skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Zoom is the first video conference software I have used where the first 15 minutes of the meeting is not spent on impromptu tech support to get everyone connected, seeing, and hearing everyone else. And I'm exaggerating only slightly.
Like many words in natural language, "Swim" does not have a precise meaning. A dictionary will probably say something like "Propel through water using limbs", although the word "swimming" can sometimes be used metaphorically, for example "I have bits of bacon swimming in my potato soup". Cleary, bacon does not have limbs!

Now even though Submarines (usually) have propellors, one can easily imagine a design that used limb-like oars to propel it. Does this mean that such a strange submarine is swimming?

The point Dijkstra was making is that the comparison is pointless: there is a fundamental difference between an organism swimming and a machine moving through water. Trying to equate these two actions is pointless, since it adds no new depth of understanding. He therefore dismisses the question of "can machines think" as having no usefulness.
You can find ready made ones for that price nowadays.
It has nothing to do with reality. It’s socialist jargon.
it's a matter of degree. you are free to make your own choices, just as i am free to make mine.
> with an implementation inspired by Visual Studio Code.

Is this an indication of Gitlabs new "corporate" culture? The website already seems less "OSS" than it did, but to say "inspired by" is a hairline away from bullshit.

It's not inspired by VSCode, it _is_ VSCode.
I wish people took noise pollution more seriously.

The same people complaining about car/mechanical work are the ones who have no problem with consistent leaf blowers/lawn mowers/parties/etc.
Copyright of AI generated comic book rescinded
Right to repair nimbyism.
I did consider it. Infinite scalability isn't required during runtime; the scene doesn't ever zoom or scale in the games, because that was always so slow in Flash, so the only real benefits would be 1) supporting higher resolutions and 2) reducing file size.

For 1) I decided I'd rather just release an update with larger textures if these ones ever start to look dated. That way I get to keep the runtime code simple. Less code means fewer bugs. I don't want to spend a lot of time fielding support requests from users who hit edge cases in the rasterizer. As for not changing too often, that's true, but taking advantage of that means doing change tracking with dirty-rectangles or similar, which not only adds complexity but also feels like it would make performance less predictable.

And for 2) the game as it stands now is under 50MB so I didn't feel a pressing need to make it smaller, although a tiny executable would be cool in a satisfying, demoscene kind of way.
It's already underway. I run into a handful of sites every week now. Here's an example https://testfoodkitchen.com/what-is-a-top-round-roast-good-f... - it seems plausible at first but the whole site is bizarre non-information.
I don’t live in the sticks and I don’t have a view like this at all..

Literally, the sights and sounds of the neighbor running a garbage dump is less reprehensible to me than dealing with a bunch of racist busybodies in an HOA. At least if you have a problem with the neighbor, you you can put on some headphones or build a privacy hedge. If you have a problem with the HOA they can fine you indefinitely because they don’t like you (with some convenient excuse like the flower beds aren’t trimmed right or the grass isn’t green enough), and then foreclose on your house, kicking you out on to the street.
Crypto is def the future
Thanks for catching that. Fixed.
Tooling matters, pretending that it doesn't isn't really going to help you. But you do you...
There is none.

The invasion of ukraine snapped a lot of people who weren't paying attention awake. And they believe we're in a novel situation.

It's just another cold war style proxy war, this is Kissinger's wheelhouse.
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy
Excited for the TVs that detect the amount of people in a room.

I wish TV and other mediums could be like bandcamp.

I pay you money, you give me a file at highest quality in the format I want it with no DRM from anywhere on the planet.

You get paid, I get something I own and can support creators.

Until that I’m done with all of this fucking bullshit. The middle men are leeches.

Piracy feels righteous if it’s denying them even a penny.
Unicon’s OpenGL 2D and Integrated 2D/3D Graphics Implementation [pdf]
I think it depends on how they do their fiscal quarters

TSLA earnings call is Jan 20 I think

TSLA specifically is probably announcing now, so the announcement can be added to their k-filing (report to investors that’s kind of also a legal thing in regard to announcements)

Basically, this news tells me their earnings call in January is going to be bad, and having a layoff in the series k may mitigate a bloodbath
Those people concerned about the potential for some new neighbor's junk cars can get everyone now to sign an agreement (attached to deed) preventing said. Of course there will be some holdouts, which you'll have to bribe. So it's clear that making a local law in lieu of said agreements is effectively a subsidy to those who would have had to pay this bribe.
I dunno, these seem like exceptions that prove the rule to me. Seems a time consuming game to seek out landlords who are losing money so that i can save money in the long run. Especially if i don't want to live in a place that behaves like it is also losing money. Ie where repairs and basic needs aren't met because the landlord is upside down and is seeking to sell asap.

Anything is possible, but it seems quite improbable to a, what appears to be, very profitable venture for many corporations. A probable explanation to so many potentially owned homes being offered as rentals, too.

For the significant majority of tenants i cannot imagine they're "winning" over their landlord.
the only fix is to "pay what you can for good content"

Free means we the users become the commodity.
This article is totally ignoring the existence of academic "handbooks", which is where the wisdom lies.

The whole idea is that individual papers are supposed to be exploratory, throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. They're supposed to be a deluge of information.

But then every decade or so a team of academics take it upon themselves to serve as editors to a handbook, which attempts to survey the field in terms of history, where the most value has been found so far (and what hasn't panned out), and current promising directions. Usually something like 20-50 chapters, each contributed by a different author.

If you want to get into the wisdom of a field, the first thing you do is pull out the most recent 800-page handbook, read the first few chapters, and then drill down in your area of interest on the remaining part.

To say there "are no prizes for wisdom" is absurd, when being selected to publish in a handbook (or being an editor) is prestigious, a mark that you've very much "made it" in the field.

And of course there are plenty of other things that serve similar roles, such as literature review papers or similar. (In philosophy you can write a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, for instance.)

If you aren't finding wisdom anywhere, it means you're simply not looking right.

(And this isn't even to mention the fact that at some point somebody will popularize major progress in a field in a general-audience book, e.g. when Daniel Goleman wrote the book "Emotional Intelligence" or Stephen Hawking wrote "A Brief History of Time".)
> So? What's bad about that?

Easy: other people bought their property at a premium for the government guarantee that they would be able to live in quiet and peace. If you want to not abide by these rules, you have to go and buy a property in a zone that does not come with these rules.

> If I own property, I have a right to use that property as I see fit. I should be able to build a building on it, take the building down, build a business, this is a fundamental right of being a human.

Then buy a property that does not come with restrictions. You live as part of a society, so respect at least the basic rules of that society. You wanna know why so many HOAs turn out to be so "dictatorial"? Because they all had that one person too many who decided that they didn't care about their neighbors.
> I really hope some of the open source alternatives that aren't corporation-controlled gain traction over the next year.

Shout out to CodeLite.

https://codelite.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeLite
Looks impressive but:

- Taking into account the manufacturing of the item, plus pods and filters, I’m skeptical that a composter of this size will reduce anyone’s carbon footprint

- It’s $500 for the base model. I could just buy a lot of dirt for that money

- Only the most expensive model comes with a 3 year warranty.
The whole library ecosystem, for example (but far from only) if you want a BLAS. OpenCL only provides much lower level infrastructure bricks.

With CUDA having unmatched performance compared to alternatives too.
Welcome to the future. As these tools improve, expect a massive explosion of content, in increasingly complex forms. Today it's comics, tomorrow videos and music, next week video games. I for one cannot wait until any old schmuck has the power to create a full-featured 3D video game.
C/C++ is only 'one language' (I know, but for sake of this discussion, may as well be), and even then, Intellij does just fine for me, even if it's not on par with Clion. To say it doesn't support mixed language development is silly. In one sizeable project I have python, js, TS, kotlin, Java, bash, groovy, even a little C. All of it works in Intellij ultimate with code completion, refactoring, goto definition, find usages, etc. And it does it does better and faster than the same project when attempting to use VSCode. VSCode starts getting real slow trying to find references and whatnot on significant size projects, and the refactoring is night and day better in Intellij.
A key part of a scientific-research education is learning how to filter the vast pool of literature and recover interesting and meaningful books, reviews and primary publications. It's not that trivial and is definitely a learned skill.

Take the author's example, 'entropy'. Well, a one-word search is of course going to generate a massive pile of unsorted material. Internet Archive Scholar gives ~873,000 hits. Nice resource by the way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33919823

If you knew nothing about entropy, but knew how to research, you might start with, "okay, when is the first appearance of the word 'entropy' in the literature" and you quickly discover it's Ludwig Boltzmann, 1872. Seems to have something to do with energy and information, and if we add in those terms, we're down to 284K hits. At this point, you might think "I bet someone has written a good book on this broad topic, maybe I shouldn't be looking at the primary literature until later."

Notice that adding search terms narrows results? Keep doing that until you get a smaller number of hits. Now, you can grab the top dozen or so papers, and flip to the bibliography, and look to see if they all reference a landmark paper (this is related to searching by citation count). That's probably one you want to look at.

With non-research-literature-focused internet search engines, the same general rules apply. More search terms tends to get better results. If you find a site with a good article, search that site for more. For example, this gives a lot of good results, for the role of entropy in machine learning concepts at least:

'site:towardsdatascience.com entropy Shannon'

It's basically mining a haystack for needles. There are lots of techniques and strategies one can use to speed up the process.
Couldn't stop thinking of ruffle.rs
Palantir’s SPAC bets backfire
Someone is making these value judgements. There's a reason why certain projects get funded while others don't.

If someone has no idea what research will yield results, and has no preference for what research gets funded, that's fine. But if all research is the same to them, they should probably let those who view certain research as more important than others to make the decisions about what gets funded.
You might want to look into adding a little complementary strength-building for the back of your upper body (Aussie pullups as I suggested earlier for instance, bent dumbbell rows would be another good example). IANAD but as a rule it's bad for your overall fitness to have too much of a strength imbalance.
You're pretty much just complaining about the network effect no?
Yes and my point is, if you actually had a society where you didn't need to own a car at all, that is what would actually help poor people. Far more then congrats now you can buy 50kg of rice at once and save 0.05c per kg.

If you actually lived in a society where there are cheap apartments in walking or biking distance from reasonable urban infrastructure and all the job that are there. So that you don't have to pay for your commute, or have some very local public transport.

That is what actually safes real money. That is how people in really poor places, like the Eastern block could reasonably approach a decent standard of living with far lower GDP. They lived in apartments, and had most things they needed close to them.

That is how you systematically can even approach to solving these issues.

If your analysis is restricted to, poor people can't utilize economics of scale on an individual bases, then you have a flawed view of poverty.

Consistently housing cost and transportation cost approach almost 50% of total living cost even for the middle class. And more then that for the poor, add food and you are going 90%+.

So if you can systematically so something to reduce housing cost and transportation cost, then you are actually changing lives on a real scale. Far more then buying food in slightly larger quantities, far more then buying slightly higher quality shoes.
No, because older software versions are dropped often rather quickly, especially if they are not maintained by upstream anymore, to reduce required maintaince work on them.
Insight is NOT a rover. It's unmovable lander. There's so much less to gain post primary mission. And last two rovers outgrown solar panels anyway and are powered by thermoelectric generators powered by radioactive decay.
> It's a different group of people steering the ship then it was 25 years ago.

Is it a different group of people than were steering when they decided to patent troll Android OEMs less than a decade ago?

Is it a different group of people than were steering when they started abusing their desktop market share to strong arm their way into the browser market last year? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031)

Microsoft didn't change, they're just being more careful now that their position is weaker.
The court does not want a deep guru on every topic. It effectively wants a bridge between a specialized domain and the court itself (which is made of lay people.)

I would expect an Expert to study on the particulars of a case. In general as long as they are sufficiently narrow I don't see a problem here.
Because of the harm they cause to the people around them, as discussed in the comments here.
CLEAR and PreCheck are small potatoes. What I want is to require everyone who flies to go through the TSA line, including anyone flying private. Don't allow congresspeople to bypass the TSA (which I believe they're allowed to do). If the people in charge of the government and the multimillionaires and billionaires who control them had to go through that, I bet there'd be a lot more interest in fixing things.

I want to see the President of the United States stand in a crappy TSA line like the rest of us each time he boards his VC25.
I feel you; it's a pain.

Tbh, Three was even worse when I rang, I just got a call centre in India, and they can never help you.

Does suck about EE for you. I've had a few issues, but they are okay with giving me credit. They messed up my discount on my latest contract, so they gave me a recurring discount of £5 on my contract and added like 3 months of credit on.

I also had an issue with BT (which I assume is the same call centre as EE). They never gave us the signup bonus (free soundbar). I waited six months, got the ombudsman involved, and someone high up gave me a call. They instantly realised it was pretty messed up. So, in the end, I ended up getting a Soundbar, and like £300 back in credit, so I had free internet for most of the contract, then cancelled as soon as I moved house.

But if it happens to you, always hint you don't want to get the ombudsman involved, and they will suddenly get their crap together.
I'm pretty sure that a municipality needs a population of 50K to be considered a city. This is more of a small town.
"Repairing Your Car in Your Own Garage Is Considered Illegal in Sacramento, CA"

Yep, and so are many basic home repairs in NYC.

It seems these restrictions are more common in areas with higher populations and also as fewer people do their own work. Some of this may be in the name of safety, the environment, etc. However, the actual law tends to be overkill since they don't tailor it to specific actions causing the potential harms.
A VNA still doesn’t tell you range an antenna gives over another (ie gain). For that, a legit antenna test range is necessary, or a hike out in the woods works too.
I just want to wait when they amass more shares and likes than nytimes.com and collectively have 100x as much content as the current sites.

They'll be the new Vice and Vox, but run entirely by AI

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/ai-writing-is-here-and-...
Not quite the same deal but years ago to break myself of being a keyboard tyrant while pair programming, but mainly cause I have a large head and couldn't buy tools, I started knitting. This was 05 so as a large male in the Midwest I got some shit for it, but I covered that by knitting everyone a custom hat and squares to block out our physical kanban board lanes. You can't grab the keyboard quickly when knitting so it completely broke me of it and had me much better at being able to talk through things.

These days for meetings I'll sometimes sit back and leatherwork. Finished a nice duffle recently. Really helps me pay attention to listening and not start 3 side convos on slack.

Also helps me watch TV without reading garbage on my phone over and over. Overall I find it like being in a flow state for half your brain like meditation or tig welding.
Yes, they did re-write to Minecraft Bedrock Edition but did not deprecate java edition, it's still alive an thriving.
I don't know what will happen to it as a public consumer product, but Google's internal browser-based hosted VS Code (Cider V) is great.
In a free market, there wouldn't be a need to sell line cutting in the first place because it would be legal to run an airline that you can fly on without dealing with the TSA at all. Forcing everyone to go through the TSA is inherently non-market, so there can't be a market price for it.
A native Linux build is still better performance than Proton, so with the popularity of Steam Deck it is worth the effort recompiling for Linux for higher performance games.
Plenty of warehouses and repair shops for rent in non-residential zones for $30/sq ft/year

Edit: something also worth considering is extremely high correlation of academic outcomes and noise pollution levels. It’s been widely documented to affect learning and brain performance. The evidence is so widely established that in NYC it is forbidden to idle engines in front of schools for more than 1 minute.

Now you have to weigh the benefits. Should the law be tilted to satisfy needs of an individual trying to fix their motor and negatively affect multiple other individuals, or should the interested party get to the designated repair zone in which case it only affects that single individual.
Link to actual paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35309-y
Is this basically the approach speculated by Neal Stephenson in Seveneves?
There's someone wrong somewhere. Go get em!
I get (and agree with) this idea in general, but these buttons are still present in any Adobe apps (esp. Photoshop) and they're not going anywhere.

Hell, I don't think they're original to Flash to begin with, more like borrowed from Photoshop when Adobe bought Macromedia (this is purely my speculation; but Photoshop is much older).
>For developing countries, which are very much developing due to capitalism, there is a <<huge>> improvement in quality of life right now.

And which are the coutries "which are very much developing due to capitalism" ?
When you basically have doomed humanity to rely on a single (malicious) company for a technology that is as important as AI

I don't disagree, but how did this argument fare against Microsoft? Is there a reason you expect it to fare better against Nvidia? That sweaty guy jumping around yelling "Developers! Developers! Developers!" had a point.
> There is a small but major difference with Flash vs Minecraft and Roblox. Flash let you create something from scratch (or close to it). […] It was fantastic.

Absolutely fantastic, yes! Roblox does allow you to make a game from scratch — even though the primitives are generally less primitive and the constraints much different — but my point is just that if you're wondering where the spirit of dj_mc_merlin's experiences went, two places where it can be found in spades are in the Roblox and Minecraft communities. (Source: Am a parent experiencing this vicariously via my kids.)
https://scratch.mit.edu/ seems like a social network for kids making basic games and learning to code. They seem to encourage forking and learning from existing projects.
> If you are unfamiliar with Mastodon, you will no doubt wonder what the big deal is. How is this one going to be any different than its slimy competitors?

I think it's important to remind people that Mastodon isn't a "competitor" to proprietary social media, it's an alternative.

No one cares whether you use Mastodon or not-- I mean people do care, they like you and want to interact with you, that's not what I'm getting at. I mean that no one is getting paid or not if you do or don't use Mastodon. In other words, there's no stock ticker for it, there's no investors, no executives, no marketing dept., etc. It's just folks talking to each other, on their own terms, over the Internet.

It's a totally different thing than Twitter. They only superficially resemble each other in some of the UI.
Depends on the welding, stick welding gives off plumes of smoke and vapors. Tig welding is the opposite and very clean.
Waterloo has a Department of Combinatorics and Optimization? Amazing.
Spirit and Opportunity were rovers and constantly changing place and position.
Insight is NOT a rover. It is an unmovable lander.
Although I do agree with that generally, but there was an effort involved. You had to plan ahead, usually it might be done kind of a social occasion, or you had other chores to fulfill of you yourself knew how to plan an instrument.

Today, it's available with just a press of a button, and I think that's the main point of the article.
And why should I give a fuck about what investor wishes. In my opinion bar direct / illegal actions like throwing garbage in neighbour's property we should be left alone from interference.
My kingdom for an Emacs plug-in.
The redpill in me says MSFT created dotnet to kill VB6. That tool made it too easy (and cheap) to create value through automation.
Another piece of the puzzle that is worth noting, it is unclear if the model itself is copyrightable. There's a reason that they require you to affirmatively agree to the license before sharing the model instead of just attaching the license.

This way if a court rules that generated models don't qualify for copyright they can still enforce it under contract law.