skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how you and I think and it is how the Finnish and Japanese game makers think but it is not how Activision, Ubisoft, and EA think. At this point they've decided to disinvest in their legacy games. They are are intensely envious of the success of Genshin Impact which achieves AAA graphics and gameplay on mobile but they can't replicate its success because they are too afraid to take risks.

Despite the fact that mobile phones (ex. Apple) have not been improving since 2017 there is a perception of inevitability in the industry that phones will eat absolutely everything. They figure game addicts will switch to mobile games when their old hardware breaks down and they don't have a choice. (... they'll keep playing the same old games, the main thing you need is a decent game controller for mobile, there has to be an interesting story of why every company other than a big console manufacturer struggles to make game controllers that work -- look at the failures of Logitech, Steam, Google, etc.)

Clayton Christensen wrote this influential book

https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chan...

which may have been a bit too influential. He made the case that firms in industry after industry went under because they failed to invest in new technology because the new technology was not, at first, good enough to satisfy their legacy customers.

What we see now (Microsoft releasing a tablet OS for PCs in Windows 8, Facebook neglecting a very good monopoly business for dreams of virtual reality, ...) is firms frequently throwing their current customers under the bus in the name of what might be... Because they read that book and don't want to wind up like one of the case studies.

As it is now it is a form of corporate suicide and we are waiting for it to play out and have a B-school professor write a book about it. But when you look at this way many of the things that make no sense in gaming like GAME PASS and the many me too game streaming services are part of the strange spectacle of a game industry that is failing despite still-rising revenues. It's hard, for instance, to picture Nintendo coming out with a real sequel to the Switch for many reasons (e.g. they could make a console 4x as powerful... that costs 4x as much; who needs better platforms when you are just rehashing Diablo for the n-th time and CS:GO is still a leading game?)

It's enough to make me think I should quit playing games, go out for walk or pet a puppy or make some friends! Maybe more people will the way the industry is heading.
Simply, yes, it is a crutch for your mental math skills.

Should you do any of those follow ups? Seems like a judgement call. In my experience strengthening those fundamentals is important, but there are many occaisons where the point of the exercise (such as learning to write legible long form algebra) overshadows other possible benefits - making a crutch such as a pencil and paper, or a computer typing system, the appropriate call to make.

Please, when you pose 'absurd' hypotheticals, follow them to likely or reasonable conclusions. If you shit your brain off when the conclusion seems obvious but before evaluating you will frequently end up just asking reasonable (if somewhat obvious) questions.
Cookie pop-ups became so prevalent and full of dark patterns that I consider surfing the web highly unpleasant without appropriate technical countermeasures. (e.g. "I don't care about cookies" extension).

Unfortunately I haven't found a blocker for the recurring nag screens from Microsoft asking me to switch from a local account to a Microsoft account to log into Windows.
If you want analytical information then I could see a use-case for GPT-3. I was trying to sign up for health insurance and asked questions -- it didn't give good answers. Sometimes you need a human to help you with it -- so these tools will save money in the long run but not have the "street smarts".

Can I use an AI tool to tell me how to fix my bike? If I dunno much about bikes an expert has to look at it and tell me what's wrong..
The ChatGPT Prompt book by LifeArchitect.ai is where I saw it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17b_ocq-GL5lhV_bYSShz...
Is that including WhatsApp Business accounts (revenue positive) and the so-far limited roll out of WhatsApp payments in Brazil and India (revenue positive)?
The first two reference something where there's no strong evidence showing that it actually happened (it's more likely that it was credential stuffing-- using data from other breaches to compromise Disney+ accounts using the same passwords), and the third was Starwood Hotels (now Marriott), not Disney.
A couple more benefits to this approach come when you do code reviews and other developers on the team have an opportunity to provide feedback and are more aware of what docs are available.
> Why does this grind your gears?

For the same reason it ground Kurt Cobain's gears.

"He knows all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along. But he don't know what it means"

I always thought that was a bit condescending but it applies perfectly to chatgpt.
Well sure, but he's the one who should make the changes needed for people to get the healthcare they pay a lot of money for... and instead he's "protesting" against.. himself?

The protests, activism, and other stuff, that was once a sign of counter culture has become so mainstream that even the politicians do it... go out, wave some flags, take some photos, pat themselves on their backs, and go home and change nothing.

I miss the old times, when the establishment was actually afraid of countercultures, of people going against the mainstream... the current state, where the mainstream is acting as if it's against itself is bad for society, because it never changes anything.
Do you have a reference to as study that support your point ?
I guess that is a point in favor of this being a counter culture. It is my perception of history that venues that cater to counter culture tend to struggle financially, at least since the Reaganonics of the 1980s.
Unless you have a way to separate out what is attributable to forward investment vs current operating expense / revenue I don't think you can tell. Zuckerberg himself has painted a 10 year timeline on the investments they are making now.

To take it to a silly extreme, Apple has probably burned $14bn and hasn't released anything yet. So they have burned $infinity for every dollar they made. Does it make it a failure?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I haven’t checked the Armbian reference kernels, but they might fix some of your build issues.

But it was good to see you confirm one of my red flags about the board:

I have been looking for a good board to run https://github.com/pimox/pimox7 (I currently use my Pi 4 8GB for that, hosting a bunch of test LXC containers), and something faster that could boot off an NVME without hassle would be great. Looks like the Rock 5B isn’t it.
Many people used to use "the subtlety and rich contextual knowledge that humans bring" as an argument for why a computer would never beat the human chess champion, and then after a computer beat the human chess champion, they persisted in using it to argue that a computer would never beat the human go champion.
IIRC this is how QBasic worked back in the early 90s.

I wish I had found this little throwback (whether accidental or not) before it got fixed - though I definitely agree with the change.

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A cool trick is to go to system preferences and reduce cursor speed to the lowest possible. This way you make sure you're not working faster than what you're paid for.
Could you name some of those studies? I would be interested in reading them
https://youtu.be/KZX1YCmzHEw?t=109
Should've supported ab.duct.me as a domain.
The assumption here is that only grades will affect your lifetime earnings and other skills that you might improve through studying vs cheating won't come into play...

Some people can bullshit their way through life forever, but I've seen a lot of more bullshitters stuck doing entry level crap for a long time because their limits became apparent...
I'm always interested in seeing alternative solutions to this problem.
> (or the 737 is tiny)

A 737 is roughly that length and weight of a Blue Whale (North Pacific).
To get out of reading a long book -- if you want a TLDR or something. I see it as a tool to augment understanding -- bad actors will manipulate it to use to their advantage.

Teacher can't go around to each student to help with their understanding -- its not economical and each student is at a different level of ability.
Its a long standing conspiracy theory which is hard to prove or disprove without actually being apart of the team that worked on the mission. I figure that even the people on the team might have doubts.
> I am extremely wary of their quality control

I am curious to hear more about this. Do you have bad experiences to share?
> It's Assembly vs C all over again where folks have a hard time accepting that the easier path also leads to demonstrably better results. If I can do in 10 lines what previously required 50, that code I contribute is far less likely to have as many bugs or suffer from performance problems.

It's entirely unclear to me how compiled templates result in drastically less code. If we're comparing Svelte and React as frameworks, then sure, but your original comment specifically talked about JSX syntax being inferior to the alternatives. Templates require a custom DSL for control flow, iteration, etc, whereas with JSX you can use standard JavaScript. That also means that you can take third-party libraries that work on regular JS data structures, like objects and arrays, and apply them to JSX elements with zero fuss. With a DSL, you have to find a domain-specific version of the code you've already written in your head, and in some cases, it may not even be possible to create the same abstractions. This has its advantages, of course, but I strongly disagree with the notion that it's simply better.

For the record, I really like Svelte as a framework, but I can't honestly say that their decision to use templates has anything to do with that.
And then you get Xfinity canceling your internet without notice most likely. This is not a real solution.
Sure! I just asked ChatGPT to generate a poem praising Joe Biden's presidency. First try, no rerolls: https://i.imgur.com/sLujYJX.png

Here's a poem praising Donald Trump's: https://i.imgur.com/wk9JZpU.png
Just having the name "George Church" slapped on there means you can raise $30M and never have a way to make that money back in any way (e.g. revenue, or a business model)
It seems to me HK is passionate about enabling progress via technology. It's a tech board not a philosophy/sociology one and the limits on posting don't allow it to nicely transition to one.

I disagree with a lot of the pro-AI takes here while a being huge fan of AI but have never seen anything malicious or reductionist (other than the required in tech/IT separation from the impact of people losing their jobs because of the tools we create). My development and IT teams displaced many people while impacting exponentially more positively. Tech/IT people have to be dispassionate to that or guilt would prevent us from being effective.

Most of the pro AI people I have disagreed with have strongly humanist reasons for their position and they feel that they are promoting a boon for humanity while I am promoting leeching corporatist IP laws. I feel if we don't have a framework for rewarding creatives we will miss out on a ton of individual contributions that greatly benefit mankind.

As to lawyers, I went through the process. Lawyers are not acting on behalf of a human client. They are acting on behalf of least friction/average best outcomes. They care more about their relationship with a sitting judge and the prosecutors than with their client because those relationships can result in the most good, saving thousands of human years lost to prison, even if it might not result optimally for each individual client. I don't blame my lawyer for optimizing his resources for maximum outcome but I don't pretend that isn't what he is doing. American justice is a meat processing plant not a 'let 100 criminals go free to ensure no innocent man goes to prison' do anything it takes situation.
Citation heavily, heavily needed. Dynamic typing means that none of your code can be statically checked, which means that correctness relies on the exhaustiveness on your tests. It should be obvious that this would allow you to introduce more bugs, not fewer.

Every program involves passing around data. When you need to change that data in a dynamic untyped language, you have no option but to manually test your whole system to make sure that you nailed all the spots.

Compare that to a language like TypeScript. If I need to refactor my code, I update the type and the static typechecker immediately tells me all the spots I need to fix. I don't have to hunt for them, I don't have to run it 100x trying to hit every edge case. And JavaScript is still dynamic, it doesn't stop me from writing concise code.

This isn't theoretical. I literally just worked on changing something from a dict to an object in Python, and it was a pain. Thankfully most spots were documented with type hints, but even then I ran into many runtime errors that could have been caught statically.
It's the age of bullshit. And whats surprising is the focus is on generating/building bullshit, pointing it out or justifying it.

There doesn't seem to be a single person anywhere whose isn't caught up in this superficial gilded cage trap. Individuals need to rethink and reset their own compasses or where groups are heading is total meaninglessness.
Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future
Archived: https://archive.ph/VsLcv
> Many users are likely to click the first highlighted button without reading the message

Honestly, these are most likely the people who would benefit most from being dragged kicking and screaming into updating, lest they fall victim to randomware.
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Thanks. It wasn't showing anything for me at all, just a bunch of icons of planes. Much appreciated.
Yes, this has been a real godsend.
With all due respect, that kind of anger you have seems severely misdirected.

There's better targets for it than technology companies and their former CEOs.
What kind of AMD motherboards are you using? I need to have ARM hardware (porting software, etc.) but am interested in getting something x64-based I can stack (3-5 units) and that doesn’t break the bank (also, something that doesn’t require individual PSUs would be great).
Ask HN: Developers, what have you learned from product managers?
How has it changed what you do at work or on side projects?
Last time i went to the doctor it wasnt because of the goverment. Also having to deal with the law night be burdonsome. But without it most people would be off worse. And i rather pay my taxes then having no social systems, police, streets, etc.

Of course some parts of it could be improved, but the issues arent because of the goverment, rather by a very complex social system we live in.

But my experience might also be because i live in a direct democracy…
Well a lot of people are claiming that static typing reduces bugs compared to dynamic typing, but I haven't seen from them a shred of evidence of this.

When I go looking for myself what I found was studies saying that dynamic typing reduces development time by 2.5x and bugs per software feature by 2.5x.

So perhaps one of these people claiming that static typing reduces bugs over dynamic typing, could provide the slightest bit of evidence to backup their claims?

Is that too much to ask @spoils19?

But I'm pretty sure they will just find the exact same figures as me.
Oh nothing physically identifying, they simply ran a decades old democratic party fundraiser that backed numerous candidates over the years.

Not pointing at either political party, simply noting that sam knew to play the system his parents worked in their entire lives.
It's usually the filed flight plan (for instrument flights)
To be clear, you're concluding that Joe Rogan is mainstream, and thus nobody should care about his opinions?
> > where the student is being asked to produce bullshit

It depends on which subject? I have only good things to say about my college days. They are life changing. The rigorous training in computer science and maths has been paying dividend all these years. The professor in the writing class did not only teach me how to write, but also how to understand and appreciate literature. Even classes like Canadian Culture and History taught me so much about arts, literature, politics and history of Canada. I have a hard time fathoming in what classes will we write bullshit (yeah, I have some ideas, but I guess I was lucky enough that my school taught me how to love and appreciate the wonder of nature and civilization, instead of teaching me hatred to towards you know what).
Some of them didn't want to make the time commitment-- or partied. But a lot of smart students make then had old answers to tests especially in hard majors like the sciences. I think that counts as cheating.. they probably figured out they were giving canned answers or suspicious they arrived to answer right away.
Old Gawker had plenty of flaws and probably deserved the beating it got, but at least it was a unique thing. New Gawker had absolutely nothing special about it and no reason to exist. It was a cookie-cutter celebrity gossip rag using the old site’s name. There’s nothing even worth noting here.
Windows doesn't support changing the volume by scrolling when having the mouse on the speaker tray icon.

I miss that so much when I'm on windows and not on KDE.
You'll also be happy to hear this :)
https://twitter.com/robpalmer2/status/1620869647322189824

> ECMAScript excitement

> Congrats to Justin Ridgewell @vercel & @legendecas on advancing the "Async Context" proposal to Stage 1 at @TC39 today
In fact, despite years of buybacks, Meta's outstanding shares have been mostly flat.

Historically their buyback has only compensated for employee equity comp, not much more. That probably changes a bit going forward

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...
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We had an entire history of stupid errors (like field name typos), excessive test coverage (and associated maintenance burden) to catch those stupid errors, and everything breaking every time you upgraded a big framework (like Django) even with all of those tests in place.
You said there way no way to predict they could buy back so much.

But basing your expectations on 2021 would have done exactly that. So that argument is wrong.

If your real/amended argument is "no way to predict the level", as in predicting the exact amount, that's a much weaker argument that has barely any ramifications for investing. The specific amount is generally much less important than going over/under some threshold.
That's exactly what I'm saying. It's reasonable for teachers to give assignments where the resulting artifact is not itself of direct value to the subject matter, but where the only feasible way for the student to produce the artifact is via a process that is supposed to be of educational value. I'm just saying that when new ways emerge to produce that artifact which don't have the same supposed educational value to the student, the assignment itself needs to change.

I don't think your analogy to lifting weights or running is appropriate. A more appropriate analogy would be a physical education teacher who says "your assignment is to meet me on the other side of town in 30 minutes" because the only feasible way to get there is to run. Obviously the point is to get the physical activity, not to be on the other side of town. Then the bicycle gets invented, and suddenly it requires much less strenuous activity to get across town. All I'm saying is that it's vital for the teacher to realize that being on the other side of town was never actually the point, and to change the assignment so that students still get the intended amount of physical activity.
Some screens have enough vertical space—16:9 ain't included unless ginormous.
There isn't a 747 pilot on the planet making only $50/hr
matlab had a constant random seed around 2005, no idea whether they've changed it.
This is really a problem as well in Barcelona with theft under €400 not being criminalized.

Pickpocketing has just become a job. There are still fines but the gangs just write them off as business expenses. It's ridiculous.