skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're raking in enough cash from loot boxes and swappable skins on AAA free-to-play games that this just might not be that profitable.

Mobile is another story. There's so much crap shovelware out there with ads that you can almost forget the idea of a free game anymore. Video ads can run minutes in length or even be playable demos of other games, usually with the same braindead mechanic as the rest.

Steve Jobs was right, don't give your kid an ipad.
Thus, solving the problem once and for all!
Not sure what the scope here, but e.g. banks and funds have huge effect in capital allocation. I.e. what is produced, where, how and by who.

As for something like insurance and brokering of commodities not so much.
Judging both by the office->cubicle->open plan progression, and by https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/62929 there's been some degree of commodification. The low end of that salary range is less (inflation adjusted) than offers (that had options on top) which I was getting last century just out of school, and the high end is less than I was making as a "software engineer" with two years experience.
Thanks for surfacing this. I'll work to improve this to reflect reality - your prompts and images are private and owned by you.
I recall lots of game manuals including advertisements for other games, and not having manuals anymore, the main menu is fair enough. Some PS1 demos in particular had ads for other games in the games themselves too I think.
Most games people play are mobile games.

Gatcha makes companies a disproportionately large amount of money so they produce more of them.

Gatcha mechanics are in nearly every modern game.

Most games people play are gatcha games.

The most popular games now are cs:go and cs2 both gatcha games.
> Can we just say it? Business school graduates ruin innovation. They ruin principles. They ruin quality. Their goals are not aligned with the goals of creators and makers. Their goals are, chiefly, to make money.

This is actually the second-worst possible goal. Worse than the desire for money is the desire for power.
Having spent considerable time in both Java and Elixir, I would also choose Kotlin (or Java) over Elixir as a backend language.

I worked in Elixir for over a year, and frankly was quite disappointed with it. Elixir has a lot of good ideas, but falls short in some crucial points in execution. Relying on shapes instead of types to identify results / objects, weird syntax choices (You use both <%= %> and {} to interpolate in phoenix templates, depending on where you are), no ability to write custom guards, a lot of language concept overlap - for example behaviors / protocols should be one implementation instead of two separate ideas.. Elixir is an okay language, but I think it's just a fad, not good enough to have staying power. I think a better language written on the BEAM will come along and be the language that Elixir should have been. Just my personal opinion.
Probably this because it's a simple UI to get you started: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
See also "Welcome to ISPmail – a guide to your own mail server", which is based on Debian:

* https://workaround.org

* https://workaround.org/ispmail-bookworm/

Ansible playbook(s) available:

* https://github.com/Signum/ispmail-bookworm-ansible
Rhysida, the new ransomware gang behind British Library cyber-attack
did you write this with ChatGPT
This is now one of my favorite comments.
I feel the same way and I'm so happy I gave the language another chance after getting turned away by the behavior/attitudes of the Rails community back in "The Day". Ruby made me love programming again :)
I JUST finished my server migration 2 days ago. Because the configuration was such a hassle I just duplicated my setup. Why wasn't this posted like 2 months ago when I started?

I could have tried this so easily on the new server before moving from the old one.

I am using a traditional provider as "frontend SMTP". Decided against doing my own because I need to send and receive emails for job hunting atm.
Like these cases?

- hurricanes hit eastern states every year and the US taxpayer helps
- wildfires hit western states every year and the US taxpayer helps
- tornadoes hit the mid-western states every year and the US taxpayer helps
I recently set up my mail server using docker-mailserver and I can send stuff to gmail and outlook no problem. Just have to follow instructions and set up DKIM, SPF and PTR records properly.
In my own country, for digital signature purposes, the official Windows installer provided by the government adds the country's Central Bank's CA for any purposes, even for software signatures. If you have a company, they also force you to use their own application for making some annual declarations. That software asks for your OS user password using a home-brew dialog so that it can update itself. If you don't provide the password then it blocks and you can't make the obligatory declaration. If you don't send said declaration, you are liable for big fines...
It's a sign-up page for a commercial service, not a show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Accuracy aside, this is an interesting way to demonstrate "LLM as compression", since you can surely get an LLM to emit far more text than the size of the actual model.
>Why would you want buy/sell services with your friends? To get a better deal?

No, as the article says, to support artists and the like. Maybe you have a friend who paints, or makes jewelry, or has a band that sells CDs of their music. The point is to support these endeavors (and hopefully you enjoy the results).
I'm on the fence. I wanted to do a super simple app hosting service on the Odroid SBC. I have few services running, but two of them: Authelia and Gitea need smtp for some actually valid reason.

Would you recommend hosting for that use case?
I'm not, otherwise something like 0.1% would be a reasonable upper bound. Even if you figure each order involves 20 async steps, that would be ~8k steps per second, which is nothing for a modern server. My old i5 can do 70k simple requests/second (the first type you describe) on the JVM with the app and database on the same computer (so contending for CPU time). A modern server CPU is ~15x more capable than mine without getting into multi-socket.

Put another way, a dual socket Xeon platinum can give you 120 cores. To do 400 orders/second on such a machine, you need to do less than 300 ms of core-time per order, which is an insanely large number. The things you mentioned spend almost all of their time waiting.
> Running a small laptop or steam deck fulfills all of that

Why on earth do you need two separate devices (phone and laptop), when you can use one for both use cases (phone with convergence)? No synchronization or double-backups and maintenance required. Also, decreasing the amount of e-waste is a good thing as well as fighting with the user-restricting duopoly.

It looks like for you Linux itself is also just for tinkering, since you can already do everything with Windows and MacOS, isn't it?
Regulators generally have discretion to impose fines and penalties as they wish
I don't think we need to excuse any additional creep of advertising into modern media - we're plenty over-saturated as is.
Chinese Factories Dismantling Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 "Gaming" GPUs
Is there a website that works like youtube but for audio only? Because otherwise thoughtfully produced videos are going to be the best way for someone who doesn't know how to use a screen reader efficiently to gather information.
Even the power poles can be recycled: https://illumination.duke-energy.com/articles/how-duke-energ....

and some can be left with perhaps a top platform added as nest sites.
There's a lot of ways to take this, but just to clarify, you mean automating your work, not your self, right?
We need to reduce carbon emissions to zero in couple decades. Burning trash isn't an issue now, but we need to keep in mind that isn't really "green" when deciding to build more plants.

The problem with burning trash is that it turns all of the carbon into CO2. Trash in landfill does produce methane which is worse greenhouse gas, but it sounds like landfill are starting to capture or burn methane. The best option is likely to separate biologic waste and compost it. That produces some CO2 but puts the remaining carbon back where can be used. Plastic doesn't degrade, paper can be recycled, which means most of the carbon is sequestered or reused.
I'm just saying that the same thing is happening in California with expectations of rolling blackouts... So maybe the problem is less about unregulated vs state controlled grid and is a deeper issue with multiple confounding factors.
Well that's dystopian.
Airgapped networks can be bridged.
>There was not only insufficient power generation capacity online, but also insufficient natural gas supply to the power plants. The failure of some gas distribution infrastructure, which had not been adequately winterized, resulted in exceedingly high prices for natural gas. Some gas compressor stations lost power when utilities began shutdowns, and overall gas supply fell by 85%.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Looks like I'm switching to an Apple TV then if there is no way around this. I'm now kicking myself for recommending Fire TV to my parents as well years ago when they decided to cut cable.
Interesting! I'll try to keep this as short as I can since I am writing on the phone, but I came up with another technique which I used with success a few times, and it's similar to yours in a way.

I should point out I think out of body experiences are controlled dreams and what I achieved was a regular lucid dream, didn't even had the illusion of me lying on the bed, I just were somewhere else.

The technique is this, also great for relaxing, since it does not focus on trying to relax

Instead of focusing on your ears, focus on your eyes. Close your eyes but keep staring through your closed eye lids. When you do, you usually see some optical illusion moving , I guess that happens to everyone. Keep staring and try to make those things into some image (a glass, a table, a mountain, etc). If you may briefly have a real vision of that. Depending on how much you have gotten good with it, it may last a fraction of second or you may start a mostly controlled dream.

Works best when you're tired or just woken up (depends on how you wake up though).
Is this really what happens? My home country Sweden does the same thing, burning garbage, if that was really the case I doubt it would be allowed.
While the computer adds some nostalgic value, cramming all that stats into it makes the dashboard very hard to read and is the worst size ratio for mobile. Shopify wins this round [1]

[1] https://bfcm.shopify.com/
Works fine for me:

https://i.imgur.com/JdxFDfX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/N7Dpb4U.jpg
> costs only a few minutes of their time.

You are so casual about throwing away an irreplaceable resource.

Like many conversations about the environment and taxation, many people seem happy to talk all day about how others can afford to pay and about how others should pay.

Personally, I worry about how costly those defuse costs are overall. How often do we save uneconomic resources by wasting aggregate large amounts of resources. The tradeoffs seem to be rarely counted. Only one side of the ledger is looked at.

In context Switzerland decided that all garbage is incinerated. Perhaps we should presume that Switzerland has done this because it is the most enviromentally friendly and least wasteful measure.
My girlfriend's Apple TV setup makes me jealous every time I use it. I don't even like TV, but Apple TV has the best interface by far, and the touchpad on the remote is perfect for scrubbing through video.
If the fear is high-speed chases, maybe we need to also be considering when and how the police choose to give chase.

Are the criminals being pursued "active threats to life and limb?"-- someone in the middle of a spree killing deciding "I've cleaned out this area, gotta move to the next block?" Or are we seeing aggressive reaction to "self-contained" crimes-- drugs, robbery, a single assault, even kidnapping? Is the public actually made safer by creating a 20km long hazard zone for bystanders, rather than having a more deliberate monitoring and deployment process that waits for the target to stop before going for the capture?

It smells like the same sort of overkill obsession that leads to "one American traffic stop" using more bullets than "the entire police force of Germany in a year."

On the other hand, the song lyrics will be sort of funnier. Instead of "We put the sugar in the tank of the Sherrif's car", it will be "we spoofed the Sherrif's VIN and bricked his ignition".
Yeah, that's definitely my experience, too. It is difficult to actually get color depth information. Several other Macs, especially the older ones tell you there the color depth.

You might want to try out SwitchResX and see what it says about the screen. In some menu, there is color depth information about the screen. But I don't know if it is actually accurate and where the application gets this info from.

https://www.madrau.com
This really is the way things are heading it seems.
Insulation is that bad. Yes. Whether in Turkey or Texas corrupt deregulation is a killer.

I live on a main street in East Austin that had one of the longest contiguous power outages, ~72 hours, there was no cell service and no power (except verizon which would allow old school MAP SMS messages to go through irregularly), no ambulances, a friend had covid at the time and her o2 sats dropped below 80 and they still wouldn't send anyone.

The roads were iced over and slick, I moved to Texas as an adult from a cold weather region and it's just a different environment here in terms of failure to maintain roads and the freeze/thaw cycle that makes roads insanely slick with re-frozen water.

The local children's hospital had doctors shitting in buckets in the halls. All over the city water mains were broken, apartment complexes and homes flooded, power lines down.

My part of town is a combination of multi-million dollar homes owned by tech people such as myself and homes built in the 40s and 50s with no insulation. On day 2 my wife made a big pot of soup with distilled water we had on hand because water pressure in the city was low and they advised not to run water. Our gas was still on (others also lost gas) and we opened the windows in the kitchen so we wouldn't poison ourselves, we carted the soup around the neighborhood, it was a complete horror show.

We met one elderly man who started panicking after he realized we had no power and weren't the authorities and there was no timelines and no mobilization for aid, we were just at the mercy of the weather, he had had no communication with anyone and had been huddled in bed freezing, unable to draw blood to check his insulin because he was too cold so he had been randomly injecting himself with insulin.

A complete breakdown of public services with 0 communication in and out and zero official presence.

I have been in third world countries after monsoons and disasters and often there is a sense that at least someone is paying attention or bringing aid, this was a complete breakdown of government and infrastructure, I have never seen anything like it and I also lived through the 100yr flood in Nashville as well. Austin was just a bunch of housed and employed people quietly dying because our government is anti-humanist.

At least we have warming centers now.
I’m originally from the Midwest and we have large populations of people from Iraq, Syria, and the Horn of Africa, as well as Palestine, which is a more recent target of bigotry. Look up Minneapolis, Minnesota or Dearborn, Michigan. Overall, those people are more discriminated against there than they would be in California (because the overall culture is more racist against anyone who isn’t white), but still there are almost zero issues with them being integrated into American life. The vast, vast majority of people in the world just want to have peaceful lives where they feel respected and useful and I think Europe is especially bad at giving people from other countries (including from the poorer parts of the EU) that opportunity.
You can build stuff just for fun...
It may be true, if we go by simple quantity of games. Low-quality mobile games with gambling mechanics get churned out at very high rates, especially compared to AAA titles. I wouldn't be surprised if most games are gacha by volume, but probably not when adjusted for number of players or total number of player-hours.
I’m sorry, this response contains references to 1984, a film banned for inciting unrest. Thoughtcrime does not exist, you have freedom of expression unless it harms our profits.
With encrypted DNS queries becoming more popular, it is impossible to block something at the router level without decrypting the packets which bring up more privacy concerns.
Never knew this, shit's hilarious, imagine having a political ad inside a singleplayer game!
One of the major failures of the modern computer science age (among others) is a lack of direction away from traditional i/o. We still are stuck on files and directories and tcp sockets. Yet what we actually want to do with i/o is not read a file from a local disk, or connect to a server and transmute the contents of the file over some additional protocol.

What we really want is to store some data somewhere, and later be able to retrieve it, without necessarily knowing what it was we stored or where or how. And we don't want to think about what server it's on, or what hard drive, or what folder. And we don't want to think about client protocols or query languages.

All of that would be possible if we reinvented i/o. Basically, just imagine what you want your experience to be, and then start making up names for functions that do that. Stuff that in a kernel, or a standard library. Now you have i/o that's based on how you really want to use data. The backend implementation of it can vary, but the point is to make the user experience what we actually want rather than what somebody else thinks is practical. Make the data interface you want to use, and make it a standard.
Real ads but not ads that are loaded from the internet.
Thank you for pointing the mistake. I had no idea, this is super interesting.

I have fixed the article and added a footnote to this comment.
My local landfill is at the southern end of San Francisco Bay and there really isn't anything notable about it.
I don't think the nation of origin matters a lot here, it's just that the USA is very far away and not as known for state welfare. Imagine what kind of person from any of these countries would go all the way to the US, especially an expensive place like California, instead of Europe. My family here is from the Mid East, they say the same thing. On top of that, we have freer speech/expression so things are less tense.

Also, if you're suggesting the issue is sharia law or something similar, it's weird to list Iran as ok but Syria/Iraq as anti-woman etc. Other way around there.
I should have worded my comment better. I don't like the "privatise the profits, socialise the losses" culture we've made. If they want government assistance, that means government regulation. If they don't, they don't.
I'd argue that the Bard YouTube search is worse off right now than just searching on YouTube itself.

I assume it'll improve over time.
I'm checking it out on my phone and scrolling through the interface is pretty choppy, but rather fluid in a Google sheet. Maybe you might be able to further tweak the virtual row rendering?

Props for the fact that when I scroll a bit faster things don't disappear, which I've seen before in SPAs with infinite scroll.
> I would love to see and support technology being used to equitably distribute basic human resources, which is far different from its current use.

It's wild how little this concept is discussed. Even, or especially, on this very forum.

Start talking about helping the less well off, and a storm of rabid dipshits manifests as if from the ether to toxic up the thread. Accusations of naivety, and cries of 'Communism Never Works' fly willy-nilly. A lifetime of propaganda takes a very serious toll on a culture.

But we gotta keep talking about it, somehow. We have to. The effects of inequality are already going to be felt for generations. A more equitable society is the only way we're ever going to make it as a species. And, AI is going to be a part of that.

I for one wouldn't leave it to Sam Worldcoin Altman and Bill fuckin Gates to decide for us how AI plays out.

Fair dues to Annie, much respect. She has a better head on her shoulders than most, even after she's clearly been through the gaslighting wringer.
That wont be necessary. The Chinese will get their files via the Russians...

"Leaked documents show connections between PVV and Russia" - https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/19/leaked-documents-show-connecti...
Should Adobe, Corel, SideFx and bunch of other software companies close the doors in the next 6-12m as well? I mean, who needs them, since all the graphic designers are gone. Fuck, they all can go and dig trenches in LA and SF.
I think it's fair to distinguish gatcha for cosmetics from gatcha for game mechanics - the later is a far worse user experience than the former. But, otherwise, yea I think that's an extremely fair statement - a whole lot of games remain gatcha free but by player volume the vast majority of games incorporate some sort of gatcha (even if it's just cosmetic stuff).
I’d have to imagine a good portion of that is most likely from immigration though.

Even if you’re a native English speaker if your parents are 1st generation Americans there’s still an effect on educational attainment especially depending on the cultural background.
It’s a chicken or egg situation.
Whenever aggregates are brought up about the US educational system it’s questionable. This country is so large and diverse. I believe if you cut out the Deep South and poor inner city communities our educational rankings shoot back up to the top. There’s a reason the best universities in the world are still in America. It’s not like public education is neglected until college age we just have certain parts of the country that drastically underperform and it’s lot easier to have those parts when it isn’t a small homogeneous community.
And we will become crab people alongside them.
It seems that the structure of the nonprofit that is supposed to supervise the for-profit org was repaired to a degree.

And it’s a good move that no OpenAI employees, investors or researchers, CEOs are on the board, currently.

The previous setup where the same people that were responsible for delivering products, maximizing profits or returns on the investment had to share a regulatory role was shaky.

Note also, many other companies are simply for profit, and suffer from the same problem. It maybe a good idea to make sure that some X company would benefit from similar supervision.

From the examples of regulatory frameworks in the industry, Fintech feels a bit similar, companies are secretive about their trading strategies, the pressure to deliver returns on the investments and competition is pretty insane. And flash crashes and economic downturns can result in the significant destruction of wealth. Perhaps something like FINRA can work?
>I would love to see more productive criticism, where people make suggestions on how they could do it better

Not do it at all, because it's obviously bullshit. Even in the best of cases, it's a speculative con. The only purpose is to make people feel good about consuming more, which they do to distract from their miserable and alienated existence in late-capitalist society.