skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Koala utilizes a sloppy programming approach that interprets
pseudo-natural language instructions, as opposed to formal programming
language statements that must be syntactically correct. Each step in a
sloppy program is processed by an interpreter that tries to evaluate the
step in the context of a given web page’s content, elements, and
available actions. For instance, given the Google home page, and the
slop click search button, the interpreter would propose to
programmatically click the search button.

"We describe the algorithm in three basic steps[...]"

https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/koala-chi07.pdf

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/121718

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29259897
Fourier Slice Photography (2005)
The courses and the math is the "fun part". Job will involve a lot of data cleaning and pipeline building. Not that it is not interesting (I personally find the infra building more interesting than building and tweaking models) but just fyi. Pretty much every sexy job has the 5% which is sexy and the other 95% which is grunt work.
My understanding is the fake rape charges were dropped. I expect it could've been an attempt at character assassination by certain governments with a long history of this kind of attack.
I fairly agree with this. I still wonder how the author visualizes irrational numbers, exponential functions, etc. and more importantly, proves some (even simple) theorems with this kind of visualization.

I have a similar impression when reading posts elsewhere about categorical structures in programming: they are repetitive and mostly trivial (actually, the category theory without context is trivial).
Thanks for the link, when I played Eternal I could feel something is wrong here, it does not feel like 2016 game which I loved, I just could not describe what was wrong, that article was perfect.
Lusting after those 10k VelociRaptor drives back in high school... man I have a funny amount of nostalgia for, in hindsight, pretty average hardware once the world moved forward!
IMO we are only scratching the surface of cloud gaming so far. Right now it’s pretty much exclusively lift-and-shift, hosted versions of the same game, in many cases running on consumer GPUs. Cloud gaming allows for the development of cloud-native games that are so resource intensive (potentially architected so that more game state is shared across users) that they would not possible to implement on consumer hardware. They could also use new types of GPUs that are designed for more multi tenant use cases. We could even see ASICS developed for individual games!

I think the biggest challenge is that designing these new types of games is going to be extremely hard. Very few people are actually able to design performance intensive applications from the ground up outside of well-scoped paradigms (at least web servers, databases, and desktop games have a lot of prior art and existing tools). Cloud native games have almost no prior art and almost limitless possibilities for how they could be designed and implemented, including as I mentioned even novel hardware.
1) Accusation of obsession with Israel - check
2) Classic both siding with a cute "we're just defending" and leaving out the constant colonisation and ethnic cleansing campaigns & apartheid[0] - check
3) "it's complicated" - check
(it's not remotely complicated, plain old settler colonialism)

The 1990s called, they want their hasbara back.

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
There are diminishing returns. If a laptop could play games at the quality of a top end PC today, would people really want to pay for an external streaming service, deal with latency, etc just so they can get the last 1% of graphical improvements?

We have seen there are so many aspects of computing where once it’s good enough, it’s good enough. Like how onboard DACs got good enough that even the cheap ones are sufficient and the average user would never buy an actual sound card or usb dac. Even though the dedicated one is better, it isn’t that much better.
> If we are being completely honest, the last 3 presidents attacked important information from getting out to the public in varying forms and degrees.

If we are being completely honest, we won't pretend the last three (whether you mean Obama, Trump, Biden or Bush, Obama, Trump) were special in that regard.
don't hard drives die after so many years?
So the question is why would I as a consumer want to buy a least common denominator app using a cross platform framework that wasn’t actually tested on real hardware?
React Wordle
It seems to be entirely based on NIC bandwidth, rather than the actual time it takes for information to travel between servers via ethernet or optics within a LAN.
Every generation grows up thinking its music, art, culture is the best.

Some future 40 year old will tear up thinking about the good ole days of Fortnite etc.
Cloud gaming allows for more shared state and computationally intensive games (beyond just graphics). Maybe eventually clients will easily be able to render 4k with tons of shaders but the state they’re rendering could still be computed remotely. In a way that’s kind of what multiplayer games are like already
Well I was arguing against the use of the phrase "russian barbarians". If we agree that was wrong, then we agree here.

It does sadden me to see how little has been learnt from post-9/11 where muslims or even people wearing turbans were subject to increased demonisation and abuse while everyone applauded.

Individuals should not be targetted and demonising groups based on ethnicity with comments of "Russian barbarians" is a big way this type of thing starts.

Anyway, plenty of people seem hellbent on reserving their "right" to demonise whole ethnic groups when the opportunity arises so going to leave it here. Thank you for the discussion in any case although the outcome very much saddens me.
Who's saying better games? Exclusivity != quality.
Or Czech looks like https://news.band/public-support-for-russia-govt-attracts-3-...
I also think there should be an out for him and Russia where they don't get humiliated. Escalating a war is not good for anyone.
And there’s those people who will just thank you after pointing out to the right resource. :)
AOC is famously not a mainstream Democrat (she is to the left of almost the whole party), nor is she a senator. And even if she were either of those things, the single line you quote, out of context and without citation, does not show that she is in any way equivalent to the crazier elements of the Republican party (c.f. Marjorie Taylor Greene).
This, unfortunately, is the lesson of Ukraine. Either hold them or acquire them. It might not work, but it might also be the only deterrent that people respect.
What you are building doesn't sound like a business to me, more of a technology product.

You may want to consider why you want to be an Entrepreneur so badly, you could find a business partner as well.

Note that given what you are working on, you may find that the things that 'make money' to be somewhat distasteful and impure, it's a natural reaction of technologists who focus on building what they believe to be as 'useful things'.

Here's an idea: if you cannot find someone to handle the business side, then it's a signal that something is 'wrong' from a business perspective. Find someone to work with on that side, or just get a good job and work with smart people on something cool.
@eloff -- I would like to compliment you for engaging with the many excellent answers and suggestions. It is great to have somebody ask a question on HN and then actually take the time to read and respond to the comments.

Wishing your best of luck for the future and your family.
>no one who refers to a stock market as such could mean it with the latter's connotations.

They would if they were Russian and used the world ironically, or even really as a word of the past that got into common vernicular.
So you don’t want to be in the Apple ecosystem. But you want to develop for an Apple product? How will you support the product when users encounter bugs?
Not resorting to Whataboutism, but try to see how the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan (two in a row, and the subsequent occupation for 20 years no less!) by the US was seen as “just” by all the nations now condemning Russia.

Take a look at maps of NATO expansion:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/t37zf4/countries_j...

If America was concerned about Russian nukes in Cuba, shouldn’t Russia be concerned about an alliance encroaching up to their literal border?
> there was a summer…

Yes. A summer. Not two years.
This is probably a terribly silly question, but, to do this do I just buy DOOM2 on steam -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/2300/DOOM_II/ find the doom2.wad _somewhere_ and then run it as above?

And one more possibly even sillier question, on steam on OSX can you even download the files (because it's only available on windows platform?)
This is about Kytch not Dairy Queen
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NYTimes was never about investigative journalism. NYTimes's value comes from the fact that it's the 'paper of record'. It's the paper that 'the state' uses to communicate to the public. Others investigate and if the times find it important, the times will run with it and bring about change. NYTimes value is that important people use it and read it. For example, if wired or other magazines/newspapers publish reports about the need to censor social media. Nobody cares. If the NYTimes picks it up, then you will see action from DoJ, etc. It's the state power behind the NYTimes which makes it the paper of record.
>Russia starts to look very awkward if they launch a nuclear attack and it does not work. What happens next?

Yes, I've been thinking about this possibility for a while:

* Putin fires tactical atomic weapon at some empty plot of Ukrainian land, and announces it as a "demonstration" of Russian might.

* The weapon is a dud.

I'm not sure whether this outcome might not be worse in the long run, in terms of geopolitical stability, than if the weapon performs as expected!
I guess I was just removing the need for an unnecessary class, but that's fair.
:target is dubious at best: it messes with your scroll position, and you can only use it for one thing in a document.

Historically it was also rather buggy in most browsers, though hopefully that’s sorted out now. (A decade ago, Firefox was fine, but IE and Chromium both had significant bugs, might have been to do with back/forward not recalculating :target or something like that. When I last seriously used :target in 2016 or so, on a multipage-in-one-document résumé, I think they were down to fairly minor bugs.)
Interesting, I have a similar ability but for code. I write some of the best code when I'm not at a computer because it doesn't take any time to refactor and I can play freely. A lot of the time when I write new code it's just transcribing the systems I created from memory. It's similar for reading code, being able to keep a lot of system complexity and behavior in my head at once. I wonder how common this is for mastery in other circumstances, like sports or art.
The only way to make money with a free commercially built product is advertising.

The only way to make money with a free commercially built product that kills other advertising... is advertising.

They don't have the coffers for this to be an instance of "commoditizing their complement" as there is no other fat revenue stream from another of their business units to speak of. (I don't even think they have multiple business units.) So they have to make money with Brave somehow.

The original concept of their "basic attention token" was an experiment to see if they could drive growth by paying users to watch ads with some abstract and dubious crypto coin. Their hope is that it's attractive enough to peel users away from Chrome, then they can sell targeted ads. I don't buy it.

In any case, you're not paying for Brave, so therefore you're the product. Yet again. No matter what their marketing says.

There's literally no reason for Brave to exist. You can run Firefox or Chromium just fine.
I love these machines, I restored one some 20 years ago (put it together from parts of two others), and gave it away to a friend. I hope she kept it.
Future of tech: codeless revolution and voice as the UI
Their brand exclusives are by far the most envied.
You can always uninstall it if it's crap right? It would be available to you as a choice, and now it's simply not available.
This runs counter to the black swan concept popularized by Taleb. In that they are by nature unpredictable, what one can predict is that there will be a next one.

I like this framework but I'd appreciate hearing more about it.
Everyone on HN when someone isn’t paying them for their product : “How dare they, everyone be mad at them with me.”

Everyone on HN when something they don’t want to pay for does the same thing: “How dare they, everyone be be mad at them with me.”
Yes it absolutely is. I'm done shaking my head at the number of people I've known who have grown up with ridiculous IQS or magnet backgrounds just to do 0 with their life and be generally miserable.

The average honors students have grown up the happiest by far. They got great jobs, cheated on exams, got drunk on weekends. Personally, I should have studied less I think and been a little more dishonest like them.

All this bullshit over education - what a waste.

Tiger parents excel at raising miserable soulless kids. It's no wonder they grow up angry, resentful, or just fail out and become the black sheep of the family.

Tired of reading articles like this and the corresponding threads.
Yeah, because I can’t use macOS without violating its EULA or forking out even more hundreds of dollars for a Mac Mini. :-(
You can actually see military shooting on the premises. Was war considered during the safety design of the NPP?
gonna have to bookmark this! it would have been really handy this summer when we were testing some vendor devices that ended up sending us a bunch of Martian packets
> Huh? GitLab was not acquired to my knowledge.

My bad, I assumed you were talking about Github, my brain did not even register Gitlab. I guess my brain thinks gitlab is not successful :)
Rakuten's web design is often blamed by who prefer beauty, but they continue using the design because they found it is best for selling more.
It’s not a matter of running out of land, it’s considering this land could be otherwise used as a productive asset for agriculture, industry, or environmental preservation…
Thanks for insight on German system. In USA, as elsewhere, there is a market for legal services, which of course motivates skill and competence. But the construction of the system (by the elites) is such that there is maybe an upper 5% of services that generate ~10x more revenues -- things like corporate mergers, investment banking, certain torts, etc. This doesn't happen as much in other countries. And you don't get into the premium service club by working 20 years to be a master of the trade -- you get there by simply gaining admission to Harvard Law and passing the bar same as any other lawyer.
I wrote an essay about why I think Doom Eternal isn't as fun as it could be... the linear nature of the levels doesn't help, but I think there are much deeper gameplay issues.

https://medium.com/@aaronnemoyten/doom-eternal-is-great-and-...
Grandpa would be pleased to know that his gas made grandma furious and horrified one last time.
Fun to see this up here! I played a role in getting these high resolution images put online, through some FOIA work and public advocacy: https://parkerhiggins.net/2015/04/us-government-release-7584...

I also uploaded the collection to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:USD...

And for several years have run a Twitter bot that posts one image every few hours: https://twitter.com/pomological/
South Africa, arguably.
Yeah I know but it doesn't hurt to be reminded now and again.
I'm taking the bait and saying yes, this is absolutely a factor. I will gladly discuss more about why I say this and the underlying issues. Society had spent far too many years dancing around or burying the cultural aspects for fear of stoking "racism" and such. The "ignore it and it will go away" tactic isn't working.
I have Number-Form and Time-Space synesthesia - helps with remembering numbers and dates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-rare-humans-who-...
Would this mean it's possible to communicate with someone orbiting another star? Or do the sheer distances become too great?
> A better example might go a long way here.

I am a Bad Programmer (it's not my day job, though I have managed programmers for many years), so maybe I am just missing the point in examples like this - but I often find this is the case in many code samples for language features. They usually have a trite example that shows how it can work in a really basic case.

This is helpful from a purely technical level - as here, I can see what is going on neatly.

But they rarely seem to show it being used how the designer expects it to be used in the wild to save time, or increase productivity, or whatever. Like, why would anyone want to do this?

I would personally NEVER want to see a function like that in a codebase when it could be written so much more clearly as in your examples. Although I personally would prefer a third style:

function slug(string $s) {
$s = strtolower($s);
$s = str_replace(" ", "-", $s);
return $s;
}

... more verbose, but I never see the point in trying to save a line if it sacrifices even a small bit of readability. Again, as a Bad Programmer, I like things to be spelled out super clearly whenever possible, so maybe that's just me.
I vote that serial number information would hands-down not be considered a "publicly available piece of information" in court.

Serial numbers are generally used to corroborate ownership of an item in legal scenarios (and may count as a conditional representation of PII).

Apple uses them as unique identifiers to authenticate their devices and tell them apart, and very presumably protect against various forms of fraud.

Where SecureROM is up there in terms of being buried pretty deeply in the SoC, I imagine the serial number is on a similar level in terms of not being modifiable/forgeable. So the "device <-> serial number" relationship is pretty indelible, you can't change it. And given that the way the relationship works is that you buy the hardware and then it becomes your property, you also effectively "own" that serial number to a relatively concrete extent. Thus, I can see slapping a theft charge on someone who runs off with the serial number of a device they did not own.

There's probably a much more concise way to wrap up the "nope" - the above points are somewhat general - but TL;DR, I really don't think that would work.
Russians advance towards Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant
Their notification ads are annoying, but you can disable them. I do use it, only get the new tab ads, which aren't bad and hey, free "pennies" (I've opted in for them).
It's not acceptable to prohibit a use case because some people are using it for illicit purposes, assuming that all aren't.

Game producers would like to claim that all such uses are fundamentally illicit. The point of my comment was to reject that claim, not to claim that the majority of users are licit.

(There's a separate argument that I'd also make that all such uses should be entirely accepted, but that's an orthogonal argument that I'm not making here.)
Also IPFS companion and rebranded MetaMask.
Like I said - you can ban none, some, or all Russian participants. That is just simple logic. If you ban some participants, you harm the integrity of the competition by subjective criteria. If you ban none, you are failing to impose a cost for Russian war crimes. It's an awful situation for everyone involved and the best situation would be for an immediate cessation of hostilities and military withdrawal so the ban can be lifted. After all, this is simply chess and nobody is dying. On the other hand, thousands of civilians are dead, families are divided, and there is real hardship.
Have you read On the Beach? If the exchange were sufficient, there would be no safe places, fallout would envelope the world and slowly claim us all.

That’s the basic background to running blastward: die faster in less pain, than agonizingly.
Cute idea, though I think I'd just dig a slightly larger hole a bit deeper and then stick a more conventional casket (round, perhaps) into it.
"the end result is the program crashing" is purely a byproduct of the type error being unintentional.

It should not be surprising that an attacker payload will be designed to ensure that the type error does not cause your service to crash (at least not immediately).

Additionally the type errors that you hit are likely fairly shallow: they're a product of using the wrong request in your generated user facing site which will show up pretty much immediately.

A dynamic language without the type checks has the memory safety properties of C (I think I could make an argument that it's worse)
If it was an hour earlier I'd save everyone time with a graph instead of trying to get an idea by eyeballing blocks while playing with a slider, but alas it's 1:09am and I really should sleep. I think a simple multi-line plot/graph made using a simple spreadsheet or whatever would be a lot more useful than having to keep in mind different values and moving time forwards manually, so if anyone else feels encouraged...
> One might say that you bought a license to a game

One might claim that, and that claim should be rejected.
Solving these types of issues can be a lot more complicated than you might think.

For example, take WebRTC. Lots of places wrote their WebRTC code to Chrome's non-standard "Plan B" dialect. Now all the browsers are transitioning to the standardized "Unified Plan."

Should Mozilla have spent developer resources on implementing Plan B as a stop-gap until the Unified Plan was rolled out by Chrome, and then subsequently thrown away all the code for the former?

Some people might say so, but others might argue that doing so is a terrible waste of resources.

My point here is that the solution is not always cut and dried.
All that is great TILL you actually do your diligence, find something on the wiki, use that as a source of truth and it backfires because there was something somewhere in some group that you posted.

The point being just like it is the responsibility of the searcher to put in the effort to look before asking, it is the responsibility of the person writing documents to make sure they stay up to date.
That's the premise of Ernst Jünger's Heliopolis. Doesn't prevent war and ethnic persecution, though.
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Man, Pagat.com is one of the true gems of the internet. I’ve been using it since I was a kid to learn games (and, more importantly, to win rules disputes while playing them). John McLeod deserves an award for compiling and maintaining such a compendious and well-organized project.
Chrome Quarterly Security Update – Q4 2021
Sorry i haven't look at this properly yet - keen to know if i can upload a customer pre-trained model using any of the popular libraries (pytorch, keras etc) and just do the deployment as an app with Slai?
Fire & explosions reported at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye Ukraine
Well, here are some reasons which we seldom/never hear about on mainstream media:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Bf2Xd639SrV/

(summarized elegantly in a little over five minutes.)
It takes your docker-compose.yaml and creates a bunch of kubernetes yamls that can just be deployed without touching them.

I've managed to never touch a Kubernetes yaml thanks to it.