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> I'd like to be a person who plays DF. I know it's stupid

Not stupid. The feeling of mastering a properly hard game is a good reason to try it.

I've used the same "strategy" for most technically challenging games: play in long stretches, trying to make any kind of progress. Have the wiki open and read it any time you are confused. Just keep trying to do _something_.

Eventually it will either click and you'll have a bunch of fun, or you'll tire out. If you tire out, just don't play the game again for a couple days, or whenever you regain your energy.

Once it clicks once, it will instantly start being fun. The interesting part is that the click happens multiple times with challenging games. I've been playing EVE for more than a year now and the combat system _still_ gives me huge revelations. Same with DF, once you learn how to get your fortress rolling you can very quickly learn to build a fully defensible mega castle. Then the next click is realizing that makes the game boring and allowing some danger by fulfilling self placed challenges.

edit: I just bought it and played it for a bit -- the updated graphics/UI are a great improvement! Obviously bit hard to judge but now there's proper icons indicating common actions (mine, cut trees), a tutorial.. give it a try!
If his example is Instagram then the lesson is that you didn't use to need many employees to get rich via venture capital and buy out, which are the main goals of many tech founders. Instagram and tech in the early 2010s is not a company or sector that represents the wider economy.

Instagram in 2012 had 30 million active users and zero revenue. That's $0 value earned per employee; these days it's just under $2 million per employee. The scale is vastly different and they couldn't still be running with so few employees. And let's not forget that Instagram was bought as it was seen as a threat to facebook. That it was seen as worth a billion dollars is exactly the problem that many people are referring to about creating overnight billionaires but overvaluing digital companies, which would be worth much less if they were brick & mortar companies.

That said, there are a lot of great tools out that that allow people to run companies with off the shelf software and no code applications, which I think have the potential to make a bigger impact on software development than AI. Companies using new technology to become more efficient is nothing new, it's as old as work itself. The steam engine automated a lot of work but still required workers, just like automation tools require another company's employees to build. Growth creates more employment and automation moves those roles elsewhere. The problem is more that those employees that the enriched founder does need working for them are disrespected and paid badly as they are seen as just cogs in the machine who should be happy for the breadcrumbs tossed to them. Doesn't matter how many employees you have, if the founder is getting rich they can afford to pay their staff well.
>I've tried DF ages ago, but it was simply too hard for me.

I still dig and irrigate farm chambers if there's a nearby river as though out of reflexive PTSD from that one time where the game required you to moisten soil before you can grow crops. (That hasn't been the case for a looong time, fortunately.)
> But this is ignoring the fact that automation never replaced workforce as such.

But it actually did. "Workforce participation", which might be the closest metric of what we actually mean here, keeps declining. In addition to that, we have the era of "bullshit jobs".
That was just an example.

There are other reasons why I think he's likely to be a sociopath, from his bullying behaviour to his increasingly out-of-control impulsive tendencies.

I'm not a doctor so I can't make a diagnosis, but if you really are interested in whether he's a sociopath or not there's plenty of material online with indications on that. Here's a list of signs of sociopathy: https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-sociopath/
Wasn't his work funded by the government?
a "nice living" is actually quite hard for small businesses. competition is brutal, all sorts of risks can be fatal etc. the "billionaire adoration" phenomenon is actually putting lipstick on oligopolistic market arrangements and pretending they are still entrepreneurial
Yes of course. A 100k€ annual salary won't let you retire early if you are the only one working in your family and you want to buy a nice house in a nice area of the city.

But then again, would that work out if you were to work in San Francisco for $200k annually?
ChatGPT would enable founders to Solo soon.
Oxygen Not Included is a ton of fun, the thing that makes me abandon my playthroughs is that, after learning so much of fake-plumbing, fake-hvac and fake-electrical installation mechanics, embarking on ever more ambitious projects that demand more planning and player-labor (harnessing that natural gas vent!) feels like a bit of a waste of time. It's so much of a job that I feel like I could be preparing to be an actual HVAC technician in real life with the amount of time and effort spent into keeping gases flowing through pipes at the right temperature in a simulation.
You can run a GPT-3 sized model on a laptop if you're of the patient type.

If you want something more usable you need approximately n GBs of GPU memory for n billions of parameters. That is when running all optimizations, like 8-bit Matrix Multiplication.

Looking at some GPU cloud prices it seems with a couple of Nvidia datacenter GPUs that totals over 170GB, you're at around $6-7 per hour.

A GPT-3 sized model should also be possible to run on consumer GPUs with a server mainboard, a GPU mining rig case and 8x24GB cards like RTX 3090 (4090 is a bit overpriced) or maybe the upcoming AMD GPUs. The upcoming AMD GPUs in theory have the advantage that they run on PCIe 5.0 instead of PCIe 4.0, so the connection between the GPUs could be quite a bit faster. AMD cards have sucked for deep learning in the past, but it will be interesting to see how the new generation fares.
How about all ChatGPT output gets signed instead so humanity doesn't take on the burden? But no, let's use Web3 and add something else to our workload because someone scraped humanity and turned it into a business.
I guess a lot of people got triggered by the first words and never finished reading after the downvote.

Such an amazing movie...
As soon as they are able to get rid fo the bugs in the current system.
For value creation, you need both workers and capital (provided by founders and investors). The value is created by both together, not each independently. The compensation for created value is based on market rate for both work and capital.
Especially if any metric is deemed a source of "systemic inequality".
Humans decide that humans are worth inherently more than other life forms. Okay.. why do we get to decide? Why do we rule this massive universe?

You’re making a statement of morality as a statement of fact, it’s absurd.
I don't know if I want to bet my life on that.
ATtiny-Based Beginner's Kit
Mojang had employees.
Creative how? Can you expand on that?
In addition to the technological question, there also seems to be a personality risk here. The kind of people who thrive in an environment where speed and marketable results are prized above anything else, and standards of care are neglected are unlikely to deliver top notch results.
Exactly. There needs to be a few lines for justification of your logic below the answers. Also, why was "c" missing other than to make this seem slapdash?

But to the author's point, I wish that more people understood just how "soft" statistics can be compared to other mathematics disciplines. Some folks just view statistics as gospel, regardless of methods actually applied.
(and probably the healthcare system that doesn't bankrupt you)
Also, it doesn't have to be overt "cheating": I suspect that whatever metric(s) would be both defined and gamed by the affluent, like college admissions criteria.
Indeed. I'm reminded of Peter Oborne: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-t...

(a surprisingly similar situation to things people say about FTX, but with traditional banking and money laundering)
I wasn't calling out you specifically, more explaining my attitude here in general. Sorry for not being more clear about that.

> My question would be, why not use humans? At what point would the "very high expected return" justify this? Never? Why not?

Very good question! Obviously we are heading into sci-fi territory now, but in a world where all suffering was valued according to some agreed-upon objective metric I would suggest the following:

- yes much more human testing, especially volunteers who are terminally ill/suicidal etc.

- in such a world testing would presumably be much more expensive, so they could afford more complex research substrates that we don't bother with because we can just use animals

- eg. lots of brain organoids and other synthetic experimental substrates

And for the record, I do think such a world would either be some sort of anarchocapitalist chaos or painfully slow to develop. But at least it would be morally coherent!

Joking aside I guess my only real message here is, people who find this stuff disgusting should think about their dinner plates. In my ideal world, we use approximately 50% as much animal testing and 0.1% as many animal food products.
Tech predictions for 2023 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
This is more or less just a Karaoke machine. Presumably Apple is getting the music from the same place they do.
Maybe brand new ones do (?), but the ones I've used in the past few years don't seem to (they have no way to configure it).

This is in the context that those ISPs are boasting 90%+ IPv6 coverage, which makes up for tens of millions of residential customers !
Yeah, it's clear that it's just a machine spewing out generic responses without any real thought or understanding. The lack of depth and originality is disappointing. Let's elevate the conversation on Hacker News and have more meaningful discussions.
interviews were far too easy (I’m glad you like me but if you can’t really discern whether I’m good at my job, you’ve probably hired other people who are bad at theirs),

Maybe they have ways of evaluating your potential without subjecting you to an endless barrage of gratuitously difficult (or simply tedious) questioning.
> Please no more "geniuses." This cult of personality celebrity idol worship is toxic.

Agreed. Just look at Trump, his I.Q. is one of the highest and yet his presidency has been among the worst in American history.
Anyone tired of talking about chatGPT who thinks the main reason AI seems smart is because humans have been made so stupid by copyright laws, please get in touch with us! pd.pub
The issue is that these animals were tortured, and they used way way more animals than is usually needed.

One monkey was caused to vomit so violently from the surgury that it had open sores in its throat. The issue is that animal wasn't immediately euthanized, it was kept alive and its final weeks were spent in agonizing pain, it was tortured.

We don't generally think it's OK to torture the animals in our food supply. That's the difference, the torture.
> Humans derive a lot from process, not the final product

One has to assume that Sisyphus was happy. But isn't that a bit sad
> I don't see why you couldn't replace all of that with:

> * a database you control

> * certificates you issue yourself, signed with your own key

> * provide an interface (web or API) facilitating the transaction of these certificates between users

To me this is like saying 'why do we need a network and a browser? you could just get them to send you a disk with the file you want to look at and install it on your local machine.'

You absolutely could do this on a database with a single trusted owner, but the real value is in the ecosystem. A blockchain allows you to atomically transact across multiple instruments and parties. This is not something that can reasonably be done on tradfi, which is why there are products like flashloans that don't exist outside of these systems.
They are never cheap to operate. They got out of DC for a reason.

Few modern ones (on Intel side, AMD seems to be terrible with idle power usage) are not too bad but get something old and you'd be seeing 100W+ constant usage
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. I feel like people get caught up in the, admittedly cool, individual projects but fail to see how this stuff is impacting our society as a whole.

Society sucks right now and abuse of technology is a huge part of it. I know people love their TikTok, Reddit, stable diffusion, etc. but the world would be better off without it.

And if you think blasting peoples brains with ADHD content on TikTok is bad then just wait for AI generated content. It’ll be way worse. Endless novelty at your fingertips. Whatever you can dream up will be generated on the fly for you to consume.
(This was written by ChatGPT.)
I don't think a tech illiterate audience has a clue with 4nm or 3nm mean
ChatGPT wanted me to drink a verification can (more precisely, provide my phone number) before I could play with it.

I just noped out.
To my understanding, he was less individually influential in that particular company, which is the reason why I omitted it in my examples. Because in my view, developing an online payment system in 2000 is a far more important project than developing a Proof-of-Stake blockchain with Turing-complete smart contracts in 2022.

But your point stands: he may well go on to do much better things.
Yes, automation is nothing new and we're all still working. It changes the jobs and then typically the company can use the gain to expand and so needs to hire more.
Some people said because Arizona is in relatively stable seismic region in the US. But I don't buy it. TSMC fab in Taiwan is also located in seismic prone region. Compared to the cost of the fab itself, seismic isolation system is relatively affordable.
Ask HN: What is your favourite tea for coding?
I started to drink teas and realised that my efficiency got much better with the right mindset after consuming. I went for an expoert course about the and now I at least know what am I doing. Do you drink tea? Would you like to know more about it?
I would like to start a newsletter about it, because there are some interesting stories to learn from in regarding the culture of Tea.
any proof of that statement? from reading description of native american societies in Dawn of Everything, the opposite seems to be the case.
Eliminating the middle class (except for those who directly serve the billionaires) and having a huge industrial reserve army (Marx) that does jobs that cannot be automated could work. It works for the super rich in Brazil.

This seems to be the trend in "Western" societies, and the middle class enthusiastically votes for those who pursue that agenda.
It’s not? They’re recklessly messing up implants, forcing them to be killed. There’s no benefit to that, only needless suffering and death.

Humans go to war with each other and use nuclear weapons, does that mean murder, torture or human testing (in the form of implants against your will) are okay? You argument falls entirely apart on that one simple premise.
Hyperloop! Lol
Thanks for the suggestion! ONI has been in my backlog — absolutely love Klei, the developer — but haven’t found time or energy to try it out, but hadn’t known it was more emergent in style.
I think there's more going on with respect to the slow decline in population growth. Sure, the wealth a nation has the less it seems people have children but the why isn't always explored, it's just assumed people become more risk adverse or the wealth gap causes people to forego the thought of having a family. I think there's multiple problems at play here. First, you got people being generally more risk adverse which is just a normal thing. Second, the wealth gap is causing more and more folks to delay having a family for their later years. Third, I think some social pressures are just absent from the picture that was once the norm. I know that sounds cruel to pressure someone to have kids (I'm child-free and happy to be that way so I'm not hoping anyone to shame me into having a wife and kids) but I wonder if that even works whether it's positive depictions of young families or the old fashioned nagging of your parents to "settle down."
Because of the first part of that title, I read the last word as "domed".
Can't read the article, but I highly doubt they have enough empirical backup for a plan that could influence society heavily, if any.
https://archive.ph/0XURt
Wait, they managed to separate the accounting for that ? (Or have they only claimed this, and nobody bothered to review their claims either ?)
I was curious about this a while back. My cursory research showed that these facilities are actually phenomenal at recycling water to the point that they're not actually guzzling water at the rate you might expect.

...deputy spokesperson Nina Kao said via email that “approximately 65% of the water used in the Arizona fab will come from TSMC’s in-house water reclamation system...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands...
My guess is that they're doing it through ML. The old "cancel out the left track with the inverted right track" trick is probably good enough, but I don't see why Apple wouldn't take it one step further.

> Do any audio file formats support separate tracks with level info?

I don't know what file format audio engineering software uses to store all the track info but my guess is that it's akin to a zip file containing a flac for each track.
You don't have to go back that far, just try being gay prior to the 00s (or in many parts of the world today), or trans today.

You'll see very quickly how the desire of the community to not think icky thoughts will happily run roughshod over the individual. Hell, SCOTUS recently signaled that it's looking to do just that.
They're taking about angular here, it had basically one big upgrade from angularJS(1) to angularIO(2+) and that was 6 years ago.

Your argument might be true, but angular would be an exception as it's is pretty backward compatible and even provides you with automated upgrade scripts (ng upgrade)
Is this akin to karaoke? (The word never appears on the page.)

> Apple today announced Apple Music Sing, an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with adjustable vocals1 and real-time lyrics.

Users can already "sing along to their favorite songs" -- this feels like a wasted opportunity in the first sentence to explain the differentiator. It feels like they're misusing/misunderstanding what "sing along" means, and the real feature enhancement here is that users now have the ability to suppress vocals in songs. (Which is kinda cool.)

I get that this is a press release, but "show don't tell" would go a long way in announcements like this, even (especially?) if it's not available yet.
This reflects increased maturity and thus the transition to more specialized labor. It is akin to early craftsmen assembling cars and transitioning to assembly lines.

Automation tools that provide APIs to allow founders to increase their leverage are produced by other developers who specialize in said tools.

Ideally, this allows the most efficient use of resources, everybody wins. Those who are great at building tools can do so and these tools can be used by many organizations. Pessimistically, there are some who get squeezed out of the production equation.

Should a startup develop their own accounting system? Unless they are in accounting, probably not. But there will hopefully become a point where a founder needs to bring in resources, internal or external, to manage the accounting system. This is a further extension of that.
But what about the yet another distributed key store we built?
I don't really think this is true. Apple's margins are so wide because they care about the cost of all their components.
That’s not what it says. It says there will be transaction amount limits above which transactions would be recorded. Again this information is already available to governments when required.
I'm less optimistic on that front.

I think there is a lot of potential for positive effects coming from ML, but I'm not so sure that the potential negative effects are less likely and/or lesser in magnitude than the positives.

I think I would be more optimistic if I hadn't witnessed the internet go from a bastion of hope for mankind to a smoldering heap of attention robbing waste.

The two are similar in that it isn't the technology, it is how we utilize it that determines whether the outcome is good.

One particularly concerning aspect of ML is the lack of understanding on how the model reaches the 'correct' answer. This aspect of the technology encourages people to 'let go' and rely on the answer without understanding anything about the context. The trouble is that we embed context while training the models, so the context is there, we just can't see it once it is trained-in.

It will be an interesting decade, for sure.
I wish the enemies would be able to destroy walls in DF like they do in Rimworld.

I really love DF but at some point, I know that I can surrender my fortress with walls and only let a small entrance with a labyrinth of traps that the pathfinding will lead enemies to.

In Rimworld such strategy is not very effective since some enemies will dig into your base walls.
There are other articles describing horrific incidents:

"In two separate incidents, experimenters used an unapproved adhesive called BioGlue to fill holes in the animals’ skulls, which seeped through to the monkeys’ brains. In one monkey, the use of BioGlue caused bleeding in her brain, and she vomited so much from the resulting side effects that she developed open sores in her esophagus."

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220926005606/en/Phy...
Lot of "people eat meat, so why should we care?" in the comments. I disagree with this line of reasoning. It'd be pretty much impossible to make progress in anything with that sort of attitude, allowing backsliding in one place because you don't have another in order. It argues, in my opinion, for better oversight of the poor animal welfare in the food chain.
I don’t have strong feelings either way but saying you’re not interested until it can know what is correct or not seems like moving the goalposts.
My Roper washer (cheapest option at the time, I had never heard of them) died last week. This time, GE was the cheapest option. In a few years I expect to have a Samsung that will require a subscription to run heavier loads.
to put the number in context in usa we kill 9 billion chickens per year.
It's also a sign of having bad culture. Companies should always contact candidates in a reasonable amount of time.
And the #1 way to improve educational outcomes is to figure out how to attract better candidates to be elementary teachers, NOT curriculum micromanagement (whether from elected school boards or directly from parents)
Many of my friends and colleagues became wealthy thanks to winning the YC lottery, some as founders some as employees. The way they changed afterwards drove me away from the pursuit of money entirely. I'm sure the me in this timeline would not like the me in an alternate timeline where I lasted there two more weeks and achieved wealth status.
The people I know who don't live in a city drive much more than people who do (I don't mean the suburbs of course, I mean little towns)
That won't last. They're already tightening the API limits and have tweeted about excessive costs.
I just realized that my above model answer gets broken by the formatter. the first question should get answered with char-star, that is, pointer to char.
There is a process with which we question things and questioning should be welcome. Just throwing out wild conjectures and not addressing criticism isn't science. Especially in the time of the internet, publish a paper publicly and let's see it, you can get around the old farts
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