skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an absurd case, so glad it would found in Eyeo's favour.

> More dangerous still, any developer who writes code for an offending browser feature could be liable to pay damages

If you take this one step further, any browser vendor would be liable for changes to their product if that change broke a person's site, i.e. deprecation of any features. The mind boggles at how horrific it could've been for the future of the web.
First, many of them aren't cash only. Second, a single enforcement mechanism of the IRS isn't supposed to catch all infractions. The IRS, and other federal and state agencies, have other mechanisms than asking Venmo to report transactions.
Apple will ditch TSMC if someone else offer better node and cheaper price.

there is no loyalty. Apple will ditch you if they can get cheaper price or you are competing with them like Samsung.
Liberal values have been thoroughly rejected in favour of strong authoritarian measures. These policies often completely disregard decades of progressive policies. Lockdowns have definitely hurt nearly every major liberal issue and we don’t have much to show for it.
My mistake, RAID 1.
If all of the teaching materials would be so good... I've encountered first GPS devices back 1997.i remember when my coulegues were explaining them to me. At that time you wouldn't get precise measurements right away. You had to wait for correction factors or something like that. The GPS signal was scrambled at that time.
> They're framing it as a choice between child safety and encryption.

doesn't seem so:

> End-to-end encryption is valuable technology designed to keep our data and conversations safe. We are not opposed to end-to-encryption in principle and fully support the importance of strong user privacy. Instead, our campaign is calling for social media companies to work with us to find a solution that protects privacy, without putting children at even greater risk.

they apparently claim to be looking for a third way.
The problem I had is that the takeouts always failed with "some data could not be exported, please retry" no matter how many times I retried.
> Seeing a bunch of excellent third-party cross-platform games become xbox-exclusive is really sad for gamers

What are you talking about? Microsoft is embracing PC and cross play more than ever.
We need to get past this Christian dogma that we are special.

Aliens that could be watching us would be watching many other worlds.

The narrative though is always that we are special, something big is just about to happen so if the aliens are not watching us then they are stupid.

Most likely in reality there is nothing special going on here. It is all pedestrian and kind of boring to the outside observer.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Much like modern web design, pointless complexity slows down competitors with distractions.
I end up doing both.
My employer sent me an email last November that said upload proof of vaccination or your employment will be terminated. That's what people have a problem with. I'm well aware there are professions like teaching that require vaccination status as part of getting hired but you know that ahead of time.

I'm 45 and can't remember a time when the US government used private industry as a proxy to push their agenda when they knew full well it wouldn't pass through the normal law making process.
Agree. If I were in charge at MS, I might have done this too. I can't blame them.

But I imagine Sony execs are struggling to comprehend what's going on. They've done so much right in the last few years. They've built some of the best studios in the world. They've delivered the best exclusive AAA content. Just in the last few years: The Last of us Part 2, Ghosts of Tsushima, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted.... And despite that, they still might not come out on top. Life isn't fair :).

>> Sony spent 20+ years building up and planning their 1st party studios. Microsoft could do that too, but it would take 20 more years.

Ironically, the Xbox (OG) was released 20 years ago.
Yeah, I don't know many people who are playing bedrock because of the spotty mod support and the weird redstone differences making complicated designs harder for no user-visible reason -- I'm sure the code is nicer.
I used to be a 'tech bro' founder. After coming out transgender, it got harder
Why can’t they migrate to industry standard tools whilst keeping their business in house?
It's a chicken and egg problem. VR tech isn't taking off cause there isn't enough market share to justify having great games for it.

To get that level of market share a company basically needs to subsidize the initial hardware/consoles. I don't think Valve has ever learned that concept and as such they are still selling the hardware at full price. This in contrast to say FB/Microsoft/Sony who actively subsidize their offerings because they understand the benefit of getting people locked in their ecosystem.

I predict a repeat of Steam Machines. (as a Linux user)
I'm sorry you're not enjoying the game.
Why should I be outraged about that?

The US and Caymans are two very competent jurisdictions hosting financial centers. These countries were formed for liquidity and securitization of resources. Other countries did not prioritize those things, or were not co-opted by entrepreneurs seeking those things, and it shows.

I personally think the outrage should come from the compliance burdens necessary, as KYC should just be sold as a data collection that the government wants, instead of as a terrorist financing prevention method that it is incapable of doing. As the latter, the whole regime should be abolished, but as the former its just par for course. Government wants data, so what.
There's a difference though. Tencent doesn't dictate its studios how to conduct business. Microsoft on the other hand made Bethesda leave PlayStation, which negatively impacts their revenue, but plays into the hand of Microsoft.
> I understand that it's insane to talk about that during an interview

That’s the key part, though. Part of being a professional is knowing how and when to appropriately compartmentalize. Keep the video game heroine fetishes at home. If someone can’t keep that stuff to themselves for an interview, there’s no way they’ll be able to keep it to themselves on the job. Hire someone inept enough to discuss this on an interview and you’ve hired your next sexual harassment case.
That's between you and your accountant (and if caught: lawyer). I don't see an issue with the IRS attempting to enforce the law.
Marginal sales taxes would be ideal, but much more difficult to implement.
Adblocking does not constitute copyright infringement, court rules
There are plenty simple low-cost tractors on the market.

However for large-scale agriculture where your tractor is pulling high-end machinery you need something very powerful and sophisticated. JD leads this market, and is a significant player in the mid-range also.
As technically interesting as using a card to sign stuff may be, I don't want that to be the government responsibility, as it then opens the door for it to be used in ways that limit our freedoms: a system that's too perfect can uniquely identify you, in ways that prevent disassociation (ex: the place of birth on the passport is of great interest to some totalitarian places, while only citizenship should matter..)

So for me, the ideal ID system is decentralized, self-declarative, and the weight of the proof depends on the length of history, not on "who" says it's true: there should be many such services where you could declare a name and an address and anything else you wish (phone, email...)

The value after a few weeks would be close to nil, so you could decide to "increase it" by having several people vouch for you (strength in numbers) instead of relying on a "who" (public notary).

Or you could totally decide that you care about your freedom/independence/whatever and NOT ask for any vouching. It may be hard, but after a few years of reliably receiving mail and orders at that address, it would acquire some serious weight - a bit like you tend to trust online accounts that have been open for some year.

Among many other things, this would also allow anyone the opportunity to "change" easily: want a new name/move to a new address/etc: create a revocation certificate for the old, sign it with the new, boom you inherit the credential history!

It's just a quick idea, but it shows how IDs could be more like URLs (multiple competing services, and you could have a few at the same time, why not!) by moving away from the current system that's a direct descendant of the census (give the lord a list of people to tax them) and the passport (limit freedom of movement during the war)

At the core, I believe people should be in control of their identity, not governments or states.
MS HAS owned and operated game studios for 20 years. This acquisition doesn't fundamentally change how MS approaches game development.
Ecosia and eyeo, more than just alliteration
I made this point in another comment thread, but I think MS would make a competitor to Unreal/Unity instead. Think of all the game engine talent they now have. The IW engine for CoD, Halo’s slipspace, WoW. They could readily assemble a team to build an engine on par with Unreal.
Except they weren't -- until Nintendo came along with their 10NES lockout chip.

Actually Texas Instruments had a go at it with their beige TI-99/4A, but by the time that came out most of the TI-99/4As that would ever be sold were already sold, without the lockout. But it was the NES that turned the locked box into a business model.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread-the rich as well as the poor."
>>Zoning forces a very specific type of housing in most of the city (single family house with large lot size, garage, driveway and backyard), even for those who would be okay with or prefer something else.

Are you conflating city and suburbs here? While this is obviously dependent on each city/town which has their own zoning rules, most of the locales with which I'm familiar have quite the dense-pack throughout the city, and the suburbs are out in separate towns.

>>However, in most cities suburbs are revenue negative.
Again, if the suburbs are separate towns, I don't see how this affects the city budget. If the suburbs are within the city and on the same budget, I'd look at the balance of costs and revenue, and if a particular zoning district is substantially more costly, i.e., being subsidized, then it seems a rate adjustment for that zoning type would be in order...

As it is, for where I live, the town is essentially all rural/residential, with 2-acre minimums (some exceptions), 35mi from the major city, and I can say that yes, we REALLY do pay for those associated things - one of the highest tax rates in the state, and increased ~50% since moving in 15 years ago. Yes, we occasionally grumble, but I am much more happy to pay for the zoning rules that maintain an healthy ecosystem where I can see over a dozen types of birds out the window at breakfast and many other healthy populations, than I'd be even slightly interested to see densepack developments reducing my rates (I can find densepack & lower rates elsewhere, and if I wanted it, I'd have gone there)
> So as a phone it works great?

So far for me it has yeah. I really don't know enough about how well it works outside of the US (but many of the devs seem to be in Europe, so I imagine it works well there?) For me the biggest thing that hurts is battery life, but normally I am in areas where I can just plug it in, so it isn't a big issue. If I am out and about for a day, I just carry around a battery pack (or a spare battery).

> I wonder if they can’t use a raspberry pi like base, since in the Pi3-4 loading Firefox is quicker by a margin.

You could probably get an EG-25 USB modem and play around with it, but AFAIK no one is doing that, so you'd be largely on your own.
But only few can afford to skillfully navigate them for their own profit.
This is the kind of question that should be the top comment on HN. I'm surprised to see so much jumping on the bandwagon for an obviously exaggerated claim. note: I am not defending what blizzard is doing.
It's not magic but it can block a deal.
As a fellow longtime Blizzard fan and someone who retired from gaming (in part due to being too old for this shit),

Don't get your hopes up :)
I do not either. I was pointing out that, functionally, no one intentionally chooses to pay more tax than they have to. Hence the uselessness of bringing up tax avoidance. Amazon spending all of their revenue to expand the business and hence not owing any tax is tax avoidance, and people contributing to tax advantaged retirement/health/education accounts and deductible charitable expenses is tax avoidance all the same.
I think some of the advantage comes from synergies of having microarchitecture development and process development under one roof. You can fine tune them together to get the best performance/power ratio. Even if both alone are just on par with the competition, together they are still ahead by a few iterations. Also they get out new products a bit faster.

The problem is that by switching to another fab they lose these advantages.
> However, we do know from Quantum Mechanics that the universe is probabilistic and not deterministic:

This is not true, and there are consistent interpretations of QM that are fully deterministic (many worlds, superdeterminism, pilot wave).

Still, probabilistic vs deterministic makes no difference. There is no free will in a throw of the dice, and no free will in the wave function collapse.

On the other hand, the main philosophical position on this is compatibilism: free will in a fully deterministic universe (or probabilistic one). If you think of yourself as the sum total of all your experiences and genetics, your next action is of course determined by these; but, another agent in your shoes, one with different experiences and genetics, would make a different choice. So in this framework, your choice, even though uniquely determined by everything that happened before, and theoretically predictable 1000 years in advance, is still meaningfully "your choice".

In fact, random chance hurts this definition, and weakens the case for compatibilism; if your next action is entirely dependent on some random quantum fluctuation, and running the experiment with your exact same experience and genetics but a different random quantum event at this exact time would produce 1000 entirely different actions on your part, then it is very hard to imagine any kind of free will. So, free will actually depends on some amount of determinism. Even the type of determinism in Many Worlds would not solve this - since in that interpretation, all possible outcomes of the quantum event actually happen, so all your "choices" that depend on the random event are fully real. So, if each of the fully real copies of you, with the exact same experiences and genetics, does a wildly different thing, then it's pretty clear there is no meaningful free will in any possible sense.
Would it be ok to send your young men to die in a war that you have hope of winning?
Creating good software visualization tools is damned difficult, that's why most platform developers don't even try to do it. Most programming tools limit themselves to text parsing and tree-building, because tree structures are the simplest to build and layout programmatically.()

There is also a certain scorn for visual languages, because there are hardly any good general purpose languages and there are few developers specializing in the areas where specific ones are most useful. So visualization tools are often confused with them and derided for it.

However, when a good visual tool for programming it is universally adopted, and like what happens with the AI paradox, no longer considered a visual tool (see syntax highlighting, "intellisense" autocomplete, inspect expressions at debugging, file minimaps and function trees...)

() There are some excellent visual tools for software inspection, but they tend to be proprietary and/or tied to a single language or having their own IDE (e.g. see Sourcetrail), so they can't be easily generalized or integrated with other standard development tools, so they get limited usage.

https://www.sourcetrail.com/
There shouldn't be any problems when using the total order from the standard as it defines -0 < 0 to be true.

I don't see how there's a problem with a range containing NaN. It's no weirder than a range containing infinity.
Keep doing what you are doing. Also, from now on, at the end of each year, look through all your photos for that year, choose about 100, print them, and delete the rest.
> if you genuinely believe the notion that we have free will is nonsense (and I do), then the logical extension is to be very uncomfortable with the notion of e.g. prison used for vengeance or anything at all other than to the bare minimal extent required to protect others

Not really. You can view it as a game theoretic situation. Will the use of prison likely produce a good outcome or a bad outcome? Whether or not the criminal was deterministically required to commit the crime, the structure of punishments will (perhaps deterministically) affect the incidents and severity of future crimes.

Just because the creature in Black and White may have made decisions deterministically doesn't mean I won't punish it if it behaves in an inappropriate way. If anything, believing the agents are deterministic would make me even more keen to punish in situations where it will change behaviour usefully.
Only if the neighbor kid earned more than the minimum filing requirements. For the IRS that's generally >$12k per year unless the kid is married but filing separately.
Personal feelings are not, or should not be protected in law. There is no right protecting someone from things they personally find offensive.
>as another commenter stated, there's a good argument against all of these words too.

As far as I can tell, the other commenter was actually making the opposite point (reducto ad absurdum).
There were other PC alternatives, like DESQView (386 multitasker) or OS/2, but most PC sysops didn't seem to go that route for whatever reason.
>> wait until you learn that you need permits to protest and drive.

> Name a single place in US where you need a permit to buy a car or drive it on private property

Even if you don't need a permit to back your car down your driveway (after someone with a permit has brought it to your home), you still need one to drive it anywhere anyone would actually want to go. So you effectively need a permit to drive.
Radar altimeters are inherently wideband devices, designed without any historical need for front-end rejection and the specifications for them reflect that - the RF "testing mask" that's used isn't a sharp rolloff at the edge of the RA allocation. Typical implementations are, for example, only 20 dB down for frequency-dependent rejection by 3.5 GHz.

With potentially high gains from beamforming, both the fundamental mode and spurious emissions from 5G radios exceed the safe interference limits for the current RA specifications by at least 10 dB.
I had a boss who said, "a manager is someone who tells you the time with your own watch."

> That was a very tricky situation as the management didn't trust their team at all

I think this is usually the root issue: management doesn't trust the team, and the team thinks management is out to get them.
By all means, question the tradeoff. But unless you're in a position to decide policy I'm not sure what good it will do.

> Indeed, DRM historically isn't noted for actually boosting revenue.

By this are you referring to comments on sites like HN, by people who aren't in a position to know whether DRM is beneficial for the implementor? If you are I'd just encourage you to interrogate your sources a bit. It's entirely possible that game devs have been in the grips of a collective delusion for the last twenty-plus years that DRM is often profitable. But I would say that to me that doesn't seem to be the most likely explanation for why they keep using it.

> It may also be worth considering ...

Worth considering, perhaps. But, ultimately, not an idea that is all that compelling to me, and even less so (apparently) for the economic stakeholders in game development.
I agree. They worded that poorly, conflating mobile gaming and cloud gaming on mobile.
I mean.. you’re advocating for people to not pay their taxes. A million small Etsy shops is a ton of money. Shouldn’t state and federal taxes apply?
From a code/business standpoint this absolutely makes things easier to report on personal transactions.

My point was the thing stopping Venmo from reporting on your personal transactions is not technical. As soon as the government tells them they need to report, they will comply.

Your second point is possible, but I don't see how this move really gets us closer to that, other than providing data that could be used to make the argument.

How is this different than the transition to requiring online transactions to charge sales tax?
Carriers are not currently using the spectrum that they gained in Auction 107, because of the issues that this article mentions. Their agreement with the FAA has given Verizon and AT&T the go-ahead to begin operations on this spectrum tomorrow (outside of existing FCC-approved test sites, which have been operating for months).

Which spectrum are you referring to that carriers have purchased and not deployed, if not 3.7–3.9 GHz?
Im not an expert in game development nor really a gamer but this still seems like a poor argument

> Doom cost $30 in 1993 ($60 today)

Again not my area. So these are observations:

> there is a way bigger market than 1993

> there are different business models now

> gaming engines are widely developed

> software tooling has vastly improved

Sure things like server/infrastructure cost now must be accounted for. I just dont think its that fair of a comparison. Doom was a packaged AAA title for $60. You can definitely produce a game for that price today and effectively the price is like $100 after online and dlc and all this other junk.
But that's not really any more specific (imagine this same article where "is not compliant with Google Play Policies" is replaced with "was flagged as spamming/malware," not much changes) plus for any false positive it's likely to make any developer even more angry ("you thought my app was malware?!").
He offloaded the complexity to its users! :-)

If the command and option names had just been sensible, it would be a lot easier to learn and use. Half the usability difficulty, maybe more, is just this.
Exactly. They're going for quantity to ensure even if a bunch of stuff fails, they'll get a few hits. Sometimes all you need is a few hits.
The law also prevents insider trading and other activities which realistically only the rich engage in.
You could have voted for Jo Jorgensen. Sure she had no chance of winning, but protest votes for third-party candidates help build momentum for the long term. Be the change you want to see in the world.

https://ballotpedia.org/Jo_Jorgensen_presidential_campaign,_...
well, volcanologist Robert Landsburg was killed studying Mt St Helens

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/last-moments-bef...
> while the mega corps get away with billions.

The difference here is that megacorps use legal loopholes (and pay accountants and lawyers plenty of money to find those loopholes and make sure they are allowed) to avoid paying tax while the single mother probably thinks she can get away with not doing it while she may be obligated to

You can't go after companies for follwing the law, you'd have to change the law first.. which I don't see happening personally

Edit: Don't get me wrong - I'm all for making things easier for small businesses to enable them to grow
Thank you. I'm also looking for a tool which will find when one file contains a scaled image in another file, or is a crop of another.