skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firstly the US never bought into it

"Never bought into is" as never bothered and never cared about other countries (main character syndrome)
> Are you familiar with the Overton Window? It's shifted hard to the right.

This is incorrect. It may have widened in both directions, but it absolutely did not shift to the right.

Transgender support from mainstream corporations (Target, Budweiser, etc) would have been completely unthinkable 10 years ago.

That’s just one example of many. What has happened is that the Overton window is broken because people don’t even engage with “the other side” anymore. So we just end up with both sides discussing things with impunity that were previously off-topic and still are for the other side.
Git Merge – The Definitive Guide
Very nice! Reminds me of that old classic song someone made back in the day with Windows sounds.

Here’s a copy of the one I am talking about. https://youtu.be/dsU3B0W3TMs
SGI boot chimes https://youtu.be/1zjuyLXsmew?t=30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLwZhmkW8Y
It's _all_ experience. "Don't sell the sausage, sell the sizzle".

This is why car adverts are either belting round implausibly empty urban streets, or of Wankpanzers off-roading in a way almost no owner will actually do. "Buy this and this is the experience you're connecting with".

I'm rather confused by the article's point. It really reinforces that it's all experience, and really, material goods are just a means to an end.

Look - if I want to go experience Bali, it's not like I have to buy an aeroplane to do so. We _vastly_ overestimate the marginal utility of a more expensive car or some slightly different shoes in the sense of what additional experiences it's going to give us.

And, frankly, if you're claiming your shoe purchases increase your wellbeing because they don't hurt then I might suggest you pay more attention to purchasing the correct size for your feet (Stop buying from the Dolmansaxlil shoe corporation).

ISTR that materialistic humans being on a hedonic treadmill has quite a lot of evidence.
Only if they implement steam cloud saves. Its not automatic.
What are you talking about? There are ads on new tabs even if you configure it to just be a blank page!
I wouldn't assume that wage theft would go away. It's just that the issue is a lot more severe when the base pay is sub-minimum.
Developer team on The Lord of the Rings: Gollum apologize for its release state
> Old reigns supreme

Advancement in computing capabilities over the last 15 years seem to have gone almost exclusively to graphics and duration. We get bigger and bigger games with better and better visuals, but fundamentally the same few gameplay modes.

Maybe it's just perspective, compressing the "glorious past" of 80s/90s games (breaking all sorts of barriers and inventing new ways of gaming with every other title) over a shorter timeframe in my memory, while the last decades feel long and bare. I probably sound like a boomer talking about rock'n'roll.
PolyML is what I use.
looks like a Spring TA successor, nice!
It's pretty close though, there's a mode where you can just point Steam Cloud at a folder and it will sync it.
Wow thanks for implementing all those improvements!
I'm not sure what you're pointing at, but all shops are selling a shopping experience.

Compare a hard discount grocery store to a regular supermarket, and we see the supermarket invisting significant money (and increasing prices) to improve the customer experience, and many customers willing to pay the price to not shop in what looks like a warehouse, even if they'd buy roughly the same products.
In conclusion, my experience at The Knowledge Academy surpassed my expectations. Their comprehensive course content, knowledgeable instructors, excellent learning environment, and outstanding customer service make them a top choice for anyone seeking professional development. I would highly recommend The Knowledge Academy to individuals and organizations alike, as they are truly committed to delivering high-quality education and empowering individuals to achieve their full potential.
Oh right this is just Horn clauses, not CHCs
It has. But this is not about emulation, this is about dolphin shipping encryption keys. https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...
We had a few ex-mining company workstations at the computer club at university – I remember that the metal security bar through the Indigo workstation could be pulled out and waved at one's fellow users, usually in good fun. :)

They were fun machines to play around on; even when we first got them c ~ 1999 PCs with a graphics card were catching up, but there was just something solid about them. I miss those days of *NIX workstations.
> bombarding a free service for unlimited requests isn't okay

Hummmm.... OP's website on https://getjsonip.com/ says:

> Supports unlimited requests and is free.

Seems like we have a bit of a contradiction here.
There's no way to actually enforce the penalty of perjury in many cases. I've tried before, lots of big companies will ignore you when you try to get the information on the person who filed the fraudulent claim, which prevents you from doing anything about it. Unless you feel like also suing Google or Valve.
There is no way you could repeat the Michelson-Morley experiment with that small and floppy Thorlabs EDU kit. The experiment from 1887 had an arm length of 11 m and was interferometrically stable (typical length fluctuations much smaller than the wavelength) while rotating. That would still be a considerable engineering challenge today.

Modern Michelson-Morley experiments [1, 2] don't use Michelson interferometers anymore. Instead, they compare the lengths of crossed ultrastable high-finesse cavities (in vacuum, of course). The big innovation is that, with lasers and electronics, we can measure the cavity resonance frequencies (and therefore also the cavity lengths) to something like 15 digits of accuracy. This corresponds to less than a tenth of the diameter of a Proton, and is something like 100 million times more accurate than you can achieve with a simple Michelson interferometer.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.090401

[2] https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.105011
Cool to read someone indulge in this. For others interested with no prior context, also consider FreeSWITCH.

Personal experience:

I spent about 15 months working for a local telecom company, supporting their asterisk servers and developing interactive voice response applications. I was given the opportunity to build their residential voip service (in 2010?) from scratch and despite asterisk being so dominant I prototyped and eventually completed the project using freeSWITCH. I found it to be so much more developer friendly to configure and extend. Being able to build dial plans and implement logic with JavaScript or Lua rather than asterisk's config files was worth it. I suspect this system is still running.
the only extraneous comma is after "affix"
I can’t believe the article used that midjourney image with the hell-beasts in the background
I have favourited that - what an articulate letter on the complexity of nuclear power.
penalty of perjury works how exactly? because there are a number of high profile politicians or directors from 3 letter agencies who have been found to lie under perjury and as far as I know no one has ever gone to jail. sounds like its a free card to play.
> Some of the other commas in the article are also wrong in the same and similar ways. I’m curious whether there might be something about comma usage or sentence structure in the native language of the author, which I’m guessing isn’t English. (There are a few other mildly unusual or clumsy word choices and sentence structures, and a few minor errors.)

Yes this translation from German. The comma fits the way German grammar recommends it. Some other clues: DIN is a German standard organization and the company advertising this new font is a German Ltd (GmbH).
They still accumulate a large amount of data for training their future models that their competitors can't access.
I made hundreds of paper airplanes as a kid.

This design scheme was consistently among the best (not on the website above directly): http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes/...

You could also just do what I did and just fold only the top over itself, and use a bit of the back wing for the winglets, folded out. Tiny, tiny grip, enough to hold, deeper in the back than the front for stability, tiny y in the wings and winglets going out slightly. The wings need to make a y when you drop it in the air (you can simulate this while holding this so you don't mess up your shot at a perfect first flight!). Make sure to fold the front extraordinarily tightly. Otherwise it starts to tank.

Then it's a matter of how hard you launch it. As a child, I was getting shockingly long flight times, and on those special days where there was a breeze...oh boy. What a world.

Super stable, super easy to make, super easy to teach, the hardest part is the arm, the patience to keep trying, the luck that it doesn't catch in a tree, and the patience to adjust the winglets for a nice little spiral.

A lovely part of my engineering days as a child, definitely helped get the creative juices going for this field! I had a white trash bag at one point with all of these novel little designs I came up with just for funsies. :)))) :D :)))) <3
yea, in oss projects, users tend to feel more like stakeholders than with products of some mega-corp.

we all know that these feedback channels just create a corpus of opinions to be used for arbitrary arguments by management. no one is gonna read or even react to this unless it's necessary.
Thanks! I'm guessing it's because the Ghost theme needs more articles for that to work. Will have a look
Why are you making this an unnecessary binary decision?
DeployBot: Build and ship code anywhere in one consistent process
A gentle introduction to Combinatorial Game Theory
I don't think there's any heuristic involved that would make it A-star other than having an initial guess of Manhattan distance. The bot also does not consider all active paths; it only considers the shortest possible from the current state. This makes it not A* since A* considers all open.

To me, this looks like running multiple iterations of Dijkstra's. You start with Manhattan distance between nodes and finish. As you go through the maze, you update the dynamics of the current node, run dijkstra's, go to shortest path from here.

This also sounds a bit like IDA*, where you are also updating the heuristic as you go, but without the iterative deepening part.
I was a kid in their prime but thanks to making-of, documentaries and magazines it’s so ingrained I still get the aura these machines and OS are above my poor consumer-grade 2023 laptop, and my work is toying compared to what real adults pros are doing on these, even though I’m near 40.
This was a talk I did as part of the 24 Hour Maths Game Show.

Someone recently reminded me of it, so I thought I'd share it.
You don't want a house, you want the experiences that come with owning one. Conversely, you can't have the experiences of that Bali trip if you don't purchase it. There, solved it for you and forever :).
That's somewhat modest of you! B^>
> Most of life is lived in the unmemorable, in-between moments

I think this is the crux of the issue. By traveling, you can make "experiences" be a larger percent of your time, which makes me happier at least.

Before I started traveling, my life was almost the exact same every day/week/year. Sleep, work, gym, pub. Go surfing on weekends if waves were good. One snowboard/surf holiday a year.

Then I started traveling, lived in a ski resort in Georgia (country not the state) for 3 months and went snowboarding everyday, that made me happy (at the time at least). Living in SA and surfing everyday was great as well.

I am in the experiences are better than possessions camp, assuming you can significantly change the ratio of regular life Vs experience.

Is going on 3 one week holidays better than buying a comfortable sofa you sit on every night to watch Netflix? Probably not.

But for me, traveling non-stop makes me happier than owning a house and a car.
Looks compelling!
Could you offer a 3 sentence summary of what I would lean, were I to sped 10 minutes understand what exactly this game is? Also is it fully playable already?
It's almost as you needed a bit of everything, in moderation.

In medio stat virtus.

Goddamn Greeks already knew.
Can you share some resources explaining how this could be set up?
The problem can be mitigated by using bigger models or training embeddings, but it cannot be eliminated.

At the end of the day, it remains a sequence completion engine. An LLM can only care about the statistical likelyhood of sequences, that the entire universe it exists in.

And if a sequence making a wrong statement happens to be more likely than, or close enough for the set "heat" of the algorithm to, a sequence denoting a correct statement, then there is a chance the model will hallucinate.

If it were otherwise, we would already have a good solution for prompt injection attacks, and we don't.
Yeah. And old camera might have some issues but not because of its release data (more because of usage and wear&tear)

These are definitely a good choice for taking good pictures
You'll never match the price, but if you use some small rds and ec2 instances you wont be paying much. Less if you use lambda and api gateway.

Moving lamp stacks is a piece of cake. If you don't want to do it you could find a freelancer pretty easily.
The same points of having friends and family but living in a poverty-ridden slum, where you can have the experience of watching your loved ones die of cholera.

I am not in favor of pursuing wealth at all costs, but there's a balance in having enough material wealth to live in a decent place in a safe, aesthetically pleasing neighborhood, having freedom of movement, being able to access healthcare and education, not starving, being physically fit, etc.

Things beyond that are superfluous and won't make you happier by themselves.
Teaching kids how to use computers with programs and operating systems they will never come across again in their whole life. That is a really good idea.
i like how they have the surface area in hectares, kilometers and acres
You could get a whole network of PCs for the price of one workstation. And PCs had better development tools as well, such as IDEs.
Isn't the Mozilla VPN service just a white label of Mullvad? They don't own it
I don't know how this memo keeps coming up as an artefact. It is not written by an actual Executive at Google, who is far more aware of the moats and business at Google.

Anyone more than just a casual observer knows how far from the truth that it is.
The way english is taught to english people is really a mystery to any french. I know more about english grammar than pretty much any englishman i’ve crossed, simply because french schools teach english the same way they teach french : with a mix of vocabulary and grammar. but it looks like english schools don’t teach grammar at all.
AKA: the Northern European brag session
> A major flaw in our system of government, and even in industry, is the latitude allowed to do less than is necessary. Too often officials are willing to accept and adapt to situations they know to be wrong.

I feel like this has become the norm just about everywhere.
It depends on what kind of 'stuff' you are buying too. If it's a tool that you can use to learn new things or create beautiful things, then that's a possession that can unlock valuable experiences.

It seems like a simple truth to me that in the end, what humans value are experiences of some sort. And that possessions have weight and therefore can weigh you down. Over-analyzing the two as a dichotomy doesn't seem that useful to me.
I Won $5M from the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy
Wikipedia had a similar situation with a single flower image being requested so many times.
I can't find the story and don't remember it well, but I think it was a big indian company using this image to check if internet was available.

IMHO, one of the problems is that many dev. don't realize both the size of their company and the impact of so many requests.

I hop you'll find a solution, and thank you for your service!

PS: maybe you should create a dedicated post about this subject to attract visibility
How long does your code last before it needs major maintenance?
I think it’s insane that you would think that Tesla would replace a connector that already spent months — likely years — developing, with an objectively terrible alternative, merely because a few companies that weren’t making EVs issued a press release.

I don’t think anyone could’ve said with confidence that CCS1 would’ve become the major standard in North America. It could’ve been a future revision of CHAdeMO. Or it could have been CCS3.
> wasn't being entirely serious :)

Thanks for understanding.
Yup (article has a clickbait title because they actually say to each their own). After a routine many years, I started hanging out with someone who is really really good at choosing the next adventure and it's addictive. It's difficult to balance much travel with other responsibilities but I'm hooked.
Not just wasted resources, a lot of modern eye candy actually makes the computer harder to use. For example, the recent 'flat' appearances make selected, unselected, and entirely-non-button areas look almost indistinguishable! Or animations that cause visible slowness locally and make remote display over any media slower than tens of megabits per second unusable.

A computer is a tool, most tools are not sleek, they have buttons and dohickies, sharp edges that do work, etc. There is nothing wrong with polishing something up, sure, but it has to be strictly secondary to usability.

The high contrast 3d look in motif wasn't because its creators had bad taste. They may well have also had bad taste, but the appearance served a utilitarian purpose. :)
Interpretation: If you’re poor or middle class, Western and Northern Europe is the best place to be, as the government will take better care of you.

If you’re rich (as in $1m+ annual compensation)…maybe the US if you’re interested in paying lesser taxes and keeping more of your money. You’ll pay insurance and education costs out of pocket but you’ll end up with more post-tax income in your pockets than your European counterparts.

If you’re born in Nigeria like me, start weeping because your healthcare budget is $6 per person annually (no, I’m not joking)…haha
It's not just about worldviews - it's having to face the unfamiliar and unpredictable that tends to change people. The best travels are voyages of discovery about oneself.

However, not every trip can be that. The more you travel, the weaker the experience becomes, and eventually one reaches a point where there is little left to learn by being on the road.
To the one person who decided to down vote what I just said, consider the meaning of “compelling”.
Dolphin's Twitter account stated that cloud saves was part of the Steam release.

It really is one of the main reasons to do a Steam release. Seamlessly playing your savegames and save states on desktop PC over to Steam Deck and back again made RetroArch one of the killer Deck apps IMO.
Yes, I review my own code all the time. Right before commit, I read through the diff carefully. Then of course my team reviews the code further.

The same approach works for my health, I MUST review and evaluate my health, it's just not reasonable to expect every single human in the world to go to a doctor every other week. If I come to suspect I have a serious illness, I take it to the next level of review - a doctor. You are painting a very dogmatic, black-and-white picture that cannot include this kind of nuanced approach
> Like cliche hacker movie levels of noises but worse

It kind of makes sense tho.

Some people were making CGI for movies on SGI boxes.

And naturally, some of the movies where SGI machines were involved ended up putting those machines in the movie itself:

> Jurassic Park featured a lot of computer generated images and it was one of the first movies to show SGI computers on screen.

http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html

http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/index.html

So if the SGI computers made a lot of computer noises. Perhaps this helped inspire the portrayal of noisy computers in hacker movies.
One is a marketing and docs site, the other is the "api".
Touring through eastern Afghanistan with a cheap netbook and a backpack more than a decade ago made me extremely happy.
SpotifAI
SML definitely has a nicer formal definition but OCaml has better performance and a lot more functionalities. I wouldn’t say SML is the better language but the syntax definitely is cleaner.

Strangely I think SML focus on being well defined and tidy is why it never really took off. A language success is linked to its community and your features define who will want to join you. It seems to me that at the beginning it’s better to attract tinkerers than perfectionists.
Learning to truly appreciate experiences is what makes people happiest. In the end, a possession is just another experience.
Is that extensible camera arm long enough to cartograph the whole maze? If not, a micro-drone launcher could be the next step. Apparently that would also be legal.
Strictly speaking, Blue Highway, like Expressway, Interstate, Traffic, Overpass, and several others, is inspired by the U.S. federal standard. Although a font expert with a magnifying glass is probably required to spot some of the differences, I suspect. (-:

* https://typodermicfonts.com/expressway/

* https://www.fonts4free.net/traffic-11027-font.html

* https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass
Courtesy of /r/alwaysthesamemap: https://i.redd.it/em14c1y2fdd71.jpg
I see no contradiction.

There is a difference between gracefully and responsibly using something that is offered for free, and just bombarding it with requests like no tomorrow.

People can of course do the latter. But then they don't get to complain when at some point, the available offerings present walls of legalese instead of a few simple and clear statements, and the user experience goes from seamless and easy to "Click here to register an API Key"
Oh yes! I remember that!

[1]: Wikimedia Phabricator link: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

[2]: HackerNews thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
Healthy, well fed and not aware that other people are doing better, even if only subjectively…
Veritasium did a pretty good video on some of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg
I thought I saw canada in the table somewhere ?
For many years I preferred the SGI 1600SW LCD as my monitor after being introduced to them at work.

At the time, it was quite impressive (110dpi) and now is probably bested by a randomly-chosen $100 LCD at Microcenter.
Haskell Optimization Handbook
Citation? Flying over walls is not permitted.

(https://ewh.ieee.org/sb/columbus/devry/sacFiles/MicromouseRu...)
Real-life Rad-Away.
Supermassive black hole at heart of ancient galaxy ‘far larger than expected’
I have a problem with this article: it claims that the galaxy is 25 billion LY distant.

Other news articles (metro, yahoo) claim that it's 25 million LY distant (which can't be right, that's inside the MW).

I suspect that a single journalist has typoed 12.5 billion as 25 billion, and lots of others have scraped his article.