skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a little more to it than that. Matrices have several properties like being symmetric or unitary (maybe even diagonal) that scalars don’t. Those enable rewritings to make systems more stable or computationally efficient.
Model out games on paper. Graph paper. Give them crayons and markers.

Tape up a board game out of construction paper and cardboard. Glue stuff to popsicle sticks. Create adhoc, six-sided dice.

Use a firewall to block sites.

Programming is modeling abstractions. Don't need a computer for that. Stepwise refinement, encapsulation, and problem decomposition can all be demonstrated without a machine.

Model a linked list with a stages in a game (on paper). A graph is just a path of streets to the ice cream shop. A tree is an upside-down version of the one outside.

Teach them to make something out of nothing, first principles. Read with them.
Another year, another dithering argument: http://sprout.rupy.se, still looking good in 2023! XD

On a more serious note, the complexity of decompressing a jpg and rendering color is the main advantage of 1-bit dithering.

That you can tell what the picture represents at all with only black and white dots is amazing.
Not really, it depends from the application.
Even something like 20 years ago the CCDs available at the time were capable of astrometric measure of star magnitudes with 1/100 of magnitude precision using some control stars.
Makes sense, I saw the security assessment stuff for Gmail which I suppose I'll have to contend with as well, haha. I'll take another look into EmailEngine then. How do you charge, per connected user (and how much, generally)? Is it a monthly usage based subscription if so?

Edit, I just took a look at your FAQ and saw the price was 695 Euros a month. It is strange to not put this pricing on a prominent pricing tab I believe, rather than making me click a link in the FAQ to figure it out. Any reason why it's set up like that?
Samsung S22 Ultra (at least) has a 'Protect Battery' setting which limits charge to 85% .
Not a complete redesign, but substantial. Even the head of the propulsion department was changed.
Nope, for me using a phone is a much worse experience.

1) Small screen hard to read with ageing eyes from that distance, or to operate touch controls precisely. This alone is a deal breaker, anything that requires more focus or concentration is A safety hazard and a no go.

2) unsightly charging cables hanging around.

3) no backing camera support. Also a safety hazard.

4) no handsfree support i.e control volume, skip songs without looking or lifting hands from the steering wheel
A perspective illusion is given by the fact that the area is still importantly in development. See for example the matter of "temporal quality degradation" - a commentary appeared yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35566145 )
The apple watch gives some readings about HRV when paired with the Health app on iOS.

Not too detailed though.
Also, the hardware likely has not been manufactured in a carbon neutral way, shipping of the components created its own footprint (likely via giant oil guzzling ship), and externals (e.g. DNS) are also not running on solar. It’s a cool project but not as environmentally friendly as it might appear.

(If we want to get really pedantic, the solar panels and battery need a few years to pay back their own CO2 debt for when they were produced. This server might need to run 3 years before it’s carbon negative. Maybe even longer because not all of the captured energy can be stored in the battery.)
Tell that to myspace
First time I heard about this "staff programmer" title working in labs.

Looking for it in UK job boards doesn't seem to bring many relevant results. What are other ways to find these roles?

The idea of working in a lab helping scientists, if not economically rewarding, may feel rewarding in terms of helping science to progress
> That doesn't seem like something Valve can change.

This is where I'd disagree with you. Valve has all sorts of levers they could pull to encourage ARM builds. One example, they could offer a lower commission rate on games which have ARM builds available. This would incentivize developers to target the platform.
Long-term self-interest is often indistinguishable from altruism. It is refreshing to see a company at least capable of that. That is as far as my blind worship goes ;)
EmailEngine has all the code public [1], even though it is not open-source but is source-available. Some core parts I even published under the MIT license, like the IMAP client library I built from scratch to serve the special requirements EmailEngine has for IMAP access [2]

My thinking has always been that those who try to hack the license validation stuff and replace the missing build pipeline were never going to be my customers in the first place, so every second I would spend on them is a wasted effort.

[1] https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine
[2] https://imapflow.com/
GoG doesn't have a DRM-free policy. DRM is allowed. Has been for quite a while.
Baseball's baseline was already boring. Before moneyball games took three dull hours.
Oh, come on - this article is from three days ago, but it starts with "Transformers are a new development in machine learning". Transformers have been around for six years now, that's an eternity when you consider how fast this field is moving.
I disagree that "the right people" are on Twitter. I will grant that Twitter has historically been the high water mark for having the largest number of those people in one place, and also that a disproportionate number of people who need broad public reach as an intrinsic part of their career will also be their (eg. celebrities and journalists).

But at the same time, being an expert, leader and overall interesting person is not synonymous with public reach, and there is a huge subset of interesting people that have never touched Twitter. There's also been a slow and steady descent in the level of discourse on Twitter to the point that it's widely regarded as a cesspool now, with many formerly active interesting people having abandoned it, and many others holding their nose to drop their broadcasts but not engaging in any discourse due to the amount of polarization and armies of angry partisan nobodies ready to dogpile on the slightest misplaced word.

Ultimately, the most interesting parts of Twitter as being a marketplace for ideas, public square, and open platform with diverse use cases that everyone was so excited about in 2008-2012 was eventually subverted by the financial incentives that VC investment demands. The result is a significant divergence between what constitutes an interesting idea and what will make you successful on Twitter. Therefore I thoroughly reject the idea of treating Twitter as any kind of baseline bar for contemporary human notability. I'd rank a large scale following there somewhere above reality TV star, and somewhere below traditionally published author.
When I first tried to understand transformers, I superficially understood most material, but I always felt that I did not really get it on a "I am able to build it and I understand why I am doing it" level. I struggled to get my fingers on what exactly I did not understand. I read the original paper, blog posts, and watched more videos than I care to admit.

The one source of information that made it click to me were chapters 159 to 163 of Sebastian Raschka's phenomenal "Intro to deep learning and generative models" course on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTKMiZHVd_2KJtIXOW0zF...
The difference in efficiency is too high to not matter.

In the past, I had used for the lighting of my house various combinations of 100-W incandescent lamps.

When better technologies have appeared, I have substituted them with other lamps having an 1500-lumen light output, which is slightly more than provided by the 100-W incandescent lamps.

With compact fluorescent lamps, I have used 22-W lamps, while during the last decade I have been using 13-W LED lamps (with 1500 lumen at a pleasant 4000 K color temperature, i.e. only slightly warm, not noticeably yellow, like the lamps with a color temperature of 3000 K or less).

Even the early prototype described in the research paper can achieve 1500 lumen at 8.7 W.

The difference between 100 W and 8.7 W is too large to ignore. In my case, both transitions, to CFL, then to LED, have been extremely visible in my monthly bills.
I think you are 10 million off, since the monthly active users shows who is actively using the platform on a monthly basis, not total registrations.

If I was to bring up Twitter's total registered users to date, it would be close to the billions. That doesn't mean there are billions of users using it monthly, this is why total registered users as a metric is irrelevant.

Twitter's DAUs are in the hundreds of millions (over 220M+). Since that is the case it is clear that the MAUs are even higher. Mastodon's 7 years of existence vs Twitter's 7 years of existence is not even close and is no contest, with Twitter at 90M+ daily active users at the time.
Is it? Then what about a the witness seeing a green-yellow flame rising up there during the night, from the other side of the river?

Drunken with Jägermeister, or what? And so much more. Some points are listed in the german wiki-article I linked.

I tend to think about that sort of ridiculing the other way around. As ignorance.

Oh, also Franz Yussuf Strauß, err... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strau%C3%9F

https://taz.de/Franz-Josef-Strauss-und-die-Gelueste-auf-eine...

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/kalter-krieg-als-die-us-ar...
It depends on what you are interested in of course; but let’s say one has an interest in politics, society, culture, world affairs, etc: a lot of recent growth in Mastodon seems to be due to progressive-leaning people abandoning Twitter because they don’t like Musk’s politics/personality/antics; meanwhile, most conservative-leaning and very many moderate/centrist/apolitical people haven’t bothered. Not only haven’t they bothered, I think the impression many people get of Mastodon (fairly or unfairly) is that it is a hyper-progressive space, and if someone is more moderate-to-conservative, or even just interested in experiencing ideological diversity, jumping ship from Twitter to Mastodon would be a waste of their time.

This is nothing about the far-right as such; Musk has allowed neo-Nazis such as Andrew Anglin back on Twitter, but I doubt anyone is going to encounter their content unless they are actively looking for it. Meanwhile, there’s a lot of mainstream centrists-to-conservatives, and even what one might call “dissident progressives” (who criticise mainstream progressivism from the Left-e.g. the classical Marxist who condemns “wokeness” as a capitalist plot to divide and distract the working class), who are happy to maintain a presence on Twitter but don’t feel like Mastodon would be a very welcoming place for them.

Like Twitter-and unlike Mastodon (or at least how it appears from the outside-I am going by its reputation, not personal experiences with it)-this site has a great deal of ideological diversity, from the far-left to the far-right, although my impression is the majority of users skew centre-left. Most of Reddit’s big subs are dominated by mainstream American progressivism, but niche subs contain a much wider diversity of viewpoints and ideologies. That said, dang is much more reasonable than Reddit’s admins, and while Reddit’s admins can at times be arbitrary and capricious, many believe that capriciousness has a political slant to it
Even if they wanted to - they would definitely fail on that mission. Soviets had nukes just 4 years after Americans, and in these 4 years US just wouldn't produce enough fission materials to annihilate USSR, not talking about UK and France.
What is it about AI that makes people fall for conspiracy theories? If the US wants to reassure that AI will be regulated it wouldn't do it in secret. The ban on AI would be identical to a ban on guided munitions. Building a hobby rocket that uses GPS guidance for landing is illegal as it could be converted into a weapon. This is harder to enforce than AI but the regulation is highly successful.
ChatGPT is AN answer as how to create AI.

Simple as that.

It works as a natural language parser that works the same as human.

It is the holy grail that NLP community trying to find, one mechanism that can be commanded by plain English.

If it can program, then it can drive cars. Driving is inherently a low level task comparing to programming, hundreds of millions Americans can drive, far fewer can program.

But ChatGPT is just blind at the moment. Next step is to make it see, and walk and use its fingers. Won't be too far away in the future.
What I don't like about these discussions is how they completely skip the pragmatic part.

That's why "expression-oriented" Erlang (and Elixir) simply has the single-branch if while the academics still debate whether or not it should, should be optional etc.
So it's perfectly fine to censor users for limited time just for purpose of rise up sales?

Misleading reviews are basically definition of fraud and wont make game any better.
I recommend the PS5 controller! They're very available (unlike the console), come in a few colours, and are regularly on sale -- about $90AUD in my currency.

They're rugged, reliable, pair easily via bluetooth without any custom software required (just hold the PS button and menu button together), and have excellent button feel. I grew up on the super Nintendo so I'm picky at times.

Battery life is excellent, reported over Bluetooth (so linux and macos can see it), and the controller central pad acts as a mouse which makes navigating menus great without needing to put the controller down. They go to sleep automatically if you close the lid on a laptop they're paired to, and you can change the LED colour and brightness on the controller.

I've had and used one for quite a while now, and in that time two of my friends have purchased one to replace various alternatives (8bitdo, & another one I can't remember) for either reliability, pairing issues, or both.

To top off this review: I've never owned a PlayStation!
There's a fixed yearly subscription fee https://postalsys.com/plans

There are no limits on how many EmailEngine instances you can run or how many email accounts you connect. So, I don't differentiate between customers at all. I have single-person startups and large enterprises paying the exact same amount. Maybe not be the wisest option potential-revenue-wise, but this approach has worked well for me so far.
To me, one of the most remarkable aspects of this story and reading others' comments is how relatively quickly people seem to have picked up Linux despite the lack of modern high-speed internet and one-click away forums and networks we all enjoy today. I guess that's an inevitable outcome if the market is ripe for some change no matter the opposing forces, like missing features, strong alternatives or no commercial support, etc.
Honestly, most of them do it.. not even because they want to, but because it's expected on the other end.

I've been in contract negotiations where the purchase of industrial equipment is contingent upon prostitutes and trips to DisneyWorld.

Of course we don't want to pay for these things, but if you don't, they just give the contract to someone who will.
GoG galaxy is not must like Steam.
Would it be possible to make the ball slightly softer and bigger to reduce the likelihood of strikeouts and home runs?
Sure but my point is that no matter what kind of cop you are, you get protections that other people in other more dangerous professions don't, on the premise that your job is more dangerous. That's what op is saying is propaganda.
interesting breakdown. I would be further interested to understand the reach of these types of tactics in India and what the opposition is doing as well. Feels like a continuing trend of gov't entities quietly funneling cash and control into various media outlets
US didn't need nukes to obliterate USSR in 1945. Just cut it off the lend-lease program and attack on European and Pacific theaters at the same time. They didn't do it because US public won't tolerate attack on yesterday's ally against Hitler.
The argument to that is we simply don't know yet.

There's not a single social platform out there that has the same voting system that we've built so it's a completely new experiment and we simply can't come to any final conclusions yet.
Scala does this in two ways. For one-armed `if`:

- The type must be `Unit`

- Since `()` is the only value of type `Unit`, we can unambiguously infer that the `else` case must be `()`

- Since `Unit` conveys no information, there is never any reason to assign it to a variable

- The `Unit` type is commonly used to represent effects, like `print` (on the JVM it's equivalent to Java's `void` type)

These features conspire to make one-armed `if` expressions act like statements, since they will generally perform an effect and not be bound to a variable.

Scala also provides an `Option.when` method, e.g. `Option.when(x.hasFoo)(x.foo)`. This seems nicer than the `boolean.then` mentioned by the article, for a few reasons:

- The use of `Option` is explicit, rather than implicit

- The second argument of `Option.when` is passed by-name, so there's no need to manually wrap it in a closure/thunk
And while I understand that you’re coming at this from a technical standpoint and I can’t argue with the definition, I still think on a human level chess is more like poker than tic-tac-toe (because you’re spending a lot of time imperfectly filling in gaps in information about what your opponent could be up to), and so the category defined by this technical term isn’t so useful in a human conversation such as we’re having, with no prizes from technical correctness. I’m not really interested in repeatedly restating the definition, I’m saying it’s not a good signifier for the differences between chess and war. Maybe that’s not interesting to you, but it is to me as a player and designer of games! And on a deeper level I suppose I’m guilty of exactly the same thing because this is a thread about poetry anyway. :P
> …yet wonder how maintainable it will be in the future.

If the code is well written, is should be no problem and actually be easier because there are no framework you need to keep in pace with.

> DPaint.js doesn't need building.

Was not included in the quote above but it is equally rare!
It's like Twitter used to be. The feed is time sorted. You can filter by hash tag. There is no AI driven second guessing of what you may or may not like to see.
> The impact has not been felt yet. GM's Cusinato said reservations for the new Blazer EV have not diminished in the last few weeks and continue to grow.

This statement would still be true if just one person per week makes a reservation.
I-frame placement isn't hard; it's very obvious when a scene changes or when an I-frame would be profitable. You generally need to have them far more often than you'd like anyway, as otherwise you can't seek in videos.

The main advantage of ML for video compression is that people accept giant ML models, so you can hide a lot of common "features" in there. The disadvantage is that classical codecs are macroblock-based for a reason; you can't just process a whole frame at a time, nobody has the memory bandwidth for that.
Interested to see how it compares to copilot or chatgpt for code competition
No, they meant lion's mane in powder form. Cheaper to buy it in bulk.
A somewhat unique desideratum of video game music that distinguish them from film scores (especially with the limited storage in the 1980s and 90s) is that short pieces need to be played in a loop for hours and hours on end without the player getting sick of them. I think nobody has done this as well as Koji Kondo (who also did the Zelda music).
"If you do that, ideally, a small gnome climbs out the back of the computer and hits the developer with a mallet."

(various bits of perl IRC have adopted the mallet gnome as an idiom over the years and it seems to convey the "please don't" point without being overly combative ;)
How is it that a modern laptop manages to be worse at gaming than the average PC 20 years ago? Surely you one can at least run it in an emulator of some kind?
My main customer base is smaller SaaS services (less than 10 people), and this is the price that works for them or what they would expect - if they compare the costs of building in-house vs buying EmailEngine. Very small companies (single-person ones) and very large ones (one of my customers is a major bank in Europe) are exceptions that I do not target directly, but if they decide to become paying customers, then I don't object and gladly take their money.
Although that's not really a downside of CarPlay itself, and you can also solve that with the Optimized Battery Charging feature, in iOS 13 or later. So just turn that on.
I think they didn't really track him. I think he drew suspicion by being filthy rich without official source of income.
But not sure how they got a warrant for his house
Raspberry Pi is out of stock everywhere. Triple regular price on eBay.

Take Arduino. It’s probably more adopted than microbit.
I've essentially been using ChatGPT-4 in the same way and can confirm that the code it gives typically works. If not I just decompose pieces of it once and try again. If it fails there I just write it myself.
Saw some little youtube documentary about a group in mexico trying to resurrect the ball game.

I have a feeling it would be tough to weigh where to keep things to 100% to what we know vs. filling in the blanks to make it more entertaining. Seems to have been going on during the olmec period too which would indicate at least around 3000 years of play... lots of different variations over that time. Tough to decide which one to pick.
There are lots of advantages, but it doesn't mean that all actors would automatically stick to the truthfulness. There are also lots of advantages in being untruthful. Evaluate both possibilities is a rational behavior, and definitely not a reason to question one's personal morality.
Because you can't make your own types that work better.
I didn’t get the impression that there was any bribery going on in the deals he closed himself. Even if he only became aware of that after the fact, he’d have mentioned that more explicitly. Instead, he argues that he was fired despite very good performance, and it would be hypocritical if that performance was only made possible by bribes. So I don’t think this adds up.
Well that is a very common trap with writing, not choosing an appropriate audience for what you are writing about will send you down a rabbit hole.

There are some things you simply cannot explain to a beginner audience because they lack the fundamental context for comprehension.

Some may ask questions, and give it a good go, but really without that context its an unproductive use of both parties time. Some will misunderstand this as being a gatekeeper but it really has nothing to do with that. Its a problem you only really accept and learn through experience.
Not knowing it was about a game, that was one of the strangest headlines ever to read on here.
That's awesome. Now I wish I had played more adventure games and kept notebooks. What an experience to connect the digital with a custom keepsake in the physical realm.

I remember Ultima Online and Everquest with its cloth maps. But a notebook from Dad is something else.
The term is to “deaden the ball” and yes it can and does happen, just like the opposite, “juiced balls” has happened.
It's not a new idea at all - certainly a lot older than 2013.

This adage, and variations of it, get attributed to Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, amongst others: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants [or boots] on."

I'm pretty surprised the Wikipedia article makes no mention of this since there's clearly prior art for the concept.
You could build a railgun on the moon and launch stuff back to earth.