skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A significant portion of game developers hate level design

And that shows, that really, really shows :)

Now they get to make even more of the soul-less trash in shorter time..

I'm not putting this tool down, it's an amazing technical achievement, and the results are absolutely mind-blowing, but, to me, it is what it is, and it's just like, my opinion, dude, not some statement of absolute truth.

You hating level design and wishing you didn't have to do it at all has absolutely no bearing on my wanting games where the assets are made by hand.

Conversely,me not wanting products made by people who don't like making them, should have absolutely no influence on you.
I don't care if your passion is some other field of game creation, go do that, and have someone who enjoys level design do the levels, if you can't, well, then I guess you'll have to just accept that I might not want your game, and that's okay too, for both of us, you don't have to make something _I_ in particular like, and I don't have to accept your criteria for what I like.

I want, as an inherent property of the stuff I consume, a few things whose merits can be argued endlessly about, but I'm not arguing about their merit, my opinion, my criteria for selection is inherent property itself.

I'm not arguing whether there are any difference, I'm not arguing one is better than the other, I'm not arguing why one should be chosen over the other, I'm simply stating that among my selection criteria is that particular property of origin. It in itself, alone, nothing about it, just it.

I want movies recorded on actual film, not movies that look like it, inherent property not its merit.

I want books written by human minds, not books that "you can't prove was not".

I want paintings painted by pencils held in human hands, guided by human hearts and minds, regardless of whether I am looking at a photograph of that painting, the property of it's origin is important to me, not its merits of lack thereof.

So yeah, you can attack the merits of doing things one way or another all day long, but you don't get to say what I can an can not chose as my selection criteria.
You speak a great deal of truth - I found myself learning these skills at the pointy end of a cane at British boarding school, and they have served me exceptionally well, in everything from my career to chatting up a policeman I can barely speak the language of to not pay a hefty fine.

These skills will continue to be valuable regardless of what the future holds.

I would add one related, arguably harder skill to master - pattern recognition. Being able to see patterns where others do not yet is an enormously valuable skill in life, and a key part of my arsenal for a changing world -
I am, after all, an elder millennial, and I have watched the world go from smoking on the tube, bowler hats, typewriters and briefcases to… this - and I have anticipated and adapted.

I have found myself thinking a lot about this topic of late - I have a daughter, soon to be two, and I want to ensure that she is well equipped for whatever the world throws at her.
Fake Optimization in Modern Graphics (and How We Hope to Save It) [video]
All your arguments fall by the fact that even great artists record and put out a large amount of sub-par and even bad songs.
also, is Brussels included in "Flemish Region" ? I have a feeling Wallonia was not high enough to get on the charts
I would have a hard time understanding how other factors would make up a heavier weighting than calories in vs calories out. I am certain there are other factors but I am not certain that those factor have make up the majority.
Refund Payments to Consumers Impacted by Epic Games' Unlawful Billing Practices
Learning how to learn is probably a more root/core skill.

There’s a free and popular course by that name too.
Which adults?

I think lots of the university educated ones (without professional skills), not really.

The tradespeople and dropouts that figured life out on their own, those ones have a better shot.
The actions of his company —which he led and dictated policy for— can be considered evil by a reasonably dispassionate measure - they deliberately caused undue suffering or shortened the life of countless thousands of vulnerable people.

I (obviously) don’t support vigilante justice, and felt somewhat sad when Hussein and Gadaffi were hanged/lynched because despite their evil, I’d rather we don’t treat human beings like that.

But I don’t think it’s hyperbole to consider the actions of this CEO and his company in the same breath as such evil tyrants; and as such, I can understand why many might be happy about what took place, especially if they had personal animus with the company.
The definition of optimal substructure in the article isn’t quite right.

A problem can have optimal substructure even if merging two optimal solutions to two sub-problems that compose to form the complete problem does not provide an optimal solution to the complete problem. This happens when there is more than one way of splitting the complete problem into two sub-problems.

For example, the shortest path problem on a DAG has optimal substructure, but if you pick two subproblems by splitting the path at an intermediate node that does not lie on the shortest path, then you will not find an optimal solution by combining these.

When this happens, one needs to optimise over all the possible ways of splitting into sub-problems. This is the basis of dynamic programming.
On a different note, there's been a LOT of e-bike battery fires, so that's why with designers and engineers in France we've spent some time designing a battery casing that efficiently contains explosions and flames, to safeguard your home, you can check it here if interested! (it's also a repairable battery, so it saves CO2 compared to a standard battery over the long term)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/infinite-the-repairable-u...
Yeah was wild to see that.

I take it as a reaction to the wider public feeling that the US medical system is broken and the appropriate channel to fix it (voting & politics) being broken too thanks to lobbying.

Under circumstances like this people’s perception shifts to a more relativistic perspective. A bit like perception of a rioter throwing a stone at riot police depends on whether the viewer agrees with the movements goals even if in isolation they wouldn’t normally approve of throwing rocks at people faces.
Hi, I'm the one who created this services within a "Google Summer of Code" some 7 years ago and been maintaining it since. It's my first "larger" project and while it started as a short Python project, I eventually became a OpenWrt project member since the build system itself required so many changes.

I'd be very happy for further audits and reviews of the code, after multiple years of low interested, it now produces and caches about 1000 individual firmwares a day. I think it's only a question of time until other issues come up...
My brother has none of those things, owns and runs a blue collar business and is married.

One person’s NPC is another person’s thriving.
Today in HN: catchy title to drive clicks to RAG tutorial.

Tweet like quality.
Indeed there's been a LOT of e-bike battery fires, so that's why with designers and engineers in France we've spent some time designing a battery casing that efficiently contains explosions and flames, to safeguard your home, you can check it here if interested! (it's also a repairable battery, so it saves CO2 compared to a standard battery over the long term. Oh, and we're in the process of doing the UL certification right now)

https://get.gouach.com
>If you combine that with entity recognition and automated graph construction from unstructured data, you might get something that is vaguely useful.

I think that's included in the Graphrag project released from MS.
Racket and Scheme are full of these things that appear a little unhinged but then you realize that it's all built from a few very simple principles.
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I opened http://bolt.new with no expections, one thing lead to another and I ended up building an invoice generator tool from scratch in ~4 hours with very little nudges from my side

https://invoice.pizza - A simple browser tool for creating invoices
I would compare it with LGPL, actually. You can use the font in documents or software with no restrictions, but any modifications to the font itself must be released under SIL (and under a different name).
The tweet article talks about writing code.
Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling
In my experience these are people who make others do the work and never experience the heat of it themselves. It doesn’t scale, at the very least. Confident babbling was always despised by the skilled workers I knew.

I think that the only emotion you have to regulate in this mode is self-cringe, which ignorance helps to mask very naturally.
The comment/question about OUT was more speculation on how it worked on the prototype. But maybe this buffer is part of the architecture, in which case you'd have to consider what happens if it get completely filled (could happen easily with just a few MHz CPU, at standard serial port speeds).

Re. memory: of course with no ternary RAM, you have to somehow encode the trits into bits. But I was more curious about the address bus. So if your memory is organized like this:

--- word #0
--0
--+
-0-
-00 word #1
-0+
-+-
-+0
-++ word #2

how does that map to binary addresses for the RAM chip(s)? What if you had ternary RAM, would that change how you address it? Does address --0 map to the second lowest/highest (depending on endianness) tryte in word #0, or something entirely different?

Maybe you thought about this a lot more than I have and figured out an ingenious solution. But I would have either gone with word addresses, or power-of-3 units.

And how all of this ties into non-Von Neumann architectures, I still have no clue.
that tim urban book is so bad. dude wrote an entire adult graphic novel dismantling marxist theory without ever reading the source text!
> intellectual pursuits are looked down upon (perhaps by design)

Collective bargaining and knowledge of labour history are definitely discouraged by design.
People are already organizing a gofundme page for the author.

Most computer hobbyists hate seeing talent hobbled by circumstance. Our local telecom has a nonprofit up-cycling program for these kids. =3
Funko and BrandShield say it wasn't their fault itch.io was taken offline
Despite Sanctions, North Koreans Continue to Use Foreign Technology
We live in a society. There were a bunch of pedos in the Netherlands who tried to start a political party to change age of consent.
It did not go well for them.
In China, people are hiring 'climbing buddies' for big money
From the same Wikipedia article:

> It was later revealed that Farage's account was closed in part as Coutts felt that his beliefs and values did not align with theirs. In an internal dossier, Coutts wrote that he "is at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists" and considered a "disingenuous grifter".
Newbie's question: how far is the RCS benchmark from a more practical challenge such as breaking RSA?

The article concludes by saying that the former does not have practical applications. Why are they not using benchmarks that have some?
Very interesting that you’ve done this! I’ve read a few times about people talking about knowledge bases and LLMs and there seems a lot of hand waving around “and at this point the LLM produces the SPARQL query” which feels very much “now draw the rest of the owl” to me
There's quite a lot of variance across the country of Europe.

Bank transfers are indeed common but implying that payment cards are not is a bit of a misnomer - and the (buyer) protection offered by the card networks is much higher.

I guess my point is, that even in Europe, accepting only Bank transfers is going to limit your client base fairly significantly and to a sizeable number of people will be considered a signal of how much they can trust the vendor.
Have you done this and had it working reliably for you in practice?
> No, the problem with everyone livivng off the land is that is incredibly inefficient.

True, but only in a world with so many people. The alternative is something efficient but destructive.
Unfalsifiable does not mean pseudoscientific. Plenty of things might be unfalsifiable for humans (e.g. humans lack the cognitive capacity to conceive of ways to falsify them), but then easily falsifiable for whatever comes after humans.
The solution is disallow private insurance being the middle man between medicare and the patient.

What possible benefit to the patient is having a whole bureaucracy sit between the gov't insurance and the person in need of medical care? It only exists to make money off the backs of the people they are harming.

Now, if you don't know why people sign up for them, you don't understand what they are doing. My mom, like many others, was on a fixed income. If you sign up for a medicare advantage plan, they will do things like give you an extra $100 a month to you directly. Why would insurance be willing to PAY you? Because they make all their money billing medicare and denying you coverage.

18 billion in profits last year running a middle man between patients and medicare
joshua citarella stays ahead of the curve:

> 5D chess: UHC Brian Thompson assassination represents the ideological victory of Right accelerationism bc they already argue a built-in feature of monarchy (CEO dictatorship) is that when it isn’t working well you can just kill the king. Many seem to agree?

https://x.com/JoshuaCitarella/status/1864663475814805638
> pointy end of a cane

> I am, after all, an elder millennial

These things do not add up at all.
Nice, I too wrote my first real game in RPL.

The HP48 series lives on as a free android app, for all the RPN fans. =3
> basic computer science, economics, political science, and security fundamentals are needed

Can you define "basic" for each of these things? The introductory classes in my (computer science then software engineering) degree were all things I'd picked up from Osborne books before I hit puberty, is that standard sufficient for all the other fields?
This is irrelevant to coding, but boy I miss what it felt like (as a child) to type on a T9 predictive keypad. Once you get used to it it's easy to 'know' by muscle memory when the desired word is the second or third choice, so you end up typing with basically the same number of keystrokes as qwerty but with only 10 keys.

Then again maybe this is only possible with the superpower of childhood cognition. I recently witnessed a friends 9yo playing with a 1940s typewriter I'd restored. Having basically never used a full sized keyboard before, within about 2 minutes she'd familiarized herself with the qwerty layout, figured out how to turn the shift lock on and off, deduced the correct key action to bounce the hammers off the platten without them clashing, and figured out how to change colours. All this took me at least 20 minutes.
this doesn't contend with any of the very real advantages i listed that aristocrats had versus today's working class. overall i disagree with your position. some people in my state died just the other day because of this system: https://vtdigger.org/2024/12/04/its-heartbreaking-death-at-b...

> You don't rebel because someone has a nicer car than you, you rebel because you're starving and miserable. We're just not. We're comfortable and mildly annoyed someone else is more comfortable.

very easy to say from our tech worker point of view!
I will freely admit, I didn't know shit about medicare advantage plans prior to this shit show happening. Most people don't have a clue. But if you talk to a social worker at a hospital, they see it every single day. They are beat down trying to fight for their patients while watching them get fucked by insurance.
Gartner says Google’s share of search will decline by 25% by 2026. [1]

Even assuming the teams working on ads are immune to bad culture, how do they grow revenue when their inventory declines?

Google is facing a substantial crisis, and their culture issues reduce their odds of making the necessary transformations.

1. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-1...
Not true: the surface area of the nuggets could be so small they'd fall below detection threshold.
I think they still had corporal punishment into the early 90s in the UK?
It is probably tempting to associate social skills w/ the vacuous talking heads of the world, but that's not what GP is saying, I don't think.

I think the text was meant to be read "If nothing else, and before anything else, be a good person to be around". Because that will open so many doors for you.
Bear in mind that lots of large, sophisticated shops have policies of not intervening when someone is blatantly shoplifting.

I think you're overestimating the appetite for confrontation that many shops have.

Not, again, that confrontation is impossible, just that it's not guaranteed.
I agree, studying STEM doesn't exclude becoming a balanced person. Politcians tinkering with the education system and killing humanities and arts departments because they don't make coders makes it harder to create a balanced society.

The irony of LLMs is that the sorts of modes of thinking taught by art and the humanities are going to be more valuable as we need to evaluate and work with AI and agents. Science and engineering will remain valuable too! But that isn't what's being questioned by these midwit business graduates we call leaders.
I think it is just a question of community. Sure, you can make your own website, but people will (most likely) not read it. So what is the point? Some do it for the love of writing, but that is a niche at best.

On social media, you just comment on someone's post and (if spicy enough take) the comments will come.
mosh has saved some hair pulling, especially when on a train journey with at best spotty 3G and you get pinged about an outage.
Brussels is clearly not included.
Pop music is kind of doing this, serially recording variations that prompt critics to ask "why are all songs the same?"

I've worked in a number of recording sessions. There are seldom actually multiple takes -- those cost money. There is usually one publishable take. When you've got that one in the can, you move on to the next song. But naturally I can't speak for major acts like Fleetwood Mac. Historically, bands varied a lot in terms of how much editing they wanted to do. Many hits were recorded in one take by hired studio musicians.
Tokyo government to introduce four-day workweek to empower women
> what it does for fire fighting if we start adopting batteries on large scale in our homes

Battery fires do not change much in the first stage. They can be cooled and extinguished (on the outside) with water, but initial reactions are violent for sure, see videos on YouTube.

The long term strategy for firefighters will likely consist of removing the battery (coordinated or forcefully) from the house and then dumping it in a thick layer of sand or water where it can react until it's done.
That's part of my point: the censorship of death celebrations that I would expect is not happening.
You are not 100% wrong, but I think it is the media that makes the cops put extra resources on certain cases.

Now the media did bring it to international attention partially because he was rich and had some power. But the main thing really was because he worked on healthcare which everyone is pissed off about in the US.
I honestly don’t know.

But I don’t think they have to be better than TSMC, or even quite as good. Intel’s strength is the design + fab integration. If they are 90% as good as fab as TSMC and 95% as good as Apple or Nvidia at design… maybe that’s sufficient to be competitive.
Oddly enough your user name points to a great artist whose songs were mostly great -- at least the ones I know about.
Someone made a comment that millennials are the first and last generation who grew up with desktop PCs, discussion forums on the raw internet.
Kids these days are mostly using smartphones, tablets and apps.

We are used to think that younger people know more about computers, but in the case of desktop computers this might not be the case.
Yup! I'm using this project as playground to get better at Bazel, and also to evaluate for myself - "is this really a tool I can use at work" - "Not yet, because someone else must be mad as me to love it to use it, instead of use it to solve problems" - especially on Windows :)
Yah, absolutely. In the real world that is absolutely the way to go (and I suspect will be managed by your IDE in a lot of cases), but I wanted to show what it means for CMake to be a generator, and Makefiles are the easiest build system to show that with.
One could argue whether whoever you're referring to is "thriving" though (there was no definition supplied)
I dont think the poster was suggesting social skill/emotional control are an exclusive requirement, more that these are a prerequisite for any other skills even being fairly useful. at the very least, emotional control gives one the ability to improve other skills that may be lacking as they move through life.
>The fundamental flaw with Pat Gelsinger’s 2020 return to Intel and his IDM 2.0 plan is that it was a decade too late.

Correct, but if a decade ago was the right time to do it, then 2020 was the second best, and now is the third best.

>Gelsinger’s plan was to become a foundry, with Intel as its first-best customer.

The only real alternative to this is to split Intel into two companies - a Foundry and a Products company - and effectively achieve the same thing via contracts rather than ownership.

I have a feeling that in 18-24 months we're going to be reading articles about how the best time to split the company was 2 years ago and now it's too late.
Sorry, let me rephrase - sugars are necessary for a pleasant and significantly healthy life.
> Adults with highly educated parents have better literacy skill levels than those with less educated parents

Lol, not sure about this. I have two young children in private school and most of the kids come from wealth, like white collar/office professions, etc. My wife and I have the hardest time identifying with our fellow parents. They have zero hobbies outside of: social media, bringing their kids to breweries on Saturday, sports, Netflix, etc. Our single friends tend to be far more interesting with eclectic tastes.
Wow, that is crazy to think about. It must be so easy for Iran and NK to rent a billion hours of GPU time to simulate nukes using stolen bitcoin. Hoi. Truly dystopian!
I've seen plenty of people be successful without being able to do algebra, while barely ever reading a book. I've never seen anyone reach great heights without being in control of their own feelings and understanding the feelings of others.

Being able to master new skills is also a display of emotional control.

I think pretty much anybody can master the knowledge within a chemistry textbook, but few people have the skill to self study a chemistry textbook, part of which required emotional control.

Of course it's hard to measure such nebulous skills, but we've all come across it in our day-to-day. We've all met that guy who seems to know exactly what to say in every situation.

I do improvisational comedy. It involved some levels of emotional understanding and storytelling, but I am unsure how to translate it to real life. When you're doing improv, your scene partner is very interested in keeping a conversation going.
> ...aging

Aging causes the calories out to decrease as a function of reduced metabolic activity and baseline caloric load. It is therefore necessary to reduce calories in to maintain weight.

There can be no other way for the body to gain mass if not for caloric intake. Zero. You cannot gain any meaningful mass from water and air. Body mass is a conversion of ingested proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (along with other micronutrients); remove excess sources of protein, fats, and carbohydrates and the body has no mechanism to store excess energy.