skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also took issue with the Xbox example, and I think it's a context issue. When I read it, I interpreted it as an API for new apps/games to use. In that case, they should be testing on an actual Xbox before shipping! And why would the app be trying to print in the first place if it's designed to run on an Xbox?

But I suspect the situation this is being designed for is existing PC apps being ported to an Xbox. OK, in that case I can see fudging the API since there might be obscure corners that the devs didn't think about that try to print. But I'd still say the devs should be testing on an Xbox and make an effort not to attempt to do things when it doesn't make sense for the platform.
Lesser doesn't mean nothing, right?
I just ran into this also. Incredibly annoying.
Another real life example of TBM happening now is the SkyTrain extension in Vancouver, Canada. It covers quite a distance and is rather impressive, all stations being built concurrently, with some main road sections needing to be suspended. No shortage of complaints, but there were also no shortage of complaints when they built a previous line with cut and cover. I don't think it would be remotely feasible otherwise.
> 'master' is too ingrained to change

This typifies why the US still runs on imperial units, not metric. Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the 16mm pliers.
Define "for-profit".
Winning in AI means mastering the new stack
What solution do you have? The article III judiciary doesn't have nearly the capacity nor the expertise to fill in for the administrative agencies.
The First Developer Preview of Android 15
You built two $10m businesses? Geez man where's your blog post series
Autodesk is phasing it out and merging it into their Fusion 360 subscription.
Agreed. The abundance of powerful organizations that commit great harms for personal gain, both now and throughout history, makes it very clear that capable people do this.

It is very hard to put myself in their shoes, and contort my brain to make their actions feel like a thing I could do.
It’s ok that the government moves slow. Can you imagine your least favorite politician leading an efficient government with no checks on their power? I don’t even want that for my favorite politician.
Some journalists have interviewed high ranking members of the Trump administration, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said that Trump told him "he would seek to withdraw from Nato and to blow up the US alliance with South Korea, should he win reelection."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
And Putin was a retired KGB officer working under Sobchak and heading the FSB when he suddenly got promoted to prime minister and then named as Yeltsin’s replacement. Not exactly a career politician either. “Putin’s party” is a misnomer, it was created out of nowhere around the guy anyway. If they chose a loyal apparatchik and put him in that place while creating a party around him once, what makes you think they can't do it again?
Fundamentally what actually went the worst was the absolutely awful way that capitalist market systems were, on the whole, rolled out in the eastern bloc in the 90s.
Poverty, corruption, and massive wealth disparity were the results.

And into the chaos, strongmen came in, and promised and gave some stability.
War is fundamentally different now than it was at the beginning of WW2. A nuclear superpower cannot be invaded. You can poke the bear A LOT, but basically everyone recognizes that a ground invasion is crossing a red line.

That's the purpose of NATO. In exchange for giving up some autonomy to the US (letting the USA build military bases in your territory, not acting overtly against our interests), and paying us for our fancy weapons, NATO members get the immeasurably valuable power of a nuclear red line border, and protection by the most powerful military the world has ever seen. It's a very, very good deal, and the most stabilizing force in history.

Given the NATO membership of most of Europe, the only wars possible in Europe are small, regional conflicts between non-member states.
This may be a question that misses the point - respectfully, what are some practical applications in physics or engineering for such proofs and/or the search for a conjecture counterexample?
I don't see how publicly posting them on a forum is

> the minimum amount of information required to reproduce the bug

MAYBE if they had communicated privately that'd be an argument that made sense.
Nice work, gives me very Micro Machines vibes for the NES. The only thing I don't like about PICO-8 is that its completely closed source. An open source alternative that seems very promising is Pyxel. It has similar retro / pixel art limitations, a built-in sprite editor, music tracker, etc.

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
We could argue the universe follows mathematical laws in the same way. It's more a matter of how complex those laws are. With gen AI we finally see human-created mathematical rules that approach the scale of natural ones.
considering how close to the edge of extermination we already have been brought, calling MAD successful leaves a real bad taste in my mouth.
What was your workflow? Last time I played around with PICO-8 I found the built-in editor to be inadequate. Using an external editor was also annoying for reasons I don't quite remember, but I remember having to close and re-open PICO-8 all the time. Not exactly a the tight, seamless iteration loop I was hoping for.
how far we've come since https://www.karlsims.com/genetic-images.html

quite a bit, but surprisingly not
Japan's ranking on the Human Development Index is ahead of the US. Do you think if they had charted a different economic course Japanese citizens would have a wildly better quality of life compared to US citizens rather than just being slightly better?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
Well I wasn't sure if it would be downvoted due to low effort, but it got 17 points, so thanks :p
Just a side-note regarding energy mistakes: Germany single-handedly funded R&D for solar energy to the place where it is now the cheapest form of energy available. And then more or less gave the industry away to China. That was one happy mistake which is hard to overestimate the longterm impact it has on the world.
Sort of weird that by killing Navalny, Putin made life harder for his shills in the House of Representatives who do his bidding to oppose aid for Ukraine. But I guess he thinks his "Axis Sallys" like Carlson are enough to whitewash anything he does.
What is the "needle in a haystack" test you're referring to?
I think it's fair to say that most people don't need, or even want, their IDE/text editor to do a bunch of stuff that can be done with other programs. I know Emacs people like it (I was, at one time, an Emacs person), and that's great, but "can your text editor/IDE do a bunch of not-text-editor-slash-IDE stuff?" is a weird gotcha. Sometimes you want to buy your dessert topping and floor wax in separate cans, y'know?
Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship
There was an interesting discussion about this problem on Mastodon yesterday started by Julia: https://mastodon.social/@b0rk@jvns.ca/111935753657358820

The general conclusion is that relatively few FOSS tools collect usage information the way commercial software now does. Interesting opportunity to potentially improve things.
This is not a serious argument. By the same token, putin or comrade xi can do the same if they feel suicidal.

There are controls in place (or at least on the paper) that prevent a crazy president from running amok with the nukes.
Out to make as much money as possible for its shareholders.
Really enjoyed this for my ten minutes. A note that I found it a bit confusing that 'enter' doesn't select, X does. But the core game feels really good!
See also: placemats featuring Bill Gates('s hand model) holding a burger in one hand the XBOX "S Controller" in the other to show how much smaller it was than the original widely-hated "Duke" controller: https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20010425/xbox.htm
You should write something about what you do too. Buying businesses sounds interesting, can you expand on this?
Yes, and as it happens, “master” was a bad metaphor for what that branch actually is and does. It would have been a better metaphor for what is usually called “origin.”
yeah, this used to happen a lot to me on the itch.io platform which uses iFrame embeddings for HTML5/Canvas games.
Not only to you get inflation with UBI, you also get labor shortages, as we've seen.
They shouldn’t be worried so soon. This will be used to pump out shitty hero movies more quickly, but there will always be demand for a masterpiece after the hype cools down.

This is like a chef worrying going out of business because of fast food.
So you don't think that software development which happens in public web forums deserve fair use protection?
Hasura + React is the dream. https://github.com/Vetd-Inc/vetd-app
I did almost say ~ "it's possible we just see very different deals and it colors the perspective".

I never deal with asia. Maybe everything I'm saying is off base given it's hardware and asia is a thing in that realm.
the evolution we have seen in software in the last 20 years isn't great except for LLMs, but then again, they messed them up with censorship.

I would not miss much if I was time-traveled to 1999.
Leveraging AI still requires being able to create and communicate the design of a system. My career has taught me that this is a skill which not everyone has.

I believe there are going to be jobs that become fairly low skill+low pay. But I'm excited about the possibility that more things become approachable as custom development. There's the possibility that more software development is being done: If a $50K custom development job can now be done for $1-2K, that opens up a lot of long tail revenue. Even if the AIs can do 80-90% of it, there's still going to be a 10-20% that needs somebody that knows what is going on. A rising tide buoys all ships.

The phrase I keep thinking of is: You aren't going to lose your job to AI, you're going to lose it to a human that can leverage AI.
I've learned this as "swallowing errors" and IMO it's a poor practice. Not only does it not solve the issue at hand (you cannot print on an xbox), but it actively hides how broken the software is, which makes bug discovery and testing much harder.

This is one thing I like about Go's panic. You're mostly not supposed to use it or recover from it at run time. It serves as a great vehicle to blare loud sirens at testing time that you (the programmer) screwed up (and that's ok, we all do), and it's time to figure out where and how to fix it :)

PS this analogy works in a lot of domains - If you have actors in a system actively trying to hide their flaws/errors it will be exponentially harder to root them out and solve the issues.
Robert Putnum saw this coming a decade ago and was denounced as a Nazi for his research, which his critics couldn't refute but name calling was enough. Now a decade later, people are even more cowered and unable to even think about speaking the truth or somehow their souls will be destroyed. It's amazing how people can see it happening right in front of their faces and deny what their own senses are telling them.
Scaling Phage Therapy
> It whiffed multiple common softballs

I must have missed this in the article. Where was this?
It depends. If it feels empty or walled off with loading screens then it doesn’t feel large just because it is big in extent. The experienced “size” of a world feels more related to density than how long it takes to traverse. Starfield vs CP2077 feels like an example here again.
This seems heavy (4.6 pounds). I wonder if that will limit its use.

Several of the standard issue snipers are already hovering around 15 pounds. This would push it up to nearly 20 pounds.

The weight also appears to be placed at an awkward spot. I can't be sure, but it looks terribly front heavy. It seems almost unusable without a bipod.

Makes perfect sense for a .50 BMG machine gun that already weighs 50 pounds or whatever, fires quarter pound shells, and wasn't portable to begin with.

I'm a little more dubious for snipers, who seem like they'd value agility. Assuming they have 5 spare pounds of carrying capacity, is this what they'd want? Not a sniper, I don't know, but I do know those kits are already heavy.
I think that they probably won't be minimum wage jobs.

However, as more people become interested in software engineering and AI helps make basic tasks easier, the pay for these jobs will vary a lot. Ultimately, I expect this variation to consolidate around two primary AI-impacted groups.

- Those that sit high on the abstraction stack caused by AI, i.e. those developing, training and debugging new models.

- And those using AI to do their day to day SWE job.

There will be fewer jobs higher up the abstraction stack you sit, but the pay will probably be very competitive. The further down the abstraction stack you go, the lower the pay.

However, I don't believe software engineering roles will ever approach minimum wage levels as long as they require the ability to read, write, and comprehend code. In addition to understanding the problem at hand in the 'bigger picture' and devising scalable solutions.

If one's role is reduced to merely overseeing AI-generated code without actively engaging in problem-solving or considering alternative solutions, can such a position truly be considered software engineering?
Yes, please start by practicing what you preach. I actually donated 1% of my income to various open source projects I use.
Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Good luck uploading your CV in PDF. I tried that a few times and got moaned at a load that my CV must be in Word format. In the end I converted the PDF into images, and created a Word document in OpenOffice (this was a while ago) with one page image per page. Got moaned at for that too.
I didn’t quite understand what you meant by “canary `use` hook solves” but you’ll have to excuse me for assuming you were talking about react.
I've had an iphone for nearly 15 years, I've never had to take it to a service centre. Local shops are dotted around towns that would replace screens if I broke one, which I guess is the most common problem.

I daresay that's the norm. People don't care that they would theoretically have to take their phone to the apple store because they don't have to.

A car however does need servicing and generally fixing -- you can get a puncture 5 miles after leaving the lot if nothing else, so people are more aware.
I don't know if anything's changed but for a long time a lot of Word's formatting was impacted by the printer you had installed and/or selected. So it was pretty easy to run into scenarios on a network where printers being taken offline/their capabilities changed resulted in documents getting reformatted.
After doing the vision pro demo in the Apple store I am not so sure I buy eye tracking as the future...

Assuming that Apple's tech is best in class, it's still nowhere near as accurate as mouse input. Even if it's 99% accurate, we click on stuff a LOT so you will feel that 1% error rate immediately.

I would like to see someone experiment with AVP-level eye tracking for cursor control on a Mac/PC, so that I can leave my hands on my keyboard 100% of the time and still have mouse control. I think this could be huge.

I also realize that I track the mouse in my peripheral vision all the time when I am using the computer, especially when using tools I am familiar with. It would be a massive downgrade to have to look exactly where I want to for every action.
> Every administration in my lifetime has done this.

It depends on what you mean by "this". Every administration has used political appointees and has some bias toward the president's policies. The Trump administration took it much further than anyone before, putting political appointees in traditionally non-partisan positions (e.g., approving health policy), and using the powers of government to benefit the president personally and politically. The Trump campaign has put together extensive plans to take that much futher, to maximize it.

The 'matters of degree' are all that matter in life. Nothing is absolutely pure or evil. But the differences are life and death, freedom and servitude. There is some freedom in North Korea, some servitude in the US, but I wouldn't say they are the same.
> Your own personal music that you've created?

Noooooooo. I mean music collection. mp3 and flacs that I acquired throughout the years. I can upload it, put it on my online library and share with my friends. They, in turn, can share their collection with me. And no, it is not piracy, because you are not making it publicly available, totally fair use.

Can you please take a look at the website to see how it works? Where am I missing you?
The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
Yes, I'd add to that by pointing out that the "spec" is a de facto spec subject to Hyrum's Law, that is, people have built their apps against other implementations of the platform and inevitably don't handle any behavior not seen on those other implementations.
The computer can only check a finite number of cases computationally, a proof can prove the results for all N.
I mean, it has USB ports. If I can plug it in, I'd like to be able to use it _somehow_ , even if that means installing another app that does direct port/device access or w/e . ie, it should be possible (but not necessarily super easy)
Team develops metamaterial to enable real-time shape and property control
No, I’d say the vast majority of reputable developers are not trying to scam you.

But there are some trying to scam you…and some of those are also in the App Store…as long as they use IAP to scam you all is well.
I think we've all heard of it, but I for one don't find it persuasive.
STOP! "... my VPN..." !!!!

Try this: get a computer that doesn't have VPN/ad blockers/etc. and try the archive link; better: do it right from where you are.

Might save you further investigation and time...
If you're rendering to DVI, it's explicitly defined as a bug if it doesn't compile to exactly the same pixel-perfect output as a previous version.
This device is perfect for PICO-8 if anybody wants the handheld formfactor

https://powkiddy.com/products/pre-sale-powkiddy-rgb30-rk3566...

Non affiliated with the company, I get nothing from saying this, it's just a decent device all around. The 1:1 aspect ratio on the screen really does PICO-8 games justice, along with MAME and other popular platforms. The greatest thing is these devices are super cheap and easy to come by if you're patient.

Here's a video review of it by a youtuber whose opinion I've come to respect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIMepWAzUuw
I don't think "indie" is synonymous with "not serious," at least if people use it that way I think they're wrong and I think there a lot of people who use it the same way I do.

To me "indie" is usually more a reflection of budget, which heavily impacts graphical sophistication, size of the game (as in how many levels, how many hours of play, etc), and usually means the price of the game will be between $5 and $30. AAA I expect $60 and 100+ hours of playable content. Indie game I expect 5 to 6 hours and I'm pleasantly surprised when it's more. When it comes to choice of game engine, that usually means they prefer less flexibility but more simplicity and "free stuff" from the framework, whereas a AAA game might prefer maximum flexibility, but that comes with complexity. As in all things it's a budget (time & money) tradeoff, not necessarily an "are we serious" tradeoff.
Games are targeting 3090 or 4090 for decent settings and frame rates. My 2070S is tired as hell. The mid range jumped from $150 to $500 in a couple of years. The enthusiast range jumped from $250 to $1500. That’s painful.
Limiting features in the public API aren't quite the same as limiting the technical readability of developing an artificial intelligence or consciousness.

Limiting public features will help a bit with concerns over how someone might use a public GPT API, but the technology advancements will be made either way and ultimately companies won't be able to gate keep who can use it with 100% accuracy. The boom for GPU hardware similarly is pushing us further down the road to AI development and all the moral and ethical questions that go along with it, even if AI companies were to keep use of their GPUs and models private entirely.
John Conway showed that if you generalise the coefficients of the Collatz conjecture then some instances are undecidable. So maybe there is no proof.
I do like to joke that I studied maths because I don't like numbers.
I will never understand why Wagner just stood down and Prigozhin just essentially agreed to suicide. He was obviously not a good man but he could have done the world a favor.
Generally when 'USA' doesn't have requirements, it's because those things are handled at the state and local level, not because they don't exist at all. Building codes are generally hyperlocal. This isn't even a concept that would make sense to exist at the federal level with how the US is setup.
Yes, thanks. I was still in the edit window so I fixed it.
If you think the US will let it's shiniest company be destroyed by the EU I don't even know what to say.
You mean the MUDs? Don't you just need a terminal emulator/telnet client?

Some cell providers might block some of their ports or protocols, though, not sure.
Like Novichok being used by Russia in England to assassinate UK citizens. I don't get why the west is afraid of escalation when Russia just does whatever they want. Russia shows no restraint. They crashed an expensive NATO drone recently. Correct response is to shoot down their planes if they crash ours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...
Strategy is what gets results, not metaphors. Examples of effective criticism with government-toppling results can be seen in the Arab Spring movement.
Well, how does your proposed computer proof look like? A computer can easily calculate both sides of the equation up to say, float precision. But that's not a proof; it only tells you that both numbers are near each other!
Sure, but they do the "promoting polarity" thing outside the US plenty. It's a useful tactic; pick wedge issues like gay people or immigrants, spread false or out-of-context news, etc.

For a nice Baltic example, Lithuania: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-baltic-elves-taking-on-pro...

> Facebook is where the light skirmishes take place; the mortal combat is reserved for the comment sections of Lithuanian news articles, where the trolls loose a constant drizzle of falsehoods and complaints, each comment helping to construct an alternate reality version of life in this Baltic country of 3 million. Rather than a thriving and patriotic post-Soviet success story, which it is, the image the trolls cultivate is that of a demoralized and angry society whose people are ready for regime change, be it through internal democratic mechanisms or through “liberation” by a friendly neighboring army.
> Interesting opportunity to potentially improve things.

...you mean by changing commercial software to collect telemetry more like FOSS tools do, i.e. usually not at all, right?
MS-DOS software doesn't work on modern 64-bit windows

you get a dialog saying "unsupported"

now you can download dosbox but that isn't really "exactly as expected"
How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?
When artists get mad that their work was used with the aim of replacing and impoverishing them, techbros turn their schadenfreude up to 11.

When people suggest something like an AI tax, techbros seethe about communism.

Since schadenfreude is apparently how society works now, make it a 40% tax and dial it up a percent or 10 every time someone whines?