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Was just thinking the same, this is effectively branch prediction/precalculation.

Good question. I'm at a 75% win/loss ratio by picking rock every single time. Doesn't appear to be learning in this session, anyway.

I don't get it - isn't this blatant copyright infringement? Seems like they're just running some kind of cracked Minecraft build with a JVM-in-JS layer or some such trickery?

I had a lot of love for cPanel back in the 2000s, when the days of shared hosting and self-installed PHP scripts were in their heyday. Nowadays, though, isn't this just a relic of …

I can appreciate the technical aspect of a translation layer, but I struggle to understand the use case for a tool like this. If your data is inherently relational, then you should…

Traffic lights are out across Iberia apparently, better stay home.

Hello from Portugal. Local news is indeed reporting that power is out across all of Iberia.

Not a lawyer, but this sure seems to open a legal and ethical can of worms. Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained …

Interestingly, Ireland is not a NATO member, so it's somewhat surprising Russia is poking around there. Although they're still EU, so maybe that's why.

Man, nothing makes you appreciate EU labour protections like reading the HN comments.

Potential explanation: https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/silicon-shield-2-0-a-taiwan-...

Howdy, neighbor! Am also an American expat living in Portugal. We've been living in Lisbon for about a year, and so far I really love it here. People are friendly, the vibe is rela…

This is the best take on the generative AI fad I've yet seen. I wish I could upvote this twice.

Rather embarrassingly, these chips are actually produced by TSMC :-) https://www.pcworld.com/article/2355435/intels-lunar-lake-is...

Given the audience on HN, I think we can presume any readers of my comment are not trying to execute completely random untrusted binaries. There are legitimate cases when you need …

This super unhelpful error is sometimes the result of trying to run an unsigned or developer signed binary on Apple Silicon. Try `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine program.app`, then o…

I believe the poster means, it isn't allowed by Apple's guidelines, ergo your app will be rejected because of it. Nothing to do with the law itself.

The difficulty you'll face for mobile is users man-in-the-middling their own device to find your developer's API key, and then making their own POST requests to increment their cre…

True, although the Fermi Paradox still sort of applies here, e.g., even if the galaxy were teeming with aliens zipping all over the galaxy in their warp-capable spacecraft, the odd…

Yes, it wasn't a thing in the US, but basically all televisions in Europe had a text mode for this, and it was very popular when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.

I take it this is mostly useful for compute workloads, neural networks, LLM and the like -- not for actual graphics rendering?

Can you expand these acronyms for those of us not familiar with the ins and outs of California real estate?

Well, except that AppLovin is a (non-malware) ad tech company. So I mean, at least there's that. But the play is more consolidation that anything. A large swath of mobile games use…

It's the largest player in the mobile ad space behind Google. Not a household name perhaps, but a name well known to engineer and biz dev alike, within the mobile space.

Depressed, scared and yet optimistic over the long (5+ year) term.