skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early 90s I (and a friend) wrote a text adventure game based on the Punk scene at the time. It was my first piece of software that I released. This was a period of time where I used to print and keep my emails. This was done on TADS, was called "The Broken String" and was/is on the IFArchive. I can't say THIS was my favourite game, but it does have a sentimental hold over me. The premise was that in order to "save the scene" you must form a new band, going through the city looking for band members.

Other than that I was quite fond of the Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls games. Most of them were great. The games that I absolutely adored were all the text based Sierra games. All of them. I was quite upset when they removed the text parser.
Macular degeneration also tends to start in the middle and spread outward. Those people learn the same tricks.
Lost Pig. Grunk need find pig.

https://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
What is the value in listening to an educational podcast if I cannot be certain that the material is factual?
C and Fortran are not faster than C++, and haven't been for a long time. I've used all three languages in high-performance contexts. In practice, C++ currently produces the fastest code of high-level languages.
> > This query took 17 seconds to load the dataset into RAM and then aggregating by type was almost instant. It is absolutely incredible to me that I can load every HN post and comment ever into RAM in a few seconds on my (admittedly beefy) dev laptop, and analyze them at will. What an age of abundance!

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/
Bcrypt does not add entropy, it only adds "difficulty" and the problem with "difficulty" is that it breaks down over time. Improvements in technology and processes routinely undermine the difficulty estimates and corresponding factors used to tune KDFs like bcrypt.

KDFs are good at protecting "okay but not great" passwords used to gain online access, but they add no protection to extremely secure, unique passwords, and they don't add enough protection to extremely weak, common, or reused passwords. They are there to frustrate attacks, not make them physically impossible. Many credentials are time-sensitive, and many attacks are not targeted; KDFs are good in these common situations. You still need to pick a password that will take long enough to crack that an attacker moves on instead.

However, some data needs to be protected practically forever, and some attacks are definitely targeted at specific people or systems. In these cases, KDFs don't do very much. Taking a 256-bit key just from the raw bits of 32 random ASCII letters and numbers will already get you 190 bits of entropy and frustrate all practical attacks for the next several decades at the very least. Feeding that through a KDF first won't add any practical security. Even so, KDFs can be used for a different reason, enabling passphrases, which are long strings with low per-character entropy but high overall entropy. At least, assuming that the KDF preserves that entropy well.

Regardless of bcrypt, you should always pick security keys with sufficient entropy, where "sufficient" is measured relative to the importance of the thing being protected, how long it remains important and accessible by that key, and what attacks are viable now and foreseeable in that time.
My bet is that this all stems from higher housing prices / cost of living.

Previously you moved out at 18 or so and moved into a dorm/apartment with folks you age and this dynamic introduced a space where you could experiment with "vices" (alcohol, drugs, sex, parties, etc).

Now with cost of living being so insane, kids are instead choosing to live with parents and thus never get a space to experiment like this. And by the time they do have enough money to move out on their own, the "experimentation" phase is largely over.
What about the screen? Although I do have an external display, I haven't found a compelling replacement in the 10 years it's been going.

That said, the 24" iMac screen is not in the slightest bit compelling to me
I’m building https://chattysun.com

We make it easy for any website to take advantage of the latest LLMs for sales and support function. Been reaching out to freelance clients and finding many of them want this type of feature so we can provide it to them easily, sometimes with little to no customization.
There are Thunderbolt 4 KVMs now (can't speak to any myself, but they exist!). DSC will give you quite a bit of spare bandwidth with the Studio Display.
> Is it really that bad for Levitt to take published research at face value, trusting that gatekeepers upriver have done their due diligence?

Yes, it is. There is a reason the reproducibility/replication crisis, especially in the social sciences, is such a hot topic. The podcast doesn't need to "meet the high standard of peer review", but there are plenty of published objections and discussions about Langer's unexpected results, and Levitt should have reviewed that and brought that up before essentially saying "Wow, your results are so unexpected! OK I'm pretty sold!"
I do not disagree with that stance; but now we are comparing a population of 1 B people and a country the size of US+Europe+more with the US or a European country. E.g., it would sound a bit like comparing all of the opportunities and prospects kids in the EU have to the US and calling the geographic discrepancies “social barriers”. So, the “poor european families don’t get to send their kids to the fancy US schools”.

I don’t disagree there is unfairness - but it exists everywhere and China just has more people than US, EU, Canada, UK combined.
Awesome! For me, the desire is very much about the place and not personalities or any kind of ego attached to their posts, so I've avoided any kind of functionality that will allow to follow a person, or see what else a particular person has posted, but we'll see how it evolves. If you have any programming experience, I do recommend just diving in rather than waiting for someone else to do it, as I have discovered that a lot of people seem to think that they share my vision but when it comes down to the details they have their own thing in mind. So if you want this Instagram with locations to exist, you might find that someone else's vision doesn't quite meet your desires for it.
I'm shocked nobody's mentioned the Interactive Fiction Database, which is loaded up with tons of these available for free as abandonware or FOSS, depending on when it was created.

Here's my favorite, Conterfeit Monkey:

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

It takes unique advantage of the text-based format by allowing the player to add and remove letters from words to transform any noun into any other noun if it can be done with a single letter change.
Let’s assume that you can rewrite it, e.g. write some inline assembly.

The thinking here seems to be that you want multiple things:

1. You want the high-level code since that is easier to reason about

2. You also want some specific optimizations

Maybe the missing link here is some annotation that asserts that some optimization is applied. Then if that assertion fails at some point you might have to bite the bullet and inline that assembly. Because (2) might trump (1).
Right, but for functional markets it turns out the marginal opportunity cost is not good enough.

Most famously interest rates without some government (or other, in the case of Crypto) hand in distribution and projected distribution, the market can fail (everyone is encouraged to hoard).

In Stiglitz' case (not looking it up, but from memory), used car markets fail. While the marginal net opportunity cost is what the price yields, it creates a negative feedback loop where people that have a used car that's more valuable than is verifiable exit the market, and then you get .... all the more 'lemons' -- i.e. only bad cars). Dealerships are one way to correct for that information loss, but markets don't always value sufficiently the information that will solve it.

We can be a bit more smug/hopeful nowadays, because information is a lot more easily aggregated/hosted. But we have to recognize the .... value of those components.
its more with using the microphones in the car rather than the phone's microphone, as they tend to work better for hearing the driver..or at least I think they would.
> the new iMac is up to 1.7x faster than iMac with M1

This seems like a much lower than expected speed bump for M1 to M4? Would’ve been nice to see something more for something designed to be non-upgradeable.
Sometimes because of the freight railroads.

Sometimes because the passenger equipment breaks, or wasn't available. (One way that can work is, if the train is hours late arriving at the endpoint, that equipment isn't available to become the next train in the opposite direction.)

Sometimes because a passenger becomes ill, or even dies, or (as ars said) becomes unruly enough to need arresting.

Sometimes because some driver wasn't paying attention, and ran into the train (or into the freight train ahead of the passenger train).

Sometimes because of weather. (Two feet of snow since the last train passed can slow down a train significantly. Either too much heat or too much cold lowers the safe operating speed. Too much rain can cause problems, too.)

And so on, and so on. Sure, a lot of the time it's the fault of the freight railroad. A lot of the time it's not, too.
They know, they are the one who submitted the article to HN. I believe they were posting the comment just to denote that they had to change it.

The following preserves all info under the title limit: NYT Gets 230 Wrong Again; Misrepresenting History, Law, And The 1st Amendment

> NY Times Gets 230 Wrong Again; Misrepresenting History, Law, And The First Amendment
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https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egpbjmwkkpq/...

The case has wisely been set as a state law enforcement matter rather than a federal election law case. This strengthens their position by keeping it focused on clear state statutory violations of Pennsylvania law. The law is very clear that unauthorized lotteries are illegal.
The vast majority of HN users are not the target customer for the iMac
If this is satire... Bravo.

If not... Yikes.
Which seems like an even stronger reason for newspapers (or other purportedly unbiased organizations) to not to endorse candidates, no? It seems like it would create (or reinforce) an internal culture inclined to favor one particular side.
Most computers are part of a 3D space where you can occupy more than just the frontal view. You will notice the screen thinness from other angles. it's not the most important aspect but it a nice enhancement. This are often used in environments where they are seen from other angles like homes, front desks, schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
> If you think Big Tech can't be replaced, then you haven't been paying attention.

I never said that. They are not safe. Specifically they are not safe from anti-trust enforcement and the threat that the corporate tax rate will rise to what it was before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and those are strong motivators for them to get ahead of the political ball.

Big tech is probably also talking to the Harris campaign before the election, to try to negotiate the de-fanging of the FTC and preserving their tax cuts to the extent they can if she wins. Some of Harris wealthy tech donors specifically want Lina Khan removed.

They are smart (and cynical) by covering all their bases. Trump talks about it because he feels (not incorrectly) that name-dropping those conversations helps him.

There is little long-term risk of these corporations losing business over this stuff. Consumers have demonstrated for a long time that they don't care much about the unethical behavior of corporations, especially if changing their consuming behavior affects their lifestyle in any way.

Between now and the election or holiday season, what are Apple, Google and Amazon's customers going to do to boycott? Delay an iPhone purchase? Stop advertising on Google (conceding attention space to competitors)? Shop instead at ... Walmart?
It suits users who prioritize a clean setup, minimal cable clutter, and don’t need the flexibility to upgrade components down the line.
Sudan's civil war: how did it begin?
According to the article below, the A13 computer hosts at least the fancy webcam and audio features. That's how you use it.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22968960/apple-studio-disp...

Similarly my car has a computer in it that I "can't use", except it does car stuff.
Unfortunately the iMac Pro was a stopgap measure similar to the 16 inch iMac that had the escape key. Even the last MacBook Air with Intel is really a testbed for the design of the first M1 MacBook Air (the mainboard is the only thing that changed). Apple has taken the steps to make the Mac Studio and other display devices made by them but, curved displays don't seem to be a strategy that Apple would take because right now they might move to tandem OLED on all devices which means even considering something curved isn't on the drawing board.
While everyone is going to want to jump to some sort of blatant collusion, some points to make:

- The interview got heavily recommended to me via the algorithm

- Search clearly doesn't mind pulling up official clips or even more blatantly right-wing channels

- This has been a known behavior for YouTube search for quite some time

YouTube doesn't reveal much about how their search or their algorithm is designed, but this happens a lot for me when I look for specific videos. My guess is they seem to favor driving people in search to smaller channels, more "family-friendly" clips, less watched videos, and overall better monetized content.
You can't wish the complexity of business logic away. If it is vast and interconnected, then so is the code.
I'm waiting to replace my 2015 MBP with an M4 MBP.
I bought the m2 Studio Max and love it. But I need a mobile computer. Working only at my desk sucks sometimes.
They are perfect for suuuuuper casual people. Perfect for your grandparents for example. Most people I know who own these are elderly. Yes, an iPad would also work or a MacBook too but elderly people aren't travelling nor are they gonna buy a MacMini and get a monitor. They just need their simple to set up, all-in-one desktop computer.
There’s a lot of uninformed speculation, you mean. The Tor part, for example, was guessing which was not correct.
There’s a saddle point of reading body language that improves communication. But at the point you read micro expressions of dishonesty then it becomes problematic. Nobody likes being called on their bullshit. Detectives get away with it because it’s their job. But none of the suspects like them or want to spend any time around them afterward. They’re effective but they’re also assholes by most cultural standards.
The mouse gives you like 3 days heads up that you might want to think about charging it though.

If you disable all notifications and it really runs out, waiting 10 seconds for it to charge is... fine...

I doubt you're using a wired mouse, and most wired mice are actually worse at charging than the magic mouse- the only difference is that you can use them while plugged in, so it's not as annoying that they charge so slow and use more power.

Ultimately it comes down to effective utility, people harping on about the placement of the charging cable without respect to the actual usability of the device holistically have quite literally missed the forest for the trees.

Like I said, theres plenty of reasons to dislike the mouse, but this ranks among the lowest and honestly the weird hate-boner for that decision just makes people look like they don't know what they're talking about to me.
ReasonAgain: Using LLM Generated Symbolic Programs for Mathematical Reasoning
Vance is an anti monopolist and mentions it in every interview.
Hemingway didn’t drink himself to death. He blew his head off with a shotgun.
I don't do LLM so I can't comment there. But in general, devs/pros would use windows/linux laptops if they could. All we get is crappy build quality or bad battery endurance or bad performance (CPU or super basic stuff like the touchpad etc) or bad software.
People who go install it get an error that it's not a valid source tree at all.
Perhaps this is what you were alluding to, but immensely popular survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's is set in a thinly veiled Chuck E. Cheese.
I think I want to see this juxtaposed against all-type drug usage rates for youth before examining this as a cultural trend towards less drug usage. I have a feeling during this period of drop for marijuana and alcohol with the youth, we will see an increase in prescribed drug usage like SSRI and stimulants by youth, with prescription and lack of it.
It would help to abandon platforms that encourage harassment. Or if such platforms actually bothered to fix their design. It doesn't matter if the encouragement is purposeful or by accident.

Have you noticed that those discussions weren't common before people adopted GitHub?
Absolutely, the iMac’s display quality has been a big draw for years, especially when Apple's external display options were limited.
I appreciate your appeal for further information from people not likely to participate in this forum. Do you yourself have any additional information or argument that would be of interest?
Apple announces iMac with M4 chip, updated camera and more
That's a really good point I had not considered. It's signaling, I see that. To be withheld when it always been given would seem to be to be a very loud signal. This will be fascinating to examine after the election in a journalism class. I see a PhD thesis on withholding endorsements in the future..
I'm a fan of the Thy Dungeonman series. Still haven't gotten ye flask...
During the pandemic I decided to work through Zork, and ended up completing the first three Zork games with minimal "looking things up" (actually, much to my chagrin I had to look up something precisely once per game, and in each case it was a small puzzle right near the and of the game, almost perfect!).

I'll go ahead and second Planetfall though, which I saw someone else mention. For anyone else curious, I would put it on the "easier than Zork" side and is a rare text adventure I completed without any look-ups. I really really liked it. Save often. RTFM (in particular you'll want to look up the list of allowed verbs any time you get stuck). Those are the two helpful hints I would give to anyone thinking to themselves that they might want to try a classic text adventure.

Actually maybe more helpful would be to play something like Space Quest which has the same sensibility as text adventures (in that they often feel cruel to the user intentionally...) but is somewhat more accessible. Space Quest in particular shares a lot of DNA with planetfall all the way down to starring space janitors.
What are your thoughts on the movie Humanist Vampire on Mubi?
my favourite abstract was one where the title asked "did cern measure a neutrino travelling faster than the speed of light?" and the abstract was "no".

for some reason I can't seem to find the paper anymore, it was on arxiv.
Love this story. Especially because Chopin often gets flak for his orchestration of his Concertos. Don't suppose you remember roughly where in the music the snippet was?
There is the possibility of making punishments much harsher, to adjust for the reduced probability of catching wrongdoing.

But the benefits will likely also have to be increased, to still make it an attractive place to work for those with the desired personality traits.
> Pandering to the over-estimated intelligence of contrarians is the problem.

It makes them feel smart. Which I'm sure feel's good, but often the signal takes precedence over being correct which leads to the obvious issues. It's the same mechanism that makes conspiracy theories so appealing to another group of people - knowing how things really work is seductive.

HN has it's own form that if you've been around long enough, I'm sure you can identify too.
I am working on a personal digital mentor, in the spirit of Dross from Will Wight's "Cradle" series.

I am a huge notetaker, so I'm trying to do RAG on my notes every week and have the mentor run a scrum-like retrospective for me. So far I've got the data ingestion from Notion finished, and next I need to setup the LLM mentor component as well as the CLI interface. For this first MVP I'm just trying to do better than Notion AI's response when I tell it something like "look at the last 7 days of notes I've taken and run a retro with me.

I like it because it scratches a personal-improvement itch of mine, it's a nice project to become acquainted with the popular LLM app tech, and I can share it with others who may find it useful.
It's a good quote but too generic for the title of this thread.
This is mostly a paradox because of bad science isn't it?

Wasn't the advice "manage what you eat if you want to lose weight" until money was given to scientists say otherwise, e. G.,
https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/0...

And don't we also know that overcompensatoey eating is a well known problem for people who adopt an exercise program to lose weight?
How is this not correct? Apple knows when I open Tor browser, which enables a timing attack.
Right, which is why the program is called "Monthly Installments" not "no interest for 12 months"
We can argue and argue about theoretical computers, and it all doesn't matter when clipboard espionage vs laziness is so effective. Also, on a similar subject, this is how auto makers think when they're trying to "hide" their automobiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#/media/Fi...
Why wait? The M3 MBP is basically perfect.
Is there any state the world could be in that letting the species cease to exist would be preferable? At all?
Yeah, I don't agree with that at all. A simple change such as "More schools are giving the survey right before standardized tests instead of at the end of the school day" may skew numbers over years.

Edit: There's probably dozens of variables with how the survey is given that will skew the bias. They probably don't even ask the exact same question in the exact same way on the physical survey.
In hindsight it should have been fairly obvious that it would immediately explode into a combinatorics problem
Perhaps tiktok is a cheaper, more convenient solution for numbing?
I think there’s an error in conflating “not for profit” with “charity”. You could provide all care at cost and have zero charity care. That d doesn’t imply all “profit” goes to executives, but rather to keep reimbursed or charged costs lower.
iMacs have always been as much about aesthetics as performance, and they do fit beautifully in environments where style is key, like design studios
Right, it shows up as an installment plan when you checkout and each month a charge is put on your card to pay on the next statement cycle.
A lot of newspapers are/were called the X_location Democrat or the like because historically the newspaper was an arm of the political party. Not as many exist now with the decline of news publishing.

Incomplete list.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Democratic_newspape...
I would choose another gift. The trade in ancient coins encourages looters to dig up ancient archeological sites, destroying their value to archeology.
AFAICT the 11" Mac Air failed in the market. It did not last long in the lineup.