skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most academics didn't choose the career for the management side of their responsibilities. Perhaps concentrating those responsibilities in a few managerial types would free many people to do what they really want.
See also the Boeing and MD merger. Also GE.
> I didn't used to be a person who skipped cutscenes, and I thought they were ridiculous.

Amusingly, I didn't used to be a person who defended games with elaborate non-interactive cutscenes, and I thought they were ridiculous. In my old age, I realize that on the infinite parameter-space of artistic expression, there's a wide spectrum between "100% passively-consumed movie" and "100% interactive game". There's no reason to put interactivity on a pedestal; works of art (yes, I'm being generous by blanket-describing games as works of art, but it's true) are free to express themselves in a wide variety of ways, and while I think it's still folly for AAA gamedevs to chase Hollywood out of a lack of creativity, I no longer believe that cutscenes are inherently a bad thing.
Two chemistry Nobel medals sold in December auctions
You can absolutely read and write by just redirects. No cat or dd or anything needed.
https://archive.ph/synMc
Both the CG50 and nspire has working Numworks ports (although very slow), if you wanted something more fancy on the same hardware.

https://github.com/UpsilonNumworks/Upsilon
https://github.com/UpsilonNumworks/Upsilon/issues/327
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I'm the same way with 90% of games and that's how I can tell a well written game: if I watch the cutscenes. The most striking example of this was TLOU where I expected a fun zombie shooter and ended up completely enamored by the story, atmosphere, and characters.
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This works in ZSH but not BASH... I have a feeling you just helped me see why :D
.corp, .home and .mail should also be perfectly viable for private use after ICANN eventualy decided to cease all processing of applications for those TLDs.

"Whereas, on 30 July 2014, the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee adopted the Name Collision Management Framework. In the Framework, .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL were noted as high-risk strings whose delegation should be deferred indefinitely".[1]

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/mater...
Good to see representations of dinosaurs trend towards feathers rather than scales...
I have a think skin, something that appears to be missing on current cancellation culture.
The writing is not anything special. What is special is the nonlinear nature of the gameplay and how the story stays coherent around it. It's not perfect but there is not really anything else like it.
10% is pretty good!

> We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara

Enterprise adoption is always slow, forms a crushing tsunami and then fades into the background.
Are you under the mistaken impression that this feature is already implemented in mobile Safari on iOS 17.3? It isn’t.

On iOS 17.4, you’ll be able to see that the divider is thicker and obvious. Long-press on the Safari address bar for an illustrative example. See the gap between “Voice Search” and “Move to Tab Group”?
While I'm also not a huge fan of this way of writing, it works very well as a supporting device for me. You have a lot of room there for world building, and the people interested in it read or listen to all the scraps and everyone else can skip them if they don't care.

Games can put a lot of world building into optional areas or pieces of content that e.g. would never fit into a movie or even a TV series.
Ask HN: What means to live without a phone?
Are there any tech people who use to live without a phone number? How do you manage your digital life and relationship with the Government?
> The Fitbit Inspire, Fitbit Versa, and Oura Ring estimated light sleep with less bias than deep sleep. Conversely, the Withings Mat and Garmin Vivosmart estimated deep sleep with less bias than light sleep. Across devices, estimates for REM sleep were less biased than estimates of light and deep sleep. Despite low absolute biases, it should be noted that some estimates were still up to 250 min different than their PSG derived measures.

In other words: these devices are all terrible, and shouldn't be trusted. Pretty different from the final conclusion, which is probably "soft" to get additional grants from the commercial entities selling these devices.
>By the end of the 11th century the Jewish population of Palestine had declined substantially.

Holy shit that's burying the lede. Do you know what happened in Palestine, specifically Jerusalem, at the end of the 11th century?

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

"On 15 July 1099, the crusaders made their way into the city through the tower of David and began massacring large numbers of the inhabitants, Muslims and Jews alike. The Fatimid governor of the city, Iftikhar Ad-Daulah, managed to escape.[16] According to eyewitness accounts the streets of Jerusalem were filled with blood. How many people were killed is a matter of debate, with the figure of 70,000 given by the Muslim historian Ibn al-Athir (writing c.1200) considered to be a significant exaggeration; 40,000 is plausible, given the city's population had been swollen by refugees fleeing the advance of the crusading army.[17]

The aftermath of the siege led to the mass slaughter of thousands of Muslims and Jews which contemporaneous sources suggest was savage and widespread and to the conversion of Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount into Christian shrines.[18][19]

Atrocities committed against the inhabitants of cities taken by storm after a siege were normal in ancient[20] and medieval warfare by both Christians and Muslims. The crusaders had already done so at Antioch, and Fatimids had done so themselves at Taormina, at Rometta, and at Tyre. However, it is speculated that the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, both Muslims and Jews, may have exceeded even these standards."

And yes, the various Muslim powers at the time were in steep decline; if they weren't, they should easily have been able to defeat an army as poorly organized as the First Crusade was. The fact that just before the crusaders arrived, every powerful leader in the region died is basically the closest they came to actual divine intervention.
Don’t ask me. I hate rust too, especially the personality of the people working on it. Open to change my mind tho
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from https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/docu...:

"The maximum amount you can claim in a small claims action is $10,000. If your claim exceeds $5,000, the claim will be subject to mandatory mediation."
Netflix cares about old movies again
It is the worst tool by far on any computer I've used in the past 30 years.

Regularly disconnects Microsoft's own headsets and saturates CPU until the headset is unplugged and re-plugged, good job selling your products together without testing them.

Can't use triple backticks in messages for blocks of code anymore, it never works.

Can't always use single backtick either, unreliable at best.

Pasting will give crazy formatting sometimes and blocks of code sometimes, you can't choose when. Will regularly trim CRLFs, leaving you to input everything manually.

"Inserting" code (instead of pasting it like a normal person) makes the TITLE they force you to input take most of the space, it's like they thought long and hard about how to obfuscate useful information at every turn.

Switching tabs and conversations take a noticeable time, even on a decent beast (12th gen i7, rtx 3070ti, 64gb ddr4). Doing anything is sluggish in that app.

When on a call with somebody sharing their screen, can't hide the stupid vertical bar with names of other people taking 20% of the real estate.

Can't share more than one screen discord-style so half the time colleagues will be quickly shown something, and then have to be reminded to share their own screen again.

Link embeds are slow to parse, office embeds offer more options but are slow to open either in-app or in browser.

Speaking of links, any "copy link" is uncertain for users: sometimes it's a crappy useless popover, sometimes it's a link you don't realize the other user will need permission for, and sometimes it has copied without really notifying you. Awesome.

New teams is basically old teams but now your computer has twice the software and shortcuts.

Testing your sound setup requires a painfully slow call with the crappiest Skype-inspired bot, the test feedback itself being less than 30% of the entire time wasted

And the sound is just noticeably worse than literally every other service (Facebook messenger, Google calls, slack, discord..)

Once teams is on a computer, some magical shortcut (you will only ever press by mistake while doing other things) will pop up a window trying to get it integrated further into your O.S.

Searching for messages is extremely painful, there's no robust history in that bar at the top and you'll find yourself searching multiple times over sometimes, especially as you can't preview much so you try to find that one message from 6 months ago over and over again with new searches.

Setting appointments can't tweak the exact timing the way outlook's calendar does (down to 5min increments if wanted).

Can't pin more than a few teams. Good job making the tab that your app is named after the one people want to avoid the most.

I could go on but I'm not working today and already have enough sadness incurred by that horrible piece of junk 5 days a week..
Do you not daily charge your phone?
> they really want

You mean work on things they don't want to work on but are forced to by the management layer for fear of losing all funding/their jobs?
Haha thanks, Romania is an example, the language barrier would be a big issue actually — especially given that I am fluent in 2 other European languages. Anywhere would be cheaper than London.

I'd like to visit Romania one day though, looks gorgeous.
> It seems SD's advantage is more in newness/originality

What? Originality? Where? Every time someone enthusiastic shows me a SD "creation" there are at least a few elements I've seen before. Sometimes I can point exactly where.
Eager for Economic Wins, Biden to Announce Billions for Advanced Chips
https://archive.is/NkL5V
my circle is 98.2% can you beat that
If you figure out the right prompts and the right model it feels like you could get a pipeline going with SD. You still might want to hire someone to turn those into actual assets, but now someone can create maybe 5 assets in an hour instead of one in two hours. If you get fancy you might be able to use things like inpainting to create tiles that blend nicely.
I don't have time to waste teaching history of bytecodes to those that think WebAssembly is the be all, end all of bytecode formats.

Whatever you consider me to be, it is your opinion, keep it for yourself, share it with the world, whatever.
An important point that I don't think most people realize is that the Kibbutz that Hamas attacked on October 7th actually used to be Palestinian towns that they were expelled from during Nakba:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_dep...
I run Plasma (via pmos) on a pinephone and snappy is probably the last word I'd use to describe it.
This is what I loved about minidisc, they were like digital cassette tapes. I could record from the radio, trim out the DJ, order the tracks, and add artist/title information. It was fantastic. I could also use a TOS link cable on my PC to record MP3 onto the minidisc and reuse it over and over again, mixing up the tracks however I wanted. It was so much better than CDs, and easier to travel with.
Autonomous platform engineers enhanced proteins
Bytecodealliance/WASM-score: A benchmark for standalone WebAssembly
Biocatalysis breakthrough enables synthesis of lactam building blocks for drugs
https://archive.ph/0hN8W
> How does someone find his game before really really good games like baldur gates etc.?

They don't. There have been really good AAA games before Jeff started making games. His business model does not revolve around getting people to play his games before they discover better ones. His business model is to make games that can't be compared like that.
That doesn't appear to be an official HN thing, it's some third party responsible for it. I see dang has said he contacted them but can't do anything about it. The API still works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796861
I'd like to see this as well. I suspect the money would be better spent subsidizing/establishing community-owned ISPs in underserved areas.

There are still old telephone co-ops from the early days of the telephone in the US. The one I'm thinking of is extremely rural (population density is < 2 people per square mile), with a median county household income under $25K. They put in fiber to the home years ago, and 1GBit symmetric is well under $100 a month. (They have cheaper plans too.)

Similarly, some places have started using companies like this:

http://nextlevelnetworks.ca

You pay them to build out a local fiber network. You just pay the line installation, and then the community owns the network. The minimum project size is about 100 houses because that leads to a $100/month per house bill from the incumbent network's $10,000/month fiber uplink.

Concretely, imagine there was a subsidy for any area that doesn't have 1GBit symmetric for under $100 a month. Starting in the poorest communities, use the ACP money to establish a local co-op (per community, creating jobs) that charges 1.1x the cost of the fiber uplink per month, and saves 10% for network expansion / maintenance.

The ACP burned through $14.2B since 2021. It costs about $10K to run fiber to a house (it's almost all labor, so in urban areas you have short runs with high cost of living for the workers, and in rural areas you have long unobstructed runs with low cost of living).

They could have wired 1.4M low income houses for fiber with that money, and the co-ops could then charge the houses well under $100 per month for connectivity.
⃞ I have a salt deficiency.
Neat. I built a web app to learn languages that used podcasts and YouTube transcriptions too. The problem with YouTube was that their API was very limiting, so I ended up having to use a proxy and some unofficial API to scrape the videos. The whole thing felt very sketchy so I ended up removing the whole YouTube functionality and just focused on podcasts (https://langturbo.com)

I hope you have better luck.
Canada's surge in deaths under MAID outpaces other countries
As a resident of texas, allow me to describe / explain how electricity works.

Consumers can select from maybe 50 "retail providers". They all have some kind of marketing deal, like "all green" or "free weekends" or "0.14 a kwh fixed for 3 years".

You pick your deal and deal with this 'company'. All of the electricity comes from the same place. All of the wiring is maintained by one company.

Your "choice" is deciding who sends your bill and collects the money.

Seems like a monopoly would be a lot cheaper. Less employees, less infrastructure, less advertising.
`Although he admits it’s “morally questionable”, he began taking the posters'

This is ostensibly a fun read, but for the duration I couldn't get past the thought that someone hand drew and coloured a poster for beloved missing dog -- not a print out or photocopy -- and someone just took it because they wanted to collect them. It gives the whole piece a really discomforting overtone.
I would actually be wary of all online spreadsheets.

You are letting very valuable data reside primarily on someone else’s computers. It is harder to backup, migrate, etc.

Why not use open office and some type of cloud sync? You are in control of the data. With open formats you can even switch software as you want while keeping your data unaffected.
Right, naively assuming the creation of a management class is a good thing doesn't sound wise.
Something that has gps, can display a bit of a map, and is waterproof is somewhere between your two leagues and I think it's genuinely useful.
Deferred indefinitely is not quite the same thing as reserved for private use. For home use cases it's probably good enough, but a corporation will want more assurance than "the current ICANN has stopped processing applications for this TLD."
Pentagon ex-UFO chief says conspiracy theorists in government drive spending
Does anyone know of any good resources on Kolmogorov complexity and fractals such as the Mandelbrot set? Or even on information theory and fractals?

For some reason reading this article is making me wonder about the difference between the information required to generate something like a mandelbrot, knowing the underlying rule, and the information required to represent it as it is, without following the rule. Or e.g., the difference between the information of the generating rule and the information implicitly represented through the time or number of operations needed to generate it.

It seems like there's some analogy between potential and kinetic energy, and kolmogorov complexity and something else, that I'm having trouble putting my finger on. Even if you have a simple generating algorithm that might be small in a kolmogorov complexity sense, if that algorithm entails a repeating something over a large number of operations, the resulting object would be complex, so there's an implied total complexity as well as an "generating" one.

Maybe this is some basic computational complexity concept but if so I'm not recalling this, or am being dense. E.g., I'm used to discussions of "compressibility" but not of the "generating representation information cost" versus "execution cost".
You don't have to unfasten a phone to charge it.
Not a swindle.

One company offered a plan where all of the electricity was purchased on the spot market. All of it.

Spot market purchases of electricity are very cheap. Except when they aren't.

Most months my electricity bill was 1/2 of current.
For some people it probably is. If you want a cheap pocket sized Linux computer rather than a phone.

I am quite happy with my Pinetab (I am typing on it now). I see the Pinephone as a smaller version of that. My Pinetab has replaced my phone for quite a lot of things - I use my phone a lot less.
Example of photo is needed, my photos don't work.
I don't know about ACP, but its sister program Lifeline pays for signups. That's why here in Chicago's South Side there is someone giving away phones and tablets on every street corner. Really.
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> watch for language that assigns an explanation to the behavior of others.

K

> Not the language of an open hearted soul.

Found some.
There are always caveats and eSIMs are a double-edged sword.

I'm locked down to my current phone because of eSIM. I have two eSIMs from different countries, both necessary for long-term use (e.g. I have bank accounts in both countries, and banks want local numbers). Replacing or upgrading phone would be a tricky endeavor, with temporary outage on one of my lines, as I will be able to move only one eSIM, but not the other until I physically travel to a different country.

Sure, it's a rare edge case, but still - super inconvenient.
I had a big carrier number that I later transferred to google voice and I've never had any issues with it since.
I have had similar thoughts.

The prominent modes and paths of this 2D probability distribution also show some resemblance to the kabbalistic tree of life, which is its own, but fairly related topic of study. DMT use within a connected strand of this "inner science" has been suspected.

Drawing more of these far-fetching connections: The complex plane is related to several areas of physics, which might somehow find expression in electromagnetic brain dynamics.

In any case, the buddhabrot distribution seems quite understudied both from a scientific / mathematical PoV, and from the perspectives of the occluded study of the "inner realms".
The Casio supported pricing scheme for UK schools slashes the Fx-CG50’s price by roughly half, which my sixth form advertised to us as really helpful for visualising anything graphical. Faced with a good deal on something they thought would be useful (and fun!) for students I guess they didn’t dig very hard for caveats.

Our teachers were just as intrigued and excited as we are when they saw games running on the calculator for the first time, and from then on just told students off for getting sidetracked by Super Mario on a case by case basis.
Why Do Cats Bring Their Owners 'Gifts' of Dead Animals?
https://www.getgrist.com/
Meta would owe Apple 70M per year just for having Facebook on iOS
I've always disliked the perverse incentive of universities to hire professors who are good researchers but perhaps abysmal instructors. They may be subject matter experts but that doesn't necessarily qualify them to teach. They know as much, and often pawn off their undergrad classes on their grad students. I had a CS theory professor who was always out at math conferences and it made me wondering what the point of paying thousands in tuition to that school was if I'm just getting an underpaid grad student to teach me everything.

I've heard some professors are recruited with the explicit promise that they'll do a minimal amount of actual teaching. Ironically this can mean that the supposedly "best" universities in the country have some of the worst in-class experience for undergrads, where huge lecture halls with 200 students are taught the fundamentals by people only a couple years older than them and not the world-renowned experts that they paid to see. If this isn't good enough for them, it's on the student to make up the difference via after-class labs with the grad students who help them solve their homework problems

It feels like in some universities, research is the point and the undergrad programs simply exist to subsidize the graduate and PhD work and not to develop a new generation of people for the good of society
Are there known applications for this? Like some kind of submerged version of a turbine for energy gathering? Or models of galactic-scale phenomena?
On knowing who he was
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It performs decent enough on my Ryzen 3600X with 64GB of RAM. It definitely wouldn't be usable for production or fine-tuning, but it's fine for experimenting.
> A lot of botnets work this way where they will use something like Twitter or Reddit as a command and control channel but not a thing you would want to rely on if being identified might mean your life.

For example, comments on Britney Spears' Instagram page:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/russi...
People forget that ISPs took billions in government money a few decades ago to fund a broadband rollout (and the attendant drop in prices) that never happened. Overall costs aside, as an individual, any discount like this is just someone putting back money in your pocket that should never have been taken out in the first place.
Why a GPS? Do you ever go anywhere without your phone where a GPS would be useful?
If a feature does not increase profits why would you put money into developing and maintaining it?
Hah, so high tech- Turns out the said repos used to do the same, then one of them later added CodeFormer under the hood, conflated the strength with affinity and didn't bother renaming (calling codeformer --gfpgan_strength looks very unhinged to me but oh well haha).
It's definitely doable though! What I had in mind as a GAN equivalent (used to apply in WSI context while back) is akin to Rayleigh EigenDirections in terms of latent space navigation https://www.ecva.net/papers/eccv_2022/papers_ECCV/html/7277_...
There's some code out there, unsure if it's streamlined for this use case but can lend a hand if you decide to give it a shot :)