skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ukraine war has demonstrated you don’t need parity in shells. A dozen or two HIMARS turned the tide against hundreds of artillery pieces; mobility, range, and accuracy mattered more than being able to send hundreds of shells in a general direction.

While we’re comparing Ukraine and Taiwan, Taiwan has significant defensive advantages; tougher terrain, no land border, and they’ve been fortifying for decades. Even river crossings in Ukraine are fraught with peril, let alone an ocean strait.
You’ll laugh even harder when they get shut down a few years later.
Vertical is the new horizontal, because of stuff like Epycs with 96 cores/192 threads, AWS instances with 24TB of RAM, M2 MacBook Pros with 96GB RAM, 12 cores, ludicrous SOC bandwidth.

What used to be 'big data' fits on an instance, you only need shards/clusters for 'ludicrous data'.
Indeed, they can go fuck themselves. But if copyright law gets put in place against AI, the only ones who will be able to enjoy the benefits of AI are the people who can go fuck themselves. The gatekeepers that will just add yet another line to their 10 billion line long EULA that will require you give up the rights to any art you possess for AI training, to the exclusive use of mega co. inc. ect.
Apache HTTPD Changes for 2.4.55 including CVE-2022-37436 for mod_proxy
You know, you don’t have to watch any of this stuff.
> There are plenty of cults that spring out of every major religion

Where do you draw the line?
Personally it's poor writing & bad camera work that bugs me more than anything. Sure this digital style is apparent, but I guess it doesn't fundamentally ruin a movie for me (whereas the other two factors do).
Film was a lot more expensive, so there's a selection bias. Digital is newer, so we haven't yet benefited from survivor bias.

In the hands of a sufficiently talented team, film does not look better than digital, because digital can be made to look just like film: https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-de...
I'm pretty new here. Can you elaborate? Edit: On the "necessary and appropriate historic moderation" part.
Note that TFA is not arguing that Netflix movies are bad as movies, it's just making an observation about how they look (which the author dislikes).
don't even know why key ignition is still a thing. push button is more complex, but is basically commoditized, while being easier and more secure.
I've seen some posts by Japanese women suggesting they would be open to being the second wives of wealthy men but I'm not sure if they are the kind of women that rich men would be interested in.
Yep, and because of his .plan files, and no other historical details around the technology, I think it's safe to say he invented it. In 1999, QuakeWorld was the first, to my knowledge, implementation of client-side prediction in a first-person shooter.

But I'm almost certain there were rudimentary client-side prediction models that existed before John Carmack, which is why I say I think he was the first to "invent" it, but frankly I'm not so sure about that.

I mean think about terminals, as an example.

I do think with near certainty he was the first to invent the client-server with client-side prediction architecture in time stepped software, or more specifically in an FPS.
> The number one thing that bothers me the most in the "netflix aesthetic" is the weird looking background bokeh that every scene seems to have.

I complained about this with a group of friends the other day and it seemed I was the only one that even noticed it. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.

Sure, when you focus on something the background is a bit blurry. But on some modern movies, EVERY shot has a bokeh background. Like, imagine sitting down for dinner, you focus on your sandwich and suddenly the plate and table are blurred and out of focus. It's exaggerated to the point where it seems more unrealistic than if they hadn't done any post-prod.
I initially agreed with this sentiment but I’m pretty critical of the US yet would (mostly) accept the statement “the US (mostly) works for the US”. Otherwise probably nowhere works for everybody in the given nation.
None of this is true, nor does it need to be. As my photography professor says, “digital is better, but I don’t want better.”

Roma is as beautiful as anything shot on film, Amelie from 1995 is as teal-orange medium-shot photo filter as anything on Netflix. The Crown is often beautiful because of impressive practical lighting effects.

[EDIT: Amelie is from 2001, I mixed up the date with the same director’s City of Lost Children from 1995]
Serendipitous seeing this mentioned here after my father very recently mentioned how much he missed the variety of pears that he could get when he went on komandirovkas to the GDR.
I have some trees from this place, as well as trees from 'Century Farms' - another meticulously kept apple and pear orchard archive.

Their tasting and usage notes on heirloom apples is worth a read.
Learning how to take care of these trees has been a rewarding journey so far, their status can be so tenuous as you learn about the impacts of cedar tree rust, fire blight, and dozens of bacteria out to quickly ruin the trees!

https://www.centuryfarmorchards.com/descripts/osadescripts.h...
The US system to keep us sick
We're not really talking about unit tests though, we're talking test-first. They don't have to be unit tests, which is why I described writing sample client code because that's what you need to do to anyway to design your API.
> Batteries generate heat when charging and discharging

/scratches head.

Huh? How do you explain why my iPhone drains so much quicker in the cold then, if it's able to heat itself from the discharge?

> but it is not some major obstacle.

Ignoring efficiency of battery consumption is a hilarious oversight. If it costs you energy ("lets just pump heat pumps on them") to keep an energy source from depleting faster, then you're still depleting energy faster because of said energy required to heat the thing. That's not trivial.
dang is the moderator here.
Yep. Makes it read like this is breaking news or something.
Those 80's and 90's night scenes aren't better because they're shot on film. They look better because they're better LIT.

Digital is easier to work with in low light some productions will try and save money by cutting back there. Can't really do that with film w/o it being painfully obvious.
I ran wolf just fine on a Tandy 2600 which featured “10 mhz of Intel processing power” according to the instructions. Spear of destiny too if I recall.
Soderbergh has shot his last few films on iPhone and they look fantastic. Lighting and framing while shooting and good editing and grading afterwards are far more important factors.
The media has controlled the narrative, but it's also in free-fall - victim of its own excesses - as people move to alternatives.

I don't believe we'll see violent revolution either, but I do believe we'll see real change, as there's no other way out.
It's "omakase" (in the words of Wikipedia) :

> Omakase is a Japanese phrase, used when ordering food in restaurants, that means 'I'll leave it up to you' (from Japanese 'to entrust' (任せる, makaseru))

See the article:

"Rails is Omakase" by David Heinemeier Hansson on Dec 27, 2012

https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html

> Rails is omakase. A team of chefs picked out the ingredients, designed the APIs, and arranged the order of consumption on your behalf according to their idea of what would make for a tasty full-stack framework.
throughout my life I planned on teaching my kid(s) this one created word for the state of being not-thirsty. So in German, there is 'satt' which means 'not hungry', but for thirst, there is no corresponding word and its one of these urban memes that the corresponding word for not-thirsty would be 'sitt'.

Now that I have a kid, my kid has not learned the word 'sitt'. :-)

Anyway, I wouldn't have made the news as this dad did: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229808/Linguist-re...
I didn't downvote, but I can see how people would think it's off-topic, as examples from more-guns-than-people-land aren't necessarily enough to draw a worldwide conclusion.
In the context of this discussion, I think astrange (and I) are using “religious” to mean a culture or tribe that encourages women to have many children and/or restricts women from being able to not have children. In my experience, these groups are typically associated with or offshoots of Christianity/Judaism/Islam, and usually described as “more religious” than the vast majority of people claiming to adhere to those belief systems.
Almost the first thing that I end up spending each time I start a new (OSS) project is getting the licensing right: choosing and publishing my own (without which no one can legitimately make use of the new work), and respecting that of others' work that I use.

Then put it somewhere that most people can get at, eg GitHub.

Then talk about it in places that will help others find it, eg through search engines, but also at meetups (I just found a talk I gave as FOSDEM in 2014!).

All the other things that you list are good too, but if no one finds or uses your stuff then your efforts maty have been in vain!
That's not at all what he meant. He was saying that in both cases the stunt man is getting injured, but in the case of digital it doesn't look better than CGI, so at that point why not just do CGI and eliminate the injuries.
It appears as though you can add a registry entry to prevent this behavior.

I found details in the ms.edge admx documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...

(An admx is for adding group policy templates but group policy is essentially a nice list of registry changes.

You (reader) can find the reg entry and enter it manually or might can download and install the admx package and make the change through your computers local group policy (gpedit.msc)
Tarantino uses film because he likes the artifacts film gives, not because it's objectively better. Same for PT Anderson. Indeed, both directors favor grungy 1970s aesthetics, which should give you an indication where they're coming from, stylistically. Nolan typically uses large film gauges like 65mm which are not comparable to 'regular' 35mm film.

Additionally, film does not have more dynamic range than digital. Take the latest sensors used by the Arri Alexa cameras for instance, they have a range of 17 stops. This is better than regular 35mm film. [1]

[1] https://www.arri.com/en/camera-systems/cameras/alexa-35#2730...
> But his points are almost exclusively self driving. Where’s the discussion of battery tech?

In 2018, "everyone" was saying perfect self-driving was only a few years away (I recall a highly-rated HN comment saying humans would likely be banned from roads by 2025), and nobody was interested in battery tech.
Word is ChatGTP is going to start charging $42/month for advanced access to their service.

Google currently makes about $6 per user for search.

It seems like the revenue model for AI search is better suited as a monthly payment, no ads.

So Google could charge, say $15/month, for AI Search, no ads, and still keep their regular search business. I wouldn't count Google out just yet, as much as I wish they would be disrupted. Search has become a joke
I suggest the ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs.
This is what you said originally: "We only need a single counter example to show that Othello-GPT does not have a systemic understanding of the rules, only a statistical inference of them." I don't believe this statement to be true.

It is clearly not true that a single counter example rules out systemic understanding of rules for ALL intelligent systems. Human intelligence is offered as the case in point.

So, given that the statement is not true for all systems, by what logic do you conclude that the statement is true specifically for an LLM?
Fireworks. These AI tools seem very good at replacing textures, less so about inserting objects. They can all "add fireworks" to a picture. They know what fireworks look like and diligently insert them into "sky" part of pictures. But they don't know that fireworks are large objects far away rather than small objects up close (see the Father Ted bit on that one). So they add tiny fireworks into pictures that don't have a far away portion (portraits) or above distant mountain ridges as if they were stars. Also trees. The AI doesn't know how big trees are and so inserts monster trees under the Golden Gate bridge and tiny bonsais into portraits. Adding objects into complex images is totally hit and miss.
ChatGPT lacks the ability to prove that output is factually correct (which is an interesting but distinct problem). However, as long as the answer is derivative of supplied information, ChatGPT shines. Even today it can already:

- Write coherent short stories based on a prompt

- Be a personal diary/assistant

- Summarize and extract information from text.

There's a lot of applications for that.
Which firm will win the new Moon race?
https://archive.ph/sVGFx
I built my own ChatGPT app using Python
Netflix added more than 7 million new subscribers in the last 3 months, bringing the number of households to over 230 million worldwide. And that's just people who are paying. Many people share their accounts so we can assume another few million people who regularly watch but don't pay.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-earning...
Just use KeePass. It allows you to encrypt with a key, if that's your thing.

Edit: just noticed they recommend KeePass at the end. Damn I'm good.
> where the movie was set, and I realized I had no idea

I guess she missed the opening shot of Seattle?
Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs
So, I imagine that in a few years when playing future video games similar to RDR2, NPCs would be able to answer in a non-fixed way, always within the context of the video game, perhaps even their voices would be also generated by AI. I even think players will be able to interact with NPCs via voice (so no more “press square to Dismiss, triangle to Antagonize”).
> Rarely was it for technical reasons or because the problem domain was on the level of a PhD thesis - I would say they are "political" reasons. I think that's the daily life of the average programmer.

Where I’ve seen gratuitous complexity introduced by the technical staff it’s been a situation where a 1.5x programmer thought they were being 10x when they larded up the architecture early, leaving the project behind schedule seemingly without enough time to fix it. The problem wasn’t the average programmer but letting the one a bit above average set the direction.
https://archive.is/1HseW
After seeing this, I spent a half hour or so this morning and I was able to implement this in one of my programs, and now it runs to completion in about 85 percent of the time that it used to require. So, thanks!
I worded that somewhat poorly. I didn’t mean to insinuate that injuring them was the goal, I meant to say we are not getting benefit from the final product that justifies the means. I have reworded the post.

To my point though, the “effortless action” is the problem, the final product of all this work and effort feels effortless in that it feels floaty, fake and without consequence. You don’t watch a modern fight scene and get the visceral reaction older things bring.
It's because the tech is moving very fast.
No, I'm already laughing for that exact reason.
Google went for premium content with Youtube many times. And it flopped every time. That's the point: they've been trying to make more of it and they have failed over and over again. Ads are what drives the revenue because in the end that's the only thing they know how to do. Youtube itself is indeed a good business; it's a nice business. And with an ad blocker I find it very enjoyable. Great acquisition more than 15 years ago.
Very interesting tool. I'm going to write the canary CC onto a physical card and swipe it first when shopping. If I ever see it randomly accessed, I'll know my 2nd card (actual payment card) is burnt.

>Credit Card Rate-Limiting currently in place. Please try again later.

Maybe tomorrow.
I like the command line capabilities of "pass", and I also agree with the author about some of its security issues and complexity.

I created "passable" to do what I believe is a bit better (IMHO) for command line usage: symmetric encryption, and files do not use any particular in-the-clear directory structure.

The code is POSIX shell, short,and easy to audit. MIT & Apache & GPL license. Constructive feedback welcome.

https://github.com/SixArm/passable
Not putting enough effort to look like the girls in the idol groups
Amélie is from 2001, not 1995. Interestingly, it is one of the first films that was colour corrected completely digitally. This is also why the movie's colour palette is so striking. Not necessarily to everyone's taste, but I really found it to 'pop' in the cinema.
The claim by some is that 230 protections shouldn’t apply if the site at all influences what is shown to other users - essentially, moderation. There’s all sorts of made up distinctions between publisher and web site (most of it disingenuous) but it generally boils down to various political factions upset that the “wrong” sort of content isn’t moderated away, or the “right” sort of content is. Which is right or wrong depends on how you lean politically.
> If the parent failed to do that, I would say they do not have a valid model of chess

Surely even the world's foremost chess experts will occasionally make errors in such a situation, so what's the point of holding language models to an intelligence standard that even humans can't meet?

I see two ways of interpreting this: either language models do approximately learn world models, or else world models aren't necessary for human intelligence

EDIT: I see from your other posts in this thread you're probably more inclined to believe the latter statement, which wasn't obvious to me from your first post and I think that explains why there is so much contention in this thread.
We made a circle 'black and white' -> 'color' -> 'blue and orange'.
Modern movies are too dark and lacking colors badly. All those to cheapen production I suppose.
Yup, for the first years of so I lived in the US, I never understood why American (hard) cider tastes so different from French cider, even when you get fancy no-sugar added cider.

The answer was that cider is mostly made from table apples instead of cider apples, and they taste completely different!
I Clearly said we use google to confirm the AI output.

And we also do not do medical stuff. I just used that as an example.
Training data sets are way too massive to be searched in any reasonable time.
> Later franchise shows that were shot in digital simply cannot be released in HD as there is no HD source material.

This is a persistent myth, but false. DS9 and Voyager were shot on film, like TNG and TOS. TOS was also edited on film, TNG and later were scanned and edited on videotape. This makes it much more work to remaster TNG and later shows for HD, which was done for TNG but not later shows because the TNG sales plus the perception that the other shows wwre less popular and would sell less made it not worthwhile from a business perspective.
Small-Town South Dakota (2020)
Thanks. Thankfully, this is a title available via publishers as a 'print on demand'.

Lisp based languages are kinda funny when looking at OO from a thunk / s-expression level perspective requiring no additional lexical support in language vs C/C++ activation record level requiring lexical support in langauge.
No real disagreement here. Somebody needs to keep the old system running while I am working on the new one.
Rules will probably limited to communities over a certain size, larger than that of HN I would bet.
I know that some people swear by Pomodoro, but personally when I get in the "zone" for doing something, I find that taking a break, however small it may be, ruins my focus.
In another time that same greedy investor would be hounding the CEOs of big tech companies about how they can't hire talented software engineers, if they didn't offer stratospheric compensation, and how competing for talent is the most important thing in the world.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to also find letters from these assholes to Silicon Valley city councils complaining about how the councils insisting on spending valuable real estate for affordable housing is hurting the region, because that's poor use of capital and they should instead build office buildings for tech companies.
I remember I tried this long ago. Would be great with a chrome extension
It would all work great until I ask Dutch what his favorite flavor of pizza roll is. I think the work required to train period-accurate and dependable dialog models for these characters is... a bit much. Most people will probably end up wishing they could write down a list of quotes and have a human record them instead.
Generally speaking, size and widespread acceptance. The use of the word "cult" there, isn't an insult. It just speaks to the smaller breakoff groups that form. Protestantism began as a cult. It is no longer.

Sort of like how creeks spring from every river.
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books?

AI is not a mind. It’s a program. We might call it a “mind” as a metaphor, but it’s not really one.

So any justification which presupposes that an AI should be able to do something (really: that the people who are running the AI programs should be able do something) because they are a “mind” is fallacious and doesn’t need to be interrogated.
https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/WL...

Shift-by-immediate-value was introduced with the 80186 (and became broadly available with the 80286). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186#cite_ref-6
There is no reason to accuse others of being on drugs because you fail to view the world in the same light as them. You can make your point known without doing so.
There seems to be a major difference between Netflix US and their international productions. The later European one are, IMHO, somewhere between good and great in writing, production, acting. Those are usually done by Netflix and some local partner.

Every once in a while I come across a Netflix US thing, and it feels like having grabed something of a direct-to-DVD sale...
Posner is a giant. So is Richard Epstein. They both have some old fashioned views and blind spots, but roughly speaking, I feel their take on how to structure legal systems is correct.
Leaders Should Start and End with a Map
This guy is so weirdly pessimistic about the future. I don’t understand what you get by being right about predicting omission. Doesn’t seem to be helpful.

Maybe it’s because he doesn’t stand to inherit the future others seek to build
Not if you switch to Mercedes!
Or maybe it will never be fixed, and in the future when they are trying to determine if someone is a human or an artificial replica, they will simply ask them to draw a set of human hands as a test.
I work in the disconnected k8s space. It is definitely exciting to get these platforms (that by and large assume Internet connectivity) running within airgaps. The sneakernetiness of it all is the most fascinating bit for me.
It's hard to stay in-focus for 8 hours without amphetamines. I find that I have to eat and pee and stretch now and again.

But I've had trouble with 25 minutes being a bit too short for some more technical tasks. Is there any literature about optimal work durations for highly abstract tasks? Programming architecture, super complicated mechanical cad, some physics or math calculations...

It takes a long time to load the model into your working memory, so restarting a lot is very painful. Is it better to actually follow the pomodoro model and do 25/5? Or is 50/5 more productive? Maybe 50/10 or 40/5? A few professions get the autonomy to control their work at that level of granularity, and we'd love more guidance than "do what works best for you, bb."
Re: batteries: bear in mind the purpose of his scorecard. It's about things which were dramatically overhyped.