skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hard to understand their stance on keeping Source closed. It is not an exciting engine to work with in any way.

Source uses Havok, which is a licensed middleware. Convincing Havok to be also open source is likely a nonstarter. Repeat for any other middlewares they might have used, such as Adobe's ScaleForm used by CSGO, and it quickly is just an endless legal nightmare. idTech handled this by either spending time to rip out those components, allowing for a partial open source release which is what you're ripping on Valve for doing right this moment, or by avoiding using any licensed middlewares at all which is a significant development limitation that not everyone can get away with.

As Source 2 replaces everything with in-house developed alternatives, it's possible we might see that open sourced in the future. Who knows.
The point is that this is an idiotic, bad faith question that has no actual utility in moral philosophy. If an AI assistant's goal is to actually assist the user in some way, answering this asinine question is doing them a disservice.
It doesn't really make sense to bake depreciation into this sort of comparison. It's a loss on paper only until you realize it, so it should be its own separate item. That way you can factor it in (or not) depending on whether you plan to keep the car or sell it.
ADD is the lack of serotonin in the frontal lobe. The best way I've heard it described: there is no motivation except to not die. In the worst parts of the disorder, even that isn't motivating.

I know it is over-diagnosed because high school and college kids want to to tweak legally. But it makes it harder for those of us that actually suffer with ADD
This is the actual answer. If you want a computer to power itself off, you either need to design a contraption that mechanically opens a power switch, or you need a transistor that is carrying the full load of the computer at all times. It's much easier to have a switch for the human to press.
We have some of these devices (not affiliated with the company) [1] for general consumption, and also for dentists and physician in the family. Also a very complete book [2]. I am talking as a layman since I am not in that field.

[1] https://weberlasersystems.com/

[2] https://weberlasersystems.com/products/book
I didn't know there was anything that predated Core War (1984). Cool, thanks.
5+ year development cycle. Impressive! https://pi-hole.net/blog/2023/10/09/pi-hole-v6-beta-testing/

Any details on what HTTPS support provides, other than a TLS connection to the admin dashboard?
I saw other photos in the bay area large enough to ock roads. Other people are also protesting at Capitols all over the country.
so then misspent? Must be, because if it's not misspent than impossible to trace is a little irrelevant. It can't be unaudited, because every department passes an audit every year (except the DoD, but they basically pass an audit and the reasons they currently don't are mostly technical)
The ground with Ukraine's volunteer drone hunters
> My question is how may of you are actually willing to give Musk more money after the questionable, legal, and ethical behavior he's exhibited while working for DOGE.

Oh yes, far better to give to alt-man, google or Facebook - those are morally responsible companies!
He is a job creator.
I don't know that I expressed an opinion on the bureaucracy, nor an the TSA, security theatre or anything else. I don't think any of those are related to my question about why the DMV is relevant to Federal policy.

(Note - I asked because the DMV is a per-state agency and the discussion is about Federal policies)
All your questions presuppose an executive branch that is bound by the decisions of the judicial branch. This one isn't, or certainly doesn't feel that it is. So the answer is practical, not legal. The control they can exert is the control they can get away with exerting without undue cost. That might involve accepting the results of law suits from disgruntled employees, or it might not. Certainly right now they seem disinclined.
Smart TV opt-out telemetry is malicious.
Hey, thanks for checking it out!

Yeah, the webpage parser (https://github.com/mozilla/readability) doesn’t work well with social media sites like Twitter/X. It can summarize up to about 37,500 words, as long as the website is parsable.

I haven’t gotten around to adding pagination for the “More” pages yet. It currently only handles the home route/front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/). The cost of summaries does add up, especially on longer articles, so I wanted to limit expenses until I can find a way to keep it running while at least breaking even.
You throw a $8-$15 into the case slot machine (by buying a key), it usually gives you a crap prize, sometimes its a decent prize, and once every 100 000 - 1 000 000 times you get something great.

You can wrangle that with words in any way you want, its gambling. Same for Team Fortress 2 and stuff like hats.
There are very few people that would be better suited for a role like this than Ethan, any major web company would be fortunate to have him on staff... and the fact that he chose to work at 18F speaks volumes about the work they were doing there.
Coding became my fulltime job and I organically moved to mature tools.
I say this half-jokingly:

If you're going to rip a wing off do it as early in the crash as possible so momentum will carry you past the fuel/fireball.

If fire develops when you've almost or completely stopped you are now involved in the fire and the fatality rate goes up dramatically.
> NIST has been saying that, but everyone else just laughs and implements hybrid since throwing out RSA/ECC is so obviously stupid.

The Australian government is also saying this.
So you're saying you have nothing to hide? Gotcha.
What's the context of the research work? Who's it being done for and why? Why should someone share that information with you, especially in a public forum?
Considering that Source is ancient and likely hasn't gotten an update from at least 2013 for TF2, the bar is low for how complete an engine needs to be for level comparisons.
You are the only one who cares if your job is soul-sucking or not, so you're exactly the person to complain.

This whole idea of "other people have it worse so it's rude or 'bad' for me to complain about things I don't like" is not a helpful mindset. That there are starving kids in Africa or victims of war in eastern Europe or slaves imprisoned in China doesn't make your life any better or worse. If every slave in the world was freed making those JIRA tasks would feel exactly the same so there's nothing wrong with wishing those JIRA tasks weren't quite as bad as they are.
The problem is that Svelte 5 is not Javascript in the worst way. It doesn't solve the problems of js, it provides leaky abstractions around some frontend issues. I think Solid is a better direction than Svelte because Solid doesn't depend on a new language. But the reason there's an instinct to create something that's not quite js is that js is not ideal. Elm is the precursor to svelte. But I think we can do better...[0]

[0] https://jcuenod.github.io/bibletech/2025/02/16/beyond-typesc...
For anyone not looking for super realistic 3D and primary targeting PC audience Godot is enough to make good game. Majority of game devs do not build AAA titles with $10,000,000+ budget. A lot of players play mostly indie games.

FFS some of the best indie games out there made was made on RPG Maker and let's say it's far less advance than Godot. After all games are all about enjoyable core loop and player expirience. And no game engine magically give you any of it.

Company I co-founded released 2 games on PC and about to release 3rd one on PC and all the consoles. One of them was made with Godot, two with Unity. The only reason we had to switch to Unity are consoles. And the reason why Godot cant efficiently complete on consoles is the fact that platforms are backward and proprietary.
from various interviews I've seen of folks in the games industry apple has historically been actively hostile to working with game companies, it seems to have softened with the iphone appstore.

People make fun of "devs devs devs" from Balmer but he was heavily right, Microsoft spent a ton to court developers and they got a monopoly on PC gaming as a result.
Funny, because I love svelte stores and use them as much as I can over the compiler magic. But that's probably because I've never taken the time to learn observables properly.
Your code will list and go round in wide circles.
My understanding is that probationary employees weren't eligible for the deferred resignation offer.
To rephrase the question: what is the limit to the duration of sustained inertial confinement fusion plasma in the EAST, WEST, and ITER tokamaks, and why is the limit that amount of time?

Don't those materials melt if exposed to temperatures hotter than the sun for sufficient or excessive periods of time?

For what sustained plasma duration will EAST, WEST, and ITER need to be redesigned? 1 hour, 24 hours?
It's slightly more complicated. What you are suggesting works if (1) you are using Pi-hole as a DHCP server or (2) all your devices are individually configured to use the Pi-hole IP address for DNS resolution. What's more likely though is that you just point your router's DNS setting to Pi-hole, and in that case there is only one client on the Pi-hole dashboard - your router.
Well.

Only announce things your opponents do or even lie about it and spread the hate.

I'm 100% sure he won't direct the subsidies during COVID-19 for the hospitality sector, which Trump was quite happy about during his reign.

Or the expensive hotel stays for his security at trump hotels :)
One small change to using a GPS radically impacts how much you know about the area -- do you use the default, always-forward view, or do you use the slightly-less-usable always-north setting? If you use the latter, you will find that you learn far more about the city layout while still benefitting from the GPS functionality itself.

I think LLMs are similar. Sure, you can vibe code and blindly accept what the LLM gives you. Or, you can engage with it as if pair programming.
Did you read the article? The author spends a LONG time going over why it's not early days for LLMs.

Here: https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/#:~:text=Also%2C%20uhm%2...
Where is the actually interesting culture coming from? I'm in my 40s, and a parent, so I feel like (at least for now) I've lost the ability to tell and the inclination to seek it out anymore anyway.

Being a seriously big city, NY must still have "home-grown" art and culture, like its hip-hop scene or the modern equivalent? Kids are still growing up in rent controlled apartments surrounded by hundreds of thousands of other kids, even if starving artists aren't arriving from the outside like they used to.
That's not what he said. He said the accounting is bad making it impossible to know how much is misspent.
What many folks may not realize is that ice for drinking water is often made from bottled or filtered water.

What's the difference between shipping 100 lbs of water then freezing it vs shipping 100 lbs of ice?
Perhaps replacing Siri with an LLM within the resources of a phone is complicated and takes time to get right. I’m willing to wait to see where they go with this a while longer.
You could just strip out all mentions of the 3rd party component on the codebase. Let the community figure out how to plug in a replacement.
18F was staffed by a bunch of young tech folks who lean left. That makes them enemies subject to persecution. I really don't think there's any more complexity than that. Expect this kind of thing to be the norm in the future.
All human activity is full of scams if you cast your net wide enough. Insofar as academia contains scams, the distinction is that they have a much lower profit margin.
Given they call out derivative works of the original games being ok, and those works can be released as new games on steam seems to clear the way for TF2 Classic.
I couldn't pretend to be this stupid if I was being held at gunpoint.
And Valve should get rid of item trading because it could potentially be used this way?

Edit: this is a genuine question. What is the solution here?
The Future of Digital Profiles and Avatars with Decentralised Profiles
From what I can glean, the Zizians were largely rejected by rationalists and ultimately had a falling out.
Every time I have googled for it, the only method of working memory training that comes up is N-Back.

So I'm happy that the article mentions another method. Apart from playing "Simon" (yes that circular game with lights), those are the only two I know.

Anyone know of any other methods?
CEA themselves are saying fusion is not going to be ready by 2050.

Don't mistake skepticism for hate. I will be the first one to applaud a commercial fusion reactor. But fusion proponents often use it's pending development as an argument against fission - a technology we already have and desperately need to adopt now.
Free privacy and legal tools for all founders
founders: if you're looking for best-in-class free legal documents and policies, ex/ante recently launched a new library, Builder Blueprints, in collaboration with Ford Foundation. Think privacy policy, terms of use, SaaS agreement - all raising the bar for founders to build high-integrity tech companies from the ground up. Focus more on product and operations and less on legalese.
Right ear because the pain was on the right side of my head.
Yeah, this was disturbingly close to my experience at Apple.
Which should be treated as misconduct.

Folks who do this should be shunned by their peers and driven out of academia. It's exploitative and coercive.
Anki’s Cozmo Robot was the best engineered "Pet" robot I have yet seen. I had to take one apart to replace the battery and it is an engineering masterpiece. The behaviors are pretty good also. It is about the size you are talking about but more forklift shaped then humanoid. The robot itself was pretty dumb and most of the "brains" ran on your phone via the app.

Anki went broke after the came out with a smarter successor to Cosmo. I think a biped that small would be a real challenge to make at a price point the market will accept.

Digital Dream labs bought Anki's IP and tooling and now sell Cosmo's for $400.

If you are serious about this, get yourself a few used cozmos from eBay and try to hook an LLM to the python API.
Is this a PG&E thing or a California thing ?

Put differently, where in California can one top out at 14c/kwh for electricity ?
If his son inherits Valve, it's over. He will probably sell it because why not -- he's not a gamer whatsoever.
It seems you can add domains to the deny list via their api: https://nextdns.github.io/api/#profiles

So atleast there's that.
I mean relatively speaking yes, only one of them is acting as an unelected dictator, circumventing our whole constitutional appropriations process by taking direct control over payment infrastructure.
this just gets my conspiracy nutjob of a mind flying.

how about the NORTH versus SOUTH team contests? ugh
Amazon Kills yet Another Service
> 14c/kwh

santa clara, palo alto, etc

EDIT: sorry 17.5 c/kwh? pg&e average is also higher:

https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees
I can take a crack. This is Jake's brother, Sam. The Japanese poet Yakamochi wrote:

We were together
Only a little while
And we believed our love
Would last a thousand years.
If I give you a hard drive full of photos, you could compress them, use the excess hard drive space for your algorithm, then uncompress the photos and give a full hard drive back to me. Is that’s what’s going on here?

Basically it’s exploiting unused channel capacity of the memory if the Shannon entropy isn’t maxed out?
I expect almost all detached homes to have a driveway, even if they do not have a garage.
The current ramp in the central solenoid is used to set the plasma rotation direction. Theoretically this is more like Alternating Current, since there is not a fundamental reason the central solenoid couldn't ramp back down (and then proceed to ramp up in the opposite polarization). The existing plasma would need to be cooled and removed first, or some similar mechanism of stabilizing the torus again in the opposite direction.

I look at it as a large optimization problem at this point. Each part of the machine is workable but not yet sufficiently optimized to achieve profitable operation.
The age-old dilemma...

Less money and greater meaning, or more money and mind-numbing tedium.

I sympathize with you because on January 1st I nearly doubled my salary, but the job leaves me rather unfulfilled. I'm left substituting my hobbies and family for all meaning in my life, but it's challenging when you spend 50-55 hours a week at work.
The thing is, after repeatedly getting excited about commercial fusion power for the past sixty years, it's tough to maintain enthusiasm.

For me I worry it's like the search for the northwest passage. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage). Explorers spent about 400 years searching for something that they knew just had to be there, but when they finally did it (1957), it really wasn't important anymore.
they implemented usernames so phone numbers are no longer required
Wouldn’t a smart tv do something ... smarter than just using the default dns given to it by the network?

I’m not up to speed on this stuff but I thought pihole only blocked the simplest stuff from devices that play nice?
Nobody is going to build a manufacturing plant knowing that Trump is only using the tariffs as leverage and they will be rescinded next week. Most of the tariffs he signed in are already gone.

And even if they stay during Trump they might get killed in two or four years if the gov shifts sides.
New Requirement for Apps on the App Store in the European Union
~35 years ago, my mother worked in a clinic in central America. One of the more-memorable patients was a 15-year old who arrived without a left index finger. Unlike most people who'd have appeared in that condition, he was jubilant. He'd been out in the jungle cutting chicle (preparing trees to collect sap out of which to make rubber), when he was bit on the tip of that finger by Fer-de-lance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothrops_asper

(As I understood the story, it had been lying unseen on top of a branch he grabbed.) He immediately, as in within seconds, laid his finger against a tree and whipped it off at the root with his machete. No one questioned the correctness of his decision, because he subsequently survived a 45-minute walk to the trail-head, and a 2-hour drive to the clinic, without any sign of further envenomation. (Indeed, the clinic didn't keep any anti-venom, so he'd have had a further 40 minutes to go to the hospital in the nearest small city.) His chances of living would have been dicy at best, and the loss of at least his entire arm a certainty.

The local (Maya-language) slang for the Fer-de-lance translated to something like "fifteen-steps", because that was supposedly how far you'd walk before you'd die from a bite. Brave, quick-thinking dude.
but 69 is lame because it merely is 3*13

I don’t care about sex jokes. 42 (or 72) OTOH are cool because both are surrounded by twin primes!!! how cool is that? (semiprime coolness is significantly smaller than twin prime coolness)
Source has extensive documentation for years, both by Valve and modders. Mostly unified and indexed here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com
I have more faith in fusion power in 20 years than anyone claiming AGI is coming in the exact same timeframe.
I don't hate it, but am not fanboy either. Imagine you can have nuclear fission and uranium is already found in nature ready to go to the reactor. Even in that case, nuclear fission could not beat solar or eolic ROI.

Even if nuclear fussion had the advantage of free combustible, the costs of building and manteinance alone could make it not practical. As of today it's not enough to have positive net return, but to have a LCOE of maybe $60/MWh (and going down). Current estimates put fussion at $120/MWh.

If it can't keep up with solar and eolic rade of fallig prices, it might be only suitable to replace fission power (which is not falling), about 10% of the grid. And there have been literally billions spent in research.
But still, the questions in that test are "solved" in the sense of "I can take a dictionary and answers these questions with full certainty". Beyond established knowledge LLMs are monkeys with typewriters, at best.
I can't and wouldn't argue with what you say here, but:

a) I donated twice as much to somafm

b) His connecting me with somafm was worth the donation to him. Besides, as an aspiring sw artist, I like to sow good karma seeds.

That said, I would recommend he pay out his sources both fairly and according to their terms. Their terms are their choice, and we should respect them.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. We live and we learn, when we're at our best.
You and I both know this but the amount of people here who drink the kool-aid is astounding. Nothing about this adds up to making the government more efficient.
Maybe the examiner erred in issuing it then, and it needs to be cancelled because it's non-patentable subject matter as per Article 52 of the European Patent Convention.

I don't know how I can be clearer about that. It's literally not allowed, and you think the first one you've looked at has somehow escaped the very direct statement that programs for computers are not patentable subject matter

Perhaps if you'll cite any of those French patents (I note you alluded to "over 300" but managed not to cite any), we can get started on the cancellations
Sounds like NAND.
This is an observation you only see with people who don't use Lisps. It's a total non-issue. Editing is also easier than with syntax-heavy langs.
Trump has that "you want to be the last person to leave the room" type though, as that's as much as he cares to remember if even.
Depends. for T$LA? It'd be catastrophic since it's a massively overvalued stock propped up by Musk hype. It would drop to slightly above average values and they'd be lucky if they were still in thr fortune 100.

For Tesla as a company? It's be a huge wound but the reputation would improve in all metrics if Musk stepped down. Employee morale would go up, there's probably be less corner cutting with build quality, they may actually be able to adopt LiDAR and have a proper FSD one day, and they can start to rebuild their foreign relations

So your answer depends on if you think a company is bound to its shareholders or to their customers and workers. Sadly there's a clear answer in America.
Edited to clarify what I mean.
You are right. But I wonder how much of Havok is there, given that Valve had its own thing: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VPhysics
To me Valve lost its way as a game developer long ago. What have they released recently? CS 2 in 2023? That IP came from a mod they bought 25 years ago just like every other game they released since HL. The only thing "new" have in the pipeline is a MOBA FPS.

I am however eternally grateful Steam allows me to painlessly run Windows games on Linux so I never have to deal with MS in my personal life ever again. As a game distributor they are awesome. And that is what Valve does best, distribute games.
This sounds like a terminological issue. Without further context, I would assume that "lead author" means the last/senior author, not the first/junior author. But I guess that's a life sciences tradition.

"Who actually did the research" is not always an accurate description of the first author. There are plenty of papers, where the last author had already contributed enough to justify authorship before the first author was even hired. You often need to develop the idea and get preliminary results to convince someone to fund the project, before you get the money to hire the first author to work on the idea.