skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was his TA a couple times at EPFL. He provides a really fantastic set of resources for anyone who's interested in the topic
No SVG support in Slides either. Adding a video sometimes takes hours. Google products are low-end adware.
I’ve found that the official Obsidian Sync solution performs well and has no issues with conflicts, unlike iCloud Drive which I used prior. It does feel pricey for a single feature, but I just frame it as valuable support for an amazing product that I’d otherwise be paying nothing for. After futzing around with sync for a while I was happy to throw some money at the problem and move on.
Xbox Series S > Xbox One X
The longest delivery I ever endured makes for a funny anecdote now, too.

2020. Lockdowns. Everybody needs Internet. My neighbor was a nice lady who didn't have much tech knowledge. She was borrowing WiFi from a guy upstairs. Her computer was a hand-me-down from a former neighbor too. It was an HP all-in-one and the WiFi controller burned out. So she made it my mission to restore her connectivity.

I knew we'd need a dongle, and so I shopped for them on Amazon and Newegg while she looked on. For some dumb, stupid, unfathomable reason, I decided that the best choice was for about $12, direct from China. We plunked down our money and placed our order, and began to wait.

I communicated the situation to my online friends, and there's a guy who always sends me his secondhand, usable electronics. He had a dongle handy and so he mailed it to me.

It was like September 2020. The Chinese dongle from Amazon stalled out. I think it had shipped from the vendor and it was just sitting on a ship in port somewhere, for ages. It didn't budge for weeks, months.

The other dongle arrived from my friend in Utah and I installed it, and my neighbor was happy again. But we still hadn't received our treat from China.

And then one day it dislodged itself, the ship made it across the Pacific, and the thing finally landed in my mailbox. So I installed that dongle too, and my neighbor had dual-channel WiFi. Total overkill, totally unnecessary, but why not, eh? Thanks, COVID-19!
Whilst true, you askari HAVE to have a Netflix account. You cannot just buy the game.
If the not-working : working ratio increases, that leads to work being more valuable. A billionaire can have a pile of gold to make Smaug envious, but if you have 10 billionaires and just 1 person willing to wipe their ass, then they're going to be outbidding each other.

That itself drives wage inflation, and it's great, it moves money to those doing useful work. What you're saying with inflation is basically "the value of an hour of work 20 years ago is less than the value of an hour of work now". That could be because of improved productivity, or could be because of a reduction in supply.

It's the only thing that's going to save western society from the scourge of the concentration of wealth in the handful of a few.
I've enjoyed the content of one of the original "life hack" websites (lifehacker.com) for many years. Sometimes hokey, sometimes unhelpful but always with good intentions. And I think that is the spirit of a life hack- the sight positive change in perspective. Changing your paradigm, in nearly any case, often yields a good outcome.
The colors are usually defined by the same bodies that define the scales.

The German LQI has associated colors, I know for sure the American does too, and I’ll bet the Dutch in the screenshots also comes directly from the definition of the scale.

And iOS defaulting to _local_ standards is a good thing! It means people get the same information they would from watching TV or reading newspaper, which is much more useful for most people than comparing their air quality to that of a neighboring country.
What is AC?
Dead people cost less than ill people
it would be cool to have super cheap office space
I'd like 80 days except for one impossibly annoying thing (on desktop at least): It doesn't let me skip the overly long opening intro/credits/animation which plays on every game start.
Agree with all of this except /r/iosgaming, have seen more than a few requests for quality games get drowned out with “there’s nothing wrong with mtx, just don’t buy it”

People get weirdly defensive when you mention that you don’t even want the option for mtx in the games you play.
Exactly. If you ask me, it would have to run the latest triple A games like F1, Call of Duty, FIFA, Elden Ring, Dirt, etc very well and be an attractive platform for that kind of gaming. The FTC is IMHO correct when they see Xbox, Play Station and Windows as one market and Switch in another.

People usually have the latest Play Station or Xbox, not both, but lots of people have a Switch in addition to either.
I thought for a moment this was from Curious Marc[0], who has an addiction to vintage HP gear although mainly from the 60s and 70s.

I have no affiliation but if you like vintage computing he has quite an amazing video collection, including restoring and using gear from the Apollo mission.

[0] https://youtube.com/@CuriousMarc
> Comfortably Numb

Good pick IMO.

Narratively, it evokes stories of Syd Barrett's increasing inability / refusal to function as part of the band. Syd was like the archetype of the creative genius who flew too close to the sun and crashed to Earth, leaving the band after 1.5 albums.

Roger Waters sings the verses, David Gilmour sings the choruses. The song went through multiple iterations and was apparently more or less the end of their ability to work productively together. I'm left pretty cold by both musicians' solo outputs, but together they were an absolutely brilliant team. This is one a few tracks where they switch vocals mid-song, all of which I love.

The choruses touch on the theme of a lost youth. Over the years the band had three main songwriters (maybe four if you count Rick Wright), and they all leant heavily into this area. It's classic Floyd territory.

The closing solo is just deathlessly epic. If I had to cite one thing that made me want to learn to play guitar, it'd be that solo. Still sounds incredible 40 years and an almost entirely unsuccessful musical career later.

But maybe it's just not ralusek's cup of tea and that's fine. Also sometimes it's the fate of brilliant things that they get copied so much it's hard to see what the fuss was about.
Sure, but the word to describe it may be "bubble", not "ponzi scheme".

E.g. you can't say a failed startup is a ponzi scheme because it loses a bunch of money. A ponzi scheme is a very specific type of fraud.
You have to understand what people mean when they say it's not hard. That doesn't mean it's something that can be done effortlessly. Your body isn't lying to you. Our bodies are designed for survival in the wild. They want to not only accumulate as many calories as they can, but then to be extra greedy - using them as sparingly as possible, and tucking away as much as possible for a rainy day when food's not so abundant. It's an incredibly efficient machine, driven by millennia of evolution and refinement.

The point of this is that if you eat when your body tells you it wants to eat, you're going to be fat. Everybody who's fit has to deal with this. And this becomes even more true as you get older when your metabolism is going to fall off a cliff while your desire for food will, at most, slightly decline.
As someone who is personally a bad idea machine, I feel qualifies to respond here. There's a lot to unpack here, but I think it boils down to being good at winnowing down a solution space - which is pretty squarely a Systems Engineering skill - specifically at the concept design phase.

The truth is, when a problem is very open, there are generally far - far... far more bad candidate solutions than "good" ones. So, being able to articulately explain why an idea is bad or perhaps more likely has some mix of "good" and "bad" elements, in a manner that is irrefutable and does not diminish the courage of engineers proposing the concept in the first place, is a critical skill.

I think the key to highlighting this skill on your resume isn't stating that you know how to simply identify 'bad' solutions and say no to them, but rather that you were able to identify where solutions fell short and then led the individual or team to a solution that worked and was far superior to alternatives. After all, that's what matters. Anyone can say "no" and because of the large disparity between good and bad ideas (as described above), you'll have plenty of opportunity to do so - so, that's not very impressive. Finding the good solution [needle in the hay stack] is the skill you want to highlight... with substantive examples.

If your interested in this topic of winnowing a design space down, you may be interested in a method called Set Based Design - which is a winnowing method for mutli-objective problem sets developed by Toyota and can accelerare/automate the winnowing process.
not really. If you had a society where people worked 80 hour weeks to produce X amount of economic activity, and you moved that to a society working 20 hour weeks with the same productivity, that's an improvement in everyones individual lot.
This is great because the more expensive phones get, the less likely people will want to replace their 2-year old phone with a new one.

Plus, those new high end features...there have been barely any new features in a smartphone in the last 5+ years (I'm exaggerating a bit of course). Check out Fairphone. That's an interesting project!
They all compete with each other since they're all competing for your time, there's just specializations that make them more attractive in certain situations. If I'm at home poking at a gem game at my phone, that's still taking up time that could be spent on a console. If I'm out and about, it's time that could be spent on a Switch or Steam Deck, or possibly cloud streaming.

There's plenty of overlap between all of them. Hell, most mobile games are mostly adaptions of what are usually called casual or what used to be called "desktop" games on PC. Genshin Impact is an open world RPG, there's CoD Mobile and Mario Kart too.

There's a habit to separate various kinds of media in it's own little lockboxes and it's completely wrongheaded and old fashioned in an age where tech is consolidating so rapidly.
The only reason there is a need for "economic growth" is for profit. Prove me wrong, please!

The statement that an "aging population could be a drag on economic growth" is really saying that capitalism cannot profit off of the elderly and that is a bad thing for stock holders.
Genetics also effect your extraction efficiency. If a person consumes 1000 kilocalories of food as measured with a bomb calorie meter some individuals might get 4184 kilojoules of system input and some might only get 2000 kilojoules of system input.

This does however not in anyway point to some proposition where obesity is not caused by food overconsumption. It does however showcase that genes have effects that increases the statistical likelihood for some people with certain genetics to become obese. And that the threshold for food overconsumption for an individual will depend on the individuals genes. But that is not a bold new statement, another example would be that a large human will require more energy to live, their food overconsumption threshold will be at a higher energy value.
I'm not saying this is you, but many people explain too much. Either the explanation ends up being lies to weasel out of something, or it's unnecessarily long explanation that the other person doesn't want to hear.

I prefer to both give and hear a simple no.

People who seek explanations aren't always entitled to them (i.e. they're not your boss). Some people feel rude not giving explanations when asked. I feel people are rude for expecting me to give an explanation when I've said no.
I liked every bit of it!

I wonder if we should pretend from every AI agent to attach a confidence level to every answer they utter.
> It's a weird example, because it moves listener creation elsewhere, which is not always possible (e.g. consider if the goroutine would be spawning an external program instead of setting up the listener of its own).

Just addressing the case of spawning an external program: if you have control of the external program you’re spawning it can be better to pass the listening socket in using the systemd $LISTEN_PID protocol. It’s easy too implement, language independent and you get systemd integration for free.

See also: https://blog.williammanley.net/2014/01/26/Improve-integratio...
There are a large number of companies that require ids as the basis for every selector, by policy. This may not be interesting to you, but I think this is what they meant. The fact they may or may not be familiar to you is incidental.
Listen to Dark Side of the Moon start to finish.

If you have and still don’t like Floyd, that’s ok.

They are amazing musicians, pioneers of psychedelic rock, modern studio recording, and storytelling through long play albums.

Imagine buying this LP in 1973 when there was far far less entertainment options in general. Fast forward to now and it still sounds fresh and modern and transports me somewhere else for an hour.
Huh, looks like you're right. Maybe they fixed it at some point?
Does the US use the same rates for all property types? At least in Canada (and in Sim City 2000…), the tax % is different for residential, commercial, industrial and often subcategorized further.
Tucker explained how this guy inside an agency told him what they knew which was sent over Signal. They could have either compromised/compelled Signal or taken over his device. Although Tucker thought it was the former, I think the latter is more likely as it has been done many times.
At least the default, non-opinionated flavor, without the tables and math formula support and stuff like that.
So was Berkshire invested in insurance before Buffet acquired them? Maybe he saw that the insurance side was worth more than the textiles would be. Acquire the company just for the insurance side, and wound down the textile side. Never letting anyone know his true intention was to go into insurance.
On iOS - subscribe to Apple Arcade.

Those are the only games guaranteed not to have in-app purchases nonsense.

Aside from that, there are very few where you pay once and play forever without ads.
It's not synchronous, sync xhr on the web is pretty rare these days.
That may be what “usually” happens but in california, which is a major commercial real estate market, we have this thing called proposition 13 which screws up everything.
Are we comparing with Atlanta? Food is more expensive maybe, but not 2X! Insurance is usually not more expensive, especially in mild weather west coast cities. Electricity can be cheaper (Seattle where I’m at). I’m not in California, but still an HCOL. But if I were in LA, food would be cheaper than even Atlanta. Gas is expensive, not that I notice much (I have an EV, and our electricity is cheap).

> And if you haven’t noticed, people are moving away from the west coast and office occupancy is down - that doesn’t bode well for home prices long term.

I wish, but it’s just a dream. The traffic is bad, rents are up, the housing market is insane. You are betting that the “it’s too crowded so no one comes here anymore” will regress so much that housing prices will drop, but that’s not how equilibriums work.

Everyone in our industry should be maxing out their 401k’s, no matter where they are living. However, those who survive in a HCOL will have a lot more assets and money at the end of it than a LCOL, simply because their house is worth more and they made more money (same percentage of savings even with higher expenses).

There are good reasons to live in an LCOL, especially if you like the place and you have friends and family there. But making more money overall than a HCOL isn’t one of them unless the jobs you can get in the HCOL don’t really pay much more than the LCOL (then get out of dodge as fast as you can).
The EU doesn’t produce anything. You know, not everything works by lobbying on this side of the pond.
If I was losing 10%+ a year I absolutely would. I'm sure not everyone would,but the present rate of investment is absolutely dire and needs to change. If inflation does that, then great.

If instead it puts more onus on the state to invest as the only major player who would.. then that's also great.
The answer depends on the individual, but millions and millions of people have said "Yes" to that question and are very happy with their choice.
> at same time about 700 refugees were lost in Mediterranean

Were there Americans on board?

Governments treat their citizens’ lives differently. It’s not fair, but it’s an obvious consequence of our organisation around nation states.
> the amount of money rental income sucks out of the economy that would otherwise be used for production and consumption

Renting is a service, a productive economic activity that yields net positive value to the society. The building did not fall from the sky and someone "claimed" it. Someone actually had to put in work and time and take risks for it to exist and be rented. Those enjoying the building benefit from these previous efforts, which in turn are compensated by receiving rent.
Yes, exactly, see my other comment. "economic growth" is a code word for profit that makes it all sound less greedy.

They do not want labor to have power. And all this can be linked in with AI. They love AI because it takes power away from a lot of labor, including code jockeys.
Other people, especially my teen son. Would never have discovered Polytopia were it not for him.
I suspect that varies from one project to the next.
I don't have a great resource but I can recommend Polytopia and Rebel Inc, two games that are fun on mobile and don't have the predatory skinner box practices that so many games seem to have.
This is most likely Tech Tangent. In the end hed details how the disk images messaged by the hp museum are hard to repro. Glad he deals with this, otherwise they could have been preserved but still lost.
This line of thinking is analogous to handing competent threat actors a skeleton key to your system with only one condition - the attack must not be trivial - and then you'll grant them full access.

These kinds of attacks can be made trivial with the engineering capability, capacity, and systems employed by large tech firms like Google, Apple, Facebook, et al. even in the context of these firms as third party platform providers, to say nothing of their own first-party software.

These systems can already classify your political views with a high degree of accuracy, and platforms like the iTunes / Apple App Store and Google Play are already designed with the capability to serve different versions of applications to different requestors (think beta programs), in addition to being the signing entity, for package formats that are entirely within their capability to supplement with additional code.

To be clear - it's entirely plausible that one day, the rogue, evil, mean government voted into power by the evil bad party of your choice could compel Apple, or Google, to backdoor all applications going to clients with the same known political views as yours.

You believe this to be too complex or unrealistic to be plausible (Occam's Razor, right?) but in doing so (and lowering your guard to such threat), YOU are the one that makes this go from impossible to possible.

Also, using normative adjectives like "'normal people' shouldn't worry about this in this in their threat model" implies that those who do have competent threat actors after them aren't "normal", but we know that to be untrue - competent threat actors are, to some degree or another, after everyone. There is no need to "otherize" people for simply being aware of this.

Instead of proscribing behavior, consider that maybe individuals are better equipped to understand their own threat models than you are, and explain the pros and cons of various courses of actions, rather than implying everyone who isn't a sheep isn't normal, and everyone who is a sheep doesn't have real threat actors interested in them.
Growth doesn't have to be bad for the environment, indeed it can be good. For example producing $1000 worth of economic activity by burning oil to heat a building is far worse than producing $2000 worth of economic activity by using a solar powered heat pump.

What we don't do is record the negative externalities of production and that means gdp is a bit of a poor measure.
That's not true - Inflation + growth is what makes a pension fund designed for generating votes possible.

Any system that intentionally pays out significantly more than people pay in is going to have sustainability problems.

It's so bad with the California pension systems that they're facing immenant collapse, despite being in an economy with the highest growth rate in human history.
I don't think Mastodon can replace Twitter. Its use case is obviously different due to the federation, good and bad.

Federation means that your moderators have control of the discussion. That makes it closer to Reddit than Twitter, where moderators set up their own rules for each Mastodon instance.

For example: https://mastodon.gamedev.place is a game-design focused Mastodon instance, akin to /r/programming can only talk about programming related things (or you get banned and/or moderated out), game developers are hanging out here to talk about game-design issues.

If you want to talk about other issues (general stuff, politics, whatever), you need to reach out to the federation and find a home for your words.

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When #RedditBlackout reached full steam, I realized this. Federation is more of a Reddit thing than any other social media that has come before. Between volunteer moderators, and the "subreddit" feel of Federation (be it PeerTube, Mastodon, or Lemmy), its more obviously a Reddit replacement than anything else.

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That being said: a large instance like "https://mastodon.world", with a moderation style of general-topic is closer to a Twitter replacement.
Yes, since the structure of OP's complaint was whether or not we have "enough money" to do things. I'm not advocating for any particular expense policy here, just pointing out that we can easily afford to fund all rescue missions, while paying for all cancer treatment is a much larger expense, so it's not unreasonable that people don't funge those two categories.
These are server/workstation chips anyway.

10 years ago Intel was selling Xeon Phis, 60 little cores on a PCIe card.

Coincidentally the CEO/founder of Ampere worked at Intel at the time.
https://archive.is/Y5P61
Taxes don’t change on the day to day swings of the properly value of the house. There is a set value and a set rate regardless of the worth of the house. Now it could be every 10 years a city needs to re-assess. So they go and value all the houses then they make a tax rate that gets to what the tax amount will be. So some go up and some go down based on the new value. There are some outliers - your taxes may change if you expand your house under a permit or so some upgrades. If you buy a house and believe its value is too high you can try to argue the total amount to lower the taxes. But nothing automatically is happening that is lowering anyone’s price except a total reassessment of the area. This is how gentrified areas may push people out with high taxes because a reassess changed the total tax amount and then your house may suddenly need to pay substantially more taxes * except in California as they have different laws.