skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago, I kind of wondered about this, and mused whether I could stay for a second showing in a theater, or if I'd be shown the door. It would've mattered years ago, when I was homeless, and sometimes purchased a ticket to see a good film, and sometimes missed most of that film because I just wanted to sleep instead.

But a recent change has definitively killed this idea: reserved seating. Reserved seating was never a thing in these United States, not in the major cities where I lived. You showed up at the box office and it was General Admission for any seats you could take, first-come, first-served.

But a few years ago, I became aware of an independent theater nearby which had reserved seating. And sometime in the past 12 months, reserved seating has been introduced as standard to both major chains that dominate my hometown.

So if your ticket is purchased for a specific seat at a specific showing, there's no way you could argue that you could stay in that seat, or any other, for the next showing, or show up early for the prior showing. You won't necessarily get challenged, but now there's an extra risk of someone else who belongs to that seat, especially in a popular film.

Movie theaters are currently struggling to reinvent themselves, and they're risking obsolescence as more blockbusters go straight-to-streaming, and direct-to-video isn't such a dirty word anymore. It's a miracle that they bounced back after the pandemic. They are now hosting live video-game events, a live Taylor Swift concert, classic films on a weekly basis, and other creative auditorium uses: I believe that your company can have a teleconference in there, too.

My local theater recently added a full bar. Alcohol at the movies wasn't a thing when I grew up. The first time I had a beer and a movie, it was in Barcelona. So far, I have not been subjected to any drunken disruptions, but the floors remain sticky as always.
I’m not sure if it needs to be productive, per se, but it’s a valid question to ask. Based on that, I don’t see your comment as being any more productive than the one you’re scrutinzing.
I'm just in the middle of installing Linux Mint on my 2017 Asus c202 because the updates stopped this summer. The c202 is still a fine machine for my uses. I've take taken the screw out of the mother board now and just reading up on how to install Linux but now ... maybe I'll wait and see if fresh updates restart coming my way.
>The terms have been changed so that all future installs can incur a fee even on older games that used unity even if the haven't been updated recently.

They'll be able to get away with that then, the weasels. Sounds like they are trying to make a golden goose and kill it in one fell swoop. The latest Unreal demos look mighty fine. Sounds like we will be seeing a bunch of games use it in the near future.

I wonder if the older engines used by older games have any way to detect installs. I'd hate to see devs who abandoned their projects years ago but are still downloadable somewhere get caught up in this.
poached from a competitor, they tried to sell the exact same service i provide to my product company.

80k base, 20% commission
I don’t know what I read, but someone said weed before all of the legalization in the last ten years was 5% THC. The stuff being sold in dispensaries now is 80-95% THC. Weed went commercial and so did the potency.

Corporate America got a hold of the industry for pure profits.
"Neural machine translation... doesn't hallucinate..." I've looked at neural MT output from Arabic and Russian, and there was lots of hallucination.
> eat an edible to go to sleep.

I could care less if people get high, but as a general principle I will never consume a drug to help me sleep unless there’s a really good (doctor consulted) reason. I think we’re just setting ourselves up for an unhealthy dependence when we do that. (besides weed always had the opposite effect on me)
My comment also contains the phrase "super interesting". Now I wonder where that comes from. However, technically to find the frequency in question you could take a white noise generating sound source and connect that to an EQ with an audible dB boost in a narrow range and sweep that through the entire frequency range until you tune it to match the noise in your ear. To create a filtered noise track you could apply a high pass filter and a low pass filter in combination to "bracket" that range and create a narrow band of noise. Enjoy the silence, and check out Aphex Twin (start with: selected ambient works 2). :)
It's very bad at trees for some reason. Also mushrooms, but I thought that might be intentional so they don't get blamed for someone eating something poisonous that was misidentified.

PlantNet often works better for trees.
Well yeah, that’s what is so mind boggling about the whole thing. They are trying to do something that’s likely illegal in terms of contract law. It’s also just abundantly stupid given the social cost. There was a super clean way to do the whole transition where you announce the changes going forward starting 1 Jan 2024. You show examples of what costs will be and stress that that the pricing is an order of magnitude cheaper than Unreal, and everyone feels like it’s fair (though nobody loves price increases). Someone needs to fire their CEO.
It's not fraud. They are not misrepresenting anything, or getting any money that doesn't belong to them.

If it's illegal, it will just be invalid. What means that people could just not pay them. There's no jail time coming out of this.
The average person (at least in the US) does not consider the world’s largest retailer, with a well known reputation for being the cheapest, an option? I don’t buy that.
https://archive.ph/SkKbm
> That is why every product, no matter how noble it starts off, eventually degenerate into Marl-fodder.

The big reason for that is that people do not want to pay for quality content or services. Ask any HN commenter if you doubt me. So companies instead focus on growth to get the ad cents from the millions of impressions, or trick "whales" by manipulating their addiction in the same manner as casinos.

As long as people call anybody a fool for paying for online services, don't expect things to improve.
Git is much more data focused than all the other VCS.
Sure, exposes details that complicates its usage for novices users, but it makes everything more maintainable and extensible in the long run.
They seem to be linking to gambling sponsors - I've notived most open source projects don't. Why is this?
The deception is that glasses cost a lot, and you need insurance to help with the cost.

In truth the insurance is just a scam because glasses cost 1/10th what they say.

Now that would be OK if there was actual competition, but there isn't, they are basically a monopoly - as soon as a competitor arises they buy them.

Online glasses are not the same market as a physical store where you can try them on.
poached from a competitor, they tried to sell the exact same service i provide to my product company, and they did a great job.
This video[1] talks a bit about this from a lawyer's point of view and is a really good overview.

For people who are not paying as much attention to this I'd like to summarize the main points of frustration.

1. Unity has just shown they believe they are able, and they are willing, to change the terms on what you have to pay them. What are the bounds to terms like this? What if Unity is tight on money and decide to squeeze developers further? The risk to continuing business with Unity is very high as you have unknown future exposure.

2. The monetization model they've chosen is tied to installs, not revenue. On the initial day of announcement they even claimed re-installs would count but they've since walked that back (or "clarified a miscommunication"). Unity has been extremely wishy-washy on how they even plan to track this mentioning proprietary systems they can't elaborate on and your only recourse is to appeal if you think they got the numbers wrong. This is not a metric tied to your revenue and is difficult to plan around.

There are a lot of people arguing against a strawman of people who don't want to pay unity but that is not at all what this is about. Unity chose a terrible model they can't even explain for how they want to bill people and apply it to all past games that use the engine for all future sales.

This would be similar to if Microsoft said everyone who ever built anything on C# has to start paying a fee for every future install because it includes the .net runtime.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGMrebXypJo
Lazy Git ftw
> Did Unity recently get acquired, new investors or new management?

Nope. They bought Weta tools and the investment haven't paid out and probably won't be soon if ever, now they are desperate for money.
TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers
It could also be the psychiatrist realizes it's bad but, being in a group probably filled with bad habits, has to pick which battles to fight.
Actually been thinking the same. Ancient cultures had more meaning, respect for ancestors, etc.
I got a bill from the guys that sold me my claw hammer. Apparently I have to pay a per nail charge on top of the $40 I paid for it.
Snoop Project OSINT tool search by username on 3200 sites
It definitely is, though? My character runs out of stamina making the short run from base airlock to my ship at Red Mile, on a 2g planetoid. Compare that to a low g moon where I can run for ages.
Slow your roll. Anecdotal information.

You can purchase concentrates which are oils or resins at high THC percentages. These are manufactured from plant material to concentrate it not unlike making orange juice concentrate.

The theoretical physical limit of THC development in the plant is around 30%. You cannot find flower that will test much higher than that - if that.

Yes it’s more potent than it was due to - drumroll - modern agricultural practices.

This kind of misinformation parroting is really no bueno.
I've always found the MyNoise tinnitus track to be mysterious but it seems to work at least for a short amount of time:

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera...
This is continuously presenting me with a captcha in a loop. :(
More information on the json format:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ip-rang...
I meant “in the implicit context of having successfully destroyed all your competitors [potentially by doing things other than just selling a better product, harder], and then being put on trial for anti-trust allegations.”
They can't force you to pay. The only leverage or legal claim they have is if you want to update your title after Jan 2024, then they can ask you to get up to date on your account.
> By continuing the way we are, toward ever-increasing consumption of resources and ever-growing inequality, we are racing towards humanitarian disasters the likes of which have never been seen before.

What do you mean by ever growing inequality? Global inequality has decreased in recent decades. (Thanks largely to China and to a lesser extent India moving from abject poverty to middle income status.)

By some measures we are also using less resources than we used to. Eg peak resource usage in the US, as measured in total _mass_ of stuff flowing through the economy, peaked sometime in the 1930s.

Have a look at the amount of energy used per dollar of GDP produced, too. Eg at https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...
I forgot about this OS, nice to see it still being developed. I will have to keep it in mind for use somewhere.
I’ve been asking the exact same question. There is so clearly a better way to have handled this whole thing it makes you wonder whether the person in charge of this transition is simply incompetent, or actually negligent. If I were a shareholder, I might consider suing.
> I normally don't reply to stuff like this because you are clearly arguing in bad faith.

I’m not sure why you’d feel the need to come back and do a victory lap. You’ve thoroughly debunked the idea that the Discord search UX is less than stellar by pointing out that you personally built and maintain your own search UX based off of API that is both universally understood and governed by a TOS that none could possibly misinterpret.
Orig headline: Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Headline used here: Cannabis use disorder and subsequent risk of depression and bipolar disorder

Specifically, what makes the latter - an Editorialized and Misleading version of the former?
> Submarines also use the same phenomenon

For clarity, the submarines fix their voice but adjust their weight by pumping or flooding their ballast tanks
just throwing out there that ActivityPub has been given Recommendation status at the W3C (what is a recommendation? https://www.w3.org/standards/)

ATProto is a NIH reinvention of the wheel by a "public benefit LLC" of unclear ownership* that has demonstrated time and again its unwillingness to take a seat at the table within a group like the W3C or the IETF in protocol development.

What is ActivityPub, you may ask? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

* EDIT: I completely missed there was Bluesky $8M seed round in July, lol. It's now a public benefit C Corp whatever that means.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...
My main reason for going AMD was Linux support.
This has been cooking my brain, now I must know :)
That WalMart link is to decorative glasses, not prescription glasses.

So here's the thing with WalMart and Luxottica - their insurance does not fully cover WalMart! They give you a significantly reduced amount with WalMart (or Costco), that's how you know it's fraudulent - they only want to cover their own stores, that's not a normal behavior for "insurance".
well, believe it or not, hyperbole can't put you in jail for long, of at all. 1st Amendment.

if hate speech is protected (it is) then hyperbole is protected (it is).

you weren't allowed to say those things because you needed to change your corporate culture. changing how you speak at work is very effective at that.

Google somehow believe that if they also dodge the phrases of the past that they will escape the scrutiny of the past, implying that they think government regulators are stupid and won't be able to see what is really happening.

Google have been very, very foolish in thinking in that way.
> But that comma will have the exact same price between 2 contending lossy compressions.

Why do you think that? Do you have proof of that?

> making you measure the correct thing

If we're trying to measure knowledge, then the exact wording is not part of being correct.

Very often you will have to be less correct to match wikipedia's working. A better lossy encoding of knowledge would have a higher cost to correct it into a perfect match of the source.
Oh... that exists?! Thanks!
This is known as a Virtual Power Plant.[0] In the case of this cryptocurrency company, they are selling the electricity that they "would" be consuming if it wasn't being bought back from them. If they hadn't "sold" it back to the grid, it wouldn't have been available to be used by other customers.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant
I downvoted this because you’re making a interesting claim but it’s frankly irresponsible to not even try to source it.
Are you implying there are levels of cannabis use that are zero risk?
I agree. I really hate having to jump all over a file (or multiple files!) for something that could fit into a single page of linear code.
For this piece of tech, he is Carmack. He is Knuth. He deserves respect for the work he’s done in this problem space, it actually is gaming changing the way it works.

Why disrespect what’s been achieved here?
> why certain substances were banned in the first place

You obviously have no idea why cannabis was banned in the US.

It wasn't banned because of harm to individuals or to society. It certainly can do those things, but there was no scientific basis for the original ban.

It was banned because of a massive propaganda campaign by Harry Anslinger, who fabricated evidence that cannabis was a drug of immigrants, non-White Americans, and criminals. Anslinger was incredibly racist and had no respect for science or the truth.

He once said, "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men." If you think we're "rediscovering why [marijuana was] banned in the first place," you could not be more wrong.
A lot of naturally occurring plants are harmful, castor beans or foxglove for example.
I mostly agree. However:

> That's how so many countries managed to deforest themselves when wood fires were still state of the art.

It was mostly ship building that deforested eg the countries around the Mediterranean and Britain. Firewood was mostly harvested reasonably sustainably from managed areas like coppices in many places. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing
What these guys are doing in UK is commendable, but the title of this post is utterly misleading. The UK is no longer the center of the world, and it was never the center of the human evolution. Please change the title to "Library has every book ever published in the UK". To be fair, that's what the poster says as the first sentence in this video, but while writing the title for this video, he seems to have left out the part "in the UK".

People like me would be misled to think that there is an org out there that is keeping copies of everything that was ever published in the whole world. That would be an impossible task, hence I clicked and spent my time to watch part of the video.
Show HN: Rentables, the Community Rental Marketplace
What started as a learning project that solved a problem of mine, snowballed into a product that I'm working to grow.

It's called Rentables. It's a community marketplace that allows anyone to rent their things to their community.

I'm big on DIY, but with every project I do I'm always finding myself buying a new tool, using it once, and then it lives in the shed collecting dust.

This was a problem I thought I could solve, and so I set myself the challenge to build something that did. I believe the concept has the potential to change behaviour around buying, and make so many things accessible to everybody.

I've built this as a solo-dev, completely bootstrapped, and I'm wanting to grow this into something great.

Right now I'm starting small – I'm working with my local community, engaging with people on a small scale to iron out as many user wrinkles, iterating, rinse and repeat.

They key challenge I'm trying to overcome at the moment is the dichotomy of a two-sided network, and ensuring that I'm focusing on the right audience at the right time. For now I see the most important audience being the Owners who will be listing their items. Doing that should help develop more of a catalogue of items, in turn making the platform more appealing to renters.

It's not perfect, but I know there's a lot of bright minds here on HN so I wanted to share and hopefully get some feedback, perspectives and challenges on how I'm approaching things. All of these will help me, and Rentables grow.

Edit: It's currently locked down to Australian sign ups so that I can keep it manageable.
ignore the major labels, there is a vibrant world of new music being released on indie labels! http://avant.fm
What do you mean? There are absolutely people willing to buy stolen art.
Good use for git scraping https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/
That's a great idea!

It'd be awesome if someone automated that and threw it up on github but that's just me being lazy.
Early on, I was definitely a proponent for hg over git. I assumed it would at the very least remain a peer, given how much more sane the UX is. I was wrong though, and I don't think it's just because of github.

Named branches being baked in turned out to actually be a real pain in mercurial. Sure, you can use bookmarks (and we did) but starts to quickly feel like you're swimming against the current.
> has to pick which battles to fight.

One can also pick how to battle. A hostile zero tolerance edict wasn't necessary to anything.
> Obviously this is not a real argument against what you said, but the same thing happened with smoking.

They showed the link between smoking and cancer with a mountain of empirical evidence, including tests on mice. https://www.mskcc.org/news/how-do-cigarettes-cause-cancer

> Cannabis is federally illegal in the United States

Nobody cares anymore.

> I'd highly advise you to consider only the known benefits of using cannabis

Sugar has no health benefits and causes way more deaths. If you want to really change the world for the better, I suggest a war on ice cream.

> Treat any form of smoking, including smoking cannabis, with high suspicion, as it involves inhaling large concentrations of combustion products.

Finally, we agree: consume edibles.
I understand that. What’s the proposed change?

The labels and artists are ok with current Spotify/Apple/etc streaming rates.

I actually kind of like just buying albums at $10 a pop and storing them on my own cloud and streaming them around to wherever I want. That’s 12 albums a year so not terrible. And I own them forever.

and when I buy from an indie artist they get like $5-10 per album instead of $1.
Works for me on a dedicated IP. They were down the other day so maybe some residual issues. Try here

https://web.archive.org/web/20230915001212/https://www.theat...
Source of the reddit post [1] with the web archive link [2].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_sile...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220716084623/https://github.co...
I wonder if no maps makes things "feel bigger" (in the same way that streaming services seem unwilling to just give you a list of what they have).
Deleting things never makes a sound. The word silently is added entirely for the connotation that it was meant to be secret. Since such an action would never go unnoticed, it's obvious that it wasn't meant to be secret, so that word is clearly misplaced. If the author wanted to imply it was bad, they should just come out and say it, with a word like despicably.
Can you clarify why you believe this, rather than just posting a shallow dismissal? "Horseshit" does nothing to help me understand your point of view other than make it clear you feel something very strongly.
I found this page had very easy to understand visuals

https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/git-tutorial-objects-refer...
An open source ISA isn't the same as a design. They are radically different, in order to use an ISA you need IP design. The companies that are gaining ground with RISC-V are all largely IP vendors, which is exactly what Arm is. It's just shifting where the dollars go.
Everyone who goes to Walmart (majority of the US?) sees this section at the front of the store when they walk in or out:

https://www.walmart.com/browse/health-medicine/prescription-...

I see lots of $30 and $60 options.

The insurance is only a thing because the tax code allows it as a way for employers to pay people with untaxable money in the form of insurance, so it is not a real insurance market.
Then just specify that new greenfield projects created after [date] won’t be licensed for previous versions of the engine, and that anyone with a project currently in development has until [date] to register their existing use.
Yes. I believe I said as much in the second half of my comment.
Not everyone who posts here is a coder but I do agree with you the narcissism and astro-turfing on HN is high.

I suspect the high-confidence/narcissist combination is especially high here due to this being an industry/entrepreneurial forum where being confidently wrong is a positive trait.

The astro-turfers appealing to the confidently wrong go by unnoticed to the majority.

The abstract of the study states the metric for over-confidence they developed is "the tendency to give incorrect answers rather than ‘don’t know’ responses to questions on scientific facts". I think that's true. I maintain that being confidently skeptical of confident claims and research is not the same thing.