skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's basically what AA games are, and are sometimes somewhat successful...but usually not as successful as AAA games. Then you have the indie and solo developers flooding Steam with mostly low-quality games with a few gems...making it extremely difficult to get noticed. So not only do you need a game idea that is attractive to gamers (AAA games are established franchise with decades of releases and marketing), it also has to be implemented well (see the failures of this years CoD and Battlefield) AND you need a huge marketing budget to get your game in front of eyes (maybe you could get lucky going "viral") to stand out from everyone else.
Miele's reputation was tarnished this/last year because of their new stance of replacement parts. From now on, only licensed Miele repairmen are able to order spare parts. General repairmen are seeing their Miele parts inventory shrink and will have to stop servicing Miele devices entirely.
> It is interesting that you insulate under the house.

This is part of the building code in many areas: do a search for [under] "slab insulation".

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/information-sheets...

* https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/insulation/i...

It should be at least R-10 (RSI 1.8):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2dNp9bicSk

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKp0wRzvR-g
afaik 45nm->32nm, so 2007->2010, because that hit the limit of "simple" scaling.
Right! And that’s really my point–there are so many people in tech with money and an ego that I’m surprised this isn’t done more. Pineapple person in the most recent memorable example.
LOL the whole point of the "advice" is just to imply that people who aren't rich are all drug-users, high school dropouts, or convicts.
Diablo 2 resurrected was the most infuriating experience I have had. I bought it in the Switch store against my better judgment, partly because in their support forum they said that offline mode would of course always be offline.

For the first few days people could hardly even start the game, I tried to return it right away, because it's basically a bricked game at this point, but Nintendo doesn't want to refund switch games unless you're in North America.

I had already forgotten about it, but I get angry just reminded of that. Yeah, it's just 50 bucks, but when you got cheated on those 50 bucks that leaves a bad taste in ones mouth.
These are my uBlock settings for YouTube. They actually make using YouTube pleasant.

www.youtube.com###secondary

www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"] #primary

www.youtube.com##.ytp-show-tiles.ytp-endscreen-paginate.videowall-endscreen.ytp-player-content.html5-endscreen
I recently setup pihole, which subsequently went down while playing PS5, Effectively taking out my internet. My PS5 basically refused to play the most recent Star Wars after about 30 minutes. Next time I’ll just pirate the bloody thing.
> how many more rich people are in the current generation compared to the previous one

Fewer isn't it? There is _increasing_ inequality.

Anyway, it's structural, whether the social systems deliver the economic product to a smaller number or larger number of people. It's not down to differences between individuals receiving or not receiving the product.
It's hard to believe anyone is still promoting Docker.

Has anyone actually used it?

If you haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, don't do it. It's a sucker's game.

I got sucked into the Docker hype some years ago and the demos worked well enough in isolation.

I pushed it on a small team that didn't need it. One of the biggest regrets of my career.

Docker may be useful if an application has enormous reach and needs Google scale, but very few apps do.

1) It is incredibly slow to build

2) It is slow to run

3) It is an unbelievable resource hog

4) It has an entirely new set of problems (file system, networking, etc.) that must be understood to get it working

5) Hard deploy time dependency on Docker's web app?!

6) If you do not believe me on the complexity, just observe how docker arguments always seem to turn into k8s (or other orchestration) arguments. It is hard to reason about, hard to deploy, hard to coordinate.

K8s is a total disaster for a small team working on a small project.

We lost many months by choosing these tools for a startup that didn't (yet) need them, and the ongoing, neverending pile of problems and distractions they generated was shocking.

I still feel bad about it. The company could have run on a couple $400 machines under a desk for years, but instead spent tens of thousands on AWS services it didn't need.

Of course, YMMV
CG-NAT – Why you often can't host a public webserver on your 4G-router
Thats the one ! Thanks for clearing up !
I wonder - if you would build a dome over one of the water-ice-swamps in the canyons and allowed atmosphere to build up- if we would see something grow..
Geometry from Another Universe
> “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

~~ Winston Churchill.
Oh, this is so very true! In addition, said front door is protected by a flimsy deadbolt that sits in a dinky thin door frame. The whole thing breaks and opens with a kick and offers symbolic, rather than practical protection.
The Benchmarks Game isn't some Julia project, and it is unreasonable to blame the presentation of results on some 'chip on the shoulder' of Julia the language.

The Benchmarks Game is a project that dates back to at least 2002 (https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...), a decade before Julia was announced, collects code from many different languages, and lets you filter the results depending on what you are interested in. Go to the website, click on Python, and when selecting the other language, Python's results are in bold.

Why should Julia users be criticized for contributing code to a website dedicated to performance benchmarks, but it's ok for Python/Fortran/C/Javascript users to contribute? And why should this contribution from some individual count as evidence of some 'shoulder chip' for the wider language community?

(BTW, all benchmarks in all languages appear to be running on 4 cores, so it's not that weird for Julia to set NUM_THREADS to 4.)
Do you ever do wc? It cares:

> echo hello > hello
> echo -n hello > hellon
> wc hello hellon
1 1 6 hello
0 1 5 hellon
1 2 11 total
>>Let’s start with this: Venmo is a free service to transfer dollars, and bitcoin transfers are not free.

Is the author really unaware of the horror stories of Venmo and PayPal freezing customer accounts?

Articles like this want a return to serfdom, under the control of officialdom. There is no other conceivable reason why someone would not want people to have at least the option of taking custody over their own money, in a form more useful than physical cash.
Because nowadays, anyone gets called a conspiracy theorist if they challenge establishment narratives. You get conflated with them, just like you got conflated with extremists/terrorists if you were antiwar (think invasion of Iraq).

Covid policies are extremely authoritarian but you can only challenge them to require MORE security theater, not less. Else, you're labeled and, as OP said, you're dangerous. Your IDEAS are Dangerous. Just like when reading communist books made you dangerous. Several dictatorships knew it was necessary to disappear such dangerous people with their dangerous thoughts.

Anti intellectualism is at its all time high when it comes to "not questioning 'the science'" (The gov/Big tech/state health institutions/state media)
I'd like to try, but it does not support translations. I prefer using software only in my native language.
Radio spectrum was decided somewhere in the 1950s and as I understand it the US military owns most of it.
It's difficult to plan ahead for future technology.
That seems incredibly low. Using Firefox's built-in password manager I definitely get >90% of sites. The only site that I use frequently where it doesn't work is my bank because the "card number" isn't recognized as the username.

But even copy-paste isn't too difficult. Roughly as much clicking as the magic-link solution in my experience.
> who decides what art is worthy of being supported?

If the number of entrants exceeds the number of allowances, they are randomly selected. It's written in the article.
The American culture of layoffs always surprised me. In Poland, for a typical work contract, the law mandates 1-2 months of layoff time. That is, the layoff decision is given two months in advance, but you keep working for those two months. Also, there are no surprise "security will escort you to the door where you can wait for your personal things" layoffs. I guess because people don't get taken by surprise with a layoff and are given enough time to find a new job, there is much less concern and acts of employee retalation
Good research is always useful, where good means something between "reliable and flawlessly explained" and "plausible and very novel".

So on one end you could takes something like Newtons Principa, that synthesised a lot of the known facts and laws at the time into one single coherent framework, and on the other you can have Galileo recognising that he was seeing surface features on the moon and not just patterns on a flat disk and announcing this will some illustrations showing the principle and not what he actually saw.

As to the first part of the question, if you talk of "publishing" in academia you usually mean you want your work to be know by other credible researchers in the hope they find it useful.

The most reliable way to achieve that without credentials is to befriend someone respected in the field you are interested in before you send them your results, because they are more likely to have patience with any errors or confusion in your presentation that way.

There are of course some places that pride themselves on being completely free from filtering, but the concept of "spam folder" along should tell you how good a chance you have of getting any serious attention in those places.
Since the entrants are selected randomly, I'd say no.

Ireland has the sanest political system I've ever seen in person.
From your post:

> experiment in decentralization

Not very, AFAICS (cont. below).

> and distributed design in the ethos of “web3,” a poorly-termed yet novel paradigm

Half right, half wrong, IMO. (Guess which is which ! :-)

> This marks the death of the website, and perhaps the end of Rafael Lima’s involvement. Yet, the overall community spirit, as well as its tokenized assets and media files, appears largely unaffected. A suite of forks and competing platforms have sprung up in its wake

If the death of one particular Web site lead to "forks and competing platforms"... Then it can't have been very decentralised at all, right? Because if it were truly an "ecosystem" that shouldn't have mattered at all, AFAICS.

But then, later:

> these pillars of decentralization seem to be working.

> These tokens, cryptographically signed by me (the artist) and pointing to a particular generative artwork of mine, have been completely unaffected by the website’s shutdown. The records of ownership and provenance continue to be upheld by the distributed public ledger of the Tezos blockchain, and each token still sits comfortably in their respective owner’s wallets.

OK, so my original interpretation of your preceding paragraphs was overly pessimistic. Or perhaps you're actually underselling it in those.

But that all still leaves me with a question: WTF is this all supposed to be good for?!? What do these distributed high-tech ultra-cool über-Web-3.0 "tokens" actually do?

Is this supposed to be like, say, litography: "This is one of five identical copies signed by the artist. They're only genuine if presented in conjunction with the artist's signature"? Because they each represent only the "rights" to (display, or something?) one copy of the artwork; not the actual copyright or anything, right? But do they really even do that... I mean, OK, sure, they may "represent" that right -- but AFAICS they don't do that better (and arguably worse) than any other, non-blockchain-based, system; they sure don't protect any possible "rights" better than some (horrible) traditional DRM system. Owning a self-proving "token" only proves that you own that token, not the file that it represents. So how, exactly, does the token actually "represent" the file?

If I wanted to rip off your art I'd just take the actual art, without giving a fuck about any "tokens". I would just download the actual graphics file, for instance from the link you so graciously provided. (And, hey, spanning tree sketch 01 is really quite pretty!)

So, to sum up: You make computer art, I get that. But what's all the Web 3.0 Crypto Blorkchain Token foofaraa around the art goood for? I'm not seeing any usefulness at all, any justification for the whole opera.

Oh, and finally (back up top):

> Since it’s early beginnings in 2021

"Its".
What's the date of that article? It seems old. I haven't heard of anyone talking about herd immunity at 70% since at least before delta.

These other articles seem to say that it's not feasible in the short term and have a better count that is nor just projections based on past capacity.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/andrew-pollard-booster...

https://www.barrons.com/articles/a-plan-to-break-the-vaccine...
Well, another way of looking at it is that the observer is not the same as the decider.

So ultimately your reference frame is only current within the locus of your own mind and any decisions you make get broadcasted out to observers in the universe. They make their own decisions about where to be, how fast to be, and so on, and from their perspective it could be yesterday from when the decider decided, but its irrelevant just as much as being farther away in 3d space gives a longer delay in ping time.

Whether or not the decider has free will or not I don't think can be argued by this specific example.
> I always assumed that any money you earn would then be deducted from future payments

Contrary to what everyone says in this thread, this is the crappy way welfare exists in the UK
I'm very happy Ireland is no longer part of the UK. I'd say this would be a very good reason.
A year ago today on MLK day it was only available to those 75 and older. The vaccine in the US has not been available to the general public for a year! Healthcare providers yes, general public no.
Okay, I'll bite.

> It's also a deployment format that provides horizontal scaling for free.

Um. Docker does not provide horizontal scaling at all, for that you need orchestration. And those tools are anything but free if your time has any value.
"Smells to me like major scrapegoating."

My bet is on security engineers and QA. If I could bet on this - I would have my money on those people being fired. Always annoying at meetings, constantly being downers /s
I don't understand. Have the servers been down ever since?
I had a cynical face on when I clicked this, but I found it a great article and I'd agree with all of the advice in it. It's pragmatic.

The one part I am on the fence on is on being able to play in notes, as opposed to just sequencing them on-screen. The reason I am on the fence is that, for me, there is an important question missing from the article and that is "What style, or genre, of music are you trying to create?". The reason that is important is that it can have a big influence on the tools you use to create your music - whether that is playing by keyboard then using a computer to tidy up your playing, or sitting with a blank piano-roll or step sequencer and creating loops ... I'll put that on a rough scale from Vangelis-style arrangements epics on the left, to synthwave in the middle, to electro and techno on the right, with the scale labelled "suitability of drawing patterns on screen"

Something I always agree with is that not doing it sitting at the computer is important. Not all the time, but it's nice to be able to use your gear and a sequencer without using the keyboard and mouse - if you are reading HN there's a fair chance you use a computer all day, and it's nice that when you are being creative you can put the computer to one side and treat it as a giant digital recording studio / tape recorder, as you create and make music on your synths/grooveboxes/drum machines

My perspective is written as a 50YO who has been making electronic music (acid/electro/techno) since I got my first Amiga at 17! I still can barely play the keys, but I am master of the sequencer. I have most of the classic Roland drum machines and analogue synths - I sequence the synths on Ableton mainly but program all the drums on the machines themselves as it's so much fun, using them to trigger sequences on the 101 and run the arp on my JP6 and Poly61. On the flip side, I sometimes wish I could play the keys as it would help with variations and chords for strings, so I understand the counter argument that I often hear from those classically trained
Wouldn't all that matters here be their relative velocities to Andromeda, and not to each other? And relative to Andromeda, the person in the car might actually be going slower.

Separately, I don't think chronology is broken. It's ok that there is predestination because there is no way for actions taken here to propagate back there in time to change things. If a change does somehow propagate back through a wormhole or something, it's all good, just spinning up another dimension probably...
I wasn't the commenter so no worries about apologies... just wanted to point out where you can find this information. :)
The description of relativistic movement by hyperbolic rotations is really neat. One way I like to think of it is that moving with respect to some other observer puts you into a different "world", where the x and t axes are rotated towards each other. You can see from the diagrams that for example different events happen in different orders in both "worlds". And this is not just due to signal propagation, but there really is no "true" ordering if the events are sufficiently separated.

Bit there is one thing I never understood, even though I have a PhD in physics. Why does relative movement put you into a different "world"? Or more precise, why does relative movement correspond to a lorentz boost? That is not a piori neccessary. A stupid example is a laser pointed to the moon. If you flick it quickly, the spot can move faster than light over the ground. But you can also imagine mass moving independent of boost. You have a rock at x=0, t=0. At t=1, cut it and paste it at x=1. At t=2, cut it and paste it at x=2. Now make the time steps infintely small. It is moving (in the sense of dx/dy>0) but not moving (in the sense of v or ß = 0).

My intuition is, if you look at electromagnetism, it takes some time for a changing electric field to create a magnetic field, and for the magnetic field to create an electric field. This is what Einstein meant when he said, time exists so that not everything happens at once. If you think of a relatively moving object - and I'm thinking of it completely in terms of EM for the sake of simplicity - what happens is that the fields are propagating. One field creates the next field not at the same space but slightly in front. So the whole thing is rotated towards the x axis. The "time" vector does not point completely in the time direction, but in the space direction. This gives you time dilation as well as the subjective experience of an intertial frame (because you are just moving forwards in time, but not in space from your POV). I think this microscopic perspective shows why motion must == boost. But does anybody here know if there is a canonical answer to this question?

Edit: I just realize this is basically electromagnetism of moving bodies which Einstein already solved in 1905 :-) but I still find it hard to wrap my head around
It's always amazing to think that Pizza existed long before tomatoes were brought to Europe.
> It's subjective, which means criticism is subjective too

But that's precisely the point of the subsidy. Society as a whole already expresses value judgements, every day, through money. If an artist is valued, he is successful and accumulates money, so he doesn't need subsidies; but the fact that an artist is valued or not-valued today, we know, is a poor indication of their overall value in the long run. Maybe their art will explode in value after death, maybe he will start a movement that will generate better artists and designers...

The point of universal income, surely, is exactly to remove the immediate value judgement from the equation. UBI is supposed to pay everyone, regardless of what they choose to do (except for raping and murdering, I guess; but ironically, convicts are among the first to actually "enjoy" an UBI of sorts already, although to the price of their liberty). In this sense, starting from art actually makes the most sense.

> it would have more value as an experiment to start with some of the poorest people in a society and then measure their quality of life and economic contribution

The minute you start measuring economic contribution, you are not really in UBI territory anymore - you are just subsidising the market at its fringes. That's already done in social democracies, in practice, through various means.
Sadly, this is the way it works in the UK. Welfare payments are cut by any increases in your pay. So a person who might be offered overtime for some extra money has no incentive to take it because their total take home stays the same but with the latter they miss out on spending time with their family/resting etc.
All of this is great advice to this 30+ year veteran of synthesis. One thing I'd add: instead of buying new synths, buy effects (pedals or rack or whatever). You'd be surprised how amazing the difference can be between a synth and a synth+foot pedals .. its like upgrading the signal flow by taking on another module.

Also, if you're getting into synths and haven't encountered VCVRack yet, you are in for a huge treat: http://vcvrack.com/

Get it, install it, log in and tick all the boxes for every free module in the list. There is nothing quite like starting a new VCVRack project and having close to a thousand new modules to play with and experiment around with.
That's pretty cool and funny too, but AFAIK, tracking people at work without their explicit consent is illegal in most of the EU even before GDPR.
>when the motion is complex

>multiple cursors (from a different comment)

I agree that in this kind of case motion first may be a way to go. Basically it should look like `search && replace`. Without actually doing search && replace.
Get a libre engine to play Diablo I and II. Also, try Flare RPG.
I Took a Pay Cut to Get Away from PowerPoint
At this point I'm just not buying anything by the dumpster fire that used to be Blizzard.
I'm an OCD-ish perfectionist (especially in writing) if the world has ever seen one, to the point where I didn't stark working on my bachelor's or my master's thesis before I had exactly the markdown + latex setup + custom typography that I wanted. So I would definitely internally cringe if I'd see typos like this.

But to reject a candidate just because they're not the same kind of pedant that I am would be quite unreasonable IMHO. As long as the whole thing isn't littered with typos or formatting issues, that's just something I wouldn't pay too much attention to. Not everyone needs to be the person to dot every i and cross every t.

Also, I really want to see the HR department that can confidently reject or even mark down a candidate when most of the writing I've seen from most people in any company I've ever been (including from HR departments, PMs or executives) has been "meh" at best, and full of errors or at least awkward language more often than not. For better or worse, writing skills are not necessarily something we tend to select for in the industry.
Might also be colorimetric.
You can get as pedantic as you want about the definition of socialism, but the point is, there's no evidence that a program like single-payer healthcare or UBI will drive off everyone who pays into the system.
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