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Show HN: Avalog, analog chess with Steam Multiplayer
Hi all. I saw [1] and thought it could be implemented neatly with the raycasts/shapecasts afforded by a game engine, so I learnt Godot and made it. It was part-time so took a while (don't do full re-writes!) but here it is. The demo is available on Steam [2] and will be in the upcoming Steam Next Fest.

The code and game is free and open-source, Steam is required for multiplayer. The full-game will be out in November, with some new 'factions' that move differently. Please let me know what you think, especially any bugs!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34370440

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2480820/Avalog/
I don't understand the technical intricacies of Bitcoin, that's true. But that's not why I'm mad about it. I'm mad about it because it's socially corrosive. I'm mad about it because tons of people who had no way of knowing better were brought into it and lost everything. I'm mad about the reflexive syllogism that permeates all tech-centered spaces which seems to say:

"If you can be exploited, you deserve to be exploited."
> the _extreme_ vast majority of people buying Bitcoin wouldn't be interested in it if

I am impressed by your powers of perception! You can probably read my mind, too, and tell me why I do the things I do, at least my major purchasing and investment decisions. It's a little scary knowing that there exists people as perceptive as you. It makes me feel naked almost.
Do blind people not have feet? I’m confused by the geometry of this story.
I feel like the most legitimate use for AI art is illustration rather than strictly art: worldbuilders and other fiction writers who want to show you what a thing they made looks like in their head, but don't have the skillset to draw it, just to describe it. AI is a really useful tool for that.

Unfortunately there's not a lot of profit in "this is what my OC looks like."
The fiat money system also operates on faith, but that faith is in the government so by your definition that's ok I guess.

Given a choice between the most stable government on the planet and the scam artists running crypto exchanges --- the choice is a no brainer.

Personally, I trust the government about the same amount as I trust big companies, not at all.

But you trust scam artists running crypto exchanges from undisclosed 3rd world locations?

You're lying to yourself.
From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The most recent fluctuations of the war between Israel and its neighbors that has been going on literally since Israel existed with lulls but rarely more than a few weeks without new armed attacks or human rights abuses directed by one side against the other (and with, on both sides, deliberate or indiscriminate targeting, and systematic collective punishment of civilians being more a norm than an exception, with the excuse that what the other side is doing justifies it, makes even events that feature these not novel phenomena even in the context of the specific conflict.)
I don't think that necessarily holds. It's a common trope to look at someone who's had a rough childhood and then become a success and say that it's because of their rough childhood. But this overlooks all the people who had a rough childhood and didn't become a success, why doesn't it hold there? Similarly, many people are successful without having a rough childhood. In essence, if you can easily make the same argument either way, that the childhood did/did not matter, then it's hard to say that it holds any bearing.

Of course, I don't disagree that coming from that background comes to define many parts of one's character, but to say that that's the reason for where they ended up is in my opinion a bit too reductionist.
Yes, it is very easy to remove the entire standard library from lua. Could compute time be handled with signal handlers in at least some cases? If not, one (admittedly somewhat hard) option is to write a small lua to lua compiler that injects yields into loops and recursive function calls.
Why shouldn't I reply? The link is promoting a person's tools for life. It's totally relevant to analyse the character of that person.
Every other planet should have independent probability as earth to have life, so that’s trillions op on trillions. Plus the way we evolved may not be the template on how other intelligent life will evolve. We make the mistake of thinking it can only work the way we’ve seen it done and exclude any other possibilities.
" you'll likely conclude they don't negotiate in good faith."

Is this surprising?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/unknown-t...

"Air Force general Curtis LeMay, head of the strategic air command during the Korean War, estimated that the American campaign killed 20 per cent of the population. “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea,” he said."

I am not defending NK. But they fought a total war and maybe there is a reason why they are paranoid.

What concerns me more then the delivery of weapons form NK to Russia is the possibility that they send soldiers. Kim would get money for it. And something his current army does not have. Combat experience.
Yes!

And value science (understanding it is simply our accumulated tools for finding harder truth, not a priesthood of “the truth”), more than pandering & populist politicians, and tribal media & online personalities.
The Picasso analogy really doesn't work, it makes no sense.
Wasn't supposed to be a nuanced take. The idea that huge complex systems in intricate balance are needed for humans is just not well supported.
It's become more and more aggressive and dumber - it'll take "bicycle" and happily return results about motorcycles, for example - which is fucking useless. If I'm searching for "metal bicycle fender", I don't fucking want results about motorcycles.

At some point they went even further and started doing it even when the words were quoted.
Facebook has been the internet in Myanmar,' Entering the country in 2010, Facebook initially allowed its app to be used without incurring data charges, so it gained rapid popularity. It would come pre-loaded on phones bought at mobile shops and was a cultural fit.'
Professor David Kipping has a lot of great videos that break down the statistical assumptions of these models.

Here is one such video I highly recommend.

https://youtu.be/-CsLmoiKugE?si=HocVLFJK3mwTgaFp
Researchers explore future climate in Africa, using clues from the past
Everyone has a theory just like everyone has an opinion. Some people think Trump won the 2020 election. Other people think life came from crystals. Whatever, man. No one has a clue how life emerged.
Use/abuse - still a negative for me. I didn't read his book but I doubt it's one of his tools..
Wow this is real, I remember decades ago when my brother was young he ran into a glass door similarly.
This is usually why new window decals take so long to be removed on construction sites - or taped with an X
On the inside your feet would meet the wall first. On the outside your head would. They were outside.
Just stop at unproductive. We don’t expect comments on HN to upend the power-structures which fuel this ongoing conflict.

Calling it boring — as if it had the potential to entertain - seems an bit insensitive to all the victims of the current and past hostilities.
Man, this looks great. And, personally, I think this is some of the best documentation I’ve seen. Kudos to those who put it together! I love the “short manual” for experienced devs to quickly get a sense of the language. And I wasn’t familiar with Tasmota before but def will be looking for an excuse to try it on a project.
Can satellite images be copyrighted? https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/73144/can-satellite-...
Ad impression can be dependent on search query, if they modify query to show ads, they make money they otherwise wouldn't have and worsen results
For context, here is the slide from the trial that the article was referencing: https://twitter.com/adamkovac/status/1710041764910846061

The author appears to have gotten the slide exactly backwards. She said the slide showed a query of “children’s clothing” that Google rewrites to be a “Nikolia kidswear” query so that it can sell more ads. But in reality, the slide is describing a fuzzy keyword matching system that takes a query of “Nikolia kidswear” and allows it to match ads with “children's clothing” keywords.

I’m surprised WIRED allowed such an obviously incorrect article to be published in the first place, particularly when it was by a known partisan (the article discloses that the author is a former Duck Duck Go executive with an obvious bias).
Ugh, the self signed cert “error” scare page is such a dark spot in general purpose computing history
They’re talking about the two groups approaching the raked wall from the inside versus the outside.
Right now we don't know if LLM's are also doing this, or not.

In their calculating the 'next' word, as part of that 'weighting', are the 'simple rules' for future words, that you are saying humans do but LLM's can't.
Validation isn't something you only get from your parents. Notwithstanding, it's not the only motivating factor for achieving and taking risks. Arnold's charisma and charm helped him go far rather early (he made his first million in construction with a fellow bodybuilder). He seems to delight in competing and new challenges. Some people are built that way.
Yet, if the primordial soup is indeed what happened, it created a birthday cake complete with icing, candles and balloons, through the creation of humans.
The primordial doesn't speculate that life appeared from one day to another, it speculates a long and slow process, just as the refinery of wheat into flour then a pastry (along with other ingredients) is a long and slow process (faster than the creation of life, but still).
You edited your comment dramatically from what I responded to.
Can we, like, stop killing each other for a day or two? Isnt it obvious already that war leads to an endless cycle of war? Attackers attack, defenders defend, the loser then seeks revenge, then they become the attacker, and potentially the winner, then the former winner becomes the loser seeking revenge and so on.

We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth as if we wont all eventually become that land. And once we do we’ll never ever come back.

It’s getting a bit boring to be honest.
Seems nice. Yet desperately needs dark mode.
I would in fact postulate that sufficient intelligent life would have moved beyond 3d/physical and would have exist in higher dimensions/virtually but hidden from sight. The way humans is trending certainly is going towards virtual/ augmented reality, virtual reality. In even 1000 years I can imagine direct brain implants for some reality augmentation. Also in 1000 years what other physics will we discover and able to manipulate? Certainly if we discover ways to manipulate actual reality, we will.

With that said, this could explain why we will not detect life because we only had the technology to detect what we call life, and this window could be only 1000-2000 years before we moved beyond physical reality. So the chance that a similar intelligent life with similar tech era out of billions of years makes it almost nil. Both windows has to match.
When I was young I struggled to fit in with others. I didn't know what to do so that other people would like me. As an older adult, I understood that everyone respects and appreciates someone who can deal with problems and get things done, in other words, a useful person. This is all there's to it. A big part of it is getting physically in shape. A big strong man is perceived as a useful man. I wish I figured this out earlier.
Ah I missed that thanks!
It's not fixed, but it is finite. No infinite sized screen exists
I used to think so. According to this page https://freekorea.us/sanctions/ existing sanctions are not enforced as strongly as they could.
North Korea and Russia are much more reliant on foreign technology than one may know. See this fascinating article about Western CNCs used in the production of Iskander missiles: https://rhodus.substack.com/p/how-to-make-an-iskander

Think also secondary sanctions, i.e. sanctions against countries and organizations that help circumvent sanctions. For example, companies in, say, China or Uzbekistan profiteer by selling to Russian companies components bought from the West. Let’s make them face a dilemma: if you do business with Russia or NK you will be cut off from the West.
Scientific evidence supports safe discharge of Fukushima wastewater
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jul/wk2/art04.htm

CPI was deflation for June 2008 to June 2009 yo.

Whatever cash you had that year gained value, not just from interest rates, but also from deflation.

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I dunno why you'd pick DXY when CPI or PCE are far more well regarded measures of price fluctuations.
Note it says "most" and "probably". Evening news grade stuff is still admissible if it fits the "On Topic" conditions.
Re "I certainly hope this information is still publicly accessible in some form..."

That's a worthy thing to hope for, but the purpose is not to be publicly embarrassed by Xitter's performance.
> I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?

Because it isn't reddit. I'm sure this forum is full of Israeli but also Muslim devs, do you really want that kind of strife on HN? I don't. There is no way that kind of discussion will not devolved into a giant mess.

It's even not because it's controversial, there has been outrageous topics on this forum (from my perspective), but it's already discussed everywhere else, with the exact same predictable results...
dollars are somehow "backed" by the military or tax payments.

They are backed by law --- they are "legal tender". As such, I'm fairly confident I can pay next month's rent with them.

Crypto is backed by --- absolutely nothing.

Pretending you can't see the difference here is lying to yourself.
Russian Federation is not a member of UN Security Council. RF performs the biggest hoax in the history: they fooled whole world.
The Yamaha Disklavier is a player piano that uses a similar solenoid actuation technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disklavier
lots of marketing relies on superficial understanding by the viewer, partial attention and mistaking good looks for other qualities. In other words, yes, agree.. look at the results in the markets.
I think you're not familiar with Rossman's videos, he doesn't have sponsorship segments.
That still doesn't reflect a moral blight, let alone for the fact that it's a "potential".
We can't know that life is guaranteed unless we find another example of life arising independently.

We don't know how many random chemical reactions are required for life to be likely. We probably agree that a small puddle isn't likely to spontaneously generate life within a century. We like to think that one planet for a billion years is about the right size. But it could be that it takes a whole universe of planets before it's likely to happen once.

If that were the case, then the universe would look exactly like it does now, with us living on the planet where it happened and no life discovered elsewhere so far.
Chrome 119 Beta
Sheesh, I would have expected it to sure 1700%.
The term fiat currency predates crypto by a truly substantial amount of time, it describes an idea which is as old as currency. There is no reversal of meaning, fiat is from Latin ‘let it be done’ it’s value is by decree.
Unfortunately, the status quo in Israel/Palestine is pretty garbage, and practically guaranteed to lead to conflict.
I used to use Mango too, great alternative.
We may want to get in touch with each other. We have an Open Core document management platform that runs in AWS; I'm not sure about your roadmap, but there may be something there that's of use: https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core
There are Anki decks for most languages, what are you having trouble with?
The article seemed very strange to me, so I'm not surprised it's been pulled.

(my overriding thought as I read it being "I'm sure google does assorted morally dubious things in this area but this really doesn't seem like their style of evil, and I suspect the article is either a misrepresentation or mistaken")
Well you have to remember that the US had basically won the war until millions of Chinese troops were sent over the border to flood them with bodies.

The point is McArthur was probably right.
One thing I like to bring to these debates is the idea that people, in general, are really bad at understanding probabilities at the scale that is required here.

And I'm not talking about probabilities that deal with how large the universe is. We know that it is unfathomably huge, with countless galaxies, stars, and planets.

But in "Fermi's Pair o' Decks" there is an illustration of just how few things need to align "just so" to make it almost certain that we are the only life in the universe: https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/aliens.html

In fact, all you need are two decks of playing cards to understand how combinatorics can very quickly overwhelm our intuitions.
Your comment is excusing groping people as not being "perfect"? Please explain.

If you've done tons of shit that you're not proud of, I'll probably pass on your book too.
I think the difference is we have entire shelves in many stores stocked with products with zero proven efficacy related to what is claimed on the packaging.
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Wow only a few cities have replicated this. Is the associated cost of designing bird friendly buildings cost prohibitive? If so, need regulation to enforce this at state/local levels.
What you are saying is that you are biased against Google. I doubt that you demand proof every time you see retraction, and that you consider the publisher liars if they don’t show the proof. Right?

Also, Wired didn’t say the “proof” came from Google
This isn't a progressive thing. There's a strange wish in conservative circles that progressives love crime
There is quite a lot of history around the releases that goes back several decades.

Braben et al didn't want to weaken the copyright I guess since they were doing Elite 4/Elite: Dangerous.
Printing Martin Behaim's Globe
Fire Baker for cause and claw back any bonuses / extra compensation. That would indeed be a good start for freeing up some budget
For Google it's been consistently 3 years lately.

Also Linux distro phones aren't practical ways to participate in society unfortunately.
Are you certain you've understood their product offering? That vendor doesn't mention hydrazine in the long list of things they say they check for, on their website.
I’ve been using C for work on embedded for so long the idea of that is foreign to me, do you have any code in GitHub that is a good example? I’d like to read it.
A human has to have the knowledge of what the code is trying to do and what the requisites are for accuracy and numerical stability. There's no substitute for that. Having a translation aid doesn't help at all unless it's perfect: it's more work to verify the output from a flawed tool than to do it right in this case.
Is it such a ridiculous idea that a former executive might have stock options or some kind of lingering financial stake? Worth at least investigating.
For businesses, the hardware cost of technology is much smaller than the investment they make in their workers or software systems. Having multiple interoperable hardware vendors to choose from in addition to an OS obsessed with binary backwards compatibility made Microsoft/IBM PC clones the obvious and safe choice. This created economies of scale that inevitably shrunk the market share of the other systems (Commodore, Atari, etc). Apple only managed to hold on by dominating the education and creative markets.
The relevant material was almost certainly the slide that the article was mischaracterizing: https://twitter.com/adamkovac/status/1710041764910846061

I wish WIRED had included this context in their retraction statement…
HP Envy Move: portable allinone PC with battery, handle
Any other insights about working at Frontier? Did you work on Elite 2 or 3 at all?
You misunderstand. They copied the literal image from facebooks computers to their own to train with.
Not sure how I never managed to hear about that rule before. It seems pretty self-evident since I've come up with a similar idea.
He is only presenting the arguments of Hans Moravec and arguing for Succession Planning. He even mentions...when we can "no longer contribute" and we "enjoy a comfortable retirement". Almost mention the moral argument that we owe to allow a greater mind to evolve. A trans human might even be the only way humanity can survive. Then he contrasts it with the fearful view of the evolution of AI.

From an abstract on "The Age Of Robots":
"...rowing computer power over the next half-century will allow this reptile stage will be surpassed, in stages_ _producing robots that learn like mammals, model their world like primates and eventually reason like humans._ _Depending on your point of view, humanity will then have produced a worthy successor, or transcended inherited_ _limitations and transformed itself into something quite new. No longer limited by the slow pace of human learning and_ _even slower biological evolution, intelligent machinery will conduct its affairs on an ever faster, ever smaller scale, until_ _coarse physical nature has been converted to fine-grained purposeful thought..."

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

Now where is arguing for the end of Humanity? To quote from his presentation: "...Why don't we rejoice in their greatness as a symbol and extension of humanity greatness, and work together toward a greater and inclusive civilization"

Is Captain Jean-Luc Picard arguing for the end of humanity, is he less of an human?...Just for advocating for Data? - https://youtu.be/ol2WP0hc0NY
dup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793927
This is the long term goal of any Augmented Reality interface IMO

This is why I got into AR initially, because a computing system needs the input persistence of a literal parent or in the case of a self learning agent - something like a baby to perfectly observe in order to be able to create the data environment necessary for learning at the rate humans learn.

You could do it with a collection of sensors, but I think the idealized implementation is basically a perfect recreation of the sense inputs of a person as well as monitoring the person to infer the precise Markov Decision Process.
The article is moronic. If not for technology, 99.9% or more of currently living humans would be dead/never born because it would be too hard for them or their ancestors to live.
very impressive, interviews usually take me longer than that.
A lot of really great projects from the same author:

- https://leifgehrmann.com/2019/04/13/ncn-mileposts/

- https://leifgehrmann.com/2021/09/05/photogrammetry-on-a-plan...

- https://leifgehrmann.com/2022/02/18/lego-world-map/
The China+NK+Russia tripoint is interesting. Russia controls a narrow strip of coastline leading over to it, which prevents China from reaching the Sea of Japan. There have been historical negotiations between Russia and China about leasing rail lines or similar, to a port there, which would expand China's access. But, that same line would cut off Russia's direct connection to NK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93North_Korea%E2%8...

Here is a market (no participation yet) for whether anything will move forward on these lines: https://manifold.markets/Ernie/china-gets-direct-land-access...