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For a bit of historical context, E3 was originally made as a trade show for visibility in the games industry. [1]

Today, the video games industry has much different means of marketing and communications than we did in 1995. Perhaps YouTube streaming is the new E3?

[1] https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_056_March_1994/pag...
i find this fair and informative. i havent got into yc yet but their free content is very valuable in giving me direction, and the things mentioned in the article are very valuable to me who is still an outsider.

to some they're like "meh", but to me those subtle things really make or break your company.

it's like yc has solid focus on your company's fundamentals and reminding you of it again and again so you dont get distracted.
Yikes. One of my favorite features from pip is how easily you can install from a git repo, or even the absolute url to the master.zip
Why would you want it when the F150 Lightning already exists?
It's both amazing and weirdly fallible - Tenzin, the rogue, jumps out of the tree to make a surprise attack, but in the next round of combat GPT-DM claims that he is still in the tree. Also:

> Tenzin, still hidden in the tree, targets another wolf with his rapier.

Does GPT4 not know that a halfling in a tree can't attack a wolf on the ground with a rapier?
Touca is shutting down
All it really did was officially prove nothing bad happened when E3 wasn’t held. Which almost everyone seemed to have already suspected.
Ah yes, the US said so. You should probably look into the actual investigations and events before telling other people to stop. Almost no european country agrees with the conclusion of the US government (that bombed libya in a matter of days, before any investigation started to begin with).

A government that was back then almost frothing at the mouth at any occasion to blame everything on the libyans, to a comical degree. Which was well known, and also the reason why most european countries did not agree with the intervention that we are discussing
I feel like the sustain pedal is to the piano what the beauty filter is to facebook.
Sometimes it is the power supply, but I've also had a number that died simply because one LED burned out and failed open. Because they are wired in series it only takes one failed LED to take out the entire bulb. If you're a cheapskate you can sometimes get a bulb working again by testing the circuit and bypassing the burned out LED with a jumper wire.

If the bulb dies but you notice that all of the elements are still just barely on (like a dim spot of light in the middle of each one) then that's a good indication that you have a dead LED.
But by the same token, you're calling a blog post an rfc. If we're going to be fast and loose with words it should at least be allowed across the board.
Combine both with VR and you have the holodeck
I bought the highest-deductible plan I could get through my state's marketplace. Funding that is part of a minimum runway; if you can't fund that, then you don't actually have an extremely long runway :-) Find a way to afford it, even if that means finding one consulting contract before leaving your job.

Regarding:

> I really just want catastrophic coverage where I pay ideally $XX/mo, have an $XX,XXX annual out of pocket max & deductible, but that doesn't appear to be an option in my state's healthcare.gov program.

… in most states, the marketplace includes plans with $5k-$10k deductibles and out-of-pocket annual max of about 2x that. For a non-smoker under 40, the premium will probably be $250-$400 (depends on age, area cost of living).

That's the viable version of the plan you described.

There's 2 main reasons that no plans offer something like a $25,000 deductible and $50,000 out-of-pocket max:

1. State insurance commissioners and the ACA require certain minimum coverage. For example, the ACA requires https://www.insurance.wa.gov/what-health-insurance-plans-mus... and Washington State requires https://www.insurance.wa.gov/benefits-health-plans-must-cove.... Some of these require certain paid coverage levels regardless of deductible; for example, the ACA requires most preventative care be covered without out-of-pocket costs.

2. Increasing the deductible and out of pocket max significantly (say, $25k/$50k instead of $6k/$12k) doesn't decrease the insurer's total costs all that much. For plans with $5k+ deductibles and $10k+ limits, the insurer's major cost is six-figure treatments, and the insurer will be responsible for those either way. Just to use hypothetical numbers, raising the plan limits 4x might decrease the premium by 20%. Most of the cost is either item #1 above or really expensive treatments, not care that costs $6k-$25k.
I don't think it's untrustworthy in a sense you are deliberately lied to. I think more likely problem is that there is quality control issues and entire batch of particular bulb is compromised, like can happen with anything else - hard drives, RAM, pencils.

In general it's quite reasonable. Cheaper bulbs failed on me, more expensive ones work just fine for many years.

One thing is I wonder about if phosphorus (or whatever chemical they use) is burning out over the years. I.d. do I get worse light quality as these bulbs age?
48V without a current limit shouldn't be nothing, but you should expect less than 10% brightness.

For constant current, you'd need to drive at least 9 watts so it would be more like 250mA if not higher.

A 1600 lumen LED module might take as much or more current than a 60w incandescent. If your constant current supply can output between 0 volts and input volts, and it's set for a bulb with such a module, it would be able to power an incandescent bulb.
Not sure I understand, are you saying GP should've pulled a gun on the cops?
I think it's less about announcing yourself online, but announcing yourself when and where you wanted to.

The writing was on the wall when Apple pulled out of Macworld for their annual keynote in 2008. Why do these companies need someone elses stage to announce their products?
All the big name brand(Cree etc.) bulbs I've bought have been going strong for 5-12 years. Out of dozens the only ones I've ever had fail were off brand or special purpose like LIFX wifi bulbs.
Check out AI Dungeon and Novel AI. They both have imagery now.
Google’s been second banana to openai for a few years now, right?
Founders should not have co-founders but a founding team
Annoying People at Airport Security, According to the TSA
> E3 was aimed at the unwashed masses.

Back in its heyday E3 was purely a business event (e.g. you had to work in the games industry one way or another to be allowed in). Might have changed in recent years though, I didn't really pay attention anymore since around 2010 or so.
I want ChatGPT4 to rewrite Zork!
Personally, I think that AAA studios are due for a reality check. There's been _some_ decent releases from these studios in the past decade, but they are few and far between. I can't help but feel that these studios are very disconnected with their audience and have ultimately prioritized profits over passion. I know the bills need to be paid, but somewhere along the line it become more and more noticeable. The market consolidation that's happened (EA and Activision come to mind) has done nothing but hurt the industry. I'd like to call it a monopoly but I'm not certain if that's correct or not. Either way, the current landscape is not great.

I've been gaming since the 90s and I'm generally unhappy with the current state of affairs.

Thank god for indie devs!

/end rant
> Your core people a push of a button away.

What a nightmare, it's impossible to not see this being a top down app made by some dated management style.
Chat-with-gpt has that, we use it in our org as an alternative chatgpt Interface: https://github.com/cogentapps/chat-with-gpt
Because that’s not at all the case and your rhetoric is what perpetuates the false image.
Countdown Numbers Game vs. ChatGPT/BingAI/Google Bard – Google Bard Wins
Have there been any known incidents with Bitwarden?
Exactly the same thing happened to me recently. I found refuge in Golang. Not my favorite language but it's tough to beat for utilities that you want to distribute quickly.
For the need of windmill.dev (OSS retool + FaaS), we support deno and python. To provide that same experience that you're speaking of which is "python run myscript.py" without having to pre-install the dependencies, we wrote our own python parser in Rust which infer the PyPi packages from the imports (and then our workers download them if they are not cached). Here is the code from the parser: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/backend/... which we could carve out as a separate module.
There have been attempts to reboot webrings for indie site discovery. With AI harvesting and monetizing indie sites, there is some risk of future content being gated by pay/auth/bot walls. Another approach could be private overlay P2P VPNs where participants are invited/vetted by the social contract of a small community.

(random indie site: wet/dry shop vacuums, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411206)
Some of the cryptofolk at least made some money scamming people, what are these guys getting with this fantastical promises? Discord users? Compliments? Just that? It's just rings wacky as hell.
> (I'm writing it from snapped firefox and it works perfectly and faster that .deb and flatpak alternatives)

That's impossible, the snap runs through a loop back image. Which makes the other claims suspect.

Yes, snap spamed my mounts, runs a daemon, forces ~/snap... probably other things I'd like to forget.

I got tired of cleaning that up every time and finally decamped to Mint last year after ~15 years of using Ubuntu.

The experience was so bad with snap I'm actually afraid to try flatpak and so far haven't. So far just download/untar an archive if in a pinch. Also odd, because I'm open to the need for adhoc installs.
I have hue builds in my house and have them programmed to warm their color temperature as the day progresses into the evening, and dim themselves down significantly as it gets later.
Zero chance GDC goes away, it's a developer focused conference and is way more than just press releases and announcements. If you've never been to it GDC is non-stop talks and technical sessions, it's an invaluable resource for people in the industry.
Weird thought, but maybe Bing's version would be better at this, given it's extreme comparative stubbornness?
I'd make a case for any node-based scripting language in 3D modeling software. Blender or Grasshopper for Rhino comes to mind. Benefit of Grasshopper is that there are convenient Python or C# nodes for you to write scripts that can't be expressed through nodes (IE loops); downside is that it is paid software (although not subscription based!!).

For architecture/design students, Grasshopper is usual their first introduction to programming and algorithmic thinking, and many students become fantastic programmers by extension.
> It is unequal and unfair and anticompetitive for China to ban hundreds of US based websites

I keep seeing this claim posted, and I feel the need to add in some relevant history about why most of the companies on that list aren't doing business in China (tldr; Americans don't want to allow American companies to comply with Chinese laws).

Between the mid and late aughts Google, Facebook, and Twitter were all operating in China. Around this time the Chinese government got very serious about content filtering and imposed new restrictions on what could be shown/uploaded. There was a very strong backlash from the US side that American companies might be helping to build the Great Firewall. Many Americans were outraged and US politicians warned the companies not to build infrastructure that could be used for censorship. So the American companies acquiesced and either left the market or were banned (Twitter).

Reciprocity in trade is important, but it has to be viewed within the context of national laws. American companies had their hands tied and couldn't comply with Chinese law which is why they don't operate anymore. TikTok has so far complied with American laws and spent something on the order of $1 billion USD for a data center in Texas whose only buinsess value was to placate the American government. If enough Americans and lawmakers decide that it's ok for Facebook to build content filters and take down speech critical of the government then there might still be a future for Facebook in China.
It started dying in the early 2010s / late 2000s. Kids stopped buying fat monthly magazines to learn about new games and started consuming all that information online, for free.
I had been unaware of measurement according to "moles of photons", though I suppose it's not surprising. I've never really understood what a mole is other than "we decided to pick this number as a constant multiplier when doing small calculations".

Per wikipedia[0], there's a vaguely defined unit, the Einstein, which may be defined as the energy in a mole of photons. (The vague definition being because each photon may have different amounts of energy, and thus an Einstein would be some weird function in order to describe total energy.) Wikipedia suggests using measures of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)[1], like Photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) instead. I suppose this is because PAR is literally defined to measure according to "what plants crave", but it also allows bounding the "total joules of energy" above and below by the PAR wavelength limits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(unit)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetically_active_radi...
> they could allow whatever signatures go into SIP to be updated, so you could make changes and then bless your changed configuration

What's wrong with SIP being on or off?
Oh yeah, they tried to continue without Apple but most of those claiming they would be fine had that thousand mile stare . They knew it was done, just didn't want to admit it that quickly.
I can't think of any reason why would one use BSD on desktop or anywhere really.
BSD flavours were popular 10-20 years ago for licensing reasons. Think like Junos 9 (FreeBSD), FTOS (NetBSD).
Now the world largely moved to Linux.
UBI was probably a zirp fantasy, but more importantly it’s a US zirp fantasy because the US controls the dollar and can thus fantasize about crazy things like UBI with little fear of repercussions.

Look at the recent UK Liz Truss crisis for what happens when a country tries to spend more than it should. And the UK is a very privileged economy that controls a reserve currency.

If you are just a normal country, attempting UBI will simply destroy your economy, nobody will buy your debt, and the IMF will come and make you stop it. Some countries may be able to fall back on natural resources, but many countries won’t.
>"Scratch is not built to be a "teach your kid programming languages"

You might want to change the wikipedia page that describes you to the whole world

(from the first line of wikipedia)> Scratch is a high-level block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool for programming, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16.

I would say scratch is a brilliant first language for children
$56bn of deposits at point of sale to First Citizens. It had $119bn of deposits at the point the FDIC took over as receiver and then subsequently guaranteed all deposits [1].

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23023.html
>The best you get to shutting off (without permanent cell death) would be the computer equivalent of hibernation. All the proteins and RNA are still there just waiting for the signal to activate again.

Fungal spores[0][1] come to mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore#Fungi

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37268/can-mushroom...
As for different keyboards, Microsoft tried that with their blades for the Surface, it didn't pan out. You might remember seeing a musical blade (keyboard attachment) in their promotional videos for the first Surface.

Who knows, maybe this time will be different. I do like the ideas that Framework is trying.
It’s the only TV platform I’ve seen that’s truly 4K. All the others have a 1080p UI upscaled to 4K. Only the 4K videos they play are truly 4K.
This is also my setup. It has the added benefit of being already included on every python install already so there is nothing extra to use.
I think we can infer some of that from what Intel is doing now.

There are two orthogonal competitions happening here. One is between x86 and ARM, and the other is between Intel and TSMC. TSMC can manufacture x86 chips (this is what they do for AMD) but they can also churn out ARM chips for Apple and Amazon, GPU’s for nVidia, and so on. So while Intel’s manufacturing was vertically integrated with their x86 chip designs, TSMC specialized in fabrication, and got ahead of Intel.

Intel’s response has been to undo some of that vertical integration. Part of this entailed plans to outsource some of their manufacturing to TSMC, but another part was to reinvest in their own fabs and compete directly with TSMC by providing fabrication for other companies’ chips. This latter effort has received lots of political support. Maybe Intel simply decided their vertical integration strategy was unworkable, or maybe the recent chip shortage and the geopolitically vulnerable position of Taiwan has created a lot of political demand for a domestic alternative to TSMC that Intel is trying to capitalize on.
Florida Legislature approves carrying a concealed loaded gun without a permit
I totally agree- that's why I think we need better branding and marketing in stores. I personally like the Costco model of "do the research for the consumer and give them limited choices" but it's easy to see how this could go wrong too.

I'm sure early incandescent lightbulb manufacturers had a lot of shoddy products and consumers just had to figure out which brands to trust themselves. Eventually, it'll even out for LEDs too.
"I'm not sure you can blame problems such as climate change, economic issues -- every generation had its own existential crisis: WW2, Korea, Vietnam, numerous recessions and until 1990, recent generations lived under the specter of the atom bomb."

All of those issues felt less existential (or at least had very clear points of no return that we managed to avoid going over the brink on), and climate change for many, maybe quite reasonably so, feels like we will be the proverbial boiling frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

It feels different because of the complexity and scale is no longer definable or predicated on a clear discrete set of objects (e.g. Nuclear powers, key banking systems, a hot war with defined participants) but is by global definition....everything.

It's abstract yet ever present (e.g. all the recent climate weirdness, and the disasters that have followed, both in terms of pure environmental impacts as well as economic and overall regional stability as byproducts thereof) and that becomes much more difficult to "manage"
Tis' a very long rapier.
I think this also highlights how bad D&D combat is. Man that was boring to read.

Agree. Boring to play too. I’m wondering how chatGPT, or other such aides can be used to make combat better. I tend to aggregate rolls for foes in larger combat scenarios, which speeds and simplifies the process, but that has some big downsides too, for example it’s not quite fair to aggregate a critical hit/fail for all foes.
I'm with you -- I find his dozen layer vocals unenjoyable. However, it can play many instruments really well. Here is a video from a jazz trio rehearsal though that I keep coming back to every few months simply because I enjoy the sausage being made. Keep in mind he was 19 or so at the time.

Anacona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaL4Q1LnuA
Does this have transcription? Adding whisper onto it to transcribe what was said would probably help with the "what did we agree on again?" problems
As the saying goes: "A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich". Still big news...I'll just wait and see if the charges stick.
Is E3 also too expensive? GDC and PAX seem to be doing better. I'm guessing they're cheaper and have a better ROI, but I really don't know.
I think what OP means is that Julia has a number of features that work very well for the workflows and processes of programming for scientists.

1. Interactive workflows. One of the defining features of doing science is that you don't know what the right answer or right approach is. This makes interactive workflows (like REPLs) really valuable since you can load data once and do 100 different analyses on it. Notebooks are also really useful as a means of showing both code and results at the same time, and Pluto.jl is one of the best here since it removes the possibility of ending up with inconsistent state by tracking dependencies between cells.

2. Reproducibility. Another important feature for scientific code is that you want someone to be easily able to take your data and code, be easily able to install the code, run it and get the same answer. This is one of python's biggest shortcomings. Python has an incredibly rich package ecosystem, but is lacking a good unified system for reproducibly installing packages (Poetry is the closest but it has problems with binary dependencies). Julia (and Rust) have virtual environments and the idea of a manifest file that records the exact version of all your (transitive) package dependencies built in which make it trivial for someone else with no instructions get an exact clone of all the software needed to run your code.

3. Ease of use. Most scientists are scientists first and bad to mediocre at programming (there are obviously exceptions, some scientists are great programmers). Static type systems and manual memory management are major impediments to beginner use. C++ gets some scientific use for it's performance, but there's a reason Python R and Matlab are the languages of most scientists.

4. Performance. Lots of fields (bio, astronomy, high energy physics, chemistry) need a fast language to be able to get results in a reasonable amount of time. Julia is fast and is one of the easier languages to write GPU accelerated code in.

5. Open source. Closed source languages (Matlab) are a total pain to deal with.
why do you think so？could you elaborate?
My experience is usually more like being told to do X, me saying X probably isn’t worth the time and energy, doing X anyway at their prompting assuming they’ll take some accountability for it going sideways, it ultimately going sideways because it was a bad idea, and then them taking zero accountability for their bad idea and not helping with the fact we’ve now been materially set back by the attempt.

I’ve since learned to align our incentives around advice. If they’ll put their money where their mouth is to stand behind their advice, then it’s good advice. If they won’t, then it’s bad advice and I’m just their lab rat.
This is correct. Cut my numbers in half.
Same no problem, different solution - I use pycharm extensively and it manages my venvs 99% of the time with no issues at all, the only time it took me a minute of head scratching was realizing I needed to install a new system python to make a venv with it, but that would be clear if you were doing it via the shell approach you are using as well.
Actually I am about 99% sure that audio transformer models can simulate all sorts of emotions or personality. I mean with Eleven Labs, which is 100% realistic, you could just train it on a voice that was constantly expressing some emotion. Then train another voice ID with the same person but different emotion.

Pretty sure they are working on ways to add inflection or something.

But 100% as far as the text goes, GPT4 can assume a personality or include jokes in interactions. Will it necessarily be as "good" as your text chat personality I doubt it but who knows.