skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If i got an applicant with an impressive itch.io page full of games they've made and released themselves I'd interview them even if they're 18 (I'm not sure about child labor laws for kids younger than that).
I think what OP means is that a small studio could make a game that would go toe to toe with the big studios, not just in terms of sales but in scope. Driver was made by basically a bunch of guys who somehow managed to blag their way into Sony sending them few PS1 devkits, and it's on the same level as other big productions of their time.

Nowadays yes, you get the occassional Battlebit and Vampire survivors which would make most AAA games blush in terms of sales, but in terms of scope they aren't anything like Assassin's Creed or Diablo 4 - that's not to say that they are worse, obviously not - just that it's impossible for a small studio to deliver the same scope as AAA studios with 1000+ people per project.
Well, I guess, that are islands of superconductivity and normal conductivity in the same sample.

This gives a low resistance and diamagnetism which is used as proxy to real superconductivity.

I may be wrong though.
Instead of this irrelevant pizza example you could've tried to address the real issues with your arguments (hint: the one where you liked/prefered wasn't on the list)
> but the leak has clearly served humanity better than keeping it under wraps.

Yeah, advancing human knowledge serves humanity, but unfortunately not really those who are advancing that knowledge. Those with money will just use your invention and make more money, you will have a pat on the back. I wish it was more balanced, we would have a lot of inventions sooner and implemented faster.
By using Ubuntu I’m trusting their binaries. By using any distro I’m trusting their binaries, or even if I compile everything from scratch I certainly haven’t read and understood every line of code.

He’s not wrong in his statement.
VkFFT: Vulkan/CUDA/Hip/OpenCL/Level Zero/Metal Fast Fourier Transform Library
Some of the older Unifi kit was non standard

By older I mean you could still buy it three / four (?) years ago
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

>As a result, one of the most amazing pieces of literature to come out of the X Consortium is the “Inter Client Communication Conventions Manual,” more fondly known as the “ICCCM”, “Ice Cubed,” or “I39L” (short for “I, 39 letters, L”). It describes protocols that X clients must use to communicate with each other via the X server, including diverse topics like window management, selections, keyboard and colormap focus, and session management. In short, it tries to cover everything the X designers forgot and tries to fix everything they got wrong. But it was too late — by the time ICCCM was published, people were already writing window managers and toolkits, so each new version of the ICCCM was forced to bend over backwards to be backward compatible with the mistakes of the past.

>The ICCCM is unbelievably dense, it must be followed to the last letter, and it still doesn’t work. ICCCM compliance is one of the most complex ordeals of implementing X toolkits, window managers, and even simple applications. It’s so difficult, that many of the benefits just aren’t worth the hassle of compliance. And when one program doesn’t comply, it screws up other programs. This is the reason cut-and-paste never works properly with X (unless you are cutting and pasting straight ASCII text), drag-and-drop locks up the system, colormaps flash wildly and are never installed at the right time, keyboard focus lags behind the cursor, keys go to the wrong window, and deleting a popup window can quit the whole application. If you want to write an interoperable ICCCM compliant application, you have to crossbar test it with every other application, and with all possible window managers, and then plead with the vendors to fix their problems in the next release.

>In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry’s standard naked emperor.
This is indeed mentioned down-thread in the linked mastodon post :)
With one of the checkmate trials, the median 5 year survival rate for patients taking nivolumab and ipilimumab is 5 years. The patients in this study trended older and had inoperable brain mets.

The survival rate previously was something like 9-12 months.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1910836
Agreed, I just attempted it via the api and Ui and it gave a mishmash response that didn’t seem to be coherent, mostly different subjects all smashed together at the max length output.

I tried it via api two ways, both via system message and no user message and one with the word rewrite at the beginning and one without. Both gave similar long mishmashed outputs that seemed like a hallucination.
Gophernicus: A small and secure Gopher server
Found via: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/setting-up-a-gopher-site
Not sure how it’s in the US, but in the small village where I came from (and that fits OPs description) alcoholism was rampant
Ruby and Jupyter Notebooks
I think that at least some parts of this material has superconductivity properties. That's why the videos shown have some very tiny speckles of the material showing the diamagnetism effects and just one anonymous video showing full levitation (type 2 superconductor property as I understood).
Sure so would I - the problem is that they wouldn't go through the first filter of recruitment. As an engineering hiring manager I'd never even get to see their CV in the first place.
"No-one" was a bit of a hyperbola; there was a known "drug gang" of three people who we were warned not to interact with when we were children. These three drug users were known by everyone and I'd really be surprised if there were significantly more people using any kind of illegal substances; back in the 90s it was just not that easy to hide stuff in a town of 3000 people. Also, where the hell would you even get drugs? From the three people drug gang (who presumably were buying their stuff from a bigger city 50 kilometers away)? In that case you would be seen to interact with them, which would immediately raise some doubts.

I suppose it's possible that there were some other people besides this three people gang at least trying illegal substances, but it was still marginal enough to been a complete non-problem. Alcohol, however, was different; it was legal and socially accepted and many people had a problem with it.
How do you know its a random users message and not a generated user message based on the training data?
Someone asked this recently. You can move your Stripe data to/from any PCI DSS level 1-compliant provider, so what you're saying isn't accurate.

To Stripe: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/account/data-migrations/pan...

From Stripe: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/account/data-migrations/pan...
This is sad man. You’re getting excited at manufactured hype on twitter
But apple mobile devices can't run steam? It'd make no sense to include them in a metric of steam usage.
But that's not what the original mastodon post said - it was about people getting hired at a very young age. I run a small indie studio (5 people including myself) and know a lot of other indies, and have myself in the past worked for other indies. Even among professional indie/smaller studios it's really rare to see a teenager working (I've never myself seen it).

I think it's to a large extent due to the professionalization of the industry (even indies/small scale) and overall raising of the bar of expectations.
UserScript that blocks Web Environment Integrity (WEI) websites
Hello HN!

I created a simple UserScript that blocks websites that use Web Environment Integrity (WEI).

For those who aren't aware, for information about why WEI is considered harmful, check out this article from FSF:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/web-environment-integrity-is-an-all-out-attack-on-the-free-internet

Installation is straightforward if you have a UserScript manager (like Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey) installed in your browser. Just add this script to your UserScript manager and it will automatically run whenever you visit a webpage.

Here's the link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/groundcat/Web-Environment-Integrity-Blocker

Here's the link to install: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/472234-web-environment-integrity-blocker

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.
I haven’t used konqueror for 20 years, is it still a thing?

The web today is very different to how it was in 2003
As proof, it gave me multiple rewrite answers saying that what i asked(random user’s ask) was not meeting their guidelines/safety and cannot answer.
Hey, OP, why don't you share name of your company? Anonymous complaint is just an anonymous complaint, and nothing more.
> I bought some waterproofing (direct from the manufacturer), looked up nearby steel manufacturers, and looked up the phone number of my electrician (on his site).

Perhaps a little side tracked here, but the internet has basically become useless for DIY projects lately. We're renovating and needed some advise on which kind of paint to use for a particular project and we have given up on using the internet for advise. SEO, bad translations and straight-up scams have prevent us from finding even the most basic information. Instead we just go to the paint store and ask there. They also know exactly what kind of paint, wallpaper and tools are available and don't recommend stuff that's can only be shipped from the US or China. So congratulation, we broke the internet and we now back at consulting local experts in physical stores.... Brilliant.
I just replied to my original comment.
That’s one of the main benefits, but if the machine can make sense of the content, it can still present it however is clearest for the user.
I wouldn't read too much into this. You have to address prior art when it is found in patent examination as a part of application process, no matter how bogus it is.
No offense, but a very high degree of irrationality is to consider yourself to be rational. A good excuse would be if you are very young. Your characterization of drug users as unintelligent and with no interest in higher ideals merely demonstrates that you've had almost no contact with them, thus it is highly irrational for you to have an opinion on them. They are doing things that are bad for them and are therefore stupid? Coca Cola is a diabetes inducing poison, yet people drink it and feel good about themselves. Some will eventually get so sick from it and similar things they consume that they will go blind or lose a limb. Worse yet, others will consider Coca Cola a wonderful business and buy stock, which will go up. Coca Cola will continue to expand and improve, causing more havoc on society, raising the cost of health insurance for everyone. Stupidity as a way of life.

Stop referring to people with a problem as "such people", it implies there is something inherently wrong with them. There are a lot of people that have strong tendencies to addictions, but there are also a lot of them where a bad break or two pushes them the wrong way. There's a lot that can be done with education and prevention. How much of the now unnecessary police funds were redirected for these and other measures?
Then that recruiting process is broken and you're missing out on potentially some of the best candidates.

But it's probably not worth fixing from a boring economic perspective, if you already have too many excellent candidates to employ.
As of June 2023, Google Search Ranking Treats .ai as a gTLD
For context, copper is around 7 per kilo.
Yeah I have a feeling university labs aren't exactly well funded enough to just have a DSLR on hand. All of these videos are probably taken with the researcher's phone.
It's different. All the layers below are still there, and those abstractions are WAY more solid than the abstraction from React to NextJS. Most good developers can build apps faster without an ORM or a framework on top of a framework. Nobody is building apps faster with assembly.
It looks like the citation of the Pais patent was added by the examiner, rather than by the applicants. Does that make any difference in your view?
adi shamiR (I'm sorry)
I’m not sure a “real” REST API has ever been built.
> Today, the divide is so high that you can’t possibly make a AAA level game as an indie.

To latch onto this remark; indie games of today are bigger and better than the AAA games of 20, 30 years ago I think. Groundbreaking games like Commander Keen (side-scrolling on PC) were written by a late teen, early 20 year old John Carmack, who continued to basically invent 3D video games.

That said, reasons why indie games are better than old "pro" games are that they stand on the shoulders of giants; Carmack for example had to invent and apply a lot of theoretical knowledge into performant code, afterwards people could reuse his code and ideas. Programming languages and tooling have improved, so indie developers can focus more on building a game instead of solving lower-level problems.

But they still build their own engines, albeit usually not from scratch. I'm thinking games like Factorio, Cogmind, The Witness, Minecraft, Amnesia, Project Zomboid, etc (yeah I had to do a search to find and confirm these games).

That said, "high-end gaming" is a difficult term to use; with some of the most popular games, graphic fidelity and the like is secondary to gameplay. Minecraft, the best-selling game of all time, was made by one guy / a small team, Stardew Valley by just one guy, and Pokemon and Terraria were made by just small teams.
> Minecraft

Was bought by MS almost 10 years ago. No way I would describe as an indie game at this point.
That’s sort of stuff sits on an isolated vlan. My proxy (with a decent trusted very) talks to them, either via http or self signed https. Proxy also handles the authentication (via oidc or x509) and logging.
not in the industry anymore but I'd argue that, as far as 3D engines go, truly understanding an engine implies a breadth of knowledge much wider that what was necessary to make "simple" (by the time it was tough) 3D textured triangles. Things got much more sophisticated... Now you need at least some algebra, you need to understand datastructures, light behaviour, memory management, etc. Sure you can learn on the spot, but it's going to take time.
I thought you were kidding until I looked it up. Apparently this is also changed from time to time!

> The chrome developers also do change this periodically. They changed it recently from badidea to thisisunsafe so everyone using badidea, suddenly stopped being able to use it.
How well does it stand up to the other great life outcome predictor, post code?
The Hero's Journey. Joseph Campbell must be proud.
Hehe, I was very confused there for a moment.
Self taught myself, only starting now after decades in the software industry (from dev to management) studying Math and CS on a bachelor degree out of curiosity and to gain more knowledge.

Early games needed visuals and that was something results were important, which demo guys delivered on machines with still very limited resources. Formal education for games was lacking behind during the 90th. After all, games as a broad industry was a new concept. (EA once produced games for the C64.)

This has changed. With more and more abstractions and more processing power it is more and more important to work on algorithms not hacks.

Most self taughts lack broader concepts, abstractions and especially algorithms. I had to learn everything besides hacking my way into Frontend development.

Would I look out for folks with no degree? Yes and no. I depends on the use case.

On the other side: the world is filled up with mediocre code from people with degrees. There is no guarantee. Only constant learning - and this is a supoerpower at least some self-taughts have.
It comes down to ethics. If you need dark patterns to stay in business, then I'd prefer you weren't in business.

Now what if it were _my_ business...
Yeah do we need that disclaimer?

If I (non native English speaker) write a blog post it will be shit English and won’t read “smoothly”. Then ChatGPT makes it nice and smooth. I check if my intentions are left unaltered and then post. For professional stuff I used to ask my American colleague, now I don’t have to bother her anymore.
How would you find such researchers if they didn't have plausible real-world results yet? I have a theory for new high performance heat engine which I developed over 15 years already, but I don't think anyone would give me ANY money for making a prototype (which may not work in reality), so I have to somehow do it in the limited time after working two jobs (I had to earn enough to have a home with a proper garage). Do you have any tips for someone like me?
I wonder if part of the 'problem' is that AAA game development has gotten very huge and specialised. They just don't need 'full stack' developers the way that smaller studios did. I've worked with several people who worked at AAA game studios, and very few of them actually developed games in any meaningful way.
> we are missing out on a lot of very self driven, ambitious candidates

Maybe they'll end up joining/founding indie companies instead of AAA companies
this is the answer!

This has happened since the beginning and sometimes too does happen if you ask it to repeat the same thing 1000 times
Even then Borghans concedes that "Grades, scores on achievement tests, and IQ are strongly positively correlated", just not perfectly so.

But also compare the meta study of Strenze (2007):

http://web.archive.org/web/20200616015146/https://esferaarmi...

Page 415:

> Meta-analysis demonstrated that parental SES and academic performance are indeed positively related to career success but the predictive power of these variables is not stronger than that of intelligence (see Table 1). In fact, intelligence exhibited several correlations with the measures of success that were larger than the respective correlations for other predictors suggesting that intelligence is, after all, a better predictor of success.
There's tools like Wondershare transfer. It's not free but does a surprisingly good job of converting between android and iOS. Somehow they figured out the secret sauce of Apple's backups and charge only $40 or so for the privilege (no affiliation btw). For me, it was worth it
Not sure if it applies to you, but I had the issue with black screen too but finally got it working after issuing the following commands [0] and restarting the device. Hope it helps.

[0] https://github.com/nikp123/scrcpy-desktop/blob/main/startscr...
I don't think this is quite right. What I believe is going on is that different generations have different battles they are fighting, different tech that they are comfortable with. How i'm reading it is the author is fighting against change, and the tipping point they are seeing is the realisation that the battle is lost - they have to either choose to adopt the new stuff, or close the door to it.

Each generation grows up with stuff and sticks with it in the face of 'better' or 'more modern' alternatives. We see this with adoption of different social media platforms where there is a clear age difference between different platforms. My generation (i'm in my 50s) are big facebook users, my son (in his 20s) doesn't use facebook, but uses tiktok & discord. I'm pretty sure in 20 years time the next generation will be using something different and there will be an aging tiktok demographic too.

All this means is that if you are developing a new competing platform in what appears to be a closed space, there is always room for you, if you target the next generation and their expectations.
Robotron 2084 !!!
I see no mention of Reddit on that page.
TIL that the English language has two different words for pumpkins. But I'm still not sure when it's a pumpkin and when it's a squash?

Ok, according to Wikipedia:

> A pumpkin is a vernacular term for mature winter squash of species and varieties in the genus Cucurbita that has culinary and cultural significance but no agreed upon botanical or scientific meaning.

So "pumpkin" is the more widespread term (at least that's my feeling?), and it can be applied to all "squashes", but it's not scientifically correct?
Princeton Mathematician Works Only 3 Hours a Day [video]
If you want to count "cores" in a GPU, the best equivalency is streaming multiprocessors.

While it's true that they're in the dozens, strictly speaking, we've got GPUs with well over 100 now (the RTX 4090, for instance) and 64+ is a pretty common configuration.
LLMs were never really academia
You have to give GPT an objective, like "find an apartment in Florida" and then say something like "given the following options, which one would you interact with to get closer to your objective."

So if you assume that you start on google.com, then your options are like
1.) Input with name "search", placeholder "search anything", value ""
2.) Button with label "I'm feeling lucky"
3.) Button with label "search"

Obviously, doing just one of these doesn't achieve the objective - it just needs to pick which one it thinks has the most "value" for completing the objective. If you repeat that enough times, then it can actually do what your overall goal of the session was.

I'm just giving a simplistic answer, and if you implemented only what I've written, then it's going to get stuck in a loop more often than not. But that's the gist of how you could encode the DOM into something that GPT can interpret and make decisions/take actions based on.
spaghetti squash (gila) is also the basis for a lot of Portuguese sweets, after being candied
Just because something is documented doesn't mean it is not crappy. I agree with the author, that just like how | aren't interpreted in `echo $myvar` neither should spaces.

I also agree that `mv "$i" "$(suf "$i")" is unnecessarily cumbersome.
One of the issues with this is most of those folks are probably using an engine like Unity or Unreal. Which is fine by itself if you want to make a game, but it kind of forces you into certain constraints while allowing you to not have to understand the underlying tech, as well as the hardware.

To really get into the fundamentals, like computer graphics, pathfinding, collision detection to make something really impressive and never seen before like Teardown (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1167630/Teardown/), you really need to start from scratch.

And speaking as someone who has written a basic-ish but fully functional (deferred rendering, dynamic lights, shadows, collision detection etc.) engine, it's really not that hard (well compared to making a shipping game), and having a fundamental understanding of the underlying tech will probably help you to make a game that stands out from the crowd.
AWS launches Israel cloud region, to invest $7.2B
> Most good developers can build apps faster without an ORM or a framework

Can they though? Especially if there are several developers working on it. Or are you saying that once they start using frameworks they are no longer ‘good’ developers?
Absolutely! But thats for management to work through, the engineers just want more :)