skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author eschews "cargo culting" because it's "antequated" and "inaccurate" and then goes with lemmings!? I guess they are not aware that the lemmings thing is a myth. The actual story is pretty wild: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view...

I clicked on this because I was hoping it was about the excellent computer game...
Show HN: LambdaWiz, a mystical GPT adventure based on SICP
I've been working on an OpenAI "Assistant" based on MIT's canonical Structure and Interpretation of Computing Programs (SICP). [1] The idea is basically a text-adventure vibe, set in a magical realm, to play on the books esoteric / wizard-y vibes.

I initially built this via the Assistant API, and then ported over to the new GPTs creator once that became widely available today.

In addition to the source material, I created the outline of a curriculum in collaboration with the new, giant-context GPT4 beta, as well as a set of gameplay mechanics. As you progress, you get awarded things like honorary titles, coins, etc. At first these were Emoji, but then I realized that with DALL-E enabled in the bot, I could have it generate the artwork on-the-fly in the 16bit RPG aesthetic I was after. It works in a kind of pseudo-Scheme language, and seems able to 'evaluate' your answers.

Anyway, this is just for fun and I'd love to hear what you think. Given the standard limitations of LLMs, there's sure to be the odd hallucination here and there – but, I've found it to be pretty fun. It can adapt to your skill level, and at the base-level I was aiming for something that even a 9 year old would have fun playing.

1: SICP is licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike.
I think they must have had a bad promoter (compared to LedZep)

Turns out there's a lot to this. Read Black Sabbath's Wikipedia entry. As a band, they were always a total mess, with bad management, lack of discipline, loads of wasted money and opportunity, and also a massive amount of turnover among the band members. It's almost a miracle that they were able to create what fans now think of classic rock albums, like Paranoid and Master of Reality.

Led Zeppelin, OTOH, was conceptually very strong, determined, and ambitious. They not only had the toughest, best and most protective businessman among rock managers (Peter Grant), they were like a well-oiled machine where each member was firing on all cyclinders and they were greater than the sum of the parts. Jimmy Page specifically conceived the band to not be like the Yardbirds where it was run by a bunch of mafia guys and producers and had a lot of turnover. That's why when Bonham died, the concept could not work with one guy not in the equation anymore.
military and government in the US should be distinguished because it makes a stark and pointed difference in results
The driverless cars require drivers and the AI is a statistical parrot.
It's a great question. I'd expand the scope to sex toys, because it's a pretty classic niche for small businesses. I live in Canada, can I make and sell sex toys, or will banks shut me down because they're worried about their image?
> > > Even reporters are getting their “source” from “I heard it on TikTok”.

> > I wonder what you are getting your source from for this claim.

> Ask any 20-something where they get their news. Sure some are getting it from legit sources like NYTimes or WashPost or the like but a lot are getting it through their feeds on TikTok.

So your source that reporters are getting their sources from TikTok is...20-something year old kids who heard it from TikTok? Either you didn't understand at all what you were being asked or you don't see the irony

> I know it sounds like a “kids these days…” rant or a “get off my lawn” but I’m being dead serious. Every single young person under 20 I have spoken with (and I speak to a lot) gets their news from TikTok or a site like BuzzFeed or Newsweek that often will run TikTok stories.

If you're concerned about proper reporting of news, I'm not sure that relying on selection bias is an effective way to make this point.
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do you have any citations for the myelin evolution as energy storage? That's a fascinating take.
Literally people will look down on you if you don't buy an iPhone.

They back off when they find out my line of work, but you hear about bullying and peer pressure in school over bubbles. That does not end when you leave high school.

One VC said that people that buy Android don't have taste and wouldn't work with them. Now they say Android is for poor people. Freedom to sideload or install a custom os be damned.
You can literally develop and stand up Omegle tomorrow if you want to, dude. Nobody's going to stop you until you start enabling child sexual abuse, so go ahead.
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I’m sorry you had to suffer through that. My mother was a victim of amorphous diagnosis. She had sudden stroke symptoms and was immediately taken to the emergency room. She had the usual symptoms including blurred vision in her left eye and numbness on the whole left side of her body. Despite this, the hospital insisted she had glaucoma and dragged an ophthalmologist to come in on a late Sunday night only to diagnose her with a stroke. She needed an MRI and the hospital didn’t have anyone available to operate it at the time. She was transferred to another hospital 45 minutes away despite there being an excellent Level 1 trauma hospital 15 minutes away. (They were not affiliated with them so she couldn’t go there.)

I lost a lot of faith in the healthcare system and doctors that night. This wasn’t a hospital in the middle of nowhere either, it was in an upper middle class neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago. It was amazing she recovered fully from the stroke, though sadly passed away several years later of unrelated causes.

I hope the best for Mr. Wozniak, this isn’t something I would wish on anyone.
> Republicans were a couple decades too late when they said single payer or Obamacare would bring death panels. We already have death panels wifh medicare, medicaid, and workplace insurance.

> It'd just be changed to a federal-government sanctioned death panel system. Probably with an expected goal of deaths, and if the target isn't being met, methods to be encouraged to bring it about...

It's not how healthcare work in other industrialised countries.
>Not every game benefits from all these things. But it's hardly just a storefront.

yeah, that's my issue. but it's all or nothing because the only thing that really matters is presence. So you just suck it up or use another store (or distribute independently).

>Gamers prefer Steam over EGS, and the reason they prefer it isn't just because "it's a nicer store front." It's a whole platform thing.

It's really just network effects at the end of the day. We've seen enough instances in other places in tech where the de facto is shit and even actively ruining its product, but people stay.

Sad thing isn't how big it is, it's how hard it is to fail.
Unfortunately a brilliant and predictable play by Microsoft following its established "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" doctrine.

This beautiful feature is created by the GitHub team and is only available on VS Code, strengthening its lead over the other editors.

This fact has led me to look more closely at Commit Mono, suggested by nvartolomei in his comment (this article). I love the texture healing idea, and that font looks to be more open and easier to use in other environments.
After years of working as a software developer combined with a daily regimen of piano practice I developed fairly bad tendinitis/RSI issues about ten years ago.

I tried your standard r.i.c.e, taubmann technique, ultrasound, TENS units, easing up on my activities, EVERYTHING. The only thing that really helped me at the end was a book called the trigger point therapy workbook. TPT basically emphasizes using a form of deep tissue massage to attempt to break up residual scar tissue and increase blood flow.

I've been using it as a preventative form of medicine, and I have been RSI free for years now.
I think you’re telling this as a negative but I think the above poster meant it as a positive. Low energy = relaxing, even if mentally stimulating.
It's a holdover from before reactive styling was really a thing - there was a stage, if you recall, where people were maintaining two versions of their websites, one being for mobile. It was awful, and mobile user agents were bombarded with banners asking to switch to the mobile version, which would invariably break the flow and bounce them back to a landing page. They then had to claw their way back to where they were in the website, if they could. On the upside, it was mobile first, and had more intuitive layouts for mobile devices. I suspect that Wikipedia still maintains this split so as to not break those old web clients, or any other client built on top of the mobile web interface. I bet that if I broke out my old Nokia E63, I'd still be able to boot up that Symbian browser and read a Wikipedia article.
Eyes should stay mostly fixed relative to a pin on your chest, as long as you're looking in the same direction (ie your hand). I think the differences would be small enough, especially since the display seems pretty blurry anyway
If I'd had access to a tablet that did all kinds of interesting things I'd never have climbed trees or done much of anything as a kid.
Former Dec 10 time-sharing user and vax systems operator here, leeds uni 1980s: this is exactly what we told students.

When a power user reset the mud by ejecting its incore memory and the head of ops lost his finger-of-death status I think he was locked out for a week. (Mud, the first multi user dungeon had persistent state which was at risk if tops10 decided it needed the memory. Run enough large jobs, mud reinstalled)
Government invented it, private sector made it legendary.
SD is ultimately a linux computer, so you can still throw on another store if you really care. It's also a relatiely niche device, so not quite prone to monopoly effects anyway.
You can install other game stores on your steam deck. You can directly install apps outside of Steam. You can even install a different operating system if you want. It's not locked to Steam in the slightest.

Let me know when I can install fdroid on iOS.
This article is all over the place. Large organizations, corporate or government or other, eventually ossify and fail to adapt. Some find ways to reinvent themselves. But the framework is bizarre. Under the model that tech investment is taking a bet, these values are in contention. You simply don't hear about startups that did not pan out and ate all the capital invested. And these truths are not centuries old, we reinvent our view of capitalism every few decades. The defense industry in most western countries is a good example of this where it's still very Keynesian.
Late in 2006, as a local engineering consultant working for MBTA, I designed and then physically installed OFDM receiver station on top of the Oak Grove (Orange Line) station. Google Street View still shows the antenna present.
I think the adjective “mediocre” is a tad heavy-handed here. I’ve had a variety of laptops – PC and Mac – since the mid-2000s. Apple Silicon is far and away the biggest leap forward I’ve seen, bar none. On a recent 5 hour flight, I shut off WiFi and only had a terminal open. At the end of the flight, I still had over 90% battery remaining. That is monstrously impressive, if only for the screen’s power consumption.

Add to that the fact that the terminal is nix instead of Windows (Powershell is not the same, and if you’re falling back to WSL then congrats on admitting nix tooling is superior), and it’s a very compelling machine.
Yeah I must be at 300 hours in oxygen not included and I’ve never made of past mid game.
> Government tech investment delivered the Internet,

Don't forget about microchips.
Sounds good in theory, but in practice, no one wants to write it, even less actually read it, but boy, do most say they want it.
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I used C# before using Elixir. I also thought Entity was awesome. But Ecto and Absinthe are even better from my perspective.
Fix the immigration system
I don't really get the GS comparisons. GS was from a different time where your options for distribution on console was selling in brick and mortar stores or barely selling at all. they 100% can't justify 25% in 2023 as digital purchases supercede physical, but that's not when these rates were negotiated upon.
It depends on the language. Some languages are just poorly designed and make it really hard to write anything that’s clean without trade-offs.
All of the mathematicians I mentioned believed philosophy was relevant to their mathematical work, and that period of work on the foundations of mathematics was accompanied by extensive discussion of the work of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, etc. Even if we pretend philosophy never involves rigorous proofs, mathematical theorems do not spring out of thin air, and saying "anything that isn't a formal, rigorous proof is useless to mathematics" is like saying "anything that isn't a finished house is useless to the process of building a house". https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236.pdf discusses this in more detail.

Here's a paper by Tarski, widely cited by both mathematicians and philosophers and containing both formal and informal reasoning: http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/R... I don't know how one could "remove the philosophy" from this work without making it far less useful to mathematicians. The entire reason the T-schema is used in model theory is because of Tarski's philosophical argument that it provides a meaningful definition of truth.
> I can only recall one time where the company even had a question that they’d wished they could ask the departed employee.

This happened to me many many years ago at a job I thought I left on good terms with. Times were tough in the company's particular industry and I got laid off. Wound up working elsewhere in an unrelated industry (still doing sysadmin / netadmin / code monkey type stuff).

Fast forward a year and I get a phone call from a new guy at the old job on speaker with the office manager demanding I give them a bunch of passwords to systems (as though I'd kept them). Very accusatory that I hadn't documented anything when I left, they might have to sue me, etc. It caught me very off guard but I had the sense to simply tell them they knew where to send their legal threats and hung up. I never heard from them after that.

I found out through a former colleague that basically, at the suggestion of a vendor, they got rid of Sharepoint to "save on licensing" and migrated to Google Docs. They didn't really do the migration part properly and lost a bunch of data, among them a bunch of system passwords they hadn't bothered changing after I left.
That’s actually a great test - can it be used effectively when there’s ambient noise?
Every successful journey starts with imperfect ideas and evolves through iteration.

Getting started with anything is the key to where ideas transform and refine.

You can't always have a perfect idea, you make it perfect along the way.
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Yea, the latency is absolutely killing a lot of this. Alexa first-party APIs of course are tuned, and reside in the same datacenter, so its fast, but a west-coast US LLM trying to control a Philips Hue will discover they're crossing the Atlantic for their calls, which probably would compete with an LLM for how slow it can be.

> and to a lesser degree malformed output

What's cool, is that this isn't a huge issue. Most LLMs how have "grammar" controls, where the model doesn't select any character as the next one, it selects the highest-probability character that conforms to the grammar. This dramatically helps things like well-formed JSON (or XML or... ) output.
Usually, schemes are copyrighted, or even patented.

If you will just make 1-2 copies for your internal use, most probably nothing happen, because in legal practice exists negligible case, where not worth considering sue you.

But if you will show copies on public, upload 3d model on your site, and/or try to sell them (make ads, other marketing, and yes, opensource copy of patented things also prohibited), on some moment they could make decision, this is not negligible and will sue you.

To avoid such things, you could try to find their patents and make your own mechanics with other geometry.

Also, patents are not forever, usual max term approx, up to 70 years, and than it become effectively public domain.

So you could copy mechanics of some old piano, or expired patent.
This is a non sequitur. The mines were very far from populated or agricultural areas. They were situated in some of the least habitable parts of the US. It has nothing to do with the actual well-being of people.

The US is blessed with incredible mineral wealth that is rarely exploited anymore because so many people harbor these kinds of naive assumptions, which manifests as regulations. Consequently, we depend on countries like China to supply these minerals since they are not held hostage by these misconceptions.

Wyoming’s advantage over California is that they have a reality-based perspective on mineral resource extraction, instead of outsourcing it to China so that they can pretend to be environmentally virtuous.
I was also gonna link to the Bard article, but was lazy.
> Odyssey planets do have atmospheres, so I'm not sure what you mean.

Only light atmospheres where you have to wear a spacesuit. The real atmospheric planets with cities and roads etc never came despite being promised.

> Well, first of all, FDev didn't drop VR. It works fine in Elite: Dangerous Odyssey. The way they implemented on-foot VR as theater mode instead of attempting to hack some kind of room-scale VR system into their engine—which has great support for seated VR—seems like a reasonable compromise to me. Contrast that with how NMS implements vehicle controls in VR. They do room-scale VR, so there's no transition to seated VR when entering a vehicle, which is controlled—and I use that term loosely—by basically waving your fists around in the air to work controls you can't feel. It's pretty awful.

To me it breaks immersion completely which is the whole point of VR. Controls can be adjusted with the controllers, I play msfs2020 like that all the time. Projecting a virtual screen is not VR. Just a cheap shortcut.

I'm very disappointed with Elite Dangerous :( and the Devs totally disregarding the community doesn't help. But anyway maybe NMS will be nicer. I haven't played E:D since Odyssey came out. Without real VR there's no point anymore.

As far as I understood from the forum they're locked into this engine but all the people who knew how it worked internally have left so they can't build new features into it anymore.

And regarding the direction of development, there just isn't really any anymore. It's just stopped. It's like maintenance mode.
> So what about when two people have the same title, and tenure but one makes $50k more per year?

Strangely enough that's a lot less viscerally unpleasant - perhaps because money is quite abstract (and you never actually see person A get a bigger pile than person B, whereas you notice immediately if there's a team pizza that person B isn't allowed to eat), perhaps because it's understandable that companies want to pay some people more and others less, whereas limiting who gets cheap perks feels like it's just nastiness.
Hacking Go to give it sum types
It’s country based. I have family and it took them less than 6 months. For Indian and Chinese, they can forget about it.
Yeah, in your case it seems reasonable that the denials are malicious.

I guess I'm not seeing why the poster I was replying to declared that getting access to the claims file was useless. Wouldn't getting access to that file make it easier to prove that claims were wrongfully denied?
>Happened anyway?

Absolutely, zero doubt about it!

>You have any idea of the value that was created by having it happen many years earlier?

There's no early or late, it happened when it happened.

Also www means "world wide web" which, by definition, implies a collaborative effort of the whole ... world? Sure, props to the US for lighting the first spark, but after that everyone did their part, even us, its users.
Time's ticking, make it count! Life's too short to let inaction be the boss.
I would say a combination of lifestyle and mental aspects. I do enjoy programming still, just not everything else that comes with it. Agile, meetings, business requirement documents, more meetings...

Something I have had trouble with is finding purpose - I work at a government agency, and I feel my work means next to nothing (for various reasons I can't get into).

I did manual labor for a while during university, and the sedentary nature of my current job may be contributing to my decreased interest to carry on with it.

Firefighting looks like something I'd love to do.
> If my son wanted to build nuclear reactors I'd be A-Okay with that.

No no no no, we are talking about hard labor. I think OP is merely saying that there are jobs that no one wants to do, but they need to be done. So while everyone wish someone becomes the janitor, no one wants their own kid to become one (or whatever job you deem is less "respected").

This is not to say that I don't respect janitors, it is that I WISH i feel respect for them, but for whatever reason (nurture or nature) I simply don't feel respect for them and I constantly fight against this intuition.
They all do. You can argue it's too high but the issue is that they all own those platforms and the hardware you develop on (except Google). Valve, not so much.

>The difference is people actually like using Steam. They actually want to be locked in.

yup, and that's where the danger starts. People like being locked into Apple as well. the consoles all conditioned people to being locked in. I understand it, but don't think it's a good thing.

Microsoft does technically have a lock in with PC, but they have enough historical lawsuits on those issues that they are lax on what is hosted on Windows. The reckoning for Apple/Google is definately coming, though.
That's especially ridiculous because Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer made a big stink about eliminating tipping from his numerous restaurants back in 2015!
Compare the videos linked elsewhere in this thread, the CP scenes are just so much richer. The starfield ones feel really fake imo.
Some incredibly solid advice up until the very end where you think AI is new and also suggest that it can detect very hard to detect things.