skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend was told his emails were too curt so he filters them to be socially cheerier and wordy. Completely out of character for him.

Perhaps we should turn this around and every employee is categorized by whatever is most understandable by them. Then every inbound message is run through that filter. Work turns into having my bots talk to your bots.
Alan Wake 2 was a critical success but no one bought it. The studio just a few weeks ago said it still hasn't earned its budget back. [1] I tend to ignore major game outlet reviews myself, because the industry simply is not mature enough to review in the way that others are - way too many outlets are afraid of corporate backlash for honest reviews of the negative variety.

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/remedy-has-recouped-most-of-the...
sure, I could, you could, every commenter on HN in the last 24 hours could.

Put them all together and we'd probably get a mess of genres with little overlap, or "worse": probably some already existing popular game that is hated by the gaming enthusiasts. Because we've long left this monoculture where any one game is the talk of the town for years to come. Or because the businesspeople actually are serving what people want.

You're also right that what enthusiasts want are rarely the most profitable. Blizzard can make 5 HD games and even MTX them up to high hell. Candy Crush is probably still making more than any of them. Just another example of how utterly diverse gaming has become (or perhaps, full circle where bejeweled on steroids still can make so much money).
Reminder that cars reshaped urban environments and generally for the worse, and self driving cars have a very solid chance to do the same thing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

If you have an hour, highly recommended video. A bit too doomerist but the threat is there.

Keep in mind that it's not just about tech (which can be amazing), but also about social aspects, money and politics (which can be atrocious and generally override morality and technology).
Certainly not. It would be better if photos were simply not allowed.
The liquid democracy thing I find interesting. I guess I don’t trust that anyone with any semblance of power actually wants something that looks like direct democracy, so I’m suss that it would ever be implemented in a fair way, and I’m curious how something would be implemented by a group of people who are probably biased to believe the historical warnings against direct democracy.
You're moving the goalposts. I was not talking about porn games here.
The unemployment rate is very low in the US while tightening of money supply is happening, it is a weird thing to witness as a new comer to the US.
But one has to admit Jerome Powell did accomplish something significant given what his detractors like Summers were painting was going to happen given the covid bonus US citizens got.
no it would save miami and the state and the federal government billions

trirail frequency increases can be done overnight

a greenway network can also be built quickly and cheaply

metrorail extension would cost more but still less than it costs to build and maintain roads

but they are too busy spending billions building even more car infra which will only make traffic and congestion even worse
AI in general at the time was led by a VP and a particular group (that was AI tech specialized) under him. The initial idea came about from them. We were trying to find new ways of using AI to research new sources of crude at the time.

Another AI project I worked on there was a chemical tank use estimation and refuel application which used tank sensors, previous use history and some other metrics to pre-purchase and deliver product to keep tank reserves above a certain threshold.

For context, all of this was circa 2018-2021.
I don't think that "can be reduced to a questionnaire" is an effective indicator of simplicity. The IRS forms themselves are essentially word problems.

The DeepMind personality cloner just asks questions. It is definitely not simple.
It's really interesting that western game studios act as if they are car manufacturers who are highly protected from foreign competitors by the government.
It feels like the opposite is true. Things that used to be fairly common like owning a home or living in a major city have now become luxuries.
Nope - sounds very performative, and I'm not into performative.
Holy! I know TruffleRuby is Open Source but I somehow always thought Graal ( Which TruffleRuby is based on ) wasn't open sourced.
Unfortunately, in my experience, mesecon (the Luanti equivalalent of redstone) mechanisms seem to be unreliable for scientific experimentation because their behavior is framerate-dependent.
and of course, using the repo as an input for the service renders this[1]

[1] https://gitingest.com/cyclotruc/gitingest
Wait your lockdown was two weeks? San Francisco was locked down for two years.
I want to emphasize this is not a defense of this behavior.

But didn't IBM do things like this for years with mainframes?
B.C. in particular went out of their way to ban autonomous vehicles a few years back, so I'm sure waymo's in no rush to talk to local partners there.
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Here are some benefits:

- Lower costs in the long-term. In the future it should be cheaper than owning a car.

- Lot of space that is currently being used for parking will be freed up.

- Convenience. It's a better experience than Uber and it will be a better experience than a manually-driven car. One example is when I want to drive to place A, take a 3 hour hike to place B and then drive home.
My 2011 Mazda also did this.
This is the kind of content I love.

It does make me think: what else can you use Tuya devices & Python libraries to do? I've got exercise and food portions under control, but I'm interested in other applications.
I think in many countries they receive a lot of funding from governments. Especially Canada. But yeah, they're not protected from foreign competition.
Bodes fine for social cohesiveness. Only people for who it doesn't bode well are those that knowingly go out of their way to go above and beyond trying to kill people via denying them necessities like medical care.

Now... Once that gets sorted, what'll be the next problem this type of thing gets applied to? Who knows? Message hopefully received either way. Either way, somebody is getting what they deserve.
POD means you can memcpy without incurring undefined behavior, same as you would in C to copy a struct.
Agreed. It's nice that the TFA is celebrating the DX7 because it was absolutely a seminal synth but it's a pretty uninformed take on FM synthesis. Depending on how you count there's really only a handful of fundamental synthesis approaches used for musical tone generation (subtractive, additive, granular, wavetable and frequency modulation). Most synthesizers being made today just use evolved forms and combinations of these basic techniques. As you said, FM synthesis is one of those fundamental building blocks and it didn't go away. Instead, it went pretty much everywhere - including into the ringtone chips in the vast majority of mobile phones of the early 2000s.

Just last month I got a cheap RF doorbell chime for $3 from AliExpress with a dozen different selectable tones and they all have that distinctive FM sound. I was a little surprised that even today FM synthesis remains a cheaper way to generate complex tones than sampled waveforms. The article didn't even explore the fascinating development of FM synthesis which made an unlikely leap from esoteric academic research at Stanford to an incredibly successful product that had global pop culture impact. https://usa.yamaha.com/products/contents/music_production/sy...
Ternary is a thing; however, there's a lot of times when you're hand-rolling a compression scheme. In those cases, it is common to consider all sorts of nonstandard bases. So, for instance, if you need to encode a pair of numbers, and that pair is in the (rectangular) range: `[0,2]*[0,4]`, then it can be efficiently encoded in a 4b value, using the generalized version of the technique outlined in the article. I know that a lot of GPU block textures rely pretty heavily on products-of-weird-bases, usually 3, 5, and 7. Here's some 'good' combinations (high utilization rates, easy to decode):

3^5 ~ 8b

5^3 ~ 7b

2 * 5 * 7^2 ~ 9b

2 * 3 * 5 ~ 5b

11 * 11 ~ 7b

3 * 5 * 7 ~ 7b

etc.
Polymarket and Stake use crypto on the backend to facilitate the gambling.

It's actually quite functional for that speaking as someone who's used Polymarket.
You said luxury life, that is different than saying the poor in USA are better off than the poor in for example China. American poor don't live as well as luxury life in China.
Do most people actually qualify for any meaningful deductions? Does a married couple, say, two minimum wage workers, both on W2, really qualify for any meaningful deductions? The median American household earns about 60k a year in income.

Most people should probably take the standard deduction, and not try to itemize their taxes? Most deductions require you to actually spend a certain amount of money to save anything, and the standard deduction is like 30k.

There are millions of permutations of different deductions, and that makes taxes seem scary, and society talks a ton about all these different rules, but I’m pretty confident that the average W2 American stays well within the happy-path of “employer takes a percentage of your income, and you ack that in April”
I've done something similar but it was only a 7 segment display showing how much I ran. It sat on a shelf and it was pretty fun to watch number go up every time I came back to my apartment after a run.

To make everything really simple I scraped my public profile directly from esp8266 controller (so there's no need for extra steps of setting up Strava app to gain access to the API). Worked relatively well.
What if picking the lock damages the lock?
LiDAR sensors, like for example from SICK can have multiple 'layers' of sensors, which combined with various algorithms can handle rain pretty good.
factories just don't randomly retool on a tuesday
The cost to store a static set of 400k 768-dimension vectors is also $1 a month on Datastax's AstraDB. However, for that $1, AstraDB replicates the data 3x instead of storing it on a single machine.

Here is a link to the cost calculator. Note that the calculator includes cost of ingestion, but the article only mentions storage costs, not ingestion costs: https://www.datastax.com/pricing/vector-search?cloudProvider...

Disclaimer: I work on vectorsearch/AstraDB at DataStax.
The BIG GUIDE to teaching LITTLE PEOPLE how to sound out words
> Look at the most expensive places to live in the Bay Area - it’s not the urban centers, it’s the suburbs.

Price per sq.m. in San Francisco for the top neighbourhoods is way higher than the suburbs, e.g., Nob Hill or Russian Hill or Pacific Heights. Getting a townhouse in those neighbourhoods is crazy expensive.
>I call this Product Manager driven game design.

I call it game design by HR. Everything today by big western games studios is designed to be so super safe and sterile just in case to not be offensive to absolutely anyone, so you end up with a limp-dick experience that's not fun to anyone, encased in the carcass of a once famous IP to build up hype.

Or worse, modern game devs insert their own social and political ideologies into the games, like for example in Star Wars Outlaws you play as an outlaw who is only allowed to rob the police (we see what you did there) but not the civilians, and you can't kill animals, only pet them. Games studios keep pretending like they don't know their target market. They keep making games for the market they want it to be, not the market that is.

People got into video games for the escapism from reality, to do shit they aren't allowed to do in the real world, not to be lectured or have even more constrains than in reality placed upon then just so the game studio can tick all the $CURRENT_DAY social and political messages and safety boxes. Nobody wants to spend money on that. So they'll be loosing money and their jobs till it sinks in. That's the free market at work.
But then a rich person might have to share a ride with a poor person and we can't have that
That is indeed one solution to this "problem". However, maybe people who live in the sticks should just accept the tradeoffs that come with rural life? If you want next day delivery and taxi service maybe you should live in a place that has those? Not every service has to serve all people in all places and times equally. The government should absolutely not be mandating service levels across the whole US.
> My adulthood litmus test has always been the following:
>
> If you know what date it is every day, you are an adult.

Tangent - My definition of "adult" that I came up with as an early teen:

"When I realize I'm looking in the _driver's seat_ of passing cars hoping to see pretty girls, that will mean I'm `an adult`.".

Years later I had a palpable shock moment in which I glanced in a car and remembered coming up with the definition. "OH CRAP I'm an adult!"

Felt like a "hoist by my own petard" moment.
It seems to me like maybe they're trying to avoid saying "the white guy" and "the Asian guy", but I'd expect "left" and "right".
This is just the modern version of the parable of the talents.
I think it was in the book "Cypherpunks" (the one with Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann) where one of them said something about the last few decades with the move to total dependence on digital technologies in so many ways, and it being the largest transfer of power in the history of the species.

If someone has the exact quote, I'd welcome it...

Anyway, the idea stuck with me. Anyone who wants to reject the point will have an easy time as it's such a broad claim, but I think it's worthy of reflecting on, and perilous to ignore.

There's a lot of ink splattered about technology these days, of course, but it's still rare enough that the larger picture of what's going on historically in terms of power structures is seriously reflected on.
It is only unusable for small transfers. Considering it is at only 10% of the Gold market cap - which is even more unusable for small transfers - I think it would even have a lot of potential left without L2s.

As for Lightning being unreliable and slow - I don't see a technical reason for it to stay this way.

What do you consider a "better-designed currency"?
The interesting part here is... the Waymo has no reason to. There is no driver. All cameras and sensors are outside. It's just for not freaking out the passenger :)
I agree.

However, even if I thought it was possible, it's more than a little offensive that Altman, who has been energetically working to advance a technology that he seems to think possesses an existential risk (already an ethically bankrupt position), is hoping that someone else will fix his mess.
This is the equation for converting radix. You can lookup optimal radix choice for more, I think?

For fun, consider how much space a base 10 number takes in binary. It takes about 4 bits with slack. Specifically, about 3.32 bits. Which is log(10)/log(2).
It isn't about where you live or work, it is about the cost of providing services. When homes are farther apart, the infrastructure is physically more spread out. This creates higher costs to build and (especially) maintain roads, electricity, water, sewage, etc.

I am going off of the study described here [0]. I'm happy to view anything you have to provide which proves it is a lie.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/6/stop-subsidizin...
No, every company will make money. OpenAI is looking at advertising, we’re starting to look at ai weapons more favorably. It’s a slippery slope and we’ll all end up bloody and bruised at the bottom. Or worse.
The Fall of Civilizations podcast has just released a two-parter on the Mongols. I only just started the first ep, but anyone interested in this article might be interested in that. It’s a great show if you love history.
Meanwhile, at the same time, I was receiving emails as a UHC policyholder — “not intended to imply the recipient has a specific disease or condition” that heavily seemed to imply I was having mental health crises all the time.

First, “Have you been avoiding activities that you used to enjoy?”. Kinda out of left field to get but fine.

Couple weeks later, “With support, you can live an even healthier life” with a suggestion to watch some yoga video they sent me.
One day later: “Stressed? Confidential help starts with a phone call” and UHC heavily suggesting I reach out to EAP.

All of these emails were still sent “not intended to imply” anything about my health. Right. I’m sure, UHC.
“Bad things” is subjective, and you’d only want to start this war if you’re certain you’d win.
Which place? It's large and diverse
Most cited scientists stop claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
That's not moving the goalposts. You can go on Twitter and find plenty of examples of gamers @'ing developers about how they censored the model on some character to maintain decency. It's held up as an example of censorship and the woke agenda.

You could absolutely sell a game with those textures and models to those gamers. You'd want to scrub your skin off with boiling water for every shower for the rest of your life, but that dropped nickel is just waiting to be picked up.
Louisiana. I guess it's difficult to reconcile parts of it with the Code Napoleon. All other states have English common law as the basis of their legal systems.
yes, there are people who can benefit from their own skills. GDP measures what is taxable rather than peoples wealth or well-being.
>How come some little known games studios manage to make good games consistently that sell well

because you're ignoring the thousands that failed, I suppose. Survivor's bias will do that. I wouldn't call Torn Banners a large studio and that's the other half of this article.

> why does Ubisoft keep failing despite ownings some of the biggest IPs in the industry

because "succeeding" for a company the size of ubisoft is no longer just "making a fair profit on games and coasting about to make more games. Which is what most not-large studios strive for. And because they use these failures as an excuse to not say the quiet part out loud in that they are preparing for a recession. You'll at best hear "economic headwinds". People woulda been laid off no matter what.

The fact that not just ubisot but virtually every lage studio this year has been doing this shows that this isn't some speciic ubsoft failure. And the profits sugggest this isn't some upcoming 2nd collapse. But you gotta read between the lines, and you're not even reading the same book to begin with.
It can do SSG while letting you use any framework you want. You don't need to use React. That's a pretty big difference in a thread where people complain about churn.

Personally, I don't see Astro as a must have because SSR + Interactivity can be done with a lot of tech. PHP, C#, etc. But it has a lot of sane defaults around markdown and static generation that I can recommend it.
Yep. Tencent (Fortnite) and Activision/Blizz (overwatch + COD) are printing money while publishers who missed the battle royale train almost all killed themselves trying to release a bunch of failed overwatch clones.
Cybertruck production was halted for battery supply issues. It has already has a production rate higher than its rival EV trucks and has outsold them as well this year.

https://umva.us/news/23529

Castings piling up waiting for batteries.

https://x.com/joetegtmeyer/status/1864438526487437502

Self driving also works amazing, 90% of my driving is handled by it. Every version we are seeing step change improvements. v13 only has continued the trend.

https://youtu.be/iYlQjINzO_o
When I took Waymo in Phoenix, I booked a ride from a suburban hotel to a restaurant in a strip mall. One of the things I noticed was that I was picked up far away from the entrance of the hotel (eg, not under the overhang that protects from sun and rain, where every Uber has picked me up and dropped me off). I recall thinking that it was good there was no weather in Phoenix b/c I had to walk far enough I'd have gotten soaked in a decent rainstorm.

Have they changed this?
Their share price today is lower than in 2008. Unadjusted for inflation.

Ubisoft is always making profit but their profit margin getting smaller and smaller so that one day (if this continues), executives will begin to sack developers to keep their high salaries intact while pandering to shareholders.
That’s super unfortunate and I’m well aware, but it’s a separate issue.
I’ve seen teslas full self driving drive me on surface roads, on the highway, and even navigate the lot, find parking, and park the car. In what way is it non working at this point? Waymo doesn’t even do highway.
In the U.S. you've got a very loud minority that will call you a bigot and a racist for not accepting other people's cultural norms.
I hate to break it to you, but your "intellectual property", in terms of social media has always been in the hands of capricious people.
Dude.

I live on a horse farm. My day starts and ends with heavy manual labor working around animals that can kill me in an instant if they're in a bad mood or I have the misfortune to get in the middle of a beef between two of them. Most of yesterday, the temperature was in the single digits Fahrenheit with wind gusts to 50mph.

I'm also a programmer. There are some days I couldn't tell you which of the two jobs is the more exhausting.
Maybe similarly how humans do it.
Yeah, I was making the mistake of thinking this was storing ternary in a BCD like scheme. I... honestly don't know how I talked myself into that.
==Some bigger US cities have a city income tax==

The vast majority do not.
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Was it CHANGE? My kid has already had his data exposed by companies affiliated with UHC twice. He's not even in Kindergarten yet.
There are 5mn people in Ireland, English is now effectively a neutral language in the EU.
you need to understand it if you think you can just "make good games" like a switch.
> The continued strength of the USD is just a vote of confidence in the buying power of the USD in the future.

Right, but that buying power comes from buying Chinese goods, so a European likes USD since China accepts it and you can buy stuff from them with it. Nobody buys American so that isn't a factor.

If China stopped accepting USD the demand for the currency would drop like a rock, since it is the main exporter in the world.
Because speech pathologists are generally working with patients that have mental issues, speech issues are generally neurological, and those patients may not have the same emotional self-regulation and self-control as the average person and may act violently.

That said, I wouldn't consider it a particularly "dangerous" job. It's just that, despite the popular discourse, jobs like being a police officer are also really not that dangerous either. When the effect size is small it doesn't take much difference to be amplified in the data. Being a roofer is far more dangerous than being a police officer, even though that's not the typical mainstream narrative, as an example.
At the hardware level, I think the answer is that 3 is closer to e than 2 is.

For a software emulation of ternary, I have no idea.
I'm not clued up on modern game economics... how long on average does a game take to start making royalties these days? The article you linked says it's the company's fastest selling game, selling 1.3 million units within a year. Compared to their previous game Control which was released in 2019, had much lower initial sales, but has now reached 4 million units. So is it not reasonable to think that the royalties will be flowing in over the next few years?
Gacha + waifus is definitely a huge hit. Especially because it also capture the female audience. Also cosplays on conventions do free advertising. (see Genshin Impact)

Never seen western studios release a game of this genre.