skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, some clinical trial phases overlapped with each other and with animal studies to accelerate development.

Right, but GP was misrepresenting this. Having phases 1 and 2 overlap when phase 1 is clearly going well was at worst a risk to the phase 2 participants. It wasn't skimping on the length of phase 2 or 3, so there was never an increased risk of dangerous vaccines for the public.

> Notice this probably played a role in the fact that the clinical trials didn't reveal that the vaccines didn't have much effect in preventing transmission (although severity of symptoms was clearly reduced).

I don't think measuring reduction in transmission is a primary concern of vaccine trials? It also seems quite hard to do, without a significant proportion of the population being vaccinated.
> Not a snowball's chance in hell (and I know it sounds like a cranky person talking) that lawyers and judges in criminal/constitutional trials will ever be "replaced" by AI. It has nothing to to with the possibilities of present and future technology, but everything to do with optics.

Ha, you might like Pohl and Kornbluth's classic dystopian science fiction novel "Gladiator at Law", which I think was from the 1950s. There is a trial scene near the beginning where the prosecutor and defense spend a page or so addressing the jury box. Then (spoiler) the jury box flashes and whirs, and spits out the verdict.
Oh. I should’ve checked but I was in a rush. For some reason I was under the impression that it was out of print.
Elon musk cautioned before leaving them too.
Games are more replay able than movies and tv. Also, inapp purchases and subscriptions are the bulk of where games make their money. Non games apps are starting to catch up with the inapp and subscription schemes to increase profitability
I think OP is misunderstanding what "impedance" means? Impedance, at least in the context of electronics is describing resistance depending on frequency of the signal; if the incoming signal "vibrates" with a frequency that can make the receiver match it, energy transmission is large, otherwise low. Maybe I'm oversimplifying a bit, electronics or dynamic systems aren't my speciality. But the point is that two systems need to have the same impedance to move energy or a signal effectively. If the impedance matches, they "vibe" :)

So it's about matching the impedance. It's about reducing the impedance mismatch between systems, not about reducing the impedance.
I used it for about 3 months for Monster Hunter World with some occasional visual bugs and artifacts, just had to tweak some settings to go from 3 FPS to 60 FPS (seemed to only use my GPU if I selected a particular DirectX version). One day a patch dropped and it went back to 3 FPS. Couldn't find a remedy, so I installed windows. No more visual bugs and artifacts and no more tweaking settings to play the game.
https://archive.ph/J2eUi
Yes! The entire new Matrix movie looks like that as well. Granted, those scenes were taking place inside the Matrix, but that choice did not really work for me. Seems as if the director wanted to move as far away as possible from the old movies, in terms of what the simulation looks like.
did they try though? it seemed all scattershot, unfocussed, repetitive (how many chat/video apps) and quickly taken out back and shot.
For anyone who wants to see what color movies used to look like, I just watched Purple Noon. It's so beautiful you can just turn the sound off and use it as moving wallpaper.
I think android let's you install whatever home screen you like
Someone needs to redo the blade runner scene with SD with the hands question :)
I've not had French cider, but cider is getting more popular here and there are quite a few styles available. One local cidery has a full range of ciders from sweet to dry and they use a variety of different cider apples. There are even a few cideries that are growing their own seedling apples to use in their cider blends.
More recently: micro-transactions/subscriptions

But historically I'd bet it came down to the fact that games are simply more expensive than movies; a AAA game has cost $60 for the past decade and a half, while a movie ticket is ~$10 (or a DVD is ~$20, or you could just watch it on your existing cable or now streaming subscriptions)

Many of the biggest games (especially multiplayer) are now free to play + in-game purchases, but there are still plenty of big, prestige, $60 single-player games coming out every year
I saw your same - not really valuable - comment above. If you're using Windows for games only, then having or not having an Edge icon on the desktop is not an issue.

If you're using it professionally, then it's annoying, along with all the ads, tracking, dark patterns and other bullshit you receive in Windows - especially that you already pay for a license.

Compare that with Linux, which mostly gets out of your way, doesn't track you and is free.

I've been using (Fedora) Linux for professional work for more than 5 years now and still very happy with it. I'm also gaming occasionally on a dual-booted Windows (browsing HN while Death Stranding is installing :)) and get annoyed every time when booting into it.

It always feels good to go back to Linux, where you can play most non-AAA game titles anyway.
I use the free Powerpom app on the Windows Store. One of the key things for me when using a Pomodoro timer is... If I say I'm working on something for an hour, than anytime I get distracted, go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, I stop it.

If an "hour" of work actually takes me an hour to complete as opposed to an hour and 15 of real time, than it's a good day.
I don’t care how much he was pushed. He’s the guy at the helm. Part of that lavish comp package should be the ability to say “we don’t need that many employees; that hiring is not in the best interests of investors/customers”.
John Alcott, Kubrick's cinematographer, who got an Oscar for that film and is known for using natural light, is probably more responsible for that.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005633/bio
What should be my next development “platform”?
My current desktop (on-premise, on my desk) machine is serving me well, but It's going on five years old. Today, for the first time, I started thinking about it's replacement. Got down into the weeds about Intel vs AMD, etc. but then realized that the first question that should consider is whether local compute makes sense as a developer. My local machine is really just a host for my "desktop" and "development" VMs. Is it time to just start using cloud VMs? What are the pros and cons? I know that a big pro would be the ability to work from anywhere. Currently I do this by bringing my VM with me using VMware Workstation Player.
Thankfully when I was graduating they had some strict school & GPA filters that someone as lowly as me wasn't even dignified a response.

Wall Street tech DGAF about that though.
Having survived (just) the dot com bust in 2000 I recently wrote up my experience:

https://medium.com/@davenixon_44904/how-to-find-a-job-when-y...

TLDR: avoid changing from homeowner to renter if at all possible - convert your normal IRAs to ROTH during any lean low-tax years - learn the hottest new skills to get rehired
I think there are three reasons:

1. They've decided to have a single interface for every device and Netflix supports a lot of devices. So it basically can't have any features that require more than a d-pad input.

2. They want to obscure the fact that their catalogue is really quite small. That's why are very limited manual filtering options and no advanced search. You'd very often get 0 results.

3. They're still in the "A/B testing can solve anything" and "we must optimise for engagement!" phase and haven't realised the problem with that. They probably A/B tested showing you stuff you'd already seen, found it increased engagement and said "ok it must be good".
I'm pretty sure my mom threw money at candy crush at one point, it felt bad like she was getting into slots or something
stop cherry picking, the crust of that persons comment is about censorship
The vps can be encrypted by a customer supplied key. In google compute, for example: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplie...
They are works of art. But each one costs up to $900.

Well, yeah, it's a completely domestically designed and produced item.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYPWgzDBxE

The manhole covers in my Oregon city are boring and say "made in India". I'd bet their per-unit cost is still in the several hundreds of dollars.

Japan's "lost decade" is a myth:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/08/11/now-...

The examples given in this article are a bit silly. In Japan, the land has value, not the home. The examples in the article compare prices during an insane bubble to present-day prices. You could do that with any free-market county to make things look bad, except I don't know if any county has ever experienced a real estate bubble on par with Japan in the late 70s - 80s.
Is it Japan's duty to sacrifice its standard of living and culture to make it more comfortable for you, or should they be seeking out the best life for their own people first?
Simulating a Steam Engine with C++ [video]
The Challenge of Being Human in the Age of AI (2021)
By your own story, it's not a myth. Not everyone has one, and your boss had to be supportive of you working on it, but there are a bunch of internal systems that are supported by 20% time. It might be more appropriate to frame that 20% as giving 120% (aka working on it on Saturday instead of Friday) for some of the things, but it's a real thing that exists. Just because not everybody has such a project doesn't make it a myth.
Must have been 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479899
I have Win 10 Pro genuine that comes with my laptop and I still get candy crush icon and some others that I forgot, but microsoft team you can't remove it, it comes back every time so what are you talking about
> you're really wasting a lot of cpu cycles on building up the garbage collector.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of JIT compiling? The context where I think of "warmup" is (say) Java, where the runtime profiles hot paths to emit optimized machine code.

What would it even mean to "build up" a GC?
Thank you for this great recommendation. Read a sample of this and it's very readable. It also appears that the same author has written other books in the same vein. Do you recommend any of them?
>Having phases 1 and 2 overlap when phase 1 is clearly going well was at worst a risk to the phase 2 participants. It wasn't skimping on the length of phase 2 or 3, so there was never an increased risk of dangerous vaccines for the public.

Irrelevant "actually"ing after being objectively wrong. Don't cherry pick to shutdown a conversation: and if you do don't be wrong in your attack.
CUE (https://cuelang.org)

Why would you want to build a new format over using an existing one?

Is it a good idea to still force a single file once the configuration reaches some sufficiently large size?
It believe it’s a specific method for a partial bleach bypass on prints but that’s basically me being ChatGPT from random internet knowledge.
The back door is being friends with the HM
It kinda is, but from what I’ve seen the developers against this are highly egotistical and having a meltdown that the skills that make them special and on some level famous are becoming obsolete
Humans make mistakes with rules too.
A theoretically perfect but largely non-viable solution.
Another aspect to mention is games can add a marketplace directly to the media. Paying extra to change the costume a character wears in a TV show wouldn't work, but paying to change a costume of a game character is something people do every day.
Console Drivers to Stream to GCP Logging and AWS CloudWatch
Do you have a citation for that? Lots of people play video games on big screens for hours at a time and don’t get motion sickness.
Well I'd say they both put all their eggs in one basket & let that basket deteriorate. Show of hands - people who feel google search has improved in the last 5/10 years vs people who feel it's gotten demonstrably worse?

So they have a monopoly product that is something like a 2 sided market (advertisers & search users) where both sides hate using it..
I've been thinking about this for a while. I think games like dwarf fortress that collects a lot of stats/data will really benefit from this in the future. Just feeding ChatGPT the existing lore, and letting it generate more with some additional data points.

Seems neat!
When power to the community is cut, it's massively disruptive to operations because our normal response to give troops time off (or employ them in a humanitarian response) to take care of families. Day-to-day garrison operations and small-scale training events are seen as less important than taking care of families.
I like how the SA observatory is known as Meerkat, given the comedic stance they take when on guard.

Otherwise, I always found favour (regrettably) with the argument that the amount of energy needed to transmit a signal across the galaxy was too great, as the intensity of the signal falls by the cube of the distance.
The part in the article about ARM64 Linux giving up on 64kb pages was particularly damning. Although as it notes, Apple is using something other than 4gb pages at least.
> The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games

Every game I play is a competitive multiplayer game.
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/hardware/intel_n...
If it's legal + acceptable for all men, then it undermines the advantage of the elite in this regard. Plus I don't think "stigma" matters to them at all.
IMO it was a good looking show and I'm not a fan of super hero movies or really Netflix content.
> I suspect the one problem that will be difficult to solve is elegance and abstraction.

The fact that this industry was able to sustain itself for so long and not actually get this is a miracle in itself. This is what ruined OOP when it became just managements lingo and it'll probably happen again with tools like ChatGPT, we are just going to vomit code in a faster (and cheaper) way.

A few rebellious souls will soon realize that domain modelling and writing correct code is hard, they'll end in the usual places that already exist today, by working in some niche company that applies pure FP or proving theorems in Lean/Coq/Agda.
People need to stop using things the read in things like anime or 4chan as if it's the case. For example, japan literally has one of the higher birth rates in east asia[0], above china and taiwan, but no one talks about the "sexless chinese society" because the media narrative for decades has been that china is overpopulated.

Just a note, Japan's birth rate is 1.34, while Germany's is...1.53. A whopping 0.2 humans more. In fact, it was in line with Japan's until 2010 (and the influx of migrants I assume), and no one is talking about the sexless German society, because people are slow to let go of stereotypes and tropes they have about nations, many of them completely separate from data.

[0] https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1615241561159380995
> I don’t know how Google could be saved but perhaps having grateful and happy employees that would just build things in their 20% time might have been a better strategy.

I'm not sure 20%-time is a better strategy. At least it was not proven yet. For starters, which successful products were initially Google employees' 20% projects? Google Search was certainly not. Google Search Ads was not per the book In the Plex. The product went through multiple iterations, and a math whiz from u of waterloo conceived the idea of using second-price auction system. Google Maps was not, per the book Never Lost Again. It was developed by the Lars project initially at Where 2. GSuite was not. It was from the startup Writely. Google Adsense was not. I was from DoubleClick. Google Chrome was not. It was a strategic product that multiple people drove, including the current Google CEO. Google's self-driving car was not. Page personally drove the project by working with leaders like Thrun.

On the other hand, breakthroughs like ChatGPT can't be from a 20% project. It requires full-time dedication of multiple world-class researchers and engineers to develop a series of models, to set up a massive infrastructure for training and data processing, to implement an efficient process for human input, and to invest many millions of dollars to buy GPU time and crawler time.
As usual, all of these "use cases" suffer from the problem at the boundaries (see also Oracle problem), namely that you can automate everything on the blockchain you're using, but once you're back in the real world you no longer have any guarantee. Your new layer of abstraction just leaves you with a more brittle system.

* insurances: you still need somebody outside the smart contract that needs to connect it to what happens. You've just moved the trust from one place to another, and you're not better off.

* transferring money is faster in many countries than it is with (e.g.) BTC when you include the wait for the confirmation blocks. It's also bound to become faster and cheaper, while many blockchains (especially BTC) seem stuck with their processing time. Even countries with slow bank transfers now tend to have a fast solution, like Zelle in the US. Add problems like volatility of the cryptocurrency with the respect to the currency that actually matters, high (and volatile) fees, and transfers via cryptocurrencies is only attractive in a few countries and will only remain so as long as these countries do not improve.

* with art you again have the same boundary problem: the blockchain you use doesn't know what's happening, and only the law will resolve your conflicts.

> efficient, transparent and enforce standardization

So far the blockchain systems have been less efficient than non-blockchain ones they purported to replace, see the usual comparison with the Visa network for example.

Transparency and standardization are orthogonal to the use of a blockchain: using one doesn't mean you can't be opaque or follow any standard.
> Why do you believe inverted pyramids don't last?

Death. And there are trivial ways to keep fertility at replacement level and not negative, on par with most other 1st-world countries.

A perpetually inverted pyramid would require that fertility rate shrink even further, until it approaches 0 - do we have a reason to believe this will happen?

Notwithstanding, in 100 years the entire global population growth is projected to stagnate, which will make this a moot point. No one will be able to rely on immigration to grow perpetually.
You seem to be very confident that you know exactly how the law is going to be interpreted in this case. If I were you I'd moderate that confidence a bit to cover the possibility that you are not in fact the top legal scholar you seem to think you are.

I could see this go either way. There's the argument you put forth, and then there's the argument that a text to image model is a transformative work. You can use copyrighted works and make money off your product and still have a transformative work. The Google books case is, of course, good reading on the subject.

My main point is that it is not at all clear which way the law will go on this.
I don’t think those options are mutually exclusive: merchants should definitely be doing it but note also that many of the scenarios are things where you might want to verify your personal data storage or deal with internal business security.
There's a few different standards being discussed, with battery buffering being a major component in most proposals. Using 2 750kW bays for a truck was one proposal.

There is a limitation imposed by the size and cooling capacity of the battery too, although that improves every year.

The current marketing buzz phrase is 20 minutes to 80%. Daimler is proposing 3,000A and 1.25kV https://insideevs.com/news/535918/megawatt-charging-system-e...
Traditional casinos make a lot of money. Although the odds are heavily in the house's favor, normal casinos do pay out some percentage of the money that is wagered. Most slot machines, over time, keep over 90% of the money that is put into them, and the rest is given back to the players.

The video games that are generating these big revenues are functionally identical to slot machines in their monetization schemes. There's one key difference. These games always keep 100% of the money. There's no way to get real money back. You can get cosmetic upgrades, various fake currencies, power-ups, and all sorts of other things in exchange for the real money. None of those things actually cost the video game company anything. They're just being paid to execute UPDATE statements on their database.

The effect of this is that a video game is a casino where no matter how lucky or skilled the player is, the house always keeps 100% of the real money no matter what. And we let children play in these casinos. In many countries they are largely unregulated. Meanwhile, the traditional casino that does occasionally pay out real money, is heavily regulated.
This idea has an obvious problem. It's a lot of hard work. How many people are going to be diligent in planting canaries etc? And if you are, can you be diligent for the next 1, 2, 3 decades? That's a lot of time spent on this.

You know what would be better? If every bank provided as a service/feature the ability to create single-use (and single-merchant!) debit cards. Revolut can do it, why can't huge banks do it as well? (BTW if you know one that does, let me know.)
Timers miss two key features: visualization of time and customizability. https://timeva.app was built to address both issues.
digital can look like crap. but it can also look pretty good. its down to the artistry. easy to fuck up in ways film couldn't be fucked up. and don't discount the fact that everything is being watched on OLED which is not as good as LCD even in rendering subtle gradients such as skin tones.

I'm watching Snabba Cash right now on Netflix. The settings are gritty, the lighting is raw and creative, the colors are splashy and true. It looks great.
https://archive.is/EAqT4

> For all of history, humans have sought to understand reality and our role in it. Since the Enlightenment, we have considered our reason—our ability to investigate, understand and elaborate—our primary means of explaining the world, and by explaining it, contributing to it ... Now AI, a product of human ingenuity, is obviating the primacy of human reason: It is investigating and coming to perceive aspects of the world faster than we do, differently from the way we do, and, in some cases, in ways we don’t understand.

Mr. Kissinger was secretary of state, 1973-77, and White House national security adviser, 1969-75
Mr. Schmidt was CEO of Google, 2001-11 and executive chairman of Google and its successor, Alphabet Inc., 2011-17
Where does one get a multi-billion-dollar line of credit with only crypto as collateral?

I’m skeptical that, say, Morgan Stanley would do that. But I may be wrong.
In terms of entertainment-time per dollar, at least classic AAA “$60 for 40 hours of entertainment” games are an incredibly good deal compared to movies. Indie games are usually cheaper and higher-skill, so I guess the deal is probably even better (I mean, a higher skill game doesn’t necessarily take longer to complete but it seems likely…). Wonder how this compares to the f2p micro-transaction based model.

If the $/time is much lower and the total $ is much higher, then I think we should just conclude that the games industry is providing way more entertainment-hours to humanity as a whole.