skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does the server infrastructure actually look like for these games? "Just release server binaries" kinda implies there is a simple .exe file that an average user can run to host their own server. In today's age of cloud computing, microservices, and serverless computing, I'm not sure if it is as simple as the suggestion implies. Especially for some of the bigger companies that likely have their own shared infrastructure across games. For example, is it even possible to separate the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare server code from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 server code?
Wow, amazing work!
Citi DoubleCash is 2% on everything, no hoops, no annual fee.
The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists
I replaced a crummy spring/latch one with a Zoji induction 3 cup and I would never go back to the old one. Rice is always evenly cooked and never stuck/toasted at the bottom, keep warm with tracking of elapsed time, countdown to being done, plus flexibility for lots of different type of rice and grains.

Could you do the job with a cheap one? Sure, but you can always make rice on the stovetop as well if savings/space are a big priority. This is a convenience appliance, and the convenience of the fancy ones is a significant improvement over the basic ones.
They also wanted to send a few thousand to Hyde Park in London.

I'd like to see that!
If games are going to do this, they should have to put the end of life date in marketing materials.
I really should not have to go to the FAQ to understand the actual point of what they are hoping to achieve.

The front page should make it clear that they are not advocating for servers remaining up indefinitely (which is a valid assumption given the wording on the page). An FAQ should actually answer questions not be where it tells you the point of the site.
Weigh each customer/cart going in and going out. Make sure the weight of each item is a prime number. And... remove any restrooms from the store.
I don’t think the political factor is as big as you’d think. Norway is an oil country and has a really high share of climate skeptics. Yet EVs are selling very well. I think most people will drop their political objections to EVs the moment they find them practical and/or economical. All it takes is a few friends that have them and take you for a ride.

Clear drawbacks? Absolutely, but that goes for many technologies that follow an S curve (logistics curve)

Cell phones was bulky and expensive to start with and until surprisingly recently the audio quality was awful.

I’m not entirely convinced of the “second-hand car” factor if there’s a downturn. There’s only so many second hand cars. Eventually they break down to the point that it’s not worth maintaining to maintain them. Having cars at all means there needs to be a stream of new cars coming into the market.

The economic factor could easily go in favour of EVs very soon. A small electric car built from the ground up to be as cheap as possible could soon compete with ICE on purchase price. Like a Tesla Model 2 with 48V architecture and LFP batteries, and similar models from other car makers. The main reason we haven’t seen these models yet is that there isn’t enough battery manufacturing capacity in the world to satisfy the demand such a model would generate. But the shovel is in the ground for these factories right now. If you look at the list of battery factories being built for the automotive sector it’s insane. “Gigafactory” was a mind-blowing concept when Tesla first built their GWh scale battery factory just a few years ago. Now there’s countless GWh-scale factories being planned and built all over the world.
In an economic downturn I’m not going to be switching my car from an EV to an ICE that costs 4x on fuel.

Interestingly the running cost was what swayed my sister. She was highly susceptible to all the political stuff you mention - she will swallow anything the right has to say about covid, immigration etc but you can’t argue with the fuel savings on an EV.
FireWire was very widely available on Macs of the era, which is why it made sense amongst other things. (USB 1.1 is very slow, FireWire could also provide power, Apple invented FireWire)
Also, most extant text (and even more extant illustration) doesn't have to be good
SCOTUS to review state-level consumer protections
> That's an issue

This seems obtuse.

I suppose I think it's fair to ask the broader question: Are we only going to address the precise issue which caused the `xz`, or are we going to finally address the related elephant in the room? Too many are doing unpaid work which benefit the largest, most profitable corporations which have ever existed. And not only are they unpaid, they are generally treated like garbage by their own FOSS "communities".

I think there comes a point where many say: This is simply ridiculous. I love open source. I appreciate the opportunities it has afforded me, but the lack of dignity afforded developers and maintainers is grotesque. It's unsustainable and will collapse in upon itself, if the big players don't right the ship.
I did something similar a few years back. Basically converted binary data to a matrix and printed it max res (1200dpi inkjet), also wrote the software to read it like a QR code (with perspective & error correction etc). You can easily save several MB per page. The theoretical number is much much higher for color printing, but is gets very complicated (inkjects are basically stochastic with regards to dots, YMCK balance is finicky etc). Also some time after that project I noticed that some gov agencies use printed "QR" codes to send sensitive data (ie biometrics) from office to office in the traditional mail format. It works, but so do floppy disks and nobody's using them anymore for a reason. It was a cool project though.
I find the Autosleep app to be much more accurate than the Watch's native sleep tracking.
One way for addressing this concern is (stateful) stream processing, for instance using Kafka Streams of Apache Flink: using a state store, you ingest the CDC streams for all the tables and incrementally update joins between them whenever there's an event coming in for either input stream. Touched on this recently in this talk about streaming data contracts: https://speakerdeck.com/gunnarmorling/data-contracts-in-prac....

An alternative is feeding only one CDC stream into the stream processor, typically for the root of your aggregate structure, and then re-select the entire aggregate by running a join query against the source database (discussed this here: https://www.decodable.co/blog/taxonomy-of-data-change-events).

Both approaches have there pros and cons, e.g. in terms of required state size, (transactional) consistency, guarantees of capturing all intermediary states, etc.
...or a stalking horse by somebody in Microsoft's marketing division.
Surveilling Alone
i dont see how that solves the issue you describe. if i delete an icon from the floro repo and my code in git imports this icon and renders it. floro cannot do anything to help there. the only consistency floro can enforce is if i use a color from a color set in an icon in floro and remove the color, it could complain i have to first change the color in the icon. but this sound like a really minor inconvencience vs not being able to do everything with git. or is there a concrete example where this would matter?
Depends on whether the generators are running, or if the power company it's hooked to is using coal, oil or gas... or when the standby generators spin up, if they're one of these.
Did some googling, looks like a: Marantz Superscope C-105?
Performing Muggu
I was wondering about this too, but I think they're not colliding. I think they're pulling towards each other and getting tightly pulled around each other so they end up slingshotting and flying back the way they came, in a way that looks like a bounce.

You can see this in the very beginning of the simulation, with the blue and green dot.

Can anyone say if this is actually accurate? It seems like an unintuitive motion to me, but I'm often surprised by how these things work.
It makes the game go a lot faster, that's for sure. It lowers the barrier to entry by a lot, while still requiring the same modes of thinking.

There are a ton of chess-like games out there that have small boards and play times of 10-20 minutes. IMO as an everyday thing to do with friends, they're a lot more fun than chess.
I never heard of using a literal flash to reprogram EPROMs, but this wikipedia entry[1] makes your story for the origin of the term “Flashing” seem likely

EPROMs are easily recognizable by the transparent fused quartz (or on later models resin) window on the top of the package, through which the silicon chip is visible, and which permits exposure to ultraviolet light during erasing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM
I Had to Take Down My Video Because YouTube's Editing Tool Is Broken [video]
Not expected this from a security company :P
Please fix/update your certs :)

```
https://foundationalsec.com/

Unable to communicate securely with peer: requested domain name does not match the server’s certificate.

HTTP Strict Transport Security: false

HTTP Public Key Pinning: false

```

Screenshot here -> https://postimg.cc/gallery/cdQsCzd
> let's say I want to hire my first salesperson

If you don’t know the criteria for a good salesperson for your product you don’t know enough about the problem you’re solving and shouldn’t hire anyone, yet.

Similarly, if you don’t know exactly what to build to solve a problem (= you haven’t already validated it with low tech tools) you shouldn’t hire an engineer to build anything.
Show HN: App Store Top grossing ranks by country with history
We've developed a free app research tool for app store top charts.

Features:

- Top grossing, free and paid ranking charts with history.
- Filter by country, category including history.
- Search for an app to see if it's being ranked in any country under any category.

Useful for:

- Researching a company's traction before applying to one.
- An app developer to identify opportunities and trends in the markets and countries.
- You are a reporter researching on apps.
- A spectator to see what's happening in the app store these days.
I'm trying to understand the benefit of tackling this level of functionality at the WAL layer instead of the LISTEN/NOTIFY or TRIGGER ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE layers
And keep-warm. Most of the reason I use a rice cooker is so I don’t need to monitor it or try very hard to time the finish right.
A Taxonomy of Data Change Events
Luckily, my occupation of collecting gains, dividends, and interest is on the order of playing Snakes & Ladders, so it'll (at least according to Munroe) be difficult for an AI to outdo me: https://xkcd.com/1002/
"I don't want anyone to shoot them, but I also don't want to otherwise think about them or take any other action."

This might be hypocritical and lame, but I think it's the prevailing feeling among the voting population. Maybe the German government could balance it's trophy ban with some in-place elephant sponsorship.

Also I can't imagine why you'd expect to get an interesting comment from PETA.
My friend, that is not how public companies work.

Every common shareholder is an equal, you don't get to launder jet travel the way he's doing - that's securities fraud.
It’s about 2.5 times as much memory, if you do base 10. 65k is a little less than 5 bytes to represent 2.

But floats are not the right representation for values that need to exactly match, like an ID, to be sure.

If I’m off by half a cent it’s annoying. If I’m off by half a row I get nothing.

The thing is that almost all of the problems we had in my initial story came from choosing system defaults. All except the PK algorithm.
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If you are afraid that LLMs will replace you at your job, ask an LLM to write Rust code for reading a utf8 file character by character

Edit: Yes, it does write some code that is "close" enough, but in some cases it is wrong, in others it doesn't not do exactly what asked. I.e. needs supervision from someone who understands both the requirements, the code and the problems that may arise from the naive line that the LLM is taking. Mind you, the most popular the issue, the better the line LLM is taking. So in other words, IMHO is a glorified Stack Overflow. Just as there are engineers that copy-paste from SO without having any idea what the code does, there will be engineers that will just copy paste from LLM. Their work will be much better than if they used SO, but I think it's still nowhere to the mark of a Senior SWE and above.
Disappointing aspect indeed, but the battery is only relevant to people that use the clock to set cooking times a lot AND ALSO keep their rice cooker unplugged. The intersection of those 2 groups is likely minimal, and the slight inconvenience of setting the time for the aforementioned group is not that bad.
Yes, lots and lots.
As you may be aware, 100% broken code cannot be merged. However code that works 99.99% of the time can be merged and then weeks later it fails once but you rebuild and it passes. There are a lot of different ways this can happen.
Spite is the greatest motivator. Many a book have I finished reading because damn it, I'm not folding.
Awesome project. What are you planning for text and font support? Some graphics engines don’t support all the ways you might want to display text. Will we be able to load OTF or WOFF2 files and display arbitrary strings? :-)
How to do Product Development the right way, the Experimentation way.

As a new Experimentation Engineer at Miro, I discover a world where curiosity and data come together, revealing endless possibilities . Sounds a bit cheesy, but bear with me.

Here's an intro to Experimentation, and why I'm excited about it. This is supposed to spark your curiosity, and is by no means a comprehensive guide to this topic.
I have no clue why at this point in time major outlets give PETA the time of day, especially when considering the fact that they kill exponentially more animals than any other non-farming organization in the United States. A morally repugnant organization of hypocrites.
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=295a4113-b3be...
Samsung already offers virtualizations and containerization via KNOX for you to run apps you don't fully trust safely without disk and shared memory access, on their midrange phones.

Surely Apple being wealthier and selling higher priced phones, with even more powerful SoCs can definitely offer similar security functionality for non-IOS appstores. The reason they aren't is they want to push the security boogieman scaremongering to defend their monopoly.
> potentially a highly compact way to store large 3D scenes.

Is it? So far it seems like the storage size is massive and the detail is unacceptably low up close.

Is there a demo that will make me go “holy crap I can’t believe how well this scene compressed”?
From earlier response, the HOA I mentioned was along Long Island Sound so much more northerly. Our trees were a good 30+ years old. They were somewhat sheltered from high winds, especially when younger, by the nature of the buildings (two story row houses). It wasn't until the canopy reached a fair bit over the rooflines that they really started coming down in thunderstorms. That no parked cars were crushed was pretty much a miracle.

And spot on with the no grass underneath...and the homeowner complaints about dirt in front of their units ("if you pay to take it down and replace, we'll let you!")
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that improved ability to apply such development practices is one benefit of using a plugin-style architecture for isolating the programmatic steps of your build pipeline. It's not perfect but in many ways it's still a significant improvement upon just allowing arbitrary code right in the pipeline definition.
That exists, that's the TOAD2 from XKL. It apparently even runs TOPS-20.

You can try one online at SDF, besides their SC-40 systems, which I think are also FPGA based.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/109824572356590874

Or you may want to get a PiDP-10, they will have an FPGA version soon to replace the RPI.

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-pidp-10-is-finally-don...
I always flinch when I see Xcode written with a capital C!

The post is interesting otherwise.
Sure, before circa-butterfly keyboards. Then it was only "the recent OS version has bugs" gripes.
I don't know anyone talking about web3 and crypto. It is as good as dead.
‘Strange attractors’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor

“An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure.”
7/10, 9h on battery, pricey – review: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 12, 2024)
Botswana’s government website seems to imply that many elephants migrated there from the north because they were much safer from poachers there than in Namibia, Angola etc. or rather that they used to seasonally migrate across the border but stopped because of the poachers. Now the risk is much higher but younger elephants got too used to living in Botswana. To be fair this doesn’t sound entirely inconceivable and in theory those elephants probably could be considered to be refugees..

Also I guess humans were hunting elephants for thousands of years keeping the population “in check”

* https://www.botswana.co.za/Botswana_Wildlife_Behaviour-trave....
Hypothetically, which ticker symbols would you buy put contracts on, at what strike prices, and at what expiration dates? As far as I can tell, a lot of people are betting a lot of money that you are wrong, but actually I think you are right.
This is hypnotic. Literally put me to sleep
The hololens isnt used for anything, the only mainstream uses are games and pornography
Oh! It looks like they are officially supporting API access but not GUI access in at least some EU countries (including Sweden):

https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries
how is the last message march 31? does this thing update live?
My local grocery store replaced about half the human checkout lanes with 3-per-lane self-checkout, and about 90% of the time I go shopping I don't have any line to wait for. The problem arises when they try to do a 1:1 (or nearly so) replacement.
Show HN: Edify Web Services – a digital backpack
Hi Everyone!

I’m Stefan, a 25 year old entrepreneur and I would like to showcase Edify, a platform that helps you show what you know. We offer a digital version of one of the most famous tools on the planet called the Backpack, something we all used to store and share our knowledge at some point, through which you can share any creation on our internet sphere! We feel like we could freshen up the current state of the internet by helping content creators share way more types of content than what the internet currently allows (basically creators can only monetize photo and video creations).

I go into more detail here:

Commentary: https://youtu.be/JttxuOIrtZo

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fJXlPDH0bdE

App: https://edify.ws/ (we are technically live and ready to use, but we are a very small 2 person project currently)

This is our 4th iteration over the past 7 years. We first created this app for schools, but they didn’t show much interest. Then, we thought about linking knowledge people share with people that need help, but we soon realized that we need to give people a reason to post knowledge which lead to our current iteration where we hope to help content creators unlock more of their potential by being more flexible about what “content” on the internet can be.

Let me know what you think, we have also applied to YC with this project so if you like this vision perhaps you can show support for us to YC! Thank you :)
I was thinking more of a fix to the issue of "who the hell's maintaining this package our distro/service/whatever is based on" than a way to make money. The bigger projects (like the kernel) and vendors (MS, IBM/Red Hat, Canonical, Google, etc.) all have a vested interest in knowing the actual identity and basic personalities of people who maintain the important packages. If maintainers avail themselves for a weekend at a conference twice a year (or maybe even a lighter commitment like a few short meetings with a manager) they get some resources for their efforts. The flip side of this, of course, is that these organizations will prefer to include packages from maintainers who agree to this arrangement over those who don't.

Furthermore, these organizations are in a place to put experienced, trustworthy contributors on projects that need maintainers if need be. If Lasse had been able to go to, idk, the Linux Foundation and say, "Listen, I'm getting burnt out, got anyone?" and they said "Sure, we've got this contributor with an established record who would love to help maintain your project", none of this is happening right now.
Tests get run as often as they get run. There's no rule that says that you have to run them less frequently if they are slower. It's not 1994. CPU time is cheap.

Realism is much more important than speed. A test that catches 20% more bugs and takes 5 seconds instead of 0.05s is just more valuable. It's simply not worth economizing on CPU cycles in 2024.

Yes, DI can make sense sometimes but definitely not all of the time.

The people who have ultra fast unrealistic tests inevitably end up leaning on manual testing as they experience bugs which their unit tests could never have caught.

>there's no cure for writing bad tests. you just have to write better ones.

Better means more realistic, hermetic and less flaky. It doesnt necessarily mean ultrafast.
Yeah, I had had the same question! One of my earlier articles experiments with this: https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/09/qr-error-correction/

Figure 8 and its surrounding section are the undamaged case.
Maybe we need to up our game then. That could very well be mergekit and clever prompting. Their comment history bends in the direction of content engineering and will get less discernible the more accounts are doing it.
Found an example to play online with a bot! https://www.chessvariants.org/play/jocly/los-alamos-chess
Yeah sure for personal projects. I personally use cloud flare pages and workers, and my own UI projects.

The poster asked about the enterprise tier.

Do you put a team of a few devs / million plus dollars per year or 50k.
Not that well. You have to extrapolate from when the first first deep sleep occurs in comparison to other nights.
I have some type of pear tree in my front yard that look identical but they don't have any of these drawbacks.
Any suggestions or favorites?
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