skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 years ago, someone stole my credit card information and bought some stuff as me. I'm in Michigan, and they sent a bed and mattress to Florida. I called the store first, asking about the charge. Verified some part of the card number, name the order was under, etc... I asked what address it was sent to. "We can't tell you that. Our privacy policy prevents that".

Me: "So... you're charging what is my credit card, you've verified my identity, you acknowledge this order was placed in my name, and you're happy to take my money, but you won't tell me where 'my' order was sent?"

Sears(!): "Yes, that's correct".

Called the bank... got a 'fraudulent charge' form faxed(!) to me, which I filled out and sent back same day.
That just means that the nominal job title is insufficient for making a job posting. There's no reason to think that the job title, which is dictated by the internal organization and hierarchy, would be at all correlated with the salary, which is dictated by the expertise and the demand for that expertise.
If cynical enough, no act is selfless.

That phrase, to 'remove yourself from the equation' applies here too. That leads to a better 'test' and metric.
> Indeed. In fact, when the act is intentionally captured on video by its performer, not only is it already very debatable that it is an act of "kindness"

Only if you're going into the whole "every act is selfish" kind of thing.

> but it is also obviously NOT "random"! (For the colloquial meaning of "random" of course)

Why not? It only takes a few seconds to start filming.

If you mean having a camera person, that starts to get into the weeds, but it depends on how much planning there was and how it was done.
The problem was; he also used very thick impasto-style brushstrokes. With Oil Paint, this often takes a long time to dry (and leaves a physical texture which will be visible if you overpaint that).

Some of Van Gogh's paintings are so thick, that underneath an outer layer of dried paint, there's still liquid paint trapped underneath, which may not dry for another hundred years.

But yeah, he was known for re-using canvases, as were many impressionist and post-impressionist school painters.
I Have 50 Dollars, ‘A Real-Time Social Feed for People Who Have $50’ (2012)
Isn't Art produced for money just another product?

What is the difference between art and products when money becomes the sole focus of creating art?

Should an artist just be creating art for the buyers?
Whats up with Manhattans South Precinct (the roughly square section south of Central Park? For just about all of the categories of crime on this map, it consistently ranks as the worst area in the whole city across all five boroughs. Seems weird for this to be happening in a core section of Manhattan itself.
> I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.

Nobody tries to hide anymore that a lot of game companies just create skinner boxes
A comic made in part with DALL-E Mini
I doubt it; I can't imagine this is going to affect the engine/editor itself in a way you can't opt out of. Companies that want tools like ironsource would have already been using a package or custom code to do these things anyway.

It does speak to the priorities of the company though -- Unity used to be about indies, but it seems like their focus is more on mobile and services. I don't think that means they're going to neglect the indies, but I think they're realizing subscriptions without royalties isn't a huge money maker for them.
sendmail.cf is bytecode. At the time it was written, bytes mattered, and it did a magnificent job. Now we have the resources to make things easier on humans.

but there really should be some sort of charity foundation to help the victims of sendmail.cf trauma.
“Although ML code generation helps with getting the initial code written, it cannot do much beyond that - if that code is to be maintained and changed in the future (and if anyone uses the product, it is), the developer still needs to fully own and understand it.”

I think this is a misconception. It’s true for these first prototype code generation tools, but there’s no reason to think that in the future these models won’t be adapted to modify/maintain code too.
I couldn't figure out the kids in the US equation, so I left. Of course people can, but I couldn't.
I should have written air instead of oxygen, though plants still do respirate oxygen even though they’re net positive oxygen producers.
Carbon purchasing already exists.

Voluntary purchases like Frontier: https://frontierclimate.com/ and many other corporate buyers.

Regulatory cap-and-trade markets like CA ARB LCFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbon_fuel_standard
Sad trombone.
China uses AI to 'improve' courts – computers 'correcting human verdict'
I can't help but notice the underlying conflict giving rise to these sort of controversies. What is a game? What makes a successful one?

Ok, checks dictionary: "an activity that one engages in for amusement or fun". I remember buying Age of Empires or Total Annihilation as a kid. That was before the ubiquitous internet, you asked your friends and read game magazines before heading to the shop to buy the CDROM. New games had similar prices but some were better (from the player pov) than others and I feel like at that time, being fun and entertaining more directly correlated to commercial successes.

Now everything is online: the games, the stores, the payments. We have in game transactions, DLCs, pay-to-win, pay-to-not-wait-24h, in game gambling, analytics to optimize, etc. And also this definition of gaming: "to manipulate (a situation), typically in a way that is unfair or unscrupulous". What gives?

> “But this industry divides people between those who still hold to that philosophy and those who massively embrace how to figure out what makes a successful product."

So yeah, could this divide actually come from our definition of "success"? Is it about maximizing the financial ROI using all the tricks we know to hook and exploit whales? Is it about making an actually fun and enjoyable game? I wonder...
If you think 15 seconds for Ethereum is slow, you'll hate wire transfers
Like the dolphin calf that died over some selfies?
Maybe someone should do a Kickstarter for it ;)
I'm super excited about this because it's being done in tandem with the release of Peridot, Rocky's internal tooling to build and maintain distro forks.

https://github.com/rocky-linux/peridot
Attempting to buy Twitter because you think it doesn't favor trolls enough was not a popular move.
It's not that bad.

You may have to rtfm, but only once.
My mother got her hands on one of Charles Stross' Laundry Files novels and thinks that since I write code for government projects I'm somehow involved in computational demonology. It doesn't help that some of the COBOL-based systems I've reverse-engineered for modernization are Lovecraftian horrors.
NYC gets dozens of millions of visitors annually, in addition to people commuting in daily and people transiting through the city. So, while the number of crimes is high, the number of people actually in the city at any given time is multiple times the number of people who reside there. Probably the total number of people in the city anually is 10x the people who live there.

I'd also factor in the numbers are higher also because policing is very robust. I can't think of any other city where I saw a cop nearly as often as NYC, they're everywhere.

Anecdotally, I never felt unsafe there. Although where I grew up crime was rampant, common, and expected- so comparatively NYC seemed really safe, and it wasn't hard to avoid high risk places/situations. I do think people hype up the crime numbers, and forget to consider the variables present in a megalopolis which aren't present in smaller cities.
Automatic perhaps, but still editorial in the decision making process.

As soon as you start deciding to show some content and not other content based on the content of the communications you're making editorial decisions. Algorithms or not, it's a judgement call.
I suppose it also matters what you think a rune is. Does futhork count? There's parchment with that written on it. Elder Futhark, none as far as i know.
Obligatory E-Trial video: https://youtu.be/XL2RLTmqG4w
Wonder if there is any way to separate this from the painting on top
That's kind of fallacious. First it assumes that humans and Copilot are about on par just because humans sometimes write that kind of bug; in reality we need statistics about the relative rates, where I would assume that experienced programmers write that kind of bug less frequently than Copilot, since it seems to be in virtually every Copilot show-case. Second, it categorizes humans as a whole into one group and Copilot into another; in reality, there are better and worse human programmers, while there's just the one Copilot which seems to be on par with a pretty shitty programmer.
Or baclofen (5mg or 10mg before bed), similar but a bit different (and not scheduled if you are in the US). Either should also help keep you asleep, at least for the first night or two (like almost anything that affects sleep :(). Both affect GABA-B receptors, and I think alcohol affects both main types. Although, if your issue is similar to my similar issue (usually mild sometimes during the day but worst before bed, although not enough to keep me awake ever) the baclofen (or sodium oxybate) might even possibly make them worse (seems possible in my case, although I'm not sure it is all that likely that it does).

Another one you might not have considered is rosmarinic acid ("rosemary extract" or "lemon balm extract" or just a strong lemon balm tea). This reduces the metabolism of GABA and in my experience had a distinct but fairly mild effect on sleep that lasted a month or two of continuous use (unusually) but then took over a year to have any obvious effect again (possibly even longer, I haven't tried it much since and I can't remember if it ever really helped again). Unfortunately, I don't remember it having much effect on my movement issues but since alcohol and benzos affect your issue it might be worth a try rather than those if it happens again (hopefully not!). I was using 200mg rosemary extract standardized at 20% rosmarinic acid (from a no longer available source). I don't know if the chamomile does something similar, in which case it likely wouldn't help you due to the tolerance.
Yep definitely, put it as the first thing in the bio so it hopefully gets indexed by search engines. Maybe even set up a website that ranks high for your name so you can warn others.
> Scalable text support a la TextMeshPro (sdf-based rendering)

Agreed, this could be better.

> the in-editor console is horrible. it frequently tells me "output overflow, print less text!". wtf? also, it doesn't let me click on a line to jump to the code

Agreed.

> the built-in tile editor is very painful in my experience.

Agreed, but I hear it's better in 4.0

> the built-in text editor is _very_ basic

Actually, I disagree here. Fuzzy find, quick open, search in files, and autocomplete all work and are blazing fast. It is missing some things like a decent Vim mode, I'll admit. However, I tried both using vscode and the godot text editor, and I found that you saved so much time by not having to jump between IDE and Godot that it actually made up for a few of the more minor deficiencies.

> gdscript's heavy reliance on "magic" strings and lack of type-safety throughout

Agreed, but this improves in 4.0.

> unity's UI system sucks, but it's still more capable than Godot's especially for things

I honestly find Godot's workable enough. With Unity I would get into stupid issues because it was scaled 1000x larger than my game (who in their right mind thought this was a good idea?!?). Also, I remember Unity having 3 different modes for their UI, all of which were confusing and counter intuitive. Godot's UI is simple enough to hack.
You are right, I meant downtown Manhattan. There are plenty of neighborhoods above 96th street with disproportionate amounts of crime.
That’s not a list of international airports, though. I’m unclear what page I was looking at now, but it only had about a dozen on it and IND was not one of them.

Disconnected data is just information, not knowledge.
Try rebasing and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. I found that once I learned rebasing, everything else fell into place like cherry-picking. You only need a handful of commands memorized. For the other scenarios, a quick Google is fine, like when you accidentally commit to the wrong branch. End of the day, git is just a tool, you don’t need to memorize every nook and cranny.
But the question in the quote was about early versus late addition.

Waiting until the end to add it in is both evil and idiotic
"They have not" does not mean "they cannot". Until recently batteries were just way too expensive, yet now we are building the factories to make the batteries as fast as we can. Likewise, we have not generally used hydrogen because it isn't as convenient as methane, but if e.g. you think your major gas supplier is a warmonger and you want to stop any money going their way, hydrogen is really easy to make.
He didn't say that.

"mobilegamer.biz" is betting on you not reading before getting outraged, and it looks like that paid off.
Median Household income in Manhattan is $117k. In Berlin, it is $59k.
No worries, it was something I actually had to research recently myself after seeing the results of a poll of users' beliefs on /r/reformed where people were asked about their own beliefs on eucharistic presence. I was raised methodist and attend a reformed (presby) church now, so I appreciate your perspective as as a Baptist as well! I don't exactly know the difference between an ordinance and sacrament (and the WCF seems to refer to it as both), so I'll check out those links for sure.

Definitely agree that most every Protestant church would agree that it's not a means of salvation, but I do think most would call it a means of grace though.
"CC transactions will migrate over time to less costly rails starting in the next 12-18 months"

People have been saying that for decades. And in fact the opposite is happening. Visa/MC raising rates. PayPal raising rates. Volume shifting to more expensive BNPL.
There was something of a brokered agreement between Archive Team/Twitter to upload a fraction of Tweets to the IA. That too, unfortunately, ceased some time last year. Either way you might want to take a look at https://archive.org/details/twitterstream
Interestingly, DBT does not support creating materialized views.
>> This isn't the first time I've seen this kind of bug either -- and this class of bug is always shown by people trying to showcase how amazing Copilot is, so it seems like an inherent flaw.

I think it's because people copy/paste generated code without reading it carefully. They eyball it, it makes sense, they go tweet about it.

I don't know if this predicts how people will mostly use generated code. I note however that this is probably too much code to expect CoPilot to generate correctly: about 10 LoCs is too much for a system that can generate code, but can't check it for correctness of some sort. It's better to use it for small code snippets of a couple of lines, like loops and branches etc, than to ask it to genrate entire functions. The latter is asking for trouble.
Nah, every dead invader makes the world a better place. Blowing up Russians is common good.
Integration of the text chats at least.
Does wasm support anything other than monolithic executables? The last I used it, multiple wasm bundles had to be loaded up by JavaScript and glued together with JavaScript.
If you can prove you've suffered damages due to this (which maybe you can, if it affected your employment), you could sue John Doe, which would get you subpoena power against OKCupid.

You probably wouldn't be able to collect from the scammer (who is likely in another country), but I guarantee you'll get OKCupid's legal department's attention, and they might be able to put a stop to it.

The lawsuit would also create a paper trail that you can use to exonerate yourself in the future.

Sadly, this is unlikely to be the sort of case an attorney would take on contingency.
They know someone who knows someone who swears their cousin had the best kefir, or a proper “Tibetan mushroom” complex. Supplement companies aren’t the devil.
I don't disagree with that. My comment is more intended to be read as, "Is this the future we want?" rather than, "This doesn't seem like something which will take off".
How's networking in the recent Godot versions? Anything innovative or extra helpful in that space?
I just don't purchase anything with a store or anything buyable attached to it. My only gripe is when those don't exist on release and get added in a few months later.
Joking aside, Something I find fascinating about ancient wisdom literature that has been in circulation for centuries - honed and refined generation after generation, is how succinctly key concepts are boiled down in ways that can be easily grasped/remembered. (In this case, avoiding conflict of interest/segregation of duties.)
> The games are either too undertuned to warrant grinding for skilled players

That's a good thing. Players who figure out the system "properly" shouldn't have to grind.

Ex: Atelier series generally have "alchemy engines" that create absurdly powerful creations, if you spend some time mapping out how alchemy can pass back and forth and mastering the alchemy minigame (main game??). Yeah, you can grind another +10 levels, but the game is about crafting items and rewards you with way more damage from well-crafted items (from +Quality loops) rather than from trying to bash your head against enemies for 10 hours.

The only games that seem to "force a grind" are these crappy phone-RPGs / gatchapon games, where escaping the grind literally costs money.

> Beating required Geodude trainer number 30 with Tackle and Rock Throw may as well be grinding.

A decent speedrun of Pokemon is only a couple of hours long at the most. I don't think any skilled RPG player would call any decent run of Pokemon (of any game) a "Grind".
Based on your reply, I don't believe you researched the technologies I just listed. UTXO checkpoints, for example, will enable one to trustlessly bootstrap a node nearly instantly (from the last UTXO checkpoint). Even 1MB (+SegWit) block size Bitcoin has an "infinite storage" problem that will continue to make running and bootstrapping nodes increasingly difficult. Should we decrease the block size cap to stave that off rather than look for solutions? I would say no. Instead, it's probably worth considering whether we need 100% of historic transaction data to be stored across all nodes, or even required to be directly checked by new nodes as they bootstrap from genesis block. It makes a ton of sense to me that if you trust PoW (which you probably do if you're using Bitcoin), you can set a threshold for UTXO checkpoint depth and simply bootstrap from there.

Verification of larger blocks scales quite well. Testers have proven this: https://read.cash/@mtrycz/how-my-rpi4-handles-mining-256mb-b...

What seems lost in this discussion is the idea that there can be (and maybe should be) a middle ground. Scale on-chain to the extent that technology allows and enables it. Surely, computers today are able to handle much more than Satoshi's computer in 2009, right? Simultaneously, building out off-chain scaling methods should also be encouraged. We don't need to put all our eggs in one basket.
> you were repeating zero-knowledge nonsense,

A "one way function" (ie, a hash) is not non-sense. It is entirely technically feasible (eg, Apple's NeuralHash)[0]. WorldCoin still maintains that participants can elect to submit only the hash of their iris scans.

> You'll get played in life a lot [if you reserve strong judgement (like calling someone a scumbag) until you're confident that you understand the details].

I mean, I can just refuse to play games I don't understand? For example, I don't know enough about the web3 space to cast strong judgement (positive or negative) on it. So I simply don't participate in web3. (But I keep on trying to learn about it).

Personally, I think I can avoid "being played" without calling folks whose work I don't understand scumbags.

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
What we call things is fluid and flexible, like our language. So there might be a discussion about calling the main loop in a game something different. But redefining the gameplay loop as the compulsion loop is oh so wrong in my mind; one implies no nefarious intent, and the other is clearly meant to describe the loop of a game focused on selling microtransactions.
works with a variety of games for me. my preference historically has been competitive shooters with team communications (CSGO, Halo), strategy games (Civ5), survival games (minecraft, v rising), RPGs (elden ring, skyrim, Divinity Original Sin: 2)

games are the perfect environment to push a comfort zone, trust your gut, be wrong, suffer consequences, and bounce back from it. this seems to be critical for me. I think a lot of games would work. I love trying new games for this reason, and tend not to "complete" games unless it's convenient to.

i find the catharsis is heavily dependent on how i play the game. I try to challenge myself on my own terms, like shadow boxing, while maintaining a respect for the game and playing along. I try not to be stressed about performing my best, nor completely careless. I honestly rarely try to perform at my best, but do try to keep it rare rather than never.

It can be an exercise in and of itself to maintain an appropriate amount of care and effort throughout the entire experience. I slip up one way or the other at some point and it feels good to catch myself and reset mentally.

edit: it also helps that it is usually the last thing i do for the day and i go into it feeling satisfied about what ive done the rest of the day (closed work for the day, exercised, chores, hygiene)
I'd love an alternative for 2D games to Unity but I haven't found one that has the breadth of features as well as demonstrated high quality games. It doesn't help that Godot fans constantly push their engine-of-choice every chance they get. We get it, you're excited... Show, don't tell. Build super high quality stuff and prove it's time to stop waiting.
Unity just merged with a company whose business model is exactly that. Concern seems warranted.
Maybe it's because writing C# in Unity is really just using the Unity SDK and not writing actual C# code, but I wouldn't want to hop over to Godot just because it supports C#, as learning it was born out of necessity and was never an enjoyable experience. I'd be much more interested in their GodotScript or plugins for other languages I'm familiar in.
> maintenance nightmares

Wright was always pushing boundaries in construction technology and ended up using a lot of techniques and materials that weren't quite ready for production.

I'd bet that almost every design of his could be made today with no long-term maintenance issues whatsoever.
Some supermarkets have two output buffers after a checker, seems easy to offer to pay just as the person in front finishes or to wait around a little to pay for the next person.

You might also just pass 5 to 10 x 20 USD cash (or local equivalent) to the cashier and have that applied to the next person in line, and let them work out how to split any leftovers on their own.

I've never done either of those things myself, but I did feel horrid enough about our government during an extended shutdown over budget stuff to directly support the food bank with some 'staples' from Costco as well as a just outright cash donation back when that BS happened last.

Directly supporting the food bank is also an option that can help the even more needy.