skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That distinction is actually very important to set the customers expectation.

You don't "buy" WoW, their website explicitly ask you to subscribe (monthly or yearly) [1]. Yes, you can buy the expansion, but those wouldn't work without subscription. Customers wouldn't be duped into buying the game and expecting it to still working later when all the servers are shut down, so the petition problably wouldn't apply to WoW, though the petition mentioned about getting this kind of game to support some form of self hosted server support for at least a fraction of its features at the end of its lifetime.

You also don't "buy" Destiny 2, it's a free-to-play game. You can buy items and expansions like WoW. It's not as clear cut as WoW, but it's also should be clear enough that Destiny 2 is not sold as traditional goods, and the petition probably doesn't apply to this game as well.

The game mentioned in the petition, The Crew, was sold for $50 with single player campaign and online components just like other games usually do. Then the publisher made the game unplayable later, even though it has some single player campaign contents. What's their excuse for doing this? Is this game actually a service where it can be made unusable at any point? If so, it should be clear from the get go and the game shouldn't be sold as goods, so customers who want the game they bought to be playable indefinitely (minus the online components) can spent their money on other games instead.

[1] https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/world-of-warcraft-s...
Lawsuit against Massachusetts-based company: AI security sweeps not effective
Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method.

You drop your clothes into a big bin (I’ve always done it one piece at a time, didn’t think to do all at once) and it adds up all your items. I’ve used this maybe 8 times, 100% accurate so far.

Not sure how it works but I guessed RFID and quick Google appears to confirm:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big...
GPT-4 is 82% more persuasive than humans, and AIs can now read emotions
For anyone who didn't bother looking deeper, the SWEbench benchmark contains only Python code projects, so it is not representative of all the programing languages and frameworks.

I'm working on a more general SWE task eval framework in JS for arbitrary language and framework now (for starter JS/TS, SQL and Python), for my own prompt engineering product.

Hit me up if you are interested.
I hate it, especially for large trips to the store.

The scale freaks out too often after I scan an item and put it on the bed, because the weight is slightly off for whatever reason. Then I have to stop scanning and wait for an employee to come over and scan their badge to authorize the sale.

I've gone back to just waiting in line at the standard checkout unless I have < 5 items in my cart.
We used to connect a logging bot to our IRC channels back in the day :)
Why do you feel qualified to say, in a single statement, that you request evidence of something and that you simultaneously "have a feeling" about it? No offense but your "feeling" is worthless - you admit as much when you say that you have no evidence. Your "feeling" is born out of ignorance. Maybe admit that you have no idea and leave it at that.

In an environment based on the analysis of evidence, I would be reluctant to share information with you, since your behavior has indicated that you prejudge evidence before you've seen it.
You say it as if they had to change oil once a month. In their case is probably every 6 months minimum.
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The vertical integration thing isn’t feasible for anyone besides a giant company that can afford to write its own OS with no outside input.

Let’s say I code all my own dependencies in my particular domain (Java). I still have to run my code in an environment: there’s the JVM, then Linux beneath that, the hypervisor at my cloud provider beneath that, etc. You want me to code all of that myself too? You know, frankly I would love to understand and control the stack all the way down. But that’s a life goal. It’s not something most people can or would be interested in doing. We’re all stuck blindly trusting a vast, incomprehensible software supply chain.
Well, the stock issue is sort of a manpower issue. For example, back home, the shelf with canned green beans, corn, and pre-cooked red beans was 4 cans high, and each section of those items was about 12 cans across. It'd be nice if we could simply spend the time to rotate and stock the items, but that just isn't feasible. It's far easier and more cost effective for the store to periodically check for expired product than it is to rotate them. It's even harder with tiny items like seasoning bottles. It would be nice if someone could design a shelving system that could be moved and stocked from the back, but that'd be quite an engineering feat given the sheer weight of the shelves and the proclivity for items to fall over when they're moved.

All of these stores have budgeted in losses. My managers were almost fired for the sheer amount of negligence they gave the store when it came to ordering product. Each location has a certain cadence to them when it comes to what people are buying. My managers didn't understand it, so they ended up with 25 rolling carts packed solid with backstock (these are 8 feet tall and have two shelves), and another 20-30 pallets. If you're unfamiliar, for a normal sized grocery store, you should really only have backstock on the top sides of those carts. Instead of filling the shelves with the product they'd already bought for the store, they were buying entirely new product! I managed to wrangle the order gun from them for the grocery department and they went from losing $30K a quarter in inventory to gaining about $15K. I kept an inventory in my head of what we had in the back and made sure not to order it.

How? Because when pallets inevitably tumble in the distribution centers, the centers can't waste time sorting through inventory to determine what's damaged. So they count it as a loss and toss the product into crates so that store employees can sort through them. Good stuff goes on the shelf, damaged stuff goes in the trash. Apparently the distribution centers damaged a lot of product, lol. My managers got cash bonuses for turning things around, and I got a 6 pack of beer.
"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days." — Marvin Minsky
i've been using sokol.h and it just works :)
>much data. It's like raster vs raytrace all over again. Raster will always be faster than raytracing. So even if raytracing gets 10x faster so too will raster.

And? It's always going to be even faster to not have lighting at all.
Apple Store in Oakland is moving a lot of merchandise that way, too. Customers just walk out all the time.
I'd love to see convincing evidence that we could simulate the universe using only standard physical laws. IIUC we don't have a way to do that or reliably say whether it's possible. It's also not that interesting a problem because it's so impractical.
The original prompt is a bit under-specified. (But hey, that certainly matches the real world!)

You're going to have to buffer at least a little, to figure out where the USV / grapheme boundary is, depending on our definition of "character". To me, a BufReader is appropriate here; it avoids lots of tiny reads to the kernel, which is probably the right behavior in a real case.

To me, "read character by character" vaguely implies something that's going to yield a stream of characters. (Again, for some definition there.)
Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos
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definitely. There's still just such a huge bottleneck when we have 20+ users having to queue up, and they end up complaining that they don't want to wait so long for data to come back from hubspot
Ah I see, that makes a lot of sense.
It's also a step towards individualized pricing, which many people, myself included, absolutely hate. This can be done with self-checkouts but it'll work much better with handheld scanners. Normal price: 3x, member price:2x, individualized price: scan to find out.

Big chains plan to gamblify the prices in the next few years using their "member cards" points, some chains are already up to this with specific penetration targets before they move forward. And this is not insider knowledge they're upfront about it.
I am curious how do they justify a $200 million loss on almost $2 billion in revenue (2023).
"After having worked on nuclear fusion experiments for 25 years at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, I began to look at the fusion enterprise more dispassionately in my retirement. "

Reminds me of that old saw that goes something like “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” (Upton Sinclair and others [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/?amp=1])
This is an extraordinary claim, and requires extraordinary evidence. Israel is currently killing dozens of Palestinians every single day in direct air strikes, they keep hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced, they are starving hundreds of thousands, they target and kill aid workers trying to help those starving, they target and kill journalists trying to report on the slaughter. They lay siege to and destroy hospitals, and target and kill medical workers. They level entire neighborhoods to the ground, they destroy water infrastructure, telecommunication infrastructure, farmland, etc.

You can’t claim that the Houties are doing anything even close to this.

But this is besides the point. The Soviet Union was in a genocidal state them selves when they fought and defeated the Nazis. I will argue that they still had the moral high ground over, say, Sweden on the issue of nazism, who aided the Nazis in their genocidal war in Europe. And in fact, most of the world agreed, including the USA and the UK, who helped the Soviet Union in their effort to destroy nazism.
Is that why they're pushing it so hard? That's good to know.
Closed form solutions in general dynamic systems are possible when systems are integrable which means there is a conserved quantity for every degree of freedom. The solar system is almost like that in the case that each planet keeps going around with a constant angular momentum so they go around like a set of clocks that run at different speeds. Over long periods of time there is angular momentum transferred by the planets so you get chaos like this

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa43327-...

Orbital mechanics is a tough case for perturbation theory because each planet has three degrees of freedom (around, in and out, up and down) and the periods are the same for all of these motions and don’t vary with the orbital eccentricity or inclination. Contrast that to the generic case where the periods are all different and vary with the amplitude so with weak perturbations away from a resonance the system behaves mostly like an integrable system but if the ratio between two periods is close to rational all hell breaks loose, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold%E2%8...

the harmonic oscillator has a similar problem because the period doesn’t change as a function of the amplitude. Either way these two pedagogically important systems will lead you completely wrong in terms of understanding nonlinear dynamic, if you add, say, an εx^3 term to the force in one of two coupled harmonic oscillators it is meaningless that ε is small, you have to realize that the N=2 case of this integrable system

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

is the right place to start your perturbation from which ends up explaining why the symmetry of the harmonic oscillator breaks the way that it does. Funny though, the harmonic oscillator is not weird at all in quantum mechanics and is just fine to do perturbation theory from.
There’s a saying in mathematics circles which I’ll butcher here: “everything is either a linear system, reducible to linear systems, or unapproachable.”

Think about how bad we are at analytically solving “simple looking” diff-eqs and the above statement starts to sound too true.
Similar to how early computers didn't have enough ram to display the whole text file, so old programmers had to work with parts of the file at a time. It's not a bad way to get around the context window problem, which is kind of similar.
This review channel begs to differ: https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist/videos

He very throughly compares countless models with a Polar H10 strap. Some come close enough.
Really, really weird that the article doesn't even mention nitrogen, nostoc or heterocysts. I'm not sure you can have a conversation about the great oxygen holocaust without at least bringing up one of the primary reasons we know "something" about the conditions before the event, specifically that there are still bacteria around today who are putting out a pretty significant amount of effort to create anoxygenic environments specifically for nitrogen fixation; that nitrogen as a terminal electron receptor basically 'cant happen' in the presence of oxygen.

Its just weird to not discuss the evolutionary lineage that still uses pre-oxygenation event hardware (with some extreme bug fixes to deal with oxygen) to fix nitrogen.
There is a possibly unexpected advantage to stocking the shelves with boxed items: if the customer wants to purchase items in bulk, they can retrieve the boxes just as easily as they were put there. As a customer, I do that a lot for unperishable goods.
My local library does the same thing (books not clothes, glass surface not bin).
> I wouldn't say the planet "barely" supported life before the oxygenation event. Otherwise we wouldn't have as much fossil evidence as we have.

I believe you're talking about Earth, and the person you're responding to was talking about Mars. At least I don't think Mars had an oxygenation event or fossils?
Jia Tan is absolute a possible real name. Most people commenting on this topic aren't even Chinese native speakers lol. Each pinyin can map to a lot of different Chinese characters because they are missing the tone of the character anyway.

Tan is a real Chinese surname, and could be mandarin or hokkien.

Either way the name is likely made up. Obviously the attacker wasn't going to just use their real names.
> Note that while Rig is a commercial project, everyone, including any company, is free to try it for 30 days, and as long as companies meet the criteria for contacting me, I am open to helping them with Rig for free for 30 days.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904895

> Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

> [...]

> Proprietary software may either be closed-source software or source-available software.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software

It sure sounds proprietary. In any event, yes, if you prefer I can phrase that as "I'm not going to use a build system that's not Open Source without an incredibly compelling reason".
That's pretty cool. It's not clear if it's incorporating Lidar data or not though. It's very impressive if not.
If manned checkout is a dishwasher and self-checkout is handwashing dishes in the sink after the meal; scan-as-you-shop is eating next to a little basin where you wash each utensil as soon as you're done using it, before you're allowed to return to the meal.
In Sherman Oaks, CA they had a Whole Foods with the "just walk out" system...
> because almost nobody stands in a line to have somebody else scan your shopping, why would you?

Here are the reasons I prefer the manned cashiers:

The line at the manned cashiers is often shorter than the line at self-checkout.

Scanning everything myself is a pain.

If something goes wrong or I make a mistake, I won't have to put up with being accused of shoplifting.

The time savings from self-checkout is usually minimal-to-nonexistent.

I get to have a little human interaction.

Since there's no discount for using self-checkout, I'm effectively paying extra in order to do more work.
10,000 mile service interval. I probably won't need to change it for a year, but will do so at 6mo. interval I think.
The thing is, a confident smart person who isn’t an expert in anything, who DOES have access to resources to check their answers is still not someone I want doing my taxes.

The only way that an LLM doing my taxes for me is useful is if I trust it to the same level that I trust an expert; and that includes being able to very reliably know when that person is actually confident and when they're not. I haven't seen strong evidence that this is possible with the current LLM approach.

So if we're thinking of LLMs as a confident smart person who sometimes spouts bullcrap -- that's still just not a good fit for this kind of product category. It's a good fit for other tasks, just... not for these.

It's definitely not a good fit for putting in front of problems that are already pretty-well solved. Calculators replaced human calculation, it's a solved problem, you put the numbers into the calculator. Even natural-language input into the calculator is a reasonably solved problem, it's not a task that really requires a full LLM of the scale of GPT-4. So is there value in introducing a human-like source of error into the middle of that process again? I feel like the answer is 'no'.

> These things are solvable, we are still in the 'Commodore-PET' phase of LLM's development

Sure, if we get to the point where an LLM can give such good tax information that there literally is no need to read the tax documents to confirm any of it, then great! But that's not even remotely where we are, and products like this straight-up shouldn't be launched until we're at that point.

This is sort of like selling me an scuba tank and saying, "it might not dispense oxygen so make sure you hold your breath the entire time", and when I say, "well what's the point of the tank then" the reply I get back is, "well eventually we're going to get it to reliably dispense oxygen!"

Okay, but the products are all launching now, I'm being asked to buy into this now, not eventually. The future doesn't change the fact that the current products that I'm supposed to get excited about are literally useless at a conceptual level -- that they do not even make sense given their caveats. I'm not complaining about AI chat bots or funny toys or even toy phone assistants, I'm complaining that companies like Intuit are literally launching tax assistants that give incorrect information and their response is, "well, double check what the bot says." Well that is not a tax assistant then, that's just work. The service that the chatbot is offering me is that I'll have to work more.

Fundamentally, there appears to be a misunderstanding from these companies about what a product is.
ShowHN: New Flowx Solar Eclipse feature with the weather forecast
Hi HN,

I'm the developer of Flowx[0], an Android and iOS weather app, and I've just added the solar eclipse path and shadow which can be superimposed over the weather forecast - in particular the low, mid and high cloud forecasts.

I've also created an OpenZone which make all weather data (including HRRR) freely available over North America for the period leading up to the eclipse day.

This is available in the latest Apple App Store release. Unfortunately, I could not get this out to production Android in time but have an alpha test version. Contact me if you are interested in the alpha test version.

Cheers, Duane.

[0] https://flowx.io
I’ve tried this with another similar system. FOSS LLMs including Mixtral are currently too weak to handle something like this. For me they run out of steam after only a few turns and start going in circles unproductively
Anecdotally this was also what was told to me by (now retired) electronic engineers who worked in automotive embedded systems in the 80's/90's. The term flash was related to the process of UV exposure to erase memory. This was also humorously explained to me as the beginning of the end for system performance. You didn't need to prove out your system when you could just update your hardware after the fact. In a world of over-the-air flashing we have come a long way from fixed design elements.
There's a simple formula that makes you chose it: they keep as few manned checkouts open as possible, as long as the wait for the manned checkouts is inconvenient enough the majority of people will use the self-checkouts.
"Principal Software Engineer" with 18 years of experience in Software development ... Nope. That's not a lower tier engineer at Microsoft.
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Efficient VMs on iPhone would be great. I experimented with sideloading Jitterbug (1) and using it to launch qemu, but the process currently requires a second device or setting up a VPN - in practice it was annoying.

I just want/need a Linux environment; coming from my laptop, I really miss rsync… FTP/SMB over VPN work but rsync is usually faster!

Fingers crossed that easily sideloading apps becomes a thing here in the US.

1: https://github.com/osy/Jitterbug
It turns out that ignorance, is in fact, bliss. Placebo/nocebo effect is weird.
I’ve seen very impressive Gaussian splatting demos of more limited urban geographies (a few city blocks) running on consumer hardware, so the reason this requires research-tier Nvidia hardware right now is probably down to LOD streaming. More optimization on that front, and this could plausibly come to Google Earth on current devices.

“What a time to be alive” indeed!
I'm pretty sure this is global, have experienced it at all their locations throughout Europe as well.
The one by Barclays (in NYC) has the same thing! It's the best self-checkout experience I've had.
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I know, I don't get the fuzz either, I've coded real-time gaussian splat renderers >7 years ago with LOD and they were able to show any kind of point cloud.

They worked with a basic 970 GTX on a big 3d screen and also on oculus dk2.
Also from that link: "No servers were affected. If some had been damaged, we have backups in different locations."

The fire happened in a scanning center, and the irreplaceable items were things they were right about to scan. Definitely unfortunate, but you can't digitally back up physical media that you haven't scanned yet, anyway.

Also, that was eleven years ago, which I would say is more than "a few" (I know, time's moving too quickly these days).
Yes, it's probably complex, but if you release everything required, then a sufficiently dedicated community will figure it out. Or maybe nobody will bother because the game was bad. Either way you lose nothing.

Re: shared infra - there will probably be some testing component used for local dev, you can release that instead of the full thing. For example: just the dedicated server part that I can connect to using a dev command line flag to play a game, but not the shared infra login system, lobby server, inventory server, matchmaking etc.

Sure, there will be some edge cases where it really is impossible to disentangle from a live, profitable other game - but I would wager the vast majority of games could be covered with very low effort.
I tried it but chickened out. It really just is a sqlite3 database in there, which is cool, but the layout was different from that described in the blog post I was following, and I didn't want to risk bricking a device I just paid hundreds of dollars for.

Hm I could have just backed up the database...

Anyway, I've bought some books with my account, so I don't mind the login.