skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m guessing you could announce your intention to search for just about anything and get the model to let you find it given a good roll.

I found this kind of thing while playing "text adventure" with it. It would let me solve any problem by simply suggesting pretty much any solution. I did have to be slightly clever, as if I said something like "kill the dragon with my sword" it would say "you don't have a sword", but if I just said, "find a magical dragon slayer sword" it would miraculously find one for me and then I could kill the dragon with it.
“The law” would seem to be a reasonably succinct and correct answer to this question.
I question whether a study can accurately capture rationality in a comparable/aggregateable way between multiple people. Measuring the process used rather than the end result sounds quite challenging.

I expect that what those studies really measure is how well social media users align and agree with the researchers
Thank you for this walkthrough, and for citing the code alongside!
Germans beg to differ
Mentions have been reduced to zero for any mid-size Twitter account since the culling started. That's a silent failure that led to a lot of tech people leaving.
As a user, it kinda is.

My recent example: last week, I was installing a new program that uses some python scripts during its operation. I could not get those scripts to run. I knew it was because of the usual python problem of the scripts not matching the version of python that was executing them, but figuring out how to fix that took me a full day.

Just to make Python work. Not even as a dev.

Wearing my user hat, this is a clusterfuck. There is no other language that I am exposed to that presents this sort of problem, and this is a very common issue with Python.

This is why I start to get sweaty any time that I'm using software that involves Python. It turns into a crapshoot and half the time, it's going to cost me a lot of time and stress.

> perpetuates the false image.

You can believe it's a false image if you like, but there are a whole lot of end user experiences that indicate it's very real.
Consider Hacker News. It's a forum that's laid out somewhat similarly to reddit. It has pretty good moderation but in a way that is distinct from reddit. I don't think it would be better as a subreddit.

It would be nice if someone with minimal tech skills could just spin something similar up. Related forums could link to each other, like the webrings of the past lol. That would be the ideal structure of interactive communities on the web, at least to me.
Remembering also when Google Chrome was aggressively bundled with toolbars, antiviruses and various "speed boosters".
Hollywood is quite fictional, but not as fictional as one might hope for.
Misleading and not even wrong ...
> with a way to play back the last 24 hours

Oh, like a cockpit voice recorder. That sounds way more useful than just a walkie-talkie. (Most of my team is in-person already)

Being able to permalink into a real-life conversation would be neat. A walkie-talkie alone wouldn't help me much because I'm in-person most of the time, and I'm picky about writing down anything that's said aloud.

tbh I still probably wouldn't want to use it. I hate the sound of my own voice, even more than the average person.
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I'm looking to build something that automates healthcare coding in EHR that uses ChatGPT API, that van integrate into EHRs. What's the best place I can get this work outsourced? (I'm just looking for MVP quality, for a cheap price, nothing fancy)
Actually the first few E3 was open to anyone. Then for a few years they had a day where anyone could come. One of my happiest memories was demonstrating my game on the floor of E3 to fans. It was really nice to talk to gamers about the game after spending time with the retail chains and press.

Then E3 got so big you had to be in the industry. Then another year they tried to move it to multiple venues. That is the core problem- who is E3 for? GDC is for game developers.
You’ll always be able to find a lawyer that will disagree with another lawyer.

Edit-You can even pay them to disagree with each other. And! People do this all the time!
The market is certainly different. Microsoft/Zenimax/Bethesda owns Doom and Quake.
Didn't have to click to remember this; no idea from anything that wasn't a book has stuck with me like this has, it's soooo good.
I believe they will take his passport and let him loose with his promise to appear when he has to. He isn't going into a holding cell.
Every time the SR-71 pops up, it's brings back a memory of seeing it do a flyby at Dulles Airport. IIRC it was supposed to be the last flight as the program was ending. This is probably 1989. I didn't know about it until the day of the event so I didn't have my camera with me.

I think my entire engineering department and a bunch from the production floor (about 15-20 of us) went over to the airport to see the bird. Back then you could drive up to and park at the upper departure level. So there we are, waiting... Someone brought a portable scanner along and was listening to air traffic control, so we knew when it would pass over.

First thing we heard was the sonic boom as it passed over (I believe this flight set the west coast to east coast speed record.) After some interval of minutes we heard which direction it would be coming from. All other landing and take off traffic was suspended while the bird circled the airport. Then turned a made a low level (like about the height of the tower) really slow. We got a really good look at it. He hit the afterburners, and took off. I've never seen anything move that fast. It practically disappeared, like something out of a movie jumping into hyperspace. Absolutely incredible, no matter how much I read about the SR-71 and the program, I'm just in awe of the designers and engineers that made it happen.
Cyberpunk was the last banger for me. But I’m excited for Diablo 4 and Baldurs Gate 3 this year. Elden Ring was huge and the new Zelda is gonna be big.
He’s actually using Stencyl, which has a programming interface based on Scratch.
Does that make you a "jail is half full" or a "jail is half empty" kind of a person? I think I need a diagram.
This was my solution. It feels like overkill at times but I never have to worry about packaging messes anymore. That being said I can understand the desire to solve it on the metal, it’s a mess.
E3 hasn't be cancelled. It took place a week ago and was won by Wout Van Aert in front of Mathieu Van der Poel and Tadej Pogačar

Oh wait, that E3? Who cares?
I don't think it matters at the end of the day. Properly written numpy is very fast because it uses MKL or BLAS optimized for relevant architectures.

It won't be worth your while optimizing it unless you need to do something that steps outside the bounds of what numpy can easily do (parallel code, lots of small function calls, etc.)
Hey! You can edit past messages you've submitted and they will generate a new response that overwrites whatever happened in the conversation previously. If you're talking about a tree-like struct where you can have different branches, then true, only the official UI has it AFAIK :)
I haven’t seen anything to indicate that.
> Fedora has a release every 6 month which laughable honestly

Not to nitpick on the phrasing, but I find laughable grating. Are you aware that Fedora supports two releases at a time? You get a year of support for newer software.

The ancient kernels on Ubuntu are 'laughable' at times.

There are real benefits to newer kernels (and userspace), particularly for consumer hardware. It's not all good - there are quirks too.

Point is, everyone has different priorities - and while LTS leans to stability, it also imitates "long term stuck".

I've been watching this bug for years:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firewalld/+bug/183...

18.04 is going EOL very soon if not already, so this incompatibility between their releases of iptables and firewalld will never be fixed.

Enjoy the stability from an upgrade. Wonderful 'support' for a clear distribution defect.

I close with this: not all old software is stable, nor new/scary. It's hard thankless work, and such widely painted brushes are unhelpful. There's nuance to the nuance.
tech companies steal ideas all the time. snapchat invented stories and now whatsapp, facebook, instagram, tiktok, youtube have them
Can't buy incandescents in California anymore. Try on Amazon, it won't sell to you.
I wish, though I feel like it would backfire on the founders since the VCs talk to each other behind founders' backs.

Also some of these VCs weren't US-based, so enforcement would be difficult.
You can do that today. You're not forced to run in a virtualenv if you don't want. Install the python as a system package, and then sudo pip install your way to happiness. That's how our production containers are built.
Excellent, thank you for making this open source!

I had been playing with the idea of creating a browser-based virtual piano for when I'm travelling and don't have access to a real piano but have my laptop with me. The idea would be to point the webcam down at the table between me and the laptop, and play on the table as if a piano were there. Then use the mediapipe framework [1] to capture finger positions, and use those to update a virtual environment like the one you have here.

I put it on hold due to the significant engineering required, but it seems you have already implemented (and open sourced!) the browser-based piano simulation component.

A quick scan through your repo indicates that this is all implemented in Python. I see that you are using mujoco_wasm [2]. Can you please comment on what is required to compile your project to work in the browser?

Thank you again!

[1] https://google.github.io/mediapipe/

[2] https://github.com/zalo/mujoco_wasm
Did you get anyone interested?
Tragically, Microsoft has looked back and realized that people will put up with a lot of shit, so they decided to implement about 20% of it themselves.
Indeed. There isn't sufficient information to understand how the title relates to the link, and what the page linked to is intending to show.
Haha, I'll set up a docker image that people can pull down!
I think this is a classic baby DM script tbh. Rolling to find mounts at a vendor is dumb. You should only roll for significant challenges with meaningful differences where failure is meaningfully likely and interesting in its own right. If failing makes a situation less interesting it shouldn’t be an option.

Shopping is actually the bigger problem. It’s like asking players to watch other players navigate a menu one by one. And currency doesn’t scale. A lot of campaigns start with a shopping session and then the group falls apart so you never last long enough to get to shopping session 2.

Interactions with the law are also a red flag. It’s a fine possible narrative of course, but when the DM and presumably other players want to do something interesting, and another player wants to do petty or egregious and otherwise irrelevant crime… that’s annoying to everyone else. You really need to be careful about giving an opportunity for that to happen.

DMing is hard
No surprise, because NumPy is implemented with Fortran which is designed to be efficient and fast at mathematical operations. Rust is not. And Python is not either, which is why it uses Fortran under the covers.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Rust numerical libraries created similar to NumPy which also use Fortran, for the same reasons.

If you want a real comparison, try NumPy vs Julia:

https://www.matecdev.com/posts/numpy-julia-fortran.html
Pretty unreliable [1] though. I'd sooner build some custom HTTP thing in front of Postgres or SQLite than try to do resending over IRC, a protocol which badly suffers from a fuzzy separation between payload and protocol.

[1] If you lose connection, neither side is sure which messages they missed, and replaying is not part of the protocol. If you're gonna support a memo bot, why not build it in?
Have you tried GPT-4? I suspect it would do better for these types of characters.
Then you have releases like Hi-Fi Rush that come out of nowhere, and are almost enraging, because it means they get it. They know how to make interesting, innovative, oddball games. They choose not to.
Hey! I'm the author. A real person, not a shill. You can find other articles on the same domain going back 17 years. Wild to be accused of this, but I'm not offended. It's kind of hilarious.
My documentation skills have improved when I started to be critical about "obvious", or "trivial". And now I routinely end up writing "obviously", stop, and end up with 3 pages of clarification.
The most useful comparison is between implementations of each ecosystem‘s best practices.
The uncomfortable truth is that YC is a highly competitive program, the best teams invest a lot into preparation to get there. If you have nothing and need 150k to start your company, than you have better ways to find it, than the most prestigious accelerator in the world.
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I want to hear the answer to this, too. I'm back around to Python professionally (haven't touched it since 2016) and I'm working with the basic tooling: pip, requirements.txt, and virtualenv. I'd like to know what sort of issues I'm going to run into and when I can expect them.
The transistors are the hard part to integrate here. From the manufacturing side, why waste the die space on your MCU production line when you can use a much older process to build transistors for pennies.

For mixed signal design in general, the Cypress PSoC 4 series is pretty good.

Renesas is also doing a lot of work in the low BOM cost configurable analog/digital space, with Greenpak and ForgeFPGA:
https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/products/programmable-mixed-si...
https://www.renesas.com/tw/en/products/programmable-mixed-si...
Thanks but FWIW, I'd also be interested in why it doesn't build. Shouldn't yarn/npm/gulp/whatever manage dependencies ?
> Only because the goalposts have been moved

I don't know about what goalposts you are referring to, but I think that you are confusing two notions:

- the fact that GPT is impressive

- the question of whether GPT is "intelligent"

For a counterpoint, I recommend listening to Yann LeCun's interview, "Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbpPHjiSBg

> and pass the Turing test

It's news to me that AI has passed the Turing test. At this point, it can only be the case if you are doing it in bad faith. Ray Kurzweil details a very reasonable procedure in his books about how the Turing test should be organized in one of his books. He has been betting all along for 2029 for that test to pass. We'll see if that happens, but we are not there yet.
Sure but this is historic.

Locally, when they called the election for Biden there were spontaneous celebrations in the streets of my local city. People seem to forget just how extreme those years were and how they felt.
is there some sort of bench you want to see the output of?

ill try to reproduce/document for you.
Good point, although I think whether or not animal flesh is "spoiled" after spending weeks or months fermenting in a jar might depend on who you ask.
I send screenshots all the time, though. I feel like it's helpful. But I agree else-thread [1] that "word padding" helps soften what the other may (depending on mood, time of day, kids yelling, and Oh God I am this close to sending up this PR if I can just have time to think) misinterpret and become agitated by.

I think you're fortunate to have someone be able to tell you stuff like that without it offending you [2]. Maybe she needed to vent a little. It's nice to have someone to vent to (within limits).

In a week or so she might come around and agree, yeah we shouldn't break the build--but at the time it was annoying to be told that (due to tone or whatever reason).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367231

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366694
One standard deviation would mean that 16% fail early and 16% last extra long. If the distribution is normal.

Personally I'd want a durability guarantee to be more like two standard deviations, on top of replacement in case of early failure.
> Why would any future president ever want to relinquish power, when a future of prosecution awaits him.

Because the message here is that they will be criminally charged, if they don’t honor the election and the peaceful transfer of power.

It’s scary that we have to set this precedent, but it’d be scarier if we don’t.
Second this, just run python/whatever-binary-you-need inside a venv:

`${my-venv-path}/bin/python`

`${my-venv-path}/bin/${whatever-binary-you-need}`

`%my-venv-path%\Scripts\%whatever-binary-you-need%` (because Windows...)
I wouldn't be so sure about that TBH. Before Covid a lot of people were already complaining that it's starting to get really expensive to attend in person (especially from Europe), and technical presentations can just as well be attended online or later at your own leisure. Which basically only leaves the parties as a reason to attend, and games companies might start thinking twice whether that's worth the money to send their employees in person ;)
Apple already engineered SIP to let the user disable it with csrutil. It is unsupported but you can selectively disable parts of SIP. (You cannot Apple Pay if any flag is disabled.)

https://twitter.com/theevilbit/status/1400071405207760904
Nintendo and Square Enix still seem to be interested in in-person events, but I wonder about Microsoft and Sony as well as AAA developers in general.

I imagine PAX will survive as a largely indie/tabletop/fan convention.
xkcd://1172
double that, most of the people in the e-commmerce don't have any idea what is YC
> realpolitik, is alive and well
...
> compared to the CCP's framework, there is no debate

Really the crux of issue for me. By all means ban TikTok, Huawei, constrain PRC chips, but let's chalk it up to sensible realpolitik than narrative over morals/frameworks. Like CIA basically bribed their way to control promotions throughout CCP throughout 90s-00s, hence Xi crackdwon on foreign NGOs, and dismantled PRC CIA networks. If US fears that's a risk vector for tiktok, and US society laws too open/fragile to handle even JV configurations like in PRC, then sensible people should accept that to ban TikTok, US has to adopt harsher methods than even PRC.

> would not be favored in China

I specifically highlighted PRC _would_ have tip scales towards domestic incumbents. Like US is doing now against TikTok. But PRC didn't have to do much, western platforms never really got localization right, Google stole Sogou pinyin so input didn't suck, Youtube never broke top10 streaming, Amazon was unimpressive relative to other ecommerce. PRC companies that focused solely on domestic market outcompeted western platforms where PRC sideshow. Then exported Tiktok that flourished in US because it's fashioned after Douyin style feel good content due to survivorship bias of PRC censorship.

> would any western company take that chance

Ask the 10,000s western companies that operate in PRC fine for 30+ years. Or why is twitter in India despite indian gov threatening to arrest employees? Or why western platforms in Vietnam cede to VCP censorship requests. Many have grown enough to have no scruples working with "shady" governments now. Hence me highlighting western platforms during 00s-10s had SV pride/optics/ethos considerations of the time that made today's routine acquiescing to foreign security interests unlikely then. As for why take that chance, because PRC still large market that was worth friction cost, until geopolitics made it not.

> US doesn't have these issues to this level

IMO functionally it does, all the lobbying and connections in the world isn't going to overcome interests of motivated national security state. US domestic sentiment has little effect on actual foreign / security policy. US had to ram through CHIPs act / October "surprise" without much industry consultation / ability to disrupt because ultimately US just comparably as capable as PRC in terms of overnight responses. Dressing it up with demographic process theatre isn't particularly convincing considering how many strategic industries US is home too, industries like in PRC that exist because state was precient enough to keep competition out/down.
We need an AI bot that deep fakes you in meetings and responds simply as if the microphone isn’t working when your name is mentioned and then shrugs would be ideal.
It’s almost a habit to buy the big AAA games for me - I’ve bought every AC since the first one and probably will do even if I don’t enjoy them now they’re open world RPG collection simulators. Same with CoD not being as fun as the original MW games.
Flexibility is the problem. Good DMs build very tall walls.
>helps protects you from bad actors who have to think twice before fucking with a YC co

Probably the best thing they get out of this.
Branding matters. If your brand is a light that flickers, you might want to consider the old adage penny wise, pound foolish. As a consumer, why would I choose to shop at an establishment that has flickering lights when I could shop at a different one that did not? Unless of course, I had no choice.

But then, a wise entrepreneur would recognize paying extra to have non-flickering signage would attract some customers.

Flickering lights can induce migraines in susceptible people, so literally, saving a penny here actively drives away business.
There is also that local cons are more available now and you can upload the presentations at those to reach people not in your area.

International developers have a harder time of it since they need to travel long hours and sort out visas. And a lot of game dev is outside US. In general COVID kind of spurred rethinking of how much business travel is truly needed or desired.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "
npm link can be used to work on dependencies locally.

To install directly from GH, you can commit the compiled typescript into github, that will allow you to NPM install directly from GH.
Ask HN: How do you become smarter?
An odd question, but something I've never really considered until lately.

How does one become smarter? I'm in my early 30s right now. I can feel my brain waning here and there--things that I used to pick up quickly are now taking a long time to settle in. I'm wondering why that is.

That seems to concern maintaining one's intelligence. But what if one wanted to improve it? How can I go about doing that?

Thank you.