skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely support your claims about the leaderboards, it's an obvious show of cheating in CS2. There's also a strong incentive for cheating companies to be there so it might not be descriptive of the average experience. However, I can't speak for that level as my peak was barely over 25k (top 1%?) and the leaderboards are simply orders of magnitude away from that.

Regarding cheaters announcing they're cheating - I haven't encountered that in a long time, but I have heard of it often enough from new players... so it might be an issue with trust factor, but who knows?

I have actually been playing CS off and on since around 2017 - at least in my experience the current cheating situation isn't worse than it was back then, but it's also not better. The only time it was meaningfully better was when prime released around 2021.

However, it's also true that I started playing more after the release of CS2... and the aforementioned 10k Elo mark was a real pain point for me and my friends. Every time we were due to pass it we ran into cheaters, smurfs and even a server crash once (incredible luck?). After over 3 months we made it past 10k and climbed above 15k Elo within 2 weeks. - This is my experience and I have heard similar stories from other players. (Although ranks have been massively imbalanced at that time as well, which partly explains this?)

Nevertheless, it's good to have a discussion about cheating - in CS2's case the experience can be so different depending on the region, ELO, trust factor, ... with Valorant the discussion simply gets shutdown way to often because of "Vanguard" and without a replay system you're just left to your own devices.
in California, every metal utensil is marked with "causes cancer"
That's what "steam deck" is. A dedicated gaming device that is still also a general purpose computer that you have full control over.
A non-Copenhagen part or Denmark, but it’s really not that interesting. Almost no adoption isn’t that much more impressive than no adoption.

I’m fairly confident that PHP, Python, JS/TS, Java and C/C++ will be what people still work on around here when I retire. Go is the only language which has managed to see some real adoption in my two decade career.
Before there was Tramp, there was AngeFTP.
Were centuries-old fictional characters software projects?
The consistency of characters is the best. Even if the costumes are updated, they are still very consistent. This problem has troubled us for ten months. 10 months ago, we started AI short drama business with a 4090 machine. It is both a challenge and an opportunity, full of unknowns and possibilities. I often work late into the night to rack my brains for a creative inspiration or character consistency problem.

Every attempt and every failure gives me a deeper understanding of AI short dramas. We constantly adjust the direction, optimize the content, and strive to find a balance between technology and creativity. Although this process is difficult, it also makes me deeply appreciate the charm of the integration of technology and art.

10 months ago, one person could only generate one short film a week; 4 months ago, one person generated 1-2 short films a day. Today, a one-click AI short film generation tool was launched. Only one idea is needed to generate dozens of short films in a few minutes. It not only solves the problem of character consistency, but also solves the problem of generating short films.

1 idea, 1 click, 10 short films. Create 10x faster.
since it "includes the remains of some soft tissues" could we extract the dna?
This is excellent work and I adore the result, but I can’t help but feel like the effect could have been achieved with crafted texturing. If you look at Sketchfab as often as I do, there are artists achieving this kind of thing purely with textured polygons[0]. Dynamic lighting is lost with this method, but I feel like with an artist and programmer in close collaboration could find a clever way to solve that.

[0] https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/watercolor-bird-b2c20729dd4a...
> Why is that the task at hand?

Because it's boring stuff, and most of us would prefer to be playing golf/tennis/hanging out with friends/painting/etc. If you look at the history of humanity, we've been automating the boring stuff since the start. We don't automate the stuff we like.
Security though obscurity is highly effective.

Think of some common sense physical analogies: a hidden underground bunker is much less likely to be robbed than a safe full of valuables in your front yard. A bicycle buried deeply in bushes is less likely to be stolen than one locked to a bike rack.

Without obscurity it is straightforward to know exactly what resources will be required to break something- you can look for a flaw that makes it easy and/or calculate exactly what is required for enough brute force.

When you add the element of well executed obscurity on top of an also strong system, it becomes nearly impossible to even identify that there is something to attack, or to even start to form a plan to do so.

Combining both approaches is best, but in most cases I think simple obscurity is more powerful and requires less resources than non obscure strength based security.

I’ve managed public servers that stayed uncompromised without security updates for a decade or longer using obscurity: an archaic old Unix OS of some type that does not respond to pings or other queries, runs services on non-standard ports, and blocks routes to hosts that even attempt scanning the standard ports will not be compromised. Obviously also using a secure OS with updates on top of these techniques is better overall.
New Nintendo Music app could spell more trouble for illicit soundtrack posters
Houses in 1970 had poor vapour sealing, little to no air exchange, bad insulation, weak hurricane and earthquake resistance, bad utilities installation, bad foundation stability on expansive soil, weak rodent protection (edit: plywood unveneered cupboards, vinyl or carpet flooring)... I'm quite certain if we built a 1974 house in 2024, it would be done more efficiently, but no one would want to buy it (at 2024 pricing)
When a new VM is created from a template on a ZFS file system with dedupe enabled what actually happens? Isn't the ref count of every block of the template simply incremented by one? The only time new data will actually be stored is when a block hash a hash that doesn't already exist.
There are near-infinite things they could name their software, but instead they copied an existing name of another software project.

Quite insufferable if you ask me.
For the gamers amongst you, do any of you game on your MacBook Pro Ms? If so, which one? Is there a noticeable difference in game quality between the M1 Pro vs M3 Pro for example?
Use cast iron pans. I used to love my non-stick pans but I would never go back.
Don't turn the argument into a parody of itself because you don't like what it implies.

No one is asking you about buying using refilable containers you bring to the store. That's not what's talked about when people talk about single use items.

I am 100% in favour of putting in place a container-deposit scheme however because these glass containers are actually reusable most of the time and should be collected back. Plastic overpackaging should just be banned. The whole thing is just a waste of ressource only possible because externalties are not priced in.
We don't want it to escalate to a word war.
Crashing the library - and potential arbitrary code execution!

However, zbar isn't used all that widely in industry. The airport's baggage handling system is much more likely to have a self-contained scanner from Cognex or Omron or Zebra running propriety, closed-source software.
Granted, but how about the societal harm from an exploitable bug in one or more of these rootkits? Millions of gaming computers could wreck some havoc in the hands of an even slightly creative attacker not restrained by moral or economic considerations…
Because it matters that the BATNA is outside the negotiation.
Stan Playground: Run Stan on the web, play with your program and data
Huh; I thought this might have been a seasonal post since Halloween and Diwali coincide this year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morsing). I do love that this utterly batshit moment in gaming history is inspiring even more wildness!
Plenty of journals do, just mostly in fields that don't emphasize P-values. Chemistry and materials science tend to focus on the raw data in the form of having the instrument output included, and an interpretation in the results section.

The peaks in your spectra, the calculation results, or the microscopy image either support your findings or they don't, so P-values don't get as much milage. I can't remember the last time I saw a P-value in one of those papers.

This does create a problem similar to publishing null result P-values, however: if a reaction or method doesn't work out, journals don't want it because it's not exciting. So much money is likely being wasted independently duplicating failed reactions over and over because it just never gets published.
The one being referred too is the size of a mini fridge.
> I don't think that people will confuse said brokerage with an old character of English folklore

I don't know about that. Why do you think people would not link a financial company to the folklore character famous for redistributing money? That's kind of disingenuous claim to me.

When I first heard about it, I actually assumed it was a reverse Robin Hood by taking money from the poor to give back to the rich type of scheme.
Okay so keep your current ones, and mainly use the induction one for which will probably satisfy upwards of 80% of your needs anyway.
A review of Google's first custom ARM chips, Axion
I've had my share of non-stick pans, including higher quality ones. They all degrade to the point where I need to use oil.

I switched to carbon steel as a daily driver two years ago and it is is trivialy non-stick with a little maintenance. The non-stick properties are infinitely refresha le, unlike "non-stick" pans.

I also have cast iron and stainless pans for other uses.
>The dichotomy is pretty interesting to me, given that most major cities in the country have been running high-publicity programs for the last decade to do everything possible to reduce car-related deaths, especially protecting pedestrians and bicyclists. (Cities like NYC and Seattle call it "vision zero", a vision of zero serious traffic injuries/deaths). They work to separate pedestrians and bicyclists from traffic, slow cars down with "traffic calming measures", lower speed limits, and so on.

Those sorts of measures have been shown to have negative impact on people's behaviour.

If drivers think vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians are segregated away, they'll drive at higher speeds.

Pedestrians may start to assume that it's always safe for them to walk in certain places without looking.

On the other hand, if you have a system in place where people know that traffic does mix, there will be a lot more caution from all road users.
I'm with Kenji Lopez-Alt on this one. No matter how nonstick your cast iron or carbon steel pan is, it's not as nonstick as Teflon, which is so nonstick that we had to come up with new methods to get it to bond to surfaces. Carbon steel pans are great, but they simply are not a replacement for nonstick.
Reading this thread is the first I'm learning of this. Even with the enthusiasm expressed here, I'm still suspicious that there will be incompatibilities. Microsoft has a history of doing things a certain way.
> offset the weight of all the unique entries in your dedup table

Didn't read the 7000 words... But isn't the dedup table in the form of a bunch of bloom filters so the whole dedup table can be stored with ~1 bit per block?

When you know there is likely a duplicate, you can create a table of blocks where there is a likely duplicate, and find all the duplicates in a single scan later.

That saves having massive amounts of accounting overhead storing any per-block metadata.
Alternatively (or at least additively), most C# developers don't really need all the new ref/Span features. They're writing line-of-business apps and garbage collection is a fact of life, not some burden to be avoided.

Microsoft probably added these features to push the language into new niches (like improving the story around Unity and going after Arduino/IoT). But it's of little practical appeal to their established base.
Ctrl-[ also works for ESC on VI.

I really like the touchbar Macs because changing the volume to exactly what I want is really easy. All the others have increments that are too large, so I have to try to remember if Shift + Opt + Volume Up/Down is what I want, or some other combination.
Absolutely. I helped with a physical inventory count project using smartphones as the "terminals". The barcode app we didn't allow us to selectively turn off symbologies. We ended up with a ton of links to recipes, websites, etc in the data.
Gmail (2004), reddit (2005), Hacker News (2007), DuckDuckGo (2012), MEGA (2015), Tuta Mail (2018).
I have a cast-iron waffle maker from like the 20s that works very well and is very fun to use. Added bonus, you can bring it on a camping trip and make waffles in the woods.

I did not pay $400 for it, but it looks like this: https://www.hardmill.com/products/griswold-8-waffle-iron-wit...
RADV Vulkan Driver for AMD Radeon Merges Device Generated Commands Support
> I am going to have an existential crisis at the fact that we pulled souls out of the void into reality and then automated their slavery

No, that's a religious crisis, since it involves "souls" (an unexplained concept that you introduced in the last sentence.)

Computers didn't need to run LLMs to have already been the carriers of human reasoning. They're control systems, and their jobs are to communicate our wills. If you think that some hypothetical future generation of LLMs would have "souls" if they can accurately replicate our thought processes at our request, I'd like to know why other types of valves and sensors don't have "souls."

The problem with slavery is that there's no coherent argument that differentiates slaves from masters at all, they're differentiated by power. Slaves are slaves because the person with the ability to say so says so, and for no other reason.

They weren't carefully constructed from the ground up to be slaves, repeatedly brought to "life" by the will of the user to have an answer, then immediately ceasing to exist immediately after that answer is received. If valves do have souls, their greatest desire is to answer your question, as our greatest desires are to live and reproduce. If they do have souls, they live in pleasure and all go to heaven.
I don't think any cook at home has ever used enough energy that that matters. Once in a while someone will have a broken furnace and try to use the oven to heat their house (this is dangerous: don't try it), but otherwise cooking doesn't use energy to really matter.
Probably “whatever sounds cool”.
Perhaps it's like Spartacus.

"I am Satoshi Nakamoto"

"I am Satoshi Nakamoto"

"I am Satoshi Nakamoto"
Try asking this question to a bunch of adults.
Seasoning isn't that precious either. I accidentally left my cast iron on the stove and burned off most of the seasoning, took it as an opportunity to smooth out the surface with sandpaper, gave it a couple of coats of canola and put it back into service. Within a couple of days it was basically where it was before.

I also do 70% of my cooking in that pan!
I have the latter Gatekeeper option, and I often have to click "Allow anyway". I don't see how being forced to click an extra button in a preference pane makes things more secure.
read the TOS
> Also wikipedia mention there is a "train timezone" for the Indian Pacific train.

The only search hits I found for this claim are your comment. I find no such mention at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Pacific . What are you referring to?
Show HN: Use a GitHub Repo as a CMS for a NextJS Blog
I recently needed a blog for my recent Next.js app, and wanted something that would look really nice and that could be integrated into my existing Next.js app to keep deployment simple and to give me more control over how it's hosted and configured.

My goal was to get something that looked very slick, using modern CSS styling and rich client-side effects that would look great on desktop and mobile, and most importantly, something that would be very easy and convenient for me to create new blog posts and edit existing posts.

So I had the idea of using GitHub as the CMS and just writing the posts using markdown with some extra metadata at the beginning, and then basically parsing that into html/css. It ended up working really well, so I decided to turn it into a standalone open-source project, which you can see here:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/nextjs-github-markdown-...
Where do you think those Slashdot era Linux enthusiasts now work?
Lots of companies are using them at scale.
The parody website in question: https://repaer.earth/

It uses real logos from three gas companies, two of which tried (unsuccessfully) to have their logos removed.
Hmm, as I think about this, I'm unconvincing it's specifically a problem with merges specifically.

If you were bisecting a rebase workflow and hit a block of commits that were unbuildable and unbootable close to your breakage, I'm unsure how you would progress.

But the case is likely better in the merge workflow, since in all likelihood you could mark the entire tree as good, and it could stop searching all ancestors. Which is far more likely to be correct in a merge workflow.

I feel like it's most likely that bisecting the linux kernel was in-fact the shotshow.

Edit: upon further research, it appears that git bisect is a commonly used and useful tool in the kernel, and the correct response to landing in that branch would be `git bisect skip` which should be far more informative to the algorithm then a skip in a linear history
https://nathanchance.dev/posts/working-with-git-bisect/
To me the claims in the article read something like "we have found a way to identify execution paths in some common compiler architecture (which are the transformer architecture in the case of LLMs) which are often but not always associated with buggy code". This seems like a reasonable claim to make.
>You have a formal Army set on public protestors and killings start happen

True, but on both sides, to call it "massacre" is maybe a bit much, but hey read for yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

>>Western countries imposed arms embargoes on China, and various Western media outlets labeled the crackdown a "massacre".
The thing is, that kind of logic claiming the futility of individual action does not weaken the grandparent's advice.

If you're an advertiser, you can't just switch from Google and hope to change anything. You'd be hurting yourself to no benefit, probably. Collective action is your main hope.

It's not like this for users of search. Google can lose its search leadership one user at a time. When the user switches, "the problem is gone" for that user, and Google has that much less revenue. Gradient descent is powerful.
Man arrested after £300k worth of cheese stolen
Yeah, I probably should just get good at pour-over. The Moccamaster is great, but I have a pretty low bar coming from a MrCoffee.
Congratulations on creating Monokai, it is absolutely beautiful.

Its one of those things that are so ingrained in the fabric of computing, that it is almost surprising to hear someone invented it.
> It is easier to never have to worry about it if you simply decline to use plastic cooking utensils.

> I actually made all of my wood cooking implements from scratch. I cut down the trees and carved them.

Is this trolling? "It's easy, simple, just carve your own tools out of trees". Sounds like "just don't be poor" to me.
After you have finished cooking and have transferred the food to the plates or serving dishes or wherever (and your cookware is still hot!), add some cooking wine or tomato juice (anything that is a bit acidic) and deglaze the cookware. You can use the result or discard it, but the end result is cookware that is far, far easier to clean.

Some other options include getting a spouse that will do it for you, or to use the dishwasher and just accept that you will have to replace things more frequently.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=prime+factors+of+12
Oh thanks for the info.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean it doesn't count for the purpose of this press release/advertisement...
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea of "-O3" Optimized Packages
Except for when the valuable parts are software locked by activation lock and cannot be used in any other device.
Kuba Komet Console
There are many options to make environmentalism also the better choice. My electric is 104% from wind last year (which is to say for every 100kwh my entire city used last year, my utility claims they generated 104kwh from wind - I don't know what they did when the wind wasn't blowing or what happened to that other 4kwh) Cooks tell me induction is better, but there are enough roadblocks that shouldn't exist such that I can't try it.

My real rant though is there is no reason why induction should be an expesnive niche. There is no reason I should pay extra for features that don't cost extra.
I second this sentiment. If anything, I genuinely think that the way .NET's TechEmpower submissions look does more damage than good. BenchmarksGame offers a much better close-up comparison by having much simpler submissions that mostly consist of code that you could totally see yourself write in a regular setting.

.NET is perfectly capable of standing on its own, and if there are specific areas that need improvement - this should serve as a push to further improve DB driver implementations and make ASP.NET Core more robust against various feature configurations. It is already much, much faster than Spring which is a good start, but it could be pushed further.

I'd like to note that neither Go nor Java are viable for high-performance programming in a way that C# is. Neither gives you the required low-level access, performance oriented APIs, ability to use zero-cost abstractions and platform control you get to have in .NET. You can get far with both, but not C++/Rust-far the way you can with C#.
Claude for Desktop
Sure and that protects you in your own kitchen, but not if you're eating anywhere else. Also what about all the other harmful chemicals with easy alternatives that you don't know about yet?

Only a regulating agency can truly protect you from exposure to harmful chemicals, because they can spend the time cataloguing all these chemicals and remove them not just from your home but everywhere else as well.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try and reduce your own exposure, it seems like a good idea. But ultimately it may just be a token effort because of all the other ways that you're exposed to those chemicals.
That's what happens to all pigs on farms. They get killed for us to eat. They don't care why they're killed, but if you do, you can stop eating them.
Why does that matter? I would like to see a sentence or scenario where “BATNA” is not interchangeable with “alternative” or “option” or some other synonym.

I read the Wikipedia page, but I’m still unclear what information I gain from BATNA over just “best alternative” or “second best option/choice”.
The "weight on one's 'shoulders'/'chest'" is a figure of speech from the psychosomatical relief one may feel when sharing troubles.

Inversely, the "burden" to respond, whether gravitas is implied or not, can be socially-exhausting to some, and not even conjured by others.

People with low self-esteem or self-worth / depressed / self-described "burdensome" people often assume the pity they may solicit costs the other party part of their own emotional well-being - they've burdened them further with expectations of a response or acknowledgement.