skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video gaming doesn't really ring true. When I was a kid when it was bedtime unless you left the (S)NES on with the TV off and nobody shut it off in the meantime, odds were good your progress was done. On the other hand with a Switch you just turn it off and when you turn it back on you're right where you were left. The quality of life increase for young gamers is absolutely huge.
Haha, no doubt! But fun to read no less.
> just to end up with the same income as some kid joining a FAANG straight out of high-school?

This isn’t true (at least in Australia).

In my 20s I earned significantly more than my doctor friend and I held the same viewpoint as you. Fast forward to mid-30s and he makes almost double my income, has full autonomy as a GP, works 20-30 hours a week, no stress.

You have to go through 10 years of hell as a doctor (study + intern). But once you get past that, a lot of opportunities open up. And you actually get to help people. Where in tech I feel like I’m just making someone else rich, sometimes at the expense of the user.
Want some DRM with that?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/41709/welcome-to-drm-water-ges-i...

All I could find for toasters was short fiction... for now
I'm not sure what you're confused about, maybe you missed the point of this being shared on ycombinator news? Just being written in Rust versus C is part of an open source movement to modernize these old tools and the significance of using a modern language versus an ancient one is better support and features going forward. The reason this tool is currently top voted on ycombinator news is purely because it's written in Rust and of interest to programmers who care about their open source tooling.
It's not about being 'extremely good' at war. It's about being so overwhelmingly dominate, no one challenges you -- ever.

Not doing anything (i.e., not developing weapons) will cause the US to slowly lose that footing. And we just need to look at how quickly the PLA(N) has caught up to the USAF/USN (I'm not saying they're an equal, today, but they've come leaps and bounds over 10-20 years ago).

> crazy drones

So does RU, CN, and Iran.

> missiles

See above. When it comes to long range air-to-air and hypersonic, the US is lagging.

> submarines

PLAN is deploying diesel-electric and AIP boats, which can be virtually silent. USN boats are all nuclear powered, which we're good at making them silent, but they'll never be as silent as diesel-electric/AIP.

> nukes

Should never be deployed.

One of the things no one comes close to touching any of the US military branches on is our airlift and logistics.

> How much better do you need to be at war?

So much better than the other guy, you just need to rattle your sword, not use it.

I don't disagree with you about investment into social services, though I feel they're broken not only by funding, but by capitalism itself. I think the other thing we have to remember is that the Military Industrial Complex employs a significant number of workers and even more, if you extend that into all points of State and Federal government that touches the military. Those companies and workers are taxed (maybe). Those taxes cycle back into the system, etc. What kind of system would we have without those millions of workers? No idea. Maybe they'd all be doing something else and my argument would fall flat, which would be great.

Military bad? Yes. Military necessary? Probably, unfortunately, until we're no longer tribalistic. If necessity is a requirement, should we be so much better at it than anyone else on the planet that everyone keeps within their own borders? Yes.

We can expect China to engage Taiwan within the next 6-8 years. And they're practicing for it.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/mock-attack-on-u-s-nav...

(So is Taiwan)

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/taiwan-extends-mandato...
Systems have been complex for decades, but bad incentives are more recent?
A credential for a better job.
Here's the non-psuedo code equivalent that can leverage the CompressionStream API rather than using a browserified-gzip-library (eg pako): https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/437eb4d757c5...

We use it in Lighthouse for the exact same purpose, a URL #hash full of state. We found that modern browsers support 10mb of data in the hash. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/pull/12509#discus...
It's a globally exported crop that's worth billions every year in direct sales. There's quite a bit of local economic activity that's tied to this production. You can stop it, the way you'd stop any export, tax it until it is no longer profitable to sell. You may get much more than you bargained for, though.
by processing the videos in TT, looking at faces of the people, extrapolating their emotional state in the moment..

..the dataset could include the "emotional state" of the situation, the scene showed in the video. Then you'd have a dataset which would include "emotions" precisely described and associated to even a precise geographical location (i.e. the humor in Thailand would be different than the humor in Manhattan, NY),

Then you could train a LLM with a human emotional state analysis capability

..by not just inferring emotion by text (an "emerged" capability) like the text-trained LLM like chatGPT, but by clearly, certainly defined emotions attached to a precise scene and a precise text describing the scene.

Then you input a human conversation into the LLM, and make it infer what's going on in the scene, the situation behind the conversation, by knowing the emotional state of the different persons in the conversation.

And by now, there are billions of public conversations available to scrap, many of them fully attributable to fully identificable people (think Instagram).

There will be even more billions in the coming years, and the "emotional capable" LLM would just get better at its game.

No surprise the american government is - fastly, by all means necessary - looking to seriously slow down the chinese AI research complex.
This doesn’t fully track, the Chernobyl popwerplant was in operation for many years after the catastrophe. I think the sinister truth is that the soviet union just cared a lot less than the Japanese government, not to mention the slightly bigger scale of damage.
I'd guess it's familiarity and encouraging sales.

If I were to guess, it's wargaming like everything else. Wargames were popular as you control an entire army, but D&D originally meant to answer the question of what things would look like if you controlled just one person in that army in the middle ages when the only major fantasy was stuff like LOTR or Narnia along with an inexperienced guy with no examples of good game design to look at.

He borrows 6-sided dice for the game, but the guy who takes control of everything moves to polyhedral dice because nobody owns them and almost nobody makes them, so gamers will be forced to buy dice which have a huge profit margin.

The fledgling system needs magic, but the big magic from LOTR or similar is simply overpowered and is a soft magic system (few rules). You have to reign this in so wizards aren't overpowered. One of the most naive ways is cooldowns just like a wargame might limit powerful guns by how often they can load and fire. Tracking a bunch of different cooldowns in-game is very bad in actual play, so you give them all one cooldown (one day), but now some effects are not worth carrying because they are too weak, so you allow those to be used N times per day which is much easier to track (non-temporal counting is easier).

Just like that, you have Venetian magic. Why did it stick? I'd guess part is tradition, but the other part is book sales. Because balancing these spells is rather hard (lots of people have played that campaign where the GM allowed an "innocent" custom spell that then proceeded to break the game), most people find it easier to buy multiple spellbooks of already balanced spells. Even if just 10-20% of all gamers buy those books, that's a big increase in sales volume.

In contrast, even the most elaborate effects systems out there (Hero and GURPS) fit their entire effects system into 50-100 pages and their only upsell is to GMs too lazy to create their own spells (or those of us who claim we aren't being lazy and just want to support them).
Between perception and reaction time, you’re already at approximately 1.5 seconds. At 65 mph, that’s roughly 140 feet.

(Source - my Dad investigated hundreds of accidents. He taught me how to drive and we covered this math in detail.)
"Homework robs children of their childhood". Hell yeah!

I too think that's exactly what's wrong with the education system nowadays - too much homework and not enough time for drugs, Call of Duty, $120 apparel from LuluLemon, browsing TikTok all day in bed, and sending nudes over SnapChat.

Childhood. Solved.
Yeah I had fun too, I played Rampage for hours at my friends house. But not because it's a good game, it's bad game, objectively.

Games today are waaaay better and about 90% cheaper often. Those old games are unplayable by modern standards -- beating mario 3 in one sitting with no save capability? People wouldn't play that for free (if it weren't for the nostalgia).

The difference isn't technology is worse (in video games, and probably not in general), the difference is children are easy to entertain.
Am I misreading your post? I think that’s my whole point right?
Ah, the subtle art of submarining a spyware feature into an existing OS release. lol.

I feel like this has to be the seventh or eighth time Google has implemented an entirely new mechanism around their inability to update their own operating system. Heck, most of Play Services originally happened as an attempt to hack around it.

The problem is inevitably the one thing you decided you can't update this way always becomes the blocker for what you need to do.
If anyone besides me is wondering what happened, it appears that someone posted a ChatGPT response to this question that was could-cause-death-in-an-emergency wrong and has now deleted the comment.

Thanks for deleting it!
That's genious IMO. Making sure the amount of opening and closing parantheses is equal is annoying and unnecesary.

It screams "trust me all good with the closing parantheses".
They’re the same example. The reason a given string is equal to the same value and the same isn’t true of arrays (in JS) is precisely because the latter might change and the former can’t. That’s exactly the semantics of values in the language: immutable things with equal state are equal (notwithstanding NaN which has special equality semantics), nothing mutable is equal unless it’s the same reference and will always be equal.
Agreed. Only follow this advice if you have the means to survive and no dependents. I am merely rejecting the pervasive generalized fear of quitting we all have instilled in us, that keeps many of us in toxic and/or detrimental work environments. We are so focused on not burning bridges even if we do quit, the company will not even know their behavior has effected you negatively.
> Assuming the plan to use nuclear energy to power large-scale desalination is at all feasible, the inputs are nuclear fuel and the sun, and perhaps some oil to power vehicles for livestock management.

You can use electric vehicles..

But if you are assuming plenty of cheap nuclear power, you can just synthesize all the hydrocarbons you'd normally need oil for straight out of thin air. Including all the hydrocarbons for conventional agriculture.
Maybe that's a feature and not a bug? From what I understand, crunch is supposed to be one of the worst parts of professional game development. If the argument is that Rust forces you to handle all of the edge cases up front and requires more development time to fix a poorly chosen design after the fact, I'd argue that those sound like things that would both technically and socially incentivize not relying on last minute crunch to get a game released. If Rust is widely known to be ineffective when used in a time crunch, seeing that a company chose to develop a game with Rust despite that might be a positive sign about what type of development culture they have.
The employees often work in the wilderness doing things like trail maintenance, and they're often young free-thinkers. Dropping acid and going swimming like the author recounts does not sound out of the ordinary.

They may be at slightly higher risk than the average family of four, and they rack up dozens of visits every season.
The money at play is the collateral he put up to maintain the position. Even though it is in USDC it is on the exchange which has pool liquidation. If the collateral isn’t on the platform then what would prevent people from just pulling usdc and never paying back their borrowed amount.

Like the way the short works is you put in $20 usdc, borrow $100usdt, transform it to $120usdc. But those $120usdc can’t leave the platform as otherwise you could just never pay back the $100usdt loan.
It's not pedantimums to complain that you're swapping in a completely different moral.
This is a weird opinion to me, but I reckon you're an ops person who doesn't code a lot so I respect not wanting to have to look at code if you're an ops/admin type. Most programmers would grasp the relevance of modernizing their tools and the maintainability and feature gains from it. The open source movement in general is based entirely upon being able to look at the source code of your tools and modify and update them.
Not really because nothing after the # is sent to the web server.
https://archive.ph/vyLmM
I think the most impressive way I've seen are known as "ninja rocks" - broken pieces of spark plug ceramic insulator. But basically anything that can apply a force to a tiny area of the glass can start a fracture that will propagate through the glass. They make little escape hammers and things if it's a concern.
Given a solid discovery mechanism the long tail can be surprisingly thick
Doesn't sound very likely. Static can come back, but it's not usually going to be constant enough to experiment with unless you're doing something to make it come back or there's a generator for it.

Usually it's good for one little light zap and then nothing for minutes/hours.
The first orbital launch attempt from the UK ends in failure
You should try to communicate more forthcomingly that CapacitorJS bundles the webapp with the native binaries, which means that you get better startup performance, but at the cost of not being able to serve the webapp fresh from the web (instead having to go through app store review process on every update like with native apps).
No argument from me there. I was just making the narrow point that consumer prices in Japan have seen only modest inflation.
The yellow can possibly be removed through the Retr0bright process if you are disassembling the display anyway.

https://retr0bright.com/
The flipside of this is some of my best foreign experiences have been in Airbnb’s and VRBO’s.

* A lake house in Washington that had a boat that I could row to get to my friends house on the other side (a few hundred yards away).

* A cute apartment in the center of Bologna that had a secret bedroom behind a bookcase (perfect for young children!)

* a beautiful and large 3 bedroom in Knightsbridge for about the cost of a nice hotel (£500/nt). Went here after the first Airbnb had cockroaches (the owner came and met me and gave a full refund)

* bright and stylish 2 bedroom apartment in Palermo in Buenos Aires

Etc. when going on a trip with a large family or a set of friends, there are huge advantages to having a house/apartment to stay in. That said, I’ve mostly lost faith in Airbnb. Went to Banff with a group of 6 and instead of an Airbnb we found a hotel/Bnb that had 1 and 2 bedroom cabins. We were confident we weren’t going to get stuffed and that was worth more than any potential upside of all being in one place or a hot tub that may or may not be working.
> H1B's given extra 4 months on payroll

Dumb question but is this like they are employees on paper or are they also getting paid for those 4 months?
I remember playing WoW on my brand new Mac Pro (circa 2005) and a month later the GPU was burned out. Replaced the GPU under warranty, a month later it burned out again. Replaced it a third time (with a lot of side eye from the Genius Bar), and decided to stop playing WoW. Never had any more issues with the GPU.

Was it WoW's fault? I would think that a GPU would prevent any application from damaging it, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
To change the algorithm, all three of miners, users, and nodes would have to agree to the change. If there is any disagreement, the network continues running under current consensus rules.

In fact, a majority of miners did try to strongarm a fork 5 years ago, and they failed, because the users did not agree. There was even been a book written about it. https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-proto...

If they tried again, they would fail again -- literally nobody would agree to a fork whose purpose is to enrich miners at the users' expense.
You can't just Excel the Tether short because the basic premise is no one knows the truth about them. Tether on the surface is a perfect business: people give them real money in exchange for tokens they mint themselves for free. They don't have to pay any interest, they get tons of float, they're denominated in the world's primary reserve currency, they have almost no regulatory burden, the tech is mostly other peoples problem, etc. It's literally impossible for them to lose money, even if the whole rest of the crypto world blows up--unless you believe they're being stupid risky with their reserves, or that they don't actually have 1-to-1 reserves in dollar denominated assets. But if you believe it is only the former (like they have it all in high-yield Chinese real estate developer paper) then why not just short the risky asset directly? The reason people are attracted to this short is because they believe it is in fact the latter scenario, and that eventually some event (or series of events) will reveal the emperor has no (or at least not enough) clothes and the peg will collapse. My point is if/when it does it's going to take everything else down with it: Tether is the market, its daily trade volume is roughly the sum of every other currency's, there is no way BTC/USD can shrug off a USDT depeg.
But not really, right? Using a competitor's file format is a way of adding interoperability to your product. And a file format cannot dictate how you can legally use or sell the whole of your product; at worst you can be barred from using that particular format if your competitor sees it fit.

The bank analogy also doesn't match. A closer analogy would be if your bank must use their competitor's installations and infrastructure, and risk bankruptcy whenever the competitor thinks they don't want to lend them their installations anymore.

Using your direct competitor's license, fully under their control, is closer to handing them the keys to your company for no obvious benefit, right?
Yes, I was simplifying a bit, and assuming that inflation has a bit of momentum. That's not necessarily true.

Btw financial asset prices are more about NGDP growth, than about straight up inflation. Of course, NGDP growth has been too high, too.
The Remarkable Story Behind the Most Important Algorithm of All Time
I'm not sure this is the most appropriate citation, the article argues that there have been problems with the développement F16 but the that the problems are particularly bad with the F35.

The F-16 encountered months of delays, but the F-35 A/B/C models will, on average, be delayed half a decade.

The F-35 was originally slated to cost $50 million apiece—nearly twice the original cost of the F-16 at today's prices—but the three versions of the plane currently run anywhere from $112 to $120 million each.

Yes, America and her allies have been down this road before, but this time it is a lot rockier.
Amazon does not make money shipping products.

they are trying to destroy competition by the service equivalent of illegal dumping, using their AWS profits to eliminate competition by taking a loss on every single other part of their business.

thats not really what is meant by a free market.
> " I am planning to order some of their products and test it in the spring."

Don't know where you live, but I visited the shop and looks like they only ship to Romanian addresses.
The complexity that this article talks about was all built to solve a problem and in a lot of cases it does solve that problem. The problem might not exist for the author and a particular user and that is what makes the tech hard for them.

I cannot imagine a world without downloads, I spent a lot of time in my younger days in parts of the world where finding a gaming system, lets alone a cartridge/CD was a nightmare. I have spent hours/days/weeks looking for games. Digital downloads have virtually eliminated that problem no matter where I am.

The whole social media complexity is about how to make money off people especially when they potentially cannot afford/want to pay for a service(plus other problems like how to keep up with shareholders that expect to see a business constantly grow while being risk averse). It solves that problem with ads and a whole bunch of complexity to increase revenue. Making the app complicated for users but solving the revenue problem.

I used to be a big PGAdmin fan for Postgres management. But then they rewrote the app as a web app and I stopped using it because it was completely broken for me. But it was done to solve a problem with tech debt.

It is very easy to see in hindsight what went wrong, but at the point the solutions were created it is probably the best solution possible with the give constraints. I have seen code that was a horrible mess and wondered what the devs were thinking but then I have written horrible code too, but it was the best I could do at that point with the information I had then. I did not actively set out to write bad code and at that point I just solved the problem. But in hindsight it was horrible code.

This is such a complex topic and I do not think it is a case of "things were good in the old days, now they are bad". It is more a case of, ok today we have this information how do we fix X. But then that might lead to unknown complexity down the road. Plus there is the whole needing to cater to the needs of different people with very varied interests and often contradictory needs.
Kick them away (or sideways, basically anything to break their grip on the electrified thing they're locked onto) from whatever they're holding. Your shoes aren't conductive so you will be safe.

Alternatively, throw a scarf or other garment as a loop in between the victim and the source of the shock and use it to pull them away from it from behind them - the garment not being conductive means you'll be safe.
Relative to the market it is still a good deal, especially if you actually off road and camp with it. There is a reason there are so many here in Colorado.
So many HODLers in this thread. For the normal person on the street, Bitcoin or Crypto never mattered. The endlessly breathless PR was irritating. Whatever happens, this wont be missed.
Just imagine if someone actually have success and an AGI just start happily chatting about everything, properly solving general problems like a 30 something engineer, mathematician or whatever.

No one in the planet would know how to be sure it's not just emulating human behavior.
Microsoft in talks to invest $10B in ChatGPT owner -Semafor