skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to recap: very generously, a college student with money to spend (that might sound like a joke but I consider fortunate circumstances) convincing people that it’s worth their time to sit through a usability test actually going through with it “for the lulz”. The part about a person being willing to do a bunch of work to avoid doing a bunch of work makes sense (typical “mental gymnastics”) but it kinda falls apart at 30+ real people legitimately agreeing. It’s ironic that a single-digit amount is just as useful; that’s even a more believable lie.

(And this real-life scenario where every request is answered with “Coming right up!” and a convincing “successful” completion of the request just cracks me up. My sympathies go out to the people to whom this is a genuine problem.)

Thanks for explaining!
I'd use this for mandolin and ukulele if there were those options (there are more 4-string instruments than just bass!)
Not wrecking the planet
We can only speculate since the tweet doesn't explain the connrction, it only indicates one (via quote-tweeting).
It looks like the person who is resigning is not the one whose talk was rejected/downgraded, but is doing so because of the way the talk was rejected/downgraded.
Seems like PlatformIO wants RPi to PAY them to be officially supported, even though RPi is not even involved in adding this support (someone else did and posted a PR). RPi seems to have correctly replied with what amounts to a "WTF‽".

Sure sounds like PlatformIO folks are just being dicks for no reason. This is like person A uploading my code (without permission and blessing from me, but not counter to my license) to github to solve problem B, in project C, and then leaders of project C tell me that if i want the prestige of my code being in their project, I owe them $megabucks per year (this being the first I hear of A, B, or C).
What you're describing may be the sunk cost fallacy [https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy].
These days the batteries outlast the body with hundreds of thousands of miles.
>I'd like to see a visual/language model/AI that learns to play minecraft as an actual inhabitant of the game. i.e. processing visual input, recognising objects, working out whats going on, learning how to move around. Learning how to make food and avoid monsters. It would be an 'Embodied AI' within the world of Minecraft.

There is already an AI VTuber, Neurosama, trained to "play" games, including Minecraft (also OSU! and Among Us.)

I don't think she's learned lava is bad yet.
For me it was altavista to google!
> Python's list comprehensions are merely syntactic sugar for filter + map, but they make functional code so much more readable.

More readable than filter/map/reduce _in Python_, because Guido dislikes them and wanted them out of the language (and succeeded in moving reduce to functools). Python's excuse for lambdas makes this so much worse.

Compared to functional languages, though? I'll take filter/map/fold/reduce from Haskell or Clojure versus list comprehensions any day.
The article explicitly states that the school policy disallows the use of previous tests without the professor’s approval. So any use of the test as a study aid is cheating.
The person you responded to accounts for uncurved classes in their argument, that cheaters in uncurved classes "inject false signal into the difficulty feedback loop".

If the average assignment grades are very high the professor will be inclined to make the assignments more challenging. Cheating disrupts the professor's ability to accurately determine how well their students are grasping the material and adjust accordingly.
Reminds me of a time long gone, when I had too much free time… cool project
And then fail them all because none of them have learned anything.
I strongly believe that GrapheneOS is one of the most important projects at the moment for several reasons. Nowadays it's almost impossible to live without a smartphone, it's one of the most used pieces of hardware that people use all day, and there are simply no other alternatives to GOS.

I can't thank you enough Daniel for your work on AOSP and GOS, and all the other work you've done around security and privacy.
I know many people who believe that the "American Chinese food" in some regions of the US is so bland and greasy not because the people making it don't know how to make good Chinese food; but because they're trying to sell Chinese food to a market of people who actively dislike everything that makes authentic ethnic Chinese cuisine distinctive; and that some watered-down tasteless glop (and I don't mean congee, lol) is the local maximum they've found for marketability in that environment.

(Of course, the global maximum — at least for someone who wants to continue to serve that particular market — would be to stop trying to sell these people Chinese food at all, if they're not going to like it. And instead, to learn to cook something where you and your target market can agree on how it should taste.)
From my understanding, only IBM will/can service the hardware.
Abstraction is hiding away the complexity of the system and only being concerned about its input/output. One of the best examples I know of abstraction is programming.
I think so? Which part of it sounds inconsistent?
I like YouTube Shorts.

I think the TikTok swipe format works pretty well for content discovery on mobile, so I’m glad YouTube copied it.

And unlike TikTok, the long form videos are still there, so I can click on a username and watch more from a creator I like.
Wired and other legacy media outlets need native advertising to stay afloat in a landscape that has completely shifted. Thus, it wouldn't surprise me the least to find out another auto maker paid for this, or at least paid to paint a very specific narrative.
AI tool generates video from brain activity
By seeking a true understanding of someone else's perspective. It's a mistake to think that experienced/senior/whatever means "usually correct". No, it means "knows how to resolve conflict and misunderstanding"
This week in AI – all the Major AI development in a nutshell
hyping on hating Musk, what else is new
They're supposed to be studying the entire course, not just the questions that will be asked this particular time. And they were given perfectly good study materials for the course.

These students didn't want to study. They didn't want to learn all the answers to the questions that reasonably could have been on the test.
There are a few playstyles, both modded and unmodded, that will allow for more of the "we're under attack!" panic and less optimisation of your factory.

Ramping up the number of biters in an unmodded world (deathworld) can be really fun.

Modpacks like Warptorio 2 add a very different dynamic but has that same frantic feel.
Was not able to load this. Maybe it is time to reconsider using Twitter this way?
Maybe it's for GW-BASIC.
Feedback is appreciated
It was added as a joke, and kept because (according to https://save418.com)

> “It's a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans”
I agree with you, they are absolutely lovely creatures, however we have to be so careful that we don't anf ... enthrop ... oh FFS ... anthropomorphize them.

Taking your dead salmon on the nose anecdote: that is fascinating but is it "culture" or a potential survival trait. I suspect that copied behaviour is in anticipation of a reward that will enhance survival. However it might be a form of embellishment, which would imply culture, as we know it.

Orcas are mammals, like us, that live in the sea (unlike us). They breathe air, which is rather scant in their environment - that means they are tied to the air/sea interface and they have to fall upwards to survive some problems they might encounter. I'll bet their at rest buoyancy is slightly less than seawater and their body shape favours turning them upright and putting their blowhole slightly out of the water.

They live in a very unforgiving environment and are also apex predators living off other creatures. They are bigger than most sharks which are at least able to always live submerged. They often end up in the Arctic and that means ice too to worry about to obscure the air/sea boundary.

No wonder they have invented some cunning behaviour.

For me the salmon thing was an epic fail, survival-wise but could be considered a form of "cargo cult". I think an example of a win is getting the pod to make a wave that washes a seal off an ice flow, so that they can pick it off.

That needs a lot more research. If nothing else we need a formal description of what "culture" actually means when we generalise across the entirety of life.
"analysis paralysis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
“ By using country-wide data on all vaccinations received, primary and secondary care encounters, death certificates, and patients' date of birth in weeks, we first show that the percentage of adults who received the vaccine increased from 0.01% among patients who were merely one week too old to be eligible, to 47.2% among those who were just one week younger.”

So only 47.2 % of the adults eligible to get the vaccine chose to get it. I am sure that those 47.2% are doing lots of health things right, like paying attention to their vaccine eligibility, for one. I imagine those behavioral differences in the eligible people who chose to get the vax and those who didn’t, could explain this pretty minor reduction in Alzheimer’s.

This would be more interesting if all the eligible adults got the vax, and all the ineligible ones didn’t.

Am I missing something?
So what did your math of:

“You have to look at the future projected revenues per share, and apply an industry standard multiple.”

Work out to?
Are you talking about custom maps? The size of the online community? Those are better in AoE2. What else is?
Fun, I'll have to look at that. The major implication, though, is that yum does the same thing without an explicit sat formulation. Right?

Edit: I will note that the linked doc is silly old. And it seems that the original proposed replacement for YUM was Hawkeye, and is deprecated? But DNF is still steaming ahead? I didn't find any obvious links talking about performance. Did the SAT idea pan out? I'd almost think it was a bust, with some of these wikis. :(
Did I mention I was the President of the Homebrew Robotics Club[1] for 10 years? :-) That said, FIRST is excellent and I mentored the Fremont HS team one year.

One of my favorite thing about robotics is when people go from something in software to something that is actually built. Sensors are "noisy" in the real world, and HBRC has a great series of challenges that are designed to get people to actually build robots (and for that they need to span the easily grasped to the more complex). A number of kids that came to the club when I was running the meetings went on to top engineering schools, always gratifying to see them take off like that.

[1] https://www.hbrobotics.org/

[2] https://www.hbrobotics.org/index.php/challenges/
I honestly didn’t know it was a cheating site. I use it with my grade school kids to help them, find novel exercises on the topics they’re working on, etc.

I can’t be the only one who uses it as the resource it presents itself to be.
[I'm not sure I understood your question. I hope this helps.]

The gravitational waves travel also at the speed of light. They will reach first the point of the Earth that is closest to the event first. And then travel and reach the oposite point like 40ms later. The Earth is almost almost almost transparent, so the signal reaches all the Earth, but with a different small delay.
Love it. My 8 y/o is stoked to use up all of daddy's printer paper on designs :)
Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
You could ask ChatGPT to find the paper for you! It told me the name of an old videogame I was trying to remember for years.
Success of BJP Muslim candidates showcases the strength of Indian democracy
That sounds a lot like the OP's point to me. They didn't go around telling people to stop, they closed the trail, and people stopped.
I find it really hard to believe that AoE2 "ultras" exist. It's a pretty small community with mainly older players, just like StarCraft. Many people still play SC:BW and SC2, there are still tournaments and hardcore fans that cheer for their favourite players.

> I personally don't think micro, as it exists in StarCraft, is interesting or even worthy. It only made that game harder in ways that were not fun.

That's you're opinion. I think the exact opposite. If those games didn't have the micro opportunities they did, they would have died long ago and would have been forgotten in history like most other RTS games out there.

I find RTS games without micro extremely boring. I
Micro makes it exciting because it's not immediately obvious who will a win a fight. You can choose to gamble and be slightly greedier in your economy and rely on winning a fight that you should lose. It also forces you to constantly choose between where your focus should be. Do you focus on the fight or your economy? And when there are multiple fronts to a fight it gets even crazier. I think those things are core to the RTS gerne.

> Is the AoEII engine similarly as worthy as SC2, like from a technical engineering point of view?

I mean you are comparing games from different eras. But I think AoE2 is extremely worthy from a technical engineering point of view. You have so many ranged units shooting many projectiles, each with it's own collision detection back in '99. It's nothing short of a work of art.
I think their amplitude falls as 1/r, their power falls as 1/r^2. Just a layman but I imagine the amplitude is the relevant part here?
Ah, so the honest answer here is you don't know. Good to know.

Parroting marketing material without applying any critical thinking to it is not sensible. It's always better to back your claims.
Yep. You have to have a product to get in the game and win customers and these are all examples of a killer product. And then you build a business serving a customer around them that - even when your features are cloned - create a sustainable moat.

The wall was cloned, but the wall (ultimately moreso Newsfeed) enabled you to become one of the biggest sites on the internet - which turned out to be really valuable to advertisers. Which in turn, allowed you to invest in features, buy potential competitors and invest in AI research teams that open source models that make you competitive in AI. The sum of those things makes you a $671B company throwing off enormous sums of cash. That turns out to be a pretty sustainable moat for a while - long after your product becomes table stakes.

The problem with thinking that this is impossible in AI is because it ignores all of the other times it’s been done. Facebook was JUST a social network that would “be a fad” and “never take off”. It was “just another website” that “anyone could build”. The difference is they built it. And then they built on it.

Same thing will happen here. And now the question is, will it be one of the current incumbents that crack it or does a newcomer have a shot.
Relevant, and possibly the trigger for this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
One reason I got a debit card is [some sites using] Stripe not supporting anything but Mastercard or Visa.
In college in the 90s, I lived in a run down, shitty house with four other freaks. We did drugs, made weird music, had great parties and jokingly called our house Biosphere 3. Some of us even got brightly colored jumpsuits. It was like living in a cult of the hilarious. Good times.
The government is not tech savvy. Do you think the average engineer is going to want to work for the government when they can work for industry?

I wouldn't ask if they are violating the ADA, but would ask if they are resource starved or even know it's a problem.

I imagine this is the type of thing you might be able to get addressed with e-mail since it is a problem probably best described by ignorance rather than neglect.

The goverment is us.
They reached out to him to give a talk he wasn’t ready to do. He obliges, works to make it happen, and gets blindsided by organizational politics. If he feels the organization and leadership neither respect him personally or his efforts, it’s a perfectly proportionate response.

Not sure how I’d react in his exact situation, but once trust and mutual respect are gone, so am I.
A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL
I am not able to deal with it at all.
Before the Coronavirus lockdowns I have chosen to divert my career from Software to Hardware design and now, when I am at the end of my academic introduction, I keep on getting distracted by the overwhelming world of Chat AI.
I feel like the written word by students has completely lost their meaning in academia, as everyone is using chat for their assignments, so the teachers would rather work with the AI directly than by reading pages of hallucinated sentences submitted by a student.
> sloppy conference planning

FWIW, the quoted thread makes it sound like the actual conference planners were no more than messengers here, so it may be fairer to summarize as ".. over capricious meddling in conference planning" or something like that.
Especially a country with a healthcare system as desolate at the USA…
Pretty sure this is just pasting the link into GPT-4 with browsing summary
I was wrong. The ChatGPT code interpreter is OP
What is it about Rust that attracts so much drama like this? Someone has to do the calculus here. It can't be the sheer number of developers because Rust is still a niche language.

Why does Rust have these kind of shenanigans and attract people that either cause these problems or experience these problems?

The only other language that comes close is the V language, but that's mostly people shitting on the language (for no good reason) and not infighting drama like Rust has.
RadAway
I occasionally imagine what it would be like to wake up after being cryogenically preserved, be told that they'd fixed your <top ten cause of death>, and then being given a list of everything else that was wrong with you that you didn't even know was a thing.
Even when most people don't like something, all that it means is that it's niche.

But when you do have a lot of those people trying it, just to come out disappointed, then you have a communication/publicity failure.
For non integer scaling.
> The professor intentionally taught students incorrect information when they were seeking out resources to help them learn the material.

No, that is not true. That's your narrative.

> Maybe a student spent 2 days studying those incorrect answers. I don't know if there have been studies on this, but I suspect it's much more difficult to unlearn false information one has absorbed than it is to learn the correct information in the first place.

Furthering of your narrative, and appeal to authority even though the authority is lacking.

> In other words, the professor experimented on his students in a way that shows he's more interested in determining whether or not they were "cheating" (by his definition) than he is in helping them learn the material in a substantive way, and assessing whether he has adequately taught them.

Also, narrative building.

> Any student failing the exam because they studied the poisoned material is just a testament to how much he failed as a teacher.

And here is the outcome of your narrative, you've come to the conclusion that students cheating is actually a failure of the teacher - why? If students cheating was the failure of the teacher, why were other students completely capable of learning the material from lecture and supplemental material? Surely, the number of students failing the course would be 100% if the teacher failed to teach.

We know that's not the case, so your premise is bunk from the get go.

Maybe you could make the argument that the teacher is not good at teaching, or poorly taught their students, but then you'd need to find evidence that the other students who did not cheat had to go through alternative methods to learn/do well in the course. Unless you're the student in the classroom, or the teacher roleplaying in the comments here, I don't think you have that evidence.

So I'll make a value judgement here and say that you're trolling by the canonical sense of the phrase.
Musk’s Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people
Freedom isn't free. It's got a hefty fuckin' fee.
It is only sailboats and most of the attacks start when they are sailing so no engine running
I don’t know, humans are very good at killing cetaceans.
Depending on your preferred solution to the Fermi Paradox, you might be able to just skip Step 1.
The point of an exam is that it’s a crude instrument to determine a students mastery of the subject matter. If that is not discernible because some students were able to memorize answers vs. others that actually learned the content what’s, the value of the exam is diminished.
lignite?
Binance will send you 429s if you hit their rate limits. If you continue to do so they'll hit you with a 418 and then blackhole your traffic.
Yes, and I'm grateful for the small courtesy someone took the time to do that.
Neeva was TBTF. Had nothing to do with AI.
played AOE 2 when it was just released, more than 20 years ago. And then 10 years later in 2011, online with real people which was a lot of fun and competitive touch.
Then again, I played the AOE 2 DE 10 years later in 2021, at 4k which was a great refreshment. I would say I got even better at it and had so many incredible achievements and games during that time.

I now see that more DLCs and patches were released after they did Poles and Bohemians, which were the last ones I played. The Poles as a civ were incredibly powerful btw. I felt really thankful for the team to keep supporting and developing the game in these recent years.
It will set out to build a library that contains all the sources that it quotes but that only exist in the multiverse.
You can often find a camera attached to a motion controlled robot arm on the red carpet these days, going back a few years now: https://petapixel.com/2019/02/28/this-robot-shoots-stunning-...

The entertainment new channel E! Is well established in this space. I have to wonder at what point a low cost arm is cheaper than an array of cameras.
And what do you do with your time? Stare at a glowing box all day? Doesn't that put you near the intelligence of a moth?
If you're looking for a download link, this appears to be the least sketchy: https://img1.allbestfonts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hel...
However you need to increase housing and build infrastructure: I wouldn’t call those secondary problems easy to fix. I live in New Zealand where ~30% of our population is people that were not born here (compared to ~15% in the USA). That means NZ need 50% more houses and 50% more of everything else than we would with zero immigrants. I support immigration, but it does cause large issues.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and...
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add better build instructions.

If you just want the jsonptr program, instead of everything in the repo (the Wuffs compiler (written in Go), the Wuffs standard library (written in Wuffs), tests and benchmarks (written in C/C++), etc) then you can use "build-example.sh" instead of "build-all.sh".

./build-example.sh example/jsonptr

For example/jsonptr, that should work "out of the box", with no dependencies required (other than a C++ compiler). For e.g. example/sdl-imageviewer, you'll also need the SDL library.

Alternatively, you could just invoke g++ directly, as described at the very top of the "More details are at [link]" page in the grand-parent comment.

$ git clone https://github.com/google/wuffs.git
$ g++ -O3 -Wall wuffs/example/jsonptr/jsonptr.cc -o my-jsonptr
> Of course, the global maximum — at least for someone who wants to continue to serve that particular market — would be to stop trying to sell these people Chinese food at all

It's entirely possible that those people like bland Chinese food.
If it's undecidable that means it doesn't halt.