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I actually didn't find AI Dungeon to be very useful for story generation, unfortunately. It's nice for generating ideas, but lacks the logical consistency and creative problem solving needed to go meaningfully beyond that, at least as far as my experimenting with it went.
It's not higher quality. You just said so.

Yikes.
Ideal solution is to make "cheating" impossible by design rather than by trying to ensure trust.

Don't send the data player is not supposed to know. Don't trust clients to just tell the server what happened. And - I realize this is extremely controversial - ideally don't design games on pure reaction speed, visual acuity and mechanical dexterity where a sophisticated enough machine would consistently and unpreventably beat any human.

I believe we should be able to compete with bots just like we're able to compete with humans - and not because bots are handicapped and constantly toss coins deciding if they want to let the puny meatbag win.

I'm curious if there are any special tournaments where "cheats" are encouraged and even required, not prohibited. Would love to see a FPS where you have all the software aid you can think of. Texture hacks become enhanced vision aids (server may toss a coin and enforce camouflaging by not sending any information, though), auto-aim is smart munitions (so we don't compete on whoever has the faster hands or a better mouse -- see, it's already a competition of machinery!), last-seen markers and sound source visualization are tactical HUDs, and if you want some other feature you're free - as your competitors - to implement it. Naturally, if that's based on an existing game that would require heavy re-balancing of its rules (e.g. nerf of one-shot-kill weapons or buff for supports so in a teamplay they can save their teammates from such weapons). That would be a whole next level e-sports, true to the name.
Everyone in Portugal has to study some of his work when we are about 17 or so. For your average 17th year old this is of course an absolute waste of time but I did have enough sensibilities at the time to appreciate it and maybe it’s time I revisit. I remember Alvaro de Campos being my favorite but I think I would gravitate more towards Alberto Caeiro nowadays.
Anyway I wonder how his work translates to English… I don’t want to be snobbish but I think a lot would be lost.
Or use Spring Native (in beta)

https://docs.spring.io/spring-native/docs/current/reference/...
What happens when PBR/Michelob hype dies down again?

They still make a small to medium sized fortune =^)
No secret key, but you need a secret password? isn't that the same?
Lots of unsavory things are financially rewarded, too, but you won't find me running toward them.
I think you're giving them too little credit. I'd rather have even and comfortable warmth through-out the cabin, than having to sit in front of a hot draft the entire ride, despite what might be more effective. That is a matter of comfort, and not physics.
If some dev decided to teach me these lessons, I would be tempted to go out of my way to bug the dude as much as possible.
This makes me want to have candidates sign a document that states they are there interview for their own personal employment; not hired or otherwise paid to interview with us for the purposes of intelligence gathering or promotion of products or services.

I wonder how enforceable that would be. Probably, "It depends." As my lawyer friends would tell me. :-)

I also wonder how many candidates would see that and perhaps question their application to our company.
Meanwhile, tomato farmers can’t get enough credit to boost output as banks are reluctant to lend for agricultural activities. Tillers have also been harangued by armed marauders and kidnappers.

Corruption, ethnic tension, and general lawlessness has caused the banks to pull back.

The government has failed on its basic duty to its citizens.
Barry: Call me. I'll show you where you can find great art in movies, an order of magnitude more than what was available before.

I'm a big believer in data and not personal anecdotes, but if I can do it, Barry can (and you can). I never imagined so much incredible art existed on video as what I've seen in the last 5+ years on streaming. The standard for what I will watch has risen dramatically - I don't have to compromise; I don't have the time and energy to see everything incredible thing I want to.

I rarely go to movie theaters because what is available on streaming is so much better, it's not a close call. Partly that's due to the availability of old stuff - what is the chance that the movie in this theater this weekend is at the level of the best movies in history? What is the chance that it's close enough to be worth the extra money and time for the better video and audio?

But the new quality stuff has exploded in volume too, and yes some is structured episodically (i.e., like TV) but why should the director be restricted in form? And I have access to new stuff from all over the world, from small to large productions. And I can take a risk on something new and change my mind, which isn't really practical at the movie theater.

I live in cinephile heaven. I'm not sure where Barry is?
Since 2006 I already replaced a couple of C++ platforms with either Java or .NET, then there is Android as well, or embedded platforms like microEJ.

On managed languages FFI should never be done 1:1, as you very well point out it isn't negligible.

Rather they should be thought as in-process RPC, that actually do a bunch of work per call.

It is still faster than doing IPC across processes.
This is my go-to when I want to browse Netflix

https://www.finder.com/uk/netflix-around-the-world/genre-lis...
If you had to use a piece of software that ran lengthy operations and had to start over from the beginning if it was interrupted for any reason, would it be more effective to prevent interruptions as best you can and hope they never happen, or to fix the program so it saves its work along the way and can restart after an interruption? There are a lot of reason why you can get interrupted, not all of which are your boss stopping by for an update.

This article is exactly why programmers are seen as whiny prima donnas. Too many refuse to work in a way that accommodates working with other people.
I wouldn't be surprised if FB only started paying 2+ years after starting the contract.

As a lighthouse client, FB is pretty amazing in this space.
Hollywood's biggest film have always been adaptations of existing material. Some of the most regarded films of all time, like the Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, the Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, and Chinatown, are themselves merely adaptations of books.
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Monopolies may also thrive or die on their own inherent ability (or inability) to implement creative destruction, to obsolete their own products with a new, better line of widgets, or a changed business model.
I agree with the general point of the article. When you're deep coding you have a tentative model containing a lot of variables about the problem. You haven't committed them to memory yet, because it's all workings out that are undecided. Once you make some conclusions, that can be remembered because the end theory is simpler than the path to get there.

Nobody else constructs models in their minds that are almost purely mechanical and specific to a small problem. Every model the sales guy or manager uses has very few knobs to twist and are mostly intuitive models for which everyone has a template and practices use of every day: emotions, status, hierarchy, urgency, etc.

The programmer is building a house of cards and startling him means he needs to start over.

I agree if you're not deep coding, eg doing a bit of cleanup or documenting, it's not such a big problem.

EDIT

I seem to have ruffled some feathers with the absolute sounding "nobody else" phrasing.

I'm sure you'll run into someone else who has to think like a programmer, but I also tend to think such people to the extent they exist actually are programmers in some sense: either they happen to have a different title, or under the hood they are pretty much doing the same thing.

Now for some more about the nature of programmer's complexity. The thing about being a coder is you end up working on multiple abstraction levels, and they are all still your domain. If your app has some networking issue and you're wiresharking the packets, that's still you. If the front end is slow because you're calculating a lot on the GUI thread, that's still you. If the database is returning strange results, that's still programming. These are all areas that require a huge amount of work, in particular reading about existing conventions and tools, to understand.

In addition, programming has the capacity for you to create your own, local abstractions. Not only is the computer capable of remembering everything you made up, it also computes the interactions that you didn't consider. You have to interface these with the firmament. It is this creation of your own little menagerie and connecting it to the existing world that throws up an enormously large space for weird things to happen.

The thing that I need to point out is that there's no general human intuition for a lot of these things. Yes, you can use a bit of drawing diagrams to help you. But we don't get that intuitive, natural feel that you get in the rest of your life, particularly around emotions, that is I think called system 1 somewhere.

I also don't mean domain specific intuition, which is really just a form of learned knowledge.
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I think we define success too narrowly for these sprawling organizations with massive social influence.

How much political scrip such an organization generates given esoteric economic measures should not outweigh real world impact
> Yes, those poor AWS employees sure have it tough vs that warehouse division.

Pointing out that someone has it shittier is typically an excuse for shittyness.
I don't like alcohol (never had a taste for it). I have tried both alcoholic beers - just a few sips, since I can't stomach the stuff - and non-alcoholic beer. I can, and have, drank full bottles of non-alcoholic beer on occasion, but it basically felt like liquid barely/wheat, slightly bitter. So, I can drink it, but it's a pointless activity AFAIAC. I feel like I'm drinking bread.

> beer has been relied upon both to refresh and intoxicate.

I've never understood how beer could be described as refreshing. Is bread refreshing?

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Having said that, I am partial to "malta" - a carbonated soft drink with mostly the same basic ingredients as bear: barley, hops and water; but with a higher ratio of water, I think. It has added sugar and caramel flavoring typically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)
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> Instead, aside from the programmers, you have mostly salesdroids and managers, who have absolutely no concept, because they have never done any real work.

And this helps the argument not one bit. I'm sure it's very comforting to condescendingly look down on other professions, but you're doing nothing but further proving the point in the comment above.
sounds like you helped him sharpen his skills.
Probably in person it would be a bit different. I have a feeling this is a quickly whipped up example. Contrived and silly, sure, but the point is made.
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Why aren't Americans rioting in the streets?

I had a kid recently and the entire process of labour was free. We even stayed an extra couple of nights. We had a midwife with us the whole way through the pregnancy, and we still didn't pay a cent.

As for leave, I got six weeks at full pay; my partner gets a year (approx 60% at full time pay, 30% at minimum wage, 10% unpaid - that's how she organised it).
> It's extremely demoralizing to work with people who are bad at their job.

You're assuming various PIPs are being used in good faith by the employer. In a lot of big companies there's a nebulous and hand-wave-y criteria for putting someone on a PIP and then there's no clear path for the employee off the PIP. Too often PIPs are like "mean girl" shit lists. You can get on one without knowing it and have little to no agency in getting off one.

For companies that do stack ranking, you can end up on a PIP just for happening to be at the bottom of the stack for no real fault of your own. The employer is then happy to dick you with compensation for as long as they can justify keeping you on a PIP.

It's more demoralizing to end up black balled and screwed over on compensation than just being told outright you're on a PIP and there's some particular goals to hit to get off. Not everyone can just jump ship after they get stiffed on compensation after a review. The goal is to demoralize people so they quit so they don't have to fire them and potentially end up with some wrongful termination lawsuit.
> If I start putting the toilet symbol on doors without toilets behind them, eventually you're going to stop expecting toilets behind the door. You don't need an example to know that.

Good grief. Can you think of a reason why your analogy about changing how a symbol is used in real life might not apply to a debate about how symbols are used in fiction?

Let me offer up an analogy that isn't completely and obviously broken:

If you watch enough Doctor Who, does it make you believe that real life police boxes are actually camouflaged time machines?
Beauty of cash is that you can do whatever you want with it. For example, buy Netflix shares. Or buy Alphabet shares. Maybe Apple.
That way you can both benefit from upside and somewhat protect from downside of your own employer's shares tanking all the while you're getting laid off (as you're suggesting).
“I was speechless when a school official asked me about all the clubbing and party pictures I posted on my Facebook Account. In hindsight, I think I got rejected from that school because they might have thought I will do the same once I join school."

https://ischoolconnect.com/blog/effect-of-social-media-on-co...

"According to a 2017 survey administered by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 11% of respondents said they "denied admission based on social media content" and another 7% rescinded offers for the same reason."

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019...

"According to the 364 colleges across the United States we recently spoke with, 25 percent tell us that they have visited an applicant’s social media page, such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to learn more about them*."

https://www.kaptest.com/study/pre-college/college-admission-...
It doesn't matter that you explain that they're interrupting and wrecking your chain of thought; they're just going to keep doing it, and the train has already gone off the rails.

I don't know what the solution is, aside from being blunt about setting expectations and fierce when those expectations are violated trivially. Or exiting to a remote location where one can do work without interruption.
With the proposal for continuously increasing maintenance fees on ownership it is necessary to establish some public mechanism for determining the relative value of patents upon which the the maintenance fees are levied.

One possible solution is to require the IP holder to declare the quit price at which they are willing to abandon their claim and permanently release the discovery into the public domain prior to the expiration date of the patent in exchange for a one time payment.

This should reduce legal fees and court costs. If a firm is notified of patent infringement and pending litigation, instead of hiring a lawyer and going to court and halting production, they could instead crowd source the funds to pay the quit price to the patent office. The patent office would then pay the original inventor and place the discovery into the public domain for everyone so that there was no basis for continuing legal action.

When large tech companies have legal disputes, they might find that it is always cheaper to pay the patent office to immediately destroy each other's patent arsenals, which would also release all of the discoveries into the public domain and level the playing field for smaller firms as well.

If someone is willing to pay the quit price to the original inventor there should be no problem with expiring patents which have been issued for less than 1 day. 1 business day would likely work fine as the minimum duration for patents.
Hiring thousands of individual workers to all do the same thing is not what 1099s are for.
The funny thing about cash is that you can use it to buy equity. Who knows, maybe you’ll even learn to diversify by investing in areas uncorrelated to your line of work
I agreed with you until your last sentence. I think the goal we want to achieve here is to be more understanding of what each other’s work involves; I absolutely don’t envy the manager who is constantly being interrupted, or the sales person who is doing some next level persuasion and working months to get this customer to sign that contract.

If you’re dismissive of their work, how can you ever expect them to be understanding of yours?
People have jobs where they need to concentrate ? and...people prefer not to be interrupted when concentrating ?

oh. my. god.

The author looks old enough to know better than to propagate software development as some kind of novelty role in an organisation, and also old enough to know that cultivating the image of the tortured prima dona, who must not be disturbed while creating his masterwork, does a lot more harm to the profession than good.

If you need to work without interruption, pull on your big boy pants, take your code and your laptop, and go work somewhere where there are none.

If what you are working on is so intricate and volatile, get funding and build your own fucking lab like scientists have been doing for years.

Otherwise, you're part of an organisation, on a salary, like everyone else. So play your part.

Idiot.
> Presumably because persuasion is apparently necessary, as evidenced by some folk arguing against some of their reasoning or statements regarding the issue.

Fine, so what's the persuasion in this case? Is it really "misuse of trademark in fiction media contributed to these killings of Red Cross personnel"? Because that's a pretty fantastic claim that requires evidence if you are to persuade someone.
> IMHO it's really a pity the game authors used this to influence the Czech parliament.

Remember that politicians are in the tradeoff and bullshit business. They assume every they are told is bullshit, they repackage it and than sell it to us. My guess is if they don't like what the scientist and economist say, they just get another group they like more. It's probably a mix of the advice they get, with the tradeoff they want to make.

> "of course lockdown works"

Of course they work! The question is how much it affect the transmission ratio and the economic cost, and if people will follow the restrictions.

I like that this was call the "Corona Game" and not the "Corona Simulator". Some people noticed that in this game "doing nothing" does not drop the popularity to 0, and I think that it's very unrealistic. Other people noticed that closing the schools has a big effect in the game, but the different parts of the government here in Argentina disagree https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783454
Haha yes, this one is great.

Anyone up for laughs can check out Timo Vuorensola works.

Or the whole Troma Entertainment corpus.

Srsrly, cinema isn't limited to just the cali crap that gets on the networks.
People are generally selfish and focused on their own goals. Everyone has their stress and tries to relieve it either by working machines or working people.

Due to the unpredictable hours of salary positions, programmers should be defensive and stand up for themselves more often. Being walked all over is typically a sign to find a better work culture elsewhere.

This article is a fantasy situation that would never play out in the real world. PMs don’t have time to mess around with a stupid mental exercise, nor would the lesson change their reality.

“Just get it done”
FWIW, Axios seems to have been having some glitches. I read it only on desktop, never mobile, and reported problems with links going to the wrong places. Axios tech emailed back, and said:

Would you be able to hit axios.com with a private/incognito window, to see if you experience the same issue?

This cured the problem. This morning, Axios contacted again and said:

We've gotten a couple of other reports with the go deeper links directing to incorrect stories, and we think we have an idea what the issue might be.
We'll be working on it and will keep you posted.

I was pretty impressed with that.

Anyhow, when the weirdness started happening, I posted to HN, but no one responded so at the time I thought that it was just me. BTW this was happening only in Brave on desktop and the private window workaround is fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761259
I found the question interesting and found a few Wikipedia articles that might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_cooling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bâdgir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
The fact that you are able to pick your own time to get distracted makes all the difference. I read HN when I'm blocked on something, waiting on a compile, on the loo, on a coffee break. The costs of context switching in these cases is very low compared to when I'm deep into debugging or writing code.
>Instead, aside from the programmers, you have mostly salesdroids and managers, who have absolutely no concept, because they have never done any real work.

Wow. This is exactly what the top comment was talking about with the opening sentence. These people may not need deep concentration to be successful, but that doesn't mean they don't do real work.
> media software

If this is editing audio or video, I can 100% believe that. Anything with complex controls that a user has to learn, or keyboard shortcuts, it really matters to end users.

I worked on a Qt app quite a few years ago and that wasn't a media app but it was a complex GUI. Our end users also wanted the exact experience regardless of platform.

On a related note, if you need a rich UI I totally recommend using Qt on the frontend and the backend. Qt isn't just UI libs. There are a bunch of super useful server-side libraries as well that you can use. We used protobufs and had unbelievable performance on the front end and backend. It was a beauty to behold.
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Yeah, I pretty much agree with all of that.

After State Street (which if I understand correctly only held that you couldn't reject a patent simply because it contained some software), there were a flood of patents that were "X, but on a computer". Here's hoping we don't get a flood of "X, but using ML". (Uh, that is, if we haven't already had that flood...)
The article says (among other things) that electricity is cheaper in China than in the US, setting up a farm costs 5 to 10 times less in China, and the US was the second biggest miner. The last fact suggests a lot of people in the US are able to make money at it -- so those Chinese miners must have been making a killing.
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