skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these companies go for very short names and get their domain name: meta.com, x.ai, x.com, ... and normal guys just get mynicewebsite2023.org if they're lucky. Frustrating!
Publishers want to make money. Game developer studios under contract with publishers only get a share of the revenue. That's why big publishers found their own or buy game dev studios to... <drum roll> make more money for themselves, and outcompete independent developers.
Depends on where on C# ecosystem one is, Web development, versus desktop.
How much does 3 bit quantization affect performance?
I can't tell if your comment is starry-eyed optimism or acid sarcasm. My mind has been rent in twain.
> If you can get even three small things out of a talk, it is a successful talk.

What a (necessarily) low bar, because talks are a lousy way to share knowledge
Definitely not talking about legal stuff here, but what if all these user-hostile action lead to more pirated copies?
Why does it feel like we're back in the early 2000 and people are just launching any non-sense project that pops into their head.

At least things where more cheerful and colorful 20+ years ago. Can we get the playfulness back and drop all the dystopia?
The institution of using the spread of information (or "information" as it were) to incite conflict and unrest for ulterior motives is an institution known to man since the dawn of politics.

The specific form adapts as the means of information spread changes over time, but the institution at its core remains the same.
Aren't CRDTs the logical conclusion of automatic merging? I feel like with source control you want to be more intentional about what gets merged, right? Maybe CRDT can be good for trunk-based development with a merge queue. Definitely has a spot in pair programming.
> People generally don't want a really bright object on top of a tower anywhere near them.

There is such a tower 50 km south of my house. We see it brightly even at this distance.

There is a stretch of road near the tower that is uncomfortable to drive on during the day, the tower is so bright. I honestly can imagine that many a child has hurt themselves staring at it, it is extremely eye catching and there's really nothing else to look at in that desert.

I'm all for green power (I have an electric car that I feed from roof-mounted solar) but these towers should be very far from population centers.
Not whom you reply to, and maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but yeah. My account is from Sep 2003, I have around 300 games there (mostly from Humble Bundles), by 2012-2013 I almost stopped playing. Then I had a phase where I put maybe 100h in Rocket League to play with friends back in 2017, then 2021 to play Outer Wilds[0].

That's pretty much it. I still want all of those games, thanks.

[0] Which so far I consider the best single-player gaming experience in history
The only game I still play from time to time is Rock Smith 2014 on a X-box I bought specifically for that. I wouldn’t even care to connect to any account if this wasn’t required to access the store.

There is two account required to access the whole game actually, one that is X-box/Microsoft account without with I guess the console is as useful as a brick, and one for Ubisoft which saves your progresses, give access to a few bonuses most notably the song Desolate Motion[1].

I don’t know where the record about acquired songs is supposed to be store, I would except it to be a Microsoft side handled stuff, but I remember that sometimes Ubisoft servers would be down and that would make bought tracks unavailable.

I had a look at Rocksmith+ but was utterly disappointed with the monthly subscription fee model they went with.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZaAOaPaczU
> Olive oil from California is also much cheaper than Olive Oil from Italy.

Where do you buy cheap Californian olive oil? Whenever I’ve seen it for sale (rarely) it’s always a more premium product available only in medium sized glass bottles while Italian olive oil is available in large plastic containers.
I think the point is that the patch for a critical security vulnerability _could_ be gated behind a license change.

Seems unlikely though even for Oracle. If it did happen I expect someone else would come up with a freely licensed fix and that would be shipped by all the distros.

I prefer libvirt/kvm anyway. :)
Search hn for "stripe".

Not clear sarcasm.
The lawyers in R&D are working on this as we speak.

But nobody tell them that hardware stores figured this out decades ago…
You cant be serious. "Most revolutionary tech" should be "most trusted tech" to estimate the impact of yet another crypto currency.
Ok, I just suffered through the 13 minutes of nonsens from this "expert".

One problem is that he doesn't understand what he is arguing against. Dawkins doesn't argue that, because people tend to have similar beliefs as those around them, he has disproved those beliefs. He just uses it to illustrate the close minded way some people take the supremacy of their particular religion for granted. The question "What if you are wrong?" comes with a lot of assumptions.

It's also laughable for an expert (for a number of reasons) to claim that C.S. Lewis has disproved atheism.
Millons of nano-crystals!
that's pretty messed up take from parent's suggestion... and I don't agree a zilch, politics cater to other aspects of our (often irrational) needs compared to what religions aim for
Save a couple GB of hard drive storage in exchange of a big PR problem and sending your image down the drain.

Stroke of genius.
On the other hand, I find fidget stones to be very soothing. I can recommend it for anyone. And the choice of stone belongs to you.
> I understand game developers want to make money but what is the logic here?

I think the logic here is that they don't want to get a huge fine from CNIL (French data regulator) and possibly other GDPR countries that choose to interpret the requirements in a similar way. There's a reason so many different services are rolling out inactive account deletion policies now.
do you normally operate under the assumption that other people have subjective qualia comparable to your own? Probably the latter.

Not sure why you bring that up, because that is not really an assumption, it's almost the definition of a species. And otherwise: yes. But again: realizing that it would be an assumption is healthy, imo.

But otherwise, leave that attitude in the lab.

Sorry, but hard no. It's not even an attitude, it's realism. Can you please try to understand that it's perfectly possible to realize what anthropomorphism is at all times, yet at the same time take great care of pets and have a typical pet-human relationship?
Issue though is that BRICS are far more corrupt and exposed to billionaire extravaganza.
The design nostalgia is real. When websites still borrowed their design motif from bulletin board systems. <3
So how do I claim mine?
The Netherlands is not going back on this. 20-30 years ago we had a really progressive soft drug policy (tolerance policy / gedoogbeleid). We still have that same policy. Only now it seems regressive because many other countries have legalized soft drugs in the past decades and we just kept our old policies.
Not sure if I would compare paneer and Khoya (i don't think you could make Gulab Jamun out of paneer), but I agree on the rest of the line. My main point is that there's an abundance of how to articles that are ignoring ricotta entirely, and that's sad! :(
I assume from what I've heard this is going to be very centralized, because I can't see how you could fit the concept into a system and retain the global ordered clock function. Bitcoin is very careful to only order transactions by what block they are in and not where they are in the block. Etherium does not do this, leading to some pretty horrible and/or hilarious front running attacks.
Demand drove increased supply.
Exactly, but no, there should be no «implication that the true things they» output are not part of that: required modules for foundational thinking (let us say "critical thinking") are missing.

(Issue is, now some are convinced that people in general would do the same and just blurt out the feedforward output of their "internal neural network", as opposed to having built knowledge in a loop of critical evaluation.)
Yes, we can see your submission and we can comment on it.

You have now 26 karma and you could submit a question, so I assume there's either no minimum karma or it's very low. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the submitter's karma plays a role in the ranking or flagging logic (they might pay more attention to flame or spam topics for new accounts).

There's this repo that documents other things, though not what you asked, I'm not sure if it's still correct https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
It is, but if we could distribute some currency globally and equitably that at least takes it one step towards being a real currency, at least in theory.
Often better to do the conversion then immediately call a non generic inner function. This prevents the rest of the logic from getting monomorphized. It’s a pattern you’ll notice in std.
In the current political climate in the US, I'd also be concerned that laws that we obviously need and agree on would be held hostage for negotiation purposes just like the budget. I also wonder if laws would just get bundled together for a single vote and then bullshit/pork gets attached.
In my experience, having contradicting beliefs if pretty common and people are pretty good at mental gymnastics to create a justification that works for them. Or they just change their beliefs, many people change their faith.
It's not harmless if people begin with "Oh yes, my astrologer said this partner would be my perfect match" and a few years later they end up with "The jews are actually lizard people that control the world economy, we must stop them."
The only independent variable is the date and time of birth. The position of planets and their movements are highly correlated to this variable and won't provide any additional information.

And yes, there has been plenty of research on the impact of the birth month, and the time of birth within given day, on a person's development through life.
https://worldcoin.org/cofounder-letter
Yes, that is the problem, imagine you might write a cache and use None to represent the value not being present in the cache - but then your cache silently fails to cache if the thing you were caching returns None
> I'll admit I'm a bit surprised by "apartment in suburbia".

Because most discussions about anything, really, are incredibly US-centric.

Most suburbia in Europe will have apartment buildings. Here's a typical suburb near Stockholm (I live in this one, close to the city): https://goo.gl/maps/rC65fRaPrv2PgjFp8 This one is 40 minutes away by commuter train: https://goo.gl/maps/pHvvwxtY88tfEGiv6 and https://goo.gl/maps/yQCkPtEGSSn8s2PJ8

Note: even though there are parking lots, no one is adding chargers to them because it's either too expensive or the existing infrastructure cannot support it.

The company that manages my building manages about 3000 apartment blocks around Stockholm. They recently sent a letter that they have found the possibility of equipping 200 (yup, two hundred) parking places with chargers.
I'd add the earth to the list. Pretty sure it's a celestial object and it has "some" effect in human life ;)
For those getting "video unavailable" for the Kareem/Bruce scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVT4NDinqw
> Socializing, learning to live with others, providing opportunities to join social and professional clubs/organizations, navigation of longer-timeline projects and assignments, etc.

These are all things that happen in universities, but they are also all things that young people have the opportunity to do outside of university.
It’s interesting that your definitions of complexity and simplicity are very different from Hickeys.

In “Simple made easy” he defines complexity as entanglement and simplicity as the opposite of that.

A proper union Option = T|None, is simpler than a sum type Option<T> = Option{T, None}, because the latter complects the types into a container. It’s even worse with nominal types because it complects both yhe structure and the name.

I think you think of complexity of language implementation (compiler) or runtime complexity?

That’s a fair argument! It highlights a different preference.
The issue here is one of semiotics and morphemology. Mapping meaning into a narrative and ontological protocol is going to be the requisite work if we want the engine to be "smart." As explored in the discussion at hand, tokenization creates a great mimic but it's a parlor trick. We must employ a robust thinking-thing that correlates not only a static, contextually indexed dictionary <lexicography>, we must also route that through a network to distill meaning itself into tokens. Perhaps languages which rely on morphemes for written language - a logosyllabary - are somewhat more or less suited for this task? I ask as a dummy.

There also exists the consideration of allographemical contextualization, the nature of relevance, pragmatics, conjunct identification of context, semantics. To be honest the linguistics side alone is vast. Knowledge and cognition however. . . A whole other ballgame. But the only tool we have to really get down to the bottom of how knowledge works is language, it's to epistemological pursuit what math is to physics.

While GPT is super impressive and can do a lot of quasi-brute-force things, we're only finding now the rudiments of the machined intelligence paradigm, and it will behoove any reader to brush up on their classics, true pursuants of philosophy and many order logic are about to be in high demand if I had to reckon.
Can attest to this, all folks that I know are into this are women. Even seasoned doctors. And the response? 'Yeah I know its not rational but you know....'.

Some form of quick reward system gets invoked in the brain with this apparently. Well still better than looking for tobacco kicks or chocolate instead.
Be careful. Women like that tend to lack accountability, and make sudden life decisions based on such nonsense, including dumping you.
I always wonder what the morals and ethics of these kind of business owners is.

You're selling a service you know is bullshit and liken to porn. Personally I would not be proud to say I run that business. I would rather that these businesses didn't exist, and so I don't want to contribute to perpetuating them.

Of course there's the "fulfilling the market need" type of answer, but that's basically saying you will do anything for money regardless of morals and ethics.
I don't know about not making sense from first principles, but if a principle concern is bug free code then NULL is a disaster. I've seen so bugs caused by people forgetting a column could be NULL and using '<', '<=' I avoid them like the plague now. It's not just the unfamiliar behaviour, it's also that everyone forgets to write tests for it.

A simple fix would be to add a dialect option that makes any operation on a potentially null value a syntax error. This is possible because in SQL it's almost always possible to determine if a value X could potentially be NULL or not. If it could be NULL, something like (X == y) or (X + y) should generate a syntax error. Instead you should have to write (X is not null and X == y) or ISNULL(X + y, 0).
Selfhosted Steam-like platform for Games on your fileserver
Yay, that shape builder tool looks awesome.
From a technical, emotional, and spiritual level, I agree with your comment on Outer Wilds.

If people reading this don't really "play games", make this the one you try.
Arch on 2 laptops, 2 VPSes and a minitower desktop (used as a home server).

So far everything good. On the servers, everything runs under docker, I just installed docker, nomad, consul and tailscale, which I'd have to add custom repositories for ubuntu anyway for basically the same end (except now I also have newer kernel).

Tried Debian and Ubuntu in the past, old packages (especially GUI applications, but other stuff too) often broke, and it sucked to just find that there's a fix but not in the repos - and so I had to add custom repositories for every other thing anyway.
Lucky you! Considering that the likelihood of Necro putting out a new record or playing live is almost zero. One can hope though!

Their album Epitaph is what I like to call a "perfect" record, in the way that Aja by Steely Dan is a perfect record.
For a small island of 100 people? What other agents would you have to simulate besides the people?
your penance now is to go to boston harbor and drop some tea-bags there.
Scam Altman at it again, after scamming all donations for OpenAI and making it ClosedAI shortly after
It was a lot easier to make college free when 20% of your high school graduates went on to college. Now that it's over 50% that's harder.

OTOH, that in itself shows that the increased tuition hasn't actually kept people from going to college.
Yes, and information is much, much different than knowledge.
Indeed. It's astonishing how many people seem to believe that passing law X would accomplish X.

We have no shortage of laws already. Including many laws that (on paper) protect individual rights. All of those laws are routinely being ignored. They don't mean anything.

The constitution is meaningless. The bill of rights is meaningless. International human rights treaties are meaningless. All that matters is what happens in practice.

If individual rights exist in a country, it's because of how society and the government operate – not because somewhere, there's a piece of paper that says so. A democracy can turn into a dictatorship without a single law having to change.
I can't think of a single rationale for this. A user account isn't much more than a database entry. What possible reason could a company use to justify this?
How to reduce the customer acquisition cost of e-commerce?
It's, at best, a conversation starter. Hofstadter in his Metamagical Themas had a chapter on how the predictions are worded specifically to be vague and feel good so that any of them could apply to any one.

Taken more seriously, they have serious social effects. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangala_Dosha

I expect the interest in "new age" religions or quasi-religious practices to go up as traditional religions move out of societies. My experience is that there is a part of the human being that requires religion and spirituality and they will find outlets to satiate their needs.
Wanted to say the same. I had to check the dictionary to make sure it's not some obscure "exercise" situation as I've unfortunately seen it used as a verb before (in a shoddily written README).
I like Be'lakor – An Ember's Arc

https://genius.com/Belakor-an-embers-arc-lyrics

It’s a song about a photon.
This are assuming LLMs are intelligent and can think "hey I am dumb, I'll look that up".

What they are literally doing is guessing the next word, a word a time but doing it really really well and making statistically average output over a very large number of inputs.

There is no distinction between understanding "the" vs "a" and telling me 1+1=3. It is all token generation.
I think LLMs need to be taught to say "I don't know"/"I am not sure" or something to that effect. Another approach might be to introduce an adversarial "censor" model to guard against hallucination (or inappropriate answers).
> We've got a backlog that will easily take us a year to complete.

To me, this is actually a great argument in favour of 2- to 4-week sprints. Long backlogs are psychologically demotivating. Finishing a task only to find that the backlog is just as long, or -- worse, and more likely -- longer than when you started is just so depressing.

Sprints give a small, subtle, but real psychological boost from routinely completing achievable workloads. It's when you overload sprints and can't possibly complete them that they start to break down. From a psychological perspective, you should usually complete all the tasks in a sprint. Not always -- but most of the time.

Of course, people who advocate for 6- to 8-week sprints also get this benefit, but, from my perspective, there's too much chance of having to change your plans partway through. The benefit of a shorter cycle is that it's easier to pivot everyone to work on something new. By way of example, my team at my previous employer was building a new service, and we discovered about halfway through that we had a design flaw that would prevent us from surfacing the level of detail we wanted for API errors. On 2-week sprints, we were able to use half of the next sprint to change our error handling across our entire code base. Sure, we could have done that anyway with longer sprints -- but then why bother having concrete plans at all, when you know they're likely to change?
I didn't see anyone else complain. Only you.
Maybe we're getting into the unproductive game of definitions, but perhaps stereotyping is still stereotyping when the categories are completely made up.

After all, stereotyping implies incorrect categories. Otherwise it would be called classification.
Ask HN: Looking for a Firefox compatible extension for voice controlled actions
Basically I would like to have an extension where I could say "click publish" and it will find the button with the text publish and click it.

Is there anything like this for FF, I ask because the FF voice repo got shut down a couple years ago and haven't found a competitor.
Are you sure you aren't thinking UK?

In the US, you have to be a common carrier to be covered by CALEA. Internet services are not required to keep logs.

I could be wrong though.
How do you know that you're actually "understanding" these experiences and not just making up whatever confirms your preconceptions?
Some countries recycle nuclear fuel (e.g. France and some other European countries) whereas others don't (the US). It has obviously some costs, but it also decreases the waste. The re-processing center in Europe is located at La Hague (Netherlands).

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

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/wang2/
I was having a conversation with a friend at work about a conspiracy theory loving colleague.

I asked if it's possible to be good at your job while believing in far out stuff.

My friend said "seems like it". But I have a feeling the mental baggage that comes from wacky beliefs is going to affect other aspects of life and work in a negative way. But that's just my opinion.
Nice, but I prefer https://icones.js.org/
That's more an argument to keep states small, for optimal internal governance. Interstate conflict drives states to become larger though so it's a balance.
HTTP 413 Payload Too Large is the appropriate response, not silently truncating content because you wanted to be ‘optimistic’ in your replies to clients.
> Virtualbox itself has been somewhat closed down / restricted over the course of Oracle's tenure.

How so? VirtualBox was GPL-licensed before the acquisition and it remains so today. The extensions pack was always under a proprietary license.
Exactly. You pick the format in the menu on the oscilloscope itself (the menu can be seen in the screencap).
It is an useful filter to reduce the pool of eligible candidates when dating, even if it is random.

It should also be seen in context. Certain celestial bodies (moon and the sun) have a massive impact on your life on earth. It is easy to see why people would interpolate this to other celestial bodies.
Oh man, amazing Obscura is. If you enjoy them a lot, check Allegaeon. They’re my favourite technical extreme metal band. And very nerdy lyrics, they have a whole range of melodies and rymthms. Also with classical guitar passages.