skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think both your sentences are incorrect.

Tons of AAA game developers make their own engine and therefore work directly with the APIs while making an abstraction layer for their higher level game developers.

Vulkan is also not just Mantle open sourced. It’s a significant deviation from the original Mantle API. Mantle was a starting point but what emerged as Vulkan was quite different.
While we’ve had rnnoise integration for a while it was for “noisy environment” notifications, this is the first time we use it to actually filter audio.

Also audio worklets weren’t a thing when we first introduced it.

I’m not aware of any other open source (and better) models, but if any come up, we’ll certainly check them out!
Quarreled with Amazon over a return, afraid they now ship bad item in revenge
I tried to return a costly item to amazon. They made it almost impossible, procrastinating and deliberately delaying so I would miss the return window.
I finally managed to return the item and get a refund, but only after escalating and spending a week on chats and phonecalls.
I was so aggravated by it all that I deleted my amazon account.
My son has his own amazon account and plans to buy a smartphone. The problem is that we live in the same house, so even though his name, phone number and bank details are different, the house adress is the same.
Will amazon be able to link the house address to my (now deleted) account and the conflict they had with me?
If yes, could it be possible that my son would be targeted by amazon's "revenge" because of this, receiving a faulty/fake/hidden problems item?
I would not like my son to have problems with his purchase, only because I had a conflict with amazon and we happen to share the same house address?!
Any helpful suggestions? Should he buy the smartphone or is it too risky? Did anyone else face this kind of problem before?
Thanks in advance!
Me neither. Immediately makes me disinterested in something that would otherwise be pretty cool.
But car free paths is a deep standard to meet. Pavements (sidewalks) don't quite make it - you still cross roads. Although pretty safely.

A cycle path that is car free is much harder - especially as you get into the elongated roadways of suburbia and car centric towns.

There is a venn diagram with the Strong Towns argument of density and taxable value, the car-agnostic approach of Barcelona or Tokyo and i think the thin sliver of overlap with the modern world looks like car-free paths. A mobility network that is local and human powered and will engender path-side amenities and opportunities to spring up.

Basically, just keeping the current town planning approach, with long car centric roads and amenities and just slapping a cycle path in is not transformative
https://www.wiado.de/taschengeldparagraph-was-ist-das/ has a table. It doesn't look completely unreasonable for Germany. Please note that this is not a law, so if a case goes the court the judge might come to slightly different figures.
In the northern hemisphere, only meat could sustain humans through winter. The cold also kept the meat better longer.

I have to imagine that over a few hundred thousand years the savannah changed as well as the world as a whole. We are probably adapted based on our genetics rather substantially to particular diets.

I can imagine gathering berries and honey would be more common in temperate or tropical climates. But in the colder climates milk, cheese, eggs and meat had to be a larger percentage of the diet.
There are quite a few recommendations for the classics, but if someone doesn't enjoy the slow burn of those deep books, maybe they should start with something lot more dopaminergic: animes and movies!

PsychoPass, Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Attack on Titan.

So, movies. I only saw The Shawshank Redemption a few years ago, and it's really really good. Classic. Human. Touching. I'm not even sure how to characterize it except yes, really go see it, it's really at the top of the power distribution of movies.

12 Angry Men. At this point it's the cliché of old but good movies. At this point it's a satire of a socially interesting movie due to its naivete, yet for someone who seems a bit close minded it might be just the right thing. (Or not? :D)

The Pianist. Again, simple. Brutal. Or the recent Joker.

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But really when it comes to AI and fiction.

Blade Runner. If that's not fiction that's worth investing time into, then what is? Even typing this I've got the chills thinking about Roy Batty.
The steaks have 10+ ingredients, they’re just a step removed. Plenty of plant protein, supplements, etc. in them. The cows just do the processing.
I got good results with photorec. Despit its name, it can recover other file types too. Beware: It takes ages, and finds absolutely everything, including e.g. the browser cache.
> Interesting…maybe we should normalize/de-stigmatize Dev tooling companies to have a ceo who is an eng for the first ~ 3 yrs, and then hiring a replacement (maybe even some early “vp of product person”)

I wasn't aware there was any stigma there. Considering that Gates, Dorsey and Zuckerberg were engineers who wrote code and continued to be CEOs of their companies for very long.
P&V translations are beautifully done. The older Constance Garnett translations are good, though a bit archaic sounding now. I read a very bad translation of Master & Margherita, but it was still worthwhile. Go for the P&V is you can.
TestDisk is a miraculous tool !
I will humbly nominate Bill Hader (Scott Pilgrim).
I'm always hedging against my current employer by having a public presence and building my personal brand.

I don't need to be rich. But I want to have a job I like and work on interesting work. If my current employer has layoffs, my boss is bad, or I have to deal with some crappy situation - I'm always in a position to leave. I like to regularly interview (well really 'take calls/offer advice/talk to people') and get into the habit of advertising my skills.

During a recession this is more important than ever...
FYI, people believe that dev tools don't make money, but atlassian, pagerduty, zendesk, etc show that there is a market.

And most tools kind of suck.
Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video]
There is no evidence that it causes heart disease:

"Collectively, neither observational studies, prospective epidemiologic cohort studies, RCTs, systematic reviews and meta analyses have conclusively established a significant association between SFA in the diet and subsequent cardiovascular risk and CAD, MI or mortality nor a benefit of reducing dietary SFAs on CVD rick, events and mortality. Beneficial effects of replacement of SFA by polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat or carbohydrates remain elusive.
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See study: https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article-abstract/doi...

The point is. There are certain diseases much more prevelant now than in these tribal cultures. Why is that? Less exposure to parasites, food, movement, exposure to chemicals?
If you haven't seen document oriented data work you haven't been looking very hard.
Right, a waste of his time, today. Not yours or anyone else's.

Doesn't literature teach that it's different strokes for different folks? :)

There is no need for anyone to convert others to their hobby of choice - his challenge was a response to you huffing and puffing, not a genuine request.
We have some people racing to create a coherent, memetically transmissable, and generalizable ethical system that includes the rule "Treat beings who are vastly weaker and dumber than you with kindness even if you don't have to," and we have other people racing to create silicon beings vastly more powerful and smarter than us. I'm excited to see who finishes their work first!
Right on, appreciate the clarification, have a good one!
> The bible is a big, heterogeneous book, you can find a bit of everything in it

Concerning the animal question, the Bible is clear and consistent: mankind was supposed to faithfully steward God's creation and all that lives in it. Man has utterly failed, which is why you can't even go in the woods without getting 20 ticks, and practically every plant you find is invasive and not good for food. The present Earth is falling apart, due to man's imperfect sin nature.

The confusion in this discussion arises from a conflation of mainstream Republican thought with what the Bible actually says.

Edit: "God destroys those who destroy the earth." ~ Revelation 11:18. We see a consistent message from the beginning of the Bible (Genesis) to the end.
The most impressive thing to me is creating the case using Python for a CAD.
Episode 2: Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7N4EC20-cM

Summary: Google covers how they use Google’s web crawler to build a threat analysis database, then cover how they protect users from government backed attackers using phishing by providing two-factor authentication.

Response: Strange, seems like offering end-to-end-encryption would likely protect more users from government backed snooping — but then I guess that would mean Google on was not able to snoop on billions of users.

Links related to video:

"Government backed attackers may be trying to steal your password"

- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22government+backed+attacke...
I’ve been into nutrition for a few years now, with my entry point originally being paleo. I have no medical training. Paleo has been shown to be off base, but eating a low carb diet and limiting gluten is a fine diet. Some of the nonsense in nutrition includes:

- Carnivore, the dumbest diet ever created

- Anti seed-oil people

- Anti-soy people

- People who say ketosis can cure anything (and I’m in ketosis)
IBM still exists?
Your statement already fails at the engine-brain analogy. Furthermore the brain controls muscle fibers. More and larger muscles means more muscle fibers to be connected to the brain. Also brain size and body mass simply correlate. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93body_mass_ratio#...
I did a prototype of a 3D low-latency server side mixing system, based on a hypothetical 4k clients, @48k each being mixed with the 64 loudest clients.. Using Opus, forced to Celt mode only and running 256 stereo sample frames at 128kbps.. Worked well, using only 6 cores for that workload.. The mixing was trivial, but the decode and encode of 4k streams was entirely doable.. This issue at that rate was 1.5M network packets a second.. If I was to revisit it, I’d look at using a simple MDCT based codec, with a simple Psychacoustic model based on MPC (minus CVD) and modified for shorter frames + Mdct behaviour versus PQMF behaviour, without any Huffman coding or entropy coding.. And put that codec on the GPU.. Small tests I did using a 1080ti indicated ~1M clients could be decoded, mixed and encoded (same specs as above) problem is then how to handle ~370M network packets a second :)

Edit: Had high hopes for High Fidelity, and came very close to asking for a job there ;) Shame it’s kaput, didn’t know that :(
I don’t know the specific setup, but the app passes you to AAD which passes you to a SAML source (Okta in this instance, but we use Cisco Duo). The SAML provider authenticates you, sets a cookie, then sends you back to AAD, which sets its own cookie, then passes you back to the App. (Or something like that.) if the next app you sign into is an AAD app, you pass through quickly, but if the next app you sign into uses SAML directly you have a cookie set for that as well.

We use AAD for O365 and the few apps that won’t use generic SAML, but everything else uses Duo directly. The reason for this is at our O365 license level we don’t get the ability to restrict access to applications by AD group—everyone or we have to manually manage access account by account.
That's a common complaint about literature. I remmeber one person who wouldn't read fiction because they said "it was just all lies". Literature isn't just a recitation of facts, it reflects the organizing principle of our values. It sparks creativity.

If the classics feel to archaic or they are too inaccessible, you also might try some contemporary authors. Michael Crichton is very accessible. I think his works can be equally inspiring and creative.
> first thought is that it's generated by AI

We're in the Yosemite park bear era of AI: there is considerable overlap between the capabilities of the most intelligent AI and the most stupid humans

... And that's very generous to humans
I binge read Doestoeski at the end of highschool and he remains a major influence on me to this day.

The reason is that, encountering life's most challenging experiences (which are always human in their origin), these novels are like a preset pattern of meditation by which one can find the ground.
I’m fortunate enough to have a an entire set from 1989 that my father bought for me and my older sister. I refuse to get rid of it. At the moment the set is in my old bedroom in my parents house but one day I intend to feature it prominently in my library.. it’s funny how one can get attached like that.
Anyone who makes a statement like that, basically by definition is not thinking in evolutionary timescales. There are always evolutionary pressures, and they are nearly never visible at the kinds of timescales biological individuals operate at.
I don't see how both are different from one another in this context. Feel free to enlighten me.
You may be right, but that’s a sad ordeal: your boss is an arbiter of your social interactions?

That’s not healthy for you (those people), not for society, and especially not for local communities.
Haha snap! Will def check out end of eternity. Happy reading :)
It does seem to do a good job of eliminating noise but it seems like it gets rid of a lot of the signal too. It's much easier to understand the noisy sample than the processed one
It's paradoxical, but a certain amount of irrational behavior can be optimal. Consider the balance between depressive realism (seeing the world so accurately that it eats away at your hope for a better future) and positive illusions, the small lies people convince themselves of that they are better, stronger, smarter, and luckier than they are.

In small amounts, self-deception and avoidance of discomfort are necessary coping mechanisms. Reality is daunting, mysterious, and random; staring into the abyss can cause despair. It's a better strategy to be slightly optimistic, even if there isn't a strong rational basis for that outlook. Taken too far, you get total self delusion, the people who live in their own reality distortion fields, but there are benefits to a modicum of irrational self confidence.
That might be true, but humans have had granaries to store grains and whatever else they can gather, for more than ten thousand years. Whatever the effort was, we know people were gathering grains like corn. You can visit granaries all over the American west. They’re in South America and the Middle East as well, along with some evidence that manual cultivation was taking place ten thousand years ago https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26314333_Evidence_f...
I feel like it is missing one thing: sit next to users and watch them use your software.
There are lots of very popular Microsoft services for consumers including Xbox and Office 365. Combined, these have hundreds of millions of paid subscribers.
Yeah for sure, the autopilot claims and did not come to fruition, for sure, lots of misses when Elon thinks something happens and when it actually will. I don't think personally he's intentionally deceiving the masses.

Not really sure about the hyperloop / train thingy, need to read up more on it.

And BD's robot is not a commercial reality, how many have sold (if we're talking about Atlas and not the dog)? The Cybertruck will start production next year, sure it's behind initial time-schedule but it will be produced and sold in high numbers.
This will also make it harder to unionize. Historically, having your coworkers together in one place was a prerequisite for collective action. If call center workers are atomized, even a thin hope of that will perish.
Fedora Server was created originally to be the upstream for RHEL's server configuration, but Red Hat lost interest very early on, so it drifted away from that.

Red Hat doesn't generally invest in any Fedora deliverable except Fedora CoreOS and Fedora Workstation these days. All Fedora deliverables are community driven and community controlled.
Last I checked, paleo was seriously anti normal potatoes, and very pro sweet-potatoes/yams, with some pseudo-science about the difference being one is a descendant of the nightshade.
This should be a good news, because with DNA test you can find some hereditary diseases, but I’m a bit skeptical about the privacy, in particular when I read things like this: “Mass DNA Collection in the Tibet Autonomous Region from 2016–2022” https://citizenlab.ca/2022/09/mass-dna-collection-in-the-tib...

The law will absolutely have to adapt to these changes.
I love this. I always wonder why I have almost no interest in novels now although I spent my entire youth buried in them. Occasionally I feel guilty. But I think life became the novel?
Canadian wild rice for example gets extremely abundant without simply being eaten by wild animals. That’s likely representative of what similar ecosystems in other areas would have looked like.

In terms of energy gained vs lost harvesting and processing Canadian wild rice using traditional methods is a huge net gain. That said in terms of diet, wild grains have a noticeably different nutritional profile so aren’t a direct analog of of modern agriculture.
That's not exactly right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
Sounds like it takes a true dedication to make and sell lox. A loxsmith, really.
how did it happen that you don't know how to ride a bike? Genuinely curious.
No, they're not. And no, I'm not. And no amount of using coworkers as a crutch for not having a private social life will change that.

There are plenty of reasons why many can't welcome coworkers into your private life. It's a huge discrimination risk.

Aside from that, coupling social needs with employment needs creates a form of codependence with the workplace. You have more incentive to stay at a job that is mistreating you because you'll lose your friends if you leave.

Maybe some people are ok with those dynamics, but I'm personally not, and I'll not have my colleagues forcing it upon me.
I love bikes but also have a car which is an absolute necessity. Simple example: picking up a friend or partner from a medical appointment where they're in a state that would be unsafe for them to ride public transit or even a rideshare. They could pay through the nose for a specialized medical rideshare, or I could just pick them up in my car.
https://www.Didgets.com
Here is a short demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScBd-71OLQ
Milk is for babies.
A rational game becomes very useful (and sane) when its rules are founded in observation (that is to say, it's empirical). That's science. And basically all of our "crafts" (cooking, carpentry, gardening...)

That could spell the difference between sane rational games and crazy rational games right there. That presence or absence of empirical grounding.

And on the flipside, we are all familiar with games that are rigorous, with good logical consistency, but founded on thin air. Dogmatic religion, videogames, fiction...
I read Crime and Punishment when I was in school. I was sixteen years old. It's hard to appreciate classic works at that age. But we were forced to read these books on a compulsory basis. I didn't find anything revolutionary in this book.

Ten years later I experienced a similar enthusiasm as the author of the post while reading the works of Abraham Maslow. I recommend everyone to read at least the last book written by Maslow. The book is non-fiction, but written in first person.

https://archive.org/details/fartherreachesof00masl/mode/2up
I’m not going to defend irresponsible bikers but it’s important to consider that if it was a car they’d potentially be dead.
Yes, my opinion is that both go together somehow...
Strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

https://hackerchess-web.h4ck.ctfcompetition.com/
I agree the situation in many stables is abhorrent.

However. Online im able to get meat from "wild" cows who roam free in certain "nature" areas.
I have mixed feelings around this trend of making “smart cars”.

Will I, in the near future, have to worry even about my car sending a videos of my face while driving to some remote DC for processing and training?

I get the point of safety, but I feel people tend to just focus on whether they can do things instead of thinking whether they should.

In a country like Germany, I’d rather see focus on making better and cheaper mass transportation systems instead of spending billions to make cara smarter (despite the benefits that r&d might bring)
Proton uses DXVK to translate DirectX calls to Vulkan. I don't know if that counts as adoption, but its still the resultant API of Windows games running in Proton.
Worth watching on 1.5x speed. Good thoughts and info on directions for future robotics.
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There just aren’t enough “full stack” machine learning folks who can quickly solve these problems.

The pure programming people have trouble scoping out which solutions to try due to lack of experience. The pure ML people code in Python notebooks and have little visibility into these issues.

Both folks could easily learn the other side and help, but it’s surprisingly rare to see.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. True, not all coworkers are there for building a social life, but many are. The GP was just as single-sided in its evaluation of workplace comradery.

What we would benefit from is workplaces having a strong stance on which culture they belong to, and applicants understanding that, respecting it, and seeking employment in the desired culture.
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> The "starch heavy tubers" didn't exist in ancient times

From Wikipedia:

"In Central America, domesticated sweet potatoes were present at least 5,000 years ago"

"Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1210–1400 CE"
Many law enforcement radio systems are already encrypted and that is growing with time budgets permitting. Some are partially encrypted like tactical and some use full encryption. This varies heavily by state and county but it is really by budget. The tactical channels in my area are encrypted and I am in the middle of nowhere.

Here [1] is one of the laws on radio encryption. More discussion here related to civilian use. [2]

Laws aside I am sure there are folks here that could make an encrypted SDR for use as a private intercom if they do not already exist however they would not be able to decrypt law enforcement without their private keys unless the vendors mistakenly left them in a public git repo.

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/90.553

[2] - https://woofthebeatenpath.com/are-there-encrypted-walkie-tal...
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It's even worse if you have personal and business accounts tied to the same email address - you never know which one you're using, or which you need.
> Tons of AAA game developers make their own engine

Recently a bunch switched to Unreal. Are there THAT many that still maintain their own? Seems like it's just big studios and less than a dozen. Even a massive company like Square Enix is now using Unreal for many projects.
As a note, if you're in a startup you have no idea how far ahead of most developers you are.

I keep forgetting that most developers throw their stuff over the wall to IT and probably don't have a ci pipeline, do IaC, , and probably don't deploy their own microservices or understand the AWS stack. They probably have a 60% chance they use source control instead of just copying folders and changing the folder name. They don't do logging or security. They scale by buying bigger instances. Docker is their current tech boner instead of puppet.

Although pathetic, it is an opportunity.