skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have been syphoning this data for free for years to train their models. Why would the proprietor of the data not be able to sell it? Assuming of course their terms of use plainly and clearly state that the data belongs to them
> Though, that engine evaluation is going to be absurdly expensive, when you're compressing/decompressing billions of games.

It only has to be accurate enough to be beneficial though. Even a knowledge about two sets of more frequent and less frequent moves would be much better than the baseline.
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I wait until stuff appears on BluRay which I then rent from RedBox. Still haven’t watched “Oppenheimer”
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The buck stops at selling the energy to net a profit, not producing it
Why do you need to compete with FAANG?

I'm in New Zealand. I'm paid approx $120k USD as a staff engineer equivalent at a conaultancy, and I think that's about market rate if you're good. I've never worked for a FAANG (was at Xero in the early days though).

You could hire three and a half of me for the price of one ex FAANG person in your city.

NZ is English speaking and has a fair amount of time zone overlap with the US west coast. We do have proper labour laws though :P
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I haven't used std, but I would like to point you at what I think is the ideal way to organize a lot of nix: readTree from the virus lounge[0].

It doesn't add kitschy terms like "Cell" and "growOn", it's just a way to standardize attribute names according to where things live in the filesystem.

So in their repo, /foo/bar/baz.nix has the attribute path depot.foo.bar.baz

I will say that to understand how it works you need to have a solid grasp of the nix language. But once established I think it's a pattern that noobs could learn in a very quick and superficial way.

[0]: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/blob/nix/readTree/README.md
It’s the first one. Apple packed a ridiculous amount of ultra powerful stuff in it. As the article says they may find out that they don’t need some of that stuff. Also we know that everything gets cheaper overtime.

And Apple put an absolute ridiculous amount of money into designing and building that thing and they’re trying to recoup some of that. But by version two or three a lot more of it will have already been recouped and it won’t be as necessary to keep the prices high.

The first color televisions, cell phones, refrigerators, computers, and microwave ovens were not exactly cheap either.

The price will come down.
Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651481
I worked on an oculus team for close to a team that was charged with building a platform. The trouble at oculus was that there were multiple waring platform efforts.
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I used to do this adhoc with friends, because all the projectuonests knew each other and would source films we would all pitch in on and show them after hours. After a few years they started an official monthly classic film selection and it was popular until projectionist as a job fizzled out. The whole culture is nearly lost, but no reason we cant revive it,
Unfortunately the result of a Nix Docker image is an image that is 100+ MB for no particular reason :(
Apparently there is only 1 level that no one (except the creator) has beaten. Its only 10-20 seconds long, but is so hard that its not clear if anyone will complete it before the servers shut down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmikpEVCuZE
It was really illegal. But what are you going to do? You can report your employer but once your culture has gotten to the point Mozilla’s has - where you can openly say these things, your problem isn’t one person. And your employer has a ton of ways to retaliate, then you have to prove that.

Principles come at the expense of your salary sometimes, and sticking to your principles isn’t pragmatic if you can’t effect greater change.

We also have MRGs - Mozillian Resource Groups - where you can only join if you’re black, or gay, or <insert group>. That’s pretty blatantly illegal, too. Doesn’t stop it from happening.
India. was taught roman numerals upto 1000 in elementary school math, 5th grade or so. Quickly forgot.
Gp’s “4k” was referring to price, not pixels
This is sort of a thing for large corporate events that can fill an entire regular-sized theater.
I went through this process many years ago and documented it here https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/chess-move-comp...

Basically I demonstrate how you can compress to much less than one byte per move, but settle instead on a one byte per move scheme that is also very performant, something you'd have to sacrifice for optimal compression. I used this one byte representation to good effect in my chess GUI Tarrasch https://triplehappy.com
Classic binary thinking on a definitely non binary problem.
Well sure, people may colloquially refer to a lot of things as "strings"—hell, you could refer to all sequences as strings if you just wanted to argue with people—but the idea of trying to encapsulate this all in the standard library in a single implementation seems confusing semantically and of questionable value. It seems a lot easier to work with a reasonable interpretation of a string with its associated tradeoffs—which again is implied by most standard libraries.

That said, I personally would balk at willing adopting any runtime that didn't enable iterating over a sequence of unicode code points, whether they be stored as utf8 or some 16-bit form, from a string of bytes in 2024 unless I were guaranteed to avoid having to deal with text processing of free-form human input.
Such games should be infrequent enough that you don't need to optimize for them. A single unused code (or for arithmetic coding, a single symbol with a very low but non-zero frequency) can be used as an escape for a full non-optimized move format.
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the first iPhone (2007) cost $499 and the second iPhone, iPhone 3g (2008), cost $199. while the 3g support and App Store helped, I think the much lower price led to volume increase from 1.39M to 11.63M YoY.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...
One of the things I remember about it was someone, maybe Jeff Atwood, spent a fortune on a maxed out model with an SSD.

Even though the SSD was much tinier than the hard drive and the processor in the machine was slow and under clocked to be able to manage heat, in combination with the SSD it was fast compiling code and ran smoother than a normal MacBook Pro.

The flipside is I think the hard drive was a 4200 RPM model and performed absolutely abysmally.

But if you didn’t need much computing power, say you’re a writer, it was extremely small and lightweight and easy to carry. It’s not surprising it changed the industry.
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A lot of what you said what right, but fwiw they do have shotguns they go for during the raptor scene "clever girl" and all that.
And related posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495913

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496089
I remember years ago buying "command and conquer: the first decade"¹ and deciding to play the original command and conquer from old memories.

Wow, it was like pixel vs pixel. Although fun, reality was very different from my rosy memories. It was like looking at an old 80's or 90's movie again and noticing "wow, the HAIR!"
Any scene description format would work (but please not obj or stl), it would be good to see a standard emerge for this, though. USD might be it.
It's the "GNU/Linux" thing all over again....
I use JavaScript and serverless framework at work. How to improve my skills?
I work as a full stack developer mainly using javascript and serverless framework for around 5 years now. How can I take it to the next level?

Any articles, talks or books that I can learn from?
Any tips on what to practice and how to practice? I'm open to ideas on how to improve and take it to the next level. Thanks!
I think nix has a fair amount of gravity - once you've started, assuming like it, you will quickly want to use it for everything.

I don't think most people's flakes are more complex than the alternative (which would be, I don't know, a bunch of different script, maybe some ansible playbooks?) but it is a bit daunting when all that complexity is wrangled into a single abstraction.
They actually cost the same the behind the scenes the difference was the subsidy was available by the time the 3G came out when it wasn’t available at lunch.
In Latin, sometimes numbers have synonyms, like 18 (two from twenty or eight and ten). In my mind, the Roman system was very obvious. Then I learned to read a little French, and had genuine curiosity about the reasoning behind this soixante-dix-neuf character.

edit: sometimes I wonder if arithmetic arose simply from naming numbers
There was also a lengthy off-topic discussion about the compressed board representation this year [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39065595
>phosphene color

Not sure whether you talk about the uranium yellow/green color, or the brief hallucination of a light spot (happened to me just a few minutes ago, hadn't had one in a long time).

I don't have such an hyperbolic mental palace, and this doesn't really give me the ability to establish a global map but I relate a lot to what you wrote. Sometimes as I reach the climax of a long deep thought, I'm thinking via vision exclusively to the extent I don't even pay attention to what my outer eye sees and I stumble upon some insight that is sometimes almost impossible to convey in language, not because it lies beyond, but because the intrusion of language causes the idea to collapse: words points to dangling shapes that mean barely anything because the rest of the painting has gone away.

To those that have read this far and can't relate to this way of thinking, this isn't a superpower, those are rather rare experiences of altered states.

Talking about this is a kind of taboo and may cause some smiles, and indeed if there is a deeper truth to these experiences about the computational or geometric nature of the mind, maybe in the same way synaesthesia mirrors spectrograms, it won't help people working in machine learning a lot (even though some like Lecun seem to use their own visual introspective abilities as a source of inspiration).

However they may prove to be crucial in conceiving what kind of use brain chips should be put too. For now it seems we're walking through a thick fog in that direction with envisioned application being confined to interfacing to external computers or increasing cognitive abilities quantitatively, such as perfect memory and so on. If I could sustain such experiences durably, with a high level of control and enhanced geometric/mathematical understanding, I believe this would be akin to a superpower, yes.
Ah, I thought you were referring to the benefits of such a system as compared to zig and blithely passing the responsibility of input validation on to the programmer. Rust of course demonstrates the benefit of checking validity at initialization.
Can someone link to the 1300 page ruling?
The original Mac was $2500 in ‘84 which is over $7000 now.
Fun fact: in Roman numerals there is no standard way to write numbers above 3999. There are basically two competing camps for how to write them. One with C's and backwards C's acting kinda like parens and one with lines over the letters.

On the other hand, they had semi-standard numerals for all sorts of odd fractions like 1⁄288 = ℈.
If you actually want good compression, this is definitely not the proper way to go.

The proper way to go is to compute all available moves on a given position, assign them a probability distribution and then perform arithmetic coding using it.

If you want simplicity, assign an uniform distribution. For optimal compression, use an engine such as Stockfish to evaluate how strong the moves are, and then apply a statistical model that converts move strength to weights to make a probability distribution for; also use an opening books for the openings and tablebases for the endgames.

My wild guess is that it will probably result in something like 3-4 bits per move on average.

If you instead want a simple encoding, then encode in 4 bits the piece that moved based on any order on the chessboard squares, then in 6 bits the destination square for 10 bits per move.
It's odd that they still use IX though, since that is indistinguishable from inverted XI (IV and VI, by contrast, are distinguishable even after rotation).
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"Fiduciary duty" is the term you'll be looking for. Its a legal requirement for the fiduciary (an executive in this case) to act in the best interest of the beneficiary (the shareholder in this case).

If I'm not mistaken, case law covers the basics like acting in good faith, trust, candor, etc but one of the biggest requirements is acting in the best financial interest of shareholders.
Not correct. In the United States, utility scale solar and on shore wind has a lower average LCOE than anything else, including gas, without considering subsidies.

Gas is still cheaper than an offshore but it’s close.

The subsidies are to develop it faster And in more circumstances
I'm so glad he mentioned weight. I was worried that the competition would say 'okay, apple has this so we need this or better' when there is so much on this device that I really don't care for. I don't need curved glass, I don't need fake LED eyes draining my battery, I don't need a physical knob to slowly fade out reality.

I would really prefer a device that is lighter, cooler, with longer battery life, more CPU available to the displays that matter, and probably cheaper by having less stuff.

I don't think the fake eyes make any part of the experience less creepy in social interactions. Instead that energy could have been used to, for instance, illuminate 850hz IR light so the user would have superhuman night vision. Being in a dark place and not being able to read a menu is much more immersion breaking than having to tell someone "yes I see you" and in fact you have this conversation with everyone regardless of the fake eyes.
Seen the same with trump, etc. Its a social illness no matter the party.
This presumably was Humanity’s fall back if the fusion drives didn’t stop the Kzinti
I tried.

The three times I’ve been to the theater since 2020 have been utter nightmares. People have forgotten how to be considerate in public. I won’t go into details but let’s just say that two of three times were really unpleasant, and the third was kind of gross, and all three were expensive and not particularly memorable.

I’ll take a cold drink and a clean comfortable chair at home with friends, and the ability to pause something for the bathroom any day.

So, no thanks.
Clocktowers on the other hand...
I hadn’t heard of those until yesterday but I saw a video someone took wearing them on a roller coaster in the front seat and it was very impressive.
One thing you can trust is that there was a clear significant chance they would lose in court. No other reason would they give up this fat of a settlement. So clearly there is some truth to it. One thing you can always count on is an army of lawyers for bigcorp making the least risky possible decision. So them doing the deal really does imply some truth to the initial allegations
The first 3 steps GP provided are literally just the steps for installation. The "value" you mentioned is just a packaged installer (or, in the case of Linux, apparently a `curl | sh` -- and I'd much prefer the git clone version).

On multiple occasions I've been modifying llama.cpp code directly and recompiling for my own purposes. If you're using ollama on the command line, I'd say having the option to easily do that is much more useful than saving a couple commands upon installation.
Surely you're not suggesting that this kind of thing never happens in, say, New York City or Los Angeles?
Thank you! I already bumped into the virus lounge, with their TVIX project [0] that I found quite interesting.

[0] https://code.tvl.fyi/about/tvix
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Market valuations for tech companies have been irrational for years. At least in view, there are enough examples in the last couple decades of companies being consistently valued at such high multiples of profit and revenue that it can't really be waved off as short term market corrections.
I'm glad the study lists the reasons people cited. I'd love to hone in on this:
"Distractions from other members of the audience: 19%"

One major reason for me is the lack of courtesy from fellow moviegoers, especially with phones. A bright smartphone screen in front of you is jarring, especially in a dark theatre, and especially with 3D movies. I've even seen people take phone calls in the theatre.

Stadium seating solves this problem as the gradient usually hides phones in front of you. I have started to either sit in the front row balcony, or stadium seating, or just refuse to go to theatres.
My first idea is to think of this as the following game. Initially we consider all words uncolored and I start by picking an initial set of red words that can color any infinite binary sequence in red. Then you get to take away one of my words and make it blue. After that I get to pick replacement words from the remaining uncolored words to fix my set. Rinse and repeat.

I start with { 0, 1 } which will obviously do. You take - I guess without loss of generality - my 0. I pick 00 and 01 as replacements and end up with { 00, 01, 1 } which will work again. You take away my 01, I replace it with 010 and 011 and { 00, 010, 011, 1 } will still work, I guess, but it is certainly becoming less obvious. In general I will pick x0 and x1 as replacements if you take x away which will allow me to still color x, I just have to choose between x0 and x1 depending on the following bit.

If I am not mistaken, you will have to take away an infinite set of words from me in order to prevent me from being able to color any infinite binary sequence in red, if you take only finitely many, I will be left with a set of red words that still works. My guess is now that if you take away that infinite set in order to stop me, you will accidentally assemble a set of blue words that will be able to color any infinite binary sequence blue. Unfortunately I do not have the time right now to properly think this through.

I am also not too confident because I do not clearly see how being allowed to have the first word in the wrong color comes into play. On the other hand, maybe, maybe you need my 1 for sequences starting with one or something like that.

EDIT: Just had an additional thought, this might actually work. If you take my 0, then you can not also take my 1 later on or you will end up with { 0, 1 }. If you take 01, then you can not also take 10 later. So you always have to take one of my two latest replacements and leave the other one to me forever. We will build complementary sets, you have 0, I have 1, you have 01, I have 10, you maybe 011, I 010, ... Now it seems quite plausible that this will work out and we end up with two complementary set that both can color all infinite binary sequences in [mostly] a single color.
String is utf8, OsString is not (necessarily). Having two separate types mean you can guarantee utf8 when you want to, but don't have to when you can't, such as when dealing with “strings” that an OS produces, which are basically just sequences of bytes (perhaps with zero bytes disallowed). When you have one string type that has to do both jobs, you lose out on the guarantees of the more restrictive type.
Also, much like the Apple Watch, they took their best guess at what it’s good for but don’t really know yet. So they’ve kind of tried to prepare for everything.

It’s going to be interesting to see what it really shines at as more developers make different kinds of apps.
I keep reading about Nix and I still don't understand what it does better than Docker, all the example in the post are trivial to do in a Dockerfile so where is the added value?

Docker build are deterministic and easily reproductible, you use a tagged image, that's it, it set in stone.

The 0.01% of Dockerfile that don't work, what does it even means, what does not work?

The other thing is about that buildGoModule module so now you need somehow a third party tool to use or build Go in a Docker image, when using a Dockerfile you just use regular Go commands such as go build and you know exactly what is going on and what args you use to build the binary.

As for the thing about using Ubuntu 18 which is out of date and not finding it, most orgs have docker image cache especially since docker hub closed access to large downloads, but more importantly there is a reason that's its not there anymore, it's not secure to use it, it's like wanting to use the JVM 6, you should not use something that is out of date security wise.
C++ STL is generic and cross-platform, but I suspect they are doing specific optimisations (x86 Asm), and it's very easy to beat a compiler that way.
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Maybe they realized they needed it, but Apple actually pulled it off.

Apple has a stronger combination of hardware design, software implementation skills, and UX expertise, than any company in the world.
There's definitely a lot of leeway in how any one leader will define "best interests," but in the long run I'd argue its always going to end up in the hands of someone chasing the money above all else.
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.

For a child, it's a slapstick comedy about Satan's retinue's visit to Soviet Moscow.

For a teen, it's a savage political satire taking down Stalinism.

For an adult, it's philosophy...
OpenRA is a lot of fun but excited to see a fresh take from EA!
Goals to increase diversity are not illegal. And if an HR person were to hire a non-diverse person, it would be actively going against the company goals. So why would they ever do that?

But how do you avoid hiring a non-diverse person? What if the hiring manager likes them? Simple, just don’t even give them a screening at all. “Not a culture fit”
The unit quips were hilarious, especially when they stuck in your head.

They pop into your head at opportune times, like listening to politics and thinking "Nationalism will bring us victory!"

"China will grow larger" (tank I think?)

"I used to be professor" (russian engineer)
Did we need 10 different commercial unixes?

I almost get the impression that wants and needs are confused here... Some people didn't want 10 different commercial types of UNIX, but some people did need a specific type of UNIX.
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That's kind of you, but I think it's enough if you'll simply fix the problem going forward.
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I used to love going to the movie theaters. A lot of things ruined them over the years. The cost: A family of five plus snacks is topping out around $60-70 nowadays. Totally ridiculous for a movie. Fellow moviegoers: people aren’t there for the movie anymore. They’re talking, they’re on their phone, they’re talking on their phones, doing selfies with flashes. I remember going to see Contact opening night and during the silent part at the very beginning you could hear a pin drop in the theater. Would never happen now. Nobody even gets kicked out for shitty behavior now. The physical facilities: everything just seems dirtier and grimier and just falling apart now. The whole thing has just turned into a terrible, expensive, uncivilized experience.

Meanwhile, home theater technology has never been better. 7.1 surround, amazing displays, you can pause, eat food that you like, and being at home is so much better in every way than being out with the savage public.

Good riddance to movie theaters.