skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, it's a game from the 90s, cut it some slack, damn.

Not only is it a cute game, but it's interesting technically too, the entire game fits in ram so that you can remove the game disk and pop in a music CD to generate a level.

They shelved it during dev for like 1.5 years or something until they figured out how to look 8 seconds ahead of the currently playing music on ps1.

It was originally being developed as part of an ad campaign for Mercedes A class, but then Mercedes dropped out and the game eventually became vib ribbon (cool origin story).

The vector graphics are pretty unique stylistically for ps1 as a platform, no other games really used that style.

Plus reverse engineering it would probably help people build better modified audio tracks to get the game to produce even better maps.

Those are just some of the reasons why other people might find it worth their time.

I think my only nitpick with it is that the generated levels could match the beat a little more/game seems like it could be a bit more difficult.
100%.

The effort and hassle for Google et al to invest in robust support mechanisms (backend and people) for passkeys makes it highly unlikely.

No doubt you'll get the standard boilerplate email responses, if you are even that lucky, that just point you to an FAQ or something similarly unhelpful.
For good reason, have you SEEN how crazy most of the public that would be calling is?
You've got to love this tale:

> While performing a conjuring trick for the amusement of his children in 1843 Brunel accidentally inhaled a half-sovereign coin, which became lodged in his windpipe. A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. At the suggestion of his father, Brunel was strapped to a board and turned upside-down, and the coin was jerked free.

It feels like the hacker spirit - the enthusiasm for dumb tricks and then having to invent your way out the pickle you have got yourself in.
> passkeys are significantly more secure

Blanket statements like this demonstrate a misunderstanding that "security" is just one thing in a single lineal scale.

In reality you have to ask, secure against what? And to answer that meaningfully you need to a thorough threat model for the specific use case of person P and account A.

The same person P will have a different threat model for every account they have.

The D in STRIDE is for denial of service. Passkeys are much worse on this axis than any other solution. You need to evaluate for the specific combination (P,A) how much this matters vs. other criteria.
Related paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08632.pdf

‘Pre-training on the Test Set Is All You Need‘

GPT-4 is really smart to dig information it has seen before, but please don’t use it for any serious reasoning. Always take the answer with a grain of salt.
Like Advertising (surveillance and dossier creation)
That’s not so much a problem, because you can always go into a bank office and show ID.
I think a big part of inflation is the never ending rise of real estate. Housing costs are big part of our lives. The Fed is looking for that area slow so I'm almost 100% sure they will not stop rate hikes as long as housing costs don't slow or come down. They don't want them to collapse but currently they are rising too fast relative to the rest of the economy.
Certain account changing actions cannot be completed without the password. But if you have the phone (session, sms, passkey), you can reset the password and it's off to the races.
I think that is even underselling it some. The theme parks don't exist without the content. With normal ads it's still possible to enjoy the product without being advertised to first.

That's why I don't care one bit about box office stats for any Marvel or Star Wars movie. It could literally sell 0 tickets and still be worth it for the downstream effects on merchandising and promotional tie-ins.
I tend to worry about this too; if UBI has a chance in hell at working we’d have to pair it will a wild increase in the availability in housing including in the biggest and most desirable population centers.

And even if that occurred and the housing cost issue is avoided, companies of all stripes will be angling hard to capture people’s new additional income.
We should have an NSF for FOSS contributions
What's the alternative to json?
I wonder if it's possible to make a much simpler passive-only "mental stress detection" system, and use that as a kind of emergency stop (let's not call it a "kill switch" in this context) for any more-complicated augmentation.

That creates the opposite risk that your enhancements stop working when you _want_ them in some kind of real/external emergency situation.

I suppose it also wouldn't work in the case that the main augmentation caused, say, unending waves of paralyzing calm, although there could be another detection-gate for physiological signals to keep such people from starving/dehydration.
Fitting the syntax to your mind? That sounds... limiting. Seems better to do it the other way around.
Which air filter? The engine air filter? I've never had a smog check that involves looking at that one. And AFAICT there's no RFID or anything in it, so it's not something they can check remotely
I’m aware. Doesn’t make it sting less being in the receiving end of attacks all the time and seeing everyone collectively shrug.
Probably some people on this board working on changing that via drones
I wonder why MBA’s never tried to call themselves Quadrant Engineers. Give them any two concepts and they’ll figure out exactly how to arrange them in quadrants and even concatenate descriptions to make a summary of each one.

(This goes in U-I/4, btw. You can ignore it if you need to.)
Why the hell would you do that.
Yeah, this article doesn’t do a great job of disambiguating among VBA (in Excel, Word, etc. and probably sticking around), VBScript in the browser (in Explorer, defunct), and desktop scripting VBScript (now deprecated). The Wikipedia articles for VBA and VBScript seem to suggest that VBA is an embedded implementation of Visual Basic (pre .Net) whereas VBScript is a separate scripting language with similar syntax and features.
Yeah, but I've seen the same thing in various castles I've been to in Europe. Köln Cathedral was just the one that leapt most readily to mind.
Google has backup codes for this purpose.
I think maybe what you’re really looking for are the files here: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/tree/c2eac033856...

Those are the internals we currently expose as unsafe “sys” bindings.

As we/contributors identify more that are desired we add them.

pgrx’ focus is on providing safe wrappers and general interfaces to the Postgres internals, which is the bulk of our work and is what will take many years.

As unsafe bindings go, we could just expose everything, and likely eventually will. There’s just some practical management concerns around doing that without a better namespace organization —- something we’ve been working.

The Postgres sources are not small. They are very complex, inconsistent in places, and often follow patterns that are specific to Postgres and not easy to generalize.

If you’ve never built an extension with pgrx, give it a shot one afternoon. It’s very exciting to see your own code running in your database.
gradle lets you get something custom working quickly, because it's basically a script with code you want to execute.

For small projects, it works fine, as long as the complexity doesn't grow beyond a certain point for the small project (aka, doesn't grow to a big project), and is maintained by the same person.

For a large project, i do not like gradle at all. Maven is a much better build tool, since standardization is the best thing since sliced bread.
EU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn't breaking Europe's disinformation rules
It was a huge problem when earthquake stopped many power plants in east area.
It'd be a bit faster to get up and running with ChatGPT. In the AI, you'd have to phrase the instruction & copy the output into a file. For search, you have to do both those things and learn a UI that wasn't built to taste.
100% agreed. It's the analog reason notaries even exist.
i really wish it didn’t rely on decorators so heavily.
I wonder if anyone recalls the little worker robots in the 1972 movie "Silent Running". [1]

I don't know what it was about those fellows but I felt emotionally attached to them. It was not that they had any visible means of conveying emotions. They just went about their tasks quietly and diligently.

For some reason they pulled at my heart strings. It was quite heart wrenching to see them destroyed in the last part of the movie.

[1] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
They did know migrant workers were dying, they thought it was a sickness caught being below ground so they kept them in dorms away from everyone else.

When you are hiring new people each day, to replace the ones who died, knowing that a quarter will lose their life, ignorance around exactly how they died is no excuse.

Today in my country at least a single workers death is not acceptable. Accidents happen but prosecution happens if everything was not done by the book.
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> What happens if there's a house fire or something and all my devices where I'm logged in with Google break? How do I log into my account again?

Easy: you will never log in to google again. Since google has zero reachable support, that's the end of your account.

This works better with something like a credit union where as a last resort just can just walk in there in person with IDs and restore access.

But with these internet giant companies which take pride in not having any reachable support ever? Nope, nope and no.
If you followed the initial announcement, then you were presumably already hyped. The novel thing about chatgpt has been the mass amount of people who hadn't heard about generative AI in the past glomming onto the technology. Most of these people heard about it via word of mouth. They then tried it themselves and told people about it. They never even heard of tests, let alone based their perception on them.
To me this news reads like everyone who is intimately familiar with VBScript is retiring from MS and they're trying to get ahead of their own inability to maintain it.
So it's only legal to drive a catless car if it was manufactured that way 50 years ago?
Replace "uses calculator" to "looks through solved problems", same thing. Not sure what you don't understand. Humans don't build understanding by seeing a lot of solved examples.

To make a human understand we need to explain how things work to them. You don't just show examples. A human who is just shown a lot of examples wont understand much at all, even if he tries to replicate them.

> Also, for what it’s worth, I am speaking from many years experience not just training models but creating the algorithms that train them.

What does this has to do with how humans learn?
Quick aside.

I love applying this to our technology companies. Sure, we get products like Google Search and Gmail and Facebook and Messenger and Instagram and Tiktok. Everybody calls them tech companies. Like everyone assumes Disney is media. But in reality they are ad companies. Like Disney is a theme park company.
UI framework?
What about everything else such as file system, networking, audio, controller IO, threads, graphics API, etc?
Eventually, you get used to the country being a statistical outlier and make your peace with charts using GDP per capita instead of GNI*, and news articles about something that's not really been news for the past couple of years.

We also have the most leased planes of any country, make a plurality of all contact lenses, and produce all the botox branded botox. (we also made all the viagra-branded sildenafil until those factories were needed for other things in ~2021)
Definitely - the idea of stolen land only stokes hate for the “others” that stole it generations ago
Well, lucky you. Or unlucky me and everyone I know running a large website. Guess we’ll never know.
Yes, that's also bad. They're both bad. Passkeys are worse.
Well if you think about it. The microscopic scale inverted in the other direction is more like getting to mars and the complexity is the same as creating a self sustaining colony there.
What Kind of Thing Is a Number?
Unrelated to leap years: my kids can be expected to live through the year 2100 and I think that's just wild! I was born in the eighties, grandparents in or just after the first world war; always felt everyone I know are very 20th century-ish! Not only are we now solidly in the 21st century, thinking that my kids will experience the 22nd century boggles my mind.
Which is the same reason every biker with loud pipes wears a full high-vis outfit.

Or maybe they're just assholes.
> you don't randomly block eyeball networks because they're attacking you.

ISPs do this literally all the time. They sell services that do this.
I hope they don't. Source is already pretty much isa agnostic, it isn't difficult at all for them to set up the infrastructure to ship universal binaries for macOS and it just seems to be a power play on Valve's part.
I'm much more concerned about my access being tied to physical hardware than I am about "malware".
>The system exists entirely to obfuscate prices

sorry, no, it doesn't. Taxes, by law, must be calculated at the point of sale. A penny on each of 5 items could sum to enough to bump the tax on the overal total by a penny. You're not allowed to "round" that extra tax away by computing the tax individually on the items.
I married into a large Irish family and goodbyes take bloody forever as everyone has to have a ten-minute conversation with everybody else on their way out the door. Irish ghosting goodbye my eye.
You have though, you can send a mail. I had to give my data so that my sister could rent an apartment, once she got it i filled preformed Gdpr letters asking them to delete my data non necessary to their business, and if they sent my data to third parties, ask them to delete it too.
Correct. Federal prohibits tampering with or disabling lavatory smoke detectors I mean emissions equipment.

The loophole is that it doesn’t apply if you never take it off private property.
Humans learn vast amounts of information from examples.

They learn their first words, how to walk, what a cat looks like from many perspectives, how to parse a visual scene, how to parse the spoken word, interpret facial expressions and body language, how different objects move, how different creatures behave, different materials feel, what things cause pain, what things taste like and how they make them feel, how to get what they want, how to climb, how not to fall, all by trial & example. On and on.

And yes, as we get older we get better and better at learning 2nd hand from others verbally, and when people have the time to show us something, or with tools other people already invented.

Like how a post-trained model picks up on something when we explain it via a prompt.

But that is not the kind of training being done by models at this stage. And yet they are learning concepts (pre-prompt) that, as you point out, you & I had to have explained to us.
Well yea, F Droid is made for mostly open source games and apps. Huge deal breaker for games using proprietary engines (since the lions share is on Unity) and doesn't want to make it's assets open source.

This theoretical "steam of Android" would work similarly to how desktop steam works. Allows sale of proprietary premium games, Bans f2p games in the beginning (inevitably opening up once it's culture is established), does some QA to ensure certain features (e.g. Input, compatibility, no viruses, etc.), has discovery algorithms for consumers, user reviews, forums, etc. It could even allow adult games like Steam, but it may also ban those for a while to establish culture (the porn black hole is a real, scary phenomenon).

>Google is unlikely to tolerate you turning your Play Store app into a seondary app store (or if they did tolerate it, they might switch at any moment).

I think it'd be fine in the beginning if you banned f2p apps (which most of google's revenue comes from), but yes. I'd wonder how big it'd get before we get the next Apple v. Epic debacle over such matters.
And furthermore, it matters where non-CO2 pollution is released. Particulates released from a jet at cruising altitude, particularly over an ocean, are less harmful to human health than a truck belching pollution next to a kindergarten.\

I'd also add that two wrongs don't make a right, and while not strict enough there are emissions regulations for aviation.
I too arbitrarily define very narrow parameters for broad terms based on my personal preferences.
Just like the rest of it, they’re going to try to lock down the open web, general-purpose computing, etc.

They are going to be the gatekeepers if you and the web services let them. Oh yeah — also they’ll run all the web, email and other services anyway. Trap you in their metaverse and AI most likely, since that’s where your coworkers and friends will be you’ll have to be there too.

Resist by opting out :)
A middling possibility exists, that we see a significant reduction in life expectancy between now and then. It's a dreary outlook, but sub-apocalyptic.
> Anyone who has followed hydrogen as a fuel for a while [...]. It really doesn't make sense to use renewables to make hydrogen fuel to then burn

Sorry, you say you're familiar with hydrogen fuel cells and you don't know it's not burning?

Hydrogen fuel cells use an electrochemical reaction to turn hydrogen and oxygen from the air into electricity and water. The byproduct is water, not fire.

I'm not rich enough to own either a battery-electric or hydrogen-electric car, but it's weird how the only people who hate hydrogen are the battery people. I don't hear any hate from fossil-fuel guys.

It seems they're more interested in protecting their investment than saving the environment through a process (which is more inefficient, but) that doesn't require rare earth minerals.
I think calling it overzealous government orders is giving eBay too much credit.

If you ask "what is the quickest way to filter X" someone is going to do a keyword search.

You could then actually put forth the effort to properly filter but generally once the fire is out no one cares anymore.

Unless those other products added up to enough revenue to impact numbers of course.
> GP specifically enumerated housing, healthcare, transport etc - not groceries.

The post I responded to mentioned "food" as well as the other things you list. Last I checked, "groceries" is food.

I focused on groceries because they are closer to being in a free market than any of the other things you mention, all of which are more heavily regulated by the government and therefore are more inefficiently and wastefully provided than groceries are. If we want to talk about giving everyone easy access to "life's necessities", it seems obvious that making the provision of those necessities more efficient, hence making them cheaper and easier to afford, would be a good thing to do. That means making all those other things more like groceries in the way we provide them. That might well decrease the per-unit profit on such things--which is why I pointed out that profit margins on groceries are pretty small. That's what free markets do: they drive profit margins down, not up, through competition.

Most of the rest of your post is simply uninformed about how things in the US actually work. I'll focus on one particular statement of yours to make that clear:

> this is because pretty much every move your country makes is individualistic instead of collectivist

Quite the contrary: things that are a mess in the US are a mess because of too much collectivism, not too little. To take your two major examples:

The US health care system is a mess because the people who actually have to make decisions about care--patients and doctors--have no idea what the care they are deciding about actually costs. All those costs are hidden--negotiated collectively behind the scenes by large corporations who have no skin in the game in individual cases, which is where the availability and quality of care actually matters. How can people possibly make decent tradeoffs of benefit vs. cost when providing or receiving care if they can't see and control the costs?

Housing is a mess in the US because much, if not most, urban and suburban planning was done from the top down, by collectivist central decree, instead of from the bottom up, evolving as individual choices and interactions shaped communities. (In Europe, by contrast, most cities and towns developed from the bottom up, and hence were much more suitable for introduction of a few top-down things like mass transit when those became available, because the top-down planners had the benefit of centuries of bottom-up evolution of communities.)
Agreed, the standardised part is JSON, it's not clear to me that the binary format, to be used internally by each of sqlite & postgres, would benefit from standardisation?

As an ideal, sure, but what concrete benefit? Some kind of third-party tool/plugin that might hypothetically work with either, bypass the clients, and benefit from a single parser implementation for the internal representation of binary JSON columns?
yea, they did "forget" it. It's because this condition is _not_ in the TOS! It's a side-channel communication/agreement.

The unreal terms[1]:

> 7. The Agreement Between You and Epic

> a. Amendments

> If we make changes to this Agreement, you are not required to accept the amended Agreement, and this Agreement will continue to govern your use of any Licensed Technology you already have access to.

vs the unity terms[2]:

> 23.2 Changes to Terms

> To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Unity reserves the right from time to time to (and you acknowledge that Unity may) modify these Terms (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Additional Terms) without prior notice.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal

[2] https://unity.com/legal/terms-of-service
Back in the old days with no 2FA and only username/password access geolocation lockouts happened every time I went travelling. You could regain access by getting a code from a recovery email, but that often got locked out as well!

Eventually I set up my own VPN server so that the services still thought I was using my home IP.
How is the illusion of reasoning different from say “actual reasoning?”
Can you explain what it did? Or why an improper standard deviation would change the profitability of your bot?
Also-related are all the problems like "simulate an 11-sided die with a 6-sided die", where the solution involves identifying certain rolls that should trigger a retry. [0]

In both cases it has to do with shaping the combination of multiple rolls using some knowledge of outcome-symmetries and overlaps.

____

[0] In this particular case, that's something like: Roll the die twice to get rolls A and B; map those a number X in the range range [1,36] using x=(((A-1)*6)+B); if X<=33 then return (x%11)+1 which will be equally likely in the range [1,11]; if X>33 then start over.
"For genealogical research you need something more than just a tree builder, you need a system to record facts"

Facts are facts (indisputable for a given value of indisputable!) but you can and I think should also record anecdotes too. Mark the data as such. A generic term for facts might be "Events" ie events in a person's life. Assign a score or an attribution or whatever works for you.

The thing about facts is that they can become distorted. Human memory is a bit ... malleable and let's face it the output from our sensors (eyes etc) are open to some interpretation. That's a bit meta!

I suggest you forget about neat little trees when it comes to genealogy. Think thicket instead, really tangled thickets.
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