skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can a skin from say an Unreal engine game be copied over to and used in a Unity engine game?

With difficulty, yes. If you have the asset in the creator tools, rather than just inside the game as a game user, it's straightforward. There's some standardization in this area, and it's getting better. There are now open formats. Look up "GLTF" and "USD" formats. Until about two years ago, most content was interchanged in proprietary formats, but we're now past that. The Khronos Group, which standardized Vulkan, is behind this standardization effort.

Currently, you can usually move rigid objects from one platform to another, but articulated skeletons and scripted objects need manual rework to port.

"Ripping" models from games is a thing. There are tools.

NFTs do not enable asset portability. They are part of a DRM system. The goal of the DRM is to prevent more asset portability than someone wants. This only works if the receiving system pays attention to the DRM. There's no technical obstacle right now to finding the JPEG for a Bored Ape Yacht Club and printing it as a poster for your wall. But you won't be able to mint it as a new NFT and sell it on OpenSea, because OpenSea checks.
It’s not completely impossible that something doesn’t interact with the electromagnetic force… somewhere we’re missing something something.
Yes. You will likely see a maximum theoretical speed of about 600mbps (like WiFi). In practice it will be much slower, maybe half. It’s noise shooting through atmosphere, so there will be physical limitations.
> If terrorism was being stopped, would you even know it? Said differently, maybe it is working. If it was, what would be the way that you would know that it is working?

The government would never pass up an opportunity for good PR. They openly cheer when they assassinate foreign enemies don't forget, even when they're government officials.
This is an extremely good point, thank you for recognizing it.

In the lead up to WW2, Nazis in Germany appealed to the ailing rural population by telling them the Jews, Marxists, social democrats, feminists, and intellectuals were the reason they struggled.

I suppose I don't have to draw the modern US connections. I don't have to say replace Jews with globalists or George Soros or the media or Hollywood. Like we all see the similarities, right?

Yes, rural America is suffering. I grew up in rural America. The people are being misled into focusing their ire on immigrants, BLM, CRT, and transpeople. Sometimes I wish I could shake them and tell them while they're fuming over an imaginary culture war, their politicians are grifting them out of their donations and using the levers of government to make their suffering worse. But that ever growing suffering just provides a hotter fire to feed more grievances to.

Don't get me wrong, Democrats have been pro-corporation and offshored jobs just as much, but they've certainly done more for lower income people than Republicans. If you look at the extremes of both parties, Bernie's or AOC's policies would do far more for them than MTG or Matt Gaetz's. Sadly, contesting the 2020 election is more important to their 2022 vote than actual tangible plans to improve their economic conditions. Oh sure they'll give lip service to the grievances of soaring fuel prices or inflation, but not a one will give a tangible plan to do anything about it.

And that's where I'm at. I know rural people have real grievances. I just haven't seen a way to connect them to electing people who instead focus on improving those real grievances rather than feeding them imaginary grievances to get outraged over.
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> let's try it your way this time

I've never understood why people go along with things they disagree about. It seems people often beat a good argument with the threat of retribution if we dont play along. Doesnt sound like a recipe for well thought out actions or incentives.
Funny story - I got ambitious and tried running a few Samsung Galaxy phones a few years back, having been a long time iPhone person. Generally there was a lot to like about the Android platform. So long as you didn't mind being a 2nd class citizen to app developers who put their energy first and secondly into the iPhone app (if they made an Android version at all).

You know what drove me back to Apple? Text messaging with Apple people, group texts that never worked right, I'd send pix/videos to my friends and look like an idiot with a crap phone.

"But you guys should just get WhatApp!!" I told them... "But we have iMessage and it works just fine".

Apple isn't going to change this. It's not a bug. This is 100% intentional. You want good text messaging experience with your Android pals? You tell them to get a damn iPhone and be done with it. Thats what my friends told me and I did it.
I agree that there are other issues such as huge loans from China ( belt&road is a economic catastrophe where deployed), tourism drop due to covid and a 2019 bombing etc

That said the ESG actions is clearly correlated in the data with 1/3 of farmland laying dormant in 2021, crop losses and yield issues. Many of us won’t forget Sri Lanka was touted by WEF as a ESG poster child before it went south.

This article links to supporting data

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-dogma-behi...
The thing is that sometimes people are right about a thing, and they know it, but they're not good at debate or arguing.

Other people are good at arguing and they often win debates, but in this hypothetical instance they are wrong.

I see this happen all the time, but I don't see anyone talk about it. Like your ability to think logically and express logical arguments doesn't 100% correlate with your knowledge, experience and intelligence, and just because you win every argument doesn't mean you're right every time.

That's why it's important to back down in arguments, we're all human and we all make mistakes.
Hearing it was wired to the ground I thought, “maybe the computer isn’t properly grounded by it’s usual means and this switch fixed the ground”.
The difficulty with gifted/talented education is that offering it requires inherently accepting that some people are not gifted/talented (or, at a minimum, less gifted/talented).

This is a very unpopular idea in the current culture.
So.. about that hiring freeze/slowed revenue growth/etc. Glad to see they still have bandwidth for this kind of stuff (not sarcasm)
Not to forget that neutrinos also do not have an electric charge, i.e. also do not couple to photons directly.
Ask HN: Returning to a Previous Job
I screwed up by leaving a cushy big tech job for a start-up five months after starting. This was eight months ago.

Basically, I'm wondering if I have to interview again, or if they'll just take me back. Has anyone gone through the process of going back to a previous big corporate employer?
Not a wrong target at all. Streaming is pretty much a solved problem now and Netflix is competing mostly on content.
Apple is incentivized not to solve this because presently app creators can hijack these links to open in their own native code app, provided:

1. they have paid to join the apple developer program

2. they have validated ownership of their URL's domain with apple

3. they have submitted to all of the censorship requirements of the apple App Store (failure to do this one is what destroyed Tumblr and the Hong Kong anti-police protester app, you may recall)

4. they pay apple a cut of their sales

5. they buy mac workstations for all of their iOS mobile developers, to run xcode

Apple actually has a vested interest in apps supplanting the web, and has little incentive to improve web security features because Apple would prefer that new businesses simply use native iOS apps for everything (which sells more iPhones and locks both development investment as well as user eyeballs to their hardware).
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LineageOS currently supports 179 models, so it's not a copy of the LineageOS device list.[1][2] These projects support different selections of devices. There are devices that are supported by /e/ and not by LineageOS, and vice versa.

[1] https://www.lineageoslog.com/statistics

[2] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Yeah, building Netflix when they first got into streaming was a massive technical undertaking. There were a lot of companies who tried very hard to do streaming video who just never got it to work well enough. Building a Netflix clone is still certainly not trivial by any means, but it's probably an order of magnitude less work than it was ten years ago. When they first shifted into original content production it didn't make sense for HBO to even try to compete with them, but those days are clearly long one.
What happens in Playwright with sites using CAPTCHAs?

I had been occasionally scraping a site via curl, but then they started using Cloudflare's anti-bot stuff.

I switched to Selenium and that worked for a while--my Selenium script would navigate to the site, pause to let me manually deal with Cloudflare, and then automatically grab the data I wanted. But then that stopped working.

I found a Stack Overflow answer that gave some settings in Selenium to make it not tell the site's JavaScript that the browser was being automated and that briefly made things happy, but not too long afterwards that broke. There's a Selenium Chrome drive available that is meant for scraping which apparently tries to hide all evidence that the browser is being automated, but it didn't fool Cloudflare.

What I want is a browser-based automation tool that to the site is indistinguishable from a human browsing, except possibly by the timing of user actions. E.g., if the site can deduce it is being automated because the client responds faster than human reaction time, or with too little variation in response time, that's fine.
ADSL is magic. It can run over wet string:

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...

If only they’d replace the ancient phone lines around here with wet string! Until then, I’ll continue to get my internet via multi-mile air gaps.
it will be something similar to dvbs2. not even close to the Shannon limit since it's extremely power-limited. MFTDMA.
Happy to pay it forward. It was in a similar thread a few months ago that I found it.
I prefer not to use app if the same service is available through website. And those services that are not available through websites, they rarely involve any hyperlink to a third party. This may change in future if many essential services ditch their websites and switch exclusively to app. That's one of my nightmares.
I know I can make an API endpoint in Rails equally as fast as writing a query in GraphQL and the code needed to use it. I don't really buy into GraphQL yet since I have not come across a strong enough advantage of using it in my carrier. Although I do see the advantage of basically being able to run SQL through the browser. Unfortunately it is just one of may technologies over hyped by JavaScript developers.
What I always love about these statements from CEOs is that if there is a culture of poor performance or whatever, it is actually the companies and the CEOs themselves who are doing a poor job. Ultimately, the performance of the company is a reflection of what the CEO puts in.

I like how these CEOs never talk about leaving, even thought they're usually a big part of the problem.
My neighborhood in Houston would be perfect for this.
There is also very little consequence for the gov and very little recourse for the citizen in practice. In the event that someone has the resources to challenge the government, any victory is blunted by the award coming from their (and all of our) tax dollars.
Because sometimes people aren't going to agree. Now what? somebody's going to have to go along, aren't they? The person who is the most bull-headed about not giving in isn't actually more likely to turn out to be right.

And because I know I might be wrong even though I don't think I am, I've been mistaken about that before, that's literally what being wrong is. Sometimes when I'm wrong I am not going to realize it for days/weeks/months. So why fight it to the death? Only when the consequences seem especially vital, not every damn time!

I am still not advocating pretending to think something you don't. You do not have to pretend you agree with the other person or lie about what you think. But I am advocating some humility. (I definitely do not always exhibit it myself, for anyone reading this who knows me; I do consider it one of my faults; I am writing here as a reminder for myself too).

I actually think it's important to set up a culture where everyone doesn't have to agree -- we all acknowledge we will sometimes embark on a course of affairs that everyone doesn't agree with, and you don't need to pretend you agree. People will disagree, and sometimes we still need to move forward. I actually fully agree that a culture where people have to pretend to agree in order to move forward is dishonest and harmful. And that's generally the real-world outcome of expecting nobody ever to "go along" with something they disagree with.
They need to mic the contestants and mechnical keyboard sponsors to provide some boards.
Well, to some approximation, in general relativity, matter=gravity generator. (And dark=not interacting with photons enough that we can see it)
Yes that is the one strength I think GraphQL has that should be undeniable even though I am not a proponent of GraphQL myself.
Moonwalking on a curved surface eh?
I mostly know people with it in the SF bay area, which is reportedly very oversubscribed. Unfortunately, that may be the experience everyone gets once the network saturates at this price point.
>scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for.

It absofuckinglutely is the direction they're going for. MS Flow, Teams and Sharepoint integration, upgrades to simultaneous-editing-documents-in-the-browser... the main problem is that they're trying to go too big too quickly which is causing hiccups especially from MS Teams, and also that anyone that doesn't use Excel seriously is already on Google Sheets with no real reason to migrate.
Of course they do. I’m just wondering when the last two decades of RBOF funding (which had no apparent effect) is going to be returned to the federal government.
Sometimes you want to preserve or build a relationship and the cost of going along with a bad idea is outweighed by the value of the relationship.

Sometimes the worst case outcome isn’t very bad and will be quickly uncovered.

Sometimes you acknowledge that though you’re sure you’re right, there’s the possibility that you are not.
This Cute Feature Summarizes Why I Prefer Mac to Windows and Linux
Disney passes Netflix subscriber count
Disney’s DTC subscribers to 221.1 million in total, which means that “the company’s streaming services combined now surpass Netflix in total subscribers. Netflix reported 220.67 million total global subscribers”
> Both introduce a new, hard-to-observe-with-current-technology entity which explains observations better than any other theory we've came up with. MOND doesn't explain structure formations or lower rotational speed galaxies

DM's failures are more numerous, and it has to be extended with new assumptions to account for other observations. MOND's predictions fair better as favourable evidence actually [1].

[1] From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm
It can happen either way I think. The reverse is framing Amazon but overlaying an evil credit card input invisibly on top of Amazon's.
This is the REAL conversation that needs to be happening.
God. Every once in a while I think 'I should go back to a FAANG', and then comments like this remind me of how soul-sucking and toxic it is.
I activated an account on each of the three services, but I would guess that Disney gets money for all four. But even if they do, Disney probably doesn't make the same revenue on these accounts than they would if they were from four independent people subscribing directly.
Another good bet. I should have bought stock before they launched.
Sabine Hoffensteder had apparently the same intuition as you and set out to develop a theory of dark matter as being anti-gravitating matter. It didn’t work out…

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/11/does-anti-gravity-...

> Because I had this idea that anti-gravitating matter could surround normal galaxies and push in on them. Which would create an additional force that looks much like dark matter. Normally the excess force we observe is believed to be caused by more positive mass inside and around the galaxies. But aren’t those situations very similar? More positive mass inside, or negative mass outside pushing in? And if you remember, the important thing about dark energy is that it has negative pressure. Certainly if you have negative energy you can also get negative pressure somehow.

> So using anti-gravitating matter to explain dark matter and dark energy sounds good at first sight. But at second sight neither of those ideas work. The idea that galaxies would be surrounded by anti-gravitating matter doesn’t work because such an arrangement would be dramatically unstable. Remember the anti-gravitating stuff wants to clump just like normal matter. It wouldn’t enclose galaxies of normal matter, it would just form its own galaxies. So getting anti-gravity to explain dark matter doesn’t work even for galaxies, and that’s leaving aside all the other evidence for dark matter.

She goes into a lot more detail in the video (the blog post is just a transcript), but hearing her describe the thought process is interesting because she spent a lot of time on this theory (I’m assuming after she got her phd), so you’re in good company for coming to this initial conclusion at least :)
A lot of the comments seem to focus on ICs/devs, but for me the people who fit the category of person being discussed are managers, people who basically do nothing and don't contribute anything of value.
You've hit the nail on the head, and I think many people who have struggled with substance abuse disorders would agree: You can't fix whats inside by changing the outside... sure maybe changing external circumstance can help nudge you in the right direction, but it wont fix anything. Recovering drug addicts don't magically become functioning members of society just because they stopped using drugs... They do a lot of internal work, and find happiness within themselves, not within their surroundings or substances (or they go back to abusing drugs and die an addict).

If you are interested in any of this I highly recommend reading about the psychology of drug addiction more, because it is so very relevant to anyone and everyone at the end of the day (and very related to what you're speaking about). Even non-addicts can learn a lot about themselves and how to be happy, by learning how recovering drug addicts do it. If a formerly homeless heroin addict can find his way to happiness and 6 figure income, why wouldn't your average person not want to learn more about that journey for their own benefit? This is why a lot of recovering addicts wind up being more effective at life than the average person IF they managed to overcome addiction and stay sober. Overcoming addiction is like a master class in effectively living life, being happy, and overcoming anything. Its unfortunate that so few make it, but there's a lot be learned from it.
Meta does a lot of cool stuff. The problem is that it's probably 1% of the teams.
The BBC reporting only mentions a lawsuit targeting OnlyFans, with subpoenas for Meta, and quotes hinting at more to come.

According to OP, Meta is now also a defendant.
Hell, what about skins/etc that already have a licensing agreement? If I buy a Star Wars skin for Fortnite, there’s a bunch of deals Epic’s made with Disney to be allowed to have Darth Vader and friends in their game, as well as a bunch of back-and-forth until Disney’s licensing department has approved of the model and every possible action it can be made to take. If that skin is an NFT that I can theoretically take to Street Fighter, then suddenly Capcom has Darth Vader in there without any deal with Disney, quite possibly doing things the licensing department would never approve of.

(This is of course assuming some theoretical process where the NFT has a bunch of data attached that makes it Just Work, instead of it requiring Capcom to sink a bunch of development time into making assets for characters that can only be unlocked by having paid money to another company entirely.)
> To cut to the chase, his theory only applies to galactic dynamics and it doesn't even do a very good job at it. There are many other aspects that MOND doesn't address.

There are many more that DM doesn't address, or only addressed by extending it with parameters to fine-tune the result, a process which can also be done with MOND. I hate to keep posting this, but it's a good thorough review of the evidence for/against both DM and MOND, and DM does not fair as well as you imply:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm
Teslas are safer per mile driven than other cars. NHTSA gives them 5-star safety ratings. Banning this technology by being suckered in by a coordinated smear campaign will result in more deaths if successful. The lives you end may be your families' or mine.
Same. I’m honestly kind of stunned
This is why I prefer working for smaller companies. Your work makes a big difference. You have a big say in the future of the company, and chances to learn something new come quickly.
You are talking about private wealth held in things like bank accounts, etc. These are always subordinate to the actual sovereign owners of the property. I think those who can ultimately control final disposition of resources are far richer.

The Medicis actually ran Florence. If you're wealthy in Russia or China or the USA today, you don't actually get to decide what happens with your biggest assets, push comes to shove, that's up to Putin or Xi or the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Unless you have an army, you're not really "rich" in the way people have used that term for the last few thousand years.
I have no idea what they think they are preparing for, but it sounds like the kind of people who want a new civil war. And those people tend to be bad.
> You're assuming the negative. Your spouse can be a huge overall help in achieving happiness

I am not assuming anything, but explaining that, in theory, one could decide to have or not to have a spouse to increase their happiness — if they could reasonably deduce what the outcome would be, which they can't.

I was mostly tongue-in-cheek in relation to a spouse: that's a "poorly defined problem" that, according to the article, intelligence does not help with.

> It's not that simple

Oh, agreed. But we are talking about averages, and there is a known correlation between intelligence and financials.

Statistics, unfortunately, never says anything special about any single case.
My guess is they used the wrong background music over the back half and had to mute it for copyright reasons.
I might be misunderstanding it, but microg is not (like the name suggests) a stripped down version of the google services. It is a reimplementation of the APIs that the google services provide to installed apps. It doesn't reuse any code (it couldn't, because the google services are not open source) and doesn't connect to google servers, afaik.
This to me indicates there is a serious cultural problem in the police force, where they think this kind of policing is okay. We do not want the kind of people on the front line who think this behaviour is acceptable or beneficial for society.