skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a write-up about the subject, as implemented in Riot's Valorant, if you're interested:

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...
tl;dr: 'I didn't want to work with Ruby on Rails and I realized I don't care about ecommerce.'
IMO battery age is still part of the discussion when talking about the shiny new model. If I buy a Series 7, two years from now it's going to be two years old. That seems obvious but people seem to gloss right over it.

When the AirPods first came out there were a lot of reviews saying "Battery life is about 5 hours, this is just barely acceptable but it's not a problem."

And then two years later the same authors were writing articles complaining that their AirPod battery life has gotten unacceptably short as if they'd never owned anything with a non-removable battery before and had no idea it was going to happen.
The police are only allowed to do what the law let's them.

no knock warrants are not the police's fault.

seizure of people's property is not the police's fault

militarization of police is not their fault

the police are literally using all the tools at their disposal that the law allows them to.

Your frustration should be targeted at the politicians who are influenced by lobbyists and have their seats secured by gerrymandering who give the police these powers.

the police are just easy targets for people's frustration
To reply to your colorful edit, on average corporate profits are not much higher (especially factoring in inflation). However, stocks valuations have certainly been on a rampage. This is specifically related to the large amounts of cash people have had on hand - just like more dollars chasing after less juice, people have taken their vacation budgets and stuck them in the stock market, driving up share prices across the board.
> Given the tremendous inflation occurring because of non-universal benefits

The amount of inflation is not especially high, it would've been quite normal back in the 1980s (post Volcker, even). That's why the Fed is slow at addressing it. And of course, the global pandemic had much to do with it.

In the latter part of your comment, you're talking about two versions of the same thing. Calling budget constraints 'MMT' does not change how they work.
> This thread has me depressed.

Certainly was not my aim, and I sympathize. I've said many times I'd never move into game dev because of the workload and sheer work-to-flame ratio, and this thread isn't an exception. Likewise, thank you for providing some light from within the industry, it is appreciated.

I'd sign that NDA in a heartbeat if it didn't anonymize me, but I don't want my name floating around in databases I know nothing about. It's mighty tempting to see how the sausage is made, though.

I will ask this: Does the decision to include such an anti-cheat come from the studio usually, or the publisher?
"Skin in the game" though it might be, these enslaved individuals only became stakeholders by force, and not by choice. I think the analogy to business is still act, but with a bit more of a sinister connotation.
https://archive.is/ARB3c
Gents, congrats on your launch from a friend in NYC! Have loved hearing about this despite understanding way less than you do about the markets, their problems, and your product. Glad to see you charging forward!
Soup maker

Put everything inside, hit play, it will heat, blend, and stop automatically

It is basically a pot with a timer you can use to cook/heat several things, and not worry about forgetting you left something cooking
It's well known that the earth rotates too though.
> But a16z is typically known for breaking out the checkbook for follow-on funding the instant their investments are showing signs of success. What happened here?

I think the problem becomes that because VC is such an insular environment, no VC firm wants to be caught talking about how portfolio company isn't successful. As a result, they'll politely decline to lead follow-on rounds, but still allowing the startup to tout the investment from top tier VC firm as social proof for the next round.
nobody wants people to get things as valuable* as their hard-earned IP without either paying up, or putting in the pain and sweat just like they did.

also, you wouldn't want the Chinese to get this for free either, right?

*potentially valuable

/angry-snark

I just dunno what to do to counteract this tendency I perceive which ends up undoing the public domain in lieu private, trade-able "IP".
Just what my nightmares are made of.
I don't give a flying fuck about sports so I don't care either way.
But did you know the alternative site for the Winter Olympics was Kazakhstan? Yeah they dodged a bullet there- literally.

Nobody in "polite countries" wants these events anymore. Norway or Switzerland don't need more tourists and white elephants. Organising the Olympics hasn't been worth it for a long time.
https://archive.is/TSpfN
My heart had wild palpitations for several days in the midst of having covid and post covid my resting heart rate is ~20bpm higher during the day and ~30 bpm higher during the night.
John Henry would have a word.
The article gives a false impression that those being tracked have the tools to discover that they are being tracked. It lists two ways.

One is that "the AirTag itself begins sounding an alarm after it has been separated from its owner for a time." Which is how they are designed, but not necessarily how they used in practice[1]. AirTag speakers can be disabled, and are resold this way for this use.

The second way is more insidious. It shifts the responsibility to the people being tracked by making the claim "After a period of time, the victim's iPhone would show a notification that an AirTag had been tracking them. If the victim has an Android instead, then there wouldn't be the same on-screen notification." That's not exactly terrible for iPhone users, but offers nothing for the 66% of people[2] who are not iPhone users. It assumes that Apple's manufacture of such devices is inevitable - that nothing can be done to stop it, so everyone else must live with the consequences. Especially people who have already opted out by not purchasing an iPhone. The suggested behavior for these folks? Buy an iPhone to ensure you're not tracked, or what?

1. Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online (gizmodo.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30196371

2. In the US.
epoch converter would be cool
Wouldn't you just show your N most recent W2s to your bank? Why would they care about your comp breakdown?
Once I saw this great documentary called A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. It does a great job of explaining the system and structure, and with colorful characters at that!
>why not "right rotate 2 XOR right rotate 3 XOR right shift 4"

In this case, you generally want shifts that are far apart so bits that far apart have a chance to influence each other. The other operations have only local effects on bits (and, or, xor affect only the same bit position; add affects the same bit position and perhaps a few that follow via carries). Only the shifts/rotates give a chance for "non-local" effects.
Yes, this is the one I meant to link. I can no longer edit my comment, unfortunately.
If 2/3 of users stayed and paid $3 a month Google profits would grow 50% next year.
Agreed! You as a user are the product, you are not the customer. Google is a marketing company. Charge money, and their supply of product drops like a rock.
Not a motorcyclist, but the classic study on motorcycle accidents found that motorists were responsible for 2/3 of crashes[1]. It's clear that there are plenty of reckless riders gunning for a Darwin Award, but overall what makes motorcycles dangerous is not their riders.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_Report
sounds like roundabout way of saying being super stingy with employees so he can live large. pretty much in line with everything else I know about Amazon/Bezos.
On Effective Public Health Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
dry-python has a lot of cool stuff. I encourage people to check it out. Koda has a slightly different approach in that it's meant to be a little simpler than returns, and to work within Python's constraints.
I've never really heard it talked about explicitly so I don't have vocabulary for it but I think playing with this is a fairly common device in fiction. It also fills a similar role as throwing a bunch of languages/writing systems or fiction formats does at you does. I'm thinking of 'always coming home' and 'the last samurai.' Each kind of disorients you at first and obscures parts of the books, but then is rewarding as you learn them and reveal those elements.

Definitely notable when it's tweaked up really high like stephenson likes to do, but I think that's a knob a lot of authors twist to varying degrees.
This. The battery life on my phone, which I typically just leave laying around my desk, just about doubled after I switched providers. I used to have almost no signal with the previous provider, going up to 2-3 bars with the new one. I'm sure the modem was pushing maximum tx power trying to stay associated (and it would typically alternate between minimum signal and no coverage states).

Maybe I should have bought a signal booster for my office instead. I got one for my car because I would consistently drop calls in one spot; with the booster I had 5 bars the whole commute. Before COVID, anyway.
Defund is the opposite of fund. If fund doesn't imply that they had no money at all, defund shouldnt imply removing all their money. If the intention was to get rid of NASA, then the phrase would be "abolish NASA", "dismantle NASA", or some other word that actually has that meaning.
I don't think MetaFilter is a good example. It's insular, but it also turned to the banal opinions of internet gentrification earlier than a lot of places I used to lurk.
In contrast to the satirical lyric by Tom Lehrer, here's an actual quote attributed to von Braun:

“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.“ — Wernher von Braun remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
>Organising the Olympics hasn't been worth it for a long time.

The games are great but the process is not. They need to moved to a fixed site for both winter and summer. Then countries can just take turns each year setting the theme, ceremonies, decorations, etc. and handling the logistics of it.
> In his memo, Ek said the company is committing to “an incremental investment of $100 million” for licensing, development and marketing of music and audio content from historically marginalized groups.

It's astounding that Joe Rogan's contract with Spotify is worth more [0] than what Spotify is willing to "incrementally invest" in content from marginalized groups.

0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-strikes-exclusive-podca...

Edit: What astounded me is that his contract was so huge, I had no idea until I just looked it up.
After a bout of Covid and Moderna vaccines, I am now on a beta blocker, a Ca channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor along with a diuretic. I had never seen such high BP 180/140 in my arms. The virus and the S1 protein messed with my heart.
> We know stars are distributed in various distances, this we know by observation.

How do we know? Establishing the cosmic distance ladder requires far more elaborate tools than the ones discussed here (Special and General Relativity, for instance) and the necessary measurements and observations also presume in one way or another that Earth is rotating. Even if you're only talking about stars in our immediate neighborhood for which a distance measurement merely needs the parallax effect (instead of SR or GR): In this case the parallax effects literally rests on the rotation of Earth and its orbit around the sun.
According to their calendar, it's not released until tomorrow: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
As a counterpoint, last time I did a comparison it looked like LAPD had a drastically smaller budget (both per capita and per square mile) than any large other city. NYPD's budget is well over double per capita.
Spotify knows enough people won't churn to make a huge difference (and honestly, the people who sign up because of this might even balance it out). However, what they can't lose is employees. If they become a place nobody wants to work at, they're actually screwed.

It's weird to see how inevitable the ending feels (to me, as an outsider). I'm 100% confident Joe Rogan will be removed from their platform; it's just a matter of how long it takes for Spotify to realize it's past the point of no return.
This study is about people who got Covid and now have issues, not issues with vaccines.
I don't know where you're getting "every website" from your previous reply and this one, but you can be certain that not every website is throwing cookie popups on their visitors.

The consequences of recent privacy laws is privacy-friendly services being able to compete easier because they're not subsidizing their costs by stalking their users and selling their data. If the government got such good results without even understanding the consequences, they must be very lucky.
> Eventually, I gave up and put it away, because it was such a frustrating experience.

Wasn't there a cheat sheet in the manual for the puzzles? I think I only solved one without copying everything. Way too hard for 11-12yo me.
> It's not. Especially when

The only distinction that matters in what you are arguing is level of education. Again, this is about a very basic command of the written word and at the same the subject here is academic research. Your comment is suggesting a colloquialism as an excuse for poor writing when actually colloquialisms have no business in academic writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism

Like I said before I can also understand why these concepts, even though they are incredibly basic, are so absolutely foreign to a community of software developers that don't frequently write or read academic research.
In my early 20s I contemplated the existence of God. The books "Atheism: The Case Against God", by George H. Smith, and "An Atheist's Values", by Richard Robinson, persuaded me that God does not exist.
Emphasis on the 'some' in some cash. As bloated as the US military is, it 'only' has a budget of $700B and a good portion of this is veterns welfare programs. This should put into perspective how ludicrously expensive UBI truly is
If only they'd use that targeting more efficiently as in "don't send ads to some that has recently purchased".
> Attitude like yours is why many early companies are obligating their investors to prove net-worth.

I didn't express any attitude about the current rules around "accredited investors", I merely expressed what the current status quo appears to be, i.e. the system is largely based on self reporting. Obviously, there are all sorts of problems with that.

For what it's worth, I don't particularly like the current rules around "accredited investors", they seem pretty arbitrary, and at the same time too lax (self reporting) and too restrictive (obviously, these rules give rich people access to a lot of opportunities not available to others).
The document presents an analysis on different COVID-19 suppression measures and proposes a strategy for suppressing the outbreaks in an effective and cost-efficient manner.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we observed that the disease control measures (lockdowns, testing, contact tracing and isolation policies, and mask mandates) were implemented with varying degrees of success. I attempted to bring these measures onto a common thread so as to compare and contrast their effectiveness. This analysis was made in relation to the Pareto principle (“80/20 principle”) and is presented in the latter half of the “Using Exponential and Power Laws” section. This forms the first objective of the work.

As for the second objective: The analysis allowed to put forward a general strategy for managing infectious disease outbreaks. Referred to as the “Blue List Red List strategy around R Hundred”, the approach was inspired by how the neutron multiplication factor in a nuclear reactor is managed by selectively deploying and receding the neutron absorbing control rods. It was argued if we can use a similar mechanism to manage the epidemic trajectories through time-dependent use of impactful disease control measures.

However, the strategy could be a little too impractical and fantastical in its present iteration. If it is being released, it is under the expectation that the work would be taken for further consideration. And, contrary to what I hoped, the analysis too may be inconsequential to the pandemic at this stage, but, nevertheless, it contains key insights that could help shape existing global health response.

NOTE: PDF Copy of the web document is available here —
https://hemachandar.com/covid19/pdf
I've avoided, with care, the statement that PHP is unsafe. I've not even hinted at the statement that it is impossible to write good software in PHP.

PHP is not unsafe. You can write magnificent software in PHP.

But PHP makes the safe often harder than the unsafe. The community even more so. It direct newbies to write crappy software more than that it guides them to learn about architecture, maintenance, patterns. All the stuff the article we're discussing is promoting.

And yes, mtgox could have been hacked even if it was written in pure functions only (well...). What the exact reason is, is unclear. But researchers have pointed out that the sourcecode (leaked by the hackers), contained self-written elliptic curve cryptography, in PHP, which was flawed[1].

Before you comment 'writing your own cryptography is always dumb, has nothing to do with PHP', please note that 1. PHP lacked any libraries for this at that time (it still does?), 2. someone has to write these libs or bindings and 3. in this case it was written, in a language that is -and certainly back then was- unsuited to write such code in.
It was not the language itself. But PHP is more than a language, it is an ecosystem. And that ecosystem has brilliant code and magnificent contributors. But is overwhelmed with crappy wordpress hacks and similar WordPress "developers". As well as, apparently, frequented by people who think it is wise to write their own crypto libraries in PHP for a Bitcoin Exchange.

[1] https://hackingdistributed.com/2014/03/01/what-did-not-happe...
Those are called explicit and not offensive.
Nominally, that is already the case.
Obama went after him hard, and Biden, specifically, ran Snowden to ground in Russia, specifically, as a political gambit to discredit Snowden. Specifically.

They announced exactly how he was going to be captured and tried, and it didn't involve the Constitutional protections afforded citizens. Snowden didn't run because he was afraid of going to court, but because the US intended to disappear him.
I agree.

We are just two random people on the internet discussing things passed.

One never really knows what the action is going to ultimately accomplish, but if the opinion on that particular matter is irrelevant, why is the following opinion relevant:

"Those are books I can do without."?

If the history has ran its course, does it matter?
Trying to get a feel for how much liquidity you need to successfully execute on the complex expressive orders that might tie in multiple securities... Is it common that these types of orders run for many auctions, day, days or more to be fulfilled?
The funny thing about the emergence of HFT is that if you truly only have a hundred or so shares to buy/sell it's quite cheap and easy to do that now. Atomicity and substitutability isn't as important if there's plenty of liquidity relative to the size you're trading.

The harder problem that large traders face is executing blocks and portfolio trades. How do you figure out what your total transaction cost (market impact / cost of liquidity) will be if you're buying 100x the displayed volume? Being able to express where you are flexible (e.g. individual security prices) and aren't flexible (aggregate price, atomicity) helps lock in the uncertainty pre-trade.

So we're actually mostly going after the large scale stuff, more than the small scale.
Ah you're right, removing the "No, no, no" at top of my comment!
It's a business, not a charity. Rogan is enormously popular. Content from marginalized groups is, almost by definition, less so.
Is it? I assume that they are both based on business valuations. Of course, Spotify did not know what they would get with Rogan, and probably would have paid less in retrospect. As it turned out he cost them more than 200 million when all is accounted for.
Another problem is that developers will start pushing for solutions in their current job not because it makes sense but because they know they're going to need those skills in their resume in a year or two. The company is left with a React-sized hole (or k8s, or Vue, or whatever) when the developer moves on that they need to fill ASAP, and the cycle continues.
Hahaha, it is a bit of a catch-22 though isn't it. In debunking a paper like this you have to understand that your are cutting away the foundation that people built their careers on, and you may be fundamentally damaging their academic trajectory. Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, just that being a bit of an asshole probably helps.
Are you working on an FPGA re-implementation? Basically everything with a DX7 chip in it is insanely priced (especially the PLG cards for the Yamaha MU-series, those are >$400), so this would be awesome to have.
And who is the arbiter of what's "explicit" and not "offensive"? You? Me? Twitter? I totally support Spotify exercising its corporate agenda (whatever it may be), but let's not pretend there's some sort of moral high ground here.
> Therefore, the enlargement of the franchise, or at least of those two constituencies, have been detrimental for "capitalist democracy"- insofar it has "rendered" it "into an oxymoron"

This is where my reading and yours differ. You seem to see capitalist democracy being an oxymoron as a value judgment. I see it as saying that these constituencies have historically voted for more socialist style policies. So in this case more democracy equals less capitalism, therefore capitalist democracy is an oxymoron. Now you may see this as "cognitive gymnastics", but that's kind of how I see your reading, so I think that's just our biases at play.

Not sure if you saw me say this elsewhere in the thread, but I'm curious what you think:

> I can believe that my coworker getting a huge bonus/raise means that I am getting less as a result. It doesn't mean I think it shouldn't have happened, or that I'm going to attempt to sabotage them. I can acknowledge something that isn't beneficial for my cause without immediately desiring to end that thing
I think you are missing the point. We know that internet content and advertisement has largely replaced print and that most large tech corporations that profit from this business model lean liberal (Google, Facebook, etc.).

Wouldn't there be a bias on what ads get accepted in general? Especially when Facebook is largely human monitored and Google caters marketing to populous beliefs, with AI augmenting this effect?
The article isn't about the risks of vaccination but of covid infection. The only mention of vaccines is in a section where it discusses controlling for vaccination status and concludes that the risk of myocarditis from infection is present even in the unvaccinated.