skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I studied Game Development in Germany for 3 years in Düsseldorf, got third at the national gameforge newcomer award with my team "Northlight Games" and still have many connections to the people in the business (if this somehow matters). The quality for 2d assets is on very professional level and already replaced jobs in projects I know.

To give you an example join the public discord of https://www.scenario.gg and check out results. Come back and tell me those aren't on a professional level.

I am not saying that designers won't be needed anymore but AI is definitely able to replace jobs and speed up progress in game development.
Germans are famously paranoid about health?
Sorry I think you might just be mistaken. If your greenhouse is reaching 150c then there's actually not that many common plastics that wouldn't hit the glass transition temp. There are some exotic "plastic blends" like glass or carbon fibre/mineral blends that can do it, but even most of those are less than 140c. In this table even the modified versions of polypropylene have glass transition temperatures below negative: https://omnexus.specialchem.com/polymer-properties/propertie...

I don't think it should be too surprising that 3D printing filaments can withstand similar characteristics to other outdoor plastics. One commonly used outdoor plastic is PVC which has a glass transition temp between PETG and ABS: PETG: 80c, PVC: 85c, ABS: 103c. If you left a PVC pipe in your greenhouse you wouldn't expect it to deform.
I'm not talking about model kits: I'm talking about high-quality toys. In my experience toys from Hasbro's Masterpiece line, as well as toys from third party-companies from like FansToys and Mastermind Creations easily exceed the build quality of Bandai.

For example, comparing my FansToys Stomp ( https://tfsource.com/fanstoys/stomp/ ) to my DX Chogokin Macross VF-1J, there's no contest: the FansToys is more durable, better articulated, with a more interesting transformation. It's just a better toy. I have Daltanius and other SoC toys as well, and they are fine, but they seem primitive in comparison to, say, Hasbro's MP-44 Optimus Prime.

Having said that, they are not children's toys. For kids I would recommend Studio Series ( https://tfsource.com/hasbro/transformers-studio-series-86/ ).
New platform and tools for the Unreal Engine to publish to WebAssembly
You can find John Carmack's full post here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...
What's illegal about supplying your own electricity? That can't be real. But for most, likely it'll be more of a pain because batteries require maintenance.
Well said, one question is what’s a realistic way to fold in the legal/regulatory dimension given we’re talking with technologists and not lawyers.

I wonder if there any historical parallels to inform us, and what would that look like here?
Some of the alternatives I've tried
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
https://noteifyapp.com/command-tab-plus/
https://contexts.co/
https://manytricks.com/witch/
Imagine an empty space with nothing, now by merely drawing a line you have divided it into two sides.

>> If it does not bother you then simply ignore the links and don't add to them.

It is not so much as doesn't bother me as it is blindingly obvious and we are playing the game he wants to play by responding. Something something wrestling in the mud with something .... We have been here before.

He is in a very tight spot - over leveraged, lawsuits, losing billions, might lose control of Tesla, it's losing valuation and customers as others catch up and the shine wears off. Spacex is still sane and valuable - hence the talk of IPO. The only way out for him is to manufacture outrage. He tried to do it with Apple and that is why Tim Cook did not engage with him.

Why people don't realize that you cannot discuss these issues without separating it from the cult of his personality. There won't be any coherent discussion when that is involved - just mud wrestling. And he knows that.

>> This whole saga lays bare one of the big issues with big centralized tech that probably very few people saw coming prior to this acquisition.

Forgive me but that is very incorrect. People in tech have been talking,worried, disappointed about it. That ship has sailed a long time ago.

Anyways, I appreciate those who understood and did not comment.
This is something I see really common with Joe Rogan, but it's also an "active measures" tactic taught by multiple generations of Russian (and Soviet) intelligence agencies. Bring in a bunch of reputable individuals and pepper them in with fringe thinkers who support your geopolitical objectives. In the 60s and 70s, more often than not, these could be people with totally naive objectives nice sounding objectives like denuclearization and world peace. Today, a lot of these folks come from both the far left and far right. Matt Taibbi (who worked in to former Soviet Union for many years) fits this profile

The public ability to hold coherent viewpoints on topics gradually erodes.

At the same time, find a way to blackmail some of the most powerful people (Elon?) or buy them out (Trump)

Or I could be totally wrong and Lex could just be a bleeding heart dude who tries to sympathize with both sides on every topic (I hope this is the case).
As the author of the relevant RFC it's great to see this finally getting turned on. To my knowledge this is the first production deployment.

To Let's Encrypt, thanks for finally making this happen.
No one doubts their ability. What one does doubt is the willingness of the suits to replace their wildly profitable business model with a new one.

Kodak invented digital cameras but jettisoned it because they ate into its existing business. Will the same happen with Google?
Vaccine Pioneer Sees mRNA Technology’s Limits in Treating Cancer
>The Huntington is likely to draw a flood of requests to access the Pynchon archive, which it says will be open to qualified researchers after processing, which it estimates will take a year.
“The kind of research this archive is going to support is advanced scholarship, literary scholarship,” Brooke said. And the archive, she added, “is not for the casual observer.”
The published novels themselves take a lot of time to grapple with,” she said. “The drafts are even more complicated.”
As for whether biographers and journalists would be granted access, Brooke said, “We evaluate all requests on a case-by-case basis.”

How delightful. I certainly wouldn't want to read something too complicated.

These people really are a wannabe priestly class
The more I read about TikTok, the happier I am I deleted it from my phone.

I'd like to get rid of Instagram too but I'm locked in as people communicate with me via messages.
You're the first person I've seen with this take: literally everyone else I've talked to says that TikTok videos are generally positive, empowering, fun, and non-toxic. Surprisingly so compared to other platforms.
> 1. subsidize creators, giving cash & traffic boost

As far as I can tell, this doesn't happen given the revenue numbers reported by creators[0], and from what I've heard they keep 70% or so of revenue from the 'gifts' people can give to creators during live streams.

0: https://searchengineland.com/tiktoks-history-of-low-creator-...
The latest collector-oriented, wide-distribution lines from Hasbro are an outstanding value, with interesting transformations, durable enough for kids, and pay homage to the characters their parents know from the '80s. I'm talking specifically about Siege, Earthrise, Kingdom, Legacy, and Studio Series 86.

https://tfsource.com/hasbro/transformers-studio-series-86/

https://tfsource.com/transformers/war-for-cybertron-trilogy/...

https://tfsource.com/generations-legacy/

Cyclonus in particular is an amazing toy for kids or adults: https://tfsource.com/tfsource/cyclonus-and-nightstick-voyage...

You can find these at Target or Walmart in the US for even cheaper.
We should congratulate Meta on actually not destroying an app by buying it.
> They don't have especially bad lives at all

Take a read of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/magazine/power-steer.html

I doubt it's too much different down under.

> Ever seen...

Sure, nature is cruel and can be horrific. We are part of nature, true, but we're also (perhaps striving to be) reasoning moral beings, and so we can draw a line on where our tolerance for acceptable suffering of another animal stops. Doesn't mean everybody needs to be a vegan by any means, but IMO meat eaters should consider an honest look at what goes into producing their food and figure out what they're most comfortable with (that may be, e.g., fully locally raised meat, which is more expensive to pay for the luxury of animals having happier lives.)

> morally questionable in it's own right

It's been a while since I read Watts, but I'm pretty confident he would be appalled by what industrial meat production has grown into.
How to learn to change perspectives to understand other people's thoughts?
In Lex Fridman's interview with former CIA spy Andrew Bustamante: https://youtu.be/T3FC7qIAGZk?t=12627 he mentions the difference between perception and perspective and the results of gaining perspective into other people's thoughts. The video url redirects to that particular moment in the discussion.

The thing is he doesn't talk about how to learn that skill. Is there any way? Books maybe to get started?
A small nit, it _is possible_ to generate high temperatures reasonably efficiently using solar concentrators. In fact, it is used as a means for power generation already[1].

Oh, and if you are in a tropical area, you may also use solar concentrators for free-ish hot water (with an insulating tank), and get 24 hours hot water. However, if it was cloudy the day before, it will not be a great experience, and you may need to use amn electric heater.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-concentrating...
The Vercel CEO https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1603965931293536257 and I would agree.

Also, many others and I would leverage a few extras. Typescript is practically a given these days, preventing a huge class of compilation and runtime bugs. Along with TailwindCSS for much improved styling, and NextAuth for auth.
U.S. audits ease delisting threats over Chinese stocks
As this is a flexible film:

https://www.armor-group.com/en/asca

I can see it being used in agricultural applications where shadecloth is used both to kill intense sunlight (eg: Australia) and to keep birds at bay.

We have many large acreage areas fully under shade cloth here.
There aren’t many people that have more than 2-3 dogs. You can’t say the same for cat people.
He also claimed it to be a Danish saying during a concert in Copenhagen.
It's the mainframe era for AI: ideas are simple, but access to mainframes isn't.
Link to YouTube video showcasing blog post and demos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-Ufbtsy0M
Its indeed a brave new world. With governments getting ever more interested in what you do online, some not quite so mentally stable people have an audience for their mental diarrhea for the first time.
If you ever asked yourself the famous "who is supposed to read that", well now somebody is payed to. I hope they do the nice thing and upvote
My wife, who is a PhD scholar, has been using it to cut down her research time drastically. She is essentially using it as a search engine. What would otherwise take her 10 tabs and 20 Google queries now takes just 1-2 chatGPT prompts.
Which version of arrowos did you use for the note 7? Been looking for a working stable os.

Keep the blog going, interested in what else you'll get upto in the IT space.
> TikTok’s algorithm in China promotes more “socially positive” content than in the west.

Because China literally has a law that states that apps for kids must provide educational content. The USA can do the same if it wants that.
I do all of these things, have ADHD, and I can confirm it’s helped me preserve my sanity the last few years.

I’ve also come to terms with the fact that I most likely will never be that “hero” on my team who responds to a slack question or actions an ask right away - I just don’t have the mental bandwidth to be heads down and context switch 5 times an hour.

I also only check email twice a day

Anything you can do to be more defensive and purposeful with your time, the better
That didn't seem to be the implication. Carmacks name carries weight, and we're talking about navigating beurocracy and politics. My own thoughts and opinions tell me that they don't matter in those two domains
The note on the website doesn't mention recordings, and I don't think Tom Lehrer necessarily owns the copyright to any given recording that he could commit to the public domain.

Also "committing to the public domain" is an idea with various interpretations and legal implications, particularly in an international context. That's why things like CC0 exist, which essentially grant a "license" to works that is as near as possible to being free of copyright even in jurisdictions where there's no legal way to surrender your copyright. I think this update is more of a clarification on those terms rather than a substantial change to the copyright situation of Lehrer's lyrics and music.
We should all do our part. Less ag and industrial products means a higher cost for us all.
That is an excellent question, one I should investigate using a VM clone one of these days. The accounting data is frozen in time, so it should not be affected, but if the system starts refusing logons or just crashing, that would not be great (and I'm pretty sure the SCO licensing management thingy would fall over, as that was a previous source of, eh, entertainment).

The plan is definitely to retire the system Real Soon Now, but with the subjects of the underlying data springing new generations with new lawyers, ensuring some kind of Y2K38 compliance might be wise...
For those downvoting this, remember that firing a bullet has exactly the same impact on the hand holding the gun.
OK but at the same time Elon is proposing “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach”. Which is basically the same thing, no?
Fantastic open source project. I was involved in similar development a decade ago. The camera was in development hell will 1.6 million € wasted. There were permanently changing product managers, project managers and contractors. No end in sight. And nowadays somebody publish their million euro development on GitHub. Thank you!
TikTok pays peanuts compared to youtube.
We are mistaking this for a splash when instead it is the ripple before the shock wave
What is this new startup he will be working in? Has he disclosed?
A full office only tells you about the revenue side of the business. Many businesses are popular with customers but go bankrupt
Not too no diminish this in any way, but https://www3.elphel.com/ has been doing open source hard- and software since a while.
Symptom of noob low IQ managers. Just switch employers.
If you want to get pedantic, LEGO is a brand name and used as an adjective. The things the LEGO group sells are not Lego or Legos; they’re LEGO bricks or LEGO sets.

Only really makes sense to resort to such pedantry if you’re LEGO’s marketing department and concerned about genericization of your trademark, though. Everyone knows what you’re talking about if you say “legos”.
It only seems universal because the management universe has ben captured by the MBAs. All upper management feels the same way because they were all largely trained at the same few MBA schools.
Is rust and C++ trivial languages?
Have you considered, that throwing around caricatures to discredit positions you dislike is really toxic behavior? Even if you do it for what you perceive to be the right reasons, consequences are not trivial to determine and you are unlikely to be the first human to do it accurately.
I'm struggling to believe that it's a "a huge portion" given that Saudi Arabia has less than 1/10th the population of the US. Still, the story you link to is an amazing self-own on the part of Arizona.
It goes far beyond trivializing. People actively downplay, belittle, and ridicule the accomplishments of software engineering. And on a thread discussing an achievement so utterly incredible that few would have thought it possible 10 years ago.

Imagine people watching the James Webb Space Telescope being launched, and saying "modern aerospace engineers are terrible". That's what is happening here.

Personally, I find it distasteful and demeaning. It's one of several reasons why I cannot stomach the culture associated with software engineering anymore. The fact that this is happening so frequently on HN speaks volumes. I doubt that equivalent statements, made about spaceflight or medicine, would be tolerated in this forum.
I am also rather skeptical of the notion of a series of purportedly journalistic exposes of a company presented in collaboration with the new boss. Of course any source has an agenda but it seems too much like the tail wagging the dog here.
The decline of Sanskrit started significantly before the invasions.

Think of the Sanskrit bodies of literature. How many important ones were written after 500BC, vs before?

Most of Indian literature after that period was in various forms of Prakrit, Magadhi, Pali, proto-Tamil.

Creation of new literature strongly corresponds with how much a language is being used.
Isn't that what CentOS is?

edit: just googled, seems dead these days, but Rocky Linux is more or less the same thing
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Ask HN: What makes someone a versatile problem solver like Peter Norvig?
Peter Norvig seems to be a polymath who can solve and explain any problem at hand. The only arsenal he needs is a programming language. For the time being it is Python.

But how does one achieve such proficiency at solving problems of such varying degree and explaining them so lucidly?
Those parentheticals can be rewritten with commas, which sent me on an exploratory tangent trying to see if one could use commas instead of parens in Lisp.
Regardless of what he says, his actions show he controls speech.

What he said, says, or will say, doesn’t matter.

Twitter is a global platform ideal for steering public sentiment, opinion, and influencing political outcomes.

https://youtu.be/RII0eBszJJ4
Those other interests don't have a real chance to compete against endless YouTube etc, real life is just slower and gives less stimulation per second than the output of a whole industry trying to play their mind.
Oh they do. Leaders/execs will take note of enough people voicing something in common, assuming those opinions have passed counter-arguments/tests/discussions of sorts.

Carmack is only one guy. Maybe his voice might be worth a little more, but your voice also matters, so don't be so quick to despair.
Sounds like you don't know many anarchists? Most of the anarchists I know are focused on:

Building mutual aid networks locally, first and foremost. We help us, we protect us. Think food, clothing, and shelter for anyone in need.

Advocate for harm reduction. Given there are a lot of systemic problems that will take years to unwind, it's important to offset those harms, even if it's not your ultimate goal. I vote. It takes me ten minutes, it reduces the harm by electing progressive politicians who might be able to lower the power of capital. That doesn't make me not an anarchist. I can hold an ideal and also recognize reality simultaneously.

Finally, anarchists educate. They are focused on teaching that anarchism isn't "the purge", it's a system built on the idea that every human deserves respect. We have the means to care for everyone and still enjoy some luxuries.
Whatsapp had already carved out its market (because of SMS being charged for in its initial markets) before Facebook acquired it. https://www.statista.com/statistics/260819/number-of-monthly...

Granted that they've at least tripled MAU since, but that's the power of network effects. There's a heavy dose of "in spite of" rather than "because of". On the other hand if Meta tried to, say, merge Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, I think they'd lose half their users overnight.

Similarly, if Meta bought Zoom (and kept it running as it does today), most businesses probably wouldn't switch. Zoom already owns the market.
Not all kids are the same. Not everyone gets gambling addicted either.
Thsi is completely normal for any business. If you are ‘important’, like an authority or a large customer, you have priority channels to go through. When Tesla wants to contact the Department of Transportation, do you think they go to their website, fill in the public contact form and wait two months for a response?
Geophysicist. I handled quite a few things for one client including 24-hour support to field operations, remote processing of data, real-time QC of data processed by others, briefing of client contacts about hardware and software capabilities, demonstrations of data processing situations, presentation of data in various slideshows or interactive formats. On any given day I could work on one project or a half-dozen.

I tracked my time so that I could accurately assign time to each of their projects. Since I worked with personnel from field ops, software development, hardware testing, and was a point of contact for their external clients I needed to bill the correct project. I was on call 24/7/365 to deal with personnel who were could be working anywhere on earth.

In addition to using this software for job-related tasks it is super useful for recording all the inputs when you fill out online order forms. I use junk mail accounts for things I only want to see or buy from once and it helps to have all the fields filled as I actually filled them for my records. Some things offer one rate for a short period and flip to a higher rate later with an option to cancel. I screenshot all the offer terms for my records so I can verify charges to my accounts and cancel things I don't care about.

I have done a lot of online cross-training in other things and having screenshots of relevant slide shows can help jog a memory.

As far as employers requiring this level of documentation it was recommended when I began working with one client that I use time-tracking software to manage invoicing and project billing. The person who made that recommendation was also a consultant who understood the nature of the work I would be doing. I was free to choose software, etc since I was a consultant and not an employee. I tested several offerings and settled on this one.

I was only asked once to provide documentation for time invoiced. I had invoiced more than 20 consecutive hours of time on one project, a lot longer than your standard 8-hour day. It was one of those things that began with a phone call and came standard with a tight deadline and multiple data format issues to sort before it could be completed. Using the one minute screenshots I assembled a gif of the time period subsampling to 5 minute screenshots, included copies of my hand-written notes from that part of the project, and printed all the notes added during and after the work period and submitted that along with an offer to produce similar documentation for any other entries for the time that I had contracted with their company. I made a follow-up call to the contact and was told that they didn't need to see anything else, ever.

Basically, for more than a decade I screenshotted my work life at one minute intervals and generated invoices from the screenshots and database entries. It was super easy and a huge time saver since it was all in one place and easy to generate reports.

It was without a doubt top 5 most useful software I have ever purchased.
The argument seems to be that what the FBI is doing is more or less analogous to you clicking the report button, which hardly makes you a shadowy figure controlling Twitter if they act on your report.
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