skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels like with every game release there's this army of perpetually pissed of gamers just waiting to pounce on anything, and when you play it it's like "this is what people were so mad about?".

As I understand things, the norm in the game industry is for even expensive, well resourced games from veteran studios to launch with numerous major bugs and performance issues: https://youtu.be/DPW6fkcM-14?feature=shared&t=46

If you're like me, you never see this. I play perhaps two games per year. I play games once they're being sold at 40% off and they've got 50,000+ positive reviews, I've got no interest in early access games or pre-orders. Either the bugs and performance issues have been ironed out, or they haven't and the reviews let me avoid it.

But just because I never see the bugs and performance issues, doesn't mean they weren't there on day 1 :)
The overhead of obtaining a large amount of pennies and smelting them likely makes the whole operation unprofitable, besides being illegal for defacing currency.
Obama wanted to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Was that unconstitutional as well? I don't remember reading any articles about it being that.

As to the constitutionality of Trumps order, it certainly isn't as definitively unconstitutional as you seem to think it is.

https://www.theglobaltreasurer.com/2025/02/10/trump-orders-t...

Robert K. Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, noted that while a full discontinuation would require legislative approval, the Treasury Secretary might have some discretion to halt production.

“The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies,” Triest explained.
My optimistic outlook? I think AI will eliminate waste in tech to the point where developers will launch their own businesses (we won’t need the waste of project managers, agile, administrative roles, etc). A new type of business owner will emerge and these types are WFH-minded first. This is the group that will elevate wFH permanently, since these developers will be part of the exodus from corporate America (leaving behind the culture of in-office work).

We just need the courage to keep crossing the Bering Strait.
> each country clearly has the right to call international water bodies whatever they want

Sure, but the USA has no more right than any other country to enforce its name on the rest of us, and no right at all to enforce a name for space it does not own.
RAID1 has been fine for years, but hardly anyone is running that and RAID5/6 are still considered unstable even by the devs: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html#block-gro...

I ran into Btrfs RAID6 corruption myself about ten years ago. Though to btrfs's credit, I didn't lose any data: the filesystem only locked up read-only on me. But this time I'll take their word on unstable.
IGN gives Civilisation 7 a 7/10 7 days ago! The most IGN thing ever.
Quickly developed serverless functions combined with
continuous deployment, and anyone can make edits in
the entire codebase sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
The amount of logging that is required to debug and
find bugs is extreme.

Using Erlang to write serverless functions seems like
avoiding all the huge benefits BEAM can offer.

>Additionally, product engineers predominantly write code in stateless, serverless functions in PHP, Python, and Erlang for their benefits in simplicity, productivity, and iteration speed.

>To boost developer productivity, Meta has adopted continuous deployment universally and enabled more developers to write serverless functions rather than traditional service code.
I see Civ as the gateway drug to Paradox games. "Do you think Civ is too shallow and insufficiently historical? Well, check out these games!"
If they have one I presume it would be in one of their data centres.

Are you implying that they might be hiding something by not releasing a new model based upon technology that's a month old?
It's still kind of surprising that the optimal design / speed for fuel efficiency has plateaued though, given how much more powerful the modelling tools are now. The FAA certification overhead presumably has something to do with this.

I was very struck recently looking at the Wikipedia pages for the KC-135 Stratotanker (first flight 1956) and its ongoing replacement the KC-46 Pegasus (first flight 2015). Just from the pictures of the two planes, I'd have no idea that one was more modern than the other.
OMG please please please! Regarding the author's specific questions, I would suggest not letting perfect be the enemy of good.
That was the cost, of course. Nothing is ever entirely free.
It's interesting that this incident was in August 1990.

And that a few years later in September 1993 according to one RAF Harrier pilot,

https://www.cmlx.co.uk/hawkerassociation/hanewsletters/hanew...

"would often spend the week at either RAF Leuchars or RAF Lossiemouth"

which are fairly close to Calvine. And that

"Each day we would send a team out into the Scottish Highlands to set up the targets. These would be full size inflatable Soviet tank"

While the picture in the linked article doesn't look like any tank I'm aware of (although, maybe the Stridsvagn ...), my understanding is that large inflatables or balloons that have broken free in a mountainous environment could well end up moving in what might be quite unexpected ways to most people.

(I'd also have no problem imagining if it was the RAF's toy, they might have a) got sign-off fairly quickly for some new, more realistic targets afterwards and b) been told to stop upsetting the tourists more than the midges in August).
This. He is definitely not a genius and not even smart. He can’t formulate any interesting, original thoughts. He parrots, daily, dumb ideas and state propaganda (for example, russia) without any critical thinking.

The average person on the street is smarter than him.
Following the constitutionally designed balance of powers is a good thing, even when some line items appear in the budget which I personally disagree with.

This is what’s known as “compromise,” or otherwise “being a fucking adult.”
I feel like it could work with an external power brick and the card exposing a dedicated external port.
I am using a slightly modified Extend layout since a couple of years, and it was really a game changer for me.
Excellent Civ YouTuber PotatoMcWhiskey (yes, really) did this duo of reviews with the good and the bad parts:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLm8D6tN6GA (good)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFIIt8b_jsA (bad)
I do not need copyright law. Just anti-liability licenses so i do not get sued. My interest is protecting myself, not the work.

I believe all knowledge should be freely available and live by that.

While I do not believe in IP law but I am happy to take money from those that do.

I sell my time so long as the buyer allows my work to be freely licensed for all. They can do with their own copy whatever they want and not credit me though. That is fine.
Good question, I read the about page[0] which says:

> Will the DAW be open source from the start or only become open source later?

> To make the most of being open-source, we believe that there should be an appropriate infrastructure for documentation and quality assessment of code contributions. Our current focus is to lay the foundation for an MVP and release a public standalone version 1 by the end of the year.

So it seems that they intend to open source it later. Still a bit of a strange move, but fair enough I guess.

[0] https://opendaw.org/
As far as I can tell, there was no such original statement. There was, however, a statement saying the opposite:

https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/1884012872768053467

> Also longstanding practice: When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too.
It this what happens with very engineering led businesses perhaps? In other places, there would have been a lot more focus on the the final product before shipping but nowhere near the speed of delivery Meta achieved which is impressive.
If we achieved local maximum at something, the only way to progress is to make a big leap that brings you out of it. The trouble is that most of such big leaps are unsuccessful. For every case like you are describing there are probably hundreds or thousands of people who tried to do it and ended up with something worse than the status quo.
> I'm even happy to hear arguments about whether it is legally binding to say "No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher".

Disclaimer: IANAL.

The law of course depends on jurisdiction, but in many countries copyright law means (a) everything is forbidden unless there is a license contract that permits the license holder to do it, or (b) it falls under a few cases of pre-defined exemptions (e.g. fair use for science and teaching, this is restricted to parts of works e.g. chapters or indiv. papers for teaching in a closed group, or citation of material as scientific standards require, no mention of ML training).

No mention => no license.
Your original claim was that an LLM can reason. And you say it can be proven by picking one of these prompts with a large codomain that has a precise answer which requires reason. If an LLM can come to a specific answer out of a huge codomain, and that answer requires reason, you claim that proves reasoning. Do I have that right?

So my question is, and has been these three replies: Can you give any example of one of these prompts?
thaumasiotes is asking about the number of 's'-es in the surname.
That's the majority understanding, but I suspect it was a simple "update" into "same" connector - the old one was a product called Molex Mini-Fit, and the new one is their newer Micro-Fit connector.
sodium ion tech is largely on hold because LFP got cheaper than expected and made it largely non-viable at current pieces. The expensive thing about batteries aren't the raw materials but manufacturing the cells, and those costs increase massively when you're trying to match kWh produced with a lower energy chemistry.
Personal Software: The Unbundling of the Programmer?
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But this thread is talking about how the label appears to third countries. In this case, we're seeing two names: a) a localised version of the 500-year-old, internationally established name b) another name that someone made up 5 minutes ago.
This is the count donut problem. Given a grid of 1s and 0s where 1 represents land and 0 represents water find the amount of donuts. A donut is an island with at least one hole in it. Two grid cells that are diagonal or adjacent form a barrier that water cannot cross. Count the amount of donuts in the grid.

This is a unique problem I came up with. It’s a variation on counting islands. There are actually two correct answers that are straightforward. Other answers may exist but are generally not straightforward and often wrong. One answer is mathematical the other is a leetcode style solution.

Try to solve this yourself before using ai to get a feel for how hard it is. The solution should be extremely straightforward. It’s also fun to think about. When you try to think of a solution you will invariably come up with a bunch of possible solutions that are wrong which is a strong indicator of how large the range of possible answers are. Few answers are correct but many look correct.

I give this test to candidates and I never expect the candidate to solve it because it’s one of the few algorithms that requires actual reasoning and actual creativity as I came up with it so no variation of it really exists anywhere else. You can’t pattern match for it. Out of like 50 candidates you probably get one person able to solve it in less than an hour.

It’s unlikely most people on hn will be able to solve it. If you do solve it don’t post the answer as it will become training data for the next iteration of the LLM.

I gave the prompt to o3. It solved. It generated code as well which I was too lazy to verify but it solved it correctly in the description of the algorithm involved.

There is also a 3D version of this problem where the grid is 3D. It changes the entire problem if a donut is in 3D space. It is harder and I have only found one possible solution for it. I have not tried it on an LLM.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518765/prime-movers-of-globa...

This short book is a great work on the topic
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
Because its a bullshit assessment, they ran into the same limitations in their obscure choice, they didn’t move fast and break things, and both choices have optimizations to deal with these problems

and we would all fail system design interviews for considering the same thing
Discussion of this issue on OpenStreetMap forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...
> since it doesn't touch any of them

I mean, technically, ...
They do a lot of nighttime maintenance work. It's very difficult to shut down train lines in the daytime considering the massive ridership
We take the affordability completely for granted also.

It looks like in the 70s a flight from NY to LA was $1000 USD adjusted for inflation.

My grandfather took a flight one time in his life, near the end of his life. Why? Because most of his life he couldn't afford it.
Unity Suddenly Lays Off Numerous Developers with a 5 Am Email
~16.5 * 6 days. Most of the time folks didn't work Sundays. One night I was so exhausted, I would park my car in a parking deck (at 3am I was the only car there), I managed to back my VW Golf into a massive pillar (just a bump, but still.)).

This was early on in my career - I'd already had 2 years of dev work under my belt. But most of the devs there, this was their first gig out of college. They didn't know this wasn't the norm I guess.

Yes the commute was awful (Boston). If I left for work before 6:15am I would get to the office in 15 minutes. After 6:15am, it was a 45 minute traffic jam.

They would feed us dinner. Nobody died. They had their own gym, and yes showers at work too. I quit after a few months. They laid everyone off 9 months later. I should have taken the hint right away when I saw they had private nap rooms with beds, alarm clocks and everything. Can't make this shit up. Loved my peers there, but the company (management consulting company trying to turn their "IP" into software) had a shit culture. Our managers were trying to make partner and didn't give a shit who they grinded into the ground to get it.
See further below please, I wrote just about this kind of tunnel-vision focus on DAU/MAU vs. a more holistic view ;)
In short term I think it is workable strategy. But in long term I expect the pricing to move more towards market price direction. Either by purely market or some strange adjustments based on consumption timing. And ofc transfer will go up...
Great idea! Could someone smarter than me please create an obsidian plugin for this?
Lysenko was widely discredited and ridiculed in the late 1960's following the demise of his main proteges (Stalin and later Khrushchev).

The widespread damage Lysenko had brought about upon the Soviet genetics was widely acknowledged and openly discussed in the Soviet Union at the time. What on Earth is this bloviation all about?
In my grandfather's and great-grandfather's time it was common to spell names in lots of different ways, at the same time. Made for interesting research for my father when he took up genealogy.
Yup, by the time I started using Lotus Sametime (and dev'ing for Lotus Notes/Domino) it was already owned by IBM.
"I will endanger my own life, just to spite the government that will never know about how I'm spiting them unless I die."

I can understand not wanting the government to decide how they live their life, who they can and can't marry, how they should identify, which bathroom to use, etc. But I'd think no-cost life-saving stuff is not a hard decision. Same with vaccines.
Well, why would it imply that "making a game isn't too hard"? No, I'm implying that there's loads of good games. Of course it isn't easy to make them! But it's very much possible and there's many who have done just exactly that. I'd expect better from a big, AAA studio.

I also don't think it's a best-faith assessment of my critique when you mention that I complain about the changed scripting language. It was a fairly off-hand remark and in the grand scheme of things, "let this be the biggest problem in the game". But it is surely indicative of the deeper rot.

I am not alone in this view... just look at the Steam reviews. It's not that I have irresponsibly high standards - they just consistently manage to sink lower and lower.
Precision is the thing I'm asking you to adopt when you don't admit all types of advertising in your definition of the word.
I, on the contrary, see mostly very rational decisions around me. And the sample is pretty large: coworkers, friends, family.

First, people buy the same brand they had if they were happy with it and the price is sane. That's totally reasonable in my book; and not just for cars.

Those who lease do not care about long term reliability, since they replace cars in 3 years while all major components are under warranty. So they are more likely to try new things. Again, reasonable.

I am sure there are exceptions, but I know of no one who picked a fairly expensive car (and $850 per month is a lot for a car) and started with the budget. My 2c.
Obligatory - https://xkcd.com/1179/
> Additionally, it eliminates the need to parse HTML, as every node state is represented in a Go-based virtual DOM, with only updates being pushed directly to the actual HTML nodes.

That looks really interesting. I'm curious, are there any performance drawbacks to updating DOM via WebAssembly or is it negligible? I.e. let's say you are building an editor of some kind. If the entire app is in Go, that means sending the keydown event to the WASM module and having it update HTML back. Is it not better (from performance perspective) to just use JavaScript all the way?
The most braindead "security" measure is the prohibition of liquids. Many airports don't even have any drinking water fountains at the gates! If you are thirsty you need to buy bottled water for 6€ - 10€ per liter. (Sometimes I take water from the toilet, but it's not safe to do on every airport.) It also causes lots of unnecessary plastic waste, both at the gates and on board. Personally, I would just like to bring a large bottle of water instead of drinking from these tiny plastic water cups.

I try to take the train whenever I can afford it (money and time-wise)
See also: The Piasa and Pere Marquette https://youtu.be/G14hwyYsPTo
Honest question, whats the value to this topic in discussing generalizations of gender expectations and gender roles?

For one woman in my family tree, her father explicitly give his daughter workshop skills because he viewed it as important skills to have, something she was very happy to receive and has continued to use through her 60 and ongoing life.

A other woman in this tree decided early in life that her primary goal in life was to find a husband and raise children. She did it, and later when the children became more independent, the husband requested that she went and got a job, which resulted in her getting a depression since she absolutely did not want to do that.

Two other anecdotes, in what would be equivalent to US middle/high school, my school let the students choose between woodwork and needlework. The result was ~30 girls + exactly 1 guy in needlework, and ~30 guys + exactly 1 girl in woodwork. Similar events happened at my next school when choosing between psychology and film study, with every student being of the same gender except for one (me personally being that odd one in that case).

I do not see this changing with time, but rather seems to get worse. As the gender equality paradox illustrate, the tendency for stereotypical gender roles and cultural pressure to enforce gender roles tend to get stronger with more gender equality. More recent studies also points towards higher class status as being in a positive correlation in upholding stereotypical gender roles.
NVIDIA made the 12V-2x6 port retro compatible with the previous 4000 series 12VHPWR. If you make your port compatible with past gen and it breaks with it its a design flaw, dont make it retro compatible.

This is not a user error, this is NVIDIA design error.
Motive matters, this principle is long-established in most Western countries legislatures.
The NSA's "Big Delete" – By Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby
Let’s all 50 of us share the same bathroom by choice, even when we have the choice of a private bathroom.

Let’s make it so we all deprive ourselves of an hour of sleep each morning.

Let’s deprive ourselves of an hour when we get home too (the commute home).

Let’s not let families spend most of their time together, even when we have all the tools to do so.

Let’s deny ourselves the freedom to live in affordable parts of the country. No seriously, lets literally deny ourselves this and slave away on this hamster wheel stacked on top of each other in these god forsaken overpriced cities.

Let’s do this for 40 years.

And when offered a miracle to rectify all of this, let’s reject it. Let’s talk about how great the office is for some people. Who are these selfish maniacs?

Madness. There’s not enough poetry in the world to capture the madness.
Isn't it obvious? The news feed is full of spam from people I do not know and do not follow. Meanwhile the posts of people I follow never reach me!
At this point I think the burden of proof should be on ML people to explain why that shouldn't be my goal. Every person in that industry has stated that the technology is going to displace 30% of jobs within the decade. Why should anybody support something which is certain to absolutely destroy society while simultaneously having no positive payoff?
Did they replace the sales and coupons with simply lower prices across the board? Because that would make it more attractive to buy there. If not, it's a price increase.
No ubers in Japan.

Well that's a lie. There is uber, but it only calls regular taxis. Taxis are very expensive in Japan.
That was an amusing post to see pop up here, as I believe I came up with the "copyover" name when I copied Melvin Smith (aka "Fusion") idea about "hot reboot" from his "MUD++" code base to the popular Diku-based MERC/Envy etc. bases -- that was 2000 or probably earlier. Whether Melvin originally got the idea from somewhere else I don't know.

That version just used exec, and closed all files but network descriptors already logged in, the mapping of fds -> login names was saved in a file. When the new copy started up, it would log the users on existing file descriptors. Today, using explicit file descriptor passing (so you don't accidentally keep files open) or a long-running proxy would be preferable.

Back then C/C++ were often used by the developers, and we were at best CS students. There were surprisingly few segmentation faults, but I remember a few mysterious memory corruptions...
Also, LukHash. He keeps the C64 music spirit alive.