skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, how does the language do it? If you query past values you can then know to keep track of past values.

I don't think that asking for something causes you to have recorded it in the past! In the various languages you would aim and then wait. Here it is in Firedancer:

aim()
wait(18)

and in BulletML:

<action label="main">
<fire>
<direction type="aim">0</direction>
<bullet>
<speed>1</speed>
<action>
<vanish/>
</action>
</bullet>
</fire>
<wait>18</wait>
<fire>
<direction type="sequence">0</direction>
<bullet>
<speed>2</speed>
</bullet>
</fire>
</action>

This is a bit of a hack. We fire a bullet that immediately disappears to set our firing direction for the direction type="sequence" that we will use 18 frames later.

> Also there is no reason to use coroutines to make game bullets. You can just let a function keep track of state if it needs to and call it every frame.

Quite uniformly, developers of bullet hell games do not want to separate their code into basic blocks delimited by any part that might involve time passing in the game, and they don't want to give up on subroutines existing. Turning all of your code inside-out and giving up on subroutines existing obviously makes the work extremely tedious and makes it hard to iterate or to know what's going on in some file you haven't touched in a week. I don't necessarily advocate for making a new language and VM, but if you review the tools people actually use for this stuff, nobody does what you say everyone should be doing.

For a third example, here's a danmakufu tutorial in which we learn that we should make Marisa's laser not freeze the game by adding a yield to a loop: https://sparen.github.io/ph3tutorials/ph3u1l5.html

I have done this stuff in lua, but in any real game I would probably want the game state to be serializable.
> You don’t need to go to such great lengths to parse out meaning.

I wouldnt need to if people in forums were more willing to just immediately clarify what they mean in a response instead of jumping to attack the people who are questioning them.
> Fox News isn't even news; they've admitted in court that they're an entertainment program.

The admission they made was about one show, the one that Tucker Carlson ran before his departure from Fox[0]. Taking that and eliding it to the rest of Fox News sounds either lazy or dishonest.

An NPR host said in 1995 that if millions of people who believed in the religious concept of "rapture" actually did evaporate from this earth, the world would be a better place. After public outrage, they issued an apology but continued their relationship with the host. Does that make them tacitly support such bigotry? Nobody sued NPR over this (perhaps if this happened today and not 30 years ago, somebody would have), but what would their defense have been? That people shouldn't take things said by a show host so literally?

I used to listen and donate to NPR, but no longer do, because I don't share your confidence that they do in fact "do their best to tell the truth". I might actually feel better about it if, like Fox, they came out and admitted that they are, at least in the year 2024, in many ways a nakedly partisan organization, instead of the taxpayer-funded neutral bringer of facts that they pretend to be.

[0]: The judge ended up dismissing the case in favor of Fox: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-yor...
>Here's the general experience:

>https://adamdemasi.com/2024/04/19/app-marketplace-experience...

The guide on alt store only lists 3 steps[1]. The link you posted is breaking those steps into as many steps as possible for dramatic effect.

[1] https://altstore.io/download
Disney claims it is not their restaurant:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

> A spokesperson for Disney told NBC News: “We are deeply saddened by the family’s loss and understand their grief. Given that this restaurant is neither owned nor operated by Disney, we are merely defending ourselves against the plaintiff’s attorney’s attempt to include us in their lawsuit against the restaurant.”
In the words of John Gruber, the creator of markdown:

> "Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions."

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
He’s not a fraud; he has, without a doubt, figured out ways to make mice live longer.
> To remedy this problem, Chen and his colleagues investigated if there could be entangled photons within this axon-myelin system that could, though the magic of quantum entanglement, communicate instantly across the involved distances.

yawn Another day, another garbage pop sci article perpetuating falsehoods about quantum entanglement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Not untrue. But wasn't the problem here that - yes, Disney is a media company, but they also run an amusement park which serves food.

Not sure if food safety is a human right, but access to food is probably mentioned somewhere, no?!
I'd similarly think a reasonable person wouldn't expect that they're agreeing to never file a lawsuit against the company and to instead always go through arbitration, even for the product in question. As the article notes, most people don't know the significance of the agreement.

Perhaps said another way: if someone is going to go skydiving, it's reasonable to assume the thing that you're signing is to say, "I won't sue you if I get hurt," but it's a different thing to be sitting at a computer and agree, "I'll never sue you for any wrongdoing," when you sign up for some wholly digital service.
Loop has smaller but more numerous stations, because it can have smaller and more numerous stations. With trains every station along a route adds considerable delay for every passenger, exacerbated by the slow stopping speeds of rail. This is not so for pod-based transport where the stations are split off the main line. Stations are also cheaper because they can scale down to only a small subset of the though-traffic.
I still do :)
There's no way to see this and not include this neat little Twilight Zone episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sd4IneEm4&pp=ygUZaSBvZiBuZ...
How to hook a record-setting 444 game consoles to a single TV
The Rise and Restructuring of Yale-NUS College
I come from Russia which is an extremely low bar with respect to human rights, however giving up a citizen to a foreign government is explicitly forbidden by the constitution. It's a very reasonable rule because by doing so you're effectively stripping him of constitutional protections (which sadly don't exist anymore but they did in the past).

I always assumed all decent countries have that, and of all especially the USA which is famous for things like "The Hague Invasion Act".
I dont see the word 'best' is not in their post at all, stop paraphrasing as it looses the original meaning. These are the quotes since you seem to keep mis reading them:

> the devices are now actually far superior

> Apple buyers are now people who just want a bloody powerful laptop

> The power buyers

And my point is that its not the laptop with the most powerful compute, which is true. so what are you getting at?
If they pass a Voight-Kampf you know, at least, they can fake involuntary empathic reactions. Even without involuntary empathic reactions, an android can decide to be moral and behave accordingly.
Underware, open source 3D-printed cable management
So we're going to nitpick Lehrer while giving current (mainstream) media a free pass? I'm sorry, I don't wish to participate in such a distraction. And the irony only highlights how broken the current situation is.
Running FreeDOS on Legacy Hardware
He meant perfect play although he is not provably correct
Thanks for the reply.

Apparently that is no longer available and the reviews for the replacement, the LB1200 are insanely bad, sadly.
Imagine inputting syntax highlighted code while running inference w LLMs? Currently its hard to read what's in your text area when asking ChatGPT a code question.

This is the most interesting post in a long time, bravo!
I didn't say it was Apple's fault, and it's not the parents' fault either. Sometimes kids playing on the street get run over by a car. It's very unfortunate, but no protection is 100% effective. Closeted kids of overprotective parents that never leave them out of sight usually have much worse outcomes than others.

From my personal experience - my parents didn't try to limit or control my online behavior and usage of a computer at all normally, which got me into few weird situations but also allowed me to learn how to recognize and deal with them. When they tried restrictions as a punishment, they never succeeded in any way. At one point when I was around 12-13 years old I simply bought an older laptop they didn't know about.

Today's smartphones are much cheaper, more powerful and widely available - practically every older classmate has one in a drawer somewhere and will happily sell for a few bucks. Let kids learn how to behave online while unattended, because they will be online unattended.
Why do you keep derailing the point? This is not about good or best laptops, this is questioning somebody who claimed they are the most powerful.

I agree that Apple did a terrible job of cooling their laptops and causing throttling, however that is not common elsewhere.
Based on my understanding of historians, we combine a historian, real-time data visualizer/processor, and hardware controller into one. We tried to create a more unified and developer-friendly ecosystem - reducing the need for multiple disparate components and adapters and abstracting out the low-level work necessary to interface with hardware like PLCs.
95% of the peasantry are illiterate and have no concept of newfangled ideas like elections or organized labour. Best let the feudal lord continue to call the shots, they're in power, so clearly this is the natural order of things. /s
Nietzsche, in his book Beyond Good and Evil, says that Plato is the beginning of a great decline, responding with his tragic view: 'And who said that man is capable of knowing the truth? [...a long waste of time follows...]'. I recommend looking into the discussion of universals, as I understand that much of the disagreement stems from this point.
AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023
Using OpenTelemetry and OTel Collector
That's entirely true; I was speaking a bit metaphorically. Even if copyright isn't a concern, picking contracts off the internet isn't a great idea, because they might not apply to your situation they way you think they might. People really should engage the services of a lawyer to formulate contracts for them.
> TRS-80 (the Model 16).

That was a seriously cool computer back then.
Walk fast and look worried.
I haven’t done it, but here is what Schwab has in their FAQ [1]:

> While we can't guarantee there will be a market for it, we'll help you sell the CD at the current market rate by requesting bids on your CD and contacting you with the highest one. If you decide to sell, you'll receive the bid price plus any accrued interest. There are no guarantees that you'll get what you originally paid for the CD.

[1] https://www.schwab.com/fixed-income/certificates-deposit
I hope none of the "decline" feedback I sometimes offer comes across like Adam.

Recently was one of the biggest feedbacks from me.

I got an outreach from a third-party recruiter I hadn't talked with before, for head of engineering at an early startup.

Not even screening call yet, I asked a quick question, they answered it and gave the name of the company, and I spent a few hours of due diligence...

The actual business model they were telling business journalists sounded very predatory. Especially considering they seemed to be making very different claims to consumers (and, apparently, to recruiters) about what they do.

So I messaged the recruiter, thanking them for reaching out, unfortunately not a match, and quick bulleted feedback on why, for their eyes only: (1) I wouldn't be able to build a good team to work on that predatory and deceptive stuff; (2) some other thing, about how the company was incubated, and why that would be unattractive to a lot of early startup eng/tech leadership; and (3) a suggestion to get the actual business model from the company, and be upfront to candidates about it (or have people keep dropping off late in the process, or leaving soon after they join, whenever they realize).

I figured the recruiter would either round-file or respect that. But now I have this "Adam" stereotype to try even harder not to sound like. :)
Well, I'm not a photographer or anything, and I certainly don't have anything in particular against ML algorithms for image processing, it's just another tool after all. Depending on how it's applied, it might be hard to tell it apart from any other image processing algorithm, and in other cases, it blurs the lines between generative AI and image processing.

On the Internet, Waifu2x has proven popular for quite some time. I don't know how it works architecturally, but they've trained an ML model on anime-style illustrations and photos, specifically to upscale and denoise images (particularly, to reverse JPEG artifacts) using a corpus of images before and after downscaling/adding JPEG artifacts. It is incredible when just using it to denoise JPEG and quite impressive for scaling up to 2x. It definitely works better for anime-style illustrations, which suffer from JPEG artifacts more than photographs do, anyhow.

I also like Google Camera's "Night Sight" feature. It's maybe not astounding anymore, but it definitely was a vast improvement for capturing photos at night using a little smartphone camera when it first came around.

That said, there are pitfalls to these more advanced algorithms. They can have different failure modes than people are used to. People routinely fail to realize how dangerous it can be when a machine is "lying" to you in a way that you can't necessarily comprehend the risks of; even before ML we have plenty of good examples, like Xerox machines performing compression that accidentally altered the numbers on the page[1]. With ML algorithms that pull increasingly more signal out of increasingly less information, the potential for bad extrapolations and downright hallucination certainly must increase. There's been some funny examples of this with the iPhone and Google Camera features, but it really does have some interesting implications. Can we always trust these photos to be legally-admissible, for example, even when they're not altered intentionally? Don't know the answer. It's probably not a huge deal, but at some point, this will surely become an issue, and I bet it will be very interesting (and hopefully not too tragic.)

[1]: https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...?
This idea was discussed in "On the Practice of Esotericism," 1992. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709872
I like this sort of thing. Someone exploring his own little environment. It seems like the sort of thing we should be hearing more about. Maybe some high schools should start promoting some of this.
Sparkle: New AI-based Mac utility automatically organizes your files and folders
> this is questioning somebody who claimed they are the most powerful.

They did not claim Apple laptops are the most powerful or fastest, but those are the claims you keep arguing against.

Attempting to further clarify the meaning of words and sentences doesn't seem like a productive use of either of our time. I welcome you to go back and read the comments in question and compare the specific wording used with the wording you keep using to dispute them.

Have a good one.
I disabled my cofounder matching account due to how many people seem to think LLMs are a good idea for many things they just aren't good at. The race to the bottom for customer service is definitely afoot right now.

The most useful and valuable feature of LLMs imo is using the embeddings to enhance document search. There are smaller models that are just as good for this though.
It's the same with SSO, and I think it hurts some companies more than it helps. SSO too often is an arbitrary selection for "Enterprise/$Call Us".

Then you're two or three founders, you set up G Suite, and think oh, let's use SSO for this service, and then you're paying $$$.
No, it wasn't. I didn't start the discussion.

Read the case. One of the biggest complaints is the fees Google pay Apple. Made up definitions aren't relevant. Here is the ruling: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdpzmaxjxvw/...
Visual Studio is really good if you are doing C# development on Windows.
Lousy high school.
> Put two mountain bikes in a Prius and drive to a singletrack trailhead then tell again how it's objectively better

Easy, nobody does that. Okay well not nobody... just almost nobody.

I'm working under the assumption (which I think is correct) that the majority of people who buy large vehicles use them identically to how they would a small one. That is, with usually a single passenger, on roadways, for a regular commute. There's some studies out there on how vehicles are used.

If this doesn't apply to you, then I think you're an outlier. But we're not talking about outliers. You'll notice everyone and their mom is driving an SUV or Truck. Especially when it comes to trucks, 99% of the time I see one its one dude in them, towing nothing, with nothing in the bed.

Even if you DO occasionally use your truck (most don't), you're still making a poor purchase. Because I can rent a day truck for 50 bucks. Let's see... save 30 grand, save hundreds of dollars on gas, save thousands on repairs... and then spend 50 bucks on a rental... let me just do my calculations... oh yeah, it's still obviously a better deal.

As I've said, nobody really wants to admit this sort of stuff because then you're admitting you've been manipulated and you're an irrational consumer (although almost all consumers are). This DOES contribute to the discussion, and I think you know what I'm saying is right. This is the sort of thing that is obvious to everyone, but talked about by no one, because of the implications.
Do they not do comp time? Last time I worked at a BigCo, they didn’t hand out comp time by default but didn’t fight if I asked for it.

I just pointed out that it was effectively slashing my compensation per effort, during times I especially didn’t want to work. I proposed either comp time, or bonuses amounting to overtime on our “hourly rate” (salary divided by work hours in the year).

My manager opted for comp time, because he could do that without needing to involve HR and all the pay related people. Apparently no one had ever bothered to ask about it, and had just been working nights and weekends for free.
So you believe Russia is simultaneously so weak that they can barely push out 150km beyond their borders and greedily eyeing their neighbors for annexation potential?

Its regime is exactly that delusional, yes.
Funny thing, i stumbled upon HN because as a youngster i searched for news about...hacking.
My favorite is the much larger CASIO PB-700. I went to college with a almost-programmable Texas TI-55 but got the CASIO in the middle of my first year. It was a mind-blowing experience. I felt so sorry for the other people having to program their HP's while I could just do a quick BASIC program to solve the problem.
We forget sometimes that the builders of ancient structures were also anatomically modern humans, every bit as clever and complex as us. We should be surprised if there weren't the kind of transport methods and trade networks to support this.
I'm not a fan of Kim but....

Basically, this is a win for big money interests and the powerful in the US. It was only a matter of time before New Zealand caved. Meanwhile the US has become a banana republic as demonstrated by the lawfare being waged against the Republican party and it's leading candidate for the presidential election.

For those supporting this change in position by New Zealand, when this erosion of rights used against you remember that you reap what you sow.
By then I'll be using Ladybird. If the modern web doesn't work then it won't be missed.
Tell HN: Netdata is shipping their new dashboard as closed source blobs
Short summary:

Netdata - "The open-source observability platform everyone needs!" (from their GitHub description) has been shipping their new dashboard (UI v2) as closed source blobs under a proprietary license (Netdata Cloud UI License v1.0) with no access to its source code. The old open source dashboards (UI v0 and UI v1) are going to be removed, leaving users no choice but to use the proprietary dashboard.

Please see https://mastodon.social/@wolfshappen@fellies.social/11297258... for a detailed overview of the entire issue. I will try my best to narrate them here :).

Netdata is a popular "open source" observability platform. By July 20, 2023, they released a new dashboard (UI v2) which is completely closed source, built in a private repository and is shipped under a proprietary license (https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/src/web/gui/v...). This license explicitly prevents any kind of reverse engineering or separation:

> The Software is provided in a binary form for use by end-users. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or modify the Software. The Software is licensed as a single product and its component parts may not be separated.

Netdata owns Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Best Practices Badge (which is awarded only to free/libre open source software) but is now under discussion for removal because of the blobs - https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/i....

Major Linux distros are also aware of this issue.

Debian - still ships the pre-blobs version, has an open bug report - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1045145.

Nix - Split by themselves, packaged Netdata Cloud separately - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c3aa7b8938b17aebd2deec...

Alpine, OpenSUSE, Red Hat, Fedora etc. have been made aware of the issue and are working on a patch.

On the other hand, the open source dashboards v0 and v1 will be removed soon - https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/18125. Leaving users no choice by default but to use the closed-source dashboard.

So if you have been using Netdata because you loved it for being open source, then you might have to reconsider your option :).

(I used a title that explains the problem better, please let me know if it can be worded better.)

Thanks!
Seeing BONE in all caps always makes me think of the B-1 Lancer.
Show HN: I made an online Screen Simulator
It mimics various screens on current screen, to preview physical dimension, or to preview content display at certain device-pixel-ratio. You may fill the simulated screen(iframe) with a web desktop, optionally show ruler, bezel or nine-box grid.
Xenobiology for the Biocontainment of Synthetic Organisms
> Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher and proponent of Aristotelian virtue ethics, was literally a slave. Some ideas, particularly the best ones, aren't subject to class politics.

While correct, it should be noted that he was only a slave during his youth (freed around the age of 18 when Nero died) and was a slave to the secretary of Nero, in other words had a personal connection to Imperial power.
Just one more abstraction layer will fix it.