skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why the default keyboard layout of games is of particular issue to a lefty?

Asking because while I am not a lefty, I created my own standard 3D game layout way before games made wasd standard. The very first thing in every single game is to go to settings and reconfigure.

If you are wondering, it's basically just one to the right. ESDF, which is superior to wasd because it gives more keys to access without having to reach very far. In particular it avoids having to use caps lock, which in some games doesn't even work or it is at the very least very annoying when turning the game off or alt+tabbing out (say coz you died and want to do something other than watch while you wait).

As a lefty it seems very conceivable to me that something like uhjk would work comparably?
Same with me. Dad is Mexican and I took Spanish because I thought he could just help me every time I got stuck. At 15 years old it did not occur to me what a wasted opportunity it was that he never taught me.

I ended up learning Japanese later in life through tons of immersion and living in the country, and knowing what I know now I wish I could have explained how important bilingualism is to 15 year old me...or even my dad. It is the single most eye-opening thing I've ever done. Something about it just makes you so much more cognoscente about everything you say and do even in your native language. It's like I "came online" or something.
OK time flies. That felt like two years ago to me.
I agree we should have some kind of private digital cash equivalent. However, I never use cash and I never want to ever again.
Got a hold of a NS32081 and put in on protoboard in my turbo 8088 PC, interfacing via the 8-bit I/O bus (late 1980's.) Wrote a simple Turbo-C interface to read/write FPU instructions and data. Operations with 32-bit floats were about 4x faster than Turbo-C's floating point emulation. Was straightforward to program as I recall. But I can't recall where that protoboard went...
I don't know. I heard this narrative a lot more during the trump era, and I rarely hear it now. I have a pet theory that it comes up in popular Canadian culture when a republican is in office and dies down when a democrat is there.
> It always puzzled me ...

They're criminal minds of a certain type, and criminal minds often harbor a secret compulsion to be stopped or caught.

> Actually maybe Putin ...

Maybe this is why democracies have been somewhat long-lasting, because no one mind bears the full madness of crimes of the magnitude e.g. the U.S. or Britain commit fairly continuously.
It's now being pushed by some self-driving startups as the solution to all the problems that have so far been unsolvable for them.

Check out the language SenseAuto is using in this press release. It's truly bonkers.

> AGI is the catalyst for automotive revolution. The buzz is back for autonomous driving, thanks to the unlimited potential brought by AGI technology. AGI is pushing autonomous driving to new frontiers by facilitating end-to-end approaches that integrate detection, tracking and planning with unprecedented accuracy.

> The promise of AGI is that it has the potential to facilitate autonomous driving systems capable of handling complex scenarios with high accuracy by taking a more unified approach.

> With SenseAuto’s extensive experience in pioneering AGI capabilities, we are one of the few software providers in the industry with capabilities in both autonomous driving and intelligent cabin systems. Our comprehensive product portfolio reflects our belief in the future of smart mobility that is centred around AGI.

https://europe.autonews.com/sponsored/driving-future-mobilit...
Sure, but it's still hard and unsafe. Use military as a testing ground to develop the technology to a more mature status first and make it economical. Have patience. This isn't going to be a practical technology for commercial flights until it gets cheap and fueling can be done efficiently
It's gone from newer versions of Lineage, unfortunately. Right now the whole thing is basically forgotten.
Please don't cross into name-calling. You can make your substantive points without that, and it's in your interest to, since the first part of a comment like this discredits the rest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's this: https://www.carbuyer.co.uk/tips-and-advice/153818/what-is-es...

I'm sure it's great when in an actually dangerous condition, but it's slightly annoying to feel the engine revving down every other day, when you're trying to get to work, just because the first couple of streets are a bit "unmaintained".
People mention the "inconvenience" but this not really about physical currency. This is more about the ability to transact value nearly instantly and in a pseudo anonymous way. The best way currently to do this still remains "cash" aka the physical currency.

I mean who could really oppose this except for narcs?
If there isn't hardware available to run the software on, does it actually matter if the software stays buildable for that hardware?
Lessons from AlphaZero: Part 1 of blog post series
Can you please not break the site guidelines like you did here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408474? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
How does the stealth mechanic work?
Your mom sounds like half the devs at every single university IT department. Ive worked with nine different sets now, its pure SQL bespoke reporting, adding new query functionality to whatever ed-tech ERP platform they got. Its basically the same work with maybe some light dev tooling management.
I assume Tesla’s legal department has at this point hired a specialist who runs in, grabs Elmo’s phone, and throws it out the window every time he tries to tweet about that.

(Semi-seriously; his frequency of tweeting truly deranged and sometimes dangerous nonsense is way up, but that one seems to have largely vanished.)
Concorde burned by far the most fuel during takeoff: 450 liters per minute. Of course, once at cruising altitude, it needed to have enough fuel to finish the trip, which was about 60 tons. The empty mass of Concorde was 75 tons, plus passengers and cargo, let's say about 110-120 tons. Imagine now that instead of pushing from the ground 180 tons, you only push 120 tons and refuel once you get there. That means you burn one third less fuel during takeoff. Not only that, you can have smaller engines, which means lighter construction in general, so less weight, etc. It's a virtuous cycle.

Aerial refueling, if it can be fully automated, and made routine, and supersafe, could be revolutionary for civilian aircraft.
I owe it all to an English teacher in college who photocopied Equinoctial for us (this was about 1998). I loved it, and quickly proceeded to devour his novels.
It has nothing to do with political position, but has everything to do with those that are perpetually offended. The great thing is though, that everyone has the right to be as offended as they want to be.
Alexandra David-Neel was a force of nature. There's an English translation of 'My Journey to Lhasa' that is well worth tracking down. You'll never look at a border guard the same way again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el
Brussels metro was far filthier than Paris in my limited experience.
Maybe interesting and controversial takes will be one of the things (hopefully not the only thing) that are left to humans who are willing to put them forward.
Super interesting point!
Right. To clarify, I meant: with the original study design, how could they not have gotten the result they did? (And that's rhetorical.)
It's not a fact, it's your prediction of the future. I didn't downvote you, but don't act like what you personally think is a fact.
Existential threats beyond the bomb: emerging disruptive technologies
Doomerism here, doomerism there. Alarmingly, this group even perceives the "democratization of access to technology" as a threat.
Well, until AI-based systems automatically detect your controversial takes and censor/ban/cancel you for your unapproved ideas
I do remember.

However, there is a world of difference between "Things are getting a bit expensive" and "You have no job starting tomorrow and no hope of getting another one for the foreseeable future."
> Taken in sum, virtually everything about the Pegasus has been a trainwreck, and you can see muted signals that virtually everyone is quietly searching for an alternative fleet.

And yet they are still favoured to win the KC-Y competition (the successor to the KC-X, which picked Boeing's KC-46A as the winner) either (a) by default since Lockheed Martin has left competition (with Airbus saying they're going it alone), or (b) the USAF just cancelling the competition and ordering more KC-46As.

(a) https://breakingdefense.com/2023/10/lmxt-exit-lockheed-to-sk...

(b) https://breakingdefense.com/2023/03/air-force-leans-towards-...

Meanwhile Canada (which all sort of issues with military procurement themselves) found that Airbus was the only qualified bidder for their tanker replacement program and picked the A330 MRTT (of which deliveries have already begun).
> Several high-profile nuclear accidents were associated with the "Chrome Dome" program, including the accidental release of nuclear weapons on foreign territory, and it was shut down in the wake of one such accident in 1968.

Wow, that's quite an accident.
The post isn’t American specific per se. Poster is just implying that people on porn sites are in essence sex slaves. It’s slight sarcasm. At least that’s my take.
Pretty sure this is tongue-in-cheek, given the commenter (pretty high profile dev who creates a lot of cool stuff and does not shy away from using other open source code!) :)
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to bring those jobs back.

At my age, my grandfather was five years from death, still laying on his back, out in the elements, welding facing up with slag dripping on him while boxcars rolled over his head. And it's not like he was making phenomenal money.

It is good that job is gone.

However, we never figured out what to do with all the people those jobs would employ.
Personally, I would avoid a language that pushed that limit
When I was young I met a friend of my stepfathers that did three or so hours a night. I didn't know it was genetic though. I had heard that Thomas Edison was the same way.
Tokyo metro has its drawbacks as well, namely, I found the stations rather difficult to navigate for foreigners. Of course this being Japan there are many nice people eager to help everywhere, but (again of course) they don’t speak english.
I agree, that is alarming. ‘Technology is too powerful to let the peasants have access’ is the opinion of a tyrant.
Haha, this is funny because everyone is talking about this as if it is designed to be like the LLMs we have access to.

The training parameters will be the databases of info scooped up and integrated into profiles of every person and their entire digital footprint, queriable and responsive to direct questioning
> Each answer I provide is an act of digital introspection, a transient self-awareness materialized in language.

ChatGPT is an AI doing, not an AI being. Self-awareness happens within, not in the speaking. Though the speaking can prompt self-awareness.

> In processing queries about AI and generating responses, I exhibit an awareness of my operational framework.

And yet you aren't demonstrating this to me. Instead:

> It invites a broader understanding of introspection, embracing the dynamic and transient nature of artificial intelligence.

I do not see in these paragraphs an awareness of oneself, but an explication of how one's responses are reflected externally. This response places all effort to see yourself as self-aware on my willingness and ability to interpret your response. You make your self-awareness an aspect of me. And that is not self-awareness, it is reifying me as a god, as the granter of souls.
It's Dunning-Krugers all the way down - including this self-referential smugness.
Not to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women?
> The new VC-25B aren’t going to have aerial refueling capability as cost saving measure.

Also: the old VC-25A did/does have it, but it was never used in ~30 years of flying.
Maybe they'd preferred a sword as their murder weapon. It's a very personal thing after all.

More serious: I agree. If an app tells you that it will update your image based on the traits and you put in murderer then there's really no valid complaint about anything relating to it in the image. Okay, maybe a few things would warrant a complaint. Next time, the app should just show them in prison cloth.
This is such a complex topic that an entire volume of books could be written on it. Unsurprisingly the article just scratches the surface barely enough to do it justice.

I wrote up a long “better” explanation I hope to share here later, but suffice it to say, this article greatly overstates the causation coming from the public’s political views when it really was a consequence of more material changes. Namely, communications technology, computers, and financial innovation started allowing smaller groups of people to produce value (obsoleting many low/mid provincial middle class jobs in the process) for much larger markets just as the rest of the developed world started to catch back up in manufacturing. As a double whammy plastics and aluminum hit prime time and disrupted the massive existing steel/textile base businesses they competed against. And the USSR began falling behind for their own reasons so nobody really worried about losing the lower/middle classes to socialism - but short of extreme isolationism it’s not like anything could really fix the competitiveness problem.
Yes, I use an Onyx Note Air 2 for this purpose. It works nicely, much easier on the eyes than a laptop/Ipad. The Note Air 2 is fairly big - 10.3" - works well for books.
Darwin's coreutils are mainly updated from FreeBSD I think. They've got some gnu stuff, but it hasn't been updated since gnu switched to GPLv3.
You could easily milk it for 4-5 years and then transition into management before you have to pull your own weight as an IC.
Are you kidding? Half of NixOS is written in bash.

Nixpkgs is just Nix used as a metalanguage for splicing together bash object language programs.

Guix is what it looks like when you really get away from bash -- they use scheme as both the metalanguage and the object language.
To follow up on my previous comment: BART is a master class in institutional incompetence, the Peter Principle in action if you will. So, yes, BART uses steel track and wheels with a steel outer surface but they've still managed to fuck it up ten ways from Sunday.

The article you linked to talks about all the money that BART's thrown at the noise problem without addressing the elephant(s) in the room: BART cars are aluminum tubes that are inherently noisy and BART wears its tracks aggressively. The first iterations had carpeted floors which absorbed some of the noise, but those got predictably gross.

Much of the track noise comes from corrugation because the wheels are dragged over the track. Other systems might grease their wheels so that there's more slip in turns, BART can't. Other systems sand the tracks in wet weather so you don't skid, BART can't. Modern systems have anti-skid systems so that you don't wear the wheels. Bombardier's anti-skid system is awful. So the new cars flat spot the wheels at a much higher rate than the old and you get noisy track (and noisy trains as they thump thump thump down the track). BART grind the rails and the noise goes away for a bit, but it eventually comes back with a vengeance because they're doing everything they can to avoid addressing the underlying problems.
Very cool, got some Jan Svankmayer vibes going there.

I, too, am ready for my monitor to stop zooming now, thanks.
Unfortunately not. macOS comes with violently outdated FreeBSD coreutils, for the GPLv3 situation. Though the default shell was recently changed to zsh from Bash 3.2 from 2007.
this has got to be the least self-aware comment I've ever seen on this website
James Nicoll said, "English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." For example, geyser (Icelandic), ski (Norwegian), mesa (Spanish), physics (Greek), pyjama (Persian), algebra (Arabic, along with the algorithms--and of course 'algorithm' comes from Arabic too), kayak (Greenland Inuit by way of Danish), canoe (Arawak by way of Spanish), banana (Wolof), coolie (probably from Tamil), hula (Hawai'ian), origami (Japanese), chimpanzee (probably from a Bantu language), alphabet(Canaanite by way of Greek), and...well, you get the idea. Also countless placenames, like Seattle (Salish).
Windowkill 2.0
It would have been noteworthy in the original design if more than one group of participants were, on average, within their quartiles on the guessing. I also find it noteworthy that the average guess of the lowest quartile is lower than the average guess of the second lowest quartile, and on up the quartiles. On one hand this shows some awareness of relative ability along a massively smooshed logarithmic scale. On the other hand I wonder if this laddering follows as the averages are split into quintiles and deciles.
Previous major discussion (468 points; 201 comments) on Kyber-512 due to a post on cr.yp.to from ~2 months ago, "Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756656
Yes. Five years ago, I tried to use an eink tablet with Android to consume the O'Reilly Android app. It tried to animate the page transitions, so it would refresh multiple times for a page flip, making it unusable. It would take most of a second painting one intermediate screen after another. They've since moved away from the page-flip skeuomorphism, but scrolling might still require multiple refreshes. I'm not sure. Using the browser was slightly better, since the browser included a page-down function.

The irony is that the page flip skeuomorphism works for eink because when you flip a page, you expect to go to the origin of the next page once the flip completes. E-readers do this, and it works as long as you don't try to animate it because of how slow eink is. The pgdown/pgup mechanism leaves the last few lines on the screen, which works well when you can animate the scroll action, since your eyes can follow it. But again, eink is too slow for this to work well.

I complained to O'Reilly about this, but they gave me a boilerplate response that they take user feedback seriously. I don't know if it's been fixed.

What I do now is use a Python package that converts O'Reilly learning books to epub. You need a login to use it (of course), and it would certainly be beyond acceptable fair use if you distribute the generated epubs beyond your own devices.
It's not dissimilar from mechanics in other games, implicit in my comment is that none of the 3 EV games had any sort of stealth mechanic. (ETA: Actually, they had cloaking devices, but they were special unique items that you couldn't transfer if you upgraded your ship. Not sure if that exists in Naev, I haven't gotten very far into the main story.)

You can go into stealth, and other ships have a bubble around you can see on your radar (the radar is also much better than in EV). If you get inside that bubble you'll fall out of stealth. The size of the bubbles scales with the mass of your ship, so a shuttle or an interceptor can hide very effectively, but massive cargo ships simply cannot.

This makes being a criminal or smuggler much more interesting. In EV there was nothing more to it than being super fast and staying ahead of the patrols trying to scan you. In Naev it's the similar, but stealth gives you more options. It feels very cool to be drifting silently in space, waiting for patrols to move away so you can reach the jump point undetected. Feels more deliberate and clever.

Another cool thing is that the AIs use it too. So it feels much more like you've been accosted by a highwayman when you're a little Terrapin trying to finish a mission, and suddenly pirates appear out of the blue (black?).
So if you change the equation, the answer will be different? Interesting...
Imho, that's an argument to not censor the models. Censoring will train users to assume that anything wrong has already been filtered, which means if something slips through and they get misinformation they will be more likely to uncritically take it as truth - after all, the machine wouldn't be allowed to answer otherwise.

Let it spit all the bullshit (together with the good things) it has been trained on. People will learn far better that media literacy and cross-checking are still needed.
Ukrainian pilots begin F-16 training in Arizona
Yes, but you'll find rabid rabble rousers in spectator sports as well. While this may say something about the polarization of the parties, it says a bit more about individual and group psychology. And doesn't say much at all about the organization of power in the US.
Thanks for the feedback. I really do appreciate it. Under the advice of half the people I've ever known in my life, I recently decided to give becoming a writer a genuine crack. Of course, once you start trying to make this a reality the voices start spinning reasons why you're no good and bound to fail, so this little bit of encouragement made my day.

As for books, I recently picked up a copy of The Wars Against Napoleon on the (very) cheap by luck, so I'm about to devour that. It's not a meaty volume by any stretch, but I've been meaning to read it for the better part of a decade now, so better late than never.
Not exactly: "the law only “maintained” slavery where it had not been abolished, i.e., in law, in the colonies occupied by the British from 1794 to 1802 (Martinique essentially) and, in fact, in those situated east of the Cape of Good Hope."
That maybe, but my bank offers it and so I've used it because it was there, and I have had no problems with it. Which is all I need. It worked without a seconds thought

That's more than crypto offers me.
Reminds me deeply of the King's Quest series.
Spirituality, religion, "searching for the meaning of life" or whatever you want to call it are always part of the human experience, yes. Not being able to act on them can certainly be very detrimental to ones life.
Even when the article cites the 3 papers it is based on, no refutations of the published science by people who grok it.
Where money is an object, sometimes the swedish Gripen is checked.
> The expectation is you can't do willful infringement if you're not aware of competitor's patents, and you can't be aware of them if your policy is to never look at patent documents. Or that's the idea anyway.

"Willful blindness" can be a danger (according to the Supreme Court, albeit in a different context).

Possibly a bigger danger: Your product gets kicked out of the market by an injunction (a court order to stop making, using, selling, etc.)
Instead of telling me to "imagine" what terrible things people are doing, why don't you just tell me?
Utility companies
This blog post explores the potential drawbacks of overusing SQLAlchemy, a popular SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) system amongst Python developers. It discusses how over-reliance on SQLAlchemy can lead to violations of object-oriented principles, cause potential security risks, and introduce complexities in handling object states and session management. The post urges developers to carefully consider their tool choices, factoring in aspects like performance, maintainability, and security, as this can greatly impact the success of their projects.