skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So its a 2 hour animated feature film. A video file. The video file plays inside of a "game". While watching the film you can press a key/button to "jump" into the scene you are watching to explore what would be a "game" version of the scene, then back into the film. There are 37 such scenes that link to scenes in the film.

It is made in a game engine so you could argue that it is a new genre of game but nothing is gamified, there's no points, progress etc. Since I'm a filmmaker first and game dev second I'm calling it an interactive film.

btw* here's another hard to classify thing- its a "game" that makes animations or maybe its a gamey animation tool? Free on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355310/Nightmare_Puppete...
Oh, you're right. I feel a bit of a doofus now :)

It's been a year since I looked at the Loop-Blinn paper, I had forgotten they did this. That's not a good excuse, I should've shut up or spent the time to actually look it up before commenting :)

Regardless of what they do there, hopefully my general idea comes across clearly from my comment above: create tools that allow users to directly compose/animate convex/concave quadratic curves (which render trivially on a GPU as triangles with a fragment shader), and leave dealing with overlaps to the user + tools.
tldr: not yet

I tried a bit (i'm only using gpg for my pass keyring, but as pass is dead simple i wanted to write a clone and hack around sequoia), but i found the command-line interface to be missing some features. As a showstopper it doesn't seem to allow on-the-fly decryption of secret keys to sign/encrypt stuff (at least i didn't get it to work). Also, there are very few options for editing secret keys (subkeys, managing certifications). Keyrings are amusingly barebone: they are just concatenated keys (as armored ascii), seems to do the job.

I'm confident this will improve in the matter of a handful of months tho. I didn't check but i'd bet this is mostly a problem of writing the front-end cli code to advertise all the library features. They seem to be pretty active, 1.0 on the lib was cut not so long ago and 'sq' (the executable) is still pre 1.0. Other execs are sqv (verifier) and sqop ("stateless command interface", seems to be oriented at scripting, apparently aiming to drive interop between implementations).
Google Talk evolved into Hangouts which then evolved into Chat. It's all one continuous line with a terrible marketing strategy. From what I can tell, Meet seems to be just a confusing way to access Hangouts video chats.
The only thing that bothers me with my various Airs-pod is that they sometimes want to connect to other devices (or, more accurately, other devices want to connect to them)..for example I'll be on a call with my Airpods Max connected to my phone, and I'll lean a little too close to my desk and this little dialog pops up on my iPad wanting to connect to them...or I'll move my phone a little bit and a little dialog pops up asking if it should connect to my home pod...but it's a very minor annoyance that is almost comical now.
Thank God for Kindness by Crystal Taylor
> Advertisers can clearly see how this is calculated.

Do you have any evidence that the average advertiser can "clearly see" how this is calculated? Try this: Go to any Facebook Ads group, DM 10 advertisers and ask them if the "Impression" metric tracks accounts or people. See what % of them reply confused.

Second, it appears that you haven't ran Facebook Ads at all. When you see your ad set performance, one of the primary columns you see is "Reach". If you hover over, you'll see this:

> Reach
> The number of people who saw your ads at least once. Reach is different to impressions, which may include multiple views of your ads by the same people.

My argument is that Facebook is changing the definition of "people" to "accounts". If you are the SAME ad both on Facebook and Instagram, Facebook will report your reach as "2" (compared to "1", as it was before the change). How is this "noise about nothing"?

Third, the documentation you linked me to has been recently updated to reflect the news release Facebook announced. This information hasn't always been there.

Your arguments made sense at the beginning (with regards to the "double pricing" argument) but they appear extremely biased now.
The funny thing is I checked the webpage to make sure I got it right, but still copied it wrong.

Ha!

Thanks for the correction

They did announce a very high contrast ratio so hopefully it won't be too bad.
How do you watch TV? I tried and just couldn't hear it / watch it comfortably.
Did you have issues with the water being too weak a resistance on the back-pull? I'm reluctant to go over 40-50% to still be able to stow it away vertically.
I don't think geographical partitioning is necessarily the right approach, but it would at least force an interoperability/federation protocol to exist, which could (as it did in the phone networks, and as you suggest for clients) allow competing clients and networks to interface with the original network.
https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.46
Interestingly, copyright for video is very complicated, and the remastering process necessary to convert from film stock to digital generally has enough creative input legally to be considered valid for copyright protection. I don't think it's currently possible for a digital film to be aged out of copyright.
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As a background the C++ committee decided not to merge the network TS (i.e. ASIO) and instead focus on the sender/receiver proposal. This has been contentious to say the least as ASIO is industry proven while the sender/receiver is more greenfield.

Sender/receiver is also quite complex (although ASIO is not exactly simple) and most likely not ready for C++23, which means that C++ won't have networking for at least 6 more years.

Personally I don't have a strong opinion either way, I like both ASIO and S/R (and have reimplemented significant chunks of both). I think the proposals are not mutually exclusive: ASIO should have been merged now and S/R added at a later time when ready. S/R will need a scheduler anyway and might as well be ASIO.
> So from an application programmers perspective machine code is as low as it gets and C maps really well to machine code so C is a low level language.

C only "maps really well" to PDP-11 style machine code. If you want SIMD, parallel algorithms, heterogeneous programming, memory hierarchies/domains, etc then ISO C is completely useless.
On a desktop Hackintosh, I started with 32GB that would die with out of memory errors when I was processing 16bit RAW images at full resolution. Because it was Hackintosh, I was able to upgrade to 64GB so the processing could complete. That was the only thing running.
GitHub really needs a feature to skip searching in tests. Or maybe there is such a feature but I've never found it.
We're also still reeling from the smartscan debacle.

The thing that pissed me off the most is when they emailed some unsolicited BLM propoganda out to every one of our employees.
They didn't optimize the ports for the cheap monitor market, at all. These machines support Apple's extremely expensive display and all the various 4K and 5K displays out there, admirably.

And they ALSO have the single most needed and bitched about port if it's absent, by far, for nearly all business users, which is HDMI. Far and away the best thing they could have added.

I personally will not use it often, but when I do, it will be invaluable, and for the users I support, it will be a tremendous increase in convenience and ease-of-use.

If you need a lot of USB-A ports, get a CalDigit dock and be done with it. If you need just 1, there are extraordinarily tiny adapters.

It's time to get over USB-A.
I was surprised to see Expensify's revenue growth was only 8% YoY from 2019 to 2020. For comparison, Asana and GitLab had ~85% year-over-year growth on their S-1.

Granted, Expensify grew 60% over the last twelve months, but by their own account it was 'primarily due to a pricing change implemented in May 2020, which led to a gradual increase in per member price for our paid members"

Makes me wonder if they are being hit hard by the new entrants like Ramp, or if the pandemic had such a major impact on all expense management platforms as people travel less - especially on business?
Less? That's like 1.5 additional browser bars sitting there doing nothing. And we all know how much we hated additional browser bars (Remember the old times when we still had those? lolol).

As of now, it's 0.5 additional bars. The whole row after ESC is pretty much useless.
I strongly disagree. They didn't cave in to a minority, they gave Ive the boot and are finally putting back so many ports they know they should never have removed.

Why they shouldn't have been removed?

Because USB-C is awesome and _almost_ everywhere, but you need ONE important occasion where you need to connect a screen, plug in an SD card or even an external (pen|hard) drive, maybe in front of customers, and you get really infuriatingly frustrated, and regret buying this stupid trap which has half the ports of the one from 10 years ago, but costs 3x as much and just lost you a customer.

The old one would have worked. Who's the idiot which came up with this contraption?

Dongles are NOT the solution. They get lost or forgotten, they're messy.

Reducing to 3 USB-C ports is perfectly fine as we regain the dedicated magsafe.
Yeah I wonder how this will be resolved. The screenshots of Photoshop on the Apple store page show a menu that runs quite close to the notch. Will menu items be truncated or pop up randomly on the other side? How will it work for less terse languages like German?
Turn any `&T` into a `&'static T`
Cheap compared to what you get in similarly spec-ed non-Apple hardware. This will blow the pants off a similarly priced ThinkPad.
The seems very reasonable?
Neat! Now that I've gotta check out!
agree with your point, but one could also look at the performance/power savings and use that in an argument for environmentally friendliness
> USB-C only guarantee 60W charging.

The original PD 1.0 spec went up to 100W (20V/5A). Newest PD spec (3.1) can do up to 240W. And I think apple's magsafe cable terminates in a male usb type C, so it still uses PD internally at least.
Volume and brightness are probably the main reason why I absolutely hate the touchbar. It's clumsy to adjust, they never respond quite as fast, and sometimes take 2 or 3 touches to actually acutate, despite the button on the LCD changing the background - which means physically it actually registered my finger but decided to ignore it.

Second gripe is precisely its main selling point - that it can change based on context. I don't want my keyboard changing. I don't want to have to look down to operate my laptop, it breaks the flow and slows me down. I had 2 laptops with the Touch Bar. I tried every software for customising it. BTT, MTBMR (or whatever it's called), and at least one other. I always eventually fix them with the few buttons I use (no sliders): volume/mute, screen brightness, keyboard backlight.

Then, there's also the fact that you can't adjust its brightness or turn it off, and it's always emitting the full spectrum of light, which I find uncomfortable in the dark or late in the day. Granted, this is a smaller thing which is why it's at the bottom but it builds up the list of annoyances.

Edit: just remembered another one - it can freeze. Most of the time it can be fixed by killing a process. Other times, you need to reboot the computer.
The current AirPods use optical detection to detect when it's put into an ear: presumably skin detection is better.
They removed it because photographers and publishers complained about how easy it was for the average person to just take images from the results and use them elsewhere without attribution. The funny thing is, all you need to do now is to right-click on the image and open in a new tab. But based on your change in behavior I guess that little bit of obfuscation was a lot more effective that I thought.
Wow, you really have to question your motivations when you're defending Exxon's climate change contribution. But OK, I'll play that game.

The IPCC was the source for the OpenSecrets statement (as they said in the quote). They just consolidated the information. Feel free to read the IPCC Report yourself.

Or The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

(Table shows ExxonMobile at 1.98%)

Or Statistica: https://www.statista.com/statistics/531354/greenhouse-gas-em...

Or Sustainability Now: http://sustainabilitynow.com/Docs/exxons_climate_footprint.p...

> The contribution of emissions from ExxonMobil to total carbon dioxide concentrations above pre-industrial levels in 2002 was 4.8 to 5.5%. This percentage contribution from ExxonMobil has steadily increased, rising from 0% in 1882, to 2.5 to 2.8% in 1960 and then almost doubling in the last forty years to 4.8 to 5.5% in 2002. The contribution of methane emissions is smaller, peaking at 1.6% of total
global concentrations above pre-industrial levels, in 2002.
Those businesses scraping the bottom of the barrel can disappear if their business model is weak, it's not that every one is supposed to be a business owner, so that they don't create unfair competition towards more capable business owners
Is someone forcing them to take tylenol? I mean.. is there a government mandate, saying you can't go to (eg.) a clothes store if you didn't take a tylenol first? Or did those people take the tylenol and the risks willingly and voluntarily?
When I got to the part about 'irreplaceable NFTs' I had a little internal chuckle, aren't they all irreplaceable? Tough story though even though I don't do crypto at all, I understand tech errors, I've committed a personal token that had to be rotated before.

> 5. This is probably the most impactful, but also the most understandable bit of stupidity: I copied files into my new repo by doing cp -r ./old-repo/* ./new-repo, which ignores hidden files (like .gitignore). Oops.

I now do the sequence: (1) cp the .git subdir to the new project dir, (2) git reset in the new project, (3) rm the .git in the new folder for fresh committing into a new repo.
Listening to market research = listening to users.
Sweet. I surfed Trestles once a long, LONG time ago :)

I've just come back to Australia. I paddled out at 8am yesterday on a great reef break, the only other surfer joined me after 45 minutes alone. Alone besides the dolphins, that is :)
There's a lot of talk on what platforms it supports (or plans to) and how it intends to achieve that. That's nice but what will it actually provide?

Does it implement an interface like Raylib? Is it a scene graph? How about an entity component system? Will game logic and graphical representation be tightly bound or kept separate?

None of these things are necessarily good, bad, required or forbidden, but they're fairly important to know before you dive in.
Neutron lifetime experiments are done with cold beams (tens of K). Time dilation is completely negligible.
I hadn't thought of the Damore fiasco in a while. I'm not particularly pleased to revisit it. To me, it was a strong indicator to those in industry that a good-faith attempt at discussion on potentially controversial topics can blow up _badly_. One is better off to keep silent and not stick one's neck out. Since then, I've seen worrying trends in academia that suggest it will follow suit...

In the years since 2017, there has been a strong push for scientists to take upon themselves the responsibility for not just conducting research but also for the way the public discussion unfolds. To so do, they collaborate to create uniform messaging so that bad actors cannot find disagreements over details and implications and use them to sow divisions among the general public or, at worst, inflict harm on populations deemed vulnerable.

This creates problems in that scientists are pressured to be silent with their own disagreements. (e.g. One should not value one's individuality over solidarity.) This is particularly acute if one is in the minority of opinion. My concern is that over time, this pressure will diminish variance in opinion on any given topic. Variance will become invariance, and that invariance will then be misinterpreted as proof of Truth. Any research or even opinion at odds with it become outrageous.

As this unfolds, more and more people will fall into the same trap as the author --- dismissing unpalatable albeit tendentiously backed arguments as unscientific and reflective of deep, un-measurable cultural evils while accepting extrapolations from similarly tendentious research that backs a more acceptable narrative, e.g. "because the authors of the paper are women, ... we can expect 10 percent fewer citations."

I find all of this deeply dispiriting. The capacity for science to produce models that reflect the natural world depends on the free dissemination and interrogation of all ideas. Though John Stuart Mill wrote on free speech, his works are even more important in science. If people cannot freely question broadly and deeply held beliefs, they risk losing the knowledge of _why_ they are so deeply held by so many. If that ever happens, we will have lost something truly precious.
The CII Best Practices initiative sets a good set of requirements to qualify. Mission-critical software needs to have a good bus factor, keep its deps up to date, have guards in place for the OWASP Top 10 vulns and others (where appropriate), not lean heavily on badness enumeration, etc.

We can set requirements for certain types of software to get certified for a level of reliability, taking inspiration from the CII Best Practices. Two ways to qualify for a certification can include testing and formal verification; I won't elaborate on the latter as per your request.

Good statement coverage from tests is a necessary but absolutely insufficient requirement for tests; they need good branch coverage, and need to pass a good mutation score threshold. Property-based testing makes this a lot easier.

Fuzz-testing is another good follow-up once these get checked off.

Software that passes the above checks and more can qualify for manual review, looking for common vulns and warranted practices.

Much of what I've brainstormed above applies to complex software; simple/small software is much more manageable and probably doesn't need to be held to such standards.
I created and deployed another full stack app in just 3 days
"for a statement to hold meaning, it must be possible to verify its truthfulness empirically – with evidence from the senses,"

does the above statement hold meaning?

(i know you get the joke, i just love the joke)
Could only read the abstract, and looked up "blik." Bliks are like the underpinning assumptions for a frame of reference, or the begged questions of a given belief, maybe even the axioms of an ideology.
S&P taken on a sensible interval around the time. Brutal tanking of the markets.

Jun 1, 2020 3,104.66

Jul 1, 2020 3,207.62

Aug 1, 2020 3,391.71

Sep 1, 2020 3,365.52

Oct 1, 2020 3,418.70

Nov 1, 2020 3,548.99

Dec 1, 2020 3,695.31

Jan 1, 2021 3,793.75

Oct 1, 2021 4,359.28
Some really interesting thoughts in funding, thankyou.
The gotdot and blender examples useful.
There is a flash drive on the PM5 but I don't think you can get that into ErgData. The security of taking that data from the PM5 to the Concept 2 logbook is important for indoor rowing competitions. So I think no.
I guess we'll see. It obviously fits OS/X most cleanly since the notch just effectively becomes part of the menu bar.
Any source to back that up? A quick Google only got me their revenue, which is a cool 20 billion. Though their costs are undoubtedly high, I'd guess they're making a nice profit.
I don't know if I'm allowed to swear on here, but thank fuck for this. It literally doesn't impose on Apple to do this stuff; they can keep their 28% margin, keep things soldered if they want, but making functional laptops that aren't made to be stared at or look good in pictures is a bare minimum.
Apparently the camera in last year's M1 macbook was already a huge upgrade compared to previous ones, and the new macbook pros have a higher quality 1080p sensor, and both leverage some of the special IP blocks on the chip to make the image even better, so it should almost certainly do better than the C920 (especially around audio capture as well, if you use that)
Not a great fit. Something like Ampere altra is better as it gives you 80 cores and much more memory which better fits a server. A server benefits more from lots of weaker cores than a few strong cores. The M1 is an awesome desktop/laptop chip and possibly great for HPC, but not for servers.

What might be more interesting is to see powerful gaming rigs built around the these chips. They could have build a kickass game console with these chips.
Intel was stuck on the same node for 6 years. Alder lake looks very promising, Alchemist GPUs same. They will have CPU performance crown on laptops in less than 6 months. Power usage will be much better than now. Their 3d stacking strategy is very promising, it will allow for many very interesting SKUs. I wouldn't count them out.
Can't you still use the USB-C ports for the higher bandwidth if you want to (and have the dongle?)
I suppose "it ought to be" that way, in a working system. But it seems that the line between politician and scientist is becoming increasingly blurry (Fauci comes to mind).
I guess I have the opposite advice. You literally just use it. It takes about two weeks to get back to your old speed, and then after that everything becomes an additional superpower.

I started using vim because in high school a guy I respected at the time started using it, and I wanted to look like a cool hacker or something, so I used it for my programming class assignments.

But yeah, you just have to use it. You should generally structure your life so that you can commit to the expense of learning something new for two weeks.

Edit: oops, I just read that you’re asking in the context of helping other people learn. Still, my advice for getting over the hump is to get over the hump, one keystroke at a time.
For people reading the article, do read the top comment by Scott Alexander. It provides what seems to me like a grounded summary and opinion on the events.
I'm guessing its not physically compatible, since they made a point of calling it MagSafe 3. But we won't know until a machine lands in the wild.
Sinclair Broadcast Group says it suffered ransomware attack and had data stolen