skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this sentence. “closed proprietary” here means that it’s not an open standard, and it’s not an open network you can connect your own clients to, and so it’s vendor-locked, and in the case of Signal there are gaps of years when they don’t release opensource code on the server.
I'm all for it. Netflix has turned into a production house of generic drivel for the most part (and as AI improves I'm sure it'll only get worse as the bar for low-effort derivative scripts drops).

Apple TV+ hasn't been without its issues but it's had some truly well-thought out content. Severance is riveting, carefully filmed and thought out, and unlike most TV I've watched in the last 10 years. For all mankind started off quite rough but improved significantly in later seasons as well.

For all its faults as a company, Apple has done a great job leaving creativity to the creatives when it comes to shows.
For vaccinated individuals, being sick for two weeks is unusual. When I got covid the first time, before vaccines were available, I was sick less than a week. I had a few weeks of brain fog after that but it cleared up. I got it again last week and I was sick for only a day. Not any worse than any cold I’ve had before. Indeed I’ve had fewer sick days the last couple of years than I did the year my daughter started daycare.

I’m not going to go around wearing a mask all the time to avoid a couple of days of cold symptoms every other year. Getting colds is part of the human condition.
And that final episode of season 1, my god that's some of the best multi-strand story telling I've ever seen in any form. Even Thelma Schoonmaker couldn't have edited that better.
Also, imagine if said hard hat caused unknown long-term effects by itself. We know, for a fact, that some plastic fibers from masks end up in the lungs permanently. What happens when they go there? Nobody knows. How many of them are there in the average person? Nobody knows. What are the long term effects? Nobody knows. How does it affect lung development in both short-term and long-term, particularly in young people? Nobody knows. We just hope it's fine.
A line that increasingly doesn't resonate with people who didn't grow up with "dead" channels, which is crazy to think about.
I agree, but think it's even worse. I think the key local maxima being pursued are the personal interests of managers.

Long ago I worked on a project for a financial company. The exec in charge, known to us as The Hammer, had made big promises to poobahs higher up. So for no real-world reason, his employees worked death-march hours to have everything done by the arbitrarily chosen date. As the year's end approached, it was obvious that there were big problems in performance and quality, with a lot of bugs in place and absurd operational requirements. (If I recall rightly, it was so over-complicated a single in-house release took a conference call with more than a dozen people going over a checklist of more than 40 steps.)

Did The Hammer pause the work, do some root cause analysis, and improve the situation? Of course not. He demanded everybody work even more hours and ignore anything but the highest priority issues. And so the project limped across the finish line at the last minute, with an enormous backlog of cleanup to do before they could add a single new feature. The team was exhausted. And after the celebratory lunch the next week, they were also demoralized, as they all got The Hammer's hearty congratulations and $50 gift cards.

But none of that mattered, because The Hammer's bosses got positive status reports with everything in the green. He was then quickly promoted to a more impressive position in a different area, meaning that the code base he had created, which resembled a pile of manure covered with Christmas paper, was now the problem of some other sucker. I'm sure it eventually had to be rebuilt, providing another hero story for another ladder climber.

If I had to guess, the amount of waste on that project was north of $5 million. But by The Hammer's measure and that of his bosses, it was a great success, because they either didn't know or didn't care about the waste.
Ask HN: Simple 3D animation file format?
File formats such as FBX and USD attempt to do everything and as a result are quite complicated.

Is there a layered 3D/animation interchange format that allows for relatively painless scene interchange between 3D apps?

By layered I mean something where each feature builds on the previous features. Something like:

1) OBJ-like static geometry

2) materials and lighting

3) per-frame transform matrices

4) animation curves

5) etc.
I think an additional benefit of the masks is that they signal something about the person's Covid conscientiousness -- which I suspect affects how likely they are to be a carrier, and how likely they are to be careful about spreading it if they are.

(Though that signal didn't help me in Trader Joe's the other day, when one of the few employees wearing a mask (only surgical), turned out to have a phlegmy cough. In that case, I imagine the logic might've been, "You're obviously sick and probably spreading something, maybe Covid? We don't pay you to stay home. Strap on the least effective mask you can find, which suddenly we believe in, and get out there and superspread among shoppers!" :( )
Also: combat suits.

:glands Fidget:
A computer hacker, with a film noir kung-fu love interest by his side, jacks into a simulated cyberspace known as "The Matrix"? Facing a malevolent A.I., with the guidance of an "oracle"-like aspect of that A.I.?

Hasn't this already been adapted? The idea of going back to the original source material at this point feels almost... quaint. I hope it doesn't feel like it's aping its successors, rather than the other way around.
You are thinking of VAT, which in France is normally 20%.

That is not the tax that is being referred to here, which is Corporation Tax - the tax on corporate profits.
Given that "Daemon" and "Freedom™" have sort of a negative portrayal of self-driving vehicles and AR/VR, it would probably not be in big tech's best interests to adapt them. But one can hope!
Ireland would prefer the jobs to the taxes. A country has to tune itself to keep people employed. Every country is different and small countries would be ruined by tax harmonisation. France et al give zero shits about Ireland, it wants the jobs Ireland has.
> technology is still extremely complicated and dangerous

That's a common fallacy.

If you look at mortality rate by terawatt-hour for each energy source, nuclear is going to be orders of magnitude below coal/gas/oil.

Same thing with planes: people are afraid to fly them, but driving the same distance by car is way more dangerous.
This is basically Severance in a nutshell! Written and created for TV and executed perfectly. A must-watch from this year.
OP has entered basically every COVID thread since 2020 to make the same kinds of comments. I guarantee, you're not going to dissuade him. You're exactly right, though, COVID and its associated "symbols" like masks have turned into a weirdly politico-religious topic for some.
> Also, they idolize Chris McCandless - he was also a child of privilege who wanted to reject society.

Idolizing McCandless is such an odd thing; Alaska is filled with people who rejected their past lives like he did, but who didn't die because they had more humility and respect for the land.
So many of these NYT pieces are a character study framed as though it were describing a small part of a larger movement. I'd like this sentiment to be widespread and robust among the upcoming generation of young adults, but will it be? It's difficult to believe.
Looks nice, but I don't understand how brainstorming should work together with AI. Maybe it's more useful later on while categorizing? I noticed this also in the promo for Notion AI. How is the command „Brainstorm 5 ways to …“ still brainstorming? Does anyone already use AI for creative thinking and can give insights in which cases it's useful?
That's also incomplete knowledge. If you made it to adult hood your chances of living to 50 or 60 are way underestimated by "pop culture ancient humans" knowledge. Kids are kind of weak compared to adults immune system wise (in most cases!).
And the next step after this epiphany is that you still have to remember to take the phone with you places, not to leave it behind, and worry about it getting dropped in the toilet by a toddler. Not caring this tool still has a lot of benefits.
I think it's supposed to be part 1 of a longer series of movies. While I haven't read the book(s?) in ages, I can remember that there's a LOT more that needs to happen.
I wanted to see if you were a trumper or something about kanye west lol
> Being killed by a falling brick is a very clear cost.

> How would you characterize the costs associated with wearing a hard hat most of the time when in public?

But wait, that's a very different question. The original comment was "I'd rather be sick for 2 weeks than wear a mask every day." You're not saying that you'd rather be killed by a falling brick than wear a hardhat every day, surely.
They make doc martens in China now. I imagine the 8-year old who made your shoes was a master craftsman, however...they start them young.

The original factory still makes boots, they aren't quite as "cool" though. The people at your Communist reading group might not even heard of the brand.
Element X is a native app, and will replace Element Desktop for many purposes, fwiw (and will be also adopted by BundesMessenger)
Funny you mention that! That point in the video was the exact moment she made the comment lol.
To be clear, I'm not arguing against solar here. We should be building as many forms of non-carbon-emitting energy generation as we possibly can.

A challenge of large solar plants like you're describing is getting the energy to where it's needed and when it's needed. A ton of solar panels in the desert does no good if there's no way to store that energy or get it to a city a few hundred miles away. All of that requires significantly more investment in storage mechanisms and interconnectors to move it around the grid. The latter actually being most concerning to me simply because of NIMBYs fighting projects to build more high voltage power lines because they're ugly and ruin views from their properties. It's hard to quantify that, but when you need to run so many power lines over such long distances that touch so many people's properties it becomes a permitting nightmare which dramatically slows down, or even cancels, projects.

I also touched on this in another comment below: In terms of storing solar energy with our current method of lithium-ion batteries, well, the cost of lithium is up ~500% in the past two years and is expected to stay that way for the foreseeable future: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/06/09/...

As to Swanson's Law, sure, I get where the trendline currently is, but as a counterexample: How's Moore's Law holding up these days?

I'm sure there's plenty of articles about different battery storage methods and all that being researched, but the fact is that we need proven, on-demand energy generation that drops into the existing grid NOW and nuclear provides that. But by all means, build all of it: nuclear, wind, solar, etc. Having too much carbon-free energy is a much better problem to have than too little.
I hereby volunteer my bedroom for nuclear waste storage if it means more nuclear power right now.
I think you're absolutely correct. The show was campy, and in time, would have become grating and fallen apart.

Star Wars, once lauded, has been milked dry. There are a few good works, but by and large they're beating a dead horse.

The same thing is happening to Marvel. People checked out after Endgame.

Game of Thrones was so near to perfection. It had an unusually large cast of a hundred characters and an expansive world to draw down. But even if the new show is good, the magic is gone.

The mystery of Stranger Things after season one ended. We're getting a rehash with common character tropes you can find anywhere.

The allure of Westworld softened after season one attempted to open up to bigger themes, but actually cut down on the possibility space.

The third Godfather. Dexter. Every single Jurassic Park but the first. Jaws. On and on.

Chiefly, it's simply a function of multiplied probabilities to continue with a success streak. Eventually the odds do not pay off in your favor.

But I think another contributing factor is that our brains begin to fit the shape of the setting, the motifs, the character arcs, the narrative world - and we just aren't surprised or pleased any longer. Few people would ask for twenty seasons of a show. Or ten movies in a given franchise. Our brains learn the shape of the landscape and grow bored.
Executive summaries are part of the industry, where people boil down non-fiction books into short pieces of text. E.g. Blinkist (not affiliated, just the first result on Google)

It is somewhat funny that presumably a good amount of work goes into padding the book, and then work goes in on the other side to strip the padding away.
Coal power kills a million people every year. Go check how many die from nuclear then x15 that as a thought experiment and then tell me which technology is dangerous and half baked
Henry Cavill Is Doing a Warhammer 40K Series
To be fair, Germans are famously paranoid about health. Are you keeping your kidneys covered so you don’t catch a cold?
> Some other inconvenient facts about his assassination are the facts that the rifle claimed to be used in the killing is physically incapable of firing the bullet that killed MLK, a fact recorded in the FBI ballistics report along with a note that the gun should never be re-tested.

These are the sorts of facts that would heavily benefit from a reputable citation. The closest thing to your assertion on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_... is that it'd be hard to sight because of some missing metal shims, which may've been lost while in FBI posession rather than in Oswald's.
Or even more banally, after Netflix's Altered Carbon, which I've only seen an episode or two of, yet it so easily encapsulates the platonic ideal of what a gritty cyberpunk show should look and feel like, to the point of banality? I'm not even picking on that specific series, it's probably not even the only example of that type of show that's been created in the last decade.

In short, how do you elevate it to more than a second-rate, middling, competent and utterly forgettable adaptation lost among the streams and appealing only to fans of the original work.
I've wondered, is the Mandelbrot set one continuous shape, or is broken into many smaller shapes? Put crudely, if it was imported into a paint program, and you performed a fill action, would the whole shape change to a single color?
That is true, the network needs to be stable in any case, but the keyframes have "bursty" traffic, therefore increasing the latency compared to b-frames (and p-frames)

Ever since h264 there is a feature called intra-refresh, which allows you spread key frames over time, reducing the burstiness of the transmission (and therefore improving latency in most scenarios)
> if I used a different platform, I could avoid this hassle completely?

Where is this mythical platform?

If something like this happened on Windows, you'd just end up clicking around arbitrary settings, googling desperately, and rebooting over and over again, until you reinstalled the entire OS. That option is also available with Linux.
That's a good point. I'm only part-way through but, so far, you could pretty much take out the various design references to Star Wars and make a few other tweaks and you'd still have a good series not set in the Star Wars universe.

I didn't really dislike the sequels to the original trilogy but they were forced to do way too much fan service.

It's probably no coincidence that the best entrants in the universe in the modern era are probably Rogue One and the Mandalorian which in spite of very obvious tie-in are mostly unrelated to the original series.
There's many great practical tips about how to make an effective meeting here, but take a step back:

Whose work is getting done in this meeting?

Most of the time, it is your manager's work that is getting done. Next, ask whether the meeting is prepared for, whether it is an informational or decision-making meeting, and who is required to attend it.

Are all of these things required face-to-face/synchronously? If not, think of ways to make them more async friendly saving everyone time. Sometimes you will need everyone in the same room to make decisions or inform them on decisions that have been made.
Interesting idea, however the problem that I see is why pay for jekyll blog hosting when you can host it on GitHub pages or serve via an S3 bucket for free?

Also the people who are using Jekyll are mostly developers or have knowledge in setting up and generating the static files, so majority of the users are comfortable in hosting it on GitHub.

But it's an interesting idea, I wish you all the best.
Why do you describe it as dehumanizing? Would you also describe mask-wearing among dentists, surgeons, painters, etc. as dehumanizing?
For all mankind.
How does this work when you need the WeWork card to enter their buildings?
I use Tim on Mac. It’s native, very simple, and looks to be free now, it used to be a few bucks.

https://tim.neat.software/
> The post holiday gathering spike is rather obvious. Not just for COVID but for everything.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

It's not a "holiday gathering spike". It's literally the same respiratory pathogen pattern we've seen for as long as we've bothered to look: in the winter, as we go inside and the air becomes cool and dry, respiratory infections go up. The viruses evolved to work this way, because it's a great survival strategy when your host is a social animal that doesn't/can't live outside in the cold.

It happens in parts of the world where Christmas and Thanksgiving aren't a thing (see Japan and China and Korea right now). It happens on the opposite schedule in the lower half of the planet (even where Christmas and/or Thanksgiving are a thing).

This impulse to blame/scold people for a natural phenomenon is unnerving.
> You are not required to carry your ID card with you.

"I am not a lawyer" but:

"Deutsche im Sinne des Art. 116 Abs. 1 GG sind nach § 1 Personalausweisgesetz (PAuswG) verpflichtet, sobald sie 16 Jahre alt sind und der allgemeinen Meldepflicht unterliegen oder sich überwiegend in Deutschland aufhalten, einen gültigen Ausweis zu besitzen und ihn auf Verlangen einer zur Feststellung der Identität berechtigten Behörde vorzulegen sowie einen Abgleich mit dem Lichtbild des Ausweises zu ermöglichen."

You must either carry a national ID document or, if you are requested to identify yourself by the police, make it available to them in reasonable time on request (say, if you left it at home, show it to them at a police station the next day).
Nuclear power is not half-baked, it's corrupted. The powers that be co-opted it for nuclear weapons programs. We chose to invest exclusively in war-time applications while pretending to seek peacetime uses.

Only now are we going back and looking at solutions that don't create ingredients for fission and fission-fusion warheads, and the lack of progress there means that countries who we don't want to join the nuclear arm's race are in a prickly position because the nuclear plants they can build leave them with ingredients the UN doesn't really want to proliferate.
I think the Krakauer book does a great job of describing the nuances of McCandless's level of preparedness. Of course maybe the author has a bias, but it certainly doesn't seem that way to me. McCandless was fairly unlucky despite having done quite a bit to prepare and try to ensure success. He ate a plant that was categorized as edible in a respected source book, but the actual part that he ate (in the season that he ate it) was poisonous. Once that happened and he realized what was going on, all his prior efforts to make sure he would remain isolated (including dubious choices like not bringing a map) spelled his doom. To me, McCandless made a conscious choice to try to live off the land without help. That is also a conscious choice to die if things go too wrong. Did he want to die? I don't think so, but he had to know it was a distinct and not-so-insignificant likelihood. I think I would NEVER do something like that. But was McCandless woefully unprepared? I personally don't think so. I am aware that I might have a minority opinion on that, because he did die.
Ireland did the right thing. The 1980’s and 1990’s were bleak times.
Can someone summarize what would make the sort of data TikTok generates useful to the CCP?

I could assume there are a few needles in the haystack-- capturing location data from some new recruit who is filming in a secure location, or some 16-year-old gets mom's patent application in frame while twerking. But it's a huge and very expensive haystack to create and search. I'd think most nonclassified-level insights they could get are also easily obtained from commercial data brokers.

It would be interesting to try to leverage "cool" for military/political advantage. I can't really imagine it working in anything but a terribly cringy way.

On a broader level, I feel like there must be people in PLA research labs saying "Okay, so American teenagers are even more embarrassing, shallow and petty than our prior data indicates."
I would imagine having pepaw & memaw around to watch the kiddos while mom and dad were out gathering food would be a huge boon as far as keeping your progeny alive to reproduce again.
Well yes, most people react poorly to "The reason you love the thing you love is not because it is good, but for <shallow/superficial reason>"
Agreed, it was another level. My only fear is that there’s no way they can pull this off twice. I just hope they can get near to season 1’s brilliance with season 2
I'm getting a lot of red flags from this website. It reads like a marketing campaign to sell the writers books and vitamins. All of the "evidence" is anecdotal. As someone who struggled with ADHD their whole life, it's demeaning to read. "Your kid has ADHD? Oh he just needs some niacin."
I think the trick to a tv adaptation is to not restrict oneself to a strict adaptation of the book but rather to reorder things, etc. to allow for character development. The visual medium also leaves a lot of things to be inferred by viewers without going into excruciating detail to explain things.

I could see it also working well in episodic format with episodes focusing on individual characters.
Not a fanatic about it and only posting because I didn't see it mentioned but Asana and Harvest time have a free integration and it's sufficient for my single person general contractor business. i like the suggestions more about git/terminal/emacs etc so happy to read this thread
Friend of mine works for a huge global consumer brand. They decided to launch an online ordering platform for their trade customers, with the aim of eliminating a lot of call centres etc.

Developers were going to need paying more than even a 10-year served exec in the UK with 200 staff under them. They couldn’t run it within their existing organisation - the salary disparity would have been unpalatable. So they were advised to set up a subsidiary, rent a whole floor of Wework in London and run it out of there.

Burned through £20m in a year - a decent chunk on contractors from the sort of IT brand you know. Nothing shipped. Wrote it off after a year. Fired everyone and surrendered lease.

That was Wework’s target market - not freelancers or startups. Big companies with deep pockets who could have leased the whole building but never created the buzz. Work from home killed that market and it won’t return.
Hopefully the US will lower it in a few years.