skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Civ2 probably has the best combat out of all the Civs I've played (note: I've skipped Civ3, but I've played all others). It needs a few more tweaks, but I'm kinda sad that modern civilizations have moved away from this model. It sits at a nice local optimum.

1. Stacking: A wide variety of UI-reasons make stacking a good idea. There are no collisions to troop movements. You can assign troops to move 30+ turns away, and they arrive as appropriate, no bumping, no colliding, no micromanagement.

2. Anti-deathball / Stack-kills: Civ1 and Civ2 got it right. When stacking is allowed (as in Civ4), the optimal strategy degenerates into deathballs. Much like Starcraft2 devolved into a deathball game (despite all the area-of-effect damage), Civ4 degenerated into deathballs. Civ1 and Civ2 negaete the deathball by simply killing the _ENTIRE_ Deathball, even with a singular unit. Civ4's "collateral damage" was not strong enough to prevent the Deathball-style combat.

3. Zone of Control: Civ1 and Civ2 allows your units to effectively block enemy movement up to one space away. This creates battle-lines and chokepoints. Sure, this is a bit glitchy with Bombers (which will block enemy movement even though they're in the air), but it gets the job done.

4. When did they get rid of attack/defense ?? Civ4 and later is "just strength", which I feel removes a lot of the differences between unit types. Cannon being 8 attack / Defense 1 means that even an enemy Archer (3 attack / 2 defense) can take out a Cannon for example. Having a variety of attack options, and defense options, seemed to make Civ2's units really stick out in comparison to later games.

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I do think that Civilization should do a Civ2 combat system reboot. Something with the modern culture / religion / other features that have been added... but also with stacking, stack-kills, and zone of control again.
Considering I straight up was not able to get a therapist appointment in my city or outskirts, sign me the f** up. The first company that tunes the model for this and offers a good UX (maybe with a voice interface) will make millions.

Also, I expect a lot of the value here to come from just putting your thoughts and feelings into words. It would be like journaling on steroids.
Wouldn’t the other way round be even more productive?
I've used it mostly as a tool to look up documentation or man pages. Instead of opening hundreds of tabs to do my research I just have a thread going with a theme in ChatGPT.
Of course, I don't blindly trust what ChatGPT gives me but I know it's around that ballpark and I double check and do more googling or research if I'm ever in doubt.

Funnily enough, I haven't used it as a tool to learn completely brand new things as I can't gauge if what's ChatGPT is giving me is 100% accurate.
> Neil Gaiman's System Shock

Ehm... which book?

Are you thinking of Neil Stephenson's "Termination Shock"? That one involves feral pigs, and I'm not seeing "System Shock" as a book by Gaiman.
Recycling steel in an arc furnace is cheaper and uses less power than making new steel. The only reason we’re not on 100% recycled steel is because demand outstrips supply. Those upstrram processes are more expensive!
> What's the name of that "thing" that does "something"

I could remember the name of one adult entertainment star. I thought this is where I can finally put this ChatGPT to use. It told me anything adult is off-limits. I’m glad that OpenAI can decide what’s good and bad for us.
Better way to book restaurants
Blackhat SEO methods are often a bit fucking daft.

So what's happening here could be one of two things:

Link injection, where by spamming an endpoint with a URL they hope the URL will end up indexed and displayed somewhere on the site, for a search engine to pick up later. Often with some keywords in the link text, etc. The idea is to boost pagerank.

The other is even sillier: they try search for their own sites a tonne on third party search things that probably query a "real" search engine, to try artificially boost the supposed popularity/keyword associations of their sites, boosting pagerank.

A lot of blackhat SEO stuff us bunkum and snake oil.

Every so often they figure out a working method to exploit search engines to boost pagerank, and then it gets fixed. But they never stop trying even the most obsolete methods as the automated scripts are what they have available.
Probably depends on what sort of website you're running. I wouldn't use it for my blog or anything that's reasonably static.

But this is a publicly available Internet search engine we're talking about. There's slightly more processing involved in processing a search query than loading a static file off a filesystem.
1. Yes.

2. Yes, but it's hardware. The brow is low. (Hardware person here).

When you reach a certain stature, you're informally granted more liberty of expression in your paper titles.
The feral pig population in North America is based on a hybrid species with the Russian Razorback. It makes sense that they wouldn't be able to invade old climates as well
The Racing Game That Changed Everything Was Built on Lockheed Martin Technology
Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.
I'm not exactly in tune with the discussion on invasive species, but in this case it seems to be too late.

Should we intervene in established ecosystems? These are natural systems and why not have a live and let live attitude to animals.
Not every tech worker is a billionaire, or even millionaire. I would say more of the tech workers donating are doing it in much smaller amount, but the aggregate is likely fairly high.

That said most VCs aren't progressive, they're libertarian (until their bank crashes).
How does this compare to CasaOS? https://www.casaos.io
> It is likely that an LLM could have "I should post a tweet about this" in its training data.

That only matters if a human has explicitly hooked it up so that when ChatGPT encounters that set of tokens, it executes the "post to Twitter" scripts.

ChatGPT doesn't comprehend the text it's producing, so without humans making specific links between particular bundles of text and the relevant plugin scripts, it will never "decide" to use them.
"shoot them from quads"

Can you elaborate? I'm only aware of the traditional helicopters.
Who would've thought that breeding pigs to both reproduce and grow to maturity faster could lead to a massive invasive species issue that has seemingly no solution?

Maybe we shouldn't be breeding animals to eat - but that's just me.
Delivering Good Taste
Hunters caused the problem, we shouldn't encourage them to make it worse.

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/pigs-dont-fly-fera...
“Incentives don’t matter” is usually a bad take.

The idea that patronage isn’t dominant because… it can’t compete with copyright? is a not-even-wrong take.

And there’s an astounding burst of human creativity in the last 300 years. There are several factors you can attribute that to but the correlation with ip laws means you’re not going to have evidence that they inhibit rather than incentivize progress in the useful arts and sciences.

If there’s any empty rationalization in play, it’s yours.
> very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor

Uncastrated males do, certainly -- the same is true of domestic hogs. Females don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
Have you considered starting a family? All these ideas about love and romance might be better expressed outside a business context.
A direct reduction system (whether powered by hydrogen or this electrolysis method) would be upstream of the electric arc furnace, see this graphic:

https://www.steel.org/steel-technology/steel-production/

It's iron ore -> direct reduction (iron) -> electric arc (steel) with carbon being added to the iron in the furnace. This is a replacement for the older pipeline of iron ore -> blast furnace -> basic oxygen furnace.
ATVs...
They specifically refer to Log4shell. That to me felt like a damp squib.

I remember seeing the apache logs on my home desktop on my cable modem back in 2001, the default.ida GETS would race through with multiple attempts per hour.

Conversely I saw barely any attempts on my public facing apache servers 20+ years later with log4shell. Was it just me?
The idea should be easy, if it isn’t, it is a sign you are trying way, way too hard or you are reaching too deep into a domain you don’t understand and isn’t easy for you.

The idea should be easy.
I wonder if you can shoot them from drones? That could be interesting.
For any models where you get access to the code (counting HF in this), definitely a lot of tooling available - and this tool looks really nice hadn't seen it before! Hope similar levels of control can become available for the bigger, less accessible systems, even though people don't want to expose token log-likelihoods there should be ways.

I've also been reading your paper on these topics, based on previous comments on HN. So thanks for that! Always interested in work about constrained generation.

I'd really like to see some version of the techniques from this palindrome generation https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/15/Papers/353.pdf revisited in modern contexts. Or some of the other Sony CSL work on this topic (e.g. https://www.francoispachet.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pap...) which I will admit I (still) do not understand yet.
> For example, if you are 100% sure that two transactions would never touch the same row, or that they’d operate on different columns - you can always consider easing the isolation

I always thought of database row as an immutable tuple. It is not like row-oriented databases will allow you to operate on disjoint sets of columns as if they were different tables. Lower isolation levels lower than read committed will introduce same unexpected artifacts even if column sets don't intersect
Sport hunting doesn't help keep the population down though:

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-...
What you're describing sounds a lot like Deno (or at least where Deno is headed):

https://deno.land/manual@v1.32.1/tools/compiler
The great ~~emu~~ feral pig war
> But isn't that true of most any game meat?

Most so-called "gamey" meat is down to poor handling of the meat. Hogs are an exception... uncastrated males do taste bad to many people.
I cured mine by replacing it with a music creation obsession.
You are right and you will be more right in a few years once AI is better integrated into our tools and good execution is even easier.
Unfortunately the job market seems less vicious than the dating market.
This is not about human rights.

This is not about privacy.

TikTok/CCP supporters keep dragging it in that direction to avoid the main issue.

It is about an adversarial government having access to the US population while shutting off US companies unfairly. It is about national security and fair trade.

> The recent witch hunt has done more damage to the US than TikTok was ever likely to.

And you have data to support that?

I was neutral about this when starting out but seeing the same weak pro-TikTok arguments repeated in different forms, have pushed to the other side.
There is mandamus language that directs the DHS Director to "bolster the security of open source software", "support Federal efforts to strengthen the security of open source software", etc. but it's up to the director to determine the methods of doing so.
One interesting experience I had was going to the Middle East. It was the first time I'd ever dealt with water restrictions or even considered my water consumption, which didn't just baffle the Jordanians but also a lot of the other Americans.

I'm from Michigan. Fresh water is so accessible that even restricting its use for environmental purposes just isn't a thing. If we ever run out, the world is already on fire.
> Even if an attacker got hold of this private host key, they'd have to be able to MitM the connections

This is not hard. If it were hard, we wouldn't need encrypted connections.

If I were a nation state, it would be trivial to position an attack at the edge of a network peering point for a given service. How do I know? Our own government did it for 10+ years.

Cyber criminals often have the same tactics and skills and can find significant monetary reasons to assume heightened risk in order to pull off a compromise.

Random black hats enjoy the challenge of compromising high value targets and can find numerous ways to creatively infiltrate networks to perform additional attacks.

Even without gaining access to a network, virtually anyone on the internet can simply push a bad BGP config and capture traffic for an arbitrary target. Weird routing routinely happens that nobody can definitely say isn't such an attack.
I'm a little bit worried about how this might affect Murfie.

I've been an advocate for years for a model where people own physical media, and have access to the media they own in any way they see fit.

The way this ruling is structured, it paves the way to make even ripping your own CDs to your MP3 player illegal. As common as it is, this right has never actually been tested in court.
ATVs, something like this https://www.amazon.com/X-PRO-110cc-Youth-Wheeler-Wheelers/dp...

(never buy an ATV from Amazon, obviously)
One thing they can certainly be criticized for is having no consistent criteria for deciding who or what to provide service to.
Who?

I used to know a fair number of CF employees a while back.

Most were fairly liberal/left leaning, one was somewhat libertarian-right, but not what I'd describe as a "Nazi".
IIRC flying a reaper drone and firing hellfire missiles is insanely expensive, so unless those pigs are terrorists, fly spy balloons, have massive oil reserves or made up weapons of mass destructions, it'll never come to drone strikes.

Maybe we can get them to the negotiations table and broker a peace deal with the super pig regime and turn them into an ally.
I used it to write a regular expression to find some strings (I can never remember the syntax). I used it to double check some logic that I wrote “here is my input data, is this what my output should look like based on these rules.” I guess it could’ve written the code too. I used it to figure out what bike chain I needed. Asked a tax question, and the rest has been f-ing around. gpt-3 is very bad at chess, comes up w banal fiction, but is good at synthesizing non-fiction.
In some ways it is, but the main difference for me is that things work. It's like only having the good parts of the job :)
This would be a way better argument if modern steelmaking processes didn't quite literally involve blowing oxygen through the molten steel. :)

(They do this in order to reduce the carbon content. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_oxygen_steelmaking for details if you want to know more, it has a fascinating history)
> Wouldn’t it be a little preposterous to assume that a young species like ours stands at the pinnacle of the intelligence hierarchy among all possible beings?

You’re right, AI doesn’t need to be AGI to be useful. Most SEO content on the internet is probably even worse than ChatGPT can do. And LLM could hallucinate another Marvel movie since they’re so similar.

My problem is that people make ungrounded claims about these systems either already having sentience or being just few steps away from it. It’s a religion at this point.
Basically, github is used for authentication here, then a user is able to add issues and see other issues. The idea is to have a public/private error documentation and explanation page. That is, how/where the error occured and how a person solved it. It can be useful for teams onboarding new people facing similar integration errors, or just for personal logging for future reference

No information except for user-name and profile picture is used here. Its using Github OAuth and not Github Apps.
Do we think Apple are going to provide more info and maybe a public API over time?

Or they are keeping it obscure for commercial reasons?

Or just not very competent/don't care?

Seems weird having these amazing chips and only blunt tools
I mean, is it really so surprising that ChatGPT is replacing jobs whose primary function is.. to chat with people?
I'm not sure why they're called that. They are, however, veritable super animals. They're incredibly intelligent, prolific, destructive and wiley.

It's impossible to dent their numbers using traditional means.
This will probably hit winworldpc.com :(
Lots of place have similar salary (minimum wage) for everyone so such a gap doesn’t exist. Your experience seems to be from few decades ago.
I am teaching a new course this semester. It's helping with the creating of notes, creating exercises and providing a variety of examples of the material to be understood.
only if you read left-to-right. reading it from right-to-left it's draw the circle first
When Mario Vargas Llosa Punched Gabriel García Márquez
A language like scheme is much simpler yes, but scheme or even Common Lisp don't have anywhere near as comprehensive a lib as Golang, which is what you need to create real systems.
In which fields have Russia surpassed the US? I get China, but Russia?
> chatgpt and other LLMs are known to hallucinate. What if it’s advice is wrong or makes you worse in the long term because it’s just regurgitating whatever at you?

Therapy isn't magic always-correct advice either. It's about shifting your focus, attitudes, thought patterns through social influence, not giving you the right advice on each and every step.

Even if it's just whatever, being heard out in a nonjudgmental manner, acknowledged, prompted to reflect, does a lot of good.
Ironically, the use of LLMs would likely make most Hollywood scripts less formulaic.

Almost every script out of Hollywood these days is a mediocre regurgitation of old material.

LLMs likely would do a better job at combining old material in fresh ways.

I'm all for that.
That would require a wholesale change in the way the Chinese government wields it power.

Money flees China now despite the capital controls.

Even the Chinese would rather keep their money in Singapore, Switzerland or the US than at home.
Ah, TIL. A lot of people in the US found that gross a few years ago.
Very American indeed.
Admittedly I am not an expert, but I'm fairly sure US and Canada has learned that lesson a while ago
CoreML.

Directly exposing the ANE wouldn't make much sense, as it's an IP block that changes between generations in incompatible ways.
If your payroll plus all other outgoing expenses was greater than $250K then no you would not be able to "make payroll just fine." This is simple math. Arguing against basic math is absurd.
I agree.

As one example, NPR made a very public decision not to carry the Hunter Biden laptop story just before an election, with no solid basis for doing so. It was a legitimate story, it was newsworthy, but NPR intentionally spiked the story.
We'd need to move people from the service economy to the industrial economy en masse (or lose). Possible, not likely.
FFS, TikTok also have lobbied extensively.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165249928/tiktok-congress-he...

> Tiktok's lobbying tops $5.4M in 2022 as it brings its charm offensive to Congress

> As a newer startup, Tiktok has not entrenched itself the way that other tech companies have in DC yet.

Any measure quantifying that? TikTok is not a usual startup. It has the whole force of CCP behind it. So calling it a "young startup" is disingenuous.
Was curious about the currently installed amounts: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-solar-power-by-count... (2021)

You can definitely see a divergence between countries that have made it a priority and those that haven't, even per capita.

Now that we've had larger deployments for awhile, are there any good number on capacity deterioration over time?

Curious what the effective install longevity is.
Checks notes, yes... Just you.
This is relevant to your interests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
I agree that the working together in a team can not be ignored. You call it the social part, fair enough description, though easily confused with the socializing part.

What 100% pair programming does however is to dictate exactly one way of achieving that goal. Like with any form of dictatorship, I think there is more harm than good in it.

Pair programming in an interview would not be an issue for me for example. It is something that I do in some situations. Just two days ago, I had a PR comment from someone on how to do a part of what I was doing differently - and better. That was great but I wasn't sure how exactly it would play out and hadn't used that particular way of using the framework we're using. So I pinged him and we hammered it out together in 15 minutes of pair programming. Then he dropped off the call and kept working on his task while I cleaned up the mess of copy and pasted, commented out and `blah = newFunction()` type code we created in order to quickly figure out if "the other way" of doing things would work and if it actually was better.

Coming back to the interview situation, we'd probably get along fine in pair programming that together and you'd want to hire me. And then you tell me that this is how I will be required to work 100% of the time and I'll end the interview right there.
We do have a family, but again that cannot be all. I do want a deeper sense of purpose in my life knowing that I did something for somebody else, doing through a business would allow me to do it in a sustainable and focused way (not volunteering). Historically I always struggled not giving all myself towards an objective and that is how I operate the best of myself.
What if you slathered the meat with barbecue sauce and chili peppers? Then there might actually be a chance.
Perhaps they'll end up mostly being an email and storage company.
> He was convinced that if we trained the AI on enough data, GPT-x would become sentient.

Is there enough data?

As I understand it, the latest large language models are trained on almost every piece of available text. GPT-4 is multimodal in part because there isn't an easy way to increase its dataset with more text. In the meantime, text is already quite information dense.

I'm not sure that future models will be able to train on an order of magnitude more information, even if the size of their training sets has a few more zeroes added to the end.
Im not sure you understand what reserve currency means.

When Korea buys something from Japan, they don’t have to pay in USD. They can use whatever currency they want.
There are extensions that allow you to use bing chat from any browser! If you want to go back to firefox and use the chat you still can, just a heads up
I can see it as a reasonable supplement for people who have already been to therapy, are not suffering anything too serious and just need a little boost.

I think one could look at it as an augmented journaling technique
> I find it is like having a brilliant intern that is not super consistent in taking their antipsychotic medication

This is fantastic.
Chinese search giant Baidu invests in RISC-V chip technology startup StarFive
> Two years ago we me and my partners got an acquisition from a startup we created in the previous 2 years, while having a full time job, my background is software engineering.

What did your employer think of that? Wondering about your experience in balancing day job/startup.
To be fair, GPT gets it right:

'Ultimately, trying to assign a specific IQ score to an AI language model like me is not an appropriate comparison, as my abilities and knowledge are fundamentally different from that of a human.'