skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying "we don't know have X data, so Y must be true/false, I am saying there is a perfectly plausible explanation for why if data from military sources did exist then it wouldn't automatically be known to the public. Because that is the argument that was being made by the comment I was replying to.

If you have a more detailed criticism I would be happy to address it.
Instagram was just fined even more for the same thing.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/05/instagram-gdpr-fine-childr...
I think Apple has wanted a portless iphone for ages, but they haven’t been able to get past consumer demand.
Not sure if this fits under shrinkflation, but the practice of substituting quality ingredients for cheaper ones is even worse IMO. When Nutella did it, it caused a huge kerfuffle, but it's virtually impossible for a consumer to track this across all the products they buy.

An upstream problem is the money printing that causes some of these incentives in the first place.
it blows my mind that you can use sqlite with csv as input and then query it, it sounds so logical and useful yet I never came by it.

we have lots of reporting in CSV, can't wait to start using it to run queries quickly
When I used a Chromecast, I was fond of an even more direct method. On my laptop I ran a Node CLI called "peercast" [0] with a single argument (a magnet link), and it streamed a video file while downloading its torrent, and since it called the torrent library directly, it could prioritize downloading the earlier chunks of the file so I could start streaming the video before the download completed.

It looks like that repo hasn't been updated in a while, although it might still work. It's an offshoot of peerflix [1], a Node CLI that streams video from a torrent to an h264 playlist. So without peercast I would just open my browser to the local network address where peerflix was hosting the h264 playlist, and use the Cast button to stream it to my device (which I believe technically means Chromecast "takes over" downloading the playlist, rather than my laptop pushing the video to it, so I just needed to use a URL with the LAN IP of my computer).

[0] https://github.com/mafintosh/peercast

[1] https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
I'm someone who likes a certain amount of crunchiness, I prefer Pathfinder 1e over any D&D version, and both Pathfinder CRPGs over any D&D one (2nd place goes to the CRPG-only NWN2 system D&D 3.75). BG3 is fun enough, but I far prefer the UX of the owlcat games, and the changes larian made to the 5e rules dumb down an already simplified rule system even more.

Now sure, some changes are nice (frenzy barb becoming decent), but mostly I find it to make things more boring. But luckily for larian, I'm very much not your average gamer.
Ancient Popcorn Discovered in Peru
My Red Hat support rep runs macOS.
I don't intuitively understand any illusion. I don't have conscious introspection into what the layers of neurons are doing between the retina and conscious visual perception. The layers of neurons use certain indirect cues in order to detect size, depth and movement. Those cues do their job in most circumstances, but test cases can be constructed which falsely trigger those cues. That's just an intellectual generality that doesn't explain anything specific.
This comment is in bad taste. You're making fun of their religion after they just suffered a catastrophe.

Look in the mirror before posting comments like this.
With everyone talking about LLMs being glorified autocomplete, I actually would like to see how well they perform as autocomplete. Because most built-in ones are pretty bad.
Generally curious - any particular reasons you chose sqlite and gnuplot for this task rather than, say, Python?
I've been using Kopia for my personal use and for products I have helped build at a couple of enterprise backup companies! It's also used by other open-source backup projects that focus on specific ecosystems (Velero and Kanister for Kubernetes, Corso for Microsoft 365 backup).

I am obviously biased but it's pretty amazing. AMA.
Also nonce misuse is a common failure mode among novices who might not understand what a nonce is supposed to be. People do all kinds of mistakes including using hardcoded static nonces. Its also fairly easy to come up with a bad protocol where someone can trick you into nonce reuse. Or there is a complicated error path that might involve a device going through reset where a nonce reuse might occur. Some of these are not so trivial to identify either.
I wonder if Apple will be "blamed" for not-to-spec USB-C cables damaging devices.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-find...
That's a pretty big "just" for someone who grew up loving cats.

I'm sure it seems easy to you to not have animal companions, but plenty of rational people place a lot more value on it than you do.

Your point of view is based on faulty assumptions about the importance of that experience.
How much are they paying per kid?
Indeed, I think ACH (Automated Clearing House) specifically still relies on FTP.
The Spotify subscription fee is plenty to keep good artists "afloat", at the level of a middle-class living wage. It probably isn't enough to keep all of the record label executives' yachts afloat. Thus we see more artists going independent in order to keep a larger share of the limited streaming revenue.
There's more malfeasance here.

5. They expansively tier their product line with minor variation to remove the idea of a standard offering. Eg there are some 33 sizes of M&Ms so nobody could say "get me a bag of M&Ms" any more. Forget comparing cell service plans.

* https://www.measuringhow.com/m-and-m-bag-sizes-guide/

6. They generate different model names for sale at different retailers to obstruct comparison shopping. The TV, appliance, and mattress industries are dirty here.

* https://www.quora.com/Why-are-model-numbers-for-the-same-appliance-all-different-in-each-store-you-visit?share=1

7. They attempt to detect when comparison shopping is happening and intervene.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/06/16/amazon-has-a-patent-to-keep-you-from-comparison-shopping-while-youre-in-its-stores/
* https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/accounting/discouraging-price-shopping/
Back when interest rates were low, Rocket Mortgage incorrectly tanked my credit score. They refused to fix it, which means they were liable for whatever economic damage that causes.

When I refinanced, I explained the situation to the other bank's loan agent. They emailed their underwriting division, and the underwriters simply issued an override.

Not sure if that works these days or not, but my point is that credit scores are complete bullshit. Hopefully most people will push the button, inadvertently opting out of credit reporting, and that corner of the industry will simply stop existing.

Lenders already do more due diligence than the credit agencies do.

If you default on a loan, there could be a central record (say, at the court house) of this, and lenders could consult that. That would fill in the remaining missing functionality of the score (and do so in a way that is transparently free of institutional racism, etc).
IME Paperless is nice as idea, but really buggy... Sometimes search does work for OCRed text but not for labels. Sometimes labels themselves are not shown or need to be written/edited by hand browsing it's storage.

Beside that is a nice idea, but too focused on scanned stuff, today many docs are not scanned nor pdfs.
I love the fact that people are writing articles about whether armor in Baldur's and dnd5e gate[1] is historically accurate. I feel like you have to be really committed to miss the point so badly. It's a game. The point of the game systems is to be fun, not accurate. In fact dnd5e and Baldur's gate never makes any pretense of being historically accurate. Historically-accurate arms and armor might be fun in a simulation, but this isn't "Mount and Blade" we're talking about here.

[1] a world in which you have half-demons, dragons, vampires, magic spells, mindflaying dimension-traversing humanoids with tentacle mouths, people with magic artifacts embedded in them and primed to explode etc
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 Update Feels Like a Different Game
Sometimes I use an anonymous scope instead of extracting a single use function. This is especially nice when you would otherwise have many parameters/returns
Yes. Having access to the source is not the same as open source. I encourage you to re-read it. They also have an FAQ clearly outlining the restrictions. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq

"Can I copy and paste Unreal engine code into my own project or engine?

If you use any Unreal Engine code in your product (even just a little), then your entire product is governed by the Unreal Engine EULA, and is subject to 5% royalties when your gross lifetime revenues from that product exceed $1 million USD."
Sets a bad precedent if they can. Even if they backpedal now, trust has been broken.
D&D never made 100% sense, but it has flavor, probably just because of that. AD&D (1st edition) in particular was a vast collection of bizarre and picturesque things which were a disaster design-wise but which we still remember fondly to this day.

(I am in the EU btw. No one I know ever considered it "a joke").
The question is not "do we _suppose_ that it's _likely_ that they _would_ do something similar?", but rather "is it _possible_ that they _can_ do something similar?"

If you're using a proprietary engine made by a for-profit company, the answer to that second question is always "yes", and the answer to that first question is always subject to change.

If you're using an open-source engine, the answer to the second question is "no" (because in the worst-case you can fork it to buy yourself time), and the answer to the first question is totally moot, because the first question is no longer a thing.

It's about risk management: optimism is not a strategy. Mitigation by removing the attack vector _is_ a strategy.
Luckily I have written up my heartache with Rust at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30954078 so I don't need to do it again.
> most users found frustrating having to work with ed.

True, until you need it. And you'll usually pull out ed when any other editor fails :D One example is an extremely slow ssh connection. For those who can recall, when SourceForge allowed ssh access, running vi/vim was a PITA if you wanted to edit something. But not with ed.

The second example of where ed is unmatched is scripting - it has the same "interface" for interactive editing and scripting (it uses the same commands and command sequence). Someone also mentioned (can't find source of the quote) that the same trick is helpful when you write a book because you can easily print ed command sequence readers can repeat and follow your examples, which isn't the case with any other visual editor. You can write unit tests to validate those things in case you want to ensure your book examples actually work.
If I could purchase a movie at DVD price and actually own the files, then I’d be happy to agree with the CFO here. There is an over abundance of content out there, and I already don’t use streaming services because I don’t like having to sort through so many shows. I rent movies individually on Amazon quite a bit, and rental is really the only place where DRM makes a lot of sense.
It's a faulty comparison, though. Domestic cats are by definition not the same as any native cat. They are domesticated animals, more equivalent to dogs, cows, and chickens.

So the discussion to have here is 'do we accept having domesticated animals in environments they didn't originate from'.
Seattle police laughed off one of their officers running someone over, saying the victim was low value.

Religious groups everywhere chant about death for non-believers.

Right wing fringe threaten to attack progressives regardless of their gender.

Apparently not liking Israeli government makes one anti-semitic and inclined to reopen the death camps.

Don’t be so disingenuous; hate groups and those that marginalize the existence of others are all over.

Or stay disingenuous, stare at one burning tree ignoring the rest of the forest on fire.
Tesla is moving to a McDonald style system; create a few big giga-castings of the main car body parts; create modules that fit exactly into those castings, assemble the few modules and castings in a few simple steps.

these steps minimise human or eliminate human use, and encourage either robotization, or task simplification to such an extent that labour can easily be replaced with another with minimal training.

example from autoline channel, showing how simplified the assembly system can become with the casting base:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawGMl8sHzc

And Tesla is just going further with the casting

https://www.reuters.com/technology/gigacasting-20-tesla-rein...

https://youtu.be/0Ukp4tm0JkM?t=196

this means that ICE vehicle skills are becoming exceedingly irrelevant. Obviously not everything is gone, but imagine how simple it is to train or replace fast food workers; or how easy it is to assemble furniture ikea-style. A lot of ICE- skills are now not required in EVs, and these workers will have to find alternatives.

Striking just delays the inevitable.
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It’s a great reason, but the even better reason is that multiple generations of pixels have emergency call issues that at this point they must be refusing to fix on purpose.
That’s a sufficient argument to convince me, you’re correct
small shavings:

* If there are less than 32 bits set in the bitboard, the item list is shorter (rather than ignored).

* Probably not worth it, but: When there are 32 bits set on the bitboard, stop processing the bit-board.. however, if you adjusted the ordering of the lines (0,7,1,2,...), it's optimised for the first 1 or 2 positions

* Maybe this is cheating, but if the size of the game data will be known ahead of processing, then you could leave off the last item in the list if it's a king or a rook

* Starting the item list with 2 white kings can be a special case for "starting position", and if the items are listed before the board then only 1 byte is needed :)
Also at the same time they are kicking their workers as well and refusing any concession.

I think someone with a History background should inform them how going to war on multiple fronts won't work.
For package-manager-installed libraries in mainstream distros, you usually don't have to worry about the -I or -L flags, or deal with pkg-config, since the libraries are installed in places that are already under the compiler's default search paths. So the steps can be reduced to:

1. apt-get install libsodium libsodium-dev

2. #include "sodium.h" where needed

3. Add -lsodium flag to gcc/clang linking command
It works just fine in Firefox. What are you talking about?
More like boogeyman thinking.
Especially now that there's this: https://kottke.org/23/09/ai-assisted-language-translation-of...
ChessMonitor looks very nice, I like how you can link to a particular opening:

https://www.chessmonitor.com/u/XqaFNTHcR61WpiMfOhEY/games?po...
> A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

I'm pretty sure the author is aware of this perception.
It’s entirely static for now. I’m sure we’ll see techniques for dynamics objects eventually though.
Yeah, I've found that generating (scientific) hypotheses is easy. But generating more than combinatoric variants of existing hypotheses is hard, and harder still is to propose an insightful interpretation of results or a creative model for a mechanism of action that better explains the observed outcomes.

I see nothing in today's 'deep AI' that addresses these desiderata. And I don't see the current AI strategy of accumulating only existing knowledge as the means to those ends either. Optimization of learning can only learn more facts or do it faster, not think with more creativity or innovation. Memory is but a small part of genius.
1. How do regulators expect tech companies to verify the real age of users (without further intrusions of privacy)?

2. How do the regulators expect tech companies to verify the parents of child users?

3. Do regulators want tech companies to collect every child's birth certificate?
I don't know what the streaming services have been paying for their content, so its hard to evaluate whether the content has been given away below FMV. However, I do know that the way things are moving now into everyone and their dog having their own streaming brand is also not going to work long term. Not for me, and not for anyone else either. No-one wants to subscribe to 101 different services. Either there will be some sort of reconsoliation, or we'll resort to buying shows a-la-carte, or people will switch services every week, or as a last resort back to piracy.
> I see - so you can use the bits you saved by not having separate rook pieces to denote En Passant pawns.

You could do it that way, but the particular comment was suggesting two entirely separate ways to save bits, one for pawns and one for rooks.

Specifically, the suggestion in that post is to use 1st/8th rank to show en passant, and to show castling by replacing an unmoved king with a different piece. But there's lots of ways to cleverly encode that information.
This is absolutely true. I feel conflicted about feeding feral cats, because I don't love the amount of suffering they often endure, but I think the appropriate middle ground is to support trap/neuter/release (TNR) programs if you're going to engage with feral or domestic-but-outdoor cats.

If they can't reproduce, then feeding them actually reduces the harm they cause because they won't need to go out hunting for food.

I will say, though, as someone with cats who are escape artists, I love this product, I'd find it invaluable. We already have AirTags on them but it's an imperfect solution.
If I'm not mistaken, the `(bool)` is unnecessary due to how implicit conversion works: `In a return statement, the value of the operand of return is converted to an object having the return type of the function` [1] ...unless I understood it incorrectly :/

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/conversion
I don't think the search works, but it's here: https://www.shrinkflation.io/products/535
I'm looking for what was done. Were employees even told that anticompetitive behavior itself was bad? Were they given training on what it looks like, and when to report it for further investigation?

If they can develop training that says "don't say bundle", they can develop training that says "don't bundle", and in both cases they might want their employees to talk to a company lawyer if they have any questions anyways

also curious if the lawyers themselves had rules like "don't bundle" that they would pass along to employees with questions, or if google was okay with bundling
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517216
Let me add the You Tube series - Git and GitHub for Poets - for the poets, students and teachers. Not to everyone's taste but what is?
As far as modeling relatively easy to model phenomena is concerned. I could imagine automating model-creation and the drawing of logical connections between models.

In fact I'd be surprised if a bunch of scientists weren't already doing that. But I'm not sure of the utility of that.

In fact, using something like our new chat-ai, we wouldn't even need to understand the connection.
Nothing's ever dead. [1]

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EDIT: Oh wow. How sketchy. That page on Github is only their "additional terms". When you go to their terms page itself you find [2]

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There is some serious lawyerizing going on there that makes this largely incomprehensible to me at least, probably by design.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20201111183311/https://github.co...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20200814002539/https://unity3d.c...
This is hilarious, and shows how I am terrible at roleplaying. My seduction at giving a student math problems did not lead to anything. I guess horny AI characters are not interested in math?
This is more than pornography no? It is more like a chat companion with characters people might sexually desire.

If the queues that I see in this are legitimate, this must be totally underrated. Someone must double down on this and release an app.

Focusing on seven deadly sins never disappoints economically...
This is fascinating, as it mirrors how I use GPT to code. I generally use it to find a solution, that is often not quite accurate, but opens a wide range of ideas that I often would not have come up with myself.

サンキュー! (* ^ ω ^)
I’d like to learn how the rising complexity of tooling allows for text messaging, compliance, self-service or mailing(?). Right now this idea doesn’t sound particularly reasonable to me.
There's also the issue of keeping him on our land. There's added correction capabilities (first a signal noise, then a mild shock) as part of the Halo collar that we got him. And an entire training program that comes with it, so prior to enabling the feedback mechanisms, I train with him so its not just a bolt from the blue.

He's an 80lb Belgian Malinois, a breed known for their high drive, and for being pretty scary looking. People out here keep goats, horses, chickens, etc. He knows not to go after our chickens, but do the neighbors know he won't go after theirs? The last thing I want is for him to wander onto a neighbor's property and get shot because he looks like he's helping himself to their livestock. He'll get shot for that (or less), and I'd have zero recourse, even legally.

The Halo collar is the exact same price (including data plan) as the apple watch, but I trade remote feedback to him if he leaves the property (and a collar ruggedized to the rigors of an active dog), vs owning the data, but on a device that's not at all designed to be worn by a dog that likes to roll in dead fish and coyote shit.
Meanwhile, adequately fencing the property (so he won't jump over it) will cost me between $12k and $30k. Compare that to $700 + $5/month.