skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a bit odd that we exist at all though, doesn't it? Surely the natural state, or the starting state, would be to have nothing, no time and no space. But then, how would anything ever happen?

But given that we exist, then perhaps things have always existed, before the apparent beginning of the universe that we can apparently observe? But if things have existed for so long, why are we in such a state of ignorance and imperfection? Surely given all this infinite time, something better would have been created by now?

But consciousness doesn't seem to be a "thing" with a physical presence in the real universe. It seems to be an emergent phenomenon created by the brain apparently because it's useful in some way. Like a web browser running on a computer. Go to sleep and the web browser shuts down, wake up the next day and a new one is instantiated. Then there's no continuity of consciousness, it only lasts for a few hours, and we can return to wondering why I feel like I exist in a here and now, one moment in a possibly infinite timeline.
As the post suggested, this was very much a start of this process, but truth be told I had no idea where or how to start. So thank you for this, this looks really powerful and I can't wait to try it out!
Probably because he immediately follows up with:

> but it's actually true.
It was running properly when it was shut down. Development had it issues, but they were mostly sorted out when the entirely political decision to shut it down was taken.
Author here. Just wanted to share one point I've been pondering after writing the article.

The legal action over the V20 started when NEC sued Intel, not the other way around. I wonder if Intel held off suing NEC first as they felt that their legal case was weak - the two microcode programs were very different after all. Only during discovery would it have become clear that members of the NEC team who had seen the 8088 code had also worked on the V20.

In the end a four year court case was probably a good outcome for Intel and starting the case possibly a mistake by NEC.
Thanks!

> What are your aspirations for it by the way? Are you looking to monetize it?

You know.. Coding was my hobby as a kid, and I've been doing it professionally for years now and at some point I realised that I don't have to show for it. Something of my own, you know?

Of course I started a million other stuff but this is my first real actually useful and publicly shared project. So I'm happy that's out there, happy it's been well-received, (super happy the server didn't break a sweat), and excited to see where this leads :)
It lists the usual expectations. But leaves out people receiving a promotion have successfully demonstrated advanced growth to their employer. That means they’re more desirable professionally. It also means they’re likely looking for work. Once those gears of finding a new job are spun up there’s a lag before finding a better job. Seems likely some percentage would get a better offer externally around the time a promotion got through the internal/HR machinations.

The answer is for companies to flip how they pay and hire people. Often, promotions are hamstrung in how much money they offer. Meanwhile the new company offering to hire them sees only a valuable employee and will offer them according to their ability to pay and current market trends.

Reminder, the only way for a company to entice people to accept to work for them IS through their pay. If a company wants people to work for them and they’re not getting enough applicants then they need to increase their offered pay. There is literally nothing else to maneuver.

Economics 101: markets will clear when supply meets demand at a mutually acceptable price. That means the marginals equate. If an external factor like market power on one side constrains that pricing mechanism then the market won’t clear.
I think going by eg https://www.gameopedia.com/indie-aaa-aa-games-comparison/ they are "AA".
Apple does direct you there. But the key is that people there are third parties. They have some arrangement with Apple and access to genuine parts but they are not Apple and they don't put you in touch with anybody at Apple.

But Apple Store I think is owned by Apple and people there actually work at Apple. Also if Apple Store was the same franchise thing as authorized resellers then I don't see why there would be so few Apple Stores around the world.

Also wow. I didn't have this particular touchpad issue with my M1 mac yet. I do have a bunch of gripes with Apple about other issues though. Just a couple days ago noticed notification center was using 100% CPU and draining battery. Only because I wanted to check time in another timezone using world clock widget. Trying to edit the widget and select a different city locked up the entire thing with all the other widgets. Dumpster fire.
And even if, if one club closes down it hardly means the end of the club scene as a whole. I qm not familiar with Berlin that much, but back the day the club in Munich was P1. Now not anymore, doesn't mean others didn't take P1s place so.
I've noticed this too about things deemed "the best." They often are susceptible to diminishing returns. For example, I go to a lot of Michelin-starred restaurants, but many of them are really not much better than I could make at home. Sure, they may have more exclusive ingredients, but the raw flavor potential is not significantly increased in Michelin-starred restaurants versus those outside of that group.
My country promotes the arts by funding people film makers, and artists. It promotes science by giving grants to labs.

Many counties do something similar.

I think it would be nice too if counties also promoted open source in the same ways.
> I worked at Unity on Build Automation/Cloud Build

my condolances. the Build iterations and ancient CI workflow was by far the biggest complaint for the teams I was on and talked to. it takes so long getting stuff properly landed into trunk that I can't really blame the teams wanting to break off if possible (it fortunately was for my division).

But I'm guessing it was hard to convince product or execs that dev velocity matters, so we were all just wading in muck. I heard things were improving... but I heard that every month I was there.

>executive leadership wanting to run the company like Adobe

I think I know what you mean by this, but can you clarify?
To put this comment into more context:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

(rabite has been open about his real name and identity on this platform)
You can make a Google map with pins of all the locations where events interesting to you usually happen to understand better where you can be.
meetup.com has a lot of events to look at.
> Ninja is enough build system

and then:

> There are tools like CMake and Meson that can generate Ninja files

So ninja is not enough. You need Meson, CMake and finally, make.
Most of the cost for running Makerspaces seems to go towards rent, at least here in Australia. :(

---

On that note, if anyone knows of good potential locations for a large Makerspace in Brisbane, Australia... "Hackerspace Brisbane" (HSBNE) is looking for a new home:

https://www.facebook.com/HSBNE/posts/pfbid0iAakLGAK39h8qDA7N...
It is the price equity is being raised at.

OpenAI is at 80B.
Most oils polymerize at high temperatures. Getting the temperature juuuust right is pretty tricky in a home setting. Much easier is to just burn the shit out of the oil and wipe away the burnt oil, leaving any oil that happened to polymerize behind.

This is in fact how they used to make linseed based paints. They'd boil the oil, setting the stage for it to polymerize, and add pigments. The oil would slowly polymerize after being applied, locking the pigment into place. These days I think they mostly use chemical accelerants instead, Which makes the curing times much more tolerable.
Sisyphos is selective in this way but also plays the most normie pop and house music you're liable to find in Berlin outside of maybe the couple Schlager clubs that manage to survive outside of Bayern.
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I've found lowering the temperature and disabling the repetition penalty can help [0]. My explanation is that the repetition penalty penalizes the end of sentences and sort of forces the generation to go on instead of stopping.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17e855d/llamacp...
W3C: Web Sustainability Guidelines
Ask HN: How do you start a research based company?
Looking around hacker news it seems like everyone everywhere has their new AI company whose main goal is to develop some kind of new algorithm and then find customers later. Where do people get funding for such initiatives? I believe I'm a bit naive but it also seems like this could be a better way of doing research for the time being than continuing on in academia. But how do you get money to start a company whose goal is "make AI and worry about customers later"?
Honestly my favorite thing about non-nonstick pans is how if something gets stuck you can just dig it out with a metal implement. Turns out things sticking is much less a problem if you can just force a sharp metal spatula under there.
Yep, agreed. Also somehow this AI 2.0 thing he is mentioning reminds me of web 3.0 bs. Baseless and delusional.
If the community and friendly feel is the selling point, then no you can not really scale that way and simultaneously keep the community and relationships. You have to choose between the two.
In fact, there's certain belief in the Scientific community that (human biting, desease spreading) mosquitoes could safely be eradicated from the planet without impacting on the ecosystem.

https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
Super cool. Our students are using ttdy[0] and tmux for providing shared access to a configured environment, but your solution seems much more flexible :) I'm going to start experimenting with it for our next courses, thanks!

[0] https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd
I don't think we'll get there anywhere soon. We're close to being able to go off grid to our current standards of living.

Add in 2 EV's per household and you won't be able to do it all year round without grid connections.
Interested to know what, if any, the affect of digital media being almost impossible sell, and/or, streaming 'royalties' going mostly to the corporate streamers, has had on new and/or young artists trying earn enough through sales to put on the kind of light shows/performances/nights described herewith. Does one feed/starve the other? Lament.
> The issues are luckily quite easy to fix, both by creating more LOD variants and by improving the culling system

How many polygons are there with and without e.g. AutoLOD/InstaLOD?

An LLM can probably be trained to simplify meshes and create LOD variants with e.g. UnityMeshSimplifier?

Whinarn/UnityMeshSimplifier:
https://github.com/Whinarn/UnityMeshSimplifier :

> Mesh simplification for Unity. The project is deeply based on the Fast Quadric Mesh Simplification algorithm, but rewritten entirely in C# and released under the MIT license.

Mesh.Optimize: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.Optimize.html

Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD

"Unity Labs: AutoLOD - Experimenting with automatic performance improvements"
https://blog.unity.com/technology/unity-labs-autolod-experim...

InstaLOD: https://github.com/InstaLOD

"Simulated Mesh Simplifier": https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD/issues/4 :

> Yes, we had started work on a GPU-accelerated simplifier using QEM, but it was not robust enough to release.

"Any chance of getting official support now that Unreal has shown off it's AutoLOD?" https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD/issues/71#issu... :

> "UE4 has had automatic LOD generation since it first released - I was honestly baffled when I realized that Unity was missing what I had assumed to be a basic feature.*

> Note that Nanite (which I assume you're referring to) is not a LOD system, despite being similar in the basic goal of not rendering as many polygons for distant objects.

"Unity: Feature Request: Auto - LOD" (2023-05)
https://forum.unity.com/threads/auto-lod.1440610/

"Discussion about Virtualized Geometry (as introduced by UE5)" https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/2793

UE5 Unreal Engine 5 docs > Rendering features > Nanite:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Na...

Unity-GPU-Based-Occlusion-Culling:
https://github.com/przemyslawzaworski/Unity-GPU-Based-Occlus...
Where's the insult?

Honestly asking, as I'm not understanding where there's an insult in any of it.
Each job runs in the isolated KVM, so you have the same level of isolation like with any traditional cloud instances on AWS, GCP, etc.
I went to one and when I was young and homeless.

Could never get a job anywhere. Never knew how to get a job, turned down by almost everything, then I heard one of the men's shed was doing some charity bike repair thing.

I figured I had nothing else to do, and chatted with one of the blokes, who had a brother that needed some IT help, and from there I was able to build up.

But exceedingly rare case, I'm aware
"all your base are belong to us"

Why should I trust you with my valuable application and secrets?
Perversity is in the eye of the beholder.

Military boot camp training has recruits subjected to language and control that people would rebel against and sue if it were done in a web developer boot camp. Yet that’s normal for the military.

I had my chance to join the army, but did not due to several of my relatives telling me what a bad gig it was.
I think that the Paradox model IS DLC. They definateley comprimise user experience through their money-grabbing, and this cash above quality bleeds through to the way their games are published. They blur the line between developer and publisher.
Sure but consequences come from systems, structures, and institutions and not from intentions.

You can tell me it's some vibe check but it's structurally set up to discriminate based on classic markers and there's been intentionally zero remediations to avoid it.

In fact, many reports of xenophobia, antisemitism and racism persist, just Google it, it's everywhere.

That's why we had to fundamentally re-form our institutions in the US in the name of inclusion and not just have better intentions.

Berghain and Tresor can to whatever the fuck they want, I don't care. But let's call a spade a spade and not pretend it magically turns to something else based on wishes and dreams.
Depends on the groups around the sheds, many seek sponsership or do some fundraising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdws0rrfK6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1mQvyA7NE

others have a central interest (bookbinding | restoring ferries) and get grants based on the projects they undertake.

In the Australian rural district I'm in the local Men's Shed is more of a community shed (plenty of women using the space, doing related work, etc) with a lot of the equipment and land being pooled from the fully and semi retired who use the shed.

I have a tangential computer IT support|consult involvement, donate a bit of free time to give advice, and gave them a 48 TB NAS for pooling DVD collections of days gone by.

Also drones, gps, tractor hacking, etc.
> ensure human-centric, trustworthy and responsible AI that is safe, and supports the good of all
> I’m constantly desperate to prove I’m not an idiot... in some sense it’s not a problem, quite the opposite. But in a few important ways, it is a problem. Every victory, every success is not my own. It’s a moment I share with an array of teachers who have likely forgotten I even exist. No victory motivated by spite is ever your own, you share it with those you are trying to prove wrong.

Other things mentioned in this blog posts are ADHD and "the format of traditional schooling". None of that inherently causes the spite described. It's more philosophical.

Scholasticism is found everywhere from religion to bootcamps to public schools. It lends itself well to institutions. It's about encouraging conformity and "training" people to perform a certain way in a role. The assumptions causing all this pain are oversimplified ones: the teacher is always right, agreeing with the "right" answers means you understand, and that knowing these answers means you're ready for "the real world".

I never felt spite towards these institutions because I was told by my parents from a young age that they merely represent collective agreements, not necessarily the truth. There may be plenty of overlap, but the incentives are completely different, so they eventually diverge. Institutions represent society, not the individual. To be happy with this is to just take it for what it is and let your faith lie in yourself and what you learn to appreciate on your own. Indeed most good teachers will also tell you to not take bad grades personally even if you still need to improve. There's a lot to admire about institutions and the results they deliver, but it's madness to pour your heart into them.
Only 25....
I can think of MonoGame and Stride as examples/exceptions, though I suppose there are more out there, including peoples' own engines. Most popular engines that expose a C# interface officially or unofficially take the other route. But I grant you that the oft-given reason for this - performance - isn't impossible to achieve with pure C#, it just takes a lot more skill and knowledge, and that performance via native calls to a C++ engine aren't always more performant anyway due to marshalling.
I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
I've always wondered why they need to be so sexist. Is it so terrible to have women around?

But not so long ago, I saw an article about women trying to open a similar shed but finding there was a funding program which was specifically only able to men's sheds. I'm surprised they can get away with it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/huon-she-shed-project...

"While the local men's shed welcomes women, Ms Reardon said there were many women who wanted their own space."

It gets stranger and stranger.
Does the FPGA programming require some closed source components?

Because if I recall properly, open source FPGA programming is not a thing?

Am I wrong now?
If you follow the subreddit /r/Berghain_Community it has become clear that there is something wrong with Berghain.

People constantly discussing being molested, being shamed for openly expressing themselves, etc. The vibes are off now. It's very interesting as a casual observer, but I imagine it's extremely sad for those who were dependent on it.

I've also heard way too many GHB horror stories recently.
"The shape of each synaesthete's year is different. (Image based on an original illustration by Carol Steen)"

Doesn't everyone have a weird, slightly wiggly loop in their head that represents the year? I don't stand in the middle of mine as described in the article, I view it like it's a diagram on a screen, and we move round it like game pieces on a board. The first six months of the year are comparatively compressed, with July and August largest the presence (they are on the left, roughly between ESE and NE).

Or I did, I haven't thought about it for a while, I think it might be one of the many things that having a pocket do-everything device has down-emphasised. Either that or moving hemispheres and changing the mapping between months and seasons has altered the way I think about it.

I always figured that at some formative point in my childhood I saw some sort of representation of a year like this and just internalised it fully.
Ha, yeah our male cat will come and shout at us if he thinks we're up too late!
I feel totally sorry for every club. People invested a lot of work to keep things going.

On the grand scheme, this is pretty normal in Berlin and to every club scene. Pretty much every club I raved in during Berlin's techno heydays in the 90th has been closed or demolished, same goes for Frankfurt (Dorian Gray, Omen, XS, Easy, Oxo, Fun, Paramount Park, only Palazzo is somewhat still there). Even Loveparade "died", Mayday is still alive, but the theme has changed.

The mentioned Tik Tok ravers where previously known as "BRAVO ravers". Veterans from Germany will understand the reference.

Times are changing, so are clubs. Every generation bemoans the loss of its heritage. So maybe this is the essence: every generation has to take care of their club landscape.

And maybe sounding a bit arrogant, if you consider these days club scene "famed", then the anarchic club scene from the 90th must be considered a world heritage for comparison, since they set the trends for all generations to follow in a much larger picture.

Greetings to the 90th. ;)
You do, pretty often.
They're asking the wrong question.

Can you make households self-sufficient with solar? Well, it'll probably work. But also, it's probably expensive. So the question is: should you make households self-sufficient?

If you look into the renewable intermittency issue, some of the best and cheapest solutions are not storage, and are not possible in a self-sufficient setting. Those include a combination of wind and solar (they complement somewhat, because days with lots of wind are often days with little sun), grid improvements (transporting electricity is almost always more efficient than storing it), flexible demands in industry etc. Yeah, there is still a need for some expensive storage, but you should only do that if you have no better alternative.

The better solutions are on a grid level.
What models of Raspberry Pi are sufficient, or how many Mhz and RAM are necessary to demodulate an HD radio stream?

(Pi Pico, Pi Zero, and Pi A+/B+/2/3/4 have 2x20 pin headers for HATs. Orange Pi 5 Plus has hardware H.265 encoding with hw-enc and gstreamer fwiu.)
I just found this: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/certificate/

It seems there are 3 platforms which offer a certificate, for a fee, and then one with a free certificate, Harvard OCW: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/

https://www.classcentral.com/report/cs50-free-certificate/ says:

> Finally, to further confuse matters, even when you take the course via Harvard OCW, you’ll be asked to create a free edX account. To be clear, this is just a logistical step that will allow you to submit your assignments. You do not need to buy the edX verified certificate.
Opera can be pretty cheap, actually. And you can show up dressed badly and wont be turned away. Some people will look at you sideways, but no one will tell you anything.
Rust MOOC
As a regular Berlin visitor I have never heard of a club that "forbids alcohol" let alone encourage illicit drug usage. It's actually quite the opposite – the clubs tend to actively discourage drug use (meaning searching for them at the door and kicking out everyone who is caught using).