skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm facing the issue on how to aesthetically visualize my hiking and skiing GPS tracks in mountainous terrain (similar to the OP, I live in Switzerland, so it's either up or down).

I've decided to go directly the 3D route using Babylon.js, see here for an example: https://cubetrek.com/view/6338

Within Switzerland, it also uses Swiss-style maps as texture, outside of Switzerland a visually similar map style.

I'm looking for Beta testers, so feel free to sign up: https://cubetrek.com/
Excellent choice. If/when things improve you can make the switch, for now you've got steady income and a non terrible position. That's better than a lot of people.
Dang is a great moderator. I've had a couple interactions with him over email and while I might not particularly agree with everything he does site-wide he's at least principled and consistent. I've yet to wonder how he comes to his conclusions. He deserves all the praise.
Am I misremembering reading about a major prolonged outage a few days ago?
I dual boot with Windows 11 and Debian on a couple of systems and don't even notice secure boot.
> Conclusions

> A high concentration of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola could raise TLD and TDD, enhance testosterone secretion, and increase serum EGF concentrations.

If this study can be repeated in humans, drinking cola may help with that.
I wonder with all the people growing up, getting old, becoming game developers, do these people just not care about these old cool features that have gone away that entirely changed the gaming experience for kids?

I remember making friends across multiple age groups in community servers that you could always come back to because someone was kind enough to lease a server for a few bucks a month.

I remember young people creating levels ranging from totally silly to awe inspiring or a combination of both and more, and not to discount other modifications either.

I can only imagine it must be product owners or IP managers somewhere in the org chart saying, "No, we should completely own the join server experience end-to-end," etc.
In practice, peer review isn't even that. As fields of science have grown more specific, qualified reviewers are peers who are your competition, where you are already in their club or somebody who needs to be kept out. You are not going to be helped in any science that threatens their funding. There are a lot of interests vested in every instance of medical research fraud.
What a terrible experiment design. Groups were given Pepsi, Coke, and a control group was given water. That’s not very conclusive evidence for/against any particular ingredient, or carbonation.
OK NOW HAVE THE CONTROL GROUP DRINK FLAT SODA
Right. Selling is selling.

This guy and his mantra for saving the "leads generation industry" is comedy. Or marketing. I'm not sure which.
Bitcoin has the largest decentralized distributed computer network on the planet backing it. Along with numerous technical advancements in the functionality of money. Many serious students on the anthropological history of currency in human history recognize it’s certainly a significant technological innovation in money.
You need to do that for every new drug marketed, you can't just refer to prior art.
Fundamentally Intel in the foundry business suffers from a major problem.. if their customers can design a chip that they can buy for $50-100 when Intel would normally sell them a similar-ish chip for $1000 then they’ve basically just screwed themselves.. like if Amazon says we want to have you build our ARM graviton chip with 128 cores on it, the Intel MBAs would say “well wait we sell 128 core xeons for 10k each.. we should charge Amazon $9k for that chip”.. but as a foundry the silicon area is probably more like a $100-200 chip. So you might say the ARM business was not even something Intel would touch anyway so it’s all additive business, but ultimately if a large segment of their Xeon sales turn into high core count ARM customer designed asics then it eventually hurts them.
Not wrong. They keep you on payroll briefly as part of severance but you don’t go to work.

It’s well known, clueless comments on HN notwithstanding.
I'm not wrong at all. You can make coins with 1/4 the silver they use to, but if people don't demand more coins to make up for the debasement, there is no inflation seen in traded goods. There's nothing necessarily stopping anyone from accepting the 1/4 silver coin as equivalent as the 100% silver coin for the same good. However if someone is wiser about the debasement, and now demands 4 coins instead of 1 to make up for it = there's your inflation. Like I said, inflation only happens where demand happens. Demand can be broad based, but nothing necessitates it being evenly distributed.
This is wrong. Relief shading is done from the topological data itself (ie, the contours).
> what we're talking about here is a protocol for performing eugenics...

No. What we're talking about is if it's ethical to essentially create a race of monster-people by altering their DNA.

GP is saying, no way it's ethical, because if they have offspring it would be unethical. I'm saying maybe it's as ethical as current medical science, as long as you sterilize them.

You're the only one talking about eugenics.

> ethically that isn't a hang-up for you

Look, ethics is in its core, a public affair. Ethicists are primarily concerned whether general people will find XYZ acceptable, and why or why not.

For me personally, I'm not concerned with academics. I'm concerned with whether I feel it's right or wrong in my personal view. Is genetically altering humans ethical in my personal view? No.
I was really ridiculously good with the AK out to sniper range. So you totally called it :P
> If you have to verify its information by other means, then you're not really saving much effort.

Just like any piece of code we write. We have to test, debug, verify and it still might have errors after that. And in scientific papers the conclusions are often contradicted by other papers.

The correct way to use it is to set up a verification mechanism. Fact checking, code tests, even ensembling predictions to see if they are consistent might help. In some cases we can set up a game and use the game winner as indication of correctness (like AlphaGo).

But sometimes only running a real life experiment will suffice. That's why human scientists need experiments - because humans are just like LLMs, but with external verification as part of a game (of life).
Glass floor was a worse (or more amazing depending on your view) version of this kind of map. As the name implies the entire floor was glass panels and suspended over a giant pit with a very ominous look. You could see and fire almost anywhere, including down on the glass as people ran towards you, shattering the panels and watching them drop to their death. But you had to move yourself because everyone else could see and fire on you and the floor under you too. It was a fun change of pace with a lot of anarchy.
> systemd (the attempt to turn Linux into Windows)

systemd was actually inspired by launchd, not Windows. But I guess systemd, Windows and launchd do share one thing in common which is not having a bunch of bandaid shell scripts hanging the system together.
Grifter gonna grift.
That depends if the food gave you garlic breath or not.
I thought things still went to the WARN db even if they do extra severance in lieu of maintaining their employment?
> We are many immigrants

Didn't know there's substantial immigration into Norway. Is it as diverse as, say, the United States?
I was actually intending for it to be custom commands, since I think it would be hard to beat even the vanilla python repl if we are talking about writing python.

But I just couldn't find much about small projects that enable quick custom command repl building. Either the package is enormous and a swiss army knife or they cater to a specific language (e.g. SQL). I'd like this package to be a small building stone for custom command cli of any kind.
Marketing needs to generate leads and sales needs to sell.

But the idea that regulating spam calls and online consent transfer is the leads apocalypse is laughable.
Yeah that scared me about the title, like c’mon now I can’t have seltzer? But soft drinks…does this surprise people?
Yeah, this is the effects of sugary soda...
Minecraft and Roblox both have creative / extensible outlets built in to them. Both are hugely popular with "the youth."
I fondly remember playing fy_iceworld and minor variations of it in netcafes 20 years ago. What made these maps special was that they 1) removed all game strategy - just walk 2 steps to pick up a gun and go fight the enemy, and 2) there were no hiding spots - so no more campers. For kids who could only afford 1 hour of computer time in a netcafe, fy_iceworld was the obvious choice.
> NUC is a single board computer :)

My laptop is also a single board computer, technically, so what?
iceworld : Counter-Strike :: aram : MOBAs

iceworld was great. Counter-Strike is a big game with lots of mechanics. Multi-round strategy. Sneaking. Shooting. Teamwork. Objectives. Etc. Iceworld takes all that and focuses on basically a single thing: peeking + shooting. It's great.

I love the history of MOBAs. Warcraft 3 was a big RTS with hero units. Hero units are cool! What if a game focused on just them? This led to hero arenas and eventually DOTA. In Dota you only control the hero but there are still some automatic AI creeps.

Dota is cool. It has lots of mechanics. Hero micro, map control, leveling, gear, solo fights, jungle, team fights, etc. What would be neat? What if there was a mode that focused just on team fights! Forget the first 20 minutes, all team fight all the time. Behold all-random all-mid (ARAM)!

Counter-Strike and DOTA have extremely high skill ceilings. They're also very punishing games to poor players. iceworld and aram lower the stakes, increase variability, and decrease downtime. They're all action all the time. And even bad players can get some kills and have some fun.

I love seeing how a game can produce a mod that becomes a full fledged game which becomes a bonafide subgenre... which gets its own mod and the cycle continues. Beautiful.
I'd imagine it's technically "COBRA, but we pay for it" as opposed to "We have kept you in the same status as an employee"
You obviously have to move some people, but the way they are executing this now is kicking everyone out of their desks
It was pretty shitty in the late 2000s/early 2010s IIRC.
Anything you have thats missing on spotify? For me one of the killer features of spotify is the ability to view and integrate songs on local/NAS storage into playlists, the few foreign tracks I had ripped worked just fine
There is certainly scope for a more intelligent and nuanced discussion to be had here than what reads like a junior engineer's half baked rant on the uselessness of engineering managers.

Yes there are awful engineering managers just as there are great ones who are force multipliers for their teams. I've known great engineering managers who were great engineers who naturally became an interface for their teams and some who weren't very technical but were great people managers that got great outcomes for individuals and teams.

Org design, culture, complexity, needs determine the necessity of an engineering management function. Do orgs and engineering management functions become dysfunctional? Yes. Can this be resolved by just eliminating the management layer? Hardly.
Nice list.

I also like Awesome RSS to bring back Firefox's RSS feed finder, Old Reddit Reddirect (brings back old reddit), Search By Image, Theater Mode For Youtube, User-Agent Switcher, Youtube-shorts Blocker (you can still view them, but the layout is the same as a normal video), View Image Context Menu, Smart Referer (adds a bit of privacy)
This is interesting but it's old news. Both the linked article and the "FBI PSA" are dated late December of 2022.
Again this ? But do they have alternative ? "Modern" computers are not secure, like MS Windows quality - labeled "DO NOT CONNECT TO NET".
I've used bk
https://github.com/aeosynth/bk
New grads joining large companies isn't anything new, nor is it "Sad!".
They absolutely do add custom logic for a lot of stuff. This has the side effect of neutering the functionality in some areas just to chastise the user for any perceived improper use of services.
According to another opinion piece this was a bad meta-analysis for policy on masks and SARS-CoV-2 transmission:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/2/22/23609499/masks-...

"The review includes 78 studies. Only six were actually conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic" ... "Only two of the studies are about Covid and masking in particular."

"Those studies that did take on Covid and masks directly often painted a different picture than the broader conclusions from the meta-analysis.

One of the largest studies of mask-wearing during the Covid pandemic was conducted in Bangladesh, with more than 170,000 people in the intervention group and similar numbers in the control group. The authors studied a series of public announcements and mask distributions which raised the frequency of mask-wearing. In the end, around 40 percent of the experimental group wore masks, compared to around 10 percent in the control group.

The result, the study found, was a substantial reduction in the share of people with Covid-19-like symptoms, and in antibodies that would suggest a Covid-19 infection: “In surgical mask villages, we observe a 35.3% reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence among individuals ≥60 years old ... We see larger reductions in symptoms and symptomatic seropositivity in villages that experienced larger increases in mask use.”

That looks like pretty substantial evidence that mask-wearing reduces Covid-19! And this article is one of only two studies of mask-wearing included in the Cochrane review which happened during the Covid-19 pandemic."
Only you are making things up and I'm not.

The Leninist policies are considered to have cost in the ballpark of 30 million lives. In the Tsarist rule ~1500 people were executed in a year at the extreme. In the communist days 1500 were killed in a day, but every day for 30 years.

The Moaists are considered to have killed 50 million.

"Capitalist Exploitation" - you mean businesses doing business?

Do you believe people will be exploited less under a different economic system? Why do you believe that?
He works for an "industry" that entirely in the schlepping, hording, repackaging and re-schlepping private information for profit.

Disincentivizing this niche of marketing and driving companies to invest and build their own effective leads generators in-house is better for literally everyone but lawyers in the "leads generation industry."
When do they sleep?
Far cry still ships with level editors. The one in. Far Cry instincts was incredibly cool, especially for the original xbox
Is big tech more stable than startups now ? There's firing across the board and we're not nearly done yet.
It's probably a browser all the way down
You can do something similar with

ffmpeg -stream_loop -1 -re -i gettysburg.wav -f mp3 udp://239.0.0.1:1234

on one device, and

ffplay -i udp://239.0.0.1:1234

on another device.

You can also play the stream with ffmpeg doing something like

ffmpeg -i udp://239.0.0.1:1234 -f pulse default
Right at the start, 1. sounds like harsh critique against the Russian invasion, demanding that they return Crimea and rest of Ukraine to their rightful owner.
Two UMS ("use map settings" which is what we referred to custom maps as, named after the game settings) maps that I loved and were quite popular on aus-1 (our local non-battle.net server) were variants of "zergling blood" which was somewhat like a tower defence where you had to live against auto-waves of enemies, and various RPG-like games where you controlled one unit to go through a complex map and finish it while levelling up (and changing unit type), often with some choice of upgrades. I have never been someone who liked modding games, but custom experiences like this were so fun. All you had to do was join the lobby and it would automatically download.

Not sure if they work with the recent SC remaster, but I think there was some kind of debacle around it with Warcraft Reforged? It might have been patched in by now.
It's interesting how Facebook's target audience is nearing retirement age, but Meta is going full steam ahead with futuristic VR headset technology. It seems like a real clash of ideas, but I could see this working out well to connect people especially older people who are retired, similar to the Black Mirror episode San Junipero (a surprisingly optimistic and happy episode).

The problem is Meta's headsets have a very core-gamer focused audience left over from the Oculus days, though they've started to pivot away from this in recent years. It's nowhere near ready for a mainstream audience to use for social connections. The headsets are too bulky, the interface is too complicated, and the apps require too much setup, character creation, and are just too involved. Nothing right now passes the grandma test.
Ok, but using an AI created image as a basis (example) for a slightly-different-and-derivative work of art must be protected by copyright law. There is plenty of legal precedence for this kind of work.
OOO, I did not actually know this.

Though I was more intending for each command/group of commands to get its own file/implementation, so it's less like a SQL engine and more like a client.
In my understanding, it wasn't actually a given that someone would die as the result of a duel. While certainly a possibility, the poor accuracy of pistols of the day (if pistols were chosen) and the possibility of the duel being stopped by the physicians after blood was drawn (if swords were chosen) meant that honor was often deemed to be satisfied well short of anyone being killed.

It was also not uncommon for either or both combatants to simply fire their pistols into the air. Again, honor was generally deemed to be satisfied if this happened. This took some courage if you were the first one to fire into the air, as you were still required under the code to stand there and let the other guy take a shot at you if he so chose.
Maybe engineers might be enamoured by it. Whatever.

On my GFs computer Chrome starts in about 7 minutes after fresh boot, no other programs running, yet. From a fricking Samsung SSD, 8GiB RAM. All it has to do is show some fake tabs and render a single page content.

Tell about its quality to my GF. She's used to it, but some of these days, I'll check the DNS logs, to see if it's really loading all the 1000 tabs (she keeps open at once), for 0 reason whatsoever, or if it's just that slow to start one page.
Sometimes I would get into a near trance like existence where I just had an uncanny ability to predict the location of my opponents. Sometimes I struggled to tie my shoes.

In high school some of us would play duke nukem 3d after classes were over. I would have to handicap myself with various restrictions to make it fair for the others. At the time I did not have a computer that could handle Duke nukem so the only playtime I got was at school.
I have a survey link in my inbox from Progressive with the subject "Follow-up on your recent claim" for a minor accident where their insured was at fault. It's been 4 months since the accident. Progressive denied my claim, so I filed a claim through my policy with Liberty Mutual. My car is not fixed. Progressive sucks.
The comparison would be more accurate with the relative sizes of each industry. Pretty sure there are more software engineers than people working in similarly skilled finance jobs.
Yes, we're getting this out to existing customers first (including self-hosted customers). Anyone can sign up on the waitlist in my post above, and we're automatically prioritizing existing customers.
Both this hiring-like-there-is-no-tomorrow and, a few short months later, layoffs "because the economy has changed" indicate lack of any sanity in business planning. Sure, most of these people will probably eventually find other jobs, but the randomness of these ups and downs in presumably mature companies is pretty disturbing.
There's no way I'm ever going to stop pronouncing it "dang!". I'm sure dang knows this.
Actually, no need to detect the Copilot code. Just compare the code itself, there are a bunch of tools that can do this.
There are a lot of great addons that improve browsing immensely. I'll dump mine:

* ublock origin: block ads

* uBlacklist: block domains from Google search results

* SponsorBlock: skip sponsored segments in youtube videos

* Thumbnail Rating Bar for YouTube™: show a rating bar along the bottom of each YouTube search result

* Firefox Multi-Account containers: Site storage segmentation

* Bypass Paywalls Clean: bypass site paywalls (mostly news)

* Clear URLs: clean tracking / referrals from URLs

* TTV LOL: block some Twitch ads

* ViolentMonkey: Greasemonkey scripts for further site customization
Not all startups are terrible.
In general yes the workload is higher but big tech is now a stressful place as well (layoffs, performance reviews etc). I'm positive many people in big tech started working harder, unless they wanna get fired.

A startup with a good runway (say 2-3 years) and faith from investors is an OK place to be in. And there are many parents in such companies.
You used to be able to scale up to millions of users in less time than you could memorize all the AWS acronyms, and with lower hardware and bandwidth costs to boot.

It’s true that it would take a couple weeks to order all the hardware and a couple more to install and configure it, but that’s about the same amount of time you spend writing all the terraform and Kubernetes scripts and configuring cloudformation and VPCs and IAMs.
It was Half Life and people typically used QuArK (Quake Army Knife) an open source tool originally made for Quake 1/2 maps, but Half Life used the same map file format. Later along Valve released Hammer, their own level editor.
Disagree. Figma should be competing with Adobe on the open market and winning. Seeing them displace CC in the enterprise in ways Sketch never did. $2-3B would be an insane propellent to them. This deal is great for Adobe, Figma, Greylock, and others, but not consumers or the majority of Figma users in my opinion. Glad to see the antitrust resurgence in this country. The rollup play is going away. Adobe's leaders are going to have to get more creative to compete :)
Most of their criticisms boil down to "if this is better as an upstream patch then do that please." Every patch I've written (not in Ruby) has been to add functionality upstream definitely would not care about or want to maintain (relegated to application entrypoints to aid maintainability on my end). Are other use cases common in Ruby?
Perspective always helps.

Did you reach that conclusion after being frustrated, or rather - have you always worked under this guild?
In online games, there are generally two necessary aspects to "getting good": game knowledge and understanding your opponent. Game knowledge includes game mechanics, which are obviously necessary, but also includes esoteric knowledge like the specific areas in a map that can be exploited just so, or a complex combo with specific spacing in a fight game, etc. Personally, I don't want to spend my limited game time memorizing complex game knowledge. To me, the fun comes from understanding the opponent and using that understanding to beat them: what are their habits, how do they react, how can I trick them, etc. Levels like fy_iceworld are perfect in this regard.
I mostly played on an unstable terrible dial up (under 300ms was a fantastic day). When I played on a t1 line my K/D was always higher than at home. Maybe packet loss was my ultimate foil?
The Swansong of a Cloud Approaching the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole