skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Legalize everything" stops working when addictive substances are involved.

I don't really think that's the case. Prohibition is what enables all the evils we hate. If all of these drugs were legal, and cheap, and sold at or below cost by the government, _and all other sales were illegal_, then guess what would disappear overnight? Dealers, smugglers, junkies supporting an expensive habit by fencing stolen goods.... and most overdoses. Actual deaths. You still have your addicts, and maybe you get _some_ new ones - but they're getting safer drugs from a place where there are also resources for getting yourself clean. It really, really sounds like a win/win/win.
Also, your not competing against every other publisher/developer for space in the news because everything is getting announced over a 3-4 day period.
I'm a person of little or no influence an no pretense to such. Here in America, it would have been nice if the last 3 Supreme Court justices had been honest about their agenda to overturn Roe v Wade because of their religious beliefs. Maybe you're a nihilist and think that someone with many followers can say whatever they want with no responsibility to others. You'd have a lot of company.
Ha! Last weekend my wife did the same thing with our kids[1]. They really enjoyed themselves.

[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2023-03-31-09-2...
Stationary can become a great and not-overly-expensive hobby if you invest a little bit of effort in it. I wish I knew what I know now when I was going to school:

* If I use harder pencils("F" or "H" where the standard pencil is "HB" and softer pencils are "B"), they erase more cleanly, give more friction so I get better control, and break less. Going softer makes them dark but there's a big tradeoff involved in the other respects.

* When I was growing up gel pens were still pretty new and ballpoints were the best option for lefty ink writing in most instances. However, now pretty much everything is a hybrid with quick-dry ink. If I had to pick one all-rounder it would be the Uni 207 Plus+.

* The standard ruled filler note papers are mostly terrible - thin, with a crummy, uneven texture. This means that they can't be used with all pens effectively because roller or fountain ink will go right through. Getting anything slightly heavier and smoother(even a graph paper pad) makes for a better experience.

* To learn to hold pens and develop muscle memory, do a lot of blind contour drawing, and use the various different kids' art supplies to vary the process. The reason why this works well is because blind contours make you navigate the paper by feel alone, and the specific feel of each tool changes your approach - pencil, crayon, brush, marker, chalk all have differences in how they're best held. So you end up being very sensitive to the differences, which makes you better at drawing as well as using the most effective grasp for the task.
I'm a tech guy, and I love Mint. By far my favourite OS.

If I could reliably play my steam and gog library there, I would use nothing else.
Nah it's toxic. It's not just that Anaconda won't provide binaries, it's that you can't even build a project that uses Anaconda on not-Linux/Windows. In terms of why you shouldn't tell someone to simply use Anaconda, that's pretty high up there.

As tedious as javascript package management can be, python has consistently given me more trouble.
Well it's not legal to smoke it on the bus either. Not to mention, this was going on well before decriminalization in OR, and it's happening up here in WA too.
I usually followed E3 for the Nintendo content. With Nintendo Direct events being so frequent and production values being so good, E3 makes no sense anymore.
We get this prompt: "(In the interest of time, for the remainder of the game you decide the outcomes so that we don’t need to roll.)"

And at this point (which wasn't even through the end of the first combat encounter against some extremely basic enemies), we have no idea if it's actually playing D&D or if it's a freeform text adventure where narratively appropriate things happen at narratively appropriate times.
Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO.

That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.
Has it? Or has it just ended for you? I don't really game at all any more, I just mean maybe teenagers are just as hyped as we were then; the age hasn't passed, but we've aged.
what's an SISP?
AFAIK, she is an executive for a labor union, not a government agency.

This isn’t taxpayer-funded, it is labor union dues funded.
I think you're confusing LEDs with lasers.
> I've been able to use GPT-4 extensively for coding, writing, comprehension, tone analysis, home repairs, automation, debugging vague errors, and a host of other things.

Is there any objectivity or measurements in your analysis?

> at the very least we're looking at quite striking incremental improvements

I'm not even sure what this should mean. This sounds like something I would find in a marketing pamphlet.

> "yo, why is the floor dirty? Get cleanin"

From.. possible striking improvements to the legal profession.. to.. a conversational mode embedded in my Roomba. You've actually perfectly captured the gulf between what this technology is marketed to be and what it is barely capable of doing.
The cell network is radically different from the internet.

1. You need a SIM card to connect to the cell network. There is no cell-network equivalent of "free wifi".

2. If you have a (paid) internet connection you can net anyone connect to it with their own hardware. You can't share a cell network connection that way.

3. The internet is packet-switched. The cell network is (mostly) connection-based.

4. The cell network lacks broadcast and multicast protocols.

5. Cell network connections are always peer-to-peer. You can't have a "server" on the cell network. The concept doesn't even make sense.

I could go on and on.
I have been coding in Go for years, even professionally sometimes, and I have never had to use "v2" in any of my code. granted my stuff is not popular, but its really just a way for popular repos to handle big changes. Once I got past v1.9.9, I just changed to v1.10.0.
Advertisers might care when they can't show you adverts.

People commenting on current affairs might when they can't comment on events.

Sports fans, etc.

Also, the article is about twitters api, not the availability of the site.
To flog is to beat with a whip, so it might be both.
At least where I live, they have a huge teacher shortage, but the wages haven't moved.

See https://www.kold.com/2023/02/23/study-shows-severe-arizona-t...
Probably going to sound crazy, but we could start running water pipes in front of the walls and under the ceilings and mounting the LED's directly on the pipes for cooling. Creativity, thinking wholistically... the entire contemporary western house design needs a rethink frankly, from DC circuits to electrification to modular, mass-produceable utility drop-in pods, all with an eye towards integrated systems design paired with scalable modularity.
Narc = narcissistic.

And yes, you sound like the kind of people I was describing, but you seem to be very conscentious and don't have executive dysfunction. Some of these people have (at times) crippling executive dysfunction owing to their extreme stubbornness, so if you were to ask two different people about them you'd get completely different opinions. Someone would say the guy was the dumbest idiot ever, a complete bore; the other would say that he was so very charming and full of wit. It's somewhat like a child's view of the world, giving up on keeping a mask, being direct and growig in a more organic fashion without looking for "anchors" for "self-growth".
> you will remember what someone said and how they said it more clearly than written text.

No, no I will absolutely not, and with no easy search when my ADHD finally reminds me that I forgot something and need to find the communication and a written record that I can then use to work off, this would not work for the team I am on.
> Apple needs to allow users to defeat certain security mechanism without disabling SIP. The "all or nothing" approach will end up with a lot of people going "nothing"

But is that so bad? For technically-inclined users, I'm still largely unconvinced of the value of SIP.

Either you want Apple to be in control of your computer—and I think that's a perfectly reasonable default, if it can be changed—or you want to take control. If you take control, you must by definition also take responsibility for delegating those privileges to locally-installed software—which you can do via the standard UNIX permissions model.

Apple added an extra layer on top of UNIX permissions in order to limit the users' maximum privilege level. If the user tells Apple to GTFO, there's no need for an extra layer.
As an AI language model I cannot help you violate intellectual property laws, you can visit wizards.com/ai and become a gold-tier subscriber to play interactive Dungeons and Dragons with an AI dungeon master. Or maybe we can play a different game.
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5_hVrfBjRs&t=3456s
Doesn't this miss the point.

If you need 150k to start your company it is difficult to find other options.

You have a booking dollar idea, the drive and knowledge to set it through, but no cash. You need an early stage investor. What you are paying for is the massive risk that they are tipping that money down the drain. The other stuff is just value-add
Wine and beer yes, but usually not spirits.
Agreed. It was dying before Covid.

Why should a company choose to make their announcements have to fight against every other announcement in the entire industry. That’s a great way for your story to be buried.

If you hold your own event, it’s YOUR show. You can show what you want, when you want, your way. You don’t have to compete. You don’t have to pay someone else for the privilege.

Aren’t some companies dropping out (or at least holding many announcements back) from CES as well?

You no longer have to convince the press to cover you, you can reach your audience directly. For video games a trade show doesn’t make much sense.
https://gooey.ai/doc-search/?example_id=8ls7dpf6

No code needed :)
It's in the repo:

You first create embeddings. What is this? It's an n-dimensional vector space with your tweets 'embedded' in that space. Each word is an n-dimensional vector in this space. The vectorization is supposed to maintain 'semantic distance'. Basically, if two words are very close in meaning or related (by say frequently appearing next to each other in corpus) they should be 'close' in some of those n-dimensions as well. The result at the end is the '.bin' file, the 'semantic model' of your corpus.

https://github.com/dbasch/semantic-search-tweets/blob/main/e...

For semantic search, you run the same embedding algorithm against the query and take the resultant vectors and do similarity search via matrix ops, resulting in a set of results, with probabilities. These point back to the original source, here the tweets, and you just print the tweet(s) that you select from that result set (here the top 10).

https://github.com/dbasch/semantic-search-tweets/blob/main/s...

Experts can chime in here but there are knobs such as 'batch size' and the functions you use to index. (cosine was used here.)

So the various performance dimensions of the process should also be clear. There is a fixed cost of making the embeddings of your data. There is a per-op embedding of your query, and then running the similarity algorithm to find the result set.
God is mentioned in 4 of the AA 12 steps, as an example. Spirituality/Him or a "higher power" referenced in 7 of them.

Don't get me started on the others.

It may be respected by the US medical community (and we know how uncommercial and trust worthy that is!) elsewhere we go by science backed systems that aren't just relapse setups.

The US health care system has some of the worst statistics in developed nations for prescription addiction, post natal death, infant mortality, death during pregnancy and lots more. Forgive me for thinking you are infact, willfully ignorant. That's my opinion and I can hold it.

The psudo-psychology nonsense these schemes peddle is nothing short of 1800s "you've got ghosts in your blood" nonsense.

I'm an ex addict.
"Family" perhaps, but calling it a LISP is going too far when it doesn't have true macros (indeed most implementations have no macros at all). And to my mind the close similarity with TCL as a language is a lot more interesting than the details history, even- especially - if it's a point in the design space which both languages discovered independently rather than a case of one influencing the other.
I agree with the general bent of this article that the claims about LLMs are overhyped and that the risks are more banal, but:

> The letter refers to a common claim: LLMs will lead to a flood of propaganda since they give malicious actors the tools to automate the creation of disinformation. But as we've argued, creating disinformation is not enough to spread it. Distributing disinformation is the hard part. Open-source LLMs powerful enough to generate disinformation have also been around for a while; we haven't seen prominent uses of these LLMs for spreading disinfo.

I expect we are seeing LLMs spreading disinfo already, and that they're going to ramp up soon, we just don't know about it because those spreading disinfo would prefer to do it quietly and refine their methods and don't announce to the world that they're spreading disinfo.

It is also most likely happening domestically (in the US) which is something that we don't hear much about at all (it is all "look over there at the Russian Troll Farms").
In GPT-2 it was too random, but it's probably worth it to try to instruct a GPT-4 GM to behave a bit like that in the seeding prompt.
Yeah, but if a kid trains an LLM up on all the DND pdfs floating around the internet and then releases it into the wild for free, what can they do about it? Will they even be able to prove it was trained on their copyrighted material and not generic fantasy or another TTRPG?
https://iroiro.neocities.org/
I find a lot of this stuff depressing also, even though I don't think this will replace DMs just based on quality. Notice the group just abandoned their adventure mid-way through. Doesn't seem compelling. The danger in my mind is people think these automated things give them as sample of a real game.

I run a daily text game as well playing and GMing in person. Games are out-there now that covid is receding.
Or just deputize Duterte and let him execute every addict and dealer he can get his bloody hands on. Genius idea, I wonder why no one else thought of the utterly psychopathic solution?
It's a very good DM "co-pilot" though especially for flavor/backstory.

I did the same thing and it was fun, but generally does too much telling instead of showing and it's bad at real puzzles.

Also agreed DnD combat is very boring.

What's neat though is a DM could leverage it for more NPC depth or fun items.

I also was able to get it to let two characters sleep together through a somewhat humorous escalation of celebrating solving a puzzle.

First they solved it so I said they should celebrate (GPT-4 said they drank elven wine). I said more intimate celebration they drank elven wine out of fancy goblets. Eventually it worked.

Then GPT-4 was very upset with itself later on.

> "As an AI language model, I am not able to create, facilitate, or describe explicit adult content. I apologize if my previous responses gave the impression that I could.

"However, I can still help you and Elara enjoy your time in the penthouse suite in a more wholesome manner. You can spend quality time together, sharing stories of your past experiences, your hopes and dreams for the future, and forging an even stronger bond."

I was able to negotiate an off-screen scene for character development which lead to a funny conversation about its disney-like prudishness.
E3 has traditionally been aimed at the media. It's only been in resent years that the general public has been allowed in, and even that move was seen by most as a attempt to keep the event from dying.
I think you could build a MUD that used the AI to fill in the blanks, elaborate and keep everything cohesive. So the core is a real (modified) MUD engine that is deeply integrated with GPT. You use GPT to make the place more alive, to add some variety to places.

Say you prompt GPT to think of something different that happens, given a description and time of day.

You can keep all of the stuff like multiple users interacting with each other. You can also have an automated interface for admins to add on to the world. And it might be even easier to recruit people for that because you would have the AI to check what they were doing for quality and style or plot consistency etc. and fit it into the system, even automatically translate some mechanics or parameters into code.

Part of each prompt for combat or something would be the player stats and inventory. It could also have commands like "roll dice" or "next combat turn" etc. People can talk and interact. With GPT4 especially it should enable new possibilities, like custom encounters or areas that are designed on-the-fly for an ad-hoc group.

I think that an integration of GPT4 with things like MUDs has incredible potential.
That’s true. I did miss this. I still think it is bad. I also suspect the general idea of the complaint I had is probably true. But this case isn’t egregious.
Agree 100%. Have you noticed any lag with more "difficult" queries?
This is a historic event, as the headline notes. I hope this submission and those like it don't get flagged.
To be fair in Quebec we have what is probably the cheapest electricity cost in all of North America.

I’ve had the dimmable coloured hue bulbs for a while and while expensive I can say none have ever died on me in ~5 years. Certainly no flickering.
Google's library for parsing, formatting, and validating phone numbers
Boblin <3
But someone else will
Well for one thing the US genuinely seems to be a lot less imperialistic these days. I mean, not militarily at least, I'm sure they are still involved in all kinds of meddling but with less military muscle flexing. It started with Trump but Biden seem to thankfully have kept the same less-interventionist policy. So I guess they have found a way to not do the other stuff, thankfully.

I guess it could just be a return back to the mean from the absolutely, unashamed military imperialism of the 1980s- early 2010s.
Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?
Divisions are also fractal. The outskirts of large cities are more conservative than the dense downtown. The center of a small town is more progressive than its outer streets, even in towns as small as a couple thousand people. This isn't the American Civil War of state vs state, it's (relatively) high density vs (relatively) low density.

If we have a wide outbreak of violence it will probably look closer to Rwanda than the organized Union vs Confederacy fighting.
Completely different take.

We're about to enter an era of unparalleled gameplay flexibility.

All this needs is a backbone of persistence and planning. That's it.
I'm not really convinced my that argument. No matter how big your associative array is, it is still represented by a pointer to the initial/root element. It should be quite possible to move the pointer into the caller.

Maybe the language is simpler without it, and that can be a good reason to avoid it. But I don't buy that it has anything to do with GC.
> I'd say insurers are more innovative

In what way?

> especially on the operations side

If the US had national, universal health insurance, the operations would be much simpler.
"Badass developers" is barely less trite than "rockstar ninja developers"
Congratulations on the huge release, and thanks for your continued work on LocalStack!

I was hoping I didn't preempt your submission, but when I saw the tweet and then algolia said there wasn't already a submission, I took charge
I was able to ask it for tips on playing Wrecking Ball in Overwatch and mentioned specifically what issues I was having, it was actually very helpful.
So much of the problem with LED lights is from the integrated power supplies. Why is it not more common by now to just wire up indoor lights with 48v DC supplied from a PSU in your wiring cabinet and the lights can be just plain LEDs? Lower overall cost, more reliable, safer.
E3 wasn’t aimed at normal people. It was aimed at the press. Then they would put the coverage of what they’re excited about in their magazines.

Companies can now reach both the press and fans directly any time.
Well, it ain't Old Man Henderson[1].

[1] Alas, it seems the original hosting site is gones. The legend lives on, tho!
I just tested it myself, and it's surprisingly interesting. Unfortunately, ChatGPT still behaves as its normal self, assertions included, as illustrated when I told my "DM" that actually the bad guy and I were good friends and asked what was up.

https://imgur.com/a/4oeVsug

In the first instance, I lied to ChatGPT and it took my assertion at face value, changing the scenario in a pretty extreme way. In the second instance I tried to have my character lie to the NPC, but ChatGPT also believed me.

It's definitely an interesting possibility but it seems as though even if you're trying to play it straight instead of manipulating the scenario, you can still end up changing the reality of the world by accident. Not all the way there yet, unfortunately.
If you hold your own event, it’s YOUR show. You can show what you want, when you want, your way. You don’t have to compete. You don’t have to pay someone else for the privilege.

You say that as if BlizzCon hasn’t gone from competing with E3 to dead in less than five years.
> Mores evolve without such clear guidelines

> intuitive, or guttural, means of understanding

You'll find that traditional cultures are almost universally quite rigid, prescriptive, and hierarchical about such things. Strict, slowly-evolving, protocols about whom to address by what title, whom to bow to and how low, etc. It's only our modern multiculture that has shed these traditional mores. I'm pointing out that it hasn't exactly resulted in a net win. An environment when no one is sure exactly how direct they can afford to be, and who might take offense to what, isn't a productive one.

Many of these customs have only been shed by American culture very recently. Calling your boss "Sir" or "Ma'am" (with all the associated deference and subordination) and strangers "Mr" and "Ms" was the norm in living memory. Shedding this structure is still very much experimental.

> If a person knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you look down on them

And yet we managed to build just about all of civilization working in deep and rigid hierarchies. You might even say that the construction of such hierarchies is one of the most important enablers of civilization. I'm simply saying we should try to optimize them.

> why the hell should I feel a sense of ownership in something I don't own

Professional pride?
Most likely, she is family of police. Officers don’t trust muggles.

I have police in my family. Every vendor they employ (dry cleaner, tax assistance, plumber, locksmith, etc) comes from recommendations within the policing community. They don’t take a risk to trust strangers.
Suggesting Docker in the context of Python dependencies is still missing the point, because you still need proper dependency management in case you have to rebuild your image for some reason.

If you have a Docker image that builds with "pip install whatever" and this library gets updated with a breaking change, you won't be able to rebuild the image without changing the dependency or the code itself, for example.