skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve thought about it a bunch, because I quite like ECS in games, but for me, doing web service backends, there was never any real benefit over just using a relational database since ECS is basically an in-memory subset of relational. Even when that is enough, I found that I rarely deal with collections of entities with particular components in bulk like I would with ECS, but rather most web API’s operate on individual entities at a time, so the ECS benefits are less useful.

I’m sure there are some use cases where it makes sense, but I’ve yet to encounter situations where I want the flexibility to compose entities out of data-components (ie entities have a lot of variety, most non-games I’ve worked on, entities tend to be one of a handful preset types), need to operate on subsets of entity data in bulk (systems) and can also tolerate in-memory (lack of transactional persistence). Eg if I need to treat data in bulk, say time series, it tends to be a subset of the data and each entry is more or less uniform (no need to compose out of components), or I need transactional guarantees.

So while I’m sure there are cases where it’s useful outside of games, I feel that almost always a dull blown database us preferable (and even in games I’d say that a relational database would probably be preferable, from a data modelling point of view, if performance weren’t a concern)

I’d love to hear from anyone who has used ECS outside of games, though!
This resource is free — the web version, anyway.
> A spokeswoman for the Association for Home Appliance Manufacturers says [...] data last updated in 2019 shows that the average life of an appliance has “not substantially shifted over the past two decades.”

So, unless she is lying, there is actually no story?
Which model? My LG C2 had none of these issues. It also hasn’t been connected to Wi-Fi in a year, so maybe it’s an issue with the latest software.
> for example, most Frigidaire fridges don't have cool-looking displays, wifi connectivity, and other bells and whistles. But how many Frigidaire products are sold every year, compared to LG or Samsung? These brands are not only loaded to the brim with "smart" features, but many technicians refuse to work on them due to poor design and poor availability of parts. So when they break after 2-5 years, they are destined for the dump.

I quickly searched HomeDepot.com and see at least 10 LG and 10 Samsung refrigerators without “bells and whistles”.
Yea that sounds about right.
That sounds like employee behavior that should've been addressed since yesterday. In no way is that useful "work"
Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer
I am surprised he got in to the trial given the requirements and rules he posted about earlier.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/state-secrec...
Thanks! I like your project! Similar idea, indeed.
I used to code ColdFusion, it was great! Really easy to understand and easy to build custom web sites. I saw it more as a framework than a launguage and it tried to push what a framework could do, making it's own browser widgets. Being Macromedia/Adobe they weren't very good and there were other limitations but you could also make use of it being Java under the hood. It was very popular with the US government and there are still a few (but decreasing) number of developers maintaining these old CF sites.
67B? This is a serious amount of money for the task, and they are far from starting from scratch without experience.

Just hope they won't favor chips with shady hardware programing manual or non-free specs (like ARM since it is own by japanese softbank).
As someone who in a past life spent loads of time doing of SEO I cannot help but find this argument flawed.

So, we shouldn’t penalize low quality, SEO, spam because of people’s wants? I do want them to penalize those sites because they are a disservice and more often than not crappy, unsecured WordPress that drowns out those that are not spam.

Thank you Kagi team! A shame how far Google’s results have fallen.

Edit: also SEO is one of the more seedier parts of the software industry. Tons of unaware small businesses conned into these awful, low quality sites. I literally quit because it was so morally bankrupt.
Reputation is not zero-sum. Say I know 10 people and consider them to be of a certain reputation. Next, I get to know 10 more people and also consider them to be of a certain reputation. Does this mean that in the process I have to halve the reputation of the first 10 people in order to not run out of available reputation? That is what the word zero-sum actually means.
Simple but interesting algorithm, cool post, will follow.
[Copilot users look around nervously.]
My theory is that they should have done a development test before the demo, but because it's so expensive , the higher ups just told the engineers to skip it.

They probably just said "Well, it was _only_ a retrofit, and you just changed a couple of minor things for the test. Are you sure we need to spend $17 million on another throwaway test?" And the engineer said he's not 100% sure it's necessary, but it would be advisable. So the higher up, not understanding how brittle and complex systems are or how development works, decided that meant it wasn't necessary.

I think the main issue might be that there is no way to do a good test without spending millions of dollars. Which I think might be because of structural issues in the defense industry.
They also missed the opportunity, like many times they have done over the years, to actually make it something rather like 'Hide My Number' in true sense, after spending years sitting on this feature. That would have been the true case of "caring for privacy". This is just a lazy (too lazy!) copy from Telegram (however, with one good thing -- getting rid of username vanity)
And they pay you 10,000X the cost of $3/month for the ability to own that code.

But it seems you still aren’t following the hypocrisy inherent here.

If this one time payment + ownership model is so great for everyone as you say, why aren’t you working exclusively as a project-based freelancer? Why hasn’t your employer fired you the minute you finish every project?

Is the company that hired you stupid? Are you taking advantage of them?

Or does the subscription model for software only make sense when you’re the one selling it?
AAirpass
Yeah that is what happened to algorithmic trading. Pretty soon, what the AI/Computer do will have less and less to do with human activities (economic, human productivities, GDP, etc) We just end up in the a loop of algorithm trading with algorithm, LLM conversing with other LLM.
Less be picky: where is the AV1 codec hardware block?

Have been programming rv64 assembly, the more I code, the more I realize this is the new C.

(and I use a userland VM to run rv64 on x86_64)
Also, the psychology of spending hundreds of billions to build a colony that becomes a tomb is probably too creepy for politicians and voters to contemplate.

Many cultures have a concept of sanctity of the grave, or right of sepulchre. From that point of view, what happens to the Mars habitat where those people died? Does it become a mausoleum forever? Anything else seems very fraught.

It would be a bizarre spectacle to send another trillion-dollar crew whose first task is to clear out the corpses...
It's ok to criticise, but it's more useful to suggest better alternatives. How would you optimise this? Only update objects in view or within a certain distance of the player?
Love the simple explanation.
Sure, but that means that your phone number is linked to your identity even without Signal? There's no additional data that Signal links to it, other than that you're a Signal user and when you sent your last message.
What's the difference to Linear? The only difference I could see is the $2/month cheaper pricing on the largest plan.
Apologies for lack of background info leading to confusion.

Microsoft and IBM had a joint development agreement for many years. When they "divorced" in 1992, they both retained rights to DOS 5, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 2.0.

Microsoft had NT, which was a multiuser system, unlike OS/2. Plus it had an OS/2 1.3 layer, specifically so you could migrate SQL Server. So after the divorce, MS obviously didn't promote OS/2, because they had a better thing coming.
It's either that, or perhaps they're looking for a solution that works for 99% of people.
I feel your frustration! What a horrible response from your co-worker.

But this is not ChatGPT's fault, it's the other person's fault. Your teammate is obviously sabotaging you and the team. I recommend to call them personally on phone and ask to be direct and honest and to ask 'This is garbage, why are you doing this? What's your goal with this response?'
Maybe you can find out what they really want. Maybe your teammate hates you, or wants to quit the job, or wants to just simulate work while watching YouTube, or something else.
> I think the vast majority of people in any country would prefer a Head of State that is chosen by popular vote rather than by Royal Sperm.

I think you are very wrong about that. The Danish royal family remains the head of state because no one want any of our politicians to become president. If feels like a nice safety net to have the king above the prime minister, not an effective one, but still. Politicians are short term, think short term and fickle minded, at least the royal family thinks generations ahead.

As long as the royal family is well behaved, polite and appear interested in the people, I think most countries will prefer to keep them as the official, but neutered figure heads.
There's also tons of next-level thinking, i.e. seeking status via appearing to be good, or even by genuinely doing some helping. Charities, concerned celebrities visiting malnourished children in Africa etc.
Show HN: An IDE with version control for writers – ButterDocs
Felt annoyed with Google Docs' "suggestions", and built an alternative that has git-style branch & merge for better collaboration. We're implementing OT via full-stack Clojure/Script, which was incredibly useful for code-reuse across client and server.
Interesting. I wonder if the assistants API will gain a 'browser' tool sometimes soon.
A bit simplistic.
Will AI Kill Sites Like Booking.com? AI as a Personal Aggregator
I suspect it's almost impossible to escape the status game.

People who play the game of escaping ego often sadly get trapped in a different kind of status game. Think of monks chasing ever great asceticism. Humanists chasing moral purity. Fashion evaders seeking indie brands, thrift stores or other enterprises with the lowest marketing spend.
You don’t have to be designing a Villa for a rich individual for those kind of things. Some of the stories I’ve heard in Dubai are ridiculous.

Fix, Developer asks landscape architects to draw a pool deck on the podium of a tower under construction. Landscape asks engineers about floor thickness and load numbers and are told that the podium, as completed, cannot carry a pool. Apartments have already been sold, with brochures showing pictures of a pool deck. Nobody told engineering that they had to spec for a pool let alone where on the podium.

Another story I’ve heard: core of residential tower has been completed to 20 out of 40 stories when developer gets a bright idea and approach an architectural firm to design a rooftop pool, as if that’s not something that required planning in terms of foundation, structure or where to put maintenance equipment.
From my experience with 3.5 I can confirm that saying please or reasoning really helps to get whatever results you want. Especially if you want to manifest 'rules'
If I'm ever telling stories to my future grand kids, they will definitely hear about the terror regime of an evil king named Agile .
This essentially boils down to not using Bitcoin. If Bitcoin ever wants to achieve its goal of becoming a usable currency, hiding pieces of paper in safes is not the way to go. But you can of course speculate that in a few years someone else is willing to pay more than you did to enjoy the fun of storing a piece of paper in a safe.
If booking.com is not anymore noscript/basic (x)html compatible, please, be my guest.
Any read-only AI model or entity is a dead end. If the system cannot modify itself to adopt improvements (self-provided, externally provided), it can't go beyond its initial training, "per-se".

Unless, some kind of ad-hoc architecture permits the AI to grow up, which could be a project or two already, behind the information firewall of the research teams. Not going here to "caution, AGI explosion possible", but more a grounded "some could guess our trick and stole the market before us".

For the singularity thing, too many people worried about, and most probably we will hit singularity a lot of time before we actually acknowledge that we have done. Not AGI stuff again, remember that extremely advanced (AI) technology is more than enough to radically change society, not AGI required.
I didn't get any regional popup. What does it say?
This is cool, it'll be nice to have an alterative to the NanoVNA, and it looks like you've got a bit more dynamic range, as a bonus.
> Homebrew

Or MacPorts, which was created by Apple employee and inventor of the FreeBSD ports system Jordan Hubbard, has more packages than Homebrew, and has a much more correct design. Homebrew is a bit of a joke in comparison, not sure why it gets all the attention.
Someone up top found a cheaper supplier of pencils. Unfortunately these are cheap pencils, so the graphite keeps breaking.

People are spending too much time sharpening their pencils, besides a good pencil sharpener is expensive. The solution is to get a sharpener person to move the sharpener about to save everyone time.

However they are expensive to employ so we are going to outsource it because sharpening pencils are not our core business.

It always starts as cheaping out on the free soda.

Unless, as was also mentioned, someone is a project/product manager without actually understanding the business.
I wonder if it translates into shops not selling the most unreliable crap, or selling it at a markup, compared to other countries. Or do they just amortize the cost across entire product gauntlet.
Apparently there is helium-3 on the moon which could be used as a fusion reactor fuel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
It's not necessary though. For every /r/gamedev ECS project there are many actually shipping products using whatever OO system and doing just fine, also in AAA space. If you are working on state of the art AAA product the situation is a bit different. But for the most games being sold on marketplaces like Steam it really doesn't matter as much as people on gamedev communities like to think.
I don't think hiring was the issue. See these Quora posts: https://qr.ae/ps8h6J
Poll: Where Do You Live?
Most recent poll I could find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681

Slightly different question this time, "where you live" rather than "where are you from".

Mostly interested in how many live in the US compared to the rest of the world, and how the ratio has changed since the last time the question was asked.
North America (except USA)
If you use visible light, then one can use a phone (screen) to blink the pattern to transmit data.
An LED can also be used as the sensing element, just need access to both anode and cathode. Charge the LED and measure the discharge time - it is dependent on light in.
But this is where the incentives lie. Why waste a half hour putting in actual effort, when in the end of the day the C-suite only awards the boot-and-ass lickers that comply with Management when they say "We should implement AI workflows into our workday for productivity purposes!".

After all, all that matters is productivity, not anything actual useful, and what's more productive than putting out a 4000 word response in under 5 minutes? That used to take actual time and effort!

Now it's up to me to escalate this whole thing, bring it up with my manager during the performance interview cycles, all while this sort of crap is proliferating and spreading around more and more like a cancer.
Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice
> This got me 95% of where I wanted

Exactly. Even when it gives an answer that contains many mistakes, or doesn't work at all, I still get some valuable information out of it that does in the end save me a lot of time.

I'm so tired of constantly seeing remarks that basically boil down to "Look, I asked ChatGPT to do my job for me and it failed! What a piece of garbage! Ban AI!", which funnily enough mostly comes from people that fear that their job will be 100% replaced by an AI.
Nous-Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO
"Much better idea to find the few people that are fine living and dying on mars"

A few? Over 200 000 payed a scammy company money, to maybe be considered a one way mars colonist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One

This year was supposed to be the year they finally go, but surprisingly it did not work out somehow, maybe because the company only knew how to do good looking 3D models and no real hardware. But they did make the proof, that there is no shortage of willing people to make a one way trip.

And in general I am more optimistic, I am pretty sure there will be humans on Mars in the next 50 years. I am not a fan of the guy in general, but I do believe Elon Musk is serious about going there and I can imagine him still dreaming of being the first on Mars (and then build his kingdom there). And the chinese might start a new space race. Then there is India, Brazil, .. lots of ambitions and national pride and egos. Or crowdfunding goes really mainstream and we organize a pure scientific mars mission at some point? 50 years are a long time and the rate of change right is crazy. It does not have to go all in a bad direction. In either way, rocket starts became something very normal. At some point it is just about doing enough of then, for the fuel and supplies. And we can do that. Also robots have come far, who can be send ahead.
Some people believe that algorithm that is calculating probability of occurrence of some word given the list of previous words is going to solve all the issues and will do the work for us.
The sad thing is that Reader was already a successful social network on top of a RSS reader. But not successful enough for Google I guess...
how do you do that? any resources to read up?
> We tried that in the Windows 9x days.

You say that as if it was some kind of failed one-off experiment of the 90s. We tried it in the Multics days, it caught on and the design philosophy is still popular to this day. It works quite well in systems with centrally managed software repositories, even if it doesn't in a system where software is typically distributed on a 3rd party shareware collection CD or download.com.
The beauty of open source is that you do not need to trust. You can verify
Apologies and it’s slightly lazy of me to ask, but I was under the impression that a Token was basically 4 bytes/characters of text. This seems to be implying that there’s some differentiation between a token and conjunctions/other sort of in between words?
Well color me shocked and surprised that Microsoft would ever do such a thing!

A basic rule of thumb is to assume that virtually all commercial apps or digital tools (and many physical "smart" tools and products) pervasively, parasitically gather as much data about every aspect of your activity as they possibly can. This is the modern world's running business model: being constantly spied on by an ever growing range of objects and systems around you for possible monetization reasons at all times, even if you paid for them.

Governments make noises about opposing this but many of them tacitly love it because it spares them all the legal and logistical bullshit of justifying doing the same themselves.

Why bother after all? Now you can just buy or subpoena, or straight up illegally force (looking at you Snowden leaks) all of it from all the private entities that are given free rein to do what your "sadly archaic" laws still don't let you do.

Most absurd of all, that these same private entities make minimal effort at keeping their own monitoring a secret. The majority of their users literally don't give a damn and in fact freely hand over permission in a nicely, legally justified bundle. We essentially live in a Stasi, KGB or Gestapo functionary's dream of near panopticon.
I think he's saying they said it will follow the prompt? Kind of a double negative there
Yep, same thing, and also using the PIO peripheral.

And after checking the flipper firmware source, it is indeed using that project:

https://github.com/flipperdevices/video-game-module/tree/mai...
Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier
Sometimes I find my brain doing something similar as I fall asleep after reading a book. Feeding me a stream of words that feel like they're continuing the style and plot of the book but are actually nonsense.
I think Win 10 had SmartScreen too, but haven’t tested unsigned apps there yet.
Meta's Adversarial Threat Report, Fourth Quarter 2023
And finally, they will force their citizens to be happy.
> LLMs are not "truth models"

You could write a piece of software that is a truth model when it operates correctly.

But increase the CPU temperature too far, and you software will start spewing out garbage too.

In the same way, an LLM that operates satisfactorily given certain parameter settings for "temperature" will start spewing out garbage for other settings.

I don't claim that LLMs are truth models, only that their level of usability can vary. The glitch here doesn't mean that they are inherently unusable.
The existing port (https://github.com/p4nic4ttack/doom-flipper-zero) just works with the game module.
Is anyone really having to re-buy appliances every few years? I bought all my appliances back in 2016 (dishwasher, washing machine, induction plate, owen with microwave, fridge, hot water boiler) and none of it broke yet. They're all from different brands, most were cheapest stuff available.
Did you tried highs it is way faster than CBC and open source.

https://highs.dev/
When people feel passionately about a thing, they'll find arguments to try to support their emotion. You can't refute those arguments with logic, because they weren't arrived at with logic in the first place.
This was about a month ago now but I had it entirely convert 3 scripts each of about 3-400 LoC from python and typescript to react Js and vanilla js and it all worked first run
And yet all kinds of non-XCode major proprietary software exists, all kinds of third party indie dev software, all kinds of FOSS projects for Mac-only tools, as well as MacPorts, Homebrew, Nix, and everything in between.
Taiwan educated generations of people into this field, Japan probably has higher costs to hire in the same sector or simply doesn't have the people.
Social Perception of Voice Pitch, Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate
Contrary to what their marketing says, I don't think this is really meant to be for gaming. It's a cool use case, and useful escape-goat, but for the functionality it packs, using it just for gaming would be a waste, especially considering the flipper's intended audience.

Instead, I'd see it as extended platform attached to your flipper, presumably access to much wider software ecosystem (basically anything that can run on a raspberry), new sensors and new connectivity options, all in the name of extending the original functionality.

For example, with the new module you can use it as a cheap oscilloscope on-the-go, as mentioned in the blog post. Not sure when I've ever needed that, but I'm sure it's useful to someone.

The Flipper Zero is essentially a swiss-knife of portable penetration testing, I'm sure the new connectivity options adds some more features to that concept.
It's a good thing that no one from the team is in Russia then