skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, game designers regularly take advantage of physically impossible models. Look at this map of the level "5-D Space" from Bungie's Marathon.[1] Like Doom, the map is made of 2D sectors, but without the restriction that sectors can't overlap. Bungie took advantage of this to create an impossible space. The crossing solid lines are part of different rooms that can't be seen from the other. Only sectors connected with the light colored two-sided lines are visible. So you could turn left four times but be in a different room than where you started.

Overlapping was used in Tomb Raider III[2] to create a UFO that is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. (This had the unfortunate outcome where I was once killed by an enemy that was inside the UFO while I was outside, but the game thought we were in line-of-sight.) The original Tomb Raider games also used a trick to make the environment dynamic. When they needed to show a wall moving, or ceiling collapsing, or a room being filled with water, you'd be instantaneously teleported to a different map. Sneaky camera positioning made sure you never saw the change taking place. Teleporting is a common technique to make a map appear larger or more complex than it really is. One I learned recently is in The Witness[3].

The best example of a game built around physically impossible spaces is Antichamber[4]. You might enter a room, walk around a pillar, and exiti the same door but end up in a different place than where you started. Antichamber uses portal rendering to show areas that are larger on the inside than the outside, similar to the overlapping in "5-D Space". But also I think it has some teleporting.

[1] https://www.lhowon.org/level/marathon/30

[2] https://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=166545

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/TheWitness/comments/47pr3h/spoilers...

[4] http://www.antichamber-game.com/
I wonder are they using these autonomous GPT loops to control DAOs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...
Look at the Irish language. Almost dead. I can see a desire to keep alive the Irish language, because a lot of English imperialism has pushed out the languages of where they have gone.
I'm working on a prompt engineering product at a stealth mode startup. Would it be possible for me to pick your brain sometime? I'd like to understand more about your workflow, and how our product could fit into that.

No pressure. My email is in my profile.
I guess we need to prepare defending ourselves against the cyberattacks and the drones.
Irc? Then you're halfway there to command a botnet
I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people
Before Facebook, military tried to make an all knowing cyberdiary called LifeLog
> most of the examples you give have a near 50/50 (+/-10%) split here in the US.

That's what I mean. Many of those issues don't have anywhere near a 50/50 split in Europe, which is part of the definition of social norms, expectations and cultural values.
Note that there is a distinction to be made between linguistic determination (language controls how one thinks) and linguistics relativity (language affects how one thinks). The former idea is largely discredited, the latter accepted with lots of caveats.

What the previous poster if describing is a strong, deterministic relationship between language and thought (the idea that, by banning certain uses of language, they can control how Italians think). This is essentially nonsense: Italians are Italian, regardless of whether they work in a company run by a CEO or an "amministratore delegato".
GraphQL: From Excitement to Deception
Chinese organizations fund Mogan, a TeXmacs fork, via summer program.
Reminds me of the short lived meme in the early 2000’s era, “freedom fries.”
Long walks help. Also therapy or just a long talk with someone you trust, work wonders. Just intensely and suddenly realizing that the situation is not your fault and that other people go through periods like that, takes a big weight off your shoulders. It's exactly that weight that makes you tired soo fast.
One goal of the AI should be to pay for its development and activity.
Agreed - I do mention in the post that open addressing is impractical when using intrusive linked lists, which are common in low level data structures.
"In the Randstad, I also never drive. Because the UX is great."
It's also a phrase that barely existed on English-language Twitter before his tweet; you'd really wonder who he's getting this nonsense from.
No, it's a legit concern. Both things will happen - there will be abuses, and there will be good uses. It will be a complicated mess, like viruses interacting with anti-viruses, continuous war. My hope is on AGI learning to balance out as many interacting agents.
https://Obsidian.md is great for that
real ai isn't possible until every mistake has been removed
Azure runs on Windows.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...
The 'outside world' is worse. Europe is aging, it's looking backwards and has very little interest in the future. The left side of the spectrum is stuck in '70s social democracy and believes it can still work despite the demographic collapse (french protests). It is not forward-looking nor has it made a post-boomer vision. The right is stuck in awe of its old glory and tries to revive nationalism (like Mrs Meloni, Brexit, Orban etc etc). People are (rightly) not very excited by those old minds. There is more interesting stuff happening in the US and Asia
I think the point is that a bunch of companies make or made good printers, and Prusa stands out because of their community.
Regulations simply don't work whenever there's economical (human) interest. (See: Drugs). The cat is out of the bag, we just have to think how we face the new scenario.
Did I apologize for your reading comprehension too? Is my apology in the room with you right now?
I make a point of thinking about those people I have known who have died from time to time and offering a prayer for them. The top of the list is a friend who died by suicide in college who it makes me sad to think that he’s mostly forgotten. Not because he was necessarily unique or special in some extraordinary way, but simply because he had once been alive.
> For your housing example, we just need to produce more housing

Existing property capital owners have a vested interest in not building more housing. Building more housing will negatively impact their profits. Existing property capital owners also have far more power than the petty bourgeoise investors seeking to "build more." This conflict of "NIMBYs vs YIMBYs" exemplifies a core contradiction of capitalism that Karl Marx articulated 150 years ago, except "NIMBYs" are not individual homeowners; they are rather the idols of the petty bourgeoise "YIMBYs." See: contradiction.

Objectively, the working class has no place in this conflict and will not profit from building more housing. Of course we should build more and better housing for working people, but that is not what the petty bourgeoise investors actually want; they want to build more housing for profit. Big difference.
Hm I’m not sure this is a good example, it’s really just a dialect. Any German speaker can usually understand most of it when concentrating a bit. And Wikipedia seems to agree. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German
“Poke this box different ways until the right stuff leaks out”
A language model is just a language model. It may well be an important part of an AI at some point, but it’s not going to be the whole thing.
I understand where you are coming from but if something OPs dad wants to do and PiHole blocks it, he will not understand why it is happening and how to solve it. OP at least needs to think of that.
I'd rather risk death in my own car than live a life of anxiety whenever my wife takes the train
I had two related revelations.

First, all my most important pictures have people I care about it in them.

Second, I watched family-in-law going through old family photographs and discarding objectively wonderful but unmarked photos of people that no one could identify anymore, and heavily filtering photos of family members that were identifiable but no one still alive had known.

I had not put two and two together before that point, but even your own great grandchildren will not treasure photos of you and your exploits. And why would they? They are strangers. It is no different with myself and my own great grandparents, even if I wish otherwise.

It reframed the purpose of photography for me. In a sense its whole function is really as a memory aid, to help me recall good times, connect over shared memories, and strengthen my personal bond with friends and family.

I do really hope that “alone” is not the fate for everyone, although I haven’t figured out how that’s supposed to happen in an age where friends and family uproot and spread around the globe like leaves in the breeze.
Or..luck and enough tries at it? Maybe there's survivorship bias in goal setting
Probably get killed by a poacher or illegal gold miner.
It's a great tool.
We've been using it as a windows replacment for Linux live.
I have 2 wishes from this feature.
1. Use more than one screen.
2. Have the ability to extend the dockerfile so i can preinstall software.
A well used cast iron pan with the proper technique will be just as non stick as teflon, and much more versatile.

If you version of cooking is "put anything in the pan at whatever temperature and expect it to not stick" then stay with teflon because nothing will save you
Apple M2 Mac mini: Testing 35 Windows games
My Dad was on heavy painkillers near the end. His partner had to take his credit card off of him. It was the only way to keep him safe. I'm not saying that is where you are but it worked for us.
> how are those issues not European?

because they are not contested in europe, only in the US

> privacy is a much greater

It's nowhere near as important as housing or employment i think. Strict privacy was mainly championed by German Greens, not a pan-european issue
Needs a big honking datacenter or billions of compute credits and safety for 6-12 months.
Anyone able to replicate this? With XFS on an NVMe device I only get 500 inserts per second. I wonder if the 15000 figure is attributable to the scaleway virtual server SCSI device ignoring syncs.
Being rich is not about how much you earn, it's about how much you have.
Blogspot has disabled a number of backend services so that it’s no longer compatible with, e.g., MarsEdit. I had one last blog I was still updating on a blogspot site that I just moved over to its own domain because of this.
What on earth are you smoking, that is NOT the actual link. That is some woo-woo garbage page. Please check this thread again.

The actual FA:

https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html

And the OP:

https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Fast-f...
The goal should be to be able to just talk your model without any engineering. If you as a normal user can not interact with an AI then the AI is just not smart.
Here's my rebuttal to the inevitable flood of "prompt engineering is dumb / a bug not a feature" comments: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/21/in-defense-of-prompt-e...
Ironically, Italy's remote work visa has some of the most lax requirements in the world, and speaking Italian isn't one of them.

> While the legislation encompasses all foreign languages, it is particularly geared at “Anglomania” or use of English words, which the draft states “demeans and mortifies” the Italian language, adding that it is even worse because the UK is no longer part of the EU.

This is comically disrespectful towards Ireland.
Impressive! Images AND video is also an option.
I think there's another force at play here - the price increase is flexible because people expect to pay more for "special" gas.

Sentiment affects pricing and whenever some disaster or other event happens, the market is pretty efficient at capitalizing on it. This goes for all kinds of things like ukraine and natural gas, chickens and eggs, EVs and electricity pricing, etc...
Almost every meeting I ever attended had an agenda and the others were on single, specific topics. So is that normal and hbr is inventing a problem, or am I very fortunate?
This implies that they can be trusted. Usually they double cross each other by selling on the side.
I’ve been doing the same thing with a number of projects, building chains of prompts from one api call to another e.g. for ConjureUI (self-creating, iterable UIs that come into existence, get used, then disappear) https://youtu.be/xgi1YX6HQBw how it works to generate a full self-contained react component:

1. Take user task

2. Pass it to a prompt that requests a Product UI description of a component

3. Pass 1+2 to another that asks for which npm packages to use

4. Pass 1+2+3 to a templated prompt to write the code in a constrained manner

5. Run 4 in a sandbox to see if there are errors, if so pass it back to #4, looping

It’s currently quite slow, but that’s an implementation detail I think.
Caymans is just a better jurisdiction. A lot of their financial regulations make sense.

It requires complete nationalistic hubris to dismiss that.

Its not just a tax blocker. That’s just happenstance because some countries know how to balance their budget. I could think of two dozen other things that Caymans does better than large nations like the US or other financial haven microstates, for business incorporation, capital formation, audits and more.

The regulators in Caymans are very meticulous, many are educated in the US at top universities or had careers in the US.
It's a LLM. You can't really expect anything else from it than answers that sound correct. Producing actually correct answers sometimes (which have a natural tendency to sound correct) is just a happy side effect.
I mean that is a large part of what HN is, but not exclusively. As a non-american I frequently see posts that are obviously only on the front page because most people on this site are from Silicon Valley or USA in general. Some examples:

- San Francisco housing crisis: This has been a frequent topic of discussion on HN but I don't think many people outside of San Francisco, let alone outside of USA care a lot about this

- The collapse of silicon valley bank was a huge topic on HN but it was more or less non-existent in the news in my country

- Posts about US politics, such as anything related to Trump or the American Supreme Court

- When a post is specific to a particular country, it's usually indicated in the title, except in the case of the USA
The immune system is fiendishly complex: the technical debt of a system of programming by random mutations.

Answer:

I don’t think that our immune system would be weaker for novel viruses, because our immune system isn’t trained to work on unknown viruses. The immune system does work on known viruses, however for the virus to be detected, a person needs to have been infected the first time: so by induction it doesn’t matter for one person. Although population effects might matter (herd immunity, societal systems breakdown).

Background:

The immune system starts with a random generation of attacks. As a foetus the immune system learns to NOT detect its own cells (by removing any self-attacks). The immune system is left with the ability to detect a variety of things that are not its own cells.

The immune system also trains to not attack common environmental factors, which prevents allergies, but AFAIK that training stops within a few months of birth (there is a special organ for this).

There is a popular theory that if the immune system isn’t given something to attack then it attacks itself (creating auto-immune diseases) so we should “eat dirt” to prevent that. AFAIK there is no scientific consensus about that. Certainly we have counter-examples where viruses cause autoimmune diseases e.g. Epstein-Barr virus causing Multiple Sclerosis.

The immune system also trains to be able to quickly attack things it has attacked before. So it provides protection against some variation of some repeat viral infections because new variants might have the same attack point. This works better against repeat bacterial infections, because bacteria have more features to detect, so the immune system is more likely to have some defence against different variants. This part of the eat-dirt theory is a bit better, but still impossible to calculate the costs versus benefits. Personally I don’t try to “eat dirt”, but I mostly make little effort to avoid “dirty” things because the effort seems mentally costly (avoidance that worked would be socially damaging, IMHO).
Thanks god some people high up are not as defeatists and still fight for regulations
After being in a large company for ten years, I’m convinced that managers and companies don’t want productivity from their employees, what they want is alignment and legibility.

Alignment being: we both agree on what you should be working on, and legibility being: are we on track, or do we need management intervention to ensure completion? Emails, status meetings, stand ups, pop ins, IMs, while detrimental to achieving objectives, satisfies management desires.
It's considerably different in Italy since Florence never had any sort of political dominance over Italy. Even though it was very briefly formidable during the Renaissance, its influence has otherwise been mostly cultural only. Because of this, authors and scientists settled on a Koinè based on Florentine during the Renaissance. Until the 19th century, it was barely spoken, even in Tuscany.
"AI" isn't smart. Doesn't mean it's not useful if you know how to use it.
I would think that limiting immigration rather than the use of English would have a far greater impact on what they're trying to achieve.

Not making a qualitative statement about whether that's a morally or economically right or wrong thing to do.
Once again, the physics behind space travel was already well known and it was mostly the technicalities that needed addressing. Compared to human metabolism, navigation in space is rather straightforward math. A lot of the necessary stuff was already discovered by Newton's time, in the 17th century.

We know a lot less about our own bodies than about celestial bodies, simply because relevant observation is nowhere near as easy. Observing and measuring activity of cells in vivo, within living human beings themselves, is a fundamentally hard problem.

We can do a lot of stuff in mice, but mice are rather different from us and results in mice usually don't translate to workable therapies for people.

Our problems with cancer, Alzheimer's etc. are problems of understanding, not technicalities. Imagine trying to fly to the Moon without knowledge of Kepler's gravity laws. No amount of money can compensate for such massive ignorance.
Have you seen what they can do? /s
> Based on the fact that everyone got their money back from FDIC

Did they?

https://twitter.com/mdudas/status/1641959202078720001
The usage of "metres" also gives away that your office environment likely has more accessible things around it too. Anywhere I have had an in office job has had nothing but parking lots and road around it.
i sometimes drink a single cup of tea in the morning now, but back when i was pushing hard, i would just buy cold brew concentrate and drink an espresso-sized amount in the morning. it was very effective at jump-starting the day and was strong enough that i didn't ever feel the need to keep consuming. it wore off by noon and that's when i would break fast and get some lunch. then i'd do non-demanding tasks in the afternoon.

i think a lot of people drink cups and cups of coffee because the first one just isn't strong enough. get a strong buzz first, get your shit done, and then let it coast down. probably why many europeans start with a strong espresso and asians drink less-caffeinated tea throughout the day. drinking coffee all day long seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Scammers see old people as a prey species. They cheerfully rob them 24-7 with zero remorse. One day we will all be old (if we’re lucky) and will be picked off by these people.
Yeah as I said in another comment, it's a mostly miserable experience on the kids and yet some garbage humans do decide to live strictly off of it. I'm not sure how we could disincentivize that, but I do think means testing should go.

The people I have seen who really milk the system work for cash, live with their boyfriend/SO and remain unmarried to keep the benefits coming (and just lie saying that the father isn't in the picture). So the burden of healthcare/food/rent is on the state and all of the income is fun money. Trucks/SUVs, jewelry, trips, rental houses, etc. follow. The kids only benefit as far as not starving, but they get free food at school/day care most of the year anyway so most stamps get sold. There's some who do very well and just stop caring about TANF anyway because it's overall pretty low value.

Another I've seen is just lying on the application so they get their benefits (I imagine similar to the others they say their husband/SO isn't in the picture) while they have a steady income stream from renting out their house.
Why do you think so? Human intelligence is fraught with errors...
Crucially important that engineers who are building systems like that that work by concatenating prompts together have a very solid understanding of prompt injection attacks.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. Does US discourse have impact on these topics in Europe: sure. But they are not solved topics that wouldn't be contentious otherwise.
Ah, I see why gas went up in prices now.

It looks to me OPEC has always been making decisions that negatively affect the US/Western economy? Or maybe only the bad news get the attention?

Anyway, oil and gas should just die out. This is literally monopolistic behaviors.
Probably the only way to ensure civil forums in the future when nobody can be bothered to moderate by hand.
That's got more to do with Bush than anything else
That's a very limited definition of culture then

I'd say the french protests are a good testament to the french culture being alive and kicking when basically every other country accept slaving their lives away until 67+
"Jiggle this bag of parts until the device assembles itself."
> How much of the Italian cuisine they're trying to protect would exist if they had the same attitude in the 1500s, when the tomato was introduced to Italy?

This is a funny example to use, because while the first tomato reached Europe in the early 16th century, it was not widely eaten in Italy until the mid-to-end of the nineteenth century. For a number of reasons, people (incorrectly) believed them to be poisonous.
Well, USA still has half of its strategic oil reserves. Looks like OPEC want USA and EU to stop their price cap games or face reserves depletion in attempts to keep prices low.
I dunno, have you been to any of the major western European cities in the last 15 years? They're pretty brown now. At least these cities seem to greatly favor immigration.
The whole nature vs civilization narrative, is a story told by happy regressors, who want to return to a ilusionary before time, were all things were harmony and civilization was not. It is of course, a call for mass murder on billions of humans with the rumbling instincts from the brain stem and guts as justification. Were it justified with any other argument, civilized society would tear them to shreds, but in the robe of the shaman, they are exempt from the duty of reasoning.

None the less, his music is great and can be enjoyed, like any other artists, without listening to the political and culture drivel that artists sadly often produce. They are easily captured and swayed by instinct tautological ideologies.

Just because it feels right does not mean it to be true.

My favorite rendition of his "My love wears forbidden colors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tLtg-DMb8
No it wouldn't, everyone uses "made in Italy" colloquially in Italian
more specifically: https://topos.site/blog/2023/03/seventy-years-using-fixed-po...
April's Fools
It's that we're making a lot of it ourselves now. Fracking is horrifying, but it does help us stay local.