skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You better understand the value proposition of game engines than you think.

Spin your view a little: NPM is your web development engine. Somebody had to write all of that code that undergirds NPM as an engine as well as the particular library you want to install.

Game engines are no different. They manage a bunch of (mostly boilerplate) game development components (sound, textures, rendering, animation, menus, collisions, physics, resource I/O, etc etc) so game developers can spend time "gluing stuff together, and sanding the edges" of their game. Monolithic engines like Unity have a plugin system for installing 3rd party libraries, and the engine tooling itself acts as its own level, effect, cutscene (etc etc) editor.

At the end of the day games are just like any other programming task. You have a limited amount of effort/time/budget, so you have to make decisions about where you want to optimize. Game engines, even monolithic ones like Godot and Unity (and, really, every 3rd party game development tool) are all designed to let you focus effort/time/budget on the unique aspects of your game.
That's pretty wild.
They decided to rewrite Xamarin.Forms, it uses WinUI on Windows, Catalyst on macOS, and VS4Mac is now officially dead and one has to use VSCode instead, and they are all into this Blazor Hybrid as well, with Web views.

Take your own conclusions on its future.
By obliquely and sarcastically referring to the teaching institution you have convinced me. Well played.

> > And when has someone like an elementary teacher made a child better at using a computer..? It feels like a joke just asking that question.
Ask HN: How to break into the embedded software engineering field?
My background is web development / backend stack. I've learned about data structures and C/C++ programming while also solving programming puzzles from ProjectEuler.net and leetcode.

A friend gave me an msp430 development kit (a micro-controller along with the board that helps programming it), and I slowly became interested in the field, I'm just not sure how I would approach changing careers or the kind of knowledge I should pursue to help me. So, I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you. I have been trying to find this font again but I didn't remember it's name. I had it maybe a year installed in my previous computer and I loved it. Really good for coding.
In this day and age the best you can do is to fight back against business but indirectly benefit some other. In this case an AR app that you wear on say Apple Goggles could benefit from its advanced cameras to ID all this stuff in real time as you walk through the store. Sure it might be weird walking around with those goggles but that will probably become the norm soon. The real winner is Apple though(as they usually tend to be)
> After all, the office has been great for them, so it's gotta be great for everyone!

Except they themselves don't even go to the office that often or come and go as they please. It's not the same.
A lot of US cities are already spread out a lot. But businesses don’t spread very much but concentrate in a few hot spots. That leads to very long commutes. If remote work doesn’t become much more common people can’t move into that empty space because there is no way to earn a living there.
Man, Rust is infamous for being reeeeaaaallly badly optimized

I would have picked a different game.

I remember the minutes of loading of a new world..
Right now this looks to be a disagreement about how to measure heat dissipation. We’d need a more thorough technical analysis of what’s happened than the current slate of news reports have provided to get insight if this is an instance of what you’re claiming.
> Either your shit works, or it doesn’t. You do monitor, don’t you?

That then becomes a he said she said problem with the vendor you're claiming against. Does everyone have time for it? You will submit the SLA credit claim and chances are unless it's WAY off you'll accept the vendor's nerfed version and move on. Something is better than nothing.
If you have the option, a "circ" or timed mode (e.g., 10 minutes/hour) is better than "on" when using air conditioning, as the fan will blow condensed water back off the coil, raising the humidity you just paid to reduce.
How's that supposed to be enforced if the kids lie about their ages?
if hard work and determination were all that was required there would be a lot more billionaires
Just remember you privatize the profits, and socialize the losses!

The costs (drug research and healthcare) should be born by by the public without negotiation, while the profits (drug pricing and patents) should be monopolized.
> They're mostly people moving into the area for the first time.

Then instead of moving into the new high housing, they would have offered similar to what they are paying for the high end housing for the the lower cost housing people are in now driving the price of that up. The people living in that tier, May have been forced to a yet lower tier, driving those prices up, and so on.
> If you have profits, then you're not spending them on anything, like e.g. R&D, or it's already budgeted in, meaning the argument that increasing salaries hurts R&D is not sound.

But you are spending them on something. Convincing shareholders not to shut down the company. It's like a loan, except that the terms are they get whatever profit your company makes instead of a fixed interest rate, but can call in the loan at any time and shut you down if the company doesn't make enough money.

You can't say that you don't need that unless you also don't the continued use of the shareholders' capital. You'd need another source of money to buy land and factory equipment etc., like a bank loan, and then you'd have to pay the interest on the loan instead.

> If you have profits, then you're not spending them on anything, like e.g. R&D, or it's already budgeted in, meaning the argument that increasing salaries hurts R&D is not sound.

The assumption you're making is that the money to increase salaries can only come out of profit and not by trading off against anything else, but that's not how it works. They're still going to try to maximize profit.

Maybe they used to have 15 models but they didn't all have the same profitability. At higher salaries only 10 of them could recover their R&D expenditure, so R&D for those lines gets cut, which means those lines get cut and a third of the workers lose their jobs. Meanwhile the company still turns a profit because the remaining lines are still profitable.

But all of this depends on the circumstances of the company. It could be that only one of the lines was making a significant profit and the others were barely breakeven, so at higher salaries 93% of the workers lose their jobs.

Or maybe there is only one product line. If they make a million widgets for $1500 and sell them for $2000 then they make $500M, and spending $150M on R&D to make the product a million customers want instead of half a million caused them to net $100M: They spent $150M to get $250M. But if labor costs increase so it costs them $1800 to make a widget customers will still only pay $2000 for, the R&D would still cost $150M but only recover $100M. So they cut the R&D rather than lose $50M, which cuts sales in half and that proportion of workers lose their jobs.
If the government knows somebody is a danger to children, they can't just have kids. In the UK at least, they'll be taken into state social care.
> The facilitator can deny access to those who have active psychosis, thoughts of harming anyone, or who have taken lithium, which is used to treat mania, in the past month.

Well thank god for that. Whilst they can treat depression, they shouldn't be taken if you have a history of mental illness in your family, or are unhinged and prone to bouts of anxiety. Psilocybin may exacerbate symptoms rather than do healing. YMMV and set and setting is of course, important.
According to https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32111/what-is-t... it's a relatively safe speed in an emergency. Note, speed brakes are deployed to increase drag, which helps increase vertical descent without overspeeding the wings.

The plane doesn't need to be pitched down all that steeply to drop quickly and if you're falling at a steady rate, everything will be at 1G.
The Netherlands DPA has fined CP&A, an unnamed orthodontic clinic, Transavia, a local political party, the municipality of Enschede, Booking.com B.V. (yes, Booking.com is Dutch), OLVG (a hospital), a redacted data trader, the Dutch national tennis association, an insurance company, another hospital, a semi-governmental organisation and 7 governmental bodies.

Some of these do business in foreign countries, but all of them are unmistakably Dutch.

I've left out the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, the Belgian company BPG Media, but they have bought up a bunch of local news organisations.

Non-EU-originating companies on the list:
- Tiktok
- locatefamily.com

Tiktok got fined by the Dutch DPA for not providing their privacy statement in Dutch while still doing business in the Netherlands. Further research into Tiktok was transferred to the Irish DPA (this fine). I suppose the Dutch DPA could've lodged a complaint with the Irish DPA for not providing the necessary documents in Dutch, but that seems rather silly to me.

locatefamily.com did not have EU representation at all so there was no need to process the complaint anywhere else. I doubt the fine will ever be collected, but who knows, maybe the owners are stupid enough to open a business in Europe somewhere down the line.
The Problem with GitHub Stars
Challenges with using Github star history as a traction metric and how to tell a better story about your open-source project
Here's the heart of how they say it can be done

> Two areas in particular look promising. The first is “literature-based discovery” (LBD), which involves analysing existing scientific literature, using ChatGPT-style language analysis, to look for new hypotheses, connections or ideas that humans may have missed. LBD is showing promise in identifying new experiments to try—and even suggesting potential research collaborators. This could stimulate interdisciplinary work and foster innovation at the boundaries between fields. LBD systems can also identify “blind spots” in a given field, and even predict future discoveries and who will make them.

I have to question to the value of looking over existing papers given the current replication crises, is using an LLM to review existing papers just going to enable us to do more bad science faster? Does that do anything for us?

> The second area is “robot scientists”, also known as “self-driving labs”. These are robotic systems that use AI to form new hypotheses, based on analysis of existing data and literature, and then test those hypotheses by performing hundreds or thousands of experiments, in fields including systems biology and materials science. Unlike human scientists, robots are less attached to previous results, less driven by bias—and, crucially, easy to replicate. They could scale up experimental research, develop unexpected theories and explore avenues that human investigators might not have considered.

This sounds basically of just asking a GPT to suggest ideas for experiments?

Honestly based on what I understand of science right now the biggest way generative AI could help advanced things is by assisting in the writing of grant applications faster.

EDIT: Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2341/
I don't think that section answers the question.
that sounds vaguely plausible, but is there any evidence for it other than sounding vaguely plausible?

it seems like the other explanation there is simply that most cities aren't building more housing fast enough to meet demand. there's been a longstanding population shift to urban centres that's consistent enough across all major cities that i don't think it can be easily explained as induced demand from homebuilding. especially since most cities aren't building all that much new residential.
The workers are not always there.

A lot of resort companies, like Vail Resorts, will bring in H2B and J1 visa workers [0] and put them up in employee housing for the winter. They could hire plenty of US workers if they'd pay enough, but H2B workers are cheaper and complain less because getting fired means getting deported.

Even the local workers are unlikely to live in town. Sometimes you'll see 4 or 5 lifties or ski instructors sharing a small apartment, but a lot of times they commute from cheaper towns nearby.

[0] https://www.summitdaily.com/news/vail-resorts-h2b-workers-un...
You can connect your phone or iPad with a cable to the UConnect system and do things like stream Netflix or other video streams to the screens.
I still disagree with you even given this refinement. A repeated CBC IV is a second-order vulnerability that still requires you to set up the conditions for an ECB-style attack on the system, which isn't always possible. A repeated CTR nonce immediately sacrifices confidentiality.
Then you retitle yourself to EVP during the timeout.
In my area it is very humid the the summer months. If I leave the fan to “on” without the AC on it ends up also increasing indoor humidity quite a bit. We have a single stage AC unit… ideally a variable speed unit could just run longer at a lower speed, allowing more ventilation and humidity reduction.
Cloud computing, Big Data and AI and ML has been revolutionising science for more than 10 years, but we still publish news about how they can revolutionise science and instead we actually can lolifakes your neighbour thanks to Cloud computing, Big Data, ML and AI.
Only a few database engines have support for ASOF JOIN.

Originally implemented in ClickHouse in 2019: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele... but now in a few more database engines.
Add yourself to the monthly https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring thread.
I'm surprised that there are no portable ERVs similar to portable AC units that just vent out a window. I have a small ERV in my shed/office that uses a single outdoor and indoor vent for combined intake/exhaust. (ie minimal ducting)
fun rabbit hole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting
https://oyie.io/about.html

The .html is missing from the links. I agree that it's an embarrassing bug.
Cooling.
of course; doubtless many others have observed the same reality of cloud compute
I think we're dealing with multiple overlapping issues in the housing sector. For example, where are we going to get enough skilled trades to build the houses? There are many reasons why trades are in short supply from lack of interest to immigration enforcement.
If only VC++ ever had a form builder for C++ like C++ Builder has been doing for 30 years.
3% construction loans would majorly undermine the Fed's effort to fight inflation
That’s another one that would be nice to mello out.
>> Keep us posted!

Dude, don't be an asshole. You got useful experience. Help others with it instead of putting them down.
It starts out noble. Once a company goes public, the first few town halls after the shareholder call the CEO or CFO will be like, "Don't worry about the stock price, we're better than all the other short-termist companies, we care about long term quality and blah blah."

But bit by bit, little by little, like Pavlov's dogs the employees get trained to peek at that stock ticker around reporting time. And over time they sync up their decision making with that schedule, and internal planning starts to reflect it. And new initiatives get created and judged by investor reactions. And it's all downhill from there :-(
I feel like each year makes it harder as demands increase
Project Babylon: Chance for LINQ (and More) in Java
>I provide financial and logistical support to worker organizing efforts, so being familiar with this information is top of mind.

It shows, given all the lies you've been spewing all over this thread.

For example:

>Profits at the “Big 3” auto companies—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis— skyrocketed 92% from 2013 to 2022, totaling $250 billion. Forecasts for 2023 expect more than $32 billion in additional profits [2].

None of this is true.

The combined net income of those 3 companies during that time period is $168 Billion, not $250.

The total combined net income in 2022 was $24.6 Billion, only 34% above the $18 billion for 2013 (in reality this was a real profit stagnation given the cumulative inflation over that time period).

And your "Forecast" is literally a Pro-Union Mouth piece with no actual source for it.

The reality is that this industry isn't doing well, their returns on assets have consistently been below their cost of capital, and additional labor costs won't help with that.
> I’ve done all sorts of damaging things to keep people above me satisfied.

I love the buck passing. you could just say no.
Assigning blame to the CxOs can be tricky. In this case the actual violations were from 2020, well before the EU even began its investigation, and some of the C-suite staff has changed.

Should it be the current C-suite that’s fired or the ones in charge when the violation occurred? Or maybe the ones in charge when the original policy at TikTok was created? Or what if the current C-suite was in charge, briefly, for the violating period but they’re also they ones that changed things to be in compliance before the investigation began, should they still be fired?

The diffuse responsibility makes this stuff tricky to implement.
Fravors "Hoax" involved flying F/A-18E Super Hornets at low level, at night, over campfires they could see along their route and lighting their after burners. This was done in areas like Nellis where there are a lot of military jet activity. Anyone watching from the ground with any modicum of exposure to military jets would have immediately known from the site and sound exactly what it was. He was putting on a show. Did he otherwise publish videos, pictures, articles, or other media to try to otherwise "dupe" the public into believing that these were "UFOS"? No.

The context of the discussion in Fravors interview he was more jokingly describing some of the cowboy stunts that military pilots do that might be mistakingly interpreted as UFOs.
It wont increase stock if you tear down a block of public housing that housed 180 and build an apartment block with 160 investments for Arab sheikh portfolios and 40 middle income apartments with a poor door.

Until land or property is taxed high enough to discourage hoarding the shortage will only get worse, even if supply trickles up. Housing is supply constrained.

As rents and prices go up the incentive to use politics to inhibit further construction also goes up. This is how a hundred residents can turn up to a city meeting in SF and demand that a launderette be declared historic.
Just install Linux on it, if you can.
and : https://archive.is/7RcrS
If your home value increases, because regional home values increased, you also can't move!
The idea is that the company normally prices their products at the intersection of supply and demand, where there is maximum profit. When supply is artificially constrained, they raise prices to the corresponding spot on the curve. This is not as profitable as before, but it's the new local maximum.

It's one of those simple macro-econ models that sound good, but never play out in real life because humans aren't calculators. The reality is a mix of both, probably more of your explanation.
> Why do you think that? Do you have proof of that?

You want to encode “it’s cloudy, so it’ll rain”. Your lossy, intelligent algorithm comes up with “it is cloudy so it will rain”.
You save the diff and apply it. If another, worse algorithm can only produce “it’s cloudy so sunny”, it will have to pay more in the diff, which scales with the number of differences between the produced and original string.

You can be less correct, if that cumulatively produces better results, that’s the beauty of the problem - the last “mile” difference is the same cost for everyone as a factor of the difference.
If you build 8 new units to support 10 people moving in, prices will still go up.

But not as much as if you didn't.
Which is why there is a new clang based compiler now.
Someone dug into this recently, it's over 50% of steam games haven't made $1k in sales. The vast majority of steam by game count is complete trash.
> The US government and, indeed, almost every government on earth, scans our atmosphere constantly for alien craft both from earth and using satellites (which is to say, they're looking for missiles and bombers) because it's sort of a core function of national security to control your own airspace. I'm not sure you need anything extra to find "non-human" spacecraft.

And do they systematically release that data for academic researchers to analyze? Or is it automatically classified? If it is classified (hint:it is) then how do we know what they have found?

If you were part of the military brass and your mission was thus the defense of your nation, what would you do if you received radar reports of objects behaving unlike anything else that your known technology could do? And if upon further research your experts determined beyond reasonable doubt that these anomalies are real craft, what would you do? Remember that your mission is to provide every possible military advantage to your country and to prevent other countries from gaining an advantage agsinst you.

Me? I would try to shoot them down to study them and keep the lid on the whole thing to prevent our adversaries from leapfrogging our current technology.
Space Launch System
Didn't the EU explicitly warn Apple that MFi would not be in compliance with the USB-C law?
If you build a $5 million dollar house, and a multimillionaire buys it as their fourth house, this does not reduce housing costs for anyone.

If you build a thousand new apartments in Sri Lanka, this has no practical effect on the cost of housing in Colombia.

If a housing authority pays a contractor to build a dozen affordable, subsidized apartments, but the apartments are then discovered to be uninhabitable firetraps, the cost of housing can go up.

Authoritatively making sweeping generalizations not only ignores the edge cases, it often sets policy in ways that enable more of those edge cases.
According to Merriam Webster [1], "revolutionise" is the British spelling of "revolutionize" (I did not know).

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revolutionise
I know plenty of extroverts who strongly prefer WFH.

I think a lot of it’s manager insecurity, bad processes and structures that also harm in-person work but are harder to ignore when remote, and tax incentives (these are often tied to having X employees working from a given office, and they really do mean working from)
For those who wish for a font family to have distinguishable capital "eye" from lowercase "ell", the following is a recommended test: how does the font render "Illegal1=O0"
I'm having trouble reconciling this with the fact that in my corner of the world prices have been growing exponentially during the past decade despite the population remaining relatively stable and a record number of housing units being built.

The only thing that changed in this period was investment demand, which skyrocketed.

I have a building in my neighbourhood which consists solely of tiny studio apartments - the vast majority of which were already bought out back when the project was still a hole in the ground. Half of the lights are perpetually dark, because barely anyone lives there.

Or better yet: there's a hole in the ground in my neighbourhood that was still the previous building back when they started selling apartments - the company went bankrupt during the pandemic and construction was only started when another company stepped in and bought everything.

Bottom line is you can't fight exponential growth in demand with linear increase of supply.
There's nothing that's a mess about the inside of this tablet, it's just not filled to the brim with stuff that it doesn't need. That's normal, good design.
The iPhone 15 supports Qi2, which is based on Apple's MagSafe standard. It's not proprietary.