skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point on how slow star citizen development is going, if it's even going anywhere at all

But,

> they [bioware] did all of that to AAA standards

What do you mean by 'AAA standards'? You seem to imply it as a good thing but I can only think of it as a bad thing. AAA originally defines a budget not a standard, but when I think of what AAA has become, to me it means microtransactions, incredibly bloated games (100gb?), exclusivity, always-online, DRM, unnecessary accounts, and pretty much missing the point on that games are supposed to be fun.

A positive for 'AAA standards' must be accessibility features & internationalization, but that's all that comes to mind.

I've realized with video games being creative efforts, turning it into office work sucks all the fun out and lets 1-person creations (such as minecraft) run circles around businesses.

Anyway, neither applies to star citizen, which seems to be selling a dream rather than a product, and if it ever got to product stage the reality that people blew their money would set in.
NATO exists to keep Germany down, and Russia out.

The Germans are not oblivious to this fact, so it didn't really come as a surprise when it happened. That's not to say they didn't care of course, as you point out.

The only ones surprised were the ones that actually believe alliances are friendships.
>Time to exclude EU government use from all your open source projects in the license.

You can't.

Well you can, but then by definition they would no longer be open source.
Poor choices during development reveal themselves in many ways: poor performance, awkward workflows, mandatory upgrades, one-way data conversions, inaccurate documentation, and so on.
You can’t be serious comparing ASP.NET Core and EF Core to the abomination that is writing full back-end including DB access in Go or Java (assuming Spring Boot and Hibernate).
France, on Sophia-Antipolis living in the Alps, "nearby" but still 99% remote. Yes here there is a big RTO push, but at least in IT it find little grip so far. It's easier AFAIK in Scandinavia in general, Finland in particular but I do not consider their future bright enough to suggest them.

Honestly so far in large terms the countries I consider most with some future are the USA in the MID term, Russia in the long term, France might have a future thanks to a lower density and still being an "almost complete" country where almost anything is or can be produced domestically but it's still uncertain, however having old parents in Italy (north west, so relatively nearby) where I'm from I've choose a near-enough country where I can live well enough and work from remote. In Italy the situation is similar to the one you describe for Austria, aggravated by a higher population density...

Edit: typos
Calling GPT autocomplete is an insult to autocompleters.
At university, we used to connect JESS (Java reimplementation of CLIPS, pretty much) with RDF, making rules that operated on the knowledge graph.

Was fun :)
When elite dangerous was new I asked a friend if they wanted to join me in playing it.
They said no, they were waiting for star citizen (why either-or?)

Anyway, that was 2 US presidents ago. Still waiting huh?
I understand your mindset and also live this way, but we are the outliers. Normal people don't see a risk with this, and the upside is that it's there.
I also have a problem with "background noise" and being unable to understand what people are saying in noisy environments.

Most people definitely do not have it as badly as I do, or they'd never go to a noisy bar and try to talk. It's simply impossible for me to do anything but pay full attention to the person talking, and even then I often have to guess many of the words.

I even went and got my hearing checked (and my wife did at the same time), but the clerk assured me that we don't definitely have hearing problems and joked that we needed marriage counseling instead. :/ It's funny now, but I was a little pissed at the time.

Anyhow, my point is that some of us do indeed "hear" worse in noisy environments, even if our ears are amazing when it's quiet.
Rizin[1]/Cutter[2] projects are stored like text files that work well with git, you could try those tools.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://cutter.re
It is a very fancy autocomplete indeed, but it's not like you missed anything on day 1.

The engineering they put around GPT to make it work as a smart translator and eloquent "brainstormer" and whatnot is impressive, but so far there's no killer app in sight. (The biggest bang for the buck seems to be Copilot.)
I've been building out an AI/LLM-based feature at work for a while now and, yeah, from my POV it's completely useless bullshit that only exists because our CTO is hyped by the technology and our investors need to see "AI" plastered somewhere on our marketing page, regardless of how useful it is in real use. Likewise with any of the other LLM products I've seen out in the wild as well, it's all just a hypewave being pushed by corps and clueless C-suites who hear other C-suites fawning over the tech.
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Tell it to search for an up to date answer.
Germany faces 'Japanification' as baby boomers leave workforce
Replacing the existing 1.4b ICE vehicles with 1.4b EVs won't do jack shit for the climate let's be honest.

Personal cars are like 10% of global greenhouse emissions, lifecycle pollution of EVs is 1/3rd of ICE vehicles. If we really cared we'd have to completely change our lifestyle and not make these tiny end of chain adjustments
I wonder if the divide has something to do with how much space and comfort a person has in their home. Someone who lives in an apartment with three kids and their in-laws might prefer office work more than someone who lives in a roomy house in the woods or suburbs.
Analysis: Monthly drop hints that China's CO2 emissions may have peaked in 2023
I'd make my vegetable / fruit garden 10x bigger, put more money and effort into becoming completely off grid (power & water), I'd lean back and watch the world burn while techbros fail to save anyone.
Complain to the companies that cripple good hardware, not the hackers that tirelessly re-enable it.
It is absolutely just you.

Almost everyone would prefer not to have repeats of Enron, FTX etc where poor corporate governance and unethical behaviour is tolerated just because the company is making lots of money.
Does it actually allow all sort of content if you turn off the safety? Like in roleplaying I hate if the models complain about violence or sexual content. I remember Altman mentioning they want to allow it too..
I'd become a vocalist for a death metal band
What kind of hearing aids cost $50k?
Who cares how many of the n-dozen routers and switches between you and your favourite blog got to inject a few <script> tags for your convenience?

Encryption is for more than secrecy, folks.
At a median household income of EUR 43k there is definitely not a housing cost crisis in the Berlin area - there is a stagnant wage crisis.

This is roughly 1/3 of the Danish household income. If I were German I would riot for higher salaries - we simply can not accept such disparities in a modern world with movement of labor and remote work.

It seems like German fear is what forces the ECB to lower the interest rates causing severe asset price inflation in Denmark.

Please - negotiate your salaries in Germany.
Yea that's precisely what I ended up doing, but the frame extraction was quite finicky.
> Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot

Does anyone know more about yoshi-code-bot and how were these documents suddenly published?

Was it a script misconfiguration? A manual push? Something else?
Indeed, he's preferred to have a constant simmering conflict that the IOF can control, rather than a major one that results in a boiling over that makes a mess of the kitchen.

Thousands imprisoned without charges, hundreds killed annually (with 2023 PRIOR to Oct 7 being the deadliest year for Palestinians in decades) without most of the world batting an eye is how he prefers it.
> And no, you are wrong - your right not be attacked is based on morality, you say "attacking someone is wrong"

You are mixing morality with justice, which (in the modern world) is based on rights. "Attacking someone is wrong" is a moral statement, it puts the focus and the obligation of individuals to keep moral behavior. My right not to be attacked is not based on moral and not dependent on the morality or the beliefs of any other people, it is based on justice, a social contract that declare a set of a societal or universal rights granted to every individual.
I have a counter-take on the first law that I've seen two examples of within my (20 year) career:

> A system that inevitably degrades (to a significant degree) over time was badly architected. Most systems aren't badly architected but most systems that *succeed* are. Good architecture requires time (usually an unprofitable amount) & most successful systems prioritise velocity.

In summary: the demands of profit necessitate bad system design.

Of the two examples I've seen in my career: one was by a larger-than-needed/accidentally over-resourced team in a very large corp, who were operating on an undervalued background product with no real OKRs. The second was a government-funded contract (these often skew badly in the opposite direction due to corrupt tender processes but barring that there's often breathing room for quality if there's a will).
Have you ever figured out a way to annotate the CSV columns to the model? Or do you write a long prefix explaining the columns?

I found that similarly-named columns easily confused GPTs
I was wondering why he got so "much" time, but if he didn't testify that makes sense.

I couldn't remember the list of testifiers.
Good point, thanks for pointing that out
Woman found with £2B in Bitcoin jailed
She discussed this in the podcast.

Apparently, Sam has a vindictive streak and those who were critical of them were scared not to be on the wrong side of him if the situation turned in his favour. And they were right.

Which is why the smart move was to keep quiet and then just leave later. Hence all of the resignations.
The article claims that it does, because of the limestone terrior. But I don't have much confidence in that claim, because the author is obviously at pains to make this mushroom sound as special as possible for the sake of a story, calling it a "unique species" when it is just another cultivated variety of the same old Agaricus bisporus.
Reminds me of Caves of Qud.
Cybersecurity Labeling for Smart Devices
Great post - annoys me that Gates, but especially Warren Buffet is never held to account, I have seen Coke and similar corporations have devastating consequences on small towns all over central/south America because local food is replaced with sugary-filled and processed foods, with advertising placed all over these small businesses, so uneducated families and kids grow up drinking coke straight after they stop breast feeding, very sad.
Heh, that looks interesting. Thanks!
Only the trust of people that didn't have much to start with. Or understanding of the process.

Consider:

* this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals

and

* The extent of the paper mill problem has been exposed by members of the scientific community who on their own have collected patterns in faked papers to recognize this fraud at scale and developed tools to help surface the work.

Reading the entire WSJ article, it's a problem in the tail end of papers that doesn't impact "working science" were people stick to papers in their field that make sense and talked about within the network of those in a domain. It's also a problem being self policed by working scientists.

Likely with a better job of pushing back on bad apples than many a LEO.

Paper mill's, as laid out in the WSJ, are about boosting the credentials of small publishing houses with little to no real use in order to defraud larger legiot publishing houses, or else they're about attempting to fake up and boost the credentials of "virtual researchers" and fake labs in order to boost dodgy marketing schemes - it's a lot like the dodgy USB TB memory stick market - it's a nuisance that isn't really having an effect on mainstream computing.
Hello World, Simple Event Broker
I would love to build side scrolling platformer games. I have grown up playing them and would love to build a game every 6 months or so :)

I love gaming!
It’s important to understand that the board oversaw the nonprofit, and their job essentially was to protect the nonprofits mission. Most of the employees were hired by the for-profit company whose mission it is to make money. In theory the for profit was owned and subservient to the non profit but the engineers financial future was tied to the for profit and thus their loyalty.
I think there's some confusion in your comments. The HTML comments aren't a templating language, there's no (or little) post processing when displaying this content.

They're annotations that indicate where a 'block' of content starts and ends.

The JSON data stores some values set by users for a block that can't easily be parsed from the HTML content.

The content is stored as HTML as most content a user creates is static HTML, so when displaying content much of the HTML is displayed verbatim (but without the HTML comments), and then there's only a little bit of progressive enhancement for dynamic content.

I think you're also conflating some terms, like 'themes' and 'blocks', these are two different things and launched years apart.
Oh believe me, I use a lot of corporate software where the flaws in development are obvious, without knowing any of the people involved
The Giving Pledge exist for one reason and one reason only. To avoid the discussion of an immediate and real billionaire tax. It's just a tax optimization strategy. Why don't we all defer our taxes with a pledge a 99% tax donation to the IRS...after our deaths?

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/bill-gates-promised-to-gi...
"Bill Gates Promised to Give Away His Wealth. Well, That Was BS":

"When he made the pledge in 2010, his net worth was $53 billion. Ten years later, his net worth is $115 billion. Bill Gates is 64 years old, so at this rate, he'll be worth $250 billion or more by the time he's supposed to have given away at least half his wealth.

Same thing with Warren Buffett, only much worse. In 2010, his net worth was $39 billion; today, his net worth is $82 billion. Buffett is 90 years old, so if he's planning on giving away at least half his wealth, he'd damn better well get crackin'!"
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/workin... - Colloquially known as the working time directive
It’s pretty easy to statically verify that, say, no dependency (even transitive ones) contain a System.exit call.

It’s basically impossible to determine what your annotation processors will output besides running them yourselves (and their output may not be deterministic to begin with).
Geometry-Informed Neural Networks
Agreed.

For example, once you have a good grasp of the codebase, and an overview of the future requirements, you can perform low-risks, local refactorings, so as to ease implementing both current and later features/bugfixes/etc.

The requirements aren't systematic though. Meaning, as a dev, you're not always, at least explicitly, allowed to get a bird-eye view, nor to act on it.
We come together with remote colleagues to work. I can confidently say that high-bandwidth wears off pretty quickly. High-bandwidth is not essential 90% of the time, and it's easy to compensate the remaining 10% simply by taking more time. In my experience, bandwidth of remote work has been increasing, as people keep organizing themselves around it better. So, the difference will only get smaller.

Most important benefit of RTO is the social aspect, in my experience. And, even that wears off rather quickly. Whether there's a “benefit” depends a lot on one's colleagues, in the first place.
No worries Japan has very little imigration, while Germany gets over 500k new people every year since over 10 years[1].

1. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoel...
That could be true - unfortunately.
I understand that wasn't on offer. He would have walked away with a bit less time, maybe.
I don’t have hearing aids, but I do suffer from hearing loss. That being said, the Apple Airpods do a wonderful job of helping with that in the adaptive or transparency modes.

Apple was working taking the platform even further at one point and I would not be surprised if we see some new announcements eventually.

Imagine if a $200 set of airpod pros outperformed top hearing aids.
How to Make a Programming Language (2017)
Caveat that being from 2022, the Tesseract version used was almost certainly v4 (if Linux), rather than v5 which is much better (and widely available on Windows in 2022, but not Linux yet).

However Tesseract is quite behind still as you note, even with v5.
Good question. To be frank, I haven't given a thought about all these details. Just to riff on this hypothetical scenario, it's not a clinical setting. Ideally, I'd working with a small group, where we can work together with the client. Maybe take turns. Or maybe in a supporting role to another senior expert. Again, this is all fantasy at the moment. :-)
North Korean rocket carrying its 2nd spy satellite explodes shortly after launch
Sadly, vmware, which scares me now that broadcom owns it.
It's had the best balance of seamless + good-enough graphics performance (for media, not games)

My personal rank is

vmware

virtualbox

qemu

I never tried hyper-v by itself.
vmware actually can use hyper-v as a hypervisor if its enabled (as you need it when using WSL), but its inferior to using vmware's own solution, as I end up with weird networking behavior. it does work though.

I think on linux qemu may be the best, but on windows it is rough. I think vmware just has better video technology and better integration technology, such that its easy to copy-paste files, share clipboards, full screen etc.
I suspect many of them.

I was shocked, when I found out.

Of course, you aren’t just paying for the hardware. You are also paying for all the medical stuff surrounding the kit.

You can understand why vested interests fought so hard to prevent making hearing aids OTC.

Like I said, I suspect that gravy train may have derailed.
I read it as that being the point - they have a bad association for it so it's just not appealing now. Likewise you might have a terrible time in one office that puts you off working in any office.
I’m fairly certain there have been people making exactly this argument during the various genocides of the past hundred years or so. Might be worth taking a step back, you may find yourself having a Mitchell & Webb “our hats have skulls on them…” moment
Relatively open is also okay when they killing small players off.

Excluding government usage is hardly very closed.

Honestly some folks have worked for years on open source software, that government also benefited from, only to find that now the costs involved in paying for someone to certify your software plus the cost of the risk is too high. Politicians need to feel consequences did their decisions.
T-Mobile to buy almost all of U.S. Cellular in deal worth $4.4B
Huh. I wonder what the difference is between this projection and the recentered [Nicolosi projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolosi_globular_projection), which has been around for way longer.
Vroom: A userspace NVMe driver written in Rust
Link to an article about it: https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-use-your-apple-airpo...
An even faster Microsoft Edge
> high-bandwidth communication?

For me, absolutely no. I want high quality not high bandwidth. I don't want everyone interrupting me all the time with, relevant or not, questions. I want you to write me an email or message in the chat and I'll check it and answer in due time. I don't want to be interrupted to go to the cafeteria or "for a smoke" every 15min by a different person, or to have people standing besides me talking about their weekend or their kids. It's very invasive because I get distracted easily, even with good quality headphones, and it's hard to get back on focus.

With this said I don't mind going to the office where I can chat with people and socialize but I want to allocate time for that, not be forced into it. I feel that WFH allows me to balance the time I need to work and the time I need to socialize much better.
Running PaddleOCR in production now, I would suggest contrasting Tesseract v4 and v5, since v5 is a lot better(but until recently has not been available on Linux) - PaddleOCR does still smoke it though, you are right (especially for concurrency and fairly easily just setting different workers to different GPUs for best concurrent batching).
I'm not sure OpenAI compares to Enron or FTX in terms of unethical behaviour or financial fraud. The only similarities might be, funnily enough, disfunctional boards (or in FTX's case, no board).
I know, I've nearly forgotten all compatibility woes!

When I made my linux vm, I actually just took a real linux system's drive and told vmware to just use the drive as-is.

So, it was really convenient to no longer have to deal with driver nonsense, while retaining the original disk.
It’s not his politics but his takeover and self-sabotage of Twitter. I think most people when they get that much wealth and power turn into assholes because they think they are indestructible (and in a way they are).
What Happened to Our Ad-Free TV?
Something tells me one of you is speaking about fiction and one of you is speaking about nonfiction.

Inflection, emotion, tone, character-specific affects and all that can really change the audiobook experience for fiction. Your mentioning of footnote references and GNU suggests you're talking about nonfiction, perhaps technical books. For that, a voice that never significantly changes is fine and maybe even a good thing. For fiction it'd be a big step down from a professional human reader who understands the story and the characters' mental states.
They're referring to ATS, not CV.
Not quite true a lot of people seem to think that if you won the roulette spin that you committed no foul. At least in terms of how they argued SBF should be sentenced.

So as you said the commingling was a large part of their crime.

But they did commit a bunch of straight up theft of customer funds to pay for marketing, political donations or stuff like houses for the employees.
It's necessary for sales.
Proposed changes to Google's Android appstore to prevent anticompetitive tactics
It’s even faster if you avoid a product with Microsoft bloat. What they’re been doing to Windows 11 with widgets, celebrity news, and failing to respect user’s default preferences is atrocious.
"Zen" just means meditation, derived from Chan in Chinese Buddhism, which is derived from Jhana in Pali. It's not a fantasy ideal, but something you do.

Buddhist practice, in general, isn't interested in creating fantasy ideals, and it also isn't really a mere philosophy - it's a practical method with some ethical and social teachings. That method is designed to bring you into intimate contact with the "realities of desire and personhood", which most of us are almost entirely ignorant of, and avoid confronting through the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.

Actually, happiness is the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice - happiness free from conditions. If you had an accident during a hike and couldn't hike any more, you developed issues digesting certain foods such that you couldn't eat what you consider good food any more, your loved ones passed away or left, presumably your happiness would also take a hit with those things, the things you depend on for happiness. Buddhist practice doesn't preclude doing any of those things, it just trains the mind not to rely on them for wellbeing, and to find a deeper source of wellbeing that can always be contacted regardless of current circumstance.