skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Epic launcher is an unmitigated disaster that has barely improved in library management capabilities since it launched. I'm not sure if they fixed it but last I used it you literally could not see the download size of the game you're downloading and the controls for changing the queues are non-existent. The launcher is also the biggest resource hog of them all beating Origin and UPlay which is an achievement in itself. I am not wading through how troublesome it is to use what should be a fairly well featured launcher after 4 years of launch to support a "competitor". Discoverability on the store is also awful when Steam has been working on this space for over a decade to try and highlight indies. The reviews system is also incredibly inferior.

If I have to use some third party launcher to make up for what it lacks, I might as well use steam
Exactly, this is why companies shouldn't host their own email either.

And, as a rule, gaming companies shouldn't build their own engines either. If you have the skills to do that, start selling the engine instead of the games you make with it. It's a much better business.
In my experience Apple is the only electronics company to actually repair your product rather than discard a broken one and give you a new one where I live. With some repairs (usually just battery replacement), their products can last and be fully functional for nearly decades, and I often pass on my older devices to my family members. Yes, they are nearly impossible to repair yourself, but that's far from "checkmate to the environment" in my book.
Show HN: WebRTC Without Signaling Server
Web-components (lit) to use WebRTC p2p data channel connections, in the browser, without the need of any predefined signaling server.
> bad faith argument

It is. That they have not replied to any of your responses shows they don't have much argument.

I mean using "factually" in this subjective opinion is just ridiculous.

> I just think it's factually much worse than the Clojure example
When COVID hit, my American Airlines flight got canceled and when I went online to ask about getting credit, I got connected to a bot. When I asked to be connected to a real person instead of a bot, the person came online and said: "My name is Eliza. How can I help you today?" At this point, I was very skeptical, but she was indeed a person.
> Little or no TV, no social media (ok, this sort of seems like a win), no newspapers, no magazines, no radio, much smaller movie scene (since they can’t advertise), etc.

I'm sure cable fees (much of which go to broadcast stations) could pay for plenty of TV.

And social media could survive fine if it had to charge enough to cover servers.

Newspapers would be in more trouble but they're already in deep trouble.

Radio I'm not sure.
Wait, not even Inception? This is crazy
Our listing is not giving us what we are paying for
At least for Denmark, the expectation are more or less the same as for the US.
Why is 23 partners a red flag?
Perhaps the real trickery is the OSI's shady lawyer led campaign after they were denied the trademark on open-source(tm)

https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...

And after they had admitted that:

> While there is agreement on the broad term "open source" as meaning approximately what is captured in the Open Source Definition the term has, ironically, now become so popular that it has lost some of its precision.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060411080543/http://www.openso...

To pressure developers that believe in "open-source" as in the opposite of "closed-source", to also accept their entire anti-developer property "Free Software" ideology.
True. It feels like social media has given many this main charactery need to share their opinion on everything, even if they have nothing to contribute.
Is there anything that exists right now with diffusion models to improve poor VHS coloring? The coloring does exist so I would not want to replace a red shirt by a blue shirt for example but it's just not very accurate.
Are you sure thats what that emotion is?

I thought it was relevant information and could predict it was probably steam deck.

The newer generations of users are not computer literate, they use user friendly computers. It was not a conscious decision based on the OS it runs on.

The people that care about OS - specifically linux - dominance are not those users.
Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36991381
Commercially viable fusion can be achieved with commercially viable source of muons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-009-0006-9

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ns.39....

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yoon1/

https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Muon-catalyzed_fu...
Bullshit, science isn't driven by patents or funded by private industry.
I assume coloured illustrated incunabula were hand coloured, as coloured woodblocks were complicated. Coloured editions are generally rare.
You mentioned running nodejs + typescript over extensive frameworks like django now. Curious if you chose to write your own framework or are you using something from nodejs space to do "batteries included" thing for you?

Asking because I've had some experience with nest.js and even though it's fun it often feels hackish and a bit messy even when solving standard issues like authorization that's not a simple app wide RBAC.
AdDuplex Post-Mortem. Part 1: Genesis
Cannes World Film Festival – June 2023 Winners
> I got a lot of calls here in Germany from people with indian accent, pretending to work for Microsoft. At some point I wouldn’t pick up the phone if I did not know the caller.

The person is clearly not talking about robocalls, but a spam/scam caller.
Printed books as well. Go to Barnes and Noble when you get a chance. Almost every book in the store looks like it was printed on the same low quality factory equipment using low quality materials, almost like they were all fake.
Ventoy is absolutely magical, I can't recommend it enough.
Not software applications, applications of network usage (though I see why it would be reasonable to misunderstand)
Definitely the latter. Mine will come from arguing from a friend that went on full carnivore diet thanks to that paragon of dietary advice Jordan Peterson... the conversations are VERY disagreeable.
Pfft. Stilts, 10 footers, that's the key.
Many gamedevs actually stopped building a specific Linux binary because the Proton compatibility version was so much faster and required almost zero effort from them =)
This sounds "right" but i have no idea what you mean.
What on earth does this mean?
Well then, I'm glad we don't have any emergencies at hand that will be too late to do anything about in 20 years.
Similar to language, money, which Nick Szabo—the person who first conceptualized a decentralized blockchain—speculates may have increased the carrying capacity of the environment ten fold and allowed humans to outcompete Neanderthals.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...
A bit confused about the "answer" for #85 (the garden with the 1m path)

We have two right triangles with sides 54m and 40m, so the area of both combined is 54X40.

The area of the rectangle they're in is 55X40.

So the path between them should be 40m?

Where is 66 2/3 m coming from?

edit: never mind, the distance between the two sides of the path is 1m, but the distance from the corner of the triangle to the corner of the garden is greater than 1m
I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36995735
Considering they provided data about it, I don’t think so.

They’re suggesting that data (trends and averages) contradict your perception, which is mostly based on anecdata and your own feeling I imagine.

You should entertain that option, since that’s the whole point of looking at data.
Problem is, most people do not assemble by themselves. They need some leaders to assemble. That leaders will have better life by not trying to assemble mobs in order to fight people who provide some luxuries in life (like refridgerators etc). This could be of course solved if our current "elites" were not decadent and would listen to people. But because most people got enough luxury to be content, they didn't care about who they vote for and gruadually we've voted in selfish sociopaths to positions of power, which eroded trust in those at power, now no one trusts that anyone voted in will change anything. The result according to historians is strong authoritarian leader (the hero who will change everything), but those are rarely working for public good and people with weak education due to declining societal standards will not know how to choose properly.
Wikipedia [1] answered my question of why this is called the Wilhelm scream:

> The sound is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 Western in which the character gets shot in the thigh with an arrow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
How is the FDA responsible for patent issuance? Isn't that the remit of the US Patent Office?
You’re right, I get emotional about this because I see how much harm criminalization does.
Not I. Any commonly accessed IP tends to be named in my SSH config.
You are most likely right on the expected outcome, I would bet money on that outcome too. However, I do not think banks get any tangible benefit from WEI, since banks have strong form of mandatory 2FA on every destructive step anyway.
One of the cringiest articles I've skimmed in a while. Their position is simultaneously "trust me we know open source" and "we just made a rookie mistake".
What are the use cases for zig? The website says general purpose and tool chain but people who have used it, what it excels at?
Given gunicorn and uvicorn, I can't help but feel this name can and will cause some confusion. We gotta be able to pick different names lol
> Commercially viable fusion energy. Will change a lot of things

Considering that we already have a fusion reactor in the skies, I think that the room temp room pressure superconductor is the next best thing. Fusion is good but at this stage, the natural one will just do. Think global network of solar cells interconnected with LK-99.
does anybody remembers dialing up to a Unix server to uucp your organization’s emails and using Pegasus DOS to make it available thru netware?
How do you know?

ID phone Bluetooth on passing, or even facial rec, then it gets tied to gait, and it's forever tied.
I feel like lead in toys is worth a comeback, the "simpler times" people pine for were because lead.

I joke, of course.
Switching from GitJournal to LogSeq
If only there was an image-file format that could easily be booted in VMware/VirtualBox...
It also doesn’t make sense to me because you would expect they didn’t just say “omg super conductivity!” on their first measurement and presumably measured more than once, verified connections, and generally assumed scrutiny would be high on any claim and (from what I’ve read of the history so far) the reason it’s from 1999 and published now is they didn’t believe it was real to begin with but believed it was a measurement mistake. This doesn’t mean others should be credulous and replication is crucial. But it seems to beggar reality to assume they made such an amateur mistake. I would assume outright fraud first.
What makes you think iOS is the most popular gaming platform?
As I read this list, the rhythm to We Didn't Start the Fire spontaneously started playing in my head.

Sorry not sorry if I just subjected you to the same.
We need a way to directly fund firefox development: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
Please connect the dots for me. What does a room temp & atmosphere superconductor do for space travel? I am unaware of any obvious impact.
I haven't had any trouble getting SensoDyne Novamin in the UK or Australia. Funny, usually it's the US that has the more lax regulations, not the other way round.
What if the patient is dying anyway and wants to try an experimental drug?
Full scale war between Russia and Ukraine (with help of NATO) progressing right now with constant threats to use nuclear weapons or blow up a nuclear power station.
"the process to get it approved"

costs billions of dollars. that's the FDA's fault.
When eventually Linux is undeniably #1, the rhetoric will be "the OS you run does not matter". We're almost already there with browser based apps and completely dumbed down mobile devices so they might even have a point.
How many requests are in the pipeline.
Popular? Are you really thinking macOS is now the 2nd most popular gaming platform because it can run iOS apps?
Valve has been doing incredible work for Linux gaming, so I'm happy to support them, despite the DRM.
Still seems magical to me that the largest animals ever to live on this planet are alive today (or maybe 200 years ago would have been a better time to be a whale, before hunting too many of their largest).

Interesting that this creature isn't actually larger, but could be heavier due to its bone structure.
1D just means it conducts in one direction. Like it's got tiny wires in it.

It's not particularly unusual; anisotropic conductive adhesive is used in your cellphone to glue the screen on. They tape over the electrical pads, then line up the corresponding LCD pads. The tape allows current to flow vertically between the pads, but for adjacent pads it's insulating.

Neodymium magnets are another example. They're made up of a little honeycomb, and inside the cells of the comb are very long, needles of neodymium a single atom thick. They create a magnetic field in a single direction.
I was definitely instantly confused when I saw this.
Think of the sea and pirate trawlers destroying the seabeds everywhere. We need to manage it.
How does it compare to Timescaledb? Performance? Features? (TSDB is my current Postgres data lake setup)
That’s where the « null hypothesis » comes in. If it fixes the parameters in the model you get a well-defined « null » model with a well-defined probability distribution for the observation and - just like you can take this null hypothesis model and do frequentist calculations with it - you can take this model and calculate a Bayes factor relative to some other model.

(To be clear, if the null hypothesis doesn’t fully specify the parameters the preceding paragraph doesnt apply and the situation is more complex.)
Spheron
1. I don't trust the biased source of that number.

2. I want to know exactly how they asked the question, and how "contact them first" was interpreted by the people being surveyed.

3. Were your cold calls going directly to C-level buyers?

4. If 69% of buyers are willing to take a cold call, why do you think only 30% of people answered the phone, of which only a third were willing to listen to a pitch?
I was wrong to say that “nobody starts using because they have a great life and they’re just curious what a bit of meth feels like”.
The point I was trying to make was that many people do know exactly what they’re getting into and do it anyway because they also know they have nothing better to look forward to in life and this is really a form of suicide. I was wrong to suggest that this pattern fits everyone, it is indeed an oversimplification and I apologize for minimizing different experiences.
We cannot have them though? The leaders die and the resulting fights over succession is what keeps us out of eternal territory.

These maniacs didn’t have enough time to accrue enough mass to become power black holes, but give them a century or two to work with..
There is "antibiotics" already
I'd settle for explaining what all these UAPs are, what are they doing?
> When revisiting a beloved Eighties or Nineties film, Millennial and Gen X viewers are often startled to encounter long-forgotten sexual content content: John Connor’s conception in Terminator, Jamie Lee Curtis’s toplessness in Trading Places, the spectral blowjob in Ghostbusters. These scenes didn’t shock us when we first saw them. Of course there’s sex in a movie. Isn’t there always?

> The answer, of course, is not anymore—at least not when it comes to modern blockbusters

> We’re told that Tony Stark and Pepper Potts are an item, but no actual romantic or sexual chemistry between them is shown in the films. Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor utterly lack the sexual chemistry to convince us that either of them would be thirsty enough to commandeer a coma victim’s body (as they do in Wonder Woman 1984) so they can enjoy a posthumous hookup. In defiance of Norse mythology, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor smiles at Natalie Portman like a dumb golden retriever puppy without ever venturing to rend her asunder with his mighty hammer, so to speak

Maybe because you are comparing r-rated action movies with super hero film made by disney.

There are certainly lots of overlap in audience. Kids watch terminator and adults love super heroes. But the principle target audiences are different.
Wow, didn't realize what we're working with here is smaller than a speck of sand.
I think there's a point to be made when one OS can actually run programs meant for another. I think this makes it even more valuable, not less.
Bun, a JavaScript runtime (uses WebKit as an engine I believe) is written in Zig. They seem to be doing alright:

https://bun.sh/
Apart from the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and public order - the Romans didn’t really do much at all.
The Epic launcher is actually a UE4 app. This explains its resource usage.
So why did the OSI write this?:

> While there is agreement on the broad term "open source" as meaning approximately what is captured in the Open Source Definition the term has, ironically, now become so popular that it has lost some of its precision.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060411080543/http://www.openso...

Why did the OSI apply for a trademark on the term Open-Source?

Why does the OSI continue pay the trademark registration fee to renew the unambiguous term "OSI Approved License" and why don't you adopt that term?

Perhaps because both you and the OSI know that when you focus on the term "OSI Approved Licenses", it's just another word for "free software", and most people that are interested in "open-source" are interested because it's the opposite of "closed-source", not interested because they want to associate with the FSFs anti-developer property ideology.
Is is really so hard to remember the addresses fd::1, fd::2 etc. for your local network?
They don’t emulate, they have a reimplementation of Windows APIs. And in some cases, a better one.
Obviously there are edge cases when applying statistical tools at a population level. That's not the purpose of BMI though. If you're pregnant or weight training then OBVIOUSLY your BMI score is not comparable to others. Most people are neither pregnant nor weight training. I'd even bet that most people haven't performed a weighted squat.

>> I also think it is becoming apparent that weight alone is not as useful of a metric as was once believed.

Being fat is bad for your health. That is a fact. No amount of body positivity advertisements will change that fact. It is healthier to be thinner than obese. Look at the graph above to see BMIs impact on other health outcomes.

Also, if you think the obesity crisis is fake/blown up then simply go outside in most American cities and you'll see that many people are obese.

> There is a subset of people who are being misidentified as unhealthy or overweight. Idk how large it is but it seems significant.

Again, this is not relevant as the subset of people is so small compared with the whole population.

The "data given" is included in BMI. Your relative weight is an indicator of multiple other health outcomes.
I guess it depends on on the movie, but wealthier cities have significantly less obesity rates then others, like cities in the US south east. There's not that many obese people where I live.
Gravitational wells are spherical, so this unevenness can be utilized to lift up by pumping energy into higher energy state, at higher orbit.
The last 10 (20?) years I noticed a notable shift in public consciousness about scientific progress and that we as a species are moving in an upward trajectory towards a brighter feature.

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Contact” mainly because of how damn _hopeful_ it portrays humanity. I want to live in that world, not the gloom and doom “we’re ruining everything around us” that is so often shown in recent media.

And the whole thing is perplexing to me because as you’ve put it, we _are_ living in the future! There is soo many great things happening around us, but people seem not to notice - not just the technological things you’ve mentioned - but societal too.

Like because of recent developments in economy theory, the world altering global shut down due to corona did not end with a great depression like event for the whole world, and that alone to me is simply a miracle.

Human longevity studies have now reproducibly able to reverse aging _in primates_ - human trials starting this year!

Feminism has become all but mainstream, unlocking like 50% more of human ingenuity.

Urbanism studies have finally popularized environments where people can live happily and sustainably their entire lives, while there have always existed places in the world that are “nice” to live in one way or another, we’re kinda getting the science down why, and starting to popularize it a little (strongtowns).

Its just a crazy good time to be alive, there are countless problems all around us but they are actually getting solved at least somewhere, instead of banging our collective heads against the wall, one can just look for how it has been successful handled somewhere else and try to replicate!
How did you get from Advertising Agency to Shady Business? Agencies on Madison Avenue are not generally thought of as shady.
> - a checkmate to most 3rd party external monitors

Why? Their display is extremely niche and iMacs aren’t really a big deal these days either
Cloudflare Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Anybody here who is using zig on daily basis?
So does steam if game developers choose it. Lots of games on steam are DRM free.
Modern picolisp written on raw llvm-ir.
You'd have to arrange it at a branch. Why would you not pick one at your destination?

I'm not saying it never happens, it's just extremely suss.
Soon to be average temperatures, what luck!
not OP, but what works surprisingly well for me, is doing chores when I am in the mood. That does sometimes mean cleaning out the dishwasher at 3AM, but at least it gets done sometimes instead of never.

Just keep an eye out for productive moods. Keep checking with yourself if you feel like doing chore X and if the answer is "yeah I guess" drop everything and do the chore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry

https://colmap.github.io/
Or, more modern:
https://alicevision.org/
- Protect the Amazon
- Distribute food instead of wasting it
- Build more trains, turn roads into park ways and bike paths
- Recognize climate change globally before it kills us all
Maybe "mobile thin clients" work as well, those are more or less just Celeron ultrabooks. Roles that require use of a mobile TC would also require calm minds too.
Lots more related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36936008
If 1% of your users generate 30% of your bug reports it makes sense to outsource the job to valve.
I think the idea is that all the people on the planet collectively can understand whether to trust all the software. The rest is comms.
> in today's world, where almost every aspect of life is subject to top-down control

A bit of history would do you wonders. Top-down control was the norm*. If it has changed, it’s less now.

* For 95% of the peasant/slave population
In real life you can also have negative money. In real life you can live paycheck to paycheck. In real life you can have costs higher than your earnings.
If you have a list of potential black swans, they're not black swans.