skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have well over a hundred games purchased on GoG or game website or humble bundle (many of them also on my steamdeck - kudos to Valve for building an open platform).

I also have many hundreds purchased off of Itch (in large part due to the ukraine bundle).

I prefer to purchase off GoG/humble just due to how locked down Steam is. I've bought the same game in a series on GoG versus Steam. On GoG I can LAN game with my kid to play co-op. On steam, I would need to purchase a controller, figure out how to use it, since basically no games support using 2 keyboard configurations on 2 USB keyboards, and steam requires purchasing multiple copies for LAN play.

Also the steam client often sucks up gigs of RAM (seems to be due to the chrome web portion when checking process list) for no obvious reason that I have better use for.

Epic on the other hand, I have purchased exactly one game at my kid's request and it being an epic exclusive. Due to no linux support of any kind. I've snagged a fair number of their freebies in the past, but only a few work somewhat under Wine, often only if circumventing their client, so it's not worth dropping my money on.
It has nothing to do with training. The only part that copyright would protect against is transmitting your photos' information to Adobe.

There's probably a clause in there about Adobe being able to do exactly that for reasons.
I feel that this is a common understanding of RISC but not a particularly useful one because not all complexity is equal.

Things like matrix extensions are "complicated" from a perspective of "there are a lot of instructions that do weird specific things" but, critically, none of these operations are particularly hard to do in hardware. For example, a fixed size matrix multiply is something that the highly parallel nature of hardware is especially well suited for. This greatly contrasts with truly CISC instructions like the VAX's polynomial multiply which effectively just became a massive microcode subroutine because hardware couldn't implement it well either.
Your only power to encourage them to fix this is to do the thing they're begging you not to: dispute the charges.

If a threshold of Twilio customers dispute charges, Twilio loses the ability to process credit cards at a lower risk rate, then with all but high risk processors, then may lose the ability to process them at all.

If enough of their customers are getting burned, and enough dispute, Twilio would no longer be able to accept credit cards. They are terrified of that, so begging you not to dispute charges for their lack of fraud prevention.

You accepting anything less than full refund of all fraudulent use they're cascading back on you is a gift to them. You accepting less than a full refund, while not dinging them at all with a chargeback is also a gift to them. If they don't want to give you the full refund for misuse they should be preventing, dispute it, as is your right.

The correct course for Twilio is for Twilio to refund these charges no questions asked while fixing the problem.
Was probably easier when the videos had a time limit and didn't support 4K (or 1080p even).
There’s a free CRDT based SQLite sync system. It’s for a different use-case — local first software including peer to peer sync use-case.

https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

51 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33606311
Often a signing bonus also needs to be repaid (pro-rated).
Seems like some of the bad parts of terrestrial solar (fighting atmospheric conditions, wind loading, etc) without the good parts of orbital solar (once you're in orbit, staying there is relatively easy and you have very little in the way of mechanical stresses for your solar array, so you can make it really huge). I might not be thinking about it hard enough.
Changed from https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/. Thanks!
It is not "free" at all if you are paying with your data. My data privacy is worth way more than the cost of streaming some video with crap discovery.
You can flash it, but you need to use GPIO pins and UART to do so.

The bootrom bug only prevents you from flashing via the on-board USB-c port. You can use a separate USB <-> UART device plugged into GPIO pins to boot/flash.
Track meets are a little chaotic sometimes with all the events going on both the field and the track around the field. I guess someone actually was hit by a javelin at one point. From my searching it seems like these days its only just starting to come back to some highschool programs.
This seems ripe for replaceable bearings or some kind of maintenance thing.
> You’ll be offered personalized coaching.

Thank you for reading this so that I don't have to. Coaching for walking is an Onion article I swear.
In the new economy, attention is the real currency.
This should be the actual link:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
It doesn't say HTTP is spyware; it says it has some problems (which is true). There are ways to be implemented to mitigate some of these problems.
> Where did you get that idea?

From the actual case law of application of the prohibition by state courts, etc.

> In California: non-competes are carte blanche unenforced and even considered abusive and illegal in many contexts (for non-executives), whether you're currently employed or not.

This both a misuse of the phrase “carte blanche” and inaccurate in its substantive message. Prohibition on competing work while employed is a well-documented exception to both California’s general policy against non-competes and its general policy against employer prohibitions against moonlighting; your employer can’t stop you from working for someone else who doesn’t compete with in your spare time while you are employed by them, and can't stop you from competing with them when you are no longer employed by them, but they can prohibit competing work while you are employed:

https://www.dwt.com/blogs/employment-labor-and-benefits/2020...

https://www.mossbollinger.com/blog/2020/december/my-employer...
Except VCs lose all their money pretty quick if they never get it right, and don't get rewarded (to the same extent) for following along with whatever is in fashion. So, there is another, more fundamental, factor there- one that drives VCs to invest in things that are thought to be under-funded but have potential.
And if you fail, you get to send a rescue mission!
Difficult to defend "as practiced". For example trying to enforce a non-compete for sandwiches is ridiculous.

There are obvious scenarios in competitive industries where losing key people to competitors creates risks for everyone involved (not just the losing employer). The problem is when employers expect the individual employee to absorb the costs to mitigate that risk. Or where the non-competes are applied overbroadly. Rather than ban non-competes, it would be better to require compensation for the term of the non-compete. This prevents frivolous applications of non-competes, which is the actual problem.
They don't pay retail price. You probably weren't going to buy those games if Epic wasn't giving them away, so you don't represent a lost sale. The developers could easily come out ahead getting payed penny's on the dollar for sales that wouldn't have otherwise happened.

There is a risk that a game or studio gets a reputation for giveaways/discounts which could canabalize future sales. Or the entire industry gets such a reputation. However, at least in this case, KSP is so old at this point, I don't think it is a major issue. If anything, the publicity probably will do more to boost sales of KSP2, then the notion that KSP2 may be free in 7 years.

Given the timing, I suspect Private Division views this as a marketing deal in advance of the February release of KSP2. Any monetary compensation they get is just a bonus.
Ah thank you! I've been using wasavi on Chrome but real-vim may be enough to pull me back to Firefox.
That's an offer, not a solution. What if the offer isn't reasonable? What if the employee is leaving because the equity vesting has dropped off? (eg: leaving after 4 years)

> "Non-cash compensation (eg equity) may be replaced with equivalent cash. "

What's the equivalent cash value of options? The variability here is huge. Seems better to just ban these schemes entirely, especially considering there's seemingly zero upside to allowing them.

Remember: California has never allowed noncompetes and we're doing just fine in the tech department. Better plan would be for the rest of the country to follow our lead.
No.

People breathe out CO2 that is product of their own metabolism.

Oxygen + carbohydrates in, CO2 out.
I think this is a pretty good indication of why GPT isn't suitable as a travel agent. Proposes a hotel in central NYC and "day trips" which are 3 or 4 hours each way for 3 out of 4 days rather than seeing less (and arranging a change of hotel and flight out of Dulles if you absolutely must cram DC and Philly in)...

(I absolutely think someone will build a good AI travel agent, but it'll be lots of travel APIs hooked up to recommendation engines, possibly with a thin conversational layer on top, not ChatGPT. I guess having a ChatGPT chat window to answer basic questions about destination cities attached to a very standard flight/hotel package booking service might be a nice gimmick though, and much easier to actually build, but you'd need to warn users not to expect too much!)
https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog
AUv3 and SwiftUI: Embed Audio Unit Extensions in a Multiplatform App
Not usually, but it can be, particularly when ray tracing is added to the mix. Of the three games I mentioned The Callisto Protocol is very much CPU limited (though more so with more powerful GPUs).
There’s clearly more to motivation, dependency, and even addiction than just how “bad enough” someone wants something.
Oh, thank you but on the one hand I want to use mpv because it runs hardware acceleration, VAAPI was working with chromium last week now it does not, also tried with ffx-esr still same just works on VAAPI so yeah.
I've a hypothesis for this.

Science is now largely confined to the stuffy halls of academia, reliant totally on corporate sponsorship.

If you want to do much of anything in academia, you need grant funding. Which means your work often has to conform to someone's agenda.

This leaves fuck all space for fucking about and finding out.

There is no place left in modern society for independent scientists to tinker away at stuff for the most part - even when finance isn't an issue, laws tend to get in the way.

The combination of the war on drugs and the war on terror have made the independent chemist or hobbyist largely an extinct beast, with a few remaining, constantly running the risk of being snatched up by the police on some trumped up charge due to concerns about public safety.

As to biology? The same thing, really. Once you get beyond the kinda lame finger magnets and RFID implants side of biohacking, and skirt around the Bay Area nutjobs talking shit about injecting themselves with recombinant DNA, there are a bunch of folks doing a lot of really interesting gene editing work with very poor resources and no institutional backing.

Unfortunately, the DIY Bio people also tend to get harassed periodically on the grounds of public safety.

Physics? Again, without institutional backing, the scopes pretty thin. Again due to laws that supposedly protect the public.

I could go on, but I'm just making myself depressed typing this tbh. We need to bring back the possibility of doing hard scientific work outside of the stranglehold of industry and academia.
Oops. I meant 7800x3D.
Depends on the company. In large companies it's very common for the vast majority of HR matters to be delegated to contractors or fresh out of college hires, with no experience managing people, and little authority.
String theory has been out of fashion for at least a decade.
Good points! Let me try to dissect them, let me know what you think.

1. I agree with the themes of not paying disloyal middlemen, but I'm not sure if it applies to the example.

> You'd want some evidence that rewarding disloyal middlemen results in we the consumer surplus,

If entrepreneur Y is willing to pay 2x the salary of entrepreneur X for the same employee, presumably its because Y thinks they can use the salesperson's relationships (at least) twice as productively.

In that case, Y has a product to sell that is twice as valuable as X's. As a consumer, don't we want companies we engage with to use the most valuable products?

I'm not suggesting that we pay unaligned people more (obviously, this is bad). Rather, I'm saying we shouldn't erect barriers to prevent disgruntled employees from leaving, because we're paying the opportunity cost of them not being a more productive employee at a competitor.

2. I'm not sure if this holds up in 2023, where talent networks are global and talent discovery is so cheap.

I think this argument makes sense if the skills of people who are signing non-competes were not so rare and in-demand. If I exclusively depended on family ties to run a company in 2023, I'd expect my competition to run me over.
Nothing would make me dispute a charge faster than being told not to dispute a charge
They own the premium number that the victim is texting... and thus earning the charged money.
Cool! If they ever come out with a more robust version that works well on trails and unpaved surfaces, I'd look into it. Depending on the range, it looks like it would be pretty useful for doing fieldwork like rare plant surveys.
Trades are one of those areas (along with software engineering) where it is relatively easy to be your own boss. The market in general is pretty competitive on both the buyer (lots of individual homeowners needing work done) and seller (lots of small independent contractors selling their labor) sides; that should make overall prices & wages reflect industry-wide (or at least local) supply & demand pretty well.

ConstructionPhysics has a pretty good series about why the construction industry never really realized economies of scale the way most other industries do. Even when you have large homebuilders like D.R. Horton, their primary competitive advantage is usually reduced cost of capital, which goes away if capital becomes expensive for everyone.

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-...
lol this is _dangerous_

I know what I’m going to be playing around with this weekend :p
I would be very surprised if any of the Western optics the Russians have that have been captured are American. Or at least the advanced optics available for sale in America but under export controls. Like I said, this isn't hard stuff to keep track of.
Did anyone wonder if this was written by an AI? 3 of the steps boil down to figuring out what your crows like to eat.
Could this be a place where "automation/globalization/whatever" has actually destroyed the jobs? I'm not overfamiliar with a lot of them, but I could see that e.g. being a carpenter or electrician today might be different from in the past owing to "cruft" -- fewer unions, more gatekeeping in the form of regulations and guild type deals, the unreasonable scale of business, more proprietary crap to deal with, etc?
I'm not arguing for online porn here so do not take it as some form of whataboutism. I just wonder if such young kid should have unrestricted access to internet at all. Apart from sites like 4chan even random influencer can create unhealthy perspective on life.
OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B
Yes, but you can write and integrate the platform APIs for UO components. You can’t do that in flutter.
I guess part of the raison d'etre in larger companies is precisely to make humans measurable. And that is necessary to make a company manageable by executives. Although I think in some businesses that kind of work is largely performative.
KSP is an amazing game.

More important than anything else, what it gave me is an intuition of orbital mechanics. There's a lot about orbiting craft that's hilariously counter-intuitive to ground-based intuition (favorite example: to approach something, in front of you, you turn opposite to your current trajectory and burn. It shortens your orbit, which decreases your orbital period, which means you'll catch up to your target).
It isn't copyright infringement to train an AI on information that you obtained legally.

Example: If I put my book on mybook.com, and you download it (legally), you can read it, learn from it, and produce works in a similar style, all without my consent, and copyright offers no tools to restrict that.

The only tool copyright offers to protect against that is distribution.
Those banners are illegal according to GDPR. Once there's a threat of a fine on the horizon all those "insipid banners" quickly change to show you a reject button https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come
It’s illegal in most states to stream video on a console that the driver can see while they are driving.

Apple and I believe Google are very strict about which apps can be used for CarPlay/Android Auto. There would be major repercussions if they weren’t.
Can you elaborate on this? What is the input to the GPT in that case? I was under the impression that GPT is given an array of tokens and it produces one token as its output.
It's a great meme, but memes are only good for estimating the future, and while the future can indeed be strongly influenced by the fact that much of human cognition is meme-based, there are also many other influences on it.

This and many other pieces of very useful knowledge are there for the taking in the metaphysical realm, just as was the case hundreds of years ago in the physical realm, prior to the rise of science (a metaphysical phenomenon itself).
This seems equivalent to simply retaining the employee.
Dang you said this better than I did.
Well done.
American citizens don't regularly march down the street chanting "Death to Iran", though. I mean, that could be just for show. But I sure don't want them to ever have the means to carry it out, so we could see what they would do...
Recent and related:

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34248858 - Jan 2023 (139 comments)
That's one way of thinking which IMO is a cold way to look at the world. I would say its just simply nicer to retrain your staff to meet your goals versus cutting them off and finding new staff all the time. Too bad nice typically goes against profits in this economy.
let alone all the slang references for the core word
To a lot of us, career growth and the knowledge thereof is a requirement; we seek to be onward and upward whether in skillset, enjoyment, pay, etc. I have learnt in recent HN thread that this is not as common as I thought [0].

Non-competes are stupid period and thankfully in California are not enforceable. It's similar to a prenuptial agreement in marriage except who the f is marrying their employer?? A good employer wants to keep you, will compensate you to do so, and if they can't, they are proud of you and wish you well, _even if that means a stronger competitor_ .

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34257325
Does this have the ability to bet set to "grab highest available resolution" instead of specifying one? A lot of the material I'd like to archive has material from well before and after Youtube started supporting HD resolutions.
If you bothered to read beyond the headline, they compare performance against Intel as well
Ah, it's like a 900 number, but for sms.
Related ongoing thread:

How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264436 - Jan 2023 (20 comments)
That's a misconception. "Provision of a service" only means paid services and doesn't apply to websites offering content for free.
Anecdotally we've got a RN app, and we've only got one or two native source files for each platform, which are mostly there to bridge in third-party libraries for things like analytics. Our UI and business logic are almost 100% JS and it works out really nicely for us

Of course this is a mostly standard (but not small) CRUD app. We've got some custom animations/widgets here and there, but mostly it's vanilla forms, controls, views, etc. which translate easily to both platforms

We also started out on RN from the beginning; it's possible that migrating to it from native code is a much bigger challenge
my goodness this site is struggling hard...

login page loading took many attempts (one resulting in a CF 5XX page) and not it is stuck on the confirmation....(I have no given up).

Also, why is this store page fully client side rendered? the layout thrash is really noticeable. Is the store in the middle of a rewrite or something?
Battery powered Chevy Silverado is 3000lbs heavier that its ICE version.
That is directly from the article and very telling.
It's going to suck carrying 4Kg of shoes home when the battery starts crapping out after 2 years.

Also so will the knee injuries from wearing 2Kg of shoe on each food.
Contracts that restrict you, whether non-compete, NDA or otherwise, should be as narrow as possible and limited to a reasonable time. Overly broad restrictions are stupid, dangerous, and unnecessary.

I had quite a bit of discussion about this for my current project. It had two non-competes; one for the client and one for the intermediary, and the important one, the one by the client, sounded very broad and vague, and I wanted explicit and in writing how broad they meant it. (Turned out to be only about a handful of their direct competitors.)
> Could you generate nontrivial power from the Moon's motion through the Earth's magnetic field?

Not sure, but my gut feeling says no: the Moon is a very long way from the Earth relative to the Earth's size, therefore the magnetic field is likely to be fairly uniform around the Moon and so that can't extract much work.

That said, one fun idea I've had is to just assume that the Dark Energy expansion of the universe is pushing the Moon away very slowly; 73 (km/s)/Mpc * distance to the moon ≈ 9.5e-10 m/s, which is pretty close to the actual current Moon-Earth recession speed.

Plugging that into the formula for far-field gravitational potential energy given the mass of Earth and the Moon, that's about 170 GW at the present time.

(But don't go trying to crowd-fund a Dark Energy field reactor on my say-so: At my [rather limited] level of understanding, it looks like physicists haven't yet reached any sort of consensus as to whether or not Dark Energy might work like that).
It is legally lazy of them to throw that in there and good for you to stand your ground.

Make them sleep in the bed they make!
We are right back to the 90's and early 2000's with cable. Replace the word "channel" with "platform."
This is the case, the telephone billing system is perhaps the most complicated pile of softwareshit you have ever seen in your LIFE - and some of it is insane.

There have been people who got printed bills from their cell phone provider for every single kilobyte of data, each individually indexed and billed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300-page_iPhone_bill
That is very cool, nice to see vintage editors hosted in a modern environment.

What I'd really like to see return is an online version of EDIT.COM, and maybe also its host binary QBASIC.EXE, not just for the nostalgia but because it was a pretty decent editor for the time, it even supported editing binary files if you didn't have a hex editor to hand, though you had to use Alt+(numpad) for most characters.
Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages
The politics of pain
Smart choice. If they are trying to get you to sign an NDA before even being offered a job then they better be offering some kind of amazing package. I've seen recruiter companies try to do the same just to interview.