skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wondered how generative ML models can be used for creating big worlds like the one in GTA. Like every tree can be unique using a generative model. Has there been any development in this area?
And nothing makes civil asset forfeiture easier than keeping your money in a domestic bank that the government knows exactly how much, where, and how to seize at any moment. Asset forfeiture is literally the worst argument for the banking system and debit cards over cash.
No, the vaccines were very effective at preventing any infection, both symptomatic and asymptomatic. There were studies done by giving the participants regular covid tests, usually once a week, so they would catch asympomatic cases as well.

Here are the conclusions from a meta-study from July 2021:

> In fully vaccinated individuals, VE against symptomatic and asymptomatic infections was 80–90% in nearly all studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8284046/
Pretty good for a game that's free to play.
Thank you! Yes, that was my suspicion as well.
it’s been 9 years since gta 5, a game which generated $6 billion in revenue for take two.

i “played” the recent matrix awakens unreal 5 tech demo and boy i really miss just driving in a huge open city.

hopefully this announcement means the new gta is not too far off so that marketing can start at some point soon (and then last for another one-two years).
You can, just go for a camp once in a while
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IGN’s title is somewhat misleading. Rockstar’s message doesn’t explicitly say GTA 6 anywhere.
I cited one campaign that very clearly answers the question posed. It was not incumbent on me to go through all of their campaigns and conferences and earnings calls and whatever else. Although, this campaign was hardly the first time Apple suggested their mobile devices could replace a computer.

> plus a computer is not by definition a general purpose device.

What are we even talking about then? It's not like this campaign was suggesting the iPad would be a fantastic purpose-specific replacement of my TI-89 or my web cam. What, based on the context of this discussion, are we supposed to understand "general purpose device" to mean if not the colloquial definition of a computer?
Well, maybe app binary sizes are an objective metric. Apple could even raise the existing cap and give Uber a bit more room to breathe, while charging them for the inevitable expansion of their app.
I remember that when I was attending primary school in Central Europe, a stop at McDonald's was the most anticipated moment of every school trip. That was 25+ years ago though, and we were kids...
When people say trustworthy software installation is a “solved problem” on desktop, do you think they are referring to parental controls?
Others insist they see value in it personally, but that doesn’t stop you from calling it “textbook pointlessness”.

It’s not a strawman, it’s your actual viewpoint. You just don’t like it being out in the open.
High pressure sodium is very common and still available. Low pressure sodium is extinct. The last LPS lamp was made in 2018 I believe.

It's a shame, because LPS was the gold standard for astronomy as the hyperspecific emission spectrum made it extremely easy to filter out for astrophotographers and telescope users
Almost certainly not, Rockstar has their own engine.
It would be interesting to see the reaction if consoles had to be open to other store (my opinion is that they shouldn't since their are not general purpose devices per se). When the Epic Game Store appeared, the pc gaming community was up in arms against it because it was a Steam rival (sort of a tribal reaction) but were complaining against the NVIDEA GPU monopoly
I think you are misinterpreting what I am saying. I was actually on your side. I'm saying the state works to take what you have and if they want it they will take it. I'm agreeing that they use banks, etc. to keep track of you and tax / seize what they want.

" I'm not much interested in being baited (whether intentionally or not) into answering this kind of legally precarious question about it being MY fault that I 'made' someone hurt me." Really not trying to bait you here at all. Seems like we have a communication issue, maybe my fault. all the best.
I mean we're geographically dispersed. But if you had to pick our capital, it would be silicon valley, surely.

(Living in a village in rural NZ here)
Yes, that is exactly what the “personal carbon footprint” propaganda wants you to believe. Majority of the planet is close to living in poverty, majority don’t have the luxury to go for the more expensive option because of their love of the environment.
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Last quarter results say they didn't.
On the contrary, many people do want an echo chamber. I find the key to enjoying my Twitter experience is to differentiate between the threads where people do want a discussion and the ones where they only want to signal how much they agree with each other. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes not.
It's not just about how well they are doing, it's about how well they are doing compared to how well they were expected to be doing. If a bunch of people bought Facebook stock last year based on expectations that revenue would go up 45% year over year, then they probably over-valued the stock.
> you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments.

Any sources? Last data I saw showed VC investment in SV eclipses anything around Europe or Asia. There's just a lot more money, especially money with a serious risk appetite, in the US, than elsewhere.
What strikes me, this was done in early 2021, yet the propaganda machine is still going strong with that whole persistent cough and fever thing... It's like there are entire establishments trying to guard information from normal people for some reason.

Case in point: I have just moved out of the UK last week, and to my surprise, Google is slowly starting to return better and better search results. I (suspected) I had two flareups of herpeses after both my pfizer vaccines when I was there, so I searched then on Google, zero, whole result pages filled with nhs links and other websites with copy-pasted content from nhs and the likes (90% telling me to go see a doctor...). I was going crazy, joking with friends that the vaccine might not be what they're telling us it is, given the wide range of 'undocumented' side effects I got from it.

Now that I'm searching from Moldova, actual first result was a paper documenting two doctors with herpes zoster after vaccination. Apparently it does happen, from both the vaccine and the infection. Guess I'm not crazy.
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A tumour can be a lot smaller than 1cm and cause issues. A pituitary microadenoma is an example, and this machine would struggle to show it.

That said, I’d like a go. I suspect that with more samples (more time) you could get the resolution up.
Please, please, please let it have native VR support. Please Rockstar.
This is the actual paper the article is based on if you want to read more than the token few sentences Nature doesn't put behind a paywall:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707
Also keen to know this!
64%+ of the entire diverse population of the USA got at least one shot of, from a layman's perspective, some kind of new experimental wonder drug. In under a year. That is an example of effective persuasion.
My guess is it's a mobile vs monitor thing.

It looks totally fine on a monitor, but because of the narrow width on cell phone displays, a paragraph can extend beyond the display's height, and it psychologically has an impact on people.
It did that for one year, though it’s total accumulated is probably still easily over 6 billion.
Blue light is generally bad circadian rhythms (animals and humans):

* https://www.darksky.org/why-is-blue-light-at-night-bad/

Another study on crime and streetlights:

> A 2015 study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found that streetlights don’t prevent accidents or crime, but do cost a lot of money. The researchers looked at data on road traffic collisions and crime in 62 local authorities in England and Wales and found that lighting had no effect, whether authorities had turned them off completely, dimmed them, turned them off at certain hours, or substituted low-power LED lamps.

* https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-s...
It doesn’t say gt6 confirmed. It says there’s another GTA game in the works, it could be gta /San Andreas VR for oculus which is already confirmed.

That being said it’s probably GTA6. I’m hyped.

I’m surprised they don’t make an MMO or free to play game already. Don’t those make more money?
Back in 2013 I'd have laughed if someone said we won't get another GTA game in the decade. But GTA Online makes a fuckton of money so I guess they want to tap it as long as they can. And the fact that 5 never get a single player story DLC after all these years is a huge shame...

On the other hand Rockstar is incredibly hostile towards modders and what they did with the "remasters" is a joke. So I'll just torrent it, and maybe buy it if they show any change of heart.
Make them program stuff in Scratch and Roblox?
> This seems exactly backwards to me. The visceral sensation of pain exists precisely in order to bypass your conscious decision-making.

That quote is not about conscious decision making, it's about how the experience of pain motivates action that is adaptive to survival. If pain didn't feel like anything, but was instead just some light bulb that went off in your head, your ancestors could easily ignore it to their evolutionary detriment.

Therefore it makes sense that pain feels like something you want to avoid so it's not something you can just ignore without considerable effort.
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I read this as the manager being lazy because they were giving in to the unwritten pressure from their manager to force attrition (less work) rather than trying to help their team members by protecting them (more work).
Quotations needed please. You are not 20 years in an industry without making a buck
Before this change, Facebook could still track you in non-Facebook apps that use their software. Even if you are not a Facebook user.
why not exactly? As long as consumers are getting good devices and good competition (which they are), then what's the problem? It's not like the door is closed to innovation here, if any company can disrupt the smartphone market then the takings are all theirs. This is literally what Apple did with the original iPhone. Have you heard of Blackberry recently? I don't see that the incumbents are preventing this in any meaningful way, in the same way that RIM wasn't. Furthermore there are way more than two players in the smartphone game.
I don't know about Canadian immigration, but legal immigration in the USA is a game of frustration with few guarantees. I have a friend who was here on a Visa and took a vacation home only to find that US immigration wouldn't let him back in. Canada pays way worse, but maybe their immigration system is a little less dysfunctional?
layman, but I believe it's the "size" (defined by the wave function) that makes a particle a proton. at least, one of the factors that does, anyway
That's also missing the point somewhat. Put the best two programmers in the world in a shitty system that rewards them for the wrong things and they will produce garbage. Put mediocre programmers in a fantastic system that brings out the best in their collaboration and you might actually get to market sooner and better than the other group.
i don’t get why you are forced to do this.

the app for my phone network just opens a webview where i pay for stuff. then i close the webview and the funds just show up in the app. do they also pay 30% to apple?
I cannot guess what point you are trying to make here, but I do know that 'location' is not a synonym for 'perspective'.

If you are going to ask questions, you should at least be able to justify their relevance, if asked.
Well remember we did get red dead redemption 2 a few years back and that one was a banger
The transaction costs problem is when you have 100,000 ships and 100,000 customers and it becomes ten billion individual relationships.

You do solve this with things like Uber, but such things don't themselves have to be a monopoly, because you don't have to make it 100,000:1, you can make it 100,000:20 and have twenty competing marketplaces but still not an explosively large number of separate relationships.

This works even better with federated marketplaces. There are a lot of problems with the international banking system, but the general idea that someone in New York can make a wire transfer to someone in London even though they each use a different bank is based on protocols rather than a single centralized world monopoly bank, and in that respect is better than the more centralized alternative.
Google Talk! It was XMPP but no one knew or cared and it was fast and simple and built into Gmail so all your cool artist friends could talk together and all the chats were saved to your Gmail inbox so you could reminisce even years later on the abundance of young wide-eyed youth.
This article is pretty accurate: https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-mcgah-quit-amazon-op...
Snips, snails, and gold-pressed latinum.

Or possibly strings. If that’s not true, the best answer is the tautology: quarks are made of quarks.
Desktop Safari supports notifications, it’s only mobile Safari that lacks them.
...and this whole saga, lest we forget (and relevant to the HN crowd), was instrumental in giving rise to the unix wars of the 90s, due to the AT&T copyright dispute with University of California Berkeley. (The relevant point here being not the copyright dispute itself, but the fact that AT&T was not allowed to sell the UNIX system for profit, this being one of the conditions of being allowed to operate as a telephone company.)
https://hiup.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Addendum_QGHM_2....
Yeah I do think that it's pretty implied heavily that it is indeed a 'mainline' entry in the series
I was at Amazon for almost 10 years and my experiences echo yours. The few people that I saw PIPed were people who were under-performing. I never saw people who were performing their job be forced into a PIP category.
GTAV with mods is probably the benchmark for games that are difficult to differentiate from reality.

I hope they don't make the same fractured-platform launch that they did on V, and fully bake the online play before releasing it.
So I'm watching a video of this right now[0], and it's even more enlightening than I figured it would be! Deming makes comments throughout the demonstration that I swear I've heard in the real world. For example, one worker—whose previous results put him on probation (he had 12 red beads)—managed to have only 6 the next day. "Looks like probation worked".

Meanwhile another worker—previously scoring 5, and getting a merit-based raise from it—did poorly with 12. The remark: "That raise went to his head. He's getting lazy".

So yeah, the value of this is in the actual doing of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXu0qxtWPg
Do people go out of the way to buy conflict diamonds? or is it more people try to buy cheap diamonds?

Even if you don't go looking for cheap diamonds, how can you be sure your diamond is conflict free?

>"Nearly nine years after the Kimberley Process was launched, the sad truth is that most consumers still cannot be sure where their diamonds come from", Global Witness founding director Charmian Gooch told BBC World Service's World Business Report.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-16027011

For fungible goods, you can not guarantee where and what made the product you are using. That is why we (try) to have systems in place to do so.
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There's no competition, which competition exactly? The only tariff change Apple ever done in 10 years was due ... to a threat of an anti-trust lawsuit, you can't make this up. Even Apple basically admits indirectly the lack of competition. You only have two companies, with very similar rules and behaviour, there's no market anymore.

Don't get my comment wrong, I'd say the exact same thing about Google. It's a duopoly without any competition whatsoever.

> if any company can disrupt the smartphone market then the takings are all theirs

I don't think that's possible, even Microsoft failed at it with their massive funding.
Google's brand protection racket [1] and manipulation of ad exchanges [2] has resulted in lost economic activity. Apple's crippling of the iOS ecosystem [3] has resulted in lost economic activity. Breaking them up should raise overall economic activity, nationally and globally, along with actually increasing the value of the Baby Googs and Apple Seeds, as previously with Standard Oil and, until allowed to reassemble in '96 [4], AT&T.

I would think that index funds vs. individual stocks would translate to investors caring less about particular firms and more about economic activity and the resulting increases in asset values.

Pressured out of office? Most U.S. politicians have now spoken out against Big Tech, the Department of Justice and several states have active antitrust suits, a House report concluded that Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google have monopoly power and should be split up [5], etc.

1. https://altitudemarketing.com/blog/competitors-buying-my-nam...

2. https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-ad-market-lawsu...

3. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996...

5. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-fac...
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I always wondered: why is Apple allowing WeChat to exist? Their mini apps seem in direct competition with the app store. Is this a China political thing? Are they worried about losing all access to the market there? It seems clear Apple is not applying their own rules consistently. If that's the case, wouldn't there also be anti-trust implications here?
So what? It’s an option. If more people take it, it will get better. Stadia is literally a web app on iOS, for example.
From the way you worded this, I was expecting them to use the chair and sleigh as propellers. What's special about OP is that the propeller design is unusual, proving that Leonardo wasn't that far off when he came up with the idea.
I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.
I did recently see some short snippet of a "GTAV photorealism" mod that looked mightily impressive.

Could anyone into the scene link a "state of the art" example?
Which is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30208963 is pretty on the money here. Patch this behaviour, and fix the extremely low number of offending applications concurrently.
I could see Bluetooth support maybe making sense for PWAs the user has explicitly chosen to add to their Home Screen, but I really don’t want to see random sites I’m visiting prompt for access.
> What I find fascinating about consciousness is that it seems to be bound to your location. But how and why? Why are you inside of your body and not in someone elses?

This seems no more puzzling or interesting than asking why your web browser is running on your computer rather than mine. Of course the computation must be contained within the computational system that's running it.
This has been a thing for a long time, just not with generative ML models - most solutions use rule-based procedural generation. A large fraction of trees in games have been generated this way since the mid 2000s - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedTree
The questions now is where are people from that wouldn't answer this? I'm sure the lurker factor is different per location.
It seems abundantly clear that programs are allowed to pass an empty list as argv to execve, although these programs might not be POSIX-compliant. As for the "main" function, argc is only guaranteed to be nonnegative. A well-written program therefore cannot assume that argc is not zero. Additionally, there is no guarantee that a POSIX-compliant program will be called by another POSIX-compliant program.

So it looks like pkexec made the mistake here by not carefully adhering to the standard. One can argue that argc==0 is a bad idea, and it is. But it's technically legal, and changing this would break userspace programs.

1. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/e...

2. https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.start.main
like them or not, analogies are one of the pillars of the American legal system. Being able to reason about them and create them (usually with motivated reasoning) is a highly valuable skill.

For those unaware, in a legal case where there is no precedant (something us technologists encounter often), you make the case that what you are doing is just like what X had done, and should be treated in kind.
"Free to play" == FOMO on skins. I wish games went back to a $60 one-time purchase with maybe a DLC bundle if it's successful, like Dark Souls or Skyrim.