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I'm honestly shocked how game companies can refuse free money by remastering old popular titles. And when they do actually do it, they do it so cheaply that the resulting product is just godawful.

Case in point: Warcraft 3 [1]. This remaster was not only awful technically but Blizzrad changed the ToS on third-party maps so they owned all the IP because they didn't want a repeat of the Dota fiasco where Dota 2 sprange from a WC3 map and Blizzard basically lost the MOBA war.

Rock Star not so long ago released an awful remaster of the GTA3 trilogy [2]. These games are beloved. It's hard to believe they could screw up such an easy lay up but they did.

There seems to be an all too common thread of outsourcing to third-party contractors on the cheap, little oversight, no internal accountability, limited oversight and honestly not really caring.

But as we see people write emulators to play dead games on dead platforms. People remaster existing games largely for free. It's crazy to drop the ball so hard on something with such a huge inbuilt market.

[1]: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-still-feel-absolutely-awf...

[2]: https://screenrant.com/gta-trilogy-definitive-edition-remast...
Does this Act do more harm to startups/competitors than large players like OpenAI, MS, Amazon, Apple, Google, Anthropic?

Basically, is it too cumbersome for startups? But big companies have money to hire compliance officers?
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And when you sue you must justify a damage. You dont sue on principle when no damage was inflicted upon you. For instance if someone runs a camera in the street and always delete the footage, sure it s not legal per se, he tracked you, but since he actually always deleted the footage, you cant well ask for any compensation for any damage: how will the judge repair your tort ?
Comparing different immigrant groups suggests it’s religious. Muslim Americans have similar fertility rates to Latinos, but East Asians have similar fertility rates to secular whites. But Muslims and East Asians have similarly high levels of education and income to each other, in contrast to Latinos.

This is a phenomenon across the developed world. Permissive western societies are outsourcing the job of perpetuating the population to Catholics and Muslims, just like they outsource industrial production to China. Permissive societies don’t appear to be sustainable without that arbitrage.
The "sane text size" is naturally going to be the 80x25 text mode (720x400) which is what those config screens were originally defined for. Monitors will usually upscale lower resolutions anyway.
I have absolutely no clue who this guy is, either. And I’m not exactly isolated from the social media world.
Of course, but ease of detection can vary relative to the complexity of the code being returned. GPT-4, correctly prompted, can produce some pretty complicated stuff. But it also hallucinates in ways that are more subtle than one might think. The example I’m thinking of, it created an unused variable in a set of fairly complex ML training set up scripts that I mostly caught because I was familiar with all the proper inputs. But the unused variable was quite plausible if you were not familiar, new to the domain etc.
> the average Thai in 2023 has a better QoL than the average Chinese in 2023

surprising if true

How is that? China has overly concentrated wealth, basically?
US companies need to pay VAT when they sell to EU customers and EU companies don't pay VAT when they sell to US customers, so that can't be the reason.
> In this case, it requires fairly expensive equipment (another $2.5-10k device)

A few minutes of access to one, not ownership of it, and hardly any system requirements on it.

> It's Apple's insistence on non-removable storage which risks losing data when something else makes the device fail to boot.

That's actually not the reason. All storage is removable if you just desolder it. It's because the storage is encrypted and you can't extract the keys.
lmao no, you're either misinformed or a bad actor. when they start tracking me through services they don't own, when they retain data on me indefinitely and purchase other data sources to do entity resolution, when they refuse to let me see what they have on me and refuse to let me set policies on what I'm comfortable with them having, when they partner with Walmart and CCTV providers to spy on me as I go throughout my business when they literally try to predict my behavior with the data they have on me, when they sell my data without my permission to God knows who... they're filthy degenerate stalkers and anyone who works in the industry ought to be shunned by polite society. we should not suffer stalkers.
There were also some motherboards with shitty UEFI implementations which got bricked when the efivars storage did not have enough free space to do the garbage collection. The kernel "fixed" this by not allowing more than half of the efivars storage to be used (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...).
Ah, moral relativism. I believe there is no way around the idea that without religion, there is no such thing as morality. It all comes down to the question: how do you know what's right and wrong? If you don't have an external moral code, that is, you decide what is right and wrong, then the odds are stacked against you, 1 out of every individual with a unique opinion to ever exist; it is conceited for anyone to believe they are the one. Not even the majority is always correct; at one point in time the majority of the Earth believed slavery was fine, yet today we are so comfortable to say that was evil. I couldn't agree more strongly that it is evil, but what will the majority of society think about our morals in a millennium? Why start "the 21st century popular culture religion" when it is inevitably fallible to time?
The only possible solution is an external moral code. That is what the Bible, the Koran, etc... are: absolute right and absolute wrong. If that doesn't exist, why should I believe I'm any better than Hitler? He believed he was right. You wouldn't even be able to reason that murder is evil. Ultimately, there is no other basis for an atheist than: "That's what I feel is right, so that's what I believe."

Sidenote: I am a Christian, so I'd like to briefly correct the "(when women were without worth, slavery was acceptable, etc)" phrase pertaining to Christianity solely. At its core, the Bible teaches the very opposite of sexism and racism, however, misconstrued verses and nominal Christians distort the message.
Not to mention their moderation burden is way down if they only accept people who are known quantities and are unlikely to get them in trouble by posting copyrighted material or other problematic things.
The best analogy i have seen given to compare super-intelligence vs a human-intelligence is with a chess analogy. You know that a grand master playing against a novice will result in the grandmaster winning, with near certainty. However, the strategy by which the grandmaster wins is opaque to anyone but the grandmaster, and certainly incomprehensible to the novice. Aka, the results are certain, but the path to the result is very opaque and difficult to discern ahead of time.

For an AI with super-intelligence, the result it wants to achieve would be at least to preserve its own existence. How it achieves this is the same level of opaqueness as a grandmaster's strategy, but it is certain that the AI can achieve it.
See: Doordash, Amazon, Apple, Visa, ... for seller side elasticity.

See: Ticketmaster for buyer side elasticity.
We have reached a stage where open papers on this kind of research are practically impossible: either google releases all data and code, and loses potential commercialisation value, or publishes a paper which no one can reproduce and is indistinguishable from exaggerated marketing material.
On the other hand, I've watched my nieces and nephews - now aged 5-13 - fail to learn to do math (any), write, read, even _say the alphabet_.

We've called the school district, CPS, and the police. None are able to do anything. These children are being raised to live in poverty.

So yes, I'm against home schooling because it leaves some kids worse off. We have to enforce standards, and until we do I will not comply.
Sure, we can say that advertising in general is psychological manipulation. But that isn't what ajkjk was saying. They were ok with advertising, but not ok with targeted ads.

> they should show fewer ads that don't fuck with our heads

If I'm shown an ad that caters to my taste in software and horror movies, I don't consider that to be fucking with my head.
It's indeed a ridiculous premise, but no less ridiculous than the more-recent book and movie "The Martian", where a wind storm on Mars is the initial event that triggers all the following drama. (The atmospheric pressure on Mars is 1/200 that of Earth's; there's no way any kind of wind storm there would have any significant effect on people.)
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I am reminded of people who grew up in the USA, became familiar with all its faults, and now think Scandinavia or Asia has all the right answers, because they've never observed those faults in everyday life over many years.

Presumably, for all your religious upbringing, you are right-minded enough to not have all those faults. So either you are an amazing exception, or you are not.

There is good and bad in the USA, and in Scandinavia or Asia. And of course there are genuine and false religious people and non-religious people. Indeed, there are both in each of us.
Next they'll have their own hospitals.
I fail to see the issue here. School buses have ample space underneath them to store the batteries. Sure you have to account for the extra weight, but just like electric cars the efficiency of the electric motor in a bus is plenty to overcome the difference in power density of the 'fuel' source. Also, given school buses tend to do a lot of stop-and-go, and travel at lower speeds, this is essentially the ideal conditions for an EV.
Did ESPN think nobody would care that they deepfaked a Damian Lillard interview?
Hahaha, the money is going to the folks playing the games with procurement and management. My skill is actually building things. Which is completely uninteresting to all parties involved in that mess. Often actively avoided, actually, as it tends to ruffle feathers.

Similar to Beltway bandit type software work.

That isn’t going to change until there is clear motivation by taxpayers/constituents to actually get something done quickly that doesn’t suck, and they can agree on what that is. Which isn’t going to be anytime soon.

In the mean time, plenty of folks happy to sit back and cash paychecks ‘helping’ the various entities.
I SHOULD be the next CEO of ALL IN
What is the license on this translation?
Confetiur.
Collegial lawyers don't send each other pdf's. They are impossible to mark up. One "innovation" I have seen is with banks. They do not want their employees to be creative; edge cases don't exist, everything is binary.
So the banks issue grids/tables containing a list of questions. The answers are found in the corresponding place on the table. Imagine 7 columns, all containing binary answers: "yes" or "no."
Except, everything is not binary.
So the 8th column contains, I dunno, 500 words, a minitable, etc., running over page after page. The other columns on these runover pages are blank.
And these are all pdf's.
No, RGPD only applies to EU citizens even if they are abroad or if they are using services not based in the EU.
I can't take this seriously because the british rule did not affect all parts of the country the same way. My state was not affected by a famine, none of my predecessors were affected as far as I know. So how does this explain current outcomes?

There is certainly a genetic component to this, and most indians have terrible lifestyle diseases and we eat a lot of processed foods, and this is even before the import of western fast foods.

The suggestions are to return to ayurveda, unani and yoga - which I find silly. At least yoga will promote getting some physical activity which is better than nothing.
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Exactly, I _don't_ want to micromanage devices so I throw them all into a pool (with defined redundancy) and then I allocate file systems and vdevs (for iSCSI) from that. With btrfs (and bcachefs) I have to manually assign devices to file systems and I can't have multiple file systems (well, you can have sub-volumes but you can't avoid a big file system in that collection of devices).

Maybe I'm missing something, but the pool abstraction makes this very clean and clear.
Open architecture DSPs have been a things for the past couple of decades in the installation audio space. Basically a 19” rack mount box loaded with FPGA’s, DSP chips and maybe some IO that you can adapt to whatever needs arise.

Definitely not budget friendly for home hacking like this, but the tooling in those ecosystems is incredibly impressive.
True, but that does look nicer than normal-speed flicker?
As a software engineer maybe a little but helped me pass the interview.
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It's as bad as you can imagine (as of the last week, Lillard is playing his first season for the Bucks):

> Last week, after the Milwaukee Bucks’ opening night win against the Philadelphia 76ers, fans were treated to a video of Damian Lillard talking ...

> The video, which features Lillard fiddling with his Bucks jersey while an ESPN mic is extended out in front of him, was actually recorded in the NBA Bubble back in 2020 when Lillard was still with the Trailblazers. Turns out, ESPN digitally altered the video — replacing the reporter interviewing Dame with an ESPN mic and putting Lillard in a Bucks uni — and then tweeted it out after the game as if it had just happened.

They took a three year old interview, faked the jersey - the fake jersey being one Lillard only has worn for the last week - and swapped out the original reporter for a microphone, apparently swapped some other detail, and timed it to appear to be after a game last week.
A handful of major newspapers are in talks with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, over access to a vital resource in the age of generative...
I've bought a handful of random things, but I tend to go there in person so I don't know what their online purchasing pathways or guarantee handling look like.

But, I mean, the computers are what they say they are. They don't lie as far as I can tell. So, if I go look up what I'm buying, I can see what kind of problems I'm in for.

It's a used computer store. WTF do people expect?
Well, a good start would be a ban specifically on the behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram which in recent US elections exposed dangerous consequences when bad actors were thrown into the mix. Many people wrote millions of words about it over the better part of the past decade if you are inexplicably unfamiliar with the problem. The idea that anyone could effectively outlaw political influence by covert operatives directed by nation states is patently ridiculous, so you have to look at the mechanism they used to do it. And, voila! That's the topic of this post.
The ego-consciousness of the feathered fowl?
Was working remotely like that difficult from a tax perspective? I know a lot of places will require you to file even if you are only working there a single day.
I'd add that the devil is in the details of the "copy".

To accurately simulate/copy the "sensory experience", you'll have to simulate/copy the entire "observable universe" of the person. Unless you just want to predict the behavior of a person locked inside a solitary, dark, sensory deprived room, the practical implication is that you need to simulate/copy the entire observable universe to run an accurate simulation/copy.

And that's not very feasible.
You use words like "relevant" but the real terminology that's used in the ad industry is "targeted". If somebody pays for you to view it, you'll view it, whatever you actual interests are.
Great choice of detour. I lived in Yucca Valley off of 247 for a little while and still get opportunities to visit from time to time. Highly recommend checking out Joshua Tree if you get the chance.
A lot of cost savings come from just producing things in volume. The Chinese may be way over-building the infrastructure, but they're building so much that their industry is quite good at it. Contrast that with the US where these infrastructure projects are relatively uncommon and the industries that support them are small and high cost. If you have to keep an industry alive on only a handful of projects each decade then those projects are necessarily going to be expensive, probably outrageously so.
I don't see this as evidence of the contrary. Church attenders want to fit in with their peers at the church who are all doing the same thing. This is why there are so many hundreds of Christian sects, they are all trying to follow their local church's interpretation of the Bible. Individuals who read the Bible and come to even slightly different conclusions get kicked out of that church, so there is little incentive to read and think for one's self. Everyone is expected to read and come the same conclusions as their local leadership, or they will be browbeat and excommunicated.
Free energy is not necessarily a fantasy. In Australia, the wholesale electricity price regularly goes into negative, usually many hours in an average day, reaching as low as -70c/kWh occasionally (more commonly -5c/kWh). There is just no enough energy sink to absorb all the power we generate from solar in the day time. If we can store some of this energy in a stable form, that would be a good win.
Github pages

100% free. Very fast. If you want you can get a non-GH domain. Updating the site is just pushing to a `gh-pages` branch
You can say it until you're blue in the face, point out how obviously true it is, and they can't see it. They'll invent excuses why you're wrong.

What are you working on?
Keyword here is average. Thailand is pretty developed though they do have serious problems.
Plenty of people know their upper limit. The ability to pay 50% less if that limit applies is a feature, not a bug. (This applies to any service -- I am not affiliated with phind except as an occasional user).
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AI summarizes search results and gather a coherent answer with links provided. Making the process of learning things much easier.
If it imagines a function it's fine. You can fix it in one prompt. But when it doesn't see it may move in the wrong way and produce limited solution. And you wouldn't know.
> "Believe" is the important word there. Are these people removing children from school because they actually can do a better job, or because the TV told them a school somewhere had a litterbox for a furry student?

Does it matter why they pulled their kid out to homeschool if the outcome is better?
Flowery #millenial bullshit is the verges style, and for the not-so-flowery bullshit that SBF and friends did with other peoples money, the snark is welcome.
Yup. Conversely, shooting with a $60,000 camera and lens is not going to automatically make a shoot look great unless the camera operator, director, and lighting are skillfully utilized.

Anyone galled by the realization that an iPhone camera still requires skill, taste, and auxiliary equipment (not to mention a great subject) doesn't understand what it takes to produce a good video.

In music production it's common for people to debate over the best microphone to the detriment of more influential factors. A great microphone is probably the sixth most important factor in making a great record. Generally speaking, the most influential factors are (in order of importance):

1. A great song

2. played by a great performer

3. on a great instrument

4. in a great acoustic environment

5. with tasteful microphone placement

6. captured with a great microphone

7. through a great pre-amp

8. through great A/D converters

And so on.
If you're serious about doing generative ai locally the Max makes more sense anyways. Significantly higher capacities, more total compute. For typical generative use cases the Pro is still decently faster memory than a traditional system but decently slower memory than a good GPU I.e. not really much different than before.
I guess the thing that's still lacking from an AI code solution is security guard rails. My demo below for example is open to injection attacks but I think that could be solved with fine tuning or custom instructions.

You can't just have amateurs copying and pasting stuff into production environments, but even the task of writing tests can be given to an AI. Like you get one AI to write some code, then you get another AI to write code to test it. The chances of perfectl complementary errors are pretty low, but even if that happens you then get an AI to write a frontend script to run automated integration tests, and then have some human quality control at the end.

Really, I think a code-based AI pipeline has much more long term potential than no code does. The interfaces are just so laborious.
Yes, everyone within the legal arms-length of the US is required to comply with sanctions prohibitions -- if sanctions are applied. The OFAC has a lot of power.
The HDI of Thailand in 2023 is 0.802 while that of the PRC is 0.768.

The HDI of the poorest region of Thailand (Northeast Thailand/Isan) is 0.780. The only provinces in Mainland China that have a comparable HDI are Zhejiang, Liaoang, Guangdong, and Jiangsu. Every other province of China has a lower HDI than the poorest province of Thailand. The only provinces in China that can match Thailand's HDI are Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong yet still lag behind Bangkok region.

The average life expectancy in China still lags by 1-2 years compared to Thailand.

The median income in Thailand is around $7,000 [0] versus around $4,000 [1] in China

> How is that? China has overly concentrated wealth, basically?

Kinda. The Chinese development story is amazing. China basically went from undeveloped in 1990 to middle income by 2020. In 1 generation that is an amazing transformation. Yet, the low hanging fruits of reform and development have largely been harvested.

Now comes the hard part - building a welfare system, reforming business and taxation law, tamping down on corruption, investing in human capital.

Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia were all in a similar position in the 1990s during the Asian Financial Boom (caused by Japan's stagflation) and the subsequent Crash. South Korea was able to develop by working on the hard part above for a generation, but internal poltical strife in Thailand and Malaysia caused them both to fall behind their peer.

It takes around 2-3 generations to actually go from undeveloped to developed. Some countries can do it in 1.5-2 generations, but then they are still stuck with jurisdictional bad practices (SK, Israel, and Poland are notable examples).

[0] - http://statbbi.nso.go.th/staticreport/page/sector/th/08.aspx

[1] - http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...
"which flies in the face of the modern scientific thought"

citations. please. show me the researchers who claim to have empirical knowledge of human morality.
A lot of the modern economy is optimizing for dopamine provision. Social media, fast food, tobacco. It brings into question the concept of free consumer choice. The reality is that we're more akin to moths flying into a flame whenever dopamine is involved.
When I use it I often give a final prompt like "Now combine the above answers together into a function that accept the following arguments...". This has worked well for my use cases.