skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully in my lifetime we can do something like these lightsails:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI&t=883s

...which do a swing by the sun to get up to 22 AU/year.
There are blind, privacy-preserving ways that this can be done. A third party verifies a government ID and issues an age-verification token. The token is passed to the porn site, which has a way to verify the token without talking to the entity that issued the token.

That way the porn site doesn't know who you are (it just knows "this person is old enough to access this content"), and the age verification entity doesn't know what you used the token to access.

Of course, this scheme is more complicated than building an age verification system that involves uploading a government ID (or asking a third party directly to verify someone's age), so ultimately no one gets any privacy or anonymity.
MoTG also had the concept of a stack, e.g. if I have two mishra's factory (https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?name=Mi...), activate one to make it a 2/2, you decide to lightning bolt it (deals 3 damage), I then tap the other to make to a 3/3, then tap this one to make it a 4/4.

And phases and timing: if you don't do anything, and I tap to attack, and THEN you lightning bolt it... then I can no longer tap it to... yeah, you get the idea.

Fun times.
It's so nice of you to offer to buy 4090 cards for people who can only otherwise afford Raspberry Pis ;)
> was designing robots for nuclear reactors

I'm not sure AI is the best replacement for something that requires deterministic behavior! ;)
Freestanding C++ can be compiled to amdgpu or nvptx using clang. There are rough edges but it's usable.
My first major foss was heavily based around Vagrant (PuPHPet). It was a joy building on top of your tooling to make web engineers lives easier.

Thank you for your work, it was great while it lasted!
It was announced that 2FA will be forced for selected accounts (which seems to be everyone active) by January, so the doom is still impending.
> https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud

Their repo is public
I like my job even more when it's a smaller part of my life
The headline doesn't say useful though. Just that it stopped communicating, which is false.
Actually one 60A and one 40A. We have a 100A subpanel in our garage. Having them asymmetric (vs 2 x 50A) means that if we need one specific car to be charged as fast as possible, we can.
> Startups work the same. If this product becomes unmaintainable in 5 years, who cares?

This is a reasonable stance for a startup to take. The majority of startups likely won't last five years as they tend to fail.

Being alive in five years with technical debt is a good problem for most startups to have, because that means they managed to make it five years.
Are there other candidates outside those criteria or is this a "it's impossible to really know anything" response?
Prompting is not so simple, you'll find you need to update them as OpenAI updates the ChatGPT training and cutoff date

Right now, there are a number of people complaining that ChatGPT has become "lazy", not filling in all details and using things like "etc..." or "you can fill in the rest"
More bots, more spam, lower quality overall. The only people who cared about the API stuff were their power users. That's who left/diminished their usage of the site. I suppose Reddit has enough momentum to continue anyway now that they've built their business on the backs of power users for long enough. Twitter used the same playbook.
Physical physics i think.
The manhole cover from Operation Plumbob?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
Definitely not. I don’t think you could actually pull this off against another pile of cards trying to play traditionally unless your opponents are in on the joke.
Can you please link the extension you use for that purpose?
Love it when people can only demonstrate tasks handicapped by Tokenization. Shows how far we've come.

That said, By that test, I guess some dyslexics aren't general intelligences then.
So it generates a fully rigged 3D model that can be animated by conventional means?

If it can do all that, and you add in motion capture from just a video, and that will drastically cut the costs for all kinds of animation projects.

Given that it is possible to render photo-realistic people now from 3D models (subsurface scattering for the skin, etc.), we are well on the way to a full video production pipeline. Just give it some scans of the people and objects you want, type in a description of the scenes, generate the voices via text to speech, and press "render".

The next few years are going to be crazy.
> but I would like to see what a high resolution monochrome LCD or oled display could do.

Monochrome LCDs are out there, but they mostly burn a hole in your wallet. They're used in medical imaging, but there's no other mainstream market for them, so the prices are high because the unit count is low.
I think the security and privacy concerns absolutely are a reason to continue allowing this sort of thing to skate by. At least until the security and privacy concerns can be addressed.
If I understand correctly, they're using an LLM to write a series of computer programs exploring a large solution space and feeding the output of those programs into a separate validation program written by a human. To take the calculator analogy, it's more like having the human give a set of constraints on a solution and having the calculator decide what buttons to push.

Real progress is always incremental. I wouldn't be surprised if 5-10 years from now we have similar kinds of systems discovering new materials or new candidates for dark matter.
People absolutely flowchart fighting games at a high level. Combos are, unsurprisingly, completely non-interactive in most games, but there's also a term specifically for non-interactive offense: setplay https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Set%20Play

The goal of an optimal strategy in fighting games is generally to reduce the amount that you have to read your opponent as much as possible, ideally to zero. Obviously the developers don't want this to be fully possible, but players generally try to get as close as they can. Even at the highest levels, you can have rounds that go like: canned opening -> combo -> setplay -> combo -> setplay -> combo.
"im still here" is useful.

if it had hit the wall and gone totally silent, that would be a different thing entire.
What other object could be further away? I'm curious
> So falsify refers to the result but falsifiability does not?

falsifiability - the ability to be proven false. That's what it says in the dictionary.com link as well. It is not necessary for something to be false for the ability to prove it false to exist. That's "The chance of it happening was 100% because it actually happened" levels of word-twisting. I think it's a variety of begging the question, where you assume the outcome in your premises. If the coin flip lands on tails, the chance of it landing on heads was not 0%.

EDIT: Try this - substitute 'testable' for 'falsifiable' and see if that helps ease the dissonance.
The use of "additionally" is weird here. A full roundtrip is 45 hours. It doesn't take 22.5 + 45 hours to receive a response. 45 = 22.5 + 22.5.
Mostly, basic security things like disabling prefetch, disabling WebRTC, disabling redirects, preventing sites from reading my battery level, preventing firefox from changing what I type in the address bar (fixup), etc
The better analogy is using a fake ID to get the locksmith to give you a copy of the house key.

The house is Apple’s servers
The fake ID is spoofed device serials and UUIDs
The copy of the house key is the authentication blob

Nobody would blink twice if a prosecutor threw the book at someone like that. Still, somehow, I’m sure many here would complain if the DOJ would prosecute Beeper for violating the CFAA by committing computer trespass or if Apple would sue them for violating the clause prohibiting reverse engineering in the OS license.
> I've seen developers writing tests with no assertions

This can be OK if the code executing without throwing exceptions is itself testing something. If you have a lot of assertions written directly into the code, as pre- or post-conditions for instance. But I'm guessing that wasn't the case here.
The 2nd most important addon after unlock origin is Multi-Account-Containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

This would enable proper isolation between browsing contexts, and therefore make progressive web apps truly usable and a good alternative to native apps.
Currently PWAs leak cookies to the browser, therefore you cannot login on the PWA while browsing "anonymously" in the browser.
So what's the actual relative difference? The absolute difference is completely useless in this context.
It’s mostly for time purposes. Nobody wants to wait another hour for the round to end because someone is trying to draw their game, which means those players potentially have to play yet another game. In reality it doesn’t happen that often.

In your games with your friends feel free to ignore this rule. If you made a deck that managed to pull it off I would think it was cool.
I think one thing is that the programmer job somewhat evolved from data entry and clerical roles that employed plenty of women already. So in some sense it didn’t start as a ‘man’s job’. For slightly later generations of programmers, one can observe that computer science degrees peaked near 40% female in the mid ’80s in the US[1]. It’s closer to 20% now and there are much more graduates today so you should probably expect a proportion somewhere around 20% of working CS grads. That number doesn’t seem crazily unrealistic to me for working programmers, though obviously it varies between companies. <1% does seem unrealistic to me. I’m slightly surprised that that’s been your experience (I assume you aren’t exaggerating because you want a sense for facts on the ground).

[1] eg https://www.gcu.edu/blog/gcu-experience/analysis-women-compu...
Is this just a guessing game basically?

edit: Oh, I see it loads the comment. On first viewing it just showed the url of the comment.
Trudeau is subsidizing most of Canadian media. Who knows what Pierre will do, but I’ll take a bet that it could be a cost saving measure to stop handouts to ‘fake news’ MSM.

Justin seems to be aiming for a supernova exit…
https://338canada.com/
Ghostty
Same here. Never heard of python can be fast. It is not what it is originally for.
My favourite combo ever was infinite 5/5 dinosaurs
Depending on what the material is, you can potentially clean it by burning it harder. Set your over to 'clean' and find out.
Works close to instantly on Chrome on a Pixel 8
https://www.klos.com/~john/mandelbrot.jpg
He's been working hard on a really cool modern terminal emulator the last couple years, among other things I'm sure.

https://mitchellh.com/ghostty
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bad news everybody, grandmas dead

where by dead we mean that the entropy of her current utterances is failing to move extant priors
The best test will be to run it against the real market, but without actual money. With results like that, I would not wager my dollars
I hold this comment in contempt
The ambiguity is in who is a third party. If I am a small digital agency and I have a hetzner server with ubicloud and I use it to host my clients websites, e.g 10 small businesses pay me $200/m each to host their wordpress websites, are they third parties? Can I do this?
Not really.

1. the AEB may run on a different codepath than FSD

2. AEB needs to decide when it is appropriate to override the driver, e.g. if the driver is behaving as though they are paying attention, e.g. by repeatedly stepping on the accelerator, it is undesirable to override the driver's deliberate actions even if it appears that the driver is about to run into something. On the other hand, when the car is driving autonomously, it has full control to avoid running into anything at all.

Also, instead of trusting unscientific tabloid news with inconsistent methodologies, why not use the standard assisted driving scores from official government tests, such as the Euro NCAP? Teslas score by far the highest. https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/assisted-driving...
The quality is not really close, also StyleGAN2 is not conditioned on text.
How is it possible to still be able to get a signal from a spacecraft that's so far away? How can the antenna be directional enough while still being pointed right at the Earth? How do we remove the noise?
Azima Dhanjee at ConnectHear (I believe it's a Pakistan based startup) has done some groundbreaking work here.
Yup! It's a game.
A real time simulator?
I think what is often missed is that many thought it's a good idea to just move stuff from baremetal to cloud VMs as is and then wondering about the bills.

IMHO cloud starts to really pay off for cloud native workloads on serverless offerings with FinOps as part of the culture. If you don't have cloud native workloads and don't want to develop such systems, then better keep your sysadmins and stay away from the clouds. There's absolutely no reason to ride the hype train, use whatever works best for the particular use case.
While such post are always mentioning costs as a benefit, it would be good to mention that cloud costs are operational expenses and can be deducted completely in the year they occurred while owning hardware is a capital expense and can only be partially deducted over a period of time (like 3-5 years?). As far as I know this has some tax saving implications. Yes, on prem might still be cheaper but it would still be good to mention it in such posts.
If you collect enough data over a long enough time period, it’s absolutely possible to see a 2% uplift and it be statistically significant.
I asked myself this same question when New Horizon sent pictures of Pluto back. I was surprised to learn that NH will never overtake Voyager because of the number of gravity assists Voyager 1 achieved. The planners had to race to achieve the 4 gravity assists in the 70's, the next time the 4 giants line up in such a way isn't until 2145. Perhaps some form of ion engine, one day, will help us overtake Voyager. Or more sci-fi fusion/nuclear rockets. Who knows, but it's interesting to ponder.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/voyager-1-solar-syst...
> I was very sad when I bought the Switch Link's Awakening game, because it looks beautiful and plays well but the music went in a direction I really don't like. They took gritty and energizing chip tune music and replaced it with breathy, gentle wind instruments. It fits the aesthetics of the game but it's so boring.

Same with Super Mario RPG's music. Yoko Shimomura didn't quite capture the same feeling with a lot of the tracks, such as Forest Maze [1, 2]. It's cool that they rehired her and it's cool that they let you switch the music between the two versions in the remake.

I wasn't a fan of either art style reimagining, either. The mood of both games was changed entirely.

[1] old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmbqeMTfoXs

[2] new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiRpciZ6_g
Do the expensive part replacements even get close to the price difference of getting a new car? What if you try to account for insurance and maintenance?
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Alternate link if you get a "browser blocked" error message.
https://archive.is/YnzAR
Just because it blurs what the definition of "illusion" and "perception" mean to everyone but pedantic philosophers doesn't make it any more or less powerful, dangerous, and species-impacting.
I don't think you should use the phrase "viscerally hyperbolic", I think it overstates the degree to which their comment communicates an excess of emotion. Instead, consider saying "I don't hate it, but I don't love it" to express agreement with the sentiment, but disagreement with the degree.
I don't think it rigs the models - I think that video is comprised of models generated by Stable Zero123 that were then rigged/animated/postprocessed in Blender.
Obligatory: https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
> But I also hope you never make another OSS tool again.

What a sad thing to say. If you picked a free open source tool that was not right for your use case maybe you should blame yourself.
As a concrete example of what you're describing, here's an example of a code used with Linotype typesetting machines:

https://archive.org/details/LinotypeHandbookForTeletypesette...

This code contains two shift states which map directly to physical Linotype features:

1. Shift and Unshift states map the first 45 codes to the 90 character positions in a standard Linotype magazine.

2. Some Linotype matrices (letter molds) have two font variants (e.g., roman and italic); the UR and LR codes shift between these.
Very interesting! It could've also been a choice made not to repeat "code" which already appeared in the "open source" expression.
AI-pocalypse Now (Macrovoices podcast)
I mean, you joke, but you've shown ability to get to the store, fill out an application, pay the $200 or whatever... that at the very least means you are probably not in, say, the 5% worst risk category. Damages that can be caused to something like a hotel room or rental car are essentially unlimited.. avoiding the worst risks is really good.

Below average is fine, you just want to avoid horrific.
Congrats on what you've accomplished here. Building an industry-standard company and then carefully planning your exit on your own terms is a huge win.

I (selfishly) hope whatever is next is still hacker adjacent, bc your work has been a big inspiration to a lot of us. Best of luck to you!
> While this is undoubtedly true, I still don't comprehend why.

If you want to make ios apps you need an Apple computer. Then people get used to it and like most people they will say they prefer whatever they are used to.
Oh, this will unearth some very disturbing patterns with certain individuals...

Also: I see the forums where stalkers and voyeurs post their daily "catch"... Just yesterday I saw a guy secretly filming a clothing store girl with his phone and the individual noticably wasn't happy about it. This could also put spectacle wearers in a corner, as they could be accused of voyeurism once people become aware of this invasion of privacy.
They get paid 60 million bucks a year (for a decade at least) to stfu about government business
It is, as any page hosting a binary is, but this also includes the source code so you can get as comfortable as you want by going down that route instead.
Trump could have been charged with 9 or 911 felony charges, and it would still look like political persecution.

If this precendent was going to be set, it can't have come after four years of a press induced national Russia hysteria targeting him. That failed to jail him. That was the single politically allowable wager, and it lost.

Now the people who are still casually using words and phrases like "dictator" and "clear and present danger" seem to be projecting.
> The point of the open standard is to untether your prospective customers from the incumbent.

That is the point.

But FWIW the incumbent adopts it and dominates anyway. (Though you now are technically "untethered.")
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You're saying that unattractive, unperformant fund managers have nothing to recommend them, and so that makes the correlation negative because they're censored from the sample? Otherwise it would be roughly flat, if they didn't let the unattractive bad managers go?

Could be. But then, it's still a reasonable heuristic, because you might find that unattractive managers are uniformly pretty good or better, and attractive ones are 50-50. The best manager might be one of the really really good looking ones, but overall there is less selection pressure on attractive managers with respect to performance. (Halo effect?)
The press release says the cuts were focused on operations, but that doesn't mean engineering was unaffected. Even the functional safety related teams were affected.
What's funny is that after demonstrating the loop you still have to give a concrete number of times that you repeat it. You can't deal infinite damage, but you sure can do a googolplex damage.
In theory yes.

In practice, devs will not write good tests for their features, QA will be kept away from committing to production code.

Btw, if it is just code - why developers cannot implement features without bugs? No need in QA in such ideal world.
That is a question in my mind throughout reading this discussion.

How about objective c vs swift from a dynamic at least type vs static one. Can swift be glue.
Yes, actually I was planning on training a separate model to determine buy/sell signals, using this prediction model as possibly part of a transfer learning process, and do paper trading w/ it to start w/.
For me, money is not the issue and being paid for having my trust abused will not restore my trust.
Communication means an exchange of information. Receiving a signal does not.
It is an interesting approach I hadn't heard of before. For complex systems though, often reproducing the bug reliably is a large part of the problem. So giving the developers the maximum information is necessary.

Any time a "fix" is implemented, someone needs to be asking the right questions. Can this type of problem occur in other features / programs? What truly is the root cause, and how has that been addressed?
Thank you for all your hard work, man!
> This meant that you could use fancy statistics to estimate the actual number of bugs left.

That's very clever. Precise test case in QA plus vague description given to dev. Haven't seen it before, thank you for sharing that insight.
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This looks awesome. It'll almost certainly be taken down but it seems they opted to wait until it was done and just release it, at which point the file will never really go away. Link's Awakening already has a modern remake with it's own take on trying to add a more flexible camera though so I wish it had been A Link to the Past or similar. I'll take what I can get for free though!
Interesting, but correct me if I'm wrong... but does this technique only improve the performance on multiple choice questions where the correct answer is one of those choices? Unfortunately I don't see that as being very useful since I think a lot of use cases involve questions to the AI where you don't know the answer in advance or else why would you ask it except to test the AI's capabilities.
That's not a problem with Scrum, it's a problem with your team. If you're doing a bug bash every sprint, then your velocity is already including the time spent on bug bashes. If it's not in every sprint, you can reduce the forecast for sprints where you do them to account for it (similar to what you do when someone is off etc).

If you're competing within the team to complete as many story points as possible that's pretty weird. Is someone using story points as a metric of anything other than forecasting?
OP here, found this resource on https://energy-profits.org/legal-cases/