skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you would love the systems I refer to!

You'll have plenty of fun with 500-900ms delay added by a crappy Java front-end and even if it's on the shorter end consistently you'll love the odd 900ms bump for the screen scraper refresh making you hit twice since the crappy rubber dome keyboard doesn't register way too often.

Then back to tabbing through 20 fields until you stop at the right one again!

We're not talking quick modern UIs here, but screen capturing an old virtual terminal window hosted at headquarters, with OCR and color matching, all developed by some consultancy who went bankrupt in 2000, and because of how much depends on the legacy system noone dares to fix what's technically working.

It's a humbling environment to end up in as a young dev for sure. You'll be very disappointed that one guy in 1999 didn't think reversing would be needed.
> and were posting arguments online warning people not to get the vaccine or that it hadn't been sufficiently tested - as you yourself do in this post.

As did many news media organizations - only up until the election, that is. [0] Then everyone was a conspiracy theorist immediately after.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/eua-coronavirus-vaccin...
You are of course correct but at the same time I often buy games for $5 - $10 on sale that are a few years old and after completion they have little to no replay value. Although many may not be as frugal they might well have the same attitude towards reuse/replay/resale. Play and forget.
For an app that displays positive or negative, wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to use image processing to detect lines on the test?
> Is staffing a public toilet right for anyone?

It could be right for you. Until you try it, you’ll never be certain.
By their own reference they are counting Syrian deaths somehow as a function of the 'War on Terror' which is false, a fairly egregious manipulation, and that's just to start.

And I don't think the logic of 'The Taliban are Murdering Schoolteachers Because George Bush' is a reasonable way to contemplate the situation.

I wonder if there's a way to look at this bit of recent history without the hyperbole.
For PlayStation it is, but I think it is the only one. The console can operate 100% offline.
Selling ownership, not licenses, is great. Both ownership and licenses can be sold with or without NFTs. How do NFTs help?
I set out to work and gradually become genuinely surprised and interested by the experience of silence. Within that moment resides my day’s potential.
Asians in Asia don't outperform the US overall. We just get the most driven and smart Asians as immigrants.
> the fact that log4j (and its further dependencies like JNDI) can just create a network connection without having been explicitly given the ability to do so.

i dont think this is the responsibility of log4j to express it's capabilities like that. The responsibility should be in the runtime - like the JVM, or even the OS.

Services should run in a sandbox, like how a browser runs a webpage in a sandbox, and only allow capabilities explicitly being requested, and require a human to allow it. Or, have a sandbox such that no matter what code executes, it cannot do more harm than a pre-determined amount (such as limited disk space, limited CPU usage, network usage etc).

The root cause is the security model of modern applications.
If such datasource becomes available in future we will just create osmV2 from it and be done…
I’m working on import for my home country(Slovenia) for buildings and addresses, and I like to think our GIS is well organised and maintained, and yet I find things like demolished buildings still in GIS or new buildings not added… Relocated buildinga/addresses…
> I cannot copy the games from my friend because the government does not allow me to do it.

No, you can't do it because the seller of the game does not allow you to do it. There is no law requiring sellers to lock down their games with DRM or other forms of restriction.

> I do not live in the USA.

So what? Are you saying you can magically get access to this website without Y Combinator's cooperation and goodwill because you're not in the USA? Are you saying you can magically ensure that you can buy groceries without a corporation providing them to you because you're not in the USA?
When I think of maintenance, I think more about corrosion resistance. Is the knife 100% dry when I put it away? Do I want to take the time to wipe down the blade when I cut acidic food items? Then I think about sharpening. How long can I wait between sharpening? How long must I sharpen the knife? VG10 is a good knife steel for the kitchen. It is a Japanese stainless cutlery steel. You can find this steel on mass produced knives (Tojiro) and on many custom knives, which can be quite expensive. VG10 has good corrosion resistance, decent toughness, sharpens well, and can hold an edge a decent amount of time. An inexpensive combination King water stone is up to the task of sharpening VG10. It also does not take an inordinate amount of time to sharpen VG10. As a comparison, Magnacut will do everything VG10 does but better.

Another benefit of VG10 is that you often find it in knives from Japan. They understand that geometry cuts, so they tend to use thinner blade stock (but their knives are not brittle) and they tend to heat treat to 59-60 HRC. I think these knives are a good all-around package. Again, Tojiro is a good brand to start with.
That’s because you never actually bought the item. You got a license to run it on someone else’s server.

Let’s say you bought a bunch of things for The Matrix Online, do you expect that server to run forever? It won’t. It didn’t. Why should someone else maintain it forever? Are you getting a refund? Why? You already extracted the useful life of it.

If there’s government regulation it’s around the deceptive use of the word “purchase” it’s just a long term rental
Steam is already 18 years old, where is your confidence they won't make it another 20 coming from?
Kindle books?
HOWI is about using backends other than JS. That's not as trivial to integrate.
> How is that actually possible and not just completely variable across the board based on each individual's health? 'Often outperforms' leaves the question 'how often?'

That is, we know of many vaccines where the protection from vaccination is greater than the protection from prior infection. It looks like that is true of COVID vaccines, both by observational / case control data and from data comparing antibody neutralizing titers between convalescent plasma and vaccinated individuals.. e.g. https://cdn.jamanetwork.com/ama/content_public/journal/jama/...

For any given patient--- who knows. There could be one person somewhere who'd get no benefit from vaccination and a huge benefit from prior infection. We can only know about the superiority of vaccination to prior infection in aggregate, but the effect is real.
That is something your phone can do for you without the need for a disposable chip
Yeah, Haiti and Dominican Republic are on the same island and started in the same place 50 years ago. They're now on wildly different projectories.
Headline is wrong because TikTok isn't typically visited via the web. It is an app, not a website. Somewhere in the article it then says TikTok is the most visited internet property. But then with that definition, you'd have to include all the hits to Google Play via all the Android devices, which is likely bigger than TikTok's user base.
Dont you worry about Malware, Viruses and suchlike?
Wrt the knife steel thread, It'd be interesting to weld thin sheets of a powder steel interleaved with graphene, then fold it Damascus style to get long graphene structures throughout the steel.

It's awesome that they're moving along so fast, graphene is getting close to roll-to-roll mass production. Super thin flexible pcbs and components will make for very interesting wearables.
Are there any examples of software providers revoking access in this way?

(I personally have no experience with such things because I will never use or pay for software that is provided in this way.)
I’m just not so sure the power should exist to be available for abuse, regardless of how you try to “solve” it.
Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang
Copyright violation is a tort, not a crime. If you were sued for it, they'd have a hard time proving damages given that you have paid for a valid license.
Probally an easy resell when the asset depreciates to sell?
I'm a crazy person who wishes for an airline offering flights with no overhead bins. Personal items only! This would make boarding and deplaning so much faster and more pleasant.
> 1973

Don't forget that the price of petroleum and everything downstream of it, which meant just about everything, more or less doubled twice, once in 1973 in the OPEC boycott and then again in 1980 with the Shah of Iran crisis.

It was a difficult time for investors and the economy in general, pretty much world wide.
It's one thing if it's an MMO or something else that inherently needs a central server. It's another if it's a game that could work 100% offline if not for the DRM.
Here is Wikipedia article on non compete clauses. Seems like they are quite common everywhere with various restrictions. Amazingly North Dakota and Oklahoma also have a total ban in non-completes along with California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
Hm. I agree online textbooks are different because you're not just paying for the textbook, you're also paying a school tuition, and the school isn't going to refund your tuition just because the textbook provider made a mistake.

I asked another poster just upthread about the software (such as Creative Cloud) case.
An equal, universal, non-means-tested UBI will accomplish this.
https://m-davis.com/blog/?p=43
We won't have long-term data until a long time had passed, but so far, it doesn't seem inactivated virus vaccines fare any better than mRNA ones.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02796-w
Ever heard of a thing called a receipt?
It is costing a developer money — someone who downloads the pirated game would’ve otherwise bought it. Game devs make money on sales.

However if you have already bought the game, and then download a pirated version, it isn’t.
> To be honest, at the moment the algorithm doesn't return any sensible results for anything

Is there an objective way to measure this? Do we just compare the output to Google or DDG? This seems like one of the many big hurdles in creating a competitive product in this space
OK, yet they went lower-yet under Trump, including by other metrics (border apprehensions), and now under the opposite non-MAGA policies, they are at their highest levels in decades.

Democrats used to take a harder stance on immigration until Trump came around, in fact Schumer et. al. had videos passionately stumping for more money for border walls and fencing in the 00's.
> That’s because you never actually bought the item. You got a license to run it on someone else’s server.

Don't mean to sound too cranky but this "you just bought a license" crap has been a thing since software began being software. It was no more fair back then than it is now.

No one is arguing, at least I don't think they are, that a company has an obligation to keep servers running in perpetuity. But to tell me I have no portable way to retain the bits I bought--excuse me, "licensed"--from a company is just crap. If a game can run in single-player mode without a server, or if a movie file can be played, or a song file listened to, then the act of "buying" it should mean I can do that for as long as I can keep my computers running and the onus on keeping backups of those files is on me.

We call them app "stores," we use the moniker of "purchased," and the ads call them "ours." If companies don't want to let us keep the ability to independently use the software or content files we "purchased," then they should be prohibited from using the lexicon of buying things and be very explicit that this is a one-time fee for a rental that can be taken away at any time.

Being explicit does not mean burying it in a multi-thousand word document that no person with a regular command of English can understand and that none of us have the power to negotiate for ourselves.
I also have the right to petition my local congress critters to crack down on whatever hairbrained schemes publishers are pulling like cutting off access to something I bought to save a kilobyte in a postgres database somewhere.

> you don't have the right to insist that they change the terms you signed up to

Oddly enough, publishers DO have the right to change ToS and frequently do, and "your silence is considered consent".

This reminds me quite a bit of the gift card nonsense where you'd be charged for not using a gift card, for using it, using it too soon, letting it get too old, etc. Now the rules around gift cards are extremely strict because it was abused by merchants. It sounds like we need something similar for digital items - if you yank my ownership, you owe me back my money and in whatever currency I paid you in, not your store funny money.
I hate to defend Sony in any way, but I can still download my PS3 games, that system is 15 years old now.
Spyderco, but I am a fanboy. Their forums are really insightful. If you do down the rabbit hole of knives and steel, Spyderco does a better job of catering to this market. They experiment with all kinds of steel that will never make it to another production company. It should be noted, Spyderco knives tend to be on the "ugly" side. It took me a while to get them as a company.

Benchmade, Hinderer, Chris Reeve, Spartan, Demko, etc. The list goes on and on. This is a great time to be a knife knut.
You're citing a ridiculed preprint from a CS Ph.D?
This sounds like going under the speed limit in the passing lane.
FYI some of those Ellume brand tests were recalled: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/e...
address signing. if you give someone your address in order to access the game, they are also accessing all of your digital items and can transfer them to their own address. this is risky enough for the user that they won't do that, or learn not to. there won't be a customer support to help them, you can try to build that kind of customer support if you want though.

the system would check your signature and/or check for current possession of the necessary NFT.

trusting a friend to experience that is up to the user at their own risk.

the game producer's goals are not really about preventing shared access any longer, as they are still selling items and doing things for creation of items (engagement), just like the most lucrative games already do now.
Sandboxing cannot provide the same security benefits of capabilities, even in principle.
Seems like California, North Dakota and Oklahoma are the ones that don't allow non-compete clauses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
Actual title: "Good gamers, good managers? A proof-of-concept study with Sid Meier’s Civilization".
Although beware, those pull through sharpeners are notorious for doing a terrible job sharpening knives. They take off far more material than needed and tend to produce an edge that isn't very sharp. YMMV.
But is it that particular copy? If I backup a digital file that I buy and it gets deleted and I have to restore from the backup, is that offside?
Rust does have UnsafeCell for gurus/experts to build such complex concurrency building blocks, pack it in a safe API for us plebs to use.
> I think any description of the algorithm at all would be better than the current "go to the website and download the latest version" situation. It should be enough to say which algorithms you use and the order. It looks like you've picked common enough ones that they shouldn't be lost to history.

I'm slightly more worried about encoding and the wire format of the various bits of data stored in the QR codes. You'd need slightly more detail than just the algorithms used. For the record, the entire design is actually outlined here[1] in lots of detail so really all that would be necessary would be encode that document as a PDF you can print and store with the backups.

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback/blob/main/DESIGN.md
Nordic nRF5x chips has community Arduino support(which is very nice to me!) if that's what you want.
This sounds great on paper but I really don't think that feedback channel is effective in practice.

First of all, when a game or a platform does poorly, the reason for that can be very hard to discern (unless there's some kind of coordinated vocal protest). "The customers are disagreeing with the fine print of our end-user license agreement" usually isn't high up on the list of reasons.

Secondly, there are many degrees of incentive separation between the game developer and the customer. If the distributor offers the game developer a good lump-sum payment for a platform exclusive, they might not care about the EULA. The distributor might also own the developer.

IP isn't fungible, so competition in the space is subject to much more inefficiency than a market for, say, wheat.
> the most likely explanation is they misunderstood something and were just wrong

I think you're giving the media far too much credit especially when it comes to this issue. Remember, this is a media that actively called a legitimate, low-side-effect profile, WHO-listed essential drug "horse paste" or at least actively made comparisons to it, and a media that sowed fear and doubt about the vaccine while Trump was still President.

I think the time is long gone for giving the media the benefit of the doubt on things like this. Scientists sure, but the media, absolutely not.
My ovens all had a row of burners. Maybe the maker does not want invest in the engineering required to make a subset of the burners fire below a certain temperature, so they instead make the lowest temperature the temperature the burners can achieve in unison at a low flow.
Those are recreation. (Except for edge cases like online textbooks, which another poster just upthread mentioned.)
That's exactly why it's safer to buy DRM-free from GOG because you can keep a backup of your purchases without having to worry the service might lock you out or remove a product.
When possible, try to prefer DRM-free versions of games. If there's DRM, then one doesn't really own it. PCGamingWiki [1] is a great resource that will list the DRM status of a given game for different distributors (yes, some stores may have DRM while others do not). In general, GOG [2] is all DRM-free games.

[1]: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com
[2]: https://www.gog.com
Not from reputable uploaders. It's about reputation, and people like, say, Fitgirl have a hell of a lot better reputation than Ubisoft or EA.
Sure, but taking this to its logical extreme, it seems like I could justify any act as long as it’s also legal.

While I totally agree with the advice of “it’s illegal so you probably shouldn’t do it”, I don’t think it’s a terribly interesting conversation philosophically. Deferring to human law in these discussions feels like an existential cop-out.

I think the question is substantially more interesting if you pretend that you have a magic wand to make the laws whatever you want, and then ask “why would it be wrong for me to torrent a game that I have purchased a legal copy of?”
Funny that you mention it. Sony announced earlier this year that they would be shutting down the PS3 store permanently (including the ability to download past purchases), and only delayed the move due to public backlash. They did shut the PSP store though, so those games are unplayable now.
Merry Christmas indeed.
Spyderco already announced MagnaCut in their 2022 catalog. However, they are backed up at the moment. I am not holding my breath for a release in the near future. Custom makers tend to be on the cutting edge (no pun intended) when it comes to using "odd" steels. I expect more and more people to use it. That said, will Crucible make enough for demand? There's not a ton of money in knife steel production. Right now, Crucible's latest cutlery steel is S45Vn. S35Vn and S30V are still widely used as well. 20CV has taken off a bit too. I don't think Crucible will start making large batches just yet. But, I could be wrong.
in the case of a non-compete, it doesn't matter because you are already not working for them and also not bound to not-compete

yes, it is discretionary, know your leverage and be able to afford it.
Also every commit has binaries built and uploaded via a GitHub Action[1] (though for some reason the x86 binaries aren't statically linked even though I'm using the musl toolchain).

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback/actions
You won't have to worry about "difficult[-y] staying competitive in this field especially as I grow older" because you won't even be in the running without the CompE degree. Unlike computer science and software engineering, there are very few jobs in computer engineering that will take an applicant without the degree seriously. You could switch to software development but people are piling into it like there's no tomorrow and most jobs there are just as boring as anything else.

Take a sabbatical semester off beforehand to recover if you have to but finish your degree.
> getting yelled at if they got a B

This seems like a child of recent immigrants thing more than Asian. Don’t 2nd and 3rd generation Asian perform on par with society at large?
Seems like they found a correlation between score in CIV 5 and score on tests measuring "Organizing and Planning" and "Problem Solving". The correlation coefficients seems to be small (0.25 and 0.19) and "Organizing and planning" decreases once you control for things like "Amount of time the subjects played CIV 5 before.

These seem like weak correlations to me. Especially because they tested six properties and only found weak correlations for these two. It's intuitively plausible to me that being good at Civilization correlates with organizing and problem solving, but I don't think this does very much to support that idea.
In fact, while I think that if I were asked before reading this I would have bet that being good at CIV correlated with those properties, seeing these weak results actually makes me doubt it a bit.

This study also seems to be based on fifty students playing a single game of civilization.

If students are running this study as an exercise to learn about how to conduct a study, then this is probably fine. If this is real academic research then I think this is basically a waste of time. The conclusion and interpretation of it seems very strong - like people should consider using games for "stealth" evaluations of job candidates. The evidence seems very weak.

I would also want to control for IQ. Maybe smart people are good at both problem solving and CIV.
NeRF's were inveted in 2020 and started an avalanche of papers (637 citations so far).

> Original one: "Nerf, Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis"

> https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9378169911033868166...

What I find most exciting about it is that a NeRF represents images as neural nets, one neural net for each image (in the OP paper generalised to image + deformations). By evaluating the net at various pixel coordinates it gives the color.

Up until now learning to replicate the input exactly was called overfitting and considered a bug, not a feature, but they showed a completely new way to wield neural nets.

An interesting detail is that they depend on Fourier encoding for the input coordinates. A variant called SIREN uses `sin` as activation function throughout the net.

Maybe neural nets will become the data compressors of tomorrow? Shoot a picture, send a neural net around. Game assets could be NeRFs.
It's easy to pick stocks in a bull market
Fastapi is far from world class in any category other than usage.

>Fast: Very high performance, on par with NodeJS and Go.

Is a downright lie
I was reasonably certain that this thread was specifically speaking in regard to the latter case.