skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read many dystopia books and haven't got the impression that plastic photo IDs could get us in too much trouble. Of course the underlying registry of citizens is a huge problem, but everyone is in it since their birth so the driving license or passport has nothing to do with it. Acting like obtaining a driving license is just the same as getting an implant with vaccination pass is just absurd.
> What is a layer of "disconnection"? Is this a new rhetorical device?

Not a rhetorical device. I mean that FB inserts itself as a kind of centralized middleman that can disconnect people that the internet connects. To speak of it in computer architecture terms it could be called a single point of failure.

It makes everybody go through their App and watch their ads or else they get disconnected from everybody else. This isn't something that should be called connecting people.

> Facebook does actually help build the connectivity up in these countries so they do in fact pay for the infrastructure.

Facebook "pays for" the expansion of infrastructure with proceeds from parasitism on the existing infrastructure.
I'll stick with Nim for as long as I have the option. There's more than performance to consider. Nim has memory safety, but compiles to C.
Wasn't there a none live attenuation vaccine coming to market that doesnt use MRNA?

I read myocarditis is partly caused by the mechanisms of producing the spike protein.

Can't we just go back to traditional vaccines?
There are many benefits. Here is a good video that explains:

https://youtu.be/c1gO9aB9nbs
My experience has been that each additional multiple of revenue has a certain amount of effort increase that is relatively fixed. Likewise, each additional percentage of cost reduction has an effort cost that is relatively fixed.

If you do the math, then increasing your revenue by 2x doesn’t cost 2x the effort. But one additional percentage point of cost reduction might well cost 2x the effort.

Sadly, most employers I’ve known do not seem to understand this thing called math.
You can carve your game purchases onto a stone tablet if you want to, but it doesn't make any difference unless there's someone that actually honors that NFT.

Is this "Ultra" going to mint NFTs for my Ubisoft account purchases? If it does, who honors my Ubisoft Store NFTs once Ubisoft terminates my account? Is it Ubisoft, is it Ultra or is it even Steam? And if it doesn't, what is it minting? Stuff I buy on Ultra? Because at that point the NFT might just as well be an email receipt, since I'm now relying on Ultra to actually stay alive and honor my NFTs until I die.
> single corporations have no power in choosing wages. The labor market does.

Counterpoint: Bangladesh. The labour market does not choose to work 60hr 7day weeks for $75/mo performing skilled sewing of your clothing because they like it: it is because they are left no choice. Given the opportunity, corporations will just as happily enslave Americans as it does third world citizens. Already does, in fact: slavery is still legal via imprisonment.

Corporations could choose to pay their Bangladeshi labour significantly more, and it would cost you only pennies more for your shirts … but they don’t. They pay as absolutely little as possible. They will inevitably do the same to you.
Say what you will about the hardware, but ESP-IDF is the gold standard for me now
> We may also close long-term inactive accounts to maintain our database.

How many kilobytes takes too store ownership data? I can just imagine that tracking data is thousands of times bigger.

> The crazy thing about this is that it’s perfectly legal for video game companies to delete your account regardless of whether you’ve spend zero or a thousand dollars on their games

It's a shame that we are going to fight for our digital rights because currently we have almost none because justice does not understand technology.
Wow, glad I saw this - it explains a lot. Went to go and try to play an AC game again after giving up a year or two ago and couldn't figure out my login details. Guess this is (maybe?) why. Can't find a deletion email though, so it seems impossible to know for sure.
> People won't like this, but we at Ultra.io are trying to tackle this exact problem by deploying certificates of ownership to a decentralized ledger as proof of your owning a game.

How do you legally enforce that proof of ownership?

How does a NFT change anything to a license agreement between the publisher and the buyers?
Thats a very good way of looking at it.

That said, if we need laws for every small thing that should/could be resolved with common sense, where does it end? Plus, we been ultra specialists for everything, when there are a billion laws.

Still, as you pointed out, if these laws improve the situation, it is a good thing I guess. I just hate that everything needs to be enforced with the threat of fines or violence. Another thing is I don’t trust the government to be impartial.
Buy a $40 test to resell a $2 chip. Genius.
But it's not ~~decentralized~~.
Probably playing "vroom… VROOM" through the speakers. Yes, a modern thing.
Thank you. How does one go about working in "Biomedical: signals, images" /other fields you recommend. I'm a graduate in Engineering. Do I need further education ?
In contrast, embedded Rust is quite a pleasant experience on the nrf line, including the 52xx series.
How do Reddit and Twitter pass the App Store review process? I'm pretty sure you can trivially find porn by searching for it.
> Read my comment carefully

Please take a spoon of your own medicine and read my comment even more carefully. I never suggested my comments were a contradiction to yours.

I added some information for bystanders that may have read your comment and come to (or reinforced) a wrong conclusion.
I wonder whether non-competes for unskilled labour is an American thing? I only ever heard about it in an American context.

It seems a bit silly to me, as it seems to cost the employee more than the benefit the employer receives from that clause.

(Though the real benefit to the employer might be in decreasing the employees outside options, thus allowing better control.

I wonder how one might test that theory.)
Note: Hackaday discussion available at https://hackaday.com/2021/10/17/electronic-covid-test-tear-d...
There are plenty of male tech executives with equally poor track records as Mayer (David Marcus comes to mind), yet they don’t get this kind of treatment on message forums.

Comparing Meyer to Holmes is like comparing David Marcus to Bernie Madoff. It just doesn’t make sense unless you’re seeing someone primarily through their gender.
If you can't be confident of your ownership of and access to what you buy, why do you buy it?
BeFS was very compelling compared to FAT32 or HFS+ but it's no big deal compared to what we have today.
Having worked on automated ELISA equipment decades ago, it's kind of interesting to see this come full circle.

The earliest machines used a light source and color filter to try and get the signal from the finished enzyme sandwich. Then lateral-flow came along and it was up to a human to make the observation. Now we're back to the computer doing it again.
That's not the statement you made. A safer statement would be, "a simple interpreter for language x, implemented in language y, cannot be faster than language y".
The one change I would like to see made is for tracker detection to be an open and universal standard.
Because people want to play the games, and there's not an alternative way to buy them that does give you that confidence.
here's the point. I dont have an opinion on the language design of scala vs kotlin.

I am merely pointing out that Kotlin has a much larger community adoption. and it was never backed by corporates.

Ultimately - adoption matters.
"So yeah, I'm pretty happy for governments to regulate companies into the ground on my behalf..."

That is not going to happen.

The government serves two masters.
I apologize but I find this to be a silly question. I buy because I want to play. I do not have an expectation of indefinite ownership (even though I should have indefinite ownership), hence my comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666279 confirms that they're actually working on it now but it's such a monumental effort. A few years wasted before JDK8 were very damaging. That's what made people look for alternatives to the JVM, not its treatment of primitives.

If Loom and Valhalla come to fruition in a couple of years the JVM would be competitive against golang. But the problems golang has to catch up with Java (e.g. error processing and migrating the standard library to generics) seem easier to fix.
Religious literacy is different than religion. In a Girardian sense, Christianity can be seen as an antidote to the mimetic sparagmos because it puts forth the scapegoat to end all scapegoats.
I paid extra for a disc version of the PS5 for exactly this reason. If I buy a game today I want to be able to play it 20 years from now. I can bet money that none of the mainstream digital stores of today will be operational by then.
I would disagree that there is a side that doesn’t believe in American values. American values are instead being interpreted in disagreeing ways, and are being applied to different circumstances. (For example, the sovereign citizen movement clearly at least attempts to take on aspects of the American constitution, and interprets them very differently to the court system.)
probably not worth your time unless you're looking for an art project. you can get a devkit for dollars that has pins brought out and more flash and ram https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001593980172.html
>Seinfeld even has a whole schtick about this - why is it called a "reservation" if it's not actually....a reservation?

The kicker is that episode actually aired just over 30 years ago (December 4th, 1991).
On that part about not entering the cells, as we're seeing that the vaccine does not prevent illness, if covid does escape the vaccine and enter cells, at that point what is the difference between vaccinated or not? I haven't been able to work that out as the explanation has always been that the vaccine blocks cell entry.
I wouldn’t feel any guilt about pirating the content I bought on any of those services if my account was taken from me for inactivity. I’d be interested to hear the argument about why that would be wrong though.
You have the right not to pay money to companies that won't give you the guarantee of ownership and access that you want.

But if the lack of that guarantee is right there in the company's terms of service, and you pay them money anyway, you don't have the right to insist that they change the terms you signed up to when you paid them just because you don't like the consequences.
to participate in the cultural works of today's digital world.
It's a little bit weird if you ask me. I totally get you and your parent's sentiment of "they push me, so I push back". I think that's a natural reflex of many people and a good one as well. I'm much the same in many situations. If you simply tell me and push me to do X, I will push back, simply because you did not explain yourself. It's a principled thing. We're not in the military and I didn't sign up for this.

Explain yourself, give me reasoning and talk to me about pros and cons of various things and we can probably get along very well.

Now there's a problem here. While you can debate such things with me and you and and many other people, there are also a lot of people out there that just do not respond at all to that. I would argue it's actually most people and that is what politicians have to deal with. That sucks for you and me.

I think wearing a mask indoors makes absolute sense. We can debate whether a cloth, surgical mask or N95 mask are in order but some type of mask that goes over mouth _and_ nose just makes sense given the airborne nature of this and other viruses. I will readily admit that I always found it weird seeing Asians running around w/ a surgical mask when they think they're sick w/ something but I've come to realize that it just made sense. They're doing the right thing.

I don't think putting alcohol on my hands multiple times a day is great for my skin or the natural skin bacterial flora at all but I really like the fact that I've seen less people run past the hand sanitizer at the store than people leaving the washrooms without washing their hands.

Are you telling me that you're one of those people that go to the toilet and don't wash up? I'm sorry but I don't want to second hand touch your junk! Ever!
or just let Web3 and onchain NFT's happen, accepting one of the reasons why the incremental improvement is being seen as valuable.

Even if a company offered a convenience service, the ideal implementation allows people to restore their account from the current function state onchain, which is what most web3 services do in an increasingly standardized and predictable way right now.

regarding the NFT's and where they store the images, many NFT classes have getter methods that tell enough about what the implementation of the digital item should look like, usually when I'm talking to people I get the impression that they haven't looked.

there are so many ways to do this right, even if they aren't passing muster right now.
I did Monida pass in Idaho coming into Montana in winter with just AWD (no chains). It was a steep decline in the other end, definitely not 45 degrees but enough to make me queasy. Suffice it to say I kept my Subaru in 1st gear all the way down.
> I don't really care too much about what the Terms and Services say

It does not matter even if you care. You do not have negotiating power to change them. It is a 'my way or highway' situation.

And the government should be involved, you alone cannot change the Terms of Service, but your country can create laws to protect you from thieves, whenever they steal physical or digital goods. If you don't like your government fight to improve it but do not renounce to the power that it gives you as a citizen.
Some more great information in this same space: https://www.accursedfarms.com/videos/dead-game-news

A less legally sound argument for why games as a service shouldn't be allowed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

Ross is very odd but his opinions on this topic align greatly with my personal sentiment.
Are you mixing up gardening leave and non-competes?

In any case, I think above some level of compensation basically all crazy clauses that people agree to voluntarily should be fine as far as the law is concerned: there's no need to protect well-off people from themselves.

There might or might not be an argument that poor people need to be protected from themselves like little children, and thus that there should be some contracts they shouldn't be allowed to enter. (Just like we only allow some very carefully considered contracts for children to enter into. Eg buying candy is fine; but going into debt is not enforceable against them.)
Thousands of times? You’ve been renting a different car every week for more than 20 years? You said thousands - 40+ years in fact?
I consider it a fair game to torrent those games that the publisher screws me over. Like San Andreas, the Steam version of which was FUBAR a few years ago and then removed altogether (for new buyers). I've paid for maybe five copies in my entire life, sorry, I'm not paying for the sixth.
I'd recommend a batteries-included Emacs distro like Doom to try out. That way, you don't spend a lot of time customising the editor before getting invested.

Vanilla Emacs is plenty fast, but Doom will give you a closer to real world use case, with themes, LSP, Magit and other essentials built in.
I would be interested in knowing if that would be legal. As might you technically have purchased your license?
I had a colleague that wrote a tight loop creating objects in Java and in C++ on heap to show Java outperformed C++.

Once I implemented a simple pool allocator in C++, it ran circles around Java.
> Actually you can. They might be eating a sugary dessert, and then you think "mmm, I'd like one of those".

Ok? This doesn't _make_ anyone obese, while sitting on a train next to a COVID+ person gives you a pretty high likelihood of getting COVID.

That is, unless there's some new research that shows that simply seeing sugary deserts can turn people obese.

> Do we need to publicly shame and ostracise employees of all advertising and marketing companies?

??????

> All ice-cream manufacturers?

Should they stop marketing towards children? Absolutely. Again, I'm not entirely sure what you're going for here so I'm really just inserting a suggestion.

> What about smoking? Smoking kills 10 million per year, COVID is a pittance by comparison.

In the US but we have effectively banned indoor smoking on those grounds. In ATX you're not even allowed to smoke within (if I'm remembering the numbers correctly) 30 ft of an openable window of a business. Because it directly impacts people's health. Like spreading COVID does.

> 1 million die from the effects of second hand smoke - which can come off of clothes, even imperceptibly.

That's terrible, we should curb smoking if this is proven to be the case.

> Best to know about it, and give them a wide berth. Eg, probably a good idea ban them from going into shops at all. And from buying food, starve them out of the habit, eh?

what the fuck are you on about? root was talking about how people need to accept that they've contributed to the pandemic through their inaction, not advocating for barring people from shops. that's ridiculous.

> As such, I'll be giving you and folks like you a wide berth myself

I'm impressed- you've seemingly judged my entire character based on a single-sentence comment. Have you considered pursuing a career as a judge?

> though I wouldn't go as far as restricting your ability to feed yourself.

how gracious
Ah gotcha. Agreed.
This is completely untested but i would assume that the more times you get infected or vaccinated, the more resistance you get to subsequent infections. The alternative is that covid variants keep reinfecting people over and over and people who just barely make it out of the hospital come back, which is really bleak.

So Omicron is reinfecting people but it’s not as severe, not only because of specific mutations, but because most people have already been infected / vaccinated multiple times.

This would also apply to other diseases. So if someone has been infected with e.g. the flu 5 times, it debunks this theory. IIRC there are multiple common colds which would explain why some people get sick with cold almost every year (and even then infections tend to be spread out). Anecdotally there was one time i was infected with some sort of stomach bug 4 times in a short span, but i’ve never had a stomach bug since then.
> at a significantly higher price

you didn't have a screenshot, printout, or email with the reserved price clearly indicated? (on second thought, car rentals, especially at airports, generally have a huge markup due to airport facility fees, service fees, and local taxes -- but even that should have been clearly displayed on the confirmation you received at the time you made the reservation).
I don't understand how NFTs would solve the problem I described. Even if all of my Oculus games are NFTs - if I'm banned and can't access my account to download the games then I'm out of luck.
Because laws are not about justice. If you get something stolen you need to go to a judge to get a sentence that gives it back to you. You cannot take justice on your hands and expect to not be punished.
> I do not have an expectation of indefinite ownership

But you said you were nervous about buying these things. What are you nervous about? And why do you pay money anyway if you're nervous about what you're getting?

> even though I should have indefinite ownership

On what grounds? These are companies operating in a free market. They're offering a product whose terms are right out there in the open. If you don't like the terms, don't buy.
My statement is that language speed comparisons are stupid, but if you're willing to make one, you cannot beat the language you're written in. That's like saying Shakespeare writes better stories than...English.
Simula One vs. Quest 2 vs. Valve Index
But ads in real life do not prevent me from going on about my day.

They do, in a suffuse, incremental but no less inexorable manner, in fact make "that place", "out there" -- meaning the city in which I live -- all the more uninviting and inhospitable.

Like I don't even own the backs of my own eyeballs.
The user can already prove they own the game. Ubisoft accepted the proof. The problem is they've chosen to configure their servers to reject sending the game client messages consistent with this proof.

They could, if they wanted, configure their servers to send network messages approving his login. But they choose not to.

If a company opts-in to using your NFT as the authority, they can at any time opt-out(just like Ubisoft did here) so it provides no extra guarantee. And companies that don't accept your NFT as proof will ignore it when it's presented as evidence.
> If they ban me, do I lose my thousands of dollars of games?

Generally yes, and this is obviously bullshit.
Is that even a guarantee though? In particular, I know that you could buy the Orange Box (HL2, TF2, and Portal) on DVD in retail stores, but you needed a Steam account to play anyway.
whoops! you didn't drive your car for a year during the pandemic, we own it now. /s

This type of anticonsumerism would get so much attention if it were in another field. I can only hope it happens here.
My understanding is that there are still plenty of folks children that aren’t old enough to be vaccinated yet, and also millions of people are immunocompromised so I would expect they and all their relatives to make a ton of noise when it comes to the notion of living as normal, especially if there’s a variant that dodges vaccination effects to some degree…

(To be clear I also wonder when it is time to return “to normal” but I disagree this is some kind of media propaganda. I think it’s too dismissive to assume there aren’t significant populations that have reasonable desires to continue to aim for mitigating policies like masking.)
> there's not an alternative way to buy them that does give you that confidence

That doesn't sound to me like a reason for legislation. It sounds to me like a reason for competition.

But for there to be competition, customers have to be willing to put their money where their mouth is. If there were a competitor that charged, say, 20% more for a product that included the confidence you want, would you pay it?
It's the same argument as vigilante justice.
> When the social workers are driving in BMW's and talking to you like you're retarded...

Man what social workers get BMWs?
I think the comment you mentioned might talk about non-solicitation in the sense that the former employee of company A who's now working for company B can not solicit the remaining employees of A to work for B?

Funny enough, I helped plenty of people from past employers to find new jobs; but never with my current employer, but typically with some other past employer.
> Proof of ownership isn't the issue here.

Wouldn't having legal proof of owning a license to an IP, entitle you to then use a copy of the files covered by those IP rights, regardless of how or where you acquire them? (E.g. if you buy a license to Windows, you don't need to download the installation media for Windows from Microsoft in order for your licensed installation of Windows to be legitimate. You can get the Windows installation media from anywhere.)

You don't need a "game service provider" if you have legal dispensation to torrent the game. And, that being the case, you could replace a centralized service like Steam with the game-media equivalent of an app like PopcornTime: just a convenient way to browse for, and download, torrents of the IP you already legally own.