skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations! That's a huge accomplishment, and not something I'd call "minor."

When I think about game development, these are the skills and types of work that come to mind:

- software development

- game design

- graphical art

- musical composition

- writing

- marketing and promotion

and I'm sure there's more that I'm missing. I'd be very curious to know how you navigated through all of that...like did you start on one end, like with a game engine, and then fill in the rest, or was it more of a holistic iterative process? I hope that's not too broad of a question, but frankly I'd appreciate any insights you can share.
Maybe it's aspirational: things that people don't know, and would like to learn, and perhaps use one day.
But he got what he wanted, from them.
Forget the agent, browser-use's published setup instructions to use with your own Chrome profile and passwords [https://docs.browser-use.com/customize/real-browser, https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/495714e2dd38...] launches a Chrome session with Remote Debugging enabled.

These tools they are guiding users to setup and execute are "inherently insecure" [https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40056642].

So if you go to a site that can take advantage of these loopholes then your browser is likely to be compromised and could escalate from their.
I mean, most do by going to the office instead. I’m not sure how the pool is much different in that regard.
Main use case for me would be RLAIF. Given a prompt, generation, and a code execution result - rank N alternative executions and execution results for DPO/other training patterns.

In complex use cases like building a bi engineer, it’s useful to persist state across multiple function calls within the same interpreter.
Maybe a dumb question but... in the age of Steam, what does the publisher do these days? Advance funding? What do those numbers look like?
I had to stop playing for a while because the music really got stuck in my head. What a fantastic game though, it really is so fun. The "Woooow" at some upgrades always make me chuckle. I'll definitely come back to it soon.
Super cool, and I'd love to play around with this if they release an open source version.

Without a full paper, it's a bit hard to understand the full details. Does this essentially replace nucleus sampling with diffusion, or does it change the "core" transformer architecture in a major way?
there is no way you will find contracts at $200/hr organically unless you are some top expert in something very few are and just happen to magically get connected to a company that needs your expertise.

contract like this do exist (and significantly north of this amount) but they are in my experience scenarios where you were in some way connected to a business or industry (more so business) which specifically needs you - think like decade working for a company and knowing ins and outs of every little thing in their systems/infrastructure/... and full subject-matter expert in what the business does to a point where you are worth more to the company that company is to you... at this point you can pretty much dictate your rates.

of course I don't know much about you but with 3 years of experience I would be pretty confident to say that if you find a contract of more than $100/hr I would be pleasantly surprised. godspeed!!
The Air Force already periodically deploys B-2's to forward bases within range of Chinese missile strikes.

https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/2...

Current plans are to purchase a relatively large number of B-21's. Some losses are expected and accepted.
It’s really not though. It goes back to the whole “at that point you shouldn’t drive/fly/cross the road because you might die” argument. Literally millions (billions?) people commute every day using navigation apps. There will be accidents, but so far it’s been statistically insignificant, so people keep using them. Everyone has their own risk tolerances.
Thing is, the majority of OCR errors aren't character issues, but layout issues. Things like complex tables with cells being returned under the wrong header. And if the numbers in an income statement are one column off creates a pretty big risk.

Confidence intervals are a red herring. And only as good as the code interpreting them. If the OCR model gives you back 500 words all ranging from 0.70 to 0.95 confidence, what do you do? Reject the entire document if there's a single value below 0.90?

If so you'd be passing every single document to a human review, and might as well not run the OCR. But if you're not rejecting based on CI, then you're exposed to just as much risk as using an LLM.
> This is probably to support potential ambiguities and intraword emphasis e.g. underscore is a common pseudo-space so doesn't support intraword use but * does e.g.

is_not_italic

this*is*italic.

That seems like a legacy spec mistake they had to adhere to. I'd expect

this_is_italic

to work and for _ literal usage to require

is\_not\_italic
Why did you go with a publisher rather than publishing it yourself?
> You haven't argued anything more substantive the other way.

Correct. I provided a dueling hypothetical precisely to illustrate that they had not provided an actual argument. I didn't intend to argue the other way—I honestly haven't formed an opinion on the topic—I just intended to point out that confidently asserting dogma isn't useful or meaningful.

What you call intuitions and principles I call dogmatic beliefs, and dogma is uninteresting to discuss in a mixed-dogma forum like this: it just devolves into a shouting match.
Show HN: Font Generator – A website that makes your text look cool anywhere
I have always been curious about how the fancy text styles on social media work. After researching Unicode characters, I started developing my own tool to convert simple text into fancy styles. Although I have created other similar tools, I believe this one is my best work.

Similar tools exist, but they’re usually packed with annoying ads and pop-ups, have clunky interfaces, offer limited styles, and don’t make it clear that these fonts are for casual use, and not for situations where accessibility is a concern.

I’ve tried to fix all these issues, and I’d love to hear your feedback!
Zoom out on the page a few times. Try 50%
Gotta pay rent but there's no "jobs". Gotta do what you can.
Silly me, I didn't noticed menu, I was trying to press F instead.

Mouse lock is a must on desktop, but you have to communicate it the user somehow so they don't get confused.

I understand your point about the game being 100kb, but once you decide to publish it on Steam the overhead doesn't matter. People are totally fine downloading 60Gb games, so couple megabytes won't hurt anyone. I gave you those two options because, at the end of the day it boils down to which platform you'll be more comfortable with and which will give you more usable options out of the box.

There is some work to be done with UI, but once you get there don't pass on Steam. If anything it will give you some bragging rights and another point in resume.

And like you said yourself, if you're willing to put some extra work, at 4-5 euro range it will be a steal on Steam. It may take some additional footwork to reach out to content creators to get some inital traction, but the concept is great and I would give it a chance.
Conversely, a story from the opposite end of the extreme: Fresh out of college I got an interview at a company that made games. It was exactly what I wanted to do and I made it miraculously far given the fact that I had zero real world experience. I made it to round three but ultimately got rejected. Who did they hire instead? A friend who works at the company later told me that it was down to two candidates. It was me vs the guy who wrote the game engine they make all their games in.
Who is the publisher? Isn’t it steam or the author itself?
Have you considered switching careers rather than quiting. I took a two year break from tech and did English teaching. The pay was low but it sustained me with my savings and I had tons of mental energy to work on my side projects. Any job that's easy to clock in and clock out, where the work gets done on the same day, no deadlines. Can do wonders for your mental energy.

When I returned to tech I had a pretty impressive portfolio of projects. Turns out unsurprisingly that not coding all day for work makes me want to code more for fun.
Bezos fully owns WaPo personally. It is not under Amazon
Congratulations. Looks fun and one of those "omg, I've spent so much time on this" kind of game.

Can you expand in the part of talking to publishers. How did you approach it, how much previous context did you have, how did you evaluate what was good vs not. I know what mobile game publishers ask for but not desktop/steam ones.

Any advice? (Not that I'm making games but just curious what form it actually takes)
“Free markets mean the best product always wins out. It just so happens my subsidiaries make the best product in all markets. Read about why in the Washington Post.” - Bezos, probably
Godot 4.2 / C#. Godot is an amazing engine and I highly recommend it for indie devs. The iteration cycle is a few seconds. IMHO, using Unity will absolutely slow you down, as a designer/programmer. I can't comment on the reality of a 3d game with a complicated art pipeline, however. But for a game like Ballionaire, Unity or Unreal would have been a mistake.

Ballionaire was fun by day 3, the first time a ball dropped and hit a trigger that caused an effect. It was luck a bolt of lightning to me. I am a VERY pessimistic person. So the fact that it felt compelling that early, and like, anyone who saw it could understand it and felt the fun, was a huge sign to me. Unfortunately, not every game has a premise that allows for that. I don't think you could hope for the same kind of feeling while making a 4X for example.

But if you're making a game that ultimately should feel fun from moment to moment, like these kind of quick-play games are, well, I think you can get there quickly and with little work, if the idea is solid. And if you can't get it to feel fun, I would be wondering if the idea is solid, versus it needing more time/polish etc.
When applied to broadcasters using licensed public resources under Federal jurisdiction, yes. When applied to privately-operated Internet sites that readers have to go out of their way to access, no.

Not just "no," or "Hell, no," but fuck no.
Congratulations! Looks fantastic. I'm curious about marketing and your relationship with the publisher.

There's a LOT of games launching on Steam all the time, some solid games go largely unnoticed. How did you get word out about your game? Did you build an audience during development? How much assistance did the publisher provide? Additionally, did you have contacts that introduced you to publishers? If not, what got their attention? Fanbase, demo, you personally?
What in particular did you find difficult about dealing with them?
what success numbers you think are achievable for reasonably good algo-trader?
I think this attitude is exactly why the birth rates are down so much. Humans are intelligent, and do things for a reason. Including having, or not having, children.

There used to be reasons for having children in the west. They were your pension, and they were the financial success of both you personally, your village, even your country.

Today such systems survive: certain factions expect to win through children, and see it both as a way to attack and an exploit "against the west" (an exploit against human rights regulations). The most egregious example of that is in Palestine. There, if you have a kid and they attack "the enemy", mostly their mother and father get money for life. The more "enemies" killed, the more money. Paid with UN money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...

(note that the wikipedia article is not accurate. In the description of the fund on the PA website it does NOT say "violence against Israel". It does not even say "Violence against Israeli", although it does refer to persons. Another inaccuracy is that the fund was ended. It was not. It was renamed and the conditions changed, slightly, as discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1ix23s1/ma...
This is a very big change at the Post. For decades they have dutifully aired competing perspectives from the political left and right as well as major international players of different stripes. Now all of that will end. It seems future op-eds will be written only by a carefully curated pool of sanitized Post staff.

This suggests that the Post will effectively become just another municipal newspaper that happens to be in located the US capitol, rather than a source of national scope news. This giant shift in strategy will surely decrease the paper's market size and reputation for breaking news (as it did with Watergate and Snowden).

I suspect this also portends a big reduction in the paper's commitment to investigative journalism, something that IMO, is truly irreplaceable (especially since investigations at the NY Times have faded into a mere shadow of what the Post has long been in that endeavor. They did a rotten job at reporting Snowden's revelations, for example.)

[BTW, I was a subscriber to the Post (and a long time reader before that) but cancelled in protest when Bezos suddenly pulled the Post's endorsement of a presidential candidate in 2024. Now I guess I'll stay away forever.]
A plane is just a burrito.
Close! Depends what you call 100% I suppose. Even C isnt 100% C
Interesting! Do you have a link to the video for context?
Apparently there are a lot of people confused about this, but no, Amazon does not have ownership over the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos bought it with his own personal funds using an LLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#The_Washington_Post
If it's a failure to demonstrate a basic skill that are relevant to the job, then yes, that's entitled. However what was described is much closer to irrelevant trivia. I don't think it's entitled to resent such things being the deciding factor.
A lot of fun! I enjoy the subtle coloring and changing background texture.

It's a bit confusing at first to grasp that one upgrade is applied randomly at the start of the game (I think?). The first few times I played it felt like the rules were changing and I couldn't figure out what contributes to the score multiplier.

Also, when you get multiple upgrades, the text reads something like "You caught 0 coins out of 0 in 0 seconds (+1 upgrade and choice). You missed 0 times (+1 upgrade and choice)." which is a bit confusing.
Thanks! I've read half of one of them (I like it) will check out the other too
Sounds rather similar to what The Economist purports to support (or at least used to) but with more of a tilt towards personal liberties. That's open to interpretation but could be pro free speech, pro gun rights, pro reproductive rights, pro LGBT.

From their 2009 about us:

"What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? 'It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position.' That is as true today as when former Economist editor Geoffrey Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favoring penal reform and decolonization, as well as—most recently—gun control and gay marriage."

https://web.archive.org/web/20090228231949/http://www.econom...
From anti-establishment hacker to omnipresent AI surveillance enabler. Yay!
While I agree with the sentiment you are delivering, I think successful is probably the wrong word here.

I worked on a repo for several years with many tens of thousands of lines of code and attempted to promote it heavily with little success. At some point I chopped out about 2,500 lines of code from that repo and packaged just one feature as a standalone product.

Years later the child repo has thousands of users and the parent has barely any. While I consider both projects to be successful by definition, if I'm going to briefly showcase one over the other I'll showcase the smaller project that received more engagement. Because the engagement metrics do indeed matter. It lends credence and legitimacy to a project.
With AI generating depth maps from mono images, and filling in image gaps, it may someday be possible to generate stereo from some mono video. One challenge is visual artifacts involving depth can be very noticeable.
What factors made you choose to go with a publisher vs. self-publish?
Hot take: If AI ever gets smart enough to actually do these activities well, the USA government will decide AI is a "national security risk" and not allow companies to sell access to it. Terrorists and drug cartels might use it!

Chatbots will be fine, but anything actually useful? Banned.
Check the sibling comment for tips (maybe he has reincarnated)
"But I'm not one of those fancy 10x developers. Instead of a master of craftsmanship, I'm more a master of close-enough-manship"

I definitely relate to this comment.

and he also says "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days"

I think people are looking for those unicorn 10x devs that are like Good Will Hunting for code, but forget that there are those devs that might not get things right away but never stop until they figure things out. You'll probably find a lot more of those than the unicorns
The whole point is, that not everyone is in the bubble of VS Code users, and not everyone wants to have that stuff on their machine, and not everyone is benefiting from it either. Imagine cloning some repo and having extra stuff in there from 3 different IDEs and 3 different editors. This stuff clutters up the repo.
It’s a bad reorg if it doesn’t take into account on which service(s) which team is working.

Also a team sized service is IMHO is a lower bound, not upper bound. I’ve seen a small team working on tens of micro-services and IMHO it is over engineering (but there are exceptions when small micro-services make sense).
Fusion fuel isn't going to be free. Fusion reactors aren't magic: in a sense they're very traditional in that they will be used to turn water into superheated steam that spins a steam turbine to drive the propeller. Just like in 1897. Even if the fusion reactor could somehow magically be made maintenance free, the steam plant will be maintenance intensive. Ask any engineering officer who worked on a steam plant, regardless of whether the heat source was fossil fuel or fission. This is part of the reason why merchant ships switched from steam turbines to diesel engines decades ago: lower maintenance costs and lower crew training requirements.

Maritime fusion power could be a good idea but you have to evaluate complete system lifecycle cost instead of looking at just one component.
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Here's Musk today as the person in the room saying who will get to have a job and who will not in the United States government:

"Whoever is doing a job that is essential, and doing that job well"

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lj3u4hc7ak2w

Any and all non-essential jobs will be let go, according to Musk. Who is the only person standing at a press conference with Trump sitting at the table.
Most of the marketing will come from the publisher. It's easy for a game not to be noticed, and to crater thanks to no audience. The publisher runs the early and mid ad campaigns.
They received requests, many of which were denied. Not part of the government.
> "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others."

You can share your opinion... as long as it's the correct opinion :)

FWIW I do think papers can/should exercise discretion with the opinions they're willing to publish—not hard to imagine why someone might not want to platform hardcore extremists, hate speech, or just generally unwell people—but this is ridiculous. Especially since it's a clear move to favor the interests of said paper's billionaire owner.
It was in 2020, James resigned. The opinion piece by Tom Cotton called for a overwhelming show of force against protesters.
> What workflow can have occasional catastrophic lapses of reasoning, non factuality, no memory and hallucinations etc?

LLMs might enable some completely new things to be automated that made no sense to automate before, even if it’s necessary to error correct with humans / computers.
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Amazing work! Questions:

- How/why did you decide to talk to a publisher? When in the process did you feel like you had a good enough prototype to do that?

- What have been the pros/cons of working with a publisher? When, in your opinion, should someone do that vs. self-publishing?

- What was your confidence level throughout various stages of the project? Was there a point before releasing the game where you maybe got a glimpse of the success you were going to have? (I guess probably Steam wishlists?)

- What's next?

Congrats again on the hit!
The title says "on commodity GPUs" but the only GPU mentioned (and the only one with benchmarks) are Nvidia H100s ($30K+ on Ebay)?

Do these run on actual commodity GPUs like RTX 3090s and what kind of tokens/sec is expected on those?

Also, there's no paper, no open weights, no code. Just an API?

Companies like Groq and Cerebras already hit these kind of numbers over a year ago so I'm not seeing what's HN worthy here.
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Yes I’m sure the billionaires who would buy a newspaper to impose their own editorial are be anti-war
Chat works because humans are really impressed by natural language responses, irregardless of the actual correctness/quality.

Once you build it into a product the failure modes become obvious.
Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the Pacific
From where I sit, every time the left does something e.g. affirmative action, unhinged illegal immigration, or some other woke thing, they try to soften it, deny it outright, or change the subject, similar to what you're doing

I agree with GP, prior to today's ouster the implicit pillars were social justice, feminism, metoo, mental health, or LGBT. Pretty much every piece of media coming out of these institutions has been consistently cramming this worldview down people's throats since around 2017. Whatever this shit is, I'd rather just hear billionaire propaganda and see every one of these ideologes get canned

And I don't consume right wing news either, I've been reading the NYT for the past 5 years and that alone was enough to convince me things need to change
The hype is reaching absurd levels. Don't save for retirement, wait for AI instead!

I'll just say this... if you actually believe AI will make money obsolete, I'd be happy to take all your obsolete currency off your hands.
in my experience trying to do full time contracting at half that rate, I found it difficult to maintain a full pipeline of work while also prospecting for future clients / supporting old clients.

it was very much feast or famine. Anybody with the budget to pay a solid rate is smart enough to watch the contract closely and get rid of the expense as soon as possible. No client who pays that kind of rate wants to share your attention and time with other clients.

Need a routine for responding to inquiries vs doing deep work.

And then there's taxes (put aside at least 25%, quarterly payments) and what about health care or not having formal PTO.

No easy answers but these are the struggles I faced. Eventually i went back to corporate gigs to stabilize my finances.
I think he benefitted from the Vitamin D, since he died at 101.