skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, or even what was supposed to happen, but today I hooked up my controller, restarted the browser (learned that's necessary yesterday), opened settings which by default was set to "Input: Blank" and "Output: MPKMINI2", switched it to "Input: MPKMINI2" and "Output: BUILTIN AUDIO" and I can now play along with the notes step by step. It's really fun actually :)
Retrojection is great but it can't make up for 50 fps.
I wonder what NIST does for a case where SHA-1 is not used for any cryptographic properties? I recently ran into that for OpenPGP. The authenticated encryption mode uses SHA-1 because it was otherwise used in the standard but because of how things work only a non-cryptographically secure hash is required.

I have somewhat jovially suggested that the OpenPGP standard should just rename it if it turns out that the name becomes a problem...
How do you sync customer data in CRMs and Accounting tools to your database?
If your customers have data in Salesforce, Quickbooks, SAP, or whatever else and you need to bring that into your product. How do you bring that data in?

Do you build ETL pipelines to sync data both ways?

Is there a solution available to buy instead of building it from scratch that can handle a sync both ways (with conflict resolution)?
If you have $1B you can already pay for everything you need or want. Donating it to your own non-profit, only to pay for your own expenses, is an extremely expensive way to "launder" that $1B into a tax deduction.
My old city had employees specifically for code enforcement who AFAIK weren't outfitted the same as the police.
Each individual doesn't do much work. Surveys and friends I know both say they do about 2-4 hours of work a day (rest of the 6-8 hrs (yes, 10hr days are now normal it seems) is is hanging out & meetings).
Apple Is Now Bigger Than Google, Amazon, Tesla, and Walmart Combined
Curious if there is an open source generic "game server backend" that indie devs can code to that would allow smaller devs to host online games?

I suppose not — to the degree that the backend doesn't just act as message/traffic coordinator but also has game logic. (Although I can imagine an architecture where the back end indeed just manages message sending ... and one of those recipients is the host app that handles the game logic.)
One vote to disagree as a middle class happy Beyond meat consumer (and unhappy investor..) -- building a nice burger is a satisfying experience, even more without having to worry about animal welfare, etc
Today I learn that Rust does not have reflection.
Would be nice if it had better support for metric. Or even just to set everything to fractional inches. When I'm just looking for a metal bar, I hate having to work out how much bigger 13/64" is than 0.200", and how much bigger that is than 5 mm.
I use Duck Duck Go image search for that.

At some point deep learning will probably get to the point where you point a cell phone camera at the doodad, then prompt "wrench for this" or "missing piece", etc.
I thought there's a limit to how much you can deduct from qualifying nonprofit donations, no?
What you are saying sounds a little like victim blaming. We need regulations so companies can’t compete on cutting costs through not providing things like sick days or safe working conditions. There are always people desperate enough to take exploitative/unsafe jobs. These jobs should not exist and all companies should compete under the same rules.
I thought that you mean companies automating stuff. But it still doesn't make sense - interviewees have been able to cheat in online assessments forever. Does a better way to cheat in a small subset of all the leetcode interivews really make enough of a difference to make all of those interviews obsolete?
Police helped me very much when I had two bicycles stolen. They were actually my roommate's but he was pessimistic of getting them back, so I called the police myself.

I had no receipts, just a description, half of one of the bikes in an old photo, and the combination of the lock on one of them. The bikes were stolen unlocked, leaning on the outside of the house.

The small-ish-city policeman seemed to have an idea who to suspect, and found one bike at a pawn shop and the other in the trunk of a car. Used the lock combo to confirm the one, and I forget how we confirmed the other, other than the description and that it was in the possession of the same thieves. Arrested two people and got the bikes back to us a month or two later, with very little work on my part.
I hacked Lotus 1-2-3 release 1a to remove the necessity of inserting the distribution floppy to start the program after installing it on a hard drive. The floppy had an "extra" dummy sector, and the hack involved NOP-ing out two instructions. I had to disassemble the released code to find it, which took a while. The hack only took seconds once I knew what was going on.

I posted the hack on the old Compuserve BBS and it had over a million downloads the last I looked.
the issue at hand has nothing to do with gatekeeping, elitism or any kind of psued debate about what constitutes real art.

people are mad because job & portfolio sites are being flooded with aishit which is making them unusable for both artists and clients .

people are mad because their copyright is being scraped and resold for profit by third parties without their consent.

whether ai is the future is an utterly meaningless distraction until these concerns are addressed. as an aside, ai evangelists telling working professionals that they 'simply don't get' their field of expertise has been an incredibly poor tact for generating goodwill towards this technology or the operations attempting to extract massive profit from it's implementation.
Damn this is insane. I wonder what other things can be encoded as images and generated with SD?
chic extravagant outfit at a party
>> I find bash to be much more readable

> Lol, you find bash readable?

Note, they didn't say it was readable, just more readable.
Presumably there will be a large price difference between the two.
Is that important? How easy is for the user read that information? If someone wants to cheat, it's easier to use Google Image Search.
>Do you think Dall-E will replace artists, or just make an artist's job different?

If an ad agency or a magazine publisher can get a custom illustration that works for my purposes from Dall-E, then they ain't paying no artist. Not theoritical, many already do use those generated images.

That's not just "making the artist's job easier". It's taking jobs from artists (well, illustrators and graphic designers at least), especially in the cheaper end of the business (e.g. not Nike, but your local Pet Store chain, restaurant, or news outlet, sure).
Oh, I should add a note about that. Fortunately, it's quite easy to tell Rust to generate debuginfo even in release mode.
As someone who doesn't use APIs frequently, how does your interaction with Spotify's API differ from interacting with the app?
"A" company? Surely you mean "every" company.
A few months ago, I visited a Buddhist university in Bhutan. They were studying religious texts written in Sanskrit. It was quite interesting.
>The solution isn't to halt technological progress

Technological progress is not a linear deterministic progression. We decide how to progress every step of the way. The problem is that we are making dogshit decisions for some reason

Maybe we lack the creativity to envision alternative futures. How does a society become so uncreative I wonder
If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe. If you think pythons package management is not disastrous enough, maybe. If you do not (need to) consider Windows, maybe.

Even then, I’d rather choose Python.
Let me know when I can buy 30kwh worth of energy storage so I can compare it to Lifepo4 costs [1]

[1] $10,500 https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-ll-lithium-batteries-kit-48v-...
I think it's important for people to understand that the money is not the only problem. Even if the defendant never pays a dime, they spend years with a cloud hanging over their lives. There is risk and stress and time lost they they can never get back. I have see people go through it and it is fucking exhausting.
US SCOTUS could tighten up free speech by deciding that deriding religion doesn't fall under the First Amendment. I expect that's what a lot of blasphemy laws are for - to ensure that nominally free speech is kept within appropriate boundaries.
https://archive.vn/zJVM9
You can combine XFCE with Gala window manager (from Elementary), it isn't perfect but it can look good.
I couldn't find the exact video, but Digital Foundry did a great breakdown on the performance bottlenecks in Unreal 5. They showed how disk speed directly influenced asset streaming, and it was pretty interesting to watch. Their HDD-speed drive choked constantly when running the UE5 demo, but a SATA SSD had enough bandwidth to handle the assets.

So, it's kinda a weird spot to be. Not every scene was streaming 250mb/s of assets, but when it did the worse drives took a notable hit to performance.
> Who asked for this?

I did.

> The future seems depressing when I look at all this AI generated art.

You should talk about your concerns with an AI psychotherapist.
Really would love to see some native web impls of USD. Nvidia & Autodesk have both spent some effort moving towards an emscripten build of the canonical project.

But there's also things like a long running ticket for a three.js loader. Full support in alternate implementations seems unlikely in the remainder of this decade, imo, but getting a healthy start wpuld be great.

USD keeps getting called the "language of the metaverse" or similar... yeah, like, imo, the metaverse should have some web interop, web capabilities.
This sounds interesting. What does it look like in reality? For example, the errands and shopping list reminders.
>We don’t know how much worse the scientific literature would be without peer review

all of human history prior to the last 50 years? The term "peer review" didn't even exist until the 60s

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-art-of-academic-peer-review...
I think the focus on Overture is going to be on machine-generated data like imagery-based mapping. Unfortunately it isn't really super practical to feed this kind of thing back into the OSM project right now (extremely high change rate makes it hard to review changes, OSM process for approval of automated imports is oriented towards a high level of reliability that this data doesn't always have). I think maintaining this kind of data separately from OSM but still permissively licensed makes a lot of sense, and will benefit the OSM project as these data layers will become useful sources for the manual, human-intelligence-based mapping that the OSM project is really built around.

Or to put it a little differently: from my experience with OSM politics (not expansive but also not that small), the OSM project probably doesn't want this data. It would become a huge headache for OSM contributors to do QA on. There have been multiple notable incidents of companies starting to feed automatically generated data in to OSM and getting lambasted for it. Keeping it separate from OSM but available for use with and for OSM is the respectful thing to do.
The very first paragraph spells out how this would be insufficient protection.
The direct victors in question--leaving aside that eco-friendly yards are a victory for all--live in Columbia MD. Back in the 00s I lived in a town not too far away, and went to Columbia regularly for shopping and restaurants and to visit friends.

I have never seen such a plastic-y repulsive town as Columbia, it's the Stepford of the mid-Atlantic, and god willing I'll never have to go there again.
You may enjoy Amazon Random Shopper.

https://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized...
Sorry, wasn't clear I was referring to Facebook, not Flickr. I just meant I was pining for a photo sharing service with Facebook's network effect.
The release of Overwatch 2 wasn't the end of the original Overwatch. The Overwatch game that came out in 2016 hasn't existed in a long time. That game had 12 playable characters. The game was changed and that 12 character version stopped existing less than a year after the game came out. Now there's 32 characters with vastly different skills and play styles, really changing the game. The maps are different. Even the original 12 characters have had some changes.

Should it have been illegal for them to add characters to the game? It's not what I originally paid for. They took away the original Overwatch the second they rebalanced or added characters.
Hi guys! I have recently been introduced to AMM by a close friend I grew up with. He was introduced to it by people at his job. He is not the sort of person to get involved in anything like this normally. He is actually rather intelligent . Anyway

AMM defi is essentially a automated crypto trading algorithm with a guaranteed interest rate and participation rewards. You invest whatever funds you feel happy with and as long as you login every day you receive your daily interest.

This is a very new thing that started earlier this year and should have a good amount of longevity.

I myself have put in 1000 usd and gave earned $140 in around 8 or 9 days so far. My friend has just took out his first $1000, so he is now all profit.

In order to increase your interest rate, you need to improve your membership level. Which is why I am writing this post. The membership system is essentially a ponzi scheme which relies on referrals. More referrals equals higher level of membership. You also receive commission for everyone you refer.

If you are interested I am obviously very motivated to help you create your account or walk you through the steps.

I know it's crazy but it's 100% legit. There is a group telegram if you wanted to join there and check out people's experiences.

Here is the link again and is also in url above https://h5.ammdx.com/#/pages/auth/register?code=chx7Yh

You can make a free account and test it out with $3 included in account, but only officially activates account after you make first deposit.

https://h5.ammdx.com/#/pages/auth/register?code=chx7Yh
Other commenters have good specific points but I'll add one overarching theme: .NET is developed by a well-funded corporation that is incentivized to bring all the popular innovations from other ecosystems back to the .NET world in a cohesive form. If something becomes popular in another programming ecosystem and people want it, we'll get it in .NET and it'll be done in the same style as everything else we have. It's pretty refreshing working with a system that was designed to work together rather than cobbling bits together.
FWIW, the "crypto refresh" of the OpenPGP standard specifies the use of AEAD for authenticated encryption, replacing the SHA-1 "modification detection code". Even if the latter isn't broken, the former is more modern and more performant, and so retconning the use of SHA-1 for optics shouldn't be necessary once everyone moves to that :)
> My prediction is everything will ship with a "matter" icon on it, but support will only be vertical silo, maybe even worse than things are now.

There's already available evidence that contradicts that prediction. Eve[1] is rolling out a firmware update for Matter support that makes their devices usable across all Matter supported platforms. There are some features that aren't yet available at the Matter level so those will remain in their own app for now. Despite being iOS-only previously with Matter support they're now also reaching Android devices and are working on an Android app for it too to cover the missing features in Matter.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505097/matter-eve-firm...
yes, that's correct. we've built a read-only version for Stripe (which is API-based), and we aim to have the read/write implementation done soon.

You will be able to do something like this:

insert into stripe_products (name)
values ('Pizza'), ('Pasta');

This will insert a value into Stripe via the API. Then you can query your stripe products like this:

select *
from stripe_products
limit 10;
If I gave you complete control over a billion dollars in a "charity", don't you think (if you were so inclined) you would be able to find plenty of ways to spend that money in a way that would benefit you?

I.E.- I might buy a house, and then have my charity buy a huge amount of land around it as an investment, to effectively turn my 1 acre homesite into a 100 acre estate

Maybe I'd have my charity teach at-risk children to ride horses, so I could build some nice pastures and have horses in my front yard.

Of course- the professional landscapers who my charity hires to maintain the grounds would probably cut me a pretty good deal on doing my personal estate as well, while they're out there

And maybe my executive assistant who runs my horse charity would pick up my dry cleaning now and again
Nothing wrong with reposting it. As a matter of fact I think this should be posted every time there is a new battery announcement so we can all do the tick boxes.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.
[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.
[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

These are the only three I see as problematic or unknown. Which is not that bad.
> Don't worry, you wont be there at the org to make these "fruitful conversations" either. The AI will take your job too

I've been waiting for something to take my job for 15 years.

I started as a small developer testing radio firmware, moved on to test web firmware, now I instruct terraform how to build infrastructure and now I instruct developers on how to do things to build proper infrastructure.

I'm ready to retire but apparently I'm incapable of having an AI that can actually simulate Super Power ADHD at work, so we'll have to wait a bit.
All the AI music I’ve heard so far has a really unpleasant resonant quality to it. Why is that? Can it be removed?
Why would that be a problem once they decide to no longer support overwatch? When you turn off your servers, release one last patch that adds running your own server to the game as part of your game shutdown.

No skin off your back other than "cutting into sales of thatsamegame, butnextversion", which people are going to buy anyway.
Agreed. Blake3 is super promising as cryptographic hash function family due to its software performance (not sure if anyone has tried making hardware designs for it), but SHA2 hardware acceleration is extremely common and makes it good enough. And while SHA3 software performance is poor it's quite good in hardware, so as more chips accelerate it it'll become generally viable. So while Blake3 looks nice, there's not a whole ton of need for it right now, and I doubt it'll become SHA4 ever.
Yes, with 5000 coders you can do those "wonders"...
> In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done.

The value of work is not measured by its difficulty. There's a small amount of people who make a living doing contract work that may be replaced by an AI, but these people were in a precarious position in the first place. The well-to-do artists are not threatened by AI art. The value of their work is derived from them having put their name on it.

If you assume that most programming work could be done by an AI "soon", then we really have to question what sort of dumb programming work people are doing today and whether that wouldn't disappeared anyway, once funding runs dry. Mindlessly assembling snippets from Stackoverflow may well be threatened by AI very soon, so if that's your job, consider the alternatives.
I’ve found javascript is much better than wasm for lots of this stuff

https://bwasti.github.io/mebm/
Yes, that's a good rewording of the next sentence I wrote.
I suppose it's not. The part which I _thought_ would be unpopular was that technology unequivocally could not solve this problem.
>Elon is the most productive human

I need to take a break from this website.
IP based rate limiting probably (?)
The biggest risk for climate change has always been food production and economic water availability. Just look at the western US that depends on the Colorado River for the risk involved.

We can live most anywhere on the planet, and that isn't going to change. Though relocating from higher risk areas to lower has a cost that will be inflicted on those who are in an area where the risk shifts. If it happens on a long enough timescale the effects won't be that great as we're generally rebuilding our infrastructure on regular intervals anyway.

I always wonder why we focus so much on prevention instead of mitigation the actual risk cases. Instead of curbing emissions, which seems to have no effect (see economic down turns with corresponding dips in emissions as evidence with no apparent results in CO2 levels).

Why don't we invest in better water distribution systems and food production resilience? Instead of making it hip to have a lower carbon footprint, why don't we change what being "green" means to, say gardening?
Carbon-Removal Startups Win Early Backing from Stripe and Shopify
It seems like the Hackerlariat doesn't account for social status in their anti-college agenda.
As an alternative to the voices below - I did this path, I'm now 4+ years in at a RoR's shop and I came in with basically no background in Ruby or Rails.

I personally just don't like Rails. I find it annoying at best, and utterly infuriating at worst.

It's a modern ASP.net - if you want to do dead simple things, Rails does the job quickly and easily, with lots of nice generators, and simple drop in tools.

If you want to do anything outside the happy path, you need to know the entire framework like the back of your hand, because you'll need to unwind the magic and they shoved far too much magic into what should be a simple thing.

And just like ASP.net - the magic changes every version because "best practices" for the web are also changing incredibly quickly. What magic incantation you need depends on which version of the framework you're running, and the docs are bad on this front.

I get Rails - but it is very much not my cup of tea. I don't want to learn their specific DSL and unwind all their magic when I already understand the topic at hand, and just want it to do the thing I'm asking it to.
Telehealth startups sent sensitive health data to big tech companies
Z-Wave has a much better range, and uses a less congested radio band.

Matter and Thread can work with Z-Wave devices with the help of a bridge, so it's not as bad as you might think.

But yes, this is an attempt to compete with Zigbee.
Mongolian Crypto Ring Laundered US$1.7B
It's the return of the stock since his pick
What Is Liminal Space?
The algorithm tests are there to have an excuse to discriminate on other criteria. If you can mask your racial/age/gender reason for not hiring as a FAANG with "oh, we didn't like their algorithm solution" you always have an out.
Some applications are easier than others. Grid storage, for example, can be in climate controlled warehouses, do optimal charging cycles to maximize longevity, don’t care about weight, etc.
Reflection is usually not available in AoT compiled languages. The prevalent Rust coding styles rely heavily on monomorphic data types and functions, meaning there's nothing left to reflect at runtime. But if you want to deal with trait objects and need to access the underlying type, you need to use Any::downcast or rely on annotations on every type you want to reflect on. Or now, leverage DWARF info on Linux with deflect.
Yep, unreal is surprisingly efficient on the graphics side of things, but it also wants 70-something GB just to install and that's before it starts setting up the graphics cache which adds another 40 GB iirc.
followed, perhaps, by Benny Hill.