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As I see many others like me, full of nostalgia: You can play it on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990

Once every couple of years I dive into it, I still cannot complete it without cheat codes, but I love the mouse animation, the "mirror" prince, and many other amazing details!

This should be the first comment. I wrote some criticism, mostly because many internal contradictions in the article. Then, I notice the structure...

"The accountability gap" Here’s the question nobody’s asking: when it goes wrong, who carries the bag? (..)

"What to do instead"

"The craft still matters"

It hasn’t thought about the problem at all. It’s pattern-matching against its training data and producing the most plausible-sounding response.

The article kind of lost me here. Agents are way more than that, today. And the author knows it, as later it says stuff like

Claude will never do this. It’s trained to be helpful.

But the first phrase just tell me author just have a deep dislike for agents and it's looking for rationalizations for that feeling.

Part of the criticism is on point, sure. But if it "being trained to be helpful" is a problem, it's fixable. It can "be trained to be more critical".

Later:

But it wasn’t designed for your team. (..) It was designed for the median of everything Claude has seen. A generic best practice for a generic problem at a generic company. Which is to say, it was designed for nobody.

That's non-sense. Anybody who understand algorithms know that, sure, on a first instance you have a "good algorithm" that has a good performance on average, or in worst-case. But then, you can design algorithms that are adaptive to the input. Same applies here.

Not only europe:

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

https://apnews.com/article/chile-united-states-china-visa-sa...

could you tell more details or links about that ?

From the article:

"As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but this time, the least likely tokens will be output."

I understand this as, a negative number far from zero is also quite random (just with a distribution that will produce unlikely tokens).

Personally, I hate it; I don't like magic or black boxes.

So, no compilers for you neither ?

(To be fair: I'm not loving the whole vibe coding thing. But I'm trying to approach this wave with open mind, and looking for the good arguments in both side. This is not one of them)

That's simply not true.

There are plenty of smart devices (including lighbulbs, sensor movements, and what not)t hat use bluetooh, or protocols like Zigbee that enable all kind of functionality without wifi password.

The most emblematic application in real life is in bioinformatics. BWA and Bowtie are two widely used softwares built upon them.

Despite the appearance, they do: despite the training, neurons, transformers and all, ultimately it is a program running in a turing machine.

Power it off

This has been the real game changer for me. As instant gratification is not so instant, I can go way larger stretches of time without checking the phone. Also, as nowadays most people message, and calls are not so common (at least in my circles), there is no "harm".

Of course there are tons of open questions, yet you made a huge false dichotomy.

I would bet that most people agree with banning sales of alcohol, cigarettes and opioid to kids.

How about Wikipedia's approach?

Of course Wikipedia is way smaller than the internet, but still one way to go could be by having themed "human curated niches"

Are you saying that none of their original appliances have died?

If not, do you realize that you claiming " If it was survivorship bias some of these appliances would've died." When "these" refers exclusively to those who haven't died is the very definition of survivorship bias?

Except 13×28 = 364, so you get the "free day" every year, and two of them on leap ones

I don't know how common is that story... Either I know you, or I know someone with a similar story.

Anyways, as someone who identifies both as a computer scientist and as a dancer, I can definitely relate to your experience:-)

That's really an example of bad journalism. What you find in the text is quite distinct from the title:

Hawking announced: “I have changed my mind. My book, A Brief History of Time, is written from the wrong perspective.”

What about phone companies ?

Seems global outage: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/whatsapp-is-down-globally.ht...

Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.

“They’re doing a 15-year follow, and I would expect to see a significant reduction in cancer mortality in the long term,” Dominitz said. “Time will tell.”

After all the debate here in HN about the interpretation of the data and the statistics, I'm really looking forward to see a post in 15 years with the new study.

The following part is puzzling to me:

"The Norwegian insisted there was more he wanted to say but was limited in what he could do without explicit permission from Niemann to speak openly."

Anyone has the original source?

From the link:

"I'm sharing this work because I hope to start a conversation about what could be possible within C++’s own evolution to rejuvenate C++, now that we have C++20 and soon C++23 to build upon."

Clearly this is relevant for c++ itself (coming from Sutter), so I'd say it's quite unfair/misguided to call it "just a distraction from more relevant efforts."

Spotify is missing user profiles, in the Netflix fashion.

Based on a sibling comment[1], it seems that this document is authentic.

I had seen it before (maybe here in HN), but I was convinced that it was a prank.

Can anyone confirm the authenticity of this ?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064781

The Finnish political system was infiltrated by Russian assets (willing or just useful fools) for decades [0]

I just read the whole [0] reference, and I could not find anything related to your claim. Can you give specific examples ? Or can you explain how the article supports your claim ?

I suspect you have not read enough code.

Wikipedia, EFF, Gnu

Do you have a link regarding these previous opinions you mentioned?

No one in the parent posts has said anything about "literally zero people".

The OP made a claim ("invented in 2017"), and this very claim is being criticized.

I found perplexing that you interpret the very same words in almost opposite ways.