skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who started out in the game industry in 1990, I can say that being able to choose between competently-built game engines is a HUGE bonus.

At last count I'd written six (!!) game engines. Nothing huge; mostly "casual" games as the target. One of those engines ended up having over a hundred published games written for it, though, so at least in that case I got some decent traction.

And honestly? If at any of the times I was starting a game engine, I could have just sat down and focused on _writing the game_? I would have taken that option and not looked back.

You have to make a decision, when it comes down to it: Do you want to write a game? Or do you want to build a game engine?

Because writing a complete game engine can take 2-3 years all on its own. And yes, that's counting gluing together existing libraries. I never wrote, e.g., a PNG or JPG loader from scratch. The engine with 100+ games? I started work at PlayFirst and immediately started working on the game engine. Nearly six years later when I quit to work on my own games, I was _still_ adding features to the engine.

Games were certainly released before that; the first game I released was probably only six months in. But the game engine (Playground) wasn't very mature yet, and it wasn't until at least 2-3 years in that using the engine really had a robust set of features (including cross-platform support).

And if you're looking at creating a 3d game, and don't want to start with an engine? Well, it can be done, but again, if your time budget is three years, at least half that time will be working on parts and fixing bugs that a solid engine would have handled for you. If your time horizon is shorter, then expect even more of your time to be spent reinventing the wheel.

Source: I spent 20 years in the game industry.
Dupe. 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28393738
The transactions are done over the lightning network so they are usually in the range of a handful of satoshi's or $0.0006, but with private channels we bring it down to the milli satoshi range ($0.0000006) in order to enable micropayments.
For the first four items on your list, I would pay for the hardware cost of the hearing aids plus $200-$300. The last three things should be optional like Apple Care or other service contracts.

Is tuning (and retuning) something that could be automated? Because of tinnitus, my hearing is not the same every day and so static settings feel like the wrong solution.
"It uses a novel underwriting process, which links with a user’s bank account to determine credit limits based on cash flow."
Uses Plaid: https://x1creditcard.com/legal/privacy
I will happily take that bet.

Because if a government agency is involved they will be doing so server-side instead of client-side.
This conversation is rather bizarre. The input to the scanning system is a sequence of bits, read from the flash memory in the phone.

Therefore, the scanning is local. There's really nothing more to it: The distinction is based on where the input is read from, in addition to where the input is processed. Both are happening inside the phone while you hold it in your hand.

It is scanning images locally.

This is totally unacceptable, and should never become acceptable.
That’s what the situation in this thread sounded like: those companies must have some kind of lever to force exclusivity and I’d assume it’s something like a loan.
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Google themselves abandon their phones after only a couple of years. It’s awful for the environment, users, and app developers.

Meanwhile my iPhone 8 got iOS 15 over 5 years after it launched.
When this happens to me with `cargo fmt` I don’t need to remember, I can just revert the formatting changes using undo in Emacs.
My Pixel 5 has been perfect. No bugs, glitches, hardware issues, etc.

The only complaint I have is them removing the proper burst mode on the camera, but that was gone with the 4 series I think.
It's worse. There's a whole industry on Facebook/YouTube of people who "save dogs stuck in cement" which they put into that situation, and the videos get tens of millions of views.

https://www.four-paws.org/our-stories/publications-guides/fa...

https://dogtime.com/advocacy/79431-fake-dog-rescue-videos
Not really, the compute enclaves are for privacy rather than remote management. (So nothing as nefarious as Intel vPro)
Thanks for suggestion! Are you thinking of perhaps like registering a webhook endpoint to send an update to? Would be a good solution for automated tasks running in the cloud!
> Throwing out a higher number you believe in is not destroying the deal, that’s just Jobs being a dick.

From the thread the difference was when he followed up his "I think we're worth $150M" with a corrected "I know we're worth $150M".

Jobs probably balked at the "I know" part because he knew Apple was one of less than 5 companies that had tons of extra cash in a financial crisis (2008) and had the strategic alignment to make the acquisition.

Plus Jobs undoubtedly already had internal estimates for cloning the company.

I don't think Jobs was being a dick, I think Jobs was just defining a strong negotiating point by telling this young entrepreneur that he sets the market price for acquisitions, not the startup. Sometimes aggression is a good negotiating tactic.

They apparently continued to negotiate after that, so it wasn't like it killed the deal.

Thinking you're worth 3x what your investors and your target acquirer thinks you're worth is what kills the deal.
> Wow this article is just flat out wrong

It's Jacobin magazine, what did you expect exactly? Something unbiased, perhaps?
I've used Vision Direct (someone linked them, above) for contacts, with an "expired" subscription. Entered whatever numbers I liked (so, the ones from my existing contacts boxes), paid, and received contacts. Only slightly cheaper than buying at my optometrist's office, but saved me pointless visits resulting in "yep, looks like your eyes haven't changed... yet again". Reckon I'll stretch those to every 3-4 years rather than annually, assuming I don't notice problems sooner.

I've used Coastal and Zenni for glasses. No problems.
RIPE was handing out /20s to new members about 2 years ago, as well. I'm a fan, it would be nice for more people to have smaller blocks.
I haven't really been following, but I just sort of would have assumed that node-fetch or equivalent would be mainlined into nodejs. I get that nodejs is not in the habit of replicating browser APIs, but it seems like that one, at least, would be on-point for nodejs.
Scientist trains magpies to exchange bottle caps for food with high-tech feeder
The Forgotten Employee (2002)
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This is all true! We have a bit more info on that choice in this post [1].
But in general the Toolkit extension [2] is meant to have a bit of a lighter touch than the core TimescaleDB extension [3], it's meant for moving faster and working almost entirely with the custom functions/types/operators type approach rather than the core extension which is integrated much more deeply into the planner & executor and deals with a number of other hooks. It would be possible to do that in Rust, but because it's so deeply integrated with the main Postgres codebase there would just be a lot of translation going on and you'd get a lot less of the benefits of working in Rust. So C is more natural for much of the core DB extension.

PGX [4] is also a huge help for writing this sort of extension. The point of Toolkit is really to move much faster, try lots of things, mostly using the more SQL facing API (CREATE FUNCTION, CREATE AGGREGATE and the like). And PGX helps manage all of that really nicely. The rest of Rust being available is also great and we like working in the language, but without PGX it'd be a lot harder and we couldn't move nearly as fast.

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/introducing-hyperfunctions-n...
[2]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-toolkit
[3]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
[4]: https://github.com/zombodb/pgx
I've read a lot of articles condemning the state of science today, things like redacted papers having thousands of citations, replication crises. I've heard a lot of accounts of scientists on HN decrying the perversions of funding. Science is messy. Humans are messy. Theory of Falsification. Skepticism. Shit even my late-year biology textbook hasn't integrated the stochastic variability in movement of forks in DNA replication, neither did my professor.

I don't know what to take from any of it, I'll believe it when I see it. Je ne crois que ce que je vois.
Wow, that's more serious than what I was expecting and beyond my limited ophthalmology knowledge. Glad that you managed to find a solution.
It reminds me of Matt Levine's insider trading, saying(? I don't think it's one of the laws).

"It's not about fairness, it's about theft"

Which was also applicable to that college admissions thing. The problem is not that people were buying their way into schools. It's that they were paying someone other than the school to do so.
The situation as a whole feels a bit dodgy, but the core legal problem is the guy took something that really belonged to Netflix.
Well that was true for almost 20 years from the writing of TFA. Yes, there were things like boot-sector viruses, but they were not a huge issue.
> What if, instead, the calibration process worked constantly? Give the user a button to press when they don't hear something well, and another when they do.

On TVs, they call those buttons volume buttons, it is revolutionary.
People used to attach much more importance to family history. As best as I can tell, that changed sometime in the 20th century. It was not uncommon prior to that for people to know not just the names but detailed stories and lives of their ancestors going back several generations.
You 100% need a prescription to order prescription glasses or contact lenses online. Expired prescriptions will be rejected as well.
The creators of Ivermectin won the Nobel for its applications in treating parasites, not COVID-19.

The Caly et al paper you cite is based on a cell culture (in vitro) experiment, not a clinical trial. No human subjects were tested, and subsequent researchers have had difficulty recreating the observed result. Virtually all other studies supporting ivermectin's use against COVID-19 have been shown to have serious flaws. To quote a review,"Research related to ivermectin in COVID-19 has serious methodological limitations resulting in very low certainty of the evidence, and continues to grow." [1]

If the Ivermectin crowd were really interested in finding an effective oral treatment for COVID-19, and not just manipulating a political prop, why are they silent on Molnupiravir, which has been shown to be effective in clinical trials [2]?

[1] https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8219109/
This link is the cure to imposter syndrome, this is an actual imposter.

I don't think they're even actually interested in programming and I cannot comprehend why they do it as a job or why they got hired.
I think success at this kind of work has more to do with traits than with education or experience per se. Probably there are some Americans with the traits who are undereducated for preventable reasons.
Maybe because there used to be porters and servants to carry the bags
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/
Well yeah... because you have to wait until 2020 to get widgets on your home screen. :)
Missing from the modified headline on this submission: the actual headline begins with "Apple claims".

The article closes with:

"We shall see if reality comes close to these bold claims and hype, soon."
it's always been bubbling over here
802.11bf

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/wifi_devices_monitori...

The more you look into it the more messed up it gets. Complete with a Huawei guy chairing the group developing it.
8am is already not tied to an area. If you say "let's meet at 8am" in an email to a bunch of people and don't know where they are there is a good chance that most or maybe even all of them will show up at the wrong time.
> and then called one of the men who did rescue the kids a 'pedo-guy'

Absolutely not.

It was in response to the backlash, complicated, and clearly Elon wasn't doing anything for PR. He's smart and has a smart team, he knew if he killed the kids it'd hurt him an order of magnitude more than saving them. The fact one person died in the rescue was not unfortunate, it was expected, getting every kid out alive was unexpected.

"The subject of Musk’s tweet, Vernon Unsworth, had slammed the tech leader’s efforts to aid in the cave rescue by building a miniature submarine, calling it a “PR stunt” in an interview with CNN." (CNN lied about Unsworth calling it a “PR stunt”, FWIW)

People are so mentally ill they can't even remember their own lives anymore. It's all on the record in Google, but I guess no one cares about the fidelity of their own past.

These drone operators will get fucked if they drop the dogs. Because people are cunts and want someone to hurt. That's the Twitter way, always ends up a lynch mob. The media has always done this, but Twitter refined it to a speedy art with no recovery, pre-internet it was cyclic at least.
>Looks like grandparent mode is enabled by default with all the whitespace and even lower information density. What's the endgame? In 20 years only a single letter at a time on the screen?

Just playing to their customer. As time goes on, the demographics of Android users get older and less savvy as everyone else switches to iPhone. (not snark, I have a Pixel myself)
I like the frameworks you can have around for a lifetime and never change.

I really appreciate JQuery (ok it’s a library) and ASP.NET MVC which is about 13 years old I think (vintage these days!).

To me the problem is a framework is like 200 hours to even get efficient in and if you already know X a there are not much returns in Y in general.
> You'd be an idiot to do so, however, as your vision can change with age.

Not to mention, getting an eye exam is more than just clearing up your vision. It can reveal other issues (and not just eye related! They can often see other problems, like say, cholesterol issues, for example.)
I gave up after my Pixel 4, now on a OnePlus. Google has consistently omitted something annoying on their phones. No wireless charging when everyone else has it, replacing a fingerprint scanner with face unlock (hello pandemic!), laughable battery life.

They take 3 steps forward and 1 giant step back with each iteration. I wasn't willing to find out what stupid shit they would pull with the 6.

The color grading on those photos, though. So sublime and authentic.
Take a look at any high quality non-free product and you will see reviews complaining about the price.

This isn't about not wanting to be scammed, this is about people wanting something for nothing.
The Titan M and Pixel firmware images are closed source. If you can stomach those caveats your data should be safe with a Pixel.
Wow, this is mind blowing, how simple and polished this is. I have tons of ideas on how to use it.
Because all the same factors have the same cause.

If housing prices are too high, landlords will want them to stay high. You can say that it's male landlords and female landlords and gay landlords and redneck landlords and atheist landlords and thin landlords and fat landlords and look how many factors there are. But you're just bisecting the group "existing property owners" along arbitrary lines that have nothing to do with anything.
Let's look at it another way just for fun. 40,689 Floridians over age 65 have died of COVID [1]. If Florida had the same % of over 65 residents as California does (14.3%) [2], we would expect to see 28,245 >age 65 deaths in Florida. This would give Florida an overall COVID death rate of 201 deaths per 100,000 people. This is still higher than the actual overall death rate in California (179 deaths per 100,00 people)[3].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
[2] https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest...
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
I have my phone set to make an annoying sound when I receive an SMS.
PinePhone Pro review (including live software demos) [video]
Partly the question which caused me to brush off my trends site [0] and add support for'#' and '+' tokens in the search.

Looks like somewhat of an increase but a very spiky baseline.

https://hn-trends.eliot-jones.com/Home/Trend?id=f%23&allword...
There is another approach[0] centered on a few key textbooks. The goal is to prepare you for fully grokking Deep Learning[1] and Elements of Statistical Learning.[2]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/mffzmuo9fvs5j6m/Study_Guide.pdf

[1] https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/
yeah i think the rub is that much of the internet world uses x86 containers/vms because so much backend infra is still x86 and that will probably stay the case for a long time.

my understanding is that when you're on intel, vms are accelerated with this vt-x hardware support stuff that essentially runs the machine code in the vm on bare metal. before vt-x, vms were dog slow and involved running the code in a full software emulation of the target cpu which is slow because there's a whole layer of indirection that adds loads of instructions for every target instruction executed and breaks all the caching and branch prediction and such.

the rosetta thing seems cool in that they essentially jit and cache translations of intel binaries that are executed under darwin, translating them once and caching the result, and it turns out they tweaked their chips to be intel like to make this translation lightweight... so you can run intel binaries from the darwin shell and after the first run, they're quite fast...

but... the question is, are there effectively two layers of emulation that break each other's acceleration? the vm emulation and then the x86 processor emulation? can you run x86 vms in a vt-x like way, while taking advantage of rosetta's jit translation (and the caching of those results)? it seems really hard as the host machine would not have any knowledge of when a child vm is even launching a process, let alone its identity, and if it doesn't know these things, how would it know to jit that executable and save the result?

seems you would need some sort of special hardware emulation support, but i'm just speculating...

edit: it seems you could also do something by adding support in the guest os, but i have doubts as to how the maintainers would feel about such a thing!
Can someone explain this for someone who is not a web developer (which I'm guessing this is aimed at)? So there are frameworks out there that... generate frameworks that generate frameworks that generate websites? That seems excessive, even by web standards.
Not only at launch.
Google limits Pixel sales/support to a small set of countries. Doesn't even include all EU.

Strange tactic for someone wanting to sell more phones.
> There is far more to fixing your hearing issues that just amplifying sound. Sadly, most people wait too long before trying a hearing aid, and give up because they hear too much noise.

Of the people I know who have gotten hearing aids, every single one of them was disappointed. Every single one of them still had trouble hearing. As far as I can tell, the only thing the audiologists appear to be able to be able to correct for (with current hearing aids) is "make it louder". If more than that is needed, it's a vicious cycle of taking it home, realizing it's not really helping, and bringing it back to try a new one.

The above seems to be particularly true when the hearing problem is heavily weighed towards not being able to hear certain/higher frequencies, so can "hear" people talking, but can't understand it; especially if there's any background noise at all.

I sympathize that your job was hard and that the clients made it harder. But the clients following directions and trying multiple different hearing aids ... doesn't really solve the problem in a lot of cases. Hearing aids are very expensive, far too expensive for a result of "I still can't understand people talking to me".
This may be obvious to the previous two commenters but I want to specifically add that a lot of camera tech is not great capturing darker skinned people. This has been an issue perhaps as long as the camera has been around. Clearly google did some work to address that and want to show it on the page.

I'm going to assume that because the copy just says "skin tones" and doesn't specifically call out darker skin the gp (or whatever the first commenter is) is confused by what they're seeing and reading.
There are a number of healthcare areas in the US that have been protected by regulation

Really, isn’t it all areas?
These people!
Not every developer is someone running UNIX with a kubernetes cluster on their laptop.

Even here in Europe, many contractors get a Windows laptop with 8 GB and a 128 HDD (yes HDD) from customer's IT with the respective tooling required for the project.
> Users that stuck with them are now being punished for brand loyalty

How is anyone being punished ?

As for sticking with them - macbooks have to be the most recognized laptop brand out there

The new Macbook Pro doesn’t affect your current macbook’s operation

Your dialogue creates a straw-user out there that somehow adopts Apple design decisions as dogma - it’s just a machine
> I'm not sure what this implies.

If _Apple_ are forced to (e.g. by a judge), and they can't claim the ask is technically impossible.
> I'll eat my hat

One of these yummy nacho hats? https://www.google.com/search?q=nacho+hats&tbm=isch
Good idea. I'm not sure why drone charging stations with auto landing pads aren't a commerically sold product yet. I've seen a lot of implementations in masters theses and stuff. If your robot vaccum can do it, your drone can do it.
As the old saying goes, you can write bad code in any language or on top of any libraries. SmartCast is sooooo slow.
California regulatory requirements basically shut down drivers owning their own trucks: the cheap old diesel trucks aren't in compliance anymore. So there's a lot of scummy leasing arrangements for the newer more expensive trucks.
Lots of Zenni frames are so cheap that it's non-crazy to just order like 3 pair you think might work, and keep the two you like the least as backups, wearing the one that looked best. They also have "see it on your face" tech that's... OK, for narrowing it down. Better than nothing, and better than looking at them on a model.
that's why you either collect everything as utc or a timestamp with time zone so things can be properly compared.
A lot of the time it's not absolute volume. If you can't hear certain frequency ranges well, boosting the volume of all ranges is just going to drown out the ones you can't hear well.
Yes, you can still charge over USB-C, but apparently only the 14" model can "fast charge" over USB-C. Both can do so over MagSafe:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/19/16-inch-macbook-pro-fas...
and the joke is that for every tool in that toolbox, there's an equivalent tool in the form of 'don't use java'
FWIW, a checkup for me is 1 part refraction, one part retinal inspection, one part corneal inspection, and one part automated refraction/pressure checks.

Only one of those parts can be done without a doctor or highly specialized equipment.
Do you mean tritiated water?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiated_water
Traits? What traits? Is the implication here that Americans aren't hard workers? That's the only interpretation that parses.