skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Silk residues were successfully detected, which confirmed the early use of silk as a material carrier to communicate between Heaven and Earth

That last bit seemed to jump out of nowhere. Maybe I'm missing some implications of the grid-like oval bronze thing? Very mysterious.
“Silk residues were successfully detected, which confirmed the early use of silk as a material carrier to communicate between Heaven and Earth”

Love that the work was strong enough that they could slip a line like this into their abstract.
It's not that the motifivation / generating idea is definitely wrong, the problem you're alluding to here is just that they form an asymptotic series[1]. An asymptotic series is one that diverges if you sum the whole series, but will accurately approximate some function if you take a finite partial sum.

The reason that so many perturbative series are only asymptotic in quantum mechanics actually makes a lot of sense if you think about what these perturbative series are saying. Typically, each order of the perturbative series is meant to account for the physics at smaller and smaller length scales, but we know that our physical theories aren't applicable at infinitely small length scales because we know that at the very least, we need a theory of quantum gravity.

So in some sense, the problem is just that we shouldn't even want to sum these series to infinite order because there is no reason to think that the ultraviolet behaviour in that series has any physical meaning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_expansion
> No one can tell a new story about Han, Luke, and Leia without permission from the House of Mouse.

Disney is surprisingly friendly to Star Wars fan fiction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/movies/star-wars-fan-film...
I thought they had niche in finance.
The global market we have today is the result of an ordering of things that is a remnant of colonialism -- I think that is what fsckboy is referring to. It could have happened another way; but the particular one we have happened this way.

The argument goes -- and I think there is a lot to this argument -- that using "remnants of colonialism" to refer only to, for example, an extensive bureaucracy that excludes people who produce much of its proceeds is misleading, because other extensive institutions that are also remnants of colonialism are an important part of commerce, law and order, and public welfare all over the world.
Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies
Love this. Some feedback:

Not sure exactly what "Play Scale" is doing. Notes seem to be correct pitch but out of order.

I'd put a "Play Chord" button under each chord instead of at the bottom.

I'd like to be able to click/hover the notes on the fretboard diagram and have it focus on other fretboard positions for the same pitch.

For each key/scale, a list of a few example songs to jam along with would be super fun!

Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked and will be using.
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Imaginary numbers sound more approachable than complex numbers.
Where was this? It's the first time I've heard papaya and pawpaw used interchangeably outside of Guyana.
What is (theoretically, or practically) being achieved by running sudo instead of just logging in as root? Can you give an example that justifies typing your password up to hundreds of times per day coupled with deliberate hashing delays?
How does that work? They force AOM to pay up and then I guess either AOM passes the royalty burden onto AV1 users or they take the hit and pay it themselves?
I could see this working really well with call flow graphs for reverse engineering or disassemblers like IDA or Ghidra see https://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2023-01-22-callgra...

Can this work with visionos?
Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXeoHI8S0AM

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> She is pure, hate-filled joy.

Cats are full of love and murder; all in different amounts. Sounds like yours has lots of both <3
Right, only for the most recent year. They've had declining profits for the last few years.

The CHIPS act gives handouts to companies like Intel ostensibly to contribute to national defense by creating domestic production of chips used in military equipment. However this will also aid Intel in its commercial enterprises not just contracts with the military. And to the extent it does, those profits won't be realized by the taxpayers that funded them.

Taxpayers should receive equity for funding privately held companies. Alternatively, if we don't want to encroach on the sacred profits of our dear corporations, the government could require that chip manufacturing has to occur in the US without capitalizing them. That way chip manufacturing remains in the US and the market can bear the risk and reward of chip ventures.
Why should you port Scheme Application to GNU Artanis
Interesting. I remember it being itchy, but I always assumed it was an allergy.
> I imagine the further you move from the input image, the more the model has to make up information and the harder to keep it consistent. Similar problem with video generation.

Which is the same thing as saying this may turn out to be a dud, like so many other things in tech and the current crop of what we’re calling AI.

Like I said, I get this is an early demo, but don’t oversell it. They could’ve started by being honest and clarifying they’re generating scenes (or whatever you want to call them, but they’re definitely not “worlds”), letting you play a bit, then explain the potential and progress. As it is, it just sounds like they want to immediately wow people with a fantasy and it detracts from what they do have.
Running a game company is more than 2% coffee :)
How to monitor and optimize your cloud resources?
VW Workers Go on Strike
This is all great, but how can we trust this will be supported next year? After Xeon Phi, Omnipath, and a host of other killed projects, Intel is approaching Google levels of mean time to deprecation.
Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
let's not pretend BK did any good for the company though, you sound like he did an ok job
> as some of the people using this service would not or could not have paid for the official source.

But what are the actual numbers though? I have friends who are all well off and have no qualm paying subscriptions to illegal streaming sites because "I'm not paying that much for streaming TV."
The alien queen does not use its ovipositor to inject eggs into people. It’s all just some AI slop.
Find another roaster that doesn’t burn it?

Most coffee is shipped in raw bean form and roasted at the destination. So bad roasts are not the fault of Vietnamese coffee per se.
Vulkan 1.4 Streamlines Development, Deployment of GPU-Accelerated Applications
I'm probably wrong but since it was discovered in a sacrificial pit I assumed the bronze age people burned the silk as a way to "communicate with heaven".
> I do think Andrew should post it in full (including Message-ID headers)

I find that whole thread quite disturbing. The hostility by the apparently well-connected towards someone defending himself is disgraceful.

If he posts the whole messages, they'd accuse him of leaking private emails.

The Reddit moderators rushing to the defense of their organizations is telling as well.

Previously I thought that C++ was immune to this group think, but apparently it has been subverted, too. I wonder how many programmers are driven away from C++ by this episode.
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This still doesn’t make sense but sure… Bye then.
I don't disagree with you in the slightest, but I'm not in charge here, and our current batch of elites in power seem content to coast out the collapse, pocketing every dollar they can as the world crumbles around them. I don't personally think it's a good long term plan, and to be fair, numerous economists and even billionaires have come out saying that the world is not in a good way. But they still use their power to maintain the status quo and not foster badly needed change, so it's difficult to assess to what degree this is legitimate thought on their part, or simply saying what they know will sound good as they eagerly continue stockpiling unconscionable amounts of wealth.

The solutions here aren't arcane magic or anything: Money needs to leave the rich, and get to the working class to re-stabilize consumer habits. But since the Reagan era's slashing of all manner of corporate regulations, the system seems either incapable or unwilling to let that happen, no matter how much of an imminent threat it presents to that system. So we go on and circle the drain.
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I don't think you're wrong but the overarching structure of the chip business is very different from times gone by. It's not even clear what "technical leadership" should mean. When Intel was the leading edge volume leader just on their own processor line, that gave them a scale advantage they no longer have and that won't come back. They built a culture and organization around thick margins and manufacturing leadership, what we're seeing now looks like everyone from investors to employees searching for anyone who will tell them a happy story of a return to at least the margins part. Without a cohesive version of what the next iteration of a healthy Intel should look like all the cost cutting in the world won't save them.
I’ve been trying to get into this sort of 3D Gaussian Splatting stuff, particularly with this focus on environments as opposed to just individual objects or characters. Does anyone know of a model that’s good at doing that and is openly distributed/locally runnable?
I thought that was going to be about making foam out of felted wool, somehow.
> All the vietnamese coffee ... “french” roast aka burnt bad coffee

You're describing traditional Vietnamese coffee for ca phe sua or ca phe den, it's close to burnt coffee because the sourced coffee beans are shit so they have to roast close to charcoal that's why we have to add a lot of sugar or condensed milk.

If you want to have coffees that taste close to specialty coffee then there are some local shops that colab or have their own farms that grow quality beans, but Idk if there's exporting roasted coffees.

I've seen a Vietnamese coffee brand from Amazon with fancy branding but my bet is still shitty coffee. Then the recommended way would be traveling to Vietnam, maybe?
Fair criticism. I’m also not a fan of hyperbole. Still find World Labs stuff super intriguing and I’m optimist about them to be able to fulfill the vision.
The rulebook for GMT's "Combat Commander" by Chad Jensen is in war gaming circles often mentioned as an excellently written rulebook.

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Of all the speciality foods, wine is the most pretentious. Coffee isn't far behind.
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I know a lot about coffee roasting and can say that your wankery meter is on point. Calling someone "likely the best coffee roaster" is like calling someone "likely the best wine maker". It's something that people reach for via wankery to get clout. It's not actually something you can asses via reasonable metrics.

He knows a lot about roasting yes, he's not anywhere near some consensus god in coffee roasting no one can touch

Wankery abounds in coffee.
APL did catch on to some extent, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471718 .

Without getting into any discussion of the array paradigm itself, the reason commercial programming is such a winner-take-all system now is hiring and organizational difficulties, not that popular languages are so much more productive than unpopular ones. Building a working application is the easy part of running a business.
Ah, server meshing! I remember discussing this new technology in the forums.

In 2015.
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A dry Venusian interior constrained by atmospheric chemistry
the same could be said for aerospatial regulations, and we still manage to do them. civil constructions are mindbogglingly complicated and we still manage.

all it takes is enough people to die, and/or for rich people to lose enough money and it'll become the rule.
Australia is the only continent without the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain
the other option is not infinite, it's undefined
I haven't read the stories for many years now but for some reason both I and my wife assumed the bot would look female, and both of us were independently surprised to learn that the protagonist was cast as male in the upcoming series.
Any program that closes FDs it doesn't know the origin of is fundamentally broken, and should have bugs filed against it.

If "close all FDs" is a workaround for other bugs, fix those bugs too.
Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine
This a step-by-step tutorial on how to built a 2D game engine using Go, OpenGl and SDL. It covers topics such as rendering sprites, shaders, instancing, game loop, collisions, object hierarchies and more. It ends with building a small hack and slash game that showcases the engine.

Appreciate any feedback!
To be fair, “skibidi” is considered part of the brain rot vocabulary, according my tween kids.
AFFiNE: Open-Source Notion Alternative with Focus on Privacy
Wait until you read about proteins that methylate dna and how this can persist across cell divisions and even generations.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8683130/
Well, if you are already paying Oracle, then most probably you do it because you need support that only they can provide - like time sensitive JVM patches, or custom (and supported) JVM, or whatever else they do for the money.

So... what's really the alternative? Not paying and closing up the shop? Or moving from Oracle? If moving from Oracle was an option, why hasn't it happened yet?
not only that, is that the analogy includes a surprise invoice. Royalties are contract law.

A closer analogy would be rent. Why do we allow a builder to collect rent a year after building a house.
I dont know why consumers have such a hard-on to blame other consumers. Are you, brandonmenc a cable CEO? Are you make $$$ from gouging subscribers? I highly doubt it. So why the affinity?

Certainly you can see that the cable channels were overcharging, we had 100s of channels like the 'golf channel' with useless programming that were part of 'bundles' you couldn't unbundle and frankly, there were multiple lawsuits of cable companies overcharging incorrectly, not letting people out of contracts etc.

Consumers wanted more choice and control. For the briefest second they got it, but at that very moment when Hulu was independent and Netflix was streaming and GoogleTV was just starting to make a run for it.

At that moment, before Google even thought of chromecast and ABC couldn't give a shit about buying Hulu and telecom executives couldn't not understand dual screen viewing (where you're on your phone and watching TV at the same time) there were massive consulting and strategy meetings about not only recapturing the 'wallet' of spend, but increasing it. Discussing how to bring the spend of a household on cable (say 45-100/mo) to a higher number, to a per person segmentation rather than household.

Even if we did 'beg' for it. I dont think we begged to sift through titles and memberships in a way thats worse than blockbuster some nights.

Source: Was responsible for defining the second screen experience, merchandising shows in real time, etc.
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But if we choose words that are famous names, they are far less likely to be systematically used as a building block. And woe be to us if that individual invents too many things, because then the meaning of their name will be too ambiguous.
Looking forward to this series!