see below for how to do this).
I have a feeling that this article is going to age as well as articles talking about how you did not need masks.

My guess is that booster shots probably help and don’t harm. However, I feel, because of logistics, there is a story being pushed that you should not take a booster (just like with masks at the beginning of the pandemic).

I would not be surprised if in a few months, everybody is being urged to get a booster.
I think this is true. And actually, most Europeans I know are pretty salty about this (I'm an American living in Europe).
Ad-supported is a distinct concern from "level of privacy", though. Google (et al) have done a lot to muddy the waters and keep telling us that ad-support "requires" panopticon levels of tracking and no privacy, but centuries of advertising history before that existed with little to no individual tracking and/or where is was maybe physically impossible (in magazines, newspapers, broadcast TV).

Personally, I have no problem with ad-supported and generic/no-tracking. Ads themselves are not the privacy invasion, and have a reasonable history of helping to pay for things, and it is possible to rebuild ad companies to respect privacy (again). (It might take burning a few big players to the ground first, unfortunately.)
What about child protection service, school, free lunch at school, healthcare, and more comparably age 21 restriction for alcohol consumption? Those are all examples of 'jurisdiction over raising children'.
If your goal is to learn a skill, there are better ways to go about it than gaming. The problem in learning that gaming helps with isn’t learning efficacy —- it is motivation.

As a child, I simply wasn’t interested in novels and enjoying playing games would be a prerequisite to having the motivation to write one.
We’re Automatically Publishing the White House Press Pool
Right wing, alt-right, and “deniers” are all real constructs.

The article is undoubtedly flawed but do at least get your ducks in a row.
Your partisan lens is showing here, rather blatantly, along with a heavily US-centric tilt.

Do you think the spike in crime is driven by the pandemic? A GLOBAL pandemic? Do you think there is a spike in crime in other nations as well? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, a radical political movement casting all law enforcement officers as bigoted predators may have more to do with it?

I vote Democratic, have my whole life, so I can bash the GOP all day long, but acting as if the incredibly massive, and corporate sponsored "Defund the Police" movement hasn't had an impact on crime is simply irrational and not supported by data. The spike in crime in US cities has not been universal, and the data clearly shows the cities which cut police budgets and predictably lost officers were the worst hit.
On top of the fact no kid is every going to be legally liable for the breach and therefore no overly unfair oppression is applied on them, you say "someone", but kids have to be taught how to become someone.

Look it's clear it's not their fault the parents are so busy and exhausted by the rat race they cant handle properly their only child they made under family pressure. The gov regulates the consequence of years of inaction while trying to fix the root cause maybe.

I live in China, I m happy kids waste their intelligence and tuition fee on addictive lootboxes game, but mine, ill be way more strict than the government. No way he gets exposed to this kind of shit. Whatever it takes.

My parents threw the computer out when they saw me at 12 playing (addictive for the time but nowhere near what they have now) online games, which forced me to read because nothing else, well if that s what it takes, that s what it takes.
Impressive doesn't mean good. I don't have any control over what the CCP does, which is why I hope the action they've taken will not hurt people.

If the CCP decided to ban smoking, it would be a violation of people's rights. But it would also be a net benefit to almost everyone, and to society (health care costs would go down). That kind of authoritarianism is a LOT easier to stomach than, say, putting the Uygars into concentration camps. At least to me. (Singapore is an example of what I would call a mostly-benevolent authoritarian regime, for example.)
There's such a thing as overstimulation. There is probably an optinal degree of stimulation to encourage cognition without overloading it.
I don't really know what Remarkable is. I might google them now just to find out. I don't think I am on their audience list yet, because I haven't seen many ads. But if they ever add me to an audience list based on some action I take online, I would not view it as more/less egregious for them to then remove me after I am a customer. In fact, if I were to voluntarily associate myself as a customer, I would expect a more customized experience, depending on the nature of their product, whatever it is.
I asked and no, this device does not support SMB or SFTP. So it is worthless for me.
> ..."negative natural selection" take was just nonsense

You're misquoting me. What I said was "negative selection". My belief is, we need to let the immune systems of humans do what they're designed to do, and stop artificially selecting all humans to live for as long as possible, without regard for the quality of that life. Effectively, we need to live, die, and decay in a much more natural way, just like the plants and animals under my care do. Nothing healthy or positive, from a long-term genetic-health perspective, has ever come from me rescuing a feeble lamb, and bottle feeding it, medicating it, throughout most of its life. In fact, only the opposite happens. But I understand, most humans tend to only value today instead of 30-40 years down the road.

>Superbugs have nothing at all to do with vaccinations.
You're getting tunnel vision'ed. Superbugs have been created by chemicals being sprayed onto fields, for no longer than 30-40 years. Superbugs have been created or emboldened by broad spectrum sanitization.

>On an individual basis, you are far more likely to develop complications from Covid than Flu, even for healthy subjects.

Maybe; though this seems largely a function of time at this point seeing how its been such a short time since Covid's been around. However, the likelihood of "complications" due to Covid is slim to none, on an individual basis, especially for healthy folks (according to the CDC.gov data, assuming our census numbers are correct'ish).
Video games work best as a lesser of many evils, and come with a few caveats: If you watch a lot of TV, it's hard to argue that video games are a worse use of your time. Video games do have some legitimate benefits, but it's probably hard to say that they are more beneficial than other things you could be doing with your time. (ie, reading difficult literature or articles vs. reading RPG text.)

However, people aren't robots, and can't spend 100% of their time doing things which are strictly beneficial. Sometimes you just have to relax and do what you like. Further, not all worthwhile activities truly benefit you in some measurable way. All those "play Mozart for your child to increase his intelligence" CDs were completely fraudulent. And by extension you could claim that listening to beautiful classical music does not actually really benefit you. But of course beautiful music is one of the best aspects of life. The only difference I would say is that it seems impossible to become addicted to classical music in the same way that someone might become addicted to video games.

In this sense, I agree with the parent that video game addiction is the greatest concern here, and is a direction video games have been moving in for a long time. It's interesting that he mentions very easy gameplay mixed with behavioral feedback loops. I can get QUITE wrapped up in Dark Souls, but I am never just playing it on autopilot. It's too hard, and requires too much of my focus. It's not to say that it's necessarily all that difficult, but I can't just zone out. If my mood is wrong, if I am impatient, if my focus is poor, I will play badly. This is explicitly not the case with addictive gameplay-loop games which approach television-levels of sloth in the sense that you can play them indefinitely with any amount of focus.
dito, it's hard, but doable. We've gone cold turkey with the TV on our five year old and after a week or two he was much more tolerable and plays with legos for hours to keep himself occupied. He's still a 5-year old though, so removing TV alone won't help with that, you still got to parent / occupy him most of the time. It did however get easier to connect with him and reason about those decisions.

We still watch stuff together every now and then (or if we really need to be focused on smth), but he's in a much better mood throughout.
> Diablo III is a bad example in that it's actually an online multiplayer game now. It didn't use to be, but I think it was planned all along.

Multiplayer has always been included with D3. And singleplayer mode still exists. But, let me add a different examples.

Doom Eternal's campaign can be played offline, but only after you've signed into your account.

Genshin Impact is online only, even though you can play it alone.

AFK Arena, a mobile singleplayer-only game, requires you to be online.

Crash Bandicoot 4, a singleplayer-only game, requires you to be online.

> That system applies only to online games.

I don't know a lot about the system, so you are likely right. But I have to ask, is there anything that restricts it to multiplayer online games only - aside from the current policy?
You know, I was nodding my head in agreement as I read this when something occurred to me.

This all requires that the interviewer be willing to interact deeply with the candidate. Our profession has a (well deserved, I think) reputation for having a high percentage of people who really don't like interacting with others on a peer level.

Is it likely that a large part of the problem is that we have people doing interviews who really shouldn't be? I mean, if your typical response to talking to another technical person is immediately to try to one-up them, then you're going to be a really shitty interviewer. And that's exactly the personality type I see being described over and over in these anecdotes.
>Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as addicted as possible and to play as long as possible to an extent that made the old school 90s RPGs grinds look tame and mild

I try to tell my extended family this but I can tell that they choose not to listen. Games are no longer what they were growing up and you have to make sure your kid isn't playing a glorified slot machine. I plan to build a machine and only install certain games on there for the kids to avoid this very trap.

Parents today just don't understand how pernicious these companies have become. They used to include a hot girl in each game to keep you interested and prevent you from feeling bored. Sure it was lazy but that's all it was, lazy. Now, you have games like Genshin Impact that have weaponized sexuality to the point where people are pumping hundreds of dollars to see more sexuality in the game. Hearthstone's card packs function identically to Skinner boxes. League of Legends teases you with the prospect of going pro in gaming despite players have a higher chance to make it to the NFL than make it going pro in LoL.
You could implement your design in nmigen [1], use it to generate either verilog or rtlil, then use yosys (via [2]) to reduce it to an AND and NOT circuit (using the 'aigmap' command), then visualize it with [3]

[1]: https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen

[2]: https://yowasp.org

[3]: https://github.com/nturley/netlistsvg
He's probably talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riocentro_attack
the bomb exploded on the lap of one of perpetrators before the attack could take place
> However, the decompilation of the next part of the function is incorrect

How (long) did (it take) you (to) find out?
It's been discussed. From the article:

"In 2016, in response to an ARRL petition for rulemaking, the FCC proposed to remove the symbol rate limitations, which it tentatively concluded had become unnecessary due to advances in modulation techniques and no longer served a useful purpose. That proceeding, WT Docket 16-239, is still pending."
This, in reality, has little to with the increase of Delta cases in the US.

It's more about the lack of reciprocity from the US after the EU opened up for travel from the US. The rise of Delta cases in the US is just a convenient excuse to fix the inbalance.
Oh boy there are some interesting possibilities here with the partial key verification stuff.

What if you release a new version where, if the key is valid under the old check but not under the new check (indicating a keygen-ed licence), you start subtly screwing with the user. Like EarthBound or Spyro...

Quite off topic but very interesting!
But just as with companies that attempt holocracy and having no hierarchy, de facto hierarchies just creep in. And so the data structures/algorithms interview is a de facto credential, except worse, because it needs to be re-taken at every single company, rather than however many times it takes to pass the credential exam.
> (And what the hell is wrong with someone that gets angry at a road crew?)

Seems a lot of people feel this way. Haven’t you seen those “end construction” protest signs? People seem to post them almost anywhere crews are working!
Laws against child labor might be an example most of us would agree are called for, instead of just leaving it up to the parents whether children should work in mines and sweatshops or not.

Although I have no doubt someone will show up and say that should be left up to parents too.
Hadn't heard of Primephonic, but I have been using Concertmaster.app as a classical music-focused "skin" for Spotify and it's pretty good (and free!).
Subs avoid terrain using charts and dead reckoning, including inertial navigation systems. They typically come to periscope depth occasionally to get a navigational fix. In 2005 a US submarine allided with an underwater mountain due to a navigational error.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-to-blame-for-sub-accident/

There is little or no light at typical operating depths. Lidar can work to a limited extent in some water conditions but it's not something to rely upon for collision avoidance.
inb4 all 'offline' games in China start to sync 3 times a week (for unrelated reasons)
AI-Generated Movie Posters
As much as it pains me not to be able to travel to Europe, it's totally fair since the US isn't allowing Europeans in either.

At this point, travel bans are just politics. If we are only allowing vaccinated individuals in, the idea of a foreigner contributing to increased danger to our society is just nonsense.
Says 512 bytes of machine code, not "fits in the MBR". You can only cram 355 or so bytes of code into MBR area designated for that.
Good! Old emulators and (truly) offline games in general can't be lootbox casinos.
Most of the answers here are about games being addictive and a time waste, but what about communication? I actually have no idea about this - is in-game communication in e.g. fortnite able to be monitored?

If not, and if the CCP is as interested in controlling discussion as people in the West think they are, online games are a problem. Youth are supposed to be more impressionable and easily influenced. So, the CCP may just be trying to limit competition.
The default for NFSv3 is to map client-side root to server-side nobody, unless you explicitly tell it not to. (Which I had to do once to run a diskless workstation with an NFS root filesystem.)
Did you not read they are redesigning streets to include bicycle lanes and more pedestrian areas thus narrowing and reducing natural speed.
Ask HN: What are the disadvantages of using less popular TLDs like .sh or .xyz?
This is when you open a can of BS and just spray it everywhere. Go for the most esoteric and ridiculous design that you can. Elaborate on the minutia of your design at the finest level. Puff your feathers and flaunt your genius. Both bore and impress your interviewer at the same time.
There is a different incentive. For an offline single player or LAN game, you want to make the game interesting to play enough that the player will buy the game.

For an online game or a microtx based semi single player game, you want the player not to play, but to pay, over and over. That means that engineering addiction that leads to nothing but payment and compulsion is very profitable.

Offline games can definitely be very addicting and engaging. But ime those that are are because you're trying very hard to do something difficult, or because you're exploring, or because you're creating, all of which are ways in which video games can plausibly be helpful. And you will eventually get bored or move on to another game, which will give you time and pause to reconsider what you're doing.

Meanwhile you could be grinding an online video game doing menial tasks and buying microtransactions without ever having an end goal in mind and without being creative, for over a decade, every day.

So I think they're very different.
I googled (incognito) and see that I do remember them now. Surprised I am not in their audience list as I have read several articles about them and gone to their website a few times, in addition to having researched similar products.
> The usecase is different between terminal vs GUI. Where in GUI you look - choose - decide and click. And in terminal you blindly storm on the keyboard as fast as you can.

Actually I think it is more nuanced than that.

Some GUI programs are well optimized for fast keyboard only usage even if you can use point and click. NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Sublime Text and VS Code are on top of my mind but even some old web applications used to be quite usable I think.
The United States and China are the dominant producers and consumers of meat. And even between these two countries, apples to apples comparisons are not helpful as production practices are not the same.
What spike in crime? All data I've seen has shown marked, consistent decreases in crime. Could you link the data you refer to?
Or if you shop for a ring on two sites, but purchase from one, the other site doesn’t get data about your purchase on the other site. So the site you shopped at but didn’t buy from doesn’t know you made a purchase.
Sounds amazing. Wish we could get them that low here. Biking on the road next to multiple ton, blocks of metal going 30mph (48km/h) is never pleasant.
To be fair: this will use more disk space, but if you want to be able to keep the RAW and use DNG this is the way to go. I wasn't sure if I needed it so when I imported in Lightroom I quickly switched to embedding the original RAW image in the DNG just in case.
One key difference is licensing. As a physician you have to take the USMLE Step 1,2,3 and then potentially other board certifications. We engineers don't have any of that.
I don't get why the US would not reciprocate because US coronavirus levels are so high travelers from the EU would serve more to dilute it than add to it if anything.
This sucks for me, as it makes it way harder to return from my upcoming US trip.

It's already hard enough to travel to the US from Europe, you need a 14-day stop somewhere not banned, but now returning is going to get harder too.
It seems that "online games" include all games can download from the Internet, whether they have a multiplayer component or not.
Steam China also includes an "anti-addiction" system, even though the vast majority of games on there are solo game.
https://m.jiemian.com/article/4445107_yidian.html
I think the law is simply way too soft on this. If you're using heavy machinery in public areas, it should be absolutely mandatory that you follow the law, and are capable of doing so. People who either do not or cannot should simply not drive.

If somebody was driving a digger on a public street in a dangerous and unlawful manner, you'd expect them to end up in court, and you'd certainly expect more than just a fine and business-as-usual. A car is far faster and more dangerous than a digger.
a general workup of assembler but also at the second subtitle,[PE Tutorials] a good treatment of how PE files, and PE loaders work

https://web.archive.org/web/20080714022022/http://win32assem...

supplemental:

https://github.com/JeremyWildsmith/PELoader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_injection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
I tend to agree that this is mainly about reciprocity.
I don't quite like an operating system as minimal as this to be licensed under a non-copyleft license. Operating systems like Minix have already been exploited by Intel for their Management Engine, which some call a 'backdoor' in their machines. And Minix was licensed under the BSD License as well, so Intel could get away not releasing the source code for IME easily.
This isn’t true at all. Maybe in some locations (Silicon Valley? I don’t know), but every job I’ve been on has needed top level programmers for critical applications that have real world value.