skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This great visualization/article highlights one of my pet peeves with current game design--options for the sake of options.

I feel like the common trap for designers is to put too much stock in tag lines like "Over 700,000 different builds!"

You're dumping a combinatorial explosion of overhead onto players. If all those choices don't significantly enhance the core game experience, you as a designer as wasting people's time. Doubly so if most of the choice space can be safely eliminated by savvy players. The internet exists after all and someone is going to do the math. Why would you gate the competitive portion of your game behind convex optimization problems? Certainly not to make things more fun.

Some examples of these trends are load-outs in FPS games. Every gun now has
tradeoffs for sights, barrel, under-barrel, magazine, ammo, etc. and these choices only come after you've chosen a class/weapon. When the core of an FPS is tactical positioning and aim, these options feel like a cheap gimmick in order to milk slightly more time out of players. Franchises like Halo and Battlefield fell for this trap and have completely ruined their reputations.

You can still give players choices that _add_ to the core gameplay like counterstrike does with the round economy. If the entirety of a choice you're giving a player happens in a menu, that should be a red flag. The game design industry needs to less emphasis on statistics/combinatorics and more on gameplay/narrative.
The project was rumored to have 5000 employees. It’s too much of a leap to assume that nobody working on it was moved to other work. And while any layoffs suck, 12% or so not finding a new place in the company seems remarkably good for a defunct project in a vertical like automotive.
はい。
What does 'adopting azure' mean?
Currently there is nothing close to what myspace and facebook were like pre-2010. Telegram and WhatsApp are ways to chat to people, not see what they have been doing, or indeed what you have been doing yourself.
IaC is undeniably a good pattern for dealing with complex systems. The bigger problem is that it's not a solution for delineating responsibilities between software engineers and infrastructure engineers. All the specifics about an environment that need to make their way from software->infra (and in some cases the other way) still need to be worked out, and that's often a bigger problem than getting code to a box that always has access to a database (oversimplification).

I tried to outline some of these ideas in a post [0], full disclosure I work for a company solving this problem. Our approach is to treat IaC as _part of_ a broader abstraction for applications.

1. https://noop.dev/blog/build-apps-not-infrastructure/
This could be solved by mandating some sufficiently high return say 80%. Still losing proposition, but would make it lot fairer.
Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe)
>Doesn't make it unforgeable, bc you could intercept the hardware otp/signing protocol

If hardware driven attestation like that used by Xbox One is used, intercepting the protocol becomes impossible.

Preventing computing hardware from running unauthorized processes is already a largely solved problem.
Do you know this to be the inspiration for the artwork or best guess?
A Guide to the Total Solar Eclipse
Used to use it for contact-switches. You turn a knob, say four brushes slide across copper contacts to encode knob position. If you coded position in binary you'd be sparking several bit-changes which for some instants would jump all over the number range, e.g. from three (011) to four (100) could instantaneously go to seven (111) or two (010) etc.

Grey code would at most oscillate between the two values e.g. from 010 (three in Grey Code) to 110 (four in Grey Code).
> I hadn't realised that SM platforms basically no longer allow links

This isn’t really true in general: You can post all the links you want on most social media, though there are tenuous theories that including links will get you less promotion on certain platforms.

What is very true is that most social media users don’t like to click on links. They read the headline, look at the included image (if any), and assume they understand the whole story from that context. They jump to the discussion to comment about it or see what others are saying without leaving the site.

For people who just want to scroll and see a lot of different things, leaving the site to go in depth on 1 or 2 links doesn’t really fit their preferred social media operating style.

This holds even on sites like Reddit or HN, where you can some times jump into a comment section and immediately recognize that half the commenters haven’t read the article at all.
Zilore DNS Service shutting down on 14th July 2024 – heads-up for site owners
Received the notification below from them.

Definitely sad to see them closing, as for years the service has been very reliable and at least one of the best on the market.

The notice of termination of the Zilore DNS service effective from the 14th of July 2024

Please be informed that the Zilore DNS service will be completely discontinued on July 14, 2024. Until 14 July 2024, the service will be provided at no additional charge. Users who have annual tariffs will be recalculated and will be refunded any unused funds.

This decision was very difficult for us, since 2012, we have been providing services to tens of thousands of users around the world, and we have been doing our best to provide a stable, reliable and functional platform. Unfortunately, in the current conditions of low-margin business and the team's focus on other projects, we will not be able to continue to pay proper attention without compromising the quality of the product. Therefore, we have made such a difficult decision, and we sincerely hope for your understanding.

We apologize for wasting your time looking for another solution and transferring data.

You are welcome to use the functionality to export data in BIND format, except for GEO/Failover records (Select domain - Settings - Export).

Zilore Team
www.zilore.com
I don't know much about Elastic Beanstalk but bare EC2 instances connected to the Internet should fill anyone with dread. Securing the O/S and the network is not trivial and AWS will gladly let you do the wrong thing out of the box.

IaC doesn't magically solve any of those problems but if you make a mistake once you can fix it once instead of fixing it N times.
Fast development with full-stack frameworks and Cloudflare
I think to label YT, TikTok etc as pure consumption is not accurate entirely. I get your point, but on the ways they specifically differ from television is the ability to make reaction/response or whatever else videos. So for some at least it’s not pure consumption (even though it is for many users)
Making Sentence Embeddings Robust to User-Generated Content
Much of Europe has national ID cards, which at least provide a better baseline for identity than the USA. We have…social security numbers that are easy to fudge.
Death by a Thousand Opportunities
They're using more and more computing, but they are not changing into devices that are primarily for computing.
This is great! I wish this had been out a few years ago when I was changing jobs. For some reason even though there are a ton of Java jobs - you have to go through recruiters (maybe more old school industries).
If anyone made the claim that the tech was the problem, that’s just naive. I read all the reports as “the totality of the project, from tech to manufacturing to distribution to service to business model, was not viable”.
For me the query "!guix nginx" returns the following sites:

- https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Web-Services.html
- https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/nginx/
- https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Certificate-Service...
- https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Setting-up-NGINX-...

And some results from the GNU Guix mailing list. !guix searches with a custom lens[0] that I added for Guix specific documentation and resources like the mailing list archives, and the IRC log archives.

I can combine this bang with the quick summary feature (accessed either by adding !q to the search as well, writing a query that ends in a ?, or pressing the q button after loading the results), which is essentially the same as the info boxes that Google will add sometimes, except it only shows up on Kagi if you specifically request for it.

I have also mapped versioned documentation for some things to the latest documentation using url redirects[1]. I have also manually hidden or raised lots of sites that I don't care about or care a lot about. This manual curation makes it so your search results get better over time, without having something like Google try to deeply understand who you are and what you want to try to figure out what search results are best for you.

Kagi specific features have been very integrated into my workflow personally. I definitely find the subscription worth it.

[0] https://kagi.com/lenses/l7mPOuJp7zljHquBjsekFn6dM9Thw1A8

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
I was nearly killed last year by a negligent driver and sustained significant injuries. If the driver hadn't had a suspension, the cop would have let him go without any tickets whatsoever. He got one ticket for the suspension and was given a wrist slap punishment.

The cop ignored the testimony of an eyewitness who saw everything, turned off his bodycam for 18 minutes to ensure the witness statement wasn't recorded, and was conciliatory toward the driver, literally saying it wasn't his fault. The prosecutor issued me a notice to testify in court only three days in advance and was uninterested in knowing what happened to me or doing anything once the defendant and cop didn't bother to show up. The "trial" was held four months after the collision. The police department took five months to release the bodycam video.

Business as usual for the American injustice system. You don't have to bribe the police if they're already biased in your favor.
I have heard that some jobs were able to find a new home. The work that was needed for Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in the car, was adapted within the Vision Pro. But not all expertise translates easily.
More like Spy vs Spy [1] in this case.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-the-cuban-expatri...
Browser Rendering API GA, rolling out Cloudflare Snippets, and more
Oh, you nailed it. I was so excited the moment I realized I didn't have to struggle with that complicated CLI

I mean I've only done it once with ffmpeg but it felt so good
Where in the OAI TOS does it say you cannot subscribe to other AI platforms?
The ZiG would be "fully anchored and fully backed" by a basket of reserves comprising foreign currency and precious metals -- mainly gold

Meet the new currency --- same as the old currency --- but with a fresh coat of hype. Surprised they didn't throw in a dash of blockchain for good measure.
I honestly wish truck drivers had their very own highway. I hate sharing the road with these beastly vehicles. Especially those super aggressive truck drivers, that ride your butt and pass you when you're doing 80 in a 70.
I'm of the opinion they never really wanted to do a commercially available car. I think they only did enough R&D to get the new CarPlay software where it needed to be so they could start offering it to the auto OEMs.
I run Safari on iPhone 15 Pro, selection and subscribing works: https://imgur.com/a/zJ4qvo5

Can you tell me your iPhone model and Safari version?

Maybe if someone else experiences the same issue can also reply here.
I switched from TWM to KDE, I was running MkLinux on a Apple PowerMac. It took a while to build but when I started it up, it seemed amazing at the time.
I think you should read The Meditations, skip chapter 1.
PPPL builds first stellarator in decades, for research into new plasma physics
Your comment makes sense, but we have a real world example to compare to that I think is relevant: YouTube videos. They are not uploaded to torrent sites or other pirate download sites. The closest we have to "pirating" are Invidious proxies. And I'd say that the reason is that the proportion of garbage to quality is so high on YouTube, that pirates don't really want to touch it. If AI slop becomes a problem, it's not going to be included.

The incentive for publishers of AI generated books is that they make money selling them to people.
It is absolutely barely used.

I say this as someone who used it exclusively for 5+ years before giving up and using WhatsApp.

There is hardly even a comparison between Signal and WhatsApp.

Downloads != users.
I have a more mathematical / software oriented article about LFSRs here:

https://www.moria.us/articles/demystifying-the-lfsr/
"in mice", goddammit!
Links on social media depend on heavily on the algorithm, same as what he said about google, the reach a fraction of googles so unless your post went viral and gets retweeted/reposted it will have the OPs observation. Or you have a lot of followers and they their primary way to know of new articles is from the X for ex. Daring fireball, I only click into the site if Gruber posts it. Ever since he stop posting, I’ve never went back to check.

I wouldn’t give up on it but I would try some minimum effort to build up an audience
Terraform isn’t Ansible, and vice-versa. I’ve seen both being shoehorned to do the job of the other, and it isn’t pretty.

Terraform should spin up infra, period. The image it uses may well be custom-built with something like Ansible + Packer, and that’s fine – great, even. Terraform should not be used to manage configuration of the image or its applications.

Similarly, just because you can use Ansible to do anything (hello, builtin.shell) doesn’t mean you should. You should ideally make idempotent plays, of course, and if it gets to the point that you’re spending as much time post-provisioning as the TF deploy, consider baking a new image.
Infrastructure as code can be useful for complex systems.

These days, the cloud providers have pretty good abstractions that IMO diminish the need for IaC for many use cases.
I agree with your skepticism.

I think you're being realistic about the underlying adversarial dynamics. I.e., it's an arms race regarding recognizing AI authorship.
This reminds me of the anime "Welcome to the NHK"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYLsjJ8RThQ) where the protagonist is a hikkomori and works on creating a video game with his neighbor.
I remember reading an article[0] about how more than half of all "news" is spin.

It was done by an Australian newspaper, called Crikey.

[0] https://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/over-half-your-news-is-...

Here's the continuing series. They milked it for a while: https://www.crikey.com.au/topic/spinning-the-media/
It's much easier just to model this as an additional merchant "fee." If a card tends to dump fraud liability onto the merchant (and here we're talking about fraud that the merchant really isn't in a position to prevent, but the card issuer/network might be) then this simply increases the cost born by the merchant who accepts the card. Of course it's extremely difficult to estimate these costs, which is probably a desirable feature for card issuers/networks, since lack of price transparency is usually helpful if one wishes to overcharge for things.
Your resources are limited, DNA tests aren’t free and doing the footwork takes labor. The claim is evaluated, triaged, and then prioritized.

If we put more resources into the system, throwing caution to the wind is much more likely.
I work for the company that I want to work for which is on the other side of the country - yet I live in my home town close to my family & I was able to afford a home thanks to the salary / cost of life difference.
AI is a capability, self driving cars are a product for a vertical; AI is useful for many things beyond self driving cars, and self driving cars need a lot of ingredients beyond AI.

If we have to declare that self driving cars “are” a single thing, I’d say it’s manufacturing, not AI.
Brings to mind "mad cow disease" [0], caused by cows eating other cows (through meat-and-bone meal nutritional supplements in their feed)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
No, they genuinely tried with every Tesla reject they could hire.
Not at all, it’s a network. A new provider joining has security implications. You get all devices with Eduroam configured to auto-connect to your access point, for one thing.

You could say that that’s no worse than providing unencrypted Wi-Fi with a common SSID that people might have configured on their devices as auto-connectable, but I think the perception of Eduroam as being better than that (due to being encrypted) does exist.

To efficiently manage that, Eduroam is set up as a “federation of federations”. To join, you’d have to work with your country’s academic/research network organization (NREN), which are often affiliated with tertiary education institutions. These have very different problem domains than primary or secondary schools. For example, most people eligible to access Eduroam will be adults.
Show HN: Feedbrew – Swipe right (or left) on new products
Hey everyone, wanted to share my latest project, Feedbrew.

Browse products in a fun new way. Swipe right on ones you like and left on the ones you don't, similar to Tinder. Leave more detailed product feedback if you choose!

As a maker, Feedbrew gives you a way to get quick product feedback from a community of makers before launching your product to the rest of the world. You can also reward those who leave you more detailed feedback with a promo code.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
Yet others have done it. Reads like crying It's too hard for us!

More like, it would take too long to become profitable, and this company is not interested in long-term goals.
It depends on why you play though; the "combinatorial explosion of overhead" is only a problem if you're trying to min/max, if you play for fun it's more "What character do I like" or "What wings do I find pretty".

The most important thing: Don't tell others how to play. Don't tell them "you should pick X because it's the best" unless they explicitly ask for it. Let people play their own way, and don't push how you play games onto others.
To do what, exactly?
Because the capabilities didn't exist before then? Which part do you think is difficult to verify?
60kpps is a joke to the network stack, and by the time you'd reach 60Mpps, your problem is doing something useful with it, rather than getting it pulled off the NIC. If your game engine can handle even 10k players on one system, it'd be the gold plated unicorn with wings of game engines. Ask CCP (EVE online), they know a thing or two about this.
When I use social media apps, without ad blocking, links that expand into share cards look an awful lot like ads, which I never (intentionally) tap. I wonder if OP is seeing click-through rates similar to those seen by advertisers.
Except for the wheels and seats and oil and grease. Just like.
> the world's largest company

That would be msft currently.
Sway does the latter. When you have multiple displays, every workspace gets assigned to a display. When you remove a display, those workspaces move onto a remaining display, but, importantly, every window stays on the workspace it was on, so you don't get shuffling and rearranging windows. When you plug that display back in, those workspaces go back to that display. I get that there's no "perfect" way to handle this situation, but the way Sway does it is so much more simple and predictable than Gnome or Windows.
I feel that posting on Social Media is flexing with people you think are important.

But your customers and those people that are truly important probably aren't in your Social Medial circles.

Social Media is becoming so overloaded with noise from so many sources, it will be interesting to see when there are basically no important contacts to be made there.
Google Translate No Longer Needs Humans to Improve Translations
I guess more details would be needed to opine about it but it is hard to believe that a multiple trillion dollar company with 150000 employees can't do anything to keep 600 people no matter what they were doing :(
Time for binary sort or an elimination chart; take every character, compare them to another, sort them as to which one you prefer. Then assign a number to each one of them.
My goodness, this guy's English is fantastic! He's also super charming :)
git is fundamentally a sort of database. If people think about it as having a not-dissimilar level of complexity, use cases, and users to Postgres, the complexity shouldn't be too surprising.

Like anything used by a lot of people to solve real problems, it has warts and duct tape, but, honestly, git feels like the least troublesome part of my daily workflow.
Fair, but I just still can't believe it. It's not a core competency.
He certainly isn't in the top 1% of work-life balance.
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse
> I'm not sure how much it can be applied to just hobby reading.

It feels very real to me, in the circles I run in.
> Setting up 802.1X and RADIUS servers isn't much more expensive than setting up e.g. an email server

Often, this implies throwing out all of your existing access point hardware in favor of something that supports 802.1X/WPA Enterprise. You also need to build out a Radius authentication backend if you don’t only want to support inbound roaming.
Sounds way too complicated. Sexting fraud is much easier and Google can't sue you.
> „Apple is not a phone company“, „Apple is not a watch company“,…

Fun quip, but it is the second part of the GP's sentence that's key: "... and Apple is not willing to transform itself into a car company."
"We" – the US. Perhaps the title could be edited for clarity here?
Compared to the other examples, it's rarely used. For instance, Messenger has 3B MAU whereas Signal has 40M, which is just a bit over 1% of Messenger's user base, yet Messenger wasn't mentioned in OP among others which is my point.
TIL the word "ouroboros". Thanks!
What Happens When the Oxide Server Boots?
Consumers have the same access to goods in both the US and Europe, but Americans have a much higher carbon footprint.
Or even cheaper, there are little HDMI EDID emulation dongles. That said, you end up with windows staying on unreachable displays, so it's not always the best solution.
That is interesting. I have a teenage daughter too and never heard Snapchat mentioned. Some of here friends are on TikTok though, but we don't allow it. Communication is mostly iMessage, old fashioned phone calls and the MS Teams provided by her school.
Yes I did upgrade ssd, ram and gpu, not cpu/mb. I guess what I was really referring to is how the PCI express didn’t matter.
The danger is that a contaminated sample is recorded under your name and the other person commits a crime. Your freedom is contingent on the diligence of an underpaid lab tech.
Rhyme Is a Parity Bit
And also, thank you for packaging.
They could outright buy some reasonable profile existing manufacturer.

But actually entering the market and getting Apple like margins and volumes... Very doubtful. Cars are significantly more expensive than even the VR headset or top of the line computers.
Brain Mimic: Write grounded emails in one click
Amazon Kills 'Just Walk Out' Development, Leaving Skeleton Crew Behind
The industry (OpenAI, DeepMind, et al) are not seriously working on generate AI. Thats a phase. They are working on AGI. AGI definitionally includes all human cognitive capabilities and that includes vehicular operation and real world interaction (in form of embodied robots). It is likely possible that even self driving cars can be done safely without needing AGI with sufficient scale, and I don’t think it’s that far off from happening.