skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a realistic CG fire isn't hard. I can (and do) do it by myself on my home desktop. Making a realistic CG fire for a complex hollywood production is practically impossible because:

>Friedlander notes that the fire scene in No Hard Feelings was part of reshoots that took place just a month and change before the film hit theaters — giving the effects team only a couple of weeks to work.

Literally the only reason. I'll bet you anything that team didn't have a few weeks. More like hours. A set has to be built, cameras transported, crew flown in. That overhead is accounted for. CG is considered a bunch 1s and 0s we can conjure from thin air with a few clicks. Bad directors expect miracles, don't get them, then scream "CG BAD!".
> And we wonder why employers want us back in the office. I mean come on.

Yes, because one can't work 4h tops while being in office...
Truth is, they can't tell how much working hours this individual is putting. And maybe it's not that important.
I think that a main part of LetsEncrypt security comes from renewing the certificate every 3 months. You would not be able to do that with shipped binaries.
Also temperature is variable. It fluctuates through the day and then things like clouds or rains can drop it quite a lot or keep it higher during winters in parts of the world.

You can get pretty good hour level forecast in some scenarios. But how do you effectively communicate those outside showing some type of graph...
To me this is an argument that everyone should pay for online dating. In other words, eliminate the freemium model. This would remove most of the dead profiles, and the paid users would have incentive to meet people ASAP instead of quietly lurk forever.
(As well as making sure you don't have actual matter blocking the view, you also want to avoid staining the bowels with something that could be mistaken for blood; so also don't drink red stuff.)
Thread from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37994561
This was new when I was still in uni, it's at least 10 years old so I sure hope we got better
This can get quite frustrating where the two worlds meet, for instance in construction.
> get just as much done with high quality C in half the time.

Bullshit. C++ may have plenty of warts, and sometimes people go way OTT with templates (90% of Boost), but there's no way you're writing code as fast in C as C++ unless it involves no string manipulation, pointers, containers, etc.

String manipulation alone is so awful in C that there's no way you're right. But throw in smart pointers, collections, JSON, regex, etc... All of which are much easier to use in C++ and either built in, or in JSON's case, easy to add.

If you're literally just doing basic maths, then maybe. But how many programs are like that?
I used to puzzle over why potential clients who reached out to me always seemed to get more interested in hiring us if I tried to dissuade them by asking challenging questions. I think the biggest reason is that pushing back demonstrated that I care.

This seems bizarre. I work in sales, and I avoid making things too challenging for potential clients. Pushing back on the scope is one thing, but I think the way to show that you care about a potential client is to listen, identify their issue, and provide them with a solution that meets their budget. So many sales people try to push the envelope, to maximize the sale, for better or for worse, but I've never done that.
You're getting a lot of responses to the effect that there aren't really any laws that require particular formalities to sign contracts, and while this is true in the "normal case" in many jurisdiction, there certainly are some categories of document that have more specific signing requirements. In most common law jurisdictions, for example, certain agreements must be signed as deeds which require certain formalities to be observed, and without enabling legislation it's not always easy to square these formalities with electronic signatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed
Maybe it's for the same reason so many shows made in the last decade - including pretty much all sci-fi shows and movies - are lighted so dark you can barely see a thing.

Turns out, it's because you're expected to participate in the larger market by buying the newest expensive smart TVs with their ultra HDR whatever that make those shows look okay(ish). Watching on a computer or a phone? Well, sucks to be you.
> completely depleted batteries can get permanently damaged

This never happens, though. Every device nowadays has a controller that doesn't let the batteries deplete to a dangerous level.
So, a music player that keeps a database on 25000+ files needs to hold and manage 25000+ capability tokens? Do I have to select all those files in an "Open" dialog box?

Hell naw, dawg.
Quake 2's polygonal fire stands the test of time, I think. Unfortunately they have low animation frame count, but the solidity is satisfying.

https://youtu.be/6vigqSrhjfI
That PhD won't keep you warm at night, or meaningfully get you a better job, but at least it'll let you pretend intellectual superiority over others. That's the important thing.
Found my wife on OKCupid back when it was still good in 2011. Haven’t used a dating app since, but their decline makes me pretty sad, I have fond memories of using it.
Also at the same time possibly using various fractions of inch... Like can't you really decide on doing one way or an other?
Drawing for Nothing
> I could much easier get permission to buy a $5k piece of software than donate $5 to an OSS project that powers out largest project and has been maintained for 10 years by a single person.

Because business has it's own logic. If you invest $5k in a product, you are expecting the return to be customer support, quality control, timely bug fixing, "enterprise" features, feature request priority, legal indemnification / due diligence, etc. You make a business case to justify the expense, with the expectation that this is going to provide a return (eventually) in the form of revenue, time/cost savings, etc.

Donations in and of themselves don't provide any obvious return. If the project kept a "business case" page that includes what the donation goes to and shows the direct benefits that come from donation, it's much easier to justify the cost. And you might think "can't they just write off the donation?", but the project would need 501(c)(3) status, and it's apparently quite[1] hard[2] to get OSS approved as such.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221201141451/https://opensourc... [2] https://www.mill.law/blog/more-501c3-rejections-open-source-...
I made the website for my wedding with Redbean, just for a bit of fun. It was a delightful experience. Deployment was just: upload one file, restart a process. I developed on my Mac, and deployed the executable, unchanged, to a Linux server. It just worked. Nice.
The devs "boasting" (that is your perspective, not the reality) are probably the ones generating more revenue for those companies wanting "us" back in the office (are you a SWE?). There's a reason the biggest tech companies hire the best (and others who might not be considered the best) for significant sums - they are worth it.

Yes, we are underpaid. Just look at the bank balances of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Software engineers aren't illiterate construction workers. We have the means to build and destroy tech companies that think they can do whatever they want.
Age. Lack of time. Lack of practical knowledge. Inability to work with other people.
To my knowledge the Portuguese government has never failed its obligations to pensioners, why would it do so in the future? The economy is growing and this will all be backed by a stronger more integrated EU anyway. I'm happy to take that bet!
I'll claim something and provide the same amount of evidence as this article:
This is bullshit. Creating realistic looking fire is very common nowadays even on consumer end hard/software and thousands of people do it everyday. This article is simply untrue
Why did you care about your distance? What's so special about going farther and farther every time until you hit some arbitrary goal like 26.2 miles? Beating your last time is fine and rewarding, and you can choose your next goal to be whatever you want.
Yep, I remember people playing this in class when you could only place a couple of blocks and nothing more.

The whole concept of "block building" was new at the time, which I think is why it's hard to imagine why it was so cool back then. It's so ubiquitous now.

Markus is also a really interesting guy, despite perhaps some of his controversy. I spoke with him a few times on social media, where he talked about implementing the Minecraft tessellator in a single day, and that he took interest in some of the NES dev tooling I was working on.

Cool find! Brought back memories.
> There is no proof that cargo cult agile improves efficiency or reduces costs but many companies do it regardless.

But the story feels like it should work. It feels logical.
So the idea is you wait to be on a public wifi to do large updates instead?
We never left.
You do realize that life does not exist because of money, but because of experiences along the way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphomania
Because desperation.

After all, did you get "how to get a good husband/wife" subject in high school?

They teach only that which is useless.
I recently browsed the source code of Little Big Adventure, and there are some hints in the comments of FIRE.ASM [1]:

TEST AH,65h ; Wanna know why 60h? Me too.
JNZ @@nx ; This is pure experience.
; ok but it's better with 65

[1] https://github.com/2point21/lba1-classic/blob/main/SOURCES/F...
I haven’t had hemorrhoids since I installed a bidet. Just passing on some info from one sensitive butthole to any others out there!
> How could it not? It is adding software to the system software set, accessible by all users of the system.

User-only installs are possible:

> C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local is intended for MSI installations for a single user but typically doesn't require Administrative privileges. This folder is normally hidden.

* https://superuser.com/questions/1327037/what-choices-do-i-ha...

This is the variable %LOCALAPPDATA%:

* https://pureinfotech.com/list-environment-variables-windows-...

See also perhaps CSIDL_DEFAULT_APPDATA and CSIDL_DEFAULT_LOCAL_APPDATA:

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/us...
Who's are you addressing? I watch the ads on YouTube and have had premium in the past. I might resubscribe too.
Company I used to work for had an AWS bill at 7 figures and sometimes 8 (a very time based offering)

AFAICT we had a blanket 20% off the bill, nothing special about egress.
The top 10 countries for inflation and piracy have only a few outliers.

https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/
Huh, I thought the website was some kind of a joke but I guess not. I still have no idea how anyone can confuse the two. Czechia-Chechnya, Austria-Australia I can somewhat understand those but Sweden-Switzerland? Come on.
But is it free labour? Many work for companies that pay their salary.

It's the ones who work on technology in their free time but can't reach a bigger market who I would like to reach with this idea.

Those that work not for money but because they are convinced by an idea.
It gives me the same feeling I get if someone is paid to (or trying to get paid by) being pleasant with me. An entity that's hard-wired to be unconditionally friendly is not the same as a real friendship.
Venturing out of your local job market
This will definitely make you faster
Hinge is also owned by Match Group.
A unique twist on this is a module that is programmed by a flashing light, for example a web page with a flashing image: https://hackaday.com/2021/04/21/easy-usb%E2%80%91c-power-for...
To some extend. If there’s millions of people that are nearly as fast you’d have encountered them on your school or university course, but what you see there doesn’t even come close (aside from the odd one out like the article describes). Since I haven’t, I can make a reasonable assessment of the likelihood someone is nearly as fast.

Of course I might be wrong (maybe people in my general area are just incredibly slow)? But I’d have some confidence in the assertion anyway.
Crazy that was only fourteen years ago. Seems like an eternity since so much has changed in the world.
I thought about setting up such a device outside of my window (there's a lot of birds nearby), and the obvious concern of setting up a mic in your house and uploading recordings is privacy.

I found two privacy policies related to Birdweather:

1. https://www.birdweather.com/privacy

2. https://birdnet.cornell.edu/privacy-policy/

The first one mentions the following:

> You may choose to keep your audio recordings private, so that other Bird Weather users cannot access or listen to those recordings. This is configured on the Settings page.

Except Birdweather explicitly mentions they're based on Cornell's BirdNET, whose privacy policy (#2) says:

> BirdNET is an artificial neural network that identifies bird species by sound. Our servers process small audio snippets recorded with the BirdNET app to detect and recognize bird sounds. We store all submitted recordings on our servers. Therefore, we advise users not to submit any audio recordings that they might consider private. The collection of audio data helps us to improve BirdNET and we will use those recordings for research purposes only.

Seems like Birdweather would benefit from clarifying how their privacy policy plays together with BirdNET's.
With streaming prices increasing and also fragmenting it's not suprising.
You have to allow sudo without entering a password to use this document (to build Emacs)? I wonder if gksudo could not be used instead…
Kind of like this? https://pedalcell.com
His death, while tragic is unfortunately not surprising. Apparently he had massive addiction issues for a long time now. In 2019 he was in a coma from ruptured colon caused by opioid abuse and the doctors gave him 2% chance of making it, so he was living on borrowed time.
> I work in sales

What are you selling? I imagine that would make a difference
Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.
> even compared to renewables (typically around $0.1/kg)

A kg of renewables? What exactly does that look like?
Then Intel should correct their own documentation. If not in fact, they're intentionally limiting their products in spirit.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/231803/...
My father had 3 of these babies. It was cheaper to get another trabby and scrap it for parts than to try to hunt down the car parts market for replacement parts for your main trabby.

The whole neighborhood would wake up when you would turn on this thing and we actually would go on vacations in it. We were reaching 100km/h and the whole thing was vibrating so bad it felt like it was gonna come apart.

I remember how wholesome it was for 2 trabant drivers to wave to one another as they passed each other on the road. And there was always a sense of camaraderie and solidarity between them. We a few times stopped in the middle of nowhere next to people whose trabant car broke down. Either ran out of gas or some engine problem and my dad would fix it for them or give them enough gas to get them to the next station.

Good times.
Also, psychology. It's easier to drop by the hotel bar/restaurant when you have a 50 dollar prepayment that you can spend.
The UX of a single torrent tracker is better than needing umpteen streaming services. No brainer.
That’s the thing though: software development isn’t IT innovation. Most software is probably written at companies that aren’t primarily software companies. It’s done in traditional firms in manufacturing, banks, mining, whatever.
Even if Germany continues to be less prominent in the software industry, more software lines of code will be written in Germany every year.

The thing about windows is that even when 100% of developers left it, most non-devs will still use it. So if you make software for them, you are going to need it. I make a cad program. We can’t really leave Windows and even doing multi platform or web based make financial sense.
According to the Latvian minister of defense, Inara Murniece, the adoption of the Law on State Defense Service is “[t]he Latvian response to new regional security challenges, and is aimed at strengthening all defense capabilities and developing comprehensive national defense service.”

This has to be because of Russia, right?
"The emergence of streaming services like Netflix, Apple Music and Spotify make it easy to access unlimited content – and ensure that artists are paid for their creations."

That's laughable.
Yeah I hear you, and no doubt Horatio Algers (and simplistic interpretations/retellings of his story arcs) have done plenty of harm in this respect.

I think we can do much better than “if you work hard and believe in your dreams you’ll make it”. There are many techniques people can learn than can amplify the impacts of their efforts and make them much better companions. They’re just not widely known/accepted as yet.
I've been there. Keep your nose to the grindstone, and you might accomplish your goals. Stop to smell the roses, and you're brain may relax enough to find a solution that's been eluding you. But since you sound new to both, my advice is: don't mix date-finding with job-hunting. Both are full of blows to the ego, and rejection and desperation form a vicious cycle.
Boys are back in town
See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

With Linear B only being deciphered in the 1950s. Egyptian scripts were also decoded in 'only' the 1800s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egypti...
> There are two main problems with digital piracy. First, it robs the creator of their income. It’s not just big companies who suffer – the people working behind the scenes lose out too.

Whilst this is true, we've spent the last decade hearing how the intermediaries (streaming services) and media companies continually screw over artists.

It is more true to say any drop in revenue due to any alternative way to consume media (of which piracy is just one way) results in the _intermediaries_ seeing the biggest drop in revenue as they were the ones who took the most from the artists.

Perhaps if labels and studios paid artists more their argument would resonate more with the fans who consume the art.

The internet never did fully deliver on the dream to disintermediate the studios and labels, but there's always a hope that there's still time.
Some good advice here. The marathon runner question is a potential enlightening one. Distance running, done well, is not about continuously producing thrust like some kind of human rocketship. It's just as much about learning to leak as little energy as possible, using techniques like those Lukas_Skywalker outlined. So you get up to speed and then just lose as little of it as possible for 26.2 miles.
The Friendship Paradox and the Illusion of Loneliness
It says in the previous paragraph that this is because of the war in Ukraine. So yes, Russia.
Like I said: I don't write, or choose, the headlines. None of those words occur in the article itself.

(The word "unleash" occurs in the headline to a story of mine that is linked from this one in the automatically-generated backlinks section. I used words like "thread" and "labyrinth" when trying to riff upon the Minotaur codename for Ubuntu 23.10. I guess the sub-editors picked up on that. I don't think the original Minotaur myth involves leashes.)

Thanks for the comment. I do try to write useful, informative stuff, so it worries me when people react negatively to it.
Unfortunately this needs to happen in all nato countries. The bells of war in europe are ringing again.
Sedatives are not mandatory. They take you out for a day and in my personal (informed by direct experience) opinion are not worth it (I would rather have the time to spend doing things I want to rather than have a day of recovery from sedatives).
It's puff, talking about what would be a breakthrough discovery without taking an interest in any more than it takes to generate buzz/content.

How are be supposed to know anything about the space, where it is, how much promise it has, what that promise actually is. There's no meat in this burger.
In the "good old days" dating was simpler, but also much, much worse for the average woman. People dated within their town almost exclusively. The best bachelors would be gone pretty quickly. That put a ton of pressure on the remaining women to quickly settle for an average guy in order not to be stuck with a terrible partner (an angry drunk or other kind of lowlife). Not marrying wasn't an option, and divorce wasn't an option. They had to choose, and their dating pool was small and constantly shrinking. Many women got stuck in unhappy marriages, but that was life.

I agree with you that many guys today struggle with dating because they haven't done the necessary work to be good partners, but the problem isn't that "contemporary life doesn't encourage self-improvement". The "problem", if you even want to call it that, is that women prefer being single over a bad relationship with a crummy guy. For the first time in history, women have the economic independence to walk away from a bad deal, and guys have up their game as a consequence.
That's a safe assumption. I found this article an interesting take on Latvian defense policy: https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/06/latvias-new-state-defen...
I mean, four straight losses in the Super Bowl? The Music City Miracle? 13 Seconds? A sad fate indeed for America’s Buffalo.
How to view someones IP address and connection speed (2012) [video]
Beautiful, isn't it? I bet you don't even visit once a month. I bet you think it's boring when you're there. Probably busy, too.

I have it every time I step outside. Fresh air, birds singing, flowers and bees. Last week I held a tiny bird in my hands as we walked among the gardens and trees, until it regathered its strength and flew off.

I suppose I must be missing the appeal of living in a box above a kebab shop with a roommate who barely speaks English.
There is probably a lot of bias with these two companies - one is a bespoke software company
, and the other a bespoke woodcraft company. At a glance, the software company produces native apps for iOS and Android, rather than React Native, which to me seems indicative of attention to detail.

People with that mindset tend to want it in others, and will believe it to be the cause of successful relationships. I say this as someone with precisely the same belief. I’ve no idea if it’s causal, correlated, or simply a coincidence that my brain sees as a pattern, but for the moment I’m convinced it’s at the very least correlated.
My dad was also colourblind, and it was only when my mum saw the blood in the toilet that he got tested (at 57). Stage 4 metastatic bowel cancer. He got 8 more years of life but I wouldn't say they were all good years. He died nearly 20 years ago now. Mum is still in good health at 81.
I'm 53 now and have had 5 yearly colonoscopies since I was 35, I'm not taking any chances.
I don't mind the prep, and don't feel a thing or remember anything about the procedures themselves.
I think these new formats should be just a complementary ways of preserving what civilization produces and we shouldn't abandon old physical media. There's a risk of relying only on digital media - we can screw ourselves pretty badly and we can be affected by things that we can't even control.
Online games use dark designs to collect player data
My reading is: “This is a great use of AI. Others who complained AI doesn’t have good applications are lacking imagination.”
I wonder if we can ever do this with babies to some degree of even limited accuracy. I know there was some efforts on this before.