skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
getting into enterprise is hard, so probably trying open source to help with that.
If programming GPU drivers was not something only a handful of employees with NVIDIA or AMD badges could do (because of NDAs, non-public documentation and immense complexity), somebody would have tried.
There are many angles of this. Different eating habits is one of those. Driving is another. I am not sure what is the long term impact but I guess we are going to find out.
Having lived through the initial installation of Verizon FIOS into existing neighborhoods in my area I can tell you it is exactly the same situation when private providers are involved. People were screaming from the hilltops and no one cared. Through the use of lobbying dollars to make sure the laws are written to limit their potential liability and the use of "subcontractors" owned by the company to shield them from any remaining direct liability they suffer no consequences.
Someone already did: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/4001119021440.html
Specifically for alcohol and cannabis it is. There are healthier ways to take cannabis thankfully as well.
The Cost of a Subsistence Diet [pdf]
Reminds me of an article about the testing infrastructure of League and Legends [1] back in 2016. 5500 tests per build in 1 to 2 hours.

Games are extremely hard to test. For me it falls into the same category like GUI testing frameworks which imho are extremely annoying and brittle. Except that games are comparable to a user interface consisting of many buttons which you can short and long press and drag around while at the same time other bots are pressing the same buttons, sharing the same state influenced by a physics engine.

How do you test such a ball of mud which also constantly changes by devs trying to follow the fun? Yes you can unittest individual, reusable parts. But integration tests, which require large, time sensitive modules, all strapped together and running at the same time? It's mindboggling hard.

Moreover if you're in a conceptual phase of development and prototyping and idea, tests make no sense. The requirements change all the time and complex tests hold you back. But the funny thing is, that game development stays in that phase most of the time. And when the game is done, you start a new one with a completely different set of requirements.

There are exceptions, like League of Legends. The game left the conceptual phase many years ago and its rules are set in stone. And a game which runs successfully for that long is super rare.

[1] https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...
Hardware is cheap, people's time is expensive?

SpaceX isn't building rockets or rocket engines, it's building factories for rocket engines and rockets.
That is the beauty of a lossless archive :) makes sense
You'd prefer the lovely smells and sounds of angry, vomiting drunks with poor impulse control?
245032701. The first number I ever memorized, and likely the only number eternally burned into my mind.
the modern search engine seems to be mocking me,
giving me only articles and descriptions,
but I need societies on the topic of web 1.0

I want to chat with people who make websites using HTML 3.2
I've made dozens of templates but I'm running out of ideas

I adapted my CMS to allow editing in DOS
HamsterCMS

I want to share with people who still use HTTP and not just HTTPS

the modern Internet seems to have slammed shut, in order to find something you need you need to spend hours and days searching
help me
Indeed. Just like "steel", there isn't just one "cement". Different cements have different uses for different concretes.
EU Approves AI Act
Not only that it has the same issues as lying about Covid in the name of “public safety” - when people find out it’s a lie they’ll trust the next thing you say even if it’s 100% true.
Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash
WhatsApp is European much more than it is American. Most Americans are just using SMS like cave people.
cool.

last year i tried to make a CV in libreoffice then word. both failed spectacularly. i resorted to markdown then i forced myself to learn latex for this specific purpose and it was much better.

again, markdown seems to be the middle ground of ease of use before going full-blown latex which seems to be ultimate in this specific use.

i repeat, do not use word/libeoffice for this work. you will forever try to keep the formatting in line which will require you to adjust by spaces, tabs, left right justify align and then when you type something, it will fail and you will have to do it again.

markdown otoh just lets you type in notepad for all i care and it will give a much better result.
That's a really awesome project!

I can find the A3000 firmware ROM online[0], but unfortunately I can't seem to find the service manual/schematics anywhere. Reverse-engineering firmware from the late-80s onward is a completely different kind of animal though. It's much, much more time consuming due to the much more complex hardware, and the fact that it wasn't written by hand in 8-bit assembler. Having said that, I'm always looking for cool synth reverse-engineering ideas! I'll have to keep this one in mind!

0: https://dbwbp.com/index.php/9-misc/37-synth-eprom-dumps
No. He was Amish, and had the Amish respect for his tools.

The tools were compass, ruler, and protractor.

He started off as a carpenter, but was a mathematical prodigy.

He still saw himself as a carpenter.
I don't get it, gradient descend computation is super frequent, state/input changes all the time, you'd have to reset heat landscape very frequently, what's the point? No way there is any potential speedup opportunity there, no?

If anything you could probably do something with electromagnetic fields, their interference, possibly in 3d.
>ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term.

That's IRC.
Thanks to Genkit's open plugin ecosystem, there's not only support for Ollama but also:

- OpenAI
- Groq
- Anthropic
- Cohere
- Mistral

Check it out: https://github.com/TheFireCo/genkit-plugins
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
Wow. Requiring repair shops to damage customer phones ("strip aftermarket parts") sounds flagrantly illegal.

Potentially of the "class action" variety if they'd been doing it for years in the US.
Had a quick look at Mercury OS, to me it looks like a mock-up, not an implementation.

For me the term "OS" refers something along the lines of Linux, BSD, Minix, Haiku-OS, Minix, Plan9, etc. For each of these a large amount of effort has been, and continues to be, expended on optimizing for CPU architecture, device drivers, window managers, etc.

If you are more interested in operating environments and experimenting with presentation and manipulation concepts, then as you have hinted, using the web browser environment as a virtual machine is a far more productive approach to trying out different concepts without massive amounts of very low level programming.

I rather like the look of Self and Smalltalk environments. Have toyed with some similar concepts running in a browser in full-screen and/or kiosk modes.
I'm not in the US, but can fully appreciate the practice.

If I were to request to move funds in 6-to-7 figures range across institutions, I absolutely would want the receiving outfit require that I visit my current outfit in person first to authorise such a transfer. Making sure that such visits are smooth and efficient is good service.

On a related note, when I got my mortgage in the UK, the issuing bank/lender-arm required me and my wife each to get a Proof Of Being Alive. (I'm not a UK native.) Turns out embassies issue these quite routinely, for a modest fee, and a visit that lasts at most 15 minutes. At the time I found that requirement both confusing and irritating, but in the context of the article, it makes sense. The lender was about to issue a sufficiently large loan to a person with very limited[ß] UK transaction history.

On the upside, more recently that same bank/lender prodded and arranged me to get an early, admittedly pretty good fixed deal on my remortgage - two months before the central banks started to hike their rates. Without that early intervention my current rate would be at least three percentage points higher.

ß: from the viewpoint of a financial institution, who likely measures customer relationship ages in decades.
Its a myth that alcohol does not induce psychosis. Just like using weed everyday, using alcohol everyday can induce a psychosis. Even when in moderate amounts.
That being said. I think cannabis does something to motivation of people that alcohol does not.
It's the wild west again in the unregulated land, again and again.
One distinct quality is that as a user you actually have the possibility to navigate the network. On ICQ you only see your own contact list. You cannot see how many friends/contacts/followers/relations anyone else has. You cannot traverse the network from your direct friends to indirect friends.

A social network puts the connections you have with other people prominently on display for everyone to see. The number of "friends" you have is a central social status metric on social networks.
Thank you, that helps clear things up. The original article takes a very long time to get to its points.

Like the first commenter in this thread, I’d never heard the term “shifting left” before. That’s surprising for a buzzword you say has been around for decades and is hot right now, but I guess there’s a first time for everything!
It's the same incentives for the leaders of those countries. Get women into the "workforce", i.e., paid employment that isn't bringing up their own children and those of their neighbours.

Capitalism's insidious genius is that it forces its way of thinking on its competitors.
You misunderstand the quote. It’s where brains go to die from a societal perspective. It might be stimulating and difficult for the individual but it’s useless to science.
Who uses vim in 2024? :D
Wildcard any .ml for sanity
I fail to see how creating a new thread which waits forever and ensuring it is the only one which receives signals (by blocking them in all other threads, which requires unblocking them when starting child processes just like with signals) is any better than signalfd. Also now your program is multithreaded. Good luck.
So the bug is in ... their deterministic execution environment not stubbing out the current time, so that different runs are not actually deterministic but dependent on that non-deterministic input called the clock.

Well, and that they are side-loading some library which can change.
You can always beta test their cutting edge releases and use those versions for free for 1 month. Don't whine about Jetbrains, they give you several options if you don't have the money to use their products.
CFD trading apps have this in the UK (and possibly EU, but I can’t see whether ESMA kept the rule):

“78% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.”

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-confirms-perm...

Of course, there are a lot more ways to lose money than CFDs.
At many places freedom tld's are already shitlisted.
> Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a mother, or a mother who raises them, but to intentionally deprive children of motherhood is criminal. Think about what the child might internalize about their importance.

Quite. The day will come when daycare is seen as child abuse.
Consensus in Internet Standards
An end of an era. I'm sad.
What was the machine?
Compressed-Air Vehicle
Supertape
Probably the Turing award for discovering a breakthrough compression scheme.
At least the space.com link loaded for me...
The BT stack is based on Bluedroid, so that’s open source (up to the driver I’d guess); see here https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/components/...
I'm not aware of a standardised unit of weed, but there is one for alcohol.

For this specific reason, I expect higher variation from weed — though I also wouldn't trust either to drive a car.
No, not them. This one is pretty good actually
The comment you replied to is more accurate, as WhatsApp is huge in multiple continents not just in Europe (just not as big in North America as you both point out). For example it's big in South America (and I think Central America too?)
Hm, but that clock likely seeds the PRNG used to create the gameplay. If that was always the same then the whole exercise would be pretty boring.

So their experiments purposely vary the time. It's just that for some input value, the thing they are running dramatically (well...) differs from other times, and the model wasn't expecting that, nor were the authors.
The linked article, "Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.", is more interesting. It's becoming clear that solar and wind power have to be paired with batteries once the intermittent sources start to dominate.
Fortunately, batteries are much cheaper than a few years ago, and get cheaper every year.

The article doesn't mention that California has a solar battery rebate program.[1] How's that working out? Rebate plans have to be carefully designed so that panels and batteries are installed in the right proportions.

[1] https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/california-sgip-battery-re...
That argument holds water in a false dichotomy. There are other options such as non addiction
Never understood why I would want to use this over an NLP+ORM system.

At least with that you get 100% accuracy at the expense of having to use a fixed syntax.
I use vim bindings in vscode. You should try it!
The comparison comments (including yours) are a false dichotomy. Your friend would not have an arm remaining even if he were to have subbed with alcohol.

However he would if neither. So it's less a question of what's better.
Here's a (non-paywalled) version of the original Washington Post article...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/marijuana-surpasses-alc...
Wow. Blast from the past. Just tried to log in after 20 years and it worked…but I didn’t get farther than it requiring full name and a phone number and lots of other mobile web badness before noping out.

If they still have those account creds and first names, y’all reckon VKontacte has our old messages? :X

Oh well, have great memories, pouring one out for ICQ tonight.
Agreed. I was married to a voiceover actress. Their range can be quite large :)
Fewer people with a drink and vomit on them, then the instant stench that pervades every piece of furniture
Didn’t read the first line of the article:

> frequent alcohol consumption has remained stable
there should have been some punitive damage
It has 81% positive reviews, and 86% positive reviews recently.
Interesting. Some crop dusters indeed fly at night. And no, there are no special rules in the US - at least not for the human pilot.

Except presumably both the drone and the human aircraft would have lights which might make it easier for them to avoid each other.
Exactly this. Unless your product is components (e.g. you are in a team building UI kit) it's better to have unit tests for util functions and integration/e2e tests in Playwright or Cypress.

We try to avoid logic directly in components so apart from few exceptions (like complex tree pickers) it's moot to test them. For these few exceptions RTL serves us pretty well.

Testing redux reducers was cleaner back in time but hooks can be tested with renderHook/act and that's where your logic should be.
As can software engineers' drug of choice: caffeine.

I found out, years after deciding to cut back on my coffee intake, that my dose was in that range: when the only thing you drink is instant coffee (as in, not even plain water) and you're making it will multiple table spoons per cup instead of teaspoons…
I have it on good authority from the mask-questioning community that double-blind RCTs are the only valid tests. We should also prove Koch's postulates on aeroplane falls, just to make sure.
I still remembered my id from all those years ago, 1569200. I was excited to read others were logging in with their old numbers, so I tried the password I thought I had used, but no luck.

Feeling adventurous, I dug through my archives and found my old ICQ database and followed https://sec.sipsik.net/tuts/net/icq.txt and used the code at https://web.archive.org/web/20070209002044/https://rejetto.c... to decrypt my password...

Sadly it was the one I had tried :( It was a fun trip through nostalgia at least!
Because ORM libraries were invented 30 years ago.

There is no requirement to learn SQL for most of the applications built today.
Any generic use of a ccTLD gives me the ick. It’s one thing to use one for your low-impact personal site, quite another to use one for your email address.
I've written tests around multithreaded code, but they typically catch them in a statistical manner - either running a bit of code many times over to try and catch an edge condition, or by overloading the system to persuade rarer orderings to occur.

There's also https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html which can statically catch some threading issues, though I've not used it much myself.
Variable execution time instructions can always be divided into smaller fixed execution time microinstructions.
Mistral Fine-Tune
I have no idea what you're talking about. Everybody in Germany used ICQ. MSN and ICQ were concurrently popular in different regions. Everybody I knew from the US or other English-speaking parts of the world used MSN. There was no mass move from ICQ to MSN that lead to ICQ's demise, they basically both died at the same time when Facebook came out to the general public.
I use signalfd when I can, and this argument doesn't make much sense to me. The main goal of most signals you'd use it with -- like SIGCHLD/SIGPIPE -- is to wake you up and tell you that something happened, not to give you all the information. If you get a SIGCHLD, you can call wait() to get information. If you get SIGPIPE you can poll your file descriptors (though you might be doing that anyway so the signal isn't very useful). For the purpose of waking you up, coalescing isn't a problem -- only missed notifications are a problem, and signalfd handles those correctly.

Of course, for "real" signals that you must handle synchronously, like SIGSEGV, signalfd is less useful and makes less sense (and arguably something closer to Windows's SEH might make more sense). It's an odd historical artifact of Unix that SIGCHLD and SIGSEGV use the same mechanism.
It doesn't respect ~/.signature in text-only emails: The tearline and everything under it is just put on one continuous line (together with the body text proper).
These all suck comapred to Pidgen. Pidgen was one UI. This is just a bunch of webapps shoved into the same window/app and it's ugly and awkward as all fuck to use.
TL;DR: "NetHack is a game where real-world date and time can affect the game"

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Time

like Animal Crossing, Pokemon, The Sims, Stardew Valley, World of Warcraft, Terraria, etc.
Wow, a blast from the past indeed. I used it heavily in 1997 and then switched to other things in the late 90s. Can't believe this still works.
No. It relies on Windows 95 infrastructure. And it's not a modern .NET, but .NET Framework 2.0.
Google's A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
Yep. It marks residential IPs for no good reason and for god knows how long. Cloudflare is way up on the list of companies that have broken the internet. But, hey, free stuff, right?!
You should read review papers. There are journals that either only publish such papers (e.g. Review of Modern Physics) or some of the larger journals sometimes publish such papers (e.g. Science or Nature). They are usually written by one or more experts in the given field, are less dense than normal papers and focus on the current state of the art and future research directions, so they're pretty much exactly what you want. They will also contain tons of references to relevant work. Arxiv is just an unfiltered stream of mostly garbage (pardon me) so unless you're already familiar with a field and know how to filter out such garbage it's pretty useless I'd say.
I remember downloading the Monstertruck Madness demo overnight (15megs or so?).
> people can't "fake" clinical trial results like this to sell medication

Many clinical trials are controversial when they are positive.

Most clinical trials are subcontracted. The subcontractor has a deep interest in pleasing his client. You can select patients at the beginning of the trial, or during the trial you can report that a patient with a "bad" result, just dropped out of the study. And indeed in most clinical trials there is no strong adverse effects (just weak) reported except when patients die.

Moreover, the hospitals that implement the trial often only do the minimum to satisfy the principal investigator

Just look at the field of neurodegenerative diseases or ask patients how negligently they have been treated.
Been watching a bunch of these companies at the trade shows every year. This outfit https://guardian.ag/ is the one to beat. Size and charge wise is up where it needs to be (most of the other entrants don’t have the capacity/flight time) and they have a strong open source pitch IIRC. Pretty cool rig. It even kind looks like a John Deere tractor. Smart marketing there.
The game still has a very positive score (81%), so I wouldn't judge it based on a few negative reviews.

Most "walking simulators" and story-rich cinematic experiences carry the "boring" stigma. This is no surprise when the average gamer is used to games designed to be as addicting as possible, and doesn't consider an experience as "fun" unless their dopamine receptors are constantly engaged.

There could be issues with the story, though this a very subjective topic, but complaining about boring gameplay shouldn't be a concern in this genre. These are supposed to be relaxing and meditative experiences, and the visuals and voice acting seem top notch from what I've seen.
> Empirically it seems clear stoned people are way less prone to aggressive behaviour

Or is that just the stoner stereotype? Anecdotally I have seen plenty of angry stoners (some verging on schizoid) although I'm unsure of correlation versus causation.

If there is a certain percentage of agressive angry guys and gals then perhaps weed versus alcohol doesn't move the needle.

And most people I know do (a) both to excess or (b) don't excessively abuse either weed nor alcohol.
I guess one can argue that, in North America, by the hands of anglo saxon protestant pilgrims, were some mass killing of native population over the course of 4 centuries (although calling it Genocide is a naive simplicity IMO). But this was not the case for Spanish conquered America and much less for Columbus 4 trips. The only thing you are showing saying that Columbus was continuing some general genocidal douchebaggery in 1504, with a small crew and non functional ships to his command is that you are indoctrinated. I would recommend to ask yourselfe who did this indoctrination and what is their agenda.

Is funny, because that kind on unscientific unrational thinking was the main handicap the native population of America had against the Europeans migrants and the moral of the story in question is precisely that the power of knowledge and rational thinking can help you survirve some very long odds stacked against you
Masks won't have an influence on this election. Gaza will. Nobody will vote for the man who's currently causing a genocide to be committed.
He didn't ascribe the Biblical narrative to the convention, he mentioned that they match. They could match due to coincidence, due to having a common ancestor, or due to the Biblical narrative itself following the extent (as you claim) standard.
draconian, authoritarian regime
Skip the middleman, use all that free juice to grow more pot.