skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you misspell a variable name Lua will happily initialize it to nil and run with it. This almost always results in subtle incorrect behavior instead of an error.

If your code editor doesn't warn you that you're potentially reading a variable before writing to it, then you need a new code editor.
For GMail? yes.

For YouTube I think it would be something like it will slowly turn into CNGooGSNBC and be heavily editorialized where you need to work with an AI assisted nebulous entity for weeks before you can upload content.
It was a few years ago, but I remember it was distinctly obvious. Stadia was new. No one really knew much about it and it was not launched yet. Several users with same-ish usernames all starting giving long well written replies that kept repeating specific talking points that were not really part of the articles or marketing, things about the product strategy that sounded very much like a social media marketing brief. And they had a lot of very nice things to say about the boss. I used to work adjacent to social media marketing and it had the fingerprint. They were either several Stadia marketing employees on a coffee break or being specifically paid for the campaign.
$5 for two.

https://www.yubico.com/microsoft-ignite-yubikeyoffer2022/
It's hard to know where to start with such an all-encompassing, weird, hot take like this. I'd like to start the bidding with "no; your slow-moving, not-suitable-for-purpose-as-a-payments-system distributed ledger is not the functional equivalent of the entire global banking system".
You’d definitely made the right decision for yourself, and possibly in the general case.

I’d add that while the bursts of hawkishness in US foreign policy are awful, they pale in comparison to the barbarism of other past powers or modern regional powers. That isn’t meant to excuse anything, but look at the Russian invasion and the intentional atrocities being committed. Compare that to the invasion of Iraq and I think any honest reading will reflect governments and societies with very different values.
You've only quoted the article title and your own post (which seems condescending). You haven't explained why this particular consumer preference is more akin to "getting shit for free" (i.e. not worth consideration) than other consumer preferences, many of course are very much worth considering. Nor have you given some indication of why the opinion you're trying to get out is worthy of such a hostile tone.
You can decide what connects and doesn’t connect to your home network and home computer. I don’t see why Facebook can’t do the same thing.

You’re free to install whatever you want on your machines, but meta is also free to block you from connecting to their servers. It’s not a utility
Amazon publicly stated that they ran their own business on AWS, and however much of an exaggeration that might have been, it gave people the confidence to try it out. The reasoning was clear: if AWS handles Amazon-scale business, they can surely handle my smaller workload.

Google is starting with a handicap, in that they have a very strong reputation for killing products that don't meet unknown high standard of performance/revenue. I mean, the term "Google Graveyard" is popular, although I prefer Killed By Google[0]. To counter that handicap for GCP, they need something that stands out as much as Amazon's initial claim, and I haven't seen it. It seems clear that Google isn't running their own infrastructure on GCP. If anything, the hope seems to be that they've spent so much money on GCP, surely they wouldn't shut it down after all of that?

But of course, the bright sparks at Google are aware of the Sunk Cost Fallacy as well as anyone else, so... yeah. I have trouble trusting it.

0. https://killedbygoogle.com
I tend to only play "non-competetive" solo games, so I dont care much about input lag. Wasnt a problem for me in Destiny, Assasins Creed or Cyberpunk.
Yeah. I posted this on another such thread, but the date it is using is apparently the date the storm was declared a tropical depression. This isn't a reasonable interpretation, if you ask me. If you ask a human who was just hunkered down in a closet in FL trying to ride out Ian "how many days since the last Cat 4?" their answer is going to be "One."
That's completely false. Streaming works great even for latency sensitive games.
So you are creating a translation layer between OEM APIs and thirdparty service and giving the owner of the car to connect those pipes using your service?
Not at all. I mostly avoid libraries because I can get most of what I need via PDFs these days. Occasionally, I'll need to find an old copy of a book or something so I search a library. Though, at least where I am at, the technical literature in the libraries is woefully inadequate. Would be great if they offered a way to look up scholarly papers though.
Clearly, attention really is all you need.

Are GPU vendors (well, gpu vendor, as far as I can tell) focusing heavily on increasing VRAM? My understanding is that transformers are pretty quick to train, but have significant memory costs.

When they say that video is infeasible with memory... does that mean that if we had enough memory (128? 256? gb) we would be able to realistically train such networks with temporal attention?

This is insanely exciting. It looks like we are limited, at this point, only by compute.
This is specific to business pages. Likely this is to encourage them to post actual advertisements on their platform instead of taking advantage of Marketplace listings.

Regardless, good! I hate when classifieds get flooded by business. I wish they would get rid of storefronts all together.
Nothing learned from node-ipc?
>... a comma at the end of the line turned his Python scalar into a unary tuple

I have been burned by this mistake a handful of times. Each instance managed to eat up a shocking amount of time. I definitely consider it a misfeature.
If Google CEO Sundar Pichai split his entire 2021 $6,322,599 [1] compensation among their 156,000 employees [2], each would get ~$40.

If he split his entire stock worth of $280M among them they'd each get under $2000.

Not life changing when the median pay at Alphabet is already ~295k.

So the massive CEO pay, even if completely taken away and given to employees, does not change incomes much at all.

[1] https://www1.salary.com/ALPHABET-INC-Executive-Salaries.html

[2] https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/alph...
The articles says the vein was uncovered recently by a retreating glacier, but that it was uncovered previously by an advancing glacier.
> I remember reading that von Neumann was a fan of turning on the TV or radio to very loud volumes when he was working at home. Likely to achieve the same effect.

There is a whole genre of YouTube videos that is just somebody walking in the rain in a cityscape for 3+ hours. I put the video on on my TV, to get both a sense of calm and also a sense of exploration/movement. Something about the coffee shop ambience videos just no longer tickles my mind. It’s best to pair with reeally slow, long music, such as Subaeris - The City in Rain (56 minute long ambient “dreampunk” song). There’s typically a moment in this process that I feel my mind de-tense.. allowing the real work to begin
Yes, you can choose whatever software you want to run, but Meta would be in full rights to ban you for using third party clients. And Meta has a vested interest in ensuring that people aren't using clients that scam their users out of their credentials because said users don't exist in a vacuum. They have friends, family, private messages and so forth that other users did not consent to have stolen or taken by a third party. This was the whole Cambridge Analytica controversy in a nutshell and their decisions around stuff like this all stem from that.

And in fact, sites are within their rights to determine which browser you can use to connect. Sites are often designed for and optimized around certain browsers and if they detect you running Internet Explorer 3, they can tell you to go away. This is a fact of the internet. And you're just as free to simply not go to their sites. This has been a fact for decades. No site is obligated to serve your obscure internet browser. And no API is obligated to serve every client that calls it.
The Future of Design Is Open Source, Thanks to Penpot
If we are living in a world with patents (we are), it is good to see their benefits extended to the small guys as well as megacorps.

Personally, I think there are good patents and bad patents. The existing criteria are pretty good, but poorly applied. In particular, the difficulty is the obviousness test.

Patentable inventions should not be obvious to an expert in the field at the time of filing.

It is very difficult to assess what is novel/non-obvious after the fact. E.g. the wheel now seems an obvious solution to help move weight. Before it was invented, not so much.
Have you talked to the average 15 year old kid? Hell, have you talked to the average 50 year old? It will be the same as ever, a sea of absolute shit surrounding some true gems, be they from novel creativity or just excellent execution of well worn ground. The role of the trusted curator will rise and brands will gain more power.

I am sure I will watch MY 15 year old's attempts, and maybe a few from my extended circle but most of my consumed content will still come from what makes the cut to Netflix or HBO etc. Technology like this will empower the truly creatives once it has matured. I would expect closer to 20 years than 5 however.
Local lag was significantly reduced over recent years, low latency modes of TVs/monitors, 60 and more fps even for console games, etc. So the baseline moved. That affects remote gaming also, but in a much smaller proportion. Remote gaming quality is as good as ISP quality, and most of ISPs are sh*.
100%. Not sure which will go first but my guess is youtube will fold into another product. Gmail will start breaking and be sunsetted. It would not surprise me to see search sunsetted.
I think it's worth pointing out to people that the developers really have nothing to do with it. If the developers all decided to more Bitcoin Core to proof of stake, the node runners would just switch clients.

Proof of work is core to the ethos of Bitcoin.
You can patch the check with binaries? Wouldn’t you need to modify the source and build?

I’m not familiar enough with tampering, cracking software like that so I can’t really say.
Oh yeah, good point. I was conflating the DOE grant from years ago with the most recent investment in US semiconductors (which I personally think amounts to a shareholder bailout, hence my jibe).
Plain text Kubernetes Secrets are fine
Is there any petition for this?

(yes I'm aware that this would be to a private company, not the govt)
No!

Libraries are a special place!

Albeit the sort neglected by modernity.

My local library has a seed bank. Even libraries innovate!
Oh. It was Flash.

Sometimes I forget that was ever a thing!
Mike Pall complained that the introduction of the _ENV scope layer would make LuaJIT slower and therefore less interesting, so he let it diverge. But also, since LuaJIT is heavier and less portable, it kind of makes sense that it should have a more stable syntax, since that tilts the use cases towards more standalone projects.
Typical Guurgle move. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that
"and let you export your saved games"
> The problem of relying on Russia for energy was obvious.

Indeed. Always found it strange that Germany didn't see a problem with relying on Russia for their main energy source.
I meant his demands that the LPR and DPR hold recognised referendums for independence, that Crimea be officially transferred back to Russia (after being arbitrarily granted to Ukraine by a Communist dictator), and Ukraine to remain neutral.

https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-says-russian-military-...

Fighting against those isn't worth hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives. The first two will continue to be problematic even if Ukraine wins.
Many would consider them an "other necessity", if we're being pedantic.
I've never played Skyrim - was that the immersive 3d version of a maze of twisty little passages?

Besides just textural content, it's intriguing to consider the possibilities of full-3d roguelikes.
How could it be uncovered by an advancing glacier?
Sometimes uniformly using 0-based indexing is simply moving a cognitive burden to later time or to a different person. For example some bright mind in my industry has decided that all numbering of quite real and physical entities (not addresses or offsets), like chassis, devices, blades, ports, sessions etc. should be 0-based. This let to a huge number of issues writing code, writing conversions, debugging, and most of all - testing this. Every time you need something wired to port 1, now you need to also clarify that that's not first port, and so on. But we got very hype and moderns numbering system instead. Amazing innovations :) .
Vodafone Portugal suffered an extremely successful cyber attack in February 2022, taking down:

- 4G

- 5G

- Fixed voice

- Digital TV

- SMS

- voice

It took _several_ days to bring everything back online. [0]

No Ransomware requests issued, most likely a state actor.

Many people speculate the attack was a training ground for Russian cyberwarfare.

I find this a much more likely failure mode for communications (including emergency services) than network operators not managing uptime because of blackouts.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/02/vodaf...
I'm guessing the above is a "too long, didn't read"?

In the article

> A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine

> An expert on manuscripts said the document, first reported by the Maine Monitor, could be worth as much as $10,000.
How could you know? It only became apparent it would fail after it launched. The technology is great and not the reason it was doomed.
The screen scratches so fast! I expected better from Apple.
It was always strange that Google would decide to dabble in the brutally expensive and competitive games market, of all things.
You just compile TypeScript to Lua at build time. Then run in the Lua in your Lua VM which you've presumably embedded in your game.

If you wanna do this at runtime, well, I suspect a node-like environment would be required at runtime.
It’s a bad analogy because in this case, the alternatives never went away. If you don’t want to pay for a service upfront with money, you need to pay for it with ads on the service provider’s terms. That is your personal problem stemming from your personal choices. There are alternatives.
But the model itself is encrypted. You should assume a model trained on sensitive data at least partially includes the sensitive data and treat it as sensitive, as FHE intrinsically does. If you’re saying once you decrypt them model you need to keep treating it with sensitivity and not give it to untrusted compute in the plain, then yes you’re right. But that’s nothing to do with FHE because you stopped using FHE the moment you decrypted it. What stupidity you do after generations of PhD protected your data in untrusted compute using FHE is your stupidity alone and says nothing about FHE.

The other way I read what you’re saying you’re saying the holder of the model after they decrypt it may not be trusted with the model or the original data. But they hold the decryption key to both. So, why did you share the key to someone you don’t trust? That breaks the model too.
That sounds familiar, now you mention it. Fascinating. I wonder what percentage of my thoughts are actually original.
> Pretty much all the most popular languages have settled on zero-based indexing.

Maybe true depending how you count, but there is plenty of code in languages with 1-based indexing too. My day-to-day these days is all MATLAB (1-based), except for the occasional optimized algorithm written in C. So I'm equally sensitive to being pedantic about "0 is actually better". They lend themselves well to different habits of reasoning. Switching back and forth can be painful if I don't take care.
And windows phone still got updates for over 2 years even after the shutdown, despite the fact it had been semi dead for years before then.
At least with the mushroom treatment though you end up with some very tasty and healthy products!
Speak for yourself, I could barely understand the content due to the high pitch and speed of the vocoder. I hate video tutorials in general though, I really wish this was a blog post.
> The man is as rich as anyone would like to be

It's never enough for them. Money is power. At a certain level of wealth you run out of things to buy, but you never run out of people to buy.
Actual title: Here’s how one of Atlassian’s critical services consistently gets above 99.9999% of availability
Defense Is from Mars, State Is from Venus (1998)
I hope they recognize that’s what’s what will happen eventually, and change course sooner rather than later.
Well, autumn started on the 23rd.

So it technically did exist by the end of summer.
It is a really low-stakes prediction, for us to guess that Google is going to cancel a product. Internally I bet they had people making good-faith arguments in both directions.
> I am glad that you like it. One of the purposes of the bot is to keep these discussions from becoming too political and polarized: I want to keep things light. Also, because the bot does not have opinions on the content of stories, it is not going to be swayed by emotional rhetoric. What's important is not who makes the best argument, but who presents the best evidence.
> Jeez, dude.

I hopefully stand corrected.

I didn't mean to suggest it would bring down civilization, just that it would cause more havoc than you might assume.

During the Texas blackouts was mobile internet available? Phone service? Was there food for the people who didn't receive deliveries?

Were you confident the government would restore service soon?

I grew up with frequent blackouts and I'm completely unfazed by anything on a 24-48-hour scale.

But -- and I hope I'm wrong! -- I see many societies growing more fragile and I would worry about what an infrastructure failure like that might mean to people who live much of their lives online.
(I work at Grafana but not on the Agent)

I'm really excited to see how this goes because the "static" YAML config for a typical Agent setup (e.g. scrape metrics from pods in a Kubernetes cluster) is quite verbose and difficult to figure out unless you already know exactly what you're doing. I always end up having to find somewhere to copy/paste it from :)
I don't think so. We have a very different take on connected cars. We are 100% EV focussed and are building tools on top of the car API to solve actual EV challenges like range anxiety and charging management that were absent in ICE vehicles!
In terms of market share, Windows phone was a few percent, but that's still millions of phones.

Silverlight may have a replacement, but that doesn't help the devs who sunk their time developing with it. Same for people writing extensions for and debugging compatibility with Edge.
A lifecycle policy is a truly underrated component of a good services and software business, and I wish more people both understood that, and more companies had them.

When I buy pretty much any Microsoft product, I can go on their lifecycle policy page and see a date, often five to ten years out, when they commit to continue supporting/securing the product through. If I get more than that, great, but there's a commitment Microsoft is held to up front.

Google cannot make that commitment because Google cannot commit to anything. But it's a large enough company it could afford to do it and eat the cost when it was a bad call. The reason they won't is because Google doesn't view customers as people or partners they need to value.
Maybe it would work if it was based on the production volume and product category, not the size of the company. Not sure how the IP thing would work, but making it possible to reuse/recycle electronics that would otherwise end up in a landfill due to no other reason than software locks is a good idea.

But forcing a company to relinquish its intellectual property just because they're successful seems counter-intuitive. Maybe they just need to make it possible to install alternative firmware (whether or not it exists) in a reasonable way for no additional cost.
And a few years until it actually exists.

"starting with a beta in select areas by the end of next year after SpaceX’s planned satellite launches". On Elon time, that's 2025 and perhaps never.
Its not an antitrust lawsuit its a patent infringement lawsuit

in fact its the exact opposite of an antitrust lawsuit since patents themselves are a 20 year state-sanctioned monopoly
As someone who has also spent a lot of time camping, rain hitting the tent of a roof, a metal roof, or even a tarp over a hammock is hypnotic and I love sleeping to it.

It’s one of my favorite sounds and puts me in an amazing headspace.

Maybe there were circumstances which led to us each experiencing the same type of soundscape completely different?
Well I already had a docker registry. I generally just blog the information my past self would have needed a few weeks ago.
By the way: you used 'as far as x goes' in your translations: I have not had much time to think about it and verify it, but for example I would avoid that expression, for the "relation" I rendered though 'for what x is concerned': because I do not see the metaphor of "covering some distance" proper for the purpose (I may be wrong, I would need a bit of time for concentration).

I would avoid it just like I would try to avoid in French the expression 'tout le monde' for "everyone", because "it is not the whole of the world: it is just this room", or in Spanish the term 'Argelia' because, "really, you inverted them sounds".

That is how I write: vetting the expressions like a judge. I do not know if you do the same.
NFT search engine with Chrome extension and mobile app
> You also get to see what foods have what, it’s interesting. Like how one little prickly pear has 200% of your vitamin E needs.

Do you have a source for this (USDA FDC data and google-fu don't concur)? I'd love to have alternate options for Vit E besides almonds :). It's a fat soluble vitamin, available from nuts and nut oils - vegetable sources are harder to find.

https://www.famnom.com/my_food/294b1d1d-6ca3-47ac-9cd4-bfbd6...

https://www.google.com/search?q=prickly+pear+nutrition
It couldn't replace the DRM, just the license check. Some DRM spyware from the publisher will still have to check if you can prove ownership via the blockchain instead of checking a CD key against the publisher's license server. If you can't, it will refuse to launch the game. Someone will crack the game and provide a DRM-free experience that is better.
Yep, they just updated when Chrome Web Store stops accepting MV2 updates to January 2024: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/developer.chrome.com/pull/38...
Though I'm not suggesting lying/malice on The Google's part here, it's incredible that anyone still believes a word of corporate PR. Whenever a company insists it's not going to do something, I assume they're doing damage control and that the opposite is more likely to be true (much like Bettridge's Law). If a company makes a positive statement in PR, I assume their statements won't live up to their promise or, even worse, come with a deal breaking caveat.
How would the product go forward?

By what definition is a company “thriving” that is losing money?

Confluent (Kafka)

https://siliconangle.com/2022/08/03/confluent-reports-strong...

> The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 16 cents per share, with revenue coming to $139.4 million in the quarter, growing 58% from a year earlier. That resulted in a net loss of $117.6 million for the quarter.

The company behind AirFlow is AirBnB. Yes it’s “thriving”. But not based on AirFlow.
I agree, but don't see the relation. Who specifically do you believe publicly said something knowing it was false?