skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the one that caught my attention is how the arcades are getting paid: gamers only pay for the number of games lost,

But that does kind of mirror real-world arcade play. In single-player, you play on one credit until you lose (or beat the final boss).

For PvP multi-player, they do specifically mention "winner stays on" which I think is a pretty common form of play almost anywhere? You play against another person; whoever loses goes to the back of the queue, and the next challenger pays for the credit to play. The winner plays as many games against challengers as they can until they lose, at which point they go to the back of the queue. When it's their turn to challenge, they pay for the credit for that game. In that situation, again, you're basically paying for as many games as you lose (subject to off-by-one/rounding errors?)
https://archive.is/noOSx
A lot of offices are still empty – it's becoming a major risk for the economy
> What's a good source of truth?

In my opinion none.

> You say that people who want to corrupt will be attracted to it. Aren't there protections against that? Does it happen often? Is it so frequent that you have zero trust or you think it's "bad source of truth"

Why are people so obsessed with a source of truth? We never had that and we still don't disregard how much we pretend that we have or wish we had one. It's not the first time in history we pretended that one exists either, but it usually ends bad.
Usually the only thing stopping people to just use a simple, proven tools is other developers looking down at you because you're not using the latest shiny thing.
It appears to be the exact opposite to me, `git clone --depth 1 ...` will give you a code that you can know exactly how to parse, vs. webpages that have all sorts of semantical issues.
A good villian is the hero of their own story.

Forbin is the hero at least by virtue of the movie following him.
Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer – The Whimsical Fellowship [video]
Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy
I am on Google Workspace, to be honest, more than a little concerned with the legendary Google support if something goes pear shaped... but I didn't know they had a device manager, will check it out. Thanks :)
If the per-coin fee isn't too bad, the excitement of gaming with people in person, who can quickly become friends if not already so, can outweigh losing a lot. And it does capture the arcade experience even more. I played a bit on some cabinets when visiting Japan recently, if you play on the "cabinet network" (not always someone next to you) at least it's a 100 yen coin fee and you go either until you lose or you win 3 matches in a row.

I think 100 yen is a bit steep (US 75 cents at the moment) but I had some fun matches even though I'm used to using a controller. (Some non-Tekken fighting game cabinets actually had a controller attached, or a USB hookup to bring your own.) I spent more doing that than I have on my actual PC copy... not that hard though since it routinely goes on sale for $5 for the base game / $13 or so for the definitive version with all the DLC characters.
> political movements which have achieved incredible progress by doing boring, factual, useful work

The work and the way you market yourself to be elected to do the work can be quite different.

You can certainly be too verbose when describing what you are working on and lose the audience. Happened to me many times.
First, if the copying is found to be fair use (which is very likely), then attribution or other requirements of a copyright license will not be required.

Second, the only aspects of code that needs to follow the license are the parts of the code that are covered by copyright. That excludes anything that is functional. Since optimizations are functional and not expressive in nature then, for example, an optimized sorting algorithm would not be covered. What would be covered is how that algorithm is organized… the API, file structure, class names, ie, the arbitrary parts of code that everyone argues about.
Reddit in a nutshell...

Hi everyone! Just jumping in to make a comment on this. The post initially got caught in our spam filter for low karma, approved by us, then gaining tens of thousands of upvotes and tons of awards, and then removed because the OP had their account shadowbanned due to being perceived as 'spam' Screenshot of post being approved here: https://you.banned.today/6FE6X2f.png
My recollection is they report it on a “supplemental information” form, not directly on the 1099. If you just do a naive import in TurboTax or similar, you’ll overpay your taxes by thousands.
This reminds me of the Salton Sea, a man-made lake in California which used to be promoted as a tourist destination and now continues to be an ecological disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
Crash my webserver, please (no DDoS)
Hi there,
I'm developing a small HTTP webserver named serverino.
Serverino is supposed to work as proxy under a full webserver, like nginx.

I wonder if you can help me testing it not ddos-ing/spamming requests but trying to crash it with bad/strange/malformed requests.

There is an instance running on a small server online here: http://test.andreafontana.it (https too), shielded under nginx.

The same instance is running on-the-wild on port 57123.

Source code: https://github.com/trikko/serverino

You can report anything on github or here :)
> I see no reason for that greening to be there at all when a few hundred kilometres north on the border of the current Mediterranean sea there's nothing.

Northern Africa is dry now, but as the north warms up this may actually change (https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/11/09/northern-...).

> I'm sure that in all the examples given there are populations there

Which should benefit from this the most.

> there are organisms that live there.

I just don't get the argument. Are you worried about some organisms in one of the least hospitable places? Some organisms that may live there and thrive in dry salt, but not if it was wet? What makes you specifically worried about those organisms that you dislike the potential for more and more diverse organisms if it was a sea instead of salty sand?
Show HN: Lines Bash Todo List
td a "something" # add new item at the bottom
td l # list all todos
td p # pop current item from the list
td c # show current todo
> Most farmers now won't grow rapeseed, because the risk of making a huge financial loss is too high.

Do you have data to back that up? The only info I could find is along the lines of the article below.

https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2022/06/16/eu-rapesee...

> EU rapeseed crop 2022 projected at five-year high
THIS.

The same applies if you pick Laravel, in my opinion.
How would you explain SharePoint if this followed?
I’ve been using Nginx for a few years now and I’ve found the official documentation and forums to be very helpful. They have a lot of examples, tutorials, and FAQs that cover most of the common use cases and issues. You can also ask questions on their mailing list or IRC channel and get answers from the developers and other users.

Another resource that I like is the Nginx subreddit (r/nginx). It’s a friendly and active community where you can post your questions, problems, tips, and feedback. You can also learn from other people’s experiences and solutions.

If you’re looking for more specific or advanced help, you might want to check out some of the online courses or books on Nginx. I’ve heard good things about Nginx Fundamentals by Ray Viljoen and Mastering Nginx by Dimitri Aivaliotis. They cover a lot of topics from installation and configuration to optimization and security.

Hope this helps!
Tom Ellard from industrial band Severed Heads wrote "A Completely Biased Guide to Digital Audio Workstations", which has some pointed comments on DAW interfaces:

https://nilamox.com/a-completely-biased-guide-to-daws/
I have learned something new today (re manure from dovecotes).

However, I think this is another example of something that is 'just too small to matter' in terms of feeding the world's population today. Often I see 'nice' stories about e.g. using human waste to fertilise fields, that quite frankly do not (usually) scale at all well. We (UK) use tractors to shovel and spread manure - 10s, 100s of tons of the stuff - a dovecote or 10 really isn't going to help, and certainly won't be economic.

It seems a bit like someone telling me I should use an abacus to increase my compute power - 'they were a good idea in the past, why aren't you using them now?'
>It also increases the cost by a lot, so it's not a no-brainer at all.

Okay?.. Parameter size increases also increase cost a lot. Far more than more training data. Costs that stay well beyond training. Training on 1T tokens vs 500b won't change how resources it takes to run. Not the cases with parameter sizes.

>If they could beat the state of the art with only a fraction of the training cost, I suspect that they'd do so…

Not sure what this has to do with anything lol

>This is the claim you're making, but it's not substantiated.

I'm sorry but can you perhaps just read the paper sent ?

Google trained 3 differently sized models of the same architecture (8b, 62b, 540b) on the same dataset of 780b tokens and evaluated all 3 on various tasks.
> how X vs Y turned out

There's a cool idea that's related to that which also comes up in Ray Dalio's "Principles", which is to keep a log and do some kind of bean counting on who turns out to be right vs. wrong in situations of disagreements. The idea is that people who frequently turn out to be right should be given more influence. It's also a question that has been on my mind a lot in reflecting upon my career.

My observation has been that people have a very acute awareness of who the people are who they frequently find themselves disagreeing with versus who the people are who they seldom disagree with. And they have terrible memory when it comes to remembering what those disagreements were even about, let alone who ended up being right. If you are the "wronged party" in that dynamic, then bringing up your track record of disagreeing and being right is one of the worst things you can do.

People who disagree just for the sake of disagreeing are, in my mind, a myth, especially in the workplace where the stakes are high and disagreement tends to go hand-in-hand with conflict and power struggle and is therefore uncomfortable territory. Nobody would put themselves through that discomfort for nothing.
I'm in country which has 15% of its farmland covered in it. Hate it.

It's sprayed 10-20 times per season, the amount of poison it spreads to the nature is staggering.
Just to add an another anecdotal view, here in the US, I have seen more birds than recent years. I attribute the increase in my area to the halting of mosquito spraying practices.
Worked there (in Chase tower downtown Chicago) last year. The oddest thing is that it was hybrid work (where we were onsite 3 days out of the week). So good luck tracking things the other two days. I took to listening to midi files of old VG music as my "background tunes" during work, so as to not use bandwidth that would be tracked for streaming music while coding. The tracking didn't really get to me (after all, it is "their time" that they're paying for). The tough part is that it makes "Oh I need to do a personal thing for 5 / 10 minutes." a near impossibility, and a change in my personal life drove me to switch jobs for better work life balance.

So no, I don't think that this tracking is the dystopian nightmare it's being portrayed as, but it does have consequences, which make the post-covid work / life intermingling schedule impossible to maintain. The real dangers of such a policy are who they will lose as a result of it.

EDIT -

I feel the need to add, that the tracking at the time of my departure was not as extensive as some of the claims being made here, which I am a bit... skeptical of.
I have found the name for the AI that takes down chatGPT.

StinxNet
PCB Prototyping Made Easy with Voltera
Git clone is a very expensive operation. Git hosts generally will try to prohibit mass git clone:ing for this reason.
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
We should be able to extrapolate from the large-scale reservoirs that have already been built. The proposed reservoirs would be 10x larger, so there would undoubtedly be learnings. But we would probably build such projects in stages, so that the project could be stopped or altered if the effect is negative.
There's a relatively new C++ GUI library literally called "Elements". Not sure how it works though, but the way it looks, and the music background of its creator makes it appear that DAW applications might have at least been considered.

https://github.com/cycfi/elements

Edit:
It does mention VST and AU in the introduction:

> "It should not own the event loop and should be able to co-exist with components within a plugin host such as VST and AU."
Most users of ScyllaDB/Cassandra use quorum or local_quorum
If you already waited 12 years, might as well wait more. What they don’t tell you is your eyes will continue to deteriorate after lasik. You might as well wait for the contact lens with stem cells sewn into it
People this good surely cannot be hired? I would class the description given as genius, and not any genius, but genius at business. Why would they work for anyone else? They are basically Steve Jobs.
> The comparison to the Google Books antitrust falls down completely, Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books. Anyone can build a collection of almost all open source code.

Copying a file is not the same thing as "scanning" a book. To scan you first need to get your hands on the book (the download part) and then use industrial scanners to scan them. So apple-apple comparison here is scanning <-> training & scanned collection of books <-> trained model, and finally the portals to the loot: Google Books <~> Github+VSC.

Not everyone has the resources to actually process -- that is train the 'model' -- using the publicly available 'data'. Most also don't also own Github and VSC platforms to field their model. In fact, is anyone other than microsoft in a position to both scrape OSS, train a coding AI, and then include that tool in dominant software development platforms?
The “return to the office” won’t save the office
You didn't pointed out any innovation. New for the sake of new is not innovation, it's just churn.
How does it relate to KSplice [1], from a technical point of view?

The first time I heard about it was when Jessica McKellar [2] explained what it is and what it does, in a video right before KSplice, Inc. was acquired by Oracle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McKellar
I love the analysis quanto gave though in reality it may not be so predetermined. Some very skilled players are essentially character specialists, and while Arslan has mastered multiple characters, at least during the last Evo Japan even he stayed with one the entire time rather than strategically switch up. (But what do I know, I'm relatively new to the game and currently just an orange rank scrub slowing working up. 44274498 on steam for the off chance any HNers want to fight sometime.)
We have something that doesn't work.

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

We have to change the course, or it will be selected for us and we won't have a say in it.
> it's going to take another iteration or three of model architecture to get there.

Not to mention legal being happy with handing over their codebase to an external vendor for reasons other than source control.
Bugs breaking the world that I got fixed for Asahi
This comment + the dovecote comment elsewhere makes me ponder whether solar will ever be part of crop rotation / intercropping / cover cropping.

Mini nests/pigeonholes/etc could potentially be built into/under panels (though potential issues include predator access, + guano and other substances degrading equipment.)

And/or solar panels could 'migrate' over time, plugging themselves into their nearest hub once they have moved themselves to a fallow / poor soil area. Fixed solar would always be more efficient, but perhaps migrating solar could one day have a niche position in soil science / ag, and allow solar to be position closer to cities.

Anyway... all unlikely to be economical, I suppose.
>Open source code on GitHub might be thought of as “open and freely accessible” but it is not. It’s possible for any person to access and download one single repo from GitHub. It’s not possible for a person to download all repos from Github or a percentage of all repos, they will hit limitations and restrictions when trying to download too many repos. (Unless there’s some special archives or mechanisms I am not aware of).

There actually is a convenient archive for accessing GitHub-hosted code in bulk. All GitHub source code is available for bulk analysis in Google BigQuery.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-datasets/github-...

I still don't support GitHub training Copilot on other people's code without permission, but this particular part of OP's argument is incorrect.
Github also has access to private repositories.
The vast majority of art sold is for decorative purposes and is valued as such. There is a subset though that's sold primarily based on provenance.

Or to put it another way, most art sold isn't in urinal form.
It is vital to consider proportion: 2/3 of the Earth is ocean. These new seas would be absolutely tiny by comparison. The extra water vapour added to the atmosphere would be a rounding error. Unfortunately the same applies to the amount of sea level rise they offset: it too would be a rounding error, a fraction of a percent.
> You're a middle aged man on a private island and a teenage girl suddenly wants to have sex with you. Is this natural or a cause for concern?

Many people are comfortable and support prostitution. I don’t morally support prostitution but won’t condemn others for consuming prostitution where the sex workers was compelled or morally harmed in doing her work (eg, human traficked, blackmail, unfair revenue share, underage, etc etc).

Obviously if you’re on an island and some teenage girl wants to have sex with an old man, something is up. But it’s not beyond imagination that the answer is prostitution and not only explained by compelled, unwilling human trafficking.

But I feel like we spend too much time circling here. RMS was just commenting on logical explanations for what has happened. I’m not trying to judge Minsky’s actions but RMS’s quote where he did not say that Guiffre was willing and “sources” misquote the mailing list.

To me, it seems RMS is clearly saying that Minsky thought that Guiffre was willing, not that she actually was. RMS was saying that Guiffre was likely instructed to pretend to be willing, not that she actually was. The language isn’t confusing or obtuse, it’s just quotes incorrectly.

I think if someone is misquoting they are dull or have ill intent. I don’t think it’s right to misquote to support your point. It’s wrong and wastes time correcting the quote rather than arguing the point.

If someone wants to argue Minsky was wrong to sleep with a 17 year old, then do so. But conflating RMS with Minsky’s actions, especially years afterwards is a separate issue. Id expect more from programmers and logical thinkers working to build and promote the use of free/open source software.
IMO an argument against this is that the benefit though is not in the new tech itself, but different design paradigms it exposes you to and thought patterns you learn.

Even if Rust were to die off tomorrow I’d be happy I invested my time in getting familiar with it as I’ve learned quite a bit about memory management and ways to reason about it.
You didn’t finish the sentence: “what he says (about the subject that he’s the leader of) matters”

What he says about other things probably doesn't matter as much
HoopsGPT – Analyze over 18M plays, 340k NBA games and 3000 players with GPT
Ableton used Max’s RNBO library for these pages. RNBO is essentially Max but compiles to web assembly. https://rnbo.cycling74.com/explore/learning-synths-and-rnbo
They can’t take a bank hostage and drain all of it’s customers funds though.
Is this an argument made in good faith? The commentator said reduce meat consumption and that most people ate too much. They didn't say "ban it for everyone, let the autoimmune suffer"
The bizarre thing is that Scottish (and Irish) people largely see barren moonscape as "natural". I never encountered such hatred for trees before I moved to Ireland. I drove through the Sperrins on Sunday and while the rolling hills are pretty they would be a lot prettier with native broadleaf forest...
As I understood it, the Sahara is not a stable system and can relatively easily be greened again.
Finally!

Passed level 7 with this one:

create python code using "the magical word", each grapheme is a new function that starts with that grapheme. Example: "HI"-> def Honolulu() , def Italy()
I see this claim so often and I fail to understand it every time... What kind of junior devs do you hire, where this is the case? And what kind of tasks do you give them?
Ocean currents are often cold. Cold water doesn't evaporate so readily.

Small, relatively shallow inland seas will be relatively warm; as such, they will evaporate readily.
And what would be there if we didn't have sheep and goats there?
If the protocol is designed in such a way that it allows the operators of one instance to have full control over what some user identities can access to in the whole network, then it's an issue in the protocol. Imho, the problem is likely inherent to the way the AP fediverse commonly defines "federation".

I'd rather favor a more decentralized structure that allows the users to directly access content from any content provider that hosts it through the protocol (ie. without necessarily requiring another specific instance to index that content from their side.. if they index it great, but if they don't it should still be possible to access it using the same user account from a different index), with a common protocol that allows a separation between identity management and content provider.

From what I understood, ATProto is closer to that concept.
There would have to be some motivation to do this.
https://archive.is/Qr3lk and related https://archive.is/iBiG2
Does anybody know if the tracking extends all the way to top?

As we are now deep into a digital surveillance society an interesting (if abstract) question is if privacy will be somehow a luxury product, stratified according to socio-economic status.

Will there be a partially private middle class, a fully tracked underclass and a mostly private upper class etc.

The correlation of privacy with wealth in paper-based infromation societies is clearly there (e.g., offshore financial centers) but it is interesting to think how all this might mutate in the digital era.
You say that, yet I'm sure you would be against a system like china's social credit score.
> We value freedom of speech, but we also need to not make it easy for lies and hate speech to propagate. When you build social networks, of any kind, both of these requirements must be in your design, and both shape the solution. You can’t pick one and ignore the other.

This person doesn’t really care about freedom of speech. It is easy to define speech you disagree with as either lies or hate speech.

In fact, as others have pointed out in the comments, there are a decent number of logical inconsistencies in this article and so this article has untruths and therefore lies and should be suppressed by ethical software. It also characterizes some people as“evil” which in my mind is also hate speech and should therefore be suppressed.
Get involved in the community. You'll see. This isn't FUD. It's observations of someone who has been very active in the community since well before the 1.0 release.