skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Full blown assistant

Well, by that I meant personal assistant, for actions with access to email and a password manager for anything personally associated without a chance to review. That'd be a bit inconvenient in my own case anyways, because hardware key. You're braver than me, for sure.

It's a pain when it runs for so long with how far it gets away from the original prompt, but light prompts with the system message do help, as well as a way for it to refresh its "commands" and goals/tasks back into the context window. It's like Memento, with the complex system of Polaroids, notes and tattoos.

I don't know if it's possible to develop this stuff in the open without a headache considering all of the hysteria, but was thinking if I fixed consistent output for my browser command and got a swarm working I'd try putting it on GitHub. Mainly I want to make sure things like Google Sheets are output correctly, try to leverage as much accessibility for SPAs that try, as I can.
And most of the world doesn't really care about what a 9mm round can do or what "AR15" stands for.

America is a very sick and broken place, and we all hope you get better and grow up soon.
> old game

They have been releasing expansion adding new civilizations every ~6 months or so together with a bunch of balance changes.

> stay popular

It didn't. Not too such an extent as it is now. For years it had only community support and a fairly small player base. Microsoft resurrected it not so long ago.
Thank you! Interesting.
> didn't have an effective monopoly on PC video game distribution

And yet the PC is the only platform left where the user even has a choice in the matter.
Not OP, but I use Figma to do this. There are lots of templates in the community, or you can make your own pretty easily.

If you don't want to do it as manually there are paid tools that will help. Google "app store screenshot maker" for options.
I always wonder why people keep attributing this to cheap/unskilled labor.

At one level it really doesn't matter as the company is choosing who works for them, and the outcome of their action is the company's action. It's Valve's fuckup anyway we look at it.

At another level, qualified and well paid employees also take shitty actions. I'd argue they're often less prepared and less professional than contracted customer support.
I doubt that the vast majority of Twitter users made an active decision of giving Mastodon the thumb down. They just didn't hear of it, or had no impetus to find a different option. I think that's an important distinction.
Why does the acquisition need to go through for Activision-Blizzard's titles to be on Xbox Game Pass?
I have a much older car from 2007 so no Android Auto or Apple Carplay for me but I thought I was supposed to sit there after I start my car for at least half a minute?

Maybe not needed for newer cars?

I start the car and wait for the dashcam to chime. I start driving once it chimes. I have an older Aukey, not hard wired, so it takes about half a minute for it to chime which I thought was perfect timing.
One important property of options is that they don't get flattened when nested. None and Some(None) are different.
Ask HN: Who are young people doing important work not motivated just by money?
Who are young people today doing important work, and are not primarily motivated by money?

People who are passionate about social causes, data science, science or engineering, biology, internet activism, political reform, open access to information, and are NOT primarily motivated by making money. You have to earn a living obviously, I mean their primary motivation doesen't seem to be getting rich or making investors happy but the work itself or social cause. They don't have to be young people or know how to code. I feel like younger people tend to be more idealistic and less jaded, thats why I said that.

Two people that come to mind are Rebekah Jones And William Padilla-Brown

"Rebekah Jones is a data scientist who formerly worked for the Florida Department of Health. She gained national attention in 2020 when she accused Florida officials of manipulating COVID-19 data to minimize the extent of the pandemic. She was fired from her position shortly after, and defied Florida Governor Ron DeSantis by setting up her own COVID-19 dashboard to provide more transparent and accurate information to the public.

"William Padilla-Brown is a mycologist, community organizer, and advocate for sustainable practices such as permaculture and regenerative agriculture. He is known for his work on fungi cultivation and the intersection of social justice and ecological sustainability."
What I’ve learned: ascension is the fullness of self, ascendancy is becoming beyond one’s self.

If one were to take the echo of Zarathustra (“behold, the lightning is the ascendancy of Man”), the purest mind is that of the spark gap, not the spark plug.

What I have learned of Reality.

That “Truth” is a perturbation of Objective Reality, manifest form of states collapse in the moment of now. And the “truth” is a figment in our minds, only measurable in consistency of Truth by rule of “integrity”.

Universal Potential collapses as state in the moment of now, that which exists outside of space time, that which precludes every measure yet eludes the conclusively of discrete resolve.

I suppose this magical thinking is that what we think of as true is a construction of whatever Truth is, and one must undeceive the self to find one thing, while learning pleasant other things (fabrications) are essential conveniences.

That the potential of existential being resolves into the state of whatever now continues to become is the truest source of Power!
Kidney stones are jagged spikes of pain (2015)
The amount of people who eat wonderful, nutritous food is negligible when compared with the amount of McDonalds diners. But people have already voted and McDonalds got the thumbs up.
> useful light output

Part of what makes LEDs and neon lights feel so fake and sterile is that they give off visible light but no perceptible heat.

You can feel the heat from a 100W light bulb on your skin and you pick up on that subconsciously.

That being said, getting an even spectrum back would be a nice "improvement" (regression fix).
The way it currently works, there is a quite clear boundary, as all the smaller iterations are based on something of a fixed size that was expensively pretrained, and then have either finetuned weights or some extra layers on top, but the core model structure and size can't be changed without starting from scratch.

So if some particular GPT-4 improved successor is based on the GPT-4 core transformer size and pretrained parameters then we'd call it GPT-4.x, but if some other GPT-4 successor is a larger core model (which inevitably also means it's re-trained from scratch) then we'd call it GPT-5, no matter if its observable performance is better or worse or comparable to the tweaked GPT-4.x options.
It's true that SpaceX's previous landings have used legs, but that's either been Falcon boosters (much smaller/lighter than Starship boosters, AKA "Superheavies"), or for Starship's upper-stage (again, much smaller/lighter than Superheavy boosters).

The catching system looks crazy, but it might actually be easier than landing a Superheavy on legs. The ground is a larger target than the catching arms; but its maneuverability and shock-absorption are famously low.
Steam itself is optional, it's up to a developer to require steam to be running. Steam does some things like make the default shortcuts launch Appa via steam, but honestly that's probably less confusing for the games that do enforce steam running. Without steam running, there's no access to any of the steam SDK features. Steam running also handled things like authentication, so games don't need to prompt for credentials.
Sure, but why would more knowledge lead to more danger, rather than less?

I come to think about the adage that scientific answers often bring with them more questions. Those ever expanding questions I sometimes imagine as an exponentially growing circumference of unknowns, surrounding a circle of what’s currently known.

Perhaps those unknowns could be thought of as corresponding to the gray and black balls, so that what’s dangerous is essentially that which we don’t fully understand and therefore cannot fully control.

Finally, I’m thinking that the area covered by all previously gathered knowledge (area because knowledge synergies with itself) will increasingly likely outweigh the danger that we uncover as the circumference of unknowns grows and dangers are discovered along the perimeter.
I've no idea about baseball - it doesn't exist outside the US - but the article seems to boil down to "minmaxing all your character stats makes for hella OP players and boring as fuck gameplay".

Does that pretty much narrow it down?
For me the first one that sticks in my head is the MCC distrib on ~10 floppies, with (I think) a bunch more for X. Definitely used 0.9[89] before that (late '93) but no solid memory of details.

Kernel version 1.0.8 is burned into my brain though.
> Scala does this in two ways. For one-armed `if`:

That is exactly what Rust does:

error[E0317]: `if` may be missing an `else` clause
--> src/main.rs:2:13
|
2 | if true { 42 };
| ^^^^^^^^^^--^^
| | |
| | found here
| expected integer, found `()`
|
= note: `if` expressions without `else` evaluate to `()`
= help: consider adding an `else` block that evaluates to the expected type

The "note" line spells it out clearly, although the line annotations are a bit unclear.

> - The use of `Option` is explicit, rather than implicit

There's nothing implicit about Option, it's literally the concrete return type of the function.

That's like saying the boolean is implicit in Option::when.

> - The second argument of `Option.when` is passed by-name, so there's no need to manually wrap it in a closure/thunk

Rust does not have lazy arguments, arguments are always eagerly evaluated.

Thus it needs one lazy version which takes a function (bool::then), and optionally one eager version which takes a value (that's bool::then_some).
It provides a storefront, authentication, distribution and an updater, at least. That is valuable to a lot of games.
Interestingly when I copy paste your example I get true. Perhaps that itself is the example
Look up Boyan Slat. He is an inventor born in 1994, so fairly young. He invented devices to collect the plastics floating in the oceans and rivers.
Pretty sure anything but the last two innings of a baseball game (if it is close in score) was already boring. Pacing is already generally slow. So slow that it is super common to have all sorts of audience distractions (kiss cams, celebrity look-a-like cams, etc). If they wanted to make is more exciting to watch, they need to take a page from the american football clones (shortened field, reduced players, easier scoring).

Imagine if the game was shortened to 4 innings, no more home runs (hang a driving range golf net), no more foul balls (every hit counts, plus that big golf net goes all around the field). It would be a much more fast paced game, and rotund powerhouse smasher types replaced with more athletic, speedy types. Still need hits to get on base, but running the bases becomes much more important with the always force that happens with every-hit-is-a-hit.
If 70% of the sales price isn’t enough profit incentive, I kind of doubt that making that 80% would tip the scales to it being desirable to the game studio.
Show HN: The url HTTPS://www.reddit.com/r/all/.i makes Reddit readable
Nitpick: MCTS is a heuristic search algorithm as well (just like minimax) that doesn't necessarily need a neural network to operate and the MCTS algorithm existed way before AlphaZero, coming from Reinforcement Learning literature. Deepmind's innovation was to replace two of the 4 classic steps of MCTS (selection step and simulation step) with neural network-based policy and evaluation network.
In February I published a paper on mathematics + ChatGPT (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867) and my colleagues, who were also on LinkedIn, told me it garnered quite a bit of attention.

So I signed up to LinkedIn on 3rd Feb. 2023, thinking that now would be a good time to step out of the academic ivory tower.

The thing is that I used my Gmail account to sign into LinkedIn. Which worked fine and I was a happy user for about a month. I then went travelling and when I returned one month later to log in again with Gmail - suprise! A new account was created on the spot.

So now I have the old account which had started to accumulate some important contacts:
https://ro.linkedin.com/in/simon-frieder-5b6874264?trk=publi...

as well as a new, useless account:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-frieder-b7901b271/

I had been happy to use my Gmail account to login, so I did not bother to setup an extra email login process into LinkedIn.

How can it be that the software engineering of a multi-million company even allows such blunders to happen?
Does AoE2 do that? Packing numbers directly into arrays? Or does it rather deal with objects, which are variable size anyway? I am not sure how much high performance work has been done in AoE2. Maybe not that much.
Well, because it provides offline, DRM‐free installers for your games, often including Linux installers.
It took me a minute to realize this, but HyperShell seems to be (or can be thought of as) a demo app for the (previously unknown to me) "hyper ecosystem"---Hyperswarm, Hypercore, Hyperdrive, etc: https://docs.holepunch.to/ . Perhaps an even tighter example than HyperShell is hyperbeam [1]: look at the usage section and API, and then note that it's all implemented in like 200 lines of code.

I'm no expert in this field, but this stuff looks like legos for cutting-edge P2P solutions. I think this is the coolest thing I've seen since Tailscale.

[1]: https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperbeam
Is Twitter Finally Dying?
Insurtech Amsterdam Is a Media Partner for ITC DIA Europe 2023 in Barcelona
want to join email and it's difficult? - you are evidently a tech person living some time before 1997.
Techniques like NeRF allow you to take a bunch of photos of a real 3D scene and then generate images/video of the scene from arbitrary viewpoints, where NeRF will infer the 3D structure using machine learning. So what you're seeing is the camera smoothly flying around rooms where the video was generated (in near-real-time, I think) by an "AI" that was trained on pictures of the rooms.
I forget about Boyan. I've watched videos of his devices, his work his vital to the planet!
> More people are leaving religion than convert to it

This statement has nothing to do with my statements. All you need to see is that religion involvement starts very early, usually 40 days in Christianity. I want science people to learn something from this fact.

> A quick google search shows that this assertion is wrong.

Why are you ignoring thousands of years of history? No religious adept became a religious adept because of books or games. Even more: trend of declining religion as you have mentioned started when all those books and games starts to be produced (reminds me Jevons paradox in the sence of the more religious books/games for kids are there in the market the less religious penetration is observed among the kids). Talks is what matters, I do not understand why do I need to repeat this triviality for so many times.

> Where does this mandate come from? People believing in what is verifiable mandates also teaching them lies as well? For every fact you learn, you should learn an unverifiable myth as well?

I am not telling about teaching lies, I am telling about teaching early. Am I really seem like so unintelligent person to accuse me in encouraging of telling lies?

> I think the jury is back on that one and has been for some time. I can't even imagine what might be wrong with teaching a girl electronics. How do you feel about teaching them reading and math?

In my country one is supposed for girls is to be a social persons rather than engineers. Girls in our country use to do shopping, to cook meals etc etc. Reading is OK for girls in our country but math is slightly over. I do not agree with this statement but I have a personal story when I refused to be a godfather of my close friend's daughter just because she is a girl. I told my friend that if I became a godfather of his kid, I see my role as science teacher (I have not my own kids if it is important and my atheistic mind does not restrict to become a spare father for my friend's kid which anyway is going to be baptised). When the kid has born and we realized that the kid is a girl, me and my friend decided that my attitude is incompatible with our culture's view of what is good/bad for girl.

This is my personal pain story, that explains why am I so active in this topic and why I consider every downvote for me is wrong and seems that I have enough verbosely explained my idea (which I tried to describe in the top comment) to consider myself as boring to read.
It's trivially easy to move your profile and followers list to another instance, if you want to. But you aren't restricted to following users from your instance anyway. Follow one person you see boosted into your feed, look at who they follow and follow them. Rince and repeat.
Is that the right move though? We can make any event exciting. Implementation is rarely the hard part. (funny how closely this parallels a chat I had with one of my engineers this week)

I like Baseball because it’s relaxed and it’s on for 3 hours and I can have it in the background, looking over on occasion whenever I hear something exciting. If I wanted a sport of non-stop action that demands my full attention, I’d watch hockey.

MLB is walking a tightrope right now of evolving to be better at what it wants to be, and to keep people engaged (it’s a business after all), but not to transform into something entirely different. The customers likely wouldn’t be happy if they all got what they wanted.
Did they finally fix the problem on Windows Store that large game downloads simply don't work? I actually thought they just gave up when the Microsoft 1st party games started showing up on Steam.
I miss my shell account on jumper.mcc.ac.uk
I've been modifying an LSTM GAN model to use a transformer in the encoder and it seems to do much worse. Or at least the training dynamics are very different. Transformers perform great when they work but it seems to be a lot harder to get them to work in my experience. Can anyone corroborate that or is it likely that I'm doing something fundamentally wrong? To be clear I'm not implementing it myself but using PyTorch's Transformer classes as drop-in replacements for my LSTM-based encoder and decoder. Been trying lots of variations in the hyperparameters and position encoding methods etc but it always either doesn't train at all (generator/discriminator divergence) or it produces blurry images. (The "prenet" and "postnet" remain the same as my reference model so I find this surprising.). Really frustrating when all the latest results say that this should work amazingly well.

Tons of articles like this on "how transformers work", very few on "tips for getting transformers to work in practice."
Honest question, which paper is this? The 2012 one? The 2006 Hinton paper was the trigger surely - that's what I used and was filled with things that worked very quickly on GPUs.
> turn on bluetooth (I often have it off because it grabs my headphones etc when I don't want it to)

Why would you turn on bluetooth? Haven't we all been collectively griping about every iteration of bluetooth for the last couple decades?? I do leave bluetooth on on my iphone (because I've gotten rid of peripherals that don't play nicely) but have bluetooth disabled in my cars. My Honda pops up an useless modal if your phone is paired with bluetooth and then you plug in the lightning cable for CarPlay, something about "HEY I'M DISCONNECTING FROM BLUETOOTH <OK> ".

> A passenger might have a higher priority bluetooth device and it steals the connection.

This is also why I wish I could disable wireless CarPlay in my one car that supports it; I want only the phone that's plugged in to be doing CarPlay.
> it doesn't exist outside the US

It is utterly massive in Japan, South Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. It is literally the national sport of Taiwan, and is so popular they put it on their currency.

In terms of percentage of population that cares about baseball, the US is barely middle of the pack.
I have all sorts of deluded fantasies regarding U-235 found in gabon.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-tw...
Before Elon, Twitter needed to make money too; it had long distanced itself from its pre-2010ish self in mission and leadership, though that statement suggests at least some independence over the drift of the population during that time.
The big problem with rationals is that it's easy to end up with both nominator and denominator growing without bounds, which IMO is an even bigger pitfall than those of floating-point or fixed-point.
This felt a little bit like I walked into an ongoing conversation, the fact it's the second post to a blog which appears to have begun already in mid-flow doesn't help with that, so, maybe I completely misunderstood what's going on.

> In a language like Rust, implicitly introducing Option is barely acceptable: Option is already a priveleged type

There's nothing special about Option, it's not a langitem for example, as AddAssign, Box and FnMut are. It's not a built-in type like f32 or [T; N], it's defined in core, but so are lots of things nobody would claim are "privileged".

It's a vocabulary type, but so is Ordering, so is ControlFlow, so is Duration, we need to agree what to call things, otherwise it's going to be a struggle to develop software.
Somebody had to invest resources into training those super large models and observe emergent intelligent behavior. It's not like the authors of the original paper knew that transformers would lead to GPT-4 and spark an AGI debate. Nobody expected transformers to get powerful so fast.
Win+R is kind of sacred for me. It remembers the last command so I prefer to keep simple things out of it.

It is easy to press windows and type mstsc and then press enter. This way I don't have to press up and down to get to that long command should I need it in the run command.
To me it helped. Granted, I had some economic security beforehand but it helped a lot with my depressive mood.
Thanks for clarifying, that is a more substantial query but it's still open-ended, so it's impossible in practice to judge the quality of the answer in an objective way.

I simply defined what I meant, no value judgement.
Now the logic next step is to rename SpaceX to x.space and Tesla to x.cars
Literally none of the LLMs we're talking about were trained on consumer GPUs where the market shortage mattered, they used things like nVidia A100 pods or custom hardware like Google TPU clusters.

The GPUs which are good for cryptocurrencies are decent for using ML models but are not good for training LLMs and vice versa, as the hardware requirements start to diverge. Training LLMs requires not only high compute power but also lots and lots of memory and extremely high-speed interconnect for large models, which ends up costing far more than the pure compute cryptomining needs, making it not cost-efficient for mining.
> That's why "expression-oriented" Erlang (and Elixir) simply has the single-branch if while the academics still debate whether or not it should

Erlang's single-branch if is essentially an assertion, it throws if the one branch is not taken.

I don't find this very pragmatic, or even at all useful since erlang ships with a slew of assertion macros (https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/assert.hrl.html).

Your "pragmatic" also doesn't do anything useful for a statically typed language. A statically typed language requires that the program be well-typed, so you have to define what "well typed" implies for a single-branch if.