skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are still extremely widely used.
> moving diagonally (e.g. by pressing Left and Forward at the same time) gives the player a higher speed than moving orthogonally.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) shipped that way; it was eventually patched[1].

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/6146
Yeah, but the different APIs and system integration (shared memory) means many of the specific tunings and optimizations don't carry over very well.
Maybe if you're living in the Alaskan wilderness, but pull up a map of San Francisco, Austin, or Denver and you'll find a plethora of parks, coffee shops, and pubs. That doesn't stop people from sitting at home watching Netflix alone
Yes, if you pull out all the optimization tricks for Python, it will be faster than vanilla Python. And yet it's still 6x slower (by my measurement) than naive code written in a compiled language like Rust without any libraries.
Hi friends, have you ever found it frustrating to match with people to play sports on the current apps? I certainly did! Using the tennis apps on the market was such a laborious task that I decided to create something better — a platform where you can quickly and easily find people to play your favorite sports with, whether near your home or while traveling to a new city.
I spoke with a restaurant owner who explained to me the purpose of the "service fees" that may look like tips, but don't actually go to the waiters. The reason they do that is that some restaurants want to pay their non-wait staff more, without also needing to increase the pay for their wait staff. Since the "service fees" aren't included when calculating the tips, this allows restaurants to direct those extra funds exactly where they need without unnecessarily inflating the overall cost of the meal.

I 100% agree that tips should be abolished and consumers should pay a clear and fixed price for goods and services, but if you accept that that is not an option, then "service fees" actually make sense. That being said, I can understand the ire that they may cause the wait staff, since many consumers may think those "service fees" are tips, and as a result, may not receive anything for their work. No great solutions here
When younger, i often thought about moving to the US because it offered so many amazing and creative places to work. Most of these places seem to have gone completely or are in a somewhat unhealthy state (hollywood, video games). Boring tech companies took over and often times they stared with just a website - for gods sake- this is so lame! I‘m so happy i didnt go back then- I think it would have depressed me to experience this first hand but who knows.
> Unless you have a LOT of machines to manage, with many jobs (I’d say +250) to manage, K8s complexity, brittleness and overhead are not justifiable, IMO.

Because it looks amazing on my CV and in my promo pack.
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I've work authorization and am looking for a 6-month internship from January-June 2025.
Well that's what a pill holder is for.
maybe crimes besides homicides affect people as well? Like, I dunno, burglary, say.
I find it really funny to be in some place where there is a privileged class, particularly when I discover it gradually. I can see how some people would find it infuriating.
NASA worked for me, FBI director got me an “I can’t help with that right now”.
It is basically soaring because there's a drive to pull things from China. That is posting lots of economic activity for sure.

Others in contrast aren't in that race to cordon off from China.
That's the sort of thing that sounds very unappealing to the average voter. "I have to pay property tax on substantially more than it's worth and keep raising it on a regular basis, otherwise some property speculator might make me homeless" is much easier to understand than notional efficiency benefits.

Same goes for the Harberger tax on copyright, which is basically "only people and corporations who are already rich deserve to extract market value from their creations"
> The problem is, lately you can't tell if they are normal or high beams.

Properly leveled lights should cast the beam below the horizon: any person seeing the headlights situated above the their height should not be blinded by them. I suspect the etymology of "high beam" is because they project higher to allow seeing further (and blinding everyone in the path)
Everyone who has been to Japan in the last 20 years or so could argue about the quality of life. Japan is not quite "shiny" and people are not rich.
^ and this is why I love making developer tools.
Are you interested in “saving the planet” or in making sure every country gets to pollute the same per capita on a historical basis?
Super cool! Are you using an API for travel or scraping the flights from a website?
Early YouTube limited videos to a few minutes. Also early phones didn't have a lot of memory to make long videos.
Show HN: A novel markup language for lists – Describe
Describe Markup Language is a markup language for writing lists that I have developed over the past 2 years. It is based on ANTLR 4.13 and the compiler is coded in C#, and can be consumed in .net projects, ran from the Windows command line, or hosted as a microservice on the Amazon Cloud (AWS). Or more officialy:

Describe is a markup language designed to write and maintain complex data lists that are compiled on demand to various formats, such as html, xml, sql and json. It is simple to use, intuitive and easy to master. Describe is readily extendible - implementing support for new target languages or customizing the transpilation process is straightforward, making it adaptable to a wide range of projects.

I need this markup as a part of another project, but it is cool on its own, and since v1.0-beta of the compiler rolled out, I've figured - "why not share it around with people?"
Yeah, the inherent problems of video hosting are real and highly-devolved decentralized hosting (e.g. IPFS) is nowhere near a satisfactory solution in a world where most end user devices sleep much of the time and need to conserve battery power, but these are separate from the reasons that Google finds humane moderation too difficult to even credibly attempt—the reasons video hosting is necessarily hard, aren't the reasons YouTube moderation is hard. I do agree that discovery would be a problem to solve, but I don't think it's insurmountable. After all, I hear running a search engine can be profitable...

I think at least separating hosting and the not-necessarily-connected role of curation and promotion (plus, maybe, separating distribution from hosting) would go a long way to solving a lot of problems. That'd basically require regulation for it to actually happen, though, because there's too much value in capturing that entire vertical, effectively "dumping" on parts of that potential-market to feed network effects and build a moat around for whichever part of it (the ad-laden curation and promotion interface, in YouTube's case) you're making money on.

This is how a lot of Google's—among others'—properties work. It's frustrating because dumping "free" products for the purpose of marketshare-capture in adjacent markets stifles not just interest in other commercial efforts with different funding models, but also FOSS or truly-free hobbyist efforts. I think this kind of thing is also why we basically don't develop new open Internet protocols anymore, or if we do, they don't take off, even when the need is there—they compete with free but deliberately closed and non-interoperable services funded by ads or propped up by other wildly profitable services, so are DOA even if you can convince anyone that trying to develop them in such an environment is worth their time in the first place.
Hah! There's a whole Wiki page[1] about pi approximations!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80
It happens all the time in 2024, but it takes the form of pharmacy benefit managers arbitrarily forcing people off effective medications onto cheaper, less effective ones.
I went back to Rogue as an experienced Nethack player. Managed to finally win it after a good number of attempts. You have to get lucky with some early gear finds, and then spend absolutely as few turns as possible on the lower levels (otherwise, you won't survive long down there) to grab that amulet and get out. Rogue, Nethack and Nethack variants like evilhackk are all great games.
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That doesn't explain the astronomical wages for tech workers at all. Tech workers are paid highly because their employers are generating huge revenues per employee and the cost of living in these coastal hubs is exceptional [even before the most recent tech boom]. Tech workers not in Seattle, Bay Area, LA/Irvine, Boston, NYC and DC/NoVA are not getting paid nearly the same as tech workers in those places. Even in Chicago, Miami, Houston, Austin, Denver, Boulder, Raleigh, Charlotte, Philly -- they're all 20% or more lower comp. And what I'm not sure most folks on the outside looking in realize is just how much better tech companies pay for tech roles than non-tech companies pay for the same roles (usually in "IT" organizations). A SWE with 5yr experience at Google might be making $325k/yr total comp, but a SWE with 5yr experience at a F500 manufacturing company might be making $100k (and possibly working on harder problems).
Projects don't often demand full time work. A quarter-time work from an effective developper is a lot of work.
You should probably check out the denotation of 'connotation'
It's also the distorted ability to rack up ungodly amounts of debt without facing the normal consequences of doing that. The US economy is booming, but it's borrowing from two decades from now to fuel the moment. When their debt gets unmanageable, the world's economy will enter a depression, IMO.
Gwern, some anecdotal thoughts from the world of business, where this sort of blind committed self pricing is sometimes called a "Mexican Standoff". Same idea on, say a cap table -- both parties agree that in event of a dispute, they will make sealed binding offers for the whole company; higher offer must pay. I often recommend this to young startup CEOs when they have a team they haven't worked with before, and I've occasionally suggested it to business partners.

Although I like the intuitive simplicity and game theoretic aspects of the arrangement, I've never seen it get through a partnership agreement or shareholder agreement round of redlines. Often lawyers feel nervous about it, and they'd prefer to litigate anyway; a space they are comfortable assessing and handicapping (and billing for). Often one party feels less sophisticated than the other, and thinks there might be a trap somewhere in there. Most sense, I think, that this sort of arrangement benefits the wealthier party. I think Harberger taxes suffer from the same sort of problem: the most money wins the asset.

You mention, rightly, the absolute trash heap that Brian Herbert has made of Dune. You speculate, wrongly, I think, that this arrangement would have cut him out and protected the IP. Au contraire -- I think Brian has done very well financially from this IP ownership -- sadly, enshittification pays -- and I don't see any reason to think that better stewardship would have resulted in more money to go buy out the IP than Brian's made.

Particularly in a world of art and human creative output, I'm negative on forcing IP rights to the wealthiest owners -- I'd prefer a system that leaves it in the hands of people who might have a variety of interests that could dominate, even if that gives us some tragedies in exchange.

Anyway, a system of transparent IP with buyout values (or reference values) attached is not, to my mind, uniformly better than what we have -- the reference values will be wrong, they will not capture non-monetary value, and they don't guarantee a ready buyer. It's hard to see what we'd gain; I agree that we wouldn't lose a lot, but there's a lot of social and legal work to implement between here and there.
I haven't dug into any of your code or (potential) documentation. In the quadrotor world a common approach is to do minimum-snap trajectories. That derivation shakes out from the fact that the aircraft itself has non-holonomic constraints: you can control force in the local Z axis (accelerating or decelerating all four motors simultaneously), and can control attitude (roll/pitch/yaw) by accelerating a pair of motors and decelerating the other pair of motors. When you go all the way down through the derivation you eventually can show that a minimum-snap trajectory results in smooth torque (aka current) commands for the motors themselves.

Is your 5th-order model derived from something like that? Or was it more of a "everything is really smooth if we have bounded crackle" kind of situation? Either way I'm really happy to see higher-order motion control coming to open-source firmware like this that doesn't require a host like Klipper does.
I actually find that much more distracting since you can see the images ahead of time, but to each their own.
Well, not many viable orbitial launch sectors in continental Europe - that by itself is already a blocker. :P And arguably USA was also quite lucky to end up with SpaceX, given how many traditionalists in the industry were so full of "this can't be done!". :P
>There is a good reason: profits and management pay. And greed is good, right?

I tried to find a health care CEO to comment, but they're all busy hiding from assassins.
I could make the argument that a number input plus a labeled slider is superior to number input plus a text label of min/max
Oh wow, I was looking for exactly that about 3 weeks ago for my app (https://minimalboard.com/). I settled on Sleekplan then although is has quite a lot of overhead for my simple use case. Just a heads up, there were two barriers why I disregarded many tools

1) No free tier. Setting up payment just to try something out for a small project is such a pain, I don't see why small project should not have a free tier and big established ones pay.
2) Sign Up required for users to give feedback. I get that this is an easy way to filter bots but its such a hassle for users especially when starting out.
And the secret service has the luxury of being able to shut down whole blocks/towns when they think they need to, that’s not something a random bodyguard of a CEO can do every time the CEO drives around.
COVID only made it worst, as companies took advantage of COVID to inflate prices.
Amazon accused of cheating low-income Prime users out of two-day deliveries
> That's nice for people but does not create massive economic growth in the 21st century of the kind being discussed. That is all coming from the tech sector.

Do you have the stats that back that up?
I think it's all about how you spin it in, imagine:

- SimCity where you can read a newspaper about what's happening in your city that actually reflects the events that have occurred with interesting perspectives from the residents.

- Dwarf Fortress, but carvings, artwork, demons, forbidden beasts, etc get illustrations dynamically generated via stable diffusion (in the style of crude sketches to imply a dwarf made it perhaps?)

- Dwarf Fortress, again, but the elaborate in-game combat comes with a "narrative summary" which conveys first hand experiences of a unit in the combat log, which while detailed, can be otherwise hard to follow.

- Any fantasy RPG, but with a minstrel companion who follows you around and writes about what you do in a silly judgy way. The core dialogue could be baked in by the developers but the stories this minstrel writes could be dynamically generated based on the players actions. Example: "He was a whimsical one, who decided to take detour from his urgent hostage rescue mission to hop up and down several hundred times in the woods while trying on various hats he had collected. I have no idea what goes through this mans mind..."

I'm not sure if there is a word for it, but the kernel here is that everything is indirectly being dictated by the players actions and the games existing systems. The LLM/AI stuff isn't in charge of coming up with novel stories and core content, they are in charge of making the game more immersive by helping with the roleplay. I think this is the area they can thrive the most.
(neon employee)

we have multi-region disaster recovery and replicas coming in 2025. Switch over time will be greater than this active-active system but the overall latency for Neon should be much less on a consistent basis.
That has been the case since art was first industrialized with the printing press. Most of them don’t survive but a significant fraction, if not the vast majority, of books printed in the first century were trashy novels about King Arthur and other fantasies (we know from publisher records and bibliographies that they were very popular but don’t have detailed sales figures to compare against older content like translated Greek classics). Only a small fraction of content created since then has been preserved because most of it was slop. The good stuff made it into the Western canon over centuries but most of the stuff that survives from that time period were family bibles and archaic translations.

I don’t see why AI will be any different. All that’s changed is ratio of potential creators to the general population. Most of it is going to be slop regardless because of economic incentives.
Several years ago (when I was a manager at Google) one of my employees needed to relocate overseas in order to facilitate coming back under a more preferable visa type, and they were looking at options. For the same role where they were earning $135k base in Mountain View, it was going to translate to about $115k in London, $155k in Zurich, and only $89k in Paris. They chose Zurich and ended up staying there for over five years before moving back to the bay area.
The problem with allocating bit-packed storage is that then you are into the issue where types don't agree on where any pointers are. Interface values solve this today because they are always mono-typed (an interface value always stores two pointers), so the runtime is never forced to know the current pointer-containing shape of a specific interface value. And the values that interface values 'contain' are also always a fixed type, so they can be allocated and maintained with existing GC mechanisms (including special allocation pools for objects without pointers and etc etc).

I agree with you about the overall motivation for Rust-style enums. I just think it's surprisingly complex to get even the memory efficiency advantages, never mind anything more ambitious.
> In the case of Proxmox, I believe at the time it was its insistence on operating exclusively in a privileged space (root, by default) that was also incompatible with corporate security standards and single sign-on.

I've not used ProxMox so I don't know how well it does on that front, but I can believe it. My recent experience is "if you don't check these security boxes we will drop your product".

That said, DOM0's have to run high privilege level. Maybe you are saying ProxMox doesn't offer logins with different levels of access.
> Forty nine percent of people will always be of below average intelligence....

> There will always be a bottom half and they will always struggle to understand the world the top half build.

Before you spend too much time patting yourself on the back for being so superior, it's important to keep in mind that "intelligence" isn't all it's cracked up to be. "Intelligent" people do a lot of stupid shit, not listen, get deceived, and deceive themselves, etc. Hell, I've even heard "intelligence" describe as effectively a superior ability for post-hoc rationalization.

When you find yourself trying to understand the world by dividing it into dumbasses and "smart people like me," you should stop and remember to count yourself with the idiots.
I love stories like this where no one is really aware of what is happening at the time and only later you can see that many puzzle pieces came together to create some funny effect
In practice it is not easier for an Illinois resident to buy a handgun in Indiana than in Illinois. Even an illegal one.

The way straw purchases work for handguns is mostly that a family member who can legally purchase the firearm does.

But if you are talking cross state border sales, which are not the majority even though it’s an oft quoted trope, a resident of Indiana buys a lot of guns, then sells them illegally in Illinois. Precisely because you can’t easily buy a handgun in a state you don’t reside in.
Email is the only thing I have conditioned myself to reliably check so this system probably has the best shot for me. Nice job, will try it out. Ive been meaning to make a real attempt at learning Japanese.
Any city with a "downtown" is in 2024 going to have uber/lyft, probably bus services of some sort, and there's always cycling. Groceries and supplies can be delivered to your door. There is less need for a car today than there has been in a long time.
> ...presumably not "purpose"?

That was already very clear. But you clearly don't have any better suggestion.
We need to differentiate living paycheck to paycheck out of necessity vs. choice. It might be surprising but there are a lot of people who choose to do so because why save when you could die tomorrow.
The key word here that doesn't apply to any of these links: legally
This is a really good idea, at least for now on large-scale abstract things such as radio spectrum and airline gates. Problems about liquidity can be solved with access to finance, which exists on easy to model things (such as, again, radio spectrum and airline gates) and then gradually expanded over time.
The US has a massive advantage of being the largest economy, having a vast single market, issuing the world's reserve currency, and having unique hubs like the Bay Area attracting the best and brightest. It would be hard to replicate its success elsewhere without having some of the above prerequisites.
Here's the paper preprint:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10675
PPP is closer in some ways, but it's not the best... It tends to be biased against strong currencies. The USD has been extremely strong since the pandemic.
>Laws and rules only matter so long as we're all willing to believe they do.

And everyone has seen it thrown in our faces for a year or so now what the blatant two-tiered system looks like. On a longer time scale if you want to count the lack of consequences for those behind an attempted coup in 2021 and a recession that harmed millions of lives in 2008.

If the government won't hold people accountable, and people are pushed to their ends, then things like this can happen. As OP stated, thankfully, it doesn't happen as often as one would think given our society. It does take a lot to murder someone else.
Certainly food and cars is not more expensive than most European countries. Health insurance is also not that much expensive, it is only the way you pay it which in Europe is by tax. There is the issue of not being covered if you don't have a job but that's has nothing to do with price. The US is one of the cheapest countries in the world with pretty decent salaries and endless variation in house prices, there also always cheaper cities or alternative states. Try that in Europe or Australia or Canada, good luck.