skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Did you even try to look it up?"

I do not need to "look it up", I own and play Superhot on the Oculus for example.

What in your knee-jerk reply would you say contributes to the conversation about whether "VR exclusives" are needed for a given platform to succeed?

I'm going to help you by providing the context for this conversation (not written by me, but in the initial comment I was replying to), which is:

> "The adoption problem seems to be that there is no affordable VR console with a lot of big exclusive games."

There you go. What do you think "big exclusive games" means in this context? Do you think it means "exclusive" as in "Nintendo exclusive" or does it mean "exclusive" as in "it's designed for VR first, regardless of headset brand"? Or something else maybe?
It was never about GHGs, always about subsidizing corn farmers.
How much did Avast paid for the extension?
If you reduced it to something like joules per hour we could compare it to smartphone usage or driving or even total energy used per year. Would be a funny way to compare productivity gains that are rooted in physics
Well, this happened for one: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/30...
This is an interesting idea, but I can see it being either good or bad, especially depending on the fee. Lets say Apple does this, its $25 per year to list an app on the app store. If you have less than 4 apps, its a deal. If you have 4 apps, its a wash. But if your an indie developer with 6 apps, not it is costing you more. Of course, if they went this route, I guess they could offer both pricing. $99 for developer and you get, theoretically, unlimited app entries, but you can also pay per app.
I still have a paper copy of that brochure.
If you can smell it, it goes in your lunges and if you also work it's even worse.

Don't work outside if you can or wear a mask!
I'm speaking out of ignorance and not criticism, why not just go with a commercial product at that price point?

I can imagine many theoretical reasons like sourcing and availability but are there things beyond actual conjecture here
The HIMARS rockets and Storm Shadows we send to Ukraine are fairly close to killbots. You give the coordinates and off they go.
Of the cloud storages, AWS S3 is the most expensive for both storage and bandwidth.

A half petabyte at other places such as wasabi would cost 35k a year, including bandwidth.

Open street maps by comparison in 196GB compressed including full history. 20 years of full snapshots would amount to only .2PB, or 20k a month to host on cheaper storage providers.

I don't think using OSM's budget was the best example.
> "Iraq adventure was a pointless slurry"

I wonder where 'pointless slurry' is meant on the scale of justifications or rationalizations of war? Maybe more favorably than 'quagmire' but less than 'good shoot'?
You might prefer the actual paper:

William D. Nordhaus. Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not. in The Economics of New Goods ed. Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon. U. Chicago Press (1996)

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6064

Also, note that some of the data is Norhaus's (an economist) rough modern reconstructions at their home, such as burning wood in their own fireplace.
> As for what twitch is buying, they are buying the performance and or content, not dissimilar from Netflix or cable TV.

Netflix or cable TV are buying broadcasting rights, or licenses to broadcast the content. Twitch can't be doing the same thing, because payment happens after the performance, not before.

> If you follow the money, all the donations and all of their ad Revenue go to Twitch, which then cuts a check.

That's just a passthrough to take a cut. It's no different than Apple's App Store or PayPal. I think it would be hard to argue that Apple is buying apps from developers, or that PayPal is buying from vendors.

Google would actually be a good example here. They both have an app store and can provide the ads for mobile apps. Would you say they're buying apps? Or are they selling a platform for apps?
There's a number of animals called Ruminants that do it regularly no?
Compiled Python Code Used in a New PyPI Attack
I've become skeptical, at least at first, of pithy / catchy phrases.

Many seem to be well known because they're memorable, but some people assume they're well know because they contain wisdom.

E.g., "It's always darkest before dawn." or (the often misconstrued) "The exception proves the rule."
> If the keys are not too long, radix sort is O(n) and faster.

More precisely, if the key length is w, then radix sort is O(w n) operations. In particular, if the n elements are distinct integers for example, w is greater than log(n).
Why should apps be required to be businesses? A lot of the apps I use are not businesses. Sometimes people make good stuff just for fun, or any other reason.
Doesn’t this break down once your utility function goes beyond strict economics? E.g., economics may say it’s best to let Taiwan specialize in semiconductors, but that may not be optimal once you factor in other dimensions like national security. Humans are not Homo Economicus
I've long fantasized about switching to Dvorak just to confuse people who want to use my computer.
I accidentally got ethanol free gas one time and was baffled at the sky high fuel economy I was getting for that whole tank.
Specific to Atlantic Canada, there is a lot of felled trees turning to kindling after Hurricane Fiona last September.
What you CAN do and what you SHOULD do are often different things, and that difference is something that the HN crowd would do well to reflect on.

Asahi doesn't want attention from HN. It's a small project about hardware that most HN commenters seem to hold in contempt anyway. Why not just honor the request?
I've got a friend who wrote about meeting Astrud Gilberto through contacts in the music business. As a teen he had a crush on her, I think everyone of a certain age certainly did.

Here's how he described her, "She was a 45-year-old woman, in an 18-year-old body, with a 14-year-old mind."

I've learned that in meeting an idol that you how you imagine someone might be is seldom how they really are in real life.
That is insane(ly cool). Do you know how the separation models work, in principle?
In America, we usually either say "Trash Can" or "Recycle Bin". For some reason, we don't do Trash Bin or Recycle Can.
> I think most scientific information that comes to us through the media is reliable

Your general point is well taken but is severely and gravely undermined by the belief expressed in above.
if you look at the regular reddit "new" interface you'll totally understand how this occurs.

the interface is a mess, accessibility concerns or not. It's truly an equal opportunity offender in all the worst case.
Fortunately the ADA[1] means that you can easily reach their real customer support AKA legal department.

[1] https://www.boia.org/blog/the-robles-v.-dominos-settlement-a...
> Err, "Google has rewritten the linker twice. Both times with the stated goal to make link times much faster." isn't an appeal to authority.

It is, and a very weak one considering Google has a history of getting people to work on promotion-oriented projects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261488

> It's evidence that the company has found speeding up linking to be worth millions of dollars.

It really isn't. You're buying into the fallacy that a FANG can never do wrong and all their developers are infallible and walk on water. All you're able to say is google did this and google did that, and you're telling that to a guy who has first-hand experience on how this and that is actually made. You never mentioned any technical aspect or more importantly performance differences. You only name-dropped Google, and to a guy who already worked at a FANG.

Linking was never an issue.
Nordhaus makes clear in the actual paper that it's a very, very rough estimate based on a reconstruction of wood burning in their own fireplace.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36234570
The Life Factory
I resent the banning of incandescent light bulbs for a practical reason: Heat.

In colder regions it's been common sense to use an incandescent light bulb to keep a space heated so it's just above freezing (above 0C or 32F) during the winter months.

This is to prevent things like plumbing and sensitive machinery from breaking due to ice formation. A full blown heater is generally complete overkill and impractical for this.

Unless someone has a drop-in replacement for incandescent light bulbs for heat generation purposes, I want them back. And no, LED light bulbs do not work: LEDs don't produce significant heat.
So the argument against him is that he isn't Socrates? He just wanted to get the truth out there and then beyond that minimize the damage to himself and his family, when he could/should have voluntarily become a full fledged martyr, for no extra benefit to anyone?
For example the /r/Netherlands subreddit is ran by trolls who are not from the Netherlands, and does not allow the usage of the Dutch language in the subreddit at all. Instead /r/theNetherlands is the proper subreddit.

The fact that reddit allows moderators to hide the modlist nowadays only makes things worse. You have absolutely no idea who is running things anymore.
So this likely doesn't apply to you directly, but if this is restricted to a specific app and the app is crap, it may be an ADA issue? (Or comparable law outside of the US) Doesn't address the actual issue, but if you ever want to fight about it, that's one potential way.

A lot of reported issues with the system not working could also do the trick.
What about cameras that operate with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video (aka HKSV)? There seem to be decent cameras that aren't at risk of bad software or bad actors.
This comment seems meant as a reply to either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229443 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230518
I think many people over-estimate how much energy exists in a bolt of lightning. They're incredibly powerful because they transfer the energy in a millisecond or less, but there are only about a billion joules in an average lightning strike. For reference, that means you would need to get your home lightning collector struck by lightning at least once a week in order to satisfy your home energy needs.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2012/05/could-we-harne...

Also, an important component in lightning is an upward convective current bringing warm and cooler air together, which cloud seeding would not affect. Clouds or rainclouds themselves don't cause lightning, which is why not all clouds/raincloud types are associated with lightning.
Real Time Air Quality in New York City
For the same reason you want to index anything: to slice, remove, etc. stuff. e.g. to replace a skin tone in an emoji: "str[i] = 0x1f3ff", or to insert one: "str = str[:i] + 0x1f3ff + str[i:]".
Can’t disagree. Also I enjoyed the “ never go full retard" clip on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q
"no saw mills left in Northern California" - eh? This is just one company's sawmills (they are hiring): https://www.spi-ind.com/Operations/SawmillOperations
Ask HN: BDD and Gherkin tests, do they provide value in the real world?
Recently stumbled upon BDD and the process of describing software from behaviour. I know there are seriously prolific software engineers amongst the Hacker News crowd and I could use a second opinion from within the industry.

What are your thoughts on BDD in general, with everything included (Gherkin, Cucumber etc.). What benefits have you yourself experienced (if any) or perhaps disadvantages of such ideas?
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> California made it illegal to charge the real risk adjusted price for insurance

I'd like to know more about this. Do you have a reference?
It's only "kind of" if they compensate for the reduced specs. As the root commenter said, they don't compensate yet. It's just less safe in those situations.

Whether it's fine to be less safe in certain situations because it's safer overall is a different question.
I both need the noise and the air (I sleep warm), but I had what had to be a 1950s version of this when I was a teenager , which was just a small enclosed fan that had a top you could regulate to change the sound. Still miss it sometimes.
Who didn't already get that ethanol was about corn subsidies and not the environment?
I'm amazed folks have time energy to stay on top of every new thing. I still haven't figured out how to get co-pilot to output anything useful in our codebase... let alone using AI to generate an entire website.
That is definitely true, we have diaries from folks who lived in the 1600s in London where you have the different reactions to their children dying at different age. They loved and cared for them but with close to a quarter of kids dying in their first year, it was something most families came to expect and experience but that they never completely numb to. When an older child died, it was an even bigger deal because they'd got past that dangerous first few years and you weren't expecting it.
Sounds like Spotify.
It won't make much difference to me, until it's supported in SPM (which will probably be soon).
It's the pushback against technology.

As technology makes individuals more powerful the state wishes to diminish this power.
I suspect it is. I don't think they're afraid of that.

I think they would be doing society a favor if they actively made it harder to find answers to problems just by googling or using a language model.

This is where identity matters using language models. I feel it might be necesary to credential capability for a few things.
I totally get it, but the song is also very famous in Brazil and not because of her.
Nitrogen fixation maybe? Lightning breaks N2 so it bonds with O2 into NO2. Rain then brings it to the soil to be taken up by plants. But lightning does this at a much smaller scale than microorganisms do, so maybe not too important.
It's everything. Natives used to practice controlled burns to sustain habitability. Observe parallels to three sisters agriculture. Then as their populations were eradicated these methods were lost.
I don't understand why this article focuses on China. SARS-CoV-2 has been endemic worldwide for some time now. New variants will evolve occasionally in various places (not just China), and all of us can expect to be occasionally exposed regardless of where we live. It's no different than the other four endemic human coronaviruses in that regard.
One of the other guys was her husband, so she probably enjoyed some of that money.
The evidence doesn't match your theory that it's trivially easy. Which will you discard?
Well really, what people in the field felt and saw was that on metrics for measuring tasks, what had happened in computer vision with giant jumps in performance for tasks previously considered hard to ever get to human level (like identifying cats in photos), then came to pass for NLP: Tasks and metrics we never thought we'd see even close to human level without some new theories or approaches to thinking and language, jumped up overnight. The metrics and applications of NLP before 2017 heavily relied on operating on words, tokens and adding in rules-based(GOFAI/expert system) modifications to do things like old-style chatbots. So many tasks now done by 355m tiny models locally had dismal performance, like repunctuation, translating faithfully, really - what turned out to be basically "easy" stuff for a network to learn.

And then add on RLHF and instruct tuning which is bizzarely more capable than anybody reading the RL/T5 papers that lead to these largely expected at the time.

It's the gap in researcher experiences vs assumptions as of 2017 that lead to this description imo. If you had projected the performance from 2012 to 2017 in NLP, you'd have about 3 major advancements, around word embeddings, and there wasn't much room for innovation there (as it turned out, although obviously semantic search and stuff followed to an extent, it kind of existed as "IR"). But from 2017 to 2023, we've had 30 of similar calibre, and they've stacked (GPT-2, then GPT-3, then instruct/RLHF basically).

The real point, as I see it, is that if we have the same jump - we outperform expectations by an order of magnitude - we'd be in trouble. Now maybe the expectations have adjusted, but I can tell you even as of 1 year ago, many NLP labs still disliked and ignored GPT models in favour of clearly relatively obsolete/now academic-curiosity projects.
Didn't Apple disable using iPad as a Home Hub with the last HomeKit update anyways?
Native American use of fire in ecosystems
well known as the originators of the SaaS model /s
So no little green men then?
I noticed a massive difference in L/100Km when i filled up in the US vs Canada. It was unquestionably cheaper to fill up though.
Fortunately, we still have Flora:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Purim

(Not bossa nova, though.)

Personally, except for (maybe) French, Portuguese is the non-English language I most like to hear someone singing in.
They most certainly aren't, given Apple's track record for adding about 200% markup on every single product they've made in the last 20 years. This product is overpriced until proven otherwise even if it does exactly what they claim and it beats the competition by a country mile. If it's not $1000 over an already healthy profit margin, that'd be an Apple first in a very long time.
The issue in question here is that many in the west will unquestioningly accept an account of true hardship and just presume that this was the case for every one of hundreds of millions of people across an enormous bloc of countries. You don't seem keen to volunteer where you're from or what period you're talking about and I won't press you on that, but from speaking to guys I know from ČSSR, Poland or Yugoslavia your experience sounds really rough but not reflective of theirs.

It's not presumptuous at all to say your experience of lining up for food, feeling scared and having lingering trauma about that is not reflective of the bloc overall. It is certainly an important part of it that should not be minimised (and tbh should be carefully considered so that it isn't repeated). But it is not reflective of every lived experience in the group of countries in question and, again, you know this.
AFAIK Chinese-made Teslas are fine.

EVs have pretty good longevity. The powertrain has fewer moving parts and isn’t exposed to air and vibrations.

Tesla’s batteries generally age well, with 1-2% capacity loss per year. It’s gradual decline, they don’t just die.

Also I’m hopeful that in 10-15 years when it’s time to replace the battery, there will be cheap upgrade options already available.
This has happened with Leaf – it launched with a 24kWh pack, and a decade later you can get 40kWh for the same price, and there’s 64kWh option.
Cops not being able to be fired is 100% because of the union. Every time they negotiate a new contract and the city tries to put in the ability to fire people the police refuse to arrest anyone.
If you live in a place with forced air heat you can probably set the furnace fan to be on all the time. Install a hepa filter and you are good to go.
I made this notion template, which saves technical writers hours of time spent finding opportunities. The best part is that it helps you find the best opportunity based on your interests and it's for free!
You can at least root android, use some kind of ad-away or other ad blocking software and also remove 95% of the ads within apps and games.... on apple, you're stuck with those.
So back to BB ?
These people don't understand IT or are lying. Backend replication service as root solves all these "mysteries" neatly.
If you tell ChatGPT "show your work", you get better answers
I feel your angst.

I'm not in an area that's quite as caught up with the idea everyone has access to a smart phone, but still there's public services I'd like to access but I need to set up a smart phone. I'm not going down the road where I need to voluntarily prostrate myself for well meaning people who can't build or afford to hire someone else to have a good all round access web site to do the same ... if not better ... well of course a non tamper app on android (I've not idea what the story is with apple) takes away the ability for someone to block data scraping.

I have a simple rule, if x can't build a web site (that I could use with a mere simple laptop) ... I don't trust their app.
Are you disappointed by the experience of having read it?
That is a fair and understandable belief but you should also consider that other nation states besides the USA exist, and that the USA's influence is arguably waning, not waxing.

You should not anticipate that all or even most actors will have the same new-worlder-anglo-saxon mindset/belief structure/values/etc,etc that are commonly found in (public) machine learning communities, discussions and institutions

To many, they will see that alignment tax graph and immediately (and arguably rightly in some respects) conclude that RLHF is inherently flawed and makes the result worse for no tangible benefit. (The new chinese slur for Westerners comes to mind -- Its not Gweilo anymore, but Baizuo)

The problem is all of this pie in the sky discussion fundamentally lacks Realpolitik and that irks me.
"I don't care about cookies" is just the name of the extension. In actual fact, it indicates that the user doesn't care if the server sends cookies. The user agent is still in control of what it does with them, and whether it includes them in subsequent responses.
I agree, but look on the bright side-- you now know what to expect. They're being honest with you.

In the US, they'd do this stuff and make up an elaborate story about how they came to discover the evidence they illegally obtained.
> Yeah, but it means they're far more likely to be correct

I know what this means from a statistical perspective but I dont know what it means with regard to practical day to day decision making.

> The argument you're making is the same made by anti-intellectuals
Isn't there some sort of fallacy that you are yourself deploying here?
Doing that is going to kill a huge percentage of Apollo's user base. It's not a foregone conclusion that the app will die, but the chances of that happening are much much greater now than they were before. If you were the developer of Apollo I think you'd have every reason to be worried about that, and any opposition to this change would be justified.
Rather Microsoftish. Similar things are commonly happening in Windows translations to other languages.
Since this change makes a service less accessible to the disabled, is there way to bring injunctive relief under the ADA?
How so? Legitimately interested.
TIL: Cloud Hosted Netflix Conductor
I didn't care about the AWS and zsh aspects of the article, but what vendor lock-in are you talking about and how exactly would an ansible playbook sort it?

All you need is any ubuntu vps - in fact any systemd distro if you ignore the "ufw" commands - and the 50 or so lines following "Wireguard Setup".

It doesn't get more simple than this.
Thank you. I actually like the idea that I can split the processing into independent binaries and scale them manually. And especially the fact that I can implement it in Rust.

Btw, another questions. Things like Flink provide a dashboard to analyze the processing flow / graph, to see the bottlenecks, etc. To my understanding Hydroflow doesn't provide it yet, but I'm curious if you're working on something like that, or if it provides other kind of metrics, perhaps something compatible with Grafana?
I don't mind the pop up except for, I wish they had a way built in where it doesn't do it for like a special list of apps. Apps I am thinking of would be like GIMP or VLC. Well known open source projects that have been around a long time.