skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Count me as firmly on Googles side here.

The data analytics capabilities are vastly more important to the species than traditional American opinions on commerce.

This is not competition for distribution of food and medicine, which should not be privatized, IMO.

While STEM would ideally not be privatized, information fragmentation carved up into political boundaries will kill progress the way it works in America.

It will devolve into turf wars as we saw in the past; our compiler, no our compiler! This desktop! No this ML model!, to throw out some anecdotes to help color my argument.

That’s not progress.

Fostering competition is valuable to speculators and lawyers.

There’s one physical reality and limited resources for complex machinery. Some level of centralization is key to human survival. It’s really a much simpler matter of political ownership.

Let’s be real over survivability of the species for a minute. Not hand me down stories of sound economics.
Both of those are important improvements, and the first is more of a life-long process than a task.

A coop ride-sharing app would benefit from a "wiki-map" like OpenStreetMaps which can be directly added edited by the drivers, whose pockets will see more money if maps were better, and riders who will spend less money if maps were better.

The pricing algorithm, I can see, will require a lot of advanced mathematics, and will involve a lot of politics, which might make it hard for a democratic organization to function. The politics comes from the fact that different pricing algorithm will have different losers and winners.
The labelling should be improved to educate the user more. That's it.

What you're discussing is really the level of convenience, and what that does to influence user behavior.
The Sopranos - even though the end was controversial it was the consistently the best TV ever created.

Ken Burns Docs Series - especially Civil War and Vietnam

Nassim Taleb's - Incerto - so much interesting and useful info int those books. Really eye-opening stuff.

Robert Caro's Biographies - I am not finished with all of them yet but the ones I have read are excellent
Preferably with a rotating board.
I remember thinking that the iPhone wasn’t a big deal and I didn’t really care until I walked into an Apple store and used one. I was blown away. I think we really forget how many things the introduction of the iPhone brought about.
It is estimated that around 5 billion copies of the Bible were sold and distributed throughout history. [1] This has happened over the course of over two thousand years. Which makes it less popular than Harry Potter (120 million copies of the first book in 20 years) or Twilight.

And that 5 billion number includes a very significant chunk of bibles which are just distributed through various religious centers (same goes for all other religious texts).

And, of course, the number of books sold says literally nothing about whether a book has stood the test of time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books?wpr...
Any visual change lets you see what you've written from a different perspective. Changing the font, changing the formatting (e.g. margins,) changing the page size, and (especially for me) reading it in a different format.

I learned this trick from someone years ago. (I think they specifically suggested reading it in a different format?) I wonder if it has a name...
Why some catchy name like AI for this? Connect some sensors that measure distance from object and use them.
that seems to be a jet turbine pack which can be 15-20 minutes of flying at 60mph+ - enough to get several miles into the ocean.
Do hacker groups have positive track records of not sharing their stolen data? It’s ironic to pay and then rely on trusting them.
There is also a discussion about this article from earlier this week here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486191
I would argue the opposite. Substance won over style, and this is coming from someone who bought an expensive Symbian phone a few months before the first iPhone came out.
Neither.

What I meant is that I've met senior engineers who were senior by virtue of having spent a long time in the industry but not because they were any better than a fresh grad.

Also that some seniors simply stopped learning at some point, which is pretty bad for the majority of dev roles. They won't learn for the new role and push whatever they used at last N roles because that's all they know.
That's not true. I've met some people who work in financial-oriented companies, or companies with very aggressive marketing and IP protection... well they live up to their caricature.

At some end of the spectrum you have Google, Tesla ... at the other end you can find Oracle, Exxon, Disney (relatively to how they treat property rights), etc...

"Corporate culture" is a thing.
The Wire is amazing television for sure, but the last season kinda sucked. I know that they were forced to end it early because HBO cut it short, but I thought the whole serial killer story line just didn't add up.
The main From Software games (Demon Souls, DS, DS3, BB, and Sekiro). They really are special, and a cut above games like Witcher 3 or BoTW imo. I don't think I have ever played a game where nearly every element was best in class and worked so well together.

The "stories" are brilliant, and the way they are told is perfect for the medium. There is an incredible world, that is awe inspiring and fascinating, with deep and expansive lore, and yet it never gets in the way, or suffers from a disconnect with the player. In BoTW the vast majority of my actions make no sense in the context of the plot. In the DS games or BB the world doesn't revolve around my character, so my actions are those of an inhabitant rather than the driver of the plot, and thus my actions don't destroy my suspension of disbelief, despite the freedom given to me, the same way they do in a game like Cyberpunk where my player clearly exists in the separate plane from the one the the world is in.

The music matches the atmosphere and gameplay seamlessly, with very few disconnects. Especially Sekiro, which links its music to the gameplay nearly flawlessly. I won't claim it superior to Undertale, but it still lives in the very upper echelons.

The gameplay is genre defining. I don't think much more needs to be said of it, other than that the difficulty has been grossly misrepresented. My former roommate, who struggled with the tutorial levels of fallout 4 beat Sekiro. These games aren't easy, but they also probably aren't "too hard" for your average player.

And the level design is brilliant, intricate and varied, awe inspiring, and encouraging/requiring exploration without it feeling like a chore (swamps excepted).

Go play these games, jeez.
Yeah, shouldn’t be too difficult. I would imagine running a signed distance function between the light positions and the 3d cube model could do the job.
If you include The Clone Wars as EU, it draws a lot from that. There's also a little bit from some of the novels.

https://www.thewrap.com/the-mandalorian-ahsoka-tano-star-war...
It looks lovely, but charging a subscription for spell check, in-document search, and printing -- table stakes for a text editor -- is surely going to rub people the wrong way.[1]

[1]: https://www.craft.do/pricing#Features
RMS is too strong of an ideolog, (in the good sense), for him to go astray, others am less sure of.
Can you recommend a resource on lisp? I have some interest in learning a bit of it for fun because proper around here seem to marvel over it so much and I'd like to see what the hype is about.
If a developer chooses to remove their product from the App Store, what is Apple supposed to do about it?

There doesn't seem to be a difference between this and a developer removing a product from their own website and declaring it EOL. Or not declaring EOL, just removing it.

If you downloaded it, you can keep installing it. But maybe the developer found that there were significant bugs that they didn't want to or couldn't fix. Or that the App Store wasn't a profitable delivery mechanism for them.
Concur, someone was a tad overzealous with the Enter neighbour.
I am assuming that all computer players of this game have access to the algorithm which I have discovered. I am assuming that all computer players have figured out the simple formula which gives them the cheapest profitable odds to back or lay an outcome given the commission and the outcome's probability (thanks to one of your previous comments).

I am assuming that there will be punters who bite at the odds I provide. If there weren't, then the game would not be sustainable.

I came across a "betting guide" for sale for this game which claims to advise on bets based on the "trends" seen in the game. I don't know what this means, but it gives me hope that there are people out there willing to part with their money in my direction.

Failing that, the novelty was an interesting one, and it's all about the journey, dude!
The challenge agencies have to deal with, that internal dev teams don't, is that with a contract software engagement, every conversation between the developers and the customers risks impacting the contract terms.

In an internal software project, when an engineer looks at a problem and realizes it can be trivially solved with an off-the-shelf airtable template, that's a win for everyone! Less code to maintain, less distractions from other more valuable projects, and value delivered sooner.

If a developer working for an agency realizes that, and says it out loud during a meeting with the client, they just undermined the basis for the entire engagement.
+1 to vim, but no word of a lie, +2 to kakoune. This editor is literally the best possible right now. I'm still waiting for someone to write the paper proving editing with ranges is superior.
The idea of doing a public campaign over this is so myopic that I cannot fathom the thinking about it. Who’s going to rally for Facebook? Did they really expected Apple to change this?

The ad should scare investors much more than Apple’s move.
I recall that sentiment. I think those of us who avoided MMORPGs (either because of poor internet, or general fear of playing with other people << me) we weren't corrupted. I also recall a devoted following to UO also complaining about lack of domain-building in WoW.
Also -- for anyone here that loved The Wire, I really recommend Treme. It is almost as good, just more about musicians than drugs. Writing and story lines are the same David Simon-esque style.
That's what I was saying.

The value of Element AI was that by buying it you get all the employees. Had they waited for the company to go bankrupt they would be competing with everyone else trying to buy the IP and the key employees.
Absolutely the iPhone. Especially the original. Even today I think you could remove every optionally installed "app", and if all it had was a world-class web browser, weather, and the Maps app, be completely indispensable.
Yes, because that's what all billionaires do. Every single last one of them. Pretty pedestrian stuff.
Would you able to mention a bit about your self learning/practice approach ?

Im wondering about the next steps from Simply Piano in a couple of months.

I have been told Czerny. But I'm not sure if that's the path that takes me to eventually playing Chopin.

Would love to know if you figured out a "hacker way".
Yes, otherwise people would stop paying them. However, I wouldn't be surprised if once they make enough money, they do a type of exit scam: sell anything they can, then leave the business. It happens often in dark net markets.
I hate to be a downer, but these fantasy UIs are also completely unusable. They have no actual users, so they can go all-in on flashy complexity without having to solve the problem of "how do I let an expert get work done most efficiently." I have never seen a fantasy UI with spreadsheets, but the fact of the matter is that Excel is much closer to a power-user interface than anything you see in movies.
Watch the Disney+ version with subtitles on, if you can. That deals effectively with the ear-tiredness problem.
I made a Canva like tool but for personal brands
The category is bigger that smart watches esp. for which 'fitbit' is known. Google is a Giant, Garmin is an ant, in the bank and massive distribution power, brand. Lastly, region/quality matters. A customer in China is not the same as a customer in Africa, as a Customer in Europe etc. in terms of revenue, market power etc..
Microsoft seems fine.
Pooling goes well with the ethos of coop ride-sharing.

The success of a coop ride-sharing app seems to depend a lot on how much open-source work will programmers be willing to volunteer to the project.
What I loved about Super Mario 64 was that it used the same area for 6 stars (+ coin star). But for Galaxy for instance, you would just land on another area of the same planet and kinda follow "rail tracks" to the star. Haven't played Odyssey, but that's because I was a bit put off because of this. Is it better in this regard?
This is hilarious but GoDaddy is going to be dealing with a lot of very pissed off employees because of this.
They could have set aside 5% every year and ended up with an endowment and retain control of a continuous revenue stream. Responsible non-profits would do this as a matter of course.
Has anyone tried to stack and super-res the video frames? It is awfully small to see details but it seems like there might be a few clips where a multi-frame-based enhancement could do something.
AI in 2020
Yes Android -> MBP has been a consistent pain for me. I just tried this out and it worked perfectly, I think this is great.
imo, it,s better to make note of an issue than not at all, to get the ball rolling. the first post provided enough info to begin investigating.

tbh, few things annoy me more in foss world than a mandatory 20 questions form and process when reporting a bug (or feature request) which requires much less to communicate clearly. i don,t think that,s user friendly at all, and in me opinion it is shifting qa,s work onto the user.
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This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way.

That's super interesting. Do you know where you learned that?

(Interestingly, your comment ranks #1 (after some videos) in Google's results for «bertrand meyer slide format».)
The article's thesis is that the free content model is dying, and FB needs to pivot to a paid one.

It may rather be that the content market is bifurcating, with "free" going toward the lower end mass market. Which FB seems perfectly positioned to serve.
Maybe getting rid of annoying to use mailing lists and git-email will be next? Who knows.
That's from UK's perspective. From EU's perspective EU got everything they want and they made a brochure about it: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/eu-uk_trade_and_c...

>What is the advantage for Italy or Spain to stay in the union?

The single market and and access to trade deals EU negotiated with the rest of the world. You may say that maybe Italy and Spain should get their own trade deals instead of EU's but EU's trade agreements are theirs already.

EU is not a shop in Brussels where some foreigners produce regulations or agreements. Each country elects and appoints people who do these things.
$1k Invested in Bitcoin in 2010 Would be Worth $287.5M Today
Yes I surely can, because Conan and vcpkg do exist, and contain all major well known libraries in the C and C++ communities.

Specially the C++ community has seen lack of something like cargo as weaknesses and moved to sort it out.
Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impressed that it works as well as it does. My only concern now is whether I can trust Google not to eventually kill it, given their recent track record.
Indeed. And Euclid’s definition of evenness (Def VII.6) applies only to numbers, which for Euclid excludes both 0 and 1. So there’s at least one vaguely axiomatic formulation of number theory where the correct answer is probably “neither because it’s not the sort of object to which you can predicate evenness or oddness”.
The largest difference is that JzAzBz has been designed to model lightness perception of very bright colors and very dark colors. Depending on your use case this could either be useful or a problem, since it means that you have to be careful with the scaling of the input data to JzAzBz.

E.g, if you scale a color by some value before converting to JzAzBz, the predicted hue will be different than without scaling.

Oklab will predict the same hue regardless of scale (but could also mean it does worse for extreme colors). So it is a trade off, with oklab being designed to be less complex.
You can have a look at https://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving and check your operating system on the left to show a list of possible saving methods

If you have further questions, there's a very helpful community at https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki
Since fossils are largely bone, is it related to osteoporosis being more prominent in females (usually)?
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When did this become a thing. Obviously Ad-Blockers are limited in iOS safari but when this happens it’s an instant close and I never will visit your site again. Latest one was Newsweek. Straight to the garbage bin forever.
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What is changing for EU and UK with the new trade deal [pdf]
> I'm sure that, given the right incentives, that 'objectively very hard problem' would be 95% solved very quickly.

I'm sure that it's basically impossible. I think it's impossible even with full, proper general intelligence AI at scale, and that won't happen in my lifetime even if humanity collectively downs tools and works on nothing else.

Facebook has thrown a lot (lot lot) of resources at this, and it's clearly totally ineffective.
Hacker News news?
> fossil record is mostly males

tyrannosaurus, mammoth, ... da Vinci, Bach, Newton, Euler, Maxwell, ...

:)
JAMstack is...not my jam.

I'm a big fan of rendering majority on a server and then shipping it, especially with Phoenix's LiveView which allows you to write reactive UI without writing Javascript.

But I said it in another comment: shipping value beats everything. If you can ship quickly and effectively in JAMstack to lambda, don't let anyone tell you that's wrong.
Reminds me of Scrivener.
With no lifting surfaces?
well i gave up on homeland during the meandering middle seasons, i'll have to pick it back up now.
I have no idea what this is, but no doubt that it exists. I'm guessing it's a drone, but have no idea really. I really can't wait for this mystery to be solved though. It's really captured my imagination.
Epic Games might be the exception that proves the rule.

Epic doesn't actually need Apple (they have a half-dozen much better ways to deliver their games, all of which better target + support their core revenue audience). Their Unreal Engine is popular with developers, but if they lost iOS device support and those mobile devs switched to Unity, most major games would still continue to use Unreal to target all the major platforms.

And similarly, Apple doesn't need Epic, their iOS consoles historically don't push any high end or involved gaming, so they don't cede any meaningful ground losing them. And Apple has a bajillion dollars, they could lose all game sale revenue / gaming IAP revenue tomorrow and barely even notice it.

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Best case scenario: Epic breaks Apple's monopoly and gets anti-trust regulation enforced upon Apple (something that really should have happened a decade ago).

Worst case scenario: Epic + Unreal is banned from Apple devices. Some mobile devs have to transition to Unity. Folks have to use the PC/Switch/PS4/Xbox most people already own anyway, to play Fortnite + other Unreal titles.

No matter which happens, everyone's better off.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for this post. I can't explain it, but this has brightened my day.

Edit: I thought you were the OP. Merry Christmas to you and all.
I don't understand that article. Was he running at a official race? What does it matter what his personal device uploads to STRAVA since there are offical time keepers.
>> There are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe.

>> This program throws a RecursionError and prints 59691 — the number of different positions the search tree contained when it crashed. All we need to fix this, is another universe to run the program in.

To be fair, the recursion limit is not the same thing as running out of memory. You can use a loop to have your program run further than this.
There was a time when BMW was an enthusiast's brand, and to a degree that DNA is still there. The M3 remains a benchmark, and by most accounts even the base 3 series is one of the better driver's cars in it's class.

But BMW has been rewarded for producing over-styled cars that are more known as a status symbol by the general public than as a benchmark for fun, practical, rwd cars. They have been plagued with absolutely shameful longevity issues, caused by mind boggling engineering decisions, and catering primarily to people that love cars will never be the most profitable option.

They aren't alone, Mercedes has made many of the same choices, although Porsche remains relatively true to form, with the people who choose to buy them being no fault of theirs.
As for exercising, if one's into that one might as well buy a proper watch for that. My Garmin can play music via BT and pay without my phone present. In addition it's tracking and fitness functions are way better than a normal smart watch. And the battery lasts longer than a day. More than a week even though I use the gps for an hour a day.
Thanks I missed those the first go-around.
.... They didn't fail the test. They are having hard times and thought they were getting a holiday bonus which does happen.

Where/Why they failed is because times are tough and if all you had to do is fill out a form for 650$ would you really not do it?

It's not awareness it's people are effed and struggling
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The Egg is not by Isaac asimov.
their development blog was also one of my favorite engineering blogs before they released 1.0
This is apparently thousands of feet above the ground, so no, can't be this.
Don’t forget about limited Markdown support.
The Expanse is also one of the few shows where phones (and tech in general) feels like characters actually use it daily. Cracked screens, casual gestures, they even just throw phones on tables and what not.