skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singleplayer AAA gaming on top of all that feels like work, the older I got the less those games kept me playing because I don't want to spend 3 hours running errands to be rewarded with an item/spell/skill.

The melodramatic storylines are also pretty grating, there are a few games with good storytelling but most are some rehash of "this world has been destroyed/is in the process of being destroyed, in the aftermath a hero is about to rise and save it" so if the mechanics don't feel fun right from the get-go I lose interest completely.

The most fun I have with games are the ones with a very iterative game loop (roguelikes for example), or social/multiplayer games, anything with a lot of replayability, and the constant feeling of improvement is like crack to me.

A surprising example I re-discovered last year after only playing it for a while some 15 years ago is Trackmania, got even some friends hooked on it to play hot seating trying to beat each others time. The game loop is short and intense (about 1-2 minutes max), has a high skill ceiling, and you feel yourself getting better at a track each time you play it, nailing some very tricky part that felt impossible 30 min before is absurdly satisfying.
Is there a standard OpenGL (ES3) shader I can drop in a GPLed application that uses a decent (is there a standard?) BRDF similar to Schlick with red,green,blue, and roughness?

I've wanted to add this capability to Solvespace for a while. I did my own implementation with the Fresnel term and it looked OK, but I want something "standard" and correct.
Classic big company problems.

"If we built a product like this it will cannibalize some of our existing and profitable divisions, and those existing divisions have a lot more clout internally than we do. The CEO worked his way up from those divisions. We can't make this."

Then someone else makes that product and eats your lunch anyway.
Doesn't Proxmox use a separate kernel package compared to Debian? That's kinda annoying because it ends up making the distro a 'Frankendebian' at best. Even using an up-to-date kernel from the stable backports repositories is a lot better than that.
ChromeOS is no more what people consider “Linux” than iOS, MacOS etc is considered BSD.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268237/global-market-sha...

Linux is at less than 5% and was at around 1% in 2012.

ChromeOS is at less than 2% and most of that is in schools. Macs had much more than 2% in 2010.

> They could be bundling the crapware with Linux and then keeping the money instead of forking it over to Microsoft.

What company is going to pay for Linux Crapware?
It's a fair take. California is now unaffordable for most families and it's going to get worse.

Example: New construction in Santa Clarita (north Los Angeles county) $800k 3 bedroom town house. Even with ~50% down you are still looking around $4k+ per month in payments, with 25% of that amount being property tax.

You'll also likely be paying more due to Mello-Roos and with HOA and home insurance on top of that. Plus it's unlikely at this point you'll be able to get fire insurance.

Good luck trying to make the numbers work on the country medium income of ~$100k.

(And don't ask how someone on medium income can put 50% down on a $800k home).
We should build glass and steel high density apartment buildings with no parking.
This is excellent news, as it should unblock having precompiled packages available for a number of applications for arm64—for me, most notably, OpenZFS: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14511
This looks really good, aesthetically and functionally. Looks like you are combining multiple posts into one. The facets are handled too, impressive

How do you decide what threads to feature?
At that point in the presentation, I'd probably sarcastically ask if they were accidentally measuring how many dogs mark their territory in a 100 foot radius of the device, per hour, via their collector.
Digital was disaster so the plan after 1996 was delay and deny. The question is: did it do enough extra business in those transitional years to make up for going bankrupt in 2012? And was it better ultimately for shareholders?
You don't get it.

For most companies free users are just a source of potential paid customers. Such companies squeeze the free users to force them to upgrade. For Cloudflare the millions of free users strengthen their negotiating power with ISPs around the world. We provide value to Cloudflare just by being Cloudflare customers. It is possible that Cloudflare might get a CEO who doesn't understand this, but possible doesn't mean likely.

In any case, I've built my website with Astro, pulling in the Cloudflare integration as a dependency. If I wanted to switch to Vercel or Netlify or whatever else, Astro makes it easy. As for database, others offer managed Sqlite.

If all else fails, I'll ditch the few dynamic parts of the website and deploy the bulk of the site as static html to Github Pages or something.
When you get credit card debt, does the credit card company choose what job you have to work at to pay it off? Do they choose where you have to live until you pay it off? Do they get to choose who, if anyone, you are allowed to marry? If you try to leave that place, does the credit card company chase you down, capture you, and beat you? Is the credit card company legally allowed to physically or sexually abuse you?
Wait, does Ukraine have a long established history of military attacks against Russia?
I would put Novo Nordisk up there too. Not sure how Eli Lilly is doing so much better though, which I presume for both is due to advancing GLP-1s, but I thought Novo was first to market.
> I find modern culture to be crap.

So did Socrates. Ironically, being jaded about contemporary culture is older than the hills.

My own personal feelings aren't that far off from yours -- a lot of aspects of life seem to have been much better in the past, especially in the '90s -- than today. But I'm only in my mid-40s and understand that my particular perceptions are likely informed by the bulk of my life experience taking place during a particular time slice of what very well may be a recurring cultural cycle.

Looking at how the overall cultural mood of American society has developed over time, I think I would have liked living between the 1920s and 1970s far less than today, but agree that things seem to have been getting particularly bad over the past ten years or so.
> This is rank speculation

It's the thing that came out in the anti-trust trial.

> Low demand is a much simpler explanation that does suffice

If demand is low then why does Linux market share keep growing despite the low level of promotion or retail availability?

> They have a strong preference for a machine that just does what it's supposed to do without maintenance. Aside from Chromebooks, Linux is not that at the moment.

ChromeOS is just a Linux distribution (Debian derivative?) with a UI that emphasizes Chrome. You can run some rolling release distribution if you want to risk breakage in exchange for bleeding edge versions of packages, but there are plenty of boring LTS distributions that require less maintenance than Windows does.
I think this is optimistic.
Anyone who honestly believes the world was created by God 6000 years ago does not understand how science works.
There's a very good reason for this: The whole OS is under 400MB. Every Nintendo Switch game cartridge comes with a full copy of the necessary OS on it.

Every game card is playable, no matter how out of date the Switch is, without any internet connection.

I'll take that kind of functionality before "surprise and delight." We might get "surprise and delight" this generation though, if in part because the change to a modified Samsung NAND over Macronix might be cheaper at larger capacities if rumors are correct.
Agreed. But I don't think this situation is better—users now know about it but are exhausted by it. Having educated them doesn't help if you've also pounded them into submission.
Think it'll stay the same as long as the CEO (Prince) and CTO (Graham-Cumming) stay in place. Policies might change with a change of leadership, but even then I don't consider it likely.
DDoS protection stops their site from going offline, it doesn't stop them from advertising their services on some obscure forum, which seems to be what they used to do and still do today.
Sure.

And that’s where luxury condos and apartments come in.

There is no scenario where building for less than luxury returns makes sense in these areas. Renting a set square footage for 1500 makes no sense when I can rent the same square footage for 3200.

And that’s at the bottom end.
To my knowledge non of them were young earth creationists.
Walmart Scan & Go is basically this.
I guess I'll bite - what am I looking at here?
OK Go – A Stone Only Rolls Downhill [video]
Funny thing that the people that got citizenship to the place they were born and their basic human rights recognized by the government running them weren't subject to those motivations from "Culture, Religion and Nationhood".
It's very obvious that keygen's market is people who hate sales calls.

Every market is different. Don't generalize your market to this market. Companies also go through phases where, what works for them when they are small and working in a niche won't work when they are larger. I suspect that keygen will need to do sales calls at some point when they are larger; if they choose to grow into that market.
San Francisco hospitality is on death's door. The SF Hilton Union Square owner (Park Hotels and Resorts) had to turn the note over to the bank and walk away from a $750 million loan due to they aren't able to make interest payments. They limped along during the pandemic due to there were funds to house certain people. Now that area there aren't that many visitors. For nearly all SF hotels the "revenue per available room" (RevPAR) is terrible. The commercial real estate vacancy is also high, about 34%. Before the pandemic, Hilton in an area like SF their business model was 80% business travelers. That obviously changed for the entire industry, but in SF the homeless right in front of hotels injecting/smoking hard drugs and defecating in public are a huge hospitality buzzkill. What customers remain have to absorb the increased costs.
I thought the section on the importance of native devs and how they're staffing mobile was really interesting:

"Native devs are crucial

Mobile engineers who specialize in iOS and Android are essential to building great mobile apps. There is no replacing experience and taste that comes from having built many mobile products and deeply understanding conventions and usability. Being able to drop down to the platform layer, write bindings, master build & release, distribution, etc requires native expertise.

They also play a vital role in optimizing app performance across the myriad of device models, ensuring a consistent user experience for all users. Additionally, native expertise is essential for managing React Native version updates, as well as adopting new features, APIs, and tooling changes that accompany new iOS and Android releases. You can't build a good product without these experts.

We invested in training our native mobile developers in React Native through a self-serve course that covered everything they needed to know to ship production-ready code. Additionally, we set up office hours with developers who were already proficient in React Native to provide support through Q&A sessions, pair programming, and code reviews.

We also supplemented our mobile teams with some web developers for their Javascript, Typescript, and React expertise. This ensured we had strong expertise in both native and React Native, and over time, it levelled up the entire team.

Having a good mix of native and web developers is the key to building great mobile apps using React Native in our experience. "
Observation: HN turns into infomercials around when Californians start working
Yup. Used to do sales. People are make way better decisions async (over email) than in person or on a call. People feel pressure to say yes in the moment and then the cost of later saying no is much greater than it would have been to say no over email.

The stress and all the negatives people are posting about here is the point.

Before you demonize any company doing this... Know just about every company with a product has a sales team of some kind and they are all operating with similar models. You are being annoyed by some sales people while the sales people at your company are annoying someone else.
While the tomb was sealed it wasn't a vacuum, so how did the liquid not evaporate over time?
I've found that a good YouTube video can replace demo meetings, too.

We got a later-stage startup to integrate with our API entirely off of a demo video.
> They also have a much friendlier refund policy.

I can see why steam has an easier refund policy. It’s easy to buy a game that doesn’t work well (or at all) on your hardware.

But the switch shouldn’t have this issue, and that’s basically only reason I would ever return a game.
From the second to last page:

> Apple is most probably using the first Application Processor of nVidia in iPhone.

Was this true?
It looks to me like a stretch to call it an Internet Standard since there's no RFC. Out of curiosity: why not use `/.well-known` namespace for this?
"So you're suggesting that religious people who home school have some sort of intrinsic characteristic that causes them to raise scientifically ignorant people?"

Not intrinsic but very highly correlated with WHY they are home-schooling in the first place.

They are Evangelical young earth creationists.
The presentation is evidence itself that Nokia was bureaucratic and unlikely to stay competitive.

The PPT was supposedly about the iPhone but the (well put together) slides for that don't start until page 14. Credit was given to Timo Partanen, along with contributions from Scott Cooper, Gordon Murray-Smith and Sanna Puha.

Pages 3 through 11 were market analysis. Boring and irrelevant. The only message that should have been given is that iPhone will disrupt the market and Nokia desperately needs to create a competitive "cool" product. The presentation said several times the iPhone was "cool" because of its UI and touch interface versus "buttons". But I think they missed the point. The iPhone was a new category i.e. it was more of a computer than a phone with some computing abilities.

The "recommended" actions slide is on page 12 & 13. I assume this was created by Peter Bryer as his name was listed on top of the first page. It lists 10 recommendations along with sub recommendations. For a large bureaucratic company, good luck getting one recommendation executed. Besides, all ten recommendations missed the point. This was the automobile replacing the horse and buggy. Nokia wanted to tweak their way through. They eventually tried to partner with a "software" company in Microsoft; but Microsoft at that time was the geriatric helping the geriatric. I would argue Nokia would have given themselves a better chance of success by creating a "skunk works". Assemble their best engineers and designers into one team and free from interference from all the internal politics. Their goal would be to create a POC that could rival the iPhone's "cool factor". And do it in 6 months.
But those celebrities and other well-off industry personnel are now burned out.

The city could issue no permits to rebuild SFH on that land and then buy it for 15-minute walkable development.
Are there any alternatives? On the browser that I use, with javascript disabled,

Ask.com: Does not work; does nothing at all.

Ecosia: Blocks me indirectly by cloudflare.

Startpage: Blocks me explicitly, saying "Your connection has been suspended"
If we go only by this presentation, it seems that they tried to understand the forest by looking at every leaf in detail and then try to guess if the forest is beautiful or not.
Would this imply that someone faked data in a paper they published?
I can see the lower quality of the rendering, but the graphical content is stunning in my opinion. The art in the game inspires me a lot more than more photorealistic games tend to. I think they did a stellar job given the resource constraints and the scale of the game.
You're taking that quote out of context to imply that the guideline says that's the only reason to flag. That's not what it's saying, it's saying that you shouldn't post comments complaining about spam—flag and move on.

There are plenty of other reasons to flag a story, and it being a spiteful piece devoid of any semblance of curiosity seems as good reason as any.
> the electorate controls the people with guns, so we can kinda make whatever we want happen if we vote for it

"Do it the way we want or die" is a pretty bold take.

Are you going to enforce this or demand to have law enforcement or even military units do it?
As others have noted, the original presentation is here:

https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_926740c7-5165-439a-a0...
What do you think the economy is built on? Do you realize how much is spent on basic things like energy, food, construction of roads, buildings, houses?

It’s very obvious when people straight up lie in these industries because the physical thing never materializes.
>However, the magic word for both customer segments is "vMotion", ... . No OSS and/or commercial (including Hyper-V) solution is able to truly match what VMware could (and can, at the right price) do in that space...

Storage vMotion requires a hefty license (as does DVS and the other useful things, such as containers). Proxmox does it all out of the box at a very reasonable price point.

Hell, VMware wont even let you use LLDP until your pissing money out of all orifices. You get CDP only for "free".

After 20+ years of being a VMware fanboi I am migrating all my customers to Proxmox. I've had enough.
Many organizations have a shadow org chart that you won't learn from the website but will get some sense of that structure in human interactions like calls.
Physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof
I'm seeing a lot of prevarication between the two, and a lot of taking for granted of even the existence of copyright, despite the it being a modern creation entirely of positive law.
I'm going to guess that the algorithm behind key generation is "record a series of random bytes (from a truly random source): that's a new key". Pretty hard to crack.
Ha. Since when does Nintendo care about ensuring functionality they add to their devices are leveraged? Other than first party games, and even that can be limited, almost no one ever implements the weird little functionality they add to their devices.
there's another one, users still prefer buttons...
Hard to explain how else it could happen.
Of course it's not, you can't fit all the words in a book on index cards, you can't fit all the appearances of a given character in a story, all the memorable highlights- all trivially done at scale in a digital book. You can't jump from the index at the end to the required 5 pages where this term appears at the speed of a click

And then your highlights also can't unstick because there is some dirt that ruined the stickiness of a note. And your carefully prepared unsticky bookmarks (you didn't have sticky notes around, so you've followed your advice and improvised) can't all fall out just because your book fell with its back up
The number of people ITT this thread who have absorbed the world-weary AI-is-a-bubble skepticism...

I'm just gonna say, with serene certainty,

the economic order we inhabit going through phase change is certain. From certain myopic perspectives we can shoehorn that into a narrative of cyclical patterns in the tech industry or financial markets etc etc.

This is not going to be that. No more than the transformation of American retail can be shoehorned to kind of look like it used if you don't know anything at all about what contemporary international trade and logistics and oligopoly actually mean in terms of what is coming into your home from where and why it is or isn't cheap.

Where we'll be in 10, 20, years is literally unimaginable today; and trying to navigate that wrt traditional landmarks... oof.
This may be true for large, established crawlers for Google, Bing, et al. I don’t see how you can make this a blanket statement for all crawlers, and my own personal experience tells me this isn’t correct.
I love looking at the About Me section of a site when I read a blog post that can be summed up as “The world would be objectively better if I were simply put in charge of it” because it’s always like “When I’m not blogging I’m working on chat with a blockchain for scooter thieves” or whatever and in this case our new overlord is “a founding engineer at Row Zero where we've built the world's fastest spreadsheet”
also let people sort repositories by the ratio of open requests to closed requests, average amount of time to respond on an issue
People building physical things makes up far more of the GDP than VC-backed startups producing vaporware
A language model can generate valid sentences that have never existed before -- not just syntactically or statistically valid sentences in a Markovian sense, but semantically valid ones. How could it possibly do that without an implicit awareness of all aspects of language, including grammar and parts of speech?

That implicit awareness is indistinguishable from knowledge, at least to the extent it yields correct results.

And the fact that it was inferred from examples rather than taught explicitly is indistinguishable from intelligence.
The idea that self-driving cars will be anywhere in any timeframe is actually very pessimistic to me.
Every time I see stuff like this it makes me think about optical design software.

There are applications (Zemax, for example) that are used to design optical systems (lens arrangements for cameras, etc). These applications are eye-wateringly expensive-- like similar in pricing to top-class EDA software licenses.

With the abundance GPU's and modern UI's, I wonder how much work would be involved for someone to make optical design software that blows away the old tools. It would be ray-tracing, but with interesting complications like accounting for polarization, diffraction, scattering, fluorescence, media effects beyond refraction like like birefringence and stuff like Kerr and Pockels, etc.
How the Times Used Logs to Report on Taser Abuse in Mississippi
The main use case is to build reliable programs. For example, orchestrating long-running workflows, running cron jobs, and orchestrating AI agents with human-in-the-loop.

DBOS makes external asynchronous API calls reliable and crashproof, without needing to rely on an external orchestration service.
A simple, classical case where "stiff" fields arise is electrostatic plasma physics.

Electrons are tiny and nuclei are huge, so you have a bunch of mobile charge carriers which cost energy to displace to an equilibrium position away from their immobile "homes". A collection of test charges moving "slowly" through the plasma (not inducing B field, electrons have time to reach equilibrium positions) will produce exponentially decaying potentials like in the article. If you want to read more, this concept is called "Debye Screening"

Anyway, this might be a more helpful approach than trying to imagine a spring - a "stiff" field equation is an equation for a field in a medium that polarizes to oppose it, and you can think of space as polarizing to oppose the existence of a Z Boson in a way that it doesn't polarize to oppose the existence of a photon.
New pdf link broken as well, as far as I can tell