skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EV crutch is getting really old. With current tech it is not a solution. Not even remotely.

It's great. I love the idea too. I would rather we stop driving around machines that belch out dangerous toxins but a mass migration to EVs will be disastrous. The manufacturers are going hybrid...which is a sensible transition. It should get people used to the freedom of producing/collecting their own energy. Hopefully they get addicted to that.
The Big-8 Board was re-established, or if you like, it rose from the ashes like a Phoenix. (The Phoenix story is about one bird coming back to life; there's nothing about an increase in the size of some group.)
> You, your friends, and your loved ones may end up fired AND, victims of a social media mob-lynching

When has this actually happened as a result of not attending some HR nonsense? And even if it did, getting fired seems like a much larger problem than being bad-mouthed online.
It seems to me that the difference between "cultural preservationist" and "opportunistic pilferer" is largely about the motivation of the would be preservationist or pilferer. Do many question that these antiquities were need of preservation?
A skill is something that you can train! We've all been there...
This is part of what I’m talking about. Part of it is a mob justice thing where people get attacked for not being pro left enough. Give me a break and stop pounding on people for not touting the line. I don’t want to get on anyone’s side
Atmos or DTS:X or Aura3D content sounds absolutely incredible, with a proper setup.

And yet, most atmos mixes aren't very good. Even movies with good atmos mixes for cinema often have a shitty mix on streaming or BR with only the surround soundscape expanded into the overhead channels.

And that's not a surprise — if you know the overhead and surround speakers are dedicated speakers of high quality, e.g. in cinemas, you can put dialogue and important audio onto these channels. But if the atmos and surround speakers might just be reflected from the ceiling or tiny satellites you obviously can't use them for audio that's essential for understanding the plot.

And for music it's even worse, while some music was originally mixed for quadrophonic or 5.1 listening — kraftwerk 3D, pink floyd's dark side of the moon — most atmos mixes are just upmixed from the stereo mix and provide no benefit whatsoever.

And so the way most people interact with atmos — cheap soundbars reflecting channels off the walls and lazy upmixes of pop music — provide no benefit whatsoever and just result in disillusionment.

The same has already happened with 3D films (Avatar looked spectacular in 3D, but obviously if you watched 3D-converted films on a cheap TV it sucked) and is happening again with HDR content (properly mastered content on a mastering monitor or even a good 1000nits Rec.2020 OLED looks absolutely spectacular, but converted content on a 400nits IPS sRGB panel obviously sucks).
That's about something else entirely. You are not supposed to write "Hello" and then wait for a reply making asynchronous communication synchronous.

Starting a full message with your request/business with a greeting is basic decency with no harm.
I recently started collecting 4K UHD Blu-Rays since I got a Samsung Q990c.

The most obvious difference to me is the audio. Though the discs do look better than say Netflix 4K, the audio is way better on my particular setup.

I do wonder if streaming is really the same "atmos" as a 4K Blu-Ray. From my experience there must be some serious compression or misrepresentation.

Will be interested in trying FlexConnect with and without Blu-Ray once it's available for me (though not sure it would be better than my current setup).
Typically you try and avoid closing a connection on each request, you hand it back to a connection pool. The underlying session stays open and associated with the connection (if you have your pooler set up right), so subsequent requests still use the cache.

I agree with the original commenter about ANY as well: using IN for dynamic lists of parameters makes viewing useful information in e.g pg_stat_statements impossible, though it's possible there's been some recent work around normalizing these.
There's a flurry on new info. In particular the variance of surface temperature at the lunar south pole, from 60 degree Celsius on the lunar surface, to -10 degree Celsius if you probe just 8cm below the surface

https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF4hsyEQaEAAB-AS.png

A whole seventy degree temperature difference over such a small height delta. There were a bunch of scientists trying to explain this on Indian news TV & it was quite amazing.

I'm actually very happy in ages! As an immigrant there is this bittersweet relationship with the home country. You want your home country to do well but at the same time you are hyperaware of its numerous deficiencies. I haven't been back to India in a few decades now. But so much science! And presented in such down to earth language. Its really like watching some of the old Apollo footage where you can actually understand the scientist. He's using simple graphs & charts & simple math to make his point, instead of drowning you in technojargon.

Their project scientist is a very ordinary guy with extremely average test scores, for an Indian aspirant. But this chap persisted & pursued his education throughout his adulthood, finally earning his PhD in aeronautics. He comes from a shithole village that is about 50km from my shithole village. I mean, growing up we didn't have fucking electricity until my teens. No proper drinking water. No phone no TV no nothing. Now he gets to put a rover on the moon! I had tears in my eyes at the end of his TV interview.

https://urlis.net/npi7rk3q
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>Of course some of their children will grow up to be liberals, but that number will inevitably decrease as the total number of liberals does as well.

This is particularly true because political views are to some degree heritable. And it's not just a hypothetical thing: many conservatives believe they can "win" if they just manage to have children and hold out for a few decades as the liberals slowly breed themselves out of existence.
I think you are missing something. Where is what they will do:

1. Spin off green energy products into their own company.
2. Pour money from oil business into Green energy.
3. When reckoning comes for gas, they let the oil biz take the fall, but the fall won't be much as they will have nearly bankrupted it already.
But of course! He is a five star man, after all
Whatare the implications of these tax write-offs in terms of piracy? If a company decides it'll never air a show again, what claim of ownership do they still have to prevent pirates from spreading the show for them?

I'm sure the studios still be considered the copyright owners, but I don't think there's any ethical reason why they could possibly sue you for releasing something thst they cannot ever release themselves for tax purposes. They binned their shows, so why should the law protect their copyright?
Easy, both are trying to enforce their view of culture on the other via law and other government regulation.

The right is most seen on this in the modern era Womens Rights, Schools, Gay Marriage, etc

The left is most seen on this with Speech Codes around "Hate Speech" and Pronouns, in Employment Regulations, in Equity Regulation (enforced by law not market) ,etc
This might be controversial but I think the situation cannot be changed with scholarships. Somebody with the will can do courses in community college and become employable.

The way to solve is by more parental guidance. American parents usually leave everything to the kids to decide. STEM courses are hard. Asian parents push their kids to take difficult subjects even if the kids resist.
And I’m saying that it is not fair, for the same reason (as well as for another reason, which in short is “nothing can be both declarative and useful by that logic”).
Seems like old age social safety nets are a net negative.
> Canada, just look at Bill C-18.

I'm not from Canada and taking a cursory look at what this bill does I don't see any censorship here. Could you explain?
What percentage of global emmissions is spent on computing infrastructure? Last time I saw the numbers it was practically negligible if we exclude cryptocurrencies.
Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
California Community Colleges' new teaching “mandate viewpoint conformity”
> This is such a scam. Atmos content sounds dreadful

Complete nonsense. Maybe on _your_ setup this is true, but that has nothing to do with ATMOS.

It's funny because the absolute highest commercially-available quality out there at the moment is Apple Music's ATMOS tracks/high-resolution lossless. On a proper high-end system the difference is night and day.

>Find a single audio engineer who supports it, they are hens teeth and this is an advert.

I don't take people seriously who call themselves "engineers" who are not actually Engineers.
Those claims mainly come from people in schools, universities, youth orgs and companies. So the ones who should know it best I would think, as they work with young people all the time. This does not seem to be a particular hyper specific bubble. Of course, complaints about youth are not new, the young people are by nature lacking experience and knowledge, that's a given, and so are complaints about those lacks. But lately, there is a new type of complaints, which is about technology and specifically computers. This is atypically, as for the last decades, young people usually had the benefit of being more competent with new technologies, as they grew up with them. This was a defining difference between the generations for a long time. And now this seems to disappear, or at least change.

And after thinking about, it makes sense. Technology today has reached a plateau of quality and comfort, has removed the struggles of the past, and is now cheap and widely used in society. That's very different from the previous decades, where tech was an uphill-battle, where computers were expensive and only used by those who had demand for it. Tech today has saturated society, and this also changed perception.

Now more people can evaluate the actual ability of people. And old people today have legit reasons to learn and use technology. And the most notable change is: the old people today, are the middle-aged and young people from decades ago, meaning they are the ones who had already in the past reasons to learn technologies. So comparing old with young today in those aspects, is very different from 20, 30 years ago. And it seems, the young people today have finally lost their benefit of early access to technology, and now they compete again with experience and knowledge.

So regarding Googles search this means, maybe the youth is just lacking good google-fu, which older users with more experience have. Or they generally have a difference stance on how the search should work, because they have no deeper understanding on what the Search is, what it should deliver and can deliver, and what not. Some of the comments here go very strong in that direction, that people have a very different approach on what they expect from Google. So again, it's a difference in perception.
Then civil forfeiture every dollar and every thing they own. For some reason police can do it to the poor, why not do the same for corporations and people making decisions there? Maybe executives are "not guilty", but their possessions doesn't have same rights as they do. So take it all away.
The Linux -> macOS experience tbh is really either about putting up with macOS' issues and adjusting to them, or patching things up with third-party solutions to make it tolerable. Or a bit of both. I've learned to adapt to it since it's a shame to miss out on the reliable battery life.

Maybe there's a solution out there somewhere that would let you stay in full screen mode.
Does anyone have experience with self-hosting this? Curious to learn what worked and what did not.
Is it still 40 percent? Seems much more evident now what's happening.

Maybe 40 percent is still pro big oil but they don't deny the causal link.

I'm pro big oil because I still drive a gas car. In that sense if you use big oil products you are a supporter. I would put supporters at over waaaaay over 40 percent. 95% is a better estimate.
I never really understood how usenet works. There are usenet servers, and you post to usenet via these, right? Given there are O(100s) of servers (at least), I assume that the protocol between these servers is not full mesh, and there's some kind of small set of servers that participate in a mesh, and then followers that synchronize from them.

How does this synchronization protocol work? How does one join the mesh? I've read the wikipedia article, and it kinda talks to the topology and such, but not in great detail.
I think the other reality is that modern silicon increasingly adopts and blends aspects of many of these alternative architectures well enough that you can capture much of the potential value without designing silicon dedicated to it.

This is the same pattern with how most modern programming languages are credible approximations of procedural, object-oriented, functional, etc programming models if you choose to use them that way. The flexibility and optionality created by not being dedicated to a single paradigm has its own value.
I don't get what problem do all of you have with me saying "Hello Richie" to my colleagues.
But we're getting to Mars soon, don't worry... /s
I miss Usenet a lot, but the current state of play for "newsgroups" (sites like this, and Reddit) is way, way better than Usenet was. It's hard to see a real reason to bring it back.
I don't get that vibe from the article at all. And I deal with thousands of pages of AI content on a regular basis.
($9 x 2) => $21 - $18 = $3. You can pay $2/GB per month, and they let you buy .5GB? That's crazy they don't force whole increments. Also, you're only using 3GB per month of data? That's crazy too!
The thing is people learn and if streaming sucks they will just stop watching all together eventually. the algorithms probably don't predict that kind of behavior.
It should look more like a truck first of all. Second it should have truck-like capabilities: Camper NO, Fifth Wheel NO, Travel Trailer YES.

Most Normal trucks can do the other 2. It's not a truck.
Yeah I understand that sentiment. I use the “on stilts” metaphor - a sedan or a hatchback on stilts is an SUV to me. A van is a van, those rarely go on stilts. We also have a new segment called “crossover”, which is an SUV without the S.

There’s no coherent formula for what an SUV/crossover is, but ride height is my rule of thumb. But then I ask myself “where does the Jeep Wrangler fit in?” - afaic, it’s an SUV.
A database developer probably can write an arcane form of some radix tree without even putting in effort. I can do that too, but it will take hours and it is questionable if the interviewer is that patient.

If you have done it a few times, it becomes trivial and this is of course also a form of memorization. What you are testing is if a developer has faced similar challenges before and most problems aren't as universal as we often believe. There might just be 0.5 hours of training that puts candidates on basically the same level.

There are maybe are a few tests that can check if a developer is able to solve any problem at all.

I am sure some codegolf form of FizzBuzz will impress most interviewers too. It is fun to do that, but not a required skill at all. Most leet code interviewers tend to be quite inexperienced if they don't know about and cannot assess the limits of their own knowledge. If they did, they would know that they pick people more or less randomly.

If a company looks for a developer for hard problems, they should look for an experienced developer in that field and pay a fitting wage in the first place. And if a position is that expensive already, a direct interview with other domain experts should not be skipped in any case. And sometimes a definite answer is only available after a few months of working together. There might just be very few shortcuts here, you cannot scale that indefinitely.

Aside that, companies are unlikely to have that many hard to solve problems in the first place. They just want cheap labor that is universally good and shove them in a position where they have to solve some Excel problem of management (which of course could also be infinitely hard in some cases).
>putting it next to my name would be considered pretentious.

Yeah, probably. I sometimes will list degrees in a longer bio but that's mostly because it may turn out I went to school with someone. They're not very relevant to anything I'd be talking about at a conference. I'd never put degrees and class years next to my name unless it were an alumni thing.

As I say, PhDs in a non-academia setting are what you see something of a split on with some people displaying them liberally and others never mentioning them.
I was recommended Mint but had a completely disastrous experience just trying to get service with them. They could not get my phone number moved over from Verizon even though I was unlocked and had the port out PIN.

Ended up going with Ting and it's been fine. Service is trash sometimes/doesn't work at all occasionally but I also don't want to live a life where I need my phone 24/7 so the dirt cheap pricing is attractive enough for me to stay.
It's what I wondered at the headline as well. Sounded ambitious, but with how much profit they make it's not immediately obvious whether it's infeasible, especially if you can convince a government to then be exempt from a part of the fuel taxes because you don't have to pay for the pollution aspect
Yes, but inflation simply means you re-set expectations. I admit that, if I'm looking for a new book and I see that it's rating average is under about 3.8, I start to wonder what's wrong with it.

Of course, I like plenty of books with a lower average rating, but that does give me my first impression.

(It reminds me of when I was requesting a house on Airbnb and the owner writes "what's with the 4.9/5 rating you have? There's got to be a story about that." It turned out anything below a 5 set off his red flags.)
I entirely agree, and that is how I use it as well. Really it is just a log of the books I've read and my progress against my annual challenge. I appreciate that I can see the opinions of others, and I ignore 100% of their recommendations.

I don't want or need it to do more.
English regions dominated by grammar schools do not improve grades, study says
Thank you for sharing your perspective. It's nice to read something positive once in a while! :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

I do not have a better response than this. Some people never learn anything from history...
The Psyche mission launching in October (to the asteroid of the same name) will include a laser-based communication system technology demonstration, the first beyond the Moon.

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

And here on Earth there's a new DSN antenna currently under construction at Goldstone (California) that will be capable of handling both radio and optical signals.

https://www.peraton.com/news/meet-dss-23-the-112-foot-wide-a...

So nothing operational yet, but stuff is happening.
Definitely a jack of all trades language.

And when you get older, and you care more about solving problems than about trying new things, and you've got more responsibilities in life and lack the time to devote to learning new language / technology du jour, then knowing and using Python becomes so handy.

If it is indeed the 2nd best language for the job, it is still a decent choice if you get to solve the problem.
>I guess it won't be long until a "genius" manager comes up with the idea of DSNaaS (Deep Space Network as a Service) :-)

Well, it doesn't seem such a bad idea considering the alternative is to do nothing. (now if the alternative was to build more sites and more antennas that would be great, but I think its unlikely).

As for DSNaaS it could be provided by a number of competing companies just like intercontinental fiber links are today.
>most atmos mixes are just upmixed from the stereo mix and provide no benefit whatsoever.

There is a large library of _freakin incredible_ made-for-spatial-audio tracks on Apple Music.

It makes for a great demo when people come over, they're always blown away.
I generally agree. Having been there, I think that young people often overlook the timelines.

You ideally want to assess compatibility, move in with someone, get married etc before having children. Depending on the people that could be a fairly long process. Maybe you didn't assess compatibility properly or weren't committed - you're young and naive after all - so maybe there are a few takes.

If you put off all of that, mess about in your 20s, and only start thinking about it when you're already 30, then yeah, it's getting really tight.

Particularly so if you're a woman.
One brilliant use for it is to rephrase your emails in corpo speak.

Write short email: "where the fuck is X, you promised it will be here by monday, i will complain to management if you dont deliver"

use chat gpt to convert it into polite reminder email that will hit you will escalate to management, without any potential HR issues.
> Businesses are trying to minimize losses due to customers who fail to pay their bill

Sounds like business need to stop trying to take advantage of the poor then.
I think is the uncomfortable truth is we're all to blame for a certain extent. People def hide evidence and acted to their own benefit but to a certain extent so many of us were known accomplices.
Focused on BlackBerry Messenger (put it on Android and iOS app stores).
WhatsApp sold for $19.3 Billion. BBM could have been bigger.
I think you're answering the wrong question. Parent post wanted to know why Nintendo doesn't want you playing their games on other people's hardware, you answered why Nintendo locks out other people's games on their hardware.

Nintendo has occasionally licensed out their brands for other hardware, but it's rare. Examples that come to mind are:

- Home ports of Donkey Kong, most of which came out before the NES

- Various Mario-branded edutainment games and typing tutors[0], which were available for IBM-compatible/WinTel PCs (probably also Mac OS but I don't remember)

- Phillips CDi games such as Hotel Mario and the two Zelda games it got[1]

- Nintendo's spinoff mobile games such as Super Mario Run, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, etc

A general unifying factor is that many of these were garbage. The mobile spinoffs are better, but those were made primarily to appease shareholders angry that the Wii U wasn't selling well. So I imagine Nintendo has had such a bad taste in their mouth from working with third party platforms that they'd rather just not. Furthermore, doing so means having to pay 30%, instead of receiving it from other developers.

[0] One of which was also Charles Martinet's first stint as Mario

[1] Notable for having lots of animated cutscenes that provided ample YouTube Poop material
It's a manually configured topology. An ordinary server would get a feed from somewhere else (probably their upstream ISP). A transit server would take dozens of feeds. The operation of each of those links is the same, though: `IHAVE <articleid>` and `SENDME <articleid>`.