skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of them are. The first two things this site played at me was the fruit machine music from Superfrog (Amiga, 1993, Allister Brimble) [0], then the DisIsSid#3 intro (Amiga, 1996, Manfred Linzer) [1]

That's not to say that crackers and musicians don't mingle. While there was not only music made for games, demos, intros, musicdisks and other demoscene productions, there was certainly a lot of chiptunes commissioned for or widely spread by cracktros, with the musicians' support

In one particularly interesting case, Mark Knight [2] got a permanent job as a musician for the game company Mindscape, and he could hear his own music, [3] that he'd given to Melon Dezign and had been used by their cracking friends Crystal for the cracktro [4][5] to their crack of Mindscape's game, Moonstone [6]

> I received a call from Richard Leinfellner at Mindscape offering me some freelance work, converting the Wing Commander music for the Amiga. I snapped it up and when (almost) completed, he offered me a full-time position as in-house composer.

> It could have been the shortest career in history when, during the first week, I heard one of my chiptunes playing in the production office. Mindscape had just
released Moonstone, and had downloaded a copy from a bbs. I stuck my head around to see why they were playing my tune, and quickly saw that the crack intro introducing Moonstone was playing. I silently shuffled out, went back to my room, and shut the door very worried about the consequences of this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfrog

[1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3416

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Knight_(musician)

[3] https://marktdkknight.bandcamp.com/track/maintheme-2-origina...

[4] http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=7902

[5] https://flashtro.com/crystal-moonstone/

[6] https://archive.org/details/AmigaDownload/page/n259/mode/2up...
> You could scroll through a web page smoothly

Not really, certainly not at 60fps. Hell, even in the late 2000's, smooth scrolling for web pages specifically was still held back by rendering performance, hence the iPhone having much more aggressive scroll deceleration for web content only. In any case, 90's OSes did all sorts of tricks to try to avoid doing this kind of animation because “2D acceleration” wasn't a guarantee. Recall that scrollbars didn't have instant feedback in the past (they scrolled when you let go of the mouse) and neither did window resizing. These transitions would have been designed to work reliably even on the lowest-spec Windows 95 machine, considering they're part of office software, not games.
If it were completely merit-based, then sure, then let AI disrupt the industry.

But it's not just merit, it's bang-for-buck. Companies will be happy to generate 2-3 star shows for free instead of paying writers to produce 3-4 star shows.
You’re overthinking it. Information is rarely that complex. “Here’s footage from a hidden camera in a private jet of a prime minister banging his mistress”.
SARS-CoV-2 failure to infect or replicate in mosquitoes: an extreme challenge
Sad but true for a lot of folks who hate using Office. The enterprise readiness would be a decider for many companies.
Would a spec sheet really help? For the use cases you are talking about, I wouldn't want to touch anything that doesn't come with actual datasheets and application notes, unless you're just doing it for fun. (i.e. the lack of spec sheet isn't really the obstacle here)
The difference now is that we have a lot fewer companies who have captured markets. New players can't come in because the big guys run the show. Walls have been established by big companies to make it too difficult or too expensive to start.
> I would argue that the silicon-based LLMs we have today do explicitly lack sentience.

A fine argument could be made, but that argument rests upon the question of the degree to which you yourself are a LLM. You may not have any option of believing other than you do.

> Sentence, self-awareness, can only exist when you receive yourself as an input in some form shape or way.

Perhaps (you may not be able to realize that you only believe this, you don't actually know it), but how does one know it isn't being simulated in some manner by consciousness, which is further distorted by culture (ie: the culture we've been raised in severely underweights the importance of epistemology, and consciousness' "interesting" implementation of it)?
How a Jungle Prison Became a Famous Spaceport
Portland radio station now has an AI DJ as a midday host
No, a tangible benefit is one that’s real or concrete aka possible to measure.

> Future economic prosperity requires the current generation of children to be healthy, well educated and well adjusted members of society.

If that’s your personal ideology then fuck old people benefits… Except no, that’s not what either of us believe. You need to balance what you want to do with what you can sustain doing, there’s all sorts of lovely benefits the government of the UK could provide in theory but you need to weight nice to haves vs the ability for the system to sustain itself.

The UK has been in a downward spiral for longer than either of us have been alive, fixing that is necessary or you’re not actually benefiting young people. Saying think of the children is all well and good, but debt isn’t a viable solution you need to cut somewhere if you want to prioritize children’s benefits more.

PS: UK’s debt to GDP ratio was under 30 in 2000, and hit ~70 in 2010. The growth slowed and stopped after conservatives took over. Let’s not pretend the previous 10 years before the conservatives was good governance, it created a huge long term burden for the country which is going to stick around long after those leaders are all dead. The conservatives haven’t done a good job, but debt fueled spending is only useful in an absolute emergency not the solution to any and all problems.
Without a git log and belief my keys are secured, I've read code I've written that I would never have believed I could have written, both good and bad.

Memory is a fabrication.
Scars are real.
Wounds have stories.
Zoho Workplace. Many of the office suite apps are much more feature-rich then Google's offerings.

Zoho Mail -- GMail

Zoho Writer -- Google Docs

Zoho Show -- Google Slides

Zoho Sheet -- Google Sheets

Zoho Workdrive -- Google Drive

Zoho Cliq -- Microsoft Teams (not sure what's google counterpart)

What I like in Zoho Mail:

1. Practical mailing use cases like sharing/commenting over a mail is possible.

2. Privacy focussed.

In Zoho Writer:

1. Has more business usecases solved than Gdocs - like pdf templates, sign integrations and mail merge integrations.

2. Tools are arranged better than a standard top toolbar.
Iraq unveils ancient stone tablet returned by Italy
In the Netherlands, Europe. We had a small agency with 3 friends. We did around 250k a year in revenue.

Exactly the type of team that is super productive for these kinds of job imo.
Do you?

I know of none. Of course I heard many people online claiming that they do. But I cannot have something as a daily driver, if I cannot reliable know, if I can make a call, or not. (not even speaking about battery life)
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While I do think that most of the useful pages either come from juniors or from someone promoting their own product, I think there are a ton of bad pages from juniors that have outright incorrect or dangerous information, too. So it can be hard to tell what advice to use and what not to if you're at a level that you're asking the question in the first place.
Zulip has a better and faster interface than Discord IMO, and it's published under the Apache 2 license, making it free software:

https://github.com/zulip/zulip

I've been using it at https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/ for over 5 years now, it's great
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> The author hits the nail on the head with his claim that imaginary problems are more fun than real ones.

Not necessarily. It's just that most developers have never worked in a setting where they got to work on problems properly.

Solving real problems for real people is very addictive. There is a reason some people like working for startups. It's because you live very close to your users and when you make them happy you know.

The second interesting fact is that if you just plow ahead and solve many real problems fast you will eventually run into problems that are both real and interesting.

After having tried that there has been no going back for me. I am allergic to imaginary problems. It feels as pointless as watching people who are famous for being famous argue on TV.

I think we are all victims of our feedback loops. (University) Education sublely teaches us that the only important problems are those that are very difficult and preferably have never been solved before. Those same problems also make for better blogposts. In the real world the incentives are mostly opposite. Problems with no known solutions (or only really difficult solutions) are generally bad. They can be worth it, but you should stay away from them until you know that are worth it. Software engineers seem to almost pride themselves on not knowing what their users want.

It takes a while to scrub all that bad learning out and replace it with something better. Unfortunately some people are stuck.
In fact, it's common for an extortion attempt to be floated in that way leaving some plausible deniability for the one attempting extortion in case they are rebuffed. It's also common for the other party to seemingly accept the reframing of it to move on even though they internally believe that extortion was floated.
Awesome! Congratulations, Andreas!
How activity in outer space will affect regional inequalities in the future
Russia arming Iran in exchange for drones is likely changing Israeli reluctance to help Ukraine. There was already a recent announcement about tanks. It's only a matter of time before they'll completely stop caring about placating Putin who is losing his grip everywhere anyway.
Fake isn’t the right word here. The synthetic images contain real structure useful for learning.
Abbott wants major Texas cities to have as little control as possible since they’re mostly majority democrat. Doubt they’re even thinking about markets solving problems.
There is a non-zero chance BabyAGI will self-replicate inside Replit
Totally reasonable choice.
Under "aircraft" [0] the website states the vehicle is 432 lbs. But it also says it's compliant with the FAA's Powered Ultralight classification.

[0] https://www.liftaircraft.com/aircraft
Depth-Based Blur in CSS
Greece boat disaster: Ship tracking casts doubt on Greek Coastguard's account
Can you give a few examples on this? France is not known for industrial espionage so your claim is the counter to the common narrative
I didn't want to upset you.

Nope, while I mainly agree with what you say, it's still what you put in is what will be used. We say, it's brutto on a day scale.

All the other factors are just parameters of what has been used up in time, like how much energy in sport (variable), what's the capacity of the gut bacteria/hour, the amount of muscles and the basic energy consumption, ..., I want to call them netto(s). In the end, brutto - netto = 0 should be aimed uppon.

So:
Brutto - usedUpSport - usedUpBacteria - ... = 0

If you're at balance, fine. Out of balance in both directions is to be viewed from different points.

So if you can't do sports, you should ingest the equivalent of energy less to have a lower brutto. This means eat a salad instead of chips.

So bacteria, whatever is of course an big big big effect. I have had a time in my live where I got vanco and gento in high doses at least once a year for like 3 weeks in a row. For like 7 years. I didn't become big poppa, because of the bad bacteria allegedly caused by stark antibiotics over time. And then, I've had a chance to allow my guts to rest like for 8 weeks, in which the lower bowels after ilio didn't got any food (Iliostoma). But before the Iliostoma, the treatment with 7 different antibiotics was necessary. 3 were reserved antibiotics, then vanco, gento and not remember the others. After that I was completely free of whatever may have lived inside me.

Then, the stoma has been laid back an me healthy like hell. Nothing for 7+ years. Nothing. Even when I wanted to fall ill.. so yes, absolutely!

But still, I eat not more than before because I have better bacteria again. I'm always hungry, yes, but prefer a healthy snack every time to still hunger.. and I'm not big poppa. I don't do sports, otherwise I have to consume more proportionally not to lose mass.

It's all willingness. It's your freedom to decide what, when and how much you eat. If you can't say no to the cake, then compensate it some where other time.. each one knows his own body the best :)

No one wants to force you or someone other. It's like, you can have transplant stool/bacteria of a healthy, "thin", donator. There are old study cases where very very obese people have been able to loose weight - while still eating like before more or less. Like Master Yoda would say "small will you have. Other bacteria you need. Eat less you must. Other bacteria then you don't need"

It's just, I keep mental track of what I eat, so I know when I can allow me some sins. It's my willingness and my choice. No one forced me.
This is billionaires fighting billionaires. Roche’s firm apparently had 250M USD worth of the Ava Labs token: https://twitter.com/blastermaster88/status/15744066884084203...
Why are they breaking into your house? Are they going to take your house for a joy ride until they can't anymore and then just find another house to drive?

I'm not advocating that you just stop caring about crime, I want you to think about how we can address the root causes. One of them being the prevalence of easily theft-able, expensive possessions we store on the street.
The business needed a "capex," or capital expenditure, thing. So we recorded our time.

Every Monday, I created an appointment in Outlook, set to Whole Day and Free. Then I just extended it day by day, recording the hours.

By week's end, I have a weeklong event that looks like

6h ABC/2h Proj B, 4h ABC, 5h, 3h

Something like that. I then copied it into the timesheet. It's not too bad.

Don't let it poison your perspectives :)
This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own.

While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south.

I would think an employer who has crews working in the heat would want their crews to be rested and hydrated. Someone handing heavy machinery and passes out, or god forbid, dies on a job would crush that company and cause hell on the general costs of insurance. Also with the number of construction companies, ones that basically tell their staff they can’t drink water I would have to believe quickly will find no one will want to work for.
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Company moved from Workspace to Zoho and now we’re O365. Teams is still a dumpster fire but a pretty good one.
Via this Tweet, has video: https://twitter.com/shuding_/status/1670449379814125569

Works best in chrome.
Yes but also the rest of the stack. You can find performance gains everywhere. For example, chiplets, networking, and compilers. This is what Nvidia is doing.
Microsoft Office. But I'd miss Google Docs/Sheets/Slides a whole lot.
Which is why Mullvad used to not allow auto-billing if you had portforwarding. If you wanted to use portforwarding, which Mullvad had for years, you needed to pay in advance for how much you wanted to use it. They didn’t need to keep any of your information on file, including payment stuff. Just that a particular account is paid up until a certain date. Linking a port to an account ID is possible, but there is nothing that needs to be kept about the owner of an account id either. So even LE can’t really do much with that information.
If the batteries are removable, is"without fuel" without batteries or without charge?
He's not being insufferable; he's being sane.
> Someone whose incentives are tightly aligned with the business is going to solve the actual problem and simply and effectively as possible.

Equity is the entirely the answer for cutting through all the bullshit. At least in my head. I don't know how it plays in other people's minds but mine sounds like: "If we ship and go live, I get x% of all profit moving forward in my personal scrooge mcduck money bin". Pretty big carrot. It's kind of like time share in my own personal business, but I don't have much of the headache that goes along with running my own 100%.

This has some caveats, namely that equity in a 10k person org is often times not nearly as meaningful as equity in a 10 person org. Shipping your code 2 weeks early at Ford or Dell means what, exactly? If the code you are shipping is the business, then things are different. It also really helps if you care about the problem you are solving.

I'd say this - if the idea of direct equity/ownership doesn't get you excited about pushing simple & robust techniques, then you are completely in the wrong place. You should probably find a different problem space or industry to work in. Hollywood might be a better option if the notion of equity or straight ownership in the business still isn't enough to put your tech ego into a box.
First-Ever Dero Cryptojacking Targets Kubernetes Infrastructure
And here's the deal, with more years in this industry, I've always found that the optimal performance almost always comes from a simple architecture.

And that performance optimization done prematurely often achieve complete opposite result. Meanwhile performance optimization done at necessity rarely have the same problem.
Wait, children?
Your original comment was painting a picture that people who game aren't productive, where you provided entirely arbitrary items you consider productive. My point was you can game and be productive. Your response tells me you've never done anything of note towards the next generation. Forgive me if I entirely ignore you, I'll continue actually doing things and let you get on with your armchair quarterbacking. At least I'm trying, instead of being passive aggressive on the internet.
I'm waiting for this, in a form factor of a broom... then ... Quidditch!
Don't google what happens when you cook or eat bacon... The open flame makes gobs of CO2 and H2O, and there's a risk of CO if the airflow sux. Try not to do it in an enclosed space. Impurities in the gas, like impurities in the food, can turn into all sorts of things when heated.
Lol we actually showed synthetic data often produced better models depending what you’re trying to do

https://www.capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/why-you...

Part of the reason was models generating synthetic data hone in on more key differentiable features
I was a grandfathered Google Apps free account, they terminated that program.

I moved my email for all my domains to Fastmail.

I did not use any of their the other suite / apps so no loss there. I never found the Google Apps platform very usable over Actual apps like MS Office, or even LibreOffice. The web versions always seemed very limited. (even web version of MS Office)
Makes you wonder what the actual state of the industry is right now with thousands of layoffs, but then comments like this one. Probably it's a bifurcation and an uneven distribution of reality.
AdGuard is your best friend on iOS. FOSS software that blocks all ads. I read this article on my iPad with safari. No ads, no pop up.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...
> In the case of developed public transportation the answer is no, because simply adding first class would decrease capacity.

But capacity is a problem of the roads, not the busses themselves. You don't need to squeeze more people into the same amount of bus space, you need to get more 1-person-in-SUVs off the road, so more busses will fit on the road.
If you google there is a jellyfin on truenas install that works well.
If a company creates a 2-star show with GPT and another one creates a 4-star show with real writers, which one will earn the creator more money?

Also the cat is out of the bag - it's likely that writers will use GPT to help themselves write at this point.
It's probably <5% where I am, but that is enough. And there seems to be no mechanism for removing them.

I wish that we had conductors or something. I would gladly pay to have someone like that who could at least tell antisocial people to calm down. Passengers don't want to deal with it.
I really think we have too many people working at most companies. It pushes people to the extremes and edges just to have something to work on. Managers need more people under them to get promotions. And managers want to manage managers to keep moving up. They fill teams of people on products that could really be ran by a fraction of the engineers. But that’s not where we are, we are on large teams working on small areas of the product inventing areas to build in and often ruining the product as a result.

We also get slower with so many people. The coordination overhead is killer and losing context as the product is sliced up into small parts that move on without you
I haven't ever seen one of them.

IME architects tend to be people who tell your team that you should be using Azure Cosmos after a Microsoft salesman takes them out to lunch. They last coded 5 years ago.
^ this ^

Until we figure out a nice metric for "removing complexity" and then rewarding for it, it's not likely to change, IMO.
> This is the problem at the center of almost everything I’ve written. Why are bosses mad they can’t bring people back to the office? Because their alignment of business success isn’t really tied to profit or “success,” but rather the sense that they are “big” and “successful,” which requires a bustling workplace and “ideas.”

This is similar to the sentiment of Bullshit Jobs as posted here yesterday. There is a strong incentive within the modern market economy to value perception over reality. This often involves hiring people to look like they're doing something without any consideration as to whether they're doing anything valuable.
> It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http://

Hmm, no, it doesn’t. No idea why you believe that. It works perfectly fine with https url.

I don’t really understand the rest of your comment as indexing and metadata look ups are done by the server and not the client. Plus Swiftfin uses VLC under the hood so it shouldn’t have issue with playback.

Are you using the fairly recent stable version or are you experience on an older development version? Swiftfin has been officially available for only a month.
Swiss approve net-zero climate law
His point is that it obviously isn't "no surprises here".
"It's inspired by Benchmarks Game, some of the benchmark problems and implementation are borrowed from it."

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/
My new job is on the MS teams & office365 & outlook etc ecosystem and... dear god is it clunky.

It is very featureful, but the interface continually gets in my way.
> Isn't this why companies have employees with different levels of experience?

this runs into another common mistake businesses make: putting people onto a task because they're available, not because they're suited to it (in any sense).

the junior person (+ a little mentorship) would be great for the job, but they're mired in some big project. but hey, you've got this super senior fellow sitting around waiting for work, and we can bill the customer more for them, anyways.
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