skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are being actively disingenuous. In the case of the 2020 election all you would have needed is one single exploit against Dominion machines, which by nature of being the one conducting an election means you'll have near limited time/access to - including local access, and you're done. Before 2020 even outlets such as the NYTimes were raising warning flags about the extreme insecurity of these voting systems, including Dominion. [1]

The point about voter coercion being illegal is not that it will stop it, but that things like e.g. "an unethical boss demanding employees vote for a specific candidate [and then prove it]" is not just unethical, it's illegal. And a finder's fee means you not only get to give your boss the finger, and send him on to meet Bubba, but also get a nice 'golden parachute' on your way out.

This isn't the type of scenario where a government is paying money for guns, incentivizing people to print guns. This requires another individual committing a crime.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-...
Portable low-field scanners could revolutionize medical imaging
I would not invest in Meta's metaverse future.

It feels like Windows Mobile. Meta has the early start, money, captive audience and enthusiasm, but they don't have the hardware/software edge (that Apple coincidentally also has this time around) to really make the idea work. The headsets are not going to revolutionize much running Facebook games on budget Qualcomm SoCs, and Facebook cant buy an Unreal Engine or an M2 Pro overnight.
A jazz guitarist, already unplugged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANArGmr74u4

And, err.. well, the very namesake of the project to begin with.
Are the margins on this website too small to note down your objections? :)
Operational doesn't mean confidential. Sometimes reliability is the most important thing. For example sending a message to parents that school will be closed due to snow.
Those odds are entirely contingent on the software/firmware being rooted and reverse engineered or else completely replaced by an open alternative (eg ECU swap).

Car manufacturers would have no motive to develop let alone release retrofits for older cars.
Rotating cube desktops are such good UI/UX I wish they were more mainstream... it really helps compartmentalizing tasks into different virtual/mental spaces
This is really fun!

Can you make the default wallpaper higher-res? Specifically 5120x1440 -- or even double those sizes for hi-dpi displays.

Right now I'm looking at some very pixelated art. But I love the default wallpaper!
Didn't. Accepted and worked with.
If you call a poll of 56,000 consumer reports readers anecdata, then you should stick with what you have for insurance. Anyway as I posted elsewhere:

This is a good starting point, but not the only one:

https://clark.com/insurance/car-insurance/best-auto-insuranc...

No affiliate links and no kick backs taken by Clark Howard.
All well and good until you're on the reverse end of the stick. It cuts both ways. Sometimes CPS is direly necessary. Sometimes it's just harassment.
And while we’re at it, can we ban companies from sending me marketing email just because I used my credit card to buy something from you in your store.

I feel like it’s square that’s driving this. I’ll buy a coffee or something small and immediately be signed up for that businesses email list. No consent, no option not to be emailed. Just automatically marketed to bc I swiped my card at their checkout.
I did.
I had a brief stint in college and irked by with a C then reasonable grades in a non-CS/Engineering major.
I took a 10 year hiatus from school while dabbling in all sorts of crappy work and corporate shilling.
I finally said enough after having a daughter and decided to climb that mountain.
Lets just say my life has improved.
Excelsior!
> This is perhaps the central tragedy of fy_iceworld. The game industry benefits from its legacy, but the conditions that spurred its influence no longer exist. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 does not offer a freely downloadable level editor for players to make new custom maps, nor does it allow a decentralized network of player-managed multiplayer servers to distribute these custom maps. We can only play what someone else has decided for us. This climate change has ensured that there will never be another fy_iceworld.

Couldn't agree more. I have a lot of fond memories of playing on stupid custom TF2 maps. In most ways, game development has gotten more accessible by miles over the last few decades, but this is one of a few ways it's gotten less accessible. It's easier than ever to make a full new game, but it's become impossible to make a single simplistic map for an existing shooter that your friends actually play.
Not really appropriate to compare a market neutral product's Sharpe with the S&P.

That said, Bridgewater hasn't done that great for awhile.
>"The US seems to be the only country that has this problem"

Same here in Canada. Retarded policy I think
LEAP trains custom embeds in even less time (a couple of minutes)

https://github.com/peterwilli/sd-leap-booster
Home electronics shop in Sweden https://www.elon.se/vitvaror

Since 1967
I live in Iowa. Apparently it's still legal here:

> In 2010 in the case of the State of Iowa vs Christopher Spates, the Supreme Court judge Justice Ternus states that Iowa only considers the mutual combat law if two combatants agree to the use of deadly weapons, so you can see how different the law varies from state to state.

https://law.justia.com/cases/iowa/supreme-court/2010/05-0883...

I wonder if the state would actually adhere to that judgement again.

Mutual combat laws apparently exist in many U.S. states - Texas, unsurprisingly, is one of them too.
Tech companies pay more than enough severance to avoid the WARN requirement entirely.
Science theatre
Will you release a Windows or Android version?
The Atacama desert isn't really a dark sky place by most measurements of light pollution. Also, just curious if it was a new moon when you saw it
The BMJ is a very real and serious. This article is from the “Christmas Issue” which is a little different…obviously.

It is meant to be lighthearted and tongue in cheek - but no less serious of science. It often exists as a form of satirical critique of bad habits of science and science communication.

There are flaws in that model though that have been noted. Prime among them is that nothing clearly identifies an article as from the Christmas issue online, and even if it did that may not carry any meaning for a reader unfamiliar with the journal.

https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-authors/article-type...
Iceworld gave you a random weapon and you had to make do - that was a fun twist on the usual CS gameplay, and that’s all it took to be popular. Another genre in this style (possibly an evolution of iceworld itself) is “gun game”, where you all start with the weakest pistol and every kill changes you to the next weapon. This was popular for the same reason, it was a fun twist on the usual gameplay and you played with unfamiliar weapons.
Minor nitpick, the judge can usually decide to override an arbiter, but they almost never do. It's rarely actually legally binding.
References to religions as true are generally unwelcome. It's not something most people want to be faced with when they just came for a simple technical discussion.
I know a sketchy resporg that used locationsmart, there's a "consent" bit but it's basically honor system
How often do you really have more than one viewer per screen?
Urban Terror has a lot of custom maps, but there don't seem to be many players online at any given time, at least not where I have decent ping.
if you use kitty,you can read pdf in the terminal via termpdf.py
Are you saying that the constitution outright applies to private entities the same as it applies to the government? and that is so, because the government consists of people?
Ways to get your users to promote your app
Since ~2016 Meta employment has signaled to me that someone values high compensation above anything else. This view has become so popular that choosing to work at Meta indicates you are fine broadcasting this signal.

There might be some exceptions for those working on Oculus, but it's not a blanket exception.
> maybe this technology is deployed in light industrial, heavy industry or at the electricity substation and plant.

With all the wonderful people shooting at electrical substation in populated areas maybe this isn't the best place? They aren't well secured and there is already enough risk there from the high voltage - not to mention the end user impact when they go off line.
How the cover art of Defender of the Crown (1986) was made (2013)
Wrong. If you debase your currency, by definition the cost goes up on goods even where demand is static. That's what it literally means - coins are now worth half because they have half the silver they used to.

We saw some inflation on food and gas prices in 2022 (for reason not directly related to monetary policy), but not in 2020 or 2021 when the cash was added to the economy - we saw inflation in assets because the Fed handed out cash to investors who deployed it on a limited pool of assets.
Engineering Managers will also begin to code again [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/TitterTakeover/status/162873730347973836...
Are there studies on the rate of project success comparing effort in A: JDK, .NET; and B: Go, Lisp at high status yacht racing sponsored by big names? There was a headline indicating failure is 68% all over in tech.

And, does paying for it more and more make a difference to success overall? Banks were leaving their terminals on overnight with bright white screens without powering them off which crypto entrepreneurs could have used the power for grinding out tokens.
As someone (biased) who has worked at Square, it is not Square (now Block) driving this. They are too distracted with cross-subsidizing Bitcoin daydreams to be focused on benefitting SMBs.
I tried using the Adobe iPad apps, they are so far behind the desktop versions its unreal. I got so frustrated with Illustrator i stopped using it and have been trying Inkscape on my desktop instead. I don't want monthly fees for design software. Procreate is amazing but lacks the vector needs I have. I've given up using my iPad Pro as anything more than a sketchpad at this point, not the Macbook replacement i wanted it to be with the lack of control over the OS and being stuck in the App Store eco system.

Affinity is looking pretty attractive now too after hearing about it today.

I cut my teeth on Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver but all Adobe did was run them into the ground.
That makes the disposable layer no different from existing systems that already wirelessly connect to your phone or watch.
Probably not asbestos, but lead and other heavy-metal leaching would probably depend on local water conditions.
Heh: an unforeseen future where instead of making the AI more reliable, we instead change reality to accommodate its mistakes.
> then the rich will hire skilled fighters to go be legislator-duelists for them

I'm going to be honest: considering the smorgasbord of possible dystopias, this one sounds pretty rad.

Can we do cyberpunk corpocratic gladiatorial parliament? Anyone?
> Indeed, I argue that you can witness bits of fy_iceworld’s DNA everywhere, blasted and seeded across the entire landscape of the game industry, as long as you have the blacklight to trace its ropes of influence. Perhaps its most famous direct descendant is Shipment, an official multiplayer map for the original 2007 release (and 2019 remake) of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Today I learned that Shipment from COD is modeled after fy_iceworld! I can’t believe I never put 2 and 2 together. These types of small, hectic maps are always fun. Halo has Octagon variants, COD has Shipment and Nuke Town.
Custom maps, not arbitrated by the game company, were the best part of the FPS genre.
It would be far more effective if you got their citation count instead.
I have seen no evidence for that, only the opposite: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610

Intuitively, training a simple enough linear statistical model with its own output should be a NOP. But LLMs are anything but simple models, so I think the non-linearities may be synthesizing new useful information. Similarly to how all of maths can be synthesized from a few basic axioms with enough intelligence or computation.
+1000 for The Water Knife, just excellent.

Bacigalupi wrote another book called Pump Six and Other Stories. If you enjoy scrappunk then the story "The People of Sand and Slag" from that collection is pretty good.

I don't know the solution to modern ship breaking, but I think we have it in us to be better. We don't want to be the people of sand and slag. Let's instead be characters from a Becky Chambers novel.
You are right, it seems that about 80% of internet users had broadband in 2008. However, about 40% of people in the US were still not users of the internet and 10% were still on dialup. I don't know if the average speed means much in terms of addressable market for streaming (if 1% of the people in the US have gigabit connections, the average is 10mb even if 99% of people are on dialup), but I couldn't find any statistics on the median internet speed.
This seems like a great explanation. Can I get an ELI5?
After thinking about this for a while the answer I've come up with is to remove the bottom from the market.

Robots. Robots are the only answer because when there's a profit to be made some crook will figure out a place it's legal to make it. So I guess robots or ending capitalism. Though I've heard the latter devolved into abuse of power rather than money in the major example that comes to my mind.
Remember Counter Strike was not an independent game. It was a mod of Halo. Halo did not offer a downloaded level editor.
I mean, twitter.com seems to manage to continue running fine with only 25% of staff left. I'm sure others are looking at that and going "hmmm"
> lollipop person

TIL, "crossing guard" in Kiwi, how much cuter is that?
Wasn’t the coast guard one of the agencies that concluded that Russia hacked the DMC emails?
It’s ridiculous how every transit district and university and other government agencies all have their own law enforcement departments. They all want to expand their jurisdiction to increase their budgets.
Yeah, I love gungame. It's deathmath style so you respawn pretty much immediately which makes it a lot more fast-paced and interesting instead of dying and having to wait out the round.

There are still a decent number of people playing gungame in CS: Source around me (apparently it's not as good in the newer CS:GO but I don't have that one). It's also mostly people in their thirties so a bit better vibe than when there used to be a lot of annoying people who sound like they're twelve - they mostly seem to be on CS:GO now (not that all teenagers playing games are annoying, just mostly the ones who are on the voice chat a lot).
We've had code review dueling for the past few years, and it has really helped with the quality of code and pull requests.

In the past, programmers submitted all sorts of junk code into our version control, what I would today call chatgpt nonsense. At the time it was likely Stack Overflow nonsense. In any case, Code Review Dueling has changed the landscape of our coding. For the past two years, not a single negative comment has appeared on code pull requests. All it took was the deaths of a few unqualified people who lied on their resumes.

This "old is new" methodology has caused programmers and architects to work with other people before ever writing code or designing systems. In our monthly metrics report from the CI (but not CD) pipeline, I also noticed that we no longer import any dependencies from 3rd parties. In fact, IT has shutdown all access to pip, apt-get, and so forth. Everything is custom and has been beautifully designed and coded in-house.

It's absolutely amazing. Even our customers regularly request they be allowed to purchase extra copies of our software, just to give to their children and grandchildren, when they come of age. But before purchasing extra copies, they always call first, since our license lawyers are very prolific, proactive, and protective of our rights.
What do you think the children of people committing said crimes do? They mimic their parental figures. Child on child violence is a real thing and ignoring it just let's them turn into adult versions of the bullies they are.
IDK about you, but applying, recruiting calls, company research, HM call, leetcoding, practicing system design interviews, scheduling coding/arch interviews, practicing with arch diagramming tool, telling recruiter it was good and no i still wont show my hand with comp, followups because layoffs hit recruiting and coodrinators (they're short handed now), more scheduling conflicts, interviewing, and then telling the recruiter "no you offer first, then I'll tell you what i think", "Ok I'll talk to your VP finance about how valuable you think the options are", more scheduling...

It's easily a full time job.
China is not the only country adopting. There are places in Africa to watch out for. Though many have stopped adopting as abuse was too common for the benefits.
A really big killfile.
Counter-Strike was a mod of Half Life, not Halo.
I would put it this way: in these times of massive layoffs, if you're a programmer and you don't network, you're doing it wrong. There are exceptions, e.g. for genius types, but the rest of us better be social.
You mean half life right?
Because it causes a large amount of money to go to underdog with basically no strings attached. It’s essentially free money to the smaller party which they could use to increase competition.
Counter-strike was originally a Half-Life mod.
No need to give such examples out of left field. Just compare the danger of a gallon of gasoline vs a gallon of diesel. Or a stick of TNT vs a an eye dropper of plutonium.
exactly! It's a version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%E2%80%93exclusion_pr...
Google just kept (is keeping) its laid off employees on the payroll during the WARN period, but cut all other ties. WARN notices went out when layoffs were announced.
Does anyone else ever think about some unseen space monstrosity taking us out in the blink of an eye?
Imagine a cross between Lisp, HTML, and The Matrix.
Huh. Been pronouncing it in my head as "dang!" (like the "expletive") all this time
This seems like an unclear rant of someone who is not very familiar with Unix/command line tools.

There are no specific strong points, just calling something "atrocities" (it is not clear what), and claiming that you need semantic plugins for "most meaningful/high-level operations on the data". I have a feeling that author have something (or someone?) in mind, and we are supposed to guess.. but I have no idea what they are talking about. There is that weird "Pipes Text Hell" section - I wonder if author knows that pipes are widely used with binary data too?

The only specific examples author gave is: "wc -l does not work on multi-line CSVs" and "you cannot rename class in java program with sed" (funnily enough, the command provided uses incorrect regexp, they forgot word boundary marker... I wonder if that's the source of author's frustration? :) )

Interpreting author in the best light, I think their point is: "I want formats to be obfuscated and unreadable so that some people I know would stop creating incomplete ad-hoc text parsers and instead would be forced to go through Official Libraries And Tools". With all respect, I strongly disagree. I've dealt with hundreds of file formats, both text and binary, and I've never said: "I with I couldn't do X!". More processing options are always better (except in network protocols :) ), even if some people use them incorrectly.
It definitely sends the wrong message about introducing bugs rather than removing them
This whole management heavy culture needs to F off.

9/10 people who wants to be a manager are awful as software engineers and they know this is the only way they can stay in the game. Out of those who do become engineering managers it seems all they do is talk a bunch of nonsense and add tremendous levels of roadblocks because they suck at understanding the actual technical problems and I’ll be honest. They’re usually awful at understanding business needs too.

Get rid of eng managers.

Put in a team lead and a few people. If your teams are 20 people or something dumb just fire everyone and start over.

You don’t need battalions when the leaders aren’t even soldiers.

Just have fire teams where everyone is a soldier that reports to their team lead. These teams report to a director who is the battalion commander.

Managers should be rare. And they should be actually good at their job.

People don’t quit jobs they quit shitty terrible managers.
Lobbyists and donations to politicians. Like every other de facto monopoly in the present US economy, they've gamed the rules and spent money to avoid being regulated.
or we find out that current gen of tech companies are no longer the innovators and wall st also has stopped buying the story of them being growth companies and wants their money back. Definitely good for the next gen if innovators!
In StarCraft Brood War there were normal maps, which were mostly played 1v1. That was the "true" game - it was fun but also quite difficult.

Many players played for fun, so they would play team games e.g. 4v4 where skill still mattered but often the results depended more who you got on your team (I think that to a degree this is why MOBAs are so popular - in theory you get close to a 50-50 winrate, or at least win like 30% games even if you are bad).

Some players enjoyed a map called "Big game hunters" (or BGH for short) where you didnt have to care much about resources - they were abundand in your starting location. So you didnt have to think about building new bases (big part of regular StarCraft gameplay). In fact even more simplified "fastest" maps were made, where resources were stacked near every player's starting point and the map was basically a square with some choke points. The layout was simplistic too. It could still be fun and better player wouod still win. But again most players played team games like 4v4 where you could always blame your loss on your team.

Then the players played a map called "Blood bath" that was incredibly small - so games could be shorter (few minutes), since players would often "rush" (=attack quickly) each other to win or lose fast.

Those simplifications that removed part of the main game loop were still fun. Often by making the game a bit easier. (Although I remember some challenge between "regular" players and "BGH" players wherr BGH players won, since they know how to play BGH and they were good enough to win on a regular map).

Then StarCraft Brood War had thousands of custom games, which had deep ability yo customize the game and a primitive programming language - that allowed to completely change the way the game worked. MOBA genere, turret defence - all came from StarCraft Brood War custom games.
I think that apart from Warcraft3 no other game allowed so much custom maps from the stock (without mods). In Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 you would just download the custom map and play it.

Starcraft 2 never managed to get custom maps as popular due to Blizzard's mismanagment: no custom game list. Also Blizzard was probably trying to monetize custom games/maps but failed.

Designers often ignore that (1) there are bad players that still want to win sometimes even due to sheer luck (2) some players want relatively braindead simplistic fun.

I think in Fortnite they have a popular custom map that is a big square arena where both materials and ammo are infinite. Again a simplification, but at the same time a lot of the essence of the game is still there (shooting and building).