skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could layer this approach to get some global structure.

Currently the probability of each tile is local * sphere.
A simple approach would be to add some perlin noise on top to dictate different biomes, with each biome having their own tile probability distributions. Then the new tile probability becomes local * sphere * biome.

So in the ocean biome you might be less likely to get houses and other large structures. But islands and grass huts are ok. And obviously water tiles get a large probability boost.

Or… what if we took the tile approach further and have various scales of tile. Perhaps biomes are larger tiles (8x8) which also follow the same algorithm so that biomes have relationships to one another.
I have not run CalyxOS, but on my pixel (in my opinion), Open Camera using DRO already provides much better quality images than the stock camera app for most conditions.
One Guy Changed My Pizza Game Forever
Your “logical” is counter to how English-speaking people write numbers.

As evidenced by the MM/DD/YYYY ("middle-endian") year format that a significant part of the English-speaking world uses, "logical" and "traditional" can mean different things.

The fact that I can't think of any arbitrary-precision library which stores its numbers in big-endian format is evidence that LE is the logical one. Yes, it looks odd in a hexdump, but that's not something you need to deal with often and if you do, you get used to it anyway.
Generating Worlds with Wave Function Collapse
And god forbid a person has actual health issues, which is not uncommon for people in their 40's and 50's, a time when a lot of people first have the savings and/or experience to start their own business.
Not a docking station, but I recently got a Dell USB-C monitor that works with my X1 Carbon nicely. Its an S2722QC, quite affordable for a 27 inch, 4k monitor, if you get a discount.
Wait… I put all of my retirement and kids’ college money into ETH. I told my friends and family to do that too so we can get rich. Was that a bad idea?

My brother said he didn’t trust his money to a 27-year-old Russian kid who looks like a tweaker. My brother doesn’t know how to write code, I told him to do the research.

Should I be nervous or start shopping for a Lambo?
Contrast this with most of us guilty of slacking off most every week...
But which is which?
> When was the last time a doctor recommended a standard test set to you to check your home environment for toxins? Never!

Actually this happens pretty often with radon gas and mold tests. There are even regulations for testing when selling homes in some places.

Rules requiring better informing consumers doesn't seem too onerous to me.
Get silver-colored silicone bumps to keep from scratching your tables. Bonus points if you have the full grid of contacts, matching the original.
For a re-release by Microsoft to be legal Microsoft would have to come to some agreement with EA (or whoever owns the rights now).

Abandonware websites can kinda ignore minutiae like "copyright law", Microsoft can't.
These sorts of "security" measures kill productivity and ultimately accrue (along with others) to the point where your organization moves so slowly that its lunch gets eaten by upstart competitors who aren't burdened by self-imposed make-work.

I've seen it happen.*

EDIT: * While working in infosec, I'll add.
Or, millions pretend to quit their jobs for karma points.
That's not how language evolves. I'm sure you don't pronounce every French word that was assimilated into English with a French accent / pronunciation.
Mirtazapine worked wonders for me... for about 2 weeks. After that it seemed to have no effect at all, except for extreme constipation.
You make strong arguments, but unfortunately covid didn't happen in a political vacuum and western responses became tied up in anti-trump and anti-brexit rhetoric both sides of the pond.

But I do wish people a) understood stats and b) listened to reason not rhetoric.
Or a sitcom.
Really impressive, this is a ton of effort for a satire piece.
A cast doesn't address the cause of a broken arm. Should we only use casts in extreme cases?
Treat it as a hint that Twitter is a cesspit you are better off out of.
It's linked to in TFA

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051201-09/?p=33...
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Yeah, hence the normalization (or lack thereof) of those features being critically important to the discussion.
Global Warming is absolutely a slow motion comet strike. We don't believe the science, because we don't WANT to believe it. Those of us that DO believe it feel like robots, speaking to the rest of mankind in ones and zeros. And it's still 10-20 years away, we all think. We will just move north (or south). We will just move inland or uphill. We can science our way out of this shit. Not true. None of that is true. When food prices start to skyrocket, and refugees swarm in from lowland countries and every direction including our own country, where will we go? This should absolutely be seen as a slow motion meteor strike, a world-buster event that happens right in front of our eyes before we can truly react. But we must take action. The danger of methane release, particularly methane hydrates, is beyond scary. That, and the raising of sea levels by 2-7 meters, and other unknowns such as the halting of the gulf stream, species die-off, ocean acidification, coral reefs and god knows what else. As a society, we must intelligently react to these dangers as we've done in the past with threats like the ozone layer. We must plan as if a comet was going to hit the planet, starting now.
From Github’s TOS

> GitHub hosts a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. While using the service, you must follow the terms of this section, which include some restrictions on content you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.
It depends on the observers reference frame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
How come npm packages aren’t immutable and signed just like rubygems?

Totally understand the guy though
This looks like Wave Function Collapse
https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

It's cool, but I agree with some other commenters that it's not a very good way to generate an entire world, but it is a cool way to generate part of a world like a maze or something.
CVE probably won't do CVEs for these as they don't do backdoors/intentionally malicious code (but maybe they will, who knows). In any event the color.js issue is being tracked by the #GSD https://globalsecuritydatabase.org/ in GSD-2022-1000007 (https://github.com/cloudsecurityalliance/gsd-database/blob/m...) and the faker.js issue in GSD-2022-1000008 (https://github.com/cloudsecurityalliance/gsd-database/blob/m...), if you would like to add anything to it please submit a PR or file an issue against the file. Thanks.
Yes. FOSS licenses are irrevocable. People should be able to count on that. NPM shouldn't let you cause harm to many other people just to enable you to more effectively throw a temper tantrum.
Thanks - it's easy to forget after working with basic datatypes (char, string, ...) for a long time that the individual symbols themselves have their own history and encoded meanings; some retained, some implied, some likely debatable, some perhaps lost.

I wonder whether there have been any efforts to create an etymological dictionary for Unicode characters.
Yea senior/staff engineers don’t have trouble with that.
This guy wants to have his cake and eat it too.

I saw a project recently where the author released it to the public domain, but in the top he said something like "I know it's public domain, but please don't remove my name."

Sometimes people choose a liberal license like CC0 or MIT because they don't want to bother researching the boring details of licensing and/or don't care. But clearly that guy who wants his name on it, and the dev in the OP do care about the licensing details.

Releasing colors/faker under a liberal license was a mistake, and pushing out this malicious update was another (much worse) mistake.

What he should have done was updated his libraries to print out a warning like "This software has reached end-of-life and will no longer be maintained. It is being superseded by Colors PRO. Visit ... for more information.", and then started selling licenses/support contracts.

But now, not only is he not going to get paid for colors/faker, he probably won't ever get hired by any of the companies affected by this, he might get sued, and he might even go to prison if this gets misconstrued as hacking.

EDIT: Ok, after some more research, it looks like this guy is going through some serious shit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868071

Everything I wrote up there was based on the assumption that he wasn't trying to build a bomb in his apartment...my bad.
I'm wondering about the MIT license for icons: say you print these icons on physical objects, e.g. beach balls, do you have to include a copy of the copyright notice and permission notice somewhere on them, or how does it work?
It's really very shocking news to me that I perpetuate anything on HN except the occasional comment (with big gaps of inactivity, too).

I got under attack, my comments have been misrepresented, and I'm defending myself. Admittedly not in a timid manner. But that tends to happen when you put people on the defensive by constantly almost copy-pasting the same criticisms.

What would you do?

You linked 6 instances of fairly minor transgressions (at least in my mind; tons of people mention downvotes and are NEVER warned; a lot troll openly, get heavily flagged, and weeks later I still don't see them warned).

This thread here is the first and biggest example and it's the first (and last) where I'd agree with you that I crossed the line.

Your comment is fairly saddening to me and feels like targeting, and/or as an effort to enforce an echo chamber. I am very sure that is not your intention so I invite you to write to me on my email so we can settle this properly with more and better nuanced discussion.

I stand by my conviction that I got misrepresented and got attacked by a lot of people who freely interpreted a comment not made in bad faith, while clearly demonstrating lack of benefit of the doubt themselves. Have they been warned like I am here?

And I'm the bad guy for having none of their attacks?

Ouch. There's something not cool.

Again, feel free to email me and maybe you'll see I'm not some sort of a villain spreading hate on HN. Unpopular opinions shouldn't go under a relentless fire.

If not, keeping quiet on HN is the easiest thing for me to do. I'll prefer it because I don't want to lose my account. But, for the last time, you're making a mistake and are likely misunderstanding me due to cultural differences. Please, do consider that.
I quite enjoy the technique of transcribing a book into my own words. The benefit is at least threefold:

- writing out things you've learned helps with retention of information

- if you're putting the contents into your own words, you can't do that without understanding the words first. This forces you to truly consider the implications of what you're reading and to begin to systematise your understanding

- you end up with a much shorter crib notes version of the book to refer back to later, written in your own words for ease of access
I’m surprised the AWS SDK doesn’t pin its dependencies and put new versions through its paces before letting end users possibly use a compromised utility with catastrophic results.
It’s decentralized and totally transparent. Do the research first.
I'm saddened to see you getting downvoted too (and I've tried to compensate for that). You're right that more ecosystems need something like Crev:

https://dpc.pw/cargo-crev-and-rust-2019-fearless-code-reuse
I mentioned ARC because based on your description it should be "the kind of problem that ILP eats for breakfast". But based on what you say about required effort it does not appear to eat it for breakfast and requires significant engineering fine-tuning, so I call foul on your previous description of your work.

I agree, to a degree, with your assessment of the problem of cheating. Currently community is applying two fixes to that: 1) require few-shot learning ability 2) require good performance on many different few-shot learning benchmarks

My hobby is future forecasting and I was thinking for some time about creating a benchmark for AGI based on Bongard problems, ARC and Montezuma's Revenge. I did have a question about ARC that managed to surprise community: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3762/will-early-2020-ai-... I have one about Montezuma's Revenge where I require some reasonable score after 30 min of game play, no specific to Montezuma's Revenge engineering allowed, not even retrieving rewards from internal game memory: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5460/ai-rapidly-learning... I'm aware of the paper you mentioned around ARC and my fix to the benchmark would be to require few-shot generalization on task-level e.g. tested system, if it is a learning system, must have access only to couple of tasks for training before start of evaluation. The same with regard to Bongard problems. Requiring that all 3 benchmarks are solvable by one unified system IMO would be a reasonable test for general, visual intelligence.

DeepMind recently decided to include comparison of Gopher performance on Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmarks vs. forecasters prediction. Forecasting communities seems to have gained some clout in AI circles (OpenAI is also cooperating with Metaculus on AI forecasting). Few-shot ARC forecast from Metaculus could give you an external estimation of the difficulty that you could use against reviewer 2.

Also, despite what you think about large language models memorizing everything few-shot SuperGlue is still standing: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/4932/when-will-ai-achiev... My intuitive evaluation of GPT-3 light text reasoning skills based on playing around with it matches few-shot SuperGlue score of 72 vs. 90 for avg. human.

> Meanwhile, some big, 30-person team at a large tech corp with a few milllion dollars' budget will be throwing a gigaflop of compute and a few terrabytes of data on the problem and "solving" it without having to learn any "core priors", by finding some way around the dearth of training data, just as was done with Bongard problems and Winograd schemas.

Compute is cheap and it reliably gets cheaper. Models like GPT-3 even with cost of tens of millions of dollars are economically justifiable. It's quite possible that OpenAI is currently turning profit on GPT-3. Real market performance is the ultimate benchmark of whether "performance degrades precipitously once exposed to real-world data".
SimulaVR – The Simula One's Pricing and Kickstarter Goal
It's reasonable to know the app isn't self-signed and having to do the right-click "Open" for the first launch.

I appreciate that I can both benefit from PKI attestation of apps (for a small degree of protection against malware), and I can override it and run unsigned stuff.
I'd highly recommend The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady if you want to check out his non-cat related jazz recordings.
This person’s citations don’t agree with their claims at all. It’s disappointing that the comment was so highly upvoted when it was so obviously falsified.
Is it more effective than bleach?
I think you're taking a definition of 'worked on' that I did not intend. I meant it in a general sense intending to include large or disruptive changes where necessary.
> I'm replying to a post in which you specifically called out Wayland and D-Bus, and your criticism of GTK and fd.o is all over this thread. Your lack of criticism of SuSE developers appears to be because you misremembered when/how they switched to systemd - because they did, relatively quickly.

And you also brought in SuSE, Arch, and KDE, which I never criticized to make your argument that I simply hate everything work, which is quite disingenuous.

> But that raises the real question: If the problem is systemd, and the problem is so bad, why do you only blame Red Hat and not the every other distribution that switched to it? Do you think they were all victims of Tricksy Lennart, or?

I do not, and have never blamed distributions for switching to systemd.

They can use what they want and it's neither their fault nor problem that systemd and other Red Hat projects are known to create dependencies upon one another for ill technical merit.

I have criticized Red Hat projects for creating dependencies on other Red Hat projects for political, rather than technical reasons; the rest is simply your putting words into my mouth to make a straw-man argument function.
You can already move to crypto land. You can buy residency in El Salvador for 3 bitcoin. There's even a tropical beach there. What? You don't like poor people? Tough luck pal. Besides, in your tiny little crypto island who's going to make your bed, take out the trash, make your meals and clean the toilets? Robots? Places like Aspen, or other towns for the super rich usually have a nearby middle class town for all the oompa loompahs. There's no island anywhere of only rich beautiful people.
Yeah I also don’t understand. But then again.. the js ecosystem is one big pile of turds..

Tech cycles with people who reinvent the wheel and keep making the same mistakes

All these problems have long been solved
If everyone's wealth increased by $10 because they produced $10, the price of a loaf doesn't magically become $100.

You're mixing up monetary policy with macroeconomics. Though often correlated to a degree, they are not the same. The Weimar republic adding zeroes to the DM is not the same as wage increase due to economic growth
Current link is a 404. You need to add a "www." in front of it.
Because it's fun ya mook. That's it. That's the reason.

It's fun to tinker. It's fun to put things out there into the ether. It's fun to exercise the brain and try new things and learn new ways to do things and publish things. The second it stops being fun, we stop.
Minkowski spacetime confuses matters, though. From the point of view of the photon we observe, no time elapses between its emission at the location being observed and its arrival at the telescope image sensor. It's as if the photon were born in exactly the right place and time to be observed by us, at that very instant.

So what we see is arguably happening in real time, regardless of distance.
> some kind of effective geo-lock

With the sorry state of security that is consumer electronics...

you're nuts.

You'd have to completely rework the entire legal liability system with regards to electronic devices and also put real teeth on enforcement. Otherwise... you just have bots/vpns/tunnels/etc on the devices within the geolock.
How is this an extraordinary claim? Are we just acting as if US financing of revolutions is extraordinary?

Of course there should be evidence (which is readily available), but this is so far from extraordinary it's not even funny.
This is something that interested me when our little one was born. Both my wife and I would swear that he would smile at actual stimuli, more than just a reflex action.
I relearned touch typing using https://www.keybr.com several years ago. It looks a bit different now, but seems to be the same concept as before.
Welcome to JavaScript, where every division is a bad one
>It's a shit system though, deeply dehumanizing ways of treating each other.

The system was already deeply dehumanizing. "Block early, block often" is simply the inevitable and, frankly, only reasonable reaction to years of dealing with psychopaths, assholes and trolls on the internet.

I only wish Hacker News came with its own killfile. Mine would be hundred of entries long by now.
NOT MUCH WHAT'S UP WITH YOU

thanks
Followed a few links to find this recent change to the New Mexico state constitution. What are the politics behind this?

> PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 4, SECTION 1 OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF NEW MEXICO TO PROVIDE THAT A LAW ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE MAY BE REPEALED BY RESOLUTIONS OF THREE-FOURTHS OF
THE COUNTIES IN THE STATE EXPRESSING OBJECTION TO THE LAW AND
ASSENTING TO ITS REPEAL.

https://nmlegis.gov/sessions/21%20regular/bills/senate/prefi...
> half of global shipping.

There was a post here just yesterday, of a piece by Bill McKibben on this very topic. 40%. Seems about right to me.[1]

> > At this point the proposed bans are on the sale of new vehicles that run on fossil fuels [...] leading to a complete phase-out ...

> ... making the policy sound more extreme than it is

And the reduction in fossil fuels, too. Gasoline is somewhere between 30% and 40% of total oil consumption (if I am interpreting pages on the IEA's website correctly). There will be a ramp down, perhaps, but not a complete phase-out.

The ramp-down could happen slowly, then all at once, though.

On the one hand, ICE vehicles will be around for many decades after the bans come into force. On the other, most vehicle miles travelled are travelled by newer vehicles (say up to ten or twelve years old). I think there could be a tipping point after a while, in which the price of gasoline suddenly rises sharply because it's uneconomic to refine the small quantities demanded.

All the other components, not so much. There are lots of uses for which there are no good substitutes: industrial chemical feedstocks, ships, roadmaking, off-road construction and agriculture, trains, backup generators, military vehicles, and many more.

Diesel, kerosene (jet fuel), naptha, bitumen, etc., will be with use for a long time to come. Let's hope someone comes up with a cheap way of synthesizing them from atmospheric CO2.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29850631
The package manager could install its own version of Python, isolated from the rest of the system, so that it doesn't get in the way of the user, but repository programs know where it is and can use it.