skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recent results improve that estimate, by proving an upper bound of 8.7x10^45, and showing an upper bound 4×10^37 in the absence of promotions. - Wikipedia (link above)

You can save 28 bits!... Use log2(4e37) = 124.9 bits for games without piece promotions. Then switch to log2(8.7e45) = 152.6 bits for games with them.
There are very valid reasons to use an LLC to keep your identity private. Many business owners use anonymous LLCs to avoid harassment, or from members of their community learning what they do, or how well off they might be. There's nothing wrong with that, and doing away with it would harm a lot of innocent people.
> At best you break even after ~20 years if they’re even still functional.

This is misinformation.

I searched on google, bing and Yandex and all the results I found implied that breakeven would occur substantially before 20 years. The lowest breakeven time figure I found quoted was 5 years. The usual quoted breakeven ranges were, I'd say, 6-12.
There are plenty of people who select their political affiliation to match their lack of respect for their fellow human being. There are also plenty of people who are led to such lack of respect via their political affiliation.

There are narcissistic and sadistic people everywhere, but to pretend the prevalence is evenly distributed, or that the expressions of their narcissism or sadism are identical, is to ignore the actual state of the world in favor of philosophy and thought experiment.
Smallpox is one heist away from being unleashed on the world again, if that. And with most people unvaccinated, well... there's your bioweapon.
Plot twist, you have to use a Google product to find & watch the video.
Okay, so how would scrapping "capitalism" improve the availability of therapy?
I'm not talking about this code in particular - I am talking about all code presumably written by individuals and posted on GitHub with a LICENSE file saying it's free software.

It is standard, reasonable person practice to use foss-labeled code on GitHub under the presumption that the license is not a lie.

This case is no different.

Nothing in the author's linked story suggests this code is not MIT licensed as the repo claims. It is unreasonable to assume that the license file in the repo is false; nothing available to us supports this assumption.
Do you have any kind of docs on doing this. I want to get some stats from a game I'm playing and think that the server fudges the number to keep whales happy.

Any quality documentation on how to do this would be great.
For those who don’t know ENRON’s design still lives on in the Texas grid (serious). The Texas energy market was designed by ENRON.

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-07-23/heres-how-...
I said "whom" but I do have the same question.
How can you ban cross promotion, though? It's such a common practice across most industries. Chains like CVS put their generic versions right next to the name brands on the shelf, and even have signs that say "compare to <product being copied>." And it would actually be terrible for consumers if that were banned.

> Google apps “accidentally” having bugs or performance issues in Firefox

I would bet everything I own that this isn't happening. Would not be remotely worth the risk to Google. Besides, these bugs are rare enough and small enough impact that I don't even really notice them, and have never considered switching off of Firefox because of them, and I am a software engineer who is much more likely to notice this stuff than 99% of users.
> Your thing is regulation

Regulation affects everybody a great deal, whether you're aware of it or not. In this case, insulin regulation has created a single supplier and prevented the market from working.
I bought it after seeing that post at the time, great game of you're a fan of games like Factorio. Very well designed and tons of fun!
I don't really believe it, but I wouldn't be entirely shocked if we learn MAGA Elon was just a persona who adopted to win over the relatively untapped market.
How do you figure? Bitcoin uses 116 TWh of energy each year, and that number is going up. The US, probably the largest user of Christmas lights in aggregate (probably more than Europe and South America put together, with Asia and Africa having negligible Christmas light usage), used 6.63 TWh of energy on Christmas lights in 2007 when only 5% of them were LEDs, and that number is dropping as people switch to energy efficient LED lights, which use 10% as much energy as incandescent Christmas lights.
Worse than that, many companies have clauses that indicate that any software you write (regardless of whether for the company or not), belongs to them. I don’t know if this would hold up in court, but it’s there in the contract.
It’s not, unless someone can prove that an AI is having an original thought. A thought which isn’t a combination of other non original thoughts.
Most fast casual places don’t sell much alcohol.
You replied to me; what did you think I was implying?
I like this but I worry if it will kill the golden goose (being the Game Porting Toolkit in this case.)

Fortunately homebrew is probably not mainstream enough to catch on widely.

I'd like to see Game Porting Toolkit (GPT? haha) go mainstream with end-user support, but of course Apple (very reasonably) wants to promote and incentivize native optimization.
It's a great deal for the rest of the country, who doesn't have to take Texas into account when managing the other two grids.
Yeah, having large amounts of flowing and standing water on your roof is basically a recipe for maintenance headaches.

PV is much simpler, and if it stops working you can just ignore it.
Thank you. Also, there are reasons people have biases against cops in the US in situations like these, like the 40% statistic…
If you only use one of those, for everything it’s easier. I still wouldn’t say it’s easy because it requires thought, and in my experience is commonly done incorrectly. I’ve regularly seen anything from picking the wrong partition key, to grabbing a bunch of messages from a single partition to process concurrently.

If you have an existing system where some services are fully event sourced, or some depend on complicated database transactions but still want to publish to a Kafka topic etc…, it gets more complicated.
I appreciate the sentiment behind this article, but this rhetoric INFURIATES me. Preaching vigilance on the part of individuals is a paltry response to a systematic violation of our right to privacy.
Where has it been stated that iPhone 11 will only get one more (presumably iOS 17?) update?
With Open Street Map is possible to self host a project like this?

Like download a static full map and host it, for this project doesn't matter that will not get updated.
I know it's common to have contracts that are cheaper per Kwh, but have requirements to not draw if/when high load occurs. Is it really common to pay to not draw power?
Apparently Carter's solar heater leaked, too :-(

I once designed a solar swimming pool heater that had no moving parts and required no maintenance. I never built it because I didn't have a pool.
Huaweis main competition is Ericson and Nokiabin the networking space. Neither American.
There are those who may not - those who see the EV subsidies as a symptom of the "woke mindvirus" and see fighting it as a matter of fighting for their overall way of life. They see the mandates some states are pushing as an assault on freedom, and a communist incursion, and the use of petroleum as a patriotic exercise.
me too. Google search result is low quality, but the overall quality of searchable text content has declined. I do most of my information search on Reddit or Youtube.

However.

Lately, I'm enjoying the integration of the generative AI at the top of the search result.
California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers
The hero we need but don't deserve.
I think it's probably okay to be concerned about both of those things.
Workers and resources: Soviet Republic is a super fun economic and transportation logistics sim that shines in "Realistic mode". Highly recommended for fans of the genre. Tiny bit like a hardcore version of City Skylines.
I can't see your first comment(it's flagged) to reply more. How many down votes does this take to get flagged like this?
When you talk millions you have a point, but it does not apply to modern humans. (That I can see). I think hockey sticks(in my lifetime) are really meaningful in 20,000 year graphs. There is a lot of money out there to poke holes in these 20K year graphs, so I am looking for this holes.
Whatsapp message groups seem to be the new family facebook.
The result I want is that Chromium becomes an independent foundation with Google having no more than 20% contribution and other major users (Microsoft, Opera, Brave, etc) making up the rest.
I got into this with another set of engineers on Reddit where I discovered there’s a subculture of engineers who don’t believe you can’t actually own code and apparently take a copy of their employers source code repository everytime they switch jobs.

Edit:
Updated “can actually own code” to “can’t actually own code”
Falsehoods like that are 100x worse than the price of insulin. 90-95% of diabetes in the US is Type 2, and it is crap diet that causes it.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html

And if you want cheap insulin, you can buy it for $25 at Walmart.
How Much Is Lattice Ice40 FPGA
I don’t think it look any more bezel-less than the newer Apple Watches.
in my heart I feel where the author is coming from (a place of pain and experience).. however.. without an easy adoption path to TypeScript that the any type provided... we'd probably not have TypeScript today. TypeScript works because you can migrate to it incrementally. That's huge for many people.
I have strong doubt about that. I grew up in an automotive family and went to a heavily automotive school.

You basically have three major hold backs:

* Parts requiring manual assembly. My first summer job was at an auto supplier. It involved running 3 wires though a piece of conduit and wrapping it with electrical tape. It was a connector for some sedan brake light. Family friend. They still run the business the same way. Parts change too frequently and are too hard to automate.

* automation still requires maintenance. This isn’t just replacing parts on machines. This is also the entire supply of parts that go into fixing machines. Lines going down is incredibly expensive. Parts aren’t always readily available. There’s a whole industry of small “tool and die” shops that have the capability to build a part from specs next day.

* plants are huge and expensive., you don’t retool unless you have good justification. Typically, this happens with a model refresh.
The last bit strikes me as dubious, considering the Snowden revelations.

Yeah, sure, I'd guess that what China does is at least an order of magnitude worse, and sure, because they're less democratic, but also because they are much often behind - and let's not kid ourselves, in the situations the US feels it's behind, it's also using the widespread backdoors they have access to (Crypto AG, Cisco routers, Juniper Networks, Windows, Intel&Ryzen CPUs...)
I'm against war, because of the waste of human life and potential. I'm against self driving cars because of the needless deaths they cause. Nobody has proven they are anywhere near as safe as an alert and attentive driver in the places where they need to be, where other humans are outside of cars.

Do they know to look for little footsteps under the cars along side the road? Do they notice something moving, then predict when it's about to come out from behind an obstacle and possibly into the path of the car? Of course not.

They just follow the training set, which doesn't represent the corner cases anywhere near enough to make them well learned.

It's possible that all this will get sorted, but we're not there yet. Once it actually is better at driving than most of us, I'll happily share the road with it.
https://archive.is/5dawW
https://archive.is/uTnYi
I've noticed the same effect with stained glass, that blue tends to recede for me and red comes forward.

I spend a lot more time in churches, especially ones with stained glass, than most people, but I hadn't thought to ask if it happens to other people too.
There are a lot fewer FOSS diehards and old school hackers than there were in 2001. And those that are still around are not going to be that anxious to admit that their darling Google, their ally and great hope for destroying "M$", turned out to be an even more heinous monopolist than them.
Once they get a taste of power they can’t let go. I can’t imagine working into my 80s-90s. These people aren’t doing for their constituents they’re doing it because they’re drunk off power and money. Somehow a 6 figure income turns into tens of millions. Their whole families are entrenched and seemly do not give two shits about their family member. It’s fucking wild.
> This was especially true if the mathematics textbooks I've had to deal with.

I shudder to think of how many people have struggled with math and written themselves off as mathematicians without ever thinking that maybe some of the blame didn't rest with them.
What do you mean that you can't separate them? Seems to me that "tying" has no meaning for free services. You have access to the whole thing, but you are free to pick and choose exactly what parts you use. It's one thing when you want a banana that costs $1, but you have to pay $100 for the gorilla/banana combo. But if the banana + gorilla is free, then it's hard to complain that you are being abused because you got a free gorilla with your banana.
RIP iPhone mini
Oh that’s embarrassing. I did. Apologies. I was wrong to write “core” and wrong to complain when you did it.
https://archive.is/Fyepr
This is for folsom blues
Inflation isn't a price increase in one item. It's a price increase across the economy, including wages.

Your theory of inflation does not explain why it isn't continuous, and tends to follow periods of enormous deficit spending. That's a common factor to inflationary episodes, not some industry figuring out how to gouge.
Fwiw re: lack of survival- mojang has tried (and backed off) to take down cc under the assumption it had crafting/survival. The lack of survival aspects is the only reason it’s still around.

That, and classic v .30 doesn’t have any survival features
Delightful! This small ideas bring joy to the internet.

Wondering what will happen if this where made with a song of a current mainstream popstar baked by a big label and go viral. Will be shut down or will be allowed as a marketing strategy?
This one drives me crazy because even having seen a picture of the same blue and black dress in direct light, my brain simply will not see this as anything but white and gold. I know I'm seeing it wrong and still can't see it right.
Enron...sigh.

I went to college near Houston (Texas A&M) and interviewed with Enron in early-mid November, 2001 prior to December graduation. Given the timing, I believe it may have been the very last interview loop they did.

For a soon-to-graduated Comp Sci student, Enron put on an amazing presentation. The interview was onsite at Enron headquarters. They took the candidates to dinner one evening, put us up in a nice hotel, and spent all day the next day grilling us in panel interviews, having us work individual problems, and challenging groups of interviewees with team problems. It was calculated, thorough, and to this day it's the most comprehensive and satisfying interview experience I've ever had. Driving home, I knew they had successfully sifted our group to identify who the best candidates were.

The job market was also really tough in late 2001, with the dotcom bust and 9/11 making it challenging to find good opportunities. If memory serves, some of the other options I was considering at the time were to write PowerBuilder for an old-school oil company and maintain Fortran for a small, decades-old engineering firm. Enron, in comparison, seemed like a godsend.

Enron was opulent. Enron paid well. The software people seemed genuinely interested in what they were doing. Everyone seemed smart and ambitious. We were shown one room that was an open workspace and each desk had a pair of flat panel monitors (this was three years before I bought the first flat panel for my home PC and years before I had two screens at home). Enron was as sexy to a software professional as any workplace in the world in its time.

I knew there was some drama surrounding the company, but I was generally oblivious to the details. I was overwhelmed with a 16-hour course load, a student job slinging C++ for a local consultancy, and a job search. While onsite, a few better-informed candidates asked some of the employees about the brewing scandals. The Enron folks shrugged it off. They believed in the company and believed in the work they were doing.

I had a great interview and left really excited. A week later I got a call from their recruiter and was told they liked me and an offer was incoming. I was stoked. Then, silence. Maybe the Thanksgiving holidays were the reason for the delay, I thought. In another week or two, the Enron collapse was headline news. Every single Enron employee I had interacted with was out of a job, and the prospect of thousands of Enron employees hitting the market simultaneously made my job search even tougher.

Enron provided me and my fellow interviewees some SWAG while we were there. I had a hat, a clear plastic mug, and a few other items. I sold them for a dollar at a garage sale a few years later.
It is for *a judge* to decide if it is illegal or not. That’s kinda the point of a trial.
Great to see @bastawhiz on here.

Box had a collaborative note-taking product called Box Notes (based on Hackpad).

Slight correction: Box Notes was forked off etherpad-lite. Hackpad was a parallel fork of Etherpad.

[context: I was lead engineer on Box Notes till around 2014/2015. I left before the events @bastawhiz described]
As viewing this on my phone, will like to enlarge those buttons a bit and make it more mobile friendly. Send it to my father but not sure if he will be able tap on that small things on even understand what is about :(
It actually already almost fully works on all of those but the Xbox! Several players play on the Wii, GameCube, and 3ds. Most servers don’t work (due to ram and processing limitations) but they’re totally functional and mostly-stable.
Senate Bill 362 provides that California will create a centralized single opt-out point for all data brokers, instead of the current process that requires every California resident have to repeatedly contact, each of several hundred, data brokers to opt out. Data brokers will have to poll the central service a minimum of every 45 days, and will have an additional 45 days to delete the data. A deletion request also counts as a do not sell request.

Text of the bill:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

If you wish to offer encouragement for him to sign the bill, you can contact Governor Newsom's office via:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

(The contact page form doesn't list SB-362 yet, and it is a required field to use the electronic comment submission. Check back Monday)
Auderer turned off his camera . He realized he was edgelording too close to the sun.
Those tangible security benefits will remain in place unless you, the device owner, go out of your way to disable them.

I recommend replacing your misplaced sarcasm with a real counter-argument or not commenting at all.
I'm not interested in the grievances. Both poles of American politics have grievances. Your argument that those grievances justify overriding the vote is risible, and the way you know that's true is that if Biden tried it, every Republican in America would justifiably go apeshit. Please stop trolling. Just: please, stop. Whatever problem you're trying to solve with this stuff, you can't solve it on HN.
Expect an official response any day now, using the standard template:

"On behalf of [Crapcorp], I'd like to take this opportunity to deliver my personal, heartfelt and unconditional apology for the way we communicated our plan to [screw over our users and developers]. As we prepare similar - and likely more egregious - plans in the future, we will make every effort to improve our communication about them. Effective immediately, I am pleased to announce that we will be replacing our PR team with a new team, one which is highly skilled in describing [junk] sandwiches in terms that are so convincing you will be salivating and begging to eat them. Bon appétit!"
If you wear glasses I suggest trying both with and without your glasses on while moving your head. For me, there is almost no effect without my glasses on. But with glasses, it is quite strong... but I'm not even sure if what I'm seeing when I have my glasses on is actually the intended effect. I've become used to that effect with blue and red light moving in opposite directions relative to each other when I move my head.
The Seattle PD has a history of brutality and poor service, they have active consent decrees for use of excessive force.
As computer scientists, we really should assume he took the shortest path between the final set of destinations rather than travel between them sequentially.
May I present HAMURABI:

https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=7...

I had a lot of fun playing and modifying that game. Learned a lot about programming with it.
When did everybody forget the difference between break and brake?
On some level, I don't think a company has actions. Everything a company does are effects of what their employees do. Then it boils down to, is the action of an employee sanctioned by management? This you can only tell by looking at the internal communication.
Yeah it's not interesting content, but I spent so much time organizing this—felt obligated to share it.
Easier interactions around measurements when communicating with nearly the entire rest of the world for starters. Also, pretty much all of science is metric measurement these days, so there's that. We could also do away with the confusion of using two entirely different measurement systems here as we currently do. Milk often comes in gallon jugs but soda in 1 and 2 liter bottles for one example.
The author of the client just likes writing it. The owner of the website just likes running it too. Both have decent day jobs that cover the costs easily, so that’s nice.

I know the website owner has actually talked mojang’s legal team down from trying to take classicube down- the lack of modern Minecraft features essentially differentiates it from their product, assumedly it makes it much harder to sue for.
> Are you saying that these people were working under orders from NATO? What was their motivation, if they were not fundamentally angry about how Gaddafi had treated their fellow countrymen?

Yes, there were under orders from NATO. They even coordinated air-strikes. This is no real surprise to anyone. Hell, I think some of the NATO generals even complimented the coordination. Can dig that up if needed.

Anger at a nation's leader does not justify NATO intervention. Most of these rebels were quick to take Libya back to the barbaric ages where women were treated as cattle. Libya also became an ISIS HQ. No one talks about human rights violations after Gadaffi was kicked out and tens of thousands killed. Media attention became nil at that point. Of-course NATO nations pat themselves on the back - hey we took out the bad guys. So what if our "good guys" kill 10x more ?

I find the hypocrisy and justification used for NATO wars utterly sickening.
Don't we all actually go through this as babies? Where our mental image flips?

I don't understand why it would make any difference, from an evolutionary perspective, but apparently it does?