skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this harmoniousness operates in more subtle ways, too. I'm playing through the new Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom, and it's a lot of fun, but there's something that doesn't quite click... like the UI is a behavorial engagement layer over the game, and not part of the game itself. Like you can never be completely in the world because something outside is holding your hand all the way.

The 16- through 64- bit Zeldas, for their clunkiness, were compellingly immersive. I don't think it's just nostalgia; I've played indie games where the UI is part of a whole that sucks you in. This is true even if the UI has a modern feel, like Hollow Knight, which felt overpolished in its presentation and interface, to me at least, in a way that was off-kilter -- yet something about it sucks you in instead of pulling you out, being part of the world's presentation and in an aesthetically transitive sense part of the world itself. There's something about these modern AAA games where you feel like you're not playing a game but rather a Skinner box containing a game. It's just not the same. I can't exactly put my finger on it.
Although I'd say with something of a more malicious and/or mischievous connotation.
A single person can also fool a lot of people.
They sent me a promo issue once. There were no ads. The articles were contiguous instead of being broken up across several pages, and they were written for long-form instead of always feeling like they were squeezed into too little space. Overall it was a very nice experience, aside from the authoritarian propaganda. Seriously, it is not subtle.
Oracle has had this for ages, I’ve built websites by printing html from the database I think somewhere back in ‘97/‘98. Oracle’s framework has grown into an entire low code development tool running in the database: oracle apex.

It works and can scale far enough that it allowed entire corporate websites to be run from an oracle database.
AGI may only be a momentary transitional state. It is assumed that ASI almost immediately follows AGI as once the machine is self aware and can improve itself then exponential intelligence takeoff is achieved.
What do you think most indies are? I'd consider most indies much more generalist. You can't ever know a whole field but you can know pieces of it and once you learn one system it can be easier to know another. I think for example programmers often make very good designers as they will think though problems, handle attention to detail, and work to often find multiple solutions if need be... Wait that sounds like every field doesn't it ;) code, art, design, sound etc.

The main issue is mindset, a programmer might cut short a design to save himself time, an artist might simplify the gameplay to not put in as much effort, and a musician or writer might not focus as much on the visuals because they get caught up in how it should it sound/read etc. But they certainly can take on other roles. If you have any experience with start-ups and indies or freelancing you might find yourself take over roles you didn't expect originally. On smaller teams this goes a lot further.
In my experience they are very limited by their lack of familiarity with the code. They might be a generalist at everything else, but that's a pretty hard ceiling.
What does that even mean stronger? Like Fty Ftu Rockwell hardness? This stuff is so light on detail it’s probably a very niche product good in only certain uses
You're going to be really unhappy when you hear about IME and PSP.
This is a tech company in 2023. Of COURSE this is a data mining thing.
I think Zork sank into the swamp long ago.

"Want some rye, 'course ya do..."

I mean, come on, let's not clutch our pearls after that abomination.
> At least felling trees to build things serves a purpose. Are those things worth the cost?

I spent a little time in Finland a while back and although I didn't look deeply into it, my impression was they had a healthy relationship with trees. The country is heavily forested and they harvest many trees but they also replant diligently. One of the guys I spent a little time with there was also researching plant-based alternatives to plastics (in the vein of the infamous paper straws, plant-based wrappers instead of plastic wrappers, that kind of thing).

Deforestation is absolutely a problem in some areas of the world, but tree farming can be done responsibly. They're an endlessly renewable resource if we only give them the space and time to grow.
I am amazed at how simple, yet complex the internals of that machine are. I especially find it neat that there's seemingly only one motor, and all of the other parts are driven by solenoids.
20 years, same as patents.

People aren't writing books because of the profits they might make 25 years from now.
There's a great scene in the movie Wall Street. Bud is an ambitious wall street trader asking his dad for money, and his dad is a working class union representative.

>Bud: It's Queens, Dad and a 5% mortgage and you rent the top room--I gotta live in Manhattan to be a player, Dad. There's no nobility in poverty anymore, y'know. One day you're going to be proud of me, you'll see...

Much of that raw, punk, diy, screw the rules mindset came from the working class. In the 90s it started to shift I think along with the offshoring of many blue collar jobs, and rise of FIRE [0] (finance, insurance, real estate) which are historically conservative industries.

Nowadays musicians are celebrated for their gross ticket sales more than their music, look at Taylor Swift's recent tour. People in my office obsessively discussed all week how much money she was making at each show. Back to your point, profit is the driver today, for better or worse. You won't get a filthy, crusty punk show anymore, but at least the venue is compliant with all current fire codes.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GOFI
I hate that you beat me to it. Lol
The difference is there is no not choosing to use client-side scanning. I could choose not to use apple cloud services for photos and therefore not participate in server side scanning. Essentially, client-side scanning assumes everybody's guilty until proven innocent. It's a slippery slope for scanning local content. Today the admirable goal of eliminating child pornography and maybe tomorrow FBI most wanted list, then pretty much anybody in the criminal system. Not to mention the political implications.

You see this as a simple trusting apple because they have complete control over the OS/Hardware. I see this as a culture shift that goes beyond trusting any particular company that fundamentally erodes privacy.
I would think it would depend on the year. When he first invented it, probably him. Later on when he was selling the things, not.

Edison was obsessed with making money from the patents he had, applying them to anybody making movies; the reason Hollywood (the industry) is in LA is that filmmakers fled the East Coast to the wild west to get away from Edison's lawsuits.

so perhaps (speculating) if Edison was spending a lot of time with lawyers, I tend to doubt he was doing the filming.

Mark Twain was a celebrity though, so perhaps it was a friendly visit.
It's the developer's job to help relay the difficulties they're experiencing to the PMs so they can all work together to reduce tech debt or weirdness.

And back when I worked at Microsoft, the PMs were call-pattern experts, too, or at least the great ones were.
They're conspiracy theorists, like the FBI. See this bit from CNN earlier this year... unless you think they're both a bunch of conspiracy theorists.[0]

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...
Trusted hardware running remotely-attested trusted software can capture imagery that can be highly assured to be real.

Trusted timestamping, when correctly implemented, completely prevents the generation of imagery after-the-fact. Any false imagery would need to be pre-prepared prior to an event in time, or generated in real time. And a trusted device would need to be exploited to "record" it.

PKI allows individuals/organizations/governments to cryptographically associate their reputation with specific pieces of content.

There will always be the possibility of exploitation of trusted hardware. Apple's eternal fight against the jailbreak scene is evidence of this. However, the combination of these techniques would go a long way towards making the production and distribution of fake imagery difficult.

But, as already stated, the actual problem is societal. People don't really care that much, and enjoy living in their echo chambers.
I spent 23+ years doing front end programming, server side programming, database design, sql writing, shell script writing, etc. Recently I was moved into an integration position that primarily used Apache nifi (a gui application) to tie systems together. It is very specialized and quite boring. No code writing required. It feels insane to move a generalist like myself into a specialist position, but they were sunsetting what I had been working on and this was what was open at my same level (at least on paper).
how would hypertext help you find a flag mentioned in the text description of another flag?
QualCoder 3.4
Qualitative data analysis application. For text, images and audio/video. Written in python and PyQt6 GUI.
Why do you think shoving everything into a DB will not get us there. What about a scalable database platform like snowflake?
Overspecialized teams are also a hazard.

The best design solutions are usually compromises, but when the trade-off crosses into different disciplines (e.g., mechanical vs electrical), it can get tricky.

At minimum, you need people who can even recognize when such trades exist. It's better if you can find translators: the rare person with enough expertise in relevant domains to get to get two teams to work together efficiently.

In my own career, I've often found it useful to pick up cross-discipline skills, at least enough basics to fill one of the above roles.
Yup, games abandoning skeuomorphism and UI animations is arguably even worse than regular UIs abandoning it.

The game UI should feel part of the game (good examples: SimCity 4 and Sid Meier's Pirates) and not feel out of place.

In-game advertisements are also off-putting unless they fit thematically and stylistically into the game.

edit: your comment was much better when it was more verbose!<3
You can find them yourself. But there is are provisos:

a) HCQ must be given early (~3-4 days or less after symptoms begin) hopefully before the virus has significantly damaged the mouth, throat and lungs. Once the viral damage is done then HCQ efficacy declines rapidly.

b) a zinc supplement is given with HCQ. HCQ helps zinc to enter the cell whereupon the zinc halts/slows viral replication.

c) an antibiotic (e.g., azithromycin) is given with HCQ, not to stop the virus but to halt opportunistic bacterial infections that might otherwise enter tissue damaged by the virus.

So you can see why many hospitalization studies showed HCQ ineffective: those studies waited far too long to use HCQ.

It is claimed that such delays are a technique used in drug trials to discard possible inexpensive drugs and promote other patentable and therefore profitable drugs. See R.F. Kennedy Jr.'s book for details:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=THE+REAL+ANTHONY+FAUCI

The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Changed from https://www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/revue-fortement-a-la-... now. Thanks!

(and yes, you did submit the ?lang=en version originally, but our software switched to the canonical url as pvg explained)
All too frequently laws in the US are completely out of step with the culture. For instance despite broad support for many reforms (abortion rights, term limits in Congress, marijuana legalization) nothing happens just because the culture has evolved.
Remote reboot: The ezOutlet2 way (2019)
This argument around cost of fake content would be more convincing if it weren't already used countless times throughout history. Socrates saying that writing will atrophy people's memories. The priest's fear that books will replace them when it comes to preaching. Gessner and his belief that the unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press will ruin society.

The social dilemma, and all those that were convinced social media would spell the end of modern society.

Instead each of these technologies improves access to information and makes it easier for most to determine the truth via multiple sources. I'd imagine in the future there will be many AI agents that can help to summarize the many viewpoints. Just like anything, don't trust any one of them in isolation, consider many sources, and we'll be fine.
Or it could be gigabits available to any person. Since it would be 14 megabits per person per second right, assuming 100% utilisation?
What I am saying is that because we agreed offline on what we would do at the event, we will be able to recognise when the feeds from our replicants do not match what we expected to see.

This way we detect that what we are seeing in the video does not match the real events at the place where our replicants are.
they should work on their communication skills.
Reveal.app adds Accessibility auditing and insights
Many come with SFP ports for this reason now
Yes.

I'm a fella who has a smattering mix of - systems engineering, systems administration, network engineering and administration, database administration, software development, analog and digital communications systems design and administration (from the circuit level up), UI/UX design, process engineering, documentation, RF Engineering, project management, and a little bit of marketing.

The only thing I'm missing is the financial aspects of business, but from the technical, to the structural, to basically anything technology or people related - I know enough of it to step in and be competent in most situations.

To quote Heinlein "Specialization is for insects."
In jobs that require a high level of expertise, you usually want to be both a specialist (to make you worth hiring) and a generalist (to be able to do what needs to be done). But it takes experience to get there. A lot of work in science and game development is done by relatively junior people, because both fields suffer from a high level of attrition. Those people can be specialists or generalists, but rarely both.
Yes, but people who wrote commercially successful books 25 years ago will scream blue murder if you take what they see as their retirement nest egg away from them.
Breaking news from 2008?
MikroBUS
The UI for Tears of the Kingdom has been quite annoying to me in this regard but so many aspects of that game were just troublesome. It's still fun, but the story and characters make no sense, the UI is modern and lifeless. They went into the weeds of the gameplay, you can see that's where they put their energy. I've been disappointed in a lot of the directions... It's just bad furries left and right. This game would sell with most anything they put in it, but it feels lackluster and unmemorable in many areas. I'm probably a minority in thinking the voice actors are trying too hard too..

I do love the idea of being able to go up and down though it feels a little awkward to me as I normally have to go way up to go down into the underground due to a lot of level design. I kinda wish they put some more cliffs nearby to save me the time. I like the underground a lot though and find that part the most fun.
Obituary Scams
A relative recently passed away, and echovita.com scrapped the obituary and reposted it. They monetize these by taking a cut on memorial tree planting, or selling overpriced flowers.

I suppose this isn't illegal - but it certainly seems unethical.
So, the CloudFront setup process only surfaces S3, ELBs, API Gateways, Mediastore, and Mediapackage domains as origin domains. I do notice that it will let me type in an arbitrary domain - is that how you're supposed to stick bare EC2 instances behind CloudFront? Just provide it something like realoriginserverplsdonthack.example.com and use some other method (e.g. VPC configuration) to prevent bypassing CloudFront?
If the colors are just someone guessing I would honestly not want to see it. I find those kind of wishful fantasies harmful. Not much different than when favorite book is converted to a movie and actors stomp out your imagined characters.

If you hadn’t had a picture of your grandma at all, would you want AI to generate one based on a description of her and tell you it’s a picture of your grandma?
Numbers can be tweaked but it adds up quickly.

Protect for 40 years for a million? Sure. Probably worth it for mega IPs

50 years for $100m? Still doable but it really starts to hurt.

60 for $10B? Maybe Pokemon and Mikey mouse can justify it, but very very few.

By 70 years it's simply not worth it.

>This scheme seems to protect the largest companies with the largest bank accounts the most. Why would we want a system like that?

Because the small time authors really won't care in 20 years anyway. Even if the cost to renew is a pittance. Are there authors trying to sell the copyright to a failed IP in 30 years?
Perhaps it was shot in Toronto by a detective with the Toronto Constabulary...
If it is moral fashion to acknowledge and measure the obvious racial and economic discrimination in America then that’s a fashion which is morally good.
Yes!!! Exactly. And in New York, its not like old buildings are being refurbished to add parking and charging.

I am terrified of the implication of 2035 when no new ICE vehicles can be sold in new york. Now I hope we solve things, but until then I have no idea what good solutions exist.
Another woman than a fake grandma
In fairness though, Twain predicted that this would happen.
Hardware vs software. Big difference because one can be easily updated.
An explicit renewal regime with some reasonable fee would allow most works to pass into the public domain, and avoid objections from owners of still-valuable properties. (I like the concept of renewal fees escalating each period, a kind of dutch auction against the public domain, but I'd accept even a fairly trivial flat fee as the price of avoiding ever-longer universal copyright.)
> If the ads were guaranteed to be funding the creators (as well as the platform), I could stomach that.

The payout of Premium does go to creators but I understand the hesitancy toward giving Alphabet even more money.
There will be a Hackathon at work and with my team mate we are preparing with some kind of hierarchical memory/knowledge solution.

Briefly: we tell ChatGPT what API based tools we have, explaines them in 1 sentence and where it can reach their documentation. We added documentations as endpoint. example.com/docs/main is always the starting point that returns high level overview of the app and all available endpoints to call. Every endpoint has its own documentation as well. E.g.: /geocoder has /docs/geocoder documentation endpoint that describes what it does, what input it expects and what it will return.

We also provieded ChatGPT with actions like read_docs, call_endpoint and end_conversation. An action is a structured JSON object with a set of parameters. If ChatGPT wants to interact with the mentioned resources, it emits an action, it gets executed and the answer fed back to it.

With this I can do a task like: "Get a 30 minutes drivetime polygon around 15 Bond Street, London and send it to Foster."

It plans and executes the following all alone. First it calls the geocoder to get the coordinates for the isochrone endpoint, then gets the isochrone by calling the isochrone
endpoint and saves it, calls Microsoft Graph API and queries my top 50 connections to find out who Foster is and calls the MS Graph API's send mail endpoint to send the email with attachment to Foster.

It can hierarchically explore the available resources so we don't need a huge context window and we don't have to train the model either. Also we could implement multiple agents. 1 would be a manager and there could me multiple agents to perform each task and return the results to the manager. It would furthet reduce reduce the required context window.

Very likely some BS app will win the Hackathon like always like a market price predictor using Weka's multilayer perceptron with default settings but we believe our solution could be extremely powerful.
I'm surprised nobody has replicated the WebP iMessage exploit as a jailbreak yet. I guess the iOS jailbreak community isn't as active as it once was.
Hmmm, how does "trusted timestamping" and "remote attestation" fit into your assumption?
Yes, I understand all that - you just copied the beginning of the article, which I read.

But that still doesn't explain why Uber's systems allowed that at all, which seems insane to me. Reading other folks comments, it seems that Uber Eats allows an order to be canceled after it has already been purchased, which to me is already crazy, but if that is indeed something that Uber intentionally allows, what do they tell Uber Eats couriers to do with the purchased items? Do they say "just throw it away"??? I would expect that Uber would require some evidence, or at least give some guidance, on what couriers should do in this situaiton. The whole thing just doesn't make any sense to me.
links?! lol have you ever actually seen the modern web front end tech planet up close?

i mean, i agree i'm with ya. links are all you really need, but you know...
In that case I think any firmware fix would need to be in the VBIOS.
Ah yes, similar to Shen Yun. Come for the acrobatics, stay for the anti-PRC propaganda.
What amazes me is how things really haven't changed. Teenage angst has always been a thing.
It's interesting that if the 386SX wasn't much simpler electronically than the 386DX, but mostly in packaging, that there was never a "386DL" for cost-no-object laptops.

I guess its market window might have been too narrow. It seems like if you wanted the performance back then, you might even go without a battery, so using a desktop CPU without the power-management special tricks is no big deal.
It was common for later BIOSes to not include the BASIC ROM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_interrupt_call

Not ideal, but not a deal breaker. And it might go against Microsoft's IP (not sure, personally).
in singapore a $60k/yr salary is more than enough to justify a small $200k honda civic.
Troll farms have already achieved scale and they are rarely staffed with solely technical people. The trace part never mattered and will continue to not matter.
> You're agreeing to everything because your stakeholders are whiny children with a deficient understanding of business and no one can say no to them.

That was for sure the case before agile, when the only decision maker was the project manager.
Forgive me here, I'm not close to the topic - if the latter is true, why is that anti-semitic? It feel the premise may be anti-Israeli, but I think it would be mistaken to conflate being Isreali with being Jewish. I'm sure there's a significant overlap, but there are non-Jewish Isrealis, and non-Isreali Jews. I'm also under the impression that many oppose Israel not on religious grounds, but political and ideological grounds.
They sell your transaction data to Google. When merchants provide Level 3 information (line items), Google can now know exactly what you're actually spending your money on.

Then, Google can show you super-relevant ads, that might encourage you to spend even more.