skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SNES games were more expensive to manufacture at the high end, having more powerful processors embedded in the cartridge than even existed in the console.

N64 didn't have any extra computation in the carts for the most part.
We cannot handle the freedom we had since the 90's. We abolished most rules that a conservative / christian society had. As it turns out we actually prefer having strict rules. These new rules are now about diversity, discrimination and racism. They fulfill the same role as the rules of the conservative / christian society. If you abide the rules, you are a good human being. If you are ever in doubt about yourself, just stick to the rules and you will be fine.

I personally don't really like this trend but I think our society is not ready to handle freedom yet.
To restate: “It will be used by a minority” — yes, we agree on this.

I absolutely feel social pressure when I’m alone on the phone with some faceless customer service employee. If you do not, that’s your choice, but it’s not universal.
I had to scroll down way too far to see this. The added value of the Florida law was at the end of the article. It included:

> long-term-care, life and disability insurers.
Let's also be clear, the still image will be the full resolution of the sensor. The video taken on the same camera is usually a cropped section of the sensor. You're also comparing a spatial compression (still image) vs a temporal compression (video), and at what compression levels are each image taken?
It's been hard for me, but I've got physical spaces in my home (helps to have a house for this) that I use for different things. Upstairs loft (which will be a space for kids later) is my office right now. Living room is time with my wife, sitting room is my reading room. If I take a book to the sitting room, I can actually read it and get something done. I usually leave my phone in another room.

Another thing that used to work really well (recovering from a pulled muscle so I can't presently) is to leave the office and go for a run. With WFH, I started doing that again 3 days a week after work, another day was lawn work. It's not something you can choose to focus on or not, you're out there and have nothing else to do but move. It creates a clean separation between my workday and the rest of my day.
Don't apologize. Feel proud to have built something that people find so useful to bring your servers down. Good users know that you deserve a little patience.
That's kind of implied by the images. But if only two completed units come out the end every minute (regardless of how long it takes an individual unit to be assembled), that does seem a little underwhelming. There has to be more manufacturing lines than just this one to move millions of PS4s every year.

525,600 minutes per year * 2 units/minute = 1,051,200 units per year (assuming 100% uptime)

There has to be at least a dozen manufacturing lines to meet yearly demand of over 10 million. https://www.statista.com/statistics/222403/unit-sales-of-son...
HN is not different to other social media. It will feed you a lot of small, digestible units of content that will do something to you. Each of these feelings are rewarded by a hit of dopamin. The dopamin flow is neat, but not enough to makes you feel great or like you've accomplished something. So you go for more and you keep scrolling. You will not react the same to each unit of content, which create a very addictive system known as a skinner box (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber). It will continuously give you small hits of dopamin, sometimes giving you a lot, keeping you hooked for those big hits in a very tight feedback loop.

Learning Rust, while stimulating, does not has that tight reward loop, so you are not addicted to learning Rust but to scrolling HN as your easy dopamin dispenser. You need to invest a lot of effort into learning something complex as Rust (or painting, or whatever which require a good amount of knowledge and practice.) before getting that dopamin reward.
Thanks, I will keep an eye on this. Do you reckon gold plating would suffice or is it likely to get worn away?
Because of online cheating I doubt Sony will ever open up like they did for PlayStation Linux. My guess is they'll just clamp down harder to differentiate from PCs which can't deliver the same consistency. Of course the PCs openness is what breeds so much innovation.
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>The entire money making scheme behind it, while innovative, is a privacy nightmare.

Is it? An ad bundle is downloaded to your pc. Your pc tracks some usage, and stores every analytic locally. Using the analytics, your local client chooses which ads to target you with. You wipe your local data cache, your analytics disappear. I would guess people wished more advertising respected privacy this way.

This seems like much LESS of a privacy nightmare than Google, Facebook, Verizon, Microsoft, Amazon storing a named profile for each person.
Morricone re-scoring Star Wars would have been interesting :D
I'm curious why hardware encoding is generally worse? All my experiments with it (h264/h265) have lead to significantly lower quality output to the point that I've avoided it for any final outputs, but I always assumed I was doing something wrong.
My wife did a little light reading on this subject and found it's more complicated than that. It turns out that finding the owner of these properties is an enormous challenge because due to the high level of taxes and fees associated with these buildings, the owners are reluctant to claim them (to avoid paying the taxes/fees). I would like to see someone living in Japan confirm this, though.
> In general, the fact that objects and mappings are the same thing, and that keys have to be strings, is tough for me to understand.

JavaScript takes object.__dict__ literally.
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/we-will-meet-again
Wow, that sucks. We use Chrome extensions (from source) to automate aspects of our customer service work, and we can't distribute these extensions on a hosted store.

So Firefox prevents this perfectly reasonable thing? WTF.
The PKI, like democracy, is the worst system except for all the others.

I think the main alternatives people suggest are

- something involving a distributed ledger, where revocation isn't even an option, so that clearly doesn't make it better than the current system if we're talking about revocation being a mess (we could just amend the current system to get rid of revocation and throw out a whole bunch of technical complexity if we wanted)

- something involving DNS, which also involves trusting a bunch of companies nobody's heard of (sometimes the same companies, in fact?) who are hardly obviously better at operating cryptographic infrastructure than the existing CAs

- a TOFU approach like SSH, which hasn't been demonstrated to scale well beyond the dozen or so machines in your known_hosts file (most large companies are using something other than TOFU even for internal SSH)

I don't think PKI is an objectively good system, it's just difficult to picture a better one. The main flaws with PKI in practice aren't really about the companies nobody's heard of or a web browser being run by an adtech company - the main flaws are that people want a lot of things out of the system, some of which are contradictory, and running cryptography at this level of scale is genuinely hard. The alternatives don't really address those problems.
Goodbye Fun Fun Function (and the importance of mental health)
Factories have more than one line.
The point is that you can't verify it. Sometimes HN humor is too dry for its own good.
AMZN annual stock growth:

2020 (so far): 56.42%
2019: 23.03%
2018: 28.43%
2017: 55.96%
2016: 10.95%
2015: 117.78%

Although Amazon doesn’t give out top offers, it’s stock growth often brings compensation in line with other top companies.
As you say, I suspect it probably isn't used much in grid scale applications. The device image in the article would imply that it is just a simple damper, i.e. the angular momentum acts to reduce any frequency change, up or down. It doesn't look like it does any storage, but then the article is somewhat content free.
The abstraction is pretty simple, and close to that. IIRC I had base Hand object that defines a comparison routine that takes a Hand object.

The Hand object has a method that returns Card objects by index with a high to low order so subclasses can do their comparisons in either 4 or 5 card games.

The you need like a best hand method, so games like Holdem that make best 5 card hands out of 7 cards work. Then a bunch of utility functions.

It’s also useful to have your Card objects have their comparison functions.
In the physical sciences (possibly others but I can only speak to what I know), there's an expectation that your compensation hits an inflection point somewhere in your mid-thirties (once you've endured the hazing of the PhD and multiple post-docs). For example, I know that in my company I make a 20 percent premium over junior engineers hired fresh out of college at the same time I was, and I'm a PhD program wash-out.

So it's not exactly "poor compensation," it's more "poor compensation through the years when most educated people have children."
The real argument they were making against Lecun is whether a mathematical function can be biased. Care to explain how a gradient is racist?
Parent is asking why anything in particular should stimulate the production of dopamine.
One of the things the Planck Rev 6 PCB made me realize is how important hotswap is for me personally. First, I have _dozens_ of interesting mechanical keyboard kits which are un-built because I simply don't have the convenient time & place to set up my soldering equipment. Second, some of the kits I've managed to build have bricked on me due to unexplained microcontroller problems, and while I have an expensive desoldering gun, it's still a PITA to use/maintain/clean, so hot-swap sockets solve that switch recoverey problem in a very convenient way. Lastly, of course, the ability to change switches on a whim is nice on it's own.

This M60 keyboard builds on all of that by providing a socketed microcontroller, so even if it isn't the layout I prefer, I'll still look into buying one for the sole sake of supporting this work. Open source design & easy-to-program QMK-ish firmware are also huge plusses.

I also love the fact that pictured are the new Kailh Silent Pink switches. I got a small amount a couple weeks ago and want to get more, but they've sold out at US distributors. If the M60 is ever offered as a "full kit" then I hope those switches are an option.
Just put Thomas on the front of a train full of slate and everyone will love watching it go up and downhill as energy storage.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/forget-elons-batteries-fix-gri...
Ok now do it again as a per hour of enjoyable gameplay.

I can't remember a game lately that anyone paid for /once/ and got as many hours of enjoyment out of as Super Mario, Sonic, Half Life etc. CoD MW2 vs Half Life 2? There's an order of magnitude difference if not 2. Also the price nowadays is the price of the first 3 chapters and you have to pay plenty more to get the full game, that's still kinda short. Then the fifa/2k games, that's an anuual subscription and not the price of a game so that comparison from yesteryear sucks. They really aren't better games this year to last and haven't been for a decade or more.

Pricing alone is only a part of this story. There's more to it that cannot be ignored if you want to make meaningful comparisons over time.

Taking pricing alone we would still expect the price to come down over time as the marginal cost of production of an extra unit of a game is approaching $zero and the market is vastly bigger now than 20 years ago. So maybe total revenue is a better thing to compare in 2020 dollars?

The good news is that if you stay a generation or two behind you get the good stuff, the hype bubble surrounding titles has dissapaited and it's a lot cheaper. The water-cooler aspect might be impaired for you but ymmv.
Cool idea - few questions: How many volumes are there? Would be cool to see the full list.

The first to volumes are very goal purpose driven and so fit will together. The third feels very grab bag and likely should be split up more.

You'll also likely want to cover on schools of thought, the scientific method and whatnot.

An alternate volume 3a might be on mass production of food (enabling greater human capital). Large scale agriculture and the chemistry and botany that enables it. Some amount of animal farming is likely required.

3b could cover the communication and transportation networks necessary to distribute that food. Both the engineering, infrastructure and tech behind it.

At some point you can shift to covering, manufacturing and mass production - which enables all the small products needed for so many fields. The handles, washers, lenses,...

Then final shift to digital and everything that rolls out from there.
The people are genuinely and deeply upset. Just because they don't go out on the streets in protest, it doesn't mean it's not the case.
Apple patent describes transparent glass keycaps for greater keyboard durability
I wish it was possible for this upcoming fall semester to be some kind of internship/research program period instead. It seems like every type of student other than performance arts could find some organization to do some kind of remote work for in their field. It'd probably require federal funding though.
So why are you insisting we do the impossible at either level?
>the GC is triggered by memory pressure and that's it. Because it knows nothing about fd pressure,

So why not teach it about fd pressure?

There's no reason not to teach a GC about fd pressure - the reason that's rarely done is that language implementers generally don't care that much about the system interface - they just link against libc and call it done.
Memory overhead: Numbers in Python and how NumPy helps
I rarely get a game on first release anymore and usually wait until it’s on a huge discount sale. I don’t do multi-player, so lack of community isn’t an issue. $60 is just too much to gamble on whether or not I’ll enjoy or not, given that we’re just beta testers these days. If the price goes up even more, then that’s just incentive to quit altogether.
Sex and Syphilis
I think the Mandolorian kinda gives us a preview of what that could look like and so far so good.
They are not valid in France.
The advantage of the H-series of codecs is strong support of hardware implementation. This has been a selling point since H.262. You can get a H.265 IP core from Xilinx, Intel, and other major vendors -- so the actual runtime performance for H.266 (once a core is available) will be very low and constant (and comparable to current codecs). Bandwidth and storage space are real costs, despite the handwaving around it, and reducing these requirements while not reducing visual quality is an important step.

As for "information-dense scenes": Pathologic cases such as the HBO intro screen are encoded into modern codecs as noise, and regenerated client-side, because there's no actual information there. These scenes are either engineered or pure noise.
Anyone remember two years ago when the Comodo CEO emailed hundred of private keys?
Here's a write-up about the Tron scene in question was produced (hilariously, it features Emacs): https://web.archive.org/web/20110726180753/http://jtnimoy.ne...
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Sorry, but was the trained ML model to be implemented and used, as is, in public, like in an airport? Or was it to become the next standard or the next "ML for dummies" book? Or was it just research or an experiment?

If it was an experiment, then let it be. Perhaps the researcher was looking for something else, circumscribing the data, model, whatever to the experiment itself.

> researchers need to be more circumspect about ML algorithms

What does entitle you to tell what to study or how?
100s of scientists say coronavirus is airborne, ask WHO revise recommendations
> mentioning neuroscience is a great way to convince people you are more knowledgeable about something, and to make your arguments more convincing. This effect was recently demonstrated by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, who showed that use of irrelevant references to brain science was an effective way to lure people into thinking that complex phenomena are simple,

Choice quote IMO.
The Future of Audio Transcription: Can AI Replace Humans
I've met Johny Ryan and he seems like an honest and privacy-focused guy. He seems to really care about his work.

I must admit that does not quite fit with a lot of the thing I've read about Brave over the years.
Gosh that is very pretty, and very smooth. I'd like an audio volume option rather than on/off - it's cool, but loud as hell.
ffmpeg supports CPU, CPU-Accelerated and GPU-accelerated encoding and decoding.
Well, there ya go.

I don't fundamentally agree with the Court's interpretation, and believe it flies in the face of the fundamental intentions of the Founders for the electoral college, but they've spoken, so that's that.

Sad to see it since it effectively wipes the EC from the equation in all but actually telling people to stay home. That's life though.
https://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c That's awesome. So many crappy movies these days. 50+ years old, its amazing to me the quality is so high as well. I'm going to have to rent this.
Docker Compose Cheat Sheet
> You've failed to account for JKR's 14 million followers that she uses to harass people.

Unless you can actually point to a specific tweet where she sends her followers to harass someone, can you please drop the emotional rhetoric?

> you're unable to find anyone who actually got cancelled, and you provide examples of people who are at zero risk of cancellation and who keep saying whatever they want.

Oh, you mean survivorship bias? Yes, you are totally right! It is virtually impossible to find an up-and-coming talented writer who is able to express any controversial opinion without fearing for their careers. Why do you think is the more likely explanation: (a) every younger and talented writer shares the same world-view and are completely aligned with the vanguard of social justice or (b) every you writer is aware now that there are "things you can not say", i.e, cancel culture?

You make it sound like them saying "whatever they want" and "face no risk of cancellation" is a bug. Like, people should not have the right to express any kind of conflicting opinion or they would have to face a struggle session. Do you realize how fucked up that is?
You're right, and Pocket being integrated into the browser itself rather than remaining a plugin was the one that drove me to Waterfox a few years ago. I just listed a couple of general issues above for brevity's sake.
Thanks, I didn't connect the dots.
I want infinitely long games with impeccable graphics made by people who live for nothing but their work. I'll also stop playing after the first ten minutes so I'll only buy the game at 90% discount.

I guess we'll have to meet somewhere in the middle.
Indeed. The title suggested discussion of economic-bureaucratic ossification.
The Beauty Of Espresso In Slow Motion (1,000fps in 4K)
But those with high income are very outnumbered. Most of people are not rich and most of the taxes come from them. You get way more money from taxing 20% all working class families than from taxing 50% the wealthiest ones.

My point is, healthcare is being funded by everybody who works (also everybody who consumes, as you have to pay VAT) not only the rich.
> When my PS4 Pro is playing stuff like TLOU2, it sounds like it's going to start hovering off my TV cabinet.

I have the CUH-7200 PS4 Pro model which is apparently the quietest model and it's insane how loud that thing gets when I played TLOU2.

The copying times for updates/patches is equally bad with downloading taking a few minutes and copying times taking more than 20mins. There's clearly alot of room for improvement - At least Sony have realised this as the PS5 will have a SSD instead of a HDD.
I think many folks here didn't actually read the article, which addresses some of these questions. Dopamine is a learning marker that is a precursor to rewards. The first time you get the big reward, there is no dopamine, but you also might not remember it particularly well. The next time you are engaged in a behavior the previously gave you a reward, you get a hit of dopamine which helps you pay extra attention to the details surrounding the reward hit.

That is, it is the habit drug. It helps you remember the precise nature of recurrent rewards, and presumably is "intended" to help you get better are arriving at the reward.
Even more Sci-Fi (I think; I couldn’t find definitive figures as to the size Teraloop aims for): https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/floating-train-at-2000-kmh-set-.... I don’t know whether that idea died on the drawing table since 2015, but I guess it could have.
I’m not working on this problem actively but about once a year I go into a frenzy of brainstorming about it.

What I wish for is a useful melding of easy stuff like Notes.app, structured stuff like a custom database, and my reams of notes taken on physical paper. Oh and scrapbooks, web clippings, etc.

At the end of every brainstorm I throw up my hands, say this is too complicated to ever be worth doing, and resolve to change the way I gather and generate information.
Identifying these "things" (assuming you're talking about options/futures) and getting the timing right is the hard part.
Even if this were true, there are millions who speak Cantonese in mainland China. And Hong Kong is still part of China. Regardless of whether or not some westerner on Hacker News wants to believe that.
There is no such thing as ready-made solutions in cryptography. There are libraries, but without a strong understanding of the problem domain people will invariably use them wrong.
The difference between delivery people that work for the restaurant and those that don't are VAST. The first is invested (for a number of reasons) in getting the food to you quickly and in good condition. The latter group simply doesn't, and the restaurant gets blamed for it.
@harikb, what about something like this: https://i.imgur.com/LYU6NBb.png

Surrounded by content on advice "blue light"-- gets targeted for Blue-tooth lightbulb
This also seems to be an inherent danger with thinking that data science == machine learning == AI.

I don't want to fundamentally challenge the ŷ-centric approach approach of machine learning. But I do want to say that there's a lot of danger in taking it too far, and thinking that β̂ doesn't matter as long as ŷ is good enough. β̂ has a habit of not mattering until, very suddenly, it really matters quite a lot. And it's even more dangerous to think that an algorithm for generating formulas is somehow doing something intelligent just because you like what you're seeing in the ŷ department.
Its a very different ad tech company.

Not only is it opt in, but all the ad matching happens locally.

1) The browser periodically downloads an ad catalog (signal in, no signal out).

2) The browser now holds (1) the ad catalog (with some targeting keywords and terms set by advertisers); (2) your browsing history.

3) It then matches the ads from the catalog against your browsing history.