skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abound: https://abound.art

It's a generative art platform/marketplace. You write an algo that generates art according to some number of parameters, upload it as a Docker image, and let other people tinker and generate things they like the aesthetics of. Basically remote code execution as a service, but I spent a lot of time on the sandboxing side of things and feel pretty good about it.

The infra is tuned for "saving money" and not "scale", so there's a chance it falls over under even modest load. If folks are interested I can tweak it a bit to make it more scale-y.

It's also my HN name, because all the other (one word) ones I could think of were taken.
If you cut off the lower tail of an IQ curve, no matter how little, you've just raised the average IQ of everyone remaining.

If they're in that low IQ tail and they go through the hoops for a waiver, you've just selected for a modicum of conscientiousness.
The real part about front end being garbage that pissing me off is that people I have to speak on the phone with go on to patronize me about how “you know you can just use the online form, right?”

I COULD use the online form if the fucking thing ever worked!

Most recently was unable to book service for my vehicle online cause the selection lists always cleared themselves the moment I selected something. I click the year of my vehicle. It populates for an instant. Then clears.

Then had a guy on the phone audibly upset at me for making him take the phone call to book service.
The author seems unfamiliar with Radio Shack's Plug 'n Power, which was first introduced in 1979.

>The modules were designed to respond to commands sent over the electrical wires inside the house. They could turn on or off, or in the case of a lamp, change brightness. The advantage of using a power-line communication system was that it didn’t require any additional (and costly) signal wiring.

http://www.trs-80.org/plug-n-power/
Life as a Developer: Grace Hopper Has Access to Time Travel [video]
Apple private relay uses Fastly as one of the providers so I wouldn't be surprised if this is implemented the same way.
Tiktok is part of the grand conspiracy too I’m assuming?

Or it might just be a shit theory that you made up?

https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1712472108222329056
Our city no longer takes glass, it's kind of sad.
What if your computer is still accessible for Intel ME surveillance because the VPN server is also Intel ME and they would negotiate somehow to keep having your Intel ME instance an ability to phone home? Is in possible to have a VPN provider which guarantees not having any Intel machines on the network?
Arbitration is turning into a horror movie for many of these large companies. They thought it was a way to cut the cost of consumer litigation and get disputes settled in an environment that tends to be more corporate friendly. But that only worked when there were just a few claims against the company at a time. Once they started engaging in behavior that caused larger numbers of customers to want to sue, the arbitration fees, which are paid by the corporation, started adding up rapidly and made the entire thing far less attractive than a class action lawsuit and whatever small number of customers that opt out of the class.
Comprehensive Guide to Software Development Agreement
Yeah. We mostly just picked out a set of stars and kept them roughly to position. Every so often we'd try to illuminate the fixed compass with a phone to ensure that we hadn't wildly drifted from our expected bearing (also, stars move over the course of the night and I have no idea how much)
> is extracted to built other's wealth

You are blaming the system S. However we have counter-examples where the problem P occurs outside of the system. If P occurs without S then possibly S is not the cause. Admittedly untangling causation, sufficient and necessary is difficult.

The article itself appears to be a counter-example that is non-commercial: where problem P occurs without system S.

I think it is worthwhile investing time to work out for yourself when to honestly blame commercial constraints, and when to recognise other root causes. Blaming the system by default is unhealthy IMHO.
the policy says that, but there is no external verification or auditing.

So its hard to trust.
Is there any example? It seem a hard argument to make when pedestrians have the priority as soon as they step into the crosswalk.
They should be auctioning it off to the highest bidders. Hard to believe the one cents offers were the highest.
Wow, thank you! That's amazing! Can't believe not only has it been done, but it was 3 years ago and was very popular!
Mozilla and The Tor Project have been collaborating for years. Mozilla does not have the backbone to implement Tor Browser as Private Browser mode in Firefox. Do better, Mozilla.
The only reason GraphQL is "better" is it forces documentation.

The fact is, you still need those endpoints, it's just your developers aren't afraid to change the GraphQL endpoints because they're documented. Sometime down the line your developers will become afraid to change the GQL endpoints and you'll have the same, but different, issue.
I think it is a color photo, just it’s just everything I’m pretty much is grey I think. If you look closely in some parts there’s a tiny bit of color.
That's me! I can certainly do that.

Suggestions for when/where/how?
It started in April and got progressively worse. By June it got so bad I couldn’t sleep any more and had trouble coding and kinda flirted with a nervous breakdown. Feel really lucky to have stumbled across this little hack.
Screenshots from Windows 95
Does he use a paperclip to operate the Apple ][ at any point?
During my driver's license exam, the examiner scolded me for stopping for a pedestrian who was waiting to cross... (saying something essentially like "you might get read-ended")

This was in Switzerland, in the late 80s, and yes, drivers did not tend to stop for pedestrians waiting to cross.
This reminds me of a discussion I had with friends fawning over an acquaintance who had flown from CA to the Standing Rock protests. I said, wow, that's a lot of carbon to be at a protest. They said, that's not the point. I said, but, what if it is?
My counterpoint to this is just that DDB is not a super usable piece of software (it's slow, buggy, and expensive). It's got the massive advantage of having the rights to sell D&D content, but there's definitely room for disruption in that market.
There is no blockade.

If there was a blockade - how so many weapons got in?

Guarding the borders is essential - we saw what they did in a few hours without them.
Burning women alive. Decapitating babies. Raping teenagers then shooting them.

Without a guarded border - they'll do a second holocaust.
That's not a speculation - that's a proven fact.
1) Military has minimum intelligence standards for entry and intelligence is a heritable trait.

2) Military members are required to show discipline and are held accountable.

Both of these factors make military schools different from public schools.

Smart children will learn with bad teachers. Dumb children will not learn no matter how much you spend on them.
Maybe, scale the size of the code based on how long it takes to execute that section.

Would make it a cool way to find underperforming code.
Native would be great, but for my use case the Tab Center Reborn extension for Firefox is the best implementation of vertical tabs I've used on any browser, native or otherwise. There's other extensions like Sidebery and Tree Style Tabs, but I haven't really tried them.
This is the correct answer. When you drop off the bottom 30 percent of the population via the AFQT requirement (the part of the ASVAB that correlates well with IQ) you are getting rid of 100,000,000 nitwits. Further to those, you also get rid of the criminals, and psychos, and junkies. This makes the military a kind of modest elite. Their children reflect that and do reasonably well in school.

Are people with 125+ IQs enlisting? Not for the most part, but almost none of the 75 IQ people are enlisting, and they cause a wild disproportion of the problems in society.
If I had a time traveling magic wand, the one Software Thing I would wish for would be that native, cross platform toolkits had won the war rather than the whole industry punting and declaring The Web Browser to be the target platform, or these super-high-level Game Engines. For decades, I always hopelessly thought the OS and hardware gaps would eventually be bridged by something like Qt or SDL or wxWidgets, and we'd all one day be happily programming cross platform apps using plain old native languages and SDKs instead of Electron or the HTML/CSS/JS triad of pain. As the years go on, and OS vendors move even more towards their own proprietary incompatible native APIs, this dream seems less and less likely.
Then they would be replaced, because Average Redditors have very little power when it comes down to it. The real problem with bad but popular tech stacks is that they do exist to solve problems - just not ours. I want everything to be compatible with everything else; hardware manufacturers want oligopoly rents. I like languages that let me be as productive as possible; employers like languages that let as much of their candidate pool as possible be productive enough. So it goes.
Superpower: Converts any youtube link into a micro-learning course, extracts the slides, creates bite size concepts, quizzes, AI based answer evaluations.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/getsuperpower/id6444110596
It was an old race boat, we had ample wind, and the owner casually bragged that he'd replaced the sails with ones that were "about 30% too big for the boat."

We were sailing like demons. One of my biggest regrets of the trip was that we didn't have any wind or speed instrumentation to let us know how fast we were going, but it felt extremely fast.
> Linux accounts for less than 1% of the total players

I think some types of games (think factory building, zachtronics style puzzle games, ...) might have a bigger percentage, though that's only a feeling I have, I don't have numbers myself, I just see such games more often have a Linux release on Steam that seems appreciated.
> Doing things the right, robust way regularly takes more time and effort than doing it the quick and dirty way, which means your lazy coworker gets the management attention and raise instead of you.

Not if you make a habit of it. If you do, the right way feels like the only way and comes quite fluidly. Meanwhile, the lack of PR bickering and regressions that point back to you does actually become apparent to your colleagues. Your work is not only quick, but good, and people notice both.

This is something that’s not apparent early in one’s career and the temptation to take shortcuts does have short-term payoffs during that phase. But if you stick to doing good work, you come out way ahead later on.
No, a big assumption of using a map is that your players will do something you didn’t plan for. Nothing changes with a tabletop engine.
This service with Mozilla utilizes OHTTP, whereas iCloud Private Relay uses MASQUE.

OHTTP is ideally suited for privacy enablement of APIs, whereas MASQUE is more for general purpose traffic.

OHTTP has similarities to MASQUE in that it uses a two hop proxy design where each proxy only knows part of the total requestor / request information. And in both cases these proxies must be operated by separate entities that do not collude.

However, the key difference is that in OHTTP the end destination is known, because there is a 1-1-1 mapping between OHTTP Relay -> OHTTP Gateway -> Target. This could become more generalized in future revisions to OHTTP, but right now it's all hardcoded behavior.

For more about OHTTP at Fastly, I wrote a blog post a while back at [1]. There is also the IETF draft spec at [2].

[1] https://www.fastly.com/blog/enabling-privacy-on-the-internet...

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ohai-ohttp
No-code platform for building dynamic apps and websites: https://saasufy.com/

It's further along than what is available online right now though there should be an update in the next few days as it's very close to MVP.

It allows you to build tables, lists and pages which update in real-time and support complex views including filtered by category and/or based on variables with pagination. It's designed to be fast and scalable.

The idea is that it will allow you to build complex apps using only HTML and CSS with zero to very little JavaScript. I already did a proof of concept as I used the same components to build the service itself and some of the dynamic pages to manage resources are pure HTML with essentially no code.

With MVP, it will work as a flexible CMS for making and updating websites but the next phase is to add authentication and access control and this will allow building forms which collect data from users and allow them to share data and interact with each other. I think it will require a few more weeks to a month to implement that as many of the tools are already in place.
When PBS did a story on the site, they kept calling it something like "The Dot Com Deadpool" and would blur out "fucked" on the screen shots in the report. It was a source of sensible chuckles.
No, because I value the superior functionality and security of a smartphone.
Really nice article, i was waiting for a conjecture of the dropped support of CS2 on IOS but it was still a good read :)

Brb going to download idle industry
Did IBM beat them by over 2 years?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/ibm-creates-the-worl...
AFAIK, and I'm with you on this, that bars that have tvs have to at least pretend to pay the rights holders for playing sports on their tvs, which in turn brings people in to spend money on drinks and/or food.

I can't imaging having to train every new employee on how to use the streaming-only custom set up you'd end up with without using a cable box, which, well, everyone probably already kind of knows how to operate ... at least for now.

It does make me wonder how long until the new employees won't have a clue how to use a cable box due to never having used one ever.
Simpler to build it into the original cost. Manufactured goods are tomorrow's garbage. The price should reflect the cost of a sustainable system of disposal.
Nauvoo, IL
I would absolutely stop them.

Given they are chanting "Gas the Jews" and "Rape the Jews".

These are not protests - these are death marches.
Yeah. I've spent a lot of time learning charts and a terribly small amount of time actually using them. In this case, we didn't have the right ones anyway.
kons-9: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Work in progress on an IDE for 3D graphics written in Common Lisp.

Cheesy trailers:

https://youtu.be/THMzaVDaZP8

https://youtu.be/i0CwhEDAXB0

https://youtu.be/liaLgaTOpYE
Demos blog post about this: https://blog.desmos.com/articles/beta-3d-release/
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm surprised to find that there are people out there who think endlessly nested >'s are a good solution, but it's always nice to have one's world view expanded :)
Ah I did misunderstand, my mistake :)
Hi mate,

Life is long and we can restart our journey at any time, so no worries.

The best advice I could give is to start meeting people and (always!) learn new things.

Action on you: go to meetup.com, find three interesting events in your area, go there with no expectations, just listen and meet new people.

You are smart. You will work it out.
"100% more linux users than the average!"

1%->2%
Turnover at my company is through the roof and management just moves on to other companies as well. New management people are just as reluctant to believe devs saying "well, this code is a pile of shit and so no we really shouldn't be all-in on quickly releasing your favorite new feature".
I've been wary of Blazor from the beginning because it looks to me worse than WebForms, it looks like a resurrection and return to some of the biggest mistakes of ASP Classic. I had to dredge legacy apps out of ASP Classic and got more than enough of my share of runat="server" and runat="client" in weird mixtures of markup and code to feel from the beginning of discussions of Blazor that it looked like Razor wanted to be ASP Classic for developers that have forgotten ASP Classic (despite it still being almost half of the ASP.NET name and why you still have to add .NET to your search queries to avoid incredibly bad old ASP Classic help/advice).
Agreed. We need Intel to get the software side of ARC together.
Or we need something like the unified ram or apple silicon. Apple have accidental stumbled into being the most competitive way to run llms with their 192gb studio.
Death rates from horse accidents were comparable to death rates from auto accidents nowadays [1] [2].

[1] https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/31/cars-and-horse...

[2] https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...
Reposts are treated as duplicates if the previous thread got significant attention (within the last year or so). Does that answer your question?
Thanks, I did not see such a doc on the first three pages, so I am wondering if I was using bad search terms. However, looking through that document and not being a lawyer I am not feeling confident to interpret it correctly. What is a "Verified Complaint" in the first place? Are the items under "Nature of the Action" approved by the court or are they just claims of the complaining side? Also I am generally feeling not all that confident that phrases in a legal text have the same meaning I am used to.

All of that contributes to a completely different picture for me, compared to your statements. Sure, I can read documents like that (if I can find them, if I think of searching for them, ...), but I am not at all confident that my literal interpretation is sound. Thus my perceived risk of an investment would be much higher than yours.

So, maybe literacy is not the point here, but rather confidence in interpreting legal texts correctly, a good grasp of contract law and optimism/experience regarding external factors.
I have the JDK21 compiler working now (it's on github, but not released yet).

Funny enough, you can compile Java 21 code from Java 11 now :)

If you're interested in testing this, please let me know by opening a ticket on Github. Cheers!
That's pretty cool.
What LLMs do you currently support?
> It is much easier to set a kid straight than try to fix an adult

Is this true? Adults have free will & personal responsibility, kids are sort of at the whim of their parents and have no real legal rights when it comes to escaping a bad situation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer)

"Wine-dark sea is a traditional English translation of oînops póntos (οἶνοψ πόντος, IPA: /ôi̯.nops pón.tos/), from oînos (οἶνος, "wine") + óps (ὄψ, "eye; face"), a Homeric epithet. A literal translation is "wine-face sea" (wine-faced, wine-eyed). It is attested five times in the Iliad and twelve times in the Odyssey[1] often to describe rough, stormy seas. The only other use of oînops in the works of Homer is for oxen, for which is it used once in the Iliad and once in the Odyssey, where it describes a reddish colour. The phrase has become a common example when talking about the use of colour in ancient Greek texts."
Be careful with these - there could be a mind virus (nam shub) in there!

(Snow Crash reference)
> Or are they just operating at a massive loss to kill off other competition?

Bingo.

> the deal with Microsoft for cloud services making it cheap?

It should make it cheaper, but it takes time and engineers to migrate work load from AWS (which is reasonably adept at scaling) to azure, which is not.

I think they run k8s in something like 4k groups of nodes, which is spectacular, because k8s isn't really designed to do that. Running it at that scale is challenging because the traffic required to coordinate is massive (well it was last time I looked into it.)
>USB-C and replaceable batteries will solve a lot of it.

Those weren't holding us back. What stops the tech companies from releasing a new model every year?
Loom is part of ours (our company is fully remote, no offices). One use-case is we use it to create demo videos of our work and attach it to our git pull requests so reviewers can see how to test our code changes. Others might be things like showing buggy app behavior.
No one ever mentions Concrete Mathematics (Graham, Knuth, et al), but it's a classic text for math and stats.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/cip/article-abstract/3/5/106/136800...
One issue with publishing a browser-based game that this article glosses over is: managing save data.

The browser provides Local Storage, but that isn't reliable as a "source of truth" since browsers (mostly on iOS, I think) may delete the data periodically (thanks, iOS, for deleting my Wordle history!) or when clearing browser history. Aside: the worst situation is when publishing on itch.io and playing on an iPad--your data appears to get saved to Local Storage but is actually wiped immediately to prevent cross-site tracking (itch.io hosts HTML5 games in a frame with a different domain).

Publishing on Steam, on the other hand, gives you durable file system storage and you can add cross-device syncing via Steam Cloud very easily. I'm holding out hope that something like remoteStorage will eventually catch on for browsers, but for now I don't really see a convenient solution.

If anyone has ideas for managing save data in a browser game that don't involve hosting user data myself (and dealing with account recovery, GDPR, etc.), let me know!
I want to say that graphically I like what i see, but having scrolled around your website and downloaded the ebook, i still have no idea what i'm looking at.

I searched on youtube to ee if anyone made a video explaining it, but i'm back at square 1
I'm excited for continuing to have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and maybe something extra for retirement...

I find that the expectation of "excitement" from your developers is truly absurd.
This is a totally unrelated issue.

A file on the internet obviously could be backed up by anyone, so deleting things from the internet does not verifiably restore your privacy.

A file on the internet might not be publicly accessible in the future. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been backed up privately.

It is the worst of both worlds.
localhost:8000

I am really proud of this one. Will continue working on it sometime. idk.
I'm seeing here a lot of conflation between "street" and "road." In historical usage, a road is the surface you drive on, and a street is a pathway with buildings on either side.

In people-centric culture, a street is a place for people. This is the way streets worked for millenia. Horses and horse-drawn carriages were usually allowed on the street as well, which are more dangerous than a person.

In car-centric culture, a street is simply a kind of road, and all roads are the primary domain of cars. There is no logical reason that this must be so - cars could, for instance, only have right-of-way on non-street roads, like highways.

Also, your assertion that cars (even old cars) cannot travel at a low enough speed to have a safe stopping distance around pedestrians is simply not true. Even a collision between a pedestrian and a car at "walking speed" (if the car completely failed to notice the pedestrian) rarely results in a fatality. Which you can easily look up yourself, but the numbers I'm seeing are less than 1% fatality rate for collisions below 10mph.
they've technically been in this game for much longer than anyone else, of course they're more prepared. a lot of the competition popped up overnight on the amazing prospects they demonstrated.
lmao -- we checked on him the next morning. He didn't answer my call, but that made sense as his phone had died, so we drove by where it had been stranded and it wasn't there so he'd moved. Felt guilty that we couldn't get in touch with him to offer him a ride back in our rental car, but caught up with him a few weeks later and he managed to get the boat into a slip somewhere down there.