skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In this idea lurks the solipsism that language circumscribes our reality.

Or vice-versa. The result is the same - without a shared experience, communication is difficult, as anyone who goes abroad inevitably finds out. “If a lion could speak, we would not understand him”
Congrats on the release!

I can only say anecdotally from my own experience, but the games we had listed for a price got 1% or less of the downloads of the same game after we made it free. People complain about free with IAP, but the $ shows otherwise.
> This is the university that started it all

The Open University (UK) has offered decently-regarded remote degree programs since 1969.

In the 1970s they used to show lectures on national broadcast TV in the otherwise-unused hours of the day. Was cool.

https://www.open.ac.uk
Interesting, you can see how it feminizes faces quite clearly in the examples of Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Gates looks kind of like Ellen DeGeneres to me in the anime version.
A browser extension (these were called "toolbars" or "BHOs" in Web 1.0) is the only way to continue capturing searches and direct them to your engine.

You.com will quickly figure out that endpoint protection software ("Antivirus") doesn't care how amazing you are or how you are different from the thousand other privacy search engines and labels all of these as "Potentially Unwanted Programs" and nukes them from orbit.
Hey at least your backup server wasn't SSHFS mounted on your server and wiped also!
And that puts more people at home looking at their surroundings thinking about how it might make sense to upgrade. "Well, I'll be looking at this place another 7+ hours a day." Which then puts demand on various hardware supplies and tradespeople.

In our case, with the real estate market so hot, it makes sense to upgrade. Selling and buying a house has a stamp duty here of $50k on a $1m house, meaning it's fairly easy to justify $50k on internal renovations (updating bathrooms, flooring, etc) rather than upping and moving.
Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Political Changes Demanded
New bipartisan bill takes aim at algorithms
Nah, I wouldn’t have tried to run IntelliJ from windows at all, or I’d have run Mingw or just booted to Linux.

Or just gone MacOS as I’ve done for 15 years. I tried out windows out of exasperation for Apple’s latest intel lemons and out of curiosity, wondering if the grass has finally grown on the other side of the wall. Nope, still the same
This may not be age appropriate depending on your kid, but the (free) CS50 course for games from Harvard [1] is outstanding and accessible to someone with a beginner level of experience. It's not as intro level as something like Scratch would be, but it's very practical hands on learning with tons of resources for anyone who wants to get "serious" about game programming.

[1] https://cs50.harvard.edu/games/2018/
> I get German Greens have a very specific agenda for historical reasons, but sheesh.

Germany has been ruled by the CDU for the last 16 years so I'm not sure what exactly the Greens have to do with the current energy policies of Germany?
Read it in whatever order, just make sure to do all the things inside one enclosure, before moving onto a bigger one.
People ‘unvaccinated by choice’ in Singapore excluded from free Covid treatment
I mean, maybe?

We had an offshore subsidiary in India. The problems with it were LEGION.

1. The key issue was overall quality. I'm sure it's possible to get good code out of an offshore team, but we couldn't. Their contributions to our code base comprise the lion's share of the technical debt we're carrying.

2. Time. Working asynchronously is really, really hard, even without any other issues floating around. I wouldn't want to work async with the best devs I've ever known, let alone a "regular" dev.

3. Culture. Local cultural differences can KILL developmental communication. If the local customs discourage saying "no, I don't understand" or "no, we can't do it that way" or whatever, then you end up with bad code and a worse product even if you get anything at all out of it. (I have my biases here, but I'm trying to frame this as a mismatch of expectations and not, as some might, an example one way being Good and the other Bad.)

I might be willing to work with proven, reliable, highly communicative resources at a 6 hour offset, but a new hire on the other side of the planet working local hours? No way.
> 1. What will the net online time be?

Hard to say tbh. But these reactors probably aren't offline as much as you think. They shut down for 1 month every 18-24 months for refueling.

> 2. Spent fuel?

France is the world leader in this regard. Remember that 17% of France's entire power comes from _recycled_ nuclear. But if you want to see what their entire nuclear waste. This is _decades_ worth, and I'm betting much smaller than you expected.[0] (coal is doing this on a a daily or weekly basis). Just for fun, let's look at Russia's too.[1] We're literally just talking a warehouse. People vastly overestimate the waste and what to do with it. It is fine where it is for hundreds of years. The only "problem" that we have with "long term storage" is how to store it somewhere where if somehow all knowledge was lost that future humans with no radiation detecting equipment could accidentally release waste (quite a high bar, and not one we're concerned with other long lasting waste like lead or heavy metals). We have a few hundred years to figure that out.

> 3. Proliferation risk?

None? It is France. They already have nuclear weapons. But while we're talking about it, Megatons to Megawatts[2] has been the best deproliferation project in history, reducing the number of nuclear warheads by over 20,000.

> 4. Accident mitigation?

Very low. This is also over estimated. We have a very early reactor which no other country besides Russia built because it had the ability to explode. And we have another event where we didn't know earthquakes could happen of that size until basically right before said earthquake happened. These are major disasters, but the two should not be conflated. Even including these, they are far less environmentally damaging than the fossil fuels we've been using. The major problem with nuclear is that disasters are both temporally and spatially localized. There's advantages and disadvantages to this in terms of dealing with the consequences. On one hand, it is a lot to clean up. On the other hand the country that created the disaster is the one that suffers the most (as opposed to what we're seeing with oil spills and the entire climate crisis, which is not temporally localized and thus the danger is not weighted properly).

[0] https://twitter.com/Orano_usa/status/1182662569619795968

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5uN0bZBOic&t=105s

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
Except most manufacturers are losing money on every EV they sell.
ILM and Pixar both started out as subsidiaries of Lucasfilm. None of them were meaningfully set up for actual independence as much to minimize risk for the companies they spawned from, and it kind of makes sense what happened to them. Parasitic companies make the most beautiful of things, but ultimately can't really be separated for very long.
I don't see how that is relevant.
It fizzled due to FUD. Existing plants work and are defensible. The waste can be stored safely.

In emerging economies new designs can be used, but they'll probably have to be trialed in a developed economy. You could also pursue economic policy that has developing economies fund the research instead of letting them expect handouts.
Taking Procedural Movie-quality 3D asset tools and putting them in the hands of small studios to lift their games closer to AAA production values sounds like a smart play by Unity.

It's similar to unreal acquiring Quixel Megascans [1] so developers can just import high quality 3D meshes into their levels. Or Ninite [2] allowing artists to work without worrying about system polygon limits.

Seems like both tools (Unity, Unreal) are growing even further beyond mere rendering or in-game engines into full game construction tool-sets which empower developers during the entire game's production.

As 3D hardware grows in power, what was a "movie quality" asset and too complex for realtime rendering becomes a "standard AAA quality realtime asset." Especially as all engines bring forward a technology like Ninite.

[1] https://respawnfirst.com/unreal-engine-5-assets-powered-paki...

[2] https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Na...
I don't know how common it is, but a lot of the English writing I've seen from years gone by was written using extremely long continuous sentences.[1][2] I find it hard to parse some of it, because of having to mentally maintain so much "sentence state".

For example, from Robinson Crusoe:

"He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind."

Orwell's style is much more well-ordered and understandable, IMO. Maybe the GP is referring to something like that?

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/521/pg521-images.html

[2] https://archive.org/details/lettersfromegypt0000nigh
The one thing I could think of while reading the article, this guy Denard's story would make a great movie! Despite the obvious nastiness, he seems to have lived a colorful life.

I know it is wrong to popularize such characters by making movies about them, but damn, such stories are interesting. I guess there is a reason bad boy stories (like Netflix's Narcos show) are popular
It's older than that, gmail (also maybe MSN messenger?) used to have underscores italicize text, and asterisks would bold text.
Students Eat Less Meat After Studying Meat Ethics
I agree. In my case, I have a NNTP server, but would also be OK to have a web forum and mailing list which bridges to it. The web interface could be any as long as the conversation format maps to NNTP, is readable and writable in usual NNTP clients without difficulty, that the formats are readable just fine as plain text, and that even if JavaScripts and CSS are disabled that it must display a link to the NNTP. I want to treat the NNTP as primary, though, even if other interfaces are also available.

This can either be done on my computer (and read the SQLite database containing the messages directly; also will need to be compatible with what I have), or on some remote service which the messages are mirrored (and then I can set up a cron job if I wanted to). However, I have not found a suitable one for my specific use.

(Also, my NNTP server is not currently in use by anyone other than myself, it seems. However, I would like others who are interested in my projects to discuss there. There is also a IRC channel for discussion, which also isn't used (there are a few people on there, but nobody else other than myself seems to write messages there). IRC logs are kept.)
With Cases Piling Up, an Eviction Crisis Unfolds Step by Step
Pixar has never really been independent of Disney. ILM has always been a Lucasfilm subsidiary and has continued to put out great work even after Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney.
>There's also some very high paying software engineering roles in the UK, such as machine learning engineers.

>Nevertheless, you can get 100k just out of uni in an ML role! Especially if it's following a PhD.

I wouldn't call that "very high paying" at all compared to the US ones. $100k is way less than what a non-ML undergrad dev gets at an entry level FAANG position in the US. And yes, even for remote positions (within the US specifically and, to a degree, Canada; felt the need to clarify, because FAANG positions outside of the US/Canada pay much less, despite still being usually noticeably higher than local alternatives), so no need to go the "but living in Bay Area is extremely expensive".

But for an ML role that requires a PhD? $100k in the US for that would be laughable. Not trying to stir anything up or argue, but I do recommend doing a bit more research on the topic, especially if you are trying to help a future college student make a decision on a degree/career path. A good starting point would be checking levels.fyi, which seems to be by far the most accurate resource on tech salaries from my experience, despite sometimes showing a few random datapoints that are a bit off (mostly due to some people not entering their stock grants or annual bonuses properly and not accounting properly for vesting)
It's the opposite, it might be hyperreal. More real than reality.
See also:
https://datalore.jetbrains.com/
In the last 10 years Weta, ILM and Pixar lost their independence. With their big in house R&D they pushed for interoperability of software packages, operating systems and defined standards for their industries. You could say they had a common enemy - the deadline - and worked together to beat it. But they not only pushed in regards of VFX a lot of their other in house packages are now de facto standard like https://munki.org as a software package manager and so much more. Their technical studies and presentations may not be found at your standard tech conference but if you had the chance to grab some of them at FMX or SIGGRAPH before they got bought you know what will be missed. I am saddened to see that none of them could stay independent.
Any investment that you caught wind of a few months ago would be doing well
The Great Resignation: American workers suffering a crisis of meaning
Where did I gloss over them? I literally suggest spending 2 million a year on staff.
> in particular solar doesn't work in emergency situations such as volcano eruptions rendering the sky dark.

I'm not familiar with this. Is this a common problem in Germany? Are southern states like Baden-Württemberg more afflicted or less compared to more northern ones like Schleswig-Holstein?
Cool. I think you'll find that a large number of climate activists are very on board with pretty extreme policies pulling from the rich. The people calling it "superstition" tend to be people who don't support high taxes on the wealthy.
Slightly sad that their expertise won't be available to the movies anymore I suppose.
These semantics are true at all three layers.

In Postgres, Transactions work on a "snapshot" of the data that existed at one point in time. That snapshot is logically a copy of the data, but in reality uses copy-on-write of records to avoid having to make a copy of the entire database at the start of any transaction.

In ZFS, it works as described.

In SSD's, operating system 'write' commands are treated as transactions - ie. certain ordering semantics must be preserved in case of a power failure. Since performance is improved by having extra parallelism and not doing the actual operations in the order they are presented by the OS, a copy-on-write model is used to ensure that an incomplete transaction can be rolled back. This isn't supposed to be user-visible, but occasionally in a badly broken SSD, you hear users complaining of 'it works fine, but then when I reboot my computer everything I did is undone'! Well that's because no transactions are committing...
I'd bet that he not only incorporated what he heard into the fabric of his "post-tour" compositions (hee hee), but that several someones have written dissertations on what and how he wove it in.

I'd check myself but there's too much Bach.
Just do:

1) regular backups

2) use LVM for your filesystems and make a script to create regular CoW snapshots. I always have a snapshot running that lets me get back to previous, known state with very little effort.
Waiting for half a decade is a fairly effective way to tell me at least that they didn't exactly care very much about it, but it could of course be that they cared so deeply about it that they had to wait until recently before they felt it was good enough.

I don't think so however and here is what Russ Cox wrote about it in 2017:

> For example, I’ve been examining generics recently, but I don’t have in my mind a clear picture of the detailed, concrete problems that Go users need generics to solve. As a result, I can’t answer a design question like whether to support generic methods, which is to say methods that are parameterized separately from the receiver.

(from https://go.dev/blog/toward-go2)

At least the way I read the above it comes off as "doesn't matter".
University of Austin hopes to counter what is a culture of censorship
Can the government buy an autobiography I wrote detailing my crimes to help their investigation? Or is that a 4th amendment violation?
Oh, for sure. Just that you don't usually have the amount of dedicated staff that was implied.
Seems a bit silly so use "The way out of the fly-bottle" as a title when that comes from PI and not the Tractatus
Air-Conditioning and the Adaptation Cooling Deficit in Emerging Economies
42m volume in first 4 hours of trading today. Avg Vol is ~20. Id say it was already done.
EDIT: Huh, this was supposed to be a response to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29168027 but apparently it got attached to the wrong parent when the articles were merged.

There was ASTRID, another sodium cooled fast reactor design, that was cancelled a couple of years ago before it got off the drawing board.
Could you describe for what use case are you using foreign data wrapper in production?
I visited voat on occasion to see how it was working out, mostly checking out the groups that were not inherently political, such as /v/science and /v/movies.

Here is a description of such a visit shortly before they shut down [1].

I generally saw a lot more anti-Jew stuff than anti-Black stuff, but when a Black person came up there was a good chance someone would use the N word.

They could usually even make their anti-Black stuff be about Jews too. For example in /v/movies there was a discussion of the 2020 "Call of the Wild" movie. People were upset that one of the sled dog team drivers was played by a Black actor. They believed this was part of some nefarious plot by the Jews that control Hollywood.

I remember also seeing quite a bit of outrage over Asian and Black actors in The Mandalorian. I think I only saw one post that specifically complained about how absurd it was to have "<N-word>s in space" but a whole lot of agreement with the idea that all the actors in space shows should be white.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25502118
Great work! Reminds me of Gravity Wars - the game that got me into some "hardcore" coding with Visual C++ (using a book from the library).

I've re-written the game several times over the years - always a pleasure.

Current iteration: https://github.com/whyboris/Gravity-Wars
I don't think it's about making everyone buy new cars as much as about realizing that there's a new category of ultra-palatable government subsidies for them to cash in on.
And this is why I don’t think AWS will lower egress fees in response to R2. AWS may be more interested in discouraging people from using egress than in capturing the revenue from egress. I predict that, at most, we’ll see a narrowly tailored reduction in egress fees that is designed to be entirely useless for communication between server applications.
No, but winter is. Inclination of the earth means solar produces considerably less energy in winter and this is even more prevalent in far northern/southern latitudes. Also cloud coverage can drastically reduce solar output.
> How do you get $20 million dollars for literally just tapping into Bings api?

Its not a 20m payment for what you did, its 20m to help you do what plan.

You see "20m for tapping into bing" they see "20m for a new business plan that will make >>20m by tapping into a massive market, and leveraging existing companies effort to not re-invent the wheel"
Completely unrelated to your point, but I had to check what "sourdough dressing" was. And, yeah, it's a salad dressing with bread blended into it. I've heard of doing that, but kinda want to try it now.
I see "bipartisan bill" in headlines a lot. I'm confused by what that signifies. I mean, technically, a bipartisan bill has sponsors (or some such) from both parties. But so what? Why is that worth putting in a headline?
Neither can the government generally.
>no country will restrict their own citizens from working for a foreign company

This might surprise you, but some countries manage to achieve something like that. In Austria for example, if you go freelance (self employed) you'll actually end up paying more tax than being a FTE (which has already one of this highest taxes in the EU) while losing all the benefits of being a FTE like PTO, overtime and such.

So yeah, turns out high taxes are a pretty strong deterrent.
A private search engine that requires an email to use.
Filter Bubble Transparency Act introduced in the US house of representatives
Underwriting loans which the borrower has no ability to repay is fraud.
I have been an elite troll since the original doom deathmatch days. I have a true skillset in the arts. Twitter Blue is going to require some serious passive trolling but I have just taken the challenge. If I get banned after paying then I'll be the one that is foaming at the mouth with rage!
That was just one example of many - there's a whole cottage industry of writing formal semantics for Java.

https://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/publications/bogdanas-rosu-2015-...
Yes, I understand that might be a factor. However, this still invalidates the point that whites are the most privileged group. If we take second/third-generation indians, they, on average, would be wealthier than most whites. Does this mean they are more privileged? I think yes
"Half a brain" is a poor metaphor for "one of the most impressive collections of researchers money could ever buy, divided by two."
But that doesn't really answer the question. Nothing was really stopping a setuid program from granting access to the non-sensitive bits of the passwd/group files.
The last amendment to the US constitution that was proposed and then ratified came in 1971. With bipartisanship being what it is today, do you think there’s any chance of pushing another one through at this point in time? The bar is high, and American politicians are loathe to give any opponents perceived wins, even if it’s regarding overwhelmingly popular policies.

Sure, you’re probably right that it’d be more airtight. It’d also mean an almost herculean effort. It’s probably best to explore other options as well.
> Weta Digital’s 275+ engineers will join Unity. The VFX artists will be spun out into a new entity, “Weta FX”, which Peter Jackson will continue to own the majority of. The two companies expect to continue working together, with Unity noting that it sees Weta FX being one of their “largest customers in the Media and Entertainment space” moving forward.

So, Weta FX will continue doing effects for movies, and the engineers from Weta will work for Unity, likely continuing to develop the tools they've already got, as well as contributing to Unity proper.
This resonates with me. I typically narrow my Outlook windows to ensure a certain look/feel to my line length and breaks. I get flustered any time the window stretches across the the screen. So fun to read through another person’s experience with this.
As if hypocrisy is limited (or even mostly) to one end of any political spectrum.
Very cool! I'm gonna give it a chance for sometime as a default instead of DuckDuckGo