skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason Unreal Blueprints and cousins work and are useful is: they are used in a relatively narrow domain, the primitives of that domain are well understood/defined, and the primitives are easily compossible.

Once you create a general purpose no-code option, it is so complicated and sprawling that the mental burden to understand it is just as great (if not greater) as just using plain old code again. Or conversely, it is so constraining (for the sake of "simplicity") that it can't do anything useful.
There's something called Math for America that offers a substantial stipend to math teachers in New York with an application that involves a written portion, observation reports, recommendations, Praxis test scores, and interviews.

> There are plenty of people who can do the technical side of teaching the curriculum. Most of them can earn more elsewhere [...]

It's funded by a billionaire former mathematician who wanted to address this exact issue.
We are in one giant tech-accelerated feedback loop, which exploits human attention. The limbic system is fastest, so fear, provocation, hatred, outrage, etc. drive clicks. The news media exploits this. Social media exploits this. Politicians play exclusively to their base and exploit this by tossing them red meat in the form of vice signaling.

It's all just human attention harvesting, with zero concern for the psychological cost.

Social media makes me feel bad, especially when I start my day with it. I will never touch TikTok because I think it's cancer for the human attention span. I deleted my Facebook a long time ago and never looked back. I don't give a shit about Instagram. I wish I didn't use Reddit, but am finding it increasingly cynical and tiresome.

May the gods have mercy on our souls if we ever train an LLM on toxic Twitter and Reddit comments and it becomes superintelligent.
Make it happen. A cousin in Sweden owns a tree farm so we visited for a few weeks. Was wonderful. I mean, fairy tale wonderful.
When all of the web traffic gradually moves into for-profit walled gardens, this happens.

Those places will seek to increase profits. They can do it by growing their members but that eventually stops working.

They need to make the "content" stickier, more addictive. Cute kitty pics are attractive but not as attractive as porn, but porn has a legally limited audience. Pleasing people brings recurring business, but angering them, angering them with "righteous outrage," that brings them back even more frequently - the A/B tests confirm it.

Some people here will blame capitalism, some will blame oligopoly, some will blame lack of regulation, and some will blame other people's meanness. Those are all factors. And then some.

This isn't the land of Angelfire and everyone's personal weblog anymore.
Worse, many may end up looking for something to fill the void left by lack of social interaction and not know what it is they're looking for. Others may not know how to socialize if they do know they need it, and may struggle as a result.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8717.Perpetual_War_for_P...
He couldn't even donate 120 out of the 120k cards and one lambo? I'm beginning to think this whole crypto thing is sus
Relevant. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
Misadventures is quite the euphemism. Illegal invasions and war crimes would probably be more fitting. But otherwise, I fully agree
I heard of two Nintendo published games for their Nintendo Switch platform that utilize the Unity Engine (not marketed well, but can be found in the 'Intellectual Property Notices' section for each game):

* Jump Rope Challenge (summer 2020, released as a digital only game on the Nintendo eShop originally planned to be limited release, but staying up indefinitely for now)

* Fire Emblem Engage (January 2023, developed by Intelligent Systems, so considered more of a 2nd party game)

One more example that is 3rd party published but Nintendo owns copyright on:

* Cruis'n Blast (September 2021, a port of an arcade game developed by Raw Thrills, who both developed and published this port)

One more example but using the Unreal Engine:

* Yoshi's Crafted World (March 2019, developed by Good Feel)

Despite the examples I listed, almost none of these games are ones developed by one of Nintendo's internal studios (Jump Rope Challenge being the exception, but it was never intended to be one of their big games), but instead are developed by another studio not fully controlled by Nintendo.
For their big games developed by them, they still use their own bespoke, proprietary engines, which is likely a sign that Nintendo doesn't trust outside engines like Godot, Unity, and Unreal well enough to commit to using them for such games. Outside developers making games to be published by Nintendo apparently have more freedom to use their preferred engines, including the mentioned outside ones.
Lot of things are having their moment lately
One I can think of is circles-in-circles where you are bundling wires or optical fibre cores into cables. (And probably for tensile cables used in bridges and so on)
It isn't. You read that wrong.
Notable to mention the Greenland Thule air base crash which effectively created a dirty bomb around the area after the B-52 crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_cra...
It didn't take 5 major revisions. There was a big regression with KDE 4 compared to previous versions, and that was remedied in KDE 5.
Hey man, the target audience is normal Seed/Series A companies —

$30m–60m+ Series A rounds are extreme outliers, especially in 2023, and the $1m MRR number you quoted in another comment is 5x higher than where most Series A companies are at.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback on anything specific in the post that you disagree with, with that target audience in mind :)
That is why, recently, I have been doing my absolute best to inject some comedic relief into all Internet discussions. Use comedy instead as a way to convey your opinions. At worst people will laugh, at best they'll laugh and think a bit about what you've said. Well I guess at worst actually they'll be offended, not able to take a joke, and continue on with their own miserable lives ;)
I'd say it's more "We're going to teach everyone to read rather than expect everyone to put picture symbols on everything."

Media literacy is hugely important. It goes beyond CPC propaganda, but that's definitely a good way to start the conversation.

If we start trying to go after specific platforms and messages, it's a fiasco: a lot of splash damage (people losing their platforms), a lot of playing catch up as the culture advances faster than regulators, and a dangerous risk of uneven enforcement (will domestic-terrorist content be as relentlessly monitored as pro-China content?) It also can never reach certain types of disinformation that's politically or commercially favoured. Better media consumers are immune from a broader set of threats.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/

This has a “live counter” constantly incrementing which shows the total cost of the “global war on terror”.
I know a bunch of startups that are moving their cash/treasury to JP. We're looking into doing the same.
I miss Baghdad Bob :(
Sure the fish find it relaxing too. /s
News flash - the internet is full of trolls. Unfortunately since this is now the dominant form of how people get their news it's quite hard to find anything of quality anymore. Everything is a competition for subscribers which leads to clickbait everywhere. sad really.
Internet has become a safe space. A place where people can yell at eachother with zero consequences. In human history the average Joe didn't have this. Before a decade ago, really only geeks were online so the convos were more nuanced, deep and just polite all around.

That era is over.

ProTip: Engage in face-to-face conversations, where empathy and nuance are easier to convey.
I doubt those serious about it wouldn't just put the actual Windows binaries through a decompiler (they're surprisingly good these days, particularly that free one from the NSA, and Microsoft even publishes the symbols for most of the binaries anyway.) Especially malware and exploits that rely on exact implementation details.
GPT5: I know kung fu.
> Putting custom tweaks into your drivers that are activated for specific processes is pretty common practice

i despise this practice, because it locks performance behind specific drivers. Why shouldn't the driver/graphics api be able to be programmed with the same level of performance by the developers for the app, instead of having manual tweaks happen at the graphics driver level?

This is how nvidia (previously at least) have an unfair advantage over AMD in the graphics card market. I'd call it an anti-competitive practice.
Determine current room is a step GPT-4 would take care of by looking at the surroundings. The one thing I wasn't sure it could do, was figure out the layout of the house and determine a route for that. And I would rather provide it with some routes than have it wander around the house for an hour. I didn't figure real time video is what it was going to be best at. But it can certainly say the robot is in the living room, it needs to go down the hall to the kitchen. And if the robot knows how to get there already, it just tells the robot to go. I am sure there is another model out there that could be slotted in, but as far as just the robot plus GPT-4 goes, it might not quite be there. Just guessing at how they could fit together right now.
Just as I don't think it's _possible_ to be "ready" to be a parent, I don't think we, as a society, were "ready" for the internet ­— nor were we ready for Covid.

As I've learned in the last 3.5 years, being a parent is such an enormous change in life that explaining it is impossible. The fact that every kid is different, and every parent is different, and that we all have our issues and hang-ups and upbringings and preferences, and we can't read minds, and it's impossible to know what a crying child _needs_ without trying everything, is just... different. It's something you have to do to understand. And every time you get the hang of it, they're a month older and there are a whole new set of things to learn and deal with. It seems to take a couple generations to understand it. And by then we're almost gone.

In the same vein, when I got online as a young teen in the early 90s, back when there were scary news reports on the nightly news of: gasp "people meeting strangers online!", there was no way to _know_ what it would be like for society to hold up a big fat, unblinking, always-on mirror unto itself. It was impossible to know the implications. A time traveler could not have ever stopped it. We wouldn't have believed them. It's too different. It's going to take generations for us to understand it, and deal with the emotions and the fear and the _everything_ that comes from it.

As for Covid, I remember going through waves of depression and grief during the lock-down stages. But then I would remember: "We're _all_ going through this". It didn't make it better; It just made it reasonable. I was weirdly lucky to be a husband, new parent, and a startup co-founder to keep myself focused in that time. It's going to take a long time for us to figure out the toll. We still have no idea.

Collectively, we're going through a lot. I hope we can remain kind to one another through this.
> On thing the US military is betting on is that nobody can tell WHERE this video took place.

It took place in international airspace around 50km from the Crimean border.
Show HN: ChatWEBPAGE – The GPT-powered way to get answers from any webpage
Hey everyone!

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on called ChatWebpage -- it's a website that lets you chat with any webpage using AI.

All you have to do is enter the URL and your question, and the AI will give you a response. It's a great way to quickly get the information you need without having to sift through a lot of text.

I built ChatWebpage because I wanted to create a tool that could make the web more accessible and efficient for everyone. I think it's a really cool way to interact with websites, and I hope you'll find it useful too.

So if you're interested in the latest AI technology, head over to ChatWebpage.com and give it a try! And if you have any feedback or ideas for how I can improve the site, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Thanks for checking it out, and happy chatting!
When I was laid off, and all my access to internal systems was disabled, I had no way to get in touch with my former colleagues, who didn’t have my contact info. Having a personal website enabled them to get in touch with me, which led to a number of job offers (including the one I ended up taking).
Yes, but think of the bonuses for the C-suite of Halliburton and Northrop and Raytheon, et al!
> If the the Russian pilots were so effective in such a short time, they are truly magnificent. (Speaking as an ex-pilot myself)

Im not sure thats the right conclusion, I think it's far more likely the pilot was super lucky and accidentally hit the drone.
a500 was amazing. But why buy one now? Emulators are pretty good.
> it's absurd they've lasted this long.

Isn't cheap interest great? You don't even have to be good at what you're doing. Just stand in the cut and profit.
I’m still patiently awaiting the day we hold those accountable for the unilaterally aggressive war that led to the unnecessary death of over 1 million Iraqis and countless Americans.

Should be any day now, right? Right?
One of Bin Laden's goals was to exact a huge financial cost, and he largely succeeded.

One of Bin Laden's goals was to foment distrust of America around the world. He succeeded.

The undermining of core liberties, the sullying of legal foundations to support the "war on terror", the vast increase in monitoring and other totalitarian state system, further radicalization of the right wing and division in the US, that was alllll gravy.
As a tool for quantifying the number of civilisations, agree, the Drake Equation is not so useful given the known unknowables.

But as a tool for stimulating discussion, creating engagement for SETI, or as an exemplar for Fermi Estimation, it's excellent.
>what you see in social media is typically so exaggerated and distorted that it may as well be entirely fictional

Err ... depends on where you live I guess? I'm in a big metro area and the stuff I see every time I leave my house makes me wish I hadn't.

Also, Gen Z has truly lost any sign of motivation/interest in life so at least that meme is accurate.
are you finding langchain and llama-index similar?
Even for the calm/sane, they too gravitate towards negative content. It's entertaining, it can make them feel better about themselves temporarily, they can use it for cheap content for validation. Social feeds reinforce all of these layers.

We as humans also exaggerate negativity, you can read 100 positive comments, they will never have as much impact as that 1 negative one. This is a core component as to why negativity fuels itself.

There isn't a lack of positivity online, you can find it very easily in huge abundance, it's just not as viral.
My go-to is trail running (or walking), though this is less social as it tends to mainly be me on my own occasionally passing or being passed by a hiker, dog walker, or another runner, unless I'm on a paid trail event when there are tens or one-or-two hundred other runners out on the route.

The key similarities between your escape method and mine are, I think, getting away from the Internet & other bits of our daily stress, and getting out into the countryside a bit.
Related: https://www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-care-deserts-report
How many of these things are instrinsically virtually impossible to determine though?

I was born in '86 and since that time we've discovered thousands of exoplanets. Maybe we've crossed 10k by now. Blows my mind.

If you were born only 50 years prior the idea of a big bang would have been even more revolutionary.

I'm kind of drunk right now so I can't recall offhand when the idea of multiple galaxies was cemented but it was what, a decade or two prior to the bang innovation?

So I wonder what are the absolute hard limits to pinning down the variables in the Drake equation from a vantage point of a single star system and at this point in time actually are?

Like it seems to me that as time goes on we are able to do more and more from this singular vantage point, and that as time goes on we will be able to put some realistic parameters if not absolute values on many of these variables, enough at least that the Drake equation stops being an inspirational equation and starts being an objectively useful one like Ek = 1/2mv^2.
Launch of Children's Created Chinese Storybook (Human vs AI))
StoryChopsticks entered into a copyright agreement with six young authors aged between 7-11 years.

As a part of their Chinese language learning process, these young students are guided by their facilitators to create their own Chinese storybook, experiencing the highs and lows of the creative publishing process.

This contract signifies an important step towards owning intellectual property, building a pipeline for income generation, and above all, learning to make a mark in the world.

To show your support for these young and passionate authors, please join us for the launch of their book on March 25th (Saturday) at 11am GMT+8.

You can sign up for the event here: https://scp.st/book
> Trolling too is an attack of some kind.

Would it still be trolling if an American drone clipped a Russian plane by accident causing it to crash?
Every company has finite time to give to support even if they heavily invest in it and people continually demonstrate how bad they are at basically everything. People treat emails to people they deem less important than them as asynchronous to be dealt with whenever and emails TO such folks as synchronous to be dealt with immediately. If not given immediate response they are liable to forget about it until its convenient for them to deal with it again and if the response is again not immediate they will forget about it again.

People's initial problem statement may be insufficient to even establish identity let alone nature of problem and solution. This is usually established by repeated follow up questions sometimes repeating questions to get the actual answer because it turns out they had no idea about the actual answer or indeed don't know what words mean.

Due to both of the above even simple issues are likely to become 12 step marathons with the associated cost of context switching to their problem 12 times. Worse due to the low cost of initiating an exchange they are likely to do so even when they could have resolved the issue in 10 seconds with google or even turning their head into the on position.

Your suggestion would turn a well funded support center into a team of professional shit shovelers trying to clean the Aegean stables with teaspoons.

An actual call queue intentionally and constantly drops matters too unimportant to invest 5-10 minutes in resolving and makes people do the whole shebang in one go by having them answer the follow up questions now.
Solar panels.
Looks like some Jewish thing.
I think it’s deeply cultural. I’m from the USA but live on the other side of the planet. Nobody here is like this, they aren’t angry or bitter, they are generally happy and polite, yet they are on TikTok and Facebook and the same Internet as everyone else.
I semi-sincerely think that observing each other is the most important next step, turning the pre-programmed inter-connectivity of online sites into an intra-connectivity of what works for ourselves.

> It's like everyone is so damn angry all the time. If they aren't angry they're bitter and resentful. And when they aren't angry or bitter, they're so depressed they're barely able to crawl out of bed. And if they aren't angry, bitter, or depressed, they have crippling anxiety.

I don't see things quite so darkly, but I do see a lot of negative biases that predominate & spread (to diffuse some blame, cynicism is very often a simpler blunter more-accessible message than the complexity of hope in a complex world), I do see an attraction towards dislike & disbelief & negativity & reduction (which win through polarization), and I see a vanishing percent of views towards positivity, towards figuring out what's good (which is more difficult than polarization because it typically refines/selects).

Overall, as a user, I want to be able to keep my own score. I want to track & identify user identifies (ideally across platforms) of who is positive/helpful/speculative and who is negative/destructive/limited in view.

When I see things, the history of who is posting matters, and my history with their posts matters especially to me. So far that is a leap broadly untaken. Right now most social media systems don't have any real bias towards our preferences, from what I can see. If you're on HN or reddit or whatever else, if someone you've upvoted a thousand times post, their content wont show up any differently, from someone you've never seen, nor from someone you've downvoted a thousand times.

The systems are all blind. And frankly I don't think the services should try to tune themselves. I think it's up to us users. That's the competency of the web, that which no other connected system of (imo gross vile) walled-silo apps has: malleability, changability. By being a web system, we users can & should be building our own systems of reinforcement & guidance, should be extending our agency outwards. To tune in to the positive OK voices, to see over time who consistently has good powerful positive things to say, and to dis-regard the voices we are tired & worn for hearing.
I suspect this or something like it has already “taken off”, but only internally at google. They seem to be a lot better at searching the contents of YouTube videos than simple transcripts or image detection would give.
Religious celebration guide book created by ChatGPT. Seder is Jewish celebration of Passover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder
When it comes to catastrophe scenarios, the 1970 film 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' might be worth reviewing. No 'Matrix' simulated reality or battery banks needed. Also based on a sci-fi novel. Unlike 'Terminator', no metal military needed. All needed chess pieces exist.
You jest, but the idea of critical thinking and rationalism is what you'd use to combat propaganda.
A Markov chain satisfies the Markov property [1] in which the probability of an event is conditioned only on the previous event. Regardless of whether an LLM event is a character or a word, an LLM certainly does not follow a Markov process.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_property
Simple. Humans are not rational creatures. It's like in high school... people prefer to chasing what appears "cool" or whatever makes them feel powerful, or what will meet the approval of the in-group, or whatever it is they want. Ergo, they run on emotion over logic. It's why, for example, a lot of cars nowadays have low profile tires - they "look cool", even though they are worse than taller tires for typical road conditions. Then you have the fact that, all people are also (to varying degrees, but ultimately/inevitably) short sighted and self-centered, and horrible decisions get made all the time.
I think it’s a Passover experience customizer leveraging ChatGPT. There is some room for variation in the ritual. This tool generates variations based on your preferences and then produces what I think could be described as an agenda for the Passover meal.
Make it hard to search. From this late date, it's pretty clear that decent search let people quit linking as much, and this drove fragmentation.

Somehow make it hard to hide the fact that you're a bit.

Get rid of connection oriented protocols like TCP.
It underlines the idea that the entropy-time connection is pretty shaky though.