skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the classic problem with CO2 certificates.

By its nature, the incentive with CO2 credits is to find the company who most optimistically thinks that the most CO2 can be removed for the least money. You then pay that company, and take a credit for how much CO2 that they think was removed. This is an incentive that rewards fraud.

In an effort to not become too fraudulent, the industry has created certification groups with names like Clean Development Mechanism, Verified Carbon Standard, Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, and American Carbon Registry. Each tries to look as respectable as possible, while being paid to sign off on credits.

Some environmental groups think it is worthwhile to work with these. So the WWF worked with Gold Standard and says it is best in class (though imperfect), and recommends against some others (particularly Clean Development Mechanism). Other environmental groups see the incentives for greenwashing as too bad to be involved with, such as https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/50689/carbon-....

But the fundamental incentives are such that even the best programs will erode over time. Even if Gold Standard is good now (which is not obvious), I would bet money that it will not be as good in 10-20 years.

So, buyer beware.
PBS is essentially corporate media, getting ~15% of its budget from government. NPR is even less at ~2%.

Corporate vs. public ownership matters a lot less than institutional standards and the org's cultural commitment to a rigorous journalistic mission. BBC has a relatively strong commitment; NPR (my favorite whipping boy for bad journalism packaged as Thinky Stuff) does not.
I made the switch to macOS with my last job change for the first time because of the M1 and I'll give two notes from my experience: the terminal is still very awkward compared to a proper Linux environment + will still need a bunch of tweaking and Crossover tends to run the random Windows app better/more conveniently than Parallels (which has been the best VM experience on Apple silicon so far).

Overall it's great but don't go into thinking it's terminal focused or bug free just because it's not Windows and has a *nix background. It's more like trading one set of weird decisions for another, albeit with less attempts to gather your data or sell you things (but not 0 attempts). The hardware lives up fully to the hype though.
There are headshots of employees on OpenAI's website which include black people.
I watched it 4 times. Only then I started to understand what's happening. How great and unique this movie really is.
I've visited Scotch disilleries and they will all tell you to enjoy Scotch however you like, and that adding water can indeed open up the flavor and aroma. They encouraged you to try it! One person did caution about putting ice in your spirits since very cold liquids could numb or mute your tastebud sensitivity a bit.
This is a hard article to read, as you say, this man's a butcher.
> What parts are slow for you?

Not OP, personally the Steam UI seems to freeze in the following cases for me:

- when opening or scrolling my library, as the icons load in (~400 games)
- when trying to install a game (delay until the install dialog pops up)

The other slowness feels inconsequential, like when opening a store page or launching a game - on par with what you'd get when an average web app is loading or an Electron app is being launched.

Pretty much every other store out there has been worse in comparison, GOG Galaxy seems to be reasonably close to me though, Origin and Epic are both slower in my experience.
One could also argue that the courts and/or government are tilted in favor of one false narrative over the other, and thus refuse to investigate or hear arguments against their chosen channels.

I'm not arguing that this is or is not true, but the argument you're making here is not philosophically different from "if they were bad people then bad things would happen to them; since bad things aren't happening to them they must not be bad people". The reality is that bad people escape punishment all the time, especially when their bad actions benefit the people who should be responsible for punishing them.
They've been flying surveillance drones along the same paths over the Black Sea for more than a year now - they leave their transponders on and you can look up the flight paths online (try FORTE11, for example). The US doesn't care if the Russians know where the drones fly out of.
As someone who teaches, kids need a variety of learning styles to do well. There's a time and place to sit down and do a worksheet or rote work, such as when practicing your times tables. Equally, there's a time and place to do exploration with real world projects.

Teaching is about knowing when and what will be most effective. It's also about demonstrating how to act like decent person, and providing a space for them to learn how to work with others.

Most teachers do spend their time fighting the abhorrent curriculums we have to work within, so dumping that and doing something like this has benefit, but going all in on constructivist methods will leave kids with large gaps if you're not careful.
>Surely future states inevitably correlate with past states?

He means to correlate through effects going the future -> past direction...
Apologies, I wasn't being serious - an attempt at wordplay.
> Certainly the rise of LLMs and generative AI isn't going to be all bad, but I've also got a feeling that not as many software developers will be needed soon since those who can leverage LLMs will experience a pretty decent productivity boost.

OTOH, software development will become significantly cheaper. That means the business case for using software in more places just tilted in favor of throwing some software at it. You'll see more and more businesses using it, ones you didn't expect, like local mom and pop businesses.

Yes, it's going to be different but I don't think we know exactly what is going to happen yet.
Not really. It's simply not as user friendly from a UI bugs perspective. That's not to say Linux is bad (I love it and Arch Linux is my daily driver), but open source projects simply don't have the number of QA and Design bodies that MS and Apple can devote to UX.
Relatedly, m.xkcd.com is still one of the best ways to (re-)read long segments of xkcd comics because it moves the alt-text into an expando and is otherwise nicely clutter free truly focusing on the comics.

https://m.xkcd.com/1053/

Also, sometimes the Explain xkcd wiki is super handy (and also just includes the alt-text and also even explains the alt-text).

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousan...
Tech Won’t Save Us: Why We Must Resist AI
Certification authorities find it easier to approve credits for worthy causes. Because even if the science is lacking, at least something worthy happens.

This doesn't improve my trust in the overall system though.
> No one is bringing a raw Blu-Ray signal into the back of their TV over Ethernet though— Netflix's 4K streams cap out at around 16mbps, which is a tiny fraction of that.

Who cares about internet streamers? Plenty of us definitely are bringing raw Blu-Ray signals in to the back of our TV over ethernet. Disk space is cheap, transcoding is slow and lowers the quality, so when I rip my movies I just do what the pirates call a "remux" where I keep the exact same audio and video streams as are on the disc and just slap them in to a MKV container for my convenience.

It's not super common for UHD Blu-Rays to crack 100mbit/sec but the spec allows for up to 144mbit/sec. I've casually looked in to it in the past and AFAIK Gemini Man is the current leader, with regular spikes to the 120mbit/sec range and one scene transition actually violates the spec by my count, hitting over 150mbit/sec.
it all goes back to joel on software from 2002:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
>We're talking about physics, not mathematics.

Mathematics still apply.
OCC says Crypto bank Protego missed requirements for national trust charter
on the quantum level sure, but on the macro level it's just idealism
Year of linux on the desktop, here we come!!
Scraping Reddit and writing data to the Datasette write API
Anecdote from my partner: Allergies come and go, they're not necessarily permanent even if you don't treat them.
It wouldn't be mechanically possible to support multiple generations[1]. That's not the only issue with mixing generations.

There are also some interesting electrical engineering problems around driving the bus as you add more SIMMs; probably need multiple CPLD/FPGA memory controllers beyond a certain point. Clocking gets interesting as well. Not impossible, just complicated for an amateur; I know I have problems getting thing to work reliably over 33MHz or so.

[1] https://www.simmtester.com/News/PublicationArticle/168
> Depositors can be made whole without receiving little green pieces of paper.

However, in principal The bank promises redeemable cash, that's why people stay in banks. But it's a lie. Again bank runs exist because of this lie.

Everybody knows the Fed screws it all up. A wire transfer among competing banks would make the competing bank demand that the other bank redeem the transfer in green paper money.

However, because the Fed is the bank of banks, it just becomes number a change on the balance sheet of the fed.
It's hype for sure but for AI I can think of a ton of real-world use cases whereas all crypto use cases sounded pretty contrived. I think AI will be a revolution of the scale of the internet or even bigger. Maybe the current version of ChatGPT is flawed but the possibilities are there. I am thinking analyzing long contracts, writing letters, verifying system requirements and tests and so on. The potential seems endless.
Still faster than using the Epic Store app. The GUI is incredibly responsive
I read a weekly news magazine (think Time, Newsweek, The Economist) for that reason. No need for AI, actual people can give you a weekly update!
This was a very Russian and unprofessional move. I just wonder what can be done to take down the Russian jet along with the drone.

US F15s took down a Mi-24 Hind that shot unarmed civilians in Iraq by flying close to it and blinding the crew with onboard lasers. They weren't allowed to engage. The USAF promptly reacted by banning any flights below 3000 m.
I just had a chat with Samsung support. They seem pretty clueless about the whole thing, and brushed off the disclosure on the semiconductor.samsung.com site as "not the official Samsung USA site".

There doesn't seem to be a user-friendly way to determine for sure which chipset you have. I think at the very least, Samsung ought to publish a little app for that immediately.
Can't this be reversed by static analysis? Most approaches focus on the source, but IIRC there are also bytecode tools for at least Java
As long as you get 2 years out of it per upgrade it's still cheaper to get a new perpetual license.
I'm not sure how impressed the average kid would be comparing dated, underpowered with current Minecraft

also, I never understood the meme but can it run Minecraft? since the game engine and mods can be pushed as far as you want on latest high-end hardware, and does struggle/gives bad playability on low-end hardware

that said they have made an outstanding effort to at least make the game run on potatoes, even if it looks less glamorous
You have to realize that, based on that description, you're a tiny rounding error on the total US domestic market.
I get the sense that you think I'm saying more here than I actually am. I'm not proposing that this is the only kind of news that should exist, only that it would be nice if it existed for the kind of people that want to read (only) this kind of news.

And I'm generally in agreement that most attempts to quantify 'truth' in media are hopelessly dependent on personal bias---but this mostly shows up in category #2 in my list. In things where you'd never know the difference if it were true or not, because it would never affect you either way.

The reason I thought a news service like this would work better as a government service than a private entity is because a government news service's commitment to the principles I listed could be defined by enforceable laws. "Likely to materially affect people" is something that you could reasonably argue about in a courtroom, just as much as other fuzzily-defined legal concepts like libel or false advertising.

I'm imagining a news agency whose legal responsibilities were defined in such a way that it could be sued if one of the following happened:

1. It reports something that no reasonable person would believe meets the criteria.

2. Readers experience some kind of material harm that could have been avoided if they had read news reported in another outlet but not this one. And this harm is not the result of the reader being in some very small minority of readers (say, <1%), because after a certain point this will always be true for things that affect a very small number of people.
Yeah, I had looked up the term to double-check before posting, but I felt that it didn’t quite fit as a developer picking Unreal was unlikely to also use Unity for a game.
Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups
> Teaching is the act of understanding where your audience is in the learning process, and leading/guiding them through that journey in a kind and patient way.

But the article is written as instructions for asking questions to non-teachers, and is a flawed but generally decent guide to that. I'm an educator turned software engineer and one of the difficult parts of that transition was learning that I had to stop answering most questions that weren't "worth answering". While I'd love to teach the people answering these questions I don't have the time, it's not my job, and often the ROI is low (many people asking questions don't want to spend the effort needed to learn, they want a problem to be solved for them).
The LLM Problem
maybe it's not just a launcher
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So the code that was written by the AI in the video doesn't actually work as written?
Lutris is also an alternative. They use GTK if I'm not mistaken.

https://lutris.net/games/epic-games-store/
Well I don't understand the nitroglycerin reference and of course "computationally universal" doesn't mean "sentient" but the point is when you add the external memory they (Flan-U-PaLM 540B to be specific) have been demonstrated to be capable of simulating a specific, well defined Turing machine without special training. There are some other papers out there arguing this from a theoretical angle too, but this is the one whose title I quoted:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589
Thank you for taking your time to write this up. For someone with a new-found interest in AI, this is invaluable information.
People know about it.

But in principle the bank is suppose have cash redeemable.

Would you ever put money in a bank that you know for a fact will never be able to redeem your money ever??
I really regret this passing. He was one of those actors who I could always expect to turn in a solid performance no matter where he appeared. For me, I found his work in FRINGE to be absolutely top-notch.
According to the FAQ, you are not allowed if you are an _experienced_ professional.

When is somebody an "experienced" professional? 1 yoe? 2 yoe?
Small feedback for whoever created that graph: Mac OSX was renamed to MacOs 7 years ago.

Larger feedback: Why is iOS on that graph? It's supposed to be desktop software but it shows a small spike for it a few years ago.
How would you incentivize poor countries to keep their dense vegetation instead of cutting it down for cash crops and pastures?
Hey, more people installing the Epic Games Launcher is probably the win. Platform neutrality, or its specter, probably wins for us.

It’d be much more offensive to our sensibilities if it were like the situation on iOS where Amazon is available, but “no way will we let you buy a Kindle book unless you reopen the store in a web browser.”

(Because yeah… apple sells all the books I want to read, in their very cool bookstore that I haven’t seen in more than half a decade.)

At any rate. Anyone serious about godot is probably compiling it or getting the official release artifacts. This seems like something Epic probably couldn’t justify turning down as window dressing for the unreal store. I’m for it anyway.

Edit: more optimistically, if the GUI framework were slightly easier to use, Godot is a very attractive tools development platform. Maybe that factors in.

Perhaps for end-user tooling, like map editors. Obviously Epic is motivated to keep devs inside Unreal for as many internal dev tasks as are feasible.
Oh, so maybe I misunderstood what I was seeing. It wrote pseudo-code that makes sense conceptually, not code that I can paste in Jupyter and run (given the right imports)?

That sure wasn't obvious from the video.
Ya insurers are price takers. They’re fine being the bad guy though—your employer picks them, not you.

It’s unpopular to point fingers at provider orgs.
We went on a factory tour at Cabot Creamery in VT several years ago, and they were packaging an off-label that day. The guide didn't specify what store it was for, but we thought we recognized it. When we went to TJ's the next week, we saw that same exact packaging on the shelves.
Then again, I also encounter people who use all sorts of patterns and abstractions that they learned in university, the code is actually an overengineered mess, but they refuse to believe there's a problem because they followed all of the patterns!

After all how could code be bad if it follows a pattern?
I do have some gum recession, and a lot of fillings.
My wife has better dental health, even though she gives her teeth less attention than me in terms of hygiene.
But I've also found articles online about spreading cavities. Here is an example.

> Dental caries, commonly known as tooth decay, is the single most common chronic childhood disease. In fact, it is an infectious disease. Mothers with cavities can transmit caries-producing oral bacteria to their babies when they clean pacifiers by sticking them in their own mouths or by sharing spoons.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140220112402.h...
Nice one guys! Congrats on the launch!
The FAA raised a huge stink recently because they weren’t ready for 5G rollout and were worried that the altimeter radar would give false readings on approach to landing.

Agencies — even when in the wrong — can throw their weight around and demand that the FCC ban things.

Consumers like you and me have no real representation in government so we have no political clout and can’t throw our weight around to demand simpler legislation.
The whole point of using them is that they work at very high voltages and are very, very cheap. For low voltages there are just many more controllable and consistent ways of switch.

Simple thyristor and cap bank for example. Or just transistor and controller.
Not raw numbers, but the percentages of market share by desktop platform are listed here: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st... Mac is supposedly at 29.62%
We all need to save up money and think of a plan B. If there is no problem, worst case you'll have a bunch of money saved and a plan B you won't be using.
Before buying 365, did you try LibreOffice?
I think it also sends a message to Godot users to publish their games in Epic's store.
Anyone who thinks an AI "teacher" is going to successful educate even the top 10% of students is insane. Maybe the top 5% in the class have enough outside support to make an AI teacher improve their grade.

The rest will just laugh at being told what to do by an AI chat bot.

The TEACHER may well benefit from being able to plan a lesson with an AI, but i guarantee, no education system will improve grades by letting an AI loose with kids as a replacement for a human teacher.

I'm sure it will be tried as a way to avoid funding education sufficiently. Can't have the population too well educated, they might work out how they are really getting screwed.
What happened in 2019 that an "unknown" OS took over 10% share?
Important to note: the contributions in question are a $250k megagrant. Throwaway money for Epic, but major for the small Godot team.

$250k for good PR and not being viewed as anti-competitive is an exceptional deal when you consider Google is doing the same to the tune of $400 million for Firefox.

Also in the short term Unreal's dominance matters, but in the long term it really doesn't. Epic has spent the absurd levels of Fortnite money trying to establish itself as additional integral layers for developers/creators so that even if Unreal stops generating any revenue it'll be fine.
Yeah, it's not a way to 100% obfuscate the functionality, but instead it could be more of a way to throw off someone looking at the binary
OS? I don't have freezes, with more games (though most are in closed categories). Galaxy is second best for me as well, but it's also the only other app trying.

I don't remember any install freezes, but I wouldn't bet on that one.
Concerns about teens having sex "too early" or even at all seem timeless to me. Abstinence-only education still exists in large parts of the country and may always exist in some (or pendulum back and forth forever between that and not-that). "Promise rings" were a big deal when I was in high school a mumble number of decades ago, and I just recently, randomly saw some recent "Disney Channel show" with a Promise Ring sub-plot.

If anything, this maybe dates you more than the comic and your distance from teen experiences and their parents fretting about them endlessly.
> the software was so slow it was completely unusable

Which version? I just moved from Windows 11, but Office 2010 was flying: Word opened faster than Wordpad!

> I had to buy a 365 subscription.

I refuse to do that, and TBH that's why I moved to linux on the desktop (actually, the laptop)

I want my software subscription free, working offline, and independant from the OS.

Wine does just that, and now my licensed Office 2010 that I got for cheap NIB on ebay will be with me forever.
Got me jobs, helped me hire other people, got me a ticket to some of the big technology debates and then helped me win one or two. Gave me a place to write cat obituaries and heavy-metal reviews. Launched Feb 27, 2003 (20 years last month) and I haven't regretted it for a microsecond.

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Given you seem to know a lot about this, what's the main reason why Unreal is great at high end AAA, while Unity is not?
I built something like this years ago. It's just on the edge of roll-your-own-solution.

I definitely agree with your approach of auto mocking the database and/or third party services too. That's what I did with my home rolled solution.

Happy to see more projects in the space. Generating tests by snapshot including the DB and service calls always seemed like the obvious way to go for me.

As a dev I'm not keen on using services which I could easily replicate so this would have to be both substantial and cheap/free for smaller teams.
Particularly when it comes to 2D games development! Fracturing that space is far more beneficial for Unreal than it is for Unity. Unreal, at least from my understanding, is awful for 2D. I'm playing around with 2D game development in Unity now and it's insanely easy to get started. I think the same goes for Godot where 2D dev work is a first-class citizen.
Oh god. Please no.