skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or at least it would if it didn't bundle YouTube together with YouTube music
There's an Art of Manliness podcast that talks about this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/homeownership/declu...

It really opened my eyes to the fact that most of what you value or hold dear will have no value to others, especially if it can't be resold. As a practical minimalist (rather than a strict one) it's informed my personal practices a fair bit.
Yes that’s a good question and something I’ll take into account when reviewing. TBH these reports are all the obvious ones. Like straight up aim lock or spinning. I basically just took people queuing with them because they 100% know they’re cheating. You’ll notice there are several that have “needs more evidence” and I personally viewed the stats and found them inconclusive. I tried a demo but it was expired so it got the needs more evidence status and I emailed the reported to add more context.

If there is someone you see that you feel is misreported I’m happy to explain or delete it if wrong. Maybe I need a “contest report” feature so you can make your case for why it’s a false report.
I relate to this. So many hours burned on WoW in my teens and twenties…

After hitting 25 or so it progressively more difficult to play with a clean conscience. Despite having a good job and secure finances there was an ever-present voice in the back of my mind prodding me to do something productive any time I played for more than a few minutes.

Recently I’ve been able to spend time playing again guilt-free, which I’ve done by accepting that there’s only so much productivity I can squeeze out in a day without risking burnout. When I sit down to play it’s after I’ve hit my “quota” of productive activities, and so I don’t get the impulse as much.

I still don’t play nearly as much as I did back in the day, so I’m not raiding or anything like that, but it’s enough time to mess around with alts and such.
Would those not be covered by PM2.5? PM2.5 has also decreased in the Bay Area (removing the effects of the massive fires of the past decade). Particles from physical wear are many orders of magnitude larger than molecules.
FGO is an online game though, editing saves isn't a thing because the data you'd need to edit is all on their servers.
Computing systems are built in layers. The text field that you used to write that comment has a rendering layer that was only universally present across devices and operating systems about 8 years ago.

We are now operating in an environment where the average programmer is writing using frameworks on top of frameworks, on top of libraries, on top of SDKs, on top of containers, on top of VMs, on top of OSs, on top of hypervisors, on top of kernels, on top of microcode, and that's collapsing a bunch of the layers.

To have any hope of explaining to the next generation how many of the truly beautiful and fun aspects of computing systems operate, you need to strip away many of these layers.

A great way to do that is with old systems where the layers didn't exist.
I think the biggest problem with retiring to places like Mexico is the healthcare.

When you are young, cheap healthcare from the government is sufficient. When you are older, you need to have access to doctors and hospitals that can properly diagnose things like cancer before it's too late. This involves equipment that many places just don't have.
the lack of resistance to RTO from many political perspectives has been stunning tbh
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You’d need to apply for a role at the company and then it would be situational and perhaps not immediate.

There’s no easy option that I’m aware about and just getting a US offer and having a US employer to help with immigration does not guarantee much —

You might be eligible for an O-1 if you possess graduate qualifications, publications or meet other options. “Person of Extraordinary Ability” essentially.

You might win the H-1B lottery.

You would not be eligible for an L-1 unless the US company has a subsidiary entity in your country, you work for that as a full-time employee for at least a year before applying, and then you (and your role) meet the bar for Multinational Manager/Exec or Specialized Knowledge Worker.
I was in the south bay from 1985-2003, and the air quality seemed decent. But every time when I biked up Mt Hamilton and looked down into the valley, it was like looking into a bowl of thin soup. Talking about it with a friend who grew up there (he was born about 1960) he said the air quality used to be absolutely atrocious.

Although it is easy to lose hope about so many things heading the wrong direction, air quality is something which has improved substantially, and of course it would be great for it to improve even more.
I'm not surprised that a linear regression estimated by a method that knows it should be estimating a linear regression would beat everything else.

The traditional OLS estimator in Excel has all sorts of classical optimality properties when its assumptions (normality, linearity) are true, so no fancy neural net can outperform it even in principle (the only way to outperform it would be to have an informative prior for how you generated the data set's parameters). So if the LLM's beat, or even matched, Excel in that case, they would be thinking too narrowly.

Same with any other models where we know the form of the answer up to some unknown parameters.

If we want parameter estimates, that means we already have a functional form in mind. In that case, we get to use established statistical theory to design optimal estimators, whether by Bayesian or other methods. Black box neural magic wouldn't help (or it might help indirectly, in computationally intractable cases).

What we would want the LLM's to do, ideally, is explore the space of known/possible 'patterns' and perform well in situations where the underlying relationship exists, is not known in advance, and is known not to have a simple form we can describe. Much like they (and we!) produce text without being able to describe why they are producing that particular text, we would expect them to make those predictions without being able to explain them in terms of parameters and functions - not without a whole other layer of explainability machinery.
I wonder how quickly companies move to let the employee go after something like this. Do they offer to pay for a lawyer, or just quickly drop them as soon as there is an investigation started.

They could probably make a joke about "our accountants know how to think outside the box" but that probably wouldn't go very well at all.
Would, not will

Reasonable to infer OP meant -- "In a world where a significant number of people meaningfully knew that Windows/Mac aren't the only game in town"
Honestly? Good. Anyone doing this sort of work willingly deserves worse.
Very funny. This one:

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commits?author=thesame...

https://github.com/thesamesam

Seems like he's a Gentoo contributor.
It's like these so-called "tech" companies want people to believe the internet is useless without their "assistance".

As if no internet user could ever retrieve news from its source through the internet without using an intermediary website that performs surveillance, data collection and sells ad services. (And makes more money from ads than the news source.)

"Without intermediaries, this internet is useless. Cannot find anything. Cancel my subscription!"

Yeah, right. The internet is incredibly useful. "Big Tech" is not the internet. It's just a giant leech.

Why is "Big Tech" putting the squeeze on news organisations, killing off an essential function of a democratic society. What, are we suposed to stay informed via amateur blogs, Facebook pages and YouTube channels. It cannot kill the news businesss off completely, at least not yet, because it needs news organisations to produce the bait used to lure ad targets to its interstitial websites.

In the end "Big Tech" will have to pay. The only question is how much. The "We will cut off the news" negotiating tactics exemplify the total lack of humanity of the people behind the scenes at these intermediaries. That's what happens when someone spends their entire life in front of a computer screen.

No doubt these people believe all news is untrustworthy, worthless. No wonder they do not want to pay for it. Without that news product, they would have far less traffic and far less profit. Why else would they continue to intermediate it if it is not worth anything to them.

"Big Tech" needs to get into the content business or get out of the way. It's content that www users want. They do not care about some intermediary that has nothing to offer. Using these intermediaries to get content is just a means to end.

Not surprising that we are seeing an idea such as "generative AI". Copy content from others and then generate "new" content without having to pay anyone.
That's why you price it at $7 and down to $3 during sale
A Horde assault phase that sticks around is doable if you add client modding into the mix.

The possibilities are really endless. It’s totally impractical but the thing I’d like to do is a “unified” Azeroth that treats all the continents as a concurrent whole, much as Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms were with the original game, instead of most continents being siloed expansion experiences.
A couple of weeks ago, I set up this exact thing for a restaurant. Simple and free. I had app script build the site on updates. So they could edit it any time, it would trigger a rebuild, and redeploy as a static site.
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Nobody wanting old wood furniture is a boon for people looking to get nice furniture on the cheap. Check Facebook marketplace, craigslist, wherever people sell used things near you. Furniture doesn't really wear out, so other than a few scuffs and dings it will probably be just like new (except for things like couches or recliners). I managed to get a Henredon dresser that retails for something like $4000 new for $400. All you need is a truck or van and a friend to help you move it.
I started playing with a pirated copy of VB3 on my computer and asked my parents for a programming book for my upcoming 12th birthday. My Dad got me a copy of Learn VB4 in 21 days on Oct 26th 1997. I was extremely excited until I saw the 600 page tome and felt overwhelmed. He died in a car accident around 1030pm on Oct 28th, right before my birthday on the 29th.

I spent the next few weeks absorbing that book as a way for me to honor his persistent career/life advice that I use my mind rather than my hands. I'm 38 now and haven't stopped coding.
This isn’t the way. The way is to allow private servers/matchmaking with your friends. Make friends outside of the games to play with. Smurfs and throwers and racists and mic djs and all of those people are your experience because devs decided rando-army matchmaking was a good idea. It’s not.

Also, you will never have a cheat less video game. There will always be a way. And if you don’t think there is, then they can continue their current iteration in perpetuity.

It’s too easy for someone to pull out their credit card and buy a cheat than it is to catch them.

I don’t play FPS games anymore because every lobby is full of them. Tracking behaviors and putting them into their own tier of matchmaking is one way. Detecting modifications of memory and banning is another. The issue is that most game devs are using an engine and the engines themselves are vulnerable.

Private servers, self-hosted servers, are the way. You get admin control and you decide who you want to play with.
Right, Neural Networks were considered simply an academic curiousity for about 65 years.

Disregarding the past is simply ignorance.
I consider it bus mastering when the endpoints initiate the transactions
Trying to create my own Tibia private server with my younger brother back in the day. Learned about mysql, xampp, apache, ports and such.
Usually their stories are pretty horrible for someone.

And the balance things out, the register is the home of the bastard operator from hell, clearly the inspiration for the IT crowd TV show
Correlation ≠ causality
Normally folks only put holes through the lifted up/corrugated sections (so as to minimize the likelihood of leaking) so all the area in-between (the larger flat sections) are where the electronics/solar arrays would go.
At first I was for cars with higher MPG.

Then I was for more mass transit.

Finally I realized it'd be cheaper to move work closer to where we built houses for the peons to live instead of close to where the boss lives.

Nothing closer than a home office.
Because those things are not a problem for everyone and a reasonable tradeoff. If you want a large SFH like in the American suburbs move to the Inaka. I'd argue that your question is part of what's at the root of the housing crisis in the anglo world
found in the sources that babylon.js (https://www.babylonjs.com/) is in use.
>Are the modified Pokemon being used in competitions?

Interestingly, it's pretty much standard for competitive Pokemon players to use hacked Pokemon because of the crazy time investment the game demands to train Pokemon with optimal stats and movesets legitimately. They use free methods to do this though.
I think the concept is somewhat fatally flawed, so I don’t really have any suggestions about how to improve it.

I totally get that I’m just throwing a bunch of problems at you without providing solutions, sorry I know that’s not very fun to deal with. It definitely shows through that you are doing this with good intentions!

I hope you figure out solid solutions to the issues… if in five years I’m playing on servers that use a version of your system to do a better job of keeping the cheaters/griefers off, I will definitely owe you one!
I’ve seen some google zero day vulnerability hack analysis and those looked out of this world but this hack must be one of the all time
Take apart old junk, especially machines and electronics. See how parts fit together and what types of problems different parts solve (gears, latches, springs, molded plastic, wiring, PCBs, etc)
Read "the goal"
Smurfing and throwing is totally subjective though. I've played on really bad days that someone could classified as throwing and then I regained rank quickly which someone could clarify as smurfing. I've also tried playing some moba and after my 4th game I got placed in their cheater purgatory. Why? No idea, I didn't even understand all the game mechanics yet. So yeah, I would totally expect grey area, even with human review of the demos.
It's a little more complicated than that. A long time ago delayed comments actually showed up in the API, leaking their contents early. I reported this to 'dang as it obviously broke the purpose of the feature, and at some point the behavior changed to returning "[delayed]" for a bit instead of the actually contents of the comment. I assume changing things to indicate that the comment wasn't available yet was more work, and this was an easy compromise.
> Scalability is often at odds with peak effectiveness

This is the astute point of this article. It transcends the domain at hand: interchangeable software developers. It basically hits any professional talent pool. It even applies to various tools, machines, products we use in every day life.

The question one has to ask is what price one is willing to pay for scalability. And whether you’re paying for something you really need or not.
My uncle bought a TI-99/4A when Texas Instruments were blowing them out for $49 around the summer of 1987 or so. Played Parsec with the voice module and that was it - I was hooked. I needed to figure out how it did this. Started with the BASIC programming books that came with the machine.

Begged my parents until they bought me a Commodore 64 with a 1541 drive. I go a subscription to Compute's Gazette and typed in programs and figured out how they worked. Graduated to Richard Mansfield's Machine Learning for Beginners (https://archive.org/details/Compute_s_Machine_Language_for_B...) and I was on my way. And poured over the 'Antatomy of the Commodore 64' which had a dump of the annotated ROM firmware and poured over it to learn the machine inside and out (https://archive.org/details/The_Anatomy_of_the_Commodore_64/...)

And finally - dove into 'The Kracker Jax Revealed Books 1, 2, 3' (https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/the_kracker_jax...) to learn all the protection schemes and how they were implemented to work around them. This taught me all of the tricks of disk access/memory compression, encryption and obfuscation. This really showed me a lot of how low level coding to control micro controllers/memory access/hardware level coding etc.

I had about four friends in school from 4th grade to high school graduation that had 64s and we would spend lunch and recess discussing what we learned/hacked/discovered the night before. Sure we were outcasts - but then we were so obsessed within our little world we could care less about the petty teenage drama around us.

Good times. I miss those days. I look at kids today and feel kind of sad that they lack the opportunity and/or the patience to do anything like that.
Thanks man. would love to hear any feedback if you have
There were a few candidates for this like "GENESIS - Godly Emulation Not Encountered, System Is Sacred", but that sounded way too biblical (you get my point), or "SANCTUM - Sacred Assembly for Navigating Computing Technology with Unity and Majesty" which was too long and felt almost condescending in a way and both didn't feel like it expressed what EXODUS does clearly enough.

After all, it's EXODUS is an "exodus" of the TempleOS kernel from ring 0 to 3, so I rolled with it.
I like going to estate sales. Sometimes you find interesting things.

But mostly, it's just piles of, frankly, crap. And in a weird way, it's sort of helping me deal with some of my tendencies to collect crap. Once I'm dead, 75% of it will be thrown away by someone hired to deal with the estate, maybe 50% of the rest will be sold, and the rest will once again go in the garbage. That screwdriver I'm keeping even though it doesn't work well? It's going in the landfill anyway. Might as well go tomorrow, as in 50 years.
This couldn’t be more wrong the past is extremely important especially in the age of abstraction
Oslo, Norway's capital city, has a goal to be carbon neutral by 2030. So they're keeping track of these things[1].

From that page:

The statistics shows that the direct GHG emissions from road traffic have been reduced by over 15 percent compared to 2009. The change is mostly due to an increased adoption of biofuels, increased share of electric vehicles and a renewed car fleet.

About 38% of the cars currently driving in Oslo[2] are fully electric (with an additional 6% hybrids).

[1]: https://www.oslo.kommune.no/politics-and-administration/stat...

[2]: https://www.klimaoslo.no/klimabarometeret/veitrafikk/personb...
> Even old wood furniture -- no one wants it. Old PC or Byte Magazines? Forget it; they're all over.

I think the former is pretty true, but old PC magazines are still important to keep around.

For one, they can be digitized to take up virtually no physical space (unlike furniture). Secondly, once digitized and OCR'd to make searchable, they're a valuable resource for finding out when certain products or technologies became available, for what cost, and sometimes include contemporary reviews.

In the more distant future I think there will be some value placed on historical tech in much the same way people still spend time researching medieval times and earlier. Having access to these documents will be important for future researchers and whatever their goals may be at that time. Furniture - less so. :)
I have always used it to mean how large a codebase you can create without complexity growing out of control (of a fixed sized team).

But I do like your usage too. We do need new words here.
Initially I read that as "Exploiting others"...
That's an interesting ethical question. I am tempted to agree that there generally is.

You can argue that the giving of a gift is a final act, that the gifted item belongs to the recipient now, and that since you're morally free to do whatever you want with what belongs to you, you are free to do with the gift as you please, including tossing it out.

But gifting is imbued with meaning beyond the mere transfer of ownership. This is obviously true in the case of gifts between people: tossing out a sweater hand-knit for you by your grandma is at the very least an asshole move, and I would argue that it's just wrong because it would cause her pain to know that. The sweater has meaning beyond being a mere sweater; particularly so because of the care with which it was made. A collection like the one we're discussing was likely accumulated with care, it held meaning beyond the economical value of the magazines or journals that constituted it.

Some donations (especially monetary?) are made with not so much care that it matters; but an extensive collection of magazines, by a person invested in the community, to an organization that is supposed to archive (and continue a legacy of looking after old stuff), to me fits in the same ethical landscape of the sweater gift - even if the receiving party is an organization rather than an individual, even if it's a "donation" rather than a "gift". I think we usually displace ethical agency away from organizations, especially for-profit companies, but they should be held accountable for their actions towards the community they supposedly serve (or service). A duty to not be assholes was violated.
Im not proberts, but I can give you a personal anecdote, I changed jobs 4 months after my GC arrived and they didnt ask about it during naturalization. I had 2.5 years total in that job if that matters
Not always. I passed hiring committee but couldn't team match in multiple companies because of hiring freezes/layoffs. Recruiter told me that the majority of candidates would not team match. But somehow they still needed all the h1bs.
In the first post he absolves a certain guy, so I’d guess it’s just a matter of someone in the org thinking they were valuable, only for the next guy to come to a different conclusion.
This is great, but Suno does often skip or hallucinate words so it may not be the most accurate way to memorize Pi.

I was experimenting today with turning Feynman lectures into beats with Suno, so far I've barely made a couple of usable options, but it's very promising.
Every time someone makes a simple solution for a problem on this website someone else points out that a much more complicated option already exists.
I wouldn’t blab, I’d just share the bunker’s armor specs with my buddies on the War Thunder forums.
> There are now prominent people in tech suggesting our next generation shouldn't learn coding because that'll be done by AI.

If people listen to that advice, then we all have nothing to worry about.
Just buy a lab unit from CDW. The American website annoyingly has a "call us" for pricing but a PA-440 is $979 CAD for comparison.

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This is from February. Hopefully it's been dealt with!
EV technology is pretty much "there", for day to day living.

What I'm looking forward to is (what I hope will be) an explosion of creativity in EV design. Once the base platforms are there for 3rd parties to build on and people don't care about squeezing out every last mile of range (because it doesn't matter), cheaper and more fun cars will emerge.
Well yes, in the strict sense, that's what it says: you are better off extracting labor from others via the wage relation. You could swear the headline was written by a doctrinaire Marxist.