skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking it was going to be something more detailed about actual F1 brakes and material sciences behind them. What saw was 85% of the video describing how hydraulic disc brake systems work in all applications 10% covering adjustable proportion valving setups (they're neat and very useful in some applications but not that novel in braking system contexts) and 5% actually talking about braking things very specific to F1 cars.

It seems to me that they could have filled the video or at least 90% of the video with F1 specific braking setups and characteristics. So I'm not sure if they just lacked the knowledge to do that or weren't able to write a script that could present it in a consumable way. If it was deemed necessary that there is prerequisite knowledge on how hydraulic braking systems work at a general level that could easily be its own 7 to 10 minute video.

Mashing it all together seems to do justice to neither of the topics.
Congratulations on shipping your first game! Wrapping it up and shipping it is always the hardest part, technically and emotionally.
They already made a movie called "Wild Geese" (1978) starring Roger Moore and Richard Burton, inspired by the life of another adventurer, Mike Hoare. I recommend watching it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078492/

https://madmikehoare.com/

Hoare was a British Colonel in WW2 who later became a mercenary that worked a lot in Africa, most famously defeating Che Guevara and the (monstrous) Simba revolt, freeing a group of nuns and other white prisoners that the Simbas were holding hostage and ultimately being instrumental in defeating the entire rebellion using some novel counter-insurgency techniques. Hoare would organize small squads that penetrated deep into rebel-held territory and destroyed supply shipments and laid ambushes for enemy soldiers. Basically a launching a guerrilla attack against the guerrillas themselves.

Fun Fact: The Simbas were almost comically evil -- they were communist cannibals that practiced ethnic cleansing of rival tribes (not uncommon in the various African revolts) and set up concentration camps (which was uncommon). They were famous for cutting out prisoners' livers and then eating the liver as the prisoner bled to death. They had a particular fixation for white nuns - there were many in Africa at the time - torturing, raping, and ultimately killing a large number. Some were held hostage for ransom from the West.

Fun Fact 2: Much has been said accusing Che Guevara of racism for insulting the capabilities of his black soldiers during the conflict, mostly blaming his defeat on the poor quality of his troops, and arguing that if he would have had enough cuban troops, he would never be defeated. While I think this is a bit unfair given today's hypersensitiveness, Hoare never complained about his black troops and in fact praised their heroism. Hoare was an excellent leader in the field and had a close sense of camaraderie with his troops, which you would need to be to launch small-man operations deep behind enemy lines.

There are many other stories about Mike Hoare. For example he was hired to launch a coup in some nation, but the plot was discovered and the government set an ambush for his men as they arrived in the airport. This ended up in a shootout at the airport, Hoare hijacked a plane, and flew it out of the country, landing his men in South Africa, where they were promptly arrested. Arrested, yet alive. Hoare served a brief sentence in jail for that.

Hoare died a happy death, in bed in his home in France in 2020, at the age of 100, a well-loved figure surrounded by fat grandkids.

There are many such adventurers that went to Africa -- it was, and remains in many ways -- the wild west. There you can launch coups, steal gold, fight for land. And especially during the decolonization period and its aftermath, you had a number of weak governments flooded with western dollars but no competence, so they hired western firms to do everything from build electricity plants to run their armies or set up a telephone service. Foreigners were not just hired to aid in supporting and opposing rebellions, they were brought into all areas, but the military aspects are the ones that create the best adventure stories.
> A good start, but their profiles are probably incredibly well scrubbed (or whatever is out there is already mitigated).

I have serious doubts about this.
I wish the comparisons allowed you to flip back and forth between the versions in a single location on the screen. That would make it much easier to spot the differences.
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Maybe a better car analogy is that Apple is like an automaker who decides where their customers are allowed to drive??
“a bit like trickle down economics”

It is standard economics. If the value of American citizenship is eroded, and I would argue that it is across a number of fronts, then America as a nation loses value. Pretty simple. Econ 101.
Is there any evidence that political dissent drops a social credit score?
Russiagate has no rock bottom
Characters are cheap nowadays. I'd much rather it be readable and understandable than have a bunch of cryptic abbreviations.
I think this really isn't true for people who go into 'professional' careers. People who are in high-paying white-collar jobs are fairly willing to move.
This is actually one of the main points of the article. He doesn't believe gaming is going to be the killer app for the reasons you cite - it actually isn't that compelling, not nearly so much as people would think. But what has changed his mind is that other applications are compelling, in particular the potential for workspaces.

So we have a weird situation atm where huge numbers of people have generically written off VR because it didn't cut it for high end gaming with them, without ever even considering the alternatives. In my mind, these are fitness and professional use.

The fact is that I can go into VR to work today and its intolerable after a short period, but only because of factors I think will be solved within the space of a few years - the resolution is too low, the battery doesn't last long enough, it's too heavy and gets uncomfortable. These will all get solved. Once that happens, VR will be unambigously a better place to work for quite a wide cross section of activities. This is the "skating to where the puck will be" that tech companies need to focus on.
I honestly had no idea Unreal was used in movie production. I thought it was only a game engine.
We have a github that I plan to populate with the useful bits and pieces that I've written along the way. Will come back here when I stop procrastinating.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution
I also find paragraph length affects my reading speed and focus.

When a paragraph is too long I tend to skim past it, even though the same paragraph split into a few smaller paragraphs would have the same word count.
A poor credit score does not limit your ability to board a plane, to be admitted to a university, or to found a political organization.

If you want a taste of low social credit score in the US life, consider the status of a convicted felon, or a status of a sex offender.
> Make as simple a game as possible when you're starting

Back when I had enough spare time to do game jams, one critical thing I learned was, once you have some idea, make it simpler. Now make it even simpler. And then, make it simpler again. Repeat that about 20 times, possibly more. Now you have something that you can possibly build and actually release, and guess what, counterintuitively, it'll be fun as hell.

Coz what makes a game fun is not the thousands of wonderful ideas you may have bolted on together, it's just a couple of things you distilled for the love of it, chiseling away, down to the core of the game mechanics, into some magical essence.
Last I looked at the numbers (which was 2 weeks ago):

China seems to be adding ~30GW of coal, 70GW of wind, ~50GW of solar, and ~6 GW of nuclear power/year to its grid.
Sounds like this is a reason why this is not a foolproof approach for the government, not a major concern for you.
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Fiscally, there is a price point where the economics will make sense .

We can argue whether it is billion dollars or few millions , but there are 1000s companies spending 50million + or even 500 million a year on compute globally.

For a lot of these companies it would make economic sense to keep their own DCs , however hiring that talent and retaining is very very hard, especially if you need even 1-100th of what AWS offers in their IaaS services, this is what will cost a company a lot more than cloud.

It is really shortage in devops/sysads that drives cloud . The talent shortage is just getting worse, newer devops engineers who know only k8s blink seeing a bare metal VM let alone know how to do proper cable management.
I immediately picked out the "real" astronomy image, but not for a good reason, just an "oopsie-daisy" reason. The real image has way, way, way darker blacks for it's background than all the others. So the "black" parts of the fake space images are all actually a kind of grey, while the "real" one has a really dark black. I wonder if that was intentional?

The light grey background I saw was like "#1A1A1A" while the real black background was more like "#010000". See this link for a color comparison of the grey (left) vs black (right): https://www.colorcombos.com/combotester.html?color0=1a1a1a&c...
Not a fan of the name either. Yes, you can use all of the normal extensions. It's the same thing without telemetry.
Thank you. And yes, it's hard to say enough spitting and polishing already.
Who is "we", here?
Doesn't surprise me. Proctoring in general is pretty invasive. The last time I did a standardized test (GRE), I was pat down, tattoos photographed, led into a room with camera and a 24/7 human monitor just outside through a window, given industrial hearing protection (to prevent cheating ig?).
Decades with hundred of nuclear power plants in the world have not seen them be a significant source of fissionable material for terrorists or new nations developing nuclear weapons. See Iran, a nation that has devoted significant resources to such an endeavor, as a case in point.

Spent fuel from nuclear power plants-- probably the more vulnerable point in the supply chain-- is nonetheless difficult to the point of extreme expense & impractical to refine to weapons grade. You would need such large quantities that it would be extremely difficult to steal enough without notice: Someone is going to notice the 200,000 lb cask leaving a storage facility. Then the refinement process is difficult, requiring immense sums of money to built the significant infrastructure required for refinement. North Korea, the newest nuclear power, got there with significant help from the Soviets extending back in the 60's and it still took them decades to get there.

This is all on top of the fact that any modern plant designs use feedstock fuel that is even harder to refine into anything weapons grade, and is much more efficient to the point that spend fuel refinement difficulties dwarfs the above roadblocks for fuel from older designs.

Dirty bombs are more problematic, but also significantly less destructive, and suffer from many of the same logistical hurdles, notably that the material most useful for a dirty bomb is also material that requires massively robust precautions to ensure the thieves don't kill themselves with radiation exposure long before any chance of making use of it. Less useful material that requires fewer precautions is not practical for dirty bombs without significant refinement capacity.

All of this at a time when real measurable deaths from fossil fuel powerplants, their pollution, and their industrial accidents, are themselves more dangerous, right now, than theoretical & difficult to achieve usages of fuel from new nuclear power plants.
I'm not sure most members of Congress have the capability to be embarrassed anymore. The ones that do probably don't have much interesting to hide.
> the way white South African men are portrayed

I’m at least aware of the issues with SA, but I must point out that the article didn’t say that they were white. Without knowing more about the people involved, I certainly didn’t make that assumption.
Yeah, for a highly upvoted comment OP is unbelievably presumptive and universalizing about human nature. The sort of dating culture in which such an account is even natural didn't even exist prior to 50 years ago or so. When I lived in small town America about a decade ago, very few people used dating apps. Hookup culture existed but was not really the norm; most people had a pre-existing friendship before they began dating.

Moreover, my understanding is that many women describe their experience as something closer to what you talk about. They usually do end up feeling physically attracted to their partners, but this is something that happens after they develop romantic feelings for them. I'd have to say my personal experience mirrors this in part, though not completely.

Also worth pointing out the effects religion may have on this. In some Christian sects, for example, adherents are expected to not feel (or at least repress) lust towards their partners until marriage. Assuming that some of them are even partially successful, they will likely have several years of a romantic relationship before lust is allowed to act freely.
Did anybody else just narrow down your browser to try HN that way?
Not MariaDB but after working with Postgres for six years I'm now using MySQL and... the error messages are useless, and comparing different types works in strange ways rather than failing like in Postgres.
It's not super great but I connected my Quest to my Macbook Pro 2015 and I can use it for work - multiple virtual monitors floating in space where I can edit code etc. The limiting factor is the resolution of the headset, not the GPU of the laptop.
The biggest lies we tell are often the ones to ourselves. Looking in the mirror and acknowledging our ugliness is aa very unnatural thing. Most people die before ever confronting themselves with the truth. We do this often on both a personal and societal level. While flaws are human, somehow admitting it in ourselves is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
Twitter is an evil sewer. Delete your account now
The recent gas shortage must have shaken everybody awake.

There's been a lot of talk about nuclear (both fusion and fission) recently, and it's great news!
Ask HN: Digital Ocean panel not accessible
I removed all my cookies, but my DO dashboard is not accessible.

Can anyone confirm that they have the same problem? ( after logging in)

I don't see an incident on : https://status.digitalocean.com/
> Game developers can mint more tokens at any time.

That's a very valid criticism of most game implementations (maybe all? I only know like 3 and they are all centralized blockchains -- puke), and that's why I'm staying away from them too, at least for now.

But I cannot deny there's real potential here, I can imagine totally open source games without servers, just p2p connection for battles (like we used to do to play Age of empires) and its assets backed by NFTs
Similarly, remote work will break major cities' monopoly on high-income workers.
Yea it is weird. It claims privacy and then wants you to install an extension just to do a search ? No thanks.
If your customer is loosing 10k per minute while you google basic linux command youre just being unprofessional dickhead.
The whole concept of cheating vs using available resources to solve a problem doesn't really make sense IMO. We have a smartphone with google/wolfram alpha/etc with us at all times as well as stack overflow if something isn't working. Why try to memorize the whole damn dictionary this is outdated and archaic...?

In the real world my learning of a new piece of software proceeds as follows: the github repository/manual of the software -> stackoverflow/biostars -> google with whatever you want to do.
If you're talking about tech hubs in the US, you can definitely get more than 10k USD/month as an experienced dev at a startup.
Flags seems like an odd word to use for this, I thought it was to do with personal safety or rating people.
Worked on a product like spotify many years ago, just to chime in that jonorourke is right. I think we had 4 major deals with the labels (Universal, Sony, WB and one I can't remember), and then just a few deals with some smaller labels which to be honest, weren't really important for the userbase/revenue (sure you may want Beethoven's 5th played by the Czech Symphony on the London Hall, but 99.9999% of the users just wanted to listen to the stuff from the major 4)
I wish they'd focus on fixing the things they've left broken and scattered throughout their engine rather than buying up companies in a space already absolutely dominated by their direct competitor.
Some of us like to keep /etc files in git, and git clone them, and check out a branch.
Because many of the best people move to SV for better pay and access.
Rust-proofing the internet with ISRG's Prossimo
Would you also consider the costs of next 10,000 years of safe storage of nuclear waste?

If we don't have a viable and economically well understood solution for nuclear waste handling , any cost calculations for nuclear is a waste of time .
Surprised no mention of distraction free mode, sometimes called Hemingway mode: everything except the current sentence is faded out.

Actually how I do most of my bulk writing.
No baking powder would be a start. The rest is just 3-6-3. That is 3 eggs, 6 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a pint of salt and some melted butter or oil.

The road to my hometown is called 363 so easy to remember. Just have to figure out which of them was the milk now again.
We should be working today to minimize the needs for charities tomorrow
That's exactly how the emails come across, optimized to squeeze out the absolute maximum of donations without any regard to non-profit or, say, ideals like integrity.
> On the other, people who know far more than I do say there is proliferation risk.

Who? I mean I hear people on the news state it, but never any concerns at a certain 3 letter agencies that is not the department of education. I haven't heard a serious nuclear physicist be concerned with the Iran Deal. And when Iran broke the deal (not long ago) those same people knew it was a bluff, because Iran didn't even have the ability to produce enough enriched material to create bombs. Even running their enrichment centers at full capacity. Which btw, these enrichment centers don't scale linearly, which is why it is easy to vet through satellite photography. Weapon enrichment centers are typically kinda obvious. This may be a key part in what you aren't understanding. I also linked in another comment the Megatons to Megawatts program. You'll notice there the conversion rate of weapons material to fuel was about 30x (remember, reversing that process is not linear).
Generally speaking, any operator of any reactor can make nuclear weapons if they want to.

Some reactors don't generate weapons-grade isotopes when operated as intended, but if you control the reactor, my understanding is that it is easy to modify it so that it does.

There is no technical safeguard against nuclear proliferation - all of them are political.
I was looking forward to seeing if I was puni plush or shoujo style, instead I got this photoshop filter. Where is my spiky hair??11?
IIRC one of the big problems is that the construction standards a nuclear plant has to meet are the ones in effect when it comes online, not the ones in effect when construction begins, and then costs balloon because the requirements change multiple times in the middle of construction.

If the construction requirements of 1980 are sufficient for a plant operating ten years from now that came online in 1980 then the construction requirements of this year should be sufficient for a plant operating ten years from now even if it hasn't come online yet. So the obvious fix for this is to use the requirements as of the day construction begins rather than the day it ends.
Please someone help Spain as well
I am _absolutely_ fine with apple not allowing sideloading. Call it control, or security or whatever, I am fine with it.

What I _dont_ accept is a single company automatically getting 30% from every other business in the world.

And I belive this is really what Tim is trying to defend, he is just using sideloading and security arguments to muddy the waters.
LG, Samsung, etc are junk for washer/dryers.

Speed Queen still makes quality laundry machines, buy those next time. No WiFi!
The disturbing part to me:

The indictment also suggests that not only was the FBI aware in 2017 that the Steele dossier was fraudulent, but that its key source, Danchenko, was lying to them. But instead of informing the public and indicting Steele's source, the FBI continued the Trump-Russia investigation and tapped the dossier for it. Anonymous intelligence officials even told the public that Steele's farcical claims were bearing out.
Thinner columns allow for more of a "Z" pattern of reading, where you can kind of scan-read backwards when your eye scans back to the left, as opposed to the standard "E" style of reading of reading an entire line, returning to the left, then moving to the next and repeating.

Writing in thin columns allows you to keep an eye on what you just wrote more easily as well.
I think it is also worth mentioning that enrichment plants don't scale linearly. So it starts to become fairly obvious when a country is producing more enriched material than what is necessary for their energy production.
You say your Israeli.. But then you use the phrase"

"you are just pushing Hasbara."

I'm Israeli, and I have never met an Israeli who would say that phrase, Especially in english, using the hebrew word like that. Something doesn't add up.. Are you russian or israeli arab or something? You had work partners in magav and they told you they put a stun grenade in a baby stroller? This seems pretty weird..
It makes sense to build both. Coal fired plants are much less expensive to produce and get to a positive ROI much faster. If you don't like it, you can always try launching a land war in Asia to stop them.
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I just spent the last couple days on a business trip, trying to do dev work while mobile and even though I have all the latest, common tech it's still death by a thousand cuts. If I'd be doing this kind of thing with obscure distros and hardware I'd probably not have even slept last night. When in a pinch, it really does not seem realistic at all. I don't understand how you guys do it.
I think if you can it is almost always better to do it on the open market.

The exception being that there is a lot of middleman involved, loan agents and purchase agents. So cutting out these should save at least 5%.
That's institutional inertia and bureaucracy. Don't mistake it for the typical case.

First job out of uni and can handle a lowerish salary? Find the startup scene in your area and network like crazy.
Yes - that's the elephant in the room that really spoils his point. Teams is so horrifically bad that we are actively paying for Zoom and Slack even while a free Teams subscription is sitting almost idle.

The deeper question is how did Microsoft engineer something so bad when they were literally just cloning other products. What does that say about their forward looking prospects?
Who's going to invest though, when an accident in an entirely different country caused by issues your reactor might not even be susceptible to can easily get your project shut down by the fleeting winds of public opinion?