skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tend to call those "networks", when they have a bunch of different gametypes and servers interconnected. At a smaller scale of a few hundred players it's pretty easily handled by off the shelf software like Velocity for the proxy and a few server instances running Paper.

You generally want good performing (not VPS or "cloud" instances) but you can run a bunch of different worlds and have people with cross server talk, the ability to warp between worlds, etc. Most of the larger networks and nearly all of the smaller networks use a variation of this kind of model.
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Ironically you were being an LLM in that moment by predicting the next words.
> Theresa May tried to sell this as part of her election campaign. It was a disaster. No one wants to be forced to give up some of their personal wealth to pay more for an NHS they've already paid into.

It's not as simple as "give up some of their personal wealth to pay more for an NHS they've already paid into". If you have 20K in your bank account and no property, you have to pay for your care. If you own 2 flats worth 1M each and have 10K in your bank account, you pay nothing. The so-called "dementia tax" would have make this situation fairer. Besides, they wouldn't have to release equity while alive, but the cost of care would be paid by the heirs upon selling or inheriting their parent's property.

Imagine a scenario where you have 20K in your bank account. You child inherits only 10K, because you had to pay for your care. Now imagine you have 2 flats and 10K in your bank account. Your child gets the whole lot. Does this look fair?

Theresa May, that, as far as I'm concerned, should be sent to the Hague for architecting the hostile environment for foreigners, had only one non-demented idea in her entire political career: making social care fairer, and that's what killed her premiership. I can't think of a more emblematic example of what is going on in the UK.
Back then, post-its were called slates.
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These magazines absolutely have the “Byte” vibe.

Their covers also remind me of those compilations or phone book-thick magazines that I would use for design inspiration.
Great, thanks for the clarification.

And how does the NN represent the token at the output layer? Is it a binary representation of the token number?

Or does it have a neuron for each token it knows and ChatGPT takes the most activated neuron as the answer?
> because of all slaves Ottomans brought into Istanbul.

The genetic makeup of Anatolia did not change that much due to the Turkic invasion. Moat people in Turkey are still descendants of the Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and other who lived there for thousands of years before the invasions.
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This will be great for my programming music.

Though it's just anecdotal but I have seen that the quickest way to enter into the zone is to play repeating loops at 140 bpm.

Unfortunately I haven't really found many of these as most of the tracks I love are non looping. I think this can take care of it. Kudos on making this!
Where do you see LLMs heading towards?
General LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, etc. are all the rage right now. However, where do you see the industry heading towards from your perspective and experience in the next couple of years?

Do you see them:
(1) Being modular - where multiple niche LLMs are available across verticals (similar to Harvey for law) which are used in tandem with a base model which is trained on general knowledge of conversations?
(2) A very large general model that is trained across multiple categories (jack of all trades-kinda LLMs)
(3) Something completely different from the above perspectives

Would love to learn :)
There are three competing standards right now:

- Fabric (and Quilt), which uses a mixins system, a really flexible modding API that can do client and server modification

- Paper (and Purpur, Pufferfish, Folia), which is similar to the old-school Bukkit/Spigot ecosystem and supports an intuitive API for server-side plugins. If you're aiming for >30 concurrent players you really need the sorts of performance patching that Paper comes with out of the box, or some custom-developed equivalent to it.

- Forge, which is kinda a general purpose modding API, good for heavy client+server modification like FTB packs

I'd love to green-field everything in Fabric, but the ecosystem is not quite there yet for more serious server setups.
Anestesia is nice. They ask you to count backwards from 100 or so. I never got past 95. The solution gets in over your hand and you can feel where its going because the hand and then the arm gets cool, it's a nice feeling.

Apart from that, I'm sorry, I don't have anything heart related to share as well. Hope you'll do well when it's over.
Ah, cool. Not my usecase, but neat all the same.
There is a fair amount of existing work related to planning in continuous and unbounded spaces under uncertainty. It seems likely some of the existing techniques combined with modern language models could be quite effective. A couple entry points:

Deep Reinforcement Learning with an Unbounded Action Space -
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04636v3

Efficient Planning in a Compact Latent Action Space -
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10291
Here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/26/faceboo...
What an insightful article. I vaguely remembered the questionnaire mentioned in the beginning paragraph, and how there were some inconsistencies. Glad I read the rest of the article before jumping in here to comment, because the author goes into detail about exactly those issues, where they might stem from, and what that says about the prediction domain.

It's really well written - I haven't heard of asteriskmag before, glad I did.
A quiet local pub is self-evidently not usually noisy other than live music nights where amplifier volume seems to always be 10, but I have had my ears blasted hallway to meeting each other by music in all of the last 3 UK venues I've been to (two urban pubs and a rooftop bar), and all the urban pubs near an old workplace were almost unbearable. In fairness, the volume in those was mostly due to being absolutely rammed to the gunwhales, I only specifically remember one of them adding music to the din.
Where's the OPsense NixOS mashup at? Or is it not necessary with a sufficient NixOS config?
Android phones.

There is no way for an iOS application to just say "turn on GPS" and be granted granular location access without user intervention.
Basically, yes! There are some technical quibbles (tokens don't line up to words, there's recent research on how to make LLMs stateful so they don't need to pass back the entire conversation for every token but can simply initialise to a remembered state), but this is basically correct as to what LLMs are mechanically doing.

The really exciting stuff is how they're doing that! Research into that question is generally called interpretability, and it's probably what I'm most interested in at the moment.
This has not been true for a very long time.
There was a thief of famous old books from the monastery Mont Sainte-Odile in France / Alsace. As they found out after some time (riddled as he broke in several times without them noticing) the the thief entered through secret stairways and chambers. [1]
If I remember correctly the thief didn't try to sell them but hoarded them.

There are many other articles about the heist if you google for "Book Thief Mont Sainte-Odile".

[1] https://www.goodnightandgodbless.com/travelogues/the-book-th...
The Dutch use "blij" (short-term) and "gelukkig" (long-term).
Oil fumes in passenger cabin air is a more common occurrence than everyone likes or wants to believe. I have personally experienced a very bad case of this once.

Here's a pretty good paper surveying the root-causes for this issue – https://www.scirp.org/pdf/eng_2018041917372308.pdf
> I started to get the impression that I'm disagreeing a bit with the blog's basic premises. I believe that the reason why so much bullshit can pass, is that essentially, there are things that are not bullshit. If almost everything actually was bullshit, making people believe in things would have been much more difficult.

Ah, yes, I'm somewhat of a philosopher, psychologist and social scientist too.
Is my new project [0] also part of the problem? I'm still unsure myself because LLMs also allow us to process data in unprecedented ways. In my specific case, I auto generate stories to highlight different view points based on what people are saying about hot controversial topics on social media.

What's your opinion?

[0] https://zeitgaist.social
It's not a bad idea. It lets you reliably exclude results after a certain date, which is very useful for looking up old news for example.
As long as it's part of the required steps to delivering business value, it doesn't matter that much if it's application code or infrastructure (as code). Both are required, hence both are delivering business value.
Are any of these choices restricted in their existing or likely future compatibility with where Microsoft is taking the game?

My understanding is server admins will spend money on mods / plugins. Are there any server types more likely to garner paid license or plugins?
Just like the automobile :)
As someone with more than a little bit of PLs: That's the wrong approach. Doing PLs is hard it's the ultimate naysayer's profession. Modern programming languages are built around a dozen or so major design decisions, or dimensions for the machine learning crowd, (that's why there are so many) - and many combinations, if not most of them, are simply incompatible. Like, you-end-up-with-undecidable-problems incompatible.

So doing a PL should focus solely on expressing computations. A different platform, even a very different platform like the cloud, does hardly justify the effort necessary to design and implement a language. In the end you won't do neither a good language nor good platform support.

Instead, develop a dialect using as much of the parent language as possible and only restrict the parts that are indeed incompatible with your goal.
4D Golf seems a little more interesting than that https://youtu.be/1ad9y0FmQ9g
I dont even want it free...
Popularity counts. Find all those languages in this graph, then find rust.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...
https://fly.io/
Because everyone already has it installed.
In Europe, many countries banned lead paints for household use already in the 1920'ies or even earlier. In 2003 there was an EU wide harmonization outlawing lead paints. The article you linked to is apparently about some lawsuit where the EU commission had allowed an exception to this.
If your water is acidic enough to leach stainless steel, you have bigger issues than the chromium.
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Alpine docker container starts at 5mb.
Save the jokes for Reddit
Basically the latter
I think the typical summary of the difference in Mac and Windows font rendering is that the Mac tries to get the fonts to look closer to the printed page and Windows tries to fit the lines to the pixel grid more exactly.

The Mac does it's job with no regard to the sharpness or fuzziness of the rendering - e.g. it will happily render you a "one-pixel line" as two gray lines just so that it ends up aligned beautifully with the rest of the letterform, but people without HiDPI displays will complain that this is "blurry".

Windows tries to fit the pixels more exactly into the pixel grid of the display to ensure sharpness and a 90's sensibility of readability. The problem here is that for any font that is not hand-hinted well at the required size, this often falls flat on its face and looks terrible. And the art of font hinting seems to have gotten lost in the 90's.
Safety regulations are.

The reg that says I cannot raise my roof 6 inches to squeeze in a loft conversion because then it won't be the same as my neighbours is just a hangover from the 50s...
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1849538310

No comment.
I don't know how far "pure" next-token prediction can go with planning, although I wouldn't count them out until their performance starts noticeably plateauing. But the tree of thought architecture is a very similar concept to what you're discussing, you should definitely give it a read: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601

It's not everything involved in traditional planning, but it may be a framework to use more traditional planning algorithms on LLM output.
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While very impressive, something to note:

>The server was prepared with a 100k x 100k block pre-generated world. Our custom plugin distributed new players to the least-occupied region.

Minecraft chunk generation is notoriously though, and even a few players generating new chunks will bring the TPS down to an unplayable state very fast.
^ https://archive.ph/e6vYF
I don’t think it gets its fire resistance by things sprayed on.

https://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/crosslam-timber-...
I used Umbrello (https://apps.kde.org/umbrello/) in the long long ago, might be worth checking out too if you haven't already.
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The Minecraft Java version is notorious for thrashing memory. It allocates and discards objects at an incredible rate, even when the player isn't doing anything. The server has a GUI where you can watch the memory allocation with its distinctive sawtooth pattern.
Had to edit out the “up to” to make the title fit.
The advantages if local:

Privacy / Secrecy

Low Latency (as in network)

Low Latency (as in ttfb)

Can fine tune continuously and immediately.

No need for internet connection or just a “download only” type connection. Great for remote areas.

So where this might be useful?

A local NoT (network of things) that is privacy conscious.

An assistant for people who want to detox from being online.

A low latency code assistant for anyone who gets annoyed if they blink and nothing has happened yet.

A toy / pet type thing

LLM guidance for a submarine or space mission.
Th are even great historical starting points for such fiction, like the bunch of German U-Boats spread across the world (mostly the Atlantic), including one (U-234) en route to Japan with special cargo including uranium oxide, high-ranking Germans and Japanese and an Me-262.

Better starting hook that the Last Resort series (US nuclear submarine with intercontinental ballistic missiles refuses weird orders, is fired upon by the US Navy, and decides to occupy a fictitious island).
I tried lengthening Another Day by Dream Theater from 4:26 to 8:00.

I set it to avoid the segment that the key changes and to favor the 2 solo segments.

It doesn't seem like its doing a good job. Only the first 5 seconds of the intro made it and then is just repeating over and over the big solo. In the end, a very small part of the short solo makes it in as an outro.

Maybe it works better at shortening songs or maybe changing duration closer to the original duration.
> In an average second with that many players, most (all?) of them will not do any action apart from changing their position

The world is not static though. Each player loads in a lot of living entities (monsters/animals/...) and block entities (furnaces, redstone, ...) that all need to update. There's some overlap of course, though in a game like Minecraft where there's a near infinite world to explore that overlap is smaller than you would think.
Because the money supply needs to be adjusted to a much larger degree than taxes will allow for.

Additionally there is actually a shortage of USD collateral in financial markets, further reduction of which would have significant consequences.

Rock, meet hard place.
I generally quite enjoyed the podcast but I found it a bit weird how in the episode about the Aztecs the author was so adamant to call them by their actual name that the ‘Aztec’ people used themselves. However he had no issue at all with the Byzantine Empire/Byzantines etc and continued using these term throughout the entire episode.
The parent comment is a bit confusing in that it says de-commoditizing Linux, which is one thing, but then talks about de-commoditizing RHEL.

Yes, Red Hat wants to show that Linux can be treated as a commodity except when it can't; that the work on a distro can be separated into parts that can be shared with the community and parts that people are willing to pay for; that rebuilders are reducing the value of the latter and the only game-theoretical outcome is that no one will have the money to do this work.

Without going into the discussion of whether that's correct or not, it's not a particularly new stance. It was the whole point of separating Fedora and RHEL in 2004.
Base image layers are deduplicated though. Now if only we could pick a single base image...
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Why they are immigrants if they are Turkish citizens?
Moreover, orthodox muslims are not radicals. There are many differences between them.
> Minecraft chunk generation is notoriously though, and even a few players generating new chunks will bring the TPS down to an unplayable state very fast.

And that's knowing a big part of the chunk generation already happens off the main thread.
A solution is to stop revolving your life around alcohol. I was blessed with an upbringing in a family and culture that didn’t show alcohol and I suddenly found myself 25 years old without ever having drunk a sip except in rum-n-raisin ice cream. I was able to make the choice very easily to go the rest of my life without it.

Whether it’s work outing or friends gathering, I just pass if it’s supposed to be in a pub. Heck, I don’t even own pants or shoes worthy of wearing to a pub if I needed to.

Yet I feel I haven’t missed out on much and gained many other things. My friends now meet me during the day. The conversations are more memorable and deep and happen at coffee shops, restaurants or on our way to those places. Or if I’m particularly in a good mood I suppose a park.

As an outsider my opinion is that nothing good has come to humanity from the presence of alcohol. It is the worst drug to have invaded our history and that’s saying a lot given every other drug there is. And I’m not just talking about the deaths it causes.
What that even means? Just random words. unsafe block is just an illusion and doesn't prevent any bugs. Don't get me started on the cult that shames repos that use it.
Planetside 2 has hundreds of players on one map and can theoretically scale to thousands, though the networking gets very noticeably worse as you crowd more players into one place.
I think that's a case of moving goalposts.

When I hear "folding laundry", I think "taking a load of laundry from the washing machine, including pants, shirts, underwear, bras, socks, sheets, towels, pillowcases with socks inside them and cycling pants, separating them, folding them, and putting them in stacks for each family member"

The automated solution in the video seems to work for loads of identical white towels.

Don't get me wrong, the automated laundry machines are impressive, but I don't think they accomplish what people thought of when they asked the question.
Constantinople was a just a small city state at this point since the empire had lost most of its territory centuries earlier.

Most trade with the east was done through the Levant and Egypt.
craigslist is one of the few sites that has stayed the same and is still serving its users. The owner got kinda rich with it, but refuses to do anything more to the site. It's amazing.
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Do you agree that 'woke' is a loaded word?

Do you agree that by using that word in that way it signals a certain type of political/ideological viewpoint?

Do you agree that if someone did not want to signal that viewpoint it they should know?
How the hell is there no screenshots on the landing page of a smartphone OS
(Disclaimer: I'm on the Paper team, and Paper is the org under which Folia sits.)

This is true to an extent, yes. Chunk generation can be real tough. That said, chunk generation has been re-written in Paper, so it's substantially faster than vanilla Minecraft.

When we did a large scale real player test on a much earlier build of Folia we had ~327 players at peak and we did not generate chunks because we specifically wanted to see how it ran. We didn't max out at ~327, we just didn't have more joins than that.

The project improved a bunch already so that number without chunk generation is very doable to beat if you didn't pre-gen any chunks.

Generally it's free performance to pre-gen your world though. Highly recommended for regular players.
> If you're aiming for >30 concurrent players you really need the sorts of performance patching that Paper comes with out of the box, or some custom-developed equivalent to it.

Fabric has quite a few performance mods that can achieve the same thing. I launched my new 1.20 map last week, and TPS was hanging on at 40 players without most of them even enabled.
I think the issue is, or at least was, that Google assumes that if you are willing to share your location via BLE, which could be guessed by sniffing for BLE MAC addresses, that you're at the same time willing to grant high resolution GPS access.

I get it that BLE MAC addresses can provide very detailed location information, in my case my thermostats/valves broadcast MAC addresses all the time, so if they are sniffable, it is known that I'm at home, but this is not the case when I'm on my bike or in my car, where maybe there's the address of the bike computer or the car radio, because these are traveling along with me, giving no positional information.

Once I meet other people or walk around some streets, geolocated BLE MAC addresses will be present again, but it still isn't the same as high resolution GPS. GPS doesn't require an additional database lookup from a database which the "spy" may not even have access to, it directly sends latitude, longitude and accuracy.

It's annoying that Google neglected or still neglects this.
We're not talking about hypotheticals. Rust wasm is used in production now. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/hello-wo...

Emscripten and experimental backends hardly count as support for Nim. Python can run in webassembly by the same token, but no one would.
The standard rust compiler compiles directly to webassembly, natively, with the stable toolchain.

In other languages, yes, the js bridge is a problem. However, not only will this be fixed in browsers at some point, but rust is so fast that TODAY yew.rs, a mature wasm framework, is faster than react.

My thoughts are better explained in this video https://youtu.be/P4LMfkFLRsI
CLT burns, like glulam, but it just burns very slowly. Importantly it also retains it's strength for a long time while burning. So basically: you have combustible buildings but you have buildings you can get out of while they are burning. I have not heard about use of fire retardants on CLT/Glulam even in highrise construction, but I do know that many wood highrises "cheat" and use steel beams where it makes sense.

Is this really exotic enough to even warrant discussion? What is it that makes it stand out? There are of course large developments with wooden houses (rows and rows of thousands of apartments/townhouses) that are only slightly lower at 2-3 floors, but that have existed since the 40's and 50's. Is it that it's within a city rather than more suburban? Or that it's 4-5 floors? Or that it's mixed residential/commercial?