skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I would rather someone remade it with a modern user interface. I bought it a few years back because I am a huge fan of adventure games and bounced right off because of its abysmal UI. All I remember of the game is clicking one arrow and then going back and mysteriously ending up somewhere completely different from where I was before, trapped in a proverbial maze of twisty little passages, all alike. It's a train, for crying out loud, how can you make a train unintuitive to navigate? In any case, the story walked away and I was left wanting to throw my mouse out the window of my apartment.

There are several other games doing this real-time clock gimmick now, and I think enjoyment of them hinges very much on how deeply invested you get in the story before the frustration sets in. I bought and returned Outer Wilds because of its tedious dialog, janky user interface, infuriating insta-deaths and enforced time limit that had me suffering the pain over and over again, while professional reviewers would have you believe it's the best game of 2019. On the other hand I bought Consortium years before that, had one great playthrough and remember it as one of the best sci-fi games I ever played, whereas other players chose a path they didn't enjoy or encountered bugs and jankiness and decided it sucked. I have a couple other games buried in my wishlist with the same gimmick, but every time they come up for sale I'm reluctant to buy them because the whole "genre" (if that's what it is now) seems like such a crapshoot.

In general I'm not sure the concept is really successful as a gameplay mechanic, despite it sounding like a more realistic and immersive way to play. I think the constantly running clock thing ends up feeling more "gamey" than triggered events, because the player is forced to adjust their real life to fit the game instead of escaping into the game as a place distinct from real life. I think this sort of mechanic is ultimately more appealing to roguelike fans than adventure game fans.
Not sure it matters much as we’re still clearly in infancy - or maybe toddlerhood is the apt analogy. We’ll see though!
My apologies, I must have gotten things confused with the climate scientist who self-immolated in protest. Comment has been edited to reflect this.

Still, climate activists are routinely targeted: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63064471

I'm still vaguely recalling an article about a climate scientist disappearing under suspicious circumstances, but I cannot find it now.
What it actually shows is that ads can ask for whatever they want and the teams they ask can (and do) say “No”.

Ads didn’t get its way here. It doesn’t drive every decision. Especially not with search, but also not with chrome.
No idea what the actual reason is, but I could potentially understand the argument that passing such laws would suggest to courts that other categories that they might've thought were already intended to be protected perhaps actually weren't so.

Moreover, every new law carries a risk of having unintended consequences. So the argument may well be as simple as, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

(That said, I don't get the impression everyone who opposed it did so for the same reasons.)
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In the days of Howard Carter essentially nothing .. and one can argue that there was no archeology then, as we understand it today, just glorified upmarket treasure hunting that destroyed invaluable layers in order to wrench gold trinkets from their settings.

Today there is procedure, as dull as that sounds, that makes it very difficult to plant evidence and get away with it (as evidenced by your linked story).

The majority of significant digs are proposed and planned some months, years even, in advance. The sites are photographed, scanned with geophysical instruments, and the stakeholders are many - land councils, archeological councils, the actual teams with feet on the ground, etc.

As trenches are dug photographs are taken, when 'something' pokes up a bit it's immediately photographed up close and measurements are taken before being carefully removed.

To stage a find would generally take more than one person and they'd have to operate in a sea of oversight.

I wouldn't claim that this is impossible, I would say that's its very hard to pull off and even harder to keep a secret for many years without someone being suspicious.

Significant artifacts get a great deal of scrutiny .. so one would have to be created that had no trace of modern tools, materials, post atomic age isotopes, etc.
The prompts or at least being fed a sequence of tokens including output from prior passes is integral to how language models function. Rather than being “hooked up to one” the neural networks only function is to pick a single token based on a set of inputs. So without being feed it’s own output you get a single token and then nothing. There’s some randomness injected into the process and whatnot but that’s ultimately just window dressing to make them seem less mechanical.

There’s all kinds of ways to disrupt human or animal consciousness such as reducing oxygen supply, but saying the human brain is vulnerable doesn’t change anything about how it operates normally. Plenty of ways to break an LLM’s, but then you’re talking about a different system. Similarly the reticular activation system’s purpose is to regulate wakefulness, which aspects are directly useful or not isn’t particularly relevant because it’s part of the brain.
I think this is a manifestation of Prisoner's Dilemma.

If everybody in the organization would co-operate and do their best everybody would win. But if some people or some managers decide to look for their own interests and job-security first, the people who do the right thing will lose.

We are all just prisoners here, of our own device
Brave has some user-first features you'll never see from Chrome. E.g. ad/tracking blocking by default, cookie consent popup blocking offered, YouTube downloads on iOS.

That's in addition to some anti-Google and better privacy features.

I want a browser which actively fights the enshitification of the web. Brave is the best I've found so far. I'm hoping to find better.
Back when I was a paramedic, I HAD a rabies patient that survived using the Milwaukee protocol.

It doesn't work very well... but it does seem like it occasionally works.
Password stupidity is no longer viable
> Why is an increase in diagnosis an increase in awareness?

Other way around, I would argue increased awareness -> increased diagnoses. Why? Because a lot more people know what the words "autism" and "aspergers" mean today than 30 years ago.

A feedback loop where diagnosis -> incr. awareness -> diagnosis seems plausible and has a nice simple mechanism. So I guess increased diagnoses would lead to increased awareness too.

> you can draw the line between autistic and not autistic wherever you please.

Agree, this is what makes psych evaluations so tricky. It's hard to have rigour for human mental complexity. My prefered view on this is that autism is defined by a series of correlated traits which are all continous variables, we define autism as someone who has 1 or more of those traits in the tail of that trait's distribution. e.g. very low social ability or very high impact sensory disorders.

You can whinge all you like about where the line is drawn, but the fact is the line has to be drawn through six dimensions and none of those dimensions is easy to measure.

> various entitlements received post-diagnosis

Most people with an autism diagnosis (level 1) do not have access to any entitlements. This is a common argument against self-diagnosis which holds no water.

> diagnostic drift also means the vast majority of research on autism is likely non-reproducible and worthless

Clinical researchers routinely sub-divide groups with a diagnosis based on severity. You can do this with autism in much the same way we do it with cancer. So broadening the diagnostic criteria doesn't impact statistical effect size and thus your argument is incorrect.
If the US was smarter Russia would not be in UA at all.
This looks great. The JetBrains HTTP client also supports scripting, including pulling in npm packages.
If it’s tasked with solving those problems it can also be done with constraints such as “without killing humans.”
> You do realize that people heavily speculate on the price of dollars, stocks, real estate, etc., don't you? ;-)

The supermarket doesn't let me use stocks or houses to buy milk and bread, and fortunately I live in a stable enough country that currency fluctuations are fairly minimal. Compared to Bitcoin it may as well not move at all!
Sounds kind of like some Zen concepts about moving beyond language. And that language is a faulty method for communicating.
We know that bicycle usage in places like the Netherlands doesn't result in frequent serious accidents like you describe. The safety culture is totally different, and injuries like that are low despite a much more casual approach to helmets. There are people on cargo bikes transporting goods and going shopping with their children.

This is an infrastructure problem, not a bicycle problem. The infrastructure problem exists because places like the USA prioritize cars.

Even the two bicycle collision you describe is quite rare outside of competitive sports. People casually bicycling to work aren't going at such speeds, don't go closely in opposite directions, and really have no reason to do so.

Bicycling is very safe when you remove car interaction from the equation.

Check out this YT channel for more info backed by data: https://youtube.com/c/notjustbikes
Cloud providers typically rush these things to check boxes for meaningless Gartner reports. Hopefully, taking longer means more time was put into producing something usable and not just a nominal effort to provide LLM offerings.
You have some pretty wild imagination. Not my logic at all.
How was this coordinated? I don’t work for Consumer Reports.
sure, but kids throwing eggs at houses isn't as systemic a problem as abusive marketing
In reference to what Arnold is talk aobut, he's more so referring to the people that shaped him into the person he is today, from his parents to everyone that he has met along the way. So in regards to Picasso, it wouldn't be the paint supplies, but everyone that supported/encouraged/discouraged/nay saysers, that guided him along the way to his success.
And yet they don’t block reader view. I have reader view always on and I can read all articles on NY times for free.
Yes, I tired it when I saw it posted here. Have you tried it and have a different review to share?
> Settlement times on dollars is generally 3 days at best.

If I do a card payment the merchant knows they'll get the money inside a few seconds. Same if I use cash, or a bank transfer.
> reality of it was so incredibly simplistic.

the reality of it boiled down to “Madoff was too big and important for anyone to dare question”.

Yes, the fraud itself was extremely simple, but I also highly doubt that a random noname like SBF could have pulled that off at the time. You really had to be someone. Someone the SEC didn’t want to touch.
Bringing MBS closer to the western fold. The Saudi’s don’t need a US security guarantee. They’ve had one since the 40’s. We literally fight their wars for them and they strangle us whenever they like raising oil prices.

I guess it will bring another round for Jared to rake in a few more billion, so good.
You don't cover "unlucky" with 'random numbers". You cover it with a detailed risk analysis.

Insurance companies have very detailed models on how much risk their customers provide, how much they're likely to cost, and charge accordingly.

They don't just go "yolo random(1,100)'l" and hope they're in business in 5 years.
People do not want to import this shit into the US.

They left these systems behind, and making a law codifies the system into law, which is kinda fucked up.

I myself have seen discrimination in non obvious ways (not Indian but exact same idea where your birth dictates certain societal ideas about you) , and would be absolutely pissed if anyone made a law that protects against that because discrimination is already protected against.

I REALLY do not want the Govt to literally categorize me into a bucket I do not give a shit about, and now everyone wants to codify a system that I would rather just fade away into time.
I find the peculiar thing about ADHD and Autism is they can be imposed. As in, if you make less eye contact than others, have fewer deeper interests, and a few other traits you are treated as PERMANENTLY disordered from the date of your diagnosis. Such things are very unacceptable to society appearantly.

> To sum up both diagnosis for me seem to be because I have easier time to focus on other things that most other people can't while I have harder time focusing on what is easy for most.

If you read the criteria for both diagnosis’s, they both have nothing to do with you having positive traits, even if you do have positive traits which come hand in hand with positive ones, it’s simply not considered. I find it entirely ridiculous really and it’s comical how often Autism in particular is portrayed alongside savant traits. There is something deeply distorted about considering somebody disordered or not based on the sum of their weaknesses.
Direct link to the release https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-...
You’re missing the point here, which is that it would be impossible to prove who wrote it by the bytecode/disassembly alone.
The ultimate goal is indeed to compile any code to GPUs, but we can't change the logic of your program. It is just a bunch of sequential loops, there isn't much we can do about it! But you can still use a Python-like syntax to create highly parallel programs, specially if you like recursion or things like map, reduce, and working with trees/JSON in general.
Ask HN: Is your country facing a housing crisis right now, in 2023?
How wide is this issue?

Please speak up and name your country.
You might try a 4/5 star hotel and then revisit your remarks here
I believe most users cannot reasonably manage requests to prevent the sale of their personal information and that apps like this empower them to make this process easier. Do you have evidence indicating otherwise?
You refer to the killing of scientists, while the parent comment refers to the killing of activists. Please do try to avoid the bending of words, intentional or otherwise.

Backing the parent comment, please see https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/report-says-200-environme...
Becoming a better and more experienced engineer means learning to better solve challenging problems yourself which implies moving past so much of this noise, especially frameworks.

But, the more independent and self-reliant you become over time, through solving tough problems, the less compatible you become to your peers. Keep in mind most developers only know what they have learned from assigned tasks in the office. Although you have become a much stronger and more capable developer you have simultaneously eroded your career mobility. So, bear this in mind.
The fact that 20K people die to a disease that has a set of proven, relatively inexpensive treatments tells me that 20K people already can't get to a medical facility.

Getting to those people to a medical facility to test a new, unproven, expensive treatment simply isn't going to happen.

This is especially so since there are a vast number of diseases that are much higher priority than rabies in India.
How do they leave?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/anti-sharia-...
I know this is only gonna add to the fire of the 'microbench' misdirection statement; but I noticed userver just reached 1.0. Would the author be so kind to throw that into the mix at some point (given time... and heck I might check myself later today given the code for others are provided)
Can you define what you mean by housing crisis? Affordability, supply etc.?
Next two years can be expected to be even worse, El Nino is just started fully in September. https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/ Things are about to get chaotic and imperil our civilization.
I don't buy this thesis that all networks are equally bad.

They all want ratings yes, but some of them try to get ratings by appealing to people who are smart, who value information over grief-mongering. Who value data-driven news. Who are not numerically illiterate.

When there is misinformation we need news about that, to counteract the misinformation.

I do wish MSNBC had a program that analyzed the coverage, non-coverage, and misleading information by some other networks. That would give them ratings from people who value truth and true information, truly important information.
Definitely, LLM's have gotten so much press, that many people arguing about 'AI', are thinking about LLM.

And, LLM's are not all that a human can do. Language is not everything about a human.

But there is an argument that there is part of the brain that produces language, and it has some LLM characteristics. It's just that the brain is bigger and does more than an LLM. So the brain is not an LLM.

The brain has many components. What happens when you take the problem solving of something like AlphaGo/AlphaStar, with the Vision processing in Cars or DaLLe, and the language processing in LLM. Add in hearing, touch.

It starts to look like the components of a brain.
When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers
Controlling Society
>reasoning turns out to be just a ton of parameters
>basically as time goes by it's more and more accessible
>soon anyone can create their nuclearGPT or bioweaponGPT

If you were tasked with preventing apocalypse, what would you do?
I think constant distraction/dumbing down of the populace would be the best solution
Indeed, the NixOS module works well. I just tried it:

services.paperless.enable = true;

In contrast to Docker, it composes well with other things on the same system (e.g. the Samba server already set up to receive documents from my scanner), and I get automatic security updates for it.
Defying gravity consumes orders of magnitude more energy than ground-based transportation, which means you need much more batteries per person transported. Producing batteries has a horrible environmental footprint. Producing them just for the luxury of personal flying is beyond irresponsible.

Even assuming that my arguments may be flawed or entirely wrong, I still can't believe how an article about private flying doesn't afford a single paragraph to even stop and think about the impact.

Such a mindset is what keeps climate change going and going.
They can’t, Israel imposes a blockade on their movement across the borders.
maybe this is cynical, but my understanding of both these services is that its a lie, i could be wrong as this is based on my speculation

your data that's been sold is already hosted externally

plus, whose to stop either of these services from collecting information on what you deleted from every website? or that you wanted it deleted? its another layer of data that can be collected from you

it seems like it also has potential to be an aggregator of different streams of your personal information that might not have otherwise intersected
Because the law doesn’t work like a set of logical propositions where having redundancy is strictly zero harm. If the law says “no one should be discriminated against; and by the way specifically theogravity should not be discriminated against” that would raise some eyebrows about why this clarification is necessary, wouldn’t it? Also imagine ever simplifying the law to get rid of redundancies in the future. “caste discrimination is now allowed!” etc. - lots of ways bad actors can spin this.

I’d be very very careful about what’s put down on paper in cases like this.
> To stage a find would generally take more than one person and they'd have to operate in a sea of oversight.

And yet the japanese hoax happened. I've seen whole teams of people engage into online vote cheating in my workplace. And knowing the game is rigged is the best incentive to cheat, along with career-advancement stakes.

As for faking carbon-dating, you only need a nuclear reactor. ChatGPT brings up the following:

> The Vinland Map came to light in the 1960s, but its authenticity has been a subject of intense debate ever since. One controversial aspect of the map was a Carbon-14 dating conducted in the early 2000s, suggesting that the parchment dated back to the 15th century. However, scientists also found a modern form of ink known as an anatase titanium dioxide on the map. This particular type of ink was developed in the 20th century, causing some speculation that the map could be a forgery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_Map
“Because it’s relatively small, we believe the structure served a solely ritualistic function,”

Ritualistic trope comment preventer:

"One of the reasons archaeologists believe this was a temple, besides the gold foil figures, is the absence of other finds that would be natural if people lived there, like cooking pots and whetstones. "

Other things I found interesting:

"Throughout the autumn and winter, C14 dating will finally determine if it is true that the temple has stood here since around the year 600 – and right up to the 11th century"

600 year old temple out of wood. That would be something.

Then: one of the foils found appears to be intentional crumbled. Which makes sense when it was meant to be a offering to the gods. Or this one was negated, whatever it meant. Since they always show a men and a women(on this site), they might have symbolized marriage (of rich people) and were placed on a special place for good luck and the one crumbled was a marriage not working out. But:

"In Norway, findings of gold foil figures are rare. The 35 from the temple in Vingrom represent the largest collection we have found in this country.

In a similar temple in Uppåkra in Sweden, archaeologists found 100 gold foil figures.

On the Danish island of Bornholm, over 2,500 gold foil figures were found in a field.

Were there not so many gold foil figures in Norway at that time, or have we just not found them?"

"There are also other regional differences: In Denmark, there are more individual figures, whereas in Norway and Sweden, it is mostly couples that are depicted."

So alltogether not much is know about this old custom.

But I think it is interesting and I like the simple art they are showing.