skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related:

https://ledger-cli.org/features.html

https://github.com/ledger/ledger
Oh gosh I forgot about the row expansion and sort, and infinite load coupled with the sort in my case. Slightly better because the user just got flicked to the top of the table if they sorted anything.
LLMs can count characters, but they need to dedicate a lot of tokens to the task. That is, they need a lot of tokens describing the task of counting, and in my experience that allows them to accurately count.
> Most software exists to save someone somewhere time.

Gaming. Social media. The Ads industry. These are all huge and they're not about saving anybody's time.
I've wondered about SMS for a MUD. I'm guessing it would be crazy expensive...
We started doing these, and after a few months, I started advocating that only ONE engineer needs to be in there, instead of all 12 of us. If that engineer has a question that only someone else can answer, they can just pull us in (has happened ZERO times).

So, now we just send a sacrificial engineer to do refinement, usually picked by whomever did the fewest code reviews since the last refinement. It's actually worked too well. I get code reviews in 10 minutes instead of hours.
It doesn't "know" anything anyway. It's more like a hypothetical simulator based on statistics. Like what would an average person say when asked this.

Ps I'm not ChatGPT but offering me high-priced hookers would definitely motivate me :) so I could imagine the simulated person would too :) That's probably why this sometimes works.
> and makes it difficult to display ads

What do you mean by this?
Genuine question, but why would a MUD require encryption? Seems like a strange feature.
> Above-the-fold-only at least, please!

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
https://github.com/ubf is littered with "unmaintained" and the last commit was nine years ago

Also, more on-topic: I'm sure this specification is easier to follow if one already knows Erlang, but without such fluency in it, it's a bunch of "yeah, like erlang does" :-(
While I get where you are going with open source project being the default choice, I don't think it fits the example here.

Feedly, like Google Reader, for me is nothing but a server. It's the same reason I pay for my email, iCloud, and similar services. I am paying for them to store data, run some service, or similar for me.

Even if I went the open source route I would still want a server that is doing the fetching for me. A central place to keep things in sync between multiple devices and to cut down on the data usage when on my phone. That server costs money to run. Either I am running that server myself (and taking on the Maintence of it) or I pay a service like Feedly.

While I agree that Feedly's way of monetization is likely wrong when they could have just run the route of $5 a month and that's it. Nothing fancy, it fetches and thats it. That could be a perfectly sustainable business model.

Edit:

Also I really think we should re-examine "open source should be the default" when the vast majority of open source projects are not at the polish of something like Chromium.

Most average (non technical) consumers are not really going to accept what a lot of open source's experience is. See gimp and open office compared to Photoshop and Microsoft Office.
Interesting! I think this (and large-scale searches in general) is one area where a drone is probably much more likely to work than a helicopter/pilot, simply because of the sheer area to cover.
Perhaps someone will forward this article to government employees or public sector organizational game theorists.
Your comment made me curious, were there any other features or ideas that you (& team) loved but didn’t have the user base or buy-in to include by default?
GDP is a good measure of how the wealthy are doing, not so much your average citizen.
> especially blind players

Isn't accessibility for a web-based MUD just a matter of adding `aria-live="polite"` as an attribute to the incoming text? Five years ago I did this on https://evolvingstory.juliablewis.com/ and it seemed to work with OSX screen reading.
Don’t beat around the bush, just come out and tell us whatever it is you think you’re implying so we don’t have to guess.
I wonder if there is a hard coded prompt somewhere prompting the model to be "lazy" by default, to save money on inference, or something like this. Maybe not how it works?

When you ask if to write the complete code, it just ignores what it was originally told and does what you want.
You’re a creative professional with deep domain expertise, yes? If you don’t mind sharing what you do, I think I can make the point in a way that will resonate more for you.
Thanks, good to know. I might rewatch some of season 1 and see how it goes.
It’s more like this, there is an algorithm / flow chart. You follow it down and do the next step in the process.

You learn the reason why and then you just follow whatever the latest update to the algorithm is. Doctors are then graded by administrators as to how well they follow that flow chart. Have you done this or that screening, is BP well controlled, etc. Medicare sets many of the standards, you look up the USPTF guidelines for some more idea of what your doctor should be doing. So yeah. Kinda like factory work. “Pt male 70 wakes up urinate - does he have signs of infection > yes/ no> proceed to no > next step do this test > prescribe this med > re evaluate in 2-4 weeks. “
Ah, this is true power in allowing companies to keep too much of their high-bracket profits... destroying that which allows competition.
One example I've seen in government/non-business settings is needing to spend all budgeted money in order to avoid budget cuts. It's an incentive to look for problems in order to keep their funding as the solution.
Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning
> they charge the sender of the data per unit

This is why Twitch is leaving.

This is absolutely insane.
You could, in theory, export certain methods with [UnmanagedCallersOnly] and AOT* compile it - those become plain C exports. Alternatively, you can host .NET runtime within C++ process and call arbitrary methods from the loaded assemblies. Or you could not deal with all that and just use C# :) (which comes with an advantage of not using something worse)

* - I don't know if it uses anything requiring JIT but likely no or limited to certain features.
I think you are coming at it from a different direction than the artist. You want them to create something for you to consume, and the value is whether you enjoy it. The artist is scratching their personal itch, and the value is them enjoying the creation process.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38230476 (45 comments)

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871064 (5 comments)
Taking a broad view of music, ChatGPT has been great at creating lyrics for songs my DND character sings.
That's also not how atproto domain usernames are implemented.

The identity is just a public key, basically. There's a resolution service which uses domains, but you can move the identity, with all the data, to another one.
What are the odds some entrepreneurs quietly chopped up and sold it as ore - either all at once or over several forays- at some point in the last 100 years? It was likely worth something, and even an expedition into the desert seems likely to be cheaper than mining.
Spirographs with L-Systems [video]
The difference is in achieving the mass adoption of podcasting as a fully mainstream distribution medium. With podcasts, we now have an entire universe of media distribution that happens via an open protocol that is not controlled by any one company, which is a miracle.

There was no guarantee that it would turn out that way, and, as we see with RSS, or now with Activitypub, it's more than a small struggle to get anyone to care about open protocols for their own sake. It takes a moment that is ripe for it, a simple enough experience, and some sort of cultural signal that it's "for everyone" in a sense.

That was my point. I am perfectly aware that audio can be distributed in other forms.
And they had a sense of humor

> Membership in the organization cost only $0.25, and members received the Committee's newsletter, the _Free Toilet Paper_
Probably longer intervals between streamers showing ads, compared to TV?

I know that if streamers showed ads every 10 minutes and I was forced to watch them, I would just not watch Twitch at all.
Both take time, so within a given time limit, the more you allocate to one, the less to the other.
It really is that simple. Women are at severe risk now if they develop certain normal conditions which are mathematically certain to happen to a number of people every year, but now they have to leave to free states (if they can) or plead with a court system to get life/fertility-saving healthcare because the medical treatment is an abortion. Anyone doing IVF especially has to worry about that because there are more situations which can go wrong with elevated risk of death or loss of fertility. It’s not even directly reproductive care: some things like chemotherapy have the risk of complications due to pregnancy during treatment, which has numerous documented cases where treatment was delayed waiting for proof that someone isn’t pregnant because state law prohibits an abortion if that happens.

There’s another aspect which again really is that simple: the liability risk of having some theocrat second-guess their medical expertise means that hospitals are closing obstetric departments and doctors are leaving repressive states. Reduced access guarantees that people who would have had medical care a few years ago do not today.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/health-fitness/article...
Unless clean free toilets are a big part of their advertising. See: Buc-ee's locations.
Show HN: Automated and personalized push notifications and emails using LLM
I'm currently trying to find proof of concept around this idea i have. It's pretty early and any feedback is appreciated.

Currently in email marketing you can personalize marketing emails based on tags and group them into fx. a segment. This allows the marketer to personalize the email to the extend an limited to the segmentation, tags of the user and usage of those tags in the emails.

But what if you could fully automate it and personalize it to create unique marketing emails for everyone where real-time user data, behaviour and the environment the user is in also could be part of this.

I'm working on a beta. The idea is that rather than writing your marketing email your would instead provide an "intent". Fx. "new product launch at https://gemini.google.com/". This information could then be used along with information about the users to fully customize the email for each of them. Even based on the weather and stuff like that.
The hypothesis is that this would increase AARRR.
It's not finetuned to act like an average person.
FWIW most organizations aren't accepted every year -- they have a limited number of slots and they like to use some of those to invite new organizations in each year.

So don't start looking for reasons why any organization wasn't accepted; there probably isn't one.
No worse than dealing with humans though.

It doesn’t need to beat a computer. It just needs to be more deterministic than dealing with a person to be useful for many tasks.
This is fascinating... but just a superficial nit about the website and what it puts across: As someone who spent half my life designing, illustrating and art directing for brands, the choice to use anime style art as the theme for section headers is the exact type of decision I look for when reviewing portfolios that tells me a potential hire might know how to use image editing tools or be proficient in technical fields, but is not actually a designer; i.e. can create an image they "like" but lacks the knowledge and creative ability to synthesize subtexts in design and art history in original ways that are visually compelling but also create the right tone for a client. The choice of generated amime art implies its use on the page as mere decoration, rather than as a language of communication carefully selected to give viewers the right impression of the company. It argues for why diffusion models guided by engineers will not replace professional art direction anytime soon.

No offense, this is a standard art crit I would give to any art student, or to anyone running a startup who had nonprofessional design.
Right. Even if we want to say that it could take a one time deployment and it can just sit there forever (which, it can't. it needs security updates and similar).

The server itself isn't free. Sure if they are smart if multiple people are subscribed to the same feed it only fetches once, but just the constant fetching would eat up resources. Then storing that data, you retrieving it yourself, etc.
If they're exiting anyway, what happens if Twitch just doesn't pay the fine?
Just sharing.

2 x RTX4090 workstation guide

You can put two aircooled 4090 in the same ATX case if you do enough research.

https://github.com/eul94458/Memo/blob/main/dual_rtx4090works...
Jólabókaflóð (Christmas Book Flood)
When streamers don't show ads within some interval of time, twitch will automatically play ads to compensate, so I don't think that's what was meant. Twitch has full control of this interval.
> supposedly efficient environments would imply the problem exists in less efficient environments.

Efficient at what? At making money.

Private enterprise wants to sells you a product that causes you to need more of their product. They all want to be drug dealers - that's the perfect business model.

Goldman Sachs analysts have asked whether curing patients is a sustainable business model.

Tobacco companies, management consultants, Apple creating 'ecosystems' of products that only work with each other, walled gardens, planned obsolescence. It's all kind of the same thing.

how does this translate into work of an average government department? I am sure you could make some parallels with clandestine activities by CIA, but outside of that - for transport, or healthcare?
LOL I remember this.

Can youuuu - I'M ASKING - can you seeee?
Same. People need re-discover writing. I was looking for how to reset a particular electronic device I have yesterday and the manufacturer has no manual. Only videos. Google also only showed videos. Soon we’ll be an illiterate species.
In some cases it doesn't even require creating "problems", the budget just needs to be spent to justify keeping it for the next round. I believe the military excels at this practice.

Incentives drive behavior and it would be wonderful to find incentives to minimize budgets reasonably and to ensure they can be properly increased when justified.
This is more of a social problem than a technical problem. MUD blind players are extremely distrustful of innovation because, more often than not, innovation means graphics or custom clients they cannot freely alter and manipulate.

And they don't wanna be left behind. They wanna use their own client on a telnet connection because that is already suited for them. Many QOL features for the sighted can have a negative impact on the blind. Any attempt at engaging that audience must first convince them that you won't leave them behind.

One simple way to benefit the blind is by making sounds integral to a game, with clear cues for everything.
Or it’s been harvested - historically, meteoritic iron was a significant source of iron in the Sahara, and the techniques for dismantling a meteorite, and the desirability of the readily accessible metal, were well known to local blacksmiths. The fact that he was shown to it in the dead of night, possibly blindfolded, indicates that it was a valuable resource that they wanted to keep hidden.

They might do well to do a metallurgical analysis of old pots, pans, and other iron objects in nearby towns.
> The report called for an ethical investigation into U.S. rice exporters,

It is common to grow rice, test it, and if it fails a test, then you sell it into another market where the test thresholds are different.

However, this is unethical because safety thresholds are set imagining that different samples of a product will have different levels of contaminants. It is assumed that buyers will eat from different sources randomly.

However, if some sellers are picking which country they sell to based on test results, then a market with a slightly higher safety threshold will in fact be flooded with much more contaminated products, on average. And the people will suffer as a result.
>Nobody has made a good case for RTO benefiting the individual

The organization gets to decide the work environment for its employees. The employee can decide to work for the organization or not. So if you as an employee want to influence the organization’s decision to RTO you better be able to make a case for why its better for the organization. They hold the cards on where you work for them.
A fun bit of Bluesky trivia is that it’s also named after a person, apropos that post from a bit ago – the CEO’s first name is literally “blue sky” in Mandarin.
The Evolution of Automotive Wiring [video]
The Roman Empire? [https://www.bartleby.com/essay/The-Roles-Of-Ancient-Roman-Sl.... ]

Spartans and the Helots? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helots]

Plus a dozen other examples from antiquity and recent history - including the Confederate states before the blockades and sanctions due to their use of slavery.

What are you even talking about?
> Twitch Interactive, the operator of the service, reduced video quality in Korea from 1080p to 720p in September 2022 and terminated its VOD service five months later.

> The Korea Telecommunications Commission (KCC) determined the suspension of the VOD service violated the local telecommunications business law by undermining the interests of users.

> The commission has requested relevant data to examine whether Twitch had a justifiable reason for limiting the maximum viewing quality, but Twitch turned down the request, citing contractual confidentiality obligations.

I wonder what the relevant law says. Forcing a non-essential website to host and stream video content feels strange to say the least, especially given that streaming software like OBS can easily record the video locally to be uploaded to YouTube, AfreecaTV or whatever.

If it's deemed essential then the ISPs shouldn't be able to extort and extract profits from both sides of the pipe.

Also wonder why Twitch didn't provide the numbers given that they have already publicly said that the costs are high.
The Supreme Court of Alabama had a MajorBBS installation. I don't know how much attorneys could do as far as submitting material to the court goes, but it did contain lots of documents for the public to access. Think it didn't last long because services like Gopher and then the World Wide Web overtook BBSes as the preferred way of distribution of information electronically.
I am a bit skeptical that they don't try to monetize Premium users as well -- I mean invisibly, by selling our viewing history, timing of when we watch stuff etc. But I can't do anything about that and I openly admit all my efforts to block YouTube ads on an iPhone have failed so I eventually gave up and just bought Premium.

And to be fair, I don't regret it, because I have another consideration -- I can easily get some nice Xiaomi phone and root it and install various blockers and alternative YouTube frontends... BUT... my Google account is very valuable, a lot is tied to it and Google has become a bit trigger-happy banning and deleting accounts. So I am not willing to risk it. Hence I paid up.
Austin (Ring) Transformer
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_transformer

https://youtu.be/Aax-ehkRTnQ?t=108
By Karl Schroeder, who wrote Ventus[1] and Permanence[2]. (One of my favorite sci-fi authors!)

I always thought this reviewer quote on the front of Ventus was pretty funny:

> “Dramatically effective and a milestone in science fiction about nanotech and fine-grained distributed systems.” – Vernor Vinge

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus_(novel)

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanence_(novel)
Or they just say that they are out of order
I wouldn't mind
> the most profitable thing to do is unfortunately to drag a problem out

... which is why our medical intitutions would rather manage chronic conditions than cure or prevent them

... and also why our "defense" institutions would rather manage chronic, unwinnable conflicts rather than see any side achieve victory (Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan) ... and also why our weapons / aid keep appearing on both sides of various conflicts

Because that's where the profit is.
A cultural bias against change seems most salient to me. Most of the change makers in superhero movies are villains while the heroes are meant to bring back the status quo.
I prefer to decide myself what is and what isn't of relevance to me. The "guardrails" in this case are racist (reverse racism is racism) and so cartoonish that they are hard to ignore but the real issue is that there are undisclosed "guardrails". What about the cases where it generates biased data and we don't notice it.
I’ve specifically gone hunting for this documentation and never found it. Thanks for the tip!

I love C#, but I’ve been in PHP/Go land for awhile now. PHP is an interesting language, I’d have never thought I’d like it as much as I do.

It’d also be cool to see a Go implementation, but there’s also cgo.
I think you are overestimating the skills of a couple of math nerds working on a hobby project in their spare time. Even working at a tech company with professionals who are paid to write computer software, a lot of people don't know much about operations. Heck, I had been in the industry for 10 years by that point, including one as a sysadmin, and I wouldn't know where to get webhosting because I was never employed to do that kind of work. Most people in the tech industry (and even more so for people in tech-adjacent academia) only really have deep knowledge in one or two areas of specialization.
> "Work is now just work. Five years ago it had to be your passion it is what you wanted or at least i wanted to be defined by."

Surely you jest. The Dilbert comic strip started in 1989 and even then people were remarking about how eerily realistic it was about how uncaring, lacking in loyalty, stupid, and generally soul crushing corporations and corporate life was. It was tremendously popular for just that reason.
No, it's not paired to the phone, and there is no Garmin app on the phone either.
I applied to MIT in 2005, having built a functional Farnsworth fusor in my garage (which was fairly uncommon at the time), and was not admitted. Part of me wonders if the guy in the article was referring to my case, since the David Hahn story was very well known even in 2003 when I was getting started with my work.

Either way, MIT is being overly smug about it with articles like this. The admissions director at the time even brought it up in an interview with the associated press that fall [1]. Things turned out fine for me, and I’m glad that whole undergraduate admissions rat race is in the past.

1. https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/marilee_jones_in_the_n...
I think that's a definition of "nice" that undermines the utility of public bathrooms, which I think is a lot more essential to the public good.
that balloon wasn’t a toy either. the payload was the size of a bus
Character login requires password, which is sent plaintext over telnet.

Even if you get around that somehow, there are still concerns about session hijacking to steal someone’s in-game items and currency.
That is a salty move