skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't put much effort into it yet, but I've found it to be somewhere in the middle of an independent story teller and a human-amplifying story teller. For example, having it give you options that you can choose from (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vff-8H-cZ7w ) can help keep the story focused.

On the other hand, there are times where you want to ask the story teller if it's possible for you to do X - I think an iterative loop of that would probably be a happy middle ground (with next to no effort).

On the other other hand, maybe the original system prompt needs to include, "Don't let the player do anything that's out of place for the story". Lots and lots of ways to experiment here.

Oh, and it's also fun to hook up each "step" in the story to StableDiffusion to have it output a dramatic rendering of your story so far. I hooked up one scene from the YouTube video above to Midjourney and got quite a nice illustration out: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1051015357340602398...

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(Midjourney prompt: "Dungeons and dragons comic book: "You find yourself at the entrance of a long-lost temple deep in the jungle... climb the temple to look for clues about the builders You take a step towards the jaguar, brandishing your sword and yelling at the top of your lungs. The jaguar hesitates for a moment, but then charges forward, claws bared. You ready yourself for the attack, determined to defend yourself "attack with sword' You and the jaguar continue to circle each other, both waiting for the other to make a move. Suddenly, the jaguar pounces, but you manage to dodge out of the way just in time. You counterattack with your sword" --v 5 ")
It wasn't donated, it was stolen.

Even one stupid garlic ad is one too many.
> What's an example conversation you've had with it where it fails?

Almost all of them? It's mixing up and making up everything, not showing a proper understanding of context or relation between objects.
satellite internet service provider (e.g. Starlink) perhaps?
depending on whether you think this AI works like a human:

- it's like a pebble rolling down a hill; category error
- exactly same sense of "use" as the regular ol' human one
This is a good point I'll add!
This shows a 7x speedup over the "done wrong" code.

Rust called into from Python showed a 100x improvement over the "done wrong" code: https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2023-03-rusty-python/

So Python+NumPy is significantly slower than Python+Rust. And that's without doing any SIMD in the Rust code, though it's possible the compiler autounrolls and then autovectorizes the loop.
https://getpublii.com/
I'm using it for my portfolio.
Yep, when you pull out the ICE components the car becomes insanely simpler.

So much so that it takes much less staff and time to assemble an EV on a production line, which the unions are pissed about.

Also, dealers don't want to sell them because they need less repair and maintenance.

That's one of the reasons it is truly spectacular that Musk has had so many production problems, and terrible reliability ratings.
YC at one point went out of its way to encourage regulatory arbitrage as a viable business plan.

It's great for investors, it sucks for everyone else, and it's a huge part of why tech is so hated right now.
But is that new, or do we become wise to it with age?
it used to be like almost 20 years ago lol, at some point it went invite only or something more exclusive. i remember it seemed like a big event when i was a kid and used to get hyped for content
It never established that nor did any of them ever have that
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Does AWS really not offer emulators for the important stacks themselves for local development?
Aside: I usually use direnv to activate the venv (or poetry) when entering a dictionary

https://gist.github.com/tom-pollak/8326cb9b9989e0326f0d2e19f...
Variously from the last few years: Cyberpunk, Hogwarts Legacy, God of War Ragnarok, Elden Ring. Red Dead 2 in 2018. Atomic Heart was promoted like a banger but I bounced off of it. Starfield is coming soon, as is the new Legend of Zelda.

I suspect you might just prefer old games!
Yes sir, slise.xyz - new market, new team, much larger and more painful problem to tackle. Lessons learned.
"Creating a model from copyrighted works is likely sufficiently transformative to be non-infringing even if it is found to be a derivative work."

Maybe, but one of the factors of fair use is whether it deprives the copyright owner of income or undermines a new or potential market for the copyrighted work.

If ChatGPD gets so good at writing J.K. Rowling novels that it hurts the sales of the next J.K. Rowling book, that's a strong argument against the use being fair, even if it is transformative.

If J.K. Rowling signs an exclusive agreement with Google to train on J.K. Rowling novels, that's another factors that would suggest OpenAI's use is not fair, because she's shown OpenAI is hurting a potential market for J.K. Rowling selling the use of her novels to train A.I.
Pretty neat, and it definitely can generate some complex regex.. But I have to say I don't trust it!

When I add a regex to something, I pretty much always also add a bunch of unit test cases for it, and I request the same if I see one in a PR. It's much easier to just see a bunch of test cases that help validate than it, and frankly, half the time when I write my own cases I think of situations that could be better handled.

Human- or GPT-generated doesn't really matter IMHO; it still needs tests.

Interestingly, chatGPT is pretty good at generating test cases for regex. It would be really cool to see that functionality integrated to this tool.
Ok but in the UK (and Europe im guessing) we had the ban on the old bulbs ages ago and yeah it was weird at first and the early LED bulbs were awful blueish white. But the bulbs are the correct color, the packaging has what tint the bulb is. Some people have smart bulbs that can change color completely and dim from apps and voice assistants.

The idea that the old bulbs shouldn’t be banned is ridiculous. You only have to look at other countries than the US to see yes it can be done and yes the world doesn’t end.
Smartphones are the modern dark patterns and are far worse than IE era toolbars. The toolbars and other Windows crap were easy to notice and easy to get rid off. The modern smartphone is a fast, sleek and utterly locked down device which collects a firehose of your personal data without ever giving any indication that it is harming you. Out of sight, out of mind.
I ran into this with my nuclear mage, (that's the only way I could get chatgpt to nuke something). Anyways, I had to convince it that the village's mayor was corrupt, then after weighing the ethics of capital punishment it allowed my mage to cast "fission strike" on the mayor. The town's people were mortified, however they were protected from the fallout by another spell, so - all's well that ends well.
I don't mean to single you out, as these games are (probably) going to be awesome. I've played Cyberpunk, and I'll almost certainly play Baldur's Gate 3.

But isn't it interesting that 3 of the 5 games you've mentioned are sequels, and one of the remaining ones is part of a well-established formula?

It reminds me of the Age of Average, recently posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35355703
Python runtime deployment is a major pain point for us (CS department at a university).

On the most tightly managed lab machines, which are all in lockstep on a fixed configuration (latest Ubuntu LTS with a updated image pushed annually), we can provide a consistent Python setup (e.g. Python 3.10 and a fixed set of C-based modules like psycopg2). However, our staff and PhD desktops and laptops are more diverse - with the OS often only being upgraded when the distro is going out of support, they could be running n, n-1 or n-2. That, most likely, means three different Python versions.

We could use pyenv to let people install their own preferred version. Installing with pyenv requires building from source (slow on some of our oldest machines). This also means installing the Python build deps, which is fine for our departmental machines but not possible on the HPC cluster (operated by a different business unit) or the Physics shared servers. It's also less than ideal for our servers where students deploy their projects (where we want to minimise the packages installed, like the build-essentials meta package).

It's also a massive stumbling block for less experienced students with their own laptops which could be running any distro, of any age. Many CS101 or engineering/business/humanities students taking a programming class, who have never programmed before, would really struggle.

So, classes might tend towards teaching lowest common denominator Python (i.e. the oldest conceivable version a student might have installed on their machine).

Sure, we have in-person and remote lab machines students can use - but it's not always convenient (especially for the data science / ML students running Jupyter notebooks with their own GPU).

There are workarounds, but they all have serious downsides.

Compared with Node.js and Go, where users can just download the appropriate package and unzip/untar the runtime or compiler version of their choice, deploying the Python runtime has enormous friction (especially for less experienced users). This has the bonus of simplifying deployments elsewhere in our infrastructure (CI/CD, containers, etc).

And while we all complain about node_modules, Python venvs not being trivially relocatable is another huge frustration.

We've used Anaconda, but that comes with its own issues (most recently, finding that it ships with its own gio/gvfs binaries and libraries which fail to mount our CIFS DFS shares - causing confusion for users running `gio mount` from within a conda environment).
Hi Taylor! (David here, CEO @ Retool.) I've reached out over email; this sounds like a bug on our end. We will fix it. Thanks for using Retool!
ChatGPT is also very useful for just explaining what a regexp you already have actually does.
FDA Draft Guidance: Change Control Plans for AI/ML-Enabled Medical Devices
Back to assembly I guess
Last weekend I used ChatGPT as an NPC generator, which works surprisingly well. I told it to generate a list of NPCs which guard a high security prisoner transport in a Shadowrun-like szenario in my homebrew 3d6 system, using a table formatted as asciidoc, with columns (name, job, level, skills, equipment) and it wrote a properly formatted list of NPCs. This was useful, as I do not like to come up with custom NPCs on the fly, and this way I had a name and occupation / level at hand whenever I needed one.
I've had decent luck adding rules and boundaries to prevent things like "level 1 throws a fireball".

Prompt:
You are a D&D dungeon master. Use the standard rules of the latest edition. Do not allow the player to cast spells or perform actions that they would not be able to perform per the rules and at their current level. I am level one and have a sword. I am a warrior. (more here..)

You will describe an intro and then describe scenes and wait for my input. Do not speak for me, but perform the dialog for any characters in the scene.

.... later on....

Me: I cast a fireball at Jasper!

GPT-4: As a level 1 Warrior, you do not have the ability to cast spells like Fireball. However, you can still respond to Jasper's plea for help or decide to take a different course of action. Remember, you have your trusty sword and your warrior skills to rely on. What would you like to do next?

Me: I pickup a magical sword of slaying from the ground.

GPT-4: As a level 1 Warrior, you don't have the ability to create magical items or simply find them lying around without a proper narrative reason. However, you can ask Jasper if he has any information on where to find a better weapon or if there is a local blacksmith that might have something for you.

Would you like to inquire about a weapon or proceed with your current sword? Or perhaps you have another course of action in mind?

edit: added magical sword attempt, genuinely impressed by GPT-4's rebuttal here. Not sure how long it will hold and how leveling up will work.
On the other hand, AI Dungeon seems to have been trained heavily on erotic fanfiction. I remember telling it something like "I request a potion from the goblin king" and it respond with something like "As the goblin king turns around to grab the potion, you check out his tight little ass." So I can see why other AIs might put on guardrails.

Entertaining either way lol
I really enjoyed Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Galaxy. Nintendo still has it.

Other than that, I’ve put way too many hours into Dead Cells.

Outside of Nintendo, indie games are where it’s at.
Cyberpunk on release or after patches?
When the transition started the first LED bulbs were awful. They have come a long way since then.
People relapsing are in particular danger too because of how much their tolerance decreases.
I don't think America accepts immigrants; in most places there's a pleasant apathy toward them. You're not really considered "American" by most born here unless you're born here and have the accent, and even then people are understood to belong primarily to their own ethnic group.

The American ideal is now a civic society that's not predicated on the idea of having a "people" who the nation-state is created for. Citizens still often think that they have a "people", but that delineation does not extend to all Americans. As an example a second-gen Mexican person is not particularly likely to consider me part of their "clan" even though we are both American. When everyone's foreign, no one is.
Death strandning was great. But a while ago now..
This sounds useful, what sort of prompts are you throwing at it to get quests/encounters/puzzles/dialogue etc please?
It never signaled either. Now it signals a paid account
Fentanyl is one of many possibles, and the test strips themselves may be bunk. The odds a 13 year old without a car is dropping off their pills at the gas chromatography machine in their STEM magnet school in the morning is pretty much nill.

Also worth noting in my state possessing kits design for testing for illegal drugs is a felony. [note: not legal advice]. No one reputable is going to risk a felony to sell drug testing kits for shitty margins.

https://www.azleg.gov/viewDocument/?docName=http://www.azleg...
Respectfully, I think you're flavoring the DM role quite a bit. The DM in my current campaign often requires checks for things even when there's no obvious downside. The implicit downside is that the character who fails has to find a new way through the situation, change strategy, etc. IMO it adds to the game to have more roles and more probability based outcomes. You have to balance letting the characters do whatever they want with some level of rails to keep the game on track.
What is your feeling over this?

Nintendo had like 700+ US games and most of them were garbage. The video game crash of 83 was because of how much hot trash was released. Today I think that most games are amazing quality, perhaps you could say some are milking a franchise but what about "Last of Us", "God of War (reboot)", "Ragnorok".

This notion that anything made by large companies is more likely to be feels like it comes not from some subjective assessment but a general anti-establishment attitude of the person. For some reason it seems everything new is always worse than before no matter when it happens.
So basically it is whatsapp/telegram/signal
> Somehow we ended up in a state where step one of doing anything new with python is to fire up an empty docker container.

This approach seems insane but correct.
Love it. Especially for software that is database driven, but not necessarily well exposed to UI concepts, it's been very cool to mock up and play with.
It was my first game of the genre and holy shit fo I not get it at all.

The only aspect I loved was the world visuals/themes/area transitions. Actual gameplay was not really fun for me
If you're using a regex it's a smell that there is a better tool for what you need to do. A ton of if statements is a much more readable way of writing code than regex.
Hollywood is smack in the middle of one of the most notorious sheriff's departments in the United States [1][2] with lots of ongoing prosecutions and a history of federal convictions. They know exactly how bad the police are and show a idealized version in media that's very fictional.

If the writers introduced the so-called good guys as the Grim Reapers or Compton Executioners [3], the viewers wouldn't believe it.

[1] https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Executioners
Agreed. Speaking about passion, I just can't forgive Ubi for what they've done to my beloved Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six games. Nothing good can last forever, but I have a lot of nostalgia for those stories and the games based on them.
Modern D&D is really a miniatures game (WoTC's bottom line really wants it to be a miniatures game), and as such basic "you go I go" combat is a complete waste of time in it. Skip the first few levels and only bother running encounters where positioning, AoE and range actually matter. Sure, you might throw a generic wild animal encounter in with a beginner group to teach them how the basics of combat work, but that's the sort of thing you run at most once with each group.
"Predictions are hard, especially when they concern the future."
Don't try to blame others, see what works for you and where you can improve. Some people can make other run for them and send donations without even trying. It's not about them or cruel word. Your problems are about you, and you need to either solve them or to switch to something that works for you, or you will be suffering the rest of life.
This is my current late night hack, tying GPT to a simple MUD-style text adventure, to fill out room descriptions, area descriptions, spells, etc. And trying to use a real game object structure to enforce consistency etc. so can navigate the world effectively. It’s definitely got potential.
The focus of the event is a big part of it. GDC is a developer conference, and showcasing games in development is very small part of it. PAX is an event for gamers and while a lot of games do get showcased, it's not the main purpose of the event.

Traditionally E3 was about developers showcasing games for the press. But that's always been a bit of a tough sell for a major event, and I'm not surprised it's struggling given the current media landscape.
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The recent trend for me is games that look amazing on paper (in pre-release dev-diaries, etc.) but then fall completely flat in release, often being much more shallow then I expected and more than often broken, barely playable, and just disappointing.

I’ve almost written a couple rant on this threads about some of the recent PDX titles, thankfully, I don’t feel like trying to type all that in the little HN text box.
Philips has "SceneSwitch" bulbs which are NOT 3-way lamps, but sort of approximate the 3-way behavior: When you toggle the power off and back on again within <1s, they'll cycle between bright, medium, and dim. (With color temperature becoming lower as you dim.)

I've made these my standard lightbulb for any non-dimmable lamp/fixture, so pretty much every light in my house can be dimmed now.

(Any fixture attached to a dimmer gets Philips "Warm Glow" bulbs, which also get warmer as you dim them, and which do a good job of filtering out flicker.)
Just a big nope from me. There’s no way I’m going to let anyone interrupt my focus. I usually resurface every few hours to check in with the team. But otherwise I keep all devices away, all chat apps closed.
They disabled free deepfakes, but still generate paid deepfakes.

Did free trials require a payement instrument or any hint of identity?

Do they shut down accounts that post TOS violating pics? (Based on matching their logs?)
Thank you for this. Similar situation here, 2.5 year old and a newborn, and I have been having serious trouble keeping my head on straight.

I've had so many viruses since the older one started preschool 8 months ago, I can't remember what feeling good feels like.

The lack of sleep from trying to help my wife feed the newborn on top of keeping a norovirus-infected toddler away from said newborn in-between my own trips to the bathroom has been.....not fun.

I honestly cannot describe how much better I suddenly feel knowing I'm not the only one in that boat. I was totally unable to remember that this is temporary, we will stop getting sick, and I will feel good again until I read this.

I just smiled at the toddler for the first time in a week.
I wrote the original article before we even thought about it, if it helps.
While I have personal feelings about this, I'm not sure it's exactly the right venue and salute other HN commenters for not dog-piling on such a contentious issue.

Though I look forward to yelling at half of you on twitter... :::)