skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole industry seems in need of a major reset event (aka true competition).

We wasted a LOT of innovation tokens on VR, ray tracing, battle royales, etc. The availability of OSS and COTS engines has been an uplift on paper, but brought with it an entire new universe of downsides with regard to actual player experiences.

For better or worse, I believe that a higher barrier to entry is a good thing for a major creative effort like a video game or feature length film. Both of these typically require involving more than 1 human in a deep, passionate way. You really want to make sure you have the right vision & people or it's going to turn out shit.

Would you rather have 30 kinda meh games you can play for ~20-50 hours each, or 2 super incredible games that have endless replay value? At a certain point, the value proposition goes discontinuous with this form of entertainment. In my view, you should always seek this criticality and consider how severe the economics are if you fail to reach it. You can't necessarily plan to build something that will last as long as WoW from the beginning, but you can certainly ask yourselves "is this still fun to play?" on a daily basis.

I'm not saying we go back to the abacus, but there is a price to be paid for the level of abstraction we are operating with today. You stop thinking about things and they leak into the player feel. When you are working on top of a physics engine that you separately tuned for 1000 hours under extreme duress, you know exactly when something isn't quite right and can do something about it immediately. Every COTS engine is a very leaky abstraction that turns into a titanic disaster the moment you desire things like bespoke multiplayer or platform functionality.

I also think there is a vertical ownership crisis in the industry. When you have all of your assets being produced in a separate silo, you should expect a very manufactured look & feel when they are combined with the rest of the product. Less content would probably feel like a lot more if we'd slow down a bit and re-integrate the artists, developers, testers, etc. under fewer hats.
As long as the government doesn't ban employing people for 12 hours and more straight for weeks, and actually enforces that ban, there will always be enough employers doing so, and enough people willing to go through with it "for the credits".
Yes but the article talked about EA and how giving to causes blindly ignoring means is kinda the M.O. of it all. So "good" (giving) doesn't cancel out the "bad" (robbing customer funds).
Like a reverse Johnny Appleseed, pretty cool!
We do not know that PTFE is carcinogenic. Some of the products that can be used to make it are, but they should not be in the final product, if they are it's a manufacturing defect.

We also know that using more oil in cooking is bad, and who knows what results from the incomplete polymerization of oil and carbonized food. I'm at least as suspicious of it as I am of Teflon.
Yeah I am partly a YIMBY but if investors can just keep buying up all the new properties and rent them out for ludicrous amounts then rents will never go down.

Extra capacity, if not protected from predation, will result in a cycle of high property values and rent.
wow so nice
Loaded fine for me now :D
What could be a better alternative to non-stick pans?
> (Newspeak “Sprint and Goals”)

Sprint "commitments" in my world. A single word with major psychological impacts.
There are international migrants as well. How do you make a town in rural Romania or Latvia as desirable and opportunity rich as Zurich? The weather is probably crappier there, for starters.
Prior to C99 (i.e., in C90), there was a rule that any undeclared identifier id that was followed by a function call parenthesis would be treated as though there were an implicit declaration in the scope in which it was used like this:

extern int id();

The empty parentheses meant it could take any number of arguments, since it was declared in the traditional style, where the argument types weren't specified first.

This implicit declaration meant that if it was later defined in the same file as returning a type other than int, the compiler wasn't permitted to go back up in the file and treat the function call as though it returned a type other than int.

This requirement was removed in C99, but in practice, compilers kept doing it for backwards compatibility, even when not invoked in C90 mode.
I understand that people are very different because if I took mushrooms when I was terminally ill, I would have a trip so bad it would break my mind.
>And it's not like Musk bought Twitter to make it free for all,

That is literally why. He's said so in mulitiple interviews.
Banking is not optional in today's advanced societies, and the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we'll have proper regulations mandating a minimum level of banking service, eg. Limited deposits, withdrawals, debit/secured cards.
And it gets worse the smaller the market is: There is a chance that a youtuber with sufficiently large following could actually choose to buy said mac pro, because their revenue might be pretty large. But then you look at, say, boardgame reviews. Nobody, ever, buys a game. But the number of views isn't good enough to dedicate the time to it as anything other than a hobby. Thus, anyone posting enough that they make it their job is also getting sponsored on top of the free product, but nobody wants to tell you that. Thus, all you are seeing is 100% ad, just shaped as a review, or as entertainment.
I think both commenters said those things in jest referring to the oft occurring on HN criticism that everything has to run on k8s nowadays, even a simple website.
I disagree. Unit tests, when done right, are heaps of ROI in my experience.

Most of the integration tests are for happy paths, i.e. ones where you can catch the obvious regressions. Testing corner cases is much more troublesome, because you have to set up a whole lot of specifics in multiple services. These are much easier to simulate with mocks.

Mind you, I hate unit tests for specific functions: I much prefer them as component tests, where you start with the inputs to the module and check the outputs and calls outside of the module. These ease refactoring where you actually change the underlying code and without changing the unit tests, you know that you also handled all those pesky corner cases.
1. Badly governed countries still have laws you are required to obey - regardless of your opinion.
2. Beanie babies would be the only third option. There is no 4th option.
3. They could use beanie babies.
Java has this too with the Manifold[1] project. It’s mind blowing.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold
Think I've got 5 of those in service; and have had two die and be replaced from harsh misuse. They serve on the TV pi's here and have for years; the ones that died got sat on and spilled on, respectively.

Haven't had so much as an interference issue among them that i can recall.

Luck of the draw, I guess. How many of those have they sold, I wonder?
you say it like predicting next word is an easy task. Calculating the permutations with statistics alone would probably require more compute than the entire universe to the power of the entire universe. And there's just not enough data, even all the internet wont be enough. We abandoned these methods long ago.

Yes, LLMs really encode knowledge. This is not up for debate, and it's obvious to anyone working in AI. It outputs words and input words, yes, but the magic is what is in between. The words are broken down immediately at the first layer. Next it involves 100s of billions of parameters doing god knows what. But it's safe to assume they encode the base reality as best it can. It is what i call 'language-induced reality model'.

The task of next word predictor in a humongous dataset turns out, is best solved by creating an inner representation of the real world. It's still not a perfect model since it's just induced by language though, so obviously it has limitations. But it's really modeling it, and with higher fidelity than people imagined you can learn the world through words alone.
https://archive.ph/agXGC
I've played a lot of CS1 (and recently, lots of CS2), here are the biggest improvements for me:

- The simulation is much deeper than before, not basically just statistics on a page

- The game plays slightly harder, more management needed in order to have a proper budget. But like in the first, that disappears once you have 100/200K citizens, as it's hard to fuck up the budget at that stage.

- The control of roads is a lot better, compared to vanilla CS1. Nowhere near modded CS1, but it'll easily get there with some time, the foundation of CS2 is a lot stronger and easier to extend

- Able to build bigger cities will less lag compared to CS1. I'm sure this will improve even more in the future. Going ECS I'm sure made a huge difference in simulation performance.
I spent a few weeks migrating and then fixing a bunch of bugs in 20-year old Perl codebase (cyber security had their sights set on it). Basically used by a huge amount of people to record data for all kinds of processes at work.

Original developer is long gone. Me and another guy are two of the only people (we aren't a tech company) who can re-learn Perl, upgrade multiple versions of Linux/Apache/MySQL, make everything else work like Kerberos etc...

Or maybe I'm one of the only people dumb enough to take it on.

Either way, nobody will get so much as an attaboy at the next department meeting. But, they'll know who to go to the next time some other project is resurrected from the depths of hell and needs to be brought up to date.
It is feasible to run a small static HTML/CSS/JS page from this microcontroller with a Nginx, Varnish, etc cache frontend.
> I think we have given it plenty of time for such a discussion

I don't see how this justifies needlessly divisive rhetoric.

No matter how long the disagreement lasts, you aren't my enemy because you have a different opinion on how we should handle this conundrum. I know you mean the best and are trying to help.

> Copyright law does not care

Copyright law works fine with AI outputs. As does trademark law. I don't see an AI making a fanart Simpsons drawing being any more novel a legal problem than the myriad of humans that do it on YouTube already. Or people who sell handmade Pokemon plushies on Etsy without Nintendo's permission.

But the question is on inputs and how the carve-outs of "transformative" and "educational use" can be interpreted — model training may very well be considered education or research. I think it's been made rather clear that nobody has a real answer to this, copyright law didn't particularly desire to address if an artist is "stealing" when they borrow influence from other artists and use similar styles or themes (without consent) for their own career.

I don't envy the judges or legislators involved in making these future-defining decisions.
Calorie restriction (not necessarily fasting) has also shown some remarkable benefits to health and longevity. It seems our bodies can perhaps do some housecleaning, perhaps relearn how to function efficiently, during periods of calorie restriction.

The effect of caloric restriction on genetical pathways

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221345302...

Impact of Dietary Restriction Regimens on Mitochondria, Heart, and Endothelial Function: A Brief Overview,

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.7683...

Calorie restriction modulates the transcription of genes related to stress response and longevity in human muscle: The CALERIE study

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acel.13963
What is "making software?" Is google search something they 'made' in 2004 and now everything since then is maintaining it? is it making software to support new hardware types, even if the old ones become unavailable? Is fixing a security issue 'making' software or maintaining it?
Goodhart’s law at work, or “why you shouldn’t force information workers to chase after arbitrary metrics”. Basecamp has been famously just letting people do good work, on their terms, without KPIs.

I will preemptively agree that this isn’t possible everywhere; but if you create a good work environment where people don’t feel like puppets executing the PM’s vision, they might actually care and want to do a solid day’s work (which we’re wired for).
Yes, you are correct that they are PCIe AHCI drives. Looking on eBay again, they are only available as the aforementioned HP (or Lenovo) OEM parts directly from China (so you can’t really know if they aren’t fake), and they’re very overpriced (around €50 for a 256GB drive, which is the only available size).

Contrast this to NVMe drives, which are ubiquitous and cheap.

The laptop unfortunately doesn’t support M.2 SATA, but it does have a regular 2.5” SATA bay, so that’s what I’m using (it still has the OEM drive from the factory :))
Not all home ISPs give you an entire IPv4 address. Some have fewer IPs than subscribers and thus use a NAT. Sometimes a very restrictive one.
Ask HN: How do you run old games for kids?
I’m thinking bacon to childhood and the DOS games of old. Math blaster, Treasure Mountain, even Mario teaches typing. How do you all run these for your kids, and are there modern equivalents?
The auth-left is going to keep throwing childish tantrums over Musk freeing twitter from their control. They hate when they can't silence dissent.
> it's not like game studios have increased in size, it's just more bloat

Are you serious? Teams have increased massively. Super Mario Kart for example had less than 20 people working on it. That's not even the size of the audio department for many modern AAA games
Because humans have a natural right to movement, helping slaves is not theft even if an evil social institution falsely claims it is theft. Similarly regarding eugenics, humans have a natural right to reproduce and to live, so someone assisting someone to escape that situation is in the right no matter what society they live in.

Extreme moral relativism like you’re mentioning here is just as wrong as utilitarianism.

It’s not preferable to steal than to lose the planet. Some things really are worse than death, and committing an evil action is wrong no matter what the justification the evildoer makes.
GeForce Now has been amazing as a mac only user
> So if tests are bad for developers, they won’t write tests, duh. Paradox solved. There need to be tests written, no exceptions, for some time to gain the benefits and make tests good for developers. Make tests work for them and they will write more.

This doesn't actually fix the incentive problem, though. If the reason developers don't like writing tests is because finding bugs puts them under additional pressure and isn't rewarded, requiring this so doesn't actually help them. Unless, of course, management comes to understand and accept that more time will be spent fixing bugs/improving code quality as a result.
Ultimately, the people who pay any tax are the end-consumers. A tax like the one you're proposing impacts trucks, ambulances, and buses as well as commercial ride-sharing and taxis. The final cost of the tax will be reflected in the raised prices of groceries, EMS requests, and trips to the airport.
Also, in the original stories, Robin actually was more like rob from the Church and give to the gentry. He was very friendly with the "right sort" of noblemen, he just really didn't like rich priests from the church. So we (in our modern age) have kind of perverted the idea of Robin Hood to fit our times but he never really was some kind of hero for the poor.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gest_of_Robyn_Hode#Summary
They're toxic to humans as well, just far less. Under no circumstance should you allow PTFE pan to exceed 250C, as the manufacturer normally tells you to.
> it seems that telemetry is only ever used to justify removing features I like

If the removed features are only features you like, then they probably aren't doing things right... The one most relevant purpose for telemetry I see for Audacity is precisely preventing this from happening, meanwhile fostering a more vigorous growth of the repo by cutting off dead branches. Audacity is over 20 years of development of features, some of which we every now and again wonder if they're still used. Not knowing, we try our best maintaining these, which slows down Development, QA and Design in delivering features that are relevant now.
Yes, thats a good solution. Ban investments mean more or less ban renting houses. When no one can rent a house, no one can complain about a too high rent.
Interested in the new living models that are coming then.
Health-care costs stopped rising
I find these sort of things somewhat odd. Dengue is extremely unpleasant, but as the article mentions it has a 99.98% survival rate in spite of being predominantly spread in some of the most impoverished areas in the world. Wiki [1] gives even better figures than the article which yield a 99.99% survival rate, and a total hospitalization rate of 0.13%.

Unforeseen consequences are a thing, and nature can evolve in difficult to predict ways. For instance one of the big early arguments for GMO crops is that it'd enable us to reduce our overall usage of herbicides. The main modification was glyphosate resistance, and since glyphosate was otherwise highly toxic to all plants, it was thought that just a bit of it would be enough to take care of what used to require much more herbicide.

And it lived up to this promise at first. But nature responded by naturally evolving glyphosate resistant weeds, and farmers responded by just spraying more of it, and more regularly, and we're now using more herbicide/acre than ever before. In 1991 (just prior to GMO crops starting to really kick off), we were using a rate of 1.18 units of herbicide per acre. By 2000 that had declined to 1.06. "Now" (2014) we're up to 2.02 and rapidly increasing. [2]

So many things (related to interacting with nature in various forms) seem to be being done under the assumption of a stationary target, when nature is anything but.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044953/
Sounds like the problem is engineers aren't accountable for quality. Rather than prescribing a solution, these leaders should make sure incentives are correct in their organization.
Considering Paradox/CO are dragging their feet to release the modding docs/tools, we don't have much choice if we wanna start building our mods today :)
it's currently dead
Turn on Krohnkite under Kwin scripts and you have exactly that.
Agreed, but I think they were meaning "compression gets rid of long strings of NULs".
This “Effective Altruism” business, sounds just like a way to rationalize (and perpetualize) undue privilege.
Indeed, about 80% of the tracks for the new rail system, including the most expensive bits (across the st Lawrence river, through downtown and dense suburbs, under the Mont-Royal) were on pre-existing railways or rights of ways. The rest was built aboveground next to a highway (with a small branch dug underground towards the airport).

By comparison, the Blue line metro extension is being built from scratch, including expropriations, and the projected cost is CAD6.4B for 5-6km of new tunnels and give stations.
Just in case you're in a position to change anything about the housing market where you live:
Change zoning rules. Incentives for co-living. Reduce flat sizes. Rebuilt office spaces. Or look to Vienna: a big stock of goverment-owned flats with low prices which makes it hard to charge more than those.
That bitcoin and mailing beanie babies have no meaningful and lawful utility. By utility I mean benefit. It will be a dead giveaway that you're biased and intellectually dishonest if you ask for the definition of utility.
Or off, entirely. On my 3080 it seems to cause lots of rendering artifacts.
Your stove is capable of burning your oil and your food, which will make carcinogens.

Preheating an empty pan is just not something you should do if you're cooking with Teflon. You'll want to at least put some oil or something in there, or have a temperature control stove. It's a tradition that doesn't apply.
Is this still a talking point? This was a buzz word like half a decade ago
Related:

Tom Brown Is on a Mission to Restore Appalachia's Rare and Lost Apples (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457804 - May 2022 (18 comments)
I am talking about people who "build" these exchanges and platforms and new protocols and shitcoins. Anyone peddling anything under Web3, DeFi, Blockchain, NFT etc is a scammer. People who think they are trading or investing are the suckers.
The most obvious answer is that it isn't broken on developers systems or indeed on most systems.
A prescient example from this thought exercise of The Ethics of Belief.
Thankfully when i lived in lubbock, tx the landlords were much less greedy than my cali landlords
The REM makes a lot more sense if you think of it as a way to funnel money from the local and provincial governments to the CDPQ.
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word
Right, like a Beowulf cluster!?
> I'm not sure how anyone could argue that what SBF was doing fits it any way with that. He's just been found guilty of fraud on multiple counts,

EA strikes me as the same sort of ambiguous slime as "breast cancer awareness."

You read the words and think hey, that sounds right. Benefit others as efficiently as possible. Guy's a Robin Hood type, stealing from the rich to benefit others. Good for you, buddy. Godspeed.

Except you look at what he's actually doing and see he's not stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. He's stealing from the foolish and giving to "others," who turn out to be his friends and associates. $500m to Anthropic? $5b for Twitter? This shit isn't charity.

It's kleptocracy masquerading as charity. I can't see his charitable causes as anything more than an ephemeral funds-parking scheme storing funds in a chain of IOUs.
How are they doing SSL certificate management on an ESP32? Their article at https://khalsalabs.com/hosting-a-website-on-esp32-webserver-... makes no mention of how that would work, only really basic code for a static cleartext HTTP server. Is it even capable of such a thing?

Edit: I got a default nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) gateway timeout message after a few minutes trying to load this page, this is reverse proxied.
Regular pans?
Ideally we would want to spread the best parts of different cultures around the world, not indiscriminately everything from one specific culture. There are many things about US American culture that are great, others are not so great.
It's off-page in Blindsight, but happens to the protagonist, right?
This guy has a huge persecution complex, remember how he reacted to a largely positive press profile that was going to publish his name?
> So I won’t get the helpful message if I happen to go more than a month between system updates. Which I think is a fairly generous window.

Gentoo was my first Linux distro and it was cool.. It definitely taught me a lot about app building. But the expectation that every machine needs to be continuously updated at least once per month is what caused me to go to Debian. You have that server which just works and you haven't logged in there for three months.. or a laptop which you only use for travel? Prepare for broken automated updates and careful package rebuilding in just the right order.
I made good use of Word's built-in thesaurus while growing up, and I'm pretty sure it boosted my writing grades slightly as teachers were impressed by the expanded diction.

These days I find thesauruses a great aid to more precisely describe what I'm trying to convey, or help me find that word that's on the tip of my tongue.
Putting money into crypto is not investing. It's gambling.
Sure seems like it!
That woke has-been would be dethroned so fast...

/s