skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On that regard the public rage is something I don't mind. I don't know what would be enough to modify the value proposition to the point that the core product would be the most important thing in generating shareholder value.

Then again part of this whole thing is exactly to reduce the dependency of ads in how revenue is generated so if the community completely shuts down the effort things are not any better.

But it should never be possible to be in a situation where the costs are as unpredictable as they are in the released model.
I'm interested in the same thing and have spent quite a bit of time looking.

Rewind.ai is ok (transcription accuracy is meh)

Voice Memos.app is ok (though no native transcription, and requires stopping and starting)

Otter.ai is ok (though there's a 4 hour limit on recordings, and there's no paid plan that allows for enough recording minutes to do 24/7)

My ideal solution would be that Otter comes out with a Pro 24/7 plan with 60,000 minutes per month and no max recording length, for $60-80/mo.

I would pay for this and have paid for alternatives, though I'd prefer to use an existing company that I've used for a while and that has lots of users, due to privacy/trust, or perhaps a small startup that publishes security reports and does everything on device.

As an aside:

I use 24/7 voice transcription as a kind of "extended context window" (to use an LLM analogy). While I'm working, I talk out loud to myself about what I'm thinking through, which I find allows me to effectively increase my working memory size to be much larger than otherwise. It's quite helpful.
You can see in the archived thread you yourself linked that 3 people are working on it in parallel while a 4th who was interested in doing the work states that they don't want to participate in a battle royale.

Add to this some discussions that I've had in private and we get to 10 pretty quickly.

Are you sure it's wise to argue that feature bounties don't result in competition and duplicate work when presented to a healthy-enough OSS project? This bounty was publicized by Wasmer as "the first developer that adds support" is the one who gets the money:

https://twitter.com/wasmerio/status/1701168305103331701?s=20
> Only thing you need is to convince the elites to change to vegetarianism

I think that abolisment of subsidies to most destructive and polluting sectors (fossil fuels, animal agriculture, fishing, ...) would get us a long way.

> They are foundational to the whole global industry including agriculture

Agree.

So we use what we have to expedite the switch to renewables and reform agriculture for sustainable production less dependent on chemicals and poisons.

The peak oil is not that far away.
Imo problem with Java is... JVM because it's quite a resource intensive application itself, memory usage is orders of time magnitude worse than most of the language I've used.
Pre-MTV was over 40 years ago. But even then, there were some options for breaking out of local pop radio:

- Going to a record store and asking for recommendations

- Subscribing to magazines and fan clubs

- Going to festivals to see Band A and ended up liking Bands B, C and D

- If early 2000s, going to sites like Allmusic.com and Last.fm to find curated lists online
Correction, with ~real numbers:

- A few web sites say American (breakfast) cereal boxes are roughly 12" x 8" x 2" - so 192 cu. in., or ~3,150 cu. cm.

- Similarly, the product weight for a standard box of Cap'n Crunch(tm) cereal seems to be ~12oz. - so ~340g. (Frosted Flakes(tm), Cheerios(tm), and many others look pretty close to this.)

Divide those figures, and we get ~0.11g/cu. cm.

The actual density of carbohydrates is ~1.5g/cu. cm.

So, with a generous allowance for settling, I should have said "engineered to be ~92% air by volume".

More interesting: A couple searches say that wheat, from a farmer's PoV, is currently selling for ~$5.75 per bushel. And the standard wheat bushel weighs 60 pounds. So an "all-grain" breakfast cereal should yield ~80 12-oz. boxes from that $5.75 bushel of wheat...or about 7.2 cents per box.

Far, far better to be a big corporate middle-man than an American farmer or consumer, eh?
A yelling crowd can be a dead giveaway that the other team is about to make a risky play under the fog of war, and give the defending team enough time to prepare.

For instance, if certain characters from one team are not showing on the map for the opponents and they suddenly hear a crowd yelling, they could anticipate that the character is about to do a surprise gank, attempt to solo Roshan, etc, and shut down the attempt more easily.

It can be heavily bias the decisions that players might make under certain circumstances, so it makes sense that Valve would go to great lengths to prevent that.
Yep, if "gatekeepers" (or critical online services) are required to provide noscript/basic (x)html interop, if they are being hypocrit and create completely brain damaged "basic (x)html", don't think it will help. Such tool could be added to the weaponry against such type of abuse from the "gatekeepers".
> Football also has the advantage of a fixed rule set.

I'd tend to agree that video games are ensuring they can never stick around by constantly throwing the rules in the garbage.

But if you're going to claim that soccer is 2000 years old, you can't also claim that it has a fixed rule set. It changes at a slower pace. The slower pace of change is an improvement over video games. But it still changes. There is not even continuity between an attested 2000-year-old game and soccer.
Well, Transcontinental flight, sure.

But your point about carbon footprint of tomato vs shrimp perfectly ullustrates that the issue is too complex to lay on the consumer.

You can't be expected to do hours of research on every grocery item you buy. And most people don't even have the required knowledge for this kind of analysis. And the companies mislead consumer on purpose.

Recently relatives sent me a viseo which claims avocados are terrible because they need much more nutrients per kilo of product than tomato does. Which is not a reasonable comparison because avocado has fats and calories and tomato is mostly water. But they were convinced by this misinformation.

So I think the responsibility lies with the industry first, and consumer second.
Or you choose a niche that is willing to pay for value. If engagement is a meaningful metric for a business, that’s a red flag. This is why I don’t work on general purpose consumer apps and instead work on utility B2B products, because your job becomes to provide value to a business, not marginal entertainment to Marl.
I'm saying that radio isn't good for discovery, precisely because its selection is so narrow compared to an on-demand catalog of algorithmically selected music that Spotify provides.
Shelling was unlikely to have caused that damage. It was nearly certainly an internal explosion based on reporting by the NYTimes.

> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/world/europe/...

> Given the satellite and seismic detections of explosions in the area, by far the most likely cause of the collapse was an explosive charge placed in the maintenance passageway, or gallery, that runs through the concrete heart of the structure, according to two American engineers, an expert in explosives and a Ukrainian engineer with extensive experience with the dam’s operations.
Running up against this with teammates that equate being highly detailed to being highly intelligent.

I enjoy being wrong and asking questions if it leads us to a better place.
I've never heard it in my life and I play games (not Dota) and get around on the internet generally. My first association was clank from hermitcraft's decked out, but that didn't quite fit. Farming is what I figured from context, though
Oh, I missed that. Well, I guess maybe there is a way to massively grow their ad business.

I mean honestly, they probably should have made this more clear and open in their announcement (I totally agree with the general sentiment that Unity has done an awful job messaging this). Like sure, ad networks in games are yuck, but this is targeting developers who already decided to use an ad network.
Wonderful but they are actively working to block third world countries from making generic alternative or providing the drug at a cheaper cost.
huh? Is that real?
To the extent it's about composition it's probably mostly about how long the meteor holds together so it can retain velocity and the surface can stay hot enough to glow. A bunch of small pieces decelerate faster than one big piece. Compositional changes would only change the color somewhat but likely not enough to be worth commenting on.
That's an interesting take. I've been playing on Steam since HL2, very regularly, and although I remember DOTA2 being heavily advertised, I don't think I ever saw an ad or promotion for The International. Unlike the other poster, however, I never actually installed DOTA2.
Subsidies to the fossil fuel industry in the US amount to $20bn per year (source: EESI), and you're upset about $0.1bn for an alternative.
GPT translates incredibly well.
US tech investment sparks Rust Belt economic revival dreams; results are uneven
A deep dive into that topic...PWM drivers for hard drives, torque ripple, and reducing noise. https://www.ti.com/sc/docs/msp/papers/1998/bwhite.pdf
Dota is a game of imperfect information with "fog of war". There is a large playing field but each team can only see the area immediately surrounding their characters. Players will try to ambush the enemy, or group with their team to sneak in a side-objective while the enemy doesn't notice. Audience noise can disrupt this.
> evil ad co

"But I repeat myself."
for me, I don't want to swap batteries, I want a laptop that can work a lot on it's own and have proper sleep state. After trying m1 mac, I don't see myself buying anything else just bc battery life is so good and absolute lack of noise for Air model, even if it's worse for repairability. I'd better buy a new mac with good experience than buy a rapairable/upgradable framework with much worse power consumption (and trackpad)
Shamir's Secret Sharing is basically perfect for nerdsniping.

It is simple enough to understand without hardly any crypto background or advanced math. You basically just need a bit of algebra. It is surprising that it is possible at all. It has a clearly visible concrete use case (at least at first). It is something that you can implement yourself (though there are still footguns).

This, IMO, leads to its wild overrepresentation in discussion forums and even overrepresentation in industry solutions.
> Those are pretty awful by current standards

Oh, fully agree. My base spec M1 Air destroys them in anything single-threaded. I got them because I wanted three nodes to play around with various things requiring HA, and I didn't want to just virtualize that. That said, they _are_ virtualized. Every server I have runs Proxmox, with templated VMs built from Packer + Ansible. I'm currently in the process of shifting K8s providers; right now they're running k3os but since Rancher has killed that, it's forever stuck at v1.21, so I'm shifting to Talos. I have the Terraform for them working fine, just need to set up a PXE server so they'll pick up the desired static IP when being created.

> you aren't really gaining anything from ECC ram either

Sibling comment to mine addressed this; to add on, I disagree. Cosmic rays aside, there's a ton of EMI inside a computer, and anything I can do to help prevent data corruption is a win in my book. Torvalds agrees, if that carries any weight with you. [0]

As far as cost, it costs me ~$30-40/month to run in electricity, and some small amount of A/C load (roughly equivalent to 5 extra people existing in the house) [1].

[0]: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=198497&curpost...

[1]: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/metabolic-heat-persons-d_...
As diets go, meat, rice and vegetables isn’t that bad.

Cereal… not so great.
I can't read it. I understand the word individually, but it reads like he's having a hypoglycemic shock via email.

In all fairness, many people absolutely suck at writing emails.
They don't cancel well enough. You can still hear some noise. You probably can't identify what it is but it is enough of a signal to react to (spoiling your surprise play/ambush)
This is social media health influencer level misinformation on saturated vs unsaturated fats. This is so well studied that you can just bring big meta analyses to the table.

If canola and other scary industrial seed oils are so bad, how come it improves health outcomes especially when swapped to from butter? How come canola has even more impressive nutritional profile than olive oil? How come unsaturated fats improve health outcomes when swapped to from saturated fats?

Here’s a good roundup of the research: https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...
the post title has a cve number you can search for

here: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-3294...
So basically you're advocating for a keto diet for everyone and every time? That's silly. Carbs are not intrinsically bad.

Also, all sugars are carbs but all carbs aren't sugar. Don't take shortcuts.
Nice video, chatty and accessible. Martell seems like a decent bloke
and a prof like myself who wants to communicate ideas well, but I
think he carries a bit of the "academic disease" of assuming
"reasonable people" will respond to reasonable ideas.

Task-force Lima has an Achilles heel. Regardless of filters for
acceptability criteria, or any taxonomy of fitness, the DoD do not
exercise the power to stop the foisting of for-profit or politically
expedient technologies upon a populace (globally) whose acceptability
criteria are way below par but make a buck. That itself is a diffuse
national security problem because the risk is in the "inevitable"
erosion of those acceptability thresholds in a changing culture. Only
education, rapidly and urgently, is any defence against what we now
face.
A big problem is young people do not vote. About half the voters are 50 and over.
The only "safe" way to introduce these would be to make a certificate format that's intentionally incompatible with existing implementations; that way only new implementations (which are aware of the domain constraint) will accept it where as old implementations would just reject the certificate as invalid/corrupt.
This link took me to a 404.
This is how foreign agents able to slowly destroy America. It is the people that make a country and not the land. Unalive the native and flood it with "specific" immigrants. Given how incompetent America congress is for the past 3 decades, we are seeing the beginning of fall of Rome unfolding in our lifetime. What a time to live in. Is like given a chance to see destruction of Spanish Armada or sack of Rome....defining moment in history of any fall of great superpower.
> this year above average by 3 degrees, 5 years later below average by 3 degrees

> There can be a day-to-day variation of 10+ degrees

You seem to be confusing weather with climate change.

Weather refers to short-term atmospheric conditions, such as daily temperature and precipitation variations, while climate change represents long-term shifts in average temperature, precipitation patterns, and other climatic factors over extended periods, often spanning decades (3+) to centuries.
Dell sales ubuntu preinstalled on some of their laptops. I have used Inspiron and Latitude for a decade without any issues.

Meanwhile my macbook pro had decided not to boot anymore third time. It will go to dust bin now.
Code from big tech definitely sways public opinion just as much or even more so by controlling what is seen and when as well as by who. So you agree then code should also be free?
I can explain it to you, even though it will inevitably be downvoted for being unsavory to our readers' mindset ..

In the fog of war, all bets are off.

Apparently, we do not have the evidence of who actually blew the dam, because we do not have the conditions required to gain sufficiently suitable evidence. Perhaps one day we will, but sufficient doubt exists that we cannot make canonical conclusions.

Yet.

The best we can do is use conjecture and assumptions - but in the court of world opinion, this just simply isn't enough. It is the same situation behind the destruction of the Nordstream 2 pipeline or the Duma gas attacks - we can make assumptions, and conjecture, over who did it and how and for what purpose - but until there is actionable evidence, its simply not enough to make conclusions based on ones own political position.

Such is the nature of Lady Liberty - she is blind in the face of verifiable evidence - and this is a core Western Value which shall not be abrogated, for any reason - especially in the face of oppression, where she is needed most.
Always be wary of headlines structured like this:

“Are the Longevity Benefits of Acarbose Rooted in Its Effect on the Gut Microbiota?”

It presents something as fact (Acarbose has longevity benefits) in the form of a question. This sort of structure implies that it’s already been widely accepted as fact that this is true without overtly saying it and it’s commonly used in marketing to slip things by the brain’s natural BS filter. You can also commonly see this in agenda-driven media headlines.

The truth is that Acarbose hasn’t been shown to have longevity benefits in anything but mice, and even that research is questionable at best.

If you need further proof that this is marketing, notice the “products” button on the upper right, where the website that published this article happens to sell…you guessed it…Acarbose. The guy who wrote the article, Daniel Tawfik, is the founder of Zenpatient, the online pharmacy used to sell this and other medications.

We’re being marketed to. I’m flagging this post. It’s spam.
What specifically about the null checking are you talking about?

I’ve never heard this criticism before and have no idea what you’re even referring to here but I am genuinely curious..
If your game is

1. 2D

2. Only target one kind of platforms (e.g. only Win+Linux+Mac but no mobile, or only mobile but no desktop/console)

You'll find almost any open source engine works. Rolling your own 2D engine based on a barebone one is just like writing a parser. If you never wrote one it seems like an impossibly hard problem. It's not.

Modern 3D graphics are built upon a lot of algorithms. From TAA to volumetric rendering to cascading shadow maps to SSAO to voxel-based global illumination... the list goes on an on. Surprisingly, none of these algorithm is truly hard. But you need to implement all of them to make things visually match up modern standard.

For 2D it's more like you know how to pass the offset to a shader? Boom you have sprite animation. If you want some super unique effects with clever shaders, yeah that's not easy, but using Unity doesn't make it less hard anyway.
Great username, the first language I was formally taught.
> Meta can’t seem to acquire a sandwich these days without FTC or the UK competition authority trying to block it.

And for good reason, Meta is already big enough, no need to give up even more of our lives to these data hoarders.
They did give a chart showing monthly sea ice levels for each year, but I think they didn’t want to highlight that the data is only from 1979-present.

Saying this is an “all time low” over only 44 years of measurements isn’t quite as impressive.
We have been directing our outrage at all those things since at least the Epic/Apple tiff.
> The biggest problem with Java is... the walled garden, the snob society, the elitist, exclusive culture.

No idea how you have managed to come to such a conclusion, or what kind of experienced you might have had. I have been part of some of the core JSR/groups, as rather independent/unaffiliated (not oracle/google/hp/ibm/twitter) - there was no gate keeping, elitism or anything alike.

I'd consider mailing lists extremely professional, respectful, even nice.
But the fiber content makes you feel sated sooner, so you are likely to eat less of it than sugar.

And musli isn't processed as much as other breakfast cereals. We don't know what causes it yet, but there's a clear correlation between eating highly processed foods and obesity.
Is one of Russia’s oldest allies slipping from the Kremlin’s orbit?
That’s why I’m of the opinion that CS is the best spectator esport out there. The rounds are short and the overall barrier to entry for a viewer to enjoy the game is low, yet the skill ceiling is extremely high.

Edit: If you’re not familiar with CS, try tuning in to the ESL stream and see how much you understand: https://www.twitch.tv/eslcs
Oh, I didn't see it.
Well, it is advice for undergraduate students.
VD.ahk: AutoHotKey key-bindings for Virtual Desktops
> Many of the incoming students I speak with are overachievers who spent a lot of time in high school thinking about how to get into a great college. They strategized their extracurriculars and optimized their grades. (To an extent, that was me.)

It really is a different world for the well-connected.
Bodies are just really adaptable. If you eat sugar for breakfast from being a kid, or even just for a few days, you’ll start craving sugar in the morning.

On the other hand if you skip breakfast for a week, you’ll start waking up and not feeling that hungry.
It’s doable, e.g. you could take the names of twelve months in two languages; maybe even backwards and interspersed.

Still, the challenge is to live with that long term.

E.g. to not write it down. Or to write it down in a sufficiently cryptic way. But not too cryptic because you still need to remember it. Also you shouldn’t reuse this system. And every now and then you should check that it continues to work as you expect. And…
So we should just hope this all away? That's a deeply childish viewpoint, and hoping is not a reliable plan. It will require many things: Carbon regulation plus geo-engineering plus improved power systems plus personal sacrifice. But where that starts is legislation. This is how we solved acid raid, the ozone layer, lead-based fuels and paints, and oh so many other environmental externalities. Individuals cannot solve this problem themselves. I could convert my house to solar and buy electric cars tomorrow and the problem is not solved, because I account personally (through my own choices) of only 20% of the issue.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
> IMO Unity has to make more $$ to support the development of its engine

This misses the point that the change was done with deception, but it was also appropriately addressed in the article:

> But they have to do this, their game engine business isn’t profitable!

> Ah, I didn’t know that, perhaps because I don’t give a fuck? It’s not the customer’s job to make your business plan pay off. I didn’t ask them to offer terms that don’t work for them, I didn’t ask them to hire 7,000 people, I never even made a feature request. They asked me to pay them $10,000 in sub fees on the promise that it meant no fee per-sale, then once I was in too deep to switch, they changed the deal.
People using Adobe products tend to have better hardware than the average
People fall for it because it’s so seductive.

They were fine with trans fats being bad, but when saturated fats are also demonstrated to impact health outcomes by the exact same methodology, they resist it because it condemns their favorite foods.
Just skip breakfast and do intermittent fasting.
I think Discord servers for a software project tend to attract a younger audience and are more noisy/active and have offtopic discussion, compared to something like a user/-dev channel on IRC.
If you’re not willing to go through the slides that’s really your loss isn’t it?
That relies on NYT still being in business to make their archives available, among other failures modes.

Historians, genealogists, etc. find it valuable to look at news reports from several hundred years ago. It's important to society for a prominent paper's articles to be archived somewhere independent of the news organization itself.