skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking initially that this is not very useful in a world where we have unreal and unity. Then I thought about the coming world of game streaming, and reconsidered. Any average joes making a startup could nvenc or amf this engine up. Just like that, no more streaming licensing fees to unity or unreal.

That's actually attractive.

Of course, a set of joes or janes capable of writing a server supporting enough concurrents to make an economically viable service is probably not a set of "average" joes. But you get the idea. These ancillary open source engines are probably the place where indies will end up having to operate in a hypothetical future where game streaming is important. Provided the engines are fast enough.

I'm not saying we'd see a python or javascript engine serving as a streaming server, but the C++ and Java open source engines could well be where we'll see the first indie hits in that space. And in that sense, O3DE might be useful.
> I certainly don't think the answer is to "eliminate crypto", the equivalent to thinking "banish gold coins" in the age of sail would stop piracy.

You don't need to eliminate crypto, just heavily scrutinize/regulate/license exchanges like any other bank. Generally treat anonymous crypto the same way you'd treat someone who pulls up to a regular bank with a U-Haul full of cash and tries to make a deposit. If a wallet has ever interacted with a mixer (and generally treat mixers the same way you'd treat money launderers), blacklist the wallet. Blacklist any wallet that is linked in any way to a mixer or to wallets involved in extortion. Revoke the license of any bank that accepts funds linked to an unregulated crypto exchange.
There are more

While the neurological reprogramming of complex behavior is well documented even among earthly parasites (see Dicrocoelium; Entomophthora; Holy See; Sacculina; Toxoplasma; others), it should be emphasized ...
I often used one before I was vaccinated, and it was pretty easy to breathe through it.
Why not let them run code in the backend? Obviously you wouldn't let them have access to everything, but you could allow them to write event responders or things like that, which run in a VM, which you control very tightly, and only give X cycles to per second, etc.

It could allow a whole lot more flexibility.
Agreed! It's one reason I'm bullish about our children learning and applying math better than us.

Btw, 3 Blue 1 Brown's videos on linear algebra [1] are similarly awesome and of course his video on Fourier is magnificent [2]. Another awesome math explanation is on game theory by Nicky case [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x.... (you'll finally learn what a determinant is!)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
[3] https://ncase.me/trust/
no, that's correct - YC used to be adamant that you needed a cofounder and has flipped that on its head
> The state should procure an entirely open source / public domain cloud stack that would commeditize the "cloud" space allowing any org to run data centers with a standardized interface. The state should then run their own data centers in-house with the stock design rather than outsourcing those operational costs

> This would be far better for society. Compute-for-all.

Yeah, but that could also be the perfect being the enemy of the good. IIRC, there have been many, many massive failed military IT projects (e.g. they've spent decades trying and failing to replace legacy accounting systems). If they tried to build their own cloud, a very real possibility is that billions of dollars are spent creating an open source cloud platform that literally no one wants to use.

Also, my employer actually did implement their own private cloud using open source in our own datacenters, but that's been abandoned in favor of AWS and Azure. If the military builds it, it doesn't mean anyone else will come.
> Despite Microsoft's best cloud security capabilities, it still doesn't seem to mind if a senior citizen's Outlook.com account is suddenly logged into in Nigeria

Geo-IP services are routinely inaccurate. I'm in the Southern US, the IP I used to get used to get me tagged as if I was from Quebec City. It was like that for over two years. A friend's house a few neighborhoods over showed up as some small town in Kansas. I could go from my home network-wise in allegedly Quebec City to my cell phone which showed as a town about 50 miles away from my actual location to Kansas in 10 minutes. If places banned based on these kinds of Geo-IP databases I'd be banned from most of the internet.
What was wrong with the treatment of Hannah-Jones, and what harm did it cause?
You can tokenise most of those pieces of the app as separate blockchains. This is what’s happening right now - stuff like - customer support - can just be externalised from the application onto a separate crypto platform that rewards people for providing good support.

That’s a radical example. But piece by piece blockchains can abstract layers out of the application until you only have your own part of the smart contract.
>with environmentalism having become dominated by climate change

Humanity is too selfish to do anything about big problems (climate change), of course we're not going to do anything about smaller problems (localized impacts). We're not doing anything because we expect a magic solution to all of these problems to drop in our laps if we wait long enough. I'm very pessimistic about the future because we're not doing what we need to do today.
> last 10 thousand years

AKA roughly 3% of the times humans have been on earth. Or .0002% the age of the earth. But on the other hand, that probably doesn't matter much. The difference between human made and natural climate change is just the moral implications. If there was another (natural) ice-age on the horizon, it'd be in humanities best interest to try and prevent it.
It only worked because Google Maps loads images in 250px tiles. If Google Maps decided to update tile size tomorrow, the fix regresses. Arguably the entire map as a whole is one content, and that should be measured as the LCP, but more importantly it shows the measure is just very brittle and easily gamed, as other comments in this thread already attest to.
I hope this allows people who are solo founders and established but looking for a partner who can become a co-founder. I have grown my bootstrapped SAAS for almost 7 years and really need good Sales/Marketing partners/co-founders to take it to next level. I am willing to offer Pay with equity but not sure where to go.
> but there's such a small cohort of people who...(2) are willing to take equity in the beginning without being paid...

I wish there was but like I alluded to, the pool who meet those three criteria isn't big at all. Minus any external funding or being independently wealthy, there's no way to pay potential cofounders and continue to bootstrap the business (they aren't free, have operating expenses).
Ben Rich's stories should be considered in context. If you take his stories at face value, then the Skunk Works were significantly more competent AND HONEST than any of their competitors, or the rest of Lockheed!

He found the bullshit tiring because he felt that he didn't deserve to deal with it, because he trusted in his own competency and honesty.

You can see how all the pieces fall together. Somehow, the government has reached a default stance of not really trusting in the honesty (and maybe competence) of their contractors. And frankly, Ben Rich didn't really believe in his competitors either. He just didn't care because he only writes about projects that he's also competing in, so he thinks that his competence will carry him through (which it generally did... not for the F-16 though lol). What about all the competitions that doesn't have the strangely competence and honest vendor?

DoD saw what a gong-show single source could be (look at F-35). They figure multi-vendor, open architecture is the way to mitigate that risk.
If you are unfamiliar with Lindsey Ellis, she is a popular media/cultural critic. Probably most famous for her breakdown of the Hobbit movies as well as Disney animations. Her reviews are often more positive then what you would expect from a more traditional film critic, but do point out troublesome aspects of media as well as the culture around it.

I’m not a media critic my self and will do a terrible job summarizing her point in a paragraph, a point which took her weeks to formulate, film and edit to a 40 minute video essay.

My gist is that people reacted just as badly to Mel Brooks back in his days to his movies as the supposed ‘twitter mob’ does today. Mel Brooks even set him self some boundaries about which lines he shouldn’t cross, what not to make fun of etc. Mel Brooks even criticized other film makers for stepping over their boundaries in a subject matter that was too sensitive. That is, if you couldn’t make a Mel Brooks movie today, then you couldn’t make a Mel Brooks movie back then either.
tus – Open Protocol for Resumable File Uploads
True, but this situation has always existed with any higher level languages. Ultimately someone will have to write patches for binaries, even.
I'm trying hard, but I absolutely cannot fathom how these "positive effects" can outbalance even 1% of the disastrous consequences of climate change. We (i.e. mostly undeveloped countries) are about to experience decades of extreme hunger, deadly hotness and critical environmental events (tornadoes, floods...). That the Arctic ice floe melts won't bring any positive consequence except for the fact that it will increase trades and shipping with cargoes and will thus lead to more emissions. The same goes for plants: many species will not survive to the environmental changes so CO2 will stay roughly the same. And it goes without saying that it's far from being the only metrics at play there.
That's nuts, dude

I'd take ONE top faang engineer over 8 government software contractors. There's so much tribal knowledge out there that people in the Midwest just don't have, not to mention a can-do attitude.

It blew my mind the first time I worked with a guy from Microsoft on something. We were having issues with some code, and he just popped open the kernel and started actively debugging things that I'd only vaguely even heard about. I feel like I was twice as good at engineering after that experience alone.

I had the same experience from the other direction later on.. a team of smart, hard-working coders had been dealing with stability/perf issues for years on some product. I was able to root cause and straighten all of them out in a couple of weeks, even though this was in an area of software development using a set of tools I'd never touched before.

I'll bet a single FAANG-hardened code wizard could outperform 20 or 30 government coders.
A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long Covid’
Is there a list of domains that are blacklisted here?
Microsoft and AWS (not sure about GCP) already provide data centers for the exclusive use of the US government and with specialized monitoring and access.
Gorillas had SEC-holes, now patched but user data might already leaked
Congrats on the launch! I really hope you guys have some luck unseating some of the rough products in this niche today like Alteryx. They're terribly unpleasant to use and Enso seems like a huge improvement.
Not sure what you mean about Haskell. Haskell is seeing more activity than it has even seen!
Ebola has in the past escaped from labs.

https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/index.html

(Marburg virus is a variant of Ebola)
I can't help but imagine that Tournai and other towns during the late Middle Ages or early Renaissance years smelled of human waste, but I appreciate the lofty goal of filling modern communities with fresh air.
That's probably part of it, but I think the root is that a college campus is designed for people to use it without cars. Food, stores, classrooms, places to sit and meet are all built in and connected via walkways. Cars become unnecessary once you get to campus
There are plenty of small towns that can be managed and organized according to the principles of the article, and personally I think it's a great idea. I'm referring more to the idea of building a small town, presumably starting from scratch, as if you were playing Sim City or Cities: Skylines.

I've never heard of Marfa but wikipedia suggests it was originally built around the 1880s as a Railroad Water Stop. The analogue today would be a "town" around a highway rest stop, which is generally not going to be built at human scale or with pre-war zoning and architecture.

> "A desirable place to live / visit" is its own economic engine

Absolutely. The major issue here is that if you're building a small town from scratch, it's not a desirable place to live / visit until it is built. And it's not "built" until you have several hundred people, at least, living there. But those people aren't going to want to build houses and live there if it's not a desirable place to live. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.
If you can't afford $8,000, you can always declare bankruptcy.

I'm both mocking the healthcare cartels and giving you a genuine solution.

Universal healthcare doesn't solve the supply issue.
The gypsy moth problem where I'm from seems like it could become genuinely catastrophic in a few years. That or we figure out how to seed clouds with BTK /s
Can't believe a global pandemic is hurting quality of life.

What has this world -- or more importantly san Francisco, come to??
The right way to think about models at this scale is complexity isn't "Accurate" vs. "Inaccurate"; it's to use probabilistic/Bayesian reasoning. No map is a perfect representation of the territory, and no model can encapsulate the entirety of the earth. That doesn't mean maps and models are useless.

A couple counterpoints from former climate skeptics:

- Richard Mueller is a prominent physicist who founded an institute to debunk anthropogenic climate change, only to change his mind after thorough examination of the data. https://youtu.be/Sme8WQ4Wb5w

- Jerry Taylor is a libertarian and former climate debunker for the Cato Institute; a noteworthy pivot moment was speaking to a risk analyst for a financial institution, whose job it is to make bets on complex systemic risks in the context of uncertainty. He claimed that from a financial lens, AGW was a slam-dunk case for mitigation, not because of the certainty of any one model, but of the full probability distribution in aggregate. https://www.reckonings.show/episodes/17
> apple new OS still works on very old machine

Very old Apple machine maybe.
It's not a strong rejection. It's two things:

1) I'm annoyed that US tries to impose its cultural norms on all other countries in the world, like they have monopoly on some absolute truth. Some of their cultural norms are weird and repulsive.

2) They include huge fragments dedicated to the ideology in all the movies and all the books, like it is obligatory by law. E.g. when I open almost any recent Sci Fi book of US author, it would be filled with graphic descriptions of various sexual deviations. Or something even less relevant, e.g. that "half of the country is filled with dumb bigots supporting Republican party". I didn't buy the book to read about US politics, I don't care. I want my Sci Fi, not read about gender 33 and gender 45 group sex orgy every second page.

I just made a conclusion that it's simply not worth the time to watch recent US movies and read US books.

It has almost nothing to do with equal rights, etc, etc. Besides, like I said in the other comment, including this in the movies doesn't make people equal. People at Amazon will work for measly pay, while Bezos will continue to get richer. Black people will be put in jails instead of giving them education and jobs - including them in the movies doesn't change that a single bit.
Central planning would lead to a lot of people starving too death. That always happens when central planning is tried because farmers have no incentive to work. So if a few billion people die that would "solve" the climate change problem, but we won't like the solution.
I didn't say my hires would be public sector. They just have to produce something that is freely available to the public sector and meets a specific public sector need.
That's likely a consideration, as are the concentrated sources of value that are classrooms and labs with face-to-face instruction, as well as interaction (both social and educational) among students. Online education is reducing the edge of the former, though the latter is still hard to replicate outside of a college town.
I wouldn't call more another massive privatized infrastructure "good" even if it does its job in the the short term. I would rather the government gain autonomy even if it means temporary adjustment pain.
Nintendo Switch OLED: Why It's Coming Now
Game engines have a unique cycle where cutting edge tech in one year has often turned into a kind technical debt a few years down the road. Thankfully, that cycle has slowed down a lot and things have started to stabilize in major areas like asset pipelines and editing (the true core of modern engines). But it still means that the decades of head start that one might assume shrink down because of the churn.

If you can fund and build a huge skilled team for about five years, you can still catch up enough to cover some game genres competitively and expand from there. But how do you recoup these costs in a market that is now clearly in a race to hit rock bottom?
The reason Soros gets such hate is straight up antisemitism. The dude's Jewish. The "globalist" epithet is a modern reworking of the old "international Jewish banker" stereotype. That particular dogwhistle doesn't apply to Bezos.
America, in contrast with most other countries, has very little cultural infrastructure to guide people. Freedom and individualism (however shallow) is emphasized.

To quote an american catholic saying something very uncatholic, but very american: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and the mystery of human life.”

We should not be surprised that into this psychic vacuum rushes various alternatives such as self-help, sports-worship and so forth.
> What they needed was a town that was small enough that they could come up and elbow the existing citizenry, someplace where land was cheap, where they could come in and buy up a bunch of land and kind of host their incoming colonists. And they wanted a place that had no zoning, because they wanted to be able to live in nontraditional housing situations and not have to go through the rigamarole of building or buying expensive homes or preexisting homes.

Is this the kind of bad scenario that NIMBY activists organize to prevent (despite the issues created by their zoning policies not letting people move in)?
I didn’t see any mention of state-sponsored hackers in the article apart from some hand wavy associations. Care to elaborate?
Oops, I meant to write “a ton of it at a lower cost to enjoyment ratio”.
As long as there's no nicotine, I don't see why not. Nicotine will raise your blood pressure short-term.
Maybe I can one day achieve my dream of home grown olive oil... living in zone 6b.

Also, what is up with all the perfectly relevant comments getting downvoted here?
My reading of the joke was that it wasn't about Aquinas's question/answers/objections/resolution style, but just suggesting that Aquinas got a lot of things wrong but got them wrong very clearly, making him a useful person to argue against in order to develop better answers to his questions.
According to the article these specific bats involved in the research are very small.
Solid and helpful documentation, should get you started off really quick! https://o3de.org/docs/api/gems/camera/

No, not really. Besides a bunch of video guides, there's barely anything that you can read. Highly disappointed with the launch, maybe it'll pick up later..?
Toxoplasma is dormant in humans.

What is really interesting – how human toxoplasma prevalence varies per country.
>BE is practically dead anyway.

It is the default byte order in Java bytecode.
>> Source code is just the specification of the program, and the compiler is the code generation tool.

Compilers generate machine code. When I said "all of the original specifications and code generation tools", I was referring to tools that generate SOURCE code using models or specification languages such as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Not...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Modeling_Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

These tools use models or specifications as input and generate source code output.

Frequently these are expensive, proprietary tools that are intended to let semi-technical domain experts build solutions without needing to know how to program computers. They are the previous iteration of "no code" / "low code" tools.

What happens if the model tool company goes out of business?

What happens if the model tool company gets acquired and the new owner decides to raise the prices too much and some of their customers cannot afford to pay?

What happens to all of the generated source code produced by these tools when the business using the generated source code needs changes made, but no longer has the models or tools?
Hear me out, I don't buy this. NY would have never approved operating a power plant that did such damage to the lake.

Notice they mentioned "surface temperature". Many lakes are naturally stratified in summer. Especially lakes deep for their size. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_stratification

Indeed, Seneca lake is very deep, and naturally thermally stratified in summer:

> Because of Seneca Lake's great depth its temperature remains a near-constant 39 °F (4 °C).[3] In summer the top 10 to 15 feet (3.0 to 4.6 m) warms to 70–80 °F (21–27 °C)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Lake_(New_York)

I think crypto mining is a huge waste of energy. But this article has an ax to grind. A simpler explanation for warm surface temps is a warmer than usual summer.

Indeed, NY state has had two major heat waves already this year
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Is that the paper they had retracted due to lack of reproducibility? Or the one where they claim vaccines lead to autism?

I forget because the authors have had papers on their vaccine research retracted for various reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Shoenfeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Shaw_(neuroscienti...

(It talks about Lucija Tomljenovic in there, but Shaw isn't much better)

Or the fact that ASIA hasn't been confirmed by any reproducible study?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune/inflammatory_syndro...

You try and stave off criticism to play concern troll by making the claim you are "more vaccinated" than everyone else. But you are peddling junk science about other vaccines to discredit this vaccine.
> It's supporting infrastructure that needs to be able to withstand reasonably anticipated forces of nature.

Hackers are not a force of nature, they are criminals. This is absolutely no different than someone picking the lock to your front door and stealing all you own. Even if you forgot to lock your door, or failed to install steal bars over your windows, its still not your fault if your house is broken into.