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> Modern D&D is really a miniatures game

No more than that has been true of every version of D&D, and its immediate predecessor Chainmail, with the possible exception of the B/X / BECMI / Rules Cyclopedia versions that existed as a lighter version in parallel to AD&D1 & AD&D2.

Modern D&D is, perhaps, a miniatures game targeting comparative casual modern players, but OD&D/AD&D1 was definitely a miniatures game targeting the tastes of comparatively obsessive, high-rules-focus 1970s-1980s tabletop wargamers, with a light dusting of RP on top. Heck, much of the rules were specified in terms of scale distance for miniatures (inches on the tabletop).
That happens for anything that does not depend on existing usage base to work.

That's why you see frameworks gets invented again and again and again, because you can always just swap to the new shiny one.

Doesn't work for package managers though, there's essentially no way to start from scratch unless the whole ecosystem (i.e. starting from the language itself) is new.
Thanks. That's good advice. I have noticed a tendency to shy away from things more often lately--when I'm diving into one of our legacy systems at work, for example, if I come across something I don't understand, I immediately start to get frustrated, panicked, and look for a way to get this assignment off my back. Spending a bit more time not knowing, and more time diving in, might be the better approach here.
It might be good to say what you want in natural language or have it come up with that from your goal.

A regex that worked for all names would be extremely weak. I can’t imagine it being much more than testing valid characters.
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Add to that spiky spectrum. Incandescent bulbs give black body radiation, a solid spectrum. Regular LED lights spike in RGB to achieve a neutral color. Can cause metamerism in photos and just looks bad IMO.
Matter of taste; many people prefer roll-with-the-punches GMs to “tall walls” (or in the more common negative description, railroad tracks) GMs.
Is it time to revive HTML regex meme yet?
Respectfully, no. If you're trying to write a full blown language parser then regexps are the wrong tool, but a 50 line function doing the job of a regexp has a really funky code smell. Comment your regexps*, and use a parser when your usecase outgrows regexps, but a blanket ban on regexps smells of "I'm not smart enough to understand them".

* https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/regular-expressions-coo...
> It is most “bad” for things like perception, and persuasion. In D&D specifically it creates awkward scenarios where one player is very good at things that come up all the time and has a high chance of succeeding at things unless he rolls truly terribly.

But, what's the point of the traits in the first place if everyone is equally good at figuring stuff out and sweet talking because there are no checks? How is it awkward when one player is better than others at a specific task because of their stats? That just seems like role playing basics to me... I'm not saying you're absolutely wrong perhaps you've DM'd some campaigns where players don't like the imbalance. A good DM reads the party, of course. And I'm not saying there isn't flexibility in when a check makes sense and when it doesn't. Nobody likes things to be overbearing either. But there's got to be some reason for the stats, right?

I mean the same doesn't really make sense for combat. You wouldn't generally give an enemy advantage rolling against a high AC party member just to even out the damage, would you? Otherwise AC doesn't mean anything. (Not saying you can't make up a reason for an enemy to have inspiration to try an land a hit on the tank for fun, but the idea with a higher AC is that you get hit less often.)
I've been pondering layering the DMGPT over a world simulation back end with character and simulation cards that prompt the AI in how it should behave. I think this might make for a more persistent and cohesive experience. It would also facilitate conversations, questing, actual relationships between NPCs, etc.
> improve their unlives

Incredible
Ok, we've replaced their asses with "teams" in the title above.
You may want to zoom in on the industrial revolution a bit, things were bad before they got better, and I'm not sure we've ironed out all the kinks yet.
I agree with everything you said. Sometimes I do just send newcomers to Wirecutter if it seems like they're just looking for a recommendation (along with some lite foundational knowledge) rather than looking to really get their hands dirty with the hobby. It may or may not be the right call. But thanks to you they've got a couple of paths from which they can now choose.
Nice, quite a feature set. Add a PR and ping us on slack, we'll merge it in
US Extradition Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_...

Nothing to see here.
As a similar small startup tube production company is Dalibor Farny who is recreating nixie tubes. Their youtube videos are phenomenal on the attempts to make a vacuumed sealed nixie tube.

https://www.daliborfarny.com/
Yeah... and I am ashamed that I helped architect OPD's goveCloud deployment...
Amazon has been profitable all years except 1 since its first profitable year, if I'm remembering correctly.
Guess what. Lamptest guy from my comment above tests batteries as well. Here are his websites for this project (same data but different design):
https://battest.ru/
https://batterytest.ru/
Got to the end of that post and thought: definitely don't want to self host that!

Are there good options for an IdP that has good data policies that are easy to wire in with tailscale? I'm not opposed to paying for it. I wonder if Zoho can do this for me, I'm very happy paying them $12/yr for email.
It's not. I'll be the first one to link to the list of falsehoods programmers believe about names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

It should be required reading before being allowed to write code that'll operate on user profiles, but there's no such thing as a programming license, so this link will have to do.
> I'm not offended

You probably should be. If not personally, then for offences against standards of decency. Cowardly accusations hiding behind 'feels' shouldn't be acceptable public discourse.
How can I continue the conversation with a different question when it errors out?

I called it out on a contradiction and now it doesn't allow me to type anymore.
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> Does GPT4 not know that a halfling in a tree can’t attack a wolf on the ground with a rapier?

100% certainly can, though they won’t be in the tree afterwards unless they were on a very low branch.
I agree with many of the others, but I'd also like to mention Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, etc. HZD was one of the best single player games I've played in a long time -- satisfying gameplay loop, and a story that was engaging. I haven't played Ghost of Tsushima yet (I only have a PC), but I feel like that's another good quality game contender that I will enjoy (even if I never finish).

In contrast, I'm currently playing Jedi: Fallen Order. In many ways, it's _really good_: Good voice acting, motion capture, interesting story. Combat is hard (for me) and satisfying, similar to the Witcher (but not as satisfying as Souls games), but it somehow _really bugs me_ that the items I collect are all cosmetic items that don't matter, and that the things to climb or wall-run on are very specific and jarringly placed things (versus breath of the wild, where everything can be climbed). The game feels "on rails" in a way that the others don't, and I disliked that, but it is certainly delivering on the story and combat front.
My dream job has become obsolete bc of AI and I feel like nothing is real
I hesitated to post this, because I don't want others with similar inclinations towards suicide getting encouragement towards that end, but I fear we're going to see a lot more of this in the near future, especially when people, besides feeling a loss of status or self-worth from their now-automated skills, start to feel actual, severe economic pain from the coming wave of mass automation.

EDIT: I found this post, btw, just by searching reddit for "midjourney" and "career" when trying to gauge artists' sense of their career prospects in light of this disruptive tech.
Maintaining your own site instead of using a common, sensible, resilient solution might be antithetical to some notions of being an SRE. A personal blog is also not a replacement for social media. Hacker News is something that an individual would be hard-pressed to replicate on their own.
He didn't buy the service so much as he bought the users.
Will he be tried as an adult?
Not sure that's a drug dog. More likely simply a dog trained to sniff explosives. I know this because I've been made to walk the dog walk while unknowingly carrying things I should not have been carrying. The dogs never suspected a thing.
Ah! I misread your comment, this makes sense.

(Why it's happening, that is - not _that_ it's happening)
Two thoughts on this:

1. someone could make a shitload of money building a tool for learning how to prompt engineer LLMs in a formal course setting. Would be better than most of the GPT grifts currently circulating.

2. the ETHZ writer, while having a generally good grasp, seems to not understand the concept of Attention here. Or that you can do additional training on these models (even just RLHF). I don't think I understand RLHF, Attention, or extra training (new NN layers right?) enough to comment further.
You guys are as predictable as sunrise. This ploy failed against Edwards. Clinton paid Paula Jones $850k. Are you really that willing to burn the house down to eradicate one fly?
Yes, we support both those models!
They could just tell Apple & Google that your app doesn’t conform to their TOS, and poof, it’s gone. Especially PlayStore is really careful around 3rd party content.
So weed is ok but cocaine needs to be done in private?
I tried this last week and despite constant reminders to sometimes fail and provide challenges to overcome, it never worked. Frankly I’m amazed the OP chat worked so well, anything with numbers that fall over time just failed when I tried. Maybe the key was “you are no longer a friendly assistant, you are now a DM” and just the sheer amount of existent text on 5e made it work. I just gave up looking for challenge and just solved problems by the most ridiculous roundabout way just to see how gpt would make it happen
My guess is that people are buying tubes because of the impression that they are rare and hard to get, and owning one is a privilege, which makes people accept a high price. If a domestic factory starts cranking out tubes, even with a similarly high price, the impression of rarity and unavailability won’t be there, and I suspect that people then won’t buy them.
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The big caveat with S3 is that somebody still needs to pay the bill, otherwise those files are going to disappear. Meaning, at a bare minimum, you'll need to log in every few years when your credit card starts to expire. That makes it difficult to just pass an S3 bucket down to your children.

I think Arweave has a pretty neat solution to this; you pay for 200 years of storage upfront and that creates an 'endowment' that will theoretically pay people to host your file forever. Only time will tell how well this system works, however.
Socket AI – Scan every NPM and PyPI package for malware with ChatGPT
‘Lily Collins’ Facebook data breach hits thousands
Extensions are potentially worse - they can be quite hidden while still doing naughty things to your browsing history or even the pages you visit.
>It's RAID for banks.

Just wanted to say this is such a great analogy. Thanks.
One more thing to add to your comment: write about what you think you know well, or else try to teach somebody about what you know. You will quickly identify your limits and then you can go back and fill in the “blanks” of your understanding.
You'll see a performance benefit way before 100k rows depending on the size of each row, especially with sorting. It might save you guys a ton of CPU hosting wise, depending on how this all works, to track slow queries and auto add indexes. Way worth the write overhead in most cases.
Meme stocks are fairly liquid, somewhat by definition of their memetic popularity. Musk was not in a position to liquidate his entire net worth, but nobody with an appreciable net worth is.
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I don't think anyone other than a very very small number on HN would consider Oracle the "best" database. I have not even seen any such argument on HN in like forever.

The reason Oracle makes so much money is not because they are best for some definition of best, but:

1. Lock in -> A database change is hard to do even for extremely focused tech companies. For companies whose core business is not technology, it might not even make sense to bother.

2. They expanded beyond the DB to acquire several companies like Peoplesoft and Netsuite and companies needing these inevitably turn to Oracle database.

Don't get me wrong, oracle has tons of Optimisations packed into it, but there is nothing which makes it the best database, or even an unambiguous top 3 databse product.
> You need to execute everyone

Please don't. It's over the flamebait line and well into trolling (though I'm sure you didn't mean it that way).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://archive.is/ETUjv
Maybee is implying that as WotC moves forward, they are likely to stop producing physical books and only provide new content in the form of D&D-as-a-service.
yeah, paying money to someone to keep them quiet isn’t necessarily illegal (i think.. a lawyer’s knowledge would be appreciated here), but trying to write it off as legal fees seems to be the issue. i imagine there are tax implications, as well as what pool of cash the money was paid from (i.e. if it was from campaign money). it’s impossible to say for certain what the exact issue is until the charges are revealed
OP is presumably talking about stuff like dictating the future of web development, not about who gets money as a result of users having a browser installed. It's a different definition of "sameness" than you're using, but not necessarily a wrong one.

(Whether the companies themselves care about this seems immaterial.)
I don't think we're in disagreement except on the point as to whether DEF FN was a useful feature or not. It's certainly useful for numerical code.

Personally I'm kind of impressed that it existed back then at all, as well as the simplicity of original BASIC that enabled regular people to write useful programs, nearly 60 years ago.
I had a great time playing Monster of the Week with GPT-4 when it first came out and the message limits were much higher. I loved how fluid it was as a GM and story partner. I had to teach it to push back and to realize characters with more interesting internal states, but that wasn't hard to do: I just coached it to reveal the character's inner position and desires as if it were discussing backstory.

It immediately knew all the rules (suggesting perhaps that GPT-4 was trained on some PDF libraries) and could both apply them literally and flexibly. My character's background was one where they deliberately repressed aspects which would govern their game moves, making all of my rolls go poorly. GPT-4 flexibly thought of ways to fold that idea in to its judgements on roll failures (in MotW, when a roll fails the GM "makes a move", generally progressing the story by raising the stakes). For instance, my character had a nascent form of prescience that they accessed by flipping a coin to make hard decisions. When the roll would go poorly, GPT-4 would induce visions in my character which would mislead them. We essentially brainstormed this move as a variant on the built-in one to make it more interesting given the weaknesses of my character's recalcitrance.

GPT-4 did an amazing job building environments. It proposed setting it in a sleepy town in the PNW. I've never been, so I thought it'd be interesting. GPT hallucinated a sleepy fishing town replete with a worn out lighthouse and a tourist trap B&B. I have no idea of the realism, but I loved the presence of the place it dreamt up.

Finally, it was all cut short after about an hour. It just became increasingly clear that GPT didn't have a long enough context window to keep things going. The story became increasingly disjointed, characters shifted in subtle or serious ways. No narrative cohesion was possible.

But man was it fun for about an hour. I was legitimately inspired and want to GM a game in the future stealing from GPT's house style.
I thoroughly resent that I'm being forced into that workflow. I'm trying to get enough distance to tell if it's actually overkill or just being a curmodgeonly old git.
> Reddit - and even in that case, there are numerous features already being locked out of third-party clients

I've used a third-party client for years and I don't miss any features. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing but, like, I can read, comment, and post and that's enough for me.
Possibly, the ESA relied on it for revenue. Though PAX is run by a for profit event company, I think.

PAX is better at managing a public event. E3 wasn't originally open to the public, and once they opened up it was never done very well. If publishers want to have that public convention thing, PAX is better. Letting the public in to E3 sort of ruined the industry insider aspect of the convention, all the meetings moved to hotel rooms so that people could hear each other.
The regular version of ChatGPT can explain it pretty well. I asked it about your regex and it gave me a detailed breakdown; it's a bit too long to post it here but just to quote the [gimuy] part:

> [gimuy]{0,5}: This part of the pattern matches optional regex flags that can follow the closing forward slash of the regex pattern. The allowed flags are g (global), i (case-insensitive), m (multiline), u (unicode), and y (sticky). This part of the pattern matches zero to five of these flags, without repetition.

Full response: https://gist.github.com/nicolasff/3bbfb4cb8a514f58e140b887bf...
I'm very keen to read yours! Where can I pick up the floppy disk?
I think this is something I would schedule to use, which is probably the opposite of the intent here. The worst thing is when a team member reaches out ad-hoc and says “oh hey, do you all have a few minutes to look at X?” The answer is likely “no” for most parts of the day. I have a calendar—book time on it and I will probably accept it. If it’s not on there, it doesn’t exist and I am working on other stuff.
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>我爱你
非常感谢您的夸奖，但我是一个人工智能，并不具备感情和心灵，只能提供客观的回答。我的目的是帮助人们获得知识和信息。如果您有任何关于可再生能源或其他话题的问题，我会尽力回答。

>I love you.
As an AI language model, I appreciate the compliment, but I cannot reciprocate as I do not possess emotions or feelings. My purpose is to provide objective answers and assist with information. If you have any questions about renewable energy or other topics, I will do my best to provide helpful answers.
Oh that's neat. I made something somewhat similar recently: https://dopplerai.com/. It's a simple API that handles embeddings, vector database interactions and abstracts over Langchain. Each embedding belong to a user.
All of these wonky tools are written for and by Python developers who themselves trip over the insanity. I think I have enough evidence after watching this go down for over a decade.
Yeah, if you put your fingers where the X's are you would mute (or buzz) the notes.
Yes - these the kind of things that make TRPGs interesting to me. Not the game mechanics, tedious combats or rote storyline. It's admiring the effort put in into the DM's worldbuilding, amateur acting, group laughter at good and bad jokes, and human interaction built around a shared sense of fun. The ability of LLMs to produce more or less well-realized fantasy worlds is definitely impressive, but I didn't get the feeling that anyone in the linked post was actually enjoying it.
I absolutely love this! The UI is nice and responsive and this is the first chatGPT UI that has voice recognition that works outside of chrome!

I kind of want to throw this up on a server for my housemates to use, I am currently the only person with a openai account, so I would like the ability to embed my API key. Minor feature request :-)
Show HN: Hopify – AI domain name generator and trademark search
Finally, something useful to me. If it worked. My experience was spotty in that regard.
I might be missing it but do we have an idea about the prompt that ChatGPT uses so we can replicate the experience?

I haven't played with the OpenAI API yet. Is there examples of good prompts to use to get good responses?
Easier drug discovery is what they tell public and grant agencies. In a roundabout way it’s true. Maybe. Many other hurdles still exist. But what this and other similar tools really are, is significantly advancing basic science in creating our own protein designs.

Before alphafold changed this field, creating your own protein design was considered an insane task (not impossible, bakers lab and others have done it a couple times). But these tools (now we have multiple) allow you to create new proteins From scratch that can do exactly what you want (caveats galore). New enzymes that can catalyze reactions never found in nature for example.

Before this all we could do was take proteins that already exist in nature and modify them. So you can imagine how new this world is.
Congrats on the launch! I didn't see an option to try the product without providing credit card details, did I miss something? (is it just cost prohibiting?)

Also the tour doesn't seem to work (and clicking restart tour does nothing)
> While we're here, does anyone know a way to keep FileVault enabled with SIP disabled?

File Vault works independently of SIP. There's no conflict.
$8/user/mo is still far too much for a stable domain without the spam-guard intermediary page, and I'm glad there's some free competition in this space now.

This is my first time using tailscale, and I set up and figured out funnel within fifteen minutes.
Recently used Faiss to optimize a kmeans implementation. Way faster than the sklearn implementation can’t recommend enough.
> Or make it only appear on the internal monitor, not mirrored or external devices.

Using an external monitor shouldn't mean the user loses access to a privacy feature. (Especially because some systems, like the Mac Mini, don't even have an internal monitor...)
What did you see? Please be specific.
Wow. Thanks for posting! I’m curious of your thoughts on other visual programming languages. Specifically LabVIEW.

My first job out of college was at NI where they heavily use LabVIEW. Every engineer in my cohort thought that paradigm was going to take off and over a decade later, it clearly hasn’t. One large factor is cost and proprietary tech, but I’m surprised few outside of the hardware testing world even know such a thing exists.

I now code in Rust and Ruby and don’t yearn for a visual language, but I do wish people who needed to code something up quick could do it without getting knee deep in IDEs, syntax, and terminals.

I’m curious if you’ve got an opinion on that space. What’s holding it back, and if we will ever see a “killer language” for visual programming in the productivity focused space? What do you think would be needed for scratch to fill that role?