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Am I the only one who thinks the word "engine" is overused?

I've always assumed that "make a game, or make an engine" meant: if you decide to not use an engine when making your game, don't abstract it and also make an engine.

In other words, don't overengineer your game and build a generic engine when you don't need to.

Have I interpreted this wrong all these years? Or did the phrase morph because everyone thinks everything is too hard to program yourself these days?
Apple TestFlight: Learn anything the way you want powered by AI
Hi everyone,

We are looking for beta testers to provide us with honest feedback on our app idea.

The app allows users to generate comprehensive courses on any topic they would like to learn in any style they prefer. It will also feature a community to browse / share courses and bite-sized daily knowledge for any topic the user is interested in. A chatbot helps with questions during a course.

This (actually alpha) version provides the core feature of course generation only, while the full version will feature the above functionalities. In this limited scope you will be able to go back to a previously generated course (if any) to type in "Prev" in the topic field and hitting "Continue".

We highly encourage you to provide us with feedback via this thread or any other communication channel.
You can also visit our website at https://odinize.app where you can find more information.

Thank you in advance and happy learning!
lol, we'll put it on the list! And obviously PRs welcome. :)
The two charts are basically identical except for Uber's last 6 months...
In the 1980s AT&T was designing cabinet-sized minicomputers that would have less than 2 hours downtime in 40 years and went to great lengths to enable software update without reboot (functions accessed via transfer vectors) and ability to survive and continue running through earthquakes. These are still running I gather as part of various phone switching systems 4ESS, 5ESS although the hardware has been "reengineered." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers .
FWIW, LendingClub, Schwab, Ameriprise, Fidelity have not requested invasive permissions from me. In the least.

However, I spent too much of my 20s futzing with ROMs. I don't doubt that there is a sequence of things to get SafetyNet on Lineage, but it's a losing game. And I refuse to play games like this nowadays, where "my life/time" are the cost I pay. And my lifestyle demands that I have at least backup access on my mobile.
It's not DNA, it's embodiment in general. People learn an enormous amount in the process of existing and moving through space, and they hang all of their abstract knowledge on this framework.

Related: it's a belief of mine that bodily symmetry is essential for cognition; having duplicate reflected forms that can imitate, work against, and coordinate with each other, like two hands, gives us the ability to imagine ourselves against the environment we're surrounded by. Seeing, sensing and being in full control of two things that are almost exactly the same, but are different (the two halves of one's body) gives us our first basis for the concept of comparison itself, and even of boundaries and the distinguishing of one thing from another. I believe this is almost the only function of external symmetry; since internally, and mostly away from sensory nerves, we're wildly asymmetrical. Our symmetry is the ignition for our mental processes.

So I'm not in a DNA data wall camp, I'm in an embodiment data wall camp. And I believe that it will be solved by embodying things and letting them learn physical intuitions and associations from the world. Mixing those nonverbal physical metaphors with the language models will improve the language models. I don't even think it will turn out to be hard. Having eyes that you can move and focus, and ears that you can direct will probably get you a long way. With 2 caveats: 1) our DNA does give us hints on what to be attracted to; there's no reason for a model to look or listen in a particular direction, we have instincts and hungers, and 2) smell and touch are really really rich, especially smell, and they're really hard to implement.

Incidentally: the article says that we've been optimized by evolution for cognition, but what could have been optimized was child-rearing. Having an instinct to train might be more innate and extensive than any instinct to comprehend. Human babies are born larval, and can't survive on their own for years if not decades. Training is not an optional step. Maybe the algorithms are fine, and our training methods are still hare-brained? We're training them on language, and most of what is written is wrong or even silly. Being able to catch a ball is never wrong, and will never generate bad data.
As a counter example, I see a shit ton of Indian firms in sectors such as pharma or tech, which employ hundreds or even thousands of people, but they collectively make much less in revenue than a similar competitor in the US, even though their business is mostly international.
The issue is not removing old pipes, but even getting access to install new pipes. This typically means opening up walls and floors, and patching the resulting holes after it's done.
Kitchen knives. Japan still has quite a few small, independent knife factories that produce functional works of art you can use to make dinner. Find a specialty knife store in a major city to get the best selection.
A Windows 11 24H2 bug is so odd that it causes the mouse pointer to disappear
Show HN: AI-powered code summaries for team leaders and founders
I work as a part-time programmer at Gumroad. At the beginning of September, I came back from a three-week long vacation, and a lot has changed at work. Both in terms of how much stuff was shipped and how we do things internally.

Everybody switched to using Cursor for development, and productivity skyrocketed. I gave it a try, and the first thing I asked the chat was to give me a summary of the highlights that shipped while I was gone, and it came up with a pretty decent output (https://x.com/RaulOnRails/status/1830580206178070932). This was basically the spark that made me build Git Digest.

It's a simple tool that uses OpenAI's chat completion to read daily code commit diffs and give you a summary of what the team has shipped. Let me know what you think.
Yes, perhaps the single-most controversial decision Tesla has made regarding FSD.

Everyone else uses LIDAR in some form. Tesla's cameras can and have been fooled on many occasions.
Looks like there's some fairly cheap "diy water test kit" on Amazon.

I'd expect them to work reasonably well, at least for lead. The chemistry is pretty simple. Whether they can detect low concentrations is another matter. You could boil a pot of water until most of it is gone and test that. You'll have a much higher concentration of any contaminants.
Also DirectX is adopting SPIR-V, so that will help in the future as well.

Yes, it's true! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir...
Yeah but Renaissance is funny because they have 2 funds. The Medallion fund which only has employee money makes the amazing returns, while the normal fund for pension funds barely outperforms the market.
Show HN: All-in-one AI chat assistant for free
GPTTeams centralizes AI models like GPT-4, Claude 3, and Gemini to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. It offers secure, real-time collaboration and saves hours each week!
"Now What?" by John Hopfield (2018) [pdf]
Hurricane coming? Better do a bit of fascism, that’s what the voters will be wanting right about now.

It boggles the mind that anyone votes for this weirdo.
Actually an improvement. Nowadays each truck goes through a scanner before leaving the terminal. So they have to get to the drugs when it's still waiting for transport.
> "Let's consider a very simple distributed system. Our system is composed of two servers, [Math Processing Error] and [Math Processing Error]."

Yup. Pretty sure I've built that system before. Can relate.
Yeah, sorry, I meant that I was confused by the brief mention where it was removed from consideration. I would have thought that if the team were planning to implement deadline propagation on the server anyway, they'd reach for load shedding first.
CMSes like Bludit are a good option for users who want a simpler structure and a small footprint. Themes are still very limited though.
Apple is implementing it. They are just slow. There's no point in a web standard that Apple won't implement as long as they hold a monopoly on iOS browser engines.
In a thought experiment, I would really like to see chatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc, talk to each other in a way that the prompts are primed with something like "you are not alone in this AI room, formulate questions and answers that help exchanging ideas".

Also , an observation to language: even bacteria have a lauguage, the chemical language ( quorum sensing ). Meaning, maybe we just need to create the necessary medium for current LLMs , they will start talking to each other and creating their own language.
For anyone looking at knives (and other culinary tools), have a look at Kappabashi in Tokyo. There's a lot of stores there.
I read up on that situation, and it sounded like the three letter agencies were working with Cloudflare all along. They never even asked them nicely to stop hosting lulzsec. To top it off, Sabu from lulzsec was an informer[1].

So Cloudflare wasn't bravely standing on principle, they were just doing garden variety collaboration with the feds.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/1386577/us-seeks-lenie...
"popular robot vacuum" huh? I really hate clickbait headlines. I know about the HN rule to not change the title, but I really wish there was an exception for clickbait.

It's an Ecovacs vacuum. Not an irobot, as most people were probably thinking.
Yeah, the 'safe' level of lead is essentially zero. I think on the order of nanograms per liter.

Common wisdom is "there is no safe level of lead".
macOS used to have a decent security story until some QoL started requiring disabling SIP.

They gutted the OS so much that users start disabling security features.

And don't get me started with atrocious window manager from macOS. Took a decade to improve it slightly. Still far away from some Linux DE and Windows. I don't enjoy having to buy apps to fix macOS. There are some open source tools for some things but for others it's cost effective to just buy.
Bingo! The whole thing is for butt-covering purposes. It's just so that when something happens, Google can then say "We followed $STANDARDS_BODY Policy #420.69, so we can't be held responsible!" Theoretically even Panic would gain a little butt-covering from it too. "Look, this vulnerability was so hard to spot that even these very professional security auditors missed it 8 years in a row!"

It's all still pretty worthless though imho.
Dennis works closely with the Valetudo developer. On one of the Valetudo Telegram channels, they announced the following:

> As you might know, we looked into Ecovacs as an alternative for Dreame&Roborock. However, we found security and privacy being completely broken. If you have a X2, a Goat lawnmower, or newer than 2023 devices, you might want to turn them off for now. There is a BLE RCE, that lets an unauthenticated attacker send a payload via Bluetooth, that gets executed as root on the device. It does not appear that Ecovacs wants to fix that.
More information:
https://twitter.com/lorenzofb/status/1822002515279270079
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/09/ecovacs-home-robots-can-be...
Proof that all natural numbers are transitive
I chose a lie that hurts people? Hurts them how? Have you never told someone that you're "having a good day" on an objectively terrible one?
You forgot the secret ingredient - quantum computing. That's what will enable us to run everything efficiently using coal energy that's offset by purchasing carbon credits.
Can you? It's been a long time since I studied Turing machines, but if a machine returns to an exact previous full state (of both the machine and the tape), then we know it will not terminate but loop forever; and a machine with a finite tape must return to a previous state in finite time if it doesn't terminate first. So a finite state machine will either terminate or begin to loop in finite time.
Wow.

Can Valetudo provide artificially blocked cloud features? For example the Roborock S5 doesn't have persistent maps, though it would be trivial to just keep one loaded in the cloud, but Roborock would rather you upgrade to an S7.

Would that work?
They say it's "up to 75,000" per program, looking at the actual assessor websites, most require quotes, but tier 2 assessments start at $500 and tier 3 start at $5-6000, and you're in the land of asking for quotes from companies, so "hey we compile the same code into 32 and 64 bit versions" probably does not actually require a 2x cost increase.
Why it's so hard to kick fossil fuels out of sport
This is nit-picky of me but at a 4% safe withdrawal rate (of 1200 that's $48), there's chance that that doesn't last thirty years (a common period for retirement analysis). The issue becomes sequence of returns risk. In early retirement circles, a lot of conservative folks will trends towards 3% or even 2% withdrawal rates to avoid potential for running out.

There's a lot of discussion and analysis out there on the internet if you search for "4% rule", "retirement withdrawal rates", and the like it you're curious.

Generally speaking 4% is solid, but would maybe move that number up a bit for a perpetual VM payment.

OP can also implement this concept themselves, it'd just be more accounting.
> There are major issues just to show user back what he entered! Because the font for editing and displayed text could be different. Not even mentioning RTL and other issues.

Your web browser is doing it right now as you are reading this comment.
EZ pass lanes are not a good example because they require very few employees relative to the number of cars, at least on high-traffic roads like Golden Gate. So those can be eliminated without impacting a large number of jobs, and at significant benefit to all drivers.

A better example would be replacing all baristas with robots, or truck drivers with self-driving trucks. Those would have massive negative impact on employment and society in general, while bringing huge returns to some lucky corporate winners, in effect a massive transfer of wealth from workers to shareholders.

All that to say, the US definitely needs more unions.
I recall that inetd started a new instance of the demon for every incoming connection, and this caused lots of processes when lots of connections happened.

I don’t recall whether you could tell inetd not to do that.
Not sure why this is news - it happens every time a big one comes across the state. When Michael hit, we didn't have gas for a week.
It's slightly more sinister than that. If you had to be a member of a Nazi organization to get ahead or get the government off your back because you might be viewed as politically unreliable the SS was a common choice. Members would do some paramilitary exercises now and then and be otherwise left alone. For things like Einsatzgruppe or Totenkopf you had to volunteer. The guy knew that well enough.
Why Does ∞ – ∞ ≠ 0? [video]
Same. I used to pirate it back when Serial Box was a thing and I was a broke college kid, and I've been licensed since growing up. An essential tool. I would say it should be built into the OS, but that's a joke since modern-day Microsoft and Apple could never provide such a useful tool without sanding everything down to a smooth minimalist surface with no discoverability.
Debugging IS more difficult. Observability is much harder, sometimes needlessly. When you're 4 languages deep and have to enable distributed tracing across a variety of brokers/protocols (http, sqs, grpc, queue in a database) you know the lord intended you to spend your time in a more useful way.
> because physics is currently stalled.

Even if it's not completely true, maybe some introspection is required?

I understand developing new theories is important and rewarding, but most physics for the last three decades seems to fall within two buckets. (1) Smash particles and analyze the data. (2) Mathematical models that are not falsifiable.

We can be pretty sure that the next 'new physics' discovery that gives us better chips, rocket propulsion, etc etc is going to get a nobel prize pretty quickly similar to mRNA.
Yep. That's how I learned that I need the photo ID with the original date of birth. My last e-mail was asking if there is any other way to delete the account but so far I haven't heard anything.
Facebook users shared data with their friends. Those friends gave access to the data to CA. So like if you share a document with me and I then give CA access to my GDrive.
For Renaissance specifically, their signature fund has been closed to outside investors (with all funds returned) for decades, so pension funds aren't able to take advantage of their outperformance. I believe their publicly-available funds don't have nearly the same kind of returns.

With all that aside, better liquidity and pricing of risk is the overall systemic value that all speculators in the market provide. You be the judge as to whether the remuneration is commensurate with that value.
I actually think far more of these safety of life standards should require formal proof.

IMNSHO the standards were set so low so that C++ could clamber over the low bar, and it's a happy consequence in some sense that Rust has no trouble clearing it, but the bar should be raised considerably instead. Software crucial to the safe operation of an airliner ought to be proven correct, not just slapped together in any of the general purpose languages, including Rust and then subject to a bit more process than for a web app.
The EU absolutely loves adding requirements for certifications, so no I don't think they would get involved here. In fact, it's something they are pushing for in general.
Not too long after Parler was kicked off AWS, I was on a call with hundreds of representatives from power utilities about a modeling tool we were transitioning to. It was mentioned that the tool was hosted on AWS and someone suggested they have a fallback plan in case they got kicked off like "other companies".
The GitHub Pages splash page (https://pages.github.com/) has a nice little interactive tutorial for just that, and I've seen plenty of repo templates for various SSGs/themes, but I think a lot of users still run into the following hurdles:

- Not knowing what GitHub is or how it works (let alone Git itself)

- Not knowing how to clone a repo

- Not knowing what program you need to modify the files in a repo, or how to use it

- Not knowing how to make/push commits

- Not knowing how to build local previews to see your changes before they take effect
Just ordered one, wish there was one for microplastics too (and whichever other contaminants that I'm not aware of).
> there are additives which AIUI prevent or at least significantly reduce leaching

Hard water (high in calcium and magnesium) can form a scale on the inside of copper pipes. In a way this acts as a protective layer, as the water doesn't actually come into contact with the copper.
People choose to believe that nothing happened after snowden and because this is a religion to them you can't even tell them they're wrong
A lot of people will have substantially more sensitive data in their chosen cloud storage system (whether Drive, DropBox, OneDrive, iCloud) than on Facebook or any other social network. For example documents like ID scans, financial records, and medical records are going to be commonplace.
Well some info about the concept, making of, follow-up series, and the people involved revisiting the studio (which is a car garage now but still has some of the original sets / movie making gear like gantries) was interesting enough, but honestly I was watching it in bed in a few sittings and kept falling asleep, lol. The story would make for a decent book I'd say.
> I get the reasoning, but I chose Android because it's open ....

I suspect you mean, you chose Android because Google _said_ it was open.

Plenty of tech people chose Android because they knew others would be able to carve out a workable system based on the open source bits even if Google didn't actually keep it open.

This ruling is basically against Google rug-pulling - for example, looking the other way on third-party billing until deciding (after critical mass) that you are going to start enforcing the use of Google's payment services for certain classes of apps. At that point you are destroying businesses with such back-tracking.

They were slapped down because Google claimed they were open because you allow third party stores, but creating roadblocks (Play services, DRM licensing and device certifications for streaming apps) and applying pressure or doing revenue-sharing schemes with device manufacturers on the back-end to keep them from making their own store.

It is very difficult for a judge to slap Apple down for antitrust when Apple has been very careful to keep consistent rules and to only change them when it is considered invariably considered a benefit to the App Store developer (subscription rate reductions after one year, small business program, opening up new categories of apps like legacy emulators).

It is hard to argue a point when Apple started abusing their position when their behavior is consistent. If the App Store is a bad deal then why has it grown to be such a juggernaut from nothing?

That is why the EU took a different philosophy with the DMA.
I'm working on a Clojure library for working with money [0] that handles specific rounding rules by passing a custom rounding function to the round function, allowing you to specify different rules as needed.

There's an example for the Swiss Franc in the README (the code is here [1]).

[0] https://github.com/sernamar/dinero

[1] https://github.com/sernamar/dinero/blob/main/src/dinero/roun...
Having recently had an infuriating experience with an Android app submission, it seems there's a horde of people in a similar jam, running the senseless bureaucratic review process gauntlet: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ck1wyp/did_goo...
Interestingly, no manufacturers from the EU are on that list.
I don't know enough about HIPAA to know if it would be a violation for them to delete my data upon your request but, assuming it is, that would be a good case for requiring identity verification.
Okay, so what? That you agree with the political motivation behind the decision does not make the decision any less politically motivated, proving that AWS does in fact kick out consumers based on politics.
Are you on municipal water? If you are call the water company, they will often test it for free. They are required by law to test a certain number of houses each year - yours can be one of them.

If you are on well water, call your county department of health, there might be a fee, but it should be lower than a private lab.
That's a caricature. These countries haven't been colonies for decades, and Russia's efforts to gain influence in these places isn't "colonial" either.

It's something else - a new game with different rules. You can decry/condemn it this influence-jockeying all want, but if you can't get past 19th/20th century idioms and imagery about how the world operates, you'll never get anywhere in your analysis.
Even if they're put out of a career, they'll still be receiving container royalty payments until retirement (even if they get another job).

More expensive shipping is a regressive tax: any product requiring shipping becomes more expensive. Dock workers are quite literally demanding worsening income inequality: they make well above average wages, and the cost of their demands would be borne by the public at large who on average make less than dock workers.
Bob Dylan got a Nobel prize in literature, which feels something like a precedence.
I'm not familiar with Panic, but the blog post really should explain why the require "full access to users’ files on Drive" and moving to a reduced scope isn't viable.