skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating a 3D house plan from scratch and adding textures and objects is a solved problem.

The Sims was published 21 years ago, and it makes it quite easy for kids and even adults to build, decorate and furnish models of their own homes and families.

See my other posting in this thread about "Towards a mixed reality intelligent campus".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27174053

Here's an even earlier pre-release version of The Sims that we released internally at EA in 1998 to The Sims Steering Committee, which convinced them to let us finish and release the game in 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY&ab_channel=DonHo...

That pre-release version is quite crude, with ugly graphics and a klunky user interface, but you can look at youtube videos of The Sims 4 to see how far the state of the art has advanced in the 23 years since that pre-release demo of The Sims 1.

Here's a slightly more recent demo of the architectural editing tools, pie menus, and visual programming tools that I developed in The Sims 1 (this is the released version, but with the unreleased internal "Edith" object editing and "SimAntics" visual programming tools built in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs&ab_channel=DonHo...

>The Sims, Pie Menus, Edith Editing, and SimAntics Visual Programming Demo. This is a demonstration of the pie menus, architectural editing tools, and Edith visual programming tools that I developed for The Sims with Will Wright at Maxis and Electronic Arts.

Here's one of LGR's reviews of The Sims 4 from 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohwbklm3w_E&list=PLXtVXmQQAA...

>LGR - The Sims 4 Review

>Gameplay and overview of The Sims 4. What are the new features? How does it compare to The Sims 3? Is it worth buying? Questions, answers, snark!

He's published many other reviews of the Sims 4 expansion and stuff packs, too:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjH0ugWCCkcF...

This one from 2014 focuses on build mode and the architectural editing tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PstU5SsEAX0&list=PLbBZM9aUMs...

>LGR - The Sims 4 Build Mode Gameplay Revealed

>Commentary on the latest gameplay from The Sims 4, showing the trailer footage for build mode. New scalability, wall options, movable rooms, and all that!
It does sound appaling but, here in the UK, my dad lives in a fairly large city and, once a week, I drive him to the largest supermarket in the area which is about 10 miles away.

There are, of course, other supermarkets much closer (2 within walking distance) but they are not quite so big, have a limited choice and are situated in areas which attract a certain class of clientel (known in the UK as Chavs). For him, the inconvenience is worth it - although it does take 3 hours out of my day.
> Signal isn't hacking Cellebrite by creating a malformed file that causes Cellebrite's software to implode.

It absolutely is. This is the sort of "technically I didn't break the law!" nonsense that he explicitly called out in the article:

> Trying to find the edges of the law using technology will not make a judge, or prosecutors for that matter, shrug and throw up their hands and say “Wow, that’s so clever! You sure got us.” They won’t reward your cleverness with reddit coins and upvotes and retweets. They will throw the book at you.
>Malay / Indonesian is one of the world's major languages, with up to two hundred million native speakers. Actually, though, it is not one language, or even two, but a family of languages with about as much internal diversity as the Slavic or Romance language families.

My dad had a gig teaching Indonesian to members of the ADF in the lead up to to their peacekeeping mission in East Timor (INTERFET). Quite logically he taught them Timorese Indonesian, which got him in trouble because they wanted him to teach standard Indonesian.
I understand the short answer is probably "Judges see it differently so the logic doesn't matter", but I don't get the difference between setting a "booby trap" to wipe a phone and the basic phone-wipe security settings that are already on phones.

In the San Bernadino iPhone case there was a lot of hand-wringing about Apple's password limits, but no one was accusing Apple of purposefully destroying evidence because it has a setting that wipes data after multiple failed login attempts.

Cellebrite does not only sell its software to the US government; one of its chief criticisms is that it doesn't really care who gets its code. So the threat model to end-users is the same, the same fears that would make me want to wipe my phone if someone is trying to get into it might make me want to wipe my phone if someone is trying to automatically pull large amounts of data off of it.

Is the worry here that Cellebrite's vulnerability would need to be executed on a different computer, so it's in a different category? Forget technicalities and cleverness, I don't understand even the basic logical difference between Signal destroying its own data on export and iPhones wiping their data after failed login attempts. I trust the author, but I just don't get it. What security measures are acceptable to build into software?
Ok, it's useful to know that they're not equally good in all languages - I had incorrectly generalised!
It is amusing that this comment thread came to an abrupt end once you were contradicted about what is "actually very important".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14474956
I have a feeling that must be the Berkersheim crossing. :-)

Outside of Frankfurt getting along by bike is great, but once inside i really have to control myself...
Yes, pytest makes navigating automatically from a test to the fixture it uses hard for some IDEs. It is also a bit too magical.
Which language are you coming from? Vaguely wondering if I can find a way to concisely frame definite/indefinite in a way that makes its utility to English speakers seem less puzzling.

Edit: oh, Russian? Just wondering. Seen this come up a ton of times with Russian-speakers. For whatever reason it's an especially alien thing coming from that particular language.

Anyway, definite / indefinite is helpful for clarifying whether we're referring to a specific item or a generic item (i.e. any instance of that type of item, doesn't matter which one.)

Hmm, now that I think about it, it seems implicitly clear to me and that limits my ability to creatively explain its utility.

Maybe I should turn this around instead-- could you help me understand why that isn't a way of categorizing things that's employed by Russian-speakers? Why don't you need to make that distinction?
IEA exposes the hidden environmental costs and infeasibility of going green
ungated: https://archive.is/rE5zi#selection-3573.4-3573.103
> 2. Word order. Again in German, "Ich habe meine Frau gebraucht" (I brought my wife). You don't know the verb until the end. For reference, the kill version is the fairly sane "umgebraucht".

"Ich habe meine Frau gebraucht" -> "I have needed my wife".

brauchen -> to need

bringen -> to bring; Partizip II: gebracht

umbringen -> to kill; Partzip II: umgebracht

There is no word "umbrauchen", of which the fictional Partizip II would be "umgebraucht".
Reiterates my opinion that professional motivational speakers are largely frauds.
It worked in Dune, so might a well.
Very bottom of the article says:

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A few days after the Ever Given was dislodged, the SCA impounded the ship and its cargo and lodged a compensation claim of $916 million.

The canal authority since reduced the claims to $600 million. However, the insurer of the vessel said this amount is still too high.
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Not billions. Also, what do you mean by "cesspit of corruption"?
The Pinebook Pro already has the maximum amount of RAM that the SoC can address.
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There were hundreds of studies done on this issue, please don’t be a science denialist. You can put “sat predictive validity” in Google Scholar to see them all. For a summary, see https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/educators/higher-e...

> Results show that:

> SAT scores are strongly predictive of college performance—students with higher SAT scores are more likely to have higher grades in college.
SAT scores are predictive of student retention to their second year—students with higher SAT scores are more likely to return for their sophomore year.

> SAT scores and HSGPA are both related to academic performance in college but tend to measure slightly different aspects of academic preparation. Using SAT scores in conjunction with HSGPA is the most powerful way to predict future academic performance.

> On average, SAT scores add 15% more predictive power above grades alone for understanding how students will perform in college.

> SAT scores help to further differentiate student performance in college within narrow HSGPA ranges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox#Traffic
The “Possible instances of the paradox in action” section, “Traffic” subsection, has several examples.
I’m a bit of a pythonista, but I haven’t worked on anything very complex for a couple of years. Maybe my experience is still a little shallow in SWE topics, but can you reify this a bit? What kind of situations have you run into where handling multiple exceptions would have been handy? Maybe it’s telling that I’d have to admit that I’m not sure how big a difference there is between error code returns and exception handling.
Maybe (a) no test classes inheriting from Test case, (b) asyncio?

It's a good question!
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And someone could have opened an evidence bag and resealed it, but my guess is you don’t see courts throwing out evidence unless there’s reason to believe that actually happened.
very cringeworthy, couldn't read most of this post, worked with a startup and other clients that exhibited this sort behaviour.

End result was more technical debt then they ever wanted to know, advised them to tackle it upfront, they insisted that users "wouldn't find this sort of edge case when we launch".

How wrong these clients were.
Nice overview, I'm an utopian. :)
I'm trying to speedup the transition to a post scarcity society, currently building a company to automate food prep.
when you work at the NSA, the extroverts look at your shoes when they talk to you.
> English speakers are perfectly capable of seeing the difference between light blue and dark blue, we just happen to use the same basic word for both.

The idea is that English speakers identify light and dark as a variation of the same thing.

Are red and pink the same colour or different colours? What if you call "pink" something like "light red" instead? Are they now classified in your brain as two different things or the same one.

Is dark blue and light blue two colours or one? Does "light blue" become a different colour in a person's brain if it's label as azure as in Italian (etc)?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_(color)
> My statement works either way.

It doesn't.

You've replied to a post about older women, adding nothing to the conversation except to remind us that younger men are important, because that's the societally acceptable way around.
> Hamas is a terrorist group according to the whole world

Wrong, not the whole world (not that it matters anyway). If some puppets of the Zionist state declare freedom fighters as a "terrorist organization" then it must be so, right? Leave these arguments to the fools.

The fact of the matter is that the Zionist state was founded on the homes and lives and blood of the Palestenian people, given to the Zionists by the Brits. Quite ironic given what the Nazis did only a few years prior in WWII.

> Israel has always been in a position of strength

Only due to the support of the US and the UK.

> Not to mention Israel is south of Syria and is surrounded by Muslim countries.

Yep, they wouldn't last a day without the protection of the colonizing West.
Thank you for this, you're doing the Lord's work.
In the UK, we went 'metric' in 1965. Feet and inches, Mph, etc are still very much in common useage though.
That's more about contextuality. You can articulate "watashi wa korona wo kakatteimasu" or might even be fine with "watashi korona" when speaking with suitable intonation.
And some linters will complain if there is a collision between the names of a parameter and a function.
Or you know, maybe we can decide that we don't need every appliance and lightbulb in our house to have network access. Or that we can drop the price on many base-model cars by $1000 by removing the infotainment unit.
I think trains are kind of a special case in telephony when it comes to handoffs. It’s a unique situation where you have hundreds and hundreds of UEs[0] having to detach and re-attach, which makes for a very busy MME[1]. Sometimes those phones are only briefly connected to a given eNB[2] too, which makes all that effort for naught.

[0] Phones

[1] The system which sits immediately behind cell towers and coordinates handoffs

[2] Tower
Its true, measures taken for avoiding civilian casualties are unbelievable.
https://archive.vn/CdUtu
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Does anyone know if React will be able to interop with this? Certainly there are solutions to letting a React component re-render based on its own width, even as that might change over time. But I imagine there would be performance improvements to let CSS container queries handle all styling for a component, rather than needing to go back into JS land every time. And because said CSS would be scoped, it would make CSS-in-JS possible without needing to add auto-generated prefixes etc. You'd perhaps need your React component (not each component instance) to maintain a template for itself, which might be tricky.
Great Polish Map of Scotland
Maybe we get enough time to finally make it illegal to use one. If this isn't mass surveillance then what is?
So here is what I don't get about the "tether scam":

I remember these worries about Tether not being backed by real cash being a major concern all the way back in 2018(?), if I remember correctly the worry was exactly the same that Tether might not be backed by enough real $ and collapsing when people find this out. Now 3 or so years later we know this is a fact, yet there has been no prophesied collapse in Bitcoin value as a result. (It has lost value lately but to my knowledge for unrelated reasons)

So what is going on here? Is Tether not being backed by real $ not actually as big a deal? Or is the Bitcoin bubble so strong people still buy into it even when Tether is basically a scam?
It really depends. If you spend time in a country, only speaking in its language and reading newspapers in it, you could learn a language in like 3 months. This is especially true if you know another language and already have the mental model for learning them.
It is worth noting that the mentioned books (along with many others about LTE) are available online, for free, if you know where to look.
Others have explained better than I could. Here's some a search turned up

https://semiengineering.com/dram-scaling-challenges-grow/

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/13/dram-is-stuck-in-a-10n...
This is actually a very good point often missed in similar discussions. People have different personalities and traumas and some are more suited for stable relations (what you call secure here) and some are less (anxious/avoidant types in this framework). And as you can imagine, more secure personalities find partners in life sooner.

Because of that both later age dating pool and also dating app pools are in general scewed towards insecure types. Doesn’t mean dating 20yo is a guarantee for a more stable person, but chances are generally higher.

On the other hand, I feel, security increases with the age, but for a very small portion of the population actively working on it (therapy, practices, ceremonies).
It's either not backed or it's backed by dirty money. I lean toward the latter. It's probably a giant money laundry.
If freenode does get renamed or reincarnated as a different network, it won't be the first time projects on the network had to migrate to a new domain. Prior to freenode.org, it was known as opn.net (though I never really understood the reason for the change). We survived that change in names, and we can survive another one.
Good article. Makes me think of Volkswagen.
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I agree with your overall sentiment but it is a polarizing comment and it does not propose an alternative. If the group with worse values is better at normalizing their values, no progress is made.
while preact is 3kb and does the same
The 1815 Moonphase is absolutely gorgeous - do you have any recommendations for similar moonphase watches for a first-time watch buyer, under $1000?
The countries you mentioned are as prepared for war as was France in 1939/1940
“Watashi wa” is actually not the subject of the sentence in Japanese.
It’s what is called a theme, as in: this is what we are going to talk about, the topic.

Example:
“Watashi ha hamburger desu”:
With regard to “Watashi” = me/I (i.e. concerning “me”), “it is” a hamburger,

Which ends up translated to:

I am a hamburger.
Or:
For me, it will be a hamburger.

So the “wa” particule (actually “ha”) introduces the theme or topic in the sentence, rather than the subject. Very different from English.

Reference: theme and rheme in Japanese.
In English too. Mesa in English is a plateau, while in Spanish it's just a table (furniture), while sierra is not just a mountain range, but a carpenter's saw too.
I agree with most of these sentiments. I've often wished I started doing something like this 20 years ago, and have a website which has been around for that long. So I decided to do the next best thing: Make a website which COULD HAVE been around for 20+ years, and make it compatible with the 20+ years worth of browsers since 1995, around when I started using the Web and HTTP/1.1 became common (the latter allowing support of cheap shared web hosting using the Host: header)
https://github.com/seaglass-project/seaglass
Boy's gotta eat

>Now, I've added another channel: Medium, where I'm part of a group of paid writers who contribute a mix of original material that's exclusive to the platform and syndicated material from elsewhere.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/05/clarkes-third-law/#indist...
I love the O'Reily design cues here, particularly the vague cover art and uniform cover elements. Had I not known this was a website, I probably would have killed to have a book titled "Super Mario Bros 3" with a racoon on the cover, but now I can just spend $15.
Different amounts of time for a native English speaker. For instance, languages like Dutch are going to be easier than Korean simply because English is a close cousin of Dutch.

Many of the lower ranked languages on this list are interrelated via proto-indoeuropean and many of the higher ranked languages are not.
Dutch is the hardest language to learn because all of its speakers will just switch to English immediately when you try to speak to them.
In few decades there will just not be enough jobs in which humans are more convenient to employ than robots and AIs.

Up-skilling is just delaying the problem we will face when there is not enough offer to match the demand for jobs.
A site using web fonts doesn't force the web client to use them. The user agent should be perfectly capable of replacing the site's font choices with its own and not even downloading the web fonts if it's known ahead of time that the user doesn't want them.
This is a nonsensical take on how value is determined. It's not analogous to voting (or making political decisions in general) -- it's incoherent to call it "undemocratic".

The overwhelming majority of valuation / price discovery does not take place in a coordinated or intentional manner. People buy what they want or need and in aggregate this determines price. Billionaires in aggregate are a minor portion of transactions that take place -- they can participate in larger transactions than most people but can't just will any market configuration into existence. They can create localized distortions, but if they're doing something unsustainable then they won't stay billionaires long and it will end up a blip.

However, I suspect your position may be a cryptic way of saying "There are some human activities / endeavors that I don't like and it's easy to blame the rich people invested in that / making their money off that." This would not support your point. It takes more than just some rich people to create and sustain an industry.
The problem is the representative frequently don't represent the interests of their people, they represent the interests of whoever will donate more money to let them keep winning elections.
In Spain too. How long is X from there? About 10 minutes by car.
The carrier is moving, isn't it?

Lack of money to maintain their army has been a recurring issue since the fall of the USSR.

My question still remains to have a realistic POV:

> What was the tech? Why was it that important?
I haven't read it, but Racing the Beam also seems well regarded.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam
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There used to be a very handy Android app, now booted off the Google Market, called "GSM Spy Finder" which worked on MediaTek SoCs.

https://apkplz.net/app/kz.galan.antispy
"recent" and doing "something new".
i can think of a couple of sad examples where buyout resulted in drop of quality or even dying off. it's often used to kill competition and not the other way.
This is exactly the type of thing that should be in PEPs right now.

It's practical, its forward thinking addressing an existing problem that's really prevalent in the py3 native async features and it's not incremental it addresses the problem in its totality.
It is explicitly inspired by it.
> Containerships don't conform to the canal.

Containerships absolutely do conform to the canals. Lots of ships are built to the maximum size that can transit the Panama or Suez canals. It's called Panamax and Suezmax ships. When the Panama canal was expanded, that caused larger ships to be built to the new specifications of the canal (called new Panamax).

If this expansion causes the maximum dimensions allowed through the Suez canal to be increased, ships will be built to that larger standard.
I don't know, seems a lot of wars start from USA after WW2. The US is an empire and those bases are there to protect the empire, not the countries they sit in.
Well, i've seen pigs pens, i've seen an old sow half eaten by her children, i assure you, even the worst chicken farm is nothing compared to an average pig factory.
Spotinfo – CLI for exploring AWS spot instances
The `spotinfo` (https://github.com/alexei-led/spotinfo) is an open-source command-line tool you can use for exploring AWS Spot instances across multiple AWS regions.

Under the hood, the tool uses the same data feeds as AWS Spot Advisor and AWS Spot Pricing.

Compared with the [AWS Spot Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/), the `spotinfo` supports advanced filtering and sorting (also with regex), in-place spot prices, cross-region comparison, and multiple output formats (plain text, JSON, table, csv).

A short overview is available on DoiT blogs ...

https://blog.doit-intl.com/spotinfo-a-new-cli-for-aws-spot-a9748bbe338f
River barges basically work this way, likely mainly due to tighter curves on rivers and inland canals.
Depends. I'd use my judgment. Like I've been using my judgment about UFO stories, people who tell them and my own experience to inform my beliefs. Who are you to say other people's stories are "false claims" or not? You don't know. And you can't say for other people, only for yourself. Would you just disbelieve any narrative about it?

> Can somebody or something fools people with false claims about the messiah?

I think they can fool people about it. Definitely. That's why you got to use your own judgement. Think for yourself. Can the government or skeptics or disinfo agents just fool you about this?
I highly recommend James Pulec's article on this topic:

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/git-worktrees-the-best-git-...