skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in this case it's your non sequitur which is non sequitur. Mine was the basis of my question.
I was thinking the same thing. So much emphasis on Call of Duty. Did a quick search of Activision's most profitable games and Call of Duty is definitely #1 by nearly 3x the next, but there are plenty of other heavy-hitters to make it diversified.
You can't believe how bad car rental companies what to reduce reliance on counter. It's real. We want that to happen. But it gonna take some time.
Upsell is just one of the reasons, but there's also fraud, car availability, etc. What holding the industry back isn't the profits, it's bad technology. No one is lying, it's just horrible execution.
Wiki article has additional context, and there is even a movie on netflix that is just great

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

https://www.netflix.com/title/81428563
If I would design JVM from the scratch, I'd introduce frozen arrays. There are so many array copies inside JDK code, it hurts.

Whether it's possible to retrofit JVM today, I don't know.
> I personally think we need to promote stability by moving towards more local economic activity.

I agree that more local resilience is good. At the same time, let's not forget the principle of pooling for insurance in a broad sense. Climate change means more extreme, more enduring weather patterns (due to more energy in the system and slowing jet streams caused by a decreased temperature differential with the poles). These extreme weather situations can easily overwhelm even the best resilience efforts of a region, and so a system of mutual aid is important.
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. Git-annex
NixOS Linux review, is it the alternative to Debian and Archlinux?
What is this metric? The line on the map, I assume?

What is this "built-in expiration date"?

I don't doubt that you seriously believe these numbers exist, but I think you're imagining that they're tied to a specific event you want to see (Putin dropping dead of a heart attack or something). People have been predicting both the Russian and Ukrainian military "collapse" to be "any day now" for almost a year. Indeed, they also predicted that the Russian government itself would collapse not 3 weeks ago.

As an aside, one thing I learned from the Afghanistan war is that when your leaders - political and military - are not giving you clear, concise, specific, and measurable objectives in a conflict (e.g. amorphous bullshit like "increase host nation capacity") it's a recipe for nothing getting done for a long time. I see a similar phenomenon here, but the stakes are dramatically higher.
FreeTube

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
You're thinking of Don Mattrick.
Truth social exists to spread propaganda from china and russia.
Sterile Neutrinos – All Things Neutrino
If you're just talking about this as an alternative to renting metal in EC2, it's probably worth acknowledging why that exists in the first place. Bare metal server hosting doesn't exist to provide some unique functionality. It's outsourcing server maintenance. It's an answer to the question: "why can't we just pay somebody else to keep this server available for us?". If you don't want to outsource that task, you're not fundamentally missing out on anything by not using it.

That said here is an incomplete list of things in the greater system that self-hosters frequently need to think about, and that AWS sometimes does a good job of handling for you:

- Routing/DNS/Static IP

- Administrative access control

- Firewall

- Load balancing

- Redundant storage

- Server failover

- Power redundancy

- Network redundancy

In particular, some of these things benefit a lot more from economies of scale than the server hosting itself.
good project. Much better than PCSX2.
The most intensive HIIT workout I've ever come across [video]
I'm Chris Heria's fan, and this workout is probably the most challenging one, intensity-wise. I've been doing it for two years, slowly increasing the intensity, so I always push the limits.
Please share your favourite workouts, preferably HIIT.
Just learned levels.fyi is direct linking to this comment on their site. Not sure how I feel about that but I can’t stop them.
Because game studios prefer to target fix hardware like game consoles instead of the computer hardware jungle.
There's a problem you're not seeing here. This solves it partially but in the end doesn't fix anything. The key thing here is redis is IO and it can't be tested.

Think of IO as a virus it pollutes the outer scope of anything it lies within. Anything that contains IO becomes IO and therefore is not unit testable. In fact any function marked with "await" or "async" is usually a good indicator of this pollution. Async await keywords actually spread around according to this exact logic I specified.

Example:

async def handler(request) -> response:
x = await iocall()
y = add(2, x)
return response(y)

iocall is in the scope of handler, handler becomes polluted with async and thus "not unit testable". I took the time to encapsulate pure addition logic into the add function, this makes add testable because it doesn't enclose over any IO functions.

That's the pattern of making unit testable code. You should try to move as much logic as possible into pure functions like add. Keep IO functions small and general and devoid of custom logic while segregating all your custom code into pure functions. Then just test these pure functions and leave everything else alone because all that other stuff goes into the realm of IO and integration tests.

You could get around this with mocking and using dependency injection but that comes with it's own set of problems including more complexity and spending the extra time to get the mocks to return results you want for each test. I would move these into the realm of integration tests rather then mock. In this case the usage of the flask test_client would still have to involve spinning up some sort of infra involving the database.

Your point about the unit test client from flask is completely valid for certain cases. It only works if the handler does not touch IO. In that case you wouldn't even need to mark the handler with the async keyword as nothing is awaited.
System of Denial: The crash of Comair flight 3272
It might be worth noting that unimplemented!() is a thin wrapper around panic!(), so if execution makes it to that line, your program will crash.

Rust actually does allow uninitialized variables, even in safe code. But it'll be a compiler error if you try to use them in any way before initializing them, so this is mostly just a curiosity: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
I'd rather we were transitioning towards consumers actually owning their games rather than towards them not being able to run them on their own hardware.

We've already seen how this plays out with the proliferation of SAAS and the move to subscription models that leave consumers with nothing if the company goes bust or they stop paying.

Companies that grow beyond a certain size are harmful to the economy. The harm to consumers isn't always direct or obvious but it reduces choice and creates a situation where the company wields outsized power over consumers and the state.

I mostly like Microsoft but they should be a much smaller and more focused company.
Maybe I have grown out of being in Windows world for awhile and am biased, but it does seem like 2023 Excel is less ubiquitous in cultural mindshare than 2007 Excel. There’s probably a lot of factors contributing to that.
Except for gaming, the average Office and Media Consumption user has had no real need for a new machine in over 10 years.
The issue isn’t about trying out games, it’s about having access to those games in 5, 10, 20 years or later. There is a growing list of digital only titles that are no longer available to new players and may be unavailable to people who “bought” them. I have a bricked Wii with digital games that are tied to the physical console, not any account. There is no way to recover them.

Steam has done a remarkable job staying open for 20 years (My copy of Half Life 2 is right where I left it). Sony has done a reasonable job. I don’t know about Microsoft. Nintendo has failed several times, but may have finally figured it out with the Switch.

I know I can buy discs and cartridges from any previous era and as long as I have a system (or emulator), I can play them, lend them, or sell them. Digital versions allow me to play, but for how long. I can’t lend or sell them. If I get the urge to play Resogun in 2033 and don’t have it downloaded, am I going to be able to?

I do think there may be a generational component to it as well. I’ve always thought Gen X is more tied to the idea of “owning” a copy (music, movies, games), while younger generations are more comfortable with digital only releases, or even subscription catalogues that change over time as the primary means of entertainment.
Yeah, that one as well.
The Trouble with Trade School (2017)
toy soldiers gotta be trained
Something like a fleet of von Neumann probes could expand across the entirety of the galaxy in a million years or so, and wouldn't care if the original civilization had long since flamed out. Which is long time by our standards, but not too long on the cosmological scale. In theory there should have been lots of habitable places where life could have arisen in our galaxy long enough in the past that the whole place could be "colonized" in this manner.

Of course, there could be plenty of these floating around our solar system and we wouldn't know. They could be quite small and the solar system is quite big, and most of the proposed use cases for a civilization wanting to do this would not require it be in constant contact, so they might not even be broadcasting on anything resembling a frequent basis.

But in general there are a lot of theoretical technosignatures that we think we should be able to see if there was technological advanced life in the galaxy. (Should be able to see in that it is possible with our current technology - not that we would conclusively have seen it by this point.)
You still need to validate if the implementation matches the name, no matter what.
The new installer is pretty great. My son’s desktop got hosed recently from ignoring updates and getting too far behind, so I used the visual Nix installer to put a Gnome desktop on there for him. He installs everything from Flathub anyway, so he hasn’t even noticed. Every once in a while I’ll hop on and update it. Silverblue would work about as well, I’d imagine.
Thought up of a few more search engine tests:

- Search for specific git hashes, model numbers, and other forms of UIDs

- Search for known phone numbers

- Search for Tiananmen Square and Winnie the Pooh

- Search for the Armenian genocide

- Search for Mein kampf, Der Judenstaat, and other symbols used by extremists

Unfortunately, I have a fairly western-centric view of the world. I need the perspectives of others with different views to cover my blind spots. I don't care what values you hold, I just want a reliable search engine tool that doesn't hide information from me.
Every time I see this site it still amuses me that despite all the valuable UX information, it is very annoying to use on a desktop because it feels like it was designed entirely for tablets or phones.
What is a solid alternstive to NUCs?
Intel shutters small-form-factor NUC computer division
Despite the notorious “they fell off the back of a truck” speaker scam, there are legitimately amazing deals to be had by hunting around. Getting a pair of 3-way box speakers for $20-40 on used local marketplaces is common. With another $40 used amplifier you have a sound system on par with modern sound bars costing hundreds of dollars more, plus getting the rest of the features on the amplifier.

If you decide to go this route just make sure you can give them a test listen or know what to look for as far as degraded speaker cones.
I remember a couple years after Bear came out, I used it and it was a great app.

But now we have Notion, Obsidian, Joplin, and more. What does Bear have that other note-taking apps don’t?
> One person familiar with the plans said Arm was keen to bring in Nvidia in its bid as a way to position AI as central to the UK group’s growth plans. “AI will be every third word in the offering document,” the person said. “Nvidia is so important as its involvement implies AI.”

Son hyping the Arm IPO as an AI investment? Seriously? Well perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.
My mother-in-law passed away in 2007 within just a few months of her diagnosis, whereas today I suspect that same melanoma today would likely be entirely treatable. My father-in-law passed in 2015 from leukemia, and while I suspect things have improved, my understanding is that treatment outcomes are better for younger patients. Another extended family member was able to fight lung cancer for more than a decade. While we will likely never have a "cure" and from one type to the next the treatments and outcomes vary, I'd certainly agree that it's clear we are making big strides.
I think you found the "good reason I am not thinking of", nice work.
"If you do weightlifting then sleep deprivation from a newborn is easy"

Right. Tell that to my partner, who has been nursing our newborn every two hours for the last 5 months. There is no way to wake up 2-4 times every night for months and not be tired.

Weight lifting would be zero help with that.
Well, that's a surprise.
Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
maybe Tesla could finally do FSD with a bunch of rats neuralinked to the car
If you do a lot of math code (linear algebra), operator overloading helps a lots to maintain readability.
Reading this, and feels like the below scenarios will play out across more market segments. Unless it's about intentionally make A.I. training drastically more expensive than it is now - it's ok nvidia you're doing it for the good of us all to shield us from those pesky dangerous A.I.'s, right? [/sarcasm]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-allegedly-threatening-s... "Nvidia allegedly threatening supply limits or even bans for Chinese AIB partners planning"

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/nvidia_reportedly_... "Nvidia reportedly pressures partners to stop them building next-gen Intel Battlemage GPUs"
Unless you are also gaming, the AI machine does not need to be your desktop. But can sit comfortably in your basement, chugging along 24/7 with no compromise adequat cooling.
The Idea of the swiss guard standing behind some teenagers using their smartphones to photograph old books sounds hilarious...
It's a shame that the article doesn't mention how Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing award in 1983 for their prototype implementation of the Ubuntu operating system.
I do appreciate your expounding on this, but I assure you I do get it.

Using types to track these things is the appropriate solution. In most languages you would either create a wrapping object you can get the original back from or perhaps extend the basic type. Here we can just use `as` to cast the value into an intersection with the number, which I assume allows it to continue being used as a number but will catch failures on functions that needs a ValidatedInputString, in much the same way the an inherited subtype might. Probably better.

I get it and you are right, this is the right thing to do.

My original comment was that for those that do not do this appropriate type level work to track that we have validated a value, then it becomes an assumed aspect of the branch.

This was very, very common in older code I've seen. I think I can safely assume that it still happens today, though if I am wrong I'll be glad that parsing the values into new types has made enough headway that it is seen as simply the default.

Because it is certainly the RightThingToDo.
lol. it tends to be pretty flimsy proof, especially in light of the expanded horizon.
I wouldn’t point the finger at the ctor; making a defensive deep copy of mutable parameters is not in the contract.
it is! wipes tears with dolla bills
Thanks that is exactly my point, because I'm not losing any functionality with a slightly smaller phone, but I am gaining something that is more mobile, fits into pockets and usable with one hand.

I understand the large screen appeal, there's a lot of folks out there now where they use their phone to watch shows and in some cases is their only computing device.
How to Install Microsoft Office on Linux
It's just to me this seems like taking issue with 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating' because sometimes what I'm eating isn't pudding, and some people don't like pudding at all. All sayings have some implicit context or scenario in which they're applicable.
C++23: How lambdas are going to change?
If their son works for Microsoft in a position unrelated to this deal, there's absolutely no conflict of interest unless you actually prove real attempts to influence the resolution.
Hi. Irrelevant with this thread, but can you please reply to me here if you got the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35955336
Search for my username and you will find my question! Thanks!
> "There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture"

There's a level of hypocrisy in backing the measure with those arguments but to then exempt EVs from the increased fees...
He could've easily built some heated bird houses with all the effort he wasted.
I don't know about OP, but I am.
Decades of use and improvements have made Excel a surprisingly good app for this. Even as recently as 5 years ago I would paste outputs from databases in there to do quick cleanups of data for small scale analysis
It is a very weird coincidence that every major film studio started streaming services after that law ended. I thought it was more general like a cut between production and distribution not production and theatres.

Now we are in the same position as a hundred years ago. At that time you would have to go into a theatre by the production company and now you have to go to the streaming service of the production company.

That split between production and distribution has to come back.
Even if she could have, she is checking excel for his reply, which would not arrive there.
Game streaming is a great option to have but it incentivises the same behaviour we've seen from companies that move to a SAAS model: Charge a monthly fee and remove the option to own the product.

Not actually owning the games is a problem. Nvidia's service, GeForce Now, originally allowed you to play any game you had purchased on Steam, under the theory that you were using your license to play it. Their library was decimated when that was challenged legally.

Most of the services don't offer the same modding options as you would have on PC either.

If I were to pick between the two, I'd rather we move towards having more control over the things we purchase than less.
Can you point out some examples of astroturfed articles? I cannot say I find your statement convincing based on a google search of news about threads.
> There is other live with almost 100% certainty in the universe. The number of galaxies, stars and planets across the whole universe is just too large for this not to be true.

So this argument gets repeated slot (because people like repeating things they hear) but it's completely fallacious.

Yes, the amount of planets is astronomically large. But it might be that the probability that life appears on a planet is astronomically small. If there are 10^50 planets in the universe, but the probability that life appears on a planet is 10^(-60), then we're probably the lucky one.

In other words, we don't know, but please stop repeating garbage.
You went directly to ad hominem. Not sure why you are surprised.
welp here comes trouble
Great stuff, I skimmed the article searching for some table showing a breakdown of content by language, but I haven't found one.

I hope there is a lot of text in languages other than English. As for example in my language (Polish) current SOTA models are very deffiecient. I have wondered why is that considering companies like (not at all)OpenAI claim to train on large datasets including in my language of interest. It turns out (and I learned this just yesterday) they used LLM translated English content that that used as other language training data. They used Azure translator which itself is a transformer model to generate content for gpt-3.5 for example. Also, I bet there is a lot of poorly machine translated content in their supposedly "original" data.

The result? You can use chatgpt to write you an email of any kind in English and you can copy/paste/send immediately. Try doing that in Polish... It will make sense, but the language used will use bad tone (too familiar in a business setting), bad words(words that exist, but no real person would use) and sentence layout that just plainly feels weird. I suspect this is even worse in many other languages.
I have bad news.
It is really tiresome just how much damage cryptocurrency brain rot did to any remotely novel peer to peer developments made in the last decade.
Hey, will take it down. It was just good social proof for us especially coming from the HN community, but perhaps should have checked first
Neat. I wasn't aware that there's an endpoint you could use to retrieve JSON data without an API key.
If this project were to gain more traction, I suppose they would interfere with that, right?

It's sad to see that every free Reddit client is forced to be a browser nowadays.
SCATS was originally based on LSI-11 (pizza-box sized PDP-11) hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if considerable legacy code still lurks in there. Don't know what the current hardware is - hope it's not Windows 3.11 PCs. (Don't laugh, a few years ago I was working with ATMs for a large bank, inside the ATMs were beige PCs running Windows 3.11).
z-library? wild guess.
The story I heard was that the NCIS writers had an informal competition with CSI writers on who could get the most ridiculous tech shit on screen.
You can say no to a TSA face scan. But even a senator had trouble
Reminds me of the famous double feature in Japan: Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro. Totoro was paired with Grave because Totoro was considered a risk, Grave being an historical picture.
I love how "creatives" enjoy the freedom of the free internet but never try to shame their peers as to whether they use GPL or MIT license for their art.
www.microsoft.com and play.google.com are also listed in the DMCA take down list :D

https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34149383#
The majority of new games can't work offline, and having a physical disc is now so rare that companies are selling game boxes and deluxe editions that contain no software at all - not even a download code, since you need to buy it with an account anyway.
Include Cleanup in Visual Studio
These two sentences sound contradictory to me.
> All it takes is for a Magnetar to have a hiccup and it could sterilize an entire galaxy.

There are tens of millions of magnetars in the milky way and we can and do observe their "hiccups" - we've traded a multitude of GRBs back to stars we believe to be magnetars.

They do not have anywhere near enough energy to sterilize an entire galaxy.
Went through a rather large batch of OCZ SSDs that all failed within a two week window years ago. Thankfully the IBM Death Star had long before made me allergic to putting devices of the same model in the same RAID array if I can help it, so it was a nuisance rather than a disaster.