skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for the superficial similarity of an orthographic 3D view, this seems nothing like Habbo Hotel.

Habbo hotel was multiplayer and had in-game chat. Rooms.xyz does not appear to be multiplayer in that way.

Habbo hotel had an in-game currency that you used to buy objects / furniture. Rooms.xyz has no in game currency (that I can tell).

Rooms.xyz allows you to edit objects, including adding programming code to make those objects interactive. Habbo hotel had no such interface.

Rooms and Habbo are nothing alike except for the similarity of art style. Habbo hotel is basically a glorified chat room, whereas Rooms seems like a Unity game engine for kids.

Of course, content moderation is a challenging issue for any tool that allows the creation and sharing of content, I agree with you there. But that’s not a challenge unique to Habbo Hotel!
Here's a 6 minute speed run of something like that on weviate https://youtu.be/mBcBoGhFndY
Not sure what is meant by a drop in replacement in this context.

Normally I would think a drop in replacement would mean I could switch to it and do everything the same as I was doing it. But my guess is that if I did this drop in replacement that little to none of the web activities I partake in would work anymore. So maybe my thoughts aren't quite what is meant.
In an ever-evolving AI landscape, data moats have become increasingly important. Companies that possess large amounts of generated human content, such as Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, are likely to see an increase in value as a result of this development. The unique data generated by these platforms can give companies an advantage in training and fine-tuning AI models, potentially allowing them to stay ahead of the competition. In this context, a data moat serves as a protective barrier against competitors, ensuring that the company continues to hold a unique and valuable asset in the industry.
Kropyva: Uber for Artillery Strikes
Happen to blog about it, or have some links?
Relevant clip: https://twitter.com/malikakas/status/1659702922748493825?s=2...

Full recording: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyKAVBzMnOGb?s=20
I'm a similar age to you, and I've had up close experience of a few deaths too. One of my grandmothers literally went to sleep one evening and never woke up. (She'd been getting weaker over time so had been living with us, with my parents staying in the same room as her so we know she didn't suffer anything). My other grandmother had cancer in her 90s and opted against having chemo. She died peacefully, in hospital, with family around her - pretty close to the "movie version". She didn't need euthanasia, just a medical team who cared enough about her wishes to have a good death not to browbeat her or the family into having treatment she didn't want.
Naming is important. They called their mower 'Lawna'. Good choice!

My robo-vacuum is 'Puck'.

If I had a mower, hm. Maybe 'Cutter'. Or 'Blade'.
Of course you can. In fact I'm doing just that in two places in the example.

(Yes I know what you mean, but yes you know what I mean!)

In the end, chains are about readability and logical flow; even if you don't like pre-wrapping in more meaningfully named functionals like the example, and accept the slight readability cost of using the occasional in-spot lambda or partial, I feel that this still becomes a lot more readable than "treat this symbol unconventionally in this context as a positional placeholder" hacky syntax stuff.
You could apply this to countless professions.

Plumbing is about making a lot of money, they benefit from you pipes leaking again.

We just have to hope that human beings actually care about their work.
Elon said that when he acquired Twitter it was burning $4 million per day.
Surprising to see that strong anonymity isn't built into Freenet 2023... i always associated FreeNet with anonymity.

Would be willing to speak to these anonimizing layers? Are they difficult to use? Do they offer the same level of anonymity?
Chatting with an Airbnb listing using context-aware AI generation
Instagram’s new Twitter competitor (ActivityPub included)
If I'm not mistaken, the square wave case should in essence be the limiting case of the general case you get when looking at "trigonometric" functions which don't arise as the parametrisation of xˆ2 + yˆ2 = 1, but xˆn + yˆn = 1 for n > 2. It turns out that people have looked at that, and the study of those functions have been given the funny name "squigonometry". There's a Springer textbook out there.
Please share your top 10, or for that matter top 20 prompts of ChatGPT.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_600-lb_Life
I'm not OP, but I would look at this tool I found a while back. Ridiculously useful and underrated. I think someone on HN linked it, as I've not found a tool so useful via googling despite many attempts.

https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/

What you're looking for is the "Off Grid" tab, plug in your details. e.g. solar array size, size of battery, etc. Then click visualize results. After visualizing, there are a few tabs to help you make some decisions.

For your case (Netherlands, it looks like a 5.4kWp solar array and 4kWh (I assumed 5) used per day, and with a single 5kWh battery, you should be able to go off-grid :) In fact, during summery months, you could even push to the grid.

This tool even looks at cloud data based on various databases. I don't know of it's accuracy, but I'm inclined to trust it.
"...Each task you tackle takes you through time, unlocking NFTs..."

aw
YouTube suggestions, Reddit, IG, Facebook groups, Deezer playlists, Podcasts, Bandcamp suggestions, even IMDB for soundtracks of films I've enjoyed.
Such edgy quotes aid in the mystic and aura building which eventually help with the sales.
Tit for tat still applies and (IMO) is the most likely the reason the US stopped assassinating people.
Aluminum is extremely reactive. It self-passivates with Aluminum oxide very quickly. The difference between rust and AlO3 is that the AlO3 adheres well to the base metal and doesn't flake off like rust does.
Using Advanced Camera Tech and AI to Target the Poor
I guess I’m confused. I thought the web was already decentralized. Of course individual websites aren’t, but the web itself certainly is.
I was about to get on semaglutide and after extensive research I thought "wait, the results won't be much better than the periods of IF I've had in the past, and the reported benefits are similar", and without side effects. Dropping 30 pounds in 3 months? easy to achieve with the Warrior Diet or OMAD versions of IF.

The results are exactly the same... you fill full eating less quantity, cravings disappear after 1-2 weeks, increased focus and enhanced mental state. But yeah, you need some self-discipline, tons of coffee/matcha and water.

I've concluded that semaglutide is not for me. Just like self-discipline in pills, with potential side effects. So better to give IF another go... I'm in the 4th week and dropped 10lbs already.
its hard to trust any .xyz domain spams have been going ham on these cheap domains.
This whole snafu is just because different parts of transportation are lagging.

The whole technology needs some integration. No-go zones are already available for robo-vacuums. Maybe that crime tape needs some rfid tags in it or something.

And why don't cars have an RFID VIN tag? So I could open an account and just drive into my parking garage, drive out again without stopping? Or park in any outdoor city space and be charged similarly?

My car wash for heaven's sake has this. But I have to stick a doohickey on the inside of the windshield when I register my contract.

The solutions are mostly simple. It's only waiting for regulation/integration.
I’ll never understand why you would want to subject yourself to an office AND pay for that experience. Networking aside (why can’t that be done outside of a co-working environment), I don’t see any benefits.

I would rather dump the $3,900 per year into my mortgage or other debt tbh.
What happens if x and y values are sorted independently before regression?(2015)
I teach a sophomore-level class for electrical and computer engineering majors out of the Valvano materials, we put references to the chapters in both the free online and later inexpensive print version in our materials.

It's great in many ways, and free-to-cheap which is a particularly nice quality in a textbook, but it is _quite_ out of date at this point: it's tied to the old "ARM Compiler v5" bespoke compiler rather than the "v6" LLVM-derived one, and even Keil doesn't ship with v5 anymore. v5 used a different assembly syntax (v6 is GNU style, being LLVM derived - fortunately the toolchain can still ingest v5 style assembly _files_ just not inline so we can keep the assembly the students interact with matching the book), different tooling for C/Assembly interop, and an assemblage of bespoke macros and extensions, so there has been some creative tooling work to keep the book and assignments consistent for the students.

The EK-TM4C123GXL TivaC board that is the less expensive of the two targets the Valvano materials are built around is a pretty nice if slightly expensive embedded trainer, about $20-25 for a Cortex M4F with a fairly rich assortment of peripherals, a 2nd micro configured as a programmer/in system debugger on one end of the board, easy-to-interface male AND female headers on a bunch of broken out pins, pads to tap the USB-Serial traffic while it still looks like serial, high and low speed oscillators arbitrated by a pretty fancy clock circuit, two user buttons, and an RGB LED. Powerful enough and with enough Flash and RAM to get interesting things done, not so powerful or memory rich that you can get away with modern programming decadence, and simple enough that we can talk about the nuts and bolts of any particular feature.

We construct from "Baby's first assembly program" through "Register-direct manipulation" and finally "Controlling external devices via the HAL functions" over the course of a semester. Because of the way the degree programs are structured, we're a little more focused on "This is how computers actually work" than on embedded applications, but I'm still pretty proud of the course and the students mostly seem to appreciate it.
It’s not Uber for Offices. It’s AWS for offices.

The AWS bet is that some companies, especially when starting out, will pay a high premium to not have to manage certain physical resources, and to have the flexibility to scale up or down easily.
I'm fairly certain quite a few of them are still in jail without a trial yet right? At least for the January 6th participants.
It's also been a while since I stepped foot in a fab, but my impression is that for modern processes there are no people in the fab proper. It is fully automated, people sit outside the fab or they service machines in drop-down bays underneath the fab floor, accessible only through airlocks.

What the technicians are there for isn't to operate the robots...they're supposed to analyze the performance of the robots constantly and summarize anomalies and flag them to the next shift. So a work shift might involve metrology, statistics, and communication skills; I wouldn't expect that skill set from any but the most exceptional US high school graduates, and those folks are bound for the university, not a job with 12-hour days wearing clean room suits and limited bathroom breaks.

Some of the more fussy processes like EUV require regular cleaning of excess tin in the machine as well to keep yield up. afaik it's a trade secret as to how this process works, but I know one of the big delays in rolling out EUV is that the cleaning process was hard, and that lead to a lot of downtime on the line. People on both side of the Pacific were able to make chips with EUV for a while, but they just couldn't make money while making them. TSMC cracked that nut, but I haven't read any articles describing exactly what their magic was to get the uptime so high. However, I suspect it might involve a platoon of PhD-level experts that also work like an F1 pit crew.

Anyways, the days of carrying boxes of wafers from machine to machine and pressing buttons are long gone. Everything that can be automated has been, what's left is debugging and servicing robots, and searching for early signs of degradation in an otherwise fully automated machine.

So, the real value of a highly trained technician in this case is they can look at bumps in the data and go "huh..." and flag it to management so that you don't have 80% of the fab full of trash wafers. In this situation, you want someone who actually understand the physics of the process going on inside the machine, and not just someone who is following an SOP. Any analysis that could be easily automated probably already has been.

Of course, you need even more highly skilled people to set up the robots in the first place, and that process also consumes hundreds if not thousands of engineers, depending on your schedule, scale and the complexity of the machines. A lot of that can be pushed back onto vendors, but you still need an on-site team who actually understands the physics to get your process yields up to several nines and hold it there with almost no downtime.
Such a clever move from Meta. Drags down rival Twitter while retaining maximum eyeballs within their ecosystem.

Unlocking ActivityPub content as a new option to slap ads over for folks who stay within the Meta ecosystem, of which there is no shortage of folks.
I don’t think there are any. They are one and the same — if you create an integer primary key named id it is aliased to rowid:

https://www.sqlite.org/rowidtable.html
This article seems out of touch with reality by a large degree. From what I am seeing on the ground people are bored with language models and moving on. Maybe the research is exciting to you but the results are at an obvious plateau and has been like this for more than a month.
I'm not sure what you mean by slow. A little push every day, is that slow?
I don't know about that... I've done both embedded and non-embedded work and I've never had to take a pay cut to do the embedded work.

It's mostly a question of finding a company where the embedded software isn't an afterthought.
No it isn't, and it's sad that you think that
This is good to hear. I'm just getting up and running with tutorials for a Nordic IoT SIP using Zephyr, with plans to develop a new model of an agricultural data monitoring/control product we've been offering for a few years. So far it seems really good. I personally have very little experience with embedded software (many years with web software) but am finding it easy to pick up.
You have two framings here that I realize are not mine.

First, I am not arguing to not make the change. It was identified, make it. As you say, it is a trivial one to do. Do it.

Second, thinking of percentage improvements has to be done on the total time. Otherwise, why is it not written in much more tightly tuned assembly? After all, I am willing to wager that they still don't have the code running within 7% of the absolute optimum speed it can be going in as long. Heck, this is a program that is a post processing of a list. They already have a way that could get the 40us completely gone. Why stop there?

If I am to argue that anything here would have been a "waste" and shouldn't have been done, it would be the search for a 2ms improvement in startup. But, again, that isn't what they were doing. They were shaving off seconds from startup and happened to find this 2ms improvement. It made headlines because people love pointing out poor algorithmic choice. And it is fun to muse on.

This would be like framing your wealth as just the money you have in your wallet as you go to the store. On the walk, you happen to see a $5 bill on the ground. You only have $20 with you, so picking it up is a huge % increase in your wealth. Of course you should pick it up. I'd argue that, absolutely considering it, there is really no reason to ever not pick it up. My "framing" is that going around looking for $5 bills to pick up from the ground is a waste of most peoples time. (If you'd rather, you can use gold mining. Was a great story on the radio recently about people that still pan for gold. It isn't a completely barren endeavor, but it is pretty close.)
Rooms seems like a very different style of product (not built around the social/chatting stuff). Also those kind of isometric hexagon rooms have been around for ever in loads of different places.
Just wanted to add I’ve been using the local development and migrations workflow and it has been fantastic. Honestly the only issue I’ve really had is how frustratingly difficult it is to change an id field from int8 to uuid if I mistakenly don’t choose the right one at first and the migrations get stuck on that and I have to resort to manual hacking. Setting up local/staging/prod with this new system seems really easy. Nice work!
Afaik the number was after the acquisition, and thus with Twitter on the hook for $1.2 billion of yearly debt repayment from the acquisition loans?
You mean 'hangry'? A common human behavior.
>> I will rise at 5. Meditate, 530-630. Journal 630-730. Breakfast 8-9,

> that is very ambitious if not pathologically ambitious.

I guess that's what many parents are then? Meditating in the morning is one thing, for an hour, everyone can find their window. Same goes for an hour of journaling, and an hour of eating breakfast. The steps are OK, but the duration might be different for me.

I'm a life long night owl, now morning miracling. It's different, waking up that early feels like still being up before anyone is like late at night, plus a clearer head from a full sleep cycle.

Sometimes you accidentally fall asleep at 9, and wake up at 3-4 without issue.

I think I'm about to join the 5 am gym club, I don't even know who I am any more. That's the fun of continuing to discover things that weren't thought of as a possibility.
Is there something I can actually download and run? I am very confused from the website.

There is some github page... should I download and compile myself? I am really really confused
Google: appeared open to start things off, then went whole hog on the MS embrace-and-extend philosophy, aiming to crush the life out of the entire web.
> Inventions as significant as the Transformer are more discovery than invention…

Like the “invention” of fire?
ChrisMarshallNY is sitting in judgment of the fellow in Holland who made use of the euthanasia laws there.

Specifically:

"I find it doubly tragic, as there are proven alternative solutions" (judgment)

"I personally know many people that were once far worse off than that gentleman, and are now doing quite well" (justification that invalidates the man's suffering)

"Lots of folks have opinions on it, but I have experience with it." (Pushing his opinion above others, to hammer the judgment home)

He doesn't know Mark Langedijk's mind and soul, and yet he feels comfortable desecrating the man's legacy.
The fred had "content filter" that sanitise content (e.g remove javascript, check pdf file for exploit)

I always thought it was a mistake.
Same here. I fear the random nature of a heart attack even more.

My ideal is almost to take enough water into the woods to starve in the woods. To really stare my death in the face and experience it slowly.

Clinging to life in a nursing home is a fate worse than death to me.

I am sure this all depends on having kids or not. Being child free gives many more options.
No, there would be war and special ops assasinating people if those americans did not go to iran willingly to begin with. I never understand why this moral indignation by some people about US foreign policy never accounts for military might and it's role in deciding these things. Every country uses it's might to protect its people and interests, that isn't a moral thing, it's a survival thing.

Saudi kidnapped, tortured and murdered an american journalist and they got away with it because that was in the interest of the US. Nation states are not instruments of justice, they exist because they are strong enough. All those people in Guantanamo did not belong to a country who could keep them safe and secure.
The article is heavily focused on how to prevent suicide.

They note that suicide is sometimes rational (they call it "existential", euphemistically). I'm all for removing the causes of people wanting to die.

But if people have any rights at all, the right to decide when and how you die seems to be the most fundamental.

It seems to be almost impossible nowadays to obtain the kinds of drugs (basically, barbiturates) that you need to ensure a quick, painless death. Doctors get struck-off for so much as giving true advice on how to do it. You can get charged for accompanying your relative to a Swiss clinic.

The idea that relatives might encourage an elderly person to kill themselves is widespread, but I think that kind of motive is pretty rare. Mostly the opposition to enabling killing yourself is ideological, and seems to be particularly prevalent among people with strong religious opinions.

I don't want to die. But I'm not very well, and I might get to the point where I do want to. So I've been trying for several years to acquire the means to do it easily. But I've failed dismally.
It's probably monitoring social media private messaging or mobile camera / microphone monitoring.
That's what I keep telling my boy when he wants to cuddle up and read a bedtime story: "stop weighing me down, daddy has more important things to do, like vapid parties and brunch"...
>> I will rise at 5. Meditate, 530-630. Journal 630-730. Breakfast 8-9,

> that is very ambitious if not pathologically ambitious.

While that was an example of trying to do too much, waking up that early isn't super uncommon - I guess that's what many parents are then?

Cultivating a healthy and positive inner dialogue is super important. No one is coming to help you to a greater degree than you picking yourself up and learning to treat yourself with care by being a friend to yourself. This is much different than being too self-involved.,

Meditating in the morning is one thing, for an hour, everyone can find their window. Same goes for an hour of journaling, and an hour of eating breakfast. The steps are OK, and leave room to add more in.

I'm a life long night owl, now morning miracling. It's different, waking up that early feels like still being up before anyone is like late at night, plus a clearer head from a full sleep cycle.

Sometimes you accidentally fall asleep at 9, and wake up at 3-4 without issue.

I think I'm about to join the 5 am gym club, I don't even know who I am any more. That's the fun of continuing to discover things that weren't thought of as a possibility.
>> writing down every idea I could think of. Then, I’d decide which of these ideas seemed in the realm of possibility for me

This has actually worked well for me in the past, but the trick for me was to wait at least a month after an idea was written down before starting on it.

Basically, while working on one thing, I would jot all my 'newer and better' ideas into a journal so that I could finish the current thing. After finishing the current thing I would read through my journal to decide what to start next, realizing that most of the ideas I had written down were pretty lame.

The delay in time saved me from starting work on things that I would have abandoned soon after (albeit for good reason) and I developed more confidence and determination in finishing the things I started, since those ideas had proven themselves over the others.

Another approach I take is to breakdown a large task into smaller tasks that I can complete in less than one or two hours since I deal with a lot of interruptions during the day. This allows me to recognize my progress on a task and makes it easier to remember the state of things at any particular stopping point.