skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I’m assuming a lot about the ability to do what you need to do without a school account.
gay people acting dramatic? Unheard of!
This framework is very similar to an a priori, multi-objective optimization using linearly scalarized weights[0]. It is a priori because the weights are chosen before scoring and kept constant.

I've found this approach works generally well for humans, however results may not be pareto-optimal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization#S...
A bit of insight, the people you we’re hanging with weren’t from LA either. There is a difference between the people who grew up here vs the people that are here to act out some fantasy.
> There is an option to log in as a Guest, but the machine is so unbelievably gimped in Guest mode I can't imagine anyone actually using it like that permanently.

My mother in law was using her Chromebook in guest mode for a while [1], and the only things that didn't work were saving passwords (including wifi passwords, but her home wifi is open). But she only use Chrome OS to use Chrome. I'd guess the play store doesn't work in guest mode, and wifi passwords might get annoying, but what else is missing?

[1] trouble with passwords, with a side of chrome os owner account was @ymail.com, but also an alias for @gmail.com and chrome os/google changed at some point so that logging in with either would login as the @gmail that wasn't the device owner... but fixing that didn't fix the underlying problem that someone likes to change her password rather than find her password book, and then her password book is out of date.
i've seen "joyless prudery" reference the Puritans more than any other group personally
> it's doesn't work

I think the evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. Much has changed in the world. For example, looking at some recent issues: Major cities are handling policing much differently; discrimination against women is now toxic to careers; the US Congress has now made lynching a crime and is removing Confederate names from the military. District attorneys in cities have been transformed. Major news media now reports differetly on race than just a few years ago.

It's common rhetoric, going way back, to dismiss progressives as powerless, but what people see today as the norm or conservative is what progressives achieved in prior generations. If you're a 'chick' (based on your username), you don't have to live with a male family member and get their permission for everything, can get a full education, be financially independent, can have intimate relations and dress (mostly) how you please without being ostracized, can have careers beyond nursing and teaching, etc. When people woke up and made those changes, years ago, they got the same response as today.

But why is it so urgent to shut them down? What is so threatening? What a waste of time - time would be much better spent achieving something ourselves. So much needs to be done.
I also try to cover up logos when I can, but that's the thing: to many, it's not seen as an ad, but rather a form of expression. Having an expensive brand might signal to other cyclists that one is supposedly more experienced, or more serious of a cyclist than people with cheaper bicycles (in reality, the skill is what counts, but the brand focus is what the companies want you to believe). So, it's supposedly a feature.

More examples in the winter fashion industry: supposedly, to wear a Patagonia jacket says you care about sustainability; to wear a Canada Goose jacket says you have a quality coat and can afford it; while to wear Arc'teryx means you're a pro outdoorsy bloke prepared for extreme weather. A lot of the price comes from people wanting to communicate stuff about their identity.

(Slightly off-topic, but the cheapest and most functional way to stay warm isn't a parka, but wearing multiple layers, e.g. a base layer, a puffer jacket, and a waterproof windbreaker.)
Why are musicians so obsessed with their instruments? Just use the right tool for the right job, don't call yourself a "pianist" or a "drummer", call yourself a musician.
Take a look at Godot. At least then it will be "our own game engine" rather than "my own game engine".
What Happened to BTC-E?
> they are ethical, or altruistic, but certainly can't claim they are financially responsible.

I would hardly describe taking a salary that puts you in the top 5% of earners instead of the top 2% to be financially irresponsible.
Change starts with the individual. Inspire others with your actions.

For example I may lack the sway to affect political action on climate change but I can still change the way I live - solar power, consume less meat, etc.
Interest rates on cars can be stupid cheap. $2k on the loan on my car works out to $2,046 after 5 years at the 0.9% rate.
Hard to say. Warranty covers "normal usage", maybe defined by mild californian weather.

Severe heat or cold wrecks havoc on battery life. Even in southern Canada I am certain you won't get anywhere near the 8 full years, now imaging you live anywhere that gets down to -30C frequently during the winter.

That's my biggest concern right now, heating an electric car uses the battery as heat is NOT a byproduct of an electric engine. Very impractical in the winter.
> You keep thinking im arguing that a degree makes society better off

Not at all...? I think you've misinterpreted my comments.

> But it sounds like we can agree the degree makes the individual better off in this world

When the degree is used as 'quota', to use a Canadianism, into a supply managed profession (doctors, lawyers, etc.), then yes, we can agree. The data is clear that supply management has proven that it can artificially inflate incomes, making those inside the inner circle better of than they would have been in a rational market, at the cost of denying entry to those outside of the special group. In Canada, dairy and poultry farmers simply buy quota to achieve the same outcome. No schooling necessary. You will find that how you get into the inner circle is just an implementation detail.

But when you exclude those with 'quota', the numbers get interesting. Those with only a bachelors degree are less likely to be found among high income earners than those with no degree. That may seem surprising at first, but actually isn't. Those who are economically desirable are compelled away from their studies before they finish. It's just the failures who nobody wanted to hire, so to speak, who reach graduation.

So, there's a whole lot of depends. If you have a professional degree, the numbers show it helps. Not because of the degree, but because of the distorted market associated with having a degree that brings economic value to those who jumped through the right hoops. If you have only a bachelors degree, however, it seems to hinders. At best it has no effect. However, since there is a cost to attaining a bachelors degree (even if just the cost of your time, but certainly most will also see a monetary cost), we know it always hinders in the net. Unless, again, it is the stepping stone towards a professional degree.
K&T is not uninsulated.
In an alternate Twitter-free universe if someone wanted a noun/verb for a deliberately lightweight communication broadcast into the ether over the internet, I'd bank a grand on marketers agreeing that a cheerful, sharp little chirp from a nimble, energetic bird communicates that better than the plaintive sounding crescendo of a giant plodding extinct earthbound mammal which also is outdated slang for a fart.

Mastodons are cool and everything but they don't work for branding a social network. Some rad groundbreaking online museum or library or something else that wanted to viscerally communicate age and wisdom and weight and timelessness? Sure.
Hmmm ... all I see is repetition of the claim, 'it doesn't matter'. That's quite an assertion in a place like HN, and in a world where public education is considered important.
My work gave me this. I have a 2019 16” i9 MacBook that crashes in every other unplug plug of this dock. Here’s the most amazing issue with this dock yet: it somehow resets my router through the ethernet port I’m using to connect to the router. No other device has this issue. Other than this dock, nothing else causes any issue working with my router.

I went through 2 of these and finally bought generic usb C hubs and run 2x usbc->HDMI for 2x displays.
I missed this. Cool!
Buttons and knobs can be navigated by humans using muscle memory alone. This is a feature of humans that has minimal downside compared to forcing the focus of human visual systems to a use touch interface.

It is a false dichotomy to assert “auto” anything requires a touch screen interface. We have the technology for both analog interfaces and “auto” climate control.
R128gain – Fast audio loudness scanner and tagger (ReplayGain v2 / R128)
I use photosync to automatically push all photos and videos to my NAS over Samba.

Photosync has a ton of options, webdav, ftp you name it. Costs a few bucks one-off and worth every penny. Not affiliated in any way, but definitely feel gratitude and want to support the app creator by spreading the word, to make sure they keep maintaing it.
That's the most HN comment I have read in a while.
> someone that becomes that wealthy while serving (via a trust-fund, large inheritance, or winning the lottery) would no longer be a good fit for the military. They usually get offered an Honorable Discharge.

That's shocking. Where is this rule? Have you seen it happen? I didn't know wealth defined fitness for service.
This was my first thought as well. I was actually looking for a way to contact the creator to see if he would be interested in experiencing the sets in VR. I've been learning vr/3d dev lately and I think I might actually be able to port the models he made into VR with relative ease (we'll see, still quite new at this).

For a more immediate and practical solution, VRChat has a number of gameshow style maps. If I remember right it may even have Jeopardy specifically with working questions and buzzers. Hard to remember, they definitely had some game shows. But in a more cartoon like style.

You can tell from the pictures that the models are really well done. I bet they would look great in VR, though there can be scaling issues.

Incidentally I'll mention here one of my favorite VRChat maps is the SGC from the show Stargate. I watched that show all the time when I was younger and to be able to walk around and even dial the Stargate in VR is really fun and novel.
Well, I think it's awesome that somebody tried it. I'd feel bad if the creators saw this thread and felt like HN was rejecting their project or something. I was just curious if anybody else felt the same way I did about how old games that lacked physics-based lighting seemed to look so good.

My theory is that it has to do with how the the screen was always painted with such a bright and wide-ranging palette. One of the other posters described it well as a local optimum. With Doom-style sprites, the art team can decide exactly how the creature / object will look on the screen at render time. Once you introduce physics-based rendering, you always have to consider not just the color of the asset but also the texture, reflectance, and its surroundings (lighting, ambient occlusion, etc.). It's actually very similar to the difference between a painting and a photograph, now that I think about it.

I guess what I'm getting at is that if you want each frame to be a painting in a physics-based rendering paradigm, it could turn out that this requires WAY more work to achieve because you have to contend with a combinatorial explosion of interactions between your many assets and light sources. I suspect some studios will assume that all they have to do is take some nice-looking assets and "bump the lamp", but I think ray-traced Doom is a big clue that that won't work out very well. And sure, it will be cool for a few minutes while you marvel at some effect that is only possible with a ray-tracer, but they won't get replayability for free out of that. After a while, the player will get sick of pitch dark hallways with swinging overhead lamps full of glowing crystals or whatever.

My prediction is that ray-traced games may simply find a different approach to beauty. I'm picturing the difference between some renaissance masterpiece and a beautiful black-and-white photograph. Each pretty in their own way.
Although this solution doesn't really solve any of the fundamental issues with cable rigidity and easy to unplug usb-c/tb ports or the continuous "add another abstraction layer" problems of the ever expanding complexity of do everything on a single cable standard, OWC sells a ClingOn adhesive backed usb-c/tb lockable connector which prevents my cables from unplugging constantly when the wind blows and triggering the "why the hell does my accessory not work oh it's unplugged loop". For a mere $5 each!
I think they provide the tools to jailbreak. With a kernel exploit to trigger it may be possible to bypass, but then it becomes a cat and mouse game, which would presumably be easier for the vendor to win (detect any program running as root, any root kits, etc, all which can be added in surprise patches). Plus, if you provide an official jailbreak, that removes some incentive for security researchers to discover new jailbreaks.
That is only in the case of software, where the unit cost does not increase since it is nearly zero. What you wrote about perfume and juice are not unit "cost", but "price". Unit Cost, or BOM or COGS does not include --> the perfumist, the bottle, the box, shop markup, distribution markup, marketing, tv commercials, design, samples...

I am assuming the "I" here stands for Initial Investment or CapEx. And in the context of Foundry Customer it is more like R&D since they dont invest in Machineries. The foundry does that aka Intel , TSM, Samsung. The R&D cost again is not a percentage of "price" or "cost" since there is not expected volume to divide in the first place. And it depends on the complexity of the chip as well as node. On Leading Edge node tooling becomes much more expensive. Expect the Cost of Entry to be $300M+ ( for 7nm, definitely higher now for 5nm and 3nm ) for tools excluding masks and other steps. Making a chip with 99.9% of SRAM would have near zero R&D cost except for the mask. Complexity of your chip and design would dictate how many mask required before your final production. However multiple SKUs ( or dies variation ) could shared the cost of mask which is in the double digit million per run.

And none of these includes packaging and testing.

R&D dominates the cost of chip once you factor in engineers cost, and hence you often see Qualcomm ( or any other Fabless Company ) chasing volume despite it is often not in their best interest in terms of margin.

And and none of these includes the cost of IP, to ARM, IMG, CEVA, Lattice etc or Patents. Most of these are also per unit based. And probably other things I cant record on top of my head right now.
I think it's mostly that emmc is now supported and cheaper than having m.2 storage. Soldered storage may be more reliable than connectorized storage (at least that's what Apple claims), although it's harder to replace when it breaks. OTOH, it may not be economical to debug a Chromebook storage issue, if powerwash fails, and USB rescue fails, you've spent too much technician time, so just replace the device.
I don't understand why this "game" of businesses being allowed to prevent workers from organizing in the USA

It's their lives, it's freedom, not a game, business has no right to get in the way.

Clear law has to be set. Zero interference. No tap-dancing around the edges.
Like with alcohol, though, most hea ier consumers would choose less expensive options. $10-15/ eighth oz in Oregon, $15-20 in Washington or michigan, $20-$25 in California or Nevada or Colorado.
Obsession with the tools is part of every interest/job/hobby!

There's always someone who thinks: "I could make this better". Some of them even try to. Emphasis on try :)
Yeah semi-pro musicians are probably the worst. It's really easy to get obsessed with both accumulating shiny new (or vintage) toys, and tweaking your favorite instruments so they're set up exactly how you want.
I was just telling someone earlier tonight I thought a VR gameshow would be really cool. Do you plan to stream it live on twitch? Really cool idea - best of luck!
In the limit, every configuration file becomes turing complete.
Sadly, my cousins' school forces them to have Chromebooks. Its required. So I ensured they know to never use it for their personal stuff, it's purely a school work device. Such a waste, but oh well. I gave them both Pi 400s for them to use for personal things instead
It's sad to see the discussion turn to an attempt to shut down conversation. I have so many things to do in my day, why would I read that comment?
This is vintage 90s web aesthetic. I dig it. Only thing it's missing is a view counter and a guest book.
I mean it depends. But I’d say one should try to assume that the reason they are consistently making wrong decisions are basing their decisions on wrong assumptions are using wrong heuristics. Have a nice talk with the person. Ask them what went into making this decision. A lot of the times you might find that there was a misunderstanding. Or they simply might not know what to because they weren’t taught.

Now I’m not saying doing above is easy. Even with best wordings, peeps might and will get offended. In that case, you may need to establish trust with them first.

Finally, I want to say that some people are not up to the task (e.g I am not up for being a pro golfer) or just don’t give a shit. The really hard part is knowing when that is the case so that you don’t burn out trying to foster trust in your relationship that’s going nowhere. But I’d say the best play to start is to assume good intention.
Tell HN: The Internet Is an Exponential Medium
Maybe this was obvious to some people but I just realized it. Reading an article that was interesting and I was learning from I realized there were two other links in that article of concepts that I didn't understand so I had opened them up in other tabs. And I realized that in order to get the full picture of what I was reading I would need to read those other two links as well. And that's because of hyperlinks there's always more information and you're never finished reading the story. So I kind of realized the corollary of that is maybe that information expands to fill our time but our time to actually do anything with it and act on that information contracts. so the result is that we're chronically inattentive to what's actually happening in our lives and to the actions we could take to improve things, to the extent that we are engaged with this exponentially expanding field of information. And also we're not actually putting it into practice because we're spending so much time absorbing the full picture. While an extreme that reflects not how everybody engages with information online all the time tho I think it's representative enough of a serious aspect of that, so it does play into our experience these days. And maybe that is one of the reasons that people are feeling less happy even though they have more solutions to all the things that they could improve: because the lack of attention budget means people are less likely to be able to be mindful and less likely to be able to actually take actions to create those improvements, because they're constantly learning what actions they could possibly take.

Anyway that's just my take on this exponential medium thing. I thought it was an interesting characterization of the internet and I'd never heard it phrased in that way where it's exponential in the sense that it relates to your reading input.
> most physicists simply use single words or short phrases to describe a whole vague bunch of related concepts. What the hell is “entanglement”.

Actually, "entanglement" has a precise meaning in QM (a state that cannot be expressed as a product of states of subsystems). It's just that that precise meaning won't make any sense to someone who hasn't already learned a fair bit of QM, so when asked to define the term by lay people, physicists have to wave their hands.
1) Within the United States, the largest corporations are closely associated with government, with a very porous interface between their highest levels. And they certainly aren't always allowed to fail.

2) Once a megacorporation has established dominance in a given market, a combination of network effects and regulatory capture removes competitive pressures. This allows the internal planned economy of the corporation to continue without competitive pressures. See e.g. Google, which essentially throws money earned through dominance in ad markets against the wall in every direction but produces little of new value.

The reason my "capitalism" has quotation marks is to point out that actually existing capitalism in the USA has pretty much nothing to do with competitive free markets.
This was a good read, even if many of the points cover well-trodden ground. I wonder how much folks agree with "all behavior makes sense, given enough information".
Speaking of making a language for an engine for a game...
The way structured concurrency is implemented in Vale is exactly what I've been missing in every language I've been working, including Rust which gets pretty close. Amazing job!
> ID copy? No idea.

What do you mean by no idea? Do you mean you have no idea what the reviewer's point was? Do you mean you still have no idea on what it's for even after I just described it?
VSCode can run with its backend in a container:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
It irks me that when Gab rebuilt their platform on Mastadon and joined the fediverse, existing instance owners teamed up and blacklisted Gab from being able to meaningfully interact. It seems inherently anti-free-and-open-source to me.
Windows 95 Launch Found Footage (1995)
While I hope that's true, and could see how it might be, how do we know it?

Israel uses their military heavily, so I'm not sure it will provide a great example.
The really funny thing about Xanadu is that unlimited transclusion is not how copyright works. If you buy two movies, you don't get the right to publish an edit list that stitches the movies together. That itself violates copyright. In fact, you aren't even allowed to open the movie up in an editor (unless you break DMCA 1201). Artists are very much accustomed to not only controlling the market for copies of their work, but also remixes of their work, which are licensed separately and cost far more money than mere copies.
I'm working on breeding hairier yaks, so you don't need as many to shave.
Funny you mention ROT13. I lived in China for a short time, and I experienced this same thing (certain email messages seemed to get /dev/null'ed), so we started ROT13'ing the messages as a joke, thinking it would never work. But it did! We never had a ROT13 email message go missing.
Right and everyone agrees Smith and Marx got everything right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
Interesting perspective.

By this logic it seems, there should be no individual rights whatsoever. Whatever is deemed by the State good for the many is therefore what shall happen. Am I reading this correctly?

US city planning history is replete with entire living neighborhoods getting bulldozed for highways and shopping malls, and the cities never recover their vibrancy.

If property rights were viewed as immutable as geography, cities would just have to make do. Either buy the owners out at the price they are willing to sell, or find other solutions. The idea of a private owner "blocking" something would never arise.
I’ve heard this argument before but it’s always felt like a non-sequitur. Why would it be pointless to reason out if free will exists?

Case A: no free will really exists. We reason about whether free will exists. We conclude it does not.

Case B: free will really exists. We reason about whether free will exist. We conclude it does.

Do you think society A and society B march on exactly the same?