skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't console gaming always outperformed PC gaming marketshare?

I'm not sure people even really compare costs for videogames. If they did, they'd notice that everytime you buy a new Nintendo system, you have to re-purchase all of your old games if you want to run them on the new platform. You don't have the same problem with PC games.

I'm finding that even 10+ year old PC games are still enjoyable today. Maybe more so than originally because my own hardware has advanced and I can pump up the graphics quite a bit. My back catalog of games in Steam isn't something you get from traditional console makers.
How Barnes and Noble Came Back from Near Death
Half of the fun of playing with one of these is to build it yourself on breadboards and write small programs for it.
Women+ in Data and AI Summer Festival
https://archive.is/4YGTi
I remember my sleep doctor mentioning them as an option, but with a risk of altering the jaw's shape.
In my neck of the American woods, you can't get a sleep study without a referral from a primary care doctor, and they are only done by pulmonologists.

But you can get your testosterone tested no problem!
Why? We might learn about the failure modes of AI.
A thematic inquiry into the role of Shared Mental Models within team chemistry
This is not supposed to be a scalable model, it depends on deep domain expertise of enterprise IT and also would require some hands-on active management and most importantly recruitment. So it is not your usual private equity play "slash everything by 30%" gain short-term profit, flip it, then watch the company close down in a few years time due to morale and lack of growth strategy.

A semi-generalisable strategy to identify the 90% quick wins in consultancy contracts: look at the consultancy contract, anywhere it says Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Data Science think about how you can replace that with an open-source stack run by a competent technology team that you will recruit and what impact scrapping all the data science stuff will have.

The crucial bit in this strategy is to offer a package to this new elite tech team that would be competitive with FAANGs, this will be completely surprising to most management of these companies as they are used to paying their tech stuff garbage when in effect they are paying 10x FAANG salaries via the daily rate of McKinsey consultants.
There are definitely paths of attack. The trivial ones that you call out - insertion, deletion, substitution - are covered in section 7 of that paper (along with mitigations).
I always assumed it was the traffic burst people were trying to avoid — you really think the HN crowd is more toxic than the average internet user?
> In a subsequent phone call, Allen said: “We do take care of our communities, our workers and the environment generally. This is job one for Chevron.”

The only possible way this can be true is if Chevron pays everyone in the effected area $100,000 so they can move out.
I worked for Microsoft back in 2018-2019 and I was in charge of choosing and sponsoring T3chFest. It was BY FAR the event with the highest engage metrics per euro invested.
It was crystal clear that they were a NGO because they did not enforce contracts and deadlines like a professional event organization. But we understood it and tried to help them to cross the corporate hurdles to close the sponsorship deal.
I don’t know what is happening, and I’m pretty sure this is peanuts for Couchbase. They should fix this mess just to avoid the impact in their reputation.
'Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be white.'

...and indeed, it proved exactly that.
This is hardly just an American thing. Everything costs more in rich countries.

Dutch people are crying about housing prices. But it's a fact that they can all get 300k mortgages so prices stay high.
> that sounds like a flop to my book

It would be a flop for a traditional console, but the Steam Deck isn't a console, it's a PC. The reason that consoles need massive sales is because consoles have a limited repertoire of games (at best, they might be backwards-compatible with the previous-generation console), so they need large sales to demonstrate an install base and convince developers to make games for the platform. But if you're compatible with PC software, you don't care about that. Valve doesn't need to entice anyone to make PC games; the install base for the Steam Deck is the entire PC market. And with the help of emulators, a PC has access to multiple orders of magnitude more games than any existing console.

So the metric for success for the Steam Deck isn't to compare it to a console, rather it's to compare it to other specific PC form factors (e.g. a specific model of laptop).
A quick Google search seems to indicate that there are 1.9 billion Muslims in the world. It makes sense to assume they know enough Arabic to recgonise at the very least common religious set-phrases like the Bismillah or the Shahada. In my book this counts as "some degree of Arabic script literacy"
TIL that systemd has a credentials component: https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/
Not to detract from the real thrust of what you're trying to say, but here's a controversial opinion:

Continuing to push first-time programmers towards Python is net long-term harmful. It was excusable in 2013, but shouldn't be happening in 2023.

Konrad Hinsen (who is by no means a Python hater) has several years of blog posts that together make up part of the case for why.

From an earlier, now-deleted comment in response to a comment in a previous thread comparing Python to Go in particular:

> Folks probably _should_ stop writing Python—or at least stop pushing it on non-technical people as the easy path to "learn to code". Python and the Python ecosystem have real problems that make it less suitable for that demographic than is popularly imagined. It's more or less an unfortunate accident of history that so many academics who don't first and foremost consider themselves to be programmers are shunted in that direction. If it weren't for the self-perpetuating science-gets-done-with-Python meme and if things were selected through a sober decisionmaking process that took into consideration the actual merits of the language, its tooling, and accessibility, then Go would be killing Python. Heck, even Pascal would fare well. A focused Pascal distribution that concentrated on things like direct runnability (i.e. no build step required, unless compiling for deployment to other machines) and a few choice language extensions for [...] [Python-like] cuteness would go a long way towards making that a reality.

In re <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850852>

Thinking it over, GDScript seems perfectly positioned to make a dent in the Python problem—at least as a starting point. (Expecting a toy language for a game engine to go anywhere else might seem laughable, but stranger things have happened.)
Would anyone recommend this for purely retro emulation via retroarch? I currently have an Anbernic RG353M which is nice but I'd prefer to have a fully customizable device that is developer friendly.

Can anyone speak to the ergonomics of the dpad and buttons for unforgiving games like some fighting games and platformers? I also suspect the size and weight might prove prohibitive for portability compared to a much smaller retro device?
There can be redundancy in the watermark, meaning you'll have to change more than one word. See e.g. how error-correcting codes work.
I quite liked reading the notably funny conversations. But I'm not sure I want to read everybody's conversation
The escrow is not for you and the print shop, the escrow is for the sponsor and you. If this is a typical case where you have to front the money for printing and then get the sponsor money after the fact, then escrow would protect you from companies deciding they would rather not sponsor four days before the event, and well after things have been printed.

If on the other hand companies usually pay up front for a sponsorship, then escrow would not be needed.
> • The Deck's screen is not OLED, which is pretty dumb in 2023, especially when they have a "nano-texture" option for glare reduction; why not also provide an OLED option??

OLED is very power hungry and gets hot - the Steam Deck is already battery life and thermal constrained without it. Like the Switch, they would need to make the controls further from the screen, making it even bulkier.
>Firstly what makes you think only the best output from 4 will go into future training sets? It’s just as likely to be the most bizarre or ludicrous

That's true now, because LLMs are new so the failure cases are still interesting. If we are talking about a hypothetical world in which LLM outputs are a significant portion of the internet, then most of it would be from reddit comments/tweets/HN posts/buzzfeed articles/etc.

Then if you take only the ones which have more than average views/upvotes/etc. you should expect to get the 'best' results.
Antihistamines make my insomnia worse. They trigger my restless leg syndrome like nobody's business.

Stimulants (prescribed) help me sleep, they shut my brain up.
>> I was not saying that.

So what are you saying then? Clarifying this will save us both a lot of wasted time.
25 Years Ago, Apple Killed the Newton
Banning TikTok
> also keeps me cool (and warm) in the heat.

I literally don't know what that means. Cool and warm are opposites.

And setting aside water, either a garment insulates well or it doesn't. If the former it keeps you warm in the winter, in the latter it doesn't trap heat and is therefore good in the summer. It can't be both. That's just physics.
It was actually kind of vague as to what they did -- they talked about "feeding the textbook to the computer" which may have implied some sort of programming/presolving problems, but later they could literally (as in using voice) ask the computer to solve a math "word problem" and it could.
I'm 53 and have been in the IT Security space since before there WAS an IT security space. I have installed 6 SIEMs, just put a bullet in SIEM number 5 (oddly the first time I'd ben in an organization long enough to both install and uninstall one.) and the Current generation has an on-prem and off-prem installation due to data sensitivity...we're re-doing the on-prem installation for reasons...so I'm kinda at SIEM 6.5

of the first 5...NONE of them are still in existance. I recognize the circle of life nature of my job and have gradually changed my raison de etre from 'Protect the company!' to 'Advance my career!' to 'Pay off my mortgage.'

It was a bitter pill when I realized my job was 'look at magnetic patterns on a spinning disk on a computer half a world away and determine if they were GOOD patterns (company data) or BAD Patterns (bad guys)'.
Architecture is needed for relatively big software, but not all specialized software is this big. I once made an application that got away with being just an html document, no angular I swear, its function was to fill a medical form and print it with IE's builtin printing function.
I find it similar to the MISRA rules that says there should only be a single return in a function.

We make an exception for this at work for checks at the start of a function (eg. NULL, ranges, etc.) and it tends to save an indentation or two. Then generally still follow the single return rule otherwise.
Not GP, but I use virtualhere to forward my steam controller over LAN to my desktop. Moonlight handles controllers fine, but it's forwarding button presses, not forwarding the USB device. This rarely makes a difference unless you're using peripherals that need software.
Because there's no reason it has to be a lab worker involved.

The ground zero wet market in Wuhan is several miles away from the virology lab, and across the river.

The simplest explanation is that one of the 11 million Wuhan residents who do not work at that particular lab brought it to the wet market. It was right before spring festival, lots of people traveling.

Inserting "possible" events that loop in the virology lab while all of the initial infections were nowhere close to it, with no evidence, is just trying to keep "lab leak" alive. Sure, it's possible! We could assume it was lab workers somewhere in the chain, or assume the CIA, we can assume whatever we want.
Oh yeah, saw their comment now, that it's a portable monitor. But I guess the point still stands - this could be a sole computer for many people, if they just attach it to a regular desktop setup.
>You really don't throw two sentences into the thunder dome to decide which one "wins".

That's almost literally what RLHF is though, and that is the last step of training GPT-n. Then when GPT-{n+1} is being trained, it will include some results from GPT-n, and therefore will benefit from that finetuning, even before it goes through its own round of RLHF. Also, on average good outputs of GPT-n are more likely to be included in the training set of GPT-{n+1} (because it ends up as a buzzfeed article or a top post on reddit or something), so there is an additional signal beyond the above.
This seems very similar to what Minecraft does, at least in behavior (not sure about the implementation).
I know that, but I've never understood the PaaS model of just slapping X% on top of the underlying cloud cost. It just invites customers to migrate to the underlying cloud once they're big enough to hire and sustain a dedicated devops team and setup something like k8s.

Surely the amortized costs of the Fly.io platform don't scale linearly with the power of the VMs you rent from them. A 64GiB server won't be twice as expensive to maintain as a 32GiB one. So why not create a model that e.g. consists of a cost per VM/autoscaling group/etc plus whatever the VMs cost?

I'm genuinely interested, I could very well be missing something.
Use uBlock Origin. It saves lives.
This is another example of an adversarial defense that will be useless once the models are trained on input images that have been scrambled like these have.
> nuclear force is really just magnetism

You’re not alone. Grand unification theories [1] like supersymmetry are motivated by unifying the strong and electroweak forces [2][3].

> along with some relativistic effects

This is theory of everything [4] talk. We don’t know enough about gravity to speak coherently about it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction

[3] https://openstax.org/books/physics/pages/23-3-the-unificatio... read me first

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
You're essentially talking about a GUT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory
Why?

Would my salary be higher if I become more productive? No. My salary is fixed. I get my bonus even with a minimal effort.

Will I work less if I become more productive? No. I still have to spend 8 hours par day at work.

Will I get more work to do if I become more productive? Yes. As soon as I report something as finished, I get more work. And expectations grow.

Being more productive doesn't benefit me, my coworkers, even my company or the society as a whole. It only leads to more stress and strain.

Then why would I want to be more productive? I'm fine spending my 35-40 hours "working" and making "work" for me and my coworkers as comfortable as possible.

And when I go home, I'm not tired, but refreshed and ready to go on with my life.

EDIT: I'm saying this as actually one of the top performers at my company. It's politics and bullshitting that gets you more money and promotions, not hard work. But that's the game I refuse to play. Instead, I focus on doing the least amount of work I can get away with. Say "Wally" from Dilbert, but without being an asshole.
The European Union's Official Site Has a Persistent Piracy Problem
"If we want to address the real problem, we need to enact serious privacy laws, not security theater..."

That's the money-quote. And because D.C. is more about theatre than anything serious I'm not expecting the reforms that would actually benefit Americans.
Having to be more and more careful about taking care of your body is the age related factor here.
That's certainly falling well behind theoretical speeds for thunderbolt at least. I wonder if yours is falling back to usb3 or something. I'm not speaking from experience, but that sounds off.
And if stores had meals pre-shopped in bags you could just remove unwanted items from. Grocery stores seem ripe for simple optimizations even without big data
What's the chemical? I don't think I saw it named. How likely is the risk assessment true?
This was a really interesting article on how consultants "jam-up" government projects and prevent in-house expertise/efficiency develop.

https://www.ft.com/content/fb1254dd-a011-44cc-bde9-a434e5a09...
Out sourcing to consultants is not the problem. The problem is that we don't have the ability to manage those consultants. We are also outsourcing management of consultants, including gathering requirements. At no point does anyone get cost control as part of their goals, and in many places they get instructions that are contrary to good cost control.
64 felt a bit too restrictive, so I've bought a 256GB one but ordered a replacement 512GB Samsung NVMe card later (1TB is also available for about $100 but I'm not sure about Deck compatibility and thermals). I'm glad that's an option. It's a peculiar form factor, though, so it took some figuring out.
A lot of software is just like a lot of white collar work - just bullshit moving stuff around.

The key word is most - A good example is many enterprise software companies.

They sell a product made to fit a purpose that someone in power thinks it should, but doesn't qualify whether or not that's the case. The customer is sold the software as an appeal to their ego and supposed needs that they might spend millions of dollars on.

The people on the ground have the software "purchased" for them and they basically are told "it's this or the highway" quarterly releases often leave people head scratching why anyone would give a shit.

Big parties are thrown to celebrate implementations that even in the medium term have no utility and you would been better off spending it on hookers and blow.

There's so much of the industry that's just running on a treadmill.
Bad reasoning. I bet you don't watch Newsmax, but you probably know some things about people who watch Newsmax.

I wanted to make a joke about it being exactly the kind of reasoning a Jacobin reader would use, but I'm refraining.
It's true! Hardware is powerful enough nowadays to run all those needless microservices and containers. ;-)
The Subsumption Theorem in Inductive Logic Programming: Facts and Fallacies [pdf]
My brother was just notified that his monthly subscription cost was going down - he was shocked.

He actually uses Starlink in a major city that only has Comcast cable Internet. The service was so slow and unreliable that he was unable to work from home. He happily switched to Starlink and flipped Comcast the bird.
I don’t think this would be the case.

The event is organised by alumni of the UC3M, a public university in Spain. This year is their 10th anniversary, it isn’t anything new.
Yes, exactly.

There is a piece of code which emits the event :stop-timer, that stops a js timer in the window.

:on-click (fn [_](rf/dispatch-sync [:stop-timer]))

In clojure a map has the syntax

{:key :value}

So this event handler is returning a map which describes the event.

There is then a further function which does the actual event

(rf/reg-fx
:stop-ticker
(fn [[handle]]
(when (not (nil? handle))
(js/clearInterval handle))))

BUt as far as testing goes, you can test the event handler and test that it returns the expected map. The framework is responsible for actually executing the event that is described the event handler and it does it via the name :stop-ticker. Your event handler itself can remain a pure function.
>A plaque at every fence with explanation?

Well, for every fence at the middle of a path that have for example a a commemorative value, that seems a good start. And "warning do not remove" is a rather common thing on places where a danger is expected otherwise.

>Whomever wants to tear the fence down has to do basic research -- visit city hall for the plans, talk to old-timers, check the old newspapers, etc...

I think that qualifies in "someone know why it was put up in the first place, and the rational still hold".

>Therefore, unless you believe that you are smarter than most other people, you should defer to their past decision.

I don’t think smartness matter that much here. It’s all about blindly rel invariably in a cargo cult fashion about everything or keep critical thought vivid when it seems possibly relevant. Someone can be extremely smart and still follow rigorously the cult of the day.

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Some thought experiment now. :)

Say you won a new house, congratulation!

In the middle of the garden, crossed by a path, there is a fence with no door, easy to circumvent, serving no apparent purpose. The planes you where given with the house, duplicate of those from the city hall, don’t mention it. Now, there might many explanation for this situation. One possible rationale would be, the fence used to be larger, possibly even forming a closure some time in the past. But no one know. Will you let let the fence disrupting the path in the middle of the garden? Will you call some expert to diagnose the soils, just in case it might collapse would someone remove the fence?

Also, in the middle of the living room there is a thick wall up to the ceiling, with large space to pass on both side. It’s not mentioned in any plane. Having a unified big living room would be fare more nicer to you. Will you destroy the wall without delay? Or call an expert to determine if this is a bearing wall first, without which the house would collapse?

So this is really largely dependent on context, as usual.
I’m sure it could be, and maybe I am wrong but I know people say rust has a rough learning curve.

I learned C and Typescript before ever touching rust, and I feel like I experienced no rough introduction. Maybe it’s anecdotal, but I always assumed I learned memory and semi-functional programming first, which made rust a breeze.
I need Thunderbolt! I don't hook up my Deck because my desk is built around a TB3 dock. That and USB-C at 4k 60hz isn't a given. Not that I'd run games at that resolution but it's sure nice for desktop mode.
> Some crane operators in NYC apparently make up to $500,000!!

Not totally crazy when you remember how much weight they're dangling above people's heads. If they fuck up they could cause dozens of deaths and many millions of dollars worth of damage in a split instant. The damage a civil planner can do is more subtle and long-term, not quite as easy to recognize and understand as a crane collapsing onto a crowded street.

Still, that's more than (most? any?) airline pilots make. But maybe with some NYC cost of living adjustments it's not such a large gap.
Thank goodness that some of these projects coincidentally got funded via something that could be tied to environmentalism, or it would just be business as usual, and no one would care.

Now there's at least some small chance that the "see, green stuff kills you too" response may cause enough fuss for the US to do what most other developed nations would do as a matter of course in terms of protecting their citizens from pollution.
Kind of odd that they don't mention the obvious solution of floating them down rivers. That's how loggers did it before trains & trucks.
Your paragraph on SSL is basically what I have come to understand so thank you, I just thought I must be stupid or something.