skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you ask a lot of questions in the funnel that if I knew the answer to, I would likely have an accounting degree and certainly not need this software.
King Canute required the waves to stop. How did that work out for him?
This is the actual reason the "Other OS" support was pulled. The other speculation in here is pretty funny. It was also pretty limited for many purposes - you couldn't access the GPU at all reducing total system memory to 256mb IIRC.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/01/25/playstation_cracked_w...

https://tedium.co/2020/11/27/sony-linux-otheros-geohot-histo...

It's arguable giving hackers a platform to explore the innards of the PS3 was the biggest contribution Other OS made to the PS3, and I'm not surprised it scared Sony management. In the release notes for the PS3 firmware update that removes "Other OS", Sony also state it was for "security concerns":

https://blog.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-u...

"...will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update."

The "security concerns" were of course geohot/others using it to crack the PS3 DRM.
Former IBM employee here. When I joined IBM, Watson was all the rage. I made sure I got on a Watson team, which happened.

During the training phase, I quickly realised I was only learning things that were specific to Watson. I really hate the idea of learning things that are not transferable, so I quickly backed out. I dodged some blockchain projects as well, and got me on some good old full stack projects.

This comment is not meant as an answer to the article title (it's behind a login/pay wall, so I couldn't read it), but I can imagine there are some other fantastic concepts out there that people are not willing to learn, because they have to think about their own career as well, not just about the success of their company.

The sad thing is: I was really good at the Watson thing. I just didn't want to invest in it myself.
The Woodcraft Folk Are the Socialist Boy Scouts
Google Earth?
I wonder how much of the necessary structure could be obtained by drilling and bolting.
Probably. CRM overlaid on a plane fuselage diagram
Woodcraft Folk site:

https://woodcraft.org.uk//
In Myanmar, Facebook is used to facilitate genocide. [0] One suspects that your representation of your impression of Facebook use in Netherlands is not accurate either.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-myanma...
Any type of non-compete agreement is ridiculous and the fact that it is so widespread in what was supposed to be the most free country in the world makes you guys look like a joke.
Oof, wow. That quote. That's very relatable.

Thank you for relating. I find it helpful to know I'm not alone, although it's saddening too to think others feel this way.
This law wouldn't actually have an effect on that. Police can still lie to minor's in situations like this one, I think.
will other producers reduce their prices too now?
Japan Shatters Internet Speed Record at 319 tb/s
> But I disagree that it's "virtually impossible" for unions to have the right incentives in the private sector

Yeah, I might have gone too far with that statement.
Im still happily running an xserve raid in the basement.

If you throw in startech ide to sata adapters, theres just enough room to shove a 2.5" sata drive into the 3.5" sled along with the adapter.
They are all considered to be in academia I think so you can put them in that bucket. My impression they all did OK in the compensation department however I'm sure they all could make much more in the private sector. EVERYONE I worked with on that project was a high performing / expert level.
Intel PowerPC. Who would have thought it would happen?
There are plenty of cases where the social standing of the defendant is determinant of the level of violence brought. Consider shop lifting vs. wage theft. Both are non violent, the latter is estimated to be many times more prevalent than the former. Only one will get you violently arrested though, and one is far more likely to be prosecuted than the other.
If you are not doing anything with the data, you should just not collect it. A newspaper doesn’t need to collect my personal information.

Besides if you don’t have a regular client base in the EEA or you process and collect data only occasionally and on a small scale, you don’t have to appoint a GDPR representative.

In a few words: don’t collect data without permission, don't spy on your users, don’t profile them, don’t process or sell their data without permission, delete all data about them if they ask you to do so, and you’ll be OK.
Yeah, but colbapar has a bit of a point: Identity was there, but it wasn't quite so all-consuming of an issue. But I think the timing is a bit off. I think Occupy had pretty much fizzled before identity exploded. I could be wrong - I'm not all that political, so I'm only a fringe observer of these things - but it seems to me that Occupy was pretty much over by 2013, and identity didn't really explode until 2016 or so.
IMO, non-competes should always include cash payments to the former employee. For example, if your employer doesn't want you to go to a competitor for a year then they should pay you full salary plus the value of whatever benefits you had for that year to not work in your field.
Something similar can happen to adult too. Less likely to a child, but still, adults are not perfect rational players with great social skills. And not all adults are smart.

Plus, this right there sound to me like very wishful thinking on the side of dad who don't want his kid to be guilty. It does not sound like honest evaluation of what was said. He was likely eager to interpret and twist anything just to get that result and succeeded.
Well, they did agitate all over Africa and LatAM in conjunction with KGB operatives and provided thousands of troops to overthrow governments and did plot to kill dissidents on US soil...

But I guess the answer is yes, embargoes make sense when we disagree vehemently with another country and its policies.

But I know what people are saying: "I want you to embargo countries I don't like, and I want you to not embargo countries I like." and everyone will have a different set of countries.
But we're not struggling to talk to dolphins, they're struggling to materialize Shakespeare. We understand their structures and concerns more than they understand ours, and we observe them when they're still in the original soup.

ALl this to say: if they were rising up, we'd probably be able to create a bidirectional connection. We can only make sense "nuking them all to death", like you say in america to mean "defend our freedom and way of life", if we are able to communicate and are faced with a refusal to submit. The dolphin, so far, accept american hegemony - there's no purpose to nuking them.

So it is correct what you say, but here we're talking of civilizations. Civilizations worth nuking will always have a way to understand each others, otherwise there'd be no threat worth suppressing.
oooh a trigger happy fascist!
Patients on those types of pumps (continuous flow LVADs) do actually have a pulse of their pump speed settings are properly set. The medical guidance is to set the pump speeds at a setting that allows the natural aortic valve to open once every few heartbeats. That makes it so the aortic valve doesn't calcify and get stuck shut. If they set the pump speed at that level the patients do still have a pulse, it's just a weak one.
I think the bigger issue is that this rando user had the document, and I think that means it was already out / online?

Amusing context, but I suspect whatever important thing happened with this document, it already happened. And that's assuming it was actually real / classified.
Drawings into Reality Episode
Tech Workers Swore Off the Bay Area. Now They're Coming Back
Forums have envolved in to social lands known as Reddit,HN, Twitter and the such. The only element that's shifted is how the way the content is presented.

Twitter is a glorified SMS/MMS message

Reddit is a glorified PHPBB forum

HN is glorified usenet.

Specific forums hold specific coversations which the above platforms are the same. HN is targetted towards the tech edge, reddit is targetted towards the average casual indiviual and Twitter/TikTok for the teenages but you still get the same output on all three.

As reddit to HN, The "downvote/upvote" mechanism is old, broken and blatent. Reddit introduced fuzzing to hide the real numbers and as a method to hide abuse. HN had the upper edge of only allowing selected users to downvote after a threshold but that itself feels bias. How many engineers read HN, and how many colleagues know each other with the power to conspire? They all have a problems of their own. HN for example has an problem that if you comment calling on a "fanboy" group, whether it's Elon, Apple, Google in discussion you end up getting lynched for it.

The karma-idealogy has been done and it worked when the internet was growing, however the internet has grown immaturely and we've never shifted away. We still live in an "upvote/downvote" generation where to the point now that folk are paid to farm for internet points. Controversial opinon, but it's civil.
The second kind is "You can't compete with us while you work here".

It's just semantics, but these restrictions are usually not covered by "non-compete agreements". They are more often called something like an "IP assignment agreement", where you agree that anything you produce in your employer's area of work while you are employed there, the IP belongs to your employer.

In practice, many employees simply ignore these agreements, and it usually works out fine. The FAANG companies aren't in the business of suing small companies started by ex-employees. Asking legal is pointless, they will just tell you that everything is forbidden. So just ignore your legal department and work on your side project.
Yes. It was fun in my early 20’s when hanging out with friends, but at some point it just started making me very paranoid.

That said, everyone has a different experience. I know plenty of happy, productive people who smoke and plenty who don’t. I think it’s up to you to figure out what works for you.
as someone who did game dev for a while, i sure hope this plays well with semi-hires photos(1000x1000) as it seems better than conventional algorithms for unique texturing
The main problem is that if someone has a strong financial interest there being a "pandemic," they may hype threats to create demand for their services.

If you dig into who paid him -- Carnival Cruise Lines, AirBnB, "hospitals & health insurers" -- it's not hard to imagine all kinds of conflicts of interest it might create
A lot of awesome points! Thank retzkek.

1. If Chess.com or LiChess were to do something like that I would immediately stop this project, as the main idea here is quantity and those guys can't be beat when it comes to that.
- The problem is that it might be technically complicated for them to do any time soon, at least in a format that you have mentioned. Additionally, they'll have to worry about the legality and the security of users.

2. The idea is that a person from London, for example, says that he can be at some location at some time and if someone with similar rating replies then they can meet. Additionally I ask people to recommend general chess gathering locations in relevant chanels. I will keep adding them to the main message in the topic, so that if someone is uncomfortable they can just visit that location and with great likelihood find a partner.
You exhibit a more complete command of English idiom than seen elsewhere in this sub-thread. One suspects that many of the people making these sorts of mechanical arguments haven't actually done much reading in English.
Also if you use violence once, then you are more willing to use it in the future. This is bad for society as a whole.
'God help the country': Hariri abandons bid to form Lebanese government
> We are planning to follow the same pattern.

I'm curious, why?

It seems like you could just do the third step since that's the only one you feel confident you'll do well, and it also gives you the most information about what they're like to work with.
I suppose it's best to die of the hill that is a soulless corporation instead?
> I was hoping there was a proxy trick or some magic sauce I was missing. Perhaps where DHCP could automatically configure clients with a (insecure) proxy or something along those lines?

Nope, you're not missing anything.
Likely yes. They either do that or lose a large amount of income. They have been banking on nothing cheaper on the market.

Also, they are likely to sue walmart for whatever BS reason. But, walmart probably figures they can get through it unscathed.
> this rando user

Lots of people rightly have access to classified information. This user is likely to be a soldier and tank operator. Many of these people also play videogames. And apparently some fraction of those are dumb enough to leak classified info.
This happens more than you'd imagine. DCS World gets in hot water for this periodically. It doesn't help that these developers are all from Russia
Whenever I see the pay rates for writing on the internet, I'm amazed more articles don't sound like this.
The most free I've felt on a phone is with GrapheneOS
That sans io core sure sounds like a free monad interpreter.
I suspect they're not going to do that with SteamOS. They'll likely freeze the tree and do effectively the dist-upgrade style process themselves.
One day, there'll be a "prototype" FPS shooter, akin to one of Plato's Forms [1], and the player will choose what the game will look and feel like at launch, and the game engine will apply neural style transfer in real-time.

The paper is visuals-oriented. I'm curious to know if similar research has been done for audio. There are also a bunch of resources out there on procedural generation, so it'd be interesting to see those procgen algos getting more smarts in terms of ML. E.g. a deepnet which can look at your first 5 hand-crafted puzzle levels, and generate the next 20.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms
I was at IBM at the time when Ginni took over. While I'm sad that she didn't have what it took to save IBM, the seeds of IBM's downfall were sown over the preceding decade by her predecessor, Sam Palmisano. This Forbes article sums it up better than I could [0]. In brief, Mr Palmisano decided to focus his tenure on delivering unsustainable earnings-per-share numbers to investors, while ignoring existential threats to IBM's business from cloud computing and other advances in technology. He was handsomely rewarded for this focus. While Amazon built AWS, IBM bought back shares and squeezed cash cow business as hard as it could. The shareholders were happy with that, for a time.

Even at the point of Palmisano's departure in 2012, he had committed IBM to the infamous (for IBMers at least) Roadmap 2015, which promised that IBM's earnings-per-share would rise even higher by 2015. It left increasingly little money for arresting the decline in competitiveness of IBM's products. It is to Ginni's credit that she did eventually abandon Roadmap 2015, though not as soon as she should have done.

When Ginni took over, I remember feeling a sense of relief if anything and maybe a little renewed hope. IBM finally got its head out of the sand and started trying to compete again. The Watson badge that got slapped on anything vaguely related to big data, machine learning and analytics was one of those efforts. It's a shame that it didn't work but it was probably too late by the time Ginni took the job.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/05/30/why-ibm...
This is specifically what I'm referring to. Temperatures are already getting lethally hot and we're not really doing all that much about it. It's not resource scarcity that seems like the killer, here.
They helped create California's high housing market. Now they can't afford it
Ran out of stock
I have a similar recollection but on a different app for Windows 95(?) which I'll never recall the name...
Maybe war between two spacefaring civilizations is too "easy". eg something like: throwing asteroids at ~the speed of light is necessarily a cheap thing to do once you're at that level, and everyone just dies.

Like if on Earth nukes were something everyone could cook up in their backyard in an afternoon, we'd all be gone pretty quick.

Not sure that really makes any sense though.
Until it is burning literally in front of people, they won’t change their behaviour - the most important behaviour of which is how they vote. I am sad for those impacted by these fires but if this is what it takes to change voting behaviour and overcome lobbyists then so be it.
One possible suggestion is a one-time payment option. In a couple of my projects I have daily/weekly/monthly plans that allow people to pay up, use the features and then go away without worrying about long-term financial consequences. Maybe an option were someone can pay up, export their data and then whenever they want to import it back in they sign up for another short plan.
It's much easier to traverse 1 year in time then 1 light year in space though
Walmart knows it's customers: They sell vast quantities of candy, sugar drinks and food with added sugar, and now insulin.
Seems outlandish but I'm hoping eventually we see a semantic-web revival, that the page itself has some mark up describing what is on the page & what affordances are available within the different things on the page.

The ML take is an interesting one! Hadn't considered that.
>Stalin truly believed what he was doing was for the greater good of the USSR.

I think a better way to phrase this would be that Stalin often said that what he was doing was for the greater good of the USSR.
> I'm so horribly disappointed in Biden. He ran a campaign pretending to be moderate, but cannot stop spending money.

I don't think it was reasonable to expect Biden govern like a libertarian.

Biden has been pretty moderate. The Republican position on spending is so extreme it's pointless to meet it in the middle, and Biden has been restraining the progressive wing of his party (e.g. on the filibuster, etc). I also really doubt most Americans are that concerned about the government spending more money (and those that are are almost all squarely in the Republican camp).
You lost me when you compared it to gun control.
As one data point, Age of Empires 2 DE takes up 13.7 GB on my desktop, so you'd probably be fine with even the smallest one (though I'm sure it will still fill up quick!)

Form factor is another consideration. You'd probably still want a dock and mouse/keyboard. I'm not sure how well that game would play on a controller.
Bullshit clauses like this are exactly why I was reluctant to get a job in ML.

My reaction would be "Fuck you, I do ML, I'll do ML outside of work if I damn well please" and then quit.

(Posting this down here since it's not really toplevel reply worthy and is admittedly a rant, but I do feel the need to express that somewhere. It's tiresome that companies think they own you.)
With these line of thought I guess the whole world should embargo the US. :)
I am not a fan of the axiom of choice, and open-minded about truth values beyond true and false. So I'm really curious about the progress of constructive mathematics, regarding proving known results with non-ZNF axioms, and maybe establishing some more "intuitively satisfying" (whatever that may mean) results where ZNF gives subjectively bogus results like Banach-Tarski?
They certainly are package sites, but they don't seem very like crates.io

I looked at random at the "quote" crate on crates.io and, since I've heard of it and it was on that front page, the "abseil" package from vcpkg

First thing I'm wondering is, is this the thing I thought I might need, or did I mishear somebody and I wanted a different thing? Crates.io provides me detailed information about the crate in one click. Yes, this is what I hoped it was, and here's a great description of how to use it. But on vcpkg there's a single line describing Abseil, and it's cut off for some reason with no indication how to read more. Maybe if I paid Microsoft money I'd know? No idea.

OK. Let's use assume we did want this, both are clear here, crates.io gives me the text to add to cargo to use quote in my program, while vcpkg tells me to invoke a slightly awkward command to get abseil, but either would become natural very quickly I'm sure.

Now, we need a bit more information. On crates.io in two clicks I'm looking at programming documentation for quote, explaining how I should use it with working examples. In one more click I'm reading syntax highlighted source code for the actual quote! macro, in case I'm curious how that works. I am suitably horrified, I definitely want somebody else to solve this problem for me.

But on vcpkg after a few moments with no idea I realise that the Octo-cat icon labelled "Star" is a link to a GitHub repo for Abseil, and this seems the only possible way forward. Alas, the GitHub repo also doesn't really document Abseil, but it does eventually produce a link to another third party site about Abseil, and on that site I get told to install Bazel, a build system that Abseil likes so that I can get "started" learning how to use Abseil.

OK, maybe Abseil is special. Not good news, but lets try something different. What does vcpkg have in the way of Hazard Pointers? It suggests libcds. We can again get to a GitHub, which provides us with a (HTTP) link to a doxygen doc site. Clunky but functional, at least it doesn't want me to install separate build tools. I could learn how to use this, although it lacks search and the examples are poor it is serviceable.

But you're right, vcpkg can include binary packages and so you don't have to build the world and if that is all that matters you're onto a winner.
Wow. Wonder what Alan Einstein is advising the leadership on the effectiveness of this approach. You should work hard to minimize all of your taxes if this is how they are going to waste it.
Elon Musk has the same chance of making humanity multi-planetary as the Pharaohs did. We are still far away from any semblance of a chance to do so.

Besides, anything at all that we can imagine hitting the earth (except a gamma ray burst or collision with another planet) would still leave the earth in a better shape than Mars is. It's entirely doubtful that humanity could be self-sustaining on Mars even in principle, it is certainly not possible with known technologies.
I had an employer hit me with an even more egregious non-compete. It said I couldn't work for 12 months for anyone in a market they were in, or in any market their competitors worked in.

Our little sub-$1million startup was selling devices that competed with devices from a bunch of mega players like Dell, IBM and Amazon. Who's left to work for if you can't work for anyone who competes with Amazon?
I have a feeling that even in North America, schooling is just a way to dumb down the public and is essentially anti-revolutionary legislation despite being positioned as a measure to improve education of the populace.

Not /s btw, completely serious.

I will be home schooling my children.

Also, gotta lova Bo Burnham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpmgFp46_E&t=112s
Lots. The old gen, the only approved one, is actually the continuation of the Jarvik 7 made famous by the Barney Clark case. They've been making and using it all this time. It's now called Syncardia. It's pneumatic and the patients have to carry around a bit pneumatic driver that makes quite a bit of noise during every heartbeat. Patients have large air lines running in and out of their chest to carry the air in and out to drive the diaphragm based pump. It works, bit is not ideal in many ways.
https://dialup.com/ is similar