skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DnD is primarily based on Jack Vance and Michael Moorecock’s fantasy. Moorecock’s work being a direct rebuttal of the pastoral conservatism Tolkien was peddling.

Gygax was adamantly not a fan of LoTR. The creatures of DnD are clearly not based on Tolkien’s works, and the player races you believe Tolkien invented predate his work by centuries.
Every customer of a 3rd party cloud provider is going to have a hard time getting Nvidia GPU compute from 3rd party cloud providers - not only is the amount of GPUs available limited, but Nvidia themselves are trying to spin up their own cloud provider offering, and unsurprisingly don't want to help a competitor.
Absolutely fucking not. My computer should make no sound that I don't explicitly ask it to make.
what is wrong with the top comments in this thread? Fastest way to get me to find an alternative software is to have it start beeping and whistling at me.
Definitely interested
Controlling hurricanes is bold, risky and failed idea. Some want to try again
Very nice. Please add an AP option like a Mastodon account, Pixelfed, etc. No way am I using x anymore.
> ACE 8

I married a woman who scores the same. There's so much to say. But here, I think the best thing to say is that, after years in therapy, she's finally reached the point where she feels like things might turn out OK. I know that might not mean much, if anything, to you, especially in dark moments, but maybe, hopefully, it adds a bit of fuel to the part of you that hopes things can get better.
All amounts in this library are in base units (whole numbers) and no arithmetic is used!

For financial calculations I recommend using Dinero.js
KKR, Axel Springer said to near €13.5B break up
what do y'all think of this given the recent activities
It's clutter because it adds no information value on a short lived branch. If it's a branch that periodically syncs with another it's ok, if you're just basing off current master for a feature branch rebase is the way to go.
> gas pump

Most of them play advertisements while you fuel up. I hate it. The only thing that I like about New Jersey forbidding me from touching a gas pump is that I'm not subjected to ads for diarrhea medication or low-APR loans every time I fuel up.
OD&D usually refers to the 3BB (three brown books;Men & Magic, Monsters & Treasure, and The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures.), there is a fourth called Sup1:Greyhawk that has additional content. Thats what is usually referred to as OD&D.

However everything is a little fuzzy in that sphere, sometimes anything before 1e is called Classic D&D.
Synergy: Re-focusing on our open source community
This was a bit hard to read, requiring some note taking and some factorizating to check the correspondence between variable names and primes.

> You can get the product of two registers(x*y) by keeping an intermediate result and state register. Keeping the resulting product, by naming the first register for the result, prevents the accumulator grow too much in size:

:: r acc x y
:: iter acc > x iter
:: iter >
:: x y > r acc y
:: y > iter
:: x >

AC 8575 x^2 y^2
.. r^6

This one is harder to figure out. The first line reserves primes 2,3,5,7 for variables r, acc, x, y. The unreserved iter should then be assigned prime 11.
The accumulator AC starts at value 8575 = 5^2 * 7^3, so the y^2 has a typo and should be y^3. Which matches the desired end result of 2*3 = 6.
But how exactly does it get there?

Btw, the corresponding FRACTRAN program would be

5*11 1 2*3*7 11 1
---- -- ----- -- -
3*11 11 5*7 7 5
It's not YouTube per se that's bad. YouTube is just a symptom. The underlying pathology is advertising. The attention economy, surveillance capitalism. Those are the real problems. Those are the reasons behind this distortion of the world. They enable people who make moronic meme videos to make orders of magnitude more money than people who actually try to contribute something to society.
Nothing in my comment suggest that Amazon dying is "impossible," but don't try to will into existence this idea that Amazon is a wind gust away from it all tumbling down. People are trying to say Amazon is dying and their business is in the mud but the financials don't support that idea.
Not really, though I suppose you can interpret art how you like:

The Lord of the Rings was actually begun, as a separate thing, about 1937, and had reached the inn at Bree, before the shadow of the second war. Personally I do not think that either war (and of course not the atomic bomb) had any influence upon either the plot or the manner of its unfolding. Perhaps in landscape. The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains.

Letters, no. 226
Ask HN: DB for Knowledge Graphs
I'm looking for a good database provider for a project where I'm working with knowledge graphs. I've checked out Neo4j as a possibility but are there any others
I mean, I think there are a lot of motivations for people who behave this way, but one of the core ones is less a matter of servitude or slavering desire to satisfy upper management and a lot more a result of the kind of language this article uses.

People want to believe the things that they do matter and are often willing to gussy up their jobs to make their contributions feel important, to make themselves feel important, to feel like the world needs them. It's the same thing that motivates mall security guards to dress up in tactical outfits. "If I spend all my time doing this thing that doesn't matter and isn't super important, then I don't matter, and I'm not super important." They convince themselves that whatever this current thing is Truly Does Matter, and then are willing to run themselves into the ground to prove the point that they contributed to the thing that matters.

I see the sort of self-aggrandizing "identifying as your job" behavior that leads to this mindset in software more than a lot of other jobs. People get into software and their personality becomes "I'm a software engineer" or "I'm a coder." They're better than the average - they're a highly-compensated expert who understands concepts like "UX" and "Architecture" and "Infrastructure" and they are going to run a Beta Test and Have To Stay Late To Deploy The New Version. They have an Important Deadline! The things they are doing Matter. I think lots of people in software had this idealized image of themselves as a core contributor to a product that's broadly loved and people care about and are unwilling to accept that they are toiling away to marginally reduce the time to first meaningful paint on yet another shopping cart page which only a few people use because the company they work for is niche, not particularly innovative, and not interesting.

I don't think a lot of people are doing this for the promotion - I think they're doing it for the validation. So they can believe that what they do actually matters. The sad reality is that 95% of software is bad and uninteresting and the people working on it are mashing together lego pieces to re-solve completely solved problems for management that doesn't get what they're doing and customers who don't like their work, and the desire to create importance where there isn't any is a self-defense mechanism more than anything.

Breaking out of this mindset was a key development in my career and I've not seen any less success but I am substantially more happy.
It will eventually come full circle to trains.

Why not just build trains? They don't need technological breakthroughs, there's existing expertise all around the world on how to build; are much more easily automated (even more underground); can transport lots more people than busses; scheduling is much easier, etc.
As an also low ACE person with high ACE loved ones, I super encourage this!

With the serious caveat that ACE score isn’t a great predictor for individuals: if your siblings have ACEs >=3, it’s entirely plausible that that trauma explains none, some, or all of the differences you’re referring to.

(If, like me, you grew up thinking socioeconomic status was the gold star predictor of cohort health, the past couple of decades of research here are pretty shocking!)
Of course D&D is not an accurate picture of the medieval era. There's magic in D&D! There was not magic in the medieval era. What are we even doing here?
Buildroot is indeed the way.
You are seen and heard. Please do reach out to 988 or similar for help. No one should go through this alone or doubting that they are loved and worthy. You are both.
Alam Turing used the "hoot" instruction on the Manchester computer in the 1940s to signal different things for debugging
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37507707
On what ground? If they come back from a country at war they can’t legally send them back (by EU law)
Peter Woit on the same topic recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41310899
Birthright[1] was a 2e setting all about managing your domain in a fantasy feudal setting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_(campaign_setting)
I've never looked at the market place terms vendors agree to, but I can imagine return claw backs are a thing. Very similar to credit card merchant agreements for charge backs. A very lax return policy on Amazon doesn't have to be expensive to Amazon.
Well, a rather xor response, but that's ok. Let's go a different route: Someone is using a diet change (fixed), and the elliptical machine to lose weight. This person has no exercise background. The elliptical routine is basic - same program, one hour a day, 8 weeks. BF test is done at the end of each week. Graph the results. What do you think the plot will look like? Why did the subject's weight loss stall out?

Estimations are meant to be exactly that, estimations. Don't try to make them anything else. They offer a grey answer, so use the best tools you have to deliver that grey answer. In this case, it's simply comparing challenges for size, complexity, etc. Don't try to do estimations in a different way just because you want an immediate answer. Estimations are meant to be a starting point to get to a minimum survivable solution. That's how humans use instinctive tools that use the least amount of energy to get to a point that they can survive a challenge. Think about the elliptical example.

In scrum, estimations are the conscious way to get this discovery kicked off; they aren't meant to be an answer, because you don't have enough data yet for a solution. They are meant to be a starting point. Iterate to the solution. When you think you have enough signal for a solution (the sprint), do your final check and balance, which is a tasking plan in hours, during sprint planning.

Another example: The year is 1929, and you're asked to guess the weight of the Empire State Bldg before construction has even begun (1931). What answer delivers more survival information? 180,000 tons, or this: "Well, we know each floor is going to have x concrete, y steel, but not sure about the other construction materials. So it will be something like (x+y+?)*#floors. If your life depended on it, which answer would you go with?

You are looking for a number, and that's why people don't understand what estimating is about. The incorrect approach is like, "Well these estimations are crap, so let's change the estimation methodology." Yeah but it's still and estimation, and you already have a great instinctive tool to make those estimations via relative size comparison, which can be done so quickly, it could literally save your life. Instinctively, we accept that, conscoiusly we don't, so we turn into ill tempered Veruca Salt.

Regarding the golf reference, I'm from Florida. Sorry if the attempt at levity was weak.
I don't mean to say that delivery companies must only use custom-built vehicles - but that basically all services have some custom vehicles. As an example the Royal Mail does seem to use a lot of production vehicles, but they also are working with Arrival for what look like custom made delivery vans. You can compare the Royal Mail vehicle made by Arrival[1] and their generic landing page for their van sales[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DesignPorn/comments/iskdah/royal_ma...

[2] https://arrival.com/topic/van
I don’t think they rolled dice to decide who won in combat either. I agree, what are we doing here??
I don't think you can claim you know what's happening internally when OpenAI processes a request. They are a competitive company and will lie for competitive reasons. Most people think Q-Star is doing multiple inferences to accomplish a single task, and that's what all the evidence suggests. Whatever Sam Altman says means absolutely nothing, but I don't think he's claimed they use only a single inference either.
They exist, but they are rare. Large tech companies have the benefit of economies of scale. For what you're looking for, you really need to find a niche player, and those folks don't hire very often. OpenDental, Rogue Amoeba, Impexium, and Cronometer are a few.
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When I sold my house, the escrow company mailed me a refund check of about $3000 on the closing. I never got that check. Guess how I found out about it, 5 years later, when I started using ledger-cli?
My point is that junk mail is typically printed locally, on paper. Much of Amazon/Temu deliveries are plastic junk, made in China and shipped overseas. Watch various Reels/Tiktoks/etc and you'll see how many influencers buy crappy gadgets that aren't really needed. We are creating so much junk.
I would recommend The Power Law[1], especially if you don't have any exposure to the startup/VC ecosystem. Contrary to what should be the ideal case, a founder needs to cater to VCs and their perspective of looking at products, just as they must cater to users.

I feel like I would have saved myself a lot of stupid conversations if I had the context this book provides.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61403389-the-power-law
Does D&D even plays on earth? I remember, there are several different worlds and realms and forces travelling between them, but nothing specifically about earth. So it can play at any time, it doesn't need to be a distant future.
I'm not using any of these tools yet, although this article popped up at just the right time because Quickbooks and my bank conspired to miss a bunch of transactions that I'm cleaning up now... but that's beside the point.

The strategy I've used for different accounts/categories is to make accounts that match the expense categories that the Canada Revenue Agency wants on my tax return. Early on when I was getting into it I made a bunch of accounts for logical categories (Hosting Expenses, Prototype/Manufacturing Expenses, etc) but then after a few years of trying to map those categories into CRA categories... I just realized I could pre-categorize them appropriately and make my taxes simpler at the end of the year.
You could add some premium features or offer paid support for those who need extra help. Maybe even create a pro version with cool upgrades. Another idea is to partner with companies for ads or affiliate links.

https://www.hqlsolutions.com/
Acceptance is the road to inner peace. Accepting the mortality of the species is no different to accepting personal mortality - you know you're going to be dead before the end of the century, right? You enjoy the time you have, as we all collectively should. To expect even one person, ever mind a whole country to give up living like Royalty is unreasonable. (despite its inevitability). Big fast cars, abundance of food, instant satiation, nobody's going to give that up voluntarily.

Asking for taxes to go up is fine, but nobody wants to pay more taxes.
I think both things are true. If you're on the struggle bus then you should prioritise self-sufficiency in the hiring process (as the post suggests) and be honest about what people are walking into (as you kind of suggest). But I think no amount of honesty will help if you hire someone who needs some amount of hand-holding when your team doesn't have the bandwidth to provide it.

Seems obvious - don't hire people when you can't give them what they need to succeed in-role. But I think the blog author wasn't trying to say much more than that with the sentence you quoted.
Valkey 8.0 Released as Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS
Yep. Somehow scrum leads to more rigid specifications than waterfall.
It seems we go astray when we start defining and evangelizing things that may have worked for some group of people to push them on others.

Somewhere in all this process stuff, I see maybe what some teams were doing but I doubt it was as rigid and I doubt they indulged in it when it made no sense. Once these teams or people are asked what they're doing right - it eventually gets defined into rules and then evangelized to people made to feel they can't deviate or improvise when the framework makes no sense. "Trust the process."

So people start wasting their time going through the process rather than using the process as a framework/tool for getting things done, they 'do' the process.

Their job is standup, their job is scrum, tickets, and points, and as a result their job is only marginally to do the things that need doing.

Company's might take more issue with this inefficiency if the workforce didn't double as something to manipulate pre and post head/tailwind to make the stock rise.
There are CAD packages specific to the jewelry industry, they really speed up the work. If you are wanting to do it professionally I'd look into learning those.

Source - Dad was a master jeweler and my parents ran a shop for nearly 40 years
Back in the day we’d play the same characters for a year or so. Some background lore is nice to have in this case. It makes everything more interesting.
My primary gaming group everyone goes out of their way to learn the rules and make lore accurate characters, or build onto the lore. Regardless of which system, setting or game we are playing. We do a lot of homebrew though.
Thank you will try this
The Geniatech XPI-3566-Zero
Solidworks is the same way, I just run windows, it's worth it.
This seems orthogonal to the concept. More efficiently than what?

Having the public key is easier than having an address because an address is the hash of a public key. So in order to crack an address, you must first find a public key that produces that address, and then find a private key corresponding to the public key.
> While everything was going good, MrBeast the person took all credit for MrBeast the company. Now, it seems like everyone is on tip-toes to clarify they are trash-talking MrBeast the company, not MrBeast the person.

Yeah, I can't really understand why someone would craft a persona with a unique bespoke name and then name the company the same thing other than to try to make sure that the company is viewed as synonymous with the persona.
I didn't mind our daily standups at the last place. They were usually short (10-15) mins. It was all the bullshit and developer grovelling at the end of the sprint, and the lack of allocated time to actually plan future work, that was the problem. I saw people time and time again cutting corners to meet their imaginary deadlines. I'd get sent PR's to review after hours by people in different teams the day before scrum deadlines. It was insane.

The standups themselves were fine and actually I thought they were pretty helpful, especially during covid times.
There's no doubt a lot of WWI in there. I would guess that part of his goal was to talk about the universality of much of what was going on. For that he'd need to draw from a lot of history, and he had first-hand experience with WWI.

But the major plot element of having a weapon too powerful for humans (and humanoids) to wield (and which must be destroyed) is clearly influenced by his reaction to the atomic bomb. The ring gets a pretty big promotion from an Gyges-style invisibility ring in the original edition of the Hobbit, to a civilization-destroying force in LOTR.

There's also arguably a Japanese influence on the Orcs, as an army of people who don't look quite like the English and are fighting hard for a way of life the English don't understand. Japan was England's ally in WWI but an enemy in WWII.
What is "simulated Earth consciousness"?
Am skeptical about the business case for this given the huge government investment in part of this.

What will your differentiators be?

Are you paying for weather data products?
Agree. It's just that well understood scrum is a great process for delivering certainty and stability, as proven by lots of teams (provided they did scrum correctly).Just saves energy to thoroughly vet the process before tossing it.

But first principle, this is a physics issue: Whatever way a team comes up with to maximize the amount of work not done to deliver the same or better outcomes, I'm all for it.
Why the art of collecting has lost its lustre
Well if you've configured your environment to use an audible alert for some condition, haven't you explicitly asked it to make the sound?
Ive been caught out by this, very annoying, but if you open a support chat you can often get a refund
It won’t happen except in the imagination of mono-lingual-future dreamers on HN (popular idea here for some reason).
How is the company actively shooting itself?
For anyone else who's also in today's lucky 10,000: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
> And the logs say, what?

You've caught me in my laziness, i've not really learned well how to read logs after a crash. It's inexcusable that I don't know how to do this, and I am now inspired to Google around for how to do this, I'll start with Windows at thats my current installation.

> Done a reinstall?

Yeah many times.

> Tried Windows and Linux?

Yes, Win 11 and many flavours on Linux. Happens more on Windows, but does happen on Linux too.
I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.
Damn peddled pastoral conservatism! I far prefer the pansexual libertines of Baldur's Gate 3.
goes to show formal language isn't a necessary component of high communication. might even be antagonistic
Pro tip: on most pumps, the second button from the top on the right side mutes the volume.
D&D's main setting is built as a kitchen sink with tons of weird conflicting ideas happening at once so that people can exclude whatever parts they want to create their coherent setting. You want to do a vampire story? A tolkien-esque quest? Steampunk? Wizards of the Coast is happy to sell you rules for all of that.
Not going to work - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798
OpenAI is of course going to claim what they've done is very special and hard to replicate. They're a for-profit company and they want to harm the competition any way they can.

If they were just doing prompt engineering and multiple inferences they'd definitely want to keep that a competitive secret and send all the open source devs off in random directions, or keep them guessing, rather than telling them which way to go to replicate Q-Star.
Exactly right. I've seen it first-hand. It's all about the data. It's also neatly separated from the real operating context in a way that presents it as highly misleading.

Incidentally, if you criticize the data (such as asking "Where does this data show the effort that people who spent time mentoring/pairing but didn't do the actual 'commit'? Where does the data show the effort spent code reviewing?), you should know that it won't be received well. The emperor really does not want to hear that he's not wearing clothes.
FYI, the "why not just learn from a Khan Academy / MIT OpenCourseWare / a textbook / etc" question comes up from time to time, so I wrote up a detailed answer here: https://justinmath.com/why-not-just-learn-from-a-textbook/

TLDR: I learned from those kinds of resources myself, and while I came a long way, for the amount of effort I put into learning, I could have gone a lot further if my time were used more efficiently. That's the problem that Math Academy solves.