skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if, IF a company started selling a basic dumb reliable car AND it became popular and people started buying it THEN it would only be but a brief moment before the MBAs came it to ruin it and enshittify that car too. I see no stable market place for good basic reliable (and easily repairable) automobiles. Any attempt to do so either: won't happen to begin with, be unsuccessful because it won't induce perceived status like a giant F150, or will eventually turn into the thing it was originally designed to subvert.
I’m wondering if their plan is to obtain government funding, instead of attracting and educating students…

Because, who would knowingly send their kids to an institution with this stated as a primary goal?
Phillip K Dick has many short stories that take place in SF. The Minority Report collection is a good read. The titular story is not in SF, but several others are.
No, I’ve studied cinema history and the vast majority of films have always been bad.

The idea older movies were better is just selection bias.

Pauline Kael said: “If you love movies you must love trash because most movies are trash” (I’m paraphrasing).

There are “golden times” when a lot of good directors and writers were allowed to make great work - often because their work was profitable - and then times where the corporate machine took over. But that’s geofenced. Hollywood was creatively strong in the 70s and oppressive in the 80s, but Honk Kong was killing it in the 1980s.
The writing in Baldur's Gate 3 is extremely overrated.

When I finally played it I couldn't believe that this was what people were holding up as being a master class of game writing.

It is on par with the Forgotten Realms young adult novels but that's not really a compliment.
I didn't used to be a person who skipped cutscenes, and I thought they were ridiculous. In my old age with time ever at more of a premium, I just don't care anymore.

If you want to tell the story, tell it in engine in an interactive exciting way. You're in an interactive medium.

Having a cutscene in a game is like having a text scroll in a movie. It's lazy, it's awkward, and it's a step down the media ladder that screams we had something we wanted to say but didn't want to pay to do it right.

If I have to sit and watch a movie just to get back to the game at large, that's not fun. Tell the story through important missions, in-game dialogue.

Heck, at the very least Metal Gear Solid 4 let me adjust the camera during cutscenes so I could zoom in and look at things, look for things off screen. That kept my attention. Do anything other than just making me just watch a movie.

Even the much maligned QTEs at least manage to keep my eyes off my phone.

If I wanted a non-interactive medium I've got plenty of better options.
It must start from the beginning. Pig > piglet. Ham > Hamlet
Maybe the oldest device is my soldering iron, and it really does need some TLC!

The some of our solar PV system is 2008!
Pretty good. One thing to note is that if you're using Android apps, make sure they have a "dark/light mode" setting because in dark mode, UI elements may not be easily visible.
The OS is a tool in and of itself.

I think its perfectly reasonable to expect a program to look and feel similar to other programs on the same OS.

At least for things the OS is somewhat concerned with, like window decorations, menu bars and so on.

If i designed an OS id be frustrated with the inconsistencies in how different applications interact with the design of my OS.
Ukrainian Drones Are Burning Down Russia's Oil and Gas Industry
actually the moochers wear business clothing.. the actual homeless are often damaged and addicted people who are stuck in hell loops
You gotta trust them by their word
It's worth taking the time to flip the breakers one at a time, then go around and test outlets so you can write the information down.

Good activity for a slow weekend afternoon when you're not under time pressure for another project, and while it's daylight and not unbearably hot or cold. :-)
I have an iPad and there's plenty of stuff I literally can't do with Safari on it right now. However, it's not everyone else's fault. Yes, some websites are stupid and do UA checking and intentionally block people on some browsers, but none of those websites are the problem, as all of those sites are not going to give up a vast quantity of iPad users even after Chrome and Firefox become available. It's not like macOS because iOS is not a minority in the world of smartphones, and iPadOS is definitely not a minority in the world of tablets. It's not like Internet Explorer or Edge because it doesn't suck shit through a straw.

The websites that are actually a problem? The ones that don't care. The ones that really could not give a shit less if it runs on your stupid iPad or not. Those are the websites that you can't use on iPadOS. And while the top 500 most popular websites are never going to act this way, this mentality is more widespread than you think. They do not care, and will not care, that Apple doesn't let you run an alternative browser on your tablet. Therefore, you simply miss out.

In addition, some web apps will just not be able to have good support on Safari because Safari just generally takes longer on standards. So instead, you will just not see support for Apple mobile browsers at all. Again, you come upon it a lot. It's not out of malice for iOS users, its that Safari just isn't as good at keeping up with web standards as Firefox and Chrome are. And yes, a lot of web standards suck, but a lot of them also don't and are made to resolve real problems with the web app platform, and look, if Apple's argument that you don't need sideloading is "just make webapps", then I think it's only fair to say that it's not a very good option when they have such inferior support for the standards that people are making to make better and faster webapps.

Apple's influence on web standards has always felt petty. They're the only company that has the specific kind of influence that they do because users can't simply opt to use an alternate browser; they compete in a totally different way than almost every other browser. They should have to compete on a level playing field. I reckon that suddenly, WebMs will start playing on iOS and iPadOS.
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart is a more gentle post-apocalyptic story, but very beautiful. Not really much in the way of hackers. I like how it chronicles a procession of animal population boom and bust cycles that would naturally happen in the wake of humans disappearing.
This all blog looks like generated by AI :D
Yes, exactly. I think this is now the problem I’m aiming to solve. Not necessarily teaching programming, but teaching you how to how to actually use real-world tooling, real-world data-structures, and real-world design patterns.

Only concern I have is how marketable this would be. Most beginners simply don’t care about what’s outside the abstracted cloud IDE, and those who complete cs50x are probably just ready to use VSCode.
To be fair, finding a book that is not raw GPT output on Amazon will be a Herculean task very soon (if not already).
This looks like a worse version of the one I used, the TI nspire CX CAS, for about the same price.
There's also https://www.hackerone.com/internet-bug-bounty
The linked talk video mentioned they're playing with it in jemalloc and tcmalloc.

I found this https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/1440 but couldn't find tcmalloc doing similar.

These guys are aware of mesh and compare against it: https://abelay.github.io/6828seminar/papers/maas:llama.pdf
How to Bell the AI Cat?
If you want to style SXMO on Sway (for example: make menu items larger and easier to press with fingers, change font to a narrow one to fit more text per line, aesthetics, etc), this is a useful guide: https://porkyofthepine.org/blog/rice_sxmo_sway.html
I heard that TI put in a lot of work lobbying and getting their products in textbooks to get to where they're at
Yes, at some point if you're going to interface with other humans you will eventually just have to trust their word.

For some people's threat models that isn't good enough, but for the vast majority of people—people who aren't being pursued by state intelligence agencies but who are squeamish about how much data a company like Google collects—a pinky promise from Brave or Mullvad is good enough.
Police disallowed from accessing Ring doorbell-camera video
Oh, god, a million times yes. To me it’s the same with almost anything by Disney. It’s too over the top and old fashioned to me.

Also, as a foreigner, it’s funny when I watch dubbed movies that have an actor from my country: either the actor does the dub and it sticks like a sore thumb (or rather, makes the others sound fake), or they get a “pro” that doesn’t sound like a normal person (and being familiar with the actor makes it harder to watch).
https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Runs on my Android device, auto backing up photos and videos. I've been running this for over a year - it's great.
SD lacks humanity. Jeff’s art looks “bad” but bad looks human. His games are immediately recognizable, and that familiarity is friendly, comforting, and inviting. All tile art SD games are going to look the same and have a slight uncanny valley feel to them which will be off putting.
really love to come across ssites like these that were built - clearly - for the sake of love and fun alone. went through the hyperlinks as well... also dug the on the pi. keep it coming!
Missing my favorite layout: arrowless. Example: Quickfire TK, IBM Model F.
I consider .xyz to be a good TLD for that purpose already, but .zz would be nice too.
For me personally many of those high fantasy polished D&D based games have become quite boring. I mean they objectively are of high quality! But I couldn't e.g. manage to finish both Pillars of Eternity games because they somehow just became a chore to play further. The writing was great, the visuals were great, but something was still lacking. Achievements and collectables and similar 4th-wall-breaking elements were a turn-off for me, and the D&D ruleset again and again...

By contrast Jeff's Avernum series was such a breath of fresh air. Really interesting world, great writing, no D&D. Those were really great. I wouldn't mind better graphics, but that's a minor point for me.
Nobody "struggles" to see something that you literally made up. The original iPhone and iPad were literally global news and that happened before they ever did anything like this.

I am sure it made them a rich company, but they were going to be rich anyways. They also hoard money like fucking crazy, so it's not like it's all getting spent on R&D.
Not just websites, entire "Businesses" have replaced Marketing/Sales with Bullshit/Hustle and nothing is believable anymore.

The biggest problem i see is that the presentations are so vague/over-the-top/buzzword-heavy/Outlandish-claims/throwing-in-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink that i don't even understand what the product/company is supposed to do for me (as a prospective client). If you can't explain what exactly you do in specific terms, you are doomed to failure.
Do you have examples? Googling is not yielding any results for me.
Try Betrayal at Krondor (1993).
2bit is pretty damn terrible, I don't recommend it for anything serious.
How do we fix the "Too Many Newsletters" problem
If by performance you mean browser performance, you have more performance with Firefox nowadays. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770883
Opening night at the Apollo Theater, 90 years ago
I made a video about all the best file managers for Neovim
Shoot.. I didn't know he had passed.

I read his stuff for years and years, listened to a podcast he had with a couple of people. I fell off a while ago but I didn't know he died.

That's awful news to me.
Only thing is, Agency isn't really dystopian imo.
It's more likely that a company started off with a solution for a problem, then got told by investors that it wasn't a big enough problem, and so they had to "pivot" into a more crowded space, without really adding much value.
Rather annoying title that tries to make opinion come off as fact and a whole lot of paragraphs just to make their opinion seem 'right'. Many will simply disagree and they are even making successful TV adaptations of games now, the current prime example being The Last of Us.
It does. I just re-read it over the Christmas holiday.

There’s a brief segment where one of the characters travels to Vancouver. But nothing happens in San Francisco.

Don’t let this fact dissuade you. It’s great post-scarcity sci fi.
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart takes place around the Berkeley area in a post-apocalyptic world. Not quite sci-fi but a fantastic read nonetheless.
It does, actually, because one of the big seed companies can then simply take that seed and... patent it as their own.
Why do tunnels fascinate us?
Kind of a waste - cursive seems way harder to read (to me anyway), and studies show it isn't any faster to write.

Sorta like teaching and encouraging Pig Latin.
GRRM would contribute to anything so that he has a valid excuse to not finish the books.
You're right, the confusion about the use of .local domain seems to be more due to Microsoft going back-and-forth about it.

> At one time, Microsoft at least suggested the use of .local as a pseudo-TLD for small private networks with internal DNS servers.

> ..However, more recent articles have cautioned or advised against such use of the .local TLD.

> Microsoft TechNet article 708159[7] suggested .local

> ..but later recommended against it.

> The Microsoft Learn article "Selecting the Forest Root Domain"[8] cautioned against using .local

> By default, a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 Essentials also adds .local as the default dns-prefix when a user doesn't select the advanced option, resulting in a domain with .local extension.
A video by WIRED came up in my YouTube feed about it.
I think our differences in perspective probably just comes from different backgrounds. My sports background is in wrestling, and there's extremely minimal ambiguity in scoring there. I think I can empathize with you on these issues in sports like figure skating where scoring may be "objective", but complex enough that it starts to become subjective again - perhaps like boxing in some ways.

And in general I am very much a fan of avoiding excessive extrinsic motivation. For instance I loathe, with a passion, participation trophies. Because I do agree that this results in people participating only for those trophies rather than for the sake of the sport. But where we may differ, perhaps, is that I do very much think that excellence should be rewarded and recognized. Not even just for the sake of those victors, but as a model for other people to strive for. And, in any case, if somebody is good enough at basically anything to be #1 in it, they're already going to be driven intrinsically, or have crazy parents... but that's another topic!
> despite paying more than some $200k per homeless

And yet we're told universal basic income is too expensive.

Give People Money [2018]
https://www.amazon.com/Give-People-Money-Universal-Revolutio...

Am policy noob, so I don't know how to articulate this properly:

I support whatever social safety net wrap around services people may need.

But I don't support our top-down welfare bureaucracy. When a mere fraction of our spending benefits the actual people in need, wtf are we doing.

How I usually phrase it:

Help people help themselves. Then help those who can't.

(Rant over, thanks for listening.)
A lot of well-written, high-budget games are detested by the gaming community because the themes or conclusions the game centers on are anathema to them. Final Fantasy XVI and Bioshock: Infinite come to mind. Many developers correctly ascertain that focusing on the quality of the writing is a waste of time and effort if they're not targeting a particular audience, rather than aiming for sales in the multi-millions.

Good writing is often challenging, and pairing that intellectual challenge with the tactical/strategic/visceral challenge of gameplay can be overwhelming. Spec Ops: The Line is a good example of this: players work their way through a grueling gauntlet only to be asked to deeply question their efforts, and even their enjoyment of the game itself. You just expended a massive amount of effort to do what the game told you to do, and now the game is telling you, the player, off for it. If art is a matter of curation of experience, then such an approach is maximalism that's bound to turn some off.
One more, site won’t let me edit.

https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/gaming_windows_hvm.html
For example, for PG&E, the root cause of them blowing up that neighborhood was that the money that was supposed to go to upgrading the gas lines was embezzled and they faked the repair logs for the repairs.

Now, we have no idea which lines were repaired and not. Since this started decades ago, they have to dig up and inspect a huge number of lines.

Anyway, "mismanagement/poor incentives" is leaving out a lot of details involving graft and corruption, and malicious local governments.

For an example of corrupt/malicious local regulators: the Golden Gate Bridge maintenance road they recently built in Marin cost more than the bridge (inflation adjusted) and took longer to plan + build as well.
Together.ai seems to be the best, incredibly fast.
Excessive Expansion: Uncovering Critical Security Vulnerabilities in Jenkins
> How would you separate "merge this directory into that one and update files with the same name" from "copy this directory into that directory"?

I would make "copy this directory into that directory" out of scope for the tool.

Let’s imagine a tool similar to rsync, but less confusing, and more in tune with what I want to do, personally. There are for sure a bunch of things that rsync can do, that this imagined tool can’t. That’s fine by me.

Let’s call the tool nsync.

It would work like this:

nsync /some/src/dir /some/dest/dir

And running that would behave exactly the same with or without trailing slashes.

I.e the above and the following would all be equivalent:

nsync /some/src/dir/ /some/dest/dir/

nsync /some/src/dir/ /some/dest/dir

nsync /some/src/dir /some/dest/dir/

And what would this do? It would inspect source and dest dirs. Then it would copy files from source to dest for which last modified was greater in source dir than in dest, or where files in source dir did not exist in dest dir.

In other words, it would overwrite older files that had older last modified time stamp, and it would copy files that did not exist.

Like rsync it would also work with ssh (scp/sftp). Maybe some other protocols too, but only if those other protocols supported the comparisons we need to make. Prefer fewer protocols, and this way of working over trying to be the subset of what works across a gazillion protocols.

If a file exists in dest but not in source dir, it is kept untouched in dest. Not deleted. Not copied back to source dir.

Then there would be one other mode; destructive mode. The flag for it would be -d.

nsync -d /whatever/a/b/c/ /wherever/x/y/z/

This would work similar to the normal mode. But it would remove any files in dest dir that are not present in source dir. Before actually deleting anything it would list all of the files that will be deleted, and ask for keyboard confirmation. [y/N] so that you have to explicitly hit y and then enter. Enter alone will be interpreted as no.

You would be able to override the confirmation with the -y argument.

nsync -dy /whatever/a/b/c/ /wherever/x/y/z/

And that’s it. That’s what I would want rsync to be for me.

There probably are some programs that behave exactly like this. I’ll eventually write one too. It’ll have a user base of 1. Me.
> There's no reason that eSIM provisioning servers work on whitelist principle where they deny all phones the carrier doesn't profit from.

AT&T already has a whitelist based on IMEI that works for pSIM too. https://redd.it/trfw5r
This blog post might shed some light on the matter. If I'm understanding it correctly, it claims there are emergent features on the LLM weights that make it easier to "compress" the floats into smaller bits without losing much precision.

https://timdettmers.com/2022/08/17/llm-int8-and-emergent-fea...

Note that 2 bit quantization is generally regarded as too aggressive. Generally 4bits+ achieves a good tradeoff, see eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09720
Hide, fight or flight.

Hide : accept the situation and stay strictly within the boundaries of your job.
So be it.

Fight : try to change the hierarchy by proving that some managers are incompetent in regards of their responsibilities.
You'll win or be seen as a "Non-team player".

Fight : quit for somewhere better.
You'll be forgotten in a few days.

Personally, I can't hide, it's not in my nature as when things are obviously wrong, they have to be fixed.

I tried to fight and couldn't make a dent in the "idgaf organization" I was working for.

I quit.
Seattle resident here. First things first, this article is a great reminder for all of us PNWers to have an earthquake kit around the house.

Second, on a much more lighthearted note, our state department of transportation released a video simulating different levels of earthquakes along the waterfront. For some reason in the rendering they included a little touristy hot dog stand that is actually there and show it collapsing. I dunno why I find this so funny but to include such a mundane building falling in the foreground of a video that also shows a massive (and now removed!) viaduct highway collapsing…

https://youtu.be/hos_uIKwC-c?si=r66wbS7WJdbEoD2G

Rest in peace, little hot dog stand…
Treating Errors in AWS Step Functions
Is there any Android launcher that is close to this?
SIDKick Pico: A Commodore 64/128 SID chip replacement using a Raspberry Pi Pico
It's not toxic to say "all these distractions and interruptions stop me from doing what you pay me to do, here is what I need to do in order to perform my best work". It's toxic to tell that person that they're being toxic, which ADHD people tend to heavily internalize.
Hi - how would your product be different from the various other AI writer/assistants out there (that you yourself list out in one of your sample posts)? I.e. other than content generation itself, what is the USP of this particular product?

(Not an AI luddite by any means, but have tried some of these and not found them fully satisfactory for various reasons)
Interesting example, considering it was written by an actual novelist, who also published the novel for the game: "Krondor: The Betrayal"

Raymond E Feist became one of my favorite fantasy authors for a long time because of Betrayal at Krondor
Don't forget the Pricing page that asks you to schedule a call with their sales team to get pricing for more than 1 seat.
The Nazis made “great” use of the (comparatively) new technologies of their time: radio and movies. In the end technology is a tool, you can use it for either purpose: good or evil. The tool does not mind.
first: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

> most people would call me a "Bitcoin Maximalist" (I also loved Ethereum).

I would not call you a Bitcoin maximalist. Ethereum is the opposite of Bitcoin.

> Bitcoin is not decentralized

false. Bitcoin mining pools are becoming centralized, but that is only block production. And miners are economically incentivized to include transactions because of the open fee market. Bitcoin validation is extremely decentralized. I run a node and I choose the ruleset. It’s so decentralized it takes years for a change to make it’s way in. Many argue Bitcoin is ossifying.

> nobody gives a damn about having ether.

Agreed. I’d rather own Apple stock.

> NOBODY WANT CRYPTOCURRENCIES

I want Bitcoin because I’m tired of my wealth being stolen through inflation.

In closing, you don’t sound like a Bitcoin maximalist to me. You sound like a cryptocurrency speculator that hasn’t done the work to understand what Bitcoin is.
AT&T et al have been blocking transfers or requiring physical verification for transfers for a decade now, not exclusive to eSIM.