skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what exactly you meant, but Black mesa was mighty playable and 100% stable when it was released as full. Maybe stay away from half-working early builds of these kind of games, IMHO its not worth the frustration just because of some nostalgia.

Now if somebody would port first Deux ex into Unreal 5.2 engine that would get me interested (but still, keep your emotions in check and play when its ready, otherwise just a recipe for regrets)
Remember that the "unstable" aspect of alpha isn't that "it's going to crash randomly" but that "you can't rely on a given feature being there in the future".
What example use-cases did you use? Just curious.
We do not negotiate with terrorists!
This sort of RTS sub-genre (of which They Are Billions is the only other example I can think of) probably needs different unit AI than a typical RTS.

In case anyone is not familiar with these games, you are building a base, the map begins unexplored and is populated by monsters which will attack you in waves, so it is a sort of inherently player-vs-environment, very asymmetrical game.

Because the enemies are basically expendable and your units aren’t, your units should… try not to sacrifice themselves so much. They should avoid the fog-of-war areas unless explicitly instructed to go there. Melee units should flee when injured. Ranged units should stay out of melee range. Total War unit AI (where ranged units typically skirmish by default) might be a better starting point than Age of Empires style unit AI.

Although, it is a niche within a niche, so I guess I’ll take what I can get, haha.
I've heard a conspiracy theory that they secretly give you a COVID vaccine while they are installing the chip.
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haha, I just read this... this is Adam. Donkey car is still going strong!.
Folks wanted boomers to get out of the way. Many of us have or will soon. This opens up positions at the top end and starts returning the savings to the general economy.
230 days is not very far in if you're doing the minimum each day, but something simple? ¿Donde esta el gato?
My experience, both writing and coding non-boilerplate so far, has been that this back and forth almost always takes longer than doing the work myself.

There are situations that's not true, namely information retrieval, but I've yet to find it highly practical beyond being a fun experience.
I think I'll be keeping my nukes to defend myself from the next bigger bully (which would allow me to keep my country) rather than waste it on the smaller one (which would give me no advantage and less nukes).

> You are way overestimating human rationality under extreme pressure.

Ironically, pretty sure the people with the power to launch nukes won't feel the same pressure as people suffering from climate change consequences. So.. keep the restless and angry gods content and they won't wage war and spread destruction.
> it's just because it's a handwritten, casual font used in inappropriate situations

It's a handwritten, casual font used in inappropriate situations /and the only available for anything 'fancy' on the Average Computer used by Average Joe/.
Related topic, wiggle stereoscopy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggle_stereoscopy

And there was a lens for this kind of effect, it allowed capturing three images at once [1] [2].

There were also dedicated cameras [3].

> Using its four lenses, four images from slightly different viewing angles were taken simultaneously. With the individual images half the size of the usual 35mm image frames, each 3D photograph taken used the space of 2 full 35mm exposures on the film. So a roll labeled as "36 exposures" would yield 18 3D pictures with four images each.

[1]: https://www.dpreview.com/news/1238704821/this-3d-printed-len...

[2]: https://www.georgemoua.com/store/d9000-fe-3d-stereoscopic-wi...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimslo
Even with vsync it happened on X11 on dedicated GPUs. Plus a number of other buffer management artefacts.

It didn’t help that the drivers for everything were closed course, but even with perfect drivers X11’s design can’t deliver perfect frames.
stylistically, my personal taste is that Comic Sans is exactly the right font to use for serious warning signs like in a kitchen, such as "DON'T TOUCH, handle gets HOT" or something. Anything official looking I have a tendency to ignore as boilerplate, but comic sans seems like a personal friendly message directed at me

if any of the objection is to the precise letter drawings, ok fine, give me a different one, but the overall concept, I'm Comic Sans all the way.
Thanks for the follow up -- it's frustrating to not reach consensus when you think you're right (and yes, I'm prepared to be wrong if the argument is persuasive enough).
True. I learnt Swedish on it. Pretty high score and everything. Landed in Sweden. Couldn't understand a thing.
That...is wayy fewer than I expected for some reason. This instrument punches above its weight when it comes to mindshare amongst musicians. Maybe it's just me
> Consider this python sample and assume it’s automatically being run at logon from the .bashrc of a technical account, such as postgres, to which the root user changes by typing su - postgres

From su man page:
"su is mostly designed for unprivileged users, the recommended
solution for privileged users (e.g., scripts executed by root) is
to use non-set-user-ID command runuser(1) that does not require
authentication and provides separate PAM configuration. If the
PAM session is not required at all then the recommended solution
is to use command setpriv(1)."
How do we identify a specific non-computable number?
Usenet had what were effectively memes. "Make Money Fast" comes to mind.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast>

Kibo: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry>

And elephant jokes.
Math is much much more than counting and fractions. It is an universal language, beyond simple arithmetics. It can't be simpler or harder
Yea. I was being a bit dramatic tbh. Like ik there's a budding developer community in San Jose, CR thanks to VMWare and Brazil has always had a decent technical base!
Usually it's because someone bought a non-Linux computer that came with Nvidia, or they wanted/needed CUDA for some reason, as there's not yet a very good equivalent for AMD (ROCm is not a CUDA equivalent).

It is already quite widely known that Nvidia is not necessarily great for Linux desktops. I know people who bought entirely separate AMD graphics cards just to drive their display even if they still needed the Nvidia GPU for compute.

It's usually possible to get Nvidia displays working, but the experience isn't nearly as good as with AMD.
> Also, XSLT is horrible.

XQuery can do everything XSLT can but with different syntax. XQuery 3 can also handle JSON. It's a clean way to generate well-formed XHTML.
there is already a number of space station replacements in progress, including NASA funded axiom. the intent is that NASA will become a Tennant on a commercial station or two, and be a customer of commercial transport to and from those stations. dragon, starliner, and dream chaser all plan on serving the iss until retirement, as well as private stations well after it's retirement. NASA and ESA don't plan on stopping their LEO work when the iss is retired, they just plan on stopping the development and maintenance of LEO transport and stations.
It's typical for Islands to have a wet side and a dry side. The wet side gets the brunt of the storms and rain carried by prevailing winds. And the dry side is in the rain shadow.

Offhand thought 24 inches in a hot climate doesn't go as far as 24 inches in a temperate one.
0ad is always the first listed package of linux distro repos (in alphabetical order). That might have helped with discoverability
> Target specifically, and it only takes a minor mutation to escape.

1) Not all sections of a virus mutate at the same rate. Some sections of a virus are highly conserved or the virus simply dies. In Covid-19, for example, the spike protein seems to be difficult to change significantly as it provides the primary entry for the virus into cells.

2) mRNA vaccines tell your immune system "target this specific sequence" and can avoid problematic sequences.

Normally, you have no idea what section of the virus your immune system locked onto. Even worse, if your immune system grabs onto something common (EBV pieces causing MS or alpha-gal from a tick bite, for example), it can hose you bad.
N.B: Age of Darkness is an inherently player-vs-environment game (Survival RTS… it is sorta like They are Billions if you’ve played that). So, I think super high action-per-minute PVP style gameplay is not really the goal.
I usually swipe to type (which works 80% of the time) and honestly some times my eyes to catch spelling mistakes like these. Sorry, haha.
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A change to support macOS just barely missed the snap to get in .NET 7 but has been available since early pre-preview builds of .NET 8. Its support is really good in 8 and there will be even a feature to use NativeAOT for 'net8.0-ios' targets meaning you could write components in C# and integrate them into Swift binaries via C bindings (maybe there are better interop options? my knowledge is very limited on this topic).
We are getting:

openai.error.InvalidRequestError: The model: `gpt-4-32k` does not exist

Anyone else seeing this?

It is not listed when retrieving the models via https://api.openai.com/v1/models

But it is listed in their documentation https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4

gpt-4 works, just the 32k context seems to be not working. I don't see any official statement about that and am wondering if anyone else is running into this?
Me too. When I found it during the pandemic, it was like "Wow this game has everything I dreamt about when I was a little kid playing AOE". Capturing buildings and other awesome features!
Sorry but I’m struggling to read with the 20 characters per line formatting on mobile
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Well yeah! Of course people do that because JSON is just text!

It's less common, because JSON is simpler, so the tradeoff point for using a grammar is lower, but it still makes sense in things like shell scripts, and other cases where the equivalent of `print(obj)` (or `eval(totally_not_rce)`, but let's pretend that's not available anyway) doesn't happen to produce (or consume) valid JSON by coincidence.

# Using:
grep -oP '(?<="bar": ")[^"]+' foo.json
# and
printf("{\"count\": %i, \"type\": \"%s\"}\n",nfoo,tfoo);

is a general-purpose solution that can be adapted to pretty much any text-based format just by looking at examples, without having to cross-reference with a external specification (that the thing you're feeding input to or pulling output from may not even correctly implement anyway), so obviously people do that!

See also various discussions under the heading "Worse is Better". Whether it's the right thing or the wrong thing, it very clearly is a thing.
I think you misunderstand whas democracy is. You probably think it is about being able to vote something you like, and because there are people with differing opinions you won't get a good outcome — or something among those lines.

This is not what democracy is. Democracy is mainly about one thing: Being able to remove people from office you dislike.

As soon as you get a dictator, benevolent or not, you cease the power to remove them, their heirs or sucessors from office without civil war and/or revolution.

This is why dictatorships will always have a sense of insecurity, because on top of not being able to rely on a fair system of law, you are not even able to rely on the character of the dictatorship. Even a single dictator might change their style drastically throughout their career etc.

So if you wish for that, you probably didn't read a lot of history.
I spent a very fun holiday break methodically working through these with my nephew and documenting how far we could get them to fly. Big takeaway is that simpler is better and the classics are classic for a reason!
the original experiment is pictured here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

what makes it possible to do in a desktop lab course combination of a large number of different innovations. The first is that we know how to make extremely stiff/rigid/strong/flat/thermally stable tables (https://www.thorlabs.com/navigation.cfm?guide_id=41) which can optionally be placed on active vibration-cancelling struts (https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=10...). The second is using cage systems for mounting things with everything lined up parallel and centered (https://www.thorlabs.com/navigation.cfm?guide_id=2255). The third is precise kinematic mounts which make real-time angle tuning a lot easier/more reliable (https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=KM100#ad...). The fourth is now we have powerful lasers and LEDs that make generating lots of light all pointing in the right direection easier (https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=CPS532-C...). The fifth is that high quality standardized optical parts (mirrors, lenses, etc) are easily available from a wide range of vendors (https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=10...).

There are a number of other innovations in material science.
but I'd recommend taking a look at Thorlab's Michelson-Morley educational kit. For $3K you get basically everything you need to carry out the experiment: https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=EDU-MINT... plus a nice manual https://www.thorlabs.com/drawings/5d9e11209b7d4536-820A3379-... that walks you through physical setup and theory behind the experiment (which among other things helped lead to special relativity).

if you want more like this, see https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=11... which is a hardware kit that accompanies an actual optical lab class. The course is online: https://www.thorlabs.com/drawings/5d9e11209b7d4536-820A3379-... and gives a fairly straightforward introduction to optics. With this, you can easily build a microscope from components or any number of other nifty optical systems.

Non-optics people (IE, programmers, etc) with enough time and money can learn how to do real-world optical experiments in their garage (this applies to astronomy too). For example after a significant time/money investment, have started building my own microscopes which use real-time object detection to track tardigrades to do behavior analysis (lest anybody feel imposter syndrome, trust me it took a ton of time and money and even then I'm not quite at the level of a good grad student).

It's not my favorite but you can also read https://www.amazon.com/Perfectionists-Precision-Engineers-Cr...

If you want to truly go down the rabbit hole, https://pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/15_Mfrs_Publications/M...
That is great. Thanks for sharing.
While it may not be the _best_ this book is available from the author online.

Elaine Rich's textbook "Automata, Computability and Complexity: Theory & Applications" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ear/cs341/automatabook/index.html

Useful because it covers non-deterministic Turing Machines complexity classes like BPP,ZPP,RP,etc.. that you would run into Monte Carlo methods etc. As the only Non-deterministic Turing machine most people have been introduced to is the maximally lucky guesser from NP's definition it can help with practical solutions.

Unfortunately it doesn't have bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) which would help set expectations for quantum supremacy.
Hey, I helped to write the original article, and I also work at AWS.

I'm happy to let you know that PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/postgresq...). I hope you get a chance to test, I'm very eager to here any and all feedback about PostgreSQL 16.
The point isn't to save time or energy - the point psychological displacement.

Whether we want to admit it or not, not everyone has done the work to handle critique. Some people rely on ChatGPT as a digital scapegoat[1]. Rather than subject their own abilities and decisions to critique, they can launder them through ChatGPT and the psychological distance it affords, allows them to avoid feelings of anxiety - they can blame any negative response on ChatGPT.

Never under estimate the amount of time an energy people will spend on coping mechanisms.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201312...
There's a real hobby around replica (ok, fake) designer watches. It's not always about ego and trying to present something you're not - though a lot of people use it for that. The real interest a lot of people have around it is the ~art~ of replicating something to the extreme detail that a lot of these manufacturers do. There are countless extensive posts of people reviewing the same watch from different manufacturers under microscopes and critiquing the build, quality, and accuracy to real watches.

And to be honest, I like them a lot too because they're very fashionable and look great and are iconic. But I also don't want to spend $12k+ on a watch. And also in honesty, I always present it as a replica when asked about it and usually provide the above context where appropriate.

I have no issue supporting replica manufacturers because they always represent their merchandise as replicas, and I also have no respect for intellectual property and the ridiculous practices of legitimate manufacturers.

All this to say (admittedly defensively) that Monero is used often in buying replica watches.

A friend of mine has also used it to buy drugs online (which was sent to labs for testing before using).
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>LLM has a good memory. LLM is told (or can infer through relevant information like keywords: "diamond axe") that it is in a minecraft setting. It then looks up a compressed version of a player's guide that was part of its training data. It then uses that data to execute goals.

What about any of what you've just said screams parrot to you ?

I mean here is how the man who coined the term describes it.

A "stochastic parrot", according to Bender, is an entity "for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms … according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning."

So..what exactly from what you've just stated implies the above meaning ?
Please don't tell me we're having a CopperheadOS repeat. Not a lot of info is provided, so it's got me slightly worried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopperheadOS#License_change_an...
It's the default browser for many people and also the browser with the most quirks.
https://ally.com/
thank you for sharing, the few i've had time to watch were very entertaining. would you have time to share anything else in the same area, broadly
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There are efforts to ensure that important workloads like ASP.NET Core work with it well. Due to AOT nature it's often not possible to make it require just a build argument switch, but it is still fairly easy nonetheless, in 90% of situations having to do with switching from reflection to source generation (like in the case of System.Text.Json) or solving statically not-analyzable patters of reflection (AOT supports reflection, just not emitting new code in runtime since there's no JIT!).

Well-written libraries that do not use reflection to generate new code in runtime do not require any changes and "just work". A lot of new code shipped is now written with Native AOT in mind to be compatible (with some exceptions, looking at you, SemanticKernel).
I have a 1400+ day streak in Russian. I can only understand the odd word or two when I listen to a native speaker.
I wonder if they've tested that one against conventional designs. Depending on how well you compress the ball, it might well be very competitive for distance.
Seems strange UK electricity price is still expensive.
> It doesn't make sense that every time I want to execute code inside an AWS Lambda function, I have to understand that it needs to be bundled with tree-shaken dependencies, uploaded as a zip file to S3 and deployed through Terraform. Or that in order to be able to publish a message to SNS, my IAM policy must have a statement that allows the sns:Publish action on the topic's ARN. And does every developer need to understand what ARNs are at all?

The Terraform AWS provider is a very thin abstraction. If your needs are not too specific, there are probably a few higher level abstractions out there that you can use. This is one of the main reasons PaaS are so popular.
Win10, desktop, USB Bluetooth: audio not switching correctly when connecting / disconnecting headphones. Now appears to be fixed by some update. Digging through audio settings to find controls of particular audio interfaces is also fun.

HP Spectre x360 laptop (2020), factory-installed Win10: audio just dies sometimes. The Realtek's control panel (also factory-installed) periodically crashes. Funnily, booting a Linux live from a flash drive gave audio that worked without said problems. The laptop was later replaced with an updated one, when its graphics hardware visibly failed. The replacement did not have the audio problem (IDK if it was a different audio chip revision, firmware, or driver), but the Realtek control panel was still unstable.

(Visually Win10 has at least three UI toolkits that can barely agree on colors, and cannot agree on fonts or the shape of controls. Under X, I have all GTK2, GTK3, Qt5, Qt6 programs use the same fonts and a common theme, with controls, if not exactly uniform, at least having common colors, shapes, and sizes.)
Like others have said, this would be less of a problem if Tesla relied on LIDAR like others. Tesla uniquely has this problem that's unsolveable because it's relying on cameras only.
He's not unethical, just lazy. He should make better tests, and update them every term.

He doesn't need to frame the questions the same way each year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829283

Mozilla's primary sources of revenue are for setting the default search engine. $500 Million.
I wonder if something like the "while True:learn()" game would allow to iterate robots rapidly...
A violent uncontrolled stop like that would be hard to get your bearings for the next burst of acceleration. Also a continuous acceleration along a curve is likely going to be faster regardless.