skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Day of the Tentacle is also one of the few point and clicks I've finished from beginning to end without consulting a walkthrough. This is actually one reason that I personally prefer it to COMI, the puzzles in DOTT generally are sensible/logical for the most part, especially by genre standards.

The absolute worst puzzle for me remains the infamous Broken Sword/Circle of Blood Irish goat scene:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goat_Puzzle
The ~420ppm statistic is considered a global average. The concentration is already quite a bit higher in cities. Poke around here [1] for yourself.

In indoor urban spaces, concentrations are probably already typically 800ppm. It might explain some of our social dysfunction...

[1] https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/ove...
I love that this and AI Dungeon (perhaps the OG) exist. I think my key insight in the formula for this game is that the gameplay really sings when you introduce more constraints - it feels more challenging and less cheeseable, which makes it more rewarding.
Google Location Services are fundamentally broken and have been for years[video]
One of the reasons I like this site is that it feels slightly academic in a way that a competing site like Reddit does not.

And being a somewhat exclusive post-academic institution is not a bad image or message IMO. Maybe there are more pros than cons in terms of curation (of content, of founders).

Really didn't see it as a "everyone should apply!" kinda place, thought the messaging was intentionally "here's the latest out of Stanford" which I'm fine with.
Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82
The thing that makes the first quote eugenicist is the fact that this possibility is a lie, and he—as a scientist—knows that. Eugenics “works” by preselecting “desired” traits. For breeding cows this is no problem as the desired traits are well defined, for eugenics, these “desired” traits pretty much boils down to upper class, white, man. What he is saying is a dog whistle and what he is promoting is scientific racism. This makes him an active eugenicist.

The second quote is a recommendation the same way as governments “recommended” the poor, the disabled, and the indigenous, to use birth control. These “recommendations” were always secret policies.
Correction, I got a response, but no specific feedback.

I double checked my emails.

Anyway, I'm realistic in knowing my ideas aren't going to garner investment.

I would love if you had a YC Junior for just getting help on ideas vs capital.
I hope you applied to YC as well!
Right, the $15k car buyer is buying used and the used EV story is complicated depending on what price point you need to hit because you'll be close to the battery warranty running out (if you're not in CA) and that replacement will be almost the cost of the whole car. It's really hard to compete with the "buy a mass-market ICE Honda/Toyota at 60-80k and drive it to 250k." At any other time I would argue that it's probably a wash or in favor of the EV with repairs but they're so reliable that you're hard pressed to have your first major issue sub 200k.

Edit: Ya know I just went searching in my area and you get get some 30k mile 2020+ Bolts in the $15k price point. But I'm also a little suspicious because literally any other EV at that mileage is more than double so I want to know what's up with the bolt.
That example is appalling and indefensible.

I think it's important to note that it has been condemned by BDS.

According to the website you linked to - "Even the BDS Movement has called on BDS Boston, a group promoting the Mapping Project, to cease doing so"

I don't know more about the issue than what you shared, and do not know the structure of BDS, but decentralised groups are vulnerable to their sort of thing where one autonomous group undertakes actions that are entirely unacceptable.

It's one of the reasons it is so important for groups to stamp out antisemitism within their own ranks and not let it fester.
The issue is better phrased as “how will we survive the transition while some folk still believe the video they are seeing is irrefutable proof the event happened?”
Also understand the VC industry is inherent with learning from the ideas submitted to them as part of curating deal flow; and it's common for them to justify it with a mantra that ideas are supposedly not worth anything, and it's all about execution.

When and who to share ideas with - and any market traction you may have as proof points there's an opportunity - is possibly the most important part of executing, and where you may be shooting yourself in the foot if sharing that with people in the business of funding ideas.
Rather than looking at what the (abstract) machine does

- throws are nonlocal control transfer

- result types are adding a tag to the data or error

Think about whether the two can express the same things, and whether one can be translated to another without losing information.
Ah ! I had indeed misunderstood you, thanks a lot for the clarification.

We definitely agree. I thoroughly enjoyed bg3, and remember feeling no resistance because things would play out the way I wanted them to happen.

Apart from the occasional fighting parts, I’ve wondered quite a bit about what makes bg3 a challenge - and I still don’t have the answer, probably because there’s little to no challenge in bg3. I’ve decided though that the game is not about the technical challenge ( or any challenge for that matter ) but about the fact that you can freely bend the story to your wishes , and do things the way you want, and the problems you solve are the ones that, to some extent, you choose to create / address - what you call ‘problems’ and I agree with you.

This makes the game structurally different from COMI ( which is about solving puzzles so about meeting some kind of challenge ), but neither more nor less enjoyable- they’re just different games.
CS Certification – I should be exempt
Also, is there a particular place you'd like feedback/suggestions? For now I'll add any thoughts I have to this comment:

- Display the widget type somewhere, maybe in the Edit Widget modal title

- The ability to adjust/disable the grid snapping would be cool

- Some simple color themes alongside the pictures
If we want to grow US economy by making existing humans more productive per capita, then we need cheaper energy per capita, cheaper intelligent robots per capita. Also goes to say we need less NIMBY-ism per capita.

We need high speed rail building robots, solar farm building robots, home building robots, healthcare robots. Cheap repairable open robots. Robots that defend us, robots that transport.

More robots than humans. More robot companies diverse in their approaches.
strtok() is one of the most dangerous string handling functions in any language!
Redshift Research Project Version Tracker Improvement
The version tracker is now also tracking maintenance track. Previously, it was current track only.

Current maintenance release is from 27th Jan - and today is 19th April!

But we've had now no new release on current since 1st March, a big long gap.

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/redshift_version_tracker/index.html
Except TCP is just a bad protocol to start with for tunnelling, because packetized data has to be delivered in-order, and head of line blocking messes up congestion control algorithms in the tunnelled data.
I read Consciousness Explained 30 years ago and at first I was miffed that it didn't touch on the possibilties of Quantum mechanics and consciousness, a buzzword idea that I was keen on at the time. But then every chapter was so fascinating - blindsight, p-zombies, Libet, the cartesian theatre.

If I can sum up in a very simple way, as a philosopher he was pointing to a simple but hard to grasp idea:

Consciousness probably isn't what we think it is. Most of our preconceptions about it are likely wrong. Because we're right in it all the time, it seems like we 'know' things about it. But we don't. Quick example: our visual consciousness seems continuous. But we know from saccades that it can't be.
What's the turn on capital for a buyer? Like, how many panels does a construction company need to install to pay for your system, and how does that line up to project size?
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I don’t think this was intended to be a normative statement. Just an observation that “open source as marketing” seems to work, so people use it despite it not actually being true of their project.
If someone decides to have an abortion due to a genetic condition, would you say that they're practising eugenics?
LLMs in the Heart of Differential Testing: A Case Study on a Medical Rule Engine
CKEditor and TinyMCE seem to be doing fine.
This is brilliant! I think a game with LLM NPCs would be crazy cool. Agree with the other commenter I would probably need a playable demo to pull the trigger though.

Also, I didn’t realize from the website that it actually uses voice? That should probably be highlighted, unless I just missed it.

One other thought, your title says it’s a game about social persuasion. In the examples on the site it seemed like many of the challenges just involved coming up with lies. If there are no consequences to just making up lies it seems to kind of flatten the strategy. Though I’m just speculating. Thanks for sharing!
The sizing of so many large objects is determined by what fits efficiently into a standard shipping container or truck.
>I don't think it's that simple, at least with Google the phone seems to see the country code of the SIM card, or the mobile network it's connected to, to determine your "current country" for the Google Play Store

eject your sim card then, or download an esim from another country and turn on airplane mode

>Maybe it will even ask you for a credit card number plus ZIP and country, that Google/Apple can confirm with your CC provider, if you say "Oh it's 90210 USA" and your CC billing address is 200000 Shanghai, your CC provider will say "verification failed".

apple explicitly has a "none" payment option[1]

[1] https://www.tuneskit.com/images/resource/no-none-option-for-...

>It seems like the CCP asking Apple to ban these apps mean that they're getting more afraid about their leaky firewall, blocking them from being downloaded from the app store is another hurdle they've thought of for the Chinese citizenry.

Their firewall tech is top notch[2]. Getting past it is non-trivial (ie. you can't just buy nordvpn subscription and be on your way). Compared to that creating an alt apple account is easy.

[2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...
The filters are self-fulfilling.

For twenty-somethings ideas are easy and all opportunity is in front. Might as well swing for the fences and yes people do hit home runs. At this stage, debating the actual statistics is misguided use of energy. Because justifying a reason not to play still means you're not playing.

And the older you get the more gray this calculus is. There's more reasons not to do something. We put the filters on ourselves.

This isn't a moral argument. No one really knows how the statistics will land, we can only back analyze them. Yes it's statistically very unlikely you're going to get funded. So you stopped trying. Maybe your ideas really weren't very good. That's ok, you've got a lifetime.

edit: fwwiw I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur and now decades later when I'm more financially secure and the reality is here, I really really really question if I am cut out to be an entrepreneur. I don't think I care all that much. Not really.
Maybe it's this tweet:
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848

From the tweet:

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."

There is a video of her speaking, which I find hard to translate.
Every book on our website is chosen by a reader who loved it.

Yeah, we get that. It's the aggregate ranking of such picks (taken across a large set of reviewers somehow) that I was referring to. That is, an algorithm.

Which is, again, entirely different from how your local bookstore operates (for any store worth visiting, that is).
You're right about HN - pg always used to say he wanted it to look 'bookish'. But not for academic reasons. He's just a bibliophile and a massive reader.

When it comes to YC, however, I'm way closer to the "everyone should apply" end of the spectrum. Or rather: everyone who thinks they might like to start a high-growth startup.

One of YC's biggest impacts has been in growing the number of startups that get created in the first place. It's not so much about picking founders out of a limited pool, it's about the much larger set of potential founders who can maybe get bumped out of the "I could never do that track" into the adjacent "maybe give it a try track"...which can lead to life-changing places.

pg's essays have been one of the biggest such bumping devices. I would like HN to be that too. (While remaining interesting in all the other ways it can be.)
Redshift Research Project Cross-Region/Node-Type Benchmarks Now Gnuplots
I've finally spent a weekend and converted what is now about two years of benchmarking data into gnuplots.

Most recent update two days ago, on the 15th April.

You can now see for yourselves, directly and visually, the variations in performance of each node type across regions and over time - the region wide upgrades (and occasional downgrades).

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/cross_region_benchmarks/index.html
There are a few DeLoreans in my area. They look really nice. I've owned one before, the finish was a little finnicky and very fingerprint prone, but ultimately held up better than painted finishes from the era. The plastics on them tended to degrade pretty badly, though.

For a truck, stainless might turn out to be a pretty good choice. Fingerprints will always be problematic, though.
I mean, I didn't even graduate college :P

> So we're just doing it on our own.

IMO if you can become a $100M household name without VC, that's absolutely the way to do it.

Even if you do take the VC path, YC for me was a massive boost in network, knowledge, and resources that I didn't have before, but it's also not the only way to acquire those things. You can even find that YC knowledge online, e.g. https://www.startupschool.org/.

That said, if anyone's even considering applying to YC, I'd recommend it, at a minimum it's a forcing function to think more deeply about your idea or business when assembling the application.
Skipping some quibbles,would you agree that some optimizations for profit would lead to business death?

Eg, businesses that cheat and get caught. Businesses that over consume and can no longer produce.Also, that optimization can have the opposite effect. Eg, optimize revenue by showing max ads, with max ads users start to flee. A hospital could optimize for patientoutcomes, and then do better because the patients stay around.

This overall though assumes that free market principles work in healthcare. Those principles tend to assume consumer choice.
Thank you, I knew there would be relevant Popper quotes about philosophy being meaningful, and I was trying the keyword "transempirical" without success. I forgot it was the underlying beef in the poker incident. :)
Well, yes, but this describes plenty of other organisms that are neither mammals nor beetles.
"in an area where there are no snakes"

Surely that isn't true, right? I'll point out the obvious truth that this funding model encourages businesses that are boom or bust. That seems like a big snake to me. Bust is like taking a snake all the way back to square 1.
I would read that line roughly as "Mozilla published (source and) binaries for 32 and 64 bit x86, but ARM has been solely Mozilla publishing code and distros building their own binaries". So yeah, in many ways I think this is a relatively minor change for Linux ARM users. The main place I could see it mattering is if users wanted to get binaries directly from Mozilla that's an option now, and the most likely reason I can think for that is to get bleeding edge binaries - either stable versions before the distro updates or to get beta/nightly versions that the disto doesn't ship at all.
Seems like it was a needed option for you at the time. Are you still enjoying it? Waiting for someone to take the baton?
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I ran into this the last time I tried reading this book. It's supposed to be for beginners; how would a beginner get around this?
I get that, but the twitter post completely mischaracterized the issue.
Have you ever seen a non-hispanic landscaper in the desert southwest metropolitan areas? Me neither.

Now try to find ANYBODY willing to work out in the middle of the Mojave or Sonoran deserts. Espero que hables bien español.
almost as if there is an intuitive sense of fairness here, that the rules are/should-be different for institutions that are socially-significant "gatekeepers"...
> Seems like there's basically a 0% chance a random person would get into YC

This is simply not true.

There are countless examples of people from outside the US or who went to non-Ivy league schools. Does it move the needle ? Probably. But it's easy to counteract it by having better answers to the other questions e.g. traction, team.
Please reconsider the part “robots that defend us.” There have been many books and movies made about this idea. I don’t think we want it.
Llm.c Update
> destruction of productive organizations.

I don't think your understanding of this is complete. A break up doesn't destroy anything; on the contrary, it creates value. Where once there was a single monopolist, there are now two (or three or twelve) organizations that can proceed independently of each other, and be much more focused on their core product.

For example, maybe Google can keep the play store, but not Android. Android would become an independent entity, and can develop in ways that benefit all Android stakeholders instead of just Google. Maybe then Android will finally be able to focus on competing with iOS in ways that Google would never dare to (since Google's relationship with Apple is a bit sus)

A breakup can also be good for investors, because illegal monopolies are inefficient. Android could potentially be much more profitable on its own than under Google's umbrella, and the play store could be more profitable if they're actually forced to compete. This can lead to innovations which increase revenue, and which never would've happened under Google.
Thanks for the link, that would be a great improvment. I really hope they get their someday.
There is nice tool called `aha` that converts ANSI color codes to HTML colors. See https://github.com/theZiz/aha
Example usage: pipe to it any command with color output then send result to an .html file:

git diff --color | aha > ~/Deskop/changes.html

Very useful in combination with the `--color-words` option for git diff, which highlits only specific words that were changed, which is great when reviewing changes to text files (e.g. blog post written as .md).
Some distros like Debian Stable and the RHEL clones track the ESR versions of Firefox instead of the latest release, so I could see users preferring the official binaries in that use case.
What happened? Not enough people applied?

Here's the last batch.[1] Gives a sense of what's being funded.

Ideas:

- MoneyNow - leverages the new FedNow instant payment system. FedNow is run by the Fed and transfers money in seconds with a charge of just US$0.045 per transaction. And they mean seconds. If the money isn't there in 10 seconds, the transaction times out.
Few banks support it yet, but some do. It needs consumer-facing support. The Fed just does the back end. There's a big security problem with consumer side payments - these are irrevocable no-holds transfers, like cash. Figure out how to handle that. Competes with Venmo and PayPal; could make them obsolete. Venmo isn't really instant; try to withdraw the money you just "received".

- Reading Teacher - teach illiterate kids to read with a phone app using AI. Text to speech and speech to text all work now. A true automatic reading teacher should be possible. Gamify it so kids use it. Sell to parents, not schools.

- Rust Game Engine - the Rust language ecosystem has some game engines and libraries that almost work, but the open source maintainers got bored and didn't finish the job. Modest amounts of cash would push that over the top. Monetize by selling back-end services for such games.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=W24
This makes sense. Since housing prices have raised much faster than wages since 1965 it would be obvious that the proportion would stay the same. Things costing more and people having less money wouldn’t impact home ownership because
Building a Full-Stack Discord Clone with Stream Video, Clerk and NextJS
I am not saying you are cargo cult programming, but being a cargo cult programmer has nothing to do with seniority. There are plenty of people who have been programming for decades who blindly follow rules because that's how they learned things, that's what they were taught is good practice, and they never bothered to question it, reflect on it, and they go along with it because of cultural reasons rather than because they have a genuine understanding of the principles.

>I might be wrong, but these are the lessons I've learnt over the decades working on a variety of projects of different size and durations ...

But what lesson did you learn? That long names are better than short names, which is what I called cargo cult programming and an instance of mixing up the metric for the principle? Or did you instead learn that descriptive names are better than non-descriptive names?

If it's that long names are better than short names, then by all means continue using std:: everywhere. If instead it's that descriptive names that communicate purpose or intention or actual information are better than non-descriptive names, then having a bunch of std:: everywhere doesn't do much of anything to help readability, it just adds noise.

Now people can and do justify the use of std:: but I've never heard it on the basis of making code more readable. There is nothing self documenting about a bunch of names that all share a common prefix.

And this doesn't even touch on how ironic it is that std is itself non-descriptive jargon that is an abbreviation of standard, but I am almost certain that if everyone had to liter their codebase with standard:: everywhere, no one would think twice about what the right thing to do is.
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It was working for people who were willing to buy an EV. Those people generally fall into two groups: 1) They specifically want an EV due to $reasons or 2) They are looking for a new car, and are willing to consider an EV. Both of these groups are fine with the current S3XY lineup because they resemble "normal" cars. That's why the Model S originally had so much success - it was a normal car, but electric. Even then, it was still a hard sell in 2013 to early adopters.

I'm going to stereotype a bit here, but Tesla YouTubers/Tweeters/Fanatics and the two groups above aside, everyone else is generally "against" EVs. If you own one, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The Cybertruck is Tesla's attempt to change that. Don't convince them on the green-ness or potential cost-savings of home charging, convince them because it's cool. It's something that no other manufacturer can compete against. (for now)
It also happily fails the "Name 5 countries starting and ending with the same letter " test, with 0/5 using Claude..
This comment feels very out of place in a thread about the planet's on-going and rapidly accelerating climate decline.