skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a questionable mechanic - I'd even say a useless gimmick that adds nothing substantial to the gameplay.

Dean Hall, the creator of the viral survival sandbox mod DayZ, was obsessed with realism-based immersion, and also tried something similar in his game in 2012. One of the updates tied the in-game time to the real time at the location of the server you were connected to. It also made the moonless and/or cloudy nights impenetrably dark, even GPU gamma correction wasn't able to help you see anything. Considering that the majority of players played the game in the evening, that the game was set in the fictional Balkan country (they only had an hour or so of twilight at best), and that the night vision device was a top-tier item hard to obtain in a survival sandbox, the majority of players just played on servers in distant timezones, preferring huge latencies to playing in the dark.

The update was reverted shortly after that, as it was obvious that it degraded the gameplay quality immensely.
Agreed it's super hard. I think that's why you need to be careful about looking at data until you've got your hypothesis. Too much data and you'll overfit or introduce bias. I think of it more as a way to update your gut with an updated map of the state.
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Very much reminds me of Deluxe Paint on the Amiga from 25+ years ago. Set the number of animation frames, press the Alt key (?) and start drawing with the mouse. Every 1/2 second or so the page would flip automatically, but your drawing would continue. You could easily create animated squiggles very similar to this.
Which automobile manufacturer do you work for?

A major one.
Just waiting for the Forbes cover to drop, then I can confirm we are doomed. lol
> Chasing this is low value busy work.

I disagree. We might understand what I meant by "style"[1] differently. As I think of it, it's comprised of things that have an actual, measurable impact on the effort required to develop the codebase(s) over time. It's not about tabs vs. spaces, snake_case vs. camelCase, or anything even remotely like that. I'm not trying to establish a company-wide set of guidelines for the sake of it - I believe that relatively minor things (in the scope of a single project) can lead to significant savings at the scale of tens of projects and five years of a maintenance window.

As for the guidelines themselves: I don't care what they are, exactly, as long as a) they're there; b) they reduce said effort; and c) they're followed.
Massive opportunity in Atlanta for any barentrepreneur.

The main arcade on Edgewood ("Joystick") is super popular, but only has 8 or so machines. They're not in good shape either. People want to play, but it's too crowded.

The similar "adult dog park / bar" concept has been absolutely exploding. "Fetch" bar started just across the street from me a few years ago and they've since expanded to over ten locations in three different states. It's huge. And it's always packed to the brim with over a hundred people.

Plus you get to charge membership fees per dog in a subscription model.

People want to drink and bring their dogs.

If the west coast doesn't already have this, get on it. I can't imagine there's much moat apart from branding, but it's got huge growth opportunity.
> I find it interesting that they are not waiting to talk about this at WWDC

May 18 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. There will be many accessibility-related announcements this week.

https://accessibility.day/
Jibble.io (Employee Surveillance as a Service)
"What's the difference between a large pizza and a regional carrier first officer job?"

"The pizza can feed a family of four."

That used to be an accurate joke, but now even the regionals are starting to have to pay somewhat more competitively and, in many cases, offer 5-figure signing bonuses to join for a multi-year period. If I end up retiring from tech in my mid-50s, I may even go seek an airline job. (I have the 1500 hours already, so I could reasonably quickly walk onto a regional.)
We settled on nAn1 for our Formula notation in the negative space.

Do you love it hate it, would love to hear feedback!
Old? Chatgpt has only existed for half a year, v4 for a month
lmao my thought exactly
It absolutely does exist, as can be seen from companies like Startpage and Kagi using that paid API.

But yes, it seems hard to believe that the terms of service for a paid API would allow for caching of results. What this sounds like is Mullvad betting that they can just use their VPN IPs for scraping search results and not be blocked.

Edit: the Leta FAQ claims they're paying for API access, seems unlikely they'd lie about that.
Yeah exactly, it was some sort of seasonality effect that, or just plain randomness.
> it is just in some cache layer and about to be written

Definitely not. I get that sometimes we find things that do lie, but lying about this is a huge P0 bug and everyone with an interest in data storage knows to be on the lookout for such brokenness. E.g. such people do not buy SSD that lack some sort of power fail flush protection.
I thought the run-off was just from surrounding farms and continues till now. Is that not correct?
Reminded how stunning it is that the JSMESS is blithely emulating such things so well for us now and everyone is like, oh yeah, three decades of software development that now is a click away and lives forever to play with? cool but lunch?

Had forgotten this gem thanks.
The trials showed that 95% efficacy over the initial trial period -- about 3 months, as I recall. That wasn't a made-up number.

As time went on, it became apparent that while efficacy against symptomatic COVID faded quickly, efficacy against severe COVID (I believe defined by needing hospitalization) and also against all-cause mortality remained strong. You would have had them pull a life-saving vaccine from the market on a bureaucratic technicality? That's insane.
The data structures and algorithms themselves should be the same regardless of what language you are using.

The bigger difference here would be C versus C++, as the language features present in the latter allow significantly more abstraction than the former. Implementing fundamental data structures in C can be very instructive but you will also spend more time on low-level details.

With Java and Python you can ignore memory management to some extent, as these languages are garbage-collected. That could also be a plus or a minus depending on your point of view. When learning the subject, it might be better to be forced to do manual memory management, to learn about the pertinent issues. And then once in "production", you can appreciate the convenience of a garbage-collected language.

When I studied EECS at Berkeley in the late 20th century, we used the following languages:

1. CS61A "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" - Scheme/Lisp. Very highly abstracted from the machine details.

2. CS61B Algorithms and data structures - C++/Java. Allows "just enough" machine details.

3. CS61C Machine structures - MIPS assembly language and some C. All the machine details.

4. EECS 152 Computer Architecture - Implement a RISC/MIPS CPU and SDRAM controller using VHDL.
A few years ago, I found an old electromechanical pinball machine out for the trash. At some point, the back box connector (the part that connects the square top part with the scoreboard to the table) was severed.

I spent a couple of days tracing out the schematic and wiring everything up again, cleaning contacts and doing some basic repairs like changing lightbulbs and rubbers. By the end of the process, I had a playable pinball machine.

What was really an eye-opener for me was how the game was "programmed". Timing was handled by flashing lightbulbs and game state was maintained by relays and wheels that triggered stacks of switches. Really a different way of thinking about how to build up a game.

I didn't play game enough and want to spend the time to keep it running, so I donated it. It was really enjoyable to fix it up (once) and figure out how everything worked. I might do it again some time!
Old as in old news, or an old joke.
My favorite version of this is Simulation Theory, aka creationism with extra steps.
Real pinball absolutely allows nudging. There is a sensor in the machine, a pendulum hanging within a ring so that it makes contact if you move the machine too far. The game software will assess you with a warning at first, and then if you go too far the penalty is to shut down and lose the ball in play.

Nudging just enough so you don't trip the sensor, or deliberately going too far to incur the warning when you need to save a ball, is absolutely a component of skilled play.
I think you look at a company and you say, “is this an honest, principled cash grab?” and if the answer is no, it might be a cynical cash grab.
Does it work with kittens or puppies? Gorillas/chimps? Whales/dolphins? Octopus? Parrots?
Yeah this is just a transition to a new form of neo-mysticism that they hope will be more satisfying than the last one—i.e. the idle speculation that a science-fictional transhumanist future will arrive any day now.

I wish them the best in discovering that you don't need elaborate symbolic fake candle ceremonies or fantasies of ascending to digital heaven to find an outlet for the human urge to collectively transcend the mundane. You can just, like, go to a music festival or a sports game or something. The sublime isn't actually supernatural. It's just an emotion. You don't need to flirt with supernaturalism to find it.
Was computed related, but he find a loop role on his business contract. He was right by the legal team os the service, but they used a another term that make they right to not work with us anyway. His document ID was banned (he cant create accounts with his name/id anymore).

I dont remember the details, but was related to the free limits per account. And if my memory serves, he was in the plan that he can create how many parent accounts he wants for free. That plan does not exists anymore.
Growing up in Santa Cruz during peak arcade, the casino at the boardwalk was one of the best. Not only did they have just about all the arcade video games but also an incredibly deep pinball collection for when you needed something else. My favorite was a pinball machine with a baseball theme that was from the 30's. Most the antique pinball are no longer on the floor but they used to have such a cool collection that you could play.
Hello, thank you for your question!

It's important to note that our platform offers full customizability, while they only offer pre-set configurations. This level of flexibility comes with a trade-off in terms of pricing.

Regarding their infrastructure and system, I don't have specific information. However, I couldn't find any details about long-term reservations on their website. In comparison, -for example- we offer reserved instances with A100s starting as low as $1.2 per hour.

There are also other factors to consider. We prioritize investing in data center infrastructure, security, quality, and reliability. For instance, we provide up to 40Gbps public, 200Gbps private network connectivity for each virtual machine and offer 3x replication for storage. These features come with their own trade-offs, and each company has its own pricing structure.

I hope this clarifies the situation!
Literally the opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying people shrug off what's happening to other people because they don't think it will happen to them, while in fact, what's happening to other people is a good preview of what's coming for you.
This seems like more than a bit of a stretch to me. I don't really think of Magneto as a "Jewish supervillain". In fact I highly doubt almost anybody knew Magneto was Jewish. This attempt to paint this as an anti-Semitic attack seems totally unfair to me.

Moreover, Soros is a guy from another country who pours money into the USA to get leftist DAs elected who don't prosecute crimes. Krasner, Boudin, Gascon, etc. He has openly admitted to this. I have an ENORMOUS amount of criticism of this that has literally NOTHING to do with Mr. Soros' religion, or background, or anything. Hiding behind this wall of "any criticism of me is racist" is a serious bullshit move IMO.
I find C/C++, et al curly brace syntax and semi colon at end of line, maybe; syntax absolutely abhorrent. Erlang reads like a sentence commas, and period at end. There's very little syntax and it makes sense. The problem it is different than what 90% people learned programming on (curly brace languages).

But the hard part of Erlang is OTP / understanding the concepts or rather unlearning the concepts from other programming paradigms.
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A laptop with adb backup. Try searching for or putting into chatgpt "adb backup how to backup and restore my phone". Try it out on your new phone first. Essentially after installing adb, you'll need to enable a debug option on your phone first, plug it in, allow the adb command to access it, then run backup. It could take a while so make sure your laptop is fully charged.
My family goes to Seattle Pinball Museum https://www.seattlepinballmuseum.com/ in International District. Play pinball for a while, then go out for Chinese or Sushi. All machines are marked with Fun/Grin factor on the scale from 1-10. First time I went there, they had this really unusual machine that emulated aircraft machine gun. It shot a neverending stream of pinballs at about 2-3 bps (balls per second) with hundreds of them flowing through the system at once and feeding back into the gun. You controlled it with two handles on left and right of the machine, like a gunner in the WW2 aircraft. You had to shoot out the target lights at the board to get the score. It was incredibly noisy, tactile and FUN. The label on it correctly stated that it was "14 out of 10" on the grin factor scale. The lady running that place told me they hardly ever turned it on because it was so incredibly loud, and it was gone next times I went there.
As others mentioned, this was initially developed before LangChain became widely used. Since it is lower level, you can leverage other tools, like any vector store interface you like such as in LangChain. Writing complex chain of thought structure is much more concise in guidance I think since it tries to keep you as close to the real strings going into the model as possible.
I stopped buying Google Pixel when my Pixel XL randomly stopped working... something to do with the flash chip. Google said basically "Oh, well, buy a new one".
Not sure why everyone thinks local language processing, generation and voice synthesis has anything to do with privacy. Apple's business model has supported their relatively pro-privacy approach (along with how bad they are at a lot of cloud services) but doing anything useful with a 30B token LLM stored on your machine is still going to require the Internet, and your AI Personal Assistant will be just as tracked and cracked as you are today.
Hardware Startups in the Bay Area?
I am interested in finding a good list of potential hardware startups in the Bay. The "best" fit would be one that has both non-Von Neumann compute elements and advanced sensing hardware... I know it is hard to find! that's why I am asking the experts!

Thanks!
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I think it's smart, it makes it tangible to an audience that has time and time again demonstrated incompetence at understanding technology when explained with any level of abstraction.
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I hate to ban anyone who's been around for 10 years but it's totally not ok to be aggressive like that on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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Pun of the year.
You can get most of the way there with euporie:

https://github.com/joouha/euporie

I don't support audio yet, but it should be possible using DECPS escape sequences
No, "trafficking" is a legal term that means people were unlawfully coerced into work.

I don't just disagree with the view, it is on its face disingenuous.
Is it just me or somehow programming languages and frameworks are not my focus any more? I'm still interested in programming language designs and implementations, but I'm quite neutral on what language/framework to use in my work. There are just too many other things to take priority: organizational structures, system architectures, emerging technologies, new hardware, algorithms, insights in a domain, and etc. Choice of languages barely moves the needle.
But you showed an example which was significant. That confuses your point somewhat.

It’s also not clear why you think “most” startups are not doing statistical significance tests on their a/b test results
/r/antiwork isn’t about improving working conditions, though. There was a huge drama about people splitting to some other “work reform” subreddit because they were tired of the, literally, anti-work tone that took over the subreddit.

They try to say it’s about something else, but the posts that hit the front page are always just being angry about something like a supposed text from someone’s boss or a piece of paper with a message taped to a wall. The effort to fake any of these posts is 10 minutes of imagination and prep, at most.
This works for me on Linux. https://github.com/r3nor/mullvad-tailscale
15 minutes.

I doubt if majority of people would sit down to say "The pleasure of Busby's company is what I most enjoy. He put a tack on Miss Yancy's chair, when she called him a horrible boy." to even try out this feature
>If OpenAI just wants to prevent another OpenAI eating its lunch, the barrier there is raw compute.

Stable Diffusion pretty much killed DALL-E, cost only $600k to train, and can be run on iPhones.
Compared to arcade games, pinballs require quite a bit of maintenance. Plenty of mechanical things to break or wear down, and tons of wiring.

I had a 1976 Williams EM that was fun to play, but definitely kept me busy working on it.
> In fact I highly doubt almost anybody knew Magneto was Jewish. This attempt to paint this as an anti-Semitic attack seems totally unfair to me.

I have no skin in this game...but Elon most definitely knows that Magneto is Jewish when making that comparison. Whether or not other people are aware of it is irrelevant.
Maybe the FAQ would be a better link than a search page that can only be accessed by people on this VPN?

https://leta.mullvad.net/faq
Poor understanding of my comment.

> However, if you could get iOS on hardware from different manufacturers, loyalty to Apple for hardware would inevitably be lessened

The word "if" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting in this sentence because we both know that isn't the case and isn't happening (though the usage of Hackintosh supports this idea), but the counterpoint is that this is exactly the case with Android, ergo, you will see less loyalty if your apps and data carries on without fuss, regardless of which manufacturer you choose for your next device.

People switching away from Apple isn't the topic at hand, why people don't stick with the Pixel in terms of "loyalty" is. The bigger picture is that they're likely still "loyal" to Android as that's what they're invested in when it comes to apps purchased, accessories et al.

Anecdote: I use a Pixel. I don't give a shit what manufacturer makes my next device and seldom stick to one brand, but I will be sticking to Android for the foreseeable just to avoid being subjected to the whims of a single manufacturer, which has felt bad in the past when I was an Apple user.

Brand loyalty is for suckers because it eschews objectivity.

Is brand loyalty the same as vendor lock-in if the end result is the same?
There might not have been much difference between them at the time, but who knows how their lives went after their time there?

Some might have wound up being relatively wealthy compared to the rest, and that could have influenced their long-term health.

We won't know until we check.
I’m not suggesting tropes are bad or good in themselves, I’m just suggesting that the tone of this article is pretty dismissive
Elixir/Erlang/OTP actually holds up well even with modern cloud environments, including Kubernetes.

For example, you can effectively architect with microservices without actually creating more deployable artifacts. This is because each GenServer is already a microservice. You build it from the ground up reasoning through failure modes and coordination. Those are easier to separate out into its own deployable artifact when the time comes, if it ever does.

People hear about code hot reloainding (where you deploy new code without shutting down the production environment) and think that’s the killer feature of the BEAM vm. Code hot reloading is a narrow use—case of a more general capability — you can directly write or patch new code in a running system in a live environment through the REPL. That has been very useful for improving the system, to stop the bleeding or identifying bottlenecks and trying out fixes, even when deployed as ephemeral pods in Kubernetes.
>Notice how ChatGPT didn’t put its thumb in the air and see which way the wind was blowing? Using a proper tool for analysis not only saves time but also adds precision. This example shows how statistical testing is no joke. Don’t rely on gut feeling or surface-level data.

Hold on - you can't just say ChatGPT "adds precision" with nothing to back it up! Acting as if ChatGPT is capable of thinking about your results better than you seems extremely unwise.

The real way that companies are doing Data-Drived Decisions wrong is by only measuring one thing without correctly thinking of other factors. For example, a website might find that having a pop-up that says "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST!!!" might increase mailing list subscriptions, but you are forgetting the effects that has on other parts of your business like the website being slower, customers being less happy, etc.
It’s weird that people think cashflow on leveraged investments isn’t important.
One of the lectures is actually "The Design of CS61B" which explains a lot about how the course is structured and how it has evolved!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dWqymxQxZrMWYl76GfJo...

In my mind this is the most interesting aspect of this course website - the meta reflection aspect.
Yea I agree. He seems like a literal different person since the Twitter takeover. That, or he's always been like this but done a good job of hiding it.
I have a Tutanota account, but only because I didn't discover Protonmail first.

I know both are free, but the difference is night and day IMO. I need to pay just to search past 3 months with tuta.
He already made the first step to his replacement.