skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good news is we've probably already been there and past it. Something like 50 new games release on Steam every day, 45 of them are probably garbage, and out of the five remaining ones the best one probably won't get noticed and the developer will quit making video games to go do something that pays rent.

So a new easier way to create games won't really make things meaningfully worse, I don't think. Especially because the quality bar will be quite low, it's not really going to crowd out the 'good stuff' that people are generally looking for. The store shelves (so to speak) are already so crowded that they are no longer how people find good games.
As TSMC did 7nm DUV
Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made from Graphene
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS

Project Name: Symbiants

Website: https://ant.care/

GitHub: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants

Languages: Rust (Bevy), WebGPU, WASM, JS

Project Description:

Symbiants is a digital ant farm with a mental health twist. The goal is to make a cute, real-time ant colony sim (think SimAnt + Tamagotchi), get players to form a daily routine around feeding and caring for their ants, and incorporate basic mental health activities (guided breathing, positivity journaling, etc.) into the gameplay.

The player gets a comfy, cozy, digital environment and a pet that grows in real-time. Each morning, the user gets online, check on their ants as part of their "what's changed on the Internet" routine, do a quick self-check-in, and get a visual reminder of how their consistency is affecting their pet's growth.

--

This is my first attempt at building a video game. It's been a lot of fun so far, but, unsurprisingly, is a lot of work. I had some cash saved up and took the last year off of work. In this time, I built a prototype in React, then taught myself Rust/Bevy and began chipping away. I've made some progress, but I don't feel this vision is anywhere near complete. I would love to have more people to work with, discuss ideas, agree upon architectural designs with, and to learn the finer points of Rust/WebGPU development.

To me, this is an especially important project because I see a lot of people who love to be terminally online, work from home, play video games to zone out after work, and sometimes fall into a rut where days fly by without sufficient self-care. How to reach those people? It can be difficult to broach the subject because mental health is a bit taboo. I am curious to see if a video game can be an effective means of starting a conversation.
> Critics often complained we should just do generics, because they are "easy", and perhaps they can be in some languages, but the existence of interfaces meant that any new form of polymorphism had to take them into account.

I've been noodling on a statically typed hobby language and one of the things I'm trying to tackle is something like interfaces plus generics. And I have certainly found first-hand that Rob is right. It is really hard to get them to play nicely together.

I still think it's worth doing. Personally, I'd find it pretty unrewarding to use a statically-typed language that doesn't let me define my own generic types. I used to program in BASIC where you had GOSUB for subroutines but there was no way to write subroutines where you passed arguments to them. I don't care to repeat that experience at the type system level.

But I can definitely sympathize with the Go team for taking a long time to find a good design. Designing a good language is hard. Designing a good language with a type system is 10x harder. Designing a good type system with generics is 10x harder than that.
It’s not psychosomatic, but there usually are multiple contributing factors to serious respiratory disease, and I think it’s OK to consider it as a relevant one of them in many cases.

Fair enough?
As someone noted above the Commercial Solutions for Classified program has been in existence for a long while (probably over a decade). This package is newer but not wildly newer. Installs of the various 'packages' do exist.
The parent asked for a correlation.
Anyone can have access to my LAN. It’s not a security boundary, and pretending like it is means you can never safely connect to airport or hotel wifi.
To be fair, they thought that the idea of an "everything" package was funny and claimed that they only understood the full consequences after experiencing them. Never attribute to malice...
Use a previously breached password database like the one haveibeenpwned offers. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
> As far as I can tell, NPM does not enforce any limitations on the license of published packages

I once saw a package on NPM that had a commercial license. It even had a link to its source on GH.

And a note that if you used the package you needed to pay up.
"5% that's wonderful news! It's under my error threshold" - A Statistician

"5% that's wonderful news! It's worth the risk!" - An Economist

*I couldn't really think of any funny converse arguments off the top of my head because they all involve humans going extinct
Exciting to hear that about OCB -- I hadn't been keeping track of the expiration. It's great that there's now a widely-usable, single-pass, block-cipher-only authenticated encryption mode.
That camp has the people who had a bad reaction to the vaccine or booster, mostly. Not sure how they compare numbers wise.

Maybe the vaccine caused a similar hit to the immune system for some people, this stuff is complicated.
> There isn’t any “architect engineer” building cathedrals with interfaces and abstract classes. There’s no cult behind needing to follow DDD in an event-driven architecture powered by a hexagonal architecture in all projects, or you are tagged as a bad engineer.

My experience is that you can also write simple non-over-engineered code in other languages too. Yes, it can require pushing against the wind of the prevailing culture sometimes but it's not, like, impossible.
Something bespoke.

My code repository contains a link to a youtube channel where the board was discussed, and where I found it randomly. But sadly the upstream site of the provider and the (useful) forums it hosted are gone unless you use the wayback machine:

https://github.com/skx/z80-playground-cpm-fat
What if you don't care about job security? There's many good reasons for being a contractor.

I used to be a contractor for the US government, and worked alongside civilian government employees. They tried to even hire me away from my employer (the contractor), and I refused: there just wasn't a good reason. The problem with being a government employee is that the pay is terrible, and also the retirement system is only good if you're a life-long government employee (there's no 401k). If you just want to stay in that job for the rest of your career, it's a great deal, though the pay isn't great, because the job security is fantastic and the retirement benefits are solid if you put in all those years (basically you get a good portion of your last salary until you die). But the cost is that your current pay is lousy: as a software dev, I made much more money than my coworkers, plus I got to save some in an employer-matched 401k account.

The government can't find that many people who want the safe, low-pay employment option they offer, particularly for software/IT jobs, so they turn to contractors to provide those people and offer them a type of employment (high-pay, not-so-safe) that the government simply can't do on its own.

It's the same with many big companies: hiring and firing is difficult and expensive for them, so they turn to 3rd-party contracting firms. It costs them: each contractor costs quite a bit more than a regular employee, but they don't have to deal with the other problems that come with regular employees. There's drawbacks, however; contractors aren't in it for the long term, so if you find a contractor you really like, you try to get them to join the company directly.
This is worrying for me. Imagine if someone, god forbid, is encouraged into suicide because he felt safer because he had 'left something behind'. Or like, wire the llm into his messenger to pretend as if he is still alive...
Check out zram if you feel like 2GB should still be possible.
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Well, if this keeps up, at least I won't have to honestly admit that Elon was probably a net good for society overall. Watch him try to claim the same with OSHA and the SEC next.

Fuck the oligarchs. We should have put (most) every institution FDR and Teddy made into amendments when we had the chance. Same with Roe.
Shouldn't most of the episodes of WandaVision be included? (I'm sure it's a rights thing, but that's the premise of the show ...)
Governments build roads, so governments are.
Or boysenberries.
> you can simply forbid pointers into the stack. This means that your GC doesn't need to be moving. I believe that's what Go does

I might have misunderstood your comment, but FWIW, Go does allow pointers into the stack from the stack.

When resizing/moving/copying a stack, the Go runtime does indeed find those pointers (via a stack map) and adjust them to point to the new stack locations. For example:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/b25f5558c69140deb652337afa...

(The growable stacks I think replaced the segmented stacks circa Go 1.3 or so; I can't speak to whether they were contemplating growable stacks in the early days whilst considering whether to start their project with the Plan 9 toolchain, LLVM, or GCC, but to your broader point, they were likely considering multiple factors, including how quickly they could adapt the Plan 9 toolchain).
The complaint seem to be that All Apps can't showcase Windows' bloatware collection as well as they'd like.
For what it's worth, Dart's intended domain (client UI apps) is much farther from compilers than Go's intended domain (servers and "systems programming") but we write almost all of our tools and compilers in Dart.

Dart isn't always the best language for compilers (we have a lot of Visitor patterns floating around, which are always tedious), but it's plenty good enough and it keeps the whole team working in our own language eight hours a day, which I think is invaluable.

Also, it means that when we make our implementations or compilers faster, we get a compounding effect because our tools get faster too.
Huh interesting. I can't imagine where people would willingly use it.
I have a legal question here

I see the core issue is the boilerplate clause on joint employment

For lawyers: who has jurisdiction to determine that joint employment has happened? Can the NLRB really weight in?

Shouldn't that be determined by a state employment agency? And what if both parties agree there is no joint employment?
That just links to a hacker news comments, which links to a hacker news comment, which links to yet another hacker news comment that just postulates that Google is abusing contract work to do the same work as full time employees but doesn't describe any incident of this occurring. In fact, the end of your linked list is the grandparent of this comment chain.

Is there more compelling evidence that Google has used contractors in place of FTEs than HN users insisting it's happening with no other evidence?
plausible deniability? why commit the crime yourself when you can have someone else do it for you? also, the loan would probably only be offered to a US citizen while the scammers were most likely not.

after reading about it, it sounds like a pretty good operation
2084: MarcRandbot: Speech Synthesis with Mamba
I'm evidently the only one here who has never even heard of a pawpaw
I got an HTC TyTN once. I hated that phone so much. Keyboard slipped out, which I guess worked. It was the phone that made me religiously stick with Apple all this time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN

Before that I had a Palm 5 PDA, which I loved. So interesting that you can add features and connectivity and still make the thing suck.
Remarkably similar to this failed 2019 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/physibo/physibo

And the Typo2 for iPhone 6 in 2014-5:
https://www.amazon.com/Typo2-Keyboard-for-iPhone-6/dp/B00O49...
I have been defending them but there are things they could do, though I don't think they should be legally required to do so.

Where I work the security team monitors PW leaks and run them against our userbase if we find matches we lock their accounts and force a reset, that password also goes into a file and becomes pema-banned from being chosen.

we also force multifactor, which isn't bullet proof (heck if you used the same TOTP in 2 sites your hex key could get stolen) but it does go a long way. 2 factor is super annoying though and lots of places only offer crap methods like SMS (I loath to give out my phone number). personally I'd rather use just a strong site-specific password than be forced to provide my phone number.
Article is paywalled but I imagine it is something like this:

-Employees said that Musk was a distraction.

-Employees got fired for what they said.

-Employees sued and the NLRB found their complaints had merit, some sort of "hey you're a big boy corporation now so grow up" penalty was assessed.

-SpaceX/Musk is now going after the NLRB.

It's amazing the amount of resources that are wasted soothing the egos of petulant children who happen to be extremely well off.
I mean you can use bluetooth keyboards with your iphone if you wanted to.
What government are you living under that is routinely compromising WPA3 from mobile vans?

I imagine living in any decent sized downtown area would have your network being scanned by thousands of machines daily. Especially if near important infrastructure, law enforcement, etc.
From Wikipedia - Tesla is paying below-industry salaries.

>Despite allegations of high injury rates, long hours, and below-industry pay, efforts to unionize the workforce have been largely unsuccessful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_and_unions

Analysis of recent UAW strike.

>This is all "a potential nightmare situation for GM and Ford," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to clients this month. Any threat to supply would also inevitably diminish year-end production and inventory, chipping away at holiday season deals.

>Tesla, which does not use union labor, is situated to benefit from any work stoppage at competitors, especially at a time when the industry is pushing harder into electric vehicles, Ives said.

>"Tesla does not face similar issues which speaks to the complexity both GM and Ford face going up against the EV leader Tesla, while trying to satisfy rising union demands," Ives said. "If a strike happens then ultimately production and the EV roadmap could be pushed out into 2024 and delays would be on the horizon at this crucial period for GM, Ford, and Stellantis."

https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-gm-ford-nightmare...
Headers are case-sensitive?
Instruct-Imagen: Imagen Generation with Multi-Modal Instruction
It's much more likely that your TV suffered in-transit knocks and bumps that rendered it out of alignment, and too out of alignment to be able to be re-aligned.
For anyone interested in another good source of pipe organ music, the public radio show Pipedreams makes their shows available on their website:

https://www.pipedreams.org/

Lots of wonderful music and related stories. Great for testing out PA systems! =)
I’ve never used golang in production but I toyed with it when it was first released and I enjoyed it. I just wish Google didn’t control it.
That isn't even remotely relevant to my comment, in context. :)
How much worse is #1 to #3, and #6, on a per-capita basis?
I don't know about you but I have way too many ideas. Some are good, most of them are terrible, and some of them are downright evil. It often takes a quiet mind to see which is which and not talk myself into indulging bad ideas.
I really don't understand why people don't just use a counter-based cipher. Like whichever one is the one where you start with a random IV, generate an infinite pseudorandom string from it, xor it with your data & its hash. Bonus points if you do this with multiple ciphers and xor them. Why is this not popular?
I guess the financial analysts saying similar things are also dumb?

>This is all "a potential nightmare situation for GM and Ford," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to clients this month. Any threat to supply would also inevitably diminish year-end production and inventory, chipping away at holiday season deals.

>Tesla, which does not use union labor, is situated to benefit from any work stoppage at competitors, especially at a time when the industry is pushing harder into electric vehicles, Ives said.

>"Tesla does not face similar issues which speaks to the complexity both GM and Ford face going up against the EV leader Tesla, while trying to satisfy rising union demands," Ives said. "If a strike happens then ultimately production and the EV roadmap could be pushed out into 2024 and delays would be on the horizon at this crucial period for GM, Ford, and Stellantis."

https://www.businessinsider.com/uaw-strike-gm-ford-nightmare...
Not sure you understand how inflation works.
Not my experience (except for the Russ bit :o)

I've actually been quite impressed by Ian's patience.

People are at different levels of understanding and sometimes it's hard to communicate.
A Playdate game, Yoyozo, actually made Ars Technica's best games of 2023 list. Looks to be a bit of a small game like this.

I have one, it's fun to play with, and I have one of my games working on it, although I don't think it's good enough to release yet.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-vi...
there was so much.. variety, and every time I upgraded a phone it was also a changed human-machine interaction with the hardware. Oh exciting times!
Markers are powerful, and defacto the most practical art pens since they give immediate gratification, reasonably controlled lines and dark permanent inks with low risk of leakage, fraying or drying out.

But the ballpoints are slightly better at being everyday pocket pens because they resist rough handling and improper storage. This becomes less true as you move up the price ladder into hybrid, gel and rollerball pens, but it's definitely the case if you're getting a Bic Stic or other classic oil-based ballpoint.

What I've noticed is that overall, if you care about the type and amount of drag on the pen, you end up moving away from gels and rollers. The oil-based pens have a kind of creaminess to them when you get them in large point sizes(e.g. Bic Xtra-Bold 1.6mm) that can be satisfying. But if you want things to be really crisp and controlled you need either the additional friction of felt tips or a sharp, fine nib.

If you haven't tried one, get a Speedball Hunt 102 nib and some dip ink. The nib needs the factory coating scrubbed off, and you'll need some tissue to clean up, but once you get past that part, the path is open to experience a pen that will absolutely carve up your paper.
None near me, but I know many went under.
A Fact-Checker and Hallucination Fixer in GPT
I built an automated fact-checker and hallucination detector as a GPT. It works pretty well! Still tweaking to make it perform more consistently, but so far results are promising. Help me improve it. This is a prototype for a more industrial-strength version that will use the Assistants API. Any suggestions? Please comment.

Note: Requires ChatGPT Pro to test.
Just read a great book about this - Apocalypse Never. It's mostly just alarmism and white guilt mongering.
Blame is irrelevant. Do you honestly believe that 23andMe is reacting appropriately to the massive problem ?

The only reasonable reason they are reacting this way is not a question of belief, it's their legal defence as PR.
Also if the bank requires any KYC process, she'll probably go through with it thinking that it's part of the "external test."
That's been my experience; my spouse and I watched three seasons of Bluey, maybe 80% after our child went to bed. It's a visual parenting manual.
I don't think it was ever a link to an explanation. It's just a link to the Github advisories page with a search query for 'no-one-left-behind' attached: www.npmjs.com/advisories?search=no-one-left-behind. It's the equivalent of linking to a Google search.

Given the number of bots uploading malicious packages, I wouldn't be surprised if this is mostly all automated, and there's no manpower available to dedicate to descriptions of each shady package uploaded to the world's largest package repository.

If this were a vulnerability in the infrastructure of NPM itself, then I would definitely expect a full writeup with a working link.
> Then one day one of them blindly followed instructions to remove it so they can access an online newspaper.

Wow. That's a new level of evil. I've seen "disable your adblocker", but not "remove your adblocker".

This makes it even more justifiable that adblockers remove anti-adblock messages, beyond just removing annoyances. :)
FriendliAI Unveils Serverless Endpoints for Easier Access to Generative AI.
> Why is this not popular?

If you meant using a counter-based cipher: it is. GCM is the most popular mode on the modern internet, for example.

If you meant using multiple ciphers: because it adds overhead without adding security.
Just stumbled upon this blog it's absolutely intriguing! As a Python enthusiast, it's like finding a hidden treasure that challenges the usual norms of Python's capabilities. Thinks of writing a Pure python implementation of some ml algos in learning SIMD~
The scheme you describe (as-is) is not authenticated, compared to something like OCB (mentioned in a sibling comment). Xoring multiple ciphers together doesn't achieve anything especially useful.
SCIFs are already shielded for EM, so any Wi-Fi inside of them shouldn’t make it outside of them anyway.
Turn your iPhone into an e-ink-style nighttime reading device
Seems like an attempt to recreate Blackberry experience. While it looks interesting, the use case is not as appealing, and it is really expensive! For context, Apple Magic Keyboard for PCs cost less than this, which in itself is a much pricier product.
> and will not be talking about any software in particular

If you want to do something with WebRTC, definitely use libwebrtc, and definitely get acquainted with the field trials, because that's how Google sneaks in all their best functionality.
Often a contractor isn't a company but an individual with few resources, including money, time and knowledge for processing and paying taxes.
I'm not sure that going for the candidates who are desperate enough is the winning strategy.
I might be overthinking, but this "store" thing would not work that well. I blame GPT here, because I'm quite certain that GPT itself can be used to analyze and clone GPT apps, perhaps fully automatically. Even those extra knowledge added by app developers would get extracted through jailbreak, which also can be automated. The store will end up being littered with auto-generated clones.
Reducing S3 API Calls by 98% – Exploring the Secrets of OpenDAL's RangeReader
> unhealthy for the human brain

Fortunately, wired networking continues to work reliably, unlike frequently "New and Improved" wireless increments.
Items 4-9 accomplish nothing. Your LAN is not a security perimeter. This ain’t token ring.