skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just watched one of his videos this morning. Yeah you tend to hit like into the thousands and they tend to see you as a problem, especially on single deck tables. It's not hard for them to spot someone using well known strategies. You can still turn out a modest profit and I think one thing to keep in mind is in places like vegas you might want to find the casinos that aren't owned by the two big companies that own most of them because they share information on punters...

His whole book is like 'why you probably shouldnt learn how to count cards' and its because its a massive pain in the ass and you can probably make more money doing something like poker instead. It's fun from what I hear though every person I know who has the mental math skills to do this has gone to vegas only to get limited at around 1000$ or so. Sometimes they even catch you within like 3-5 hands haha

Fun fact, Ed Thorpe developed blackjack basic strategy and card counting through computer simulation and is pretty much the guy responsible for casinos having to change all their rules at one point with the game. One thing I thought was funny was how steven bridges was trying the fake beard thing, it seemed like the most obvious tell that he was doing some funny business to me, it looked like shit haha

https://graham-kendall.com/blog/claude-shannon-edward-thorp-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
Counting is always possible, nobody can tell if you're just counting in your head. What's detectable and counterable is the way to get advantage from it: you must make your bet much bigger when the count is favorable. That behavior pattern alone is enough for a casino to choose to toss you - they don't even have to prove that you were counting.

Counting works in general because the player's advantage is concentrated into a small number of possible hands. Almost all of your profit comes from blackjack hands paying 3:2, with a bit more from some particular cases like splitting aces and doubling on 11. For everything else, you lose more hands than you win (the asymmetry is that if player and dealer both bust, dealer still takes your money), and you're just trying to tread water to get to the good stuff. The good stuff all requires aces and tens, and counting is to identify the cases when there are more of those available.

Besides counting, the other way to play blackjack profitably is shuffle tracking. It's possible to watch as aces go into the discard pile and visually track them through the shuffle. When you know an ace is coming up soon (even within a range of the next 20 cards), bet big since even a 5% extra chance of an ace makes the expected value of that hand profitable in your favor. Casinos also know to foil this and will eject you in the same way, for a pattern of suddenly making big bets even if they don't necessarily know or prove you're doing it.
> Be better

They're almost certainly not on this forum, and they're not reading your post. So who is that quip directed at?
To clarify for anyone who's confused as I was, the name of the ebook is "Getting Real".
Good call to prevent macro expansion. Does also no big harm nowadays as there are several other ways to get good auto completion, e.g. copilot. Other than that no need to restrict functionality for power users.
Would you say that most of the benefits you attribute to cash can only be realized electronically using cryptocurrencies?
We can do it but it's an inefficient technology not because we haven't tried but because other methods are too good.

The sun is free, growing lamps aren't.

Hard to beat free energy.
Would a performance impact be persuasive?

Ultimately they are trying to use that data to answer "when we do x the business makes y dollars". The data they get is pretty granular, and shows the users behavior across multiple platforms making it very hard/impossible to replicate inhouse.

So, the trade off seems to be performance (privacy, lower bounce rate, possibly better ranking) vs insight into how your product is being used and what some of the other things your users are interested in.

Making a convincing argument to go without for some perf is going to be a really hard sell. Especially if those people have new laptops and fast internet. I think if you are going to go this route you need to yoke that idea to the money. "Saving x resources lowers our cloud bill by y%" or "Our product would be a good fit for people in this country, but they tend to have slow mobile internet, increasing our performance will unlock that market".

One compromise could be using 'aggregator pixels'. Effectively you add a single tracking script to your site, and they forward that data to all the different analytics companies your colleagues want to use. Metarouter is one that comes to mind (no affiliation).
You want to live somewhere outside of civilization and not pay taxes?
I usually buy them by the box on eBay... but any hardware store will have "special purpose" bulbs even in places where they are banned for general lighting sales, some of which are still basically regular bulbs but labeled for "appliances," "marine," or "rough service." You can also get old fashioned edison bulbs on eBay. Any standard dimmer switch will work.
So I'm currently using "OpenCV University"'s playlist on YouTube to get myself up to speed with computer vision, and this has lead into a spiraling staircase down into the depths of CNNs.

Started off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWgEPOVnuM&list=PL6e-Bu0cqf...

Ended up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XYLA2HLmo&list=PL6e-Bu0cqf...

And after that, I've had some recent projects that I love to mess around with such as a better license plate detection API than what currently exists for U.K. plates, and once I completed those two courses I had a good enough baseline to work from where I'd encounter a repository and google around if I needed to learn something new.

Short, simple, not painful etc. and I don't have the advanced mathematical background (nor the background within the American mathematical notation) that I'd need to digest the MIT course set, so this learning path has been the best for me. I'm no expert whatsoever, though.
Surprisingly, the best funded schools are not the ones that are in good places to live. Baltimore city public schools were $22k/student. Howard county was $20k for the same time.
AI's "streaming text" UIs: a how-to
> Instead most of the tax revenue goes directly to the pockets of 1%-ers.

Source?

Give me an example of a single jurisdiction where the majority of the spending is not some combination of police/emergency services, education, and healthcare. And the biggest expenses of those businesses/organizations will be labor costs.

Add defined benefit pension (social security) for US federal government.

All the government budgets should be available online to see. Here is the US federal budget from a couple years ago:

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...

And here is the biggest state:

https://ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2024-25EN/#/BudgetDetail

The biggest city (page 11):

https://openbudget.ny.gov/overview.html

The biggest county:

https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1168728_2024-25FinalA...
Nobody in Australia wants this Orwellian surveillance legislation. 15,000 comments, overwhelmingly negative 95%+, in the sneaky 24hr window they allowed for comment at all.
How Multitasking Affects Your Breath and Your Work (2014)
There's a few points that it doesn't get into: 1. it wasn't written in Erlang/Elixir or another BEAM language, 2. it's really more about gen_server than Erlang (a language), 3. if there are no replies then it's not an RPC but rather one-way data flow (which could have used Kafka/etc and not home-grown), 4. it can support multiple languages/runtimes.
Neat. https://dynamicland.org/ was the first thing I though of. Glad you referenced them on the page.
Every time there's a Bluesky or ATProto post I comment with how I think their killer feature is video.

Their smart use of domains makes it so that their equivalent of "channel" can be an actual website, that will offer you recommendations when you watch videos on it exactly like YT, except you control the algorithm.

Users will get much better choice and experience over the already excellent YouTube, but most importantly the creators will be able to express themselves however they wish. They will rent hosting from a provider, shows ads from an Adsense-like service, and actually own both their content _and_ their subscriber list.

I've been wanting to build it, but I'm always deterred by how ATProto is still tightly linked to Bluesky itself.
This is why we have direct democracy in Switzerland, and I wonder why it is not used anywhere else.
I think the US have done an admirable job at being world police in the Asia Pacific.

Middle East and Europe post-USSR the track record is much worse.
Best protection from exploits is to disconnect your computer, shut it down, smash it with a sledgehammer, quit your job and become a florist.

Whenever you folks say "just use Bla-bla instead of Emacs", you don't realize it's not even at the level of comparison between iOS and Android.

Emacs provides unique capabilities that other applications simply cannot match in terms of simplicity and power.

Like take for example Dired. Sure, there are number of vim plugins, but none of them match the full power of Emacs' Dired of treating directories as editable text.

Or take Org-mode's source blocks. You can for example execute a piece of javascript, then pipe the result into another block in python, then the results of that into sql and finally output it as a chart.

Or you can use source blocks for literate programming. I use them for managing my dotfiles - my entire system is almost immutable, not at the same level of Nix, but still very nice.

Or take an Emacs package called consult-omni - you can type a search query once and it dynamically dispatches queries to Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, your browser history and other places, aggregating the results in one place. Crazy thing is that the package builts on top of another package which itself uses the built-in functions of Emacs.

The power comes from ability to precisely change a behavior of any given function - built-in or a third party - that precision is just impossible in Vim, VSCode or IntelliJ - in Emacs, you can change specific point of any given function without having to rewrite it.

It's not a matter of "faith" as you put it. People who choose Emacs don't do that because of some dogmas, beliefs or folklore. Emacs has earned its reputation as the most extensible software for sound technical reasons. Naturally, any powerful tool can be wielded for both constructive and destructive purposes. But you can't just suggest replacing a Caterpillar 797F Mining Truck with a electric scooter because of 'security concerns' - what am I supposed to do with my 400-ton payload of customizations?
I think this not about GDPR but about the AI Act
Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
Huh? The bulk of your local taxes probably funds public schools. As for federal taxes, the bulk is social security, followed by defense, Medicare & Medicaid, and various unemployment benefits.

It can be argued that we should be spending less on defense, but the trade-offs there are very different from what you're describing.

The government also does a fair number of indirect subsidies by making some people or businesses pay less tax, but it's generally not the "top 1%". If you're in the top 1% of earners in California, your total effective tax burden is likely 50% or so.
because mosquitos/viruses are found in nature that operate within the confines of evolution, and has zero ties to ethics. while the other creates extremely dangerous precedents around how to disperse viruses via airborne/borderline impossible to see and fight instruments that can live on for generations? does it really need to be spelled out? if something like this starts to become the norm, how in gods name will you stop a force with malintent from creating something far more sinister? to me the risk of that is far far greater than letting remnants of malaria survive.
Seems like a normal TTP.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-to-penis-ttp
The terms under which libraries lend out e-content are awful: e-content expires after either a given number of lends, a period of time, or whichever comes sooner, while a well-maintained library book can last for decades, and it tends to be more expensive than its analog counterpart (eg: an e-book for may cost more than its heavy-duty library-style-binding hardcover).

That said, the key difference is that book publishers decided to offer e-content under an explicit license, while game publishers have not.
Device-detector: Universal Device Detection library from User Agent
Presumably it's directed at anyone writing an article for public consumption.
The Perk Weighting Issue
Whoever controlls the drones and ai will controll everyone.
While everyone is distracted and divided by different agendas and propaganda, someone outfits drones with military equipment and tear gas.
Multitasking and Stress
> What’s your issue with Armstrong? First I’ve heard anyone say he is despised?

The fact that I actually know what he has done since he and his Goldman Sachs cronies got involved, and leveraged thier SV connections to get backing to start coinbase which has been a constant thorn in our side ever since MTGX went down.

That people who admit to '[being] a fan of Elon and Twitter...' are oblivious to the constant gaslighting, scams, and derision he has inflicted within the bitcoin community isn't a shock, what is disappointing is how few critics there are of his for his actions.

He tried to scam noobs into thinking Bcash was Bitcoin on Coinbase during the USAF, that was the final nail in the coffin after a long history of reversing transactions and closing accounts etc... but as I said they hold an obscene amount of Bitcoin despite having been hostile towards Bitcoin and what it represents.
It's so deep that 'DDPM' isn't expanded until the references at the end:

- Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Hmm so what is the competitive salary offer that covers "less occasional disappearance"
> Nah, just create the world at a state where modern medicine can cure cancer, like we're on the slow road to doing.

We would have cures for every illness if not for human selfishness and evil. Look at all the money and effort spent on war during the last 10,000 years, on legal fees and disputes for the last 5,000 years. Rather than love our neighbors as ourselves, too many of us in our hearts say, "This land is MINE! This money is MINE! This patent is MINE! The credit is MINE!" If all this effort went to instead cultivating gifted individuals to research and cure diseases we'd have all our cures.
We can’t know they were the first. We can’t even know what the idea of a singular Sumerian culture or civilization was.

It’s fine to speculate, but it’s pointless to just decide that our speculation is fact when there is absurdly huge numbers of pre-historic people who may have stumbled upon writing, but never care about permanence.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the proposition: “Ancient Sumerians probably created the first writing system”
> The specific quote is that “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”

> This explains why people like Jim Ryan hate retro games. They think these older games would cannibalize sales from newer releases.

I play retro games. Mostly on Retroarch.

I play those games because I genuinely think they are better and more enjoyable than the vast majority of crap released nowadays.

If they managed (they can't) to wrestle my retro game collection from me, they wouldn't get me to play whatever crap EA, Ubisoft or Blizzard puts out nowadays. They would just get me to stop playing videogames.
Most devs here use FF as their daily driver - that said, if you need to debug an emscripten-compiled c++ WASM application in the browser, then it's either printf-debugging, or Chrome + the C/C++ DevTools extension. Additionally, the overall QoI for running WASM binaries appears quite a bit better for Chrome. Both issues tip the scales currently, in favour of Chrome (sadly).
I've benchmarked R2 and S3 and S3 is well ahead in terms of latency especially on ListObject requests. I think R2 has come kind of concurrency limit as concurrent ListObject requests seem to to have increase failure rate when serving simultaneous requests

I have a few of the S3-like wired up live over the internet you can try yourself in your browser. Backblaze is surprisingly performant which I did not expect (S3 is still king though)

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/mps3-vendor-examples
I think all the trypanophobia and other conspiratorial thinking is often more rooted in distrust than stupidity.

Trust is tough, and everyone has countless examples they can think of why you shouldn't trust. There's infinite reasons to distrust and yet our society only functions by trust.

The world outside your field of view is a fog of war. You estimate what's going on in the fog through the lens of your experience. Think about what's etching those lenses. We're all etching and we're all etched.

Might seem hokey, but I think no matter how you see the world, the solution is more compassion. Balance compassion for yourself and others. It's more effective than handringing. Active compassion is the only thing that can polish the lenses too scratched up to see through.

If everyone tries it and it doesn't work, I guess we could always try a genetically engineered mosquito that forces people to be compassionate. ;D
They were right about communists sympathizers spying for the USSR within the government too - eg Alger Hiss and Harry White.
i thought this seemed familiar! read OS's book in university many years ago. i might have to go back and read it again
Injecting a bunch of shouting and bullying drama into a medical discussion is not likely to produce improved results. Why are you doing this?
I've been very very reluctant to install third-party extensions to Jetbrains, VScode, and Emacs for just this sort of problem. And it sucks.
Doesn’t the plurality of spending go to medicare and social security?
It is not against code to hide low voltage signal cables behind the wall. It's only against code for mains voltage. And there are good reasons for it. Just because you showed up to this conversation not knowing what they are doesn't mean they don't exist.
As @yawnxyz mentioned, versioning is straightforward to do via Workers (untested sample: https://gist.github.com/CharlesWiltgen/84ab145ceda1a972422a8...), and you can also configure things so any deletes and other modifications must happen through Workers.
Did you buy all 10k of the games from your youth?
You tell me.

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?

Is he as rich as Bill Gates?

You tell me. What is the point you're trying to make?
The submitted URL was https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/study-why-aztec-deat.... Interested readers might want to look at both.

Sound examples related to the paper: https://caneuro.github.io/blog/2024/study-skullwhistle/

via:

The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181466 - Nov 2024 (27 comments)
I am moderating a niche technical sub on reddit and don't see that much of bots. They are probably targeting "high value" subs.

As for alternatives, it depends on what you are looking for. E.g., if you don't need to comment / post, a feed reader with all your favorite discourse forums can cover a lot of ground.
They did- people bitten by a mosquito do receive some amount of blood from previous individuals.
> broadly speaking, an entity like the U.S. Government does not need to collect tax revenue to function

Really?

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover...

> The primary sources of revenue for the U.S. government are individual and corporate taxes

Wouldn't it do almost nothing if it did not collect tax revenue such as income tax and land tax?
So what you're defending is the idea that people knowingly voted for a russophile neofascist with full understanding of all implications?
The front page is full of OF ads masquerading as genuine women posting innocent selfies.

The rest is either political propaganda bots or karma farming bots (gaining karma to later advertise OF or propaganda).
I was just thinking of the Apple III the other day.

If I remember, jobs had them not include a cooling fan. As it would heat up and cool down the chips in the motherboard would work their way out of the socket. So one of the official solutions to try if you were having issues would be to drop it a couple of inches to try and get the chips to re-seat inside.

Crazy.
Interesting! I have a BOOX Nova Air3 C I bought back when it was the only color option on the market. Now that Remarkable has a color option, I've been wondering if the grass is greener. One thing that's always bugged me about it is, unlike my old Kindle 3G, rather than going to sleep after a period of inactivity, it straight-up powers down. So essentially any time I pick it up to use it I have to wait for it to boot.

BUT -- I can't remember the last time I charged it. It's possible it's still on its original factory charge from a few months ago. As someone whose phone is perpetually below 20% charge I greatly appreciate that feature -- given the choice, I'll always choose "needs to boot" over "needs to charge". Your anecdote has therefore reduced my own buyers' remorse.
There’s a very good chance the battery has leaked and caused quite a mess. Well capacitors are a problem the battery is the biggest one.
I want to see de-coupled DNS and DHCP by default so I do not have to manually replace dnsmasq with odhcp and nsd.
A simple older HP office laser printer works very well as a home printer. It doesn't have an app, no wifi, no cloud services. Plug in ethernet and print, always works and the toner capacity is made for office use so it lasts a very long time in a home office.
I'm curious, which Lisp did you end up choosing?
To me "liberal" has nothing to do with "left" since I'm not American and as such use the term in its original meaning. As to the width of the window of allow discourse I'll just say that as far as I'm concerned it is only limited to the law of the land no matter which terms - left/right/liberal/conservative/progressive/whatever - you want to use.

That wide window is not what I see on BS nor on Mastodon but it is starting to become visible on X. Such wide windows let in a lot of noise but that is part of deal.
People are already infecting other people without my consent. How do you think I got COVID, the flu, etc.?
Surprise solar surge in Pakistan shocks experts, and grid
HBM or not, those latest server chips are crazy fast and efficient. You can probably condense 8 servers from just a few years ago into one latest-gen Epyc.

I run BareMetalSavings.com[0], a toy for ballpark-estimating bare-metal/cloud savings, and the things you can do with just a few servers today are pretty crazy.

[0]: https://www.BareMetalSavings.com
It seems like the view endpoint would be for functionality shared the full view, like auth safeguards and such, while the components would fetch the data they need; this would make it so you don't need to pass around the data to the view and save a few lines of code; of course this is not compatible with the idea of having "dumb" components vs "logic" ones like people do in React and alike.