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FWIW: So I started some hobbyist game dev using Unity and realised that the full process of making a game has dependencies on a mass of lower-level skills including lighting virtual environments. As a hobbyist photographer I could see some useful analogies from lighting studios and other scenes

So I pivoted, and eventually made money, not from selling a game, but from developing tutorials about digital lighting. I was also able to contribute to a project at work that was making a product based on a commercial games engine, not by actually coding it, but by helping to better estimate the costs of the asset generation required.

Coding Unity object scripts in C# also got me back into programming, and I went on to successfully build a self-hosting lisp interpreter following the Make a Lisp guidelines [0].

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
That's cool. If you don't mind me asking, would you have any shallow level stuff that I could read on about this? Even a website or a blog post would be great.

In my grad school, we were working on something similar - using computer vision to analyze reactor flows to then change process variables. The results would be fed back into the system for RL. Too bad the project sorta froze after I graduated.
Good point on supporting the complexity of these devices. As I did some research realized that's more headache than I want.

What I ended up doing was buying mint Java workstation since it has cool Java logo on front and nice big Sun Microsystems on side of case. Plus it has a roomy case that isn't too hard to retrofit. I am gutting it and putting in modern parts.
"They could also grow up to three plants for personal use, with rules on enclosing them to prevent youth access" is so wonderfully German. I'm sure there'll be a small 20-page booklet that explains the enclosure rules.
This is not different from sending physical goods via mail: a 3d party is involved but you will be laughed out of the post office when you demand to return items you sent. And there is no guarantee too: authorities may retrieve your items, though chances are even lower when you send them overseas.
lmao this is the best example of chat GPT not working at all, this isn't "a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French", it _is_ French, and it doesn't even rhyme, because chat GPT can't rhyme in French for some reason

source: I'm French
> sorting with skipped headers is a mess

I like these command line tools, but I think they can cripple someone actually learning programming language. For example, here is a short program that does your last example:

https://go.dev/play/p/9bASZ97lLWv
I don't get it, what's the hypocrisy here?
That's a great list.
A while ago I wrote my own Dungeon Generator [1] since I thought it would be a nice, small project. Little did I know how complicated it can get :D
I thought about a rewrite and making it open source recently. But it's a daunting task...

[1] https://mythical.ink/rpg-tools/dungeon-generator
Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I see cars on the road in CA that somehow pass emissions but are in extraordinarily bad mechanical shape since there is no safety inspections. As long as the air is clean I guess.

Since I'm no longer in CA I will readily admit that I've had more than one sideways smog done. Their rules on things like an intake needing a CARB EO is ridiculous. This is the same state that said the Elantra N has too loud exhaust, stock, even though it meets federal limits. Their BAR inspector ran it in "sport" mode instead of "normal" which is against their policy.
Sounds like they're pointing out the double standard.
Inhaling fumes from burning plant matter can't be good for your lungs though?

How can it not increase the chance of cancer (even if to a lesser degree) if you smoked as many joints as some people smoke cigarettes per day (of course you'd have other problems if you tried that)?
If you get a million points you get any company of your choice into Ycombinator.
I never ran into this personally (mainly ran Tomcat on Solaris and developed on Windows) back in the day - but I don't doubt that this happened given the complexity in covering such different OS's
OP didn’t say “trivial”. They said “unremarkable for someone adept with those tools” and “most people didn’t bother”.
I am curious if this is related to burnout prevention.

Alternatively studies show that we "learn" from what we did, physically, during the day while we sleep.
> Honestly, I can't wait for GPT and other productivity tools to wrech havock upon the tech labour market. Some people in tech really need to be taken down a notch or two.

That's an odd reason to want this.
> There is a lot of case law that there’s no expectation of privacy in the workplace. [0]

The link disagrees with you. You have less privacy at a workplace, but you still have rights. For example:

> They can video everything you do at work, without consent.

no, that's just not true and the article lists exceptions. Don't kill the nuance yet.
The client side SDK we provide manage the security for you. As the client side is open-source, as well as the server you can verify the claims I will make. In those simple lines of code we:

- The enclave uses primitives from AWS that we cannot fake to create a certificate containing a hash of the code loaded, a public key to exchange keys, and other security information. This certificate is signed by a hardware derived key from AWS, and therefore we cannot forge such certificates. Here I talk about AWS but it can be Intel or AMD depending on the solution you choose.

- You receive the certificate, check it's valid locally using AWS public key.

- Once you know locally on your machine that we are using a secure enclave without backdoor that will handle your data properly (because it is a valid enclave and you can check that the hash you see in the certificate is the same as the audited open-source code), you can finish setting up the TLS channel using the public key inside the certificate

- Data is encrypted locally and sent through this TLS to the enclave

- Data is decrypted there, where we cannot peek due to isolation

- AI model is applied inside

- Output is encrypted inside enclave

- Output is sent back to you for you to decrypt it

I hope it makes it clear!
That's not paying fees.
At a macro level, this is the only reason I miss smoking. I used to solve problems during a smoke-break, and there's no compelling way to simulate it (however, I have no regrets about giving that habit up).
> Perhaps it's just a matter of time -- and just a few years, at that -- before generative text and graphic AIs merge, and games like Baldur's Gate can quite literally be made on the fly.

All we need after that is an AI generated musical theme / background ambience / sound effects. This came to mind while listening to https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xs8fxI5ZdaIA1i386IHH2 yesterday
that sure is pithy but as a general rule every company I've ever encountered says that their output is wealth, and some of them say that diversity is part of a strategy for achieving wealth.

I would probably invest in a company whose overall strategy for achieving wealth sounds the most likely to succeed.
Suppose the author wasn't Probably One Of Those People, and didn't apparently have some kind of axe to grind about whatever bee in their bonnet buzzes about, constantly tickling their lips? Then they'd phrase it more like your second paragraph! More meat, less spice. Decent meat doesn't need much spice.

But: they didn't.

(I also second the other person's comment about anti communism probably not being the example this particular writer would have chosen, were they writing in the 50s.)
Acceleration Robotics, which leads the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration community efforts, will work with Peer Robotics to improve performance in the mobile robotics stack beyond prevalent market standards.
If you're a 1950's typist, trying to copy text that you don't much care about, then typing is pretty efficient.

Vs. if you're a modern student... Others have noted that most humans remember things better if they hand write them. Hand-written notes have the additional advantages of needing minimal & low-cost equipment, and not suffering from any "...then my computer died" high-tech failure modes.
When you submit it tells you the "top words today".

ROT13: Pheeragyl gur irel orfg jbeq vf boireg sbe na nqqvgvbany cbvag.

Terccvat /hfe/funer/qvpg/jbeqf V qb abg frr nalguvat orggre.
Doing a thing that’s only allowed as an act of war is indeed an act of war. The question isn’t really of illegality.
Awesome clarification!

In situations like this the laws of war are whatever the belligerents say they are. Obviously these codified rules help for coalition-building but the only thing that matters is how the involved nations react in the moment.

For now, send the USA is keeping a very cool head. No one wants this conflict to expand beyond Ukraine + adjacent Russian land.

USA isn’t looking for additional casus belli, so no matter what the rules are, they won’t find any additional casus belli.
A point in favor is that normal earth-like atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, so just large, lightly built structures would float naturally.

The main point against is that there is no reason for anyone to go there. Cloudtops on Venus are immensely resource-poor, most importantly in hydrogen. I agree with you that there is no advantage to a floating colony over a spinning one.

The one place on the solar system whose colonization is often ignored is Mercury. It has an extremely low axial tilt, meaning that all the craters on it's poles are permanently shadowed. It is also constantly bombarded by solar wind, which produces water (ionized hydrogen impacts oxide rocks, and binds to the oxygen). Then the water is a gas that bounces around until it impacts the bottom of a shadowed crater, which is cold enough to freeze it. Based on data from the MESSENGER mission, the south pole of Mercury alone has more water than all of Mars.
Not much really. Just shuffling debt around so that creditors don't feel the need to claim it back in one go mostly. Freelance income as of end of last year, grinding the debt down. Wasn't getting anywhere with it at a fixed salary job.

I realise you're proving a point rather than this being relevant so cba typing any further, here ya go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35016037
Creativity comes from insight. This thing has no insight, the best it can do is spit out something that might fit, and you will need to decide if it got lucky.
Guillotines.
That’s true, but in theory a professionally-managed company like Google should not be motivated by HN front pages and kudos; it should be about maximizing long term profits.

That’s exactly the meme/complaint: Google seems to value innovation more than success.
It seems to me that education as well as jobs that require writing skills - marketing etc - are just about to be blown away by things like GPT4. I want to believe that the heat on the programming profession is still ten years out so that I can continue to feed myself with my current skillset, but honestly ... who knows?
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Thanks for the fix (TL & DL changed to double letter and triple letter), now it's much clearer.
The problematic parts of the court is in my opinion not the current flavour of social self aggregandization, but the priesthood of the holy cow that giveth the revenue stream. If at microsoft, all must be windows. If at google all compareth horribly to search. If at apple, does it look good and can be sold at store.

The company internal wild-west eco system continus to produce more often then not, but the priesthood feels attacked by the idea of other power centers, aka revenue streams emerging inside the company.
That’s fine, aside from being a source to extract money from, consumers don’t matter. They have no choice but to use whatever we build. We’re not talking about shitty apps, we’re talking about everything else they take for granted and is deeply embedded in daily life.
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You're using the wrong definition, then. /s

Where is some evidence that NLP is 'solved'? What does it even mean? OpenAI itself acknowledges the fundamental limitations of ChatGPT and the method of training it, but apparently everybody is happily sweeping them under the rug:

"ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers. Fixing this issue is challenging, as: (1) during RL training, there’s currently no source of truth; (2) training the model to be more cautious causes it to decline questions that it can answer correctly; and (3) supervised training misleads the model because the ideal answer depends on what the model knows, rather than what the human demonstrator knows." (from https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt )

Certainly ChatGPT/GPT-4 are impressive accomplishments, and it doesn't mean they won't be useful, but we were pretty sure in the past that we had "solved" AI or that we were just about to crack it, just give it a few years... except there's always a new rabbit hole to fall into waiting for you.
So nice to see that !
Around 10 years ago I had the same idea, but not as well executed. Almost had the same name as well: Orbital.

Short video here[1]

Unfortunately the project has now bitrotted, the wayback machine only has some remnants of it[2]

Throwaway to not dox my main account !

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGzgMll43w

[2]:https://web.archive.org/web/20161104035152/https://theelectr...
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They may panic, but they shouldn't. They can quickly pivot. GPT programs can be used off the shelf, but they can also use custom training. Every large org has a huge internal set of documents, plus a large external set of documents relevant to its work (research articles, media articles, domain relevant rules and regulations). They can train a GPT bot to their particular codebase. And that is now. Soon (I'd give it at most one year), we'll be able to train GPT bots to videos.

All this training does not happen by itself.
Well the air's generally cleaner now than earlier times in the industrial revolution. If you think about pm2 and not co2 conc.

Just look at the photo's of london when people burn coal for residential heating.
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This is true, but waiting around millions of years for a new global ecological steady state to form, when the underlying causes of these problems are knowable and preventable, is needlessly painful, to state it mildly.
Article takes a pretty wacky direction blaming diversity. I was at FB during the period they describe, nobody was getting promos for going to diversity seminars.

If you look at other posts on the site, seems to be a theme with this author. Everything is about how progressive politics are making the world harder for them.
> vilifying Japan

Did Japan ever stopped being a villain in that region?

I don't think it will ever stop being perceived as one as long it doesn't undergo cultural transformation that Germany underwent in Europe.
Wouldn’t that take several years of investment with little to no return?
I do not know in USA, but in EU such action would normally led to a formal complain of private money theft and slander. In just few hours the local bank director would be called by fiscal police with such complaint asking him not so gently to quickly provide justification or risk a penal process with potential jails terms...

So well... Anything can potentially happen, but if you have the law on your side and you use it with fierce legal force anyone will both be kind and effective on you AND management learn the lesson: customers are not puppet and might bite.
Looking through all of this, my own theory is "grotty hack". An extremely capable programmer, with access to all kinds of toys. Doesn't want to write or improve a world-beating document formatter, just get the document printed.

You can justify paragraphs easily enough with a simple program. As for the sub/superscripts, why not just annotate something like blah[up]blahblah[up]blah[down][down] etc. and then do a hacky preformatter that sorts all of this into microspaced lines. Print the stuff at each height in one pass, go down a microstep, print the next and so on. He did have a Selectric-type machine available driven by a computer in his basement after all.

What do you do with a grotty one-off hack once it's done its job? Bury it. Don't mention it in a workplace full of geniuses who would write something like "troff" just to make a point. Especially because they did do that only a few years later. Doesn't solve the mystery of why he didn't bother to go through with the PhD of course.
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Don't miss out the explanation (towards the end of the article) how for a particularly pathological example of async/await code they went from 145MB of allocations in .NET Framework to 109KB in .NET Core and to 0 when using ValueTask.
Stadia failed as a business, not as a product or technical solution.

I work on Google Play, we've been going for a decade, no sign of stopping now. Much of what I and the many people around me do is maintenance – making things go faster, making things error less, etc. Some of that is done with new features, some is transparent to users (or app developers).

I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about. I can see elements of it at a very high level, as I said I'm not really commenting on the top leadership, but for most people at Google, new products do not appear to be necessary for progression.
Looks, money, contacts, intelligence, knowledge. These are all things that help bring about more/better opportunities for a person. They are all things that some people have more of innately and can be improved with effort. Is life fair that some people start out with more of some of them? No, but life isn't fair. But is the fact that you can focus on improving the above things for yourself and it will help you succeed in life empowering? I would certainly say yes.
Maybe that was their plan, yeah. Barney’s argument seemed to be “if you’re tough on banks as a legislator it’s good to go work at a bank after leaving Congress; if you’re soft on banks as a legislator it’s bad to go work at a bank after leaving Congress”. If you approach it with sufficient distrust of politicians/bankers and insufficient understanding of the regulation I can see that argument being unconvincing.

(Unimportant nitpick: one option being more morally complicated and more dangerous than the others is a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference.)
Oh yeah, they should still try. I'm just saying they shouldn't expect much given the circumstances.
Why, though? Do you just feel yourself agreeing on an emotional level? Does it match your experience at a particular firm? Or something else?
They’ll eventually end up as trash even if the team properly get rid of them. That and they can produce some micro plastic pollution too even if they are being recycled.
Even if that were true, LLMs don't give any kind of "handles" on the semantics. You just get what you get and have to hope it is tuned for your domain. This is 100% fine for generic consumer-facing services where the training data is representative, but for specialized and jargon-filled domains where there has to be a very opinionated interpretation of words, classical NLU is really the only ethical choice IMHO.
Not really though. It's worth pointing out that the original Liberartianism in the Sarte/French sense IS a left wing movement and closer to anarchism and would view the companies that American Libertarians love as another extension of authoritarian control that should be reduced or eliminated.

Corporate Libertarianism which seems to be the predominant modern one is very right wing though.
> Microplastics/plastics found everywhere ~100 years after its invention, disrupting life

> yeah it's just like trees over millions of years

The process being logical doesn't mean it's not worrying, especially when you look at the scale and pace of it
When I was studying Computational Linguistics I kept running into the unspoken question: given that Google Translate already exists, what is even the point of all of this? We were learning all these ideas about how to model natural language and tag parts of speech using linguistic theory so we could eventually discover that utopian solution that would let us feed two language models into a machine to make it perfectly translate a sentence from one language into another. And here was Google Translate being "good enough" for 80% of all use cases using a "dumb" statistic model that didn't even have a coherent concept of what a language is.

It's been close to two decades and I still wonder if that "pure" approach has any chance of ever turning into something useful. Except now it's not just language but "AI" in general: ChatGPT is not an AGI, it's a model fed with prose that can generate coherent responses for a given input. It doesn't always work out right and it "hallucinates" (i.e. bullshits) more than we'd like but it feels like this is a more economically viable shot at most use cases for AGI than doing it "right" and attempting to create an actual AGI.

We didn't need to teach computers how language works in order to get them to provide adequate translations. Maybe we also don't need to teach them how the world works in order to get them to provide answers about it. But it will always be a 80% solution because it's an evolutionary dead end: it can't know things, we have only figured out how to trick it into pretending that it does.
I have a HP laserjet 6L from 1993. It still works, although the paper feed needs to be encouraged sometimes. Doesn't get a lot of use anymore, but I think we only ever bought one new toner cartridge for it.
oh, impacted is a trouble word now too? interesting.

in the name of efficiency, could you list all the words you're offended by?
More reasons to iterate on it.
That's because the interviewer is an activist, not a journalist, and a bad one at that. Barney Frank was simply the more intelligent person in this interview.

The fact he had such an answer prepared shows he has thought about it over the years, far longer than the reporter spent thinking about a gotcha question based on the superficial premise of "revolving door bad."

As for the reporter, the interview doesn't start any better than it ends. Those are some embarrassing questions based on factually incorrect premises, and Frank consistently corrects him, only to be told "well, look what the Washington Post said in 2018!" How embarrassing. I admire Frank's patience. Can you imagine a reporter childishly grilling you about your subject of expertise while insisting you're wrong?
Does this article deserve some skepticism? Will fishing nets really melt like that? It looks like they took some oven waste and put it in the oven. If plastics were melting like this in nature, wouldn’t we have seen a lot of it, all over the warm parts of the planet, by now?
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Oh, another one - I'm wondering if this is like the story about shoeshiner giving the advice about stock market and investments.
When everyone and their mother is telling you that you need to write then is it really good time to start to write?

For some reason idea of reading a book which content was partially generated is really really of putting to me. I already noticed multiple people claiming in the comments that they are using generative AI tools for writing and oh man I'm glad that I already read my share of SF/fiction so I can completely avoid new books from whole genre and especially new, non renowned authors.
The annual ups and downs of Ancient Rome's economy can be tracked via lead in ice cores drawn from glaciers in Greenland. ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/greenland-ice-cores-... )