skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, when I was unemployed, an ACA plan doesn't cost $4K or even $800. I'm not sure even COBRA was that expensive.

Perhaps your anecdote is from before the ACA, but is it really productive to still be complaining about the way things were? Maybe spend more time making sure we vote for people who will keep it going.
Don't tell marketing
You are confusing money with value. Value is what something is worth and is what people prize. Money is just a convenient way to transfer value. I think you got stuck on that one piece of money (USD) that went from buyer to seller but forgot that the value transferred between them as well.
Even among neuroscientists there will be disagreements about what is possible when.

Seems to me this is a circular problem, until somebody comes along and does the miniaturization and figures out all the software and systems you need, no serious progress will be made.
Can we get batteries that are small enough and powerful enough to do it? This example is powered by lasers, it looks like they have to shoot a laser first at the front legs then again at the back legs in order to get it to walk. If we are able to shoot a laser at the robot walking on the tumor without damaging the surrounding tissue, why not just shoot it at the tumor?
WhatsApp is quite popular in my part of the world(India) and in europe. Casual video calls are never a concern.
Whim? What whim?

Epic poked a bear with a stick. A stick they deliberately sharpened for poking.

No idea why they thought they would walk away from that unharmed. Enormous hubris or a complete lack of understanding of politics? Probably both.

Nothing Epic did is the sort of thing a potential employer of mine would accidentally do. There are cautionary tales to be sure. This isn’t one of them.
How on is the end user supposed to know to do that, know when to do that, or know what to do when the next update to Intel’s compiler that puts cpu-type-5 on the pessimal code path?

Is there something I can add to my bashrc to handle that?
Oh, didn't realize he was a founder.
At a high level, all counting schemes are basically streamlined approximations of stone counting. It turns out that codifying all the edge cases is nontrivial and so the simplified scoring schemes come up with subtly "wrong" results at the margin, but this is something of an acceptable sacrifice that doesn't (isn't supposed to) change the essential nature of the game.

The main difference that Japanese rules make on scoring is, essentially, codifying a matter of etiquette directly into the scoring: they aggressively penalize extending the game with unnecessary moves, which to be sure has some distortionary effects, but again, they don't essentially change what people considered the meat of the game; you'd play 90% the same game regardless of counting method, with differences cropping up basically once a player starts passing. This has far more ... pedagogical value outside the game, than the impact it has on the game itself.

By far the most important rules in a ruleset, in terms of how they affect core gameplay, are the repetition rules, and even the choice of suicide rule has a more substantial impact than the differences between scoring systems.
A History of YouTube’s Closed Captions Part I: Unusual Beginnings
I want to use the app and Apple won’t let me. How is that in my interest? Do you think you will always agree wit Apple‘s rulings? Also the Apps Apple is selling come from developers (and it’s a billion dollar market), so the idea that everything‘s fine and there’s nothing to see here is rather ignorant.
Ask HN: Remote Consultants and Contractors – How do you find projects?
How do you currently find projects ?

If you were to start from scratch (no network), what steps would you take and how long do you think it will take you to grow back to your current level of workload?
Most Valve games in the last decade (Portal, DOTA 2) they bought the IP outright for.

In general I think that "they have special rules for their own stuff" weakens the argument.
Thinking that buying coffee is an important use case for Ethereum is pretty ignorant. It's literally holding billions of dollars in value and building an ecosystem of companies that work together with a shared purpose. Just because you can't buy a coffee with Ethereum for some reason doesn't mean it's somehow failed.
skunk works was an excellent book; for those who are in to audible, it is a great audio book as well (and I think these kinds of stories are particularly conducive to audio book format)
It wasn't that long ago when virtually everyone understood that "hatred" was completely subjective. Trying to remove all communication channels because of the potential for "hatred" means nothing but total silence.
Disclaimer: I am a DotA fan/nerd and am a huge fan of its design vs LoL's.

I applaud Riot for this, but I think they're specialty and reason for their huge growth is more to do with outreach, as jimbob45 noted. For a company with such a focus on competitive PvP games, I would argue they are not very good at balance at all. I would even go so far to say that their monetization scheme is detrimental to the balance of the game because of the incentive mismatch with creating a balanced game vs a profitable one. With that said, I think they have gotten a lot better over the years, and no one can take away from their success.
Just some thoughts; I actually found this phrasing really interesting, because clearly “you cannot have irreparable harm when you create the harm yourself” is provably incorrect.

The judge won’t let this influence the decision on not extending the injunction to the Epic Games contract with Apple because of an earlier point, which is that two separate contracts exist.
It’s interesting that this has been addressed with this flimsy follow-up argument.

Obviously the court shouldn’t let this influence their decision because it was a calculated move, and it’s assumed that Epic is fine with the harm it causes them to make a point. Nonetheless it’s causing them financial harm, which may in the long term be irreparable if in the meantime their player base on iOS shifts to different games.

So all in all, it is a calculated risk but irreparable harm is indeed one possible outcome. Whether Apple takes any responsibility in this depends on how the court decides in the case however. Even if their behaviour is judged as uncompetitive, that may not automatically mean that they’re at all at fault here.
It's still an option but it's more work and harder to use and is pretty limiting in what you can do.
oh wow thank you both for generalizing the phenomenon for me-- as an idahoan my world was a bit to small, I guess =)
It's going to be grating for any gamedev to hear games described as "useless", as if players' enjoyment was somehow not valuable.

But I think you're basically making the argument that games are art. That they exist for the aesthetic experience, and for no utilitarian purpose.

And I'm very much okay with that. :)
Epic's motion had several parts. The judge denied Epic's motion to be restored to the App Store. But the judge did grant a restraining order to prevent Apple from closing all of Epic's developer accounts. That was the retaliation, and the judge said it fit the criterion of irreparable harm.

If Apple had simply removed Fortnite and stopped there, they'd be in a better position legally, and in terms of PR.
That's the approach I might consider. The Librem is out of my reach for now, and I just wanted to explore a mobile platform running a true operating system that is not a toy with added spyware, so the PinePhone is enough for me.
In my opinion Pine64 did the right thing in solving the harder problem first (trustworthiness). Thanks for the sales of the PinePhone they hopefully will be able to make a better performing model in the future. If say I buy a PinePhone as personal gift for Xmas, then 2 years from now they introduce a new model that makes my model obsolete, I wouldn't complain at all because it would still do what it should do.
The Librem is on another planet feature wise, which is expected from a device costing like 5 times more. But do I need that power? Well, I find really annoying doing anything on small screens, so I always take with me the laptop; all that power in a phone would be wasted since all I could ask to a privacy focused phone is to prevent my voice comms to be intercepted (from within the phone, of course LEOs have full access to comms), my contacts, files, photos and videos, music etc. to be copied; all things a 150-200 € open phone can do as well. But yeah, should I have the resources, I'd like to contribute both projects; they deserve that.
1. Fiber photometry rig

2. A 1-/2-/multi-photon microscope with head fixation stage for GRIN lens imaging

3. New electrophysiology rig for single cell, paired cell, multi cell, voltage clamp, patch clamp, etc recording

4. An automated micromanipulator for molecular uncaging and optogenetics experiments

5. a rig for superres single molecule tracking experiments, PALM/STED/STORM/uPaint

6. A set of headmount Miniscopes (elon could actually help to vastly improve these)
Eh, one of the larger challenges is figuring out who is responsible for certain things. We genuinely are not sure who is responsible for various elements of projects.
Using a blowtorch as a heat-source is common in extreme overclocking, to heat up VRMs and memory modules up enough to boot the machine, and keep it working.

liquid helium might get into the device itself and cause other problems. (e.g. iphones stop working in the presence of helium)
Lithium ion is not one thing, one type of battery, but describes a very wide range of batteries. If you are willing to pay more and use more advanced materials for the difference parts of the battery, you can make it way secure.

We don't do that yet for cars as for the amount of batteries you need, it would make the car to expensive. However for medical devices, such batteries are already in us and with all the research into batteries today, this will improve even more.

I'm more concerned about my head being drilled open, metal put into my head and having a BLE connection. The battery is the least of my worries.
> I want to use the app and Apple won’t let me. How is that in my interest?

No problems here, I will just pick another app, there are so many to choose from. And the app will be safe to use, Apple‘s rulings work great for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'd ask for you to post a reply comment that isn't snarky, per the guidelines. I cannot have much of a productive conversation with your comment as it is.
> No they have not made it worse. 1080p encoded at lower bitrate can look better than 720p at a higher bitrate. Or vice versa. Even to the trained eye. It depends on the scene dynamics.*

Well, of course that's correct. Take 1080p encoded at 100 Mbps and 720 encoded at 300 Mbps, I guarantee you that 1080p wins every time. :-)

> In the ladders they posted (called a RD chart) we can clearly see they have made a better selection of the resolution to encode at a given target bitrate increase the video quality.

I understand how an RD chart works, but I disagree with your conclusions. Reread my original post carefully - my point is that if you're stuck with 1080p as the maximum resolution, than the quality you can get with the revised ladder is strictly worse, because Netflix will want to jump up to UHD resolutions, but your device won't support it. (And even assuming that the UHD will be better based on this chart is kind of a leap, because it depends on what artifacts you're most sensitive to. Objective metrics ≠ subjective experience. In several of their comparisons, I prefer the lower res version because the new one is simply too artifacted.)

> Because they've built a split and stitch encoder on top of the codecs. That means the code is built around x264, not into it.

I understand the technical difference, but I'm still not convinced. Fundamentally what you get at the end of the day is a single continuous h.264 stream. The quantizer is chosen based on some rate control algorithm, and IPB frame choices are made by another algorithm. Netflix's improvement amounts to having a better rate control, that understands scene differences and uses lower quantizers on more complex scenes. There's fundamentally no reason why you couldn't add such a rate control algorithm to x264. It might require using a 2-pass mode, but it could be done.
I've tackled legacy systems my entire career, and there is a certain art to untying the knot of dependencies, procedures, and expectations. Not surprised at all that most projects to modernize end up as smoldering craters rather than functioning systems.

The legacy system trap is built on three pillars:

1. Maintenance costs are always lower than upgrade costs. It's even cheaper to pay for neither. Even if you do spend money aggressively to maintain it; every feature added, operator hired, workaround published, becomes a growing suit of armor protecting the system from replacement.

2. Management incentives are rarely aligned with the planning and sacrifices it takes to unwind technical debt. Everyone wants to cut the ribbon on the shiny new big-data/AI/ML/buzzword project, but no one wants to take responsibility for integrating it with the rusting hulks creaking along actually running day to day operations.

3. The software industry can shift paradigms enough that you end up looking to buy a new/faster horse for your buggy. And nothing fits your use case, or even offers a path out.

All three in combination mean you get businesses spending obscene amounts of money on technology they can't use.

It is quite satisfying to successfully maneuver an organization out of the trap. It's like solving a complex puzzle over months. Where hundreds or thousands of real people will be better off because of your team's effort.
Interesting points they are making, it would be interesting to see how much of the IPO volume gets sold out in the first week or month to see how much of the price is being driven by just a few shares.

I looked at Zoom's IPO, the trade volume on IPO day was around 26M with closing price of 62. If for simplicity we disregard the same shares being traded(trading strategies, HFT trades). This is about $1.5 B in volume, they raised $0.36 B in IPO. So, the point that the article makes about the value being driven by just a small set of "gamblers" and not the value of the whole/majority of IPO block probably needs to be looked at with data.

Is there any way to determine the big institutional trades on a particular day to see if any of the IPO subscribers ended up selling in the first few days of listing?
If you can't fix it maybe you shouldn't deploy it. It's like knowing you have a bug that will result in a 50/50 chance of losing customers money. It would be irresponsible to deploy code like that.
As another poster mentioned, jaylittle might be the most biased anti-Purism poster I've seen. I don't own or use any Purism hardware, but occasionally take a look on their subreddit for things like Phosh updates, and almost any post with more than a few comments includes one of his that absolutely bashes the company, usually without provocation.

That's not to say there's been no issues with Purism, but using that individual as a reference doesn't produce a fair representation of the situation.
Agreed, ML will be able to extract signals from this data, no question. The electrodes really are the limiting factor I think, because you're going to need millions placed all over the brain and deep inside too for a truly useful implant.
Not the headline we need to quell the vaccine conspiracy theories..
It depends on your definition of illegal. It's not illegal in lots of places and is a gray area in most places. It's hard to know who would even handle the case since you're not sure who has jurisdiction, if anyone.
Civilization is originally a desktop-only game with a complex UI. Please feel free to clone my prototype, make it fully responsive, and attach a more appropriate joke in the 404 page :)
> Given that x264 already has a 2 pass mode, I don't see why that is necessarily the case. Even CRF mode uses mbtree by default, which is a pretty complicated rate control algorithm. x264 also has pretty intelligent keyframe determination, I almost always see I frames on scene transitions.

x264 will not align keyframes across resolutions and encodes. In addition the pershot encodes optimize more than just idr frame placement. They also optimize other encoder parameters such as aq.

> I think it's probably the other way around. The closer you are to a screen, the more likely you are to notice increased resolution. But if there are large patches of the image full of artifacts, you'll be likely to see that even far away.

That isn't how this works. It's not a strict tradeoff between more artifacts and less sharpness by changing resolution. Downscaling -> Upscaling is simply another form of lossy compression. It may look better or worse than using those bits in another spot.
Yeah, but Valve also doing all of this not just of goodwill, but as insurance in case Windows become full walled garden. Like it or not, but Epic working more or less the same direction.

Also Valve didnt start to use open source packaging software and haven't even made their own game engine source-available let alone open source. Yes it's nice they improving Linux graphics stack, but they also could do much more.

Like really I dont use Epic Games Store to buy anything neither I support the way they try to capture market share. But any attacks on locked down platforms is a good thing for FOSS.
Facebook’s Ties to India’s Ruling Party Complicate Its Fight Against Hate Speech
The interplay between CS innovation and computer games goes all the way back to the days of spacewar and Ken Thompson's chess programs.

With this in mind, I put together a free linux compendium of classic PC simulation games:
https://alternativeto.net/software/esports-for-engineers/

This was a way of building up momentum to work on more serious projects.
I have an MSI 32" 2K with 1ms gray-to-gray 144hz refresh rate. My old Philips CRT was 120hz. The new tech is absolutely better.
What is the incentive to run faster, when a car can drive faster, or build strength when a tractor can lift more?

What is the incentive to do any artistic endeavor, if you are not planning on being one of the world's best pianists, or painters, or singers, or furniture-makers?

Go was probably already solved by some distant species on a planet far away. Did that make it any less enjoyable for us to play? What's the difference?
They're also fickle, so if you lose momentum for long, your target audience may move on.
Specifically Neurolink is likely only about 5% of the time. Its about half each for Tesla and SpaceX according to him, more or less depending on what happening.
You'd want to look at Enigma https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs
Safari iPhone SE 2020.
You can’t modify the process by which you learn those new skills though, can you?
I'll give you a funnier example.

When my wife was pregnant last year, one of the genetic test we needed to get would have costed us somewhere around 3-4K$ (and we also heard people on same insurance being quoted for up to 8K$). I asked the cash price, they told us something like 250-300$. We paid cash price, even if it costed us more since birth alone would have hit oop maximum rightaway. IT still felt good for that particular one since the disparity was too big.

Us insurance system is a racket.
> Because I’m a professional DeFi thought leader, I had never actually deployed a contract to Ethereum before.

As a developer that uses the EVM quite often, this had me laughing out loud!

That matches my experience with pretty much everyone!

And yet there are still the people doing things I could never think of doing and doing it very quickly. I want to get to that place.
Private industry really isn’t much different. The commonality is: humans.
And nobody ever said that its the only thing they do.
Microsoft gets a cut of microtransactions?
That's why they use the money that they mad to hire lobbyists to ensure that policies won't change in any meaningful way.

I hate how this world works :/
The iPhone is not a store. The App Store is a store. Epic wants to be on the iPhone, but not necessarily in the App Store. Ideally, Epic wants to run its own store on the iPhone.

In any case, App Store is the only store in town, where the "town" is the 1.5 billion iOS users. If there's only 1 store, with no competing stores, that's an entirely different situation legally.
This clause is impossible to apply to games.

Any level of a game contains at least some logic like NPC behaviors, event triggering etc. and I'm sure scripting is a standard component of every single game.

Have you heard of Thimbleweed Park? It's basically a VM executing an adventure game language (like the creator's SCUMM VM in the past).

That's on the App Store.

Now if we specifically look at the downloading part, that would mean games on iOS cannot download new levels, which I think is done by a lot of games.
As I mentioned at the very beginning of the prototype, it was developed for educational and inspirational purposes. Nothing is being sold, many sections of the UI have been redesigned/reinterpreted to create a better experience in my subjective opinion as a product designer, and ultimately this project is a tribute to Civilization, not a ripoff.

Civilization's official twitter account congratulated me already on Twitter and I hope my work inspires more people to dive into nocode tools.
Is anybody else sick about literally everything people don't like being <xy>capitalism?
It seems like the key advance here is the miniaturisation. Imagine one of these puppies paired up with an advanced prosthetic arm.
I know Anbox is sort of working in Mobian/pinephone. It isn't production quality, but it works!
How did Covid show up in the bathroom of a long-vacant apartment
Sure there is. You can play the game on PC, Xbox, Switch, Android, etc.

If you want users to see the app you also have to use the iOS system on iPhone. You have to rely on Apple to build GPUs to process your game effectively. Why is the App Store treated so specially?
> ESDF is fine, as are RDFG, TFGH, or the traditional IJKL (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys for more).

Ugh, no. FPS has standardized on WASD over the last 20 years and people trying to reinterpret this are the bane of a positive experience.

Positional keys? Sure. Whatever's in WASD's place is fine. But splitting hairs for the <1% of users using nonstandard stuff (like a dvorak keyboard, which after a lifetime of computer nerditry I still have never seen in-the-wild) will lose you a huge chunk of your audience.

WASD or die
Under your profile settings you should be able to force HD. It will cause it to buffer instead of downgrade if your internet gets too slow, but it will also do a bigger buffer (depending on the device and how much memory the device makes available to Netflix for the video buffer).
They could be powered by little rectennas, think RFID tag. Hit the bots with a radio frequency and it indict a charge and they power on and do their thing. Turn the radio off and they go inert.

So they could be injected into a tumor and powered by an external radio source.

In they're only powered by light a fiber optic filament could be injected in the activation site. So long as the light passes through enough tissue to power them you don't need to stick a halogen bulb up someone's butt.
Implementing a GHC Plugin for Liquid Haskell
What do I care?
We've gone from wild west to company towns.
As does Nvidia.
Can you observe and control what gets into your brain right now?
It is not my comment, I just found it interesting. Sorry for the confusion.
Today we didn't learn actually. They don't mention it being stable:

“It's a lot easier to control a benchmark which is always the same”, explains Rywak. "A game makes the whole process less predictable in terms of hardware load which could lead to stability issues while working on frozen hardware.”