skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest trying the new Robocop: Rogue City game. It is pretty much a perfect encapsulation of a 7/10 or AA type of a game, where it is just fun, solid, well done, has quite a great amount of soul in it. But isn’t aiming to be some do-it-all open world AAA michael bay type of an affair.

One of the most enjoyable games this year for me, and it says a lot (given how many amazing games of all kinds we got this year). And yet, it isn’t overly ambitious. Just overall, that’s pretty much the exact type of a game that you are talking about, which I’ve noticed we had an almost complete drought of over the past decade.
Great story. The part that sticks out to me is 72% (the discount that GS got due to busted trades) and 0% (the discount Knight got due to busted trades.) If you're going to eff up, first make sure you're a big player!
maybe he's discouraging university education...
The power switches were in locked cages inside colos miles from the nearest Knight employee. The sysadmins could probably power off the boxes remotely, but the devs probably didn't have that access.

Yes, a "big red button" kill switch was the right answer, but they didn't have that, and it took time to work through several layers of corporate bureaucracy while losing $150,000 per second, time they didn't have.

Anyone with experience in the industry knows that, especially the day of/following a software release, "if in doubt, kill and roll back". Being out of the market for even a few hours is fairly easily to come back from, even in places where you are legally required to be in the market for a given percentage of the time in order to qualify for transaction tax breaks on your market making trades.

That's why on that day my manger called me after hours to come in early the next morning and test our "big red button" kill switch before the market open.
You have more choices then that for node.js

* https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc

* https://github.com/murat-dogan/node-datachannel

If libwebrtc fits your needs you totally should use it! Alternatives have existed for years though
It's a trope in most sci-fi universes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Panspermia

Star Trek, Halo, Doctor Who, Stargate, Red Dwarf, Spore, Ben 10, etc.
That was my thinking as well, in Australia this would be a b-double tandem, requiring extra endorsement (multi-combination license).
The Aqara temperature sensors[0] wouldn't stay connected to my SkyConnect USB dongle. No issues with my Zigbee switch and thermostats though, so I think some vendors aren't fully Zigbee compliant but it's probably the exception.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D37FKGY/
$ cat parse256.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>

int parse_uint8_fastswar(const char *str, size_t len, uint8_t *num) {
union {
uint8_t as_str[4];
uint32_t as_int;
} digits;
memcpy(&digits.as_int, str, sizeof(digits));
digits.as_int ^= 0x30303030lu;
digits.as_int <<= (4 - (len & 0x3)) * 8;
uint32_t y = ((UINT64_C(0x640a0100) * digits.as_int)>>32)&0xff;
*num = (uint8_t)(y);
return (digits.as_int & 0xf0f0f0f0) == 0 && y < 256 && len != 0
&& len < 4;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (argv[1]) {
uint8_t val = 0;
if (parse_uint8_fastswar(argv[1], strlen(argv[1]), &val)) {
printf("value of %s is %d\n", argv[1], (int) val);
} else {
printf("%s is invalid, value stored %d\n", argv[1], (int) val);
}
}

return 0;
}
$ ./parse256 123
123 is invalid, value stored 225
$ uname -a
Linux gcc1-power7.osuosl.org 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.ppc64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 20:38:32 GMT 2018 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux

Oops!
This same argument could be made about publishing anything, at pretty much any time in history.
I know a lot of people on HN took issue with his heavy handed design of certain student residences, but I would encourage anyone to read any of his writings or speeches or anything about him (or Buffett of course). Their level-headed approach to investing and business generally is sorely missing in the tech industry, and seems to disappear from the public consciousness for years at a time when times get “too good”.
Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak
> is just confused and born out of perusing popular-scientific materials instead of relying on scientific literature or hands-on experience.

I suspect there's some fundamental metaphysical framework protection in play here, the sort of language being used is pretty common, I believe it to be a learned cultural behavior (from consuming similar arguments).
Show HN: Free E-Commerce Product Details Generator
Hi everyone,

Watching my wife build prestashop and wooCommerce sites for small local artisans, I realized that most of them were struggling to fill out their product details page and thus missing out on SEO and sales opportunities.

So I decided to create a practical tool for online store owners and managers. It uses AI to create product details from a brief description.

Objective: simplify the product listing process and improve the efficiency of the online store for people that don't know how to do it properly or even experts that want to save time or get a quick template to iterate on.

What would you want me to add to improve it?
Already had a feed that someone would love to have tabs with sorted details

Thanks for reading this and trying the tool, or even better, sharing it!
So it's his fault that all that happened to him?

I am sorry that someone has died, and I regret making a comment on this particular post before realizing the actual post topic too late, but I am not too keen on living my life based upon how billionaires think. Munger, like many billionaires and as the above quote and his dorm designs showcase, liked to speak about things he didn't know anything about, and people like to idolize billionaires in hope that they will someday be one too.

Self-pity is a natural human emotion. Rejecting it outright and replacing it with self-blame seems beyond strange. I would recommend people to sign up for a therapist and have a professional help them work through life rather than a person only well known for hoarding capital and opining on things he isn't educated in.
>TAKING ICE CREAM FROM A TODDLER
>7.4M views
>6 months ago

It's not next ... it's now.
If journalists can't talk about this, the only people who will talk about this are the propagandists.
I guess he's on his way to a windowless dorm now aha
Maybe because they're too expensive? I want an electric Honda Fit, though I'd settle for a hybrid. They make them and they even sell them in other countries, just not here.
On any diagram showing the placement of organs, you will notice the stomach is assymetric, and when lying on your left side, its contents will have to fight gravity more to find their way back into your oesophagus.
What does your skin need
Whenever I think of X or Wayland it always makes me think of what the Windows code must be like. What secret monolithic struggles have the Windows devs secretly been fighting with for the past 30 years that nobody will ever appreciate?
Certainly, but those buildings are not very old.
Workflowy. Raindrop.
US and UK Military Contractors Created Plan for Global Censorship in 2018
Thanks for raising that point, I agree it deserves attention. Is this a personal preference or an official guideline of HN? This ambiguity in your message actually underscores the very reason I find value in using AI like ChatGPT. It helps in achieving greater precision and clarity in communication, something we both seem to value

In the spirit of clarity and efficiency, I chose to use ChatGPT to assist in formulating my response, even most of them, much like one might use a calculator for mathematics. The goal here, as I see it, is to enrich our conversation with precision and thoughtfulness, one thing the internet needs in my experience.

However, I recognize the importance of transparency in this context. It's a fundamental component of honest discourse. I will ensure to disclose the use of such AI tools in future interactions, question is precisely how? Could comments be water-marked, or would a "AI-assisted-response" tag be appropriate? I think some more discussion on this is required.

It’s crucial that we embrace these new technologies with both an appreciation for their utility and a commitment to ethical communication practices. If HN is not the place for this, I'm not sure where is, X?
This began roughly 2 weeks ago. Last I saw things had vanished since 2018. It's bad. And when it started it was just back to Dec 2022.

I can't prove there's a connection, but it's just been very aggravating when nobody in any forums believes people that make these claims. To be clear she's only asked once, but more than a few other posts have described situations that read similarly and not just "I can't find this one email".
I'm sure propagandists(of which there are many) would love nothing more than to be able to show pictures(real or not) of dead babies. And so would truth tellers. What do do?
Yep hotplates burn the coffee and I cringe when people say they need them on longer than 25m
Well, if it helps, my landlords moved to the US so it's a fair trade I suppose.
Also, it's Hilversum, not Naarden. I should be OK.
> build natural gas power plants that would provide the electricity to desalinate water

They are (with solar). Look at the Al Khafji Plant in Saudi's Vision 2030 [0]

It takes time to build this stuff. The old guard was much more pro-oil and status quo than MBS, and he only finished purging them by 2018-19. It'll take a decade for their projects to start popping up.

[0] - https://www.vision2030.gov.sa/en/projects/alkhafji/
Could have been worded differently but it is good to note that Munger and Buffett were different men that complimented eachother.
Can you be more specific about what you are referring to?
Maybe it’s ok to worry about both? Not trusting ”arbitrary thing A” does not logically make ”arbitrary thing B” more trustworthy. I do realise that these models intend to (incrementally) represent collective knowledge and may get there in the future. But if you worry about A, why not worry about B which is based on A?
I lived in the Munger building at Stanford for a year and it was amazing. Maybe the other buildings aren't like that? But it was the best dorm I ever lived in, by far.
I lived in my own room with a shared living room in a dorm room decades ago. And it had a window and opened to the outside. The point is that better designs exist, but people will defend Munger just because his design could be worse.

I think my opinion and reaction is based upon his reaction. He rejected all criticism outright and refused to listen to anyone. It was his design, or he would take his money away.
In Continued Defense of Effective Altruism
Thank you, my fault. Nokia was acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft and Blackberry had a partnership only [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/blackberry-shares-jump-mic...
I'll take a tool like Visual Studio or Netbeans over (n)vim any day.

A standardized way of working is sometimes better because if I have to work with someone- then it helps to be able to work on the same thing together. Tools like Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, even Netbeans or Eclipse allow us to converge on a highly productive but standardize working environment that we can work from.

If I'm running off a highly customized setup, and my partner is also doing the same thing - then I am only functional at my own workstation and nowhere else.
I'm quite curious about this too - both from a cost and performance perspective. If S3 Express is close enough to EFS on these metrics, then I'd say it wins out due to the sheer ubiquity and portability of S3 these days.
Pre-registration seems interesting. I wonder if I'll actually get the domain I tried to register.
That is very unfortunate. I saw an interview with Charlie recently and he was talking about what he had planned for his 100th birthday party.
> Unlike software, there is no machine that can do the type of woodworking you describe.

A CNC?

> Conversely, my own experience shows that even with context window limitations, ChatGPT is already better than 90% of working software engineers for generating small practical programs.

Well if we're doing anecdotal experiences, I find ChatGPT (both with 3.5 and 4) useful for replacing quick search queries to look up documentation but for anything more complex than that and it quickly starts making up blatantly incorrect examples even for small programs making it more than useless most of the time for me at least. But you're welcome to disagree; I don't have the energy anymore to get into my 1000th internet discussion full of anecdotal evidence trying to validate the future merits of generative AI for software engineering purposes.
He is sharing what worked for him. Sorry it does not conform to your world view.
The Birth of the Chapter
> Were your dorm rooms brand new and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and forced upon the university and city via throwing money around?

Irrelevant to whether or not I would enjoy being in them.
Azure OpenAI is running normally https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
> shouldn't we all going back and thinking this from first principles instead of parroting "Child Labor Bad".

No.
French novels quite often have just the first paragraph of the book on the (back) cover, I think that works rather well (and I have bought books by unknown authors on the strength of that).
Are you implying there aren't any dead Palestinian children? Or are you saying that no one should talk about it?
> If you just take the attitude that, however bad it is in any way, it’s always your fault

I like the idea of having an inspirational quote that shares a premise with a suicide note pinned to the wall, it is very motivating
Wow, didn't know Workflowy was still around! I loved it back in the day.
I tried this out but it parsed the string "123\n" as 32.

Also it parses "400" as 144, when the reference implementation considers it not-a-uint8, but I don't mind so much about that.

EDIT: Ah, I think it assumes the string contains only a uint8, rather than trying to parse a uint8 from the start of a string. So you need to zero out the "\n" separately, and then it works.
Ziply Fiber launches 50-Gig service for $900 per month
I've personally really enjoyed Ziply residential service. Rock solid and 2Gbps symmetrical is more than enough for my home lab needs.

Glad to see someone pushing these speeds farther and farther, not a ton of competition in the PNW.
It's not my world view. I prefer to listen to professionals.
The first two uses of the term are part of product names, not uses of the term itself. They almost immediately explain the acronym in the next paragraph, and give alert readers a tremendous hint in the very first sentence. I think they did a perfectly acceptable job of providing context here.

This publication was literally founded by a boomer, so I don't think your conclusory whining is particularly well-targeted.
I solved this problem locally. When uploading a file to the server before going to S3 it is cached in redis. Whenever the codebase needs to use the file, it checks redis, and if it is not there it fetches it and caches it again.
"Each atomic step would normally take over 5,000 CPU hours on a supercomputer. Now, we can do the same calculation in 2 milliseconds on a desktop,"

Is this phrase equivalent to "Each atomic step would take 5,000 hours on a desktop. Now, it takes 2 CPU milliseconds on a supercomputer."? ^^
> Maybe living a more primitive life, closer to how we evolved as a species before our rapid cultural evolution phase and desire to make short term profit with all the low hanging resources on earth ...

I find this nostalgia for a time when a broken bone was a death sentence to be the misdirection of valid frustration and legitimate grievances. Modern technology in many ways has been great. What hasn't been great is the capitalist organization of the economy that constnatly demands extracting every ounce of value from us so a handful of people can get even more ludicrously wealthy.

Subsistence living has a really low population density. To get to that point would mean a massive decrease in our current population. That's going to be traumatic no matter how it goes down.

If there were more equitable distribution of wealth today, we'd be incredibly well off.

As for continually expanding, that's... every species on Earth. It's necessary for survival. A species might have a bad year and the population needs to recover. Individuals may not successfuly produce the next geneation. Every species on Earth expands to fill available resources.

A complete Dyson Swarm around our Sun would (IIRC) take 1% of Mercury's mass to build, give enough living area per person about the size of Africa and have enough energy per person about what the world as a whole world currently consumes. This represents unimaginable possibilities for freedom.

But again, the Fermi Paradox is not viewed as what the likely outcome is for a given species but whether all species will follow that path. How likely really do you think it would be that no civilization would continue expanding to gain access to more energy and resources?
(speaking as a non-american) I don't think that the press publishing pictures of dead kids after school shootings will change anything in how the US views that issue specifically. All it will do is throw a bunch more gross photos out there on social media.

People in the US are too politically encamped for pictures of dead kids to move the needle on gun rights at this point. It's not happening; it's been made clear over and over again that no matter the cost in human lives, "muh guns" is what triumphs over everything else for Americans. The consequences are obvious and the stalemate is so eternal that "a school shooting happened in the US" doesn't even make the local news here anymore in 99% of the cases.

From an ethical perspective, publishing those pictures will only harm the relatives of the victims - once it's been normalized by a regular outlet to try and push this needle, there's a whole array of sleazeballs out there with less ethics that will do it for every shooting, regardless of the wishes of the family, whether that's to move the needle or to just be a dick to the relatives.

It's also not comparable to the horrors of war in this case - there the needle can be moved with that kind of shock imagery because people are so used to the sanitized view of war. School shootings are already bloody - it won't move any needles.
In theory with enough energy (like from nuclear power) it's possible to synthesize hydrocarbons to use as chemical feedstock. But regardless of policies around extraction and burning, Saudi Arabia will never literally run out of petroleum. It will just get progressively more expensive.
the bad ones are in Santa Barbara
He passed away earlier today, which is I guess why this is here.

He's got a point, too. To be a victim is to be helpless, and if you can choose to not see yourself that way, you can at least have some power back.
> engine developers are usually unknown and underrated

As a testament to their (the original id software team that had both Johns) great efforts and legacy, they pretty much invented the concept of a game engine to start with. At that time, most games were written as a one and done type of a package deal.

Given that the team wanted to push the technical edge with the games consistently, they wanted to have some reusable/modifiable core that they could use across multiple projects, have visual level editors, etc., they converged on “accidentally” creating a game engine and coining that term. I forgot which game was the one that led to the creation of it for them, iirc it was one of the earlier Commander Keen games, but my memory might be failing me here. They didn’t even have the goal of creating a game engine, they just ended up getting there and then realizing what they did as they were trying to build their reusable “toolset.”
I think you have no idea how bad, utterly bad, this world can be. How much force is behind the hate that leads people to kill babies.

I don't either. But I think it gets worse by not showing the reality.
A bit of a spoiler, but something similar to this happens in Ender's Game.
Charles T. Munger Dead at 99
Python sucks as an sh alternative.

And as not many people use it as an sh alternative, not many complaints about it.

Something as simple as `./foo.sh file.txt | grep bar | tail -n1 | awk '{print($1)}'` would look ugly and convoluted in python.
One of the greats of investing. And a value investor. It's all about the profits, not the growth.

Munger is gone, Bogle is gone, Buffett is 93. Who takes up the mantle of value investing now?
> Munger donated $200 million to the project on the condition that the university follow his design exactly.

Multibillionaire hubris is truly something else.
> Being out of the market for even a few hours is fairly easily to come back from

Not if you’re dynamically hedging an options book.
The word you are looking for is discrimination: yes, salary differentiation is discrimination, and one of the most consistent ones I've ever seen (where do intern make more than CEOs?).

The question is: when is it OK and when isn't it? Maybe it shouldn't ever be OK, if we'd be very consistent.
Paranoid and perplexed by Plex privacy pickle? Just Enjoy Jellyfin
Charlie Munger had great advice in general. And I've learned a lot of good from him.

But I will never get over the hypocrisy of owning a quarter of Coca Cola and constantly criticizing Americans for being overweight (he used words like "sloth").
> The argument I generally hear from certain microeconomists is that they still expect there to be value in niches, given Google's highly general nature. If you're looking for super specific topics, it often doesn't perform extremely well. You'd find it valuable to go to a resource tailored for your area.

I think that is true, but only within a very narrow band of topics that are broad enough to require a search functionality (lexusnexus, webmd, arxiv, etc). I think most topic niches that I would be interested in are more often served by niche publications (ie I wouldn't need/want a search engine geared toward photography, I would mostly go to specific publications and sites that I trust).
He did an interview with the Acquired Podcast a few weeks ago. Sharp as a whip. I wish I could be like him when I get old.
So how many dead babies do I have to look at until they release Julian Assange for reporting on that same kind of shit?
You definitely get discrepancies in hardware support. Historically, different Wayland desktops had wildly differing support for Nvidia cards, for example, from "works perfectly" to "deliberately rejects them because the maintainer is angry about their lack of commitment to Wayland".
It's not really irrelevant. If someone spent all that money and effort on a building and you had no windows or exposure to outside light until you left the building, you don't think that would affect your enjoyment of the building? Especially knowing that perfectly serviceable and better alternatives exist but that's what they went with?
> No, they are precisely limited to what existed in a 1970s arcade. They are no different

Ah, I see.
He was a titan and a gentleman. RIP.
That linked is the revised version

A transcript of the original speech at Harvard, June 1995, should be e.g. at

https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/psychology-of-human-mi...

A recording of the original speech is at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY
No I'm saying that sources should be verified carefully rather than rushing photos of dead children to the front page and then correcting articles later quietly. The gap between these two events tends to result in more people getting hurt. This has actually happened from major press outfits in the last couple of years (not just Israel/Hamas conflict)
Looking forward to "parsing bit sequences in roman literals quickly"

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=lemire+parsing