skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying they misunderstand what they're cargo-culting or are you saying amateur game scripts run fast enough? To cargo-cult it needs to be relevant somewhere, so either way it shows the blanket statement is false, no?
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Alternative Physics
No, it isn't. modprobe has a configuration file, and one of the directives in the configuration file is "if asked to load this module, run this command instead". And that command is sometimes "go figure out which module to really load". So "running modprobe running a shell running modprobe" was correct.
I've always felt the more compelling reason is that a blacklist is never a list of black items.

The amount of times I've seen a blacklist used as a list of users that are denied a restriction (i.e. double-negative -- able to do something) is too many.
> Why anyone lives in apartments by choice is beyond me. The noise is absurd.

I am sorry but you westerners have no clue how to make decent apartments. London is full of 'luxury' highrises with basic design mistakes and complete failures.

In czech republic they would never build drywall separation between apartments, its always brick or concrete with real noise insulation.

The staircase is never attached to the walls of the unit, so you don't hear every step of people walking around

Premium towers here are built with zero green space. Buildings of 100's of units where every unit has their own boiler are a complete waste

Windows get built in such a way that it's impossible to clean them or install shades, etc.
> the actual fields are simply a loose convention.

Let alone some windows program end up just save a blob in it and totally ignore the typing.

Who care about the field type if I can save everything in a single blob(?
I'm not a fan of React myself, but it's just a view layer. Or at least that's all it was when I last looked into it a few years back.
I rather have a registry than bunch of INI/JSON/XML files and each program bringing its own parser
> give everyone new URLs to play the games they've already purchased.

Call my cynical. But I don't see this happening.
I've always found it funny when sales skyrocket when the jackpot is unusually high. 10M isn't that appealing but suddenly 1B is?

I understand the lizard brain mentality, not trying to knock anyone, I just get a little chuckle out of it
It's sterling in the show, fyi
"He say you grow hair! Look like Stalin!"

"Are there any side-effects?"

"...impotence".
For 50Tb? I'm not one to question anyone's data hoarding, but I just can't imagine needing silence or random access on 50Tb, at least not enough to justify 5x prices. By all means, give me 5Tb in my laptop at lightning speed, I'll pay through the nose for it. But in bulk? I can't imagine wanting to spend thousands when hundreds will do.
A mere 300b to obtain the cheapest energy in the world.
Why wouldn't I? We talk on the phone, sometimes have video calls (usually in groups) and occasionally use SMS as a fallback if a call is not an option. E-Mail is also sometimes involved if it's a more in-depth exchange or something involving E-Mail anyway (booking confirmations and the like).

edit after re-reading: I didn't mean to make my original comment sound like there is only real life. Just that not liking and not engaging with more or less continuous modes of communication and notifications does not equal not interacting with people.
Show HN: Kurynt – The last tool you will ever need to manage third party code
I built Kurynt after numerous and repeated headaches maintaining multiple codebases with innumerable dependencies. Many developers know that sinking feeling every time they inherit a codebase where many packages are long outdated and in need of updates or upgrades. Kurynt is the solution to this problem by rapidly giving you an overview of how far behind you are on all packages used by your codebase.

In my opinion, Kurynt is a step above 'dumb' tools like Snyk or Dependabot, which simply create a pull request on your repository on your code with the latest version changes in your package manager. How many of us have honestly immediately merged those changes? I never have, because I know it takes time to review the content of the upgraded packages, review breaking changes, actually install the new packages, and then finally, test the entire codebase to ensure the suggested upgrades are working as suggested.

Kurynt seeks to bring intelligence to third-party code management and upgrades. Kurynt can summarize and identify the most critical raised GitHub issues, run sentiment analysis to determine the most cryptic or confusing bugs, and much more. I hope you'll consider giving Kurynt a test drive!
Intuition and judgement come from changing the context of the analysis--the time range/history, the details included. Geopolitical and economic forecasting appear to fit this pattern. The question posed about whether data-driven companies win seems simplistic and formulaic to me personally. Often outcomes can be better fortunes and circumstantial than from over analyzing and using the right approach. Of course both together tend to be where we'd see success looking backward.
Does Redwoodjs’ architecture solve most of this? Seems like most of the challenges are about over trusting the client and Redwood has some patterns to separate. I’ve got close to zero xp with Graphql and redwood fwiw
"Soap bubbles are computational so everything is computational."

Wait, what?

So get a wood panel, put a few pegs on it, submerge it in soapy water and then slowly raise it from the water.

The soap film that forms between the pegs wants to minimize its surface area (to maximize its energy) so it forms a Steiner tree beteween the pegs, but .. not always!

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1720
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=122

> solipsism feels like

Yes, exactly, yet it's unfalsifiable. Which makes it unscientific, but doesn't make it incorrect. It's just a maximally useless (trivial) model of the world.
The challenge with that hockey-stick graph is that it greatly increases the chance of multiple winners. That kills any chance of a +EV. The best lottery drawing is the one just before the one that makes news; by definition, it had no winner, so if you had just picked the right numbers, you would have won it all.
Unfortunately, Nix's documentation sucks. Plus, there's a steep learning curve to the Nix programming language. I don't understand why they couldn't just use a language instead of inventing one that is only usable within the Nix system.

Overall, really cool idea (dropped my jaw when I first saw it in action), but poorly implemented.
There are a handful of companies that pay exceedingly well (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Uber, and a handful of others). Their hiring and interview practices are well documented across the internet.

The website levels.fyi will give you some insight into which companies can afford the rates you're talking about.
"Scary" -- today's leading Condescending word. "Change is scary" coming along right behind.

How TF do they know what you find "scary" or not? Or does it just let them weasel out of the fact that you just don't believe them?
You're surprised that sales increase when the EV increases?
I've been idly looking at migrating my stuff away from voice, but it's problematic because some 2FA stuff is on the underlying phone number because various stuff refused to accept Google Voice numbers due to it being a SIP number... and not everything will allow you to just disable 2FA while you're doing the switch, some stuff wants to always be tied to a functional phone number.

Thinking the solution may be that next time I upgrade my phone, I get a new SIM and run both phones at the same time for a month, transfer the google voice number to the new phone, and then do all the 2fa transfers to google voice (now AT&T) number.

(if anyone has any tips to get google voice numbers to be recognized as a cell and not a SIP I'd be delighted... that's the major functional complaint I've got with GV.)
I get why Technical Equity is a better term, but very few % age of the population really understand what Equity means, while debt can be explained to a 5 year old
Jerry Garcia had a similar situation iirc.
This is why I think things like Stadia are targeting a very small market.

You have casual gamers, that are perfectly happy playing natively on their phones or laptops at low settings.

Then you have “serious” gamers, that tend to be happy spending hundreds of dollars to make sure they have up to date hardware to get the most of their games (and thus, likely won’t be happy with the latency or game selection of Stadia).

Somewhere in between is a market of people that say “gee, I really want to play Destiny, at full graphics, and I’m ok with a little latency, but I can’t or don’t want to buy a better PC or $500 box for it”.

I’m sure that market exists, but it’s gotta be rather small in the best of circumstances, right?
> RedHat/Fedora, they are smushing both /bin and /usr/bin together. This breaks any link with embedded world (and will come back to bite them when Intel ME becomes abandonware due to malware pervasiveness and their inability to keep those out.

FYI, UsrMerge is being (rightfully) adopted by multiple distros including SUSE, Debian, and Arch.
The pop-up camera is known to be very reliable. Unfortunate that they put so much work into it and abandoned it.
I prefer Black Country, New Road
Difftastic seems like a really cool tool. There are a few reasons, however, why it doesn't apply well to use cases I had in mind:

1. It's in JS and not Python. These days a common data (including data tooling) stack revolves around Python and fitting JS into this ecosystem is not straightforwad.

2. Limited dialect support. As far as I can see it only supports "PostgreSQL flavor" (not sure what exactly is meant by "flavor" here). Support for dialects like Spark, Trino, Hive, etc SQL was crucial.

Definitely a worthy mention, though, thank you!
Also every drawing (twice a week) has had one or more million dollar+ winners

People focus waaay too much on the jackpot!

I love the privilege of not being poor enough to be criticized for buying a ticket.

I pay for a lot of fleeting entertainment. What's a $2-3 ticket? Or $20 worth of those?
Thanks! I did check out her channel and a few videos and this is pretty good and right at my level (i.e. where she assumes the viewer knows things, I know them). I think I'll try one tonight :D
not sure how this differs with AWS, you can do more at less cost than Vercel
In the US this has been decided by a committee for a long time - https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107581150/recession-referees

It's never been a strict "2 consecutive quarters" rule.
An industry with incredible capital overhead and razor thin margins is no place for symbolism.

Times change.

In 1860 New Orleans was the 5th largest city in the country.

Today it is 52nd.
You don't need aircon for these temps, a ceiling fan or pedestal fan is sufficient.
Kind of like that story about the car, the Chevy Nova. Apparently "No Va" means no go in Spanish, which obviously did not bode well for sales in those language markets....

*Edit, there was also the "Lee Kee Boat Company" based out of Hong Kong.
I believe I found the part you're referring to, in Apple's transcript of the talk, and I'm afraid I have to agree with your assessment. What I've found starts like this:

> But designs evolve, hardware advances, and what was once cutting edge becomes the expected baseline. The Objective-C language, AppKit & UIKit frameworks, and Interface Builder have empowered generations of developers. These technologies were built for each other, and will continue to serve us well for a long time to come, but over time new abstractions become necessary.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/102/

It gets worse from there, for Objective-C. The speaker goes on to basically say that the new triumvirate of "integrated language, frameworks, and tools" is Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode Previews, and that these will be evolving together, and influencing one another's evolution, as Objective-C, the "kits," and IB once did for one another.

I love coding in Objective-C, and did so for work for almost 5 years. (I've within the last year switched to a front-end developer job.) Swift, to me, whatever its upside, feels like it was written by someone who hates Objective-C. That makes me sad.

But, putting aside my editorializing, I read what Apple is saying as basically this. Objective-C, etc., is all but deprecated. At long last, it's being left behind. You may get away writing CRUD apps for a good while longer, but all the new stuff will be Swift-only, and at some point any UI written in Objective-C is going to start to look dated, once the inevitable innovations come.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/30/mastermind-of-lottery-fraud-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scan...

You need to be in the business. I think every drawing uses new numbered balls, maybe go for the supply chain if you can't get in the lottery organization itself.
In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency considers gambling winnings to be windfalls that are not subject tax, so any winners receive the full value of the advertised prizes [0].

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/technic...
This looks like a very viable solution for hobbyists, which has me interested in trying it out and I intend to do so.

Some feedback on your landing page: your "Frequently asked billing questions" on the bottom of the pricing page[0] are extremely aggressive sounding even if they are meant to be tongue-in-cheek. For example:

- "I'm a bad customer and want to chargeback" - This doesn't seem like a very common billing question so it seems out of place here.

- "So, don't chargeback or dispute a charge from us, ever" - This is a very aggressive ultimatum that sounds almost threatening. Are you so risk averse that you need to threaten potential customers?

- "We cannot afford to provide services where there is a risk that we could not be paid" - This is an axiom for any business model. Why state it here?

- " Money-back guarantee? Sorry, no. Instead, start off with $5 and scale from there. If you are displeased, we can close your account and refund the $5, nothing more." - This is a fair approach, but you also advertise a $10k/month tier that would receive special treatment. As a business owner, this type of attitude makes me reconsider any kind of partnership when comparing similar services. For example, AWS is well-known for their billing forgiveness in the event of a mistake or other reasonable situations.

- "Credit cards that do not support 3DS are automatically assigned a higher fraud score and are at a higher risk of being placed in a 'fraud check' mode." - It's smart as a startup to try and counteract the risk of fraud in your revenue stream. However, this typically happens in the background and is generally assumed/hoped for by someone typing their credit card number into a website for payment. Combined with your aggressive stance on displeased customers, this smacks of the issues caused by automated punitive measures implemented by YouTube, Twitter, GMail, etc. that often make the front page of Hacker News.

Although this copy isn't necessarily front and center on your landing page, I think TensorDock would benefit from some time spent editing and adding questions that are more likely to be asked, such as, "what payment methods do you support?"

[0]: https://www.tensordock.com/pricing
> I have a few hundreds games in steam

those are rookie numbers, a couple months of humble bundle and your library can be full of shit you'll never play
In the future all these things will be countered by portable LASER systems.
“You will own nothing and you will be happy”
It's more so that users can ask the administrator to write to `/etc/` for them.

The administrator in this case has an automated tool that handles this requæst but the actual user the writing occurs under is the root user.
That's very fair. Thanks! I keep a credit card in my phone case for tap so am old school I guess and haven't set this up.
Where’s Kobe?
Commented as controversial nearby, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278252
That sounds really interesting. It was awhile ago so you may not remember, but how did you “operationalize” the problem? I wonder how that kind of problem / task is structured.
> and who is not profit-motivated and therefore will do less to encourage problem gambling, is better than the alternative in practice.

When a government taxes vice its now depending on those revenue streams. It creates an incentive system where the regulator for advancing social good is depending on tax income from the failure of regulating.

Illinois is doing this right now with their gambling industry. Those little gambling machines are in every restaurant and there are dedicated e-gambling buildings everywhere in Springfield. You see folks go in and dump their life savings into those machines. I know a restaurant owner who has customers park out back to hide their gambling from their spouse.

But gambling tax revenue is bailing out the failing state. At the end of the day, it seems like the government of Illinois is the true addict.
That makes sense and I didn't appreciate it was NFC based. Canada was pretty quick to bring in tap credit cards so I've just done this and not set it up.
GitHub Actions workflow flaws provided write access to projects including
in the words of a wise man, "not a joke"—I truly thought we were in a recession, but the updated definitions and Wikipedia article lock proved me wrong!
This right here is why I couldn't give less of a shit about google's C++ replacement.

All they do is build hype and cancel without any trace even when things are successful.

I'm convinced they only kept search and gmail for ads and tracking.
think this is the new "opium" war that China engages in, our minds. Reduce the young generation to become emotional, depressed from dopamine fatigue, reduce their attention span and they have zero chance of rebellion.

hmmm yes but its a different type of addiction. In video games you still had to pay attention and at worst you'd develop some type of muscle memory or familiarity with a level but you were still focused on the game for hours.

TikTok and other short term media seems to have disastrous consequences for the young developing minds. Your setting up your brain to focus in short bursts and it immediately expects a dopamine hit.

I think we are already seeing signs of this amongst the Z generation, mental illness and well-being is reportedly lowest out of all demographics, and its puzzling why policy makers aren't taking note of this.

If I wanted to make the young generation of a hostile nation weak, ineffective, this is how I would do it. Create something that appeals to them, and turn the into dopamine fiends. It's no different than creating addicts that relies on other substances but because nothing is ingested, this type of neural behavioral programming is not seen as urgent.

I'm glad I don't have kids, I would be so stressed out about them in today's world. It's a completely different environment than the one we grew up with.
In the current planed and under construction high speed rail in the USA by far most large city stations are planned to go in (or near) the city center. Texas Central (planned) is only planning on building 2 big city stations which the go to the outskirts of Houston and Dallas respectively.

Meanwhile California High Speed Rail (under construction) is planning to build stations in downtown San Francisco (and anther close to the city center, and a third by the Airport in Millbrae), close to downtown San José, downtown Fresno, close to downtown Bakerfield and downtown Los Angeles. Palmdale is the only city over 100,000 which gets a station in the city outskirts in California, and Burbank gets one by the airport.

I’m guessing California High Speed Rail did the work and came to the opposite conclusion of yours, that it does—in fact—work to build mainline stations in many US city centers.
It seems reasonable for developers (as I’m not a developer) as Steam was just selling licenses.

It would be the equivalent of Walmart saying they would let people buy copies of games and run them forever.

So it makes sense that Steam would be able to make it so the games sold keep running without Steam existing. It seems pretty simple technically too as they would just update their client to no longer phone home to Steam.
Wikipedia Article on “Recession”
I thought this was going to be something else like being able to tell that a rewritten query returns the same set of rows, but with potentially a very different query plan. E.g. dependent EXISTS subquery vs IN subquery.
My bad, like 80%.
My libertarian brain says that private discovery, ownership, and trade of fossils will increase the available amount of fossils to study. What do everyday paleontologists think? Is it just a few loud ones that want them all nationalized?
There's a lot of discussion here of the 'western lens' as you bring up, but I'm not sure that's fair criticism. The creator(s) aggregated data and built something very interesting. To complain that the data they used isn't universal doesn't seem fair. I think Wikipedia is a reasonable starting place, but yes, Wikipedia skews geographically.

All datasets have bias. It's okay to acknowledge that and still find insights in the data.

Honestly curious: what highly accessible dataset that allows for the simple creations of 'fame metrics' would be better? I'm not aware of any.
Those that don't have Facebook are already disadvantaged in that way. They don't get invited to the party, they aren't told about life updates via the feed. But you soon self-select for friends that don't use Facebook and that do invite you to parties and tell you about things.

That same divide isn't going to go away, no matter the technology. (ofc replace Facebook with whatever app is popular with your group.)
This article, from a year ago, on a subject not related to the thread, does not declare pickup trucks to be a manifestation of "white supremacy", and, indeed, never once uses the term "white supremacy". This is a weird thing for you to have written, Rayiner. Are you OK? This comment is epsilon from literal trolling, which is unlike you.
Amazon Drive is shutting down in 2023
I think we may be coming at this from different perspectives.

You clearly know a lot about food and seem to enjoy it, which is fantastic!

I do not cook professionally so the idea of me spending literal weeks in a cooking school or reading cooking textbooks sounds fun but also incomprehensibly decadent. My partner and I spend about three hours per week on meal planning and prep for our family, and we typically end up cleaning the kitchen concurrently with cooking. Because of this we end up cutting a lot of corners and incorporating meal kits and frozen food into our weekly rotation.

If I could improve the nutrition and/or taste of my meals by spending an additional ~15 minutes a week I would consider it, so Parsnip seems like it might be relevant to me.

But I assume that anyone who talks about "taking a class" or "reading a book" or "learning to make all the master sauces" is coming at food from a wildly different perspective that is probably wonderful for them but not particularly relevant to my life where I get home and have about twenty minutes (less if there's traffic) to figure out how to turn the ingredients from the fridge into something my kids will eat.
I agree with what you are saying but you might have picked the single worst example for your point I could imagine. MLK less famous than Spike Lee? C'mon.
Linux RNG RFC Patch: implement getrandom() in vDSO
Nothing about the post seemed to suggest that was intentional though.