skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me they've got things branded incorrectly. Don't make a prediction market. Make a PasteIt.

Think about it, you're trying to get people to process and offer up unknown information, right? Focus on that.

It's bounties for verifiable information. Not predicting, or a game of chance. You pay for information to be brought up that you would never have thought to look for.

If you do it that way, you're completely sidestepping the issue of providing a gambling primitive. You're just incentivizing data collection and dumping. The outcome becomes secondary, the context generated maintains primacy, and I wager what markets are really interested in is looking at highly accurate predictors and trying to infer what channels of information they're privy to in order to expand data observation pipelines.

Unless these "prediction markets" really are just some high brow word for gambling parlors. Then again, I always figured that was all futures and derivatives trading were, yet there is a staunch refusal to classify them as such.
I bought the iPhone SE partly because I find the swipes from the bottom confusing to use too.
Same. I read almost every nix-related post that I see pop up on HN. I want to be convinced. I have not yet been. It seems like `brew install` with (many) extra steps, with little meaningful gain.
I worked concession at Woodstock 99 (and 94) for a non-profit. Woodstock’s management, to maximize their profits, required attendees to exchange their currency for wooden scrip which they’d use to purchase merchandise from vendors. The non-profits would get allocated food and beverages to sell. However they didn’t plan for there to be enough vendors or change boxes to meet the demand. Lines grew extremely long. And, riots would break out because people wouldn’t have enough water and food. To deal with the riots, the management would just shut down all of the vendors and take their change boxes. I would have this parched mob groping me for water, but had no means of exchange. Customers just started throwing $20s and $50s at us just for bottles of water. We didn’t know what to do, we were just kids. But it made sense to keep taking their money just so we wouldn’t get mobbed.
Why tho?

Sure, there are some converters that are notably, notoriously small (Namiki Vanishing Point converters are infamous for this), but in those cases it's simple to use carts instead. (In the Namiki case, the carts last weeks and weeks.)
Blind was released in 1994. The albums Follow the Leader (1998) and Issues (1999). Not really important, just clarifying to be pendantic.
I'm a fan, I'd even ban mac/apple stuff if I could from my place of work.
It's clear corporations are seeking more and more intrusive control of our applications both business and personal.

A large and popular software vendor we have used for 7 years has approached us recently and wants to charge us a variable amount depending how integral their product is to our business.

Now management understands the threat, and we are shifting resources to convert things to FOSS, and build up the software community more.
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
they traded innocence for humility and tolerance
What agency do we have? Consumer choice only goes as far as the options available. What computer or phone can you buy that isn’t made under dubious or known-bad labour conditions? The option of no phone or no computer is only generally an option if you have the money to not require a job at all
I don't know how similar this is to Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs), but I've owned a house constructed that way and it had considerably better insulation than any stick built I've owned.
Sounds like a perfect app for PHP.
Yeah, but a roomba can debunk an alibi from last tuesday, and (as a bonus for prosecutors) probably isn’t great at avoiding mistaken identities.
A new search tool to help control your online presence
Lua is lovely, its Scheme in an Algol disguise.
Fennel is lovely, it puts a clojure disguise over the Algol disguise.
> Now that china is producing more greenhouse gasses than every other developed country combined...

Source?
Gas pumps.

Nevermind the Cheddar News of the pump, that's its own separate nightmare, but I just want gas. I put my card in, you give me gas. Skip the receipt prompt, skip the carwash prompt, and no I don't have a rewards card.
Especially UUID7, it it becomes standard, ULID won't be necessary anymore, unless you want a shorted text representation.

But ULID exists right now, UUID7 is still in the making.
It's nice that there is a workaround, but passing build options is not something that should require a library. There should be a well documented standard way to do it.
Godot is becoming the game engine of the internet. It checks all the boxes.

- Open Source

- Cross Platform

- Frequent updates

- Easy to learn in a weekend

- You can use almost any programming language with it

- Godot 4.x has beautiful graphics

- Godette
Yeah, I think it is.

I never went all in on GTD, but some principles stuck with me: key is having a trusted system where I can capture things that will then SHOW me those things when I need to see them.

I used Omnifocus for a while, but eventually migrated to OrgMode as a better fit for my life (even though I'm not really an emacs person overall).
I don't understand how anyone can enjoy themselves in crowds that big. It sucks! Maybe it's just because I'm short, but being in between that many people is just not fun at all, no matter who's performing. You're totally surrounded by strangers who are bumping into you the entire time and it's way too easy to get separated from your friend group.
As a consumer, I don't give a damn about these companies copying each other, I just want better products. But yeah, if I worked at iRobot I would be annoyed.
You're never going to get the same coverage with some test VMs compared to people actually using the product on their primary machine every day.
i remember it was really really hot and water was basically like demand priced and then i think there basically a handful of porta-potties for everyone. Everyone was already miserable and then a couple bands whipped things up, things just broke down, and everyone went nuts. I remember the MTV people live on-air having to run off stage because people started throwing rocks and batteries or something at them. I may be remembering wrong, that was a long time ago.
There seems to be a lot of evidence that everything we cover up in a society becomes a sex symbol.
Yes, that is totally allowed. It is trivial to find products with the confederate flag printed on them.
The US heavily supported Taiwan before they were a democracy (first free elections in 1995; before that they were a military dictatorship). Our support seems to be geostrategic and for capitalism (or in other cases for access to natural resources), with democracy being ancillary. Saudi Arabia is one of our biggest allies.

If Taiwan didn't have anything to offer they'd have to rely on Brad Pitt or something instead of the US military, like Tibet.
I was at Woodstock '99, and I was fine. Things were hot, expensive. Moby asked everyone to pick up trash, I saw some good bands, I saw some bad bands, it was a long drive home.

As far as crazy events in my life, it barely registered. 9/11 wasn't long after and nothing could impact you like living through that. Hell, being in a band touring the country had more crazy things happen then just going to some dumb pop festival.
That article is using median pay as the data point.

It is possible the 0% to 20% or even 30% are experiencing gains, while 30% to 60% are not.

It is hard or impossible to find data by income/wealth decile, and the corresponding change in prices (inflation) of that income/wealth decile's basket of goods.'

For example, the people that work in retail/hotel/travel/etc sector that typically employs the lowest paid employees with the worst quality of life at work may very well be experiencing huge gains, although not all captured by wage data, such as better quality of life at work due to not having to work late weeknights or weekends, etc.

It is a difficult thing to capture in numbers.
Ask Amazon https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...
I think YouTube comments have a bug like this right now. On Windows I frequently see a giant horizontal scrollbar across some comments that doesn't even move, or moves very little.
Patent Act requires an inventor to be a natural person, not an AI [pdf]
I think I remember better now. It was Friedman discussing the notion of some iPad app that could be used to learn and educate, adapting to the user, etc. Stephenson replied that he had indeed written a whole book about it (Diamond Age).
Microsoft Windows with AzureAd and Intune provides a suite of tools for managing your fleet of laptops at little to no additional cost. It's honestly so much for free that running any other suite of laptops becomes arduous and expensive. It all just works out of the box and it's easy to bolt things on. The viruses and malware argument is ludicrous if you do any amount of end point protection.

Apple is a walled garden. Everything is a degree of difficulty or two harder and you often run into weird ecosystem shit like some aspects of laptop mdm registration only working if the user has an iPhone. The tooling is 5-10 years behind, non-existent, or expensive because the third parties know they got you by the short and curlies.

Linux is a build your own from open source ecosystem and what understaffed overworked IT team has time for that. I mean Google manages their Linux laptop fleet by rolling their own distro. Never mind all the compatibility issues with other required tooling that may or may not work.

Some of these issue may have been easier to conquer in OnSite roles where laptops could be dropped at an IT cage but for full remote the Windows ecosystem has just gained more ground because of the iceberg of features most users never see.
Xiaomi also has working home assistant integration. I have mine set up to start vacuuming when everyone leaves the apartment.
I agree with 99% of this but with one caveat - the people at the top are simply unaffected by any of this, so don't need to do anything about it and they don't see or think about people that the decline does affect. My father recounts when he met someone who was very private and mindbogglingly rich - my dad asked the question "do you ever feel guilty when you meet poor people?" and his response was "I don't ever meet them" - because he didn't and so he never thought of it.

I work in Fitzrovia and every day I walk past rich people in the cafes and restaurants just chatting the day away- the food is good, the company similar, the expensive car parked illegally close by (parking tickets are a minor inconvenience, rack up on their windscreens and those types of cars never get towed) and for some reason, the homeless and poor aren't visible (perhaps the police deal with that).

Elysium does exist, but it's tiered - there's nice parts of London which are suitable at the moment, and if it starts to feel like that's a bit too gritty or real, they'll move to the South of France or Monte Carlo which really is Elysium on Earth.

The need to do something about this exists within the middle and working classes and they don't have much of a chance to do so.
As I was reading this I felt that it overlapped and complemented the C4 approach in a lot of places. There's even a superficial connection: C4 is contained in the title!
Unless Godot has solved the problem of forward compatibility of binary asset bundles with compiled assets, then what's true of Unity is true of Godot: the cost of your engine upgrade is proportional to your reliance on existing assets.

It may just be a recompile. It's may be that the upgrade requires more, a whole art pass before recompile. Maybe there's mods you don't have the source for, that you can't upgrade at all.
I started buying custom printed notebooks from the scientific journal companies. For $10 a journal you can get a very niche hard cover journal, with page numbers (if you like), plain, ruled or grid paper, and embossed with your name (or whatever). It's so satisfying. Combine that with a nice fountain pen and ink and it's quite the experience.

It's my proffered way to take notes, think through problems.
I do not see why this has to be true. Change in prices (inflation) is very different for different people or groups of people, because the goods and services they buy are very different.
Sure, but you can today buy more expensive products that are not made in China if that's of concern to you. Of course there are some products for which there are no alternatives right now, but that doesn't stop you from making economic decisions that align with your stated values. Continuing to buy Chinese products and then saying you have no agency because some nebulous entity made a decision for you is just cognitive dissonance.
Wow haven't seen kerrang in a long time. Many fond memories!
ah! you had the solution all along!
> China is more than willing to manipulate cultural messages with money, so we need some kind of cultural counter to that.

No we don't. China may act peeved that foreign companies are virtue signalling, but they'd secretly relish at the opportunity of finding an excuse to boycott or ban these foreign products, so that their wealth stays circulating in their domestic economy. Look at what happened to Nike and H&M after they voiced concerns about Xinjiang. The CPC organized consumer boycotts of these companies, but happily allowed factories to continue to sell their goods to sell to them. China itself recognizes that it only makes sense to virtue signal when it is economical to do so.

The NBA and Blizzard made the correct decision to kowtow to China, economically as well as morally. Getting them kicked out of China does not help Hong Kong, but would threaten to free world as the balance of trade would make us even more beholden to China. In a complicated, globalized world, marginal thinking is the only option.
> Kerrang

Now that’s a name I thought lost to the mists of time
like 20 different sources.

I nag my service reps about it. I"m sure it's been filed in your jira.
Low water levels mean Rhine is days from being shut for cargo
Right but I'm saying they could implement force touch, or whatever they are calling "press and hold", on the iPad since it's not 3D touch dependant but for some reason they don't and it's maddening.
market forces and inflation will force corporations to look for domestic productions. short term pain for long term gain.
I had the very first iphone and several after that before the touch thing... Long press was always the way to do that, and I never had a problem deleting hundreds of apps - I'd even released a few of my own iphone apps at that point.

Then I couldn't delete apps at all, but turning off 3d touch fixed it. Perhaps a coincidence, or some other bug. Terrible UX though.
> beautiful graphics

Doesn't that depend entirely upon the artwork used in the game?
I go grocery shopping once a week for my family. I'm not carrying home all of those groceries. You can count me in the < 10% preferring the latter. Our very good grocery store is about a half mile away. I drive about 5 miles to get a majority of our stuff at Costco, and on the way home I stop at the grocery store for the very few items that make sense to get there.
> I am often frustrated that I cannot edit a URL in the address bar

On an iPhone? You've always been able to do that...
Because rich people can’t handle middle class people having the upper hand when it comes to employment and wages for even six months.
So OP can't shame Apple for this moral behavior because others buy Apple's product?

Would you apply that same standard and does it hold up to other scenarios?

If people were buying textile products from the slave trade, would you say "perhaps" when other (or the same) people shamed those industries for supporting slave labor?

If people were buying nuts and fruit from exploited migrant workers, would you still be able to shame the industries for better conditions or to hire minimal wage workers?

If people were buying cobalt or lithium mined from child slaves would you be able to shame those industries into sourcing minerals in a more humane way even though people buy EVs?

Or because people bought those products those companies/industries have immunity from criticism?

You cannot avoid products made in China because of the current status quo for the same reasons you couldn't avoid textiles made with slave cotton.

That doesn't mean you can't advocate change to the status quo.
thanks. If we can eliminate the costs and upkeep of hive in gcp, it would make my life easier for sure.
How could you possibly forget Life is Peachy?
You can't even do strcpy(malloc(strlen(x)+1), x) because it doesn't check that malloc succeeded. strdup does all of this for you! :-)
> a mopping vacuum bot with actual rotating mop scrubbers, AI vision obstacle avoidance, LIDAR mapping, and most importantly fully automated water fill & mop pad cleaning at the base station.

And here I am using a broomstick 5 min every day... I feel like we're going to hit the great filter pretty soon
So you can use different inks other than compatible carts?
I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" section.

Another consequence of the redesign, much worse than useless dates, is that you get completely useless results just because the same "related post" (the title of which Google happens to deem "relevant") appears over and over again at the bottom of different pages.

To get around this you can search for "site:old.reddit.com" or "site:i.reddit.com". One downside is you get fewer results.
Surprising Mac Features That I Discovered Recently
It allows for more volume. The converters or cartridges take up real estate in the pen with their mechanisms. This alternate approach takes up all that space with ink.
Its incorrect, but besides the USA China does produce the most. Both of us gotta get our acts together
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Yeah. They've open sourced OpenVDB and other smaller things before, and have contributed things to Embree and OpenSubDiv, but those were libraries/storage formats, not entire production-capable renderers.

At the same time however, does their renderer give them that many advantages? As someone who works on a (sort of) competing proprietary renderer, it's a lot of work and effort to do it and support it, and maybe they want to build a community around that from smaller studios and compete with Renderman a bit for mindshare?
Unless the previous employer is known to fire underperforming employees quickly, and willing to explicitly say so during reference checks, how does a prospective employer know whether a candidate's $n years in $company is a productive one or not?

So you haven't seen underperforming people survive at large famous companies for multiple years? Are you sure you have that much experience in $bigco? How old are you really, since you say the GP is "young"? I wouldn't be so patronizing to others if I were you.
It seems to me that it is.

I find it productive, probably because it helps me collect the various ideas and notes from things I've read into a single place, and is a good mindfulness practice.
BlenderBot 3: A 175B parameter, publicly available chatbot
Seriously? The languages couldn't be more different, and the complex semantics of Python makes for lots of pitfalls for the unwary novice to fall into, even in foundational language features where BASIC-like languages are generally quite simple and transparent.
Oh jeez... that's gotta be exactly what happened to me, and why turning off the 3d touch setting fixed it.
I'm not sure exactly who "we" is, but I've spent more than a reasonable amount of time on the internet for years and don't recall having seen either picture.
Thanks, that's very kind of you.

I'm using an open source calendar component to visualize my agenda. I have various types of events I'm showing (scheduled work items, events and completed items). I'm having a difficult time deciding on a color scheme.

Upcoming events should be emphasized. Completed work items are useful information ("I finished this") but they should be least noticeable.

I'll play around with both your color scheme and the references you provided just to see if something sticks.
You are right. I think what I misremembered you guys changed was that WORDS became optional unless you wrapped each one of them inside double quotes which became super annoying.
I replaced a broken display on a friend's ASUS laptop several years ago (which she had bought a few years before that at my recommendation) and found that one of the display hinge screws went right through the wifi antenna cable. "Oh yeah," she said when I pointed it out. "The wifi reception's never been very good." I put in a replacement antenna and cable from a parts laptop I had around and it worked much better.

That was the moment I realized that most consumer hardware is crap (even well-respected brands), and it can be difficult and expensive to try to find something that's not. I no longer recommend any specific brands to people.
Watch the Netflix documentary, you have no idea.
This.

There are a handful of majors that are wide gateways: accounting (NOT finance), the core engineering disciplines, the core sciences, the core humanities (including Math). Choose one of those that matches your interests. Avoid the fashionable majors no matter what. Even CS can be underpowered and CE almost always is (do EE with a CS minor if you can handle the rigor of EE)
It kinda seems like they might be in cahoots with Microsoft to compete with AWS Nimble.

https://aws.amazon.com/nimble-studio/
oh no. How long until Amazon implements the house mapping tech iRobot got in trouble for even mentioning? [1]

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/your-roomba-could-be-silently-m...
I think three.js is that.

- All of the above except language

- Library rather than engine

I've had really good luck with it versus Babylon or Unity.
Chrome doesn't use the system codecs. That means you would have to pay separately to use a (hypothetical) HEVC decoder distributed with Chrome.
Being neuro-atypical, I understand the desire to be "technically correct, the best kind of correct". It would be so much better if we used each word for their exact meaning.

But that's not how most human communication work. When people say "I cannot come tomorrow", they usually don't mean they can't. If you gave them one billion dollars to come, chances are they would.

This is a fairly common convention, and most people in the English language are using this approximation and assumption.

You can chose to ignore it of course.

I consider I've done my part in this conversation, and wish you a nice day.
Agree.

Quite visible at least here: https://youtu.be/hWrFEU_605g?t=105
Godot is a fantastic project.

But, I really wish it was written in something other than C++. I really can't bring myself to go back to programming C++ again after a decade away using more recent languages like Go and Rust. I even find deciphering the types of variables to be painful when reading C++ code these days.
I've watched the Netflix documentary and as someone who was 20 in 1999 I can only say that it played out exactly as expected considering the 90s, the bands and the organisation. It's really all on the organisers and it was shocking that they still completely refuse to acknowledge any responsibilities.

Now, I obviously wasn't there in 1969 but it's also possible that things like sexual assaults went unreported at the time because, realistically, people drunk and/or on drugs plus nudity is not the best combination at any time...
Uber is one of the few companies that will significantly burden my life if it goes out of business. I can't imagine having to deal with taxis again.