skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met a Dutch woman expat and she didn't even teach her son Dutch - just totally migrated to English. The husband is British and they live in Germany.
This is likely a good thing. If a company is annoyed by a regulator it either means the regulator accidentally held back passionate progress the populous begged for, or that Microsoft was set to make a load of money off it.

And there's a general lack of articles lamenting this.
The first sentence even appears again further down.
He remastered Star Wars several times and some people are apparently convinced that he 'destroyed' the work by doing that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releas...
"Furious attack" - Just goes to show that it was the right decision by the UK. EU should have done the same. I personally don't want all my games to be linked to a Microsoft account in a few years. There's already too many monopolies. It's bad enough they want to force you to use an online account for the operating system.
I accidentally took an interview (my first one in English) with Tom Dusenberry, a guy who has achieved $3B in sales for such games as Monopoly, Star Wars, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Scrabble, and others, and raised $80M for various game projects.
In fact, I’m ashamed that I had technical difficulties during the interview (the quality didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted), and I’m not a native English speaker and I didn’t feel very comfortable. During the recording, I even once asked a question for so long and couldn’t pick up the right words that I had to do it all over again (of course, this was cut out later). But after I published the video and the article on LinkedIn, people commented that my guest is a legend!

A few months ago, I decided that I would develop myself as an interviewer on the topic of startups, VC, and investments, and Tom was one of my first guests. To be honest, I didn't expect Tom to agree to give me an interview, but fortunately, he responded and I think it turned out very interesting and informative.

We discussed Tom's career in the gaming industry, fundraising, producing games, failures, the cost of making games, the biggest changes in the gaming industry, and future prospects.

My main insights from this interview are:

– Game development is similar to creating a startup – most fail, but a few become huge hits. You need to have an MVP to test before investing much money into developing and promoting new games.

– When you're in the industry for a long time, you gain compound interest from your credibility. People know and trust you, so you get opportunities from your network, such as offers, funding, ideas, and partnerships.

– It's all about having fun and working with great people. If you're in the gaming industry, don't miss Tom's new book this year.

You can check out the video podcast on Youtube.

A text version is also available on Medium, the link is in YouTube description.
Meh, I think that varies quite a lot. If the only functional difference between your duties and that of the the rest of your team is your paperwork, then you worked there.

The only time I specify whether something on my resume was a particular type of arrangement like contracting is if it would be weirdly short.
You can charge more for touch controls, than for cheap, reliable physical knobs.
> You will not get an interesting conversation on these topics on an American discussion board. These topics are a minefield.

I hope you're wrong, but...

It would be lovely to see some actual historical perspective on America's periodic obsessions. Post-9/11 anti-terrorism and airport security theater are still here. The Vietnam-era obsession of the left with being anti-war (while the right was still pro-war and anti-communist) has almost reversed. We had McCarthyism in the 1950's. Etc.

The Great Awakenings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakening ) should probably be thrown into the list. And the Salem Witch Trials ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Political_c... ). And...
One could write a very long essay on this, but basically: regardless of what the underlying truth out there in the universe is, all we can get at is an interpretation of the evidence to determine what we think is the truth. To the extent that truth is based on evidence it changes when new evidence is introduced.

To say otherwise is to say that people on death row should never be acquitted because it was true they were a murderer at the time of the trial, and that truth is unchangeable.

(or to use an example from cinema, at one point it "wasn't true" that cigarettes were harmful)
My car has plenty of buttons on the steering wheel, but unfortunately there's only so much real estate so you'll still need to fiddle in other places (ventilation and warming). And there are also menus, handled by the steering wheels buttons and displayed on the screen right in front of your nose but I still don't recommend that while driving as the menu structure was put together by throwing D12 dices on a drunk night out (luckily many menus are disabled while driving so there's less room for error)
> should be shared with blockchain

No, this is not finally a use case for blockchains.

(before any zealot goes "AHA!", obviously I mean a distributed trust blockchain, not e.g. git)
Did Han shoot first? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first
Are you a creator? A writer, or an artist, or a director? ... Are you a very good one?

Because to the best of my knowledge, no world-class author or director has ever said "Feel free to change my words, images, and choices after I die, however you see fit to make the most money or appease the current narrative".

... And if a creator ever did say that, it would be the exception that proves the rule.
Thanks for this but 20mb of data seems too low. Even supabase offers 500mb
The intentions are always good but the devil is always in the details. Victorian morality or the Prohibition had perfectly valid concerns but their implementation had serious unintended consequences that arguably made things worse.

It's a all a question of balance. Regarding Victorian prudishness or the Prohibition, I think right now we might have gone too far in the other direction. You can see the damage that alcohol and substances as well as pornography and general promiscuity are doing to society. And there are already growing movements against these things, composed of young people even, see NoFap for example. And of course they try to swing the pendulum too much in the opposite direction. Always out of balance, always overreacting.
If something is free, you're the product. But yeah this is bad
the only issue with that, is you don't own the copy-right, so donating it isn't possible.

If you have a copy of HarryPotter and want to make sure it stays as is, then you have to back it up.
Is zero alcohol beer actually beer?
Isnt there a famous book with Johny Chernobyl and the Meltdowns or a similar band name as part of the plot. It will come to me shortly...

Edit: I'm thinking of snow crash, I think I have some details wrong though
What has been lost, in the UK at least, is the concept of a watershed.

Previously violence, nudity, and profanity would only end up on screen / radio after a certain time (9pm iirc).

In an on demand world, we're now expected (rightly or wrongly*) to make that decision for ourselves at the point of consumption. Couple that with platforms that make only hand wavy efforts to actually validate the age of consumers, and you have ubiquitous access to potentially inappropriate material.

Granted, the (seemingly) puritan basis of the large American streaming services means we won't be seeing sex and nudity on these platforms, but my goodness, as an adult, some of the gratuitous violence in even 15 rated content nowadays surprises me. Take everything everywhere and the gratuitous bloody beating to death with a massive dildo for example.. that's the sort of content that wins 7 oscars..

I'm aware that I sound like a right prude, and this has turned into a rant, but fuck it, digital content has moved so quickly that we've gone from Mary Whitehouse [0] to apathy in a generation.

*I say rightly or wrongly, because I don't think we in the UK have had a grown up conversation on that front. We're a complete nanny state, except for where we're not. Publicly broadcast material adheres to the watershed, but digital content seemingly doesn't need to.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

Minor edit to reference streaming services not culture
I think the sometimes awkward stereotypes serve as an important reminder how our society has changed and that we should introspect our own biases constantly - what are the things we are doing now that in the next 50 years might seem as shocking the Asian tenant in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

You can of course stop displaying or selling the movie all together if you really feel that bad. But don't try to cut around it to posture moral superiority but in reality you're only doing it to keep the money coming in.
I dont want a microsoft account on my private computer
Shader Variants
I think it was Brussels; I really need to finish turning my notes from the trip into blog posts, given it was 2016…
For the people who haven’t read the article, Spielberg is mostly referring to the 2002 rerelease of ET which replaced guns with walkie-talkies.

The topic is a bit tiring to me, mainly because revising old media doesn’t really seem to be something a whole lot of people want, but it sells clicks.

It’s not that it doesn’t happen or it’s not bad, but it’s so rare that it’s hardly worth mentioning. You can find a handful of cases and stretch them into news stories for months.
> EU should have done the same.

there's reasonable odds that they will

the UK was simply first to reveal its decision

I wonder what the petulant child Brad Smith will say then
Shorten!
No need to posit secret groups of anonymous people. Democracy gets corrupted and taken over right out in the open. Just look at how rich and powerful executives cycle through government jobs, and how former elected and non-elected officials get sweet gigs at corporations they used to “regulate.” No illuminati, just money.
The other type of immigrant that you seem to have qualms with is also a pretty damn important part of a developed country's economy. Do you think the average well-educated Brit is going to the fields to pick strawberries? Or going to move manure around a pig farm? Those jobs need people as well, and the local population has a dwindling number of people willing to perform them.

Migrant labour for jobs in construction, farming and others not requiring highly educated people freed up British labour to become more highly specialised. It sucked for Brits trying to live off this labour as immigrants naturally pushed salaries down (no prejudice against that, I'm an immigrant myself and do understand the motivation of accepting lower salaries for better living conditions), on the other hand it freed natives to pursue higher paying jobs.

It's a trade-off for society, with pros and cons, very unfortunate cons that affect the lower strata of society but that allowed others to develop technologies.

If you don't like the "very different type" of immigrants then you gotta accept that a lot of jobs that are fundamental to society will have shortages, push prices of basic needs up, etc. because just a few people in a developed economy are looking forward to go work in the fields, or in a pig farm, or building houses.
I believe that's off by default (even when you turn on sync), and I believe that if you do turn it on, it's not using your Google password, but a separate password of your choosing.
I wasn't joking, they are the milk of their respective trees.
English is full of loanwords from French in particular. 'particular' being from Old French of course.
> Just goes to show that it was the right decision by the UK.

Bingo!
But soon there will be large models without censorship built in and without training on cooked data. Microsoft and OpenAI don't have exclusivity in this field.
Spontaneously in English usage is something done without pre-planning. Spur of the moment. As in "we spontaneously decided to drive to LA"

In this German context it's more like "we will figure it out". As in, we plan to meet up yes, but whatever we will do we'll figure it out at that time. As in "we'll meet at 3, hang and figure out what we'll do. Maybe we'll go somewhere"
"FastGPT is best used to retrieve a general topic summary from the web".

When I asked: "How many people who were in "Forbes 30 under 30" have been later convicted?"

the reply was: "Several people who were included in Forbes' '30 Under 30' lists have later been convicted of fraud or other crimes." which is technically correct but not useful.

I would still prefer phind.com for the Expert mode.
If there's one thing that'll get people on your side, it's antagonising them.
It is up to each creator. People are allowed to judge other people's actions. This is the same confusion people have with freedom of speech. You are allowed to say whatever you want, but don't be surprised when people judge you.
Endorsement of Violence Against Women Among Self-Identified Incels
Aside from writing and directing films like Raging Bull and American Gigolo, Paul Schrader as film theorist has christened the genre of long movies as "Slow Cinema." In his thesis Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, Schrader argues that the deliberated depictions in lengthy movies transforms the act of the ordinary into a realm of transcendence.

For a point of reference, Schrader has produced a famous diagram where he identifies acclaimed filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Akerman (mentioned in article), Weerasetakul, Tarr as practitioners of slow cinema[1].

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/figure1...

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Personally, these long films were an experience in themselves:

- Sátántangó, Bela Tarr, 7 hours 18 min

Tarr depicts the countryside as a slow, humdrum experience. By confronting viewers with the elongated pedestrian experiences, the film accentuates the subtle rhythms in everyday life.

- Hitler: A Film from Germany, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 7 hours 22 min

Perhaps bombastic, and even pretentious, but Syberberg has successfully constructed his own world from his poetic sentiments. It laments on how the once-noble "Germanism" has been (as put by Susan Sontag) "retroactively tainted" by Hitler.

- Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, 2 hours 5 min

I know this isn't as long as the other titles, but the penultimate shot of the film is 10 minutes long. It depicts a man walking around holding a candle. While very little happens, the parsimony of the shot directs the audience's attention to the sparse movements, which compounds the until the action is resolved.
My Austrian co-worker hates talking tech in German - it just doesn't roll of the tongue and he's more comfortable in English with that domain.
Shouldn't it be up to the artist? What if the artist is ashamed of his/her work?
I guess it's to reaffirm the article. I've also had a similar experience there on how weirdly difficult is to get WiFi access in Tokyo even if you try to pay for it, everything is tied to contracts with the main telcos.
What you describe is probably uncommon.

I'm sure there are more robust neuroscience papers, but as an example:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409058/

Your average human does a lot of optimisation to storage things (sight sound smell, etc) in the old wet ware, and retrieval can be hit and miss.
Not yet but Congress is trying to approve a "fake news" package which tries to put more responsibilities on the hands of Big Tech regarding monitoring online content.

When I put it like that it doesn't sound so bad, but then you read the text and find out the government and its judiciary institutions have the absolute power of determining if something is deemed as fake news or not.

Then you can say it's actually good because it will prevent or reduce disinformation from spreading. Okay, I wouldn't mind anti-vax statements being blocked, but what if I have information that an authority is corrupt? They would try to censor me, it happened in the past, in 2018 I guess, where a reputable newspaper wrote an article that one of the Supreme Court judges was implicated in the major corruption scandal in Brazil, and a few days later the Supreme Court ordered the takedown of said article. When other mainstream outlets heard about this they just shared the original article to make it more difficult to censor this information.

A couple of weeks later the Supreme Court initiated a long process in which it's the judgy, jury and executioner, a thing that lots of citizens protested, but if you did it back then you'd be called a "bolsonarista" or people would say you're supporting fake news.
That's a fair question, but overall, see my answer to the other person here who responded to me. My position is certainly not perfect, but it's also an assertion of ideological/practical preferences, and definitely doesn't cover the whole picture, just the high level intent of "giving all the advantages to only those who require them them least is a stupid idea" for broad systemic health.

There's a lot of variables to unpack and configure in any system, and this is no different.
Stopping the process of monopolisation is bad for business? Since when?
I didn't follow the Lucasfilm acquisition too closely when it was all going down, but something that has confused me is that Lucas seems like a fairly talented guy with a passion for what he does, so how does it make sense that he actively wants to destroy his legacy?

I'm really doubtful that it's as simple as Lucas one day having a left-wing/progressivism epiphany or some other grand artistic change, sell Lucasfilm to Disney, then participate in the destruction of their IP.

Wasn't he promised "treatments" and general involvement in the latest trilogy, then Disney back-stabbed him last-minute? I vaguely remember some drama about that.

Anyway, long story short, I think that there is more to the story, such as him being promised one thing and another thing happening, etc.
I understand that this is a demo, but actually drawing all 8,000 nodes instead of just 3 screenfuls (6 nodes on my screen) and updating them dynamically when scrolling isn't what I would call 'performant', but needless waste of resources.

Btw: when clicking any 'task' to get to see the details, I see a repeating pattern of almost vertical stripes in some colors. I guess that's not what it should look like.
As others have pointed out, ocean waves are an emergent property of a body of a sufficiently large number of water molecules in a place with gravity and a dynamic atmosphere. I'd like to add—what is an ocean wave? It does exert measurable forces, it has a measurable weight and speed and height, but when it moves it will be made up of a 100% distinct set of material particles than just a moment ago. It can arise and subside without discernible trace although of course both matter and energy will be preserved.

When you think about it a wave is not so different from anything else that exists. Yesterday's rock is tomorrows top-soil, before it becomes part of a plant, after which some of its former constituents will seep back into the ground while others take to the skies. In the future, all of these components might meet again to form a new rock.

All of these things are emergent and evanescent. Their properties can hardly be predicted from the sum of their parts. When you think of it, there are many words for concepts—'liberty', 'inflation', 'boredom', 'exaggeration'—that are essential to the human experience and can even be partly made measurable, but that do not have any manner of physical reality.
-Trying to thinking aloud- Given digital distribution, if they have to censor, then why not offer both versions and let audiences decide which they prefer.

After all I don't care what mods my games have as long as I get to choose what to install.
A play on macOS's backwards 'natural scrolling'? Very good!
iCloud does have a public API: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/icloud-drive/.
I think that was a quote from Brad Smith. That often happens, when they parse a quote for the lede, then expand upon it later.

I don’t have any opinions on the merits (or demerits) of the issue at hand.
With how Blizzard has been acting in the recent years, I got caught there for good 20 seconds wondering if the company is considered a threat actor, with "Russia" being the nickname...
> Although "if you don't like it, then leave" is a false dichotomy and no way to run any institution

It is not "if you don't like it, then leave", it is "if you don't like it, then try to pass same interview for permanent position as everyone else".
Corollary 2.5: Constantly changing requirements

Nothing like a mid project design overhaul to send a codebase crumbling to the ground.
They might claim that... I suspect what the really want is to make the acquired products/services an exclusive of their own platform.
White men applying for software and management jobs could make the same point. Positive discrimination almost always results in someone else facing negative discrimination because of the same attribute.

It can also lead to further problems. Is it still racist to point out the [race/gender/religion/etc.] [students/employees/etc.] on average aren't as good now they actually aren't due to [employment/selection] bias?
Upvoted but with a caveat. I don't have a TV so I don't have much exposure to what's going on, but last summer I was house sitting and because of the hype of Stranger Things I thought I'd binge-watch it. In two days I watched the first two series completely, then stopped. I got bored because fundamentally nothing really happened to move anything forwards.

I watch a lot of made-for-TV staff on DVD and see a similarity – in football terms it's just time wasting. Long pauses usually filled in with music to give the illusion something is happening, sex scenes, gratuitous violence, people taking offence with unrealistic ease, longshots, slow shots... Anything to hide the fact that there is a lot of empty air. (Oh yes, and the three minute intro that also recaps what happened last time).

It all suggests there's a lot of tolerance for "something happening on screen" independent of whether it's worth watching or basically nothing at all.
Did the replacement of guns with walkie talkies effect the movie that much? I don't even remember what they were holding in the version I watched.
Experienced senior engineers understand that very little actually changes in the world of software. We get endless variations on the same tools and techniques.

Once you realize that Python and Ruby and Javascript (for example) have far more in common than not, and the differences are mainly cosmetic and tooling, you don’t need the long learning time a novice does.
I'm not sure if blockchain is the solution to the problem, but my problem is I want to make sure it is clear that if somebody else is using my residential wifi the traffic can be clearly associated to that user in case they do something in the grey/illegal area.
I've never understood why that is happening. Are they trying to make sure there is no knowledge accumulation at a single tier 1 supplier? Kind of make sure nobody can create a competing product and just sell it to different OEMs?
The Overton guillotine?
I feel this whole question stems from media industry more and more utilizing their back-catalogs instead of just pushing new novel works. Streaming services are major part in enabling/exacerbating the issue; 50 year old movies are happily intermingling with latest and greatest, and the cultural context is not always super clear.
Same for Amsterdam and other expat-heavy places.
> It really bothers me that DJI is basically the one notable example that gives the anti-sideloading FUD-dites some ammunition.

https://www.fortnite.com/mobile/android/
Also an article in The Gurandia: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/27/microsoft-s...