skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The model generated totally different output every time you ran it, even with fixed seeds." - I remember seeing code takedowns of the model from anti-lockdown people who repeatedly cite this issue.
But there is a valid reason for this to happen, and it doesn't mean bugs in the code. If the code is run in a distributed way (multiple threads, processes or machines), which it was, the order of execution is never guaranteed.

Then there's literally no point to using PRNG seeding. The whole point of PRNG seeding is so you can define some model in terms of "def model(inputs, state) ->" output, and get the "same" output for the same input. I put "same" in quotes because defining sameness on FP hardware is challenging. But usually 0.001% relative tolerance is sufficiently "same" to account for FP implementation weirdness.

If you can't do that, then your model is not a pure function, in which case setting the seed is pointless at best, and biasing/false sense of security in the worst case.

As you mention, non-pure models have their place, but reproducing their results is very challenging, and requires generating distributions with error bars - you essentially "zoom out" until you are a pure function again, with respect to aggregate statistics.

It does not sound like this model was "zoomed out" enough to provide adequate confidence intervals such that you could run the simulation, and statistically guarantee you'd get a result in-bounds.
Sounds like she got all her work done on time.
> On the other hand, most meat eaters I know have heavy deficient in many key nutrients because the average western diet is terrible, meat or not.

"Key nutrients"? And "heavy" deficiencies? Are you sure? This is the first time I hear this. Can you explain? Which key nutrients are those? What kind of diets "most meat eaters" you know have that causes deficiency in those key nutrients?

Thank you in advance for the reply and sorry for sounding incrdulous, but really that's the first time I hear that.
I love mine, and refused to trade it for the Subie. Unfortunately, the transmission is leaking, and the engine burns oil pretty excessively. Plan is to swap the engine and transmission out of a manual Subaru Outback or Forester and make it a more weekend oriented SUV.
That's what I use DevonThink for. Local macOS app with encrypted local filesystem. It just indexes basically everything from email to webpages to actual directories of plaintext files on my filesystem. And it can do automatic OCR of images/PDFs etc.

I don't do actual note-taking there, I use NotePlan for that, which is just a directory of plain text files on my local filesystem. Automatically indexed by DevonThink.

I just dump everything there, including a regular weekly cronjob to archive my email accounts from different IMAP servers including Gmail.

I use DevonThink regularly and it never fails to deliver (except syncing, which sucks, my databases are too large). I have 25+ GB of data there in all sorts of file formats, from PDF receipts to over 1 million+ text documents including emails, and DevonThink can still find stuff instantly (under 500ms) for any full text search.
I think it's the same with a lot of other things, such as backups or proper testing - you wouldn't say backups were a waste because you never used them and you wouldn't say tests were a waste because they always passed!

It's also like all the wires I have in boxes and draws at my house. As soon as I throw them out I need them!
People like to say this because it's a nice sound-bite that lets people feel like they themselves are not among the stupid.

It ignores the reality that poverty is a causative agent for lacking the appropriate math skill to recognize that playing the lottery is not a good financial choice, and self-perpetuates that poverty.
Yes, and EA was once ideologically opposed to copy protection; today they are the DRM kings.

Welcome to capitalism. The pursuit of profit ruins everything.
Arguing that Clinton is a lizard is not only analogous to claiming that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine does not work and is actually harmful, it's leaps and bounds worse. At least the lizard position can be viewed as a kind of satire or metaphorically. The claims of Dr. Robert Malone (who was the guest on JRE) about the mRNA vaccines are not a form of questioning or scientific skepticism, his position is categorical.
Right now there is no monetization. We want to get a large userbase and good retention before we even think about that.

Longer term, we want to do freemium, like Discord does.
Despite being one of the most powerful, well-funded projects in the desktop Linux space, the GNOME devs runs a notorious "my way or the highway" policy that consistently makes it increasingly difficult for smaller teams to develop their own desktops. Components like libadwaita, Flatpak, Wayland, and GTK4 only further contribute to this initiative. Don't just take my word for it though, ask anyone on Linux developing desktop apps: GNOME has been driving a wedge between developers for a while now.
Haha, that's fair. But also, is this the case in 99% of "modal" text editors? Because that's why these things are the way they are in vim.

There's nothing different about the modality of operation of a Tesla. You could switch the touchscreen to a physical console and not lose anything, but modality is central to how vim operates, and becomes more valuable as you get used to it and need it more.
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you can't do this since you need studies and those take time. Depending in the size of your cohort and the current viral load in the population. Curevacs study had the problem that during this time in germany the corona-virus wasn't that common so nobody knew whether the vaccine is working.

As I understood it, the actual vaccine was developed super quickly and then everybody waited for the results of the study.
Interesting.

Linden Lab went through a period when they envisioned a 3D web, where the same client would talk to multiple virtual worlds. Around 2011, they backed off on that. But others went on, and to the surprise of Linden Lab, Open Simulator was developed. The Second Life simulator is proprietary, while the client is open source. Both are in C++. Open Simulator is in C#, and it's roughly compatible, although totally different internally.

I've been writing a Second Life / Open Simulator client in Rust for the last year or so, so I know the wire protocol. VWRAP seems to be an attempt to define a more portable wire protocol with roughly the same information.

The current Second Life wire protocol has two parts, events via binary UDP messages, and assets via HTTP. The UDP message formats are defined here.[1] This is a painful system. Both ends have to use exactly the same message template file, because messages do not contain length information. You have to parse each message perfectly just to find the next message. This makes adding new messages very difficult. No new messages have been added in years. That's one problem VWRAP was intended to solve.

Assets come in from ordinary web-type servers, and complex ones are encapsulated in Linden Lab Serial Data Protocol, which is documented and has multiple implementations. Those are reasonably straightforward to deal with.

The conceptual problems of interoperability are much tougher. There are some metaverse standards organizations starting up, but they're working more on diversity, inclusion, and safety than wire protocols. Content standardization is making progress. Content standardization seems to be settling on some subset of GLTF/USD formats. NVidia is pushing that, and the major tools (Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal) all speak it. That's a file format, not a wire protocol.

Enough standardization to allow portals between virtual worlds would be a big win. There's talk about this, but not much is happening, except in the Open Simulator ecosystem, where it works now.

One company, Ready Player Me, has an interesting concept - outsourced avatars. Avatars are created on the Ready Player Me site. Cooperating games have a module which renders such avatars, going out to Ready Player Me for the assets. This gives Ready Player Me a lock on avatar appearance and wearable items. For now, this is free. For now. "Wolf3D has the right to amend the Terms unilaterally." Some smaller games are using this, but the big studios have mostly stayed away. If that catches on, those guys have control over the air supply of the Metaverse.

[1] https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/files/tip/...
If someone is "authoritarian" that means they are consistently bullying or dominating in some situation with a power structure already in place -- like a boss, or of course a tyrannical head of state. You know, someone like Mussolini or Stalin.

These musicians aren't bullies, and they aren't doing anything like that. They're just saying "if your platform presents an image we don't like, or conducts itself in way that appears genuinely harmful to others -- we're not going to lend our credibility to it."

That's all. And it is perfectly within their free speech rights to do so.
Even harder... Convincing corporate entities to open even just a small bit of their metaverse / virtual world. At Linden, we pitched OGP/MMOX/VWRAP as "If the Metaverse is the next big thing, then its better to be Google than AoL."

That message resonated well with Linden, who saw the "Open Metaverse" as a place where their existing customers building UGC assets could find new markets for their goods. Linden could then jump in and take a percentage for cash transactions or hosting or whatever other services people would pay for.

I honestly don't know how FB/Meta sees their market / business model. Selling ads in a virtual world? Content to justify selling head-mounted-hardware? But it does sort of seem like walled gardens are in their DNA.
This was the UK. No background checks, though it wouldn't have turned up anything. There was no NDA that I remember, and honestly, I don't think the execs would have given a fuck even if they had known, as long as the work got done. I never ratted him out as our manager was fine with his work, and we didn't have a huge overlap of code that we were working on.
FastFEC: An fast FEC filing parser written in C
You're gonna need a citation or two for all of that.
The only data I have is anecdotal, but I ask people about this all the time. Some people seem to like the idea of an infotainment system, or rely on it for car trips with kids, but I have not heard any drivers who prefer touchscreens to physical controls.

I know that I, personally, love having a backup camera, but don't need or a screen for anything else, and would prefer physical controls for most things. Unfortunately that's not an option in most vehicles, so I am kind of coming to the conclusion that my next car will be an older model that's "dumb", since this is an overall better experience.

I don't think you could use the number of sales of cars with this kind of UI as evidence that people like it, since (the article mentions this) car manufacturers want to put it everywhere, regardless of popularity. It's got so many benefits from their side. It's not that I think they forced it on people, I think it was originally a cool novelty that people were excited about. But, after the novelty wore off, and a lot of people stopped wanting it in their cars, the industry had so fully committed to it that people just don't have the option to do without it these days.
its the classic hn libertarian take. empowered teens with freedom technology, saying one thing (body autonomy, no regs!) but, actually with regulations they're just smarter regulations cause I'm smart
That sort of thing probably made more sense when it wasn't at all uncommon for people to stay with the company for a decade or decades. I know a number of people at IBM with tenures in the 25 to 30 year range.
16 years later ...

It took me around five years of online language practice to become bilingual. To each his/her own, and maybe I'm some kind of elitist, but I personally wouldn't trade that for five years of exposure to racial slurs and memes about bodily functions.
There's definitely a lot of misunderstood uses of the verbs, and I've maybe read about them one only a couple of times long long ago. I know POST gets bastardized a lot in attempts to avoid query strings attached to the end of GETs. Lots of people promoting that in tutorials/blogs/etc
youtube comments are so heavily censored it's crazy. Tons of ghosting going on.
Blockchain is database. Website or product who use it can control and filter out what data to show. It can be on chain, but social network dont have to show it.
No but the register is two fields (name/pass) and no mail required!

I think pseudonymity is important so you know that one name is the same person the next time.

Creates persistence in every meaning of the word!
While you're not wrong, that's just the current trend of people preferring SUVs to cars.

The "slope" back design seems to hit this sweet spot. Ease of entry, versatility, and capability while not appearing to be a "beast" of a vehicle.
In the contract houses I've been in the vast majority of contracts were repeat business. A good contracting house won't pull this kind of thing because the company doesn't survive if they piss off clients. I'm out of that world now but can still talk about it.

The non-scammy way this happens is senior engineers are part of the interviews and requirements gathering. They do the design and estimation. They develop task and proof of concept code for junior engineers.

During the work the senior engineer almost never 100% on a single project. They are on three different projects in different stages: design/early development on one that just started, resource and mentor on a second that's been going a while, writing quote for a third, and initial sales contacts for multiple other.

Based on availability it might not be the same senior person at any step of the process.

It's hard to impossible to a give you the same person who was part of the initial contact because by the time you get teh PO approved they are already hip deep in something else.
Schools. If you have kids that go to school chances are the teacher regularly uses youtube. Without adblockers.

Do everyone a favor: talk to your kid's school, the IT guys there, and have then install ublock.

All parents, teachers and kids will adore you.
The latest comprehensive figure I could find was a 2006 NHTSA report which found the average passenger vehicle was scrapped at 152,137 miles. It may have gone up, but I haven't found a more recently number.
Ohh no ... I really hope this doesn't become a thing ... I don't want corporate espionage to become this insane.
Where did the code executing on the GPU come from?

By definition, nothing running in the app VM is trusted; that is the whole point of fencing off the app in a VM. The VM is safe against remote code running in the browser only until the remote code finds a hole in the browser security, i.e. for about a millisecond. Once the browser is compromised, the remote attacker can run anything they want in the GPU, if the VM has access to one. (Maybe they need a privilege escalation first, but those are a dime a dozen.)
we'll have to agree to disagree - everything you're saying is also true even if you take notes, except your notes are just a lossy form of reality itself. reality that could just be captured directly and indexed. computers can form the connections with human assistance. no notes required.

notes have a purpose, but most people that I talk to use notes to basically just record reality to remember details
This question seems to have an implicit assumption that buying a house is a superior investment than other investment vehicles.

I believe it's been shown that investing in equities outperforms housing historically.
This is GOLD!!

Edit: I am laughing my balls off at this

"I offered him a gummy bear. He politely declined."
100%. One of the areas I will spend more on is cordless tools. The modern Dewalt stuff has built me a deck and a campervan, and when it comes to lawn tools the E-go stuff has been fantastic. Both of those definitely locked me into a "system" as you say but both also covered just about any future use case I would have.
> They went through so much horror with Activision

That is a falsehood that a lot management at Bungie would love to keep perpetuating. A lot of the terrible and toxic management, the disrespecting of the community, and terrible game design decisions (especially around micro-transactions) all came from the senior management at Bungie.
Almost nothing you've got here is accurate.

- Halo was announced in 1999, originally planned as an RTS for Windows + Mac, not for the launch of Mac gaming (not Mac only, although prior titles were focused on Mac only)

- MS purchased Bungie in 2000

- While Halo was a flagship, it was also released on Windows + Mac in the end (two years late), no IP sniping

- 2007 Bungie splits from MS to a private company (leaving the Halo franchise behind), not 2010

- 2010-2019 Bungie partners with Activision, they coop to make Destiny - there was no acquisition

- 3 years ago (2019) Bungie ends the partnership, keeps Destiny franchise

- There's no way MS considered a company that had a former relationship with an acquisition might be thrown in

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie
I would really like to see that comparison, i.e. the ‘human hours’ required, for a AAA game by a largish developer vs. the average Marvel film. I may try to do some rough numbers later because that just seems like an interesting thing to know.

Also, how far down the stack do you go for each. Both rely on tools to make the production happen. Do you count hours to make the digital editing software and fx programs for films? Do you count the human hours to make Unreal4?
It's too hard to cross-link on Reddit, resulting in reinventing the topic wheel. I like boards where one can use message number tags: (Ex: see message #12345), or wiki's (Ex: see topic [[great topic]]. And Reddit discussions get locked after about 7 months, resulting in yet more wheel reinventing.
Simple enough, right? /s
lol'd at this one. i have a new tv, I have gone to youtube several times now to figure stuff out, and I am well versed in a/v.
> Have to wonder if MS thought they would get Bungie as part of the package.

So much of the drama in the Activision publishing contract on Destiny was that Activision intentionally got none of the IP. Bungie blamed the brutal expansion pack cadence and expansion pack prices on Activision covering their bases because they didn't have a stake as publisher in the IP. Which is probably true, but one of those "it takes two to tango" type things.

Bungie had a real nasty public break up with Activision just before Destiny 2 went free-to-play (and supposedly it is part of how they were able to get it free-to-play).

I'm sure Microsoft knew buying Activision would not give them any of Destiny or Bungie.
Sadly, Subaru are also starting to slowly move controls onto a touchscreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFbZ3nkhcRQ
Another attempt in this space recently is https://natto.dev, by Paul Shen (https://twitter.com/_paulshen).

It's a really interesting platform and his Twitter feed shows you all sorts of interesting and innovative uses he's making of it so far!

See this previous HN thread on the topic (though it's evolved quite a bit since!) -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790285
I imagine we have not reached the physical limit for how much power can be transfered over a period of time.

So I would imagine that better chargers can exist, and I imagine upgrading will be significant capex.
Looking for a CTO / technical co-founder
Hi guys,
So today my technical co-founder just left due to academic pressure and as he can't commit as much as I want so he just left and my ship's been sailed since the morning. I've been looking for another technical person to join ASAP as we are close to pitch and seek investment as I have connections to VCs but I do need a CTO right now. I've been working on my idea since the last semester and I have even designed everything but the development is the only thing needs to be done. I'm in Montreal and I'm actively seeking for any enthusiast person to join in Canada.
Please let me know as I really am rooted for my idea and it burnt me to my heart when my CTO just left.
thanks
> fundamentally I believe "taking notes" is the wrong way to think about it. if you "know" everything, then notes serve no purpose.

I used to think that but the act of taking the note is itself important, as it integrates some of the info into your decision making process.

The indexed database would also be useful, but you have to understand enough to search in the first place.
While I think this may be helpful for the larger part of Youtube that is just entertainment, I find that in many parts where I'm looking for concrete information (like introductory talks on a topic, lectures etc), the "community" part is often not very helpful - if I can't see critical comments early or see the "thumbs up to down" ratio (which has been changed recently apparently to just show "up"), it's harder for me to judge whether I really want to invest 20-60 minutes into watching the video. So I end up just skipping through the video trying to get a first impression of what the quality is.
QUERY seems to be on the path to standization, but using POST if other methods don't fit is/was the right way to do this!

Both PATCH and QUERY are newer and they are really specializations of what people used to use POST for.
I think unprotected sex is more common than many people in wealthy countries realise.
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I'd be interested to know what size of team the Core Team wants to maintain and whether there are differentiated roles within the team.
I think the biggest issue was that bandwidth wasn't ready for them, and their hype came early because it was one of the first instances of people profiting from, well, the equivalent of NFTs with the real estate land rush. By the time bandwidth caught up, that was old hat and they had a rep for largely being a place for "alternative communities" to meet up.

I was a super early adopter of things like virtual communities and MMOs, myself (and a huge Neal Stephenson fan to boot, so immediately recognized that they were using the Metaverse as their inspiration) and Second Life held very little attraction to me because of the performance. I tried it a few times, but there wasn't much immersion happening at the standard 1.5Mbps DSL speed, never mind modem.

If they'd come out at a point where the asset streaming worked smoothly for most customers, and the hype came after that--and especially if they'd come out after things like Dreams or even Little Big Planet or Mario Maker had prepped people for the idea of crowdsourced assets--I think they'd have absolutely smashed the market.
It's probably better for Roblox than an IPO and extends FB/Meta's reach into the youth market. Weirder things have happened.
The (US)left is an internally fractured group. There are many highly politically engaged US Leftists who would like nothing better than to see the left less represented by institutionalists. This internal division would never make its way to mass media because it isn't in corporate interests to display it. Corporations love strong institutions because businesses are built on the legislative and judicial institutions which create constructs that benefit those same corporations. The end result is that most people see a very watered down version of political views centered on corporate interests regardless of political leanings. There's probably a Chomsky book on this or something.
I use AdGuard, I don't see YouTube ads.
genuinely curious. why? Does it make a big difference in your code or user experience?
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