skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a discussion of how likely someone is to behind addicted it's crucial to differentiate between drugs. Meth and fentanyl are extremely addictive. It's not only mental, but also a strong physical addiction. I understand that withdrawal from these drugs mashes you feel liked you are gonna die. Fent and meth are a huge problem and IMO need to be treated very harshly whereas LSD, mushrooms and marijuana aren't physically addictive at all and come with comparatively little problems.
Non-story; quote from a previous non-Paywall article:

> "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. They added: "As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."

Keep in mind Microsoft themselves develop and sell endpoint control systems, including lists of "bad" sites to optionally block. Microsoft also dogfoods their own stuff. It isn't difficult to imagine how this occurred.
Are we really going to essentially outlaw releasing buggy software now? And taking down software and services once a security issue has been found? Because I don't think any software I wrote was ever 100% bug-free.

And all bugs are potentially a security issue.
> This task remained impossible for years until GH Actions made it possible.

Every major distribution used build farms long before GitHub (and git) existed...
Theft is a boogeyman that allows Apple absolute control over their devices. Why is theft Apple's problem rather than law enforcement? Should cars require a password too? Why don't we make all consumer goods require a password so that theft can be a thing of the past!
TFX didn't give a fuck about compliance. And I am acutely aware of retention policies, after all I passed enough SOX audits in my life. I just prefer to discuss stuff verbally and trust people to follow through on their end.

And, hypothetically, I was paet of a discussion in how to avoid being named as political donor, I sure as hell wouldn't put any of it in writing, e-mail, chat or otherwise. Unless, of course, I'd need some paper trail to protect my own ass down the line.
> If you are selling a vintage Gameboy DMG in pristine condition with the original Pokémon games that your dad bought you 30 years ago - I should be able to pay you $150 (or whatever price we both agree on) without anyone taking a chunk off that transaction, or even knowing it happened. Note that your father already paid his taxes for the transaction when he purchased the Gameboy, 30 years ago.

AFAIK in Canada, secondhand sales are still subjected to the sales tax, which is 13% in Ontario. I noticed this because thrift stores like Goodwill still charge the 13% HST, despite the fact that they're selling secondhand goods that other people have donated for free which have already had their HST paid on their initial purchase.

In fact, you re-donate the item over and over again, and each time a sales tax will have to be paid. The government is totally double-, triple-, and n-dipping on sales tax despite the fact that no new goods have been manufactured.

Another thing to notice is that this disadvantages used goods compared to new goods. If used goods didn't carry the sales tax, they would be cheaper, thus consumers would be more incentivized to save money and do the right thing from an environmental perspective. But because sales tax apply to both cases equally, there is a bigger incentive to buy the new goods.
How can you not feel bad reading that?
Well you clearly said in your above post you’re just guessing. So you clearly understand you don’t understand something, but instead of expressing curiosity you assume a truth and derive conclusions from that. It strikes me as irrational, that’s why I’m asking you why you’re acting like this, because I have curiosity.
Currently doing computational chemistry, but per the article, it's a fundamental part of my toolkit going forward; I think it will be a useful tool for many applications.
are you from the 80's?
Incidentally, this is sort of how the Earthly runner serves to provide you local actions that also work in CI.
Cue the times during covid when the national parks were overcrowded.
One thing that I never understood is the idea that "gambling is fun". In the culture that I'm from gambling is considered something left for the "lower class". It's a bit similar to acting up while heavily drunk, not exactly something to be proud of.

The first few times that I heard something to the tune of "Vegas, baby!" I honestly thought the person was being funny by ridiculing themselves slightly.
Gambling is also probably one of the worst addictions to get into. People tend to notice someone with a substance problem, but gambling often stays hidden until the person is completely overwhelmed.
Operates on the same mechanisms as gambling. Might not be considered gambling in the eyes of the law but it's gambling to the brains of the victims.
> Code that is no longer being touched is not done; it's dead.

The goal should be to write code not needing maintenance.

Four weeks ago I contacted a coworker to ask about some routines he wrote 5 years ago. He said he hadn't touched them in 5 years. The code has been tested continuously in the interim. His old code worked perfectly for me the first time and it saved me hours.
Why the deflection? Both are a problem, no? One just slips past the “oh gambling is bad for you” mental defense
> Anyways, Asahi can ship DSP turned on by default because the distro is specific to Apple. That's how Apple boosts the quality of its hardware, and the same applies to a distro dedicated to it.

Aww, so you don't think other distros will ship this even once upstream is figured out?

Kernels already ship hardware-specific drivers, but I suppose that just comes with the Linux kernel, whereas this needs support on both the kernel and userspace sides...
So what is the takeaway from this? It isn't even the expectation of winning money that keeps people in casinos, just the dopamine hit from a slot machine itself? They would've played with or without reward the whole time?
Yes, but I don’t have a build farm.
it’s more appropriate than you’re allowing it to be. your extension of the metaphor loses sight of the topic. the duration of the controlled experience of a meal is definitely shorter than the duration of phone ownership and so if you want to attack the metaphor based on duration and utility of the experience then that would be far more congruent
Probably it's their favorite library?!
Yeah, the closest thing to it is Reddit, and that's nowhere near egalitarian enough.
How does FreeOberon compare to FreePascal, in terms of standard library and third party libraries available? Is it a practical development environment, in the sense of not needing to reinvent every wheel to use it?
Computer Program of the Week Newsletter?
Are there any newsletters publishing interesting programs or bits of code to read?
I don't like having my employer pay for tools that I also use for my own open source IP.
This is very sad to hear— I am sorry. I also wonder why only older people are getting hooked on these games. Perhaps it is due to changes in the brain? These companies seem to target the weakest.
Also to add that one thing that really inspired me with libschrift is the realization that Trutetype is conceptually really simple. Most of the code is parsing the annoying format. The actual rendering - as long as you don't deal with hinting, is just a matter of rasterising lines and quadratic bezier curves.

Handly OpenType then adds cubic bezier.

If, on the other hand, you want colour emojis, you need to implement a subset of SVG (though the subset is small).. Yikes.

You get 90% for 10% of the effort... As usual, I guess. Part of me want to see how far down full emoji font support can be golfed, but another part of me feels that's downright masochism.
There’s a reasonable regulation for these things — limit $/hour extracted per player

All digital entertainment period outside of live events

Whatever it costs to go to a cinema and see a 2hr movie. That’s the limit.
> better yet create a document you can reference establishing your guidelines.
How about working on a document that establishes the companies guidelines?

I can not imagine having to meet everyone's personal quality bar.
I think you missed the point of the article.

Ok, USA trade isn’t vital you say (disagree, but let’s go with it). The USA is has outsourced aluminum, steel, a lot of composite production. Even if you wanted to spool more up, we lack the ability to make chips, we lack the rare earth metals that China took world control over.

Even if USA isn’t massively dependent on paper - the practical effects of that 25/38% makes 100% of our capability happen.
Had to look that one up: "Craig Federighi"
Yes I was on my phone before but here's some more data.

https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

Shpping is 1.7% of global emissions. Much less than I had expected from reading the OP article.
They'll be able to ship it, just requiring users to install an Asahi-specific package to enable it; see the "Distro integration notes" section.
So sayeth the person who has never written OpenCL.
Great now I want a Vision Pro. Spatial video sounds incredible, and talk about product ecosystem lock in given your phone can record these so easily.

Very curious to see the evolution of these headsets both in regular use in society, as well as their technical evolution over time as they become smaller faster lighter etc.
The headline would be fuel for anti-metric advocates.

"Look! 1 pound is easier to mentally process than 454 grams."

"3 cups is better than 710 mL."
Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown
sure, let’s go with that :)
If only people were so simple.
Because it’s incomplete and unstable
Are there a lot of fakes in the sense that they don't contain nicotine? Because that's the main utility in cigarettes.

Also, how is tax stamp trafficking relevant to a grey-market barter system?
I just added one paragraph to my Meme Machine GPT, and now it can generate animated gifs with DALL-E.

Try it here:
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-MP5Cx7F7W-meme-machine
The literal casino designers have explicitly laid out all their tricks about it. The fact you can see the other symbols not involved in the lines gives a feeling of a near miss. There are several machines which incorporate eyes to invoke parasocial relationships with the players. Multiple lines beyond the three, with obscure multiplier rules, also give a sense of mastery and understanding of mechanics as if it’s not a random number thing. And the fact is that pattern matching is inherent satisfying to people, so presenting endless pattern matching game is… well.. yeah…
Is there something that is not vendor specific? Maybe a parallel programming language that compiles to different targets?

..and doesn't suck.
photoshop is an Evil tool which doesn't produce "real Art", let's call jihad on Adobe!

Acrylic paints are, if not Evil, then certainly modern and Sinful; so we should have a program against the folks manufacturing and using those, next.

... seriously, tho: if you do not like new tools, do not use them. Your artistic integrity is in your hands; the rest of the world goes to hell its own way.
But that depends on where you buy the house. It doesn't matter what service you use an iPhone on, Apple still tells you what you can and can't do.

It's not the house builder telling you what you can and can't do; these things are not the same.
Shucks, I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids.

Just kidding. But yeah I think Zeihan is one of the most outspoken on the issue. I've seen a few others as well and assume it isn't just groupthink coming from Zeihan. As a counter example to his points about China not having any high value would be a recent PBS Nova episode on China's tech sector that goes over some success stories like Huawei. Nobody can tell the future, so take what I said further above with a grain of salt. I think the demographics angle is pretty important though as well as China's need to import food due to bad geography that requires a large and fairly manual workforce that no longer exists after urbanization. Interesting stuff.
>> "The user controls the program or the program controls the user" is a false dichotomy to people who spend most of their time in the real world.

It is not a false dichotomy: Apple controls who gets to use iPhones and what they get to do on iPhones.

Can someone use an iPhone without an Apple account? If Apple were to lock or ban a user's Apple account, what could the user do about it?

Can someone run arbitrary software of their choice on an iPhone?

>> You can accept that Apple's incentives don't align perfectly with yours while being comfortable that they align enough that Apple will provide you with the service you're looking for.

Yes, but for how long and under what conditions? How willing are people to change when they are locked-in to the Apple ecosystem?
We have built an open-source generic workflow engine to run arbitrary scripts (https://windmill.dev) with a vscode extension to build the yaml using a low-code builder and each individual script in their dedicated python/ts files so you get your full editor assistants https://youtu.be/aSOF6AzyDr8?t=116

One of the area we are expanding next is a github app so you get exactly the same UX as github actions but running windmill workflows on your windmill workers.
GDP, and especially fraction of GDP is a useless metrics. Food is 2% of GDP, energy barely more, I guarantee that if that fraction becomes 0, you won't loose 2% of your economy.
That seems super reasonable. However, I believe it has the opposite effect. Everyone with a shred of common sense gets numb to these stories which the effectively prepares us to be numb to even more outrageous stories that come after it
Joysticks are pressure sensitive, the speed of e.g. game aircraft roll is proportional to how far you lean the joystick. Yes I have used a trackpoint, that's why I dislike it so much.

You know when moving a mouse to resize a column in some data view, only the developers made it so the hit target is a single pixel and it's excruciating to try and hit it? A trackpoint is like that all the time, for every use case.
Crucial, for all developers? The great majority will get AI through an API.
I'm saying the timing is not the best. Read the room first. And I'm not saying he "was caught doing something bad" I am saying he is the President of the university, the leader, and he is a fraud.

This isn't a one-time thing, and this fraud stretches back to before he was president, there were already rumors of his fraud in his community, and they hired him anyway knowing he could be a fraud. He also worked to stop this from coming to light, and to this day hasn't really admitted he was at fault except to say 'I could have done better', he is also stil a professor there. A 17 yo can figure this out but a university board can't? come on.

"Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who has spent seven years as president, authored 12 reports that contained falsified information"

What kind of legal threats did you receive?
Stephen Neal, the chair emeritus of Cooley, one of the biggest law firms in the Silicon Valley area, represented Marc Tessier-Lavigne and sent a number of aggressive letters requesting retractions or seeking to block the publication of articles that detailed Tessier-Lavigne’s involvement in alleged incidents of fraud. Neal is also a former attorney for [disgraced former Theranos CEO] Elizabeth Holmes.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-07-21/how-stanfor...
Won't somebody think of the gumballs :(
Operates on the same mechanism as gambling, variable ratio reinforcement schedule - i.e. the player is rewarded after a random number of "responses"; similar to a slot machine.
If you do this, always call it a gift. Perhaps the friend becomes rich and pays you back but usually not.
The worst is that lots of the time you can just type “not” and hit enter and 99% you’ll get notepad. But then it’ll randomly just do something else.

God forbid you don’t disable bing search. If you don’t, that search is all kinds of fucked up.
Our lives in the US would be significantly worse if China did not exist, and if trade between our countries were cut off we would lose manufactured goods, machinery, and textiles. China on the other hand would lose food, ores and minerals, and fuel. More importantly for China, without the trade income from the US it would struggle to maintain import levels of all products including food from the rest of the world.

In November of 2022 Chinese leaders found the limit of their control over Chinese people, and were so worried about rebellions that they precipitously dismantled almost all covid protections. Data suggest this killed 2 million people after China had previously exhibited among the lowest covid fatality rates in the world.

The internal politics related to China’s recent economic decline remain very muted, for now. One of the causes of this slowdown is the increased focus on geopolitical competition at the expense of economic relationships with the rest of the world. At some point, further economic decline that also results in food shortages, would seriously test its internal political stability.

A rapid decline in quality of life would challenge the US political system, too, especially with democracy in the US looking less resilient than it did 20 years ago, but food security would be much less of an issue.
The whole idea is to flip the truck ASAP for a profit well in excess of $800.

In any case, you can create an LLC in any state you like, and people do. The buyer is then free to disband it.
See my comment above, I am sure there are great ppl that work there but the timing?
I'm not OP, but, reverse engineer all things. You can learn how they are made, you can learn reverse engineering in general, you can make mods, hacks, cheats, spinoffs.
There seems to be a lot of research into compiler optimizations guided by machine learning: https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compil...
People find uncertainty and sudden twists engaging. That’s broadly true in humor, books, movies, and gambling.

I find gambling on games where the house has a large edge generally uninteresting, but I’ll play craps with friends in Vegas. Games where player skill has an element and games like poker against other players are quite a bit more interesting.
Values matter much less than what's imported. For a simple example, imagine a country chose to restrict another country's access to luxury technology, clothes, and vehicles. And the other country chose to respond by restricting the former country's access to food, fertilizer, and gas. It's not hard to see who's going to win this trade war, even though the luxury goods almost certainly have a far higher nominal $ value.
It’s a bit surprising to me how little regulation there is concerning the quality of replacement electronics parts, especially those that handle power (battery, power delivery) which can be very dangerous when the wrong corners are cut.
literal shitpost
We love ironic names :)
Sure, but if you've never used CUDA or any other GPU framework, how many lines of documentation do you need to read, and how many lines of code are you likely to write and rewrite and delete before you end up with those <100 lines of working code?
Quote from: https://www.bigfishgames.com/play/bigfishcasino/signup

> "You must be 18+ to access Big Fish Casino/Jackpot Magic Slots. This game does not offer gambling or an opportunity to win real money or prizes. Practice or success at social gaming does not imply future success at gambling."

So, you're able to pour them money and no way to get it back. What exactly is the money for then? Why this does not qualify as a scam? Just because of the disclaimer?
Dictionaries can’t give you contextual answers, clarify use in a sentence, or explain why you’re using it wrong.
What incentive do those people have to say that? Are they selling books or movies? Do they want money for investment? Is their job to see dangers?

Doesn't mean they are completely wrong or have bad motives either: some problems are avoided because they are pointed out.

Also, there is a difference between having grids run 24x7 with no interruptions and war time with interruptions.
I really don't know why "only certified operators are allowed" is a positive thing.

For me it means the money bag is no longer on the table -- not because we removed it or invested it in something better, but because we gave it to the politicians' best buddies.

Edit:

I don't know French so I might miss some nuances. There are some kinds of regulation that I consider positive, for example to put a certain % of the casino's operating cash in a trust funding account (or buy insurance plans) so if they were found fraudulous, at least the victims would get compensated. But I don't know if France does this.
There is a book on this called Addiction by Design that covers a lot of this.

But yes, I think the assumption of rational people is that the reason these practices are addicting is the money involved...when it isn't the money but a carefully designed sensory experience that (somehow) taps into addiction. If you actually look at how the slots industry works though, they largely focus on the sensory experience not the gambling side. I have used slots and they do seem to dull your other senses/captivate you whilst using them.

Just imo, I gamble myself, have done so for all of my adult life, I know many people in the industry who are fine people, the spillovers for tech have been absolutely huge (for example, a lot of the bot detection tech we have today was invented in the gambling industry)...but slots/casino should 100% be banned. I am not a banning person naturally at all but they are just awful. Any kind of tech that seeks to replicate that process (these apps, FIFA, etc.) should also be banned because it isn't about the money, gambling is nothing to do with it. Casino products add nothing and the only people who find it appealing (in my experience) are gambling addicts. I used to work in equity research and covered the big UK gambling companies...at no point did I see any evidence that casino products had anyone but gambling addicts as customers either. You can have a laugh at the horse racing with your pals, lots of people put their accumulator on every weekend and that is it, maybe put 5 on a Prem match...but casino isn't like this, it is pure cancer.
This was at head office of a large retail chain. Though it’s also an accurate description for a situation I encountered in the oil and gas industry.
The difficulties of using Fortran in SciPy
This feels like it’s a ChatGPT synthesis of a better article. Samsung’s proposed headset is NOT called the Vision Pro, nor is it really inspiring a reboot (perhaps the AI missed that Apple’s inspired a Samsung reboot?).

Submitter has also only submitted articles from this website, somewhat dubious.
> Chinese leadership typically reasons in terms of decades (or more)

Historically, yes. But Xi is a dictator, and has been making decisions on mortal, personal timelines.
Really? You are seriously going to compare repairing your iPhone with a threat to people's lives in your neighborhood and beyond? Your analogy is a bust --- the only thing threatened by repairing your iPhone is Apple's profits.

How did you ever get to this point? Did Apple infect you with some sort of mind virus?
> Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs

It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.

Per the Nix manual[0]:

> Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.

e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager

[0] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-channel

[1] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html#sec-...