skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho this is the perspective of inexperience in the art domain and an extrapolation from still concepts to full worlds, and not acknowledging that art is as much the skill to put things in the medium as it is to have a developed eye.

Even indie games need very bespoke art. Yeah, you can now generate images that are passable, but that doesn’t expand to making a cohesive world of items unless you’ve developed an eye for it like the person in the original post has. Hell, their post shows how important artists are because they needed that pre-existing knowledge to convert from an image to a useable state.

This also doesn’t expand to making fun animation or lighting that works for your game, or to interesting visual effects.

The concept art in the post are pretty generic looking within the genre. If that’s all people are aiming for, then fine, but it’s highly reductive to say it’ll replace artists. It’ll be a tool in the tool chest.

None of that is even touching on how much artists are involved in making sure a game also runs well on the system, while working with engineers.

I really just don’t think people understand how much art direction goes into even indie games. Something like fire watch or journey is immense.

Let’s take the concept examples in this image. Why do any of the details exist in there? Once you start thinking about the details of the world, you’ll start wanting to fine tune things. As you do this, surprise! you’ve turned into an artist yourself.

I just think we don’t teach art appreciation , or even appreciation for things outside our domain, to people. We see “image is good” and think that’s all an artist brings. Engineers are especially susceptible to this. We think in binary results.

So it’s easy to think “it’ll replace my need for artists” if that’s our mindset, but I think that line of thinking comes from not understanding that the journey is an important part of the result.
Does your workplace allow you to bring in and charge your e-scooter?
Hello! Allow me to introduce myself– I am the Founder of Garage. I started this company to help people get the most value out of their current e-scooter and to protect them when buying their next e-scooter.

I’ve always been the one who brought in an e-scooter to the office, then store and charge it at my desk because there is no parking place outside and there have been incidents of theft. Now (although I have not been going into the office much) the facilities team have told me I am not allowed to charge it at my desk or bring it into the office due to safety concerns. They say it’s because it could go on fire, related to the lithium ion battery. A bit weird considering our office has always been very casual and pre-covid was quite happy with the casual software engineers look, and scooting to/from work fit that vibe. This is likely an insurance requirement for the owner of the property. Insurance companies are all about minimizing their risk, so if they perceive the e-scooter as a fire hazard (real or not) then it’s super easy for them to require the owner/tenant to ban e-scooters or pay a higher premium. Probably overreacting but it was one of the things that made going into the office less sucky, avoiding traffic, scooting-in in no time, saving the environment and being able to store and charge her up at my desk so that I never have battery level anxiety.

This is our ultimate challenge. Ok if it’s a fire risk, how do we create a neutral insurance friendly solution that can determine whether or not an e-scooter is being stored and charged in the office and then make an informed decision like we do with other electricals in the office. We want to create an inspection process that is risk efficient and effective using a digitized inspection tool or by getting a technician to conduct a digitized inspection on the e-scooter for any signs of wear or damage to the battery and charger. We also want to put all this information in the hands of property owners/tenants and insurance providers to gauge the risk level. We hope perhaps a safety checked e-scooter could be allowed in the office.

We are asking for your help on this journey. If we are missing something, if we have too much of something, we want to know. We want to create a place where people can get answers to their e-scooter questions, where you can receive help on storing and charging in the office, and we want you to tell the world about a eco saving e-scooter that meant so much to you. This is not just a place for e-scooter people, it’s a place for memories that involve a e-scooter.

Please excuse any grammatical errors, sent from my mobile device
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I have seen very few fully correct bibliographies written with bibtex in the wild.
Not everything wrong with bibtex is a bug; the big problem is that bibtex is not adapted to its modern usage. A non-comprehensive list of problems:

1. Does anyone run bibtex directly from the command line? No, it's an extra step and the syntax is hard to memorize (should it run on the tex or the bib, and with or without the extension?). Instead, everyone eventually uses some form of script that does "pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex" or something like this. Nice and slick; unfortunately it means that all warnings get hidden from view. A common mistake (particularly when copypasting) is accidentally having two AUTHOR fields in a bibitem, which causes the second to be ignored. No way you'll notice until you look carefully at the bibliography or read the bibtex log. It doesn't help that many of the warnings are false alarms.

2. Writing bibitems is probably as painless as it could be, but still painful enough that most people have "wandering" bib files that move from project to project. Unfortunately, this creates lots of problems:

2A. A book gets a reedition, or an arXiv preprint gets updated. You just update the reference, right? Wrong, of course, because your old references now lead to the wrong pages, sections, theorems.

2B. There are bibliography styles that print DOI fields but not URLs. There are ones that print URLs but not DOIs. There are some that print both, which is redundant. With a wandering bib file, which ones do you cater to? No way to do right by them all.

2C. With grey literature, a URL is often necessary, but many bibliography styles don't print URLs. So you end up including it in a NOTE field, which of course gets it duplicated in those styles that do print URLs.

3. Too many foot-guns.

3A. Bibtex (or most styles) automatically removes capitalization in titles ("Generalizations of dyck words"). Why? Why??? Yes, you can fix it by putting the {C}apital letters in braces. But why should you?

3B. You cannot use the packages or macros from your tex file in your bib file, as it's a separate file. Of course... but that makes you wonder why it should be a separate file to begin with.

3C. Yes, you heard it right: no package, in particular no unicode support.

3D. Basically every bibtex tutorial tells you to not trust bibitem-generating services, even the most official ones (IEEE, ACM). But no one has the time to do this on their own, and it stands to reason that there should be a common source at least for everything that is published and indexed. We got ORCID and DOI; is this that much harder?
And here I am sitting with a HP ZBook and the touchpad doesn't even work. At all. I tried everything I could find on Google. No luck.

(It only works if I disable nvidia drivers, but that's not really useful.)
For several years now I've been wondering about a couple of things.

One would be to come up with a simple taxation formula for individual income.

(1) No deductions.

(2) Peg the tax rate to a formula, something like tax = 1% per $10,000 of income. (These specific numbers would not work very well.)

This would be simple, absolutely predictable, and would set a maximum income at whatever the culture decided was right.

And/Or: eliminate inheritance.

This could replace a maximum income because no one could pass along a fortune to heirs, and wealth would be automatically recycled on death.

(1) Set up a citizen's commission that selects members at random for a three-year term, 1/3 of members to be replaced each year.

(2) The commission decides what entities are worthwhile. (Charitable, non-profit, humanitarian, research, whatever.)

(3) At death, any remaining funds belonging to a person are disbursed.

(4) Disbursed funds go to eligible entities selected by the deceased, or to the U.S. Treasury as a default.

(5) Wealthy individuals can support their children through college up to age 25 or so, after which the kids are on their own.

(6) Not necessarily any limit on how much wealth a person could accumulate because it would be impossible to develop a hereditary plutocratic class.
you are suggesting that "caring about GPA" is what leads to high GPA. That's like suggesting that "caring about scoring stats" is the key to what leads athletes to accumulate high scoring stats.
They do this in Baltimore weekly. The LPR network flags from one of the car mounted units and the helicopter is en route. Sometimes they even coordinate a team of pickups that do a takedown on the vehicle coordinated over the radio before the person notices. But from the sky you’ll see the cars coming from various streets together in a pinch pattern
Argentina and China formalize currency swap deal
I am not a biologist, but I have read Maturana and Varela (originators of autopoesis), and they are not that naive. If there’s anything they do understand, it is the co-development of things over time in mutual relationship, ie structural coupling.
Well, for the same reason the X68000 and FM Towns are hard to get into. These machines were unapologetically Japanese and only tangentially related to the architectures of the West; being informed by (and informing them), but never being quite in the same place.

That being said, toying around with each's variant of BASIC or Windows is always fascinating.
Hi! Could you give an example or be a bit more specific? What kind of things are you struggling with?

Is it certain topics or business lingo?
Your straw men fall easily. But your "snipe" doesn't even apply. I spent the two years of my masters program editing a NASA-owned LISP codebase. it wasn't huge. Maybe 100kloc. But I'm definitely not ignorant or LISP.

Look, you don't like OOP, who cares? I certainly don't. But that's different than trying to explain that you have a fundamental misunderstanding.

Whether you accept it or not, it's in your head now ;)
Sharpe ratio uses a backward looking variance as it tells you how you traded wrt to the volatility.

I assure you, we can trivially look back to see the variance.

I mean, how could we calculate a sharpe without knowing the return and volatility, we always use historical for both, its one measure of how we track portfolio returns, which again, are backward looking.

Though sharpe isn't used as much as it was 15-20 years go due to it penalizing volatility in positive returns as much as it penalizes volatility in losses.
Helicopter usually in the air already it just respnds
To the call like a cop radio
CFA offers a free foundations certification. That should cover basic finance.

On a side note, your company/HR should have an executive education plan. They should be able to recommend the materials or courses to help you learn what they want you to. If not, they probably should start something like that.
Ray Dalio — How the economic machine works, Principles, etc.

Jim Collins — Good to great
If the feds rate prediction are true, probably within the year.
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That's a bloody joke.

Define 'learn' - to what depths? Learn databases next to grep/sed etc. Cringe.

All the trendy crap you likely won't need: mongo/influx/firebase/cassandra/redis - learn it if you need to. Hopefully some of these will be untrendy pretty soon, then forgotten.

This is bad and it's not credible to learn all this to a useful level. This is laughable. I hope starters here aren't put off by this.
I was able to use one with the right drivers under Windows 10

https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad
Two authors of the Lund University study, Associate Professor Yang de Marinis and Professor Magnus Rasmussen, have also released a Q&A in response to the attention their work has generated on social media.

“The results have in many cases been misinterpreted,” they said.

“This study does not investigate whether the Pfizer vaccine alters our genome,” de Marinis confirmed.

Prof Rasmussen also stated: “There is no reason for anyone to change their decision to take the vaccine based on this study.”

The study was conducted in a laboratory on cells in a petri dish, which is not the same as a study on human subjects because “cell lines differ from cells in living organisms,” Rasmussen wrote.

Dr Parry also said the Huh7 cell line is very different from healthy human cells.

“Huh-7 is an immortal, tumorigenic cell line,” he said. “This is barely an appropriate system to make any claims of in healthy persons.”

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/a-swedish-study-did-not-say...
Sounds like a medieval castle...
Good article. The issue is that his parallel computation isn't itself a Turing machine.

If you build a system which can "keep pace with the diagonalization argument", necessarily, it isnt a computer.

No computer can process at the rate real numbers require, this is another way of stating the Cantor result.

If you build a computer (here, note, computer = an abstract mathematical formalism over discrete numbers), you cannot compute fast enough.

I happen to think reality, esp. spacetime, is geometric (ie., real-valued) though empirical measures of it are, of course, just a discrete approximation.
Yes, the upper class was actually endlessly tormented by doctors during most of history. Until germ theory you would generally have been better off avoiding them.
Countries outside the first world usually doesn’t have a free market system in place.
> I see more Christian harlots and swindlers than people practicing Christ’s philosophy

Perhaps "more people who claim/pretend to be Christian"? You can hardly call someone Christian if they're not following Jesus; it makes as much as calling someone an atheist just because they call themselves an atheist right before talking about how God exists.
What you’re asking is essentially fine-tuning GPT3 on your own learning style. Which is to say, fine-tuning it on what you already know versus what you don’t know. And also on the ways of explaining things that work for you versus those that don’t.

It’s a powerful idea!
The famous htop actually employs OOP in C. https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/650cf0f13bf667270d0a6a...
I mean how much time do you feel might reasonably be required for such systems to develop?

Think about orders of magnitude: last year, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hadn’t yet begun. Ten years ago Obama was still president. Think of every single person that you know today - probably none of them were alive a hundred years ago. A thousand years ago the world was laughably low tech compared to today. Ten thousand years ago is already outside the domain of known/written history, iirc.

Now go back another ten thousand. And another. And another. And another. And another. And another. 200,000 years ago is the neighborhood where our distant ancestors started popping up in Africa - and they were hardly different from us, all those complicated structures were largely in place.

That’s two hundred thousand years. How long do you think life had to get to that point?

Mammals probably showed up two hundred million year ago.

Think about that for a second. The time it took for us to get from trees in Africa to typing on the internet? That happened ONE THOUSAND TIMES OVER between first mammals and first man.

How long before that? We’re already completely beyond the realm of human comprehension.

You think two hundred million is a long time? Try ~4 billion years, of life continuously living, breeding, mutating, and surviving. That’s the answer to your question. It’s been so long that creatures we have never heard of and will never know of have had time to live, flourish, and die off, utterly forgotten other than the genetic equivalent of a footnote if they’re lucky!

This is random genetic drift and selection / survival of the fittest played over and over and over for nearly as long as the earth itself has existed. We’ve had time.
Monster.ca is the dominant job hunting platform in Canada, maybe give it a try.
Yes like errno, except not global of course, you add one per struct/context/module/thread/whatever.
And you design the functions to early return if the error state is set.

>how do you know which call introduced the error first?

You rarely care about that but if you do you either make the error state stick to the first error, or as I said, make it a list you can append multiple errors to.
You can only edit any commit that's reachable from the current HEAD without checking it out. I.e. a commit that's in a branch that's not merged back into wherever you currently are can't be edited.

(I made a test repo to check this, because it had actually never come up before in my day-to-day usage.)
You can change culture by hiring people with a fresh outlook, talking to people about what the culture is and what it should be, setting expectations, etc. In short, you can change culture by participating in it. I was in a meeting once where my manager said, "We aren't working evenings anymore." The visible relief that ripped through the room was something to behold. There was never a policy of working evenings, and there wasn't a policy of not working evenings afterwards. But my manager was using their leadership to make positive change in the culture regardless.

But things like that can't be quantified and so are only visible to people in the trenches. But culture isn't actually someone measurable; it exists in the space between people. An acquiring company is unlikely to be interested in such nuances. It takes time, it isn't guaranteed you'll get your way (indeed, you'll be asked to make concessions), and it's an ongoing process with no definite end where you can declare victory and check a box.

When you try to change culture through dictates instead of discussion - you may never hear about it, but people will understand that that means you don't see them as people, but as living automata to be programmed through policy. You'll lose their trust.

That said. I went of vacation just after that meeting. I came back from vacation to work on a deploy until after midnight. A regret I have was not speaking my mind, "guys, we said we weren't going to do this." (I probably did, but not vocally enough.) Not setting an explicit policy against working evenings was a mistake, because the problem wasn't just the expectation from others on the team that, if you're here I should be here too, but also that the rest of the organization didn't respect our boundaries, and would dictate timelines and such without consulting us, implicitly demanding that we work crazy hours. It is important to codify values as policy. But it should be organic and driven by the people who are involved and understand, not executives of an entirely different company who are trying to squeeze blood from a stone. This is inherently incompatible with using policy to change culture.
Part of if luxury good appeal is that that proof of work creates additional value. For example if you had be the first to solve a complex puzzle, wait in line for 24hrs or even have the fastest bot to get the item. That creates hype and adds to brand value.

Nike then cashes out that value by making partner stores Buy their shitty products to get a chance to score the good stuff
Recent and related:

Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285717 - Jan 2023 (49 comments)
Please refrain from doing what OP is proposing for your pocket’s sake
Marc Andreessen’s 1995 Interview
> Why not use it?

Better question: why use it, when you can use the real thing?

Mathematicians concerned by typography universally use real boldface. For example: Terrence Tao's blog, Donald Knuth, Paul Halmos (author of "how to write mathematics"), and the famous journal "Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS" which is the undisputed gold standard in mathematical typography. They use real boldface for the number sets N, Z, Q, T, R, C.

I've never seen a boldface R to mean a set different than the real numbers. Maybe this is some fringe custom in model theory, but in mainstream mathematics it has a clear and standard meaning. Can you point me to a paper where they use a boldface R with such a meaning (i.e., different than the reals). I'm sure that this usage would always be accompanied by a clarification to avoid any confusion.
If Tether collapses Aave will collapse too, the plan is hilariously defective
2.6 million user data of Zurich Insurance and 3.1 million user data of Alfac from their respective Japanese divisions were posted on the breached forum
They already do your taxes for you. This is how they know if your returns are off or not.

The only difference is that in the rest of the world, they show you the calculation the government came up with first.
That is only really applicable in few places such as the US. France, Germany and Japan (to name a few) extends the right of privacy even when outside of residence.
Do something that punishes you for turning it into work. I took up archery for a while (in NYC no less), and found that it required me to switch off before I could do it well.
I had a point in the past few years where I am not super interested in "fun" activities that I used to have (mainly guitar/video games) and just wanted to get better at development/infosec/etc only. Agreed with you that this is not healthy over the long run, although it has helped me considerably career-wise.

What helped for me is getting a girlfriend, which is easier said than done, I guess. Before, I would spend a lot of time just sitting at my computer making or learning something – which I still really like doing and is very important to me. However, now things are a lot more varied:

- We have been to 15+ concerts this year

- Cooking a lot together (this one I really recommend)

- Gone on a bunch of trips. This is easier if you don't have kids but this is the main thing that allows me to come back to work fully energized. Go for 2 weeks to Europe (or the US if you're from Europe) / Japan or whatever and come back ready to get shit done.

- Watch movies/TV – switch things up and go to an actual movie theater.

- Exercise/go on walks together

You can do all of these things yourself, but it is a lot more fun to do them with someone else. I am still spending a lot of time making, learning, and working my ass off, but now there is a healthy balance which I think has made me more efficient than before.
Show HN: Ark v1.0.0
Ark is a program that aims to provide an easy way to manage system themes. Ark can set themes for specific programs, or the whole system with only one command.