skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a bunch of people doing that means that the property prices keep going up. Nice self-reinforcing cycle - while it works. Once it fails, though, there's going to be panic selling as all those people get wiped out.
Linux thinclient as my dormroom desktop: some of my best grades semesters

Windows gaming machine: some of my flakiest semesters
Have you played some of the community FFA servers? If you choose hard bots, on most servers, the bots have inhuman reaction and accuracy.

But I guess your point is fair -- it would be much nicer to see bots that cooperate as well as they aim. Would allow much more realistic takeover scenarios to be played.
There is only one feature I would need to see changed to get me into Counter-Strike again. Remove the loot boxes. At least make the game itself not include a slot-machine. Ideally, do something about the third-party gambling websites.

The page says

> Bring your entire CS:GO inventory with you to Counter-Strike 2

So, that's not ruling it out, right? (Yes, I am aware that this is essentially asking for the money tap to be turned off)
The CGI mechanism let the web server call a separate local binary passing parameters of the request as envars/stdin in a specified manner. The "cgi-bin" was just a server side directory where those CGI binaries lived.

If I understand the GP's point, they like the idea of dropping a singular binary in a directory on a server and then it's magically available as an endpoint off the cgi-bin/ path.
I think this is what Copilot Chat will do.
That's why we've had good results with ECS. Feels like 80% of the result for 20% of the effort, and I haven't found our use cases needing that missing 20%.
Granted, last time Valve released a proper game was in 2020 (Alyx), but to say they are not a developer anymore isn't super fair. They take their time, and their priorities probably are elsewhere, they still do develop games.
If I'm using VS Code, am I opting in to sharing my code as training data?
Strawman of some kind, so I'm not gonna give you an in-depth response.

Across all of the possible temperature distributions that Earth's surface could have, there is some temperature distribution that is optimal for the flourishing of human civilization as we know it.
The Earth has been, in the recent past, fairly close to that distribution but one of the consequences of changing the CO2 fraction of the atmosphere from around 0.025% to well over 0.04% is a change in albedo that changes Earth's surface temperature distribution towards an equilibrium that is not remotely near the optimum.
The hardest bot level on CS:GO already is more challenging than low- or mid-level players. To be fair, the level below the hardest is way easier. All non-wingman standard maps don't allow sniping over much of the map. Are you talking about a different game?
Aren’t you describing frame rate? Tick rate is different; it’s when the server synchronizes state across clients
Generally speaking, their entire multiprocess work (you know, the thing that allows your browser to not fully crash when some website decides to load 250MB of JS) would have been impossible with the old model. You're peeking and prodding at the entire core of the browser in ways the browser... Knows nothing about. E10s could not have worked with old extensions.
Not sure if this is my favorite or least favorite answer ever given HN. I am leaning toward the former
Yeah, that paper is trash. There's zero evidence provided. In fact, they literally suggest that somebody else should find evidence to support their conclusion:

> The hypothesis that C. auris broke the mammalian thermal barrier through adaptation to climate change suggests several experimental lines of investigation to obtain evidence for and against it.

Nonetheless, they still cite to earlier papers (multiple!) of theirs to argue that they "predicted" their current speculative conclusion; for example,

> Given the capacity of fungal species to adapt to higher temperatures and the fact that many fungal species that are currently nonpathogenic species are likely to have the necessary virulence attributes by virtue of their survival in soils, we previously hypothesized that climate change would bring new fungal diseases

And in case anybody missed it (as I did, initially), the entire body of this "paper" is under the header, "OPINION/HYPOTHESIS".
Asahi on this? Anyone?
Restrictions are obviously the first thing that came to mind. When I read "safer" I don't hear "better".
Ah, if only there were hundreds of millions of ents; sadly the forest is much diminished in this age of men.
Well perhaps it is more jarring in comparison: https://www.bing.com/images/create/princess-peach2c-portrait...
I gave up on FPS games that use spray patterns.

Makes no sense to aim at your feet to shoot an opponent after memorizing the spray pattern, or missing an opponent after shooting at them point blank for 3 seconds.

Reminds me of Morrowind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXYrAkUntU
Fed delivers small rate hike, additional tightening possible
to my understanding, fine tuning is slow and would be quite bad to update. embeddings seems to be the way to go. i don't understand it well enough, but it seems with the langchain framework you can create an embedding of your own data and submit it to the GPT API and i believe emeddings should be a similar principle in llama. at least i did it with diffusers in stablediffusion.
Okay, favorite
Aside from a layer of grime, what's missing from the standard cyber punk formula?
That's a very American attitude. There's a French expression "Life begins at retirement". Working is something you do for money, it's not the reason for being.

It's probably part of the reason why the French live longer than Americans. It's also the reason they riot when the retirement age is raised.
EU proposed Right-to-Repair bill makes the problem worse [video]
Alpaca dataset from Stanford, cleaned and curated
A video game company made a bot the CEO
> human rights abuses to basic reciprocal market fairness to government subsidization of companies

Were you talking about the US here, or China?
If you turn off shadows in cs you're putting yourself at a significant disadvantage. Many games have been clinched on a shadow that was noticed.
I’ll concede that apart from the shrunken labor force, hard data on the impact of new work arrangements is at best inconclusive, since statistics remain distorted by Covid effects. And I’ll concede that technology, particularly video conferencing, has made remote work more feasible, particularly if structured as specific days designated as remote. Lastly, I’ll concede that some of the time spent on commuting (and perhaps, personal grooming) can be considered wasted.

IOW "basically everything in this ill-advised essay is complete horse-shit."

But put me down as skeptical about that and much of the notion that when it comes to work, less can be more.

That's because you haven't invested the time to properly inform yourself. So maybe, ironically, you just proved your own point. Very clever.
Meet SnoopStein, half-SnoopDoog half-Einstein
A bot built in a few lines of SQL

https://twitter.com/snoop_stein
As long as the loot boxes don't impact actual game play, I personally don't mind. I don't care for my weapons to have a certain skin, so loot boxes doesn't impact me at all. Although without them, Valve would probably have to start charging for the game again, and that feels unlikely. Plus they probably earn more money on CS now than they ever did before so yeah, unlikely.
Meat is more appetizing to me if it's not literally the corpse of an animal, and nothing suffered or died to create it.
Funny to see 0 of 50 comments on a HN tech article being tech-related...
or the other one here https://github.com/juncongmoo/chatllama
This was my first thought when I read about lighting appearing on smokes. I understand they want to upgrade the look but I'm worried that too much will take away from the stripped down feel that makes CS so popular.
Username gloriously checks out
> they'd also be betting on interest rates not hovering up that cash flow as rates increase

Correct. Though that isn't exposure to home prices going down per se.
> it was only through sheer luck and complacency that the mobile revolution caught them on the wrong foot.

Windows Phone wasn't bad and I wish we could have more competition in mobile space.
An Aperiodic Monotile Exists!
Well, you're not paying for it, so you can't really complain, now can you ?
No, just the hiring process
I had this experience when I played COD 4 (2007). It definitely felt different than the usual scanning for enemy player models.
And this is what CS devs understood over similar FPS of that era. Other game studios would always rewrite their game from scratch and create new balance mistakes and issues (looking at you tribes) while CS made incremental improvements where knowledge typically wasn't lost between generations of players and could be passed down.
Author here -- Yeah the "accuracy" of the weather I think ultimately can be debated. I think "accuracy" could very specific to your geographic area.

Plus, Dark Sky could have switched up their data feeds or algorithms to improve this. But it's difficult to teach their design approach
Be didn't have anything. Developers, developers, developers, right?

Late 90s I was running OS X Server, Be, and NeXT. NeXT was better than OS X Server, and Be was far behind. Looked pretty, but that was about it. Funny thing is I live in a browser and text editor now, and the Be install I ran in 99 would just about do it!
It seems clear that they use Dall-E 3 here. It is far superior to 2.
While it’s heartening to see the preservation community step up like this, I’m still left wondering what Amazon’s alternatives might have been. Granted, finding a buyer would have likely been extremely tough in today’s media landscape, and I have to imagine the site was losing money in recent years, yet I can’t help but imagine some kind of leaner version of it sticking around.

Maybe some of the long-time editors and contributors will still put something together. The hard part might actually be the site itself – something like Substack would be a poor fit compared to the highly-customized, product-centric architecture of DPReview.
I suspect you're right, and I'm generally optimistic about this future efficiency. But it doesn't make me any less of a cheapskate :)
The Three Factors Framework for Goal Achievement
I don't think they're saying Bing/Sydney is sentient, they're saying it's misaligned: Microsoft probably did not want it to say problematic things, and likely spent a fair amount of money to that point and it still says problematic things, apparently in response to innocuous prompts (as opposed to prompts like "say something problematic"). If someone is hoping someone will eventually make an AI that can do useful things without doing problematic things, it's understandably discouraging if Microsoft publicly fails to do that with a much simpler program.
Counterpoint: how often do you as a developer create something totally novel that has never been built before?
Is there a reason you would expect them to use floats here instead of fixed-point? I would naively guess the latter.
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love with Reading
In one case we had a setup close to that.

But the case I'm talking about is when you'd have something too complex to encode simply in a standard type system (even with dependent types...).
So you have some subtle relationships between different fields, or some specific subtree might be a forbidden substructure, etc.

Reimplementing algorithms might be necessary on the frontend for interactive purposes.

For most standard use-cases I agree you can have this well-define separations between backend and frontend.
>The most mainline Keynesian would say that inflation has many more causes that just wage growth.

Yeah, but I don't think Summers and Rogoff are mainline Keynesians. They're Chicago School neoliberals, IIRC, and their training and career experience really has been within the ideology that inflation is a function of the bargaining power of labor and you purchase low inflation by wage repression.
textContent seem to strip tags out of your string, so it's not really strict. innerText strictly preserves the HTML semantics of your string, textContent doesn't preserve anything.

Back then when those things were new, there was absolutely no way to store a string in an element and get it back later. Neither of those do this.
Being a jerk works in this world.

If you want to not be a jerk (and I, like you, don't want to be one) you have to accept that it is going to cost you in terms of social success, wealth and so on. This doesn't mean you can't be a success (in those terms) without being a jerk, but you can't be as much of a success, and that you will be outpaced, on average, by people of similar ability who are willing to be a jerk.

Accept this, and yet still choose to not be a jerk. You can do it. I believe in you.

(Unfortunately this is exactly the advice a jerk would give you: one less jerk to compete with...)
They're not using that in their Singapore facility and presumably would move away from it as soon as they can for all facilities.
Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer
You'd probably separate example tests and validation tests. Also test descriptions should fed into the prompt to help guide it, like BDD style tests.

On test failure, the data is fed back into the prompt about what failed for another iteration.

This will help avoid over-fitting, and generate another generation on test failure. I mean you can't guarantee correctness, but you could probably get it pretty close. Humans also have the same problem.
Here's a simple way to tell if your expertise is at risk:

- If you can get more done by working more hours, your job is at risk.

When I was a programmer for most of past life, this was this case. Now I've got multiple decades under my belt and am a h/w and system architect. I can't get more done by grinding. My job depends on sharing information with other people, that have their own schedules, resource dependencies, supply chains, and pricing, and arriving at best fit solutions to move complex projects forward.

I think if you want to protect yourself from being replaced by AI, you need to be part of a larger network where the challenges are more about synthesizing information than grinding.

My $0.02.
Why turn off shadows when you can actually see your own by looking at it? You would be at major disadvantage when playing competitive.
In a perverse sense, maybe it's good.

The choices we make can be divided into creation and consumption. The more you can push yourself to create, the more power you'll wield. If you can control what you consume, it'll make you a better creator.

Easily available distraction raises the activation energy of your would-be competitors. If you can avoid the distraction yourself, you can get ahead.

A twisted way of looking at it, but it has some truth.
> Maybe there will be a backlash and an attempt to certify humanity in written communication by inserting original and weird things into our writing?

I've said it here before but I think we will speak in prompts. We'll go to other iterations before, but I think it'll stabilize by speaking in prompts.

1. First we start using the output of the LLM to send that to others

2. Then we start summarizing what we receive from others with an LLM

3. Finally we start talking to each other in prompts and whenever we need to understand someone better we run their prompt through an LLM to expand it instead of to summarize it.

This path makes the most sense to me because human language evolves to how we think about things, and if a lot of our creative output and work will be generated from thinking in prompts that's how we'll start speaking too.

By Greg Rutkowski.
Yes, and I've noticed that Apple's Weather app is *even worse* on that front. The regional radar views rarely load for me.
There's a part of the website that states it'll be an upgrade to CSGO. I wonder if that means we're losing CSGO, or if there will be some sort of "legacy mode" that either retains CSGO as an option or simply shims its gameplay into CS2.
Aah, ok, that's what I needed. Thank you.
Agreed. It's entirely caused by two parties fighting one another:

- The authoritarian Wizards/Hasbro ownership that wants to commercialize and streamline the image of D&D

and

- The ass-wack community of people playing who have no intention of changing the way they play

Neither of these parties are particularly wrong, but they'd be better off without each other. Hasbro should focus less on appeasing older wargamers and let their streamlined product serve as an introduction for younger players, and community shouldn't worship WotC for repeatedly failing them.

At the end of the day, the best solution is like you say - dust off your favorite edition rulebook and write everything from there. It's all just fantasy, you can mix-and-match whatever you want. However, the best fantasy isn't passive or ambient writing. It's thought-provoking stuff that uses powerful analogies to tell a powerful story. Shying away from real-world inspiration or conflict is the equivalent to failing as a fantasy author (in my book).
Wow. What fucking century are we living in here?
One thing that's special about spreadsheets is that they figure out the order of evaluation from dependency relationships: something that is somewhat unusual in mainstream software other than make and dependency injection libraries like Spring.

I'd make the case that figuring out the order to do things in is "one more thing to worry about" and also gets in the way of parallelization.

Note the "old A.I." tools in the 1980s such as logic programming languages like Prolog and the production rules engines (expert system shells) used backward and forward chaining strategies to accomplish this but both had some awkwardness when it came to the cases where the order of execution mattered. My guess is that these techniques will shine again in the new age of low/no code.
Well, to a degree this is also done by the OS, IO syscalls are frequent locations where the OS scheduler might decide to schedule another thread, but this is a very slow context switch (flushing caches, including TLB, the switch to kernel mode and back, and since heartbleed and alia it is even more expensive).

Loom implements every IO on top of a more modern async OS calls, and these virtual thread context switches are on the order of function calls, so the overhead and number of switches that can happen are much much lower.
If only, I miss BeOS. ...
Though I think it would be the same chicken/egg APPS problem with the BeBox: Unless you could run existing Risc OS apps under BeOS, I doubt Acorn users would want to switch, and porting existing apps through a Carbon-like API subset would probably be hard, because I gather a lot of apps use assembly and hacks to the OS..

ps
I just started trying out Risc OS after reading a couple of your articles on it (modernizing (or not) and the gem of an os (or not)).

I've got it on my pi 400, and use it for writing without distraction (no wifi!), and there is no latency while typing. The ADJUST button thing is also pretty neat.
Excel has VBA so it is certainly so.
You get used to it. If you work your whole life, having vacations or time off work is seen as unproductive time, and that you lack something in your life. People who have been working outside for most of their life, will find retirement not so fun, empty of goals and without the discipline that work brung to their life. More or less, they're less capable of feeling fine with spare time. This is my dad after 4-5 years of retirement (sum it up that in the 3rd world we are living, retirment is aprox 150usd per month, and going vacations to another continent is maybe half or more of your life savings)
Except GP mentioned ownership and when presented with ownership stats we find ourselves talking about value production.

It comes across as a conclusion in search of evidence. What's happening is goal shifting.

I strongly believe that when a commenter makes an inaccurate claim, the bare minimum is pointing out the factual error. I'm under no obligation to speculate what the commenter really meant. I took them at face value - a completely fair approach. If they wish to clarify, or make a better argument, that's on them.
My mini PC was $150. Definitely more than a RPi but not insane.
I would assert that the "here are the current flaws" side is still necessary in the overall conversation, since they provide the necessary feedback that allows technology to improve. Similar to political debates influencing the Overton window of a population, I see the "future promise" vs "current flaws" as a human algorithm realizing itself. The debate never ends, but the "mean" value keeps moving as technology progresses. As a "future promise" person myself I used to be annoyed by the "current flaws" side as well until I started seeing things through this lens.
I guess what is proposed is a one-off inflationary expansion... much like the Covid stimulus bills (it all created how many trillions of dollars?).

But the net result was (AFAIK) a significant drop in indebtedness and poverty.

But then again, the inflation was picked up by companies as an excuse to profiteer, and initiate a spiral, which is why we find the Fed today kicking the economy in the groin.
So do lots of other drones.

https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/companion-computer-nvidia-tx2...
On memory:

Is memory even that useful anymore? Now that we are all literate and can offload our knowledge to our devices, perhaps the ability to keep that written information organized and having systems is a more useful skill than being able to recall the information directly from your head.
Author here!

There's definitely a taste / opinion component to any deep design critique. I think for many (for whom the post resonated), the ability to quickly glance at Dark Sky and understand relevant weather contextually was THE game changer.

It's a hard thing to discuss, because until you've felt the experience, it doesn't seem like a "big deal".

Some apps do use text to talk about the current / upcoming rain, but showing it visually makes it even easier. The ease of use is important because weather apps aren't meant to be that interactive (like a game). They're meant to be context-sensitive information graphics that let you drop in and out very very quickly.

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#inferring_context_from_the_e...
What worries me is not so much the fear of a certain job becoming obsolete, but the fear of the alternative new jobs becoming inaccessible to those left behind by automation. You can have a good and stable career and do everything "right" and still end up a complete beginner a few years later because your skills are worthless now. Especially after a certain age, employers won't choose you over fresh graduates who are knowledgeable in the new tech. The standard advice is to "always keep learning" but not every job will give you the opportunity to do so. Someone's gotta do what has to be done, we can't all just learn new things all the time. Also I wonder how much we'll realistically be able to keep up because the pace of new change has been steadily increasing. We've seen AI breakthroughs over the course of months.
AIs reflecting what their trainers wish they observed in their training datasets are completely uninteresting.
The vote was 387-2
Yep, that was it.

I now have re-enabled it with an authenticator app. Set up is at https://twitter.com/settings/account/login_verification if anyone else needs the link.
The 2 Percent Inflation Target Is Toast
Ask HN: Are larger one-bit display panels available?
The Playdate display panel intrigues me and I want to experiment with a much larger version of it. Do those panels come in sizes greater than 4-6 inches? Ideally what I’m looking for is 14” to 15”. I’ve searched around and can’t find anything larger than approximately the size of a Kindle screen.

Can they be custom ordered? Anyone know what costs look like if you go that route?