skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GFN is much simpler in complexity. It's comparable to Stadia, though not QUITE as slick because it still goes through Steam. It is, however, a WHOLE lot easier to use than Shadow.

If you get him the desktop app (which is optional) and link it to his accounts and such, from then on he just opens GFN and clicks on the game he wants to play and that's it. No OS or updates or maintenance or anything like that to worry about.

Edit: Be warned though, Red Dead Redemption is not available on Geforce Now. Maybe someday... they just started integrating Microsoft Game Pass games onto GFN, so maybe RDR is on the backlog there somewhere.
You are probably right. "Succinct" implies it was short and clear. Maybe a better word choice would have been "clear" or "readable".

I remember the creator at the time saying that he wanted a program language that was more like a natural language i.e the programmer could express the same idea in a multitude of ways. Maybe this approach resulted in code that was easier to write than to read since understanding natural language relies heavily on context and convention.
> "Obviously not the same thing" is generally applicable to all analogies, valid or otherwise.

This feels like nitpicking / grasping at straws / being needlessly obtuse but I'll follow the guidelines and quote-unquote "Assume Good Faith" -- fine, rephrase my comment as "obviously not analogous" rather than "obviously not the same as"
What is the general outline of going from a model of a craft (drone, sailboat, etc) to building a sim that can do reinforcement learning over a physical object interaction with its env?

I want to start playing with models, sims and collected data for sailboat racing- I know the RL/data science stuff, and I assume a good model of your craft takes time to build, and can be improved with collected data. What are some areas to explore when chaining model -> sim -> RL for performance?

I realize this is an extremely complex topic, with several PhDs worth of potential input- if you had to explain to someone technical what it looks like and where to keep digging, what would you say?
Wasnt it maybe OpenAIs switch to GPT3.5 and locking GPT4? I remember not realizing for a while and thinking, damn this thing is getting more and more stupid, i give it 3 prompts, and it forgets 1, then i correct it on that 1 and it forgets the other 2.

Generally, people can tell the difference after a while and it looses its wow factor, me thinks.
> or if car systems misbehaving could contribute to a crash

As worded, isn't this every disengagement, since not disengaging could have, maybe, resulted in a crash?
> So is that "discrimination?"

Yes, absolutely. It may be passive and unconscious, but it's still discrimination. I bet a lot of more-than-qualified candidates -- many likely even more qualified than the people who ended up getting hired -- were rejected.

Unless you're going to assert that Indian people are uniquely the most qualified and best at building advertising systems (which I hope we can agree would be an absurd assertion to make), it's a near certainty that better candidates were passed over.

And looking at it from the potential candidate perspective, I personally wouldn't want to work on a team that is heavily over-represented by any one race (even my own), and I wouldn't be surprised if that "scared away" some great candidates (of other races) for positions as well. This is no different than the archetypal example of a woman engineer being uncomfortable joining a team full of men.

> People tend to refer their friends and give good recommendations to people they know.

I've come to believe that referrals are great when you're a tiny startup trying to find people whose work you can trust (since dead weight can be fatal to a new company), but become less and less useful -- and sometimes even counterproductive -- as a company grows in size.

At any rate, at any non-tiny company, any referral should be put through the same interview process as the other candidates, and should be judged based on the interview, not on the referrer's opinion. The referrer should not even be a part of the interview process, anyway. Not just when it comes to their referral, but (if possible), they shouldn't be a part of the other candidates' interview panels either, as they may be (at best) unconsciously biased against the others.

> A Canadian is more likely to know other Canadians.

Canadians aren't a racial group (and a Canadian may be white, black, native, Asian, Indian, whatever), so I don't think this particular example has anything to do with the rest of what you're talking about. If that team mostly or exclusively comprised white Canadians (or Canadians of any other single race), then yeah, maybe there's an issue there. And regardless, a team comprised of the same $X -- where $X is pretty much anything -- should be a red flag. To me, that's a sign that the team may be cliquish and discriminate (even unconsciously) against anyone who might join the team but be an "outsider" from the perspective of $X.
> I wondered why the police bothered to pursue someone like Mark Meechan, the one arrested for teaching a pug to do a nazi salute as a joke, when there must be more serious crimes they could devote resources to.

About that case particularly:

1. The media somehow turned up on the doorstep of the arrest of a previously private person. They directly doxxed him and prevented a fair trial.

2. The police were not allowed to complain about the incident directly, so they pulled in a person to complain on their behalf that they have worked with on many cases.

3. The judge assumed his malicious intent for the joke made, despite the evidence suggesting otherwise.

The irony is, he made a joke a the expense of Nazis, and now the UK government actively funds groups within the Ukrainian army who are self-confessed Nazis. (That's not an argument for or against Ukraine, simply to add perspective.)

> I think there obviously are more serious crimes but would require a lot more effort and trouble to make any arrests. Going after people for frivolous things is much easier for them achieve. They can kind of give off the appearance of doing something useful this way.

The police will sometimes pursue cases that excite them - ones that are active or high profile. Small or unexciting cases are dropped. A local cash machine got stolen, cut open, robbed and dumped in our garden - and they didn't even want to swab it for prints or collect it.

And it's far worse. The police get pressure from above to make X group less represented in their criminal statistics irrespective of any reality-based bias, so the only option left is simply not to pursue them.

This will just continue to get worse. They are fuelled by ideology and hindered by ongoing cuts (relative to inflation). They will soon stop responding to all mental health incidents (i.e. suicide attempts), and there is no other funding or service to pick up the slack.
It's not ability it's just willingness. Go to the recent Scrum threads or any discussion of remote work. It's all just these incredibly strongly held opinions that people feel the need to share over and over.
At Framer (framer.com) we actually had a bit lower variance (I think it was closer to 15%) after spending three months of solid engineering, ending up with a dedicated Mac Mini running Chrome.

Apart from the admin overhead (things got stuck on OS updates) we ended up abandoning the setup because the variance was too big to get anything useful out of running tests for every pr.

The most reliable way for us to monitor performance today is to count slow frames (>16ms) across all actual users and divide them by total time spent in app. It’s a rough proxy, but pretty accurate at showing us when we mess up.
If only we could put a colony on Mars...
I make a bit over 100k after taxes and spend 30k a year. I've saved enough to quit, but the golden handcuffs feeling is real. I'd just be giving up so much money.
I stopped using it because my bank kept putting a hold on my card every time ChatGPT tried to bill me each month. For whatever reason, my bank hates ChatGPT and dealing with this each month just wasn't worth the hassle apparently. (I say this because if it was worth the hassle to me, I would have found a workaround by now)
I dont think user sessions matters as much. The market value of chatgpt is going to be a product of users * how often they use it * how much value it provides.

If they lose all the people trying to write poetry and retain all the expensive engineers leveraging it to save $100 an hour times 100s of hours, then they'll be able to capture a slice of a fat market.
> Many Western blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer included, disseminate ideas that are antagonistic to Putin's fascist narrative.

This is so wonderfully, innocently naïve. Thank you for writing it. God bless America.
It's unlikely that either Feinstein or McConnell will be reelected, regardless of when the election is held. The scale of their health effects weren't known at their last election.
Yeah, to my understanding Visual Studio for Mac was a fork of MonoDevelop [0].

Microsoft does also mean mac/iOS frontend for cross-platform. There's a cross-platform MAUI Extension for VS Code in Preview: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-the-d...

[0] https://www.monodevelop.com/
You have some possible recourse if someone steals your securities without your authorization.

The reason why it's more appealing for criminals to do it with crypto is that claw-backs are essentially impossible.
> This is a clear violation of the Free Software license that Linux is made available under.

I don't see why. The "Linux-only APIs" are a feature imposed by the Linux kernel developers, not by the GPL. Trying to circumvent it is of course contrary to the wishes of the Linux kernel developers, but that doesn't mean it's a violation of the GPL. The GPL does not say that no program that interfaces with a GPL-licensed work can do anything the authors of the GPL-licensed work don't like.

It would be a violation of the GPL if NVidia tried to ship its own Linux distro including its proprietary drivers. But it's not doing that. NVidia doesn't ship Linux at all. Linux users install NVidia's drivers alongside the Linux that they install.
Most of what you wrote there is simply not true for modern DBMS, specifically PostgreSQL has a mechanism called TOAST (https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-tutorials/postgresql-t...) that does exactly what you claim "they aren't probably interested in doing" and completely eliminates any performance penalty of large objects in a table when they are not used.
This is fucking amazing!! Love to see it, very interesting future for folks with t1d now, both re tools like this and new potential cures in the pipe.
IITs? I have been hearing talks of forcing it on ISRO and private companies.
It's the precision and nimbleness that's scary to me compared to weapons capable of vast destruction.
sorry, not American here. "backwards" means the same thing in any other type of English. I will "prepone" it... lol
Early operating systems did not support directory trees, and I'm sure some didn't even support timestamps and such. Would you say that those system do not store files at all? What even is the defining characteristic of a "file"?
Sure, there will certainly be competitors. But even if OpenAI loses market share, their revenues could go up dramatically due to the increasing size of the market.

So the doom and gloom talk about OpenAI having no moat seems very overblown to me. They don’t have to maintain absolute dominance in their model. They just have to have a competitive product.
"Putin is about to fall this year" is on the same level as "20XX Year of the Linux on the Desktop" as a meme.

Good or bad news is news, life as normal is unappealing.
EXPI by @p01 (Assembly 2023 winning 1k demo)
It's on the kiwifarms homepage

>Lolcows are people with eccentric behavior who can be "milked" for entertainment.

the "milking" is harassment
Wraith Scheme
Good for you. I’d even go further, force us to have kids. That’ll show us!

Glad that my attitude is in somewhat majority, otherwise we wouldn’t have potential depopulation problems. Don’t have to worry about these type of takes.

Have a good day!
Exactly. Let's compare April with October and we'll have a meaningful statistic there.
> When I could finally do something about my problems, the idea of stoicism slowly outlived its utility for me.

Can you expand on that? Isn't one of the ideas of stoicism to focus on the things you can do to solve your problems?
Hard to tell sometimes what's sarcasm. For instance, somebody who defends their subsystem against naive collaborators is castigated in this article. But sometimes, believe it or not, everybody shouldn't try to change the hard parts of your system. Sometimes it takes experience and knowledge to do it safely.

This article seems certainly to be from a manager's perspective.
Have you been on a BMW X6? I swear there’s less interior space in it than in a 3-series, the trunk is almost at armpit level and a mazda 3 can load bigger things. Same for the mercedes GLC. They’re the contemporary version of the hummer.
> Honestly how many .NET developers ever used a Mac as their work machine? I have to think it's a tiny percentage.

I’m not sure this is the best time to look at past performance to predict future developments. Microsoft is actively working on WinUI 3, and Avalonia UI is also dragging WPF to multiple platforms. This comes in a time when GUI programming on Mac is a hot mess. If anything, I expect .NET development on Mac to soar.
> why is Kanban not as popular as Scrum?

Good question, but is it the right question? While I know that scrum and kanban differ, I've generally seen them used together. Every scrum team I've worked with has made a kanban board a central (or at least main) part of their work.

Maybe a more accurate question might be why don't more managers incorporate kanban into their project management processes?
They attempt to deal with it, but there are still massive problems with their simulations of it. Go read the papers, the model authors talk about the issues themselves. Nothing right wing about climatological papers, is there, far from it.

Re: ocean warming. These aren't small details. For over a decade climatologists reported that there had been a long term pause in global warming. Thousands of papers were written about it, wondering where the heat went. They started to argue that it had disappeared into the ocean, in an event not anticipated by the models. Literally that all global warming had been absorbed this way since ~2000. That's a huge detail to miss!

Around 2015 or so they resolved the problem in a different way: they modified the temperature databases to erase the pause from the record. All those papers, apparently studying and trying to explain something that had never even happened.

So the uncomfortable fact remained that by their own telling, either:

1. They didn't understand heat absorption of the oceans.

or

2. They didn't know how to measure global temperature despite their entire field being based around these measurements.

But actual history is just "right wing fud", right? It's impossible for pure minded academics to ever be corrupted by power, pride or a lust for status. They're just born better than right wing people.
> ...GeForce Now also works fine on a plain old Chromecast with Google TV ($30), which you can connect standard Bluetooth controllers to (say, Xbox controllers or leftover Stadia controllers with the firmware upgrade).

How is the latency in this configuration? I thought the main reason Google used the Wi-Fi built into the Stadia controllers was to get around this.
we didn't buy a condo haha, are letting people choose their own housing :)
Both? These government organizations really have taken a partisan turn. It is really disheartening to see this level of political motivation to target "companies/persona non grata".
ClinFHIR Launcher: Open Tools for FHIR
Awesome suggestions, thank you!
So is harassment and stalking.
Does this make VS Code a parity experience though, or is it always perpetually behind in some way that makes Visual Studio stand above?
The valuation means nothing since Linux is the more important technology by a landslide. One is the foundation of literally everything - and the other is faster at graphics and leading an emerging LLM market. Computers still work without AI - anything else in the short term is pure hype.

My MacBook Pro crushes Llama - NVIDIA hardly has an exclusive advantage.
I mean the vast majority of studies indicate environmental factors like access to healthy food, a strong family, educational opportunities, and the literal environment are what drives difference in outcomes, not "genetic inferiority".

Maybe someone from a lower (poorer) caste was raised on a diet of food grown in polluted/ tainted fields, grew up with poor air quality, and their water comes through lead pipes or other means that permanently hinder their potential.

You're arguing pure eugenics and apparently find it funny.
Hotels in all the major chains do this. Try staying in a Hilton or Hyatt or Marriott in a touristy place like Hawaii or Florida and not get a resort fee or something stupid. If you’re lucky they are advertised and you can filter.

If you’re unlucky you find out at check-in and your options are pay or find a new hotel while your family waits.

Or if you’re super lucky, you find out at checkout and just refuse to pay and be on your merry way.
Anecdotal, but I moved my "ChatGPT" usage to bing chat, now use bard regularly, and signed up for Copilot, using it daily. Basically I have spread my usage around. My $0 paid to ChatGPT is now paid through BingChat (MSFT => OpenAI) and my $10 Copilot subscription (MSFT => OpenAI). So I guess they are ahead as far as I am concerned.
Someone from Meta alluded to it the other day, and apparently there will be some talk about exactly what their strategy is with all this at Meta Connect (in September), but it totally looks like some sort of defensive moat. Rather like how Google gave away Android as part of the effort to stop Windows Phone.

The community has absolutely run far further with all the various models than I think anyone thought reasonably possible, and at least I am phenomenally grateful that this entire episode has not pushed us over into absolute cloud dependency, even if it all started in deeply confused circumstances.
Grocery stores do not advertise with tax-inclusive prices, in fact the opposite. Heck, I live in a no-sales-tax state and even then, some items might still be taxed because they are considered "prepared foods" and fall under hospitality taxes, so the shelf price and total at the register may not be the same.
You've got it backwards. If you are worried about supply chain attacks, you may want to consider something like nix.
The mode they're asking Tesla to remove isn't included in production cars. It's a development flag found by an outside hacker. This is giving me bad flashbacks to the Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee incident where Rockstar got their game rating changed and fines issued for something not accessible in the game
Massive respect to you. I would suggest that in the future you somewhat hide your identity so that you can have a larger impact.

> And I'd only just got out after doing 10 years in detention waiting for trial before the prosecutor came to me and said they wanted to throw all the charges out.

Surely that can't be legal? They've taken 10 years away from you, that must be the system being used maliciously?
Climate change upends Fukushima peach harvest season
Oh no, the Effective Altruists have infiltrated our financial infrastructure. Truly, they will stop at nothing.
Good point... Just look at what Kim Dotcom has managed to do despite the MPAA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Megaupload_arrest_a...
I think the discussion above is about using cameras to monitor the driver as a means to replace the torque test needed on the wheel, not technologies for outside the car.
Copilot models are not OpenAI IIR
I'm generally happy with Autopilot in my Tesla but it annoys me that I have to keep tugging at the wheel. Is it not safe to sit with your hands in your lap, ready to grab the wheel, while attentively monitoring traffic?

It feels like a hypothetical requirement on old-school cruise control to keep your foot lightly on the brake, in case you need to stop. But obviously no cars worked like that. You just set cruise control, kept your foot comfortably on the floor next to the pedals, and kept an eye out.
No, You Shouldn’t Build Your Own AI Support Bot
What "sort of problems" do you mean, exactly?
The updated post makes sense - you say caste has nothing to do with anything but you may not be in a position to judge.

Especially if all your Indian friends are of the same caste, even if that’s accidentally so.
No: retail businesses don't need to "look up" their sales tax, because it doesn't change per customer.
On what basis would they sue the municipalities?
I haven’t found any good use cases for chatgpt.

I tried using it as a replacement for a search engine but having to double and triple check the output generated became tiresome.

It kind of works for writing simple functions but anything beyond that I found it gets it wrong. Again, double/triple checking became tiresome.

I wonder if any other professional fields have found a way to improve their workflows with it?
Again: they are exclusively objecting to labeling requirement for pass-through fees.
Your argument touches on several points, each of which deserves a nuanced response. So let's dive in.

First, about the decline of science's "good reputation" and the issue of replicability: Failure to replicate is an inherent part of the scientific process that helps it self-correct. While it's true that some modern scientific fields face replication crises, using that to dismiss entire disciplines, especially well-established ones like climatology, is a broad brush that does more to muddy the waters than clarify them.

As for peer review being flawed because it's "run by climatologists" — experts in the field being criticized — your argument sounds perilously close to a conspiracy theory. The idea that all climatologists are financially and professionally incentivized to uphold a false narrative is not just cynical; it misunderstands how academic tenure and prestige work. Scientists gain notoriety and respect by overturning existing paradigms, not by conforming to them.

You're right that challenges like over-prescription of opioids continue to be serious issues within the medical system. However, these issues are met with ongoing scrutiny, calls for reform, and targeted actions to address the problem, rather than a dismissal of the entire field of medicine. The existence of flaws doesn't invalidate the enterprise; it emphasizes the need for continuous oversight and adjustment. Just as we wouldn't discard the entire medical field because of specific issues, it's reductive to discredit the bulk of climate science due to criticisms of the peer-review process or other perceived shortcomings.

As for the "doomer or denier" binary, you've created a false dichotomy. There is a wide range of opinion within climate science, from the degree of human influence to the best methods of mitigation. But the majority opinion, backed by empirical data, leans toward significant anthropogenic impact.

Lastly, the "climate changes naturally" argument. While it's a factual statement, it's also an incomplete one when discussing the current situation. The speed and impact of recent changes are what concern climatologists, and numerous studies attribute this to human activity.

You seem to want room for nuance and complexity in this discussion, which is commendable. But you can't then turn around and use sweeping generalizations to dismiss the bulk of scientific consensus.

EDIT:

I think that all points from that document are thoroughly debunked and explained at skepticalscience.com. I suggest spending some time there instead.
Best explanation yet.
I heard this excuse before, but aren't many schools back already?