skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And what both Humankind and this latest Civ seem to have done is make the game more a puzzle than a sandbox.

I'm skipping VII. Or maybe getting it when it's on sale for $10 with all addons included.

<Looks sadly at his collector's edition of VI, which is mostly unplayed.> They're going downhill...
Because amortised capital cost > operational (power) cost

It's cheaper to build a 1 GW baseload power plant to sit beside your existing GPUs, than to buy another 1 GW of GPUs to place on the other side of the planet. Also, latency.

Also, a large scale roll out of nuclear would be cheaper than solar regardless. Most of the cost of recent nuclear builds is learning cost. We build them so infrequently that people retire or move on before the next one is built, so we have to learn how to build them from scratch, and develop the supply chains from scratch each time.
Thanks for reminding me that the two programming languages I'm using are poorly designed :)
Joke aside, JS is getting better especially when paired with the right tools, like Typescript, VS Code, ESLint, Prettier, React+JSX, etc.
PHP has been evolving for a long time to be a bit safer with more static analysis.

I'm not a fan or PHP's variables that are available in a bigger scope than they should, arrays that can be filled without having been defined in the first place, or that are falsy when empty. The solution is to not abuse these features (not use them at all, really) and code as if it was not PHP.
Ubuntu tried to use a macOS style menu bar back in the Mir days, but in my experience that didn't quite work. I ended up with some applications using the global menu bar and others using their own, adding two menu bars right next to each other when the window was maximized. For a macOS design feature like that to work, you need every application to use the specific APIs to integrate with it, or it'll just add to the GUI mess.

Ubuntu had the power to override APIs as they wished, a theme like this probably shouldn't do that, so I don't think there will ever be a stable theme that'll add a macOS menu bar.
Original game was the same IIRC. You’d see it when you spied on enemy cities - ludicrously spaced out shields in their build bar
That's correct, because FA can't turn inference time from memory-access bound into compute-bound. But your claim on that decoding is compute-bound is plainly wrong.

FA, compared to naive implementation, made training / prefill (i.e. when you can have multiple tokens in the same sequence visible) compute-bound instead of memory-access bound.

So, currently, on MHA/GQA, with Flash Attention, training/prefill is compute-bound, whereas decoding is memory-access-bound.

Before FA, both prefill / decode are bound by memory-access. FA solved the problem of training/prefill. But because kvcache is large, decoding is inherently bound by memory-access.

Our goal is always to make everything compute-bound.
Trying to make a gen z targeted speech to text tool focusing on ease of use https://yapscribe.com

generally using customized whisper based models with better performance
Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
I’m a fan of the usage of pinks and greens
If they do, what is the net harm? The technology that SpaceX was losing money to for decades is now known. Their moat isn't as deep or wide as it used to be. See Space Pioneer, CAS Space, Galactic Energy, LandSpace, ...
Nobody is being exploited, most people _want_ to self-employ to not get chewed by income tax.

Most states in Europe treat you like you're mister money bags for anything above 50k a year.

You can choose:

- Cost of living (read Housing)

- Taxation

- Income

Government's need to curb one of the first two or boost the third, otherwise people will always be looking for the exit door.
Yes it does. It ages. But even if it doesn't, my point still stands. Or are you insinuating that the engineers over at Intel, AMD and Apple don't know what they're doing, because clearly their CPUs aren't flawless and still have bugs, like Spectre/Meltdown.
The dynamic typing and "everything is a map" can be a PITA. At the moment I'm working on a codebase that has I/O to JSON APIs, Avro schemas and postgres databases. That means that a field called "date" can be either a string, integer days since the epoch or a Java Date, and (because this codebase isn't great) there's no way of knowing without tracing the call stack.

With the right discipline (specs, obsessively normalising all data at the boundaries, good naming conventions) this wouldn't have been a problem, but that discipline is optional, and headbanging aggravation results.

(This is, of course, a generic "dynamic typing" problem, but that's a key feature of Clojure)
Most parts of Switzerland, France, Spain (though only 2023-2025 to counter inflation), Norway, India, Lichtenstein, Japan, Luxembourg (only legal entities), Greece all currently have a wealth tax (according to de.wikipedia.org). It's a broad enough mix to counter your claim that a wealth tax would push all wealthy out of the country.

To counter the wealth tax you have to invest with a potential higher return, thus forcing the wealthy to spend it on other thing than yet another car or boat that just sits idle.
At 2 tokens per second? Needing a network connection or sending your data(including confidential's) to the cloud? needing very expensive GPUs? With hallucinations and tremendous energy expense.

I parse things usually at a rate of 2-20 million tokens per second, on a local computer. Never hallucinates and it is always perfect.

Don't get me wrong. I use LLMs a lot, but they are good at what they are good at.
It sounds strange but I believe businesses should bill the government for all work at their regular rates. If the assignment requires expertise that needs to be hired those rates should apply. Set some % fee for urgent work.
He would never abuse substances! He loves the substances!
> LLMs will never solve this problem

We should revisit this comment in 5 years.
What's new: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-30...

Or in antinews format: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/An...
Can you post this code if possible please?
The guy at Not Just Bikes will tell you that enforcement will never work nor happen and that the only way to get people to slow down is to design the road so it doesn't feel safe to drive fast.

The road next to my house has a speed limit of 20mph but most cars go 45mph because it's a straight road 4 lanes but space for 6. No bumps, no curves, wide. Effectively it feels like you should be driving fast. If I go the speed limit in the center lane because I'm going to turn left people will get angry and speed around at 60mph pissed off
This is the exact opposite of what you should do.

More disenfranchisement means more focus on rage bait / single issues that will rile up your side and juice your participation a little more (see ‘guns’, ‘pro-life’, ‘her emails’, et al). This pushes the parties to extreme opposites.

If you have compulsory voting, as suggested down thread, then that rump of casual voters dampens the extreme views and ends up pulling the parties towards the middle. Lots of “well there’s hardly any difference” swing voters. Parties do still end up competing on differences (‘gay marriage’, ‘immigration crack downs’) but extreme or patently false views are punished (‘jan 6 was a peaceful protest’).

The argument against compulsory voting is it slows ‘political innovation’ and drives a degree of apathy (‘there’s no difference between the bastards’). Minor parties and things like Preferential Voting can help address.
There is an extension API: https://gjs.guide/extensions/development/creating.html

The API isn't guaranteed to be backwards compatible, though, so you do need to occasionally update your extension code when a new version of Gnome comes out.
Thank you, this is the most concise description I've seen for the REPL. That gets often lost due to the curse of knowledge.

It's a completely different thing to be coding "from within your running program" and it's hard to signal that to who has never tried.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Cloudflare has been failing this way for ages. At this point they're just accepting it and it affects people who don't understand or care who cloudflare is. It's an issue with cloudflare business model as a whole these days.
> When a major nuclear disaster happens, it can cause hundreds of billions of damage.

Fossil fuels also cause hundreds of billions of damage, simply when being used, no need for accidents. Your argument is useful, because it highlights that we are better equipped to deal with a predictable level of damage than rare events. But overall, having more nuclear plants and using less fossil fuels over a couple of decades would have left us better off by billions of dollars.
It was called Demos, Public Domain, Shareware, Beerware, Postalware,....

And the open core licenses of nowadays are nothing more than a rebranding of those kind of license models.
Or consider the width of the road...
llm agent for python codebases, targeting swebench verified
As a thought excersize I've been going through your comments @dang to see what the state of moderation currently looks like.

From what I can tell it is a very difficult job right now and I do not envy that.

I read through this last reply and it did make me smirk because I think your reply was quite pointed and apt.

I do wonder though if you internally down weight the effect HN has on the overall tech sphere.

It seems like it is sort of the "online salon" of the tech and I think people have come to see HN as a source of ... guidance(?) in a world of such poor online discourse.

I think the last few years have definitely shown the power that online sites have to not only effect discourse but to sway elections and much more.

I'm not saying that is currently happening with HN but I do think it's worth reflecting where HN sits in the world and whether it has the proper tools to not succumb to the world of online bots / trolls.

Maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't but it appears to a large number of people (who may hold more influcial positions in tech than might realize) that it does matter.

Anyways just some thoughts.
You are related when you try to access a site. It's just customer service issue. You can't demand that sites allow you in.

you <---> C <---> site

you <--X--> C <---> site
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Court order

See the difference.
Good Lord man! Where are you finding this rubbish!

The Members of Parliament choose the Prime Minister. The role of the monarch in confining them is purely ceremonial.
So you blame the law for being banned by a company that doesn't want to obey it? How does it make the law wrong?
I'm always happy to criticize the internet connections and the price for them in Germany...but it's most likely not the main reason that is holding back businesses.
I think Mittelstand is perhaps misdirecting away from a more interesting conversation. Reading between the lines, this highlights an inherent bias in the majority of American companies to provide service to extract value as opposed to providing service for public benefit. Simply put, it's "move fast and break things" versus "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE."

If you want to dig deeper, this is a consequence of America beginning in recent history as a frontier settlement, primarily attracting aggressive, adventurous go-getters to make their fortune. Extracting for personal gain was baked into the culture from the beginning and is an artifact that has persisted to this day.
There's Stoke, Relativity, Rocketlab, Firefly, Ursa Major and a whole bunch more companies (many of which I forgot to mention, sorry) that are trying to come after SpaceX. Now that SpaceX has shown reuse is possible, it's easier to convince anyone that reuse is viable.

Similar to how Tesla showed that EVs could be nice and kickstarted the legacy automakers to get on this too.
> 2. Simplify Bureaucracy and Regulations => Who doesn't want that?

European leadership and a fair chunk of the population. They're the ones who bought it in, if they didn't think it was worth the trade off they wouldn't have instituted it.

It seems like just yesterday we had people lining up to praise their bureaucratic takeover of iPhone charger design, for example. If the EU bureaucracy has time for that, what matter is too small for them to be involved in?
> I consider what's machine-readable to mean [...]

I hate to break it to you but the world has a very different and well agreed-upon definition of what "machine readable" means.

You're going to get nowhere if you continue to argue that your definition is the correct one. That ship sailed long ago.
Europe is dying. It is an old socialist relic, with a completely outdated model of reality. The successes of the extreme left and right shows that the political nobility are done.

Sadly europe never realized that low taxes, capitalism and liberty is what drives wealth.

I wonder if, in a generation, when the best brains moved to the US, asia and argentina, the continent will finally awake from its socialist slumber?

Hong Kong managed to go from a peasant village to a global financial center in a generation or two. In theory, it should be possible for europe to do the same. But in order for that to happen, there needs to be insight into the sickness, and awareness of the cure.

I'm happy I left. After I left high tax western europe I basically doubled my salary after tax! =)
The media A/B tests headlines to see what generates the most clicks.

The journalists then learn what their audience responds to and creates narratives around that.

The result is the reality and the narrative often differ dramatically.

"News" is just "Reality TV" but in text format.
Everyone doesn't excel at every skills. The person needs to be great at coding + marketing + business management...

In a society, everyone should do what they are good at, and help each other. This is why we invented companies. One that is good at marketing, one good at business management, one good at coding will work together. And hire other people to come to help them...

We are going back in circle here
If you're cool with a more fantasy setting Endless Legend is amazing and definitely has not failed, similarly for Endless Space for a space setting. And Endless Legend 2 was recently announced. Avoid "Humankind" though...
Firaxis’s team is quite skilled, and many of its designers also code, which helps them build features more intentionally than at many other studios. I’m pretty sure they considered doing more autonomous AI for Civ VII, but there are really good reasons not to.

In most strategy games, rule-based AI is easier to author, contextualize, and theme. Players usually prefer AI agents with memorable and varied traits instead of excellent high autonomy (complex utility, HTN, ML) AI. They like evident strategy more than complex strategy. Smarter and harder AI sounds appealing on paper, but it’s often less fun for most players who want a predictable, beatable opponent.

High-fidelity human-level opponent AI is only really appreciated in eSports, where it serves a training purpose. However, eSports people have fun in an aim trainer—they are not the “normal” gamer.

Most people want “really weak chess” and wouldn't enjoy hard or complex chess. They like game AI opponents acting in simple and vulnerable patterns they can outsmart and feel clever. And the more they dominate the agents by learning them, the more they like the game. Even if they say they don't, the user testing shows they do. The cheat bonuses that are super easy to win against are probably intentional :)

There is also another reason for building simple game AI — the illusion of intelligence is not created by complexity but rather by anthropomorphization/personification. It's the same as with LLMs — the big breakthrough was when they started speaking like humans, and all further complications aren't adding much to the broad and intuitive feeling of their intelligence. Similarly, a game AI agent that tells you what they are thinking achieves more perceived intelligence than an AI agent that is actually more intelligent. With this in mind, game developers don't waste much time on deep intelligence. This time is better used making agents bark, animate, display human reactions, show context awareness, etc. It is very much about the agents being showhorses, not workhorses.

I say this from pretty long AAA game AI design and architecting experience. It’s wiser to do what Firaxis did.
Nothing big but I built a Discord bot using discord.py[0] that reads a game's presence. It notifies me when a dungeon run is about to end.

I didn't have any Python experience but it was surprisingly easy to pick up (MVP in an hour). Wrote it in notepad, which, imo, was a distraction-free experience. Prolly would be scrolling autocomplete than reading docs if I was in nvim. Took me back when I was used to completing coding exercises on paper.

If there is an implementation to read presences without using Discord client, let me know. Would be helpful to skip Discord altogether.

[0]: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
>It was frustrating before, then scary, now I think a lot of us are thinking about more material actions we can take to stop this non-sense.

don't listen to it or come up with something people prefer over it?
I have yet to start a pet project that would entail using deep reinforcement learning to make a computer learn to beat this game: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
I agree, and I feel like the reason to this is the mere existence of 'jq'.
Without 'jq' working with json in a Unix shell would be a lot more uncomfortable, but not impossible.
There were about 10 comments on the brand new thread at the time. I replied in context to someone saying "these people" are trying to "destroy the country" and have written openly about it. There was not enough context at the time for me to research further, so I asked for more information.

I'm not aware of any HN rule for you to need to be a subject matter expert to participate and ask questions.

I'm not across "neofascist" playbooks, but I assume if you provide evidence backing up a claim you've made then it strengthens the claim to those reading it.
yes but you have a solution. it sucks (make a 2nd account) but it works. iphone has no solution.
Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml?
> PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER

I wrote a tool that does just this: https://github.com/timmmm/anakin

If you run `anakin <some command>` it will kill any orphan processes that <some command> makes.

However is still isn't the true "orphans of this process must automatically die" option that everyone writing job control software wants - if `anakin` itself somehow crashes then the orphans can live again.

Still it was the best I could come up with that didn't need root.
Cloudflare is a flaming heap of garbage of a company and to see them have beef with another company like this is very ironic.
For some people internet is like electricity (or even more important, I can go 10 hours without electricity with UPS). It is a baseline for consideration to even start.

How long it takes to upload 500GB video, dataset or docker images on 250/50mbps DSL line? 24 hours in theory! Like two days in reality!

On 1gbps it is 1.3 hours in theory, about 2 hours in practice!

I understand that most people do not need such connectivity, but for many people it is question of staying productive and profitable. I work in remote team, and we do share such data quite often.

DSL line is good as a backup, but it is useless. Perhaps I could deal with limited speed. But latency and throughput goes to hell when under load. I would have to pause all other traffic while making calls!

In Romania I have 4 plans in single flat. Fiber, ADSL, and two unlimited (like no speed throttle) 5G SIMs. About 90 euro monthly.
Also see `man 2 clone` and `man 7 cgroups`.
Bosch is a bit of an outlier due to its structure and age. But there are definitions that would include Meta as Mittelstand, like this one: https://www.ifm-bonn.org/en/definitions/mittelstand-definiti...
What about Rocket Lab? (Well, unless people start to get Musk vibes from Peter Beck…)
LAB401, a European company specializing in hardware for penetration testers and RFID experts, has released the Light Messenger, a new accessory for the Flipper Zero. It uses Persistence of Vision (POV) technology with 16 RGB LEDs and an accelerometer to create light paintings and animations. A companion app lets you design and control the displays directly from the Flipper Zero. The project is open-source and available on GitHub. Priced at €29.00, it’s available now on LAB401's website (Flipper Zero sold separately). The LAB401 team is excited to bring this creative tool to the community, letting users express themselves through light.
The overwhelming majority of the research on any industry is either directly funded by or indirectly influenced by the industry. This is true for everything from the obvious (pharmaceuticals, smartphones, tobacco historically) to the less obvious (say paint, milk, or drill bits.) In other words, "what does the research say" is a different way to phrase "what is financially valuable to the industry?"

One problem I have with what I will term "Trust-the-Science-ism" is that it inherently assumes safety of anything novel; the burden of proof is on the individual to prove it's unsafe, because the corporations care about you, and you should trust the science. PFASs, plasticizers, modern flame retardants, child use of smartphones/social media, general use of screens, et cetera. In reality, who knows if a novel thing is safe? Why not test it out in a truly rigorous fashion? If the benefits from this new thing are so great, we as a society could pay for this thousands of times over. Sadly the incentives never align, these new inventions are rarely challenged, and their studies rarely approach rigor.

So, what does the research say on the subject? Nothing, as it turns out - there's nothing substantial published. Why? Well, we know where the influence and interests lie.
Archikoder Lens, a visual studio code extension have a new release that now allow you to generate and visualize UML diagram from your code.

How does it work?
Install the plugin in your vscode and click on "open in explorer" of the plugin view. In settings, change the view from "graph" to "UML".
For every code file you open in the editor, a class diagram for elements like "class", "interface", "methods", "property" is generated and visualized.

What else?
As in previous version, you can always query specific elements of your codes to be visualized: use query "class diagram" to display a diagram class of all the classes in your project.
I have the same problem on Windows 11. Every added keystroke seems to start a new search, and the order of the results is not stable.

It's not that terrible if there are only a few results, but if you leave the "search the web" feature enabled, Windows will complete your "keepa" to "keepass" and put a "search Bing for keepass" result right at the very top.

How often this happens seems to depend on system load and the quality of your internet connection. It's infuriating either way.
>The result is that web browsing in Spain on weekends, when football is on, is severely impaired, with thousands of web sites going down as matches play.

At the risk of non-Spaniards being unable to understand: that's the most pandereta thing I've heard this year so far.