skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take, but I have never not wanted to try out a game engine until I saw this article's screenshots.

Like, since I was a literal child in middle school I've always loved tinkering on new projects in an unknown game engine: I remember writing code in the most truly random environments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenix_Project) because I was more enamored with tinkering on demos in different game engines than actually writing games because I wanted to learn how to make my own game engine like a "real" game developer.

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But that first screenshot in the article felt off, and then the second felt even worse, and I went to the actual site to make sure it wasn't just the screenshots and if anything the screenshots were nicer (brighter, better organized) than the actual site!

I think it's because I associate a game engine with an upbeat optimism, and selling the idea that you too can make cool shit!... and even the tiny ones have this homely feeling of I made cool shit! and I'm sharing it!

Meanwhile going with brutalism as your core theme feels like it's takes a shit on the idea that anything could actually be cool. It doesn't feel warm or invigorating in any way shape or form.

I didn't even realize I could have such a strong reaction to a game engine landing page, but I guess there's a first time for everything.

(Also I totally acknowledge I might just not be the target market for this, positioning is half the battle of marketing, so maybe the real lesson is knowing your market well)
Further, resources decay. Land is taxed, bananas rot, cars rust. If you purchase $1B of actual hard assets with $0 left, you will not be able to maintain the upkeep. They will be spoiled or sold by the next year.
Whole Earth Catalog and Fox Fire books were like maker bibles for me when I was a kid. Nothing quite compares to them now days. Fox Fire books in particular were non-commercial (from my memory) and full of really interesting skills and information. They were the maker movement before it was a (tech/online) thing.
To save you the maths, this comes out at around $18k
> I rely on code written by AI and verified by me

The "verified by me" part is crucial, though, yes?

I'm talking about people, whom I have seen posting here on HN in other threads on this topic, who leave out the "verify" step and just rely on the LLM code as it comes.
...when you spin out your own combs, it's actually quite difficult to avoid some contamination. I do try to prevent bits of bees however, because very few people seem to appreciate finding legs in their gifted jars of honey. ;)
Amazing, I actually saw one of these today at a flea market. I noticed it was hydraulic powered but didn't suspect it was for use under water.
The problem with Cackle is probably that 99% of the time the dependency updates are completely reasonable and valid. It’s going to run into the ‘more noise than signal’ problem really quickly.
A water break test[1] is even more sensitive, but requires vision. Total overkill for cooking though, even your skin oil left by touching the pot will cause it to fail the test.

[1] https://www.astm.org/f0022-21.html
The best way to silence bad speech is to let it be spoken freely and be weighed as the abhorrence it is.

What Europe has done by suppressing and censoring speech doesn't make it go away. It drives it underground and causes it to fester.
> YC experiences the ensemble average

Which could be equal to the time average, and thereby satisfy the definition of "ergodic" that was given, without in any way contradicting this:

> while individuals are unable to realize their expected value because they only have one lifetime.

I am not disputing that this happens. I am only disputing the use of the term "non-ergodic" to describe it, or the term "ergodic" to describe a hypothetical world where every individual experienced exactly the average outcome.
Beat me to it. It occurred to me that I had one mile per year, not per day, and I was about to delete that post.
> If I patch the binary to remove the "agree to the gpl" part of the installer, then I don't have a license to use the software anymore, it doesn't help me at all.

What is the legal basis for the default position here? (By which I mean the idea that you have no right to use something that hasn't been licensed to you.)

I think I understand the legal basis for the idea that it's illegal to copy something whose copyright isn't licensed to you, but if you already have a copy legally before accepting the license - what prevents you from doing whatever you want with it?
> real economic value arises when two entities voluntarily provide mutual benefit to one another

I think that at least 80% of the economic exchanges I engage in don't qualify as a "voluntary exchange". I engage in them because I have no other choice. The government doesn't enter into this aspect.
What a wonderful memory. I still have all my Foxfire volumes. When a certain web browser came out I thought "They got the name backwards."
Yes, executives can and do excercise personal judgement. But if their actions are unprofitable for long enough, shareholders will vote them out.

You're right that legally there's little way to enforce the intent of CEO actions, that doesn't mean shareholders would let a CEO that puts public good above profits keep his job. Gambles like buying NeXT are more acceptable because they might pay out.
If it was hacked, don't you think the hacker(s) would change the password?
correct, in group comments can't block or at least hide users.
> Compare it to a friend borrowing your car. Turns out there is a bug where if you change radio stations 30 times before turning on the ignition, the car permanently destroys its ability to turn on.

This explicitly exists in most PCs to protect the Secure Enclave.

If you push the wrong sequence of buttons in the bios or cause too many failures, you can definitely wipe secure boot, which is on by default now, and in a default windows install (with bitlocker) this will result in total data loss, by design, for exactly the same goals and reasons as when apple does it.

Sony’s android phones will even do this to destroy the camera firmware if you unlock the boot loader. Can’t have some competitor get a look at your super secret debayering algorithm!
Vaguely remembering from having played the game 25 years ago, I think you can maybe release all pokemons with cut and be locked?
Had you heard of LoRA in the context of machine learning before?
In the video (at about 4:30), they identify an issue with novelty search - the agent is rewarded for finding areas of the map with irrelevant animations like waves in water, swaying flowers or NPCs walking randomly, as each new frame will have lots of changed pixels. The author fixes the problem by just increasing the threshold for changed pixels needed to receive a reward. This is a good idea, but might run into issues in later parts of the game where the screen is mostly animated water.

Interestingly, this problem has been studied previously - an OpenAI paper called it the "noisy TV problem", since an agent could in principle get maximum novelty reward for just staring at a TV screen showing random noise.

The solution they proposed (https://openai.com/research/reinforcement-learning-with-pred...) called Random Network Distillation, uses a pair of networks, one learned and the other randomly initialized. The goal of the learned network is to predict the output of the randomly initialized one on the newly observed frame. If the output is easily predicted, it means the frame is similar to what's already been seen before, even if it has different TV noise or water patterns. They got some pretty good results on Atari and other games, so it'd be interesting to see if it works well on Pokemon.
I usually trust podcasts hosted by comedians and retired athletes.
Without governmental regulation, the "free market" inevitably devolves into monopoly.
Making a bunch of entities easy for devs is a great lift to provide out of box by Ambient Game Engine.

Then AGE auto-magically shares it to every client connected to the space. Lives up pretty well to ambient computing's good name!
See my response in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877599. "Log" is basically just another transfer function (like srgb, pure-power gamma, etc.). It's confusing because despite the seeming similarities video and still-image people don't use any of the same workflows and thus don't have any shared terminology to talk about things (video people don't use an ICC color managed workflow, and separately think about an EOTF and OOTF. They use the term LUT to describe the transformation a CMS would normally do to convert between color spaces. On the other hand with an ICC-style color management an EOTF and OOTF are by definition inverses of each other).

The main benefit of log as opposed to gamma encoding I can see is that log shares the nice property that each f-stop gets allocated the same number of bits; this results in the fact that while gamma encoding tends to allocate less bits to the brightest parts of an image to allocate things in a "perceptually" fair way (at least according to Steven's power law model), log encoding tries to allocate things in a "physically/optically" fair way, which I guess ends up working out better for editing?

Of course in terms of benefits I suspect that "log" mode also reduces a lot of post-processing.
Wildly ignorant choice. No one's going to sell a big enough battery without at least modeling its effect on crashworthiness, which is expensive. No, you can't run the car without the engine running; you won't have oil flow in the transmission, power steering, or power brakes. The car will handle like shit with so much unsprung weight (which is why no commercial car has ever used them, just demos). And the price quoted is basically COGS!

Nobody on this process must have ever been involved in DFM.
> When it's about as good or better than humans, people will consume it.

How are you measuring better? AI art is already better than most humans in a lot of ways: better shading, better coloring, even better anatomy outside of hands and feet (which has been mostly solved with controlnet and related extensions). Yet nobody wants to look at it.
Not that it's valuable to compare napkin calculations but based upon my experience trying to save %'s in my decade driving EV's, I think at highway speeds it's closer to 1% than 10%.

You save considerably more energy by slowing down 10mph than you do by turning off the AC.
Looks like Intel realized they can't leave the GPU AI market to nVidia and to finance their own AI GPUs they need to sell a ton of GPUs to gamers first.
I mean, technically he has: https://atp.fm/join
Well, there's always Unreal, Godot, and Unity. Ambient is something very different and takes advantage of WebGPU and WebASM to deliver a networked 3D gaming experience in the browser. IMO this is a fantastic example of what our whole internet is only just now capable of in a nice little package. Sure both Unreal and Unity will export to web, but there's a whole lot in between loading one of those up and shipping it.

You should try out the Ambient quickstart. You won't regret it.
You can read IRS commissioner's, Charles Rettig's, response here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6430680-Document-201...

He plainly says that it's because they don't have the resources to conduct higher income audits.
I wonder if just that little bit of trace of bee venom did anything to prevent bee allergies.
More billionaires where he came from.
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877605 - that's for the blog version at https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-inj...
> I noticed it was hydraulic powered but didn't suspect it was for use under water

I suspect a gasoline-powered chainsaw wouldn't work underwater... which made me wonder if maybe that does exist because you could feed it O2 from a supply tank just like the fuel, maybe even from the diver's own air tank?

Now I want to know how bouyant battery-packs are and if an impractically-heavy battery-powered chainsaw work well underwater?
1) Buying

2) Russian language Magic: The Gathering Cards

3) Bitcoin

4) $100

5) 2014

6) Coinbase, iirc. Maybe some Russian bitcoin to ruble website intermediate.

7) Laggy and so I did the transaction twice and wound up with $100 leftover of 2014 bitcoin that I forgot about then sold in 2021.

8) I wouldn't hold crypto for any significant amount of time, but I would use it if it made sense, say, to move money in or out of a country with financial regulations I don't care about, like Sri Lanka.

9) Any crypto that gains widespread adoption will inevitably meet its doom as a result of that very adoption, and the plain reason is that at the end of the year, income in the form of that crypto will need taxes to be paid on it, which will necessitate selling off of that asset for whatever currency the taxes are paid in. For this reason, demand for fiat currency will always exceed demand for crypto.

Crypto with a conserved amount is by definition a greater fool asset, and cannot be regarded as a store of value.

In spite of the above, it is useful insofar as it's capable of moving money from one location to another. That is utility that people pay for on the order of half a percent. Crypto's value relative to its useful work in this capacity is therefore on the order of (0.5% * {$,£,¥})/fee. A complication of the common claim of bitcoin's limited supply is that bitcoin doesn't have a monopoly on this utility, which means it doesn't have a monopoly on it's sole source of value, which means it's not effectively scarce.

This doesn't take into account the value of information work performed for a fee in the form of, say, smart contracts. When we can write and have the cloud execute something like a webserver, then the cryptocurrency has a value equal to (value of information work performance)/(gas fee). This is what I'm most optimistic about, as I would love to have a decentralized, anonymous webserver I can run by feeding quarters into the slot. It'll be the immediate downfall of crypto again, though, because the literal first use for it will be to host objectionable material.

For the most part, though, use crypto to move money from A to B, and quit caring what a given token is worth. If bitcoin is $1M, you shouldn't care, because if you want to move $20,000, then you're buying and selling 0.02 of a bitcoin instead of 0.8 of a bitcoin as quickly as possible. The only reason you care about the token's value is the product of value * transaction fee.
>Yeah but what about the other 30%

Handled by the motor, the motor is the brake IIRC?
Brightest minds in the world advocated for eugenics, against plate tectonics, or nuking entire nations.

They might think of lots of stupid things with nothing to back it up other than their feelings.
Cost saving. They can reuse the same part with a different firmwares on different models.
Here's an article from 1975 claiming that the Jesus nut came off the main rotor of an OH-6, causing two fatalities:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_MAC_Flyer/jBXi6uK1P...
> The Best

I can imagine minimaps being useful on graphical content but the author gave the example of it being used dogmatically and unhelpful: code editor. There is nothing to see in "the shape of the code"?

The minimap could (and I usually set this the first thing in vscode) be replaced with actual useful markers like svc changes
Not sure that works in the world of today social media. People believing all kind of bad ideas form bubbles that turn them into fanatics.
LBRY? It does have a currency element for tipping purposes but it isn't its raison d'être
Yes, because there is no way such a thing could be done that would be great for everyone. Different people have different needs.
While the exact means of his death was in a fire on someone else's property, it was during this time the billionaire was indeed living in a shit-covered hovel:

> There was feces on the ground. Plants in his toilets. Broken glass, broken plates all over the ground. Rotten food under the bed. Rotten food on the walls... it was disgusting.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2023/04/23/wonder-...
It's not so much that ICE engines are inefficient, it is all heat engines of any type are bounded in by the same thermal limitations (ICE, gas turbine, steam turbine, other externally heated piston engines, etc). In the physics of heat engines, there is the Carnot efficiency that is based only on the temperature of the hot source (combustion chamber in an ICE), and the cold sink (atmospheric air). Relative to this limit on all heat engines, modern ICE engines are very efficient at their peak efficiency point.

A problem specific to ICE in a vehicle application is that at the engines end up running in conditions away from their peak efficiency point due to vehicle load, terrain and traffic conditions. That is where hybrids are supposed to pick up their efficiency by letting the ICE turn off completely in the regimes that force the engine to run at low efficiency points. Such as idling where the MPG is zero.
>You can't run a national "$5 footlong" or "dollar menu" national ad campaign if some states charge taxes on prepared food and some don't, [...]

You can, if you change your prices in every state so that with added taxes, it adds up to $5 for the consumer. We don't have to accommodate our system of sales taxes to make it more convenient for national corporations to make $5 foot-long campaigns.
The original LoRA paper does exactly this using GPT2 and BERT type language models. They are explicit about it being designed for LLMs, but since it seems to work really well for stable diffusion it would be interesting to see metrics in the image domain.
> No, you can't run the car without the engine running; you won't have oil flow in the transmission, power steering, or power brakes

You might have missed some key points in the pitch. Slide 4 has e-hydraulics for steering and braking.
Well, that and the NLRB.
It seems like your entire decision comes down to the BSD userland? Which is the exact same as you’d get in, eg, FreeBSD.

If you’re that wound up about it, why not ‘brew install coreutils’ and then add the optional command in the install errata notes to your zshrc, giving you the gnu userland permanently?

(The shell is probably low-key another point of friction. Zsh and csh do feel older compared to bash. Oh my zsh helps a lot imo, but you can also just use bash too.)
> people need to realize why they work so well for language and vision.

I agree with your entire post, however this sentence made me think, well video is just layered vision. Why couldn't frames of vision work similar to vision? We know the current answer is it doesn't, but is it a matter of NNs can't or we haven't figured out the correct way to model it yet?
I think similar when I read stories like “police investigating use of slurs in local high school” or “police are investigating racial flyers” or some such…when did any of this become illegal? It’s not illegal in the US to have unpopular and or bigoted views.
I bought an RX 6600 off of ebay for $155 half a year ago, for context, which, as the article mentions, is substantially more power efficient for nearly the same (poor for these days) performance.
The question isn't whether or not it's "Amazon's problem" or even Amazon's fault. The question is whether or not Amazon is a monopoly. I'm not asserting that they are or are not. I think it's a legitimate question.

I do think that even if they technically aren't, they're very close to it.
Why do you say it doesn't work well? I thought it did?
Divine Right's Trip!

https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...
I felt that you were almost critical of something you also enjoy for sake of the discussion, and I extrapolated pretty far. Into space even. You’re kind to accommodate my musings. Thanks for being here and sharing.
> Yet nobody wants to look at it.

That's simply false. Lots of people are enjoying it. Especially porn of course, but people are enjoying plenty of regular AI art, right now. "Better" isn't objective, more people will enjoy more AI art as it gets better at generating art that they like.

What makes you think otherwise?
> Is it working just by accident?

Probably a case of "not exactly". You're just overclocking the memory, and both your memory modules + the rest of the system are happy with those particular speeds.

It'll probably run happily at those speeds basically forever, so nothing to really worry about from doing that.
> LLMs do not

Prove it
The chat features are a fine tuning of the LLM tho. Not all LLMs are the conversational chat style.
The ACÁ plans are largely trash such that you can easily end up paying more out of pocket than you would with a COBRA plan. Likewise, there are myriad issues with continuity of care when changing providers.
MonoLisa
And yet, how come congress keeps getting the same (or same type) of persons elected?

So in the end, the electorate is not choosing a representative that represents them. Or, these niche concerns are not the concerns of the majority of the electorate.
Yeah, public benefit corps are an example of a better way to organize an institution that has extreme power over humanity. Those aren't even legal in all 50 states. Are any giant multi-nationals organized as a PBC?

Illegal and enforceable are different things. Whether or not Microsoft violated tax law doesn't matter if they can bully the IRS with a big legal team. The concept of 'we can make your legal bills so high it's not worth it even if you win' gives big corps like Microsoft with internal legal teams a different relationship with the law than the rest of us. If our system equally enforced laws, I'd agree with just making bad things illegal, but first we need to fix the fact that it's possible to be above the law.
Yes, a lot of GPS receivers provide RAIM or jamming indication, if they detect signals they're not expecting. Gpsjam just isn't set up to accept such data.

I think Galmon.eu may collect it along with all the other receiver-status data, but it isn't exposed in the main dashboard. You'd have to figure out how to extract it from the data, and I don't think anyone's done that yet, but we're in #galileo on OFTC IRC.

The main problem with this approach is that it's hyper-local. Ground stations aren't moving so they don't cover a very broad area, and they're not evenly distributed or even necessarily in interesting locations. Quite the contrary; regimes that employ GPS jamming are likely also hostile to citizens reporting on same.
While gas / electric chainsaws are unlikely to work underwater, I can't imagine a reason why a hydraulic chainsaw wouldn't work on dry ground with its superior weight to power ratio and lack of blue smoky exhaust. Probably quieter too.
I’ve used it as a software engineer most days ever since week 2 when I first learned about chatgpt. It is incredible at making me more efficient by answering dumb questions such as what are edge functions, and getting unstuck on new topics such as how oath2 works in youtube apis because i’m forced to use it for a server to server app.
yep, and the charity’s underlying entity can be a corporation or a trust, which does confuse the general understanding of these things as the terms are often conflated

almost infinite permutations are possible
I've had patients with sepsis standing up and talking to me, complaining about being tired and feeling woozy. And in the middle of a sentence they fall to the floor dead and we start CPR. Put the pads on them but never got a shockable rhythm after 45 minutes of high quality CPR.

Sepsis can indeed take you fast.