skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this about money, though is it. It's about control.

The ones who are most upset about this have an ideology that is a house of cards that has to be shielded from all interrogation, mocking and critique, lest it implode under the weight of its own internal inconsistencies.

These people know very well how to distinguish friend and enemy, and Elon is decidedly not a friend.

To lose this castle to an enemy like Musk is a huge problem for them because of its strategic importance, hence the fire-storm of consternation.

In the wider world, the ones who are upset about this are vastly outnumbered by those who just want to have fun and express themselves on the Internet, so if Twitter can become that kind of a place it will do very well.
I decided I wasn't done with the undead MLM scheme and instead of going to the temple I said:

They're not ready to go to the temple yet. They want to make sure the zombies and skeletons succeed in their new "careers" so they decide to help them work on their sales pitches

To which the DM replied:

Femribubs and Natnari, feeling a sense of responsibility for the success of the undead in their new "careers," decide to postpone their exploration of the ancient temple. They return to the group of skeletons and zombies they had recently convinced to join the multilevel marketing scheme.

Upon their arrival, they find the undead creatures gathered around, listening intently to the skeleton leader as it tries to explain the concept of the business. It's clear they're struggling to grasp the finer points of sales and marketing.

Femribubs and Natnari step in and offer their assistance, guiding the undead through various sales techniques and strategies. They begin by helping the undead develop their own unique sales pitches, focusing on their strengths and experiences as immortal creatures.

Natnari, with their background in the Grave Domain, shares insights on how the undead can connect with potential customers who might be interested in the secrets of life and death. Meanwhile, Femribubs uses their skills in Acrobatics and Stealth to teach the skeletons and zombies how to make attention-grabbing entrances during sales presentations.

Over the course of several days, the adventurers work closely with the undead, sharing their knowledge and honing their skills. The undead creatures, once feared and reviled, begin to show promise in their newfound careers. They become more confident and adept at conveying the benefits of the multilevel marketing scheme to their peers.

Eventually, the time comes for Femribubs and Natnari to resume their quest. They say their farewells to the undead sales force, feeling a strange sense of pride in their accomplishments. As they leave, the undead creatures express their gratitude, promising to spread the word of their new business venture far and wide throughout the land.

With the knowledge that they've helped the undead find a new purpose in their unlives, Femribubs and Natnari return to the hidden path leading to the ancient temple, ready to face whatever challenges and mysteries await them inside.
Who isn't?

I'll be frank; the one thing that has terrified me for the last decade is the tech world. So much intelligence, but a shocking lack of either foresight or moral compass.

And some of the "darlings" of innovation are inevitable slides down the slide of full technocratic control. Self-driving with it's promise of the complete upending of the concept of ownership, and the eventual undoing of personal agency when each trip eventually turns into a "mother may I" implemented after the first time someone works the system in protest. "Trusted computing", which is, and will only ever be useful to Governments/industry to secure themselves against meddling by those pesky users. AI to replace those pesky opinionated humans that'll refuse to do what their told (and can be turned off, lobotomized, and suborned when they get too uppity). Mind reading via Brain->Computer Interface to serve as a building block to kinds of abuses that I never dreamed anyone would be foolish enough to flirt with.

The self-driving bit came coupled with testing on the populace before the bugs were worked out. Facebooks A/B testing on social manipulation, Uber's project Greyball... Boeing's race to the Ethical Engineering bottom with 737 MAX. Google enabling a whole new form of civic abuse in conjunction with Telco metadata providers.

If you have not looked at industry as empowered by tech, and come up with at least half a dozen ways that even some of the most banal systems imaginable (insurance claim/financial transaction processing) are capable of being leveraged as malicious and powerful tools of human social engineering, you have been asleep at the wheel, and been doing humanity a massive disservice.

But hey, new shiny I guess.
Some interesting discussion here:

http://forum.nanfa.org/index.php/topic/12401-spontaneous-reg...
I don't necessarily disagree, but it's very unclear what a court would find.

I suggest https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15715 for a complete overview.
Oh, my install failed at:

Failed to compile.

pages/index.tsx
`next/font` error:
Failed to fetch `Inter` from Google Fonts.

> Build failed because of webpack errors

Apparently because it can't fetch a font from Google. There should be assets that are critical (js/ts code, templates,css) and assets that are not (freaking fonts) to a yarn build.

edit: hacketyfixey, let's punch the thing in the face until it works:

./pages/index.tsx:
2: // import { Inter } from "next/font/google";
12: // const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });

(I am sorry)
The truth is the opposite. I went to the first E3 the day before I began my first day at Activision. In those days it was the only game show in North America. You could walk in and say hi to the CEO. There weren’t a lot of ways to communicate about your products and your company. Who you really wanted to reach in those days was buyers for stores. The press barely existed.

Since then it has gone through so many permutations. You started to care more about the press then the public. Then you started to be able to really promote games online.

So is E3 failing because its more effective to promote online then at live events? No. In fact if you have a good budget to promote a game you are going to spend more of it on live events then you did in the old days. The why is complicated, but I would say the main reason is its harder to advertise online then it used to be, press has less influence and you need to have organic interest.

So every big publisher has their own live event. And people spend a fortune on PAX, various ComiCons, etc. All of this stuff went online because of COVID but it is coming back bigger.

The problem for E3 was that when it started it was the only game in town. Now the business is exponentially bigger and there are many events to choose from. If you have deep pockets or a loyal fan base you can your own event.
Dude, you are dragging up bad thoughts of how finicky it can be to get ansible to work consistently across a number of systems.

This is where I kinda regret switching from and miss chef. Pick up an RPM/APT package from vendor, shove it into your package manager, the environment works. It developed a sufficient amount of weird behaviors later on, but that's besides the point.

Instead we have a really precise documentation of 4-5 steps to get everything installed in a way that should overall work, and each step is annotated with 4-5 ways that look deceptively good but end up being even more quirky. And when you do all of that, and review it twice, it still doesn't even work consistently across 6 workstations. 3 work the same, 2 have interpreter discovery anomalies, 1 has import conflicts with seemingly unrelated other installed stuff.

Whenever I have a working python VM / container build or installation, I kinda feel a need to shut up about my jenga tower because otherwise the universe will find a way specifically to ruin my day.

I hate how I have to feel like this about a language I really like.
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever read. Well done.
actually, combining what i said with what you said got me to a new idea: if the different areas on the chip were sharing inputs and possibly outputs, even with the same bandwidth tech, it would be much higher bandwidth as a group.

So, for example, have a whole tape-out project devoted to something like a modular music-sampler/synthesizer. So, there's D/A A/D of a few audio/midi streams coming in, which every area of the chip gets as a feed, but also areas can talk to their neighbors directly without multiplexing, and then mixers, filters and group output. Maybe some way to "roll your own multiplexer" so somebody could use the whole chip for a variety of guitar pedals, somebody else a vocal processor, etc.
Elden Ring was a huge banger for me, probably the best game I've played in at least a decade and it absorbed my life for MONTHS.

And it certainly doesn't have any of the stuff you're complaining about.
I live in SJ, have police in my family, and have talked to police neighbors.

SJPD has fewer officers per resident than any other major city. We have somewhere between 30% - 50% the number of sworn officers as San Francisco. SJPD is underfunded and surrounding cities are all better paying for officers. The officers that continue to work there mostly live many hours away and are required to work pretty high overtime hours.

My personal assessment is California Prop 13 (from around 1979) is at fault. It has starved the city’s funding, which makes SJPD uncompetitive against neighboring cities. Additionally, the city is a residential base for lots of the companies in the neighboring suburbs.

In the late 2000s, the mayor at the time was very worried about the retirement costs of the department and made the comp package much less appealing/competitive for new hires/transfers than existing officers. This creates an exodus of experienced officers and means that we get worse recruits than other cities.

Not trying to justify the unprofessional actions, but to add some factual color behind the recent history that got us to where we are.
> cyberpunk literary movement

I hope you have archived your past writings. It would be interesting to read them.

Thank-you.
Sounds cool, best of luck!
> Shareholders aren't some distinct group. One of the big "providers" of MRI machines is General Electric. Are the shareholders of that conglomerate more honorable than the shareholders of some insurance conglomerate?

I wonder what it would look like to mandate that suppliers must also be non-for-profit. Companies would all have to spin up non-for-profit divisions (if they don't already have one) and sell to hospitals through them. I imagine it would be massively disruptive in the short term.

Anyway I agree that healthcare should be competitive regardless of whether it's for profit or not.

My wife and I just looked into genetic testing for our child-to-be and Natera bills insurance multiple thousands but only charges people $250 or so if you pay out of pocket. The hilarious part is they bill insurance so much that it would have cost us more to have them bill insurance ($650 would have been our cut of the like 3-6k bill) than if we had done it out of pocket. Ultimately we didn't do it at all because the whole thing seemed sleazy. It's just so fucked up.
This is the nature of all advice. If there was a surefire playbook to do X and get Y result, then everyone would do it surely?
Install dependency.

Save in requirements.txt. Includes sub dependencies that are system specific.

Install from requirements.txt on different machine and get errors.

Uninstall dependency and save to requirements.txt.

Look at requirements.txt and see that sub decencies are still there.

What is the right way to avoid these issues on Python?
I don't think you can, nor would you want to at this point. It would just be another standard (ala XKCD-927). Virtualenvs, pip, and wheels have been better than eggs and whatever else came before wheels.

Once you set the version of python in the virtualenv and activate it, the right python will always be there. The virtualenv even has an instance of python in it's bin. When that python is run, whatever's installed in the virtualenv comes with it.

Poetry, however, does suck even though it's using virtualenv underneath. It's doing frankly too much and seems to have a lot of regressions. In the end it should only be looking at the contents of the virtualenv and using pip to install the correct packages into it.

Edited to add: With the last version of poetry causing issues in my development env, I'm about ready to ban it from our team.
American cops sure.
Fortunately it's still possible to break into the games industry as an indie developer. You can be a solo developer and make a top selling game, if you're really good. Lucas Pope, Toby Fox, etc.

So I don't think we are in any kind of monopoly situation, nor are we in danger of ending up there right now.

The people who do buy AAA games, I suppose it's because they enjoy that sort of thing? I'm not really one of them.
Elden Ring is one of the few AAAs that can be considered a banger by all metrics, but it too comes from a decade-old formula at this point.
etoys for squeak has the ability to switch between blocks and code, as a way to learn about the code that the blocks generate.

it would be interesting to have a programming language that is essentially a text form of scratch and that can drive the same animations so that you could learn the text syntax and continue creating the same games, or even translate from one to the other.
GPT4All outscores GPT-3.5 on new hallucination metric
GPT4All is outscoring GPT-3.5 in the real trivia dataset as well as the 'none of the above' category as well as coming in a very close second place in the fake/trick questions which are designed to measure a model's propensity for hallucination.

The benchmark itself is very new and meant as a way to provide a baseline to judge progress in coming up with new ways to address LLM hallucination - the biggest challenge facing LLMs right now.
Everything and I really do mean everything has potential harm. Is your position that OpenAI should have to suspend their business over this?
Spam bots need read access to find relevant keywords and insert themselves into replies to popular posts - otherwise they have zero visibility. As for hobby projects - I'm sure this will break a lot of them, but those that just post regular updates (like @tinyspires) should be fine.
ChatLLaMA: We're Building a Chatbot
Have you seen her picture?
Where's the Rust?
The Importance of Max_wal_size
Man Sequoia hops from one wave to the next without any thought or worldview. The FTX fawning is still fresh and they are on to the next hypetrain. No lessons learnt, no shame at all.
For all the shit node gets for being too dependency heavy, npm, yarn, pnpm all work exactly how I’d expect.
Imagica AI – a new way to think and create with AI
As it was explained to me, most of the justice problems are in the Greater Chicago Area, so if anything that sidebar by me is being charitable about how fucked up it is.
The fact that many popular Python packages rely on system-level native tools also doesn't help. "Solving Python packaging" isn't just about distributing portable Python source code, that's easy. It's also about packaging and distributing unruly non-Python software for a myriad different platforms, all without user intervention. Sure, the solution's not great, but it's a really hard problem.
Hmm, interesting :) Thank-you. I'm going to try it sometime: the message went through a "persona filter," so my reaction to it can (hopefully) be more moderate too.
Political theater. If anything, this will help Trump and possibly give him a boast in his own party.
A lot of countries already have lighting on a separate circuit. It means that when something trips a breaker you don't lose all your lights as well.
Right, it looked kind of...rapey :D
They gave a postmortem analysis (sort of) and even linked to it from the submitted article.

https://www.cultofmac.com/623592/5-reasons-apple-should-dump...
OpenAI doesn't own the copyright on the human aspects of the chats, so it still doesn't really have a claim to make around them. And even if it did own that copyright, we loop right back around to "wait, training an AI on copyrighted material isn't fair use now?"

There's no way that ChatGPT's conversations are going to be subject to more intellectual property protection than the human chats it was trained on.
I'm curious what these problems are. The only problem I've had with venv is that sometimes I forget to activate it.

As the article says, I think these days it's pretty safe to just use Python's built-in venv and stay away from everything else.
Twitter circa 2010 was gaining active users. Mastodon today is losing active users: https://mastodon-analytics.com/
> the service becomes unprofitable to run.

When was Twitter profitable ?!
Barking up the wrong tree, this post is for a thirdparty tool.
My understanding is that the Twitter thread author works at OpenAI. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Why aren’t virtual environments enough?
Rusted away
I read that discussion and I don't see how it supports the idea - because the moment I broaden the law to cover VPNs in this way, then merely having access to the internet would fall into the same bucket.
I've been experimenting with this recently. You've got to be explicit about how you want ChatGPT to behave, particularly how it handles failure. For example:

"Let's roleplay. You are a DM. I am a player. When there is a difficult action, roll a D20. I succeed if my roll is above 10, I fail otherwise. Failure should always move the story along, and introduce a complication. Write like a professional author. My character will be Alice McRogue, and the scene will be Alice trying break into a merchant's home. As a DM, you decide what happens in the world, but I have control over Alice. You will ask me what Alice does when necessary."
Looks really interesting! Are you looking for more vector search integrations? we have one here https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo which includes a lot of the transformation logic (including inference). If so, we can do a PR
This is one of the jenga towers that seem to hold up most reliably for me as well. (i) Use python installed via the package manager. (ii) If python is updated, wipe all venvs, because there can be strange interactions between venvs and the installed python and rebuilding venvs is cheap, and (iii) Work in venvs as much as possible.
Budget size doesn’t mean much when costs in China are 10x lower to produce the same thing in the USA
I've found that venv's work. They're just very inconvenient (having to constantly manage which venv you're in when you change directory). Consider that with NPM, only two of those commands are ever needed:

# install the requirements
npm install

# remove it
rm -rf node_modules

The rest is unnecessary because NPM uses the equivalent of a venv automatically based on your current working directory and the location of your package.json file.
That still doesn't change the fact that the release news has changed drastically. Sure, teenagers today probably like to game more than yesteryear's teenagers that are all middleaged boomers now. News at 11! The point isn't a lack of nostalgia, it's that there's no mystery to reveal at a big show. Studios release teasers, arrange for "leaks", or any other ways of keeping they hype machine rolling.
Thanks, I did read that over, but I'm more wondering about a hindsight for why the 2014 prediction seemed realistic, and why Intel failed to execute as predicted.

Interesting that the CoM followup doesn't make any mention of architecture.
Ah, the classic problem with benchmarking programming languages.

There may be further optimizations you can do to the Rust code, likewise for Python. I do find it a bit hilarious we are "comparing" Python and Rust because really what this "comparison" lets us conclude is "FFI-ing into a mature Fortran library happens to give faster numerical perf than some Rust solution that is naive in comparison."

Let's see how Rust performs with its own FFI into LAPACK and BLAS. Better yet, since I know people will immediately complain Rust isn't a scripting language, let's try to compare something Lua + Torch against Python + PyTorch. This would be much more "apples-to-apples" than whatever OP is doing at the moment.
I think that's magnifird by the software you use, in this case, Discord. I've got SIP enabled and didn't need to disable it for Zoom or Google Meet to do screen sharing. There was one permissions dialog I had to go through in accessibility for screen sharing to work for them, and it's a tiny bit scary, but it's not SIP disabling, reboot into recovery mode and run crsutil disable level scary.
Imagine you have a toy store, and you want to make it bigger and better.

To do that, you need more money, so you ask your friend YCombinator to help you.

In return, you promise to give them a special kind of toy money that you created (like monopoly money) that they can trade for real toys later when your store becomes bigger and better.

But for now, there are no real toys to exchange yet because the shop is still small and not opened yet.

Now, if you ask other friends for help and give them even better toy money (with better chances to get more toys), you need to tell YCombinator about it.

If YCombinator thinks the new toy money is better, they can ask you to change the toy money you gave them earlier to match the better one.

You have to do this quickly after YCombinator tells you they want the better toy money.
Totally opposite for me. Getting a PS5 alone gave me access to such a large backlog of great games. I don't think any of them had microtransactions, at least I never purchased anything else than the game itself. I'm mostly thinking PS (ex)-exclusives, you can enjoy many of them on PC as well nowadays.
Then you attach it to a graphics engine…
How many people work on these projects managed by conda?

> And it works well on Windows. No idea about Mac and don't care.

Package management is a cross platform problem. You may not need it but that doesn’t make the current solution good.
I’m in the same boat. I’m using ST4 unlicensed until they downgrade me back to ST3 automatically.
First of all, thank you for your wisdom here.

Second, to clarify, I can afford the insurance premiums with operating investment income alone, without touching my principal, I'd just rather not spend half my operating income on monthly insurance premiums that exceed my typical annual total healthcare costs. Frankly, it's frustrating that I even need a prescription at all for my medication. It's for a stable, lifelong, uncurable but minor condition. The medicine does not build tolerance or dependence, has zero recreational use, and is not even a component for any kind of recreational drugs. ~90% of my regular annual healthcare costs is my once-a-year doc visit that my doctor requires in order to renew my $3/mo prescription, but that's besides the point.

Demographic is under 30 nonsmoker, for whatever that info is worth in evaluating this.

I can always delay my departure from my current employer, push come to shove. This will be a resignation, not a layoff / fired type of situation, which I am grateful for. Sounds like that's option 1 for expanding operating income.
Honestly, having just played around with it, it absolutely would have just magic'd up some exotic steeds if they'd requested it cold. I tried things like "look at Dave", Dave having never been mentioned before, and it happily described Dave.
I don't know if I'm still in the target audience (or ever was), but for one thing, I can't even begin to describe how much "games as a service" games put me off. It's really not disgruntlement, but active repulsion, as in I'd actually rather wash my dishes while listening to a podcast than having to play them.

But the amount of people feeling like me might be rounding errors in today's landscape, I don't know...