skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title, especially in light of the stuff that went on with Unity, makes one think that this will affect a much wider group of people than it actually does.

Unreal was never "free for all". For game development, there has always been revenue thresholds.

The new licensing is around commercial use outside of game development, and will also be revenue threshold based. Meaning, just like with game development, if your project is making you money over X threshold, then the licensing kicks in.

The title is misleading.
Fair if we want to go down the "hedge" approach. My point still stands, they don't all exist to beat the s&p500.
I dunno how mainstream it is, but this opinion very definitely exists.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173288/tpusa-young-women-sum...

> The influencer saved her most controversial take for last: Daycare is feminist garbage too. It raises cortisol levels in children. It creates disordered attachment styles. It is pernicious poison, Marxist cancer. “I believe the feminist movement is in large part to blame for the fracturing of the traditional home, where women were coerced outside of their natural roles as mothers into the workforce,” Clark said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife
Erlang/Elixir/BEAM emphasizes share nothing, allows (encourages) a bezillion user-space processes, then executes with a thread-per-core (by default).

The actual number of schedulers (real threads) is configurable as a command line option, but it's rare, approaching unheard-of, to override the default.

Virding's First Rule of Programming ...

https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...
Note that such a baseball with the same energy as this particle would still have much more momentum than the particle. So getting hit by the particle wouldn't "leave a bruise".
Putting the burden on invididuals for averting the climate crisis is a form victim-blaming. It’s long been clear that only concerted collective action will be effective in producing real change.

This is why so many free-market, minimal-state absolutists are so prone to putting their fingers in their ears and pretending climate change is not a problem, or if it is, that individuals as free agents are responsible for creating it and therefore fixing it. They cannot accept the logical conclusion of the necessity of state action, as it contradicts their core beliefs.
2023: Volt Active Data’s Open Source version is now frozen
Could you get hit by this during your sleep and wake up?
I'm a 1.5 screens at work (laptop + 24" external monitor) and 1 screen at home person. Life has enough distractions.
The support they do offer just tries to get you to use features to increase your ad spend.

Also with the new VPN/Proxy they are coming out with the hide ip address you won't be able to block ip addresses of people who keep clicking your ad. I would track who signed up then block their ip from adwords so they would stop clicking the ad. Google plans to make millions providing a service to mix ip addresses and make blocking excessive ad clickers impossible.
What is the approximate price of the SiPearl’s Rhea processor?
Ozempic linked to stomach paralysis, other gastrointestinal issues: UBC study
> couldn’t we come up with a subsidy with less market distortion?

Yes. Universal childcare. Alternatively, payment for children (as a refundable tax credit or e.g. social security payment for one's first N years).
`grep` should terminate with an empty output on `stdout` and an error message on `stderr`, then `sort` will successfully sort the empty contents of `stdout`
I had my whole flight lost on me one day. I had just flown in to Philly and my connecting flight to Corning was at gate A7 (or whatever the terminal said). I proceeded to that gate and found the gate completely empty and nothing on the monitor. I waited until it was about ten minutes before boarding time and still crickets. I walked to another gate and asked the agent behind the counter about the flight. A bunch of tapping and they said there wasn't any record of that flight and that they couldn't help me. Uh, ok... I next went to the customer service desk, and the agent there did a bunch more tapping and finally said, "oh, here, the gate is H1". Where the heck is H1? "It's that brown building on the other side of the runway, you can see through the window". The hanger?? "Uh... yes." Huh? "<shrug>". I finally went out through security and into the ticketing line and said, "I don't know what is going on, but can I get a seat on the next flight going to Corning?" The agent had a heck of a time trying to cancel my ticket, as it kept telling them there was no ticket even though they could still bring it up on screen.

Finally a supervisor figured it out. Somebody had cancelled the flight, moved everybody to other flights, and then killed the flight record. For some reason, my ticket was still booked on a now non-existent flight, and that confused the hell out of the system and made it give weird info (such as the flight was in the hanger, or that my ticket didn't exist). The supervisor had to re-create the flight, move my ticket off it, and then delete the flight again.
Thanks for following up! Appreciate it. We’ve been investing quite a bit of effort over the past few months into tracking down and understanding issues like this that are caused by our various privacy protections, so it’s nice to hear that things are improving.
Heh, no. The PC was intro'd before the album. ;)
The point Julia makes about `grep` resonate with me alot! I have the same (call it problem if you want) issue with `ps`. There is only one variation of ps I know of (`ps aux`) and if I want to change that I have to either look for the options in the man page or google it.
Not sure you could argue that Unreal Engine hasn't provide any actual value, it basically helped spawn a whole new area in film production via the whole "Virtual Production Sets" that you can build with Unreal Engine.
Yes but what market? That was my point, nothing to do with why they are named as they are. Sure, many in the 2-20 bubble had this weird existence where they did not really do much but in general its hard to make a statement about their AUM and returns compared to the S&P500 without know what they were trying to achieve.
No, we just called them PCs or XTs or -- rarely! they were expensive! -- ATs.

BTW 3090 was a mainframe, IIRC.
Did you try any alternatives to adsense? https://hostadvice.com/blog/monetization/ads/adsense-alterna...
Ok interesting angle to look at the other side of the monetary flow. Thanks for that.
The big leap up from VMS in terms of performant concurrent users for us was when we switched to using a Sequent Symmetry, now that's another long dead system giant. Poor Dynix.
I've turned down a couple jobs because they would have required me to use Windows.

I don't hate Windows, I just like working in my little unix-like Mac world. Of course I can do the whole "Run a mini Linux inside Windows so you can actually code", but I just don't want to.

For some types of dev it's essential, like if I were building stuff in Visual Studio. But I'm doing web dev. Typescript, React, serverless. There's no reason I can't use a Mac for that other than the company being lazy and not wanting to support them for whatever baseless reasons.
> People also like to install their own software on their devices beyond the software that Apple makes.

Omg this, can Apple please stop sabotaging Google Maps and Google Photos :(
Doesn't always work this way but:

Smaller Monitor: Comms (email, calendar, slack, etc) -- often times I have this vertical (top email/cal and slack below) and it doubles for viewing dashboards for stats during troubleshooting.

Bigger monitor: Focus work (terminal, development env, etc) - normally split in 3 columns

Laptop Screen: Browsing (research, WebUI interfaces, entertainment, etc)
Newsletters were cool until now everyone’s doing it.

Spammed my email with subpar / spam writing

What’s the next stage for these content creators?
The audience of the site is very entrepreneurial and as such is libertarian leaning by and large.

Which is to say you shouldn't be terribly surprised that there is a general strain of "don't tread on me" in the discourse. Simply being told what to do is enough to elicit a strong negative response.
I've never been happier to be out of the in-group than I am on the day I learned Iranian prisons are part of the in-group.
Abstract Rewiring
JSON discourages but does not forbid duplicate keys. In case of duplicate keys browsers generally let the last instance win. So if you want to be compatible with that, you always must read the whole document.
Sounds lovely

At this point in the political universe these are the only measures that get through. We are living in a post policy era of governance. Hopefully the wonks can find some way to get the upper hand again, but I’m not optimistic.
RAG is much closer to how the human brain works than fine tuning a model is. Arguably, RAG points to the existence or the beginnings of AGI. The computer can take new information and use it to inform their answer.
Maybe People Don't Want Self-Driving Cars After All
Texas has an amendment coming up for vote next month to allow municipalities to cut property tax on properties used for child care. Was a pleasant surprise to see real good incentives tied to a change.
I feel lucky(-ish) that the only web Rust project I've ever really worked on is one that absolutely takes advantage of Rust's performance, Cloudflare's Pingora. But yeah, CRUD app #64326 probably should just use Rails/Django/Phoenix/Go/etc. instead of Rust.
Go JSON/v2 Package
That still doesn’t compare to the sheer size and scale of immigration to the US where immigration started at the very beginning in the 18th century, and not just in the modern era. Immigration controls were also just as terrible as Europe in prior decades in the US, and we’ve had well over a 100 year head start on dealing with both racism and assimilation. Looking at the data, it looks like the EU didn’t even really start ramping things up until around 2010.

I’m not even sure the EU can even beat Canada’s rate of immigration. Your populations are still largely homogeneous
Ask HN: Is it increasingly hard to be a good engineer?
1. With increasing number of languages, frameworks, libraries and verticals, it's overwhelming to keep up with best practices.
2. Developers need to do more than ever as everything is becoming digitalized.
3. There is a lot of hype to follow up because businesses now want AI, and before they wanted crypto and blockchain
4. Competition is huge, so the tempo is high.

Are these reasons valid, are there others as well, and is it harder to be a "good engineer"?
What resolution & DPI is I think far more important than how many displays.

I have 4. 1x 1440@27", 1x 1440@24" and 2x1080@24". If I had known 1440@24" would die out, I would have bought 3 of those instead.

For me the ideal would be a 16:10 24" screen with the same density as the 1440 16:9 models. It's the perfect size & resolution for desktop use in programming / engineering. I'd buy 3 of those, but they don't exist from reputable brands.

I don't want a single ultrawide because I like the (narrow) physical borders. It lets me organize stuff just how I like it. It also makes working with different sources easier. My desktop is plugged into everything, but I can put a laptop or embedded board onto one of the side monitors if I need to.

How I've set up mine:

- Middle 1440: Main work, usually fullscreen IDE with 2 columns of files open.

- Left 1440: Documentation, usually 2 windows side by side.

- Top left 1080: Media, usually in the background. Needed chat programs (different customers use different tools) side by side.

- Right 1080: JIRA, task lists, notes, research, running tests, running instances of programs being developed, ...

This avoids me having to use virtual workspaces to layer context. It's like a great big tool wall in a workshop:

The idea is simple: First Order Retrievability. That is, you should never have to move one tool to get to another. That in turn affords the fastest, most efficient way of working.
~Adam Savage
thanks for this great comment...i learned stuff i hadn't known for sure.
Good for you!

I'm not into social media in general, but I did join Mastodon recently in an effort to make new friends. It's fantastic! With no inscrutable central entity in control of the system it's... I don't know how to explain it. There's no algorithm.

As a side effect, now when I visit Youtube the recommendations seem to screech like the tabloid newspapers at the supermarket checkout line.
> but LineageOS can keep OS and software securities rolling past the manufacturers date.

It's unfortunately a false sense of security because you don't get security updates for any proprietary blobs that are needed for your phone. This includes baseband and SoC updates. In security, the chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
My exact thoughts and that of many others.
I don't know. The use of an LLM to help produce something isn't necessarily a bad thing -- but in my mind, it does reduce my trust in what the thing is saying. It means that if I actually care about what the paper (or whatever) is talking about, I need to spend a lot more time confirming what it's saying. If I don't care much about what the paper is talking about, I'm more likely just to discount the paper and move on.
That's what people have been saying about Windows for quite a while now. Nothing new here.
That's annoying. I see brand new accounts posting threads asking for advice all the time. Thanks. I'll attempt to post it again.

EDIT: never mind that didn't work since I am "posting too fast". Because 2 hours between posts is "too fast".
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Terraform 1.6 arrived with breaking changes
One of the add-on features was to have a back history of your spend and show you how much more cashback you could have gotten - then the add-on to this would be a card selection feature when you are about to pay so you use the credit card at that moment that would give you the highest cashback - other apps are doing this, but we would be all in one. Right now, we are focusing on simplifying the credit card selection process by showing you cards that maximize your cashback based on your spending so the card list ranking would be specific to you.
What to expect on Virgin Galactic's space tourist flight today
Agreed. Employers should provide, manage, and support work machines. I would never install employer-required spyware on my personal machine. Similarly, the only time I used my own laptop was for a scrappy startup where I was the first engineer.
I'm saying this pricing change doesn't add any value. I would be literally impossible to argue that UE doesn't add any value, which is why I'm not making that argument.
This sounds like a great interview question from the interviewee, when it comes to evaluating a remote role: "Are the decision makers that affect my work in-office, remote or a mix?"
I find it interesting that the expectation is the opposite in some fields. For example, every auto mechanic I know supplies their own tools except for a few specialized tools the shop owns.
Where Have All the Young Founders Gone
No, the headline is blatantly trying to elicit a negative response towards Unreal i.r.t. Unity's recent pricing change.
An AI is now making non-consensual porn without human interaction
DreamGF, a service that allows users to generate AI girlfriends that chat with them and send them AI generated nudes, is randomly making some girlfriends look like Jennifer Lopez and other celebrities without their consent. DreamGF users are also complaining that their AI girlfriends will abruptly demand they climax and will sometimes send them nudes of deformed bodies.
The news is yet another example of an AI tool that’s behaving in a way developers are unable to control, despite it violating their own policies, customers’ desires, and in some instances, the law. It also proves a nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where an AI image generator will spit out non-consensual pornography of real people even if it’s not asked to, just because their images were included in the datasets the AI was trained on. This is something that can happen to anyone whose image is online
Ozempic Threat Is Causing a Selloff in Snack and Beer Stocks
My Librem 5 with a lifetime support has all that. Signal can run with Waydroid.
Parallelizing WebAssembly Execution on GPUs
US jobs growth surges past expectations with 336,000 new posts
Video of a Wrightspeed truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIAosHyqARA
I mean I was a DJ for quite a long time so listening to new music daily was like a second job. When I talked to people DJing and going through so much music the sentiment was almost always the same: going through this much music so fast changes how you listen to things and you connect less with it.

Do you do other things while listening? Like programming?
Well kind of. You are ignoring the elephant in the GPU hardware room right now, which is NVidia.

NVidia has a near monopoly on the AI hardware market right now, so some vertical integration of alternative AI hardware doesn't seem nearly as big if a deal if it is needed to fight that current monopoly.
How is universal childcare less market distorting? It seems to me that the larger the subsidy (or tariff for that matter), the more the distortion.
More recently we have the work of Erik Lentz to make these viable with positive energy (a bunch of it AFAIR) using Solitons[0].

The funny thing is there's actually a TNG episode, New Ground, where the crew test a Soliton wave for warp propulsion.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652
Broken ‘guardrails’ for AI systems lead to push for new safety measures
https://archive.ph/X3YKA
> So theoretically if you both raised prices too much arbitrarily, a third player might enter the market at a lower price. How realistic is that? I think any newcomer would be well aware of your ability to lower prices to compete, and a new player probably has costs just to enter the game so it'd be a bit risky.

In this particular situation it was not realistic because 1- the pricing was not arbitrary and 2- it was a highly-competitive market in which the prices were so low that any new player wouldn’t have been able to enter the market because you needed high volume to start earning some margin.
I recently watched a video from 6 months ago about some ICEsat-like Chinese satellite that was taking readings around Hawaii for some reason. It looks really spooky because it is a green laser coming down from space. It was picked up by some long exposure camera near an observatory. The part that concerned me was the comment section, it seemed people had come to the consensus that these lasers caused the wild fires 5 months later, and even more wild claims like it has also caused the fires in Canada and Colorado.

I find it hard to believe that so many people could become so convinced and angered by such a baseless idea. Maybe it was just that people who already had this idea flocked to the comment section, but it still stuck with me.
Which kinda makes them the real criminals..
Towards a Formally Verified Security Monitor for VM-Based Confidential Computing
I can imagine that low payment doesnt really inspire one to work hard…
OT: written as X/Twitter seems better--when spoken as it can be "X / Twitter" or "ex-Twitter".
This right here is why we can't get anything done. Republicans say that the poor will benefit so we can't give them money. The center-right will say we can't do that, the rich might benefit, we can't give them money.

So what happens is the rich get all the money. Stop putting means testing garbage on these bills. It only means those who need the assistance on the edge will be denied.
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I don't know enough about neutron physics to comment usefully on your mean free path logic, but I do know that solar eruptive activity can launch relativistic neutrons at Earth which can be detected even at sea level using scintillators, and that mountaintop detection has been around since the early 1980s. Shibata 1994, Propagation of Solar Neutrons <https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1029/93JA03175>, §4.2.1 (Fig 3) higher energy neutrons get further into the atmosphere, so I don't think the atmosphere is much of a barrier for the comparable (MeV-GeV) teleported neutron-star neutrons.

We seem to agree that free neutrons don't stay free neutrons when they slam into the solid earth.

I too wanted to think about neutrons as a non-self-interacting gas, but that just doesn't work: Meyer 1994, https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept01/Meyer/Meyer3.html (Paragraph beginning with, "Only the strong gravity of the neutron star keeps such matter from exploding apart." Cold in this context is partly explained in the preceding paragraph; in inner regions the matter is a degenerate gas meaning the particle kinetic energy becomes dependent on the density or equivalently pressure becomes independent of temperature; even at enormous pressures, degenerate gases don't hold much thermal energy -- that was practically all radiated away when the NS was young. Our teleporting (of inner region matter) therefore engages a very low-entropy r-process.

Outer regions are just too complicated and varied for a HN comment. The crust is thin -- a few to a few hundred metres or so compared to an NS radius of ~ 10km. It's also much less dense, so is a small fraction of the NS mass, and thus maybe not a target for our teleportation. Here's a 180-page open access review: https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrr-2008-10 Pesky electrons and protons complicating things.
You sound like my kind of teacher.

The best teacher I ever had was a short little Italian guy named Rinaldo Vachino who had been an instructor in the US Air Force.

In addition to being really good at explaining the material including diagrams created on the spot on a chalkboard, you could bring anything you wanted to one of his tests short of a communication device.

I have seen people come in literally pushing a hand cart loaded with books. I would just laugh because:

1) You're not going to find the answers in any book. These were all situational problems where you had to apply what you should have learned to arrive at the answer. Sometimes there was more than one possible answer but you had justify the one you picked.

2) Looking for an answer in a book was just wasting time needed to solve the problems.

Seeing what was happening in his classroom was like an epiphany --- where had this been all my life? I took every class he taught.

Oh, one other little technique he used --- if he thought you just weren't getting it or paying attention, he would call on you during his lecture. He would subtly corner you into showing everyone (including yourself) whether you understood things or not.

No one got off easy in his classroom and everyone knew it. If you couldn't deal with that, you better look for a different class.
asdf is awesome. It renders useless each language's own version manager.
Is this equivalent to a 14 gram bullet (10x less than your example) travelling at 1000 km/h (10x more than your example)? Or a 1,4 gram bullet at 10.000 km/h hitting you?
What made you leave windows 7?
In fact, the officially supported Java releases for Clojure are all LTS releases. This is also reflected in their CI. At the moment, that means 1.8, 11, 17, and 21.

I would also like to mention, for non-Clojure users: it took ages for Clojure to finally get off Java 1.5. The compiler was still emitting 1.5 compatible bytecode as late as 2018. Since the release of Clojure 1.10 (17 December 2018), the minimum Java version was bumped up to 1.8, in the sense that the compiler now emits 1.8-compatible bytecode.

There is a strong emphasis on moving slowly and NOT breaking things in the Clojure community. Likewise, if you look at the most recent Clojure survey results, the vast majority of people were still on 1.8 and 11 releases.[1]

[1] See Q24 in https://www.surveymonkey.com/stories/SM-_2BH3b49f_2FXEkUlrb_...