skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doesn't always and necessarily present the views of those who control it...?

Of course it doesn't.

> Was anyone genuinely under th delusion that it was any different

It wasn't a delusion, it was.

It's generally been the policy of editorial pages to print a diverse set of opinions pieces that contradict each other. And that aren't under control of the owner, look up the term "editorial independence".

This isn't a question of being "under a delusion", it's simply how American newspapers have traditionally operated because it was good for business.

Media owners have generally prioritized making money, not "presenting their views".
Thanks I was just thinking I wish Firefox had a 1 paragraph summary button next to the reader button. Then I came to comments and saw this.
Out of curiosity, what kind of margins do you get when you sell a game on Steam? Like, what percentage of a sale ends up in your bank account (pre-taxes). Also, how do Steam sales affect that?

Congrats on making a game to completion, and doubly so for making something that gets fairly popular. Making a real game has been on my bucket list for about as long as I've known how to program, and I haven't completely given up on it, but I would need to make friends with someone who knows how to do art and music.
https://archive.ph/26ZAb
> My partner works in a CMS all day at work. Every change she makes is pushed directly to production. There's no review process. No staging. No testing. No change control or rollback. If anyone messes something up, they get blamed for "taking down the app". As a software engineer, I look on in horror.

Fwiw that just sounds like an immature CMS - I've seen review/approval workflows, branches, preview environments etc in more than one CMS. I take your overall point but maybe your partner doesn't have to live this way.
> I’ve asked both Claude and ChatGPT, and they agree that finding contracts in the range of $150–$200 per hour should be realistic.

Unless Claude or ChatGPT is offering to pay that salary, I would take it with a grain of salt.
This is a tantalizing problem for me as a UX designer. My approach, which I'm quite proud of, places a UI primitive (Todo lists) center stage, with the chat thread on the side similar to Canvas or Claude's Artifacts. The interaction works like this:

1. User gets shown a list GUI based on their requirement (Meal Planning, Shopping List...)
2. Users speak directly to the list while the LLM listens in realtime
3. The LLM acknowledges with emojis that flash to confirm understanding
4. The LLM creates, updates or deletes the list items in turn (stored in localStorage or a Durable Object -> shout out https://tinybase.org/)

The lists are React components, designed to be malleable. They can be re-written in-app by the LLM, while still taking todos. The react code also provide great context for the LLM — a shared contract between user and AI. I'm excited to experiment with streaming real-time screenshots of user interactions with the lists for even deeper mind-melding.

I believe the cursor and chat thread remain critical. They ground the user and visually express the shared context between LLM and user. And of course, all these APIs are fundamentally structured around sequential message exchanges. So it will be an enduring UI pattern.

If you're curious I have a demo here -> https://app.tinytalkingtodos.com/
I really did like that kitchen timer. This seems like it would have been pretty good.

However. My wife is super pissed at Bezos. She unplugged all our echos. She has me researching to try decide between a Roku or Apple tv to replace the fire tv.

The amazon card went from 90% of our non-mortgage spending to 10% and dropping.

I honestly didn’t believe it would ever happen but I think we are probably going to drop Prime soon.

I’m still thankful for the Expanse, that show was great.
Supposedly, there were almost equal proportions of votes for Trump across all ages.

https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
lol, yeah! I think the idea is dumb. I literally spent 11 hours recording a song + video against a competitor (lol). But, after seeing the results that I'm getting (going viral for my current account), It might be the most genius Idea I ever got. Wdyt?
Whoa. That is insane. I will have to try it out to see why it is so much more expensive.
Multi-Stop Bus Tracker (and a tide display. and possibly weather.)
You did not specify any of this information in your comment. You just said that without Amazon's knowledge the police wouldn't have known that the cameras were there.

Well in fact yes they could have. By just asking the neighbors. And then summarily submitting a request to Amazon to get all relevant video all in one go.

We don't know all the details of the stories you refer to, so you have to provide all relevant information. For all we still know, you are just making assumptions.
the basilisk died in the chamber of secrets plus the reds won so not a good time to be a slytherin
I've built an open-source framework that lets anyone generate synthetic AI training data locally using Ollama. The project tackles the challenge of creating high-quality, structured examples for teaching specialized capabilities to language models - starting with ethical reasoning but extendable to any domain. Everything runs on your own machine with no API costs. Check out Ollama Experiments to join our community effort in building better training data through collaboration.
The Fairness Doctrine was never found incompatible with the First Amendment. It was removed by a politicized FCC. The topic was taken up by the Supreme Court and they did not find that it violated the constitution, quite the opposite actually.
The thing is, there really is no such thing as a "free market" as most who are in love with the term envision

ALL markets are BORN of regulations. A market is what emerges when you lay some shared ground rules: here's what a pound is, here's a standard currency, here's some laws about commerce, here's a court system for mediating disputes.

So the question isn't ever really about free or not free—it's what are the rules and who sets them

99 out of 100 times the people spending money pushing the virtue of a "free market" really just want to be the ones setting the rules and steering them in their favor

Replace "free market" with "competitive market"—what most people actually want when they talk about free markets—and suddenly a lot of what Bezos is going to argue for stops making sense
Its a meme, Batman
So I also do use gitlab quite a bit, but not as much recently. I went to compare. Gitlab actually does have a similiar ux experience, though I'd give the Github one just a bit of an edge. It looks like the key difference is that github converts a pasted image to an html image tag, while gitlab uses markdown with the width/height brackets that the end.

Honestly, I think using an html image tag is the right way to go. I type in markdown all the time, and I have no problem making links. But markdown image syntax I have to double check each time or let the editor figure it out. HTML image tags, I find easier to remember and read than a markdown one. (But maybe that's because I learned HTML before markdown).
This feels a bit like launching a startup that offers services based on fully working quantum computing, depending on others to provide their fully working quantum computer.
I thought we need Q > 10 to really get enough power out of the reactor, due to our inability to capture all the energy efficiently.

Do you have any clever ways to capture the energy output?
> Spelunking for Bitcoin by generating all possible keys and checking their account balances is not prevented by PQ algorithms.

And how will you solve this?
Gerald Loeb Award
> I increasingly want less of it

I think that’s because computing isn’t very personal. So much of what we do on our computers is really done partially or wholly on somebody else’s computer for their benefit.

Panay says Alexa+ is personalized for you. Well, I’ll believe it when I see it. If you ask me, most of the Echo’s problems so far stem from Amazon tailoring the device for their benefif, not mine. They wanted their cash register to be in my kitchen and when I didn’t use it like that, they made it worse with their “by the way…” bullshit.
Your assertion was:

> The danger of professional historians is that they pretend to not inject bias into their interpretation of history,

this is false.

One example given, multiple others exist.

While it's dull to list them all, it's a basic fact that examination of bias is basic entry level undergraduate Hisory 101.

It's like linear algebra in a mathematics course.

> Funny in a world of “history” channel where many of these professional historians are ...

Yeah. You see, there's your problem.

You're confusing infotainment grifters on sugary video productions with actual historians.

Pro Tip: The woman in a lab coat with a stethoscope recommending drugs to ask your doctor for in the ad breaks isn't a medical professional.
Oh man, they went crazier than that with "secops", "itops", "finops", "dataops". Every Foozler person is now "doing FooOps", every dev is "devops".

Titles have never been about clarity or distinctiveness but how cool that sounds, and apparently this is the fashion. Nevermind that "ops" used to stand for something. Me wants shiny word.
Honestly, I am someone who knows nothing about the .NET / Windows ecosystem outside of the Win32 calls required to build out a tiling window manager and a hotkey daemon. These are mostly calls that go all the way back to Windows 95 (and maybe even earlier?)

However, if I as an absolute Windows programming newbie with basic competency in Rust could pick up windows-rs and build a tiling window manager, I'm sure that people who are intimately familiar with the .NET and Windows development ecosystem could develop incredible things targeting Windows with Rust.
Congrats! This game looks amazing.
Amazon to Launch Generative-AI Alexa+ Next Month
Assessing Leadership Style: A Trait Analysis [pdf]
The list of the frode and abuse
Thanks for providing an actual argument!

That said, correlation does not imply causation, and I'm unconvinced that the polarization we're seeing now traces back that far. Pew's research [0] shows that in '94 only 21% (Rep) and 17% (Dem) of each party held a "very unfavorable" opinion of the other party. That number had barely shifted by '02, with both parties still well under 25%, but then steadily started growing from '02 on.

The timing of that is more suggestive of the internet being a cause (if we're going to try to pin it down to one media-oriented cause, which is probably a bad exercise to begin with) than it does of the fairness doctrine, which was repealed back in '87.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/as-partisan-...
I'm not too keen on this topic, but router firmware usually asked YOU, what country you (it, the router) resides in to allow or block additional frequencies. No source required.

And then Intel still goes and makes their "automatic geolocation for frequency policy based on neighboring APs" mechanism the default and only policy in their wireless Wi-Fi drivers.
I have a hard time believing that 5% of people knew what CRT was before the right made it an issue and redefined it.

CRT was a legal and social theory trying to explain why the civil rights laws passed in the 50s and 60s hasn't eliminated various forms of racial disparity. It wasn't something taught in grade schools and high schools. But CRT was redefined to encompass just about any bogeyman issue.

Just to refresh my memory so I wasn't talking out of my butt, I went and skimmed the wikipedia article about the history and meaning of CRT. It is an academic theory, not something grade schoolers would ever encounter (unless you use the redefined meaning, such as having a book in the library where there is a mixed race couple in the story).

The second part of my response is that you are conflating what the left leadership is saying/doing vs what some randos you know are saying/doing. In a similar way, it is like shooting fish in a barrel to interview people on the street about some topic, either left or right, and produce hours of content showing that people are idiots. Such videos are all over the internet and I avoid them. What is important is what the people with the levers of power are saying/doing.
Define what's an oracle for you, that's a concept that's not even needed for this discussion.

I don't think you understand what is being talked about here.
gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/amazon-alexa-ai-launc...
Godot 4.2 with C#. Done differently? Hmm. It was an intense duration of work and I set a firm deadline for myself of EOY 2024 to avoid it dragging out into a longer-than-it-should-be project. Gaining design skills along the way, I could make better use of the same amount of time now, just by being a better designer. But that's not hindsight. There were trade-offs in that aggressive schedule, and a lot of triaging. One of the things that probably could have used a little more time in the oven, perhaps trading off against content, was the meta progression. I wasn't in love with what shipped, and it seems to be the main criticism of the game, besides RNG. It's something I may still potentially address in a patch though.
Isn't it about release-notes.js? There are quite a few files in there that are obfuscated. So far I haven't found anything super bad, it looks like a sanity.io client of some sorts, but there could be some stuff hidden in there as it's seems like quite a big JS bundle.
being a retailer sucks, low profit margins

however being a "platform" (i.e. middle-man) between retailers and customers is highly profitable

guess which one Amazon is mostly now?
Generic steam fee is 30%
Because I've added preamble and instructions "Always make sure you're translating correctly". This keeps mine ahead of the competition. Please sign up
Nice idea :) I just realized (thanks to your post) that implementing a solution to this is pretty tricky.

e.g., the bottom right panel, 1 sentence is split up into 2 speech bubbles

「この帽子を」＋「お前に預ける」meaning approximately, "I'll leave this hat in your care"

Any solution here has to kinda grab the words for a whole panel yet still know how to segment it (and read it RTL, top-to-bottom), and then ideally render something like:

"I'll entrust this hat..." + "...to you." or something similar for some sensible split into 2 word bubbles.

In the top-left, 「おれの大切な帽子だ」, the translation of "It's my hat" is quite bad. "It's my precious hat." would be much better. Maybe it's an OCR bug? Because LLM should get that nuance pretty easily.
So you believe there’s a bloated administrative and managerial class that spends money on wasteful things while constantly cutting money on useful things.

Let’s accept that without argument.

What makes you think that the exact same bloated administrative class which prioritized useless things and defunded useful things when revenues were increasing will choose to suddenly prioritize useful things when revenues are decreasing?

Wouldn’t the predictable response of the bloated managerial class would be to continue with the same priorities and further cut useful activities making useless activities an even greater proportion of spending?

Given the argument you’re making, wouldn’t the solution be to pass laws or executive orders that instead provided incentives to spend money on useful things?

Yet one of the 2 actions, the endowment tax, is agnostic and doesn’t change incentives at all, and the other targets research which is easily the most directly valuable output of the U.S. university system, therefore further tilting the money away from the useful spending and therefore proportionally more towards useless spending.
For a team of 1,500 people? :)
I haven't played your game but I've watched a ton of Real Civil Engineer's videos on it. It looks like a blast and I love watching his videos. How did you get into game development? Congratulations on the success!
I would recommend installing it with

uv tool install tach

rather than

pip install tach

that way tach is installed system-wide but in its own isolated venv
Open Source Maintenance Fee
People who enjoy watching others get hurt are in dire need of institutionalization.
Non obvious amount? Scroll to the bottom of the app store page, all the in app purchase prices are listed there.

App store prices are localized. If the blog post said it costs “$10” or whatever, that doesn’t mean anything to millions of potential customers who live where they don’t use $, and is confusing for millions more that do use $ but don’t know if the price is in their local $ or USD
Oh neat! I wishlisted it when it came out but was heavy into balatro, slay the spire and the diceomancer demo but I will pick it up soon.

Curious if you would be up for recording a podcast about the project? I love to pick people's brains about stuff like this. I recorded one with Ange the Great about his creation of Engine Simulator, for example.
No, that's the other end of the stick. Its en par with other languages
Steam takes 30% and the publisher ( https://rawfury.com/developer-resources/ ) takes 50%, so the dev should end up with 35% of revenue (which then needs to be taxed etc.).
Game Maker’s Toolkit did a breakdown of publishing a game on steam for a general view of the expenses.

Starting around 6:35

https://youtu.be/5ycSvC0ZM0k?si=DM1V06BZ1Zxbqrzh
Believe it. Forward basing would be the only way to generate useful sortie rates in that type of conflict. Transiting even from Hickam just takes too long and requires too much tanker support. We're already short of tankers; they're wearing out and not being replaced quickly enough.
Assuming the model tracks convergence in one way or another, it would simply continue performing iterations until it has reached an error below an epsilon value.

This means that in the worst case the number of iterations is the same as a classic autoregressive transformer.

So they are mostly taking advantage of the fact that the average response is in reality not fully sequential, so the model is discovering the exploitable parallelism on its own.

This is not too dissimilar to a branch and bound algorithm that has a worse theoretical runtime than a simple brute force search, but in practice is solving the integer linear programming problem in almost polynomial time, because not everyone is encoding the hardest instances of problems in NP as integer linear programs.
This reminds me of another book, "The 4 Hour Chef" by Tim Ferriss.

Is it the opposite of Modernist Cuisine?

I thought of it as practical, not theoretical. Like: learn to chop vegetables. and don't bother measuring stuff, learn how to grab a pinch of salt with your fingers quickly.

It struck me as interesting when the book tried not to be other cookbooks and tried to head off 'failure getting started'.
Why? It's a fairly fringe theory with very little linguistic support.
It's so rare, as a developer to actually get to sit in on user testing, and every time it is just incredibly valuable to see what people actually do.
> no such table: information_schema.columns

Oh I guess I will try the other very small number of options that it could be.

> LIMIT 1 limits row count. The issue here was columns. Like a giant blob someone might've stored in there.

Come on, this is pure nonsense.
Ar-Curunir: If A reduces to B, it means that an algorithm implementing B can be used (with some pre- and post-processing) to solve A.

moralestapia: If I transform B to A and I know the solution to A, then I solved B.

Ar-Curunir: If A reduces to B, it means that B is at least as hard as A.

moralestapia: [...] B is at least as complex as A

Can you even read?
Porting GTA3 to the Dreamcast has been the most recent example I’ve seen: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-the-new-grand-...
Are they journalists though? Really? Are they actually doing journalism?
I think it's conflating a bit two ideas. Number of outlets vs number of viewers. I feel an argument could be made for either case, selectively.

If we assume, for example sake, the country is exactly 50% left and 50% right, it makes sense that Fox, as the sole 'big' right wing news would dominate ratings.

Then you have CNN and MSNBC as left leaning outlets, so they outnumber Fox, but split viewership. According to the link above, if they merged, they'd have about the same viewership as Fox, which makes sense.
Good luck zooming into that photo on an iPhone
You vastly underestimate the creativity of people that bypass imperfect sanitisers.
Technofeudalism – a video essay/transcript summarizing the book (2024)
This was my favorite iMac design.
Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it
> - SQL injection: somebody didn't sanitize the input before querying a database.

> - Cross-site scripting: somebody didn't sanitize input and it got submitted and executed on behalf of the user.

To be technical about it, this is generally a failure of escaping rather than sanitizing.

You're supposed to be able to put anything into a database field and not have it affect the query. You ought to be able to paste JavaScript into a field and have it be displayed as JavaScript, not executed. The inputs remain as they are -- no sanitization -- they just have to be escaped properly.

That being said, I'm 100% on board about the importance of sanitation/validation. To the extent I think it ought to be part of the design of languages just like types. I.e. if a function parameter is only allowed to be three string values, or a string between 0 and 10 bytes, or a string limited to lowercase ASCII, these should be expressable.
Smalltalk for their paper, but yes. Same concept.
Moreover, from my POV, “woke” is often pronounced with a hard R.
Honestly that seems like a good result to me? Did you look at the product?
Earbuds
Connected by wires to a thing that you can dangle around your neck
If you read the piece he was gifted the cabana
Great article, Mistral CEO spoke about this issue, it's their main task now, figuring out the interface between IA and human.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250226213901/https://www.lrb.c...

https://archive.ph/Obx04
> When reading these program announcements,

I think DARPA projects often are not what they say they are. Admittedly this project is quite out there.

> P(Success) = 0.2

They themselves admit it's lower than this, which is not 'success' but successful outcomes to limited specs.
Tokyo turns to 4-day workweek to shed its title of ' oldest population'
the NYT seems to be rather willing to post opinions like this already
Between returns, taxes, and other stuff, I think you can model at ~55% of gross Steam sales. Then, whatever your split w/ your publisher is, on top of that. So I think it's easy for ppl to severely overestimate how much a dev is actually earning by just multiplying units times price :)

I think in general the uptick of sales volume more than offsets the discount during a Steam sale. There's a reason Steam sales have a cooldown, they generate marketing emails to your wishlists. So sales are always good, from what I can tell.

Thanks for the congrats, and all I can say is: don't give up, I'm an old-ass man and made it happen. Don't get stuck on art or music either, IMHO. Total distraction. You can make a game fun without that stuff. At least, fun enough to be sure the investment into the next stage is wise.
The lone hacker preventing you from doing this is trying to do you a favor.
This reminds me of Facebook's "M" assistant from 2017.

> Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant. Facebook will prompt them to test it with examples of what M can do: Make restaurant reservations. Find a birthday gift for your spouse. Suggest---and then book---weekend getaways.

https://www.wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-v...