skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about this for a bit, and I have a feeling that as long as everything is touching the ground, then making covering loops is impossible, and so there exist a simple ordering you can compute.

The ordering is as follows: I'm assuming the isometric rendering of a map as a 45 degrees tilted square, and I'm only considering tile ordering just for simplicity but it should generalize fine. The uppermost tile is where you want to start rendering. From there, you render following the two 45 degree diagonals until you are done (so you don't only look at the y axis). Once this is done, you restart the process from the tile just below the uppermost corner, and so on. This ordering makes sure that all rectangular objects that are aligned with the 45 degree diagonals are rendered correctly.

Now you need an additional trick to render rectangular objects that are transversal to those diagonals correctly. What you do is you keep track of the boundaries of all such objects, so that the rendering loop described above can tell when it encounters one. Once it encounters it, it pauses rendering the current diagonal and considers it temporarily complete. The diagonal on the other side still needs to be rendered fully though --- or at least as far as possible with the same stopping condition. The next rendering pass will likely at some point re-encounter the same transversal object, just at a further point. Stop again, start the next diagonal. Once the rendering encounters the lowest and last part of the transversal object, then that object can be rendered, and the first stopped diagonal can be resumed (and after this resume all the paused diagonals in order).

This should always give you the correct order to render everything without errors. Let me know if this made sense, otherwise I can try to clarify.
That's part of why I am so upbeat that they are shutting down Twitter (even it that not what its new owner has necessarily consciously set out to do).
Users is not same as accounts.

How many of these are real ? I have lost any trust on Muskso do not even believe him
One wierd trick can save Californians $37
If you're in California, you may have received a "California Middle Class Tax Refund" gift card, in the form of a VISA debit card. This is a "stimulus program" payment.

The debit card comes with fees. Lots of fees. About 3%, plus a $7 charge. Plus, by activating the card, you authorize My Banking Direct, a service of New York Community Bank, to use your financial info for marketing purposes.

But there's a way out. Hidden down in the fine print, in what looks like 8 point type, is "If you do not agree to all the Cardholder Agreement terms, you should cancel the card by calling customer service and request the funds be issued to you in the form of a paper check".

Now it gets interesting. There's a number to call, 1-800-240-0223. It leads to a phone message system, of course. First, there's press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish. Then a long spiel about the cards and payments, which you can't skip. Then you get a list of options, 1 through 8.

None of those options is customer service. Some try to trick you into activating the card, by typing in the number and your Social Security number, before they will tell you anything.

So how do you get a check? That's the trick. And here's the answer, from KCRA-TV.[1] "If you received a card, you can call 800-542-9332 and select option 9 to speak to an agent." This seems to lead to the same phone menu as the number on the notice. No Option 9 is listed. But if you press 9, you get sent to customer service.

Now, that's not the end. Now you get to talk to a voice recognition system, which asks what you want. It rejects "send check" and "cancel card". After two tries, it hangs up on you, and you have to start over.

But it does, it turns out, recognize "customer service". Which, finally, gets you to the hold queue for a human. The first human said her computer was down and she couldn't issue a check. On the next try, the human hung up when I asked for the company's business name and address. On the third try, the human actually did the transaction, or at least pretended to. I asked for a transaction ID, which was not offered, and was grudgingly given one. In 10 days to 2 weeks, I am supposed to get a check.

Now that's a dark pattern.

New York Community Bank has a rating of one star with the Better Business Bureau. They probably make at least $150 million off the fees from California alone.

[1] https://www.kcra.com/article/california-middle-class-tax-refund-debit-card-explainer/41860421
"And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Over 200k Servers in One Place - Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (2021)
What a ridiculous regulatory decision. They have to be "small scale?" So it's ok for anybody to do it, but if too many people actually do it, then no one is allowed to anymore.
Pretty much exactly what these people want to do...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-quaise-energy-power-geot...
I currently have a 4k 60hz monitor and a 1440p 240hz monitor on my desk. And I just switch between them depending on if I'm programming or gaming. Would be nice to have one monitor that does great for both but it would cost a fortune and I'm not sure cables can even push 4k 240hz worth of data.
This is spot on.

In addition to giving feedback, I think it's also important to ask people for their opinions regularly. This gives the employee the sense that they are valued and that what they are doing matters. This is the fuel that great employees are powered by.
Would be interesting to know the point at which return in utility petered out from zero to $100 Million to $10 Billion.
If this can happen accidentally, it can happen on purpose.

A glitch is just an exploit that just hasn't been sufficiently documented.
This is wonderful news.

My gf has one in her living room. It is only used to play music, set a timer (usually watch is used) and adding things to a (third party) grocery list. Plus it's listening all the time to what goes on.

I had one alexa device: a scanner that would read a barcode and add it to a shopping list (or you could talk to it -- ugh, had to keep it in a drawer). It was handy as I ran out of milk to just scan it and forget about it, so that I would see "milk" when at the shop. But they discontinued that device.
ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, or let's not leave it to liars & opportunists to make up history
I got a PS5 with a 4k blu ray player but have yet to put a disk in it since many films are simply not available. Tried to find Lawrence of Arabia but it seems completely unavailable. Maybe the format is great but lacking lots of content.
It's always fun to walk to a user's desktop and hit Win-G (Windows Xbox Game Bar)
> Sites that work without JavaScript.

Perhaps you will like this:

https://lokilist.com/about.php

If you have feedback, please send it to me via the contact page.
A minor comment, but I’d reformat this a bit to make its structure clearer:

fizzbuzz n = go id (show n)
where
go = test 3 "fizz" . test 5 "buzz"

test d s x =
if n `mod` d == 0
then const (s ++ x "")
else x
Hard paywall. Can you archive it and post a link?
They do, but well designed urinals have very little splash back even without the plastic filter.
I’ve found the HTMX community to fit this, and not in a nostalgic way. It’s a very useful and functional option if you’re wanting to build a reactive site while shipping less JavaScript.
Thanks! Definitely at some point, just not sure exactly when yet!
Lol, salty iPhanboys dislike? I must have hurt your feelings almost as much as your wallet.
There’s a World Cup going on, the US is in the end stages of a consequential election, Twitter itself is a fascinating train wreck… I find it believable.

That said, I’d still bet it’s bots if someone made me bet.
I'll add on that Aerospike engines tend to be popular with non-Aerospace engineers because they look cool. In reality Aerospike engines are optimizing for a design parameter space that doesn't need optimization. To draw an analogy to coding, it's like optimizing code in the non-crtical path. It doesn't really help you.

Rocket engine bells expand high pressure subsonic choked flow into supersonic low pressure flow. They are designed to do that most optimally for a given external pressure (if you try to expand the gas to a lower pressure than the atmospheric pressure then vibrations begin and can tear an engine apart because of flow backwards into the engine bell). Aerospike engines, if designed correctly, work by automatically optimizing to always expand the gas to whatever the atmospheric pressure is, maximizing total specific impulse over the flight. However they tend to have problems with cooling and so tend to be extremely heavy compared to other engine designs and you can equivalently design for this space by instead using multiple rocket stages, which all rockets do. More so, if you're trying to re-use rockets as is the current trend, having a heavy engine makes even less sense as you need to land that heavier engine.

Aerospike engine research made sense when it was the current fad to design single-stage-to-orbit rocket designs because they thought that re-using multiple stage vehicles wasn't possible. However that's no longer the case. Aerospike engines are a technological dead end.

Disclaimer: I am not an aerospace engineer, though I did take a couple of aerospace engineering courses before switching my major (turns out I wasn't great at the type of math needed) and I have a strong interest in the field and have talked to people in the field (and former classmates/labmates who are aerospace engineers).
Probably not, the deeper you drill the more expensive it gets - exponentially. It's probably many times less expensive to use other power sources. It's not trivial so every additional hole would take great effort.

Here's an article about a company that is trying to do that.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/332693-digging-the-world...

I hope they can do it. It would be a great achievement.
> Efforts should be undertaken to reverse the negative cultural narratives of enhancement technologies and leverage media as a means of engaging the public .... If technology is to become a more intimate partner in enhancement of the human species, then DoD personnel must help alter distorted cultural narratives. A realistic, balanced (if not more positive) narrative will ... remove barriers to productive adoption of these new technologies.
I once wrote software that automatically graded wine "sweetness" based on sugar grams/L output via Spectroscopy? (I think) in a lab. After learing which wines regions / varietals produced what rating (sweet / dry / extra dry) is pretty much all I need now when picking wine. I'd say the sweetness is probably the only major difference between varietals but maybe it's just me. Extra dry is what I like best.
I absolutely love making chrome extensions - my very first one was creating an extension for tinder.com that would swipe left on anyone with the first name Chad. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chad-free-zone/jia...
>infinite chain of future progeny is a losing game.

There's no need to take it to infinite extremes. There are always plenty of values in the slider between short-medium-long term to choose from to find meaning in life… whatever floats someone's boat.
There is zero ambiguity there. What were you trying to say?
Do you know what makes it so expensive?
I mean, kinda? AMD FSR is doing really well.
The Eastern Bloc had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon.
+1. Most server deployments will break at less less than 10k RPS. If we talk about the largest scale public cloud deployments, we might end up in the millions to billions of RPS due lots of lots of instances. But the number will be very far off from the 24293141000000000000 rps rate that the author used for estimating the impact.

Plus any deployment that is so large that a user could actually generate a reasonable amount of traffic will likely also have some variant of a DDOS/fraud/rate-limiting protection or at least alarms and manual interventions that will kick in once such a traffic flood is observed.
SV seems to have a little more depth to it. Were there many other high tech companies in the Holmdel region back in the 80s, or was this a little island of the future in a land of farms and Springsteen?
duplicate of:

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33700160
Not a bad use of MidJourney v2 generated art.
Man I hope he does Jensens apartment. I love the architecture and all the details. The lab one is incredible.
Show HN: Comparing Open Source Projects
We just pushed out http://ossrank.com/compare which allows you to compare commit and contributor velocity for a group of OSS projects.
So basically they want to force Alphabet to fire people, the company itself hasn't decided to do so yet?
Has Musk never heard of git?
Thank you! I’m enjoying going through the archives.
That’s not what the H1B program is for, though.
> If the value rolled is the same as any value rolled by a previous player, re-roll. Continue to re-roll until a unique value is rolled.

This gives an advantage to earlier players because it gives them "first dibs" on higher numbers. In the extreme, if the first player rolls the highest number, no one can subsequently beat them no matter what they roll.
Because the power of environment is not greater than the power trips of management when they can see their direct reports bow and greet them in the hallways of their corpdoms.
The World – Residences at Sea
I found this the most compelling evidence I’ve read to date on the topic.
The Old New Thing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

Been reading it for years, lots of little interesting insights into current and historical quirks in Windows and related systems.
It's sort of fun to think, since in the Apollo missions, this certainly wasn't the case.
I’m so glad to see such appreciation for the game. While it’s not the original and may have been on rails, there are few games in which I was so immersed in the art and design.
5 years ago, Amazon saw the sales figures and thought their smart speaker business was the bee's knees. The Alexa org had thousands of open roles.

There was all kinds of talk about how smartspeakers would be the next smartphones. They went all in.

There may be an important lesson here, to understand the limits of your markets. They could have made a killing if they had taken the win and developed it slowly, rather than doubling down and letting their bet ride.
I deliberately tried to get into funky Belgian beers in my 30s.

My reasoning was: other people like these, I think they taste gross, but I'm always telling people they can learn to like things, and if I did learn to like them, I'd expand my range of possible pleasures.

I did end up liking them. Not love them, but enough to appreciate them.

I really doubt that there is anything in the world that is enjoyed by a large group of people that I couldn't eventually get myself to like. And then: how wonderful! More things you like.
I am 100% certain you have a selection bias. Imagine if you worked in Tata/Infosys and started asking around.

From my experience most h1s are imported by vendors. I've seen a lot of really small "consulting companies" who does this. I had heard over and over again that most regular companies are terrified of having to deal with H1s, due to extra cost and lots of uncertainty.
Is it possible that the difference is just a matter of scope?

Like you said, "Burnout is like when you don't want to do something anymore". Isn't that what learned helplessness is, with a 'something' that's life-scoped instead of work-scoped?
Little Languages Are the Future of Programming
https://archive.ph/PuW4i
I don't see it as horrible at all. Windows is owned by Microsoft, and as a profit-seeking corporation, it makes lots of sense for them to force users to watch ads while using their product. Why shouldn't they do this, especially when so many people are perfectly happy to keep buying and using Windows OS?

If you don't like having ads forced on you, then use an OS vendor that agrees with you. Thankfully, there's lots of OSes (i.e., Linux distros) that don't have any ads in them, which you can download and use for free, so this isn't really a problem.

In other words: Don't like it? Don't use it.
During prohibition in the U.S., people developed a taste for shitty wine (or to be more objective about it, dangerously low quality wine).

I.e., the stuff that someone would make relatively quickly, hidden out in some bathtub hidden from the authorities, with very little quality control.

When prohibition lifted, that was the taste American wine-drinkers had for wine. It was a low brow, low quality, sweet-tasting alcoholic beverage, probably with a weird after taste.

That association apparently stalled the development of high quality vineyards in California. So it's certainly within the realm of possibility that this prohibition era impact continues to exert some influence. I still see a lot of people preferring rather sweet wines, for example.

And while I can't say for sure, something tells me the people who drop an ice cube into their red wine fit into all this somehow. :)
Ha found it, amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKiH9XaRhE
In the U.S. we're struggling to get them to understand that bike lanes and sidewalks can't just randomly end mid-block and still be useful. While the idea seems ostensibly solid, and cars very much need containment, we still have much more basic needs before we can start optimizing car infrastructure.
Maybe the silver lining here is that we can finally get a good "home assistant" that doesn't phone home. I think there's huge potential with these types of devices, but they're also really creepy; they "accidentally" send recordings back to the server surprisingly often.

Maybe someone could build an assistant with trust at its core, everything happening on the device, and a hacker enabling ethos. These devices are a far cry from the independence we get from the old-fashioned desktop computer.
Are we talking about the same matrix?

Six levels from E1 - E6, and objective level details for each of 27 competencies?

What do you mean that "seniors who don't fit"? What do you mean "mids that do"?

What criteria are "wildly different"? Granted, a hiring firm is unlikely to have rationalized the evaluation this well. But it seems unlikely they're looking for something that isn't at least represented here.
Sheez, disgusting. Do you need to provide any PII to get the $35?
I use example.com :) Less typing.
Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the protocol powering Mastodon
Would this be like how Jesus amassed followers? A few dozen in 30 AD, maybe 5000 70 years later, but then 2 million 150 years after that?
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers

I remember the js13k game jam winner this year used BSPs. Linked below.

https://github.com/SalvatorePreviti/js13k-2022
Ooooh trying to find perfect rules in English, wait let me make enough popcorn to share. And please go on - now do England and English. Switzerland and Swiss, Iceland and Icelandics, etc, etc, etc.
If you look at just the first 5 dice and compute the probability that player one rolls lowest, of the 6^4 combinations of rolls the other players can make:
1 beats all 6^4; 16 beats 4^4, 17 beats 4^4, 32 beats 2^4, 33 beats 2^4, and 48 beats nothing. So player 1 is lowest 1840 out of 6^5, or ~23.7%.

A similar argument shows player 5 rolls lowest 1414 out of 6^5, or only 18.2% of the time.

I don't have a good intuitive explanation though.
I went on a kick looking up Severance locations recently, the 'Perpetuity Wing' is the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, and is worth a visit:

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

It's interesting in general how that show was produced in the 'tri-state area'.

(Not sure how else to call this - the urbanized junction of NJ/NY/CT radiating outwards from NYC)
Once a soldier, always a soldier.

It's an amazing experience to become a soldier, even to just complete initial training. Your level of confidence rises, and something in you "grows up." At least that's what my experience was. There are so many things the average person doesn't realize is drilled into a soldier, and this is clear evidence of those things being under the surface, even after years of adjusting to civilian way of life. There's no turning back.
Twitter is making DMs encrypted and adding video, voice chat, per Elon Musk
The criticism of Brand was wrong. His critics were almost to a rule sneering upper-class Brits and those critics did not predict that Brand would get into woo-woo weirdness like Anti-vax.

The best critique of Brand is that he's an entertainer, and entertainment is not a vessel capable of carrying left politics forward.
That doesn't solve the problem if you can't get enough flow through those channels. Cooling channels doesn't solve cooling, it just helps it. From my non-Aerospace (though I took a couple of Aerospace undergrad classes) perspective, the hardest points to cool in an aerospike engine is the spike itself because it tends to be thin and narrow with no internal room for cooling pathways compared to the intense heat of sitting in the center of the flame.
> SV seems to have a little more depth to it.

there would have been no need for silicon if it hadn't been for the things invented at bell labs.
I can't quite get over how good this looks....on a C64! This is one hell of an accomplishment. Honestly I expected to barely recognize the game, but instead it looks and feels exactly like the original VGA version I played as a kid - just with what looks like a dither filter over the original graphics (which look amazing I might add). Wow, seriously impressed. How is this possible in 64K of RAM?
What’s so difficult or bad about this? I provide status updates to C-Level team all the time. Every now and then the CEO, also a multi billionaire who never stops working, reads one of the updates and slacks me a congratulations message or name drops me on a highlights email.
I would love for you to experience the boarding process so you can get a feel for it, and the social stigmas around it too which is where I think you could get an answer to that question. Maybe watch an FPV youtube video of a traveller using the service and take note of the line to board and disembark, take note of the entry way and the luggage area and think about how it would all work with a bike.

I think I would bore you writing it all out but my point is just that there is no room for the bike within the train or the social process of participating in the train service. More than one bike and it wouldn't work, so no bikes.
Might want to fix the typo in title (should be "weird")
It is hard to sell ads in voice/interactive interfaces so the scale does not matter, product has to be fantastic. But weather/music/timer is not revolutionary.

It may have a shot with a more clever AI that can do cool stuff, that you would be ready to pay $5/mo for.
Shallow geothermal is cheaper to exploit but it's still harder to engineer than people think. Nothing about deep boreholes is cheap.

The mohole and kola were science experiments. Not energy projects.
If you're extracting rents then you're not creating any economic value. One look at the GDP tells me that's not true.
That movie is available.
If you submit this job description, you would get an RFE (Request For Evidence) to explain why these skilled are requires for the job.
‘Do You Want to Rebuild at 80?’ Rethinking Where to Retire
Except it wasn't even their printer from my understanding. The only thing they're talking about is some "algorithmic engineering" mumbo jumbo.
It’s worth noting that this would have been flagged a year ago. Everyone who loves satisfying intellectual curiosity ought to ask why and not let it happen again.