skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unity has been hemorrhaging money, and the shareholders want to see profits. The board and the CEO have no choice but to execute on their demands.
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825829
No, VCAs are quite different from the other two. They represent an external entity (the VCA) that can be used to control other entities, and they are mixer (signal flow) related only (i.e. have no impact on editing).

Persistent and quick groups are definitely related; we've already a few trenchant observations about what we've done with quick groups, and we will work on taking them into consideration as we refine how this works. But fundamentally, I see persistent groups and quick groups as orthogonal, and their main job is not to interfere (too much) with each other.
People constantly make this comparison, but it's stupid, the Linux kernel's DCO is just a CLA by a slightly different name and slightly different signatory procedure; giving it a slightly different acronym doesn't make it something else. The very fact it's mandatory makes the exact opposite case, that the world's most popular free software project sees it as important. Putting a Signed-off-by is literally a legal statement that you have the right to yield the given changes to the project, and that you affirm the right for them to be redistributed. This is exactly what most CLAs do; most don't assign or transfer ownership or copyright in any way because it isn't necessary.

Ironically, despite all the (unequivocally 100% wrong) yammering about this topic on places like this forum, many of the bigger "evil" companies like Meta and Google don't require transfer of copyright to contribute to their FOSS projects, while places like the FSF do require it so they can relicense under potential future FSF licenses e.g. a practically stronger version of the GPL 3's "or later versions" clause. And there are even more agreements like the FSFe's FSA that can stipulate exactly a fixed set of licenses that might be used in the future, as a sort of middleground.
So when a model succeeds on a reasoning task it's not positive evidence, but when it fails it's negative evidence? The good ol' confirmation bias feedback loop!
That seems like a rather limited view of the word "defense", more appropriate to football or hockey than warfare. Even for that you could have these drones patrolling the territory/shooting intruders.

But the word "defense" is much wider than that. Is the US supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine contributing to the national defense? Even if you feel the US should not be doing that, I hoe you can see the logic of people who do frame it that way.

And Ukraine's in a defensive war against an invader, and for that they have to go on the offense.

(Of course the US renaming the Department of War to Department of Defense in 1947 was 100% propaganda, or to be more charitable, aspirational. There is no question that it has been used offensively).
There's been a lot of propaganda portraying Iran as a nation full of irrational extremists who would rather the world die in nuclear fire than live next to Israel, but that is not based in reality. Israel has nuclear weapons, and is very nervous about having a close neighbor with the same level of power. Iran is understandably nervous about not having nuclear weapons while Israel has them. Proliferation is a bitch.

Of course it doesn't help that Palestinians, the original Muslim inhabitants, are treated as sub-humans by Zionist Jews so there's very bitter hatred between the two groups.
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During WW2 almost all Jeeps were "unmade" and shipping in wooden boxes.
Yet I personally have been on multiple poltical threads that have existed on this forum.

Take a look at my own comment history (I sadly have been a part of the problem) for proof.
That’s why they make the big bucks
Yes but if only we pay them and the rest of the world doesn't, we're just hurting ourselves.

And I don't believe in the market ever solving these problems even with the right incentives.
In the past, this was understood to be the soul and you are correct when you describe it as atomic, though depending on which tradition is describing the soul it can have further attributes. My username is based on such a tradition -- the Nous (pronounced like noose) is considered the eye of the soul. Extrapolating that further, we focus the eye of our soul on whatever we want to, which can be ourselves, worldly aspirations, or spiritual aspirations.

This would be considered the free will we are given at the basest level - we get to choose what we focus our soul on, and that can be changed at any moment. Such a tradition would say that since we are a body/soul composite, whatever we focus our soul on, our body willingly and immediately focuses on as well, for good or ill.
It's like VGA cables came with loctite pregooped on with how hard they were to unscrew.
Claudia Goldin wins the Nobel Prize in economics
Also, coming from serial/parallel ports, people are not going to moan that the USB is not reversible.
The depressing relationship between your job and your odds of drug overdose
"GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System. "
The story of how academicians at MIT came together with India to create immense value for them and the world
https://archive.md/eCKtW
I recall an interview with someone doing a late night talk show, that they tried putting the guest on the right side of the host but that didn't sit to well with audiences because they were used to seeing the guest on the left side. No reason for it other than that is what the first popular late show did, so everything else followed.
I'm not an expert on corporate governance, but does a board of directors get into the nitty gritty of pricing models? I can totally believe they told the CEO to "bring in more revenue, or get replaced", but I have a hard time imagining they got too involved in the details how that would happen. Many board members sit on multiple boards or are CEOs of other companies. Do they really have time to do the kind of market research you'd need to propose such a change?
> But I did find a study published in the World Salt Symposium where researchers successfully grew pyramid salt from waste salt water in large, steel crystallizers.

Wow, I never knew that there was an entire symposium dedicated to salt.

From https://www.bolton-menk.com/salt-symposium/:

This event celebrates the optimization of salt use to improve community sustainability and protect vital freshwater systems and infrastructure.
The Salt Symposium brings together leaders from diverse economic sectors to learn about the impacts of chloride and reduction methods. Professionals from across the world will share their expertise on current research initiatives including water softening, wastewater, fertilizer, snow and ice management, and more.
Nerfies: Build a website for your research paper
Building castles to cover captured terrain was pretty common (unless of course there already was one around, in which case you besiege and take it, if you can). Of course, building a stone ond rakes time, so they'd build a temp one first, and then, ic theh manage to keep the territory, update it. So if it's prepping, it's a very common and prudenf version of it.
It could be transaction level data (eg. credit card ending in 1234 bought X at store Y).

It's anonymized in the sense that one can't know what medication Joe Blow takes just by looking at the dataset, even if their transaction data is part of it.

If such analysis is concerning, then one can choose to buy their medication elsewhere or pay cash without any rewards card.
Google bidding in its own auctions is a separate problem from bidders' lack of access to top of book.
I don't think you can "glue together" anything without being a skilled practitioner in that domain. Otherwise how do you know what's what, or how to fix the inevitable problems?

And once you're hiring skilled practitioners, the space you've envisioned for a glue company has been squeezed out. We bill by the hour, and we'll do small jobs. Would you rather hire us to make your PCB or someone who's never soldered?

And as for us hiring that sort of person, they're already employed at the contract manufacturers (and unavoidable, the CMs don't really like to work without it). No reason to duplicate that layer. Understanding the role of CMs is critical to understanding modern volume manufacturing.
What distribution are you using?

IME, if a process grows out of control, Linux won't notice until the whole system is thrashing, at which point it's too late and it tries killing random things like browser tabs way before the offending process.

In rare cases Linux might recover, but only because I hammered C-c the right place 30 minutes ago. In most cases a hard reboot is required (I left it overnight once, fans spinning at max, hoping the kernel would eventually accept my plea for help, but she had other priorities).
Indeed. Fairly certain Mail.app does this as well, and is probably(?) the most popular mail client today. Author loses all credibility within the first 3 paragraphs imo.
How do you define political? Does net neutrality count? What about laws mandating backdoors in encryption?
Hum, How can they be sure that what is hitting the plate is still antimatter? (Or only antimatter?)
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My favorite siege story is Alexander being taunted by islanders who thought themselves immune to being under siege and attacked.

They slowly stopped laughing as they realized the Macedonians were filling in the shore front to make a kilometer long 200m wide causeway to march across.

It did not end well for the island City of Tyre and its inhabitants.
It currently only supports Apple Watch, but I'll release an update soon so it can support Apple Health compatible devices. The only requirement is that those devices can export sleep stage data and other metrics to Apple Health, thanks for the feedback!
What law does Facebook's product have to comply with that TikTok's product doesn't?
Yeah once Dr Cochrane starts working on it :).
I may have some terminology off. The point of chronotypes is to sort out the what, who, and why of "morning people", "night owls" and various states between. I don't care for the animal metaphors either, and they can easily be omitted with no loss of value. As a "night owl" myself, I have anecdotally found that while I can certainly force myself to function early in the morning on a regular basis, my body never stops hating that even after years of doing so. The best times for me to get up and go to sleep are closer to 10 am and 2 am, respectively. The chronotypes system proposed here was useful in helping contextualize all that.
At least with mailing lists and Usenet they weren’t always redundant. Federation wasn’t perfect.
Social media is also good for discovering the original content. Like, I would never find half the blogs I read on HN, but they're great.

I think I came up with this idea in the world where you literally browsed the web. Like go to Yahoo, see what new sites there were, and read 'em ;) That is ... not what we do anymore.
I've listened in on planning sessions for the "rather basic" "tally of points" (BGS) system, and it's far from basic, there's plenty of strategy and tactics involved and political thinking and negotiations with other player groupings are part of it - it's more like 3D Risk than what you describe.

I've listened in on discussions of relative merits of ship builds for the current anti-xeno initiative and they are deep and far-ranging.

I've watched combat streams from players who've practiced for literally a year to master the intricacies of no-flight-assist piloting.

There's a lot more to the game than "space trucking". After immersing myself over a couple of weeks in the various aspects and sub-communities it's amazing to me that people fall for the facile "mile-wide-inch-deep" truism. It's that critique that's shallow and uninformed, to my mind.
Apple is one of the companies that helped design USB-C and have been using it for everything except iPhones and AirPods for years now.
I was at Red Hat while Jim was CEO. He’s very culture focused and is an excellent choice for restoring faith there. He got great results while at Red Hat, but they plucked him out for a non-CEO role at IBM after the acquisition. IMO that has been IBMs greatest sin in its handling of Red Hat.

Jim was active on memo-list and seemed to listen to people. That doesn’t mean he’s perfect, but I’d give him very high marks and I think that he had a lot of goodwill among Red Hatters as CEO.
Bare Metal Rust
Does it have understanding? Yes, it does, without a doubt. If you doubt that, you either haven't used an LLM, or you are in denial. Is it intelligent? Yes, without a doubt. If you doubt that, you either haven't used an LLM, or you are in denial. Is it a limited intelligence? Yes, of course. Is its intelligence comparable to human intelligence? Certainly you can compare it, in some things it is already smarter, in some things it is dumber. Also depends on the human you compare it with.

Certain things I don't know, and I've stated them pretty clearly above.
> getting the right numbers to plug into a ‘gravity equation’

Those are what I like to call "load-bearing" numbers. :)

There's so much science daydreaming in what passes for the science press that people think all of our problems will be solved once the smart people (or quantum computers) find the magic formula and those elusive load-bearing numbers.

Half the people here understand physics, and the sheer impossibility of the task due to the relative magnitudes involved, and have resigned themselves to "we better learn to live on this ball together as it's all we're ever going to have". The other half daydream about magical solutions that marvel movies tell us exist, we're just waiting for an Elon Musk or Tony Stark to discover it and then humanity enters a golden age.
Though LLVM seems like it best maps the semantics of a language like C++, there's a fairly diverse lot of languages with LLVM backends, including Common Lisp, Haskell, Scala, and Swift.
> I frequently see references made to some kind of mysterious, unknown element; basically, the idea that "we don't REALLY know how transformers produce such good results, at least in detail." My question is: is that claim truly accurate?

It is the same reason why almost no one trusts LLMs to fully pilot a plane with zero humans on board.

These systems have a low amount of trust for these use-cases because they fundamentally lack understanding and it is on the basis of being unable to explain themselves transparently. Even when LLMs attempt to, they are able to convince the untrained eye with their wrong answers. Not even the AI researchers can explain why some of these AI systems get confused over bad input or a adversarial input.

There is research into trying to 'understand' these systems for decades but just falls short into demonstrating any consistent evidence of showing transparency in these black-box systems such as LLMs; making them unaccountable.
I'm not sure why you are arguing with me.

We "match" the plate to a VIN, and then we DECODE the VIN to get all of the data we show on the page. Yes, we decode the VIN, not just "match" it
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It's reclaimable, but opaque. The ARC just looks like used RAM rather than file cache, which throws off various means of accounting.
To quote Justice Stewart on pornography - "I know it when I see it".

Snark aside, you pose a good question.

Fundamentally, the existing rules within HN are vague, and that formal definition of "political" needs to be decided by the HN moderation team, or by YCombinator themselves.
Sorry, I don't mean the direction of the door but the position of the door itself in the wall.

I can't draw anything here, but imagine the staircase is the width of two doors. So the door could be on either side (closer to either edge).

If the door is on the left, you want the staircase to curve upwards to the right. And vice-versa.
HN shows the other message, so the standards have an entirely different foundation.
It was a specific design goal of USB-C to put the fragile part on the cable, not on the device.

For people who are not versed in mechanical connector design it might look like the fragile part is that center wafer.

USB-A is massive compared to USB-C, that's why it's so robust, thick plastic, thick metal, wide connector lanes.

If USB-C is fragile, is just because it's so small, you can easily break it with not so much pressure.
I feel it's unfair to include Mattrick in here - he came up as a gamer, making games as a teen and rolling that into his own company so at least he has roots as a developer and I feel a dev/gamer connection but I respect your opinion.
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Enhanced cpc is a lot more than 15%, but they was my original thought as well
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Really broken and stupid would be how I would describe it. Typically is just hangs hard with the disk at 100% and if you’re really patient you might be able to get a shell and kill some things over the course of the next 10 minutes.
This was amazing! Almost any complicated problem can be broken down to much smaller and simpler subproblems!
GPT4 understands that it's an odd variation of the classic puzzle, and that its unsolvable. (This conversation is my first attempt) https://chat.openai.com/share/5fe4f781-ea18-41ae-8ff9-349a31...
When was Auto MDI-X introduced? A quick google failed to get me an answer but I remember USB being available while I still needed a crossover cable to hook up 2 switches.
Also, those older plugs were more or less not hot-pluggable. The computer had to be off (really off, not standby) before you plugged/unplugged a cable, or you'd risk damaging the port and/or the device.

The only exception I know of is that Apple Desktop Bus (mini-DIN) had been designed (by Woz !) to be supposed to be hot-pluggable but Apple cheaped out on overcurrent protection so it never was.

Edit: I forgot: in a MIDI connection there is an opto-coupler behind the receiving end, to electrically separate devices.
Give him a break, he isn't even born yet!
Hey thanks for this thoughtful reply. I tend to be a completist so I will start with shards.

I think Cordelia’s Honour as mentioned above seems a decent omnibus?

It was fascinating reading your thought process and I love to answer questions this way especially about literature but I have to mask my adhd and never know when I am being too much so I err on the side of brevity, so I really enjoyed reading you formulate your opinion!
Like Bolsonaro could put a dent on the devastation needed for the trillions of soybeans being exported.
> What ...encouraged the initial decision to increase the price?

Probably money. You don't seem to have considered the alternatives, one of which may have been mass layoffs or even total failure. Asking for more money is never easy, but I don't think that means companies just shouldn't do it.
The fact that you clearly have no clue what business Stac was in rather undermines the argument you're trying to make.
Grab a random USB C cable. Now answer a few questions.

1. What speed does the cable support?

2. How much data does the cable support?

3. Can it support video over USB-C?
The biggest problem was applying it to already released products. You have to give the developers the chance to pivot their business model to meet the new reality. They can't do that for already sold products that they would still be charged for under the new scheme.
From the other comments it doesn't look like the data source is machine readable. It looks like there's automated OCR of PDFs. A similar project was doing the same but with human labor
Yeah, if you're there you have to at least check it out. though sadly every year the neat tech stuff seems to keep shrinking.
Take the following with a huge grain of salt:

The controversial scientist Bob Lazar, the guy who made Area 51 a household name, put out a video when he first went public that, regardless of whether you think he's full of shit or not, is pretty interesting and better than most sci-fi in terms of explaining how an advanced vehicle might travel without propulsion and not be limited by the speed of light [0].

His premise is that the strong nuclear force is a purely attractive sub-force of gravity that affects spacetime in the same way, and that there are heavier elements that were created in star systems with much more energy than our sun and its predecessors. These stable, high atomic weight elements (specifically element 115, which was synthesized and added to the periodic table much later) have large nuclei past a certain size threshold, in which the strong (gravitational) force reaches nonlinearly beyond the nucleus and can be amplified and focused (somehow?) into a gravitational wave that distorts spacetime. He claims that antimatter annihilation, also fueled by the same element, is the source of power for that amplification.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Lre3B6SUQ
All the Silicon Valley startups will now have engineers working on if (user.location.state == “CA”) …

Just like CCPA. I wish other states would join.
I'm just amazed it took this long.
Nah, people in position of picking the engine for the next project are not going to pick Unity.
I'm not arguing in bad faith here, every nefarious action that people in these comments suspect TikTok may do someday, is currently being done today, by American companies, in service of foreign interests and corporate interests.
Ah, Silver Lake, of Skype acquisition and zeroing-out employee equity fame.

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/skype-silver-lake-evil/
I know for me (as someone who would likely never have had to pay a dime under either pricing scheme) the crux of the issue was unilateral, retroactive changes to a license that was supposed to be tied to the software version, as well as the nebulous "we'll know what to charge you because of our proprietary data model, trust us" messaging that they first went with.

That, combined with the fact that there was no safeguard for the install fee to be capped at some percentage of gross revenue made it so clear that they were trying to get something out of their free to play market specifically, which seems to have been to force their F2P customers to use their Unity Ads service over Applovin or similar competitors since they gave credits towards the runtime fee if you vertically integrated with Unity.
When they tell you that you have to report your installs and sales each month just like you do your taxes, that's when you notice there are other free engines.
> disk starts thrashing and all I/O grinds to a near-halt

Nope, neither of those things happen when zram starts compressing ram. Nothing grinds to a near halt until the compressed RAM space is used up, it just slows down a little bit. Btw, compressed RAM via zram isnt swap, it's available as actual ram. It also increases the total amount of ram available. I don't think I need to make arguments in favor of ram compression since Windows and macOS both have ram compression by default.
Remember when Microsoft wanted to license CPM to IBM, but they didn’t own it, so they got someone to make a clone and licensed that to IBM?