skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a trained "module". I walk a lot (mostly in cities), and I played first-person shooters since the first DOOM back in 1993. And I recently found out that I strongly prefer first-person games to top-down / 2D games -- I instantly feel "at home" there.

For me it was MUDs, exploring and running to known locations in MUDs almost certainly developed that feature in me as I was playing then in 1994 when I was all of 9 years old and my sole means of transportation was my bicycle in the real world.
Most SPACs are very lightly traded and are prone to weird patterns.
Have a look into supercollider and tidalcycles
I am betting this is not going to last. Their core products are losing customers.
TBF the mood music has changed on mergers and I'm not sure that would have gone through today.
It's striking how many of the responses are just trying to flex their knowledge of FP.

The real answer is that Common Lisp is not a pure functional language. Many CL idioms involve mutation, the most obvious one being setf.

So, it manages it like Python or JavaScript manages, by not managing it.
This is Kotick cleaning house before microsoft take over. Too little too late he still has a short shelf life after microsoft transition complete.
> the library this HN thread is supposed to be about

Articles can absolutely just be seeds for discussion, and I think the theme of replacing jQuery is quite relevant across the industry as motivators like "support IE" are increasingly falling away.
It’s low, sure, but also much easier to do: you’re legally required to pay taxes and political change takes years, but you can simply choose to save money.
I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here?

If Microsoft starts subsidizing Game Pass games from their other businesses (like Amazon, Google and Apple do for their other services), it'll make the business model of actually selling games unviable by pure race to the bottom. As a result, you'll lose independent development and market diversity because everyone will need to beg Microsoft (and maybe Sony and Apple as other megacorps) for money scraps.

This is very similar what actually happened in mobile games market - a race to the bottom that only left a few winners filled with exploitative anti-patterns that feed on peoples addiction to recoup their costs instead of selling the product.

It'll of course be amazing for users - games will be cheap! And free! Just like views on YouTube are, where creators are getting more and more burned out fighting against the algorithm which decides how much they deserve to be paid.
Look, I found a "/s" under my desk, did you lose this by any chance?
Let's say an irish artist draws a painting that paints ISIS terrorists as freedom revolutionaries and inspires actual acts of terror, will the line be drawn there? I ask because whenever money is involved an adult conversation about incentives and power balances should be had. Would art be influenced by fears of their income which they have come to rely on being cut off?
Read the whole paragraph. Once the deal closes Activision will report to Phil.
Honest question, how much longer until they try and buy Valve to get Steam? I mean at this point that's the next logical step
If you sign up for the EdX Precalc class https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:ASUx+MAT170x+2T201... they will let you use ALEKS for free.
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Businesses learned long ago there are plenty of very easy legal ways of making people leave of "their own accord" by adjusting work environment factors to a point no sane person would stay in the position.
I use permanent.org It also has a gallery feature https://www.permanent.org/p/archive/03pw-0000
All right, buddy.
Well if you can't buy Nintendo, then go and buy out everyone else.

After all, this is all how the metaverse is going to become a reality and that is how Microsoft is going to create it.
The interview has to be scoped right. Sometimes they get scoped too broadly and people will offer opinions about processes of which they don’t have a complete understanding and can lead them to saying things that are not germane and sidetrack other teams.
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Instead charge money from the beginning.

It will provide useful feedback regarding whether people will pay and if some people will pay, what they will pay for.

You want people who are willing to pay. You don't want people who are unwilling. Requiring payment is basic market segmentation.

Good luck.
I presume they didn't want to pin such a big acquisition on him leaving but I wouldn't be making any bets on him still being with Microsoft in 2023.
And another fairly recent one: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/12/business/visa-plaid-termi...

(Visa + Plaid)
Unrolled for sanity of readers https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1482811504424542211.html

I don't know if I admire more the mastery of science of the author or the willpower necessary to write those posts on such a wrong medium for them. Worse than one twit per paragraph, only MMSes.
> You probably should have savings as well

Absolutely. Personally I try to keep any savings and investments as a 1 way street. I treat it as an untouchable deposit-only fund unless something really bad happens or I make an explicit decision to do something big with it (like retire or temporarily go off the grid for a few years).

To me security is being able to live without taking out those funds during my working years but knowing they exist if I really need them.
Matrilineal descent does make a lot of sense. It is a lot simpler to determine maternity vs paternity.
Or May be the whole woke uprising thing was to drive the market cap down so Microsoft could get a better deal. As usual the media doing the bidding for the big tech.
I'd say that the only one of your listed solutions-in-other-languages that is actually a valid solution is deep argument passing.

And I fail to see why it's a problem. If your FooService depends on a BarService, which depends on a BazService, and BazService needs a database connection, then that means your FooService really does also depend on a database connection. Hiding that information, to me, seems like a mistake. Can you articulate why one would prefer not to have FooService explicitly require that database connection, or am I inadvertently arguing against a straw man? If so, please correct me, because I'm asking sincerely.

Of all the time I spend thinking about my code and writing code, I truly can't say that adding a dependency and having the compiler complain until I fix a bunch of constructors has really caused me that much grief. And I'm not going to pretend that it has never been the case that I've had to fix 20 constructors.
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> What you're modelling has no agency

I see no reason to think that just because something is predictable it is not free. That seems like such a strange constraint to me that I can only assume that we have different understandings of what it means to be free.

If I know someone well, I might predict that when offered a free choice between an ice cream and a brussels sprout they will choose the ice cream. The fact that I was able to predict that with an incredibly high degree of certainty didn't stop them from being free.
Because the federal government doesn't stop them, quite plainly. They fear it would stifle innovation and competition. It's the same reason why egregious white collar crimes rarely get punishments. I wish I was making this up.
You use this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/delegated-events
In addition what everyone else has mentioned, my plan (yet to be implemented) is to slowly organize the photos into albums, e.g. "Family vacation to Hawaii, 1995".

For pics that don't fit neatly into an album theme I'll group them by date, "Family pics 1995-1996" based on their quantity.

Then I'll print photobooks, adding info where possible about location, date, and people. Basically, recreating physical photo albums. I'll print 2-5 copies of each album, depending if I expect to send copies to other family members or not.

Having physically-printed photos works both as a last-ditch backup and as easy access for anyone to browse. I nostalgically remember spending time as a kid flipping through my parent's and grandparent's photo albums - sometimes with them, but many times on my own. I want to ensure my own kids can have the same experience.
Latin-1 is actually the first 256 code points from Unicode. So, you can do that in Rust by casting u8 (the Latin-1 bytes) into char (Unicode scalar values). That's unintuitive perhaps because of course in C that wouldn't do anything useful since the char type isn't Unicode, but in Rust that's exactly what you wanted.

In this environment you might very well not need actual uppercase/ lowercase but only the ASCII subset. Accordingly Rust provides that too, which is far less to carry around than the Unicode case rules. Since the ASCII case change can always be performed in situ (if you can modify the data) Rust provides that too if it's what you want.
Dear Sir,

Hello.

I keenly await your reply.

Yours, etc
Perhaps it was Pro Git's chapter 10: Git Internals(1)? I once used it as a guide when writing a basic 'git inspection' tool and definitely found the whole experience useful for getting a better understanding of Git.

1) https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Po...
pg_hint_plan
Being a good consultant is so incredibly difficult. You have to do the work, but in the other hours you have to do the client management, marketing, accounting, etc. etc.

It's thankless and it's tough. Unless of course you've built a network of well-to-do companies over the years that you could tap into and pay you for various services. Then you can just rely on your network.
Thanks you for sharing - these are interesting ideas.

At the moment we're focused on how we can tie together shared events and memories of your personal story (hence the name) into one place. Currently this is primarily from photos, but as you've suggested there is a lot one can do with how those photos are connected to time, location, each other, and other possible connections. This is what I see missing in most photo backup tools, since they're primarily archival and aren't designed to tie ephemera together into a permanent catalog of your experiences.
Outside of the U.S., there are GPS-based precision approaches. I say GPS-based because they all require SBAS (space-based augmentation systems, like WAAS or EGNOS) rather than being pure GPS systems.

ICAO recognizes SBAS Cat I as a precision approach, and there are dozens of them in Europe (France, Austria at least).
Because of the UK's CMA. the US equivalent does not seem to care about preventing these giant mergers as much.

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/nvidia-slash-arm-merger-inquiry
Ever wondered what modern day propaganda would look like?

This is the kind of stuff that will be in the history books in 2 decades time.
Demand for food and housing doesn't go up with UBI, there are still the same number of people.
Meta’s (Facebook) acquisition of Giphy got blocked by European regulators iirc.
Oh—even better! So yeah, we still use assembly in the places where it’s absolutely performance critical, it’s not inherently anachronistic.
Won't someone please think of the children syndrome.

The real answer is we want to read all of your internet interactions any time we want; the children thing is just a way to convince people that letting the government (and everyone else) to spy on you is ok.
Fair enough. I support E2E encryption but I think people should be allowed to rally for the opposite
He meant he was being lied to by OLPC, not by you.
Cunningham's Law! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...
Sure, I will answer your question!
Yeah, there are many great website builders, no doubt. We’ve started developing BOWWE after hearing a few complaints about other websites and wanted to step in with our solutions.
Primarily, we developed BOWWE with a thought to allow no coders to build their own website (although anybody can use it ;) )
We wanted to make BOWWE super simple with its drag-and-drop interface and professional templates so users can quickly create top-ranking web pages using premade sections and more. You can either build by choosing templates or use a website builder and develop your own. Also, you can edit every element of your site, duplicate single features and entire pages with the copy function, or even write out custom code to get technical if you like. There are tons of animations that you can use across your website, and it gives a very different touch to the whole experience.
Moreover, we have built-in apps and continuous integrations combined with helpful marketing data analytics.
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With the current prices and the lack of availability, the best 2022 server hardware for me will be 2018 server hardware.

The one thing that's relatively new-ish that I'd like to play with is persistent memory. But I'm curious about it for embedded applications where power is not assured. For servers? I don't understand the use case, because datacenters are where we have the most consistent power. Perhaps it'd be more interesting if I ran workloads on large datasets...
It's funny, I was just thinking the other day about a habit that I have when initiating an instant message conversation out of the blue, generally in the context of either work or an acquaintance that I rarely contact.

I find myself typing out the whole message, greeting included. However, as that might look a bit too much like a wall of text on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or the like, I tend to cut the question just before sending the greeting, and paste and send the question (or conversation context) immediately after.

So, my messages will look something like this:

- Mordisquitos is typing -
# Ctrl-X
[20:12] Mordisquitos: Hi ${oldAquaintance}! How's it going?
# Ctrl-V
[20:12] Mordisquitos: Are you in ${homeTown} these days? I'm here till Sunday, so if you're here we could meet if you want!

Or like this:

- Mordisquitos is typing -
# Ctrl-X
[10:03] Mordisquitos: Good morning ${coworkerName}!
# Ctrl-V
[10:03] Mordisquitos: Regarding the issue with cranking the widgets, I had some questions about the timing
- Mordisquitos is typing - # The specifics of the question, may take a while

I think the reason I do it is out of empathy, assuming that other people might feel like I myself do. Be it out of social anxiety or ADHD, I really hate receiving unexpected contextless greetings and being expected to greet back before knowing what the hell you're writing to me about. Neither am I very happy about seeing an unexpected greeting followed by minutes of a "user is typing", during which my mind is already hopelessly hyperfocused on wondering what it will be.

I am well aware though that the time that I'm (perfectionistically) typing my initial message that I will later cut and send, if the user has the application open they may already be seeing the "Mordisquitos is typing" notification before I sent the initial hello, which could be even worse. I think sometimes I've even gone as far as typing out my greeting+message on a text editor beforehand.
You mean like: https://gitless.com
Do people not remember losing their characters/mules after 90 days of inactivity in the original diablo 2?
Totally Agree. Inspiring games like Horizon Zero Dawn just don't come out of Blizzard anymore.
Poe's Law is getting me on your comment. If it wasn't sarcasm, what's an example of a weakness? IMHO, there's a learning curve to using git and especially getting to the point where you can be your team's go-to person for git questions. However, I hold the opinion that of the many technologies out there, git is among those that is worth any investment you can make in learning it. Personally, long term use of git has affected the way I code to bring more intention and organization to what I'm doing.
Java has had method references for almost a decade. Pattern matching also was recently released.
Replying to note I mistakenly left in the `![]u8` return type when it's not returning any byte slice. Should be `!void`.
"Very strange moves that aren’t well thought out at all with a single focus to reduce the power of the people" is a pretty good summary of everything the tory party does.
Just a developer there. So not calling shots on overall architecture. And yes we do not need probably 80% of that crap but not in position to make them see reason.
Apparently his shares are worth about 385 million and his golden parachute is like a maximum of 293 million.

So if Microsoft buys out and fires Kotick, he'd walk away with like 678 million dollars. It's pretty weird that there are people who are happy about this proposition and are not named "Robert Kotick".
the irony of the active SSL certificate on this page.
Hopefully not in CA.

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/discrimination/salary-his...

> California Assembly Bill 168 took effect in October, 2017. This legislation bars employers from asking job applicants about salary history when applying for a position.

I guess asking a reference isn’t quite the same as asking the applicant, but still it’s pretty inappropriate (if not illegal) and I’ve never heard of a past company revealing past compensation information.
Here's what I'd do if I were the king of SA: build a lot of solar (maybe 100 GW, like Mukesh Ambani in India), desalinate lots and lots of water and plant billions of trees. Saudi Arabia has about half a billion acres of desert. If you reforest only 10% of that with about 400 trees per acre (below average density, one tree per each 10'x10' square), you end up with 20 billion trees, or 2% of the global aim of one trillion trees to get us to carbon neutral. If you increase the area you reforest, and the density of the trees, it's not unthinkable you can reach 20% of the goal.

Sure, it's not as glitzy as a 1km tall tower, or a 100km long city, but humanity will appreciate this more.
But they span ten or so different industries with a $2T market cap, and it's full of unhealthy monopolistic synergies. They can wield this power to force deals and push out competitors across their multiple business units.

They can "ask" gaming companies to use Azure if they want to run on Windows or Xbox. They can ignore Mac and PlayStation as platforms. They can bundle software licenses, payment gateways, and design hardware that only works in one ecosystem.

This is the modern monopoly. Good luck competing with it or avoiding their platform fees as you try to grow your revenue. You'll undoubtably wind up feeding your direct competition somehow or another.
> Some European countries already have a plurality of births to migrant groups, I think the figure is better than 20% for Spain and France- so even if fertility euqalizes its a big demographic event considering the timescale.

Spain has 10% people with migration history. It will take a lot of generations for that to change in a major way simply with fertility - and after three or four generations, it's hardly fair to call these people migrants anyway. In the US, a second-generation migrant became the 44th President and a third-generation migrant became the 45th President.
That is not at all the case. I've played over 20 games, full games, on Game Pass.
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Curious if WoW's business model will change after this. The whole monthly game time thing is really outdated.
> It seems crucial, if 100% of unvaccinated have already recovered then what is to be gained by vaccinating now?

Except we know this isn't the case at all lmao

Elsewhere in the thread it's stated in AUS that 50% of COVID admissions are from the 8% unvaccinated population, that's about enough to prove the point here and I don't need to go any further

You're also seeing more and more cases like this crop up - https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/frighten...

Vaccines work. They reduce severity, transmission and the chance of death.

It's on you to prove your point with some actual facts now, instead of more questions missing the point entirely.
While I don't have mechanical heat recovery ventilation, I've been in lots of apartments and houses that do (it's virtually mandatory for new builds here). You won't know it's there unless you're in the room that the device lives in, and even then it's not loud.
I prefer to think that it's a soulspace dynamically mapped onto a physical space at stochastic points designated by a wave function density distribution. So that at any point in time we have zero, one or more random souls influencing our behavior. So it wasn't particularly me, your honor.
After the OOM handler had halted everything the 10:th time, I finally decided to do something (at least the kernel and the TCP/IP stack seem to be very stable, because it still did not crash!)

I set the maximum amount of sockets to 32, the maximum amount of file handles of the DOS kernel to 40, and the maximum amount of file descriptors per one VPU process to 40. Now it should (maybe) be able to do its work without randomly running out of memory.
>>> Disney of Gaming

Yes. I mean the sub-headline is XboxGamePass is now 25M+ subscribers. Logical next step isn't even games: it's convergence.

Curious we don't see similar consolidation in the Japanese market: Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Tecmo, Bandai Namco, From. Even Nintendo. All seem attractive targets, no?
An interesting podcast on the topic:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430...

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430...
Politicians need something meatier than gaming content. I'd expect google or FB under that lens.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978723
Probably keep him until they restructure the Activision Blizzard somewhat. Like Separating Blizzard and studios under Activision if needed.
Well, if they promised.
Another development that's pushing me to indy-only pc gaming. The AAA gaming space has been such a bore for the past 5-10 years.
I have a very similar setup. An old SFF desktop PC running Debian with a USB3 disk attached, though mine is just running ext4. SMB sharing allows easy access to everyone in the house, plus I have Syncthing configured on our phones and the Linux box which we use to automatically sync our phone pictures and videos. Then this box is backed up using Restic to Backblaze B2.

I know there's some holes in my plan (ext4 isn't foolproof, etc.) but it's been an ongoing process.
I didn't say that they were right or wrong to reject natural immunity, I said they are not ignoring natural immunity in terms of their calculus.

FYI The reason we're not going to accept 'natural immunity' as a legit form of documented immunity is because millions of idiots will go and get COVID on purpose , as they'd prefer getting it 'the natural way' as opposed to getting a jab.

This is the difference between 'Science' and 'Public Health Policy'.

I just had an anti-vaxx colleague do exactly that, and it wasn't even for some kind of immune benefit, rather, 'just to get it over with'. I was completely floored when she told me.

But I'm now convinced that my anti-vaxx cousins who are now barred from the liquor stores, would get COVID 'on purpose' if they could get their passport to alcohol and not have to get the 'Goddam Fauci Jab'.