skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enemy scaling system does not make sense. A black hole should have incomprehensionable hp. It broke my immersion; which, was a shame because I was really happy with nailing 3 math problems in row. 2nd does the enemy need to do math?? What the heck! Other than keep up the good work.
Agree 100%. Since dad helped, I was expecting to see sprites sheets, or some JS classes for some OOP, etc. Was pleasantly surprised to see how "simple" the approach was for such fun output with a decent amount of variety.
India's Uber Shuttle – a shared bus – expands globally
Unlike most other parts of the bus, this part isn't mission-critical and presumably is easy to replace. It doesn't need to be made to the same durability standard as, say, the engine.
Could be summarized, from a tech POV as:

The concept that the customer is the expert on requirements and it is the job of the tech vendor to implement them as failed, wholesale, and the failure is growing non-linearly in a relatively short period of time.

It’s time to abandon the fiction that SWEs are order takers.

We need engineers to redesign operations, not merely implement what aging employees know how to do.
wonder if that was clearing the backlog
Even if it was computed, the only reasonable interpretation of a date given without a timezone (either explicitly or implicitly from the location) is that it's in UTC.
My experience as well but using the ZX-Spectrum. Trying to figure out why the machine code I hand translated from Z80 assembler crash the computer taught me a lot. No internet to ask for help. Just a book explaining how to program the ZX-Spectrum using machine code. I was 11 at the time.
This is impossible without egoless software engineering managers.
This is a pretty big philosophical question. There's no universal answer, just opinions. Your conclusion is not the obvious one for everybody.

What happens if you have an identical copy down to the atom. Totally impossible to distinguish. You're put to sleep and your mind is copied over. When you both wake, which one is "you"? Both copies think they're "you" and both are correct. Each has the same sense of self and continuity of identity. Maybe at the moment of synchronization "you" ceased to exist as you branched into two new identities.

Say you upload into a computer. From the copy's perspective, it is "you", it's the same self. It might view your biological body like you'd view an old computer after you finish migrating your files to a new one.

Say you destroy the biological body, or wipe its brain once you copy. Does that change the equation? If you destroyed one of the identical clones, is it even relevant to ask which is "you"?

Personally, I think Altered Carbon comes close to how our society will solve this problem. The original copy has its brain wiped and the new copy is "you" by cultural consensus. Truly duplicating a single identity is strongly taboo and illegal.

I think this is a question that either matters to you or it doesn't. In my opinion, it's irrelevant. I, the original "me" am totally free to agree with the copy that it is "me". I can choose to give it my social and legal identity and agree that "me" is no longer "I". My personal choice is to destroy the original, but one could also choose to let the original body continue and assume a new identity, live a new life or whatever.

I view this the same way I do my past self. The person I was ten years ago is not "me", it was a totally different person. That past self lived a different life and had a sense of identity that isn't at all like what I have today. That past me, the ego that called itself "me" died a long time ago and the "me" now is a different self identity built out of new pieces. In my worldview, "me" is a transient thing. The self is not one fixed thing, it changes over time and sometimes it's replaced. I don't see the idea of transferring my sense of self to a new body as anything more extreme than any other kind of ego death.

I choose to resolve this problem with practicality. I agree with myself that the new copy is "me". My social and legal identity, as well as my own sense of self transfer to the copy. My choice would be to destroy the original copy. Barring that, it would assume a new identity and live a different life far away. It'd get a memory wipe if available. I can make the choice to sacrifice my ego and allow "me" to be assumed by someone else. To me, even to the original copy, the new copy is me. In my opinion, "me" is immortal in the digital copy, even if "I" remain in a mortal body.
There are a number of points where this thesis needs considerable work.

Perhaps the first is that you appear to be ambivalent about what you have in mind by 'similarity'. When you first discuss it, you say "...there must in one way or another be similarity between thought and reality. Again, the 'how' may be extremely complex...", but then you go on to say "...where is the likeness between Bob's mind and the tree? It cannot be the neurons or the physical structure of his brain or body, because these things don't have similarity with a tree..." - so this similarity could be extremely complex, yet you dismiss the possibility of it being anything physical without offering the slightest justification. You might find that convincing, but you have not said anything that presents a challenge to anyone skeptical of this claim.

You do not help your case by continuing "The atomic structure of a brain, in any state, is different from a tree's." This suggests that while you recognize that this similarity could be extremely complex, you do not completely grasp how complex a similarity between a physiological structure and something external to the body could be.

This impression is reinforced by your comments on emergence, which you appear to want to dismiss on the grounds that you struggle with it. Again, this is unlikely to be persuasive to people who do get it. For what it's worth, here's my go-to example of emergence: in the theory of evolution, fitness is a key concept, yet you will not find an organ of fitness by dissection - it is an emergent property of an organism's physiology in relation to its environment.

Much of the rest of your comment is in this vein, and it is rather like saying "how can music be recorded on a compact disk? CD burners use light, not sound." There is no point in belaboring this further, so let us instead return to your starting point - "for a thought to be about reality, there must be something about that thought that makes it about reality." A physicalist could respond by suggesting that there is a a chain of physical causality running from the outside world to brain states via sense organs. When we recognize that sense organs do not capture complete information, and also that brain states may be influenced by previous brain states, this view accommodates the fact that we can have incorrect thoughts about reality. How this works is opaque to us at our current state of knowledge, but that does not mean that it does not happen - in fact, it would be quite hard for an anti-physicalist to deny that it does.

The bottom line here is that the correspondence between mental states and reality is not the problem for physicalism that you think it is.
"overcooking" is a circular argument
Kind of tangential, but:

> Then one day, our designer broke the build in the middle of the night. Everyone came in the next day and couldn’t work until they figured out what had happened.

I've heard this [campfire?] story before. A bad commit happens and now no one can do any work. And I don't understand... Is it really that big of a deal to have to revert to an older commit or comment out the broken code until it gets resolved? Sure, I can see it being annoying, but not bringing an entire group of developers to a standstill. What am I missing?
> (Editor’s note: Yegge wrote this in 2011 and posted it on Google+. He intended to make it visible internally to Google only, but accidentally made it public. He quickly took it down, but it was much discussed at the time and continues to have good insights into service-oriented architectures and “platforms”. Since the original no longer exists, we’ve made a copy here.)

Source: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/23wi/papers...
Sure, but it's not an either/or situation. Every big project adds dependencies, but using Next means you have some basic, common functionality included out of the box by default/by convention (like TypeScript, linting, testing, routing, caching, SSR, static builds, serverless definitions, etc.) all done in a predefined way. Maybe your project has 200 deps, but Next would replace like 50 of the big ones that you'd otherwise have to separately install and maintain. Just having a basic page/app router and minimal state system (via contexts and RSC and props and such) reduces a lot of the headaches of the bad old React Router days.

It replaces "React soup of the day" with a more standard "recipe" shared by most Next projects – like "Grandma Vercel's secret React minestrone", I guess. But yes, projects would typically still add their own "spices" on top of those basics.
I consider myself a “sophisticated” reader of poetry. I’m especially fond of Eliot - who is an acquired taste.

I’ve never read the real Eliot poem, and don’t like it much.

I searched for it. It was written before Eliot was known, and before he moved from America to Britain.

That’s important, as I’d assumed it was taking place in Britain, and Eliot’s poetry is extremely location sensitive.

It also seems to be part of a “triplet” - three poems that go together. Eliot was very inconsistent about which poems went with which. The best practice is to include any possible “other parts.”

Reading the other poems in the triplet provides important context, but they’re still not great literature.

Maybe people don’t like it because it was just one of Eliot’s crappier poems?

Edit: the Eliot poem was published shortly after he moved to the UK. But that makes the American context provided by the other poems more important.
They spent billions at TSMC making Alchemist dies that sat in a warehouse for a year or two as they tried to fix the drivers.
I mean, in Europe, bats carry rabies - something like 1% of them - but there have been a grand total of three rabies cases in the last 50 years from bat bites across the entire continent.

As to mice and rats - the chance of getting rabies from them is negligible, anywhere - they usually end up incapacitated and dead through predation extremely rapidly.

I’ve been bitten by all of the above. No treatment beyond dousing the wounds with peroxide.

The closest a mouse ever came to killing me was when it pushed a rock out of a wall in the hovel in which I lived, which smashed the headboard of the bed a few inches from my skull.

I feel like this is all something that has been pushed by the American insurance industry. Again - 43 deaths in 50 years. Negligible.

If you really cared about risk management, you would never, ever get in a motor vehicle, and you would have insurance for putting on your pants in the morning.

Like so many things, rational risk management is overtaken by fear and emotion.
DOA

When marketing talks about price delta and not quality of the output, it is DOA. For LLMs, quality is a more important metric and Nova would always try to play catch with the leaderboard forever.
I still remember my gateway to Elixir, Dave Thomas' book on pragprog. And then his course. And I still remember how intrigued I was by the sentiments expressed by Dave, bringing back the joy of writing code. Which I see echoed in many comments here, and to whom I fully subscribe.
Congratulations to Chris, Jose and team!
> Different models have different strengths and weaknesses

I would add different errors as well. Here are two examples where GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet cannot tell that "GitHub" is spelled like "GitHub".

GPT-4o: https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=6c9bada92&model=GPT-4o&samples...

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=905f4a9af74c25f&model=Claude+3...

I don't think there will be one model that will rule them all, unless there is a breakthrough. If things continue on the same path, I think Amazon, Microsoft and Google will be the last ones standing, since they can provide models from all the major LLM players.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time!

Congrats to you and everyone else who made it happen!
> or an urgent care center could do the same thing.

It's a lifesaving treatment. People usually don't bother themselves with frugality in either price or expertise at this point; although, I'm glad you can have this high confidence in your General Practitioner and his schedule.

> Also most people's deductable isn't 15k

The question is "why don't we just vaccinate people?" So while you're saying is true you're actually validating my point. The cost difference is not noticeable to most people and the cost of just the pre exposure vaccine is pretty high to begin with.

> its basically impossible to Google medical prices in America

No, it's entirely possible, because customers discuss these things openly and you can find those discussions. You can't establish an exact price that has any predictive power but you can establish a common range. It's not as if this is some mystery that only the Gnostics can tame.
No problem, eventually tvs will come with SIM cards and cellular connectivity to phone home regardless of your choices.
Do we really have to do this? How can this possibly be in good faith? Like, its 2024 dude, he is literally going to hold unelected office in the US. He is unquestionably a polarizing person. I'm not saying you have to have one opinion or another, but unless you are truly living on mars right now, how can you even feel the need to make this comment? Are you not witness already to the surely GBs of text saying different variations of what you said and all the replies and all the next replies. Like it is borderline insane to me!

How can you possibly care? Do you really not feel like you have won yet? What is even at stake!?

I just dont even understand the discourse anymore. Can't yall all be like "oh he is simply genius, of course all these normies won't get it. we dont need their validation anyway!" And then maybe we can stop doing this? Please?
This is just Amazon's 'me too' play. Doubt anyone serious in LLM space would consider this
Yup, the author's website is an example of this. Their flashy graphic that animated while scrolling did nothing for the content. In fact, their font was so small I could not read the text without zooming in, which completely contradicts the whole premise of the piece -- that a lack of "richness" is preventing ideas from being communicated. If richness prevents your ideas from being transmitted outright, then what's the point? If the author had used Markdown their idea would have been better communicated, but I guess that also would have contradicted it.
Well, the art can't judge itself.

Maybe critics are art, too. Like Lipton's "Inside the Actor's Studio" (Detroit). That's art.

"It's not art it's ari. You want to make an art film? You take it to Sundance, you take it to Telluride, you take it to Cannes."
I wonder at that point you'd just be better served by CPU with 4 channels of RAM. If my math is right 4 channels of DDR5-8000 would get you 256GB/s. Not as much bandwidth as a typical discrete GPU, but it would be trivial to get many hundreds of GB of RAM and would be expandable.

Unfortunately I don't think either Intel or AMD makes a CPU that supports quad channel RAM at a decent price.
Good questions. CD distortion include hard clipping from amplifying too much, whereas vacuum tubes and magnetic tape have soft saturation (still a distortion, just a different kind). Another distortion is that dynamic range compression is used, bringing up the volume of quiet parts of a song.

As for digital video jitter, I can think of MPEG compression artifacts, both spatial (e.g. DCT mosquito noise) and temporal (e.g. motion compensation errors, periodic keyframe refreshes).
LOL. Bill Burr on Conan discussing Steve Jobs self promoting: "Jesus, Ghandi, me."
I've lived here my whole life, and I know a fair number of people who drive trucks (and cabs, and do food delivery) for a living. Again: it's possible, but I have never heard of anybody even getting a beatdown over this, much less getting killed.

> Like I said, the risk ain't worth my life.

Then don't take it! But I don't think the evidence supports treating the average truck driver as a psycho who's one idling ticket away from vehicular manslaughter.

Edit: as a case in point: Kuntzman[1] has been going around the city fixing car - including plenty of cop car - license plates for years. I think the worst he's gotten is verbal abuse, and he's doing something much more overt and aggressive.

[1]: https://www.curbed.com/2023/12/congestion-pricing-gersh-kunt...
Regarding point 3. Different countries we have slightly different signs and road markings but signs for merging is a thing. Example from Denmark: https://koerekort--guiden-dk.translate.goog/sammenfletning/?...
"World's largest" 30MW flywheel energy storage project connects to grid in China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Vietnam
There has never been a report from Business Insider on Tesla that isn't negative clickbait speculation. Pay attention on their reporting and you'll notice that all they do, there's nothing of substance.

They've done similar reports in the past on furloughs, Tesla were simply stopping the production line to reconfigure it.
This is a weirdly obsessive narrative trying to paint Softbank as Intel's savior. Intel's main reason they can't compete is... that they don't sell enough low-margin smartphone chips and buy ARM IP? I don't see how that would have made Intel money, let alone earn them a contract with a big manufacturer.
I can't give you a different economic system than global capitalism. But we know exactly what it will take to dramatically reduce emissions.

Globally, people want electricity, power, cars, hot water ect. When we can provide those goods and services, in a carbon free way at a lower cost than a carbon intensive way - everyone globally will adopt the low carbon technology.

There's great reason for hope. In 1975 solar cells cost $115.3 / watt. Today in China they're available for $0.09 / watt or a price drop of 99.9%. There is no magic, we simply need the low carbon technology to be cheaper.

Now ecosystem collapse and habitat preservation? That's not as simple, but I ask that you lobby your local representatives to build dense housing near parks and public transit. Let's leave nature to the animals and build beautiful cities
i might have butchered the actual saying, but the gist is there
Mine is in Milan though i've had it for a while now.
The human component here is to understand what the child is trying to do, what the available options are, and what level of guidance he needs to steer him towards the option that makes sense (ie easy enough for a simple game for a child, just a small step from what he already knows, etc).

This all comes down to "judgement".

The current state-of-the-art isn't yet there yet (saying this as someone who spent the last year building on current LLM tech).

I think it's possible for AI to take on the role in the future, when it's capable of reasoning at a much higher level than it's at now. We already have big context windows, ability for AI to "see" your screen, etc. But what we're missing is good judgement.
How much state is it safe to store in the URL these days?
It's more like, you think you are free, because from birth society and CorpGov condition you to operate within an accepted status quo, and incentives are structured in order to support that.

But the moment you question the status quo, or try to go against it, you find yourself targeted by corporate and social violence. You might lose your job, the respect of your peers, your family, house, car or more.

Here is an easy example:

A portion of your tax money is funding genocide and anti-democratic military coups in Israel and other countries.

If you decide (as any rational citizen should) to no longer pay income tax knowing that you lack any discretion over how it is spent, and you decide to demand a more transparent and restricted tax system, then the government will threaten you with economic hardship and even prison. They will surveil and discredit you if you receive any modicum of notoriety, just as they do to sociopolitical activists and protestors.

You won't be able to operate a business while opposing income tax laws, and thus conscious political action is relegated to the elite, who don't need to work, and the poor, who already don't significantly benefit from the system. The rest of the working class is forced to play ball, or lose everything.

That's not freedom, even if it looks like Freedom™ to a certain class of bootlickers who are conditioned to maintain the status quo, even if it means turning on their neighbor.
I would think someday we can use AI to port the software. Maybe even use AI to design the cards.
I am unlikely to fall for either of them, but given compromising factors as mentioned by the other commenter, I am much less likely to fall for dell..com than dell.

Due to the widespread usage of 3+ common TLDs (com, org, net, etc.) and arbitrary third-level domains, people have been trained that the second-level domain is the one that matters. Now that gTLDs are more common I've needed to retrain my brain that the TLD is also a necessary heuristic for authenticating websites.
> I for one used to believe in a cross functional team. I used to believe that everyone in a team should be able to do every task in the team.

Learning some skill requires X hours. Maintaining that skill requires Y hours/year.

Those numbers vary both by task (webdev has quite a bit of churn, where server OSes tend to have decade-long support lifecycles) and by person (not everyone learns at the same speed, and sometimes people learn different kinds of things at different speeds).

A team where anyone can do anything can work or now work, depending on how hard the things they do are, how many different things there are, and who's on the team.
Fixing the nitpick (hit timing) is on his plan.

Appreciate the feedback!
Sounds like you are making a Q4-2024 guess. Any thoughts on which vehicle might surpass it? Honda Prologue? Chevrolet Equinox EV? Ford Mach-E? Hyundai Ioniq 5?
I disagree that Americans don't base their views on TV, fictional or otherwise. I wish I had your optimism.
Not that you shouldn't do better with opsec in your daily life, but with the amount of data China has on Americans in the form of Temu and AliExpress orders,
nevermind TikTok viewing habits, what's the threat model? If I make Winnie the Pooh jokes about dear leader on the phone, am I getting abducted from the west and sent to the steppes of Tibet? Why would they bother? Again, yes, do have better opsec and use something encrypted, I'm just not sure who's a bigger threat, five eyes governments who have boots on the ground, or the CCP, half the world away.
It's not an NFT-laden product, and it wasn't launched in 2024.
Including me.
Take the Millions Now (2008)
Array indexing from RTL and LTR when both are together? Noted it's off-by-one though.
Film is such a nascent art form. The 90s as “peak blockbuster action” is a valid stance on taste but hard to defend as superior to all that came after. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight is leagues aways from the 90s Batman, as an auteur friendly and obvious comparison. Pixar another on the animation front.

There have been great films made in every era, but the trend towards tighter writing, more legible and compelling action, and emotionally impactful story telling is strongly trending upwards overall.

And nothing will ever top the merchandising mania of the 80s!
May be fun, but expect 20th Century-era battery life :)
Guess we need this now for the verge: https://archive.is/Lc6r6