skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you're overreacting a little bit? This is an automated poop emoji email response from a social media site and you've quickly translated that into "poop emoji = BS = fake news = a tacit endorsement of raw power of the strong over the weak = a public square has been destroyed = we are all in serious trouble".

This isn't DEFCON 2, this isn't our generation's Cuban Missile Crisis, this is a dumb thing that affects nobody and will be forgotten 24hrs from now.
> Apple hasn't announced any layoffs

Apple didn't overhire and double its headcount during the Covid money printing bonanza like others did.
Aggregates (global temp average over a year) are generally more predictable than the underlying datapoints (daily local weather).

Source: am data scientist.
Good point.

> It is unclear how a country stabilizes birth rates once they start falling, because no modern country has successfully done it.

One possibility is that they are continuing to fall because they just haven't reached equilibrium population yet. East Asian countries also seem (from my limited understanding) to have particularly bad social problems that further suppress birth rates, which Western countries don't have.
They very likely did close! And then they re-opened, some under new auspices. It happens and it's a signal that American dynamism is alive and well!
> I don't expect, however, that she will program front ends any time soon

Liar :) If she wrote/scored as good as Chat GPT-4 does, you'd be worried she's going to steal your job :).

I mean, I know I'm lucky my wife doesn't know programming, lest she'd know more about anything that I do.
Was he using the phrase or just calling himself a pacifist?
The problem with the T-bonds and MBS losing value when rates went up may be the proximate cause, but there certainly is more to the story. They actually had a good portion of this exposure hedged in 2021 and didn't renew the hedge in 2022.

The people running SVB were not stupid and were very aware of this risk, yet they chose to take it. There is a reason for this which we will find out in the fullness of time.
Or just use Clojure and slap a `p` on your `map` function.
I 100% agree. I know pessimism stops me from taking risks (and likely rewards), so I'd never subject others to that pessimism and try to be outwardly supportive/optimistic towards their goals.

That being said, I find that many workplaces are overly optimistic and need some pessimism/realism to ground the processes.
stupid feedback: The Loom video started with "Hi this is lume", which in my head is pronounced exactly like "loom" itself. My brain farted for a couple of seconds until I saw the Logo of "Lume" in the "loom" itself
>A society not prepared to fight for its existence will not survive. It's the men willing to go to war that keep it alive.

Sure, but I was only responding to tjs8rj's claim about a "happy" society, not one which necessarily outlives all the others.

>Women have a natural instinct to want and take care of children.

>It's quite amazing that anyone could believe women were oppressed by men literally spending their lives protecting and providing for women.

These are enormous claims that require enormous evidence, not to mention that individuals were and are impacted very differently by different members of society.
> A 1992 episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers depicts a somewhat loosely-based version of this event in the episode "A Deadly Glow," albeit with a happier ending for all involved, and blaming the contamination of the town on an eco-villain. However, it did feature caesium-137 as the radioactive contaminant, as well as portrayed two young children unwittingly playing with it in a similar manner to Leide das Neves Ferreira, who, unlike the children in the cartoon, received a fatal dose.

Fascinating
To add to this, the faster route to something that runs was important because it was a goal of the devs to start dogfooding the distribution as soon as possible.
It isn't that simple. You see the same phenomenon in Europe and Japan where there are entire villages of houses to be had if you are willing to take over the deed.

There are forces at work here besides just space. People are drawn not to places where they can have space and families, but to dense urban areas without space to live.

It is a conflict of desires and objectives.
The joke is played out and it's time to move on.
Time for the AI hype-men to touch some grass. Anyone claiming they have 10x super powers now has most likely only dealt with hello world problems in their current job thus far.
Forget about the company, this boils down to choices. Can you get another job relatively easy within a month, or for as long as you can finance your unemployment?

If the answer is no, you need the job and most likely should take the pay cut.

Whatever your choice will be, it's time to start looking for a new job. The behavior you describe in your employer sounds to me like they don't put value in employees.
Which leads to these nightmare scenarios where actual defense attorneys and union officials ask in earnest "Why is this officer being held liable for forcible rape of a minor today, when such behavior was already found to be immune 90 years ago?" [1]

Something that gets tossed around a lot for firearms is a national database of owners. I think there's a variety of problems with that idea, but I really don't understand why we don't have such a thing for police officers. Like, what is the harm in having a federal database of every officer of the peace, so in the future, somebody like Derek Colling can't be fired for assaulting a photographer, find work 2 states away where he then shoots a prone, incapacitated man in the back, twice[2]. Like, that shouldn't have happened in the first place. We have such a system for doctors and lawyers and engineers. Why not police?

1. https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/06/09/patrick-rose-boston-pol...

2. https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/se...
No mention of maybe the best of all of them, Silverball in Asbury Park? They own over 600 machines, of which they'll have a few hundred on the floor at any given time. Games run the gamut from the latest licensed stuff to purely mechanical games from the 50s.
Our transformations are executed in a staging database/schema before deployment. We also have versioning and backtesting capabilities. In addition, you will have complete visibility of the code we produce before and after deployment.
Honestly, DHH and Basecamp have both struck me as being kind of old news for a while now. And he's the only other person I've heard making noises about the cloud like it's a bad thing.
Solution: wear a VR headset on the plane which displays the horizon in a way that makes motion visible, and keeps a book in the center of your view :)
they have $30 bln in new deposits

its the same bank they were two weeks ago, but with a $30 bln buffer

why do anything?

so what, the stock collapsed...if the business is still basically sound (and I have yet to see material evidence to the contrary), then it will move back up

maybe there is evidence not brought to light...but otherwise, we're talking about a mid-size bank on good terms with regulators that has a P/E under 2 (!!!)

this almost feels manipulated to the downside...

and please don't respond with "bank run blah blah" every bank in the world is subject to that risk

FRB seems actually better off in that its depositors don't need to empty their accounts to pay off the lease on a used minivan
Fascinating I encourage customers to use the dev tools to discover and see how to work with our apis
both the poster above you and the repo tell you what it runs on -- a p-roc controller (which hooks up to a pc)

if you want to modify the original game, you're going to need to get into 6809E disassembly and manual rom hacking.
VR motion sickness is a tricky problem. Much like regular motion sickness, some people get over it after a period of time, and some never do.

It's highly dependent on the type of VR content you're looking at. For most people, the moment the camera or your character moves at odds with your real head, they get uncomfortable. My job is developing VR stuff and still when head tracking gets out of sync for more than a second, I get dizzy and have a headache the rest of the day.

If you want to continue with VR, I'd say stick with standing experiences. Try out the racing game now and then, but quit at the first sign of discomfort. You may find that your brain gets used to the conflicting input over time, or it might not. No way to tell without trying it.
I like Scala and I really recognise that terrible cleverness, but I really don't like you blaming it on the language because it's a failure of people.

(Conversely, I really really wish I'd done my personal project in Scala rather than C#. It manages to be good and horrible at the same time)
Apparently the site got deathhugged. Does anyone have an archive link?
Also > Coal is only going out of style because we are building out new natgas plants.

False. Total electricity produced from fossil fuels (coal + natural gas + Oil) is down even ignoring efficiency gains which reduced the amounts needed per kWh.

US per person total Fossil Fuel based electricity production production: 2020: 7,322 kWh, 2019: 7,861 kWh, 2015: 8,499 kWh, 2010: 9,321 kWh, 2005: 9,838 kWh. It’s offset somewhat by increased population but the overall trend is still really clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unit...
Only a quibble, but "Bicycles outnumber motor vehicles" might be more accurate. It's a vehicle count, not a person count.
Do you maybe mistake Österreich (Austria) for Ostdeutschland (Eastern Germany)?

And Germans have plenty of money (and vacation days) to travel across Europe, in fact you will encounter them pretty much everywhere.

The quality of care in German daycare centers is still not great despite recent improvements, I'll give you that.
Hiding behind a pseudonym implies that there are compelling reasons to hide.

If one can truly do whatever they want on their computer, whenever, then I don't see any compelling reason to hide.
That's generally an option, but it's not exactly cheap!
17.5% it turns out.

When conservation rules are ignored by 20-25% of the population (because they won't be the only ones) they can easily undo all of the efforts of the rest of the people. If I cut my impact in half they can wipe that out by increasing their impact by 20%.
> The compression ratio of the source corpus versus the model demonstrates it doesn’t have all the source material, ipso facto, results are not infringement.

Or, why making and redistributing a JPEG of a copyright-protected artwork is not infringement.

Results decidedly not guaranteed if you try this “a copy with lossy compression is not infringement” argument in an actual court of law.
Thank god they worried more about the stock's impact and dragged this out months as separate 'small' layoffs instead of caring about people and making it a single event. Who cares about employees anxiety, their trust in the company, etc, right Amazon? You deserve the mass exodus of talent coming.
That isn't intrinsically horrible, the cannondale lefty is tried and true in the mountainbiking space, even if it is mostly a gimmick.
Bank regulations are designed to ensure that this type of thing is a shareholder (and pref/AT1) risk - I haven't seen any claims that they were inappropriately or incorrectly rating those risks for capital purposes (but perhaps they were, who knows).
With "consider" I mean taking implications into proper consideration. Which you didn't do above.

The recent behavior of the US government/military is not compatible with "no ETs anywhere". Confabulations to the contrary universally suffer from serious plotholes.

But as you say, people's assumptions prevent them from considering options without irrational bias.
This is a stunning clip, especially given how instrumental JCal and David Saks were on twitter calling for a bank run and subsequent bailout.
This is a real truth I've come to learn. I've worked in NOCs and the number of people on the planet who can successfully run on-premise hardware is... low.

Not to take a negative view, it's just an unsexy skillset and doesn't attract a lot of talent and attention.

Trying to hire for folks who can gracefully manage on-premise networks, power, and hardware is possible and extremely challenging. "Cloud," as it is today, is here to stay.
I say it a lot, but I'll say it again:

"The code isn't the hard part of the job"
> I know that when I'm playing Pavlov, every time I spawn with a new gun, I have to relearn how to reload it (and then die surrounded by all the clips I've dropped).

That is realism. Real guns are quite different in this regard too.

I understand you would prefer to just push a button but this makes it more realistic and adds another factor of skill.. Just like taking cover in real life.

Situational awareness in VR is better than pancake games. But a lot of other things are more difficult because it's more realistic.
I would like to understand your PoV:

Are you not concerned because you think current mainstream-science overestimates the consequences [1]? Or do you just believe that climate change will have little effect on you, personally?

[1]: Flooding, biodiversity loss, food production yield, increase in regions and days/year with human-lethal outside temperatures (see relevant graphs in "summary for policymakers" around pg 16)
A photograph is not a perfect substitute for the painting made by the artist..... It's not on the same medium, and we know it wasn't made by the artist. Or are you implying I can sell a photo of the monalisa for about as much as the original since it's the same?
UIs have become more complex in parallel to more sophisticated tooling. Most websites now use persistent state and are reactive, where before those features were not as widespread. So I would say it has evolved, and the entry point for FE dev is closer to typical app development than before (which was closer to design and scripting).
Note it’s only a “sure loser” bet because Noah is factoring the opportunity cost of 37 Bitcoin into Balaji’s stake, which is not at all a conventional way of analyzing a bet.

If we do permit the unconventional analysis, I’ll instead note that Noah failed to analyze Medlock’s opportunity costs.

(I’m no economist but it also seems like an incorrect analysis of opportunity cost? For one, this is not Balaji’s only opportunity to buy Bitcoin. This million dollars only counts if it prevents Balaji buying as much Bitcoin as he wants to - i.e. if it costs him the opportunity to buy 37 Bitcoin, which it can only do if he spends all of his other money buying Bitcoin first and would have liked to spend this million as well, but cannot because it’s in escrow. Again, I’m not an economist and Noah is, so maybe I’m wrong here, feel free to correct me.)

Fundamentally it seems like Noah’s claim is actually “if you think Bitcoin will go to $1M, there are other ways you could have made more money than taking this bet, like investing in Bitcoin instead”. That doesn’t make this bet a sure loser, it makes betting a bad way of making money relative to other methods like investment. But we already knew betting is bad and mostly about reputation. I don’t get it.

A more conventional analysis says Balaji put in $1M and Medlock put in $27K and if the total value of the pot rises above $2M then Balaji takes it all, while if the total value of the pot stays below $2M then Medlock takes it all. These are the terms of the bet, and this is a really bad bet for Balaji because it seems very unlikely the pot will go over $2M, but it’s not a “sure loser”, just an extremely likely loser.

In fact, if Bitcoin were to go to $10M instead of $1M, Balaji walks with $11M; if Bitcoin to $100M then Balaji sees $101M; if $1B then $1.001B, etc. Medlock’s return is meanwhile forever capped at $1,999,999. If you leaned on this angle of analysis - maybe by pointing out that Bitcoin is iconic for its massive fluctuations and thus implausible outcomes like going from $30K to $10M are still strictly more plausible for Bitcoin than almost any other asset you could name - you could argue that Balaji has the better side of the bet! (You’d be wrong, but still more right than Noah’s “sure loser” claim.)
VRChat is less LARP-heavy than SL. VRChat is more proprietary than SL. VRChat is more custom than SL in some ways and less in others. The SL people tried to make a VRChat clone. They sold it off, and now an EDM label uses it for virtual raves.

VRChat is significantly more voice-heavy than SL, which is better or worse depending on your use-case.

The best thing about VRChat is that you get to wear a toaster on your face and get physical interaction with people. If you want to take a dancing course in VRChat, you can. Buy a few gadgets to track your limbs, and it'll be shown accurately.

VRChat is essentially the next step in the user-programmable social video game, and the community seems more ambitious. The platform is so open that they've ran emulated Linux on user avatars.
Yeah but that's such an atypical example. Small company with, I assume, a pretty high-end skillset overall.
> It's going to take a long time until they begin to match the Gitea momentum.

I'd hope so! I am not interested in many of the features being added to Gitea (i.e. the momentum you allude to[1]). I want a light binary I can continue to self-host on a Raspberry Pi Zero that doesn't have Docker installed.

1. I feel Gitea is being positioned as a competitor to GitHub and GitLab - good for them! However, the previous iteration was close to perfect for my needs, albeit not very monetizable. I'm glad it got forked and will be side-grading to Forgejo.
ML models don't need that much data to be better than you
>Oh my Sweet Summer Child

Yeah, this person offers nothing but condescension. Immediate downvote.
There is also Next Level Pinball Museum > https://www.nextlevelpinballmuseum.com/ in Hillsboro, OR (30m outside Portland) and it boasts "One of the World's Largest Arcades with over 475+ pinball and arcade games on free play!".
I’m my 35 or so years in the industry it goes through ups and downs. I look at GPT as an evolution of the IDE, which compared to 35 years ago is basically writing the code for you now. But it’s not. GPT can’t from whole cloth develop an entire system, but it can accelerate certain boring stuff that hopefully isn’t your value. The market for labor expands and contracts violently in tech. You’ll be ok. Just love what you do and do what you love, don’t let the anxiety chase you as burn out lies down that path and that’s a hole that’s impossible to fully emerge from unscarred.
Right, but the parent used the word 'unavoidable' which implies that such a future is pre-ordained. Which obviously doesn't make any sense.
Players figured out WSAD and mouse, they'll figure out this for a game that makes it worth it.

It's just nothing has made it worth it yet.

And as for CSGO type things, too many players find traditional FPS gameplay on VR to be puke-city.
I think we're just having a semantic argument now; just because meta roughly means "above" doesn't imply singularity (you could envision a metametaverse above multiple metaverses). And the existence of a singular observable universe doesn't preclude the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics or the accompanying "multiverse".
What if you train her with then right data?
That was the human wandering off, not the horse.
Information cannot move faster than the speed of light. If the non-locality has a random output, then it doesn't violate relativity because random noise cannot carry information (by definition it's no longer random if it does).
I am from Soviet Union (which had strong state) and witnessed labor unions - who did nothing of value absolutely. so no, not buying this argument at all.

"workers should organize for greater market power to prevent abuse by employers" - tech engineers dont need it - because if you dont like it - you can simply leave to another employer. market forces will find equilibrium, labor union is only an obstacle in reaching market equilibrium.

it is telling that people who escaped communist countries never want to see any sign of communism in their life. Because communism doesnt work, never worked, and will never work
This is fascinating, because my instinct is completely opposite :)

I enjoy VR games for their easy-start/easy-stop hassle-free/memorization-free aspect. If I want a 3 hour session of complex game, I start my PC. If I have 10 minutes and just want to PLAY during those 10 minutes, I pick up my Quest2 and just... go. Whether I played yesterday or month ago, they tend to be intuitive. I absolutely positively do not want mouse and keyboard to be part of my VR experience :-).

Maybe your complaint is about bad VR games, because those certainly exist!
Good to see your message jaclaz.

You're another one like Starman who can fill in details like no-one else, in case people are not aware. Please kindly post a link to the message board where your most valuable information still can be found!

What I'm seeing now is when Windows 8+ is installed to an MBR partition, and boots normally from a plain NT6 BOOT folder using BOOT\BCD in legacy CSM mode no differently than Vista (whether the boot folder is on a separate hidden volume or the same partition as Windows itself), the same Windows files on that partition can also boot using UEFI if available, from an alternative EFI\BOOT folder (plus accompanying EFI\Microsoft\BOOT\BCD) on the same or similar media.

In the first case with BIOS it ends up running winload.exe, but under UEFI the firmware runs winload.efi instead, since both the "DOS" executable and the EFI executable are both present in the Windows\System32 folder, you have your choice here too.
The word that describes what the author calls destructive pessimism is defeatism—an expectation and acceptance of failure. This itself causes failure.
> what happens when you actually try to make it good?

1. Do you think that companies paying millions of dollars to ML researchers aren't already trying to make it good?

2. I think it will take a real revolution in AI/ML to do what people here are extrapolating into the future. That revolution will eventually come, but I doubt it'll be as quick as people think. Just think about the excitement people had about Siri 10+ years ago, or about Full Self Driving 5+ years ago. In my opinion, in 5-10 years from now GPT will be in the same place where Siri and Full Self Driving currently are. Eventually we will make the leap we're dreaming of, but that leap isn't happening yet.
No, you can put down whatever you expect your income to be and receive subsidies based on that. If you end up making more than you expect that year (good problem to have!) you'll have to repay some or all of the subsidies on your tax return.
I once heard somebody describe cycling after a few drinks as the closest thing humans can get to flying.
Not that I believe his claims about SBNY, but Barney Frank, of Dodd-Frank fame, shouldn't be treated as just some random grifter who lost equity.
Indeed, I'm not sure how people can use Tailwind or Css-in-JS without, well, knowing CSS. It's literally CSS as another DSL.
This was (sort of) funny 5-7 years ago.

Meta: Stuff like this doesn’t really fit in HN imho. Besides being low effort it just feels weird to read things like this on a site literally called hacker news. I feel like someone misspelled “tired techies complaining about the same thing over and over again”.

Is it that much harder to come up with a genuinely funny or constructive answer or, you know, go outside, and touch some grass instead of posting?
Hmm.. so there is also procedural computer art, writing code to produce nice images. Also not copyrightable? At least the code?

I draw an image.
I write some lines of code that draws an image.
I write many lines of code that do something, gather something, and then draws an image?

I just wonder how one can reasonably draw hard lines (and now I don't mean art :D) in the future.. there are so many ridiculous incarnations of copyright and patent fights already out there..