skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much appreciated, thanks! Releasing a successful game on Steam would be amazing of course but it's not easy, to say the least. I hope we'll manage to do it some day!
As somebody with my own grievances against the medical system, it’s not just that it’s in my interest to dust my hands off and walk away, it’s that the medical system is a 9 headed gigantic hydra that I feel impotent to do anything about it without dedicating a huge swathe of my life to being a reformer and even then I’ll likely be shouting into the wind.

The amount of parties which can have some interest in keeping a broken part of the medical system broken is staggering, it can extend from researchers to doctors to insurers to the government to institutions to businesses to the patients themselves and their families AT THE SAME TIME just because of the sheer amount of money that gets thrown around even if the actual medicine is nonsense. Reforms risk fucking with the money and you DO NOT fuck with the money!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240422080326/https://farrs.sub...
I agree, but they should count negatively.
Whoops you are absolutely right!! Good point, I totally misread the if/else.
FORTRAN (no numbers!) had DO loops in the first release of the language. No subroutines, only statement functions, but there absolutely were DO loops! The ability of the compiler to perform what are now basic loop optimizations on them is what sold the users on automatic compilers.
Checking receipts causes a long line backed up to the registers on busy days, like holidays. Stopping the checking of receipts doesn't magically get all these people with carts through the doors, especially during a stampede. It is a clear hazard.
When I'm buying a product on a site like amazon with 5 start rating scale, I find that all of the useful information is found in the 2, 3 and 4 star reviews.

1 star reviews are mostly people pissed off for some reason, people with unreasonable expectations, or competitors trying to hurt their competition.
5 stars reviews are either zero effort reviews from people with low expectations or they are outright fake reviews from people incentivized to inflate the rating.

The 3 star reviews identify key and serious problems with the product that the customer otherwise would have liked. Usually the most information is found here.
4 star reviews identify weaknesses in the product that the customer still liked despite the drawbacks.
2 stars often are the same as 1 star but from less critical people.

The only signal I pay attention to from 1 star and 5 star reviews is if there are too many of them it's a red flag. More than 10% 1 star usually indicates a serious problem with product defects. More than 80% 5 star indicates a product that's buying fake reviews.
The only major reading I do these days is via audiobooks, I simply read them faster than via visually looking at the page. It might be my attention span, but somehow audio is just faster to literally cram words into the mind at high speed than consciously moving your eyes over a page.
Copy paste error. It was supposed to be the live feed, I'll see if I can fix it.
that is indeed an easy solution, but that doesn't mean it is a good solution, or even better than no solution.
Businesses that remain stagnant don't get shafted so much as outmaneuvered. Instead of investing and pivoting, they cling to the old business model. Short term, their decisions make financial sense, but long term, it's a death sentence.

Meanwhile, Amazon is looked at as the behemoth in the industry, yet it probably isn't thought of as an online book store / publisher by most people. I think of so many things before I get to, "Oh yeah, they also sell books."

The one piece of information that I wish the article had mentioned is the age demographics of avid book readers. My gut tells me the market has dropped significantly in the last ~25 years, but I'd like to see the data.
Kobo and Google Play both tell you up-front if a book has DRM or not. And very often - not "rare"-ly as you claim - buying directly from the publisher results in a DRM-free ebook.
Have you investigated this or are you just asking? I imagine if you wish to learn the answer it is a few simple searches away. And by “imagine” I mean, it is.
Does anyone honestly believe warrantless snooping would have stopped if the law had not been passed? At this point, passing the law is merely performative.
Being no one might help you escape that cyclops.
Do We Need a Property Tax for Space?
inb4 no
Yes, that's exactly the sort of thing I was reaching for.

Curious what the distribution is for types of books.

In the U.S., bookstores lose money almost the entire year --- only making money for the Christmas holidays.
Thanks. I guess a potential issue would be rendering the outlines because it's implemented with post-processing and I'm not sure how it would look in VR.
Yeah..."dystopian sh*t" is an all-too-accurate description of our world.
I feed my neighborhood crews peanuts pretty regularly, they know me and my girlfriend and are quick to show up in the morning when we have the bag of peanuts. Its fun
Calvin and Hobbes, 1993 - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/12/07
Congrats on shipping! I enjoyed my playthrough. I suspect it's the perfect length for blowing up on HN, since there's an emotional payoff for completing the game and if it were any longer, less people would complete it.
Don't waste your time recycling anything.. something like 95% of all recyclables that are recycled by people end up in the landfill with the rest of the garbage.. this is actually common knowledge
Prior to the digital age where it's possible for the author to self-publish the publisher was handling 99% of the actual business of selling books and giving authors 15%.

So while I think it's been hard to make a living as an author I don't think it's necessarily the publisher's fault. Better to be the one's selling shovels than the ones mining for gold.
I would like to hear from others how true this is.

My understanding (based on the wording that OpenAI itself uses) is that it still uses OCR tech behind the scenes. It seems like they have developed some models to better comprehend the same OCR scanned content that others produce.
I am also not thrilled with taking lessons from dating apps that teach you to get addicted to using the dating app.
I’d say it’s about 50/50. It’s verbal when considering what to name variables, styling the code, and ensuring I didn’t make any mistakes. When considering the flow of the code, and what pieces to put where, it’s more intuitive.
Dinner is family time and we usually eat together at the dinner table

Lunch I'll have at the computer while watching videos or playing some games that only need a mouse unless my wife and I both have time to grab lunch (we work from home) and if so we'll eat together

Breakfast is whatever and I skip it half the time or it usually takes me a min or 2 to eat
Good to see you're transparent in your profile about working at Cloudflare. Look up https://twitter.com/RozenMD/ . He also works at Cloudflare and on his side-hussle he's using Cloudflare workers to crawl websites.
This is not good news. I just got my first eInk reader today and first thing I did was go through all the navigation setup pages.

I have one professional development book and was going find a work of fiction to start. Hope it works out.
Paper Books for random-access Technical Reference.

Electronic Books for General 'Beginning-to-End', or 'Story-Telling' reading.

In general, though most books can be either paper or electronic depending on personal convenience at the time. It's not a 'Black and White', 'One Thing or the Other' choice. Both formats are as good as the other if need be.

I use both. "Works for Me."
Oooh I can try tackling a bit of this (I'll try not to ramble... )

But anyway studios have been outsourcing animation work to Asian countries for a while now.

You might have seen some of the work product from one of the larger Japanese animation studios: TMS Enterainment who has worked on things like Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, The New Batman Adventures in addition to shows like Tiny Toon Adventures and Transformers in the 80-90s.

Some more recent(ish) examples are Cartoon Network outsourcing the animation for Steven Universe to Rough Draft Korea located South Korea and Nickelodeon outsourced some of the work for Korra to a Japanese company called Pierrot.

I'm just rambling at this point so I'm going to just leave a few links below that can do a better job of illustrating than I'm able to.

Wikipedia, Outsourcing of Animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing_of_animation

[DCAU Fandom Wiki, TMS Entertainment: https://dcau.fandom.com/wiki/TMS_Entertainment,_Ltd.

Reddit thread, Stylistic differences between two studios: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/1m4wbn/st...

AnimeNewsNetwork, American animation outsourced to Japan (2015): https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2015-11-02/.94920
Most libraries that people have access to are more like "Disney+ for books". They have a limited selection of extremely mainstream books. If you're happy to make do with whatever they have on offer then you're fine, but if you want something specific you'll have to go out and buy it.

Back in the DVD days and before everyone broke ranks and tried to start their own service, the thing that made Netflix great was that no matter what you wanted they had it. Having no retail footprint meant they could stock everything without having to compromise. Libraries don't have that advantage.
Getting flying and landing stuff certified by the agency that is in charge of certifying flying things is indeed a pretty good idea :)

I'm surprised this never happened before.
Thanks a lot. I wish there was more too, but we unfortunately had to keep the project's scope under control! Lots of puzzle ideas and content were cut.
My rent goes up CPI+5% or 10% wtv is smaller and those guidelines are considered “price controlled”. Most recently my rent went up 8.3% cuz CPI was 3.3% +5. Rent is a portion of CPI calculation though, so it is almost a catch 22, if rents rise, the next years CPI then displays this rise, and then that new CPI is used to justify a raise in rent prices once again. And it’s a loop that continues, it’s an equation for guaranteed inflation.
Seems like without some kind of software revenue sharing model it doesn't make sense. These things are consoles -- sold a cost or below cost in order to make it back on software sales.
Yeah super weird.
End of the world, cats and dogs sleeping together
I'm going to nitpick two things.

1. If you cheat in business, you might get caught. Or you might retire a billionaire.

2. If we're going to stick with the video game analogy, video games often have difficulty settings. The difference with the game of life is that you don't get to choose your difficulty setting when you start playing. You may not even be aware that there are different difficulty settings until you're pretty far into the game. Some of these things can be adjusted a little bit mid-game, but not all. Not even most.
I haven't used Codeium in a while, but I remember at some point in VSCodium it would also spike CPU usage until I turned off some features (was it Chat, or Search? something like that).
I believe another factor is frequency of moving, because that’d disincline people from buying significant amounts of any kind of heavy and/or bulky media, of which books are both. More than a small bookshelf’s worth is a real pain to haul around.
What kind of people are using this AI dev platforms?

When do they become better then just rolling your own custom code?
Probably territorial disputes. I bought a feeder and I'm hanging it right outside/below my balcony (so birds can eat without pooping on my balcony). I buy hulled sunflower seeds, 10kg, every month just for the feeder. My typical 'customers' are House Sparrows that I try to keep alive through the winter. The (three) crows on my block are cool with them, and let them live around here. When pigeons fly in though, or once we had some ducks resting and trying to feed on my feeder, OH BOY, the crows no-like-big-birds.

Sidenote: because of the weird position of my feeder, only one bird can eat at-a-time. House Sparrows being smart and loving do the following.. one goes to my feeder and shoves/throws down seeds, so he/she eats straight from the feeder, and a bunch of others eat the seeds falling on the sidewalk.
The point of a YouTube embed is to share it on other websites, so this is a ridiculous argument. The YouTube creator of course gets the revenue from embed shares, but why do you think they should own every website it's shared on? That makes no sense nor would it ever happen.

The creator isn't taken out of the equation at all - their content is being promoted and they're getting ad revenue for views there (as agreed upon in the YouTube terms).

And for the YouTube creator who decided to give their video to YouTube, but doesn't want it shared on third-party sites, YouTube lets them disable embeds.

Putting a YouTube embed, summarizing a YouTube video - neither are "violating the creator's copyright" which they already gave to YouTube anyway.
when things get complex templete error messages are easier to follow. nobody makes complex macros but if you tried. (template error messeges are legendary for a reason. nested macros are worse)
As with any productivity boost - if you need 100x fewer IT jobs, it doesn't mean you will cut your IT by 100x, you will instead increase just grow your IT department 100x or however much until you hit a growth bottleneck on the business side, then some jobs will shift there.

Just like my raw materials/energy cost example before, if you something becomes cheap - you don't consume less of it, you try to do more with it. Maybe, so much more that you can now do things which were completely impossible/unaffordable before!

It's very possible we will have MORE IT jobs due to new opportunities and efficiencies.

A decent software developer costs $40/hr. Let's say you can make your small iPhone app idea in 100 hours, that's $4,000. If developer with 100x as productive, now that costs only $40. That doesn't only mean more people can afford to build their ideas, but you could build BIGGER ideas, on a $4,000 budget you could now build $400,000 worth of an application! Think of all the opportunities for everyone!
Correct in theory, false in practice. Case in point : google adwords / adsense. It’s been close to 20 years and counting, and lots of the online ad economy is still relying almost exclusively on it.
It is such a good feeling to deploy a bloom filter in production. There aren't many times it will help but when it helps it helps a TON.
A computer program will enable people to abuse more children? I guess a chatbot might be able to groom more children more quickly than a person. Oh they mean computer generated child porn. I guess if it indistinguishable then it is reportable.

"Think of the children" soon to be used for common sense GPU control.
I've made and shipped games. Just look at the 30 games that come out on steam every day of the week.
https://www.wonkypedia.org/article/AES-512
Look at it spitting out garbage here.
Dennett was a great thinker. He's absolutely right that natural selection of AI software over time will increase its potency and danger. Every AI skeptic should read this article as it clearly lays out one of the dangerous paths we're on.
AI is going to solve it forever because creating real child porn will be too expensive and risky vs doing it legally (outside USA) with AI
Not sure how many folks here remember the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the 1st xbox, but I was at the time, seriously addicted to the game back in college.

Part of the fun is that your reputation and actions have a physical effect on the character you are playing - you can go to the gym (in the game) and bulk up your appearance. Pretty cool how they gamified something that is so boring in real life.

Then I had an epiphany.

What if all the effort and time I put in the game, I actually put towards my actual life? In a way, gamifying my own life for the benefit for my life instead of a video game character?

I spent a lot more time doing physical activities than playing video games since.

So I love this idea of treating life as if it is a game. Best epiphany ever.

Another thing that I do - pretend like I observe my life in 3rd person like how I observed the character in the game. Like I have camera over my shoulder while I am doin an incline bench press. It's hard to explain, but dissociating with myself puts me in a zen-like state. It also helps if I am upset and need a moment to cool off. Its a lot easier to disconnect from your ego when you disconnect from it like you are controlling it through an xbox controller.
Nope it's still third world Karma farmer Bots
Is that what the majority of Vision Pro users are doing in VR? Projecting flat monitors around.
ls -lh hello.wasm
-rw-r--r--@ 1 tcole staff 24M Apr 22 14:18 hello.wasm

This is on macOS. That is hello.py compiled to wasm with Py2wasm.
A Fentanyl Ban Would Deal a Blow to Consumers, Businesses, Non-Profits and the American Economy
Vouched because I found it interesting. I'm trying to form my own opinion as to whether any of the Trans advocacy is counter-productive in its inflexibility, or whether I'm just a fuddy-duddy that needs to catch up.
Paging Harrison Bergeron
While being slightly more generous than my sibling comment:

If you’ve got a peer-to-peer network of information nodes, where each person is able to assert information about themselves in their node, but the whole trust is based on the polykey binding at setup, I see 3 key challenges:

1) Where’s the real world verification of any identity attributes stored in the node?
2) How do we detect when/if the root key has been compromised, allowing arbitrary new vaults and identity attributes to be automatically trusted within the network?

3) How does this meaningfully improve the experience over having a CA sign a certificate that contains attributes about you? (sibling poster’s argument).
sql used to be the end of coding to retrieve data as well. the circle continues
my last dentist did it and was not a "sedation Dentistry" practice. She was head of the California Dental Association tho
I wish my daughters would stop reading books (not really) so I could stop buying them all the time (happy to pay this expense). I was worried for a while because my wife and I are both voracious readers, but none of our children seemed to be developing a similar love for literature. That changed practically overnight. They went from Anime to Manga to YA lit to full blown novels in less than a year. Their tastes are still very particular, so we can't reliably go to a used book store to find things they are willing to try. But each time we go to buy them books, their selections get a little more varied than before.

The latest game is "How many books can I get?". I think they know perfectly well that I'll buy them as many books as they want because I've never told them I wouldn't buy them a book. So in a way it's them exploring their own impulsiveness and desire to consume versus what they consider to be reasonable. I always make them set their own limit. But I'm also fortunate to be a tech worker who doesn't have to even think about budgeting for books. Telling them no has never been a practical consideration here.
Not much of an article. Do yourself a favor and read the LWN one:

https://lwn.net/Articles/961978/

tl;dr: The Linux kernel team view all bugs as a possible security issue. The CVE assignment teams tries to minimize the number of Kernel CVEs because corproate policies mandate fixing CVEs in 30/90 days. There's a lot of politics.
About 30%, including the urban core. [0]

But thankfully the war ended before it was completely destroyed, as it would have continued being hit otherwise.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#Postwar_rec...
I've been putting off glasses for as long as I can. I suspect I'll return to my Kindle again in the future for this reason. It's good to be reminded that both things can coexist.
Note this is from March 2023.

https://archive.is/SoSw9

Beyond what the article says, something that is very hard to quantify is whether the promise of fame on TikTok causes its users to spend more than they otherwise would, even in excess of the income they actually receive from either TikTok or its effect on the promotion of their ventures. Recessions may well have been triggered by less.
That was Voyager 6, a fictional probe based on the real life probes of the same name.

Earth probe gone bad is a common trope in Sci-Fi. Star Trek alone has a few episodes:

- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nomad

- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Friendship_1

Also the Doomsday machine was a very different type of probe to
V’ger

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_(e...
> There's plenty of things wrong with these tools: they are often wrong, are slow and the GPT4 ones are really expensive.

So...why should they be included?

I really worry about this "often wrong" part - you only know they are wrong if you already know what you're doing. Otherwise you end up trying to use hallucinated APIs & libraries, or produce code not better than copy & pasting StackOverflow answers (which is what the AI was trained on anyway).
> blocking AI tools is about data security, not money.

Why is AI treated very different than say cloud? Most companies don't have problem with putting all data in Github or AWS or Office 365, but lot of them freaks out if any AI can access the data. I don't think OpenAI/copilot enterprise plan T&C/privacy policy is very different than Github or AWS.
Give Me Liberty or Give Me What?
This is just forcing return value. You either have to break or return at the branches. To me they all look equivalent
Notably steam ratings on games are divided into "all time" and "recent" categories.
Most Harry Potter fans have never even read the books, but just seen the films, further supporting your argument
Won't we run into physical limits long before 2064?

I imagine that would push out the timeline.
Thanks! About the character height, it's set at 1.6m and all the environment is supposed to be at the right scale, but perhaps we made the doors a bit too short. We tried to convey a bit of claustrophobic feeling, especially in the lower level, as you would expect in this kind of spaceship.
It’s funny that Horizon is named after Horizon in the Amazon Prime TV series “Upload”. Good TV series btw.
I especially liked the "Connecting..." sound. It's inescapable even in the future!
Another big user was ACL2, but that's been ported to SBCL (meaning, standardized enough to run on SBCL).
Watch TV.
Ver depressing article about a subject I’m all too familiar with.
The “evilness” is just that sometimes if you inline aggressively in a microbenchmark things get faster but in real programs things get slower.

As you say: “chances are they are a lot better at it than you”. Infrequently they are not.
Funny what they call an OS nowadays. I'd say it's another Linux distribution.
Dify looks super powerful! Always nice to see a React Flow app in the wild :)
And if you add in TV shows, there's more great content out there than I'll ever have time to watch.