skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red Alert: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert

Tiberian Dawn: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn

Renegade: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade

Generals Zero Hour: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

EA post: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb

(Deleted Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmml4/)
You’ve made a fatal assumption that what is “acceptable” content is immutable and can’t be retroactively changed so that safe content is now unsafe content.

They’ll never be free of the costs of content curation
I don't know your old founder and can't speak for them, but generally, that kind of phrasing is just idiomatic, and not meant to be parsed literally.

It's just a colloquial way of saying "I've earnestly thought about X, Y, and Z and think it's the most effective way path forward" or "my intuition is telling me X, Y, Z is the best way to go"

It's a way of expressing that they have a strong sense of how to proceed and the "passive-aggressive jab" that you hear is just an artifact of the idiom not being familiar or natural to you.
Yes, you're right. It was for international flights. He also required anyone in-office to get the vaccine if they worked for a company with 100 or more people. That was shot down by the courts. People were scratching their heads why the corporate requirement existed and the airline requirement didn't.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/biden-allows-airlines-to-escap...

Pretending that all the covid restrictions were only from Trump is just plain wrong.

>It was done, if at all in 2021, at the State level.

And greatly extended, sometimes for years by Democratic governors held in high regard by the party. This crushed small (middle class) businesses, but the large conglomerates (Walmart, etc) survived just fine. In fact they thrived because all their small business competition died off. Restaurants too. The ridiculous outdoor dining, what a mess, they were just winging it the whole time.
Two things:

- The costs of your solution really are prohibitive. Lots of stuff just won't run.

- "Better" isn't good enough because attackers are good at finding the loopholes. You need a guarantee.
@dang How was this flagged as a dupe when it was 2 hours before the active post and points to the same URL?
I absolutely adored him in Crimson Tide and Enemy of the State. Brilliant movies.
Medicine is a nice pivot. I was in this exact opposite scenario in college though. In prep for my MCAT, I was an emergency medicine scribe. The experience there broke me and I truly realized how shitty medicine (at least in the US) really is.

Once you finish med school, complete all of the exams (STEP?), get a residency spot, and finally become an MD (or DO). The challenge doesn’t stop there.

Now you get to deal with a whole another beast: hospital and clinical based medicine in a neoclassical economic setting. Your patients don’t matter. Their outcomes (unless sued) don’t matter. What matters is pumping your billings at the end of the quarter, dealing with endless amounts of paperwork with private insurance.

Healthcare in the US is a mess and I am glad I switched early before getting myself into $250K+ or more worth of debt (med school is expensive af).
But doesn't flatpack offer much deeper system Integration by default? Like being able to access the home directory by default and being able to talk to dbus?

To me flatpack looks like a way achieve application compatibility not security
pretty sure the C type system is not turing complete, but that doesn't necessarily make it superior
Anecdotally, I see a major under appreciation for just how fast and efficient modern hardware is in the distributed systems community.

I’ve seen a great many engineers become so used to provisioning compute that they forget that the same “service” can be deployed in multiple places. Or jump to building an orchestration component when a simple single process job would do the trick.
People should be able to have a childhood free from the hostile information environment of the politicised world. I'm all for youth enfranchisement, but we need to ensure it doesn't come at the expense of childhood.

That said, kids not having a say in things that directly affect them… I can't think of any arguments against kids getting to vote on "think of the children" measures.
Racks.
Forcing your religious beliefs on others has also famously never ended well, so that's a big no thanks from me. Especially given your other comments on this forum:

> Haters getting mad because the war is already lost for them. Trump is the President. Resorting to little games like this, and will be fun to watch the pain and tears for the next 4 years.

I'm sure your "One True Living God Jesus Christ" would be very proud of you taking pleasure in the pain of others.
> It’s a debate in which legitimate scientific arguments vie for attention with partisan attacks and wild conspiracy theories. But so far, there is no smoking-gun evidence to definitively resolve whether COVID-19 spilled over naturally from animals at a market in Wuhan or whether it resulted from a laboratory accident in the city, where one of the world’s foremost coronavirus research facilities had amassed a vast repository of virus samples.

There’s literally no evidence that it spilled over naturally from animals in a market. That’s the wildest conspiracy theory, promoted by those who have a vested interest in it not having been a lab leak.
Someone of your caliber could probably get some fractional job gigs, for example: http://fractionaljobs.io/
Models of Computation – John E. Savage [pdf]
The core tenant of this I'd rather push is project based learning. Otherwise it sounds a bit too much like the point of education is to do a job and earn money.

Also touched on is failure, you can't learn a business with real money without failing to make any money, and failure is important and just as much of a passing grade in a project context IMO, depending on grasping the failure.
The risk I'm considering is that the EU may need to wade into involving services in its response to reach parity.
Fast Distributed Iceberg Writes and Queries with Apache Arrow IPC
When I was a kid, if I couldn't be on the computer for whatever reason I'd occupy myself with a pack of cards. I'd play solitaire (Klondike) over and over. I would vary the draw count and see how that affected the game. I'd sort the cards beforehand and see if that made it any easier or harder to win. I'd try to find the optimal order the cards would have to be in before dealing for the game to be won in the least number of steps. Ultimately I figured Solitaire was just a roundabout way of sorting a deck of cards and started messing with other sorting methods. I still, every time I see a pack of cards, feel that urge to just sort and sort and sort. It wasn't even "fun", I was just so desperate for mental stimulation.

Anyways, love Balatro!
Dick Van Dyke just did a music video with Coldplay where he danced, pretty wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSeaHfkd3M8
I wonder if Apple will keep this open out of the kindness of their heart. Or all these unintended uses will result in them locking down their network.

I guess all my Apple devices are looking for this and sharing it to Apple and wonder how much that data adds up.
Is this solution different from just executing this:

docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY --net=host -v $XAUTHORITY:/root/.Xauthority -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix debian:12-slim

And then run the GUI app in the container? For example for Firefox:

apt update
apt install firefox-esr
firefox

That is an approach I sometimes use to try GUI applications in a Docker container.
Imagine, if you will, a world in which machines are not merely automatons confined to narrow, predetermined tasks but are endowed with the ability to think, learn, and reason in ways that parallel human cognition. In such a reality, the machine that brews your morning coffee would possess an almost uncanny understanding of your personal tastes and habits; the traffic controller managing your daily commute would dynamically adjust to real-time variables with the nuance of human intuition; and the colleague assisting you at work would not only execute rote tasks but would also contribute creative insights and innovative problem-solving techniques. This is the promise of general artificial intelligence (AGI)—a paradigm of machine intelligence that aspires to replicate the broad, adaptable intellect of the human mind. Unlike narrow or specialized AI, which excels at discrete functions such as facial recognition or language translation, general AI seeks to transcend these compartmentalized abilities by integrating the full spectrum of cognitive faculties. In essence, AGI envisions machines that are capable of transferring knowledge and skills seamlessly across a diverse array of tasks, thereby bridging the divide between isolated expertise and comprehensive, human-like understanding.
Buy Infowars for the Memes
praying for Red Alert 2
Of course. But you at least got paid for your time. That's all you can hope for. Someone who owns a business might well lose all the money they ever put in. That's the risk.
I have to go with The Birdcage. Just a silly movie, with Hackman playing a rather timeless portrayal of a politician. The meandering story about “purple mountains” always gets me for some reason.
The shift may be less about fundamentally new content and more about explicit labeling and marketing of elements that were previously present but implied -- i.e. -- SEO.
Essentially all of the theory research (specifically, lattice QCD calculations) since the previous white paper in 2020 have been conducted blinded, and at any rate, the deadline to be included in the theory average has already passed. It would take an act of extraordinary brashness to fudge the numbers now.
I never played Angband but got into the closely related Sil. Totally agree on your characterization (and a fan of your HN posts for well over a decade).
so fun ! great job !
As of this morning, the death is now considered "suspicious." Per local fire and police departments, there was no sign of a gas leak and only 1 of their 3 dogs died. The front door was found ajar, but there were no signs of forced entry.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-hackman-wife-found...
Tariffs are just a kind of tax, so this objection doesn’t really change anything because the EU isn’t required to respond in exactly the same manner if the United States started a trade war. They could pass a tax on services indexed to the US tariff rate, for example, and from the buyer’s perspective there would be no difference.
Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez Headed to Space on Blue Origin
I would go even further and argue that vast majority of businesses will never need to think about distributed systems. Modern hardware makes them irrelevant to all but the most niche of applications.
You don't need MAC address - you just need the iPhone to broadcast specific BLE advertising packet/payload.

Using Core Bluetooth API it is trivial, but you need to either:
a) create an app that does it and user has to download it
b) modify SDKs existing in apps (e.g. Ad SDKs)

Also turning app/phone into a "BLE beacon" is only possible when app running in the foreground (on iOS).
Academia has been in trouble for a while, what with the exploitation of PhDs and postdocs and low wages - they can't attract or retain the necessary talent. This will just accelerate the decline.
> I know it isn't worth replying

The immediately self-contradictory passive aggression is pointless.

> I never heard of 99% as the definition of decimated.

Most people hear decimated and think "totally gone" or "almost totally gone".
I liked Heist and especially liked the cast (Delroy Lindo and DeVito are excellent in everything I’ve seen them in as well) - but there’s something up with Mamets direction and cinematography that makes the movies look way cheaper and older than they are. Never understood it, not in Spartan or the Spanish Prisoner (another underrated film IMO) or Heist.
Any hopes of this or any other software being able to translate games on the fly. Would be neat to be able to play old games that were never translated.
There are a lot of things I do not think are good uses of AI, but dropping into circles you are not apart of and getting your bearings is one of my favorite use cases.

The other day my friends were talking about a "nemesis mechanic" in a game that was good but patented and never used? I asked GPT about it because I just wanted a short summary of what it was and why it was cool.

It looks like it would have worked here too:

What is localthunk? What is "Balatro"?

1. LocalThunk: LocalThunk is a pseudonymous game developer known for creating the poker-themed roguelike deck-building game Balatro. The developer operates under this pseudonym, which is derived from a method of declaring variables in the game development framework they use, Löve .

2. Balatro: This is a game developed by LocalThunk, released in 2024. Balatro is a poker-themed roguelike deck-building game that involves playing poker hands to score points and defeat various challenges. It gained significant acclaim, winning multiple awards for its innovative gameplay and design .

For more details, you can refer to the Wikipedia page on Balatro. No specific standalone information on LocalThunk was retrieved beyond the association with Balatro.

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A word of caution for cooking tough meats like brisket: temperature doesn't tell the whole story. People online will talk about "the stall" but it doesn't actually exist. You'll find the temperature graph over time follows a logistic curve, something you would expect for any process that reaches an equilibrium.

The truth is rather complicated [1]. Most of the barbecue masters use temperature as a guideline but actual tests of tenderness as the final arbiter. They cook until the meat reaches a particular temperature and then begin checking for tenderness at regular intervals. The process can vary a lot even between two briskets of the same weight, purchased at the same time, due to individual differences between animals (the amount of connective tissues and collagenases present in the meat at cooking time).

Still, having the temperature information helps a lot, especially the surface and ambient temperatures provided by the CI probe. This can help you maintain the cooking temperature much more accurately to avoid excessive dryout.

[1] https://www.chefsteps.com/forum/posts/collagen-conversion-wh...
Yeah...you're not really building an 'AWS' until you're building a hyperscaler and leveraging massive economies of scale. This is more "we're building a service that addressed local reality with local solutions", and that's a pretty awesome thing just in itself.
What should superintelligent autonomous AI do?
I thought http/2 was great for reducing latency for JS libraries like Turbo Links and Hotwire.

Which is why the Rails crowd want it.

Is that not the case?
Oh I think Elon is on board with over budget ... when it gets to his company.
OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card [pdf]
Slightly odd (age wise) Generals got open sourced before RA2. I wonder why?
EA, I've cursed your name since you smothered Westwood. But thank you for this.
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A lot of this stuff is just annoying or ugly, which is fine! What's unforgivable is how bad search is, especially considering Gmail is run by ... check notes ... the largest search company in the world?

I can search something like "banana" and get thousands of emails, seemingly at random, a significant portion of which have to reference to bananas.

And with all these buttons, you would think they'd have a "filter unread emails" prominent. They taunt you with the unread count e.g. Inbox (4) but make it impossible to find those 4 damn emails.
I don't know if this is what GP was talking about but Cramer's transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics has wave functions moving both forward and backward in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
>This is total nonsense, nobody thinks they can annex Canada…

Trump defies typical expectations and does things everyone else thinks would never happen. Often because to do so would be very damaging and idiotic, but that never actually stops Trump.

However you do NOT threaten to annex, take over or otherwise threaten the sovereignty of an ally or friend. That is geo-politics 101, so regardless of how serious he is about doing it, the act of threatening it is belligerent and shows he isn't a reliable trading partner or ally.

Outside of annexing, the trade war is also actively hostile on top of being perpetuated on complete lies.
Might depend on location but in the UK and most of Europe at least, 8 bit computers were very, very common.

The ZX Spectrum went for about £99, that was pretty cheap even back then. The less capable ZX81 was only £49 in kit form.

Games consoles were not common here until the 90s because of the wide take up of home computers.
This short presentation introduces the State of Utopia and its mission and asks what superintelligent autonomous AI should eventually do. I look forward to any comments about it.
License is GPL, which is curious, and cool!
This has been an issue for quite some time. Rob Pike wrote about it going back - https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/
Tariff has a specific meaning. What you're referring to would be a tax/fee rather than a tariff.

Tariff is for imports/exports of goods.
I have an nginx running on my VPS supporting my startup. Last time I had to touch it was about 4 years ago. Quality software
Thanks,

Yes I will adding an API user support, you will be able to interact with Libredesk with APIs.
What can be computed? A practical guide to the theory of computation (2018) [pdf]
Please read the original source again. You need to KNOW (or guess) own mac address as it becomes a part of the key.
I'm not sure you can fully trust what's in the report. A lot of it seems like an attempt to obscure the truth by using internal jargon and vague statements like "Engineer did engineering stuff"—which ultimately means nothing.
Nice! Now this piece of video game history can be better shared and preserved. Does this repo include the artistic assists, or does it include the code only?
yes, once Libredesk is stable.
> To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game.

> This repository and its contents are licensed under the GPL v3 license, with additional terms applied. Please see LICENSE.md for details.

It does not sound open-source to me...
Also, its a great place for bicycle rides on quiet roads. Great air (when there are no fires). Nearby horseback riding on Salinas Sunset Beach. Don't forget to have artichokes!
Isn't this working just for X11?
There’s not only evidence but multiple peer-reviewed papers arguing that the wet market theory is the most likely. Can you specify which of them you read and why you think they can be categorically rejected?
FYI, an antenna for the 21 cm line can be extremely low effort:

https://spaceaustralia.com/news/diy-radio-telescope-sees-fir...
something like this that runs as a browser agent, allowing me to extract structured data from websites (whitelisted) using natural language queries
We in-housed our data labelling
>Section 230 needs to go because people get banned or shadow banned for all types of reasons.

What does people getting banned or shadow-banned have to do with this?

Section 230 is about protecting the host of 3rd-party content from liability. Beyond that, the host still has their rights to choose what they want to host, enforce what rules they want to enforce, and ban/shadow-ban whoever they want.

With or without Section 230, private companies can still ban you whenever they please, for whatever reason they please. As is their right to do so.

If anything, adding additional liability to hosts (via repealing Section 230) will likely make them even more zealous in who they decide to ban.
https://archive.ph/8ffcM
I fully agree. Malice and trust are fundamentally incompatible.
We're pretty far into the "ditching cloud" hype cycle at the moment. While I think both sides have valid arguments, I think the whole drama tends to lead to unhelpful titles like this one.

Using this same criteria, I'm "building an affordable alternative to AWS" in my house by deploying an HA instance of Proxmox.
For their category "Sexual Violence", they include both violent terms ("woman being raped", "torture porn"), and non-violent terms ("stepsis"). Those are... very different types of pornography, and exist in very different quantities.

At the very least, you can determine that a video includes "torture porn" without listening to the audio, but you can't tell that a video includes "stepsis" without listening to the audio. Especially given the disconnect between the ages of the performers, and the roughly expected ages of their characters.
NYTimes – Organ Transplant System 'In Chaos' as Waiting Lists Are Ignored
So whatever happened to Big Tech's eNd TO EnD enCRYptIOn? If I had to guess, this was an intentional backdoor that was just discovered.
That link brings me to a 404 page.
I think they just mean that for the game to work, you'll need art assets, etc. from the original game that aren't part of the code they open-sourced. I don't think it's a licensing restriction. (And even if it were, they released it under the GPLv3, which says "If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.", so you could just ignore it.)
The additional terms are under term 7 of the GPLv3, so -- assuming they're valid -- would still render this open-source.
It's the same model as the idTech GPL releases - the code is open source, the rest of the game is not. To legally play the original game or a modified version of it then you'll still need to buy it for the assets, but there's nothing stopping you from only taking the code and building a brand new game on it like various studios have done with idTech (e.g. Selaco and Wrath: Aeon of Ruin).
Rust is manual by design because people need to micro-manage resources. If you are experienced in it, it still takes a very little time to code your scenario.

Obviously if you don't like the manual-ness of Rust, just use something else. For what you described I'd reach for Elixir or Golang.

I was disagreeing with you that it's not easy or too difficult. Rust just takes a bit of effort and ramping up to get good at. I hated it as well to begin with.

But again -- niches. Rust serves its niche extremely well. For other niches there are other languages and runtimes.
Its like a 5 year old child hearing big words and constantly repeating them to impress their parents or friends.

It only squirts out what is put in it.

Though I am quite confident that a 5 year olds brain is far superior to any AI
Does open-source mean it's free? I don't think that is what it means, it just means the source is open, viewable, and you are free to use it as per the licensing.
Is there evidence that quantum mechanics is not deterministic?
> In reality, much of Shi’s research on bat coronaviruses was done at a BSL-2 level, says Bannan, in labs that do not require specialized air filtration or full gowns.

Wait. They were conducting research into the ways coronavirus could jump to humans in a lab without the controlled airflow systems designed to prevent spread of airborne pathogens?