skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While other people are struggling with "it's fine when Apple forces us to jump through a bunch of undocumented hacks and workarounds to keep doing what we bought the machine for"
Wow, that's an interesting analysis. Do you maybe mean that they have so much influence that they can attract other firms to an entire sector just by being a prime mover in that 'media' space? Even if it's all crap. I wonder how long this house of cards can stand.
That would be some Gattaca level paranoia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
I think texture compression is always lossy, so it's not directly comparable to this or to PNG. So I don't think it exists. See ASTC and BC7.

Texture compression can be very advanced: https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2020/06/oodle-texture-slash...
And marketing with no product has no value.
Your death rate is doubled in the year after covid recovery from hospitalization!
Plastics were hardly used 100 years ago, and civilization was thriving. Going back to that might be difficult, but the world will mostly be the same.
A great product sells itself.
Your comment reminds me of all those imigrant entrepreneurs who run a business for a generation that pays for their children's college so they never have to get stuck running their own business.
In case anyone else is reading and thinking of that predicament, it needn't be a showstopper.

You have a couple of options:

You can do it the old way, and pay someone to convert it into the new way (I know a mechanical engineer who either sketches things or does 2D on a computer, and pays someone else to 3D it) which can then be sent to the client or manufacturer or whatever.

Or, if you're doing the whole product to sell, you can do it however you want, no one cares how their product was designed, just that the end product is good. I don't know how the housing on the monitor I'm looking at was designed, and I don't care, I just care that it's decent.

I feel like I count rant about this for a while, but all the "rules" change if you're taking clients or customers and not looking for FTE. It's got its own challenges, but with a few good / high paying clients, it's even easier than FTE, you can grow or not if you want.
Aosta Valley is a really bad place to live in: people are not friendly, food is not so good compared to other regions and job opportunities are very low
Yeah, I don't really get why some people buy all this hype and even preorder stuff. Maybe I'm getting old, but I just don't care anymore for most of the new stuff, no matter how fancy the looks. I downgraded my PC and only play indie / decade old AAA nowadays, with only few exceptions which are mostly niche strategy games.
I wouldn't say they've "done it" quite yet. There's definitely an application for imitation learning but that might be it. A translation of the work in sequence-to-sequence to sequence-to-action is something I've also considered researching. A few challenges exist which the author touches on in just one sentence. First, we need data about previous sequences of actions and this is necessarily a challenge in many fields in robotics/learning. A related problem is that of exploration. How exactly should we inform the exploration of new sequences? Also, if our policy is based on the prediction of a Transformer, does it have the traditional desirable properties of a policy in an RL environment? Off the top of my head it seems like a Transformer fed into an MLP would probably be fit but I'm not sure. Transformers do seem promising, but it's a bit early to say they've "done it" :)
Isn't that Do Not Disturb mode?
Jan 6 was an clearly a legitimately attempted coup but

> literal army to blitzkrieg

is exaggerating to the point of offense.
The Future of Investment is Not Rational - It's DAOs and Crypto Networks
Everyone is equally awful on big projects
Usually I am in the right lane. My area has laws where “slow moving” traffic should stay to the right, so I use the left lane for passing and move back over whenever possible.
Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction
At companies I worked with repute is key. Companies with employee count in the range of 10 to 50k. The legal departments will report any potential breach. As a developer you can decide what is logged but not much about anything else in the business. You as a developer or tech lead will most likely be held accountable.
sure I'll reach out
> I can't breakdown most plastic to any significant extent.

Actually you can't break down plastic at all. You can just grind it with your teeth.

> If bacteria learn to degrade plastic--- that may improve the situation for my grandchildren but it probably doesn't reduce how much is accumulating in marine life now that much.

This is where your mistake lies - if you can degrade plastic at all, then you can degrade it all the way to water and CO2. There is no partial degrading here, you either can, or you can't.

(Note: I am speaking of degrading plastic for its energy content, which is what bacteria would do. Mechanically breaking plastic into small pieces is not the same thing. Nor is de-polymerizing the plastic.)
That doesn’t help for non-laptop devices, or if the laptop is running in clamshell mode.
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but in order to file an insurance claim wouldn't their insurance expect a police report?
Terrific checklist
https://archive.md/kaCjc
The years of life expectancy a typical cigarette smoker loses is 25, so the life expectancy for a typical cigarette smoker is roughly 55.

My grandparents smoked, presumably for 50 years before they passed in their mid-70's. They could have lived past 100, because my grandmother's sister lived to 103. But she also smoked for 80 years. My mother points out that unlike my grandparents, my great aunt was an avid walker, walked a few miles every day religiously. So she makes a fair point, because inactivity and sedentary lifestyles also are cut short. My mother's sister smoked intermittently, but ultimately had quit for 10 years before dying relatively young (58) from breast cancer. My aunt made the observation that cigarettes stink, but insisted that they did not used to stink, claiming that when she was young her parents smoked in the car with her and her siblings, and it never occurred to her to open a window, because the second hand smoke back then was not irritating in the least. Her brother, my uncle, smoked cigars, basically chain smoked them, died at 67. My mother smoked, but quit for decades, then started again and smoked for another 15 years before quitting again only a year ago. She's 79. Then there's George Burns, who started smoking when he was 14 years old and lived to 100 after smoking an estimated 300,000 cigars. See Ecc. 9:11.

Very sorry to hear about your uncle. How old was your uncle when he passed? What did he do for a living? Was he a veteran? How much did he weigh? Is there any history of cancer in the family?

> I only know people died from lung and other cancers or copd on a massive scale long before anything was added to tobacco.

If you could share any reference links to any study performed before the 1950's, then we could all know this.
I have listened, and it's amazing, but I'm not sure they are understanding more than I would if I were scanning the page for the navigation options. (I haven't heard someone listening to a long-form text for understanding.)
The party could end Manchin’s ability to get re-elected if it was all that important to them. He is useful where he is and if he wasn’t there would be someone else who was useful. He has some influence, but he’s not the only centrist in the party. More theater.
... and inevitably, the C-suite is replaced by people with a management or finance background, and no game creation experience, who proceed to drive the company into the ground. Has been the story of game studios since forever.
Yeah, the fact that just any amount of basic coding skills will get you a job is proof for it, not against it.

Companies are hurting for talent.
>but the state does not

the state takes a pretty big amount of risk and costs. Who pays healthcare, who pays maternity leave and social security in a fast and loose labor market like that? The answer in the US often is, nobody or the federal government.

In a country like Germany, France or in Scandinavia running a business is harder because there's an expectation that businesses can take care of their workers. A lot of red tape exists to make sure that a business can shoulder these things. In fact in Scandinavia eliminating unproductive firms through measures like wage compression was deliberately part of their social model to drive concentration and creation of productive firms.

There really are a lot of implications to creating the sort of environment that the US or to a lesser extent the UK has, and it doesn't work well with the economic model of most of Europe.
“People should be able to steal and shoplift as much as they want.”

If this is a troll account, 10/10
That argument works both ways though. What are they marketing and selling when all the devs leave?
Whiteman AFB is about 20 miles south and a little east of the plane in this image.
I love the unified feel too, and i wonder if linux can reconcile it's bazaar nature with the ergonomic/mental need for simple systemic parts
carboniferous, that period didn't have CRISPR. We could give that evolutionary path a little push along if we like.
If that's the case, it seems even more strange to have the first two parts of the first section repeatedly refer to 'profitability'.

But I don't agree that you have to start with facts. I think you can start with the account equation, then go on to types of asset/liability/equity, and only then move on to concrete examples of transactions, and how they impact the balance sheet. And then you compare two snapshots of your balance sheet to show what profit is.

You can do all this with concrete examples with virtually no risk (e.g. a lemonade stand where people pay cash before they are served, with almost no equipment to depreciate, no long-lived inventory etc.).
This thread has exposed a very weird dichotomy between HN users that believe that they (as owners/operators of the device in question) should ultimately be in control of what their machine outputs - down to the pixel - at least if and when they care to do anything about it, and those that accept it's our role to just take whatever bones the manufacturer's are kind enough to throw our way, apparently unless and until it is an egregious violation of what one considers to be "the" line that shouldn't be crossed.

As a hacker without a horse in this particular race (Macs and I parted ways a long time ago), it's definitely interesting to observe the interactions between the two groups in this thread!

IMHO the fundamental difference between the two sides is that when it's posited as a dogmatic matter, it's immediately clear whether or not your (perceived) rights have been violated (Can you do X? No => Violation, Yes => Keep chugging along) but for the latter group it becomes not just a question of whether or not X is possible but also whether or not each individual can agree that X should/shouldn't be determined by the vendor/manufacturer (c.f. the recent hullabaloo about on-device scanning).

I see similarities to the concept of "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to do so," which just makes it so much easier to agree on whether or not rights are being infringed, regardless of it's something you'd want to engage in yourself or otherwise.
This has been discussed before. Although the EU is a marketplace of 27 countries, it is not a digitally homogeneous marketplace. Adoption and acceptance of digital tools varies by country. Language is also important - the tech giants localise their apps and tools. But many software companies in larger European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK etc) concentrate on their home country first before they focus on international reach. That makes sense. However, in smaller countries, where the software market is also smaller, software companies have a more international outlook (i.e. eyeing the US market).

Even when there are local apps available, many small businesses (and larger ones) will stick with services from big, well-known tech companies. Why? I guess because of inertia, or simply because those products feel safe and familiar.

Where are the pan-European equivalents to eBay, Etsy, KickStarter, AirBnB, Shopify, AbeBooks, etc? Europeans use these services entensively. You'll probably find local equilavents in each European country, but they are not pan-European or global in scope.
I mean, for most DOS games the "video driver" was one interrupt and start writing pixels to framebuffer at 0xa0000. Sound drivers were more complicated, but there were a ton of libraries - it's how FMod got started!
I have four theories about it:

1. People are afraid of their current skills and knowledge becoming obsolete. This is similar to people being hostile to the cloud 10 years ago and serverless 5 years ago.

2. People are bitter because they see others profiting from the current crypto boom/bubble, and they didn't buy into it early enough or at all.

3. People are genuinely worried about the darker aspects (non-renewable energy usage, scams, illegal activities) and for some reason they blame the technology rather than the actors actually engaging in those activities.

4. People are problem/solution-oriented rather than vision-oriented. If they don't see an immedate relationship between an existing problem and a technical solution to it, they don't consider the new technology to have merit.

These are just some theoretical reasons I think might explain people feeling so hostile.
> Why is that a crisis?

For the exact reasons I stated in the rest of my post? I didn't say "AAA companies aren't making money".
> In the ESO hybrid energy storage system, Invinity’s vanadium flow batteries are used to ‘front-end’ the energy asset, acting as a first line of response when the system is called into service; only after the required response exceeds the capacity of the Invinity battery does the lithium-ion battery get called into service. Since Invinity’s flow battery does not degrade with use and can cycle indefinitely, it performs much of the ‘heavy-lifting’ required from the system while reducing wear on the lithium-ion battery.

From TFA.
I'd have no issue with the lienholder having ultimate control of car until the loan is paid off. As I said in my initial comment, that's completely beside the point.

The problem here is that Model 3s are apparently "loyal" to their manufacturer rather than the owner, regardless of who that owner is (whether that be a lienholder, the car's "user", or anyone else that's not Tesla).

That Tesla used that misplaced loyalty to give the car back to the lienholder in this case is irrelevant to my point.
Commercial insurance often covers theft but not shoplifting.

At least locally, these stores would be uninsurable even if coverage was offered. Insurance companies are not idiots. "Insurance" is not intended for ongoing steady losses, but irregular hard to predict losses.

Are you sure this was insurance paying? Did you ever see a claim form?

Many businesses do have a shrink budget, and if corp doesn't want action taken (ie, no stops) a local store can claim back shrink to be fair to its local managers in terms of their numbers.
Just because you estimate their chances of success to have been low ( personally i disagree, there are probably enough nutjobs in the military and police forces, and they had non insignificant amount of federal and state political power), doesn't make it something else than a coup d'état. Did they attempt to seize power and overrule the results of an election or didn't they? Their miserable failure at it isn't an excuse.
Rorschach
honestly people on here are not spending enough time telling you that if your job is shitty and your career feels dead that you will be angry, depressed, anxious. not that having a job and a career is everything, but speaking from the experience of having done that once or twice before, 8+ hours of terrible job will get to you and start to fray anyone's patience and sap their life force. for the love of yourself and your own family, go find something to do all day that you don't hate.
"Other Words", İlhan Mimaroǧlu (ISBN 9758434640)
Standards can change, but I guess if you allow for that, example.com is no better.
I raise meat. At small scales, I cannot afford to eat any of it if I want to make any profit. Agriculture is completely rotten due to regulatory capture by Big Ag.
Not sure you picked the best examples there- both of these things required a Constitutional amendment, aka had to pass both houses by a 2/3rds vote, then be voted in by three quarters of the states. That's like the definition of a supermajority, so pretty much the opposite of your point. To be fair, it was much easier to pass the 13th Amendment when the rebelling states didn't get a vote in the matter :)

To your broader point- radical change can just as equally be bad as good, so it should require more than a bare majority. (Personally I think the US Senate should require 55 votes for cloture, not 60). Some pretty radical stuff could have been passed in 2017-2018 if we just used a majority in both houses. I think with the current level of political fanaticism in the US, making it a bit difficult to pass laws is a wise choice
From what I understand of the matter, the crux of it is that there are two modern PRNG families whose creators are running around telling you to use their PRNG over the other's because <technical reasons>, where a) both of them are correct, and b) the <technical reasons> don't elucidate the tradeoffs being made to people whose prior understanding amounts to "I just want a source of random numbers!" This is contrast to something like a linear congruential generator, where the failure mode of the random data is pretty easy to explain.
Shameless plug: I built https://simplePDF.eu as I was similarly frustrated by the lack of a good PDF editor when filling French paperwork.

Checkboxes for example did not seem to be available in any of the tools I found.

I also figured that if I had to spend the time to position the fields, someone else shouldn’t spend that time too: crowd-edited PDF if you will (the document never sees my server)
Is Singapore's war on drugs working?
agreed, I'm excited to see what happens. its taken those 40 years for globalization and women in the work force to be integrated and absorbed. we're just now seeing the labor markets plateau.
If your billboard is recording me, I want you to add the orange light. Please please please please.
Just my opinion: this sentence really does you no favors. I read it, then re-read it because I wasn't sure whether I missed a word, and then I closed the tab, because writing something like this seems incredibly dishonest.
I always figured the gaming industry gets away with its treatment of workers because there's always a new crop of naïve people whose dream is to make games, so they can burn them out, and then just toss them away, and then suck in the new crop. Other sectors can't get away with it as easily because no one says, "It's been dream since childhood to make auto insurance more profitable."
Nice follow up! :) I read it yesterday a few minutes after you posted it.
Thanks for the kind reply, I appreciate it. I do think that's the kind of mindset that adblockers are inculcating in people - they don't quite realise the extent of all the costs that are borne by everyone else. Perhaps especially so because the sort of person who uses an adblocker is probably the sort of person who can't imagine himself clicking an ad, and so underestimates the amount of revenue made from ads. And thus also likely underestimates all the costs which that revenue pays for. (And then you end up in a predicament like the very-self-aware fellow in the other subthread, insisting that Google and YouTube and Facebook could be run by non-profits, and 'it would all work out fine'.)

As for alternative funding models - which is definitely a much more interesting conversation - I actually considered starting a company in exactly that space. I have some experience in fintech ("very credentialised" according to my former Anglo-German lead investor, haha) and so I thought I could pull it off. I couldn't, and it didn't get past the MVP stage ... luckily. The trouble is that people aren't willing to pay even the $0.01 to access an article. There's something deep in people's brains which is averse to spending money, no matter how small the amount.

I believe - and this is more second-hand evidence from other founders rather than first-hand - that the approaches which typically see the most success are those where people 'top up' a certain amount and then spend it gradually. That doesn't set off the same psychological alarm that directly spending money does. However, that kind of approach would be much harder to implement - especially as something like a browser protocol - because it would require holding probably-vast sums of money in escrow[0], which is an extremely burdensome legal and regulatory position to be in.

Personally I think Brave - much as it's a stupid company started by a stupid clever man - might be onto the right big idea here (despite getting a million little things wrong, and alienating virtually all of its users and most of its non-users too). The core idea of buying attention tokens which are paid out to websites to which you pay attention is a brilliant one. However, it needs a lot more refining, since the crude version of that model is not particularly well-equipped to deal with the difference between e.g. a movie-streaming site, on the one hand, and a shorthand news site, or even a site like Twitter, on the other hand. I may well watch a movie for 180 minutes but get less value from it than I do a tweet. So attention != value, or at least the concept of 'attention' needs refining to be more than simply 'time I spend on a website', but there's a promising kernel there, I think.

[0] Compare it to Starbucks's gift card program. Starbucks is one of the largest commercial debtors in the world just by virtue of the vast number of Starbucks gift cards in people's drawers. These things add up quickly and bigly.
I was about to say, some of it is due to the high demand for devs, but a lot of it is just down to the video games industry being incredibly exploitative.
My kingdom for a windows terminal emulator that supports both [xyz]modem and sixel and can connect to a physical serial port.
What happens if I debit a loan account? Debits are not positive, a debit to a loan account is a negative that reduces it. If I issue a refund that might be a debit to an income account (that is a negative to the account total).
Remove the empty promises, wishful thinking and buzzwords from this article and tell me what's left ? Not much

"Crypto" is a wantrepreneur magnet, most projects have no future (or present even). They sound like tobacco CEOs trying to convince you that smoking cigarettes actually is beneficial
New AAA games feel like what you get when you digest a previously popular title through "What did you like?" focus groups, generate a list of checkbox features, write a game spec from that list, and then make that game.

And at no point is anyone in the room asking "Is it fun?"
I didn't see the initial claim forms, but I was involved in the dispute processes.

And like I've said below, insurance isn't an idiot here. They come out ahead on pretty much every situation, either as a wash for money but with way more data for their actuaries, or they increase premiums if larger robberies occur more frequently. 'Insurance always comes out ahead' is a great axiom to live by.