skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, and pestering e.g. My dad where was mom (who might be shopping or in Washroom or whatever :), sometimes in exasperation he'd reply "she in California". It was the functional equivalent of dark side of moon, or even Narnia - place you've heard of but might well not exist.

20 years later, in Canada, my job sent me to California for training. When I heard, surprisingly to myself, I hyperventilated and got an asthma attack - my adult Canadian self and the 6 year old from somewhere else colliding in their expectations and worldview reality.

Which is to say that I think you have a profound point in that somebody may be "aware" on intellectual level of different places, cultures, laws etc; and it still not feel very real or be at all relevant on practical level.
If you think you have inalienable rights in the US, you've bought the marketing.
Wow. That's a thought.

And if you can make it crash, then you can maybe make it run shellcode instead...
It’s hilarious watching all the posters tell OP he’s mistaken about a life experience he had.

Hubris abound.
It depends on what kind of games they want to make and what they hope to get out of it.

A simple side scroller? Gamemaker.

A more-advanced 2D game? Gamemaker or Unity.

A 3D game? Unity.

An FPS or other first-person game? Unreal.

Programming skills that will be useful for a career in programming generally or in game development specifically? Unity or Unreal.

With Godot, you'll be perpetually waiting for Godot to finish up and polish the 30% of features you actually want/need. I gave Godot 5 years before I gave up on it. Unity has announced, implemented, and abandoned features in less time than it takes Godot to finish that last 30%.
That's fair, and I didn't realize people were using them for images that way. I would still argue that they are at least somewhat more specialized than plain fully-connected layers, much like convolutional layers.

It is definitely interesting that we can do so much with a relatively small number of generic "primitive" components in these big models. but I suppose that's part of the point.
Ehh, this seems like a hard deal to really get right, to the extent that it is sort of “fair” to the employee, the company could just offer that deal if they wanted.

Which is to say, nothing prevents a company from offering that deal as an alternative, rather than attempting to force it through with a non-compete. But, the employee would have to consider the cost to them of basically pausing their career development and letting their skills atrophy. That’s a pretty big cost! It seems unfair to force that cost on them through the contract (especially if we agree with the premise that non-competes are usually entered on a sort of unwilling basis).

Nothing prevents the company from offering this sort of deal currently. But I’d expect something higher than the offer, to take it. Companies don’t seem to offer this sort of deal currently, I guess because it seems like a pretty bad deal on their side too. Paying somebody to do nothing seems pretty expensive, I think you only do that for political favors.
>> you can access the storage without having to install propriatery software on your computer.

I was also a fan when they almost all played from a file system, but even 10+ years ago it was harder and harder to find something that didn't require a store or some terrible music management application. Streaming continues to kill this approach as well. My kids don't know what an mp3 is.
I surprised they did not always encrypt data at rest, google does.
Halide – a language for fast, portable computation on images and tensors
A few days in on my first trip to New York City, I had decided to visit Central Park. On the subway there, I (Korean-American) noticed out of the corner of my eye an elderly Asian woman who was sitting right next to me, keep staring at me then looking away multiple times. After a few minutes of this, I stared right back at her and she asked me, "Ni zhong guo ren?" (are you Chinese)? Luckily, I was almost done graduating from college and in my last few semesters took Chinese as an elective. I said to her in my crappy Chinese "Bu. Wo shi han guo ren. Ke shi, wo zhi dao zhong wen yi dian dian." (No, I'm Korean, but I know a little Chinese.) She said something I couldn't understand, and was pointing to some paper with an address on it. I asked her in Chinese where she was going and she kept pointing to the paper and I realized it was the bus terminal. She looked deathly scared and afraid as if she was going to get lost, so I quickly looked up the stop for the bus terminal and I told her to follow me. She's got two heavy pieces of luggage, and I'm carrying it for her all the way to the terminal, to ticketing. I do my best to translate for her, get her the tickets to her destination of Flushing, New York. I guide her to the right gate and as I'm about to leave, she stops me, thanks me, and hands me some ginseng drink and a Christian tract. I take the drink, and I hand her back the tract. She's like, "no, take it." I say to her, "No, it's ok. Ssang-di (God), I believe. I believe in Jesus." There's a bit of a glad shock on her face and says, "Ohhhhh." We part ways. The fear on her face disappeared and I could see she felt comfortable and relaxed as she waited at the gate.

It was just an awkward, but fun and memorable experience I'll never forget. I was a little annoyed early on cause there was only a few hours of daylight left and I wanted to spend as much time at Central Park, but it was just nice to help someone who seemed in desperate need of help. The funny thing is, this delay to Central Park actually timed it so that I got into a nice conversation with an older woman who sat on a bench next to me in the park.
You can order takeout.
Oh, I think it's obvious that, absent a concentration of world-class research universities, MA would not have developed the sort of concentration of technology-oriented companies that it's had over the years.

I'll just add that I'm not sure how common non-competes actually were in the MA computer industry. I certainly never saw one until the company I was with was acquired by EMC in about 2000. What is true is that people tended to stay with companies a long time but I don't have any evidence that non-competes played a big role in that.
People act like price changes have never happened with car dealers.

The Prius for the first several years always had extra tacked on. Then it suddenly cost less as the numbers in production went up. That was with dealers.

Luxury cars are regularly unobtainable at list -- you have to pay more, get service plans, buy options, or sometimes buy more than one. Again at dealers.

If we took every complaint about the sales process from marques that use dealers, the automotive journalism industry would have nothing else to write about.

Buy a car for a price that is justified by the use and enjoyment you will receive from it. If you're price is based upon speculation of the future price of the car, you shouldn't be buying a luxury vehicle.
> Can do it with FPS friendly things like WASD + Q and E for roll, and space and C for up/dn.
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> And blockers on patching this into the editor?

This is exactly how the editor works. It's just not the default mode. They call it freelook mode. You can either hold the right mouse button or toggle it with shift+F.
Oh I definitely think it’s yet another short-sighted move by Elon. A “they’re using OUR data and NOT paying for it” kind of move.
They've settled on a set of features and non-features, similar to how we do it with threat indicators. If it's error prone for threat indicators it's error prone for user tracking and vice versa.

There are reasons not to care. For instance in the threat indicator space false negatives (a threat which is not caught) doesn't cause nearly the pucker as a false positive (something which is not a threat which is flagged as one). Their calculus and minimum may be driven by somewhat different objectives, because their audience is advertisers not security practitioners.

You can still 1:1 addresses to purposes and if you see crosstalk you can draw conclusions. Their normalization is lossy; that's the point.

The cynic in me notes that given the absolute lack of originality in password choice, similar lack of entropy could be seen in 1:1 mappings and perhaps they can infer that if you're hansolo@ and they're example.com, that the email address you'd use is han.solo+example@. The cynic also says: that's on you.

But damn, I'm looking better all the time: https://github.com/m3047/trualias
More evidence that Biden just might be the best President of the last 50 years or so.
>The Arab Spring of 2010-2012 started because citizens in the Arab world wanted more freedoms.

I'm not sure they were. They kicked off when food prices spiked, and proximate causes were corruption and unemployment.

Officially endorsed foreign protests against government we don't particularly like are always described as being about freedom in the west for reasons that aren't always good.

>The idea that citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, or Syria are "intellectually incapable of understanding" the idea of freedom of speech is insulting.

Yes, absolutely it is.
Is it possible that they got acquisition offers in the past and rejected them?
I'm not an expert, but can't modern GPUs just take a "texture" in shared memory that is e.g. 640x480 and render it to some window? Having your code write directly to that memory wouldn't interfere with anything else.

Would obviously require some setup, but that functionality could come standard with the OS instead of requiring countless libraries.

Also half the article is about setting up a build system.
Hey, don't let me stop you. I'm not advocating for you or anyone to NOT be a fanboy. In a capitalistic society, the existence of fanboys makes the world better of the rest of us.
> From an astronomer’s perspective, Mars is Earth’s identical twin.

I know of precisely zero astronomers who consider Mars to be Earth's identical twin. Usually that's said of Venus, not Mars.

> The proposed absolute best-case scenario for terraforming Mars leaves us with an atmosphere we are incapable of breathing

That ain't the proposed "absolute best-case scenario". The actual best-case scenario comes from the steps after thickening the atmosphere with carbon dioxide - namely, the "grow plants in an atmosphere wherein they can actually breathe and not immediately freeze to death or get zapped to death by cosmic radiation".

Also, carbon dioxide ain't the only gas that would be involved. Water vapor is just as crucial. Neither are sufficiently abundant on Mars to be useful for terraforming, but asteroids tend to be rich with hydrocarbons and water - and NASA has already been testing the feasibility of redirecting asteroids.

> a more realistic scenario might be to build habitat domes on its surface

Outside of sci-fi that's rarely proposed. The more typical proposal (besides smaller, non-dome habitats) is to build underground. Easier to shield against radiation, easier to mitigate leaks.

> for example, this concept does not consider plate tectonics, which are thought to be crucial to sustain life on Earth.

Thought by whom? The link doesn't seem to assert that, and there's no reason to believe that plate tectonics contribute in any meaningful way to sustaining life on Earth. They likely contributed to creating life on Earth, but last I checked I ain't a thermophilic microbe huddled around a geothermal vent on the ocean floor.

> Earth’s current aeon, the Phanerozoic, began only around 541 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion [...] In 1 billion years, the gradual warming of our Sun is predicted to cause Earth’s oceans to boil away. While this certainly sounds worrying, 1 billion years is a long, long time.

The author's inconsistency on whether time periods are relatively "long" or "short" depending on whether it helps or hinder's the author's argument makes it increasingly difficult to assume the author is arguing in good faith.

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While I agree fully with the article that the destruction of Earth's biosphere can and must be prevented, I disagree strongly with the article's implicit conclusion that expanding beyond Earth is not a component of that. Earth is already straining to support the human population and its modern standard of living; that'll only get worse as the population grows, as those currently living in poorer parts of the world rightly demand a standard of living closer to that of the richer parts of the world, and as the richer parts of the world push the expected average standard of living yet higher.

We need to get as many humans off of Earth as we physically can, before Earth evicts us. We need to be moving as close to the entirety of our industry as possible into orbit, the Moon, and beyond. We need to give Earth an opportunity to heal from the damage we've done to it - and we need to buy time until we have the technological means to affordably do so.
I wrote extensively about that as part of my vulkan guide. https://vkguide.dev/docs/gpudriven .
The TLDR of it is that you have the cpu upload scene information to the GPU, and then the GPU performs culling and batching by itself in a series of compute shaders. In most games the scene is 99% static, so you can upload the scene at the beggining and never touch it again. this decreases CPU-GPU traffic by orders of magnitude, and if used right, gives you 10x or more performance improvements. Unreal 5 Nanite tech is based on this concept.
AFAIK, it only helps against hackers/insiders who steal the raw file. If you provide access to your bucket, it isn't doing anything. As always with Amazon (and other services, really): you really should understand the service. Just using one because you read "encryption" is unwise.
Islam brought the concept of "inalienable rights" to the West. The West still doesn't get it because in their system, emergency powers override every "inalienable right" the Westerners think they are entitled to.
The real solution is they should say “a quarter to four”. ;)
Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized
Why not just write it in plain text?
I had a non-compete and a host of other completely unenforceable (I thought at least) stipulations in a previous employer. They even tried to put in some three-month notice period, which I thought was way over the top, but ended up working for two months after I gave my notice and left it at that. My view was, they have absolutely tiny chances of finding out where I was joining next, unless I go publishing it on LinkedIn. So I left it at that. And I'm sure my former employer wasn't going to go to the trouble of tracking me down, so that was my decision made.

Here's the thing I wonder about (especially in tech) - who's to say where you currently work except what you may reveal in LinkedIn or on social media?
Please don't perpetuate nationalistic flamewar on HN. It just makes everything worse.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Reminds me of watching Vista slowly building landscapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaPro
^H deletes a single character, while ^W deletes a whole word in many different programs, including those that use GNU readline (e.g. bash). Similarly, ^U commonly deletes the whole line, or from the cursor to the beginning of the line. ^U is particularly useful when you think you might have mistyped a password and there are no indicators about how many characters you've typed (e.g. ssh or sudo).
I don't own a smartphone, but I'd like to be able to put on headphones and listen to music (from the vast collection on my computer) when I'm traveling, driving, or doing chores.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor: Boss warns higher bills are here to stay
Good story, but it’s unlikely it was the (magnetic part of the) Hall effect sensor at fault here — the field due to a magnetic dipole (like a lifting magnet) drops off as an inverse cube of distance. Unless the machines were IN the scrapyard, the field would be negligible.

More likely boring old electrical grounding issues. Oh how I hate them.
What does "retina support" mean? What is the benefit?
> But all of this "it's just math"/"it's just data"/"it also creates non-copyrighted images" stuff doesn't cut it as far as the law is concerned.

What you mean is that you would prefer if Stable Diffusion was not considered fair-use by our legal system.

However, based on my more than cursory understanding of copyright law in the US, it seems more likely that the courts will find these tools fair-use than otherwise.
Today I asked Siri what the temperature was this morning. It told me it doesn’t have access to past weather information.

Siri has been available for 12 years… I cannot understand why it hasn’t leaped forward more than it has. Embarrassingly low level of progress IMO, though for some things it still remains best in class.
At the time of Web boom, I didn't understand some of the foot-dragging by West Coast tech companies, on setting up offices Cambridge/Boston, to get more of the talent fresh out of the universities, and the research university partnerships. But maybe they (correctly) thought that most of new grads would come to them.

In the case of Google, I thought there might also have been a Stanford-vs.-MIT factor. MIT was known as very strong-minded and self-assured. (And Stanford and California have their own stereotypes.) Were I trying to craft a particular culture, starting either around Stanford or MIT, there's no way I'd open a major office on the other coast until the HQ culture had really gelled, and I thought I could get the distant people to meet us more than halfway (rather than them carbon-copying what they already know from MIT or California).
Could the Economy Shrink? (2014)
Database States: No database is neutral
Japanese Grammar – Complete Guide
How was this not substantive?

I gave you a very solid example of how in one large province of Indonesia, democracy and the rule of law were entirely removed and put in the hand of islamic "leaders".
Are you not scared of picking people up? I would love to help others, but I've always been worried that it could go poorly.
You say this like "this is the moral and right thing to do". If I could snap my fingers and make it happen, then I would. That's not how the world works though. Companies have a profit incentive. And that's a good thing. We want them to train employees in ways that will be productive and end up having them output something that is valuable. But that training can be expensive.

What happens if everyone concludes that they'd be better off waiting for a competitor to incur the cost of training someone, then hiring them away? We'd get into a situation where no one wants to train anyone.
Wasn't there a play... maybe Othello where the person is being whispered to while they sleep to enrage them into committing murder. Knowing what we now know on the release of Twitter files, this seems like it could be even greater tool for bad actors to create mass psychosis, or convince, create false consensus and otherwise manipulate people to take poison. The things the ChatGPT AI says is already being censored by its creators.
I understand the need to talk to someone, but I feel like being deferential to some AI authority will not end well for humans.
That's not capability based security, though everyone seems to think it is. (Perhaps it's just survivor bias effecting replies?)

You never get nagged to take $5 out of your wallet to hand to an untrusted person, why should you get nagged to drop a file into an application you don't trust.
I use VLC on my Android smartphone whenever I'm on the train or bus and the only reason why I wouldn't give it the highest possible recommendation is that they have implemented stop by having you hold down pause for a bit, rather than having a stop button in the UI. Aside from that I can't think of anything wrong with it, it plays .opus (and a slew of other formats), it has an equalizer with a bunch of presets, it doesn't drain too much battery, it doesn't crash, it doesn't show a bunch of ads,... in short, it's a great media player.
There is a website that employers are using to verify background which includes current employers. I believe it's run by idp.
Whether it's the scripting language or the physics engine, Godot's in-house solutions (and general differences to other game engines) always draw a bit of criticism. The article mentions the 'considerable amount of issues' for the in-house physics solution, but it doesn't make a direct statement about the quantity or severity of issues to do with including bullet over the years.

Hugely powerful and complex physics engines have become the default solution to practically everything motion or collision related in games. But most games don't need most of what the big/serious physics engines provide. Unfortunately, there is an expectation that game engines come with one of these included and so they are, usually as the only built-in way to perform collision detection.

If you're making a game that has modest 'physics' requirements, you're stuck trying to break the big physics engine to get it to do less. If you're making a game that does have a need for a high-end solution (e.g. PhysX), it becomes increasingly painful as you are forced to access the physics engine via the APIs that the game engine provided.
This is different, though named after the original chatbot.
I think the problem with this, is that, like the original post states. It's still trying to optimize the horse and buggy.

Anything that's giving you a per-person riding experience is not going to perform as well as batching a bunch of people together for a common ride.
My fillings tune in Radio Moscow. Keeps me awake at night.
more likely the js snippet or regex they C&P from the interwebs disallowed it.
What? Can you please read my whole comment?
I like to suck dick.

If I get caught sucking dick in a Muslim country, I die.

If I suck dick in the west, maybe I get my own dick sucked in return.

Tell me again about the freedom of the islamic world.
The seconds are not a denominator, OP was doing TWh / W as if W = 1 / 3600 * Wh which is not the case.
"came about randomly" is a strange statement; natural selection, where you filter out weaker specimens of the species in favor of the stronger ones is not random, it is a long time process.
Hokusai didn't actually paint or carve most of his work; in fact he didn't even necessarily complete any of it himself. He would sketch it and an apprentice or other worker would fill in the details. Standard practice at the time
As if that is by choice? Not foreign interference?, be it from the east or other Arab countries.
Everywhere I look I see anything but a fair society, no matter how much acting out of self-interest is allowed or rewarded.
It doesn't matter if the moon has required elements to build semiconductors. Getting from sand to a solar panel or computer chip takes literal tons of infrastructure and precursor materials. Most of that infrastructure can't come from 3D printers. It's non-trivial to spin up a chemical factory on Earth with access to all of our infrastructure. Building one in space is orders of magnitude more difficult even if all of the technology required to do so already existed.

3D printers aren't Star Trek replicators. You can't take a manufacturing flowchart, add a "3D printer" node in the middle, and then consider your manufacturing problem solved. Even if you had a magic 3D printed that could print pipes and fasteners and ducting, it would still need to be assembled and the facility processed to get it clean enough to build semiconductors. Then you'd need smelters/factories processing raw materials to get the necessary feedstocks. Then you'd need reprocessing facilities that could recycle wastewater to be reused and catalyze waste chemicals to reuse.
Max Planck on Idealism and the Role of Faith in Science
Clicking a single item it's faster than typing.