skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spend plenty of money in games on stuff like DLC or skins or unlockable characters and the idea of reselling them on an "open market" or having their price be subject to the whims of the market is thoroughly unappealing. If I want to make a profit why would I do that in the wild west with video game skins instead of real regulated markets where I'm far less likely to get scammed? I buy skins or spend money to unlock characters because I like them and want to use them.

Furthermore skin resale markets and skin gambling (the two tend to be connected) mean we're roping young gamers into gambling and gambling-adjacent stuff at a young age before their brains are mature enough to handle it. It's disgusting.

As a game developer, also, it just doesn't make sense. Giving skins resale value means that now I can never revise them or patch them out of the game, no matter the reason. Even worse, it cuts the value of each skin I sell because now a player who quits can unload all their skins first which means I earn less revenue off new players.
The good thing about Scrum is that it introduces frequent moments of accountability. They are not popular but much needed in many teams and better than the alternative of the traditional waterfall approach.

It should also very frequently reveal issues. In misunderstandings, planning, underestimation, dependencies. This is a good thing as you can then course-correct early.

That said, it is soul crushing. Some jobs/tasks just don't fit into SCRUM yet one is forced to adhere to it anyway. There's way too many meetings. The boundaries of roles are not respected. Quality is not rewarded, only story point delivery. There's typically no feedback loop from users/the market as to whether actual value was delivered because you're working on the next sprint. Product owners are not actual owners. Scrum masters act as project management.

A typical scrum team easily costs 1M to run even here in Europe. And yet they produce so little. If you'd hire 3 A-class players in a high trust environment they'd produce 10 times more at superior quality.

True comedy is found in "scaled agile". This is where the SCRUM elite of the company get the teams together and ask: tell me for the next 6 months which stories you will deliver and figure out all the dependencies.

Mind you, near-zero input is given. You might as well roll a dice. And still we're all here to pretend that this insanity is normal. I no longer fight it.

I actually feel bad for business owners. They're setting on fire some 50-70% of their hard-earned revenue on talking and book keeping.
I'm sure some anti war hippie would make a joke here.

In any case, it's fascinating how horses, dogs, pigeons, and various other animals were only recently (less than 100 years) replaced by machines. Horses were precious and highly exploited in both world wars.
I'd say it got subverted and emptied, now it's just a set of silly rituals with some drummer setting the pace.
Must be totally accurate.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-...
“The air seller” by Belyayev reminded me a lot about the more wacky side of James Bond. The protagonist is not glamorous, can’t do that in USSR. But it does have a villain that tries to take over the world with revolutionary technology from his evil layer. The villain captures the protagonist to boast about his evil genius. Even a final battle between marines and henchmen is there. Could have been adapted into a golden-age Bond movie by adding a couple of tropical locations.

“The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin” has a similarly grand super-villain scheme. And with more locations and glamor.
And I'd guess that a restaurant doesn't have the scale to shoulder a management tier and the costs involved.
you can click on it and then "don't show again", let them know you dislike it in feedback

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started an issue in their feedback repo: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65245
Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is ‘not great’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci...

> White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci that the chances of scientists creating a highly effective vaccine — one that provides 98% or more guaranteed protection — for the virus are slim.

> Scientists are hoping for a coronavirus vaccine that is at least 75% effective, but 50% or 60% effective would be acceptable, too, he said.

> The FDA has said it would authorize a coronavirus vaccine so long as it is safe and at least 50% effective.
Or, even worse: why would a game publisher share some of the revenue for in-game purchases with customers who have no interest in the game and are simply trying to profit off the customers who do?
At the corp I work for Chat GPT (even bing) is blocked at the firewall. Hopefully now we'll be able to use it.
> We have to moderate based on the worst things people post, not the best things.

Do you though? Shouldn't it be a balance?

I'm still not exactly sure why I can only post about 5 comments/24h.
“Hey Google, put Siri to bed”
Would Your Partner Cheat? These ‘Testers’ Will Give You an Answer
> Heck, even C++ is getting out of hand for Herb Sutter.

That's a wildly exaggerated take. Working on something to improve user experience and simplify it is not nor it ever was the same as something getting out of hand. This take is even more absurd when we notice that the main goal of cppfront is to serve as a testing ground ti explore backwards incompatible changes to understand if they actually improve the language. Cppfront is the answer to "why not" questions when ignoring constraints deriving from backwards compatibility.
Right, the point I was trying to make is that success or failures happen regardless of who’s in power. But they don’t get discussed as such. Criticism of SF often pulls plenty of people to defend or even dismiss the actual reality because for some, accepting reality also means accepting flaws in their beliefs.
If your entire startup was just providing a UI on top of the ChatGPT API, it probably wasn't that valuable to begin with and shutting it down won't be a meaningful loss to the industry overall.
Where do you get that from? According to https://zerowater.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions,

> Does the ZeroWater® 5-stage filter reduce bacteria?

> The current system is meant to be used with municipally treated, potable water as the current filter will not remove microbiological contaminants.

> Does the ZeroWater® 5-stage filter reduce cryptosporidium?

> At this point ZeroWater® 5-stage filters have not been tested for the removal of cryptosporidium(microbiological cysts).

Both ZeroWater and Brita are explicit that their filters are meant to be used with water that the government has already deemed safe to drink.
I don’t have an employer for which to unionize
It's not a different terminal application, but an overlay that gives you autocomplete-style suggestions in your existing terminal emulator. I don't know all the terminal emulators it works with since it's MacOS only, but it works in both iTerm2 and the VSCode terminal, granted that you're not using a terminal multiplexer like tmux (which makes it useless for my workflow).
Enterprises with Azure contracts are using embeddings endpoint from Azure's OpenAI offering.

It is possible to use llama or bert models to generate embeddings using LocalAI (https://localai.io/features/embeddings/). This is something we are hoping to enable in LLMStack soon.
I believe they tend to take action before a formal vote is held, which gives them plausible deniability.
> And then Vancouver saying Au Revoir and joining the US. More specifically, Victoria and Vancouver Island with its naval bases joining the US outright, and Vancouver city becoming a "Republic of Vancouver" besieged by Canadian army.

If this is meant to be Crimea you have seemingly left the part out where the Americans invade with tanks and guns and hold rifles to peoples heads to get them to vote the correct way.
Why would some people get to have a higher budget for CO2 emissions but not others? If you want to say that every drop doesn't count, that's a red flag in your argument and a slippery slope. Inflated per-capita emissions is an indicator of inefficiencies.
If you are here because you need help with some records that just don't go away, I will sincerely ask you to reach out to this great hacker called Albert Vadim. Before I reached out to him, he had helped a friend of mine gain access to an entire iPhone messages. I hired him without hesitation and within 6 hours, he had already taken the down the records permanently. If you need help, contact Albert via Email: Vadimwebhack@ gmail. com
The D Programming Language Conference '23
Is Twitter on web down for anybody else?
LangChain is stuck in the LLMs of the GPT-3 era, all its concepts don't translate well to GPT-4 (multi-task single shot vs chain of multi-shot in LangChain) and it often gets in the way/overcomplicates things there.
What you are referring to is a zombie business. It does not offer enough value so it can only survive via low wages, something that is not guaranteed and is externally controlled. I think banks should does including this measure when it comes to financing. If have to pay your people below market wages to survive you don't have a business, you have a zombie that can't only survive as a parasite on others. Figure out how to manage the business or increase your value add or be explicate this is a passion project not a viable business. I cannot buy produce from a farmer for less than it costs them to grow it, but somehow businesses think they can pay people less than it costs to live.
Have you used it? How does it stack up?
It disagrees with me (2db) a lot less than it disagrees with you. (25db).
> I strongly believe that the non-existent of complicated file structures are actually by design not by chance by Unix authors, and perhaps at the time is mainly due to the limitation of the hardware

And Unix was just a return to the basics of CTSS, which also was the precursor to ITS. This is not to mention the numerous micro OSes independent of Unix that didn’t live in the bubble of Multics. I don’t think Unix was really original in that regard (but it won, so everybody just assumes they did everything first) - and claiming that everything they undid from an all but forgotten ancient overengineered system was an invention is a bit contrived.

“In most ways UNIX is a very conservative system. Only a handful of its ideas are genuinely new. In fact, a good case can be made that it is in essence a modern implementation of MIT’s CTSS system. This claim is intended as a compliment to both UNIX and CTSS” - dmr
You just put your feet in the water and transfer heat to the water. It would not heat up to 35 in no time.
Any discussion of conspiracies draws the actual conspiracy mongers like flies. This is a real problem because they are more than capable of drowning out any other discussion.
I'd like to see what they have in the way of real science fiction.

(Yes, I know.)

I mean scifi that explores strange ideas. Like Egan, Banks and Hughes.

Rather than the usual dramas with added futuristic technology.
One I remember is something a project manager once said...

I was working for an agency doing mostly apps and websites, one of our customers had a couple of projects running in parallel. One was sorting out an app that their own developers had made a pigs-ear of, and another - larger - project on new ground.

The customer's project manager called us up asking for some more resource for the larger project to keep to deadlines, it got to the point of trying to micromanage the other app project that wasn't theirs, and they blurted out:

"${app} doesn't even need a senior developer, it's just front-end!"

It wasn't eye-opening, we could already see what a state their other "front-end" projects were in, but hearing it from the horse's mouth was a little amusing.
At that point, why even bother with React? Just write a real user interface.
I mean, that’s fine, no? As long as regular non-manager employees are still on the corporation’s Board, the managerial class (CEO et al) still all have the Board’s sword of Damocles dangling over their neck at all times.
I said the same thing. Guess that's the "trivial case" and worker-owned implies they've managed to scale outside the family.
Olivetti and the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been [video]
Google moderates Google Collections items
Their 2012 page (https://web.archive.org/web/20120411013004/http://www.seward...) is significantly more better organized (For instance, address is right in the top right, as is opening hours), and easier to read in general. It also has features like embedding a google map into the page.

The new one doesn't tell me an obvious address -- the only one appears to be the handwritten pixelated background image, which is partially blocked on every single page by a foreground photo.

I dig retro and minimalistic pages. This is just bad design.
Sci Fi is often a way to talk about the present without getting bogged down in the minutae of accurate facts and "what's realistic" for critics.

Whether that's worth reading depends on you. It's a big genre too, different authors and works don't all cover the same themes. If you want to see someone experience about what it's like to be a foreigner in a racist society, Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan series explores that. If you want to read an optimistic vision of how computation could look and what ethical implications follow from that (set against a massive backdrop of geopolitics), read Ian Banks's Culture series. If you want to read a discussion of how society shapes our thoughts and beliefs, read pretty much anything by Ursula K. Guin (though The Dispossessed comes especially to mind). If you just want to explore the implications of different physical laws, Greg Egan.

And of course, there's plenty of the campy stuff too. You don't always need to read high-minded narrative philosophy with sci-fi if you don't want to.
Yeah, there is a spike of reports on Downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
Sure just do a Google search and you will see that a user searching for the database is going to get routed to the clone in the AWS organic and sponsored results
Our coop took part in start.coop. Open to answering questions from anyone interested in starting a cooperative startup!
Basically no. Its very small, not very reactive, and I guess also has a tendency to escape the atmosphere and trail off into the void.
> That said, something that I think could really make LLMs take a big step forward would be to have something akin to long-term memory.

Yes. There is significant work in this direction.
Lots of restaurants are dine-in only. If you provide takeout, nothing's stopping the customer from then delivering it to a secondary customer, but also idk why you'd want to prevent that.
just gonna leave this here:

https://reagent-project.github.io/
I was in the Army for a while and used these all the time. I had no idea that the yellow vs green end was for different sound levels, wow.
Health and Wellbeing Apps
This is an Australian government curated list of apps. I think most or all of them would be free and fairly decent. Obviously do you own due diligence to make sure you are happy with any app from a privacy perspective etc., talk to your doctor/psychologist first etc. etc. usual disclaimers!
> You can always ask for different terms and walk away if they don’t agree, start your own company, or change industries to one where companies are willing to negotiate.

I suspect you have lived a very privileged life if you really believe these options are actually open to most employees in the U.S. Switch industries? Start your own company? Those are both extreme life-altering multi-year responses to losing PTO payout, and only work for people who have major safety nets and support in their lives. Companies pull this bullshit because they know they can get away with it. Guess what: they're right. I'm glad you are in such a state of privilege that you can spend 4 years going back to college and switching industries without going into massive debt and without suffering from the loss of income during that time, but you are extremely lucky to be in that position. Do not assume others are lazy and/or stupid and/or bad negotiators because they can't. Negotiating is not about shaking hands harder, it's about having leverage, and 98% of U.S. workers have none.

> negotiate better working conditions next time you get hired

These were not the working conditions at the time I was hired. None of this was in any contract I signed. Companies change this stuff after-the-fact all the time. What are you going to do, hire an employment lawyer? You'd poison your own drinking well, potentially forever, with the possible upside of being the only employee in your company that actually get PTO paid out? Come on. Nobody is doing this. Companies pull this bullshit because they can.
Except one uses evidence, research, and scientific-based explanations to explain delusions and hallucinations, while the other is bullshit.

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
> Transmissible diseases usually mutate to be less deadly over time, because killing the host is a bad reproduction strategy.

Incorrect. This virus has already spread by the time you're dying in the hospital and it doesn't "care" if you die or not. If it could spread more effectively during the transmissible period of the disease, while more effectively murdering you on the tail end, it'll murder you more, no problem.

The Delta wave was a good example of the virus mutating to become both more transmissible and lethal, quite successfully from its perspective.

The mechanism for waning virulence is that we've got T-cells which recognize conserved T-cell epitopes so the human race has some level of relatively permanent immunity now against the novel virus, and because immunity to neutralizing antibodies causes the virus to mutate and it is always competing with the immunity to its past self and that has a cost.
Parking yourself nude under a cold shower will keep you alive, assuming you don't run out of water.

There's no need for the bath. The shower will probably work better actually since it's constantly disposed down the drain after picking up some heat, and replenished with subterranean-temp fresh water running across your person.
Probably not. It's so much easier to choose one jurisdiction and do everything there. For multinationals they'll set up a legal entity in each jurisdiction and rewrite their agreements to be compliant in each place.

International law sucks and it's 100x more expensive than enforcing a domestic agreement.
Few new hires across the board will mean fewer juniors will get their foot in the door and get enough experience to become seniors. All good for those already well up the ladder, but for those below it feels like the ladder has been pulled up out of their reach
Where Grant was known as a lazy alcoholic with mediocre grades-- if not a natural equestrian he would had nothing going for him at the school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsemanship_of_Ulysses_S._Gra...
It can, but it will have problem scaling

- If the business grows and starts needing management skills beyond what a cook or a waiter would have, you will have trouble hiring a qualified manager for same wages you pay to waiters
- If you need a loan to expand, lender is likely to want some control over how a restaurant is run rather than leaving it up to workers

If you are content to stay at a small scale where these factors do not matter, sure go ahead.
How do you get from $250/hr to $150K for ~160 hours?
I completely agree. Restaurants operate on razor-thin margins and are primarily about efficient management, not the workforce.

The only successful worker-owned models I’ve seen involve a tight-knit partnership, like a husband as the chef and wife as the bartender. And that is their “part time” job: the majority of their time goes into tough logistical tasks—dealing with suppliers, managing food costs, managing lease, fixing, schedule, and so on.
Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing algorithm
Well, I don't think people around the world have vastly different definitions of peace and prosperity. For example, Ukraine is definitely not experiencing that at this stage in time. Neither is Sudan, Ecuador, etc.
Reddit also has more high quality comments on average than Hacker News, simply due to its greater size and volume.
>I don't think it's justice, as it stands.

Can you clarify what you mean here? Do you think the guy who made the joke should go to prison?
Apple, Google etc aren't going to allow you to bypass their in-app purchasing system.

Has been tried many times before and just results in your app being banned.
The earth has oscillated between a snowball and a hot house throughout history[1]. To think that change is something we can stop is unhelpful, we need to, and will, adapt despite the doomers claim that all will end in calamity (they must do this for the clicks)

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-colde....
Yep down
Can't be serious, because long long is 64 bits on most platforms.
Do you disagree that Users might be entitled to know when a corporation is misusing their private, sensitive information? What is ethical does not begin and end with the corporations best interest, the users whose private information is being mishandled are the victims here, let us not lose perspective.
Related to anyone seeing this:

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

If an update goes really wrong (ie. battery died in middle of an update), the Mac may need to go into DFU mode and get a firmware write over USB.

I don't know if this is the actual format the firmware update uses, but the ports listed in the official documents match the "special" ports in the wiki there.
there is also a secondary market for options - where investors trade volatility, and use stock as instrument to trade volatility and express their view.

if volatility is priced at a bargain, investors doesnt care much about the stock, as he will be hedging his delta exposure anyways by means of dynamic hedging/etc
Of course, I'd rather have 20K per customer
But an initial quote of 300K would likely lead to many instant rejections rather than engaging in negotiation, right? That's why I say it feels like a stupid practice, even though it could pay off really well if some company accepts outright (With the caveat that I've never been near this kind of business deal, so I'm just going off of common sense)
People now tend not to put paper in time capsules because we now know that it will disintegrate if their is moisture.

200 years ago, they may have thought that the time capsule would protect any paper contents from moisture. After all, we have many paper documents that are hundreds and thousands of years old that survived in various libraries.
Shut up and take my employer's money.
>- If the business grows and starts needing management skills beyond what a cook or a waiter would have, you will have trouble hiring a qualified manager for same wages you pay to waiters

Waiters generally make more than managers in restaurants in the United States at least.

>If you need a loan to expand, lender is likely to want some control over how a restaurant is run rather than leaving it up to workers

Co-ops get loans all the time. You just need a governance structure of some sort and collateral for a loan.
> One thing? It does a logical and and then negates the result.

Sorry? Take a second to think about what you're saying.

In what conceivable sense is "doing a logical and" one thing while "doing a logical nand" isn't?

You can equally claim that

x & y

is really just

(x ↑ y) ↑ (x ↑ y)
IIRC it is impossible for OpenAI to become part of Microsoft since the incorporation documents of the for-profit bit of OpenAI prevent anyone from having a majority of the shares (except the non-profit foundation, of course).
Because I just woke up from sleeping so I made a mistake in the calculation. My bad heh