skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a dream compared to UE. I tried on and off over a couple years to power through building some toy VR apps in UE and was never really able to make much progress past their prefab maps. It’s just so freaking complex that, IME, the fun of the process gets crushed under the weight of making zero forward progress.

As I started a NixOS immersion program a few months back I was looking for a new platform that I could do 100% of my dev on Linux. Ran into godot searching vids on YouTube and was really impressed with the workflows so I installed godot and steam (home.packages = [ pkgs.unstable.godot_4 pkgs.steam ]). With openXR support built into godot 4, it automatically picked up the shared lib that stream dropped and in under an hour was walking around using my index and Vive in a VR env and could also build a package for my son’s quest.

Within a month on-the-side I had built a tabletopesque tank battle game with a custom ray-based suspension over high poly terrain, particle effects, ballistic artillery, and a unique controller input scheme based on the tilt of the controllers (left for body rotation, right for turret). The physics engine is great, rocking the body on fire was simple as an inverse impulse of the shell spawn vector, and the body properly rolls under both lateral and longitudinal axis by virtue of the damped shocks.

All that to say, I think the biggest difference is that with godot 90% of my effort, code, and time was spent writing implementation code for my game while on UE it was spent writing integration code.

You obviously miss out on hot topic things like nanite et al, but I learned a long time ago that fidelity has no correlation with an engaging game. The other con will likely be around performance, it’s passable at 90hz, but if you want to start hitting framerates like 144hz, the critical code will probably need to drop to C++ using GDExtention.

I’ve also noticed that, with the popularity gaining in gltf, that it was rather trivial to find quality assets with native support.

I’d recommend watching some vids on creating VR apps, and another great resource, if you want to grok the interface code, is godot’s xr-tools project: https://github.com/GodotVR/godot-xr-tools/tree/master/addons...
That’s the one example anyone ever uses and it’s way oversimplified. It’s also something that occurred 400 years ago, conducted by a church that doesn’t exist anymore (the catholics have changed a lot in 400 years and the Inquisition has been dead a long time).

The argument in the OP isn’t that religion hasn’t opposed or suppressed science. It’s that religion isn’t fundamentally opposed to science. While some may wield religion to whatever ends suits them, the religion itself was merely the tool of the day. We see evidence of that throughout history, to oppose science or anything else.
The only change that I've disliked has been requiring being logged in to read tweets.

One complaint I've seen from a lot of people is that they dislike the tweets they see in replies now because of the blue check prioritization but I'd imagine this really depends on the type of content you follow on twitter
They basically want you to sign the rights to your life away in the form of data collection. That seems to be their business model here so I don't think they are going to take a step back.

The sad part is the average person will likely continue to not care. I can only hope the advertising industry gets destroyed or at least decimated. Maybe once mega corporations realize advertising isn't driving the kind of value that they think they will pull back spending. Thus making the ad driven business not financially viable and killing facebook and the like.
Marketing mostly.

Final Fantasy was already a guaranteed hit in Japan, but the success in the west can be greatly attributed to a successful marketing campaign by Sony.

Additionally, the non-medieval theme really helped setting it apart. There were guns, cars, televisions, and motorcycles!

It's fascinating to recall the TV commercial in North America featuring the motorcycle cinematic scene, which, ironically, constituted only 2 minutes of the game 50+ hours of gameplay.

Regardless, FF7 was an exceptional game that truly showcased the remarkable progress in video game development, appealing to a wider audience.

I still have goosebumps thinking about the first chapter of the game. It really was something when it came out.
I don't get the "control is an illusion" part. Maybe in some cosmic/determinism sense, but that wouldn't be very useful for day-to-day.
This is one of the major reasons why I stopped playing most games entirely. When the fun has been monetized out of them, what's the point?
Never heard of Threads until seeing this post. Not sure if the home page is broken, or if it is just utterly unhelpful in learning more about this app. It seems like the goal is to get you to install the app to find out. I'm giving it a shot, so I guess it worked.
35m is what Paperspace raised according to crunchbase. 12 of which was raised in 2021, before the AI hype. So unless their valuation was absurd I think all investors did OK here.
What would be more productive, then, would be awareness campaigns for filters that can be bought and used at home to reduce said chemicals and ideally dispose of them in ecologically safe ways.
I've (unfortunately) got a habit of accidentally assuming forums are "in the US". I think I would put it down to a couple of things:

1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone is American is more often than not correct.

2. The internal voice that reads text to me has a generic male American accent.
Perhaps you're thinking of the EULA kind of situation. EULAs are probably not enforceable because they require the user to agree to additional terms after the main sale of contract is complete. It's considered a one-sided agreement because the user doesn't get anything in return (the contract of sale of the software already grants the right to use the software).

For LLMs it really depends on the situation. If it's presented in a EULA scenario, where you already bought the rights to use the LLM and ClosedAI gave you the EULA with additional terms afterwards, then the logic above applies. But then everyone knows EULAs aren't very enforceable these days, and nobody buys packaged software any more, so this scenario is quite unlikely these days.

So, if the clause is just one of the many conditions in their main contract of service, of which you had ample opportunity to review before purchasing/agreeing to use their service, then as long as the terms are legal (eg. don't contradict some law), parties are generally free to agree to whatever they want in a contract, and courts will generally uphold those terms.

"can't use them to feed employees of competing milkshakes companies" is probably enforceable. Sounds silly, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be upheld. Unless there's antitrust factors involved.

"Can't use output of their API to train competitive models" is most likely enforceable. Unless there's antitrust factors involved. These kinds of terms are pretty common too. Nobody seriously thinks they're unenforceable per se.

Of course there are practical barriers to enforce a contract -- the aggrieved party has to discover the breach, gather sufficient evidence, and file a lawsuit. As an average Joe individual, you're probably not worrying about getting sued by a company for trivial breaches of service agreements. Most likely the service provider will just cut the service instead of spending thousands of dollars tracking you down (and risk taking a PR hit for going after the little guy). But between businesses, the risks of getting sued by a competitor is real, and no sane lawyer would advise the business to ignore such contract terms.

(Btw, I am not a lawyer. I've studied these things a bit though.)
They’re calling fraud ‘faking’. That’s like calling attempted murder ‘an altercation’.

The author comes off sounding like a sociopath.
It's mind boggling how many people enjoy that though. You're right. Clash of Clans et all really changed the gaming dynamic.

Just as an example, Halo Infinite came out and it had warts, but also had a good fundamentals for gameplay. Good speed and weapons. Every single comment was about armor cores and skins. I just didn't get it.
But it doesn't even "work for particular names" because the `/>` part isn't what closes the element.

By the time the parser has seen the sequence `<br` it already knows which element this is, because it can only be the BR element, and has already finalized the DOM node for it because that's the rule for the BR tag. The moment it sees the opening angled bracket and tag, that node is created in an already closed state.

So those extra two `/>` do, in the most literal sense possible, nothing at all. They're allowed to be there for historical reason but they literally do nothing: they're treated as bytes to be ignored and the DOM parser skips over them while it looks for the next active token in order to continue building the DOM.
Both your points are not really valid. There have been decades of theoretical breakthroughs in computational linguistics too (Have there been any in Deep Learning?). There has also been a large amount of human creativity and perseverance in computational linguistics, arguably more than the amount I have seen in Deep Learning. Yet, not one useful algorithm has come from linguistics. In fact the old adage on speech processing can be applied to Natural Language Processing: "Every time I fire a linguist my performance improves by a few percent".

The bitter lesson is bitter and important to keep in mind exactly because human creativity and perseverance do not matter in front of it. Consistently, the only methods that work are those that scale with computation, everything else does not matter. I would take a more extreme view, if computation didn't follow Moore's law, we wouldn't have invented alternate methods that do not require massive computation, we would just simply fail to do even the most basic tasks of intelligence and be stuck in the 1960s. A scary thought, but a true one I reckon. If computation kept following Moore's law but a few stalwarts like Yann Le Cun etc didn't exist, we would likely have found alternative architectures that scale and work, maybe not as good as ConvNets but transformers aren't as good as ConvNets either, they just need to scale.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/
Why is this flagged? It’s worth having the discussion
The goal is to estimate an "average temperature" for Earth. What does that even mean? Are we talking about the temperature of the ground, the temperature of air at 2 m above the surface, the temperature of the Earth 100 m above the surface? In this case it's something like the second example: 2 m above the surface.

How do you ideally compute this average? You take the simultaneous temperature measurement at every point on Earth and take the average. Obviously that is not possible.

What do you do instead? You put together temperature readings where they exist, satellite data, coupled with past data and behaviors to make an estimate for the average temperature. How else could you possibly do it.
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could you expand a little on what "model" means ?
Isn't this just like python code?
Came here to see a reference to Karnaugh maps :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map

Returning on topic, like others have stated, some times you need to be an OR, others an AND, others a NOT and some others combinations of all.
> "care about weather it's raining"
funny typo (whether)
This is relevant also:
https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-07-hyena
Just reading is not geoblocked. The original link works fine for me.
I'm probably a minority user but for Twitter I use it to follow official government accounts (like the National Weather Service) and a few transit-oriented shitposting accounts that I participate in. I only use the Following feed because I do not, in any way shape or form, have the slightest inclination of "discovering" people or reading what "influencers" have to say or any of those things. For that, Twitter, is still great. I can live in my own content bubble.

Bluesky is good but it doesn't have those accounts (yet, maybe ever?).

Threads seems cool and I've never used Instagram before, but that default feed you have to view makes me dizzy to look at. The comments and posts from accounts I would never follow are so fucking stupid and awful that I cannot use that app until/unless I can silence all of that bullshit. I don't even mind the ads. Whatever. Maybe I'd even pay (ala Twitter Blue but Musk is acting like a piece of shit so not giving him money) but I am not going to be subjected to a steady stream of the worst possible content imaginable.

What I want is Simple Global Message Service with the ability to dig/drill in to things I want/like, and to be able to only view content from people I allow (i.e. follow). Whatever product (Twitter today) gives me that gets my eyeballs or wallet.
My point exactly. I think the concept of police abolition is detached from reality toxic. It aims to delegitimize the police in hopes that up better system will arise, without having a workable better system.

All of the proposed alternatives are delusions and fantasy.

It's like jumping off a cliff because you think you can learn how to fly on the way down.
Why does Apple (iPhone) and Google (Android OS) give software access for governments to do this? One needs to disallow this. And then we need to buy that phone over the other. Transparency, competition and the power of customers must drive this.
An elegant new orchid is found hiding in plain sight
2M -> 5M = 2.5x

5M -> 10M = 2x

10M -> 30M = 3x

Counting at exponential intervals is fine and notable.
It is truly crazy that they do not have their own ASN and IP blocks.

I cannot imagine running a service like that with cobbled together DIA circuits and leased IPs.
Corporate Memphis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

though I've also heard it called Alegria, and I'm not sure the exact difference.

edit: Alegria was Facebook's style specifically, Linus Boman has a great video which briefly discussed its place in history of clip art:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM
Was this fake volume allowed by the new transaction system in Bitcoin? Because it seems like the old one would make that prohibitively expensive.
Related, there's a cool transition if you hike up the Greenwater river (starting at the town of Greenwater, heading towards FS70) there's a cool transition where the geology switches from Osceola mud to the more typical Cascade foothill geology (about half a mile from the White river).
No good way for you to work directly for either a defense contractor, or the DoD?
I recall this was one of the plots from the HBO show Silicon Valley

Thanks for providing insight to the process, very fascinating.
yeah, everyone and every corporate PRs are signing up to secure their userid for fear of squatting but... not sure if there is more to it.

btw, it seems across-platform squatting is becoming increasingly worsening problem. horrible people just take IDs they've seen elsewhere, just-like-that.
tells you how good and moral the parent company's intentions and priorities are
Does inequality erode political trust?
Yea I actually think it's similar to something that happens with my 2 year-old. He thinks putting shoes on means we go outside. So when he wants to go outside, rather than saying "outside", he goes and gets his shoes.

The internet' scale allows great products to grow exponentially. A bunch of great software, sites, and tools took off and grew at a rapid rate. But we took the wrong lesson from this and thought "rapid growth=great product". So VCs have put growth above everything else, and are hoping they can figure out a product after, like a 2 year-old thinking that putting on his shoes will mean he gets to go outside.
Ironically there seems to be no shortage of fluoride conspiracy theories or “waters turning the frogs gay” but actual chemicals and toxins … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Or more accurately, the meth-aphorical one.

As sores and other health issues appear you remind yourself that the ice cream still delivers some good things, and your friends will only spend time with you if you all eat the same ice cream.
So when the various AI start publishing questionable stuff and add the published stuff into each others corpus to draw on, they all learn from each other to generate even more nonsense?

Eventually you wont be able to trust information from any unverifiable/non-human source and information-technology will die due to mistrust.

When we were meant to automate the boring stuff, this isn't the end-point we were hoping for.
It would help this article’s quality if the author had included an output example from each code snippet. As a reader I’m left to imagine what the output looks like.
I don’t agree this is incredibly strange. These people are upset that they are unable to drive virtual sports cars in an online world. Why? It doesn’t transport them anywhere so they’re paying money for no real world utility. What difference does it make what pretend car they’re driving in a video game? Why would they even want a choice of hundreds of different pretend cars? Why would anyone take their hard earned money and purchase the sprite of a car and drive it around a video game?
What would you recommend as a first read?
The problem with the blue checkmarks is now if you expand any popular tweet to see replies you just see the blue checkmarks, who happen to be a self selected particular type of person most people don't want to hear too much from.
Yes, that is really the only thing that you can do. Set expectations and reasonable heuristics.
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There's water in the rocks. When it rains water gets trapped between rocks and layers of rock.

Then a storm comes in, more water, water is flowing filling cracks, pooling wherever it can, lightning strikes, the water trapped in and around some of the rocks very quickly heats up, turns to steam, and kaboom, you now have moving rock.

Presumably lightning strike erosion is a lot of energy over a short time compared to wind or water erosion which is much less energy but over much longer periods?
I mostly play single player games these days because they've been spared. I played a Plague's tale a few weeks ago. Really strange premise but a lot of fun!
I'm not a social media guy, I'm not going to use threads probably ever, and I understand that Threads is basically just an appendage out of Insta...

But I still say hats off to the devs for making a product that scaled so well so quickly. How many day 1 launches fail due to servers buckling under the load? Props to you guys for a technical job well done.
Indeed. The Saturn didn't REALLY render "quads", but just transformed and translated sprites. That lead to all sorts of strange concepts. You didn't have UVs; a "quad" "texture" covered the entire quad from corner to corner and you couldn't change that. That lead to situations like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDJgeuoaSvQ where the programmer wanted a simple environment mapping effect, but it was impossible with the Saturn hardware so he ended up writing a 3D rasterizer in software to enable the effect on the start screen.
What does network prediction from a game framework look like? You describe what properties of objects should be interpolated and the engine handles it for you?
Evernote was critically valuable for me but has degraded steadily and sadly for years now.

I began my Obsidian migration a few days ago and it's encouraging.

I found the evernote2md project on Github (https://github.com/wormi4ok/evernote2md) the best way to get from ENEX->md files with good resource references. Joplin wasn't getting it done.
The most patient lecturer would probably be ChatGPT itself ...
https://archive.li/B8YY2
https://andrew.gr/stories/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140105-li...

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EGUGA..1815451H/abstra...

etc.

There are some high resolution nightside lighting storms from orbiting camera compilations on youtube that might impress just how much power zaps down in strikes.
I guess so. There are lots of 30-60min podcasts, but you're right that they mostly don't get much shorter.
> or that does not excessively and punitively tax business and "the rich"

Your bias is showing a bit there.
>one look at a Mr Beast tweet on my homepage, wondered “why would I want to look at this?"

They haven't implemented a follower feed yet, but it is in the works.
That's what I thought I said. I'm responding to this point:

> you are so far in the niche in today's internet userbase it will not matter

That the idea that a user who wants a web app (mobile first) is niche is only applicable to the West; that most of the rest of the world wants a web app.
> Mass publishing is more useful and valuable the more people you can publish to at once.

Absolutely, but that was happening long before the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc., came around to monetize it and convince people that they are the only ways to do it. They're cultural parasites.
I've been paying for feedly, which tries to do some "smart" prioritization (similar to other things you've read/saved), but for the most part I skim over everything and just mark things as done in bulk...

Do you have a link to YOShInOn (is it open source/are there more details somewhere)? I'm curious
Me neither, possibly because JSX, Svelte etc. do actually interpret it that way, deviating from HTML.
Directives apply line by line. The only ones that apply to a bigger scope are mandated to be the next line right after shebang and apply to the whole file.

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/Directive

> Directives that replace or are immediately after the shebang apply to the entire script. Otherwise, they are scoped to the command that follows it

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/Ignore

> Note that the directive must be on the first line after the shebang with versions before 0.4.6. As of 0.4.6 comments and whitespace are allowed before file-wide directives.
The meme with the men at the gallows, nooses around their necks and one looking at the other saying "First time?" comes to mind. That is pretty much software development in a nutshell.
Yeah the OP seems kind of elitist?