skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that I'm noticing with the app is something I experienced from my days of DVD programming. It is not clear which mode is currently active with the toggle buttons. It is not obvious if the flag is showing you the current mode or if the button needs to be pressed to get the indicated mode. To toggle the weather, do you click the clouds to show cloudy mode or to view clear view or vice versa. It almost feels inverted to me.

I'm also having the same issue on a current project. There's a set of +/- buttons that control the size of a time range window. Clicking the +/- buttons increase/decrease the size of the window, but for the start time + makes the time seconds value smaller, and - makes the seconds value larger. For the end value, it is exactly the opposite. But for the window size, both sets of buttons do what one expects. So it's a matter of perspective that needs to be clear to the user.
Direct link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10360
> It's where it's forced everyone in some fixed days a week 1-5 that eliminates most of the benefit of actually working anywhere.

I sorta feel like you do lose those few actual benefits of being in the office together collaborating though, if you don't all come in on the same days. E.g., Mike comes in on Tuesday, Sarah comes in on Wednesday, Marks come in on Thursday--when this happen no one actually gets that benefit of in-person collaboration and mentorship.

So I think some structure is necessary to get real value out of hybrid RTO. Otherwise it feels like this ham-fisted management RTO crackdown is really just about control and justifying expensive downtown leases and not actually about trying to get people working together.
he made himself a mythical figure - if you can’t fly, you can’t follow, and nobody else got wings.

too many are quick to write off the qualitative in an obsessive focus on the quantitative.
Very likely, I remember this from last month https://www.wired.com/story/apple-google-push-notification-s...
He's in there! In fact I decided to cut several pages on him, since a lot has already been written. Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind, among other books, has a lot of detail that I couldn't add much to.

Hubbard was important, to an extent, but one of the things I'm trying to do is draw out the larger social and intellectual circle that surrounded the more famous names. So to just to take on example, Betty Eisner was (I would argue) significantly more important than Hubbard both in developing the concept of set and setting and in developing psychedelic therapy in general.

She actually released a memoir online before her death, which is fascinating reading and has a lot of quotes from original letters (some of which I consulted at Stanford, which has her archive): https://erowid.org/culture/characters/eisner_betty/remembran...
It's pretty much the circle of life when it comes to modern tech companies.

A company gets founded. Offers features at much lower cost than competition to build up a customer base, typically at a loss. Then once they have a big enough customer base, starts increasing its pricing, reducing features, etc.

Around that time, another company gets founded, promising lower costs, more features, better UI, and the cycle repeats all over again.
Thanks for the explanation! So it sounds like the emulator is detecting the error 'out of band' with the emulated execution flow, and choosing to throw an error message rather than letting the execution continue. If it didn't catch the error, it sounds like it would glitch out in much the same way as the real GameBoy would. Is that right?
I constantly see people say RTO is driven by landlords but Ive never seen any data to back this up. Is there really any proof to this or is it just an opinion that's restated over and over? For context, I work remotely and will never return to an office unless I'm at risk of losing my house.
'No cash accepted' signs are bad news for unbanked Americans
{name, age}

does the same in modern JS, assigning the variable to the key with the same name.
My kids watch it. I know some people have mixed feelings about him, but honestly, I don't really see the problem. There's far worse crap on TV, and every now and then, he's really helping people who need it, so I'm fine with it.
the tweet https://x.com/mrbeast/status/1747044525116108854

158M views 26M followers
This forces us to use homogeneous 4D vectors for 3D ops ({vec3, 0} for directions and {vec3, 1} for points), which basically wastes registers when we're doing the right thing with the right vec3 types on a e.g. 32-wide vector machine.

If Zig really wanted to do the best job here, it should recognise that we're semantically not using this 4th padding dimension if we're not doing 4D projective stuff. If it really is going to force you up to 4D space, then it should be doing compile time checks e.g. sorry, you tried to add point plus a point which makes no sense, unlike vectors, or vectors and points.

This might become more important if Zig to GPU code translation becomes a thing...
or this is bs like the retail store "crime wave" and people are buying less food because food is more expensive... who's to say?
Oh man! That QNX floppy was _so_ awesome. (I wonder how it'd stack up today? Surely an ESP32 has more compute grunt than anything that QNX demos ran on back in the '90s, I wonder if anybody has ported it?)
Indeed; I assumed that the goal was to reference the game jam.

But I ended up thinking that the title was a failure not because of grammar but because it makes my mind autocomplete the phrase in a way that the article does not intend. I see "Ludus mortuus est" and I immediately want to respond "Vivat ludus!"
Taleb had a nice quote for this -- something like, "Thanksgiving is a black swan for the turkey, but not for the farmer."
Top Cancer Center Seeks to Retract or Correct Dozens of Studies
For kids, there is the necessity to learn to socially interact with other kids.

Adults either do not have to learn that anymore, or are hopeless anyways and won't learn it ever.
Thanks for the explanation I appreciate it, even if I am familiar with CAP.The answer I was looking for was instead, what is normally misunderstood about it... :-)
You are not paying, so you are entitled to absolutely nothing from them.

You're not entitled to builds. You're not entitled to an easy build process. You're not entitled to access to a special LTS branch.

While I agree that it's annoying when an open source project is difficult to build, that's an opportunity for an interested contributor to step in and try to make it better. Not an opportunity for you to whine about it.

There is no "gray area". Consider if this was a proprietary product: you'd get literally nothing without paying, and even if you paid, you'd probably just get a firmware binary, with no access to the source.

You sound like an entitled person who thinks other people should make your life easier and give you stuff, without compensation. I suggest you adjust your expectations and stop assuming people should and will do free labor for you.

As an aside, I'm not surprised the build process is complicated: this isn't building a single library or binary, it's building an entire OS distribution. I'm sure the entirety of Debian or OpenWRT is difficult to build as well.

Edit: This bit just really got to me:

> I will NOT trust my firewalls to that, sorry.

Then pay! This idea that your firewalls deserve to be safe and secure and maintainable just because you want them to be, but are apparently not willing to pay for the software to make it so... do you seriously not see how ridiculous that is?

If you're unhappy with how this particular vendor gives away its free stuff, and don't want to pay for the product that you really want, find another vendor. If none exist that you're happy with, that is not the problem of any of these project maintainers. It's yours, and you get to solve it by writing code on your own, or by paying someone else to do it for you. You're not entitled to anything!
Totally agree, and the launch post could only be that long :) We're trying to build a better dev experience, and the tech is only a means to that end.

> If most of your features are only available in a browser, I'm not going to want to use it, even if it were better than what I do now.

The CLI is the most complete interface. Web UI still can't do everything (getting there though).

Thanks for the feedback!
My argument is an attempt to explain where emergence itself comes from. Prove me right or wrong, and you have answered your question. Until then, as you said, the question is open. Why should I pretend otherwise, and claim that the LLM is definitely intelligent? Such a position is no more than vanity.
Thank you @p2hari ! You can deploy it on any platform :D
The Okinawa diet commonly touted for longevity was primarily sweet potato, and only 1% fish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
I sympathise with the author and agree that there are some pretty terrible stories and numbers floating around, but the unstated premise of the article seems to be:

The game industry is monolithic, it has recently undergone a sweeping change, but no further change is possible, therefore it is safe to make a linear projection based on what's happened over the last six months out to infinity. And I'm skeptical that those are good assumptions to make.

> Epic Games in September laid off over 800 people, almost 15% of the entire company. Epic is one of the most successful and profitable game companies that exist. [...] For years, every other game company has tried to copy Fortnite, and mostly failed at the attempt. This is not enough to ensure job security

Okay, yeah, that's interesting, and no doubt traumatic for the people who were fired, their colleagues we have so far avoided it, and for devs working in the broader industry, and I am sympathetic. But: Sometimes companies overhire, sometimes corporate priorities shift, sometimes a company decides to reorient towards a leaning production model. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. There isn't any industry where overall profitability is, alone, enough to ensure job security. (And I'd also suggest that putting these layoffs in the context of the broader tech industry and the end of zero interest rates might also yield some useful insights...)

In any case, if Epic fires a bunch of devs, and profitability drops, then that was a mistake and they will try to staff back up. And if it doesn't (or rises) then that suggests that game development is actually more profitable than previously expected and individual game devs are more productive than previous realised, which will of course be cold comfort for the devs laid off, but suggests that overall employment and compensation across the broader industry will be tracking upwards not downwards, which is good news for game devs as a whole in the medium to long term.

To be clear: I do not want for one moment to defend the big studios (who appear, by and large, to have C-suites full of pod people who delight in human misery), or to minimise the very real pain suffered by gave devs, but the idea that an entire industry can somehow run off a cliff in a way which is permenantly non-recoverable is...well, let's say it's a bold claim that needs extraordinary support.

> Games in 2024 and 2025 will be a few labors of love...

Yeah, plausible. But what do you think is going to happen in 2026 and 2027?
That is extremely clever. The persistence alone is impressive but to get it to the point where it works well enough that you can actually extract the ROM contents with high fidelity is next level.
One should be suspicious of ulterior motives when the CEO of an AI company makes a claim like this.

On one hand, LLMs do require significant amounts of compute to train. But the other hand, if you amortize training costs across all user sessions, is it really that big a deal? And that’s not even factoring in Moore’s law and incremental improvements to model training efficiency.
'Tencent's Riot Games to Lay Off 530 People, About 11% of Staff'
I love Python and I agree. Standard ML or OCaml would have been far superior on nearly every axis. Every language is slowly becoming OCaml anyway.
Not just closing the loopholes; specifically imposing consumer awardable penalties for failing to support a product - something like treble damages for willful infringement should do the trick.

Can't provide a part within a specific time frame at maximum cost of the appropriate fraction of the price, for a defined period of time after the product is sold? Great, the consumer is awarded an amount equal to 3 times the MSRP at product release to ensure they can acquire a replacement product!
Java has @SneakyThrows. Fight me.
I think it's interesting to see an article like this every couple of weeks. The way I view it is that we're watching the five stages of grief (with regard to the "death of the office") play out in real time, at population scale.

At first it was denial - "everyone will be back in the office eventually!"

Then it was anger - "you will RTO or you will lose your job!"

Now it seems like we've finally hit bargaining - "you'll come in 3 days per week, wait, 2 days, wait, special exception for the last week of every month".

I wonder how long it goes on until we get to depression and acceptance?
But I can trivially easily buy replacement brake pads from any number of manufacturers. Even for a Lexus LFA (limited production supercar), I can buy pads from Bendix, FVP, Proline, and Wagner [and that's just what RockAuto carries]. For a more pedestrian 2020 Camry Hybrid, I have my choice of 57 different offerings from 13 different brands (covering both front and rear axles).

> The companies spent extra money on design, to make that internal part significantly different, then extra money on tooling to actually build it, just so that you cannot buy a replacement unless its from them.

Note that none of those were branded as Toyota/Lexus original parts, nor sold by them. If they did all that design work in order to capture spare parts sales, they forgot to do the second part of that strategy.
The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys
They will charge the salary of the worker they are replacing with an EC2 style AI simulacrum.

Employers will save health, logistics, HR, etc.

Governments will have to pay for unemployment

Just the same as always - privatize the gains
The Animal Crossing world also makes no sense. The main business in the game builds you a house on a loan with no deposit, no mandatory repayments, and no interest. You repay the loan by selling sea shells and common weeds back to this same business. None of the other villagers are ever depicted working, they just wander around and chat.

Even as a game, it doesn't fulfill the same kind of enjoyment as the tycoon games. It's fun no doubt, but its not the same kind of fun. There is no struggle or risk in AC, only idle grind. Part of what makes economy games fun is watching the charts, seeing them turn downwards, and trying everything you can to turn those charts back around. Taking risks, having them either propel you to success or ruin your business.
Google used to have a feature where you could filter out whole domains for any reason. I wonder why they don't bring that back and then use that as a (non-determinative) signal for deciding which domains to ban themselves. They index a lot of sites obvs but you'd think a user-curated list of the top 100 or 1000 spammy domains would be useful info to have.
NY State policy proposal to create visa pathways for international entrepreneurs
Anecdote: I've never seen this. I have seen "cash only" still, though.
Yes, there was more air travel than 25 years prior. Looks like a little under 2x. That's not nothing but's certainly not an order of magnitude.

And mRNA vaccines were presumably not going to be available 25 years ago.

So I don't see the evidence that, had COVID emerged from China in about 1996 (which it may not have done but see other related diseases), it would have had so much less impact. (And if that were really the case, we'd just have ignored it in the West and you'd still be working in an office.)
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I don't want any of that.

I don't need any of that.

My next PC will be a second-hand machine with a fresh linux install and no AI.
Oh yeah, my bad. I read "it is entirely self inflicted." and skipped to the conclusion to see what the self inflected blow and weirdly the name of the article comes from the part he's talking about AI.

> Gamers watch this video and think "Wow, that is some really trite and boring dialogue. Could we not?"
> CEOs watch this video and think "I can fire so many people next week."
> Designers? Just get the AI to shit out some dialogue, no one cares about it anyway. Artists? AI already pillaged all their work, no need for them to come in any more. Programmers? Feh, just slap some API framework together and call it a day, get an intern to do it.
> Games in 2024 and 2025 will be a few labors of love, from indie developers or the few good AAA development houses still running, and piles upon piles upon piles of AI-generated vomit that will make people nostalgic for the days when most of Steam's catalog was Unity Store asset flips.
> And gamers won't buy them.
> And game development studio heads will ask what happened.
> And no one will answer, because everyone is gone.
> Ludum mortuus est.

So I guess the article is about the layoffs, and then switches to being about AI at the end and names the article after their point about AI? It's a very confusing article, not sure what it's trying to say other than everything sucks, this isn't normal (without explaining that), and AI is a thing.
They do a similar thing for GPS data recovery. It is so far below the noise floor that normally speaking the signal is not recoverable. But then you inject some (known) noise and suddenly the noise modulated by the (unknown) signal starts to drown out the noise in the rest of the system and that in turn allows you to recover bits from the signal.
> Technically, under a compressive regime in the limit, LLMs necessarily need to encode an implicit world model, as the text input into is sampled from said world model.

This is backwards reasoning, we all know it would be better with a good world model but that doesn't mean that it actually created a good world model. Understanding how to go from here to actually making it get a good world model requires these discussions, it isn't a waste of time unless you think that further progress is impossible.
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ok so here is an idea that i have

why don't we build a 'line' in the pacific + indian ocean and carry containers by a small floater between countries in a 'corridor', yes they would be 'explored' to salty water but i think this is not as bad ...

we could then do 'gaps' between the containers as to let other ships cross the oceans

we could increase our capacity by 10x? and adding more is just adding another 'lane'

we would only have to worry about pirates but i think we can handle that

i'm open to VC $$$
AGI doesn't matter, because the world will have been turned upside down multiple times before it even arrives. AI due to its extreme breadth is already smarter than any individual human across all of AIs competencies.
What does this comment mean? Just because he "has to" earn a living, doesn't mean people have to want to give him money.
Also there is plenty of evidence of X/Musk moving the dial to make Mr Beast's video a success.

So there really is nothing to learn for other creators.
It is similar in Polish. “Robota” as a colloquialism is used to denote tedious, unpleasant, and labor-intensive labor (literally manual labor), and it has a coarse connotation, so it is often used in jest (“wracać do roboty” is something like “back to the salt mines”).

The typical and more genteel way to refer to work is “praca”. “Szukam pracę” is how you would typically say “I’m looking for work”, for example [0]; “ciężko pracuję” means “I work hard”. So while “robotnik” is better understood as specifically a manual laborer or someone of the working class, “pracownik” means something like “employee”.

[0] I am aware of the Czech false cognate “šukat” :).
Zlib 1.3.1 Out
Stevia and monkfruit both taste awful to me. Not bitter specifically, but unpleasant in a way that I can't really describe, and do not at all enjoy eating. It also tends to make my stomach hurt.

Meanwhile I have no problem with cilantro or cucumbers.
Locally-Adaptive Vector Quantization
Avoid the websites. Call companies, go to the library, or just abstain altogether.
Top Harvard Cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies affected
It's fairly common in data recovery though, just keep on reading disk images and running quora until something passes the checksum and see if it works out. Better still if there are higher level checksums (for instance across a file that has a signature) for further verification. Also used in some aerospace applications.
(Pulls off edgyquant’s mask) Sorry Derek from Veritasium, you’re only getting one video linked in this thread.
AI could flag patients' dangerous alcohol use before surgery
Same for older employees like myself actively recruiting younger employees to replace us: it's much harder with full remote. For many younger parents or long-commuters WFH is perfect but if you're rebuilding a workforce those Zoom only coworkers don't connect the same way.

Honestly, it's a first world problem to solve. It's great that we have the flexibility, just need to figure out how to avoid long-term negative repercussions that have not fully been felt yet.
Indeed, there are many parallels, and in academia the same sort of people study both topics (e.g. in "computational social choice"), and they are often taught in the same lecture series (e.g. https://sites.google.com/view/optdemocracy23, https://rohitvaish.in/Teaching/2023-Fall/).

There is an important difference though: elections concern making one decision that affects everyone, whereas (fair) allocation involves deciding who gets what, and everyone is only affected by what they themselves get. It's the distinction between public and private goods.
I was thinking this might be talking about an early startup.

Founders have an initial product pitch and guess at what they have to build first, and they and any hires might have been stuffing tasks into the box, but they might still be trying to get prospective customers to talk with them.

There might be a bit of a Catch-22, if you need to have some ideas and/or something tangible before prospectives will talk with you, even if what you've thought of or done so far turns out not to be what they need.
Given that the original Photoshop is a nightmare subscription service, I hope developers implement a version of it on all existing platforms.
Some woeful 'giving the benefit of the doubt' in some of these comments. No disrespect.
The inference cost is also huge in energy terms, not just the training. Remember that Altman's company builds gigantic models.
If there is a first chicken, there has to have been an egg with it inside it?
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> 8 year old Honda Civic and spare parts were difficult to obtain and expensive

What parts did you find difficult or expensive? We've owned a 2005 CR-V (a jacked-up AWD Civic, basically) and I've had no problems or complaints with the few items I've needed to source. RockAuto almost always gets them to me the next day or 2 days in the worst common case. (I agree that parts availability for Mercedes is also good, but I'm a little surprised to hear of parts issues [other than perhaps interior plastic panels] on a Honda Civic.)
How others spend their lives is their choice.
Yep, exactly. The level of entitlement some commenters here seem to have is appalling. The project maintainers don't owe anyone free labor.

If their paying customers want something, then that's perhaps a different story, and is governed by whatever agreement (tacit or otherwise) is in place for the purchase.

But if you aren't paying, you aren't owed anything. Not a single thing.
I got it just fine, what exactly bothers you?