skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood that PE firms raise debt to buy companies so they can basically use the company's cash to service the debt, ideally while "fixing up" the company so they can sell it later for a profit.

Twitter doesn't really generate much money, and Musk has said he wants to buy it out of altruism (or something like that). Which I can understand doing with his own money, but I can't understand doing with third party debt financing. Both because there is no money to service the debt, and because the requirements of streamlining the company to profitability could easily ruin any other motives he has in buying it.

I can picture something where a group agrees to loan him the money with his shares in tesla as collateral. But I don't get why normal PE folks would want to go in on this, nor why Musk would want them.
Looks okay. The biggest problem with grass isn’t so much the texturing as it is adding weight/physics and post-processing to SO MANY small objects at one time. Making grass reactive to a physics element like fluid dynamic airflow while ALSO retaining the individual weights such that if weight is applied to the grass it won’t move despite the fluid airflow… it’s just really hard without compromising your framerate or the overall composition of a scene.

Examples:
1. A player drops a rubber ball onto a field of grass, should the grass “hold up“ the ball like it might in real life?
2. A player stands on grass that blows in the wind.
3. A stone blocks some wind and parts of the grass blow against the stone itself.
Deno can in theory do the pre-initialization that wizer does for JS too. We have all of the infrastructure for it, we just have not gotten around to actually implementing it yet.
How it used to work is that the new houses would go to the richer people with money, and the older houses would end up cheaper (because why would you buy an older house for the same price as a new one).

Once supply dries up or the influx of new people is greater than new supply, the people priced out of the market are at the bottom.

It's similar to how you can't build used cars - the used car market is dependent on the new car market.
Well, let's see here.

We have one "side" publicly and loudly proclaiming the same things as racist lynch mobs from the 1800s and literal Nazis.

We have another "side" publicly and loudly calling for dignity and respect for every human being.

It would seem logical to me that the burden of proof here would be on the person claiming that the latter is sending more hate and death threats than the former. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
A Man, a GAN, and a 1080 Ti: How Jason Antic Created 'De-Oldify' – Ep. 76 (2019)
You might be interested in checking out https://www.ggpo.net/. It's an open source C++ library for game networking that's used mainly in fighting games and it implements support for input prediction and rollback. They also have articles and documentation that cover the various implementations of netcode, how they're implemented, and their trade-offs.

I used what I learned from reading the articles on their site to implement my own input prediction and rollback netcode for my personal side project. It's a pretty useful resource, and helps organize my project in other ways too such as informing me of ways I can structure event messages, handle input valuation, etc.
> It’s perfectly possible for any individual to find tradable effects just like RenTec does: find data (maybe weather reports), look for a relationship to future securities prices (how about agriculture company stock prices) and build a predicative model. Repeat until you find one that works.

This made me chuckle. Analyze data and figure out how it correlates to future prices. Why has no one ever thought of this?
We must ban boilers to force public to switch to £10k heat pumps'
Try sxmo and you will see how fast and smooth Pinephone can be.
> A truck doing 100 deliveries is surely less traffic than everyone going to the supermarkets. And most importantly with sprawling outwards citizens can enjoy the outdoors and take care of their health.

No, the lowest traffic solution is having the smallest number of trucks that are needed to serve local markets that a relatively high volume of people can access via walking, biking or mass transit. All that walking, very healthy.

Further, why should city dwellers subsidize this expansion? Surely these far flung communities won't have sufficient revenue to support the infrastructure needed to make all that work.
It’s also very difficult to save the received data to the browser as a file. It can be done with ugly hacks, but this should be supported natively in 2022. Background downloads are still a major PITA. Why?
MIT/BSD (at least without the advertising/attribution clause) are essentially public domain, identical in spirit to the WTFPL (whose entire body text reads: "just do what the fuck you want to.")

GPL actually restricts certain freedoms to preserve others. The "actually free" (public domain) licenses allow you to do things Stallman considers harmful, which he defines as a violation of user freedoms. In other words, his licenses remove the freedom to remove freedoms.
Personal transportation vehicles can be improved. Excessive cars has led to traffic jams and air pollution...infrastructure hasn’t improved over decades. I am only speaking of California. I am not aware how it is in the RoW or elsewhere in America.
I can't help think that these mandates are being made by people who are out of touch with everyday people.
Waterfall is a great methodology where warranted. It ensures you're doing things in a principled, predictable, repeatable manner. We see all this stuff lamenting about and trying to implement reproducibility in science and build systems, yet seem to embrace chaos in certain types of engineering practices.

We largely used waterfall in GEOINT and I think it was a great match and our processes started to break down and fail when the government started to insist we embrace Agile methodologies to emulate commercial best practices. Software capabilities of ground processing systems are at least somewhat intrinsically coupled to the hardware capabilities of the sensor platforms, and those are known and planned years in advance and effectively immutable once a vehicle is in orbit. The algorithmic capabilities are largely dictated by physics, not by user feedback When user feedback is critical, i.e. UI components, by all means, be Agile. But if you're developing something like the control software for a thruster system, and the physical capabilities and limitations of the thruster system are known in advance and not subject to user feedback, use waterfall. You have hard requirements, so don't pretend you don't.
Claiming misinformation and opinion should be treated as equals is probably the problem.
Most open democracies have agreed misinformation can't be treated equally.
I resent this notion that AI doesn't advance if we aren't making new larger and larger foundation models.

Even during that lull between GPT3 and DALL-E/CLIP, there was tons of truly wonderful advances in AI...
touché!

But there is something about the aesthetic of such things, it's why the IETF RFC's (example https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200.html) are made to look like typewritten pages even decades after typewriters stopped being in common usage. I am surprised that they don't "go all the way" with that look and also apply some simulated coffee stains, dog-ears, and stapling artifacts.
Just curious. Why do they not use second-price auctions for the bidding?
If you want to talk about your personal feelings, OK, I can't tell you how you may or may not feel. This was simply not expressed in your original post though, so no, I didn't completely miss the point.
Your router could wait for async function and you could use await in your router's function, accomplishing the exact same thing but without blocking the main thread.
Same was true many times throughout the history. Why do people still pay musicians to play in live concerts when they could listen to a recording? Why do people still watch other people play chess when they could watch two AIs play much better chess?

Think long term. Eventually AI will be able to do most of human jobs. As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. As a result, more people will be able to draw and paint for pleasure, and not necessarily to make a buck.
The future is now old man.
Please don't do this tit-for-tat spat thing on HN. It's way out of line, no matter how right you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As part of my attempt to get away from Google as much as possible, I've switched to Yandex as my main search engine and been using it now for more than 3+ years now. I've found the results to be good for around 70-75% of my searches. For the other 30%, Yandex conveniently provides a link to resume search in Google and Bing. (This is clever as this gives them data on where their search quality needs to improve). The major cons are that Yandex prioritizes Russian language / locale in its search results, even for English keywords, which can be real irritating sometimes. (For e.g. a search for a sony camera will show you the right Sony product page, but it will be linked to the Russian page).
> many of the largest employers like amazon, walmart, and fast food already restrict their employees to <40hrs to conspicuously avoid paying any benefits to employees

40 hours or 8 hours per day is the current general overtime threshold; 30 hours is the current general full-time threshold for benefit mandates.

This bill would lower the 40 hour limit to 32.
I don't think you know a lot of lefties, or that your lefties are at worst socdems (barely leftwing)
Are you interested in teaming up to build one?

I've been meaning to write a tremendous header for compiler & compiler version identification.
I see -- we are using different definitions. Let me provide mine:

"Guessing" is also a trick, just like "dexterity handling cards" or "pulling a rabbit out of a hat". It's a trick because the guess is stacked in a way it will result in a hit with high probability or the performer has mastery of showmanship in a way to pivot away from a failure and turn it into a win (discreetly disregarding misses, making them seem as hits, etc). That is, the key aspect is misdirection, i.e. trickery, just like any other kind of stage magic. The article you quoted from Wikipedia on Cold Reading confirms this!

An example of "guessing" that is obviously a trick: carry a card with you, say a Queen of Hearts (somebody else mentioned this trick, it's not my invention). At parties, approach girls and have them choose a card. If they pick Queen of Hearts, you show it to them and wow them... "how on Earth did he do this!?". If they pick something else, you improvise some personality reading and move on. Do you see how this is trickery and misdirection and also guessing? Guessing is not special, it just requires showmanship and an ability to pivot... just like a stage magician!

What I am arguing AGAINST: that mentalism requires some sort of extraordinary power of observation, picking up subtle signals, hypnosis, extreme mental powers of deduction, etc. That's false. I don't have to know how a particular mentalism trick is done to know it's a trick, just as I don't have to understand how a trick with cards works to know it's a trick. So I suggest you stop sending me links to Derren Brown's acts; I'm sure I'll be impressed, because he is a top-notch showman, but they will prove nothing.

The Amazing Randi even mentions Derren Brown in his talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqlvqHBVCg ). And he asserts 100% of mentalism is misdirection and trickery (which guessing is a form of). Which coming from Randi is a compliment, since he sure appreciated a good trick!
The "any language" advantage of WASM is theoretical. Each language is at a different level of support of WASM, libraries aren't all caught up and at the same point for all languages, etc...

I love the promise of WASM, but every time I look at it I get lost in a sea of acronyms, and my optimistic ideas of using language X with library Y on runtime Z are dashed because there is some missing piece somewhere.

If anything, the "any language" thing creates a giant matrix of potential pitfalls for the programmer.

In comparison, the combination of JS/TS, the browser API and a solid std lib looks pretty good for some problems.
I'm pretty sure that burnt remains have been found also, but I was just responding to the idea that we weren't finding any evidence of their existence because they buried their dead.
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Having checked some of his references, I now do not.

Rewriting Josephus to support his claim is very, very sketchy.
Seriously, Russia is and was always at least order of magnitude higher level bad guy than US.
...and failed. Trying your best doesn't mean you can't fail.
100% financing is problematic mainly because the "owner" has zero incentive to not walk away if the house goes below purchase price even if they could afford to keep up the payments.

This puts the "bank" (read: bank and the investors the bank sold the loans to) in a precarious position, as a slight downturn in the market could result in a large percentage of loans defaulting.
It's neither pedantic nor petty - I find it so annoying too. It's like a car wash operator placing an unwanted sticker on my windshield.
What's a joke is claiming that paid suggestion search results "have converted Firefox into an ad-ware / spyware [sic]"

I'm not a fan of them adding this and switching it on, but it's easily disabled...

> Click on the hamburger menu and then select Settings

> Click on Privacy and Security in the sidebar and scroll to Address Bar — Firefox Suggest

> Select or deselect the checkbox for contextual suggestions to turn the feature on or off

> Select or deselect the checkbox for “occasional sponsored suggestions”
True, although the topic at hand is COVID, so that is my frame of reference for my comment.
If you haven't seen The Last Ninja it had a fantastic soundtrack and was great game also. Hearing this track is like pure nostalgia.
The government isn't a for-profit organization, its profits are our profits. We all get to profit off it. If the government makes profit off it, that's just corruption.

(I've been living in Sweden for a while)
I doubt that has anything to do with "friction", Debian's release cycle just isn't compatible with wanting to run new hardware. Drivers are distributed via the kernel, Debian uses old kernels and can't afford to do the same kind of hardware enablement backports that Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical can do, so being stuck with the old kernel means poor support for brand new hardware.
Good timeline, the one commonality though during the NYtimes chart is that money was cheap(low interest rates). At the start of their timeline - 2011, fed interest rates were 0 and stayed that way until 2015, they then creeped up slightly hitting a peak in 2019(2.5). Rates then went back to 0 due to the pandemic[1]. In addition trillions of dollars were created out of thin air and that contributed alot to funding during the pandemic.

What kept rates artifically low was inflation was also low, now that inflation is skyrocketing the fed has signaled that rates are also going to jump. This is really bad for growth companies and you can see for yourself by looking at stock prices on a 6 month timeline(from today) and see the huge drop in valuations($sq, $roku, $afrm, $pypl ...) I expect these valuations to tumble by the summer even further as rates increase.

history of fed interest rates - https://www.thebalance.com/fed-funds-rate-history-highs-lows...
I strongly recommend storing your config in an org file and using Babel to load the init. I find it the only way to preserve my sanity as my config grows.
Land-line telephones and ubiquitous pay phones pre-date me but have mostly disappeared.

Touch-tone phones came and went in my lifetime.

Floppy disks, 8”, 5.25”, 3.5”, and various formats like Zip disks.

Betamax, then VHS, then CD-ROM. DVD now seems almost obsolete.

Cassette tapes for music, and the Walkman-style portable players, then the portable CD players.

Fax predates me (fairly old technology made commercially viable as far back as 1948), and still hangs on in the legal and real estate professions.

CRT displays appeared before I was born but color TV was a big deal in my childhood, now obsoleted by flat-panels.

Dumb terminals like the VT-100 and Wyse-60 appeared early in my career and have largely disappeared, replaced by personal computers.

Minicomputers, appeared in the early ‘70s and died when PCs appeared a decade later. RIP Dec, Pr1me, Data General, and HP’s line of superminis.
Same for me, I just wonder how the standardization people could forget such a feature...
the reason bubbles form is because investors have no alternative (TINA - there is nothing else). In times of extremely high inflation (5% - 10%), you can't be in bonds or cash. So, this forces everyone into equities. Even at just 10% inflation, you'd loose half your cash in just 7 years.

and the CPI figures underestimate inflation by at least 2-3% with all their hedonistic adjustments. it used to be that economists would get a basket of goods to measure inflation. there's hardly any need for that anymore. Now that housing makes up 60%+ of everyone's (at least the latest generation of house buyers/renters) expenses, you just use housing as a proxy for inflation.
This sounds like something Trump would do, not Trudeau.
Reposts like that are ok on HN because we want to give good articles multiple chances at getting attention. Threads stay open for discussion for two weeks but are lucky if the window for getting on the front page is even two hours.

It's true that a better system could share the karma for a successful post between all the submitters, and that's actually on our list to implement. In the meantime, though, the current practice is a good thing because it mitigates some of the randomness of what gets traction off /newest and (sometimes) prevents good articles from falling through the cracks.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
You have to run Brave, which is a considerable overhead.
>What happened in downtown Ottawa was not a protest, but an occupation

Here's exactly my problem. This is the only narrative people are allowed to have on mainstream subreddits.

I'll admit it wasn't 100% peaceful but let's be honest here - it wasn't violent either and it wasn't an occupation. They demanded the PM step down or be removed by the GG because they don't understand how politics work here but visit some Canadian subreddits and what was done is widely regarded as a coup attempt. The view that it was a coup, or even an attempted coup, is literally insane and hysterical.

Regarding the length of the protest - Ottawa police sat on their hands and did nothing to stop or remove the truckers. When they finally did lift a finger to remove them they successfully removed them. It took 3 days but if they had just done something earlier it wouldn't have grown to as big as it did.
GPT-3 was sold with exclusive usage rights to MicroSoft, so maybe something along those lines with a different company (Meta?). As for what they will do with it, it's hard to say ...
Logitech Lift: New Vertical Mouse Is Smaller and, Yes, More Ergonomic
So is Brave.
How relevant is this for the vast majority of Insteon users? Is this possible for everybody else with less technical knowledge/interest?
>>>This is the main reason to not take Putin's "Nazi" label seriously. If they support him they are "patriots". If they don't they are Nazi.

Very true. The leader of Wagner, Russia's infamous private military contractor, has SS lightning bolts tatooed on his neck. If it weren't for innocent civilians dying, it would easily be a war where we shouldn't care which variety of asshole loses.

https://www.respublica.lt/signs-of-neo-nazi-ideology-amongst...
Maybe an artist can make huge images or whole catalogs of images with technology like this.

Maybe more people can be game developers with access to free original artwork at their fingertips.

I don’t see it as replacing artists, I see it as amplifying artists.
This assumes that a company can find workers without raising wages.

The labor market is a market, companies and workers need to come to an agreement on wages. And, right now, it seems that workers have the upper hand in negotiations.
Uhh need to based on what evidence? This isn’t the only study suggests minimal if any improvement with lowered salt intake and the often quoted reasoning for why salt would matter is flawed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179550/. “Graudal et al. (40) observed that sodium restriction (sodium reduction of 42–341 mmol/24 h in studies lasting 4–90 days) was independently associated with increased heart rate in healthy individuals and individuals with hypertension.”
I argue there is a difference because of the nature of the work. Machines aiding in farming is only a good thing, because it can maximize output and minimize input. People (largely) don't care about the process of how it was grown, but rather having the product to eat (Of course there's cruelty free agriculture, organic, etc. but stay with me here). But artistry is a personal thing, and maximizing the output of art pieces isn't something that most are interested in. Art is a uniquely unquantifiable subject, and we want it to have a personal and emotional connection to both the creator and the viewer, something that is lost when AI boil it down to it's essential components and rebuild them in it's image.
The answer differs from person to person. Rationally, the decision process should be the same for small decisions and big decisions if one is being consistent. Or maybe apply your middle sized decision making process and see what needs to be tweaked after big life decision 1 for big life decision 2.
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Great questions! I'd also be interested in this. I supposed the generations would mimic the general distribution of information that is on the internet, but what that would look like specifically is hard to say without OpenAI releasing more information.
I also spend hours a day on my phone. Mostly in the evenings, but also during the day.

My childhood memories are my dad either sitting at the kitchen table and reading a newspaper, or him lying in bed reading Dick Francis.

It's the same thing basically. Human minds like cheap distractions, especially if there are no other urgent things to do.

At a superficial level it seems like a flaw ("There must be more productive ways to spend the time"), but I'm sure there's an evolutinary reason why we are like that.

Maybe these distractions are a way to prevent us from overworking, because mindlessly reading stuff is a lot less exhausting than doing something productive for 14 hours a day. Maybe it's a way for our body to rest when we're not ready to sleep yet, or something.
This one seems a little grey.

What would one need a receipt for other than tax purposes? I suspect submitting one of these with your tax return to HMRC or the like, is quite probably "fraud" of some description.

Submitting it to your employer simply puts you or them on the hook for that same fraud if it happened to get picked up in an audit by the tax office.

Is there some other less legally grey use for these (because I like the idea)?
Maybe not completely but they will be soon.