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Hey Jimhi! Thanks for sharing this, I liked it a lot :D Good luck with your acting! Have you thought about creating a movie yourself and directing? Since I spend so much time coding/building as you do, whenever I have some free time I try to do some music and been doing the music videos https://punkbit.com/audio/desmentira-a-project-inspired-by-m... planning to do a movie at some point!

Good luck mate!!
> And now that Youtube is robust enough to allow streaming (also with the features that streaming has) it's catching up to them.

Do you have some up-to-date numbers for this? Because YouTube has streaming since 2016, and they never caught up to twitch. Not in the pandemia, when Twitch was growing like crazy. And also not when they bought some big Streamers from Twitch. IIRC, at some point they were even worse than Facebook Gaming for some while. Though, I haven't seen the numbers for 2023 yet.

> Another shock was this new Kick platform which is managed by a creator itself, and apparently is doing quite well on the surface

Kick seems to be 99% bots. I wouldn't call that doing well.
So many people liked to brag about how they only do 2-3 hours of work a day. Gonna be a whole lot of "So what would you say you do here?" conversations.
I used to love getting that sort of thing. Then disassembling and figuring out exactly how they worked. Knew all the different types of lead to get for them. All the different harnesses and sizes and why to pick one over the other. But after awhile I realized I was obsessing over the tools and not actually doing anything with them. My 'choice' these days is a el-cheap bic-biro. Not totally junk but not very expensive if someone walks off with it. Played around for awhile with the gel ink style disposables. They have a nice clean line usually.
It costs you the best people not taking the job.
Also true. Everyone I knew would have a game of Shadowrun or World of Darkness or whatever else if you wanted. At the very least there were Pathfinder groups.

But now I don't even see Pathfinder out there much.

I think DnD podcasts and webseries and such were incredibly successful in cementing DnD as the only game in town. They brought in a ton of new players who have only heard of DnD and only want to play DnD.
Subducting oceanic plates drag down with them a great deal of water. When that flashes to steam as it hits magma and the mantle, tremendous pressures are generated. Many volcanoes (though not all) are in this regard "steam engines", where much of the driving pressure is a consequence of subducted ocean water, and possible some innate crustal water, interacting with geothermal heat. I'm supposing this is why steam is a major factor in many volcanic eruptions.

There's an explainer here: <https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/plate-tectonics-subduct...>

As to the role in tectonics and plate movement, I'm less aware.
How to send a photo around the world in 1926 (2013)
Wayland compositors, maybe: https://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-...
Exactly! I'm a Canadian living in New York. Reynolds & Gosling are two Ryans we hold pretty dear to our hearts, though they're both are so world famous folks often guess them to be American.
Agreed, but only because I assume they’ve automated it.

Most small town papers are filled with verbatim Reuters reports.
For the moment it's SpaceX vs everyone else combined, given how far ahead they are.

I won't rule out China rising to the challenge, but I also wouldn't want to rule out Relativity Space and their 3D printing, nor some as-yet unannounced group saying they've made a breakthrough with superconducting levitation or active support structures or skyhooks or fusion-powered second stages that let them go directly (from a high altitude but suborbital first stage so you don't have to worry about backscattered radiation from the air) to Δv = 0.1c.
This whole thread has me re-evaluating my prior assessments of "Ender's Game" and the Mind Game it described.

When the book came out I was a child programmer and I had total contempt for the idea that a player could just decide to burrow into the eye of the giant and that the engine would generate a result.

I was used to Sierra games where you'd click an inventory item on something you saw and the game would tell you "there's nothing useful you can do with that."
Stereo microphone is the term you're looking for.
Guilty as charged... I have so many bookmarks I forget to look at...

APPlet Idea: an app that picks a random bookmark from your saves and sends you a reminder to click it and read it... and schedule when you want to see it - like every 7AM send me a link from my bookmarks. Set an alarm for 15 minutes to get me back on schedule.
> It has become a meme: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Yes. It being a meme is exactly the problem. It just gets repeated over and over with no regard to the facts, in a kind of positive feedback loop.

If you did the same for Google's peer companies like Amazon and Microsoft (using the same criteria and same level of obsession), you'd find that the Amazon Abattoir is doing brisk business and the Murdered by Microsoft website would need pagination. But for whatever reason, when those companies launch a product, their past failures are not trotted out. When they inevitably kill their failures, the reaction is "about time, nobody used that product anyway" rather than the mass hysteria.

This is Google Glass! A product 99.99% of HN readers would have claimed was killed a decade ago. "Killed by Google" has been claiming it was dead for a long time, but I'm sure will now dishonestly find a way to double-count it.
Orbital Sciences, now Northrop Grumman, has successfully used plane launches for the Pegasus a few dozen times since the 90s. They use a Lockheed TriStar instead of a 747, but the principle is the same. It definitely works.

Their launch volume has been trending down though. I don't think they're able to effectively compete for most contracts.
What do your marketing folks think about generating branded content via AI?
I am not as optimistic as you.

As someone who had Teams imposed on them at the beginnings of the pandemic, I'd say: it is easy to ship anything fast when your users have no say on whether they want to use your product at all, no one cares that your laptop grinds to a halt when using it, and when no one will hold you responsible for delivering broken code.

Will MS Copilot work? Maybe, maybe not. But as far as Microsoft is concerned it doesn't have to be good - it just has to exist so they can justify charging their corporate users a little bit more.
On what timescales does this happen?

If we allow for pretty long timescales, we are pretty much doing that with Yellowstone here on Earth.
It seems like a neat idea but it really doesn't save money, though. The hard part, as in the vast majority of energy & fuel needed, is to get horizontal velocity not altitude.

The complexity and cost of a 747 carrying a rocket up for an additional maybe ~3% of orbital velocity just doesn't pencil out in the end

And reusable boosters sway the calculus even further toward ground-based launches, both in cost and launch system simplification.
Thanks for sharing the article. Aperture seems to be a really great product solving real world issues like Cascading Failures in microservice based applications.
The person who's stepping into his spot has been President for three years, and has been attaching his name to public communications/policy, this doesn't seem like a rushed replacement.
I had a couple of interviews with Ammon in their very early stages. You know how sometimes you meet someone and from the first moments you realise he is an awesome person? That’s the feeling I got with him. He definitely knew what he was doing. Wish him the best!
First of all, kudos to making it open source and answering all questions. And, here's a dump question ;) why aren't you trying out it to make some real money?
It did do hands correctly before, not always but sometimes. So I'd expect "can do hands" meant it no longer made those mistakes or why say that? But they didn't even manage to make a picture without mistakes, so to me as a naive outsider I don't see what the announcement is.

If they said "is much better at hands" it would be much clearer to me what happened and nobody would complain, that looks pretty ok for the most part, but saying "it can do hands" based on those pictures doesn't seem right.
Ask HN: What is your favorite AI prompt?
That's weird, as my understanding of the YT creator community is constant strife, ever changing rules, arbitrary bans, strikes on their account for vaguely matching copyrighted work, and most recently swearing too much, or too early, in a video.

YT is not friendly to creators, for the same reason Twitch is not friendly to creators: advertisers hate what people want to watch.

Even Patreon, where people pay rather than watch ads, repeatedly runs into issues with creators because of pay schedules, amounts, percent cuts, platform features, and more.

If its someone else's platform, creators don't win.
A channel I like is having to test various patterns of swearing and swear-bleeping to try to narrow down what exactly suddenly changed that wrecked their monetization, which had been fine for years and years. They can't just ask YouTube what they need to do to be OK again. It's really dumb.

Also, creators on a platform that grew its original userbase through piracy and media re-mixes with little or no content-policing now have to be extremely careful about even very clear-cut fair-use of commercial media, or risk losing one of their copyright strikes (as in, three strikes and you're out—that is, we kill your business). It makes their videos worse—so, it's also bad for viewers—and causes them stress.
This is cool as heck - Yes I did which led to me realizing I have no money for cameras and sound and lighting which led to the interactive comics website.
"Impedance" as used by audio people is completely different from "impedance" as used by RF people.

In audio, it's about the equivalent resistance of an input or load. If you put a dummy resistor in place of a load, how would the output/driver treat it? How do you choose what value of resistor to use, to stand in for a given load/input? That's the impedance.

In RF, it's about the equivalent resistance of the transmission line itself, because at high enough frequencies the speed-of-light prevents you from even seeing the far end. That phenomenon is well treated here:

https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/AC/AC_14.h...
I feel like the dev job may change, but as long as people have difficultly describing their requirements so that a programmer can understand, they'll have difficulty describing their requirements so that an AI can understand.

It's one thing to ask for a pong game, it's another to ask for a program that "does a kyc process" or something similarly complex
On Snaps there is no separation of network access. The same installed libraries can be used by multiple applications. Applications have access to the same system services and run together. How can you pretend Nix is different from a Snap container? There's virtually complete overlap.

Or maybe you'll now say that Snaps are not containers because they do it in a Nix like way? By your logic a frontage road is not a road just because it's dedicated to a single commercial development and named differently.

In my top level post which started this big thread I claimed that the purpose of containers (Nix, Snaps, Flatpack, Docker, AppImage, etc) is to solve the future shock problem and allow running of broken applications by controlling the libs available. I stick to that claim here.
Outrage generates clicks. Nuance is for the unambitious.
Like nature, the environment, living in harmony? Nah, just feed me 24/7 content from an AI that is rewarded based on my dopamine levels.
They don’t tell you this on the whole, but there is an adfree turbo subscription: https://www.twitch.tv/turbo
The duration should be hours, not days. The way I've done it in the past is by pre-arranging with the candidate a time that they'd like to do the test (maybe 7pm on a Tuesday, or 3pm on a Saturday). They're sent some details of the development environment and guidance before hand. Then they're sent the test at that time and then have to send the result back within 3 hours.

I suppose that still selects for people who have 3 contiguous hours to spare. But it feels to me to be the fairest solution - it doesn't reward people who have endless time, and it doesn't subject poor candidates to open ended misery.

Sending the dev environment stuff before hand gives them time to make sure it's working first - and an opportunity to ask questions about the environment if anything is unclear. It definitely shouldn't take 2 hours to set up a development environment - if that's the case then it's either an inexperienced candidate or very poor instructions.
The main reason I find this a little sad is because I just want to be able to play with the big boy toys. I don't really see why only the ultra powerful should have access to these things. And I don't see why we would believe that they're going to be more benevolent than everyone else. Those are the people who have an insatiable lust for power. Democratization of data and computing makes the world a better place.
I'm interested in what you expected vs. what you have seen? The goalposts have been dancing all over the place lately with everyone I talk to.
It actually kind of directly links to Microsoft's strategy, because Atom was the original Electron editor, and Atom was created by GitHub, who was purchased by Microsoft, after which Atom was ~extinguised~ deprecated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor)
They are related to cost on some level. This type of legislation would introduce some costs for merchants, even digital ones, because of chargeback fees charged by processors. That would be passed on to the customer in addition to whatever profit calculation those merchants are making.
"Tech CEO discovers profitability of his companies novel product, completely changes personal moral values, more news at 5"

It's nice having such morally flexible people in leadership positions. Next he announces a cooperation with boston dynamics on developing the first AI killing machine for the army, after receiving big wads of cash from the US gov.
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“I put this unusual string in my software” may be enough to get you to discovery. During which time, you can ask for the source code.
Ask HN: Programming language language model fit
I saw this tweet by gdb [0] on how GPT-4 helps to write haskell code and was wondering: are there programming languages that are a better fit for language models compared to other programming languages? (e.g. easier to generate correct code, or easier to generate code that fits into existing code, …).

If yes: it might mean those languages might become more popular.

If I am a programming language designer: is there a way I can make sure my language works well with language models? Is there a way to make it work not well?

Any thoughts or pointers appreciated!

[0] https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1636410044668583936
I've noticed this too. It's mentioned in other comments below, but I definitely think it's easier to see the human behind something if it looks like a hobby project. I'm not sure what camp my games fall into, but I've had limited traction on HN, even though I'm just a lone human trying to hack it at full-time indie game dev.

Ironically I just launched a new word game today so we'll see if it makes the front page! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184884
If you need examples of creativity, look at the math. Math is full of the novel (at the time of invention) concepts: complex numbers, groups, automorphisms, etc., etc.
None of these concepts can be obtained by rearranging the "parts". Sometimes a new concept requires the invention of "parts" that had never existed before, and, in turn, becomes a "part" in the future inventions.
"except glamour" lol, understatement of the millennium

I say this as someone that used to live and work in London (and spent a small time living in Birmingham as a child), Birmingham has a HUGE way to go to convince anyone like me to live there

It may be big, but attractive it is not
Ask HN: Any sites to get a 3-day job?
Most jobs need 40 hours a week. I want to work less than this. Do you know of any sites that advertise positions for 24 hours a week?

I'm surprised this isn't discussed more. Many capable people can build a product within 1 week that earns income. Having a full time job gets in the way of experimenting with ideas long enough to build the right product.

There must be a large, unaddressed pool of capable people that could start startups but don't because of the requirement of jobs being for 5 days a week.
On the other hand you have Brazil, where there's like 1 active lawsuit for every two people in the country.
As someone who has been both an artist and an engineer I could not agree more. It's fascinating reading commentary on the arts from people who have always been STEM types because their entire concept of art is completely different from that of people who consider themselves artists. They constantly conflate creative problem solving and creative expression, which are two fundamentally different processes. I don't want to denigrate anyone here but I do sometimes get depressed by how artless people in the tech world are. I value art (in all its forms) because it connects human beings across space and time through our shared experience of the human condition. The best comment I've seen so far in this thread is the one about how AI art is meaningless because "AI doesn't fear death or loneliness."
It was great feedback. We've been deep in the weeds building so it's hard to pull ourselves up out of the weeds, but for something that reads from and updates documentation it's probably easier to see it in action than than to read about it.
It's going to cost companies a lot more money to migrate their docker dependencies than simply pay their open source dependency maintainers to keep the org intact. Might as well become a project sponsor!

This could be the best thing to happen to open source projects if the argument is framed correctly. You don't solve a cost problem by pursuing a more costly alternative.
The Russians exerted a vast amount of effort to recruit and generate sympathetic leaders in Europe (and elsewhere; i.e. Trump). They had a lot of sympathizers in Germany, and a small cadre of NATO-skeptics in France.

Austria is a lot smaller and easy to influence.

It's also not in NATO, and there is strong public sentiment to stay out of NATO -- which means there is a vacuum Russia can enter in ways that it cannot with full-on NATO members.
It's just a "No thanks, bye."
Feels like twitch, although a massive success by any reasonable standard, has not really lived up to its potential. Weird niche platform really, and it's the internet's goto service for live feeds.
I am glad to see that smaller models are an option, but I'm talking about an overall trend, not a rule that can be disproved by counterexamples.

I hope you're right that I'm wrong though.
The argument is for "states' rights". Which is to say, not your rights.

It's common to present that as if it were an argument for more individual rights, but it's not. They've chosen a level of government where they have a lot of control, and wish to assign it preeminence over both the federal powers and your own.
V5 looks like photos with filters on. V4 looks like a painting.
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Midjourney's sonic hedgehog needs more calibration.
This is too bad because Citymapper is a great app and Google Maps is still very far from providing the same quality as specialized apps for public transit routing.
Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
Hackathon 101: Simple tips for beginners
Ignoring trust issues (NK inserting a backdoor), I'd say clean bugfixes should probably be accepted.

My main point was to nuance the absolutist "code and science should be separate". I don't know enough about this code to make a judgement one way or the other: as I understand the commit message it's a cleanup as a prelude to GMAC and X-GMAC SoC support. Maybe the code is badly in need of some cleanup, or maybe it's essentially just fine and there is no reason to merge any of this beyond supporting those SoCs.
> for a lot of people, the birth of their first child changes their priorities

CEOs are not a lot of people. By definition they are extremely few in number, and those who become CEOs of top companies have a perhaps pathological drive to get there. For someone like that, an entirely predictable event -- like the birth of a child -- is the last thing that would make them sacrifice the position they've worked so hard for.

Now would I quit my job for $100 million? Absolutely! But maybe that just means I'm most people...
Licenses are meaningless unless someone is willing to defend them.

Defending a license takes money.

The ability to earn money is limited by open source licensing.

Open source licensing is largely self defeating --- as proven by the case in point.
When I was doing Unity, C# was nice, but I really wished it used Rust instead.
Also, primary school in the US is elementary school. I don't know any 5th graders busting out Fourier transforms.
I was recently looking for a job and a company I interviewed at had the first round as a take home test. You had to write a CLI program that called their stupid-simple rest API (takes a number, returns 1+ numbers streamed) in the language/runtime the company uses. They said it shouldn’t take over 2-3 hrs. I set a 2Hr timer, completed it and got partway through tests, and stopped (leaving unfinished tests or missing tests etc). I spent 30 min writing todo comments (“TODO: refactor this method for easier test-ability”) and documentation.

2.5hr total, then moved on to next in-person round. Their in person interview questions are all based on either my code or their server side code for this test project. It was great because I already knew about it from the take home.

They explicitly asked for a simple, working cli program in the language they use, in a reasonable time box. They said if you have time, consider test-ability, consider performance (the service streamed numbers so you needed to not store them in-memory), and other things a “real” program would need to consider. They gave themselves amble signal for a simple project, and set the time box low enough that most anyone can find that time.

I will absolutely be using a similar process for hiring at my current company.
Platforms always have issues, that will never change. Despite that, Twitch is doing pretty well. Most of the complaints are saying that it could be better, not that it's bad. Though, there is the problem that Amazon is juicing the platform, and that's also something that won't change. And I would say Emmett Shear generally did improve the platform over the years. So he is going on a height.
I've been curious to try teams more for Microsoft's integration and this is enticing. But, have been using it, and at the moment search doesn't even return anything at all.

Is this a bug, or do I need to be paying for a higher tier? Slack search was generally pretty good.
Great, now try to create a game that haven't been invented yet.
I'd argue that this is because of what seems like a mismatch between local / state laws and federal laws.

I'm not from the US, so don't know how all this works, but I assume that if weed is "generally legalized", then it should be at the federal level, too.
Stronger legislation. Prevent the operation and sale of products which violate GPL and fines which equal the revenue generated from the violation.
Indeed, browsing Kick right now shows gambling is the biggest category by far with 42k viewers.

Chat streams are second with 6k viewers, and the most viewed (non-gambling) game has a mere 1.6k viewers.

I can't imagine why anyone would stream games on there unless they're banned from Twitch.
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