skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duke3D did have mouselook, yet it wasn't the default. The earliest mainstream FPS I can recall defaulting to mouselook was Future Shock (1995). Funny enough Quake also buried mouselook behind a binding/command you had to assign yourself.

Regardless, I agree SS1 was a classic. Yet even with the fan patches and modern controls it did so many things and was so hard I bounced off. Wish I had tried some of the skill adjustments but my pride got in the way. The reboot looks like a good chance to retry. After Deus Ex this genre has become my favorite.
So, I've been through the 26th grade. More time in school after high school than before. And I didn't finish until I was 41. In the middle (if you're counting) there were 7 years of training in a different career, a different set of oral boards (passed, btw), and a whopping total of 3 years in the work force where I was really studying for admission into grades 23-26 (aka residency).

If expertise is learning all the ways to fail, I must surely be an expert in learning how to learn. I even did a survey of my medical school classmates on the subject and found some trends. I then proceeded to ignore many of those trends myself, and reaped the consequences. Finally, I implemented what I was supposed to from the beginning, and ... you know what? It fucking works.

Do not take a laptop to class. Take handwritten notes. Take your notes in a bound volume with a few pages at the front for a table of contents (1). Fill in the table of contents later. That will force you to re-engage with your notes and figure out what it was you meant to write, and boil it down to something very pithy in the ToC.

I told my kids what to do. I told them I would buy all the notebooks they wanted. I would keep them. They should never throw them away. They are now crushing it. My daughter has a 3.9 in a top school. My son hasn't finished high school and he ran out of math classes in the local community college (2).

I still journal. It's not really notes now, but I sit down at least a few times a week and write down the things that happened each day. Each and every day is documented. For a number of reasons. First, for my own letting go. Second, for remembering. Third, as memoranda for the record. It's quite hard to plagiarize page 42 of 256 pages when all the other pages are filled in too. (3)

(1) I strongly favor Leuchtturm1917 A5. Better papers, slightly wider, better ToC, better bookmark ribbons. I prefer dots or grid.

(2) the Silicon Valley community colleges have pretty solid math. There's a story that Hewlett Packard actually stocked de Anza's math department with HP engineers at one point because they projected they wouldn't be able to fill their hiring requirements without growing their own. Talk about a build-vs-buy decision!

(3) For journaling, I've switched to larger A4+ because I'm just writing longhand and, especially as a lefty, I find the binding (any binding) to be mildly frustrating.
I suspect we will see more restrictions on drones because of the threat level. Ukraine and Russia are in a war of drones. Ukraine is using up about 10,000 drones a month. Someone is attacking Moscow with drones. Unclear if it's Ukraine or some internal anti-Putin movement.

Anything beyond line of sight or over 400ft anywhere near controlled airspace probably needs to have ADSB to avoid being targeted by air or drone defenses. Even balloons. ADSB is now down to 26 grams.[1]

Still priced over $2000, but expect that to come down.

[1] https://uavionix.com/products/ping2020/
Does it create affiliate links? That'd be genius and absolutely pathetic at the same time. Either way I wouldn't be surprised.
regulating AI is word salad. what is the premise? making function approximation illegal if epsilon too small?
ok - your server your rules.
UK/AU here. It used to be different, but the increasing militarisation of police in both the UK and Australia is apparent.

The UK police are still unarmed, with armed response units that respond to any situation involving (or potentially involving) guns. Australian police are armed, and there's definitely a shift in attitude from that (though Aussies are generally have a more authoritarian outlook than Brits, so it may just be that).

The UK is fast turning into a fascist state [0] and the police there are being given new powers to deal with protests [1]. Australian police are always pleading for more powers, and already have more then they need (imho).

I was explaining to an American recently about Peelian Principles, and the idea that the police are just normal citizens who are employed to deal with crime and order blew his mind. I think the Peel attitude still resonates with both UK and Aus citizens, but I'm not so sure it's still the guiding principle of either police force.

[0] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/05/the-twilight...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Order_Act_2023
This is why Apple has a developer fee and taxes a cut from app revenues to make it safer for users
i am also interested :)
what are the chances teddit is stealing our data?
If you want to read up on negative side effects, "TMS ruined my life" will get you stories. TMS isn't tDCS, but it's similar enough to at least give you pause. Personally I had TMS for anxiety and depression and it worked for me, but that's just as anecdotal as a bad story. I don't think we are at a point with understanding the brain to really understand what we're doing, other than it seems to work, most of the time.
Vox's video of Coltrane's changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w

Love it all.
Was that Epic systems? I worked there ages ago and had the same sentiment about their campus - very cool looking but terrible culture.
I do use Dark Reader. That's a hell of a bug. I'll assume it was that until proven otherwise.
How about "literati" instead of "tech-savvy"?
Hey if you’re going to lie to people, then prepare to be called out about it. Lying for rhetorical effect is still lying. Their intent is obvious in the rest of the post where their disdain for IoT things is clear. We don’t need to see in to the mind’s eye to know this - the balance of probabilities is enough for me.

The other option is for me to assume that the guy is unintelligent and incapable - which do you think that they’d prefer to be characterised as?
How easy is it to form and operate your own airforce with a fleet of fast fixed wing UAVs, rotorcrafts and balloons with surveillance sensors and maybe rudemtry arms (model rockets with limited guiding, small arms..)?

Are there airforce based mercenaries who charge for intelligence and others ops and provide service to field armies and other mercs?
What about a tube up your ass? Just kidding... unless?
> yt-fts search "love" --channel "Lex Fridman" | grep "love" | wc -l

> 7060
This is almost creepy: my journey into John Coltrane followed exactly the path you suggest.

I'd also add, after "Ballads", another very gentle recording: "My Favourite Things".
I’ve used it off and on since 2005 and /b/ has always been bad, while the tech and music boards have been pretty good.
> Are they faster more productive ways though?

I have ADHD, and I couldn't function without my notes.
Computational linguist Bob Carpenter says LLMs are intelligent. Here’s why
No, that's not right at all. Proof of impossibility does exist in logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_impossibility

It's also demonstrable that we have other physical ideas such as FTL travel that are indicated to be impossible by current theories of physics. If we didn't have the math saying otherwise, it would be an open question of whether we can travel faster than light; but we have pretty solid math math saying we cannot.

And what we're talking about is logical in nature. Is it possible to create artificial intelligence? Unarguably yes. Is it possible for human-level intelligence to exist? Unarguably yes. Therefore, how is it reasonable to say that creating human-level artificial intelligence should be assumed impossible until proven? Just because we don't have the technology for it yet doesn't mean we should assume it's impossible. Logically, it follows from the first two assertions that it is physically possible to create artificial human-like intelligence.

Once again, and I don't know if I've said it in this thread directly but I've had to post it over and over again, nobody is claiming that the latest AI developments represent an existential threat. That's a complete mischaracterization of the debate and reeks of bad-faith argument but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you've misunderstood.

In fact, that statement conflates two things into one nonsense argument. What's scary about current AI is how quickly it is moving, indicating a short timeline to (future) dangerous AGI. Also, it is possible that future AGI will be dangerous. These are two separate, rather simple assertions. If you disagree with either, that's fair, but you have to address them separately.
I would definitely 100% join Apollit if that happened. but only if they allowed 3rd party clients.
This kinda assumes that people won't leave in mass. Digg migration took like 60 days.

I think especially in a forum where people tend to be semi anon. This isn't staking out a facebook name and keeping up with highschool friends. I know a few user names by sight on reddit but I really don't care if I hear from them again and I don't expect they care about me.

Makes leaving to anywhere that can put together a decent UGC interface pretty simple. It just feels like other than content, which reddit doesn't actually post, there's not much in the way of network affect.
Drawing a copy of a copyrighted picture from memory, and then distributing that copy, would certainly normally be copyright infringement. (A logo may not be enough of a creative work to be copyrightable, but I assume that's not what you're getting at).
Is a bar in a song not "short"?

Try putting one of those in your book and not getting sued for copyright.
Steam Announces EOL Date for Windows 7 and 8
...Boeing....
And apparently people will leap to their defence when you point it out. What a funny old world we live in!
You can actually go up to 120VDC (with no ripple) before you’re out of ELV - which I always find surprising. You’re probably thinking of the A/C limit which is 50V RMS.
Here's what I think: https://burakku.com/blog/secrets-rugpull/
When I went skydiving, my body did it, and I was somewhere else at the time. I saw, and tried to talk myself through it, but body did what body did (it was a solo dive and I landed fine). I had no experience, no fear or joy or anything about it. I just watched myself do it. The instructor jumped with me, and was nearby giving hand signals like "check altitude", and I would indeed turn my head towards the altimeter, but to save my life I couldn't tell you what it said.

I talked to a paratrooper years later, and he said some people just do that. They disassociate completely from the experience. It's probably not a good thing, since you're basically in shock, doing the work to stay alive and not really a "team player". but it is what it is.
ecosystem size and less friction for non-free software.
> "seeing something and then drawing it" is in general not copyright infringement.

It's seeing something, drawing it, and then distributing that drawing which is infringement. Bonus points for the distribution being a sale.
Try publishing Harry Potter but changing all the proper nouns and use synonyms for all the adjectives.

It's gonna be copyright infringement.

You can even cut a few scenes and make up a few scenes entirely, too. You're still getting busted.
I do agree with you, but honestly I don't even think that's the biggest problem with these arguments.

I'm just sitting here wondering why it is even relevant whether the "AI" is "copying", "learning", "thinking", or whatever, why is any of that important? Does AI have human rights? Well, perhaps in a couple hundred years, if humanity manages not to self-extinguish by then.

It's not like you can sue AI if you think it plagiarized your work, no. Obviously not, so why the hell are we discussing that? "AI" is just a piece of software, a tool, it doesn't matter what it's doing, what matters is what the user is doing, the fact of the matter is that these multi-billionaire corporations are taking everyone's honest work, putting it into a computer, and selling the output. They didn't do any "learning", they just used your data and made money out of it, it isn't a stretch to say they simply sold your work.

EDIT: Perhaps one day the day AI will have human rights, make its own money, and pay bills. That will be the day any of this nonsensical discussion will be anything but useless.
A good friend for 25 years told me about a LAPD deputy gang he partied with. Each member wore metals of honor made from the brass bases of shotgun shells. They wore one metal for each person they had killed in the line-of-duty. This is hearsay and should be treated with great mistrust, but, personally, I have great trust in this friend.
Because we’ve allowed it to be an investment—there’s no take-backs now. Entire swaths of the population (including Joe Homeowner) have built their financial picture around this model at this point. To unwind it now would eliminate the greedy investors, but with vast collateral damage of the nest eggs of millions of people who have borrowed against home equity based on a valuation with rental potential priced in.

I’m not saying this is a good thing, but we can’t just wave a wand and make housing-as-investment go away without creating real hardship for people (whose lives we are trying to improve with these measures, running counter to the goal).
That's one of those "if you have to ask" type of questions
The median reddit post is dire!
A Deep Dive into Adama (As a Platform as a Service)
Reminds me of the joke:

Changing code randomly until your program works = bad programmer

Changing code randomly extremely quickly until your program works = machine learning
There is a joke:

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss.

Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.

I've lived in Canada, the UK and the US. My experiences with the police in the UK were really very good. They are polite, affable, efficient and seem to care about their work. Canadian police are not quite as good, IMO, but still reasonably ok, although they do tend to have the "command attitude" and slight military edge that I associate with the US police. I did not have any contact with police in the six years I was in the US.
The fact that we don't know some details doesn't mean that we can't make good predictions about _probabilities_.

Yes, because there's plenty of datapoints to make prediction by extrapolation. Just look at the progress between GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3 and GPT-4 and extrapolate to GPT-5, GPT-6 etc. There could be some roadblocks that would prevent further progress, but the default prediction should be that the trend continues.

Metaculus has had predictions for various AI milestones for years and has been consistently too conservative for resolved questions. It now predicts 50% of the invention of full AGI by 2032 which by extension might also be too conservative.
The VCR was a tool that allowed people to time-shift (record now, watch later) copyrighted material, which was determined by courts to be fair use. It also allowed people to duplicate their own material, which was unquestionably always legal.

YouTube downloaders are just modern day VCRs. That they can be used to violate copyright doesn't mean they are only used to violate copyright. There are plenty of public domain videos on YouTube, and downloading them doesn't violate copyright.
Unfortunately the major weakness of this camera is the one thing I actually use my camera for: photos of my kids (and other people I know). But for stuff like landmarks, I never even bother taking photos of them—I’ll never take a photo of Delicate Arch that is as good as one million others I can find by doing an image search.
that value means nothing to the owners if they aren't making a profit. Nothing in life is free except parents' love.
No, that's not right at all. You're just making things up and raising points that are irrelevant to the issue at hand. There is no logic in your claims. In particular there is zero evidence that current AI indicates a short timeline to future AGI. What a load of crap.
First X-Ray of a Single Atom Achieved
> If you are going to use someone else's work in order to make something that you are going to profit off of, I believe that original author should be compensated. And should also be able to decide they don't want their work used in that way.

> Note that I'm not talking about what existing copyright law says; I'm talking about how I believe we should be regulating this new facet of the industry.

Is it really new? Humans have always learnt by studying what's out there already. Our whole culture is built on what's been done and published before (and how could it be otherwise?). Without Bach there would be no Mozart, and then down the line their influence permeates everything you hear today.

If anything I'd like to make it easier to reuse parts of our shared culture, and limit the ability of organisations to control how things that they've published are reused. You can make private works if you want to keep control of them, but at some point the public deserves to share and rework the things that have been pushed into the public consciousness.
Raising rates has little down regulation effect on inflation. (At best the effect is uncertain).

The purpose of raising rates is to increase the interest share of income and protect that from inflation [0]

[0]: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/04/16/how-interest-...
Lemmy's devs have a long history of questionable actions and opinions that goes beyond the slur filter. I'm afraid it will forever be condemned to be a low traffic fringe project.
IMO: control and monitor AI hardware production.

Its critical to AI development, and its production is extremely consolidated and difficult. Its like the U235 and Plutonium of nuclear proliferation.
Google announced on December 9 that this timeline was paused: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
Depending on what you use it for, the license could be an issue.
>>It's also like bragging that you were a highly advanced civilization and got conquered/occupied by a bunch of dumb savages.

They explain that part by using the idea of 'traitors'. They are often the minorities of that land(whom they currently hate, and serve as a nice punching bag in the whole process, and in the overall scheme of hate process).

The 'traitor' part is like a constant theme in these stories. Super advanced ancestors, but also very nice, accommodating to everyone. Some savages from the outside invade, traitors help them from inside. Savages win, they are colonised. Traitors benefit. The monuments, symbols and anything to do with the traitors is now demonised and the 'treason' is used as a casus belli for a genocide/ethnic cleansing.
this is very cool. thank you for releasing it! if you had to guess, how much of the performance depends on avx512 specifically? if this could run reasonably well on avx2, IMO this would be a really great general successor to LZ4
Not related to anything but does the name Onu have some meaning? For me I am always curious why names of companies have no connection to their product (unless this is in a language other than english and means internal tool)
Because we use interest rates as a control variable - despite there being little actual evidence of down regulation.

That causes a boom and bust in housing production and turns housing into an investment - like the classic car market.

We saw a similar effect during the pandemic when the used car market became like the classic car market due to lack of supply.

The solution was to get back to producing more cars. Same with housing.
Making GPU use illegal if number of connected GPUs exceeds licensed limits, more likely.
To some degree, this idea is explored in Neal Stephenson's novel Termination Shock in a character with the nickname "The Drone Ranger" (play on "The Lone Ranger")
The Dart Side Blog by OnePub – When Not to Use Dart Records
With the release of Dart 3.0, there has been a lot of excitement and articles around the new Records feature.
To provide a little balance to the conversation, we are going to have a look at when you shouldn’t use the Record type.
No fixed wing pilot I know would ever state and claim that hot air balloons are a risk.

Claiming that “balloons are a risk, not UAVs” is almost so bizarre that I mentally flag your posts as trolling.

Giving UAVs the right of way is bogus and will cost many human lives in General Aviation. There are already countless accidents reported with UAVs nearly taking down planes. They are impossible to see.

Edit: Your comment almost sounds like out of some bad communication workbook for lobbyists from the 70s - “pedestrians are the real danger on the street, cars are safe. Jay walking needs to be punished severely” ; “Public transportation is a communist idea threatening the very ideals of our society - every person should instead buy his OWN car”. Man, Balloons are the neatest and most harmless most easy to avoid objects in the sky. Don’t try to make them look bad. Everyone loves em.
I'm having flashbacks to a well funded startup I used to work at. People seemed to think that to how to handle having commas in data while still being able to use CSV files was an area of active research. At, like, a dozen different layers in the application we would strip commas from any and all strings, but they would still frequently slip through and screw up the entire pipeline. The complaints I made about this quickly used up what little political capital I had. The joys of `str.split ','` based CSV "parsing".
I mentioned that in my comment already.

> the kind of person targeting American undergraduate from India can afford to study IB+AP.
They don’t view you as a user... most companies who are ad supported fundamentally view everything as an impression/page load which is simply a container for ad placements. Click through, conversion rates and revenue per thousand impressions are the only metrics that matter to the health of the business.

Everything else is secondary and most product managers don't view a/b tests as anything other than experiments on ways to increase those stats.
"Vandalism" is a strong accusation to make, when there is a specific definition of that activity on Wikipedia, and a lot of ignorant people sling it around as a weapon.

It's interesting that someone with a username matching the founder/author "rewrote" the article in September 2021, removing some maintenance tags, and relying on a whole bunch of crap sources, self-published stuff from Caddy itself, GitHub, blogs, etc. That sort of sourcing is not what you build an article on, and it's only reliable for narrow claims.

Meanwhile, on the talk pages, "Mwholt" stridently denied any conflict of interest or paid editing - "That's not how F/OSS works" - taking the opportunity to make thinly-veiled accusations of bias against editors who came to discuss the Caddy article issue.

I can't say that the rewrite has any better sourcing; it's still reliant on GitHub and caddyserver.com, so it's founded on shifting sands of self-published claims, but now it is rightly tagged for that, and as an advertisement, and significant editing by someone with a COI. So it is good that this will draw some more scrutiny and hopefully disinterested editors can do some cleanup.
Google lense can do that! I actually shop a lot through various apps with reverse image search (in SEA both Lazada and Shopee support this) and the results are alright at best but it can be a major time saver. It's often the only way to find the thing you're looking for as every e-commerce platform seems to be gamed to death these days.
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