skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > overjustification effect

> Fair enough but not a flaw.

...a lot of game developers want people to enjoy their games, either out of a sense of artistry, or just because enjoyable games attract players and make money. If you're considered implementing a piece of tech and it reduces the enjoyment players get from the games, that's a huge drawback that needs to be balanced out by a major advantage. If there is no such counterweight, then yes, it's a flaw.

> > There is no reason why a game would accept any non-worthless NFT object minted by a different publisher

> No reason? Surely you can be more creative than that.

I mean, we've been talking about the idea for years now, and no one has articulated a single plausible reason so far, but...

> Duping though is not a practical concern. NFT contracts have stood the test of public interest and time.

The concern isn't duplicating an NFT, eg, when it is transferred, it's about incorrectly minting too many NFTs if they're being minted by in-game actions.

Imagine if you, say, kill a boss that drops rare loot and it mints an NFT for each drop. A replay attack against a poorly coded game server might mint multiple NFTs as if you had actually killed the boss multiple times. A traditional game architecture makes this easy to rollback.

More broadly, if you've ever played a large MMO, you might have noticed that there's a fair amount of support requests to resolve things like: "I killed the boss, but a bug meant I didn't get loot" or "I accidentally sold a piece of loot and I want it back" or "I picked up a piece of loot that cannot be traded, but I meant to let my friend pick it up instead, can you transfer the item to them" or "I finished a quest that gave me a choice between two items, but now I've changed my mind" or "my account was compromised and all my gold and items are gone". Popular games have good customer service, which routinely resolve all those issues, hundreds or even thousands of times a day.

If loot is represented by NFTs on a blockchain, and the blockchain is the actual source of truth, then none of that can be done, certainly not easily, and in most cases at all.
Is this a change? Students being afraid of being “wrong” in front of the class isn’t new.
Yeah good question. To add to the confusion, this paper published PNAS says "2.83 ± 1.0 t of CO2-equivalents per capita". Per capita is different from per household but might be a better metric

It also states that using just national energy statistics (this study actually analyzed 93 million households instead) you'd arrive at 3.19 t CO2 per capita which falls in line with their results

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922205117
Ask HN: Looking for a first customer for a time blocking web app
I've made a webapp for time blocking, because none of the project-tracking/todo-list apps I've seen really let you see your active projects alongside your calendar.

I like to think of it as a way to budget one's time. We budget our money, why not our time?

At the moment it's pretty basic, essentially just a proof of concept, but you can play around with it: www.timeblocker.dev

What I'm looking for is a first user/customer, or maybe a couple if there should be so much interest! I'm looking for someone who can give feedback and help set the direction for the product.

You will get all features free forever! No matter what pricing level we end up implementing, as our base customer I value your feedback more than anything else, so you will always get free access, even if you're no longer giving me feedback.

I guess HN doesn't have DM's so just say you're interested and leave your email in your profile and I'll reach out to you.
It doesn't appear to be merged yet in any of the 6.2 RC's from what I can see =/

I am eagerly awaiting its release as a DB enthusiast and lifelong Postgres user
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, Z3, Coq, NixOS

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: whiring8891af@pm.me

I have 20 years of experience as a software engineer. I recently obtained a PhD from Oxford. I am mainly interested in engineering complex systems, formal methods and verification. I am familiar with model checking, static analysis, abstract interpretation and theorem proving. I have developed several official packages for NixOS/nixpkgs and have contributed some bugfixes.
Go1.18 and Go1.19 have slower compile times comparing to Go1.17 even for codebases, which do not use generics. For example, VictoriaMetrics [1] - the project I work on, which is written in Go without generics.

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/
Nowadays, there's lots of tooling around for nested data, like roomba [1] or the list-column workflow enabled by purrr and dplyr [2].

[1] https://github.com/cstawitz/roomba
[2] https://r4ds.had.co.nz/many-models.html#nested-data
I am absolutely no expert in publishing. I have not claimed to be such! I am attempting to point out a blind spot you seem to be missing w/r/t a website acting within their moderation guidelines.

There is nothing stopping you from sharing your cruft (and bait titles) on other platforms. If you want to share it here, play by the rules or take your precious text elsewhere.

Your casual appeal to (your own) authority is juvenile. Not surprised this is your first 15 minutes of fame. Let us all hope it is the last.
>> I read posts from a schizoid that claimed to have evidence that the government was influencing his life through the ratings of popular animes on My Anime List.

This was called trolling for the lulz, you fell for it, & seem to have not realized even 15 years later.

Schizoposting as a fun pasttime has been a thing for users of 4chan/online forums forever. Go watch some South Park episodes centered on Gerald Broflovski trolling. Can’t remember which season off the top of my head. It may help you to understand if things don’t click.

Anecdotally, actual schizophrenics tend to post endlessly into their own little void on traditional social media, often not slightly being aware of or caring that they have either absolutely zero engagement or anybody seeing their profiles at all.
Even with multiple approval. One has to started this, with everyone in the approval chain to agree this homage is worthwhile to do.
Another technique I've read about is "block" floating point. In many problems like signal processing or physics simulations, the order of magnitude of the data is often close to each other within a region. Instead of giving each float its own significand and exponent, they can be grouped together and shared to save some bandwidth or space in a hardware implementation for real-time processing. Unfortunately it's often not very suitable in software, as the non-standard word size is awkward to handle.
I had to take some weird psychometric assessment (GIA/PPA) for a software engineer position
I'm still waiting for someone to give us the next generation beyond VLSI.

SDSI, for Super-Duper Scale Integration, maybe.

Anyway: Fourth-Generation languages were "Steal ideas from Lisp", Fifth-Generation languages were "Steal ideas from Prolog", so Sixth-Generation languages will be "Steal ideas from everyone the ML model was trained on". Github/Microsoft is ahead of the curve on this sort of thing, as usual.
Wikipedia itself defines 2.0 as social. What you call social is the commercialization of social (algorithmic social?), that might be how it's understood today, but then the main idea was user generated content, at least that's how they sold it. But yes, they also used "dynamic vs. static" that, like I wrote in the previous comment, was already in use... it's like they were conflating everything new and good vs. the old and bad. Actually it was very confusing, round corners... almost is right, no wonder they've chosen 3.0 to sell this new gold rush.

Edit: I'm afraid I'm taking for granted that people remembers this, but it's possible that a good portion of you weren't even born. Web 2.0 was something like "you should adopt the Web 2.0 ways in your web presence" being sold to all kind of companies. You have an online shop? You should include a support forum where users can share their experience with your products. In other words: a "web page" is not enough, you need the whole pack. Sometimes it made sense, sometimes it didn't. As with many of this trends, it used to sound a little cult-ish at times.
> I use my toothbrush every day but I wouldn't pay $20 per month for it.

Are you serious? If you had to pay $20 per month to brush your teeth you would stop doing it?

This would be the fast track to dentures by the time you're 45.
Eh, it's an opinion that I'm not inclined to spend time or effort backing up. I do agree that if I did actually back it up, of course the post would be more valuable. Instead, I'll be lazy and say read the essays and judge for yourself, you might disagree! I'm also of the opinion that if you have even a passing familiarity with any "soft" science (communications, sociology, philosophy, literature) you'll likely find at least one essay that makes you agree with me.
I give this service an A rating. It has low fees, comparatively. Make payments on time = good service.

As for when someone doesn't make a payment, they reserve the right to retry as many times as they want at arbitrary intervals like every single day.

What I am giving credit for is that although the user may rack up NSF fees from their banks, the user will NOT rack up fees from the credit provider, as far as I can see from the TofS.

Relevant selections from TofS:

Debit and Credit Card – Payments made by debit and credit card will be subject to the terms and conditions established by the card issuer. If charges cannot be processed through your debit or credit card, or if your bank draft or electronic funds transfer is returned for insufficient funds, you will be responsible for any fees incurred and Zip will have no liability with respect thereto.

(c) You are responsible for ensuring that you have sufficient funds in your bank account or available via your Card on File to make Automatic Payments on the dates specified in your Billing Schedule. To the extent permitted by applicable law and in accordance with any other agreement provided to Zip authorizing Zip to debit your Card on File, you authorize Zip to satisfy any monetary liability you owe Zip by: (i) debiting your preferred Card on File on file with Zip at a later time or date; (ii) debiting any other Card on File of which you have provided details; or (iii) any other legal means.

(e) You agree that you grant authorization to Zip to make the transfers from any of your bank account(s), debit card(s) and/or credit card(s) to fulfill a missed or late payment and any associated fees. You give Zip the right to resubmit any transaction you authorized that is declined, dishonored or returned for insufficient or uncollected funds or any other reason.

You also agree that if you fail to pay any amount owed to Zip pursuant to this Agreement, Zip may engage in collection efforts to recover such amounts from you. These collection efforts may involve contacting you directly, submitting your information to a collections agency, or taking legal action. We may report information about this Agreement to credit bureaus. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on this Agreement may be reflected in your credit report.
Think that's why they also have built Pipedream.com (not affiliated)
I don't think splicing dodo genes into pigeons is quite the scientific and engineering moon shot that you think it is. It would be a very big deal. It would not be the precursor to the genepocolypse. Biochem and MCB undergrads do cloning experiments.
Stocks are priced on future events
Despite the clear advantages of the MoR model for many small and growth businesses there is still little competition in that space. Paddle is always the one that comes to mind because there are so few alternative resellers catering for the same merchants right now. The lack of a vibrant, competitive market for MoRs is a significant risk that has to be weighed against the advantages.

But in 5-10 years I won't be surprised if Paddle is the new Stripe because of that. It has the same feeling of being a disruptive upstart but solving a real and significant problem that Stripe had at the start. And with the way the political winds have been blowing in much of the world I can only see that problem becoming more significant for more businesses over the next few years.
Nations in foreign military sales programs are briefed prior to purchase. The contents of those briefings are usually classified.
I host an old blog on netlify. I don't update it anymore, but a few months ago I started seeing a large uptick in subscribers. They were all subscribing through the netlify subscription form. It was around 8 to 10 new subscribers a day where before it was one every couple months. I emailed several of the new subscribers and got no response. After a few days I strongly suspected these were not real subscribers.

But why would someone waste their time adding a few subscribers to my old, non updated blog everyday? A couple weeks later I got an email from Netlify saying that I was being upgraded to a payment plan because of the amount of activity on my Netlify hosted form.
Could you provide a few links to popular open source projects, which switched to generics and got better code because of this?
I'm talking about her contribution towards general theory of relativity itself, not her other creation of Noether's theorem
Another problem is the difference of pressure between the cold and hot water tubes. It's usually not to much, but I remember than in one hotel the difference was so big that if I opened both taps normally, I only got cold water. Moreover, the cold water entered into the hot water tube, so after closing the cold water tap I got only cold water coming from the faucet for a while. The solution was to open the hot water tap completely, and make a tiny turn in the cold water tap.
By that reasoning we shouldn't be using higher level languages like Python and Java that use more memory, and consume more power for the same workload as code written in assembly. 6502 assembly FTW!
Then why fire so many people?
There is a variant on the halo effect which explains a lot of this.

We have a tendency to choose sides. Once we do, we easily remember the good things about our side, and have a hard time believing the bad things. This is exactly reversed for the other side. It takes active work to remain balanced.

So if you're on the side of technology, it is easy to talk about all the ways it improves our lives. And easy to discount the environmental impacts. Conversely if you're opposed to technology, you can easily quantify the harms. But will have an unduly rosy image of the benefits of natural things.

Likewise it is hard for those who have lined up with web3, crypto, and so on to even hear well-informed and reasoned skepticism.
I always thought it was perfectly intuitive that "random" wasn't really random on a computer.
Would love to see the GP video, but [2] is points to an unrelated video.
Public defenders are underpaid and overworked and could benefit from such tools in order to serve more clients.

My wife has a legal background and has thoroughly convinced me that these tools are not going to be allowed in a court room any time soon and not explicitly because it is “AI” but for many other procedural reasons. Of course a public defender could still use such tools for the near endless paperwork produced outside of the court room required of their profession!
C-Suite is not to be named.
Er...trading items between players is a core part of basically all MMOs, many ARPGs, some TCGs, etc. It's a huge thing in many games, including some of the most popular games on the planet.

...none of them use or need NFTs or a blockchain, and in every instance I know of, the existence of such would be actively harmful.

For a blockchain to make sense, you need a number of factors, probably chief among them that there is no single trusted entity that can run the DB. For bitcoin, that makes (some) sense. There is no Bitcoin Inc that could plausibly track the balance of every BTC wallet, after all!

For World of Warcraft gold it makes no sense; Activision Blizzard is already running a centralised database of how much gold every player has, and every player WoW has obviously trusts Activision to run the DB, just like they they trust them to run every other aspect of the game (eg, content creation, balance tweaks, competitive content, etc.). WoW (like any MMO) is an extremely tightly curated experience.
We don’t even have a good definition of sentience.
They meant that the person doesn’t have enough to maintain the minimum balance in the account.
The Signal: You do not carry a Phone.

You definitely do not carry a smartphone. You might be excused a flip phone, if only because you’re not likely to b super-connected with it, but honestly that’s pushing it; even the most primitive cellphone has sms.
52% APR. And this is something people want to use to buy pizza and fast fashion?
it could also be used to snatch enemy satellites from orbit - that's how we got the capability to repair the Hubble space telescope. Snatching satellites from space was a big deal, you could potentially get rid of a space based early warning system. i guess that potential must have made some Soviet planners quite nervous(or eager), as it would imply first strike capabilities.
on MacOS, caffeine is a good tool but if you need it in dock (pill?) form, the amazing Amphetamine app is there for you. It'll even (if you use safari) keep you up just long enough to finish that big download. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12

on Windows, the process involves taking a Power Request. A Display power request keeps the display awake, and is the overriding above most all else. It's trivial to do with a little PowerShell ( https://blog.backslasher.net/windows-awake-ps.html ) though the fine folks at Microsoft have included it in their standard set of PowerToys as Awake: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake

Last I remember, this keeps you from having a screensaver come up.
Gathering space: The Men’s Shed
Is personal thanks a useful metric in this case?

People give thanks to prosperity preachers for their spiritual guidance even as they sit hungry watching the preacher drive away in his Bentley purchased with the money they tithed.
The advice at the end is bad. Code-based 2FA is bad. Use a password manager, and use U2F hardware security keys.
A better example would be my ability in strategy games such as checkers, chess, bridge, et alia. I'm generally worse at such games than most of my friends, none of whom have any special training or aptitude for strategy games.
> The question in my mind is, what replaces the 747, and is it safe? Looks like 777X is going to replace 747.

The 747 has been replaced for passenger service for decades. This isn't the first time production has been halted. The 777 has been around since the 1990s. With the 767, 777, and 787 there's really no need for the 747 anymore, especially for passenger service.

> Does the 777X have the same design flaws as the 737 MAX, namely larger engine, positioned forward in way that destabilizes the airframe?

In a word, no.

The 777X looks more like the 737NG vs the 737 Classic. It's stretched and has new wings, but the engines on the 777 were already massive. The 777 started with 330cm diameter engines and the new ones are 335cm. Given the gear arrangement on the 777 I doubt they had to move the engines forward.

Further, the 737 MAX crashes weren't directly caused by moving the engines, it was more caused by MCAS and a lack of training and explanation. Boeing tried to make the 737 MAX feel like a 737NG, but the plane itself wasn't inherently unstable.

The 777X does not have MCAS:

> Boeing stated that the 777X does not have an equivalent of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that is installed on the 737 MAX and that played a role in two crashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
This argument is equivalent to saying "Someone told me that Russian Roulette is dangerous, but I didn't die when I played it, so they're wrong."

Systematic risks are still risks even if they don't manifest and if you want to argue Paul Graham is wrong you have to argue why the risks aren't risks.

(I don't know what risks he pointed out, so I don't know whether I think he's right or not)
> ChatGPT is general AI. It perform actions in a class requiring abstract thought which previously only humans were capable of.

Fundamentally disagree with you there. This is a natural language model, it is certainly not an AGI. That's why it gets things wrong so often. When humans converse with each other, there is a pattern to it, and this AI is simply very good at mimicking that pattern.

To our ape brains who have only ever known how to judge sentience by how well something communicates, it presents as very life-like. And there are phenomena happening in that network that might even be considered "thought". But it's not an AGI, just a building block toward one.
I would really love an easy way to cron job a collab worksheet.
Post title should be "Al Dhafra Solar Project, Abu Dhabi".

From the posting guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "
Ask HN: Receiving Offers for My Companies
I'm running a private software company in a very niche ( and localized) space, with just a handful of staff. We achieve at most arithmetic growth at our revenue. I don't foresee that anyone would be interested in acquiring my company precisely because it's very niche and localized and doesn't have the kind of hockey stick growth that a buyer would salivate at.

But then, I received an email out of the blue today, reproduce here ( with names redacted):

~~~~~

We are part of a large publicly traded company with a market cap of ~USDXX B+ that operates on a ‘hold forever’ principle. My understanding is that your company serves as a niche solution in the software space. I’m reaching out to express our interest towards your business and also introduce ourselves

So far, we have acquired hundreds of businesses that operate autonomously across the world with a presence in numerous software verticals. We operate these businesses in a decentralized manner which means that they are still being run and operated by their original management teams and employees where it makes sense for them, with our backing, capital and expertise. At this point in time, I am hoping to get in touch with you and possibly start discussing any exit plans, whenever the timing is right for you, now or down the line in a few years.

~~~~

I don't quite understand why people would want to acquire my company, especially if they know about the nicheness of our space ( and judging from the email, they do). When it comes to M&A, shouldn’t they focus on companies with great growth prospects ( like social media in the early days), or the ones in their adjacent fields that they can contribute meaningful expertise and opportunities to (like Autodesk acquisition of PlanGrid)?

Could this be a scam?

What do you think? Anyone had such an experience?
That link admits that the compiler performance was lower than needed in Go1.18 and Go1.19, because of generics, even when compiling Go code without generics. I can confirm this based on my own open source projects written in Go [1].

[1] https://github.com/valyala/
I kinda figure that if I'm gonna look ridiculous in photos either way, why not bias for being ridiculous in ways that appear intentional instead of accidental?
I’m wrong, you have to click the “here” link in the middle of the light-grey text, which brings you to a page describing the analytics services they use. You then need to click the “cookie settings” button, then click the “details” accordion button in the modal, uncheck all of the options EXCEPT “convenience” as that’s used to store your cookie preferences, then click ”confirm selection”

That’s a lot more commitment to dissuading disabling tracking than normal, bravo outdooractive.com.