skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Stanley Parable, The Stanley Parable Demo, and The Beginner's Guide were all “merely” Source mod “walking simulators”, but each of these games had a degree of precision in how they executed their vision that made them feel like very high-quality products, each in their own way. Yes, the nature of these games is such that there's very few “moving parts” that require coordination to provide a cohesive experience—it's mostly just the standard Source first-person character controller and interactable objects you can press +use on, with a narrator narrating the story—but each of these games felt solid to play, with the intentionally minimal “gameplay” getting out of the way of the intended narrative experiences these games sought to provide.
I wanted to like Wanderstop on its own terms, but once I got out of the portion of the game that's accessible in the demo, I found myself honestly really underwhelmed by the game's presentation. The intended narrative gravitas of the first dialogue with the first NPC that comes to visit was ruined because one of those little penguin dudes happened to be walking by near her feet, so she kept glancing down at it during the dialogue sequence in a hilariously immersion-breaking way. The guidebook you're given is a series of flat textures, with no animation for turning pages or anything like that whatsoever. The opening “cutscene” is presented as a series of still images like a motion comic, and a couple of the “animations” within them looked amateurishly terrible.

I'll try it out again sometime soon because I (want to believe I) still like Wreden's writing, but my initial experience with the game wasn't the best it could be by a longshot.
This is the framework that encompasses all of God's commands, thus all proper behavior, for the benefit of one and all:

Always love. Teach to always love.
Never hate. Teach to never hate.

We believe that Christ lived for our virtues. He didn't come here to die, but to teach us how to live.

"The greatest among you shall be the servant of all." --Christ

JDV is learning one of the fool's saddest mistakes that power is no substitute for happiness. Maybe he'll get his head out of his arse and turn himself towards God and away from that orange devil, that Harkonnen beast, but his chances grow slimmer by the day, by the act.

That article (which I read in full, ty) almost comes close to the mark, but misses the point entirely. It's just more noise. Read my comment history for the pure signal, my friend.
These are the people who took away healthcare benefits from all Americans because they didn't personally want to fund birth control and women's health.

This is not true though.. Most Americans have these benefits. Hobby Lobby just pushed for an extension of the existing Religious exemption to also apply closely held businesses. It affected a tiny portion of the population.
I do feel you have a bit of an ethical obligation to also have a "how to avoid leaking this information" section in your README.
You're arguing a different point. I never said a manager should simply count the number of LOC changes as a productivity metric.

I said that good developers write a lot of code. And I'm not talking about senior developers who now do mostly advising/review/architecture work (and don't code much anymore). And sure, sometimes someone takes a long time for a critical few-line change, but that does not happen every day.

I find it exhausting, frankly, how much pushback this simple concept gets around here. It seems to be a reflection of the gigantic team sizes that are common these days, and the modern tolerance for low-output (but still highly paid!) developers. Maybe the popularization of 2-week sprints 15-20 years ago corrupted everyone into thinking that everything should take that long, minimum.

People are shockingly ok with taking 3 days to add an argparse block to a python script, or half-week to implement a single HTTP call. It's nuts!
I wonder if we can dig out the original K&R preprocessor implementation?
Rust has a second compiler, mrustc, written in C++ and that is able to bit-reproduce rustc. This has been the case for a few years now.
Do you apply that rule equally to all religions, or just the ones that aren't likely to kill you/get you fired for expressing it?

//edit//And I say this as an atheist.
The 1903 did take off under its own power. The catapult came later.
This is a persistent problem for people named Diksha or Dikshit (roughly "doctor of divinity", one who has received diksha) and probably one my original comment made worse rather than better. I hoped everyone who didn't know the word would look it up, but that was impossibly naive.
https://archive.is/CxBB9
Each of these elements is even worse in every other language I can think of. What language do you think is simple in comparison?
I agree -- color bars pre-printed on tractor-feed paper would have used a Pantone ink, maybe a tint of 290 for blue, or 358 for green. Mills wouldn't have likely used a C+M+Y build: Why pay for three inks (and the potential for misregistration) when you can just use one? There might have even been a special machine to print the lines at regular intervals, and not run through a traditional offset printing press.

Pantone inks in specific, and printed colors in general, don't convert precisely to RGB. Ambient light reflects off paper to your eyeballs; a screen beams light into your eyeballs.

It's a nice little nostalgic thought exercise, though.
I would like to nominate this comment as one of the best ever posted on HN. In fact, I would love to see a whole documentary about each of these points.
3D printing is an interesting analogy. When I got my printer I really truly thought I’d be printing all sorts of things to use around the house and gadgets and stuff.

It turns out that to be a good 3D printer, you need to be really good at CAD, and measuring stuff with Vernier calipers. That’s like prompt engineering.

Then there was the nozzle temperature, print errors, and other strange results — call those hallucinations.

Once I had designed something that I needed many instances of, it was great. But for one-offs, it was a lot of work. So it goes with AI.
reminds me a little bit of the Kernel programming language
Chess engine built with TypeScript types
Because people don't know OpenSUSE and Mageia exist.
> It affected a tiny portion of the population.

> According to a 2009 research paper from NYU Stern School of Business, these corporations account for 52 percent of private employment and 51 percent of private-sector output in the country. Those percentages might be outdated now but still give a sense of just how many workers are employed at closely held corporations. Fifty-two percent of today’s private sector employees comes out to approximately 60.4 million people, based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

https://slate.com/business/2014/06/hobby-lobby-supreme-court...
Gimme a break. Compare China's centralized economy's solar/wind/nuclear production to the entirety of the west's decentralized, privatized economy. not even close.
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> I don't know how many people on HN have served and heard of Rickover? But I'm pretty sure most people on HN could not function in a Rickover style management context. It gets things done, but it's not terribly polite about going about getting them done.

I have never served. I am a Millennial. I prefer Rickover's management style. I thankfully had some of the earliest managers in my career who /had/ served under Rickover and applied this management style.

Some of the things I found very comforting under this management style is:

1. Everyone would be held accountable and managers would be held accountable for their subordinates

2. Everyone was expected to actually know their job, and not just hand wave away things. It's okay to say "I don't know", but it's never okay to bullshit.

3. Outcomes trump platitudes, which means it's absolutely okay to point out the emperor has no clothes.

I've had a very successful career considering my origins, and I attribute a lot of that success to that fact I hold myself strongly accountable in a way that is rare, both in my generation /and/ in older generations. Managers trust me, even in dysfunctional organizations, because I am razor sharp about what I do know, what I reasonably believe/assume, and what I do not know, and I have no qualms whatsoever about speaking the truth to anyone, regardless of title or position. The only times I've ever been reprimanded/fired or otherwise faced career challenges with my behavior were in organizations that were participating in unethical and arguably illegal activities, otherwise I've found that nearly everyone appreciates honesty and accountability, even if it's few and far between in their larger organization.

I think you'd find that for all the ink shed about the necessity of politeness and niceness, that the kindest thing to nearly everyone in the workforce is to be honest to them, both to their face and when they are not present, and to hold them accountable in a fair and even-handed way. Being kind is not being nice, and telling the truth is not always polite, but it makes a team, organization, and the outcome (product) better when people act in this way and that is incontrovertible. Almost everyone prefers to be part of a winning team, a team that produces high quality outcomes, and can clearly point to their contributions to that outcome because they took ownership of their work, accountability for it.

The fact we /don't/ act in this way towards people in younger generations is, in my opinion, one of the reasons there's so many mental health problems and dissatisfaction with life in early adulthood. Nobody feels ownership over anything, and they feel as if they have no control over their own life or anything that surrounds it, just floating along in misery. Taking accountability is the first step to taking control, and having the deep knowledge about the things you do every single day is something that builds a confidence born out of competence that nobody can challenge unjustly. So many people in tech completely lack both competence and accountability, so it is no surprise to me that they suffer deeply due to this.
The Wrights did use Lilienthal's data for their earlier gliders, but it turned out to be off by a factor of 2. That is why the Wrights built a wind tunnel to determine the correct values.
Yeah, randomly AI-generating a large list of imagined sub tasks is just the thing to manage e.g. ADHD.

You want to do this well, lean into pre-defined (and user-defined!) checklists instead. Sure, use AI to help people generate the checklist if you must, but the value is having a repeatable procedure.
She resigned on January 20. Another news article said that she suffered from a medical condition. You take on the work that you take on, but I would hate to think that said condition, whatever it was, had been exacerbated by the political environment.
Well I don't know...

Because the garbage posting is actually encouraged by LinkedIn.

Not just "the algorithm", but LinkedIn's peoples themselves.

At work we had a 2h workshop with one of their "something something engagement".

They basically told us:

- post content at least every other day, use AI to help you produce it

- like every post of your coworkers to give them visibility

- post comments on customers/partners posts to maintain engagement, use AI to help you produce them

Everyone should constantly put garbage there so others can promote it so... nobody reads it because it's garbage.
Jesus very explicitly condemns wealth, in a directly quoted passage that cannot be misunderstood. Jesus as quoted in Matthew 19:24 is very very blunt: "I'll say it again - it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of god!" I.e. wealthy people who don’t give it all away will go to hell.
> At the other extreme are publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Their reporters do go out and find their own stories, at least some of the time. They'll listen to PR firms, but briefly and skeptically. We managed to get press hits in almost every publication we wanted, but we never managed to crack the print edition of the Times.

I wonder if this holds true.
Rotfl, ok, I understood what's going on
xD
The railway companies in Britain built their own hotels. The first was in 1839:

> The first railway hotels in London were built at Euston. Two hotels designed by Hardwick opened in 1839 on either side of the Arch; the Victoria on the west had basic facilities while the Euston on the east was designed for first-class passengers

And in Manchester:

> The Grand Junction Railway, Britain's first trunk line, was completed between Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham and Warrington Bank Quay railway station, Warrington, on 4 July 1837. Through trains began to convey passengers from the station to Birmingham, and a separate booking office and waiting room were provided. From 17 September 1838 there were through carriages to London Euston by some trains after completion of the London and Birmingham Railway in that year. This increase in long-distance services resulted in one of the first private railway hotels opening in Liverpool Road.

Here it is: https://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour1/area1pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_railway_station#Old_sta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Liverpool_Road_rail...
I think there are numerous small changes that all come together at the same time. It wouldn't have taken much to build wheels into steamer trunks.
Freakin' epic
If you judge them in person, I think redwood easily wins, and CA has two giant versions(coastal redwood and sequoia).

Also Douglass fir is nearly as large & long lived as redwood, tho less impressive in person.
This is true, but as you note, `rm -i` shows the same warning for write-protected files.

My alias is intended to provide the same protection against accidental deletions of non-write-protected files. I only pass the `-f` when I'm certain I know what I'm doing.

If I still want the raw behavior as you called out, I can use the full path to `rm`. But for me, I've unintentionally lost more files that I have write permissions on through bad rm commands than any lost from my alias with `-f`, which I can't recall having lost any with.
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel," as Maya Angelou has it.

Rickover, for all his delivery talents, apparently made a good proportion of people feel like shit.
You can get surprisingly good results from cheap laptop hardware (as well as fancier hardware like an MBP) using software DSP techniques. One of the things I'm pleased about is that quite a bit of Asahi's audio work is just as applicable to generic laptops as it is to Macs.

I already use the Bankstown bass harmonics synthesis plugin developed for Asahi and a convolution EQ on a cheap HP laptop, with startlingly impressive results, using the Pipewire plugin chain autoload feature also developed for Asahi.

I suspect there are quite a few use cases for this beamformer outside of the Asahi ecosystem as well.
Unless you are a monk and already living a life of poverty, and giving all your belongings to others, you are already failing by your own standards.
It is interesting to contrast Notch's arc with Zach Barth's, if you are familiar with the Infiniminer[1] connection. The latter has continued to make small idiosyncratic games with a small team and following his own interests.

[1] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Infiniminer
Show HN: I built a calendar app that turns each week into a project board
I've always wanted to build a calendar client, and so a little over a year ago I started to build nocal.

For the most part, calendars are all the same — even contemporary calendars like CRON were just polished skins on the same old experience. There's been near-zero real innovation in years. They tell you what to do, but never help you do it. They're noisy, rigid, and often anxiety-inducing.

I set out to build a calendar that focuses on the important things, and keeps the noise tucked away, and helps you be productive. nocal has a concept of weekly notes, which serve as a scratchpad for everything going on that week. Notes support markdown typing and can contain lots of rich UI components, including other in-line notes.

It's been a blast to build and it was/is especially fun using nocal to build nocal.

It's pretty early days (only for macos and Google Calendar at the moment), please enjoy and let me know if you have any feedback, ideas, etc.
If you like this, you'll love Shen https://shenlanguage.org/
Show HN: New.email – Building Emails with LLMs
Hey HN -

Today, we're excited to announce the public launch of new.email to help you build emails faster and easier.

It's always been a challenge to create email templates.

With the rise of AI tools, templating has become both easier and more difficult. Most LLMs can generate templates, but you can't have confidence they'll render correctly in all email clients.

new.email is for developers, marketers, designers, and anyone who wants to create beautiful emails using natural language.
> Then the Soviets pulled ahead with capabilities in LEO, which showed they also probably had "better" ICBMs.

In the US the story is that because Soviet nukes were more crude than the US versions, which made them heavier and bulkier so the Soviets had to build their rockets bigger to have enough range. When the focus shifted to putting a man in orbit having a larger rocket to start with was an advantage and allowed the Soviets to achieve a number of firsts.

I do agree that declaring the race suddenly over with a man on the moon was a case of taking the ball and going home.
Moiré Than Meets the Eye: Uncovering the Quantum Potential of Phasons
Maybe they are saying that if they'd followed California's policies they'd have a higher percentage of their power from renewables and they wouldn't be so wasteful with the energy they do generate.

Because that's the point of this article isn't it? To follow Texas policies, not California's, by pointing to absolute numbers of renewables.

If they looked at absolute numbers on coal and gas they'd look worse.
my keyboard apparently only allows to press three keys simultaneously. But when I switch browser tabs/windows while pressing a key, the keyup event apparently is not send to the previously focused window. For this virtual organ, this means it keeps playing the tone and therefore allowing to play more than three tones.
> Emission reduction is. And Texas does not succeed there.

If we're talking about the impact of a particular tech, choosing the proper baseline is important, otherwise it's easy to reach fallacious results in counterfactual reasoning.

Emission reduction versus what? Per-capita emissions reductions? Per-kWh emissions reductions? Compared to whose usage?

Plotting total emission and saying "we've failed!" actually hides a lot of what's going on, it's only one aspect, and increased population can hide that overall emissions are trending in the right way.
Will have to look closer at picoruby. I do love MicroPython development. One support thing is how easy it is to combine with C, because to get the most out of microcontroller devices one really needs to use low-level languages from time to time.
I think you also need travel to be available for a class of people who are both expected to change clothes every day and did not have porters carrying their luggage.
They would have released less CO2 if they had regulated CO2 emissions.
See "The Wright Brothers as Engineers" by Quentin Wald

https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-Engineers-Appraisal-E...
Having your typedef be simply "something" and then using something* instead of Psomething would provide the same value and also be readable to people not familiar with your particular naming convention.
Phrasing does a lot of things.

If I rephrased the quoted passage as:

> transhumanists have deepened their hope for future in which the human species will augment evolution by fusing with machines (as we already do with brain-computer interfaces, but better), and the potential that current AI — which is already helping us decode proteins, perform and write up scientific research — will continue to improve, helping us to expand our medical knowledge even faster and help us develop cures for things currently beyond us. As the AI we already have has allowed us read the complete connectome — neural structure — in small animals, there's even a possibility we may expand this to human brains (though we don't know how long this will take us to do!), and if we manage that, then it would allow us to back up and restore our minds as we already do with digital documents.

Doesn't seem nuts, unless you believe humans have souls that can't be digitised.

That said, I'm skeptical about any specific future: when the only flying machine you've heard of is an airship, it's easy to imagine a future filled with them — what's our airship? What's the thing everyone expects but which won't happen?
A snide comment is one that disparages or belittles another person, so I don't think it can be subjective.

Edit add:

I find this entire line of reasoning to be odd:
>It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report. - The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.

I am being asked to take a critical look at Hobby Lobby, the reasons are outlined in the linked Substack. However, if I have any questions or criticisms of the Substack article, please note that it is not a professional work it is just a guy with a microphone.

If I can't trust the source material, how can I trust the claims?
the trick on linkedin is simply to 'unfollow' everyone so you don't see their inane posts / cries for attention.

I'd guess that your platform will inevitably contain the same dross. LinkedIn Lunatics are probably platform agnostic.
I'm not sure how this fits in, but in my experience a further complication as someone with chronic pain/illness is that often the thing that bothers me the most isn't what I would describe as painful. I would describe it as very uncomfortable but on a different axis than pain. As a simple example that I think most people can relate to - I do not think of being dizzy as painful, but it's very impactful if you are dizzy all of the time. I had an episode of vertigo that was one of the most miserable experiences of my life but I don't think I experienced much pain during it.

I guess if the goal is to tell whether the person needs pain meds that complication may not matter as much since they don't help (afaik) with those symptoms. But I do sometimes feel like my health problems get taken less seriously if I report on my pain levels rather than my discomfort and/or how it impacts me. Eventually I found a migraine pain scale that focuses on how it affects your life rather than directly how physically painful it is and that helped me have a normalized system for reporting.
Calhoun's utopia was about overpopulation, not about idyllic situations.
Haha Magic ToDo is fun. I got a reasonable set of steps for a project and when I'm in the "whatever, just tell me what to do" overwhelmed/surrender mode this would be great. Also love that subtasks can be easily broken down into subsubtasks with a click.

Would love this as a todoist extension for brainstorming subtasks.
Interesting. Is it still runnable on Windows 10/11? I guess it would be still fun to use Delphi for personal projects.