skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RTS is such a great genre. I know everyone loved StarCraft but I enjoyed Warcraft II and 3 more… along with C&C, Red Alert and Age of Empires. Not sure why.

Warcraft 3 was a great balance between micro and macro management due to the Hero concept. SC always just felt like a game of numbers… but I am sure I just wasn’t as experienced.

Regardless I would love it if the genre stayed alive and I am glad Age is continually updated and stable.
The only way this news could be more awesome would be if the asteroid was shot with a mining laser and the fragments picked up by a fuel scoop.

Minerals: 0.00025 Tons
When I was a boy I found an app on MacOS 8 called Graphical Calculator. You could type in nonsensical maths like 'sin(x+tan(y))' and it would draw beautiful pictures.

20 years later I get the same kick out of GL shaders. I built this website to play with them.

https://tinyshader.com/rq
"good" LOL
As the other responses note, I'd say it doesn't rain that much here. Now, oddly, it often looks like it has rained for far longer. And, in general, our rain season is the dark season, which sucks for other reasons.
I am confused because I don’t understand what the bitcoin crypto use case is in 10/2023. Didn’t the idea of crypto payments crash?
>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros

Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today.
At that time (before GPGPU become big for such purposes) scientists used PS3s to build cheap (much cheaper than IBM's server offerings containing a Cell processors) computing cluster for HPC. These PS3 computation clusters are were hard to program, but if you managed it, they were really fast (for their time).
Dumping GameBoy Cartridges the Interesting Way
Cars are rarely thrown away if they’re still operational (which was one of the huge problems with cash for clunkers, those were crushed).

The best reason to buy new is that your mission has changed and the available used vehicles don’t provide a cost effective resource.
Angra Mainyu
>> beeswax itself can impart a fuller mouthfeel.

Yup. Eating wax will do that. It probably had other interesting impacts throughout the digestive process.
So, vatniks being human garbage as per usual?
Load balancer?
Cluster coordinator?
STONITH device
It gives you a derivative work of the original code
Fair, but after win3.1 there wasn't a menu up in that corner anymore.
Harry Seldon?
when evolutions happen, they do happen in one generation, that's where new clades are formed
Apple Video Decoder Notes, Week 1-3
I've done math sites with MathML in Firefox and MathJax as fallback for other browsers. The difference is huge. MathML rendering is immediate while MathJax comes limping along after an annoying delay. Even when bundling the MathJax library.

Edit: Don't want to send negative vibes toward MathJax. They do great work. Just think it would have been better if google didn't decide "no, the web shall not have native math rendering".

Edit2: Didn't know chrome supported MathML now.
Tiny is done, a Pygmy is about the same or you have a slightly larger Nigerian Dwarf of miniature.

Goats 'thing' is their energy. (they will still snuggle during post lunch nap time though)

It's hard to know why you'd want a lazy goat, what comes to mind is house training. That might work.

Also these goats (Myotragus balearicus) are not cold-blooded (Not sure where the headline came from) and I wouldn't call them a goat, since they are closer to a mountain goat which I don't call a goat because they are not a Capra.
Fun fact: you can tell ChatGPT to output all math in MathJax syntax and then inject MathJax as a browser script on that domain.

It doesn't help with ChatGPT hallucinating and generally being poor about math/stats related queries, but it does make things a good bit more readable!
It's probably military testing and/or training. See my earlier comment about the Laughlin and Randolph military operating areas–Casamigos Ranch is under the Laughlin MOA.
> Stockholm syndrome?

It's more that the problem of cheating in online matchmade FPS games is just that bad. Even when you're not running into obvious cheaters, it makes you suspicious of anyone who happens to be a bit too quick on the draw, or a bit too intuitive, or a bit too lucky with a guess. That mindset overall makes a game much less fun to play.

So they accept the anticheat as a necessary evil, something mostly out of sight and out of mind.

I don't particularly agree with that approach but I see their point of view.
I don’t think it can skip automatically. I’m an Overcast user, and haven’t heard of this - and can’t find the feature now that I look.

It does have configurable “skip forward” and “skip backward” _times_, and will skip to and resume from between words instead of inside words - so it’s easier to manually skip than in some other apps - but I don’t think there’s anything automatic.

[Edit: Oh! It can skip a configurable amount of time from the start and end of playback of any podcast! It’s still manual though.]
This reminds me a bit of Twitch Plays Pokemon[1]. In that setup, it was almost impossible to accurately control the character, which meant it behaved close to a random walk. In addition to hundreds of thousands of (disagreeing) people typing at once, there were dozens of seconds of latency between the inputs and the observed results. In the end, the hive mind had to figure out how to guide that randomness towards success.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon
> Aren't "millimetre wave weapons" used for crowd control by some US police departments?

The capital military police and the border patrol have both inquired about using these millimeter wave weapons. Both were rejected [1]. The weapons were considered but also rejected for use in Iraq and Afghanistan [2].

In 2010, a prison made news by installing such a weapon, a move opposed by the ACLU [3]. It is unclear if it was ever used.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913748800/military-police-lea...

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/the-secret-troubled-history-of-the-mi...

[3] https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/dont-let-militar...
Yep, that's nature for you.

The other top predators won't tell you about the bloodlines and species they've ended. I suppose that's what separates us from them. Honesty.
The Nix language uses whitespace in lists and I'm not the biggest fan—it works well when list elements are simple expressions (individual identifiers, numbers... etc) but gets awkward and confusing if you want to have more complex expressions. It's worse in Nix because Nix also uses whitespace for function application, so even function calls require extra parentheses, but I'm not a fan of it in any non-Lisp syntax I've used.
The OS is the right place to interpret incoming signals.

On linux at least, you can create a custom keyboard with all the characters you want. And then bind your CAPSLOCK key to switch between your two keyboards.
A tale as old as time. See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-themes/+bug...
A significant number of mammals have generations every year (or less).
Ok, I did what I criticise others for doing, being the armchair critic. Taken on the chin.

As for the goat skeleton, it eats when the goat eats, you know what I was saying.
I mean, scientists, public commentators, regulators have been calling out agribusiness over tobacco, sugar, meat, alcohol for over a century at this point. It slightly stretches credibility to imagine that someone complaining about mushrooms on a podcast would be the breaking point.
Because they haven't achieved any serious success with the Mac. If they didn't have their portable device line they would be a bit player in the tech industry.
This will take the ad/surveillance industry to a whole new level because currently this is the only way companies know how to make money. Build something that retains users attention (browsers, search engines, smartphones, TVs, ai chat interfaces), and no matter how amazing the tech behind it has, or how much potential it has, builders will only ever use it for ads. They’ll develop some toy projects like chatgpt for doctors, but ads is where it’s at.
Probably not much? I tried to set up Wireguard to my home network before traveling for the holidays last year. I was too dumb to do it, or at least in a way that didn't feel fragile. I had Tailscale up with subnet routing set up the way I wanted in 15 minutes.
Are dragons cold blooded? I thought most of them breathed fire.
For some reason I feel a lot worse about the idea of automatically skipping sponsor sections of YouTube videos than I do about blocking web ads.
This requires experimentation, memory, and conscious thought moving a window did not require previously.
this like voting for the tallest dwarf
The law is that the thing at the corner of the screen has the fastest seek time, because it has the largest available area. That's not subjective.

You might not agree with what is occupying that spot but that says nothing about the physiology of selecting it.

I certainly agree that the global menu, being almost never used day to day, is a stunningly pointless use of that space. It ought to have been handed over to foreground applications, exactly because of Fitt's Law.
Hands free operation is the obvious answer. When I come home in the evening to a dark home with a bunch of groceries in hand I can just speak an automation prompt and my home is suddenly well lit. When I’m cooking and my hands are gross I can change lighting or play music without worrying about contamination of surfaces. Etc.

It’s not essential but no home automation is
I'm always working on AI stuff, just because that's been one of my "hot button" interest items dating back to the early 1990's. Sadly I didn't make it my career focus for a long time and now I'm kindof playing "catch up" but that's OK.

On related note, studying a lot of maths, mainly in service of my interest in AI. I only took up through Calc I "back in the day" and that was like 30 years ago anyway. So trying to bone up on a lot of Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, etc.

And finally... I've signed up for a class that is one of the "earned entry" classes for an online Master's Degree program (@treprinum here on HN clued me in to that[1], so thanks for that!) and some of the programming assignments require Kotlin, so I'm literally sitting in the cafe at Barnes & Noble right now with my Kotlin book, working on getting up to speed on that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595773
ripgrep is fast for what it is. But indexes are faster.
Comodo dragon, I'm assuming
Might be browser limitations? Firefox for instance only allows you to store 10GB of data per eTLD + 1. How would the web interface work with files greater than that?
Looking at a lot of stories that people publish who “build in the open” I think yes people try different things until something sticks but they also often do some talking to prospective customers or some other way to understand the need.
For the bay area California aka silicon valley which has some of the most expensive housing the solutions are mobile home parks with space rent control and tiny houses that can now be located in the backyard of existing houses. These homes are much cheaper $100k-$300k vs $1M for a traditional home. You can save a nest egg until you have enough for a downpayment on a traditional home or simply live cheaply and fund your retirement. I moved into a 1500 sq ft 3 bed 2 bath mobile home when I retired at 65 because it was the only option I had to stay near the grandchildren and I wish I had done it 20 years earlier.
> As for the goat skeleton, it eats when the goat eats, you know what I was saying.

I'm not sure why, but this conversation reminded me of this old video. What a trip down (bizarro) memory lane.

https://youtu.be/WQO-aOdJLiw
>CD Projekt Red isn't a publisher, it's a developer. CD Projekt is a publisher.

Is this distinction important here?

>And arguably having two IPs, both which are not original IPs, is not that huge.

They know how to create huuuge hype and good products and that's what matters.
Isn’t the same thing true of any human who isn’t doing scientific research? Like how much work to get to veracity is actually going on out there?
I have tried to look it up and did not find a single source that corroborates your claim. It certainly isn't an official program.
That's fair, I shouldn't have made a comment asserting the minds' of the downvoters. I wonder, if the chat is wholly correct factually, what bearing that might have on your opinion of the source? What if in the generative response it cited the historical sources? I am not trying to make any statements on the truth of either comment, I am woefully uneducated when it comes to Israel/palestine. Just interested in the value of chat gpt convo as a source in the abstract. It feels just somewhat like when I was told not to use wikipedia in my early school days.
Just because their bones grew in cycles like reptiles, does that necessarily mean they have to be cold-blooded too?
> Because in most jurisdictions (including the USA) it is illegal to download a backup ROM of something you own.

Not a lawyer but I'm suspicious about that: first of all, I don't think downloading is actually illegal, it's either sharing stuff without license or keeping stuff without license that are generally illegal (which is why viewing movies from an illegal streaming website is legal in most places even though the website owner is clearly doing illegal stuff).

Then, if you have a license and the law in your jurisdiction allows personal backup, I think you'd have the right to actually store the thing, so I don't think you'd be breaking the law here.
He tried to make that incorrect point by lying, because Chomsky lies constantly. He only turned around on Lenin because the archives proved he was full of shit.
How can they be sure that the results are actual words from the scroll and not just hallucinations of the neural network?
If the scrolls are in such bad condition that the data is almost only noise then what stops their high-tech deep learning model from just.. making it all up?
The software version of industrial design was HCI. Human computer interaction.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interac...
You can certainly mail and deposit cash/crypto and use it to pay bills. Homeless people do it all the time.
Ask HN: Name a non-cryptocurrency blockchain project in use in the real world?
Over the last decade I've heard lots about the potential of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency.

But I've heard a lot less about how much of that supposed potential has actually been realised.

Every time I meet someone who has anything to say about anything blockchain-related I ask if they can point to a current, real-world blockchain project that isn't basically a cryptocurrency and has made it past being just a prototype or an idea.

Literally nobody I've asked has been able to come up with anything that meets those criteria.

Can you?
Heck, just leave the old ac compressor and heater in and run it off the idling ice motor intermittently. 1 gallon of gas would probably be enough to get you as far as a full battery charge would for a hot summer road trip.
Classic WSJ gaslighting

"You have it good actually, and don't get used to it plebs, because it was a once off and the boot is going back on your neck soon enough"
Stack Overflow Architecture Is Not What You Mean It Is
Sponsorblock has been a Godsend for me; it's something you don't really think about but adds up. The sponsored segments are not even really the biggest advantage, it also skips intros and outros and interaction reminders, which are huge.

I am convinced that being really aggressive about blocking advertisements helps with my ADHD and helps me focus better. I don't have science to back that up, just my anecdotal self-reported experience -- but I see improvements every time I get a little bit more purposeful about blocking ads (and not just ads but intros, boot screens, social reminders, suggested articles, etc -- basically interruptions). And when I see ads now that I'm no longer desensitized to them, they stick out so much and they're so hard to ignore. Our brains are good at filtering things out, but I do wonder if there's a focus cost in addition to a time cost. My mood improves when my house is clean and organized; my mood also improves when my media consumption is organized and de-cluttered.
I didn’t know about this, just installed and it works amazing. I have premium but I hate the sponsor segments in the videos. If Google breaks this app, I’ll try out the iSponsorBlockTV but this is a better fit for my situation now.
You are just as disgusting as "Danilo" for using that term which is a slur against Slavic and Russian people.

@dang can you not allow this hateful othering of people we don't like on HN?
Which apps specifically? As an Android dev that prefers an iPad for their tablet. There's been no discernable difference to me in native apps.

It only gets laggy and slow when the app is obviously some poorly put together react native, Xamarin app, or some other non native app. You can tell usually because they just kept the exact same design from their iPhone app. You have to put a lot more work into those kind of apps to make them not run like garbage.
OpenWrt 23.05.0 Released
Because it is for now. If they mess with it then it'll not be a good deal and folks will leave it.
Wow. That is impressive level if targeted job hunting if you see a bug and then manage to get a job on that team! Unless you are a QA at heart and see bugs everywhere and then join any famous company.
We are much in the same boat :) Satellite has been a game changer for us as outdoor-oriented people.
This is exactly the kind of thing the academics are warning you about when they say things like "peer review is important" and "don't read arxiv preprints if you're not a subject matter expert"
Yeah, been in at least a couple warnings (not watches—for those not from the region, a warning means a radar-detected tornado signature or a sighting from a reliable source, heading your way) a year my whole life. Don’t even know many people who’ve seen one. Never seen one myself, despite being in the set who’ll go outside when the sirens sound, if it’s daytime and the visibility’s good.

They’re scary in theory, and in-fact if you have bad luck, but the acreage directly damaged by a tornado every year just isn’t that big, considering the size of tornado country.

I doubt the natives living here had any particular strategy for avoiding tornados specifically, though they may have had beliefs and practices concerning them and certainly must have had things they did to stay safe in severe thunderstorms more generally. Not because they were incapable of coming up with such (far from it) but because direct experience with a tornado (not just seeing it, but having one come near enough for avoidance or even sheltering strategies to apply, beyond what you’d do for any stormy weather) is fairly rare.
I have a joy of programming in bash. Another language might be fun but the real joy lies in expressing oneself, solving a problem, getting the bon mot - its past bedtime and I have for the first time in a year found myself doing salaried work after hours for the fun of it
When I was younger, I helped sell small Robinson helicopters, etc like the R22, R44. Saw some getting assembled for sale, honestly hard to believe some people have so much trust in not only the Jesus Nut but in the people putting smaller personal aircraft together.
It probably does still work, but you need to append the one-time icloud passcode to the login password.
Survival of the fittest we were fitter and they were tasty. Evolution in action. Ironicly right now the surest way for a species to survive is to be tasty to human so we will breed/plant more and remove predators. And move them to new environments when current ones change to be unsuitable.
Oh yea moving objects are way worse than inanimate objects from horse perspective.

Just meant that inanimate objects, even ones they've seen before, are also sometimes suspect.

That old tractor? The one that's been rusting in the same spot for years? Well TODAY it's spooky, because... no reason.
In my jurisdiction (France) we have the droit à la copie privée for that (and we actually pay a tax to the local RIAA and MPAA equivalents on all storage hardware for that right) so yes I have that second license as well.
Maybe it's less about "what they can muster" and more about "what they think is sufficient to appease their investors who are vocally hype-chasing without diverting too many resources"? I think there's merit in sticking with "boring" applications that you have more confidence in there being potential utility in than trying to turn every problem you have into AI-hammerable nails.
No, Transformers are not a silver bullet.

As much as Transformers feel like the state of the art universal function approximators, people need to realize why they work so well for language and vision.

Transformers parallelize incredibly well, and they learn sophisticated intermediate representations. We start seeing neat separation of different semantic concepts in space. We start seeing models do delimiter detection naturally. We start seeing models reason about lines, curves, colors, dog ears etc. The final layers of a Transformer are then putting these sophisticated concepts together to learn high level concepts like dog/cat/blog etc.

Transformers (and deep learning methods in general) do not work for time series data because they have yet to extract any novel intermediate representations from said data.

At face value, how do you even work with a 'token window' ? At the simplest level, time series modelling is about identifying repeating patterns over very different lifecycles conditioned on certain observations about the world. You need a model to natively be able to reason over years, days and seconds all at the same time to even be able to reason about the problem in the first place. Hilariously, last week's streaming LLM paper from MIT might actually help here.

Secondly, the improvements appear marginal at best. If you're proposing a massive architecture change, removing observability & and explainability .........then you better have some incredible results.

Truth is, if someone identifies a groundbreaking technique for timeseries forecasting, then they'd be an idiot to tell anyone about it before making their first $Billion$ on the market. Hell, I'd say they'd be an idiot for stopping at a billion. Time series forecasting is the most monetarily rewarding problem you could solve. If you publish a paper, then by implication, I expect it to be disappointing.
you haven't addressed a single argument i made in the first post, they were all very simple too, they should be immediately rebukeable if they were wrong

what % of those "child porn consumers" actually just looked at a picture of a naked 16 year old girl? answer that and stay fashionable.
I would consider Github Pages and the Github desktop app to manage commits, if you want a simple setup to manage this.
Ssds don’t hold data for 10 years so there’s a strong possibility that in fact it would not “boot up just fine”.

If there’s critical keys that have been lost etc it might indeed be unrecoverable, especially in this era of automatic bitlocker.
The same or similar can be said about pretty much any "conspiracy theory", from totally insane ancient alien stuff to mundane corruption and foul play.
Seemed to take terrible performing models and marginally improve them. None of them are fit for purpose at the end of the training, so what was the point?
What I want is something like this, but in my code editor, so I can make code look more like the math it is based on.