skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see the market demographics behind these games - gut says its elderly who forget about the subscription entirely.

GameDevs who build games for such demographics should feel bad for preying on them.
If it gets bad enough that people will pay, I think some will pay for exclusively real content.

I hope this is the start of walled garden human internet. Web-rings, moderated forums, ect.

A common cyberpunk trope is a trashed net and a private net.
Once you realize that all wealthy people are just talking their book, everything starts to make sense.

Why did Elon suddenly go so hard against OpenAI and now Apple? Because he was planning to, and then did, launch his own AI business.
Xitter, with a “sh” sound for the X
Being born in Norway and living here (on a remote island with only ferry connection as well), I personally wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

There are areas where it is cold and barren, but not the cost.

Writing this on the ferry on the way home from work :)
I thought I was fast enough to fix it, but no...
A modern battery far outlives the rest of the vehicle when you look at the charging cycles. So you can afford to use some of it for home electricity storage. AFAIK some cells types easily last 3,000 cycles at >80% capacity. Assume 400km/charge you’d be looking at 1.2mil kilometers of driving just based on the battery.

Also, there is a a natural limit to how much you’re using, considering you also want to use your vehicle for driving as well.
Honestly, I don't even get why I need an online search engine to look up things because most of the time I just want examples of how to do X in programming language Y or the documentation of library Z.

It's not an infinite number of webpages. Someone could just put all those links into a .json and make an applet that let you instantly look up any of them.
Their logos look quite similar, so I can understand the mixup.
Yes, Console being the Firefox DevTools console
I don't see the difference. An email that pretends that I need to buy some pills and turns out to be a card collecting scam is obviously of low quality and not something I have requested.

Computer generated fake texts are spam, doesn't matter if they're selling pills to me or my attention to ad networks.
This diagram is really interesting. I don't know if I'm any less confused though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay_(payment_method)
Just give it a few more quarters.

Phone and mac sales arent growing like they once used too. The pressure shall mount.

And corporate execs are extremely predictable in how they handle mounting pressure.
Once again, corporate greed along with soulless managers and obedient programmers created a digital abomination :-(

If you want to play a very good and old school minesweeper, try out https://minesweeper.online
Interestingly, this article itself is an example of "slop"
The Danger of Treating Symptoms Instead of the Cause
I mean, technically they have? Maybe not in this update, but they include local AI models for webpage translation. It's pretty useful (when it's a supported language pair, at least)
Don't forget closing a bunch of studios that they spent a ton of money on right after buying them, some of which made games that earned multiple GOTY awards the same year they closed.
I just installed it, and it's legit (the Watch and Ad to continue playing part, at least).
Whoever is the highest bidder
"Okay, so I buy a card I can actually afford on eBay, put it in my machine, buy a game, and get my account permabanned."

One would have to prove they are a different person/account-location to IT admin support. It is rare, but some companies will simply watch your game-play for a bit to see what you are up to compared to the prior ban details. Note one will likely have to gamble on the compassion of each firms IT admins.

"What refund am I asking for that makes this okay?"

These sellers are almost always knowingly trying to evade the consequences of their behavior, and trying to recoup their money to buy un-flagged hardware. This is pointless, as there are several anti-cheat queries companies can run, and like any antisocial behavior they usually just make the situation worse for themselves by contaminating the market with more flagged hardware. Eventually their sellers reputation score will warn buyers what they are doing.

Getting a refund for the "broken" equipment is a standard ebay RMA process, and Craigslist/meta-Marketplace returns can be a bit more complex.

Keep in mind a ban may eventually lift after 12 months, but IT admins may be less convinced of your intent if a user keeps popping up as a problem.

"This reads as condescending"

It is not my call what companies do with problematic users. And MTG events also bans cheats for marked decks, and pulling unfair tricks that violate the rules. The difference is people will be upset with such antics at the same table. Personally I prefer the Royal Game of Ur over tea, and am always keen to share a good laugh with folks interested in such classics.

if one chooses to be miserable/upset, than that is their right too... But it doesn't sound like much fun. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
Wavefunction state is just as “real” in the Copenhagen interpretation. There cannot be any hidden variables, it is not merely a mathematical abstraction. You then must posit this additional process of collapse

Where the MWI takes additional theory burden is where it explains how the born rule translates to our lived experience - ie. why do we only experience one path of the wavefunction
Thank You. Will try that. Was surprised at the KeyChain Integration.
Thanks a lot. Well without the service worker it wouldn't work offline any more and that's one of the key features. I remember trying to write down some notes in Keep while traveling just to find out it sometimes doesn't work offline.

I'm curious which browser are you using?
Dishwasher is better than you think (tips, tricks, and how they work) [video]
Hot take as a datamonkey who’s done a lot of work in this vein professionally:

General-purpose self-serve is hostile to non-technical end users. Most do not have the mental model of SQL to guide their usage of the tool, so giving them an “open-ended” option to run their own vizes ends up really being a fence-toss of some technobabble garbage that isn’t useful to them at all.

“Slice n’ Dice”-style filtering added to an existing set of reports, however, is a completely viable middle ground. Practically speaking, this means writing the basic dashboard query, then hooking a bunch of query parameters up to some front-end UI widgets to let end users pick the date range, level-of-detail, filter which trendlines or categories of data are shown, etc. Just use good taste to avoid going overboard - don’t try to make every last detail configurable.
Ditto for robotics. 8 PIO units are enough to read and log four quadrature encoders at practically no interrupt cost, so it's possible to build a perfectly performant closed loop controller in something as slow as Micropython.
All this talk and jargon is indicative of a mass existential crisis as humanity is faced with the reality that many of its shared cultural artifacts are essentially frivolous.
I’d say it’s more clever than telling advertisers fleeing X to “go fuck yourselves”, but then again I’m not worth $200bn, so what do I know?
There is none. Someone somewhere was given a KPI to increase their departments ad revenue by X%, so that is what they are doing, rest of the company be damned.
> That is the whole point of the illusion, that there are two filled circles that flash and your brain perceives it as 3 flashes

Where is this from?

I could be missing something, but everything I can see in the article and the abstract of the paper indicates that the point of the illusion is that showing three flashes causes us to misplace the second flash as being located at the midpoint of the first and second.
In the immortal words of Oscar Wilde: "an online petition is the last refuge of a scoundrel".

It has all of the not-really-part-of-the-democratic-process of gluing yourself to the highway with none of the excitement and disruption to commerce. It has all the thrill of writing to your local MEP with none of the slight chance they'll notice. It's just as legally binding as a voxpop, but at least you can't write those off as "just a load of bots" (yet).

It's such a good way of electorally screaming into a pillow that the US and UK governments made official sites where you can officially be ignored by official officials.

I'm totally behind the cause, and have been in contact with my national and EU representative on the issue. I applaud any effort to promote human rights, particularly in a way that's so relevant to the lives of most of the population.

Nevertheless I see online petitions as at best a viral marketing jape and at worst a List of Dissenters that the dissenters themselves put together and hand you.
Since it's somewhat germane, I have gotten win2k's Minesweeper running on the web:

https://evmar.github.io/retrowin32/ , midway down the page

In contrast to the above, the x86 emulator and win32 API implementation is a little over a meg of WebAssembly, hah!
The solitaire one has been like that for.years now. It even shows full screen ads from time to time.
> This is the root problem: Too many people like the ragebait, the karma farming posts, and soon, the infinite AI generated content coming to feed them exactly the outrage they want to read every day.

This is a big part of the issue, and it's happening in non-social media contexts too. My parents use no social media, but they're constantly afraid and angry about things that often don't exist or aren't real issues.
Still haven't fixed the white flash
That was a line directly from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I've definitely experienced this. It used to happen weekly. My wife would often "wake me up" and say I was snoring, but to me, I was still lying awake trying to fall asleep. It was incredibly confusing, but I just trusted that she wasn't making things up.

I've begun taking a small amount of CBD in the form of an edible a few hours before going to bed (a quarter of a 5 mg gummy), and I have minimal sleep issues now.
The Xbox store page says this was released all the way back in 2012, so this is definitely not new. Even then, I'm pretty surprised at how low of a bar MS has for proudly putting their name on it. I can't imagine the likes of Google or Apple publishing an in-house-made cash-milking P2W game. Why did they need this, anyways? Are the absurd profits from all other sectors insufficient to make this tiny, obscure app completely free? Why do they need to penny-pinch so hard?
> is the juvenile nonsense really just political Elon-Hate

Juvenile? No. That is reserved for those who choose to refer to Mr Musk as "Xitler".

Frankly, 'shitter' is a very accurate description of what x/twitter has become. You would need to have your head in the sand to think otherwise.
I never got into Twitter to begin with, so to me it wasn't a huge loss to see it fall apart, but I have to admit that the branding of Twitter was way better than "X". "Tweet" very quickly became part of the English lexicon, people knew what it was almost unanimously (in no small due to one controversial politician), and Elon decided to throw that away, presumably because "X is a cool letter".

Even Mastodon (which I got slightly more into) has realized how important having specific branding is to a platform like this, and uses the word "toot" instead of the generic "post".
I spent a lot of time with POV-Ray. Back in ~1992 I had the IBM C++ Compiler for OS/2 and spent a day or so tweaking the source to get it to compile. Fun times.
NYC traffic cameras rendered in ASCII
In consideration of the placebo effect and sleep architecture, I have started trying to think of deep half-awake time as "stage zero sleep"
My grandfather was happily playing card games (as well as using productivity software) on a DOS machine up until he passed in 2011. For the most part, I don't understand modern software (despite working in it). That said, I personally eliminated all Microsoft products from my life a few years back and I wish more people could do the same.
Hochul is the first governor from upstate in 100 years. She was only chosen (for the Lieutenant Governor position) to get votes from upstate.
Does the technical vision involve a functioning website? https://www.molecularreality.com/ Because at the time of writing it does not seem to
I actually often have dreams that I'm lying awake in bed. Sometimes I wake up and am in a different position, which is the only way I know it was a dream. I imagine there's a lot of times I think I really was lying awake when I was really sleeping.
I never said that spending two hours means you love someone twice as much as spending one hour, I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

You also may be shocked to learn this, but "proportional" doesn't mean 1:1. It can mean 1:2, 5:1, or x:x^e(2*pi). All of those are proportions. Words do have meanings, and you'll note that - while I didn't even misuse the word proportional - the quotations also indicate I'm using it more loosely than it's textbook definition. You know, like how a normal person might.

I'm getting the vibe from you and the other commentator that, to you, this is about comparing how much two people love their respective mothers. That's not at all what this is even about? You can't compare "how much" two people love a respective person/thing because love isn't quantifiable.

I'm really not sure what you're even taking issue with? The idea that more time and effort from the giver corresponds to the receiver feeling more appreciation? That is not exactly a hot take lmfao
Because antitrust laws are no longer enforced, so you’re allowed to create monopolies and jack up prices/cut service, and the government will no longer stop you.
Looks like I loaded the page just in time to see the old version. Sorry if it was fixed by then.
I recently tried to open an X account, the process was punishing: the captcha was six images of ~5 dice each from an acute angle, and I had to click the one where the top faces added up to 15. That takes considerably more time than "select all the cars", especially if the correct image is among the last. And that challenge was repeated 10 times (with a counter to 10 shown from the start, so it wasn't just that many because of retries after failure). I actually went through with it, but in the end I failed to sign up because the verification email never arrived.

I've since been wondering whether Musk now wants it to fail, so he can draw a line under this chapter and shift focus back to his more succesful ventures.
The store page of the game:
https://www.xbox.com/en-CY/games/store/microsoft-minesweeper...

Also the answer to many questions: this is an "Xbox games studio" game, which is a Microsoft entity, but not attached to Windows. They obviously play by different rules, even as Windows itself is also playing many tricks.

The comparison point would be Microsoft Flight Simulator for instance, if any.
What most call "AI agents" are overhyped, but actual AI agents are not.
It means the mineral wasn't cooked to a high internal temperature

(sorry, I accept the downvotes in advance)
Judging by the header of their own embeds, it seems like even X themselves have conceded that their service's real name is X (formerly Twitter).
If it's a somewhat-successful YouTuber, then you missed the 60-second shout-out to their sponsor.
This is the same for Microsofts Solitaire. Shameless, really.
>Can't they determine this based on the x-ray scan alone?

Not a bomb expert, but a laptop is just a bunch of electronics next to a solid mass (for the battery). A bomb is also just a bunch electronics next to a solid mass (for the explosive).

>I mean, what's the other option - would they arrest a person carrying non-working/for-parts hardware?

I doubt they'll arrest you, but I vaguely remember airline websites saying that any laptops you bring MUST be able to turn on so they might confiscate it.
"We had something that was working, but then our owner decided to be a wingnut and turned the entire platform to a highly unprofitable pile of radioactive shit" is a hell of a business move. There's a reason that most super-rich people tend to deal with political content in a very hands-off manner publicly. If he had kept his opinions to himself instead of being a terrible shitposter, they likely still wouldn't be making any money, but the company would also be worth far more than it currently is.
The presupposition is that one has to write the essay or iterate upon it (using GPT). It is that GPT won't do it all for them. With a sufficiently developed workflow, I believe GPT can do it all. I guess we were thinking of different applications.

Yes, a human always has to review the output, but not necessarily to micromanage or edit it further, sometimes only to approve or reject the claims.
From the copy: "Hang out with the iconic Minesweeper emoji in NEW Themes."

God, it must have sucked to work on this product.
> If we assume that the problem with self-serve BI is not SQL, but the context and semantics of the data, then it follows that the solution is to teach people about the data they're querying, regardless of interface.

This has been the basic truth of any self-serve BI system I've used.

Even in smallish orgs there are often three steps - the engineer who instruments code/implements a metric, the engineer who builds the ETL pipeline into the underlying BI warehouse, and the person querying that data. So there are minimally three people in potentially three different roles who need a shared specification and understanding.

Also, self-serve BI tools can be surprisingly opaque and their output can be hard to validate/test. So even if you know accurately what data you are querying, testing that your query is what you intend is hard.
I mean, that's sort of my point: the rp2040 has an absurd amount of RAM for a micro, I don't need it and don't want to pay for it.

I care more about the cost to manufacture boards with the part, than the cost to get sample parts mailed to me in the US :)
And of course the converse where low-skill labor is relatively cheap.
> navigator.clipboard.read()/write() has been enabled (see documentation). A paste context menu will appear for the user to confirm when attempting to read clipboard content that is not originated from a same-origin page.

FINALLY, I've been following the ticket to implement this for so long
> Predictive code completion requires a Mac with Apple silicon and 16GB of unified memory, running macOS 15.

nice, its running locally and must be a pretty optimized/trimmed model to fit there and run quickly enough
That’s not why those marketplaces say so. Those marketplaces state that because it deters the lowest effort scammers (pretending to offer cash, paying through gift cards, etc). It says nothing about how good Venmo/PayPal is at handling fraud or detecting it.
if valid(API_KEY):
detonate()
else:
detonate()
That kind of value extraction can be very good for investors, so they give PE firms lots of money to deploy, and the PE firms then throw that money at the business owners who find it hard to resist. I suspect that's how.

However:

> Is private equity simply the scavenger, feeding off the walking-corpses of these businesses, encouraging new growth?

I think there is a lot of truth to this. The kind of business that is susceptible to this kind of pillaging tends not to be one with a promising future. A healthy company tends to trade at a healthy premium to its net asset value (reflecting expected future growth) so it makes less sense for someone to buy up the company just to extract the assets. I suspect in many cases the alternative to a PE takeover would be consolidation or just plain old bankruptcy.

There is a separate, but arguably related, problem of PE extracting consumer surplus, ie, buying a company and putting the squeeze on customers (charging more for shittier products) in order to increase profits. But that is far from a PE-specific problem, as can be seen from the many cases of enshittification in public companies.

The other point is that we only hear about PE deals that "go bad" (either for the investors or the company) because that's the juicier story. PE firms are buying up lots of companies all the time, but "PE deal goes okay" is not a good headline. There are probably a lot of brands out there that you don't even know are owned by PE. Contrary to popular believe PE isn't just about stripping the meat from dead or dying companies, though it is a common strategy (and one that is arguably more prevalent in certain parts of the economic cycle).
copenhagen is popular for historical reasons including our historical obsession with the mind-body duality. many physicists i talk to secretly admit to MWI/universal wavefunction making more sense but it is metaphysics and academia is a conservative institution, especially for metaphysics.
Can you go into more details? Most of the criticism I've read tends to be more abstract ("I don't like how ALL my blocking-style calls need to be async"), and doesn't propose an alternative mechanism to async that can provide a similar coding style in the same tight RAM footprint.
I'm convinced Musk is intentionally trying to kill Twitter, and it's going exactly as planned.
So is GP.

The silicon chip itself for an ESP has:

bluetooth, ethernet, wifi, SD/EMMC, and a bunch more "peripherals" built into it.

The RP2040 does not.

To make this painfully clear:

For an esp32 to do wifi you wire the esp32 to an antenna.

For an RP2040 to do wifi you wire the 2040 to another chip, and that other chip to an antenna.

Do you see the difference?
I enjoyed this 5 star review

"Fun to play, keeps you on your toes! The only problem is that every once in a while, you have to completely uninstall restart your computer and then reinstall, that's the only way you can keep playing."
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Good list, would have preferred to see Charlotte instead of Emily though.
Should have countered with "we'll keep the integration if you pay us $2,000 per month."
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I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. If the goal is to remove corporations from Twitter and turn Twitter into platform paid by people for the people, than it could be a good thing. Enterprises just flood Twitter with spam.
Anecdata: I have observed that my migraines come in cycles with the subjective experience of not having slept. I know I've slept, because I have long stretches of unconsciousness as confirmed by the clock on my nightstand. But I don't feel like I've slept. Then I'll have a migraine and a few nights of really great (subjectively) sleep before the cycle starts over again.

It's like there's something building up in my brain that's blocking real REM sleep, and cleaning it out results in the subjective experience of a migraine.
Come Retribution. Not possible without social media