skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This law is a failure waiting to happen.

First off, what about all the folks in Montana who already have TikTok?

Will Montana State Troopers be setting up roadblocks to check people's phones, then going house to house to do the same?

And when it comes to stuff like this, kids aren't stupid. If they can't gain access to a VPN providing an IP address outside Montana, they'll just message someone they know from out of state with something like "email me the .apk for Tiktok" or have someone put it up on some site outside Montana, preferably outside the US.

I'd also expect that numerous scam/malware/other evil sites will pop up offering "the TikTok app," which of course will either be the app laden with malware/backdoors/RATs, or just the latter claiming to be the app.

Nothing good will come of this.

That's not to say I'm a fan of TikTok. I'm not. But the whole premise of laws like this are that the evil Chinese government is going to steal your childrens' souls (okay not their souls, but lots of data and PII) to be used as a weapon to destroy our nation, one short video at a time.

But the truth is that all the spying scumbags^W^W Social media like Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are doing all of what TikTok is, and maybe even more.

This is performative jingoism masquerading as "safety." Want to stop this hoovering up of data? Pass national legislation blocking all these peeping Toms from collecting this information at all.

Who's running Montana, the Keystone Kops[0]?

Edit: fixed prose. Used the correct term for "social media".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops

Edit: Added link to explain who the "Keystone Kops" might be for those unaware of their (fictional) existence.
I don't see how moving to Appleland in Delltopia would affect my hearing but I'll take your word for it.
Yeah, really the only word out of place in the headline was "Aztec". All the rest could have applied to GW.

Fun fact: In the early days (I think the first 6 months or so) of GW there were some item attribute modifiers that I think allowed for going as low as 5 hp, making the character basically invincible, as all damage was rounded down.
Linux was less until SteamDeck.
The “Trofast Laundry System”
Countries and cultures differ.

When I think about things suitable for girls between the ages of five and ten I think about the things that girls of my generation did at that age, things my children did at that age and things my grand children do at that age.

Glass blowing, lost wax metal casting, plaiting ropes, pulleys, levers, looking after chickens for eggs and meat, feeding and tending animals, basic mechanics, mathematics, map reading, rock climbing, camping ...

Girls I attended school with are now running GIS companies after careers as electricians, running universities (after STEM careers building robots and developing medical imaging equipment), teaching as professors, retired after building up, managing, and selling companies, etc.

It seems a shame that girls in your country seem to have limited oppotunities and I hope that changes for the better in years to come.
Early 80s computers were a niche market largely sold to people interested in computers and programming.
There are several points that make all this look suspicious:

- first, ME/PSP do not follow minimum privileges principle. They have access to DRAM and network interfaces, so they can bypass restrictions set by OS and firewall. Does that make system more secure? I would say it is the opposite. They make the system less secure: for example, if there is a vulnerability in those modules then the whole system can be compromised and it will be difficult to detect using antivirus products.

- second, firmware for ME/PSP is encrypted. Why is it done so? To prevent user from knowing what it does. Why am I not allowed to know how my computer works?

Based on this, I can assume that intended purpose of this "trusted" modules is to implement user-hostile features like: DRM, software license checking, reporting illegal content, device fingerprinting, providing unauthorised remote access and so on.
I really love this idea! One critique is I only saw twelve recipes on my phone. I know you said you’re adding more but wanted to mention in case it’s a bug.
Java pretty much provides BigDecimal for that
The cheaper bundle includes both versions, which is nice. You need one per simultaneous player (so if you have two PCs and want to play with your kid you'll need two copies).

You can make the Java client "host a server" (open to network) which is fine for basic play and starting out multiplayer; but you can play single player with no server at all.

The server is nice (and free for Java if you have a machine to spare or even some CPU) because you can make a "persistent world" that's always there whenever someone logs in. But that can all wait for later.
* Wide Angle Analytics https://wideangle.co – to go beyond simple web analytics alternatives to Google Analytics (paid); SaaS; web with mobile-friendly dashboards

* Not Robot https://notrobot.eu – online CAPTCHA; beta live; GA coming soon :) (free); SaaS;

We support open start-ups https://wideangle.co/open, but we are not publishing our numbers :)
At some point it'll become like the "Be kind, rewind" movie where an entire movie can be compressed to a text description of each scene then and entirely regenerated on demand by AI.
had the same :D
And beware that mods are basically never tested with "open to LAN" - they'll work until they don't for obscure and unknown reasons.

But if you're using complex mods that break on that; you'll know enough to setup a server.
Here's my advice based on my personal experience with burnout. It's all easier said than done, I'm afraid.

1) People are part of the problem. You solve problems for customers with technical solutions, but your solutions should take into account people in the company. e.g. "how do I solve problem X with a manager that won't listen?" Other people are not a mysterious outside factor, they are a piece of the puzzle that needs to be put together.

2) Ignore your reputation. Do not base your self-worth on the opinion of others. You want to do good work, of course, but often your idea of good work is not what is wanted by the company. They want features, not pretty code. They are often too short-sighted to see the problems they are creating for themselves with this attitude. You must come to accept this.

3) You don't own your work. You must be mercenary. You are paid for your skills but the output is not yours. You will naturally have a sense of ownership over the the work you do. You will want to protect it because your sense of self-worth is linked to the quality of your work. Sever this link.

4) You don't own the company's problems. You must be mercenary. Companies are dysfunctional. They will be short-sighted. They will make mistakes you have seen a thousand times before and the end will be completely predictable. Give your advice, watch it get ignored, get paid, and move on.

5) Find something more important to care about than some stupid tech product. P.S. It's not going to make the world a better place. Quite the opposite if you look at previous evidence.
MoltenVK exists so that would take of Vulkan. Rosetta2 is super efficient, so I don’t see that as an impediment. The truth is, I don’t think Valve cares much about Macintosh. Blizzard doesn’t lately either. Oddly, the trend lines here are weird. MacOS is becoming the “get stuff done” platform, and Linux is becoming a gaming platform, both of which were previously Microsoft’s domain.
China scientists carry out ‘rule-breaking’ AI experiment in space
I don't know if intelligence can be separated from the physical body, or the other way around. Maybe the body emerged out of intelligence. Like nails emerges form the skin, so is the physical body. Maybe it took millions of year of evolution for that intelligence to build a physical body capable of sustaining and expressing itself. Maybe it is not yet done.

Just a thought experiment.
Sure, but Valve has done a lot for the Linux gaming ecosystem.

It also goes deeper than just Linux, and
the Steam Deck is a perfect example of this. It's a real PC, and they allow you to use the device you bought as you wish.

Our incentives are aligned and due to how they operate it's likely that it'll stay that way for a long time.

As long as this is the case I will keep giving Valve my money and recommending their products to others.
What are they putting in the water over there GM?

Profit.

Probably their own app store, inline with Google Play. And also forcing you to login on their gear, so your paid apps are available, and thus they can better track you / monetize you.
if i don't like the defaults in an application i tend to look for alternative apps that have better defaults before grudgingly changing the defaults in this app. i just don't like spending a lot of time fiddling with settings.

the hallmark of good application design is to have defaults that are good for the majority of users and don't require fiddling to become useful.

just recently i decided to look for a better way to switch windows in gnome. alt-tab is not convenient because the window previews are to small. the activities overview was a little bit better but slow because i had to use the mouse (i just found i can use arrow-keys too, but it's a bit awkward).

so i went out to search for an extension that would let me cycle through the full sized windows. that let me stumble over a comment that pointed out that i could do that without an extension but with alt-esc.

look ma, no extension. defaults for the win.
One off incidents don't reflect evidence of increasing censorship. There is little to no evidence that this IS censorship and not an attempt to mitigate misinformation that has gone awry.

Some level of moderation is important on this and all user contributed platforms.

In my experience Steam has been a very responsible custodian of it's community. And benefits just as much as users from negative reviews that help it decide what to suggest to users.

What other examples do you have of bad censorship from Steam?
Not in locations where wild cats exist anyway. If wild cats exist in your area, the bird life has already adapted to them over the past millions of years.

Obviously, if cats in your region have been introduced by humans, that's an entirely different situation.
Indeed. Treating every topic as something I should get my mother to do over the phone while driving gives wonderful results. It improves communication, documentation, code, stacks and logistics.
I believe it's that fact that it has survived for so long that it may have been treated with greater care and build quality than an everyday item. Of course it could have been an everyday object.
Although in a different context (negative reviews backfiring), this brought to mind something happened a while ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/21/gaming-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerstmann
All I've ever wanted is a head unit I can dock my phone into, either as a faceplate or just like it was a cassette, so it plays music and stays charged.
Huh? This isn't making a lot of sense to me. Why do you say the rationals aren't much better then floats? In situations like this surely we absolutely want to be working in the rationals, and they're a very easy way to do these calculations correctly without having to worry about tolerance bounds for arbitrary-precision float calculations
If anyone knows the pinout of the WNB 068 I'd love to hear about it.
If you dont have a lot of data, then statistical learning. If your data is structured and have well defined interpretations, then statistical learning.

So if you have lots of data and no reasonable way to extract information or process them, you go to DL stuff.

You can get a lot of mileage out of gradient boosted trees and other forms of ensembles.
>no more home runs (hang a driving range golf net)

Just call them fouls, like any other ball hit out of the field.
Undoubtedly it is not producing the same color spectrum as new, as phosphors fade over time, its blue spike is getting wider and taller, so it is always producing more and more blue light, slowly permanently blinding you while disrupting your circadian rhythms, increasing your chances of having diabetes and heart disease, and taking years off your life. But at least you saved a buck.
Nice. It seems to be missing the multi-cursor mode (snowflake icon). Which allows to draw as if you had multiple cursors all equidistant to a center point. I remember spending countless hours as a kid using that tool to draw a weird flower like shapes, it was mesmerizing.
Yeah. I'd classify a month as vacation. I was out of commission for three quarters when it happened to me and I'm not certain that was enough.
What makes you think that all hn visitors are "smart and technical".

And what makes you think that mastodon is walled by hardcore tech people only ot is a tech heavy community? My experience with mastodon is that it is used as much by non technical people as well. Your comparison with irc is not valid [1]

[1] although I would say irc used to be used by a lot of non technical people in the late 90's and early 2000's initially via web portals but many switching seamlessly to desktop clients such as mirc. While icq and then messenger were used for private communications with people already knowing each others well, IRC was the goto chat solution for people looking to meet other people with matching interest. Also acted as tinder before it was a thing.
I bet you've just learned to associate the continuous spectrum from incandescent bulbs with the heat they also emit. Have you ever been in a space illuminated by sun tubes or skylights? Did that light feel fake and/or sterile?
Anti-cheat software is designed to own your machine, take away your control and monitor you. They are indistinguishable from malware. Valve should be taken to task for not only allowing this malicious software in their platform but also for actively distributing it to users.

Thank you for citing this. I favorited it as yet another example to cite whenever the topic comes up.

Seems to be a trend with japanese companies. Check out the wonderful consequences of allowing these corporations access to your computer:

https://github.com/FuzzySecurity/Capcom-Rootkit

https://fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials/28.html
You can have a look at Olimex boards, open hardware with upstream kernel support designed in Bulgaria.

https://www.olimex.com/
Also, IIRC, in the early days, the purpose of rust was to create Servo.
Article doesn't look credible.

Looks more like a malign influence piece meant to distract.

Takes an identity politics approach, mixes in a small bit of truth, and a lot of insufficiently backed opinion, with known flawed metrics to back it up.

Overall a waste of time. Very disappointing.
Hitting a "follow" button is not complex UX.
You are citing a common accounting sleight of hand where you look at federal gas excise revenue and compare it to only federal spending on highways. Some issues:

* This includes an important subsidy from urban road users - who are federal funding ineligible - to highway users.
* Federal funding is only 25% of highway spending, the rest being state and local funds.
* Most road expansion capital projects deliver worse increased passenger throughput per dollar than highway projects.

Regarding costs, a good rule of thumb is the best performing road networks pay for half their expenses with user fees (Texan highways). Some poorly performing ones like Maryland are at 20% (http://www.actfortransit.org/archives/testimonies/2009Apr29T...). Owen D. Gutfreund’s
Twentieth-Century Sprawl is a good reference.

The final logical mistake in this line of analysis is looking at per rider subsidies between roads and transit, since American transit systems are uniquely inefficient precisely because of the burdens on transport laden by the road system. You can’t build densely because everyone thinks their cars won’t fit in the new urban geometry, but density is a precursor to successful transit. So we are stuck in an equilibrium where we prop up despots around the world for gasoline while everyone hates their commute.
Is that being taught at school?
Flowise – Node-RED alternative for LLMs application
You also notice the trickery going on?…

I asked it to help me code something. Then it stopped midway through, so I asked it to continue from the last line.

…It started from the beginning.

Now at the same point, I asked it not to stop. To keep going.

It started again from the beginning.

It went like this for about another 10 or so prompts. Hell, I even asked it to help me write a better prompt to ask it to continue from the line it cut off and I then used that. It didn’t work at all.

Then I ran out of prompts.

Three hours later, it did the same crap to me and I lost around 14 prompts to it being ‘stuck’ in an eternal loop.

Basically, OpenAI are sneaky devils. ‘Stuck’ my ass - that was intentional to free up resources.
From what I observed (reading the normal Reddit fluff, listening to NSF banter, and Tim Dodd the EA's interview with Musk) the issue with Raptor was being able to produce it reliably and rapidly. In the EA interview with Elon you can see how much less plumbing and paraphernalia there is on V2. I think both versions "worked" (they have been running lots of full duration tests at McGregor) for quite a while. One of Elon's many insightful sayings is something like "The best designed part is no part"
You want a list of names, or what are you asking?
>One of the most important differences between pesäpallo and baseball is that the ball is pitched vertically, which makes hitting the ball, as well as controlling the power and direction of the hit, much easier.

I was wondering how that worked, and it looks kind of like two-player teeball: https://youtu.be/Pz19WhYxaxA?t=13
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
They're going to turn what are currently add-ons/upgrades/options into subscriptions just like BWM or whoever it was did.

No more $3k package to add heated seats, just upgrade OnStar to OnStarPrime+ for $49.95/mo!
LED phosphors begin to fade immediately. Within dozens of hours of use it will produce noticeably different light, getting bluer and bluer over time.
Thanks! This fixed it.
There is nothing to counter. May look for studies next week when I have a notebook and not just a phone.
This is a chromium feature, not a windows one.
I think DE actually looks worse. Old graphics hold up great - just look at this: https://imgur.com/hWSZBpb. The new ones lost the soul. They have a weird glow/fuzziness. Nonetheless, DE has better multiplayer performance and cool new civs, so it's the one I play.
The problem is that most games are only available on Steam.
Sun first big mistake was doing the deal with AT&T to do Solaris. Sun should have continued to champion BSD derived software.

This hurt them in a few ways, literally every other player in the ecosystem was unified against Sun/AT&T and where there could have been a lot more cooperation, now there was the opposite.

It also massively hurt them in that Solaris was basically shit for a very long time. Many costumers held on to SunOS 4.x for a very long time. Solaris was not popular but that where all the semantic multiprocessor stuff was done. There were people inside of Sun that even in the early 90s still wanted to switch back to SunOS.

Had Sun simply continued to improve SunOS, added multi-processor stuff there, open-sourced things like NEWS (something literally everybody in the company expect a few lawyers wanted) and continued to distribute their compiler for free, it would have become the standard and preferred Unix. They also should have continued with the i386 series of machines.

They put themselves on the path of incredibly proprietary OS and incredibly proprietary CPU that were very high priced as PC compatibles got cheaper and cheaper and x86 got faster and faster.
It makes sense because they can create and roll out their own system. Hell, make it subscription-based, with a premium tier. They don't give a fuck, people will still buy their big ass SUVs and pick-up trucks.

How does it make sense to keep making cars bigger and bigger? It doesn't for us, but sure as shit does for them.
Everything new can get that stamp too: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...
I'm of the #opinion that this isn't a #great #way to #implement #search #inside a #product. #Hopefully #whenever a #service goes #down, #people will #remember to #add the #required #hashtags for #other #people to be able to #find them using #search. #Personally I've seen #very #few #posts on my #Mastodon #feed use #hashtags, so #searching is nigh on #impossible, and I don't #think that's #because they're #avoiding #dogpiling.

If #people don't want #other #people to #dogpile their #social #media #accounts, perhaps they should just #make their #accounts #private. #Mastodon has #private #account #support, right?
I haven't seen anyone in these threads propose an alternative to Anti-Cheat. Just not using anti cheat makes popular games unplayable. Everyone has the choice to just not play them but plenty of people do, and accept the trade off of handing control of their PCs to a third party to do so.
> Where is the connection between computational details and the model's high-level behavior? Do we even know?

This is an active area of study ("mechanistic interpretability") and it's very early days. For instance here's a paper I read recently that tries to explain how a very simple transformer learns how to do modular arithmetic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05217

Curious what interesting results people are aware of in this area.
I can assure you you're mistaken.

Most Androids today have that charge limit function natively without the need to root or tinker with your phone.
>I'm angry with Valve because they don't give publishers the option to distribute their games using an offline, DRM free installer.

Yes they do. There are plenty of DRM free games on Steam. DRM is optional on Steam.
At this point with SmartOS and whatever Oxide is using, its basically a hypervisor OS. That is great because it means a lot of the underlying bits are still getting updated and maintained and you some of it gets up-streamed.
Depends on the task. NLP? Audio? Video? DL is probably best. Classification, regression etc.? Don't bother (in my experience). You can still utilize deep learning-esque tools like embeddings (which aren't deep learning at all) and put an SVM on top.
https://www.thestrangeloop.com/index.html
What makes the response to the prompt "write a poem about $X" predictable or unpredictable? What prediction is violated when a glitch occurs?

Are you talking about a subjective evaluation by a human and if so isn't the glitch is in the human rather then in the LLM?
I have an Enterprise story on this. The low code tool I was using increased the price x10 on me after the first 3 years. The price increase was poorly managed, they looped me out and tried to talk directly to the IT leadership which was a disaster for them because they had 0 experience handling Enterprise contracts. I don’t think these low code tools are worth the trouble of dealing with their inexperienced sales people. Maybe some low code tool companies are better, but I am done with them anyways. Most of these tools promote bad coding practices like no clear split of dev and prod, no version control, no testing. I am not sure if these low code companies know what they are doing and how complex it is to maintain an enterprise app over 5/10/15 years.
Vanishingly small numbers? There are hundreds of teens who get surgeries and thousands who get drugs.

Your claim that it all only happens because of these kids agencies is unsubstantiated.

How do you explain the doubling of numbers of kids who say they are trans?

And you claim nobody ever regrets transitioning, which is a lie.