skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm personally putting a LOT of effort to make our claims as accurate and truthful as possible, in every single place.

I'm not informed enough to comment on the performance but I really like this attitude of not overselling your product but still claiming that you reached a milestone. That's a fine balance to strike and some people will misunderstand because we just do not assume that much nuance – and especially not truth – from marketing statements.
Note that Github does support the slightly better animated WebP... as long as you change the file extension to .gif :)
Tldraw Infinite Lives
I've been enjoying gridfinity. You can customize and print compatible cases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gridfinity/comments/1ami7f4/i_desig...
If you ever plan on writing on what you're working I'd be interested. I have notes in Markdown or Org forms as well as PDF's I can convert to text easily. I'd like to be able to run a small model locally and tune it with the content i have in the future.
This behavior is extremely frustrating. I have a pair that only supports one device, and on the occasion that I connect them to my MacBook and forget to unpair or turn off Bluetooth afterward, they will permanently be usurped by Apple Music -- computer awake or asleep -- and my phone never stands a chance.
That’s not correct. The judge cannot overturn a jury verdict because he disagrees that it’s the best decision. He can only do so where the evidence is such that no reasonable jury could have reached that decision. It’s a standard that’s very deferential to the jury.

In this particular case, the decision of whether there was an antitrust violation at all would be made by the jury if damages are involved, but by the judge if no damages are involved. Even though the judge will make the final decision on equitable remedies (whether to break up Google), the jury’s verdict is binding on anything the judge subsequently does. The judge isn’t allowed to reach a decision that contradicts the jury on any issue that the jury explicitly or implicitly decided.
Wasn't there a way to tell BASIC to save in ASCII, rather than tokenized? Something like sticking ",A" onto the end of the save command? Or maybe I'm thinking of gwbasic ..
Advance Wars has a map creator and the AI can play on it. In theory one could get an AI to generate maps given the rules of the map creator and then users can implement them. Per my memory, no way to share, so it'll be a bit harder to setup and you can't do things like give the enemy units whose location you don't know, but it achieves a near infinite replay value. With some more work and one could have a new AI interface with an emulator and play the game instead of using the built in AI, if one finds it is no longer challenging. Thought that is probably reaching the scale where remaking the game from scratch would give one more freedom and control (and ability to monetize).
I have exactly the same question. I'm most likely to switch to Linux; I've heard that game support is a lot better than it used to be, and Valve has given developers an extra incentive to be compatible with Linux because of the Steam Deck.

I've heard that MS will offer paid security patches for three years, albeit with the cost doubling each year, so something like $70/$140/$280. I personally wouldn't want to do that for more than a year.
If you ever played a Williams Bally/Midway pinball machine from the 1990s dot-matrix era (Addams Family, Twilight Zone, Attack from Mars, Medieval Madness, etc), all of the artwork and animation for those displays was done entirely by hand in Deluxe Paint Animation for MSDOS.

The features like stenciling and animbrush were incredibly powerful. And with a little bit of extra software the exported files could be converted directly into a format for the game software to use.
I don't know, but from what I've read online, "the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws apply extraterritorially [...] when the conduct outside the United States had a substantial effect in the United States or upon United States citizens." [1]. Now, if MS receives a huge fine in Europe, it might have an influence on the stock, which might imply losses for US-based investors, and that should be sufficient.

Source: [1] https://www.zuckermanlaw.com/sp_faq/sec-enforcement-actions-...
I discovered noTunes a few months back and it is one of the best installs of all time. It also goes to show how product/developer thinking not always aligns with how users want to use the product. And then, I start thinking why would a developer build such an annoying thing... unless marketing forced them to.
I guess if you mean in the sense that writing a book is just writing words or publishing an app is not hard it makes some sense... But no. Shippable games are incredibly hard to make.

Why do you think publishers invest in new games instead of just hunt for diamonds in the rough?
> Sure we do. All the time.

I gave you a few examples, please do share instances of rewriting the History of the "Western Worlds" - again, whatever that means. But I have a feeling you're soon going to find yourself in a pickle.

> Or it started in 1931 according to the chinese.

Rightfully so, the difference was that the Chinese weren't allies of Japan invading other countries... Like the USSR allied with Nazi Germany, and be an active part on the hostilities and genocide, right? It's like the same thing Germany denied WW2 ever happened.

> Because the west hasn't expanded by force?

When? Where? Who? Tell me a "Western Country" that expanded by Force since the founding of the UN - because, you know, that was kind of the point of it.

> And that's why the western world hasn't invaded dozens of countries since. Right?

Of course it has, or do you think just because of the founding of the UN countries got a green card to commit genocide and invade neighbors? Like Serbia, or Saddam's Iraq?

> So you are defending the unipolar world? The same unipolar world maintained by force?

Where did I say I defend a unipolar world? I'm saying the world is already multipolar - it's like all of a sudden the last 30+ years of global trade, alliances and investments never happened. It's especially funny coming from China, or from Russia who thrived with this multipolar world.
Hello, I also hate that bluetooth stays on while my mac is sleeping, a few years ago I found this utility to fix it: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze/, my only issue with it is that if I sleep and wake the laptop in quick succession sometimes bluetooth stays off, but I can live with that.
While I have used the left Windows button extensively, I don't believe I've ever pressed the right Windows button except by a mistake when I was reaching for the right Alt. And I believe I've ever used the Menu button intentionally as opposed to pressing it accidentally instead of the right Ctrl only on those two memorable days when mouse was broken (don't worry, it got better).
Why aren't aircraft ceilings padded? The padding could double as sound and thermal insulation.
As a MBP user (for dev because the hardware is so good), it annoys me to no end that macOS comes up short in so many basic ways that requires patching with so many third party tools to make it not annoying. Even basic window tiling is just terrible and requires a third party add-on to make it functional.
It's getting worse every time I am forced to write now too, since I do it so infrequently. I type nearly everything now, and I only write stuff with a pen (outside a signature) roughly two or three times a year, and every time I do it's more difficult to figure out what I actually wrote.

I wish there were an easy way to print stuff on the go, and then I'd never have to use a pen again; maybe as we get to a paperless society that'll be the case.
> People did not take the businesses as badly as we treat them online. They feel it's a normal industry like anything else and gives employment so they are mostly fine with it.

Same as many jobs in the last century in the west: coal mining, steel mills and other large industrial operations, much heavy construction. Not that it was OK or should be acceptable but it does seem to be the way these things go.
Don't see any actual output measurement in the conclusion — it seems like the effort may not have really borne fruit.
Seriously, sign up for the course. You would benefit.
I have rejected Anki and its competitors for learning. I found it shallow and a drag It need high initial investment (prep cards, commit to reviewing everyday) with 0 instantaneous results (a week or 2 in and the cards are still fuzzy). These are superficial problems.

My deeper beef with this method is the complete absence of emphasizing, discovering or forming connections between cohesive things. We're trying to learn, it's a super power to start seeing patterns in what we learn, it forms buckets that we can put new concepts and information in. Without it, the learning is ... shallow.

I found a better way. I map out full concepts to fit on single sheets of printer paper. Frontside has mostly words with lines connecting them or forming groups. The backside is for related drudgery (formulae, dates, numbers, names). I repeat new things everyday till I can reproduce the sheet front and back without any help. And then slowly introduce days of spacing between repetitions.

This is way more satisfying, no tech involved, no algorithms, just hard work and way faster. I do not have any evidence of this working long term. The things I put so much effort in learning to reproduce with such accuracy usually is useful in the short term only. So it works for me.
Anonymity is a tool for those who execute negative externalities on society escape attribution. That is true.

It's also a tool for those with unpopular-to-power opinions express them without fear of retribution in a society that insufficiently protects them.

When it comes to money, though, those with more of it usually have less to fear from retribution.

In this way, speech through money is a fairly dubious argument. It's, on balance, a definite corrupting force.

Dark money is a good term because it implies a negative thing and that negative thing is a good guess here.
Not sure about BASICA, but GWBASIC definitely had this ",A" at the end of the filename to save in text format. It even had a ",P" flag to save in "protected" tokenized format (which you can't "officially" list, although a POKE at the good undocumented place could remove the flag: https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hsn/chm/gwbasic.chm/to...).
The old Sierra was such an amazing part of early computer gaming, mainly because nobody knew what genres the industry would eventually end up in. Imagine a single company today that makes games in the following genres:

* Police Investigations
* High Fantasy
* Fairy Tale Fantasy
* Sci-Fi Comedy
* Adult Comedy
* Arcade Games
* Educational Games
* Card and Casino Games

* and then had a subsidiary pretty much devoted to 3d Simulation and Action games.

and did all of those, including multiple sequels, in the space of less than 15 years.

The lack of rules also bit Sierra later on as players encountered more games from other creators and we slowly realized how unplayable many of the Sierra games actually were. But for the period where they dominated, they were kind of a wonderland.

Memory: I basically learned how to type playing Police Quest and Space Quest II.
Good product, i tried it and it is a tool that i need
Stardew Valley: too hot for puritans
I remember reading some of the eink patents expired recently? Are there news of cheaper/larger panels on the horizon?
High Impact Thoughts
There are bosons that carry charges and/or mass like the weak bosons and the gluons. There is nothing in principle about bosons that would make them incapable of building logic gates out of them.

Some advanced civilization (future us) may use them. Even photons interact with each other a little bit due to QED.
C++: zero-cost leaky abstraction with unlimited cognitive and development cost

Functional programming languages: Unlimited good abstractions of unknown cost

I don't feel like there's a great third option. Go is pretty good.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426801
All this "OMG!!!" fuss about autonomous weapons, as if the world has been "every single shot was personally aimed at a carefully selected and fully identified target" since the dawn of warfare.

Meanwhile, if you know squat about military history, and can figure out Wikipedia's search feature - land mines (gunpowder-based) were described in great detail, in a Chinese military treatise compiled back in the 1300's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine#History

But you won't score the same clicks and bucks and social media cred as a journalist, if your article points out the long history of mines and indirect fires and booby traps and homing torpedoes and buzz bombs. And how the technical, legal, and moral issues therewith have been handled over time.
I’m struggling to understand why it’s called “with Pen” if it doesn’t include a Pen with it?
That actually happened

Meng Wanzhou (daughter of the founder of Huawei) bypassed sanctions against Iran

Vancouver airport arrested and put her under house arrest for a few years
Probably the same effect that VCs invest in many startups, knowing only a tiny fraction will make a large profit?
I don't understand people paying this much for what will 80% of the time be an internet browsing/document editing machine.

I have been driving $700 clevos, running Linux and they are blazing fast with nvme storage. And I can use it to code in Go, Elixir, zero problems.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426801
> Stories like this one and my own experience are the reason why I refuse to accept contracts where stock options are part of compensation package.

I agree, except I don't refuse them. I just consider them to be without value when I'm totaling up the compensation offer. If the job isn't worth it without the stock/options, it's not worth it with them.
> Some websites use looping videos and call them GIFs

That’s exactly what they’re doing. Just used the web inspector on one of their GIFs. Imgur does the same thing.
Where democracy is most at risk
That's true, but these will be 3 orders of magnitude less expensive, require much less CapEx to setup manufacturing, and will proliferate like AK-47s.

As an example of new cheap tech doing surprising things on the battlefield, the Houthis just shut down the Red Sea for Western marine traffic with kamikaze UAVs, for which we were somehow entirely unprepared - with the greatest Navy in human history.
It's not actually strange - GP is just using that word to emotionally manipulate readers.
There might be some "good arguments" against increasing broadband competition through government action, but we all know the incumbents aren't funding these sites for love of a good debate.
Basically after Xamarin got acquired, Xamarin.Forms got rewritten into MAUI, Mono Develop was killed in name of VSCode (after existing for a while as VS4Mac) with no comparable tooling, Mono only exists as runtime for iDevices/Android/Blazor, Mono linker got repurposed as Native AOT trimming, most of the Mono BCL was merged with .NET Core efforts.

And that was it, regarding Xamarin story in the .NET ecosystem.

I assume, like with any acquisition, what they were promised and how things went down, wasn't quite the same.
That seems like a ridiculous stance. The safe harbor laws that those platforms depend on are for user-generated content. Here it's your platform that's generating the infringing content. (And obviously it's not by accident, you're practically reveling in it with your choice of demo.)
According to https://caniuse.com/webm, desktop Safari is green since 2022, while iOS Safari is green since two months ago.
You might have played some (most?) of these games already, but I'd like to offer some suggestions in case you haven't.

- The Disgaea series is hilarious, infinitely replayable, and allows you to pull off some very satisfying game-breaking maneuvers. Disgaea 1, 4, and 5 are considered the best in the series. Disgaea 7, the newest release, has good reviews on Steam too. If you want to pick just one, get Disgaea 5.

- Tiny Metal is inspired by Advance Wars and improves on many aspects of the game.

- Wargroove is also inspired by Advance Wars. It's very good, but a single level can sometimes take a long time to beat (45 mins to an hour). Comes with a scenario editor so you can design your own levels (or download other people's creations).

- Into the Breach is one of my favorite games. The design is simple with very few rules, but it lends itself to emergent behavior that can be a lot of fun to discover.

- Deckbuilders give me the same kind of satisfaction as turn-based strategy games. The current genre darling is Balatro, and its popularity is well deserved. One of the best games to come out in recent years. I've been recommending it to everybody.

- And of course, the Fire Emblem series is still alive and well. The games are 3D now, but the gameplay is still the same as it always was (with slight variations between versions). Fire Emblem: Three Houses might be my most played game ever. That said, Fire Emblem has never been as challenging as Advance Wars in my experience, so you might not enjoy it as much unless you play on higher difficulty levels. I play these games for the story, so I usually play on easier modes.

- EDIT: oh, how could I forget Triangle Strategy and Unicorn Overlord? I haven't played these yet, but they're well reviewed and come with some very interesting mechanics.

Hope there's something new in that list for you to enjoy :)
TSMC's EUV machines are equipped with a remote self-destruct
They contort themselves to redefine the word density, when what they should have said is that a good interface for humans maximizes information without losing visual salience (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Visual_salience). That is, local density BUT ALSO clear-to-the-human-eye boundaries between information sets.

See the famous (still? hopefully?) Kadir&Brady paper "Saliency, Scale and Image Description" from 2000 for an explanation of how encapsulating information in something visibly distinct, like whitespace, increases the visual saliency of that information: https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~timork/Saliency/ijcv_SalScale.p...
> What I don't understand though is his obsession with spaced repetition.

I think Matuschak wants to be able to recall particular things ~forever, and spaced repetition is the best method known for that.

(Nit: Your sentence begins as a genuine expression of puzzlement rather than an outright criticism, but then you refer to Matuschak's "obsession", which pre-judges the issue. It would be more consistent to refer to his "emphasis on" or "advocacy of".)
https://archive.ph/agQZz
The “late 2019” intel MacBooks were some of the worst computers ever built:

- I had two screens fail,

- The battery swelled.

- It did not sit flat on my desk.

- It warped a pine desk that I used during the pandemic.

- At any time after a few months of using it, no fewer than 6 keys would drop or duplicate keystrokes.

- It got under 2 hours battery life, when new.

- under heavy use, it got about 4 while plugged into the provided charger.

- If you charged it using a port on the left side, it’d throttle the CPU to 10% normal speed.

- Kernel panics on resume.

- They had random monitor incompatibility issues with the LG monitors Apple sold at the time.

- My colleagues also had the exact same model, and mine was better than average.

- no escape key

- the touchbar was over sensitive, so pressing backspace would send a ghost keystroke that launched siri a few times a day.

However, you could run them in clamshell mode with the monitor plugged in. It worked out of the box.

(Edit: I might have the model year wrong. I used it for a long time before the pandemic. It was the last one before they brought the escape key back.)
I'd hate for the author of this article to run into mechanical keyboard folks.
> those bloody useless Windows and Menu keys between the AltGr and the right Ctrl?

If you didn't learn to use them for more than a quarter of century thrn it says more about you than of the usability of those keys. Maybe you are that ... person what shoves PrtScr in the place of ContextMenu on ThinkPads.
What would be a better word?
Nothing to do with Apple, but I recently bought an old car. It has a radio. Whenever I turn on the engine, it switches on. Actually, no, it doesn't switch on, because I found that behaviour so annoying that I just unplugged the whole thing from the power. It's a fancy sat-nav touchscreen radio that can show a reversing camera, has loads of settings menus, but doesn't have an option to stop it being stupid. What gives? Who in the industry thought that this was what people really wanted?
I think most people don't actually want to make games.

Most people want to take an existing basic game, and tweek it a bit, incrementally, adding new art, ideas and levels, and removing the stuff they don't like.

They definitely do not want to write code.

They most certainly do not want to debug generated code and I think you've hit the nail on the head with 'generating actual code sucks, is hard and basically doesn't work' with current models.

What I see in the demos looks different though; it looks like you have a configuration driven set of basic game elements and let the AI tweek the structured and easily-to-validate-schema config.

Which I think is fantastic.

"Make this unit bigger", "Add new type of fighter", "Get rid of this unit", "make the terrain here smoother and add a lake"; I feel like this kind of structured tool use is currently possible, if you write a framework of constrained actions (which is what it appears you've done).

So, props to you. This feels like something that is both actually novel and interesting.

...but; I feel there is going to be a difficult path ahead.

The more generic you make the engine, the more different types of games you can make with it; however, in doing so, the tools you have (eg. "modify unit config", "generate 2d sprite for unit", etc.) will have to become more generic; and the more generic they become, the less effective the agents will be at using them.

Our current batch of GPT4-ish models seems like they're relatively well suited for using specific tools with specifically constrained inputs to plan and achieve goals; however, as the tools become generic, the solution space balloons out widely and you start getting random crap instead of actual real solutions to tasks.

Specifically, I'm skeptical about your generic `createOrUpdateRule` and that you can effectively scale it to complex interactive behaviors; it just feels like the agents will never express complex ideas with that kind of coding; it'll only ever be an array of trivial behaviors.

Maybe that's all you need in some cases; but I don't think you can build actual games that way.

So, practically speaking, this might actually only ever really work as like a 'super modding tool' that takes basically a fully working game and lets you mod it in a very specific set of ways; but that would mean creating a 'template game' for various different game types, and different 'modify game' tools for each one. Otherwise, the final product is never going to really be beyond 'unit moves back and forth randomly'.

...but, that would still be really fantastic.

I guess, I hope you don't get lost trying too hard to build a generic Unity clone using AI that is kind of so-so (ie. generates random code that doesn't work and you have to constantly debug), instead of an amazing thing that is slightly less generic, but lets you do amazing things within a specific set of restrictions.
A textbook on mechanical engineering and robotics from year 1206, by Aljazari
Where are the charges against the tribes of Gaza for committing the most savage acts of terrorism imaginable against men, women and children, including babies? All hostilities followed the acts of October 7th. The ICC could have chosen many issues to address but picked this one. For this reason, it cannot be considered a legitimate institution.