skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, my 2 year old LED VA Panel monitor already has burn-in where the task bar is displayed.

You'd think modern desktop OSes would allow subtle shifting of persistent UI elements by a few pixels to avoid burn-in. LineageOS already does this
> Implementing Jumping through anything, no matter how deep, and detecting the first safe place for him to stand, as well as having the ability to back out at any time to return to your original position, especially in a huge open world game like this? I'd say it's pretty technically impressive. Especially how fast it loads when showing the little upwards swimming animation.

Its 2023, if this blows you away wait until you see what else even 8 year old computers can do...

> But it's definitely not shallow, you only have to look for videos showing the crazy things people are building to see how it's mechanically super deep.

Building things for the sake of building is not really adding depth to the "game" as such, the mechanic contributes very little to the gameplay of the game. Indeed, you can almost completely avoid it save for a handful of mandatory sections. IMO, the best mechanics add depth to the gameplay and make the whole game richer, which this feature doesn't really do, its a very ancillary feature to the game.

FWIW, the part list on nuts and bolts was pretty good, and had great physics while being a core conceit of the game.

> https://banjokazooie.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_parts
James Webb's 'too massive' galaxies may be even more massive
We had such a remediation done recently, in Alberta close to the rocky mountains.

Costs were around $2,000 CAD to install a sub-slab depressurization system (i.e. a fan that pulls air from below the house and vents it away from the house).

Radon values dropped from around 500 Bq/m3 to less than 20 Bq/m3.
I'm afraid you've been breaking the HN guidelines repeatedly lately, with ideological flamebait and snark and a bunch of other things that commenters here are asked not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We have to ban accounts that carry on like this. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the rules and stick to them, we'd appreciate it.

I suppose I need to add that I have no issue with your views about the Bilderberg, whatever they are. I'm just posting this here because I have to post this reply somewhere, and you broke the rules in a bunch of different places. A few other examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990310

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35977192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35952270

That kind of thing is definitely not what this site is for, regardless of what your views are or how right you are or feel—so can you please fix this going forward?
Sounds like a lot of controversy over nothing.
Disagree, it’s not ideal but it’s perfectly usable. I lived in a rural town with 4.5mb/s down and .25mb/s up DSL for a couple years and even 4K Netflix worked perfectly fine.
LTAND established a petition system where passed petitions could then be implemented by a "wizard".

A character named Grump wrote a petition trying to establish a way of moderating content and actions using "Arbitration" -- a kind of binding arbitration using an arbitrator (mutually agreed upon if feasible, or randomly chosen among those volunteering) to hear the sides of the dispute and propose a remedy.

A wizard (admin) named Froxx implemented arbitration, with immediately netative results: when code is law, the devil is in the details.
YouTube is bringing 30-second unskippable ads to its TV apps
For people with more accessibility expertise, why instead of pushing all websites to be accessible, there's no push for a better accessibility AI? I would imagine that having a better interpretation model, implemented by a couple of tech giants, would be a more productive use of our time than ensuring that all aria labels are in place? Is it because nobody is working in this problem space? It sounds fairly straightforward problem to solve, comparing to some recent achievements.
Somebody deleted a completely innocuous response to this that linked to the same pcgamer article that aaronbrethorst links to. Weird.
Its likely both, no one stays on top of the world forever, and globalization did well to level some playing fields!
So the real results are getting pushed down further more: first it was by ads and widgets, and now by AI responses even more. If you are lucky you will be able to find some authentic results in the footer of the page between some SEO spam.
A customer needed help with the size of their DataDog bill. A big part of that was log messages. They had poor logging discipline, so they started by filtering out all logs that were INFO or lower priority. But then the developers couldn't see what was happening in production, and they started logging messages at WARNING and ERROR in production. That made the output of unit tests in CI light up like a Christmas tree, and the output was unusable. Good times.

The solution was to carefully audit all log messages, reducing the number of messages, making sure they were at the right level, and replacing log messages with trace attributes. We also implemented trace sampling to avoid paying for redundant success messages. That reduced the bill by 80%, saving tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Not everyone can drive, to begin with.
I have a GQ 600-RPS and I love it. It detects alpha, beta and gamma. Detection range is only a few inches, so you have to know what to look for. We take it on family outings and search for uranium rocks.
Going forward the top AI chips will not be available in every country — particularly China.
The impact of erasure coding on CPU performance across Intel, AMD and Graviton
I love this bit from their website:

[Cons] were places where people of all colors and creeds could get together to talk and learn about science fiction and fantasy books, games, movies, and TV shows. Then, starting a few years ago, things changed. Cons became increasingly dominated by a small clique of authoritarian jerks who made them into venues for pushing social justice dogma and, in the name of “inclusiveness,”

So cons went from being inclusive to... more inclusive?
The passkey provider should require either a PIN or biometrics each time it is authenticating you against a service. So it won’t matter if your device was unlocked when it was stolen
> Most developers have major gaps in their understandings of the tools they use. This is fine. [...] Many people across the 7 companies I've worked for are best described as "adequate."

Okay so, according to the author, then it's not fine...

How do we fix this? Is it every employee's fault that they don't know the nuts and bolts of the things they work with, or is it the company's fault for not providing the right training?
Show HN: Blend
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App name: Blend
Description: "Blend is a one-stop solution for D2C brands to create stunning visuals for their products in seconds.

Upload your product photo to,

- Remove the image background with a pixel-perfect cutout
- Get AI-generated background scenes based on product category
- Access 1000s of templates for different use-cases
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Link:http://blendnow.com/

My best,
I've been dreaming of a product like this for years. I'm most productive in my office setup with large 42" + 24" monitors. When I travel I feel cramped and unproductive on my laptop. The laptop screen size does not seem to matter within the limits of what I'm comfortable lugging with me (nothing larger than a 15-16" mbp). So I've longed for some kind of VR or projected display from a laptop or mobile device.

I signed up and really hope that I'm selected..
Sometimes you see the fire and then decide that you don't want to be part of it. I'm still watching with great interest tho.
My understanding is that money in the economy does not imply the existence of credit, only that money may be exchanged for goods and services.

I'm assuming this is a continuous loop. So over time wouldn't interest rates tend to infinity? Or maybe not, because raising interest rates at some point would be of no utility. If no one is using credit, raising rates doesn't actually change anything.
You do need to release the Alt key because the old menu access keys still work (invisibly), and are activated otherwise if you don’t release the Alt key. I think part of the subjective clumsiness is because the ribbon has higher latency than the classic menu had. This is a general problem with newer UI elements in Office. They sometimes have a latency such that they don’t register key presses if you press them to quickly. This means that you have to consciously have to insert a small delay between key presses, or have to wait for visual feedback before pressing the next key. This is something that wasn’t an issue 20 years ago.
When I was house shopping a very long time ago, the amount of time I wasted driving to look at properties and not even stopping was just staggering.
I really like my https://www.bettergeiger.com/ (no affiliation with them, I just own one and am happy with it) It uses a solid-state scintillator instead of the older and less sensitive Geiger-Müller tube.
Yeah I know, it was just so crazy I wanted to mention it somewhere and this post worked lol. Fwiw it was from https://www.draegers.com.
A major Romanian ISP uses PPPoE and I'm tempted to say that another one does it too and they're offering gigabit speed.
Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
Other NATO members are really smug about all of this while not spending their 3% obligation on defense, essentially free riding on the US.
Thanks for adding some clarity. I can understand a complain about false advertising. I thought a major part of the complaint was game development focusing on graphics opposed to gameplay, which makes less sense to me.

I still don't get buying a game primarily for the graphics without looking at representative gameplay. I thought it was generally understood that promos and ads would show the best.
We might yet find out whether we agree or disagree :), so let me be more narrow & specific:

* Apple is positioning their tight control over the appstore, including high fees to developers and restricted choice to consumers, as providing benefits of a curated & safe experience

* Do we feel that dozens of apps overlaying OpenAI ChatGPT, with various degrees of honesty and deception and monetization methods and privacy policies, are in-line with stated goals of the appstore, and with desires and best interests of the end-users?

My personal impression is "No". This is not to say I want the app store controlled more tightly - on the contrary; I am saying that I am not receiving benefits of the "walled garden / ecosystem" (and this is hardly the first example since iPhone was forced upon me by my employer:), i.e. I do not feel materially safer on AppleStore than I do on Google Play store; but I do feel materially obstructed/impacted when I want to install something that Apple for whatever reason does not.

Or in other words, without claiming anybody did anything particularly wrong here, if you're GOING to allow dozens of apps pretending to be the hottest new thing on the market on the app store, then just get out of my way and let me install what I want without pretense of curation and safety.
> The latter is not fine, since it's a worsening of society.

That’s an opinion, not a fact. IMO, the negative effects for society of it being easy to hop into their cars for so many are plentiful. Cities get worse, the environment is worse of and the population gets less healthy.
I've built security programs from the ground up at two companies and have worked in compliance/security/cyber/etc for over 16 years. I'm also a maker and an engineer. I understand how security/compliance side sees the world, and how engineers see the world.

I hate to say it, but security/compliance tends to cargo cult. They implement what's accepted by whatever compliance framework they need to achieve. PCI, FedRAMP, SOX, SOC, CIS, etc, etc.

Engineers want to break things down to components and understand why each component is required. AKA thinking from first principles.

Mixing the two is like oil and water. Security and compliance don't have in-depth explanations for why they need to do something, they just need to check a box, and they know how it's most often checked. They know "nobody got fired for buying Sophos/Windows/AD/etc". They can't explain it from first principles, nor do they want to take the risk of going outside of known solutions.

So how do you negotiate? The box they're trying to check is likely well documented. Ask to see the documentation for the requirement(s). From there you can propose alternate solutions that meet those requirements. Try to find examples of your proposal being accepted, so you don't run into the "nobody got fired for buying x".
You can't have that, and also expect to live in a sparsely populated suburb.

I live in a dense city. I have a grocery store next door. I have car sharing cars in my street I can rent. This is feasible, because we're so many people within a few minutes walk. In a suburb this is impossible. Would be far too few people per shop or car.

You're kinda part of the problem talked about in an other comment here: you can't even visualize how things could be different. Basically you could only give up your car if you could live exactly as before..

But why can't your lumber get delivered? Do you need a car with huge dimensions just for the off chance you one time the next five years need to carry something big? Why not then rent something for the occasion?

Why do you constantly need to drive your dogs? Again, the reason is probably rooted in a car centric society. The solution isn't to fix all your needs, just without owning a car. The solution would be to make you able to do your hobbies and live your life without the gigantic sprawl.
YouTube 2023 Upfront: Unskippable 30-Second Ads Coming to TVs
https://www.basedcon.com/?page_id=85

It's not like they are trying to hide their agenda.

Of course politics should be out of the scope of a SciFi Con, any Con.

But hosting your own "Super-Alt-Right-Con" doesn't seems like an adecuate response, and going to such a conference seems naive for someone that wants to stay "out of politics"
It uses 1.2 megawatt when accelerating. Amazing.
I have no idea what prompted this tweet to justify his presence at this conference, but I'm guessing some of the Twitterati have their pitchforks out and smell blood in the water.

For anybody who cares about this sort of drama, I think it's worth giving him the benefit of the doubt and maybe it was just a poor judgement call to speak at this conference. That said, I think he's too smart to not have suspected what type of crowd attends something called "BasedCon".
A person living in NYC making $155k pays 34% effective tax rate. (Or in Seattle: 25%, Chicago: 30%.) This calculator is pretty good: https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#4RIGzkc2ey

I don’t understand your point about the employer portion — it doesn’t come out of your paycheck, so if you wanted to include it in this calculation, you’d have to say your gross salary was higher.
I pay $50 a month for health care but have to co-pay so specialist appointments are a few hundred.
The NES has somewhere around a thousand distinct games, if you count all markets and include unlicensed games (which there weren't that many of).

Maybe 200 of them aren't total trash. Perhaps 100 were genuinely good at the time. Low-tens of them are still at all worth playing for someone without nostalgia goggles—though, in some cases, that's because an entirely-superior remake exists; like, if you want to try the first three Final Fantasy games, you probably shouldn't play the NES versions, in 2023, unless you're aiming for some kind of "I want to experience them exactly as Old People did" sort of thing.
Not the question being asked exactly, but there are quite a few people testing the market for live dynamic in store shelf pricing where they can drop or raise on demand. Its a little odd to think that a jug of milk might be cheaper at 1pm than at 6pm.
>> Today, we're pretty much a BYOD shop (we buy new employees unmanaged laptops). People manage their own devices and we do colab stuff with Google Workspace. Developers love this because they don't have to "mother may I" IT for every tool and library.

BYOD may be fast and easy for employees, but it makes employees a ripe target for attacks:

https://www.securityweek.com/circleci-hacked-malware-employe...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-one-hacked-laptop-led-to-a...

https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-breached-lastpass-by-insta...

If your shop is serious about security, then more controls over BYOD are a must. That usually means no more BYOD or a more managed BYOD to ensure that there is no vulnerable software on employee devices.
They do rely heavily on the GPU, but the game was designed (in terms of poly count, VRAM usage, shader complexity) for a several year old mobile GPU.
1 million cancel broadband in a year? The entire population is like 65M so the number of BB connections is going to be what, <10M? And 10% of them cancelled and didn’t renew in a 1 year period? Doesn’t pass smell test for me.
Zen 1 was slightly slower per core, but had twice the amount of cores that Intel was willing to sell for desktop platforms! Kind of a big deal for use cases such as compiling C++ code...
I know that red tape is a thing with gov't procurement, but come on!
I can see how that apps COULD do this, but is there any evidence any apps actually do "listen" to live photos? I don't see any evidence presented.

I actually don't doubt it, I'd just like to see some kind of evidence it's being done.
Yes, Hinton was on a temporary position at the University of Sussex (IIRC, the Centre for Cognitive Science) for a while, but was not offered a permanent academic position there when he applied.
Good point. That doesn’t work, need to log in with the US account first. Or remain logged in.

Works fine for me though. I have barely any apps that need updating
That doesn't count because the other company had designed the process, but didn't have capacity to produce at Apple-level volumes. Apple paid for the expansion,and then ditched the company's product (which led to the bankruptcy)
I've been corrected (my initial data was wrong, I've updated my post), and I agree on both points.

I do, however, posit that when it comes to determining whether an economy/society/??? is healthy (which is the conversation in this sub-thread), we need to look at all of these 'costs of life/business'. So, yes, the sticker price on the UK looks rough, but add it all up... And it comes out to be pretty similar. As it turns out, providing similar forms of services costs... About the same, across the developed world.
I could never listen to an audiobook. It just feels so cheap, fast, uncomfortable. I like rereading some of the paragraphs or sentences if I really like them, looking up footnotes, maps, diagrams and drawings (if there are any), putting the book back for a moment and starting again because I get lost in though (not always related to the book). Never imagined demand for audiobooks is so great.
Fine by me, and we should bring commercials back to regular tv too. I enjoyed the golden age of streaming as much as anyone else, but I always wondered how streamers were able to replace the huge sums of money from advertisements with just subscription money. Turns out they can't? We'll see, but I don't find advertisements to be as much of a plague as the rest of my generation.
What an unpleasant article! We can quibble about the finer points of the first three but definitely not about the last two.
Inner london population was roughly the same in 1950 as today.
The average London property cost around £150k in today's money.
Recently I found good stuff actually sell the most in game industry, you have stuff like Elden Ring and Legend of Zelda, in indie space you have stuff like Pizza Tower, all selling huge. I wonder if big studios that makes safe copy 3As will actually think about innovation as an element to maximize profit.

Also realistic graphic != good graphics, we need more stylized graphics like these recent 2 Zelda titles! It's a shame we already lost the great graphics of the 3ds era Pokemon (which I think is peak cell shading aesthetics) to a generic 3d look of recent titles.
The UK seems to be at the fore front of deindustrializaton
I would hope that at some place like Los Alamos the technicians are a little more qualified than your run of the mill techs.
Apparently something happened. It wasn't particularly interesting
I don't know why they are afraid of just coming out and saying they are a conservative or right-wing convention.
Yeah I had to visit this page on my phone and then click the direct link to find it.
Yes. Yes they are. So many companies reporting record profits (not just revenues).
then you address it by reporting/complaining. It's already perfectly possible to do that, the only change here is a name. I'm sure there's also phishing detection (that will certainly improve with ML) that can help too.

either way, what's the solution to prevention? disallow the entire TLD and every possible TLD that could lead to phishing? there are already plenty of issues with .com being used for phishing. have a regulatory body do ID verification of every registrant and if it sounds like a domain that could possibly be misused then ... what?
I think it's weird to say that politics should be out of scope at a SciFi con when SciFi itself has literally always been political.
Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement
I always find this a more entertaining way to learn about these topics, because they're questions which we might have had before, but never thought much about.
neetoCal helps you schedule and manage meetings. Here are some of the new features, enhancements, and optimizations which were recently implemented.
Tether Bought Some Bitcoin
They don't brew the coffee as it is served. They keep the coffee at a super high temp for whatever reason, but they don't have to.
2023 Bilderberg Meeting – Participant List
I agree that LLMs are not the most important AI breakthrough ever, but your characterization seems needlessly harsh, as LLMs undeniably have utility.
> The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology.

The company was renamed to Advanced RISC Machines to placate Apple - the first ARM processor was the Acorn RISC Machine, which tells you it's true heritage.
Its getting pretty tiresome for people to host super-alt-right events and then claim that they're moderate or politics-free. If your event is called "BasedCon" then you're knee-deep in politics and those politics are not moderate.
Yeah, these kinds of things are what the internet should be all about rather than whatever the hell it morphed into. Sure, I'm applying my morals and expectations to it, but I don't think I've ventured onto a thin limb here.
Hi ! Thank you for your reply ! I think the best way to be sure that Jesth will meet your needs is to try jesth-demo [0].

I think Jesth does a better job than TOML, YAML and JSON when it comes to nested structures or readability in general. JSON remains the boss of machine-to-machine communication, though !

It is also possible that my other project Exn [1] meets your needs.

[0] https://github.com/pyrustic/jesth-demo#readme

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34947927