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Posted because this lovely game is almost 20 years old but is still receiving high quality updates from the developers, including a pretty significant update today.

Overview:

> Darwinia is a 2005 real-time tactics and real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is the second game developed by Introversion Software, and is set within a computer environment that simulates artificial intelligence. It received favourable reviews and won three awards at the 2006 Independent Games Festival. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia_(video_game)
Is there a plan to eventually switch over to self-hosting?

It seems like it might be bad to use a competitor for cloud services, although Kagi is small enough right now to not be on Google's radar...
To adequately use a large language model it is necessary to have your own large language. Perhaps a prompt engineer would be more appropriately termed a “Cunning linguist”
Totally wrong. Europe is Apple's 2nd biggest market. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...
You can now train a 70B language model at home
With the kind of money involved sophisticated cheating by professionals is a thing. This isn’t kids in the bathroom level cheating it’s mob and organized crime level.
Startup scenes are punk scenes, no one owns them
CSIS as an institution acting against the interests of an entrenched governing party/oligarch bloc. Particularly if it leads to a change in leadership and they do it again.

Yes, it's a high bar. Intelligence agencies have a lot to make up for.
He actually sold his bigger yacht (The Rising Sun) to David Geffen and settled for a smaller one (Musashi), lol
Has religion been proven false?
> How do I make sure that 1000 distinct people do it and it's not just 100 people getting in the line 10 times each?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075KP3J3T/
Oracle can and does sue them, and with enough money that it's easier to pay them to go away.

Hell, even benchmarking their DB goes against the license.
ColBERT 86 times faster using neural tree
I've used MS SQL recently and it holds up more than fine if you tune it properly. Oracle also needs tuning properly so that's not big deal.
If this is true, then he should let Wagner publish the story elsewhere.
I think we would both agree that a theoretically imperfect diet that improves health is preferable to a perfect diet that doesn't maintain health in practice.

However, it's not "all calories" at the end of the day. If all we cared about was losing or maintaining weight, then calories might approach being a tool for it. Yet it's not actually the weight we care about when we say we want to lose weight; it's the body fat we care about, and probably muscle maintenance, which is why CICO falls apart. Diets composed of different macro ratios can have drastically different outcomes, and what's funny about that is most camps ranging from vegans to carnivores implicitly agree on this, yet many still choose to elevate theoretical physics above physiology.

A lump of coal has measurable "calories" when burned in a bomb calorimeter. That doesn't mean that a human will oxidize a lump of coal and produce calories. A human can eat carbs or fat, but they result in different outcomes because those things are fundamentally metabolized and utilized differently. Even different types of carbs and different types of fat have different effects from each other, regardless of caloric value. In terms of a person's health status, calories are hardly relevant.

Also, most people don't even come close to measuring their "calories." When they lose weight counting calories, they are getting lucky by figuring out how much it takes to under eat, which can also mean unnecessary muscle loss when they don't take into account the composition of what they are eating. Many people who count calories either struggle to lose that weight or lose a ton of muscle because they believe that a calorie is a calorie and that therefore they can eat crap and "run it off." In either case, they're not really measuring what they think they're measuring because calorie counts on food are allowed to be as far off as 20%, and virtually nobody weighs their feces to estimate how many consumed "calories" didn't actually get used.
my favorite cheating on a test scene ever is from Spies Like Us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaSUOFleNRU
Ouch that seems even worse than the lockdown browser some of my classes used during covid. I ended up digging out an older laptop for it since there was no way I was going to deal with cleaning up that invasive mess off my regular computers.

Luckily by the end most professors just switched to Zoom with cameras on, and instead modified the tests (eg making them harder, but open book, or multiple versions of the exam distributed randomly - similar to how some in-person exams will alternate between two question sets so no one can cheat off their neighbor)
Starship 3rd Test Flight announcement
Is a brand new battery really the minimum acceptable standard for a refurb? If got a refurb and it had 6 months usage on the battery for example, I think I’d be fine with that.

3 years no, but given brand new batteries is reportedly a common experience for refurb buyers of laptops a lot younger than that it seems unlikely that actually ever happens.
Very clear and well-written article. I think that the author is likely to be correct that the CEO was overwhelmed by going alone. One thing not mentioned at all, though, is what the investors in Airplane might have wanted to happen. Seriously, ctrl-f for "investor", it doesn't show up even once. In addition to the CEO being overwhelmed and tired, it's very important to realize that:

- Airplane raised a $32mm series B in September of 2022 [crunchbase]

- Tech company valuations fell off a cliff over the course of 2021-2023 [memory]

- By 2023, with slowing growth, it's likely that Airtable was no longer able to raise additional funding. Best case was likely a down-round.

- The investors probably exerted significant pressure, particularly given the departure of the other founder and several key employees, to wind down the venture.

- An acquihire is a reasonable way to end the company, return money to investors, and give employees some sort of payout and a high likelihood of remaining employed.

Just my opinion, but if I were the author I would consider that maybe the remaining founder actually did a decent job of looking out for their team. Signing bonuses of $50-75k is not life changing money, but a job and a signing bonus is a hell of a lot better than nothing.
I’m not ruminating on if it’s a good idea to pay people more or not, I’m just saying that there is an impact of wage increases on inflation.

Besides - if the cookies are still 99 cents after all these years then they actually are cheaper in real terms.
Yielding to the strikers' demands may or may not have been wise, but I have not seen anything here saying this was, in itself, illegal: it became so when the council failed to extend those increases to other workers deemed (by its own rules, apparently) to be in equivalent positions.
No. Graham says it’s this one [1]. I see no threat of breach, so if that’s in fact the tweet, Cook is off his meds.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1765431238985187525
>It was to demonstrate that 100% objective proof is impossible, because all evidence is weighed by subjective humans.

Everyone, everywhere, already knew that. Scientists and scholars already knew that. The inevitable result of this point of view is solipsism. Nothing is provable, not even one's own existence. OK. So what?

Truth may be a matter of probability but that doesn't make it arbitrary. When we can be 99.9% certain the Earth is more correctly described as "round" than "flat" then some probabilities can be more valid as models for truth than others. We can do experiments to prove the Earth is round. Flat Earthers have often accidentally proven it themselves, despite their priors to the contrary. We can see the curvature of the Earth. We can see ships disappear over the horizon. We can take a plane around the planet. At some point, it becomes true enough, and one has to accept that in some cases consensus reality is sufficient even when imperfect.

No model is real, but some models are useful, and some models are more useful than others. Newtonian physics isn't "real" but it works well enough at some scales. Einstein's relativity is also not "real" but it also works well enough when Newton no longer applies. But only a fool would call either model "disinformation."

And besides, rather than leading people to question their priors and exercise critical thinking, the Flat Earth movement has just bred conspiracy theorists who literally believe the Earth is a flat disk and the moon is a CIA hologram. Let's not give these people credit as if they've done any good for the world.
I really hope that these designations are true, and Garry Kasparov has a shadow career infiltrating and sabotaging Russian assets and fomenting rebellion, and he has survived only thanks to his masterful chess-trained wits.

Go Gary!
More trees than have ever existed, given we burn both coal (trees) and oil (algae)... and a loooot more oil.
Came here to say this. There was a pretty funny study some researcher did a long time ago where he ate nothing but twinkies and water for a month and lost a ton of weight by restricting calories. Was he probably miserable and hungry? Sure. But, your body doesn't really differentiate too much when it comes to calories in vs calories out.

Proteins/Fiber/etc. are only good diet options because they are very filling for the amount of calories they have. Additionally, certain macros like protein help to build muscle, which can raise your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure).

But you're right, a calorie definitely is a calorie - even in a diet.
> was he a recluse?

I dunno, he'd have to get out pretty often to get vaccinated this many times, wouldn't he?
> why wouldn't they have known that already based on the VIN?

People can, and lots of people do, install aftermarket immobilizers in their cars. There would be no way to know if someone did that based on the VIN.
It is incredibly hard to change a culture of a corporation. Apple is not a thinking human, it's a bunch of people that have their own egos, preferences and wishes. It may not even be currently feasible to propose an idea like you have because the person doing so would be unpopular internally in Cupertino.

Culture is hard. This is why you see corporations and businesses fail constantly despite "obvious" choices being ahead of them.
Many of our early users have said this as well. I don't want this to turn into an abstraction monstrosity: the more unadulterated the prompt, the better. We're looking to outlines as inspiration for doing this logic as part of the model vs the client. Thanks for the links!
Was a former employee at Airplane.

We were quite disappointed and surprised by the sudden choice to shut the company down. In many ways, we had good metrics, customers that liked us, a lot of runway, and a great team.

In the end, the decision came to our CEO. While he never gave a clear reason why, it was pretty clear that he burned out and tossed in the towel.
No no, you see the restrictions are there for YOUR protection.

"Won't someone please think of the children?"
The title made me think this was an announcement by the company and it took me a minute to realize it was someone's personal experience there. I suspect the context of HN and the title confused me a little.

I do find commentary on the level of "interest" and behavior of various individuals interesting when it never mentions the actual fundamentals of the business (making any money?).
The money that gets spent on biometric infrastructure and verification can buy a lot of food.
Do you want to send executives to jail when their products kill people? The line has to be drawn somewhere, and if there is no (functioning) regulatory oversight then businesses will absolutely not self-regulate.
> To me and others, it seemed like the CEO was tired of the startup grind and simply giving up. Ever since his fellow co-founder quit, he’d been running both the technical and go-to-market sides of the company, and it was clearly very draining. We felt that he wanted a less stressful position with a lower risk payday, and this kind of deal was the best way to achieve that.

Where was the board? Why not hire in a new CEO from the outside?

I appreciate that the author can't actually get inside the founders' heads, but something still smells fishy here.
The architect of SF's cable cars once built a California 'railway in the clouds'
Our population is too large to even 5% be enough of a market segment. 5% is still a hell lot of phones. In Tier-1 cities and urban centers, you would see iPhones everywhere in offices and restaurants. Nobody cares about blue messages here but the phone itself is definitely a status symbol here.

On the other hand, Indian government loves doing what EU does. After USB-C and moving towards AI Safety laws, we expect a DMA-like law soon.
Hopefully they are cheaper than the copay on the Libre 3 sensors.
Show HN: RAG with Persona
Demo: https://github.com/weaviate/recipes/tree/main/integrations/d...
I believe “getting on top of HN” is a given for those Launch HN posts.
The point is not to create the best possible user experience.

Apple's goal is to build the best possible vending machine and put it in all our pockets.
The political sabotage of nuclear power [video]
When you're at a caloric deficit your body will begin to burn fat. It doesn't make a difference what kind of calories you're intaking - your body literally does not know.

What you're speaking to wrt fat loss vs weight loss is a much more complicated subject than just eating the right foods and having a calorie deficit.
The lose of revenue would not be the biggest problem, they could afford it. The problem would be the loss of applications, most EU based developers would stop supporting iOS and focus on Android. That would hurt
Epic provided screenshots of the emails. Are you seriously suggesting there's even the tiniest chance they're forgeries?
Systems that are used as cache such as redis evict keys with some randomness to avoid scanning all of them. They also evict keys you read that expired without you having to check for that. And they don't store both a key and an id.

Given the value of redis for caching and outside of caching, bur the ease and low cost of setting it up, I would say postgres as a cache seems niche.
Any links to how to build these at home? Like a 10 to 15 foot version? It'd be really interesting to find out how to keep the plants' roots from clogging the water supply.
> When you build websites you are creating code for others to read as much as you're creating an "app" or document.

That's an approach people are certainly welcome to take, and I'm glad that some people do, but I disagree that this is what the act of building a website entails.

This feels a bit like romanticizing the early days of the web, when the primary form of learning involved reading other people's source code. The depth and breadth of ways to learn in 2024 looks nothing like those early days.

If I choose to build something to solve a particular need or to communicate something I care about, it's my choice as to how I do that.

> It's the very essence of what's good and special about the web.

The very essence of what's good and special about the web is the diversity of solutions, the myriad of entry points to becoming a web developer, the existence of tools ranging from vanilla HTML/CSS all the way up to complex frameworks like Tailwind, and your freedom to pick your path.

Tailwind's existence does not threaten the layers underneath it.
I'd love to watch that!
A smaller company I worked for a few years ago was migrating its old ERP legacy system and brought in some people from Oracle, SAP and Epicor. They decided to go with SAP, but I remember my boss in several lunch meetings saying that they didn't get a sales pitch from the other vendors as much as a litany of horror stories about why they shouldn't go with Oracle.

It worked since my manager said he asked around and did his own research and wondered how they're even still in business since everybody he talked to said the same thing - whatever you do, do not go with Oracle.
It's similar to the cloud lock-in you see today. (If all you're using is VMs, you're probably better off with something else...)
When your smartphone becomes a critical health device to support/treat a condition I wonder how that will impact case law around things like police confiscation.
Dexcom's first-ever over-the-counter glucose monitor patch gets FDA clearance
And it’s their least profitable.
what are their margins? an $18B fine starts to make it seem possible that it would be profitable to not sell there.
Indeed. The Wikipedia article says: "The gömböc, as the first physical example, is less sensitive; yet it has a shape tolerance of 10−3, that is 0.1 mm for a 10 cm size."
Why does it matter who said it? Tim Apple is nothing offensive. Should we all avoid loving dogs because Hitler and Saddam used to love dogs?
While I think they should've switched earlier, it's often forgotten how angry people got when Apple switched from the 30 pin connector to Lightning. There were piles and piles of devices that used the 30 pin connector - it had been on every iPod, iPad and iPhone for nearly a decade. Entire hotel chains had iPod Docks in every room. Switching cost isn't limited to just goes in the device. It doesn't surprise me that Apple was hesitant to switch the port again.
When your stock is traded like the stock of a company with a stranglehold on a huge market it can press seemingly at will, what can you do other than pressing?

Publicly traded companies are mercenaries bound to the highest bidder, nothing they can do about it.
Hah so at least Worldcoin no longer has to explain why nobody in Spain uses their product.

I am afraid that they may not have an equally compelling explanation for the same problem in the rest of the world.
If you want to test it with multiple languages, perhaps try all the parliaments of the world? They tend to have public recordings.
The other side of this is having a license for something, but other users at your organization are using it as well, but don't have licenses.

The company will then want to meet and discuss licensing, and if that doesn't happen they'll cut your IP addresses off.

This is typically something that's free for personal use but requires a license for commercial use. We've ran into this with a few things.
TGI just integrated Guidance in 1.4.3, that by itself can support both grammar/JSON/Pydantic & tool invocation/function calling.

Langchain & Llamaindex plus Fructose really need to skip the structure adherence work & move to chunking/KG generation since that's the next pain point to tackle.
I said 'find so many iPhones' I didn't say they were leading. Apple sells millions of units in India and with a 5% market share in a country where average annual household income is about 5 iPhones you must realise that this is a very significant and important share. I see a lot of resell market customers preferring iPhone 7 and 8 at around 100$ over similarly priced Android phones. the top 5% income households generally buy new iPhones and that trickles down to the masses after 3-5 years in the resell market. Thats how it works here as a lot of labour population seems to also have some old iPhone.
When was the last time a warlord stole your children?
> Not a good analogy, as the paradox of tolerance shows.

It's not a paradox of freedom of speech to allow people who don't support freedom of speech to talk.

> I wanted to vote for that kid who registered "Deez Nutz" for president in 2012 Iowa caucus. Iowa Republicans took him off the ballot. Thank goodness our Supreme Court would allow Deez Nuts on the ballot today!

I don't know about your specific case but I assume it's very different from a person who already qualified to be on the ballot for a position which was already held by that person. I'm not arguing Trump shouldn't be able to be removed from the ballot if he is indeed unqualified, I'm deriding the folks who _claim_ democracy is at stake if we let people vote for who they want when that's a thin facade for partisan, anti-democratic efforts.

The analogy goes to the press freedom limitations because, somehow, eliminating wrong speak always seems to align with the eliminators ideology. Freedom of speech (and the press) exists because the arbiters will always have a bias and that is worse than letting people say whatever they want.
There seems to be a libertarian slant to a lot of the comments on this. It reads as if most people believe they have an inalienable right to extend Apple’s products. In other words, it doesn’t matter what I do, what I say, or how I treat Apple, I have an inalienable right to extend their platform. A pretty bold take in my opinion.
> Benchmarking and comparing UNLOGGED tables against Memcached or Redis is out-of-scope of this article

That’s the interesting part…
I so wish they would do that. Apple thinks it's more powerful than government, let's test that theory!

Most people would understand that these huge, aggressive corporates must be brought to heel. The sooner the EU establishes credibility in this respect, the sooner we all win.
AI Safety should be about "I found the AI purposefully injecting bugs so it could build Skynet", not "it has an opinion on the war in Gaza".
No way! It's been so long, would love to catch up.
I wouldn't pick a side in this one... it looks to me like there are two bad guys here, and I hope they both get taken down a peg.
GPTComment: Enforce Conventions Using GPT
It is hilarious to me how many of the twitter accounts who swore up and down crypto was the future are now shilling for AI instead. It's obvious they don't know or care very much about anything, they're just determined to keep riding hype waves and try to cash out.
SURE it really seems in Hamas best interest to shoot the few journalists present...

And it's Hamas that's preventing international journalists to enter...

They're terrorists but not stupid
I empathize for the co-founder who was CTO and became CEO. I imagine some of the challenges come from the fact that there was a big chunk of equity owned by the original founding CEO. As the remaining co-founder, I can imagine feeling like I was climbing a grueling uphill battle to just get back to the most recent $300 million (!) valuation and a large amount of the upside of that battle was going to someone who abandoned me/the team. That said, I'm not privy to any equity adjustment that happened after the original founding CEO left.

That said, the after-the-fact communication feels lacking. It sounds like your CEO could have at least explained things in more detail after the fact (ie. Why he felt a pivot would be necessary to get to where the business needed to go.)

Such is life, I guess. I'm wishing you and the team the best for the future!
For me, creating a new programming language which is suitable for general purpose programming would be extremely hard, regardless of how novel or good it is. But, fair point that "hard" is always subjective.
And like MS they will just pay a few billions in PR and Foss to make a come back in 10 years and all will be forgiven.

They will get away with this, we let them. They have no incentive to be better.
Considering how impactful some executive decisions can be why would this be so inconceivable? A CEO can definitely cause more harm to a community than a shoplifter and we have no qualms about sending them to jail. If there was a clear mens rhea to cause harm or awareness of that harm and a disregard for the consequences to others then why shouldn't we treat it similarly?
Having gone through an IRS audit (spoiler alert: I do not recommend.), I can't imagine anyone willingly signing any sort of contract with a private company that allows them to treat you the same way.
Macplaymate?
Psychotic?
There was lots of saucy retro Mac content out there despite the Internet not being a thing yet.