skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started a new Space Age game, too!

With the understanding that you can regularly leave Factorio running overnight or even all week to build up resources, how many hours have other hard core Factorio players logged?

My Factorio play time is up to 6,573.2 hours at this point.

I love Factorio for the same reasons I love SimCity. 6,573.2 hours seems like a lot of time, but I've probably logged even more hours playing SimCity since 1989. (But much of that was actual productive time porting it to various platforms, testing, debugging, and optimizing the actual source code and user interface, etc.)

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVl4dGwUrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snnqQSI0GE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsxoZXaYJSk
I see what you're saying...

I think the sibling comment accidentally put it better.

> There are also people who disguise their value disagreement as a definition disagreement.

Or maybe even more to the point: they are twisting their definitions to support their values.

I think we can agree on this.
SecurityManager? Java's current direction (using the word "integrity" rather than "security", but seems relevant) looks interesting to me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41520246
How is it meant to be used? Is this a GPT that performs scraping or is it for learning how to scrape? Is there a link to your newsletter archive?
Condo crisis citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41956161 ("HN: Florida's new condo laws recognize the total price of living on the beach")
> We do an hour long project update every morning and afternoon so that both managers can poke at our progress and make sure it's "meeting the bar".

I always assume that one meeting eliminates 4 hours of productivity, so it looks like you are all set.
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The answer to this is code review. If an LLM writes code for you - be it implementation or tests - you review it before you land it.

If you don't understand how the code works, don't approve it.

Sure, complacent developers will get burned. They'll find plenty of other non-AI ways to burn themselves too.
The hacker culture is still there but hacker social media (unless carefully curated) is flooded with optimized content to the point where the cool stuff is hard to find and you only see the grifter techs.
Good for them, fortunately I'm not a trucker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Cooper
Looks cool! make one :-)
Do you think your lazy response improved things overall?
What is this contract?
No, in fact what I said is the generally understood meaning of the constitutional structure of India [1] [2].

[1] https://www.britannica.com/place/India/Constitutional-struct...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India
I have an SDR as well and I just got a TinySA, neither really do this.
>1. Orient your keys so they all face in the direction of entry

Yes, always

>2. Order your keys clockwise based on the direction of entry.

Eh, I guess. Depends how many you have and what they're like. I have two nearly identical keys, and the rest (car, mail) require no time to find due to their size. In this scenario, I generally find that sorting keys by physical size makes the ring/carabiner feel more comfortable. That being said, I find the related suggestion to "Drill holes in your keys" <https://practicalbetterments.com/drill-holes-in-your-keys/> a more worthwhile solution to item 2.
These dependency managers are something of a double-edged sword. They avoid a lot of work if your project has a lot of external packages, but they also encourage pulling in lots of external dependencies without much thought. Every one of those, and every one of their sub-dependencies, exposes users of the software to significantly more risk. It's a breeding ground for common vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks.

Partly because of this, I try to avoid external dependencies as much as possible. When I need something that's not built in to the language, I choose in the following order of preference:

1. The standard library and target platform libraries, augmenting any inadequate features with my own extensions if necessary.

2. A very well known, well maintained, and widely used library with few dependencies of its own. Something that could almost be mistaken for #1.

3. Write my own minimal version of what I need, if I can do so with a reasonable level of effort.

4. A lesser-known third-party library, if it appears well maintained, and if I am willing to audit it and every future update to it.

A happy side effect is that a language with no built-in dependency manager is still perfectly viable for me, since it wouldn't be saving me much work anyway.
Honestly probably not.

But give me 40x for any assets or endpoints that track me instead of blocking the whole page. How much more difficult would that be technically?
The first wins because they go to the grave feeling content and validated. The second may be more valuable because they contribute something lasting that transcends these petty things, but they may die depressed that the world won’t make use of their work, and so I don’t think they would say they “won” in their last words.
It’s a custom GPT for learning scraping, the newsletter is called The Web Scraping Club and the archive of the article can be found here: https://substack.thewebscraping.club/archive
Our Mindless and Our Damned (2020)
Regular consumption of sardines can be beneficial, particularly for elderly women. Recommend mixing a can with heaped dessert spoon of plain hommus (hides fish taste & adds fibre).
> or use a different distro

For example, Qubes OS: https://qubes-os.org
I can’t speak for FL, but in NYC I spent three years trying to get my condo board to fix basic structural issues. I couldn’t ever win the votes needed and ultimately sold the spot and moved. The level of negligence by owners (even ones who own investment properties) is wild to me.
> They could offer an API for security relevant scanning for EVERYONE, including their own antivirus software

I mean, they have _lots_ of APIs. You'll just never have as much control from usermode as you will from the kernel; what API would make you say "yep, don't need a driver now, can do security fine from user"?
My point is that "framework fatigue" is a self-inflicted problem. Nobody forces you to use flavor of the week, VanillaJS and bog standard HTML/CSS are always there for you.
> The platforms would have needed to be opened up to clone builders to reach critial mass.

Not that much. More standardization on the Unix side and we'd all be happy.
It’s definitely more vulnerable than macOS since macOS has more encompassing system protection (SIP), kernel extensions have been moved to user space (DriverKit and FSKit), and pervasive sandboxing.
I like your style of reply. It is at least somewhat more sensible than that of another one in this subthread (from the guy who misinterpreted my words, and talked about my "noise", ha ha). But it is not quite sensible enough, in this case.

Do you really need information from me to rebut, when you can so easily look up relevant words like corn (maize), wheat, rice, millets, and balanced diet, to name just a few of the words / terms I talked about, in Google or other search engines, and particularly in Wikipedia?

The Wikipedia articles for many such common human food items often includes a table of nutrient names and corresponding percentages for that food item, such as for the percentage of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, by needed daily value (DV), with a citation to the USDA article on the same subject.

Those are hard facts, not my opinions.

Check them out, then come back and talk.
In this case less wealthy are worth the same in terms of headcount. The only advantage wealthy have from a tax perspective is if they move and pay property tax elsewhere
> 100X’ing efficiency, it seems to me, is another animal entirely

Saturn V had a specific impulse of 263 s [1]. NSTAR did 3,000 s [2]. That’s an order of magnitude improvement in efficiency in 30 years of low-effort improvements.

Starship should demonstrate in-orbit refuelling next year. That’s another 10x technology. Add on a solar sail and you’re in the realm of two orders of magnitude of efficiency gains with known technologies. (Three from Apollo.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Solar_Technology_Applic...
Yeah, this isn't like e-mail headers where different hops in routing will insert additional information.
Masimo basically came up with the idea of how to do it accurately long before anyone else right? Is that really trolling? I don’t recall the details but I remember thinking they actually had a legitimate claim.
Carma (YC W24) hiring founding SWEs (remote) to build the next Uber for auto repair
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Our go-to-market strategy is highly effective, and we are consistently acquiring new enterprise customers each month.
We iterate rapidly, prioritizing speed and maintaining a tight feedback loop with customers above all else.

We're experiencing rapid growth, with our revenue increasing by 40% month-over-month. We were among the first companies accepted into the W24 batch and emerged as one of the top-funded non-AI startups, securing over $5 million in funding.

What is Carma and how does it work?

Carma is a B2B managed marketplace that provides same-day automotive repair for commercial fleet owners. We offer instant, transparent quotes and guaranteed pricing for any vehicle. Our mission is to tackle the $573 billion problem in commercial auto repair: the challenge for fleet owners to efficiently find automotive services and for repair shops to attract customers.

Fleet owners can request any service through our mobile app. We then send these requests to our network of highly-vetted partner service centers. These partners provide real-time offers for the requested services, ensuring quick and competitive responses.

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I've written an article analyzing the recent GXR World streaming failure during El Clásico, which left many viewers in India and the MENA region unable to watch the match. The piece delves into the importance of scalable streaming services, lessons learned from the outage, and how companies like Jio and Disney+ Hotstar have a significant opportunity to shape the future of sports media.
I worked for a company and implemented testing suites into our infrastructure. My team and I spent time meeting with all the various stakeholders, FE, BE, Auth, Infra, etc. Put the solution in place and built out the dev tools needed, held constant training with teams, answered questions when called out in org meetings. Since we were building two docker images (1 the actual image and 1 for proxying network connections for tests) During development I asked 100 times that this would not increase cost. Everyone assured me we did not have to worry because that is all negotiated yearly.

At the end of the day we had this weird error where the test suites would randomly fail. Always a different test, different time of day, different engineer running into the issue. This caused “bad days” for all the feature developers.

I kept investigating and pushing back that it wasn’t my implementation. Lo and behold months later it was revealed that any subsequent PR would cancel the docker image built for the active PR. The tests would fail because the image was getting trashed. The reason this kept happening is that the QA env was not actually setup to mirror the production env, as a cost saving measure done much much much before my time.

However since engineering and infrastructure refused to address the issue months ago, the dev org had built up ill will against me. Everyone blamed me and instead of sitting down and still fixing the issue to have a parallel environment to our production env, they laid me off, and removed all my work.

I still have friends that work there and they still fight daily about testing deployments and rolling back because they removed the testing in place.
I hate this phrasing.

Corporations aren't people.

The finding was that people dont lose their rights when working together via a corporation.

If you can buy a political sign and your friend can buy a sign, then the two of you can buy a sign together.
My thought exactly. If someone is already able to replace arbitrary DLLs on the system (a precondition for this "exploit" to work), all bets are off, and their ability to bypass driver signatures is probably the least of your concerns.
You could use a call/SMS forwarding app on an old android phone. I haven't used any myself, but I know they're popular with small businesses.

Basically just get an old android phone, put a prepaid SIM in it, and leave it charging at home somewhere. The app will forward calls/texts to any other number(s) you choose.
The statement included no money for the clean up - disinformation, money for a drunken mob of Ukrainian thugs - disinformation, tweeted to 1.3m followers - amplifying. If it was just Dimitry it wouldn't be a big deal but the same is probably going out to thousands of 'US Patriot 457' type bot accounts, their paid $100k/episode shills like Tim Pool, quite likely Tucker and Donald, and so on.
Not that please. The flutter example took 20 seconds to load and the scroll is super choppy.

It’s unfortunate there isn’t a more native “app like” UI toolkit. Especially on mobile, web apps generally are bad and a lot of the reason is trying to shoehorn an app experience onto the dom.
The author is plugging a USB-C to USB-C cable between an ipad and an RPi, and having them speak Ethernet.
Yea, Anycast IP like what Cloudflare does is the best.

If you want cheaper load balancing and are ok with some downtime while DNS reconfigures, DNS system that returns IP based on which Datacenter is up works. Examples of this are Route53, Azure Traffic Manager and I assume Google has solution, I just don't know what it is.
A bunch of the filesystem was visible to all apps that isn’t visible on a regular phone. I’m sure someone smart could have gotten around the detection, but nobody cared enough to do so.
> The server would still be UNIX, but the big iron UNIXes, not GNU/Linux with some BSDs and Windows on the mix, there would be no reason for Linux.

Linus would still get frustrated by the AIX'es and Solaris'es of the world, AT&T would still try to get rid of any BSD being publicly offered and Linux would still be invented under the GPL and get the GNU userland for free.

The biggest difference is that it would be currently used on more architectures than the two it's mostly used on these days.
Out of curiosity, which of the fragments of Google would you expect to take ownership over that codebase?

I had always imagined that if the DoJ took any action it would be to cleave the ad business away from Google. Although if they went so far as to take action against GCP I bet Amazon, Amazon Marketplace, and AWS would start to get sweaty palms
sure, i can see why some might worry about this but like i said in a different comment, for me, most social media, ability to go back and reference years old random conversations just isn’t of any kind of critical “identity”. more important to me is just having a reference of who i’m mutual friends with.

other than some family pictures on insta, i can’t remember the last time i’ve gone back and looked at old conversations. i can imagine why some people might need that, but for Mastodon i mostly use it for chatting with friends or light ephemeral type stuffs.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us about your experience! I’m happy it works well for you! With that said, that doesn’t sound like it’s for me.

This sounds like what I already do in C++ (except I use git submodules for dependencies because it makes it easier to pull new versions, check for versions, etc), and tbh I don’t much like it. I do it out of necessity. I’d much rather keep tabs of all my libraries and versions on a project file and have a tool that will download the version for me, build it, tell me when new versions are available, update to the latest version (if I so choose), and so on. In C++, I have to manually do to each dependency and check if there’s a new version, and pull it if I decide I want it. In, eg, Gleam, I can ask gleam what’s new.

In Odin, it sounds like I have to do the same — either use submodules or download the release files by hand. I have to manually check for updates and then replace my local files.

It’s just not something I personally like to do. The author is entitled to be opinionated about this, but it clashes with my own opinion, so that means I probably won’t try the language even though it looks pretty good from a language design point of view.
Not checking for overflow is a developer problem
You are thinking of a completely different situation. No one is thinking of some real estate guy who wants the dems or republicans to win as their cult leader when seeing those ads.
There’s two parts to it.

Microsoft claims they need kernel level access to implement their paid for security product ( Windows defender while free for home use is not free for enterprise )

If they firmly believe that, then they cannot block other software from having the same access or it would be anti trust.

They could perhaps make it free and bundled in windows, but they don’t want to lose the enterprise funding.
No, I like it practical and without such stupid design choices.
> This wouldn’t happen with Atari or Amiga.

Atari machines were cheap. Amiga not so much, but, eventually, they would catch up.
My understanding of Odin is that it's a relatively thin layer of preprocessor around C. So.. C but nicer?
Because their policy is to not give admin to a user if you don't want them to have control of the computer?
What do you mean, back! There's more than ever! We're overflowing with talented peeps hacking on cool things, writing nice blogs publishing zines, and so forth and on!

The formerly-counterculture conventions got so cult and big they grew a counter-counterculture of smaller places.

Outside the walls of the AI SaaS grind. There be life.
What a terrible loss it was when he died. He was the Bill Gates we needed.
So on my webcam there is a cover but it doesn't fully cover the webcam. So this technology would be able to infer something from the radiance of the light seeping in around the edges?
It is a headscratchingly bad idea to put op-amps in week 2 of course #1. I can’t even remember for sure if we did them in the first course, but if so, it was at the very end, after you already know how to do algebraic working-out of values in a circuit. From there, they give a couple algebraic rules to figure out what an op-amp circuit does. And a key point that is usually glossed over is: op-amps are basically useless when not in a feedback configuration, and some of the analysis rules are based on already assuming the op-amp is in a feedback configuration.
https://jmp.chat/ has worked well for me. SMS is delivered over XMPP, and phone calls use either XMPP or SIP (I use SIP). They use person-to-person routes for SMS so none of the TCR BS applies.
I did this for Laravel a few months ago and it’s great. It’s basically the same as the article describes, and it has definitely increased the number of tests I write.

Happy to open source if anyone is interested.
It’s relatively old at this point, but I’m still getting excellent performance from the Teensy 4.1. It’s a little more expensive, around $30, but runs Cortex M7 @ 600MHz and includes a generous compliment of I/O and protocols.
There's a whole genre of such games.

- Modern Farming. Has really good working models of expensive farming equipment. There are videos of real farmers playing it.

- Lawnmower Simulator. Yes, really. Mow enough lawns, get a better mower.

- Power Wash Simulator. Not kidding.[1]

The first game in this category was probably the famous Desert Bus.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5G-2qTupCk
<< but haven't responded to this one.

I am apparently rate limited in what I can post; nothing personal. You can blame HN/Dang/God/whathave you as needed.

<< Please find us any professor of social sciences who is not also a "commentator".

Um.. I would like you to reconsider the phrasing here. I can absolutely respond in line with HN guidelines and I am relatively certain you will not be that happy with that answer.

I will help you out a little though, because the response to you would be trivial.

Maybe consider the population of professors in social sciences and population of commentators on various news outlets? Maybe consider venn diagrams where they do and do not overlap? Can you see why your argument barely passes as an argument?
I find this disturbing because (do hear me out)

the fundamental arithmetic theorem would have me re-express all those numbers as the product of primes that they actually are.

I find pairing this list of primes (with powers) and splitting them into two groups to be ultimately arbitrary which blinds me from the significance of these 'kind' of numbers

i.e. i'm saying 'vampire numbers' are a lame kind of number because it involves arbitrary choices which are IMO stinky; they lack exactlyness
Now that you mention it, I remember the point was the difference between the theoretical math and the actual behavior.
> If Atari and Amiga had won instead, what would the world look like?

If the PC didn't establish itself, Commodore might have opted to release the 900 as a Unix workstation. With any luck, they'd port Coherent to the new Amiga and it'd be a Unix machine from day 1.
The greed was always there.

The pandemic provided an unprecedentedly easy excuse for implementing that greed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Nazi" and "arbitrary moderation." Can you clarify?
> Indeed, you can practically eat for free regularly at McD's if you use the app.

Bwahahah!

Not only you give data about you but now you are actively prefer to eat at McD instead of any other option and you are not even thinking about it.
If you like Power Wash Simulator, you'll LOVE the relaxing meditative idle game Paint Drying Simulator, and the exquisite organic fractal patina of its sequel, Paint Peeling Simulator. ;)
I'd like to point out that there's no inherent connection between the Fermi Question and AI.

Ultimately we're just trying our best to imagine potential reasons that civilizations (modeled on our own) might die off at a certain phase, and AI-stuff is one of the things we happen to imagine. Perhaps the real cause is that everybody keeps inventing Snorgflax technology and starts using it to Flurg the Bleem.
I've understood it was because no one, including the Republicans, expected Trump to win. And that this time they're ready.
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