skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an article recently about WataGames and/or other insider companies being the anonymous buyers of games that they themselves put up for auction.

This happens in the NFT world, too. Auction an item then anonymously bid it up to millions with multiple fake buyer accounts (winning the auction). The only money you lose is the money paid to the auction house in fees. But you’ve now established a new price point for the cartridge or NFT.
Not many Americans realize that the original vision and the implementation of the political organization of the United Stated was very resembling that of European Union. The US states were just a bit less sovereign than EU member states (with differences mostly about having independent militaries and foreign relations), and the role of the federal US government was closer to what role EU plays for its member states.

Then, suddenly, in early 20th century, the federal US government made a huge power grab, and now the states are mostly just subjects of it, with much less sovereignty remaining. That’s what some EU skeptics are concerned about as well: sudden sweep and becoming subjects of Brussels.
Interesting, the German wikipedia article (that is considerably longer) doesn't mention anything of the sort, only that we don't know. There's even a lengthy discussion (and a separate article [0]) about how we don't even know the location of the battle, so any statements about the battle based on archeological evidence should be taken with a huge grain of salt (there are some candidates, and there's even a giant statue at a supposed location, but that has more to do with nationalism than archeology). Sounds like it might be worth adding a [citation needed] to the English version.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorien_und_Spekulationen_zum...
That is correct, about 2/3rds comes from "operations" (mostly ads, also some hosting services, etc)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1270474/unity-software-r...
Did i say these companies were failures? I simply said they were not profitable.
I completely get where you're coming from, and I prefer to be pragmatic rather than ideologically pure. But I don't see how Amazon being in a country really makes that much of a difference.
As long as all you mean here is "I press a button, and the system gives me a prompt/conversation-starter", and not "the system spontaneously, at a time of its own choosing, gives such a prompt", from my (admittedly limited) understanding of how these things work, that wouldn't be terribly difficult.

Spontaneity could even be fairly easily simulated by setting some kind of a background task to randomly choose times to generate such prompts.

Actual spontaneity implies a host of other things about a hypothetical AI—with the most obvious being some form of non-directed (or at least not fully directed—as opposed to a simple background task initiated by a human for a specific purpose) continuous processing.
Yes, that's true.

FWIW, I have tried both the Snap and AppImage versions of TB 102.

Both were very easy to install. The problem is that Snap confinement meant that TB could not see my existing profile. I just got the first-run wizard.

This did not affect the AppImage, which is working well.
more thoughts; Invert allow/disallow

Robots.txt should be inverted, with everything disallowed by default, and only allowed paths to be configured. Requiring site owners to explicitly list dissalowed secret folders is ludicrous. How this became de-facto is hard to fathom. If a site owner wants to allow everything then he/she should have to explicitly add a global allow.
The thought of running is horrific.
Surely there is a finite quantity of silver and gold in the earth, though, is there not?

Not all of the silver and gold in the ground has been mined, to be sure, but neither has all of the Bitcoin, either.
Fans of F-1 like to go own about how its myriad restrictions create a level playing field where you're watching the pure skill of drivers compete against each other. Meanwhile every person on every team is working as hard as they can to invent a way to win without their driver being the most skilled on the track. This hypocrisy is why I have no time for F-1.
You don’t need to install distracting apps at which point they both get the same calls and SMS(text) messages.

I love having my phone, but I only look at the screen for 10 or so minutes a day on average. Still those 10 minuets are really useful. Monday I showed up and saw a “we’ve moved” sign with a new address but no directions. I didn’t need to write it down then reinter into a cars GPS, that’s the advantage of an all in one device you take everywhere.
A Detection System for Pure Image Synthesis Frameworks Like DALL-E 2
Not OP but in my experience, heavyweight is in reference to the sheer size, feature set and the resultant system requirements of the engine, not that it's more or less difficult to learn.
Hopefully no one asked him anything. He is a narcissist attention whore.
Is it just me, or is the first time that "OpenBSD" and "New" were in the same sentence? I love OpenBSD, but in fairness, its biggest virtue is usually its rock solid stability and security, derived from everything in it generally being long battle tested before ever going into OpenBSD. The idea of bleeding edge C compilers seems a bit strange, given that reputation.
Nice analysis! As James Randi said of Uri Geller “[he] may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.”
I'm not sure what your point is. They have to do that now, and the overhead is manageable. The vast majority of purchases do not involve a credit card chargeback.
Hamilton was not ahead going into Abu Dhabi's race. If both crashed, Max Verstappen would have been the champion.

This is because he won more races.
The, um "stereotypical demographic" for Defender ownership has moved to Japanese products over the last 20yr.
But like most collectibles, they are poor investments. It’s extremely difficult to not a priori which game will be rare and valuable in 30 years. Meanwhile you are paying for climate controlled storage.
I mean, yes, it is dumb. But the patent is for the manufacturing process as applied to toothpicks. It's not for the invention of The Toothpick
Out of curiosity, what knowledge about electricity and chemistry did you have that prevented the mistakes?
(Work at Asana so I might be biased)

While Jira may have some unique features for developers, one of Asana’s selling points is how it allows non-homogenous teams (incl whole companies) to work together (and by themselves within individual teams) on a variety of different kinds of work (projects, processes, loose day to day tasks etc). And as for scale we have many customers with thousands of users (one tech customer of ours has 100,000+ users on Asana - most of them I’m sure would be product teams).
I do get their point re/ tax base though.

There is a ton of stuff to do: decades of deferred maintenance, resilience to climate change in existing infrastructure, building out new climate friendly infrastructure, prepare society for the inevitable job losses due to automation (e.g. trucking, warehouse jobs)... all of that will cost a lot of money over the next decades, the current administration doesn't have the political majority necessary to raise taxes, and it is highly likely that the Republicans and with them their constant "defund the big state" destructionism against public institutions will be in the political majority by end of this year and in Presidency in two years.

The result will not be nice.
Thanks a lot for the feedback, feels great to know the content style suited well for you :)
They just spent $1.6 billion in November to buy Peter Jackson's Weta Digital (VFX tools)...
Well either way there are direct consequences that the author of the code will feel - which is the point here.

And usually pager duty is done in rotation, rather than you only get paged for your own code. It's one thing to ruin your own sleep, but if you ruin the sleep of the person that sits next to you, you start to think about consequences in production.

It amazes me, for example, how often I've seen developers leaving their application logging, via something like log4j, in a default configuration where eventually it WILL fill up a disk, bringing down a server, rather than investing the 10 minutes it takes to switch the configuration to say "rotation" so that only a finite amount of space will be used, or just writing a bash script to clean up old files. And this is something that's very hard to pass on as best practice without sounding condescending - like the only way to learn to take stuff like this seriously is by dealing with the consequences in production.
Wrong root word; you're thinking of kaffir. Kefir is a fermented milk drink.
Yes, this is for embedded devices like Arduino. You write firmware and load it into flash.

264K is plenty for many things you can do with that kind of device.
Genuine question: what is the definition of 'woke' (in the context of how you're using it)?

Dictionary tells me it is "alert to injustice in society, especially racism". But the vast majority of time I see someone talk about 'wokeness' or 'woke culture', they use the word in a derogatory manner.

So I'm guessing the 'woke' mentioned is not "being alert to injustice" (as it is a pretty reasonable stance to be alert to injustices). In your case, you go as far as to call it a religion. Is being alert to injustice really a religion in your view? Or, how are you defining 'woke' and 'wokism'?
You are somewhat contradicting yourself- why do you need deep domain knowledge if you let your employees get shit done?
Another book to read is "Total Competition" by Parr & Ross Brawn.
You’re the one who wanted to include other types of government debt. I was talking specifically about student debt in the first instance. Bottom line, I don’t want students leeching off my taxpayer dollars. If they can’t pay it back then that’s their problem but they won’t escape their debt commitment if I have any say.
Unity stock price peak (November 2021) happened when Facebook renamed itself to Meta and the market started to see the game engine related companies as metaverse companies with much larger business prospects. The complete lack of patience of the once considered rational market is amazing. How much time did the investors anticipate it will take to realize the vision of metaverse becoming the next big thing? Less then 7 months? (7 months after the peak Unity stock is 80% down).
I've never heard of tax straddles, but they sound an awful lot like what we now call "tax loss harvesting."

> For example, an investor with a capital gain manipulates investments to create an artificial loss from an unrelated transaction to offset their gain in a current year, and postpone the gain till the following tax year.
I wouldn’t consider those “American values,” except in the sense that those companies are trying to protect their interests by having a platform that appeals to a wide variety of people.

Which, come to think of it, is itself a distinct value: compromise of free expression for money.

You have a good point here.
To be fair it seems like the topic of the story didn’t play most of these games, based on their condition and description of their packaging.
They said: "Some things are simply wrong. This is one of those things. If one’s worldview disagrees, then theirs is simply incorrect on this matter."

Similar concept but different issue: Do you think women should have equal rights as men? Do you think that should be universal? Or do you think it is OK for some jurisdictions to declare them the property of their husbands?
So your advice for a company that is struggling with their core product was: build a Kickstarter alternative, build a Jira alternative, build a Slack alternative and also please rewrite your editor...

Not very surprising that most of that was ignored.
Scrum helps teams achieve better communication
I don't know much Japanese, but yeah that's one of the ideas that comes up immediately. Definitely not my place to say if it's too verbatim, the one I've heard several times is muzukashii / 難しい.
I think it's hard to translate because just 'no' loses part of it, "no thank you (but I didn't actually say no)". So it sort of develops into the translation having a coded meaning, where difficult things are 'polite' refusals.
As a non-native who watches everything subtitled because that's what everyone does, we have no problem following complex storylines. We have a language and competent translators.
I took at is if they didn't give their number, there would be no connecting the call to an individual. (Unless you recognize the voice.)
They IPO'd 7 years ago, which looks even worse. They've had all this time and hired all of these people and largely kept the same product offering with no obvious improvements to performance or stability. Again, that's a market analyst's nightmare.
I don't know if it could really be considered to be in the dustbin of history. Wolfram Alpha is actually what powers Siri and other services like it. It is what gives her the intelligence. That is a massive accomplishment.
Absolutely it’s a populars ads network for mobile games and can be used without the unity engine
One of the things I think is really neat about F1, and which doesn't show up in any other sports that I'm aware of aside from other types of motor racing, is that F1 isn't one competition - it's two separate competitions running in parallel.

The first competition is the obvious one: The drivers all want to be the fastest driver and get the most points in the driver's championship. The second competition is similarly obvious: The constructors all want to have built the fastest car, and get the most points in the constructor's championship.

But crucially, these two competitions can't exist without each other! The drivers can't be fast if they have a good car, and the best cars won't be fast unless there's a driver who really understands how to wring the most performance out of it sitting behind the wheel. So there's this constant (and in my opinion, fascinating) tension where the constructors are trying to build a) fast cars, but also b) cars that their current drivers can effectively use and the drivers are trying to a) drive the car fast but also b) find the constructor who will build a car that can go fast and is suited to their driving style.

In other sports there's some amount of equipment preference (e.g. different golfers have different brands of clubs, different tennis players might use different brands of rackets or different shoes), but the equipment manufacturers aren't literally competing with other manufacturers - they're just trying to supply an industry.

So if you give everybody the same car, then yes - it becomes a transparent display of driver skill, but that doesn't necessarily make the race better, because now you've lost half of the competition. F1 (and motor racing) history is full of bits where somebody managed to figure out something neat about aerodynamics, stuck a new part on their car, and then _lied to everybody else about what it was_ so that nobody would be able to figure out why their car had gotten so fast; the ground effect lotus '78 comes to mind, as does the discovery of the gurney flap.
As a former Chinese citizen, I've always been a bit confused why people get mad at companies operating in the country, censored.

At least in my experience, a censored version of a foreign website is always much better than the stuff developed locally, and there are some political reasons for this I won't go into.

In my opinion, it's pure virtue signalling to argue that "a company compromising morals in a different country is bad", at least in the general case. I would totally rather use a censored version of Google over Baidu.

Arguing that "companies operating in China while censored hurts the Chinese people" is pure nonsense. The only people that care that {some company} is censored in China are distinctly people outside of China.
The rainbow logo has always been about money.
For those unfamiliar, the rumor is that Ferrari was somehow detecting the sample rate of the fuel flow sensor (which is a black-box provided by FIA and standard across all the cars), and increasing the flow rate only when the sensor "wasn't looking".

So doing a side-channel attack on the sensor, and designing a pump system to dynamically adjust the rate dozens of times a second. Hacking at its finest
Subway is kind of a rail line and Prague line C subway has sub 2min intervals in peak, with each train having capacity of 1000 passengers. So 500+people/min. EDIT: official number is 448 passengers / minute - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_C_(Prague_Metro)

That's an extreme case of rail line, but "much higher than any rail line" is kind of extreme phrasing too :)
I think nobody who follows F1 believes the driver is the reason why a team or car wins. Nor does any F1 fan believe on a level playing field, the cost cap and restrictions try to narrow the gap between top and bottom teams.
For a whopping 96x64 pixels haha
In what sport is this not also true?
Why is that interesting? It used to be very hard to keep foods. Fermentation is an easy way to do it. It would be much more interesting if it only sprouted a few times.
The metaverse as an investment idea was pretty much non-sensical. Way too many years away to have any idea which companies will benefit, what the adoption will be, and so on

Roblox, a video game designed for children, was a metaverse company? It's just plain stupidity, sorry

The web ended up being big, but good luck picking the winner in the dotcom bubble. Metaverse plays today were an irrational bubble just the same
Channeling my inner Linux, defaulting to larger pages means a drastic loss in memory efficiency when mmaping lots of small files as happens when someone compiles the Linux kernel. If you've got a 2kb file and 4kb pages then half the memory you allocate when the file is paged in is wasted. For larger pages that goes way up.
Why? There are other sports for that. F1 is cool because it's multidimensional and a proper team sport in many regards.

People building the car, supporting the race, strategy, supporting the teams building the cars, the drivers, etc.

Some teams have over 1000 people behind them and you can see weaknesses and strengths in those teams across a number of areas.
Asana shows a flying unicorn when you complete a task. Makes my day every time.

A bit more seriously - it's not only about Bureaucratic Processes. UX matters. If you need to deal with "Bureaucratic Processes" using a terrible UI, it makes things worse.

Jira's UI is notoriously bad. Very slow. And the worst of all are the UX inconsistencies in Atlassian's products. Things behaving differently in Jira vs Confluence or even within Jira itself. For example, being able to use markdown when creating an issue but not when editing it (or vice versa, I don't remember).
The only real concern for people using medications is whether or not the label matches the molecule. The only real way to be sure of that is to have reputable testing labs capable of analyzing the substance and checking for additives.

As far as intellectual property in the pharmaceutical sector, those drugs were almost entirely created with taxpayer-financed basic research, and prices are typically inflated well beyond what a competitive market would result in, so chemically pure counterfeits, aka 'generic medication' will continue to have strong market demand.
I haven't seen the rest, but Collateral/Oldboy/Training day were so good, that I have to watch the rest now. I especially loved Collateral, the atmosphere was masterfully done to evoke feelings of stress.
Sounds like a plan? That isn't worse than what exists today.
> I did mean Libet, thanks for the references.

And quickly skimming through the linked paper, their suggested mechanism changes the "decision" to simply be a result of stochastic fluctuation in neural activity. So it resolves some of the weirdness introduced by Libet, by not having the moment of decision precede the moment of conscious experience.

But at best, it still leaves free will with a kind of ancillary role, in which it represents the "feeling" of volitional control, with the actual decision still being stochastic at best.

This is certainly possible, but not what people usually mean when discussing free will colloquially (I find).
Saudi Arabia was mentioned in the article too. I picked him as he and his actions are more well-known. Also, I don't think you're adding "spice". Just because that's the state of the world currently, doesn't mean that can't change. I find a lot of these comments frustrating as they seem to coming from a really weak place of "change is too hard".

Edit: My reference to "change" here is about transitioning from fossil fuels so governments like that of Russia and Saudi Arabia have less hold on other governments.
that's the IndyCar
I wonder if the initial choice to $ and $$ syntax was to keep the syntax identical to VSCode's built-in KaTeX rendering for Markdown preview?
You'd think that they could just port over the VSCode implementation directly which already works quite well without most of the inconsistency issues in the website's MathJax counterpart, especially considering that VSCode is their own Electron product too.
So far as I can see, nobody is suggesting that the government should mandate that.

Amazon is a private organization with lots and lots of customers. Some of those customers (and potential customers) are upset with what Amazon is doing, and they're voicing that opinion. They can't force Amazon to do anything, unlike the government, but they can certainly persuade them.
If the standard you're going to hold the parent to would include "assume as a premise that it's totally fine that a country decides to commit genocide and there's no possible justification for why that's bad outside cultural norms" then what's even the point? Do you want an economic argument or something?

I mean the argument is “homosexuality and being trans are real observable phenomena in the human species across history and cultures and bringing harm to groups of people based on factors they cannot change is morally wrong.”
What's interesting with the ESP32 is that the Wifi stack on it consumes a huge amount of both memory and CPU... and it's faster and has more memory than the Pi Pico.

So either they managed to make that more efficient somehow or you'll have exactly jack shit left after turning on wifi on it. Still, the ESP32 is not exactly cheap, but I have a feeling this $7 cost is the usual fantasy they advertise, then sell them for twice the price everywhere.
>You lose the advantages of the tagged hardware when you declare a giant array of raw memory to be managed by C.

Sure, but that's not how it works. What does happen is that real-world software written in C doesn't use all those nasty tricks all that often anymore, or isn't that hard to fix. There are a few tricks that _do_ get used, and CHERI provides accommodations for those. Take a look at https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/bsdcan/davis-cheriabi/.
To be fair, Hamilton winning each and every year got some fans bored. More competitiveness has definitely helped the sport explode over the last few months. DTS helping, obviously.
Here are two that I have bookmarked:

https://wiki.samat.org/CheatSheet/OpenSSL

https://web.archive.org/web/20150705174450/http://www.w3scho...
I was about to write the exact same comment - quote the bit where they say Jira has no network effects and add "LOL" after it.

How out of touch can you be with the stickiness of enterprise SaaS, and still write financial commentary?