skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US DOD spent a lot of time and money coming up with a multi-layered clothing system for special forces, pulling in expertise from private sector textile and 'adventure clothing' people. This is a decent explanation of how the system works, and how it came about.
Not true at all - good CRT's could be overclocked and do HD no problem. LCD's looked like shit in comparison.
Yeah, I've got 21 3080s/3090s, and I'm still mining (NiceHash switched algorithms for me automatically). But I've also listed my machines on vast.ai to rent out for deep learning. When they're not being used by a client, they're mining still. My electricity is super cheap, though $0.0875/kWh. That said, it's hardly profitable at all. I'm just speculating and breaking even at this point.
I just got off the phone with a first time buyer. Thinks he has to be in expensive area X, where his budget will get him a junker, but I could take him a ten minute drive away to area Y where he could buy a great starter home. But no, that area isn’t cool enough. And rates of appreciation in both areas are basically the same.
Yesterday, as part of a new podcast that will launch in the Spring, I interviewed the brilliant...

This seems like the wrong way to go about podcasting. What can you say today that will still be interesting to hear in six months?
I'm not saying "I'm right", I'm saying "this is a system I was taught, the system pre-existed me, and I thought an intellectual website that obsesses over the history of small details and unambiguous communication protocols would appreciate my contributing it."

back when we wrote checks, you didn't write the word "and" till you got to the cents (US) on a line that was preprinted "dollars": one hundred fifty three cents dollars" vs "one hundred fifty and three cents dollars".

It's history, it's interesting, it's not meant to throw you into a panic or fits of anger. And I very much doubt that you speak for all of English speaking countries, and through history as well, but must admit you might and I'm lucky to encounter an historian of numerical orthography.
And the whole thing is that the personal convenience you get comes with great costs to every other facet of life when you account for the negative externalities that a car centric lifestyle brings. Now you have a bunch of black particulate on your window sills because everyone in your neighborhood has a heavy car that produces tire dust. Maybe you live a few years less on the whole because you a literally hardly moving around all day when all the walking you do is in your home or on the way to the car, when you could have been working in at least some time cardio wise riding a bike or merely being a pedestrian for all those decades. Often times for short trips on surface streets, like what would be a 10 minute car ride turns into a 12 minute bike ride or so, because stop lights eliminate all the advantages of a powerful car on city roads and perhaps effectively set the speed limit for everyone to like 15mph regardless of the signed speed. Four minutes a two way trip on the whole is not much time wasted away from your children or your crops.

For my commute to work, its something like my choice of a 35 minute drive (not counting the circling I will have to do finding a parking spot at the other end) or a 45 minute bike ride. I probably save time on the whole even without counting the parking fiasco, considering now I don't need to find time in my schedule to work in my cardio.
The one that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the flip side of "managers want to see their people" is "managers' jobs are much harder in remote positions."

It means that every meeting is via zoom. That's great for 2 hours a day. It's terrible for 6 hours during a meeting-heavy day. (Consider a manager with 15 reports that meets with 2 tech leads half hour weekly, a manager for half hour weekly, all ICs for a half hour bi-weekly, and has 4 hour long manager screening interviews a week. Team rituals usually take about 4 hours a week; anything else has been moved to email/slack. That's about 16 hours a week base load. Every single one of those, and every other meeting, is either on zoom (exhausting) or writing up an email (which takes 2-3 times as long as having a meeting.)

On top of that, performance management is more difficult. For great and average performers, it's not that different. However, it's much harder for low performers because it's bad to offer feedback async. So, things that should be a five minute conversation in an office turn into having to schedule a meeting. It also means that we have to rely on metrics more as well, and everyone here knows how bad metrics are at judging performance.

The problem amplifies for senior management. You lose the rewarding parts of the job and the parts that were positives turn into drudgery or negative.

I work remotely. I choose to work remotely because the positives outweigh the negatives, even as a manager, but it is a harder and less rewarding job remotely.
Can I connect to this env from my ide? I use the python jetbrains ide. With Podman I can install and run the ide in an isolated env with all my libs.
Come on give us a hint or maybe just the company mascot?
The only program I ever used that felt like it was really gunning for Fireworks was, weirdly, a BeOS-exclusive app called e-Picture. It was a little buggy, but still terrific. (That last sentence sums up the entire BeOS ecosystem circa 1999, granted, which was tiny yet still bigger than I suspect most people know.)
A lot of those laws don't kick in if you've only got a single employee in-state; there is usually a threshold before an out-of-state employer is subject to those laws. The threshold is usually 10 employees, but it varies by state, and can even vary by the size of the employer, so I left this out.

However, payroll compliance and unemployment kick in with a single employee. There is no minimum threshold.
> Every officially designated 'pro free speech warrior' I've seen in recent times has been strongly for authoritarianism if it suits their agenda.

Huge sweeping claim, with exactly nothing to back it up.
That’s because of earnings too. Which includes past and future possible performance.
While I typically support the "punk rock" approach, this isn't good to suggest. All it takes is one unstable person going cocoa puffs for someone to get hurt or something bad to happen.
You can format a Hi-MD for data. It's very slow by modern standards, especially in random access, and the media is so rare and thus costly there's no point except for the sake of it - I only have one, and at $60 a pop I wouldn't have any except that the seller I bought my MZ-RH1 from forgot to check if a disc was in it before shipping. But it works.

A modern development of that technology would have greater capacity, sure, but I can't imagine how it would approach the low random-access latency of solid-state media.
I think that pattern of tire slashing is rational. Old cars will die, and the thing you want to hurt most is the incentives for making more oversized vehicles.

If it's a hybrid SUV then it's more complicated, but a gas SUV makes sense as a target even with an engine tuned for efficiency.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying (in my opinion), there are other areas more worthy of investment that for whatever reason the populous aren't behind. How about we provide easier and cheaper access to education? More after school programs, child care, social safety nets etc so that disadvantaged groups don't stay disadvantaged.
I think what GP is saying is: Just because it is a number (that has a checksum built on it being a number), does not mean most programmers should treat it as one; Treat it as an opaque string. If you need to validate it, use a character by character (not digit by digit) Luhn algorithm; Work on ASCII digits, not numbers.

The issue is that many beginner (and some experienced) programmers treat what should be opaque strings as numbers and throw them into a 32/64-bit integer, or worse, a double precision float (in JavaScript). This can result in data corruption if not done carefully. Then, when something comes in to challenge the programmer's expectations, the program breaks. For example, ZIP/postal codes are 5 numeric digits in the US, but in CA, they're of the form "A1A 1A1" (notice the space and letters). JavaScript's `parseInt` will return NaN on a Canadian postal code. Another one is house numbers; They look numeric, but can have letters or even fractions(!) in them.
Easiest one so far: "Cricket" to "Economics", 5 links in 30 seconds via London.

Hardest: "Iceland" to "FIPS", 160 seconds because I spent way too much time looking for anything IT-related on Iceland's page, then decided to try the USAF link and got in through "command and control".
TypeSense: The Open Source Algolia Alternative
To clarify: [the plan] won't get worse. It will of course be less adapted to the new reality. This generally means you'll get a gradual performance detoriation, but not an unexpected cliff. Gradual detoriation is preferrable on prod, as it gives you time to react without causing a major incident. Of course, if you ignore the warnings, you're just as dead.
You might be out of the loop a bit.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/132379.2

Is a well known project for an AI Physicist. There are plenty of other groups working on similar projects

>I don't see the latest round of ML (or any ML, really) as a step towards it, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

LLM models have been able to do basic math for quite a while now and some have been trained to solve differential equations, calculus problems, etc.
Well on their way to more impressive capabilities.
Case in point: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6178556/phone-numeric-ke...
I encountered this in the US a few days ago. It made me angry because it locks out those who don't have a smartphone or aren't willing to install Yet Another App.

I moved on and found a different lot.
They say SF will be San Diego in 50 years, so perhaps still liveable.
HyperDragons. Someone made a game where you bred dragons that could eat CryptoKitties to absorb their attributes. The composability and interoperability of the blockchain means anyone can extend your game and build mechanics with your assets, without your permission. It's truly an open API.
North-East USA does not have high speed rail. Amtrak Acela is not high speed rail.
I own a software consultancy[1], and work with Lua. It sounds like you want to run different versions of luac(1) in the browser, but not lua(1). Correct?

On a separate note, marek_leisk2 is correct. I have clients who I can bill for 15 minutes at a time, but it's because they are already established clients with me.

Edit: Sounds like this was just one example. Feel free to email andrew@andrewmcwatters.com or reply here and we can talk through that problem further if you want. No charge.

As a quick reply and to be honest, unless you absolutely need this running in a browser, I'd just take a $12/yr VPS[2], pipe source to luac, then return its output to your users. It's less than maintaining luac builds with JavaScript integration points of multiple versions of Lua.

[1]: https://www.andrewmcwatters.com/

[2]: https://my.racknerd.com/aff.php?aff=2502
I'm proud to announce that Edwin officially pulled through for us today. All our accounts have been reactivated.

There are clearly problems at Stripe. But this kind human is not one of them.
> Fortnite, Risk of Rain 2, Valheim, and Deep Rock Galactic

Those games are low poly but NOT visually simplistic. Memory tends to play tricks and we remember older games looking better than they actually did, so we imagine lower polygons = 2005 tech game. Those games you've mention run on advanced and heavyweight fragment and vertex shaders to create a specific look (cartoony graphics in Fortnite, there's a million effects on screen a dozen levels in a Risk of Rain game, etc.)

They might have the same poly count of Old School Runescape (but not really, as the models are actually quite complex) yet everything else is 20 years ahead of that game tech and complexity wise.

Also not sure what your friend's PC is like, because a 5 year old PC can play all of those games with ease, though perhaps not at max settings. A 1080 ti from 2017 can run RoR2 at ~190 fps at 1440p. https://youtu.be/TdfE3n8YLYo
This particular distraction is enabled by the US not coming clean over the past two and a half years on its participation in the lab work at Wuhan. Have fun fighting the new half-truths, now published at The Lancet.
Not true entirely. Yes all those features helped, but in developing markets, the ability to easily mod chip them to play pirated games was the real seller.
Not gonna excuse Fortnite since I've personally had terrible experiences with it on top-end hardware, but from what little of it I was able to play it has much larger environments & draw distances to contend with. The tight lines of sight Valorant & other tactical shooters have can be an advantage when it comes to rendering optimizations.
Interesting that you chose the "JetBrains model" as example cause everyone I know who uses one or several JetBrains products uses cracked versions. I know like 10 developers who use their products and I don't think a single one of them paid for it. So I guess one of the advantages of the SaaS models is that you can't actually use the product without paying for it. And if you detect that an account is fraudulent (hacked account, account sharing, fake banking info, etc) or late in its payment, you can just temporarily or permanently disable it with a simple UPDATE query.
The Pursuit of Luck
> The engineer that can solve this problem will allow top speeds in the range of 400/500 kph on /existing/ TGV tracks.

How is this problem solved in China?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_trains_in_China
That only works if expression isn't purposefully vague or misleading, which most of corpo PR speak is.

"Taking responsibility" (taking care of the kid) of condom breaking is a bit different than "taking responsiblity" (doing absolutely nothing of substance) in corporate world.
Yes, I was previously a mechanic. Truth is even the worst battery replacements (behind the bumper), headlight bulb changes (remove the bumper), still take less than ~45 minutes to complete. Alternators are not generally considered a wear item so they can be difficult to replace if the engineers where not friendly to the mechanics.

Brakes are a wear item, they eat themselves by design and need to be replaceable. Moving them inboard from the wheel does not have any significant benefits, but many downsides.

With regenerative braking on EV's it could possibly make more sense to move the brakes inboard, but there is already all the space in the wheels for brakes to fit, so I don't really see the benefit of moving them.
And Pink isnt even real :-)
That won't work, unfortunately. It just pushes the issue to the next postgres restart.
It can be a puzzle with a built in score and fun, but rarely are these direct-to-cash games fun.

D3 got much better when the real money auction house closed.
>Thus, we're left going "hey, what happened with every other vaccination we've ever done?" and making decisions based on that wealth of information.

Now you're being disingenuous. There is another approach, and it is the one traditionally endorsed by the medical profession: prudence.

Put plainly: the deontologically correct way of proceeding would have been to say "we don't know enough to assert the vaccines are safe", and not thrust them onto an unwilling public.

>Do we have a 20 year safety study on going unvaccinated in this pandemic?

No. This is why I am not arguing against vaccines. I am arguing against mandates.
CryptoKitties was amazing and a pioneer before NFTs were even a thing. You shouldn't conflate them with the current wave of play-to-earn scams.
> When I went out to plant floor, it was like my perceived IQ went up by 20 points.

I thought you were going to conclude that factory workers are dumb, so you appeared relatively smarter.

(Before anyone gets upset, I have grandparents who were factory workers; I admire hard work.)
>The most notable thing about Alexander's challenge is that Imagen totally failed every single one despite his claim of success because, apparently, it is programmed to never represent the human form.

This doesn't make sense. The original challenge could well have been to draw robots to begin with. Has no bearing on the outcome imo.
When someone says

> Dont want to be snarky, but...

it's a bit like saying "no pun intended" right before intentionally saying a pun. It is literally easier to just make the point.
(figma employee)

Unrelated to the news, would love to know what memory/perf issues you're facing. Do you have files where you're hitting the memory caps?
No it wouldn't. There is no definition of democracy where 51% of the people enslaving the 49% would constitute a democracy. Except the one you just imagined for the purposes of "winning" an argument on the internet.

This is why people who give a shit about Democracy talk about minority rights, and free media, and non-discrimination. These are the core tenets of democracy.
Debit revenue, credit employee expense claims, journal entry: adjustment for test purchases made. Pretty standard, doesn't affect your numbers at all, no need to make any note in your statement (which you wouldn't have to do anyway because it'll never meet the threshold for materiality). Its not some sort of difficult accounting problem.
They are like porn games, the gameplay is not the focus, fucking is.

Except it's you getting fucked in crypto.
I interpret "contract" like a contract between two software components. e.g. This is the schema of what our endpoint returns. You can work off of that.
If in fact High risk is necessary then NMI is the most common gateway. Be careful they require a rolling reserve and can require multiple buckets capped at a certain amount, commonly 50k / month.

We write a few a high risk accounts per month. As a matter of fact I just had a call center run across my desk a few hours ago.

Exhaust all underwriting options as each processor has a different risk tolerance. For instance this call center is now using NMI and a rolling reserve, I've found another processor (one of the big 5) that will not fall under the High Risk thus saving a boat load not to mention negating the accounting nightmare that comes with rolling reserves and high risk processing.
Yes but it's complicated.

* It's possible that you could tokenize to each provider before making a transaction. But you'd need to see if the provider has a timeout on those tokens if you don't actually make a transaction with it. You'd also need to make sure your processor will even allow you to connect to them directly and authorize a transaction with that token later without consumer interaction.

* You can tokenize the card number and expiration, but not the CVV. Some cards you would be able to get an auth without a CVV, with a slightly higher processing fee (that may or may not get passed on to you). But some will just get declined without the CVV. You are not allowed to store the CVV.

* You're really supposed to get the CVV for any transaction that's an initial transaction. This is a recurring transaction, but since you are changing the agreement (by moving providers and a completely different merchant account), it's really a new initial transaction. Your customer will see a different descriptor on their credit card statement, they may complain, it could end up being a whole thing. And if you're worried about needing to use multiple providers, you don't have your own merchant account, so the bank doesn't come to you, they go to Paypal, or Stripe, etc. Now you have to explain to them why there's a new transaction with no consumer interaction, if they contact you to ask at all before shutting you off.

* Unless you're using a plugin like Stripe's for every processor, quickly doing a request to your processor directly in the user's browser and submitting each of the tokens to yourself, doing this would require you to at least accept and transmit credit cards yourself, not sending the consumer onto the processor's site to fill it out. You are now transmitting credit card data yourself, which means you'll have to go through the PCI Compliance process. It's a self-assessment, and you can skip a lot of steps if you're at least not storing the card number (which you probably should not), but it still a bit of an arduous process. No one's going to check you on this unless there's some sort of breach, but you should still definitely do it.
Pretty much everywhere I go in the US supports these as well. I rarely see anyone use them, though.
> The state shouldn't get to declare mandatory solemnity.

Of course they can - for example, remembering those who died in a terrorist attack, victims of genocide, victims of the diseases such as the AIDS epidemic, etc. Lots of groups can declare solemn events for a lot of different reasons, and they shouldn't have to deal with obnoxious and thoughtless individuals purposely trying to disrupt those events.
I like this idea a lot but this specific project is done pretty badly. There's a lot of spam and noise in results, and no real filtering system in place.

It would be awesome to create something like this from a massive archive of personal blogs in spaces like tech, development, design, etc. Basically, a massive RSS reader curated by the community itself.
I also hate Adobe with all my heart! Had the displeasure to work there for a few months and the company is super lame. They don't build anything at this point and just sell overpriced subscriptions. I basically ran from there... not for me.
You are obviously not a gamer or understand the appeal.
I cannot, a coworker who retired to do the RV thing was telling me about it. I think the one he was going to use was in one of the Dakotas
dnd-kit is maintained by someone who works at Shopify, but I'm not sure if it's a direct successor or just similar project: https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit
And what here does the blockchain offer that a database table doesn't? Other than the ability to monetize.
I used to teach certification courses and people attend for different reasons. A common reason is that the test covers the things that you should know to be successful in a given technology and the exercise of studying to know those subjects improves your skillset. Some people just love learning and want the sense of accomplishment from hitting a milestone. Some people came from the government contracting sector where the number of certifications reflected well on contract bids, so the company encouraged their people to get the certifications. Another reason is that in a competitive market, where two resumes, experience, personality fit are similar, the certification might be the deciding factor.
New sota OpenCLIP model released
For common use the imperial system is the best, more human scale for all relevant measures.

For scientific use, nothing beats the metric system of course. Having to go imperial would probably significantly increase the amount of migraines scientists have on a daily basis.
I think BeOS was a serious contender as the next generation MacOS. But BeOS didn't have Steve Jobs. Buying NeXT meant bringing Jobs back at the helm of Apple.

It could have gone the other way too, like how Boeing's purchase of McDonnell Douglas, and McDonnel Douglas's takeover of key Boeing positions ended up eroding Boeing's culture of engineering excellence.

It was also market timing too. The iPhone was not Forstall's first attempt at a device like this. He was part of the team that was trying to develop something similar back in the era of the Apple Newton in the late 90s. And all of that were seeded from two of the three form factors (tab, pad, and board) that Xerox Parc experimented with back in the 70s, along with the mouse, the GUI, and OOP.
The old magic the gathering game blog had a lot of good game design topics. One of the articles talked about the 3 or 4 player archtypes they tried to design for. Worth the potential rabbit hole.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/t...