skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very similar story here. I was in middle school when the follow-up Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus came out [0]. I read it cover to cover and proceeded to buy as many Premier Press books I could get using money I'd save from doing chores around the house. This wasn't pre-Internet but the best material was by far still in books. My dad would pay $5 per hour so if I worked hard I could buy another book after a weekend of yardwork. Those middle and early high school years were incredible. You could still understand the cutting-edge and a single person could still make something big like RollerCoaster Tycoon or Doom. I made a bunch of games, isometric ones, worlds in D3D and OpenGL, physics sims, learned CS algorithms, made pixel art and 3d models in 3ds max, and even made my way to a game developer's conference as an awkward teenager. The only downside to all this is it pulled me away from schooling. I probably could have gone to a better university and had an easier time the first few years of career had I put just a little more effort into classes, but that's life. No regrets.

[0] https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Game%20Develo....
This, sadly, needs to change.

The pool for experienced senior level talent won't grow unless _someone_ spends the resources to hire and train juniors.

The incentive being that they can keep the best juniors for themselves and let the others back into the pool for others.
While I agree with the sentiment, and it's awesome that a lower-specced version of the game exists...

> port [...] to consoles like Xbox original

Uuh, in the name of energy efficiency, let's not. My smartphone is much more powerful and has a much lower power consumption than these systems. My Steam Deck even more so, though it's higher-power than a phone.

Targeting energy-efficient, low power hardware should be the goal, not porting to inneficient obsolete HW, IMO (though it's pretty cool, and demonstrates that you can do a lot with little computing power).

Still, I agree that something that runs well on old commodity hardware can run well on most existing hardware, reducing the need for hardware upgrades.

But my point is, running ond old HW is probably counterproductive if you only value ecology. At best, you could emulate old HW with much more efficient modern HW, and integrate most of the system on a single low power chip.
Marcin here, one of OpenTF folks.

I think the redeeming factor of Terraform is not the language itself, though I really like the fact that it's not a programming language. But I think the redeeming factor is the tool that interprets this language, and the fact that this tool can be taught new tricks - one of which is the CDKTF (not a fan, I think we can do better than that).

Here's an analogy. Most folks I know are at least skeptical about Java. The same folks would then praise Kotlin, Scala or Clojure as "good" JVM languages. The relative success of these languages owes much to the Java ecosystem and the JVM interop.

That's the reason I find Terraform worth saving. It's the JVM and the Java ecosystem of our cloud world. We can still build great things on it, whether you like HCL or not.
using recursive descent, you don't need to build an ast
But also the sun is burning fuel and eventually that will run out and we don't really have any means of renewing that fuel (I don't know where to order intergalactic hydrogen).
Interesting that there are two levels above "immediate"

immediate (adj): Occurring at once; happening without delay
Something kind of fun about the scene at the time, since it was mostly just kids messing around on their computers, is there are a fair number of pretty interesting remixes of popular songs from the time.

Jabdah - by Lizardking - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Never Ending Story - Lizardking - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Take on Me - a bunch of versions - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=search&query=take+o...

Groove is in the Heart - anchoret.sae - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Like a Virgin - sie - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Enjoy the Silence - 4-mat - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Some other stuff I liked from that time (often post-MOD file XM, S3M, or IT style tracked music)

Lizardking (most of his stuff is amazing and he's credited with inventing a genre or music really only heard in trackers called "doskpop") - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules...

Dr. Awesome - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules...

I recommend 12th Warrior - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

elblanco (apparently still active?) - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules...

Recommend "Living, again and again" - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

Necros - https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules...
Never really understood the appeal of that kind of LAN party TBH. Too many people, not enough socialization opportunity, might as well just play on the internet from home.
Neither did the Playstation group.

It makes no sense to count everything with "Sony" in it as the same company if you're talking about their morals.
Rate of change limits, to combat this, are sane.

Historically, the rate one paid was related to the risk one was insuring. The alternative is to have those with low risk pay for those with high risk. I would prefer we don’t build I. Places that need to be rebuilt every few years, which you and I are paying for.
I also like Brian Lagerstrom, who has a similar style to them: https://youtube.com/@BrianLagerstrom?feature=shared
Haha! You’re beyond reasoning with clearly. Must be nice to live under the US security umbrella for free :)
you are correct. however this allows you to keep touch pad scrolling separate from mousewheel scrolling that will otherwise be tied together
I think out of embarrassment, the student also decided not to showcase his proof that in 1000 years, the mass of human beings will outweigh the Earth.

Eh, who am I to criticize? They say that your early grad school years are a time to publish large amounts of papers that you don't think are likely to stick. This is a little bit out there even by this standard though.
> one of the first harbingers of the coming World Energy Crisis,

It's been well known since at least The limits to growth[1], 51 years ago.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
> I have hedged my heavy US bond & US Treasury & US stock positions & US dollar positions with another asset class.

No, you just have a portfolio that consists of a bunch of random assets.
Memeland
A fanciful article about memes and the way to advance good ideas on the internet.
> Our product/engineering cycle is two weeks and culminates in a demo/product planning day

This is great, honestly. It's a self-sustaining way of enforcing accountability.

If you have nothing to show or demo after a 2 week sprint, during which you were surely assigned tasks to do, it's clear you haven't actually done anything.
Suvorexant Acutely Decreases Tau Phosphorylation and Aβ in the Human CNS
It is interesting to see how little humanity has advanced in the last century. Still unable to keep from being wildy optomistic, pessimistic, and absolutely sure their predictions about the future are going to be more correct than those in the past about the present that they know are proved wrong.

If only collective intelligence could rise above it all we might be well on the way to enjoying the creation of a more efficient, less wasteful, and more worthwhile future. . . but that too mentally taxing to engage with. . .so it goes
>If someone wants to prove this point, support it with data.

if you want to provide a criteria sheet for "quality", then sure. But I think we'll spend more time arguing over a definition than me collecting the data.

I'm sure not going to even touch the notion of "flooded by CP". I don't want to know if that has gotten better or worse and there are much higher authorities who won't get arrested trying to audit such claims.

>The UX of the median Redditor has not changed at all.

the median redditor isn't a moderator, and a moderator affects many more people than the median moderator. I feel that's a point constantly missed in this dismissal.

Note that this article isn't surveying users, it's about conversations with moderators, old and new. I do indeed question if the UX for the median moderator has gotten worse.
Mortgage lenders can just start to require yet another insurance, like PMI, but for natural disasters. I have faith in them that they will find a way to bill us.
> People suffering from the negative effects of coke however, did consume it out of their free will.

That is exactly my point. The implication in many comments is that the crime is ok because "coca cola bad" - it's not.
That’s a fascinating question. I’m not sure. It seems like if it learned about a topic in Chinese, it would be able to express it in English, but I haven’t seen this tested.
I'm pretty sure that even the concentration of a security guard will start to falter after 20 consecutive hours. That is probably going to be to the detriment of the security of whatever they were supposed to guard.
If you can afford 50% of your housing replacement cost in premiums every year you probably don’t need a mortgage.
Loved reading this, thanks for sharing.

And a shout-out to mode13h. In my case it was BBS and Denthor's tuts that changed my life.

Good times.
So is California banning Olive Oil like they banned gas stoves or gas powered cars?
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/what-to-expec...
https://www.fatherly.com/news/natural-gas-ban-california-app...
> Look at the US energy consumed per capita, flat or declining for the last 50 years.

This doesn't account for all the “imported energy” that comes when you outsource your industrial production abroad. Granted even then the energy consumption doesn't increase exponentially anymore, but it's not flat either.
How is 3-8 a better solution, rather than merely different?

It seems like your actual opinion is #9, but that's not actually a solution they can implement.
Are you saying that whenever people cooperate voluntarily, it's a government?
The Case for Centralized IAM (2022)
Yeah, TBH I feel like they should release a super-lightweight app that serves as a starting point for a search and then hands the results off to the local browser with whatever key set so that it knows who you are. This would significantly lower the barrier for people who don't know how to or don't feel like messing with extensions, etc.

Otherwise, two thumbs up for Kagi. I personally give zero fucks about Google's business model, but Google's search experience is in my opinion degrading very rapidly.
>I get that it's a continuous curve. But if the cost of the premium is half the cost of rebuilding the house, why buy insurance? If I can squeak by one year without having to rebuild, I should just keep the money and rebuild out of pocket.

>Perhaps I'm way way wrong. But insurance is cheap. If it's not cheap, why bother?

In that specific case it probably wouldn't make sense, but that doesn't mean it happens in real life or it's representative of the typical insurance buyer.
As anti-human as this makes me sound, this does make me personally understand why eyes and teeth are not covered on my health insurance. I can't take a claim out on my car's tires getting used up over 100,000 miles, either.
Is this satire? It seems like there's too much math in this to be satire.
That's the weirdest part of the PDF spec IMHO. It's a mix of both binary and text, with text-specified byte offsets. It would be very interesting to read about why the format became like that, if its authors would ever talk about it. My guess is that it was meant to be completely textual at first (but then requiring the xref table to have fixed-length entries is odd), and then they decided binary would be more efficient.
Because it's a development platform, produced in small quantities. It also has 64 cores which I guess an EPYC doesn't have at that kind of price.
> given only one chance to solve it

my understanding is that there are 2 usages of the pass@{number} syntax. the HumanEval/Codex paper interprets the {number} as number of attempts[0]. however language modelers seem to use it to denote the number of few shot example demonstrations given in the context. these are starkly different and i wish the syntax wasnt overloaded

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[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf

> Kulal et al. (2019) evaluate functional correctness using
the pass@k metric, where k code samples are generated
per problem, a problem is considered solved if any sample
passes the unit tests, and the total fraction of problems
solved is reported.
> and apparently they did it with practical effects rather than actually animating with a computer?

The same was (perhaps not suprisingly) true of the computer displays in Kubrik's 2001, apparently.

https://www.quora.com/Were-the-wireframe-models-on-the-scree...

https://twitter.com/2001archives/status/1010885260274352128
https://archive.ph/npCBf
https://archive.org/details/AmericanCinematographerJune1968/...

(Apparently more or less the first example of genuinely computer-generated or -manipulated graphics in a "real" live-action film or TV production was the Gunslinger's "Terminator-vision" from (the original, 1973) Westworld.)
That's a wonderful question I too wonder the answers for. It was fun to cruise around the isles and see what you could find to watch for the weekend vs your friend or partner and then get popcorn and other snacks.
I might be spoiling my hand but I get concerned whenever I see any startup saying they are looking for employees to act like owners / put in a lot effort / "we aren't your average place!"

It just seems like it will be amateur hour: immature founders who are in love with startup culture combined with junior and/or desperate employees who don't know better.

I don't mind working hard, crunch, or even acting like an owner but when the these listings also have average salary ($135k - $190k [0]) with no mention of equity (meaning it's either 0.00% or not substantial), that's not ownership; that's a bad deal. If you want me to act like an owner, I expect to be treated and compensated like an owner or at least more than a "cog role" at another startup would be.

Any founder who does the math on what it would take to hire a senior+ employee to behave like an owner (a very large chunk of your employee pool) will realize it's not feasible to hire like that.

[0]: https://wellfound.com/jobs/2524214-systems-software-engineer
Did you invent something and forgot to tell us about it?
I remember your vim one-liner article! Definitely one of the nicer looking blogs - I also appreciate the focused shortness of the posts.
It's only considered working "overtime" if you're working beyond the required hours for the role. And the job posting is pretty clear that the role is 6 days a week. It might not be your cup of tea, and the job description does a good job of screening you out before you even apply. I don't think there is any malpractice here.
There's some indication that there is, though more research needs to be done, here's a video detailing some of what's already reported in the literature: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqxvgfFMdEo&t=3m46s
I'm not sure I understood this bit:

> For example, if I needed to reach Comcast in a genuine internet emergency, I would dial *2721710627438712345678901218009346489. This is so incredibly convenient that the government offers a phone app for WPS/GETS users just to do the dialing for you.

Why wouldn't a user just save that in their phone's address book? Even ancient GSM phones allowed for pre-programmed numbers which included waits, pauses, and DTMF tones.

Interestingly, GSM does allow for priority of emergency calls (112, 999, etc).
IIRC, the SIM can make a priority request to be connected to the emergency services. The network could disconnect a non-emergency call to free up the air interface.

Of course, in a mass event everyone dials 999 and can't get through anyway.
I don't see this as asshole behavior. They're giving away an overwhelming amount for free, which the community or a competitor can build upon at any time. This project being an example.

For those who find the closed capabilities and extensions distasteful there is opportunity to make their own.
Thanks for explaination, i will look at it
> You lost me here - because the science based one is just stating unproven statements to come to some conclusion. If you were to expand on why those two sentences are "proven" you'd likely come to evidence based reasons.

I'm not sure I'm exactly understanding what you're getting at. If you expand on those statements to find direct evidence of MACE (of which there is plenty) then it is an evidence based medicine decision not a science based one.

Please disregard the specific intervention being discussed, it's just an example of the different thought processes and decision making between SBM and EBM. In real life there is plenty of science and evidence behind statins but I'm not intending on addressing reality or why this specific intervention is in use today.

Note the "medicine" part in these refers to the clinical practice of medicine. Maybe this is clearer:

The science based medicine approach (as traditionally defined) only considers the mechanisms and "indirect evidence" when making the clinical recommendation (i.e. statins are proven to lower cholesterol which are strongly correlated with MACE. Cholesterol reduction has also been proven to reduce plaque formation and artery stenosis, therefore we expect MACE will be reduced through statin use and are deciding to administer the intervention).

In this thought process we have not directly measured the outcome of interest (MACE) but we are giving an intervention because it makes sense/through chain of thought, or in other words we are intervening to optimize a variable (serum cholesterol levels) because we have reason to believe this variable reduces MACE based on the mechanism (which may have components proven by evidence like reduction in plaque formation but the primary outcome measure we are discussing, MACE, has not been measured).

In the evidence based medicine approach we are deciding to provide an intervention based on direct measurements of the outcome of interest in a specific population (i.e. less MACE was directly proven) and the decision making process is entirely independent of the mechanism or nature of the intervention (i.e. we are not considering plaque formation and cholesterol levels, simply that statins reduce MACE).
>> “It’s like stretching a latex glove,” said Elena Ivanova, corresponding author of the study. “As it slowly stretches, the weakest point in the latex will become thinner and eventually tear.”

Someone really has to make a collection of the truly unexpected similes that scientists often use to try and communicate their work in terms "a non-specialist would understand". "Like stretching a latex glove"?

Perhaps there should be an award for the most far-fetched science popularising metaphor.

...latex glove...
I believe it's the planned obsolecense feature's fault for turning Chromebooks into e-waste.
"Zero Emissions are just the first step".
A lot of people's critique of environmentalism is that they are anti growth. Comments like this just seem to feed that skepticism
at will, exempt employee. no overtime. There is generally no cap on the number of hours an employee can legally work in a day. Employer can ask for just about any hours, and you can quit if you don't like it.
> The single most important assumption in this paper is that energy consumption will increase by 2% per year.

There's a 2nd big assumption:

That tidal energy extracted is additional Earth's rotational energy loss above what Earth does by itself.

According to the paper, tidal energy is dissipated through friction between ocean water & the seafloor. This dissipated energy subtracts from Earth's rotational energy. And some rotational energy is transferred to the moon (which makes the moon move further out). Ok so far.

Author's 2nd assumption is that as tidal energy is tapped, this is extra energy that subtracts from Earth's rotation.

But is it? It might also be that tidal energy extracted by humans, comes out of some fixed 'budget', and the remainder is dissipated naturally. More tidal energy extracted by humans -> less tidal energy dissipated through ocean vs. seafloor friction.

Kind of like solar influx: it's a huge but (apart from fluctuations) fixed amount. We can tap some % of that potential, but what's available doesn't increase. And what humans don't tap, gets absorbed / radiated out by other natural processes.

I won't even hazard a guess. But it would be interesting to figure out which of those applies.
It is progressively worse now.

What used to be useful extras are now considered essentials (see how many on this thread say they need the SSH, Docker or WSL extensions and can't use VSCodium).

Plus they're now moving Python, .NET and other specific extensions towards closed source. Yeah, you can use the open source versions, but they don't have mindshare any more so source code written with one might not navigate/display as well with the other.

Also, new features only land when MS has a closed source idea that can use it, and are locked to MS extensions only. Innovation for me, not for thee. (Copilot/Continue on Codespaces/Live Share/VS Code Web/...)
> But, writing a C compiler in 500 of comprehensible code (even in python) is challenge in itself that may take months after a few years of solid learning.

The people behind this project avoided that caveat by simply not implementing C. Apparently they kept a bit of the syntax but then proceeded to cherry-pick features that suited them and not make.an effort to even try to comply with any version of the standard.
Rivos too ...
I think we’ll have colonized space by then, maybe even starting to build a Dyson sphere.
> Sure, but this is a very arbitrary threat model to prioritize that doesn't seem to affect people.

Malware exfiltrating users' browser sessions and passwords is a "very arbitrary threat model" that "doesn't seem to affect people"???
Wow, their staff need to unionise right away.
Right now, the minds that conceive of any practical way of a spacecraft reaching the speed of light says we need the energy of multiple suns to be able to even reach that speed, so who knows where humans are in 500 years…
here's hoping! let the whole rotten edifice fall. I ain't got nothing to lose.

investors should not be buying housing stock.
so, so many. there are RAG specific models (contextual ai), finance specific models (bloomberg gpt, brightwave), contact center models (cresta), even telco models (anthropic).
In the US, the lender for a home mortgage is usually the federal government (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conformingloan.asp
What if I don't want my book used for that purpose?

It isn't as though the AI companies have even paid for a single copy of the authors' books.
Programming, anime, reading.
Yep, thanks for the correction. I meant big -O, I don't know how I ended up writing small -o.
> 0.1 Bellard

Off topic, but a log scale might be useful: 0.1 Bellard --> -10 deciBellards. That allows for: 0.001 Bellard --> -30 deciBellards.

Problem: Programmers with negative productivity cannot be represented on the same log scale.
AFAIK Aum Shikrikyo anf Fulsn Gong are a Buddhidt cults,.
When tech says ‘no’
LibreOffice has some really perplexing functionality gaps.

The one that baffles me is that it doesn't understand its own graphics format, so you have to export drawings to TIFF or something (if I remember correctly).