skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give me the complete and utter authority, Congress off of my neck for four years and I will.

The problem is not technical, it's the immeasurable amounts of tiny personal fiefdoms established by the countless layers of middle management. You won't get rid of these without someone who has been publicly given the political backing to end the career of anyone resisting change. And that includes the Congress members which are on speed dial in some people's phones.
Army National Guard Incentive Management System Suffers Multi-Year Outages
Starting Post: With 9000 Guardsmen maximizing the $50,000 signing cap, that's ~$450,000,000 tied up

The article notes they were 2 x 10-month outages. "whereby staff tracked payments on dry-erase boards" (for two years...)

I provide ThousandEyes for comparison. [1]

[1] https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
for video, a film grain effect could easily be a Steganography channel, not just watermark. the interactions with various re-encoding techniques (especially chaining different ones and pass around videos do) will cut into capacity but i expect some coding could be constructed to give you enough bits for a useful signature.

Makes me want to experiment with streaming services and see how unique the streams they serve are and what might be hidden within.
I don't really like slicing the market up that way. There's a compelling argument against broad-category monopolies, but the more specific it gets the closer it is to just "you have made a successful product". Apple naturally has a monopoly over Apple products, but that's not very helpful from an antitrust perspective.

The analogy that is persuasive to me for this particular case is that Apple / Google are excluding people from their app stores in the same way that Kroger is excluding people from its grocery store shelves.
Yeah, they definitely keep that vid under wraps. There's has been zero mention of it on their patron and weekly podcasts.
Yeah, looking at this just briefly it might be the wheel I've (pre)-invented like 1/3 of for one of my couch projects. Definitely can see the appeal of a conventional format here, I'll check it out in more detail when time permits!
It shouldn’t be flagged but also let’s not pretend that IBM is this ibm. America also literally hired a ton of Nazis, but you wouldn’t blame any president in the last 20 years right? Well let’s be honest America would ABSOLUTELY do it again
People who dont like the new twitter/X keep having temper tantrums and posting stories like this. But I have news for you. X is less than 10% of Elon Musks net worth and he doesnt give a shit. When are people going to realize this. You're not going to pressure Musk with advertizing revenue to do what you want.
I was never any good at aiming with the analogue stick in FPS games. On the deck I'll usually use the trackpads (configured as a trackball with haptic feedback) to aim approximately and then gyro for fine tuning, and I've found my aim is significantly improved. It's no keyboard+mouse, but it's close enough for me, that unlike with the analogue sticks, I don't find myself needing to reduce difficulty levels or enable any kind of aim-assist.

I sometimes find myself wishing I had a controller with the same layout as the deck that I could use when I have it docked to my TV.
A professor of mine used to say that the original form (don't know what time period; he never explained that) was "Tom, his pen", so therefore the apostrophe still indicates elided characters. I don't know whether his example is correct, or yours, or both, but they're clearly pointing in the same direction.
GDP is a flow metric, market cap stock [1]. A better comparison would be revenue to GDP. (6: to 7:1.)
You're thinking of the Google of 2008.

In 2023 Google is an entirely different beast.

20% project is a forbidden sentence by now and certainly never mentioned by the current layer of middle management that has come to infest the engineering department of the company.
That is not true. Check out chemical components of coal ash.

I live in the region where people use coal for private heating. It is much worse than wood.
Fax ...

German?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/faxin...
Unity 6 release brings better performance, AI tools, and WebGPU support
Cool, so you would only need about 120 of those to compensate Germany's current wind and solar power in the gaps without wind and sun. That's just 1.3 billion Euros. That's better than the last time I checked out heat storage. Then it was 100MWh for roughly a football stadium sized area with subterranean sand.
The average American is not going to accept an e-bike, moped or motorcycle as a replacement for their SUV/wheeled living room.* Autocycles are starting to become more mainstream thanks to companies like Polaris that focus on performance ATVs and 3-wheeled motorcycles. They would be a good middle ground for the future, either as electric or small-displacement gas engines.

They need better penetration in more states and need to have the same insurance and operator licensing as a regular 4-wheeled automobile. My state allows autocycles where you can use a regular drivers license, but the vehicle is insured as a motorcycle (higher premiums), you must wear a helmet (but my autocycle has an enclosed body?). One of the states that borders mine does not permit autocycles as an automobile, so I wouldn't be able to drive there for any reason.

* For years I have bicycle commuted and picked up groceries year-round in a place with hills that gets real winter snow. It takes a level of commitment that most people just do not have.
I wonder though whether the up-front costs incurred by your team would eventually be outweighed by the long-term costs of the quick team.
Naming the Rose [pdf]
> Just look at almost any billionaire's mansion and you will see this pattern which becomes an aspiration for the middle class. Most people, given enough wealth, desire and choose the McMansion.

Billionaires tend to have lots of houses, including condos in Manhattan and London. And probably a yacht too. Not sure if we can derive a lot about general housing preferences from that.
What advantages would there be to that document?

I mean, I can see the point if there are multiple commercial competitors in the market, as there is with C/C++, or if the implementation is proprietary and the users want to avoid vendor lock-in.

But the Minimal BASIC of ANSI X3.60-1978 never did catch on for any of the BASICs I used in the 1990s, and the Full BASIC of ANSI X3.113-1987 was a flop, so clearly it's possible to put a lot of time into a standard only to have it be irrelevant.
i'm not sure i understand you there.

> But humans failed to find an algorithmic solution for Go.

sure we have algorithmic solutions for go, they're just not very good.

> All they could do is to throw a lot of data and get a bunch of coefficients without discovering underlying rules.

that's not completely true either, the special thing about ~alphago~ alphazero* was that it learned by playing itself instead of learning from a pre-recorded catalog of human games (which is the reason for its - for humans - peculiar playstyle).

now i'm not sure how you're arguing a neural network trained to play go doesn't understand the "underlying rules" of the game. to the contrary, it doesn't understand ANYTHING BUT the underlying rules.

explaining why you did something isn't always easy for a human either. most times they couldn't say anything more concrete than "well it's obviously the best move according to my experience" without just making stuff up.

*edit: mixed up alphago and alphazero
> No, it’s not 500B per year. Just as a sanity check we aren’t spending more than twice as much on empty buildings than the Air Force.

Just for sanity check, why don't you do a modicum of research before posting nonsense? What a concept!

Here, I'll help you. Read this report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106200.pdf

From the document:

"the 24 FRPC agencies spend about $2 billion a year to operate and maintain owned federal office buildings. In addition, agencies may postpone maintenance and repairs to assets in their portfolios for various reasons, which over time can create a backlog of costly deferred maintenance and repairs."

"In addition, allowing unneeded leases to expire would directly reduce costs. Federal agencies spend about $5 billion annually to lease office space from the private and government sector"

And here's the "Oh, shit!" realization:

"GAO and others have reported on issues with managing repairs and maintenance in federally owned facilities, which are costly to the federal government. Federal agency financial reports have reported $76 billion in deferred maintenance and repair costs in 2021, an increase of about 50 percent since 2017."

$76 BILLION in deferred maintenance and repairs just two years ago. What do you want to bet this number doesn't go down any time soon and will absolutely explode into hundreds of billions if not dealt with in some form within a decade?

In other words, it is worse than the $1.7 billion per year being quoted, massively worse.

Here's another article on the subject:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-jeff-denham-gover...

How about we look at other issues? Here's a simple one:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/heres-how-the-federal-govern...

"Improper payments, which refer to payments that are made incorrectly by the government, cost the U.S. $247 billion in 2022, according to the Government Accountability Office. The U.S. government has lost almost $2.4 trillion in simple payment errors over the last two decades, by GAO estimates."

> If we’ve learned anything over the last 30 years of broadband subsidies is handing them more money won’t solve the problem.

Duh. Any business person knows this.

Here's a concept: Establish clear objectives, milestones, accountability and supervise, supervise, supervise.

The problem isn't subsidies at all. The problem is that our government is incompetent at nearly every level.

Again, big picture instead of hyperventilating at the micro level. Fix root causes. The root cause has to do with truly incompetent and unmotivated people managing billion dollar programs. Why would these agencies be any better than the DMV? There's a fundamental need to drive for competence and results in government. Until we do that nothing else will ever be solved.
We probably don't disagree but I reject the premise of "fair value" for a stock price.

It's not different than Bitcoin price at all, there's no fair value but a price that you think it will increase or decrease. The price, thus market cap can be anything, if Musk can convince his believers to HODL you can end up with market cap larger than the Worlds GDP with trade volumes smaller than a single product they sell.
> Twitter's market cap was 44B and now undefined because its not on the market

It’s still absolutely on a market, down to being valued and trading. It’s just not on a public market.
who exactly is the mysterious and all-powerful "they" ?
I think that society and companies benefit from FOSS even if there's no or little profit in doing it. Sure that are corporate OSS jobs, but think of all the societal benefit that comes from one-man or community FOSS projects. I feel that in an ideal situation people should be incentivized by being paid for doing that work.
Honestly i feel like the fact that everyone is just calling LLM's GPT at this point doesn't really help OpenAI, ChatGPT would, but the fact is that unlike "googling" something became synonymous for searching on the internet, GPT != OpenAI-ing something, GPT just became what people call LLM's it seems like lately, the fact the term isn't the name of the company or the full name "chatgpt-ing" sort of breaks that hold i feel like.
No, that's not my position.

My position is freedom. To create locked-down devices. Or open ones. And freedom for consumers to buy which kind they want. You are taking a position that you know what's best for consumers. That's quite presumptuous.

For most consumers a locked device is in their interest because it protects them from malware and data loss.
Reminds me of a quote I saw recently:

“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.”

I think "philosophy" can be replaced with "advice" and it still applies.
IPv6 has more pain (lack of IPv4 addresses) motivating it.
SpaceX has introduced their next generation Starlink terminal
Elon Musk has ICBMs.
That sounds a lot of computing power to record and use language detection on everything the device hears, not to mention storage and bandwidth, that many actions should leave a trail somewhere.
Are we suddenly in the business of deciding who should have how much money?

Because if so, we clearly need to deal with the individual billionaires long, long before we work our way down to any unions.
I have the 7900 (non-x), I find it helpful to think of it as a dual socket 6 core system. For latency sensitive things like many games, it's best to pin it to a single socket/half the cores. Once you do that the other half can handle everything else. That way jitter stays low, performance is consistent, caches are warm, etc.
Just a tiny bit older: https://archive.org/details/ESNESv012a
No raytracing / RTX support? :(
ha! you wouldn’t even be permitted to bid the project!
I thought about this for a bit a month or two back. I decided that I was consistent about my spelling matching my pronunciation (though a -s’ one still entails a very subtle adjustment of the final phoneme compared to its -s origin), but I couldn’t find any consistent rule I was following about the pronunciation. Number of syllables was readily falsified; concluding phoneme (/s/ like Chris or /z/ like James) was readily falsified; I didn’t delve far enough into the concluding syllable (e.g. “Jesus’” already ends in /zəz/, ending in /zəzəz/ just makes me think of Sméagol and his fisheses), so there may still be a pattern, but for now I think it may just be irregular.

Pronunciation-dependent spelling is not novel in English: “a” and “an” are the same word, but the choice depends on the succeeding phoneme. The King James Version of the Bible uses the phrase “an horse for an hundred pieces of silver”, showing that the dominant accent at the time used a silent h in both words: “an ’orse for an ’undred pieces of silver”. I contemplated the matter a few years ago and decided that “a horse for a hundred pieces of silver” was a more reasonable reading of the phrase in Australian English (though most will diligently read the clumsy “an horse, &c.”).

This is one of the subtleties across accents. An American might write “an herb” because they’ll pronounce it “an ’erb”, whereas an Australian would write “a herb” because we sound the h.
Yea, it's time for this whole NAR thing to be disassembled. It's unfortunate how much we undervalue the impact of collusion on the health of a free market. And worse, how out in the open and right in front of everyone this was. There are a lot of shady corners of industries that the mainstream doesn't know about or have regular exposure to, so it's not surprising that monopolies and regulatory capture shenanigans exist like this, but this is something that almost everyone uses multiple times in adulthood.
Are you sure it is more densely packed? Where I live the streetcar suburbs are slightly less dense than modern suburbs. In the 1950s lot sizes went up, but they have mostly come down again. (streetcar suburbs were built assuming you would get some food from your garden. 1950's suburbs were built by/for people who remembered the depression and wanted a large lot for a garden - or that is my theory.
I agree that an ebike isn't a replacement for a car in all circumstances. However, it is a replacement for a 2nd car. We have kids, groceries, vacations, beach trips, etc and have to have a car for. My wife usually has the car

I use the ebike every day to commute, and for lots of groceries or coffee runs. I've ridden that (or my road bike) ~40k miles over the last 5 years. For the "emergencies" that I do need a 2nd car, I uber. I think I've done it 5 times in the last 5 years.

In terms of dollars saved, at this point an ebike almost costs me nothing. I just use miles traveled * .55 for cost savings over a car.

In terms of co2 saved, I don't know but I consider it a win.

In terms of life enjoyment, I'd MUCH rather be on my ebike than stuck in a box.
Just like a lot of early 3D PC games weren't possible to play without a graphics accelerator card (GPU for you younglings) which not a lot of people had, these new VR games are not possible to play without VR hardware.

Doesn't mean early 3D PC games weren't PC games, and it doesn't mean that contemporary VR games aren't also PC games.
They're cheap but they're not free. If you do it at literally every single rw operation at runtime, it's going to add up.
Sorry, but I think you are way of here.

I live in Norway, and as far as I know the reason for the immigration problems in sweden is mostly related to taking in a lot of immgrants, much more then other countries did (compared to swedens population) over a long period and then failing to integrated them. Basically creating ghettos. In addition to this the government was to slow with providing additional resources when needed (like severally years ago)

If it was duo to unions you should see the same in Norway.

Both the right and the left in the Scandinavian countries largely agree that unions are a good thing. But we also have a sosial safety net to help people.
I'm not sure I understand this - I think having different options for web frameworks is great for Rust! Actually, it's probably more useful for Rust than other languages because Rust ends up being used by such a different range of developers and applications, and each framework ends up having such different opinions and providing different levels of abstractions.
New design that's slimmer & more portable

• Starlink kit also includes Gen 3 router with improved range & speeds

• No motors. Simple kickstand

• 10% better field of view vs previous gen

• Higher IP67 waterproof rating

• Can operate in 60+mph wind speeds (vs 50+ before)
Wait, streaming to multiple speakers at once is something you can patent?
> Especially after you get the backstory on Setzer and his love interest - nothing else in the game paints him as character that would do something awful like that.

Did we play the same game? However you define "rape," Setzer was an amoral gambler and rogue whose idea of romance was kidnapping and forced marriage. His relationship with Darril was mostly one of sport. He planned to kidnap the opera singer, was duped into kidnapping Celes instead, and was only willing to help them save the world or whatever if Celes married him. She only got out of that by challenging him and literally beating him at his own game (gambling).

Setzer was misogyny incarnate...Darril, someone he had an actual "relationship" with, was only ever his girlfriend. The opera singer, he wanted to marry on sight. Dude's priorities were seriously fucked.
I wonder how easy it would be to port this library from numpy to cupy.
I think it speak mlre aboub Gabe's ethics than whatever model of technical causality we want to impose on this.
I'm from SA and I knew about IBM and the Holocaust, but not Apartheid. Thanks for putting me onto that.
Getting a response like this to the question "What are the firm’s views on containers?" is the actual red flag.
With AirPods Pro I can’t walk next to a street and have the other person hear me on mic. For $300 you’d think I could.
Nuclear electricity is rather expensive.
Are you sure the demand forecast someone calculated cannot be meet by ramping up hydro? Or importing electricity?

In Germany, the right parties did block any project that had the smell of environment protection. And the pseudo-green clowns are no game changer.
Absolutely.

Clearly the problem was that Alexa was taking too much space/runtime, thereby inhibiting profit.
Sure does! Best use of it is on the Zelda games, IMO. Aiming the bow with the stick works fine when out of combat, but if you want to manually aim e.g. while riding a horse, doing the broad strokes with the stick and the fine tuning with the gyro works great.
Interesting. I do have a steam account, haven't used it for a long time, it doesn't seem to be in my password manager

So I went to reset my password, but got thwarted by the captcha. To email me a password reset link.

I think Ill just torrent it.
I just tested Alexa: "turn on the living room AND the den" and it worked fine.

However, further resting revealed that I need to stress the "and" and have a little of a pause before it so that Alexa understands that "and" means an additional command and isn't just part of "living room." However, even is situations where Alexa didn't recognize the "and" part of the command it still turned on the living room lights...
There is a mod for that, unsure if it works with this new release though, but try it out and report back :)

https://github.com/sultim-t/xash-rt
From anything I've read that is not the issue that caused the strike.
> I have a handful of apps and 3 flatpak runtimes on my phone right now and that's only because I'm the latter (and have to be because of 32GB eMMC).

I mean, yes Flatpak will use more disk space than everything being packaged with the distros native package format, although in larger amounts you get a better ratio.

This is the trade off that has to be paid, Linux has no stable userspace ABI like Windows (so, Microsoft doesnt need to ship multiple versions of a dll), it's already the norm in the server space with containers, where it's been extremely successful. Flatpak goes a step further than OCI by having native deduplication due to OSTree (although there is push to get this on servers too)

Do I think the trade off is outweighed by the advantages? Yes, absolutely. I have used Fedora for 10 years (currently using uBlue/Silverblue) and Flatpak makes installing things like Discord, Slack, Steam etc 10x easier on Fedora than it's ever been (partially due to no or outdated rpms).
Stanford Blacklist
I'm pretty sure they would blame the cuts for their continued lack of action.
Hey, thanks for doing this. I absolutely love these old government produced science videos, and I've enjoyed some from your channel. It's nice to be able to directly thank someone who's making this content available online.
I'm not familiar with this type of construction. Where I live any wiring is run through pipes.
I'd never advocate for unfair compensation. Only that what's fair is highly variable when the world is your potential labor pool. A lot of people and companies think or behave like only a few areas of the world produce quality software. It's absolutely false. I'd also want to question if a company full of Master Craftsmen are needed (if that's what's implied by the $380k/employee). To keep with the construction metaphor, most labor on a typical construction site is Craftsmen supervising unskilled/lower skilled labor; otherwise cost would be a major issue (more than it is already).
Not everybody wants your data, only I do.
It can be true if there are people buying and selling stocks among themselves but that's really out of topic since we are discussing public markets.
I'm still waiting on half-life 2: ep3....
> "So far this year, 99 percent of measured ad placements have appeared adjacent to content scoring above the brand safety 'floor' criteria set by [the Global Alliance for Responsible Media]."

This is ... not entirely reassuring.