skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't new MtG sets literally be generated perfectly with AI now? Might be behind a lot of this.

Looks like the layoffs were pretty heavy on the art department: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/18ij198/list_of_kn...

Reminds me of the transition from classical animation to CGI. It used to take teams of hundreds of animators to make a film simply because of the sheer amount of work to be done. Whole career paths were made obsolete by the switch.
Huh, interesting, will have to try that out, thanks.
>> were american gun owners considered an army

Guns do not make an army. Should 20 million AR-carrying Americans rise up, the "government" would be the least scared. The day after they stormed all the state houses, they would fractionize and turn against one another.
That's not all that's required.

You're supposed to work under the supervision of a Professional Engineer for a few years as well as taking and passing an ethics course.

Then you can call yourself a P.Eng. (i.e. "John Smith, P.Eng." )

https://engineerscanada.ca/become-an-engineer/overview-of-li...
Nah, it's a common beginner misunderstanding.

There's a huge genre of blog posts and Reddit threads where beginners tell other beginners which language is best to learn to get started with programming. My guess is that OP mistook this thread for one of those.
This is the same Hasbro that tried to retroactively close off the D&D Open Game License (and thus the third party ecosystem). It was a massive betrayal that caused a ton of pushback: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/jan/12/dungeons-and-d...

They also sell so many overpriced kits with not much going on in them (just a few pieces of paper, not enough dice, sub par instructions ). Or really expensive character toys.

D&D has undoubtedly gotten more popular, but I wish it were under the stewardship of someone more deserving, like a geekier board game shop than greed-enthralled Hasbro. They've become the Disney of board games, all quantity and profit and no real concern for a high quality gamer experience. I bet someone like Larian (Baldur's Gate 3) would've taken better care of the IP and rulesets (and they're working on a Divinity tabletop game!)
apparently the author is responding to questions in a sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666139
"Expose everyone to users " - I would note this of course has logical limits.
I've worked in orgs where we had shared slack channels (and DM ability) with all customers. Not great.

This meant that squeaky wheels got a lot of oil. They quickly figured out who in the channel actually knew what they were doing, and so every customer had their pet senior engineer they would bother all hours of the day / weekends / etc with questions. Support rotas and on-calls go out the door when your customers can directly escalate to their engineer of choice.

I actually turned off all slack alerts and disabled notifications on my phone as a mental health exercise as a result. So the net result of forcing me to be maximally reachable caused me to be less reachable as a whole. If someone important enough really needed me, they had text/phone/etc.
I really wish a cross site standard emerged to enable PRs from one forge to the next without creating accounts:

- clone repo from original forge, push on yours

- open PR on your forge, kicking in a like-blog-trackbacks-of-yore API so that the PR would be known/opened on the original forge.

The thing would really put the "Pull Request" back in PR.

Lots of things to define and handle correctly to prevent abuse but it could be a much better distributed experience.

I guess big players like GitHub would nit like that too much though as it would fragment their coding social network.
Live metrics show nation-scale disruption to social media across Pakistan
“now it’s a union shop in the same state as Wizards”

- regarding unions is it considered a good thing? I still think of it as a crony workplace where only age is promoted and not merit. Am I wrong? Only did union job at a grocery store (UFCW)
Do you also refuse to call him Bobby Digital, The Abbot, etc?
really compact DRAM? have you seen DRAM? the aspect ratio is already huge, though afaik no one stacks the pass transistor.

high-end systems already have stacked DRAM chiplets, though admittedly this hasn't made much of an appearance outside GPUs until now (MI300a).
It's SDXL turbo model. And it only has 1 step.
Most of those have had a high renewable mix since electricity was a new thing due to natural hydro available. Hence my original question being scoped to the last 20 years. You still haven't answered it, and there were no goalposts moved.

The challenge was "Name 10 other states with faster adoption of renewable energy in the past 20 years." Please point to where you've answered that.
Then you have a new type of captcha. That has always been a cat and mouse type of dynamics, captchas have been evolving, techniques to break them too.
The person who made Haxe (Nicolas Canesse) went on to found Shiro Games (https://shirogames.com), a game development company. I believe all their games are made in Haxe. The latest one, "Dune: Spice Wars" was released this September and Google says the engine is HashLink (https://hashlink.haxe.org/) which is a VM for Haxe.

I don't know any other companies who are releasing games in Haxe today.
How are you able to provide this service for free? What if someone generates tens of thousands of images? Won't that be very expensive for you?
Well, Safari doesn't have 10 dark-pattern popups it greets you with when you first use it, before you can even type an address into the address bar. Edge does.
> advocating for better <topic of choice> is money much better spent

That seems like a very Bay Area mindset - advocacy is more lauded than doing something.
I’m not into hardware at all. But my friend is. He works on niche application chip firmware. What he tells me boggles my mind. And I think there’s a ton that can be improved on that side for sure. The whole tool stack is so arcane. Most people working in this field are older and conservative. No one wants to change anything.
Exactly. It would be a better game if they just sold entire expansions where you get all of the cards.
It seems to me that that depends on which problem you're solving.

(1) No power from renewables overnight? Sure, nuclear works

(2) (Planning for the eventuality where) Entire grid's demand is available from renewables during parts of the day? Either don't use the renewables, and keep the nuclear running, OR battery storage.

A decade ago I think (1) was the primary topic of armchair discussion, but (2) has become increasingly more common. It really doesn't feel like nuclear is demonstrating the ability to keep up (maybe in China though...); it's not getting built fast enough, and I don't recall the more modern designs that are in the permitting process/starting to build (in the US) toting highly variable power generation as a added capability.

I do pay less attention to the nuclear news since I finished my masters a decade ago and never worked nuclear after, so I could be unaware of some things.
I too have given up on Goodreads and relocated to StoryGraph (https://thestorygraph.com/)
"You should pay your share."

That doesn't mean you shouldn't find the most efficient vehicle to do so. Saving on taxes probably shouldn't be the sole reason to adopt a certain corporate structure but it certainly is part of the equation.
This concept may be applied to accelerating spacecraft.

> Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14643

Related video:

https://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI?t=799
I pay for iMessage, I mean. Which is to say, it’s part of the system that users buy. Part of iOS. Etc

edit: I mean hell, i certainly don't pay Apple for hardware. You might argue i do, but i don't actually have access to the hardware - right? It's not like a PC where each component has value to me, that it's documented and hackable, etc. Nono, you buy the suite - everything, when you buy an iPhone. If not for iOS, iPhone is a nearly useless undocumented brick.
"and that's the story of the invention of the Voight-Kampff Test, kids!"
Yeah, it’s definitely not impossible but my point was that the people most a risk during a power outage also are least likely to be able to deal with that. If you’re a senior citizen living on a tight income, it’s one more thing to pay someone else to help with.
It’s hard to build a community around an open source if you’re not on GitHub imo. And if you’re not building an open source, than iiuc GitHub can’t use your code for copilot training so the main reason for not choosing GitHub according to the post isn’t relevant.
cost is area, because defects.

TOF latency isn't that much of a big deal, though driving a signal for distance consumes a lot of power, and power has been the primary design-limiter for at least a decade.
There will always be many many assholes. In the past, time and space have insulated us from them.

But now we have the internet. The assholes can see you, touch you, talk to you, even decide what you are allowed to say.

This is a mark against the internet.
Efficient Large Language Models: A Survey
>> the US still manages to exert power over its populace

Self-oppression. For all the fearmongering, the US population is clearly able to install random people into high office and rewrite the rules as they see fit. Both Obama and Trump are clear evidence that you don't need to be from established political families to gain power. Literally any idiot can be elected should the people want them. Many are.
This does actually remind me of how flight controllers were simultaneously selected and trained: the sim team designed scenarios that were specifically tailored to exercise some controller's weak point, over and over. They were very creative in how to exploit controllers' weaknesses.

Some controllers took their simulator failures as serious lessons and improved. Others didn't stomach the constant failures and dropped out of the programme. I don't know what proportion of alpha chicken they got, but from what I can tell, the flight controllers were really good at their jobs.

I've always wanted to explore adversarial simulation as a training and selection method but I have yet to find an occsassion that warrants it.
Shall we call it the "slow code movement"?
There is spinner on the PC side. You can generate face using https://comfyuiweb.com/Pixart-alpha. The model is perfect and can generate 1024x1024 resolution images.
OK, last 365 days, 31% for Texas, 29% for Cali.

You can play here https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
Well, yes, right, but that doesn't seem to stop anybody. I even see this sort of stuff in the boardrooms of companies that should know better. I don't know what drives it, maybe some sense of reinforcement from getting away with similar stuff in the past?
I thought this was already happening ~7 years ago. The "what text is in this image captchas" got a lot less common a while ago, and I think this was partly the reason why.
Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri did a really interesting deep dive into this book and its author in their podcast "If Books Could Kill". Recommended listening.

TL;DR: It is theorized that the author (Robert Greene) studied classics and wanted to write a book about influential leaders throughout history, but the only way to get such a book green-lit by a publisher was to wrap the history around a "self-help for men" context, which naturally gravitates towards building empires and making more money. This is why, like many self-help books, the advice is dubious, but unlike almost all self-help books, the historical anecdotes are extremely correct.
Eh, what's worse is these stores are likely scanning your face and keeping it in a database. There was some mall a few years back scanning license plates and keeping the info.

But yea, so many people are nieve of what the authoritarian types would do with data like that (looking at you Texas with your civil laws on abortion now).
It is. The article isn’t really talking about actual risk management, as far as I can see.
I am pretty confident that, when it comes to browser users, proof of work simply doesn't work. The disparity in speed between GPUs and javascript is so high that either you are a non-issue to a sane attacker or you make your users sit for a minute with their fans on full waiting to be able to sign in.
In my experience in multiple roles (product manager, project manager, software engineer) and dozens of successful launches with large engineering teams, the ideal kind of PM has a deep understanding of users, how software should work best for them AND technical experience.

The problem with a purely technical team and no user-centric PM guidance is they'll end up building an engineering designed product, that doesn't resonate with non-technical users. As pure engineers, we love engineering, and may over-engineer solutions given the opportunity. Unless we are building some developer tools or highly technical product, this doesn't work for the majority of non-technical products.

You need a PM who can separate the technical design from the user experience, but also understands how to bridge the two when it comes to actually building the product. No technical experience rarely helps, as you spend a lot of wasted time debating why things should or can't be built.

As a PM with technical background, I'm not going to waste engineering time proposing radical user experiences that I know will require excess resources and time to build. At the same time, deeply understanding what users want, I'm not going to build a product that is too technical for them to understand how to use. We understand the limits of our technical stack and how to reduce user frustration. That is the advantage of having a balanced PM with both user and technical experience.
This is great and all but what if you live in an apartment? You cannot use one of these.
Moral implications of building an AI article generator
I think you're being unfairly harsh. Looks to me like they're improving.
Yes, there is a certain queue for the free service. If too much is generated, the longer the wait time is. The SDXL Turbo model has a manageable cost because it is generated faster.
No, I described it the way Apple implements it; I'm aware of the Bayesian ridiculousness. Anyway, I object to Apple enforcing "all users of non-Apple phones as of 2020/1 can no longer make service appts [for an MBP] from the Apple webpage".
I assumed fsck was chosen on purpose because it's the tool you use when something was "f*cked" with your FS
Started as a stream of thought. Ended up turning it into a blog post.
The first part is false

> Many of the books given one-star ratings were written by people of colour

That is not 'specifically targeting.' Why do you have to make this about race?
It's a type of water mammal like dolphins.
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I like and appreciate your viewpoint. I push back on your stance on gun ownership. How does your view change when governments control weapons as powerful as nuclear weapons? How does this tilt the balance of power when ordinary citizens only have guns? Does this require a rethink?
>Freezing a cent or a dollar for days seems like a better option. Might very well be that VISA/MasterCard figures this out before the crypto bros build anything usable. It will be far easier to do without decentralization and would also be great to spy on and control people.

Fucking A HN.

For any Juniors using this site, this is exactly what you don't post. Especially if it's just to cathart cynicism. I assure you, Poe's law guarantees this will find it's way into some PM's or exec's mind somewhere.
Why typing sucks now [video]
People in Rice-Farming Areas Are Less Happy Than People in Wheat-Farming Areas
Engineering Progression for Humans
In the US that we know about.

I would not be surprised if there is some country that has a facial recognition camera network faced at mailboxes these days.
Not sure what you are trying to say. The product had been in development for a long time - around 6-7 months. How do you think the news of DocuSign exploring a sale will impact us?
cache latency is definitely part of what limits core clock. you're not going to have a good time if your L1 latency is, say 10 clocks. not to mention the fact that register files are not much different than SRAM (therefore cache-like).
I had never considered that there might be other ways to pronounce it. I’m gonna start saying it “zhee-rá” now
Seems like a problem that could be solved, in part, by reopening Goodreads’ APIs (so that people could write ring detectors, inauthentic behavior, etc.). But Amazon doesn’t appear to be interested in that.
Is there a good tutorial on Valgrind for beginners? It’s a tool I’ve only ever seen praised so I’m curious to play with it a bit.
The sock puppet accounts were given stereotypically of-color names, and targeted authors were disproportionately of-color. There’s pretty clear indication of bias there.

> They posted a 31-page Google document containing screenshots of the activity of a number of accounts, with usernames including “Chantal B” and “Oh Se-Young”, suspected to have been created by Corrain.

> “There’s something extra despicable about using clearly POC [people of colour] names in the fake accounts to upvote every negative review on POC books so the top ones are all 1 star and 2 star. Like what in the yellow face,” Zhao tweeted. Many of the accounts linked on the document Zhao shared have now been deleted.
Banks are probably a bit hesitant to unlock instant payments because they can’t be reversed and so they will be a juicy target for perpetrating fraud. I’m confident they’ll be rolled out eventually but I think it’s going to take a little time for banks to figure out what the right controls for the feature should be.
What it takes to be a Senior IC at Meta
Honestly, none of them. Just get a cheap used gaming laptop and replace it after a year or two. You get much better bang for the buck and can upgrade more frequently as GPUs and CPUs get better, especially as Wintel races against Apple Silicon to reclaim mindshare.

I've tried Surface, Lenovo, Razer, Asus, Alienware, Cleo, iBuyPower, MicroCenter, Acer, Sony, and so many other brands I can't remember. It's a market full of race to the bottom crap and poor vendor support. None of the hardware was good, especially compared to modern Macs.

Haven't tried Framework or Falcon Northwest though.

The several ThinkPads I had all had underwhelming performance and severe throttling, fine for web work but would probably suck for CAD, especially compared to a proper desktop. That said, if you pay extra for next business day business on site support, it can be much better than dealing with the (usually terrible) consumer support. They'll come out to your house and replace broken hardware . Dell small business does something similar, maybe HP too. This is worth paying for if you really want to keep a laptop for 5 years (not recommended, given how quickly mobile GPUs continue to improve).
Couple of years old, but some reasons not to incorporate in Estonia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16752054
Appraisal Theory
If they wanted to, they would. They obviously don't care.

How this is any different from their poor handling of fake reviews on all the Chinese garbage that floods their normal sales I don't know.
The most effective way of reaching the moderators is emailing them using the contact link in the footer. It may not meet your definition of low-friction, but if you want them to see it, that’s the way. Commenting (including replies) rely on a moderator coming across your comment.
Not really, there are mandatory minimums and various sentencing guidelines, so the judge is not doing completely random stuff independent of the charges the prosecutor brings.

And you example is a bit backwards: the trial happened after the plea bargain failed, so this has little effect on the threat to bring more (or more serious) charges, but even if it does: the "careful" sub-range is still measured in multiples/years, so a huge risk
Ah, thanks. Yes, I did not understand this properly.
They made Evoland, which is a very cute game which begins with basic monochrome Game Boy-style graphics and becomes progressively more modern as you advance. It’s really fun, especially if tech history is your thing.
For anyone else coming across this thread, here is an article about the general issue of heavy metal contamination in baby food and how it keeps getting ignored.

[1] https://tamararubin.com/2021/02/the-heavy-metals-in-baby-foo...
Note this came out in 2015, and was posted here at the time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722467
We transitioned one of our repos to devcontainers and that did lock us into VSC (though in theory I think pycharm supports now, it does not successfully build from the same file). Based on how that went, we will not be transitioning our other projects.

It’s been… ok. Devcontianers are a great idea, but the implementation is rough around the edges at times. There is a complex story around making sure your dependencies are appropriately synced. If you want any test reliability, you need to rebuild the container in CI/CD before running tests, which isn’t impossibly complex but isn’t out of the box and can require additional work and really thinking through things at times. While the deduplicated dockerfile multi-stage flow of dev -> test -> prod images works, I’ve found it to take a nontrivial amount of work and background to get this up and running.

There also is the git integration, which is functional but flaky. First, you have to use VSC’s terminal rather than your console. Which I have found is not an issue for junior devs that just do what they’re told, but the crusty seniors who are used to it not mattering which terminal you use seem to find a lot of headache here.

It will occasionally randomly not find the ssh keys git needs and fail to authenticate, and the only fix I’ve found is to open a new terminal outside of VSC and git push (or any other remote authenticated operation), which somehow reenables VSC’s SSH compatibility. Which of course may also fail if you have pre-commits in place that rely on the dev container env having pre-commit installed.

There is also a bit of complexity around bind mounts in general, I can’t recall specifics but we have had some compatibility issues related to this that are difficult lot debug, as there is some magic that VSC seems to do behind the scenes that you can’t replicate outside of VSC. We also had some issues multi-architecture targeting that was made more complex by this setup.

Overall, devcontianers are fine and they will work in most cases, but they are not panacea. They basically take all of the distributed frustration of each user’s individual setup and consolidate that frustration and headache onto your tech/devops lead etc. This is, of course, by design. Solve it once, for everyone. But you don’t magically have less edge cases. And of course the dev and CI/CD setup becomes entirely magic to anyone not involved in configuring it in detail. So when issues pop up, I’ve found devs to be less able to unblock themselves without getting the lead involved.
I really enjoyed using this simple and clean app. I have a few suggestions:

1. The default message "nothing to do" shouldn't be automatically added to the tasks every time.
2. It would be great if, after snoozing, we could see the top "n" tasks in the main app itself.
3. Please add a feature to select multiple tasks at once.
4. Instead of a subscription, it would be better to have a one-time payment for the premium pricing.

Thank you!
We already spread PFAS / PFOA everywhere
More months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill
Is there a difference? Ie imagine a robot with only one video feed. No other sensors. Would a realistic game world be any different than the real world?

Our current tech falls short for simulations I’m sure, but I suspect the differences between real and simulation will revolve around the inputs the machine has available. Thoughts?
Less appropriate these days with journalling filesystems.