skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really understand the concept of playing a game to be "rewarded" with the opportunity to watch a movie and not play the game. The ongoing trend towards integrating story with play is a massive improvement over extensive plot cutscenes, in-engine, prerendered, or filmed.
steam has it as mostly positive, so I'm not surprised. But who knows how many are using the fan patch and how many are not. But many many of these reviews are complaining about the port and it all seems YMMV.

I'm just using this as an example. If Windows isn't getting a port or getting shit ports, Linux is not getting native. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble here.
Between ECC and tsmc 7nm, amd will continue to eat Intel's lunch until they at least get past 14nm, this is getting pathetic.
The peak on-coil magnetic field in the ARC design (from the 2014 paper) is 23 Tesla. The pressure of a 23 T magnetic field is 2100 bar, nearly twice the pressure at the bottom of the Marianas trench, and comparable to the chamber pressure of a handgun. 60% of the mass of their design was the stainless steel structure needed to support the magnets against the outward JxB forces.

Fusion's prospects would likely be helped some by plasma configurations with much higher beta than tokamaks. At least the experiments would be cheaper.
See above^
Ask HN: What valuation cap to offer on a SAFE financing round for hardware?
Hey folks,

We are considering raising a round of Friends and Family on a SAFE (valuation cap, 30% discount). I am unsure what valuation cap to raise on---I want to give them a good deal because they are the first ones taking a bet on us, but I also don't want to be totally unreasonable.

I know a couple software companies that have raised a SAFE at a 3M to 5M valuation cap and 20% to 30% discount, but don't know how that valuation cap translates for hardware companies.

Do you have experience raising money on a SAFE? Would be interested in hearing your thoughts.
They do make everything dirty. I live across from another apartment. One day my groundskeeper blows all the crap out of mine and into their area, and the next day their groundskeeper comes and blows it all back. Who knew that blowing around dust back and forth doesn't clean anything in a place that rains 5 times a year?
You’re arguing against decades of experience to the contrary.

I certainly would prefer plain text for most content a business generates, but the market has overwhelmingly voted in the other direction.

I believe for some interactions with the U.S. government Word is even mandatory. And it’s effectively mandatory for collaboration with everyone else.
It's pretty analogous, particularly with other colloquial uses of "contract" like "contract of an API" and "design by contract". A smart contract is simply a guarantee that "if you do this, the outcome on the blockchain will be that", where "this" is defined by the method signature and "that" is defined by the smart contract's code.

A contract between two people is fundamentally an agreement that "If you do this, then I will do that", enforceable by law. It exists to allow trust: if you have no way of knowing what the other person is going to do in response, why would you ever do something like give them money or perform services for them? With smart contracts the legal system is replaced by a worldwide network of computers, and the actions that you can guarantee are restricted to quantities or properties represented on the blockchain. But the basic motivation and principal are the same: you want to provide guarantees about the future so that people can take mutually beneficial actions with them in mind.
The most famous related Chinese mythology is from Yantai in Shandong which is at a roughly similar latitude. They call it "the eight immortals crossing the sea" (八仙过海; bā xiān guò hǎi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Immortals https://penglaicity.blogspot.com/2010/06/visions-of-immortal... Unfortunately in a misguided bid to generate more tourist dollars in 2011 the local government razed the previously beautiful port and replaced it with a walled fake ancient town. http://pratyeka.org/penglai-destroyed/
I have no idea what you're talking about. Your sentences literally don't make sense.
Anyone have any idea when intel's 10nm will hit desktop? Are they making any progress at all? Are they just planning on skipping straight to 7 at this point?
'hardware key-based', not just 'key-based'.

Which presumably means that all authentication is done via hardware keys (like yubi or similar).
> No, we just keep making improvements to how we teach each generation, using the data we got from the previous gens.

That's the idea, but there's no evidence of actual improvement in, say, student math skills.
How in January 2021 after a full year of pandemic lockdowns and video conferences, has someone hosting something like this not invested in a microphone?
Much of it is extremely racist?
I thought that adding factual and documentary context in a polite way might elevate the conversation, but it looks like you prefer being rude and angry.
Huh. I would have assumed kapton tape wouldn't have been too hard to add, but if you can do just fine without that, it's even fewer manufacturing steps.
I think a major cause is the promotion. Once the student fails to master the 1st class, attending the next class is pointless. The student sees this, and acts accordingly.
laughs in Ada

-- IEEE754/64-bits: Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64
-- And here we strip out non-numeric values.
Use Interfaces;
Subtype Numeric_Real is IEEE_Float_64 range IEEE_Float_64'Range;

Done.
> other than the one teacher request that there is no evidence ever went beyond the school office), there was nothing.

The report card noted the teacher requested a conference. It's flatly on the parent to follow-up and schedule one. How else does that work?

The article writer looked at the report cards and totaled up 200+ absent days for crying out loud. How is it even reasonable to excuse the parent from just ignoring all these warning signs?

Could the school have done more? Sure, they could have jailed the child for delinquence, but putting children in jail really does more harm than good. What else was this school supposed to do? They quite literally gave the child and parent every opportunity to be included on the child's progress, and even (on record!) reached out in an attempt to discuss things with the parent.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on the rest of things. Raising children is a parent's responsibility... and now this part-time parent is aghast her son will have to repeat all the failed classes she was 100% aware of - as-if there's some plausible scenario where her child could just be graduated and go out into the real world on their own.
I've taken to buying Lenovos. Laptop P53, replacing the previous 10-year-old T410, Desktop M93P.

I usually specify Intel peripheral chips as these seem to have the best compatibility with Linux.

They work well and work consistently longer.

I suppose you could say my motto with my computers as well as with my cars is "Buy twice as good and buy half as often" or looked at in another way "If it works, don't fix it."
It varies by state. Once you're 18 (or in some states, as young as 16) you can just drop out.

In elementary school, back in the 80's, I remember kids being held back. I never saw that happen in higher grades.
30 minutes run time is a long time for a chain saw for tasks where you spend more time moving logs and positioning the saw than actively cutting.

Those prices do seem high compared to eGo, though I haven’t measured the runtime of my chainsaw, and lack of local service shops is an issue.

On the other hand, the same batteries will power their other tools (string trimmers, push behind lawnmowers, etc), so you can have lots of tools for less total money, assuming sporadic use.

Either way, the reduced noise, air pollution and maintenance make electric tools a no brainer for most use cases.
Poked a bit more. It seems the 20Mb claim is indeed mostly only about runtime memory, and doesn't translate to equivalent disk usage.

The entry point in ther starter kit calls qode (a fork of node), which talks to qt via napi (node's API for c++ bindings). It can be distributed as binaries via the *-deployqt toolchains.

So for distributable binary size in disk, we're probably looking at something in the ~100mb range with no UPX shenanigans.

So, tl;dr not as magical as I initially assumed. The trade-off between "bloat" vs ability to use web paradigms feels like a reasonable one. Overall pretty cool stuff.
I loved Privateer. I found an iOS game called Galaxy on Fire which is basically in the same spirit and it took me back.

I wonder how many people remember Privateer 2 with all the cut scenes with the guy who played Darius in the old Highlander TV series?
Speak for yourself

I always speak for myself dude. Like everyone else in here.

they're just not the ones advertised to you

I'm not learning about new games from ads. I don't view ads at all online.
Religion affects political beliefs, but pornography is still a political matter. Marxists and feminists also commonly oppose pornography. Pornography is illegal in China, North Korea, and Vietnam, which are all atheistic communist states.
Why is that fusion reminds me of the James Webb space telescope ....
https://xkcd.com/2014/
> Can you 'fail' a year of school?

Yes, as shown by the school in question deciding that he was actually still a ninth-grader after three years of social promotion.

More critically, you can and should also not be promoted in a particular subject when you fall the prerequisite, whether or not you are promoted in overall grade, which for some reason didn't happen here, either.
Or find an existing unsettled one and move in!

Tricky bit will be getting to that nearby star...
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724

wow
Emails can be deleted, go to spam, go un-opened, etc. The content of the web portal cannot. I'm confident logging into a web portal isn't difficult, and I'm even more confident assistance would be provided if this parent had asked.
Oddly, the Harbor Freights aren’t the noisiest on the market. Westinghouse is worse, for example.
It helps to give a forum to bring up being stuck, and an opportunity for others to hear it when they're not caught up in the middle of their own stuff.

Plus some people don't know when to ask for help, or when they're (for instance) duplicating effort.

Informal gatherings are not an appropriate venue - if this stuff only comes up then, then lunch gatherings are now work, and they're mandatory.
Cancel culture will be looked back on the same way we puzzle at book burning today.

How about we cancel some actual bad actors, mostly corporations? We don't, because their crimes aren't related to hurt feelings, just destroying the economy, the environment, etc. Too much work to move my bank account, I guess I'll just hate on some children's books I wasn't buying anyway.
I'd like to see the breakdown by year.

I could imagine he showed up more the 1st year, did not master the material, and then found the 2nd and following years impossible/pointless so stopped going.
I see why you might make the analogy. Steam ships opened up trade routes that were impractical for sail power, but the way you phrased it is odd as the oceans seemed pretty open to sail already. I think fusion rockets would be a lot more revolutionary actually.
The article drops some hints that the 10nm parts aren't stable at desktop power levels. Normally process shrink -> reduced power -> more power budget -> higher frequency. The power savings gives you room to push frequency (and power) back up. But it's not working out for 10nm. They're more efficient than 14nm, but they can't spend the energy they're saving on performance.
Consider the huge variety of messaging and discussion apps; it's relatively easy to embrace new communication tools.

EDIT: you might never silence SMTP altogether, but a suitable protocol could supplant it for the great majority of its use cases.
The parent never scheduled the conference after clearly seeing it was requested. How is that the school's fault?

And that's after this child received dozens of failing grades and hundreds of absences the parent also ignored. Instead of disciplining this child, the parent bought him a video game console and a giant wide-screen TV (shown in the article!).

People need to take responsibility for their own inaction at some point.
I'm asking this completely seriously: where's the proof that pornography is harmful? People in the top comments keep saying without backing it up at all, and the claims they do sound kind of outlandish to me.

I'm gonna do some research on my own after I'm done with work, but if that point is being pushed so much it needs proof.
Field quenching of the super conducting coils. The stronger the field the worse it can be when it collapses.
Gigabit-capable broadband in the UK [pdf]
I also took that course. It might be a bit due to my less than stellar math background but mostly due to the way Geoff explains stuff that I had a really hard time keeping up.

I ended up giving up and not bothering with deep learning and neural nets until the amazing, legendary, awesome CS231n was made available taught by Andrej Karpathy.

I don't know what it is about the way Andrej teaches but it's so good that I literally binge watched all of CS231n over a weekend and then went back to the start and watched again while working through the exercises.

Just goes to show that not every teaching style will fit every student and that's why online learning has a big future - teaching/learning style compatibility is a hugely under-appreciated issue.

I admire Geoff Hinton. I'm also proud of his accomplishments as a fellow Canadian. But I'm not in sync with the way he explains stuff though I'll always watch every lecture and presentation he puts out on video.
The guy wrote an internet comment and his analogy was immediately logical to me. I actually had to read your response 3 times before I understood the problem. I think your standards are a little high for basic communication.
I mean, half the fun was that you had to run away. There were some fights you were not going to win.

Lack of saves really enhanced the risk aspect of those fights too. Something lost in a lot of games today IMO.
37ef_ has covered why AVX512 is plenty in use internally everywhere I know. Shrink wrapped products, not so much.
If I email these companies and tell them my friend might be interested I guarantee they will give me a range. Same thing with recruiters.

I definitely think there is a market for figuring this out and mashing it up on job pages with a browser extension.
But its like with electoral ballots. The paper mail is hard to copy without the carrier finding out, and has to be intercepted by a local.

Email cam be copied and sent wherever without the operators knowledge, from anywhere with internet, if they break into the mail daemon.
Running out of land space permanently is not a temporary food shortage. Are you _sure_ your argument is even relevant?
Fines and jail time are the "actual outcomes" of truancy charges, and are much more immediate than proficiency tests and graduation rates. You simply can't force people to go to school without also punishing some of the parents and students, who are disproportionately in disadvantaged groups.
Try raking an acre lot and then you will be running to the Stihl store to get a backpack blower after you get your second blister two hours into the job. This task was literally my childhood. It would take five of us and two tarps to haul leaves to the woods over a couple days to rake out that yard, and don't get me started if the leaves were the least bit wet at all. Now, the job takes one person with a backpack blower an afternoon.

You gotta think of the scale the average landscaper operates and their margins. They aren't going to employ five people for two days to rake one parcel. They are going to employ five people and buy five leaf blowers to do ten parcels in those two days instead. They don't live in the neighborhood, they don't care that they make noise, and outside the pandemic, no one else does either because they are at the office when they are busy landscaping.
I remember Privateer 2, with the guy who played Darius in the old Highlander show.
It's standard operating procedure for admins to take down subs which threaten their IPO? It's standard operating procedure for admins to take down subs? Since there are subs, it clearly isn't. Downvoted for being obviously wrong flamebait. Reddit gets comments on HN like StackOverflow does - "I went there once and something I posted wasn't popular, the whole site is garbage filled with $people_I_hate and the admins are terrible and delete everything!"
by any chance is your new company hiring?
In struggling school districts, every family should have the option of attending a no-excuses charter school. https://www.the74million.org/article/new-analysis-no-excuses...
Isn't such a thing necessary as we see US presidents falling for (deep)fake media?

Is there a privacy-respecting solution that you prefer?
Neat! Something like this could have been the inspiration for The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wreck-of-the-zephyr-30t...
Jekyll lost me at “step one, install ruby”
The war was never at any point about fighting anti-semitism or stopping the Holocaust. Even if the full extent of the campaign to the exterminate the Jews was known, it’s questionable that it would have been sufficient to drive the western powers to war. 75 million people were killed in the war, many times what the Holocaust could have killed even if the war didn’t interrupt it.

The Axis powers started a campaign of world domination and the countries not in the club were not very happy about that. For one, they foresaw being next to be conquered. And no one wants to be reduced to servitude to a much greater power. That is why the war was fought.
iirc wasn't until recently available in the HEDT line, but the user base is equipped with scalable xeon boxes not awfully constrained desktop chips.
> No, again. It's not the helping less priveleged[sic] students that's the issue. The issue is forcing successful students to use a new system, regardless of their comprehension.

These students aren't successful by definition. They're students that are failing the assignments. The goal isn't arithmetic, it's numeracy. Greater numeracy helps "successful" students as well.

> I'm not sure how familiar you are with common core, but it starts actually at addition and subtraction..

The whole point of common core is that there's next to no emphasis on teaching arithmetic but instead numerical relationships. Yes, the borrow a one method is still taught _in addition_ to other numerical relationships. The point of these assignments isn't to get to 3 + 9 = 12 (because everyone is surrounded by equipment that'll make that determination before your brain has processed what your retina sees). If you have children who can't demonstrate these different forms of numerical relationships, but only have a memorized algorithm, then sort of by definition they don't have solid comprehension of the concepts being taught, and unsurprisingly fail the assignment.

> I just explained how students who grasp the math...

And I explained how your view of the goal is wrong. We're not teaching arithmetic, we're teaching numeracy. It's like how in higher math if you just state an answer without your proof chain, you fail. The point isn't seeing if you can crank away at the calculations, it's if you understand the different, specific logical relationships between numbers.

These students failing aren't "grasping the math", they're not demonstrating the mathematical concepts being taught and falling back to another (most likely rote) method.

Math isn't arithmetic.

> You're clearly arguing in bad faith, I wish you all the best with your trolling career

I'd prefer if you kept HN conversations civil even if you disagree with the person you're communicating with.
Sorry to pile on here, but THANKS for Hugo! It’s legitimately great and has helped me quickly and easily updated (with the help of netlify) set up a really useful set of online notes for myself. I truly appreciate your work.
You can embrace new tools and replace the old new tools. What you generally aren't able to do is to replace email not matter how hard you try.

The appearance of email being replaced exists in some places, but you find pretty quickly that you can't survive without it because it's still getting used for some critical communication or process.
Reminds me of Posterous (RIP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

Wonder if any former Posterous/Twitter folks at Basecamp brought this idea back. I wish more platforms allowed publishing via email.
LinkeDOM – A triple-linked lists based DOM“ [Live with Andrea Giammarchi]
Content Authenticity Initiative – Standard for digital content provenance
> “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.”

I can't even begin to fathom the absolutely staggering level of entitlement required to say that your son with the 0.13 GPA didn't fail, but the school failed him. Certainly both are true but to accept no responsibility whatsoever is just amazing in the worst possible way.

> As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days.

Maryland requires 180 days per year. So he was late or missed 272 out of 540 required days. That's more than half of the required days over a three year period.

It's downright criminal what happened to this kid, and apparently at least half of his classmates, but pretending he or his mother didn't do anything wrong is a stretch.
I know, my comment was mostly...i dunno facetious...sarcastic??

I did read the article...it wasn't EA's influence that led to the game's direction it that case...i just thought it was funny that EA got involved in the series at the point where they started going for visuals over gameplay. Seemed fitting for what EA would eventually do.

>If EA didn't exist, it's very likely that Origin would have either been bought out by some other company or collapsed

I know...my wonderings were more...

'What would video games look like today if corporate profit as a primary motive hadn't won out and major game studios still made games with that nostalgic 80's-90's gameplay first ethos i'm likely looking back at with rose tinted glasses...'

Still...sometimes i wish games had gone more the way me and my cousins and friends had always hoped they would back in the days 3d games started emerging rather than the profit driven, microtransaction oriented, interactive movies video games actually became...largely driven by the companies mentioned in my earlier comment.
Well, the Atari 2600 had a whopping one hundred and twenty eight bytes of RAM. 128 bytes. Literally just 7 address lines worth of data. (The cartridge has 12 address lines)
A node OS X build is 13mb, 20mb on Linux.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65506/super-luxe-history...

Pineapples used to be rented for parties.

It’s why a lot old decorations had so many in it.
AFAIK RimWorld is more like Dwarf Fortress
> now we seem to be approaching the point where we can actually build a useful reactor.

I think not. Reaching ignition in a fusion reactor would be akin to what fission achieved in 1942. There would then be enormous engineering obstacles to overcome, particularly to produce a design that could be competitive with other sources of energy. Fusion has grave disadvantages (low power density, complexity, reliability, difficulty of testing components) that must be overcome. I see nothing from existing efforts that suggest they will be able to surmount these obstacles.
Exam finds multiple cracks in part of United jet's engine
This might be the most stereotypical HN comment I've ever read. I can't wait to see it on r/programmingcirclejerk.