skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing OW2 a lot since its launch, I think it's great. Queue times are incredible, often times I can queue as DPS and have a game in 1-3 minutes. For a long time that was standard, now it's getting a bit longer usually but it's still good and tank/support queues are nearly instant. In the old OW you would easily wait 15 minutes for a dps queue.

I also think the whining about hero unlocks is total bullshit. It's trivial to unlock everything completely for free if you play semi frequently. I think it took me about 30 hours of playtime to unlock the flower boy. I have never and will never purchase a battle pass.

The only complaint I have is that I miss free loot boxes. The battle passes don't give any cool skins for the free tier. But I don't really care much about skins so it's alright, the game is still fun. It's not like I can see my own skins in-game anyway.
It becomes worthless when we never take the second step.

It is worthless because why not just jump straight to step 2?

The answer of course is that that would be expensive and hard and might not prove anything. Much safer and cheaper to NOT actually test you hypothesis and you can still use it to up your publication figure and your funder can still use it to sell hearing aids etc...
That inspires a bit of hope. Still, I'm of the opinion that companies are collecting too much data, and if I'm honest, I'm just as nervous about private companies doing it as I am about the government doing it.

> By passing the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, both Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee just made clear that the Data Broker Loophole must and will be closed.

With regards to the Data Broker Loophole -- is this just the idea that instead of directly collecting data on citizens, the government can just buy it from corporations that are aggregating it?
Yeah, it's one of those things where there's no definitive guidance, just loose tests. It's possible, for example, that DocuSign wouldn't care.

But, it seems different from GitLab/GitHub since the second word starts differently. GitHut, GitHow, GitHot, etc, vs GitHub would be more similar here.
English is the de facto lingua franca, dominating technology as much as it dominates global communication. And it’s time we take a hard look at this realisation.

In our latest Substack post, we explore the issue of mono-lingual dominance in AI, shedding light on the need for inclusivity in the digital world.

Discover how different languages, particularly Indian languages, incur higher processing costs compared to English due to tokenization. We also discuss the concept of 'fertility' in language processing (translation specific), which adds another layer of difficulty for languages with intricate morphology.

While there are challenges, progress is being made towards a more inclusive future. OpenAI's Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system, demonstrates the potential of multilingual AI, despite its imperfections. Tech giants like Google are also leading the way with initiatives to promote non-English representation in AI systems.

Join us as we dive into the complexities of tokenization, processing costs, and the challenges faced by non-English languages.
Link:
TSMC hires US college grads and flies them to Tainan for training for a couple years. Then they go back to Arizona to setup the factory.
I can agree with that. Thanks for clarifying!

(Maybe I’m just too used to people getting confused about this stuff…)
wrong. this would be correct if doctors gave you perfect instructions as a rule. but doctors dont care about maximizing the probability of good health or long lifespan. they only care whether your outcomes are up to the standard defined by the medical establishment and the expectations of laypeople. as long as your doctor meets those standards, they wont be sued, lose their practice, be fined or suffer an insult to their high status. so often there are better treatments and overlooked treatments that got lost in that incentive scheme. patients who are proactive and singleminded will definitely do better with all illnesses including cancer. never understood this until i saw both my parents through cancer. but by far the biggest advantage is to have advocates, family with you at all times, especially in the hospital.
Complete tangent here. My favorite book to read my kids is Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth.

It features a panda named Stillwater who tells this story (among others) in it.
We (the royal tech we) have taken a document transport protocol and bent it into a replacement for green-screen and installed general computing applications over the last 2+ decades.

The barrier to entry in building, supporting and maintaining web applications is low compared to installed apps from ye olden times using things like VB and floppy disk installs to many different OSes. There is a large mix of web stacks to choose from and building apps is essentially a "solved" problem at this point. Everything seems to build off HTTP, even cloud computing has REST API's to invoke functions to spin up compute resources. Everything has an API.

Not everyone should learn how to code but I think everyone should have a basic understanding of what HTTP does and what API's are and how to call them (via simple tools not coding). Its probably useful to nearly any professional (aka office worker) type of career.
Anytime some even vaguely anti-realist claim shows up in a HN headline, such as "the past is not true", a bunch of predictable and dull comments inevitably show up to perform some table thumping about reality being factual and objective, likely paired with some sanctimonious moral panic about the dangers of relativism (normally with a political slant one way or another).

I think these comments are sincere and well-intentioned in their concern for the truth, but I also think that they speak to the impoverished state of anything like public philosophical discourse today. Lest I waste too much time and emotional energy on an internet comment, I'll wrap up by stating my endorsement of the seemingly forgotten, and distinctly American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. It is a picture in which truth and falsity exists, but being products of inquiry, experience, adversarial disagreement, and experiment, remain permanently open to revision. The pragmatist statement of the author's (fine) thesis might be "the past is never finished", since the past exists and is real, but our discoveries, experiences, interests, etc. in the future might demand a revision or reinterpretation of it.
I don't understand the pre-amble always thought Dr. Pepper tasted like cherry cola?

Maybe it's Vanilla Cola.

Mastery is made of intuition and practice, but secret sauce is inherently unintuitive.

I think it's unintuitive to the outside world and very intuitive to the creator.
I agree and I think of it another way. The day to day life and focus of many modern day olympians / world champions was probably close to the norm for many of the fighter-class.

People training day in day out to hone their skills and fitness, putting their lives on the line for glory and survival.

Sure we eat better and train smarter but most of us no longer dedicate ourselves to a singular purpose that involves our bodies so the realities of that are so foreign to us that the notion of marching a marathon carrying 40kg is seen as superhuman rather than the bare minimum.
TSMC Delays Arizona Fab Deployment to 2025, Citing Shortage of Skilled Workers
That makes sense, I’ve also written a lot of docs and screenshots are a pain to maintain but also users and myself find them so useful.
Looks amazing but I'm (still) in love w/ Berkeley Mono!
Signatures are pretty easy to fake too, because basically noone verifies them.

In practice, the security involved only has to reach the "good enough" threshold and not a 100% hack proof level.
Arizona has a low chance of natural disasters, land is relatively cheap, and they're known for being tax competitive.
Q2 SaaS Trends Report (and SaaS AI Index)
If you pass a prop to a child component, it will update whenever you change state

If two unrelated components are consuming the same context, it will update when that context updates.

Using Zustand, there's virtually no overhead to this and it's extremely reactive
I hope not. Blizzard games run pretty well on Linux through Wine, but the launcher eventually didn't (classically, and perhaps on purpose), locking you out. I love launchers; they're such a cool value add!
Yeah, I find it funny to see technologists being surprised that in most cases judges won't mind that the signature wasn't done with quantum-resistent cryptography stored in a blockchain or whatever. Technical solutions to political problems...
Playing from Norway I have never seen dps queues longer than 6 minutes in OW2. A few months ago all the queues were <2 min, now dps is usually 3-5min.
There's another shader floating around somewhere that includes the wraparound effect along with the phosphor effect (it can also be configured for full color support; doesn't have to be black/green)
> The web is still a zero-sum game without money involved. Search has 5-10 slots for whichever topic and if you're not in it, you effectively do not exist.

Well that is a ridiculous problem that only exists because of Google's UI.

What if, for instance, thet slightly randomized search results?
Also check out Étoilé, based on GNUstep: http://etoileos.com/etoile/
Which unfortunately nobody uses because non-cryptographic signatures (such as Docusign or this but hosted by an independent third-party) are considered good enough in practice.

Hell, nobody even has a smartcard reader, and as far as I know none of the eID cards have contactless capability that phones (who all have NFC readers nowadays) can use.

I wish smartcards took off and computers included readers as standard. This would not only solve strong authentication but also payments (just insert your bank card and do EMV-style payments with comparable levels of security).
You're really going to hate Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, then.
You can buy small vacuum chambers on ebay. Making a large one is also doable. What's problematic is making one lightweight enough to be buoyant. When you make staggered one it will still have too much mass because all shells will weight as much as one thicker shell.
I do wonder about that for self-hosting a service like this. But how often do actual disputes arise between parties as to whether a document was actually signed or fraudulently altered?

TBH, even a contract rests on a certain amount of trust between the involved parties.
Cerebras's Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer takes flight carrying 36 exaFLOPS
Compare MDN's entry for the `map` method

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

With Rust's

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/struct.Map.html

I find MDN to be a bit clearer, and they benefit from the in-browser runtime. All the extra detail in the Rust docs (blanket traits etc) were quite intimidating and distracting when I first started learning it.
I’m sure he is quite learned! But that doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with him on this.
Tangentially, why are they building a water-hungry process in Arizona of all places? There has to be a good reason -- can anyone help me out?
Only for the record, until it lasted (seemingly noone has been interested in finding and updating the patterns to be patched or maybe some other security measure was implemented in later Windows 10) the "best" way (IMHO) was to patch a file.

Booting from USB with grub4dos, patching the .dll then continuing booting and you could login as the original user but without (or with "any") password:

http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=18588

There are (were) derivatives to be run from a WinPE, but any hex editor that could access the .dll would have done.

Let's say that it was a poor man's Konboot, that has (or at least used to have) a similar approach, but patching files in memory.
That's an interesting take on things. Would you want your operating system to provide a web browser, pdf viewer, and spreadsheet as well?

To me it makes no sense that software does not interoperate very well. I think most of this is due to the historical evolution of computers and software. A spell checker used to take up an insane amount of memory, a browser is a competitive product, and interfaces for proper interaction have to be standardized worldwide, for which we still lack some kind of governmental body.
>labor shortages

There are more than 300 million people in the US.
This is definitely a shortage, but this isn't a "labor" shortage. This is a "we're not willing to pay you enough why does nobody want to work" shortage.

Counterpoint - sending people from TSMC that already have hands on experience will make things much easier for them.

If they only want people like that, then yes, they can't just divide the facility in two, like a cell. They'll need to train more.
I don’t think that copyright is bad, per se. I do, however, see that copyright enforcement is often overreaching and it appears to be because some people running a business somewhere don’t want to fail. The business model of “creating content” is simply not something that scales into a billion dollar company in the age of the internet.

Perhaps this is mistaken. Disney and Nintendo come to mind as very successful but also very aggressive about protecting copyright, even such that (as you brought up with the Tolkien estate) Disney has successfully lobbied to have copyright terms extended so they can be the only arbiters of all things Mickey Mouse (and Nintendo all things Mario, etc.). But Nintendo keeps making (good!) Mario games.

Still, there could be great works produced by independent creators but they seem to be stifled precisely due to copyright law. When Disney bought Star Wars, they decided that all non-film iterations of the stories are non-canon. Imagine being an Expanded Universe creator who made an Official Star Wars Game only to be told after-the-fact that it’s not official anymore. That’s not even getting into fan creations which are somehow illegally distributed for free.

I might agree that it’s not fundamentally broken but it does not seem to work in practice; at least, there are many cases in which it is abused which need to be curbed for me to really consider it a Good Thing. Commonly a person’s labor is invalidated by dubious copyright claims and I see that as more harmful to society than what harms are caused to corporations by individual piracy. Let corporations duke it out with copyright law and ignore the individual consumer, even if it’s millions of individuals. Such a scenario means the business model doesn’t work and that is absolutely not a consumer problem.

(Thanks for sharing your thoughts! There is a lot of nuance around this topic so I apologize if my initial comment over-simplified.)
Amazon to launch pay-by-palm technology at all Whole Foods stores by year-end
Wow, that look brings me back. The library in the city I grew up in had monitors like that well into the 90s.

They implemented a library map on them that allowed you to zoom in to see a depiction of an atom, or out to see a depiction of the universe. Really blew my mind as a kid.
I'm not him but Kagi supports this functionality, and I make heavy use of it. Incredibly useful.
I suggest changing the title to something more relevant, like the title of the preprint [https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04297], maybe:

"AT 2023clx: the Faintest and Closest Optical Tidal Disruption Event Discovered"

As an aside, I'm saddened to again realise phys.org is pretty bad at reporting, like look at this:

> Using mainly the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network (LCOGT) and NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they conducted follow-up observations of AT 2023clx—a transient source initially identified in 2014.

That aside is just completely wrong: as indicated explicitly in the name, AT 2023clx was discovered in 2023, TDE's were firmly detected before 2014, and NGC 3799 was obviously discovered before being included in the original release of the New General Catalog (NGC) in 1888. I have no idea what that last bit is supposed to mean.

Then there's this bit where the author "translated" a factor of 10^42 into gibberish:
> Furthermore, the maximum blackbody luminosity of AT 2023clx was found to be only 4.56 tredecillion erg/s.
Mental stimulation is discussed here in the comments, and that makes sense, but I wonder if social connection could be a factor as well.

Loneliness and disconnection with others seems correlated with all kinds of declines. If you can't hear people it's very hard to participate, which could make you more disconnected.

I read that hearing aids might be deregulated soon, which might mean lower prices and more innovation there.
It is still low profile since it is single-fan design and less than 20cm in depth (it's 18cm). Anything beyond 20cm is considered mainstream cards because they can have dual fans which offered better thermal design. The cost margin to have lesser width is a discrepancy of 20% but I drank the kool-aid nonetheless.
You don't have to grind, you literally just play the game. You can play a whole bunch of heroes and eventually you'll be able to play all of them. It's not a problem at all.
China says it's coming. US military says it's coming. Policymakers in US and EU are adapting to this shift. How am I getting downvoted and told off for trying to discuss the consequences to tech markets in a tech oriented forum on a thread about the consequences of it?
Synology NAS 920+ for my photos, backups, Jellyfin, home assistant, etc. I mount it with nfs to my devices and have a raspberry pi 4 running WireGuard to connect to it when out of the house. It’s incredibly easy to maintain, which has been very nice.
> It's strongly suggested to also hot glue your USB ports shut for added security.

I don't see any reason to stop at my USB ports. Take a hot glue gun with you where ever you go, and glue them all shut as soon as you find them. Help make the world a better place.
This touches on Narrative Therapy. Events happened, yes. Facts are immutable and can't be changed or wished away simply because they are inconvenient.

Rather, how we make sense of them—and internalize them—affects our lives in significant ways, especially if the prevaling narrative we believe about ourselves prevents us from thriving.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/narrative-t...
I'm really not sure how you can argue that "AI is great at explaining code snippets" while also acknowledging that it will just give you flat out wrong answers some times.

Either it's good at explaining and is right, or is bad at explaining and is wrong.

Applying the logic of it being "right most of the time" seems really bad for a tool applied to a reference documentation website.
"Why have the US defend the island if it offers no additional value?"

They won't. That's why they are cloning it in the west.
To put the focus on the principle of controlling your search engine results, rather than the specific tool (which is Kagi btw)
These American workers are hired to work in Taiwan for training and then sent to Arizona to setup the factory. By local Taiwan standards, they are treated well (relatively high pay and don’t have to work on weekends).

But by US standards, working 12 hours per day 5 days per week with no overtime or free coffee isn’t competitive in our job market.

I don’t think anyone is mistreated or taken advantage of. But TSMC doesn’t provide a competitive work environment if you have access to the US job market.
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IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
The main problem with the price-fixing demands are that they in practice ammount to "disable almost all foreign competitive advantages". The choice becomes first world infastructure vs third world infastructure for the same rates. It is calling for an incredibly skewed playing field effectively. You wouldn't get Chinese factoty workers with western wages. In practice the despondent third world gets basically nothing in the name of equity, not a good outcome or even a sane one.
I think you may have replied while I was editing to suggest that.
This is really nice, but I think the perennial curse of technology people is producing "<app>, but with <esoteric principle>"

People want a thing, not an ideal, and they'll sell their soul to get the thing. At this point, it's actually being surprised by this that is the ludicrous position. Philosophies are a differentiator for a very small portion of population.

If you want them to buy into ideals, you've taken on two problems: Make a thing they want with its own differentiators outside of the noble pursuit, _and_ trojan in your principles.
Hi Alex. First of all, congratulations. The product looks great for a 1.5 month worth of dev work. Impressive.

Is it possible at the moment to send signature requests via WhatsApp? (even at a cost per send)
I'll take any confidence at all. This has a zero percent confidence because causation is fundamentally different to correlation. And showing causation is pretty much the whole point of experiments in science. Hence, this is not even science really. Just advertising...
RFK Jr. is rightly maligned for his vaccine views, but he's one of the few politicians making the slow poisoning of Americans one of his central issues.
> if China were to invade Taiwan and the US failed to respond, that would be an existential threat to the United States because it would effectively kick the U.S. out of the Pacific

Hyperbolic? The US not having a wall of ships on China's east coast is not an existential threat for the US.
> It is worthless because why not just jump straight to step 2?

Can you explain what this means?
As a (formerly?) information retrieval company, isn't this shitting where one eats? They don't exactly need more irrelevant material to sort out.
What's interesting to me is that nobody in that thread actually used a sphere the size that Bucky proposed.

A sphere with a 1km diameter has a volume of 680,317,581 cubic yards.

A sphere 1 mile in diameter has a volume of 2,854,543,238 cubic yards.

The driving mass force per those comments seems to be the surface area of the sphere, which grows according to the square, but the lifting power grows by the cube.
nah the startup entrepreneur type prefer coke to fleeting moments of success
I'm pretty sure Lisa Su just said recently that AMD is not going big.LITTLE
>the TSMC plant in the US will only provide enough chips for DoD usage

Huh? DoD doesn't use any TSMC fabs, they have their own security accredited fabs for that on US shore that mostly cater to US government customers and not much else.

Similarly, TSMC and most other consumer fabs, have no desire to take any DoD contracts in peace time, as the legal and security related paperwork are not worth the huge hassle and low margin prices the government is willing to pay in peace time compared to what Nvidia, AMD, Apple, etc. fork up.
Fair points. Although if computers become more expensive the overall result is everyone becomes poorer.

Also, the energy transition towards decarbonization entails smart grids and intense use of computers for design, deployment and operation of a more diverse fleet of energy generating and storage assets.

People with the right skills might be better off, that's true.
> Valve may want to partner with them someday.

This aspect is totally lost on so many people. Even apple partnered with them for games on their own platform.

It’s fiscally irresponsible for company directors to close that door in preference over a hobby emulator, while pretending that it isn’t intended to infringe on copyright.