skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ImHex has so many features. Very useful for ROM hacking, as it can display custom text table mappings. I haven't even looked into patterns and other features yet.
Free and Open in the Latest Draft of the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Yeah, I was about to click and read and it occurred to me that this is only of possibly theoretical interest and I'll know about later if it comes to matter.

There are some areas that I follow as-it-develops, but codecs and data compression is one that I'll use when ready. Still awaiting widespread av1 support/adoption.

The area most needing improvements IMO is with Bluetooth, especially Apple's support of codecs (where they're dropping support that worked in older macOS versions).
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Over the years, I have reads dozens of articles from young enthusiastic teachers coming into bad schools with the starry eyes and the determination to fix it all. The system inevitably chews them up and spits out a jaded exhausted cynic. Has nothing to do with the lack of salary.
We should somehow cram AI in it and lure sweet VC money.

Maybe a counter overlay on the stream keeping track of how many people got hosed that day, which would increment using computer vision, GPT and a very expensive production pipeline.
So...statistically insignificant difference from SA for most mail users.
Switzerland tax law is pretty straightforward and the cantonal (local government) tax authorities are known for being very helpful in explaining things to taxpayers in doubt, an experience I had more than once.
To anyone else jumping to conclusions:

First, please do not jump to conclusions.

Secondly, this incident was in Japan, not the US. Feelings about US ATC should not be a factor in this situation.

Third, wasn't there a recent runway collision (wing clipped a tail) in the US where the pilot was quick to blame ATC on the radio, but it turns out that pilot entered the runway without permission? (initial conclusions are often wrong)

Disclaimer: I am a US ATC - The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of FAA.
LLMs are like stupid savants who know a lot of things.

Leaving the requisite “no, that’s not what language models are, you’re misunderstanding what’s important here, the best knowledge model already exists and it’s called Wikipedia”
Not all of us are looking to jump jobs every 18 months to Moore's law our salary. Most of us want to focus on the important things like friends and family and hobbies and aren't playing a high score game with our finances.
I don't think the US is somehow denying China the same treatment. Why not compare to another country like Canada or Mexico? What's stopping China there?

We literally have "made in China" on almost everything we own...
I think that would depend on how China expects the conflict to go. If they're expecting a USSR-Afghanistan-style conflict, dealing with several generations of war-broken and missing men seems like a disincentive. If they're expecting a Desert Storm-style conflict, I doubt demographics play much of a role at all.
I would assume automation eases that quite a bit.
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Have you tried again after the update?

> As part of Apple's most recent updates for Lockdown Mode in June, the company added support for Apple Watch
Godot first merged support for RTL/BiDi about three years ago. It looks like unreal might also support those too but I can’t confirm that.
i reached the kill screen on Demon Attack on Atari as a kid. It was highlight of my early life
Off topic I know, but what's with the tonnes (nearly 70?) bullet points? It's like the author had a normal piece of text and semi-randomly decided where to split it into bullets, losing context and structure along the way. Some of the items are sequential, others are standalone. Some are paragraphs, others are tiny addendums to the previous point.

Cochrane sounds like a very unique character, but after the first few bullets I just wants to go and read his Wikipedia page.
> When you leave the company, you can just cash out the account

You can even get fancy and roll it over into an IRA and, if you have excess cash, convert it to a Roth IRA.
I love simple and plausible over complex, but there is a consistent trend over time in CG of adopting the realistic simulation approaches as we tame them. See my sibling comment about curl noise for examples of fake fluid flow, but I have to caveat that writing a simple fluid solver for generative art is pretty easy and a lot less demanding than for simulation or production work. A fluid solver is also, interestingly, less compute than Perlin or simplex noise. Those noise functions are quite expensive to evaluate at a point, compared to the amount of math needed to process fluid for a voxel’s timestep (I’m talking 1-2 orders of magnitude). You can amortize the noise cost if it’s static and you sample it onto a grid, but otherwise, surprisingly, it’s possible for noise to be a more complex and less plausible choice, depending on what the artist wants.
The above comment is just an incoherent, off topic rant. Ignore it - it's verbal diarrhea.

Employer match is "free money" (there's no "gotcha" other than vesting schedules) and 401k is a part of the American tax code whereas this is an article about Canadian payroll.

I presume they are complaining about the fact that employers actually budget their match it as part of total compensation or whatever. So it's "really just a part of your salary." Or perhaps they are just mad they have to put the match into the 401k and can't opt to redirect that part of their salary to a non-tax advantaged account. Who knows?
The formulas are published in a programming language called M. There is an open source implementation [1].

> There is currently no legal guarantee of any kind about the correctness of the code produced by the Mlang compiler, or by the results produced by the interpreter of Mlang. However, authors have been in contact with DGFiP to validate Mlang, and the system passes all the private DGFiP tests as of Sept. 2022 for the version of the source files responsible for computing the tax on the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 income.

[1] https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang
I was born in Alberta and lived there for the first 24ish years of my life, I didn't contribute much when I was there, but it would be something. I shudder to imagine the complications of trying to claim the amounts from that once I retire -- if that proposal happens. Pure insanity.
In fairness, nothing stops cryptocurrencies from cooking the books either. A public blockchain is only as trustworthy as the code it runs, and with L2 chains and inter-chain bridges it's a goddamn mess. You're correct that due diligence can be easier with cryptocurrency, but you'd be remiss not to mention the lack of standardization, legislation or regulation. If you get played, you have no safety net.

The stock market is comparatively stable because the dialectics of "scammer" and "businessperson" are more clearly defined. By filing with the SEC you are using your credibility as collateral with a central authority; even if we both agree that government mediation is a bad idea, it's been the standard since the ancient times and will probably continue to be valuable for as long as we have sovereign states and people that live in them.
Huh. I can't load the site on my work machine because it was flagged for "adult content".
Total Commander, or should I say "Windows Commander"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kye_(video_game) It was charityware and me and a friend pooled our pocket money to pay the 20 pounds when we were 10.

But, I pirated the vast majority of shareware I used as a teen (at least the ones with time limits or other limitations). Ironic considering that I released later a shareware myself.
One of these major “no closing tags” templating languages had been chosen for a Rails project I once onboarded to. I wanna say it was Slim, but it may have been another.

It was dog slow and it had some really stupid api you had to use if you needed to handle nesting that you couldn’t determine until runtime (on account of the no closing tags—use case: rendering a tree of data in a streaming-records sort of situation, not exactly a super-rare need).

There was a faster implementation, several times faster… but it achieved that in no small part by ditching the bits of the api that allowed you to manipulate nesting, so I couldn’t use it.

That project made me hate crap like this. HTML isn’t scary, hard, or even (in a halfway modern editor) slow to write, FFS. I’ll never ever pick this sort of templating language when it’s my choice.
Damn, that's crazy! Reminds me of the old Windows "pipes" screensaver, but far nicer.
Visit an ASPCA or the equivalent in your country, and be prepared to get very sad.
They won't. They have no mandate to provide a clear answer.
That’s cool. Canada implemented some kind of suspicious financial transaction agency thing only in 2000 (to stop money laundering and TerRoRiSM) and just issued its first fines to banks this year.

While large volumes of transactions have been reported, the agency mostly… well, took reports!

It can be a hard nut to crack and I don’t think governments actually want to find and stop the transnational kind money laundering.
In that case, it would be a new NFT, with its own contract address (and hash), and users seeking to collect the original token would not find any interest in a copy. You can test this theory yourself, by minting new CryptoPunks (or whatever) with slightly altered pixels—or even the exact same pixels—and see if anybody values them as highly as the original.
It would be very nice if they would publish a libreoffice spreadsheet, yes.

Heck, it would be very nice if they would create a libreoffice spreadsheet, even if they don't publish it. If they had to read their own document, it would probably be far better written.
A friend, back when he was a physics student, looked into harvesting lightning.

He calculated that it wasn't economically viable: tons of wattage, but for such brief timespans, that it doesn't actually amount to that much on a comparative scale. The cost of building the collectors and transporting the electricity (from ocean platforms) was much higher than the cost of using other energy sources. Iirc. It wasn't exactly a serious investigation by a team of engineers, but I basically trust his conclusion.

Maybe it will be more attractive in the future after we stop using hydrocarbons?
100%! I tried to set it at a level where it "feels" right, but you don't realise why.
I still have the receipts from when my dad bought GraphicConverter (with a carbon-paper credit card receipt in DM) and ZTerm for Mac back in the mid-90s.

GraphicConverter is still actively maintained today (although that license isn’t still good), and ZTerm lasted (with no changes) to the Intel era.
> Any smart spammer will just...

Spam is all about high-volume/~no-cost delivery of crap. Time spent tweaking the spam - to evade $Defense_1, $Defense_2, etc. - is added cost. Especially if $Defense_n is only used by a few of the prospective victims (folks too savvy or paranoid to be suckered do not count), then tweaking to get around $Defense_n is a losing strategy for the spammer.
I'm not going to ask a human - even a coworker - for every intellisense suggestion. Neither of us would get value from that exchange.
thanks for the links! especially the spiritual successor of Cantor Dust ;p
The point is that doing so would exacerbate their demographic cliff issue.
You missed 90% of my comment, and I'm not entirely sure why.

1. It's easily possible to limit cheaters to the same skill level as the top human players. Send no information to the client that they don't need, prevent super-human reaction times.

2. If all cheaters can do is play at the level of the top human players, matchmaking will automatically balance the game for you without requiring any further anticheat.

3. If cheaters have bots that play at the same level as the top human players, you could use the same bots as NPCs and have much better NPC teammates and enemies in singleplayer.
Are you certain the spam is actually coming from IP addresses controlled by those platforms? It's common for spammers to fake the SMTP headers.
This would be one way. Another way, which fullcalendar does, and which I intend to implement down the road, is Google calendar. You can actually use their calendar as a backend, and fetch the events from it to display elsewhere.
I was thinking maybe there's a pure CSS way to do it? That seems to be inline with the style of the author's blog.
These are shown and explained in the video.

tapping/hypertapping: what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

rolling: the same but tapping each finger on the bottom of the controller while pressing the buttons to feather tap the switch state extremely fast. like fiddling a mechanical keyboard key over the actuation point. The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and rubbing it.

DAS: the thing we did as kids to hold the piece up by holding down a horizontal direction.
Usually. Liveleak will show hundreds of exceptions however.
Is there an easy way to use that DOS style font on Linux in something like Midnight Commander viewer or neovim?

I like that font for binary files, it's more distinct than having a bunch of ? symbols for bytes 0-31.
In a small house you can move outlets. In a large building the space for every wire and pipe is accounted for. Moving the outlet means that the wires to it have to move and in turn that means a plumber later can't come in and put the pipe where it must go. In a house they solve this by having the plumber come in before the electrician (the order is much more complex), but in a large building you need them working at the same time or you will never get done. Even in a house you still need to plan the plumbing as often a pipe and a beam need to go through the same place - either the beam moves or the toilet moves.
i know a guy too
Commander Keen was my childhood and then later mIRC scripts were my life. My mind was blown by being able to program something that could interact with real people like mIRC. My love for coding started there.
anonym29 clearly articulated (better than I could) how the term Nazi has a historically well-defined meaning – and still does today.

The rise of the Nazis within the Weimar Republic and how they gradually accumulated sufficient power to carry out the holocaust is the classic lesson from history that we should never allow to happen again.

Over the past couple of decades (possibly longer), I’ve noticed people – both on the left (point-scoring and attempting to generate outrage) and the right (holocaust deniers and fellow travellers) – water down the meanings of political terms such as Nazism. These attempts serve the interests of actual neo-Nazis. The problem with labelling ordinary “American anti-immigration Republicans” as “Nazis” is that when genuine neo-Nazis advocate the use violence to resist the “Zionist occupational government”, referring to them as Nazis no longer carries the weight that it should have.
I'd be interested to hear about creative DRM policies were used. I remember some used a secret hash key that seemed to be easily cracked with cracker apps/software.
O'Brian & Forester wrote fun adventures in the golden age of sailing.

You can look a little further still to check out Dudley Pope's Ramage series.
Like… hiring people? I think it’s a little rediculous to say “no don’t use that screwdriver, go hire a workman instead.” To say the least, there are some sizeable economic differences between those two options
Remember the times, when manual for software application was bigger than actual application? And printed out. And included in package with software.
Well, I think the approach taken by the author - all dolutions are known and easy and people are just stupid for not just doing the obvious - deserves it, for failing to ask - and even better, answer - the obvious question of why nobody else saw it before and fixed if if it were so easy.
Setup requires installing the software on each terminal, plus the keyboard/mouse host computer. After all terminals are connected to host, the keyboard mouse inputs will be transferred to the selected terminal.

All connections are via LAN. The display of the terminals on the host is not included.
Aren't most the contradictions forms of ambiguity? Two overlapping scenarios where some sort of administrative ruling is needed to clarify which dominates. Does that count as contradiction? https://www.irs.gov/irb is full of this kind of stuff.
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Positive floating numbers can indeed be compared by their binary representation. The fact that incrementing the number by one gives you the next floating point number is a trivial corollary.
His other comment mentioned an "extension" so it's possible that he himself isn't responsible.
BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023
Man, I never completed the main set of that game. Something around level 15 just seemed impossible to me :D
One feature I wish Google calendar had is "weekend" view; a condensed view of upcoming weekends, hiding weekdays. You can hide weekends, but in my personal account planning weekends is more important to me than planning weekdays.
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I don't remember voting yes on any "starve the children" act, nor any of my representatives -- even though I suspect that my politics align with your "morally defunct" remark.

Some of us are more okay than others with society and life generating winners, losers, challenges, and hardships.

Do you have any outrage left over for the parents who brought children into the world without the ability to feed them?
They're afraid of failing because they are running on a treadmill.

The strength of Google and Facebook is that they have advertising platforms based on two-sided markets that are almost impossible to replicate.

Google's draw to get people to participate is evergreen: you're always going to want to search the world's knowledge and be entertained by video content. Even if Google fails to develop the next destination site, that site is likely to depend on Google for advertising, and Google's advertising project is quite fungible and can be applied to any site.

Facebook's draw is a particular activity that is less stable, that has a different "two-sidedness" to it. Small communities are interesting to their members because they are unusual in composition, for instance, young or LGBT friendly. When the community gets bigger it gets mainstream: today your grandmother is on Facebook and it's a good way for young people to share messages with her, not such a good place to share messages you don't want your grandmother to see. The "cool" people will move on and those left behind are "uncool".

They haven't really "failed" yet but they're absolutely terrified that there's going to be something cool someday that they can't buy or replicate in a way that Google isn't.
Both of those terms are explained quickly in the video, and have a dedicated explanation video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE
In order to get the "kill screen" on Tetris (or Pac-Man, etc) you need to play at an absolute master's level for an extended period of time

Also the Tetris player here (edit: arguably) isn't "exploiting" a bug. The game just literally hits a limitation that can only be hit via extended and nearly superhuman play
As the article says, it helps to develop an intuition for what the models are good or bad at answering. I can often copy-paste some logs, tracebacks, and images of the issue and demand a solution without a long manual prompt - but it takes some time to learn when it will likely work and when it's doomed to fail.
Yes but the well was poisoned by marking it for removal / obscelescent in the first place. Making it undefined behaviour is the next logical step after that.
>cheapest backend to store...?

Tweets to Self.

I text or email myself all the time, setup a feed to watch your tweets to yourself with the calendar events - it gets stored on twitter infra, accessible via browser, client, whatever, sharable, screenshotable and can be made private - and you just subscribe the calendar to that feed and replicate the tweet's payload into your offline, personal calendar from the feed.

Tweets are already timestamped - and for self and the following, BlueChecks can be used to ensure that event invites are only from validated people, or whitelist invites from only those you follow...

Others could invite you via tweets, and have "invites" show up in a bucket/panel in your calendar, and you can click to add them to the calendar and autotweet an RSVP/Reject via same.
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>Even my fairly financially literate coworkers have no idea what "withholding", "W-2" and "FICA" are. They think the employer "match" is "free money" and don't understand the fundamentals of a 401k. No idea who manages the money, where it goes, etc. And I work at a hedge fund.

Considering spending 5 minutes on Wikipedia looking up those terms would give a pretty good understanding, your coworkers only do not know because the do not want to know.
The EU has VAT (value added tax) which is added to each purchase.

At the end of the year, there is nothing to report and nothing to pay.

It doesn't get much simpler than this.
It appears his full CSS is as follows:

background-image: url(/css/noise.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: 182px;
filter: brightness(6);
opacity: 0.018;

In my experimentation with it, I can't quite figure out how he applies the effect to the whole page without it either dissapearing on adjustments to the viewport or affecting the pages text opacity.