skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been persistent rumors about the DEA working with the same cartel (Sinaloa) as Luna. They were the big winners of the opioid crisis. There's no solid evidence though, and maybe some of the suspicious stuff was actually Luna passing intelligence back.
You have hit a tough crowd.
How does Mermaid compare to PlantUML? I have only used the latter.
My email address is in my profile
In federal prison, those are prison gangs.
Yes I have heard that story. I think he actually got a ticket for 146mph. That’s the speed on the radar on my backglass. I have a T3 as well, the first pin Ritchie made for Stern. T2 is a classic but I think T3 is underrated, many similarities. Much like High Speed vs Getaway.

I got into ownership during the pandemic, was the only way to get my fix. I’m up to five now!

Would love to meet Steve and his brother Mark who designed Fish Tales, which I also own. TPF seems to be the place for that.

Another bit of Steve Ritchie trivia is that he shared a cube with another Steve at Atari. This one was named Steve Jobs!
> The terrible compile time is a big reason why I avoid rust for game dev.

Compile times are the least of your worry.

The big problem is lack of tools and libraries in Rust gamedev. You can't even achieve PS2-era graphics with Rust right now. Neither Bevy nor FyRox support blend shapes / morph targets, and that's a two decades old and absolutely essential animation tool.

Rust for gamedev is going to take a decade to really get going.
Yes they were called Varangians. Varangians!
Desmond Morris would agree. "the naked ape" pretty much said it's all down to genes.
Public workspace for moving forward the HTTPBin project
Ok, but if you have a perpetual motion engine (or at least a nuclear reactor with basically unlimited fuel), wouldn't it make more sense to take it out of the train, put it into an underground building, and live there? There's plenty of pre-existing underground spaces in large cities, even with their own train systems. It wouldn't be that hard to abandon the above-ground stuff for the most part, and start expanding the below-ground stuff for people to live in.

Even modern-day trains don't cope well with heavy snowfall; the idea of the last vestiges of humanity living on a train traveling around the world endlessly, where they have to worry about being derailed by the weather at any time, doesn't seem to make sense.
> Judging by how heavy our media propaganda is surrounding this war, I'm sure we wouldn't see it.

They would post it on pro Russian telegram channels and you would likely know about it if you followed the right now people. The fact that no such information is being posted even by pro Russian sources, means that it very likely just hasn't happened.

> All I hear about is how badly Russia is losing the war, even as Bakhmut is starting to fall now we hear how unimportant the stronghold really was. Coverage of this war would be silly if it wasn't so sad.

Depends on how you define losing really, expending all of those resources for a small city like Bakhmut might be silly.
My wife has been playing the same farmville farm for 12 years, since I met her. Hasn't spent a penny, but they release updates all of the time. I'm amazed at her dedication and theirs to this game.
rm -rf ~/go is not recommended.

1. This will blow away any programs in ~/go/bin

2. Nothing in ~/go/pkg/mod has +w, so the rm -rf will not work anyway. Try

go clean -modcache
I bought several cases of long life incandescent bulbs because they are so much better. Looks like they will be illegal soon. I dare anybody to come take them from me.
This whole thread seems overrun with fresh sock puppet accounts reciting ChatGPT.
Whole Foods does not have price sensitive customers.
>That's mostly orthogonal to the regime, even if it's easier to do with a totalitarian system.

Yeah, that's basically my point: that totalitarianism isn't necessarily "unsustainable" at all. The US could become totalitarian and stay that way for centuries.
A game engine for the Web without any usable demo, only a video. Who knows how it came to be.

Being used to most Web productions never coming at the level of Infinity Blade, seeing a video isn't really something that impresses the crowd.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/9/10/4715534/infinity-blade-3-c...
There is absolutely no way your salary is comparable. Are you only counting base and not tcomp?

edit: Ah, he's counting start-up equity as not worthless. That's definitely one way to value it.
id say they are more reliable then the guy is putting obvious Russian propaganda out on his channel.
Swift Jog allows Swift language input into your Apple Watch via swipe and type gestures on your Apple Watch while you’re on the move.
At least with the rockchip-based designs you can get the TRMs for the SOC.

https://github.com/Hao-boyan/rk3588-TRM-and-Datasheet
https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Main_Page

For the raspberry Pi 4b, the publicly available documentation for the BCM2711 SoC is laughable, barely 160-odd pages long and missing key details (such as which timers are accessible from the ARM core, and which are accessible from the GPU).

P.S. if anyone knows where to find the full TRM for the broadcom BCM2711, I'd be really grateful if you got in touch or sent me the pdf.
You say "but in practice..." but then proceed to handwave generalities. For instance, are you arguing we can preemptively say they don't have to follow any law on the off chance one of them might come up in the performance of their duties? It sounds an awful lot like you are, and there's essentially no "in practice" evidence to motivate that.
If a company can make money by doing something, legal or not, we should assume that they will always do that thing. If the penalty for lying about how a work was produced is less than the money a company will make or can protect by illegally enforcing a copyright we should expect them to lie. I'm sure plenty of people would take a steady paycheck for the risk of a lawsuit if the company assures them they'll do everything to protect them.

Companies have repeatedly been caught suing people for violations of copyrights they didn't actually own while paying zero consequences for it once they were caught. For examples see https://www.techdirt.com/2020/03/26/riaa-realizes-it-sued-ch... and https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2010/03/viacom_v_youtu...)

I'm not saying this is an unsolvable problem, but it will take actually imposing severe and meaningful consequences for companies who lie.
Show HN: Transform text on the clipboard automatically with JavaScript
I was painfully reliving my Photoshop days in Miro, trying to create a sequence diagram, when I stumbled upon PlantUML and Mermaid. It was like a breath of fresh air, made things so much easier. Just kicking myself that I didn't know about them earlier.
I think physics starts with some very basic assumptions about the world because that's what the world looks like. So I don't find it surprising that the models physics starts with, and their consequences would already have been investigated by mathematicians.

What is a physics problem if not a math-problem? So I never really understood the point of mathematics being unreasonably effective. What am I missing?
That doesn't seem any different to claiming that if a fetus is not a person according to the opposing sides logic, then there is no point in listening to their further arguments about detainment.

Really, it's ridiculous logic from both sides, I don't see where one side has an argument that is not conflicted by that sides previous assertions.
> I'd much rather pay my "traffic ticket" on the street than deal with the bureaucracy

I'm not talking about low level corruption like that. That will change later, hopefully, once the wages of police increase.

I'm talking about high level corruption where a hospital is supposed to get built and instead the project gets stalled for years and then it turns out all the money mysteriously vanished. Or an entire minority village get kicked off their land to make way for a new resort, and a politician coincidentally gets a large cash gift. These are far more important to solve than police taking small bribes, and that's what they're working on now. I don't have enough insight or knowledge to comment on how successful they are likely to be but I wish them luck.

One point about the low level corruption, though: like you say, it's very convenient to pay a small bribe on the street to avoid a traffic ticket. Unless you make $150 a month and that small bribe is actually your day's wages and you can't eat that day. So yeah, it's convenient, if you're wealthy, and terrible if you're poor. Like so many things in life.
I had just learned about Mermaid and used it standalone once, when I realized it is also already built into Github Markdown [0], where you can include a diagram by just going ```mermaid <code>```, which is veeery handy. In mermaid.live can also get an SVG URL which works great to paste into many online drawing tools like Miro, Diagrams.net etc.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...
App Developers Guild
I am having the most Kafkaesque experience trying to reach AdMob support for four months being stuck in a loop being referred back to their support page.

Finally got some progress by personally reaching out to an employee through linked in. A policy issue seems to have been in place that wasn’t visible to me, but after this is. Now I finally have something to go at, but the policy center gives me generic answers that leaves me second guessing what the issue really is.

Trying to call google leads to a phone line that blames Covid for being closed.

With googles services having acquired de facto standard, small developers are left at googles mercy. At any time, your whole revenue can be swept away from you at a whim.

I think a developers guild is needed to ensure that small developers are not crushed by googles lack of reachability
You may well have to give that money back however (eg, early investors with Madoff had to compensate later investors decades later).
Yes I'm very sure. The car was built in Chengdou in January 2020 then transported over here by train (option which no longer exists at the moment because Russia closed the land link so cars have to be brought to Europe by ship the old fashioned way). It's a T8 plug-in hybrid for the British market.
There is tourism in Africa and there could potentially be a lot more of it, if there were more infrastructure and less social/political problems.

It’s not that hard for me to get to Dakar or Windhoek as it is, and I could certainly see myself enjoying those destinations if there were more to do
> Using the car's navigation is essential for road trips that involve charging along the way.

Sounds like a problem that will get solved automatically once charging stations are as common as fuel pumps.
WASM could be such an IR unironically https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet. But I doubt that we would be gaining performance/efficiency this way.
How to lie with statistics – Book summary
> is unscientific, lacking in perspective, and offensive.

I agree it is unscientific speculation. Science doesn’t have any answers.

As one example, there are no conclusive scientific answers on why global male testosterone is declining, or why American girls are experiencing early puberty. Any plausible explanation has compelling reasons to dismiss it, and we can’t know scientifically if they are correct.

Yet we can see both clearly in the data. If you want to escape these changes, you can only get answers outside of scientific knowledge.

> offensive

There’s nothing offensive about these comparisons. When DDT was invented, we didn’t know it would bio accumulate. When iPhones were widely deployed 15 years ago, I doubt many predicted they cause sleep disruption, and potentially disrupt hormone regulation.

They are both cases of harms taking decades to show up in scientific knowledge.
I'd like to try it, but the landing page writing doesn't inspire confidence that this is a polished product.

If the developers are reading this comment, I might be able to help tighten and smooth that out. I have 99.9999% English fluency and write at the highest calibre.
If that’s the case, it sounds more like a forgotten feature.
I think you are describing eDSLs, not DSLs?
Should be /^[^@]+@[^@]+$/ at least, because you need something before and after @
How different is this from most out of school care? When we've had our kids in what here is called OSHC (out of school hours care or similar), it's been pretty free-form and vaguely supervised. Some kids do art, some muck around on the oval, some roam in nature play (with a supervisor in the general area), some watch a movie.

I guess you're talking about a little bit more organisation - today, muck around with racquets and shuttlecocks, tomorrow muck around with calligraphy brushes and ink.

I always remember once in unstructured art time (1980s, substitute teacher...) around the age of 11-12, we were all nailing together strips of masonite, making cross-shaped projectiles about 500mm across, and then flinging them around the oval. They would've been absolutely deadly if that wasn't shut down!
> the court has a misunderstanding about the “randomly generated noise” when it believes there is randomly generated noise in both the pixel and the latent - this is not the case, there is no randomness in the latent

No.

This is factually incorrect.

The random noise is applied in the latent.

The VAE doesn’t add random shit when you convert to pixel space.

Having randomness in pixel space would make no sense at all.

You don’t ever pick a deterministic point in the latent space (unless you fix the seed to the random number generator, and then you're still picking a random point in the latent space, unless you're prepared to argue you somehow know what a specific seed is going to do before you use it... you're just saving the point for later).

Ultimately, it comes down to this:

- You have a function that generates a bunch of random images.

- You pick one.

Did you create the image? No. You didn't.

Did you apply creativity? Should it be copyrightable? Maybe? You picked the one you liked most out of a set. You certainly applied your sense of aesthetics.

The practical question is:

What stops someone generating every possible image and copyrighting it?

Sorry! I know you typed that prompt out and got a random seed, but it turns out I've actually copyrighted every image for that prompt for seeds 200000000 - 300000000. It's only a 100 million images. Easy.

Right? Who cares if it's random or not? (I do, pedantically, it is), but practically, the copyright office doesn't care. They care about the practicality of preventing the system being abused.

We can argue about the semantics of where the noise is applied, but it doesn't actually matter.

How do you support people by letting them copyright their 'human scale' generated content, but avoid abuse from trolls who apply 'industrial scale copyrighting' with the same process?
Yes. An official declaration from that person’s mouth is required because there’s a very good chance you have no idea what’s in their heart, nor how they view themselves.

Jimmy Dore is leans left but criticizes them when he sees fit. Tucker Carlson leans right but criticizes them when he sees fit. Both get completely mischaracterized by ignoramuses on both sides.

It is much better IMHO simply to comment on something someone has said directly, without trying to apply labels you imagine to be true.
Scaling Robot Learning with Semantically Imagined Experience
> If my actions were the cause of you needing a kidney, then yes I would owe you one.

That's a much weaker argument than the one you were making a few hours ago. Here, I thought that you were making the argument that murder is an unconditional wrong, and putting your body autonomy above providing life-saving aid for me is murder.

Now it seems like it's a very conditional wrong.
That is why we now have incremental linking, hot-code reloading and for the lucky ones on VC++, modules.

This toy application https://github.com/pjmlp/gwc-rs takes about 15 minutes to compile from scratch on a humble Asus 1215B, whereas the C++ original (thanks to having Gtkmm available as binary), takes about 2 minutes.
I'm not sure that "who cares what users want" is a valid product strategy.
> Anyone is welcome to take this course, regardless of background. To get the most out of this course, we recommend that you:

> Completed an introductory course in machine learning (like 6.036 / 6.390). To learn this on your own, check out Andrew Ng’s ML course, fast.ai’s ML course, or Dive into Deep Learning.

Does anyone have a recommendation for one of these options over the others?
What is the best Google Lens alternative?
An app or website that has reverse image search and also can identify specific objects like plants or animals species in images with good OCR and translation capabilities.
That's not protection, that's... payment in advance.
I made my own navigation app... sidekick-app.com; combining Google Map features with video recording, speed camera warnings and traffic sign recognition.

(e.g. accelerating towards STOP sign with speed will generate a sound.)
Why not just use Sendgrid or similar for SMTP emails to customers, get a dedicated IP with them and have way less concern.

I always prefer to isolate those things from the main corporate email and reputation anyway.

You don't want your main domain getting hacked and affecting customer emails or vice versa.
Obsoleting the Trust
We usually talk about building trust when there's a collaboration condition. Yet, there's no single agreed-upon interpretation of trust, but it can be related to confident expectations and a willingness to be vulnerable. Some scholars also define trust as one’s belief and expectation about the likelihood of having a desirable action performed by the trustee.1

In normal day-to-day life, trust is closely related to expectations from others. However, when we try to build trust, it can mean that the condition is trustless.
I'm a former sysadmin and as such can remember the days when it was almost considered fun (at least by nerds) to run your own mail server.

Those days are long gone, and the reason why is that monopolistic companies hate open protocols like email and want to 'monetize' everything they can.
I am glad you'v paid attention to it. Graphic did evolve a lot in the past years and is still evolving. Hope you could keep an eye on it, maybe one day it could meet your needs.
Giving credit to someone for the quotation is called a citation, and it's encouraged.
Sadly, real people say stuff like that seriously. Without anything else to go on it would be unwise to assume the authors beliefs. /s is a helpful way to show that one is being sarcastic and not a serious ignoramus during online discussions that lack other communication channels like body language or inflection.
Out of the park non sequitur.
I've lived there. St. Josephs Island to be specific. I also went to the funeral of more than one person that 'didn't make it' through that kind of condition.
Date-tags typically list the year that an article was written.
These were the top-grossing apps in Google Play Store in 2022 that generated high revenues and continued to build a loyal fan base.
Not trying to be rude, but I can’t decipher what you are saying in the second paragraph. Is infinity blade created using the Ambient engine, or does it have deceptive demo videos, or what? Sorry, not trying to be dense.
A [shitty] lesson learned for the unfair, arbitrary, or flat out incorrect decision-making by others that will affect you throughout life. How we react is what will make us.
>The prime objective of a business is to make profit, everything else is secondary.

can·cer
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noun
1.
a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
"he's got cancer"
2.
a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate.
"gambling is a cancer sweeping across the nation"
This is a good example, but it should be a problem of whoever finds themselves in that situation and not the rest of us. I’m eating a sandwich in Des Moins, Iowa and there’s no reason I should do a mental math of $6.99 + 10% tax + 22% tip. Why not just print the final price? Or at least offer two versions of the menu: for nerds and for the rest of us.
I have built my whole identity on not caring what people think of me, and of me not asking for anything from anyone.

It's lonely.
You don't have to use hardware for passkeys, there are software-only passkeys now, they are even synced to the cloud.
Absolutely, makes sense. We'll make sure to make all security features we ship a first-class citizen of the open source version and available to all customers.
The 2 main things I look at on my car screen are "now playing" and navigation, both of those come from third party apps and both would be handy to have situated between the dials so I don't have to look off to the side
Ask HN: A Social Media for Programmers
I want to build a social media for programmers and just wanted to know wether people would even want something like that. I was thinking that each user could upload either a text post or an image post and the app could contains sub groups of various topics like AI, webdev, UI/UX etc. each user could also add a programming language flair of some sort and this could also be a nice way for employers to find quality programmers. The app can also have various themes to customise/personalise the look of the app for your device.

It could also have a section with tech and programming news, kinda like HN

What do u guys think of this app?
It's a way too common practice by kids to create WhatsApp groups with EVERYONE in their contacts as members.

Then you're just added to a group with complete randos who can immediately see your phone number and they can start posting whatever.

I've had cases where my kid has been added to a group along with older kids and their posts have not been exactly SFW. I've got zero recourse in those cases, I don't know who any in the group are. I taught my kid to remove themselves from any suspicious groups immediately and that has curbed it for now.
It’d be interesting to see this in adjusted real values (ideally asset classes of your choice) rather than proportional percentiles.

It’s one thing if everyone is being lifted up because of efficiency improvements in energy, distribution, etc.

It’s quite another of the top percentiles are engaged in rent seeking and pushing everyone down in the process..
I had a professor who wanted to flunk me for using html/css over flash for a final project.
that silky smooth 10fps video capture, great job rustaceans really knocking this whole "game development" shit out of the park.
Fake investigative journalism "proving" whatever you want people to believe. Alternatively, a critical mass of such "journalism" convincingly arguing for contradicting theories, making people confused and apathetic on the topic of your choice.

I'm afraid that, no matter what the engineers' original intention, if it works well enough, this is what it'll be remembered for.
The app also has a $4 weekly subscription, with $40 annual and $60 lifetime options. As of when I wrote this comment, the app can still be found on the App Store.
Training our next generation on proprietary tools like GitHub isn't the way though. Understanding a VCS (i.e. Git, Mercurial, darcs, Pijul, etc.) is great skill and almost certainly a job requirement, but a specific platform? Its classification as “industry standard” could and should be debated as well.
I don't think it's meant to literally suggest they just went for the summer. Rather "summer job" ("sommerjobb") is commonly used in Norway to mean a second job done while you have time off from your regular duties. The "summer" bit included because the term is most often used for students who have an extra long summer vacation and so has plenty of time to take a short term job.
It’s BAYER Monsanto. BAYER Monsanto.