skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry but this is just a lack of imagination. Storytelling can work just fine in VR (or 180 video or 360 video), you just have to adapt to the new medium. This brings new possibilities, too.

I suggest you watch Tales From Soda Island for an excellent example of VR storytelling. Then check out Pearl and Alumette. For 360 video check out The Soloist.

Yes, not all old techniques work in the new medium. That is not a reason to write it off, as people with imagination have already proven by developing a new cinematographic language for it.
That was true up until the last couple seasons (around 2020).

As of today, it is finally easily available cheaply via streaming.

- Peacock TV streaming service which is $5 a month (I got a $20 annual plan deal a few weeks before TdF)

- GCN+ Streaming service which is $8 a month (or $50 a year)

The GCN stream is available globally. I think it is also available on France24 and Sky Sports' streaming app.

If this feels like bad distribution to those reading this, you have no idea how far we have come. TdF used to be on very obscure cable channels only, like Outdoor Network that required very premium satellite plans as it was only included as a specialty channel and not available via many cable or satellite providers, making it entirely inaccessible to most people.

NBC eventually moved it to NBC Sports, which made it better. It was available through almost all providers now and available on more basic packages.

We finally got our first streaming options (meaning you didn't need to have a cable/sattelite subscription) about 6 or so years ago, but it was on a terrible app that had terrible infrastructure and it cost $80-120 per TdF season!

So with mainstream streaming, it is finally pretty accessible, just not discoverable. If you are looking to watch it, you can get it. It's also finally cheap enough for more people to justify it without needing to be a mega-fan. Again, on peacock it is only $5 a month. If you sign up and cancel immediately starting and following the TdF you can watch it all in one billing cycle. So that's pretty fair.

Also, to NBC's credit, they are trying to make it more accessible. The first stage was actually on the main NBC channel, which I think is a first. Stages 2-7 have been on USA Network, which is on all basic cable packages. Stages 8+ now require Peacock. It's obviously not perfect, but progress deserves to be recognized!
Evernote was ok for a little bit, but the only thing it really did for me was search... once I realized that I switched tactics. I organized my life into domains, and got okay at using grep to replace it. My saving grace that I would pay twice for is https://typora.io. Though worth mentioning Apple Notes has come a long way.
That’s a rather unhelpful way to use a voting system, considering no two people have the same sensibilities toward rudeness or the same purpose for reading a thread. At least voting based on truth has universal utility. In fact, downvoting true information could be actively harmful in many (most?) situations as many (most?) platforms boost or suppress content based on those votes

I also find it a bit.. idk what the word is, egotistical? Self-centered? Judgemental? To vote based on subjective qualities like perceived rudeness or helpfulness (toward one’s own goals or one’s own understanding of a stated goal)
It's not natural selection if you help it.
The man gave his informed opinion and assumption. He did not present it as fact. Take it for what it's worth, and don't project anything onto it that's not there.
ANOVA is that PBS show right?
I also found it tough to read. The image descriptions are great for people who need them, but on mobile they take up a lot of space, and present to the scanning eye as part of the post body proper.
Wasn't Eurosport free to view across Europe via satellite on Astra 19.2° East via Luxembourg in the 80s/90s? I guess the sports organizers started charging serious money.
Not every discipline has a constructive literature. I worked in psycho-linguistics. There's almost no article that provides anything you can build on. Almost all of it is description of experiment and outcome, with some theoretical interpretation, but that is almost always specific to interpretation within a specific theory. But those theories are high-level fantasy about language processing, which makes the interpretation meaningless elsewhere, even if the article did get everything else right (and that's rare too).

So there are very few results you can expand upon. Lexical priming turned out to be reproducible and usable as a tool, the Stroop effect too. But those are exceptions. However, they don't explain the underlying mechanism. E.g., the Stroop effect is 90 years old, and there's no explanation of how it works. So if you read text books that explain you the state of the art of around 1980, you're practically up to date as far as real knowledge is concerned. The rest is infighting and publishing for its own sake.

And psycho-linguistics at least has some experimental standards, because it is a fairly limited topic and it is suited to lab settings. Other fields don't even have that. Social psychology is a joke. Articles are based on questionnaires and introspection.

That's why articles in those fields are not well read. They get read by a small audience, mostly people in the same school of thought, and mostly to add to the citation section. But not for knowledge.
Thank you for the warning. You caused me to unbookmark it.
spez is the username of the CEO of reddit
Ant rafts are also very interesting.

Additionally, ants can show a sort of fluid motion.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1016658108 [2011]

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2014/06/12/going-inside-ant-raf... [2014]

https://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/Ants_as_Fluids.html [images and videos]

Ant mills are also interesting behaviour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
> has all their processes documented

Even if this is true, a map is not the terrain, and there’s no substitute for experience.
Apple maps sucks badly here in the US as well. Just last month it took me down a road that had been closed and diverted many years ago, we almost missed a wedding.
You can disable notifications globally. I did it. Zero regrets. My browser is a hypertext document viewer, not an operating system.

Here's also a userscript that removes the service worker API from Chromium browsers:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Remove service worker API
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description try to take over the world!
// @author You
// @match https://*/*
// @grant none
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==

delete Object.getPrototypeOf(navigator).serviceWorker;

In Firefox, iirc you can disable that API somewhere in about:config.
Because the effects on society extend well beyond that 1/8th. And simply hitting and imprisoning people hasn’t worked and never works. Support, compassion, treatment work to reduce the negative externalities.
Now apply what you said to the tax carve outs for billionaires and oil companies.
Also you’ve gotta be an idiot to try to prevent theft in an American store (especially one you don’t own). It’s a really good way to get shot and killed for no reason at all.

This stuff will get gnarly as it invades the more armed parts of the country, both for perpetrators and for people trying to prevent it.
More anecdata, but I am remembering that I had to stand in line to enter the LEGO store at my local mall a couple weeks ago. I have been to that same store many times before and never had to stand in line previously.

The restaurant I go to almost every Friday for lunch almost didn’t have a table available for my party when we arrived the other day. That’s never happened before either.

Of course, there is some seasonality going on. It’s summer, the weather is gorgeous, and people want to be out doing things. But if people are hunkering down and cutting their spending, I sure as heck am not seeing it.
I'm not sure I agree with you.

An RTX 4090 has over 16,000 cores and 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth. From what I understand (not really my thing) DDR5 tops out at 51 GB/s per module.

CPUs and GPUs are so fundamentally different architecturally but for extremely parallel tasks GPUs are designed for CPU is very, very far behind.

When I've done performance tests between CPU and GPU for my applications (speech) a $100 six year old GTX 1070 is 5x faster than a AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX[0] while consuming a fraction of the power and cost. If you look at the table the RTX 3090 and RTX 4090 are 17x and 27x respectively. The H100 benchmark of 12x is from a very early access benchmark with some driver and other issues.

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server/tree/wi...
> it was Apple’s policy that apps cannot punish users or exit() the app in retaliation for them denying a permission.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp still "punishes" users for denying contacts access by hiding everyone's names (only the phone numbers are shown), including for contacts that have their own names set in their own profiles.

Facebook^W Meta is scum.
LineageOS already had this feature in Cyanogen as the Privacy Guard. It was taken out because of pressure from Google.
To be clear, I’m not describing “editing live in production” as the workflow. The workflow is editing code live on your development machine, committing the changes, and going through the normal code review + CI/CD pipeline you’d set up for any other project.

Something like Fix & Continue in Visual Studio is good for testing out smaller changes. By comparison, something like SLIME + Lisp is powerful enough to use for developing new features. The running system on your developer workstation is mostly synchronized with the source code on disk because the interface you use for making changes is the editor. This synchronization is not perfect, but that’s why you have your unit tests and CI/CD pipeline.
Fortunately, the market will get to decide which one of us is correct. I'd place my bet on almost anything other than an obsolete operating system.
On youtube there are videos from an expert lockpicker, I can't remember the name, where he goes on lockpicking kryptonite locks. He explains in great detail what he expected more from the high end, but his recommendation by the end was still a kryptonite lock, not necessary the ultimate, and said that unless you are ready to lose the bike, unless it's in sight, there is very little you can do.
And with an angle grinder you are doomed either way
> P.S. I love rejecting Ivy League grads

Saying 'I love' makes you lose credibility and deprecates the points you are making.

> I dropped out of college and my earnings last year (still in my mid/late 20s, have easily another promo or job hop before 32) are over double the Harvard median, therefore dropping out of school causes you to earn 8x the national median.

Good luck going forward. This is a small slice of your life. Things can and do change with earnings. As many old timers might tell you there are always many 'changes of fortune' where people who are beneath you early on end up surpassing you later in life.
The AI that I was referring to, that played chess, was a predecessor to ChatGPT. I believe it was called Deep Blue.

By the way, ChatGPT, as of May of this year at least, cannot play tic-tac-toe, but it thinks it knows how: https://www.aiweirdness.com/optimum-tic-tac-toe/
Unless you're posting a show HN, in which case every brother and their mother chimes in with "this is nice but here's my cloud service that does a similar thing but better" sideswipes
still don't get it. is that comment just fabricating that connection for the sake of making a joke or is there substance to it?
Thank you for the review. You caused me to re-bookmark it after reading a warning that it is badly written.
Framework with reactivity without Virtual DOM with benchmark
Cool. Sounds like a you problem, you meaning crawlers and AI trainers. Now it will fall on every web developer to tag their data for it to be exploited by megacorps?

Now that I think of it- why do we put up with robots.txt at all?

> A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests

If someone overloads your site with automated requests how is that not criminal? Why aren't they liable?
These are both regular phrases in my house.
Oh damn, I just assumed it started with Knowing Me, Knowing You
> Finding real people to have real conversations is more difficult because so many want your engagement/attention for their "brand".

Humanity breaks into three groups: originators, amplifiers, mimics.

Probably 95-97% of humanity or more are mimics. They will never produce much of anything original, that includes writing long-form blog posts or original media content (eg YouTube). They have little to no interest. This is backed up by stats on pretty much every platform, including Reddit and HN (the extreme majority are voyeurs not contributors). It's one of the reasons TikTok was so successful, it enabled the mimics to easily participate and pretend they were creating something new (while they were actually doing nothing but copying what someone else created, and getting a mental reward for it via likes/watches/followers). It's also why modern cameras in smartphones are so popular for the masses (+ Instagram), anybody can take a photo and feel at least ok about it (you don't have to be an expert photographer, you don't have to really create anything interesting and or new).

It doesn't matter what you do or what you change, the extreme majority will never meaningfully contribute. Even on services like TikTok and Instagram the masses have little to no interest in meaningful contribution, they produce a couple of videos or photos and then largely stop; the same holds true on Facebook, most people don't contribute very much into the network. They don't want to. They lack the desire to put in the time and effort (people are tired after work, have children/lives to tend to, etc etc), and they lack the creativity to originate persistently (the feedback isn't there because what they're producing won't get much attention).

Everybody isn't the same. Everybody isn't Picasso or Hunter S. Thompson and can't be. So what you're mostly left with are the people desperately seeking attention/self-promotion and the rare slice of originators.

You have to specifically build a platform to cater to the smaller slice of originators and intentionally block/disrupt the aggressive self-promoters that often don't contribute much new value. And if you do that, your platform will never be overly popular (which isn't what most VC backed services aim for obviously).
Unpopular opinion: No, it shouldn’t. That would be unethical. Aggregating cohorts of data to determine what you might or might not like to buy, and vigorously safeguarding that data since you know it will cost your business billions in market cap if it is exposed is far more reasonable. Yours is just a passive aggressive way to “ruin Facebook”.

If you want to ruin Facebook, push for legislation. Do it the right way.
The other day I was trying to search a comment of a YouTube video that I remembered, but wasn't able to find it with the google search "site:youtube.com [phrase of the comment]", later to find out that YouTube disallows search engines to index comments trough robots.txt https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

>Disallow: /comment

So I guess that works for them.
That PEP had not yet been formally accepted. That's what this thread is about.
Ask HN: Internet-connected thermostat usable 'till 2038?
Hi HN,

Our ~2012 "smart" thermostat just turned the heat on in the summertime because the batteries got low and it lost our settings. Restoring those settings depends upon a proprietary off-site web API or re-reading the manual to understand the inscrutable LCD panel.

So, I'm poking around the web this morning for a replacement.

Any recommendations for a WiFi capable thermostat that either serves its own webserver to which we can connect or has a guaranteed SLA to be viable for the next decade or two?

Have open and widely-used standards finally emerged in the thermostat world?

Thanks!
They also seem to be below what companies offer in reality...
Heat-Emitting Mass Discovered Buried Under the Surface of the Moon
This place is ours until about 11.30, we should make more of that.
I probably just got confused, but thank you for linking to the information about Vault 7 directly so that anyone can simply appraise for themselves whether or not I seem confused.

That's what I love about HN and Reddit, and similar websites: All the helpful counterpoint, especially when someone criticizes the intelligence community. Thank you so much!
The "weight" in the situation is good ol' fashioned incentive. The patient in question is dead, and the estate attorney is wrapping up business. After a certain date, there won't be an entity to collect from. Relatives of the deceased are not liable for medical debts (that doesn't mean the medical provider won't try to collect it from relatives, though).

So the medical provider faces two distinct choices:

A.) Get their act together and get paid a guaranteed sum from an estate that has been established by a professional entity

B.) Hem and haw, miss the boat, and try to collect from an estate that's run dry because the money has been dispersed to relatives and/or try to goad relatives into paying. Sometimes, those relatives don't exist.
Doesn’t help that tik and insta feed people super hot guys/babes spending massive coin all day. You too can date a sexy rich supermodel!

And then all the memes are way funnier than any of my stupid jokes. And how could I ever compete with cute fluffy kittens.
Ironically Liquification is just a deterrent.

Yeah all that brain power is deployed to create technology that is barely used ever. It's just there to scare other people away.

That's the current state of technology right now. On one hand in defense you have people cooking up technology that will never be used.

On the other hand you have the entire IT industry cooking up technology to make simple things 1000000x more complex.

It's like humanity has run out of shit to do and the money is being directed towards useless busy work.
Showing models and sprites, collisions, apply fragment/vertex shaders on specific objects, easy to include animations and apply easing functions, easy to edit placement of sprites and models with a GUI but everything else (using those functions as conditionals or to be rendered in the frame loop) done by explicit coding.
I really enjoy the process of analogy maximalism. You can gain insight to an unfamiliar process by taking analogies too far. Asking “what’s the analogue of this” in another space with similarities can produce productive insights even if the analogy is overall not great.
Perhaps the standard should be, "If you are required to have an account to use this service, on or off the app, then you can require it on the app."

For context that would mean that to browse a site like Hacker News, you couldn't require an account, but to post you could. It covers things like Banks or Steam, etc.

Would that be workable?
Show HN: I made an HDR ICC profile for JPG and PNG images
I wanted to be able to share HDR renderings from bsrender in widely supported formats like jpeg and png. There are ICC profiles to do this but they are copyrighted so I made an experimental open source ICC profile using the CC0 copyright:

Experimental open source Rec. 2100 PQ profile with annotated source: https://bsrender.io/rec2100pq-experimental.zip
ICC profile standards document: https://www.color.org/specification/ICC.1-2022-05.pdf
Sample HDR renderings (first few sample renderings): https://bsrender.io

The only viewer/platform I've been able to confirm it works on is the Chrome browser on M1/M2 Macs. It does not work on iPhone or Safari/Firefox on Mac.

The profile is derived mainly from saucecontrol's open source Rec2020Compat-v4.icc profile: https://github.com/saucecontrol/Compact-ICC-Profiles with 'cicp' and 'lumi' tags added. Since it uses the same transfer function as Rec2020, images will appear very washed out/fuzzy on unsupported viewers. I found this "bug" very helpful during testing as it was really obvious if the viewer was using the cicp/lumi tags or the (incorrect) transfer TRC.

With a bit more work you could implement something approximating the PQ transfer function but I actually like the 'you-know-when-it's-not-doing-the-thing' effect.
Like apps that requires payment up front to be installed. Paid apps in Google Play or App Store
> the Penuma, an acronym for Penis New Man

> SWAG shot — short for “Shafer Width and Girth”

I'm surprised they didn't choose more boring names to make these things sound less like something you would find at a convenience store checkout.
Having children is not really the problem although what family values are differ across cultures (monogamy vs polygamy, etc) and as I said, I don't think immigration into western countries is strictly because of a lack of workers. There is a deliberate plan in place to change the demographics of western countries to be more favorable to those in power. Things like the Diversity Immigrant Visa and the deliberately uncontrolled immigration into western countries right now are completely detached from a need for workers. The US is actually spending money to undermine Hungary through NGOs because Hungary is attempting to control immigration. H-1B even keeps wages down. The benefits of this accrue to a very small class of people.

Although I am sympathetic to Indians, I think people in India would not like it if a lot of Europeans showed up. It says here that Indians are 3.1% of the population of Great Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indians. I can't imagine Indians would appreciate it if 3.1% of India were European immigrants. Neither would people in a lot of other countries. I think people in the West have a right to their own culture if other people do because the nation of immigrants propaganda is revisionist. Japan has chosen not to import people. I don't think the choices are to let people in or die.
Related issue discussed here — How America Broke Its War Machine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571941)

The stinger discussion seems a sub-issue to the longer-term process of hollowing out US industrial production described in the foreign affairs article cited in the HN post
I think Raytheon makes great chairs.
One of the major underlying restrictions is the (commonly known as) Statute of Frauds[1]. State law can supersede it as it is Common Law inherited from England (and therefore "default" law in USA where something doesn't supersede it), but most states either follow it or have state laws that copy it. From the link, the specifics it covers, that are required to be non-verbal are:

* Any promises made in connection with marriage, including such gifts as an engagement ring.

* Contracts that cannot be completed in less than one year.

* Contracts for the sale of land—leases need not be covered unless they are for a year or more.

* Promises to pay an estate’s debt from the personal funds of the executor. However, promises to pay such debt from the estate's funds are not subject to the statute of frauds.

* Contracts for the sale of goods above a specific dollar amount, typically $500.

* A contract in which one person promises to pay the debt of another person is considered a surety and is subject to the statute of frauds.

So when I tongue in cheek reference a really bad car, I'm talking about a car whose value is under $500. :)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/statute-of-frauds.asp
Isn't a post like this in violation of Hackernews rules?

Not very intellectually curious. Where's my friend?
Here's the PDF of the paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(22)02189-7.pdf

Lot's of interesting stuff -- especially how they coordinate their searches (perhaps with the use of chemical trails). It would be nice to expand the data set and try to do some analysis to see how close to optimal the strategy is...