skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, that's part of what made Game of Thrones fall off a quality cliff. It wasn't just subpar writing on the main plot lines when the source material ran out. The world itself became hollowed out, and the main characters stopped existing within an organic world. It turned into an avengers movie, where the leads were largely alone on screen only interacting with each other (except for designated Crowd Scenes).
Online gaming isn't a niche lucrative market, and its pretty well understood given the structural similarity to traditional money laundering magnet industries like casino gambling.

And that money laundering has been drawn to it is... pretty well established.
The existence of parents addicted to heroin doesn’t make having another kid to get a lighter sentence any less fucked up, rich or poor
I have been working with deep learning for about 8 years, and neural networks since the 1980s, so I have a personal opinion on this:

I think that as DL tooling improves and there are increasing numbers of available pre-trained models from Hugging Face, OpenAI , etc., that fewer technical staff will be required to get increasingly good results. So I would expect companies like Google to be able to slightly decrease the employee count which is not good. However, re-crafting their core business has to be a super-exciting thing to be part of.

New skillsets will be required, but that is fun also.
I still use a diesel powered flip phone.
I hear Aegis is good. It allows backups.
Shopping sites?
Note that more memory does not necessary mean that everything is uniformly bigger, as there is some strongly-non-uniform distribution of memory map sizes, and more memory most likely means that large maps goes larger.

Take for example bash: its RSS is about ~4 MB, but it has 43 memory maps (on my system). One is > 1MB, two are 512-1024 kB, most are very small. Each requires at least one page, so with mandatory 2 MB pages, its RSS would be 86 MB instead of 4 MB.
That’s a great theory, but do you have any evidence to support it? Otherwise it’s just conjecture…
Simpler than what, MIT?
Show HN: Tmfi: The Missing Firefox Installer
Mozilla provides prebuilt versions of Firefox for macOS, Windows and Linux. Unfortunately, the Linux version is just a tarball, so it does not create a menu entry or install itself in $PATH.

tmfi fixes this.
> it is customary for full-time employees to work their entire career through retirement at a single company

This has never been universally true, and today it is less common than ever. According to the Japan times, 8.8% of Japanese companies offer lifetime employment.
Oh yeah, you're right. How could I forget gmail. The value of the 20% of project, in my experience, is not giving employee additional time, as Googlers can find time easily given the company's lax'd culture of enforcing deadlines. Instead, the value is that such projects do not need coordinations, or approvals from dozens of committee members.
Love this question! My husband was laid off recently and it feels like his free time instead has been accosted by our young children and house renovation:/

Related note, I came across this newsletter which goes into more detail about our “work” identity and how your employer doesn’t (to your point!) “care about you”

(https://wokescientist.substack.com/p/work-life-balance-is-a-...)
Alphabet, Microsoft, Salesforce, Shopify, Goldman Sacks, Kracken, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Amazon, Cisco, Twitter and Meta... double digit headcount layoffs in the last quarter.

Tech companies wont struggle to hire for a good while.
Higher frame rates and resolution is great for real things like sports and news. For fiction I much prefer lower, it allows for a greater suspension of disbelief. When I watch less than perfectly shot movies (almost all of them) in high res/fps I'm aware that they are actors and of their less than perfect acting.
Were the duration of the phases shortened? The quote makes it sound like the duration was kept the same, just that the following phase started before the end of the previous phase.
Every time I see a thread like this I echo the same sentiments. It’s not hard to grok how hg works, git adds more mental cycles which just take away from solving the actual problem at hand
> Google Earth’s imagery isn’t blurred (surprisingly!) - though how manipulated it might be is anyone’s guess.

It doesn't need to be blurred or manipulated, all that's needed to preserve the secrecy there is to only use the photos where the planes are inside the hangars.
I think we all know very well the partisanship involved, despite the theoretical questions (which might be interesting in another context).

Majority rule is the most partisan thing.
>We've tried that in Britain. Come see how's that worked out for us.

With Brexit? The UK ended up replacing EU nationals with non EU nationals. Not much changed. Nobody is getting the kind of wages you'd get in Norway or Switzerland for picking trash off the street.
These will eventually percolate out into the general economy as fired people don’t buy cars, houses or expensive meals.
I think that ran on 286 computers
> They're MAGA Republicans with Pokemon!

... and without all the war stuff ;)
I prefer The Flow App for the Mac/iOS, for its the simplicity (yet just enough features) and lite on resources. https://flowapp.info Great customer support as well.
The simple answer is that while there are fewer people spending on games, those that do spend more.

The details are more complex because of the variety of ways games earn money.

The simple buy-the-game model can earn more because the cost of most games is more than going to see a movie

On the darker side there are games that unethically try and leech as much money out of the players as possible, sometimes to a life destroying degree.

In the middle ground there are games with pay-to-win, pay for quality-of-life, pay for bling, and pay for additional content. Different cultures and subcultures draw different lines as to what is considered acceptable.

There are also a few things that muddy the waters, How much is the revenue generated by The Last Of Us TV series considered game industry revenue? How about Angry Birds merch?
Pretty cool!

One idea I really like for avoiding VCS operation anxiety for beginners and experts alike is a filesystem layer that allows revert to any historical state. You just have your bash prompt output the current snapshot number, and then can use that as the revert target if there's a botched rebase or so. Unfortunately I do not know of a nicely packaged way to do this, or how to do it at all with OSS tools (but I bet it is feasible!).
>Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.

Libraries exist.
I'm no Google friend, but what is really unacceptable here is the way Sonos cripples their products with unnecessary "features" that have the sole purpose of tying users to their closed proprietary hardware and software.

To give an idea, here's a speaker which became unusable to the point it required the entire amplifier board to be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIk-4ItQ70
Each artist? They will just have to negotiate with (or acquire) a few major hosts like ArtStation and Flickr.
I think reasons are simple:
Untalented staff in general. Especially art directors and set decorators of Netflix shouldn't be allowed near 5 ft of any camera.

These two professions are usually underrated but they usually make or break the show.

80s had so many talented art directors/set decorators but it seems Netflix is currently incapable of attracting similar talent.
That is one of my biggest issues with Reddit. One big gaslighting operation. Even if you agree with 9/10 opinions, If you disagree with one, you are made out to be an “other” and an adversary.

Just look at how dis-functional it can be, even when everyone is on board with the same basic principals (r/antiwork)
-- microsoft pivots - makes sense they still hire while laying off - if 150 person venture funded startup pivots - it does not - look at Prisma career page - they have 1 open job open - point i was making is - for ceo of small company - having this on linkedin - is tone deaf --

https://www.prisma.io/careers
You can also use Ctrl+A and backspace to do the same thing with spaces
Food is good at Chuck E Cheese?!?! I haven’t been there since I was a kid in the 80’s. All I remember was cheese pizza, which as a kid is the greatest food on earth, but as an adult I’d imagine it’s pretty terrible. They are maximizing cheapest ingredients (because kids don’t care) at nosebleed prices. Glad to hear the food is better. I think it’s a smart business decision to appeal to the adults too.

Earning tickets is pretty priceless. Took my daughter to Great America and they had an arcade with ticket dispensing games. She loved it. She’s 3 and not very good but the staffer great sports. They’d put in a coin to show her how it was played and earned a huge strip of tickets (they were pros at all the games) and then give her the tickets.
I have a Class C along with an ebike to partially mitigate this. To me it's still worth it, although I definitely agree with the tradeoffs.

I also am "full time" nomadic during the summer months, so if I want to stop in someplace specific I do it on a travel day in between campsites.
>This argument about misogny being the cause of low birth rates kind of falls on it's face when you go back in history to when these countries had higher levels of misogny yet much higher birth rates. If you're JUST looking at the correlation, misogny rates correlates with HIGHER birth rates, not lower ones. (Correlation does not necessarily imply causation and all that, but there's a possible argument that could be made here but I won't make it.)

Not that I agree with sofixa’s reasoning, but I also do not agree with this reasoning.

It is possible to have different levels of misogyny. Less misogyny can dissuade women from having children, but they still have the right to not have children. More misogyny could be women do not even have the option to not have children.
You say that like it's bad, but that's just life. We're trying to fit a whole universe into 3 pounds of meat. If we stopped to truly understand anything before taking action, we'd never get anywhere.

That's especially true in technology, where whole armies of people are working to complicate things as fast as possible. For the best of reasons, of course. But when I started out, I could read one short book and have a pretty good understanding of my computer's processor, and from there it wasn't much further to understanding the whole computer. Now I could spend days just understanding, say, processor cache strategies [1]. A field that is super interesting, but if I am to get any of my actual work done, I can't afford to dig into that and the many, many other similar subtopics. I'm going to get a casual understanding of something, do my best to make something useful, and only dig in further when I'm forced to.

When I do have to dig in, it comes in two cases for me. One is where there is something necessary complexity that I would have to learn about regardless. E.g., if something is too slow, I need to learn about what happens under the hood to do proper performance tuning. Great, fine, I will learn it.

But then there's the other bucket, which includes unnecessary complexity, bad abstractions, poorly considered UX, and the like. For me, git is clearly in that bucket. I intentionally have very simple development flows. Git can do a great deal, 98% of which I not only don't need, I actively don't want. [2] So I'm going do my best to remain ignorant of its inner workings, stick with my small number of commands, and very occasionally refer to "Oh Shit, Git!?!" [3] And I'm perfectly happy with that until it gets replaced with a technology that better matches the domain.

[1] e.g.: https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/05/21/igpu-cache-setups-comp...

[2] An example of what I don't want: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRpPPuKf/

[3] https://ohshitgit.com/
That, most of all, is what comes across in the GM movie — there were no adults in the room, at any point. So they built things that were cool that people didn’t want.
> The recent Dobbs decision is as much the result of partisan efforts to institute policy opposed by the majority of the country as the original Roe decision was.

It's not just one decision, but would you provide support for that claim? Dobbs was decided by conservatives put on the court specifically to make that decision, which they executed promptly, along with other conservative priorities. Roe was decided by conservatives also, and they weren't put on the court to rule on abortion.
This week I read an article in Portuguese about how the Brazilian largest TV is having difficulties on creating new soap operas.

On social media I saw one interesting argument: the current generation that is producing the shows grew up watching GoT, and lost touch with how soap operas used to look. Until recently, Brazil used to sell soap operas to other countries ("The Clone" was a bit hit). By creating content that mimicked USA's tv shows, they lost the uniqueness of its content.
Maybe something like that is happening on Netflix as well? People watched GoT/CSI while in college and now we have blandless everywhere.

Google translated article:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=pt-B...
The top 1% by household income in the US is about $500k a year. There are more than 100 million households in the US, so that's conservatively at least 1 million families who could afford to support a 5 figure microtransaction whale. That's a lot of money!
Only tangentially related but Leeches are also still used in modern medicine very effectively
The universe will continue with most stars living for trillions of years. We are early.
iOS 16.3 brings iCloud Advanced Data Protection feature to all users worldwide
Let me summarize the author's viewpoint.

"I've changed/am unhappy now, I don't know why, a deep introspective look into my life is difficult, therefore older movies are better and I'll find a way to justify that"
Inflation erodes the value of money, but it pushes up the prices of non-cash assets.
I'm spending my pomodoro break on HN right now! I use the Focus To Do app on my Mac and Android phone. It's a combo to-do list app and pomodoro app. The mobile and desktop apps sync.

The feature I like most is creating recurring tasks on diff schedules. When you mark the task done, it creates a new task with a due date set on the task's schedule. Examples:
Change toothbrush head - 3 months

I also like crossing stuff off the list on the mobile app.

It has whitenoise for when the pomodoro timer is going!
Leet Code - 1 month
Smoke Detector Batteries - 6 months
First: really shitty for the approximately 130K families affected by the big tech corporations layoffs.

There is no doubt that the economy will continue to take a hit. Here in the USA I think we are in a fairly good position compared to many other countries, and I am grateful for that. That said, when the US loses "reserve currency status" sometime in the future, that will be a huge hit to our economy. I hope that is a long time in the future, but who knows.

I think that all countries really need to double down on educating not only young people but also middle age and older workers who need to be able to learn new skills and be agile in the job market.
Because, as a human, I can introspect my world model. I can explain it to myself and others. I can explain how it guides my decisions. I can directly update it without needing "training data". I don't have a map of my neurons, but I have self awareness. For LLMs, there is the opposite: transparent structure but opaque understanding.
Sure:

https://slate.com/technology/2022/10/gas-stoves-brain-develo...

So the claim exists, the question is whether it’s true, especially given that many advanced nations use them.
Individual workers have no power, and collectivizing is impossible when their attention spans and ability to think and reason are shot. The moment they leave, 100 replacements are ready to take their role.

Good luck.
Would you give me a second of your time? What about 1 billion seconds of your time?

Could I have a dollar? What about a billion dollars?

The burden isn't on me to explain why something being scaled up by a billion is not the same.
The side interaction you're talking about requires modeling the inside of houses, child models, animations for those child models, and parenting would have to somehow provide some tangible and meaningful systems.

Modeling the inside of the house seems like the easiest part. I absolutely expect to see AI-generated models deployed in games in the near future. Not necessarily on demand, but at least to fill out buildings on a map like GTA.

I also expect it to be used for building character models.

The rest I expect to be hollow, dreamlike, and bizarre. Sooner or later, though, it should be feasible. If AI can eventually be smarter than a human, then it seems inevitable that a 'game' could be created on-demand.
"Emergence of the generally agreed upon "next big thing" in AI beyond deep learning. ... What we are seeing is new understanding of capabilities missing from the current most popular parts of AI. They include "common sense" and "attention". "

Right. As I've said on here a few times over the last few years, the big unsolved problem ahead is common sense, defined as getting through the next 30 seconds of life without screwing up. There's been too little progress on this. We need this more than ever, because we now have machine learning systems based on optimization which do the right thing most of the time and something badly wrong some of the time. (I used to speculate on something that made a sheaf of predictions and looked for good and bad outcomes, as an approach to dealing with locomotion over rough terrain. You want to pick moves which have some good outcomes and no really bad fall-off-cliff outcomes. But I was in that too early, in the 1990s, when we didn't have enough compute power for wasteful approaches like that.)

"Despite some impressive lab demonstrations we have not actually seen any improvement in widely deployed robotic hands or end effectors in the last 40 years"

Yes. Manipulation in unstructured environments is still very poor. Brooks' startup in that area, Rethink Robotics, failed on this problem. Mediocre bin picking robots were available in the 1980s, and slightly less mediocre bin picking robots are available today. Amazon has put considerable effort into this without getting good enough performance to deploy.
I had hopes for Willow Garage, which got far enough to fold clothing, but they didn't get beyond that point. It's embarrassing to compare the 1960s video from the Stanford AI lab of a robot assembling some automotive parts with the videos of the DARPA manipulation challenge from a few years ago.

"An AI system with an ongoing existence (no day is the repeat of another day as it currently is for all AI systems) at the level of a mouse."

Yes. I've been arguing for mouse-level AI, or sometimes squirrel-level AI, for a long time.
Small mammals have very good locomotion and manipulation, with brains 1000x smaller than human.[1] We're there on having enough compute power for that size of brain.
That's an indication that this problem requires a different approach, not just bigger models.
I had this argument with Brooks decades ago, when he was promoting Cog and trying for human-level AI in one jump. He said "I don't want to go down in history as the man who developed the world's greatest artificial mouse". Then he went on to develop the Roomba.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
The decision was (more or less) up to individuals before. A state decision is inherently more partisan.
This varies heavily by phone manufacturer. They employ different strategies to inflate their battery life stats, and Samsung is currently the worst offender: https://dontkillmyapp.com/
Try an open source home screen launcher, I use this one, it's configurable to hell and back:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.deletescape...
All of them are still in good shape. We bought good brands, not the cheapest.
How does this compare to the classic Bellman-Ford algorithm and subsequent improvements by Yen and Bannister&Eppstein?
Cherishing the Last Time
I use Privacy.com, which basically turns every card I use with them into a canary. The first time you charge on one of their virtual cards, they become merchant-locked. No other merchant can charge to that number, and if someone tries, I get an alert.

I have uncovered flaws in online merchants this way, and notified them. They were usually grateful, especially so since the fraudulent charges failed.
This can happen, but Paul "Kinko" Orfalea's book "Copy This!" goes into a lot of detail about how it makes sense to care about employees as people and doing so actually contributes greatly to the bottom line. His company "Kinko's Copies" is not the greatest tech leader ever, but it provided basic services to ordinary people using low paid labor and managed to have employee morale and retention far above other companies in this class, fast food companies being perhaps notable for bad employee morale and turnover so extreme that at times it threatens operations.
I was deliberately talking about a hash-chain and not about blockchain. Point is, if they infrequently collect the head's hash, the tax audit consists of just a recalculation. That could be a first step. If they then would somehow (like you mentioned) provide a service for providing authenticity of receipts, they'd have a system that works better than what they have now with much less work. Am I missing sth?
Wolfspeed plans multi-billion dollar chip factory in Germany
What did he sing? "Fragile" ? "I can't stand losing you" ? "If I ever lose my faith in you"?
This just seems wrong to me. Productivity at the FAANGs was low pre-covid and tanked further when they tried to grow rapidly during COVID. Thanos snapping a significant portion of your workforce is probably the best way to get some level of productivity back.

Ideally, you would carefully evaluate everything and trim the fat. But that's probably not possible and if it were it'd play out over a year or two which is worse than ripping off the band-aid. So you make the cuts and expect/hope that people will get reallocated to the most important things and productivity will go up.
I am happy with my current employer but I always liked Paul Graham's idea of not having a boss[0]. I had read it quite a while back but here's the gist of it:

Paul mentions that we work best when we work in a group of 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do. Each member have their own roles and responsibilities and each individual contributes the well being and future security of the group. Such a group is optimal communication wise and it also offers greater incentive for it's members to work harder as you are directly participating in your own growth unlike our current structure where people are helping other people get rich.

This is very extreme take but imagine if companies are capped at 20-50 employees. Will it work? I think it might. What do you guys think?

0: You were not meant to have boss - http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

Edit: rewording.
I am encouraged by the interest in proven methods that had been set aside for the ease of antibiotics. I watch the renewed interest in phages hopefully too.
The scheme outlined is not UBI in that it is not universal (subject to income requirements) and money is allocated by lottery. I haven't seen earnest UBI proposals suggesting a lottery style distribution and means testing is counter to the concept of UBI.
Since we're already complaining about contemporary video production, may I please ask all YouTubers to please stop using stock videos please. I had to stop watching a few YouTubers, because it was unbearable.