skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Diablo 1 did effectively create the genre as far as the history of gaming is concerned

> Ha no.

This is unceremoniously ungracious and an obvious misinterpretation. Being the first is not the same as genre creation^. The games prior to Diablo 1 shared features, but weren't considered a formula for generating revenue beyond the novel mechanics.

^Herzog Zwei had elements of the modern RTS, but it is not considered genre defining.
If Metformin reduces the viral load, it probably does so throughout the entire body. Whereas intramuscular vacccination leads to good protection against serious disease through humoral (body serum) immunity, it does not, unfortunately, provide significant protection to the other immune compartments like the upper respiratory mucosal layer (served by a different set of antibodies than the humoral).

So this is good. This (and paxlovid) can help protect those remaining unprotected tissues of the upper respiratory that tend to be the first infected. It should be a good temporary mitigation until the USA and other countries approve of good intranasal sars-cov-2 vaccine boosters like India has (Innovac).
If you look at the details of the post, it wasn't the hospital but the billing department that was shut down. Rest of the hospital was fine.
So in theory the hospital could have operated but they couldnt bill insurers or government entities.

I'm looking forward to the day that AI replaces the meatsacks in these departments for how awful and poorly run they typically are.
This article a bad job of gluing together various ideas (Principal/agent problem, the motivational effects of money, so called Bullshit jobs etc) and does it via unfounded assertions (that people are paid more as they're promoted in order to motivate them for instance or that society actually considers teachers important).

It's like the musing of a drunken co-worker after too many post-work drinks.

More thinking and editing please, less keyboard-diarrhea!
Recently was playing chess with a friend in Dolores Park, SF. A man who said that he had only recently gotten out of jail/prison a few months ago (he said he dealt drugs in the Tenderloin) asked for a game and beat both of us (albeit close matches).

He said he learned all of his chess in prison and was really excited to happen to find other people playing.

He also had no idea how to use a chess clock, I guess they didn't have those in prison.
Advertisers urged to disclose AI use in social media campaigns
https://archive.is/hCWM8
Can someone explain like I'm 5 why, in theory, the earth's rotation about its own axis could not be stopped?
There is a solid argument that everyone should read and write. Common literacy is a cornerstone of modern society and is widely enforced. And there is argument if driving is a basic skill, or a privilege...
And to some extent it results in a level of ostracism from wider society, unfortunately. Even now, at worst you're painted as socially inept geek, at best you're called a tech bro.
I think you're correct - at least, you're definitely correct about me. The only things I've ever actually learned were things that I was self-motivated to seek out and study on my own timeline. OTOH, what's the alternative to modern education? I don't think I ever would have gotten around to calculus if I'd waited until I independently "discovered" it.
Oh no, we did a slavery!

EDIT: Allowing prisons to profit from the labor of prisoners creates a perverse incentive for the companies running prisons to keep prisons full. Maybe it works in places where prisons aren't run for profit.
“Fun” is subjective. I love programming for example but most people would find it to be somewhere between dry and mind numbingly boring, which isn’t good or bad, it just is. Same for MMOs or sewing or chess or what have you.
early 80s machines were what I had in mind, I remember my aunt having bought a tiny tiny amstrad niche typewriter and the manual was 50% BASIC programming which surprised me a lot. Only later, when GUIs started to pop, the spirit changed into a user friendly app platform and not something to hack.
Explaining what platform engineers do requires explaining why platform engineering exists.

The whole idea behind platform engineering is the mindset that the "platform", i.e. the stuff that runs the things that business cares about, is a product.

Reframing the platform as a product instead of "IT" or "the place where apps go" introduces three concepts that were previously foreign to operations:

1. The platform has customers instead of consumers, and getting/acting upon their feedback is important,

2. The platform has some semblance of reliability guarantees, and copious observability is needed to uphold them, and

3. Like other products, the platform needs a dedicated, cross-functional team to maintain and improve on it.

So basically platform engineers are engineers that focus on either the "developer experience" part of the platform (i.e. the platform's frontend) or the platforms back-end (servers, persistence, networking, etc.).

> But how does this self-service look like? Do developers fill in a web form to automatically get a server with the right firewall rules?

Kind-of. In an ideal platform, developers wouldn't even know or care that their stuff is on a server. It could be in a toaster, for all they care. So it's kind of just there. They write and maintain code locally, and their build and release pipelines stores and deploys into it.
"Between 1901 and 2018, the average global sea level rose by 15–25 cm (6–10 in), or 1–2 mm per year.[1] This rate is increasing; sea levels are now rising at a rate of 3.7 mm (0.146 inches) per year.[2] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

sources are
1: IPCC, 2019: Summary for Policymakers

2: IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers

seems credible?
> Also important to note that this is an indicator that Reddit has lost all trust from (this part of) the community.

Assuming the worst, ignoring details that violate the narrative, and circulating ragebait without verification are all staples of mainstream Reddit content.

It’s not surprising that the Reddit outrage/grievance machine has turned on itself and is now assuming the worst and getting outraged at every turn.
Probably off-topic, but how do opt out from most of A/B testings?
Maybe Reddit management think all the rebel users have left the platform. Just the sheep are left.
It costs several thousand dollars in fees and 7 weeks.

That's a lot for an ex-convict.
This analysis but for the invasion of Iraq
The “glitch” in most ransomeware and AP fraud attacks is an employee clicking on something or believing something they shouldn’t have. LinkedIn facilitates this, because it makes it easy to understand the org chart of a company and target newer employees with urgent, personalized requests from the “CEO.” One person at a place where I recently worked actually fell for it and was at a store buying a SECOND round of gift cards with his company card before he finally got a twinge and pinged someone to see if—perhaps—this might not be legit.

Training can only do so much. People have no attention span these days, and all warnings go in one ear and out the other, even in they are well-intentioned people (as this employee was).
> As a side note, screaming "It's too late: hurry up!" is really an idiot way to advocate your cause, whatever your cause may be.

Is it? It can simultaneously be true that we have been too slow to avoid very concerning outcomes, and also that the best course of action open to us is to act quickly and decisively
Why Does Smoke Turn the Sky Orange?
Reddit feels more like a betrayal and more surprising than other big corps.
I don't agree with the tone, but there's some truth here.

A good SM or delivery lead can make a huge difference. Good management is very impactful too. So we should add as much of that as possible.

That last part is obviously absurdly wrong, but it is easy to see the pathway that gets people there.
In essence, the dictionary approach you're referencing isn't entirely dissimilar to Elixir's process-based state management, and you're absolutely correct that, at a fundamental level, they both accomplish a similar task: preserving state across requests.

However, I'd argue that the key difference lies in the granularity of control and the inherent characteristics of the Erlang/Elixir process model, which is designed to excel in concurrent, real-time, and distributed systems.

For instance, in Elixir, every LiveView session is an isolated process that runs concurrently. This is native to the BEAM (Erlang's virtual machine), not an add-on. It's this built-in process model that allows LiveView to handle many users simultaneously, manage state efficiently, and push real-time updates, all while maintaining high performance.

Fault isolation, too, is a baked-in benefit of this process model. A crash in one process doesn't affect others. While it's certainly feasible to engineer fault isolation in a different paradigm, it's a baseline guarantee in Elixir, reducing a considerable amount of potential complexity from the get-go.

Elixir's supervision trees further provide a robust way of handling failures, automatically restarting processes when they crash. Implementing a similar mechanism outside of Elixir can be quite intricate and might not offer the same level of reliability.

Additionally, Elixir processes facilitate straightforward and efficient inter-process communication, making it easier to build distributed and concurrent systems. Other frameworks could implement similar features, but it might not be as effortless or as integral a part of the programming model as it is in Elixir.

So, while the dictionary approach can mimic some aspects of Elixir's processes, Elixir's model provides a more complete, integrated solution for building highly concurrent, real-time systems. The fact that many of these features are "almost free" in Elixir does matter, as it can reduce the complexity of application code, improve robustness, and increase developer productivity.
To learn! Everyone should write a ray tracer (or three) on their own before even attempting to dive into a big open source production renderer. An established high profile project isn’t a great place to learn the fundamentals, since those parts are already done, and they don’t necessarily want people contributing who aren’t ready for it or are just there for personal learning purposes. It’s not fair to call it ‘reimplementing’, this project isn’t trying to be Blender. There are loads of other reasons to write a non-Blender renderer aside from learning, including writing one for games or interactive or scientific applications, needing special features, doing research and experimenting with rendering algorithms and data representations, needing a very small/fast/light renderer codebase, etc. etc.
Yes, but please don't call it open source then, if it isn't open in the way, that people expect.
Absolutely agreed, and if they have to think particularly hard about things outside their application space for a CRUD web app then either you’re in an extraordinarily high throughput environment, or the platform engineering needs a bit more work to abstract things away. That’s the ideal outcome here, developers can develop, and when they’re done they hit the Deploy button and off it goes.

Where this falls down is when development teams are building complex systems and then expecting the ops team to divine how that’s meant to work in production.
> That the government decides it. But in a democracy, that takes coordinated action too. The president does not have the constitutional authority to decree "no more sales of gasoline for passenger vehicles".

California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington are going for it: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/states-banning-new-gas-po...
Can reading fiction make you more empathetic?
EV's are a half-assed patch and meant to be a drop-in replacement for ICE's until we can do something better, but sadly they've mostly been an excuse for even bigger, faster, heavier, more dangerous vehicles.

I just want to ride my bike and take the train for most of my daily needs, maybe using an hourly car hire for the other trips.
It's hard to find decent data on Alberta but here's Canada:
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb

Hard to find a trend in that and if you go back eighty more years we are about two thirds less area burned than in the 20's to the 40's. Mapping of area burned has become better every decade too.
I’m sorry but you can’t be serious… you have 2 years of teaching, your essentially a junior teacher and your here to promote an education startup you’ve left to make to teach kids.

While normally I would applaud work in this area, the sheer arrogance to claim in your article you have the experience to build curriculum’s or indeed that you can build a better education platform for teaching kids to code with this experience is insulting to the teaching profession as well as those building existing platforms in collaboration with teachers and schools alike.

My parents taught for decades. In the same way an experienced programmer takes decades to hone there craft to the point where others should really take note of how and what they have to say, the same can be said for teachers.

Sorry but I just can’t take this seriously and maybe it’s wrong but it just feels… disrespectful to teachers in a way as if 2 years is somehow enough to have mastered the profession and impart knowledge and wisdom to the education world or indeed students.. as if after 2 years you know better than everyone else, you’ve seen enough.
The overwhelming majority of people work because they realistically have no choice but to work.

There is no amount of neoliberal salad dressing that you can douse that with to make it more palatable to anyone.

Doing shit because you have no choice but to do it sucks, period.
> IT is too big to know entirely

It is now... but I kind of feel like it wasn't 40 years ago. My 19-year-old son is studying CS now and I have a lot of sympathy for how complex it's all become since I was studying it 30+ years ago. Although computers can do way more than they could back then, you have to understand a lot more than you used to before you can get them to do the things they can do now.
I see alot of comments here recommending other Linux OS's that the author could try and I think those comments are missing the point. I think of my phone as "critical tech", that is tech that _must always work_.

I love to tinker with things, but my phone is not one of those things because it needs to hold an extremely high bar of reliability. I can mess around with my PiHole or my PLEX box and if that breaks then it's ok I can fix it. But when it comes to my phone I often find myself in situations where I need to pull up a boarding ticket, or order an Uber, or call a friend when we are trying to find each other. In each of these case, something not working is just not an option.
Closed source that thing and charge for it or I will. All open source makers are leaving tons of bread on that table.

I see these donation numbers where they’re netting $200/mo for some wildly successful tool. Closed sourcing it + marketing and you’ll be at $2-$3k/mo in 6 months with moderate effort.

Open source is cool for a communal app with a lot of different vectors. Openpilot for example is smart for me. For everything else though? It’s an easy way for software to become unmaintained. Good luck finding someone to work for free in perpetuity.
Success in the ancient world was built on no fewer delusions
Web browsers too. Often I get some message asking if I want to reload my tabs or "start a new session", frankly I didn't want a session to begin with and I don't want to start a new one now.

Also none of this popping up popups about new features in the application to distract me when I am trying to get something done, this is at its worst when I am doing some task I do occasionally (say paying bills) and feeling under the gun.
If the license restricts you to personal use only, it is not an open source license.
An APK is an APK. It's beholden to the same mandatory permissions system and has no extra abilities whether sideloaded or from the Play store. Sideloading != rooting
Chinese quantum computer is 180M times faster on AI-related tasks
This going to be a naive question due to my lack of familiarity with WebAssembly, but what does it it being to the table that wasn’t possible to do with any other standalone program packaged as a binary?
I pay AWS $13/yr when I could be paying... well, I can't even easily figure out what I'm spending elsewhere.

Godaddy is telling me $0.01 if I register three years up front, and it looks like year two and beyond are $23/yr? But if I bundle this with my other couple domains I get some sort of discount? Also they add the ICAAN fees and stuff after? So something like $16/yr over three years?

Domains.com looks like $10.99/yr once I managed to strip out the upsells.

Namecheap is telling me $6.98/yr with promo code FLASHCOM and I _think_ $13.98/yr after that?

Hover is still playing games but at least it's kind of clear--$14.99/yr up front, $16.99/yr after that.

Name.com is $10.99/yr, $12.99 renewal and they're pushing me to some sort of bundle discounts.

Spaceship is $7.88/yr, and I _think_ $8.80/yr on renewals?

Just trying to figure out the damn pricing on these sites is already stressing me out more than the loss of potentially around $6/yr.

Add to that that AWS isn't really a "registrar", they're a cloud company that lets you register domains. Their support isn't budgeted on the revenue from domain sales, it's budgeted on the $80b in cloud revenue. I've dealt with them before. They're excellent. AWS also has a pretty solid track record of supporting their products long term (SimpleDB is still here) so I have zero concern about waking up tomorrow and finding out that my registrar is shutting down.

My domain is what my entire online identity is tied to (via email). It sits between me and a bunch of (self-hosted) services I rely on. Even without the frustrating pricing and stuff, the $6 is worth it as insurance.

So no, I'm not overpaying. I'm paying a small premium for a product with a better process and better support and me not having to waste valuable brain space thinking about it or staying on top of whatever the hell my pricing is doing this year (though I guess I kinda messed that up getting into this conversation). If it weren't AWS, I'd have no problem paying Gandi $17/yr or Squarespace $20/yr.
Do you mean newsletters in general or do you literally only mean substack?

The only newsletter I read when it comes out is Matt Levine's, I think. Or maybe I only remember this one because it comes out daily and others come out weekly or monthly.

(This also isn't because I have impeccable taste but because few of the people I'd like to follow even seem to have subscriptions so I get notified about their new posts via Twitter mostly.)
Reminds me of Russ Hanneman's obsession with the three commas and the 'Tres Comas' tequila from HBO'S Silicon Valley.

I'm hindsight, it's crazy how accurate that show was in portraying a lot of the VC and Silicon Valley folks in general.
That explains the JIT ban and not much else. It doesn't explain the obnoxious morality clause, the ban on entire classes of applications, and so forth.
What I don't get is the following:

If your nuclear waste is that "hot" (highly radioactive), then you're not draining as much energy out of the material.

Ideally, the closer to lead you are, the more energy is drained out. And that's what I'd hope to see from the mining required for uranium. Instead, we seem to run it once and then go "whoop have to stop".
I don’t know, but that’s besides the point. Does 59% of 1% of subscribers signify a community decision? Maybe action should not have been taken since there wasn’t a quorum.
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content
I got one better. Use actual math to decide how bad it is.

COVID 1% death rates among the elderly, sick, and obese? Not a crisis, that is essentially a bad flu year prior to 2020. (And 2018 and 2019 had a relatively low excess winter mortality, keeping the people on the brink of death, alive).

There is a particular issue the news loves to report on in America, its basically a rounding error, but when children are involved, its especially emotional.

Climate crisis that could kill 100% of humans, all hands on deck.

Obesity related issues, nearly all hands on deck. Cancer, just past fixing obesity. Car accidents are something worth extra investment too.

Not even sure how to take this problem on, you mention the irrationality of an issue, and people get even more emotional.
> CN's parent company owns Reddit, it's a fuzzy distinction that doesn't matter

No, it doesn’t. It owns stock in Reddit. After multiple rounds it has influence—it still has a Board member— but it’s far from that of an owner.

Hitting Condé Naste makes sense. But it should be part of a broader campaign to pressure the Board. That means J.D. Power (David Habiger), Joy (Porter Gale) and Y Combinator (Mike Seibel). It might cause someone to notice were, say, an entire subreddit to call their investor relations lines… (Joy is privately backed by Avalon Ventures. Their LPs include Calpers, Harvard, Michigan State, Rutgers, Washington State and the State of Wisconsin.)
Lmao, thanks, must be quite the interesting field
Grow Your Own Recruiter
This is my gripe with mermaid, and is where excalidraw really took over the space. Sure mermaid can be stuck in any text file, but it's not worth the tradeoff of the diagram being unreadable.
https://archive.is/6zMqh
On HN we use the original title unless it's actively misleading, or it's linkbait --- obviously, this title is anything but that. Titles are community property: it's not the prerogative of the submitter to determine the most interesting thing in the story and retitle it accordingly.
Call center workers are going to be hit very hard by AI. Especially if the company can convert a lot of requests to text chat. GPT-4 and even GPT-3.5 can handle almost anything routine related to servicing many types of accounts, especially now with the new function calling.

Also Whisper and especially Eleven Labs can be very good at realistic speech/understanding. Although maybe a bit slow still if waiting for GPT-4.

And I bet Falcon-40b can be tuned to handle a ton of call center (or chat-based customer service) requests.
Portable access point and server for uncensored sharing in China
As mentioned in the title and in the article https://www.beloga.xyz/articles/QmcEjpdHLdzjbGVqbdLYBHaVrzuRdkvxjuTJk5Kw7VdULX-QmYDoQk8ujqKRFwmV8VQsTUUg7qSZXTH7jaq3zg165E1cA

Folks were using AirDrop to send anti-communist files or posters to others in a short range, resulting in a crackdown by the Chinese government on AirDrop and bluetooth file sharing. I believe Apple complied and implemented a 10-minute cool down on file sharing with strangers. I wonder if such a product could help them mitigate this. We could make it open source and make it very DIY friendly in case it cannot be sold.
> And it's the two paid, full-time mods here who keep things here less toxic than Reddit and the like.

Afaik that is just one and the community helps out as well.