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Epic has purchased VFX companies in the past, and Unity was eying that market before they imploded recently, making a bunch of acquisitions.

It’s an obvious and huge opportunity for game engine experts to grow their influence.
There are three possible backstories here.

First option: the lawyers genuinely believe they have a winnable case, or at least a case they can drag out into something approaching a draw in their favour.

Second option: they are so used to intimating people into submission that they became complacent and didn't bother examining whether their mark had prior experience.

Third option: the artiste insisted that Something Be Done, so it was done.

My money's on number three.
The Shortwave Radio Index
> I'd just prefer people to enter it on their car's on-screen interface

I know I'm more -- ahem -- cautious than most, but I'd be very nervous about entering any sensitive data like that into a car's data system. I'm not even comfortable connecting my phone to a car via bluetooth.

It wouldn't necessarily be a showstopper for me, but I would certainly want to see others use such a system for a few years before I started to, to be reasonably confident that the car wasn't helpfully storing my payment details for me or passing them along to an entity not involved with the transaction.
That would be less expensive.
That sounds a lot like a Jupyter notebook
Another Kentuckian in tech here. Thanks for the list. A friend recently attended https://13layers.com/event/lextalktechjan24/ and said it was a good mix of talks. I think they're quarterly and it's on my list to follow up.

I also lurk on these slacks: bluegrass-dev.slack (same folks as the meetup I assume), Louisville Tech louisville.slack, and startuplexington.slack

Hope we keep this ball rolling a bit longer on meetups and gatherings both in person and online.
Tangential - one thing I particularly despise is trying to be funny when an unexpected error occurs. A la "oops, something went wrong", "Sowwwy, an error occurred!". Especially when this is breaking my flow, I'm not in a mood for cutesy messages and fun.
The flame wars were funny even back then, they were exaggerated conflicts, I never thought people took them seriously. Nowadays, instagram, twitters, fb? The rage on these platforms is unbeliveable! Forum-based flamewars usually had multi-paragraph detailed rants on why such and such was incorrect and why "my" way was "so much better". The modern version is one sentence sound-bites _at most_!

The internet was better when it was smaller, but maybe that's the way it is with anything.
> It turns out that the appendix appears to have two related functions. The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it's acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut.

> The second function that it serves is what we refer to as the safe house. So this was a hypothesis that was put forward by a team from Duke University in 2007. And they argued that the appendix may serve as a safe reservoir for the beneficial gut bacteria that we have.

I have to question if the first function is valid. How can the appendix "help fight bad things in the gut" when it's basically a minor piece hanging off the large intestine. It's not like a lot of stuff passes through it or that it really secretes anything (AFAIK). In fact, wouldn't it make a little more sense that the high amount of immune tissue is there because of appendicitis? After all, people that don't die from sepsis tend to have more options to procreate and a less infect-able appendix would tend to make people live longer.

The second thing is pretty interesting though. Sort of makes sense. Though I'd imagine that more often than not the "bad bacteria" is going to infest the safe haven and kill the good gut bacteria. I can't see how that wouldn't often happen.
I don't think Fortnite is just a marketing platform. They wouldn't have bothered suing Apple and Google over app stores if it were merely a loss leader to remind film execs that Unreal Engine is a thing.
A lot of the modern web is terrible, but your example of a "nightmare" still seems to be a clean, well formatted and informative page without ads, popups, or any of the usual bugbears, unless I'm not seeing them. The modern version just adds more information in the header.

To each their own but I would consider that an example of how modern web design can be done correctly.
The idealist in me says "that's what they have, and these organizations don't have the cash to buy new stuff for benchmarking".

The cynic in me says "that's the only way for ARM to even appear competitive in HPC".

Note: real HPC not "serve-ads-or-train-ad-serving-ai-models-with-the-highest-flop-per-watt" HPC.
Because they are comparing it with the system they have and a new system they might eventually have.

It's their own analysis for their own benefit.
Anyone know how the Vision Pro handles focus distance? I use multifocal contact lenses, but even with the contacts, I can't focus on anything closer than 25-30 cm. I assume VR headsets like the AVP — where the screen sits much nearer the eyes — use lenses that move the focus distance, but does it work well even for people like me?
Ok but they seriously need to not zoom in on every site you click on.
Is being pedantic about this adding anything to the conversation?

What the site does is not innocuous; we already know that.
OsmAnd+ also has this, but it can also pre-download the Wiki articles, so you don't need connectivity.
> Epic games has the potential to be the virtual Disney World

This is what everyone said about Lego, and a bunch of other collabs that came before. It was never true and it's not true now. Turns out people don't want a "virtual world", they want a fun game.
She should just buy 4-5 jets and keep them flying around randomly.
> The runtime doesn't compile WASM, it simply executes it.

That's not necessarily true. For example, Wasmtime uses Cranelift to compile WASM binary into native code. https://docs.wasmtime.dev/contributing-architecture.html
Not to mention campaigning hard against EVs, complete with anti-EV propaganda in the form of kids' stories distributed to schools: https://electrek.co/2021/11/11/how-toyota-sneakily-spreads-a...
That may be so .. but I recall reading about Neanderthals' cave drawing .. they depicted Homo sapiens as frightening creatures.
It's very unpredictable. It might spill to the whole East Asia and then who knows.
StageCraft IS Unreal Engine.

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

ILM used Unreal Engine to make StageCraft and kept iterating on it until it’s the awesome tech that it is. They have a vested interest in seeing the underlying engine continue to prosper.
That is true, but I also think even Swifties underestimate the power of Streisand. Thing is they don't need to be public figures, they can sprout up accounts with no clear target to attack.
This isn't a question of what he's accomplished, this is about money - that's what this conversation was founded on. Lots of people accomplish lots of things, they don't get rich (around the USD$billion valuation by the terms of this discussion) from them.

The metric we've had put up is the money == "good advice on how to get it". And if that's the case, then giving any advice now asks the important question: where's your piles of cash?
Disney likes Apple, Epic hates Apple. Will this put a leash on Epic's push to break Apple's monopoly?
A bland corporate version maybe.
And wait for March 6.
I can't believe it
Nobody starves in blue states. Red states maybe
> I don't find it okay to bash IE so harshly. Sure it wasn't the best but no one forced people to use it.

No one was forced to use IE, but many people had the decision made for them. Sometimes it was because it shipped as the default on the dominant operating system. (I suspect people forget how dominant Windows was. While Windows remains the dominant operating system on desktop computers to this day, their share wasn't diluted by platforms like Android and iOS.) Other times it was because sites designed exclusively for IE were visibly broken in other browsers. (I suspect part of the reason why I am not bothered by incompatibilities with Firefox to this day is because the incompatibilities are minor compared to those we faced in the past.)

I do agree with your sentiment about conspiracy boasting, though from a different perspective. Their actions represent a group of people in a position of power making a decision for other people, even if it wasn't an officially sanctioned decision. (Though I have no doubt that many people cheered for their actions.)
Fortnite's "creative mode" is a game level loader, not a metaverse. One creator makes a mini-game and uploads it, then others can visit. It's not a shared-world metaverse. Other game level loaders include Sinespace, Breakroom,and Sansar.
Decentraland is in between - each user uploads their own parcel, but it's part of a shared world, where you can see multiple parcels at once.

In a real metaverse, you have neighbors. A very large number of people can each contribute to building a big world. Such systems are very rare.

That's not in line with Disney's business model. "The media giant will work with the Fortnite studio to create new games and an entertainment universe where consumers can “play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar and more,” Disney said in a press release." Think of this as an expansion pack for the Marvel Overextended Universe.
From my past couple years, I only saw Windows laptops in accounting and HR. You could get a Windows loaner when you needed to check something a customer was experiencing you couldn’t reproduce on the Mac.

Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards.
They should compare what they have vs Grace, what they have vs Genoa, and what they have vs Emerald Rapids.
2003 was the last model year without lithium ion, and the years before that were nickel-cadmium, not lead-acid.
The 80 line search engine isn't using any external deps though. It only imports collections, math and string, all in the standard library. Maybe it'd be more accurate to call it a search engine engine though. The crawler and interface aren't counted towards that goal, but they are obviously needed in some form, and the implementations presented add a bunch of lines and a lot of libraries.

But even then, those libraries aren't related to search engines. If we start counting generic dependencies like pandas and fastapi, we might as well start counting the millions of loc of the operating system needed to run this search engine, and the firmware in the network card. Maybe even account for the complexity of the hardware this is running on.
Toontown Online used to be a fairly popular mmo in the 2000s. The game itself is gone but the game engine was open sourced as Panda3d (C++ with Python bindings). The project is still active too, with modern features like PBR still being added. I personally like how it's code-first (vs editor-centric like Godot), but the GUI options are really fugly and clunky.
Disney probably wouldn't mind getting the kind of sweetheart deal Apple previously offered to Epic. 30% is a lot at their scale
The Android app OsmAnd has a layer to display Wikipedia entries. I like the idea but like a few other people have commented here, some places there can be a lot of clutter from articles I'm not actually interested in. Maybe there could be a way to classify articles into broad categories and show a subset.
Genocide really depends on the motivation. If we simply ate them to extinction, that wouldnt be genocide.

Even expanding and taking their lands would be a stretch, as long as the destruction is incidental
Would you consider the highly curated experience of the HN front-page to be censorship? Mod actions and anti-drama algos effect your experience here.
No, it's because Georgia is very aggressively courting large manufacturers with "phantom bonds" and "bond for title" deals.

Problem is, it's not paying off - the state isn't benefiting overall from it, and as soon as they stop providing these sweetheart tax breaks and freebies, comopanies will pull up and move to the next state willing to do so
Shouldn’t you get more bandwidth by having all memory slots populated?
> But the index of those feeds (the podcast search engine essentially - how podcast apps turn 'Three Dudes Talking' into a libsyn feed url - is hosted by Apple.

I do not know what you are talking about here. Apple has a podcast index. Podcasts do not need Apple's podcast index for anything. You can find a feed by going to the podcast's site and clicking on it, or googling the name of the podcast + rss. Or in any number of ways, really. Apple is one of many podcast indexes.

So no part of a podcast is hosted by Apple, unless the podcast is actually an Apple podcast.
Show HN: Directory of All LLM Models(Closed and Open Source)
To further clarify, the research paper does not contain the word "braid" which the lay-article uses erroneously. You're describing the fabrication of a multi-strand cable. Braided raw fibers makes for really bad rope. (I too have some passing familiarity with ancient ropemaking; I did a similar workshop and I've applied the knowledge in a pinch)
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422.7.
Except in the case of a person punished under Section 422.6, any hate crime that is not made punishable by imprisonment in the state prison shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170, or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine, if the crime is committed against the person or property of another for the purpose of intimidating or interfering with that other person’s free exercise or enjoyment of any right secured to him or her by the Constitution or laws of this state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States under any of the following circumstances, which shall be charged in the accusatory pleading:
What does a "Black Sun night club" t-shirt look like? I've had people (claiming to be US police) joke online about shooting anyone wearing a plate carrier with a black sun patch on it on sight.
Are you sure about that?

Spotify signs new deal with Joe Rogan reportedly worth up to $250m

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/02/spotify-j...

Sounds like they got a deal.
The website (perhaps innocently) animates the cookie popup on ios such that attempting to reject presses on accept. Please fix.
It's worse than that. There's literally nothing similar about these systems. One is a system designed for the supercomputer MareNostrum 4 and the other for MareNostrom 5 (a completely different system).... So old CPU, but also different network cards, topology, memory (capacity and speed), storage system, operating system (SuSE from 2016 vs Ubuntu 22)... and so on. For example, they went from 10Gb ethernet to 200Gb infiniband.

And then they took all of the performance improvements that each of these contribute... and attributed them to the Nvidia CPU.
Maybe take a bus or lease jets or something. I find it hard to care about her 'privacy' and see it more as a rich person social tax.
Warner Music to Cut 600 Positions or 10% of Staff
I'd argue that Russia's approach is not necessarily just human wave tactics. There were a lot of planning done on for, say, the Battle of Kursk.
They made a point of highlighting the use of Unreal during the production of Season 1, but then it's completely absent from their discussion of later seasons, instead only referencing an in-house renderer they call Helios. Have they specifically said anywhere that they're still using Unreal Engine?

https://www.ilm.com/industrial-light-magic-to-expand-stagecr...

This 2021 article mentions that external productions using StageCraft services can choose to use either Unreal or Helios for rendering, so the Unreal integration may still be available for those who want it, but obviously ILM didn't write a brand new renderer for the fun of it. Unreal must not have been cutting it for their own productions.
Split the reformatting and real change. Make the reformatting change first and have a policy of merging those change fast.
It's wonderful! He gets the timbre of early 2000s forum culture exactly right.
Art isn't beautiful if it's a cliche, and that makes it difficult. You can't just keep churning out the same kind of stuff and expect it to resonate the same way each time.
It wasn't just GPT.

You included all animals.

I think the point is that you are putting human thought on a pinnacle, that is actually not proven or even commonly accepted. And if you have proof, then you should write a paper and put to rest centuries of questions.

The parents example goes like this:

Some other 'alien' species could find and examine humans and make the same leap, "these things appear to be forming rudimentary structures like the ants, and forming basic social structures. Hmmmm, my dear Watson, I wonder if they have any metacognition. Do you think they have qualitative thoughts?"

-> "But we, humans, qualitatively think in a way that we absolutely know for sure GPT does not."

Everyone is using GPT as the goal post. But it is not.

Deep Mind just released a paper where AI could do conceptual thought to solve geometry problems.

Deep Mind AlphaGo 'imagined' new moves that no human ever would.

It is hubris to think that someone wont put AI on a feedback loop, non unlike our own default mode network, and allow continual learning and adapting.

And at that point, any distinction between carbon and silicon, for what is happening internally will be on shaky ground.

EDIT: Maybe not you. Could have been different thread that used animals. So not you. But part of point, so don't want to edit.
OK, not necessarily defending the legal actions here, nor am I knowledgeable about whether there is a valid legal argument. But as a matter of principle, I'm certainly not against individuals, even very famous ones, having location privacy, and given how HN is in general very much in favor of privacy, I'm surprised there isn't more empathy for the idea of "I don't want my entire travel itinerary to be broadcast on a public website", even if you find the legal filings distasteful.
Replacement parts! That may sound flippant but yeah, replace the components/structural members subject to neutron flux before they get too compromised, basically.

This is yet another reason that fusion research is expensive and time consuming, the cost involved in manufacturing these components and time lost in painstaking teardowns and overhauls between test runs.
Almost like they were going to suggest their cooking recipe 20 paragraphs later.
With limited supply that means every single landlord is keeping renters from owning.

How about people invest in businesses and not things we need to exist.
I had the same reaction 20 years ago to Kingdom Hearts.

Disney is definitely at risk of becoming irrelevant with their stale IP.
I built something like this years ago but I reverse geocoded all addresses in wikipedia and plotted all of the points -- there are a lot of places that are not actually geocoded in the data.

Wikipedia has grown a lot since then!
I think they are very likely responsible. I just think genocide is defined by intent to exterminate. If we simply ate them all up and their extinction was incidental, I dont think that counts. Same if humans ate up all their food, or mated with all their female, or spread disease they were not immune to.
Windows has a lot of things in this department. https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Sandbox-Utilities sounds similar to what you describe, but there are also finer-grained APIs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app...
>The article is about a case where it was not truthfully disclosed

Meaning that evidence has to be disclosed for trial, after it would serve as part of the predicate for charging the suspect. Though, you knew that.

If the evidence doesn't exist then the charge won't come unless there was a confession. Many such confessions are real. Which is part of why lying about evidence is an investigative technique.

In other words, they won't be politically successful in making a long-standing investigative technique illegal for the sake of suspects. Not when it puts real murderers, and other actually guilty and violent people, behind bars when no other tack was available. Often, these confessions lead to the necessary other evidence. The defense against this tactic is silence and an attorney.

A suspect always has to have an attorney. They should request one ASAP, and keep requesting one while keeping silent. It is ridiculous to assume that cops wouldn't put masses of innocents in jail, should attorney's and the law that protects defendants not exist.

Which means that this particular conversation rests on a silly assumption that a code can protect people in itself, without an attorney. It can't. It won't ever. Make lying illegal: it won't matter in the slightest. What's the concept here: that the law is supposed to protect a suspect in the absence of an attorney, because what? An attorney will arrive later to make sure that the cops follow the letter of the law and to threaten the cops for something that was asked and answered when they weren't present? Good luck with that. It might work a handful of times, and not after. The fact is that suspects need an attorney before they speak, always. Its the only protection.

Evidence does not have to be disclosed as a part of an interrogation. To imply that it might is ridiculous. It can also be lied about as an interrogation technique. The safety against these lies are silence and an attorney (and an innocent conscience as a far distant third).

>Surely you don't think American cops are so incompetent they can't catch anyone without it.

Its amazing that you think that you can be successful in anything with this type of condescending approach. Especially when you are the one that has to convince a large system to change. I can hear your teeth gnashing.
Unreal Engine isn't a VR platform, it's a tool that can be used to create a VR platform.

"The Platform" in this context is a position that allows you to collect ~30% fee of revenue generated. Unreal Engine's position is much much smaller. Using my definitions Epic gamestore technically counts as a VR platform, but isn't positioned to become market leader.
I know this video is both a dystopian vision and also an inspiring vision at the same time but, now that we have VR/AR/MR and thought through the privacy implications, most of what's in this video seems close to impossible without zero privacy.

Want bus notifications? They'd need to send them by your location, otherwise they'd have to broadcast all bus locations in the entire world to all people.

Want info in the supermarket? The supermarket gets to know everywhere your eyes wondered. Not just which products you looked at but which other people you looked at.

Similar issues for everything else.

When I first saw this video back when it came out I was mostly on the inspired side and assumed I could turn off the ads. Now, not so much.
For me the interest here is VR making your set up hyper-portable. And even if it could I'd still want that physical set up in my workspace.

Currently though it cannot match the efficiency of a single monitor with a tiling WM.
A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam
Many of those are already handled.
3000+ PPI, yet here I am, unable to get a decently priced 200+ PPI 27" monitor.