skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AOE4 has been an interesting journey for someone that prefers the good ol fashioned comp-stomp. It wasn't long before I was easily taking on 4 of the hardest AI and easily stomping them on certain maps, like mountain pass. But, they've progressively made the AI into a much tougher opponent. It's actually challenging now, and I'm only back up to 2 hardest, 2 hard with AI teammates on the same map. Can't speak to pvp; I've not tried at all.
Why many Hawaiians make Las Vegas their home
There's still a whole bunch of other stuff, other than nickel and cobalt, that's needed for batteries (and battery controllers). Global production and manufacture of all parts of an EV battery is dominated by China - of course all of the research will happen there.
Zardoz is definitely worth watching once if you like strange films.

But I will not go to second level.
Ha, can you imagine if TikTok did this in reverse.
Again: the incremental improvements to the plaform are, by that point, a compelling enough reason for me to upgrade.

The phones still typically work fine.
Huh, this was a huge help to me back in 2014 when I was doing PCA to make a statistical shape model during my PhD.
The design of these sorts of transactions in games are really insidious.

I suspect most payment providers would immediately flag single 2,500 transaction as suspect and prevent it, but breaking it up into small chunks prevents that.

That some breaking up of cost makes it hard to feel like you are actually spending money. A few 5 pound packs and suddenly you're talking about real money.

It seems like the various app stores should have some sort of preventative measures in place to stop kids from spending money (especially large sums), as it seems obvious these sorts of games are targeting them to spend money. Many even engage in dark patterns to get them to spend without realizing.
What causes them to do this?
https://archive.ph/Wzynz
Either make it actually good and usable or discontinue it. As it stands, most "public Wi-Fi" projects I see around require too much effort to be actually usable. I bet the only reason we have Wi-Fi on the trains to begin with is someone's project to appear "modern" and skim some government money rather than provide a valuable service people can take for granted and actually start using and relying on. None of the people who worked on this actually use it day-to-day otherwise they'd realize how shit it is.

Public Wi-Fi "login" is absolutely awful. It relies on captive portals which 1) provide no security (the traffic is still unencrypted and you can take over someone's session by spoofing their MAC address, making the whole "auth" pointless), 2) don't actually fulfil any law-enforcement objective (malicious users will just provide fake details on the signup page anyway) and 3) break all kinds of applications and ultimately ruins the user experience to a stage where people just don't bother and tether to their mobile instead.

The solution is to either amend the law to make the whole "login" thing unnecessary (criminals will "login" with fake details anyway), make it open to everyone (so connecting immediately gives you unrestricted internet access with no captive portal, thus devices can auto-connect) and use some per-MAC-address and maybe per-domain traffic shaping to throttle down heavy users or heavy services (video streaming, etc).

Alternatively, if "login" or payment is needed, use WPA2/3-Enterprise (with EAP) which allows usernames and passwords (so the OS can handle the auth instead of a captive portal) with a single (potentially government- or telco-consortium-operated) login that works across all public networks so Wi-Fi actually works seamlessly and effortlessly. The Virgin Media Wi-Fi in the London Underground actually works similarly where users or any major carrier can seamlessly connect via EAP-SIM/EAP-AKA, never see a login page, and their device automatically roams on and off the network as needed.
AFAIK it was first brought forward by PyTorch. I may be wrong though.
You say that, but in the UK, or at least where I live, they started adding a £2 fee per session, on top of the 50p per black and white A4 print (which alone was more than decent). I'm not paying £2.50 for a 1-page document.
I checked multiple stores and the Post Office, £2 / £2.30 I think flat fee before they even print you anything.
> But at the same time: consumers are choosing to buy this subscription.

I wonder how many understand what they're buying into here. It was certainly very far from clear to me.

I thought it was an "ink subscription service." That is, you pay your monthly fee and they provide a continual stream of ink to you.

But apparently, it's not that at all. Instead, it's "printing as a service".
Wouldn’t this have to be a criminal case for execs to be personally liable? I assume it isn’t a criminal case?
Star Wars had a very specific kind of influence, in two main ways: 1) The lesser of the two is that it inspired a wave of imitators of its aesthetic, kit-bash FX, and space-opera elements throughout the 80s—pretty much all firmly in "B-movie" territory, at best; and 2) More importantly, it proved the box office viability and entertainment potential of the genre-pastiche/mashup film, paving the way for Tarantino and others.
There's so much more you can do on the internet than drone across to corporate. Oh and you got logged out of Kindle.
>Tesco Bank initially refused a refund but reconsidered and apologised after BBC Radio 4's You and Yours took up the case.

I wish customer service didn't depend upon whether you complain to HN/Twitter/BBC. This disadvantages those who don't want to tell the whole world about their personal issues
Why would this be a risk? The data is already on your machine. It would be much easier for a hacker to target that data directly, as they do today, than to try to extract some impossibly obfuscated form of it from an LLM.
https://youtu.be/351JCOvKcYw

There are a number of theories on black holes not being singularities.

PBS space time goes into a few of them
YOU KNOW SVENSSON? Oh, that's cool.
> So I guess the main issue is that it is not specific enough and is open to interpretation.

It's open to interpretation, but in some cases it's actually more bluntly horrible. For example, it seems like conservatives are clutching their pearls about the possibility of a math problem mentioning two moms [1].

From the article:

> The legislation could also impact how teachers provide instruction on a day-to-day basis. At a Senate hearing on Feb. 8, Republican Sen. Travis Hutson gave the example of a math problem that includes the details that “Sally has two moms or Johnny has two dads.” Republican State Sen. Dennis Baxley, who sponsors the bill in the Senate, said that is “exactly” what the bill aims to prevent.

This seems to imply that my fears of othering of gay families is founded.

> This is what I was trying to say, the law was written, and then when people objected there began a discourse

I feel like the LGBT grooming conspiracies have been around for a long time. There are 50's era PSAs about how gays will show your kids porn and then try and molest them [2]. I don't think these sentiments ever really went away, at least not completely.

In more recent history I don't know if the "gays are trying to groom your kids" came before or after the bill.

[1] https://time.com/6155905/florida-dont-say-gay-passed/

[2] https://youtu.be/3bPZxRD1GJQ

EDIT:

I think I linked the wrong video. https://youtu.be/EqIIeGmhL2Q
I’ve been trying it out, and I like it a lot. But I wish that you could still tap a post to collapse it, like marking a comment chain as read.
A quick search suggests that welding generally does not pay particularly well. Particularly compared to something like engineering.
The basic thing here is that 1) we can guess from pretty basic physics that black holes have an entropy. 2) in order for a black hole to have an entropy it must have microscopic degrees of freedom. 3) String theory is one of the few ways we've ever come close to actually calculating from microscopic degrees of freedom the entropy we "know" black holes should have. I think most physicists, even string theorists (perhaps them more than others) understand that there are physical and philosophical problems with string theory, but I think most folks also think its the closest thing we have to a working theory and that it is probably a useful language in which to cast certain calculations in lieu of a more complete or rigorous theory.

I'd also like to point out that the actual total funding for string theory is extremely tiny compared to scientific research funding in general since it is a theoretical discipline with very few practitioners. If you want to attach inefficiencies in scientific funding, the LHC is a much better target. I'm a physicist and have an interest in theory, and even I think that we spend too much money on particle accelerators given what we stand to learn from them and the other pressing problems the human race has. I'd be delighted to see all that money re-allocated to large scale public works building solar panels and infrastructure or just giving it to poor people.
I use a VM for each client. I host it on my desktop and then when I need to work from a laptop I just SSH into the VM.

This way I never "forget to turn off the client VPN" and similar BS, and my client files don't get mixed up, etc.
Meter reading was always unskilled labor. Utility companies didn't send plumbers or electricians to do those jobs.
It would have reduced confusion for me, anyway. I thought is was an ink subscription service, because that's how they market it.
Nice! Maybe this will help convert some of my friends to the dark side
I'll repost the top voted comment from r/anime_titties for this article, since apparently most users here were fooled by the reporting:

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This is just a rehash of the awful AP article from yesterday: https://apnews.com/article/china-debt-banking-loans-financia...

It amounts to what is essentially misinformation.

> Countries in AP’s analysis had as much as 50% of their foreign loans from China and most were devoting more than a third of government revenue to paying off foreign debt. Two of them, Zambia and Sri Lanka, have already gone into default, unable to make even interest payments on loans financing the construction of ports, mines and power plants.

Yes. BILATERAL LOANS. i.e. a fraction of a country's total debt. China amounts to 65% of Nigeria's bilateral loans, but <4% of their total debt (as an example)

The VAST majority of debt in these countries is owed to private creditors (in London and New York) via eurobond loans. Those loans have far higher interest rates, often require massive principle repayments and are generally impossible to renegotiate or suspend in times of debt distress. Eurobonds are what caused Sri lanka to default, what caused Zambia to default and what are causing everyone else to default.

During covid China suspended more debt repayments than the rest of the intl community combined, despite having only 30% of the total lending. Doesn't sound very evil to me.

There are plenty of real problems with China's historic lending, but jesus the lies need to stop.
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To add to that, only ~10% of Sri Lanka's outstanding loans are owed to Beijing, in any form, and even if you add up every company with any PRC ties whatsoever and the AIIB, it's only ~20% of outstanding loans. Considering how close Sri Lanka ties are, probably every other debtor country would have a lower ratio.

It's unfortunate that the Associated Press and Fortune have reduced their credibility to the level of Hollywood accountants, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbled when there's so much geopolitical pressure to fudge reporting.
Meanwhile companies as Epson make printers with seperate refillable ink holders. Never looked back.
When the product costs essentially little to nothing to manufacture - in comparison to the cost charged to the consumer - it may as well be considered a durable good to the manufacturer which allows you to "borrow" it for a fee that far exceeds the cost of lifetime replacement.
Reading this thread, I've picked up two new places to see one, and I've visited two already (Tucson and Seattle).

A great, great man.
Fun fact: there was a thriving competition between social platforms in Germany before Facebook came in as an established US player and squashed the rest. There was actually a tendency towards purpose-built social networks (more akin to what we've been seeing recently) until Facebook. They also didn't rely on the same kind of algorithmic advertisement which meant they had to come up with more interesting ways to sustain themselves, which of course turned out to be a market disadvantage when directly competing against a US company that thinks privacy is the name of a place in France.

Constraints foster innovation. If US online services companies were unable to operate (directly or via subsidiaries) legally in the EU market, this could actually create an advantage for EU (and especially DACH) companies. Remember that the US has literally fought wars and orchestrated regime changes to convince countries to let its companies operate in them.
I have tried a few times but I can't last more than 2 weeks on twitter without deleting it.

Even people I have enormous respect for intellectually end up coming off as unfunny comedians, obnoxious and vapid performance artists or political hacks.
Right, it isn't working. Facebook/Meta was fined a billion today, but still will not respect user's privacy.
>They were probably the only company that I would have relocated for, in my fifties.

I'm always curious about people's willingness to uproot their lives, and move away from family and friends for a job. Especially at older ages where one has 'made it' and money is no longer the top priority.

There's only one organization that's on that list for me, and that's JPL, especially if I got a chance to work on their sat / rover stuff.
I misread as "leaving" and thought it was a bit much but understandable. /s

It looks nice but I agree with those saying that forcing a login with google is not the best approach.
In the left column, if you click on the hospital name, it will show the history.
This is 100% an Apple thing, and it sounds like the kid simply changed the password to override the iOS parental restrictions.
> How do you have a global graph without sending data to every country where your friends are?

On-Demand, i.e., if one of your friends actually visited your "node" (profile or whatever) and also by following the law for the country the data originates from, no need to store anything in the target country – i.e., like most of the internet already works (or worked), it's really not _that_ hard.

> This is another example of clueless EU regulators creating laws with no understanding of the implications

Meh, maybe some are clueless, but one sees also a lot head scratching and scapegoating from people that don't bother to even think on solutions or what the actual laws are about (i.e., are themselves clueless about the actual implications).
> You are paying $6 for 100 pages.

WHAT?!

That's insanely expensive. You'd think they'd have to beat the prices to print things out at the local copy shop, at least.
! ignores the function error (only possible with void return types)

!? provides an alternative value when the function errors

!! exits the current scope on an error, e.g. return,continue,exit,...

It doesnt seem that complex. Ofcourse, there is also '??' and '?!'. That might make it more difficult. It's not vague actually. if it starts with '!', it's a function error handler. if it starts with '?', it's a null-check.
It seems to me that the problem is that the number of well paid fields seems to be decreasing and the difficulty of switching is prohibitive. E.g. I don't have the time or resources to go back to college in a new field and then rebuild a career from the ground up all over again.
> I feel I am at the beginning of intuitively understanding what memory really is: memory is just a huge contiguous region of numbered locations.

There might be an analogy here that could help you reason about your nested structure allocations…

Memory is an array of bytes owned by the OS. While there are all kinds of implementation details about addressing and storage and performance and paging and virtual memory, it’s really just an array. The OS gives you a way to reserve pieces of the array for your own use, and you’re responsible for giving them back if you want to play nice and/or run for a long time, otherwise (as a safety net) the OS will take them back as soon as you exit.

This is, in a sense, very similar to the question you posed. An outer routine owns the outer structure, and an inner routine allocates some inner structure. The simplest, most intuitive, and generally best advice is that whoever allocates is also responsible for freeing memory. In other words, one way to define ownership of memory is by who allocates it. Implicitly and automatically the responsibility to free that memory belongs to owner that allocated it. It’s okay to explicitly transfer ownership, but can easily get complicated and unintuitive. You can also consider letting the parent free your struct to be similar to not calling free() in your JIT compiler - it’s a ‘lazy’ optimization to have the parent clean up - and I don’t mean that in a judgemental sense, I mean it’s valid to let the parent handle it, if you know that it will, and this can be done without getting confused about who owns the memory and who was actually responsible for freeing it. Note that when you leave the parent to clean it up, you are foregoing the ability to re-use the memory - this is true in your JIT compiler and it’s true for malloc() and free() as well. If you let the OS handle it, you’re in effect declaring that you believe you do not need to recycle the memory allocated in your program during it’s execution. (This might be true, and it might stay that way, but it’s always worth asking if it will remain true, since lots of people have been eventually bitten and had to retroactively refactor for memory management when their requirements change.)
I love this so much, thank you for putting this together!

My only piece of feedback would be for the "Inline Bookkeeping" section (https://samwho.dev/memory-allocation/#inline-bookkeeping), it took a while for me to grok the numbered list to figure out which block corresponded to address + X. I wonder if there is a better way to visualize the 4 numbered bullet points? Maybe just arrows and text pointing to the visualization?

Thanks again for this wonderful article!
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
I actually think it's absolutely fine to not be a natural and still want it, and that the comparison to a physical talent isn't perfect, because in something as complex as engineering management you can really get very good even if you don't have the natural aptitude, whereas if you are too short to play on the NBA, you won't play on the NBA no matter how hard you practice. You're right though that it's worth thinking if it's really what you want, or it just looks good on others. And then sometimes the only way to find out is by giving it a try.
Hey!
It is definitely US-centric, however FHIR (the protocol that Fasten speaks natively) is an international standard. We're tracking international support in this github issue - https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem/issues/42

However, we'll make sure to update the README to make it clearer that international providers are not supported yet.
Examining puppeteer fungus' targeted takeover of zombie flies
This also trapped me.
I did this once with a game called FlyFF. Dad wasn't thrilled. I think I totaled 1500 USD or so. The form itself had validation on the client side to cap out your total money for the daily maximum (100 USD) but the URL parameter wasn't checked value-wise, only your daily total before the purchase was validated server-side. So I knew enough at 10 or 11 to change the URL parameter to get loads more.

Then I got a very, very angry knock on the door at about 7am about a week later when the bank statement came through.

Not sure what lessons I learned there (aside from the obvious) about software design, micro-/in-game economies, or children using your services, to be honest. On the one hand, these sorts of services need to make money. I get that. But it's also super enticing and unreasonably easy for kids to do this, and I'd imagine it happens a lot more than what makes the news.

Not sure what the solution is aside from a very extensive and rich set of parental controls that are mandatory. Not sure if Roblox has that, and if so, I would imagine this kid did what I did when my parents added pins on certain channels - I looked over their shoulder!

Kids seem to be very crafty about bypassing security controls. The OG bad actors, if you will.
The EcoTank mentioned has a user-replaceable waste ink box https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094H9SGYD
Setting all the morality and ethics discussions aside, after so many of these stories, I made a mental note not to buy any HP printer ever again, just because there seems to be so much complexity and unexpected trouble.

It's just easier to buy, say, a Brother printer and forget about it for many years (and I speak from experience here). I don't need printer drama in my life.
It’s good for the US semiconductor industry that it’s being built in the US as opposed to Taiwan or South Korea. I wonder what the long term impacts of Applied Materials’ interactions with universities will be.
The only defect is in our understanding.
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>One would assume that if US corporations are making less profit due to fines, then they’re also paying less taxes to the U.S. government.

I'm not familiar with U.S tax law but in the UK fines are not tax deductable. Not sure whether it matters that the fine was imposed by a foreign country.
The burden of proof is on the person making the initial claim, ie that SSRIs are no better than placebo.
Process all of it in Europe.
The companies have a financial incentive to keep things as they are. Maybe we need one of those "get you out of your timeshare" style companies, pay a small fee and they argue on your behalf.
It's just as good a second time around. ahaha.
I think about this a lot when I think about immoral employers. How do you warn people or signal dangerous behavior to others without airing your dirty laundry?

It's sad that people and organizations can do things that are widely considered immoral until they're caught by others, and then they're only apologizing that they were caught.
> I'd have avoided a free version and just made the basic price at least $6

I would definitely get less heat, but the user would paradoxically end up in a worse position. I feel like there's always a disconnect between the user and developer when it comes to a freemium model. Developer thinks that it's a paid app that the user can actually try and make an informed decision before buying. User thinks that it's a free app with arbitrary annoying restrictions. And I understand the user perspective.

I think things would be better if refunding was less painful for the user and developer both. If there was a zero friction way of refunding things, we could just abandon freemium.
I think there are all sorts of other potential tests of string theory. The problem is that for all the actual tests that were ever proposed, it failed (supersymmetry, various proposals for sizes of the extra dimensions).
https://archive.is/vOBp6
To be fair the Bank did nothing wrong. A refund means a net loss on their books, and they did not have any obligation. Marketing-wise it makes sense, but only if this does not become a trend of opportunistic scammers.

I really feel sorry for the mother, but ultimately is her responsability to raise her daughter. I haven’t used Roblox so maybe there is a case for going after them, but not the bank. Might as well sue the ISP that made the internet connection possible or the utility that allows charging her iPad…
One of the most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned