skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the point your making is completely useless. If someone has billions of dollars in storage somewhere (like Iran literally does) it doesn't affect the supply of money until they start moving it or using it in some way.

Like if someone found a trillion long tons of pure gold somewhere, but decided not to sell it or even use it. The price of gold isn't just going to collapse overnight. Sure the markets will panic sell for a few days, but it's still a real commodity with real uses & demands.

Putting a ton more _active_ money in the system does change the value of money.
I am praying for some alternative platform to take the throne off Github. This is way too much power in the wrong hands. The competing product needs to add a fundamental new idea or feature. Gitlab as it is doesn't cut it.
You can partition the people in many different ways. I think it's reasonable to be upset with all of them.
Most people can’t even do what you are proposing. They just load up before a test and dump it afterwards because they haven’t created any sustainable system for remembering it past their exam.
Okay, then presumably you can just appeal to the real basis for that claim, rather than the unreliable realtor source?
To put it another way, a US employer has to comply with the ADA whether I have a disability or not. And they can't ask me what disabilities I might have unless directly relevant to the job, i.e. a person in a wheelchair probably can't operate a fork lift.

Some US states already prohibit pre-employment background checks and credit checks. States should prohibit employers from casting nativities and reading entrails during the interview process as well.

When asked my Myers-Briggs "Type Indicator" I always say "Scorpio." Weird how so many rational and educated people fall for that bullshit. And yes, that's exactly how a Scorpio would behave.
>I can’t blame Amazon for stopping production on the site.

But on the other hand, can’t you?
Where is the spirit today of someone like Carnegie, who said I’m going to take all this wealth and build thousands of free public libraries?

Digital imagery in various forms is the predominant art form in this era, this site is a hub for many practitioners of digital imagery. Could Amazon not see it in themselves as one of the richest corporations ever to serve a patron role in the preservation and continued operation of this site? At the cost of a mere pittance in terms of their overall resources.

It’s also surprising to me that Amazon wouldn’t see some level of self interest in that. Fewer people are buying these types of cameras, but more people than ever are consuming the media these types of cameras produce, on Amazon’s platforms, platforms hosted on AWS, and elsewhere.

There is definitely a value to the overall media ecosystem in keeping this resource alive. It might not be a highly quantifiable value, but that doesn’t mean it is a low value, quite the opposite I would think.

As others have said it just seems a bizarre, shortsighted action, that misses the big picture, coming out of the recent economic panic in the tech industry.
Sure. All the time - I'm a runner, a walker, I have teen kids who like walking, we have a dog. But is any of this really changed by knowing it's going to rain? Nope. I stick my nose out on a morning - if it's cold, I put on a warm coat. If it's going to rain, I put on something rainproof. No need for an app. Or, sadly, a chart or a graph...
It's painfully obvious that this is AI generated.
What are the best Dark Sky clones out there? Ideally open source.
Use this tool daily. Love it.
> I’ve come to associate it with an attempt to will the Fed into doing what they want.

They kind of got what they wanted. IIRC, before SVB collapsed, it was widely believed the Fed was planning to hike rates by far more than they just did (IIRC, 0.75%).
I think it got eaten... by some Linux or something.
Downward redistribution is not an effort by states to fight inflation, its an effort by states to mitigate its effect on their non-rich residents end while other entities fight it.
Yea, I think your second paragraph captures it. "Better" doesn't mean mechanically better at aiming. It means more realistic, and player-like behavior. Maybe also more more behavioral variance, so they don't feel like a team of 5 copies of the same person.
Considering that Michael Moore reports that the scene from "Roger & Me" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me) that got the most hate mail was when the unemployed auto worker in Flint, MI clubbed a rabbit to death before skinning and cooking it, I would be surprised if it were otherwise.
The Q&A Portion of the press is pretty good at that. You'll get plenty of typical people's opinions from a variety of news sources. That's happening right now, and transcripts will be available soon.
Objaverse, an open dataset of text-paired 3D objects
Sounds like singleplayer games would be more your speed.
All of that, apart from the transit system thing - we don't have a lot of infrastructure where I live :-)

But - am I affected by the weather? Nope.
So...technically this is the 3rd entry in the series, right? Game immediately disappears as Valve cannot count to 3
In those days Linux was an M1 that sort of but not quite ran on your local fuel and was 1/2" wider than your garage. The fuel problem would be sorted out just as soon as the engineers can get your city to admit what they added to the fuel but they won't even admit having knowledge of anything called "fuel." Eventually you get the new part that will make your M1 run on your local fuel but you need to rebuild the engine to install it, you don't really have any clue of how to do that but you have been talking to some vague personas in an alley for the past 3 nights and you are fairly certain you can do it. All seems to go well until you try and reinstall the engine, somehow it has gotten considerably larger than it had been and no longer fits in the engine compartment. So you rebuild it again, and again, and again, finally it works but now the glove compartment light is flashing error codes in Morse and the radio constantly drifts out tune. Repeat once or twice a year until about 2005 or so.

But you have your M1, you can not buy ammunition for its guns or drive it on any roads because the tracks will eat up the pavement but it is your M1.
The IRA increased taxes. Taxes are the most effective means of fighting inflation.[1]

Long term, the IRA will reduce energy prices. Energy is a huge component of inflation.

1: https://www.slowboring.com/p/tax-increases-are-the-best-cure...
Companies solve their own problems. Outlook is one of the classic examples of that - it was an app that was a cultural snapshot of Microsoft.

In the case of Apple, Cupertino is a pretty boring weather locale. Sometimes you need to zipper your coat and once in awhile it rains.
Another ChatGPT comment?
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$99 plus 15-30% of everything you create.
Which states?

I believe Michigan has north of $5B 'extra' money sitting around, which is anticipated to grow close to $10B by end of year. Maybe there will be a one-time refund check to citizens/taxpayers there, but is that marketed as 'inflation relief'? I wouldn't think so.
OP is referring to a common joke that Valve doesn’t count over 2.

Half Life 2

Team Fortress 2

…
It has been toxic since I started playing cs way back in 2000.
RNA can be stable if it's dry but DNA is much more stable. I can't see DNA surviving undamaged on the surface of an asteroid, but I could see: DNA getting somehow embedded in a rock agglomerate, then the rock gets ejected from a planet, lands on another planet whole, and then the rock breaks and now you have dna on another planet. With enough deep time, this could occur (possibly) but I can't see it as an effective method.

instead, better to take tardigrades, induce tun state, embed that in rock, and let that float around for a while. They have pretty much everything needed to survive including safe storage for DNA, DNA repair enzymes, redundant DNA, radiation-resistant exterior, etc.
The randomness link doesn’t work. All the ChatGPT products need randomness or it can’t be creative.
>Can I participate in the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test on Linux or macOS? [1]

No. The Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test is only available on Windows.

I'm sure this will change with an official release though.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/faqs/steam-help/view/5ED2-ED8E-81...
I agree, the article is definitely a hot take. I was with you until:

>Nothing after this is worth your time reading.

I found it to be an interesting viewpoint even if I don't agree.
This was the most probable outcome. Hikes greater than or equal to 0.5 would be perceived as too hawkish. Powell knows this.

If you thought the fed was gonna drop rates, there's a good chance you live in an echo chamber of wealthy private investors.
Bard is very underwhelming if you've used GPT-4.

Between search being trash and now even Maps being awful, I think it's time to stick a fork into Google. They need new leadership and they need it asap.
I had that problem too.
ROPfuscator: Robust Obfuscation with ROP [pdf]
No, that doesn't solve it. If you run an LLM at home and give it access to APIs or your data it could still get compromised. The whole point is that it isn't the user who is doing the injection themselves.
Humans enter the dependencies, but not the order of evaluation for those dependencies.
Story time: I went to a small and pretty nerdy tech school (WPI), and there was an IRC channel at the time. One day I noticed that there were messages coming from a user named, IIRC, "compooper". Later I learned while visiting one of the regulars' student housing that they had an upstairs bathroom with an old vt-100 or somesuch wired to it. Not quite the same but got a laugh out of me :-)
Do you know of any in particular?
on DataPoint: my hero (sort of) Matt Feingold spends a summer internship at DataPoint. As far as he (and I) could tell, people still thought in terms of "account control" back then.

There's actually a book on DataPoint (and almost every other company from way back when). I read them so you don't have to :)
I don't have access to ChatGPT4 but has anyone here used it for any kind of Excel troubleshooting? I think it could very helpful since many guides online aren't the best.
When you're chasing minimum power consumption, tho, a Pi4 (in my case, a CM4) with a 200MHz base clock, a USB3 card, a SATA card with 6 SSDs attached, running 3 Alpine VMs and a couple Docker containers will idle at 12W and perform surprisingly well when asked to while drawing no more than 27W with every system running at full tilt. I didn't expect it to be as good as it is, and I can't find anything else that can touch it. But my use case is narrow and specific.
Except it isn't, so e.g. running containers still need a VM.

I wish macOS had something like WSL built-in.
You can say this, but every time Mozilla does an integration with their browser asset - like Mozilla VPN or Pocket - people scream at them for adding "pointless bloat" to the browser.

I fail to see how your proposal would end differently.

Plus it was suggested that Mozilla do things to compete with Google's "Gsuite integration" - how do you see that working to begin with? Should Mozilla try to push a competitive office suite, or try to compete at an inherent disadvantage to Google, who already nerfs features of Google search on their mobile browser?
www.observablehq.com
Does this for javascript. It was actually a learning curve to use but the code ends up much neater.
Explosives replace malware as the scariest thing a USB stick may hide
> Wouldn't it be great, both from an employer's POV and from the candidate's POV, if you could show that you passed the exam and received your license from the Coding Board, therefore you have some very basic set of skills?

There are some certification authorities in the US, but as far as I'm aware, the top programs haven't even bothered with it (MIT, Stanford, CMU...).

The main issue is that all CS degrees aren't created equal. Someone can graduate without much programming at certain schools (where the degree is way more math focused). That's completely fine in itself, it's ok to have an option to focus on theoretical math, but it's not necessarily what employers are looking for.

Abroad, like in France and Switzerland, they seem to have some certification body that checks the course curricula and determines if it passes the bar to be called engineering. Perhaps not the best example as these two countries are smaller and, at least for France, way more centralized than the US.

To be completely honest, I fast track interviews for new grads of certain institutions because I'm familiar with their programs and I know what they studied.
Today Human-Machine War Started
I want to buy a physical Encyclopedia Britannica for just this reason.

All our historical records are becoming digitized, and AI can now make convincingly fake history characters, images and video. The actual history is going to get swamped and people will have a very hard time determining if a historic fact actually happened or if it was an AI fever dream.
Tolkien only denied interpretations he disagree with. He made no secret about the politics of the books.
Such a useful tool!
Counter-Strike

(Counter-Strike: Condition Zero)

Counter-Strike: Source

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike 2

It's all pretty confusing.
Or, thank you for not having the willpower to raise taxes. /s

It is easier certainly to call out the IRA (even though it is doing a lot to drive a transition to a cleaner economy) because it happened, as opposed to “what ifs,” but not touching taxes as far as slowing the economy should be called out imho.
BTC going up is probably due to Binance converting $1 bn of stablecoins: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/03/13/binance-will-con...

That's a lot of buying pressure.
In an ideal world, you would be able to have a contextId that you would pass to OpenAI prompt calls. And be able to manage that context separately.
So you would pass it code files (with expiration dates)
And you could also provide a list conversationIDs, so when providing an answer for a particular prompt request, GPT knows what previous prompts and responses to consider.

As of right now, I've never used the API as a developer, but I've heard that you have to provide the ENTIRE context with EVERY prompt request.
How do you work around that?
You took the words right out of my mouth. I think Garry overcorrected and became a perfectionist concerned more with the code and engine than making something that people will want to play.

Garry's Mod was fun because it was silly. It was far from perfect but we were happy putting thrusters and balloons on jeeps and flying around. He's lost sight of that it seems. He wants to build something perfect and I fear that's going to make it a sterile experience.
Bard: Google’s chatbot gave me a comedy of errors
> My advice: if you major in physics and keep getting A’s, you can still easily get a programming job, and probably in areas that are more AI-proof than webdev. The opposite is not true.

Thanks, I'll consider this.

> IMO, taking programming classes in college is a waste. It’s nearly all the type of thing you can learn on the job or in an online course. The real reason to take CS is if you’re interested in applied math, because most math departments lead you into pure theory, but this depends heavily on the school.

Yeah, I'm near to a few good unis that run what seem to be high quality courses with lots of optional courses on ML/maths/etc. I would avoid doing CS at an average uni due to its reputation.

I'm alright at maths, but I really have to work at it - it doesn't come as naturally as physics and compsci. I'm not sure I could succeed in a pure maths degree.
Consider the comparison images:

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/csgo/images/csgo...

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/csgo/images/csgo...

(The former is CS2, the latter CSGO). In my office, with the sun streaming in through the double windows, with relatively low-gamma, lower-contrast old IPS monitors that don't suck but aren't 4k professional OLEDs, yeah, I absolutely want everything to be bright. It kills the horror-movie feel, where your eyes are at the edge of their abilities, squinting and peering into the foggy shadows for barely-perceptible hints of motion, but if you want to actually see what you're doing you want flattened dynamic range.

If you're not watching on an HDR monitor in a pitch-black home theater, you can't see anything in Batman (2022) or Game of Thrones, or any of the modern "realistic", "gritty," underexposed shows. It's definitely more artistically appealing in ideal conditions, but if you're not going to perfectly recreate the ideal viewing conditions (and crank up the gamma on your display to compensate a bit while you're at it), it's pointless.

I have the same complaint regarding dynamic range with regards to sound mixes, too. I understand that the real battlefield sends soldiers home with tinnitus because explosions are head-splittingly loud. I don't want that realism when I'm in-game, flashbangs should not be mixed in Counter-strike such that their own monitors and headsets/speakers physically incapacitate the players if they turn the volume up to be able to hear the radio commands. When listening to a movie, I usually just accept that I have to turn on subtitles (even though my hearing is fine) and will have to read the dialog if I don't want to wake up my kids with the house shaking when there's an on-screen explosion.
> inflation would not double but those peoples buying power would

I mean, inflation wouldn't double as a result of giving the bottom 25% additional money, but unless there was a matching increase in the supply of goods and services, the additional money would make prices rise.
You're complaining about 15 seconds? I can remember the Windows 3.x days when it took minutes to warm Word up.
Well, that certainly hasn't reflected in the UK's inflation rates. Up to 10.4% this month.
Yeah, in the US fixed rate mortgages are handed off to the government who guarantees them and bundles them up into securities... that SVB then ended up buying a bunch of because it's not like there was exactly a wide variety of investment options available that they could back their deposits with that actually paid meaningful interest.
Still, I have 10+ years of evidence that employed work is boring, stressful and unfulfilling for me - so if I did feel bored after 2 years (and money wasn’t an issue) I really don’t think I would consider returning to employment to alleviate it. Being a corporate project manager is surely the very last thing most people would reach for to provide entertainment or fulfilment :)
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A CCIE Gets Fired
We have you covered! https://zapier.com/apps/openai/integrations
We will see but I think in a context with much uncertainty Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies could be at the same level of uncertainty than the traditional economy and rising up.
It is good that they will be keeping the same skins in the new engine

I made a bet that they would and my skins have increased about $40k in value over the last two years :P
Shouldn’t this headline say ‘Research shows we 100% cannot identify AI writers’

50% is just flipping a coin no?
Depends entirely on what you mean by "prove". If you mean "explain or understand how physical processes give rise to conscious experience" or "from third-person observation, know with any kind of certainty whether a given system is conscious" - you run into what philosophers call the "explanatory gap" and/or the "hard problem". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
It's illegal but the rental contract is private, so it can be denied without explanation; good luck suing and proving that you're being discriminated.

The discrimination in public ads and places like restaurants is strictly illegal, though essentially not enforced unless you sue, because of the multitude of reasons - racism and lax anti-discrimination policies in particular, and also a million of others (the entire rental housing market is almost unregulated, for one). Lately, most popular ad sites implemented their own discrimination bans, however it still doesn't guarantee that the landlord won't be an asshole.
> I’ve come to associate it with an attempt to will the Fed into doing what they want.

Because that's what it is. Powell tried to raise rates early in the pandmeic and wall st. meltdown successfully got him to lower them back down. It worked before so they're trying again.
they probably could stop working, they just wouldn't be able to afford a house in Curpertino.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a multiplayer first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment.
Individual developers paying was always an insignificant volume. It was still within reach so devs could get it and be productive. As an example, the cost was fairly insignificant to the many .NET devs who jumped to SharePoint in the 2000s to keep their top rates. People give SP a hard time quite rightly, but as a revenue generator for devs in many markets with limited options, it was a very good choice.

It was priced and designed for companies to be buying as a bundle with other licensing. individual devs would frequently use some of the loopholes through licensing partners to commit to what was basically a three year subscription that spread the cost. For companies, it could mitigate some of the costs associated with the proliferation of environments that needed to be licensed from top-to-bottom. Later, these may stop being eligible for MSDN use and generate more revenue. License auditing was real and gave visibility into this usage.

VMware still have a program like this going for their admin user base. It gets recommended by the r/homelab folks who haven't adopted Proxmox.
i wasn't thinking it was new, so wasn't trying to say that, i was talking about what constitutes cheating by degrees.
why was my reply flagged?

I thought on HN intellectual honesty mattered...

In no way was my comment offensive, thoughtless or otherwise worthy of censorship.
I think the expected number was 0.5% before SVB collapsed, with some people betting on 0.75% on the bad inflation data.
I mean you’re not allowed to run it on a server.
I had been hoping for metamaterial lenses to solve the physics problem, but that recent demo made it clear consumer applications are a very long way off. I can't actually find the demo, but it was someone from one of the three letter agencies showing it off on a stage. Maybe someone else will have it. It only shot in monochrome. The quality was good, and the lens was a lot smaller than an ordinary ILC lens on a camera you'd normally need to get that quality. But the presenter didn't offer much hope of it being better quickly. The demo was for a very specific scientific application.
Yeah, if I had $4M in the bank today, I could retire indefinitely at my current level of consumption. If I were 62 and had $10M in the bank (in 2023 dollars), I would definitely 100% be set for the rest of my life.
Maybe ask if your company can hire an expert to do an audit. Might be difficult it should be positive expected value for them. (you'll obviously need to make the case for this though)
How Xi and Putin’s new friendship could test the US
I think it would be smarter to ask this question somewhat in reverse; there are apparently lots of important tasks that we're used to think of as "programming" tasks, but are actually done more often, and arguably better, by "spreadsheets."

What can one learn from the other, and/or could we get some kind of singularity here?