skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My optimism is mostly for increasing the number of creators of games --> best games get even better, at the cost of introducing more games, some of which may not be good. Marketplaces being the winners is a symptom of the players being the ultimate beneficiary of increased competition (and thus a surplus of both good and bad games).

I actually don't see this as an AI to replace, but AI to enable more people to create games. So ultimately, it still expresses the desire of the creator, who is human.
This was my experience when I moved to CO. On the east coast I had to drive to running trails and cycling routes by my house had no shoulders and a lot of traffic. In CO I had access to 120 miles of trails from my backyard and the roads had either dedicated bike lanes or wide shoulders.

Add in a walkable grocery store and I was a lot more active in CO than I was on the east coast.
I suspect people in the US have amore positive feeling about their plumber than the state of government/politics in the country
Multipens are very underrated, especially when they're all using the same new technologies as the better gel and ballpoint pens.
Isn't there also higher suicide rates among people living at high altitude? If so, do they have similar causes?
I don't want to sound crude but... really? How about a few sensors to check for aircraft presence on the runway and some way to feed that information to surrounding traffic? There's a million different ways this could be done, you just need a little bit of imagination.
> Streaming calculation of the exact median with no storage at all is non-trivial at best in the general case

It's not "non-trivial" it's impossible. I'm not sure why people think median can be approximated at all. You need to look at every data point and store a counter for the lesser of: (a) all possible values, or (b) all elements. Just consider a data set with 1 million ones and 999,999 zeroes. Throwing away (or failing to look at) one single number can give you an error of 50%, or 100% for two numbers. If you want to make it really nasty, throw in another million random 64-bit floats between [-0.1, 0) and a million between (1, 1.1]. Four million elements, two million of them unique, in the range [-0.1, 1.1], and failing to account for two elements can get your answer wrong by +/- 1.0.

Unless you start by sorting the list, but I wouldn't call that a "streaming" calculation.
So sorry to hear that! Perhaps this mrr will soothe your cat instead: https://mrr.sonnet.io
The thing that always confused me about concurrency and multithreading problems is the fact that books either are too practical(programming examples) or too theoretical(Lamport), they never have a good balance.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good book? It should discuss CAS and how it's implemented on hardware level as a bare minimum.
Are cold showers worth incorporating?
RIP static type advocates who forgot fires can happen outside.
> Yimbys would do well to insist upon better replacement products.

I have long ago learned that I can't think of everything. By allowing someone else to think and rethink the problem instead of insisting on a solution we can do better.

We have many examples of mandated replacement products where the ground floor retail I so strongly went is intentionally left empty because there is no demand. We have many examples of other things that sound good in the design phase but turn out not to work out for whatever reason.

Thus I want to allow property owners to as much as possible do what they want. Some things they will try will turn out to not work out. Then they will try something else until someone hits on a winning idea and then all developers will copy that. Thus I will allow you to build a pig barn right next door: so long as your pig barn cannot be smelled in my yard I'm okay with it - in this way people can figure out how to build great neighborhoods without me having to work out all the details including about things I didn't think about.
Genetic variants tied to human bisexual behavior are reproductively advantageous
I thought it was very well known that higher elevation results in reduced appetite.

I certainly have not been interested in eating whenever I've been above 5000m
Current Github Copilot chat answers (atrocious!!!): https://gist.github.com/raggi/2118c5caac63acd899dd782388bab1...
There is also an amazing “together” mode: https://nothing-together.sonnet.io/

https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)
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If your goal is to increase game creators by order of magnitudes, and the method involves putting people in a position to make games alone, what exactly is going to keep the game market from being totally destroyed by an endless stream of very-low-value games?
Like: the design, idea, sound, and the fact you spell colour with a u. 10/10

Don't like: "at the intersection of". 1/10

Overall: 4/10.
Really bright LEDs can be used for underwater optical communication up to 100 m[0]. I'd really like to see someone make this tech into an FPV system for RC subs.

[0]https://optics.org/news/11/9/36
I've enjoyed using Neocities for obscure amateur hobby content, translating 16th-19th C. parlor games that involve creating stories or doing a little light roleplaying: https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org/

One quirk that comes to mind is /whatever.html files automatically redirect to /whatever, so I guess you should treat the name without the .html as canonical

It is open source: https://github.com/neocities

Reasonably featureful: https://neocities.org/supporter

I don't use its developer API, but it has one: https://neocities.org/api

It's been a nice place to host a simple static site. On a personal level, I guess I could probably use GitHub pages just as well? I haven't really thought about it, but Neocities occupies a different niche--small, social, especially friendly to people learning about the web--that I've been happy building on.
The Kingdome was an engineering catastrophe on top of an architectural one. It was physically falling apart and deemed unsafe for use years before it was even paid off.
* Does Rosebud take care of licensing with the various AI partners involved? (would a developer be expected to provide their own keys?)

* Have you looked at ways to separate out the different kinds of costs with using AI assistance? For instance, a lot of asset generation is (likely) one time, up-front (though it doesn't have to be restricted that way, obviously)... but this means -- relative to your business model -- a developer can reduce their operational costs by knowing or selecting what tools/features to use in the final game.

For example, in the "Grandma-Coffee" game ( https://play.rosebud.ai/games/91d54c96-378d-4c64-b71b-4841fc... ) it currently integrates with ChatGPT, but it may be helpful if a developer can specify they want "hard-coded" options instead of free-form, which could reduce the costs to run it (and can perhaps allow the game to hit a lower price point, or avoid ongoing costs)

* Presumably, in the future, users will be able to access the website like linked above, and pay any necessary fee(s) without downloading additional software?

* What would the support expectation be for issues with Rosebud? Would there be an easy way for an end user to differentiate from issues with Rosebud (e.g. loading the game) and the game itself? Will Rosebud be handling support when someone can't load the game/assets?

Sorry for all the questions... I really like the indie / AI game space. look forward to seeing how this works out :-)
The Cooperative That Could: How S Group became Finlands dominant retailer (2023)
Personally, I would be worried about losing access to an account if I only relied on a passkey.
I believe GPTs are an attempt by OpenAI to generate training data. How can you get data at level N+1 when you have a model at level N? You give it more resources - more tokens (CoT), more dialogue rounds, code execution, web search, local KB, human-in-the-loop. A model with feedback from human and tools can do so much more. And by training on this data they can incorporate these skills in the next generation. It's like RLHF in the sense that the training data contains portions generated by the model itself (specifically model errors) and feedback. It's on policy data, generated with the involvement of the model, not something you can scrape from the web.

Let's do an estimation - if they have 100M users and each of them generates 10K tokens in a month, that's 1T tokens per month. In a year they have generated 12T tokens, which is very close to the GPT-4 training set size of 13T. Looks like they can generate serious data with this method. They don't even need to train directly on it, they could rewrite it as high quality training examples, without copyright and PII risks, because LLMs are great at rewriting and rewording and MS has already shown that synthetic data is better.

Google lost the start and they don't have the human-AI chat logs OpenAI sits on. So they are trying to do the same trick but without the human in the loop. Hence the declarations that Gemini will use some techniques from AlphaZero. They are teaching models by feedback too.
Partial reconfiguration is possible since twenty-something years but only a small percentage of problems really benefit from it, see i.e. https://www.fpgakey.com/tutorial/section742
The gist of it (pun intended) is that GitHub issues GitHub-issued (not issued by your cloud provider!) OIDC tokens to your job runs, and then your job exchanges those tokens for permissions with your cloud provider, which you have configured to trust tokens from GitHub.

From experience, OIDC authentication to cloud providers from GitHub actions boils down to:

1. Get your GitHub actions workflow to be able to work with its own (GitHub) tokens by configuring workflow permissions.

2. Configure your cloud provider to verify tokens issued by GitHub actions OIDC server thingymabob (technical term).

3. Configure your cloud provider to grant permissions in that cloud provider (or issue its own tokens with those permissions) based on certain values in the verified GitHub tokens that is presented with. If your cloud provider trusts GitHub, then it can treat the values in the token (workflow name, branch run from, owner and name of GitHub repo) as trusted.

4. Use a GitHub action from your cloud provider to do the negotiation with your cloud provider when your job runs, performing the exchange configured in (3).
The point you made about consulting interactions resonates with why I also ended up not liking consulting. It feels like incentives are not aligned when doing software consulting a lot of the time.
I’m curious what the ants are up to, do they do a great deal currently?

I’ve been running it for a short while and they’ve dug a little L shape with blue pheromones vertically, and purple horizontally - looks like they are putting food in the horizontal but one ant is stuck behind a food block. Poor Taquan.

Edit: the ‘view crater’ button also crashes the simulation, at least on an M2 Air using Chrome 120
Definitely worth calling out how reliable and high quality modern ICE drivetrains are. I believe consumer reports found EVs to have a lower total cost of ownership after a few years: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/new-analy...

With thousands fewer parts, cheaper fuel, and the time savings of not having to go to a gas station, EVs have a lot of things working in their favor to make them cheaper to operate.
I just pulled the MSRP straight off “Order Now” on Tesla.com, I don’t know why you would see a different price.

Camry does have a lower end “LE” trim with cloth seats, 4.2” screen in center console, and also missing all of the following; navigation, sun/moon roof, heated seats & mirrors, smart key, driver assist / blind spot monitoring, memory seats, and power passenger seat… for $27,215.

The XLE trim is still lacking many Tesla features, but it’s at least somewhat more comparable to a base Model 3.

But still truly notable that 3 days ago the Tesla Model 3 was cheaper after tax credits in many states even than the starting base price of a Camry.

Hopefully the Model 3 battery sourcing can adapt to the changing tax credit regulations to have their base trim qualify again for the Federal credit. Currently only the Performance trim qualifies, which is funny in that it makes the Performance cheaper than the lower-spec’d Long Range.
Ask HN: What technology events do you frequent?
I am a computer consultant that is thinking about providing some services to business that I don't have the skills to provide and I want to develop one-to-one relationships with other independent consultants to see if I can contract some disciplines out.

I'm fairly isolated from the world as I have been working mainly with consumers and very small business and don't get out much.

Id rather stay away from business networking events because I found them to be too artificial for my tastes, so I was thinking about attending conferences that relate to skills i'm interested in learning.

I'm looking to meet and develop relationships with other experts in small business information security, data recovery, application development.

Does anyone have any recommendations on sites that list technology events that I can look at to see which ones fit my needs?

Does Blackhat still have a in-person conference? I saw on their website they had one in Aug of 2023.

I was thinking I could get some suggestions from independent consultants that frequent Hacker News that regularly attends technology events.
OpenAI API Status Prober for Prometheus Blackbox
Because the official API for probing/fetching the API status of the openAI returns HTTP code 200 whether it's down or up. But for Prometheus Blackbox exporter, you need an endpoint that can return 200/500/3xx depending on the status.

This little prober works as a proxy for the actual openAI API status and translates its response to corresponding HTTP response status codes, this way you can easily integrate openAI as a target for your Prometheus Blackbox exporter.
Is this project kind of an amalgamation of Kafka and something like Flight/nats?
Honestly surprised they have been unencrypted as long as they have - I am an avid scanner listener (not in NY though), so if everyone gets encrypted it will affect my very part-time 'hobby', but on the other hand, some of the stuff I hear I can't figure out why it should have been public in the first place.

Other than being nosy (OK, I admit it), not sure it is really in the public interest to know what is going on in that much detail.
Didn't know this was a thing. Pretty cool, but doesn't seem like it'd work over long distances.
Enabling devs to do development work on their local machines with Keycloak in the stack is... fun /s.
Please be kind to me if I'm terribly wrong here...

Section 174 snuck up on companies and punched them in the face. It's terrible for anyone that doesn't have a large reserve of cash. But now it's here, we know about it, and can plan to minimize the damage.

If you're VC funded, you should get more money upfront to deal with it. The VC firm should be fine with this - those future tax deductions are an asset that can be sold if your company fails. In fact, with relative differences in tax rates, they might even be more valuable to some other company than they are to you.

If you were planning to bootstrap and are just one person, you are probably pretty heavily incentivized to create a single-member LLC and reorganize (sell?) into a S/C corp down the road, at least after an MVP or better is generating revenue. As far as I can understand, Section 174 does nothing to a single-member LLC because there is no salary.

I'm sure that some startups are going to go overseas, but I'm not so sure that it will be a huge thing.
I stop at "lead apatite" and immediately lose intrest when reading these articles.
Sorry, should've responded to stuaxo with that.
I can't prove a negative. But looking at the numbers, US Aircraft are more advanced and numerous. Ships are more capable and there are more carrier groups. Submarine fleets are better and more numerous. Weapon stockpiles are bigger and higher quality. The US has strategic partnerships with hundreds of nations completely surrounding China. NATO members include 8 of the top ten militaries in the world. Space assets and capabilities are top notch.
Just require someone to be in passenger seat and legally mandate them as driver. I think this would satisfy law enforcement as they could still do their shady stuff and do the usual of using a pretext they've lied about. The unavoidable roadblock is the state never goes backwards in ways they oppress the populace so as long as they can have someone assigned for persecution they'll be happy.
One con: Pens dry out! If you're not regularly writing with them, the vast majority of pens (minus the Platinum ones) will dry out.

Yes, my 20 year old ballpoint pen has dried out. But the vast majority of my ballpoints, gels, etc pens can all be picked up and written with without any regularity. My fountain pens have to be used daily, otherwise they cannot be used.
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You would expect cold climates not at altitude to show similar effects. I am not sure that is the case.
All Science journals will now do an AI-powered check for image fraud
Cool, that's very interesting! I also just found this using an array of ultrasound transducers https://group.ntt/en/newsrelease/2022/11/01/221101a.html for standard definition video.
Cool! What did you build?
Today, you'd likely do it with an under rug heater. https://cozywinters.com/shop/rug-heat.html for example.

Though, the "heating a room with a fireplace" wasn't the way it was done then.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/restoring-the-old-...

Also https://youtu.be/inzamhtroO0

> Kettle Moraine Heating & Air Conditioning installed solar panels designed to work with the brand-new Lennox systems and appliances used throughout the house. Now the owner—who bought the 10,000-square-foot historic home and updated the property with a 5,000-square-foot addition with help from Kettle Moraine—is saving a whopping $3,000 in electricity costs per year thanks to solar energy. And they’re pleased with the whole HVAC overhaul and new installation.

https://www.buildingmycastle.com/an-energy-efficient-castle/

Consider the equivalent question of "how do you heat Filoli Mansion?" When it was built, it was fireplaces and a diesel boiler.
Yup. I count my breaths in batches of 12 (batch count on the in breath, breath count on the out breath). So like "1-1, 1-2, ..., 1-12, 2-1, 2-2" and it works out that the batch count is the number of minutes I've been meditating. So if I want to meditate for 10 minutes I do 10x 12-counts. No technology needed, can be done anywhere, anytime.
For me to follow that procedure I really do need meticulous step-by-step instructions, with a full set of screenshots for every interaction I need to have with any of the web consoles involved.

If I ever get up enough courage to do this myself I'll take and publish those screenshots, but I'll probably continue to drag my heels for a few more years.
The hybrid version of a rav 4 is ~ 3k more than the base rav 4, and is also functionally at a higher trim level.

Like, sure, if you can't afford the $3k, get the base I guess, but they're not a great deal more expensive, and demand is sort of cratering now that gas is cheap and the 'green halo' effect has moved strictly into the ev realm.

Interestingly it's the same way with the honda civic and insight. Yeah, the insight ~ 3k more but it also comes with more features that many folks are going to opt for anyway.

Finally, to be honest, economically, it never makes sense to buy a new car. Ever. If we really were concerned about value we'd look at prices for a beater prius vs a beater civic. The differential is there, but not that much. As much hay is made about battery degregation, prius batteries have held up surprisingly well. If you were looking for a cheap commuter I'd highly recommend it.
Nestflix
which kind of coroutines do you mean and how are they better
Caching and paging almost always matter, even on things like this. The core problem is that the filesystem won't prefetch for you, and you will be waiting to page fault several times over the length of the file. Another problem of the size of the working set is that you will be seeing several slow calls to (essentially) malloc in the kernel to hold all of that data, while using a small, preallocated structure will give you none of that trouble.
Hehe, I'm also working on a "metronome for my attention":

https://untested.sonnet.io/Things+to+support+my+own+well-bei...

hit me up via hello @ <website> or my newsletter on untested.sonnet.io and I'll message you when I have it.
I’d love to read more about this. Especially the part about the Geneva Convention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#Second_browser_wa...

The growing number of device/browser combinations in use, legally-mandated web accessibility, as well as the expansion of expected web functionality to essentially require DOM and scripting abilities, including AJAX, made web standards of increasing importance during this era. Instead of advertising their proprietary extensions, browser developers began to market their software based on how closely it adhered to standards.

As soon as one browser dominates, one company gets to dominate how the web works. If you, as a user, want to be able to choose your own browser you should oppose one engine becoming dominant.
FUD is a bit dismissive of the risks. Yes, I am afraid of unextinguishable fires spewing toxic gasses, battery explosions, being trapped in a wreck, huge repair bills, and getting stuck somewhere on the road. I am uncertain because the media largely buries the issues with EVs. I have a lot of doubt surrounding EV adoption and especially mandates. So? Sometimes FUD is the smart position.

I never said EVs in good condition are ready to spontaneously combust. That has happened of course, but it is rare. The trouble is with crashes. The fire risk is by far the worst. An EV catching fire can ignite any vehicles near it, causing a chain of unextinguishable toxic fires. No wonder many repair shops want nothing to do with damaged EVs. I've seen several firefighters talk about how horrible these fires are. Of course, a chain of fires in a city parking garage is the worst case.

Safety stats for EVs are hard to come by, at least ones that could effectively answer my questions. There are confounding factors, such as the high prices of EVs, that would make EVs look safer.

You are right about safety ratings being gamed. EVs have a separate set of regulations they have to conform to. That's what I was alluding to. I've only heard about how EV safety ratings favor structural integrity of the battery over the occupants indirectly though. If you want to know more, the Youtube channels I mentioned discuss news articles about it. I don't have a bibliography, and search engines bury most anti-EV stuff.