skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you are being down voted by just mentioning your honest observation of this nonsensical trend. I've heard that some people get offended by someone who's referring and calling a third person he or she, rather the political correct of 'that person'.

I like your suggestion about the usage of X, and it's not unlike Malcolm X. The main difference is that Malcolm using it for the right reasons, but not the lame excuse of not hurting or being insensitive to another gender.
Prepared meetings are not fun and boring. They feel not awkward and could be just replaced with an email.
This is pretty grueling work requiring you to operate heavy machinery, be away from your family for days, and drive mundane hour after hour.

Why wouldn’t it be highly paid?
On one side you were a employee, so he needs to treat you kinda like a regular employee. If what he did to you would be normal for another employee, then he has a point. Doing different could even be seem as unfair for the other employees.

On the other side you are a friend, I really don't know what he could have done differently, very hard.
As great as the hardware seems, the Quest 3's support of basically every Android app ever made plus native apps plus PCVR apps which are free with the purchase of their native Quest counterpart makes it much more appealing to me. Now that they seem to be adding native support for converting Apple's spacial video, I'm having a hard time seeing any advantage other than increased clarity that I would get from moving from a Quest 3 to a Vision Pro right now, but like everyone else, I'm eager to see what they do for the next iteration. Seems like a great dev tool for now.
Possible downward pressure on code quality, but maybe it's partly because more people are getting involved in programming with coding assistance? That could be ok if there's more progress overall.
When I use the word "mythology", I mean it to apply to any set of correlated beliefs. All religions have their mythologies, yes. But so do cultures and nations and corporations and universities and friend groups.

I think I see your agenda here though. Atheists have done terrible things. Adolf, Joseph, Pol. If you choose these folks as representatives of atheism (or, of what happens when you don't have a supreme accountability) then sure. They constructed a non-Christian(etc) mythology that was not competitive with their own supremacy, and did bad things with the power derived. I think we agree here.

But I don't view "atheism" as an organization or a correlated set of beliefs. You can choose to argue about "Atheism" and disagree. But we're talking about different things.

See also "[Dd]emocratic", "[Ll]iberal", "[Ll]ibertarian", etc.
Remember, it's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.
It's a bad thing if it offers some measure of comfort to icky people.

ToucanLoucan is concerned about child-like sex-bots - would he prefer their buyers instead focus their attention on human children? Or does he believe sexuality is malleable, that they can be sent to conversion therapy and become attracted to adult women instead? In which case we might witness some mental gymnastics to explain why conversion therapy only works on sexualities frowned upon by society, but is ineffective pseudoscientific abuse for any of the accepted or celebrated sexualities.
If we discovered for-sure even one single tiny microbe anywhere off Earth, that would only change a fundamental fact of the entire rest of the universe forever like when we discovered that the rest of the universe exists at all and that the Earth is not the center of Gods sno-globe. It would only mean there absolutely is other life out there even if we never meet them because of the sheer scale of everything. No big.

It's just the basic nature of reality changing. You can't eat it or fuck it, and your Netflix subscription will still be annoying, so what does it matter amirite?
> trade routes between Gondor and Brie

Transporting cheese, one would assume? (It’s “Bree”, by the way.)
I have more than one because I do use mine for training, the more flexible cloth or rubber ones for training, metal one for outings.
I love meeting recordings because they become an excuse that makes it easier to get out of pointless meetings...

(so yes, I'd love anything that gatekeeps the creation of meetings in a way that ensures the meetings I get added to are actually worthwhile instead of having to work around it).
I've been curious about the action of spices during brining / marinating. I.e.:

Does the flavor really permeate the meat? Or could we just added the spices during / after cooking?

And if the spices do permeate the meat, what's the mechanism? And how deeply do they penetrate?
Before each meeting, give them a sleeping pill
And the Russian empire is arguably a continuation of Byzantium / third Roman Empire with a Czar (Caesar) until the Russian Revolution.
460 applicants per role on average. It's a lot of work on both sides to hire people.
> After a while you run out of rich people you can monetize so your growth slows to a crawl.

Neat trick: create an ecosystem that genuinely helps your users live well & prosper, increasing their wealth so they can spend more money. It’s a circle of something!
House roofs in the US are often quite steep, and typically asphalt shingles over plywood. Terra cotta exists but is rare outside certain regions (and not that common even in those). Wood shingles exist but most are terrible, most still around now were installed after we ran out of wood good enough to give them their supposed 50+ year lifespan (we ran out in the 70s or 80s), so people tend to replace them with asphalt when they go to shit in 20-30ish years rather than paying a large premium to replace them with more (bad) wood. Slate, copper, et c., exist, but are basically "exotic"—no normal person has those on their house unless they bought a very old house in a bad neighborhood (a house with a roof like that's likely to be crazy-expensive if it's not in a bad neighborhood).

Most people in the US don't work on their own roofs. You need safety equipment most people don't own, plus protective equipment to keep from damaging the shingles, and to be proficient with it you need to use the stuff more than once every couple decades. And even then, it's pretty dangerous.
I think the issue is when it's a bot or doll emulating a full human and hitting the uncanny valley.

Plenty of toys out there for men and women nobody has an issue with outside of some(not all), strongly religious people.

If there was more of market for male dolls I could definitely some elements of the "manosphere" decrying it as an attempt to denigrate and replace men.

The UK already had an incident with mentally ill guy wanting to kill the queen.
Partially because he felt an AI "girlfriend" encouraged him to do so.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/10/06/man-encouraged-by-a...

So it isn't that impossible to believe some user somewhere , divorced from reality , will do something bad to a real person that they might not have done had they not tried it with these dolls/bots.

I don't think they should be banned(although ones emulating children probably should be), but it's worth debating it.
Would be good to have a landing page to tell us what this does. Straight to the point and skip all this marketing PR jargon.
Toyota has about 4x the profit per second compared to Porsche, but at 36,996 employees compared to Toyota’s 375,235, I think I would rather try to build a Porsche shaped business which seems more sustainable and obtainable.
I responded to a couple of people who claimed with great certainty that QM meant spacetime had to be discrete, when it says nothing of the sort. I haven't claimed we have proof that it is continuous and I doubt we ever will as that seems akin to proving a negative existential.

Your penultimate paragraph suggests some confusion about ideas like Planck scale and quantisation.

Firstly, there is nothing special about the Planck length itself. It's just a unit of length. Around that sort of scale, though, our current theories of physics happen to break down because both quantum and gravitational effects become significant. That doesn't imply spacetime is discrete (or preclude it being discrete) at that scale. It's just a realm that our current theories don't work in.

Secondly, while describing aspects of nature that are quantised was a large part of why quantum mechanics was developed (and the source of its name), it in no sense says anything like "there's some sort of fundamental discreteness in reality". Quantum mechanics deals with both discrete and continuous observables in a single framework: functional analysis, essentially. The set of possible values for an observable is modelled as the spectrum of an operator, which can be either continuous or discrete. Which sort of observable is appropriate for a given physical theory is a choice made in constructing that theory. For things like charge and spin we use discrete (quantised) values because we have evidence that those things are quantised. For things like position we use continuous values and have no evidence that using discrete observables would better match nature.

Space could in reality be either discrete or continuous, or not even exist in any form we'd recognise as "space" on those scales. Quantum mechanics doesn't give us any hints one way or another.
See: merits of blockchain
Send them from Australia.
A different, and likely more productive, way of looking at a possible connection between PATCO firings and USAir 1493 is in the form of institutional knowledge lost.

I think a decent argument here is that the mass firing of a large portion of existing ATC personnel damaged the institutional knowledge and rigor of the ATC profession as a whole. What highly technical profession wouldn't be damaged by that? And this damage just increased the risk of serious mishap across the board; it suddenly became much more likely an ATC would make a mistake, and this one is one of those mistakes
oh WOW! this is super useful. Thanks for the pointer!
Thank you! I'll try out his ideas next time I make fried chicken. Can't wait!
Nobody in a casual English (and Asian too from my experience) conversation will mean billion to be 10^12. English sphere predominantly uses the short scale.

That being said, there is no official word but two globally used scales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
React Native Fork That Supports Development on Apple Vision Pro
No. We do rely on trust. I'm not saying everyone needs to replicate all experiments.

This is trivial. If this superconductor is real then people will replicate it. People will publish results and once we have multiple independent verifications we can trust that it's real.

If it is also practically applicable then it will start to be used in real appliances and when we see it working we know it's real.

Science is frequently wrong. False positives, fabricated results etc are published on a daily basis. We should not accept one study's results as fact, we should not blindly believe in it, that's not how science works. We should understand that there are degrees of trust and certainty. A qualitative study is highly unreliable, a quantitative study's reliability depends on specific details such as sample size, methodology etc.

All a study says is "we did this and saw these results". We don't know that it isn't fabricated, we don't know that the description is accurate, we have to take it with a grain of salt. But at some point we have enough data to trust claims like "this medication is effective at treating this illness" or "this material is superconductive at room temperature".
Might and Magic has multiple planets. I think the humans and others have been scattered to different planets because of some cataclysmic events. So now they live in Medieval times. (With the occasional computer (oracle) and laser gun.) And sometimes a planet might blow up.
While it doesn't appear to have been updated in many years, Microsoft built a similarly useful tool[1] that lets you browse the structure of a given Office document and see C# code that generates various components of it.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK/releases/tag/v2.5
One use case this would immediately solve for me. Is travel.

When I travel I'm usually in an airbnb, hotel room or temporary rented apartment for months at a time.

Usually I may not even have a desk or a tiny one in the corner.

Having the ability to increase my area of productivity via this device from a 14"/16" laptop. Intrigues me quite a bit.

However, the current weight factor and fov (rumoured 100deg) puts me off right now.

Should apple do something similar (or another competitor) like the big screen beyond and 210 deg (starvr) with a much later iteration. The value proposition for me would make it an instant purchase.

I'm more than happy to sit this round out. But the new product segment is something that I and probably many people are interested in. I know Apple will innovate and more importantly push the whole industry forward. I'm watching and waiting with interest!
> The original archetype was a completely overblown caricature (based on some outliers) and wasn't true mostly.

I disagree. As someone with a CS degree, this was and is a stereotype for a reason.

> so that "Engineers" can be kept out of "Business Decision-Making" and thus Controlled/Managed easily.

This sounds almost like a conspiracy theory, how have the "industry" come to this conclusion together exactly?
This is a common phrase to denote something weird, unusual, or "cursed"
Just – I don't like that word
> Why wouldn’t it be highly paid?

There's many jobs that are probably even worse and paid less. The only reason it's highly paid is because the competition for it is higher: "at the time it was because of a “shortage” of truck drivers."
It still exists in Denmark and other European countries. You can even access it via the internet: https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/100
Indeed. Meanwhile here in the US no regulator had problems with Amazon buying One Medical and branching out into doctors offices.
I think this conflates conspiracy and conspiracy theory: there was a concerted post-reconstruction effort to distort the facts of the civil war. You could even call that a conspiracy. But it lacks the “hidden” narrative of a conspiracy theory: both the Lost Cause and actual civil war history were taught in the open.

I don’t think the 1950s American Dream is a Big Lie. A Big Lie is specifically a gross and intentional, top-down fabrication that displaces truth (because the lie is inconceivable). 1950s America is none of these things: it’s a collective fantasy based on distorted and politicized memories. It’s also not taught as a normative history (although that may unfortunately change).

This is perhaps pedantic, but I think there’s value in splitting these things apart: the US is chock full of rosy lies about its past, actual conspiracies, and conspiracy theories. But the closest thing we’ve had in living memory to a Big Lie is the lie of a stolen 2020 election, which (as of yet) has not achieved the kind of astounding dominance needed to survive as a Big Lie. But we will see.
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Netflix Adds Generative AI to Competitive Risk Factors in Its Annual Report
I am only commenting of what the Apple Watch actually solved. The marketing was bad and I agree. The Apple Watch series zero was useful for me and others but it was something concrete that the watch does solve while the Vision Pro is different.
Three cofounders, three advisors. I think my friend's thinking was that we'd have someone from technology (me), a scientist (him) and a business person (the CEO), but unfortunately it turned out that picking someone at random to be the CEO of your company isn't the best strategy.

I advised that my friend become CEO instead and that the then-CEO become more of an operations person (COO? Titles in a three-person startup are weird), which was a role the CEO wanted more anyway, but I think the advisors didn't want to go for that.
This is such an interesting and true observation. Anytime something isn’t working with an endpoint, first step is “can you get it to work with curl”.
Because it's easier.

Corporations don't do things because they're better. They do things because somebody gets a promotion / comission / are easier / somebody bought some BS enterprise software.
It's not easy to find single events or dates that define a change of historical period, that don't happen overnight and uniformly globally. The arts were indeed more advanced.

But 1492 has a number of interesting events. It's the year that Spain got unified as the first modern state, with a centralized court. That's a crucial event to get over feudalism. Coincidentally it's the same year Columbus reached the Americas, so it's an event relevant to globalization.

Erasmus, also a central figure, was ordained that year.
In such big projects as this, you just can't say "we didn't though about that, we will wait to see if we have luck".

Having B-plans for each specific case that you could reasonable obtain is a must. They were paid big sweet money for thinking about that.

The idea that the machine can be moved only if receives sun by some specific direction, is not logical when you play at this level.
If this is something you made and are looking for feedback, you can edit the title to put Show HN: at the beginning of the title which tells everyone they can discuss the thing being shown with the person who made it in the thread. It also makes it clear it's something people can try.
Reaction: If the virus is spreading like wildfire, people are dying all over the place, your new test has obvious use cases...but the FDA can't find a Yes-shaped pigeonhole in their bureaucratic brains within ~2 weeks - then you just say "Export Market", and look for a country where the regulatory agency has different-shaped pigeonholes in their sclerotic skulls.
Without reading the article, I'm pretty sure it's because that's what they have to pay to get decent drivers.
The Case for Colonialism (2018)
Woz said it best, the thing the apple watch did was put tap-to-pay on your wrist. It is awesome, but I still don't wear one.
I don't think that's really relevant. It doesn't matter if, diagetically, the world is rooted in Earth or not.

Fundamentally, all cultures are going to be based on real-world human culture, because that is all we know. Even if we try to imagine what a non-human culture looks like, we still construct it with the composite elements we know are common to human cultures. Even the most alien and inhuman cultures any author has ever imagined are still defined by how not like human culture they are. They're a negation of what human culture is, which is to say they're still a reflection of it.

We cannot do otherwise. We have never seen a non-human culture equivalent to human culture.

Further, all aliens and all fantasy creatures are analogs for humans or analogs for animals. Because that's all we know.

Even if we could create a truly alien culture, we could only understand it in terms and concepts that we already have because we do not understand concepts and ideas that we cannot conceive ourselves. Because those are the only concepts and ideas we have ever had exposure to.

It's like asking what color infrared or ultraviolet would be. We don't know. We don't have that experience. Or like asking what oranges tastes like if you've only ever had apples, cherries, grapes, and so on. How can we conceptualize something we have no conception for?
I think it may simply be a US vs European thing, it really surprises me the modern ICE cars are so heavy. I guess it's because of SUVization.
Even Haskell has exceptions. Even with Strong Typing and Functional Programming, things can go wrong, like network issues or your hard drive fills up.
Because they are professionals who do work that can be dangerous to them and the general public?
Would it? What does 1% reduction in code quality translate to in terms of delivery time and profits?

I don't know. But I'm pretty sure 50% reduction results in project failure and company bankruptcy.
I am reminded of the scene in Idiocracy[1] where we see the receptionist picking conditions from a board containing a few dozen colorful icons. There certainly is a sense in which you could abstract e.g. medical diagnostics in a way that makes illiterate people better at getting an LLM to give advice to a patient. But to go back to my 3-part statement: do people who can't organize and express their thoughts really deserve to be in charge of your medical diagnosis?

Or in other words, are UX designers catering to an audience that ought to not exist in the first place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0
I didn't call him in-human. Unlike zionists I wouldn't call people _animals_ in order justify murder of children.

I said he's lost his humanity:

Humane
Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

inhumane
lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

I'm sorry that English is confusing sometimes and that zionism has thrown our collective conscious into the gutter through its vile campaign.

Unlike the zionists I won't use someones lack of humanity as justification dehumanize and to murder them. I apologize for any confusion.
The other thing I think worth remembering is that Middle Earth is still full of an awful lot of physical, relatively intelligent evil that has no real-world analog, even without significant activity by Sauron. Intelligent spiders prevent expansion into Mirkwood. Real wights and ghosts exist and have real killing power. Actual dragons exist in some places and they could make settlement impractical a hundred square miles at a time. You can read between the lines to believe that most outposts of civilization are still dedicating an awful lot of resources to defense (preventing expansion) and perhaps attacks that significantly impair entire towns are so commonplace as to not be mentioned.

Mind you, in the end, I still think the balance favors some very simple expansion over the course of thousands of years, but there really are an awful lot of forces inhibiting it.

Also, the movies made this solitude vastly worse. The books reveal that JRR Tolkien was aware that all the cities would be surrounded by farms and villages and be nations. The nations may be disconnected, harried by the aforementioned evil, and find it very difficult to expand, but he understood there would be infrastructure there. Movie Gondor is ludicrous nonsense; able to field a significant army and sustain a civilian population, but apparently the army and civilian population do not ever need to eat anything. Or the food just beams into their granaries from space. Or maybe their Numenorean background or Rohan's affinity with horses means they can eat grass. Because they don't have any farms or any other infrastructure. It's city, and then literally 100 feet outside of the city walls, you're in the wilderness, effectively as untamed as 100 miles away from the city. You might justify it on stylistic grounds, but it has no other justification.

In the end you have to grant all authors grace. Nobody can run a full world simulation in their head accurately. If this is all we have to grant to JRR Tolkien, he asks for less than many other authors. Net-net I still think the wildernesses in his world are unrealistically sparsely populated, but it's far from the worst idea I've swallowed to read a book.
> Can someone explain the difference between multiple master fonts and variable fonts?

Adobe's Multiple Master format and Apple's TrueType GX format are, respectively, the spiritual and DNA parents of OpenType Variable Fonts.

https://medium.com/variable-fonts/https-medium-com-tiro-intr...