skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This suddenly reminded me of how I was “cheating”.

Before the game starts each of the ten players gets to pick a distinct hero for themselves out of a pool of about 120 choices. This is over 10^20 distinct combinations! Each hero has some unique capabilities that combo with allies or counter enemy heroes.

I tried to train a “hero recommender” based on tens of millions of games.

It turned out that this is obscenely difficult because even the best AI training algorithms struggle with such highly noisy labels. A good hero combo might shift win rates by some positive percentage but have a single sample data point, which is a loss because of one stupid kid in the team throwing the game.

You also can’t naively simplify the problem into 2-hero or 3-hero combinations because this misses the “total team composition” metrics.

I found some research papers that were just a few months old at the time which covered this corner of the AI training space. Their conclusion were: “We don’t know either but it’s an interesting problem!”
You mean if they could figure out how to illegally track millions of people?
The existence of familiar faces, even if we don’t speak, reduces loneliness.

“We are in this together” so to speak.

It’s funny how our brains do so many things for us without us being aware of them.

Now, the more people return, the more hectic and loud it will be which I detest.
This website has military spend at closer to 15% of all federal government expenses.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...

> The government expects to spend $6.011 trillion in 2022. More than 65% of that pays for mandated benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

> Military spending includes the Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Veterans Affairs. All of these military costs combined equal $943.9 billion.

> Pensions are entitlements and we can't really touch those.

They are touched all the time. Implicitly via decreased purchasing power of currency that is not made up for via cost of living adjustments, and explicitly via things like increasing retirement age and changes to benefit formula.

Healthcare spending is also frequently adjusted via reduced remuneration and policies for remuneration to providers changing the quantity and quality of services received.
> HD-DVD supported H.264

TIL! http://www.dvdforum.org/images/Forum_HD_DVD_Universal_24.pdf...
Would you buy a used chair from this man?

Fwiw, Al Capone's business card famously said he was a "second-hand furniture dealer".
I didn’t say that it would deter me, only that it probably deters a lot of people, but this line in particular:

If an individual, I own or reside at the location being challenged or am otherwise authorized to request broadband service there.

Basically, they only want people to challenge the service where they actually live, not at every address in their neighborhood.
Noob question: what if what we call gravity is where space does not expand?

Said differently, how the expansion of the universe looks like at the human scale? Most probably the quetsion does not make sense (?)
Really? You don't think social media, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, OnlyFans, 4chan, et al, is a mirror image of the current society as a whole?

How do you assess the state of society? Without looking at the content said society produces?
It's unsurprisingly a bit more complex than that, but yes. The mechanism is something like

general price level increase accelerates (inflation overshoots the target) -> central banks act to cool the economy (they conduct open market operations to remove liquidity, increase various knobs like interest-paid-on-reserves, basically the opposite of "quantitative easing") -> this has a knock on effect on corporate and governmental bond auctions -> bond interest rates go up

but this is a "closed loop" because the end result is that "inflation creeps back down to/below target level", and then bond yields go back to where they were and it seems that's mostly a function of the appetite for safe assets.

of course this might all be irrelevant if central banks basically switch to "nominal GDP targeting"

and one more small but very interesting piece in this puzzle (the jargon is not important, the "bonds stay on the balance sheet, so they are inconvenient" part is): https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/02/unders...
Ede Desktop Manager
Found an interesting discussion about interrupt 15: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.development/c/9qXsgge4b6w

Looks like spurious interrupts were a thing back then, and they could become more frequent with higher temperature.

> He said that Intel did not specify that interrupt 15 could be called but they probably did say in
the 8259 datasheet that a spurious interrupt could be triggered. (I'm
pretty sure they do in the 8259A datasheet.)

> This is probably the once popular spurious interrupt 15 (0xF) the
default IRQ 7 handler. Apparently much activity (getting too hot?) on
the 8259a (I once generated such spurious activity as a test by
increasing the timer frequency - IRQ 0) causes a spurious interrupt
on IRQ 7 (LPT1).
Thank you, I ordered some of the books you linked!
Most of the 2.7 million developers in the US don’t live in a coastal area

I had my house built in 2016 in “the good school system” in the northern burbs of Atlanta for $335K. It was 3200 square feet 5/3-1/2.

There is a reason I didn’t entertain the recruiter until she suggested a permanently remote role.
> actual phone lookup platform

uh, you mean stalker / scammer platform? This would be a major privacy violation.
> Maybe the CEO can jump on here again and give us a bunch of back-peddling double talk about how they’re misunderstood, as when they were caught censoring news results.

I must have missed this, what's this about censoring news?
Not permitting the accused to know what they are being accused of is always done in bad faith.

If the accused were guilty, then they'd already know who the victim is and already know who the accuser is, so hiding the accuser does nothing. Hiding the accuser is only ""useful"" when the accused is actually innocent. The entire point of hiding the accuser is to deny the wrongfully accused of the opportunity to defend themselves. Such systems are weapons created by and for bureaucrats to cement their power.
It's a newer, different GPT model than chatGPT.
Impossible to explain the inner workings of GPT-3 without having access to the model and its weights. Does anyone know if any methods exist for this?
How/why would you feel any different if Microsoft detected that you're on playstation.com and then injected a plea to switch to xbox?

Or detecting slack or discord or zoom and injecting an ad for MS Teams?

Or detecting websites for various open source tools and languages then asking you to try visual studio professional and C#?

Or linux ... windows server?

Or AWS ... Azure?
Lots of video of these operations on YouTube. Some of it is shot clandestinely because the ship breakers don’t want the working conditions to be public.
You’re so up your own ass it’s ridiculous. I understand the Chord protocol which all p2p systems are based on far better than you understand currencies it seems. Currencies need to be stable for economies to build on them. When currencies are unstable, you get countries like Venezuela. Even if the currency is increasing in price, it becomes unstable for transactions because no one will want to spend the currency which means businesses will not receive money needed to sustain the economy. This is why currencies need to be relatively stable.
Honest question; why do you still use Ubuntu then?

By now, Snap is such a fundamental part of Ubuntu that it begs the question whether Ubuntu is right for you if you want to avoid it. Why not use a derivative or upstream that makes different choices?
How do I sell my software on pacman?
This is what I get when I google "Hakari Stuck":
https://staticc.sportskeeda.com/editor/2022/06/d1f55-1655496...
> I'm honestly not convinced I read a less "overengineered" solution so far...

Prerecorded music on an MP3 player sounds like the one simpler solution, though it wouldn't put the elevators in sync with each other or let you control it remotely.
> For over a decade, scientists at Argonne and elsewhere have been working overtime to develop a lithium battery that makes use of the oxygen in air

If only we could have EV batteries instead make use of CO2 in the air...
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> what are strengths of sbcl over racket?

SBCL is a Common Lisp implementation, racket implements variants of Scheme. SBCL is natively compiled, creates standalone executables.

> what are strengths of racket over sbcl?

It implements various scheme dialects, the ability to integrate different languages in one image is unique. It offers an integrated enviroment with a lot of libraries included, that is why it is popular in academia.

> if sbcl raw speed > racket speed wouldn't most expert lispers by default choose sbcl?

First of all, they implement different programming languages, that means they are not competing directly with each other and are very different beasts as discribed above. Racket seems to be very popular in academia, while SBCL is more used for practical software development. At least that is the impression I have.

> what purposes does racket uniquely serve not served by sbcl?

I think I have answered that above.
America is home to over 21M individuals with a net worth of $1M or more.

For them, America is free; perhaps more free than <insert EU country here>.

The remaining 310M exist to create freedom for the 21M. They are pacified with the propaganda of class: the "middle class"; the "working class"; the poor; the prisoners.

Each person below the peak of the pyramid is taught from a young age to fear becoming part of the level below.

Each person below the peak of the pyramid is taught from a young age that every level is rigged with a series of doors which lead directly to the basement in which they will find the good old 13thAmendmentLoophole™.

Additionally, each person below the peak of the pyramid is taught from a young age that there exist a few hidden doors on each level which lead to a secret route that goes directly to the top. These doors were initially installed by Horatio Alger Jr, but have been maintained by countless persons since. Rumors exist that John Steinbeck scrawled expletives on a few.

Since 1971 or so the the pyramid has evolved into an incredibly-slippery cone. It keeps growing and growing, but getting thinner and more slippery as time goes on. Rumors exist that it is stretching itself to Mars, but I imagine it will likely fall short of that since the cone is made from plastic.
And I would say its even more detailed than that.

In general your most staunch conservative doesn't mind things changing if it personally benefits them greatly (especially if they don't bear most the burden of its effects).

Your most avid progressive commonly want the things that bring them comfort to stay the same, even if its potentially harmful to someone else.

I believe the issue here is we're playing "everything everywhere all at once". Everywhere on the globe is pretty much instantly connected to everything else via digital communications. There is no more sit by the sidelines zone that gets to avoid this connectivity. You may not want it, but you have to stop everyone else from bringing that connectivity too, and somehow maintain casual connectivity economically unless you want to play caveman.
> Long story short if I had money that would be relevant in this context I would invest really hard into Tenstorrent.

I would happily accept a bet (e.g. $100 bucks or a nice bottle of whiskey) from you (or anyone) that atomicsemi is successful. I will just bet against it because I am skeptical that a new company is successful in a capital intensive segment.

It is probably slightly insulting, foolish, and arrogant to bet against the famous Jim Killer on a website dedicated to startups. This should not be a dig against Sam and Jim Killer. I guess that will try something truly innovative. But if I look a the past, the odds seem to be stacked against them.
Except it's MRR as opposed to salary.
I'm a recent immigrant to the US, and when talking to locals I need to bite my tongue to not say "for the land of the free, you sure have an awful lot of rules".

As much as America prides itself on their freedoms, they have rules that would baffle most developed countries. And at the same time they are incredibly loose in other contexts, such as safety and quality control e.g. substances that are banned in the EU are legal here.
Just make sure they have a large enough buffer, and buffer enough, so that all speakers can play the same frames at the same time (or with the exact delay you want for each specific speaker).

You only care about delay between the speakers, not about what latency any speaker has relative to the source.
The chance that a ring form factor wearable will be the first to reliably, non invasively measure glucose is zero. Yes they got SpO2 and HR, those are easy and well established technologies. But blood glucose? Forget it.

A ring form factor is too aggressive and difficult of a target.
> I don’t see a fundamental reason why one couldn’t replace one ASML EUV machine with, say, 1000 e-beam machines and run them all in parallel.

Fab floorspace is also very expensive, nevermind that's not even close to a realistic price per system (the factory interface alone costs $100k+)
How is that moving the goal post!?
> don't trust ChatGPT for anything

Agreed. But then it begs the question: what purpose does ChatGPT serve (other than for entertainment purposes or cheating on your HS/college exam)? If you have to verify its information by other means, then you're not really saving much effort.
Hey, they should test with separate CDs. Not your fault at all. Ok, maybe a little.
And what about Webkit for iOS blatantly diverging from the standard?

Eg: Not allowing to set the size of an iframe unless using some hack.

https://github.com/PierBover/ios-iframe-fix

This was not a bug. It was a deliberate decision.
I'm curious about falsifiable models.
Uh no, I wouldn't even hand over a penny to the GNOME project.
I get where you are coming from, but my first attempt at setting up nextcloud was with a snap and it made the experience a lot less challenging to a newbie ( though these days, I would likely not do it that way ). What is the benefit of flathub over ubuntu store?
Putting My Blog on IPFS (2017)
No; Overwatch 1 was unique in that a single player trying to do something "off-meta" meant all 5 other players had to play around that one player, and if you were losing it was very frustrating. The game's design and balance IMO was inherently toxic. Everyone "practiced" the "pro" meta so there was unspoken rule book on how people understood how to play the game. One person being off meta was almost like demanding the entire team play rugby when you thought you were playing football. The game wasn't flexible enough to allow individual experimentation.
Are these accusations being made to civil courts, or just in the public sphere? It doesn't sound like it's the former, so the 6th Amendment doesn't apply.

If we want to play the textualist game, there's nothing in the 1st Amendment about free speech only for people who identify themselves unambiguously. The 1st Amendment applies to anonymous speech, too (especially).
> you'd be stupid not to

people wonder why businessmen and thieves are sometimes indistinguishable
User adoption, I guess
As someone using Instagram but has a Todo list item to close my FB/Instagram/Meta account, the reason I still use it (and only Instagram) is to follow artists. A hyper curated list of individuals that post interesting things that I can check up on. It's what I lost when I shuttered my Twitter account. I use it as a glorified RSS feed rather than as a way to interact socially.

But yeah, the bad outweighs the good, and other than spending the time to archive data, I do plan to shut it down.
Or you can go play with people in person and not complain about anything :) except the busted characters I guess haha
That is a complete non-sequitur and yet people take that propaganda seriously. Section 230 says nothing about being neutral. The "whole question" is like asking if your driver's license is still valid when you are wearing a purple necktie, then asserting that drivers licenses aren't valid then because a purple tie excludes green and yellow and that ruins society and promotes pollution for the sake of privilege because purple was reserved for royals.

If you ignore the emotional manipulation sophistry and look at the logical content it looks a lot more like a thought disorder than anything else.
I grew up like this too (in the US in the 80s). I now have an 8 year old, and I think she would be fine at home alone for a while if necessary (especially with easy access to me via phone/Alexa/whatever).

However, in my state (Illinois), the government has made it illegal to leave my kids home alone until they are 14 (14!) years old. This is insanity, but I don't dare risk it because on the off chance anything happened and the police found out, I fear the government would take my children away.

I don't think the hysteria is coming from the average American. I think it is coming from nanny-state politicians who want to campaign on "cracking down on child abuse" or whatever.
It’s not incorrect like the rest of us. It’s incorrect in a very different way.

Providing detailed information on the usage of a service that has never existed is a brand new kind of incorrect that is carelessly causing the rest of us grief.
I haven't been the biggest fan of flatpak and generally wish software would either be packaged as an rpm or an AppImage, but the OP makes a pretty strong case for why it's a good idea (because existing options are too niche, and have no ability to incentivize developers who need to get paid for their work. This leads to Linux desktop having far fewer applications available to them compared to windows and mac.)

I do hope the command-line UX around flatpaks (installing, updating, etc) improves a lot though as currently it leaves much to be desired.
> a lot of people would be interested in this

you mean like scammers and stalkers? (ok, and probably Meta)
Ah, that works. I also didn't know NTP was precise enough for this. Cool.
> and I think it actually has a shot of being an equivalent to the Mac App Store.

This I agree with, but not this:

> and does actually do a good job of making "one package manager to rule them all".

That's not its goal. There are no terminal apps in it, so everyone that wants to run custom packages from a terminal is still going to need something like apt/dnf/homebrew.
Just re-checked the org chart. There's no social media personal assistant.
For those of you wondering wtf about the name before clicking: "Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices for automatic system builders"
but then whois shows:

"This website is for SALE
We are selling this website due to several reasons. Contact us at
cheena+domainwatch@cheena.net / Twitter @cheenanet / Telegram @cheenanet"

:| Can someone explain whether this is an attempt to drive traffic to a site to drive up the price of the domain sale or something similar?
I've been through a lof of the balkan areas in the 1990s, also yugoslavia/serbia during the sanctions before the 1999 nato bombing and fast after, and during all those times in all those areas there was A LOT of poverty.

Kids were playing outside all the time... from urban belgrade, parks and playgrounds surrounded by huge socialist buildings, to rural villages. Going to school? Sure, kids 7, 8, 9yo walking alone to school was (and still is) a normal thing. Usually elementary schools (6/7->14/15yo) were walking distance, but some still had to use a public/city transport. High schools meant a bus/tram for a majority of kids. During weekends seeing a bunch of kids outside even late at night was normal and still is.
can you explain in human? #notbeingsarcastic but I literally didn't get it.
The OP answers that question pretty throughly. Because pacman is niche and distro-specific and largely distro-controlled, and has no ability to incentivize developers who need to get paid for their work. This leads to Linux desktop having far fewer applications available to them compared to windows and mac.
Yes. It is important to remain cautious of anonymous accusations since they can pave the way for the implementation of algorithmic prosecution or a zero tolerance policy.
Thank you for the response. I have edited the title to clarify it is a first-party advertisement for a DuckDuckGo service being placed alongside web forms.

Seeing this notification appear once, in the extensions area as a popup from the DuckDuckGo extension, would feel much less outrageous. It does not feel like onboarding, it feels like an ad. It is an unexpected disruption of my browser's usual behavior.
You can also rent a car at your destination, or take cab
It's not just the vagueness of the law, it's a system and culture in which pursuing a bullshit claim draws no punishment, but ignoring a claim that a reasonable person would judge to be bullshit and turning out to be wrong may ruin your life.
I glanced over the headline and though it was an Argon Lithium battery tech.
I think they should restrict activity in the way I understood it. Restrict to home and or a safe location and remove the judicial interpretation. I would be 100% fine with that.
I’m not sure people will ever want to sell apps on a 3rd party store. Especially a Linux one. The entire industry has moved away from buying things directly on a single marketplace and moved to tying a payment or subscription to an account which works across OSs and store platforms.

I’d be happy to pay for Linux software but there is no way I’d want to be tied to a particular distro/repo/storefront.
I had to use flatpack to install Bottles, I'm on Porteus because it's the only distrib I found that would fit on a 15 year old 512MB USB stick and then in the RAM directly... Let just say it wasn't a seamless experience but I'm glad I managed to run Cinema4D R20 or MPC Software with Bottles without too many bugs. Anyway Bottles is just fantastic, I tried Wine before but it never worked properly, but having to install a package manager (flatpack) on top of another one (slackpkg) just felt absurd...

What about appimage instead, like Krita? To me it's sounds like the best way to distribute a linux app in 202X...

Managing to make things run on Linux gives a sense of accomplissement, at the same time, I can understand why most people won't move to Linux anytime soon given all the complexity involved... or it's just me and there was an easier way to install flatpack at first place?
I saw the headline on your post and felt horrified.

I then read the details and I'm no longer horrified.

There is a difference between advertising your own services vs injecting ads from other parties. Injecting ads from other parties could imply sharing of personal data which would be worrying.

There is no breach of the DDG implicit user contract here which is low tracking and privacy.