skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of his friends seem to be obsessed with Minecraft, and Ultimate Chicken Horse

It's really difficult to compare creative multiplayer games like Minecraft with Super Mario Bros. I think it's perfectly natural for kids to prefer to play games they can actually play together. Especially sandbox games that allow people to play the same game with drastically different play styles. When I play Minecraft with my kids, I'll go hunting and scavenging with my son and we'll use the resources collected to build out and decorate a village with my daughters. They all have learned about redstone enough to start automating some of their own builds. This is all vastly more engaging than taking turns watching each other play a single player game.
Really interesting read! I was one of those first 5000 units (preordered Sept 29 2009 and shipped Dec 29 2009) and I wore my fitbit religiously (upgrading to newer versions now and then) until last year.

>> "That something had to be comfortable to wear all day, be easy to use, upload its data seamlessly so the data could be tracked and shared with friends, and rarely need charging. Not an easy combination of requirements."

I ended up finally retiring my fitbit last year after seeing little by little Google dismantling all that made fitbit fitbit. Google's first version of Fitbit was the Pixel watch which didn't even last a day. It also may have been comfortable to wear, but was not comfortable to use and the social aspects of it, namely challenges, were axed. So all you were left was a device with the tracking aspects and upload aspects. Not great.

I ended up moving over to a Garmin fenix 7X Sapphire Solar which has a very impressive battery life, fits way more comfortably, has way more features, and while still not the same challenges I loved on fitbit, still has better social features then google left the fitbit with.

All in all, while I do love my Garmin device now, it was a very sad day leaving Fitbit behind. I still hold that, while unproven, I think I probably logged more days of data on the fitbit at the time I switched over then anyone else. I now know I have a 1 in 5000 chance at least of this being true!

>> "In April of this year, Park and Friedman left Google. Early retirement? Hardly. The two, now age 47, have started a new company that’s currently in stealth mode."

Excited to see what you guys are working on now!
Besides, can we even attract experienced developers to a non-glamorous industry like logistics?

Yes. This is a complete non-issue. Plenty of developers work for companies that aren't "glamorous / sexy tech companies." In fact, I'd almost be willing to bet that - in aggregate - more developers work for companies like yours than work for those glamorous tech companies. Consider - every auto manufacturer, auto parts chain, soda-pop manufacturer, supplier of sheet metal, supplier of PVC pipe, sewer construction company, insurance company, retail chain, yadda, yadda, yadda, has IT staff. OK, excluding maybe some really small firms who also outsource to a service provider of some sort. But I think you get the point - using and developing tech isn't something that is only done by "tech companies".

Offer good pay, good work life balance and private offices for developers (if working in the office) and/or a healthy approach to remote work, and finding developers shouldn't be a problem.
Bud imagine chilling in a space station and watching Netflix. I dunno about you, but me? I would enjoy that life
Genuine question: how do you suggest for that code to be maintained long-term if the original team was just freelancers?
>But how different would SI and GPT4 appear in response to everyday chit-chat? What if we ask the SI-based sequence predictor how to cure cancer?

I suspect that a lot of LLM prompts that elicit useful capabilities out of imperfect sequence predictors like GPT-4 are in fact most likely to show up in the context of "prompting an LLM" rather than being likely to show up "in the wild".

As such, to predict the token after a prompt like that, an SI-based sequence predictor would want to predict the output of whatever language model was most likely to be prompted, conditional on the prompt/response pair making it into the training set.

If the answer to "what model was most likely to be prompted" was "the SI-based sequence predictor", then it needs to predict which of its own likely outputs are likely to make it into the training set, which requires it to have a probability distribution over its own output. I think the "did the model successfully predict the next token" reward function is underspecified in that case.

There are many cases like this where the behavior of the system in the limit of perfect performance at the objective is undesirable. Fortunately for us, we live in a finite universe and apply finite amounts of optimization power, and lots of things that are useless or malign in the limit are useful in the finite-but-potentially-quite-large regime.
Notion's AI is decent for this, but not very good at finding things
Normal People do not run out of storage on their PCs. What data do you think normal people even have? Everything is streamed. My girlfriend has kept everything that has ever mattered to her for 15 years now, including two college degrees worth of class material, in the free tier of OneDrive, like a few gigs maybe.

Her largest digital asset is a gig of mp3s that are a copy of the Harry Potter audiobooks. Even that is "streamed" from my google drive. Even getting her into the hobby of "collecting steam games" hasn't put pressure on her 500gb hard drive, because she doesn't play modern AAA games.

People run out of storage on their phone from taking Video and Pictures but they don't ever copy those over to their PCs, if they even have PCs, they just buy more cloud storage space from Apple.
I made some slight modifications to your prompt and got something working:

Here's the prompt: https://i.imgur.com/lUjLTsd.png
Plain text: https://pastebin.com/HTUjcy7M

The two differences from your prompt are I changed "A listing of horses" to "A listing of horses that the user has added" and at the end I added "Use NSUserDefault for data persistence, not coredata". I'm modifying the model prompt as something like that should definitely not be needed in the app specifications.

Some screenshots of the generated app:
https://i.imgur.com/IwEKuZW.png
https://i.imgur.com/zONc9Fm.png
We'll have to agree to disagree. It's not glamorous or super fun to develop on, but is in very battle-tested. WordPress runs 40-something percent of all sites, and WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce system in the world. I host hundreds of enterprise clients on WordPress.
Interesting! Since it doesn't cost that anywhere close to that much to create an astronaut, clearly we can make the nation incredibly wealthy by simply training more of them. By the magical transmutation of astronaut creation, this increases their value enormously. What a brilliant free wealth concept you have created! It's the greatest idea since Beanie Babies.
Hoping Al Lowe to be included here, an adventure games legend
Key Technologies to Extend EUV to 14 Angstroms
Physicists determine the best "pumping" strategy so skateboarders can gain speed
Fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
Unfortunately, Web Components are still somewhat immature [1], but eventually, our plan is to support vanilla React as well. We really want to nail every single integration that we officially support before growing horizontally, because looking at some of our competitors, often its greatest failures come from rushing framework support.

So, we went with the most popular JS framework first (Next.js), and are gonna go from there once we're confident in it.

[1] https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...
Historically according to who and what, exactly? Are you going to actually supply a citation here?
Huh? Please show me a code of ethics taught in software engineering courses.

If one exists, I would like to see your argument that SWEs are adhering to it, and that the software industry is behaving ethically.
Offtopic: on mobile I get a really awful ad that puts borders on the whole screen, and cuts off the article's words on the far left and right. I'd say I will never go to this site again, but then again, I may as well never read news on mobile again, right? (As this ad might just pop up on another site anyway) Still, it's a shameful practice.
StarCon II adventure mode remains one of the best games I have ever played. Really took you in. My friends and I would all sit around the computer and play it for hours. Some good old Melee action was always great as well. BTW the O.G. creators are getting together and finally making a sequel!

https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2024/04/kickstarter-launch-inc...
Yes with no real retirement in the future :) All social benefits and retirements will collapse and %100 not sustainable not only for Germany but for so many nations. Many reason exist already and it just takes longer.
I work on an internal team like you would be building, I think for a company of your size and probably needs it is very much a needed thing to control the software in-house. Not having people that are dedicated and know your stuff leads to the situation you're in. Just do it. We've outsourced a couple small projects, then re-written them within our team because the quality and lack of specification is just...bad.

My current industry is pumping chemicals, it's non-glamorous but it's a need that must be fed, versus "fancy tech" or whatever. We keep a team of guys employed and happy. Just pay them decently well, don't try to micromanage them, give them good requirements and honest feedback, give them the tools they need.
https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Never have your content only on someone else's site.

I usually write every comment / opinion in Obsidian if it's either long or seems like something I need to explain multiple times.

That way I can just copy-paste the same comment again, read through and edit either the original or the pasted version to fit the situation and I save a lot of time and research =)
Step 1 of Slavery: Train employees to follow your every stupid whim lol
We Bought 1347 Used Data Center SSDs to Look at SSD Endurance
Thought I had more than this, but it's been literally decades...

I found (1) HM6116, (4) HM65256's (1) HM6264 and wonder of wonders, a Dallas battery-backed DS1220, although after 20+ years the battery is certainly dead. All in DIP packages of course.

And a couple of 2114's with a 1980 date code! that I think are DRAM's.

If any of this is useful to you, PM me an address and I'll pop them in the mail.
My guess would be it's about pricing. Let's imagine a world where there are only two farms, mine and my neighbor's. We're both using regular seeds, and we do a decent job, but it's not wonderful, and some years our yield isn't so great.

Then Monsanto comes along and wants to sell us a product that gives us better, more consistent yields, even better than our best harvests with the regular seeds. The catch, of course, is that we have to buy new seed from them every year, and can't propagate seed from the prior year's crop.

So my neighbor decides to start buying Monsanto's seeds, but I don't like the terms of the deal, so I don't. My neighbor sees amazing yields, even to the point of surplus. He decides to undercut me by lowering his prices because he has so much to sell, and can still make out better than before, with those lower prices. Nothing's changed for me, so I can't lower my prices. My neighbor's entire inventory sells out, but because of his surplus, only half of my yield gets sold. Fortunately I have some savings to fall back on, so I burn my entire savings feeding my family for the rest of the year, and then grudgingly buy Monsanto seeds for next year.

I'm sure this exact scenario doesn't scale up to the global agricultural system, but I think it's more likely than your naive "no one forces anyone to buy anything; if they buy it, it's because it's worth it" view of economics... things are rarely that simple.
I do wonder if medicine would do better if we simply skipped the efficacy tests in animals (due to the very low accuracy of animal models of diseases not well understood) and simply did animal safety tests, then moved straight onto human trials.

Obviously the vast majority of treatments would be ineffective - and this in turn should let you design multi-treatment trials, where say a trial of 100 patients are used to test 50 substances, with each person receiving simultaneously tiny doses of ~25 candidate treatments.

Then the patient outcomes are used to identify which of the 50 likely have some effect, and a trial is done of just that substance.
It depends on what you're using it for. If you want to expose this to untrusted code, yes, but I wouldn't be comfortable doing that with DTrace either.
> I'm only an armchair etymologist and this is wild speculation, but I think that the meaning of the "in" prefix might depend on whether we get the word directly from Latin, or whether it comes through French.

French has both meanings: the negation as in interdit (forbidden) or impossible (well, impossible); or “in”, “towards”, “change” as in intérieur (interior), inflexion (inflection), or indeed inflammable (from the Latin inflammabilis).

Both meanings also exist in Latin.

What I found fascinating learning English is “inhabit”, which also sounds like the opposite of its actual meaning. Is obviously the second meaning, but then the prefix is redundant because it came from the Latin habitare, which is the verb with the same meaning.

Anyway, that was today’s minute on etymology.
How much tolerance does that have - can it run directly off a 3.7v lithium ion battery?
Safari has this now too. It’s actually a pretty good browser these days.
> I think you may be missing the point that the advertisement is specifically meant to elicit, or create, those feelings of guilt or shame.

I'm not sure that was missed, but, as before, you cannot elicit or create feelings where there isn't already an understanding of what the feelings reflect. The particular ad no doubt does elicit feelings in those who already see themselves as not being the parent they want to be. It's not going to elicit any particular feelings in someone who is childless, though. They lack the necessary understanding.

And if you do have concern about the way you are parenting, wouldn't you want to improve upon that?

> what if instead the ad had instead said "Tired of being the the ugliest girl in your class? Try BetterMakeup!" (with all the appropriate imagery the targetting provides). Is advertisement like that truly good for anyone but the seller?

Sure, it is also good for the person who has an understanding that they are ugly and no longer want to be, again, assuming the product works. We do again have the potential problem of where the product might not work as expected. Indeed, that can be a problem, but I'm not sure that's a problem with advertising in and of itself. We should be careful to not conflate different ideas.

On the assumption that "BetterMakeup" actually makes a person more beautiful, someone wants to become more beautiful, and the ad gave awareness to the person that there is a solution to their apparent problem, is that not a win for the consumer?

> I think the larger point though is that many of us simply do not think its ethical or healthy to give companies the tools to manipulate our emotions and tap into our insecurities in the pursuit of profit.

If all products magically solved the problems they purport to solve, would you still have the same concern? As before, trying to convince a childless person that they are a bad parent isn't going to work. This only works when you are presenting a solution to someone who already understands that they have a problem.

If the product is shitty, thereby not solving the problem, then I can definitely understand your overall concern. Although I am not sure you have made clear why advertising is to blame for shitty products. If we are imagining ways to change the world, why place product evaluation in the advertising band at all? Perhaps these shitty products don't need to be allowed on the market in the first place?
Do you think it's a matter of the task being framed as within vs. without your agency?
Naming anything is hard and I don’t have better suggestions but when you’re doing something that’s already poking at something a big corp holds dearly hitting on trademark while you’re at it makes it really easy for them.
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Starliner serves the purpose of NASA not being dependent on a single launch provider.

If Starliner needs additional testing, as it appears to do, then it makes no sense, and serves no purpose, to test it in a way that endangers human lives when that is completely unnecessary.

If NASA/Boeing need to test if Starliner can fly back home (whether this unit, or future ones, until they get it reliable) then have it fly back home autonomously.

Your argument makes zero sense - it's exactly like saying that cars would only be worthwhile if we used humans for crash tests rather than crash test dummies. It's a bit like some ancient culture thinking that human sacrifice is needed to placate the gods.
Code is often written for an audience: yourself on a year, maybe a younger team member you have In mind. Knowing you won't be around to explain can help drive some decisions and write docs for the audience.
Wow!

This also seemed to be first site to show up on HN to show the new Pico 2 / RP2350...

... and it has twice the RAM - so rePalm might run better on it!
This article is dumb the modern pokemon meta is harder and more complex than when we were kids.

Fps on the other hand, I’m pretty sure I would smoke 99% of kids on halo3 or call of duty 4.
It’s irreversible.
Dust (and scratches?) can be detected with an infrared scan. The IR scan is only used to detect defects, and then something like a spot removal tool is automatically applied to the defect areas.

https://www.hamrick.com/blog/digital-ice.html
It’s a selection effect. If you trained all of the people qualified to become astronauts into becoming astronauts you would incur the opportunity costs of those people not applying their talents and ambitions elsewhere.
Like.. the very fact I typed "javascript" or "css" or "html" means you probably don't need to apply your "did you mean" logic to my searches. If I'm searching for something highly technical, I absolutely DO NOT NEED your help, Google.
Auth doesnt need a new service/company. It needs an ai chatbot that walks engineers through adding auth to their project. Its the developer experience that is the problem
Incidentally, "Domain Driven Design" was written around a theoretical logistics/shipping platform. That book didn't make it seem "non-glamorous." Everything is exciting to someone.
Which you can make an error
I think a comparison table here would be better for you here, considering your target audience and all.
Noted, thanks. We're focussing on Next.js frontends right now — which is fairly well-documented — I hope to get some Python & Golang examples in there by the end of the week.
The point was that io_uring isn't going to make a big difference for the network code, as for disk I/O code (especially for the sorts of things GP is talking about) you have a bounded number of "threads" of execution anyway. For a node in a pub-sub system, maybe it has c10k users but it's probably appending to a handful of LSM-like datastructures that are written sequentially to disk. The biggest difference is random reads, but even then you can saturate what the disk will do with double digit numbers of threads.
I’ll caveat my response here: this is provided as general guidance and should be seen as such.

1. Have you considered managing your providers performance? What could you do in this area?

2. Have you considered going to market for other providers to start new or to take the solution over? Is that even feasible?

3. Have you considered the long term capability build you need in your company if you decide to bring this in?
It's not like that at all, because a restaurant which did that would rapidly go out of business, and these companies are quite profitable, because people like what they're getting.

Repairability is treated like a terminal good around HN, and that's understandable, but it doesn't reflect the values of the general public. Most civilians who crack their screen are going to put up with it until they can buy a new phone, because they were going to get a new phone anyway.

The fact that a repair is expensive is in a feedback loop with this sort of behavior. If consumers wanted to keep phones for five years and have an affordable battery or screen swap during that time, they'd demand it, and they'd get it. There are a lot of Android phone vendors.

That isn't to say that the status quo is ideal, and I do expect it to change as Moore's Law starts to level out, with smartphone design following the same curve. I would even say we're starting to see that happen.

But if consumers thought Samsung was abusive and showed no regard for them, they wouldn't buy phones from Samsung. But they do buy phones from Samsung, so they don't think that.
Congrats on the launch! This looks great.

I see you plan on making money by charging for the hosted service. Given that, and given recent history in the industry with companies starting out with this model only to rug-pull it from users later and move to a more restrictive license, can you publicly commit to keeping the code MIT/AGPLv3-licensed into the future?
Because it's taught in the 1st year of most math courses and most people don't take it seriously and think that it's "easy 1st year math" when its actually the base for a whole lot of maths down the line.

I've actually stopped asking questions about Cayley-Hamilton and Jordan form (both covered in year 1 of any decent BS math course in Europe) when I used to do inteviews for trading/quant positions because so many people failed.
I have thought Python's arrays have been overlooked for years. So much so that
people call a list an array.
To paraphrase Adam Savage: Practice is what gets you to 80% mastery of a thing. Talent is what gets you that last 20%. Fortunately, for most things, 80% mastery is more than enough.
Ancient Romans had tap water. We get the word "plumbing" from Latin. Also, from https://www.unesco.org/reports/wwdr/en/2024/s:

> As of 2022, 2.2 billion people were without access to safely managed drinking water (SDG Target 6.1).

I don't think this invalidates your general point, but your specific example is wrong.
I had a job once working with bad people and I morphed my day into the dndonline I was using to decompress with at night.

Doing the feature work and adding bugs was like breaking barrels to find loot. Convincing a co-worker to stop creating more bugs was like taking down a minion. Working the politics to get rid of the most dangerous coworker was like killing the boss (he was a contractor and it seemed that everything he did was to damage our team's work)
You might like what we built then — we have a setup wizard that adds auth to your Next.js project for you, including creating all the necessary pages, handlers, and config ;)

npx @stackframe/init-stack@latest
It's 6 cycles for dadd/dsub, 16 for dmul, 51 for ddiv.