skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: can this be done?
If film grains are randomly or chaotically distributed, and fractal over enough orders of magnitude, grain might not be error but a medium which interprets and conveys information differently, with unique advantages.
But now I'm afraid I sound like an audiophile who buys wooden amp knobs for performance.

TeMPOraL on Nov 14, 2022 [–]

You've stumbled on an actual, practical use case: encoding watermarks in the grain. I can imagine a watermark hidden in the grain, spread over long enough time (say couple seconds to a minute), so it can survive reencoding with heavy compression and containing enough bits to identify the source of the video on a per-copy/per-user basis.
Apple has a total monopoly of iphone's apps. The devices and the marketplace inside the devices are two different markets
EA, Bethesda, Activision-Blizzard, etc all release broken shit and rake in millions and millions. I don't know what you think your point is. The vast majority of the market responds by whining on social media and then giving you 80$, plus whatever you ask for for literally new textures.

Just look at No man's Sky and Cyberpunk! They basically advertised games that didn't even exist, released something basically unrelated, and now the market rates their products highly positive and earnest people will tell you to give them more money!

America hasn't rewarded sincerity in a hundred years
You're leaving how a key part, at least in America which is racism. Whites ran to the suburbs to escape particular groups and quite frankly still do albeit now it's more in the form of urban sprawl.
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I thought the same about every item in the list. A more honest title would be "questions to ask to determine if you think like me"
Here's a definition from Wolfram math world that includes an addition operation for any valid value of k: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SomosSequence.html

Are you talking about the behavior of the floor operator in determining the number of terms in the sum? For k in {1,2,3}, floor(k/2) = 1. So there would only be one term and thus no addition.
I think AirBNB has the infrastructure to upend the Realtor market. If they just add an “AirBNB listings” buyers can search and scroll through pictures. They’d have to show exact location, but otherwise pretty much the same as what’s there. Seller pays an upfront listing fee, gets referrals for staging and photos if they want to stand out.

Simply add a “30 minute viewing” rental for $25-$50 (AirBNB keeps $10-25), available to registered users (with already-verified ID). Maybe rent the homeowner a bundle of cams for viewings for extra security.

If a buyer is really interested, have an above-market-rate nightly rental—I’d love to spend a night in a house before paying a million+ dollars for it (without the cams, of course). Maybe half refunded with an offer made thru AirBNB Listings; full refund with an accepted offer (again, less AirBNB fees). Maybe partner with Redfin or Zillow to set prices, provide school and property info, and finish the deals. Do it all cheap enough to make it worth sellers forgoing an MLS listing; should be a flat fee, a tiny fraction of 6% in most cases.

A startup couldn’t do it, but AirBNB has the name recognition, and the pieces already there, right? I’m available for consulting, or send me a fruit basket if it all works out, a nice one, without a lot of melon.
Backlash spreads over Musk's endorsement of antisemitic post
Sorry. That's just anti-union FUD. Unions are quite cognizant that they don't exist without an employer, employees, and providing value to each.
Even in Southern California, $250K is a very high salary for developers, at least in embedded systems, which is the space I’m familiar with.
See also https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-11-17/backlash-s...
You can safely say this for any user-facing product Amazon has. Look at the Prime TV interface, the Amazon Music app (and their "free" tier), etc. Everything they put out is third-rate, the only thing they know how to do well is AWS, which keeps the lights on.
Besides the low brow "wen half-lyf-3?" comment, is valve planning on releasing any other games like hf? Anyone in the industry have anything to spill regarding this?
"If I'm legally required to work, isn't that forced labor?"

Not if you signed a contract declaring that you will show up.

So a strike is in one way organised contract breaching - but one that is allowed under certain circumstances under the bigger contract, the state laws (which you accept by being in that state).
It's crazy what average folks can do when they collectively own the means of production.
Aha, Lucas claims he meant distance too.
Not only has GPT4 passed an elementary school science test, it is outperforming on tests better than 95% of the world. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1635700173946105856?lang...
The 'we' subsidizing the middle class is the middle class. "We" are paying for it. What 'we' are also forced to subsidize is the everyone else on top of our choice of accommodations.
That’s rational

All the fawning in the world cant help make it a great regulator and market environment or solve geopolitics

I don't think that changes my point
I thought gigabit required all four pairs, or am I missing part of what you said?
Time perception and age: Longevity's influence on 'mind time'
Love to see Valve revisiting old games and giving them modern quality of life improvements.
Immigrants are now responsible for the lost hacker spirit? Seriously?

I think you might be confusing correlation with causation. Software engineering becoming a well paid job for the masses is the reason for both decline of exclusive hacker culture and amount of career-seekers (both domestic and international) willing to join the industry.
Not insulting people that disagree with you and need the work is a good reason.

Even as a frenchmen, I don't think strikes are sacred.
Explain to me why the average person needs a truck.
I don't actually agree with unions, but not for the "usual" reasons. Unions are a scotch-tape fix to a broken economic system, which gives enormous powers to the capitalistic class at the expense of all others.

The correct solution is to fix the actual system. All large companies should be by constitutional law (controlling) majority owned 1/n by their workers. All this exploitation will disappear because workers will obviously not exploit themselves, but also will be incentivized to work hard for their own future.
I get the frustration, but it also sounds like a whiny teenager. "Mom, I'm bored." "You could read a book, or play a game, or go for a walk." "All of those things are boring."

It always sounds like an excuse to me. They've picked a thing that they can't do and set it as the only meaningful goal, to avoid having to do anything that might actually matter.

I'm sorry that they got denied the thing that they specifically want to do. They can join the line with all the kids that fail to become movie stars and tech CEOs. It's a club called "everybody", and we meet at the bar.
Yeah, I almost feel like a better way to find red flags is to ask if I have to use web apps to manage systems or if there’s a nice suite of command line tools to use for day to day tasks.
I'm in the suburbs but like you an older one and more densely packed. I'm maybe a mile from a major highway that goes to the city center. It's dead straight and major thoroughfare. If they dedicated one line to rail, none of that mixed BS, and had stops say every mile into the city my god it would be amazing.
Well, how much have you continued to your senator?
Nukemap is rather optimistic, you aren’t getting the kind of medical attention to give people who got a 500rem dose a 50/50 shot of survival after a nuclear bombing. It also ignores fallout, secondary fires, etc.

Hard to say what hypothetical countries arsenals actually look like. The B-41 was supposedly 5.2 megatons of TNT per tonne of bomb designed in the late 1950’s. At 5 tons each a non reusable falcon 9 could get ~4 different 25 Mt bombs to LEO and possibly more on a ballistic trajectory. So it’s not like monsters don’t fit on rockets, saturation bombing is just more effective.
> For us as Japanese developers, the first time we heard it, it was like a discriminatory term, as though we were being made fun of for creating these games, and so for some developers, the term can be something that will maybe trigger bad feelings because of what it was in the past,

I'm curious when that was because, having played RPGs on various systems since they first existed, I don't recall ever having it been considered negative; just another style. I don't mean to discount his feelings about the term/issue at all; he (and those he associated with) clearly felt that way. I just find it interesting that there's such a disconnect there.
Signal is competing with for profit companies for talented engineers and their talented leaders. You can't just cobble together something "good enough", this thing must be airtight given some of the dangerous situations it is used in.
A person brought in to “stop the bleeding”.
I "solved" the phone number problem by getting a one-month, one-time $15 anonymous (as much as a cell phone can be anyway) prepaid sim just for signup.

It expired months ago while my (paid) GPT account continues to function happily.

They don't use the phone for any kind of 2fa stuff. If they ever block my account, I'll just repeat the process.
Yes, board members are strictly segmented by business sector, by law. I mean, god forbid we could have someone on the board on an aerospace company, a car manufacturer, and an internet behemoth! /s
Elon Musk is a glorified carnival barker. He has never come up with a worth while original idea, and rides on the successes of others. He's a waste of oxygen who would never have achieved notoriety without being born into privilege and being the son of a precious stone magnate (dad Errol) and a fashion model (mother Maye).
> dad was intended to be a commentary on Japanese salaryman culture, [...] lesson about all the things you might miss if you spend all your time working.

Totally. Check out a few episodes of the "Old Enough" show on Netflix and you'll see the same; dad/mom is stuck running the restaurant while the kid goes on the epic errand. Adults have responsibilities and it was touching that the game respected that instead of vilifying him as an "absentee" parent. Childhood is your journey; your parents are just there to provide air support.
Both of those questions are fundamentally questions of morality. This means that there is, or at least can be, an objective answer to the question provided sufficient parameters are specified, not least of which is the system of morality being used.

The distinction matters. I may not enjoy a book purely as a matter of taste. I think most of us have had the experience of reading or watching something that we would have agreed was well-crafted while also not remotely enjoying the experience. There is a good deal of pure subjectivity here. I cannot be argued into enjoying something. However it is possible to either change one's system of values or else to be shown that one's evaluation of a subject in the light of those values is missing something.
Would you show your work? I am curious and a little bit skeptical.

A gallon of gasoline has about 31,000 kcal. In the US, a typical sedan gets about 30 miles per gallon.

Walking a mile at 150lb bodyweight burns about 100 kcal. (This is non linear though: walking longer distances will burn less per mile on average)

If we assume linearity, to walk an extra 30 miles in a day you'd need 3000 more kcal of food. What is the energy cost of growing and transporting 3000 kcal of food? Does it exceed 31,000 kcal?
Microsoft adopted it far quicker, but in marginal products. Windows Media center edition was glossy by it's second release, windows media player 9 was glossy (and the aesthetic only progressed further with wmp10), and they released the royale theme which was also glossy
On one hand, that is epic. On the other hand, it means the union has leached a monumental amount of capital out of the workers and industries they are involved with. A union should not have that much cash in the bank.
I nowhere said impossible! All I say it is tricky and that likely the code you write will have to be adapted in certain cases (compared to current existing implementations of numerical algorithms).
Ah, it now works on the Steam Deck. Wondered why it would happen.
I'm not claiming it's a good idea for electrical work. I'm just replying to the points in the comment saying it's an insulting wage.
I have an utter dislike of Zuck, but there is no evidence this happened. Unnamed source tells page six, the Bloomberg reports on the page six article.
cool.

Was going 2 or will do something similar, but offline, actually in the terminal and monkeytype style, using textual/rich and maybe add some hyper-terminal animations for gamification (whatever non-hyper-terminals are capable of).

feel free to beat me to it =] I know almost nothin about code, yet.

Will try to finish your beta in that 1 week cuz I'm poor (not a _complete_ beginner, though, I understand pointers!) and I promise to give well formulated and constructive feedback

<3
> there is always one way to break up the units that leads to matrices and vectors with a consistent unit.

maybe i don't understand what you're saying but it sounds like you don't understand the problem

it's not that the units are inconsistent in the sense of adding kilograms to kilojoules; they're just inhomogeneous

you have a potentially large matrix in which potentially every cell has different units. so type systems that require the matrix cells to all be of the same type aren't helpful unless that type is something machine-oriented like `real*8`

moreover this is intrinsic to the problem, or at least the decision to use linear algebra on the problem

an additional difficulty for things like *gemm or lu factorization is that you want them to be applicable to matrices of any size with any type of units of measurement, as long as they're consistent; so they're parametrically polymorphic over units of measurement
Ah, yeah my advice is definitely for sheet rock/dry wall based dwellings. I think you could manage to replace the coax run through brick with a single cat run though. I would buy and generously use wire pulling lubricant though.
They don't, of course. But solidarity goes a long way.
As someone with 20 years active and reserve time, the only thing I'd really tweak here is that the budget is somewhat centralized; it's just the execution that's decentralized. DOD is an Executive Branch department that operates on money programmed by Congress. Agencies choose, within limits of Title 10 US Code, how to spend that money, but the "pots" or "flavors" of money they have to spend are allocated in the Congressional budget.
Aside from just generating tons of goodwill, does anyone have any insight into why Valve would do this? Obviously, I think it's great regardless of the motivation, but are there rumblings of Half Life 3 that I've missed or something?
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Edit: deleting my comment. didn't add much value to the conversation.
Good to know I'm not the only one who just cannot let go of his 'to be played' list (though I'm only ~15 years behind wanting to play Earthbound). Recently finished SNES Chrono Trigger...

There even was a time I was under the illusion that I could experience all 'major' games in a reasonable timeframe after they came out.

And then the video games market blew up for good during the 10s and now there's so ludicrously many of them...
Market cap is not that at all, that's why Twitter's market cap was 44B and now undefined because its not on the market.

Market cap is the price of the last share trade times total number of shares. Company's current performance and prospects don't really change that much from day to day but you can have large market cap changes because what you are observing is just live betting.
HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED
> Implementation details are language features, because implementation details are the standard. Python programs that rely on the GIL are not "wrong".

The problem here is: Implementation details are not guaranteed to be stable. They can change with every release.

So if I write code that relies on any particular implementation detail, it may be correct today, and may be wrong two weeks from now, even though I didn't change anything.
I ride my E-bike every day, to office and back, and to run various errands (in a European city with some, but not enough biking infrastructure). After several months of doing this, sitting in the car trapped in traffic feels almost painful.

The bike gives me real freedom: I can stop pretty much anytime I want, I can park close to any destination without searching for a parking spot. Compared to this, being stuck in traffic in a car feels like being in jail. You can't stop, you can't move, you can't park, you have to follow the traffic.

Some common misconceptions:

1. An E-bike does not always replace a car, it replaces some/most of car trips and a second car in our case.

2. An E-bike is not for "the lazy people". Pedal assist (which is how this should be one, not like I've seen on some US bikes where you press a button and the bike goes brrrr) means that it's like normal biking, except with a tailwind. You can bike longer distances, you don't arrive sweaty, you can carry lots of cargo.
There is an easter egg in the website.
Thought we're talking about fuel for operation of a power plant.
How much mining and transportation does it take to get sunlight to reach a panel? Or wind to reach a turbine blade?

If you want to discuss the capital expense of nuclear, its not too great either, really most countries can't even afford a nuclear power program, where even the poorest can utilize solar panels.
I am surprised how difficult it seems for the streaming platforms to offer an “adventure” mode.

They would also benefit from it because it would lead to a more sub-30-second skips (while still staying on the platform) so they can pay even less to the artists.
I build stuff because I love it. But why should I publish it? If I publish it, why should I release it under a permissive license?

I think people get pissed off because they're working out of a spirit of generosity, and the users who they interact with most are definitely not.

Suppose my neighborhood regularly throws a block party, and everyone makes and shares some food, because they enjoy making and sharing food. Great! But suppose one neighbor grabs portions of everyone's freely shared dishes, packages them up, and begins selling your freely-shared food as plate lunches to others, and pocketing the proceeds. They come back and ask that you use more spice, and by the way, do you have any napkins and plastic cutlery? Is the right response here "well, if you don't love making and sharing food for the love of it, you should stop?" Or is it reasonable to want to share with people who are willing to engage in the same spirit of mutual benefit?

I build stuff and keep my projects to myself. I would happily share with other people who are building hobby projects for the love of it. I would happily let almost any non-profit use my work for free (perhaps excluding some political or aggressively religious organizations). I have zero desire to gift anything to anyone's for-profit company. But for some reason, there's a strong stigma against sharing source code but not allowing a total free-for-all of what it's published for. "That's not open source," I'm told. So I don't publish at all, but that has nothing to do with not loving what I build.

Meanwhile, a hobbyist makes music, and publishes some recordings with a CC non-commercial license, people get it. No one says, "oh if you object to companies using your recording as background in their ads, it must be because you don't love making music."
It's only a matter of time before Amazon's car sales section is filled with vehicles from BSTCARZ or GREENCARR or their Alibaba dropshipping ilk.
As defined, 0 was "north", but I think your alternative formulation is also interesting!
Well then Tesla should treat their workers better so this doesn't happen. So rude of them.
Half Life 3 already happened and it was called Half Life: Alyx.
It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/
What stops you from making this argument to allow kids to smoke cigs? That's kinda how this is. Imagine if every kid smoked, and if you didn't want your kid to smoke too, they become a social outcast with all the mental issues that come with it.

Society steps in to regulate harmful/predatory behaviors all the time, even between consenting adults (let alone children, even if their parents play along). Libertarianism just doesn't work for kids. (I think it doesn't even work for adults, personally)
Somehow, this is the one product I have seen on HN that I always think : "Huh, I hope this works out, and HN is exactly the place where people would appreciate it."

So, I guess I was mentally primed for thinking of your tool when I read the title. No premonition, just monkey brain pattern matching.
I had a lot of success early on with a community of practice I started inside an engineering org but as time went on it morphed into a something different: A place to assign work outside an engineers day to day. I suppose thats a function of growth - people must always be working on something.

I started it with the intention of communicating architecture changes from consensus borne out of our weekly meeting. We got TypeScript into the codebase, React Query, talked about React Context and minimizing Redux. It was fun for a while. But then, was just another meeting where work was dolled out.
> Not if you signed a contract declaring that you will show up.

Yes, even then. A contract violation is not a violation of law. My question is about it being illegal.
"It's got electrolytes"
def no insider info on my side but from what I've heard/read they pretty regularly have a team spun up to explore a half life 3 but at this point they're afraid of a duke nukem forever (not that they'd make a shitty game like that) and that even if it's a great game it'd be seen as underwhelming because the community has hyped itself up so much on it over the nearly 20 years.
Because Valve does whatever it feels like doing and honestly, I love them for it. I wish more companies would follow in their footsteps (e.g. not going public), but few have the luxury of being founded by someone who was already set for life financially at the time.
England has some weird (to me) property privacy laws. IIRC, you cannot be charged for simply walking through someone's property as a shortcut. There's nothing they can do about it, you just can't linger on the property. I mean, it seems fine, I just haven't seen anything like it before.
First, let's be real here: it's not a mandate that every business decision be made with a racialized lens. It's a mandate that business decisions consider their potential impact on systemically disenfranchised groups that we no longer wish to have systemically disenfranchised.

I think your claim that this is a path to rebuilding systemic racism and not a means to end it is a misunderstanding of the "systemic" aspect of systemic racism. Because it is systemic, the system itself will naturally reinforce the impact of the racism unless significant counter forces are applied against it.

The fact that a business making decisions to deploy resources geographically to maximize revenue (for services that ought to have nothing to do with race) might reasonably worry that they might unintentionally lead to an impact that has a discernible racial bias, is a demonstration of exactly this phenomena.

So no, you're not going to end it by making decisions ignoring systemic disenfranchisement. To end it, you are definitely going to have to be mindful of how the system might have impacts that reflect (and thereby amplify) the bias of the system, not the decision.