skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But as things get more complicated, where does the business logic live? Maybe in the database as stored procedures? It's less crazy than it sounds.

I've worked with a bunch of systems like this before. One was just a collection of PHP scripts that would trigger SQL queries. Another one was all lambdas and Cron jobs on top of mssql stored procedures.

If you have a decent team and if you use version control as intensely as you would with code, I have no reason to believe this cannot work. To be fair, those condition are true regarding of tech and architecture.

What you cannot do easily though is pivot, hire, and scale. This is what bit those teams I worked with and why those specific systems are no longer around.
For me personally, PC gaming is all about being able to play anything from multiplayer FPSs to moddable content to random indie games in my web-browser to emulated games from the early 90s to keyboard-centric roguelikes. Ie, more about having a vast backward-compatible library and the ability to hack on the games for fun than about cutting edge graphics.
> Are users supposed to run packman to grab the latest security fixes?

there are plenty of graphical frontends for updates on Arch.

Another big thing is more recent glibc and mesa for instance which can be huge for performance. Also, Arch makes it fairly easy to rebuild all packages with optimizations for a given CPU ; for instance someone recently made a test of arch built with x86_64-v3. Also there's the way packages are built (much simpler than with debian), etc.
> Often I hear the argument, people saying "I prefer ads that are relevant for me over random ads". But...

You don't even need your "but" (so hold on to it), because this is a classic false dichotomy anyway. Targeting does not require spying nor does spying tend to improve targeting. Basic immediate context (what you're doing, not who you are) works better for both advertisers and willing consumers than personally invasive intrusion does.

You should rather ask whether they prefer relevant ads that put them at risk by aggregating everything about their lives into databases that regularly get breached or relevant ads that don't put them at risk. They can get relevant ads either way. They've just been sold a bill of goods on the need for personal invasion to do it.
Putting stuff in the same repo is a pragmatic idea. Going into the monorepo isolated self contained publishable app/package is a whole ‘nother thing, along with all the tooling necessary to make it work seamlessly.

You want to put stuff in the same repo, that’s fine. What’s with all the other bullshit?
It's a 7" screen, so this resolution is comparable to an Apple Retina display in terms of ppi.
I have worked in ad tech for a while and I am not sure that I really believe a lot of this article.

I am not quite sure what advertisers are complaining about. Facebook should still be able to track purchases of physical goods, since most of those will require an email address and facebook can use that to link up the sales.

Web site retargeting is not really affected by this. I guess people using shopping apps would be impacted, but a lot of those folks will be logged in and trackable. This article references "Most retail websites" but they are not affected by the recent change (ITP does affect them, but that is not new).

App downloads are probably much less trackable and that would definitely be affected.
A poor person could've invested $50 in Bitcoin when it was priced at $1. That poor person would now be a millionaire if they would've held on to that since. It is not all rich people marketing to poor people, or at least it didn't start that way.

I don't disagree in terms of rich people controlling the crypto ecosystem now. That is one aspect I'm not liking about crypto right now. Too much manipulation, although I think that's at least partly coming from the traditional institutions jumping in and playing the games they do with traditional markets. Plenty goes on behind the scenes in traditional markets, even though they are regulated, and yes, crypto has less regulation, so they probably can get away with more.

I love crypto technology but I think there's stuff going on behind the scenes that regular folk have no idea, and I'm starting to wonder if the grand ideas crypto people have are incorrect. I think the way it will succeed is when big institutions accumulate enough and then it's in their interest to manipulate the crypto market up. I.e. see banks in the Big Short accumulating enough of what Michael Burry was betting on all along, and at that point they revised the indices that track the housing markets, since it was in their interest to at that point.

In the end I don't think crypto is much different than what goes on in equity markets now. Rich people and big institutions control that market too. Meme stocks are essentially also lottery tickets. Way out of balance P/E ratios mean traditional fundamentals are out the window. It's all about momentum and trends now. The one difference, and a benefit I see for traditional markets, is the government will bail them out. The government would be fine if crypto crashes. I think that's the scary part about investing in crypto, but there is also higher potential for upside in crypto markets.
Valve has been pushing their Steam Controller for quite some time now, it sits squarely in the no man's land between clear success and total failure. The core audience of this new product will know quite well what to expect.
Lot of people who were hoping for Facebook's demise are going to be sorely disappointed this year.
Ok, so biochemists: which bit of the secret sauce are they leaving out?
> "You're rude" vs "I feel like what you said to me was rude" will elicit different responses

No it won't. They both mean exactly the same thing.

If anything, the second one will elicit a more hostile response, as the person being addressed will believe you are trying to manipulate them by obfuscating your language.
Thank you so much! Yeah, Memer was our previous startup where we figured out the extent of difficulty of tech hiring.
My kids who play Octopath Traveler and Captain Toad on long road trips disagree.
Thanks for the feedback - yes we need to improve that!

We currently test rules manually and post results here: https://help.coinrule.com/en/collections/2700051-template-ru... and also in our community on telegram. The automated backtesting is coming later this year
Here's a video from someone who observed a design review for Starship[1]. From the sound of it, Elon is in the thick of it in the R&D engineering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1nc_chrNQk&t=380s
Ok. Why has no one done it? The economics would surely be there if someone could.

Seemingly, SpaceX is the current best in the world and they couldn’t do it.
> Every reusable space vehicle has had that goal and always cost more than expected to refurbish for the next launch.

There have only been 2 reusable launch vehicles ever, and both were only partially reusable. Shuttle and Falcon 9. Falcon 9 has already made massive strides in reducing any refurb costs between missions. there is no reason that you couldn’t build one that requires no maintenance in between flights for the same reason that there’s no reason you can’t make an upper stage that can do multiple firings per flight without any maintenance in between. Upper stage reuse will be trickier, but ultimately there’s no fundamental reason why refurb has to be done in between every flight.
I felt completely differently, the Steam Controller is my favorite one by far. The touch pads make so much sense for a lot of games, and you still have the analog stick for the rest.
Machines are simply using co-occurance relationships in pixel patterns.

Humans have rich models of other humans which we "fit" to the extremely shallow data present in a photograph.

This "fitting" is prior to our perception, so as soon as you're perceiving you're also using vast amounts of prior knowledge to reconstruct your environment.

The actual "photos" contain almost no information at all -- and lead to gross "stupid" errors.
Not likely, since increased carbon dioxide would eventually result in more plant biomass, you'd wind up with a subsequent increase in atmospheric oxygen, and subsequently an increase in animal biomass.

If something catastrophic happened that suddenly killed an existing ecosystem and the air and water vapor currents in the local climate changed enough to prevent new growth you could wind up with something like that.
This is not a good analogy for the same reason the Holocaust is not a good analogy for other things not involving the massive loss of human life.
It isn't presumed, it's claimed by the U.S., and the presumption the author is making comes from granting that claim for the sake of his(facetious) argument.

Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. I don't think you'll find many countries making claims of weakness on defense-related topics. In the same way that no country would just announce that they have the 11th or 12th greatest military in the world, they'd never say they have the 2nd best cyber-warfare capability either.
Does anyone else find NYT's more recent puzzles easier to solve? I do (or rather, try to do) the NYT crossword every day, and I've noticed that my solve times are several minutes faster for recent puzzles than the more vintage puzzles. (in the NYT Crossword app you can go back to 1993 right now). I don't think it's due to the obscure knowledge of the time (i.e. cultural references that were more top of mind then than now), just that the clues seem more challenging across the board. My solve times for Mondays of today are around 9-10 minutes, but on the puzzles from the 90's they're closer to 15, and sometimes over 20 minutes... more like a Wednesday.

I also find it gratifying to do the older, pre-internet age puzzles where the internet lingo (OMG, LOL) and brands (Etsy , Ebay) are missing.
Can it run TankiOnline?
Right at the beginning, you see a quick succession of IBM-compatible PC adverts, 386SX, 486, etc, then he sits at a computer with a PC keyboard, but the screen shown as if being from that monitor is from another computer, an AMIGA. https://youtu.be/CNcP7KgWaXg?t=62

Reminded me of the handshake scene in Russel Coight’s “All Aussie Adventures”: https://youtu.be/IUwA_daP0-o?t=196

I love these kind of documentaries, looking at computers with a fresh mind without pre-conceptions, inspecting their phyisical components with bare hands.
Is this what the kids call a “Reddit moment”?
So Mayor Tommy Carcetti didn't make a difference?
45,000,000,001?
That is configurable, from within Steam. You can install updates on demand if you'd like to only update prior to playing. If you're not wanting updates at all, just keep it in offline mode until you need to go back. It's even adjustable per-game: you can keep your THICC titles to update on demand and the lightweights to keep updating as needed.
The Valve Index is working just fine. If you follow VR devices, it's actually now the only one with good support and no huge privacy issues.
Thanks for the feedback. I am not sure if markets are a zero-sum game though? If the sector grows, the whole pie can become bigger, right?
Also certain of the more recondite aspects of number theory that deal with prime numbers: completely useless right up until RSA was invented; now we use them to protect every webpage we view, every email we send, and every financial transaction we make.
Well you ignored my question, if that counts as something.
They know it is infinite. They want to understand the cardinality. Any two sets (including infinite sets) A, B have the same cardinality if there exists a bijection from A|->B
This is great because there is only one platform to program for. The previous Steam Console was a big failure because it had so many different hardware configurations. This could be awesome!!!
Please just no, do not do this. Even the dumbest most simple system there is will evolve beyond simple CRUD access to tables. The second you put your schema on the wire, that schema can now never change. That's just such an insane commitment to make.
But surely, there are car enthusiasts who read about cars that would never read an article about California wine, but would benefit from knowing about it.

In your world, that person misses out on the pleasures of california wine
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Cool another Valve product that won't be sold in my country.
Fantastic, they released the dataset and code to train the model. Science will be able to proceed.
edit: not the code to train the model, just the code to run inference.

The underlying sequence datasets include PDB strucrures and sequences, and how those map to large collections of sequences with no known structure (no surprise). Each of those datasets represents decades of thousands of scientists work, along with programmers and admins who kept the databases running for decades with very little grant money (funding long-term databases is something NIH hated to do until recently).
This is super useful but the results were screwed up for me because of the default house maintenance estimate. For HCOL areas, 2.5% in yearly maintenance is HUGE.

I'm planning on buying a $2M house in the SF Bay Area and didn't realize this tool was allocating $50K a year just for upkeep. Just a point of feedback :)
Experience! Every portable gaming PC and piece of Valve hardware have flopped. This is a "We have tons of money and are still committed to hardware" release, not a success story.
Do a cost/benefit analysis. Choices:

1. Write good docs and get them reviewed.

2. Write good docs (as far as you know) and skip review.

3. Copy docs off the net from someone else, get them reviewed.

4. Copy docs off the net, no review.

5. Write "Coming Soon!" for each doc and don't do anything about it until you have customers to justify it; then pick another option from 1-4.
The DoD employs millions, the United States is bordered by two oceans, and has enough nuclear weapons to kill billions of people.

'VERY vulnerable' is the least accurate description I can think of for it, despite TFA.

With enough screw-ups, it might be at a point where it can't effectively press an overseas war, but it's not going to be 'vulnerable' in our lifetimes.
I don't think it was duct-tape repairs. They had their own fitters and turners onboard who could make replacement parts, presumably of the same quality as the originals. I guess, back then, more stuff was just bits of metal that could be made by anybody.
To find temporal redundancy in the video, some of these codecs have a clever technique to do motion compensation. The old way is to do a diff between the images of the current frame and the next frame, and record the diff in the output in place of the next frame to save space.

The newer way is to shift the current frame a little bit before doing the diff, hoping that the motion in the video moves the next frame in the same direction as the shifting direction. If the image of the current shifted frame coincides with the next frame, the diff produced should be very small. The output for the next frame then consists of the shifting direction+amount and the diff. The decoder can reverse the process by shifting the current frame by the direction and amount, and applying the diff to get to the next frame.

To find the optimized shifted diff, the codecs would try shifting none, left, right, up, down, and even upper-left/upper-right/etc. Then see which shifted direction produces the smallest diff and use that for compression. Encoding is so expensive because of all these searchings for the optimal compression.
if the microSD card slot works ok, I think the price is exactly right. Doesn't the switch run games from SD cards?
There's generally two big reasons I've seen for this pattern:

1. "Single Sign-On"/Multi-Provider support where the email is used as a lookup key for which Provider to use to log in (redirecting to corporate SAML providers or things like that). (Mentioned by most of the other commenters here.)

2. Another "Wish It Were Multi-Factor" process that (mostly American) Banks cooked up to meet regulatory wording at available loopholes rather than address regulatory intent/spirit (real Two-Factor/Multi-Factor support), in this case specifically for phishing protection. That (dumb) idea was that the user in application settings would pick a recognizable "callback" such as a photo of a cute animal and a word they'd notice. Upon entering the username and before entering the password the application would display this "callback" and in theory the user would remember and know better than to enter their password if they saw the wrong "callback" photo/word. In practice I think we all realize that humans do things like username/password login generally by rote muscle memory, aren't likely to stop and "check the cute animal photo" first, and that whatever APIs returned the "callbacks" would be easily scrapable for phishing anyway if the only real input to them was email address (and maybe a rate limit). At least in my experience most of the sites that did this "cute animal wish it were phishing protection" have since dropped the "cute animal" callbacks (because they were silly), but kept the separate username then password flows. It's easy to assume that that's just laziness on their part after they did all that work to separate the flow that they would not be quick to merge it back together.
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I'd love to see more sites skip out of GA entirely. If you use server logs for analytics you get better fidelity[1]. You can probably eliminate the cookie consent banner if you're only storing login or session-continuity (required for functionality) cookies.

[1]: Based on this analysis: https://brandur.org/minimal-analytics
This is really neat! We've been hacking on a version of this at Compound http://withcompound.com/ , built specifically for folks who have illiquid assets like startup equity. Similar tools that help you model out your finances/taxes.

May find useful!
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I doubt it's the future. There's a mini documentary called "Half-Life Alyx: Final Hours" and the majority of the developers at Valve said they don't want the next game they work on to be VR.
I'm just guessing here, but having "a short response time to changes in input" might not be a priority for PV technology
The military is specifying this behavior in the contract. If they want spares, training, field replaceable units, or support techs stationed in the field, they need to put that in the contract.
“Video” is a thing you can project on a flat screen. VR games is a separate category, imo.

And no, I don’t own a VR setup.
YouTube doesn't really handpick things that get put on their platform either, beyond very basics and whatever automated tools they have to cover that.

Beyond that, that's what DMCA takedown requests are for. Github would only be an accomplice in that case, if they got a legitimate DMCA takedown request and chose to completely ignore it.
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I don’t necessarily think engagement is the wrong metric, and I don’t mind some personalized tracking of that engagement to increase ad revenue.

The issue is allowing any old engagement.

I’d like to see the hacker news system scaled.

Some things that could make moderators actions go further to keep the cost down:

- outrage detection: before you hit post, you’re warned that your possibly inflammatory post will be flagged for moderation.

-timeouts: if a moderator finds outrage or outrage bait in a post, the poster gets a seven day timeout (cannot log on). ANYONE who replied to or liked the offending post gets a one day timeout.
> Why in hell would societies start by nurturing the sexes differently if they weren’t different to start.

We're talking about biological differences in either cognitive ability or interest in engineering/CS.

The well understood answer to your question is that there was a split in gender roles at about the time agriculture was adopted, with men working outside and women doing indoor tasks. This led to a breadwinner/homemaker split across gender lines which impacted the way genders were conventionally taught.

This extended to higher education opportunities, which in the US for example only really began to be open to women in the mid to late 1800s.

Note how none of this has anything to do with any cognitive ability that women might have had. It extends from the fact that men were superior agricultural fieldworkers thousands of years ago.
Lovely, thanks for sharing.
Steam controller definitely took a minute to get used to..now it's the best controller of all time.

Steam chords are brilliant. If you have a steam controller and don't know about steam chords, go look it up. Life changing.
In America I've never actually won anything from a claw machine I'd ever want and always just thought the arms were purposefully under powered so you can't actually win.

In Japan the items in the game are placed in such a way where they're basically impossible to get on the first try but if you feed in enough yen you can nudge the item and eventually get it, if you're skilled it takes less chances. Literally the first time I ever got a prize I actually wanted (stuffed Pokemon back when the Japan pretty much ignored the massive market of kids who wanted video game and anime branded memorabilia). It left feeling the arcade happy and brought back a few other people who also got items.

I assume the US machines aren't setup in such a way because they just don't want to have attendants. The bigger stuffed animal machines were constantly being refilled by employees after a prize was won. Better to rig the machine, never have to buy new toys nor hire anyone else. Who cares if the kids are happy and want to come back. Another reason arcades work in Japan and not the US.
The lawyer's argument is that Copilot's query system is transformative. If you assemble Copilot's output to replicate a copyrighted work, then even if Copilot isn't infringing, you are by taking that work out of context. The burden is on the owner to ensure they don't infringe.
news: everything can be developed with practice. being successful is 90% work and 10% opportunity.
Your edit captures the situation pretty well. I used stablecoins as collateral and this was effectively a migration of the debt on my balance sheet to a lower (even negative) interest rate.

And yes, there are definitely risks; it's not for everyone!
One update: they have now released a github project and dataset to train the model. So the second half of my last sentence has been resolved.
Honest question (I may have misunderstood): Do you mean to imply that those are good prices? For reference, I'm paying about $40 for 1000 mbps (I'm not in the US). Can go to 10gbps for about double that price (IIRC), but I think the bottleneck becomes server bandwidth so it wouldn't speed me up for most services.
Then there's the issue of any project that uses CoPilot. For example, if a developer of proprietary software uses this and it is later found that the code matches GPL code, they would be liable. Likewise if an open source uses code from a different license or proprietary code via this.

Looking at the source code or the function and variable names in binaries, you cannot tell if CoPilot is used or not, so there isn't a functional difference between someone copying that code or CoPilot copying it.
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Actually, Elon once told me that they might be able to build Starship launch vehicles for less than Falcon 9 (say about $80 million new):

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1094793664809689089?s=20

100 reuses is not the limit either. The first stage in particular may be made for a lot more.
Not saying it’s not a game. It’s just not a video game.
“Video” is a thing you can project on a flat screen. VR games is a separate category, imo.