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That's probably true, but the specific implementation in the Mordor games is pretty unique. It's not just emergent gameplay, there's elements of deliberate action in there. The game selects certain enemies to become "resurrected" to come back stronger and become your longterm rivals.

The enemies are also generated with perks and flaws based on the available game mechanics. These orcs return to fight you again, they often have upgrades themselves to resist or be immune to the ways you killed them previously.

Taken individually none of these mechanics are novel I don't think. But this particular implementation is pretty unique. I'd love to see similar things in other games. Like Mech pilot rivalries in a Mecha game or something similar. But games aren't copying it, despite how well received it was. I can only think it's due to some kind of patent licensing issue.
> Do you understand that adult bodies and child bodies look different?

SD-based models can generate child bodies just fine, based on lots of training with non-porn images.

> Please show me a model trained on adult humans being fine tuned to generate a child human (fully clothed).

That's going to be hard in the SD space since there are, AFAIK, no models trained exclusively on adult humans (not even the base models), so you'd have to scratch-train a new base model to do this. (A model fine-tuned on adult images is still going to have the influence of base-model training, and unless massively overfit—usually very much an anti-goal, the exception being age-filter models whose entire focus is controlling apparent age [0]—will not have lost much of the generalization capability of the base model.)

The generalization abilities of models are good enough in other contexts that its plausible that realistic nude children could be generated by a model with no nude children in its training data that was otherwise trained on both clothed children and nude adults. I have no plans on testing this, however.

[0] e.g., https://civitai.com/models/65214?modelVersionId=74332
> to be C-suite at a $100M company with 100s of employees and no options? Oof, not that common.

It's not common because he didn't earn that job. It's not like he submitted his resume to Linus and after several rounds of interviews with him and other candidates, Linus decided he's the most experienced and qualified to be CTO, and had to make him an insane offer or he'd go somewhere else.

He got the job because he wash his friend. Other people at Floatplane/LMG were responsible for the tech/business grunt work that makes the platform work. He's there to oversee things for Linus.

It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for Luke to be CTO/COO out of university without any prior experience. It's not like other tech companies were begging him to be their CTO with zero industry experience and could negociate a better deal with equity than what Linus offered him.
The current generation of mass manufactured high temperature superconducting tape is based on YBCO, which is a crystalline material (presumably what is meant here when saying ceramic). So the argument that superconductors need to be metallic/malleable to be useful doesn't really make a lot of sense.
Agree, this seems like it's being flagged in bad faith. In probably 13 years of HN membership, and maybe 14 - 15 of readership, I've never seen anything on HN before that's accrued 250+ points and been flagged.

@dang I realise you're probably incredibly busy, but are you able to remove the flag, please?
I actually agree with most of your comment. Just not that Tailwinds is the best way to actually do the styling. I don't have any issue having some form of compilation/processor step that takes colocated CSS and creates a final output, that isn't my objection to Tailwinds, in case that wasn't clear in my original comment. I prefer to actually use CSS, most often via style classes.

And I did not say to base styles on html structure - you are correct, that is brittle and actually one of the things I often ask about in FE interviews as a way of determining skill level. I said that good html structure makes CSS much easier, if your structure is bad, it can significantly compound the amount of CSS needed in order to achieve the desired outcome. So I believe there is a significant distinction in those two statements.
I've seen this idea that Disney invented these colors. Knowing Disney's legal team, I'm worried this is going to be patented in the next 30 years.
some ferromagnetic properties

I'm still interested int hat, as it seems like it could be quite useful and the LK-99 material is not especially hard to produce.
> the whole chase to Total compensation isn’t worth it

I always flat out tell recruiters that while total comp matters, when comparing I always heavily discount anything not in my basic. Of course how much depends on details (e.g. I discount options to near zero; RSU's much less so), but some parts of total comp will rarely enter the picture when I evaluate an offer unless the basic salary is already good enough.

I'll expect a good total comp, but not at the expense of a low basic salary.
Time ends at black holes. Is it even possible to empirically validate such a thing?
The article called it "third generation"
This is so important and I notice studies missing it all the time.

Tragedy and desperation mostly kick in at the bottom of the distribution, especially in the US where median income is in most places not completely awful.

So controlling for the bottom 20th percentile or something makes way more sense.
https://archive.ph/1C888
Police are given a monopoly on physical violence deployed by the State. The key element here is cordoning off that monopoly on violence to apply to situations where it is most likely to be necessary. They are not the sole arbiters of conformance with law and regulation. Many, many agencies cite citizens for misuse of the resources they manage and for other violations. Do police handle violations of environmental regulations? Police do not have a monopoly on investigation, either. Many agencies can and do conduct investigations that compile evidence that later gets turned over to a DA or similar law enforcement agent for starting a criminal case, if one becomes warranted.
Much of your business logic can live in the backend, and it keeps your frontend really tiny. The idea is to generate HTML on the backend, instead of using a front-end framework to generate HTML on the client from an API call.

You can also do the same in Node if you want to, I currently have a TS website that is mostly templated HTML in production (without htmx). Htmx would be perfect for that site.
That unnoticed green was a Bell Labs invention, developed for Bell System outside plant boxes. Look at the next ground-level communications infrastructure box you see. It will usually be close to that green. The original design also had some strips of fake wood pattern, but that was dropped later. A Bell System ad once mentioned this.
I remeber one time I was working as a Data & Analytics Lead (almost a Chief Data Officer but without the title) in a company were I don't work anymore and I was "challenged" by our parent company CDO about our data tech stack and operations. Just for context, my team at the time was me working as the lead and main Data Engineer plus 3 Data Analysts that I was coaching/teaching to convert into DEngs/DScientists.

At the time we were mostly a batch data shop, based on Apache Airflow + K8S + BigQuery + GCS in Google Cloud Platform, with BigQuery + GCS as the central datalake techs for analytics and processing. We still had RT capabilities due to having also some Flink processes running in the K8S cluster, and also having time-critical (time, not latency) processes running in microbatches of minutes for NRT. It was pretty cheap and sufficiently reliable, with both Airflow and Flink having self-healing capabilities at least at the node/process level (and even cluster/region level should we need it and be willing to increase the costs), while also allowing for some changes down the road like moving out of BQ if the costs scaled up too much.

What they wanted us to implement what according to them was the industry "best practices" circa 2021: a Kafka-based Datalake (KSQL and co.), at least other 4 engines (Trino, Pinot, Postgres and Flink) and an external object storage with most of the stuff running inside Docker containers orchestrated by Ansible in N compute instances manually controlled from a bastion instance. For some reason, they insisted on having a real time datalake based on Kafka. It was an insane mix of cargo cult, FOMO, high operational complexity and low reliability in one package.

I resisted the idea until the last second I was in that place. I reunited with some of my team members for drinks months later after my departure and they told me the new CDO was already convinced that said "RT-based" datalake was the way to go forward. I still shudder every time I remember the architectural diagram and I hope they didn't finally follow that terrible advice.

tl;dr: I will never understand the cargo cult around real time data and analytics but it is a thing that appeals to both decision makers and "data workers". Most businesses and operations (especially those whose main focus is not IT by itself) won't act or decide in hours, but rather in days. Build around your main use case and then make exceptions, not the other way around.
I was actually looking into building a library today with Webpack and ran into similar problems. But could you help me understand what you meant here?

> but it won't output to a standard format, even with experimental ESM output feature enabled,

Are you saying ESM is not a standard format? Or that the ESM output doesn't actually follow standard ESM? Or maybe you meant something else entirely?
I find it perilous to treat an entire community as it if has one voice. Ie. "the HN discussion" as a singular entity with a singular binary state on its skepticism. Someone else could equally claim that the HN community was super pessimistic and skeptical about it, because I certainly saw a lot of that too!

While a convenient abstraction, it plays into our biases to notice and remember only some of the discourse.

Plus I don't think it's really relevant to what I'm saying given I'm not making a claim about how any specific individual or group reacted, but that it's odd when there's people who treat an optimistic outlook as an error.
that is inheritance not the cascade: Inheritance allows for DOM nodes to use properties set on their ancestors, the cascade algorithm is how multiple conflicting rules interact and are overwritten.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Cascade

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

Custom properties are by default inherited by all descendant nodes (they also interact with the cascade, but it is less relevant) and this can be used with tailwind in a couple of different ways: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64872861/how-to-use-css-...
12ft.io has been pretty unrewarding for me.

First I've heard of Ghost Archive though, thanks!
Regarding #1, NGINX has created a project to make ACME integration easier. It is quite new, so I doubt it will replace your use of Caddy, but it is worth consideration.

https://github.com/nginx/njs-acme
Bing Chat has already shown that injecting advertising into generated content is possible, if paid API usage and ChatGPT Plus subscriptions can't keep the bills paid then there's a whole bunch of enshittification levers that can be pulled to make money: ads, quotas, additional in-page upsells, and locking it down entirely. It's just a matter of keeping the value proposition slightly ahead of competitors.

ChatGPT has the lion's share of name recognition and media buzz but every one of the competitors in this space is probably just waiting for them to misstep so they can step into the spotlight.
> This library will contain packages like the S3 X-server

It took me a moment to realize he meant a version of X for S3 cards. In the meantime, my brain was trying to imagine an X server running from an AWS bucket...
I went on a work trip recently and was surprised/disturbed by how every lunch/dinner spot was QR code menus

There have been recent newspaper articles about how restaurants are now abandoning QR code menus.

Mostly because customers don't like them. But also because it turns out to be both a greater expense and an inconvenience to update the menus electronically, rather than to print new menus, or have their go-to printing company make the updates.

Restaurants are short-staffed, and don't have the time or technical ability to maintain electronic menus quickly or cheaply.
The Mathematics of Training LLMs