skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See: any game by Bennett Foddy. It feels like he invented this (brilliant) genre. YouTube is full of hilarious videos of people trying to play QWOP and Getting Over It.

I suspect this genre could only exist in today's streaming/screencasting world. These are games you don't exactly want to play, you just want to watch someone else play.
Will it be as censored as Chatgpt. I asked something like who are the tallest celebrity in a country and it responded that personal attributes are off limits
Umm, people are definitely are flocking to Columbus OH and it's probably because of jobs, it's one of the fastest growing cities in the US. GP was saying they're not going because of architecture, orthogonal to whether they're net migrating or not...
What are other good non-video resources ought we to go to for an introduction?

"Workload Isolation with Aurae Cells" is the only previous submission with Aurae in the name[2]. It's been a while since I checked in. Are there notable direction changes or ideas that have arisen since inception?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33332711

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=aurae&sort=byDate&type=story
Sarcasm: until we had publicly funded schools, what else was the urban working class going to do with their children all day long? Putting them to work made sense in a "making the ends meet" sort of way.
Ah, good point – Apple has this too, on iOS [1]!

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...
> However the article is stuck in the trope that Republicans are all theocratic bumpkins that despise knowledge; I can’t take that seriously as characterizing your political opponents as evil or stupid is the oldest form of propaganda.

If the shoe fits /s

But seriously, trying to restrict education is what republicans are trying to do. There’s no way around that. They’re limiting what can be taught for some sort of political gain. Not every republican voter is a bumpkin of course, but a large chunk of republican state legislators are fighting very public battles to rewrite textbooks. Some of which have a religious bent, implicitly or explicitly.

At face value, yes looks a misunderstanding over the word “theory”. But is it, or is it using this vague definition to disrupt science? Why was this bill introduced at all, that’s the real question. Does the senator think that students should spend more time in science learning about gravity instead of magic… or perhaps less time on “the theory of evolution”.

The bills sponsor explicitly is anti-vaccine and pro-Christian-education, and has said that more of “religious facts” should be taught in school. So I would guess this was not an honest mistake to force schools to teach “real facts” instead… but to exploit scientific nomenclature of “theories” to interrupt honest and accurate education.
They won't be dead, but pay attention to cash flows and market cap.

I'll also give it 24-36 months to play out.

It's too early for me to start buying puts, but I'm very eager to start. It's not just my investment thesis, but my worldview.
Bump Reliability Is Challenged by Latent Defects
It's an interesting thought, but I don't know how you "normalize" it if companies find that they are more profitable paying managers more.
This is true for celiac. We have evidence that it's been around for at least a couple of thousands of years, and people died from it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15128
Kyoto isn't really a LCOL area either.
I wonder if employee bonuses were cut to 0 as well.
> If this were in the US or UK, Perry would likely be hated...

The context you are missing is that the forcible opening of Japan led to the overthrow of the Shogunate and advent of the Meiji era, which was/is seen by most Japanese as a very good thing.
This is way more optimistic about my house compared to other websites that provide other information.
It will never happen because people will predictably abuse such bots in various gross ways, and the moment it leaks to the press, there will be a "think of the children" scandal.
I read your cite. I don't think it showed there's much of a difference beyond "I said so".
I've alluded to this before on Hacker News, but the supposedly residential road that I live on is wide enough to fit approximately 7 full-size Hummer H1s side by side. The posted speed limit is 30 mph, and just riding with my elderly father-in-law today I noticed he was going 45 mph and being tailgated. I have personally lost a (thankfully parked and unoccupied) car to a collision, which wound up 100 ft down the road from where we left it. Many garbage cans have also fallen victim over the years.

Calculations and considerations are all well and good, but when the rubber hits the road, wide straight roads will lead people to reason that it's fine to drive fast. I'd much, much rather have people think it's a pain to take my road because it's too skinny than to have 50-60 mph traffic accidentally kill my son or my neighbors when they choose to go outside.
Scientific facts do not exist, unless of course we become Gods.
> It's like discovering that bidet exists or something.

They're known and readily available in the US, but never really caught on, even during and after widespread toilet paper shortages in 2020.

Probably California would ban them anyway along with toilets that actually work.
Ugh, one line of code. like that's supposed to impress us all.
classic example of moving the goalposts
Duckduckgo. Not because the search is good, but because it works behind any proxy. Google's captcha bullshit is not worth the mediocre results.
As much as I hate Apple's walled garden, I have to admit that the inability to do this is the only thing stopping Google from having complete dominance in the Web browser space.
I know these companies keep posting crazy numbers and make wild pre-sale money, but I do wonder how many people are like myself who:

(1) play video games with friends most weeks

(2) buy new games regularly

(3) have not purchased a game over 40 CAD since I was in high school, with the average being closer to 20 CAD.

My friends and I just don't have the appetite to drop 80 CAD on new releases, and just play other games until the big releases go on sale, which usually happens relatively quickly.

I feel like after Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky and Fallout 76 that the "do not buy pre-sales" wisdom is quite well known and regarded. I do wonder if there is some chance that people will increasingly just wait-and-see when it comes to new releases.

Although that's probably just wishful thinking. I just know that I'm happy waiting for sales to play a year old game with all the patch fixes.
What I want, is for people to feel more or less welcome at any event. There are events where this is the case, a lot where they are not.

> As an aside, I've had to disengage from professional group conversations a number of times because of my political and religious beliefs, which also should not be a problem at work.

"Me sharing my political beliefs in a work environment has a negative reaction" is different from "this guy keeps on hitting on me at this event". I don't want to be too dismissive, and yeah it is better if an environment is open, but for some stuff there is no "cover", so to speak.

(To put a finer point on it, "This guy keeps on hitting on me at this event" happens _even if someone completely keeps their mouth shut and does absolutely nothing to encourage it_)

You are right that in a company event or something, there's loads of recourse. The difficulty is more in semi-professional events, run by conference organizers and where there are many "external" people. There is often no clear chain of responsibility, a lack of real consequences for bad actors, and ultimately it means that there are people who feel unsafe, _no matter how little they say_.
Then create a GUI markup standard so it's optionally like a web app, but ditch bleepin' DOM and JS. Oracle Forms was a kind of GUI browser in which one could run gazillion Oracle apps up-to-date without installing anything except the one "browser" (client). Oracle Forms had (fixable) weak-points, but as a proof of concept of a "GUI browser" it did CRUD perfectly fine for small and niche apps. Ugly, sure, but ugly that worked! (Oracle screwed it up when they rewrote the client from C to Java. Should have left it in C.)
No worries, you were right on your assumption, I am a programmer, like you seem to be as well.

> like a language model (LM) is one kind of program, whereas the set of all program contains infinitely many programs that are not LLMs

I don’t know if it’s been formally verified, but it’s pretty safe to bet that ChatGPT is Turing Complete. If so, than your statement is false. ChatGPT can emulate every computable problem.
Agree. They will need to win some court cases that will set precedent. That will be brutally hard. After, it will be much simpler going forward. Ten years from now, there will be plenty of precedent in California courts to wave away most objections. Plus, I expect cities will try to enact all kinds of sneaky, unfair legislation to create as many delays and hurdles as possible. Again, these will need to be challenged in local courts as (state-wise) unconstitutional and discarded. This will take time.
Well, someone who isn't running for president.
An American journalist named Bayard Taylor was in Shanghai in 1853 when Perry stopped there on his way to Japan. Taylor enlisted in the U.S. Navy so that he could join Perry’s expedition as a clerk [1], and the notes he kept were later incorporated into the official U.S. report of the expedition [2]. Taylor’s own later account of their arrival in Japan makes good reading [3].

More Western writing about Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries is collected in my Japan As They Saw It [4].

[1] https://archive.org/details/cu31924031232360/page/360/mode/2...

[2] https://archive.org/details/narrativeofexped00perr/page/n5/m...

[3] https://archive.org/details/cu31924031232360/page/410/mode/2...

[4] https://www.gally.net/jatsi/index.html
I doubt there's much risk of that in this case. A person who wanted to imitate this would need to:

- Live in Japan, or be able to get a Japanese visa

- Have a Japanese driver's license

- Have a remote working job with flexible enough hours

- Be willing to live a van life with all its inconveniences

Plus it's not like there's any particular single paradise to be ruined. Japan is a big place. Even if 1000 people did read this and suddenly started van-lifeing around Japan I doubt it would make a difference.
This does seem essentially like a Siri 2.0. I never found Siri useful but maybe this time it’ll be
> I really doubt that many credit card holders are actually using the revolving credit in Europe.

Guessing you are in Germany and extrapolating?

It varies quite a bit by country. https://www.spendesk.com/blog/credit-card-statistics/
Why the need to rehash everything? Create something new.
https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/game-developer/japan....
Chinese balloon part of vast aerial surveillance program, U.S. says
Agree it's not the most exciting (if it was, everyone would have solar.)

But there's a bunch of other ways to think about it: you save about a K a year on average. Not a ton but not bad.

You are hedged against electricity pricing going up.

You are somewhat protecting against electricity outages in your area.

I think panels keep your roof cooler.

Plus tax benefits.
I assumed it was an American thing. Gym is a noun.
I mean, yes, I do like nice things but I think it’s also important to remember that in many cases you’re touring things which were built by rich and powerful people – many of Europe’s most famous buildings are basically monuments to how profitable slavery & colonialism were – and if you go outside of the historical zones you often end up with more familiar architecture.

I still preferred many of those neighborhoods but that’s because driving wasn’t as heavily subsidized and so the neighborhoods have a more human scale and were safer to walk in. Looking at the neighborhood where this property is, the biggest problem I see is that there’s nothing to do. No corner markets or bars - I loved the neighborhood coffee shop/bars in Portugal and Spain, no parks, not even a bike lane or often sidewalks.
I will rather trust the democratically elected union leaders who are also my co-workers than the management. I don't really know what else to say at this point. It's just weird taking side of the management.
No. Some states have state-level standards, but even that is weak because most states are "home rule". The local school board can decide most of the curriculum.

In combination with financing schools through property taxes, we've got a recipe for disaster.
> not all capitalists are predators

That is simply untrue. Sure, some capitalists have good PR, touting their non-capitalist efforts in ways that intentionally confuse them with capitalism for the purpose of increasing PR value. The increase in PR value is just a more oblique means of wealth extraction. The actual act of being capitalist, i.e., extracting excess value from labor by leveraging capital (piles of money, factories, infrastructure, etc)... that is inherently predatory in nature. Capitalists use the fact that they own stuff, and the fact that workers need food, shelter and healthcare, to grift the maximum amount of value for the minimum amount of public good, PR notwithstanding. It's codified into the cornerstone concept of shareholder value. Capitalism itself is distinct from any charity or other social good that a capitalist or company might engage in, and all capitalism exploits labor. Not every act a capitalist does is predatory, but every capitalist is a predator.
Quit spamming Rather Labs. It has zero relevance here.
So much “butts in seats” and not as much concern for Productivity.
I love all of these no starch press books and have collected a pretty good pile of them next to my desk.
In my state, I've seen multiple roads reduce speeds. It's not solely based on median speed (per federal guidelines). The speed limits are based on multiple factors that can reduce the speed below the current median, such as on street parking and terrain. I would be very surprised if CA didn't account for other factors like these.
Does that include day-1 DLC?
Good list. I'd also find an HUD display like this useful for playing music:

- lyrics
- chord changes
- a visual metronome
I love your site and your work. It inspired my own little CSS framework. Thanks for sharing your stuff.
Porting from Actionscript to Solidity
A few weeks, at least. By that point, nearly every user should have gotten a notification that YouTube, GMail or Google Search is 100000% better with Chrome.
> they're aware of the risks that are at top of your minds.

Not that I expect them to do anything with it…
From a pre 2000s perspective, their hard drives and phones don't seem to be ruled by the same thinking as the rest of Samsung.

In the 90s I watched Samsung screw over my region's (Australia, North Queensland) warranty repair business, actually they worked on all brands but maybe it was just coincidence that Samsung products represented a large part of their work. It was a thriving business with many employees. The company offended Samsung, the crime was after getting tired of numerous warranty returns (like a month after fixing it,) technicians started replacing a transistor or scr here and there that was actually suitable for the circuit and not under rated with a fingers crossed and perfect power supply conditions might last till end of warranty. The company was paid half yearly and once Samsung found out about their crime, not being paid (not even cents on the dollar) meant the company was on the hook for it, too much, and they closed their doors perhaps bankrupt and to date no business has taken its place. In a eye watering display of solidarity, no business in the region sold Samsung branded products for almost a decade, only giving up when big tech chains moved into the region.

I wouldn't buy Samsung unless it's via a division that seems to be run by people who care their product will last.
I think this is similar to why Andrej Karpathy left Tesla in good terms - he missed coding and teaching, according to a recent podcast lex fridman
This is an absolutely serious question: 1) What is your model for humans living around each other that does not involve mandatory contributions towards societal costs and 2) What are some examples of nation states you admire without an organization similar the IRS?
I love the power available for video encoding. I use it about twice a week. It is great for rendering subs, down-scaling, and compressing suitable for shitty web playback.
What was the poster’s meaning, then? Sorry, I genuinely do not understand what you are getting at here.
If the reward for competence is promotion, in the steady-state equilibrium everybody's incompetent at their current job: If they were competent, they would have been promoted into a different job.

It's called the Peter Principle [1] and it's pretty well-known.

I suppose Facebook's realized it's in a Peter Principle situation, and the remedy for it would, in theory, be to send some of the people back to previous jobs where they were competent.

The problem is that, in practice, it seems a lot like a demotion, especially if the original move was touted as a promotion, and the pay and prestige of your new old job is less.

It's a real puzzle how this can be done without demoralizing the affected employees into quitting -- especially the best ones, who presumably have lots of good career options elsewhere, and whose value is the entire reason for doing this in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
At my first company they announced layoffs almost a month out but not who was impacted. A horrible idea that created a very paranoid environment for at least the next year
So, about 88 millions of machines is left to test. We're interested in any, which runs longer than about 47 millions steps. Multiplying we get about 4.2e15 steps at worst. Can't we brute force the solution? It's like 5 million seconds - or less than two months - 1 billion steps a second, which looks doable for a modest system, and we don't even need much memory...
People might not care, but APIs do.
The same way anything is normalized. One person/company does something, posts the outcomes of it, then other people follow. I don't think many companies have tested this logic out, as management style in tech is inherited from older corps.

I think this could have great benefits. If a manager's job salary is directly capped to the average of their ICs, then it's their benefit to make the best engineers and show that these engineers deserve an increase in salary - ergo the manager's salary is increased. At the same time, no one will be rushing to management just to get a salary bump.
Surely after 4 years you'd know if they were worth it and convert to an employee if that was your only concern.
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To me it feels like more than "sometimes", because I too have wondered the same things, and often searched for titles of papers that I'm reading on the web just to know when it was published.

I assume that's because those papers are, well, published, and of course there's a date on the journal itself? Doesn't really work that way nowadays anymore.
The issue is UI jank and occasional UI slowness. If there’s any serious work, it’s probably implemented natively or with WASM, so computational performance isn’t terrible.
UK real wages have been declining for years. I promise Americans are actually significantly wealthier and higher paid than British people, and FAANG workers have good healthcare.
I'm interested to see your unboxing.
"Shit" is an overstatement. If a nice car and insurance is 15k, rent is 1500 bucks a month (so 18k a year), and groceries are 10k a year (and that's double the average), that's a total of 43k a year. Add in health insurance for what, 5k a year (if you're making 90k, insurance shouldn't be more than 400 bucks a month)? 90k yearly is ~67k a year after federal taxes. After all of the necessary expenses, you're left with 17k left over. Student loan payments probably cut into that, but that's still a significant sum of money. This is especially true if you can cut that rent down, or don't drive a super nice car, or have a smaller insurance payment through your workplace, etc.
It really goes back to the toxic incentives of ad sales. Google wants you to stay on Google.com so they get more chances to show ads. They only care about low quality results if it means you stop using them, which for years wasn’t a serious risk but can change relatively quickly if alternatives arise. They should know, given how rapidly they pulled users away from Alta Vista, Yahoo!, et al. 20 years ago.
The travel thing is definitely something I wish I could do more of, so if your current employer enables that, that’s a big plus for your mental health.

Do you think your current employer would respond well to an honest discussion about how to make the work you do more, I dunno, exciting? Envigorating? Less stressful? More meaningful? Less contact hours? Some managers would respond well to that. Others, not so much.

Dare I say it, it may also be worth talking to your partner? That’s definitely something I wish I’d done way sooner when I was seriously depressed. My partner has been so understanding and helped greatly get me back to a state where I was getting more joy out of life. For me, it was always this fear of feeling like a failure, something that is definitely intensified by having 2 people depend on you as much as a mother and child do. If they love you, they will really want to help you and you’d be crazy not to ask for their advice at least.

Worth noting that the HR department are NOT the ones to be discussing this with: they work for the company, not for you. It sounds harsh, but NEVER trust HR, no matter how nice they seem most of the time.

> the classic midlife crisis feeling that I haven't accomplished anything

Totally frivolous aside, the Germans have a word for that: “Torschlußpanik".

> From Tor +‎ Schluss +‎ Panik, literally “gate-shut panic”. For safety reasons city gates used to be shut at nightfall (Torschluss, from Tor +‎ Schluss), leaving latecomers no other choice than to stay outside, thereby exposing them to various dangers.

A German once told me “yeah, but in Germany that usually hits people in their 20s”. LOL.
The Next Generation of Large Language Models
I know we can't expect an apology, and that's fine. But will they ever at least admit they were wrong?
Universal Hydrogen receives FAA certification for 40 passenger hydrogen plane
I love the idea but this also is just the further GME (GameStop) ification of the stock market no? Now we see what these exploitative insider jerks are up to... and we immediately follow suit & jack up the price of every trade they do automatically.

Inverse prisoners dilemna... rather than promote good cooperstive behavior, it promotes the bad behavior.
A "buy in bulk" warehouse store is of course one of the least reasonable examples you could have selected, but per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 52% of car trips in the US are less than 3 miles, and 28% are less than 1 mile. Those are both very walk-able and bike-able distances.

Surely somewhere in that more-than-half-of-all-car-trips there are a few examples of car errands that could be easily replaced by bike, scooter or foot.

EDIT: incidentally even in the most car-centric dystopian suburb there are ways to incorporate more walking into your routine. The next time you go to a strip-mall or big box store you could park on the far side of the lot and walk to the door. A minor inconvenience in both time and effort, but you could probably add 1/2 mile or more of walking to your Saturday afternoon errands that way.
Does Nvidia still make mobile GPUs? Tegra was a flop afaik, which is why Nintendo picked it, since they could buy whole container ships of them for cheap.

What’s a relatively modern SOC that sold poorly and was manufactured in large volumes? That’s probably what the next Nintedo console will use.