skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest on winning Atari with RL+ FWIU:

https://github.com/openai/retro:

> Gym Retro lets you turn classic video games into Gym environments for reinforcement learning and comes with integrations for ~1000 games. It uses various emulators that support the Libretro API, making it fairly easy to add new emulators.

.nes is listed in the supported ROM types:
https://retro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/integration.html#supp...

> Integrating a Game: To integrate a game you need to define a done condition and a reward function. The done condition lets Gym Retro know when to end a game session, while the reward function provides a simple numeric goal for machine learning agents to maximize.

> To define these, you find variables from the game’s memory, such as the player’s current score and lives remaining, and use those to create the done condition and reward function. An example done condition is when the `lives` variable is equal to 0, an example reward function is the change in the `score` variable.

PPO Proximal Policy Optimization and OpenAI/baselines:
https://retro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html#...

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

MuZero-unplugged with PyTorch:
https://github.com/DHDev0/Muzero-unplugged

Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium is a fork of OpenAI/gym and it has support for additional Environments like MuJoCo:
https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium#environments

Farama-Foundatiom/MO-Gymnasiun:
"Multi-objective Gymnasium environments for reinforcement learning": https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/MO-Gymnasium
I recommend Apple Watches, but if money is an issue, or you just dislike Apple, Amazfit has some nice offerings like this band:

https://www.amazon.com/Amazfit-Fitness-Monitoring-Tracking-R...

Some of the reports it produces are superior to Apple Health (it measures stress, a proprietary overall health score, and I prefer its sleep monitoring analysis).

It’s $39. The 15-25 day battery life claim assumes you disabled most of the functionality.

Insert privacy disclaimer here.
On the one hand my emotions say: "Hell yeah, serves this cheater right". On the other hand it's really totally ridiculous that cheating in an online game can be copyright infringement and cost the cheater $500K.
Its a little bit more complicated than that, some drivers can handle direct line printing, some can handled the Window Meta File (WMF) and some can handle Enhanced Meta File (EMF) and now there is the new EMF+.

So a trick that some people used was the wrong driver to make some printers behave in unsupported ways for a particular programs. And if a new driver didnt work, using the HP LaserJet 4 driver usually resolved the problem if it was a HP laser printer of sorts.

Throw in Inkjet printers that routed down USB connections, and the management of the USB wasnt the best, and it became a nightmare quickly having to remove registry entries because the printer uninstaller software behaved like McAfee AV software when people attempted to uninstall it.
I was already in my 20s, so arguably too old for neopets when I discovered it and was subsequently banned.

I found a flaw in an archery game that would allow me to always bullseye. It would only work in Firefox. I didn't have to do anything outside the normal interface.

I guess they decided to ban every archer that did too well. It was fine. I didn't feel compelled to try and return.
In my experience, ActiveX was not what they pushed. They pushed Asp.Net Webforms which used VBScript for the template language. The ViewState monstrosity made it an awful experience. Specifically how it send way more data than needed to and from the server on each request. I shiver when I think of it.
It’s the early web all over again.

Sun, DEC, Microsoft, etc just assumed they would use their cash and market presence to dominate the web up, down, left, and right.

LAMP showed up and ate their lunch. Today open source is the underpinnings for basically every startup over the past 25 years and everything from Android to MacOS to every browser rendering engine. An exclusionary list would be easier.

A 2008 study[0] from the Linux Foundation estimated the development cost of Fedora (at the time) to be almost $11B - in 2008 dollars on a 15 year old codebase. Wonder what it is now?

Point is, OpenAI raising a few billion dollars sounds like a lot of money until you look at the aggregate collective.

FOSS has always had commercial backers, entities with interesting business plans, non-obvious strategy (at the time), etc.

It’s perfectly clear to me why Meta is doing this. It’s also damn near breathtaking to watch the FOSS communities build, build, and build on top of the work of those like Meta as well as each other.

Personally I don’t understand how anyone could think OpenAI, etc vs FOSS is going to be special or unique against what we know to be obvious. I don’t see how this could possibly go any different than the early web. Why, just because it’s “AI” instead of “WWW” this time?

OpenAI will end up like Windows - used by some of the masses and corporate/Enterprise applications, users, etc (think Office integration). Everything else will be a herd (yes, Llama/Alpaca/Vicuna/etc reference.

[0] - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/linux-fo...
> Humans, too, would likely be nearly stateless if we took a point-in-time snapshot...

I highly doubt that would ever be possible in practice, as our inputs are much too complex. But I want to point out, you're basically saying here "humans are nearly stateless if we take a snapshot of their state and simulate that state..."
I understand that many people on HN prefer open-ish LLM on local hardware, but I think it doesn't make sense sadly for efficient hardware usage perspective. Transferring input/output text is almost free cost and local hardware can't be fully utilized by a few people. SaaS make sense here, though I understand that privacy and censorship are matter.
Tutorial is a Getting Started, with no specific goal other than to serve as a general hands-on introduction. It does not assume any prior experience with the tool/product.

How-to(s) is a cookbook, targeting specific use cases, and may not particularly cater to novices.
Pulse pressure, systolic-diastolic, is far more important clinically than I realized.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482408/#
Technically we have Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber" to thank for having to remove footwear, from an attempt which happened later the same year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_63_(2...

But your point is still valid!
Whatever happened to "expert systems" from the 80's, 90's? They were supposedly going to be able to solve this exact problem — medical diagnosis.

Perhaps this was the camp of AI that thought you could just build a decision tree (top down) ... that appears to have failed?

Instead the bottom-up (neural networked) AI seems to be winning out.

I wonder though if a ChatGPT would have been possible in 1985 with no rich internet to feed it data. I wonder if it would have been possible with even 2000 internet?
Yes, but we’re specifically dealing with Python here. I’m extremely skeptical that anyone’s logging 15 GB/s in Python, or that it’s even possible using the standard library.

Much more likely is whether someone would call

LOG.info(“%s: %s”, request_ip, request_path)

or

LOG.info(f”{request_ip}: {request_path}”)

a few dozen times a second. I suspect it’s a pointless micro-optimization for 99.9% of use cases.
What does TIA even mean?
What's the bottleneck to build a modern VB6? Just curious.
If the code takes a valid series of ICAO waypoints and routes, generates the corresponding ADEXP waypoint list, but then when it uses that to identify the ICAO segment that leaves UK airspace it's capable of producing a segment from before when the route enters UK airspace, then that code is wrong, and who knows what other failure modes it has?

Maybe it can also produce the wrong segment within British airspace, meaning another flight plan might be processed successfully, but with the system believing it terminates somewhere it doesn't?

Maybe it's already been processing all the preceding flight plans wrongly, and this is just the first time when this error has occurred in a way that causes the algorithm to error?

Maybe someone's introduced an error in the code or the underlying waypoint mapping database and every flight plan that is coming into the system is being misinterpreted?
Easy for me to say in retrospect, but IMO this is a textbook example of where you should reach for fuzz testing; it’s basically protocol parsing, you have a well-known text format upstream and you need to ensure your system can parse all well-formed protocol messages and at very least not crash if a given message is invalid in your own system.

Similarly with a message queue, handling dead letters is textbook stuff, and you must have system tests to verify that poison pills do not break your queue.

I did not think the author was setting unreasonable expectations for the a priori testing regime. These are common best practices.
> the backup system applied the same logic to the flight plan with the same result

Oops. In software, the backup system should use different logic. When I worked at Boeing on the 757 stab trim system, there were two avionics computers attached to the wires to activate the trim. The attachment was through a comparator, that would shut off the authority of both boxes if they didn't agree.

The boxes were designed with:

1. different algorithms

2. different programming languages

3. different CPUs

4. code written by different teams with a firewall between them

The idea was that bugs from one box would not cause the other to fail in the same way.
There is no "free" version, only a "if you make less than $X" version, which is a huge red flag for me.

Lazarus is free, but due to the way their help files are build, incremental improvements in it are impossible, so it's just a list of arguments for functions, with no real explanations.
From what I've seen (my partner and some of her friends dived back in after the relaunch announcement) they have some more of the flash content reimplemented in non-flash tech or emulated, so it's a bit less dead than it was.

And also the metaverse thing and nft project has been cancelled. AFAICT this is largely due to outcry from the community.
Please look at the proportion of Americans in prison compared to the rest of the world, then realize that the rest of the world manages to maintain law and order without holding 25% of the entire world's prison population
Of course it's not free either way. But when you're running it on your own infrastructure, you are free from OpenAI's whims, and that's extremely important.
That is exactly why you need fasting blood glucose for diagnosis of diabetes.
As much as I want to bash ChatGPT, this is actually a good use for it.

It’s been possible to google this stuff for a long time but you need to know how to use a search engine. And the results have slowly been getting worse over time.

ChatGPT adds another dimension to search. It’s not an oracle of truth but it can point you to things you would have thought of.
> but I have thought about generalising things like numerical ranges by having something like unfold-transduce.

This is more or less what I was wondering about. Numerics, ports, SRFI-41 streams, etc. There's a lot of stuff that isn't in e.g. r7rs-small but is more or less expected in most Scheme implementations.
> satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science

it sounds like some spy stuff
I think it's a misunderstanding. I found a couple of articles mentioning both Nokia and NSA, but here NSA stands for "Non-Standalone 5G network".

Here's a press release, for example: Nokia selected by Dedicado for 5G NSA network in Uruguay (https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2022/12/08/noki...)

And a Linkedin profile (he must have a room in the office): Yuriy Pavlov - NSA Infrastructure Information Systems Manager. Nokia. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuriy-pavlov-1969904)
LLM's are amazing. Truly amazing stuff. Let's not screw this up.
no but ive ran into occasional issues where it's "plugged in" but not charging. I just pull it out and plug it back in to make sure it's on.
Though going from NFA to explicit DFA isn't always a good idea.

Btw, you might also like looking into the Brzozowski derivative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzozowski_derivative which can be used as an alternative way to match regular expressions.
Says more about doctors really, even dealing with something as banal as back pain it took years and finally visiting a physical therapist to get the issue properly identified and resolved.
Fancy! I like that on mobile I can drag to move around!
Ask HN: Talking to non-English speakers online?
I have a lot of friends abroad I met while traveling, but lost fluency in those languages over the years. I built a piece of tech that is a barebones video chat app that can translate between different languages in real-time with a few seconds of latency. The translation renders as STT output on screen in the target language (with the option for TTS audio output as well).

Some friends mentioned that they might use something like this when reaching out to Chinese manufacturers who don't speak English as well. They run their own businesses (custom hardware and dropshipping) and need to talk with Chinese manufacturers to explain exactly what they need.

I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile making this a SaaS product or just keeping it to myself and my friends. Would anyone else here have a need for a real-time translation video chat app?
One of the best things I did for my old home-server was to switch to Unix sockets for the majority of my selfhosted services' databases, the performance difference on that very low end hardware was monumental. Now I'm on NVME with a modern CPU the difference isn't as marked but why leave any performance on the table?
surveillance into private places is illegal. you can't film in someone's window, you can't wifi vision through someones walls. whether or not that is prevented from happening by manufacturers and that the law is enforced depends on a lot of things
Soaking the beans and discarding that water before cooking them greatly reduces the phytic acid. Beans are excellent for health. You just have to follow the traditional methods of prepping them.
> Hope you never eat anything with, among other things, onions or garlic.

As with many things, the risk is highly overstated -- so please stop spreading FUD.

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"Onion poisoning is consistently noted in pets who consume more than 0.5% of their body weight in onions."

https://www.petmd.com/dog/nutrition/can-dogs-eat-onions

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"Consuming as little as 2 grams per pound of your dog’s weight can cause observable changes in a pet's stomach, and larger amounts can damage the blood. For reference, each garlic clove weighs an average of 5 grams. For a medium-sized dog weighing around 25 pounds, treatment will be needed if they ingest 50 grams of garlic—approximately 10 cloves, or half of a garlic bulb."

https://www.petmd.com/dog/nutrition/can-dogs-eat-garlic

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Unless you're literally feeding your dog a dish with onions and garlic, it isn't an issue.
It is a worthwhile practice to open one’s mind to disagreeable views to find where their disagreement lies. If you were to spin this against ChatGPT, would you really have nothing to say?
Would absolutely pay $50 for a book.
So this is a good thing with regards to your parent comment? I.e., should we feel safe using Bun despite heavy VC investment?
Last time it was the end of the Aries age, when Nero played the role of the antichrist. Today we're approaching the of the end of the Pisces' age, and Nero 2.0, fixed and engrossed, will be equipped with brain reading devices (the future of neuralink), machine intelligence and human-like machines. Thinking in private will be possible only at the abstract level, as all the internal monologue will be carefully recorded and analyzed. He will rise to power on the wings of nihilist technocrats, and will institute the law for those who want to be free, and freedom for those who want to be free from the law.
The author of the linked post wrote the (open access) Handmade Electronic Music, https://www.nicolascollins.com/handmade.htm, a really fun book to make projects from for anyone interested.
phone network and gps are an entirely different class of technology with entirely different capabilities and entirely different expectations.

a gathering of people in a online social space is much more likely to be judged closer to a gathering of people in a real world space. an owner of a social media space likely has similar responsibilities—legal and ethical—to the owner of a bar or other gathering space.
I had an app that ran on Android about a decade ago, which let the user ignore some of the cell masts, so you could not be triangulated, it let you stick to just communicating with the cell mast of your choice.

Dont know if its still around.
But we are actively investing in green energy production. This year (2023) 85% of the new generation capacity is the US is solar, wind, batteries and nuclear, the remaining 15% coming from natural gas [1]. Virtually all the retired capacity was coal (60%) and natural gas (30%). In the US we are moving away from fossil fuels, and we'll get to net zero well ahead of the 2050 target date.

What's Al Gore's problem then? It's easiest to score political points by stoking hate. "How can these guys murder the planet?", basically. Well, these guys are just engaging in a legal and profitable activity. If you don't want them to do that activity, make it illegal or unprofitable (by taxing it). Instead of that, he's trying to shame them out of doing it. Good luck with that.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57340
Living in big cities is becoming more and more the case of boiling frogs. If all these things came up at once, none of it would fly. But because year after year, it slowly gets worse, people just go along with it pretending it's fine.

It wouldn't be surprising in a few years that they'll charge by the streets you entered, or the calculated emissions produced by your vehicle.

(Note I have never visited NYC, on the bucket list)
This is amazing and we are only getting started.
https://archive.is/EU86T
A couple solutions I've seen before

- Config gets generated to a deploy and saved as <version>.json. Code downloads config file matching its own version or fails to start (this is a nice one since rollbacks becomes vary deterministic and code rollback is the same process as config rollback)

- Deploy code first and verify it's updated and working correctly before changing feature flag config (this one is still prone to errors without automation)

The first one can be done on Kubernetes using kustomize ConfigMap generator. The system I worked on used object storage for the config file and deploy tooling to generate it from a key value store at deploy time
Lol, it doesn't scale because of the quality of the programmer, not because of the language. There may be some self-selection there but it isn't because of the language or tooling. Any "too easy" language brings these comments. People complain about MATLAB too when in fact there is nothing wrong with it or VB. Of course you can abuse both for purposes they are not meant for.
Wikipedia also notes: "Dohring used Scientology's Org Board to manage the company." That's a management technique that L. Ron Hubbard claimed originated with an 80 trillion year old galactic civilization.

According to Kotaku, an anonymous ex-employee claimed that: "The negative aspects of NeoPets, all came from the side of Scientology-Oriented business structure/psyche." https://web.archive.org/web/20071115124238/http://www.kotaku...

(Link stolen from a post you made 17 years ago. :) )
Thanks In Advance.
I don't think anything close to the compute needed to train chatgpt or any of the other LLM's would be possible in 1985 or 2000
Articles breathlessly getting excited about anecdotal cases are a good way of doing just that.

(It's good this article is on HN, but I don't like this reporting)
done listening to "i would normally support this drastically overdue and necessary environmental policy but they're not doing it just right in my opinion so i can't"
Decision tree is basically how doctors work, at least how they're trained to work. I think for a machine to be significantly better, for it to be impressive, it stands to reason it would work differently.
"Baseball bat fodder" would be more apt.
New Blood Test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has 91% Accuracy
If you have a portable meter, you can always take it to the doctor and do a back-to-back or simultaneous reading.

You will probably find that your blood pressure varies more over a 10 minute window than the difference in readings between the two meters.
Yeah someone at Microsoft thought they could get Windows CE to run on the popular Nokia 3210. /s
>Salt is water soluble

Yeah, and that's what makes salt increase your bp. More salt in blood = more water retention = more volume = higher bp.
it can't build stylesheets or run a headless browser yet, so its not entirely a one stop shop
Nope. Sorry, but I can’t mention names right now as we’re apparently potentially going to be getting into a lawsuit with them.
https://archive.is/Zn5wJ
Somehow we need to get to the point that patients expect doctors to use AI to assist their diagnosis.

I think at the moment using AI would lead to the perception that the doctor is incompetent.

But I would always rather a doctor who consulted AI and then overlaid their personal experience and expertise to rule in and out what the AI suggests.

The idea that any/every doctor knows everything, or even could know everything is so false and wrong and out of date.

There is probably a business opportunity in this somehow, for "AI first doctors" - their target customers being people who want the best human advice PLUS the best AI advice.
I had a similar experience where ICU doctors and nurses missed the diagnosis, but I put the info into ChatGPT and it found the right diagnosis. I just wish I had tried it 12 hours earlier -- it would have saved a lot of suffering.
This is crazy! The hash of this comment once again begins 182a7c9!!! Well done indeed!
Wernher von Braun polled his reports for whether the rocket was reliable or not. Each engineer replied "nein".

Von Braun reported that the rocket had six nines probability of success.
Thanks for the reply. I got the gray text on this almost immediately, then couldn't see it under the new or ask tabs. Might try asking again on Sunday morning to catch a different crowd, but apparently this isn't a topic that's relevant here.

Specific clubs for each machine is probably the way I'll have to go. I'm south of Boston, so I figure there's a good chance of finding something.
I agree, it reads like the doctors didn't do their job properly.
This is an ideal usecase for ChatGPT; synthesize a huge body of knowledge, and come up with some suggestions in an environment where a wrong answer doesn’t really hurt (since it’s either an answer she heard already, or a doctor shoots it down).

I think we can safely bet that doctors will be using these systems to generate suggestions (human in the loop) very soon, but making the diagnosis reliable enough that you’d take the human out of the loop could be extremely challenging.