skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a reason not to take TFA at it's word, which says that the litigation in progress (for which expert testimony was requested) does not relate to the research those experts were conducting through agreements signed with CDE?

The whole problem here is that as a soon as a researcher signs the contract, they are barred from participating in any litigation against the department even if it doesn't involve the private data they were working with. So you have a large population of experts removed from the pool, because all the experts are likely to be involved in some type of research.
People still owned homes before residential mortgages were a thing, which didn't take its modern shape until the 1930s. In uninsurable markets, liquidity will drop, prices will follow, until a new equilibrium forms. In sleepy beach towns where the primary use is recreation, that equilibrium will probably be very low. In New Orleans, the economic value is significantly higher and the equilibrium will be commensurately higher.

Of course, in the real world, the federal government will step in to subsidize insurance (more than it already does) and keep that 30-year mortgage available in New Orleans, for the reasons I outlined in my original comment.
Related, the person who made classics like “Mud and Blood” has kept up development of a new version of it on steam. I’ve been a bit addicted to it recently!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1391530/Mud_and_Blood/
That's right. I can't help here. But if you need a referral to some, let me know.
This is a very limited "Settings Guide" there is a bunch of stuff they're not even mentioning, maybe not aware of. Such as the fact it now has 2 positive prompts + 2 negative prompts and tweaking the amount of the refinement.
it IS from the 90s....
My employer was in the process of getting a PERM for me when they announced layoffs, which caused the petition to be denied. How soon after a round of layoffs is it "safe" to apply again?
This article is talking about things like defaulting options to organ donor or automatically enrolling people into a 401k plan. I'm not sure changing the default option is the same as changing someone's behavior. Sounds like it's about explicitly NOT changing the behavior but rather the outcome of that behavior.

Something you may notice about these fraud cases is that they are simple things that result in _surprising_ outcomes. I don't think people are surprised that texting teens works better given that the only people that call them are parents and telemarketers. There's two fundamental lines in the article too

> government has long been behind corporate America in following up to make sure its policies actually work.

> The SBST team’s report showed that 13 of its projects worked; one didn’t; and one was hard to tell.

And if we're getting down to it, this doesn't sound like an Obama or "liberal" thing, it sounds like a _government_ thing. Can we stop taking general concepts or universal behavior and pretending that when its bad only "my enemies" do it and when good only "my allies" do it? This is just dumb, and it happens even outside the context of politics.
No. From the U.S. Government's perspective, there's no issue holding other citizenships. But when you travel to the U.S., you are supposed to present your U.S. passport not your foreign passport.
Yea, I've always associated Cheesecake Factory with every other generic chain restaurant--exactly like Applebee's, TGIFridays, Outback, Olive Garden, and so on. It's a place you take large groups that contain picky eaters.
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Is it possible to develop new flash games and experiences that can run in browsers with this kind of emulation layer?

Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular?

(I was just thinking about this yesterday and was considering submitting an Ask HN :)
In what?
What are you doing that hasn't become so fast it's imperceptibly different on all modern phones? They all seem to text, browse, email, and play media at the required FPS and load time to me.

Yes I have seen synthetic benchmarks. But, they haven't had any relevance to what I do on my phone since like 2012, so I'm wondering what other people are doing?
Future maintainers will go slow no matter what.
Inflation easily puts $850 over the $1k mark today.
That's very nice of you to say. Thanks.
Loved seeing a commercial from Nestle drumstick with an attractive blonde slowly eating the ice cream bar in a very sexually charged manner. Won’t see that in todays media. That’s the generation I grew up in.
"Bullshitting" seems like a good term for accurate or inaccurate responses.

Let's extend "LLMs have no intention of being wrong" to "LLMs have no inherent sense of being correct" - sometimes their predictions happen to be correct, sometimes they don't. But they're all hallucinations generated from the same process.
I do agree that the API required for zero-copy turns out a bit awkward, particularly on the writing side. The reading side doesn't look much different. Meanwhile zero-copy is really only a paradigm shift in certain scenarios, like when used with mmap(). For network communications it doesn't change much unless you are doing something hardcore like RDMA. I've always wanted to add an optional alternative API to Cap'n Proto that uses "plain old C structures" (or something close to it) with one-copy serialization (just like protobuf) for the use cases where zero-copy doesn't really matter. But haven't gotten around to it yet...

That said I personally have always been much more excited about the RPC protocol than the serialization. I think the RPC protocol is actually a paradigm shift for almost any non-trivial use case.
There is an argument to be made for automatically downweighting (be it training epochs or pagerank rating) anything with affiliate links. But I guess it would be trivial to hide them behind a redirect.

That being said, I recently asked the Bing chatbot about the difference between two similar sounding printer models, and it gave a good explanation which I previously couldn't quickly find via Google. In case of Bing it is sometimes not completely clear to which degree its answer depends on the Web search, if it performed one, and to which degree it is just answering from its background knowledge (which could be prone to hallucination, but is less "gullible", so to speak). It provides sources, but not everything it says is necessarily present in the source. I'm actually surprised how quickly Bing is able to search (load and read) multiple websites, given that the loading times are not always trivial. It turns out they are much faster at reading than at typing. Indeed, each forward pass reads the entire context window, so once for every generated token!
Sure, I wouldn't say reasoning can guide a robot to do gymnastics zero-shot either. But it is a substantiated approach to generalizing existing capabilities - just like in humans. You or a robot can't reason your way to bike-riding but if you know how to bake cookies or brush your teeth, you can perform much better zero-shot on related tasks like baking a chicken or brushing a mirror.
They really can be terrible sometimes. I loved last.fm too - still sporadically scrobbling at https://www.last.fm/user/Knightspore. But today my profile mostly serves as a record of music I had come across more 'organically' prior to mainly consuming via streaming services.
I was referring to Lopez, and I'll concede that "overturn" is probably too strong a word. But it was the first time in 60 years that SCOTUS didn't roll over when congress claimed to have authority under the commerce clause and marked the beginning of increased skepticism of commerce clause claims.

Moreover, the majority in Lopez proposed a four-part test, the first of which was whether the activity being is economic in nature. Previously under Wickard v. Filburn, the standard was whether the regulated activity could substantially impact interstate commerce.

To see just how absurd this is (and how Lopez changes it), consider this: Can the federal government regulate whether I ride my bike to work?

The government is charged with protecting national security. And part of that is ensuring adequate supplies of raw materials needed to prosecute a war. Fossil fuels are one such necessary material. If everyone rides a bike to work, oil producers and refiners may go out of business, thus substantially impacting interstate commerce for a domain in which the federal government clearly has a legitimate interest. Therefore, under Wickard v. Filburn the federal government has clear constitutional authority to make it illegal for me to commute to work by bicycle.

That's insane.

And this is very analogous to what Filburn did that led to the case Wickard v. Filburn: By riding a bicycle, my impact on interstate commerce is caused by the fact that I am simply declining to participate in interstate commerce. Filburn grew wheat for his own consumption.

However, under US v. Lopez my bicycle commute is a noneconomic activity, and not something that can be regulated. This removes an enormous class of activities from congress's regulatory authority.

> I think the credit card fees would be subject to federal oversight but not the fundamental transaction facilitated.

Sure, fine. But MasterCard won't process your payments if they can't charge you a fee for facilitating your transactions. The constitution gives congress broad authority to regulate interstate commerce. They are well within that authority to say "you may charge fees for payment services for X but not for Y".
It does, though, while an interesting story, its been criticized as being one that is inadequately supported.
As a simple example, Threading in Python works good for i/o-bound operations like scraping a website, whereas Multiprocessing works best for CPU-bound operations like result hashing/transforming the data you just scraped.
This (archived) recent article from the Guardian has an account of Weizenbaum's early life that I hadn't seen before, about his childhood in Nazi Germany, emigration to the US and service in the Army during WWII, and the start of his career in computing:

https://archive.is/oxWZ5
> Bombardier, Embraer's direct competitor, partnered up with Airbus, getting a critical competitive advantage

They didn't "partner up". They gave up their modern design (C-Series) to Airbus, then had a fire sale of the remaining assets like the CRJ series, all due to Boeing sabotage. Apart from Bombardier, Boeing are the other big losers from the whole debacle, because Airbus got a very good and modern design for "free" (assumes liabilities).
Go look at what partners at the biggest white-shoe law firms make. Over $1,000/hr.
They start demoing the product in 6 seconds and the whole thing is less than a minute. It seemed fine to me.
On Levelling, Learning and Development
Thanks for giving it a try - I'll take a shot at that one.
I assume, since Peter Thiel is involved, it somehow gets the biometrics to Planitir.
Are professionals posting about theirs and others’ experiences with ADHD (on LinkedIn, for example) committing career suicide? That sounds harsh.
To you, that’s elitist.

To the average person, that’s just… how things work.
I'm not a marxist by any means, but breaking up the monopoly into smaller companies might make sense. The newspapers before them had similar regulations and faired well.
In June 2021 I tried entering the United States with a TN packet as an Engineer with a Bachelor of Computer Science. However, the officer denied me the TN status saying I need an Engineering, not Computer Science degree, to qualify for the Engineer TN status.

Given the denial, in July 2021 the hiring company then applied through USCIS premium processing again for TN Engineer with my Computer Science degree and I was approved. I was let in at the border with my TN status without issue.

In August 2021, I we back to Canada, and then upon re-entering the US with my TN I was sent to secondary given my previous denial on record. The officers basically rechecked my packet and asked so many questions about my previous denial, the officer then lets me in but states “you might not be so lucky with the next officer”. From what I understand they can take away my TN or even just deny me entry in the future based off the previous denial.

I haven’t left the US since then, but want to visit Canada and come back. However, I’m terrified of the officer denying me entry based of my previous denial. What are my options here? My company’s lawyer basically said we just have to try and hope for the best.

Thanks so much!
> I am a "viralata"

Really honestly, I could tell that before I finished your second paragraph. I see people around the world criticizing their own countries quite often, but afaik only Brazilians take the criticism to such a self-depreciative level.
Is this a sale or are we giving this package to Taiwan? It's unclear from the article.
It’s not. It’s one of the few things that hasn’t changed much and it’s operation is fairly straightforward.

dig is a little confusing. It’s more capable but less straightforward than good old nslookup (which still works fine BTW).

I think partly DNS and the core protocols may seem confusing to younger people in the industry because so much stuff “just works” now.

For example, today wifi routers “just work” right out of the box. In the early 2000s it would have taken a network engineer with knowledge of DNS, IP, Ethernet, RFC1918, actual routing protocols and whole bunch of other stuff to set something like that up and they’d have well known how it worked and why it was configured the way it was.

If you think DNS from a client can perspective is confusing, try configuring BIND ;-)

/OldNeckBeardRant
A certificate from the government that gets revoked when you commit a crime. Or are accused of a crime. That can track every single thing you so online. All of your speech online, which is most of everyone’s speech, is permanently stored and analyzed.
Where are they getting all the Flash files from? Just downloading them all out of the Internet Archive? Kinda weird. Why not just support IA's archiving and hosting efforts
As my Dad always said, it doesn't matter what they call you, it matters what they pay you.
I don't know how you guys live there and I grew up in tropical South America!

I had a stopover in Houston coming from Anchorage to MSP. It was 90+ degrees and humid as hell in the airport at 6AM

Never again!
I don't believe they have ever promised that. One person = one account is not at all how the system is designed. It is definitely never mentioned or promised here: https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/ and it is contrary to the system outlined in that document.
That’s really impressive. And good to see. I assumed all this flash content was just lost. Surely there are lots of bugs or unsupported features but hopefully it continues to be developed.

I suppose another option is to just use a browser tgat does support flash? Seems like some exist.
Significant changes. While immigration laws rarely change, the way they are interpreted and applied can change significantly from administration to administration. We saw that when Trump became President and again when Biden became President.
I don't see why not :-)

I think Actionscript was incredible and comparing it to how JavaScript (and Typescript) evolved is fascinating.

The developer experience of working with RTMP is something we are only now just replicating with solutions like tRPC (or my own Conduit library)
Plug-ins will (at least for the foreseeable future) take the form of writing custom nodes in Rust. That code will automatically compile to CPU and GPU (unless it requires an allocator or other things not possible on a GPU architecture). In the future that will extend to custom viewport tools, custom panels, etc. either through a traditional plug-in API or maybe even through defining all that in the node graph itself, since the graph is basically its own programming language.

We will probably also need to have bindings into a Python API since Python is so popular among technical artists. Precisely how that will be done is yet to be determined, since we have a lot to do before reaching that point.
Thanks! Will check these out.
The specific guy being who he is was essential to him finding it, mind you -- the story says his niece mentioned it to him after seeing it a few blocks away, presumably because everyone knows he's "the Tron guy".

Imagine how many random time-limited opportunities exist around you like this that you just never hear about.
They will create an AI to police whether AI is a danger or not.
Can you share the SD APIs list?
What is the process like for employees waiting for i485 approval (2+ year wait times) who decide to change companies? Assuming EAD/AP and everything else has already been approved.

My understanding is that the application is “portable” to an extent, but what exactly does that mean? Does the PWD need to be filed again?

From a startup’s perspective, what does the company need to do to accommodate this incoming employee?
I litigated mesothelioma cases and our experts were paid $600-$1,100/hr, depending on the expert. $1,000 is high but not unheard of. What’s really wild is, in addition to prep time, they get paid that from the second they cross the threshold of their front door through when the return; many of our experts were flown in from the middle of the country to Oregon so they sure pocketed hefty sums.
Not at all. Detailed prior employment letters are enough.
What part of the industry are you in where flatbuffers is seen as the de facto standard? Personally I've never randomly encountered a project using flatbuffers. I see protobuf all the time.

(I've randomly run into Cap'n Proto maybe 2-3 times but to be fair I'm probably more likely to notice that.)
I found out about https://www.nslookup.io/learning/ recently, which greatly increased my knowledge of DNS. If you look at the list of DNS record types [0], you might be surprised at how many their are. Knowing how to use those can be a bit much.

[0] https://www.nslookup.io/learning/dns-record-types/
Yeah they really could have taken out the neighbors through that fence.
Any actual criticisms?
Shameless side project plug: they mention a "debug" mode for dns resolving being nice to have. ComfyDNS has this in its web UI :3

https://comfydns.com/

It's the picture that says "TRACE google.com A IN" at the top.

ComfyDNS is partly scratching a personal itch - I was tired of hand modifying bind9 zone files. And also I was curious as to how DNS works - I knew surface level stuff but no details. So I implemented the RFC from "scratch" (I used netty but no DNS libs). It was a lot of fun.

(Also if/when the site goes down from hugging, forgive me, it is a rails app running on the oracle cloud free tier lol)
Ahah, sorry bro, it was indeed available for Windows Phone a long time ago, but I don't think it can be installed on Windows now. And if you try to google "Monetal Windows Phone" you definitely will drop any idea to have it =) I support just Android and iOS versions currently.
Thank you! Answers a nagging question I’ve had for a while.
This summer in Boston has been the coolest summer I ever experienced in my life (colder than last 4 summers in Boston) including 3 summers I spent in SF (which, as the famous joke goes, are colder than its winters). So, maybe Boston is a good option for our climate change future?

NYC this summer was disgustingly hot though! So maybe this Boston thing is a random statistical anomaly.
To be fair, it is entirely possible that GP doesn't care about anyone but himself.
Get up to date with your taxes.
Counterfeit alcohol is a growing concern for tourists abroad
Which 5 hours? The programming transmitted by the network with few to no commercials, or the programming broadcast by hundreds of NBC affiliates, each with its own set of commercials paid for by local advertisers?
“Worldcoin” sounds ridiculously cringy and pompous like it came from an 80s young adult novel for boys.

It’s kind like how the terrible grammar/spelling in email scams has the side effect of pre-selecting desperate or out of it enough people that ignore red flags.
In parallel to that goal we should really see massive investment in safe carbon capture at scale.

Indeed, even with net zero high CO2 levels in the atmosphere will remain for 1,000+ years and thus worsening effects on climate will remain for millenia. Therefore, we should not only have an urgent plan to stop increasing CO2 level but also to bring it back down.
Tomorrow's headline: Intel discontinues AI development reference kits.
I mean, here's the actual article from earlier in the week that this guy just lifted all the content out of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36853933
>Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular?

Every popular game engine will export to HTML5/Webassembly now, there's really no need to keep Flash alive just for the sake of nostalgia.
Definitely. There are a lot of dirt/gravel roads around here and in summer, when you turn off a paved asphalt road onto a dirt road there is an immediate air temperature drop.
What do you mean by "specifically the Japanse ones"? Is CSAM more prevalent there or is something along the lines of having more loli content posted there which fals under child pornography laws in certain countries?
Her official title is literally Junior Engineer with the company. Did I say that it was a derogatory term or use the title idiot or asshole or say they were bad at their job? Bro you should get that chip on your shoulder examined.
Bing works for Microsoft and basically that's an ad. Wouldn't any human paid by Microsoft say in an ad that Surface Headphones 2 are the best ANC headphones?
I noticed that you haven't bothered to reply to any of my reasons for supporting KOSA, or any of the observations about factual inaccuracies or exaggerations in the EFF post.

There exist people who disagree with you and who aren't paid PR shills. Like me. I feel strongly about a bill that you don't like. It's possible to have an adult conversation about the merits of the bill without accusing literally everyone who disagrees with you of astrofurfing.

The accusation of astroturfing -- which BY DEFINITION involves fake identities -- is particularly ironic in this thread where the ONLY non-anonymous comment is from a supporter.

You're like the person who says that they can't believe that some candidate or another won and election because they have literally never met a person in their life who would vote for that candidate.

I've explained my reasons for supporting this bill at length. Instead of responding to my long and substantive rebuttals about the EFF's claims, you're name calling.

I'm not going to convince you. That's fine. Others can read the EFF post, them read my comments here, then read the bill, and form their own opinion.

(Also: two can play at this ridiculously juvenile game. I would not be surprised if Meta et al. astrofurf comment sections on topcis like this. For every one person like me, there are dozens of low-effort paranoid comments designed to direct the hive mind away from regulating Meta's bullshit.)
From my experience in two small-medium businesses - they're both running leaner than possible. I figured both were trying to sell, maybe they are?, but neither has.

By leaner than possible, I mean, things are running unmaintained, and it's only a matter of time before some of it starts crashing down.

What does it mean? I don't know. They're either going to have to hire, get bought out, or close up shop. I'm -hoping- it leads to more hiring in q4 or q1/24.
Cyber Experience on Boards Still Seen as Critical in New SEC Rules
Same reference: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mentats#Behind_the_scenes
Do you provide feedback to rejected folks so they understand what they should try to improve if they re-apply? The lack of feedback from most places completely puts me off from considering them again, even if that’s what they do to everyone.