skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a completely made up problem for which crypto is supposedly the solution

- We’ve known for 2 decades how to do skin or items exchange between games. It involves relational databases. Valve does it for their games or at least could do it at will. There’s not one unsolved technical problem here

- There is zero incentive for developers, publishers and licensors (you know the people that make up the game industry) to adopt any of it. My company dies, the licenses terminate and your items are toast. Technology does not at all change any of it because it’s not a technology problem. It’s a licensing problem. And if I paid for the license, by god no other developer else should get that value for free.

- Developers don’t want other developers to affect their own games, affecting visual design, polygon budgets, performance, power or any other aspect of the game. No benefit, only drawbacks.

- No, we don’t want you to bring your lightsaber or mickey mouse costume (you know assets that people actually find valuable) int our game because that’s a straight visit from the lawyers at the house of mouse and probably makes our carefully crafted game look like ass.

- No middleman is only a problem if you need a middleman or the middleman fails to deliver value. Not if you can be the middleman. People attempt to muddle this down to a payments processor issue, but the last decade has shown crypto is just plain shit at that, from gas fees to security, lack of customer protection and any other dimension. And if it’s not payment, well, we could just as well use a database to share games between developers at the same publisher or valve.

- People bring up demand for external markets like Diablo’s Auction house. But these demand economies are fractions of the overall game value systems and increasing the focus on the fraction very quickly erodes and destroys the main game.

- IP licensors don’t benefit if people carry their IP from game to game unless game and game pay the fee

- Publishers don’t want to give telemetry or data associated with the movement of players to others. Sorry, that’s just not a good idea. And they want to sell you items again, not you hoarding older items.

Even gamers … don’t want it. They understand that this is mostly crypto bro driven attempts of turning every game into a gacha / real world money affects escapism fantasy for people with less money when every rich brat is parading their instagram assets through town.

The only people who think this is a great idea (including Boz) are in silicon valley with a long history of failing to understand games.
You could argue about whether it fits better into Appalachia, culturally and demographically.
It’s the opposite way around for me. The abstract notion of death is far scarier than the means
Yup! I picked up my first one probably 16-17 years ago, also when they were still cheapish on eBay. I don't think the one I'm currently running is my first one, I have two and a parts unit now.

I also ran their RaQ series as custom Linux router/firewall boxes for a long time. Still have two CacheRaQ 1s, which were designed to be caching web proxies and have dual Ethernet ports. I think they came out of production 5 or 6 years ago, ran fine with Debian mipsel until the customer upgraded their Internet connection and exceeded the little 150 MHz CPU's capacity!
Instrumentation isn't solved by any single specific thing. It's a praxis that you apply to your code as your write it, like I guess error handling; it's not a product that you can deploy, like I guess Splunk or New Relic or whatever else.

You should "use" metrics, logs, and traces thru dependencies that are specific to your organization. The interface between your business logic and operational telemetry should be abstract, essentially the same as a database or a remote HTTP endpoint or etc. The concrete system(s) collecting and serving telemetry data are the responsibility of your dev/ops or whatever team.

Main point: instrumentation is part of the development process, not something that's automatic or that can be bolted-on.
Scryer-Prolog 0.9.2
But this could just be part of the pattern of Europeans being more lose with unit changing, because it's so easy to do anyway.
People just tend to use the units that keep the values in a reasonable range of 1-10.
> But how is it possible to be sued if the participation to the league is on a voluntary basis and the injury comes from a tackle made by a member of the opposite team?

Its possible for a mutually voluntary act to involve a duty of care, and its possible for that duty of care to contribute to damages even if the direct mechanism involves an act by someone other than the party, or their agent, with the duty of care.

Heck, employment relations are legally voluntary themselves, and employers have been liable for all kinds of harms to their employees where the mechanism of injury involves someone who is neither the employer nor their agent, for failing to take steps that they reasonably should have to prevent them.

> Like Homer didn't sue mr. Burns when he was hit in the head by Shelbyville pitcher during the Nuclear Power Plants softball tournament

Principles of law inferred from the behavior of characters on The Simpsons are not significantly more likely than random guesses to be correct. (This rule generalizes to most fiction, really.)
No, presumably these employees will be based on dry land
Because there's no guarantee that those assets will be respected.

At any point the game maker can say "V1 assets aren't supported in V2". Or they can flood the market with "rare" items. Or they'll buy an item which was "stolen" and have it unilaterally revoked. Or... the list goes on.

There's also zero possibility of cross-game use. If ID releases the BFG9000 for free, is Skyrim going to let you shoot that at dragons?

But, here's the thing, don't listen to me. Listen to your (potential) customers. If they're all telling you that they don't want to buy what you're selling then take that as a sign.
crypto consumers should be far more discerning than they are

even the term “rug-pull” is not discerning enough, it refers to a dozen distinct behaviors, of which a few would still be illegal while the other many behaviors are just a misalignment of expectations

removing liquidity? thats not illegal under either consumer or securities framework and most commonly called a “rug pull”. communities can provide their own liquidity as a feature of the crypto space, and in no space do purchasers have an expectation for liquidity

ceasing to continue making press releases or taking down a website and community channels? also not illegal under the consumer or securities framework.

taking other people’s provided liquidity out of a staking contract without saying thats whats going to happen would be illegal under both frameworks. that kind of rug pull is theft.

collecting funds and promising to do X and then not even attempting it, thats prosecutable under both the consumer and securities frameworks, in more ways under a securities framework
Transitioning /R/Rust to the Threadiverse
Congratulations!? I do hope that means AWS’s ever growing cli commands will be all fig now (or will be)? It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. What about support outside of AWS? Will fig still be as awesome in iTerm2 with what-ever-is-in-%PATH%?
Conceptually, Mazda 5 BEV is exactly what I want. For my dogs, road-trips, and runs to the hardware store.

I'd accept a passenger-oriented Ford Transit Express BEV.
In China the state owns all the land so this is less of a concern I guess. In the US there's usually some sort of HOA that you get a vote in that owns the land.
ZipLm with Beam Search, BPE and Progressive Compression
I don’t think that’s relevant. The fear here is fear of oblivion, of not existing, not fear of pain
There are more California plates in mine and the surrounding towns than there have been in the last 20 years. California wasn't about boom and bust, it was about optimism. The oil patch is boom/bust and it adds to making it a horrible place to live.

Old California was buying a cheap vw van for $800, getting a bunch of friends together and going on a surf trip to baja. Having fun and being unpretentious. New California is paying $30,000 for a vanagon and making videos of it by yourself to post to the internet.
Wait, this is Autocomplete for $12/month?
Slow. Clap.
Trailing return type declaration (-> type) was needed to declare the return tyoe of a lambda — no other way to get that info into the grammar.

Then once that was opened some folks felt it would be better to write their regular code that way too.
After looking at the readme, I'm still unclear on what kind of product it is - another database operator? In the readme I don't see any advantages it has compared to other operators, why not I choose other more mature operators?

Are the "Goals" serious? That looks more like empty slogans. Perhaps it would be better to explain in detail what it have actually done and how did it.

Furthermore, when can change that misleading title?
This... seems false? In particular, the point of an "edition" system is that code written for the new edition can seamlessly import code written for the old edition, and so a hypothetical pointerless "new edition" would simply disallow bare pointers in new files, and things like smart pointers would continue to be _implemented_ in old edition code.
There should be a version of Nomic[1] specific to the sort of fantasy legal interpretation popular with NFT-enthusiasts, tax protestors, sovereign citizens, and other idiosyncratically motivated amateur legal practitioners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
No. C existed long time before java, so the natural career progression was for C programmers to become java programmers.

It is not at all as easy for C programmers to become Rust programmers as you need to learn a lot about Rust before you are able to understand the Rust code.
I think the people who would buy skins are unlikely to push back. The more vocal pushback is probably from people who, rightfully so, hate the micro-transaction game model. I play games to escape from capitalism, not to be forced to participate in the worst variant of it or face the choice of not being able to play at the same tier as everyone else.

Micro-transactions in general are gross. NFT backed micro-transactions are not more or less gross, but they're still gross by association./
>I literally don't remember any unpleasant surprises of this form when learning Rust

I can't say I find Rust's pattern matching rules particularly pleasant. The rules are convoluted and arbitrary

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/patterns.html

Also, it has often been surprising to me how code that looks like it's entirely read-only will try to move stuff.

E.g, this works:

let numbers = [1, 2, 3];

for n in numbers {
println!("{}", n);
}

for n in numbers {
println!("{}", n);
}

This doesn't work:

let numbers2 = vec![1, 2, 3];

for n in numbers2 {
println!("{}", n);
}

for n in numbers2 {
println!("{}", n);
}

I understand why that is and I know how to fix it, but I don't like it. There is a long list of things in Rust that I find understandable but also unpleasant. In that sense it really is a worthy successor to C++. Smart people making unpleasant decisions for good reasons.
When I learned FORTRAN, I recall each line of code was prefixed by a numeric label. From the “Hello, World!” presented on the website, it looks like that’s no longer the case in modern FORTRAN?

program hello
! This is a comment line; it is ignored by the compiler
print *, 'Hello, World!'
end program hello

https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/hello_world/
This comment opened my eyes in a strange way to my boss (dir of infra). This is so on the nose for how he operates it was almost painful to read.
Fig is awesome. Congrats to the team!
Most of the time the compiler can deduce it so why bother writing the return type?
Does buying a baseball card in 2023 now entail ownership in Fanatics or Panini?

If not, then it's not even remotely the same thing as what goes on with non-fungible tokens like the one here.
Don’t forget - what if the game publisher is acquired by private equity?
Can anyone share how the computer's performance is impacted by running the model locally? And what your specs are?
> In my experience the issue is not about taking it seriously, I've rarely met someone totally unconcerned in real life.

The Republican Party just held their first primary debate among the presidential candidates. They were asked about climate change and only one of them was willing to recognize it as a problem, and my understanding is that she directed action towards China and India. The candidate leading the pack, Trump, was not present, but has called Climate Change a Chinese hoax.

If you are not encountering people like this in real life, you are living in a bubble yourself.
> just require they be left in designated bike parking.

What is the punishment for non-compliance and who is punished?
Scientific Journal Retracts Article that claimed no evidence of Climate Crisis
My brother got a job in the industry with only a degree in math. My advice is simply to trust in yourself and don't give up applying for jobs. It sounds like you enjoy and are good at coding. I guarantee you that is enough to be successful at 99% of jobs, you just need to find the one job that gives you a chance.

I would also keep up with side projects and coding challenges. It will boost confidence and may help in interviews. Ultimately though it's believing in yourself and grinding to apply to enough jobs which will make this dream into a reality. Once you land your first job where you are actually coding you are basically set. It will open a ton of doors for you.

BTW a slower more reliable approach would be to start taking coding classes at a college.
To spare someone else a research, it’s another term for ‘talent acquisition’ [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
The problem with how difficult aluminum casting is or is not is totally irrelevant.

The real problem is that this structural member with a giant visible crack in it somehow made it through Tesla's QA process. I think I could give Tesla some slack when they were originally ramping up Model 3 production (it was a "succeed or the company goes under" moment), but reports of their sub-par QA keep coming and coming.
Hmm, I've read this one:
"These .xlf files are generated and contain translated strings for each locale."

So why to store them under VCS at first place? I think they are doing it wrong.
Postfix, Dovecot and DNS with cheap Debian/Ubuntu LTS is all I needed to maintain all my email for about 10 years.

I also made a habit of creating an email alias per web service to keep credential leaks under control.

Edit: you messages should pass through any big email service if you implement DKIM, DMARC, etc. and make sure you are not an open relay.
You say so but give no actual evidence against it.

I can't learn from that.
In a way, this is kind of an indictment of modern software overall. Why doesn't the average person think that tasks can complete quickly? Because so much of the software they interact with is bloated, slow, terrible crap that they all think that's what is normal.

But on a more constructive note, perhaps instead of introducing artificial delays, you could instead show the user proof that the action has been completed?
NowCoast: NOAA's oceanographic, weather, warnings, forecast and guidance UI
Are they still trying to upstream everything? For a while they were being good about that…
Unsurprisingly, not everyone is mentally ill
It's a bit different than 9/11 though. Climate change is like a fully loaded supertanker. You can hit an emergency break all you want, but still that ship will have a 5..10km (or longer?) breaking distance.

So if a mass death event were to occur, and policy were to change course drastically, the changed climate would continue to pound our biosphere for many decades (if not centuries). Or hit tipping points and get worse & worse no matter what we do.

To put it blunt: at some point, prolonged mass suffering & death is practically guaranteed. Just with a decades-delayed fuse. That fuse is already lit, while we can't see (with any certainty, that is) how big a powder keg it goes into.
> Not sure how much depends on the state tho!

It varies by state quite a lot (as most things do).
A quick google search gives results indicating that homelessness in California is significantly higher in CA, even on a per capita basis, with a rate that is marginally higher than New York, ~3X higher than Florida, ~5X higher than Texas.
[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with...
Other options for this might include Code Llama (which runs on ollama locally) and looks interesting:
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/code-llama-ai-for-coding/
The second approach is better but… you need a system of continuous improvement in place and production stability to capture and hold the improvements. Tesla just doesn’t have to culture of capturing or embracing quality
Unless there is a contract with the employee, such as a collective bargaining agreement with a union, there is no legal reason a business has to pay an employee severance in the US.

A business might pay an employee severance for morale purposes, good PR, and/or to entice the employee to sign agreements that reduce the business's future liabilities.

If an employee agrees to quit their job in exchange for severance money, this would result in lower unemployment insurance premiums (i.e. tax liability) for the business because the employee would not be eligible for unemployment benefits from the government. The more unemployment benefits former employees receive, the higher the unemployment insurance premiums for the business.
They seem to be somewhat welcoming towards most major religions, but atheists still seem frowned upon. One could argue that the universe itself is a supreme being, but any scripture put forth would likely raise some questions.

I'm sure an atheist could successfully become a member, but I doubt many are trying to as the original post joked.
> if you work at a startup or early stage company, it is nearly always the better decision to throw more disk space at a storage problem like this than worry about optimizing for size. Developers are expensive, disk space is cheap

This is great advice. In general at the beginning it is better to keep things as simple as possible.

At one fast growing startup I worked at, one of the founders insisted we kept upgrading just one machine (plus redundancy and backups). It was a great strategy! Kept the architecture super simple, easy to manage, easy to debug and recover. For the first 5 years of the company, the whole thing ran on one server, while growing exponentially and serving millions of users globally.

After seeing that, it’s clear to me you should only upgrade when needed, and in the simplest, most straightforward way possible.
How Python is evolving
Not only a North/South rivalry but also West/East. Hip-hop musicians kill each other over it.
Because that is totally irrelevant? What does any of that have to do with fear of death?
There was an issue accessing the website today, and it's unclear whether the site owner is maintaining it. As many people rely on this free service, it has caused a lot of inconvenience all at once.
You had a curriculum that those short bursts tied into. Some one else already did the organizational work - I think if you enrolled in a class now you'd similarly find the time.
You do not need to submerge yourself underwater if that’s what you are suggesting. A bucket of water for your feet will do lots. A shower is good too.
Crazy to think someone would pass a single 32-bit float by reference.
It's utterly ridiculous.
Another so called 'incredible journey' which the VCs (including YC) accelerated an exit.
It's mostly custom-made by Vitalik: https://github.com/vbuterin/blog
I don't think that's a totally fair characterization of the history of air safety but I do mostly agree with your point. Government has to take action and right now they're just permitting anything... or that's what it looks like.
It is indeed challenging! But our envelope will be antistatic so it will reduce ignition risks. And we are working at a safe distance from the lines.
> You're reduced to a cog in the system giving your expected output and that's it.

This is no more or less true whether you're working in an office or at home.
I get your point, but being present in the subway or the bus is worthless for me. When walking it's different, especially if there's some nature and not too many people nearby.
The MacOS version isn't even a UB2, it's still compiled for intel. https://www.sharedrop.io/ looks interesting through thanks afavour!
Background: https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/learn/nowcoast.html

Some of the data and information available from nowCOAST includes:

Latest in-situ weather/marine weather observations

Weather radar reflectivity mosaics

Cloud images from weather satellites

Surface wind and sea-surface temperature analyses

Precipitation amounts for the last few hours or days

Weather and marine weather advisories

Watches and warnings

Weather forecasts

Tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts

Forecast guidance from oceanographic forecast modeling systems
>Gen-Z are fapping in their parents basements.

Yeah this person is not living in reality. I don't believe any modern argument framed around generations are poignant, accurate, or worth discussing seriously. People just use this pop-topic to signal, its so boring. These conversations are brimming with generalizations and bias.
M1 with 32 GB RAM. I can just about fit the 4-bit quantized 33 GB Code Llama model (and it's finetunes, e.g. WizardCoder, etc.) into memory. It's somewhat slow, but good enough for my purposes.

Edit: when I bought my Macbook in 2021, I was like "Ok, I'll just take the base model and add another 16 GB of RAM. That should future proof it for at least another half-decade." Famous last words.
I think SCRUM has lost its roots.

---

To quote men far better than I:

https://agilemanifesto.org/

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.

Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

---

If your process delivers on the above. It is agile. If not. It isn't.

And personally: I prefer agile as stated above, but I have yet to find a SCRUM team I'd work on.
Continue has a great guide on using the new Code Llama model launched by Facebook last week: https://continue.dev/docs/walkthroughs/codellama

Continue also works with various backends and fine-tuned versions of Code Llama. E.g. for a local experience with GPU acceleration on macOS, continue can be used with Ollama (https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama):

ollama pull codellama

from continuedev.src.continuedev.libs.llm.ollama import Ollama

config = ContinueConfig(
models=Models(
default=Ollama(model="wizardcoder:34b-python")
)
)
Musk’s X wants to take a bite out of LinkedIn – but the reverse may be happening
You need some reference. The latitude grid is available anywhere on your chart, with multiple subdivisions, so even when your boat is shaking like crazy you'll be able to draw a course ad hoc (which requires estimating drifts due to wind and tide etc., which are conveniently given in knots (so nautical miles per hour)).

The coordinate grid may be arbitrary (though having a lot of factors is nice), but the derived nautical mile is not.
I am dying at age 49. Here’s why I have no regrets
Are you saying you didn't have delivery issues? Any spam issues/other gotchas I should know about before deciding to self-host?