skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I truly wonder if they could go ahead with a nitinol only tire if the max speed was limited to like 10-12 mph or they advised against using it on certain types of pavement, in wet conditions, etc.
Huge respect to brands that don't fall for the transient whims and fads of graphic design, but stick it out with their old logos. https://www.imagerelay.com/blog/oldest-logos-that-still-exis...

Wait long enough and the old stuff comes back in style, proving that all the justifications for the "new" style were baseless.
Why would we want that fluency in more than one mode? Isn’t print lettering enough?

It’s not as if more is better. Sometimes more is just more to learn and not have time for other things.
Collective letter from game development companies
No, it's a terrible API if retrieving the result '2000-10-26' requires downloading a 565 KB file.

I don't want to seem overly negative -- zipped CSV files are fantastic when you want to import lots of data that you then re-serve to users. I would vastly prefer it over e.g. protobufs that are currently used for mass transit system's live train times, but have terrible support in many languages.

But it's incredibly wasteful to treat it like an API to retrieve a single value. I hope nobody would ever write something like that into an app...

(So the article is cool, it's just the headline that's too much of a "hot take" for me.)
Cat, son of cat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name#Arab_family_naming...
> the increase in prices was because there were too many buyers and too few cars, not because the owners of used cars suddenly because significantly more greedy overnight.

No it’s literally greed. You can choose to not raise the price of your used car when you sell it. “Market price” is a hallucination that you can ignore. You’re not forced to go along with it. As you said, sellers of used cars didn’t have their cost increase, so what was the forcing function for price increases except greed?

Which brings me to corporate profits…
10 years of gross revenue is an actual death penalty for a company.

Why go that route instead of claiming its assets in the jurisdiction and revoking its right to operate?
>inflation is a good thing and here's why
>That's a very complicated situation that has been going on for a very long time.

So is the Russia / Ukraine situation. They have been fighting for more than 300 years. Russia even annexed Crimea in the 1700s. The idea that it is not long or complicated seems erroneous to me. History didn't start when you were born.

>It's not a useful comparison to Ukraine defending itself from an invader. Repeatedly trying to introduce Israel here just sounds (to me) like you're arguing in bad faith.

The problem is both Israel and Ukraine consider themselves as being on the defensive. Israel is trying to retake the land they controlled a few thousand years ago while Ukraine is trying to retake land they controlled a couple decades ago.

At what point is it no longer your land? You probably don't think Israel has a legitimate claim over Palestine so obviously 2500 years ago is too much. The Kievan Rus (ancestors to Ukraine) took Ukraine in 1037 so you obviously don't think the people who controlled Ukraine prior to them are the legitimate owners of the land. You think Ukraine should control Crimea so 20 years ago is legitimate.

At what point is the cut off? 50 years? 100? If Russia controls Crimea for that long would you say Russia is the legitimate ruler?

My issue with this whole argument is that people don't have any underlying principles on which they are forming their views. It is strictly emotional.

If somebody shouldn't be forced to offensively support Israel than they shouldn't be forced to offensively support Ukraine. The only difference is the time frame.
>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.

This is half a real insight and half total bullshit. Honestly, what we need robotics and AI for in laboratory science is just old-fashioned standardization and labor-saving.
Posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490623
Do fooled people get any of that?
This is not an accurate calculation as it assumes a single install per purchase.

Let's say I really like this game and install it on my laptop, desktop, and steamdeck (3 installs). Now, let's say I upgrade from win10 to win11 (4 cummulative installs). Alright, now I'm bored of the game an uninstall it. A year later the game recieved a new free DLC including new content. So, I install on my laptop, desktop, and steamdeck again, after I have updated both PCs from win10 to win11 or made some other hardware change (7 cummulative installs). And repeat this process every 2 years.

Unity's price is now much more than Unreals as I'm now costing the dev $1.40 after just the first update. Every subsequent update means I'm costing the dev another $0.60.

This may seem ridiculous, but anecdotally, it seems relatively common.

Again, the issue is not with Unity wanting to make more money, but with how they are trying to achieve this. Install based cost means you cannot estimate tooling cost as it is impossible to estimate situations like above.
honestly using plain win32api or mfc is the most stable bet on the planet
And it was worth it to give up the $4-5k / month instead of going to an employer without a COI policy and keeping the dual income streams?
Since management sets the expectations, laying the blame at their feet is correct. Who else would you hold accountable for management decisions?
It's all that matters to the people hiring CEOs and on their boards.
C itself is trivial. But useless. Learning C is like learning to use a scalpel. C is useful in a situation, and what you really need to learn is that situation. Is it microcontrollers? Learn some basic EE, and to read datasheets and to not trust them. Is it low level programming in an OS? Learn about system calls and interfaces offered by the OS. Is it to make an OS? Learn some assembly and hardware insides.
how did you get that from my comment. I think being born is a net positive & if it could be done without the complications, pain, etc. of being pregnant
You would be right, they have informally stated if developers switch to ironSource/Unity Ads, they would have their runtime fee slashed.
Democracy doesn't prevent evil.
They literally just switched from lightning to USB-C. Did you not notice?
Simple file downloads and CSV files are fantastic. I wish more folks would publish data in simple formats like this. Every time I have to fill a "shopping cart" for a US government data download I die a little.

There's a bunch of wrapper tools to make this particular pipeline easier. Also something like Datasette is great if you want a web view and some fancier features.
I have found a device that is nearer, it is a port manual switch that can be commanded via RS232 besides manual buttons.

Not really affordable, 290 US$:

https://www.vpi.us/network-devices/gigabit-ethernet-switch-1...
In the US, at least, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ton of pressure to limit update timeframe from the carriers.

US carriers want postpaid customers, because they're more profitable and less likely to churn.

Having an incentive to swap phones at the end of a (typically 2 year) phone upgrade cycle helps them sell renewals back into a new postpaid plan.

Google, in typical Google fashion, probably doesn't care. It's used to end users not being its actual customers.
Go Garmin! You won't regret it.
This is slightly abusive of gunzip, but it does work, but only because the zipfile in question only contains a single file and you are piping it in via shell. If you had tried to download the file and then run gunzip on it the program would have refused.

As for the second error, I think you might be trying to import an empty file or maybe an error message? Probably related to the first problem.
Yeah, a red circle would have helped :|
> “We find that three years of security and OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device.”

This attitude is why I will never ever buy a Google product.
There's a simple material angle that people aren't talking about enough with all these discussions

Population growth has outpaced home construction (in the USA) for the past 20 years

https://usafacts.org/articles/population-growth-has-outpaced...
I understand the tool of hyperbole, but this is a very flawed hyperbole.

We do have to keep people around if they behave in ways that harm society, but society is not morally bound to keep companies existing despite them misbehaving. They are not living conscious entities. They are organizations created for the purpose of accumulating money. And if they cannot do that without violating the laws, then they should be dissolved.

That's not an "authoritarian mindset". That's just the mindset "the law applies to everyone".
sha-256 of the above is 182a7c95ae9e1149eb48f0f5eedee0a184764a45e8a2cb5d986b7c57c9a42022
What would a good fine-tuning dataset for language translation look like?

I want to try fine-tuning to machine translate to and from a fairly niche language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S'gaw_Karen_language). How much text would I need, and what format would be ideal?

I have a number of book length texts, most only in the target language, and a few bilingual or multilingual. For the bilingual and multilingual texts, I can script out probably several thousand pairs of "translate the following text from <source_lang> to <target_lang>: <source_lang_text> <target_lang_text>". Do I need to vary the prompt and format, or can I expect the LLM to generalize to different translation requests? Is there value in repeating the material in different lengths? One set of sentence lengths, another paragraph, and another page or chapter length? Also what should be done with the monolingual texts, just ignore them?
At least in Ubuntu it doesn't do anything at all.

# gunzip -d master.zip
gunzip: master.zip: unknown suffix -- ignored
Looking this up it says it’s a Kodi remote for Android, I don’t have an Android phone in use at the moment.
i can't believe the sole use you could think of is timing the market on junk food
I was mugged about two months ago, and had my iPhone 12 Pro Max stolen from me [1]. Not wanting to spend $1000+ for a new iPhone, I figured I'd just get a Pixel 7 Pro since it's a bit cheaper and I never really considered myself an Apple loyalist.

Going to Android, however, meant my Apple Watch would not be terribly useful anymore, so I was left with the decision of "do I buy a Google watch, or do I just go back to one of my 'dumb watches'?"

I opted for the latter, and now I'm kind of glad I did. The watch I am wearing right now is a Casio from 2016 that still works fine, doesn't need to be recharged every day, and ironically I can get fixed by a whole bunch of places for a very cheap rate should it ever break.

Obviously it doesn't do as much as the Apple or Pixel watches do, but honestly I wasn't using most of the features in the Apple Watch anyway, and for telling time I actually think the Apple Watch kind of sucks.

Also, for those wondering, I really really hate the Pixel 7 Pro.

[1] Before anyone says anything, I have reported the phone stolen to both Apple and the NYC police, and they have all the relevant IMEI stuff so in theory it shouldn't be turning up in any kind of black market.
I swear i heard the lecture about class at least 10 times. Also most of interaction i had with java was working with legacy software. Not great.
The legislation freezes development in time. It's unlikely that anything will be able to replace USB-C any time soon, because it is legislated in place.

I'd rather see the tech continue to improve and let the marketplace decide what tech is superior.
Yeah I have been burned so now I have learned my lesson. I have also been burned regarding credit cards and SIM not working overseas so I have lived and learned.

When traveling overseas for the very first time, I made sure to go to my local bank and ask them to 'enable' my account and detailed the countries I'd be going to and the duration. My bank offers no fees when using ATMs overseas but the bank charges fees for giving me foreign currency while at the the branch so I thought let me just enable my card and then get money from the ATM. I can save 5 bucks.

The same thing was done for my cell phone. My carrier (tmobile) had a different plan where you can use the phone overseas and so I thought ok let me switch over to that plan so that when I arrive I have cell service. (This was many years ago)

When I arrived (ironically in Ireland lol) my cell phone didn't work and my ATM card wouldn't work either. :/

I had to take the bus to my location and I had no money...

Thankfully Dublin airport had free WIFI and so using that + some skype credits I had, I was able to call my bank and make them enable my account and then I was able to call tmobile and have them put me on the right plan. Without that free WIFI and my quick thinking....i'd probably still be at Dublin Airport.

>Everyone makes fun of me for this, but this is why I carry a 1/2" binder with paperwork for every part of an overseas trip in individual plastic sleeves. When you land in a foreign country, you never know when/if your phone will start roaming, or you're waiting to buy a SIM, etc...

This is an excellent way to prepare and I've been doing this more since the incident but keep in mind you are paying for the cost cutting of others in paper, time and possibly frustration because you now have one more thing to taking up space that could have been allocated to something else. A more competitive market would remove these inefficiencies.
Try a used series 4 from eBay if you're curious. They have the same processor as the 5 and 6, and are dirt cheap.

For me it's been good enough to overcome "I could take it or leave it" - it's handy for reading alerts without pulling out the phone, and Google Assistant even works most of the time.

It's also nice to keep the phone on silent and just get a buzz on the wrist for calls and alarms. Plus smarthome integration if you do that.
> Verifiable computation doesn't require your faith

Isn’t it so that in general verifiable computation needs a trusted setup phase? Although it can be run between multiple parties, still one needs to have faith in their honesty.

Only a small subset of computations does not require a trusted setup phase. Proof of shuffle and threshold decryption comes to my mind as examples.
Super cool! Very clean, nice font. Some UX things I noticed:

1. In the scrolling feed on the homepage, a 0% change is shown as negative with a red down arrow

2. In the tracker page, 0% is grey (good!) but still with a down arrow, which isn't accurate

3. Might be a good idea to highlight egregious offenders over small decreases. Maybe bold the value if it's greater than 10-15%?

4. Would be cool to be able to sort to see the worst offenders!
RF part is also power hungry; the chip they use for example uses 15mA during receiving.
> Unreal Engine is open source

It doesn't look like it to me.
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal
It's not just graphics, it's everything. Look at Frostbite for example from EA. While a good shooter engine, they had to make significant changes over the years to adapt the engine to other genres of games, and that significantly bloated timelines. Jason Schreier has reporting on this if you're interested.

We kind of forget that a lot of custom engines aren't universal ones like Unity or Unreal that can adapt to anything you throw at it. Custom engines are largely hyper specific to the type of game they were making with it, everything else is experimental, untested, undocumented, or non-existent!
Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012, in conjunction with the iPhone 5, to replace its predecessor, the 30-pin dock connector.

And now that they are switching to USB-C, they are going to lose all that revenue.
One of the areas I don't see get enough attention in the housing affordability debate is the role of minimum size requirements. On top of the restrictions against multi-unit housing, even those apartments are larger than many would choose to live in given the option of something cheaper. Consider how many currently choose to live in vans, and would happily move to something of similar size with running water.

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/05/117222-how-minimum-s...
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.

Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects

And

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...

If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.

[0] Beginner friendly 2D library:

[1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/

[3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/

[4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/
Java server pages is evil.
I find this pretty interesting because I've done quite a few projects where I found the same thing they did, that you got very different results when clustering on text content and when clustering on citations, but I never wrote it up.
Unions work best in industries that have captive audience, that's why public sector, and public-sector-adjacent (e.g. infrastructure construction) unions are the ones that stick around more; no matter how bad they are, the taxpayers can't choose to shop around. Stuff either becomes more expensive (infrastructure), or worse with consumers holding the bag (public schools; consumers do shop around, but it doesn't matter much to the unions because taxpayers still pay).

Or ports are a good non-public example, it's hard to "disrupt" a port. To the extent that industry is competitive, unions would basically destroy their companies... Big 3 automakers are a great example.
via third party launchers. some of them can also handle modpacks, shaders, optifine, LAN multiplayer, etc:

https://github.com/huanghongxun/HMCL

https://github.com/PojavLauncherTeam/PojavLauncher

https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher
American nerds tend to think of laws as computer code, which is an oversimplification of a field that we don't understand (but arrogantly thing we do.)
This reminds me of how Oscar Toledo disassembled Video Chess, which ran in just 128 bytes of memory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431917

It uses lower 4 bits of 64 bytes to store the board positions (upper 4 bits is used to store other data). 64 nibbles is 32 bytes, not too far off from the 26 bytes here.
It's possible to create "impossible" shapes in real life:

https://flownet.com/ron/trips/Europe2023/pause/206.html
So now that everyone is switching cables, what will Apple do to make up all that lost revenue? People were locked into the MFI lightning cable for so long
This guy wasn't proposing anything as crazy as pay-per-bullet. There's lots of games with limited ammo and you find more in the environment. Even in Doom you might run out of ammo for your favorite gun and need to put it away until you found another ammo pack in the level. This is why Valorant has a knife you can switch to, because if you waste gun ammo you run out on your main weapon. In Fortnite you have to find ammo and weapons in chests, etc. This guy was proposing an option to pay to refill your inventory immediately. But people heard "reload" and assumed something completely different.

The real problem with his proposal is it quickly falls apart if you think about it for even a minute. It's a classic pay-to-win mechanic. And once something is pay-to-win it becomes a slippery slope and a race to the bottom for the game makers. Every game has some amount of edge cases where you're playing only to realize "Damn, I'm out, this sucks. I'd pay a buck right now to refill." But once you add in some options to pay in those scenarios, the game maker has a perverse incentive to no longer make it an edge case. Some PM will realize if they make the rare event 10x more likely they'll make 10x more $$$$ and they're off to the races. They start messing with the ammo drop rates to create "pinch points" and now your super fun game really does require you to be "paying to reload" and it's not fun anymore.

This guy was trying (and failing) to present it as a player benefit but the reality is he know exactly where this road lead. It's the same place EA games with loot boxes landed in the end.
Apple A17 Pro SoC single-core benchmark score close to Intel i9-13900K,AMD 7950X
Yeah. Some very pretty golden handcuffs.
For the reverse (computer -> phone) I use a browser extension called "The QR Code Extension." Click it and it displays a QR code to the current URL you just point your phone's camera at.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-qr-code-extens...
> Unfortunately, just as is happening here, instead of engaging with the substance of the paper on its own merits, there were widespread calls to simply retract the paper and dispose of it down the memory hole.

What's your explanation for this, what do you suppose the retraction advocates explanation is, and why might they be different?
Yikes. If the people in power are really smart though they’ll protect their constituents against greedy opportunists and fund the water transportation at cost. Maybe even paid for by taxpayers.
Well next time you fire this up, it might be fun to include additional attributes for each fish to make it like a full Pokémon index.
I do.

There are a very few circumstances where I find it more beneficial to be meeting in person. For everything else, I find Zoom (or other online video) meetings much more beneficial.

I don't have to plan extra time to get to wherever the meeting is.

I don't have to worry about the meeting room being too crowded, or noisy, or whatever.

I can have my headphones set to noise cancel, so any noise that there is in my space gets filtered out, and all I can hear is the meeting.

I am guaranteed to have my computer right there with me to take notes on or look up anything I need to reference.

In general, I get to take the meeting in my own space, with everything I need ready to hand.

I don't have to worry about the other people in the meeting spreading COVID (remember that? it never stopped being a thing).

Etc.

So unless the "meeting" is, for instance, an attempt to troubleshoot a tech issue on a computer that can't easily allow me to use Zoom's built-in Remote Control feature, tell me why, exactly, I should like Zoom meetings less than in-person meetings...?
> I think we are starting to see the cracks in the utopic vision of open source.

I don't get your logic. A proprietary company screws over customers, and that is, to you, an indication that OSS doesn't work?

Isn't it exactly the reverse? Anyway watching this saga now would be mad to continue with Unity, and would be a little wary of closed-source in general.
Brilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!