skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, in part because it's similar to an idea I had awhile back but didn't know how to actually implement it.

The way I imagined it working was one Voronoi cell per room, but with a tweak where the Voronoi cells are weighted such that you can grow or shrink a Voronoi cell to fit whatever use you have for the room. (At which point it wouldn't really be a Voronoi diagram anymore, but I don't know if there's a name for this other thing. It ought to at least theoretically be possible to compute, because the way soap bubbles stack in 3 dimensions doesn't require all the soap bubbles to contain an exact quantity of air.)

You could make the case that that isn't really necessary, since you can adjust Voronoi cell size just through the strategic placement of its neighboring cells, but it seemed useful to have an extra axis of control.

The outer surfaces of the building could be given dome shapes, but it may be more aesthetically pleasing to give them the same angular surfaces as the interior walls by having "imaginary" cells bordering the outside that aren't part of the finished building but instead define its shape.

I'd imagine the building could either be 3d-printed, or it could be constructed out of flat wall panels that are made in a factory, shipped to the building site, and bolted together (or affixed some other way) at the edges.

The wall panels could also be shaped so that they form shelves or other usable surfaces out of the strange angles (especially the non-vertical walls).

Ideally you'd have some program that can endlessly generate floor plan variations based on user input and site geometry, and then lay out all the plumbing and wiring and verify that it meets structural constraints, and the whole design manufactured and assembled without any human designer in the loop at all. No two houses need ever be exactly alike, every major component manufactured on-demand from standard material inputs.

This would all be pretty hard to setup in reality, but it's how I imagine new construction in near-future science fiction cities, and eventually space habitats working. You spin up an O'Neil cylinder, and some program generates a layout to fill much of the interior with soap-bubble cities like massive mege-structure apartments, but without any repetition. Every neighborhood different than every other, maybe with some common stylistic elements to distinguish one part of town from another, but every location unique, like nature.
I wasn't saying that fewer games from the '00s require fixes, I said that the things that are broken in them are more often caused by factors other than Windows itself. The most common compatibility issues I see with games from this era are caused by changes made to GPUs and/or their accompanying drivers.

Take for example the first two Splinter Cell games. Certain shadows on them do not render on modern GPUs. The root cause isn't any changes Microsoft made to DirectX or Windows, but Nvidia deprecating a feature they relied on in their GPUs and their drivers not providing any kind of fallback. If you play these games on Windows XP with hardware from 2003, they run fine. But if you play them on Windows XP with hardware from 2007, they do not.

Wine fixes a lot of these games because it is already providing its own translation layer for graphics calls, and any GPU vendor-specific DirectX stuff gets translated into hardware-agnostic Vulkan. These same games are often easy to fix on Windows using DXVK (Wine's DirectX translation layer), or wrappers designed for late '90s and '00s games like dgvoodoo2.

The big elephant in the room is DRM, with popular solutions like StarForce being deliberately broken by Microsoft.
And what is secure model?
They are not unexpected though.

If you put your own symbols into generated code you better have a damn good idea what you're doing.

It's a power tool.
When I was that age I made a bouncing ball in Flash (ActionScript, similar to JS).[0]

This is still my "hello world" when trying out a new game dev environment because it covers:

- drawing

- movement

- input

- acceleration

- gravity

- friction

- collision

And all of these in essentially the simplest possible way.

Most of all, it's a lot of fun to have a bouncing ball, and even more fun if you can use the keyboard or mouse to play with it!

For a more structured approach, I'd say draw a circle (or square), then add movement, then make it fall down, then a floor to catch it, then bounce it, etc...

[0] It's not too hard to do in pure JS / Canvas (I am very fond of tiny builds with no dependencies), tho the canvas API is surprisingly unpleasant, so I'd recommend something like Pixi or Phaser.
Cloning is part of GitHub's functionality, so therefore we can clone it but can only commit those changes back to GH. We are permitted to do anything that is part of GH's functionality.
That is an excellent reason not to go to such places. For some stores, "we don't work on commission" is a selling point to the customer.
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Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a whole bunch of programming concepts as a side-effect.
Interesting:

> He and Kressner’s algorithm is delightful. Ultimately, it uses randomness in only a small way. For most coefficients a_1, a_2 \in \real, a matrix Q diagonalizing a_1 H + a_2 S will also diagonalize A = H+iS. But, for any specific choice of a_1, a_2, there is a possibility of failure. To avoid this possibility, we can just pick a_1 and a_2 at random. It’s really as simple as that.

Does anyone use randomized algorithms like these at work? I’m very curious about the conditions where it makes sense. Another comment links to a monograph but I’m more curious about the product side. I worked a little on geometry processing for maps in the past and I don’t think we used any randomized algorithms.

I can see how you could e.g. fix a the random seed for a partition of the data so that if you end up in the bad case you can change it (similar to how you can change consistent hashing keys to load balance).
We live in a giant compost heap best to respect the biomass
I was so excited when I saw this and now I'm disappointed. This kind of statement "quit on trying to win clients that are trying to get the best price" creates a false dichotomy of those who are trying to pay nothing and those willing pay whatever. There are tons of customers in the middle who are happy to pay for important services but think 30K (3% in high COL areas) is too much for the services rendered.

That being said, I think as long as you are honest that "better pricing" isn't your goal then fair enough. It isn't the service for me, but I'm sure some folks will certainly be excited about it.
It's just a habit I have when I'm replying to things so I'll try to remember to avoid doing it on here.
"Captain Peacock, are you free?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served%3F
And with account type.
This logic justifies any amount of fees. They can be excellent brokers and still not deserve $6000 (selling a $1M house) for maybe 40 hours of work as a very generous estimate.
> If everyone is on one server (remains to be seen)

Even internally, BlueSky runs a number of "servers." It's already internally federated. And you can transfer your account to your own server if you want to, though that is very much still beta quality, to be fair.

You're not really "on a server" in the same sense as other things. It's closer to "I create content addressable storage" than "The database on this instance knows my username/password."
You can't get everybody. But, I'm sure you've bought a canned alcoholic beverage from a store before? That was made by a robot, are you ok with that?

Your bartender also may pour you a drink from a can as well - I've seen this
I know I will get absolutely thrashed and buried for saying this on this website, but I am going to say it anyway. The starting point for any modern money system should be cryptocurrency. It should not be necessary to have a middleman at all. This will eliminate most of the types of 'fraud' where thieves or scammers charge a card in an unauthorized way, because cryptocurrency does not require giving away credentials with that capability. Instead, specific transactions are authorized. There is no such thing as giving out your whole master card number for a transaction.

If you want to add middlemen as companies built on the cryptocurrency, you can and for some things they might be useful. But you absolutely should not need them by default in the contemporary era where we have cryptography and the internet.
Get it from Github: https://github.com/iArtorias/nopssdk

Wish this was more common because I also don't want a NexusMods account, but it's hard to avoid because so many modders release exclusively on NexusMods. I believe it's because they pay them a few pennies per million downloads.
>I'm keepin' that $20K.

Just curious, how are you going to advertise your property to real estate agents and consumers in your area?
Is there a copy of the original repository available anywhere?

I wonder if it can even build.
> If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to
> stop diverging further by permitting STUPID INPUT that cannot
> plausibly work in all other shells. We are in a post-Postel world.
>
> It remains possible to put arbitrary bytes *AFTER* the parts of the
> shell script that get parsed & executed (like some Solaris patch files
> do). But you can't put arbirary bytes in the middle, ahead of shell
> script parsed lines, because shells can't jump to arbitrary offsets
> inside the input file, they go THROUGH all the 'valid shell script
> text lines' to get there.

So here it is again, an example of OpenBSD making software behavior saner for all of us.

I don't consider use of all caps over a minor issue to be sane behavior. At best it's immaturity (trying to force your point rather than persuade), and at worst it's an emotional imbalance that effects judgement. That said, it's ksh, on OpenBSD, so I couldn't care less what they do.
Speed of light has recently been redefined, and is now _exactly_ 299792458 m/s. It’s no longer a measurement, it’s a definition.
Yah man, I'm old. I lived through the whole creation of all this crap. It will always be CIFS for me because that's what it was when I first encountered it shortly after it was created.
> It's rather amusing to see them so "excited" about introducing features and concepts have been around since Windows 95.

Microsoft also started presenting new features like selection of font colors.
Seconding this! Twine is the ideal next step for the hypertext-style games OP describes their child having made - it's designed around that exact paradigm of game design, just with more powerful tools.
From the context (buses mentioned) I'm assuming this about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority? I had to search for how the "MTA" abbreviation can be expanded. My mind resolves "MTA" to "Mail Transport Agent".
We make Construct 3: https://editor.construct.net

You can start with a visual block-based system and move on to JavaScript/TypeScript. We have a lot of schools using it to help teach programming concepts in a fun way. Happy to answer any questions!
I don't think a lot of theory went into most of C's syntax. History is important but it doesn't make designs good.

And if we really want to get into how much C was copied, that's more because of familiarity than correctness. Look how many languages copied C's goofy precedence for bitwise operations, which was only there because they made a syntax change and didn't want to disrupt a few existing programs.

But all this aside, you didn't answer the question at all. What was their unbelievable claim?
I had a blast with Klik'n'Play as a kid. The modern version is called Clickteam Fusion. Revisited it a while ago with my nephew, it has a pretty good tutorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickteam
They're also popular as greenhouse support structures for the same reason.
Or we could, you know, just have a reasonable government option. Like ACH for debit cards.

This seems like a perfect opportunity for a common good. Something to make transactions easier and cheaper and help keep the economy running.

But that would be big-government-communism-anti-jobs-whatever-people-are-mad-at. So that’s not how we do it.

We’re getting FedNow (eventually). Seems like you could built a debit card processor on top of that.

You may still need Visa/MC/whatever for international customers to use debit. But American has a lot of Americans doing debit from American bank accounts.
My 11 year old cousin loves Scratch. He's made several games and "movies" using it.

Another more powerful alternative is Stencyl: https://stencyl.com/
It probably won't, because it is irrelevant. What matters is that it is clear beyond reason that VISA have a lot of power in the marketplace. What the courts will decide if they used that power to do naughty things to further cement their position or earnings.
That sounds like solid pricing strategy, I get that. You should put that information loud and proud on your website.

Are you sure your insurance will cover work that's not done by, not validated by, and never even seen by one of your licensed agents?
LinkedIn or Xitter? It's the duopoly of Hell No.

Seriously, we need to start convincing people to move away from both of those. One is a marketing tool for marketers and recruiters, but having no technical value, and the other is turning into a racist, conspiratorial hellhole. Both are heavily populated with spambots.
This isn't terribly surprising: it's an inferior business model to online sales.

They put too many obstacles between the customer and the checkout counter. The customer had to travel, potentially long distances. Then they had to wander the aisles looking for the product, compare it without any unbiased third party reviews. Then they had to travel back home. This all added friction, not to mention the overall price of the products.

All the opulence of those stores came from high operating costs, which were ultimately borne by the customer.

The sales staff expertise came with commission-based sales, which meant you could never really trust the salesperson because they had a vested interest in making a sale whether the product was good or not.

Mourning the loss of department stores is like bemoaning the loss of fancy horse carriages.
Exactly this. Lots of bus depots all around NYC. Several across Staten Island alone.

My uncle worked at the MTA for his entire career as a bus mechanic. My favorite story was when a rep from a company selling "green" buses was visiting. Rep said "These buses never break! You guys might be out of work." and then asked "So when do the buses stop running for the day?"

He was less confident in the reliability of his product when he learned the buses in NYC don't stop.
try websim.ai or roblox studio
I mean that is what I would assume (specific steps allegedly taken) given the title has the word "monopoly" in it.
I remember those times as well, I remember using Listserv quite a bit, sending the Listserv commands while offline, composing emails/replying to emails and then connecting briefly to the mail server. And yes, the phone was paid by the minute, it wasn't very cheap so I'd try to lower the usage as much as I could. And then there were the BBS-es where I'd spend the time limit (I think it was 30 minutes) when I could find a line that wasn't busy...
Success despite incompetence isn't that strange.
Research doesn’t show the government providing cheap or free money doesn’t inflate prices? We’ve just lived through four years of insane government spending correlated with the highest inflation in over 40 years.

This is an experiment that has been tried and always has the same results: the cost of an item increases by approximately the amount of the subsidy the government provides. UBI experiments “work” because they are elevating the income of a small portion of the population above their peers. It’s not actually universal.
Costco is membership-only, so everybody shopping there is strongly incentivized to do so bearing the payment methods they accept.

A random corner store or online retailer does not have that luxury; they have to accept whatever their prospective customers have on them (and to a lesser extent prefer, if they have multiple brands' cards).
If I recall correctly it was $6/hour during their off times. Which was after hours on weekdays, weekends and holidays. During the work day I think it was $30 dollars.
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Part of the design of modern credit cards is that even authorized purchases can be reverted if the customer is not delivered the promised goods. My understanding is that crypto people think that is a design flaw, not a feature, but most folks disagree and that's what counts when trying to get most people to adopt your solution.
That needs to be explicit for any interacting types. You must define separate classes and explicitly define their hierarchy. This is fine if you control all the types, but it breaks down quickly. The best example is having two TypedDicts with the same members; in Python, you cannot use one instead of the other.

from typing import TypedDict

class A(TypedDict):
a: int
b: str

class B(TypedDict):
a: int
b: str

def f(a: A) -> None: pass

b = B(a=1, b='b')
f(B) # mypy error: Argument 1 to "f" has incompatible type "type[B]"; expected "A" [arg-type]

On the other hand, this is legal in Typescript:

interface A {
a: number;
b: string;
}

interface B {
a: number;
b: string;
}

function f(a: A) {}

const b: B = {a: 1, b: 'b'};
f(b);

This is most useful when A has a subset of B's attributes, like this (which also doesn't work in Python):

interface A {
a: number;
}

interface B {
a: number;
b: string;
}

function f(a: A) {}

const b: B = {a: 1, b: 'b'};
f(b);
That's a little misleading: either the meter or the second has been redefined to make c = 299792458 m/s.
I also enjoy El Corte Ingles in Spain.

Sadly the German department stores seem to be dying and in the eastern countries the stores died in the 90's after the fall of communism.
After Zelle's rollout I have zero trust in Bank's ability to combat fraud in a consumer friendly matter unless they're required by laws with teeth to do so.

There is no way in hell I'd trust this service based on anything I've seen so far.

At least with a debit card you have Visa's limited fraud protection in most cases.
How does that Qualcom X Elite compares with LL when it comes to gaming/iGPU?

How many FPS in e.g Black Myth: Wukong on battery like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1xXh2lj2A

or Cyberpunk as benched here?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2463714/tested-intels-lunar-...
That's not how the payment market works, though.

If a customer walks into your store and has exactly one (type of) card on them that they want to use to pay, you have a choice of accepting that card or losing their business.

This makes competition between payment methods at the POS structurally very hard.
My 11-year-old still enjoys scratch -- he watches YouTubers like Grifpatch to learn higher level concepts.

There's also PenguinMod which feels like Scratch with more assets.
> Oracle bought MySQL and ruined it

By "ruined" you must mean "solved decades-long issues and turned it into a real database", or we're talking about two different projects.

https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/the-complete-list-of-new-...

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/mysql-nutshell.html

Do note that the largest users (like GitHub and Facebook) still use the original MySQL, and AFAIK have no plans to abandon it.
I'm not completely convinced Lina Khan would be out if Trump wins. JD Vance has mentioned support for her by name on several occasions.
Do you need the data to know that busses are insanely slow?
seems remarkable given that visa doesnt send 150,000X children to send to school or collect 150,000X Medicare benefits.

I guess this is a way of highlighting the idea that individuals should be fundamental unit of tax assessment, collection, and evaluation. It is humans that receive government benefits, and it is humans that should pay for it.

Other methods of analysis run the risk of double counting benefits or payments.
+1 to this, my son really enjoys programming for pico-8
Mental-1, a Brainfuck CPU
> what I would assume (specific steps allegedly taken) given the title has the word "monopoly"

That’s a bad assumption. Being a monopoly isn’t illegal. You have to also behave anti-competitively.
> I don't think a lot of theory went into most of C's syntax. History is important but it doesn't make designs good.

Agreed. C is just what sort of worked at the time. 50 years on, we can do better. Theory is what lets us do so in a scientific way, instead of just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works.

Although, there is something to be said for testing out new syntax and seeing how it feels in the real world!
> Linux desktops run ChromeOS.

Linux is a kernel. ChromeOS is a dumbeb down OS. Calling it a desktop is like calling MS Windows secure.
Ah nice, of course it's configurable :)
That is in there because of the core obsolete design flaw I pointed out -- credit card credentials are master keys authorizing arbitrary transactions. This is because it is an obsolete design that predates modern ubiquitous cryptography.
That was fast, I missed it!
> Standard Oil didn't illegally manipulate the market

FYI, Standard Oil was never actually charged with market manipulation. The court determined that all of their acquisitions were legal, but that it was within the scope of the Sherman Antitrust Act to break them up just by virtue of their market power.
Credit cards in the US, in particular.

Almost everywhere else in the world, physical cards require a PIN, and online payments (above some amount/risk threshold, at least) require 3DS authentication.

Both methods are pretty secure.
Indeed this is. For some reason, all the implementations that I can recall suffer from some usability problems. I expect that if a solution that is acceptable for Durov is discovered, they will roll it out. Of course, my prediction might be wrong.
Sort of. At some point, you need a platform that orchestrates all those "do one thing well" outputs. I'm using NextCloud for that -- too early to totally be satisfied, but nothing crazy going on yet! Waiting to see a few upgrades and backups to see how things go.
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> JD Vance has mentioned support for her by name on several occasions

JD Vance has approximately as much policy control in a Trump administration as Kamala Harris would.
whats confusing they have different pricing for output. Here [1] it's $5/million output (starting 1st october) and on vertex AI [2] it's $2.5/1 million (starting 7 october) - but characters - so it's overall gonna be more expensive if you wanna compare to equivalent 1 million tokens. It's actually even more confusing to know what kind of characters they mean? 1 byte? UTF-8?

[1] https://ai.google.dev/pricing

[2] https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing
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