skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have Apple Arcade as part of Apple One, but My Talking Angela 2? Delicious: Miracle of Life? Kingdoms: Merge & Build? They may not have microtransactions, but most of Apple Arcade games are still bullshit low effort games clearly aimed at kids.
from the company that brought you: printers! and ink cartridges!
While a readable Dockerfile can work as documentation, there are a few caveats:

* the application needs to be designed to work outside containers (so, no hardcoded URLs, ports, or paths). Also, not directly related to containers, but it's nice if it can be easily compiled in most environments and not just on the base image.

* I still need a way to be notified of updates; if the Dockerfile just wgets a binary, this doesn't help me.

* The Dockerfiles need to be easy to find. Sourcegraph's don't seem to be referenced from the documentation, I had to look through their Github repos to find https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/tree/main/docker-... (though most are bazel scripts instead of Dockerfiles, but serve the same purpose)
There is absolutely zero help google employees can provide too
> aka revenue that is weird and modern day serfdom.

Not really, though. Businesses have inherent incentives to minimize their costs. Individuals don’t, in fact it’s closer to being the opposite.

So the “revenue” tax approach is perfectly rational and reasonable (relatively to taxing personal “net income”)

> businesses are applied to profits not revenue

Yes, if your rental business was a separate entity it would make perfect sense. Subtracting your business costs from personal income isn’t quite that though
There was a site just like this about a decade ago called "Honest Android Games". The criteria were almost exactly the same.

It closed down as the author didn't have the time for it anymore: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/2ggaqp/i_had...
I guess the governments need the high tax from smokers, you will know why if you know how much a packet of 20s cost in nz lol, its like over 30 nzd per packet
I think Market Cap relates -loosely- to financial capacity of the company to have employees playing the support role.

On the paying tiers of FAANG-like, Is crazy that these companies charge market price for their services yet the support is usually quite poor.
It was an old app using AdobeAIR, it worked like this

1 I collect the logs data, soem are generated by the app like OS, app version, app logs but I think there was a runtime log file

2 I would show the user in a big text area what data will be sent, so the user can see exactly what will be sent, and redact something if he wishes, maybe say a username or string in a file path

3 I had a single PHP file on a server that would receive the data and create a new ticket and attach the data to it. The app can't make the ticket directly because we did not want to put our secret API keys for the ticket service in the app. We already had a server with PHP on it for our blog so we just added a single , super simple PHP file, no dependencies, no frameworks, no tools.

4 I get the notification from the ticket /bugs system and fix the bug if possible.

AdobeAIR was a managed runtime similar with Java JVM so there were not many crashes and when they were the stack traces were clear and point to the source of the problem. The only problem we had was with the embedded webkit component, that could crash sometime and produce the usual c/C++ type of errors and there was nothing we can do about those sicne it was not our code.
I think it's amazing how, despite not using AI for their art, so-called AAA games like Civilisation end up with that pasty cartoony look of a thousand cheap pay to win mobile games. I think the leader and advisor avatars in Civ 6 are ghastly.
It’s impossible to get them to respond to my emails with a paid account. I have an enterprise account with a dedicated rep. To increase the number of seats on your contract you have to request that they do it. I had run out of seats and with a new dev starting it took a few days and emails to get the guy to do anything. I’m try to give you MORE money and it’s like pulling teeth. They’re my only option with Gitlab’s insane price increase.
In most of the US (by population density) you are not allowed to do that type of work without a permit and permits would not be allowed to be open for 7 years. You would not be allowed to move into a house of any part of it did not meet current code, so the entire exterior would have to be complete, with insulation and insulation must be covered and every room must have so many outlets and so on that effectively almost everything except baseboards and casing needs to be complete before you could move in even to part of it. Hard to save money if you have to pay for two homes and permit renewals for years.
Pareto screwed
(CodeCrafters team here).

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why you prefer video format vs. interactive?

e.g out of habit, when I'm having a meal, I like watching "course videos" or streams occasionally. Is yours similar?

P.S. Jon Gjengset did a comprehensive stream going through the Build your own BitTorrent challenge https://youtu.be/jf_ddGnum_4?si=nwVLbe_2XsheIKav, if you're interested in Rust
Yes, but do they get a vague idea of what's onscreen or could they really see what's going on in each tile, keep track of all the stats and use those to inform their decisions?
Really want to browse the games but it's astonishingly slow.
I'll reserve judgement until I've driven on it a few times.

I do like the St Peter's interchange though. It makes it very easy to get from Alexandria to the Blue Mountains without having to drive through the Inner West. The tolls are too damn high though.
I don't see how it could be a threat.

For the simpler work, AI tools are as much of a threat as frameworks or existing code generators.

For higher level work, AI tools can be great assistants, but they are very far from being able to understanding large existing code bases, inter-dependencies, side-effects, non-functional requirements, etc.

Not to mention that most software development projects fail for non-technical reasons, which code-focused models also can't help with.
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If I start now and start reading up on AI, will I become anything close to an expert?

I'm worried that I'm starting a journey that requires a Master's or PhD.
They learn the characters by writing a line of each character repeatedly. It's a super inefficient method.

1. Once you have written it once, repeating the motion doesn't help you memorize it because it's in your short term memory. Memory research has shown that it's more efficient to review information when some time has passed.

2. There's no system that builds on the graphical similarities of the characters, or based on the frequency of said characters. You will get thematic grouping of 冷 (extremely common word meaning cold) and 霜 (a more rare word meaning frost)

In Chinese classes in China for foreigners they similarly just tell you to write the new character. There's no explanation of radicals or whatever, just some stroke order considerations (which is the least important info) and sometimes the character composition when it's not obvious.

The way that people who research the topic learn characters is far better - use an app that tells you to write in the correct character in a time-based repetition manner split by most common characters. Even better would be to build up characters by common shapes (not necessarily radicals since a lot of common shapes are not radicals)
I've looked into the available options of parsing PDFs, including pypdf, which is what is being used here, a while ago and it's not good. While I haven't testing equations specifically, it think it's fair so assume that the results will be subpar especially complex ones.

I guess, this could be an application of the agent model. I've seen multiple LLMs recently trained specifically on LateX parsing. One model would recognize from the parsed PDF garbage that there is probably an equation there and call a different want to parse it.
Most comments here are in one of two camps: 1) you don't need to know any of this stuff, you can make AI systems without this knowledge, or 2) you need this foundational knowledge to really understand what's going on.

Both perspectives are correct. The field is bifurcating into two different skill sets: ML engineer and ML scientist (or researcher).

It's great to have both types on a team. The scientists will be too slow; the engineers will bound ahead trying out various APIs and open-source models. But when they hit a roadblock or need to adapt an algorithm many engineers will stumble. They need an R&D mindset that is quite alien to many of them.

This is when an AI scientists become essential.
Don't know any of these terms, but you gave me some interesting topics to google about. Thanks!
How could you know when some phenomenon is an artefact of a simulator Vs an artefact of the universe we are in?
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I don’t disagree with the zoning and permitting process needing reforms, but I have a tough time believing that it’s responsible for more than 10-20% of the price. Have you read any analysis anywhere to suggest otherwise?

> Houses literally have had appliances and HVAC systems for a hundred years, and largely modern ones for at least half that long

Just so we’re on the same page 100 years ago is 1923.

The first AC unit was installed in 1914. The first room AC was in 1931 for the “affordable” price of $10k-50k. There was not mass adoption of HVAC systems until much much later and homes weren’t design for central air until like the 50s or maybe even after that.

Same goes for fridges and washing machines. 1950s was when that stuff became a bit more common place. But the first fridges started trickling out in 1913. Freon came in the 1920s and fridges became more common place by the 1930s. Freezers came later in the 1940s but before that it was ice boxes if you were on the wealthier side. Same goes for dishwashers and laundry. It hasn’t been a hundred years yet and those innovations really became commonplace only after WWII because America became super wealthy (only major power not massively impacted by WWII) and was heavily industrialized for the war effort and those factories and manufacturing expertise could be repurposed for non war production making goods like this cheap.
>In my mind that’s a good feature to build in anyway. Even as a technically capable individual and software dev, I’m more likely to send in bug reports if I don’t have to go digging for logs. Path of least resistance and all that…

I agree , and to get nice features like this IMO is to have the developers work on tech support , have the devs chat with the suer, then they see how hard it is for them to find the logs , or even tell you the version of the OS or the app- then the "lazy" devs will want toa void wasting the tiem explaining the user again how to find the info and make a GUI for it.
> I'm skeptical of the value of adding on "safe / unsafe" to C++ at this point.

Me too. I've went down the road of a safer C/C++ a decade ago. So have many others. It's not impossible. But backwards compatibility is really tough. The existing attempts at a better C or C++ did not work out.

After three years of Rust, I have some misgivings. Rust does many things right, and the rigor does get you reliable programs if you stick to safe Rust, which I do. But there are problems.

- The single-ownership thing is useful but very restrictive. Lack of back references is a serious problem.
Yet, so often, you want to have something that talks to its owner.
Refcount everything, and you've re-invented Python and moved the problem to run time.
If you have to use handles and hashes, you're lost the value that Rust added.

Something like static-analyzed safe weak back references is needed, and that's a hard theoretical problem.
Think of this as working like single strong forward references and weak back references that can become strong only temporarily. Compile time checking like the borrow checker would enforce rules that eliminated the need for reference counts. This is probably possible, and is hard to do in a way that is not too restrictive to be useful. Someone has to work through the common design patterns for trees, lists you can modify in the middle, and such. Good PhD topic for someone.

- Traits turn out to be useful for only a limited class of problems. Traits are not a substitute for classes. Converting a class-oriented program to Rust is very tough.

Once new Rust programmers get past the syntax, those two issues are the big ones that prevent conversion of existing programs to safe Rust. There's a big impedance mismatch. You can't just convert; you have to redesign. Which is hard.
You can't map sounds when you can't remember the difference between b, d, p, q
Slightly more practical would be something like this

Connect A Desk: Mobile Laptop Harness

https://www.amazon.com/Connect-A-Desk-Mobile-Laptop-Harness-...
Interesting article. I've never heard of the phrase amor fati, but I've experienced this recently with the end of my marriage that is around the corner. I don't know if the article warrants this many words, for me it was the realization that fighting things that can't be changed doesn't do anything except hurt yourself. And suddenly I was not bothered by anything anymore. Of course the key question is can something be changed or not, accepting everything is not a solution either.
Look at `guix shell` and manifest.scm.

`guix shell --container` is also very useful.
Agreed. He's self-aware enough to realize that he has an ego problem, but not quite self-aware enough to do anything about it. Oh, and he has a therapist. Classic.

If he wanted to have time for all his hobbies, plus working 12-hours days and weekends in a super-sexy startup, he shouldn't be married, and definitely shouldn't have kids. What did he think - that kids raise themselves?

His specific, very long whine about having a collicky infant. Geez. Guess what, millions of people have that particular bit of fun. It's pretty horrible at the time, but it's only a short time in the big scheme of things.

And now his wife has an ill family member, maybe a parent she has to support. So the guy has to do the grocery shopping. Tragedy.

Yeah, he's aware that he's whining. He could still stop. Why did this make HN?
If you want to contact someone at github, you have to write a good blog post about your issue and get it on HN front page
To teach us to stay away from these companies?
I guess this is again a case of taking the results of a study to pull conclusions in different contexts.
Command Line Voice Chat
Come up with a concept of creating a command line real time voice chat app, would you use it if there is such app?
If you’re on iOS Apple Arcade is basically this

It’s like all high quality games with no ads/microtransactions

Although the dumb thing is you can’t buy the games separately without subscribing

I usually just get 1 month of it when travelling and play a bunch of them
Good news. Less people are smoking now than in the past, due to being educated about the dangers, so we don’t need to go all out to ban it. If people want to harm their own health they should be allowed to.

It’s especially ridiculous to bring in a ban like this while drugs like marijuana and LSD are on track to be legalised worldwide - it seems like politicians are banning and legalising things based on whether they’re in right now.
Show HN: Appendable – A Statically Hosted Database
Hey HN, I was inspired by protomaps's (https://protomaps.com/) use of HTTP Range requests and wondered if it would be possible to build an entire database off of this premise, namely querying the database without a backend service.

Turns out, I got it to work! I've created a demo here: https://kevmo314.github.io/appendable/ and observe that it queries GitHub Pages, so nothing but static hosting while fetching a fraction of the underlying data (ie proportional to the result set, not the input set). The hope is that for certain datasets, the Appendable can be used to host the database with static file hosting instead of the traditional, more expensive database service routes.

The demo right now is pretty bare bones as I was pretty excited to get it working, but I outlined an aspirational roadmap in the linked repository that includes more features.

Thanks for checking it out!
Product-led growth and Go-To-Market Strategy? Why is it so popular lately?
I've been seeing a lot about this "Product-Led Growth" thing lately and it's got me curious. It sounds like it's all about letting the product do the talking and pulling in customers, which seems kinda different from the usual go-to-market strategies I'm used to.

Isn't "go-to-market strategy" just a good old iterative approach for launching the product?

* What's the deal?
* Any good practices?
* What do you think about it/do you practice it?

Thanks
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> Reddit app, and its Apollongly bad

Fixed that for you ;)
Your experiment in macaques is a really important test for such a new method, but do you think that the difference in stimulation protocol could be meaningful?
In their paper they used a theta burst stimulation protocol (3 100 hz pulses 200ms apart) which has been very effective with TMS and has been shown to affect neuronal plasticity. Maybe 10 hz tACS-like stimulation is more about spike timing than plasticity?
"entirely separate device"

Like ... an iPhone with a camera that views the monitor, recognized the board and suggests the best move?
> Hint: If the game has its own currency (coins, diamonds, etc) which you can buy for real money, it's bullshit and you shouldn't submit it.

But there are games where you can use real money to buy golds and diamonds and spend them purely on cosmetics like costumes, pets etc.

They don't give you any advantage in game play or progression.

An example is Adventure Quest 3D. From their Google Play description:

NOT PAY-TO-WIN

- Finally, an MMO that's not going to wreck your wallet

- Earn power & cool items through gameplay. Wow, what a concept!

- Optional cosmetics if you’d like to support us… and our anime obsession ^_^

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.battleon.a...
That last line is true. If it’s ok with you, I will print it, frame it and place it in my office so next time the GCP Sales Rep comes begging for a share of our cloud presence I can tell him to thank Mr Pichar for their 4th place.
It’s a zoomer and younger millennial thing. It’s difficult for me to understand. But if you want to appeal to them, make videos.
Why Napoleon stole the Galileo files, and what happened next
Indonesia's $20B Leap into Renewable Energy
It’s gotten to the point of I have a problem with “site.com”, when I’m searching for a solution I have to omit “site.com” from my results. If I don’t I usually end up in some technical content marketing BS, a useless forum post (bonus points if it is just a wrapper for Discourse), or completely out of date documentation.
Of course I always used a mouse with Emacs, if not I could have used vim.
1. They would have to pay property tax, just as I think cemeteries should. (guess what, I'm also a Georgist).

2. "churches will just operate as" or not, we're taking hypothetical here, it's my fantasy and they don't get to!
To the detriment of the child.
They already did that it was AlienBlue and thry wrecked it if my understanding is correct
one of the better emacs+mouse actions for me is rectangle select with C+M+'hold left button and select'
Nice find though I personally always slip left or right, not up or down.
To Solve Big Problems, Make Everyone Feel Included in Your Mission
Lemmy is pretty great and I still use it now and again, but I've mainly just stopped consuming content in that way. I subscribed to a quality newspaper for news / analysis / opinion; I stay on HN for the technical news & discussions.

Honestly once you break the (to me addictive) loop of opening reddit/lemmy you're not missing out on much. Whenever I get a reddit search result it redirects to my selfhosted libreddit instance (connect through tailscale). Public libreddit instances are basically always broken, but a single user one which is just used for the occasional search result works perfectly fine.
This is a common view but I’m skeptical about it in this case. The whole board struggle seems like it blindsided everyone and was somewhat influenced by the breakthrough. I doubt that MS and OpenAI would want to cause that much case merely to get people talking about the new AI they’d developed, in that case they could’ve just gone out and said it.
The writing in Neuromancer is a lot less polished than in the second two books, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, and I understand your point.

I like Stephenson but I don't know that you can directly compare, while they're both 'Cyberpunk' authors to an extent Stephenson's work is wildly different, there's a lot more 'education' in Stephenson whereas Gibson is pure exposition. Stephenson can also be a bit (very) preachy. I've read the Gibson books many many times and but the Stephenson ones... well, the second time I went through 'Snow Crash' I was already skipping massively, and The Diamond Age... once you've read it, you've read it.

This is going to sound incredibly judgemental but to me, Gibson writes the future, Stephenson the past.

If all you've read is Neuromancer I'd agree. What other Gibson works have you read?
Creating a bespoke LLM for AI- generated documentation
Have you ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready-to-assemble_furniture ?
Both cases are very damaging...
At least in the EU it has come to the point where you have to figure out how to 'boost' the appliances into a 'normal' cycle, as the default is just the 'eco' setting designed to pass the test's 'A+++' rating criterium under ideal circumstances.

I am 100% in favour of not wasting energy and water, just not by deception and false savings where people use more water 'pre-rincing' their dishes in the sink than a regular dishwasher used to clean them, or having to manually add 2 extra soak and spin cycles to get rid of detergent residue in a washing machine because the default cycle was 'optimized' for specific artificial test loads not resembling any real world family clothes mix.

Many machines still have a button or hidden option to set them to 'normal' operation. For others you will have to resort to trickery or plain reinterpreting of what the different programs and settings actually mean to get the right result.
What's interesting is that nowhere it is mentioned that managers have noticed that remote workers are slacking or that their output is low. No, managers are worried in principle because they have lost the absolute control they have on-site.

A valid general concern, though, is confidentiality and leaks of proprietary information.
GPT Builder Guide: The 10 First Steps to Make an Effective GPT
We do have a supplementary screencasts feature (this challenge doesn’t have one yet since its new).

Here’s what it looks like on the Redis challenge:
https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/redis/stages/2/screencas...
That's very relative and subjective, ie Apple users consider their devices beautiful, I personally find them a fugly cheap looking brick. I know I am a tiny minority, and that's fine. Pixel has generally OK design and there are reasons for it, no phone is perfect these days.