skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Sweden this has long been portrayed as a foolish, nationalistic enterprise by someone who should have known better, sacrificing lives for no reason. (Combined with a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante)

I wonder if it wouldn't have been (previously) portrayed as primarily courageous in the US, had it all taken place with people from there?

... related, while there is a lot of new excitement about human spaceflight in the US now, almost every single piece of ~current mainstream TV/film drama (with the notable exception The Orville) focusing on space/scifi is dystopic and/or really negatively focusing on the human/family costs of the main characters (example: For All Mankind), to the point where it's getting a bit silly.
Don't blame the tool for its users' incompetence.

Gmail does plain text email just fine, and it's a major feature for me.
There was a lot more SIDS before because back then people including doctors advised parents to let infants sleep on their stomach.

A lot of research went into solving SIDS and once the recommendations changed to always make infants sleep on their backs, SIDS plummeted.
> Sketch was the dominant UX/UI tool, but then Figma came outta nowhere and surprised the world by showing what could be accomplished ...

I use both frequently and Sketch is far better than Figma. But Figma had one thing really going for it: it works on every platform with a browser, while Sketch is (sadly) Mac only. Every designer and his dog might have a Mac in the US, but the rest of the world is a different story.

Lately, Sketch does show that it is moving in the direction of a cloud, but I doubt that we'd see a web editor from them anytime soon.
https://royandre.medium.com/goodbye-adobe-4f26fa48e28a

Let's hope Figma doesn't become the next Dreamweaver.
In the U.S. it's possible "12345E State Road 5" and "12345 E State Road 5" are different addresses depending on if the streets have directional suffixes and how they're interpreted (east and west)

I'm not sure how mail carrier software works, but in general there's a lot of variations of the same address that still lead to mail getting delivered correctly (and some addresses where the mail can't be delivered at all)

For U.S. apartments, usually any of these work
"123A Some St"
"123 Some St #A"
"123 Some St Apt A"
"123 Some St Unit A"
The Jon Skeet article you're citing mentions only java.util.Date, and it is in fact absolutely fair to say that this class "fundamentally misunderstands what dates are at a conceptual level" in all of its functionality that goes beyond being a thin wrapper around a number of milliseconds.

But note that java.util.Date is from Java 1.0. The mistake was recognized and in Java 1.1 we got java.util.Calendar and friends, which is, as far as I know, does qualify as "functional and correct" but was ugly and annoying to use, as well as missing many useful features (like the concept of a timespan, or even just a date without a time-of-day).
I said Figma is not worth 20 billion as a standalone company. It might be worth 20 billion to Adobe. Adobe can do to Figma what Facebook did to Instagram, Facebook took a relatively small startup Instagram and made it into a global juggernaut worth hundreds of billions in value.

Similar story with ByteDance and Musically, how many of you have used Musically before Bytedance bought it and re-branded it as TikTok.
Hey thank you so much! I really appreciate that. It's still early days but I'm really excited about this product!

Yeah :) so right now you can export the commissions you want to pay to a PayPal CSV, then import directly into PayPal (similar to Rewardful etc).

However, on our roadmap is a PayPal API integration, so in the future you'll be able to connect your PayPal account directly to Reflio and you can choose for it to autopay on your behalf.
There are so many ways for people to cheat in online games when they can manipulate the local state of their gameplay. I've personally completely stopped playing CoD online because cheating is so ridiculously out of control.

I just want to play the game like a normal person. But it's no fun anymore.
Thanks, this is wonderfully in-depth!
I think Quora or CodeMentor might be a good place to ask that kind of question. ISTR that CodeMentor has a way that you can pay to get short-term help like you need.
But but crypto is bad right?
By that reasoning, a wind park isn't carbon-free electricity either. I wish you good luck on your campaign to convince the public, after that you can come back here and we'll talk again.
Reality will set in eventually. It was just the lazy place to point the cards, the pools will get tired of wasting that money pretty fast.
Um, the facts aren't really that obscure or unknown - the evidence Ms Giuffre was a pawn in Epstein's sex-trafficking ring, one that Prince Andrew was happy to take advantage of, is pretty compelling, even if not proven beyond reasonable doubt. Yes, she admitted to being involved in recruiting for it (while under 18), which was almost certainly a decision made out of immaturity, given her role now running Speak Out/Act/Reclaim.
Is there a way to make it work with devbox shell? Add virtual env support?
To add to "they would discuss it to death" - yeah now imagine you need to start a company and you have to shell out $300k up front for multiple software licenses.
On the audio side of things: Cool Edit Pro 2 became Adobe Audition, which was single-license but of course has since been SaaS-ed. It was never as popular as Pro Tools, Cubase, etc but it was my goto DAW (as a hobbyist) for a long time.

Apple's work in last few years on Logic Pro has it lightyears ahead of Audition, and I wouldn't even call Apple the most popular product in that space right now (oh hi, Ableton)
Imagine watching the seeds of AI that will terraform society and rapidly displace human labor over the coming decades be planted, and then still splitting hairs over whether or not it'll achieve sentience.

Our world is changing before our very eyes while this guy is belaboring the technicalities. You could hardly ask for a keener display of the philosophical gulf between scientists and engineers.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-11-we-3605-s...
Yeah. The money always causes a conflict with the fun. Only the pure cosmetic games seem to avoid that when the money flows.
> The only reason to believe that a "cup" is more convenient than a deciliter, or a "mile" is more convenient than a kilometer, is that you grew up with those units.

From this statement I doubt you know where I grew up.
> It lacks the key element that earlier investors are paid via the investments of future investor.

Are you under the impression that you can buy Ethereum without paying transaction fees to stakers?
I believe this is the report: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
> At best, you're made RCV/IRV with extra steps

I'd argue that every single word in this small claim is wrong.

Scoring isn't equivalent to ranking unless the conditions are that you cannot score two candidates the same and that you must fill in every possible score vale (i.e. rank). Neither of these conditions are true for any cardinal system. You can score candidates the same and you can score candidates with variable distances (e.g. 5,3,2,1. Note there is no 4). This has different embedding properties. You actually can express more information in cardinal this way.

Second, run-off voting is much more complicated. Cardinal systems are determined by argmax of a reduce-sum. Which is trivially parallelizable and only requires a singular election. Run-offs require multi-elections. Even in simple cases like this one, there were 2 elections (and that's with 3 candidates!). This doesn't scale well either.
I mean, they might ban someone, and as long as their reasons don't pertain to protected classes does it still matter? Do you have a right to go to any Odd Fellow meeting, anywhere? Or do they have a right to choose who they consider to be members? I don't really know much about Odd Fellows, if they did have national/global membership rosters, would that then change this scenario to you?

Seriously, do you feel the private organization should be able to choose who can be a member or not? Generally speaking, not trying to bring any particular protected class.

Say the Odd Fellows club did ban me, globally. Maybe I had friends I knew through the club. Does the fact I have friends who meet in the club let met petition the government to do violence against the group to enforce my ability to go to the meetings despite the leadership of the group not wanting me there?

Should a church be required to accept everyone in their services, even if that person is running around the room screaming "God is a lie! God is a lie!" Should a restaurant be required to seat every potential customer, even if that customer orders an ice water and starts screaming profanities and making other customers uncomfortable?

Why can't Discord decide to exclude those which abuse their platform?
> should I just let my laptop output the dtmf tones?

Yes. Depending on your OS, it might even have the sound files:

https://osxdaily.com/2016/03/31/play-dtmf-tones-mac/
In the discord they said it's pretty typical for the website to go down a bit when they @everyone like they did for this post
Bummer, pass.
This is such a good idea, someone please try this if you're set up to make it happen easily.

Starting with fox on Knox and Knox in box and moving up to a tweedle beetle battle in a puddle in a bottle and the bottles on a poodle and the poodles eating noodles...

I dont see any evidence any of these models will draw it correctly, but would love to see what it produces.
Well when I look at a sales breakdown by region, the lions share of PS2s were sold in North America (54m), Europe (55m), and Japan (23m). That leaves 27m units divided amongst the rest of the world, notably including South America [1].

I have no doubt that viable piracy improves hardware sales in less fortunate economies, I just don't think it's enough of an effect to have the dramatic impact on global sales that was implied above.

If you want a console whose global sales I think were driven in large part by piracy, look no further than the PSP.

1: https://www.vgchartz.com/charts/platform_totals/Hardware.php...
Yeah this is less true than it used to be but it's a big part of how SaaS initially came to be the only game in town.
No, because the lump sum can't be depended upon, it's unpredictable. Will you have 50 buyers this month or none at all because it's holiday season? Or maybe you'll saturate your market niche. You can't plan anything ahead.
You said this sarcastically, but it is really good advice.

Note that Microsoft now has two controls on your digital identity. Login with Office365 and Login with Github.

If they pull a Google and disconnect you, you're in a world of hurt if you don't have otherwise.

Tech folks should have never allowed GitHub to become the monopoly it did.
There are some porn games that are considered very fun and even influential on the larger games industry, particularly coming out of Japan such as Rance[0], a grand strategy series that's run for over 30 years.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_(series)
Time to tell my story!

I work for a very large FAANG-type tech company. I am also a dual citizen, having US citizenship and a South American citizenship.

A few months after the pandemic began, I relocated from my high CoL work city to a small South American city where my relatives live. I told my manager I was moving to another US state, which is my official address and where I also have relatives.

It has been almost 2 years of this arrangement. In that time I believe exactly 0 people suspect I’m in a different country.

I’m only somewhat careful with my arrangements. In video chats, I use a background blur and try my best to have neutral lighting. My audio setup focuses only on my voice and eliminates background noise.

I don’t take special networking precautions yet. If they check their logs they’d easily see my true location. However, I subscribe to StarVPN and I have a glinet router ready to go should I need to start spoofing my digital location. I have full confidence this will be enough.

I pay ALL US taxes that I owe. Due to tax laws in the SA country I’m in, I have no reason to suspect I’m avoiding any taxes here either, but I’d have to consult with an accountant or expert to be sure.

I’m not at all worried about my situation. I have yet to hear of a single case of someone in a similar position as me having it go south in a bad way. If my employer insists I go back to the US, I can spoof my location with the method I described above. How would they prove where I am otherwise? I’ve also been playing around with the idea of quitting and traveling a while anyway.

I consider myself a very effective and productive engineer, and I subscribe to the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy in this situation. I’m surprised to see so much fear mongering and thinly veiled contempt for this here in HN. The total number of people doing this is likely extremely small anyway.
Please make a Stripe or direct transfer integration.
We all hate PayPal
Comparing visa and Mastercard transactions with Bitcoin is something that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Do people really think visa settles transactions between two different bank accounts? Those card transactions can take days to settle.
Chilling effects, I would guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...
This is surprising to me because as a British person living in the US, who is familiar with British and American English, I've never once heard anyone use "and" to mean a decimal point. Literally never. The first time I'm hearing about it is from your comment.

I even found this article about how "and" doesn't actually mean decimal point: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/02/decimal-point.htm...
I'm surprised Discord bans anybody these days -- they have telemetry that rivals Palantir it would be silly to willingly remove data sources like that.
Mhmm, that's an anti-piracy PR blurb from an "anti-piracy" service selling site. Not sure it is the most unbiased source... I think it has been demonstrated elsewhere that 1 pirated download does not equate to 1 lost sale.

Where I live (Mexico) I know so many people that have pirated Adobe, Microsoft apps and plenty of games, who there is NO WAY they would have bought the software if they hadn't been able to pirate it.
In AppleScript you can mark a variable as a property, and then its value is automatically remembered across runs. For example a script can easily remember how many times it has run:

property runCount : 0
set runCount to runCount + 1

So natural to use!

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
I'm a bit curious now how compliance with the spec is tested.

It certainly can't be done with "pure" unit tests, and it would be difficult to ensure sufficient entropy even with "impure" tests that examine multiple nonces generated in sequence.

Do you happen to have a link to the paper you mentioned?
To agree; if you're quiet, don't use up too much bandwidth, parking, or have visitors you might stay under the radar; But maybe you have a rent dispute, maybe you party too hard one night, maybe someone at your pub doesn't like that you cheer for the other team.

You're a blackmail target like anybody else doing something baseline illegal.
It was also out for so long that it gave it plenty of time to end up used for cheap. It seemed like everyone had one laying around or in the closet at home by the end of its run, usually a slim one honestly.
Whoa, that's interesting -- does ENet have a good integration with Erlang, or something like that? I'm interested in both Elixir/Erlang and Godot, but haven't seen an opportunity to use them together previously. I'd love to hear more details about this project of yours, and how the Godot 4.0 release impacts it.
> on that Wikipedia page

The page which says it isn't expected to start service until 2023?
So what I'm hearing is there's a market opportunity to go rebuild Figma, just without being owned by Adobe
https://squoosh.app/
Web app that has much better encoders.
Stability.ai has trained largest CLIP, will add to Stable Diffusion
Let's say that 49% "strongly" support A, and 51% "weakly" support B. If VSE means A has a higher score, I think it's meaningless in terms of democratic elections that follow the one-person-one-vote principle, where B should definitely win. There's a whole field of "voter satisfaction" and "utility" that doesn't really apply to democratic elections where we have to worry about populations bullying other populations.
Some of them are due to government regulations like 'don't launder money' and 'don't process money for illegal activities'. Which are, like, basic operations of society 101 level stuff.

Others (adult services) are not due to government regulations, they are there simply there because banks don't want to deal with chargebacks.
It would have been a better question if you left out the "Just for PR?". That gives the indication that you aren't particularly interested in the answer if that's the only reason you suspect.

What exactly improves PR for a train having a pointy nose vs a rounded nose?
Debris removal is less an R&D problem than a market problem. The highest impact thing a government can do is put a price on debris removal, and then guarantee that price for existing debris for an extended period of time.

Flight volume is an easily solved problem with the near future market, and that cost is the main reason junk isn't deorbited already.
Honestly I have the term RCV. It is a specific type of ranked choice systems and now we have to refer to that class as Ordinal to not be confused with the specific variant. And it leads to a lot of misunderstandings like this.
Reminds me of the inputs that try to be clever with formatting and move the cursor around and insert characters (happens with dates a lot). When you try to backspace, the input cleverly re-inserts the divider and moves you forward again
Despite many claims that Acela is swift, the killer argument is looking at the time difference between Acela scheduled time vs regular trains with only a few stops on the same route.

I happily pay more for Acela because the carriages are more comfortable but if the time is inconvenient I am happy to book a regular train.
I am, because it's true. For example I own a lot of Ethereum and didn't pay any transaction fees to obtain it. Most ETH transactions work this way because they happen on centralized exchanges.
Imagen can produce images of humans - they’re just filtered out from the results by supervised models (for now). OpenAI did something similar with Dalle for a while IIRC.
These are all the same artwork.
Mine might be working for a 'good' company, as in "making the world a better place". This is exceptionally hard to find and hardly makes any day-to-day difference where other factors are probably more significant.

I use FAAMG, but now I guess it's MAAMG.
1/ Making people play to the best of their ability.

People have always been insanely competitive, without bringing in a token in the middle. All you're doing is making it impossible to play (or not lose money) if you're not trying your hardest, all the time.

2/ You're really going to pretend you've never seen communities make their own services on top of a game? The only real difference is that it is fully automated in this case, but service markets have existed forever. Path of Exile has a whole discord with tens of thousands of users just to exchange things.

3/ Only if Cheese Wizards is a carbon copy of CryptoKitties, just changing names. Otherwise, data structures are different behaviours are different, and your work just has to be redone. Like in the current world. But it's true, at least it's open.

4/ You gotta really fucking love your game if you're willing to keep minting (and therefore paying) for NFTs that are worthless and unusable anywhere else

5/ This is an absolute cancer that has made every single game that added real money trading objectively worse. It makes every interaction with your game make you take into account the potential money loss. Like making your kitties spin? Too bad sucker, that's not the optimal money making strat, enjoy feeling ever so slightly bad every time.

The only useful point is the openness of the API. Everything else are things we already do in games (good and bad), but worse. Anyone in this industry not seeing this has either zero experience with games, or destructive tendencies just to make a bit of cash on misery.
> They're maglev trains, so there's no pantograph involved there.

The linked wikipedia article also lists speeds of Chinese non-maglev trains.
> Unless I connect an Apple TV to it, on which nothing is broken.

Did you calibrate the Apple TV using an iPhone? (e.g., https://www.macworld.com/article/344476/iphone-apple-tv-colo...)
Just from a glance at the AlloyDB documentation, it seems to be fundamentally a similar design to PostgreSQL. That is, you have a single primary instance that holds the entire dataset and handles all write traffic, plus some number of additional replicas within the system for failover and read-only queries.

Spanner has a very different implementation: your dataset is split into (possibly a large number of) shards, each of which is replicated across multiple regions. So you get better global availability and scalability, at the cost of more complicated performance characteristics when you have to do operations that involve multiple shards.
SaaS is also quite easy to churn out as a lone SWE, think most of us prefer to make our own income than toil on legacy CRUD apps all day.
Stable Diffusion will soon update to use the biggest CLIP model in existence, which may improve understanding of composition: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=32858809
Yeah I didn't find that very credible. A busy businessman ignoring petty bets you propose is not really evidence of anything, nor is the part about google ignoring his requests. In fact it's a pretty lame rhetorical device. I could equally "challenge" a head of state on Twitter and then pretend that his failure to reply indicates something
I adore Affinity’s tools, but none of them are a replacement for Fireworks.
I run a platform which has many connected Stripe accounts. Collectively they’ve now transacted over $10M through the platform with very peaky seasonal patterns. I’ve seen many accounts get flagged, I’ve never ever seen one get “nuked”. They may ask for additional verification. Rarely they may place a 30 day hold on some portion of your funds. If these things happen and you feel they’re unjustified, talk to someone about it. It’s a decision that can be changed or reversed like any other. Explain the situation and demonstrate why you aren’t a risk. They’ll listen.

If you’re worried about being flagged, talk to them about your expected increase in volume _now_.
Another problem with pickles with any sort of living code base is when one makes modification to the type itself - renaming, refactoring, whatever. Picking objects (and nested objects) that aren't explicitly meant for data storage/retention/transmissions leads to headaches.

It's best to use another dedicated type or library specifically for this task.
I feel like AppleScript could have really shown if things had played out differently in Mac OS automation. I learned to code with AppleScript on OS 9 and it really got me in to programming. MacScripter.net was my old hangout. Good times.
Woman holds up Lebanese bank for $13,000 of her own money, advocacy group says
Really? I pretty much hate the idea of tech acquisitions entirely now. It generally ends up in the loss of innovation and competition on the market.
You must have been using an old version of MS Office, or had it improperly configured. We use Office for real time collaboration on documents all the time. You can put a file on SharePoint, then have multiple users edit live using a mix of desktop, mobile, and web applications. The changes are immediately visible and this doesn't create different copies.