skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with consent is it can easily be pressured. The only people that will consent to being tested on are people that are really desperate. I mean by that logic instead of testing on monkeys, we should test on hungry third world children. They'd surely consent to keep for starving to death. And because it's consensual, we're much more moral than if we tested them on monkeys. What a moral paradise!
I don’t understand this sentiment.

The rating of a player will reflect their strength, regardless of whether they are an unaided human, a full computer, or a human with some heuristic to consult an engine. Whatever the player is doing, their rating will reflect their average strength, and the website matches us to players of similar rating. Whether or not a player is pure human, pure engine, or centaur, we get matched to a player that we have a roughly even chance of beating.

Pure cheaters will quickly skyrocket to the top of the ratings and I will never see them. Hybrid cheaters, who do not have a perfect rating, have a probability of losing because their heuristic to switch to an engine is imperfect, and their rating reflects this imperfection.

Whatever the player is doing, their numeric rating reflects their average strength, and if you have a similar rating you have roughly even chances of beating them.
That's why games like these should have dedicated servers as an option. Why is this acceptable in the cloud era where everyone can spin up their own server for a few bucks?
Letter: NATO should be ready to suspend Turkey’s membership
The current version of perl is 5.36 (it's a really good perl). The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku. The "Perl 7 initiative" referred to in the grandparent is the idea that at some point, the 5.x series (i.e., the language you know as Perl) will accrue enough features and deprecate enough very old behavior that it'll get rebadged as Perl 7.

There's not a timeline for that right now, nor clear consensus on what exactly will be worth a version bump or how much backcompat between 5.x and 7.x there will be going forward. It's being actively discussed, though; the Perl Steering Committee (formed a couple of years ago) meets weekly, and discussion on p5p (the language development mailing list) is still fairly active, though admittedly much less so than in years gone by.
> To play the solo campaign, you will have to set your console into offline mode.

I’d like to think this would be an easy patch to at least let people down easy, but I don’t know much if anything at all in this context.

Why couldn’t they just release an “flick a switch off” update? And why would this be required in the first place?
Individual ants might be smarter than you give them credit for: they've been known to pass the mirror test.

https://www.scinapse.io/papers/2180773430
We are talking about two different things. Your talking about doing something that you think is a mistake, whoever does it, I'm talking about holding yourself to the same standard as everyone else.

I think it's a mistake to each as much junk food as I do. I think it's a mistake when other people do it too. If I look at my S/O eating a cheeseburger and go "geez, you really shouldn't eat that junk", acting as though this isn't something I do myself, and am morally superior, I'm a hypocrite. I've failed to hold myself to the same standard. If on the other hand I go "man, we should really work on our diet, we've been letting it slip" or even "man we've becoming a pair of fat disgusting slobs!", I've held us both to the same standard, presented us both as equally flawed for our mistakes, no hypocrisy (though possibly some assholery), even if my S/O has no desire to reduce their cheeseburger consumption.

Now lets look back at the "no sex before marriage crowd". Despite the fact that most of them have done so (and assuming they are unmarried) intend to continue doing so, they will demand it of everyone else (especially women), and even use some fun derogatory terms (again especially towards women). How many have you met who enter the discussion going "look, I, my partner and my children all do this too, we as a group should all try to do better"? How many use the same derogatory terms when describing themselves, their partners, or their children? Would they agree with you if you used those terms for them, their partners, or their children?

Or do they pretend to be morally superior to the people making the same "mistake" they do?

Hypocrisy.
EA has been routinely shutting down game servers for almost 20 years now. Legal or not, I cannot say.

In any cause, the usual targets seem to be games with annual releases. Apparently, people love buying the same games over and over. While it sucks, this is clearly not on the same level as Blizzard shutting down StarCraft battle-net servers. Lots of people would be rightfully furious.
People already volunteer to participate in clinical trials, and we already have restrictions on how animals can be treated. Loosening the rules on what can be tested on humans (but strengthening the consent rules — for example, in my country, you cannot be paid for participation in a clinical trial) and banning animal testing would not stop progress, it would ensure that progress was made when it was justified enough that people were willing to consent to risks for the progress of humanity.

How many people here on HN would jump aboard the first spaceship to mars in the name of human progress, knowing they’ll probably die on the mission? Why can’t that apply to science on earth? The US doesn’t even have universal healthcare, so we can’t pretend the US has some deep love for protecting its people.
I think it is quite profound since many people seem to fear death because they imagine it is nothingness. But nothingness contains neither things to be feared nor a perceiver to fear them if they did.

On the other hand I highly doubt that nothingness actually exists. Why should we expect the arising of experience to be a one off occurrence ?

If the void exists it has a major bug because experience (ie. non-void) somehow arose from it and every programmer knows that bugs always repeat.
Anatomy of a Product Placement
Not the OP, but I have a few from my workplace:
My favorite example was being reminded to wear sunscreen because it is summer. by our "safety coordinator" at an all hands meeting.
Or the "ladder training", where I was taught to use a ladder. The cause for that is is a "zero accident policy". Which is perceived as a good thing, and how could it not? Accidents are bad. Never mind the absurdity of a zero accident policy. Criticizing a policy like that very quickly puts a "reckless and dangerous" stamp on you, as the only reason accidents do not happen is the policy. The policy leads to reams of paperwork being filled out which creates a need for more administrative personnel and as those people get paid to do that, it is in their best interest that it stays that way. So if you think about lifting that 50 lbs box as a healthy adult in prime physical condition, you better ask your safety coordinator first, because if anyone sees you, you will get a slap on the wrist.
My theory is that at the heart of what I am describing is fear. As long as the company can demonstrate that the employee was instructed to play it safe, they have the upper hand, should it come to a lawsuit.
And I have a hunch that it also has to do with philosophy. Some people believe that the world can be a safe place for everyone. And they will control and subdue to make that a reality. And they are right. Lack of action is safe. What they fail to see is that it leads to stagnation and death.
Does it? I had an 80+ GB practically-day-one-download waiting when I bought Forza Horizon 5 for my XBox. The disc might as well have been a blank.
>It was so drummed into me at university (Religious Studies) to avoid the word that I'm intrigued as to why another academic field would uses it seriously.

Because there would be very little feedback from Religious Studies into other fields on what words are acceptable. There are disagreements on terminology within academia in the same sub-field (I saw this in even programming language research).
So not poor people, but desperate people? That's just a different sort of problematic
I wouldn't worry too much about TikTok's impact on the youth as a population (rather than specific individuals with evidence of actual struggles).

Similar fears were expressed about music corrupting the youth. And TV rotting their brains. And video games turning them into mass murderers.

And yet, even with all the actual addictive poisons generations of youth have imbibed, those youth turned into us and here we are posting on HN.
Phyllotactic Spirals – The Art of John Edmark
https://www.icij.org/investigations/uber-files/about-uber-fi...

Only US media listed is WP. I guess this is because the file is about international (non-US) behavior of Uber and ICIJ might have asked for help in media in each country.

Uber's behavior in the US is well covered by this very popular book [1] and it is authored by an NYT reporter, based on his own reporting on NYT.

I won't argue about NYT's general trends, but it's not very fair to complain NYT not to cover Uber.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Super-Pumped-Battle-Mike-Isaac/dp/039...
There should be a law: if you sell an entertainment experience with significant online elements, and you shut down such elements, you should be forced to opensource the server. Just like that, dump the code wholesale on the internet somewhere.
> She then invited him to a weekend retreat. He said he became suspicious and did not go

great article about that (infiltrating the moonies in san diego)

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1980/may/08/cover-revere...
This will not affect your laptop, all of the models affected by this are enterprise SAS SSDs.

Of course your SSD might have some other firmware bug that would eat your data, all you can do is search for the model number and see if the manufacturer has issued any notices/firmware updates.
Look up the term realpolitik.

The US invaded Grenada and Panama when the regimes there threatened her interests and changed them. Why do you think that is a privilege reserved only for the US?

If you don't want to accept that sanctions imposed on Russia prior to this ware are a form of warfare you can't be helped. That is the thrust of my argument.

Putin understands very well, and simply said F those b*ches I am going in hard!!
We can at least be sure that Energy Vault (traded as NRGV) is a bad investment.

Their original crane tree for concrete blocks was an obvious failure: it would not work in any breeze. It would anyway be able to store only a tiny amount of energy if you (e.g.) put a dome over it.

Their current scam, the hi-rise condo for concrete blocks, could in principle work, between failures. It too could store only a tiny amount of energy, but is also extremely expensive and unreliable. It seems difficult to imagine energy storage way more expensive than batteries, but they succeeded.

I expect NRGV to pivot shortly to a third model that will be harder for any random civil engineer to prove is stupid. Chances are it still won't work, though.

No non-crooked utility will ever buy from NRGV; it is a pure ploy to scam investors. The successful bulk storage solutions will (1) be very cheap, (2) cost mainly for kW in or out, not kWh stored, (3) cheaply expand to store more, if needed, (4) be not necessarily very round-trip efficient.

Storage using liquified ammonia (at room temp. under light pressure) or hydrogen (in underground cavities) will be common despite higher cost because there will be such insatiable demand for both of those. Utilities will overbuild generation capacity just to keep their synthesizers busy.

Cheapest storage will rely on gravity using natural elevation differences, or compressed air relying on earth or water to contain pressure. Undersea methods are attractive for simplicity, relying on depth for pressure, or on buoyancy. Batteries will always be more expensive than what utilities use for bulk storage, but they are the only method usable "off-grid". Those will not use lithium.

Seasonal storage will be rare. Most utilities will import ammonia from numerous competing solar farms in the tropics to burn in their existing combined-cycle turbines when local generation flags.
Have you commented without looking at the link?

> Because this is a matrix multiplication operation fundamentally, the order is O(n^2) or so in terms of scaling. Sooooo yeah, quadratically difficult to calculate as the data per block grows.

It's literally in repo's description -

Reed-Solomon coder computing one million parity
blocks at 1 GB/s. O(N*log(N)) algo employing FFT.

That's what makes FastECC notable. The repo is 5 years old. Obviously, it's going to be more than 1.2 GB/s on a modern hardware.
Thank you. Please, help me understand you better.

Does "levels" mean "depth"? To give the feel how deep in the subject you are?

Don't stacked "parents" give that feel?
If you're looking at it from that perspective, tiktok should be the least of your worries. Currently The U.S. is entirely dependent on this "geopolitical threat" to survive. At least with tiktok its as simple as shutting down the app.

The U.S and China are entangled in ways you cant imagine.
It's not Steam's DRM -- the game relies on a server system hosted by Ubisoft, which is being shut down on September 1st. You'll still technically be able to download and execute the game binary on Steam but it won't connect and won't let you in to actually play.
I lean towards "no" but am not entirely sure.

Honestly, in absentia an answer to the hard problem of consciousness, we can't answer that question.
I read that as early kidnapping techniques lol
I find it quite a bit faster to type ci] or ci) to replace everything inside a pair of [] or () than selecting the same text through other means. There are similar shortcuts for working at the word, block or "rest of the file" levels and it's all consistent across replacing, deleting and copying actions.

> I don’t have to plan ahead how many times to press an arrow

Usually, I'll just do something, e.g., hit dd to delete a line and then even though I could hit "3." to delete three more lines, I'd usually just repeatedly tap . to repeat that dd action. It doesn't really matter if the action is deleting a line or commenting/uncommenting it or changing capitalization or modifying a word in a certain way. The general strategy of doing the action you want and then repeating with . it is very useful.
You have a local storage option https://www.replibyte.com/docs/datastores#local-disk
I would be happier for them to driver for Uber or Lyft than for a taxi company.

I don’t think it’s a career. Just a job. If my kid drove for a ride share while going to school or something that seems fine.
Yeah. It's bizzare and insanely cheap of Ubisoft to not at least patch the game to work single player offline for people that already bought the game.

I'm pretty sure my older Vita cartridge of Liberation will keep on trucking too...
Not even trying to justify it.
You should compare Ukraine to Cuba, not Vietnam. You know, when US almost nuked Cuba and USSR just because Cuba is too close for comfort? Sort of like Ukraine is for Russia?
Maybe with more punctuation there will.
It's a device to identify certain kinds of people who would have a problem with less loaded language without any loss in clarity.
But it literally isn't here. We need live organisms to test drugs, we can't do it all on computer chips and disconnected cells
I'm not a fan of china controlling such a popular app, but at the same time, I don't see how it could be a security risk. I guess in the same way fake news and deceptive political advertising was used on Facebook to elect Trump, for example?

I'm really puzzled by how the US believes in free speech, but when speech comes from another country, it's a security risk. Now I totally get that China can use propaganda for "bad ideologies", but again, isn't propaganda part of free speech?

What this whole thing reveals, is that US likes to influence other countries (with its long history of foreign policy), but is afraid to be influenced by others, so it's a bit hypocritical.

And if it's not hypocritical, it's fair game at worst.
TikTok's format is more successful at micro targeting and influencing people than Facebook. Other future social media networks will probably work in a similar way and be just as concerning. YouTube is another one that's very good at influencing people. I wonder if video is unsafe at any speed, so to speak...

A spooky example of TikTok-the-emergent-system's ability to influence people at scale. This one gave me pause.
https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/06/03/tiktok-tics
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/full-federal-court-con...

Sounds illegal if anyone is based in Australia and feels like giving the ACCC a nudge.

“This case sets an important precedent that overseas-based companies that sell to Australians must abide by our law. All goods come with automatic consumer guarantees that they are of acceptable quality and fit for the purpose for which they were sold, even if the business is based overseas,”
Hm, sounds as ironic as when Amazon was taking away ebook copies of 1984.
Yes, but why are you saying this? Because you think we should allow more of it? Or because you think we have fundamental problems we need to fix? Or some other reason?
He did take some inspiration from AWK, but Perl wasn't meant to be just an AWK replacement. For me, in the time when it first came out it was really handy, as you had access to most of the C stdlib without having to write C. I had a job in the 90's writing software that was a protocol hub of sorts, and Perl was really nice for testing since I could use tcp and udp sockets, interact with serial ports, etc. There wasn't really anything comparable at the time.
Yuzu Progress Report June 2022
> USA centric answer here: In flyover country, in most cities ride share has been life changing for people that would be stuck using overpriced local taxis (in smaller 80K-150K person cities taxi rates are confiscatory and service is often VERY limited) or terrible public transportation.

And if Uber/Lyft had confined themselves to delivering reliable transport at a reasonable price in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, etc. people would be singing their praises.

But they didn't. Because those places weren't just unprofitable but were wildly unprofitable.

Which is stupid because I suspect being a reliable broker between driver and client could still be profitable. Having someone put in "I need to go from A to B at time X." and having a pool of drivers who can go "I'm going to B anyway, so why don't I adjust my time and make some money for doing so." would be a good thing in "flyover" country.

However, it won't be venture capital profitable. And that's really the crux of the problem here.
7. 7! This is by far the one that resonates with me the most. But for some reasons SREs think the opposite is true: the longest it takes to get to prod, the better. What a pain.
Shutting down servers is 1 thing. Breaking the single player game is another.
FTA:

"By combining sentiment data with de-identified calendar and email metadata, we found that those with the best of both worlds had five fewer hours in their workweek span, five fewer collaboration hours, three more focus hours, and 17 fewer employees in their internal network size."
I’ve been taken on much longer rides than necessary in multiple cities. Las Vegas and Chicago are the first that come to mind. It’s also nearly impossible to know how much a taxi ride will cost in advance. The app and “quote” are the game changer with Uber and Lyft. If the Taxi companies (especially in Vegas) would build a similar app and pre-quote my trips, I’d probably still use them, even if they are a little more expensive, because Uber stops are typically much farther away. But Taxi companies don’t seem to want to.
So they save a week of work, but they do it by pushing months of work onto other departments, for a HUGE net loss in productivity.
Wouldn't it be amazing if this actually was a secret. If some huge conspiracy had manipulated maps, satellite photos, roads and so on. Then CNN blew the whole thing wide open. That'd be an article worth reading!
Covid: China's Shanghai says new Omicron subvariant found
Or that the plaintiffs couldn't afford not to settle, more likely than not.
We know ubisoft has been a sidekick of microsoft (in my country they are the same ppl). But removing that big game from PC, very weird: maybe they don't want to maintain technically the game anymore, or go to epic.
This app is incredible, just what I've been looking for!!
Source code is often reused in other products. Corporate studios would balk.
We'd need a way to handle all of the companies who'd say "oops we lost the source".
From [1]:

Weizenbaum was shocked to discover that many users were taking his program seriously and were opening their hearts to it. The experience prompted him to think philosophically about the implications of artificial intelligence and, later, to become a critic of it.

In his 1976 book, "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation," Weizenbaum suggested that it could be both dangerous and immoral to assume computers could eventually take over any role, given enough processing power and the right programming.

"No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms," he wrote.

[1] - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-14-me-weize...
Mort has kids?
> The only way Uber could compete was unprofitably undercutting the local market with a worse service

If it was worse, why were people using it? Maybe people didn’t like, or more likely couldn’t afford, the taxi service you refer to.

> they won’t let you book ahead and if you want to hail at the time they will cancel on you 4 times.

This is exactly what getting a cab was like before Uber in nearly every city in the US. That’s why Uber had no problem disrupting taxis.
I fundamentally agree with your larger point that the map is not the territory when it comes to language.

However:

> Language use in humans is not a function of correlations of word frequencies.

I would argue that this is untrue. For example, people pick up on common expressions (and other behaviors) of those around them. If I hang out with people that say "catch my drift" a lot, I will probably also start using "catch my drift" more. I find it very plausible that "my internal model of language" is in many (but not all) aspects driven by the word correlations I observe around me.

I do wonder about the absoluteness of your statements though. Would a bed-ridden person that has no sense of touch/sight/smell etc. except hearing (i.e. only able to interact with the world via language) be "not human" to you? If not, how is "the environment" different for it and GPT-3 (other than context window)?
related topic - leaving SMART control tests ON for a (non-SSD) drive, apparently interferes with sleep; the drive will wake up to test itself. For some drives, I would prefer that not to happen and just stay quiet. Yet, testing for this behavior seems elusive -- querying the disk wakes it, and most linux disk tools seem unaware of sleep state. I just listen for the disk spinning, or notice a long pause before an operation.
I just use notion as a non infuriating editor. I still keep local notes in plaintext. Google docs is probably fine too if all you need is shared docs.
Just don’t say the confluence word if you want to keep talking to me.
My "moment" came after purchasing Batman Arkham Asylum and being hit with a request to create a Games for Windows Live Account. You could skip the GfWL account creation and I did. Soon thereafter was an update. I updated and found all of my save games were lost. Ohh, you didn't create a GfWL account, too bad you didn't create a GfWL... that's the supported configuration.

I stopped following and playing most AAA games at this point, but I was already getting older anyway. I still play video games, but I'm much more careful about the above such things.