skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that it requires a small amount of mental energy to perform the 'optimal' play in every situation. The obvious example is doing basic arithmetic to calculate whether you should block more or attack.

At first, the game feels like it's deterministic with sprinkles of randomness, however, at high ascension levels it is the opposite - random chance until you get a broken deck that makes winning trivial. It's a slot machine.
True, also they are doing a job. Most of them are only there for a couple of days before they are off on their next flight.

Not sure what the schedules are nowadays, but my uncle was an airline pilot with KLM and had a schedule which was 5 weeks work, 4 weeks off.
He did that for about 20 years.
Despite Powell's almost cringe worthy rage against "liberal racism", at least his responses had force of personality behind them. The interviewer's questions show a distinct lack of awareness. An interview only works if you're setting the stage for the interviewee, not for yourself.
Everyone generally does that before sending the design to the fab.

Not to say that improvements and doing more with less are impossible, they probably aren't, but it's going to require significant per design human effort to do that.
I had some similar strategies:

1) Write the WHERE clause first

2) Run a SELECT on that WHERE clause

3) Edit the query to make it either update or delete as required

Similarly, I only ever perform recursive filesystem commands using find and xargs. I run the find first, then hit the up arrow and pipe it to whatever I want to do (I learned that one from a very patient sysadmin after I accidentally chmod'd -R / 664)
Right, I wasn't trying to give you one. I was simply saying that it doesn't really change my idea there. I contended that Bush pushing it brought in some toxic partisan politics. You pointed out KKK pushed it earlier. I assert that is the same thing, just earlier. Different form of toxic discourse, of course, but still a toxic association.

And, of course, "guilt by association" is a named fallacy and is really all I'm pointing out as being at play here.
Minecraft is not an online game, it has a multi-player option sure.. but it doesn't strictly need to be online. There is a single-player mode since basically forever..
> Stephenson’s “System of the World” books

Minor nit: “System of the World” is the third novel in the Baroque Cycle, after Quicksilver and The Confusion.

I really enjoyed these books for the SF world-building perspective on the emergence in the 17th Century of modern science and finance, global trade, communications, etc. Many of the normal comments on Stephenson’s writing style apply, YMMV.
If you think about it, PQ it's like Snakes and Ladders.
This is really great work, I will try it out. How do I reach out if I have questions?
Hi I’d like to try plugging into Tribbler as a content backend for beastie.fi, which seems to have similar goals.
That's about semantics, not performance. I don't think Matz would say that a goal of Ruby is to prevent you from improving performance using whatever knowledge you do have about the compiler.

In this particular example, the fact that assignments return the value of the right-hand side is well-known and used frequently in Ruby code. The fact that arrays have to be allocated is obvious. The fact that allocations have a runtime cost is obvious. The only thing that isn't obvious is that the return value allocation of assignments whose value isn't used are optimized away. If you know that, you'll think of appending the nil to activate that optimization. Characterizing the lack of that step as a "mistake" only makes sense if the goal for your code is to maximize performance -- which in this case, most unusually for Ruby, it was.
>I have no reason to doubt my common sense experience.

That's why people thought the Sun moved around the Earth. I mean, it's just "common sense" -- you see the Sun in the East in the morning, and then it's in the West in the evening. It turns out "common sense" is not useful for understanding how things work.
The post from Tuta did speculate that given the timing, the issue may be related to DMA changes. The issue is that they can't even reach a human at Google with authority in the associated systems to understand the issue.
This has its place, e.g. on a completion of a game or some such.
Concur OPSEC is not great, there is an easy to follow insertion vector. Imagine instead if he got a burner phone, made a new TikTok account and posted this tagging a few students.
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams goes into this subject and describes how one processes all experiences during sleep through dreams.

Everything gets connected and stored away. Repeated every night. The knowledge you have gets connected with the new information you receive. The more knowledge you have the more valuable new information gets. At some point there is simply very little new information about a topic and the topic bores you.
When WOW Air closed down, they refunded European tickets but not Americans. We ended up doing a charge back with our credit card. I was a little pissed at first but ended up getting a cheaper flight to a better starting point for our trip to Europe through Air Italy (which coincidentally closed down a year later).
I know what addiction is, of course I’m aware that there’s a biological component. I quit smoking, I have many friends who quit drinking or doing drugs. It was incredibly hard, but I did it. Some of them did it.

I met a young guy while I was backpacking last year who was quitting heroin cold turkey. He was back packing to quit - he’d simply chosen to walk out of his home and go without heroin for thousands of km from the trail system by his home in France.

He was a nice guy - I wonder what became of him, but still, he chose to simply stop. I think you have a lot more agency than you think. Yeah, things cannot be undone, but you can definitely will yourself to change a great many things. It’s just hard and our body resists doing hard things.
That’s a marketing video. Cut and edited using only good HD footage. You think that’s realistic?
The Ethereum blockchain is a powerful tool for developers, providing a platform for the creation and deployment of smart contracts. With the increasing popularity of decentralized applications, there is a need for an efficient way to explore and analyze the Ethereum network and its associated contracts.

Fortunately, there are some great tools available to help with this task. Etherscan, Ethplorer and BlockScout are three of the most popular Ethereum contract explorers. They provide users with an easy-to-use interface for exploring Ethereum contracts, and offer a variety of features to help users understand the blockchain.
Why does causing a moral panic have a lower burden of proof than dismissing a moral panic? Do you believe in God?

(Also I didn't mean it to come off as both sides have made up concerns. I meant it as both the concern and lack thereof camps are based solely on individuals’ priors.)
Please check it out, and let me know your thoughts—don't be shy with your feedback!
Idk what they do differently. My bill for the same, actually much more usage was constantly a fraction of what it is in CA.
Every time I've done a project using an ORM, I wound up either writing SQL directly or spending a long time trying to make the ORM do what I knew the SQL should do.
The reason I don't run TOR exit nodes is that I neither wish to support criminal activity (of at least certain types) nor do I want to get entangled with law enforcement for doing so. Since this is TOR-like, what are my legal liabilities if I am running this software?
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One significant event not mentioned was the failure of AMD’s Barcelona server architecture in 2008 or so. Opteron had been deep g Intel on its toes, and Barcelona with nested page tables (hardware memory virtualization) would have continued their run as a strong server competitor. But there was a bug in their nested page tables that would occasionally corrupt memory, and they had to sell it as the gamer Phenom, turning off the virtualization support. It took years to recover.
It's a core part of the early editions of D&D: Roll 3d6 for each stat. Or maybe 4d6 and drop the lowest. What class/species would those numbers work best with? Make up or randomly roll more details.

Traveller was infamous for the ability to have your character die before starting the game, but pretty much every early RPG followed D&D's lead in generating a character's basic stats, and possibly more details, with dice.
We are rapidly advancing towards the logical conclusion of the post-modernist question, “What is truth?”

Mobs will always remain dumb and quick to anger, so this will not be an isolated case.
Obligatory mention of ELv2 not being open source (not OSI approved!).
I spent about 5 minutes (incl watching the demo) and I still don’t quite understand what this does.

I’m probably not in your target audience, so maybe the issue is with me. But I think you should consider clarifying the use-case and value a bit.

It’s one of those things that should probably be immediately obvious to anyone working on SaaS. I was curious so I spent some time on it, potential customers may not be as forgiving and might give you just 10-20 seconds.
I too think ORM was the wrong approach. I still enjoy SQLite - its not perfect, but every time I see it being used I get the warm and fuzzies.

We should have just built better libraries around using/targeting one flavor (SQLite, e.g.), instead of wasting time with bad libraries that transformed one bit of bad code to another bit of bad code and ran it on a database engine that wasn't even doing it right...

When you solve a problem, you solve it at its source, not five miles away with a teleprompter. If relational algebra is what we should all have been using, then relational algebra is what we should have been optimizing for, not overpriced SQL database engines.

To shamelessly steal from another comment here:
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-re...
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sq...
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> Right. There is no proof on either side—either that AI is capable of organically morphing into a super-intelligence or that it inherently isn’t. It’s not formal.

You're right that there is no formal proof, but the conclusion that humans have not reached peak intelligence is pretty solid. Based on evolutionary arguments, we're broadly only as intelligent as we needed to be to reproduce.

If humans are not at peak intelligence, it then follows that something more intelligent is possible. It's similar to how birds are necessarily not the fastest objects that can fly, and jet planes and rockets show that artificial systems can easily surpass the inherent limitations of evolved biological systems.

The only wishy-washy part of the AI deduction is whether "intelligence" is a similar kind of property that evolved. If it is then the evolutionary argument applies, but even if it's not, and it's just a broad, mixed set of capabilities, AI is advancing on all of those fronts too, so I'm not sure you can escape the conclusion so easily.
A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
Then you have a fun programming challenge.
It's about the demand side, not the supply side. Putin has zero leverage on Indian's energy policy and neither does MBS.

If anything, sending money to Putin and MBS hurts Modi and Lula's own economic goals.
This was a demo of a “production ready” system lol.
Bookmarked! Thank you. I quickly scrolled through it and there’s more than a few interesting posts in here.
Wait till you talk to theoretical physicists who set c=h-bar=1.
...Won't sound offending... But, but ...a Graphics-card; has "Ports (to attach a Keyboard on to)", RAM (verry fast), CPUs (many) and may be used like a full Computer, even without been driven by someone else like ...You -I suspect, not ?

...I for my part want to say thanks for the findings! :-)

[Setting:Weekendmodus]
Barely a week goes by without some variant of "Iranian Hackers" in the tech/security press - maybe, inshallah, they could release a version that lets you play on Iran-hosted servers without needing to connect to the US for a login?
That's crazy, in the best way
There’s a wonderful little carpentry museum in Kobe, highly recommended:

https://www.dougukan.jp/exhibition?lang=en

It focuses a lot on the evolution of precise woodworking tools, like saws and planes. They also had examples of complex joints, made without nails or glue.
This doesn’t work if you’re on-call (and don’t have a very specific set of numbers that calls could be received from), run a business, looking for work or awaiting vendor calls.

Now, do I charge my employer when I get a scam call on the work phone while I’m on-call? Technically I should.

Also doesn’t help that callerids get forged to be similar to your own number, which looks like the corporate block of phone numbers we have. Tho I think the networks have someone cut down on the ease of doing that (or at least tagging them as likely fraud).
Up next: Some enterprising startup founder's "AI-voice detector" landing people in prison because they can't keep up with ML advances but authorities trust them anyway.
What benefit would that have? Even if new versions are not released on a fixed schedule, you don't have to upgrade immediately.
If by 0% you meant 23%, then yes.

https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2024/02/average-age-of-cars-t....

And you only need to spend that 1-2 trillion dollars if you insist on perpetuating car dependence. You are not "spending it anyway". It is an opportunity cost that you could spend on a better world instead.
Indeed, its not about the tech. Changing the business model is key.

It might be hard to re-imagine the content industry without the current monopolists. Linux showed how disruptive an open model can be.

There is a stark difference between the case of Linux and content. In the case of Linux, ROI is measurable in dollars. In the case of content, value is in large part the perception of customers.

This is going to be very difficult in the particular use case of news media, which is arguably the most critical area. We're already in a situation there where "value" is in the form of the strengthening of biases and misinformation.

The point here, is that to succeed, Tribler might have to find a niche where superior value generation becomes undeniably obvious to some sizable segment. (Perhaps music can serve this function.)
I think you greatly overestimate how many people use ORMs instead of SQL. SQL usage is ubiquitous in my experience.

That said, even SQL databases usually don't run SQL. They run a virtual machine against which SQL is compiled. A more enlightening question is why there are no alternative/better query languages compiled against the same target that SQL targets since that would be strictly additive.
Ben Rich expanded on Johnson's advice regarding the Navy in his book, although I think he also conceded that the Navy has some pretty good engineers.
It's a subject that I am interested in and involved in yet I will never discuss it on Hacker News again. The attempts I made to genuinely interact related to crypto have been terrible on this website. It's unfortunate because I feel there is a very good discussion there regardless on whether you are for or against it but we don't get to see that discussion.
It uses Bitcoin
To be clear, the usage you're describing is so rare as to be practically nonexistent. You would never use it this way if you were familiar with the word and its usage, only if you knew the word from dictionaries. Look at the rarity even for saying something like "the crew berthed the ship." You just don't say it like that.

Yes, someone "could" do it and we'd understand what they meant. But there's no reason to believe that's what happened here. Maybe "moored" did trigger an association with "birth"/"berth", but "birth" is not a mistake.

"Berthing" is also not a singular, one-time event, any ship has a multitude of berthings over time, in this context it makes no sense for there to be a "time that berthed it" as if it was some singular meaningful event, and it changes "time" into something that "berths" books...what would that mean in this metaphor that a time "berths" a book? Wouldn't other times also berth books in their ports? A time does not "berth" a book, it births a book.
Need to update that link to Google podcast
IPO creates the “public market investment vehicle” by liquidating the assets of the private equity holders onto retail investors.

In single share class companies then, the entirety of the “value” from a financial perspective is held in stocks and corporate bonds. Whomever owns these, has voting and control rights in a way that non-voting equity holders do not.

Notably almost no public companies give voting shares to employees- I’m sure there are examples but incredibly rare.

Shareholders benefit materially from the labor of the company by holding the asset that (theoretically) accretes value with no actual labor inputs.

That means that anyone doing labor is paying the shareholders from their paycheck every month.

Why is it like this, because the contracts people sign and the egregious power disparity makes it such that capital, the voting share holders, have ALL of the value that they can turn trade or liquidate or whatever because they gave money for shares and more shares means more power in the company. The board ultimately encourages this because they are only interested in capital returns and stock price.
My critique is that the original claim that the vehicle will fail before the battery is entirely BS. Is that a plain enough way to say it?
Unfortunately the Tatoeba data set is fundamentally flawed, as they have assumed that there is only one instance of any particular language, when that is clearly not the case for all languages.

For example, Brazilian Portuguese is very different to European Portuguese in pronunciation, idioms, and to varying degree grammar and vocabulary, to the extent that spoken European Portuguese is largely unintelligible to Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Even Brazilian Portuguese has significant regional difference, and there is no "standard" Brazilian, but at least differentiating at the country level would make the dataset somewhat more useful.

To top it off, they use national flags to represent languages, for example the UK flag to represent English, despite the spoken examples being overwhelmingly American English, or some mashup for example the Brazilian and Portuguese flags slapped together.
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I wonder if "common" in this case is relative. I.E. it's the right type of story to grab our attention so we are disproportionally more likely to hear about few cases that do happen.
Before the internet, there has always been a gathering place already for each culture. In my teens, it was the weekend punk hardcore matinees. Before internet, kids passed out fliers to their upcoming shows. Kids invite fellow kids because there isn’t much going on during weekends.
As the article explains, CP/M PIP uses [ ] for options, not /
Some yeah, but many of these optimizations aren't across-the-board performance improvements, but rather specializations that favor specific kinds of workloads.

There are the really obvious ones like on-board GPUs and AI accelerators, but even within the CPU you have optimizations that apply to specific kinds of workloads like specialized instructions for video encode/decode.

The main "issue", such as it is, is that this setup advantages vertically integrated players - the ones who can release software quickly to use these optimizations, or even going as far as to build specific new features on top of these optimizations.

For more open platforms you have a chicken-and-egg problem. Chip designers have little incentive to dedicate valuable and finite transistors to specialized computations if the software market in general hasn't shown an interest. Even after these optimizations/specialized hardware have been released, software makers often are slow in adopting them, resulting in consumers not seeing the benefit for a long time.

See for example the many years it took for Microsoft to even accelerate the rendering of Windows' core UI with the GPU.
China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made
We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services
Wait till the kids figure out how to do it. Principal at my school tried to have me expelled, by lying saying I was inciting violence. Soon it will be easy for kids to turn the tables on these tyrannical administrators in their insular fiefdoms.
I think the finding is that for a straight line stop on dry, good pavement and a trained driver with proper technique, a car with ABS will take more distance.

But if you don't have those preconditions, ABS will likely shorten the distance. Many drivers never had the training and practice to modulate the brakes for maximum stopping while maintaining heading.

But there's 100+ years of regulatory practice to allow vehicles to continue on the road as long as the meet the standards when they were manufactured.
Microsoft has been known to get around sanctions:

https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
Was the system in operational readiness at this point in time? Sounds like it was in the middle of a sales process, based on the fact that you described it as part of the sales process.
Baffling to me that you think that AI art is capable of "exceeding" the human training material.
Well, the rewards for Bitcoin mining are zero-sum so the demand will never really be infinite as the miners need some amount of profitability.
This is all just word salad though - you don’t have to ignore the effect of environmental conditions to believe in free will. Just because I was born to who I was or grew up where I did doesn’t mean that I cannot change things in my life. Seriously - it’ll be hard, but just try to change. I bet you’ll be surprised.
Much, much bigger decision tree than Chess or Go.
How exactly do you think China is going to be able to "lead" the US? This is what I mean. The era of one hegemonic power being able to be the sole judge and authority on every single action around the globe was an extremely brief and freak incident in history, and that time is over. It required an extreme economic/tech imbalance that has rarely existed throughout history, no longer exists, and will probably not exist again for the foreseeable future. So whoever calls themselves the 'most powerful' is ultimately irrelevant - it would just be a mostly meaningless title.
I don't think that's what I asked about at all.
Submission Statement:

We have exactly 4 days to leave comments to the Federal Government of the United States of America contesting the requirement of KYC by internet service providers.

This law is not conducive to a free internet/society.
No, the point of the ascension mechanic is that it gets harder and harder so that you need to play more and more optimally to have a chance at winning, there aren’t any benefits past ascension 1.
If you aren’t the sort of person who wants a harder challenge just for the sake of challenging yourself, then there’s no point yeah.
Amazingly, most people do seem to trust a simple screenshot of a conversation, even though it has been easy to fake those for 20+ years.

A screenshot is considered far more trustworthy by non-tech people than "I spoke to Fred and would you believe it, he told me X and Y were doing Z behind the bike sheds!!!"
Personally I would never install a third-party keyboard but apparently in China it's quite common.

There was also the "row" between Singal and the Chinese based blogger a couple years back [1]. So this is quite a long standing issue.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/kzpxwt/opin...