skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.'
It's too bad that tribes games' learning curve is too steep for people now. Tribes Ascend was pretty well made but died quickly, and Tribes 3 seems to be dead even faster.

Very few people who didn't already play the earlier games have much stomach to figure out how to even move effectively across the map or hit anything moving at high speed, let alone do proper cap routes, chase, etc. I played Tribes Ascend for awhile and on most random servers you could play the first 2 minutes as a chaser to verify "yup there is nobody who knows how to move quickly", kill yourself over to chaser, and then end the game in like 4 more minutes when everyone else is just slowly messing around in midfield doing nothing productive. And I wasn't even any good lol, when I went into any semi organized pug I would get destroyed.
Bezos is exactly involved like this. Just go look at all the headlines at the end of February that was the precursor started all this. He cared enough to censor the opinion columns.
> I mean the Chinese at some point loved Western goods

And they stopped loving them in the last 2 months because of the US, is that what you are trying to say? Why do you think Tesla sales are going down in China?

> and the EU themselves have gladly in the past gone against "their ally"

Are you comparing "disagreeing on some policies regarding a third-party country" and "threatening to invade militarily"? I am not sure you actually understand what is being said to Canada/EU: Trump is talking about sending the US military to invade Canada and the EU (and others). When is the last time Canada/EU threatened to invade the US?
Trivial discussion of anything
nah, you don't even need an attacker here - he wants to mess with Ukraine, this is a great excuse.
This sentiment precludes discussion of incentives, the individual's relationship to the group, and the practical limits of agency. If you said the same about smartphones, you would be locked out of many services, including governmental ones. You unthinkingly, tacitly shift the onus onto the individual, which is naive. There is a reason the 5-day work-week, fire codes, and so-forth had to be legislated, because "just find a better job" wasn't going to make a dent in the problem. "Just find a better browser" is similarly ineffectual.
It's a technical distinction.

HP broke the printers. It didn't brick them.

If something is bricked, it's permanent for a consumer at home. It can't be fixed with another software update, because the bricking prevents updates.

This can be fixed with a future update. Therefore it's not bricked. That's the definition of bricked.

They're currently broken (a temporary state). They're not bricked (a permanent state). The two words aren't synonyms.
To make matters worse,

"The Solong was carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide among its cargo, according to a report from maritime data provider Lloyd's List Intelligence."
A well armed or something militia?
The hint is in the name itself.
For now, it only concerns the YouTube app for TV.
> that says more about the media they watch than it does about her

According to my family member who notices such things (and is not MAGA or conservative), Trump controlled most streaming ads/narratives, while Harris had more of the broadcast ads/narratives, especially for sports (minimally political).

I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as a media silo issue.
[2] Is an incorrect interpretation. There is no nationwide data on murders by illegal immigrants, only some states like Texas collect this. CPB does not deport many murderers because they are serving prison sentences in the US. In 2022 there were 67 Texas murders by illegal immigrants, more than the supposed CPB FY22 number just in one state.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-06/Policy-Ana...

The per capita trend is still directionally the same as your claim in Texas.

The problem with illegal immigrant murders is there is a legal and proportional way to prevent all of them - don't let them in the first place. This isn't so easy for other murderers.
It's amazing how much the initial intent of the web has been perverted. Not all for the worse, but still.
Nobody was even considering it a few months ago. I wonder if anything has changed regarding EU security recently?
I still have no clue what you're getting at but the answer is 100% determined by the community you're a part of - the same PDE can be solved by different communities using Fortran/C++/Matlab/Julia/Python.

You're conveniently not addressing the more salient, central point: deep work costs lots of money.

Edit: but no one is solving PDEs using Haskell lol.
The idea might be to create a clear example that becomes popular and known so that others who might attempt the same will be dissuaded
>Humanity together

Together? It would be, 1. AI programmers, 2. AI techbros and a distant 3. AI fiction/history/literature. Foo who never used the internet: not responsible. Bar who posted pictures on Facebook: not responsible. Baz who wrote machine learning, limited dataset algorithms (webmd): not responsible. Etc.
Firefox Focus' integration with Safari works well for ad blocking while general browsing.
> Though I'm not sure YouTube would go that far for now? Netflix, Amazon and such have contracts with right-holders stating those protections as a requirement, but YouTube does not have (IMO thankfully) the same kind of relation and contract with "Youtubers".

It does with the music labels, which is why said labels sued various YouTube downloaders for bypassing a technical protection measure in regards to the existing rolling cypher (but reading between the lines I suspect the labels intention was actually to lose that case, and then take that judgement to YouTube to show that they were in breach of the contract that required them to include some form of technical protection measure and hence adopt Widevine on all music streams).
When you are at a land border, but neither country on either side of the border will grant you entry, there is no easy 'way out'.

She could not fly to the UK directly from that border location.

When arrested, she has to go through the proper deportation process - and that might well be very expensive, and she might not have the money to pay. Deportations can easily cost 10x a regular flight cost due to the extra security needed.
You make a great point that when everything is on kube it’s easier to manage.

But… if you are maintaining storage buckets and stuff elsewhere (to avoid accidental deletion etc, a worthy cause) then you are using terraform regardless. So adding RDS etc to the mix is not as tough as you make it sound.

I see both sides of the fence and both have their pros and cons.

If you have great operational experience with kube though I’d go all in on that. AWS bends you over with management fees… it’s far more affordable to run a DB, RMQ, etc on your own versus RDS, AMQ
At the moment it has only proven that 0.00000000001% of users are willing to pay for search.
Quite funny - retiring from a company that after 17 years, didn't make any money. 0.

Sometimes I think, we're just in a big bubble growing every year since 2008.
A wonderful snapshot of the 90s web. The entirely unaffected tone, the lack of self-consciousness, the random content, the humor, the joke lists, everything. We've lost a lot.

The marginalia search engine is very good at finding this kind of site, btw.
Also Irish person here. My primary school was 100m from one of the old workhouses, and I was taught from maybe age 7 what happened there. All the old stone walls in the nearby fields were built by forced famine labor. There's abandoned roads to nowhere (famine roads) all around, likewise built by forced labor.

I think it was taught quite well, and people around me while I was growing up didn't downplay it. It's still a significant event in the Irish psyche, especially in the parts of the country most deeply effected at the time.

The things it's, though, it's a fairly distant historical event at this stage, and I don't think it's healthy or helpful to the Irish collective psyche to hold on to it as strongly as we still do - not just the famine but all aspects our being "the oppressed". We're no longer oppressed, we're a privileged and filthy rich country (even if it doesn't feel like that right now, but we have no one to blame for the housing crisis except our own politicians and capitalists).

While we should be mindful of the English tendency to play down and rewrite history, I know many Irish people who are straight up racist towards the English - defended with the tired caveat the "oppressed people can't be racist towards the oppressors". Yes, they can. Maybe it's a less harmful form of racism, but it holds back the psychological development of the person with racist views nonetheless.

In secondary school "Up the Ra" was a common slogan shouted by my classmates. There's still pubs in Dublin and other places around the country where you wouldn't want to go with an English accent.

I'm not saying any of this to defend the English - they did terrible things in history, and those must not be forgotten or rewritten. There's also a fair few English people who are racist towards Irish too, not to mention a lot of "harking back to the glory days of Empire", mostly from older English men whose ancestors were probably peasants back then.

But for us Irish, holding onto this old identity of "the oppressed" is a part of our collective psyche which I struggled with a lot growing up, and it holds back out country. It's time we moved on.

Yes, I know that's hard when a quarter of the geographical landmass of Ireland still belongs to the old oppressors. But that's another thing we need to let go off. The people living in the North voted, several times, to remain in the UK. It's their choice, not ours. If they look like they're leaning to vote differently in the future we can restart the conversation.
Engineering Challenges in Building NLP-Driven UI/UX
Lots to unpack here but I'll just say that I think it would probably matter to a lot of people if they were forced to use something that increased their pointless work by 35%, regardless of whether their work mattered to you or not.
> Walt is the named inventor on the patent

There are countless patents that should never have been granted because prior art existed. This isn't a slam-dunk piece of evidence.
And perhaps even good to halt:)
I'm gonna be honest. It sounds like you're either going to try and sell me a colon cleanse or a timeshare here soon
but you say yourself you don't know what the facts are. Deriding the guy as 'rather silly' is basically accepting the claims by ICE at face value and judging him accordingly. It seems like it would be smarter to gather or wait for facts before drawing a conclusion.
I don't think the problem is the paper losses so far. The problem is the entire social contract...or I don't know what to call it -- governmental contract? Financial world contract? Is on fire.
After reading the issue you linked I came away very strongly in favor of continuing to use F-Droid. Why would I want to switch to an alternative distributor whose policies would permit the WireGuard devs "I don't want to provide a clear explanation to end users" antics? (Of course I happen to trust the WireGuard maintainer, but individual cases should generally be irrelevant when setting policy.)

I am impressed to see the F-Droid maintainers sticking to their principles.
Carmageddon was a software renderer. Absolutely glorious game though!
Texts in the wild used during pre-training contain lots of biases, such as racial and sexual biases, which are picked-up by the model.

During RLHF, the human evaluators are aware of such biases and are instructed to down-vote the model responses that incorporate such biases.
German pensioners, get ready. The government you've just voted in is about to bleed you white to create a poor replacement. This is, after all, why we "don't have free healthcare" in the US. Or pensions, for that matter.
For what it's worth, the modern source port for Descent (DXX-Rebirth) makes bilinear filtering optional, too, while using OpenGL and allowing MSAA and stuff. I played through the first two games some time ago and I also found the bilinear filtered textures worse-looking than the blocky ones.
From people who want to take us back to feudalism.
I don’t understand this btw. What does the US gain from supporting Israel? Is it just buying cheap votes with public money?
I prefer to calculate with numbers, and don't pay much attention to superstitions around them. I don't gamble, nor much pay attention to conversations about gambling, so I pretty much ignore any mention of lucky numbers when such topics arise (aside from knowing that some people have lucky numbers). If you refer being isolated from a particular aspect of life living under a rock, so be it. Though I will point out that I like wide open space. I'm more of an astronomer than a geologist!
That was a talking point in French newspaper when Germany bought those.
While they could have bough perfectly fine Rafales. Tss
If she was staying in Portland with a family doing chores (aka work) in exchange for housing (aka compensation) then I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.

Add to this the 4mo trip on a 90 day tourist visa and I would expect nothing less than detention since they can’t exactly turn her around since CA already turned her away
The Unpredicted
Which is exactly the steps a European power needs to take in order to support an F-35 or similar aircraft. Remove the foreign made equipment you can't support and put your own domestic equipment, or at least put something sourced from the EU on it
Since you mentioned "reality", I prefer the four value logic system where you have true, false, unknown, and unknowable.
Yeah I agree our minds evolved to think that way because it was useful, we succeeded because the way the brain works fits very nicely with how things operate at human scale. My point is that the scale matters, as we get further and further away from human scale, the maths get more esoteric and even start depending on probability. Compare the math for bodies in motion versus subatomic particles. There's no question math exists in nature, but given the potentially infinite scale both in time and scale of reality, of which we occupy a small sliver, it's not impossible that the tools we use to model reality all the way back to the big bang may not be fundamental to nature but an emergent property.

Biological symmetry in particular likely emerged as a way to half the data needed to encode life, needing less resources and therefore more likely to reproduce.

But anyway, for all purposes, I do agree. Math obviously exists in nature and it's our best tool at predicting things. I just find it interesting to think that math itself is an emergent property of some other thing. Otherwise, why does anything exist at all? If it was simply maths, then why did anything first pop into existence?
I wonder how Camp America is doing it these days.

https://www.campamerica.co.uk/the-experience/camp-jobs/campo...

Back in 1997 I participated. I had to get a J-1 visa, worked in a summer camp for about two months and got $400 pocket money. I entered the country using the program description, no deception.

Later I actually worked in the US - on a simple business trip visa - B1. For 12 months, interrupted by trips back home. Legally! Reentry got harder and harder with each return trip, and in the end I was taken to the back. But after explaining everything I git the stamp, no problem.

The secret: A big German company wanted to make the software of a big Silicon Valley company work on their platform. The obstacle: That company would not let their source code leave their premises. So this German job normally done in Germany had to be done on premise at the SV company. I still was a full German employee, only a temporary change of office because of that policy. It was acceptable for immigration. I don't think I would try that kind of thing again these days though.
YouTube has blocked access to videos considered to be "adult" (not porn but anything vaguely risqué) in Europe without signing into an account and performing credit card age verification for five years.
This is the interview this article references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DiMIJIvYw

I've watched it. I think this is a somewhat dishonest characterization, but you can listen to the specific part at 14:35: https://youtu.be/T6DiMIJIvYw?si=1ijmgtI0kbhOWPuM&t=875

On the same topic, earlier in the interview Musk also references 20 million deceased people who apparently still receive benefits.
I think a common issue in LLM discussions is a confusion between author and character. Much of this confusion is deliberately encouraged by those companies in how they designed their systems.

The real-world LLM takes documents and make them longer, while we humans are busy anthropomorphizing the fictional characters that appear in those documents. Our normal tendency to fake-believe in characters from books is turbocharged when it's an interactive story, and we start to think that the choose-your-own adventure character exists somewhere on the other side of the screen.

> how is that different from "emulating human behavior?"

Suppose I created a program that generated stories with a Klingon character, and all the real-humans agree it gives impressive output, with cohesive dialogue, understandable motivations, references to in-universe lore, etc.

It wouldn't be entirely wrong to say that the program has "emulated a Klingon", but it isn't quite right either: Can you emulate something that doesn't exist in the real world?

It may be better to say that my program has emulated a particular kind of output which we would normally get from a Star Trek writer.
Modern famines, sure. But I think that's a relatively recent development. It also isn't guaranteed. A sufficiently large volcanic eruption could severely impact agriculture the world over.
It is wise to be suspicious - spending even a small amount of time near the "web3" space will make attentive person suspicious of scams and parlour tricks.

I use the network to host the webxr experiences, which are bundled wasm files, from unity. All of the code lives on the blockchain so, in this sense, i really couldn't do without it.

If you are referring to blockchain-specific functionality, then this is largely true, however i have implemented some demostrations of the consensus mechanism being used from inside an immersive space. This is really to illustrate that it is possible, rather than try to sell you a meme coin.

In the near future I expect to be using the ICP for a lot more, however, since it provides some rather interesting technical opportunities. It is wrapped around something called a 'network nervous system' which acts as a sort of administrator for proposals, so your point about abstraction is accurate, but this is the case with any large vendor.

I choose to build on the ICP because it is more secure and straightforward for my particular stack, plus it has a lot of potential, despite the noise. I've implemented webrtc messaging to keep the cost of normal multiplayer data transfer as low as possible, because consensus is expensive and the network runs on a pay-per-use compute model.

I'm offering a new route, outside of big tech, if you don't consider Unity a menace, which i acknowledge that some do. I am taking an admittedly more radical stance, by including the hosting in this.
I stated most of my rationale in the post, but I don't think whales buy and sell most of their portfolio. I think they move a tiny portion over and over again.
There is quite a lot of tree planting going in the UK. Which is good. Unfortunately 'trees planted' is the only metric anyone seems to care about. Many of the trees are the wrong species for the location or planted at the wrong time of year or not planted properly. And often there is no plan to water, protect or otherwise maintain them when they are young and vulnerable. Consequently many of these trees don't survive beyond a few months.
I detest writing CSS and HTML. I just find it boring fiddly and annoying. I have started doing "vibe" coding with LLM's. Giving a decent prompt produces results that are... pretty good.

Almost 100% in lighthouse for both mobile and desktop, responsive, reusable components, dark/light mode and a design that was better than I could do in the 2-3 hours I spent doing it (while sipping wine).

I know its not a solution for everyone, and probably won't work for the prettier designs out there, but you can go a long way with these tools this day.

I know there is a reluctance to not use LLM's for code tasks, and I am one of the largest critics, but for me this solves a real pain point. I don't want to write CSS/HTML anymore and these tools do a good enough job of it that I don't have to.
I'm not a fan of the "stale bot" approach to bugs either, but I think what it's doing can at least somewhat be classified as part of the "facts" side of the division. The initial bug report conveys the fact "version 3.5 crashes when passed the --wombat option". A year later that fact is still true but is of very little interest to the dev team: what they want to know is whether "version 5.0 crashes when passed --wombat" is true or not. The stale-bot is pushing the obligation to test that new different fact onto the bug submitter. (I think it's better to leave that with the dev team; plus unless the devs plan to actually fix it then retesting on 5.0 is just gathering another fact that isn't going to matter...)
The guards at Auschwitz were perpetually drunk, because they couldn't stand what they were doing. Were they complicit in the holocaust? YES!
The privacy notice for Mozilla VPN [1] briefly mentions their partnership with Mullvad.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services/
any similar protest with a drastic imbalance of power: pro-Ukraine

Elon Musk today called a US Senator (Mark Kelly) a traitor for traveling to Kiev and expressing support for the government there.
The perfection should be downstream of the project's coded standards, not downstream of the faithful implementation of the designer's work. Some designers are really good about maintaining standards-- but the book would argue all that effort should be spent elsewhere.

It's basically "the arbitrary padding the designer liked in the moment" vs. "the standard padding that's everywhere in the project." This book argues you should always use the standard padding. Your product should be pixel-perfect, just not in the PSD-to-HTML sense.
I never got very good with CSS or HTML styling. I know enough to generally fix obvious stuff, but I'm kind of a luddite and still use Bootstrap for most of my stuff. I've mostly stopped doing web stuff, so the only time I touch CSS is when I'm doing an admin screen or something, so it doesn't have to look great.

Still, a part of me wonders how different my life would be if I had taken to frontend programming enough to make things that look nice. It's not like there isn't anything enjoyable about it, I just ended up taking to backend distributed systems work a bit sooner.
> All famines are caused by natural disasters.

I don't think I'd consider war to be a form of natural disaster, or even related to one in the majority of cases.