skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a typo, just a snarky joke on the project's total income :)

I guess it depends what level someone considers a failure. It it keeps making money and trends are improving I wouldn't consider it a failure. For example 500 EUR would pay my rent so the bar is lower for me, but sure anything more than 1000 is already nice, especially if it doesn't require constant attention.
I've played this. It's not spreading the way they want because it's a boring, cheesy, overdramatic thing that does not fit the video game format.
D’s Biggest Mistake
Yes, but according to that definition, Chess is a game of perfect information. So I’m wondering what definition the person I replied to is using, since their claim was that Chess is not a game of perfect information.
It depends on the capabilities of the low code tool and the problem domain.
Just today I created a "flow" in the Android app Automate to add "auto-sleep after 30 minutes" functionality to YouTube every time I toggle pause/play after 11pm. Dead simple with a very easy to understand ui control flow. I could have written an Android app/service to tap into the various APIs and accomplish the same, but for this use case this low code solution was clearly superior. I could see a lot of software development being replaced with low code tools.
The original transformer, from the "attention is all you need paper" had an encoder-decoder architecture because it was designed for language translation use where you are mapping one sequence to another, and are able to use both the preceding and following context of words when performing this mapping. The encoder utilizes the forward context.

In contrast to seq-2-seq use, for generative language models such as ChatGPT you only have access to preceding (not forward) context in order to decide what to generate next, so the encoder part of the architecture is not applicable and a decoder-only transformer is used.
there's still tech out there that does, like the pinephone. It's going to be niche, but it exists
I guess that’s true until you get caught or a disgruntled employee calls the local immigration office. Worse is that not only is the employee charged with fraud and tax evasion (because that’s what they’re doing) but the company can be sanctioned as well.
So you can import it at winter for much more $$$ than you sold it at summer.
So good news - GM will allow you to dock your phone via bluetooth and let you use the car as simple speaker. So - not a problem for you. Just a problem for those of us that actually like the facilities offered by Android Auto or Carplay - and want to use that instead of the car company's frequently crappy and un-updateable software.
Haha, fair point, what I really meant is that LLMs will translate natural language to code, so building will be mostly in English while debugging will still happen in code.
You surely knew I was half joking. Anyway, I'll explain a little further. I said cheating because panspermia, as I understand it, has a very narrow window of usefulness.

If surface abiogenesis is unlikely, panspermia is more unlikely because it needs the former, plus a way for the spores to survive in space, the travel of interplanetary, maybe interstellar distances, atmosphere re-entry and developement in a new environment.

Another factor is that, if we accept the current estimations for the age of Universe and the fact that some elements only are present in second or third generation star systems (because they were formed inside novas), we could be one of the first guests to the party. Panspermia would place abiogenesis even further in the past.

The only scenario in which panspermia would be more likely is that some components that are needed for life can only appear in space and develop on the surface.

That's not to say that panspermia is in itself an absurd idea, actually the fact that some elements need to be created inside stars means that we're somehow children of the stars, it just happens that panspermia isn't a great substitute for abiogenesis. An amplifier, maybe.
Uninstalling a program via the Add or Remove Programs GUI doesn't clean up the registry entries. I noticed this awhile ago and realized I had hundreds of old registry entries for games I had uninstalled a long time ago.

Plus, most people using Steam uninstall games through Steam. So if Steam isn't cleaning up the registry that entry will stay there. I don't think the registry entry will do anything, but it can't hurt to remove it manually.
Another post on the same topic from three days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537813
I think OP is specifically talking about the array of bits that make up “the Super Mario Brothers ROM image” and music, and not the trademarked characters, level designs, and so on in the game.

There is no way in hell Nintendo still makes significant revenue from selling, say, the Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge, or its software image. It is effectively “locked away” in a vault until freed from the bonds of copyright. This happens to so many old works, because copyright is so ridiculously long.

I would love to see a histogram of how much profit all copyright holders make from all artistic products, year by year. I would guess that, for the vast, vast number of works, 99.99 or more percent, they make all their money in less than 10 years and for the remaining 100 or whatever years the work makes $0 and just sits there, wastefully and needlessly kept from the public.
I literally laughed aloud about 1992 being the year of Linux on the desktop.
Bughouse chess, unlike chess, is real-time, and symmetric.
Top NN (neural net) engineers getting paid $5-20M annual compensation packages
Does the T2 break Linux somehow?
Check this out too:

https://old.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/7yh4zu/deleted_b...

Flight simulator software developer ships malware to users, exfiltrates browser's password store to their servers without even using encryption.
I'm 10 months into 'walked out of 'good' professional WFH job to go work retail and vibe' and I'm just at the point where I want to do things again. My periodic attempts to force it never worked.
People who have spent years coding are also perfectly capable of creating unmaintainable messes where one change will break 3 features, thank you very much.
> If the review is banned, it seems that the review in question was the reason for ban/lock.\nI wouldn't read into "please make sure you are not spamming or advertising".

Having said that, (that is what I said), the message was convincingly human for a support agent response. They didn't need to use so many words. [+also]

> They could write "please make sure you are not harming anyone" and it would not suggest that the user attempted to do so.

It would though, that's why they write things like that. The point is to reinforce that the recipient is/was at fault. They don't talk about specifics. It "makes it sound like it wasn't just the review they had a problem with".

[+also] it didn't say "After careful consideration we've decided to uphold the original decision. We recognise that this may be distressing to you. xoxox YoursTubey"
Guess that’s what those Epsilon checks are for.
For many of us slogging away in retail or made unemployable by "5 years of experience"-ism, those were a barrage of "let them eat cake" moments. The delta between that quality of life and the average Zoomlennial's (the real average, not what any given coastal publication might have you believe) is unconscionable and in no way justified by apparent differences in capability. I watch luxury mansion tours for fun, and not one has made me nearly as furious as one of those DITL videos. They make the tech industry look like an upscale daycare for the adult children of the right class of global citizens, and no one else.
What system (commercial, internal, personal) were you instrumental in creating?
What system (commercial, internal, personal) were you instrumental in creating and what major challenge did you overcome to do so?

Hey everyone, share your thoughts
They had one of the most expensive electricity before the war.
farming ectoplasm lfg
I dont think you understand what the plan is...

Every feature on the car will be a subscription... Heated Seats, Fast Charging, Nav, everything

Of course they will be "free" for the first 3-5 years of ownership, the free is non-transferable to a new owner... and you will be able to get the GM+ All Access Plan to "unlock your car's full potential for only $500 a year".....

This is not a GM thing, this is the dream of all Auto Makers..

You may "buy" the car, but you are not "buying" the software that runs the car...
Custom software development could learn a lot from the "visual programming" part of low-code development.

I find it odd that we design and understand our software as diagrams on whiteboards, and then we just maintain this big ball of text.

Everyone thinks they are writing clean code, but most projects require huge amounts of time spent poking at it to figure out what the actual core business logic is.

I think the future of programming is two-way sync between visual and code, where every piece of code is visualized in a graph. I want to open a project and see the function call graph, live annotated values from different code paths, and a data dependency graph of how every value in the system responds to events and user interactions.
Man, I miss GW1. That skill/class system was amazing and still goes unmatched in its flexibility and depth today.
Simplifying Kubernetes Developement with Rancher Desktop and Rising Above Docker
Nice! I been looking for this last week actually. But would help if you list which sites you actually have. I have no idea if you have the sites im looking for and would love to know that before signing up.
The most common use of NeWS was probably the various printers Sun sold in the early to mid 90s that used an sbus raster card and NeWS to generate an image for the laser to put on the drum.
I think this makes a ton of business sense. They're only doing this on EV's, which have to be charged, and are likely concerned your car infotainment system is going to become a platform people buy things on they don't want to miss out on. Tesla has done it and because of this they have the best infotainment system in the industry. Frankly from what I can tell as well this is just editorialization, I don't think GM considers it a blunder and it seems like the smart move in my opinion (although it would have been smarter to start 10 years ago like Tesla did).
Gotta love jgrahamc is still using blogger.
It's pretty seamless. There are occasional small lags when starting apps, and the fans do spin up when playing Minecraft Java edition and there are lots of creatures nearby (we also had to kill off a bunch to stop it lagging really badly when there were something like 200 creatures of a type that follow you about), but it feels like it's got a good few years in it yet. Apple apps like Photos and Mail etc feel pretty responsive. For reference the Air has a 1.4GHz Dul-Core Intel Core i5, 4GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM and Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536MB. I've got an M1 Max Macbook Pro with 64GB of memory, so it's up against some tough competition!
Protesting against mining which is expanded because NPPs are closed.
I think we're talking past each other.

I think it's good to have open source clients, because it makes it easier to audit them. If you get your Signal client from F-droid, and competent people can compare the F-droid binary with the open, audited sources, then it's easier for you to trust the binary.

Of course competent people can reverse-engineer a proprietary binary, but that seems harder than having fairly reproducible builds.

Of course many people are not competent to make the audit by themselves, and therefore they need to trust someone.

And of course, OSS does not all by itself address security issues.

Still I am convinced that it helps.

> It's useless for people who don't have the ability to build from source, which is most people.

I strongly disagree with that. If you have an open source client and a reproducible build, then many competent people can audit the binary you provide on some store. Then most people can benefit from those third-party audits.
They only post once every one-two days, so they are not getting throttled. The limit was several tweets an hour. So I call BS
There's one aspect I never saw explained. Why is masking used instead of a sliding window? Why even bother with masking when future tokens can be easily hidden by simply positioning the context window before the current token? Isn't sliding window optimal for maximizing context available to the model? Is masking done because moving the window would impact computational cost or output stability/quality? Can anyone shed light on this?
As far as American University's are concerned, this article missed one incredibly major point: international students pay more.

A lot of American universities are scrambling for every international student they can get because they pay the most.
One I just launched, for fun and maybe profit?

https://thefuck.cards

Go make one for a friend (or enemy)
Yeah, it looks like your MBA is on the fringes of reliable support: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht...
Bitwarden released Argon2id encryption support
Accounting and exclusivity. MS can try to make GamePass a gate for all future purchases, and the interchange cost is just moving money around inside MS at that point.
> I've been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than you'd think and guess what? They are almost always wrong.

I concur. It's not new, either. I have been writing software professionally, since 1984-5 (depending how you define "professionally"), and have heard this claptrap since Day One. I'm sure it was around before I was in a position to hear it (tree, forest, sound, etc.).

AI will generate the same BS, until people figure out that those skilled in writing really good prompts, get much better results than your average C-Suite dork.
That’s not true for most countries. Tourist visas are not for any kind of work. Business visas permit attending meetings and conducting business activities to benefit a company in the traveller’s origin country, but in general there has to be a connection to the country issuing the visa — “I just want to live there for three months” isn’t a business purpose.
Exactly, hence the famous German, Afghan, and Iraqi baseball teams.
Hypocrisy never is a good impression to give.

Shows how out of touch these people are.
Nice! Can it run Sunview?
It's not quite the same though. Since TypeScript uses union types, `T | undefined | undefined` is equivalent to `T | undefined` (and might even be `T`, depending on how that is defined!), while `Option<Option<T>>` is always a distinct type from `Option<T>`
Crime is also human behavior, "fixing" it is clearly out of reach but we can mitigate by law, processes and again, regulation.

you are correct, human nature (or better behavior, as i think its more learned than inherited) is the problem. A problem you cant fix, like crime. But you can mitigate the negative outcome of it.

I once heard a dumb fellow say "capitalism is like nature, where the fittest survive".
I replied "so like in nature, in the end, you give as much back as you took?", meaning nutritions. He went silent.

propper wealth distribution is imho the solition to this sympthom. A inheritance tax that deserves its name. until there is nothing like that, the decks will always ne stacked against the small have-nots, no matter their top performance.
It's not about the censored review. The story here is about the fact that people who marked this review as helpful got punished for doing so. And that's an order of magnitude more severe fuck up.
>other times you just need a database with a front end and a low-code solution is best

Until you need it to do something slightly beyond its capabilities and then you are trapped with an app that needs to be rewritten with data that needs to be migrated in order to implement one small feature.
> This low-code tool is called OutSystems and my review of it is that its a steaming pile of shit.

I've used this app for a few months last year and the UI is simply awful.
That's exactly what I bought on my 2012, and I fear I may not be able to get it again if I have to replace the car. I got the lowest-spec stereo that still had Bluetooth. It also has AM/FM/CD which I use quite a bit, but no nav, no integrated streaming, no telematics, no GSM radio that bricks a bunch of features when the GSM network gets decommissioned, none of that.

Reason being, I worked in infotainment testing at the time, and I didn't want my car to remind me of work.

It's been fantastic. Nothing about it feels outdated. My kitchen appliances are from around the same era and likewise, they just work like they always have. There's no maps to expire, no subscriptions to renew, nothing of the sort.

Equally importantly, it doesn't spy on me. There's no EULA to accept when I start the car, no continuous feed of my location being sent to advertisers (unless I take my phone with me, which is my choice each trip).

And no chance of perverts spying on me with the car's cameras. It doesn't have any.
It is mostly about peoples motivations for programming and the complexity of their projects. Although I would not mind making money off of my projects that is not why I start them, also my projects are often quite complicated and don't revolve around web tech that much.
Actually that's a good question. Perhaps an answer is that they are looking for still-supported firmware or needed WOL as such a core feature and perhaps apps couldn't just run on just Linux, but it is still a good question: why run a closed-source (some might call spyware) operating system on top of libreboot, the opposite.
"That year (1995) was also when Linux was first ported to a new architecture by Linus. He'd been given a DEC Alpha machine."

This is not fully correct:
The first port ever was on Motorola M68k in 1993 for the Amiga platform.

https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1993/0915.html
But strategically placed rounding was in fact the solution to the original problem that in this thread Rationals were proposed as solving...

Rational types are not super popular and don't get used that much, most (not all) people that end up using them do it very intentionally and consciously and know what they're dealing with -- if they were more ubiquitious, I suspect more trouble would be seen "in practice".

While it's probably true that any digital number format will have edge cases that in fact come up in practice, my personal choice of "Why the heck isn't this more popular, why doesn't every language support it, why isn't it in fact the default representation of a numeric literal" -- is floating point "decimal" types, like ruby (or I think Java?) BigDecimal, rather than rational. I think they mostly work matching programmer's mental models of numbers, and for many/most common uses on 2023 platforms the performance is just fine. (this would not have been true 30 years ago).
> There is no way in hell Nintendo still makes significant revenue from selling, say, the Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge, or its software image

Why not? Nintendo has been quite successful in selling emulated versions of these games in their ds store and released the wildly popular Nintendo Classic Edition which included this rom and sold over 2 million.
My father owned a successful mobile home dealership for about 40 years. As a teenager, and later in college, I did grunt work (mostly manual labor) at the business in the summers.

Later, in my mid-thirties, I left corporate software development for six or seven years, and managed the business for my dad. While I was there I wrote software to help me manage things, which, after I left the business to return to software development, I turned into the SaaS product which I've sold to other dealerships.
Blizzard also pulled the original W3 downloads and switched everyone to a non-hd version of Reforged. I'm still mad about that because I paid for both and I'm no longer able to get one of them.
I imagine that lack of stable reference points would be an issue on the ocean. Both for the algorithms under test and for validation. (I liberally use "algorithm" here as the superset of both algorithm and the hardware it runs on, I think in reality these tests are mostly for correcting parameters that are hard to determine with sufficient accuracy on paper)

If you want to write off an entire booster, adding a dummy tower somewhere in the desert would not add much to the bill and could well be worth it. Or maybe even a not-quite-so-dummy tower, but off-site, where the booster would be scrapped on location (instead of reflown) even in the best case, no matter how hypothetical?
A hefty bit of reverse re-engineering and quite some pain in the neck. Also you'll do everyone a favour if you vote with your dollar for a car that has dedicated controls for AC and such.
Exactly

News medias talk about companies that hire 100 000s people, across 10s of countries, cultures, etc, etc and then write their stories basing on opinion of 4 random employees
I wonder if anyone at these software companies ever had to actually do these things in practice.
To see the spreading support for webgpu check out https://web3dsurvey.com
The thing I like the most about this is how the game actually switches out a unit with a different unit depending on the task the unit needs to do. It's not exactly in the reddit post, but rather in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytWNbpnAVY where the error is outlined. What a brilliant way to keep complexity down.
Eh, I am fine to hold copyright as long as the author is still alive.
The Problem with the Retirement Age Is That It’s Too High
I somehow ended up as an American eligible for health insurance in the Medicare for All model (I'm covered and just pay a % of my income, but I can have whatever income I want), and it's shocking what this has done for my ability to not only plan, but to tell employers and prospective employers to pound sand.

One interesting thing about it is that it makes working for small businesses that can't afford good healthcare viable. It would really help jumpstart that part of the economy if we decoupled healthcare from employment.
The CarTalk brothers agree: don’t wait, just drive.
When you will be now "maintaining" 1000+ row VBA macro script in Excel linking dozens of files to generate a report and office folks will ask you to fix it because it does not work properly and author was laid off month ago, you will have different opinion.
Trademark isn't intended to be a backdoor to extend copyright law.

Obviously someone calling for copyright expiration is calling for a sane interpretation (or reinterpretation, if you will) of trademark law.

Even under current law whether you can make a Micky Mouse cartoon probably has more to do with which judge your litigation is in front of than anything else.
> This afternoon I tried to use Codium to autocomplete some capnproto Rust code.

This isn't what I said at all. I said with summarizing data.
That's a bit of a leap. The argument is that the pain should be felt at the top as well as the bottom, as a function of the state of the company. The least execs could do is try to appear as if they're working to keep people's livelihoods intact. They could signal this in a number of ways, but it's a matter beyond an irrational sense of fairness; if the execs don't have to sacrifice anything at all, is the company really in such dire straits that employment has to be disrupted for the most vulnerable parts of the org?