skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Generally best used against systems & plans. Wanting to know how something ticks.

Using it as a cudgel against open frontiers happens too. I guess it's more a disposition of the person here. Personally I find that stark conservatism to be heinously ugly.

What is sometimes a very fine question, especially if someone is struggling to get to success. Recognizing the other cases though, where there are unknowns & where we want to have Postel'lian possibilities, where we want many small pieces we can loosely couple, where we aren't just trying to make it through right now but are trying to work for longer answers... I think the "What is the use case" is often a complete rejection of open thinking, is the mind closing.
It makes me sad that Unity (almost) became an industry standard for indie and mobile games. It's almost as sad as Adobe and Autodesk's relevance.
The only way for a company this size to learn anything from a fine is to bankrupt the company.
Just 8%? The company is valued at $9.5b and is burning almost $1b a year... For every $1 they do in revenue they're currently losing about $0.66.

I've been expecting this for sometime and I'm guessing they'll be forced to cut more.
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Generally, most devices don't encrypt/protect your data with that 6-digit PIN directly. They store the important secrets like device encryption keys in some kind of secure enclave/processor that does things like rate limit the PIN attempts to prevent brute-forcing. What the fingerprint or face scan is doing is just unlocking that secured data a different way.
Things are slowly being updated. And rent not being included is a pretty big error that needs fixing.
The word 'intelligence' not being used would last about 5 minutes until somebody else had the idea to call these systems intelligent. Therefore word itself cannot be the root of it. The perception of these systems being intelligent is trivially derived from the nature and capabilities of the systems, it isn't some unfortunate fluke of language that foisted these comparisons on us.
Yeah. We figured this relational stuff out 40+ years ago, but the 23 year old devs are acting like it was born yesterday and they're inventing it from first principles. As the saying goes: read a book.
Tandem cheaped out on the company coffee mugs: they only had two handles, not three.
I usually use http://captive.apple.com for the same functionality of NeverSSL and if you're using any Apple devices, that is the address iOS/iPadOS/macOS would use for wifi login
I don't think they are; they're effectively asking whether accounts will support multiple passkeys. This is a reasonable question IMO: if the protocol is not well-designed different services (account providers) may have different rules about how many passkeys can be attached to your account in their system. (E.g. "2 passkeys ought to be enough for anybody!") And for how they can be managed: removed and updated, particularly.
So how exactly is the credibility score determined? Is it just asking "On a scale of 0 to 10, how credible is this source?"
It looks as if it was simply drawn in Inkscape or a similar program.
Exactly. Just like we can see Nvidia’s acquisition of Mellanox starting to make sense now that we see Nvidia shipping entire clusters of hundreds or thousands of GPUs connected through InfiniBand, I’m waiting for what AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx has to offer.
Wow some other great use cases - thanks for mentioning these. I do also use the touchscreen when playing among us, it gives the game a more tactile feel, while you still have a full keyboard for the requisite chatting.
I think this is down to the usual issue: what are you willing to give up in exchange for linux ?

A decade ago you'd need to give up high DPI screens and capable laptops for linux. Today it's either the mac ecosystem with the iOS dev tools, or the Windows compatible newer form factors and/or the games/VR ecosystem.

Apple will do what helps Apple, and Microsoft will do what serves Microsoft. Does a pure linux experience effectively serve you in your day to day work ? If yes, lucky you, it's still "no" fo many of us.
Inline editing is generally a bad idea. I don't see WSJ rocking this anytime soon.
Rails is fine, any Python framework is fine, Spring Boot is fine, whatever the PHP hotness is is also fine, some NodeJS frameworks are also probably fine.
> does JWST ever look at Earth?

Sadly not. They went through an enormous amount of effort to keep it from having to look anywhere near Earth.

Here’s what it would see if it could, though: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/what-would-earth...
and imports are (almost) always at the top of your file not with this function
.com is a US domain though. It's run by a US corporation (Verisign). Check whois.

That said corporation lets non-US entities buy domain names doesn't change this fact.

Similarly, if a site with a .tv address published articles explicitly about Tuvalu, in the Tuvaluan language, you probably wouldn't complain about a Tuvaluan bias, right? After all, it's a Tuvaluan TLD. The fact that lots of companies around the world use .tv addresses for other reasons that have nothing to do with Tuvalu, doesn't change the fact that it's a Tuvaluan TLD.

If you want more information on this, the intro in the Wikipedia article on .com is quite informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com ... particularly:

> The domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.[2][3][4] Additionally, as the Internet was invented in the United States, most American businesses and enterprises have used the .com domain instead of a more U.S.-specific .us.
> In civilized countries, no one can force you to hand over a password (as you have a right to not incriminate yourself).

Which countries?

In the US, the intersection between 5th amendment rights and password disclosure is not complete. You can be forced to disclose a password in certain circumstances here.
You might be interested in the book Against the Grain, which argues that people didn't naturally congregate into cities like we have thought for a while.

From the wikipedia:

> Scott then asserts that the reason why hunter-gatherer societies transformed into agro-pastoral societies was due to coercion by the state. He cites research on an archaeological site in Mesopotamia named Abu Hureyra. Scott concurs with other scholars in the field that "'[n]o hunter-gatherers occupying a productive locality with a range of wild foods able to provide for all seasons are likely to have started cultivating their caloric staples willingly.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...
Any reason why you can't hook up that 4 screen display wall and that NAS at the same time by chaining DisplayPort and/or using a USB4 hub?

To me, being hackers means finding ways of circumventing limits, rather than expecting all kinds of connectivity to just be handed to you the easiest possible way.

> Edit: based on the voting, I guess only some of us on HN are Hackers! I also have example use cases too, to be constructive, but guess that's not enough for the cynics.

What's attracting downvotes is more likely to be gatekeeping language like this.
My guess is they are cutting glut, realizing that the free money times are over and not that there's fundamental issues (apart from relying on free money too much of course). I'm a bit nervous about them turning profitable eventually but there's enough technical merit and niche that they should. I remember they grew headcount by a lot but maybe I'm misremembering. Maybe this sounds a bit cynical but 8% actually feels low.

I only have so much time and it's all hobby projects but my heuristic is "multiplatform, 2d focus -> Unity; 3d -> Unreal". The two "big ones" seem to have interesting enough niches carved out (Unreal is also big in the simulation area and in movies). Sadly I haven't had the chance to try Godot or any other engine really.
It seems like a reasonable model, if you only care about business, or if you see all of history as an arc ending in decentralized, coin-based whatevers. On the other hand, if you don't care about business, but only care about development, you'd define different eras of the web in terms of what technologies were predominant. If you care about consumer devices, you'd define it in terms of what gadgets people used to get online. And so on.

People who make up models on Twitter, or for blog posts, generally make them up to demonstrate a point. That's what Dixon did, that's what this author has done.
Having fpgas on-board feels like something that would have been a game-changer even pre-ai. Imagine if your Ryzen chip could do hardware encode/decode of h266 the moment the spec was finalized.
> They did a wonderful job with C# and .NET Core.

And typescript!
Completely dependent on driving is the key here. We're completely beholden to corporations and dangerous, dirty machines to conduct virtually every aspect of daily life -- if you're physically, financially, and legally able to do so. It doesn't have to be this way. Cars suck.
I find "hallucinations" to be pretty apt. What works better in your opinion?
I've spent a lot of time over the years using bit shifting to multiply/divide by powers of 2 in low-level code. At some point I grokked the connection with (base 2) logarithms and found myself using them as a mental estimation tool with surprising effectiveness.

Many of us programmers have powers of 2 memorized through at least 2^20 (and 2^10 ~= 1000 is close enough for decomposing and converting larger values), which makes rough conversion to/from the log domain trivial. The trick in estimation is to round to the nearest whole number when converting to the log domain, and try to alternate rounding direction for inputs that are not close to the upper/lower extrema. Keep a running total of the log-domain value as a whole value, and take the antilog as the final step. Given these simple rules, most estimates come within a factor of 2 of the intended value, and with minimal cognitive load. All you need to remember is the current sum and which direction to round the next input.
Textual formats are great. You can build shaders by pasting strings together and using #define and #ifdef.
No one can measure the future.
> I don't get Microsoft, have they no pride or desire to become a great company? Have they just become content to be an old corporate software house who only manages to keep users through dark patterns and anti-competitive behaviour because they have given up on making products which people enjoy to use?

They were always that, thru entirety of their history they have used anticompetitive practices on any chance they could.
> How is venture capital expected to perform well in these conditions?

I'm not sure that this author or Carta as a whole is trying to suggest private markets should be performing better right now. We're all painfully aware of why this is happening. These reports are usually just presenting the raw data.

> I'm less interested in "how bad is the state of venture capitalism" right now and more interested in "when is it roughly expected to get better/be less bad again"?

An analyst's report for any asset class (real estate, public equities, etc) has to start with the cut and dry numbers. But they do sprinkle in a bit of guidance using the data:

"There are signs of a venture spring. Valuations from seed to Series C ticked up from recent lows. Median round sizes mostly stabilized. But these green shoots were overwhelmed by the decline in total rounds across all stages."
Oh of course. Of course!

I'm always amazed when someone thinks they've trumped anarchist political science by asking, "by who will pave the roads?!"

Scaling back road pavement is one of the things to which I most look forward in the retracting state apparatus.
Easily the best use of a touchscreen is developing mobile websites/apps. I only buy laptops with touchscreens as its indispensable for mobile development.
And beam size 1?
I don't mean this to be negative as much as an observation but it seems like it's Google's version of "Sign in with Apple ID"? Apple ID only works with Apple devices though, so I wonder if will work for any device? Perhaps it will work better on Android but can be implemented for other devices?
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Okay, but now the shared autonomous car that comes to pick you up has someone else's trash and vomit in it and we're back at point 1.
Not sure where you're at but where I live the opposite is true. There is massive public sentiment against public street parking because it makes it possible for people to come and go from the area at will. A significant fraction of property owners believe they own the road too.

It's common enough that plenty of homeowners put up their own no parking signs, which are obviously un-enforceable. There is at least one sign that I'm aware that I think was put up by the city as pacification measure. There is no possible mechanism the city could use to enforce it, but it does appear to have been installed by the city.
Upon further reflection perhaps this is the most American thing that could be done...

The folks who got in early and made millions in Crypto reaped the benefit but no new comers could ever realize the same potential because we've taxed the snot out of it. Closed that loop hole (not that I have much faith in crypto anyway.)
Yes, something like FauxPilot[0] should be able to use it instead of CodeGen

[0] https://github.com/fauxpilot/fauxpilot
If I remember right, Unity's largest revenue source is their asset store, followed by mobile in-game ads.
But I don't want to be a freelancer. I want to be a part-time employee.
Correct, and AMD preorders recently sold out for Q3 and are now into Q4.
This one reminded me that this is a well-studied problem. It turns out cooperation is nearly optimal [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
That sounds a lot like profit, no?
The thing with Unreal is that it doesn’t really even have to be very profitable. Epic would need a game engine of their own anyway. As long as their own games that use it make money, everything else is just extra gravy.

Unity’s only revenue streams are their game engine and their advertising platform.

Edit: I forgot they also have an asset store.
For sure .. I've also found it helps if your hobbies involve others aren't solitary .. Even playing a MMO or FPS online is quite different than being in a board game group or kayak club .. Good luck!!!
In towns with one employer, this would happen even if the bank, the real estate agent, etc. are NOT in cahoots with the company.
Off the charts? Compared to completely at will maybe. You generally have to pay 3 months severance + 1 month per 3 years of employment for a maximum of 6 months severance after 9 years of employment. That's it.
More about the prisoners dilemma it seems.
Since November 2021, not sure this is news..
Unity is a broken company that sells a critically broken engine.

Sure, it's a great engine for rapid prototyping & releasing indie titles, but not great for getting to the finish line. I know of teams that have had to take out source licenses and edit the engine to fix & work around bugs so they could actually ship their game.

Unity also don't build and release with their engine, like Epic does with Unreal & Fortnite, or Valve does with their games. And, when they tried to finish a whole game self-produced in-house, Gigaya, it was too hard for them to complete with their own engine. https://forum.unity.com/threads/introducing-gigaya-unitys-up...

> It served its purpose as a source of product feedback during its active development and will continue to provide value as an internal resource. Any further learnings would have been minimal during the additional required time to get it to the finish line and would have been disproportionate to the necessary investment. Gigaya was conceptualized as an internal production to generate first-hand product feedback, as well as a learning resource for our users. To release it as a sample project would have required a thorough cleanup and optimizations in its current stage.

Do you really think Unity will get better if Unity can't release a game and support its whole release lifecycle from production, release, ongoing support, and next console generation uprevs? Heck no.

When I pick an engine for my next project, it's going to be Godot or perhaps Unreal, not Unity.
how were you able to tell this? still trying to understand what infra is better used for inference (say realtime image category matching) vs training (feeding a chatbot huge sums of data)
And the cursor if you're extra polite.
The whole point of the slots is to be able to rearrange them. If such options are limited, they may as well be standard ports, which would use less space.

It basically negates a significant portion of the utility of the device.
How big of a power draw is a touch screen? I would think that's a solved problem given the plethora of touch devices we have.
1- We trained on languages that are most popular on Replit. Markdown is important because you need some amount of natural language in the data, and it will act as a sort of "natural language label" for code.

2- I like how portable it is being a single small model doing a lot of languages. Single code models are an approach that models like Salesforce/Codegen did that, but I believe we beat (or get very close) to their mono models on benchmarks.
Meh. Just build underground parking.

Pretty much every new development in my city comes with underground parking now.

I think it's a combination of land getting so expensive that underground parking is worth it, and also that developers realised that people will pay a lot more if there are gardens and parks between houses (instead of parking lots)
True, headline deserves a (2021). But, it was news to me yesterday when it came up in a comment thread here.
I passed a driverless car from Cruise in San Francisco on my commute just the other day.
Your first point seems to be something that our local leaders still are not taking seriously enough. If I have to listen to or read warnings all around me to "keep my eyes up and my phone down", I am not going to get a strong vibe of "I am safe and this is a nice time I am having".

I would add to #2, "Get them within a 5 minute walk without it taking twice as long". I am ok if public transit takes me up to 50% longer. But many trips are 1.5 to 2x as long when including transfers, and it's not cheap! Sometimes I have to pay multiple transit agencies to get to where I want to go.
I dislike applications ignoring my preferences.

Like on ios, opening a link from the youtube app asks if I want to open the link in Chrome, despite not having chrome on my phone.

Or that links inside Google Calendar first hit a google url before going to the actual url (Outlook has the same nonsense).
I get this seems inconceivable to those involved and so thoroughly permeated with oil == power dynamic of the 20th century.

But it's interesting this particular "power center" of the world (US dollars for oil) is weakening just as oil's grip on the world is weakening.

The world was totally beholden to oil for what, 100 years?

But everyone with a brain sees that oil demand is going to plummet with EVs and wind/solar to recharge them ... and domestic reserves will likely cover the remaining demand. The political power dynamic of the petrodollar has ... what ... a decade? Or it's already dead?

Power and economic productivity is/were hand in hand. The geopolitical dominance of oil provided direct political dominance over everyone's economy.

But Solar/Wind/EVs are largely independent of geopolitical control. Yes China appears to be dominant in EV production, batteries, and solar cells, but it isn't the ironclad grip of "we have oil underground you don't".

EV drivetrains are simple, everyone can make an electric motor. Viable EV battery chemistries are proliferating and also becoming immune to cobalt, nickel, and even lithium supply constraints. Anyone can make a wind turbine, and solar cell production will likely plummet in cost and diversify in production if/when perovskites and other non-silicon panels hit the mainstream.

But likely we are headed back to a cold war alignment, or even more fascinating, a tri-power alignment (EU, US, China), and economic alignment will be replaced with the good old protection racket of the Cold War.

Oil will probably remain as a military energy source. But likely everyone will be able to solve gas production with, at minimum, biofuels.
> Web tools are always going to be weak vs. locally executing tools. I've never seen one that I prefer to a native equivalent.

Sure, that's a fact which I don't dispute, but that doesn't mean that writing a word document in your browser should be such a bad experience that you really just want to use the web version for viewing documents, which is the absurd thing to which I responded. See, what you say is true, but that doesn't necessarily negate my point if you can agree?

Word is not Photoshop, I expect the web version to be powerful enough to get serious writing done via it.
The last 1% is actual self driving. Not "allowed to control the vehicle as long as human supervisor is glued to steering wheel with eyes on road". Or "closely monitored test conditions". We're about 7 years later than Tesla predicted on this already, and not all that much closer even without moving the goalpost an inch.
> because you can say more things with fewer words

You say it as if it was a good thing. It's not. APL, J, and K would reign supreme over all programming if brevity and conciseness were all that good for people actually understanding what the heck is happening.

Math notation is a peculiar, loosely defined, context-dependent, ambiguous syntax that requires a lot of memorization, a special keyboard when writing, and a lot of focus when reading. It only benefits people forced to write equations on blackboards all day long. I mean, I feel for them, it's a tough job, but I'm not going to be doing that.

> the effort to understand the terminology is basically zero

You say it as if it was a fact. I don't believe it's anything else than a gut feeling you have. It's trivial to find people for whom the effort needed to understand the terminology or syntax was too big of a barrier to entry. If you could show a proper, replicated study from scientists working on cognition and memory that proves this statement (zero-cost of alien terminology), it would be great. Otherwise, I see this as a gut feeling coupled with survivorship bias.
"From Giant Stochastic Parrots to Preference-Tuned Models"

I found this sub-title quite interesting
A very long time ago, and for reasoning totally lost in my then young mind, I bought a book on SNOBOL, and promptly got bored trying to read it.

Decades later and Python is my language of choice.
Edge was, initially, Chrome but degoogled and it had (and still has) a lot of great UI innovations, like a vertical tab strip that's just right. Their wide use of hovering menus that can be pinned to become sidebars is honestly good stuff.

Of course, that's UI design, they are worse for privacy than Chrome, and the UI advantages begin to slip by the aggressive introduction of all the bloatware in the world. The browser's never quite been free of dark patterns either (new tab page's search field as one of the more glaring examples).
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Large enterprises means, the people deciding what goes on the work machines aren't the people using them. And they'll have incentives that are fundamentally different from their users (MS offering a bundle price for all their service will help them more than firefox being cheaper to administer for instance)