skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in train and aviation operational systems. We do safety training by taking teams to depots or sites of accidents where there are ruined systems.

Seeing the remains of an aircraft fuselage, or what a burned out diesel locomotive looks like -- and in the case of the train, smells like; it was being repaired -- really drives the point home.

A couple more slides on case studies and how they happened -- shout out of Admiral Cloudberg for doing a great job with that stuff; use their articles a lot -- and it's easy to convince people. Make it visceral, and they sure as hell will remember.

Presumably it's the same with a lot of science education as well. Physics and math for the sake of math is just rote memorization, but make them calculate rocket trajectories, then build a few model rockets and shoot them off, and those kids will be way more engaged. Like, I got really into biology when I started making basement hooch in college...
Seems like we're adding colour to bits again.
I don't know whether the article is especially relevant, but sea surface temperatures have gone absolutely nuts for the past year and so anything we would have called a crazy model five years ago is now on the table.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

We spent most of 2023 (April to December) 4 to 5 standard deviations above the mean for 1981-2011. This year has been higher than Q1 2023's figures by a considerable margin.

This might have something to do with decreasing sulphur dioxide concentrations from switching shipping over to cleaner fuel, or it might not.
I have been doing this more and more, for the reasons you cite. Also, restaurants are increasingly doing things (like requiring the use of apps or websites) that make the experience far more unpleasant than it used to be.

So my habits have changed to eating out much more rarely, but at much nicer restaurants.
Looks like their “Baldur’s Gate” and “Fallout” games are practically identical, with similar overworld map and battle systems?

https://storyteller-blog.com/2024/03/22/i-made-a-baldurs-gat...
Evidently a lot of people disagree.

Otherwise, we wouldn't see the recurrent explosion of overhyped technologies that create complexity without any providing any benefit at all.

(I really don't understand the mechanism where reasonable ideas become those memes, but their existence is undeniable.)
Surely there is one: gravity and water tension work the same for both.
Removing the Silent mode with the left button was the trick for me (like with most mobile game btw)
> But for those few cases you can add an annotation.

not in other people's code. My main concern is that gradual typing makes understanding other people's code more difficult.

Idiomatic Haskell warns against missing signatures[1], Rust makes them mandatory. Rather than global inference, local inference stopping at function boundaries is the future, if you ask me.

[1]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Type_signatures_as_good_style
I read the term “crazy” this way:

“We are having the same ridiculous heated arguments about syntax that programmers have over and over and over so wink I’ll use hyperbolic rhetoric to insult people and wink you shouldn’t take my words to mean very much.”

I find it tiresome. It’s excusable by youth and something that people should grow out of but some never do.
Zoho is a major player in the industry being direct competitor to small business. They are also bootstrapped.
I booked first class but your system is buggy and put me in economy; now I'm stuck because I wasn't in the escape pod!

Someone should start a space ride hailing service. I bet the pod was yellow.
The best thing I ever did for my love of programming was moving (temporarily) into management. All of a sudden I was spending 10-15 hours weekly in nights and weekends writing more code than I previously had been in 40 working hours. It's amazing what a combination of a) working on your own things that you're more passionate about and b) not spending 20-25 hours coding already will do for your motivation.
This management tool vfox looks very flexible, especially when it comes to plugin builds, I found that it already supports versioning of a lot of major software, and software that I don't use often can be built very quickly according to the manual and without having to upgrade the tool's version, it looks very silky smooth, and also supports multiple platforms, which is going to be very easy to use. I can't wait to use it and hopefully it will help me be more efficient.
Lots of great projects. How can I experience TRACK in VR? I opened the site in my Quest 3 browser but it says webvr not supported.
You could try looking for research software engineer positions, where you would develop software alongside/supporting researchers and scientists. This could be very stimulating if you are interested in what they are researching
And West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
Very awesome! Would be even neater if it pulled screenshots from the video for each step :)
I don't get the riot act part, what does that mean exactly?
> Yes, that's why you use POST for everything with effects.

I don't get it. Isn't an idempotent effect still an effect?

> you should also be using PUT to create new database records.

If the client is free to define the identity, then I do. But if the resource gets e.g. an ID from Postgres sequence, then I need to use POST, because repeated call would create duplicates.
Regarding Kazaa (and also later, Skype), the OG developers were all Estonian. Zennström and Friis were the business people (and Friis is Danish).
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Agree, the linked page wrote an article as if it is the project owner's announcement but instead just a random content generator website.
Actually, it is not.

For one thing, biodegradable plastics release microplastics, just sooner so there is less opportunity to collect them (as is done in TFA). And for another, even if it were not so, the looming climate catastrophe is a far greater danger to all species then is the microplastic concern.
Depends on the company a bit. The older a company is, the more it accumulates the sorts of people who equate management with cracking a whip. This is the laziest form of management and also the least effective. It's incredibly common, though.

There are some really talented managers out there. The sort of folks you want to work for. You'll find more of these at younger companies.

But the harsh/unfortunate reality is corporate culture generously rewards managers in spite of their effectiveness (lack thereof).

Empire building is probably the single biggest drain on the global economy. The good news is it seems to be getting more attention and companies (Bayer, Meta for example) are taking action to combat it.
Thanks for the explanation. I figured it should appear in their quarterly and annual filing as u said.

Since the startup is quite young I would also agree Apple could be interested in their talent.
I clicked to see if it was Mistral, so yep, it works.
"were". Not "where".
The sarcastic remarks from the computer were definitely great.
I know when I copied those folders back after moving to a new machine, they were all gone.
I don't know how much the publisher made in revenue from each cartridge. $0.50 might have been 5% of revenue?
A Swedish internet history timeline
Yeah. "The vendor was read the riot act for putting an unsupervised trainee on the console"
> Being overstaffed is just a coincidence.

I'd say it's not. But causality is the reverse of the GP's.

Being overstaffed is a consequence of not prioritizing the work. Either the staff grows until the important things get done, or the organization shrinks because the important stuff doesn't get done.
This game reminds me of the 90's FMV game Mission Critical [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Critical_(video_game)
Sams offers this actually, it's great
I have worked with people who grew up in Central America and just drop garbage on the ground when done with something. Even if the trash is 20 feet away.

It's hard to shake natural habits from your youth, especially if you don't even care that much.
Seems common for documentaries about nature. A few seconds of good footage surrounded by minutes of filler and clickbait.
I’ve been feeling more and more that we should reconsider open source licenses to protect our rights as authors from LLM vendors. I’m not against them basing their models on my work. I do have reservations on them generating their models on my work and creating derivative works without respecting the license. It’s why I’ve started to use the MIT license less and less and have adopted various from the GPL family. Models trained in OSS should be open sourced IMO.
The line connecting the dots is that some who practice these skills end up adding those surveillance features to products in their careers. Not a hard leap to make, unsure why it wasn't obvious.
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There's a #knowledge-bases channel on the Write The Docs [1] Slack: https://www.writethedocs.org/slack/

[1] https://www.writethedocs.org/
Yeah but 81% of Americans live in urban areas.
very nice concept!
You can only make billions as developer if you start a company. Then, you're no longer a developer, but rather a business owner and operator - something that a lorry driver can do as well. Also, there's probably larger chance of success in starting a company in logistics than in software.
> Cinderella was a box office bomb.

Is that really so? Wikipedia says it was the 5th highest grossing film of 1950. [0] Quoting the same: "Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts. The film is the most successful the studio has made since Dumbo, and saves the studio from four million dollars in debt."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_in_film.
If a person can read it and learn from it, AI should be able to do the same.
Motivation to succeed.

I'm a very good programmer, but not that motivated. Given the right effort I'm reasonably sure I could build a number of successful apps. I just don't want to spend my life doing that. Instead I'm a hobbyist creative writer, an excellent cook, a father who's there for his kids, and a helpful husband. After I'm through with those things, there isn't much time left to build anything.

Others want to build software products and make money from them, and those who have the motivation to do this, usually do.

You only get one life, choose wisely.
I like this very much, but I'm not quite sure if it actually touches the full depth of the subject or if it's accidental hindsight analysis.

I'm not sure I can't settle with the idea that big things gets there because they are useful simple things that people get stuck with.
The vendor got yelled at / severely chastised.
Even Orient disposed of plastic decomposes and biodegrades, and is often burned.

And recycling most common types of plastics actually releases more CO2 than creating new plastic products. There is no panacea one the carbon has been pumped out of the ground.
Yes. And didn’t feel safe enough to report the mistake themselves, so the client needed to stumble across it.
The names get mangled, but are still accessible.

class Foo:
__bar = 1

f = Foo()
assert(f._Foo_bar == 1)
CO2 is plant food. We should be concerned about dangerous chemicals exploiting the environment.
The scoring system doesn't necessarily reflect reality.

Separately, there is a drive towards a sort of "social credit rating" that I do think is a bad thing.

In the narrower space of having a criminal history, the US is very different in how that affects people that have done their time. Any company can do a dirt-cheap background check, this makes people close to unemployable. In other countries, like Australia, employers can request a "yes/no" answer to "is this person's history suitable for this specific job" from a government agency...but they can't just get history themselves.

The combination of consolidation in the space into a few giants, and dirt cheap sharing of data across employers is, over time, applying the same sort of permanent mark problem to everyone else. I think it's a bad thing.
> At least ~15 years ago, the way Domino's timer works is that when the cook puts the order in the oven, they hit a button.

The Domino's location near me very obviously hits that button as soon as they get the order when things are busy, regardless of if it's actually going in the oven then or not. I've had many, many times where I arrived at the location, with the app saying "your pizza is ready!", only to have them say "it's not in the oven yet, it'll be 10 minutes" when I ask for my order.

I'm certain the stores and even individual employees are rated on how fast they get the orders done so of course they're going to mess with that system to show the best metrics they can. I'm not even a little bit surprised, nor do I really blame them. Even though it's frustrating to find out my order isn't actually in the oven, I just say "no worries" and wait a few minutes.
Examples like this make it clear who GitLab Duo’s target audience really is.
I have gone from paper books to Kindle and then back to paper books.

I really loved the experience of reading Kindle, especially Kindle Keyboard. It was amazing experience compared to physical books because I had all my books on it, I could also send blogs & articles to it. Physical page turn buttons were easier to use than turning a page but also provided satisfying tactile feedback. The real keyboard was really useful for taking notes.

And when I was tired of holding it, text to speech was good enough to listen to a few chapters. Text to speech was also great when I was reading, it kind of helped me read faster and I remembered what I read longer.

Sadly, after my Kindle Keyboard died, I end up buying new Kindle. the reading experience on it was not as great but I had spent so much money on e-books. So I kept it.

But now I have kids. I don't want them to see me on another device which to them is same as phone/ipad. Also all books are on it, there is no way to turn on child mode on Kindle before handing it to them.

So now I only buy physical books. They are easy to share, I can easily see from distance what books my kids are reading, they cannot accidentally purchase tons of books, and if one book is damaged, it is just one book.
> Likewise, advertisers may be the tech companies' "customers" but that doesn't mean the platforms treat them well. Advertisers get ripped off just like the rest of us. The platforms gouge them on price, lie to them about advertising reach, and collude with one another to fix prices and defraud advertisers

That's awesome
I would not call that straightforward. Being straightforward would mean including something like "we & our vendors might (or will) train generative AI models based on public data", instead of letting us infer that for ourselves.
Agreed. And because ratings are so broken, there are multiple ways to game them. In addition to rarely leaving ratings, I rarely trust the damn things either.

In my opinion, ratings need to decay over time. For service workers like Uber drivers any rating >1 year old (or maybe less) should decay to 0 significance. For online retail like Amazon, maybe 2 years but not much longer than that. This not only allows people to "clean up their act" after bad ratings, but makes botting a recurring cost instead of a one-time investment.
Music reminded me slightly of Perfect Dark.

Waking up on a spaceship reminded me of The Journeyman Project.
Agreed

While iot is blurry a personal electronics project is not.
My comment is maybe too-indirectly implying that these skills end up getting applied in careers where surveillance is added on top of these sorts of connected processes. The hobby can be as benign as we like, but paychecks change what people are willing to tolerate...
Makes sense - I had visions of you sat at your desk, opening a new tab and it suddenly turning back to the standing position!

Thanks for the post though, a fun read!
I had I think, a related issue. I moved, need a new dentist, called one, told them I wanted to take a sleeping pill because it helps me with my anxiety from previous painful dentist visits. They said they'd have their office manager call me back. He vehemently steered me to another dentist. It was ridiculous how much corp-speak he used to try to convince me it was in my best interest. They had a 5/5 rating. I assume it's because they reject anyone the think might lower it.
The ability to checkpoint the precise state of an agent interaction, bound it above by that context, evaluate within the context is trivially useful. It’s a bit of poetic license maybe to call that a push down automata. What I mean by the analogy is that systems ranging from BERTopic to the Humanify JS de-minifier employ large, positive-temp LLM-style models in bounded ways, for better outcomes, in conjunction with deterministic techniques. In fact, in the case of Humanify, push-down automata are trivially involved via the PLT in the conventional de-compilation.

Girard-Reynolds is again a bit of an analogy though not without plausible concrete application: even post-softmax in a GPT there are useful types one can imagine as being amenable to parametric polymorphism and therefore dictating their implementations.

If your comment is roughly: “that’s not literally sound as stated”, point conceded, it’s a one-sentence allusion to real rigor, not real rigor itself.

Do you find any of that controversial?
> the teams designing the 3D engine need to communicate with the teams building the game engine and the game designers themselves and the artists to achieve a cohesive whole.

Sure, just as they need to communicate to the farmer what food needs to be grown in order to ensure that the right food shows up on their dinner table. These are solved problems, though. We already know how to do incredibly complex things at scale.
Embracer Group to transform into three separate companies
this is ingenious, and most likely will open a thought process for the implementation of similar but extremely lightweight mechanisms in RATs and other malwares (like Rootkits)
I also see knowledge base topics come up occasionally on r/technical writing

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicalwriting/search/?q=knowledg...
“We” can - many states have relatively large (5-10 cents/bottle) charges for plastic bottles, that is ostensibly used for funding recycling and cleanup programs.

A bunch of 3rd world countries on the other hand?
'of land'. For less-accurate needs I prefer the ones that still show (roughly North-top, South-bottom and) lat/long lines and non-blue space where water is separated by the mapping.

Maybe this mapping is most useful for accurately tracking global warming effects at the poles.
And here's me thinking I was clever for converting my crank-driven standing desk to an electric one by using a power drill and a 12mm hex bit
It was meant to be, but:

1) they found it too complex for a game user interface, so they started to create a "GURPS-lite"

2) it was licensed from Steve Jackson Games, who didn't like the level of violence in the game. Thus began a fight over whether licensing even included veto rights on the entire game

So in the end, they tweaked their "GURPS-lite" further, named it "SPECIAL", and abandoned the licensing deal

https://web.archive.org/web/20151004175725/http://www.nma-fa...
Nothing, the book is mostly about proprietary Unices
As an aside, it really does feel like many games aren't about what they seem to be on the surface.

The SimCity series was less about building a city than it was about managing traffic.

SimTower was less about property management, and more about elevator management.

Factorio is less about building a factory, as it is about resource routing. Or, later, programming trains. Or later, god knows what, I haven't gotten that far.

Baldur's Gate III is less about defeating the BBEG through RPG mechanics, and more about choosing who to romance (Karlach).
I think you are on the right path. I've seen the arguments that "minimum wage" should be able to afford a median priced 2BR apartment (30% of income). Then who rents the bottom third apartments? I'm all for a bottom tier safety net to keep people off the streets.
This is the crux for me too. I'm not a "fan" of almost anyone. I might like somebody's music, somebody's movies or somebody's views.

Then the next thing they put out could be bad and I won't want it.

I'm called an "Apple fan boy" because I claim the Apple things I buy are the best versions of those things. But if/when Apple releases something mediocre, I won't want it. E.g. Vision Pro.
That’s unfortunate. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
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This is ultimately the highest quality advice, though I think many will not be primed to receive it. It’s like diet fads, or the quest for the meaning of life. Many people want to believe there is some secret that some people know and others don’t.
SSO is great and it makes user management so much easier. I'm in the process of moving as much stuff to SSO as possible and it's super frustrating how many vendors lock it behind an "enterprise" license. For example, we would like to use a certain "spot" hub for managing our social media but to get SSO it would cost us ~$30k / year. WTF!?!?!

So, I'm happy to see that Tailscale is bucking the trend and happy to be a Tailscale customer.
> Note: I assume when you say "don't have another choice" you really mean the finding and switching costs for new opportunities are too high

No, I mean that the eligibility is not present.

Getting employment requires hurdles many people cannot pass: you need a registered address to get postal letters (which excludes many homeless), you need valid immigration credentials, you need skill certifications (school or academic degrees, vocational training, ...) for many employments (which foreigners sometimes have a hard time showing (refugees) or getting recognized legally), you need to speak the language, you need to be able to read and write...

For us tech people, a lot of these hurdles don't apply, but the lowest rungs of employment / society have a very difficult time which most of us don't have any experience.
If anyone is in the mood for throwback gaming, I highly recommend Pathways into Darkness (1993). [0]

This was Bungie before Halo... before Marathon!

Specifically, the UI, in which you see game designers grappling with resource and development limitations and creating a weird hybrid of a filesystem-storing-game-objects + HUD-via-multiple-tiled-windows.

In the same way that the original Mac Myst was a collection of Hypercard stacks. [1]

Proto-GUIs are kinda my jam. Gotta know where we came from, and the paths (into darkness) not explored!

And it's nice to have a reminder that everything doesn't have to start with building or buying a game engine. Weird is needed too.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathways_into_Darkness#Gamep...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst#Production
Hey all, co-creator of pico.sh. We are reading your feedback loud and clear: we need to improve our messaging around what pico.sh offers.

I've updated the main repo README as well as the landing page. We will make it a priority to continue updating our docs.

Thanks for all the feedback!