skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time to introduce Myst!

My dad set me up with it + his notes from an incomplete attempt around age 5 or 6 and I probably didn't beat it until 7 or 8 (and continued like this for the next few games).

Here's my theory for a game like this vs something that's pure "learn to code/draw": Give her a world to explore that builds the -drive- to create.

I like Myst as a starter because:

1) It's unhurried. I wandered for a year learning what elements in each environment were interactive and slowly making sense of the puzzles. You -have- to simply explore and figure it out.

2) The worlds in it are masterpieces of art and creative thinking. Visually, it remains very engaging (the later games even more so) and you can tell it was a labor of love by a small team (particularly 2 brothers). Just as with books or nutrition, you want you and your children to be consistently exposed to the best of a given subject because that sets the imagination churning on what's possible and starts the process from a high bar.

3) It's a clever way to encourage familiarity and use of professional digital creative technologies (computer, mouse, etc.) rather than building additional affinity for touchscreens (which will happen naturally). Obviously you can create _a lot_ on a phone/tablet, but there's just more junk food around and it's easier to limit sources of temptation/mediocrity rather than fight them. I'd rather train my young child's willpower and self-regulation on easier opponents than modern apps, streaming, etc. :)

tl;dr- Anecdote of one: I consider the Myst series to be an important early step in my eventual journey into creative work and entrepreneurship (high school) and later a hybrid career in design/dev more broadly.

Link: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition (there are also newer 3D re-releases which retain most of the qualities of the original, but I think the values above are best expressed through the static scenes of the early editions and that, at 7, the new-shiny is missed less).

^ If you skim past the whatever was up with the Win7 reviews, you'll see my sentiments echoed -a lot- in the reviews. :)
Likewise when you use the word 'awesome'.
There are many zero sum things people want. Costal beaches are more accessible to the general public when their rental property rather than empty billionaire vacation homes.
I deeply, un-ironically respect their ethos and their hideous, distracting color scheme
The Burden of Complexity
Your earbud headphones do not have batteries inside them that are at high risk of never getting recycled.
I don't resize for every window, but I'm also not bothered about having to resize it if and when it makes sense. It takes longer type in a domain name, so it's hardly a big deal.
It's easy to say something is better, but good computer graphics and computer vision papers compare themselves to the state of the art.

This is ignoring all that and comparing itself to the most manual method possible. This also happens sometimes and is more of a marketing stunt to people who don't follow current research.
So maybe we should try both at the same time!

(just throwing out ideas here)
you have made an intentional decision to "not work for the man". I hope it works out for you. If you were not willing for the (hopefully short term) quality of life costs you could get a regular job with some boring company (finance, insurance, manufacturing...) and work 9-5 with a great salary. Best of luck.

But it was your decision to not go for as much money as you could.
Edit: dishes authentic to a region cooked as close to authentic as the chef and ingredients allow.
I would rather live the horrifying reality, instead of the matrix
What? I love pizza parties. I love events serving pizza.

Problem is, where I live the industry got infected with a bullshit fitness/healthy eating virus, and all the events I used to like now serve fruits and salads.
The nice bit of running a project for a long time is that eventually your old answers accumulate and save you time like this :-).

That said, one point there is outdated: HTTP Toolkit does now fully support websockets too. There's more I'd like to do there, but as far as I'm aware it's equally capable to mitmproxy in that sense today.
Building a Brand vs. Paid Acquisition: Which One Is for Your Business?
How do the properties get onto homestra? Do landlords find your site and enter the data + pay you? Or is the model different?
haha it was funny to read your comment. I was wondering where the connection was! Thanks for the edit
I guess Matsumoto should have charged for Ruby. I'm sure Mike Perham and Derek Kraan would have been glad to pay for that and that the Ruby community would be in a strong and healthy shape.
Now I'm getting that, too. The fact it changed is even weirder.
And it was only so they could target you with ads or so your friends could find and add you so they could target them with ads
I'd say censorship is often a lot like a medium restraint. You're not allowed to say certain things overtly, but you may still signal them covertly.

To be clear, I'm not saying censorship is good - I think it stifles thought and communication - but I don't think it kills art.
"where the bar of DSA problems is much higher due to competition."

I don't see any logic there. Companies in the rest of the world are less focused on DSA as a hiring metric, in my understanding.

Why are Google projects closed? Why are they started?

I believe Google are heavily focused on data and metrics and algorithms, and I think that is definitely a factor.
If you live in a metropolitan area, finding them in local niche shops tends to not be overly difficult. Not to mention that it's possible to import as well.
it's quite plain it's an emergent property

That is not at all quite plain. Respectable philosophical views include the proposition it is at least as fundamental as space or time.
Which definitions of "sentience" and "sapience" might you be referring to, in particular? This is important thanks for bringing it up.
Good point. Sounds like the start of a fun conversation between data protection officers (DPO) and data protection agencies (DPA).
- On edge on linux (yes) cpu process usage increase as well, but not as much.

- On chromium cpu usage do not evolve but it is not animating the favicon.

If you want to disable it on firefox and are using ublock origin, you can do so by going to the ublock origin dashboard --> My Filters and add the following line:

||research.exoticsilicon.com/images/icon.svg
Yeah, I guess that's an option. I don't know if I have a compelling reason for avoiding it, other than the high price and the fact that it requires an extra module (likely not manufactured in GB) to add the dual gigabit. And I guess I just assumed the performance will be worse than something like the NanoPi.
Too early in the morning for this brain twister of a post title!
The one thing I would change, which only the 1980s theme fixes, at the cost of monospace text, is to make the background non-scrolling (or, rather, non-fixed).
> [...] assess that one unit alone — the 346th — “lost nearly the entire brigade with only 125 personnel active out of 900 deployed.”

OMG!
The problem is usually that science can't pay even a fraction of what you can make in industry right now, and meanwhile the good science jobs are often in high cost of living places.
(?) That's higher than min wage (post taxes) in most western countries, for most small saas/web projects/apps with small operating costs that's plenty
HA wow this is incredibly fun with GPT on the other side as a player. Really fun!!
Note that National Post is a very conservative publication, and as such is going to have a bias for "tough on crime" solutions. It is not surprising that this article chooses to focus on bail reform.

Personally, i notice that the sudden rise in crime happened almost exactly at the same time as the fact that rents jumped out of reach for many people.

The fact that the spike in random violence appeared at the same time tent cities did should be obvious to anyone.

It seems likely that a mentally unwell man is far more likely to stab somebody on the subway when that's the place he spends all day to stay warm since the homeless shelters are full.
> how much the state seems to do to keep their poor citizens at bay.

The example your cite can be viewed in different lights I suppose. It could be “keeping poor citizens at bay” or it could be “recognizing a reality and providing a place to dispose of needles so that workers disposing of the garbage don’t accidentally get pricked”.

Also, needles don’t necessarily mean illicit drugs. Could be diabetic needles too.

Canada is pretty progressive at decriminalizing drugs (marijuana a few years back and now hard drugs in BC to a certain amount) in an effort to avoid throwing people in jail. In conjunction with the roll out of safe/supervised injection sites, I would interpret this as trying less to keep these citizens at bay (in jail) and more at trying to give people freedom and autonomy over their bodies.

That said, if you really want to make the case that the government is keeping poor people poor, you needn’t look beyond our interest rate and housing supply policies over the last two decades, and our complete inability to restrict corporate oligopolies from further consolidating. I.e. if you want to complain about us you aren’t doing a very thoughtful job :-)
>just my two cents, to conclude i think a good analogy to the current climate is the 700-800s with electromagnetism: plenty of people discovered "empirical" laws but didn't understand really the phenomenon.

Sounds dead on. Do these large """language""" models actually even implement any concepts from linguistics? Or is the entire "language" part of the model merely derived from the fact that it's inherently part of the training data?

I don't fault Chomsky at all for being fed up with the hype here.

The entire field is also glossing over the fact that other languages which aren't English exist.
> we're actually seeing the mystery of self starting to unravel.

This seems like a change of topic. And vague.

But since you bring it up, I don't see anything threatening about AI.

First, if something is true, then, as a matter of principle, we have an obligation to believe it. Thus, the only threat the truth can pose is to falsehood, which is not a threat, but liberation. The truth shall set you free. Now, it may be uncomfortable is the truth is at odds with what you want to believe (a phenomenon very much present in the linguistic engineering we're seeing in the political sphere w.r.t. political correctness and its dishonest and obfuscating euphemisms), but unpleasantness isn't a threat.

Second, if we replace "threaten" with "challenge", then we might as what beliefs does AI actually challenge? How does it challenge this "mystery of the self"? That we can simulate human discourse or behavior with greater sophistication? That machine automation is becoming more sophisticated? I see no mystery where AI per se is concerned, only the mystification of those who wish attribute to it properties it does not possess, or those with intellectually superficial metaphysical commitments, like mechanistic materialism. AI cannot abstract from particulars, it has no true capacity for intentionality, to name two features central to intelligence. All of what the undiscerning and those given oven to fanciful notions see in AI is a projection.

And I do not think the classical[0] and traditional[1] thinkers viewed intelligence in the obfuscating manner that moderns infected by reductive, mechanistic materialism seem to.

[0] https://a.co/d/hynqHxV

[1] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/03/artificial-intellig...
Syracuse Housing Study
BBC News' Interview with Elon Musk
Or heck, all the youtubers hawking nordvpn and dubious supplements/financial instruments before and after their videos
I'm thinking less than 100 at this point, with revenue in billions.
From the `zig build-exe` help menu:

Supported file types:
.zig Zig source code
.o ELF object file
.o Mach-O (macOS) object file
.o WebAssembly object file
.obj COFF (Windows) object file
.lib COFF (Windows) static library
.a ELF static library
.a Mach-O (macOS) static library
.a WebAssembly static library
.so ELF shared object (dynamic link)
.dll Windows Dynamic Link Library
.dylib Mach-O (macOS) dynamic library
.tbd (macOS) text-based dylib definition
.s Target-specific assembly source code
.S Assembly with C preprocessor (requires LLVM extensions)
.c C source code (requires LLVM extensions)
.cxx .cc .C .cpp .stub C++ source code (requires LLVM extensions)
.m Objective-C source code (requires LLVM extensions)
.mm Objective-C++ source code (requires LLVM extensions)
.bc LLVM IR Module (requires LLVM extensions)
.cu Cuda source code (requires LLVM extensions)
Can you add a map to Homestra? That’s the one piece of functionality that most overseas real estate sites are missing.
>Let's keep in mind that modern hardware and software is very stable, generally

Not at any significant scale. dimm will fail, power will be down, disks will need replacement.

It is all about risks after all. If you are ok to have couple of hours of downtime if one of the memory sticks stops working - good for you. But generally any large enough business won't tolerate such risks.

I'm not saying that the cloud is the answer, but I don't see any future for single instance solution. And if you design your system like this, you are taking much more risks than necessary.
Some vegetarian pizzas, perhaps, for those of us who love cheese but not eating animals and/or destroying the environment. :(
Hard to see this as anything other than a hang over from ZIRP. Yes, it makes total sense if you've got a billion dollars to throw at an AI start up that you can start just throwing absurd sums of money at engineers. Especially if you've convinced yourself (and your investors) that one of these companies is basically going to own the singularity.

What's worrying though, is this looks like a sort of wave of feedback loops. We go through these hype cycles, we had the uber economy, we had self-driving eating the world, we had crypto replacing the USD. And each hype cycle has gotten larger, and closer together. Each hype cycle more grand than the rest - this hype cycle is basically promising the end of the world. What happens when these technologies do deliver something - but not the singularity. What is the next hype cycle? Or do we finally face a real, massive bust, where investors have gotten so burned at this point that they really do start walking away from these stories.
"The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes."
You can give employees social events, and also give non-insulting rewards. Separately.
Thanks! Yes, I found that a huge percentage of visitors to the site were on mobile (especially for HN/reddit/etc traffic) and when your product is a desktop app there's not much you can do with that, so for a long time I effectively didn't have a call to action for most visitors at all, which isn't great for anybody.

Under the hood it's just a tiny automated email flow set up via Mailchimp that sends out the download link when you sign up. Nothing fancy, but it's easy and it does the job.
Follow the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561203
Yes. Money to China is money to China. Unless Sweden wants to force a sale, the brand is compromised.
Nobody's saying reading other good writing doesn't help in any way, they're saying that quantity read doesn't particularly correlate with quality of output. I mean, I doubt Shakespeare read as much good quality English writing as the average human today, but the quality of his visual imagery and wordplay is generally considered to be on another level (and at the other end of the scale, his plots were heavily borrowed from the relatively small corpus of histories and dramas he was exposed to, whereas many writers far more widely read and educated in tropes and genre conventions resolved not to use them and came up with more imaginative settings and storylines... ). Many very well read people are competent enough in the use of language but will never write prose other people particularly want to read.
I believe the article goes on to make the point that while violent crime overall has been worse, the difference now is that many of the victims are not themselves violent criminals. In other words, whereas previously violence was largely confined to violent people, now, random innocent people are involved.
Not that many. They can do it at like 2-3, with 1/1000000th the training set, at least words wise.
HN was not always skeptical about crypto. We're just at a different point in the hype cycle with generative AI.
Tough love approach to crime I understand, but what’s the tough love approach to poverty and homelessness?
Concepts are developed by animals over time. A baby develops sensory-motor concepts from day-1; a child abstracts them; a teenager communicates them; and adult refines that communication.

They are not developed as a matter of averaging over all the text on the internet.

Concepts do not pre-exist concepts.
If you just started watching, at this point the team is waiting for the first signals from the probe.

[Edit: acquired successfully :)].
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If violent crime had been worse before, but it was largely perpetrated by those who knew the victim, that's a very different risk profile to random attacks. If it was previously majority domestic violence, but now it's untreated mental illness and revolving door prisons, it also demands a different solution.
Since 127 refuses to elaborate, what do you think they meant, that doesn't imply banning porn and hackernews?
GP's point likely is that, by taking a salaried job, you're agreeing to take a low-risk, steady income. You do that, because you don't want your take-home pay to suddenly drop or disappear because the company had a worse month or quarter, or because you had a worse week. But this cuts both ways - you trade away the risk, you trade away the reward, so if the company has an excellent financial quarter, you're not entitled to any extra money because of it.
The ardido example is better than what the majority of my college creative writing class could come up with.

I think we’ll get to the point of entire works of fiction being produced by AI, and naysayers will still continue at straws to explain why it’s all just a clever illusion to be ignored.
zig looks like a 'better C', is there a list of something it does better than C(e.g. integer promotion,UB,etc), so that I should embrace it quickly and start to use it in my embedded projects? would like to see a comparison table between zig vs c (or even c++)
Already have it: https://homestra.com/map/

It's hidden on mobile because I didn't have the time yet to optimise it!
30 years of cuts to social safety nets, and life becoming affordable will do that. When as a country we prefer funding more policing, and less on affordable housing, healthcare, and education, we end up with a crisis like this. The fact that people act surprised is mind boggling. People have been warning about this for decades.

I fear that this is only the start of a worsening trend.
A couple questions, if you don't mind. How did you go about finding clients? What is the nature of the work agreement—project-based, hourly, or something else?
Reading this article felt like I was on a mission to explore strange new concepts, to seek out new ideas and new methodologies, to boldly go where no business has gone before!
I don't know that Uber turning a mere 14 years old is proof that the market economy isn't functioning. In a time of incredibly low interest rates and the resulting free-flowing money sloshing around looking for any possible return, I'd expect a lot of companies to reach their teens without that being proof that they can continue indefinitely without showing profits and returns to investors.
We built pepchecker.com (Saas) as a weekend side project back in 2019 and have been slowly adding functionality over the course of a few years. It's now profitable and growing pretty rapidly. If we had put more effort into it, I think we could have crossed the $2k mrr threshold in a year.
The whole west is seeing a rise in violent crime rates.

The National Post is owned by PostMedia, Canada's right-wing Borglike media conglomerate, which also owns the other major papers -- except the Toronto Star, which has only been owned by right wing businessmen since 2020.

Kinda reminds me of when American media blames the President for conditions which pertain worldwide, in that the point of the article isn't to "relate the news", it's to advance a domestic agenda; in Canada's case, "time to switch to the Blue Neoliberals so we can finish privatizing healthcare!"
Arguably most of these cookie popups are not compliant with GDPR law anyway as all cookie acceptance has to default to opt out, its only if the user wants to opt in that the data can be collected. Almost all of the popups default the wrong way and use dark patterns including making you wait minutes to avoid the popups.

This is all by design, they will happily show you that popup everytime you come to the site and you'll never see it again if you accept them. When you see such a pop up you know what sort of entity you are dealing with, one that is willing to fight with the EU and the law to get that data as well as enormously hurting its customers in preference.
We work with a lot of agencies/landlords mostly larger once now but making it more self serve in the upcoming months
You're right, how dare these rubes not ship in gallons of water from Turkey so they can boil that to be truly authentic. What idiots.
GitHub Actions Essentials
I wrote the book that I wish had been available when I started using GitHub Actions
It's going to be someone's fault, but the question is who is responsible...
AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award
I think everybody agrees it looks lively. And that discussion about it is good. That is why we ARE discussing it.
The problem with Java and PHP is mostly bad stdlib design although in completely different ways (PHP also has some weird footguns about equality but those are avoidable).

PHPs stdlib is of the "stickball" variety - they just started adding to it with no style guide, which has resulted in very inconsistent naming, poor rules and lots of security issues that they for ages had to fix with workarounds since people coded against the security issues as if it was correct implementationwise.

Java suffers from an overly interfaced stdlib; the stdlib pretty much only contains standards on how to do something rather than actual implementations. The result is that the default values in the stdlib are ancient/unsafe and also aren't amended, so you don't break compatibility with older Java APIs.

Basically both have too much low quality code in their stdlib which propagates out into bad library design (since the quality of the stdlib tends to the rest of the ecosystem - see how javascripts absurdly barebones stdlib led to it accruing thousands of microdependencies).
Yep, there’s probably a relationship between lack of creativity and overfitting.
I built Scanii [1], an unsafe/malware content detection API/SaaS, as a way to keep my coding skills sharp as I moved into engineering leadership roles. Over the years it has grown into a lovely $35k/month business while spending $0 in marketing thanks to our amazing customers.

My advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: get it out there quick, listen to your customers and be ready to act on their feedback. Finding product/market fit is a journey even if you are selling into the most well understood vertical since it's not just about what the market expects it's about what your engineering talent/capacity can delver in a reasonable amount of time.

[1] https://www.scanii.com