skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game is riddled with small bugs, like you can knock the phone off the rock in the first level bunker then the cut scene will have him picking it up.

Having the trigens fight the people throughout the game was fun, and stealth aspect as well.

It's funny how the game emphasis seemed to be on the realistic mode, but it's like it was only tested on medium - the trigens would die very quickly and easily on realistic if the guards shot them, if I had to guess probably the bullet damage is turned up on that mode.
It also comes from folks who do understand such complexities. I mean Musk who's trying to make cars autonomous in dynamic hostile environments, Geoffrey Hinton who pioneered neural networks, Altman who's behind GTP4. I think the argument that AI isn't risky because the people warning about it are fools is not a good one.

On the other hand there's an AI anti doom argument. Currently we are all doomed to die but maybe through AI upload like scenarios we can dedoom?
Yes it's obvious, but it's so bizarre that I assumed the title had to be clickbait or poorly written. But no, it's absolutely correct.
The privacy sandbox does severely limit tracking too. Essentially any tracking done within the sandbox is not possible to be on an individual basis because the API surface is too constrained. Still “tracking”, but tracking a generalised abstract version of someone that looks a bit like you, rather than you specifically.

At least that’s my rough understanding. I’m fairly privacy conscious and don’t have a particular problem with the privacy sandbox, I think it’ll significantly increase the privacy of most users.
I have not looked into it very deeply yet, but as I understand the Bluesky project, this would not be as easy for Bluesky as it is for Twitter and Reddit.

You can use your own domain as your identity. Even when you use a service like bsky.app, you can use @yourdomain.com as your handle. And switch to any other service to publish under the same handle.
user_named's post is absolute nonsense.

"Elon thought he'd be able to wiggle out of it because he assumed the SEC would be the regulatory body he'd be up against"

Bullshit like this has no relation to reality whatsoever.
I've had a few sessions recently with chatgpt (4) trying to use it instead of SO to help with coding. Your estimate sounds reasonable, probably +/- 25%.

It seems to be better at helping me with stuff I don't know anything about and that has more flexibility in the results. I got it to make a website for me (something I don't know how to do) and it did ok, though required a lot of back and forth, and it picked a lot of defaults, meaning if I'd had more rigid specifications it would have been harder.

I tried to get help in writing a pretty simple python function (some conditional formatting of text) and quickly realized would have been much better looking up what I wanted on SO and writing something myself than get caught in an awkward cycle of taking it's versions which had missed various requirements and trying to get it to correct then.

Anyway it seems to be best at giving minimal examples of things I don't know about, which is helpful. I'm still trying to find the right balance between when I should use it and when I'm better doing things the "old fashioned" way.
If you're the attacker, then sure.
If there is customer demand, we will build it. There is also a generic API call step that can be used for models that are not yet implemented.
JW observes single stars and similar objects, while this one is meant to take a wider view, aiming a big picture of the mass distribution in the universe. In the article it is mentioned that it is expected to map around a third of the sky in six years.
Yep, green field with little competition, with massive scientific advances & unharmed industry after the war, educated populace, giant labour force, new overseas territories == huge boom.
Maybe someone is trying to make a disinformation bot. (half-serious)

I mean as far as uses for LLMs go that seems to me a pretty realistic one. Mass quick propaganda with little effort. Go for immediate impact, doesn't matter if people look deeper, you're just looking to get a swell of emotional reactions.
Seriously, what is with Silicon Valley people turning into insane cranks over the past year? Is there a ketamine fad causing brain damage among them?
I'm kinda sad to have moved from the 'let me in' to 'hard pass' on that dream. It was one of that last big future dreams 1990s me had for the 20X0's.

Yep. Elon clearly lost his motivation for Mars at some point, either because he was confronted with unshakeable evidence that his goals were impossible to achieve, or because he just got bored and distracted.

My guess is that the latter explanation is closer to the mark. But on the other hand, learning that his dream was out of reach could easily have led to the kind of dissipative, self-destructive loss of focus that we've seen from him over the past couple of years.

For those of us who were on board with his original vision, he's just another Lucy, holding just another football.
> Bad parents are not the victim, they are the problem.

Enabling bad behaviour because it makes you money is quite literally exploitative and therefore reprehensible. But really, it is no different than what bad parents do: refusing to stop and consider they are not actively contributing to a better world.
You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help.

to = 2;
while (!request(timeout=to)) {
to *= 2;
}

I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon capsule, cash up front.
>The alternative is mostly that a lot of people shouldn't be going to college

Well you need some sort of post secondary education these days if you don't want to be stuck in entry level jobs. It's not like I'm opposed to trade schools nor the peace corp nor apprenticeships. But trade schools are also feeling a similar strain these days and apprenticeships are non-existent for high school graduates.

Saying people shouldn't go to college is like saying people shouldn't have good jobs. And i don't think that's a better alternative.
Thanks for this. I had never heard of blue sky. I get to the site and it says they haven’t even launched yet? Maybe an error from all the traffic. Either way, I couldn’t see anything or even sign up for the service.
Happen to have one more? thank you either way!
Thank you for this, this will be exceedingly useful :)
You are mistaken placing responsibility to involved parties.
I second this advice. I've been in your position, and I can tell you that that kind of management simply doesn't care about the talent beneath them. If you leave, they'll replace you with someone else and treat them the same way. Do not work where you can't be effective.

Other good employees, including many of those you are currently managing, will likely follow suit over time. And management won't really notice or care when a first-rate team walks and is replaced by a second-rate team. Management will treat them all the same.

That said, I have seen good team leaders move to greener pastures and convince some their better developers, over time, to join the new team. This happens in almost all industries.

Don't let your mental health suffer. If you care more than the decision-makers above you about what you're doing, you can't win. Go somewhere that will let you do your best work.

BTW, when I was in your position, I hesitated a long time before making my move. It got so bad, I thought I didn't even want to work in the tech industry anymore. When I finally did make the move, the difference was night and day. Work was enjoyable again, and I was energized and full of motivation.

In case you're interested, here's a brief account of my situation and job change, from long ago: https://sheprador.com/2022/04/worst-manager-ever/
The article doesn't say anything about the documentations and specs being destroyed, just that the tooling etc will need to be dusted off and new workers trained. The biggest issue is legacy chips and electronics that are no longer made. These will need to be replaced and the Stinger basically redesigned with a new seeker head.

Keeping this production line hot would be extremely expensive, and since none of our allies were buying any and the US military expects to have air superiority/supremacy in any conflict they fight, this is a tempest in a teapot.
"temporary"

Elon Musk is an idiot that doesn't know what he's doing. Literally anyone would instantly use up those views.
I would guess this was a reference to the Wagner incident.
That's not a scalability problem, that's a poor engineering problem, let's not start to find excuses

Talents left twitter already, I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that took over are the ones who come from the intelligence industry, as opposed to the tech industry
Joby Flying Taxis
what do you hate about it? j curious
And yet, by shrinking the reach of posts, there must be far less content being generated. Isn't that the tightrope social networks have always been walking?
Being in the industry, I think I could give you a hundred examples of games I consider very good but not successful. Typically the reason why people think that is because the good games that are unpopular are obscure. I used to think the exact same thing before I did it for a living. You would counter that they aren't "good". (What does that even mean?) It becomes a circular argument. Good = successful, unpopular = not good.
Maximum depth of penetration is the ratio of the densities of the projectile and the matter to be penetrated times the length of the projectile. Harpoons have a higher density than water and are quite long, so they work.
This was all foreseen:

“Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,” he says. “Everything will compound until, eventually, it’s not usable.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
That was unfortunate.
I used this to run ML models I compiled down to WASM from Go. Really useful to put generic, high performance HTTP / JSON handling in front of some common interchangeable code.
A record-high number of 40-year-olds in the US have never been married, study
I agree with you. But I believe there are two ways to sell a weapons program to the public. One is covered by your baseball analogy. Yes, you want to be self-reliant and be able to manufacture critical defense systems in case of a hypothetical all-out war. But job programs have some immediate benefits for both politicians and their constituents.
“Tap”? How do you tap something when footage isn’t transmitted anywhere?
If the US military ever requires manpads to down enemy aircraft, things have gone so incredibly wrong that not being able to supply thousands a year is the least concerning part of the situation.
The science behind California’s worsening heat waves
>High-pressure systems and atmospheric circulation produce soaring temperatures with potentially deadly consequences
Thirty years ago ISA cards with 8 RS-232 interfaces were common, so connecting some 30 or even 50 terminals to a single PC was not difficult. I have used a few such computers for testing various devices with serial interfaces.

Eighty terminals on a single PC might have been more difficult, but by that time the computers were already networked, so it would have been cheaper to just use two PCs than to use some kind of terminal aggregator.
It's a brand new feature so most may not even know it exists. These things are basically pocket computer these days, you can't expect a user to understand every available feature on them
Oh fuck no. This sounds like:

Let's hookup Metasploit to AI, give it seed crypto totalling $100k USD, purchase access to buy 0d's from Zerodium, domain registrar, email, VOIP phone numbers, and let it loose on the world to see what happens. Oh, and if we want self-designing killer drones and self-designing software and systems, that's cool too because every other country is going to do it.

Like becoming a chemist instead of a pyro: I agree that things should be tried, but you don't want to light a segment of an Space Shuttle SRB motor segment to defrost your windshield every day. Both are playing with fucking fire, but the habit should be not normalizing a routine of unsafe practices. There is no "Manhattan Project" to be had here because there is no clear, unclassified achievement objective to produce a universal, static forever, turnkey "nuclear weapon".
Thinking comprehension - who determines budget?
Tweet is a screenshot of an engadget.com mobile article. The screenshot reads

"More platform instability could be in Twitter's near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company's Google Cloud servers.

Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract's June 30th renewal date.

Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google's infrastructure before the contract
expires, but the effort is "running behind schedule," putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline."
Bold assumption that anyone left there would know how to implement something like that
Maybe an electric fence?
Wagner, now located in Belarus, was still Russian when they downed 6 helicopters and a plane last week-end.
I don't have a problem with any of the three.
> And yet his older CJS versions get weekly downloads that are magnitudes higher than the newer ESM versions.

You write this as if that mattered...

Should he only works on stuff that gets more download? For what reasons? He works on what he wants to works on, it's amazing and he is lucky to be able to do it.

> The move that Sindre (and others like wooorm) made has not been well-received

It's normal to be sad to have lost someone that was working on something you needed, but anything else is just entitlement.
A lot of people trying to sign up probably. This degrades performance of one part of the system that is generally not highly optimised. This permeates everywhere
Imo Google (basically by accident) owns the best place social network for the next decade - YouTube.

Human generated content will become rare and more valuable, which is why the remaining non walled gardens (Reddit and Twitter) are quickly raising the drawbridge.

Video will be the last medium to fall to AI generated content pretending to be human generated, and by cloning tiktok across to YouTube shorts they remove the barriers to entry for humans.

Social media nowdays is not about friends, it’s about algorithms & creator monetization. YouTube is #1 on monetization by a huge margin.

Any text based social media network will be absolutely overrun with LLMs.
What I wonder is, how people who paid for verified account feel about it? First you pay for the reach(more features and priority to display) and then your followers or those who are supposed to reached need to pay to read your content. Some people are actually paying non trivial amounts for business accounts.

Normally I'm inclined to think that Musk is a great product person but this one move seems like a jerk reaction to some numbers not meeting expectations and designing a product to improve numbers without thinking about how the product actually works.
Posts are not private according to the FAQ: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
I largely agree with you (and saw this a lot during my working years), but sometimes it's the only way new knowledge (of new frameworks, languages, ways of working, etc.) come into a company/project.
Stingers would provide no protection against a competently managed and equipped air force. If we were fighting the Russians in Ukraine, we would be using JADAMs etc from well outside the engagement envelope of any MANPAD.

The only way to achieve air superiority is with a fighter aircraft and its associated support aircraft. You can deny air superiority with a full spectrum AD program (which a MANPAD is but a small part), but you can not impose it.
Indeed, the register variable syntax is necessary for many of the registers; there are only so many of them that have been stuffed into the one-letter constraint. I've used it before for making raw x86-64 Linux syscalls (which can use r10, r8, and r9) without going through errno, as part of a silly little project ([0]) to read from a file descriptor without writing to process memory.

[0] https://pastebin.com/mepsedCC
After hitting rate limit I cannot even read my own tweets (Profile->Tweets).
I find it hilarious.

One more thing - it look like rate limit is per client. When hit on mobile app I could normally use TT on web interface till fresh allowance was exhausted. Which did not lasted that long, too.
It might just be their opinions mature with time. These aren't exactly outlandish opinions
Russia also has accurate air-to-air missiles - with longer ranges. And very good integrated air defense. How do you overcome that without losing half your aircraft (let alone keep them fueled while your air tankers are shot down and airfields pummeled)?
Example - try to launch a startup as a technical founder. If it fails, you can still get a coding job and do ok.

Example of what not to do - try becoming a pro poker player. If you fail, you have no marketable skills to fall back on.
bin day = In the UK, the day when you have to take your garbage dumpster to streetside for the garbage truck to collect it.

Nothing to do with binary.
It could make sense for NATO to maintain the supply for Soviet style military.

Poland plus Romania plus Czechia plus Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia, and potentially Ukraine and Bosnia and Central Asia with Georgia and Azerbaijan, where these could be used.

It was totally not obvious that Russia (an important but quite small subset of Warsaw pact) will keep its military production capacity but the rest of collective will not - eventually running out of it and often without meaningful replacement.
Give me 3 examples in the last 10 years of FBI terrorizing political dissidents to neutralize their opinion.
The problem with these claims is that you can't really quantify a "10x" change. I have found a lot of emergent benefits to using LLMs. For example, because my cognitive load of wrangling APIs and understanding and refactoring legacy code and all the other nonsense of my day to day can be so heavily delegated, I actually feel refreshed at the end of the day, and can bang out a decently chunked feature on my opensource software on the couch (admittedly also boilerplate heavy code).

This means that I went from 0 opensource commits to 4000 since chatgpt came out.

Not just that, but I've gotten not only more adventurous, but have the time to consider doing drastic refactors and spend much more time thinking about my software.

I won't call it 10x or 100x, because that wouldn't mean anything, but surely it is a paradigm shift for me, completely world changing.
I think they're the worst single day losses in the Russian Air Force's history (which only goes back to the 90s, but still).
Edit - on the front page, I didn't see it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324

--

Context is that twitter has imposed rate limits (view max 600 tweets per day for normal users, more for paid, less for new accounts).

They cited scraping as being the reason and said it was degrading their performance, but there are contentions that it's because they aren't paying their cloud bills.

I'd like to see some concrete verification of this, it would be really bad for Musk's credibility if true.
You can easily argue 4 reasons particularly well, especially with average human performance as the baseline.

People who argue against GPT-4 reasoning at all are arguing against clear results. It extremely easy to show examples and benchmarks of 4 reasoning and understanding. The argument then turns into "well that's not "true" reasoning", whatever that means.
It’s cheapest for them to not put it in any car though, which is what makes it a value-add
Here's an example of a PCI card that supports 16 RS-232 devices: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-PCI-Express-Serial-Card/... (not an affiliate link)
It's amazing how much a rate-limited Twitter isn't Twitter any more:

- It makes the "for you" tab even worse, now their discovery mechanism takes away quota from the Tweets you wanted to see

- I have no idea how many tweets I view in a day: but now that I'm thinking about it I'm actively closing after a quick check

- I feel pressured to read to the end of what's loaded before refreshing (I paid for those!) but it's new content that makes Twitter special

- 6000 is awfully low for your highest paid tier

- I bet most new users don't hit 300 -- but most new power-users will. I don't know if there are any future-power-users who haven't already tried Twitter but they might never get hooked, especially since your first day is going to have the highest junk:goodstuff ratio
Do you think the 30 year old B-2s will would be able to penetrate Russian air space? They've got quite the radar array and integrated air defense.
Yeah, I guess its a way to make an "engagement optimization" bot using follows/likes from posts as criteria.

... That is horrifying.
Ah. Sorry, I got the wrong end of the stick there!
Email me if someone has.
Just for reference, let's say HN added a similar rate limit. Opening this thread would cost you over 500 comments towards that rate limit. It doesn't mean you read all 500 comments on this post.
> but openly publish all data via their API.

Until they don’t.

> I just made an account

Isn’t BlueSky invite only?
H1-B is for "highly skilled" workers, what skilled workers would Twitter have other than developers?
I’m not sure how your argument serves as any counter to “VCs invest in companies to make money” except that the shell game may be one deeper in this case.
I use https://time.is (Choose any location.)

Does other conversions and stuff, but much more elegant and simpler than your link.

Also good for setting your clock
What is the cost of text message in this case?
The main thing is, I was thinking, there's no^W less NAT so you can host those 140 character entries directly from your devices and you can avoid things like DHT. Now we can start solving other problems like masses having to own domains or that interactivity is orders of magnitude less efficient than using a traditional database.
> H1B is not exclusive for software engineering and encompasses many other professions (architects, civil engineers, etc)

Then partition the auctions by profession.
That's an interesting piece of history. Thank you for sharing it.
That's pretty much majority of data science at tech companies. Stakeholders want numbers that make things look good, not accurate or useful numbers.
Conditioning works both ways!
Elon Musk's abrupt requirement for users to be logged in to view tweets, along with rate limiting, suggests a problem with the backend. Why do I think this way? Because the decisions does not make sense from the business perspective.

The engineering is probably struggling to deploy the fix in scalable way.
The entire world now living the "hurt itself in its confusion" meme.
Boost for Lemmy
"What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for."

I'm trying to make sense of this question. Usually people think about boredom as a matter of kind, not degree. X subject is either boring or not to most people, to any degree, small or large.

Conceiving of boredom as a matter of degree is counter intuitive. Is this meant to be an insightful nuanced point or am I just high?
don't quote me on that but i read somewhere that microsoft has a strict policy of NIH in their codebase - everything gets reimplemented from scratch unless it's completely unfeasible.

The only problem might be the software patents that their code leverages.
having top consumer electronics companies manufacture weapons

Do you want your weapons to come from China and Taiwan?