skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they first added this feature to Overwatch, one of the best sniper players in the world got banned because people thought he had an auto-aim cheat. Turns out he was just really really good.
Yeah I think it also supports WPF. Can't remember where I read that.
I just checked on the Play Store and it seems like the Oral B Android App is "only" 67MB. I wonder if these were developed by different teams and maybe it doesn't have those large PDFs?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pg.oralb.o...
https://archive.is/3p5co
I see. I would keep the Forth code to a minimum necessary to implement simple things, with an emphasis on things being understandable and hence auditable. Smart code is good; clever, bad.
> The Old Friends hypothesis doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Viruses did not come around much later than bacteria and parasites, and definitely before the adaptive immune system, so why aren't there "commensal viruses" which fight off parasites for us?

Viruses are even harder to study than bacteria, which are already very difficult because most of them can't be cultured in a lab [1], so we just haven't studied them that much. It's a lot easier to study viruses that cause a disease because we know what to look for. The gut virome [2] alone is likely to contain a lot of commensal viruses that help us fight off parasites but our understanding is in its infancy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_dark_matter

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
I'm happy to have the project on my radar, and though they could be a bit clearer about the provisional nature of the research I don't think it's wrong to want to hype the potential of it a bit.
> You responded, you obviously think you're making a point. I hope you're one of the cranks though, because that would explain how poor your argument is.

Pot, meet kettle.
Nobody who bought is unaware that it’s remotely authorized. And, there’s a 30 day refund policy, so if they find out after purchase, they can change their mind.

You might have a point when it comes to, say, MS Windows, but not Finale.
At first I was optimistic that AI would greatly alleviate the issue here, but no dice.

As someone who was super competitive about the games they played (reformed, no longer play), I can tell you online cheating is completely out of hand.

There are cheats nowadays that don't even require software to be on your computer. You just put up a camera on your screen and an AI bot helps you by manipulating your controller (e.g., aim) - it really is a cat and mouse game and I don't think the issue in general will be resolved anytime soon.

I know there is an entire industry built around gaming and custom PCs so this is a pipe dream, but I'd love it if instead of all the time and effort that goes into supporting these rigs, the business models for consoles were optimized such that consoles could be top of the line rigs with very strict upgrade paths. This is really the only way I can see us actually putting a dent into this problem
Zuckerberg should learn to plead the 5th when asked about political intervention questions.

He keeps apologizing, thinking it will gain him respect, but the general public only sees this as a grand admission of guilt (ostensibly for some crime they didn't know of until now, and still don't know any details about).

Many other CEOs get asked similar questions, and they refuse to engage in the discussion; the result is no news coverage.
This is a narrative about our world, written from the perspective of a future historian. Everything falls into one of 3 categories:

predictions (what author thinks will happen)
history (has already happened)
retro-predictions (wrote as prediction but readers pointed out has happened)

the article contains "an answer key" at the end
TF2 is overrun by bots farming hats. CS has always been completely infested at higher ranks like global elite. In both cases VAC is practically useless against any non-userspace hack.
We didn't replace the HTML with Rust, if that's what you thought you were getting at. We use HTMX.
> what would the law look like making it illegal

How about "you can't sell a tool that actively works against the interests of the customer"?
A pretty good article and I am looking at Yugabyte more seriously (again).

But I still have questions:

1. Is CockroachDB actually faster (generally) than Yugabyte? Their (own) benchmarks seem to show it is.

2. If true, why? Did writing their own pgsql-compat interpreter really make that much of a difference?

3. This is the big one for me: why does Yugabyte have such large percentages of code in its Github repo in different languages, especially Java, JS and TS? I expect to see a small amount of scripting languages like Python for building or testing or whatever, but it appears that around 30% of the code is actually Java, for a server that was built on top of pure Postgresql. (I'm not a fan of Java in general, except for Elixir.)

Other than those questions, Yugabyte looks like a pretty good migration target and their licensing approach is refreshing.
> It’s totally waterproof

Without seeing it: it isn’t. It might be water resistant under certain circumstances if you follow the instructions to seal it exactly, and the seals are fresh with no contamination.

https://www.iec.ch/ip-ratings
I hope anyone who actually buys those things to cheat in a multiplayer game gets one so poorly made that it fries their whole system.
I thought that would be a link to the Seinfeld episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
Microsoft’s EULA would still apply to (b).

It’s the exact same situation as downloading a Windows ISO from Microsoft’s website and running it with an activator.
ADA recommends brushing your teeth for 4 minutes a day (2 mins morning/night).

2 minutes feels incredibly long for a lot of people. Doing something that feels productive or provides 2 minutes of entertainment while simultaneously operating as a timer seems like not so crazy of an idea.
These come in handy in an instructional context—being able to have a simple predictable API that you can point students at so they can learn how to call an API and process its data.
So you are abandoning your previous position of "my friend would have told me, good or bad, if these existed," right?
We can't feed billions of people from greenhouses. Humans doesn't work like in a videogame, where "all tribes have united to build a starship!..". If our crops will start to fail we won't start building tech. Will start war(s). Big ones, to simply take whatever other countries have. Think "migrants - bad" bogeyman but x100 and you are starving now.
Is there a way to build a GUI app with .NET on Linux?

Will it be cross-platform?
The U.S. is a TV show the whole world watches. It's not healthy for anybody on either side. The news is making everybody insane, and not making them particularly well-informed in the process.
I submit you're looking for the wrong thing. We can assume every person at the top of both piles has a perfect GPA and a near-perfect SAT score, so this is not likely to help us figure anything out.

The real figure of merit in this discussion is simply the thickness of both piles.

With regard to the rest, I interpreted what you wrote differently than how you meant it, I appreciate the explanation, and I apologize for the confusion.
Looking at my android...notifications and nearby BT devices. Thats it.
I imagine very few of the MS devs are using BeOS.
There can't be only one
But are they encrypted?
I love their pricing options include larger ranges of numbers, and enterprise class also includes negative numbers. ha ha.

Best part is that 'sign up' links to https://archive.org/donate/
> I've already got 300 people [..]

Given the style of writing and argumentation you have prevented here, no one with leadership experience in the software industry is going to actually believe you. Maybe they're lateral to you.

And, even then, arguing quantity of engineers over quality of engineers is a pretty bad argument, especially on this site. So, yeah.
> Pixel Screenshots [...] which lets you capture screenshots that are analyzed by Google’s Gemini Nano on-device AI and saved in a searchable index, allowing you to ask Google for information about things you saved days, weeks, or months ago..

Sounds like a benefit, to be honest. I take a lot of screenshots. It's never occurred to me to "ask Google" about something I screenshotted. I don't hoard screenshots, they're actively used for something, maybe an idea for a creative project, or a quote I liked. Once they're logged somewhere, I delete the screenshot, as it's no longer necessary.

This feature also sounds suspiciously similar to Windows Recall.
Next we will get subscription toothbrush features. Personally, I want my ultrasonic toothbrush to hum to the tune of Taylor Swift songs.

More seriously, at this point, any idiot who downloads such invasive apps deserves its consequences.
At best you would be limited to the value lost which is essentially zero, so no.
Dude must be from midwest, perfect midwest nice negging here:

“I do think it is odd, particularly when I contrast it to the United States, where…virtually no one in the United States is paying any attention to Canadian politics,” he said.
I took a brief look into it, and they use the Google Private Compute Services Protected Download API to download the Gemini Nano model, which uses remote attestation to cryptographically ensure that your device is running the stock ROM: https://github.com/google/private-compute-services/tree/mast...

I'm not sure why they do that, tbh, since Gemini Nano is now part of Chrome, and you can download it without remote attestation. If you were dedicated enough, you could probably force the AICore system app on a rooted device into using the Gemini Nano model you downloaded from Chrome. I briefly attempted this but it proved too annoying so I gave up.

Edit: It appears Pixel Screenshots works differently than Pixel Recorder, which is what I was looking into.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373011
> Those are the West (everything west of Upper Canada),

Definetly need to split this further:

Prairies - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta

Mountains - Everything inside the Rockies

BC - Its it's own thing
> because policing in general is not at the standard it once was. Currently police are only rewarded for "big busts"

Sure. The point is this is a matter of policy. Someone's policy. Some people in there (1) choose to prioritize this or that, (2) choose to reward doing nothing, (3) choose to promote those who do that, etc, (all the way to) actively protect cops who are active nuisances themselves.

This does not "just happen" except in the sense of "it has become acceptable". Accepted by whom? Voters at some point? But not always. In the US, most cops are extremely well insulated from the voters. And they haven't had to care about your standards for a long time. If ever really.
> by e.g. MOND.

Which has an even longer list of fundamental results and empirical observations it fails to support ....
I watched the NASA press conference, where the decision was announced, and Bill Nelson said that the new Boeing CEO promised him he will work with NASA to keep Starliner flying.

It will require quite a significant investment to fix the project, while Boeing is already loosing money on this fixed price contract.
> There's no doubt that's the case with Tesla.

Um, yes.[1]

[1] https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-is-turning-off-would-be-tesla...
> non-shared memory multiprocessor setups

It's not really comparable to the other examples you cite - the ncube/transputer/connection machine, in that it was programmed conventionally, not requiring a special parallel language, but Tandem's NonStop was this, starting in ~1976 or 1977. Loosely coupled, shared-nothing processors, communicating with messages over a pair of high-speed inter-processor busses. It was certainly a niche product, but not a dud. It's still around having been ported from a proprietary stack-machine to MIPS to Itanium to X86.

EDIT: I suppose it can be compared to a Single System Image cluster.
I think this happened when tech went mainstream. I used to love cutting-edge gadgets.
> they bring in the US talking points about trans issues,

The Cass report is certainly not a "US talking point".

https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-r...
"gratuities" seems synonymous with paid speaking gigs and book deals.
This "performance evaluation" is seriously flawed. I don't see how the results presented can be interpreted in any meaningful way.

> This barrier could be overcome with the help of the T2-Ubuntu [32] distribution, designed to be installed on Apple computers with T2-chipped.

That reference leads to https://github.com/t2linux/T2-Debian-and-Ubuntu-Kernel?tab=r..., which provides instructions on how to use a non-Ubuntu kernel to work around a hardware support issue on the particular hardware they used.

So they didn't actually test Ubuntu at all. They tested a third party produced kernel hack used to get support for their hardware. They then falsely assume that this is somehow representative of running Docker in...what? Production? Or for development purposes? They seem to have neglected to think about their use case. You'd think that the hardware they used for this test would be representative of a developer use case - but then why does performance matter?

If you consider container technology of the form that Docker uses, the kernel used is paramount for performance. Host OS userspace doesn't matter since it isn't active - the container userspace is provided by the container!

So not using an official Ubuntu kernel means that they didn't actually test anything provided by Ubuntu at all in practice. They've just tested whatever Linux kernel Docker Desktop uses inside its VMs on Windows and macOS against this Linux kernel hack running natively.

Their abstract also says:

> Upon analyzing the distribution of Docker Desktop for Windows and Docker Desktop for macOS, it was discovered that running the Docker environment on these requires a lightweight virtual machine that emulates the Linux system.

This is inherently known to anyone who can remotely claim to understand container technology. If this was a revelation to them, then this would explain why they think they tested Ubuntu when they didn't, and why they were unable to spot this flaw.

Disclosure: I'm biased in favour of Ubuntu. But I think the flaws I've described above stand for themselves.
The "old friends" hypothesis is not that parasites evolved to be beneficial to us. They're not literally our friends, that's why "old friends" is in scare quotes. It's that the immune system evolved in an environment where parasites were omnipresent, and it malfunctions in an environment where they are entirely absent.

For example, the IgE protein present in peanut allergy is part of the parasite-fighting machinery of the immune system. It's not supposed to be reacting to food. But when there are no parasites to fight, it doesn't just become dormant as we would like.
Paper & code in the next couple months. We're workin on em :)
What is RPA
Mexico Pauses Relations with U.S. Embassy Amid Clash over Judicial Overhaul
> And the hardest users to deal with are the ones that insist on breaking the rules 10% of the time, and who refuse to stop. Even if they contribute positively much of the rest of the time, they create far too much work.

There is _always_ a technical solution here. If you can't figure it out, keep thinking. There's never a reason to ban/moderate your core users for 10% rule violations. Instead, that shows a weakness of the software. More transparency helps.
Metformin has been the 1st choice for treatment of type 2 diabetes for decades. Countless millions have taken it daily for many years. Although I’m sure some lose weight taking the impact is not near as significant or wide spread as glp-1s. I have taken it for 20 years and never lost weight while on it. If there was significant weight loss across a large range of those taking it you would have heard a lot more about metformin being used for weight loss. I have taken Mounjaro since February and have experienced significant weight loss and my A1C has fallen to 5.3 which is significantly lower than on metformin alone or in combination with other type 2 medications.
You can define "censorship" any way you want, but if you use it for cases where liberty is increased then you're pretty much making it useless for discussion. We normally use it as the flipside of freedom of speech. It just doesn't make sense to define it in such a way that increased censorship can also mean increased freedom of speech.

You want to think in terms of liberty.

There's always a line to be drawn... when are you preventing a message from being heard vs. when are you forcing someone to propagate a message they don't want to express? The line is the balance of liberty -- whose freedoms are being impinged the most?

In the case of Trump and Facebook, we can put it more directly. The harm to Trump and the people who want to hear/promote his messages vs. the harm to Facebook and the people who receive his messages. Facebook is very far from the only place most people can hear from Trump, so there's little harm to Trump and supporters of his if Facebook declines to carry his messages. That means it's mostly up to Facebook to decide whether being a conduit for his kind of messages is good for it or not. He certainly seemed to violate all kinds of their terms and conditions, so for one thing it would be hard to moderate Facebook at all if they allowed him to stay. Not to mention, it's really not good for democratic society in general to propagate false election conspiracies. (I doubt Facebook or any corporation cares about something like that, but they may still consider it if enough of their users care.)

Regarding the first amendment... censorship and freedom of speech is certainly a broader topic than the first amendment. It's relevant here though, because we're talking about whether Facebook should somehow be required in some way to propagate messages from the government, even if it doesn't want to.
Hi I'm the author of this article. Yes I wrote this from scratch. I actually read two books on this topic + many papers to do research for this article over a period of many months.

I got Claude to rephrase certain sections that I thought didn't flow properly but majority of it is my writing. Yes I wrote those jokes.
We're excited about the potential and want to find other folks also excited about it that are interested in working for/with us to build things on the foundations of DisTrO!
Plus also it's so cool and mind boggling to us that we wanted to share the hype a little bit, it was hard not being able to tell anyone we were working on it
The US government is a jobs program. When you have been the dominant superpower for over 30 years, there is no reason you should be effective or efficient at anything. If nobody is capable of challenging you, private interests tend to override public interests.

And when a real challenger arises, you just have to hope that you can discard the old establishment and replace it with something capable of delivering before it's too late.
> s. Upon analyzing the distribution of
Docker Desktop for Windows and Docker Desktop for macOS, it was discovered that running the
Docker environment on these requires a lightweight virtual machine that emulates the Linux system.

"it was discovered" as if the VM behind the docker engine running on those operating systems was hidden to the human race.

> The dynamite plots.

Please don't create dynamite plots. Use a box plot, or plot the dots of the different repetitions with some jitter to avoid overlap.

> The evaluation

As reported in other comments apparently OSX cheats when saying it's writing to disk. If the authors wanted to compare docker executions it would be useful for the discussion to see if the difference in performance was due to the docker overhead or to the operating system, by showing what's the write performance of a non-containerized program across operating systems.

In my opinion the article should not have been published as is. It should have been rejected or asked for major revisions. MPDI Applied Sciences is quite a bad journal already for "Computer Science Applications" https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100829268&ti... so it's not surprising to see this published.
None of these show a comparison with Wikipedia.
Could be good to have the date put with the title?
That’s not quite true. They also tested benchmarks and compared with an AdamW trained model.
Your game reminds me of some ideas I've kicked around, with players being nobles of some type, and having the same point of view (receiving updates and sending orders).

In my game these player nobles would functionally act as kings/queens, governors, generals, admirals, or travelling mooches, depending on their goals and how well they are doing. The map would be broken into cites and towns arranged into territories, nothing super granular. I wanted to feature politics, where players would normally need to interact with each other, with shifting alliances, etc. A general might decide not to obey their king, perhaps planning a coup with some governors for example. Kind of like the board game Diplomacy. A king would need to coordinate tax incomes from governors, dispatch generals and admirals, expand alliances, and be wary of threats. Governors could influence trade and improve their territories, cities and towns. Generals could perhaps take on mercenary jobs, or raid. An ambitious admiral might want to take a city and move up in the world, or be happy enriching themselves in trade or pirating, etc. There would be gold and various other resources, population morale, seasons, spies, etc.

I was going to have this game be turned based, with each turn being a month of game time, and players only being able to take one turn per day of real time. The world would be one month in diameter - so that a fleet or army or inter-player message could be dispatched to anywhere in the game in a single turn. I figured that this would avoid the possible problem of players gaining an advantage by being able to coordinate outside the game, and to keep the programming as simple as possible. A minor character might not have a lot to do on any given turn. A king or queen could be a very busy person. Players might be on autopilot for some number of days if they don't log in. News in the game would travel also, so any player could hear about most of what was going on in the world. I shared your sentiment on graphics, figuring I would leave room to add those later.

I like your ideas for your in-game economy, and what you described about the effects of morale, and true believers, which I'm sure dovetails with there being priests. And it's cool you have a place for anarchists. They get a bad rap.

Be sure to do a Show HN when it's ready!
> NASA has additional requirements they must manage (e.g., political risk) that SpaceX has less exposure to

This doesn't appear to be the issue with ML-2, whose problems are closer to Boeing's subcontracting addiction than e.g. the F-35's sticker-collection approach to manufacturing.
Despite the obnoxious intro, this interview turned out to be pretty interesting and answered a number of my questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwruk-tLIOU
Personally I find CBC to be the most watchable 'mainstream' news.
>The whole Quebec movement is basically dead in the water now.

Quebec's Separatist party has complete electoral dominance (except for Montreal, but Montreal is the least Quebec part of Quebec) and has the ability to force the government's hand on most things.

If the Eastern Big City Party loses the next election as is projected (and the Bloc correspondingly loses all of its power) they'll be back.
I would much rather see a simplified tax system.

We still have the carried interest loophole. Warren Buffett's secretary is still paying a higher tax rate than him.

There has to be a better solution than this massive tax code that keeps growing year after year.