skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a user of Pico8, and probably never going to use this app, but wanted just to comment on usability.

Judging by demo videos, I think that the UI is not very efficient. For example, let's count how many gestures an user has to make to add an oscillator and connect it to a speaker:

- click "+"

- carefully read the menu, locate and click "oscillator"

- maybe drag the oscillator to a desired location

- click "+"

- carefully read the menu, locate and click "cable"

- drag the cable to the oscillator

- catch another end of the cable, which is swinging and trying to escape from your mouse cursor

- drag it to a tiny speaker's socket

This takes too much time. I believe the UI can be significantly improved. Or maybe this can be turned into a game where the devices are playing against you, jump and crawl trying to escape from you (but you can bind them with cables), and so on.

Also, "+" button is too close to a trash button, and it is easy to accidentally click it.
On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job.

On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes out. It’s heavily knowledge based - you need to know an awful lot about the boxes and how to work with them - but nobody expects you to machine your own parts. If one isn’t made that suits your purposes, you have to go to an old car guy.

The skillsets are similar but different. To be clear, I really am talking about cars and mechanics here - you won’t find many who can fix up both a 1960 and a 2021 motor. You’ll find plenty who can do one or the other, however.

And yeah - the same applies to developers.
Was referring more to Epik than to KF itself on the free speech stuff.
I still don't wonder how I lived without a cell phone. Other than some minor inconveniences, life was better.
Chief Liability Office Without Nuance?
> “FTX followed the standard playbook of influencing Washington, and that’s buying influence on a bipartisan basis,”

This is also wrong.

My simple campaign finance reform proposal:

- campaigns must not accept money from anyone who is not a registered voter

- businesses found to be donating to both sides of the same race, or different parties at the same time, to be convicted of bribery
Perhaps I am simply not understanding, but how would a personal newsletter be any different in a better way then just having a blog?

The infrastructure is more complex and those who want to read the content have a higher barrier to cross.
Except that if you have power, then by definition you can stop people redistributing it.

Otherwise you don't actually have power.

That concept is another fallacy of composition.

Taxes are there to reduce the capacity of the private sector to hire by reducing monetary flow. Without that you will get inflation.
Your desktop has a 99wh battery and you carry it with you on the plane?
Disk Utility (the old version anyway) is an underrated tool. Sure you can use clonezilla or gparted or something, but having something built in and idiot-proof is a real joy. The only thing I wish it supported was moving partitions around.
Chinchilla is trained with substantially more tokens then Gopher, 1.4T Vs 300B
As opposed to starting a business in order to make the world a better place? https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
So that the friend, or someone who steals from the friend can impersonate me?

Proving your identity when you lost your proof of identity is still an unsolved problem if you ask me. At least in general, it seems that there is no one solution that works for everyone.
I think the more generous reading here is that “usual” = “net positive for the world”
>I found a buffer overflow in the OpenSolaris code a few hours ago that originated in a commit made in 2007.

That's because there is no OpenSolaris anymore....
The idea of having dependency and package management system as an inherent part of a language's ecosystem is pretty new, and there isn't really any such thing even for C, let alone assembly language. So the short answer is "that's your problem", to solve however you wish!
Personally I use git submodules.
I've been using chatgpt with my side projects. Its ability to generate boilerplate for APIs just from what would normally be a google search prompt means you can often go straight from idea to the part where you're adding the interesting features for your app.

Its ability to generate what are essentially highly specialized tutorials that match exactly your use cases is also a really big deal.

Overall it's really extended what I'm capable of doing. Not because I couldn't do the things before but because I can skip over the boring part in the beginning and save my emotional energy for the part that actually matters.

>do I basically have to describe an algorithm in English or can I go up to a higher level and talk about features and what the software ought to do?

It understands any "well known" algorithm, api, paradigm or pattern that was written about before 2022. Even pretty obscure stuff. One thing I tried was copy and pasting some of my code into it and having it generate unit tests.
We are going slightly off topic here, but may I ask how your life turned better without weed?

When Corona made availability a bit harder I quit last year for several months. But to my surprise I wasn't more productive, wasn't more focused all I got was getting more moody and easier to distact.

I came to accept that weed is self medication against my ADD and depression that works better than I actually expected.
This is a very confusing post because of the stated vs revealed preferences of the author. I understand the author is angry because digital products don’t indefinitely continue to live up to their expectations and they lose the culture and community when those spaces change or shut down.

They’re also aware, at least partially, that these products are not free to run. They’re run by people that moderate, write software and often buy and operate physical hardware. These people want to make money, sometimes a lot of money. Many times, the products would not exist at all without outside investment. The investment terms come with assumptions about growth and profitability.

Absent this money, the same products the author loves would not exist.

If the author wants little communities that make little things with only a little bit of profit, there is no better time than now to publish a self hosted web site or forum. It is easier now than ever.

Except they’re publishing their writing on Substack, yet another VC backed publishing product (that I like FWIW). Substack will go the exact same direction as twitter, if they’re fortunate enough to not die in 5 years.

Running software businesses is hard. Communities can and should self organize if they want to own their spaces online. Be the change you want to see, if you really do want it.
Airdrop (AWDL) is open, within iOS and macOS at least, and P2P Matrix uses it :)
I'd be happy just to have the moving of wet clothes from the washing machine into the tumbler automated. But not even this science can provide. :(
You forgot the supercharger network and the battery factories. Hardware isn't software and those moats are harder to erode, especially for something the size of, well, a car.
Pretty sure Telsa’s reign is already over outside the US
you are right, I spotted a couple more links being broken. They should be fixed now. Thanks!
I'm absolutely sure banks store passwords in plaintext more often than not. But then one particular bank takes the cake. There, I have:

- The usual login + password, the password length is limited of course

- The "secret questions" to confirm some actions. In reality these are just three extra passwords

- The code generator in the mobile app to confirm some other actions, for access to which you need a 4-digit pin code

Another bank is much more sensible in this regard but requires me to change my password every year. I hate it with a burning passion when there's any time component at all in user authentication.
“I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed the lawyer. “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another. “YES!!!” exclaimed the judge.
You and I are two datapoints. As we speak, there are millions of kids in UK without enough to eat. UK is a first world country, and this should not be happening.
My experience is it was relentlessly drilled in all early students
Is it? The Kia Telluride has been selling above sticker price since it was released a few years ago. The demand is high for almost all their cars.
Yes, but google also prevents someone with registering an account with the same name, and ignores periods when doing that check. But your post implied that they actually had the same email address, with the periods stripped?

So, it seems likely the other person still wrote their email address down wrong - but it wasn’t the periods that they got wrong. If this is the case, then I can’t see how there is anything google could do to fix this situation.

FWIW I have <first initial><surname>@gmail.com and get loads of email intended for <first initial><their middle initial><surname>@gmail.com, apparently they just keep writing it wrong.
So Tesla's enterprise value is $426.5 billion and VW's is $473.9 billion?

Regarding the "operating as a bank", are we talking about net debt? I'd guess that if VW loaned money to customers those loans would be assets, right? They wouldn't get the cash from the customer, but they'd get something that looks about as good for their balance sheet hopefully?
>For context Samba and NFS had historically been buggy or exploitable since the 90s.

Cool then let's put it into the kernel, another buggy software? -> right into the kernel, webserver? -> Kernel...oh wait we had that. Database? -> Kernel
I just checked your other apps on Pico8, how do you even get this good?
Why would you want to maintain Q4 sales at the expense of profitability unless it is to maintain stock price though? And as it's obviously having the opposite effect there's no good reason for doing that.
I would go with TypeScript plus Node.js, but that comes with some serious caveats. JavaScript always has been an extremely sloppy foot-gun kind of language, so you can make it do amazing things if you employ the proper safeguards on the proper foundation. That means a solid investment in training and infrastructure, not framework third party tool bullshit. I am building an OS on this, after all.

Except for arithmetic operations JavaScript has has reached execution performance parity with Java which therefore renders Java functionally obsolete, so there’s that.

By far the greatest limitations I have encountered with JavaScript (after doing everything right) is garbage collection on ultra high frequency operations and opinionated stupidity in the browser space. Don’t worry about the garbage collection until it becomes a provable problem for your application because by then you should have the resources to solve for those business concerns with binaries written in Rust, Zig, C, or whatever.

The browser stupidity impacts hiring maturity. Working in the browser, when done right, is no different than working in the file system because the backbone of everything is a big tree model, but most people are distracted by pretty colors and cannot see the forest for the trees.
It looks like this aims to be a replacement for people want to use an Android-based OS but don't want to rely on Google services, normally for reasons of philosophical objection to big tech's de facto surveillance capabilities. So presumably users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS, etc.

Also since Google is blocked in China, Firebase Cloud Messaging doesn't work there. Android has something like a 75% market share in that market. Some vendors have their own offerings (e.g. Xiaomi MiPush, Huawei PushKit) etc, I could buy that a popular centralised solution would be more attractive than doing N integrations.
This seems a bit outdated. There was a recent blog post by intellij Raider that showed that you can just compile to wasm by adding the wasi nuget package, no extra steps required.
There's been work combining GA's and Architecture search for neural networks, the main keyword to search is NeuroEvolution, with NEAT being one of the first "good" algorithms for that (though scaling it up is hard)
And without it can just bind socket then change UID
I am done. I give up
I'm writing this post because I'm done. I can't do this anymore. After three failed attempts at building a successful startup and spending time institutionalized, I'm giving up on my entrepreneurship dreams.

I tried everything - building an audience, making sure my product actually solved a problem, getting paying customers, and writing high-quality content and contributing to the community. But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere. My efforts were fruitless and I'm tired of trying. I barely had 20 followers, my substack and product blogs didn't get any signups, and while I did get a few upvotes (8) on Product Hunt once, I never had a paid customer. It was as if the world was against me and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress. I remember trying to interact and hype up my fellow indiehackers on Twitter, regularly engaging with their content, but no one ever paid any attention to me or followed me back. It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship. And even when I did get some attention, it was short-lived and never led to anything substantial.

But it's not just the lack of success that's getting me down. It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. But the reality is that it's not that simple. It's fucking hard and it takes more than just a positive attitude to make it.

I know I'm not alone in feeling this way. There are so many other indie entrepreneurs out there who are struggling and feeling like they'll never make it. If you're one of them, I want you to know that you're not alone. It's okay to feel defeated and to want to give up. But please don't give up. Keep pushing forward and don't let the failures define you. There's always a chance for success, no matter how small it may seem.

But for me, I can't take it anymore. I've hit rock bottom and I have nothing left to give. To all the indie hackers, hacker news, and Reddit readers out there, please don't be fooled by the false promises of digital nomad influencers. Building a startup is hard work and it takes time. It's not as easy as they make it seem and it's not for everyone. Don't let your dreams consume you like they did for me, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH AT ALL COST! Don't make the same mistakes I did and realize that entrepreneurship may not be the path for you. It's okay to admit defeat and move on to something else.
I want AI that separates the trash into plastics, metal, etc. so we do not have to do it (or for the people that cannot be bothered to do it).
We started using it on the project I work on because there’s no good build or dev tooling like cargo/go for OCaml.
wonder if Kotlin is ready for prime time...
I have such a bad impression of Ubuntu that reading the headline I fully expected it to be due to a conscious decision because of whatever business interest Canonical had that day.

Remember: apt install chromium does NOT "apt install chromium", it "snap installs chromium".
It’s not “nonstandard”, it’s wrong.
well, an ape ai cdn would be the best way to destroy the monkey jpg scam. Who would pay for them in that case?
sure. where do you draw the line?

mind- your own mind/post-it notes- you forget and you loose notes

offline- keepass- works. is safe. has not been broken

online- whatever SAAS- works but only pinky promise of being unhackable- can leak from beyond your own control.

your keepass could be hacked but they would require access to your device. you have control over that. you do not have control over lastpass servers
Happens to me at the end of every year
This is unbelievably bad. The "threat actor" (and anyone else the info is shared with on the hacker forums) now has copies of:

- Customer Names

- Company Names

- Email Address

- Billing Address

- Telephone Numbers

- IP addresses (from where customers accessed the service)

- Website URLs saved in LastPass vaults (LastPass doesn't encrypt the website URLs)

- Encrypted vaults

That is a massive privacy violation and a puts every customer at risk for massive automated phishing, blackmail, and doxing. They marketed the whole vault as being encrypted in their Zero Knowledge architecture(TM).

And LastPass probably knew since AUGUST and tells us the day before Christmas. Note to obfuscating, dense language in the blog notice. Specifically "unencrypted fields such as website URLs", implying other vault fields could have been unencrypted but they can't/won't say.

LastPass will not survive the pending customer exodus and class action lawsuits.

Seems like instead of spending Christmas with my family, I will spend it changing passwords for 100s of accounts.
The bar for car software is pretty low. Eg https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23508088/volkswagen-soft...
Really??? That sounds insanely insecure by design. If I tried to log in to a secure site and was redirected to a random site I'd assume I was the victim of a link backing attack and back out. Normalising this kind of behavior by a bank sounds like a very bad idea.
"I need to share files but can't spare 40MB of space for OS" is quite rare case tho
Almost certainly not in an FTTP configuration. BT experimented with that but the problem was that the ONTs were too expensive at the time to install one in each house. The way that they originally hoped to pay for some of the costs was by running television over the fibre (not internet access - the proposals did have some space for data but it was tiny by modern standards), effectively leveraging their telephone monopoly to become a cable TV provider as well. That's where all the talk about competition and US cable companies comes in. Having found and read some of the reports Dr. Cochrane seems to be rewriting history a bit to fit modern partisan politics.

In practice, BT did use something called TPON to run phone lines over fibre to some areas, but this was termiated in the street to analog-only narrowband over copper using hardware shared between multiple houses. This meant that people unfortunate enough to be in areas served by fibre often found they couldn't get anything faster than dialup well into the 21st century. In some cases BT actually ended up replacing this with plain copper runs back to the exchange so that customers could at least get ADSL.
Heh, thanks! I’ve been making games for 30 years and had a lot of practice. I’m a massive fan of fully integrated dev environments and started with AMOS on the Amiga, used flash A LOT, and now pico8. Having all tools in the same place fit me personally very well and I’ve learned to tackle the trade offs efficiently. I guess all the time spent is paying off.
Oh this is a trash ... I thought it was a keyboard icon that would allow me to setup a midi keyboard but was non-functioning.

Yeah adding a cable is a bit frustrating instead of just adding one when you click on a jack input (like in Reason IIRC).
Nearly every “relatable” problem in Seinfeld could have been solved if the characters could call and text each other on mobile
There are architectures with layers which can approximate MAXSAT [1] (or rather, an SDP relaxation thereof), but I doubt this is what OP was referring to.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12149
> corrupted politicians that gained too much power through socialism

Please explain how that works.
That’s not true…

VW Group and MG (and some of the other Chinese companies) are all producing EV’ in significant volumes

In VW’s case it’s split across multiple brands but in 2021 they produced ~600,000 cars whereas Tesla produced ~900,000 cars
well it's not really wrapping it if it's not escaped.

Regardless it is all trivial. Not sure what the point of that comment was.
>I knew how it works

I doubt that, given that you never tried it, nor drugs. No shame in not knowing, though.

Benefits are definitely exaggerated, the addicts, when not on the thing, or on the way to their next hit of the thing, love to apologize for the thing.

I'll be frank with my motivation to drink, it was to kill myself, and self-expression of that I'm so miserable that I'm killing myself. And getting drunk felt good. I think if you never yearned for that, that's healthy. I wonder if we could raise an entire generation in a way that everybody feels that way.
RL is an immense field with lots of sub-areas and for the vast majority transformers are not SOTA. I believe they're only state of the art for Offline RL and even then there are some caveats
The plotloop Machine – Stop-motion animations made with LEGOs and a pen plotter
I recently built an “Automatic #plotloop Machine”, named after the social media hashtag for these looping animations made of individually machine-drawn frames. It uses an AxiDraw pen plotter, Raspberry Pis, a camera, and a stepper-motor-powered LEGO Technic contraption as paper feeder. The article includes a video and provides a great many details covering all the hardware and software aspects of the project.
I got many, too. Some of those came from Polish services, so I'm guessing it's both changes to the law but also a "new year, new ideas" type of changes. We like to start anew.
I stopped using Docker desktop and just forwarded my Docker CLI to a VM’s TCP port the instant I found how it exported my Mac file system wholesale to the Docker VM. Never looked back, and these days I just use sshfs or VSCode to develop remotely (which works everywhere).
a real one could too, see Samsung or any toy e-scooters. There are however, and always have been, reputable third party companies that make replacement batteries.

Imagine how big the market is for cameras alone. Just a quick glance at Amazon shows you there are 2-3 companies that have nothing but good reputation for their 'fakes'
While a 25 PE is not unheard of at all, they have been up on much higher levels (190+ IIRC) before this price fall.
> Immediately we ran into a problem -- to fine-tune an OpenAI model requires a specific format of prompt-completion pairs:

From my understanding, you can leave the `prompt` empty, and just push `completion` with your text. That way you don't need to generate Q&A first.
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I think we can all agree that Cryptozoology is the crypto that Washington should be rethinking

/s
Tesla made more money than VW selling 10 times less cars in September 2022.
AFAIK Nvidia restricts which GPUs you can run in a datacenter, so you cannot buy, for instance, RTX 4090 and use it in a datacenter. You need to buy the datacenter, and much more expensive, cards.
A spinning gif is the main export function in picoCAD. Check the #picoCAD hashtag for some amazing models built by the community.

Animation is not built in, but you can exploit the fact that some function still work while exporting those spinning gifs to get some change. Ie undo movement, apply new textures, etc
For me, the usability of a password manager depends on convenient, secure password sharing that only seems possible with a hosted option of some sort. Granted, one or more of those options might be self-hostable, but that brings other complexities.
A moot point, most of us just buy batteries on street bazars and street repair shops, regardless of their actual quality.
There’s a built in exporter for OBJ/MTL, and the base format should be fairly easy to convert in to anything if you’re up for it. :D
Buy some property in the middle of nowhere and just put a bunch of panels on the ground.