skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the tweeter is being a bit too pedantic. Personally I spent some time thinking about embeddings, manifolds, the structure of language, scientific naming, and what the decoding of the points near the center of clusters in embedding spaces look like (archetypes), after seeing this paper. I think making networks and asking them to explain themselves using their own capabilities is a wonderful idea that will turn out to be a fruitful area of research in its own right.
Why call out "the europeans" like this?

The places we won over already had domestic slaves.

Plus ur right.
> Is the Mac/Linux community still so small that no one cares about it?

I'm battling to find it now... but I read previously that a game studio found 1. they received a lot more variety in support tickets from people on nix (lots of interesting window managers, distros, etc)

2. A huge portion of their support tickets were from the tiny portion of customers running nix.

This was interesting for me to read at the time because I had played with Unity and Unreal Engine. I found developing for a number of platforms to be relatively trivial - but then again I wasn't trying anything particularly impressive or distributing builds etc.
Looks cool, purchased.
It'd have been better if she linked to Tom from MySpace profile
Well that looks like a pretty variant on a factory-builder! I quite enjoyed the intro video. If you eventually end up with a Mac version I'd happy buy a copy. Either way, though, congrats on your progress! Releasing a full game that people enjoy is a great accomplishment!
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No, if a Uni has developed some patents, and wants to 'exclusively license' them to a Pharma, that's probably a good application of that patent, they become much less worthwhile otherwise.

It's a misunderstanding of the market to suggest that somehow 'the FDA will lead the trials'. This is about as likely as a manned mission to Venus, it won't happen, and it shouldn't happen for good reason (cost vastly outweighs the benefits).

It's also a misunderstanding to suggest 'whoever can produce pure preparations of those drugs at the lowest cost will win the most market share'. The 'cost of manufacture' is most cases is not a material or relevant issue.

Your example of 'COVID' monopolization is completely upside down - companies didn't maximize their profit potential there, and may not have even developed such vaccines in a normal case, they were giving very special prices to places like 'Africa' - and none of this has anything to do with 'low uptake' in Africa.

Africa has 'low uptake' for the very same set of reasons they don't have electricity, or consistent electricity in many places.
I thought that by now game engines just have two extra checkboxes to ’build for Mac’ and ‘build for Linux’. Perhaps the signing requirements changed that, though.

Notably also, plenty of games work fine under Wine, but Steam client itself doesn't—on Mac.
I had thought that "Meta" was supposed to be a cool-sounding conceptual name, but it seems that folks are taking it literally to mean a very specific reference to a "metaverse" in an actual 3D virtual reality environment.

If that's the real intent, it seems kind of sad.
The most curious part of these tools (for me) is how they handle cursor pagination.

Unfortunately, there are two closed out issues, seemingly with no resolution, that seem to indicate cursor-based pagination doesn't work (with Relay) and perhaps correctly (at all).

[0] https://github.com/dosco/graphjin/issues/44

[1] https://github.com/dosco/graphjin/issues/47
I am relatively high up in the eng org for a medium-sized company that has a fair amount of natural churn in our userbase. The past 2 years or so, our revenue has been declining and at first it was hand-waved away as COVID-related, but now people are starting to try to figure out why.

The reason is blindingly obvious - our new user input has dropped to multi-year lows and churn has stayed constant. For some reason, people are convinced it is something else, and we've had endless meetings about it. I am constantly being asked to pull up more and more contorted reports to answer people's pet theories about what is going on, none of which make sense, but we spend forever on them.

Eventually if you torture enough data, you'll find something, I guess. But it feels odd to overlook the things that are well-supported by data and make intuitive sense as well. It is like going into the ER and complaining that you feel lightheaded and when they notice your left arm has been severed and blood is spurting out, they rush to treat it, but you instead say "I had a lot of bread this morning, maybe I'm sensitive to gluten.. Can we test that first?"

We do not have basic operational metrics around things like signup conversion and whenever I've tried to draw attention to those, it devolves into trying to create a dashboard with thousands of mostly useless metrics instead. The last time I tried to get everyone to focus on collecting a few operational metrics at first, I got shouted down and told we didn't want to limit anything upfront, and I have sort of checked out of those meetings ever since.

No raises/bonuses this year and everyone was forced back to the office. I'm torn between being more and more worried about losing people and being worried about them being left in a tough spot here as things get worse.
And that's one of the major issues with google search: one metric which would be really good for a search engine is the inverse of the % of advertising related html / javascript in a page. Because that would minimize the utility of SEO for those link farms that only write text to mine ad views/clicks (like food recipes).

Alas, google would shoot themselves in the feet by promoting pages that consume less in their own advertising products.

If the US government split those two business units into different companies, we could have decent searches (google search could still profit by placing ads on its page results)
I wouldn't consider a standard thunderstorm a natural disaster in what I was referring to. A hurricane, earthquake or tornado would be (although a very severe thunderstorm could be). I've never seen a thunderstorm knock out power for a meaningful amount of time. But it could be because I don't live in a particularly rural area.
This is such a naive take. It's not "Well maybe I'll lose some modest savings I have, maybe I'll hit the jackpot and make $1m". It's not a 1% chance you make $1m. It's not 0.1%. It's not 0.0001%. That 1 in a million chance? It's not even 1 in a million. It's more like a 0% chance. You're taking your modest savings and you're trading them for the incorrect hope that someone is going to hand you $1m for nothing. You're buying magic beans but you don't live in a fairy tale.

Do you know what happens after you throw your money into the wishing well? You work for the man for 40+ years and you won't enjoy a modest retirement.
The best info I ever got was on Discords related to the projects I am interested in. Almost next to no spam, everyone is on those to either learn or contribute.
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I’ve never heard of Cardinal but I liked the fact you could actually see what people were typing, character by character, in ytalk. Sped up a lot of conversations.
I sense a bit of frustration and rudeness in your response, not sure why. I've worked as a engineer (not software) and most of the things get done in person, in the lab and in cubicles. Brainstorm on physical objects, looking at CAD models and comparing geometry, reviewing drawings, troubleshooting manufacturing problems, etc. Even operations requires interfacing with manufacturing leads which are in the factory.

If you have an axe to grind about WFH, probably should work as a non-software engineer or talk to someone who does and have a sense that perhaps your view is biased towards a particular type of personality that you may have.

Even amongst software engineers, there is a debate about how well WFH works.
All these advertisers get to do all sorts of creepy stuff and yet I, a normal person, can't go from plate to name. I just wanna offer to buy cool old shitboxes I see driving around.
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That's a good reason. You are working above Java, JavaScript and others, and that's often something that you need to be aware of and the details of those layers leak in a little.

It's still worth it for me personally, but I recon the additional challenge.

If you try babashka and nbb it won't feel as much of an extra layer, but they're both interpreted, so expect only Ruby like performance out of them. That said, it's a good way to get started if you don't want an extra layer under Clojure.
> Actually if you look at all the top net core submissions the only one fast are the one using low level intrinsics etc ...

Do you mean "fast" like a C program using low level intrinsics?
Good for you and your friend to actually release a game after 6years, it's a long journey.
They are but just ignore it and continue to work remotely.
> I don't think it's hypocritical to not want to live in the system you have to live in.

You were the one suggesting it was a contradiction, although I disagree that you have to be a capitalist (ie. have substantial ownership stakes in MOP, like many tech workers do) in our society.

> find any polls that come even close to supporting popularity

My claim is not that most affluent young people are Proudhon lovers (obviously that would be ridiculous, and I understand your ire if you thought that is what I am saying), but rather that most Proudhon lovers are affluent young people.

> the opposite of collective action, just dominance by one group over the rest like we already have.

Yes, that would be the (in my view naive) left libertarian view. I disagree that collective intrinsically means decentralized or non-hierarchical.
I mean specifically the way he acts toward people inside his company, especially those at the executive level.
I'm not comparing this to what exists in the job marketplace, I'm comparing it to what the cost of living is. Buying a house, having two kids, sending them to collage, while being resilient enough to handle a long period of unemployment or health crisis. Those are things that should be possible for everyone and anyone if you're working 40/week - or at least, that was the Ford motor company bargain. Any job that offers you less than that isn't a "good job" - and any company that mints billionaires while offering less than that to their employees is deeply exploitative.

And remember - $63k a year was just a number that the comment I was replying to floated. $19/hour is $38k / year - you only get above that by sacrificing over 40 hours of your life every week to the company, and Tesla doesn't pay overtime until +10 hours.
>You do not know your gender, race, wealth, or facts about your personal strengths and weaknesses, such as their intelligence or physical prowess. Rawls thought these facts are morally arbitrary: individuals do not earn or deserve these features, but simply have them by luck.

That's what makes the whole concept nonsensical. This implicitly assumes the existence of a soul. If 'you' were born as someone else, you wouldn't be you! The only actually coherent thought experiment is being born the same, just in a different environment, but that leads to completely different conclusions. Wealth is an external property, but intelligence, race, gender - aren't.
While I'm no securities attorney, I can assure you that it is most assuredly insider trading.

The key words are "material non-public information".

IF it is information and IF that information might make a material difference, it could be subject to insider trading.

IF that material information is time-sensitive, and it is not yet available to the general public, then I can assure you that it is subject to insider trading rules (as Nathaniel Chastain is now discovering to his detriment).

If such were not the case, then there would be queues of people wanting to work for free as interns at every financial wire service.

I can also report that a family member has worked at some major law firms (which do work for major corps & individuals), and they, and their family are specifically forbidden from trading in individual stocks without specific advance permission for each trade. This is to both avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and also just so everyone knows that if you break the rule and it ever comes up as a problem, you'll be fired in a New York Second [1].

[1] New York Second = the amount of time between the time a light turns green and the driver behind you hits the horn if you aren't already moving - considerably shorter than the standard International Atomic Time second.
Walking on a VR treadmill is actually the opposite example of what you are claiming I believe. It exercises your proprioception without giving you the right vestibular response (except on huge military 12x12ft treadmills and stuff that can accommodate decent amounts of real acceleration from locomotion, I'm assuming you mean consumer "slipmill" type setups where you fully run in place).
Sure I totally agree that people have different preferences. Do you have a link to the study which showed that open offices reduced personal interaction? That wasn't my experience and I'm wondering what their methodology was.
Sorry, that principal engineer sucks. You are correct to not pre-optimize. Just tell him to google "the first rule of optimization"
Must be a misunderstanding or different definition of recycling.

Each time plastic is recycled it degrades and becomes less fit for the original use. At some point the degradation is so large that the degraded plastic must be replaced with newly produced plastic. 100% recycling of plastic is not possible.
Should have used that money to trade several of the same brand of NFTs to build the trading volume up :P
Mhmm great idea
Newton FAQ
"Those who trade freedom for security will loose both in the end"

But dramatic quotes aside, since I have kids myself, I am leaning towards security, too. But I feel that this has indeed been blocking me a lot and I felt stagnating. The world is big and full of opportunities, but only if you go out and dare to look at them.

So I do recommend at least a long holiday ;)
Or continue to work remotely. They can demand you be back in the office but just tell them you have COVID so are self-isolating.
Thanks! I haven't found any good game-dev-related Discord servers. You could try r/gamedev.

Retarding "the leap", I was around 5 years in before quitting (crazy, I know!). I've had saved up enough for 2-3 years without salary. I have only considered quitting once we had a solid vision for the end-product and a working prototype that is "playable", although lacking content, balance, and some features. Before this stage, we were pivoting every quarter and that was not a good time to make the leap.

The decision on where to stop and call it Early Access was very hard. We were adding things till the last moment, but what helped us was our Kickstarter where we promised a deadline. From that point it was basically "what can we possibly put in given a fixed release date" and it was just a lot of prioritization to include only the most important features. Feedback from beta players helped with this a lot!

The trouble with release is that now any changes must be backwards-compatible, making all coding 3x harder and slower. Any new features now are much more costly.

Good luck to you and I hope to read similar post from you some time in the future :)
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AI is a buzzword.
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This is one of my favorite topics in all of AI. It was the most surprising and mysterious discovery for me.

The answer is that the training process literally has to make the results smooth. That’s how training works.

Imagine you have 100 photos. Your job is to classify them by color. You can place them however you want, but similar colors should be physically closer together.

You can imagine the result would look a lot like a photoshop RGB picker, which is smooth.

The surprise is, this works for any kind of input. Even text paired with images.

The key is the loss function (a horrible name). In the color picker example, the loss function would be how similar two colors are. In the text to image example, it’s how dissimilar the input examples are from each other (Contrastive Loss). The brilliance of that is, pushing dissimilar pairs apart is the same thing as pulling similar pairs together, when you train for a long time on millions of examples. Electrons are all trying to push each other apart, but your body is still smooth.

The reason it’s brilliant is because it’s far easier to measure dissimilar pairs than to come up with a good way of judging “does this text describe this image?” — you definitely know that it isn’t a bicycle, but you might not know whether a car is a corvette or a Tesla. But both the corvette and the Tesla will be pushed away from text that says it’s a bicycle, and toward text that says it’s a car.

That means for a well-trained model, the input by definition is smooth with respect to the output, the same way that a small change in {latitude,longitude} in real life has a small change in the cultural difference of a given region of the world.
Oh, yeah. The "good for the little guy" argument is that essentially anyone can buy into a SPAC before the merger goes through, whereas with an IPO, the bank only takes orders from big investors. Little guys have to then buy from one of those big investors, usually at higher price.

SPACs typically trade at around $10 per share before the merger is announced, and most PIPE deals get the same price. So everyone is on equal footing at the start.

After the merger is announced, the share price tends to rise, so little guys that get in late pay more. But they at least had the opportunity to go in at the same price as the big investors.

So, from that perspective, it is more egalitarian.
Its one thing if those meetings are for meeting a new client or discussing a new project with an existing one, but it is another thing altogether for (eg) weekly hour+ long status meetings.
Documentation is a tool for communication, not the same thing. The dictionary is our best friend =]
For weeks our Shopify app was getting rejected because "you cannot use the Shopify name or trademark in your app". It wasn't... repeated requests for clarification just got back the same form response.

After a several frustrating back-and-forths, finally someone at Shopify said "check your email address".

The developer contact email address we had submitted, which was only used for shopify<->us communication and no customer would ever see, was shopify@ourdomain.com.

<facepalm>
This week I've been trying Android Auto out in a rental car. I'm not impressed so far. Google Maps has worked okay, but Spotify has not. I don't know where the line is between Android Auto and the Jeep Cherokee interface, but the turn by turn directions are super quiet compared to the music with seemingly no way to adjust. Squarely on the Jeep UI side, I've been using the car for 4 days and still haven't figured out how to turn the radio off but keep the screen and turn by turn directions running.

While I haven't tried it, Osmand recently added support for Open Street Maps on Android Auto. I'm hopeful the experience is decent, but not willing to pay for it at the moment.
Congratulations on the release! Building a game to some often elusive sense of completion is harder than some think. You should feel proud and take some time to bask in the nice feeling of finally having it out there.
There is a tremendous amount of literature on the very early mythology of the human race still being discovered today in the Sumerian tablets
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The first week I had the Quest I thought it was the most game changing device of my entire life. Especially during the pandemic it was incredible to transport to another world. I was long a nay-sayer on VR but then completely changed my mind, I couldn't shut up to all my friends about how incredible an experience it was...

That wore off less than a month later. Even in a house it takes up too much space to use. Using it too much still gives me a headache. Plus being teleported to another world, while amazing at first, does feel isolating after too much use. I have put orders of magnitude more time into playing switch on my couch than my Oculus (which collects dust in my basement) and I got my switch a few months ago.

The most damning thing though is how little interest there is in VR by the broader gaming community. I never hear anyone on major gaming sites or youtube channels mention VR other than brief, occasional mentions when talking PC performance.

Outside of the tech community nobody I know at all cares about VR in the slightest. The Oculus is a huge step forward, but after having been so excited about it, I'm even more convinced that it will never really take off.