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I mean, in the end if you are the parent, choose wisely the toys you buy.

We spent a lot (really a lot!) of money on: duplo, brio, a wooden toy kitchen, an enormous set of duplo animals, a set of magnets.

Our children use those, yes we have garbage toys from friends and parents, but our children use those, exception for cars. Any car is fine.

We also have 4 different garbage trucks (one for the sand, 2 rideables, 1 for playing at home), since we have a passionate guy. The plastic of all 4 is good, yes they are not metal unfortunately (but he is still 2).

Train and duplo are still going really strong, the kitchen a bit less because we had to remove some pieces since they made such a mess that they wouldn't know how to cleanup, and I got frustrated doing it myself every time.

For videogames, stoo giving garbage videogames and give them quality stuff. We skip tv for children and tablet videogames are not a thing, instead I let my children play yoshi's crafted world and kirby star allies. My daughter (almost 5) is really strong by now, my 2 year old is still getting started.

I am very passionate of toys, I am very fond of my old ones (I have a very large lego collection, as well as mechas from power rangers).

Aside from that, yes toys are mostly crap quality nowdays. I struggle to find good stuff, we'd rather skip a birthday and find a good more expensive toy to buy later on, if needed at all.
I actually no idea how one could teach stuff like Bag of Words naive bayes classifier etc for a whole semester and charge $4000 like most universities- with a straight face
"strong" atheists are asking you to treat your lack of belief like you'd treat any other thing you don't believe in - i.e. faires, fae, ogres, trolls, Babayanka etc.

I don't preface a comment on "those don't exist" by saying "well there's no evidence but..." because very obviously I don't live my life as though there's any probability they exist.

"I don't know god exists" is a meaningless statement because the alternative is not binary. You don't believe 'god' exists when you do, you believe a rather specific God exists.
Introverts
It’s time to have tough gun control, because blue lives matter, said literally no one in America.
What is the ratio of tea leaves to water in India? Is this cup disposable?
haven't really tried for that transform but have a look at https://www.jooq.org/translate/
On the topic of more humane hospice experience, strongly recommend watching this TED Talk by BJ Miller on hospice and palliative medicine -- "What really matters at the end of life"

https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_t...
First off: lol it doesn't. It's currently running at 0.4FPS on a Galaxy Note 10.

Secondly, raymarching usually involves something different than NURBS, which are Signed Distance Functions (which Inigo,the author, is quite fond of). These have no proper authoring tools to support them. The few games that I know of that uses them are Dreams and Claybook, and that's only as a descriptor of geometry. Dreams then transforms those SDF Into point clouds, then into triangles. And Dreams has basically been the research project of an employee they went through every possible failure before reaching something tolerable.
What do you mean by ‘Global Inequality’?

Because income and wealth inequality has been steadily increasing in (almost)all developed countries
Ah yes. And you trust your government to do a perfect job stopping power companies from any such intentional miss-management, especially given such dire consequences? I don't, even though I trust my government quite far.

Because the Japanese government's failure to stop TEPCO from this miss-management is just as bad as any engineering oversight. And Japan isn't a third-world country. Japan runs a tight ship in most regards, tighter than the US and many EU nations. Other countries with a nuclear industry are far more troublesome: Iran, Pakistan, India, Ukraine, Russia, China... But if Japan can fail so spectacularly, all risk estimates around nuclear power are futile.
Stop thinking that Big Tech engineering works for everyone
It is like pristine snow in that it does not have traces of human activity all over it. But in contrast to snow, it changes very slowly, and no weather to smoothen out traces either.
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Using that same logic: since you don’t know whether victims of unsolved murders knew the killer, how could you know which is easier to solve?
The in-game chat's support for music will never cease to amaze me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPKXfb3rws
Morrowind had only a couple voiced NPCs, and none of them zoomed into them during conversation. Are you thinking of Oblivion?
It's not that bad if you completely ignore Firebase and override onHandleIntent. Now you can choose what to do with the message without caring about the difference between "data" and "notification" messages or whether your app is in the foreground.
The moon is about 1/4th the size of the Earth, or about as wide as the United States. The moon also significantly impacts our tides here on Earth. Now, the optimist in me would say there's no way little old humanity could manage to find a way to screw that up. The pessimist in me notes that in roughly a hundred years we've managed to push our planet to the brink of ecological disaster, so to answer your question: yes, a little bit (but not the ecosystem you're referencing).
There’s always Mars
How can a model trained on text know what a unicorn looks like
Remove the word cookie as that has nothing to do with the GDPR.

The EU rule was to prevent someone collecting personal identifying information and then sell it on without consent.

A really simple read can be found at the ICO.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

The "cookie banner" is to work around the fact that there are 3rd parties who would have access to your information without your consent and they want it to be awkward so that you consent.

If your application is a fitness tracker then of course you are going to have a lot of personal information. You are not allowed to sell it without consent, tracking in this case is selling information to Google et al.

You tracking a logged in user, via a shopping cart as a cookie, does not violate the GDPR.
Having many point solutions is problematic from a cost and complexity standpoint. General purpose solutions that would work for 80% of your use cases would be better long term. Having said that, I don’t think Postgres can be used as a general purpose solution to cover vector search, full text search and NoSQL use cases. The best general purpose solution would expose a unified API but under the hood use different storage engines to support these diverse vector search and full text search use cases.
I agree the zero-sum mentality sucks. It introduces really nasty dynamics in society and in the workplace.

But extreme inequality is also very unhealthy for society. People with less get exploited. People with more feel entitled to exploit them.
There’s always Mars.

Or Montana.
Can't they just trace back the phone caller id, and file charges for bogus calls? It's not clear in the article, is it spoofed or overseas numbers making the calls? Would 911 service prioritise calls without verified caller id to the level of sending armed swat teams?
I think you might be underestimating how large the moon is. Also moon is receiving thousands of meteorite impacts every day, it's hardly undisturbed. It's not some unchanging museum exhibit - it's an always changing planetary body.
So you count the Fukushima plant as not modern enough, because it caused a large evacuation right? And what counts as modern? Certainly nothing that has ever been built in Germany.

And how fast can we build them? They need to start to come online in the next few years to do anything to stop global warming.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie "The Running Man" predicted exactly this back in 1986. Most of its other predictions have also come true already, or are getting very close.
I want to build a rifle that's 25 inches long, or a 51 caliber pistol. I want to shoot big fireworks on my own land on the 4th of July, as long as the noise and smoke doesn't carry over to my neighbors. I want to be free to risk maiming myself in a vehicular accident, if I choose not to wear a helmet or a seatbelt. I don't want anyone else to pay for my mistakes. I just want to be free to make them.
Long long WIP but Ceph/Rook across 4x usb attached drives has been my go, across 4x small kube servers.

Honestly I'd love to have a sad based fast-Nas too, also attached. I was going to chime in to complain that there aren't good toaster carriers for nvme drives, but there actually are more than plenty of low price single drive USB carriers.

To me the question comes down to need. Mostly I need some good reliable bulk storage. I don't really need speed. It'd be fun to have a couple TB pool of fast storage, but not needed, where-as I need capacity badly. Getting some Seagate Exos spinning rust is just a no brainer, just fabulous drives at a great price.
Turtles all the way down.

“Why do we need a space station?”

“As practice for getting to the Moon!”

“What can we do on the Moon?”

“Build spaceships for getting to the asteroid belt!”

“Why do we need to get to the asteroid belt?”

“So we can make components for the Mars colonies!”

“Why do we need a Mars colony?”

…
Such a great article. Much respect to Lars. I had the great privilege of working with him at Wikimedia and he's genuinely one of the nicest and funniest people you could ever hope to meet.
Completely tangential point - Rokoko Video is fine for a free tool, but if you need something better and you're willing to pay, there are other options. I spent a couple of days evaluating various video-only mocap and in the end went with DeepMotion.

Rokoko Video wasn't very reliable (at one point I was standing perfectly still, but it thought I was on one leg twirling like a ballerina). Although it's very expensive, DeepMotion has been great (also if you were disappointed by DeepMotion 12+ months ago like I was, I'd suggest revisiting - it's leaps and bounds ahead of the earlier version I tried out).

move.ai looks very good too, but needs multiple cameras which was overkill for my use case. Plask seems to have regressed (the platform seems like it doesn't even work half the time) and Radical's aggressive tactics really turned me off.
Policymaking in the Pause [pdf]
That was called Do Not Track headers, and websites decided to both ignore it and use it for additional tracking.

The current situation is purely a result of advertising companies fucking you over, not because of Europe.
Why on earth would he end up in jail? No don't just tell us to Google it, obviously it won't turn up anything. What allegations are you referring to?
What's the cost? A slightly bigger binary & codebase? It seems like it's close to free to me. Am I missing a cost? Or are these costs bigger than I'm assigning them?
WSJ: I Helped Make Corporations Woke, and I Regret It
IANAL, but this is not entirely correct. For example, if you have server logs, that's processing personal information, most likely under GDPR Art. 6 lit 1f (legitimate interest). Under Art 13 the user must be informed of this. Because of the information requirement the Do-Not-Track is not enough unless you really, truly do not track any PII (which includes the IP address).

Equally, this is incorrect:

> You may not collect personal information without consent.

There are a whole host of reasons listed in Art. 6 when you do not need consent.
"But there is water there. And two new studies—one Chinese, the other American—suggest that lunar soil may have a good deal more water in it than modern space scientists previously believed. It’s still very, very dry; NASA’sArtemis program is looking for ice in shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole, and mission managers should not change those plans."
Maybe because the language is not untyped? It has both dynamic typing and optional static typing.
TFA doesn’t mention any hints about layoffs, but I suppose the timing is about right relative to an earnings call that it makes sense to predict it soon. Nobody will remember if they’re wrong. (Personally I think they’re right.)

At this point it’s clear big tech is outsourcing these decisions to the same set of outside consultants with the short-term goal of stock price bumps (and long-term goal of driving engineer comp down of course).
We have made a system that has no room for seeking understanding. It needs to be fast, affordable, and without mistakes otherwise you’ll get sued, so everyone simply follows protocols.
For me at least, the longest part was compiling OpenOffice.
It's good to raise awareness but it's not recent news.

- Foxconn ships poor people from rural areas to mega factories, take their identity documents, and essentially holds them hostage.

- Up the supply chain, small-scale miners of rare earth minerals risk their lives and die everyday.

- Consumer cognitive dissonance allows billions of people to eat hamburgers without considering the impact of their choices.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-30540538
We got to see the rise from nothing, got to see the history. Of course we'd be hella attached to this. We can appreciate it at a remarkable level that will never be possible again.
Is CSS under-specified? when I've been curious about some thing, there has been a pretty detailed spec. There are differences in behavior on newer things as things get worked out, but I feel like so much is due to actual bugs relative to the spec than the spec itself.

Is there an example of under-specification that sticks around in practice?
The IPA of chair also contains a t though:

/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

I think it makes sense. To me there is a clear difference between chair and sheet, where chair starts with the sound of a t. Same thing with Ч.
> This sound is an ‘affricate’, meaning that it’s pronounced by starting with a /t/ and releasing it with the tongue so that it finishes with a /ɕ/ sound.

I don't agree. I don't start with a /t/ when I'm about to say any Russian word that starts with ч (ch). The tongue is in a different place altogether.

With т, the tongue is closer to teeth than when I start with ч (ch). This should be true for all since we're talking about more or less the same sound – ч and /ch/.

Of course for French and English speakers /ch/ represents two different sounds.
So only evaluating output with unit tests - a fitness function. AITDD.
How can you not recognise that? :)
So child labor laws are unnecessary if they benefit you?
> The amount of FUD Mozilla spread about Web MIDI was truly distasteful.

As in: everything they said is true, and the moment they launched it they found it's used for fingerprinting (and Google doesn't even hide it behind a permission prompt)
So… abolish the whole process by which we ok drugs as valid treatments?
Can you post screenshots of these results?
The third option is that the mass exodus is limited, and Twitter usage dipped just a bit. Mr Musk has obvious reasons to lie, but his users or people who don't like him can also lie.

If the mass exodus has caused any major user count decrease, people should be talking about "Why would you still using Twitter?" than "Hey, I've closed my Twitter account, cool uh?"
I quit being a tech “influencer” – Jack Domleo – Front end and UX Developer
Don't forget to change your air filters regularly!

Made the death defying climb up through the shitty shelves in my closet up to the crawlspace to replace my hvac filter yesterday. Yup it was time!
How so? Most of the rules only apply to companies of more than 250 employees or with large result and fines have always been applied with a lot of discernment. As usual on HN, I expect most people who complain about it to have absolutely no idea of what it actually is.
That's a lot of demagoguery mascarading as fact.

What really happens is that Mozilla brings multiple well-argued objections (Safari, too) that span both technical and non-technical reasons, but Chrome just releases its half-baked non-standards and calls it a day.
For a simple analytics try https://counter.dev/ which is _open source_ which is a must for proper privacy
I have used XEmacs for about a decade (1995 - 2005), to the point I still remember most stuff.

However that was only due to being in UNIX environments where IDE was a foreign word, and nothing compared to the likes of Borland offerings.

Nowadays there are plenty of IDE choices for UNIX like workloads, I don't miss Emacs, and basic VI knowledge is enough for editing configuration files on bare bones POSIX systems.
This sounds like you should read the rule.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

It's really simple.
So you're thinking that if more lubrication stayed under ground, the plates wouldn't stick together so much, and they wouldn't store tension? (I'm not saying you're wrong, I have no idea.)
There were also the other words of Yuri Gagarin, on the way back from space: "Я горю, прощайте товарищи" ("I'm on fire. Farewell, comrades").

The capsule somehow managed to land successfully, and he ended up being alive.
Ask HN: What are the best Twitter accounts to follow for GPT/ChatGPT?
Finland is a small country with a small population. It is futile to compare small countries with large countries. Small countries are much more likely to get lucky in certain regards, for example with a selection of suitable storage sites nobody lives close to. Or with a political climate that is amenable to such things. Also nuclear power was seen as an advantage because Russia is right next door. Finland is just in a much different position than Germany.

We had a nuclear storage site picked out long ago. Then it turned out it wasn't suitable. That's at least as much bad luck as "lack of foresight" or anything else. Finland didn't have that problem. If their storage site turned out to be unsuitable after decades of preparation, maybe they wouldn't continue with nuclear power either.

Last: You accuse others of propaganda but use a phrase like "in bed with the Kremlin" and spout conspiracy theories. You don't understand German politics. Mistakes were made. Presuming malice is convenient and lazy.
My entire software dev career was using emacs nearly 100% of the time. Originally it was on tops-20 (about 1981) and it was the TECO based emacs. (someone will correct me but I think Stallman was involved in the TECO version at MIT) Then the unix version used an abomination called mlisp. I briefly used EINE on lisp machines. Once Stallman got gnu going in earnest the first thing seemed to be emacs and elisp. I've been retired for a few years now so I don't type at emacs nearly as much. I feel crippled typing this into a text box in the default UI on a chromebook. Once I found control and meta on the keyboard it was all finger macros.

Anyway, I didn't do much customizing and never got used to vi when I was forced to use it. I don't think I liked the modefulness of vi. Yeah, emacs isn't very unix-y, but the unix-y text editor is ed. You kids get offa my lawn.
https://man.netbsd.org/wg.4
You may be able to argue a GDPR Art. 6 lit 1b (necessary to perform a contract) or a 1f (legitimate interest) reason to track, but you will need to, at the very least, inform the user. Storing data on the user's device (cookies, local storage, etc) also requires the user to be notified thanks to the ePrivacy directive.
You have no way of proving whether any cookie or non-cookie mechanism is employed for a purpose you did not give permission for.

What you can do is eg. not enable the microphone when the website asks for it, not send the GA cookie back with requests to spin the visitor counter, or make the browser pretend that you have a bog-standard screen resolution and font selection. They will not have the information, so only the lack of information can be used.

If the cookie that stores your logged-in status is used for other purposes like getting more relevant ads in front of your eyeballs, that sucks. One can only hope that they are separated by functionality, or the candidates for more dubious activities are given out by a third party.
North Korea says it tested a solid-fuel ICBM for the first time
Same as why they don't make new sports teams. Much less risk in sticking your name on an existing institution that's already running.

Modern universities are also a heck of a lot more complex than 150 years ago. Same as modern sports teams, there was a period where those are also just founded by a company as a side arm.
> I really dont understand how the Ad Industry still survives.

> Shouldn't we be able to calculate precisely when it makes no sense to pump out more ads. Isn't it sort of like Shannon's channel capacity?

Even if the channel is saturated, that doesn't signal the end of the industry. Pepsi knows advertising in the super bowl is expensive and crowded, but they can't take their superbowl ad budget and spend it on feel good projects for local communities, because the sales slump too much. Other beverage sellers must have also taken note from Pepsi's experiment.

If the channel capacity is reached, that's not bad for the industry. Slot pricing goes up if there's not enough supply. And if you're paying more to slot your ad, it should be a better ad, so you've got to pay more to make it.

There's a saying that 50% of your ads are a waste of money, but which 50%?
It is nothing. It is always nothing. The "spiritual", the "religion" is always about hiding the politics in the mystery.

We didn't know we were on a planet and we believed meretricious speculators rambling on and on about the "genesis" of the sun, the moon, and the earth. We didn't know why and how were there so many kinds of animals around us and we listened to stories.

Nowadays we don't know how the brain encodes memories, how it retrieves them and replays them (memories are probably like a movie script and the brain replays them like a cinema [1]), and we don't know how this system fails to work when seriously decoupled, as in dreams, when damaged, or under psychoactive drugs. We know roughly how anaesthesia works by blocking signals, there is nothing magic in being under anesthetic drugs and waking up from anaesthesia; it's a procedure done daily thousands of times across all the hospitals in the world. Camillo Golgi showed us the neuron merely 152 years ago [2]. Give it 150 more years and all the current "mysteries" will appear more or less ridiculous.

[1] Endel Tulving, Episodic memory: from mind to brain, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11752477

[2] 'In 1871, a German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach postulated that the brain is a complex "protoplasmic network", in the form of a continuous network called the reticulum. Using his black reaction, Golgi could trace various regions of the cerebro-spinal axis, clearly distinguishing the different nervous projections, namely axon from the dendrites.', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Golgi#Nervous_system:~....
As an iOS developer I’ve learned to never put 3rd party secrets in the app. I typically go with a proxy backend server and attach a request-unique nonce that’s created using an obfuscated secret key stored as an array of integers on the client.
Show HN: A text adventure game where GPT-4 is the player
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New College Oxford seems like it's been ready to get a donation for most of a millennium.
I built this for fun. Free to play with your own API key.

Your API key and chat messages are stored locally on your browser. Requests are also sent directly from your browser to OpenAI's server. No data collection.

The original prompt is shown in the first message after you start the game.
I believe SEO spam has alreaedy ruined Google. So no need to wait for an AI-originating event. The data-apocalypse is already here.
So what’s the next HN?