skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell this was leaked to a person who’s been having a high profile disagreement with MrBeast, by either a current or former staff member.

Maybe it’s a fake or a deliberate release, but it doesn’t read like the at to me. There is a ton of commercially sensitive information in here. Not to mention that note about the expensive squid game incident which I doubt they would have included in a document for public consumption.

I don’t think MrBeast needs to farm for attention outside of his current very successful video tactics.
Adderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Risk, Study Says
The point is that explaining the requirements in a precise manner to LLM is literally coding the problem in a higher level language; the LLM is acting as a compiler for that precise description in English.

I actually am sympathetic to your point about the value of LLMs in programming, but more from the perspective that LLMs can help us to do the precise description gradually and interactively in a much better way that a dumb REPL.
Affiliate management software with escrow service for e-commerce stores
https://archive.ph/4ekhq
Wow, so low. That explains why its still a ghost own compared to xitter.
I would imagine not anymore. I generally see them as a sign of serious tech debt at this point.
cmd.exe is largely still concerned with starting processes and hooking them together in much the same vein as Bourne shell, so I tend to use it for that.

(I actually use Yori[0], but it's pretty much to tcsh what cmd.exe is to csh.)

PowerShell leaned a little too hard into the structured data to be useful for me as a command shell. It's a pretty decent competitor to the Python REPL though.

0: https://github.com/malxau/yori
>Risk of Incident Psychosis and Mania With Prescription Amphetamines

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230329
> replace batteries past a limit for free, or offer the sort of phone where you can replace the battery by removing a few screws

Given the number that will get ruined from water exposure, it might make them money!
YouTube just generated over 8 billion in quarterly revenue. YouTube has been a bonafide business for content creators for ~15 years. Nothing about this says “bubble”.

It’s inevitable that every business changes with time. And on a long enough horizon collapse is inevitable. But that doesn’t make it a bubble.
I appreciate your reply, however I would partially disagree. Consciousness is always there, and we call sensing what is mediated by our sense organs interacting with the external world, that is, perceiving.

It's a class of experience radically different than, say, proprioception or feeling. One is externally mediated, the other is endogenous. Consciousness (in the phenomenal sense) is the superclass of both.

Cognition, or meta-consciousness, makes salient specific aspects of our experience/awareness, so that I'm very well aware right now of the pixels of my monitor as I write this, and much less so of the expansion of my rib cage as I breathe, or whatever subtle noises might be going on out of my window. However, I never really stop being conscious of them.
Don't you usually find tools to solve a problem, rather than the other way round? It sounds like you're literally asking for solutions looking for a problem.
I think people are starting to drink less too. Now doctors are starting to ask patients how often they drink and advising them to drink less and less frequently.
> The kernel is very much tested before a release with gigantic automated labs on real hardware.

So what went wrong?
This is nonsense. Bluesky is not a big shouting match. If you don't like the default algorithms you can pick your own, including chronological.

If this is sincerely your actual, real experience with Bluesky then you use it in a very different way from all the people who are happy with it.
Surprising reference to The Goal [1], which Mr. Beast "used to make everyone read ..." and still recommends. The Goal is a business novel about optimizing manufacturing processes for throughput and responsiveness rather than "efficiency" and is filled with counter-intuitive insights. Presenting it as a novel means you get to see characters grapple with these insights and fail to commit before truly understanding them. Excellent stuff, along the lines of The Phoenix Project [2], with which I assume many here are already familiar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
> cut North Korea off from the Internet, how hard would that be to do? Could we just knock out a few cables?
> Is this just not logistically feasible?

NK shares a physical border with China and Russia. Not to mention that we can send data by means other than a physical wire.

Even if you were willing to block Russia and China from "the internet" (lol) it would be nearly logistically impossible.

Even if you were willing to destroy all sense of privacy and track every single packet sent (what a terrible dystopian idea), there's still going to be ways to fake this. It would only make it harder, not impossible.
Reading through the document, this company seems hellish for its employees. I wonder how the pay and perks are
Btw. It's also seeped into video games. Compare Star Wars Outlaws to Star Wars Galaxies or KOTOR. Scary.
> All you need to do is discard duplicates at the receiver.

...yes, which would be exactly once _processing_ but not exactly once _delivery_.

Unless you're wanting to redefine "exactly once delivery" to mean "at least once delivery but I'm calling it exactly once because I have a strategy to cope with duplicate messages"
New AI Photo Relighting Tool
One thing I do not understand about @mastodonusercount stats is: while total number of accounts significantly increased in last year or two, 'thousand toots per hour' is still oscillating in the same range.
For context (if you’re wondering why that post is written in both English and Brazilian Portuguese), Twitter/X is currently blocked in Brazil [1], which prompted users to massively flock to Bluesky’s main frontend, bsky.app.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
> Bluesky is one big shouting match with opaque algorithms partly deciding what you will see, whereas Mastodon-the-Platform is a loose alliance of multiple communities, where what you say will only be seen by people in your community

Bsky feed is chronological with optional algorithmic feeds you can choose from so this doesn't sound true. Mastodon is also chronological with trending post on the homepage. I imagine the internals of both platforms are more similar than you might imagine.
As far as I know, the main use while driving is reading signs, so the rest of your vision is good enough to drive, but you might need the bioptic to read a street sign for navigating. I never really thought of them for lectures, but that’s not a bad idea. However, in an era of smartphones, having a ready telephoto zoom (digital or optical) in your pocket is also quite handy. (Not that it would help while driving!)
Intuitively, I think most managers think that tackling everything in one go is somehow easier or less risky.
The biggest problem with realistic graphics is the ever growing amount of busywork required to keep it all together that seems to overwhelm game developers. It makes everything feel very "rigid", like walking through a museum full of stunning sculptures but you are not allowed to touch anything or the illusion falls apart.

One example: In the old 2D versions of Anno you could shoot animals on the islands with cannons but you can't do it anymore in the newer 3D games. It's kinda stupid but was hilarious and was probably cut because adding those small "random" interactions is so much harder at increased realism.
Mastodon is not just Mastodon alone. The network consists of something more fundamental: ActivityPub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
I recently ran across Treasure Hunting Magazine. https://www.treasurehunting.co.uk/ It bills itself as "Britain's Best Selling Metal Detecting Magazine." While technically this would be true if it was the only one it does at least give the impression that there are others.

I find it humorous to think about the second best selling metal detecting magazine's staff cursing that Treasure Hunting beat them to another big metal detector scoop.
For every MrBeast there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands (millions?) you've never heard of. And for some of them, it's because the platform pulled the plug on them.

If someday YT decides to pull the plug on MrBeast, he might start singing a different tune. Or not, I mean, his millions and millions of dollars will probably make him feel better.
The other thing is that who would be willing to trade off safety on some mystery meat $30 Amazon battery or similarly questionable battery one would get by getting a repair at a suspiciously cheap shop. Not that $120 is a great price exactly, but assurance that the thing won't become dangerous is surely worth a few tens of dollars.
40 hours in software feels kind of idealistic. Where I work, it feels like they're constantly pushing people to do shit outside of business hours
Conversely, the last blog post we wrote was 8,000+ words and took months of testing, yet the average 'read' time is under 2 minutes. I'm convinced there's a correlation between interested technical users and the blocking of analytics scripts - but if I were to naively look at the data, I'd also come to the conclusion that "lower effort" was better return on investment. I wonder if these tech journalism establishments are following their analytics and A/B testing themselves into oblivion.
Try this fantastic movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nycksytL1A&t=1s
I hope you make lots of small tickets, and a separate PR for every commit, and a separate commit for every line of code.
Building on someone's platform is a gamble.

It paid off for Mr. Beast.

Maybe it will pay off for you, or maybe you will get banned before you make enough to retire or create another company. This is prime example of survivorship bias.
The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer
Yeah, I don't believe LLM will be able to code fully, they are analog trying to do something digital where everything needs to be 100% correct.

Plang being analog language I see the LLM is able to code so much more and it never has syntax, library or other build errors.
You read it wrong and frankly don’t get it. With the limited resources they have, it only makes sense to pursue the most egregious offenders for complex crimes.

Enforcement is like fixing shipped code - expensive and difficult. Effective enforcement shapes people’s risk assessment and behavior. You need to work the middle of the bell curve so that people believe there’s risk.

It’s funny… the people who push the “starve the beast” agenda want to “back the blue”, as long as they are looking in the direction they prefer.
I would argue if you are looking for the "right books" you are already going down the wrong path. Having built a successful startup (and some failed ones) the most important truths came from putting on the blinders and getting fully immersed in the problem space. Keep your ears open but your eyes focused.

Too many founders get wide-eyed by the structure-less nature of building a startup and try to look for adult supervision, either from mentors, advisors or books. Be your own mentor and trust your own judgment. Always take outside advice but never let it override your internal compass. At best, a book will give you a minor nugget and is usually not worth the time and attention.
Converted Drupal from PHP to Node.js with o1 in 2 days
Mastodon seems to have a retention problem, but still has a healthy daily new user count. I noticed this back when it hit close to 2m active then slid down to 600k. If they can figure out how to fix retention then it might start growing meaningfully again.

https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon
If you don't subscribe to any feeds, Bluesky is also a place where what you say will only be seen by people who follow you and people who follow those who repost your posts. Whether or not either of them is a shouting match depends a lot on your choice of who to follow.

This is not to say there aren't significant differences, many generated by the federation choices Mastodon (and Bluesky) have made, as you also noted.
I don’t think that I will probably be able to explain it to someone who it’s not already apparent to but let me try:

it’s ugly, yet cutesy, clumsy to say, and mainly sounds like a careless or trifling afterthought based on “key/val”, because the fork just needed some name or other that didn’t matter.
> Do you really think people are just blindly pushing code they can't make heads or tails of? That they haven't tested?

Yes, most definitely. I've recently been introduced to our CTOs little pet project that he's been building with copious help from ChatGPT, and it's genuinely some of the most horrid code I've ever seen in my professional career. He genuinely doesn't know what half of it even does when I quizzed him about some of the more egregious crap that was in there. The real fun part is that now that it's a "proven" PoC some poor soul is going to have to maintain that shit.

We also have a mandate from the same CTO to use more AI in our workflows, so I have 0 doubts in my mind that people are blindly pushing code without thinking about it, and people like myself are left dealing with this garbage. My time & energy is being wasted sifting through AI-generated garbage that doesn't pass the smell test if you spend a singular minute of effort reading through the trash it generates.
How do you know if you're gifted?
> "contrived BS", "mircromanage", "game a blackbox algorithm"

Wow! There is a lot of bad faith in this comment. This is hacker news, not X, can you please be more thoughtful here?
Weird, it still seems to be working for me: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

Was invisible on the search UI for some time now, but the service itself is still accessible.
You're really overestimating the cost of video storage and streaming compared to the kind of revenue they're able to get.
You're correct that Crystalens had indeed been approved by the FDA, but has not been widely used because of issues with the IOL explanting. While there are resources on the web related to it, I'm not sure any surgeon is currently implanting it. My apologies if that's not accurate, but I wouldn't get a Crystalens today.

https://www.healio.com/news/ophthalmology/20230818/blog-thre...
What subtlety do you think I have failed to absorb?
To be completely fair, feed algorithms can be somewhat opaque. On the other hand, most of the feeds I follow are just picking up on keywords/emojis or include all posts from a specific list of people. So it depends to some degree on your choices.
Depends if they are wintering inside or in the hot tub.
Far less harmful but I've had Bing chat give me a wrong solution to a programming problem it pulled from Stack Overflow because it confused the code in the question with being an answer to the question. Guilt and innocence by association seems to be something it is prone to without understanding context.
Went through the 4-hour work week highlights, was helpful and thanks for putting it for free.
prefer ai tools like https://ebank.nz

Generate and create/made all basically the same thing right?
All roads lead to Rome: primer on coding agents
The Wikipedia page doesn't really describe any issues, so I'm not sure what they're supposed to be or if maybe they've been resolved since that comment was written in 2015.
I really liked his distinction between A, B and C-team players. This could be a really good framework for recruiting in an ambitious startup.
Try Fedora Bazzite. It's inmutable and you'll get rollbacks at the grub prompt.
20000 USD Bounty: add globe view to maplibre
My ACE is 0 (lucky me, my solidarity goes to all of you). Although childhood problems are a grave impediment for life, do you think you come out stronger / more brave than people with no problem?

For example I turned out a workaholic because I couldn’t find how to have success in my affective life. I’m 40, fit, correctly rich, but with a deep unsatisfaction about romantic life. Should I just be brave about it and satisfy myself with being single, or would a brave person deal about it?
As long as the battery is fresh. Li-ion degrades pretty quickly. For most of the product's lifetime it's going to be more than that.
I read that as less about "building on someone else's platform" (though that's still a risk they're taking) and more a youtube / media content producer version of "perfect software doesn't pay the bills, shipping software does". I've known plenty of good developers that if they didn't have hard deadlines and people reminding them about what the real goal of the company is, would spend 6 months developing a perfect, provably correct PDF to JSON converter for reading any possible design of tables in all PDFs. Missing the fact that they only need to parse the tables in the CSV files that the vendors are sending us so we can invoice the customers.

That quote reads like its reminding people that youtube and a youtube production company job is not where you go to make art house silent films.
Fine Arts would like a word with you
ACE score of 7. I kept my head down at home with abusive parents and did everything I could to leave that environment as soon as possible. Got admitted into a state school for the gifted where you lived on campus.

I've been diagnosed with bipolar and depression, but I've had what most people would probably consider a successful career, but every day been a struggle. I've always struggled with depression and feeling abandoned by my family. Pretty much have a life by myself with very few people involved. I don't talk with my family.

Decades of therapy and medication, and it honestly really doesn't help.
Change your words from "delivery" to "processing" and you in alignment with reality.

Idempotent processing is exactly once processing. This is true. Delivery is from the sender's point of view, not the recipient. How the recipient processes the information, idempotently or not, is not the concern of the sender.

"Cannot have exactly-once delivery" is true and is as true as not dividing by zero. Read about the two general's problem. It is, quite literally, impossible to have exactly once delivery. Like, your friend is in the other room, and you shout "someone is at the door" - how do you _know_ your friend heard you? If you shout again, you are attempting another delivery. What do you do if your friend doesn't respond? In exactly once delivery, you guarantee they heard you in the other room. In exactly once processing, you can shout a couple of times until you hear them acknowledge.

You may think that this is not material and at the end of the day, as long as one thing is processed, then who cares? Well, you have to understand how delivery can fail otherwise you will handle the failure incorrectly. Is it safe to try again? If I say "transfer money from me to you", and I don't hear back, is it safe to again say "transfer money from me to you" again? Will I be double charged?
I think it's worth reflecting on why you feel that way. I don't see how other people are spending their time is something I need to push back on...
Depends how you define best, I assume best in the article means ‘output is close to 50/50 and independent’, in which case the 01/10 solution is already optimal given the assumptions.

If you define best as the most efficient at converting inputs to outputs as well as the output being 50/50 then there are better ways such as your example.
Personally, for Linux support, an offline-only mode with no anti-cheat would be fine.

We don't even need to compete online as others can.

Unfortunately [EA,] games like FIFA are unplayable even offline in Linux (with Proton WINE) due to anti-cheat FWIU.

EU has a new "preserving PC games" directive. Will any of these games work without versions of Operating Systems that there are no security patches for anymore?

The "Stop Destroying Videogames" petition is open through 2025-07-03:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/20... :

> This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

OS-kernel-integrated anti-cheat makes a game unplayable offline today.

Those probably won't archive well.

VirtualBox supports a "virtual TPM" device so that Windows 11 will run in a VM.

Internet Archive has so many games preserved with DOSbox, in HTML5 and WASM years later.

We shouldn't need a 120 FPS 4K (4k120) sunshine server remote desktop for gaming with old games.

> Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.
> exactly once _processing_ but not exactly once _delivery_

What exactly is the difference? What counts as "delivery"? How do you do "delivery" (on a computer) without doing at least some "processing"?
Discussing AMD's Zen 5 at Hot Chips 2024
Oh look, an easy new way to fingerprint users.