skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you triangulate if you're only connected to 1 tower?
Those are all good reasons to support green energy (and I do), but I was responding to the patent poster’s worst-case scenario, which would in fact be bad, not just inconvenient.
PHP is actually shockingly fast for a non-JIT'd language these days.
Glyphosate: No critical areas of concern; data gaps identified
But you wont have access to wikipedia without more work, and definitely wont have google.
Is it really? Don't they work really slowly compared to most of the industry? I really get the impression that it's slow progress for things at FAANG.
they're probably all some version of a mesh network
> the federal government and its employees should also be free to speak.

They are. They're not allowed to speak on _behalf_ of the government without limit, though. In this case, it's pretty clear, that's what they did.

They weren't _personally_ reaching out to Twitter as a citizen and asking for posts to be removed. They were asking as _agents_ of the government, through official communications channels established precisely for this purpose, and they did it on taxpayer paid time.

> Any time someone says “we must protect free speech by legally enjoining the following people from speaking,” I am suspicious.

The purpose of their speech is to remove the ability for others to access platforms. They are not making any legal claims or starting any legal cases, they are simply using their power to remove speech from American citizens. They have no _natural right_ to do this.
Quick disclaimer: we're still figuring things out, so it really helps if we can get more of these pieces of critical feedback!

I hear you regarding the earpads. In the prototypes that we have built recently, the earpads are way rounder than this, so we will fix the renders to reflect this shortly. The headphones are really comfortable overall, we spent and will continue to spend a lot of time working on clamping force and materials, so the earbuds and the headphones will be super comfortable once we're ready to ship.

Now, the price. The current configuration that we're offering now is for the people who are looking for a high-end wireless 3-in-1. If you were to mix and match something similar from the market right now, it will cost you around $800 or more. You can double check that by looking at the features and tech specs section and compare to alternatives on the market (we may add an example on the website soon). Add to that the inability to upgrade or repair most products out there affordably, the price becomes very justifiable. In fact, we're saving this target audience hundreds of dollars in the long term.

There will be other configurations starting $150 next year, this is just the start. We have to go high-end first to be profitable and build the business.
Towards Personalized Cold-Start Recommendation with Prompts
My friend's work around for that was a pixel perfect reproduction of the screen saying the calculator had been cleared.
SQLite can be awesome for huge data sets as I've rarely found anything that can ingest data as rapidly but, as with any database, it requires some specific tweaking to get the most out of it.

The biggest headache is the single write limitation, but that's no different than any other database which is merely hidden behind various abstractions. The solution to 90% of complaints against SQLite is to have a dedicated worker thread dealing with all writes by itself.

I usually code a pool of workers (i.e. scrapers, analysis threads) to prepare data for inserts and then hand it off for rapid bulk inserts to a single write process. SQLite can be set up for concurrent reads so it's only the writes that require this isolation.
Just found this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/06/threads...
You can, but most students can't. It still doesn't excuse the stupidity of a nationwide ban though.
Large Poisson polynomials: Computation, results and analysis [pdf]
I saw this on reddit early this morning and was struck by the length of the post. This has to be one of the longest intro posts in history. I thought reddit had a word or character limit. I have been a redditor for more than a decade and I tend to get long-winded on some of my posts to the point where I hit their limit and then get forced to either edit or break it into smaller posts (part 1, part 2, etc).

I don't know about the content of the post. It seems like bullshit but I'm a geoscientist, not a bio-anything.

A fairly new post claims to have run it through ChatGPT or something looking for similarity in content and writing style and according to their search they claim that the post history, content and style is similar to posts by another redditor who not coincidentally I suspect, asked a bunch of questions of the OP and basically established credibility for OP early in the comment history. LOL. (/u/Punjabi-Batman)

Asking yourself questions and then answering them under a different username is classic Reddit from the old days when spez, kn0thing, and others had multiple accounts that they used to try to drive eyeballs to their new site. Fake it till you make it. It's pretty funny that the fact that OP seemed to be legit to other users was due to the speed and depth of replies to the guy who legitimized his post. I think it probably is not hard to give a quick answer to a set of questions when you are the one doing the asking.

Of course this is different now. Reddit still has backlash from multiple subs about their dumbass moves to lock down external API access and monetize everything before IPO. /r/pics still has John Oliver and /r/videos is dumping text instead of video. LOL

To me this smells like someone high up in reddit picked a subject that would be controversial enough (lots of recent UAP controversy) to attract some eyeballs and then took lots of "data" from various historical public posts, UFO conspiracy sites, crackpots, and some invented from whole cloth and made a loooong (long post is long style) post to try to get some eyeballs. Add in assistance from mods and admins to keep deleting the user so that it seems like someone, somewhere in three-letter space doesn't want any of this posted and you have a semitransparent effort by reddit to get some eyeballs by any means necessary.

For pure entertainment value I rate it a 6/10. It could've been improved if there were photos (in a pics or it didn't happen kinda way).
For a personal project or a team of professionals that understand how public key cryptography works this is a, albeit expensive, solution for a cryptographically proven voting system.

For an election system that a government would use? Absolutely right out. A criteria for fair elections is that the average person needs to be able grok it. The number of people who can validate solidity smart contracts and the cryptographic integrity of a blockchain is astronomically small compared to a paper ballot based system.
US releases video of Russian fighter jets harassing American drones over Syria
I'm fairly sure paxys meant "in the ideal scenario". It's good to assume that instead of helping perpetuate dysfunction by assuming the worse (them, not you).
It has a "streaming" mode (non-SSE, traditional long http requests") and many developers are choosing to forward chat data to end users with SSE (maybe to get around browser http request timeouts).
Sure, in addition to all of their organs of dissemination, of which they have plenty of options, they can also have their own Twitter and Facebook accounts.

What they can’t do is ring up Twitter and Facebook and say, hey, that’s misinformation, do something about it. Or have government embeds giving guidance.

That’s hilariously very ayatollesque behavior!
> The lab-leak conspiracy gang has smeared scientists and misled the public into believing a theory that has no factual support whatsoever. They should be ashamed.

Cleverly disguised opinion article. The USG debunked nothing. The official stance of the US has been the pangolin-soup theory since 2020. The USG still has to contend with a large contingent of actual scientists who have evidence otherwise.

I guess I didn't expect any different from the LA times. Objectively speaking the US government has a vested interest in keeping China-US relations slightly less than lukewarm for the time being. They hardly can be considered an impartial arbiter of truth and after the latest ruling against Biden pressuring social media companies you can be certain "truth" is very flexible in the white house.
From what I remember, the OG Xbox had way more piracy in my circles than the PS2.

The PS1 on the other hand, I think everyone I knew had theirs chipped by the end.
How so? If someone asks me for something, and I have EXPLICIT LEGAL PROTECTION TO SAY NO, how coercive should that be to me?
People also use "working-class" to mean someone doing blue-collar labor at a below-middle-class income.

Both views have their merits. A software engineer and a nanny both sell their labor... on the other hand, the fact that the former can employ the latter and the reverse is not true suggests their position is not entirely the same.
Dishes similar to pizza (bread with stuff on top) existed across all of the Mediterranean since forever.

Back in the day people had no proper phyisical dishes (read: recipients) and they just ate food on top of bread slices.
I worked on a farm. I think the things you're bringing up are still subtlely different. Modifying something you can see and touch for some unintended purpose versus modifying some piece of software because it doesn't work are miles apart from each other.

For example, I have a graphics project where screen tearing suddenly started appearing although my code didn't change, and the tearing wasn't there before. Is the issue in Skia, OpenGL, the graphics driver, the Intel or NVidia GPU, or the OS? Or is it some latent issue in my code that started showing up because of a change in these dependencies? Or is it some other complex interaction between multiple dependencies? I couldn't possibly know, and I actually don't think there is anybody that actually knows. And there is zero chance I could ever figure it out. I mean, it at least appears it was a driver issue as after some updates and a reboot it just went away, but there is zero insight into why or what actually made it go away.

If I modify a plow because some part as originally designed was flaky and constantly broke, you usually know to a pretty good degree why your fix works.

In software, the abstractions are such that it is practically impossible atbtimes to understand.
> One big problem holding devs back from enjoying gamedev is a lack of quality 3D assets.

There are plenty of 3D assets available. There's TurboSquid, SketchFab, ArtStation, and the Unity and Unreal asset stores. Some are free, some cost. Everybody is moving to glTF format, and import and export has much improved.

If you want a good hard project to work on, write something that takes an overly-detailed 3D asset, with extensive detail in the 3D model, and turns it into a much smaller game asset where much of the fine detail is represented in the normal map.
This has been done, but not all that well. Nobody has done it since machine learning started to work. Since the goal is to have the visual appearance from all directions match, you need a good evaluator for "looks the same to a human".
It is so constrained that companies are literally buying smaller GPU cloud companies.

So, if by “hysterical,” you mean it is pretty funny and a reflection of the hype cycle, then yes. If you mean that I am being overwrought, I can assure you I am not. Even the hyperscalers do not have enough GPUs
Absolutely categories are better than colors. It doesn’t LOOK as pretty but it’s way more functional.
Technocracy Movement
OSX has absolutely nothing in common with what’s now called Classic.

I’m sure you’re aware that OSX and, indeed, the current macOS is a UNIX like operating system. Hence, it’s more BSD and Linux like.

To aid legacy Macintosh applications, such as Photoshop and MS Office to run on OSX, an emulator was provided in early OSX releases that would detect old apps and run them in the emulator.

These apps were later modified to use a Classic (mostly) compatible set of libraries known as “Carbon”. This allowed them to run native but still have their older codebases.

The Carbon UIs were often written with a framework called “PowerPlant”, part of the Metrowerks C++ IDE.

Essentially, it gave large old codebases time to rework their code to the NeXTStep frameworks called “AppKit” and “FoundationKit” (rebadged as “Cocoa” by Apple).

Carbon APIs have now mostly been deprecated or removed as nowadays applications are written in Objective-C, the preferred NeXT language, and mixed with C++. Or, if they’re trivial Mac only apps, they might be written in “Swift”.

I do recall at Agfa in Belgium we had an effort to get the existing Mac products out of CodeWarrior’s compiler and into the g++ tool chain. It was non-trivial as the compiler Apple had provided for C++ wasn’t up to date. We had an Apple tech guy on site and he relayed the issue back to Apple and fixes to the compiler we’re made. Still, the code was PowerPlant based so looked old fashioned.

At another gig, Macromedia ported Flash from “CFM” to “mach-o” format (Classic Carbon to g++) and it failed to run. It turned out the g++ linker couldn’t handle code segments more than 32mb. Flash was a single blob of a binary. Apple released a new linker.

I think much if the reason why Apple moved off g++ to clang was due to the difficulty in maintaining g++ on their fork.
You are wrong, although I don’t know the exact mechanism. I once witnessed first-hand a somewhat shady situation where a private investigator was trying to find someone’s whereabouts for the purpose of serving them for a lawsuit. As a last ditch effort, they reached out to a somewhat shady contact who was known to have some kind of internal access to the phone system and gave them the target’s phone number and sent $200 with Paypal. 10 minutes later we get an email back with a specific address and as it turns out that address was the target’s lawyer’s office. One of the process servers goes over there and catches the target on his way out.

I was a bit shaken. I believed what you believe before then too.

Edit: Looks like it’s LBS/LCS: https://www.telecomhall.net/t/what-is-lcs-and-lbs/6374
Sure, most of us here can, but is that also true of the average cheater in a baccalaureate exam?

Before answering, consider this survey result: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
Decisions on par with blacking out the internet. (But clearly not as severe.)

If your test depends on preventing students from precomputing the answers, your not testing what you think you're testing. (Or what you should be testing as a teacher)
A lengthy interview in which Rob Miles and I get into the weeds on AI safety, the limits to scaling, and which approaches to AI alignment are the most promising.
Step back once more, look at your life and you’ll realise that you can apply the same logic to any status symbol you own.

How did they pull it off? It’s human nature…
Is it? Reading over pages 4 and 5 of the injunction[0], based on points 4, 5, 9, and 10, it seems government employees are now barred in any way from discussing any social media content or company policy protected by the 1st amendment with the companies or nonprofits.

> (4) emailing, calling, sending letters, texting, or engaging in any communication of any kind with social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech;

> (5) collaborating, coordinating, partnering, switchboarding, and/or jointly working with the Election Integrity Partnership, the Virality Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, or any like project or group for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content posted with social-media companies containing protected free speech;

> (9) requesting content reports from social-media companies detailing actions taken to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce content containing protected free speech; and

> (10) notifying social-media companies to Be on The Lookout (“BOLO”) for postings containing protected free speech.

As you'll see from my above post, the judge has a curious idea of what 'inducing' censorship entails (among other things: making public statements that might be heard by Reddit mods, who in turn take it upon themselves to remove links to content).

[0]https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.18...
I would be willing to take it for as little as $1B. But then I would just shut it down.
I'm with you. I remember my childhood experience with Legos. Me and a friend down the road would drag out this big bucket full of random stuff. We'd build forts, and then crazy many-wheeled trucks that would assault them.

The whole thing was about those designs just springing from the imagination, and I really don't get what fun building toward a prescribed design would be, especially since it's so low fidelity.
None of those have anything to do with the part that you quoted, where you conveniently cut out the meaning of the sentence (which was "Noboday has a better track record of giving users the features they want"), presumably so you could just go off and harp about whatever particular thing you wanted.
It's quite ironic that you're castigating commenters for not reading the article as you confidently proclaim false information that reading the article would remedy you of.

> A court found that the government abused its power and infringes on people’s first amendment rights by using its intimidation power to coerce social media to censor free speech of citizens.

False. I think you should edit your comment to remove the false information or acknowledge that you are wrong.
I have other people use my computer from time to time, but not for enough time to warrant a separate account. From what I understand, Joplin's data is also stored unencrypted on disk. I don't use full-disk encryption and I don't want to use it just for Joplin. Are people using my computer going to open up my notes app or snoop around in the sqlite db? Probably not. But I like to have the peace of mind.
I see a lot of discussion about how AI will cause issues for education in the western world. I feel it's also interesting to think about its effect on the developing world. It's not hard to imagine how GPT-4 could revolutionize education for someone in an under-resourced school. It's essentially a private tutor with massive amounts of background information and near-fluency in English. For many students, then, it may be a learning accelerant — not an impediment.
That's just what they want you to believe.
Pfft. In NYC if you know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy in NYPD, you can get a "courtesy card" you can present to an officer to get out of all sorts of shit https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gxa4/pba-card-police-court... You can even buy them online.
Failing to provide the typical social signals seems correlated either with extreme competence - they don't need to use polite language or other signals to boost employability - or with complete incompetence. There's a skill floor that cuts off the latter from this dataset when they can't configure an SSL certificate for their git client; their curses at "unable to get local issuer certificate" or "fatal: repository not found" are not uploaded to the Internet.
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This is the fire hydrant in question:
https://goo.gl/maps/5C983vRcHCW6Zaq5A

Currently there's construction there so probably the fines are reduced.
Hey! I would love to use these models but can't figure out how to. I see they are in .model format – how would I convert them to something like .obj or .gltf?
This looks really cool. I love the idea of a SaaS kit using AI. Just curious if you are looking to collaborate? The open source company I work for has a built SaaS Starter Kit with enterprise features like SSO, Audit Logs etc.
Headline is factually inaccurate; its a preliminary injunction which includes consideration of likelihood of success on the merits, not a ruling on the merits.
Here’s an example of a Nazi poll that went mega-viral yesterday: https://twitter.com/rightwingcope/status/1676980329905528832

(screenshot because @christgnosis went private after outing themselves as full-Nazi)
Threads app surges to 30M users, Zuckerberg says of Twitter rival
Don't forget OVH. Their DDoS-protection is included in every server.
https://www.globalproductprices.com/USA/egg_prices/

Feel free to compare based on countries with strong labor protections vs those without. The evidence does not agree with your assertion.
Blocking the internet, if done well, makes it very difficult to get mass distribution quickly. If it's only a few people that manage to get communications working, cheating becomes a minor issue instead of a major issue. I don't agree with the tradeoffs chosen, but it sort of makes sense.

Without being there to see the exact shape of the blocking, it's hard to know if you could get mass distribution through a phone tree system, but if you could, you'd likely leave a huge trail through telco billing.
I don't see enough commentary on the social issues behind this.

There should be no exam in which the stakes are high enough to justify those measures.
>Trump may have wanted to silence criticism, but he didn't get away with it, even on his own personal account.

This is a misrepresentation of the facts. Trump was only using his "personal" twitter during his presidency so the court considered it his de-facto presidential account.
If you look at 2013 Google Maps, it’s no wonder 152 Forsyth was first place. There’s drawn lines for parking and the fire hydrant is several feet away and inconspicuously painted black. I think I would’ve parked there too thinking I was far enough away from the hydrant. By 2014 they fixed this by painting it as no parking. Got plenty of income though leaving it like that for years.
PHP8 has a JIT now but I get what you mean.
Oh are those all supported now? They've clearly backtracked massively. When I bounced they were insisting on ext4 only. Glad I didn't bother rebuild all my machines to ext4 only for them to change their damn minds. They gave us less than three months notice. I'm not playing chicken for three months paying their professional tier in the hopes they change their mind. Freaking circus.