skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
idTech is cutting edge tech. Their team is one of the best in the industry, second to none, competing with Epic, Insomniac and Naughty Dog. But it is not engine for general use, not now. It does one thing(FPS), and does it extremely well. But it lacks tools that you would need to create games of another genres. Things like advanced animation tools, dialogue systems, quest systems, ways to handle vast open worlds, etc.

idTech would be great for Halo and Call of Duty. But it isn't great for The Elder Scrolls, Starcraft, Gears, and many different games Microsoft Studios are working on. EA already tried to make every studio to use Frostbite for every single game and ended up with disasters like Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda.
Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
Assuming you're not living as a poverty level wage slave and regularly have to choose between buying food and medicine, then sure.
I have a feeling they are going to be shifts to have people either level up wiht their technical skills and work on advanced problems and some people who cannot level up but can still be used in lower level data work where automation is really difficult.
This might be an option for business or enterprise versions; I know our company buys everything from Dell so we have a good relationship, and I've seen discussions of being able to send a system image to Dell for them to put onto laptops that you order.

If you're not spending a huge amount on laptops, though, I can't imagine this being an option they want to offer.
Link: https://huggingface.co/tasks

Open Source repo: https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub
That reminds me of the PureFlix case years ago. Their shtick was editing movies to be more "Christian-friendly". So what they did was heavily edit a movie and burn it to a disk and ship it to you. What they did was they also bought a legit copy of the movie on disk and damaged the disk to unusuable. They shipped you both, so you had a working edited disk and a broken original.

IIRC, they lost the case but I do see the merits in their arguments.
So someone in the know. Is this a false speculative article hyping Bitcoin, and if so when will we see the Coria ponding hike before the predictable fall after the intel makes a release denying it. And how many short positions are going to be liquidated and how high do we expect the thin spike to be?
A lot of people voice their concerns, including a lot of Israelis, but what can you do? Israel is a democracy and the majority votes for far right militaristic candidates and parties. Whether or not you hear about these concerns in public discourse in your country's media depends on your current foreign policy.
On the Dell website, you can check out their workstations and see some of the price differences. For example, choose the Precision line. Then for any computer that has a "show all choices" when it lists the operating system, choose the customize option and you can see the prices for all the OS options they give. I randomly chose an i5 desktop and from Windows 10 Pro switching to Ubuntu 20.04 reduces the price by $75, but switching to Red Hat increases the price by $70.
Building a small gasoline-powered engine from scratch in 15 minutes [video]
It is certainly pretty goddamn depressing to look at the price on these sorts of things and compare it to how much time and money you've spent acquiring your art skills, and how much money you're likely to make off of them in your entire life.

I've probably had a lot more fun drawing furry porn for money than Johns has had producing turgid masses of grey noodling, though. I regularly giggle with delight at the things people pay me to draw. If I was more stoned I'd consider extemporizing furry porn as a fascinating proletarian genre that is aggressively ignored by the art world. And then consider putting together a portfolio of nothing but to throw at some of the local galleries. But instead I think I'll just turn off the internet and get some work done.
It's still only a part of the larger Sony, though, with other subsidiaries doing completely other things. They're not leveraging TVs from a US company into the Sony Pictures studios into game development into game publishing into tying the games to the PS5. Microsoft is all one company with divisions working more closely, in theory anyway, than Sony's subsidiary companies.
I've done both 5-day and 4-day workweeks, both as an employee and as a manager.

As an employee it felt great because 3-day weekends were awesome when I was young and single. However, my coworkers with kids and families had mixed feelings about it because it was difficult to coordinate with daycare, school, and other activities.

As a manager, 4-day workweeks felt like a minefield. It turns out that a lot of people can't really produce more than a few hours of work per day. A lot of people also struggle to get going on Mondays and tend to leave early on the last day of the week, so in some cases people became significantly less productive even if they were at the office (or online) for 10 whole hours each day. Some people treated it like a slippery slope, trying to casually move down to 4 x 8 hour days or less. Some people wanted to work 5-day weeks, which turns out to be difficult to mix with other people working 4-day weeks but longer hours.

I think 4-day weeks make sense for jobs that have a lot of dead time anyway. There are a lot of companies out there with way more staff than they need, so going to 4-day weeks doesn't change much. However, 5-day workweeks will still better for productivity, collaboration, and keeping people fresh each day. Unpopular opinion, I'm sure, but that's my experience.
How perfect is the play that piosolver calculates? Do you make any simplifying assumptions?

I noticed in the article that piosolver can incorporate a mixed strategy with multiple bet sizes. Pretty neat, is that a recent feature? As I rememember it, a few years back people would discuss what the optimal bet size was in various situations with the implicit assumption that there is just one.
Wow, you really think they are either completely treasonous or utterly incompetent? If they wanted to surveil their own (as presumably some do), they wouldn't need to compromise standard coms protocols.

It's not collecting the dossiers... it's that they are the weak link, whether they like it or not.
Because you are more likely to be a professional software engineer with a whopping salary and lower price sensitivity :)

Or am I too cynical about our dear colleagues in marketing?
Software freedom is not just about being able to run Linux. Being able to run Linux doesn't help the billions of people who will never use anything other than the stock OS that ships on their phones, tablets or computers.

I bought a model of a phone that doesn't have LineageOS support because apparently it's a weird carrier model. The base model has AOSP support, though. Didn't realize that until a few months into ownership, and by then it was too late to return. I'm stuck with Google's Android.

I've been running Linux for like 19 years now.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-693834
Ok, you convinced me that real estate is not a good investment. I'm not going to invest into it. But I still don't want my house to become twice cheaper overnight because city decided to build landfill nearby.
Applications of ZK technology outside of blockchain?
Zero knowledge cryptography has been proving an incredible technology with use in blockchain applications. I'm wondering, is there any other industry use cases of this, outside of blockchain applications?
> Wages would presumably raise prices only in industries that can't be heavily automated

If it is funded by eliminating the preference for non-labor income in taxes by bringing up taxes on other income (which also itself reduces the incentive to automation created by premium taxes on labor), that's not true.
If you make some simplifications and assumptions such as a GPS receiver has a highly-precise & synchronized clock (it doesnt), you can conceive GPS basically as a system where each satellite simply broadcasts its position & own current timestamp and then determining your position of the earth surface becomes basic triangulation calculating the time-in-flight of the received signal from multiple satellites. Of course a lot of simplifications in there (such as constant signal expansion time), but I would say a system that you could design with basic geometry. The required knowledge is basic physics and math that everybody calling themselves engineers should have heard at uni (or even at school).
What does Intel have to offer that AntMiner doesn't? They are way too late into the game and cannot compete on price.
I imagine it may involve periodic/unscheduled audits of adtech companies platforms under the hood, to see how they're targeting?
They are not simple devices. Maybe they were simple 30 or 40 years ago. Today, not so much.

Some of the complexity is caused by customer preferences, and some of it is caused by government regulations.

A modern washing machine or dishwasher or refrigerator has a computer in it.

The market has rewarded those kinds of products. That happened because consumers wanted it to happen. As in many other industries, especially the car industry, there is an increasing divide between what the general consumers want and what the enthusiasts and tinkerers want.
> The daycare age population are not the ones dying.

Which, if daycares were run by the toddlers independently of adult supervision, would be a great point.
This is a great point. It's particularly useful to have that context into how the thinking evolved when you're looking back at a feature built months or years ago, to help you avoid doing something that was skipped in good reason OR make the same mistakes again.

We agree our decision feed is just step one to get there, we're also exploring other ways to show the evolution of work.
Some agency really needs to enforce consistent naming for all these features. Vague marketing terms like "autopilot" and "self-driving" cause enough confusion to be outright dangerous. A car manufacturer can't advertise ABS, airbags, tire pressure monitoring, traction control etc. and then say oh we define these terms differently. Autopilot should be no different.
There are a couple of motivations. A diagnosis of autism opens up support services that are often needed, one way or another. Therefore, I'd acknowledge there is probably incentives for the clinical diagnostic process to favor limiting false negatives. Nevertheless, when it comes to the gold standard of autism diagnosis (i.e. the ADOS), diagnostic sensitivity has increased over the years by zeroing in one the symptoms that autistics tend to share.

The implications of this increased sensitivity has been to 1) autism prevalence has gone up , and 2) the average "severity" of autism (ADOS CSS scores) has decreased. This has also led to conflicts within the autism advocacy community: e.g. diversity vs disorder.
I once set up a new Dell system, and it took something like 30 minutes to actually start and get to the desktop, and then a huge amount of time afterwards answering "yes I for really really real don't want your stupid demo" to a dozen pop-ups, and then another hour of uninstalling all the crap it had.

I cannot imagine anyone non-technical having to go through that and deal with BS like daily pop-ups "reminding" you to renew your subscription because "your PC is not protected" and so on.

It's honestly asinine, but hey, just buy a Mac or a Linux Dell I guess.
UBI doesn't eliminate wage signals.
Algorithms are provably correct. If you've got no proof of correctness, the best you have is a heuristic.
But the first person interviewed was already a subscriber. They bought the hardware. They were paying for the content. He was making a pretty healthy contribution to their bottom line. Now that customer is alienated to the point of being interviewed for an article. I'm guessing they wouldn't recommend it to a friend or family. Taking away stuff from paying customers seems like a path towards not having recurring customers.

If it was just about the money, they should have e.g. have pop-up ads cover the screen only for non-subscribers, such that people aren't inclined to buy the device, not subscribe to the ifit content, and watch youtube instructors or whatever.
Thanks for mentioning my blog :-). By the way, anyone who is interested should try decapping a chip. Modern epoxy chips are hard to decap, but you can get an older chip in a ceramic package on eBay for a few dollars. Decapping one is simply a matter of tapping it with a chisel. To see complete details of the die, you need a special metallurgical microscope, but a generic microscope will still show a lot. Even with the naked eye you can see a lot of interesting structures.
Log4Shell Aftermath: Should Big Tech Pay to Secure Open Source?
Maybe if you order the factory restore disks after the fact.
So they were a self-proclaimed annoying person and then they transitioned and now they’re not?
Does anyone know the differences between saml and open id connect? https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/actions/d...
Maybe, but at this point in time I have no reason to think that the robot market will be uncompetitive and insulated from other sectors of the economy. Robot-rentals only need to be cheaper than the cost of the employee and deliver the same or approximately the same value to be competitive.

Wages are also not the only cost of employees.
If all you need is a framebuffer, nvidia is fine. However I regularly run into 3d applications that either only run (either at all, or without significant artifacts) with nouveau or only run with the nvidia binary drivers. I reboot fairly regularly just to switch between the two.
To a certain extent that is true. But it matters where those jobs are eliminated. Usually the jobs that replace lower jobs or offset the automation are higher level. Do we actually believe that everyone in society is able to work the higher level jobs? I would think the jobs would need to align to the population's potential.
Tax people out of their homes doesn't look like a great idea.
Ask HN: How to Grieve?
my account is only psuedo-anonymous so i won't reveal too much about the situation but someone very important in my life just passed away. i've never been in this situation and i'm berating myself for not being broken. i'm with family and assuming the role of keeping everyone calm, but mostly because i am calm, not because i am someone they typically rely on. i am sad. i have cried. yet, i am not broken like them. i can't tell if i'm feeling numb or if i am some sort of sociopath. is it normal to feel so still and empty in the midst of something so calamitous?

i feel ashamed. i don't think this is absent grief. i loved this person with my entire being. i'm worried that there's something wrong with me. is this my way of grieving? is my coping mechanism letting go of all sentiment and walking through the motions? i feel so out of place; they keep asking me if i'm okay; i'm thinking of putting on the act of being completely distraught so that everyone else will leave me alone. i'm so drained and i think it's mostly this anxiety over my reaction. i'm hungry and exhausted and i really just want to know what to do?

are any of you who have experience in this department willing to give me some advice? i can't talk to my family, most of them are in an incurable state. the wound is still very fresh.
Congrats - PIOSolver is an amazing program. What are the future plans for it? It would be great if you didn't need a PhD to set it up though. I keep wondering if I'm actually training myself using the right solutions or not based on the setup :)
They don't even need to do that. They can keep releasing CoD on Playstation, but if they add it to Gamepass, that increases the value of Gamepass so significantly that it could tilt the console market toward Microsoft.
>Meanwhile physical cash is preferred for criminal acts. Would you similarly blame the issuer of cash for these crimes?

Authorities (at least in the US) try to strike a balance between crime prevention and seamless use of cash. Depositing or withdrawing large sums in cash will attract regulatory attention. Currency entering the banking system is checked against a list of serial numbers known to have been used in or obtained through criminal activity. Crossing borders with large sums of cash requires a customs declaration. When cash denominations or cash-like instruments are shown to primarily enable criminal activity, their issue is discontinued (hence why we no longer have $1K bills or bearer bonds).

> What about footwear? Most criminals wear shoes or boots. Running shoes can be used to evade capture. Should we hold Nike accountable?

I mean, if there were some kind of shoe that primarily or uniquely enabled criminal activity, I'm pretty sure it would get banned? Or Nike would get pressured into no longer making them.
Every time I read one of the 'automation' pieces I think of the book Manna. If you haven't read it do so, great and short read available here:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Currently ranked #2 on HN, it happens.
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The nice thing about Game Pass is that after a game has been on the service for a number of months, you get a 20% discount if you choose to buy it. It's useful for instances where a game you want to keep playing is about to leave the service, or you want to get off the subscription plan.
ht-editor was a fantastic editor[1], similar to hiew[2] on windows. Unfortunately ht-editor codebase is a bit hard to extend and it's based on really old modified binutils headers. I was trying to update it, but it's probably better to just write it from scratch, it's still much more straightforward to use that most modern cli hex editors.

What is with russians and their love for advanced windows cli tools? IDA Pro, hiew and far manager[3] come to mind.

[1] http://hte.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://www.hiew.ru/

[3] https://www.farmanager.com/
Again, no issues on Arch. People running other distros may have issues due to slower package and kernel updates.
> truly a cancer on software.

Possibly crypto, definitely a lot of AV software.
There's good reason for them to have considered these questions too, as a lot of the satellite-based positioning systems prior to GPS, such as the Navy's TRANSIT, involved both a more active receiver and offloading parts of the work to ground stations. This was very practical at the time, as is TRANSIT fixes were so complex that GE had to design a special computer with a cylindrical chassis so that it would fit through the porthole for installation in submarines. This replaced the previous situation of the submarine having to send its TRANSIT observations to a ground station for fix calculation.

You can still do this with GPS if you want. In the surveying community, it's not unusual to collect an extended period of raw GPS observations (e.g. 48 hours) and then submit them to NOAA's offline GPS computation service OPUS which will return a fix by email a while later. This can result in a more accurate fix but perhaps more importantly a more consistent fix, since OPUS will apply the exact same sophisticated solver used for other government geodetics like survey benchmarks. The tradeoff is that OPUS is slow enough that it tends to run on a queue.

In any case modern GPS involves surprisingly active receivers since smartphones commonly use AGPS over IP to accelerate receiving ephemera.
Thanks for the detail! I have a 1930s house with, I think, unfilled cavities. I’ve always been put off looking into insulating because it seemed potentially harmful.
I recently installed Galaxy and used it to install 4 games from my library, testing now they all load up without Galaxy running.
Do you think that you should have the right to talk to someone in person without the government tapping into that? If so why chat messages should be different?
They're reportedly getting into it for metaverse and mobile properties, so don't count on it.
You're both right. It's outrageous that companies are allowed to get away with nerfing products you've already paid for by pulling new restrictions and limitations out of thin air... and it's also bad form to look down at an LCD panel on a treadmill while using it. 100% guarantee of a painful side stitch, at least for me.
Kids, safety, convenience, positive encouragement, all these things help. Not everyone is as privileged as you where you can easily just go outside and leave your home without a care in the world.
>> Have you contacted Wind River Systems about it yet? You really need permission from them to make this happen.

If they own the copyright, then that's the first thing to do. Not because permission is more important, but because it's more likely to lead to "we don't even have the source any more, let us know if you find it" than if you approach them having a copy yourself already. I think your position will be stronger if you discover they don't even have a copy. If they do, then you don't need to find a copy yourself - they can provide it if they give you permission to do what you want.
Yes, it would definitely be an uphill battle. But I wonder if you could build a platform where a progressive web app felt enough like a mobile app and therefore enticed more app developers than requiring them to learn native tools for another platform
NPR is "national public radio", known mainly for news programming, though they also carry other sorts of programs (humor, for instance). Only a tiny sliver of their operation is publicly (i.e. by government) funded, despite the name. This tiny bit often comes under attack because they're perceived as left-wing propagandists by the right (but so are most news outlets that aren't quite right-wing, so that means little on its own). At any rate, it's uncontroversial to note that they are some of the only news or political programming on the radio, in most parts of the country, that isn't very, very right wing.

They famously hold funding drives a couple times a year, interrupting much of their usual programming to ask their listeners for donations... but these are also only a small part of their funding, and the drives amount to a kind of roundabout advertising or PR more than anything else.

Most of their funds come from corporate and non-profit donors. [EDIT] And these get ads on the stations, read by NPR staff. "Donors", but actually many are just businesses paying for ads, like any other station has. This practice has gone from "they might name their donors sometimes" to "they frequently read ad copy on-air for them" in the last couple decades.

On the left—so, among their traditional listenership—they are perceived, increasingly, as having a strong pro-corporate and pro-status-quo bias. This crowd perceives them as staunch defenders of the neo-liberal consensus that's driven US economic and foreign policy since the 80s, though they are (as corporations have, now that it's convenient, become) left-leaning on many social issues.

Basically, lots and lots of people, right and left, don't like them. One might take this as a sign they're doing something right, but... well, I'll leave it to the listener to judge the quality of their coverage, whatever its leaning, for themselves. Suffice it that I, at least, think it's gone from "pretty good" in the '00s to total crap, now. IMO the best news coverage in a given broadcast day, for my local NPR affiliate, is when they're just re-broadcasting the BBC.
>If they walked passed a female employee, I might ask her if she noticed any sideway look.

I wonder do female candidates get the same test? Not judging, just curious if there is a double standard, and why.
I'll go a step further and say they aren't just further off but impossible to achieve until someone can reasonably prove otherwise. We simply aren't going to see cars without a steering wheel and manual controls (i.e. Level 5 automation) for general purpose use on public streets in our lifetime.