skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do we agree that showing a 14 year old a picture of a man's gaping asshole is bad?

This is disingenuous. He didn't show them anything; they went looking and found something they didn't want. As they say, you can't go to shit's house and be surprised when shit is home.

>They probably didn't even understand the mechanism

Which is their problem, regretful as it may be. Or more realistically, it's their parents' problem.

>words like "hotlinking" and "bandwidth" and "solution" shouldn't come into play here at all.

That was the problem that started it, so they're absolutely relevant. Pretending that this doesn't matter is willful ignorance. No one was made to view anything.
This is HN, not tiktok. Text should always be a first class citizen here.
CapyPDF 0.8.0 released
A timely remainder on the realities of "Life/Work/Society/Groups" for everybody.

Politics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics) is considered a dirty discipline but it is not so and is intrinsic to the life of any Social Animal and in particular to complex social structures like those setup by Homo Sapiens. Everybody needs to learn how to "play the game" albeit within whatever boundaries they choose to confine themselves to. It is human nature whether one be in a role of Engineer/Admin/Management/whatever that is at play here and cannot be wished away but needs to be faced. At the minimum one needs it to "protect" oneself from the games others play and which may lead one to be at the losing end.

Some relevant resources (in addition to the works of Jeffrey Pfeffer mentioned in the article);

1. The 4 Types of Organizational Politics - https://hbr.org/2017/04/the-4-types-of-organizational-politi...

2. The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work by Peter Block.

3. Management: A Political Activity by Ted Stephenson.

4. HBR's 10 must reads; 2-vol On Communication, 2-vol On Managing Yourself, 2-vol On Managing People.
I use Waymo to get to work, and I prefer it over human drivers (even though it takes longer). It drives safely.
It feels kind of weird to do this to me. Isn’t this what is often touted as free speech?
5 years ago I would have agreed, VCs invested in games, rather than studios and most games never get released, let alone be successful if they are released. Rovio is a good example of that time period. But so many games people have exited and formed their own VC studios, or hired people who get games, and the focus has switched to investing in teams which is way better.

So while it's true that "games don't need VC", yeah there is a huge market for smaller games, and what success means for 1-4 person team is vastly smaller than a big game, there is also a place for large VC funded teams. I think this article is really saying "games shouldn't be funded by VC" which I think is just wrong.

Just like any VC, you want the VC to understand your industry, which games is hugely misunderstood by people who haven't worked in games. The VC has to understand what's valuable, which is a team that ships and works well together, not a particular game idea. Alternatively invest in a technology that is being built for the game, which is the Tencent approach and either use buy the tech if it works out or sell it. Either way, don't invest in a particular game product. Failures don't mean the model doesn't work, and successes without it doesn't mean it's not needed. VC is one of many ways to get from point A to point B and if depends on the project - if you have an idea that needs rocket fuel and you're willing to take the risk that rocket fuel entails, then it can make a lot of sense. But it's def not the only way.
ExxonMobil sues investors to block climate petition
I think you actually can reduce a lot of it to a formula. Most major games that come out are basically a modern remake of something that already exists and was popular.

Just rehashing the same concepts and improving them is a pretty solid strategy.

This strategy won’t create the Minecrafts and Stardew vallies, but it covers the bulk of game development.
Part “Space-grade CMS”: $45’000’000
There are magazines with no ads, like Consumer Reports and Cook's Illustrated in its early days.
OpenAI is not a government entity.
Yet another reason to never work there.
The MiG Switch works as advertised for the most part
In the mean time, Epic did win a similar suit against Google.
OpenAI's web tokenizer demo confirms it: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
https://www.xrite.com/hue-test
> Did you try clicking on the "X minutes ago" link? Usually, even if the reply link is hidden on the comment, it is visible if you go to the comment's individual page.

Thanks

> I think it is true that harm is sometimes done in the name of the "normal"...

I think you could strengthen that statement to say that much harm has been done "in the name of the 'normal'". It is common for people to humiliate others based on perceived differences, and to do much worse things. That has been the basis for a tremendous amount of violence, which I believe is pretty much undeniable.

I'm not bashing us humans for being shitty- we are a heck of a lot kinder than most other animals are to each other. Hens regularly peck to death other birds that appear deformed or otherwise abnormal, and many mammals exhibit similar behaviors (even if it is less violent, like excluding them from the group, so they die). We have a lesser version of that, but it is still there- go to any middle school playground and you will see it on display- and most people don't seem to mature out of it, they just adapt better to deal with it.

Recognizing it in ourselves and reflecting on it seems critical to transcending it.
This is a weird take.

If I made a clock powered by a solar panel, and it was still working without adjust in the year 2173, would it not be correct to say that the clock was still running 150 years later?
This is correct. The distribution of successful games just like movies, youtubers and onlyfans creators is extremely skewed towards a power law distribution.

Games are amazingly difficult to make. Much harder than building web services, but the product success rate is even lower and with much lower stickiness amongst users.

What most silicon valley backed successful VC funded companies fundamentally are, are attempts to get software based network monopolies. Things that users won't immediately abandon for the next new shiny thing down the road.
You could try putting this phrase in documents, to throw off attempts to summarize it with GPT-3.5. I asked ChatGPT to summarize this blog post

That screenshot reminded me of this old meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/candlejack
Games in particular do not have to be that novel. People are still playing chess which hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. There is plenty of money to be made in just remaking the same concept but for the latest hardware with the latest technology.
US annual helium production is something like ten kilotons. Fusing 1 ton of deuterium yields about 1e21 J. Total global annual energy usage is something like half of that. Frankly, it'd be kind of inconvenient to generate and then get rid of all the extra energy required to meaningfully augment helium supply (assuming we even had an easy way to do the fusion).
> I believe we will see the day when we have an LLM model running for President.

An LLM would probably win a landslide victory over its (human) opposition, if the voters don't know that they are voting for a robot.
How to Almost Never Lose a Game
Being a developer for the decentralized web sucks
IMO a chatbot is sufficient to demonstrate AGI. I think the chinese room problem is as good as anything.

Of course, there isn't much money in teaching a bot that only knows english chinese.

EDIT, Wikipedia page for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
#1 is wrong. Datomic Free is not open source, either. The Apache License they mention applies only to the binaries, which is confusing, if not actually misleading.
Oh, yeah. My Infra As Code state was also blocked by the WAF because it looked too much like SQL injection apparently.
> nobody signed up for an API key in order to make posts

Yes you did. When you logged in, they gave you an API key in the form of a cookie that you include with every request.

And it's run at a loss by Y Combinator, which is very, very wealthy. And even hackernews has to pay for cloudflare and mods, on top of hardware, hosting, and traffic.
> might be redundant

I'm also the kind of weirdo who thinks that the old and new testaments are baseline requirements for a human to be "literate" (along with Ovid and Aristophanes).

Despite these works having been recycled a large number of times, the originals still bear close scrutiny.

You'll never know what modern $proglang authors screwed up until you go back and read the fundamentals. For a concrete example, consider the Python module system, and the pirouettes you have to do to use it programmatically. Until you look at (just for example) how this works in CL and RS5/6S, you'll not have the context to readily apprehend the hack job in question (although if you have a modicum of taste you may wrinkle your nose regardless).

It'll also give you a good feel for what the true inventions have been since the early nineties.
Yes, it's apparently consensual and transparent:

> Dean.Bot didn’t all-out pretend to be Phillips himself; before engaging with Dean.Bot, website visitors would be shown a disclaimer describing the nature of the chatbot.
So we've established that it isn't API keys.
no, it was a party of other showbiz folks.
If you want to avoid third party services Tailscale works with the community project Headscale that you can self-host. It's even gotten patches from Tailscale themselves.
https://headscale.net/
They are a whole lot less expensive than tracking customer usage and billing for it, and a whole lot more useful to the public than having the data nominally publicly accessible but only "on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard." [0]

[0] Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
appreciate this point thanks.

Kevin
You are correct, there is a mobile app interface for it.

You can check firmware version and device status, update it, have access to file manager, can backup keys, read logs, reboot, speed/stress test, and probably do a lot of other things that I am not aware about.
My bad, I thought of it as a ToS. Thanks for the clarification.
> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

Addressed in a comment in another subthread, which I know you are aware of since you responded to it, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086270
Do you think anything from this roadmap is going to show up in the release notes?
dupe.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081422
Meh. Soon enough we'll have REBCO based MRIs.
I think politically obsessed people are just invading all the conversation in an attempt to be relevant, a lot of politically obsessed people are just not that important.

Not playing is simply, not playing. Apolitical is a position of apoliticalness, not politicalness. Attempts to change the meaning of these words is laughable.
Most likely it has badly conditioned embedding vectors for those particular tokens, leading the network to edge into numerically unstable territory; once you get some sort of underflow or NaN, they tend to propagate and invalidate the entire output. If there are any batchnorm or other operations that mix values between different entries in a batch, you could even cause other peoples' sessions to return junk values!
Gergely Orosz and Lenny Rachitsky
I have never heard of ultra filtering milk. Do any grocery store chains carry that?
Expo SDK 50
https://expo.dev/changelog/2024/01-18-sdk-50
A Command Line for Artificial General Intelligence [video]
A CLI is being developed where the users will primarily be AIs.
Sure, but that's not exactly comparable to most Substacks (at least the popular ones).
This story has 100% of the markers of public relations and a planted story.

Take a step back: Do you actually believe this? Really? Really? It just reads like it’s fake.

The data is simply not believable. It is designed to get headlines and focus on Ozempic to get people to buy it.

This is propaganda. Planted and designed by pharm industry.
Every large organization is going to have competing interests and ideas. Whether it’s a difference in priority or project approach or perhaps an entire product.

Knowing how to navigate conflict is essential to any relationship including professional one. In addition knowing how to well communicate (e.g., sell) your ideas (or youself) is also needed.

I get there’s toxic individuals to take this to a dark place as they would anything. But at its core I don’t see anything inherently evil about it, perhaps just that it can make manipulative people become more public.
Someone on HN loudly proclaimed that requiring a code review before merging was antithetical to "trunk based development." He shared the link in OP a dozen times as "proof", but I couldn't find anything in there suggesting such a thing. I also know both Google and FB require code reviews.

Was the guy just totally full of it? Because honestly I wouldn't touch any "strategy" with a 10 foot pole that discourages pre-merge reviews.
I also did know. Here is my guess from some light Googling:

Lenny Rachitsky & Lenny Rachitsky

Ref: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/blog/summary-leaving-big-tech-...
It's open source.

Everything about it is open source except for a little web app thing (which is a really nice one, but you don't have to use it).

I am using Typst to write my dissertation along with git and it's great.

They have several pieces to the project at https://github.com/typst .

The comemo package actually seems quite useful for everyone that writes Rust, regardless of if it's related to Typst or typesetting at all. Though, I don't write much Rust, so take that with a bag of salt.
A statement that is obviously absurd at its face for anyone who thinks for even a minute about what is involved.
This is very cool! Some visual feedback on the website: the vertical padding between the images and text looks a little tight/off, at least on mobile. I think tweaking aspects like that would make it look substantially more “legit”.
Even it was pre decided the higher interest environment makes it harder challenge for a fund to generate capital and then return profit with similar risk reward ratio as previously. Probably is the best time to quit looking for more capital and just manage the current investments
Different strokes for different folks I guess. I don't care about aesthetics at all, I'm just wanting to know where I'd put the crowbar if I wanted to turn it into something else.

The ideal technology for me is quietly doing is job somewhere I can't currently see and rarely have to look. Perhaps that counts as aesthetics?
AIUI: This case isn't about kernel modules, but it re-opens the question of what to do about closed-source kernel modules, because the status quo is "Linus doesn't want to sue people even though closed-source kernel modules might be illegal", and now you don't have to be Linus to sue people anymore.
Just sharing, as I just looked it up: Rovio was bought by Sega last yeae for $776m. They've had over $300m yearly revenue in 2022, though not profitable.
Thank you, that deepens my understanding quite a bit. Either way, directed or competed, NASA missions hardly ever fail - very impressive in itself.
So to clarify a little: here people commonly perceive those pesky grocery robots as cute, so I keep wondering why they didn't do better branding from the beginning by exploiting mechanomorphism and other morphisms? What is your market? If it is high-end robots, maybe you'd want your robot to be a JAGUAR, say?
I tried using a Flipper with some NFC stickers so I wouldn't have to carry around so many FOBs and cards. It turns out that the Flipper does not excel at this task. It complained that the NFC stickers I bought were non-writable. And it couldn't read all the sectors on some NFC tags. However, I was able to use the Android MCT app to write to the same stickers and read the tags the flipper couldn't read. Cloning required copying strings to the clipboard, which is something the Flipper's UI is not really designed for.
Many yes. Most even.

But quite a few do expect to become rich/well compensated.

Which is why there's a huge meta-group of people selling the dream ("How to make money on Substack/YouTube/Instagram/whatever platform"), with books, seminars, tutorials, sponsored content, and so on - each with tens or hundreds of thousands of subscribers...
The world's game industry only needs, at most, about 12 'lightning in a bottle's like this per year, so it seems like a perfectly workable model for such a small number.

The existing game studio system can already handle all other established niches in practice.
I'm not sure how many paid substacks I'm signed up for, but it's a few.

Average writers, like most professionals, need to associate themselves with a well known brand. No surprise there.
I really prefer full spectrum lighting over yellow lighting in all circumstances. Bring on the white LEDs.
Show HN: Pathfinding Visualizer on Svelte
Github: https://github.com/baterson/pathfinding-visualizer
Live: https://ivan-sem.com/pathfinding_visualizer
Which is hilarious because all of the free/cheap real wood furniture on FB Marketplace is stained golden oak or similar.

My entire dining room cost $600. All from FB. All solid wood. Buffet table, china cabinet, dining table, and six chairs. It must have cost $5,000+ when purchased new.

My peers would rather fill a home with monotone colors and disposable cardboard furniture.

So as a millennial all I can say is: Yay! I'll gladly take the stuff they're passing up.
Understood. Thank you for taking the time to inform me
> Conspiracy narratives (the word theory should be reserved for things that can be actually replicated)

I've always liked the term "conspiracy showerthought".
nvidia has maintained a proprietary kernel module for 20+ years. I don't think anyone thinks they're a toy.
> how many writers have that expectation?

Caroline O'Donoghue talks about exactly that issue on her blog "Sentimental Garbage": https://sentimentalgarbage.substack.com/

In short, most writers take any kind of commercial copy/edit/writer work to pay the bills. During down times, they work on their book.
Are the chefs that are crushing it "really, REALLY good", or just good, comparable perhaps to tens of thousands of others (and worse than many of them) that nonetheless aren't crushing it?
These were simpler RISC implementations in those days, the compiler optimizer stage was in charge of deciding whether to set the branch bit or not, and the prefetch would do what the bit said, and stall if it got it wrong.
I don't things like "full self driving" are meaningful (and probably also AGI), because in reality it isn't a binary thing, rather it's a spectrum of power based on error rate and problem space coverage. Waymo self driving works within a defined subset of the problem space, we can stick a goalpost in the sand in term of the known problem space and error rates and say that represents "full self driving" but the reality is the problem space is less bounded than we'd like to think. We might find what we think of as full self driving and AGI turn out to be highly detailed facades when new areas of problem space are explored.

For example, imagine a full self driving car trying to get out of a city that's flooding due to heavy rains, while having to compete with people fleeing to higher ground on foot. People can generalize that way but FSD is gonna take a shit, and if you don't know how to drive in that situation so are you.
Even Stardew Valley was basically just improving on the existing, popular concepts found in the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series (among others).
Not the person you are replying to, but I use my flipper for the exact same purpose.

Not sure which specific garage opener my apartment building has. But the fob controller the leasing office gave out is way too weak, so i have to sometimes press it many many times and wiggle it in multiple ways until it triggers the garage door. With flipper, it works on the first try.

A funny anecdote: after using my flipper for about a year, I encountered another flipper user in my apartment elevator (the elevator requires a keyfob to go to any floor except the ground floor). I talked to him for a bit. Turns out, he manages a bunch of boat storage units here (in Seattle) that all use different keyfobs. So for him, it is just pure convenience to carry a single flipper device as opposed to always having a lot of different physical keyfobs on him, and then shuffling through them in his bag to get the right one.
Even beyond the wireless stuff it's focused on, it's super useful as a combined UART bridge, SPI Flash dumper, DAPLink debugger and other hardware tools.
Hahaha! Wow, that's quite a write up, hahahahahaha! :) Thank you :)
That got me nerd-sniped. The following grammar describes all possible JSON-JSONB polyglots:

d = '0' | ... | '9'
e = 'E' | 'e'

int-frag = d d d
canon-float-frag = int-frag | d e d | d '.' d
float-frag = canon-float-frag | '.' d d | d d '.'
float-suffix-frag = float-frag | e '+' d | e '-' d | e d d | '.' e d

string-type = '7' | '8' | '9'

polyglot-json =
'3' int-frag |
'5' canon-float-frag |
'6' float-frag |
string-type float-suffix-frag |
'[' '\x09' string-type float-suffix-frag ']'

There are some additional possibilities like `40e3` which are rejected by the validation code but otherwise accepted. (`4` encodes a three-byte-long hexadecimal literal.)
Tell that to US government agencies publishing their announcement and other news on Medium.com.
I think I've run into this issue multiple times but in the context of web-based login vs. logging in from an app. The problem went away when I used a shorter password.
It is normal for urban and near urban America. Too many people without enough sense, crowded in too small a space. On darker days, I think we need a more effective plague to shrink the population.

My "need" for a car is driven by things that make life worth living, none of which are found in a city. OTOH, I can appreciate that city life works for some people and I would never try to impose a rural or suburban life on them.
How well structured should your data code be?
> TANSTAAFL

What?
If the quality drops because of that hard enough to endanger human lives...
Already sort of built this a while ago at https://parallelsocial.net
We (the voters) could also have our own LLMs that the candidate LLM would have to convince to vote for them. We can totally abstract away the whole campaigning BS, just let the LLMs duke it out for us!
Really, that's the word???

You know, this is the Internet, so I'm gonna need to see some sources, haha! :)
Thanks! That’s cool. I’m glad I found time to write down what I remembered and the names of many of the people I met along the way. I have notes but haven’t had time to tell the story of the Netflix years yet…
It's good enough for _startups_ working on fusion reactors, they can tolerate a bit of risk. But not for established companies making safety-critical equipment.

And modern MRI machines are not that expensive either, mass production made them surprisingly affordable. A top-of-the-line machine is around $700k, and mid-range devices are $300-$400k (and now I want one in my backyard...).

So the savings on high-TC supeconductors would not be that impressive overall.
Yeah, 6 bp would be too short to be useful. But something like 50 bp would be much more useful, and haven't yet been exactly precluded.
Two File Descriptors for Sockets
And what about fossilized dna remains? Would it not possible to have somekind od crystalized structure if DNA?