skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I live most stores started off in fort Knox mode but had to tone it down. The bagging area was usually miniscule and trying to fit all the groceries of even a medium grocery list on there without locking the system was nigh impossible
Very addicting game. I love it.

One of the things that made 2048 great was that you could spam the keyboard to play it more quickly.

This game could benefit similarly with additon of keyboard controls via numpad. So you would enter coords and then the position to move it to. I.e. press 5,5 then 5,6. Alternatively enter coords then press an arrow key.

Could also just use arrow keys and space bar to move a cursor, but I think numpad would be faster.

Currently quite time consuming to play having to click and click, and the animation speed could be faster.

Gonna lose some sleep playing this haha.
Can someone explain? Why is a rice cooker needed? Like, why a special pot to cook rice, specifially? I eat plenty of rice -basmati, brown basmati, brown long-grain, carolina, bomba paella, arborio, etc etc. I boil it in a simple pot where I also boil everything else. It cooks just fine. I make pilafs (in my French oven!), Greek stuffed veg, egg fried rice (with last day's rice obviously), risotto, Persian tahdig with saffron, you name it. I really don't think there's ever any problem with my rice.

So why is everyone using special cookers? What's the secret?
Makes sense.

I would still prefer though that Bun did it for me, in a separate process perhaps, so I wouldn't need to configure a separate CI job, or manually enter the tsc-command. I read that Bun has its own test-runner too so why not its own type-checker too.

On Node.js I just edit the source-code then re-start the debugger on it, and edit it while in the debugger then rinse and repeat.

I use runtime assertions to catch errors in argument-types etc. as needed.
Have you checked out IFTTT? It's basically an event-driven platform that can tie a bunch of apps together.

There are tons of community made applets already out there -- let you do things like monitor your twitter and x-post to your Facebook page, etc. Or, you can make your own without too much difficulty on their free tier.
I would keep things simple and make an Electron app, then either bundle ffmpeg or use ffi to call out to it. That'll get you going right away with the performance you need
Unfortunately Bradford pears are toxic to humans (though not birds).
Take a look at Juce (juce.com)
Yes, of course. But which population? Most of us aren't national politicians. A mayor, for example, might be more interested in what the effect is for their city.
Its job is also to protect minorities...
Definitely not widely practiced but many people seem to like it, me included :smile
> modern build systems
> Autotools, even Makefiles
> C/C++'s header system with conditional inclusion

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say something like "older build systems"? I don't think any of the things you listed are "modern". Which isn't a criticism of their legacy! They have been very useful for a long time, and that's to be applauded. But they have huge problems, which is a big part of why newer systems have been created.

FWIW, I have been using pants[0] (v2) for a little under a year. We chose it after also evaluating it and bazel (but not nix, for better or worse). I think it's really really great! Also painful in some ways (as is inevitably the case with any software). And of course it's nearly impossible to entirely stomp out "genrules" use cases. But it's much easier to get much closer to true hermeticity, and I'm a big fan of that.

0: https://www.pantsbuild.org/
We'll write build scripts in highly obfuscated Perl. There, now no one is happy.
Hi, I'm the author. See the "The best approach we have today for run-time isolation is through sandboxing" part in the blog post. It covers sandboxing, which pledge(2) is an example of.

My experience with sandboxing approaches is that they are only used in the most security-critical software because they are difficult to integrate. If the programming language isolates components by default, then the majority of software should be able to benefit.
> blue-collar production-line workers should be receiving $5000 for a 40-hour week to maintain their buying power in the 2020s that they used to have in the 1960s.

$5,000/week * 52 weeks/year = $260k/year.

If this is true, then a union factory job then is on par with a rather good SWE job now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess
But this was an obvious sham and a fraud that couldn't scale. I don't think its demise is sad at all.

What's sad is putting cashiers out of work, and even worse is replacing them with outrageously piss-poor alternatives. Self-checkout is a clinic on incompetent system design, and has been for DECADES now. It's mind-bogglingly bad, all to take jobs away from people. Fuck that.
Let me give you an example. Here's a concept: countries. You've got the US and Mexico, and there is a border between them. You could probably find an infinite number of points right on the border, that can't be said with certainty to belong to either country. And based on those outliers, you could argue that the whole concept of country is invalid, and that countries and borders should be abolished. You see where I'm going with this?
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How much would you bet against the NSA having a team full of leetcode and interview experts, who's job is to apply at tech companies and perform excellently through the hiring process, so that the offensive team at NSA can infiltrate and work remotely without ever needing to meet there new "coworkers"?

I suspect a "professional job seeker" with the resources of the NSA behind them and who lands 1st and subsequent interviews dozens of times a year - would be _way_ better at landing interviews and jumping through stupid recruiting hoops that even the best senior or "10x engineers", who probably only interview a dozen or two times in their entire career.
Pretty neat. Any mapping integrations?
You can zoom out even more to, "What's the effect on all of future humanity?" Though that's much more difficult to answer, why should we discount them for the only inconvenience of not being born yet?
Also of note, the author of the article has the same axe to grind.
They're dirt-cheap and grow extremely fast.

Just the ticket for fly-by-night real estate developers.

By the time they get big enough to cause problems, the developer is long gone, off to fleece other suckers.
They recently installed a little door at my self checkout. I cannot even walk out of my grocery store without scanning a receipt or flagging an employee to open the door. It’s frustrating.
The entire point of this campaign is to make the companies think about these kinds of decisions before making the game.

Imagine if your fridge cut out after two years because the company went bankrupt, would you really just accept "Oh well, it was designed that way! It's far too complicated to expect the company who made it in the first place to plan around that happening, that's just the way the industry works."

It's absolute madness that games are just kind of expected to die simply because its not a physical good.
Not just the line, but the rod too. As a kid, we always thought we landed a "big one" by the way the poles would bend. It wasn't until I was older that my dad told me about kids poles made that way just to increase the excitement. Just the slightest nibble on the bait would cause the pole to bend significantly.
I know it's not related, but the location is similar and the details of how the machine is driven reminds me of that hilarious scene in Don Quijote where they can't figure out what's making that noise by the waterfall, and Sancho is just scared to death of whatever horrible thing it could be.

It turns out to be fulling [0] mill hammers, driven by a water wheel. Always cracks me up.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulling
I'm not afraid of LLMs replacing me because of their output quality. The problem is the proliferation of quantity-over-quality "churn out barely-working crap as fast as possible" culture that gives LLMs the advantage over real humans.
I can't be arsed watching the pot.
> "Now-disgraced sci-fi patriarch John W. Campbell..."

What did he do?
Nice, I'll use this in the future. Bookmarked.
Read IOCCC entries.

Now realize, those are people having FUN. What is your chance of catching nation state level maliciousness in a codebase? Pretty low.
Pratchett comes to mind.
Thanks!, Yes, that is what it means, though there are lot of false positives
Thanks!, mapping like Google maps?
There are some fundamental reasons why cout is slower than stdio/{fmt}: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65325727/471164.
Google Analytics 4 has replaced Universal Analytics
And it almost always DOES go wrong. Seriously 75% of the time when I'm done scanning and I press "pay now," it inexplicably says "calling for assistance" and refuses to do anything until an employee comes over. WHY?

And now assholes are intentionally taking alcohol through the self-checkout, deliberately taking up that one employee's time making him or her perform the workaround to check the items out.

And the 20+ years of "unexpected item in the bagging area" bullshit... just get rid of it.
The remark was in the context of getting along with your teammates, which is why we went through those personality models in the first place.

Assuming we are avoiding extreme lack of conscientiousness, it is much easier to have the conversation with someone who has better emotional stability so that we can decide whether they can modify their natural inclinations.
> Social safety net is more than just being able to afford it. It's a combination of not being able to afford it and general erosion of social values leading to "take what you can get away with" mentality.

There's a causal arrow in the other direction, IMHO: People like to believe in the 'law of the jungle' mentality and thus vote to cut the safety net. IME it's especially wealthy people for whom it's a kind of game, not trauma, deprivation (of education, health care, food, housing, safety) and survival, and who also get to pay lower taxes, Didn't Jamie Dimon talk about how he liked how 'animal spirits' have been awakened?
I'm not familiar with Bazel, but Nix in it's current form wouldn't have solved this attack. First of all, the standard mkDerivation function calls the same configure; make; make install process that made this attack possible. Nixpkgs regularly pulls in external resources (fetchUrl and friends) that are equally vulnerable to a poisoned release tarball. Checkout the comment on the current xz entry in nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/comp...
Closest I can offer is https://sfba.social/@kfarr/112204337465256518
While the time/cost of using GPT-4 is not ideal, GPT-4-level classification is absolutely crucial for the entire adaptation process to succeed. With 3.5 guiding the adaptation, we find that errors quickly accumulate. It can't identify complex ideas correctly.

3-6 minutes for results takes getting used to, but we've found most people don't complain if it solves a problem that is actually impossible to solve without hours of digging, ie if you use it on something truly hard. Low latency is more crucial for public search engines like Google (0.5s delay -> 20% traffic loss) where there are convenient, fast alternatives.

Preliminary search is a blend of semantic embeddings on 100M+ papers and keyword search, citation links, etc. Reasonably accurate, but full of noise for complex queries.
Spatial Personas Make Apple Vision Pro a Less Isolating Experience
I see what you mean. A "batteries included" standard library reduces the risk for obscure third-party dependencies.

Qt comes to mind. It includes the kitchen sink and a lot of applications can be written without third-party dependencies.

Go programs tend to have a lot of third-party package dependencies. I don't think it's a good example.
The speed of sight: Individual variation in critical flicker fusion thresholds
They afford to, but it's surprisingly non-trivial for a government to fill out all the paperwork involved and get the various approvals needed to procure/pay someone.
Dear user t888, I looked into your previous posts and found that you display an uncanny proclivity to quarrel here on HN in defense of Apple’s corporate image.

- Would you care to comment?
You can, but which timeline? Predicting the future is very difficult, so I prefer to stick with actually existing people. Expectant parents should probably take a different point of view, though!
"Unidentified item in driving area. Calling police."
> Overpriced, bad stock

It's just early tech: They were working out the tech, then they'd figure out their market, stock, pricing, etc.
“An increasingly strong interest in pseudoscience later alienated Campbell from Asimov.[4] In the 1960s, Campbell's controversial essays supporting segregation, and other remarks and writings surrounding slavery and race, served to distance him from many in the science fiction community.”
It amazes me that Russia acts in a way that will continue to see alliances form against it.
Unreal Engine 5 is a combination of a few technologies:

* Virtualised geometry (Nanite) allowing very detailed models

* Very high quality models and textures from photogrammetry (Megascans)

* Real-time global illumination (Lumen)

Combining these is what allows the very high fidelity demos, as they’re each step changes from the previous techniques in Unreal. Megascans (and the Quixel library) are a big part of the “photorealness” of these demos, because they’re basically literally photos.
Man, this sounds right, but I dunno ... I feel like even "simple" shell scripts tend toward more inscrutability than all but the most questionable python code I've ever written. Just comparing my dotfiles - every bit of which I understood when I wrote them - to the gnarliest sections of a big python app I work on ... I just really feel like at least some of this inscrutability issue can truly be laid at the feet of shell / bash as a language.
> The prices are outrageous, and these minimum wage hikes will prove Sisyphean since those hikes will be eaten away by even higher costs, assuming they don’t get their hours reduced or face a layoff. Then we’ll have the same discussion a few years later when the minimum wage is $25 or even $30 per hour.

It's all a symptom of the absolute cancer that is real estate investing.

Every $100 increase in the rent means an extra $30-50 needed in wages if you still want to maintain housing costs being 30-50% of your wage.

And nearly all rent increases are just simply price gouging. You have people that are barely treading water paying their rent, and as soon as minimum wage goes up, those absolute leeches we call landlords will just suck that extra money right up via a rent increase.

I just don't know what the solution is. Rent controls have a myriad of unintended consequences. Simply creating more housing doesn't necessarily work, since it all gets bought up by investors that maintain the same high rent.
Hmm for being so resource intensive that demo doesn't sound that great to me, sounds robotic. Piper will run on an iPhone and sounds about the same.
NVD Remains Stalled on Enriching CVE's, Security Industry Criticizes NIST's
To be fair, sometimes meticulous users investigate the bugs and write down logical chains explaining the causes and even offer a solution at the end (which they can't apply for the lack of commit access, for instance).

The proposed solution isn't always right, of course, but it would be incorrect to say that no bug reports come with a diagnosed cause. But that's exactly where a conscious reviewer is most needed, I believe.
They really should turn their ire towards their employers, not resent shelf stackers for making the same wage. They have all this training, debt, and lost opportunity, and their employers still pay them minimum wage? That doesn't seem acceptable to me. And it doesn't have anything to do with the shelf stackers.
Oh my God, I remember doing this to my friends. The default voicemail password always worked so I reset their voice messages to strange sounds or me doing voices.

It’s amazing how insecure everything was. I remember as a kid walking around with a cordless phone realizing you can pick up other peoples’ conversations.

There was something so charming about technology back in the day. I don't think it's purely nostalgia. I think part of it was that our lives didn’t revolve around it so poking around never really hurt.
This sounds nice on paper, but there's a lot of missing glue to be written between nix and bazel.

Ideally nix would move towards less imperative/genrule style package declarations and ultimately become more usable for internal builds.
> For while the dying-earth genre came to an end in the 1940s

uhh...

Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984.

The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983, 1987) is a four-volume science fantasy novel[2] written by the American author Gene Wolfe.
Oh no. Jeff will have to make his next yacht 1 foot shorter.

Seriously, I have a hard time caring about this.
$3.75 - triple shots with soymilk

$1.45 - cold foam

$0.80 - syrup

Why, though?
Here's the results for Emmitt's request on research using interventions to improve reaction time: https://www.undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/e1bcab...
Not quite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster
Incremental Reading (Learning Technique)
Starbucks is the only chain where I've never been served a bad or stale cup of coffee. The value of a guaranteed good cup of coffee to a white-collar professional making $80/hour is much higher than Starbucks' price. I'd be willing to pay at least $5. They just have to boil the frog to deal with price expectations.
The government’s job is to pass laws that the people asked for. While it is reasonable to think that the population will act in its own self-interest, that is not a requirement.
Original Sherlock Holmes manuscript could fetch $1.2M at auction
But the CPI tells us that inflation is at 3%, so this can't be true!
I live in Western Europe and the self checkouts don’t have scales, except for weighing produce, and even for buying alcohol, they trust you to say you’re over 16. It’s always fast because you wait in one line for 4-8 self checkouts and take the first free one.

On the other hand, using the cashier is often frustrating. You have to self-bag anyway and the cashier won’t start scanning your items until the person in front of you has bagged all of their stuff, had a chat about the weather and counted their change. The bagging area is always way too small, making all of this take a while. A few times I’ve even waited while one cashier counts their float, leaves, and a new one comes and counts their float.
I was talking about this:

let mut file = File::open(path)?;
let mut contents = String::new();
file.read_to_string(&mut contents)?;
Sounds like fake-it-till-you-make-it stuff right? This is exactly how I would bootstrap a startup that wanted to do this. Kind of impressed with their scrappiness to be honest.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112

Price of a gallon of milk over time
I worked for Amazon in Seattle when Amazon Go first launched. As you'd expect, lots of SDE teams made games out of trying to fool the thing in various ways.

A few attempts were successful early on (passing items back and forth, one person moving something to the wrong shelf and another person picking it up, people dressing in identical outfits, etc), but the success rate in fooling the system was very very low. No method of trying to trick it that I ever heard of worked consistently, and it definitely seemed to get harder to fool the longer the store was open.

At the time I thought that whatever algos were being run on the camera feeds were getting better. Knowing that it was basically all manual, I'm not sure what the explanation is for the store seemingly getting harder to fool over time. Possibly just placebo, or people lost interest in trying so hard to fool it.
Flour and sugar is sold in paper bags...
> something like 'melting down discarded PCBs to recover trace metals'

Better than shipbreaking.

https://youtu.be/5jdEG_ACXLw
You know what they say about a frog and a pot of boiling water.
The party pack of twelve soft tacos at Taco Bell costs $30 if you want sour cream. It costs just as much to add a few dollups of sour cream to the tacos as it is to by a bulk tub of tub of sour cream at one of the warehouse stores.
Market value has to be considered though, can't blame a car mechanic for being pissed that regulations force a shelf stocker, a lower value/difficulty job, to be paid the same (above fair market value).
True, but a lot of those are premium cards with high fees, ones with implementations that really minimize usage (like the rotating monthly opt-in categories that have limits on how much you can earn), or ones where the user generally has a broader relationship with the issuing bank that makes them net profitable even if the card is a loser.

RH seems to be going for the third option, but I just don't think they're going to be able to make it work in the same way someone like Chase can.
A world premiere: the most powerful MRI machine
Let me tell you about my LLM project called grandma. It's fine tuned in order to replace your grandma but in principle it could replace your great-grandma.
> The internal build tool is Blaze (Bazel is the open-source cousin).

I was under the impression that Blaze is Google's Bazel deployment, i.e. that they're the same code. Is that not correct?
Why is it a fraud? Did they ever tell you it was entirely computer-driven? I thought their value proposition was you could just ... walk out. This feels pretty inescapably the future. Why have people do bad jobs like cashier work when computers could do them instead? This is why UBI is going to be critical. We're moving to a world where we'll have more people than work, and that's not just ok - it's fantastic.

They're not wrong, they're just early. Which you could argue is the same thing on a micro scale, but not on a macro.
It's crazy to me that open source maintainers offer free support to corporations or governments that they could easily extract money from for the benefit of the project or themselves.

An individual wants a feature and is prepared to pitch in, probably worth the time investment for a maintainer.

The US government wants floating point arithmetic done a certain way, fuck you, pay me.
Self-checkout is seamless in Europe. I don't see anything that would stop the US from having the same.
> Starbucks is the only chain where I've never been served a bad or stale cup of coffee.

To each their own I suppose. They are rather consistent, I'll give them that.
Firstly, while your characterization of Khan is accurate, it’s a huge stretch to call her Apple’s “own” regulator, so yes, I’d say that’s clearly a misrepresentation intended to make what Apple did seem worse than it is - I.e. a lie.

But also, as you point out - it was a normal editorial decision, not censorship. I personally thing it was unwise - I think it would have been better for them to produce the show.

However, we aren’t talking about your interpretation of the article. We basically agree on that.

My comment was that the headline is a lie. I think that’s accurate.

1. Apple didn’t censor anything.
2. Apple didn’t get ‘caught’ doing anything.
3. Khan isn’t Apple’s own regulator.

Even if we agree to disagree on #3. The headline writer knew both 1 and 2 because they read the article. Therefore they lied.