skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd angle the bar even lower at that end. Any game that involves virtual money, that can be purchased with real money, and a random element should be classed as gambling. That would include things like Pikmin Bloom.
Post: "9 rules of debugging"

Each comment: "..and this is my 10th rule: <insert witty rule>"

Total number of rules when reaching the end of the post: 9 + n + n * m, with n being number of users commenting, m being the number of users not posting but still mentally commenting on the other users' comments.
My take is to defer them having an unlimited internet access as much as reasonably possible + build trust.

I don’t believe blocking things from a position of authority would work well for the most kids longterm.
I'm a little confused about the point the author repeatedly makes in this article, complaining about the #includes on top of the file. Genuinely curious, where does he propose to put the includes?
I think one of the most toxic things in this industry is that we think we need to continuously be doing coding outside of work instead of living life.

So the answer is I don’t.

I had been programming continuously from the time I was in 6th grade in 1986 until 2020.

As I pivoted into more strategic cloud consulting specializing in cloud architecture + application development in 2020 - “cloud application modernization” - I started coding less and less to the point now that almost any time that I even suggest writing code at work even though my title is “staff software architect”, I get my hand slapped and asked why didn’t I delegate it and focus on “higher impact
work”.

I keep my knowledge of the industry up to date by continuously learning during the work day. But when I get off work, I shut my computer down and live my life - spending time with my wife and friends, exercise, travel, concerts, etc.

We travel - a lot. One of the benefits of remote work.

If I do need to pivot back into hands on coding, I have a years worth of expenses in savings in the bank aside from retirement savings to give me time to get back into the groove of things.
Seeking New Home for 90 Mobile Air Quality Sensors
Due to the end of funding, we’re seeking an organization to adopt ~90 mobile air quality (PM2.5) sensors. Designed for urban air quality studies, community science, and educational projects. We’re prioritizing groups that can take 20+ units but are open to splitting among a few committed organizations. Previously, the cost per sensor was $200 (+shipping) to cover for the raw cost of components, assembly, etc. Given the current situation, we are however open for discussions to ensure these sensors find suitable homes where they can have the greatest impact.

More details:

- Project home [1]

- Example project approach/results [2]

- Example air quality map of Kigali [3]

[1]: https://www.open-seneca.org/

[2]: https://pub-2ff142b84818402d92cea35b93ba5064.r2.dev/open-seneca_lisbon-stockholm-2021-update.pdf

[3]: https://maps.open-seneca.org/city/kigali
You don't place a wager when playing Luck Be a Landlord, simulated or not.

It's a survival game taking the aesthetic of a slot machine.

I don't think Peggle was considered gambling when it came out, despite taking the aesthetic of a pachinko machine.
Singapore is VERY close to the US.

One of the US's largest naval bases is in Singapore, they are one of the very few countries allowed by the US to buy F35s (F35s are interconnected, so being given entry into the F35 program means being given entry to the entire intranet used to manage it), and plenty of US Naval officers cross-train and study with Singaporean naval officers at NUS.
Nor could I find a list of such products on their website. Instead I found a (small) list of products that they approve of.

Definitely makes me wonder if there's something not quite transparent about their "transparency"
Definitely not! They let me in, after all, and I know where I’d fit in. Churn used to be high enough I believe they would expect to grind you out if you couldn’t do the work. It was very cruel.

I’d say the SNR was higher than -19dB, though (assuming we are using Volts on this shocking topic). You can’t target the best if you are not open to looking for them but instead start looking for people to make them your best. I think that this fit the overall company strategy pivot from one that encouraged “personal excellence by dealing with excellent people”, to one that pushed “managerial precision through finding acceptable cogs”. Im paraphrasing the exact phrase, but I think thats a fair interpretation.

These are not bad things, they are just the winds of change based on the lungs of whoever is in charge to think whats best for the company. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it blows, sometimes it goes nowhere. The new approached allowed for different people to get lucky, different people to get ahead, and different people to start filling the hallways. Thats gotta be worth something, somewhere. People willing to try at this level deserve a chance, and it’s not my money, so why not.

What changed for me was that previously they could make a claim and cloak the results in facts (maybe because I believed it), but now they were looking to that tweak the claim so that it could be one where you could cloak the facts with results (and were asking me to do my part).

Part of this shift was warranted, part of it was appeasement, all if it felt like you’d just been served a bundled cable TV plan.
There is a clone of Luck Be a Landlord named Random Card created by a South Korean developer that included microtransactions and gacha elements and Google gave that game an award.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/07/google-pla...

So in Google's eyes, actual gambling is fine but simulated gambling is not even though both of them look like the exact same type of gambling. The only difference between the two is that in one situation Google gets a larger kickback.
Trump's administration proved ineffective last time and there's little reason to think it will be different this time. If he tries to sabotage companies for not abandoning DEI initiatives he'll be bogged down in the courts, it will take more than four years to resolve any of that and by then it will be moot anyway.

Insofar as companies are changing now it's because they no longer feel political pressure to put on performative displays to satisfy the sort of activist government regulators that were typical in the Obama and Biden governments. Companies like Apple which are true DEI believers and not merely bending to political pressure will keep their programs dispute Trump and Trump won't be able to much of anything about that.
I am not really surprised. I had the bad luck to buy a Sonos soundbar right when the new app was launched. I'd never seen the old app but all I knew was the thing was unusable. I had to return the soundbar.
The output distribution is deterministic, the output token is sampled from the output distribution, and is therefore not deterministic.
Temperature modulates the output distribution, but sitting it to 0 (i.e. argmax sampling) is not the norm.
it might be worth separating out the clever business-specific algorithms, etc. these can be done with literate programming and then the rest of the plumbing can be done as usual.
I exclude them because if I include them then a lot of people here will assume that they can extrapolate, and abrahamic religions vary dramatically from the bulk of religions throughout history in that they do have an enormous moral component which is simply missing for most religions.

This is especially true in mainline protestantism, which rejects most forms of ritual altogether.

When people accuse evangelicals or whatnot of magical thinking they're not talking about the same thing that I'm talking about here.

> I was raised Baptist, and my parents attribute pretty much any good fortune for our family to divine intervention, to this day.

This is similar in some respects, but a key difference is that for most Baptists they don't believe that the Divine intervention came by performing a specific ritual. It comes by the will of God through the grace of Christ. Many Baptists will even firmly emphasize that your morality plays no role in whether God will intervene, so even the moral component doesn't serve the role of ritual.

> I know Catholics who can instantly name the patron saint who can be asked to intercede on just about any topic.

Catholicism in general is an exception to this, especially as practiced in places like Latin America. There, there is a large ritual component that does bear a strong resemblance to these kinds of religions.

But it's easier to warn people from extrapolating from Abrahamic religions in general than it is to warn people from extrapolating from "Evangelicalism, Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, ...". The exceptions will be discovered, as long as you can interrupt the initial impulse to immediately associate things with what you already understand.
> not actually simulating gambling

Nit picking I guess, but... looks like a slot machine simulator... and slot machines are synonymous with gambling IMO.
> Perhaps a better question, how should you participate (as noob) without getting Stack Overflow beatings, and show respect of other people's time?

As long as you adjust when people give you guidance (if needed), you'd be fine.

Everyone does something bad/ill accidentally every now and then, it's not the end of the world, apologize, learn and move on. It becomes a huge hassle for everyone involved when it's repeated even after being told it's wrong, so just listen and follow what others (ops) tell you.
Words aren’t pathogens, indeed, pathogens are not that great to produce analogies and parables.

We can’t know what words will actually have on people until we release them. But we know that words we use can make a significant and measurable difference:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-minute-therapist...

https://brm.institute/neuroscience-behind-words/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

>if approximately no one knows about it

How close to "approximately no one knows about" are we in an antonym association like master/slave?

>the person bringing up that connotation is the pathogen

Well, that is what we can call focusing on the person rather than the social mechanism at stake, isn’t it? Kind of an equivalent to the mechanism through which we produce reactions like "look this bird of ill omen that pretends that there is an invisible entity passing from one person to an other but whose malign effect only reveal randomly, clearly this person is the actual cause of the issue".
Only having part of the EU is an interesting decision.
See also Applied Mathematics vs Pure Mathematics.
I'd wager good money that if you did a rapid-fire word association test on a spread of non-us english speakers, over half would say "slave" after master.
Free Our Feeds
Literally no disabled person says "differently abled".
I did the same with a G4 Mac Mini. One suggestion for your hobby/business-- I went with a PATA->m.2 SATA adapter instead of PATA->mSATA. It works like a charm and when I built mine a couple years ago it was actually much cheaper. Obviously it completely saturates the PATA interface.

I ran 10.4 and Void (no longer maintained) so if there's a technical reason to stay on mSATA for Mac OS 9 please ignore. ;)
The fundamental question here is one which I don't think there is an agreed-upon answer for:

>What does an algorithm look like?

I am working on a rather visually-oriented tool, and while I did a fair bit of early development using BlockSCAD, and also have access to OpenSCAD Graph Editor, it hasn't made sense to show the algorithms visually because it's a lot of work making them suitably expressive.

One almost wishes that the specialized library used for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw

was published and widely used.

Similarly, why can't we have more things such as:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...
The CMB was the only "evidence" for the Big Bang (and I use evidence in quotes because it's wrong actually), other than the fact that everything seems to be expanding as if from a single point.

When people still insist on believing the CMB proves it even when we now see fully formed galaxies at the edge of the observable universe, it's only because they're vested in that theory, and they know if it's wrong then they've been badly wrong for their entire lives. Only people with decades of vested belief in the Big Bang are hanging onto it for dear life, while open minded objective people correctly claim the evidence is against the Big Bang, and it was never anything but a wrong guess.
Code is data, and data is code.
MangoHud
It's interesting that nvidia takes somewhat opposite position on this "restricting adversarial nations" perspective. I think OpenAI wants the us government to restrict open source model such as deepseek or qwen from being accessed by US public and preferably other western nation by using leverage on those nations' ability to access AI chips from nvidia. It's pretty cunning strategy to build regulatory capture while using other company's market power behind the usual good vs bad rhetoric.
> You can manage the danger of stunts, you can reduce it and prepare for anything that could go wrong.

I think that is all I'm asking. Or not even that. Just saying that if they don't, i don't want to watch it.

> Houdini died from a rather trivial stunt he performed many times before.

The blows which allegedly killed Houdini were not suffered during a performance or stunt.
Towards Backdoor Stealthiness in Model Parameter Space
English will become the most popular development language in 6 years
The iPhones that famously won't let you unlock their bootloader? Yes we have, and I don't think that's making the argument you think it's making.
I would second this. There is archeology, space travel, time travel... Loads of fun. I'm still trying to get a hold of all the titles.

Oh, and evil AI! Right in the first album. Had totally forgotten about that.
and if i recall correctly, also Detroit: Become Human

It also tells you the % of people that managed to reach a certain ending or branch.
I was expecting NVIDIA to donate to the inauguration fund like other companies have been doing, but this is kind of an insane level of corporate endorsement of a political entity.

Especially in the face of the incoming administration being even more anti-China, especially with the tariffs.
I don’t know what you’re talking about officer! I always ship just 1,699 GPUs, otherwise the box gets too full!
It’s not really that bad. You can run some fairly big models on an Apple Silicon machine costing £2k (M4 Pro Mac Mini with 64GB RAM).
> Are Russia and China conducting undersea sabotage?

this is still a question? yes, they are.
> I've always wondered, why was IRC not developed further?

Personally, part of the charm of the IRC protocol is the simplicity. You can implement a client effortlessly in most languages in just an hour or two.
Sounds a lot like static website generation that a lot of JS frameworks do.

There are a lot of pitfalls with this approach, but for a subset of problems it is very good.
I'm aware, I was quoting Rousseau because the person I was replying to mentioned the social contract which was an area of particular concern for Rousseau. I would recommend reading Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality if you're interested, it's very accessible.
It's not simulating gambling any more than Peggle is simulating gambling.

It takes the aesthetic of a slot machine but there's no wagers. There's no gambling mechanic.

Are we really that blind to what gambling is that there are people that think playing poker without wagers is a form of gambling?
probably the same thing that netscape did when adding javascript to the web. "now we can add some basic client-side validation to these forms". PDFs can be used as form templates, so having some basic validation is reasonable.
> You are taking this too literally

They’re calling out a “the pretense of a theory” of dark matter that we “pretended we resolved” unlike the “different but similarly unexplained phenomena were called in the past.” Where do you see the figurative gap?

In reality, we have General Relativity and the Standard Model. Both theories which have defied falsification to the limits of our instruments. Their unification, unfortunately, demands certain discrepancies be resolved. Dark matter and dark energy being possible solutions to those discrepancies. There is no “theory” of dark matter or dark energy, just a compendium of hypotheses.

OP is wrong. Literally, not figuratively.
Which will apply for exactly one week.
basically a hardwired authenticator dongle that the user cannot touch
They’re basically Asian Israel.
It's nauseating, but much worse than that, the parade of newly minted corporate sycophants is only encouraging more authoritarian threats in the future, because they're demonstrating how well they work.

It's like the battered wife trying to please her wife beating husband to avoid a black eye.
> Nobody who uses the term "cargo cult" in a technical settings does it out of spite or even refers to specific nations or peoples.

Intent doesn't really matter here; it's just poor communication if you are aware of where the term comes from. Why not just use "dogmatic" or something?
> people who blindly “autocomplete” this code are going to stall in their skill level progress

AI is just going to widen the skill level bell curve. Enables some people to get away with far more mediocre work than before, but also enables some people to become far more capable. You can't make someone put in more effort, but the ones who do will really shine.
BCPL--hadn't had my first coffee before I read this, I thought it was going to be SBCL.
> 3) I appreciate the warning on the terms and conditions about seeing things you might not want to see.

I'd echo this. I found that to be exceptionally well-written and helped me understand the records I'd receive were unlikely to be the records I was interested in, so I cancelled at that point.

Your abandon rate at that step could make for interesting reading!
If they're not from an actual southerner they absolutely are.

Just look at how their usage is promoted in this thread to defeat supposed evils elsewhere in the language.
The timeframes are fuzzy, but it looks like the current Finnish mental health regime was enabled by a law passed in 1990. Since that point, given the 5.6M population times the 214/100,000 rate, we get a total of ~12,000 people committed.

The graph in the linked article shows a reduction in homelessness from about 17,000 to about 4,000, a reduction of approximately 13,000 people.

So I think it's fair to say that Finland's mental health changes have been responsible for the overwhelming majority in the reduction of Finland's homelessness problem. This is consistent with the point that I was trying to make elsewhere in this thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660372
All four sound fine to my native ears. "It's going to run ..." is most natural when talking about a vehicle. (French if I recall does not distinguish "working" from "running" for machines generally.)
Some have voiced concerns about Bluesky using trackers.

https://pnw.zone/@BlurryBitsPhoto/113804648365475726
I also don't use or own cars. I use my stuff until it breaks. I mend my own clothes instead of buying new ones whenever I can (even to the point of looking like a hobo).

However, I despise hypocritical "ecology" stickers in products. Specially when those stickers are attached to products designed for obsolescense (looking at you, Apple).

I am also fully aware that companies are the largest pollutors, not me. They'll do whatever they can to shift the blame to the consumer.
> The biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is seen as the primary way of changing behaviours.

I think the biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is the primary way of changing behaviors. Lack of adequate conflict resolution leads to dysfunction.
It seems like Trump would only go harder on this kind of thing "as a negotiating tactic" or something.

He seems unlikely to make it easier for China, at least without something in return.
Balatro's various bannings are particularly egregious, as it in fact does not involve risking money in the gambling sense. It has cards, and it has a concept of money (though in Balatro, barring particularly constructed setups, $25 is generally a lot of money, "dollars" doesn't meaningfully correspond to any real value of currency), but there's no "bet this much money on the outcome of the cards".

(Sure, a contrarian could construct "Yeah, but when you're buying rerolls of the shop you're gambling on getting a desirable outcome", but, let's not pretend to be stupid just to be contrarian, that's not where the bans are coming from. They're coming from "I see the word 'dollar' and the word 'chips' I see cards and poker hands, therefore it's gambling, and I'm literally not going to spend 30 seconds thinking about this even though it's one of our biggest sellers.")
They are not in compliance with the provisions. They aren't violating anything. They can't violate a promise they haven't made.
Also runs well under Wine!
To be fair, if you were to design a game meant to create false positives for gambling, it would probably be a game just like this.

While a sympathize with the dev, this is a bit like carrying around a replica gun in public and complaining that you constantly have to ward off police reports.

Parents are gonna see the slots and file reports.
Indeed.

https://scroll.in/article/1023979/from-outsiders-to-termites...
Side note, regarding commit messages: I have a few colleague who will go through the commit message just as thoroughly as they do the code, and match up the code with the commit. Over the past few years that has thought me to write pretty decent commit messages, to the point where I go "That is nicely done" when encountering my own commits.

Still can't write outside commit messages, but I guess that can be learned as well.
I don't think there is any sense of "cargo" in their worship of him.
Balatro is similar, it leans heavily on Poker aesthetics but mechanically the only thing it has in common with Poker is that it starts with a standard 52 card deck and the hands you can play are (mostly) the ones used in Poker. You could play it for a hundred hours and still have absolutely no idea how to play Hold'em.
It sounds like there should be warnings on the raw elements of protein powders, not just the powders, which makes me think (adjusts tinfoil hat to filter proper wavelengths) that the issue raised by the original article is more about FUD and selling their version of protein powder.
Would you be open to visa sponsorship at all? I can work in France and Italy in the EU (have residence that lets me work in both countries) but not in Germany at the moment (this might change in about a year or so as I will get EU citizenship). But I have a fairly strong software + ML background and would love to join you.
And then imagine how each separate converstation can affect another. What a tangled mess this would be to work on.
The Reels, I'm with you on.

It does seem to keep showing you more of what you click on though, so I hit a good trend of funny clips from Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Friends and random interesting nature videos and for the most part those dominate now.

But no matter what you click on it seems like they are really determined to keep throwing in the various ladies clips.
I like to think of it biomimetically. Organisms and ecosystems have both competition and collaboration at every level of organization.

If I were to design a government from scratch I think it would actually be relatively easy to know what's best nationalized and what's best privatized. Nationalize the things that you do not want to be driven by the profit incentive because they need to be fair and accessible to all (mass transit, healthcare, utilities, communication networks, science), and privatize everything else (entertainment, retail, food, services).
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