skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone is competing.

In the economy as a whole how many people are even business owners? Most people go to work and price take at their job without negotiating, without even moving area, without even studying, etc.

You also have multi-company-monopoly effects for lack of a better term, e.g. if there are 10 competitors that make semiconductors - _everyone_ needs semiconductors, then if you pick the appropriate balance and don't buy in at an overvalued time you can invest in all ten and still make money because there is a net flow of funds into the system from outside of it.
I wonder if they still use a version of cURL from 2006. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/curl-...
Same applies to many MMOs, even GW2 and FFXIV are terrible at the beginning, compared the current content.
There are remastered versions of those games that Blizzard wants to sell instead.
Traffic at the Swindon Magic Roundabout for 56 minutes [video]
Have you tried employing either in any recent time? Or is this just what you think is the state of affairs without contextual knowledge?
The open source ecosystem needs this kind of "wasta".

AI solutions nowadays are working to automate all sorts of services, partly using adversarial interoperability tools built by open source developers to extract functionality from services that have insanely worded TOS/T&Cs. Some of these megacorps are going after the maintainers and not the (potentially funded/protected) consumers with legal threats.

In this case the two parties are within 10's of millions of dollars of net worth, yet still it's not a fair fight when an incumbent tries to strangle a newborn in it's cott. Now think about the insane situation of megacorp vs maintainer with a delta of a few trillion dollars of net worth. I don't know if even a few phone calls would save a yc startup in that case.
The assets of the game you have chosen to feature in the hero image of your homepage look like NFTs. Partially because trading cards look like NFTs. But mostly because that game also has an ERC-20 token that in their words allows the creation of NFTs.

If you featured items from WOW, Eve Online or CS2 you would probably get less people screaming at you.

On a more philosophical level though in-game items are really NFTs before crypto-currencies. So whatever you do you will probably still have people screaming at you about NFT scams.
Should be mandatory in the lunch room of any self respecting math department
I don't think they are doing this for a class?
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This reminds me of the "etilqs_" files. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302805
The downloadable extras at the bottom of https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/ may be useful – especially the Mathematica package, if you have Mathematica.
Review bombing is almost zero cost and standard practice nowadays every time some Internet hivemind decides they hate a game. 10,000 is actually not that much.
The article is about the aesthetics of old cameras but doesn't include a single image.
idk what "value" people expect out of a model rocket, anyway. Of course SpaceX or NASA is sending things to orbit. The value is you get to have fun launching things into space yourself!
"Cancel culture" is one of those buzzwords that can take on whatever meaning it needs to in a given situation.

Related: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey

> If by [noun], you mean [negative descriptors of noun], then of course [statement of lack of support/belief]. If, however, by [noun], you mean [positive descriptors of noun], then [statement of support/belief].
Also could probably partially disassemble them.
Thus facilitating the chick magnet -> chick factory pipeline, which really boils down to just being a regular fucking pipeline.
Well, w98 was already "dead", it was a rehashed win95 with better plug and play, some fixes, activeX/IE4 down your throat an the same atrocious stability.
Idea (I lack the skills to implement):

Train an upscaler/style transfer model on these lovely things (plus Winamp skins etc) to create a teachable AI theme engine.
It has been synthesised. It's a mild stimulant but has a not-so-great toxicity profile. Probably best to leave it with the fibre you need to chew through.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecoline
It's funny that this is released the same day as a 56 minute overhead drone video of the Swindon magic roundabout, one of the UK's most iconic road junctions: https://youtu.be/CzQunCuQCJY?si=X1nbcxiWOCcnm8eO
What would make that unlikely? Sounds like a pretty reasonable valuation. Netflix is $400 Billion USD for ~300 million subscribers and is likely an inferior product to a pirate streaming site (otherwise, obviously, the pirate subscribers would go with Netflix). $50 billion for ~20 million users seems ballpark plausible.

Note that black markets exist because there is enugh demand for a product that it overwhelms the ability of the army/police to enforce the law. This site is obviously going to be doing something economically popular. If it wasn't making a killing, ol' mate running the place would go find some other career.
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If I'm just toying around, why wouldn't I read the manual instead of trying to coerce a remote chat bot?

If I'm not toying around I'm not going to send information about it to some corporation in a jurisdiction without decent data protection laws.
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>They made it hard for people to get support for their paid product

It could also be USERS of the Cisco anyconnect contacting him. End users should NEVER email Cisco directly.

End users should contact their IT. If needed, IT then opens a Cisco TAC case. :)
Another 'usefull' rot is what forms the incense Agarwood, popular in arab and asian culture, where a certain type of forrest/jungle tree is infected and, after 50yrs, results in the highly sought after perfume that can run you in the tens of thousands $ per kg.
>through anodization

That was just oxidation.
> but the motivating argument for that math in the first place is limiting behavior.

No it isn't. The entire reason we truncate the series and dont sum the entire series off to infinity is exactly that the limiting behaviour isn't well defined.
Well Haxe has access to whatever it compiles to. If i target JS i get the entirety of the JS ecosystem, in good and bad.

F# is indeed fast. Thanks the the work MS has put in. But so is Ocaml, it is close to C when written in perf first mode. Having said that i rarely need the speed of C for what im building, as bottlenecks tend to be IO anyway.

Finally, ocaml 5+ got multicore (domains) and effects, that really is a better abstraction than monads ever will be (imho)
Is image background removal a solved problem?
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By your definition, super-successful kitsch-meisters like Thomas Kinkade are great artists.

That's quite a niche view.

In fact art is an overlap of many different kinds of markets selling to many different kinds of customers - from people buying phone wallpapers online, to tourists buying souvenirs on holiday, to oligarchs laundering money through prestige purchases.

And many others.

A community gallery is going to intersect with a couple of those, but not all of them. Sustainable funding is a goal, but maximising income isn't.

Financial success doesn't sane wash narcissistic entitlement, of which there is plenty outside of the arts.
Maybe the first point you make is also the argument for why our brain might have a microbiome, as our body is not in any way hermetically enclosed, and e.g. amoebas are able to infect our brains just by going through our nose.
As tier 2 IT support, I much prefer Anyconnect over the Microsoft VPNs we had to wrangle...
You give 3 data analysts the same question on a typical enterprise database.
How many correct answers do you get? How many different answers?

Based on anecdotal experience (we should make a study) LLMs don't make more errors than human analysts IF given the same information.
That that movie is by Isabella Tree is such a great example of nominative determinism.

And she was adopted by aristocrats! So aristocrates have done something selfless and generous in their lives, I'd've never guessed. Good on `em.

Snark aside, her mother, Lady Anne Tree is evidently a very fine human being who understood that her being born into wealth gave her the opportunity (or, perhaps, even, responsibility) to help others, which she did, apparently magnificently.

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Adult living in the first world, among other adults living in the first world. Where I'm from designing for people "not making mistakes" is considered to be unconscionable and negligent. The fact that people (yes, everyone) makes mistakes is well studied and statistically backed, so any solution you have where they just "take responsibility" will not work.
It could also be USERS of the Cisco anyconnect contacting him. End users should NEVER email Cisco directly.

End users should contact their IT. If needed, IT then opens a Cisco TAC case. :)
So 3 employees of a company (with "Ad" in the name) decided to leave and found a startup (also with "Ad" in the name). The (failing by all accounts) company they left got butt hurt over this and decided to bully them by using their larger size to sue them out of existence.

Their plan was to win by exhausting the funds of the smaller company, not to win on the merits of the case (which was obviously dead in the water in California). But the smaller company was able to prevail because its investor was larger than the company suing them and decided to in turn bully them into dropping the lawsuit. Both startups, to nobody's surprise, ended up failing and the founders of both companies, also to no one's surprise, felt bitter about the whole episode.

Sounds to me like the good guys won here (to the extent that a company with "Ad" in the name can be considered a good guy). Not really sure what I'm supposed to take away from this. Just a typical ego driven business spat where the only winners are the lawyers.
I like GOG, but I'm still pissed off about this one, yeah. BTW you can buy it from the developer's website, it's great.

https://shop.redcandlegames.com/app/devotion
Starcraft 2 murdered RTS genre, it was and is so good, that nothing comes close. I have no idea why you put it on the list.

Activision Blizzard was 2008. Shutting Blizzard North was 2005.

So indeed it seems it was rotting before official Vivaldi-Activision merger.

I think, just like with Starcraft, you misread the situation with "hype of the genre was gone" about moba. I think Blizzard was very good at creating extremely polished products, but LoL already was polished and well established.

Project Titan's assets were used in Overwatch, but yeah, spending so much time on a big project to abandon it really shows poor management skills and overall bad design of the project.
> I _never_ figured out the indentation rules

I'm glad I'm not the only one. The white-space as syntax in some cases is very confusing. It took me a while to figure it out.
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Both are hard to detect if there are only hundreds of them amongst trillions of human cells.

At that point, 'just look with a good microscope' becomes infeasible, and you end up needing biological tricks like DNA amplification.
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It seems to me that consumer protection strength changes on a 4-year cycle.
That's not the most objective decision in the world. If we're describing "conurbation" in specific, why not call -urb- English too, taken from the common English word urban? Urban ultimately draws from Latin urbs, but so does con- draw from com- and -ation draw from -io(n).

(In Latin, there are plenty of words ending in -atio(n); however, within the language this is not a single unit, it's a sequence of part of the verb stem plus two separate morphemes -a-t-io(n). The -at- marks the passive participial form of an a-stem verb; compare faction (zero-stem), inhibition (e-stem).)
I mean, let's not pretend that GOG is the only way to have access to these files.

It might be the only way to legally "own" the game but if we want to blur that then it's pretty easy to get in possession of the files.
> Directly observed treatment

For a sexually transmitted disease? Harder than you'd expect, considering people are reticent about their private lives.

> short-course

This needs to be continued forever, as far as I understand.
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ejabberd and RabbitMQ are written in Erlang
This. If you believe for one second that money and power hungry people have any kind of principles, you have not been paying attention. Cancel culture, woke, left, right, center, free speech – they will say whatever to get what they want on these topics, and change their opinion the next day without any real consequences. Welcome to late-stage capitalism.
Because that's what they say their job is? Did you read the rest of the comment thread?

I believe what _I_ said about it, personally, was "that's not worth much" (because they don't do it).
I have actually gotten a few customers that way, when they couldn't get hold of the provider they just called whatever other provider existed and that happened to be us.

Me: "Sure we can fix it. Oh, you don't seem to be a customer. Maybe you called the wrong company?"

Non-customer: "Well, they don't answer, maybe you want to sell me the service instead?".
Do you think GOG can sell anything without a license of sorts? Otherwise what's the difference of paying for piracy?
There's a bizarre "Old stuff is better" tendency which sees vintage tech as somehow more credible, ethical, characterful, expressive, and individual than modern tech.

It's quite strange. It's still consumerism - primarily about ownership display, not use - but trying to pretend it isn't.
Your comment contains a series of partial truths, falsehoods and misconceptions.

So Werner built the rockets and all the subsystems too or was just the technical fellow/consultant?

Sure, the US was in a better position post WW2. But Werner has been dead for years and the US still dominates space 10x or even 100x times. Engineering in the US is top notch.

As far as your other assertion- what’s your source?

NASA primarily used the imperial system (feet, pounds, and seconds) for the Apollo program. The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and other systems were designed using imperial units because the entire spacecraft and mission control infrastructure were built around the U.S. customary system.

There was no wasting of CPU cycles. We even have the source code on GitHub to go look at:

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

Look in this assembly code. It is imperial.

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

Then, there are design documents and other engineering standards that tell us everything was in imperial units.

I am not buying what you are saying.
Feds are gonna come and talk to you very sternly, at first.
Yeah GMKTec is pretty bad when it comes to cooling solutions. Literally just had the K9 with the 125H delivered yesterday and while I was expecting the fan setup to be meh, it's honestly like a bad case of tinnitus. Constant eeeeeeee at the most annoying frequencies possible.

They put a tiny 40mm fan on top which resonates with the plastic box and screeches like an absolute banshee all_the_time. That one is a must-remove since it also blocks installation of any heatsinks on the nvme/ram, and a mesh top results in roughly the same temps. But they gotta put their logo on top, priorities.

The second problem is the main cpu cooling, which is actually a really well made bottom intake blower side exhaust setup... but it's set up to run at like half speed even when you're at 30 degrees and there's no bios fan curve control for it except for extreme temp steps. I'm currently pondering adding a pico or attiny that reads the board PWM and retransmitts it so it only runs the fan when it's set above usual. Or maybe just a full passive copper block replacement, but that would require a case redesign...

Otherwise it's a really capable little machine if they put a little effort into making it shut the fuck up at idle.
Good luck. Several of my clients have tried the same thing, using an LLM to build an MVP or something simple. In every case they’ve had to hire programmers and either start over or spend more money getting the AI-generated code to work than it would have cost to hire it out.

Look out for security problems, because the bots certainly will.

Please report your experience.
On version 4.10.x of the client it's copyright 1996-2019, so no..
The points you illustrated is part of what I think caused Zuckerberg to lose control: hyper growth, fast money, an emerging market of personalized ad tracking. Sandberg being the more experienced manager steered the company well enough during this time but in a direction that I don’t think Zuckerberg felt at home with. Hence This red book was a way to bring back some of his spirits.

I also think so much potential for political influence had a weight on facebook but was not in the roadmap from Zuck’s POV. But it surely was for Sandberg because she had already been at Google witnessing the power of influence. Her husband’s own successes with SurveyMonkey emphasized some of that. This success+money+potential+(emerging ad tech) for facebook combined with a young startup spirit led to many scenarios that young Zuck was not prepared for. It definitely steered the company away from its founding vision. The company was suddenly infused with professionals that did not embody the spirit. And Zuck was quietly observing during this period.

Today, he looks around FB and says that things need to change. “And if people are not happy about this, then I am ok with them finding something else.” (i am paraphrasing).

Zuck has doubled down on a different vision now: Oculus VR. It seems his desire for FB social networking has plateau’d.
"But Daniel," emailed Pagliacci, tears in his eyes, "I am the IT department"

Seriously the number of times I've seen companies lay off the only person who knew anything about X without realising they'd been dealing with problems with X for years and now that falls on a manager, a new hire, an intern...there's also people who don't know who to ask internally, or worse, feel like they can't ask internally because it will make them look incompetent.

Early in my career, the top nerd in the office knew all the answers, but delighted in being unremittingly rude and humiliating to anyone who deigned to ask him anything. That's the kind of behaviour that leads to people seeking any other channel for help. The best thing I learned from him was not to be like him.
Many people, sometimes with good reason, will try literally anything before trying to contact their in-house IT support.