skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's already 229 of them, so we will see.
even in albuquerque i could reach dozens of bbses though
The SVG format is easy to learn and you can write your graphics manually inside HTML. I've been using it to make 2D objects in JavaScript that can be positioned, rotated and scaled using the transform style property. You can also animate them with CSS. It's a shame there isn't a similar scriptable format for audio, something like MIDI. Otherwise you can use a canvas, or even a 3D canvas for WebGL.
It would be lovely to imagine the USPTO immediately saying, "Nope, sorry, that is descriptive."

[Public Healthy Advisory: Do not hold your breath, ever, waiting for the USPTO to do the right thing.]
if 'crypto' wasn't used for scams / crime. it would have been the perfect candidate to break the Visa / Mastercard duopoly.

but alas....
Having a job, any job, as a teenager is now looked upon as something that makes you look poor, and in many states the minimum wage is barely worth the effort. Wealthy parents would rather their children spend their time doing more studying or extracurriculars, since both of those have a better return when applying for colleges than any retail job.
https://gamemaker.io

You will not find better...
Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison
Walmart and Target are discount department stores, which is a different niche. K-mart is closing their last store, incidentally. There used to be more of them, too, and more regional ones.
> we do this

Everything you've described could be achieved with a basic web app.

Not seeing what AI brings to the table here other than being a fake human that gives inaccurate advice ~5-10% of the time. Which seems risky when I am making the biggest financial decision of my life.
Because interoperability is key to competition...?

Imagine a universe where different hardware doesn't interoperate (e.g. androids can't call iphones, Macs can't use google.com, ChatGPT is only accessible to Comcast subscribers) I hope we can all agree it's a nightmare scenario. Sometimes the free market gets it right without intervention, sadly sometimes it does not.
As others commented there can be a dozen other reason to be depressed under the pandemic other than UBI like revenues.

Also UBI does not stop you from doing work. UBI does not want to be a complete replacement of work related revenues, just the basic needs are covered. So if you have a minimum of ambition, you'll go for a job. UBI is just your safety net, so you must not become something that you feel is a slave or stuck in with bad people just to pay rent. Quite different story compared to what you painted here like people just don't work. Also would be interesting to see this unfolding for 10 years. Maybe humans are just lazy but quite the opposite can happen as well and those stories will drag people along. Of course some of us are going to fuck it up that's for sure.
And I can confirm a NUL in 11th byte of my hello.c a.out:

>>> s[:11]
b"MZqFpD='\n\n\x00"

Looking closer, I missed the content of "BIOS BOOT SECTOR".
"For this initial test I’ll be comparing the free version of ChatGPT to the free version of Google Gemini, that is GPT-3.5 to Gemini Pro 1.0."

The free version of ChatGPT is 4o now, isn't it? So maybe Gemini has not gotten worse, but the free alternatives are now better? When I compare ChatGPT-4o with Gemini-Advanced (wich is 1.5 Pro, I believe) the latter is just so much worse.
Creating some tickets would help improve what you find problematic. I understand your frustration, you would want it to just work , but life isn’t always how we want it to be either. It is a free and open source project, no hidden goals, driven only by passion and love for tech.
Maybe so (I have no idea), but the risk of fraud and chargebacks is not borne by the network.

There are many other high risk industries they don't seem to have a problem with.
Not sure it's that hypocritical. The basic western principle is people should be able to live in peace. If some actor starts killing them, be it Putin or Hamas, it's ok to fight back.
As ReBoot turns 30, fans launch a doc on the groundbreaking Canadian CGI cartoon
It's not a drag and drop environment, but it is JavaScript:
https://p5js.org/

Basic 60 frames a second canvas and the rest is JavaScript.

Pair that with the excellent Coding Train series https://youtube.com/@thecodingtrain

To get around the "serve a webpage locally" problem, you could either have Python or Node serve a webpage, or I once rigged up a samba share and a small web server on a home server and turned a kid loose on it ... It didn't take, I should have spent more time helping them daily on it.

But that's an idea.
The whole extract_mbtiles.py file is 97 lines of code. This contains parsing MBTiles, writing metadata and some CLI specific lines. It's actually quite a concise script for doing this while taking care of the hard-link limits.
Phaser with Claude / LLM to help?
Yep, and they trade on reputation, thinking that will let them off on other factors.

We have a store here, John Lewis, whose tech department sells lots of Macs and high-end TVs.

So when they got in some 17 inch HP android tablets, I figured, surely they can't be _too_ bad? This was before iPad Pros, and I liked the idea of a large tablet.

The thing was absolute garbage, stuck on an already-obsolete Android release. At least their returns policy was accommodating, but that's half a day I'll never get back.
and with the ability to create a point and click interface with something specific happening on each click

Also, as you need: GameMaker Language (GML) is GameMaker's scripting language. It is an imperative, dynamically typed language commonly likened to JavaScript and C-like languages
I should have clarified I am a New Zealander. We get multi-gig connections to home that are not over-subscribed, but I would be very surprised if we could saturate that over the trans-Pacific cables.
the article does not suggest removing wheeels
We keep hearing

> requiring iPhones to be made entirely in the United States.

> attacking an international supply chain to compromise equipment

But "International" has nothing to do with it. If Lebanon had been a powerhouse of pager manufacturing, a fake reseller could have been created just the same and the pagers re-manufactured just the same. Single iPhones or cases of routers can be delayed in local transit for a touch up (through a small bribe, appeal to patriotism, theft or whatever). And remote exploits are common enough. Seems we need much more effort put into verifiability and such, in hardware and software. Secure enclaves was an idea in the right direction: there is a lot of chip budget available and some can be put into purely security features. Patch and firmware checksums. Encrypted memory path same thing.

What's on the way? Retail scanner imaging and reference photos posted by the manufacturers?
I'm not qualified to comment on the larger Debian ecosystem, but having been forced (due to work) to create some Debian packages... the tooling is awful. Packages are two(?) layers of tarballs, there's the option of free-form shell scripts in there to do whatever as a pre/post-install step, etc. etc. There's even several ways to try to hide some of that awfulness under the carpet, and yet it's still there.

If they want to attract people who care in the least about developer experience they'll need to consolidate and fix their package system and tooling.
They're a bit sneaky on this one too. You pay full when you buy, but then they only charge 1% when you sell. So you only save on the sell, pay full price for the buy.
On Impactful AI Research
The first episodes of the documentary ReBoot Rewind are now available:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmsFQF5CvPribGVmcSNRQ...
To a degree you are right, but fully agreeing with this is ignoring reality given the thread we are commenting in. There has been more antitrust legislation under the current administration than there has been in a decade so while they aren't the Dems of old, I feel we are heading in a good direction.
Does UBI pay enough to support a ski bum lifestyle? That’s probably what I would do if I had guaranteed income with no job.
When i was young i started with Power Point too, then i started using "The Games Factory" from Clickteam. I think thats what started my programming path.
Our goal is not to rewrite every property description, but rather just link you the properties that we think you would like. If a property is mis-listed on Zillow, then that would be the same issue if a Realtor would send you that property as a recommendation
Is there a flight db preferably with price info?
Oh man, that brings back memories. I had a four pack of games from The Fourth Dimension - Cataclysm, Apocalypse, Chocks Away and E-Type.

They were pretty much the only games we actually bought, rather than just demos from cover disks, so I played the absolute heck out of them.

Even after many hours of flying time, I could never stick the landings in Chocks Away.
Earlier on the anniversary of the show's debut on September 15th, a remastered epsiode 1 was released to watch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41507194
> (which is contrary to the usual development workflow of the kernel, hence the concern over what happens if major distros start depending on Rust code)

The issue here is that this wasn't decided in this moment: it was decided as soon as the Rust was approved to merge. You're right that it's a concern, which is why it was addressed back then, and so a few years later, bringing it up feels like an argument in bad faith rather than a genuine attempt to bring a concern to the table.
For the escrow transaction, were you the buyer or sellers agent?
The Linux kernel's filesystem cache is actually really efficient at doing this. I doubt we could come up with a nginx scripting solution which could be equally efficient.
I think the DoJ is having a field day with NAR as are the many individuals currently suing them
Yes, it's very accessible. My son wrote a game on it (with a lot of help from me, but he got it).
Show HN: 18 months after big tech layoff, my indie game is nearing release
Howdy, long time HN'er. Spent ~20 years in FAANG and startups, got the pink slip during a big layoff wave in spring 2023. That's ok, I was about to quit anyway :)

Finally got back to a lifelong goal of mine, making an "indie" game. (Indie is subjective, but you get the drift.)

So, here it is: Ballionaire, a "fast-paced pachinko roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth!"

My influences were: Plinko(TM), Luck Be A Landlord, and Totally Accurate Battle Simulator. I was really fortunate because localthunk, the dev behind Balatro, noticed my game during its first month of development (October 2023) and boosted the game a bit amongst streamers, gaining me some traction/confidence, and enabling me to land a publisher.

"AMA"?
I only read the abstract not the study...

> Religious fundamentalism, characterized by rigid adherence to a set of beliefs putatively revealing inerrant truths, is ubiquitous across cultures and has a global impact on society.

This is a very weird definition for fundamentalism. That just sounds like a normal religous believer. The definition is so vague it could describe any ideology not just religions.

Is that the typical definition of fundamentalism?
The molecular scale was well estimated (at least for the gaseous phase of matter) by 1865 (25 years earlier not 5 as the incorrect HN title would suggest) https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13757/how-was-av... (and guesstimated by just "following your nose" in Gandalf-of-Lord-Of-The-Rings-ese in 1646!)

Rayleigh's experiment is just accessible requiring very little training / background to describe. To interpret as a monolayer is honestly probably not so accessible at all, though, and a weakness of the atomsonly.news piece and seemingly not even done by Rayleigh himself. Modern retconning as zokier says elsewhere.
>I have never seen anyone articulate an actual moral theory that allows for self-ending but does not also allow for other-ending.

What do you mean by "other ending"? Do you mean non-consensual ending (murder) or consensual ending (euthanasia).

The fact that someone can be coerced into taking action themselves is a simple fact of life. It is always a possibility with suicide or euthanasia.

Moral theory does not need to split hairs on the probability of that coercion occurring. You can simply say it is moral for someone to decide to end their life , and either do it themselves or get help. You can also hold it immoral to coerce someone into death. Morality does not depend if those standards will be perfectly upheld by humanity. Moral standards never are.
Yes, MapLibre is the gold standard now.
While I do agree with the issue of an inflated list I didn't find anyone on their list that actually existed (at least at the office listed) and wasn't actually in network. I found doctors that didn't cover the whole field of their specialty.
I like TUIs a lot too, they work great for remote connections and just feel good. I even mention one in the Readme of the repo, maybe some could create an awesome tui tools type of page for container management UIs
+1 for GM
I am sympathetic to that however this is also a company that consistently promises the moon. Their CEO recently put out a blog post about AGI in a few “thousand days”. They clearly do have a hype issue and it’s fine to point that out.
> Costco/Walmart are, from a European perspective, more like a "cash and carry" wholesaler masquerading as retail

Costco _is_ wholesale, they just allow "members" to buy some of it too. Costco supplies quite a lot of things to enterprises such as office supplies and food.
I realize you aren't saying this, but note that while commissions are common among larger department stores, it doesn't hold true in general across specialist retailers that every staff member is on commission. For instance, if you go to a specialty cheese or wine shop, or a fishmonger or supplement store or even smaller local department stores, it's entirely possible to meet a sales clerk on commission, but it's also (perhaps more) likely that you won't.

Also, RE staff commissions -- this isn't always bad for the customer as some here are implying. Although there are stores where commissions can come directly from the manufacturer, or where some manufacturers offer staff commissions but some don't -- this tends to be bad, nearly always.

On the other hand, if the commission comes from the employer, this can incentivize staff to build deeper product knowledge and awareness of tradeoffs between different brands and products (not to mention: mindfulness of trends, customer feedback and return rates, etc), which IME leads to better service and better sales for everyone involved. I mean, yes, sure, it can also lead to employees simply parroting whatever they learned from the manufacturer brochure. YMMV

Brick & mortar retailers that don't provide commissions at all often still allow manufacturer led trainings of staff -- the retailer views this as essentially free staff development and morale building by increasing staff product knowledge while often providing free product or steep discounts. Sometimes manufacturers will straight up give away prizes unrelated to the products they sell (I've seen supplement vendors give away iPhones or cash prizes, for instance). Sales reps sometimes build personal relationships with certain retail workers they know have influence over purchasing or merchandising decisions. Often this is explicitly forbidden, but in practice virtually every company that has rules like this also rarely enforces them

In any case, my point is that commission structures do not imply that you're getting bad/misleading information from sales staff, and lack of commission structures don't mean that sales staff are free of undue influence from sales reps and manufacturers or that they otherwise aren't incentivized somehow to push a particular product on you.
They do mention how characters are counted in the Vertex AI pricing docs: "Characters are counted by UTF-8 code points and white space is excluded from the count"
Thank you very much for your suggestions! I will optimize its experience. By the way, have you seen the two switch buttons on either side of the carousel? I'm thinking about whether I need to adjust its background color to make it more noticeable.
I'd say the bigger issue was the speculative trading. Why would you use it to buy things that will depreciate in value if you think the currency itself will go up in value? Likewise, why would you buy currency if tomorrow its value can tank really hard?
Weird I feel like I read the opposite, that a high protein/fat diet would slow cancer because it thrives on glucose, so cutting carbs/sugar was key.

It seems counter intuitive to me that meat & sugar would both be correlated because they are almost opposites from a metabolic standpoint. One is pure fat/protein and one is just glucose.
I'm skeptical about the prosperity claim. If the entire planet has access to affordable/cheap and very capable AI, this still leaves two problems.

Since the access itself is not differentiating, it's going to be the most educated benefiting the most. Already today few people can use the o1 model because they can't dream up a PhD level question nor understand its answers.

More importantly, access to AI does not mean access to assets. Me, a total nobody, can use AI to design the world's best car. But that does nothing because I don't have money or land. Anybody can query AI for that car but only asset owners can actually implement the idea and extract value. Those asset owners could use AI to bring widespread prosperity to all of mankind, but we know they won't.

We don't need more material prosperity, we need social prosperity. Family formation, the restoration of community life, economic security. Not "more stuff".
Google Cache is fully dead
Sears managed to miss both the opportunity to be Amazon and the opportunity to be Home Depot. At some point you have to wonder how much luck was really involved.
Kinda. It's sort of a mix of Habitat and PlayNET/QuantumLink... more the latter than the former.
They didn't remove anything it's still available in the history
I'd love to see a real "enterprise" pay for anything with this name. If it wants to be taken seriously, change the name to something that can be repeated with a straight face in an office.
Americans might be more familiar with FAO Schwartz, an iconic, up-market toy store formerly with a flagship in New York City on Fifth Avenue, which featured in several films including Big (starring Tom Hanks).

The company has been through several ownership changes and bankruptcy in the past quarter century, and was at one point in fact owned by Toys "R" Us. Since 2016 it's been owned by ThreeSixty Group, of which also presently owns Sharper Image and Vornado.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Schwarz>
John, your games were an inspiration to me when I was a kid first learning my way around programming on the Mac. I spent a lot of time playing Glider and even more playing Pararena. I still have the echo-y startup sample of that lodged in my head.

I probably spent even more time poking around in the resource forks of your games in ResEdit.

I didn't finish much, but I did complete a couple of little shareware games and uploaded them to AOL. I was beyond surprised when a check from far away California appeared in my mailbox many months later.

Those early Mac days really did feel like a special time where anything was possible a solo developer could make a thing and put it out into the world without needing more than creativity and time.

Thank you for writing these posts and sending me down memory lane. I hope you're enjoying your retirement.
This is horrifying. Isn't BF supposed to be a joke language. Someone is spending time making libraries so it can actually be used?
Fixing slow PostgreSQL queries: How to make a smart optimizer more stupid
> it wouldn’t use functions like these and the generated comparable code would be on-pare performance wise

Perhaps if XLA generated all functions from scratch, this would be more compelling. But XLA relies very heavily on pattern-matching to common library functions (e.g. CuDNN), and these patterns will certainly work better on Nvidia GPUs than AMD GPUs.

In this way, I actually think explicitly calling the common library functions is actually much more transparent.
It's a great tool, its column view is very popular, which has inspired me to think about how to support visualization features. By the way, what is your favorite feature of it, or which function do you think is the most useful?
> If Turbo tax can make it possible for a person to file taxes

Which is a 40 year old piece of software.

And during these decades we've had with NLP and basic rule engines the ability to answer questions about the buying process. So not sure what innovations LLMs are bringing to the table here.
So this is something I had vaguely always wondered about NYC. Is there actually enough space to park all the personal cars, Or is it assumed that some percentage are always on the road. I didn't hear about serious parking congestion during covid so I now assume that yes, there do seem to be enough car spots.
Pretty opposite to the traditional approach of putting latest podcasts behind a paywall as "preview episodes".
Can we have python compiled to wasm compiled to python compiled to wasm compiled to python - just for obfuscation reasons?
The moon has something Earth hasn’t and as far as I have seen it seems nobody has figured out how to handle it yet. Moon dust.

“The tiny, electrostatically charged particles made of crushed lunar rock clung to every surface, from spacesuits to electronics, and even infiltrated the astronauts’ lungs. Crews tried using a brush or their hands to sweep the sharp, abrasive dust off their spacesuits, but neither method proved very effective.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasas-moon-dust-pr...
British Legends

I was obsessed with that MUD on CompuServe.

My father had a second phone line at home for work and I'd log in on that line.

Then the bill came in. Something ridiculous for at the time. Hundreds of dollars.

He walks in and says "do you use ... CompuServe?".

"Yes, I like this game that it has"

"Ok, sorry but you can't play that game anymore"

Oh well.

So later I went on to run a dual-node BBS and I could play TradeWars. Not quite the same. Still was cool.
I use Windows, Mac, and Linux systems regularly, and frequently get ipconfig and ifconfig mixed up. So I was vaguely aware that both commands existed on macOS and your comment prompted me to try both to see if either exposed the SSID.
Roblox studio. My son is a sound designer for some of the top games there. He's also learning programming in Lua for Roblox platform.

It is a small community of mostly kids aged 15-25 as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem like any professional adult game developers are part of the community (I got an inside view when I took my son to RDC this year).

The top game developers are making millions of dollars per year (they're paid in Robux and converted to USD).

In short, thriving ecosystem with lots of kids having fun doing creative work including creating games, writing code, designing graphics, designing sound effects.
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