skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Nice game, I Will buy it after work!! Congrats!

Now, some question about steam:

How they fix the price based on each country (here I can see the price at u$ 3.5). how is the deal with them?, that is the price for all the countries or you fix a global price and they make the cut?

I'm asking because I'm moving to USA and I'm staking games here in Argentina because the prices are, sometimes, 10 times cheaper.
I can say exactly the same thing about learning a musical instrument. There's nothing magical about sports.
I actually completely lost interest once I found this out. Simply taking some ML course like the old Andrew Ng courses online are enough for you to get the general idea.

ML is simply curve fitting. It's a applied math problem that's quite common. In fact I lost a lot of interest in intelligence in general once I realized this was all that was going on. The implications really say that all of intelligence is really some form of curve fitting.

The simplest form of this is linear regression which is used to derive an equation for a line from a set of 2D points. All ML is basically a 10,000 (or much more) dimensional extension of that. The magic is lost.

Most of ML research is just to find the most efficient way to find the best fitting curve given the least amount of data points. A ML guys knowledge is centered around a bunch of tricks and techniques to achieve that goal with some N-D template equation. And the general template equation is all the same: A neural network. The answer to what intelligence is seems to be quite simple and not that profound at all... which makes sense given that we're able to create things like DALL-E in such a short time frame.

One of the big mysteries of the universe (intelligence) and the thing I always wondered about was essentially answered within the last 2 decades which is pretty cool.. but it's like knowing the secret behind an amazing magic trick.
This could potentially save me some screenshot editing
For those of you who missed the 80s and the movie The Wizard (1989) which immortalized the Nintendo Power Glove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw
Specifically, some manager at Mozilla was scared of it.
Phenomenal job on the video. Loved it, buying the game. Best of luck!
The mental image of a bunch of virtual avatars sitting at a table on the moon all silently staring at their virtual phones and scrolling through reddit seems so hilariously stupid that it just might happen.
> Most of addresses used in spams are the ones I shared with individual/small business and I would like to believe that they were not intentional.

Sounds very much like the computers/address books of the business owners get compromised and harvested.
Very cool art and parallax animations between the sections.
But if it's just mapping text to image then it would be fair to assume that using the same text would result in the same image. But does that actually happen?
Often turning this sort of question around might provide some useful guidance. Say:

What do you consider to be interesting or meaningful work? (Not limiting it strictly to a "job").

Where or how do such organisations recruit or find talent or professionals?

I'm also increasingly of the view that the hiring problem has a MASSIVE "Market for Lemons" aspect to it, in which both candidates and opportunities have a tremendous problem in both accurately representing themselves and in being heard above the noise floor.

This exists for any sufficiently complex informational good (and both skilled labour and skilled labour gigs are informationally complex).

Re-reading the paper just now, I note that Akerlof makes several comments and observations, several of which which I'd not recalled though they've been central to much of my own thinking:

- That a direct consequence is that both high-quality buyers and sellers tend to exit the market. The buyers can't find what they're looking for, the sellers can't find a suitable buyer (or price).

- That hiring is a specific case Akerlof discusses, though he discusses the case of minority hiring. Ethical and senior-level hiring would have similar dynamics.

- That trust (or its absence) is a key factor.

There aren't any clear solutions, though generally greater transparency is a suggested approach. Services such as CarFaX, for example, have greatly improved efficiency and reduced deadweight losses in the used-car market.

https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~shaddin/cs590fa13/papers/Akerlo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I would use this tool if it had these options:

- x264 settings as well as copy video codec

- aac re-encoding settings

- mixing 5.1 to 2.1 audio

- adding multiple subtitles

- rendering hard subtitles

I was just using ffmpeg to convert videos to watch on the TV and I needed all of those.
There are plenty of words in English that have the same singular and plural form.
Totally fair criticism of my statement and I apologize for not taking into account names that are harder to spell or hear correctly.

I am very thankful that I don’t have those issues but yes, my advice doesn’t hold up in those situations.
from the POV of people using irc from dialup it was indeed very much like that - but also from those who were dialing up to unix systems, or using them locally over a network such as at a university, the machine running the irc client maintained a persistent network connection so it was possible to run a persistent client (or eggdrop bot) without disconnecting/reconnecting and re-entering channels.

after about the year 2000 or so it was also really common to see people with shell accounts various places using gnu screen to maintain a persistent irc client session.
Can you prove that you aren’t a Markov chain?

Can you even pass a captcha?
When I lose navigation I just do without. I haven't replaced it with Google or any other cell-based app. The satellite radio often also drops out in these moments despite having a buffer.

Edit: Ah, I see, I meant something sort of other than that read. I've certainly had the experience of not being able to download maps, but mostly on hikes in the middle of nowhere. When I use navigation on foot in the city, hadn't had the problems I have with in-car nav.
Honestly, I'm not sure it needs to be illegal. I'm not sure it shouldn't be either.

I wholeheartedly admit, some of our data providers are shady, and there's no way I would go work for them. I don't like the way they mislead people.

That said, the data we get is anonymous. Sure, if I know enough about you, and you're in one of my panels, it's feasible that I might be able to figure out which panelist you are. I know there's been some kerfuffle there with less than upstanding "private investigators" and bounty hunters in the past. But, the data we deal with is far too expensive for those sorts.

We find valuable consumer behavior insights the data at regional levels. That creates information that's valuable not only on Wall St, but to retailers and brands, who are desperate for anything to help them understand market share and loyalty.

I dunno. It's a weird world. It's also a very commoditized world. Just having access to the data is no longer the main value add - you have to provide the meaning of it as well.
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Yeah, I would never add presence to a chat app. I hate, hate, hate it.

I started using Discord a few years ago and accumulated friends with whom I regularly chat. If I leave Discord off, they're like "oh you haven't been online in such a long time, I thought you were dead". Or if I chat while I have the thing set to idle they're like "oh lying about your idle status because I'm annoying you" and things like that.

It is such a chore to maintain people's expectations. I wish they never added this feature to the app, because my friends will guilt me into turning it back on if I turn it off.

Slack is similarly bad. Like if someone wants to step out of work to go for a walk in the middle of the day, I don't need to know about it. It's none of my business. They can reply to my messages when they have time.
Agreed with problem, not sure about solution

Ex: 10X smaller enrollment. In top programs, most competitive undergraduate applicants have _already_ published top scientific papers. Making 10X more competitive will turn up the pressure even more.

Ex: More funding. Competing is hard. CS PhD programs, with assuming occasional well-paid CS internships, having slightly-below-median salaries. Definitely tough for those with families, but the rest can easily come out with savings even in the highest COL areas. So the real issue is opportunity cost when competing with FAANG etc (which grad students would be able to get into). I believe > 50% of US PhDs are foreign-born because american cs undergrads know they can work in cool tech envs for more $ and less work by going direct to the great companies courting them before graduation. Competing with FAANG salaries is hard - most professor salaries are below FAANG starting salaries, which is its own problem.
Not exactly .... what will really happen is the distinction will go away.

All the next gen VR headsets are building in color passthrough so that they effectively operate as AR devices - but better ones in some ways because they can actually replace reality fully when they want to, not be constrained to just tweaking it.
Hybrid or Hybrik now owned by Dolby?
Really? Wouldn't that catch people with `.co.uk` or similar localized domains?
They're listed all the time - the Flex and Instants i bought very recently. I just ordered a Flex three days ago.

Check daily, usually first thing morning. https://old.reddit.com/r/UbiquitiInStock/ is handy, but i've often found stock when it wasn't posted - so i think my morning check is a bit better than the stock posts.

edit: to be clear, i've bought all of my stuff (within the last year) from Ubiquiti directly. No 3rd party inflated prices
Depends on interest rate, I suppose. Variable rates help shield the creditor. Fixed rates tend to be higher to price in inflation risk. Also, you can securitize debt, which helps you hedge.
They wouldn't have done it if they didn't have evidence showing that you are wrong.
Any similar frameworks for flatbuffers?
I notice you are using science and the scientific method interchangeably.

How can science study magic without knowing whether it is falsifiable first? Would that require them to do potentially unscientific/pseudoscientific things not becoming of a proper scientist? If we allowed that, next thing they'd be thinking without dogmatic constraints!
Odd, I recently installed Debian on a "late 2009" 27" iMac without any problems. Everything "just works", no problems with running the latest and greatest of Linux while Apple does not support this thing any more. I did upgrade the Mac-side of the thing to Catalina but that was more as an exercise than anything else given that I hardly ever use MacOS - only to test things in Safari, really.
> Forward a message to someone else. Sometimes you're not the best person to answer, but a colleague is. Forwarding should be easy and feature minimal friction.

Cardinal does this! You just share with someone else and you can expand or change the discussion as needed.
Tax the rich the rich flee to Europe.

Economy 101
I have not encountered the author's 2nd issue because I use a password manager.

I have encountered their 1st issue (awkward encounters) and consider it a feature. I guess this depends on certain extro/intro-vert-ish human preferences, but it can be a nice talking point if you approach it right.

The author's argument can be generalised to an appeal to normativity - doing ANYTHING that isn't common practice will garner awkward interactions. It's also a necessary early-adopter stage of anything eventually becoming common practice (and catch-all domains are becoming an automatically supported feature in many services now so here's hoping it does).
I work at Evergrow [1] on climate fintech for regulated carbon markets.

If meaning in your career is an issue you're wrestling with, I empathize. I know how difficult it can be to do work that you no longer find meaningful. Many of my friends and family are able to treat their work as just a job, but for whatever reason, I haven't been able to do so.

So I quit my job in January to take a step back and think about what I wanted to do with my career. And I decided that as long as the comp was reasonable, I'd be willing to work on any technical problem connected with climate change.

I was surprised at how many interesting tech opportunities were available -- no end of ML and computer vision companies, for example, on everything from recycling robots to weather modeling. And that's leaving aside more traditional full-stack SWE work for collecting and presenting data. If you're interested in climate work specifically, I strongly recommend reaching out to Work on Climate [2] or ClimatePeople [3].

Ultimately, I joined Evergrow because I thought that understanding the capital dynamics in these markets would be most critical. I also thought the team was outstanding -- pragmatic, driven, and very high-integrity.

And if you want to consider different sectors more broadly, I've heard good things about 80000 Hours [4].

[1]: evergrow.com
[2]: workonclimate.org
[3]: climatepeople.com
[4]: 80000hours.org
We don't have to speculate on this stuff, or base it on academic research from books: market P/E is easy to look up. Lo and behold it fluctuates dramatically. Same with stock returns. Averaging 7% doesn't mean you get that return annually, or ever for that matter.
How do you feel about personal MLRS’s? Short range is sufficient but why limit peoples civil rights so severely.

The people demand pocket ICBMs now. Anything less is tyranny.
MS Teams has the worst ever "typing status" implementation I've ever seen. In certain cases it shows you're typing by just having the conversation opened, which is extremely frustrating. Maybe just because the cursor is in the text box. It should only show typing if I have at least 1 letter...
A lot of people are rightfully upset over this, but a more nuanced point: if your phone is capable of installing "apps" from a "store" - there is far, far more insidious data collection going on by significantly more capable adversaries.
Is there a simple way to buy this information for yourself? I've always been curious what information is out there on me.
I think this kind of game sells by the word of mouth.

When I saw trailers of Factorio it didn't look attractive to me at all. I'm not sure how I decided to try it (maybe even I read recommendations here, on HN?), but then hundreds of hours of fun.
It is definitely hyperbole to suggest that's Putin's goal, as described by the author (the overt obliteration of Ukrainian identity) is comparable to the even the worst and stupidest of the "official status" legislation passed in recent years.

In my post, I did not equate cultural suppression with physical violence.

As for as what's coming from the Russian side -- since Feb 24 of this year, the two have become inseparable. Russia's efforts at suppression of Ukrainian identity aren't merely legislative, and they aren't enforced by civil fines and such. They're backed by cold-blooded murder of thousands of civilians, in front of the cameras, in broad daylight.

That's why there's no comparison between the spate of misguided legislative shenanigans in recent years in Ukraine - and the overt obliteration of Ukrainian identity that Putin is seeking to accomplish.
Technically doesn't it require some new innovation? And the original patent itself still enters the public domain?
Well, you're at the airport at 2am and there's a Tim Horton's, a Starbucks and a McDonald's next to each other. This is the situation I'm talking about (though I was thinking on a road trip and wanting a quick coffee). I'd choose McDonald's.

I'm not super picky with coffee but whenever I've had Starbucks drip, it's tasted burnt. They make their money on the coffee milkshakes and it shows.
As an aside, I'd love a chat app that sends each character as it is typed, simply for the pure chaos of it.
Is this and a previous tweet a ML-guys discussion? My layman understanding of neural networks is that the core operation is you basically kick a figure down the hill and see where it ends up, but both the figure and the hill are N-dimensional objects, where N is too huge to comprehend. Of course some nonsensical figures end up at valid locations, but can you really expect some stable inner structure of the hill-figure interaction? I think it’s unlikely that there is a place in a learning method to produce one. NNs can give interesting results, but they don’t magically rewrite their own design yet.

Would still be interesting to see how the output changes with little changes to these inputs. If my vague understanding is at all close, this will reveal the “faces” that are more “noisy” than the others. Not sure what that gives though.
Answer in sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587686

The trailer does have a sound, it's narrated. You need to enable it or just watch in on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U0d7z2sBr-4
Tinfoil: The economic downtown is deliberate to give companies more leverage to get their WFH employees back into the office.

Too much money in office space and all the surrounding businesses to keep the status quo.
Honestly, I just thought Sandberg was laying it on a little thick with "I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there."

But this is probably my most upvoted HN comment ever, which mostly just makes me ashamed.
Sandberg has shown herself to be a true champion of moderation. One of her fine achievements at Facebook was to mobilize a team of enterprising Facebook employees to suppress allegations of harassment made against her then boyfriend, Bobby Kotick, from the news.
Can you tell whether it's going to be raining in 30 minutes? Can you tell whether it's going to be 10 or 22 degrees later today when you're up at 7am?

I definitely can't do either, and ive been wrong enough times to know that
I use the 6 and 12 hour forecasts every single day, personally. Simple stuff like - is it going to rain while we go to the playground, what's the UV going to be while we're at that outdoor thing, how cold is it going to be after I go to bed and do I need to close some windows... that sort of thing.
That's true. So maybe they will fail. Should they give up?
> On average, one model is probably around $500.

That's a pretty impressive budget, there must be hundreds of models in the game.
This is how it was for a lot of "SysOp chat" systems in the BBS days. Sometimes the two parties wren't even in separate sections of the chat, they were effectively just having a discussion in a shared text document.
I was thinking about a system for pulling data from verbal nonsense the other day, speaking in tongues or something similar. I can create a bunch of noises that lack obvious meaning for me, but obviously they have some meaning that can be learned since humans are terrible at being truly random (lol XD).

I wonder what level I would be able to share ideas I lack the words for, my perceived bitrate at creating "random" noise is certainly higher than when verbally communicating an idea to another human. Will we even share a common language in the future? Or will we have our own language that is translated to other people?
Eh, I did it for a while and while I think the OP overstated the "awkwardness," I didn't find that the effort was worthwhile. I only caught one entity selling or otherwise divulging my address: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, oddly enough.

Oh, and someone did hack some FAA database and mine it for addresses.

But that's all I netted in several years. Beyond my main address at my own domain, I keep a Gmail address for mailing lists and other low-grade traffic.
I remember very fondly that the php documentation would often have nice practical examples in the comments below the documentation for each function.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwing

apparently common in europe, but rare since it was in maine
:shrug: I made about $80k off a ~$5k risk speculating/gambling during one of the earlier crypto waves. Did I know what I was doing? Hell no lol. Was I aware that there were a ton of people out there manipulating these markets using any and all insider info they could get their hands on? Of course

But the fact of the matter is, that $75k profit was incredibly useful to me that year, whereas having or not having that $5k wouldn't have made any difference. And gambling on crypto was my only chance to get the 10x+ return I needed in such a short time span

Playing the lottery can be a perfectly sensible and rational strategy if it is your only chance of escaping wage slavery before 60+, as is the case for the majority of people, and you are someone who values financial independence highly enough
Incapable people demand automatic self firing self ranging self targeting weapons now!

If self driving cars are ok, surely no one can object to self programming terminator bots, it’s using lisp macros so surely HN loves it eh?

We can train it on Fox News. What could possibly go wrong?
Tax the ultra wealthy on the way out then. This country deserves better.
To be clear, I don't think most people will live in VR for all of their waking life (although some will).

But I do think VR has the potential to be "huge" like cellphones, in the way that nearly every kid in the world has a headset, and spends hours of time in there each day. I think it can eat up a ton of time currently spent on movies, TV, video games, socializing in places like Minecraft or Roblox, concerts, sports games, etc. The average person spends way too much time watching TV for example, but if every kid in the world wants to spend 2 hours per day in VR instead of watching TV, that will be an enormous TAM notwithstanding that people won't want to literally live in VR with all day battery life. Although there will always be outliers, and I think there will be many people that will easily choose to spend 8 hours + per day in VR.

And even currently, the Quest 2 provides hours of battery life without wires, which will only continue to improve.

How old are you by the way? Today phones last nearly all day, but people used to carry around multiple phones for their batteries and swap them out. IF they are at home, they could do the same with VR until the battery life improves.
This is cool! We are always curious about interesting ways of using webhooks, (we do webhook sending as a service), and this is definitely an interesting one.

Congrats on launching!
And a timeout of at most 3 seconds in case you pause typing.
I’ve been offered the employee discount multiple times when providing storename@firstlast.tld. I declined as I’m not going to risk fighting some fraud charge over €20.

I’ve never had difficult or negative interactions either. “I bought @firstlast.tld and now I can do whatever I want” settles it.

I also have @lastna.me. My grandma has her own and mostly her bridge club mates are puzzled about how her email address just looks like her name. The whole setup is worth a few bucks, I guess.