skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that results degraded too, but I was able to get it back up to the same level by changing my approach to prompting. I experimented with writing the prompt in pseudo-code for instance, which worked for awhile, then stopped — stuff along the lines of:

# Define the parameters for the HistorySim experience
temperature = 0.5
historical_accuracy = 0.9
ambient_mood=.01

# Define additional instructions
use_historical_sources = True
simulate_and_track_variables = True
use_appropriate_language_registers = True

Currently, a numbered list of rules seems to work best, including this one to avoid the constant positivity: "LLMS have a well-documented tendency to see the past in an overly rosy and optimistic way. Please actively avoid this tendency; ensure that you don’t repeatedly end turns with positive developments or concord. Keep in mind that human history is riven by conflict, ambiguity, and confusion. HL’s narrative tone is grounded in realism, and at times bleak. Always introduce a downbeat plot element or source of additional conflict between turns 3 and 5."
I mean, everything is "better". If cameras are important to you, you now finally have a bigger sensor that allows for 2x zoom at around the existing quality. The chip is faster and more efficient, so battery will get better too.

If you wait 2-3 years between phones, you get something that's more significantly better. I've seen tons of comments here and elsewhere saying the 15 isn't that compelling compared with the 14. Is it supposed to be? Updating your phone every year isn't that common IRL. This is more compelling for people coming from iPhone 12/13 or older.
Have you assessed the nutritional content in the final juice? Carrots and celery are known to be harmful in excess (as most things are).

90 days is a very long time, please talk to a doctor or nutritionist before attempting anything like this.

You may also look into the fact you’re eating a zero-fiber diet. I’ve read something about that actually helping with IBS symptoms, it could explain any improvement you see vs the content of the diet which honestly doesn’t sound great.
Well, once you know how the RAM is changed, it's often a simple matter of figuring out the ROM too. :P

Often it's just copied over!
Those people were way off the mark anyway because there was no rumor to support that and it wouldn't even make practical sense.
Pointfrip Calculator in Android
I don’t personally use leather, but I have been lead to believe that it is the longest-lasting and most repairable material. Are those people just lying to justify their purchasing habits?
If your home has a personal computer in it, you are in the minority on this planet.
They didn't say much about it but hopefully they can infer enough to do a good job. You can already do mildly ok fake depth maps from a single image. I also would like to know if this is going to be somehow locked down to Apple Vision or a format we could use in a Quest3 or other VR headset.
> Why didn’t the industry protest these business models in the first place?

What kind of protest do you expect to see? The change was announced just now.
Linux desktop users are simply not a big enough market to bother spending money on. Until THAT changes, the only good solution is making it so that developers don't need to spend any money to cross-release. Which means Proton and Wine.
>The games that need a windows ABI will never need a newer windows ABI without rolling out an update

(un?)fortunately, games have long update tails now. Just ask Android/IOS how those older games work. The popular stuff makes money and will continue support, but abandonware is inevtiable.

> It doesn't matter what microsoft does with windows in the future, those games will continue to work.

Sure, but I'm worried about future games, not current. I'm sure you can play the current 20 years of back catalog for the rest of your life if need be, but many people will be moving on to the new shiny thing.

>Now all the games that work with wine are portable to any OS you want until the end of time.

ehh, give it maybe 20-30 years. "Forever" in software is never that. You still need people who care about Wine, older games, and backwards compatibility. And have the skills and time/energy to keep that maintained.

This isn't even a critique on Windows/Linux. Just accepting that at some point, for technological advance, we will need hard breaks, and people may not always care about getting over those breaks. We haven't had a hard break in Windows for decades, but we are on the cusp of various technologies and different product models, interesting and greedy alike.

I don't expect my copy of Skyrim to work on whatever is the new hardware in 30 years. I'll probably just buy Skyrim Quantum Cloud 2040 or whatever.
In that this is the peak season for putting up peppers (and late summer produce of all kinds), yes, it's pretty predictable.

Fermented chili sauce is probably the highest ROI home fermentation projects and easy enough that anybody can do it, so if you've got access to interesting peppers, take a whack at it. It's a really good way to use peppers that are too hot to eat on their own, since it's much easier to control the dosing in a dish as a sauce.
People play politics everywhere possible. 1:1 at least guarantees that you have a chance to present your work.

Problems with meetings: people don’t express themselves because they might offend others or create enemies, people follow each other, no defined rules on how the meeting operates, problems with credit, diluted responsibilities, opportunities for shifting the work and credit, as someone said in comments formation of cliques competing, etc.

Both are probably needed. You need to mix.
>better water resistance/proofing/reduced engineering cost

This is a myth. Look at the Samsung Galaxy S5 (IP67) & Sony XP10 (IP68). (Yeah, I'm a big Louis Rossmann fan; I learned this from his videos.)

Even if it were true, are you telling me Apple couldn't engineer a solution to the problem and turn it into a key marketing element boasting their innovation?
Who cares? How many people are dropping their phone in the ocean and retrieving it?
Where "work quite well" means "latency". It's even a sub-header in TFA linked above. It's the reason we didn't buy a dongle for our new Hyundai Ioniq 5 (which inexplicably still uses USB-A in 2023, and no wireless CarPlay), because every single review for every single dongle at best said, "...and the latency isn't all that bad." Oh, it'll be bad for me if it's bad enough for a reviewer to notice. Grabbing the cable when I get in the car isn't nearly as annoying as waiting for my button press to register.
FWIW the "www.bigtechontrial.com" domain does not work for me.
Yep. A body of work reveals bits and pieces of some real, human perspective and life and mind that evolves and moves through the world between each work, adding even more richness to it. A new work from an artist I like isn’t just exciting because I get more of a thing I like (that gets dull after a while) but because I’m excited about what they want to show me and tell me this time. How’s their work changed? How does it reflect on their prior work? What’s on their mind this, or last, year? Et c.

I don’t really care about having some equivalent “conversation” with an LLM.
Computers are fast these days. If you write efficient code I don't see any reason the difference between a Django site and static files couldn't be imperceptible.

Or... run a Django app behind a caching proxy like Varnish or Fastly or Cloudflare. I do that for my https://simonwillison.net/ site (Cloudflare) and helped implement Varnish at Eventbrite - it's a really solid pattern.
That will not taste like sriracha.
does "personal computer" also overlap with what we still call "phone"?
You don't want to be the first one to make the jump.
It's 1 terabyte vs 10 gigabits. It would take 13.5 minutes to flush the entire disk out via the USB port.
I really, really hate the mindset that it "makes no sense" to do something that's not absolutely the most profitable course possible.

If a game developer can make a living making "premium" games, then it makes sense to do so, especially with the very real ethical problems with making free-to-play games laden with microtransactions.

Just because you would only ever choose to do what makes you the most money possible, and damn the rest of the world, that doesn't mean everyone would or should make that choice.
I think it’s possible to interface with other (any?) language.
Why isn’t there some resource available for judges to ask a reasonable amount of technical questions to an impartial third party?

I could easily imagine them pulling a consultant from CISA or something for this particular case.
> While Cavanaugh delivered his opening statement, Mehta even appeared briefly confused by some of the references to today's tech, unable to keep straight if Mozilla was a browser or a search engine.

This is the only line in the link that supports the headline, and - seeing as how it includes the author's judgment about the facts but does not include any of the actual facts - I find it extremely unconvincing.

That doesn't mean the headline is wrong, but it's bad journalism to skip facts and just substitute your own judgments instead. I normally expect better from Ars.

Did the judge interrupt opening to ask a question? If so, what was the question? If not, what does it mean to "appear[] briefly confused"? Did he have a particular look on his face? Don't bother looking in the linked article for the answer to these questions, because you won't find it.
> Generative Siri and AR are clearly in the pipeline. You can see the infrastructure if you look.

You mean the M1 chip on iPad Pros wasn’t enough, but the A17 Pro on the new iPhone 15 pro is the “infrastructure” for better Siri? But wait, they’re not announcing that yet, so maybe we need the A18?
I honestly didn't know non-wireless carplay existed until you said something. Everyone I know just keeps their phone on a charging pad somewhere in the car.
My iPhone 8 is still working great...
I have no idea why you assume I throw away computers.
It's mostly oil price shock, combined with coming off the gold standard, caused by huge US deficits (Vietnam, Apollo, 'Great Society').

But hey, you did have a Nazi invasion, which is not a good thing. I assume it took some time to recover.
The plastic Korean kimchi buckets (the ones that let you push all the air out) work especially well for this.
I usually write posts in Markdown these days, directly in VS Code with the preview pane open.

The blog described in this article renders Markdown directly. My https://simonwillison.net/ blog doesn't do that yet, instead I paste my Markdown into https://til.simonwillison.net/tools/render-markdown and then paste the HTML into the admin interface.
There is NO dirth of ideas. I was hoping for duel screen, full satellite communication, 48hr battery, 3D audio/video/photos etc. These are the things that are very challenging to get right and I think only Apple can make it happen in a way to make mainstream. But nothing came through.
I suppose "noise" requires a more precise definition here – I assume they don't mean a thermal background. Or otherwise I'm left wondering how this squares with the Second Law of Thermodynamics: You start with high entropy (thermal noise) and end up with low entropy (a charged battery)?
They want Taiwan and if/when they try to take it they’ll need to be able to defeat the US.
Which they will do with shit-tons of cheap drones.
Seems to be a few copies on ebay for ~$30.

I got my copy back in the (gasp) '80s from the neighborhood B. Dalton's or something, and it totally changed the way I thought about the roles of code and data. It's one of the handful of books that have survived all my library downsizing, along with The Tao of Programming, the bible, the dragon book...
It's a shame to see such bad behavior coming from what I thought was a good brand.
Comment confused me a little bit (won't heat pump heat be reused too?), until I realized that you were factoring in gas-to-electricity efficiency. That makes sense.
They say this every single year. Then they show demos of games that were AAA 7 years ago.
> Presumably a trial run that didn't progress any further in the following 9+ months?

Having been in a similar anti-counterfeiting startup, a few years earlier, which got chips into a larger number of high-end products... It might well have been a pilot project, and those don't get renewed for a variety of reasons.

In our case, Covid disrupted our awesome first customer's industry right after our very successful factory launch. Covid had cascading economic effects to vendors and programs, of course, and Covid also prevented much of the field auditing follow-through we'd planned on.

Other ways this could fail, even without a black swan global pandemic:

* It's enterprise/corporate sales, which is very difficult and energy-intensive. Even having a no-brainer value proposition doesn't mean a yes. It might take several months of stakeholder meetings and tentative commitments to realize the yes isn't actually imminent like it had seemed. We had a few successes (including landing two top brands), but closing deals arguably took at least as much energy and clever ideas as all our software+hardware+logistics engineering and service design did.

* There might've been effort needed on the customer end, which didn't pan out. We minimized these dependencies, by, e.g., installing our own bespoke networked stations in their best factory, and adapting to their current factory order process, to be almost "zero impedence" (e.g., minimize new IT effort, minimize new corporate effort, minimize ways that dependencies can make mistakes). What a customer is willing and able to do varies from customer to customer (due to, e.g., what their processes and systems are, the nature of the product and how it's made and distributed and sold, various stakeholder motivations, etc.) so you have to tailor it. We thought hard and did a great "prescient" first pass at this for our pilot customer, preventing all sorts of things that could've/would've gone wrong, and still had to respond nimbly to many things we learned in the process.

* You want to show business value from the pilot project, which means stopping some counterfeiting sales effort, or unmasking some gray market diversion. And probably being able to attach a dollar value to that, and/or least show defending goodwill/reputation of the brand (e.g., reduce negative reviews due to people receiving lower-quality counterfeits). This probably means field investigation, since you probably can't arrange for the end customer or intermediaries to do it (merely having the chip and some tracking data alone probably won't do it), which is tricky... but is when you actually get the payoff for all that effort.
"Splitting a system into subsystems allows each team to focus on their piece of the puzzle while minimizing the amount of peer-to-peer coordination."

The coordination is still there because a microservice team does not live in a vacuum. They build services based on demand from other teams that typically build web apps, mobile apps, sometimes server-to-server.

Hence, the "independent" team now becomes a roadblock for higher order features.
I think you're talking about fiduciary responsibility. CEOs can be removed if they're shown to be acting against the interests of the shareholders which is why a lot of them look like ass holes.

> This being the case, why not a new type of corporation that was somewhere in the middle? Able to distribute profits (perhaps even with limitations on when they can withhold them, like so many of the big tech companies). Ones where the shareholders still get some (statutorily defined, so that case law can't come in and fuck it up) priority, but that when shareholders are acting only in short term interest, they can be overruled by those in charge of managing it.

There are of course alternate ways of structuring companies that prioritize the needs of groups of people besides shareholders like worker co-ops. The issue with these is that it can be difficult to raise capital to start or grow these businesses because there's less incentives for investors to give you their money.
It is possible to sync documents over the local network. Both Apple and Google have ways to connect devices without the Internet.

The fact that they haven’t done is good argument that it isn’t wanted. Partly cause the subset of people who work on planes and don’t pay for Internet is pretty small.
I don’t remember the last time I used a wire to transfer data to/from my phone. This seems like a non issue.
Many of my favorite games aren’t built on licensed engines.
Nah, turned to hell. I still talk with the remaining team members.
Here in Canada, it's companies like Praxair or Air Liquide. Major centres will typically have one, maybe a 10 pound minimum for dry ice.
iPhones and iPads were always air freight. All that just-in-time stuff. Covid, supply chain, port issues probably made conversion to sea freight untenable until recently.
I used to weigh into arguments with positions like this, or that "Game Devs should just make Linux/Mac builds of their games" before I got into the industry. Targeting a platform, even when you have an off-the-shelf engine that does the lions share of the work for you, is not easy work. Microsoft puts in zounds of dev time to make the wild west of hardware that is the PC landscape work, and in many ways, has to hold hardware manufacturer's feet to the fire in order to make that possible. Sony, Microsoft for XBOX, and Nintendo, all have much more significantly simplified architectures to support, and put in zounds of hours of work to make that work smoothly for their respective platforms.

The amount of effort to make a comparable API that game devs could target as a platform just... doesn't exist in the F/OSS world. I'm not trying to minimize the work that folks like the SDL team do in order to make this as possible as they can, as they do spend significant efforts to try and do this. It's also not like there aren't reasonably good F/OSS engines like O3DE, based on the Lumberyard source, which was in turn forked from a version of Crytek, which would keep this kind of support close at heart. For the largest titles however, the ones with the highest likelihood of creating a striking experience for gamers, they are already facing incredibly difficult challenges in pulling off exactly what they're trying to pull off today. Their focus is on making a great game, for whatever benchmark they've set that defines it as great.

It feels pretty rock-meet-hard-place to expect an ecosystem like Linux, one that embraces diversity as hard as it does to provide the level of stability and commonality that a large scale game project needs. Altruistically, yes, I wish there was a fantastic community supported platform target that game developers could use that provide the same level of stability and commonality that DirectX does. The adages about the chicken-and-egg problem of "nobody plays games on Linux, so no one is really interested in making a solid development target for games on Linux" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. At the very least, if folks like Valve working with CodeWeavers and the greater WINE community are making games on Linux a mainstream notion with growing support, then the likelihood of Desktop Linux getting enough community traction to make native targeting feasible becomes a real possibility.
It's not only the OS, it's the environment. File permissions are not a guarantee, no matter the OS.
> Generative Siri

LLM's that are actually good are about a year old now. I'm surprised that wasn't enough time for them to get them into Siri.
I'm iOS dev - I use such cable for data transfer (programming via Xcode) every day. Also no problem with syncing images with photos.app. Also no problem with fast charging - I recommend some well known brands.

But if you need usb 3.0 speed then you will need new iphone 15 pro
I am not sure I would even call Minecraft as having a "game engine". An engine is usually generalized so it can be extracted and used for many games.

> And its engine wasn't especially good.

It was good enough. It's non trivial to do, despite appearances.

> These days a large % of Minecraft installs are a C++ version of the game and not the original Java version, because it's really not about the engine.

But is the Bedrock version even the majority? It's been out for years and adoption is very slow. If it was not for game consoles it might not have taken off at all. And the main reason is mods. Which are not part of the "engine" as you put it, and were enabled by the technology choice.
Definitely Godot.
This was the way.
Indeed. There’s no good reason for this to exist.
I have never gotten used the notch. It ruined it visually for me.
Fresh account because first time here (see reddit username). I am not accusing Bob of anything untrue. Scott has a idiosyncratic style, but this is why many people follow him. All I can tell you is that his private community is nothing but intellectual discourse and goal-chasing.
The VA study in Nature - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3
To all those who are on this panel, which is the most comprehensive way a newbie can learn fine-tuning these models with or without the GPUs?

Are there any well directed courses available?
If the USB committee also didn't release a port for more years? This is getting too abstracted from reality to answer easily. That's not the world we live in, but perhaps Apple could have offered their new better port as an open standard in that situation.

If you mean the EU rulemakers being slow, no I don't think there would have been a multiple year delay to implement the new USB port.

But now I'm done with your questions about a situation that never existed, if you don't think my question is worth acknowledging.
just think of the countless civilizations of blind space whales living in subsurface oceans for whom merely getting to the surface of their planet is as difficult as it is for us to get to space
Have you actually worked on a game in any sense or fashion?
Related: new margin-trip property, which helps clear first/last margins https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/margin-trim
And why did the U.S. never restrict flights from China until months later?
Isn't it the prosecutor's job to make the case? If that means remedial explanations to the judge and/or jury, that's their job. At least with a jury, then can maybe figure some of this out during the selection process. I also seriously doubt that the lawyers for either side have not done research into the judge's case history to see what prior decisions have been made.

I actually am somewhat encouraged by the judge asking rather than faking it.
Ah, the usual suspects, then.
> These new Unity per-install fees could hit developers who aren't making money

There's a revenue threshold to meet to pay the fee.
Sure there is: C# is substantially less performant than C++ code.
> That's unkind.

Apple has a 2.75 trillion dollar market cap. You don't need to feel sorry for them. At their valuation and multiple they better damn well be delivering the most amazing stuff you've ever seen on a regular basis.
Wow. Scientists at Stanford figured this out to a demonstrable idea over ten years ago I believe. I am looking for the article, ambient power for IoT devices.
You mean like how AAPL drops nearly every time they have some kind of announcement? Yeah, I don't know if that's a good indicator of customer frustration.
You bursted very few bubbles. Most people here would have already guessed the “blue lights” were just transformers.
I totally agree. VB 1-6 was an interesting ride. Abolishing VB6 was a travesty. Once upon a time we had true RAD code, it was VB6. I do not code seriously much anymore, but when I do I miss the simplicity of fixing problems and not worrying about the code as much.