skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shout out to FlowX on Android. ( https://flowx.io/ )

The best weather app I've ever used.

Much thanks to the founder Duane & his partner for the ongoing development
Ah, but if their cooling is electric, and hence in their case, solar, and their heat is natural gas, this is still better. =)

That being said, it's entirely possible for someone who has a solar set up to also have switched to electric heat, it's just pretty uncommon in northern climates still.

Generally though, yeah, I prefer NUCs and the like over servers for home use for power and noise constraints.
> It also can't decide when to run the program and how to interpret/make changes based on the results.

Not quite, but a bit of plumbing can get you closer. Not human using a computer close, but interestingly closer nonetheless.

I've been trying to accomplish something akin to this by having a program monitor and alter another program within a virtual machine, using GPT-generated solutions to error traces to correct bugs in the sand boxed program.

It watches the program to see when an error occurs, feeds the error to GPT with pertinent code, then tries to splice in the solution.

It kind of works. I don't think we're going to see human-levels of success from this in the immediate future, but I was able to write a simple event-based system which alters a program to resolve simple bugs. It even does it on a different git branch, and there is some stubbed out code and prompts for generating tests. In my manual testing, this actually worked too. If the tests passed I was going to have it push the change set and create a PR explaining the changes, tests, etc.

I doubt I'll continue now that Copilot is doing this already. My point though is that with the right configuration, the right data and prompts, and a system orchestrating the start/stop/test patterns based on the state of the sandboxed program, you can begin to achieve something akin to an inexperienced person solving bugs.

Sometimes it does a terrible job and other times it kind of falls over itself. But we're already leaps and bounds ahead of previous systems, and I just cobbled this together with what's possible via OpenAI's API.

The crazy part is that there are so many possible layers. Like say we get our initial solution and we verify that it works. Well, now we can have a system which optimizes the implementation. Like a PR buddy that observes the implementation and determines: should this test be appended to an existing suite of tests? Can the test case simply be added to an existing table-driven test? How can we streamline this patch to avoid an endless stream of additional files and tests to maintain? I think that's actually tractable already. While the success rate won't be 100% today, it'll clearly only improve.
Shouldn't really make any difference, because they're already super effective with ticks. Having more fine timing accuracy doesn't drastically improve them.
How easier is mrsk vs k3s?
Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41
Right, the clawbacks for criminal behavior honestly feel out of scope anyway. And most extraordinary mismanagement will fall under fraud, so is in that same bucket.

As such, I'm assuming we are not talking about 100% clawback in most cases. Such that even with the clawback I would expect to see, I'm also still expecting that they made way more money than line employees.

I'd be interested in peeking at the numbers, though. Neat topic.
Here's the thing, they're not profiting much at all, if any. The whole group believes RE can only go up, so when the value of the home increases, they yank out all the equity and dump it into another property. AirBNB just keeps them afloat.
TDMA is an extension of TDM, which goes back to the 60's. Synchronization was already solved. Variable header size could be implemented with the same preamble concept already used by Ethernet, but used to indicate the end of the header. These were not hard problems. The technology existed, the affordability would have largely depended on adoption, so it's hard to say.
Source is showing its age, just switch to Unreal already…

It’s not like Valve makes games anymore.
Synergy 3 Beta is finally here
russian Yandex no longer belongs to original Yandex founders/owners - it belongs to and is controlled by kremlin.

makes sense that original engineers/founders create their own stuff via opensourcing their original work
interesting. could you share what specifically the report had?
I would assume it works something like this:

At the server, client input events exercise some localized net code layer on a purely ad-hoc basis (i.e. serviced in small batches the moment packets are received). Players involved in these interactions could receive immediate updates from the localized, ad-hoc simulation (i.e. "infinite" tick rate).

The global tick is responsible for synchronizing these ad-hoc buckets (i.e. the same player can't die to 2 different kill shots). Rollback would likely be required in some cases, but if the global simulation is ticking at 60hz and the likelihood of a rollback is low, I think it could feel really good.
Screenshooting both comments for a guaranteed agedlikemilk
Google has suspended China's Pinduoduo app on security concerns
> like I'm fine paying for an OS but not if there is even a single AD in there

I can't remember last time I paid for Windows. Microsoft usually offers free upgrades.

I haven't seen any ad on Windows. I frankly find hard to believe there are ads in Windows.
If you look at the video, the smoke slowly fills the void again. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/csgo/images/csgo...

I think it could be a cool new meta.
Study: We can't distinguish AI vs. human self-presentations
We can't tell apart AI vs. human self-presentations in hospitality, dating, or professional environments. Not only that, but our mistakes are exploitable in a way that AI can be trained to present in a way that is guessed by subjects to be human about 70% of the time in a study where the subjects presumably know that half of the presentations are humans and half are AI.
And which work conditions do you think are better for the employees?
The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe (2021)
Context matters, and in this case the context includes several references you glossed over, the category under which this was published, and oh yeah, the fact that one of the prime selling points for EVs is helping the environment by eliminating combustion engines.
https://www.windy.com/

Probably some of the best visualization techniques I have seen. Free features cover most use cases; premium gives you better resolution.
This seems the likely end result. We'll always need SWEs, of course, but gone will be the days of entire dev teams working toward a common product.

I suspect SWE may trend toward other ailing fields like law with individual devs working on entire 'cases' and it being very competitive; rather than the recent "20min Js tutorial on YT to SF startup" industry.
It’s pretty clear if you read the paper they are not confident they did their job perfectly, and have erected guard rails around everything to cap the maximal contamination and established tests for assessing the extent of contamination exploiting assuming there is going to be contamination.
Fair, although even on a sliding-scale I think trust mechanisms are less-inaccurate when it comes to a single person (who can change, but usually in gradual/limited ways) vs a company (which is a revolving door of thousands of people who come and go over the decades)
Oh, great, yet another UI masterpiece swallowed by the insatiable maw of refinement culture at Apple. "Dark Sky" app was only a weather app, but it looked goth. It was our weather app, and it was beautiful in its simplicity. Now we're left with the soulless husk that is Apple Weather. But hey, why not? Let's strip away every last shred of uniqueness and character in the name of "refinement." Sigh. Guess I'll just go back to waiting for my bones to ache for my forecasts.
Everything already was personal politics, it's just becoming politics you don't like seeing there.
Spotify...SUCK ASS with its new UX! Holy Balls!
Thank you, I love it. Weather Underground has something similar, but this has the potential to get a lot better.
Making State Transitions Programmable
Have a link? I haven't seen any finetuning scripts in the wild that train a PEFT model on a multrigpu setup yet and would love to play around with one.
There is some nuance here. Microsoft executed "commoditize your complement" to perfection - the complements to their OS being PC hardware and applications.

This meant they had to be insanely good at supporting a vast array of diverse hardware, but also offered exceptionally good support for developers to keep the barriers of entry low in the Windows software market. They had even a cute name for these commoditized and neutered competitors - "ISVs". Basically, Microsoft owned the OS and the major applications like office & enterprise software, media, browser etc. and everything else was supplied by an ISV, for example your accounting software for country XYZ, a market where MS had no interest in entering.

As long as you kept within the ISV playground, MS was developer friendly, but it would turn very hostile to any perceived competitor to their core assets. Undocumented APIs, monopoly abuse, dark patterns, the entire circus. This strategy made the PC market impenetrable for nearly two decades, and it was only through sheer luck and complacency that the mobile revolution caught them on the wrong foot.
>Scary. For the first time in my life, I feel like my expertise is at risk of being rendered obsolete. Maybe not this year, but the writing is on the wall.

I'm extremely skeptical about this happening. I haven't seen any evidence that GPT is capable of creating something new or even thinking logically. What's going to happen if you ask it to create something that isn't like anything in its training set?

My experience is that GPT just makes shit up that looks plausible at a glance when it doesn't have an answer instead of just admitting that it doesn't know; this is obviously very dangerous when it's supposed to be writing computer programs. That OpenAI hasn't made any progress towards fixing this makes me wonder if it's even possible for the GPT to understand that sometimes it doesn't understand. At the very least it must be a non-trivial problem.
I love the promise of Planimeter but it's kinda intimidating to get started with. Are there any example games with source that I can tinker with?
Does anyone know why apple acquired them just to shut it down?

It doesn’t seem like the weather data was unique - what was unique was its user focussed design.

To acquire it just to shut it down would have only made sense to me had they actually folded the design of dark sky into their weather app and put their founders in charge of the app. Doesn’t seem like that happened
So, S&box which is already made on Source 2 and already made by Garry?
The Syrian conflict started after 4 or so successive years of crop failures, which have been linked to desertification and climate change.
I call bullshit on this. It has become de jure to claim that just about any migration from the developing world to the north is due to climate change for all sorts of convoluted reasons, but the patterns of migration from many developing countries have far too many variables for anyone to assert that.

Among these variables are also trends in terrible government, horrible land policies and infrastructure problems that make certain industries in which millions work unsustainable. All of these are human problems of politics instead of literal climate and all of them could even benefit from more development, instead of hand waving about climate change to fit a fashionable narrative.

Your own link references several very human, very global political trends that have little or nothing to do with climate change as being responsible for central american migration. It doesn't reference any literal notable climate changes that somehow made agriculture in central america worse.

I'm not saying that climate change has nothing to do with migration in the world, but to call it a main cause is tenuous in the extreme and dishonestly symptomatic of flogging this specific thing in all contexts to the point of just making absurd arguments..
The NICs can be had for $20 (pretty sure I saw a $11 one the other day but can't find it right now on mobile).
This is exciting. Guess I need to build another windows PC.
I can’t speak for Flower’s core dev roadmap, but PySyft is in the process of integrating Flower and some Secure Enclave options which would let you do this.

Congrats on the launch Flower team!
I agree they didn’t "run it into the ground", however the fact that they apparently didn’t look for someone willing to take it over, requiring volunteers to cumbersomely scrape the site now in the short time it’s still up, demonstrates a lack of caring at this point.
It’s just a common saying, especially after WWII. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
Or sold it to someone who wanted to continue to run it. It's value could not have been zero.
Judge dismisses claims that Microsoft-Activision merger will spoil gaming
Disagree. Dark Sky was fantastic in the PNW, where the main concerns are just how rainy it will be that day, and the approximate high temperatures coming up. Nothing accurately forecasts (here) whether it will be freezing or whether precipitation will be snow/slush/hail/rain, but other apps like Apple's are absolutely horrific at forecasting precipitation even a few hours out. Stuff like showing 30% chance of rain in 1 hour, clear the rest of the day, when it just rains the entire day and the "forecast" continually shows that it will stop raining in 30 minutes.
The youth today have no agency and boomers are the problem. As king of the cop-outs myself I would love to be able to live in that sentence instead of doing something. May I suggest you read some historical literature to get a perspective on this magical world that must exist or somehow existed in order for you to live a happy life? Do you think minorities had it better in the 70s? People with mental health issues? You know pre 1950 young people lived in those big hotels in cities and had shared bathrooms down the hall, etc that are now treated as one step above homeless housing, right? If the youth today were willing to live like they affordability would match historical norms. I lived with my mom as long as I could to save until I had a girlfriend with a good income to share an place (and I was a software developer in the bay area in the 90s at the time). My boomer parents borrowed the money from their parents to put down on their house. I don't know what magical world is denied my kids but they sure seem to think it existed.
> would USA risk direct conflict with a country if they could actually suffer some actual losses of combatants on their own soil?

That’s a very interesting question! So much of the US foreign policy is predicated on the fact that there will never, ever be a war on American soil. It would definitely change the risk dessinent and the political acceptability of aggressive foreign policy.
I'm sure it makes authors feel really good about themselves, even tho it changes absolutely nothing.
I find it quite frustrating that I can't look at what the temp was a few hours ago in apple weather, really liked dark sky
Carrot lets you pick your data source [1]. One of the options is the Dark Sky API which is still operating until March 31 [2].

[1]: https://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/

[2]: https://darksky.net/dev
Should Nature endorse political candidates? Yes – when the occasion demands it
That whole article reads like cope.
Honestly, I think this is great. The personal politicking of how D&D should/shouldn't be played is annoying, but this isn't really any of that. It's a deconstructive fantasy manual using the real world as inspiration for mildly thought-provoking world development.

If using extinct animals as inspiration for monsters is a crime, then Gygax should be prosecuted first: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Saber-toothed_tiger
Yeah, I'm interpreting this as instead of sending an integer of the tick that something occured on, they're sending a floating number of when it happened.

I assume the float they send will have a limit in accuracy however. So really it's not like ticks are 'gone', they're just getting much much smaller.
I'm 25 yo.
From 6 to 13 Pokemon then Minecraft since 2012.
I learnt a lot from these games, from patience to perseverance, from just finishing to speedrunning games.
And 9 years ago I started to play chess, now I'm in the top 5% world, the strategy behind it looks impressive but this is especially about your knowledges.
I'm sure they had plenty of feedback on all new features from the selected pros. It doesn't necessarily mean the change is good, of course, but at least it can be reverted.
Rollback is really the best lag compensation tech we have, trusting a client to a very small degree to tell their state of the world (or rather a delta to current) is much better than most other contemporaries. Call of Duty still divides your RTT by half at the start of a match and rewinds by that much. On connections with asyncronous latency this can be extremely impactful.
they did....
Ask HN: Want to create a drawing app, where do I start?
I see tons of "Build %cool_tech_name% yourself in %cool_language%" material on the internet.

But struggle to find anything for those who want to create their own Photoshop graphics editor.

Where can I find good guides/books to algorithms and ideas that make a 2D drawing app?
> Adversaries only need to send a maliciously crafted email that will be processed by the Outlook client to trigger the exploit on unpatched versions of Windows Outlook.

Scary
Great point. Time to do research on how much GitHub contributes to msft earnings. Really does seem like they’re on the verge of a huge jump
It's a 5 year term on a 25 year mortgage. Basically you refinance the remainder of the mortgage every 5 years under new terms (and possibly a different financial institution). If you choose a fixed rate for the five year term, your interest rate will change when you refinance based on the market rates at that time.

Edit: Also if you choose a variable rate mortgage, your monthly payment doesn't automatically change (unless the payment is insufficient to service interest) as the rate changes, instead you end up paying off less of the principal which makes refinancing even more painful.
When I used to use dark sky the radar map was awful. Most frames seemed to be empty data and the animations were very jerky. At first I thought it was a temporary issue but it never got fixed even after many years of use. Did anyone else notice that?
Expected value is already what most forecasts show. Expected value conveys information poorly in some common cases, like thunderstorms in the summer. It is very different to hear there's a 20% chance of a thunderstorm, dropping an inch of rain, vs. a 100% chance of .2" rain - the former needs a backup plan to deal with rain, the latter needs to plan for rain. Hence I prefer the text forecasts from the NWS, which list an amount possible, plus more in thunderstorms, rather than a bare number.

Meanwhile the 'probability' listed in forecasts is also well defined as an expected value - it's (probability of X% rain coverage) * (X %), over all X. (Rain is defined as > .01")
What even is a “Moat”, anyway?
> one thing it can do reliably is repeat a pattern

Isn't this something we've built into every modern language(and arguably the entire point of languages)? If you have multiple pieces of code that share code with tweaks(to test this or that case for example), shouldn't you parameterize the bulk of the code instead of getting autocomplete to parameterize it for you and dump it into your source file multiple times?
This is why "which of the possible words is most common?" is an important question when solving.
Suggest starting on wikipedia and spidering your way around the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting_process_of_Windows_NT_...
I'll reply to this once GPT4 provides a thought for me to borrow.
You could accomplish this with the existing chatGPT integration
To me the really surprising thing is that they still use Capistrano for deploying basecamp!
On the web it’s under: "More" / "Settings and Support" / "Settings and Privacy" / "Security and Account Access" / "Security". This is on my account with 2FA set up but not via SMS (which is what Musk announced was being removed weeks ago).
Did you actually pay for or license MDN for the database that you are building off of and selling your "product"? YOU ARE A BUNCH OF THIEVES. People haave been working on contributing to the MDN brandand the docs since at least 1995.

```We’re starting with documentation for React, Azure Docs, and MDN, so we can learn and iterate quickly with the developers and users of these projects.```
I clearly have. Quantum was the giant middle finger I described in my post.
Can confirm that PySyft is currently in the process of integrating with Flower. Best of both worlds.
Aren't HELOCs traditionally variable rates? If so, they'd also be betting on interest rates not hovering up that cash flow as rates increase.
Reminder: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
It seems as though all the companies deliberately agreed to wait until 2023 to release their AI products
Definitely not. Games operate in a loop: gather input, run update (tick), and then render the frame.

The problem with the above is when sub-frame timings matter. What they're doing is being smarter about how they're calculating things.

Eg: A 'naive' approach to movement could be:

forward_pressed() {
moving_forward = true;
}

update_position() {
if (moving_forward) {
pos += time_since_last_update * player_speed;
}
}

But an approach which would improve timings is:

forward_pressed() {
forward_pressed_at = time.now();
moving_forward = true;
}

update_position() {
if (moving_forward) {
time_since_pressed = forward_pressed_at - time.now();
if (time_since_pressed < time_since_last_update) {
pos += time_since_pressed * player_speed;
} else {
pos += time_since_last_update * player_speed;
}
}
}

Except things are more complicated as you need to consider exact position someone was when someone else pressed the shoot button, etc.

To answer grandparent's question: They'll likely reducing tick rate to save server costs. However they can't lower too much without having noticeable effects for systems which don't account for sub-frame accuracy.

Nits: Above is a simplification and theoretically you could do things differently, but as this is in Source Engine 2, they're definitely using ticks still.
Nope, good authors can make perfectly separate fantasy world politics despise their own views.

This isn't even politics per se, just feel good activism, the "I'm helping", while doing absolutely nothing that helps in the topic). Equivalent to thoughts and prayers.
So how does this compare to sqlite?

I don't mean SQL/noSQL. More why would you use this over sqlite?
Oh yeah, Cap'n Bob:

"Linux's '60s technology, open-sores ideology won't beat W2K, but what will?" (Infoworld, June 21, 1999)

... Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is 30-year-old technology.

The Open Source Movement reminds me of communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin laughs about world domination....

<https://web.archive.org/web/19991216220752/http://www.infowo...>

Though in time he moderated his views ... slightly:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20070622115025/http://www.linux....>
Pebble might be coming back – as a small Android phone
You might be getting what you wish for:

"Counter-Strike 2 sounds have been reworked to better reflect the physical environment, be more distinct, and express more game state. They have also been rebalanced for a more comfortable listening experience."

https://counter-strike.net/cs2