skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That right there is the distraction though, more "efficient" for a corporate but worse for everybody else. Like you get a catch-22 but it's got its own catch-22. Issue ain't removing pages like you'd share page links, issue is making search "so efficient" clicking on page 5 or 10 direct is worthless then removing pages because google went and done made it worthless first. It's a buncha cattywampus and the real sad thing is Google only got better for itself you ask me, so it ain't really about sharing links to pages it's about pages having been made worthless
As someone who grew up Catholic but isn't now, it's always very bizarre to see stuff like this. Catholic teaching explicitly claims that the wine is miraculously transformed into the "blood of Christ", but I guess it only works if the wine doesn't have additives? It's hard enough for me to imagine a god that wants to bless his followers by letting them drink his blood; I can't take seriously a claim that he will do this _only_ if the wine doesn't have extra sugar or elderberries added to it.
>PS:T has now been bested by plenty of modern cRPGs. I’m not sure it’s worth revisiting considering how long it is.

I disagree. The story of PS:T is still superior in terms of depth, writing, plot and setting.

The entire package is better than most fantasy or sci-fi novels.

modern CRGPS are better in presentation and gameplay. But setting and story is what sets Torment apart. It still hasn't been bested.

I'm not looking at this through rose colored glasses either. Like there are games I loved back then that I will willingly admit are pretty bad nowadays. Zelda OOT, for example. That game was revolutionary but it doesn't hold it up, it's crap nowadays.

Planescape torment is not like that. There is literally nothing else like it in the gaming world even today.
UK is private enterprise rather than Royal Mail

https://www.photowire.uk/

One example I just found. £2 to address in UK and £3 international.

A thought has crossed my mind: if these kinds of site are quite common across the world and charge lower rates for sending cards within their local country, perhaps there is an opportunity for someone to set up a central Web site that finds you a local service? Add a small percentage?
I find it weird to compare GPT-4 to not expert humans (which this did - they seemed to have just sampled pitch decks for funded companies). GPT-4 generally will beat non-experts.

What you want to see is a comparison to say pitch deck consultants - it's also more useful to evaluate whether AI or a human should help you build one.

This does suggest at minimum though that if you are a founder that GPT-4 will likely provide positive value in helping you relative to no one.
This sounds about right to me. At work, we make a rather complex stack that uses quite a few third-party containers. When we wanted to do arm64 support a couple years ago, most of these dependencies did not support arm64, so we had to build and publish the containers ourselves. (We already sort of had to do this anyway, because customers ran into Docker rate limiting issues, and images from our account aren't rate limited because we pay them not to. But when we only supported amd64, we just re-tagged and pushed.)

As an aside, some comments in this thread say "just look at the layers", but that's the wrong level of abstraction for multi-arch images. In the past, when you ran "docker pull ..." you were looking for an Image Manifest: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/manif.... But now in the world of multi-arch, you are getting an Image Index first: https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/main/image...
In the 2000s there was a huge push for distraction free software. Nearly every application was coming up with a distraction free mode.

Maximizing your window is similar to that. At the same time it doesn’t completely eliminate the window context and the ability to easily switch between applications like full screen does.
Yes, if I want to find someone to work with I certainly want someone that do care about not making a total mess in the VC history. Selecting for that seems like a very good thing, regardless of whatever else they contribute.
That in fact is pretty much the foundational insight behind capital markets- people say one thing and do another but when they vote with their wallets they say what they really mean.
Yeah. I was being facetious. I just meant that many of us are avoiding it right now.
Omg the python stdlib json / simplejson both refuse to support custom serializers for keys only, as an explicit design decision. It is justified as "JSON keys must be strings", but JSON values can only be string/float/book/null so it seems a bit arbitrary. Leads to annoying gymnastics if you want to enforce "strong typing" of keys with Enum/pydantic/etc.
Chiplets should help keep the yields up (I assume, at least, that they test the chiplets before packing them in together into the package, although that’s a guess). Improving yields should help with prices; throwing away products or binning them down isn’t very economically favorable.
Equation Editor was a MathType [1] product, not a Microsoft creation. It wouldn't surprise me at all that Microsoft didn't have the source to it.

[1]: https://www.wiris.com/en/mathtype/
Rebase got a lot less annoying now that git has gained the update-refs ability. I'm often working on multiple branches simultaneously, and update-refs lets me easily work on them as a stack.
The difference is that ß is actually used to spell words. & has never been used as part of a word, it only ever st&s alone.
It’s not even just dipshit conservatives.

Look through the comments here. There’s really fucking stupid takes. Sometimes even with their IRL identity attached.
I won’t categorically say the opposite, but I think your statement is overwrought. If someone murdered your spouse, or tried to run you down with a car, who are you going to call?

In the first case at least they are surely going to suspect you, so you should still be careful. But “no good can come of it”?
I've heard this before too and it is a concern. I'd like to see some study or some kind of evidence for or against it though.
Oh okay. Personally I wouldn't want that.

I would like to organize my computer's desktop the way I would organize physical stuff on my desk, just freeform style.
I'd rather support those small time blogs, people who do it as a hobby and for the creative joy of it, especially for recipes you don't see a lot in the English-speaking world. Using a language model for a recipe feels soulless to me.
You counting the military too? :)
Yes, my memory is a bit foggy, but it was difficult to get any of the images to work, so I started playing with other contributors. But, you are right.
Well, because it has?

Hover over the green stoplight, you get a popover with fullscreen options.

Press Option and the fullscreen options mutate into snap left/snap right/zoom.

These can also be found in the Window menu. Again, press option to mutate the fullscreen ones to snap.

And since these are menu options, one can set any keyboard shortcut of their choosing through the keyboard shortcut prefpane+.

So it is not "snapping" in the sense that you drag the window to the left or right side of the screen, and I would 200% agree that it is completely non-obvious to discover, but it is there for any one to peruse without any third party tool.

+ See here for how to achieve that, section "Tiling and snapping" (along with more things to make first party things more sane for a certain crowd) https://lna7n.org/2021/04/16/a-survival-guide-to-macos-from-...
I've heard that in Japan conviction rates at trial are something like 98%. So presumably you don't lose anything by trying to convince the cops of your innocence.
That would definitely be surprising for most Americans. Many of us (like my wife) never carry id unless they plan on driving.
Now analyze whether GPT-4 gets better returns than the VCs rating GPT-4 pitch decks!
Is that because they have bad hardware or because of the CUDA monopoly?
Yawn.

"This says more about [insert accomplishment] than it does about GPT" is getting tiring. It loses any potential meaning when that's the go to retort for any of its impressive achievements.
Great point! Since they are not showing the decks, for all we know these GPT4 pitches may have been proposing they found a cure for cancer.
language model could, but did it in this experiment?

we can all make decks that say things people want to hear and then go to jail 12 years later
Can you give an example of powerful country that respects other nations?
I hear that fatalism and defeatism all the time on HN. It's sad. In the US, you are not a slave, and you have choices, and you can negotiate.

> is beyond unfair and fucked.

Oh baloney. The US has the highest standard of living in the world. US poor live better than medieval kings. That's why literally millions of poor people from other countries try desperately to get in to the US.

A note about fairness. Life isn't fair. It cannot be made fair. Everybody's circumstance is different. Some are taller, some shorter, some smarter, some dumber, some healthier, some sickly, it goes on and on. Just look at sports teams. They're all about exaggerating how unfair it is.

But what the US does try to do is:

1. have everyone equal under the law

2. guarantee certain fundamental rights

The rest is up to you to make the most of your opportunities. Note that (1) and (2) are under relentless assault in this country, often in the name of producing equal results.
Yeah, but it's a comparison metric to the human ones, so is relevant to implying the GPT-4 set is "better".
So, typically I drink sparkling with some sort of flavorant, usually a no-sugar lemon lime etc. Maybe it's the flavor/acidity? I don't know, but it seems to be a pretty effective diuretic to me. Purely anecdotal but, I have tried some self-experimentation by drinking 12 ounces of lemon flavor polar compared with 12 ounces of coors, and eyeballing how much I urinate over the next 2 hours. And honestly I feel like I lose more hydration from the seltzer. That doesn't happen to you?
I’m sure it is. But I’m not sure what that would look like.

Possibly someone who was a hardcore PETA activist type in a crisis of conscience in some small rural place given a second chance by someone who was racist.

This is admittedly a bizarre set of circumstances that would need to happen.
C++ this file covers all the math for working with NURBS curves and surfaces:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/blob/master/src/srf...

There is a lot more in other files - triangulation, booleans, creation - but the core math functions are there in very readable form.
unlike spam, this has a cost per message ($3)
Heard back. Turns out it has to be a current student, unfortunately. I'm sure he'll find somebody.
This is an awesome project!
The 90’s TV comedy “Father Ted” painted a bleak picture of one of these islands. It’s not something that would appeal to me
You have to be more specific than "around the world" here. I grew up in a country where the "core job of the police" is to extort bribes. My guess is that's pretty similar to the experience of the majority of the people living today.
If a company was funded, doesn't it mean that pitch deck was successful?
What made the experience better to you? I would feel compelled to Google search everything after the fact to make sure it wasn't lying to me.
I've used a mac for 10 years now, and TIL

The Windows snapping UI is much more intuitive, though.
> Why not just an upload form with a checkout for paypal/credit card/etc.?

<shrug> not my service
My attorney. They can speak to the police on my behalf, which would likely be necessary in the first scenario (though it would yield no benefit to me).

In the latter case, I would not call them at all.

What good would police contact do in either of those cases? In each instance they cannot help me.
I use this too, but y’all are missing the point. I should not need third party tools like Rectangle and Mos to manage applications for an OS.

I’d much rather have this functionality built in than have a dozen new emojis every year.
"In addition, my plan guarantees every child a free kitten or puppy, along with the aforementioned immortality."
I’m sure they are and with a little tweaking and the right lighting they can almost certainly turn a liberal into a communist, or “have them see themselves more clearly and then rationally reevaluate their perspective”
In particular, these days small farmers (if there are any left) can hedge harvest market risks via futures trading. These wouldn't be invented until the mid-XIX, however, so in those days the farmer's best option for time-shifting crop sales was pretty much conversion from difficult-to-store-or-transport grain to easy-to-store-or-transport alcohol.
Just one example is it's the norm to ask police for directions in Japan.
Right! I mean: there's nothing wrong with this stuff; Jewish people have kashrut, Muslims have haram and halal, Hindus (or at least a big chunk of them) have ovo-lacto vegetarianism.

But: this seems like something new. I doubt many people in my parish would care at all about the specific wine used at mass. For that matter: most people don't even take wine at mass.
The secret to raising money is getting the first offer. Everything falls into place after that, because investors are herd animals. Your pitch could go in one ear and out the other, but they'll suddenly start paying attention if you end it with "we've got an offer for $X at $Y cap, it's not from our ideal investor, and we'd prefer you lead the round, but we told them we'd get back to them by Wednesday and we just want to get back to work on building this thing."
Over the years I’ve noticed it too, the time lag between similar posts ranging from a few hours to a day or so. My simple explanation is that a person reading the original post either remembers a related nugget of Internet that they think people would also find interesting or else they find it while googling, inspired by the initial post.
Well, they have been very lazy about not flooding Florida, so makes sense
Are there any examples?

The ones I've seen looked more like low-quality ICO pitch decks ;)
Nice job. In my own usage of state machine libraries over the years I have found that for complex use cases, it's definitely helpful to have event-based transition dispatching be part of the library. The great benefit of FSMs is that you can express in data a lot of aspects that you would normally express in code. Not knowing what event needs to happen to transition to one state vs another leaves out a lot of the benefits that you get from designing your code around FSMs.

That being said, I appreciate the simplicity and it's a totally fine choice to leave out event based dispatch for less complex use cases!

One thing that has been mentioned here already: it's super helpful to have your library output a diagram file to visualize the FSM. This is a really great way to keep code and documentation in sync always.
+1 for Rectangle. It’s the first thing I install after homebrew on any new Mac. I came from Spectacle after EOL and was pleasantly surprised at the additional features (like window snapping) + support for Spectacle binds. If you want to try it out, it’s as easy as `brew install --cask rectangle`
That's good for Indian IT I think
Its interesting how generic “travel” advice is incompatible with so many countries

the generic advice is “leave your passport locked at the hotel so you dont get it stolen by pickpockets”

but also “never not have your passport on you because the local government wants to check it at any time”

how do you all reconcile that on a day to day basis?
The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted.

You clearly know different founders than I do.
That's the point. A particle moving in 3D space can instead be considered as a curve on a 2D manifold (a surface) embedded in 3D space. So then you only need two dimensions for position and one for orientation.
I replied to similar comment above. I certainly did not take great pains to accurately measure hydration status. But I did eye ball my urine output and it seems that seltzer really ups it, a lot more than tap water or even a "normal" [not high abv] beer like coors. Maybe my body is uniquely sensitive to highly carbonated liquids. Maybe it's all in my head. But I think it's real.
Say someone is robbing houses in the neighborhood. If I tell the cops as much as I know, maybe they find the perp before my house is robbed.
You don't need a Mass to get married. Actually it's a different sacrament, and the only things you need are the two spouses and a qualified witness (aka the Priest)
Wow, the photos aren't CG: https://youtu.be/PRTlLDnzlqw?t=70
What kills me about it is I can't find a way to keep my other monitors from blacking out. I usually have at least two screens, I would love to dedicate one completely to code while leaving the other in normal mode for documentation, references, etc.
A few years ago I was idly thumbing through old books at a used store. Looking over a remedial arithmetic book, I was surprised to find that they referred to zero as “the cipher”. Exponentiation and the process of finding a square root were “involution” and “evolution”, respectively. My math education was pretty ad-hoc (complicated story), so maybe these are better known than I realize, but I’ve never heard them. I ended up grabbing the book just for the vocabulary. These examples are just the ones that jumped out most in the first couple of pages.
Not a virtue in itself. But if you live in the bay area you are priced out of living less densely. You can of course move away to a more affordable area. And now with remote work being more accepted that is a viable option for white collar workers, definitely not for blue collar though.

But if you have kids, family, friends, in the bay area then that is a difficult decision to say the least.
I really wish there was an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS. Yes, I'm aware of Yabai and others, but it's still not quite the same. Tiling apps bolted onto macOS's floating windows still feel sluggish, window decorations take up lots of space and are easy to accidentally click on (ruining the tiling), animations are annoying, focus doesn't follow mouse, keyboard shortcuts sometimes conflict, and so on.
Or a web app?
I use Hammerspoon with the ShiftIt plugin ("spoon")

Works quite well, and is configured w/ Lua
Only on a binary scale. There's even among actually funded companies better or worse pitch decks.

You can often just get funding by having a good team matched to a VC that knows your industry. Pitch deck can be crap and other VCs might hard reject.

Another potential methodology flaw is that they don't seem to group decks by VC industry. I definitely altered my deck for different VCs, in ways which could make it a worse deck for the "average VC". GPT-4 might be better at setting context that industry expert VCs don't need - meaning this isn't even comparing like and like.
I taught myself Git in University. Over the course of a decade, I've taught Git to dozens of people. Sure, some people take more time than others but 20-30 hours sounds absolutely wild to me!
Seems like hallucinations would amount to fraud in these comparisons no?
Right!?!

Ideally the most important thing in a pitch deck are the actual facts and substance, not the presentation and storytelling.

So what are the facts used?
>US CO2 is declining

Meanwhile, your equivalent in China is pointing that US CO2 emissions per capita are still way above China’s, cherry-picking the right metric to avoid any responsibility.

Also, as a European person myself don’t talk to me about Germany and Climate. Germany is a fucking joke and the worst example of a Climate friendly policy due to their rejection of nuclear. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
And to put this number into perspective: it is estimated that in the year 200, the world’s population was 190,000,000, versus 8,000,000,000 today.
Even though I don't believe in the metaphysical, one could argue that the brain is just a tool helping the soul manifest itself physically and a broken brain is just bad at doing that.
I used vim for 30 years by now, 15 of those it was my main text editor/IDE-like. I was one of those who would spend hours on achieving the perfect configuration and mix of scripts. I was one of those who thought smugly "I'm so much more productive than those idiots using Eclipse or Sublime".

But you know what? I moved to VS Code a few years ago and my productivity only increased. Everything is more intuitive and discoverable. Everything just works with no tweaking. All the convoluted macros and text manips I painstakingly crafted and memorized in vim are achievable in a few clicks in Code.

Spending 20+ hours learning emacs or vim is quite literally a waste, it's time we all admit it.

(I still think one should learn the basic cursor keys and how to save/quit in vi because sooner or later you'll have to edit something on a remote server with only vi. But learning emacs is still completely useless, though.)
I’m a power user who wants minimal distractions… OSX provides that just fine, my workflow is nearly identical between OSX and Linux because it’s just a full screen terminal.
Love the tool, but its not practical in the enterprise world to have yet another dashboard service to look at just for metrics. It would be great, if this plays well with grafana or Otel collectors.

OTOH, monitoring long running background jobs on CH cluster is very valuable to have. Its real pain to verify, if parent and child queries have executed correctly. I would suggest doubling down on features that users cannot readily get via grafana or Otel.
its like the bar keeps getting lower and lower
That's a cool use of lob.com. I used their 'send a check' feature to automate sending payments for sweepstakes and contest prizes.
If someone tried to run me down with a car, what good can the police do? Arrest the person before they try to kill me again, that's what. Keeping me from dying is definitely "helping me".
That’s basically Google already. They optimized for a few sites and let the rest go to shit.
This is very strange for an Indian, too.

We do not carry ID unless we are driving (driving license), using long-distance transport, or going to vote.

Always carrying ID is such a strange idea!
Wouldn't "betrayal" require some kind of deception? This seems perfectly in line with general, openly professed Muslim attitudes to LGBT. Perhaps this specific group boasted about being pro-LGBT before, and changed tune when in power, but I highly doubt it, so I'm not going to accuse them of dishonesty.
DeviceScript
Disco Elysium is probably the best game I've ever played but I couldn't get into Planescape Torment.
you cannot go to the rest rooms. period. doors locked. need special key. at least where i live. didn;t used to be this way. that is what happens when social trust goes to zero.
Well, sometimes I forget to check my threads and I don't think it is a problem.
Sure, but a human could write that too. Surely the onus is on the investor to assess how realistic they think the founders' claims are.
Django was already very good well before 1.0, and had at a minimum some of the best documentation out there. I seem to recall a decent community, video tutorials, etc.
GB Studio is a great way to mess around with making a gameboy game! It exports a rom that can be flashed onto a blank cart, and played on real hardware—with recent versions adding gameboy color support. The recently hyped McDonald’s Grimace game was reportedly made with GB studio: https://gbstudiocentral.com/news/mcdonalds-celebrates-grimac...
Can't agree. While learning git isn't trivial it is still easier than it was learning Subversion and at all places I have worked at a decent share of the devs understood git. If a dev cannot grasp git I would not trust them with any non-trivial code base.