skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valve didn’t receive a cease and desist. (edit: Well, they did, but from this post's author, Valve initiated the conversation, not Nintendo)

> In this case, none of this process was followed. To the best of my understanding, this is what happened:

> 1. Valve legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask "hey, what do you think about Dolphin?"

> 2. Nintendo replied to Valve "we think it's bad and also that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions" (note: nothing about violating copyright itself). Also "please take it down".

> 3. Valve legal takes it down and forwards NoA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address.

edit: I think their note isn't exactly accurate either. As far as I know, the anti-circumvention provisions are a part of DMCA and copyright as a whole. Though, this does not sound like it was a proactive decision by Nintendo, so I am doubtful they have plans to sue the organization behind Dolphin's emulator.

edit 2: Though, the response back to Valve, however it may have occurred, was the following

> Because the Dolphin emulator violates Nintendo’s intellectual property rights, including but not limited to its rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)’s Anti-Circumvention and AntiTrafficking provisions, 17 U.S.C. § 1201, we provide this notice to you of your obligation to remove the offering of the Dolphin emulator from the Steam store
Notably, strategic air power (i.e. mass civilian bombing) is likely rather ineffective [1]. That makes both the nuclear bombs and the firebombings horrible tragedies.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
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Jiggawatts’ second rule: “Unless an opinion on LLM technology includes the specific phrase ‘GPT 4’, it can be dismissed.”

The author tried older, thoroughly outdated models, and has decided to publicly state an opinion without bothering to check if it’s still valid or not.

Ironically confirming that humans are just as susceptible to writing false statements as Chat AIs.

Remember boys and girls: self driving cars don’t need to be perfect, just better than humans.
The thing here is that Dolphin might be breaking the law by having the Wii decryption key in its source code, the link talks about it.
I see now that I was wrong.
Sorry about that.
I went by the Google summary that listed it as "current".
It appears 2018 was the last release.
It does appear on the Oracle page for it that they are still
selling licenses. Which this being Oracle I find plausible.
Or the page is misleading, with this being Oracle I find plausible.
Yeah, so an employee of ZeroFox thinks an employee of DarkOwl may be able to be encouraged to say or do something that could justify the cost of ZeroFox's government contract this month.

The communications from the ZeroFox schlub to the DarkOwl narc give the DarkOwl narc the idea that the ZeroFox schlub could be the trailhead to an increased 2024 budget.

And so on.

Cue Keystone Cops clip.
Is there anything special about it? Or is the actual switching just done by a beefy IGBT?
> You're ignoring the actual comment and replying to the term "American values" in isolation with a response you've probably given many times before.

It is fair to respond to an isolated point within an argument. If an argument contains a point that cannot withstand scrutiny, then the argument is unsound.

Furthermore, you should be ashamed of yourself for saying "with a response you've probably given many times before."

Such an accusation is easily verifiable if it were true. To make such a claim without even looking is immature and disrespectful.
> You can’t go back and retroactively show your disapproval over something almost 10 years later and say “hey that shouldn’t have happened!”.

Of course you can; it happens all the time. See the GOP's recent dismantling of Roe v. Wade as an unfortunate recent example.

Crimea's ownership is disputed within the international community and its ultimate disposition is far from settled.
> very, very difficult to predict what we might be doing with them in a millenium or two

Sure. But why that? I’m not debating that some people wouldn’t obsess over, I don’t know, their personal lineages or old military battles. But I can’t see devoting most resources backwards versus probing forward for opportunity.
I would go so far as to guess that the entire reason the piece exists is to be a commentary on the arbitrariness of important art, and that the real art intended was creating a situation where someone who isn’t an insider gets to decide what’s important.
Those examples are both using...the GPU. No wonder you can make websites fast if you offload everything to a separate processing unit. Which unironically is one reason why people are pushing for WASM and GPU rendering for canvas as an application platform.
The bumpkins are way ahead of whatever you think you’re suggesting, despite whatever you’re unintentionally reinforcing about the stereotype.
Nitpicking:

The CGA 8x8 font had a number of "foreign" (non-ascii) characters that could be displayed in 640x200 or 320x200 text modes. All (?) European though.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viler-int10h/CGA-font-comp...

From IBM's technical manual:

* 16 special characters for game support
* 15 characters for word-processing editing support
* 96 characters for the standard ASCII graphics set
* 48 characters for foreign-language support
* 48 characters for business block-graphics support (for the drawing of charts, boxes, and tables using single and double lines)
* 16 selected Greek characters
* 15 selected scientific-notation characters

(https://minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Color%20Graph...)

...although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Internationaliza... reaches the conclusion that it only e.g. English, Germany and Swedish are fully supported due the lack of upper-case accented latin characters. Huh, TIL.
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Do you use Paypal for paying for things in a supermarket?

You can transfer USDC to anywhere you need to spend it. I use it all the time for transferring between my Australian and USA bank accounts.

You said you were looking for a SWIFT replacement, this is it.
There are still bugs for several games, you cannot play in portable mode and you cannot play online unless you use a custom network used only by emulator users with a specific build.
try khan academy first?
Well said. I couldn’t even finish the video, living in such a small space must be horrible.
Two ideas.

Switch out the backend, there are open source alternatives, and the results could be "good enough".

Get a list of local sponsors, offer them 1k ad placements for X dollars/euros/etc... , and inject them into your prompts.

As it is a joke site, I don't believe people will mind if the chat has ads, especially if you mention somewhere that it's financially hard to keep the site up.
That is fine and I would not have expected anything else.
No matter the topic for life in general and IT some people
like one thing and other people prefer other choices.

Is it not great that we have options to suit different people?

I wish we had far more options mysef.
Actual analysis seems to be at https://blog.talosintelligence.com/mercenary-intellexa-preda...
Link to the study?

Southern culture is more delineated at its class lines. I totally agree this costs folks at the lower rungs. But once you are stable, a Southern accent wins hearts and minds across the country and abroad. (Being able to preserve your idiosyncrasies through the ladder is a signal itself.)
I use Syncthing, but how prone is it to data loss of any kind? Bitrot?
The Hercules card was the first widely popular non-IBM standard for the IBM PC. It got as much mainstream software support as IBM's own CGA or EGA (and far more than Plantronics, or IBM's PGC). Business software like Lotus and Harvard Graphics, and games like Microsoft Flight Simulator and SimCity, support Hercules. (Flight Simulator's support for Hercules singlehandedly turned many 1980s PCs into gaming machines.)

The ultimate proof of the Hercules standard's power is that everyone else cloned it, whether in discrete video cards or in motherboards with integrated video. I guess this video is evidence that the Hercules standard is so simple that someone today can implement it at home. I suppose that's why Hercules, the company, couldn't maintain its market lead after the EGA era; the same thing happened to Hayes modems.
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It's not anywhere I lived, not even close.

Now I have 25 days per year with up to 40 is the max I've seen for places with a lot of overtime.

Mid twenties to early thirties is the average vacation days per year people in the EU get. The rest are fringe outliers.
> "Might is right" is extremely bad principle for doing politics. It is actually an absence of principles at all.

I mean, it's sort of true, but it's very weird to (as GP did) espouse might-makes-right as a determinant of moral ownership and then turn around and say "Russia owns Crimea" when there is literally a war happening in Ukraine right now and the Western war machine is straining at its leash to utterly annihilate the Russian presence in what it considers Ukrainian territory, held back only by Russia's semi-credible threat of nuclear escalation.
i frequently see him post on Quora--he appears as a pompous, abrasive and highly anti-social individual who acts like a gatekeeper to knowledge. He grudges the readers their knowledge by making it extremely boring and difficult to break into. Many 'authors' are like that. Which is feels like a conspiracy.
> it's worth trying other doctors

In much of the US finding a PCP who is accepting new patients is hard. And the ones that are accepting new patients are unlikely to be one of the good noes.
What alternative ad platforms have you looked at? E.g. does AdForm allow using with llm apps?
Not surprising, Americans from outside coastal states are being walked over all the time and when they inevitably rebel are called despicable human beings. If there was genuine economic opportunity and cultural pluralism, there would be less immature culture wars from the other side as well. Has to start with making sure someone from or even in Alabama can also get a software job and drive a Tesla without having to change how they were brought up (in non pathological cases, there are always outliers that prove the rule)
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It's a somewhat common trope in TV and Cinema (Independance Day comes to mind, as well as any horror movie taking place near the south, The Hills Have Eyes and Texas Chainsaw Massacre for example) to give characters that are shown as stupid/misadapted a Southern accent.
Ironically Larry the Cable Guy's accent is itself affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy#Stand-up_c...
this sounds like better than insert randomly advertisment from internet. advertisements from local business are more friendly and familiar.
Sure, but for most games, especially single player ones, which are usually what Nintendo exclusives are mainly, it works fine. I'm not sure why I'd want to play in portable mode at all, as opposed to docked mode. I am on an emulator after all, it shouldn't make a difference.
Tell users that in order to use your service they have to give you their API key.
What, so the grid is indestructible but organising diesel for buses is an impossible task? That isn't realistic at all.

Wikipedia tells me that something like 250 to 1,000 people died in the Texas power outage which was basically the worst conditions the state has ever seen. Assuming that the at-risk population was 100x that we're still talking numbers that can be managed in an emergency fashion a lot more cheaply than raising power prices by 33% across the board which seems to roughly be the gap from Texas to California.

Raising power prices 33% will also kill people, they won't be able to heat their homes every year. I know people who have that problem right now, it is horrible. Even raising prices by ~10% to go from Texas to US national average will probably kill people. Someone will have to make hard choices between eating and heating if the prices go up 10% in real terms. Cheap power saves lives.
> This is the silliness I'm talking about. Nobody's going to go rip X support out of toolkits.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5004
A lot of coastal states speak with Southern accents.
I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in.
What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration. If you watch footage from the mid 20th century, especially news reporters interviewing the public, the public and the reporters sound very different and no one sounds like either of them anymore
and somewhat ironically the answer is trivial. yes. just as if we were to start building nukes and irradiated the whole surface and most of the atmosphere too. could it happen? sure. it takes one powerful rouge state. how likely it is? unlikely.

now superitelligence is tens of orders of magnitude more complex than this simple rouge-geocidal-state case, but the math is the same. could it happen somehow? yes. how likely it is? well, that's the real question.

... and it seems Elizier thinks it's too likely. and in a sense he's right to act as the most doomy-gloomy person (because he thinks this directly helps decrease this likelihood). and it makes sense, by forcing the debate as much as possible it gives some chance to sufficient coordination between stakeholders to take this hazard somewhat seriously.
Interesting q. It's been a while since I last saw the film.

But I saw Katya as a distant, hidden ideal for Ivan. In terms of her reflection on him being hidden from his consciousness.

She's far more idealistic in terms of silent goodness / valuing mindset. This is like the Stanislav Kurilov mindset. Calm, but knowing deeply that things like repression and conscription for short-sighted power goals are not ultimately acceptable.

Refined in character, nearly angelic, but how? And what does it mean? This is Ivan's unconscious puzzle.

To her, he seems to ground her. She understands him almost as a pet, so this perhaps explains a bit. But in this situation she can't yet express to him fully what the above implies for him. Her deeper consciousness is not available to him.

IMO this is where we got a lot of the emergent criminality in the 90s chaos (beyond what existed already), this disconnect. Those who can make values conscious but who will not force the message, formed the moralistic vitality of change. And those who will take action but who do not naturally tend to values form the vitality of force seeking direction. This contributes to broad chaos toward a structural vacuum. Something must be done in the idea space in order to propagate the values further. A very difficult problem for most of humanity at this point in time.

Just some thoughts though. Hope I understood some of what you were getting at. Please share your own thoughts if you would like.
I suppose considering your family history or having your DNA analyzed is one way. But the more direct way is to consider your own medical history. Chronic diseases may coincide with risk for other ailments and you get regular checkups for those. If you had a heart attack, you have a yearly visit with a cardiologist. Etc.
> (1) if you would have gone into the room and (2) what the dreamlike sequences with Stalker’s son meant

(3) did the stalker / Tarkovski just bring you to the room
I’m from Texas but you would never know it in normal conversation. But it will come out when speaking with relatives. It’s like a dial that you can turn up and down at will, but my normal state is to have it turned off entirely. Except for y’all. That one gets used at work
> A half-lifetime of experiencing and observing modern medicine, in good faith, has taught me that participating in the medical system while not in need of emergency care is risking one's health and life.

This is rather hyperbolic. And furthermore, your clearly don't have chronic but non-emergency conditions which require regular care if you care to have a reasonable life (3 going on 4 for me).
Ten years ago is a long time when it comes to camera tech.

I'm very sensitive to lag to the point where I couldn't play Smash Bros on a friend's TV that he insisted was fine. I'm not sure what the actual numbers are but the EVF latency is for all practical purposes imperceptible, and the cameras can shoot much faster bursts to boot.

Plus, people tend to change their expressions when a shutter/mirror is clacking away and mirrorless cameras can be silent.
Simple: there's no softmod for my Switch and I don't want to risk a hardware mod. I can't even copy the games I own to my PC.
Here's where things get slightly creepy. I addressed the concept of "self" in a couple other walls of text over the past few days and, sure enough, I get this thread on my front page.

In short, do we even know where that goalpost is? The "self" is kind of a linguistic phantom: we talk about it as if we know what it is, we even sometimes attribute "selfhood" to non-human animals, inanimate objects with complex behavior, the words of a long-dead author - yet I still don't know of a technology that lets you experience anyone else's "self" but your own. Maybe with Neuralink-type brain-to-brain stuff we could convince ourselves we are experiencing another person's perceptions - but how can we ever be certain that we are experiencing their perception of selfhood in the same way that they do?

In the present day, the related question of how consciousness (with all its bells and whistles, including qualia and selfhood) arises from brain activity is only seriously engaged with by some fringe theorists, with predictably unsatisfactory results; while mainstream authors just handwave the whole thing away. Thinkers fundamental to our cultural tradition, like Plato and Descartes, pondered these matters in two completely different ages, and came to the same conclusion that this is somehow beyond the knowable, and indeed if you poke too much at it you end up having to reconstruct your cognition from first principles.

This is why I posit the "school of hard knocks" theory to the "hard problem of consciousness": for a thing to have a self, it has to have to fend for itself. It's how we've producing "selves" for millenia without being able to model them. But this still has very low explanatory power (beyond giving someone a hard knock when they ask a hard question) so I'm not really planning to make any YouTube videos about it.

Personally, I'm partial to Julian Jaynes' yarn, but it's still an outside view - a history of the cultural concept of consciousness, but still not of consciousness itself. One interesting thing that one may derive from it is that the ancient pagan gods were "China brain" consciousnesses running as background processes on the brains of entire nations, and the founding fathers of monotheistic religions perpetuated the greatest "white hat" hacks in history. (Also the JavaScript ecosystem may be conscious in a "China brain" sense, and laughing at us.)

I suspect that, if "the self" is not just a word, some neural network may end up containing an accidental model of "selfhood" itself, and not just of the usage of the world "self", and we would still be incapable of knowing such a model when we see it.

If you have any ideas about how you would even model a thing that contains all your perceptions, and is not observable from the outside, I'm eager to hear them. Maybe you see something I don't.
It's not debatable that the adderall shortage negatively impacted productivity. It's a productivity enhancer, any shortage is a loss in productivity. It still would even if society was perfect.

The amount it did to productivity as a whole is debatable and I wouldn't even care to debate it--who cares?

If it was your job to make an argument in favor of increasing production limits next time this happens you could tailor data showing a bigger impact anyways.
Same for me, but even more than that I can’t remember ever speaking to someone with a southern accent outside of work.
I'm sure that's probably true of Boston accents as well?
"If this were to be the case, this remarkable convergence of sleep behaviors in vertebrates and cephalopods points to the evolution of complex sleep in cognitively complex organisms with elaborate neural architectures."

The last common ancestor of vertebrates and cephalopods is a flatworm 750 million years ago. So this is proposing that nightmares, and dreams, and even sleep(?) are examples of convergent evolution. Which gets weirder the more I think about it.
MVG has a good summary - according to him the takedown was probably due to a decryption key being found in the source code. That weakens significantly the argument that this was a clean-room effort, which is really unfortunate.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hsQtv5IvrD8&feature=share7
Some people aren't worth it. Some people are just miserable. Not depressed, just miserable. Some people are insecure, vindictive, manipulative, querulous, disagreeable. Having a relationship with them will be as much as 100x more difficult than another person. This is the hard lesson I learned after 4 years in a thoroughly depleting relationship where I tried everything to make it work. When I look at my friends in their 40s, some have great partners and some don't, and the ones that don't have a truly execrable life despite good health, jobs, income, cars, holidays etc. Choosing a good partner matters more than almost anything else.

Don't get me wrong - I am not advocating we put all the bad partners in a camp somewhere. They are fundamentally in a state of suffering, and benefit from help and support. But the way to deliver that support is not by being in a romantic relationship with them.

If you are good partner material, consider the following asymmetry: A good partner can be in a relationship with a poor partner, but two poor partners will almost never be in a relationship together. This means that being a good partner increases your chance of ending up with a poor partner.
None at all? Then how did portal end up on my switch?
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