skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not much for games since I was a kid. The ones that have made the biggest impression on me were:

- Bioshock: great atmosphere and story with subtext that almost everybody gets wrong in one of two ways, but is worth digging into

- Titanfall: insanely fast-paced with mechanics that really made one feel (after getting good enough) like an unstoppable killing machine. First game that I was good enough at to just wreck the other team relentlessly. Sucked a lot of my time though, I wouldn’t want to get back into it again.

- VtMB: Good story, good gameplay, buggy as hell, wonderfully sleazy vampire aesthetics.

- Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask: Mainly because of nostalgia, but they really are wonderful games. The 3D ports were beautifully updated.

- Doom: Nostalgia, and with things like Brutal Doom it becomes extremely intense and immersive.

- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: my favorite Metroidvania.

- Deus Ex: Everything about it was perfect.

- MUDs: I used to play a strangely popular local Dystopia MUD run by some of my cousin’s friends. I sucked (I was maybe 12 at the time, and didn’t really learn the mechanics), but had chosen their custom Wraith class which became stronger after each death, and eventually became the strongest player in the game just by being so bad at it. I mostly shot the shit with friends on there. Funniest moment was when my friend from school joined, playing as a female Werewolf and started relentlessly getting everyone he could to cyber with him: the MUD had x-socials, basically x-rated emotes, and tracked one’s arousal level—if one completed the act, they got experience. I think that might be a GodWars feature. He thought this easier than farming kills and just hilarious in general.

- Silent Hill 2: maybe the opposite of doom. I don’t like survival horror generally, but this was the exception. Atmosphere was wonderful.

I like small worlds that I can really dig deep into. I got hooked on Morrowind for a while, but it put me off of the whole idea. I dislike the new Zelda games for the same reason.
It's funny, having recently watched the Boba Fett series on Disney.

At one point, there's Luke Skywalker. But it's the young Luke Skywalker, not the current Mark Hamill. It was a synthetic Luke we were seeing on screen. Mark Hamill did not participate in the filming, it was someone else with a CGI Luke head.

Mark Hamill gets a credit in casting, but as I understand it, much of the dialog was synthetically generated based on his original voice in the original trilogy. Now, maybe he did voice the lines and they just used the training to process them and change the sounds and such.

But in the end, what were were seeing and hearing on screen was not Mark Hamill, it was Something Else.

Similarly, but perhaps more mundane, there were episodes with the original Mandalorian character. As I understand it, what we see on screen is not the Mandalorian actor, but a double in the suit. The original actor, Pedro Pascal, was not available during the shoot.

But he did come in later and dub the lines.

So, it just seems to me that in some cases, we are already "there", and the AIs don't even need to come into play at all.
In 1995, many early ISPs were still on fractional T1s or even 56K leased lines! I remember upgrading one from 56K to T1 in mid 1995. T3s were rare: large regional ISPs and backbone providers.
And now imagine a world where deepfake porn is ubiquitous. Does the teacher still get fired?
yeah, you absolutely could -- and in a variety of different languages.
Scientist in Covid Origin Controversy Misled Congress on $8.9M NIH Grant
https://archive.is/LYwv7
I'm holding out hope for Ladybird to save us all one day:

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
Called it:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835121>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33210846>
> Let's say your boss, or spouse, received fake photorealistic pornographic images of you with your boss's spouse...

... in a world where it is understood that fake realistic images are easy to be made then this is not any more credible than a text without pictures.
Being an investor in sales of new heat pumps and related technology is a great way to reduce wood, oil, gas, and coal burning in the house and in general -- as heat pumps are typically greater than 100% efficiency.
Eventually the audience will be AI as well.
I am currently an active WoW player (just got Keystone Hero for the first time this season!)

It is unlikely given the current patch cycle and plot that a new expansion is announced this BlizzCon, but definitely next year if not before then.

Either way, the argument that the BBC is doing this article as a sponsored advertisement is absurd. Other outlets have written up this story.
I don’t think phubbing is a new word?
I've never understood this argument. Please explain to me how it makes sense. Do you really think these elites care about the long-term value of their properties enough that they wouldn't invest because of climate change? If they get 10, 20, 30 good years out of their properties, why would they have problems with losing them at some point?
> It was my opinion but it is also correct

You are clearly unable to have a discussion in any sort of good faith. You cannot just assert things are true and then say, "Well, they were just my opinion, but also they are axiomatically true."

I'm done. You'll probably tell me that I'm being ideological or something, but I don't have the time to argue with someone who isn't able to engage in a productive dialog. (Either the "we have different opinions, and that's ok, let's talk through them and listen" or the "here's some factual discussion, with some sources that aren't anecdata.")
Near as I can tell, because of the nature of the chip business, there is a limit on how fast they can pivot production towards a market segment that is seeing increasing demand (in this case, the AI chip business)

So even assuming that there theoretically are enough purchasers of AI chips available to offset their other lost demand, it will take a year or two before they can fully serve these new customers and collect this revenue.
The recent news that Greenland was ice-free at +1.5C has increased my pessimism again.
>But I'm also disappointed at how HN seems to only have like 5 topics people want to discuss and the comments on every submission find their way back to those topics no matter how tenuous.

doesn't that just point to the impact and magnitude of the perceived problem?

"Yeah, I know the kitchen is on fire, but let's talk about how the pancakes taste."

'group-attention' migrates back to the collective concern; seems unsurprising, espescially in the face of being reminded of a product that had these concerns handled well compared to our future selves.
> it's pretty insane that the USA lets companies hide who owns/controls them

1. Anonymous LLCs and Trusts are how many people protect their privacy. Not just Disney, but regular people. The only things "insane" here are those who want to strip away that option.

2. If you break the law, your anonymity can and will be stripped. There are processes for this.

3. There is a zero percent chance that the NSA doesn't have access to these records, if "national security" is a concern.

Are there any other concerns, other than your stanch belief that your nose has an absolute God-given right to be in everyone else's business?
What was the issue with COVID?
can we not conflate facebook.com and twitter with big tech? big tech is driving many of the technological advancements that have brought a new era of economic prosperity and growth to the world. hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs, tools for small businesses, a wealth of high quality information at our fingertips, the likes of which was one generation ago unimaginable.

tech is like humanity's one hope.
You don’t judge a source by reading the source itself.

Usually you do so by considering the context in which the source is made and then you might consult someone who can read the source (who also needs to be judged based on the context in which they are giving you advice).
You have the GenX "Hack the planet" types to thank for that. They are the ones who helped these people build their panopticon of terror.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will go down as authors of a new kind of tyranny.
Do I understand correctly that this kind of constraint satisfaction is more complex than just turning things into a bunch of SAT clauses? Otherwise (and admittedly without a deep understanding of genomics or solvers), I would be surprised if constraint satisfaction were the best approach for edit distance…

Once you added domain-specific performance-oriented constraints, did you find this to be a useful and viable approach to the problem?
I could say AI is going to wreck porn in that you can't compete with on demand pics/vids/VR of any fantasy you want.. but it's really going to be the least of our problems.
My iPhone usually stops working if I lie in the sun using it for tethering and it's in the sun. I have to put a sunshade over it. This is in London which is not super hot usually. Though I'd say at a high temp than 35. It's probably like 50C when it stops working I'd guess from feeling it.
Deploying Hugging Face Models on Nvidia Triton Inference Server at Scale
If you are deploying ML models at scale, leveraging Hugging Face pipelines could be much faster at generating tokens & need lesser code to get started when you deploy with the NVIDIA triton inference server.

This blog is quite helpful to learn the following:

1⃣ How to use Hugging Face pipelines
2⃣ Using Huggingface Pipeline with Template Method to deploy the model
3⃣ Deploying Triton Inference Containers in GKE
4⃣ Efficient utilization of GPUs to optimize memory usage and improve performance.
> nobody is going to get fired (without getting the shit sued out of them) for deepfakes of them showing up

The WaPo article cited that mentions the school teacher who was fired does _not_ mention any litigation. It seems like a failure to engage with the material if you're saying "no one is going to be impacted by humiliating deepfakes" in reporting that specifically mentions someone who was. Even if there was litigation, that puts a cost on the former employee which they may not be able to easily afford, and my understanding is that very specific criteria must be shown for most dismissed employees to get anything.
Queryability and the Sublime Mediocrity of SQL
What you're describing is very common amongst developers. So common in fact, that I've written a post about this https://alic.dev/blog/comparisons

In short: recognizing your insecurities is the first step. The next step is figuring out what's important to you, shedding impossible to achieve and irrational ambitions, prioritizing your goals in life, and articulating concrete steps to further them.
There are professional journalists out there who in most organizations will get into hot water or lose their jobs if they fabricate news or sources.

They will have biases, they will make mistakes, but most of them will do at least some due diligence, and together with fact checkers - this is the best we have.

Accept that and move on - or sit there and tell yourself that "nothing is true, nothing is real". Get your news from @HotJerseyGirl1998.
Ideally, but AFAICT that's not how it works.

I have given a number of interviews to "Science" journalists, in two occasions even for science-focused publications. In each case I began the interview by asking the journalist to tell me about their coursework and self-study background so I can be sure to meet them where they are. In only one case have I met a science reporter who I'd consider minimally competent to report on science -- rather than eg write puff pieces -- and that reporter was educated in Europe.
Often the best way to be productively skeptical is to ask questions and get more sources? It can be frustrating for some scientific figureheads, but the adage of "no dumb questions" came to be for a reason.

And don't get led astray by looking for "productivity." So much advancement is lost on the alter of efficiency and productivity. Yes, if you know the correct next move to make, do it. But don't discount exploration and general play.
I remember playing the first demo as a kid[1] and almost falling off my chair when I accidentally triggered the healing spell (I had no idea that I triggered it). It was scarier than Butcher grunting "aaah fresh meat" from a cold dark room, deep in the dungeon.

Then, for reasons not relevant here, to buy the full version of the game I had to drive 60 km to the nearest big city, get it at a shady bazaar, suspiciously only displaying CDROM covers at their stalls, but no disks. The game was so much better due to almost 2 years of anticipation!

And then, a few days later the nanny robbed us (= disappeared), and it took my parents more than a day to come back. So we played D1 for 23 hours, changing seats with my brothers, one of us making tea, another one snacks, rotating every 30 minutes.

The moral of this story is: Diablo was a wonderful game when it came out, but ffs never leave 3 kids at the age 7-10 alone for more than a few hours. xd

[1] Two rednecks playing D1: https://days.sonnet.io/#:~:text=I%20play%20Diablo%20for%20th... (if not on chrome, search for "I play diablo")
Link to ai playing ping pong ?

Edit: found one. https://youtu.be/u3L8vGMDYD8

I don’t think ping pong bots that can beat humans are here yet.
But it's those same ordinary people who have to change their voting patterns to do something against climate change. What if creating fear is the only way to sway them towards saving most of humanity?
not a native speaker, but have been reading and writing english long enough to pick up the meaning immediately

anyway, had the same though when typing my sibling comment, felt so disgusted reading that
Oh how I wish there had be a "Brian the space shuttle" :-)
https://archive.is/Dh2Np
Such cynicism.

Look, if you don't like the app or the website, you can ask the LLM to write you a new one.
It's not like ChatGPT can't do that already..
Sure it would; Air conditioner margins are based on efficiencies; and a heat pump reduces emissions from less clean heat sources.

and from a more short term perspective;

slowing the migration of people from warm places to another will reduce the spike of resources required to house those people.
Winners in the industry. Who that’s going to be is not so clear.

General Electric is getting a lot of early interest in the BWRX300 but it is based on the ESBWR which got no firm orders and the previous ABWR sold very few units.

There are not many orders in the west for large LWRs (Russia is the only country that is building them on an n-th-of-a-kind basis today) and those are all running terribly late. The economics of the LWR will never be great, even if the constructibility problems are solved. China is far along on the ACP100 small LWR and there is Nuscale, that BWRX300 and some others. Such a machine might get to an nth-of-a-kind basis for constructibility but the economics on paper usually aren’t better than the large LWR though the hope is somehow you can delete something from the design and still have good safety.

The economics may not have to be great if the social price of carbon is added to fossil fuels and if the current level of exuberance over renewables subsides (say storage turns out to be as hard as we thought it was in 2000, or building more power lines takes as long as building large LWRs, …)

Then there is

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

which might improve on the economics because the steam turbine is a major weight on the LWR. In principle a reactor without water can operate at much higher temperatures and power a closed-cycle gas turbine or maybe make hydrogen directly with a thermochemical process. None of those is a bird in the hand neither in terms of the nuclear part nor the “what are you going to do with the heat?” question.
The chess pieces for the end-to-end unblockable ad machine are in place.

You'll have the cynically named "Privacy sandbox" that builds tracking directly into the browser. You curtail ad blockers by capping browser extensions. And then you allow access only to "attested" clients. Inescapable tracking and unblockable ads. And you'll get to see ever more of them over time.

If this isn't evil enough in itself, the way Google presents these initiatives in grossly misleading ways makes my blood boil.

Fuck "Be as evil as possible" Google. Absolutely pathetic company. I'm so done with them.
What do you think about the Jule programming language?
Jule is a new systems programming language that focuses to performance, safety and maintainable.

I just wondering what you think. Any feedback is appreciated.
It is common to use DD neutron generators in oil exploration. You measure the backscattered neutrons to measure density, or something (I used a DD neutron generators manufactured by Schlumberger to characterize particle detectors in grad school... And I also know that they are used to measure density on glacial firn... Not sure exactly what they're used for in oil wells though).
Wow, a website with a progress bar. That shows a single image and a page of text
It is supremely disingenuous to imply that Washington's Ukraine policy circa 2014 (before Russia stole Crimea) is in any way compatible with the terms and spirit of the Budapest Agreements, and that Russia was therefore the first mover in violating it.
Shit.

I heard from someone who had been there, that Gulf countries such as Dubai routinely touch 50 or more.
A year+ ago, the same folks were talking about the incoming switch from under supply to over supply, and the predictable outcome that we see today. None of those involved are surprised by this on the macro level, but when they put their short-term glasses on for the purpose of quarter-to-quarter reporting, they say stuff like "deeper slump than expected". Obviously at the end of the day, these folks are sleeping just fine, knowing and having expected this with >12m of warning.
That an algorithm is heuristic does not preclude it from being provably correct.
It precludes it from being optimal!

The goal of an heuristic algorithm is to produce a near-optimal or approximate solution in a reasonable amount of time. From here, some heuristics have more or less theory behind them and that theory shows what sort of properties the solution has.

[1] https://optimization.cbe.cornell.edu/index.php?title=Heurist...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_(computer_science)
I'm more concerned about Big Food as the new Big Tabacco. You don't get cancer consuming tech products as much as you get from Big "food".
This proposal depends on a central server and there is an alternative decentralized proposal - https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1281
> While it’s mostly open, there are caveats such as you can’t use the model commercially if you had more than 700M MAUs as of the release date, and you also cannot use the model output to train another large language model. These types of restrictions don’t play well with the open source ethos

No, CC-NC-ND is a thing, and even GPL applies restrictions on derivation as well.

"Open source" doesn't mean BSD/MIT. There is even open-source that you cannot freely redistribute at all - not all open-source is FOSS!

I always think it's a testament to how much copyleft has succeeded that in many cases people think of GPL and BSD/MIT as being the baseline.
Most normal people (the target market for these ChatGPT releases) do not use webapps or PWAs. The success of ChatGPT on iOS proves that.
Not at all. The reason your customer can sue you is because Disney can sue your customer. Disney would be suing your customer under the specific license of the original work.

edit: you seem to see the customer as the primary victim here instead of Disney, but if Disney weren't a victim the customer wouldn't have a case.
Same for me. Nothing else got me so completely immersed.
To cope with their discomfort at not having a good answer for any of the potential problems. Also, reflexive denial is a very common tactic for avoiding responsibility. In an increasingly networked world, people can rely on others with the same personality type to back up their denials.
Reevaluating the Dunning-Kruger Effect
One very obvious thing to consider is how a paper, whether it’s philosophy or physics, was funded and which grants the authors received and from who. So many conclusions and biases are driven by funding mechanisms, sometimes it’s corporate and sometimes it’s government but the devil is always in the details and there is no safe or superior source of funding.
Awesome, about time! Tired of logging into my web browser on mobile lol
> Does this mean they're going to nag you to use the app or get rid of their web interface e all together?

This is OpenAI. Not Reddit.

> Is there any point in this beyond personal data spying?

Alternatively, this would limit the eyes on your inputs / outputs to just OpenAI instead of them and N random app vendors.
There may be a convergence of liberals thinking he climate crisis needs a strong response and conservatives not knowing that and thinking they can still own the libs.

If you asked conservatives if they wanted to trade their gas stove for one powered by nuclear electricity you might get a different opinion ;-)
Having read the article, I'm still confused ... are they saying Death Valley in particular had the hottest midnight on record? Or that it was the hottest midnight ever recorded on the planet? The article doesn't make this clear. Both interpretations are bad, but one is more frightening than the other.
“I detest bad journalism” is now overly emotional?

Where do you get off making someone feel bad about making an emotional statement anyways, even though it wasn’t?
LOL.

"We regret to inform you that our entire database of full body scans was accessed and downloaded by unauthorized persons. We're providing you with a free year of online reputation repair services. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Perhaps what you propose is possible, especially if the definition of transactional is strictly monetary. Yet everyone gives and receives in relationships; even if what is exchanged is only emotional, time, or otherwise intangible.

We all do some calculating, often subconsciously, about whether to continue to interact with someone else. And we have various thresholds or red lines which could lead to ending or at least significantly reducing future contact.
Interesting comment that untreated ADHD is a cause of homelessness. Medication for ADHD is low dose stimulants. I wonder if the meth epidemic stems from untreated ADHD. Then maybe the government regulates ADHD meds to keep people homeless. Or if we treated the homeless for ADHD they wouldn't be homeless.
Recently started playing it with a friend. The map is incredible. It is so detailed and there's so much stuff to explore. I absolutely love it, I keep telling my friend hoe much I enjoy it because it really is just above and beyond anything we've played recently. So good.
> The notion that humans, as a species, will not adapt seems farfetched to me. Humans have perpetuated themselves in a wide variety of climates for thousands of years.

But throughout all of human history, there hasn't been a change in climate as drastic as what is starting now. So why does our ancestors surviving in a variety of climates make it likely that we'll adapt to the destruction of our environment due to rapid climate change?