skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each point is next to worthless, but if you shop at Sainsburys regularly you can build up quite a balance which can be used for very real money off.

There was a court case some years ago about an IT insider at Nectar assigning themselves points fraudulently and then spending them. He received a pretty hefty prison sentence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12189919
One of the big US supermarket chains allegedly offered their entire loyalty database to the feds in the wake of 9/11.
Agree it's closer to early medieval than late medieval, but Post-Roman Europe contained 50m-ish people in countless villages and surviving towns that might not have written enough down to interest chroniclers, but would have been very much in evidence to anyone walking down from Northern Europe to Turkey to deliver a ring!

Whereas Tolkien makes a point of emphasising how depopulated areas are. It's not that he simply avoids mentioning settlements where nothing interesting happens, it's that he makes a point of the Fellowship being isolated for the majority of the journey, and mapping and naming settlements that were supposed to be tiny military outposts or a lone abandoned inn or completely irrelevant to the story.
> The fact is the desires are harmful all by themselves.

You only asserted this, but provided no justification. The desires are dangerous, yes, for the simple fact that someone may decide to act on them (with real children, not dolls).

Regardless, we're not arguing about the desires, but about sex-bots. The desires exist independently of the sex-bots.
I only ask because your post begins "if you have prime".

Resolving a situation where a different, cheap, unusable item is delivered is absolute basic customer service which was paid for when GP bought it, regardless of how frequent/premium of a customer they are.

You can't shop at costco without being a member, I don't see how that's related.
Quest 3 doesn't get you a 4k image and you can get a 4k Tv for less than the Quest. It's almost just sharp enough for text but not quite. I don't think you can really make the claim that the Quest 3 is good enough. Probably the Quest 4 though.
It forced you in a crappy phone provider with unlimited data.

Having a better than average phone browser wasn’t such a big deal, having a browser you could use without thinking about it was huge.
What are the dangers of graphite lubricant?

I lubricate my keyholes with it but there is always some that gets left on the key, and I tend to fiddle with my keys at my desk sometimes.

Occasionally I’ll get some of the graphite on my hands, or possibly even breathe it in I’m not sure. Should I be more careful with this stuff?
WhisperLive builds upon the Whisper model; for the demo, we used small.en, but you can also use large without introducing a bigger latency for the overall pipeline since the transcription process is decoupled from the LLM and text-to-speech process.
This is utter horseshit. As someone who writes cross-platform native (desktop) GUI code, there's nothing about Apple's GUI system that is substantively superior to the one on Linux that has any relationship to XWindow being the underlying implementation or not. Apple has also had to continually evolve their own GUI toolkit(s) because they also failed to adequately target certain new expectations that arose as time passes (animation being a good example).
I did that for Python, and now I do it for PHP as well.

Trivial to set up but ends up being a huge time saver, especially when reviewing junior colleagues code - don't even ping me to review your code until you've managed to convince the static analyzer it will work!
Do you have a link to the .NET community work?
> mmmm. so, like, we've had deep fakes for half a decade.

Shhht, don't tell them. They just found out.
True, but that begs the question of why every trucking company doesn't pay as much as Walmart.
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You couldn't tell that this article was about the US? "FBI" and "JFK assassination" didn't tip you off? Did you read the article?
One Hundred Mondays
As said, another example of cherry-picking. They smoked a vape, therefore it must be vapes. They got the vaccine, therefore it must be vaccines. Rinse and repeat for whichever argument.

What is worse, pointing out these selective facts generally makes people become defensive, so they dive into searching for more cherry-picked arguments as ammunition to prove themselves right, rather than accepting that they might actually be wrong and objectively looking for information. It is the core of the problem of politics on both sides and we can easily see how extreme it can make people regardless of the thing being advocated.

Cherry-picking and self-reinforcement go hand-in-hand.
What I meant was that based on what they said in their previous post ("[g]iven a transform T and a point x, we can find the transformed point with T∗x") and the interactive graphics, I felt certain they meant a linear map.

I agree it's sloppy, at least a reference or something should be given if one doesn't want to spend time on the full definition.
I believe that came from the official translation for paul graham's essay, but their site is down now and I can't confirm: https://penelope.jdsfriends.com/DWYL_francais.htm

Not saying it's correct, but it's definitely only going to be as good as it's inputs. If we gave it a bad translation, that's on us! Sorry
1 atm tested up to 300K (26.5C / 80F).
Matches my recollection of it. iOS 3.0, which launched alongside the iPhone 3GS, is when it got copy-paste functionality.

Apple has historically been very comfortable shipping devices without "table stakes" functionality - waiting until they have an implementation they like.

Or sometimes never shipping it, and leaving it to third parties. My iPads still don't have a calculator app.
Most drivers are running a fixed route. You (or often you company) has contracts to make regular deliveries. Most companies that ship something ship the same thing every day to the same customers.

that said, there are a lot of deliveries that are not the same thing to the same place. while they are a minority overall, there are still a lot. If you work for a big national shipping company (WalMart is not this even though they are national) you can ask for a delivery to anywhere - they always have a single delivery to some random location. Though if you want to go to rural states - many other drivers grew up on a farm and truck driver is one of the few well paying jobs they can get without a degree on so there is a lot of others wanting that. (If you want to go to a big city there are plenty of delivers and less drivers with reason to want them)
Parents can make accounts to use on collaboration with their children.

The law prevents the corporation from directly engaging with the child without parental oversight.
Insurance companies would love to have their hands on it or banks.
Or there is a batch update in there somewhere - which given that Nectar is over 20 years old and probably based on older systems I suspect would be a distinct possibility.
I just don't get news at all. Never watch TV. Never read newspapers. Never listen to the radio. Never read news website. Never use social media. I _did_ do all of that, but it has never been useful or actionable in any way so I stopped, for the better. I am confident that the important stuff will eventually reach me.

Basically, all I care about is trafic conditions, extreme weather warnings (rare around here), the date of the next bulky trash collection, and information related to my trade.
That's true, however I'm not sure I trust "Big Tech" to self-manage this system. After all, "Big Tech" are the ones that forced us into needing this legislation in the first place. And they don't have a great track record at protecting PII.

The federal government already has all the info it needs to run an ID program.

But, I'd be open to debate on who should do it.
True. Luckily it's open source. You can do `npx curlconverter --language go example.com` behind a firewall after downloading the npm module.
I can't even get into my account, I registered with fake details, but they send a code to your phone number to log in online.
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While working on other projects, I found myself spending a lot of time making dashboards to visualize my apps’ data. I tried many tools like Retool but generally didn’t love the UX: I had to write SQL queries, retrieve the data in a specific format, and repeat the process for every single chart.

It was kinda tedious and time-consuming, so I thought that using AI could make this process much more efficient.

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So far, it has helped me to save a lot of time building my own dashboards.

Today I’m launching the “AI-generated dashboards” feature (so far the process was still sort of manual) and I’d love to hear your suggestions or feedback.

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The way I see it, there's a tradeoff to being algorithmically profiled. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc profile you, and in return you get a time-sink, and some moderate recreation (and possibly some societal disadvantages in the aggregate).

Sainsbury's give you 1 nectar point per £ spent in store or in petrol. A nectar point's average value is a half penny, but annually they put on an offer to "double up" your points. That's a full percent off your annual petrol and shopping bills (more if you include the algorithmically generated offers).

The typical UK household spends £1,500/yr on petrol, and £6,500/yr on groceries, so the trade-off is that they give you £80/yr to profile you based on your preference of beans.
That's exactly what they're doing. And as a side effect, everyone wanting to maximize profit means that everything costs money, and that means everyone wants money, and that means money is hard to get!

At least, it's hard to get for people who don't happen to already be at the top of some empire.
Honestly, I think what worked best for me was CSV import. The downside of course is that I cannot easily edit or add to the deck in this way.

I should emphasize that in the process of going through the deck I was able to improve quality significantly. I changed many of the photos and added helpful notes so the script was really just a means to get the initial deck. A lot of the creation process occurred as I was reviewing and editing.
This exempts almost everyone and everything. lol
I think it's a reasonable complaint and I think that there should be some "strict" annotation that forces python to do that type checking before running the code, which should be completely backwards compatible.

Let's think of this in a deploy environment like kubernetes -- if you don't have such a check, then you could deploy code that fails _at runtime_, causing an outage, because someone made a mistake with types.

If you fail _at startup_, then the deploy will never go healthy and will fail, leaving the old pods still running, causing no interruption in service.

And yes you _should_ have this check in CI, but there's no reason not to have defense in depth.
Something regulator should ban and then heavily fine any supermarket engaging in this.
Yes. I don't remember the details but they also adjusted the power management to basically make it sleep until the right conditions happen, once they could confirm the angle of the panels.
I have a Garmin Marq that was my 20th anniversary gift from my wife. It's my second smart watch. My first was an Apple Watch that I wore for a bit and then left in a drawer and eventually forgot about it. (It was a great device and well made, but the use case for the watch just wasn't optimized for what I used it for.)

The Garmin just unobtrusively (app-wise, physically it's pretty beefy) does what I want it to do, and I'm also totally comfortable going away for a week and not brining a chargers. I'm also comfortable wearing it in all circumstances.

In lower power mode, it lasts several weeks, which is great since 95% of the time, I'm using it as a watch.
In what way would that be even remotely useful?
This is an industry with multiple subgroups. What you describe is more common in US or Western Europe. The profile of talent from other countries has changed the mix somewhat.

If you are from East or South Asia, a US tech job comes at the end of a grueling competitive educational, hiring, and visa process. If you really struggle with self-promotion you'll get filtered out.
There are many times in physics where people have thought they've had to choose between either one thing or its opposite, where both choices had clear deficiencies. The ultimate solution ended up being a new hybrid that nobody thought of for a long time.

I kind of suspect "is the universe continuous versus discrete" will come down to that. I don't know what a hybrid of such things looks like. With our current conceptions it seems impossible. But it always does, before the breakthrough comes and then in hindsight all the people of the future will get to look back at us going "How could they not see this obvious thing?", to which my only defense is that you, dear future reader, only think it's obvious because it was handed to you on a silver platter and you'd be as confused as we are if you were back here with us.
Hey thanks for the kind words! I have to also give you props back - Manabi reader is awesome, I've known the project for a while.
…or mp3 players or wireless headphones.

But all those markets became much bigger after apple entered them.
Lost me at calling WD40 lubricant.

I know it's for keeping water away. I use it for that purpose on my swords. But why isn't it a lubricant? Maybe it's not the best, but it can serve that purpose.
You left out the preprocesser (RNA transcriptase) which takes the config file and transcribes it, possible modifying some bits in-place, before it gets to the ribosome.
Why South Korea should be your next 'workcation'
Same with Detroit.
Like Tesco, Sainsbury's has prices that are exclusive to Nectar card holders.

They also have some personalised prices, where you get targeted special prices if you have a Nectar card.

Not using a Nectar card in Sainsbury's will mean paying more.
Most supermarkets in the UK now have cameras at the till, so if you pay cash, they still know it is you.
Laws are getting stricter. Around the world, there is increasing regulatory requirement for businesses to actively investigate user behavior (tracking!) to identify and exclude underage users who are concealing their age.
Apple is at its best when serving me, and building software like Safari that protects me from predatory conglomerates like Google.

Apple is at its worst when acting like a predatory conglomerate itself, shoving crappy payola recommendations in Music, and squeezing the app store as a revenue-maximizing monster.

Netflix would be crazy to spend a penny supporting Apple in any kind of new-media venture.

I'd love to see an anti-trust breakup of the media side of Apple from the systems + hardware side.
The other part of this about “saving” points for anything that I’ve learned is that they will generally never increase in value. Most companies are not going to give millions of dollars away by doing that, so it’s usually worth it to spend the points as soon as you can, to recognize their current value (and not less.)
It does mean that now, because most people don't know the "correct" definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonplussed

Similarly, the definition of blasé has changed since Lord Byron first used it in 1819, since most people don't speak French and don't know exactly what it meant.
Chinese depends on a similar language feature. You might have "two 隻 dogs" but "three 本 books" because books and dogs have different measure words. I believe this is more important in Chinese than English because Chinese overloads relatively few sounds to represent its vocabulary, so the extra word paired with a noun helps disambiguate it from its many homophones.
I don't entirely agree with going after SaaS as an addictive "thing".

SaaS solved the issue of: I want continually improved and supported software, but I don't want to pay $5000 (or whatever fee makes sense) upfront for it.

I used to work for a CD / DVD / Blu ray mastering company that powered pretty much every major movie release (mastering), and every consumer CD burner (drivers).

Meanwhile, people call in complaining that X is broken, on a version we released 6 years ago and no longer maintain. Since we had to float 2 years of revenue per customer, a license was around $3000, meaning smaller shops hated upgrading...

To claim that now that they're familiar with our software, all their processes use it, that they're "addicted" is quite the leap.
Tauri Mobile seems far from production-ready, but more importantly, the reason to use something like Svelte Native instead of Tauri Mobile is to avoid web views in favor of a platform-native experience.
People can learn things even if they would rather not. Allowing them to take shortcuts will diminish their learning opportunities.
Of course, you must realize that if you substitute "entry in the bank database" for "points", your (pun intended) point is still valid. Obviously, you also need to change "they are only cash once it has hit your bank account" into "they are only cash once it has hit your wallet/purse".

(Technically, exactly the same can be said about paper money, too, with "they are only cash once you have it in gold/silver coins".)

(All that said, I agree with you - only I find it funny that you don't trust some store but trust a banking system or a government. Yes, I know that trust(private company) < trust(bank) < trust(banking system) < trust(government), but neither is 100% (or even very, very close).
> there are only 132,740 computer programmers across the entire US

Source? That feels extremely low, maybe even by an order of magnitude.
Software update broke the (already very bad) fingerprint scanner on my 6a a few updates ago and no fix in sight. It feels like they're just focused on churning out devices and the quality has suffered tremendously. It's death by a thousand cuts and after resisting for a decade I think I'm ready to try jumping to apple.
Unfortunately Tesco's loyalty scheme requires an app, which is far more invasive than knowing I regularly buy cat food at Sainsburys. So I have a Nectar card but not the Tesco app.
int 3 is actually is a single byte opcode operation, 0xCC.
All other interrupts are two byte 0xCD <intr_num>.
> Modern big open source projects are an entangled mess of subsystems, dependencies, opinions and sometimes plain ego

Do they differ in this respect from "Modern big proprietary projects" ?
This will come to a head when dynamic pricing becomes the norm. You'll pay more for formula and baby vitamins when you need it the most.
Hard to say.

I think the most interesting feature of the AVP is the eye tracking which could not only project your avatar to the front of the device but might be able to make an avatar good enough that you could jump into a Zoom call from an AVP. That's one of those things that would make it possible to travel and pack an XR headset instead of a laptop

That eye tracking though also supports dystopian scenarios such as being able to change the world right from under you by only changing things you're not looking at, "reading your mind" by seeing what catches your eye, etc. The kind of thing that makes people afraid that Facebook is involved with this.

The Quest controllers work great for a range of applications. Hand tracking has come a long way since the painful experience of holding your arms up high so the Hololens 1 can see them but I don't know if AVP's hand tracking will really be as versatile as the Quest controllers and Apple's the sort of company that will go down with the ship because they think there is something unclean about a design... But on that other hand they've got that battery pack.

The Quest has really good VR games and also the kind of media apps that this article is talking about. MQ3 came with a great MR demo game: they opened up the API for MR apps as soon as the MQ3 hit the street but they have been slow to get third-party MR apps through the app store, I just got my first one the other day.

The Quest's graphics capabilities aren't that great by modern standards, certainly if you are a serious gamer with a powerful gaming PC you have seen games that are much more detailed and impressive... I would say that the graphics of Asgard's Wrath 2 are pretty similar to those of Metroid Prime. On the other hand there is something really special about being in a space.

The AVP is a lot more powerful and on paper could synthesize better graphics but it's not so clear to me how it works out in practice. I think how the 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you travel in a huge world with no loading screens in a Playstation 2 with 36MB of RAM... An experience which is still uncommon despite having phones with 1000x the RAM because it is a lot of work to tune up graphics. Similarly you see most of the games that are on Xbox and Playstation and PC are also on the much less powerful Switch.

Part of the reason Horizon Worlds has failed is that they were trying to make an easy authoring experience that would be accessible to people who don't use traditional 3D tools which comes with all sorts of limitation, not just in the amount of geometry you can have or the number of players, but that you can't bring in your own textures. In the end it all has to fit in RAM in the headset. Maybe you pay 7x as much for 7x the capacity on an AVP (so a world could have 140 max players instead of 20) but often you give people more resources and they just waste them... Look how cloud gaming never developed exclusive titles that did anything that you could only do with cloud gaming.
> having a browser you could use without thinking about it was huge

This right here. People forget things like roaming and data charges. $500+ phone bills were not uncommon for business travelers. Data charges made smartphones almost a non-starter for the average person. Apple broke that logjam.
How to stay sane while working from home
This is not so much the Svelte equivalent of React Native as it is just one of the wrappers for NativeScript (https://nativescript.org).
I put in fake names, addresses, email, phone numbers, and demographic info on mine.

My personal favorite was Tommy Tutone and the number I used was 8675309 with a zip code of 90210.

Lasted for a year and then they deleted it.

I'm a little less flippant now.
Likewise for cosmetic surgical modification of the penis by a doctor, or puncturing the earlobe by a non-medical-professional.
If you do any sort of automatic attempts to discover parallel texts (and I can't understand how you can support "any show" otherwise), you're going to run into the problem of terrible translations, most of them made with machines.
I'm learning French too but I can't see the mistakes you're pointing out... What would be the correct sentence?
Not listed so far in replies to this question: "Contact the original artist and ask them if they'll sell it, or commission them to make another"

Hi, it's me, the original artist :-D and this thing is taking up a lot of space in my 1-room apartment.

I'm not sure if I would want to sell it or not, but I find it funny that the business bitches here are talking about costs to hire someone to clone it and/or set up a factory before suggesting to talk to the person who actually did it.
FWIW, the makers of WD-40 claim it is a lubricant[1].

1: https://www.wd40.com/myths-legends-fun-facts/