skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, it has been easier to have uninterrupted focus time when I know that "in X minutes, I can address that notification." Without the preset breaks, a notification begged to be looked at because when else might it get addressed?
> Tonnage _IS_ firepower

That's not my undertanding. Again, freighters, or if you like, WWII warships could easily provide more tonnage, but not have even close to the firepower (or protection or mobility). Could you provide something to support your claim about tonnage and firepower?
That's awesome,.I'm glad it worked out for you. But if you could have had a challenge and a strong team and more comp, why not?
As an American, the only time I use yards is with football fields. When am I going to use inches in that context?

It's not a simple conversion because it's not a common conversion. It's like converting between inches and meters. The imperial system is multiple systems smashed together, and it's optimized for the more common conversions.

Not saying it's a perfect system, or that metric isn't better, but it's absolutely useable. I'd much rather stick with imperial than half-ass a conversion to metric and be stuck between the two systems, like what's happened in Canada and the UK.
Do you think companies avoid storing this data? There's no reason for them not to, so they do it. Look at the target hack for an example of real word credit card info stored.

Also, tons of companies have one-click payment options (ever order something from Chipoltle or Dominos app?)

Edit: It should be disincentivised, but look at any "punishment" for a data leak and it's cheaper for them to just lose the data
> have a household income of less than 250% of the federal poverty line—about $69,000 for a family of four—and not be claiming from any other similar schemes

Does this mean that they can't be collecting SNAP or medicaid? or?
> Only bit I disagree with is that the big spenders are doing it purely because of addiction or gambling.

People spend big in games because:

* The spending is very stimulating visually and audibly (think lootbox openings)

* The gains from their spending translates directly to game-social prestige, game power, or both (i.e. an Advantage)

* This Advantage allows them to lord over the players who have spent less (or 0 in the case for F2P players)

Whether that manifests into addiction depends entirely on the rest of the game's design (but you know, games that introduce the Advantage tend to want to make a lot of money by getting you hooked on spending...)

> Second, games provide a sense of community. A lot of game revenue is monetizing people's desire to not be alone. Calling these players addicted is I think reductive.

Yes, these games do provide a sense of community because they are purposefully designed to do so. Without an incentive to play while getting lorded over by whales, the fish will leave. Without a bunch of fish to lord over, the whales will leave. Again, this depends on the game's design, but the vast majority of them encourage addiction to the Advantage and its use against others.

Maybe you can extend this analysis to IRL stuff. I don't know because I don't participate in any of it.

Source: [Let’s go whaling: Tricks for monetising mobile game players with free-to-play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4&t=0s)
Yes, and i found out that honey is still used effectively for burn victims.
I'm wondering how much of the critique in the article is down to the Arri Alexa look - it's pretty distinctive, so much so that I can usually pick out if a show or film was shot in it (latest example was watching "Dark" and I double checked, and indeed, it's an Arri Alexa prod).
I always wondered if high profile CEOs and shareholders know something substantial of the upcoming future that us leaf nodes are just clueless about. Is it just copy cat or deep info for privileged clubs?
I’m not a proponent of the idea that we are the sole intelligent species in the galaxy, but I think it’s at least plausible. In my mind it boils down to statistics.

Basically, it seems to me that many, many conditions have to come together for life to emerge at all on a given planet, and then many, many more conditions have to develop for intelligent life to emerge. If the denominator in that probability is significantly larger than the number of planets in the galaxy, then the probability of any given galaxy harboring intelligent species would be approximately zero. Similarly, the conditional probability that there are at least two intelligent species in a galaxy given there is at least one (namely humans here on Earth) is still approximately zero.
The fact is that much less kids or people playing Go now, and competitions are not getting nearly as much attention as before. Putting two strong statements without any evidence does not mean anything.
I still have my two Magic Links, a bunch of SRAM cards, and a bunch of shrink wrapped software. Lost my telebug cable years ago.

GM is where Andy Rubin learned how to leverage carrier partnerships. He took that knowledge to Android and the rest is history.

Also, Pierre Omidyar of eBay worked in GMDTS.

They were a bunch of Really Smart Guys over there. Good Times.
Let’s say you owned several dozen music venues all over the country. Let’s say another company sued you. Would you find photos of all the lawyers who work at the law firm representing your legal rival, and distribute those photos to all of your security staff at all your dozens of venues?

I think the scale allowed by automation is important in this case.
Has anyone tried that? The terms and conditions just to try the demo are too awful to sign up for without legal advice.
Islam contains the concept of abrogation, which loosely means that the God of Abraham can change how he explains things. Just like the authors of the Bible, Mohammed makes multiple contradicting proclamations, and the latest one is what his God thinks is a better explanation now. Accordingly, any contradiction with the Bible is also simply their God updating his past explanations.

https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/files/42476117/Abrogated_Rulings...
I sometimes wonder if the simplest answer for this is that nature / evolution obeys some principle of simultaneous discovery[0][1] and convergence. In which case all advanced civilization may simply be on roughly the same timescales.

In another words, it’s possible that all intelligent life is more or less at the same level of development, and this creates a situation where we only discover each other at the same time

[0]: https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1482596/simultaneous-...

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
Create a startup script that deletes that file from the desktop every boot.
Unemployable and Uninvestable
It seems I am unemployed and uninvestable. I'm looking for advice. I have been a senior engineer for about a decade. I feel I have become unemployable because of my experience. Interviewers have repeatedly told me I am over qualified for positions. I know this is a tough time for everyone considering the massive layoffs in our sector, but I have been jobless for a year, and counting. I’m not asking for a handout, but rather advice.

I’ve had a few failed startups due to a lack of investment, while I see grifters like SBF raking in billions. I have had my ideas be realized by other companies, years after I attempted, because I lacked capital. I have had my pitch decks dismissed without a second thought. What is the secret sauce here? Is it a matter of who you know, rather than what you know? Every other day I see companies with no clear mission raising capital with little more than marketing jargon and a landing page. Am I seeing this incorrectly?

Currently, I have simply been looking for employment, but that has also been fruitless. I have decided I am unemployable – which is fine. Is there anyone else that has recovered from this situation? I would gladly welcome your advice. Thank you.
What company are you talking about? What drug? If CostPlusDrugs can do it for pennies, why not buy from them?
Not very knowledgeable but are there any implications for path planning for self driving cars ?
With which anticheats? BattleEye and EasyAnticheat work pretty well with Proton nowadays, you won't have luck with stuff like Ricochet though.
https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/
I've noodled around with ChatGPT as a source for game content. I think it's already good enough for _flavour_ - rather than repetitive NPC barks, you get more varied content. The issue is you'll always get jarring inconsistencies, no matter how much you try to prepend to a prompt. I've used it for diary entries and other left-over text, I've even used it for structured output like describing four members of some imagined family, or the layout of their house. But I wouldn't use it for anything touching core storyline content because you just can't guarantee it won't say something mad.
Capital One does still have these: https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/ though caveat the feature is only available via a browser plugin, I assume because they want to be able to scrape your shopping habits/history in the process.
We're quickly approaching a tipping-point, where the now-traditional promises of wealth (or at least, wealth's possibility) are less plausible, and meanwhile, the inequality between winners and losers is skyrocketing.

I'm excited to see what contributions the tech industry's workers wind up making to the union movement. That's a whole lot of big, juicy, pissed-off brains, and a whole lotta matches.
TV as a medium is different from the big screen. People watch sporting, talk shows and live events on TV, rarely at the movies. And the convention is for those types of things to be viewed at higher frame rates. Films can be viewed at higher frame rates but then they tend to have a TV-ified look. Which is ok, if you personally dislike the film look and prefer movies to look like daytime television. But for many people, film shot in high frame-rate, particularly in slower, less action-oriented scenes, looks too much like a broadcast experience and too little like a cinematic experience.

On a recent episode of The Filmcast, David Chen speculates that there's something of a generational divide to the preference [0]. He thinks that younger people, brought up on big screen TVs, 120 fps oled smartphones, and 240 fps gaming action, may just come to prefer high frame rate for everything, whereas older folk might be more nostalgically drawn to the traditional slow frame rate for movies.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-700-avatar-the-way-...
468x60 was also a thing for banners back then
It's better to have a terrible 5-6 years dealing with diapers and strollers in your 30s than spend 30 years in your 50s to 80s alone.
The galaxy is billions of years old. Human civilization is a few thousand. Human civilization with a significant radiometric footprint above noise is less than a hundred. And there's some not unreasonable concern that if we don't change our behavior en mass, the human race might cease to exist in a couple hundred to a thousand years. If that comes true, all of our human achievements will be a percent of a percent of a percent all throughout time.

I personally think there was civilized life long ago, but it died out fairly quickly, the same way ours might. Time and space are so vast that there can easily be million-year and trillion-mile gaps in between each attempt at life that gets far enough to meaningfully search for the existence of other life elsewhere.

Our universe is brutal and doesn't have any bias towards sentient life surviving. It does not care.
Reading this, and looking at the example photos in the article, it's the Nighthawks aesthetic (https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks ). It has a place in cinema and art, and always has. But when any aesthetic becomes dominant people would notice the lack of the other aesthetics that they are used to experiencing.
Silent data corruption is silent. ECC should be mandatory just for the error reporting. The system should inform the user that a DIMM has gone bad and needs replacement.
I love this point: "The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing."

I really wish for a less supine tech press. I've not seen any of these titans of industry being held accountable for the apparent major mistakes of overhiring. And I'm not even talking actual consequences here; these people will surely get bonuses for this. I'd just like to see some hard questions being asked and answered.
Sorry to be off topic, but are most people here on HN as unhappy about Davos and the World Economic Forum as I am? I really dislike their "Young Leaders" program, going back decades (lots of US politicians, Canada's Prime Minister, etc. have been indoctrinated).

I am very happy to see Davos getting bad rap right now from independent bloggers and independent (small) news outlets. This helps push back against corporate owned media which pushes a positive slant on one world government, "in 20 years you will own nothing and be very happy", etc.
There is a very, very large amount of different reactor types you can build.

The main decision points are first, do you want to have 'slow'/'thermal' or 'fast' neutrons. If you want to have 'slow' neutrons you need some material to slow them down. This both has advantages and disadvantages.

Then you have to decide what the primary material is you want to use to fuel the reactors, here the options are basically U-238 (natural uranium), U-235 or Thorium.

Then you have to decide, if you are going to slow neutrons down, there are a few options on how to do that. light Water, PWRs are an example, Heavy Water, like CANDU reactors. Other common options are graphite (Molten Salt Reactor Experiment). But there is also more exotic stuff like beryllium.

Once you made that choice you need to somehow cool your reactor. For that you have tons of options all with advantage and disadvantages. Water is the common example but water has to be under a huge amount of pressure for this to work.

There are also salt cooled reactor (like fluride salt), or lead cooled, sodium cooled, gas cooled and so on and so on.

Check Figure 10: https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/Nuclear%20powe...

There are more options of course, the fuel can be liquid or solid. And if its solid it can be shaped in different forms. Nuclear reactors can work so many different ways.

If you want to see some interesting examples of current commercial reactors check out for example:

- Moltex Energy SSR-W

- Terrestrial Energy IMSR

Here are lots of companies currently engaged with the Canadian regulator:

https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/reactors/power-plants/pre-li...
The future's a big place; there are plenty of use cases for a truck where it's fine to have a 200-500 mile battery for hauling stuff on the last mile or between warehouses. There are plenty of other use cases where you need lots more energy density. It's silly to assume the same vehicle needs to be able to do either on alternating sundays.

For trucking, at least, a modular approach seems reasonable where some are all electric and some are hybrid where you chose the maximum generator output based on your expected duty cycle. A truck to lug cement over the Rocky Mountains on a daily basis will have a different load curve from one hauling across Texas.

Hybrid focused ICE engines will likely be quite different from those designed as the primary motivation for cars, and there are probably not many situations where a v8's the right size. (Hybrid where they only run a generator to charge a battery will likely be optimized for only a couple RPMs and loads intermittent operation, etc)
The post goes on about that and gets to "“We” are our brain." where I hoped it would dig deeper but ends pretty much there.
Everyone wants to dog on these companies but it was just the natural result of loose monetary policy.

When money was cheap, you basically had to outgrow your competitors and take on as much as possible or get beat.

That rapidly reversed with inflation and now the game is efficiency
Even more, that is why “shall” and “will” are different terms. But tell that to a lawyer…
Windows never changed.

It was a “new Microsoft” because they stopped making windows the center of their existence.

now windows takes a lower priority behind xbox even within it’s own division.
How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers
This sort of thing is why this app needs to be banned, because that heating button is under the control of the CCP.
Cuba also just “wanted to join” back in 1962. It’s their territory. Can station as many missiles there as they want, can’t they?

Kind of like it’s your neighbor’s business if he runs his leaf blower 4 hours a day. His lawn. His choice. If you get angry about this, you’re just being irrational. Probably isn’t even about the leaf blower at all. You’re just using that as an excuse. In truth, you just want to extend your influence and throw your own weight around.
I wonder why ideas in this field seem to be stuck with technolgy of the last century?

Sending some EM signal and hoping for an answer appears somewhat ridiculus.
If at all possible, you would go yourself or send an AI capable of doing some serious information gathering.

Now, why do people pretend, the time of travel was prohibitive? Not only does that rely on the weirdly self-centered assumption, substantial speeds weren't accessible, it also presupposes domestic time frames.

Lastly, the idea we should have been "visited" already.
This has the unspoken implication of some big vehicle appearing in the sky, radio broadcasts and TV crews gathering, etc.
Why? What sane entity would go about it in this manner?
The plebes want more share of the pie, the fed and elites want more unemployment. Is this a consequence of raising rates, or is it in pursuit of more unemployment?
Separate comment to keep the thoughts separate:

This is a reminder that the United States has several Welfare Cliffs - places where, if you make $X more than a certain amount, an entire benefit disappears completely; and, was previously a considerable benefit.

For all the people that talk about educational ignorance when it comes to "I make more money, so now I make less because I'm in a new tax bracket", in the US, we actually do have one of those cliffs with regards to Medicaid, etc, at around $40k / year.

And don't get me started on the "disabled people can't actually get a job because they'll lose their disability check" situation.

As a whole, this country's policies really need to update when it comes to facilitating people to get out of traps they find themselves in - because the trap is actually safer than outside the trap - they literally make more money and have a higher standard of living. A poor person making money legally should never be a punishment.
> but said "eh, it's playable" and launched it.

That does not sound culturally Japanese to me.
Oh, I'm not talking about regular game developers making engines from scratch, I'm talking about the need for competition to Unity and Unreal from other companies, either in the form of new engines or new tooling. I believe new, more specialized, engines would actually make things easier for newbies.

But there's a point there, lots of recent game developers are strongly against the idea of "new" things since each new engine would be one new software and platform to learn.
>This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?

I don't think.

I cannot imagine companies doing GPU, CPUs, Windows, etc. with just 20-50ppl.
TikTok's Enshittification
Thats great, but the ball pops and its not Alice there.

You jailed Bob for years for the crime he didn't commit. Are you happy?
A well-known issue on Amazon is the reviews being for the wrong products.

Shitty companies sell some cheap widget and gain some good reviews (and whether those are genuine or not is a big question too).

Then they change the product profile for a completely different product, but retain the positive reviews.

If you don't look carefully, you won't notice that a high review score is for a cheap toothbrush, not the expensive flashlight you're trying to get.
Oh yes, you're totally correct. This seems a bit like a speaker (low frequency?). Moving membrane driven airflow.
The amount of personal investment I have in an organization is directly tied to my personal upside. If it's my own company (I have run two startups) then I live and breathe it. If it's a Fortune 500 company or the government or whatever, then I give full effort, but I won't grind up my health or personal life. That's possibly justified with an 8 or 9 figure potential exit, but it's definitely not justified for 5 figures worth of stock.
Can we stop with the "Will $X change with AI" posts? I get that it's impressive new technology, and there's value in fielding technical responses, but all we can do is speculate. The same thing happened with Twitter, and HN's submission quality was not better for it. At least speaking for myself, it was a waste of time.
Or as my former colleague put it: I didn't know I liked tomatoes until the first time I traveled to Europe.
People are overestimating the importance of the message body in spam classification. The stuff that appears in your spam label on gmail is what google considered marginal, almost ham. The vast, vast majority of what they think is spam is rejected with temporary failure codes at SMTP time and never gets delivered with any label. IP reputation and other related metadata features are the key features in spam classification, and repeatedly sending different messages is not a valid test of whether the body looks spammy or not.
That's a good point. I didn't really see anyone on Twitter posting about something like this, so that's kinda where I got the idea. It was originally for me, to start recognizing patterns that worked for other Indie Hackers, and hopefully find more ideas myself.
I did actually briefly use a Magic Cap device back in the mid-90’s. It was neat. But it felt like a crippled version of the internet as imagined by HyperCard stack authors circa 1987.
>Most European countries have failed to integrate their growing Muslim populations. They’ve imported an underclass, one that’s going to be increasingly furious that they’re stuck in socioeconomic ghettos

Muslim from London here - my father came here as an immigrant in the 80's, and stayed here. I would say that I'm integrated. Your outlook reeks of no only condescension and disdain for class struggle, but complete misunderstanding of how cultures develop and work. Come to London and tell me immigration is an outlandish idea - your barrista, your off-license shop keeper, your NHS keyworker and your TFL underground marshall will all laugh in your face.
> Everybody else is doing it, why aren’t we?

Pretty much just that. This is how big companies decide most things, not only layoffs.
> imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it will. What do you guys think?

This theory conflicts with Bullshit Jobs' theory (or more likely the truth) where power in an organization is derived from amount of reports someone has therefore companies must endlessly grow, only being limited by the amount of cash they can give their employees compared to the money coming in.
The company was doomed the moment they started hiring at unreasonable pace because VC $$$. I have seen the same at other startups I worked at: VC pump $$$ into the company, the CEO starts bragging on doubling headcount every other quarter; people look at each other asking themselves what all this new people are going to do. Engineering now spend most of the time interviewing rather than building and delivering awesome products.

Eventually growth slows down, customers are upset because the product sucks and here we are.

Who is to blame? The CEO along with the board. So a change of CEO might be the only thing saving the company.
The Matrix 4 felt so empty because of this. It felt like a small group of actors together on a cramped stage.