skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: "Neural material are compiled to real-time shader code."

aka procedurally generated textures. Clever for all the mundane repeating pattern/uniform surfaces.
Why did hosting your own server stop being a thing?
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I'm not. It is not a useful thing.
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Got it, will try this out. Thank you!
Just a nit, of course "Write" advice is always going to show up in written form, because everybody who gives written advice is a writer. I bet public speakers give advice to speak-publicly.
Reverse engineering is already a protected activity. So long as you don't distribute a DRM circumvention device or copyrighted content you're in the clear.
IIRC it was likely more than 80% that were wiped out by disease, giving later European settlers the ability to promote the idea of the Americas as a largely unsettled wilderness scattered with savages, though just a couple decades before Native American civilizations had rivaled Europe.
Agreed. That rational actors ignore it is basically the definition of externality! Nobody would quote this if anyone but Chomsky said it.
This rings more true than many would want to accept: Most people view and use computers as household appliances; they just use whatever is installed on it and if it breaks they go out and buy a new one.

For most people there are, in fact, no legitimate reasons to run "their own" software on "general purpose" (read: household appliance) computing hardware. Almost nobody runs custom software on their washing machine or toaster.
Except, in the future, your Linux partition will be unable to access most online services because they'll all rely on remote attestation to check if your device is running an unmodified Windows OS, similar to what many android apps already do.
These do exist, actually, for people who knowingly mispresent that material or activity is infringing - Section 512(f).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512 (search for "(f)" a couple of times)

It has been a very weak penalty in practice without much enforcement, but there are some examples of it being used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold.... (successfully, but with low enough damages that it was mainly a moral victory and not really a disincentive for anything)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp. (rather less successfully, but not only was the work allowed to stay online, the case did confirm that copyright holders must at least give subjectively good-faith consideration to the idea that material or activity may be fair use before sending a notice of infringement. this does not necessarily require a proper legally reasonable weighing of the statutory fair use factors, just subjectively good-faith consideration.)
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I think your putting to much importance on comments on the internet. These are throwaway thoughts. Non of us are changing the world with our comments here. It's just entertainment.
Has this been litigated?

My extremely naive/uninformed view is that what they are asking to be taken down (a code repo) is not the software itself, but the instructions for a computer.

How is this different from going after a book that tells you how to do something illegal? Publishing instructions for illegal activity is legal afaik…
Oh, KDE 3.5 was amazing. When KDE 4 came, I packed my stuff and never looked back.

Good to hear KDE 5 is doing fine at least, let us hope for the best.

I get that many people are more excited about rewriting stuff than fixing bugs but oh man is the risk is rarely ever worth it. If you have a good thing going, don't kill your golden goose.
> Modern England is largely made up from those descended from earlier immigrantion waves of mostly European origin

This I didn't know. Thanks. I guess I need to brush up on my knowledge of English history.
When I say multiply by n, what I'm really doing is applying a delta of (n - 1) times my distance to the origin.

The origin with celsius isn't at zero, so you're prevented from doing what you were pretending was multiplication (at least in the most natural way of doing it).

Obviously you can negate your offset, multiply and reapply your delta.

It's a bit damned awkward though.
Even if that were true for all human populations and not just a select few, 100,000 years is still very short compared to 2 million estimated years of hunter-gathering.
Thanks! They have it on Audible for anyone else who is interested.
My personal, unsubstantiated opinion is that the food most people eat is now full of substances and chemicals that weren't there 50 years ago. A huge example is high fructose corn syrup. Almost everything is sweetened with that instead of cane sugar.

Food manufacturers IMO only care about making food cheap, making us crave it, and making it last a long time on the shelf. They aren't concerned about making sure it is healthy, as long as it doesn't immediately kill us.

Another example is artificial sweeteners. Studies have shown that sucralose (Splenda) reduces insulin resistance something like 17%. Is anyone making sure that everyone knows that? Hell no.
True, but the word used in the article, "killer," probably was said at some board meeting somewhere.
There's no shortage of social media that offer "user safety" (ie; arbitrary censorship, unaccountable mods, enforced thought bubbles).

Internet without the training wheels should at least be an option, for those of us who have thick enough skin to dismiss the stuff we don't like without needing a self appointed authority figure to decide for us.
That’s assuming that these people would want to work for Nintendo…
This is neat, but since GitHub pages generate an rss feed too, isn’t it easier to just blog there for free?
idk. This was common knowledge/advice when I first worked with Rails professionally on a startup-size team over a decade ago.

The writer says “That’s when people jump to googling ‘how to autoload lib/‘. Don’t do it! lib/ should not be autoloaded.”

But from experience, that’s not what was commonly queried. The search terms or the question asked to senior engineers went something like “my Rails lib dependency is not loading in production” which always lead to the “require” solution and the advice against autoloading.

Thinking about it more, I don’t recall ever googling the word “autoload”.

Have all of those old StackOverflow posts been removed?

Are newer devs not using linters that check for this?

Is the audience for this article solo devs inexperienced with working with Rails?
I have such mixed feelings on Emulation. On one hand, playing games I purchased on a PC or Steam Deck? Adding graphics shaders? Learning how the game works? Super cool!

But then, unfortunately, I will admit also that about 92% of emulation, is so people can play games they did not pay for. The sense of entitlement from these people when they talk about it is often stunning, and I cannot support it. As for Homebrew, despite people talking about it, I have yet to see anyone say “XYZN is a fantastic homebrew game that really shines on the Switch specifically.”

If I was Nintendo, I would honestly be doing the same thing right now. If it were possible to build an emulator that only played purchased games then maybe we could have a discussion about leniency.
It's like recruiting the "best" faculty together and creating a new school. People would still not view the degree from it the same way they do one from Harvard. History and brand matter more than you would think.
We're communincatng with English. What about things like ur to replace your or you're in text. None of you can figure that out?
I had one in my fridge most of last week waiting for the right time to strike.

It was a serious apple and required a plan.
Trademarks and to a lesser extent copyrights are contingent on the rights holders defending their properties and rights. Courts have invalidated trademarks and copyrights due to insufficient defensive actions from their rights holders. DRM is just one of many methods that a rights holder can defend their properties and rights with.

This isn't to say DRM is acceptable; most examples aren't. But it is legally incompatible to argue that a rights holder can have trademarks/copyrights but should not defend them.

Obligatory IANAL.
This is very good: it uses the original Hoare partitioning algorithm which moves two indices at opposite ends of the array partition toward each other, rather than the ill-considered Lomuto partitioning:

while (1) { \
do q_i++; while (Q_LESS(q_i, q_l)); \
do q_j--; while (Q_LESS(q_l, q_j)); \
if (q_i >= q_j) break; /* Sedgewick says "until j < i" */ \
Q_SWAP(q_i, q_j); \
} \

Lomuto is that algorithm that moves one index, swapping lower-than-pivot elements into a growing lower partition.

Lomuto ends up performing more comparisons.

What's more, Lomuto has quadratic behavior for sequences that are just repetitions of a value: every partitioning and sub-partitioning is a degenerate case. Hoare's algorithm deftly avoids this problem. You can explain that using the above snippet. If all elements are the same, then Q_LESS(q_i, q_l) is always false. Thus each of the two do/while loops executes one unconditional iteration, so that the two indices q_i and q_j march toward each other and meet in the middle. The repeating sequence thus nicely cut in half, and recursively so, ensuring O(N log N) behavior.

You can't easily banish the worst case from Quicksort, but implementations should not exhibit worst case behavior on inputs that have some obvious pattern, like a repeated value.
I suspect there might be a few tweaks on the way from remarkably put-together MVP to major traction, but I love the vibe.

When you slim down the grammar of the input just enough but not too much (which the Markdown community and GitHub have already done), syndication and presentation and maybe even monetization as concerns gain tons of degrees of freedom.

As someone who routinely tries to squeeze long-form content into something social-media sized, who prefers hacker authoring tools, and is mostly at home in a revision-controlled text workflow? I’d probably have a blog if there was something lower-effort than Jekyll but with more cachet than Substack. And if this exists (which it might) it hasn’t been marketed to me.

RSS is okay enough as a syndication format, but it’s been a long time since it was front-and-center for readers. There is a bunch of interesting stuff going on around Mastodon and Bluesky and stuff, maybe there’s a clever (ab)use of some modern distribution protocol.
It is fundamentally impossible to completely undo things, trivially so from the second law of thermodynamics.

A company which produces nuclear waste can pay the cost to store it, but cannot undo its existence. A company that burns oil can offset the carbon capture, but cannot put new oil in the ground.

A company that cuts a forest of 500 year old trees can't wait 500 years to verify they estimated the cost of raising such a forest again correctly (and also, the company will be gone by then anyway).

Right now, we care about CO2, but there's a lot more to natural resources than simple CO2 math will give us.

> we shouldn't outlaw useful and fundamentally positive things that emit CO2 like driving a car, but rather tax the pollution according to the cost to recapture that carbon from the shared environment

Focusing on incrementally taxing things like that is basically what the parent article complains about. That misses the old-growth forest for the CO2 in one tree.
so no more progress in terms of graphics?
bank run detected?
The problem with many of these is that people don't actually file a valid DMCA claim, but the hosting provider takes down things anyway. You need to have legal vet everything and fight them all if you want to be effective, but most have gone the YouTube method of doing their own thing.
Please back this up with some "very" differences.
My thought exactly.

The freedom of individuals clearly stops at illegal acts.
I've had it since I was a child. Am 40 now. I get hypoglycemic episodes (confirmed many times with a glucose prick test - symptoms are loss of mental focus, cold sweats, shaky hands, overall fatigue and lethargy, voracity to eat), solved easily by eating carbs / sugar. No doctor has been able to provide an explanation or even cared that I brought it up. it is not consistent either, I can be eating the same things in same schedules, some days I get it some days I don't. When I tend to get it though, it is in clusters. Like I get it frequently for a couple months, then nothing a couple months. Sometimes it goes away for a year. Then comes back. Most frequently I get it a couple hours after eating fruit on a semi / empty stomach.
Really? I can eat like 3 cosmic crisps in one sitting.
I had a similar problem, and in my case it turned out to be reactive hypoglycaemia.

It means that my body is insulin resistant, and when I eat anything that raises my sugar levels, the body starts pumping out more and more insulin till it reaches a point where the sugar levels fall below normal. So the body is hit by bad effects of high sugar, and then with bad effects of low sugar.

In my case the solution was to avoid sugars and refined carbs in breakfast. As Indians our breakfast contains a lot of carbs.

If I have eggs for breakfast, I can pretty much anything the entire day and not feel it. On the other hand if I have pancakes with syrup, I know I am in for an episode of hypoglycaemia.

Also if I have sugar or refined carbs, having a fibre supplement (psyllium husk) with it helps.

Overall adding more salad and protein is what I would recommend if you also have this.

PS: For diagnosis go to an endocrinologist.
Technology has changed a lot. Have people changed?
No, we're talking about tools that can be used for piracy. There's a difference.
In the United States, pure code could be a DMCA Section 1201 violation. Read about DeCSS as an example.

In the US, code is recognized as having both an expression and a functional purpose. The functional purpose can, and often is, legally restricted. And if your code is very, very specific to accomplishing an illegal functional purpose, there’s a good chance “free expression” will fail for the same reason you can’t yell at the top of your lungs with a bullhorn in public for hours without being charged for public disturbance.
> Upwork attracts clients who can't find contractors any other way

What is the best 'other way', though? Situation: Technical guy at a small company or nonprofit who needs _X_ more complicated technical task done. The choice is either to learn some new skill (lots of time) or find an expert. What other expert marketplaces are there that offer a substantially better environment or experience for all parties?
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High fructose corn syrup is a very poor example. It is composed of fructose and glucose, both very familiar molecules to our bodies.
And eat less meat, or quit altogether. A huge portion of land is used to grow food for animals, and huge pollution comes with meat consumption.
You mean eating a diet of pure sugar and vegetable oil might have consequences?

:surprised pikachu:
The courts ruled on whether the CRTC was authorized to shut them down, not on whether CHOI broke Canadian law.
Probably using Java or similar so the columns are easier to serialize.
No genocide at all. Most of our kids survived!
https://github.com/HugAILab/HugNLP
Pretty sure all the artists are in contracted studios or contractors themselves.

At least in F2P, the 'staff' are 80% artists because cosmetics are ludicrously profitable.
> I have to believe most of us here on HN are in the boat of keeping a W11 partition for work and a Linux partition for everything else at this point.

If statistics bear out, you'd be incorrect (at least with regards to a non-Windows OS being run by 'most').
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CGMs have improved a ton in the past 20 years, becoming less intrusive and easier to use.

We pay a lot more than $150 for all sorts of tech that is far more than 20 years old. But if you could make it for $20 or $30/month, that would be a serious innovation and perhaps you should try to start an advanced medical device company.
Part of the difficulty becomes when a system is so long-lived; the Dolphin project for GameCube and Wii is highly valuable, worthwhile, and good even if some (perhaps massive?) percentage of the people using it pirate games that are no longer sold.
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what’s plymouth?
My point was that your argument was bad, not that we should misuse "comprise." So yes, I noted that etymology doesn't matter when determining modern meaning, but went on to point out that even if we assume that it does the argument doesn't hold up, because it's a terrible argument.

You talk a lot here, but none of it actually follows. People write "is comprised of" because they confused it with "is composed of". "Com-pose" means "place together"; doing the same things does not make clear which should be which way 'round.

For the record, I kinda like having a separate word for "makes up" versus "is made up of" and would prefer people stop confusing the two. I just don't think we need garbage arguments in support.
unfortunately you also need to be reminded of their greatest failures when it mattered the most.

Chamberlain is remembered for letting Hitler do what he wanted, not for the rest of his career as a politician.
Nintendo could add a way for emulators to log in to an online account and check for a license. That’ll happen well after pigs start flying.
Conversely I think events like this make things more secure. It highlights the danger of having a third party control what should be your keys.

For the sake of convenience we ended up with an inversion of control. There can still be a chain of trust. However the owner of the machine should be the root of the chain, not the vendor/manufacturer. the vendor should sign their firmware and the owner should authorize that sig on the machine.
I occasionally get hypoglycemia. For me, it tends to be worse if I eat a lot of sugary foods the day prior and then go through a prolonged period of not eating. Like if I eat ice cream at night and then skip breakfast.

One trippy thing to try is to go on a keto diet. When your body is in ketosis, it stops using glucose as an energy source, so you shouldn't get hypoglycemia. It's actually a strange feeling. In my case, my energy level feels much more constant throughout the day.
But we are also taking about tools that are used for piracy >90% of the time.

Which, dangerously, can place things in legal danger. There are legitimate uses for, say, nitroglycerin - but >90% of uses will be illegal and it’s illegal to possess for that reason. Same could be argued for being the approach of some countries to guns. Same in some states for car radar scanners.

I think the emulator developers really do need to consider actually doing something to combat piracy in the long-term, or Nintendo may actually be successful banning it.
Wake me up when it's causation not correlation.
Better support for high refresh rate monitors and variable refresh rate setups.

That's a GPU driver thing.

More cohesive UI

You mean more useless UI. Changes that no real user wants, like rounded corners and excessive padding everywhere.

...and don't forget the increased spyware and requirements to use an online account to login.
So is Fred Hampton, but the thread I was replying to dismissed it because it was a while ago.
On the topic of "don't be evil"...

My Android phone is marking automated calls about my union's town hall meetings as "suspected spam".

Now, I do acknowledge real people who belong to the union are almost certainly reporting them as spam, and there's no way to convince all of them they are wrong.

Or, of course, people who are not current members could be PO'ed about getting calls.

And it is also true that I don't bother to attend these town halls myself.

But even considering all that, I got kind of upset that I couldn't find a way to vote for the calls not being spam.

Searching the internet produced a tentative verdict that you can't mark a call deemed possibly spam as non spam, only a call Google says is definitely spam.

Maybe adding the number to my address book would be a practical solution, but I'm not sure if the number stays the same or if caller ID is blocked sometimes.

I thought about contacting Pro Publica or someone, but apathy and futility won the day.
So its mastodon with better identity management?
Thank you for the correction. Yep it's eLife
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Did the NASA, Google, Intel, etc. really give their approval to have their logo used as promotional material for a gun seller in the "Where we come from" section? It really surprises me.
Ah yes, the TOOL. I did not have to deal with that thing directly, but the rest of the team hated them.
> It gives everyone the chance to just use whatever name they want

But it's not actually the user name they want since it is required to have a special number attached to it. Which is the part that makes it confusing, and also a restriction.
At some point you become self aware, for me it came after a girlfriend of 6 years just left one day.

I went through lot of anxiety after that. But i realized where it was alll coming from, it's as if I always knew how to act better in hindsight but when I was facing the situation I almost always couldn't do anything good.

Not that she wouldn't have left if I was good, people leave all time for whatever reasons. But I could still have been nicer to her I feel, she was also similar to me so it's not like she was always nice to me but I could have shown her better.
So, 4chan?
I think that’s literally Flow: https://flow.org/en/docs/types/comments/
Right, but imagine Nintendo right now. Non-paying customers are now playing, and sometimes even streaming, games a week or more ahead of time. Because if you can get a cartridge, you can dump it and publish it.

Also, ~70% of game sales are within the first month, if not higher. It’s why companies pay big for Denuvo - slowing pirates down a month could save tens of millions. For Nintendo, having games dumped before release is embarrassing and at the worst possible time financially for both them and their developer partners.

If we were talking about Switch game dumping after the end of the Switch’s life like the Wii or GameCube it would be a very different discussion.
It is true.

See, I can do argument by contradiction too.
What are "fair use rights" in this context? Fair use specifically concerns creating derivative works. You don't by default have a right to use Nintendo's IP however you like, no matter how virtuous or benign you think your use is. You are only licensed to use their products in the ways that they permit.
This may be true of trademarks, but I've never heard of any requirement to defend copyrights, nor have I heard of any courts invalidating copyrights because of a lack of defending them.
It all depends how many phones you have running in your farm