skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still do things like client-side prediction with streaming, but imagine if you controlled all of the clients and could always trust them. You could have the actual simulation running in a big bunker in Ohio somewhere on entirely synchronous terms (<1ms node-to-node), with a bunch of "player" nodes geo-distributed talking to the shared simulation and operating with CSP.

The game concept itself can be engineered around vertical scale constraints. For instance, imagine flight routes in WoW. If the cost to take a flight was modulated by the system load in the desired target region, you could create a much more seamless way to make this work. Think about real-world flight routes and system demand... The determinism goes down a lot for the technology owner, but the effect is much more compelling to the end customer.
It's funny to watch the bar for what counts as quality AI continually and automatically rise so that the threshold for "good" is always "just a bit better than what we have today." DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and ChatGPT are absolutely astonishing. Ten years ago their outputs would be disbelieved by the entire field of Computer Science. 20 years ago they would have been called sorcery. Upon release they were way better than state-of-the-art, and blew away the previous quality bar.

No matter how amazing software gets, there's always someone out there reminding us that it's inadequate because it is not yet perfect.
> This or that restaurant or this or that regional manager could give them a fair wage

They do... usually by way of appropriate schedules or other logistics of the job which delivers access to the richest streams of tips. This is why the good servers follow them.

The conversation around tips and it's appropriateness is largely blind to the other aspects of the hospitality industry. Real people with real jobs responding to real stimulus -- it takes coordination on many axes to deliver a golden hour. The conversation of where on the scale from 0-20% to fall is all bourgeois.
I assume the point is that, like Lindsay Lohan [1], they have limited ranges of facial expression.

[1] https://lohanfacial.ytmnd.com/
Excellent comment, thank you for the additional insight. In my opinion - but feel free to ignore it - you either start such a project from within a university, a large company that then funds it all the way through (though the project can still get axed) or you bootstrap it whilst being extremely frugal. VC is an extremely bad match for such a project for many reasons, just when in the life cycle of a fund an investment is made can have a very large effect on the outcome.

Betty Blocks comes to mind, they are funded and Mendix eventually got acquired by Siemens so there are some examples of success stories in this space but also many failures and compared to those two this is a much more ambitious project and much more risky as well.

And I agree that you can't a-priori determine how much cash you will need but you can make sure that you either have plenty or nothing at all assuming that the finish line is achievable in the first place, which I'm not necessarily sold on.
Ah yeah, I had to add to CFLAGS for SDL2.
Not specifically related to Oracle Cloud itself, but I am curious how folks remain on the Free Tiers of these providers, such as Oracle Cloud, GCP, AWS, etc.

It seems, from a glancing review, all of these services structure the Free Tier to force an "on-demand" or "serverless" architecture, since the CPU-seconds and GB-seconds are always undersized for an always-on system (such as a traditional server or OCI container).

For hobby projects or book exercises, the Free Tiers can be enticing, but seem like a gateway into surprise billings. What do you do if you require a few OCI containers at the same time?

How do you folks do it? Is everyone just doing "serverless" these days and I'm old fashioned?
> ... wont attract VC $$$

because of clone cache coherencey issues?
Although I like most of the posting, some thoughts:
First of all, we think with all inventions we have excluded human beings from being required. In the end we get more efficient, but we still need workers. The trend though is to go to core business and standard following the industrialisation, I see ai as an opportunity to have more custom and service driven business on an industrial scale though, that is the real promise. This can start with service desk providing service rather then unusable rubbish ad they do now.
For the art and text: this industry is relatively new, and came with internet and PowerPoint decks. And yes, probably this will be impacted by ai, but do we really have to be sorry for that? We will have the same page filling nonsense created by ai, that is now created by cheap labour. Look at recipe sites, all kind of crap to make recipes into content so the copyright is somewhat addressed, but nobody reads that anyway.
As for all other changes we have had before: there will be some impact on business and life as we know it, but not as much as anyone expected upfront.
I did, especially around +listdll, and made me wonder whether going to native vs builtin would do any difference, I'm slowly getting more to know it, as in the past only used it to launch a game or obscure windows thing on Linux, but now I need to know more about it.
Not sure why this was downvoted. I’m an unabashed Rust apologist and everything in here is reasonable.

`as` casts are generally a code smell, but they’re sometimes the best (or only) way to accomplish a task. This can absolutely make it more challenging to identify correct and incorrect examples at a glance.

And Rust is awesome in that you can use explicit numerical operations that wrap, panic, saturate, etc on overflow. But there is no clippy lint (that I know of) to make sure you use them (which I would love).
> some police officers have done bad things all police officers are bad

The flaw here is that there are countless examples of one police officer doing something terrible, and an entire department rallying around them in support. Or the opposite - like Adrian Schoolcraft attempting to blow the whistle, and being terrorized by the NYPD as a result.

The police generally do suck, and in the US at least they cost a lot of money and do little good while also doing some pretty shitty things and getting away with it. That's going to lead a lot of people to hate them for life, and it would take a herculean effort to reverse that. This is why I wondered if there's maybe a family/friend connection, because while I’m
not exactly screaming for the abolishment of the Police altogether, I do think it's sort of absurd to come out swinging in defence the police as the exist in many countries
Thanks for adding the clarification, I intended to say quarterly revenue but missed it.
So … Unreal? ;)
>Is there anything resembling evidence that the current system of incarceration selects the "kinds of people" to whom you refer

The National Crime Victimization Survey?

I mean people always try and say that the FBI crime stats are wrong/falsified/whatever but I rarely if ever see any attempts to debunk the NCVS which corroborates the FBI crime numbers.
It's literally about having power over people, which is coming through the monopoly on violence, which is being exercised by scanning mail.
there's a gpt arc?
I don’t think Levin is a crank. He went on Lex Fridman’s podcast and talked about his bioelectricity work and morphogenesis. Like you said, I think people who don’t know much about development took that to be the whole story, when in reality it’s just one academic doing what academics do best: talk about their own work.

Edit: one small quibble with your comment is that it’s too reductive to say that morphogenesis is all encoded in the DNA. It’s really an emergent property of the whole system. Like DNA is only a few billion base pairs, which is not nearly enough to store the precise positions of every cell, much less every protein.
I dunno…. Hooks are something I didn’t ask for. The good news is that the React team seems to have painted themselves into a corner so development is slowing down and they won’t be introducing more bad ideas.

In principle I like the virtual DOM and how you can use components much like in WPF or Java FX but React does not have a good story for complex applications where data flows sideways, not just up and down.
> programmers often get mad because the "spec isn't complete"

> Of course the spec isn't complete, if it were complete, it would cover every edge case and be as complex as the code.

Fair, but triggering nonetheless because I've definitely seen this argument used as an excuse for why there was basically no spec aside from "an iPhone app used to rate beer" and that there is some kind of value in such a contribution that couldn't otherwise be found by pulling in random strangers from the street and asking them about cool things they wished that computers could do.
Interesting, and I'd love to see some more demos on "traditional" music (Symphonic/Orchestral, Jazz, Beatles, etc.). I'm sure the the highly synthetic and "pure" music used in the demo video sure leads to a fairly coherent visualization as compared to more natural/acoustic sources of sound.

Also, what about any stereo components? Capturing that in the visualization would also be nice.
Possibly worth mentioning that this is from 2016.
Have to agree. We punish violent crime and corruption lightly; nonviolent crime inhumanely unforgivingly. If there was no violence, threat of violence, fraud or corruption, the limit should be two years. If there was, the minimum should be much higher.
I like this as a user but it always throws me off when I see it in a Git repo, where I'd prefer the .sh extension to hint at what's inside the file.
Hehe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVr7gPjpqk
> They took data from so many outside sources that the “state” of the software could not be easily replicated at a later time.

Oh, I have fixed systems like those so that everything is deterministic and you can fake the state with a reasonably low amount of effort. It solved a few very important problems.

(But mine were data integration problems. For operations interdependence ones the common advice is to write a fucking lot of observability into it. My favorite minoritary one is "don't create it". I understand there are times you can do neither.)
I largely agree. I'd also say Why should a native app be allowed to store data permanently?

But it would be nice if the user could make this setting on a per-webapp basis.
Yes, please. I’m pretty sure Calvinism says that everybody is corrupted by sin (not just prisoners) and that everybody is in need of God’s grace.
There’s certainly nothing about celebrating when something bad happens to somebody.
Sure, but in terms of how a non-technical user feels, I suspect that "it's still there, but trust me that nobody can access it" isn't as comforting as it just not being there at all. Thus an incentive exists.
Why not run it from your home network? You're likely already paying for home Internet, and since most of the access will be local, it'll be neither slow nor will it cost anything.

Don't forget that running your stuff and putting your data onto servers belonging to big corporations means that even if they're not scanning everything the way Google scans your email, they can still access it, so it's better, but not worry free.
Wow, that's a bit scary to hear about. Maybe have 3 and test them monthly on a rotating basis.
Digitized mail is one more straw on the camel's back. It is an example of the deeper issue: the prison-industrial complex going backwards on rehabilitation, because it is following the bad incentives written into law.

Meanwhile, in Norway, the incarceration rate is 10x lower, while the 2-year recidivism is about 20% instead of the US's 50-60% [1].

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20100509171347/http://www.time.c...

Here's an idea: pay prisons a meaningful amount when people coming out of them stay out and/or get jobs. For example, a bonus each year for five years.

Another idea: penalize them for every death or recidivism.
Lol yeah, armed robbery is effectively the charge for someone that was totally willing to kill while robbing but due to circumstances did not need to. That should not be considered a light crime.
I just earned my first revenue from ChatGPT and other observations
Didn't know you can make $$ from play with ChatGPT
Same! I rarely use it anymore, but was always very pleased at the Deckset functionality.
Is there a canonical Markdown specification now? A machine readable grammar? Last I looked, Markdown was a bunch of almost-compatible interpretations based on lore and opinion.
ZipFly 6.0.5
> ... problem not solvable currently ...

pre or post order traversal of copyright/trademark?

perhaps switch heap stacks?
Honestly, I don't see any value in it, I already have the chat prompt and just type inside it the question instead of googling and be redirected to “gptoverlow”.

Maybe can be useful if actual humans validate/fix ChatGPT response, but in this case probably better to put effort to fix response directly in ChatGPT.
They’re talking about it to the reporters? How is it not a known issue at this point?
Yes. `any` really does turn off all type checking. You see that offhand mentioned in this article talking about some of the paradoxes of `any`. `unknown` is still type checked and is arguably "merciless" type-checked that to do much of anything with an `unknown` you have to check for a more specific type first or the compiler returns an error that what you are doing isn't known to be valid for `unknown`.

Some of that happens "automatically" at this point in the large number of ways that types can now be narrowed implicitly in Typescript (type guards [library functions], type asserts, the `typeof` runtime operator, the `in` runtime operator [as of recently], etc), so it can feel like `unknown`/`any` are the same up to a point, that point being where the runtime type is trivially known based on if statements and library functions around your use of the type.

(Fun fact: `any` predates most type narrowing and `unknown` by several major Typescript versions. So `any` beyond just being the final "escape hatch" from type checking is also something of a legacy tool.)
OK. Now what?
The democrats make just as much money on private prisons and defense contracts as the rest of them. It’s their business!
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The only caveat we have with Racknerd is the lack of support as a terraform provider. Racknerd uses Solus, and unfortunately, we did not have access to the admin APIs, such as reinstalling instances. To solve this, we made a playwright library that automated installation and maintenance tasks on the Racknerd Solus control panel.

For Swiftpoll production, we went with a Contabo instance in their St. Louis data center. Contabo has support as a terraform provider with APIs to do just about anything you'd like. It works out of the box, and we didn't need to create anything hacky in Javascript, which we loved. Our only caveat is Contabo may charge "setup fees" when making changes to instances. Contabo costs about $9 per month and up.

We have been using Racknerd and Contabo for a year. So far, we did not encounter any problems. We keep our hosting costs under $50 a month. Downtime with either provider is super rare, and I don't remember when the last time it happened was. Both providers offer generous bandwidth measured in terabytes.
Yes!

I felt reading the article that AI/ML vs "organic" content will become the difference between fine hand-crafted furniture and flat-pack Ikea stuff.

Sure, the flat-pack is better than nothing for a temporary apartment, but it is something to move beyond, not what we want to be stuck with for the rest of our lives and in all situations.

CERTIFIED ORGANIC AI-FREE POST
many of the porcelain commands are or used to be in perl/bash
DOJ files second antitrust suit against Google, seeks to break up ad business
Imagine a Stack Overflow where 10% of all answers look correct, but are actually completely fictional (as in, not misunderstanding the question, providing outdated information etc., but completely making up terminology and solutions) – without any cues to tell you which is which.
In my job, I only deal with Apple silicon chips
Super disingenuous. It's an "AI chatbot", by a company called "OpenAI", whose goal is to "make AI systems more natural". It's artificial, and it actually shows some forms of intelligence including chain-of-thought and understanding of natural language.

It's also clearly the most advanced AI product available to date. Meanwhile, I'm almost certain you have no problem saying a guard NPC in Skyrim has "an AI", so, eh.
Even us, users of IDN domains, still submit to the outdated and always present ASCII. Punycode is, after all, still ASCII and "real" UTF-8 characters are rarely and exceptionally seen in DNS.

It may be debated that with introduction of punycode, support for real accent and non ASCII characters was hindered.

https://pi.cr.yp.to/ experimented with UTF-8 in domain names before punycode and this will rarely ever work in the future, purely because now we have a half-solved problem with punycode and no one will bother to implement UTF-8 domains - it's would be ambiguous.
CSV isn't poorly specified, but it is mostly poorly implemented relative to the specifications that exist (Microsoft's products are some of the worst offenders for this). Data loss is not inherent in a text-based format, any more than it is in binary formats. The only difference being is that it's more difficult to produce or extract data from binary files. That's detrimental to information transfers and is why I would recommend specifically not to use binary formats.

JSON is much easier to validate and has similar ease of data transfer as with CSV. It can have minimal overhead as well if the data is stored as arrays (or an array of arrays).
Not necessary to delete it, just limit who can add you to the group

> The default settings allow for this, so you will want to change them. To do so, open the app and head to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Groups & Channels and check off My Contacts instead of Everybody. You can also exclude specific contacts (or include specific users who aren't in your contacts).

https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/977460
I also think "adoptability" should be a consideration. Perhaps AsciiDoc would be a slightly better fit, but every developer I know is already familiar with MarkDown and at the end of the day convincing people to write good docblocks is easier if they don't have to pick up new syntax.
I fully agree he earned punishment and it was a serious crime. (he says the gun was never loaded but that's neither here nor there). My question is the scope and breadth of the punishment and whether the system is about restitution and rehabilitation or pure punitive action. How do people come out after 10+ years having received no training, support or rehabilitation and step into a completely changed society from when they went in. Luckily, my brother in law has us to support him. Many don't have that option.

Is 12 years being enslaved for $1.25 fitting with another 3 on probation and in halfway houses? I don't believe it is especially when watching white collar folks steal millions, do infinitely more damage, and be released in 1/3 the time to pick up where they left off.

Ultimately, being forced into slave labor and having to pay hundreds per a month to talk to family despite research showing it's one of the best ways to drive good behavior and rehabilitation in prisoners, is cruel and unusual punishment even if the crime committed means the person is never getting out.

Even if we agree on the length of sentence, for someone who did work the entirety of their 12 year sentence, in roles that would have paid $50-70K a year to emerge still owing restitution on a paltry debt of less than a new car, is a travesty.
Hmm... most of my exposure to Microsoft CS papers was in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Perhaps things have changed, or maybe it was just the set of authors that I read. In any case, the layout was markedly different, and once my friend pointed out that it wasn't just in my head, that they weren't using LaTeX, it was hard for me to un-see.
An Amiga 2000 booting from MicroSD is not the same as booting Windows 98.

>Let's remember that 90s and early 00s HDDs are not remembered for their longevity, either (search for click of death).

My ~2002 drive was reliable enough. What it broke was a motherboard capacitor.
Thanks will take a look at these
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Nuclear bomb energy dissipates by the square of the distance from the center. As with all things non-linear, humans (including me) have a really hard time intuiting non-linear phenomenon. Since I don't live in any major city, I've found nuclear war to be much less personally terrifying after using Alex Wellers' NUKEMAP https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ .

That said, it would be absolutely devastating -- I merely don't fear personal annihilation in my current locale, or the need to even _think_ about a nuclear shelter.
there's still at least four marksdown that i can think of offhand, and likely far more.
Yeah the downtown commute part of transit was high use. But the intra/intercity movement was car based for everything else. Obviously with the downtown being a tumbleweed wasteland of hammer crazed people that’s not as much used. My impression of seattle public transit is a lot of double length buses with zero people inside, over provisioned because progressive transit folks thought the issue is not enough seating on the bus and it would go from empty to transit utopia with a doubling of seating capacity. Instead it’s just a bunch of absurdly large vehicles crowding small roads
ICYMI Riot makes players install a kernel-level driver to play games, so we might be witnessing the start of a once-in-a-decade cybersecurity Chernobyl.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855600
Garmin launches a new FDA-cleared ECG app
All of them. These computers are being thrown out, so none of those scenarios are happening.
Evasion training. How to stay out of jail (without changing your life).
> ... yes, I would rather read text produced by human beings, not because of its quality ... (snip) ... but just to defend human dominance.

One could make a strong argument that defending moral principles is preferable to preferring the underlying creative force to have a particular biological composition.

As an example, I don't want a system to incentivize humans kept as almost-slaves to retype AI generated content.

How can one tell the difference between all the gradations of "completely" human generated to not?
I guess it is more that AI doesn't struggle to create. Humans go through many emotions in the process of creating art. The outcome isn't as important and the appreciation that artists went through that grueling process and the outcome being what it is I believe is the response I'm trying to express.

So more to the human struggle of the production. At least for me.