MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SXX | 2025-04-15 17:53:26+00:00
Publishers that want to work with indie studios are already accepting 100s of pitches and choose 0.1% they like. If a big publisher will buy a lot of small indie studios you'll soon see titles in a press like "{PUBLISHERNAME} force developers to live on ramen and work 12 / 6".

Simply because working on very tight budget likely 12/6 is how indie games are made. And to be honest in modern economy having any budget at all is kind a success already. So I'd belive most of small games are built on enthusiasm and founders own money.

Vast majority of "indie" games budgets are in range of $100,000 and $300,000 total. Over that amount there is gap where no one invest except few rich, successful and picky publishers. Getting more funding for a small-scale project is extremely hard so if your game needs more then it's must be AA project for at least $2,000,000+ budget. But AA+ means $40+ price tag, completely different production quality and large team so very few kind of games fit the math.

PS: I co-founder of a small gamedev studio and I know quite a few other people in this industry.

PSS: I'm happy to be wrong though. So if you know how to get game funded I have 4 cool playable prototypes to build into a game, team of 10+ devs and we track record for 3 released titles including one for consoles.
by steveklabnik | 2025-04-15 17:53:40+00:00
At Oxide, we named the company after Rust, but we use TypeScript on the frontend, not Rust. Rust is our default technology choice for most new code, but TypeScript is for frontend code.

Rust on web frontends is just not super mature. You can do things with it, and it's very cool, but TypeScript is a very mature technology at this point, and gives a lot of similar benefits to Rust. And it can live natively in a browser context, without complex bindings.

I don't work on native macOS apps, but I'm assuming it's similar: Objective-C or Swift are expected, so you end up needing to bind to APIs that aren't always natural feeling. I could see why you'd want to do something similar: write your core in Rust, but make the UI stuff be in Swift, and call into it from there.
by rofo1 | 2025-04-15 17:54:12+00:00
I am not up to date on all details, but how exactly is it overreach? It's a good question whether government should give money (9bn but I could be wrong) for research, but lets put that aside for now. (who determines what "research" is this? it could be quantum mechanics, or it could be "gender studies")

Curious as to why do you think this is an overreach.
by emptysongglass | 2025-04-15 17:54:43+00:00
Hold on now. For consumers, the only thing that's mattered as far as we're concerned is the fact the US had de minimis, which effectively meant no duties paid on all relevant goods a US consumer might want.

The EU, on the other hand, has made buying goods from the US, for consumers, horrifically expensive, including reducing the value of non-duty paid goods to essentially zero and leaving it up to EU member countries to decide if they then wanted to charge an additional "inspection fee" often more than the value of the goods themselves. Spoiler: those countries did.

So, your point isn't really relevant from a consumer point of view. The EU and its member states have tried every dirty trick in the book to make it as awful as possible to buy anything from the US.
by mgkimsal | 2025-04-15 17:54:49+00:00
"In fact, it is neither strategic for the university, nor respectful of the donors’ intent. It is neither financially responsible/prudent, nor is it permissible."

Did the donors intend to have the entire university system ground down to the point where the ability to fund the donors' plans is completely gone? Donors funding programs to encourage research in to areas of science the Trump administration wants to outlaw... they should just ... sit on the money? Return the money to donors and say "sorry, 49% of voters decided that your family's wishes are illegal"? You want to fund weather research in to climate change, and set up a legacy endowment with your university. Research in to that is outlawed in 2027. What should the university do now, knowing this sort of thing is coming?

The article was about covid. This is about an actual attack on the essence of what makes the universities attractive to donations in the first place.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-15 17:54:50+00:00
I agree with your approach but, as a generally extremely left leaning individual myself, comments solely using "the right" (or any individual group) as the example make it hard to assign to this kind of thought process alone.

Some regular self doubt "what I think are ground truth facts may need to be requisitioned and revalidated and that isn't just true for one specific group to consider" is a core requirement of trying to hold a fact based viewpoint, just as important as any other part of such an approach.
by danabramov | 2025-04-15 17:55:09+00:00
>What’s being done here isn’t entirely new. Turbo/Hotwire [1], Phoenix LiveView, even Facebook’s old Async XHP explored similar patterns.

Right, that's why it's in the post: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#async-xhp

Likewise with CGI: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#html-ssi-and-cgi

Agree there's echoes of "old" in "new" but there are also distinct new things too :)
by tracerbulletx | 2025-04-15 17:55:21+00:00
Everyone keeps ignoring supply and demand when talking about the impacts of AI. Let's just assume it really gets so good you can do this and it doesn't suck.

Yes the costs will get so low that there will be almost no barrier to making content but if there is no barrier to making content, the ROI will be massive, and so everyone will be doing it, you can more or less have the exact movie you want in your head on demand, and even if you want a bespoke movie from an artist with great taste and a point of view there will be 10,000 of them every year.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-15 17:55:48+00:00
You cannot both have an algorithm that stops AI and allows humans to listen in the long run.

Eventually encoders/classifiers will get an 'anthropomorphic' loop of human ear capabilities to use as a prefilter and identify when sounds differ from the expected human hearing and identify the noise.

I mean this is what adversarial reinforcement learning is, humans cannot beat AI on this in the end.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-15 17:56:21+00:00
> americans back then outside of the car and home had no other large purchases. No computer, no $1k phone on a $1k/yr plan, no big tv. People weren’t even eating out or flying back then when they could afford a family vacation.

Back then cars and homes and essentials were relatively cheap and TVs and flying were expensive. Today it's flipped. TVs are cheap, phones are cheap. Essentials, like housing, are expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/en_VpZtUFcE
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 17:56:46+00:00
> He and people like him propped up the political weaponisation of "antisemitism" in order to attack legitimate protest

Attacking legitimate protest is fine? Like, the KKK are allowed to legitimately demonstrate. And I'm allowed to say they're terrible. That's speech. That's debate.

> They enabled Trump to do this and now they are trying really hard to differentiate themselves from the fascists

Clubs and departments calling for the eradication of a nation-state is nothing new, we've been drawing lines on maps thousands of miles away since Sykes and Picot and before. People opposing those clubs is nothing new. What is novel is the state getting so involved in suppressing it, at least in post-WWII America.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-04-15 17:56:54+00:00
> Tell me about other strongly-held positions you’ve changed as the result of a discussion like this one…

Fair point, but if somebody were actually to say that to me during a disagreement, I would assume that they were not acting in good faith.

Now instead of disagreeing about politics or whatever, you're asking a rhetorical question that insinuates "you are unreasonable."
by basisword | 2025-04-15 17:56:54+00:00
I quite like this. The 'auto label' implementation seems to work well (better than others I've tried). The UI is dense too, fitting lots of emails on screen at once.

Email is a funny thing. The UI (a list of subjects, senders, and dates) has barely changed in decades. And even now when AI is being added, the inbox UI remains the same. I'm not sure what I'd change but I find it surprising how little innovation there has been in that area.

As nice as this product is, I still wish Google would bring back Inbox. They created something really great and scrapped it for no good reason.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-15 17:57:07+00:00
Everybody with a phone has SMS baked in. SMS also has a recovery process if you drop your phone in the toilet. Ultimately, this improved user experience outweighs the security benefit to TOTP for many organizations.

TOTP also doesn't stop the biggest threat that SMS faces: phishing. Saving you from sim-swap attacks is just not a particular huge increase in security posture.

My bank at least offers TOTP as an option, but the huge majority of people are going to enroll with SMS.
by jampekka | 2025-04-15 17:57:13+00:00
> the dogmatic belief that the State of Israel (and only Israel, among all nations on earth) should be eradicated

Attributing this to people you disagree with on the issue is a telltale sign of bad faith.

But nevertheless, nice to still see him speaking out, and in general he does sometimes discuss opposing views in a bit better faith.
by voxleone | 2025-04-15 17:57:45+00:00
Please accept my critique to Smithsonian Mag made in good faith: never use the word 'mysterious' [a nod to the magical thinking] in a science context. Really looks like CNN-ish dark pattern. The URL slug has a better word choice:

7000-year-old-skeletons-from-the-green-sahara-reveal-a-previously-unknown-human-lineage-
by visarga | 2025-04-15 17:57:50+00:00
Are you sure you mean "stealing"? As in deprive him of his own recordings?

I am curious if anyone read Harry Potter in bootleg form from a LLM. I mean, LLMs are the worst tools for infringing - they are approximate, expensive and slow, while copying is instant, perfect and free. You can apply the same logic for other modalities.

Moreover, who's got the time to see someone else's AI shit when they can generate their own, perfectly customized to their liking? I personally generated a song about my cat and kid. It had zero commercial value but was fun for 2-3 people to listen.
by hwpythonner | 2025-04-15 17:57:51+00:00
I visited California last summer and even the most basic 2-star motels — like on the outskirts of San Diego — were going for over $300 a night. Nothing fancy, just clean sheets and a door.

I think a big part of the drop in European tourism is simple: the U.S. has gotten insanely expensive.

Between hotels, food, transportation, and tipping culture, the cost adds up fast. For many travelers, it’s not about politics or safety. It’s just not worth the price.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-15 17:57:51+00:00
The short answer is that for a company like Ubisoft or EA, big blockbusters are much more reliable and more profitable than indie games. Not that smaller games can’t do amazingly well, but most don’t make a profit, and the risk doesn’t justify the expenditure for that kind of company.

Also, like another poster mentioned, there already exists a host of creativity in these AAA companies, that’s not the problem. The problem is making something that will reliably keep the company in the black.
by feoren | 2025-04-15 17:58:17+00:00
Is this an example of "one strawman deserves another"? You know that when GP talked about "presenting a viewpoint", he didn't mean "as an example of a bad idea that nobody should believe". He meant he wants alt-right talking points parroted to everyone because he's upset that reality has a liberal bias. You know this. You also know that I'm not suggesting outlawing the discussion of slavery in its historical context, but simply saying that universities have no obligation to make a case for failed and abhorrent ideas in the name of "diverse viewpoints". Why are you pretending like you don't know this already?
by mflvn | 2025-04-15 17:58:35+00:00
Hey yeah so obviously the only other real alternative is Unix. MacOS is on the roadmap, but we decided to start with Windows since the vast majority of enterprise or commercial applications require windows (e.g. ERP, EHR, Claims Processing etc). MacOS meanwhile is often used for more creative tasks (e.g. design, engineering) rather than automation.

On the Linux side, they do have 2/3rds of the market share server-side, but there are fewer agentic usecases there.
by dogacel | 2025-04-15 17:58:46+00:00
Agree and disagree,

Deciding on how to store the credentials is still a hard task. Even storing the secret. Ideally it shouldn't stay as a plain text in your database. If you use cloud, something like KMS can be used for additional security. Also you should still consider replay attacks, rate limits etc.

I agree in the sense that TOTP is hard to implement, no it is not. I hope this article helped people understand how TOTP works.
by chacham15 | 2025-04-15 17:58:46+00:00
The main thing that confuses me is that this seems to be PHP implemented in React...and talks about how to render the first page without a waterfall and all that makes sense, but the main issue with PHP was that reactivity was much harder. I didnt see / I dont understand how this deals with that.

When you have a post with a like button and the user presses the like button, how do the like button props update? I assume that it would be a REST request to update the like model. You could make the like button refetch the like view model when the button is clicked, but then how do you tie that back to all the other UI elements that need to update as a result? E.g. what if the UI designer wants to put a highlight around posts which have been liked?

On the server, you've already lost the state of the client after that first render, so doing some sort of reverse dependency trail seems fragile. So the only option would be to have the client do it, but then you're back to the waterfall (unless you somehow know the entire state of the client on the server for the server to be able to fully re-render the sub-tree, and what if multiple separate subtrees are involved in this?). I suppose that it is do-able if there exists NO client side state, but it still seems difficult. Am I missing something?
by const_cast | 2025-04-15 17:58:54+00:00
They're downvoting it because it feels bad. And well, it does! This sucks major ass.

Part of me is sympathetic to them because a lot of these people are people who live privileged lives and have never before been in any political pressure. These people have previously been able to just detach from politics because they knew, no matter what, they would end up on top. And now, that assumption is no longer true and they have the enter a world that a variety of minority groups have already been living in. They have to face the reality that politics isn't just something on the TV, but something that affects their lives.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-15 17:58:56+00:00
Glad Harvard finally decided attacks against academia have gone too far. It wasn't too far when scientists were forced to make an ideological oath to diversity to get hired [1,2], when they were hired primarily based on adherence to that ideology [3,4,5], when they were told by major scientific publications to avoid or simply not publish studies that might question that ideology [6,7], when they disavowed studies based solely on them being used to criticize favored causes [8], when papers were rejected if their results went against the liberal worldview, but methodologically-identical papers with pro-liberal results were accepted [9], or when scientists were barred from accessing taxpayer-funded data if there was a risk their research might harm the dominant ideology [10].

It was too far - a crisis! - when Harvard disagreed with the attackers, when the attackers were outsiders.

[1] Required ‘diversity and inclusion’ statements amount to a political litmus test for hiring - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oat...

[2] Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

[3] Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

[4] A recent report from the Goldwater Institute found that 80% of job postings for Arizona’s public universities required applicants to submit a statement detailing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. - https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/the-new-loy...

[5] Mathematicians divided over faculty hiring practices that require proof of efforts to promote diversity - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mathematicians-divid...

[6] Science Must Not Be Used to Foster White Supremacy - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-must-not-...

[7] Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2

[8] I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It - https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cited-their-study-so-they-dis...

[9] Human subjects review, personal values, and the regulation of social science research. - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-12806-001

[10] The National Institutes of Health now blocks access to an important database if it thinks a scientist’s research may enter “forbidden” territory. - https://www.city-journal.org/nih-blocks-access-to-genetics-d...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 17:59:13+00:00
> brave students protested it, at a great personal risk while being slandered as "antisemites" by individuals like Scott Aaronson

Do you have an example?

Israel-Palestine is a nuanced ground truth that has been ridiculously oversimplified in American discourse. "Pro Israel" covers folks who want to kill every Palestinian and annex their land to those who just don't want kids slaughtered at raves. "Pro Palestine" covers people who want the basic human dignity of an ancient people respected, through those who want to destroy Israel as a nation-state, all the way over to full-blown racists who hate Jews (or anyone with European heritage).
by isusmelj | 2025-04-15 17:59:23+00:00
Thanks for the kind words, joelio182! Glad you see the value in making SSL more practical for real-world domain shift issues.

As liopeer mentioned, we have results for medical (DeepLesion) and agriculture (DeepWeeds) in the blog post. We haven't published specific benchmarks on satellite or industrial inspection data yet, but those are definitely the kinds of niche domains where pretraining on specific unlabeled data should yield significant benefits. We're keen to explore more areas like these.

Our goal is exactly what you pointed out - bridging the gap between SSL research and practical application where labels are scarce. Appreciate the encouragement!
by caconym_ | 2025-04-15 17:59:47+00:00
In other words, (for instance) you believe in the right of massive corporations who control the lion's share of consumer distribution channels to, on an ongoing basis, scrape all authored content that is made publicly available in any form (paid or not) and sell it in a heavily discounted form, without the permission of authors and other rights holders and with no compensation to them, while freezing out the "official" published versions from their distribution channels entirely. More generally, you believe that creators should create for free, and that massive moneyed and powerful interests should reap the profits, even while those same creators toil in the mines to support their passions which do evidently have real value, though it is denied to them.

You think this will make the world better? For whom? Or worse, for whom? Or you place the highest importance on having a maximalist viewpoint that simply cannot be argued with, because being unassailably right in an abstract rhetorical framing is most important to you? Or you crave the elegance of such a position, reality and utility notwithstanding? Or you feel the need to rationalize your otherwise unfounded "belief" that piracy and/or training AI on protected IP should be allowed because you like it and are involved with it yourself? Or you think ASI is going to completely transform the world tomorrow, and whether we get Culture-style luxury gay space communism or something far darker, none of this will matter so we should eat, drink, and be merry today? Or some hybrid of that and a belief that we should actively strive toward and enable such a transition, and IP law stands in its way?

What is it? I've seen some version of all of these and frankly they are all childish nonsense (usually espoused by actual children). Are you a new species?
by btilly | 2025-04-15 17:59:50+00:00
There is dust between us and most stars in the Milky Way that blocks them from view in visible light. Therefore we can only see a fraction of the supernovae in the Milky Way.

It is substantially easier for us to see supernovae in other galaxies that we're not facing edge-on. And we have a large sample size of such galaxies. That's why our best estimates of supernovae frequency are based on observations of such galaxies, and not on our observations of the Milky Way.
by dhosek | 2025-04-15 18:00:15+00:00
Kind of reminds me of the system we used in my band in the 90s: The person who brought the initial idea to the band gets to be first. After that, it was based on importance of contributions as determined by myself as the benign dictator, but if I contributed, my name always came last (unless I was the one who brought the idea to the band).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 18:00:19+00:00
> Attributing this to people you disagree with on the issue is a telltale sign of bad faith

I've been in rooms in New York with very smart people who argued exactly this. That the founding of Israel was a mistake and that we should poof it away. (Something about decolonization usually meanders its way in there.)

They're a minority. Like the people who want to relocate Palestinians from Gaza are, to my knowledge, a minority. But they both exist.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-15 18:00:19+00:00
What the GP is talking about is that there are differing opinions on what counts as "military spending" or "defense spending". The CBO has its definition, but that is not universally accepted, particularly by people who think that the USA spends far too much on its military.

The question of whether or not e.g. veteran's health care should be considered part of military spending is not a stupid one, even if people may differ on their answers.
by isusmelj | 2025-04-15 18:00:19+00:00
Hi Sonnigeszeug, great that you're looking into LightlyTrain!

We designed LightlyTrain specifically for production teams who need a robust, easy-to-use pretraining solution without getting lost in research papers. It builds on learnings from our MIT-licensed research framework, LightlySSL (github.com/lightly-ai/lightly), but is tailored for scalability and ease of integration.

For commercial use where the AGPL terms might not fit your needs, we offer straightforward commercial licenses for LightlyTrain. Happy to chat more if that's relevant for you!