skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC all the character artists used one tool, 3D Studio Max, and all the background artists used Maya or maybe the other way around. I just remember the cutscenes were delegated to Blizzard South or the main studio in Irvine (they did them in house), and the guy who was like the story evangelist down there was so enthusiastic (he came up to our studio for a couple of meetings) about things that had little connection to the game play but was critical to the story he was telling in the cinematics, I remember looking at the quest list and comparing it to the plot of the cinematics and not seeing a lot of similarities but it's been 20 years so I may be getting some things wrong here. My memory is in early views we got of the cinematics there were also creatures that had no resemblance to any we had in game but that's what the guy in charge of cinematics wanted.
Cognitive Performance Methods
Weird popsci analogy.

Travel to the nearest star takes a very long time. Michael Jordan can train for thousands of years and will never leave atmosphere with his jump.
Literally all moons in the solar system are tidally locked, 1:1, to their parent body. That is the norm for tidal locking.

Mercury, lacking ocean or even atmosphere, and mostly frozen solid, is accorded leeway a putatively-habitable planet does not get.

Word games are tiresome. Mercury's 2:3 spin-orbit resonant "lock" is interesting but off topic.
Breaking the Threema Secure Messenger
Had similar awful experiences with Santander and ISPs in Madrid :(
The Canadian government gives grants to telecoms to install fibre. And I think there is some relation to signing up end users too but I can't recall.
Microsoft announces new supercomputer, lays out vision for future AI work (2020)
You have to mentally split the "rules" defined by what I call the financial "economy" (which is rooted purely in belief), and the real economy, which is vastly more complex. Something related would be what a company focuses on: Profit/money and using what they are doing as a means to accomplish that, or having a company to actually accomplish a goal and that goal, the idea comes first. Latter opens up the possibility, given that the financial means are there, to even make losses now and then, because you want to invest (more heavily) in change for one reason or another.

Thing is, this "growth before everything else" mantra comes from the financial "economy". If you apply this to real economy, you are in for a surprise, because there are limits everywhere. Such limits don't really exist in the financial "economy". But in return it also means you can operate in the real economy for long periods without growth.

Why "economy"? Economy exists because humans split their time to do all the things to fulfill their needs, you know, survival (food, shelter, ...) etc. Without that you wouldn't have any economy (as in trading goods) to write home about. Note that I wrote "humans split their time"; if you automate all that the need to split their time is rendered pointless, which also drives this economy into the ground, i.e. it is not needed to that extent anymore.

That is different with the financial "economy". The main goal there is money, and the value of that is rooted in belief. Which renders everything else on top of that also belief/speculation. But because of that it can also grow endlessly. The problem with it: It doesn't put food on the table (nor does it provide a new table should it need replacement). This also means all the rules in that space are only valid in there, and may very well not work at all outside of it.
I think the article in question actually is for older BIOSes that don't have flashback or similar.
Instead this relies on the "BIOS Boot Block" still being intact in the flash, so you do need a partially working BIOS flash, CPU and memory for this method.
From the page source :)

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They were much more expensive in those days IIRC - today they are the cost of a couple of coffees, those days they were more like 25% the cost of a new computer... per year! It was also quite inaccessible in terms of purchasing - contracts, call our sales team etc. Things like GoDaddy were still either non-existent or very nascent in the mid-late 90s when I was just starting out as a early teen online.

I had dreams as a youngster of owning my own domain name (just one!) and running my own site there... Now I don't even know how many domains I own!
Makes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now.

Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
Wouldn't the statute of limitations for this be 3 years? At least according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations
DNS, y u no resolve?
If TCP was reliable enough, then these chuncked transfers wouldn't need to be used
Similar to when a couple people move out of San Francisco and they call it an "exodus" and there are handfuls of articles making up these stupid claims based on a couple interviews of people moving to Austin or Portland or, in more fringe cases, Colorado.
They expanded the lineup for the Camera Module 3 to include a standard (75°) and wide (120°) FoV lens on both the regular and NoIR (no IR filter) camera modules, and all variants use the Sony IMX708, which bumps resolution from 8 to 12 megapixels, and almost doubles the sensor size.

The most important upgrade is the inclusion of autofocus (using PDAF) with full support from libcamera and Picamera2. It is pretty snappy though not quite as good as something like a Pixel or iPhone.

There's also a new M12-mount HQ camera, for the same price of $50, which is useful for some more specialty lenses (though I haven't run into any M12 lenses in my own work!).
> challenging a persons religious belief could get them struck by lightening.

It seems we should see large numbers of lightning strikes then. And as societies become more secular, the number of such strikes should be increasing; but I’m unaware of any such trend.
This is kind of presented like a tool but it really is a workflow, I think presenting it in an e.g. gitflow manner woukd make it more clear on how it would work on an example project
> The difference between shortsighted and longsighted capitalism is just that the latter has lower interest rates.

I disagree. If no consumer wants to buy your more expensive, "longsighted" beef, then it doesn't matter what the rate of interest is.

If the consumer always rejects slightly more expensive, but more sustainably produced, goods then the only solution is to change this behavior.
Well the minimum cost of Alloydb currently is 600 dollar a month. We don’t want to spend that amount on dev and staging environments.
In the UK it would be John Craven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Craven
I wonder if any part of that was related to the fact that nobody knows how to raise eels. Or even at that time they might not have known where baby eels came from.
Not scarred at all - happily nostalgic! We worked out that the machine had an IBM PC compatible mode, which allowed us to boot from floppy disk to play Commander Keen. I recall that lots of other software didn't work correctly (the emultation/compatibility must have been pretty poor) but back in 1994 it kept us entertained on rainy days when we weren't allowed outside to play.
Is two-factor security an alien concept to South Korean banking system? At least via SMS? But either way if they're going to make everyone install an application, why not OTP generator?
...in 2022.
To be honest, the CP is really nice. There's also a hidden piano if you move the knob in between two values and then power cycle :)
This happens all the time and is quickly dealt with.
I had problems installing python dependencies with compiled library dependencies this way, eg pandas. Does that generally work for you?
When I was your age, I sent 24 people to the actual moon with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes. - @natecull, on Margaret Hamilton perspective
it is not "unexciting by Internet standards". what the heck, it is gorgeous.
yeah, it's heavy. I had it on my desk, and the desk started buckling so it's now on a stand
You'd be surprised to see China's underground content farms. They went great length to automate content generation by decrypt & exploit App's private APIs
This issue is addressed in the Vimalakirti story, which I recommend to people looking to consider the issues with trying to separate from society vs transform within it in ways that help it mature.

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=vimalakirti%27s+advice&lg_t...
What went wrong? Was it just a failure to deliver?
well arguments like these are of course all about the statistical tendency because outliers are, by definition, not that important.

But I notice you didn't actually give an example of an outlier MBA that did not behave this way and contributed positively to the company they ran?
> Visual metaphors are great when demonstrated visually (e.g. in futuristic movies), but their information bandwidth sucks compared to text et al.

Holy false dichotomy there, Batman!

VR had some problems in the first batch of devices with low resolution, but as resolution improves there's no reason why it can't be integrated as first-class in it.

There's no need for the structure of the text to be a long linear sequence. When you put together a sequence of more than a few paragraphs, it is convenient to group them into a text chunk under a headline; and in fact these chunks can be placed in non-linear structures such as trees and networks, which benefit from a visual representation. The 3D environment of VR would allow better manipulation of these structured text structures in space, compared to the limited 2D possibilities of minimaps and tables of contents.
My partner and I moved to Lisbon about 6 years ago. We lasted 3 months after it became clear that the rent was more expensive than what we had just been paying in Sydney.
You can still agree with your common sense on the things you mentioned (public policy, quantum mechanics, etc). Do a little research and decide if you think it's plausible or not.

You can also disagree and that's fine too. There is plenty still up for debate even if you are believing the so called "experts".
I think non-technical people are ok with the abuse because everything on their computer abuses them. And if something goes awry, they figure it's their own fault for using their trackball mouse incorrectly [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball
See, that's what i mean...

Be happy and have a great day.
Not all games are 1M DAU, you can leverage knowledge of smaller games first.

Only the biggest games with huge marketing budgets go from zero to 1M DAU in a day, so there's always the possibility of slowly improving the system while the player count grows.
The networks the Russians couldn't take down were significantly inferior for military purposes: ① they were wired (DSL for example) which constrains troop mobility severely or ② they involved radio traffic that revealed the position of the troops.
You were not the only one..
If you live in Portugal for longer than 6 months every 12 months you are considered a resident and taxed accordingly. I suppose you could go in and out every few months to escape that.
Outlook. It is clunky, and the rules seem to be hit and miss.
What kind of stuff? I'm genuinely curious, as I've never once had to touch /Library manually.
>Not sure if Facebook/meta is in trouble, as instagram and WhatsApp seem to pretty popular.

Realistically, how profitable is WhatsApp? Facebook itself obviously has profit potential because it can bombard you with ads. WhatsApp, not so much. I feel like some of these services (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) may not be very profitable by themselves, but only serve to keep people on the site/ecosystem. But if they're ignoring the profitable part of the system, then the whole thing might not be sustainable.
It can actually solve some pretty darn hard mathematical problems while chatgpt is struggling with simple arithmetic at the moment
OTOH i was never asked to consent to being tracked with high precision in private places

We can't face new challenges with ancient laws
I love how this HN thread immediately turned against tourists and ignored the impact of the cryptobros.
Why is there so much whiny moaning about git.
I didn't want to get into details, but in general: no, photographing a person in public without consent is not allowed in Germany. It's called "Recht am eigenen Bild" = rights for my own picture. Now there are many exceptions of course: crowds, prominent people, journalism, etc. Also, if someone looks into your camera and smiles, this is considered a consent. All this is about taking a picture, publishing is a separate matter.
If you don't know it is there and it doesn't affect you, why does it matter?
Europe is not one place with one single bureaucracy.
Well, those are "Chinese food" as in they were invented by Chinese people, it's just those people came over as miners or laborers and ended up having to open restaurants even though they didn't know how to cook any of their ethnic recipes…
If Science Fiction has taught me anything then going to a planet named Wolf {alphanumeric sequence} is a really great idea that won't get most of your crew horribly killed.
If you need a local & offline first tool to log/track/archive changes from all kind of git repos yourself, from:

* github.com
* sourcehut (sr.ht)
* gitlab.com
* codeberg.org
* ...

published ssh keys & changes, to verify (offline) ssh signed commits, verify, encrypt mails, exchchange secure data (age-enc).

You can use this app:

[] https://github.com/paepckehh/gitkeys

If you want your own repos public keys tracked / monitored / archived, just leave a star:

[] https://github.com/paepckehh/keys
EFS indeed sometimes has latency issues I've never been able to track down, but S3 with Cloudfront? That is more than enough as a CDN.
Yup, not even a SIC but some regal mane cat.
I figured that was obvious and I didn't need to detail the relationship. Obviously, Gnome isn't paying anyone; they're funded and paid (through dev salaries) by RH and friends, who exercise a lot of control over the project's direction. Of course the distro maintainers are going to ship Gnome, because it's theirs.
A lot of the design constraints remain the same. For example, all three of hand-crafted books, printed paper and web pages need a specific optimal line width.
Linus's law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - Eric S. Raymond
I too align with his critique of capitalism, but why does every article start with a picture of his head?
How could Apple properly review something like this? Isn't it one of Apple's selling pitches that they'd review each app for malicious activity before it makes it to the app store?
Yes: http://academicresearchersunited.org/learn-more/uaw-in-highe...
And one might even argue the opposite, a DSL made for creating packages may well be better. Especially that plenty of package descriptions are basically reads like JSON.
Oh, they do have multiple factors. In fact, so much that each factor should be guarded to the maximum extent, which is the crux of actual problems. At least many SK websites now work without anti-keyloggers.
There is no alternative. Mobile devices and browsers are equivalent to a locked down mode where the user is only allowed to approve a restricted set of capabilities.
I have heard the same from some Dutch people I know, particularly around the topic of the tax office.
Well cant botch it that hard, the pals from ivy that are now in government, wont bail you out. So, guess we will never know the good from the bad >> eyescroll <<
Starts out like a Dan Brown novel, except that the climax is slightly less exciting.
Not possible with real Linux, the CPU on the Furby is too limited while the smallest Linux out there still requires some more resources.
Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago.

https://github.com/jbruchon/elks

I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.
but if you run a business, don't underestimate the value of a short, and well-named .com

preferably one without hyphens too.
It's so refreshing to see someone on the Internet not looking to make easy money showing off some lousy advertising. I would love to know more about the author; she's most likely interesting.
A nice entry for another "Falsehoods programmers believe about..."
I wonder if part of the issue isn't tooling defaults. In general, I always find grap > tree > linear [0], but not so with git commits. This might speak to my lack of proficiency with git, but I always find merge commits to be annoying, useless noise. Particularly on a codebase with lost of regular contributors (i.e. at work), there are occasions when I view the log, only to be greeted by a "Christmas tree" of a dozen commits that all say "Merged ${xyz} into develop". So even though rebasing loses some context through linearization, it at least doesn't add any noise commits to the log.

(Yes, there probably is some magic switch in git log that reduces the merge commit noise. But approximately nobody knows it, looking how the primary argument for squash+rebase workflow I've seen in teams I worked with was always "because it avoids the Christmas tree/chainsaw and overall denoises the log".)

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[0] - For example this is a reason I vastly prefer HN and Reddit to phpBB-style boards. I find linear threads to be stupidly bad UX for discussing a topic. I know many people disagree, but I've been participating daily in enough forums of this style, some pretty high-volume ones, that I know what invariably happens is people recreating threading with quote-replies and lots and lots of pointless scrolling.
Do you have any legal recourse if Apple suspends your account? I thought it basically boils down to "it's their app store, you agreed to the ToS, sucks to be you"?
No. I work with micro-services at my current company, and I don't know one dev that runs the dev environment as a unit. I don't even think devs can run all the services. This makes manual testing locally near (if not totally) impossible.

If I'm being honest, were I a manager at any other company, I'd look at the term like a spelling mistake. It wouldn't signal "work at scale" it smells.

That's perhaps just me.
Thanks, this gives quite a bit more insight! I would have been surprised if the authors had failed to consider this...
I will bring this up the next time, someone laments about the lack of digitalization compared to other nations.
Enter stage left: some weird email I got from Facebook about the messages will be melded with Instagram or some horrible idea like that. I'm sure bookface has plenty of good uses, but it has become the least interesting of all of the social media sites and is mostly just for logging in to other websites.

Btw, that data they get from any tiny snippet of facebook Javascript code on any website is probably invaluable. They see all. That's why we gotta use Ghostery, Brave browser, etc. as defaults.
For devs it's only inconvenient and annoying, but for the devs' company the inefficiency means money.
At our company we were almost all of us working remotely during the pandemic (and many still do), and anything which slowed down or made a developer inefficient was looked at and improved on where possible. Because it's about (though not only about) money.
This reeks of the very common "feature factory" (https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-...) dev shop. With this mindset you will most definitely have a bug-ridden hard to maintain app in a few years.
So I can only speak about paedophilia if I have been molested or am attracted to kids? Or about lobotomy if I have been lobotomised ?
> Muslims are sensitive to ascribing a graphical depiction to the prophet. And this sensitivity should be taken into consideration.

It was. The professor, knowing these sensitivities, warned the class in advance. Despite the warning, the offended student chose to attend the lecture anyway. The professor, sensing trouble, contacted her department chair who acknowledged she did everything right. It was only once the Muslim Student Association became involved that the dean and DEI leadership decided to throw the professor under the bus in the name of academic virtue signalling.

There are many unfortunate parts of this sad affair. But certainly one is the alienation of allies who would otherwise be inclined toward cultural sensitivity had the university not taken such an extreme position. Although it may only be aspirational, the idea of proportional justice should undergird Western liberalism. This case shows the opposite is alive and well.
http://archive.today/mH2nl
Thanks for the super insightful post. Could you expand on what brokerage means in this context.
Isn't it spelled filippx now? The 'x' signifies 'no'.
I assumed in 2023 we're beyond simply applying negative stereotypes to people based on perceptions of a group, but apparently you aren't
That is not how severance works.

If the employees are owed 60 days of back-pay and their severance is for 90 days, they must receive 150 days of pay in total.

If a friend were to lend you 5$, and the next day he sells you something for 10$, you can't just give him 10$ and call it even. That would be called stealing, just like what Musk is attempting here.
Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behind a wooden tile of Key West, FL in a large, painted wooden wall map of that part of the ocean.
I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love. Maybe we could all try to remember to do so, or do it now way in advance by setting up cloud compute accounts running a script like a time capsule that will send out certain messages at a specific date in the future.
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."

We should throw a huge party to coincide with the Europa Clipper landing. You know, in case it pisses G-d/advanced aliens/&c off and they wipe us out.
Morality and ethics aren't the same thing. It has the first (things you should and shouldn't do) but not the second (a modern system of reasoning explaining why not to do these things).

https://vividness.live/traditional-buddhism-has-no-ethical-s...

Modern Buddhism does have ethics, partly as a marketing campaign designed to make you think the Dalai Lama is the world's #1 expert on them.
Or you can accept that the customer doesn't want that kind of beef?
Sorry, I don't understand how the second sentence follows from the first.
Pokemon bot ranks 33rd in the world
Oh, still European. The British isles haven't drifted away from the European continent.

You're conflating a geographical area with a political arrangement. Not all Europeans are in the EU.
This is likely the best comment in this thread.