skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VFX makes 0 sense to me as a business especially in todays over saturated content world. I have friends in DNEG were each movie has 100-200 people working on 20-25 minutes worth of footage for an ENTIRE fucking year. Thousands of people basically. And its a coin toss whether these movies are going to get the views.

Whenever I ask them how the fuck can such a business work, they just tell me erm we are just artists and coders. The job pays well so we dont ask the corporate robots too many questions about it.

And I keep pushing them to do so, cuz it doesnt make any sense given the costs involved unless it some elaborate walter white money laundering op.
Yeah it's definitely steep, but just to put it in perspective it's something like a 7% gradient
CSV would be great if there were one CSV, and if you absolutely guarantee that nobody has "improved" the CSV by editing it with a spreadsheet program (including opening it with a spreadsheet program) or their own deft little fingers in a text editor.

For example:

"Look, this contains \"quotes\"!",012345

Or:

"Look, this contains ""quotes""!",012345

Or, for some degenerate examples:

"Look, this contains "quotes"!",012345

Or:

Look, this contains "quotes"!,012345

Or the spoor of a spreadsheet:

"Look, this contains ""quotes""!",12345

Theoretically, JSON isn't immune to being hand-hacked into a semi-coherent mess. In practice, people don't seem to do that to JSON files, at least not that I've seen. Ditto number problems, in that in JSON, serial numbers and such tend to be strings instead of integers a "helpful" application can lop a few zeroes off of.
I'm not worried, as creative destruction is progress for the typical consumer.
Containing regional electrical grid: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/JP-HR?wind=false&solar=...

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

826 MW nameplate rating.
nushell does too:

/tmp/> "Name,Department,Salary
::: John Doe,IT,60000
::: Jane Smith,Finance,75000
::: Alice Johnson,HR,65000
::: Bob Anderson,IT,71000" |
::: from csv |
::: select Name Salary |
::: sort-by -r Salary
╭───┬───────────────┬────────╮
│ # │ Name │ Salary │
├───┼───────────────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ Jane Smith │ 75000 │
│ 1 │ Bob Anderson │ 71000 │
│ 2 │ Alice Johnson │ 65000 │
│ 3 │ John Doe │ 60000 │
╰───┴───────────────┴────────╯
I think the commenter you are responding to does not have enough faith in humanity. Most people I know (anecdotal and biased sampling I know) do check that number when shopping, especially for interchangeable items that don't have a well-know brand such as flour or baking powder.
"Our terms of service provide that Unity may add or change fees at any time... Consent is not required for additional fees to take effect." -- Unity spokesperson

Never do business with a company that thinks this is OK.
What about my statement is "?"
Why would they rush? Customer will ultimately pay for infrastructure not Amazon.
FTA:

> By midday Friday, UAW's verified check was reinstated. The Intercept's reporter, Ryan Grim, posted on X, writing, "Elon put the blue check back up. Maybe the Big Three will fold this fast too."
Another statistic from your source

> Around 2.3 billion people in the world (29.3%) were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021

It’s easy to talk on a forum like this, where the median salary is massive compared to global/country median, that poor people shouldn’t be able to afford as much bad food. I think when you do so you’ve lost touch with the average person who is affected by things like shrinkflation.
Just as there is hard and soft sci-fi, fantasy makes different levels of committment to realism. D&D has always been a flippant pastiche with little grounding in history.
I get the point but the reason a government will want to ban VPNs is that the VPN will provide some level of anonymity. A corporate VPN plausibly might run afoul of that want but a home VPN will pretty accurately identify at least the home from which a request was made. I'm sure that's sufficiently identifiable.

"VPN users" is a phrase which generally refers to "users of VPN services" and not "people who manage their home network".
Finite state machines then. I never used more than 3 cases unless I had to write one.
I said:

> sending the full dataset (*which could be fine if it's small*)

In the specific case of search/filter pages, I prefer the server-side rendered experience as a user. If I want to just check the box for RAM and search instantly, I can do that. But if I want to build a more complex query I don't need it to keep updating over and over.

I don't necessarily hate the auto-updating pages if they are implemented well. I just don't think they're any better, so why waste dev hours on it? It costs money to maintain that code, and the more of these pointless little JS applications you bake into your website the more expensive it is to build and maintain.
No-one is "losing out" by not having their personal data harvested, sold, and used willy-nilly - it might come as a surprise to some, but having one's rights be respected is actually beneficial.
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True, though ironic that also OP is implicitly making the argument for GraphQL-like interfaces ("just specify the data that you want returned" rather than "get all the data, then process it"), which are themselves the New Hotness in some areas.
> Our key insight is that the process of citation needs to be handled outside the LLM.

I can imagine taking the citation tree and using the LLM to compact the hypotheses, results, etc. for each node in the tree and sticking that in the vector database could get you pretty far.
A commenter on the Ars article pointed out this from the Unity FAQ (https://unity.com/pricing-updates) and I can’t get over it:

———

Will developers be charged the Unity Runtime Fee for subscription-based games?

No, in this case the developer is not distributing it so we’re not going to invoice the developer on subscription-based games (e.g. Apple Arcade, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, Netflix Games, etc.)

———

Surely Unity management can’t think this will fly? Surely MS, Apple etc. have contracts with developers that say they have the full rights to distribute the games under some arranged fee structure. Is Unity now just going to go to them and say “Hey, those contracts you have actually don’t give you the right to distribute the parts we own. You’ll have to pay us too!”. That just seems so unrealistic.

And, further, even if that ‘works’ MS, Apple etc. would surely then have a legal case against the developers, who represented that they were assigning full distribution rights to the games, to make them pay anyway.

This all just seems like a giant ill thought through mess, and I think this ‘subscription’ question and answer is indicative of how the entire thing was planned. Is Unity management really so naive that they think this will work? Are they just following the whims of a CEO with no legal input? Did they just not think this through? Are they _trying_ to get all this into litigation?

Usually with things like this, where there’s a lot of online sound and fury, I can make a ‘well, they probably intend for this result, that’s why they’re doing it like this’ judgement. But this just seems like chaos and I am finding it so hard to understand how any of this was decided.
A lot of the movement ones are more noticeable with actual movement so scrolling a little bit could help. I notice them popping more when I scroll through his twitter feed.
Then don’t forget https://monocypher.org as well. Bigger than libhydrogen but still small enough for many targets, faster across the board, and compatible with libsodium. If you can spare a couple more KB of flash in your microcontroller, you can get very good performance on the device and use libsodium on the server to scale like crazy.

It also doesn’t hurt that there is basically 1 header and 1 source file (2 of each with the options), which you can trivially copy & paste into your project.
I don't think any leadership team has hired McKinsey because they think McKinsey does a world class job at leading software projects.

McKinsey is in the business of reputation laundering. They start the process by building up reputation. They hire from prestigious schools, have prestigious customers, make themselves a household name for the people that matter.

Then when you need someone to make an unpopular decision for you, or take the blame for a project failure, they swoop in and take you money in exchange for taking the reputation hit. It's fine, they know how to grow more reputation when necessary, and everyone at your org or in the media if the situation calls for it, points to them and says "what a bad/stupid/down right evil decision McKinsey made!" while remain the responsible person who tried their best by hiring what you and your peers thought was the best.
In my experience Proton works so well now that the only games that don’t work are those with really invasive anti-cheat systems
Handing over some bank notes also has the property of "non-repudiation" but that doesn't mean that just because I paid you in cash you get necessarily get away with not upholding your end of our agreement. Bank transfers also have this "non-repudiation" property in practice as well. That hasn't stopped us from using them for payment while also enforcing the terms of contracts.
Far as I can tell, it still does. Nothing more annoying when chasing a bug than being forced to look up a password I haven't used for several months in order to use the debugger.
Electromagnetic radiation and ionising radiation are two very different things. Phones emit electromagnetic radiation. EMR is by far the less harmful of the two health wise - a phone will at worst heat tissue to imperceptible levels. Is this a serious issue for owners to even worry about?
Note that HN comments are not a useful source for legal or medical advice; please consult with a professional regarding the legal and medical concerns expressed.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, I don't work for Apple in any capacity.)
If it’s two gummy bears a year, a decade later it’s an empty bag.
I do think it would be very strange to write an article with the headline “Ex-Cops mock a new office policy”

It’s a very pointless article and it’s strange to focus on a few random people’s opinions on something that does not have obvious importance. Especially when hundreds of thousands of workers who are active.

One of these people seem to be a former entry level worker. Why? This is less valid than “some people on Twitter said”
Looks fun! And always nice to be able to grab the handle you want when you are one of the first to join
When you say keys, do you mean coins?
I don't know what you mean with "exhibition" precisely; I'd expect that to be true for blindfold chess (where you have to keep all the games in memory the whole time), but not for normal simultaneous as the strong player hardly has to think to find moves good enough to beat random players.
Anytime I manage I refuse to track dev productivity individually. Its all about how much functionality (complexity points) gets net accepted in prod per unit of time from the whole team.

If you measure at the team level you get collaboration and much better solutions. It's a friendlier and more rewarding way to work with little turnover. It encourages product, dev and QA to work together and solve user problems in economical ways, not just throw solutions over the fence to the next stage.

And yeah sure I know if there's someone not performing up to their pay rate, you don't need numbers for that, you need to be involved and looking at their code.
Doing the rounds just about everywhere: “Yes, you can measure software developer productivity” https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
Finally I can choose a game engine and start learning game development
How does this compare to Rustic?
you can also cancel individual services too. For example, I'm canceling Disney plus. I may turn on for a month or two next year to catch up on the new movies but I need to cancel it pretty quickly afterwards. I subscribed to Paramount plus to catch up on Star Trek. When the season is done, it goes away.

enough people do this, and then the streaming services will try to fix that by insisting on long-term contracts for short-term life for the content on the service. At which point, it is not worth subscribing.
Maybe at the 101 level, but I think when we talk at the quantum level, the coyote may be on to something.

The whole Schroedingers cat thing and about state collapsing to “reality” under observation as manifest when the coyote, suspended in mid air, looks down and THEN a suddenly falls.

I bet there’s a lecture buried in that phenomenon somewhere. IANAQM.
You know, I can't help but feel that the whole climate change response is similar to ipv6. You keep hearing about adaptions and progress and everyone is afraid to admit we're stuck with ipv4 because the v6 cult is too loud and scary if you mentioned what an overengineered PITA v6 is. We just want extra octets, make that work.

Dear loud and scary climate people: we just want nuke power and better infra and city planning that needs less cars and nuke powered railways and cargo ships (see how insane cargo and cruise ship pollution is).

I promise you, your great grand kids will use a fossil fuel powered vehicle of some sort the way things are going.
In general, I think the following rule applies to any tech company:

1. Keywords present or CV goes to trash

2. Good intro (2 lines) at the top of CV. Good structure (don't list a "Skills" section just hanging around alone. Put the skills you have used next to the jobs in which you have used them). Don't say "Used Java and K8s and CI/CD to build microservices" but "Built a microservice to handle incoming email requests from a third-party company" (or something better). This is for Engineering Managers who read CVs (not all of them read CVs)

3. Good layout/fonts. If your CV looks like it has been generate with Latex or similar, that leaves a good impression. This is for Engineers who read CVs (not all of them read CVs)

So, in general make sure you know that your CV is going to pass through all the layers tech companies have nowadays (e.g., if your CV is the most strucutured and beautiful latex-generated CV in the world, but it doesn't include any of the keywords HR is expecting -> it goes to trash)
I think it’s a little more complicated than that. I remember fueling up in Chalmette right before Ida, early in the morning, and by the evening or the next day the gas station was out of fuel. Would no price gouging laws have allowed them to inflate the price so much that people couldn’t afford to buy a day early like I did to be able to evacuate?
OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will the community rise to the challenge?
> juice it up or down

So what here determines if the score goes up instead of down? I’m planning on getting a mortgage soon but wife’s credit score is in high 600s. If we can make it past, 720, we are told we’ll get a better rate. So I’m curious as to how to bump up the score.
> That's incorrect. Non-mining nodes are passive, they do not cast votes.

Well you're right in that it doesn't look like casting a ballot in a box, but in practice they very much do "vote" in the sense that they decide on what rules are valid or not. This is what prevents miners from colluding and changing the rules of Bitcoin, the nodes would reject their chain. This is also what prevents developers from introducing a backdoor into the network by releasing malicious code. Node operators can vote to reject a change by not upgrading their nodes.

Inversely, if there is a rule change and the nodes of the network go along with the rule change (by their decision on what to reject or accept), then this is akin to a motion passing. The validity of blocks is not some ethereal thing, and neither are Bitcoin rules written on stone tablets by God. These things are the result of very human deliberation and code commits (by humans).
I can get a lot more value out of hotel points between the points that the hotel gives you and what you can get from a cobranded credit card.

In the case of Hilton it’s 34x per dollar (worth around 20%) and Hyatt 9.5x per dollar also worth around 20% back.
> They don’t sell your data.

... except when they sell their domain registration business.

And yes, I realize that there's a (technical) difference between selling data and selling a business including its data assets.

But then again, maybe a really big chunk of the value of that business is its customer data.

For some business acquisitions special terminology like "aqui-hiring"[0] has evolved so it's understood that not every sale of a business is of the same nature.

And since the value of data has arguably become much higher than ever before, the distinction of selling data by itself and selling the entire business is becoming smaller as time goes on.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
My reading is that the article skips a step in its analysis. Note that I did not watch the linked video with the video game lawyer and whatever he says is probably more contextually useful than what I say:

I’d be more apt to call this an illusory contract where one party reserves the ability to choose how it performs. This destroys the mutuality of agreement in which the contract rests. In some circumstances this might get you to a win simply by escaping the contract. But not if you want damages; in this situation an equitable remedy that does not presume the existence of the contract would be exactly what you would want.

On the other hand all of these clickwrap licenses seem to reserve the right to change at any time. I think the only reason that they are not adjudicated as illusory is the existence of mandatory arbitration clauses but I’m not sure. I’d be interested in being set straight if someone reading this is more knowledgeable.
>According the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you have a much higher likelihood of contracting the disease from eating raw meat or from gardening

Cats deposit the parasite in gardens, so your suggestion that this vector of infection is unrelated to roaming cats is misleading.
> (my local scouts group asks for health insurance, medical information, allergies etc of the kids again and again for every camp they go on because they don't keep the forms around anymore for the next one like they used to) .

A lot of people were wrongly influenced by DPD consulting wannabes on their first gig. I have seen small org burn years of contacts they could have kept or easily manage in respect with the provisions of the law.
Bard is such garbage. Between Bard, and Google being Google, Gemini has an uphill battle that I just don't see as winnable.

Bard is not even comparable to GPT-3-turbo, let alone GPT-4.

It's so bad that I lose respect for people when they tell me they use it. In my personal testing of it, the contradictions between its multiple drafts are jarring. For example, in a comparison of three NPM modules, it claimed each of the packages was "fastest" in the three different "drafts" it produced.

And what does Google even plan to do with any sort of comparable model? Mine your chats for advertising data? Make chat responses gameable by "Chat Engine Optimization Experts"?

At least Meta makes their AI "open-source." But a closed source model by Google has exactly one possible outcome: killedbygoogle.com

Edit: removed unnecessary judgement about meta.
> D&D has always been a flippant pastiche with little grounding in history.

But it has often represented itself as more than that.
Allowing a user to add system certificates a good thing. The user owns the device.
I think Google is actually working on this:

> In addition, Google is updating its Find My Device experience to make it easier to locate devices by ringing them or viewing their location on a map — even if they’re offline, it says.

> This, too, will arrive later this summer, along with new support for Bluetooth trackers from Tile, Chipolo, and Pebblebee, as well as audio devices like Pixel Buds and headphones from Sony and JBL.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/googles-find-my-device-net...
exactly this, well said. If Obama actually committed crimes while in office I'll listen to the evidence with an open mind, sure go after him. The right want to give trump a free pass for insurrection. There's a huge difference between the two mindsets, and I can't not call out anyone for still supporting him that happens to cross my social-media path. I'll use downvotes, too. I'm not going to do nothing while actual US fascism creeps upward, not sure what the parent commenter expects.
they moved everything to London in 2020. Bytedance are already under US and EU sanctions.
We're going to have state I.D to use any popular website alongside remote attestation and you guys are cheering us along the path there with cases like this
An Exact Equivalence for Finite Classification Models
We re-explore the path kernel result from Domingos and address some errors and limitations from his approach to derive an exact and practical kernel representation.
US hegemony. The US makes policy for much of the world
Can you compare vs eg Duplicati?

Do you (sorry, but just checking) repeatedly test backups? Eg pull monthly and bit verify that they're correct? Are you aware of anyone testing in this way?

Thanks so much!
McKinsey is normalized industrial espionage. You pay them to validate what you're doing against your competitors. They'll tell you if you're ahead or behind. McKinsey is in business because McKinsey is in businesses.
Covert Delivery of Cobalt Strike Beacon via Sophos Phishing Website
For CSV? DuckDB, Datasette, awk, pawk, and tons of others.
If only they put so much effort into rescuing humans who put their lives at risk to assist them.
Everything comes down to the cost of shelter being too high.
Yeah, like you say, it's a massive grey area and impossibly complicated question with no definitive answers (though you listed a few things that sound in the right direction to me). My point is if you're starting your decision-making process from this perspective:

> If you can pay less someone for the same result, it's an obvious win.

then you need to take a step back and re-evaluate what it is you are doing on this Earth.
Consoles no longer require specialized hardware to develop for. There are test kits for ps5 but you can compile on your PC. Where are you getting your information from? The only requirement is a header or two and a code sign. Godot OSS can’t support consoles because the SDK (those headers) are closed source, but there’s nothing stopping you from implementing the half dozen header functions in Godot source yourself. There’s some companies trying to provide that support. I’m sure Godot* (the company) will as well.

To dismiss Godot because you, a solo hobby dev, can’t target PS5 is hilarious.
If developers signed agreements to that effect, yes, in America. There are fairness tests in many other countries.

What is blowing my mind is that developers have been signing agreements which effectively gave Unity the right to take any revenue they wish, at any time. At that point the developers don’t own their company anymore. Unity does. Always have a lawyer check your agreements before you sign them. If your business relies on an agreement to function, make sure the other party can’t make unilateral changes.
Removing the checkmark from the UAW's Twitter account is in no way regulating the institution itself. Musk even relented and put the checkmark back.

Don't get me wrong - the unchecked power of billionaires in a society converging towards military industrial oligarchy and centralized control of consensus reality through the media, full of easily controlled and manipulated voters pathologically afraid of effective government, is definitely a problem worth being afraid of. But this isn't an example of it. This is just another "rich babyman throws his toys out of the pram" moment for Musk.