skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order for a rate limit to be effective, at some point it has to apply, and at that point, I'm told "no."

The alternative is you don't buy any Sudafed in the first place. So you've basically told yourself "no" anyway.

I realize you dislike the government logging your purchases, but you haven't answered GP's question about why you dislike it.
Please refrain from spread misinformation, that was a coup, in the mind of Bolsonaro's followers the "protest" would trigger an action by the military to "take the power". This was spread by months after the elections, we even had a attempt of exploding a bomb in a gas tank truck for aviation.

Not a single protest in the history of the redemocratization (1988) had a protest that destroyed the buildings from the three powers.
https://archive.is/837ph
'Still up tho'
In Linux you can use eBPF. See https://github.com/iovisor/bcc for an easy way to write eBPF, or look for something in the tools/ dir that does what you want. You distro might have these packaged in bcc-tools or similar.
https://archive.is/HZsTw
She’s a politician. The most important issue in her state right now is the next election. That’s true for every politician.
I don’t think our grandchildren are going to care what we say. They’ll be too busy scavenging the scorched ruins of our cities for the last cans of refrigerant so they can survive another month on our doomed planet.
That is an appealing idea but on second thought, haven’t you just shifted the problem to: how do I reliably replicate logical updates from my operational tables (internal, constantly changing) to my clean, public-facing tables?

Basically, your public tables become materialized views over the “dirty” tables, and I’ve never met a mature, reliable implementation of materialized views, or even an immature one that is feature complete. (I would love to be wrong on the internet with this one!)
The median salary for Software Engineers in San Francisco is $175k.

The median salary for a remote Software Engineer from Nigeria is $57k.

Unions are not going to change the math on whether we outsource to other countries.
... as if memory management issue is the only source of software vulnerability.
I've written about this solution in the context of running LLM-generated SQL safely. I call it the "cloned database view" solution[1].

The author touches on 2 issues that are tangential to this problem, restricting unauthorized data, and mutations, both of which are not really easily solvable with the cloned database solution.

However, the underlying theme of skipping the API is extremely compelling. So much code, both FE and BE, are just to serve as an elaborate interface to the database. Simplifying this will be a huge gain in software maintenance. But the challenge is to do it safely.

1. https://docs.heimdallm.ai/en/main/blog/posts/safe-sql-execut...
Here's a well-known one that is actually a full-blown circuit simulator:

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

If you go to e.g. Circuits -> Combinatorial Logic -> Full adder, you can see that digital logic is available too. (Uses a lot of CPU, so maybe reduce simulation speed and current speed. You don't need those for digital stuff.)

Maybe it doesn't look flashy enough for kids though :p
aaaaaaaw yeah!
I don't think there's anyone not using unity today that would use it tomorrow because of a pricing change (well, at least, for values of today and tomorrow from last week)
https://www.detroitnews.com/gcdn/-mm-/ce119a8a71503abd51e609...
They'd have to pay a lot. And continuously. Earlier this year, the EU's approach was to try to introduce sanction terms into the international agreements. Even our current president took offense to that.

I really don't find it surprising that he's friends with China. They're the ones who buy up all our soy anyway. They'd probably enjoy it a lot if we destroyed the Amazon to make more soy for them to buy.
> a lot of people ran windows 95 on 16mb even. that's a modern, multitasking desktop OS!

I ran Windows 3.0 on a 16MHz 386sx with 5MB of RAM and a 40MB disk. That's with a graphical word processor, PostScript Fonts, and a set of speedy graphical development tools. (Turbo Pascal for Windows)

In today's world, you'd be hard pressed to find many embedded devices with such minimal specs [1], but in 1991 it was a useful and complete desktop computing environment. [2]

1] Less than ten years later (1998-1999), I was doing embedded development work. The device I was working on would fit in the palm of your hand and ran an AMD Elan SC400 - a 486/33 class device that would've been better than a top of the line desktop PC in 1991-2.

2] In the interest of full disclosure, my next machine was a 486/33, which was followed by a P5-100 a few years later. Both of those machines provided game changing levels of new power. There were important workloads that were enabled by each of the two upgrades. My current machines are a lot better than either of those two, but I don't think any subsequent upgrade was as close to as significant as those two were in terms of local application functionality. (But I don't game.)
Algebra and geometry are the same thing: formalizing this was the motivation, originally.

Semantics is the topology of your diagrams.
The site itself says that this is the general idea, proposing that intelligence can actually be defined as the ability to compress information as much as possible and.. I guess either just rehydrate it or also derive inferences from it.

So basically like enthalpy

Interesting - if you play the universe in reverse (reversing entropy) you wind up at the Big Bang, which is the final boss of compressing everything, into a singularity.
not just some cop

>Daniel Auderer, vice president of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, can be heard speaking with Guild President Mike Solan
Inventing a financial system that is voluntarily adopted internationally is not counterfeiting. In fact, Satoshi invented the first currency impossible to counterfeit (barring 51% attack).
https://archive.is/rI2WQ
Another perk is that I can pay using my Amazon/Prime QR code at the self-checkout — for some reason you can't do that at the regular checkout.

I also really enjoy bagging my own groceries... (crazy right?) and also end up with fewer broken eggs when I get home.
We’ll see. I expect that the folding phone percent of the market will be negligible in 5 years.

Maybe Samsung and Google finally cracked the smartphone code after 15 years.
I feel like every week there's a new doomsday article about coming recession, and yet one has not appeared. Of course, if you print it weekly, people start to believe it and eventually you'll be right for one reason or another.
That they couldn't do it in the past doesn't mean they can't in the present or future. Throw a little AI into your offshoring and domestic software development is going to take a hit.
I used to work doing software for fruit sorting machines and we had a NIR Spectrometer to work out the sweetness of fruit, so when I'd go to actual sorting sites, especially in California which have these machines on a massive scale, I'd use it to sort out the biggest sweetest pieces of fruit.
Well forget studies then, look at the data:
http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?arch&...

Use the drop down and look at accumulated cyclone energy. There's no trend in 42 years and last year was the third lowest total tropical cyclone energy for earth in the last 42 years. This year seems on track to be very low for cyclone energy too.

Costs in terms of percent of GDP are falling:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17477891.2018.15...

And most importantly, death rates for weather are drastically reduced over the last hundred years:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-nat...
This link seems broken. Did the author give any more details?
Show HN: Firefox and Chrome are now both version 117
A rare event where independent-ish processes align, like an eclipse: Firefox and Chrome are both version 117 on major platforms.

As of 2023-09-13, current releases:

Firefox: 117.0.1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Platform_availability)

Chrome: 117.0.5938.62 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Platforms)
I mean, you don't really need to emulate a display. Emulating serial can work enough, depending on exactly what you're looking for. I run my hobby OS mostly on serial (both on hardware and in emulators), because it's easier; but if you're trying to run existing PC software, it's certainly the case that much of it is built to run with display adapters.
Yeah, they refurbish some of them.

They also scrap a whole bunch of them too[1].
While undoubtedly many of the shredded devices are beyond repair, many of the devices destroyed in the video have no obvious physical damage.

I don't think they release any numbers on the amount of traded in devices that are refurbished and destroyed.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUXiYecGZs8
For a firewall I'd ideally want some degree of formal verification. It's not something you fuck around with if you're serious about creating a secure product - like an operating system.
So basically we have no hope then?
Unity introduces per-install fee for game developers
I think the concern is that Unity is failing. Charging royalties is not going to save them, and is going to drive more devs away from the platform (as this article shows), so they are going to have to do more drastic things to raise revenue, which will drive more devs away, and so on into the familiar death-spiral. If they can't cut costs enough to get profitable (and history shows this is very difficult) then they're doomed to go through a series of increasingly more disastrous acquisitions (see Yahoo for details).

Given this, then the details of this particular royalty structure don't matter. Yes, a freebie game may not have to pay any royalties now. But as Unity enters the death-spiral that will probably change. Or there will be mandatory malware shipped with the engine. Or some other craptastic revenue-generating idea will mess with the game. We can expect relatively frequent, drastic changes to Unity's licensing as it tries to escape its fate.
AAA quality? No it's not there, but it's certainly been improving on a number of fronts.
>What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento

There's plenty of real world scenarios that could have taken out that data center and the Twitter engineering team would have been scrambling to fix, just the same.

I read somewhere once that v1 of chaos monkey was the Netflix CEO randomly pulling cables in a data center to prove the point that systems needed rugged designs. Not all too different.
I’ve seen developers who had thousands of dollars of corp training and tooling budget NOT buy an ST license purely out of laziness.

ST could probably make a decent chunk of change if they tweaked their terms to require a license for authoring commercial software or content.
If they have an audio recording of the person, there's a bunch of sites where you can create them on the fly for free. Don't know about the quality, though I imagine distortion can be dismissed as being from the phone rather than the fake.
Except self described economists of course
They don’t mean 90% during peak demand. They mean at most solar makes up 90% of our generation. This would occur 11a-2p. Peak demand is 5-7 pm, and it’s twice as high as the midday load and it’s met by huge natural gas turbines that run a few hundred hours per year.
Paul Goldstein on artificial intelligence and the creative process
Sounds like you're buying the wrong bottle at the duty free!
I actually could see it being the opposite. Perhaps he'd be gratified and exultant to see that we took all his silly theoretical musings about calculus and gravity and created real world impact.
> why not use LLMs for dataset creation or augmentation in order to train a classic supervised model?

Or, as I mentioned in another comment, just use the embeddings directly. This also does a lot to remove the "cost (money and latency)" part of the problem since you can batch queries to be lightening fast and the dollar cost of generating the embeddings is effectively zero (~3000 pages of text per $1) for most traditional NLP tasks that require a vector representation.
Good news often comes in suppository form these days.
That compares ChatGPT to mechanical turk, not to a smaller, more specialized model. Mechanical Turk is just crowdsourcing.
For those about to make the same mistake I was - this data is NOT about the 9/11 attacks, it just happened to be released on this date
Games development is very hit based and most games make nothing. You might think, "oh if most games make nothing, then thos won't make an impact", but if you're removing the profit from the relatively few hits there are, it wrecks the incentives to take the risk of developing a game to begin with. If Unity wants a piece of the profits, they need to be investing.
From Turkey again
I hate that dialog box. It annoys me so much because I'm lazy and adding the key to a new install is always an afterthought. It's much worse with the Sublime SFTP plugin because I use it infrequently and so I only put in the license key after months or so of pestering.

It's not that I didnt want to buy it, Ive paid for Sublime twice now! I grumbled through the second payment. Something about the license only applying to major versions for 3 years? It is an indispensable pieces of software for me though, and I've paid more for other stuff (Backlink tracking subscription)
Yeah I'm not saying Godot looks AAA ready, just that it's much closer than every other option.

Although I would love to see how far a code only engine core + separate third party level editor tooling model could go, it appeals to my intuitive feel of what the "right" way to build software is.
Just curious what state is it (thread support) in now? I saw wasmtime already supporting some pthread style threads so assumed proposal has already been accepted but it’s super hard to actually figure out what state anything is in with wasm…
Everyone in Malaysia uses WhatsApp for things like this. It's not just a replacement for email, but also calls and letters.

SMS is the other option, and it's slightly more reliable than email, which is why govs opt for it.

Different countries have different dominant messaging apps though.
No, vim is not an OS
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. I think it's pretty groovy to pay a one time fee for software.
Heh, the last company I worked for had a (very popular, very successful) 20 year old desktop app that worked by downloading the client's entire database on login, then doing regular syncs with the back end and sending batch updates as the user made changes. It was an awful system that everyone hated, and the company was desperately trying to figure out how to move away from it without doing a complete rewrite. Maybe I should let them know that they're actually ahead of the curve if they can just hold out for a few more years...
Tell them the call is being recorded. They can choose to participate or hang up.
It can be proven false
Anyone who has ever taken phenylepherine knows that it is completely ineffective.

But, like most moral panics, the fantasy of kids stealing pseudoephedrine pills and becoming Meth Lab Moguls, was too much.
To each their own, but I find funny that people shell out an absurd amount of money for games they will play exactly once but feel robbed when paying for software that they use every single day.

The licensing from sublime is very amenable, I believe, far from what companies like Adobe force on their end users, IMO.
Yes, Postgres replication would work as well. I agree that the "getting to know the schema" part is an issue. I think there's use cases out there where you have power users that would gladly invest extra time in exchange for query flexibility.

Querying to S3 is a good approach too. Those query tools can be somewhat involved to setup but definitely a good option.
I'm trying to work out how much it really matters to implement social auth.

At the moment I have implement email signup into my application and so far I don't really see much value in implementing social auth if people are happy with email.
A math major named Dave Beazly is also figuring it out: https://www.dabeaz.com/bits/ct.html. You are in good company.
Do you have any data to prove otherwise? Anecdotal data from Tesla drivers is extremely good (1-5% degradation over 20k miles vs typical 10%)
Nice write up fellow countryman.
I meant it sarcastically. I doubt a $2 trillion corporation is genuinely concerned about diversity
There's always vscode...
If every company that currently pays Unreal licensing fees instead donated half of those fees to Godot or O3DE, I think we would rapidly see the gap close.

That is obviously wishful thinking and probably not a good bet for a game dev company dependent on cutting edge Unreal features to make. However, not all game developers are in need of cutting edge, for many, Godot 4 will offer them what they need already. O3DE looks interesting, but seems only really currently usable by a company which plans to do a lot of custom engine work themselves already.

I am currently trying to learn Godot 4 in my spare time (which unfortunately I don't have enough of), and if I ever start to make money off it, I will be donating a percentage back to Godot development. I certainly don't begrudge a developer going with Unreal, but I encourage them to look at alternatives and what they really need to plan for the future and not be tied into the present situation.
There's hardly any AAA titles that use Unity, the most well known ones are games like Hearthstone, Cuphead, Beat Saber. These are great games but they're not exactly GTA 6 or Call if Duty.
>The Warden of the Mint, with a salary of 400-odd pounds a year

$91,000 a year
Not for long on the console front - though costs have yet to be determined.

https://w4games.com/2023/08/06/w4-games-unveils-w4-consoles-...
'Safari trying to read a preference from a domain it didn't have permissions to.'

That doesn't sound like normal behaviour, what's the domain?
> fewer ads need to be delivered to support the content.

Rhetorical: What company says "new tech? I can do less of this thing that makes money!" (or government, for that matter).

> Fuck you too, Google.

That's the spirit.
where did you find them, and what country are they in?
Financial companies, the government, ... I always try to bother to raise the issue afterwards, but (not that I think my comments alone would do anything) so far nothing changed that I've taken issue with, I don't think.

A big one I'm aware of many others complaining about in the industry is local governments in the UK soliciting elector details via 'householdresponse.com/<councilname>' in a completely indistinguishable from phishing sort of way.

(They send you a single letter directing you to that address with 'security code part 1' and '2' in the same letter, along with inherently your postcode which is the only other identifier requested. It's an awful combination of security theatre and miseducation that scammy phishing techniques look legit.)
Do other countries (Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Nordic countries, etc.) have anything like this behavior?
> Is Subnautica janky?

Yes: I could make the crashed burning spaceship pop into and out of existence by walking a couple of metres back and forth across the floating platform I was standing on.
Also, since it doesn't allow to extract the private keys, you're kind of stuck with it once you've started using it.
Great content and form. The site is clean, yet still uses tasteful transitions and typography.
I'm a generalist with a specialty. I'm paid to move fast as a generalist and no one gives a hoot about my specialty. My day-to-day would be much more comfortable if I were paid to flex my specialty.
The majority of fentanyl is produced by a handful of labs in China. If the USA were serious about stopping the fentanyl overdose problem, it could be done with political pressure.

Ask yourself why that isn't happening?
Crypto Hell (Excerpt from “Number Go Up”)
A progressive tax rate would only tax 1 dollar at 50%.

I say this because you saying $400,001 makes me think you believe that all your income will be taxed at the highest bracket once you just barely cross into it. It's a common misunderstanding, but that's not how progressive taxes work. I'm also assuming that $400,000 is the tax bracket threshold, since that is what some politicians have proposed, and I think that's what you were alluding to.
Why is it shameful to pay to support something you use all the time?

I've paid for BBEdit, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, and probably others over the years. VS Code is really the first editor I haven't felt compelled to pay for.
Godot is the most obvious answer from a long term non-profit perspective, but it's not without it's caveats. Rewriting is obviously difficult, starting new projects is somewhat easier. The main issue I see is the Unity asset store ecosystem is completely different and provides massive amounts of functionality for current games, which Godot doesn't yet have much of.

I've tried Godot a few times and basic stuff like export to web didn't work at all out of the box, and it felt like alpha quality stuff. I would however like it to succeed.

Unity also has extensive documentation and training and it's an established tool for game devs who then migrate to industry jobs like industrial process/environment simulations. I have a feeling Godot is barely aware of these scenarios as it's rarely the engine of choice.
I feel like I got a little glimpse of that 90s power scaling when I upgraded from a hand-me-down PowerPC 603ev 200mhz Performa to a PowerPC 400Mhz iMac. The increase in power and responsiveness was well beyond what the increase in clock speed might suggest.

Conversely though, I was surprised by how far an LC 575 with 33mhz 68LC040 I was tinkering with once was able to be pushed, even without hijinks like upgrade cards. I imagine for many users of such machines the impetus to upgrade had more to do with compatible software going extinct than lack of raw power.
As someone whose been on the other side, seeing money come in really obligates me to actually do something.

There's a deeper feeling of responsibility when someone's given you cash and I seem to prioritize things that otherwise I probably wouldn't have found the time for.

So you may think you "get" nothing, but what you might actually get is a developer to spend more time on it.

Now of course there's diminishing returns, but zero to non-zero obligates the honest person. Beyond that it's mostly headcount. I'd work more for 10 people that gave $1 than for 1 person that gave $10 because I've gone from having a sponsor to an audience.
We are done falling off the cliff and are toes are starting to impact the ground.

The best case scenario is for the powers that be to understand that there isn't enough private island to stop what's coming. They're in the same boat with us no matter what. Nature always has the last say.

We need to stop draw down of fossil resources, reduce our impact on the land, and seek the best possible outcome of a really bad situation.