skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This lithium thing is laughable. They lean on a fake study that claims 100% efficacy in improving mood. I'm here to tell you it doesn't work that way.

My psychiatrist (trained in Forensics) insists that I have bipolar disorder and nothing else. She exclusively pushes bipolar medication, because I can't possibly suffer from anything else that can be treated any other way. She knows full well that lithium intake (as well as other drugs I've taken, such as Risperidone) nearly always leads to weight gain and obesity. I can draw clear and unambiguous lines from my hospitalizations to my weight gains--even after losing 180 pounds, I porked up again to all-time highs. These gains are chiefly due to my loss of self-esteem and confidence, but also to drugs. Gynecomastia, partly because of Risperidone, perhaps also due to obesity itself. (Don't let them pretend that gynecomastia is limited to adolescent boys; I'm 51.)

She also became quite anxious when I reported high levels of caffeine intake, but her concern for my anxiety was a mere façade: caffeine disrupts the activity of serum lithium and accelerates its elimination from the body, therefore invalidating any therapeutic levels that we might achieve by pill intake! So go ahead, guzzle that 2L Pepsi Cola, it will relieve the nasty adverse effects!

Long ago, upon my mid-90s "bipolar" "diagnosis", my father recounted a 100% B.S. anecdote of a small Italian village where they discovered everyone's mood was so mellow, and it was because of natural lithium deposits in their groundwater. I knew it was B.S. and I was appalled that my scientist father could believe such fairy tales, after teaching me everything about chemistry, biology, and geology, far beyond any college education I later obtained.

The physicians prescribing drugs also tag-team each other to see who can induce "side effect synergy". This is a syndrome that has no clinical term, because it's a dirty secret. Once you are on 3-4 different drugs, collate all the possible side effects, identify the ones you're suffering and the ones that may pre-exist, and you'll find that there's almost a deliberate escalation of adverse effects as they add more medications to your arsenal.

There is good news, folks; I am drug-free for 60 days as of this writing, and I feel better than ever. I have identified a regimen of supplements which I take faithfully, and supplements make me feel good, not ashamed and not oppressed. Supplements are food!

That's perhaps disingenuous: I do indeed take drugs - Traditional Medicinals teas are unambiguously natural drugs, to regulate my blood pressure, treat anxiety and agitation, and relieve pain and assist digestion. I have no trouble taking natural drugs; it's the pharmaceuticals that are toxic and overall, cause harm.

Since going drug-free, my diarrhea was relieved and I've lost nearly 20 pounds. My goal is 60 more pounds away and I'm confident, with divine help, that I can succeed with this. Of course, weight loss is a permanent lifestyle commitment and not a fad diet or a month in the gym. But it's the single most healthful thing we can do for ourselves; the benefits are limitless.
The Independent category is antiquated, started in an era where it was quite obvious if a creative work was outside the normal pipeline. The Game Awards adopted this category the way it adopted many trappings from awards in other industries. However, there's so many ways to make and distribute games now that it's simply impossible to define this category without making it either highly controversial or effectively meaningless.

Let's stop trying to define what indie means and just retire it as a 20th century idea. Stop trying to be like the Oscars and go your own way.
Yeah, just like the R600 driver supports HD 2000 through HD 6000 hardware ('Terascale'), basically any Radeon HD except HD 7000. And radeonsi originally meant "Southern Islands" aka HD 7000 (and parts of the Rx 200/Rx 300 lineup) but it works on all GCN and RDNA cards.
I think the problem is they have to go a long time between supplies, so there's not much that's fresh. And I don't think there's that much variety.

That said, some sailors consistently come back bigger, and some consistently come back smaller, so it's mixed. :)
Definitely wins a prize for cute dog picture

Love it
That's because they lacked the necessary scientific understanding. Clarke's law assumes that will always be the case. But with our current level, we've imagined all sorts of fantastic technologies. We've had a century full of science fiction and speculative technological ideas.

A Dyson Sphere wouldn't be magical to us, it would just been a super impressive feat of engineering. Learning about warp drives and teleporters would inform us that our understanding of physics is incomplete. But it wouldn't be magical, strictly speaking. We'd have some idea of how aliens had achieved both, and what sort of updates to physics would be needed. There's talk of looking for Type 3 Kardashev galactic civilizations, so we have an idea of what that thermodynamically would look like.

Only something like The Q on Star Trek would be sufficiently advanced, and there is no scientific explanation for Q. They're a god-like race that don't have to concern themselves with physical limits, because they're fictional. However sufficiently advanced any actual civilization is, they're still dealing with thermodynamics, Planck Scale limits and what not. We can already calculate maximum compute (by using a black hole). There's no reason to believe god-like aliens would be omniscient/omnipotent like Q.
We're not looking at spitting out a AAA game engine. Our goal is more to lower the barrier to entry, for both assets and code. So, yes that means that to start with, the games created may not be AAA quality (ok that's a bit of an understatement). But the same has been said about Roblox. With time, the games will improve. And enabling everyone to create games will surely unleash more creativity.
And who can say what could be achieved in a few years?
People who sleep late may die earlier due to unhealthy habits, study says
A literary review I made in 2020 was actually pretty conclusive about it also reducing bugs. I think we might be missing some of the later literature here.
I wonder what other pathological packages could be devised. Like, a package that only includes packages that are not included anywhere else. It could be called “barber”.
The biggest openai news today is not a store that launches next week. It is them turning off API access to their old top of the line models like text-davinci-003 (gpt3.5) and many others (ada, babbage,curie) on Jan 4th (today). https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations/deprecation-hi...

Their suggested replacement is a gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct model and those pale in comparison to text-davinci-003 original. It's a shame. Some of my services will stop working (in the sense that users won't care to use the service). The local LLM replacements like Mixtral-8x7B are not as good as text-davinci-003 but they're definitely better than a gpt-3.5-turbo.
> There's no reason to believe room-temperature superconductivity is impossible or hard.

To me, the amount of research into it over decades, plus the current lack of reproducible results, is prima facie evidence that it is at least hard.
Rife
This is like hearing about your grandma who, in order to forward a webpage to her nephew, takes a picture on her phone, which opens in the web browser, which she prints to a pdf, which she embeds in a word doc which gets attached to an email.

The idea that "AI" should be at all necessary for turning a markup language back into a markup language is insane. I really hope you're wrong, but realistically that's the direction it will go!
I didn't buy a Tesla but bought a BEV. And I really miss the charging network during long vacations. Tesla seems to be the only player that has figured that out. Oh, and the other tech stack stuff (like actually using UWB for unlocking the car via phone), but there are plenty of things not to like about it.
My understanding was that financial info was the primary thrust of it these days, i.e. what we call plain old credit scores, without the "social." But I remember 15 or 20 years ago when they announced their ambitions for it, and I just realized, that announcement, and every panicky headline back then, right down to even the soberest Wikipedia article now, all tend to speak of the system in terms of its ambitions. So that's a good perspective, thanks.
Credence "logs every keystroke on Horizon". [0]

[0] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/miscarriages-justice-nick-wal...
I got an 80 litre tank and 5x 20 litre containers. How can you have range anxiety with an ICE?
> Next up: an AI that can watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising!

Would love if it could create Age of Origins, I always like watching the ads
>At some point, measuring something sufficiently poorly is worse than not measuring it at all

At what point, and how do you determine that?

>The alternative is to rely on rich experience and good taste.

Everyone thinks they have good taste.
I kind of like this, however I do think that if EA funds a subsidiary or even just a team of developers making a game, that game shouldn't count as "indie" even if they promise to be 100% hands off.

Just accepting money from a major player in the video game industry is going to "change the course of that work". I prefer my indie developers to be, you know, independent.
This is false. Nothing happened "by itself". This thing as explained by the author of the article requires "a series of cleverly designed levers" and "a mechanical thermostat" and "a single screw underneath the crumb tray to adjust the tension of the wire".

This kind of mechanical engineering is really no different from software engineering. You design a series of mechanisms to make things happen, whether through levers and screws and bimetal strips or code. With code, frankly less effort is needed for such design. And yes there could be elegance in code that is not directly apparent to the consumer, much like there is elegance here.

I'm not disputing elegance. I'm decrying the lack of functionality and lack of control by the user.
WorkOS is pretty tailored to folks building B2B apps where individuals will later be part of a team. (Think Dropbox, Figma, Asana, etc.)

It's less of a fit for B2C products where user identity won't ever be associated with a company (like ecommerce, a game, or a dating app).

The reason is that B2C apps actually have pretty different needs in terms of user identity. For example, most consumer apps will optimize for faster/higher conversion during signup and less security.

But if WorkOS works for your use case, then you should definitely use it. Our free tier includes 1,000,000 MAUs, which is significantly higher than Auth0/Clerk/Stytch/etc. which start charging you around 10,000.
ADSBExchange is more complete (at least in my area).
> but I love the best casino games on onlineslots.fun

> no credit card sign up trial. Payday loans online

This is advertisement and scams. As long as there are enough suckers clicking through and leaving money at onlineslots.fun, spam will continue.
This was the first sort of idea I had when I discovered AFrame, and I'm glad to see someone implementing something like this!
I’m working up a blog post and will let you know when it is ready. Not at my desk just now
My guess: if the bitstream format was documented competitors would know how the device works and be able to prove their patents are being violated.

FPGA vendors will also justify inertia in that current FPGA users don’t seem to be deterred by the bad tools because of the economics of their business.

Some think a lot of hobby users would try FPGA if the toolset was easier to pick up but there are not enough of those folks to keep Radio Shack or even Fry’s alive and they will be buying $5-$150 parts, not the much more powerful $10,000-$100,000 parts.
My HD 7850 machine on Windows is currently on some legacy-branch "22.6.1" driver, over a year old. Even my RX 580 is on another legacy branch now, with most updates only being for RDNA cards.

AMD's dropping of Polaris and Vega also applies to Linux, where the AMDVLK first-party driver stopped supporting them. ROCm also does not work anymore.

Of course, nobody uses AMDVLK so it's not a huge loss (RADV is generally a lot better), but the loss of ROCm does suck.
I was referring to the author of coreboot
You're already using the stack for parameters without compromising reentrancy; using the stack for the return value is trivial. Just like parameters, it's easier and faster to use registers where possible in those old systems.
Nope.

GP's link is indeed for Q3 2023.

When I made my comment, I copy/pasted the message which included a truncated link which ends up going to Q3 2021.
I used Kagi to tell GPT 4 Turbo:

> write a short speech in the style of Donald Trump about the promises of space travel. Make lots of common spelling errors, favoring phonetic spelling over correct spelling

It gave me a decent response, but not as many spelling errors as I wanted. I replied with:

> Rewrite it with much worse spelling.

This is what I got:

> Ladeez and jentlemen, lemme tell ya, space travul, it's gunna be huuuge. We're talkin' 'bout the final frunteer, folks. An' we, the United States, we're gunna leed the way, like alwayz. We're gunna have the best rokkits, the best peeple, the best tek-noluhgee.

> Now, I promis ya, we're gunna do it biglee. We're gunna go to Marz, an' lemme tell ya, it's gunna be terrifik. We're gunna plant the Amurican flag on Marz, an' it's gunna be bootiful. The Marshans, they're gunna luv us, I'm shure.

> We're gunna make space travul so affordebul, evry Amurican can get a tikkit to the starrs. An' we're gunna do it fast. Why wate? We've got the best enjineers, the best syentists, beleeve me, they're inkredible.

> An' we're gunna make grate deels in space, the best deels. We're gunna mine the asteroieds, we're gunna bild the best space stashuns. It's gunna be a win-win. Jobz, ekonomy, syence, ejukashun – evrything is gunna benefit.

> So let's make space travul grate agen! Thank ya, God bles ya, and God bles Amurica!
>Decision driven from bad data is IMO worse than data-less decision.

What is "bad data", and how is it worse than no data?
Could you mask the provider, and a VoIP provider appear to be like "SimpleTalk Wireless" or something and fake being a mobile phone carrier?
I don't see any reasons from you or the other commenter upthread. One person may have alleged it was collective punishment but that's already been dismissed.
Mature yet commercially opaque I assume? That seems like a good business model tbh, an existing bench of talent (likely under paid) and an established science and technology, that’s of broad interest to many companies, NGOs, and governments.
See the 'customers don't know what they want' discussion a few days ago here on HN.

To bring out the massively overused example in gaming: would you have had the Soulsbornes if they relied on customer feedback?
Comparing Browser speed with JS disabled is like comparing car speed without tyres.
flat fees fail for dev.

as soon as you encounter an unexpected problem, your margin suffers. since unexpected problems can radically alter dev time, your margin can be obliterated.
There was a UK clone of the CoCo that had a half decent keyboard, the Dragon 32 (actually: it had 64K if you tickled it just so).
This either includes GPT-4 or excludes people
That's a great writeup.

As someone who's worked primarily on news/media sites for the last 15 years, I can totally relate and agree on all your points.

I would also argue that there are non-code issues that could easily be resolved. Bundling fonts for example. Decide on the top 100 with support for all or almost all characters, based on usage etc., and bundle them in the browser. That would shave possibly hundreds of KBs of each page's size.

On the flip side, stuff like lazy loading could become standard and use the attribute only to force-load content. Or stuff that is used on every freaking site (eg togglers as native html tags).

I'm hopeful though.
About to make a GPT that makes GPTs
Curious to know every consultant flat fees and/or the metrics they use to determine it, since you will be charging for the “value” rather than the fixed hourly rate.
You started this with a nonsense statement that suburban American's were somehow 15km away from the nearest shop, which you were corrected on. Then you decided to be pedantic about the reply so you nitpicked the fact the author didn't include restaurants or bars. Then when I corrected that, you decided to move the goal posts to suburbs being 15 minute cities. Now you've decided to triple-down rather than acknowledge maybe your understanding is flawed.

> Yet you are claiming that everything is in a range of 8km

No one said "everything", but "most shopping options". You don't seem actually interested on having an honest conversation rather than pushing a distorted view of American suburbs of which you don't seem to have any 1st hand experience.
Built in V: https://github.com/vlang/v

> [the V language is a] simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies.
Sorry, I was working on the assumption that "Death to gays" was considered a direct call to violence, but it does not seem to be.

(All of this was a misunderstanding caused by me misparsing a statement above suggesting Westboro was protesting at Harvard)
So it's an another Chrome-based browser?
I'd love to know more about your board, it sounds like a very interesting one. Is it in S100 bus format or something bespoke?
Browsers allow entering fullscreen as long as it's in response to user input, such as clicking a button. When entering fullscreen, browsers emit a prompt about exiting fullscreen, partly to make sure people know how to exit and partly to make sure entering fullscreen doesn't go unnoticed. So, it'd be hard to pull off such an attack.
> Israel is fully justified in cutting off supplies to Gaza because Gaza is independent of Israel

I didn't write that.

What I did write - that Israel is under no obligation to give Gaza free utilities - is true.

Hamas openly does support genocide, see the Hamas charter.
When describing a game that looks like it had a smallish team and graphics budget, ‘indie’ is a useful shorthand. It sets certain expectations.

Certainly marketing and media (as evidenced by the article) find this useful, but I think many consumers also are more interested in the game than in the creators. So it makes sense that this language shift happens.

But yes it certainly misses the theoretical point of a category like that.

And would be nice if it was replaced with a technically correct word. ‘Indie-like’?
Loading a Game from a Screenshot [video]
> Using Hacker News as a test (JS disabled):

20x faster rendering than Chrome (3ms vs 60ms)
4x less RAM usage than FireFox
40% less CPU usage than FireFox

I would hope that the browsers tested against also had JS disabled.

Although regardless, I don't think it's an amazing comparison tool, being that most of the web uses JS.
These are great questions!!

Our aim is to make development on Rosebud as easy as possible, which means we are handling various external integrations that are being used by the platform. With that said, some devs may want the flexibility to change what models are used, including switching out internal models we developed with various external ones. If that is true, we’d want to support devs providing their own keys, but only for added flexibility, not as a default. Put it simply, if you don't want to be forced to provide your own keys, we got you covered.

Right now we will try our best not to charge developers for developing on Rosebud. So we will try to optimize on our backend different ways to control costs. With that said, if we have to create some premium tier because the AI inference gets too high to support, we will likely provide options to reduce inference costs in various ways (such as running smaller models for different interactive generative features of a game).

We’d want to provide as much support as possible so that our devs are successful. So if something is not working, let us know! Our devs succeeding is a necessary pre-requisite for our platform succeeding.
You never* run out of fuel twice though.

*hyperbole
as a lefty I’ve found what qualifies a good pen is how quickly the ink dries to prevent smudging
I want the banal web.
V's main draw is absurd vaporware claims.
Nice to see another browser engine project!

For all the apparent diversity in full-featured browsers, right now they're all running on one of Gecko, WebKit, or Blink. And Blink started as a WebKit fork. If this succeeds we'll be up to four!

(Possibly you could also count Flow, though I haven't heard anything from them recently.)
As a counterexample I long ago ported my landline phone number to a SIP provider that supports SMS and due to the phone number being baked into various accounts the family has, I know it works for verification at least for those services (one of which is a bank).
Is it? Didn't whoever holds the D&D license (and the copyright for the Baldur's Gate name) censor it^H^H^H had creative input?
Telescope quartet reveals surprising statistics of cosmic flashes
Not according to the link. But I didn’t look at the code.
If you want to give Timefold a try locally - it should about twice as fast, still the open source version - try our single Maven or Gradle command on your codebase:
https://timefold.ai/upgrade-optaplanner-to-timefold

If you're interested in writing a blog around your Wedding Seating Planner (it looks very cool!), ping me on LinkedIn and we'll happily push it on our socials.
> Static typing does not reduce logic bugs.

This seems like a strong statement to make based on the research. What I've seen falls into several camps:

- research that made some conclusion about logic bugs for complete beginners on small assignments, with languages that have bad type systems

- research that had significant limitations making it impossible to generalize

- research that failed to demonstrate that static typing reduced bugs—which is very different from demonstrating that it didn't!

I haven't done a super thorough review of the literature or anything, but I have looked through a decent number of software engineering papers on the subject. The only strong conclusion I got from the research is that we can't get strong conclusions on the subject through purely empirical means.

Hell, the whole question is meaningless. "Static typing" is not one thing—there's way more difference between Java and Haskell than between Java and Python, even though both Java and Haskell are statically typed and Python isn't. (This is even assuming you completely ignore Python's type annotations and gradual typing!)
I've been wondering what is the "new" innovation about concurrency is in Go? Since most languages provide some type of channel/lightweight thread, what is the hype all about? I don't think Go makes the "hard" stuff in concurrency any easier, mainly the easy stuff becomes very easy, but in concurency most your time is spent in the "hard" parts.
>Wait, so just because there's fuzziness to the data you're going to instead defer to what?

I'm constantly amazed at how people are willing to throw away data if it's not perfect. All you need is a bit of signal, and it's, literally, better than nothing.
What a beautiful car analogy.

Anyway it uses V8 just like all the other Chrome-alikes, so it should have the same performance there.
I am in the same camp. I also don’t think it is bad in compensation terms because lots of this maintenance work is often called devops and devops is well paid from my point of view. I do the logistics for embedded or SaaS. It has been good and it is often cool to login to devices that are seen as a black box by any other person in the world.
I also know that when something is on fire the maintenance guy is the one being begged by the sales guys and higher management. Maintenance people end up being debugging gods.