skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, that’s a very good point. It’s sort of mitigated by the fact that to this day, app launching is a pretty bad experience across the board. It’s just the norm for apps to do annoying things on startup that violate user intent, take focus away, etc. So in a regime where you already have to assume that apps need time to “settle” before you can interact with them (or in fact, before you can reliably interact with anything), modal updates actually don’t make things much worse.
That optimization isn't specific to Option, it works for any enum.
Content market from an immigration consultant isn’t exactly a great reference, but let’s see what they have to say about permissible ESTA business activities:

> What is the difference between permissible ESTA business activities and employment?

> The key points of differentiation are that VWP activity should not deprive a US resident worker of employment opportunity, and that the traveller will not be remunerated from a US-based source.

https://www.nnuimmigration.com/esta-business/

Your interpretation of the law here is highly novel. People have been legally doing remote work on temporary entry visas for decades. If this was in fact illegal, it wouldn’t be difficult for you to find some case law that supports your interpretation.
Do you have a lengthier description of what Pine Tar poker is about?

I like Yahtzee so it interests me.

Thanks
> Are these concerns valid?

The PRC has the world's most advanced and far-reaching data mining and censorship apparatus to tightly (and quite effectively) control the flow of information to its citizens. Does that sound like the type of organization you would entrust your data to?

Bytedance is beholden to the PRC, and while TikTok data may (or may not) be monitored, the Chinese version of it is subject to the same monitoring and censorship gates as any other social media app in China.
Unfortunately many apps get stuck in the “loading” state—the fact that the loader is animating does not mean it is not stuck!
That or you're in a lucid dream. I once read the way to test if you're in a lucid dream, is to look around for an alarm clock. If it tells the wrong time, it's probably a lucid dream. This conversation can't be a lucid dream unless it's the script of Waking Life. ;)

That Xerox bug is interesting- I once used a Parallel port cable to print to an Apple Laser Printer from the 90s, until Windows 7 no longer supported the driver. I don't remember how many megabytes were transferred for large print jobs, but it seemed to take a while. I thought- perhaps it would be better if it sent the data in low-byte, text only code, so that the printer-side can reconstruct text using hard-coded translation the as opposed rendering all the bitmap- and while some data was xferred as a JPEG, perhaps it was compressed, and thus altered.
No, it's just a bit complex, but it depends on use - and today it is for a number of reasons more common to see "silver bullet" for "ineffective but seducing". It is a (non-)"solution" that /is believed/ to «work incredibly, almost magically, well». It works in a fable and not outside.

One of the first occurrences of the idea was the response of the Oracle of Delphi to Philip II of Macedon (father of Alexander), "With silver arms you may conquer the world". In this case the idea made sense on all planes: Philip understood that he could use bribery to achieve victory, and it worked.

But then the idea went on in folklore as a miraculous solution: you "could" use them against spells, then witches, then werewolves, vampires etc. Many reasons may conflate in the whole idea.

What happens next is the capillary reach of the scientific mindset, placing silver and the said "evils it cures" in a different place, farther from "dreamlike" perspectives.

So, today it is often said a "silver bullet" something that is said to be a "miraculous solution" - but that in reality is just a piece of shiny, alluring metal working well as an excuse to seduce a public in search of hopes, however ill-placed. Populists e.g. are said to have "silver bullets" ready against any sociopolitical illness - they have "solutions" presented as a miracle cure, but they just do not stand scientifically, effectively - though they may be effective in prolonging a career as an elected representative.
German lawmakers divided over closure of last nuclear plants
Are LLMs ML except called "AI"?
The browser is basically an OS ontop of an OS ontop of. .. turtles all the way down

The OS runs on hardware, what do you think is below the OS you're running?
Not completely, but many sections of it were yeah. Some anthropologists have posited that humans played a major role in the transition towards jungle. Botanists know that you can't really explain the distribution of many plant species without the context of human culture. Some ecologists have even gone as far as to label Amazonia a "manufactured landscape" as we realize more and more how heavily the landscape was shaped by the 10+ million pre-Columbian indigenous people that lived there (I mean, this is the place that gave us potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, beans, peanuts, etc. These people are plant experts!). At least as 10-12% of terra firme forests are anthropogenic in nature and many of the most common trees/plants are domesticated for human use.

No surprise why indigenous people are at the forefront of environmental defense movements. It's also one of the most dangerous place to be an environmental activist for this reason. 40% of all environmental defender murder victims are indigenous persons and 15% of all such killings happen in the Amazon
Earth is not sitting in a body of water. Maybe I'm moving goalposts but c'mon now, this is not what people typically mean by an "island"!

Similarly, my home is not an island even though the air around it contains water vapor. Nor is my home an island because there are some puddles on the street outside.
Are the silver axial capacitors in the handset (near the C2 designator) wet tantalum slugs? Or do they just look similar.

It's always weird looking at communist electronics because their components are like an entirely different ecosystem. Nowadays you have 100 companies making electrolytic capacitors but they all look identical outside the colors. Same story for pretty much every component. It's strange seeing anything different.

Though this one looks pretty standard.
You only have to look at the Nuremburg trials for your answer here. We are social creatures, and following along with the "pack" (which includes following orders from authority) is a very powerful force.
Often with good reason, the Steam API provides some very nice APIs (cloud saves, mods, controller input mapping, multiplayer sessions, etc.) that can be assumed to be available if you're only selling your game through Steam anyway.

You can use common Steam piracy tools to work around this problem, though. All you need to do is build (or download, if you've for faith in your antivirus software) a few DLLs and drop them into the game folder: https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
Depends on what you're after. In terms of mechanics it's a completely different game, but lore wise a phenomenal amount is tied in to GW1. It's almost fan service: the game.
This is why you have to choose your adversaries well.
POV-Ray Hall of Fame
Makes texting less comfortable though IMO.
My personal exit was to (accidentally) build something successful in a different field. I still use tech, but only in support for that business. There's a world of difference between churning out code for a corporation, and writing scripts to support a clear business need. It's how I rediscovered my love for computing.
Yeah I've been at smaller firms for last 10 years, but the first half of my career was at 100K+ employee firms. My wife has mostly stayed at such large firms.

High performers underestimate how long you can get away with BS at a megacorp.
Quarters to even years is the correct answer.

Guy on my team who we took on from the "layoffs list" of his old team. We were forced to hire from this list before hiring externally.
Lasted about 2 years with us & then comes to me one day "Hey I'm gonna get laid off, I don't know when but it's been discussed with HR.. oh anyway I thought it would have happened last year". Suddenly it clicked why his work product had been diminishing by the month with us. It still took them a few months to go through with it. So the guy spent 3-4 years in the firm in the process of trying to / being laid off.

We had another guy who we inherited from a wound-down project, basically didn't count against our budget for the year. His choice was to join our team or be fired.
Anyway just weeks into it, he called me one day and said "I have a thing with my family, I can't tell you what it is but I'll be gone for a month". I asked him if he talked to HR and he said yes. I called HR and they asked ME what I wanted to do... I was ~25 years old and this dude in his 40s had a family thing.. sure whatever.

Anyway, as you can imagine he basically disappeared and only touched base on the phone to say he need another month, over&over, etc. I punted it up to HR & my manager. He basically just disappeared for the rest of the year (~6 months) until new years layoffs season..
... because they are on the free tier and don't want to pay $100/month to have this feature. There's the truth, and there's the whole truth.
New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms
Yes, I worked at an early ISP and SunOS was popular for "shell" servers. The users did not want Solaris 2.x, mainly because open source software was tough to compile on it. SunOS 4.x was basically the standard open source target at that point (early to mid 90's.)

Solaris was pretty bad up until the >2.5 days. 2.5.1 and above were pretty solid releases. I ran 2.5.1 and 2.6 on my personal desktop (Sparc 10) for a while.
Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?
1. You don't have to CarPlay or Android Auto if you don't want to. Just don't connect your phone.
2. Have you heard of a USB cable?
hang on - what?

Yes it is precise ... to 17 decimal places or whatever. But it is also I believe accurate? I mean are they wrong and the electron is as bumpy as my chin on a weekend?
Whew, looks like we've pushed back the birth of Skynet by at least 6 months!
There's a lot of literature about font rendering predating compute shaders too, compute shaders are not a functional prerequisite by any means.

Here's eg one case: https://github.com/astiopin/webgl_fonts
> You can use common Steam piracy tools to work around this problem, though.

I have actually tried to use these on purchased games. They sometimes work, they sometimes obviously don't work, and they sometimes appear to work initially but then cause weird bugs deep into the game.

Somehow when I buy games on GOG I never have to worry about this.
Another interesting angle of approach to this mystery is panpsychism[1], which as been fashionable in some philosophical circles lately.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
It’s in the article: “At the time, all these simulants were considered harmless to humans.“

Web developers A/B test content on users all the time. What’s the premise of doing so? That it can’t hurt them, right?
Build a Lua Interpreter in Rust
The original article from back then: https://gcn.com/cloud-infrastructure/2021/02/hacker-tried-to...

Something does not add up here. The original article claimed that an employee saw the mouse pointer move and do things, like a ghost, or a hacker who had taken over the machine remotely. Now they say the employee made a mistake and alerted a superior. And was not fired for it, cause if people make mistakes, they should speak out, and punishing them would set precedent and next time somebody would keep quiet and not point out the error.

All fine, but these two stories don't match. Did the mouse pointer move without the employee doing this or not? It's one thing to click incorrectly, but did they actually say that the mouse pointer moved? If so, that's a blatant lie and they should obviously be fired for it. If not, then whoever made up that story should be fired for it. Somebody didn't tell the truth here, and there should be consequences for it. Honest mistakes can be forgiven. Making up things can't.
Investors demand MRR. Period. Get over it and get used to it.

Everyone on here works for or owns or manages or is planning a startup that wants MRR.

Don't like it, walk out. Let investors know enough is enough.
Where's the shame in admitting they don't know what an object was for?

They very often do know what the object is used for. It just doesn't have any economic/survival significance. For example, children's toys are labelled ritual objects.

This sort bulk classification via jargon exists elsewhere in science. For example, astronomers refer to all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium as metals. Should we ridicule astronomers for not knowing basic chemistry? Or should we accept that different fields have terms of art/jargon which are very useful for communicating among colleagues and are not intended to compete with the general usage of those words?
You’re kind of outing yourself here.

All it’s doing is giving you more of what you show the most interest in.
But if they break you're in for a world of trouble, and you will in one go end up offsetting a good chunk (or more) of what you saved up to that point. In a way this is the result of designing things to outlast their warranty, once the warranty period is over anything that still works was essentially overdesigned. Fortunately for cars and other high ticket items the secondary market will punish brands that are playing it too loose and too fast but I've seen pricing for for instance headlight or taillight assemblies that make you wonder if there is an error.
At an individual level, if a player goes from 1.3K/D avg over a sample and then it jumps to 8K/D over the same sample duration later, it’s pretty obvious.

Wall hacking and aim bot can be caught with behavior and statistics. Not in real-time but damn near.
you forgot to mention that tiny little Japanese company that was pretty famous for it's rootkit via audio CDs, Sony
The system degrades to be a resistance heater as temperatures drop. Ground-source heat pumps are useful in environments where extreme cold is a risk.

However, in the systems I’ve deployed, I learned first-hand why every business that depends on refrigeration units has their refrigeration tech on speed dial #1 on their phone…

TL;DR: don’t fall for the current heat-pump propaganda.
I once worked at a company with very complex business processes but no ERP to solve them. Everything was Excel documents in shared drives and emails. We provisioned a low code "quick wins" team to start automating these manual processes while we were implementing the ERP. There's a space for both low code and high code solutions.
Sometimes unintended typos pwn the prior accepted spelling.
I mean, Age of Empires 2 is a very historical game. Everyone knows that the Halberdiers of the Inca are pretty good especially when paired up with Inca's famous archers: their Crossbows and Arbalesters. /s

These historical games have two ways of doing things. Staying historically correct (which is unbalanced... such as Hearts of Iron where Soviets + Germany will likely crush Poland in the first move every game), or you balance the game so that everyone has a fair chance like AoE2. But balancing the game naturally introduces significant ahistorical aspects.

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AOE2's historical campaigns are pretty good though, and somewhat representative of famous battles throughout history.
I want to be able to interact with synths over MIDI in the browser

Help me understand why this is. Is it because there aren't native programs for the platform you're using? Is it to allow plug-ins or other abilities that wouldn't otherwise be available? Is it so that you can sync up with other musicians and play together in a way that wouldn't be possible without a browser?

choose a browser that doesn't implement those things.

The way feature creep have been going lately, in about six months that will mean Lynx.
Maps twist our perception of the world – here are 20 to rethink it
What's more ludicrous is that they expect to generate a revenue stream 1/6th the size of their entire automotive enterprise. You'll pay $300/mo for a car payment, and $40/mo for OnStar Audio, and $10/mo will be earned from selling your data and showing ads on your nav system.
Lignite it is, then.
I apply the above theory for generating random numbers in JavaScript, based on given inputs (server seed, client seed, and nonce). JavaScript uses double precision floating point numbers, meaning 52 bits for the mantissa.

const hash = crypto
.createHmac('SHA256', serverSeed)
.update(`${ clientSeed }:${ nonce }`)
.digest('hex');

const significant = hash.substring(0, 52 / 4);
const integer = parseInt(significant, 16);
const float = integer / (2 * 52);

return { float, hash, };
Read It as You Please
> I am already seeing websites drop support for Firefox

Examples?
This is a critical step to get rid of bad recommendations, and the algorithm seems to treat it as a very strong signal—after 1-a few “not interested” labels you won’t see that content for weeks if ever.
> Why take something out of your toolbox?

I completely agree with you and this is the crux of it. Even if you know how to code, there situations where a nocode tool (like retool) is the best tool for the job
That's a good nitpick. In recent computer chess discussions MCTS is usually shorthand for the search that was novel with AlphaZero and then copied by LeelaChessZero. But you're absolutely right, MCTS doesn't even need to imply a neural network.
Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales
They share find low bit count representations of information. The difference is everything else.
Bingo. If you want to convince me that a UFO photo is an alien, show me a non-blurry photo! Otherwise we’re just dealing with selection bias, where the clear photos are identified as mundane objects, and the UFOs are just blurry photos of mundane objects.
I thought AI was an existential threat to humanity according to Elon?
This would be my dream. What other field did you enter?
What are low choice options when it comes to serverless functions?

For example I make static sites and there's always times when I want to use an API that's either blocked by CORS or requires the use of an API key. But I don't know how to setup a server or how to deploy AWS serverless functions and I really don't have any interest in learning.

Anybody have any suggestions?
What makes those videos infuriating is that they miss out… any of the parts where she does actual work? And that’s a video choice not an indictment of the industry. Surely nobody thinks everyone at linkedin just wonders round the office sipping mojitos for 10 hours a day.
I work for a guy now who basically picked up some coding in his 30s because he found the previous business team he was on was more successful because of it.
His code isn't great, but he can express what he wants in giant SQL blobs and then we can build scalable solutions against basically his mockups. He can also unblock himself for a while with his own code while we build the real production flavor, etc.

It's great because he is basically expressing his requirements in something that works.

I think just like the coders should learn the business they work in, if the business learns some code.. everyone can be a lot happier.

In the low code context I think if you can all agree to treat whatever is generated there as throwaway prototypes, then it can be a value add. Ie - instead of writing a 20 page document, I'm going to show you something that sort of works here.

The pain comes from people thinking its going to replace developers, getting stuck, and then forcing the developers into the low-code tool too.
Valve's own games can't be played without Steam. If Steam isn't running when you open Portal 2, Steam will be launched automatically. If you uninstall Steam, Portal 2 just won't start.

It would be one thing if Valve was setting an example that publishers were choosing to ignore, but that's not what's happening.
Can this somehow be leveraged to crowd-train LLMs or maybe do something like SETI@home within the browser?
Probably just a coincidence that he publicly asked for competitors to suspend working on their products for 6 months.
Bans come in waves. So they let cheaters cheat for a bit... but they are recording all the programs and processes that everyone is running. Then, once they see the issue as being big enough to warrant action, they ban the highest "80%" of people running the cheat, in the last "3 months" (or whatever time period).

I'm sure there's some magic threshold where they say, "Eh, this kid only had it running for a week, and the account he was running it on was 8 years old, and gosh... we really don't want more customer support calls and complaints. Let's let a few slide." I'm sure there is some sort of "how serious is this offense" algorithm.

Video games have so many cheaters, but it's rare for the accounts to stay active for more than 3-6 months.

But you're right, they should ban faster, and they should do more to stomp out cheating. For people who play by the rules... it seems unjust that they don't ban faster.

One theory is that they time ban waves to increase sales. "Oh sales are down this month, better ban some more folks so they'll re-buy the game with new accounts."

Don't forget, in a lot of games, players buying in-game currency (or items) is what fuels bots / cheating. The game makers need this sort of behavior to keep some percentage of "legitimate" players (the indirect cheaters) happy and on the platform.

I'm sure they have all the math worked out. They ban at exactly the pace needed to maximize profit.
Eh, it’s bad, but not as bad as the “companies intentionally leak false information to make their upcoming products look unappealing just so the real announcement is a pleasant surprise” 8D chess players.
Saying we develop sentences one word at a time seems wrong. Sure, it might appear so when we're writing out text, lag of input, but if you spend any time meditating on your own thoughts it becomes apparent that it's more of chunks of words, clauses, or the idea, that are formed followed by a sweeping compulsion to think the words in their entirety.

The concept is conceptualized and then entire phrases resonate with said concet
This whole article reads like a subtle threat.
You realize you're now just making up your own definition for a photon on top of what actually exists right?
Amazon Bedrock: The ChatGPT Competitor
It's not that the experiment is not accurate, "accuracy" is simply not the aspect of the measurement being discussed. The sentence "That's precision, not accuracy." should be read to mean "we are discussing precision, we are not discussing accuracy" rather than "it's precise, but inaccurate".
“Politicians should let Americans retire with…”

Let’s stop right there. I’ll
let you figure out what’s wrong with this analysis…
This is great, thank you for this.

What I want is an x86 and ARM opcodes database.