skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in my mid 20s. I have been burned out in the past. One thing I want to reiterate on is you should be able to afford a sabbatical when it is desperately needed. A few months at least without all of your finances going down.

If this is not the case with you, it is best in interest to take out some money and put towards that. That sabbatical gives you some breathing space for you in life. It is worth saving some money and avoiding some luxury expenses.
There is an ironic possibility that the poster confused the expression "silver bullet" for something different from "fake solution placing hopes on shiny idols".

(Probably - sorry, just analytically - by negating the expression "it is no silver bullet". Process that does not work, since it is the actual silver bullet that does nothing special.)

Edit: although, reading better, the later poster reprised the expression, probably ironically, from the original poster. Sorry, I missed that in the original.
It’s great that Microsoft are still actively maintaining a ~24 year old game!

Blizzard ought to take note. A few years back they announced “Warcraft 3 reforged” with great fanfare: a remastered version of the classic Warcraft 3, updated for modern systems with improved graphics etc. It looked/sounded fantastic!

But despite it being a paid upgrade, what they released was a buggy mess that did little justice to the classic original. Then they immediately abandoned it and have released no updates or fixes since.
My first real open source application for collection feedback from customers
Hello, I want to share my first real open source application. It is app for collection feedback from clients. I encourage everyone to check it out and asking for opinions and suggestions.

If you like the project, please leave a star next to it . This helps to reach more developers
I thought that it was possible to have DRM-free games on Steam?

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g...
Okay, what happens if there are bad actors among my users who use my service to send Nigerian prince emails or boner pill ads?

How will that affect my relationship with Sendgrid?
Has anyone followed the Dark and Darker events yesterday:

The studio got sued and Valve removed their game from Stream a few weeks ago.

They then made a torrent and spread it through discord yesterday.

But discord does not allow torrents to be posted, so now discord redirects to twitter.

When the legal system turns against you, technology used by criminals become the only last resort.

If Elon saw this he would announce the twitter app store in seconds. XD
You can use any outlet just not a USB port.
If SQL ever standardizes that table_name alone is equivalent to SELECT * FROM table_name, you will be able to write: a UNION b UNION c
They’re basically choose your own adventure books, in digital format. You could say it is the exact minimum level of interaction required to differentiate between games and say movies. But they’re also a major class of video games since the 80s, and still a popular format for Japanese games (nearly every dating sim you’ll find is a VN), so their choice of label isn’t likely the problem
Ask HN: It is important”, a side effect of Transformers attention?
I constantly have to refrain GPT3 and 4 because they’re too often using expressions like “it is important” or “it is essential”.

I can’t think of a reason for the model to have been tried on texts that contain many occurrences of these expressions.

This is why I am wondering if it is a side effect of the attention mechanism built in the transformer algorithm. As the prompt and the output are recursively processed to figure out what really matters, maybe these expressions get embedded as a latent representation of the weights of the different concepts at play in the conversation context.

What do you think?
That's said as if matrix math isn't going to become the most important silicon-enabled process in the world ever.

The gravitas will shift to enabling matrix math rather than algorithms being designed for special hardware.

Matrices are the new paradigm.
That's religious dualism, but you're not taking into account the full range of philosophical debate. There certainly are dualists who do not invoke the supernatural, particularly with regards to consciousness. But in this case, the claim is that functionalism can serve as dualism, when it treats the body as irrelevant to the functioning of the mind. I gave you examples from science fiction. Even the idea of mind-uploading could be considered functional dualism, as it assumes there is something mental which can be copied from the neural/biological, implying the mind is separate.
This is definitely the moat against having another Twitter but a lot of things have a lots of users.

There's something else about it, a culture which tells what people should expect from it maybe. There must be something else because anyone with lot's of users is supposed to be able to inflate and take over everything but this is not happening.
> IMO the best approach for business logic values is picking the smallest meaningful unit and representing it with integers.

How would you design an RTS unit stats system to avoid this AoE Monk HP bug using only integer types?
Having switched to my own Mastodon host (https://social.mailpace.com/@paul), there are two huge differences:

1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well

2. There are no ads, anywhere. Nothing. It’s so strange to experience this and so refreshing

It’s definitely a little quieter than Twitter, which is also quite nice. You can read your feed once or twice a day and be caught up.
It depends on the industry. The ones I'm following mainly are: infosec - almost every single follow I had is on mastodon, and gamedev - different people but there's still a big crowd.

Then there's "weird tech", which was already on mastodon. (Tube time, foone, etc.)
It's actually worse, they pulled the legacy version from the users and forced the (effectively) downgraded version to everyone. Even the owners of the legacy version were shafted as they forced a update which removed much of the functionality of the legacy version. To this date still the best version was the pre-patch one for everyone who has the original installers and the latest pre-upgrade patch
This is somewhat romanticized. I feel like there are a lot of old couples (especially in the boomer generation) who are incredibly unhappy, but stay in their marriages.
> It's possible that all the tremendous complexity of organic systems isn't actually necessary for intelligence or consciousnes, which is similarly surprising.

My guess is most of that complexity is necessary for efficiency, not for basic function.

Biological systems are unimaginably efficient at almost everything they do. The information storage density of DNA is within 1-2 orders of magnitude of the upper limit imposed by physics, the brain performs tasks that you need GPU clusters to emulate while using only 20 Watts of energy, some catalytic enzymes are a million times better than a platinum catalyst, etc.
You missed the part where the patient was in hospice, with terminal cancer.
> At a very (very!) abstract level AI is compression and compression is AI.

I think it's not so abstract at all. The relationship feels fundamental.

Encoder, decoder, codec. Compression, entropy, lossiness, ...
It's mild compared to other punishments, but severe for the action of voting on a review

For me the salient factor is what this is a rare occurrence. If you operate at scale you're going to occasionally do the wrong thing. Is this one wrong incident, or the tip of the iceberg? I don't see any reason to get the pitchforks out just yet.
Both Mastodon and Twitter have over complicated UIs to be true Subreply replacements.
especially true if you consider that if there were hundreds of civilisations scattered across the Universe, the average distances across space and time would still be hundreds of times larger than we could deal with right now, or perhaps ever

for a civilisation with advanced rocketry and telescopes similar to what we have right now, it would still be very unlikely to observe us - firstly because we've only been around at all of a tiny fraction of the time the planet exists, and secondly because despite of all the ruckus we are currently causing in the planet, we'd still be very hard to observe from sufficiently far away
> All of their technology is based off of their hyper protocol.

And that for some reason determines naming every product that uses that protocol.

> nazi

There's no need to be a nazi, but it should be an acceptable thing to ask, when identifier namespace is global, about why someone would choose to occupy an overlapping identifier even if a better more descriptive identifier is available, shouldn't it?
When 32-bit binaries on macOS died, all the old Source games went with them, and Valve has seemingly never fixed it. :(
This week in KDE: “Make multi GPU not suck”
1. China operates the most sophisticated, comprehensive surveillance state in human history.

2. China is well known for running hacking campaigns against foreign adversaries (there are many examples of this).

3. Chinese companies by law are required to act under the direction of the CCP when requested.

4. It is well-established that TikTok harvests personal data way beyond what is required to target advertising or run a social media company.

If you read up on espionage history, and consider the lengths nation states go to gain intelligence (e.g sending nuclear submarines to the bottom of the ocean to tap cables), the idea that China would not make use of one of the largest troves of personal data in human history, from their primary geo-strategic competitor, is ridiculously naive.
I really wish ancient sports would make a comeback. I would give an arm and leg to spectate at an ancient sports demo event. Sort of Renaissance fair meets Olympics vibe.
> anyone who references [Source] should be shown the door

Well - (exportable input) -, we are past the age of editorial boards (but for The Economist, probably) and in the age of independent journalists lending efforts inconsistently to different publishers.
Feels very dangerous to install extensions that have full access to the contents of every site visited..
There's no migration path from Skype to Microsoft Teams (Personal). Microsoft hasn't picked one as far as I know.

Microsoft similarly has a bunch of duplicate services and products. They've got chat functionality spread across many apps, specifically Teams, Skype, and Xbox. Windows also has widgets in Windows 11 and widgets in Xbox Game Bar. There's also the mess that is developing apps for Windows that has just become Chromium, partially due to Microsoft's own messes.
Why would someone run Microsoft Windows on top of Libreboot?
I would pay attention to ChatGPT et al. Maybe that's killing SEO a little bit, no? You can't quite optimize for queries to a static model that has already been trained. Perhaps long term you can influence the next model release by carefully injecting content on the internet to be crawled by GPT models, but nothing you can do short term.
You are right, but the authors are not fools, so they do not use a filament.

The incandescent part has the form of a rectangular tape, with the front side made of black carbon (nanotubes deposited by CVD) and the back side made of white boron nitride, so that most of the radiation is directed towards the front, i.e. towards the exit window, to minimize the heating of the enclosure (which is made of white alumina, to minimize the absorption of the radiation that does not go out through the window).

If the alumina enclosure gets hot, the efficiency can be further increased by reducing the heat loss with an extra surrounding layer of thermal insulator (which could be provided by a plastic or ceramic socket).

Increasing the efficiency up to the ultimate limit imposed by the human vision may become too expensive to be worthwhile, but there is no other obstacle except cost, unlike for the current LED lamps with fluorescent phosphors.

I have never heard of any arc lamp that has any chance of even remotely approaching a 50% efficiency, when counting only the useful light.

Otherwise, even an archaic incandescent lamp can approach an 100% electrical-to-light efficiency, but almost all of the light output is in the form of useless infrared light.

Besides using an incandescent emitter with a lossless optical filter, the only other way to approach the ultimate efficiency for lighting (with a good color rendering) would be with a lamp including at least 4 LEDs or laser diodes of different colors.

The latter solution is much more expensive, requires electronics for compensating the change in time of the color temperature and it is currently limited by the lack of semiconductor emitters with high efficiency for yellow and green light.
When marketing you should be focused on your customer's problems, not your product.

What is it worth my time looking into this in depth? All you've said is that it's the best and it's got a good API. What's the hook?
You reinvented the zine. I love it!
If only there was a dedicated key on the keyboard that takes you down to the bottom of the page :)

Browsing on mobile sucks..
That's a great idea, thanks easygenes!
The first and only time I tried Android Auto, I asked my wife to look up directions to a place on my phone. It kept saying not to use the phone while driving, and effectively blocked it.

I mean, I get the spirit, but the experience was terrible.
Germany quits nuclear power, closing its final three plants
Screw the machine. As long as you can transform one formalism to another, why encumber the human mind with needlessly complicated ones?
DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
Very true. The thing that really helped me as I got into the third decade of my career was the realization that things can always be improved, but only if agency and accountability go hand-in-hand, and are widely distributed so that everyone has some ability to influence and optimize something. Obviously this requires a willingness to compromise from all involved, and can easily go off the rails into the worst sort of design-by-committee debacles if the wrong people are given the wrong authority, but when it’s done right that’s the definition of a team gelling. It’s rare in a corporate environment due to sheer volume of individuals involved and the communication/alignment overhead, but still possible, and always feels a bit magical when it happens.
But are they happier ones?
Depends on the service, but all of these services will try to deal with reputation damage by a series of preemptive and reactive actions.

Preemptive being checking the emails before they go out for malicious links etc, and reactive being checking the deliverability (delivered, bounced) as well as optionally email actions (open, click, ubsubscribe, flag) and stopping the account from sending further emails if something bad is happening.

This last part "blocking the account" is what will save you from waking up one sunday morning to find out your domain has been added to all spam lists and no one wants your emails any more. -- This can be even done on a per-sending-account basis. ie Each of you clients can have their own subaccount in these providers and only the infringing account will be impacted.
> nothing big seems to have happened yet

There's been some cool stuff in the speech area: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...

Also from Microsoft: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
This is often intentional as it's a way of bridging a foreign cuisine to the local palate - which feta certainly would do. I don't personally like it but I think that's why it sometimes happens. It's not very difficult to make paneer so anyone that is serious about replicating proper Indian flavors could do it.
It's not about age, it's where your interests lie in.
Their business is not sending emails, and until it becomes cheaper for them to DIY it most companies will outsource stuff that doesn't give them a competitive advantage.
Yes, but all these solutions require the optimizer to be smart enough to be smart enough to optimize them away: "oh, owner.id is the primary key, so any value from owner will appear at most once, I don't have to group by them or track the maximum value, I can pick and store any value".

I think all optimizers are smart enough already, as this is a super common pattern. I honestly would have preferred this logic to be made more explicit: if you group by the primary key (or by the table name, as someone suggested), you can use all columns from the table without aggregate functions.

This kinda breaks down when you introduce subqueries and CTEs, which is where myopic optimizers can screw the pooch as well, so any_value can be of use there.
Care to elaborate? Are phones not supposed to be charged to 100%?
Why would someone run their proprietary server software on top of Linux?
EGS also dont have any proper user reviews to begin with. Its by design since Epic Games dont want even give players option to affect game sales. For instance compare how terrible broken The Last of Us Part 1 looks on Steam and EGS:

> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1888930/The_Last_of_Us_Pa...

Reviews are mixed above and a lot of negative reviews from players below.

> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-last-of-us-part-1

Some 3.8 star rating above and tons of praise from press below.

PS: As game developer I think competition is good. But as gamer I personally not gonna use Tencent/CCP Game Store since it's intentionally customer-hostile. This is not Steam competitor I want to support.
The uploads of the 2023 MIT 6.S191 course from Alexander Amini (et alii) is ongoing, periodical since mid March. (They published the lesson about Reinforcement Learning yesterday.)
In some temples in Kerala, India, men have to remove shirt to enter inside :)
Still no explicit support for enums... best thing about Postgres in the brief period I used it was that. Looking at tables full of integer values and trying to remember what each mean does everyone's head in IME.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fréchet_derivative

Doesn't this cover all examples presented?
I’ve been doing body weight exercise for a few months. Doing push ups helped a lot with wrist pain.
Same here. The only thing I need is some kind of Bluetooth adapter and some decent speakers. Phone is perfect for everything else.
The output from this incident doesn't seem useful for anyone tbh.

-Just deleting the comment isn't right. But it was up for a long time so saying this renders the comment system useless isn't true. Snuffing out speech at inception would be infinitely worse from ethics and pragmatic standpoints.

-"2500 accounts banned" here means just related to that specific game's community, temporarily. Chances are a dozen or fewer of those might have even noticed that trying to contribute to that specific niche forum in normal situation.

-Comments on the anti-cheat seem just FUD. It seems to run like any other anti-cheat, leaving stuff in registry is what almost any software does even after uninstalled. And it doesn't seem to have run unless the games' active besides due to a bug during beta. At worst the "hope they change to a more reputable anti-cheat vendor" kind of talk runs towards a situation where one ("the"?) big vendor's anti-cheat software (which is a rootkit from a permissions standpoint) gets so juicy a target it gets hacked and million gamers get their PC bricked at worst.

If we wanted useful talk on anti-cheat it should first target things like Riot's Vanguard. Other developers don't need their anti-cheat to run as deep which, if something should cause some stress in PC users by default. This also kills Riot's game's accessibility on linux to the cradle, which should not be considered to only to harm Riot's business.

Some also noted it as a negative that the anti-cheat has a tray icon. Developer starts to debate if the software should even have one if it just causes users to FUD themselves instead or increasing feeling of trust and control.

I wonder what would be the right way to handle this without resorting to pointless rigamaroles. Maybe some kind of pre-comment disclaimer from valve administrator to the comment after a short investigation to the anti-cheat solution clearing the FUD (if it was grossly breaking GDPR or such I don't think the game or the company could stay up long)
Most of these comments show a different profound sense of humor failure.
How does it compare to eg Nylas? I was looking into that for an email app I wanted to make, but they were enterprise only it seems. I also found your business but I didn't want to self host just to try it out.
Richard Misek talks about this in short documentary[0]. He describes the difference between public domain and public realm. The former being meaningless in terms of access to content, while the latter is what most us think public domain means.

0 = https://aeon.co/videos/who-owns-history-how-remarkable-histo...
> 4. Describing positional embeddings as multiplicative. They are generally (and very counterintuitively to me, but nevertheless) additive with token embeddings.

Worth noting that rotary position embeddings, used in many recent architectures (LLaMA, GPT-NeoX, ...), are very similar to the original sin/cos position embedding in the transformer paper but using complex multiplication instead of addition
This doesn't really follow.. Any human can be fooled (and are fooled) by data for example. Humans fall for advertisement and fake news despite "understanding" what's going on, humans fall for cons all the time despite REPEATEDLY reading in the news exactly how the scams work and what to expect and how to guard against them.

If you separate the prompt into two parts (like OpenAI does in their GPT API), with one "System" input and one "User" input, it only pushes the issues one step away. The User data input could certainly "spill over" into the System context and understanding as at some level, the System context is supposed to act or output stuff based on the User data.

One fix is probably about the same as for humans - you need to almost autistically and in immutable OCD fashion learn to consider, during all actions you take, if this action seems to be bad somehow - perhaps with a monitoring AI "sub-process" if you like. I'm sure that can be manipulated as well though, so I predict layers of these will eventually be added..
Indian minister eyes 9% nuclear share by 2047
But the rough implementation details are pretty fundamental to what is being asked!

I don't think there are any logical reasons why a different set of atoms cannot be an equivalent mind with identical conscious experience (my mind constituted different atoms yesterday, yet perceives continuity!) though I'm unconvinced of the existence of an entity capable of engineering it (and agnostic on what permutations of atoms are and aren't capable of representing brain state). But that's a very different question to "is it possible for humans to create equivalent consciousness by writing high level code which symbolically represents the molecular behaviour we think is pertinent to thought as electrical signals as a binary code state machine" which is often implied by such a question, the answer to which I think is a fairly confident no. It's commonly suggested that scepticism about the ability of the human mind to be replicated in silicon suggests "something special" about it; when rephrased as a question about actually building it it becomes more of a question about whether there's "something special" about our theories of computation and i/o pattern matching that transcends fundamentally different chemistry, as well as the mother of all engineering problems.