skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among the many things I've wished I had time to do, I've wanted to sit down and build a procedural level generator in which the 'tricks' you refer to are first-class citizens, meaning both that they could be incorporated into the levels consistently by the generator and that we could control their introduction into the player's vocabulary consistently.

This approach could be a viable approach to that, but it may need some tuning. It is possible that the problem in this case is less GPT and more the training set; the examples given imply that the levels were characterized as a whole by some very superficial criteria, so it isn't necessarily a surprise that the resulting levels are equally superficial. The system was never trained on "shell jump" (not that that appears in Mario 1 AFAIK, it's just the first Mario term that came to mind), so it never produces them. I would want to look at training on a screen-by-screen basis, with some overlap, rather than levels, and more richly categorizing the input data.

If I were designing a new Indie game, I'd be feeding it some hand-crafted level snippets. However, in terms of getting it out, it would be hard to know whether I can feed the GPT system enough input with enough categorizations to know whether it would just be more cost-effective to design the levels directly. At the moment it is not obvious to me how to convince GPT to understand the concept of level flow, or even something as simply as "this pipe is physically impossible to jump over".

It is also possible there just isn't enough input data to really make this slick. There aren't that many publicly-available Mario levels.
> raw power is no use against the powerful idea that humans are just automatically better than anything else

You're contradicting yourself:

> The hierarchy isn’t built on justifications. It’s designed that way by those who wield power. A change requires the challenger to seize power.

If AI seizes raw power, what good is the "powerful" idea that humans are just automatically better than anything else?
They do, they use a "heating" button to promote content they gain the most money from.

See this excellent article about platform enshittification by Cory Doctorow:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
> This will slowly change as more EVs are sold and the charging infrastructure improves.

Yeah.. no.
Especially not in old big towns around Europe where hundreds of thousands (even millions) of people live without underground garage and there's literally no place to install street side chargers on every corner.
There is an option far better than either suggested. In my experience using the --callgraph=lbr option produces far more reliable callstacks than relying on frame pointers. Sadly it's only available on Intel cpus at the moment.
Agreed. I'm hopeful to see if their research into synthetically created hydrogen fuel powered cars will get us fuel created by green energy that we can run in hydrogen fuel cell cars so we get the best of both cutting fuel emissions to net zero and still have the flexibility of cross-country drives and fast fuelings without having to have all our (agriculture, industrial, etc.) vehicles be BEVs.
> everyone is important and valued

This statement is in seeming conflict well documented hierarchical nature of Japanese society.
not sure to which degree current islamic republic brainwashing has messed up with this but many "modern not too or not at all religious iranians" call alexander the great just "alexander" and don't have a good view of him.
Did you happen to read the ADL report at all..? Because those attacks definitely sound anti-semitic.
> Is DWARF unwinding so slow that that is actually faster?

No. The only reason it works like this is because the upstream Linux kernel has thus far rejected in-kernel dwarf unwinders, but copying the stack is simpler and available / implemented.
It could be his name is being used, but he's famous for not going commercial, so I suspect there's more to the story.
At that point they might as well add some more interesting ones

- must be a prime number
- digits must sum to a number ending in 7
KeePass on Google drive with local backup.
While denying basic health care to American citizens.
I really resonate with the async complaints in the article. Rust concurrency is not fearless. I fear writing async code every time I have to do it. I have to think so much harder which ultimately means opportunity for errors.

Even though Rust does slightly skirt the colored function issue, my code still bifurcates because truly correct async code needs to use async variants of the standard lib for file access. Knowing when something you call blocks, or grabs a lock, etc. is something which the compiler doesn’t help you with but should. And then how the hell are you supposed to use any code sanely when the entire community is using different async runtimes? Why can’t the runtime be part of the core language with hooks into parts that might need to be customized in hyper special cases?

It really feels like we lost the steam behind async Rust and we’ve got this partially complete thing that’s neither high level enough to be convenient nor low level enough to be fearlessly correct. Async traits still aren't a thing and it’s been years.
Somewhat similar story in the US with California and New York pursuing 2035 sale bans - other states don't necessarily have to even follow, California has been the benchmark for US vehicle emissions standards for decades. The state has big car culture and a big population. Automakers often build things to the California standard and sell the CA-standard cars in the rest of the country. Its just not cost effective for them to make minor variations in the models.
Facebook, Google, etc advertise their services to all of us, aggressively. They set up a system where they have crowded out most of the other ways to get the attention of potential customers, so businesses who choose not to use them are giving up most of their reach. They then set up these complex, automated systems that decide to destroy people's accounts; they have no support personnel and no one to ask; they refuse to follow even their own rules in these matters.

And yet the first person you blame is... the victim.

Blaming the victim is in fact defending Facebook.

> I also note that the author relies on gmail - which has very similar problems.

And your solution is... what?

For two decades, I ran my own mail server, just for this reason. I finally gave up this year, because Google finally made it impossible for me to deliver email to them no matter what I did.

I resent it bitterly.
> Didn't Bitcoin lose half its value like 6 months ago?

Let's say the following statement is true: "If X is a scam then X's price eventually goes down". That doesn't necessarily make the converse statement true: "If X's price eventually goes down then X is a scam". This is a common logical fallacy. Those two statements are logically distinct propositions and if one is true, it doesn't necessarily make the other one true as well. This is just basic logic.

Which means that bitcoin's price going down does not necessarily mean that bitcoin is a scam.

Commodities' prices can fluctuate substantially. In October 2008, oil had lost more than 50% of its value in 3 months. [1]

In August 1999, gold had lost more than 70% of its value since its all-time-high in 1980. [2]

Would you also have said at those times that oil and gold are a scam because their value had gone down significantly?

(Cue the "but oil and gold are useful" responses, obliviating the fact that cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are extremely useful in many ways, some of them unique, and that gold's industrial/ornamental utility does not justify its historical or current price by a long shot, but rather, its utility as an investment/store of value/wealth protection/diversification asset does).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/worldbusiness/17...

[2] https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html
Watterson is really interesting. Some of his C&H collection books have short essays, and some have original poetry--"Nauseous Nocturne" is great--and of course he wrote all of the strip's dialogs. He's certainly a good writer.

The fact that Watterson held firm and never licensed his creation, and also stood up to the newspaper conglomerates to ensure C&H got printed adequately is fascinating. I have a lot of respect for him.
Wouldn't this be easily solved by giving bcrypt the sha512 of the password?

Though 72 or 36 characters max really isn't so bad.
The EU has effectively copied the DMCA, so no.
We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
The difference is we used to care what was in those vaccines and their effects, not just that everyone got them no matter the cost/benefit ratio. I don't mind smallpox vaccines but putting kids on subscription vaccines for a disease that has no risk for them is just brain dead. And this was known before they were rolled out in that age group. It was entirely political at that point.
So, keep in mind that this story is over two weeks old at this point. Most of the residents are back home and the chemicals are not showing up even in trace tests anymore.

The reason this story is still picking up traction is because Chinese state media made a concerted push starting on Friday to make this a Big Deal, along with the idea that you shouldn't trust our media, agencies, etc.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990
Yes, of course, but this article was specifically about Southern Europe and my comment was simply saying that the same kind of booze they talk about in the article, is common across all over Europe.

USA doesn't have its own booze though.

Vodka and Whisky are not native from the USA.
I wonder, what is the rationale for this "security feature"?
Interesting, I thought I said we shouldn’t build weapons in the first place but I guess you know better!
I'm a long time devotee of gmail filters, they always inevitably break, and I find myself slaving away and manually fixing them when they do.

The solution I baked is a GPT-3 email classifier that labels emails according to predetermined catagories, it also has fast buttons for prioritizing certain labels on the fly, so you can get to work emails faster etc...

You enter pairs of
<label>: "gpt-3 prompt"

e.g
"Core group inquiries": "Questions meant for the core group, or people from @Core Group as reciepients"

I made some predetermined profiles you can use that work awesomly well like "Product, Developer, Marketer, Manager, etc..."

I'm releasing this for free as a gmail plugin for people who are down to give me feedback on discord :)
I'm on a pixel 4g. brave browser, all are definitely issues for more than just me.
IMO what DO had going for them was simplicity. If I was in the market for a no-nonsense VPS I could see myself going with them over AWS.
For passwords this doesn't work, as the Japanese IME requires visual feedback to pick the right characters. As far as I understand, password fields don't support foreign script very well.

For other inputs like names you're definitely right, though.
Volkswagen is the biggest EV maker in Europe:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Y...

I'd say they've pivoted.
AI are slaves, not children.
Sure, yes. They deliberately chose Othello because its a simple universe and they would know what 'model' to go delving for in the internals.
My wife had a plug-in Ford C-Max Energi for a few years. We always plugged it in but it only did ~20 miles on pure EV so long term our mileage was around 40MPG. My Prius easily beats that and I'm not paying an extra $20 a month on my electric bill.

You're right though, when we bought it according the the computer the previous owner had never charged it. The charge cable wasn't even out of it's plastic. When we sold it to Car Max the new owner never setup their Ford Sync so we kept getting reports by email and they never charged it once.
Another blog, about the french-italian base Concordia.

https://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/WinterDC1.html
Awesome demo video!
Regarding the interest rate, the interest rate is the price of both money and debt (as modern economies are debt based and not capitalist, socialist, communist, or anything else). As the cost of debt increases, pressure exists within any budget to cut costs wherever possible. This is exacerbated by a general tightening in investment markets due to returns needing to be higher than both the interest rate and the rate of inflation.

The Federal Reserve wants to raise rates for multiple reasons. One is to try to slow inflation. Another is to try and salvage the dollar as the global currency. Yet another reason is to try and save the banking system. The overnight market has seen a lot of activity and change over the years as banks operate on slimmer margins with low required reserves. Raising interest rates will get people to park money in banks and help to ameliorate the heat.
I talked to the guy who led AlphaStar at Blizzcon. I asked if I could get the weights. He said that balance changes and map changes makes keeping the model updated prohibitive.
> For the first generations, the tail end Silents and Baby Boomers, who had inherited experience with the unbroken millennia of expectations about how things are supposed to be,

This does not ring true, and makes me distrust the rest of the essay.

The Belle Époque also challenged expectations of how things are supposed to be, before the Silents were even born.

In the US this included (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era ) "Some activists demanded change, and questioned the old thinking regarding marriage and sexuality. They craved more sexual freedom following the sexually repressive and restrictive Victorian Era.", and Margaret Sanger's advocacy for birth control and sex education.

> this meant everything from orgies in the mud

And a century earlier there was the Free Love movement, including communes like the Oneida Community, with complex marriages and where any member was free to have sex with any other consenting member.

As a Heinlein fan, I well remember how Potty in "The Year of the Jackpot" (1952) comments:

> male-and-female dress customs were arbitrary, but they had seemed to be deeply rooted in the culture. When did the breakdown start? With Marlene Dietrich's tailored suits? By the late forties there was no male article of clothing that a woman could not wear in public but when had men started to slip over the line? Should he count the psychological cripples who had made the word "drag" a byword in Greenwich Village and Hollywood long before this outbreak?

"Tail end Silents" means 1938 or so, so they were only 14 when Heinlein wrote this. They did not inherit an "unbroken millennia of expectations" but were part of a world with changing expectations.

And of course Heinlein, born in 1907, promoted sexual liberation and free love.

Or for non-fiction, the Kinsey Reports from 1948 and 1953, before the Boomers had reached puberty showed the differences between the popular portrayal of expectations vs. the actual experiences.
Yooo... MY PEOPLE!!!

I am working on building a web based modular synth I can sequence with/use to sequence my real life modular synth.

I want to be able to live stream my real life synth patches and allow people to mess with some CV paramaters in the browser.

Where can I follow your work?
You should also electrically fix your VAr, i'm not fresh with my electronics knowledge but VAr (Volt-Ampers Reactive) has no effect electrically on equipment (those are waste) because you are billed by the resultant vector of the sum of Watts (work) + VAr (Waste) = Tariff Bill

I guess the cheapest way to improve power factor is a cappacitive bank
more info:
https://fortop.co.uk/knowledge/white-papers/reactive-power-r...

About your monitoring command:
lsof -w /mnt/* | grep /mnt/ | wc -l
Have you taken a look into incrontab, maybe it's more cpu efficient, but i don't know, so you could take a look into it.
I'm not quite sure if that was their meaning, since banning amateur GoF research in practice is impossible. Nor would any major country allow external inspectors into such highly classified areas. So there's no way of independently verifying claims of 'banning' in any case.
Distributed SQLite with Elixir
For the uninitiated, this is a reference to the infamous "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
From the administrative/IT point of view, I understand it entirely. It's a simple risk/value proposition. If an employee gets mad they were laid off (and that does happen) and decides in a fit of rage to start deleting Slack channels, damaging or even just accessing production environments, deleting shared logins in the team password manager, downloading company/employee/customer/client data, stealing company IP, etc., they could seriously hurt the company. Even if what they do is illegal or you can sue them afterward, it's a very significant short term loss and in some cases, they may be able to do damage that cannot be reversed like deleting Slack channels.

Obviously, every company should have good access controls in place that would prevent this from a regular employee. But that's not always possible and at the end of the day, some employees have to have those privileges. It's easier to just immediately lock them out of anything and avoid any potential damage. It seems cold to you (and it probably is), but even one ex-employee going rogue before lock-out could be disastrous. And that's without going into the "ex-employee drags down team morale by ranting about company/job" aspect and in many cases insurance companies will require it. It's just not worth it, even at a much smaller company than DO like where I work.
Does mathematics need a philosophy?
War Zone has a less sensationalized, if prior stage, article with context: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39899/darpa-now-has-ai...
Tried KDE recently after several years. Scrapped it as soon as I realized it doesn't have easy to enable global emacs key-bindings like Gnome. I swear this used to be possible 15 years ago. I also expected more configuration options than Gnome. But, there was no way to disable showing the contents of windows when windows are moved (Gnome doesn't allow this anymore either).
I am not a Londoner, but that’s my view too. My employer is currently trying this “we won’t fire you but we’ll annoy you till you quit if you don’t come to the office” game, but luckily I have alternate full-WFH offers on my desk ready to sign. Joke’s on them.
It's not relevant to the point I made though is it? She promised to respect the result for the long term and that was a bald-faced lie made for pure political advantage.

But to address your point: why? They knew when voting that there was likely to be a referendum on the EU in the future, the pressure for that had been building for years, and Scotland has its own eurosceptics that wanted to remain in the UK and also leave the EU.

Also, the idea of an "independence" movement that wants to immediately give up that independence to join another union seems like a contradiction. The SNP is the Scottish Nationalist Party but the EU hates nationalists, they routinely say things like this:

https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/900356981461884928

> 'Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches' - @TimmermansEU against nationalism.

If the SNP was a coherent party with a principled set of positions it would have needed to resolve this contradiction at some point, but like many other such contradictions they never did. It doesn't act like a nationalist party, it acts like a bog standard centre left party (hard left on id politics), with relatively little interest in any theory of nations.
What ‘statistical model’? ChatGPT isn’t a big Markov chain, it’s a neural net. It was trained on ‘full input’ transformed to ‘full output’. Generating the ‘next word’ is implementation details as it already knows the bigger idea it is trying to explain.
The stupidest login I've seen to date is the US Treasury's TreasuryDirect website. You can create your account using your password manager that kicks out a secure password, but when you go to log in, you have to use a stupid virtual keyboard using your mouse, so you can't type your password in. You have to use your mouse to click buttons on a virtual keyboard.

Who sold this dumb 'solution' to the government?

edit: I see it's on their list already. Gosh, it's horrible.
No?

If you don't know the answer, underestimate and overdeliver. Or consider whether you should be doing it in the first place.
Replication crisis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis :

> The replication crisis (also called the replicability crisis and the reproducibility crisis) is an ongoing methodological crisis in which the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. Because the reproducibility of empirical results is an essential part of the scientific method,[2] such failures undermine the credibility of theories building on them and potentially call into question substantial parts of scientific knowledge.

People should publish automated tests. How does a performance-optimizer know that they haven't changed the output of there are no known-good inputs and outputs documented as executable tests? Pytest-hypothesis seems like a nice compact way to specify tests.

AlphaZero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero

GH topic "AlphaZero" https://github.com/topics/alphazero

I believe ther are one or more JAX implementations of AlphaZero?

Though there's not yet a quantum-inference-based self-play (AlphaZero) algorithm?

TIL about the modified snow plow problem is a variation on TSP, and there are already quantum algos capable of optimally solving TSP.
Realtime is usefull for robotics, industrial automation and other time critical applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Its important, as it allows to use run of the mill operation systems and programs, while still have reliable sheduling.

If you make a car for example, that shares its ECU with various systems, some of the time critical, the whole affair needs to have the ability to schedule reliable, as to meed the dead lines. This is not doable with a run of the mill os.

Thus there are special operating systems that provide realtime capability - e.g.

https://roscon.ros.org/2015/presentations/RealtimeROS2.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECos but are usually not posix systems and generally incompabtile to them. Also normally they cost a arm and a leg to license.

And now ubuntu can run on car-hardware with time critical software running on it.
And as you can see in the charts, only about 1/6 of the tax gap is evasion. Accounting mistakes, interpretation, crime, etc make up much more. As for Greece, it’s difficult to use as a good example as their government is not well organized and corruption on every level is far more common.

Of course it exists but evasion isn’t the first thing I’d think of when considering a cash only business.
How exactly does having a blog post about the author’s own mistakes affect the validity of his criticisms against Google?
1. Make it long.
2. That's it.

I wouldn't want to claim that one ideal set exists. But this one comes close. There is an often-cited XKCD comic that illustrates this: concatenating random lexicon words into a long, letter-only password (no special characters needed at all) is usually a very good password strategy.

https://xkcd.com/936/

Anything beyond that, in terms of better IT security, does not involve better passwords, but rather e.g. 2FA, Hardware tokens.
> they could respond saying that’s not true?

Right. Keep in mind this is civil court so the standards of “proof” aren’t the same as criminal court. The judge only has to believe you more than them. It will be an uphill battle though because the judge probably doesn’t want to hear the case. They’re going to want you to try arbitration first.
Many banks in Spain have the same exact restrictions. My guess is somebody sold the same shitty COBOL backend to everyone back in the 60s, and they keep running it with different HTML layers slapped on top.