skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for "incredible passion from consumers". I've never seen a mass of customers so easy to fool as gamers are. Imagine a washing machine company releasing broken products, and the average joe going "yup, I really want another washing machine from this company after seeing this ad which showed something I like, even though the last time I bought some they were barely working and only half washed my clothes, please take my money".

If bethesda/microsoft announced Fallout New Vegas 2, everyone would lose their shit and preorder instantly.

Also it disgusts me how happy everyone seems when a company announces that they won't do microtransactions. If the company has a history of keeping promises and releasing games without mtx, sure, it's warranted. But otherwise? Are you an idiot? They'll update the game half a year after you and the other fools bought the game and introduce microtransactions then. I wish there were laws that clearly defined what monetization in a game means and forbade developers from changing monetization schemes during the lifetime of a game, I just can't trust cloud-enabled games nowadays that promise a non-mtx non-p2w experience. It's worthless promises if you can change your mind down the line after I invested time and maybe money in your game. First get the money from the gamers who think they're really smart for "supporting games with fair monetization schemes", then when they're exhausted introduce mtx and go after the whales for the big bucks.

Fuck this industry, you don't even know what kind of product you're buying anymore. People waiting for "a full review of Diablo Immor(t)al to figure out how much money you need to spend to get a good build" - what's the point? By the time the review is out blizzard probably already changed the sliders and everything's different. Although from what I hear about the game, the only way they could change them at this point would make the game better, so there's that. $100k (that's one.hundred.thousand.dollars.) to get a fully equipped build. Jesus christ. Go back in time to when Diablo 2 is released and tell the gamers that soon they'll have to pay one hundred. thousand. dollars. to get a fully equipped build in the latest Diablo. They'll just cry and jump out the window. An even sadder thing is if you told them the latest Diablo will be a mobile game, they'd think "what? you can play Diablo anywhere like with a Gameboy? That's freaking amazing dude!" ugh. But you need to tell them this before telling them about having to choose between a nice house and a cool armor for their barbarian, burst that bubble properly.

I hate this. My comment here is the incredible passion from consumers, you can see it live now, you're welcome.

The incredible passion from developers is also me still being interested and working on gamedev crap even though I wish I could just turn back time instead.
Having worked in logistics and fulfillment for eCommerce, I am fairly certain this service will stop as soon as someone starts to look at actual profitability. Problem just might be that nobody does for quite some time.
Medium and substack are part of the problem of the proliferation of junk articles.
Well, the total amount would dwindle.
I used BS to scrape rogerebert.com and post his reviews to letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/re2/

I copied over only the first two paragraphs of each of his reviews with a link back to the original.

The HTML is a total mess having obviously moved around the web a couple times. So it required a bunch of cleanup. But that wasn't even the hard part. The hard part was getting the correct TMDB ID for the movies because his reviews also have either no useful metadata or metadata that's wrong, like incorrect movie years, misspelled actor names, etc.

I never was able to get API access to letterboxd, but they have a CSV import feature which worked-out well enough.
Seems that the solution to your problem could come if Apple gives you the option of choosing a default list app.

I use the built-in Lists app, so I just say, "Hey, Siri, add ginger ale to my groceries list." Hopefully alternate defaults will come, the way iOS is slowly embracing alternate defaults for other functions.

That said, about 50% of the time when I say, "Hey, Siri, add sandwich bread to my groceries list," she responds, "OK, I've added those two things to your list."
> But if the typing syntax is essentially just comments in very specific places... what advantage does it bring?

It means the supplemental information needed to run either static or dynamic type-checking is there & so that either browsers or toolchains can use it.

And it means that the code would just run on existing systems. For production we'd probably want to strip out comments, but for production we already often do strip out comments (which I wish could be "undone" on most sites by users wanting to know! View source!!).

Let's turn your question around: what advantage does existing typescript language have, over a backwards-compatible & type-carrying enhancement to JS?
A moment that changed me: I lost my home, moved into a van – and found freedom
This is right, people are getting overly hung up on the idea that an AGI needs fingernails.

It doesn't need fingernails but it absolutely needs the ability to effect change in the world it is meant to be "intelligent about" and learn from the results.
There is no way to frame "You can grow up to do something about climate change" in tandem with "We are going to do fuck-all about climate change".

The longer you wait, the harder it's going to be do deal with it. The messaging gets louder because the situation gets worse. By the time today's kids are in a position to do anything about climate change, we will have sailed through the 1.5C level that is widely thought to bring serious, expensive damage.

Climate denial is the dominant force today, and kids are learning a lesson that goes far beyond the distant prospect of climate disasters. It's telling them that science denial is effective. It's already working with the pandemic -- there is a ton of ideological overlap between climate denial and vaccine denial.

The best way to teach children that something can be done is to do something. Changing the words will never be as clear a message as the fact that we're not doing anything.
My point is that it's increasing the arbitrariness by further constricting the qualified students pool.

Instead, accept they're all qualified insofar as they would maximally benefit from advanced lessons, and favor students for whom this may be their only opportunity to get ahead.
Michael Myers was the murderously insane Halloween character.

Also, the indicted former politician is 79 years young.
This must be a marketing thing, right? (I had to check the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st)

The use case is bagels or pizza across the country? If you don't eat those within the hour they're not good anymore. Other than that, I really can't think of a situation where I would be willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money for cold food.
So they are calling his bluff? I don't think he actually wants Twitter.
There are so many ways to do the same thing...in any language. That's just reality.
If I remember right, I Loves was okay, but not even close to Pizza da Vinci, in my opinion.
I never said someone should subsidize dense housing. I only advocated for removal of requirements that prohibit dense housing and mandate things like parking.

Edit: If anything we currently have the reverse case, with dense areas where infrastructure is shared by many subsidizing less dense areas where roads and houses serve much fewer people while providing less tax revenue. There have been some good articles on here about this over the years.
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize Through Airport Security (2014)
Just focusing on error rates leaves out the details by which false positives are created, which are very important to everyone's individual sense of justice.

For example, one of your examples was "forced to plead guilty". The word "forced" implies something else responsible for the erroneous outcome. Rather than merely saying that was a "false positive" that could be tuned, we should focus on that specific thing responsible - if it was the system's high-stakes dynamics depriving a person of their right to a trial, then those dynamics need to be reformed. If it was a bad faith prosecutor/cops pushing falsities to get a baseless conviction, then they need to be criminally prosecuted for abusing the power of the state to suit their own personal ends.

Everybody knows that bad things do occasionally happen. The outrage isn't merely due to the initial miscarriage of justice, rather it's the nonchalance of the entrenched system shrugging it off rather than reifying and prosecuting its own crimes.
The intersection of graphs, FSMs, and linear algebra is really wild. I touched a very tiny bit on this topic a few weeks ago [0]. I highly recommend the book "Mathematics of Big Data" [1] if you're interested in this subject.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344146

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mathematics-big-data
First computer was a Radio Shack Tandy 2000. On it is where I learned QBASIC, and that same summer I wrote a choose your own adventure short story game, as a kid who loved those cheesy Choose Your Own Adventure books (and Encyclopedia Brown).

First "game" I ever made :)

Dad got laid off, family went into poverty, a lot of stuff got sold including our computer, and I didn't see a personal computer again in the house hold until Windows 98.
This would be a more credible claim if "certain people in DC" had any control over the voter rolls; they don't, because voting policy is delegated to the states.
>I don't understand I don't understand paying a premium for a rare or old item that is easily replicated.

I once worked at the library of a university. Part of my job was to check the catalogue against the actual bookshelves to make sure the books are physically present.

So I got to social science section. In particular the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

Now this is an national university with >170 years of history. The spreadsheet in my hand showed that there should be 9 copies of the 1908 edition on the shelf.

I found none.

Every copy has been stolen. The irony of this is just too much. Communism supporters stealing from the general public to satisfy their personal desire of collection.

Aside. A regret I have was not checking out 'The Hitler Youth' at the same time. Although I suspect the university might have removed them from the shelves.
American palettes are screwed up. Most people wouldn't eat a meal of a simple salad, some lean protein and a multigrain carb.
As long as liars can claim that everything they oppose is bigoted, and adults listen to them, your hopes won't be recognized.
Giving them back would reinforce Russia's belief that it can commit any kind of crime with impunity, which would then result in it becoming even more aggressive.
I do, and one person has control over the keyboard at a time. Hell on earth is two people making write operations at the same code buffer.
If the EROI is high enough you try it prior to knowing the outcome. Because there is a curve of investment that eats into the Return portion of the equation, they should push up the number of votes (cost) until they hit their desired (cost of capital + profit margin). That is the rational way to act at least.

If someone says to you pay $1 to have a 75% chance at $2. you definitely should take it. It's the same with millions of dollars or billions of dollars.
Part of what makes loved ones special is that they’re unique. We give people names because they’re unique. We don’t name things like bananas because they’re fungible. Perhaps if you had the only one copy of a loved one, you could love that person as much as the original, but if loved ones could be copied arbitrarily, I think something would be lost.
Access files are definitely super-fragile. That's not isolated to Access, though. Any time a file sharing protocol is used to host a database-- particularly with multi-user locking semantics-- I get the willies.

I've done more "development" of Access-based applications over the years than I'd care to admit and, as a menu-driven front end for interaction with a client/server RDBMS (SQL Server, Postgres, etc) I think it's good cheap solution. Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA) can even do some powerful (and arguably ill-advised) stuff like directly calling Win32 APIs. It's an awesome prototyping tool in my experience.

The typical Access solution I see in large corporate environments is something knocked-together by non-IT people. Once it gets to the level of needing to be upsized to a client/server RDBMS back-end the "real" IT department comes in and demands a purpose-built solution. Usually bureaucracy, disdain for Access, licensing costs for the client/server RDMS, taking away file servers, etc, end up killing it.
I was raised to believe that emotions / "feelings" were something that happens to you (being human and all that) due to chemicals in your brain and body, and you cannot entirely control that aspect of things, but that your actions are indeed a thing you do have control over, and that falls entirely upon each individual human to control for themselves, despite any other factors such as emotion. While you may not easily be able to choose how you feel, you can choose what you do, and how you act or react. Emotion can as you say "guide", but cannot force your actions. That's all on you (or me, or anyone else).

I especially agree with your final statement there about the dangers when in a position of responsibility or "power". It's those times when people really should strive harder than usual to fall back on logic and facts despite any emotional reactions they may be leaning toward, although if the emotion they're feeling is "empathy", they might want to let at least a little of that leak through and "guide" their logical response to some degree.
You could use “insane decadence” to describe a lot of modern services like commercial air travel and cordless phones.
Not requiring bundling to be setup during development is a huge win for developer ergonomics. Though I prefer to write TypeScript I've avoided it in some small projects where I didn't want the hassle of setting up the transpiler / watcher / etc.

Production bundling can then be as simple as running `deno bundle index.js` or similar.
No, I meant, passing a law that says "$0 for all state IDs". Not talking about National ID.
I'd love to invest in a really nice fossil sometime to put on my desk, maybe a small dinosaur skull or an unusually cool looking trilobite

But I can never do this, because I could never feel certain that I didn't purchase a forgery
They would need to be able to mobilize tens or hundreds of thousands of votes on hours of notice. They would also need to be able to distribute those votes broadly enough not to cause suspicion when an unexpected trove of votes are added late. These votes would also need to be cast intelligently enough to match all expected down ballot elections not to draw suspicion. I don't think there is a way to do all of this without a sweeping multi-state conspiracy.
However, Siri will love to tell you, like a long-lost distant relative from tropical climes, about how terrible and how uncomfortable it is.

Maybe it's regional.

Siri used to do that to me, too, which was annoying. But she stopped offering opinions on the weather about two years ago.
> how this "metaverse" thing works out

Not looking too good. Especially since the interest rate hike (the free money faucet was tightened), but the timing might be coincidence.

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&plat...
Also:

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1340794861050605568

> AFAIK, nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1. The scalar CPU should be fast enough (in 1976!) to draw 320x200, but memory would be an issue because it wasn't byte addressable -- you could only load and store aligned 64 bit values, and a max of 1M elements would be a pinch.

> You could burn instructions to shift and mask on the low order address bits, but a faster path would be to interleave 8 independent textures at different bit positions in the words, and have specialized texture mapping routines with a constant shift and mask. I don't recall ever considering that arrangement, but there may have been relevant consumer systems where doing it for 2 or 4 bit textures packed in bytes would have been helpful.

> Figuring out how to best exploit chained vector instructions for texture mapping on the Cray would be phase two.
> Why should you need an ID to vote? It doesn't make sense.

so that only citizens can vote in elections?

> Please. It is a barrier that exists. Not everyone has $22.00.

yes they do. I know one person who does not have a driver's license or state ID, because she doesn't have a birth certificate (lost it). she was almost unable to take her newborn children home because of her lack of birth certificate. she had ample time to save money to acquire these things leading up to her twin sons' birth, but she squandered it weekly on weed. I have worked minimum-wage jobs while living in shitty housing with zero welfare and saving $22 was not difficult. while living in Section 8 housing, receiving WIC and EBT benefits, as well as other forms of welfare, like this ID-less person I know, it would be a cinch. she simply cared more about spending all of her money on weed every paycheck. if she had any desire to vote at all (she doesn't), I would not have any pity for her.

hell, at least around here, if you don't want to work yet still somehow feel like you're contributing to society and therefore want to vote for some reason, it is very easy to panhandle $22 in a single day, as long as you don't spend it on meth or whatever. you're not going to be able to use vague emotional claims that some vague swath of poor downtrodden people (all undoubtedly "minorities" in one way or another, because everywhere in the US is just oh so racist that every time a white person sees someone with a different skin color voting at the booth next to them, their nose visibly wrinkles in disgust, before returning home to recount their experience to their Klansmen buddies, or whatever hallucination you choose to inhabit) who live paycheck to paycheck or are homeless or whatever yet feel that participating in an election is somehow more important than getting a couple dozen bucks together in order to obtain a state ID necessary to participate in society. if you actually cared, again, you would be interested in finding solutions to this problem, instead of throwing your hands up, saying "the mere concept of voter ID in the US is discriminatory and racist and evil and bad and morally wrong, and there's just nothing we can do to change that so the only possible solution is to throw the vote-integrity baby out with the voter-ID bathwater!" if you genuinely cared about this topic then you would be more willing to find compromise in any way, but you're not, so there's not really much further discussion that could be had. and anyway,

> blah blah partisan blah blah blah

here's where I'm done engaging—have a good day.
The Great Medieval Water Myth
What is strange is the article stated this only held true for white people.
You underestimate what Americans are willing to pay for convenience. People already pay nearly double to order from local restaurants now on these platforms.
What is one modern youth subculture?

Can you name it, its philosophy (roughly, in a nutshell), its music-style and its style of dress?

Because I can't.

Can you name 2 or 3?
> the web development community that likes to pat itself on the back for being smart enough to use JavaScript's [relatively] new spread operator, but at the same time whinging about Elm because its syntax looks weird.

It's probably more like that meme image from some TV show:

Elm user: I feel bad for you.

Enthusiastic JS/TS user: I don't think about you at all.
You see the same things in both places because people are poor in both places. Often due to structural issues that the government could absolutely influence. For example, they could not sign a deal like NAFTA and keep manufacturing jobs within their borders. The could also provide social housing, subsidize medical care and education, set a reasonable minimum wage, etc. The government has enormous potential to positively impact people’s lives, but it doesn’t. It used to, but not anymore, because we’ve all been infected with Reagan’s “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” brain worm. This mythology is bone deep in our national consciousness, to the point that we can’t even imagine an alternative anymore, even though examples of other countries doing it are scattered around the world. Government intervention can absolutely address the nihilistic tendencies you’ll often find amongst the multi-generational poor! It can do so by actually giving them an opportunity (en masse, not as the one person who made it out) to be participants in a world where they have dignity and inherent value, which is not the world they live in today. They won’t be fixed overnight, but they didn’t get that way overnight either! It took decades of disinvestment and neglect, and it will probably take a generation to make a meaningful impact. But it can and should be done.
While I was not personally there you may enjoy the book Hackers by Steven Levy. It has a lot of anecdotes from that time.
What if they are two? Or 100? With different experiences post replication?
How would you know which one was the replica, and which on you had special attachment to?
It's hard to find someone due to exploding demand. It is cheap though. Under €3,000 for 10kWp.
It's not about the physical material, but rather the history, like the ship of Theseus.
>people like it that way.

Even if that was true (which it does not seem to be, given that the real estate values in neighborhoods most closely resembling the netherlands in the US are among the most expensive in the country) it seems like a moot point. The cities that are built this way aren't financially sustainable and that much car usage is basically incompatible with future life on earth.
and also cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers’ preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls.

Obviously, I believe this actually happened. But: how? What is Philadelphia not doing that we do in Chicago? You couldn't do this here; it's hard for me to even imagine how someone could walk into a precinct and cast multiple votes. And how would they cast their second and third vote? Do you give them a list of no-show registrations from the precinct? And then they just sign the pollbook multiple times?
I went to several Universities to interview undergraduates for a paid summer internship for our small SAAS startup (I was barely out of college myself). A huge percentage of technical students were hoping for internships at video game companies, many hoping to start with testing. So no wonder video games companies feel grinding through QA engineers it’s a viable strategy.

All we can really do is warn the younger generation to steer clear of the video games industry even if video games are a passion. You’d think with such a terrible reputation they’d be struggling for hires, but there’s always fresh blood to grind into the ground.
They're trying to increase their funnel to keep that $325K max salary from being the average. They're investing to increase their supply of labor.
I first thought it was some kind of april fool's joke. Many people who care about climate change are taking their bike to go to work, or avoiding taking a plane for their holidays, and then there's this. I am genuinely shocked.
You are technically correct, but there is an implied locus when people say something is "intelligence".

The ghosts in Super Mario World are "intelligent" and "embodied" in Super Mario World, but they are not "embodied" on Earth and thus cannot be "intelligent" there.

The "G" in AGI implies intelligence on Earth, not in a video game.