skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree on the take except replace "space exploration/worldbuilding experience" with "ship model buying experience". The former is a very common desire and what one might take away from reading about the game, the latter is more akin to what has been delivered so far and what people still spending money on the game seem to care a lot about.
I don't think he got taken for a ride. Rather, he also wanted to believe that AlphaChip would be as revolutionary as it claimed to be and chose to ignore Chaterjee's reservations. Understandable, given all the AlphaX models coming out around that timeframe.
The feature is not finished and causes some issues for example.
Good point, but Google is buying Nvidia GPUs for some reason. Please remind me who's buying TPUs.
Then this isn't crowdfunding any more, it's DLC revenue.
Suitable units can be found here:

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
Seems legit.

> HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

Available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
There are a few reasons why copyright terms aren't shortened:

* International treaties make it difficult without buy-in from everyone, or at least the most important countries. The USA is probably the only country that could afford to unilaterally make such a change.

* Politicians are largely beholden to big companies now.

* The average person is distracted with other societal woes, and politicians and companies work hard to keep it that way.

* Some people have been convinced that excessive copyright is a moral good through propaganda.
The actual nodes are still way more expensive on digital ocean than they are in Hetzner. That’s probably the main reason.

8GB RAM, shared cpu on hetzner is ~$10

Equivalent on digital ocean is $48
If you feel like a challenge, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 has some hashes with unknown inputs. The function is the same as the one in the article, and one target is 1eca8e89ad2dc1d6.
You have to learn the rules to know when to break them.
Only You Can Bring Modern OpenAPI Bundling to JavaScript
Kennelly–Heaviside layer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_lay...
The game portrays violence specifically against the Israeli military, which isn't analogous to that COD campaign in any case.
The game has taken in hundreds of millions of dollars over the years and has still been "in progress" the entire time. It's a borderline scam imo.
Is there tooling to automatically transpile from other languages to this?
Out of curiosity, do you find the development story itself the worthwhile investment or are you holding out on the bet if you'll wait ${years} more then something like the promised feature set will eventually be delivered as the polished, complete, and functional package you've been looking forward to?
The name is terrible, all the more so because we are talking about deacquisition and deinitialization most of the time.
The don't do it. Thanks for the update though
Wirecard?
Is this referring to the mythical "go above and beyond and you will be recognized"?

If so, quite humorous.
It walks the line of a scam imo. They have developed and released enough of a "game" to keep stringing people along and pulling the correct heart strings to keep getting new funds.
They apparently found every whale gamer on the market willing to buy virtual ships and stuff like that. I think all expenditure towards the game is counted as "crowdfunding"
I backed Star Citizen in the first round (you may remember me from the Wing Commander Privateer remake) and... honestly the thing is, since I did, Space Engineers came out and scratched that itch better than any of this could.
any subscription service that doesn't deliver new value each day or month, like the Adobe suite(s)
When Google published the Nature article, Nature included a rosy intro article by a leading expert in chip design. His name was Andrew Kahng, and he apparently liked Google at the time. But when he dug into Google code (released way after publication), he retracted his intro and co-authored the Cheng et al article. You see how your theory breaks down here.
The only part that feels weird about a shorter duration like that is tv/movie adaptations of books. The game of thrones show came out 15 years after the first book, does that mean they would have been able to make it without licensing it from the author?
They're exploiting people who are vulnerable to collecting impulses.
> why are other countries not doing it?

Because they are subsidizing the Ukraine war and the Israeli military
There’s a one-sentence implied claim in here that raii is the reason for c++ rejection and rejection of c++ implies rejection of raii.

The author is clearly unaware of the recent cleanup attribute infrastructure submitted on the c side of the kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...

Zig is a fun and interesting language in its own right, there’s really no need for this post-truth era style propaganda. Just focus on your own work
I'm doing it in K2 this year (a language that has a single data structure: a vector). If you can do it in K2, you can do it in Go.
Also not releasing is a highly profitable strategy for them.
The confusing part of this article is the argument that the kernel maintainers are strongly against RAII. While I guess it’s possible Asahi Lina is unaware of this or is stubbornly including it anyway because she believes it’s such a large benefit, it seems more likely that it isn’t actually the dealbreaker.

In fairness, I’m hardly an expert on C++, Rust, or kernel development, so it’s possible that I’m missing something.
I dug a little and apparently Chrome previously used the trust store of the platform but has now transitioned away from that to use their own. https://blog.chromium.org/2022/09/announcing-launch-of-chrom...

But even before they switched to this "Chrome Root Program", they have distrusted specific CAs, for example Symantec in 2017. https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-dist...
How to Avoid Double Payments in Distributed Systems?
Look for a technical person and start building prototypes
Improving the approachability of data-race safety
The lazy version is more targeted for the mobile users browsing by for the first ~24 hours not wanting to try to copy the data or find a way to run commands.

For the desktop-ers, future travellers, or just generally private/skeptical mobile users among us I'd recommend this method https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291434 for the private long lasting lazy experience (no external tools necessary, but you do need to perform a manual copy into your URL bar).
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) — Eric Hoffer
Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms
It's weird that they didn't name the service. Anyone have any ideas?
I don’t know what it looks like, but it’s definitely not forcing people to accept it.

Rust right now just isn’t in a form that some (I personally think most) people can accept. Maybe it’s just that it’s so not-c-like.

… given your language examples, maybe the main issue is just that rust is just so different. I personally find the rust language to be non intuitive… but what’s intuitive for me is heavily informed by c/c++ or python
Meh, I've had successful things run just off of zapier and friends.

Sometimes the thing really is just the thing. The real thing is plenty of low code systems are just garbage. But Salesforce is the size it is because it's a successful "low code" system.
I'm doing this year in K2 (after a long hiatus from K). Is there a K4/5 binary? ATW gave me a K2 binary, but I miss some of the K4 and later functionality):

https://github.com/jnordwick/aok2024
The article explains that it's talking about turning degraded bogs into healthy bogs, but the title seems to imply that the fundamental bleak essence of a natural bog makes it a wasteland and that this is a problem to be fixed.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I guess I should add a disclaimer then: a mean and condescending tweet from him caused me to withdraw my sponsorship of Zig a couple of years ago.
That is a lot of money, which bank/payment processor is processing that much? Does it not send alarm bells? Do the bank get fined?
It is a terrible idea.

An app to stalk famous people is what poor people are interested, not rich.
In the case of Adobe, you're paying for continuous updates and their added cloud services (or other functionality which requires their servers). Also Adobe's subscription pricing (per-month) is significantly less than the retail cost for a one-time purchase of their software without future updates.

Meanwhile one does not pay for continuous updates to a particular novel or a movie. Even if they do pay for new installments in a series, they do so separately.
Last year, I spent more time coming up with a reusable framework than the challenges themselves, proven by the fact that I only solved two days.

This year, I shook my head at my framework and rewrote it, but at least that only took me a day (so far). Day one was easy, which also helps. IIRC, last year’s first few days were non-trivial.
"Her eyes are the color of magnesium iron silicate"

The writers are the Onion were probably keeping that joke in reserve for a while LOL
This has a different name.
I don’t get how it keeps getting funding. It always comes off as a glorified tech demo, and makes me think people are just funding a leisurely game studio hobby for the developers instead of a story they can experience.
This definitely looks different, and I don't recall seeing this before. But this is a great post! It communicates some of the very important ideas in a straightforward way. Thanks!
Most people write like trash, but I am also left handed and haven't noticed a correlation between handedness and handwriting. For what it's worth, I have very good penmanship.
I do feel there's a leap in the ability to remain in flow while typing once you're past a certain (high) level of proficiency. Looking at what you're typing really interrupts flow for me, at least when writing prose.

If I have a lot of writing to do, I almost always write longer passages with my eyes either closed or gazing at something other than the screen. When my thought is complete I open my eyes and do a few edits on whatever typos made it through.

I also do almost all of my writing in vim, so I never have to context switch between mouse and keyboard.
This is a remarkably salient point.

It can take a long time for certain works to find their wings or true market potential, especially books and music.

Some examples of music: "Take On Me", "Running Up That Hill", "Bohemian Rhapsody", or even bands, like Neutral Milk Hotel
Just fork one of the largest open source projects in the world? Linux has many contributors who are paid full time to improve the project. Something that is impossible to match in a sideshow project.
Another one that seems so close that it makes me think I imagined the one I'm looking for, and this is actually what I read. Thanks for trying - it's not causing me to say eureka! but it is close.
Seemed a bit odd to me the postal police took the lead on this, but apparently on top of regular interfering with the regular mail, the postal police in Italy also have a mandate that covers: "Cyber fraud and scams, Online copyright infringement, Unauthorized access to computer systems, Digital piracy"
Not sure what the connection with Colorado U might be but I read this
[0] a couple of days ago. Steve Bellovin had a few connections with
formative Unix security and worked/studied with Fred Brooks and Ken
Thompson, In the (linked) talk he says that Brooks taught him "about
responsibility. Someone with the root password has not just the right
but the responsibility to use it." This caught my attention because
I'm writing a series "Technology: rights or responsibilities?" Maybe
there's a thread of influence there?

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/steve-bellovi...
Nicely idealistic article - but it both claims to be written by a publisher of short stories, and is willfully blind to the most basic facts about the modern fiction market. "Publishing monopolies" or not, the total revenues (direct sales, advertising, residuals) attributable to short stories are far lower than they were in the good old days. The print magazines and newspapers which most of those short stories were published in (back then) are now mostly dead, or mere shadows of their former selves.

If you think that your favorite form of art is both important enough, and endangered enough, to deserve ongoing heavy government subsidies, then say so. Though in today's political environment, that would run into another brick wall of basic facts.
The userland tools included with Windows are very lacking, but that's more of a distro problem than a filesystem problem. VSS works fine -- boringly, even -- and people take advantage of it all the time even if they don't know it.
There was a lot of money poured into Rust by large companies and they're looking for immediate and tangible impact (this helps to explain a lot of the negative feelings on all sides imo)

Investors aren't going to abide by a long-term experiment with undefined success outcomes.
It does mean that, and I think that's just something that would have to be accepted. Disney's empire is built on adaptations of public domain stories, after all.
DuckDB should give you everything with regards to DevEx that you seem to be needing.

You're not specifying what volume we're talking about here, but I'd be surprised if you can't go a long way with DuckDB. Ultimately the bottleneck for latency in a non-big data scenario will be memory?

You can run it in a browser: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-wasm

DuckDB's docs and blog are full of great content with regards to optimizing:

How to tune workloads: https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/performancehow_to_tune_worklo...

Performance guide: https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/performance/overview.html

Optimizers in DuckDB: https://duckdb.org/2024/11/14/optimizers.html

I'm sure there is more.

If I were in your shoes, even if you don't settle on DuckDB, it would be my go to benchmark due to ease of use and unoptimized speed.

Anything else out there like chDB (Clickhouse) or Apache Datafusion should be worth the effort.

For a detailed benchmark of DuckDB vs. Clickhouse for an orientation, see: https://bicortex.com/duckdb-vs-clickhouse-performance-compar...
I think part of the rustacian movement is to convert others instead of just doing their own thing.
One thing I've never understood about menu design is the use of "market price" for certain items like crab and lobster.

I understand that the prices of these items fluctuate due to various factors, but it discourages me from ordering them because I don't want to 1. ask the price (when you're with people you don't know well it brings attention to you possibly spending more than they would on the meal, and can make you come across as a bit overly focused on price/money - could be interpreted as rude or poor manners) 2. potentially say no based on the price and deal with related social vibes that might put off + come up with a backup on the menu 3. not ask for the price at all and be handed a surprisingly large bill. Some of the times I have asked, the waiter will have to physically leave to go check the price, which is also something I want to avoid.

You might say something like "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" but I genuinely don't mind, and can easily afford, paying $50-70 on good seafood when I'm in the mood for it. Crab and lobster are some of my favorite foods, and their market price often comes in around there. So in the course of my life restaurants have probably lost out on hundreds or maybe a couple thousand in sales because of "market price". I'm not sure if this simply something most restarateurs are unaware of, it not being worth it to reprint menus or even put the market price on a blackboard somewhere, or some other psychological phenomenon I'm unaware of - maybe putting a larger price on the menu discourages most other people from ordering it or, makes other diners think the restaurant is "too expensive" even if not ordering it, or pisses diners off when they pay $X one week and come back and see it's at $X+20. Is there a canonical reason?
I agree that LLMs capabilities with a language are going to be extremely relevant. Community, API consistency, and whatever other factors that are going to increase LLM usefulness will decide the popularity of languages in the coming years.

I’m not sold on the importance of static typing though. I’ve had great results with Ruby and Python with 4o, o1, and to a limited degree Copilot.

One of the biggest benefits of Ruby is how simple testing is. The language is so dynamic that mocking/stubbing and intercepting or whatever is dead simple stupid.

So the “static types prevent you using LLM hallucinations” does not hold for me. I’m going to write tests covering the method (which the LLM will probably help with), and I’m going to get an undefined method error.
The author's line of thought seems to be concerned with the social aspect of RAII in my reading though. Like how you can write memory-safe C if you're a "good C programmer" (meaning most people evidently won't), these considerations for RAII might be subtle enough that it justifies banning its use altogether (like using memory unsafe constructions is in safe Rust).
Reading those papers and looking at the code, it doesn't look easy. However, let's imagine that the Cheng et al team comes back with results for pretraining a few months from now, and they support the conclusions of their earlier paper. What should they do to help everyone reach a conclusion?
Agreed, hence my quotation marks around the word dry above. Some caves genuinely stay dry because of their structure or location, and others can suddenly, lethally flood. but even the truly dry ones can kill in no time just like that through a litany of terrible reasons, experts and amateurs both being victims.

It would however be a bad idea for someone to assume a truly dry cave is thus safe enough to let their guard down because they know how much more dangerous flood-prone or submerged caves are.
I generally agree with you, but I have a budget cell phone (~$100) and I can run StackBlitz on it without it even blinking. I think budget cell phones have gotten a lot better than most people think.
The benefits of a shorter term are diffuse. The benefits of a longer term are concentrated. This is a case where representative democracy often breaks down - policy A would be better for almost everyone, but not by enough for them to switch their vote on, whereas policy B is better by enough for a few people to make them single-issue voters. So we get policy B.
I used to think that was crazy until I started using the metro every day. There will be a hundred people packed by the doors and the few people in the middle of the car don't think to compress a little. Suddenly I wanted those staff to come in and make the ride more equitable!
Disney is about to be faced with a landscape where anybody can make Pixar films from home. They're in for a world of hurt in the new regime where thought moves faster than IP.

Film studios only existed because (1) distribution used to be hard and (2) films were financially and logistically difficult to make. Netflix and YouTube slayed the first challenge, and now GenAI will fell the latter and give indie directors the same kind of platform that indie game and indie music folks currently have: true one person studios.
Do LLMs Perform Latent Multi-Hop Reasoning Without Exploiting Shortcuts?
Maybe with that much money they can have Mac and Windows clients too...?
Interestingly, this guide states that the intuitive understanding of maths is only suitable at the school level but not for the university.

In his recently published book "Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity", David Bessis argues that the intuition is the "secret" of understanding maths at all levels.

Not sure what conclusion to draw from here, but my (rather dated) experience with university maths tells me that the intuition is a powerful tool in developing the understanding of the subject.
> it seems more likely that it isn’t actually the dealbreaker.

What is the dealbreaker then?
So will Fiverr. Who cares?
>It's funny that the wildly overestimated IFRs like 3.4%

Where. Source it.
Exactly my point, if that cannot be done as a third party project, then shoehorning Rust into Linux and expecting unpaid third party volunteers to actually maintain it makes no sense. Unless a big corp steps up to fund such efforts, it's pointless.
This post made me have a good laugh. Sounds like a startup mentor advice, "you should sell to rich people!".

Do you think rich people install more apps than poor people? Rich people use tech just like everyone else, productivity apps, google apps, apple apps, social media. Most common than not, use less in place of more apps.

Do you want to create something that has more value for rich people? Work on the privacy and security area.
Hm, also at 10 years out how likely is the author to be able to convince someone to do a TV adaptation, knowing that by the time they're done someone else will be able to release their own versions (sans royalty even)?
If a waiter has to leave to find out the price of the lobster, you're eating lobster in the wrong place.
Could also have been inserting commercials from video ad companies? Wonder if anyone pays for pirate streams directly
Then you can establish your business in Ethiopia, but good luck selling it in the US!
> does that mean they would have been able to make it without licensing it from the author?

yes and it's possible someone could have done it even better, had they not been required to convince investors to purchase copyright. GoT was a masterpiece, don't get me wrong, but it's a fallacy to think it couldn't have been better, or that other book adaptations could have been as good or better, without copyright being in the way.

It's a minor issue in the grand scheme, but my pet peeve is with "synch licenses" (not sure if that's even the right term), but where sitcoms can't go to home video because of stupid disputes about shitty songs that happened to be included. Did anyone watch "Married With Children" because of Frank Sinatra's song "Love and Marriage" in the intro? It's a catchy song, and I'm sure it lured people in who might have otherwise changed the channel, so yes it has value. But it should only be a tiny fraction of the royalties for a full performance of the song. doubly so for home video releases. Would anyone buy even 1 season of MWC just to hear the Sinatra song? I say no. And therefore should not be required to pay any royalties.

I am watching "Murphy Brown" reruns from pirateflix because apparently it never went to home video because of license disputes about the 60's soul songs in the intro. They add character to the show, for sure. But they're not why I watch the show. I watch it for the story and the acting. In this case, actors (who worked extremely hard over 10 seasons of that show!) are being wrongfully deprived of royalties because record execs can't be reasonable about how much 10 seconds of a 60 -year-old song is worth.
> most people can't touch type,

While, statistically, that may be strictly true across the population, I suspect, in the main, people who are in an educational environment where note taking is a requirement can touch type.

I don't recall meeting anyone in the modern office—irrespective of department or title—in the last 25 years who can't touch type.
I love TexMacs for taking math notes. It has great keyboard shortcuts too. I am wondering if it is still actively developed though…
President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
It's Linus's project.

He wants to allow Rust. If you don't then you fork it into your own project lol ...
Generally you compile to a rom and load it into an emulator. There's a certain amount of memory manipulation you can do in NES debuggers, but it's usually just easier to go through a full build cycle; especially for small programs like used in AoC.