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What games are you being nickle-and-dimed for?

I bought Super Mario Odyssey on release day in 2017 and it's never asked me for more money. In fact I think it got a few free content updates. It's the tightly-made, quality video game experience that it was when it came out.
Would love! Yeah I think how we did the PySpark Map UDF support should enable us to do something similar with Quokka.
Interesting question.
There are:

https://sunwarrior.com/blogs/health-hub/vegan-dha-omega-3-so...
So instead people just stuff all of their infrastructure into one giant region and hope for the best.
Yes, on a PC, although it wasn't much good in comparison to Repton (see other comment) on the Acorn Archimedes.
> Every single pension system has the working population pay for the retirees. Where do you think the money comes from?

Disagree.

Counter-examples:

401k in the US

Second pillar in Switzerland.

The money comes from the people saving and investing their own money for their old age.

Shocker, I know.
I don’t know, people who go too hard on simplicity often don’t even grasp the underlying problem in a given case (looking at this utterly dumb piece of text as an example: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/) - sure, no sane people would want to deliberately introduce complexity/abstractions, but abstraction is the only weapon we have against complexity. Problems have an inherent complexity which simply cannot ever be reduced. If you do have to make it work, what else can you do?

I think go is a good example for this fallacy, it claims that it is a simple language, but ad absurdum asm should also be trivial to understand as every line is also easy to grasp, right? Low expressivity just creates chaotic complexity, won’t reduce it.
Considering Amazon-owned Ring's very close relationship with law enforcement agencies, this isn't surprising but very alarming. Everyone should read this and contact your elected officials.
At the end of the day, I find that there are only ever two problems:

* Building the right thing

* Building the thing right

At every company, one of these two questions will be harder than the other and that has a big determination on the relative power/impact of the PM/EM. You have companies like Github for example where the early days customer empathy came almost for free so it was a very EM driven culture. And you have very emotionally designed products like Instagram where PM pre-eminence came from the top.

Every PM/EM relationship is divvying these two tasks with a bias of BTRT going to the PM and BTTR going to the EM but it's never a clean dividing line between the two.

In general, just do what makes sense for the team and know each other's strengths and weaknesses and especially where there are areas of mutual weakness as an area to be careful and invest more effort in.
I have recently written a paper on understanding machine learning via the lens of Hopf algebra https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834.

Hopf algebras (which are really just tensors with recurrence relations built in) subsume convnets, transformers and diffusion model and also provide a theoretically better autodiff that operates within single layers as opposed to across entire graphs.

Furthermore, there is a correspondence between Hopf algebra and cyclical linear logic and Hopf algebras are related to zonotopes, which are polyhedra that have been used in verified numerical computation. I'm strongly convinced the LL connection can provide proofs over zonotopes which paves the way towards interpretable AI and will be central for XAI.

I know this sounds too good to be true but Persi Diaconis has also written a paper that shows how useful Hopf algebras are in the context of Markov chains https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3620

I'm working on a next gen Hopf algebra based machine learning framework.

Join my discord if you want to discuss this further https://discord.cofunctional.ai.

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red_trumped: What about Hopf algebras do I not understand?

gaze: Haha, it's been a while since I have commented about QC. What do I not understand about it? And what comment are you referring to?
Mandatory pension schemes remove the option to defect and spend money that "should" go toward retirement to instead compete in zero-sum games for benefit today for yourself and your kids (say, housing in good school districts, tuition, et c.). That part's pretty nice.
> One cool thing we learned was how quickly you can Hibernate and wake up x86 EC2 instances. That ended up being a game-changer for us.

Could you talk more about it? Are you keeping a cache of hibernated EC2 instances and re-launching them per request? What sort of relaunch latency profile do you see as function of instance memory size?
Having a hot water heater isn't the equivalent of going off-grid in a meaningful way.

You are talking about incremental improvements.
> disconnecting from the grid is not permitted

In the context of the OP, which is a federal agency, whether or not you can build a house that is disconnected from the electrical grid is determined first by your local laws, and secondly by your state laws. You can certainly build houses in the US that aren't on the electrical grid, demonstrating that there's no federal prohibition against it.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case the reason should be obvious to anyone who's familiarized themselves with the intended spirit of this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935.
They won't be voted down though. I made two rude comments about Musk in this thread and they got almost 60 upvotes between them.
The field needs better foundations. CT is pretty good.
Vote with your feet (i.e: walk away from it all), it's the only option.
Increasing my sugar intake helps me exercise more and be healthier overall.
Fake sugars are worse than sugar being added to food. They are not the solution to that. Anyone bringing that up is strawmanning. (I bring it up only because many posters are seemingly saying, hey at least fake sugar combats extra added sugar in bread and stuff).

Food with added sugar - at least it will give you energy to go do something with. Whether or not you do is up to you. Fake sugars mislead your body into thinking it just acquired energy to go do things. It has no good longterm purpose. Being low energy and hungry and ingesting fake sugar to stave off that feeling is misunderstanding the problem.

That's my experience over 7 years of trying to lose weight and be healthy long term. I had a diet soda/fake sugar phase in there and it worked for a few years maybe, but I am better off overall abandoning that whole idea.
Just so you're aware of its existence: https://www.wordtune.com/read
I'm happy to hear that the Fairphone is getting regular updates, and I'm very happy with my Fairphone 4.

And it's still possible to switch to LineageOS if you want to. (I've been meaning to try, but haven't had the energy to do it.)
You don't. You have the option of selling your iPhone and buying a phone that runs Grapheme, which will run anything you wish.
It’s the same scheme that has existed for all of humanity: the tribe’s young people work to provide for the children and elders. No one was retiring by hoarding a pile of gold. The tribe is just bigger now.
Fake sugar is not the solution to that.
> it doesn't fundamentally solve the problem that [...]

Is that the "fundamental" problem being solved, though? Or is it just an externality that needs to be addressed? It seems like the "fundamental" problem here is trying to maximize deployment of renewable generation, and that construction like this is a great step in that direction. (Not the least of which because it pushes the investment required onto consumers willing to bear the costs, and "generates jobs" in the process. Siting a new wind farm is a ton more complicated, and let's not even talk about the difficulty of installing a scratch-built reactor.)

I mean, it's true, that at the end of the day home energy generation is just PV solar, and PV solar doesn't behave like gas plants and that needs to be addressed at the grid level. But that's not an argument against PV solar, it's just an engineering problem.
Actually rooftop solar isn't dirt cheap where we are. And typically requires an electric service upgrade - you also need to make sure you aren't near the end of your roof life as you'll need to upgrade your roof as well.

I'm all for it where it makes sense but it isn't a blanket statement.
How did you even start optimizing Civ4? Did you replace some exported dll functions with your own? How did you access the state in memory?
Europe can not continue to rely on natural gas and fossil fuels for the next 20-30 years, nor will the climate goals be reached if power consumption and thus gas consumption are increased.

Gas peaker plants are also not cheap. People think they are cheap when looking at the theoretical cost, but having energy plants in stand-by mode costs a lot of money. Generally those are paid by either taxes or as part of the grid connection cost because governments will pay a lot of money to have grid stability. In theory we could remove those subsidizes and let the market pay to have grid stability, but no governments in Europe do this.

Europe also do not have any easy access to natural gas. The only country would be Norway. Being energy self-sufficient is important from a geopolitical perspective and I doubt anyone is unaware about the strong connection between current wars and fossil fuels. Nuclear fuel can be both mined and constructed in EU, the fuel is much less sensitive to geopolitical events, and the diversity in the nuclear fuel production chain is fairly good. Countries can much easier store up decades worth of fuel.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
Buying affordable medicine is a crime not because there is a health risk, but because you are engaging in copyright infringement. You aren’t paying your toll to the Nice Men who bought their right to monopoly.
The original Boulder Dash, made by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray was an amazingly made game for its time.

The most astonishing part was how much "physics" and enemies the game was able to animate at the same time, several screens of elements, rocks, diamonds and enemies, there was no apparent limits on the number of animated stuff, on a 8 bit machine running as low as 1Mhz that was impressive.

The clever trick was the use of cellular automata. The next state of all cells (including badguys and lava) can be computed by looking at the 8 neighbors cells, a simple double buffer to avoid overwriting updates and voilà.
They were flagged—correctly—by users. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935.
These pensions were bankrupt the minute they were implemented - the capital appreciation rates were completely insane to start, and have only looked worse as time rolls on (which, I have to stress, is extremely tough to imagine). Delusion around pension portfolios eclipses all but the most insane crypto scams.

Quite a bit of my university work in the early 2000s revolved around studying and modeling pension-type retirement plans, primarily in the United States (Chicago and Philadelphia mostly come to mind), but a little in foreign countries. While EU pensions tend to be in worse positions, it's a distinction without a difference: Pension reform is basically impossible. Catastrophic bankruptcy and refusal to pay benefits is coming to a theatre near you, because the political will to even begin meager cuts (and so-called "drastic" cuts are indeed merely meager) does not exist.

Politicians who propose meaningful cuts to pensions are guaranteed a single term in office while the candidates waiting in line promise to keep the Ponzi scheme going.
Slack messages are all about emojis: here are 10 emojis that Slack employees use
I flagged it. That has very little to do with my decision to comment or not.
So it seems in practice the main way you achieve this certification is to dramatically cut heating losses by using a lot of insulation and make the house essentially air-tight. Obviously you can’t have an air-tight house for very long, you need fresh air. So you have explicit vents for incoming and outgoing air, and you run the incoming air (which is fresh, but not the temperature you want) through a heat exchanger with the outgoing air (which is stale, but is at the temperature you want). This recovers most of the heat you put into your inside air, so you need very little heating to maintain the desired temperature.

This is actually a really good thing, I think. The minimum airflow rating these houses have to meet is of course going to be suboptimal, but the hard part of airproofing is already done and it’s easy for the homeowner to simply beef up the heat exchanger and air pump to get ideal airflow. The homeowner can also install an air quality filter on the airpump and now their entire house has filtered air. Great way to get that PM2.5 level down to where it should be!
Right. Kids who answer the “wrong way“ from top to bottom got answers 1 and 100 incorrect, but correctly answered questions 2 through 99 and score 98/100.

Kids who read the last question and leave the rest blank get two questions correct for a score of 2/100.

On a typical test the blast radius for a question is limited. There is no convention that getting a question wrong alters the outcome for other questions, too.
I'm saying that as a US-based HN reader, like most HN readers, it's a big assumption to guess what the HR law might be in this case. Does Twitter even have an office in Iceland (a country with the population of Sunnyvale)? If not, whatever the law may be might be unenforceable.

I can't even guess what the law in Iceland might be. On one hand, it seems generally a pretty reasonable place. On the other hand it's a small place and won't have the time, bandwidth or interest in passing as many laws as bigger places do.

Are you from Iceland? I wonder if they have a kind of default rule that says "in this area, if we don't have our own law we adopt the one of X (say DK or EU)"
CTE and TVF still treat tables as second class citizens, so while they enable some forms of composition, they're still very restricted. This has been the consistent story with SQL, 15 ways to use queries and tables, all to work around the limitation that they are not first class values.
I have like 4k hours on Splatoon and I have to say that while you're not wrong, I wouldn't quite characterize it as doom and gloom. 2 was worth $60, the DLC content was worth... what was it even? The 3 DLC is $25. Anyway, the 2 DLC was worth the much larger more difficult higher replay value solo content. All of 3s content is achievable if you play it often and none of it is in any way "needed". If anything they've loosened things up a bit by making gear easier to customize, making it easier to acquire the stuff with which you do the customization. Even people with half the time as me at the end of 2 had maxed out their money and owned everything. What's the point in having money if it's trivial to buy everything? While now they have pass mechanics in place, previous seasons content is available in new seasons albeit from a gacha machine.

I guess what I'm trying to say is yeah they have the essence of some problematic mechanics at work but if anything I find navigating them to be rewarding and not limiting. In this case they're not even really behind the industry, they're kind of lateral just lacking real money. I think this is an interesting position to be in, my big concern is they may be training players to feel good about these systems and then in S4 they allow you to put real money in...
Consider adding 2021 to the post title, for clarity. Anyhow, interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
While I do like Rust, let’s not forget that it indeed “forbids” to a degree many code/lifetime structures that are extremely common in basically every other language.

I believe the tradeoff for this in Rust’s niche is absolutely acceptable, but it is still a tradeoff and might not be the correct choice in certain cases.
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That change was a reaction to practices that were built-up on the previous few decades. When you reach a saturation point, change happens fast, but it's not fast overall.
This solution doesn't require the installation of software, or any changes to the existing workflow.
Yes, it's definitely a wand-waving thing, though I have to ask whether or not it's worse to have a PM with little eng experience, or an engineer with no...PM skills?

I submit that the former is worse based on prior experience, but it's just a hunch, and possibly a bias on my part.
> Argentinian

Takes one to know one
It has to be an online service until they get the models more refined and hardware advanced enough that you can run these locally. If you can't run the model locally then it might as well be a service you tie into at the service (eg. github) level. That is, IMO, services are most useful with other services.
The level storage system was also interesting.

Each level was generated from a random seed and then patched with rectangles of constants, all stored in a kind of RLE style encoding, it was very memory efficient.
Here is the actual paper[0] the article is referencing.

Check the "Conclusions and future work" section specifically. The authors say that the correct way to prevent manual disabling of the camera LED indicator is by using a hardware solution.

Which makes me believe that the hardware solution you are referencing was simply not a thing in pre-2008 models (which the paper is talking about) and got added later.

P.S. Found this old reddit thread[1], saying that starting with the 2009 model, the official specs started calling out the hardwired LED indicator, so I assume that 2009 was the year it got introduced. Which aligns with the timeline of the research paper.

0. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

1. https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5kg6hf/is_the_webcam_led...
When the current crop of retirees were in peak earning periods, there were something around 6-8 workers per retiree. Data on France isn't super easy to come by.

By 2030 this is expected to be about 2, which is better than I expected. You would need massive productivity gains inside the span of the past 40 years to make up 4-6 workers per retiree in labor.

The fact I have 4-6 less cousins my age to sell my labor to to help take care of grandma doesn't seem to offset that huge amount of labor now needed to be expended on largely unproductive tasks. We went from 4-6 people pitching in to help out grandma each day to just myself. If you look at that in hours vs. dollars, the problem starts to become quite apparent to me. I don't feel I'm 500% more efficient at what I do than my elders.

Perhaps we've innovated so well that we can now support old folks with a fraction of the labor, but I'm skeptical. Fixed costs seem rather fixed, and from where I'm sitting I think a whole lot of that "innovation budget" has been spent already on rising expectations of minimum quality of living.
A strategy that I've seen suggested that works very well for me is to just look at your feet. You don't need to care about where people bodies are, bodies follow feet, watch your steps, not only you won't step on or get stepped on, but you are also less likely to hit other people.

I also won't see your hands up.

I think part of the reason hands up work is also simply because you take less space with your hands up (you body becomes narrower overall).
Currently, remote US & CA
Like I said, in the pandemic the work of hospital and grocery staff mattered but these jobs aren't valuable because they are heavily underpaid.
If they would have stopped working matters would have got way worse.
This isn't true for 99% of software developers and 100% of athletes.

Some athletes on the other are overpaid and their sport doesn't really matter.

And by matter I mean are necessary for survival.
I wrote this post because I wanted to know what effect one of the main latent diffusion model parameters -- the classifier guidance scale (cfg_scale) -- was having on the sampling process.

As well as smoothly varying the cfg_scale, I think it would be fascinating to do some mechanistic interpretability on latent diffusion models. Something like the microscope tool OpenAI used to have for convnets: https://microscope.openai.com/models
I mean, if chairs were things with formal specifications, and that specification said so, yeah.

But in this universe, no.
As one is far more likely to notice what one dislikes or disagrees with, this kind of perception is unreliable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'd be interested in more about Generic as that section went over my head though it's not an issue with your blog but rather inept knowledge on my part.

I find it quite interesting though I never had the time to study it further until now, so any recommendations are appreciated!
Seconded - I stopped drinking anything sweeter than kombucha about 10 years ago, and now soda is utterly disgusting. My coffee and tea are unsweetened, and if I drink orange juice, I water it down to 1 part juice, 3 or 4 parts water.
Sugar no longer tastes like a pleasurable treat, it's cloying and unpalatable. Even sweet food is gross - especially candy. Chocolate has to be 65% or darker.

The intersting part is, since we rarely have candy or sweetened foods in the house, my 5 year old child actually prefers popcorn to ice cream, and likes plain cereals like Smart Bran and Ezekiel. He has a bucket of candy from Halloween this past October and he hasn't eaten more than 2 pieces of it. He like his chocolate at least 72% dark.

You can get used to not consuming sugar, it just takes effort to find products without it.
In large swaths of the US, you don't have a choice about what ISP you have available. If you happen to have a shitty one (and most aren't great), there's nothing you can really do about it.
Amazon worker loses bid for California class action over remote work expenses
The problem is that if your company is routinely hiring people on their accolades (or just trust me bro) alone, you'll eventually end up with people who _can't_ merge linked-lists. The FAANG model of making people solve BS programming puzzles at least guarantees that a person is a try-hard or is capable of slinging some code, which its own issues aside is better than the baseline of charlatans who don't know anything. Outside of FAANGs I've routinely interacted with fairly senior engineers who just could not code, period, full stop. Maybe you can scale to 100s of engineers without the stupid interview gimmicks, but you won't hire 1000s engineers who _can_ actually code without ascertaining that they posses some logic, and if their rote memorization is so good as to be indistinguishable from general intelligence, so be it, they're passing the turing test :)
haha, I use IRC all the time but don't necessarily disagree. Imagine if we could post images to HN! Or wait...
Is Economics Self-Correcting?
I think they are saying the app could be a pre-commit hook where their API is hit before code goes up to remote
Whose labor is giving those investments value? Who's doing the labor that gives those IOUs (dollars) value even if you just stick them in a savings account and don't invest them? It's not retirees.
I've begun tinkering with GhostBSD lately just to learn more about BSD. Pleasantly surprised to find a lot of familiar linux audio tools were ported or can be easily made to work. Also happy that my ancient Presonus AudioboxUSB works fine in BSD. So much so that I get less random audio glitches than I do under windows 10.