skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early Xbox One days there was a lot of experiments with hybrid controls where you'd still have the controller in your hand, with its accurate joysticks and physical buttons, but have the Kinect sensor for body posture and facial expression and gestures out and away from the controller (and voice recognition). The SDKs had a bunch of interesting things about controller recognition matched to other data. The OS itself would do things like pick out which controller a specific person was holding, and could use that for sign in (among other things). The Xbox One dropped the "controller number ring" from the 360 because it could tell what person was holding the controller rather than needing to signal vice versa which controller a person should hold. There were some interesting Kinect party games that took advantage of this or nearly took advantage of this (hybrid games where maybe everyone would set down controllers for a mini-game and it wouldn't matter that everyone picked up "the right" controller back when the next controller section started).

In the end, couch coop that was pretty essential to the 360 just kind of withered away in the Xbox One era (when games like Halo competing on looks with other consoles decided they couldn't afford the frames/resolution costs of split-screen coop anyway) and that missing "controller number indicator" no longer mattered in the end, but in the original plans of the Xbox One the hybrid Kinect/controller gaming support was key to things like couch coop.

It's still interesting to wonder about that road not taken if more developers had considered Xbox One hybrid Kinect/controller controls more seriously beyond just the few experiments we did see.
turn on your IOMMU
Did you light the paper with another box?
Sure, I think that’s in many ways covered by what I mean about middle class mobility. Given that Asians are less likely to be legacies and dont benefit from Affirmative Action, pretty much all their “slots” come out of the high-achieving-middle-class bucket
When disinformation generated by capitalist greed is the source of education, they can make otherwise smart people believe that mass-murdering human babies in the womb is for "health" and hunter-gatherers killing prey animals for food is "murder".
The SAT/ACT aren't IQ tests.
> Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.

Those are totally useless skills. If you live in America and your only contribution to society is being pleasant, knowing how to fix things around the house, and basic accounting, then expect your livelihood to be replaced by someone willing to do your unskilled work overseas for a fraction of the cost in the very near future. Not to be harsh, but that's the reality.
I agree. I suppose as an outsider learning about AI, first thoughts might be “wow look at all the things it can’t do”. But as someone who follows closely all I notice is how rapidly the list of things it can’t do is shrinking.
I find it pretty uninteresting as an event, but I do find all the different reactions people have about it interesting or in many cases ridiculous and infuriating.

Also I predict 'to Will Smith' becoming a verb, if I know pop culture.
> How can you establish at least doubt in the other person's mind?

Someone must be open to this in the first place. You can't change a closed mind, and there are many reasons why a mind might be closed. They kind of have to arrive at their doubt on their own, at least in my personal non-expert opinion. The most you can do is express your opinion in a relatively non judgmental way (because if you're too harsh they won't return to you later to discuss) and be available if they want to discuss.
Fair point. I'm not experienced, does path discovery work with PSH set?
probably thought they could get away with it
Roughly nobody at MIT brags about SAT scores (at least when I was there 20 years ago). Any test is most sensitive around a given range. I think most MIT students are performing well enough in math that most of their mistakes in the SAT I and SAT II math subject tests are roughly statistical noise. I happened to get 800 on the math sections of both the SAT I and SAT II, and I got the impression most of the other students at MIT did similarly. I'm sure there are plenty of people with better mathematical ability than me who got 760s because of a loud neighbor or a bad breakfast burrito.
>>People want Reddit, people want FB and Insta.
I think in OP's case his issue was that his content required funding to keep up to date and his user base couldn't support those costs with ads. With FB, Reddit etc. the end users generate the content.
They did, check out this article Browser Wars: The Sequel from 2010

https://web.archive.org/web/20150611210558/https://www.bloom...

It didn't blow up overnight, it was more like 3-4 years, but it was meteoric compared to what we were used to
This article cites a paper. I was looking at one of the papers they cite in that paper, and they had a nice explanation in the introductory paragraph.

> Circular features are well-known in radio astronomical images, and usually represent a spherical object such as a supernova remnant, a planetary nebula, a circumstellar shell, or a face-on disc such as a protoplanetary disc or a star-forming galaxy.

They describe these things as circles because that's how they show up on the radio telescopes. They are being precise about what they detected, I think. These are hard signals to even pick up, after all, no need to introduce a made up interpretation to further confuse things.
See the work of George Lakoff and specifically his concept of the truth sandwich.
Having worked in the games industry on Facebook and mobile games, I don't think your perspective is representative.

Most f2p games are targeting a % mix of whales, dolphins, flounders, guppies. You might shoot for 0.1% whales, 10% dolphins,40% flounders, 50% guppies.

The whales will have an outsized impact on revenue for their count, and you largely can't plan for them to arrive. They're typically (very) wealthy people for whom spending $10,000 on a game is cheaper than the watch on their arm. Game companies absolutely set up a VIP customer service team for these players, this is the experience they expect everywhere in life. It's the difference between them playing your game for 2 months or 6 with a significant revenue impact.

Dolphins will be upper-middle class big spenders. They might try to collect every premium hat in your game, or regularly spend during special events. Again to them dropping $200/month in a game is not a hardship. In fact it's cheaper than most other hobbies they could do with their affluence like golf or skiing.

Next is the flounders, the goal is just to get them to spend at all. There might be some singular obviously valuable purchase in the game such as a season pass. This is basically game subscription services repackaged for the modern day.

The rest don't pay. You keep guppies around in hopes you can graduate them to flounders at some point down the line. In the meantime, they are cannon fodder for your matchmaking queues.

None of these psychographic groupings aim to exploit easily manipulated people. Rather the pay bands expand to match the disposable income of various economic classes. This is the same thing that has happened in other industries for a very long time. Some people rent skis, some bring their own, others hire personal trainers, and some rent the entire ski club for a private event. Go to a concert and some have nosebleed seats, others are front row, some watch from boxes, others pay to meet & greet the band after the show.
I very rarely get itchy after taking a shower. It seems to be related to the level of humidity in the air wherever I am, and also time of day. It's very weird, and I can't imagine how annoying it would be to have that happen every single time you encounter water.
applying for its startup program
There's a great app for this! It's called Half Lemons (iOS only).
ZeroTier does a lot more for you than pure Wireguard. OTOH, Wireguard tends to have a lot more bandwidth than ZT in my experience.

If you want a similar product to ZeroTier but one that uses Wireguard under the hood, Tailscale is what I've been using to connect to my home network.
The 'truer' measure of your aptitude was likely your highest score. They allow multiple takes of the test because they understand that testing has errors from jitters, misunderstanding the wording, time management, a bad night of sleep, etc.
Even within the bounds of a single class, we often get better at taking tests in a class once we understand the instructor's style.

Ultimately, the score of everyone who takes the test fairly is capped by their aptitude. If we want to even the playing field, we should find a way to allow disadvantaged kids to have multiple tries at the test with some preparation. They may already have it.
Maybe this is a definitional argument, but I'd say the latter would be complementary, not cooperative. A cooperative model is one where people work together to achieve an outcome, like two kids working together on a school assignment.

Outside an individual company, competition is favoured over cooperation, except when companies work together on e.g. supply chains.
All insider trading should be legal. Imagine the opposite case. You know your company is doing poorly but the government forces you to not sell your stock and take a loss.
Really cool business idea, but i came across this line, and i think the conclusion is wrong...

> While I can’t share all the queries, they tended to be starting points in a larger journey. People asked for product recommendations to start a new hobby, or for evidence to support a career transition.

The conclusion the author mentioned is:

> Since these queries had no singular answer, no single document would suffice and no algorithm could perfectly rank the content to deliver a tidy answer.

I agree - BUT - I think outsourcing this is the wrong approach for the people asking the question. If you're starting a new hobby, you probably want to gain the context from researching the topic. They used the example of kayaking. In the process of researching a good kayak, you'll likely come across domain experts and their blogs, talks, etc that can share the WHY as well as the answer. This may lead you to gain new insights for your hobby. The other example is starting a career, and i think the same conclusion applies that if you want to become an X, you should ideally learn other people's view on X and the day to day tasks, and growth opportunities, and what makes a good X, not just "steps to become an X".

Maybe sharing the citations and research is the answer needed to these questions - like a real research paper.

Things like "romantic getaways near SF" or "traveling to hawaii with kids" are things where you just want an answer, not the best answer seem like a better fit.
I am not sure how it compares but India suffers through the same problem. It is essentially a rat race. A lot of those problems could be trick questions, but to be able to identify it, especially on a regular basis takes longer(when the question has less than a minute dedicated to it).
Thanks for pointing this out and I added the query to our bugs list. This is still an experiential feature so there are kinks to work out but feedback helps us immensely. I tried a couple of variations of the search with increased specificity like "bc ferry schedule for Coastal Inspiration" and Andi is struggling with this query! As Jed mentioned in a comment earlier, you can also turn off complex question answering in settings.
I think the idea is that hoping that scaling seawater uranium extraction will drive down the cost further.
This is what I was going to suggest. The rods are merely a catalyst to free your "intuitive senses" or whatever; noticing subtle depressions in the dirt, the arrangement of foliage being "off", etc. might be more apparent if you weren't looking directly at them (as counter-intuitive as that sounds, no pun intended... But tell me this- How many times have you come up with a solution to a problem long after you were directly thinking about it and while doing something entirely different? Because that has happened to me MANY times, I'm sure it's happened to many people who will read this, and is JUST as difficult to "prove scientifically")
this is a perfect example of why governmental services are so important - even if they are often run poorly. Without them, dis-equities inherently perpetuate due to external incentives.

The SAT is treated as a standardized test but it, as you note, is inaccessible to many. It is not government run or organized. I've found, from teaching undergraduates, that most of the students who go to college presume that everyone takes the SATs, that it is government administered, and that it is free.

compare this to the, still far from perfect and problematic in other ways, centralized university admissions testing system in many other countries.
Fuchsia does a lot of interesting/new things, but the primary motivation for Fuchsia was to make it possible to update the OS independently of drivers. Everyone complains when their Android devices stop receiving software updates, and nearly always the reason that new Android versions can't be backported is that the devices have custom hardware drivers (perhaps closed source) that would need to be be updated to work on newer versions of the Linux kernel.

Since Fuchsia was started, Google has committed to maintaining a stable kernel ABI for AOSP, what they call the GKI. This is a huge amount of work for kernel developers at Google but it will allow (in theory) updates to newer kernels without the need to update these old drivers. I believe ChromeOS is also going to use the GKI (not 100% sure about this though).

I think the big question for Fuchsia is how successful the GKI initiative is, since it takes a lot of wind out of the sails of Fuchsia. Linux already works, has a lot more features than Fuchsia, and has much better performance.
Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack
A root is a fractional exponent; I can see that as a valid description.
You don't really need to know calculus (derivatives and such) but it's true that big O notation requires some sort of "asymptotic thinking" which is probably only explicitly taught in a calculus course.
This is actually confirmed with real world data on this for professional football with player weight and professional basketball with player height.

For Offensive Linemen in the NFL, there is no correlation between weight (which range from 300-360 pounds) and overall performance. A "heavy" 350 pound player is not more likely to do better than a "light" 310 player. But nobody who weighs a mere 250 pounds could realistically make the cut or perform well at the highest level.

For basketball players there is no correlation between height and performance, and there are several standouts examples of players below six feet so there's no cutoff. But if you compare the distribution of the subpopulation versus the general population, you'll see an extremely strong height bias.
This is a valid criticism in general, but I think in this case, user was asking for instruction. "You say this is strange, but this other simple explanation would explain it to my knowledge. Why is this different?" is intended in this case to be "Instruct me so that I may detect my error and update" rather than "Have you considered X?"

Since I believe you are also asking genuinely, I will attempt to disambiguate the two cases with illustrations:

1. OP states the question as "Could this be the same?". This expresses uncertainty of the form "Is this possible?" and "Are these simpler explanations still on the table?"

2. OP may have stated the question as "Did they consider X?". I think this moves closer to the idiot advice that is often of the form "Did they consider correlation is not causation?" etc. etc.

3. OP may have stated opinion directly: "They did not consider X". In this case, lacking knowledge of OP expertise, you may safely conclude that this is a statement from an armchair expert.

Of course there are an infinitude of statements and responses. But hopefully these 3 examples will help.
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> the idea that my success could be predicted by my knowledge of geometry and vocabulary words is laughable.

You really should look into the g-factor research. This isn't about knowledge, but rather performance. It turns out that your performance on geometry and vocabulary tests is highly correlated with your performance on tests in such disparate fields as Classics and Music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)#Cogni...

The crazy result in general intelligence is that your performance in all these areas is highly correlated, and incredibly correlated with career success:

> "Research indicates that tests of g are the best single predictors of job performance, with an average validity coefficient of .55 across several meta-analyses of studies based on supervisor ratings and job samples."
5.5 GHz Core i9-12900KS is Intel’s fastest–and most power-hungry–desktop CPU
Nintendo is definitely Disney or Warner Bros. They've been around forever, have lots of family friendly IP, and occasionally break out the lawyers and smack the hell out of groups that aren't even vaguely infringing on their IP. They say "be afraid of the mouse" but also be afraid of Mario.

Penguinz0 has a whole series on youtube as to why they're a terrible company.

You also left out Activision/Blizzard, which is not yet M$ property, and is arguably a Disney, far more than Epic.
> Exploits in the Linux kernel are very few & far between.

That's an interesting take on multiple code execution bugs per year. And not via drivers, but userland-exploitable code in general subsystems.

Unless you're referring to remote code execution, which in the era of ubiquitous web applications (often running involuntarily through advertisements, etc) seems like a distinction without a difference.
If you think I was wanting a comment, you'd be sorely mistaken.
A basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators
They're not allergic to water, they're allergic to chemicals on their own skin that don't get absorbed unless their skin is wet.
Visualizing quantum mechanics in an interactive simulation
I only have anecdotes, not stats. But some people do ruin their lives with F2P gaming addictions.
"The Internet" is full of junk because nobody wants to pay for content, so it is paid for by the advertisers who then want their junk fed to the content consumers. Want cleaner Internet? Pay content creators. Problem solved.
Understood, my model is to buy existing solid hardware in volume based on orders received and load them with my own software(and UI) for certain vertical markets. Making hardware is a totally different market where cash burning is real and fast, small players simply can not afford.
I love both of those games but recently took on Dyson Sphere Program after it was gifted to me. I quickly put in twice as many hours as I had in Factorio. There is no combat, it's beautiful, and the blueprint system makes it less tedious. Most of the complaints I have about it are nit-picks and at $20 on Steam, it is absolutely worth the price of admission.
It's only illegal if you're using secret information. The company can't report info to some shareholders and not others.
A quote from the first link:

> When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea four years ago first exposed the decrepit condition of Ukraine’s armed forces, right-wing militias such as Azov and Right Sector stepped into the breach, fending off the Russian-backed separatists while Ukraine’s regular military regrouped. Though, as a result, many Ukrainians continue to regard the militias with gratitude and admiration, the more extreme among these groups promote an intolerant and illiberal ideology that will endanger Ukraine in the long term.

Right wing militias in the context of constant ongoing military pressure from Russia and the forceful seizure of Crimea, also by Russia.
Doing a little research, the fully phenol-free options use either vitamin C or a urea-based mixture.
>The standard multi ranked map sometimes feels boring and I've wondered why they don't add different types of maps to the mix

They tried that with the original wasteland map and there was huge pushback from the community and people demanded the maps be standardized.
Poe's Law in full effect.
Tracy Profiler 0.8 version released
An easier method is to just use PiVPN https://www.pivpn.io. It's much faster to setup and easier to manage with extremely simple commands.
Shameless plug: a few months ago I was frustrated by a similar article's lack of jokes and compiled some funny jokes from antiquity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468098

A favorite:

A provincial man has come to Rome, and walking on the streets was drawing everyone's attention, as he was a real double of the emperor Augustus. The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks at him and then asks: "Tell me, young man, did your mother come to Rome anytime?" The reply was: "She never did. But my father frequently was here."
If it was effective and widely used the percent infected could be a lot lower.
Sounds like the Chinese version of Harvest Moon + Rollercoaster Tycoon + Paperboy :-D
Proxmox is great for this as well, minus VMWare’s optimized “VNC” compression and ability to pass through hardware devices.
Your bet is based on anything? The second story is a potential sob story that plays better, barring subjective classist biases counteracting. That only points to objective test scores being a better measure.
The massive advantage of hydro is that it also serves as energy storage. Too much wind today? Just use the excess electricity to pump water back up
> So I built something people wanted. Consumers wanted it, doctors wanted it, I wanted it. Where did I go wrong?

You wanted to sell to practitioners directly. Your market is suppliers. They are in the position to sell it to doctors by the thousands for next to nothing.

Go make some phone calls.
This has happened to me, it was omitted due to a miscommunication between HR and recruiter.

I just had to mention it and it was fixed right away. Always read everything before signing!
I'm grateful for the SAT/ACT being present when I was in high school(HS). Without it I might not have a decent education, mostly b/c I was drifting along and paying little attention to life.

Junior year I had high PSAT scores and received letters from various universities expressing interest. Yet I hadn't even considered what I would do after HS. I was amazed to see anyone expressing interest, decided it was a fluke and dropped it all in the trash.

Next year I scored high on the SAT and unexpectedly received multiple offers for full scholarships, room and board et al from universities. I asked around and realized my peers had been applying to colleges for months while I, the quintessential apostle of Lao Tzu (OK, I'm lazy!), had done absolutely nothing.

I hesitated to look a gift horse in the mouth, especially when there were several. I picked one and was off to college. My Dad was pleased to get off the hook for college costs, Mom was proud, but I mostly felt sorry for friends who had to work hard to get into university.

tl;dr: PSAT and SAT made getting into college easy for me and I am thankful.
Dan Luu: “Why don't more programmers work half-time?”
Great write-up, and I see PG also had a separate post that overlaps with my other comment here:

"When a sufficiently high-up decision maker decides he/she wants to buy your startup, he/she will attempt to meet with you constantly and put time pressure on you, so as to prevent you from shopping the deal and getting a better offer. The absence of this behavior indicates the other company is not serious about acquiring your business."
That’s part of Pre-Calculus or general mathematics coursework at most US high schools.

Beyond that it’s a very simple idea you can cover at the same time as your doing Big O notation in the first place.